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27th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast Celebration February 8, 2001
Dr. Lani Guinier
Professor/Civil Rights Attorney Harvard Law School
Its a pleasure to be here, although Im not sure you can call this a breakfast. Its moving into lunchtime. I want to speak about Dr. Kings methodology not just his dream and I want to talk about his methodology and try to use his ideas to illuminate what I think are some of the really important, really powerful voices that you heard from this stage this morning. You heard, for example, Christopher talking about the importance of properly defining a problem. You heard Maria talking about the importance of genuine understanding. You heard people who had actually met Dr. King talking about his courage and his commitment to community and you could not possibly have missed the message of the choir talking about joy. I think that all of this in some way is about joy. I am not here to deliver a prescription of medicine, but really a joyful message about how we all need to change. This is not simply about love, but it is a joyous message of transformation. Now most people think about Dr. King as a dreamer and as someone who had a dream that one day his children would be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin. But I think that Dr. King was actually an even more profound thinker and strategist and so I love the idea of speaking after graphs have been put up and weve been exhorted to get the blueprint and the green plan or all of the, the futures market and all of the terminology from all of you here in the audience. Dr. Kings methodology was really about taking from the margin to rethink the whole. So in terms of thinking about closing the gap I would challenge all of us to think not about how the problem is located in the people of color or the women who are under-represented but it is really a problem of this community and all of our communities in failing to deliver on their fundamental mission. Dr. King, for example, said that the goal of the American Negro was perpetual engagement to make America live up to her stated ideals and that by freeing themselves black people would be freeing whites, too. That is the message of taking from the margin to rethink the whole. It is a message that I try to capture with a simple metaphor, that of the miners canary. The miners used to take a canary into the mines to alert them when the atmosphere in the mines was too toxic for the miners. The canarys more fragile respiratory system would give way first, signalling that there was a problem with the atmosphere in the mine. The argument that I am making and that I believe was Dr. Kings methodology is that the experience of women, the experience of people of color and particularly the experience of African Americans is the experience of the canary. And the problem has been that we have pathologized the canary and tried to locate the problem in the canary, when in fact the canary is signalling to us a much bigger problem with the atmosphere in the mine that is affecting all of us.
So the challenge is not to pathologize the canary, not to outfit the canary with a little pintsized gas mask so that it can withstand the toxic atmosphere in the mine. The challenge is to fix the atmosphere in the mine so all of us can breathe cleaner air. Id like to try and apply this idea of the miners canary, of taking from the margin to rethink the whole, to some of the issues that we heard discussed earlier today about the question of higher education and the question of the continued under-representation of people of color and women, particularly here at the graduate level, in the faculty and also among administrators. I want to tell you a simple story before I get into what I think is an even more fundamental problem that no one has really addressed and that is the problem of the testocracy. But before I get to the testocracy, let me tell you a story. Un Triesman is a Professor of Calculus. He is now a Professor of Calculus at the University of Texas. At the time of this story he was a Professor of Calculus at University of California, Berkeley. And he noticed, he was teaching first year calculus, he noticed that his African American calculus students were not doing as well as his Chinese American calculus students. He consulted his colleagues to find out why. His colleagues came forward with many of the predictable stereotypes, many of the assumptions that certainly they would share with Im sure many people in this room. They said oh well, the African American students are not studying as hard. Oh, the African American students were not as wellprepared. Oh, the African American students came from single parent families and therefore they have many other distractions. In other words, pathologizing the canary. The reason the African American students were not doing as well is a problem that was located specifically in the African American students that were recruited to the University of California Berkeley. Well, Professor Triesman was not satisfied with these assumptions and so he actually hired researchers to follow the African American students around, as well as the Chinese American students, to at least test the hypothesis that the African American students were not studying as hard as their Chinese American counterparts. He found out that in fact his colleagues were wrong. The African American students were studying harder than the Chinese American students, if you count studying as sitting in your dorm room alone with the calculus book open in front of you. The African American students were putting in the time, but it turned out that they were not efficiently or effectively studying calculus, when you compare what Un Tniesmans researchers found about the Chinese American students. The Chinese American students were studying calculus together. They were talking calculus on their way to class. They were talking calculus in the library. They would talk calculus over lunch. And it turned out that the process of understanding, and coming back here to the importance of understanding, of understanding a concept like calculus required intellectual engagement with your peers and particularly the willingness to ask questions when you dont know the answer. The willingness to ask questions when you dont know the answer. Understanding that not knowing what you, knowing what you dont know, excuse me, is a key to then learning what you need to know. So Un Triesman designed a peer workshop in which he invited the African American students to come to solve calculus problems together. He set the problems out on a table. He served food, seeing the Chinese American students studying calculus over lunch, it seemed to create an informal atmosphere. He invited recent past learners to come to be available so that when questions came up there would be people there who would be in a position to help10guide the students in thinking through the problem. By the end of the first semester of attending this peer workshop the African American students calculus scores went up and by the end of the second semester they were among the highest scoring students in the class. Now. You say, what does this have to do with the canary? He fixed the canary. But it was at that moment that Un Triesman had an epiphany. He realized, after seeing the progress of his African American students, that in fact the problem was not located in the African American students. The problem was located in the way he, Un Triesman, was teaching calculus to everybody. He was the sage on the stage. He stood in front of the room and spoke at all of the students, who busily took notes. There was no engagement between him and the students or between the students and each other. He then introduced the concept of group learning, group collaboration, into the classroom and all of the students in his calculus class benefitted. That is the theme of the miners canary and I believe that was Dr. Kings most important contribution. It was not his dream, but his methodology. That if we take from the margin we can rethink the whole to benefit everyone. Now that is a story that I think can move, or at least I will try and move it into the argument as to why we need to think about the miners canary metaphor and need to use Dr. Kings methodology in considering what I think is a major problem, coming back to Christophers point that we have to properly define the problem, with the gap and sustainable inclusion and that is our devotion, our new religion, called the testocracy. We are committed to the idea that we objectively rank everyone in this room if we simply give them a paper and pencil test and time their performance on that test. And we believe that somehow we will get a ranking that will be something we can rely on, something from which we can predict who then not only is going to do well when we give the test tomorrow, but who somehow is going to do well in their future. We move from a paper and pencil test which we rank and score, to a prediction as to who we will provide opportunity to. Who will be given opportunity is based on who does well on a particular test.
Now. Why would I challenge this religion?
Why would I challenge the testocracy? Well, it turned out that when I was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School I had a student who came up to me who actually was not interested in the testocracy at all. She was interested in the fact that there werent enough women professors at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She wanted to do a videotape in which she did a role reversal. She had seen one at a medical school in which all of the professors were women in which the typical human body that was studied was that of a female and there were a few male students in the class in this videotape and one of them tentatively raised his hand at one point and he said, Professor. What happens if a man gets this disease? And the professor, a woman, wheels around, turns to the young male student and says, well, youre smart! Extrapolate! Figure it out! So Anne wanted to do this for the law school and I said I would be happy to advise her, although I knew nothing about video. It seemed to me she needed a script so she went out and wrote a script and it was all about her. It was all about the experiences that she had had at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. I said, well now Anne, if youre going to put all of this effort into making a video it seems to me you want some assurance, I dont doubt that these experiences happened to you, but you need some assurance that your experiences, if not typical, are at least representative of the experience of others. So she did a 70-question survey, put in the mail folders of all the students at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, got over a 52% return rate and found that the women and men seemed to be going to a different school. The men were participating in class, they had enormous self-confidence, they felt that the professors were available to them to mentor them. The women, two-thirds of the women never raised their hand to ask a question and never went up to a professor after class and the explanation that they gave us in subsequent interviews is that they were waiting for friendliness cues I dont know how many of you have been to a law school, but theyre still waiting. Now, having said all of that, I did exactly what Un Triesman did. I went to my colleagues and I said, these women do not seem happy at this law school. Many of the women came in, onethird of the first year women had an interest in doing public service, 10% of the first year men had an interest in doing public service. Third year women, 10% wanted to do public service, 8% of the men wanted to do public service. There seemed to be a shift in the aspirations of the women and yet they still were not participating in class. Two-thirds of the third year women still never raised their hand, never asked a question. Yet what was really important is that the first year women who never raised their hand in class were bothered by that fact. The third-year women had come to accept this as normal. So I went to my colleagues, I said, what do you think is the problem? And they said well, maybe you should see if this is affecting their performance. So we went to the dean, it was a new dean, he figured if he gave us all of this data it would reflect if at all on his predecessor, so he gave us all of the academic performance data of every single student then at the University of Pennsylvania Law School as well as every student who had graduated the year before. He also gave us the entry level credentials of all of the students. We found that the men had three times as great a chance of being in the top 10% of the class as the women and one and a half times as great a chance of being in the top 50% as the women and that this differential, which began in the first year, was sustained over the three years. We then looked at the entry level credentials and particularly in law school the LSAT, because this commitment, this religion, this belief that you can give people a test and then you can rank and score them and then, based on their performance on that test, you can predict what kind of lawyers theyre going to be is very deeply held in the law school community. So we looked at the LSATs and we discovered that there was a statistically insignificant differential between the LSATs of men and women. Men were a little bit higher but it was statistically insignificant. Women actually had higher undergraduate GPAs, but again it was statistically insignificant. Went back to my colleagues with this information and they said well, you need examine that statistically insignificant differential between the men and the women on the LSATs. Thats probably where the answer lies. Another one of my colleagues said, varsity sports. Varsity sports. His theory was that the reason the men were doing better in law school and had not done as well as undergraduates is that when they were undergraduates they were distracted because they were involved in varsity sports. And when they got to law school where there was no varsity sports then they could devote their full attention to their studies. Now all of this was very disturbing to me but at the time I was untenured and so I dutifully went and looked at this statistically insignificant differential in the LSAT and I also kept in mind the idea of the varsity sports. OK, now. Having looked now, Im now explaining, how did I get into this understanding that we are misguided in our commitment to a testocracy? My colleagues believed in the LSAT and yet when we looked at the LSAT and its correlation with first year law school performance we found that it was successful in predicting 14% of the differential in first year law school grades. It was a little better second year. 15% of the differential. You may say as statisticians oh, thats a really big and positive correlation. I was a civil rights lawyer. I was a voting rights lawyer. I was a lawyer who went into the Deep South and brought in political scientists and other social scientists to help me when we were trying to prove that if you knew the race of a voter you could predict the race of the candidate they were going to vote for, in order to establish racial polarization, which was an essential element of our claim, because we were trying to show that in many parts of Arkansas, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama that many of the white people in the community would simply not vote for a black candidate and therefore it was hard for blacks to run and get elected. And I know Harvey Gantt is very familiar with this problem because one of the places where we litigated was North Carolina. In North Carolina we found that in the early 1980s 83.7% of the whites in North Carolina would not vote for a black candidate, even if their choice was to vote for no one. So we were talking about using statistics to try and develop some correlations. We would go into court with very high numbers saying if you knew the race of a voter you could predict the race of a candidate nine out of ten times. And the judge would turn to us and say well, wheres the other 10%? Wheres the other 10%? So when Im looking at statistics that are the absolute opposite of the statistics on which we were trying to rely and the court was skeptical, I become very skeptical. So I started to investigate. Linda Whiteman, who was one of the people who developed the LSAT, said oh, the LSAT is 9% better than random in predicting first year law school grades nationwide. 9% better than random. And yet this is a test somehow that we rely on to predict performance. Following the Bach and Bowen study that President Vest referenced in his remarks there was a study at the University of Michigan Law School. This was in response to a affirmative action lawsuit and they looked at 30 years of graduates and were trying to see whether their affirmative action program had in fact yielded graduates who somehow were less successful than others and therefore they should reconsider their affirmative action program. They came up with three goals, three measures of success that they would use in trying to determine whether their graduates had achieved the mission of the law school. Financial satisfaction, professional satisfaction and leadership in the community. Mentoring younger attorneys, sitting on boards of public or community organizations. They found in fact there was no correlation between entry level credentials and financial satisfaction. No correlation between entry level credentials and professional satisfaction. There was a correlation between entry level credentials, particularly of the LSAT, and leadership in the community. A negative relationship. The higher your LSAT, the less likely you were to be a leader in your community after you graduated. So, you may say well, this only has to do with Michigan, it only has to do with lawyers. Harvard did a study of three classes of its graduates over a 30year period. It was trying to determine, again, how well did its graduates fare in three areas, financial satisfaction, professional satisfaction and contribution to the community. Otherwise known as how much money do you make, how much fun do you have making the money and do you give any of it back to Harvard? One thing correlated with success as Harvard was measuring it. Actually, two things. Low SAT scores and a blue collar background. What Harvard concluded from this study is that motivation and an opportunity to succeed, when given to those people who are motivated to take advantage of it, yields people who then can go on and be successful, as Harvard was measuring it. Now this suggests to me if were going to be serious about Dr. Kings birthday, if were going to be serious about celebrating his dream as well as his methodology, that we have to rethink not only how we are treating the canary, but how we are constructing the atmosphere in the mine to affect everyone. This is not simply about lowering the SAT or the LSAT or the GRE requirements for students of color or for women. This is about rethinking the importance that we place on a single, fixed, paper and pencil test that we then use to predict performance over the course of someone s lifetime, when it turns out that we dont necessarily have a basis for that reliance, not just for students of color, but for white students as well. And particularly for white, working-class and poor students, who are not counted I was very interested in Christopherts data that 70% of the population he said in the United States is white and 60% of the graduate students here at MIT are white. But Id like to know what the socioeconomic data is on those 60% white students. If its anything like the University of California Berkeley, for example, a disproportionate number of the white students here at MIT come from families where the income is over $100,000 a year. So we are using the testocracy as a proxy for privilege. William Julius Wilson has done research showing that if you want to know someones SAT, the best predictor of their SAT is to look at their grandparents socioeconomic status. Their grandparents socioeconomic status. There is a strong correlation, in fact a stronger correlation between your grandparents socioeconomic status and your SAT score than there is between your SAT and your first year college grades. But Id like to broaden the conversation, because this is not simply about how well you do first year at MIT, or how well you do first year at Harvard Law School or how well you do first year at the University of Pennsylvania. If all we were worried about is how well you did the first year at this institution we would not have a four year college, we would not have a three year law school. This is not simply about how well you do in this environment, but how well is this environment preparing all of its graduates to do well in our larger democracy. This is really a question about democratic citizenship. We abolished the literacy test and we abolished the poll tax and we abolished many of the arbitrary prerequisites that had been used to determine who can participate in our democracy. I think we need to reconsider the testocracy and some of the tests that we are using as gatekeepers to determine who can participate in our democratic polity now in the same way as what we were doing in the 1960s. Let me just say, Im a professor, I give exams, I grade them. Im not opposed to all tests. This is about high stakes testing that is being used to predict from one domain to another how someone is going to perform in the future. This is not about how well did you do in this particular class based on what it was that I expected you to learn. This is using a test, misusing a test to try to predict someones future performance. Now, the last point I want to make has to do with some research of Claude Steel, who is a Professor of Psychology at Stanford. I think his research is really important and it comes at the issue of the testocracy from another angle. Claude Steel as I said, is a psychologist. He administered the same very difficult verbal test, a 30 minute verbal test, to selected groups of black and white students, and these students were statistically equated on their ability level. When he gave the students a prompt that this is a test of your aptitude, the black students did much worse than the white students, although they had been grouped based on what the researchers thought was the same ability level Same test, same ability level, and yet the black students did worse on a test when the prompt was this is about your aptitude. He then assembled another group of black and white students. And instead of, again, statistically equated on ability level, instead of saying this about your aptitude the prompt was, we are giving you a problem solving task that has nothing to do with your ability. Black and white students did the same. He calls this the stereotype threat. And he says that when a test or when an environment or when an experience prompts anxiety about how one is perceived in an unfamiliar environment it can reenforce self esteem issues. And it goes back to that Un Triseman example where some of what seemed to help the black students when they were brought together in the peer workshop was enhancing their self confidence that they were learners. That they could ask questions and reflect the fact that they didnt know the answer and they could still learn. This suggests its not just about the criteria we use to admit people, it is also about the way in which we conduct the environment in which we teach people. It has to do with our expectations, not only of our students but of ourselves. And just as a footnote, Claude Steel gave a very similar test to white males and Asian males, statistically equated for ability, a math test. He said to both groups, this is a test of how well you do on math compared to each other. Meaning, excited their competitiveness and said were trying to find out how well white males do compared to Chinese or Asian American males and the white males scores on this test went down compared to that of the Asian males. This is not just about reinforcing stereotypes regarding African Americans. This is about trying to use more creative, more experiential, more innovative ways of teaching that accommodate everyones learning styles, that motivate people to do their best, and that open up opportunity to all Americans who can take advantage of it and who will then use that opportunity to give back not only to the school that educated them, but to the society at large. And I want to just end with a story about how this can happen, not just about race, not just about gender, but about diversity in which we learn from each other and dont assume that the best way of doing something is the way we alone would do it. My son, when he was eight years old, wanted to be an astronaut. He had us watch the movie Apollo 13 several times. You must remember, if youve seen it, the scene where they summon NASA, the astronauts are in a capsule, they are choking on their own carbon dioxide, there is leakage between a round tube and a square opening and they are in desperate shape. Houston, we have a problem. Now, the NASA administrator, in trying to deal with this tangible problem, did not say well, get me the person with the highest SAT scores on their physics or science or engineering tests. He assembled a diverse group of people with different kinds of expertise. He put them in a room, he gave them a reproduction of everything that the astronauts had on that capsule and he said now you have to solve this problem by working together. And they did. And they were able to convert what could have been a tragedy into a triumph. And I believe if we take the methodology of Dr. King, if we remember the lesson of the minors canary, that we too can avert what could be otherwise a tragedy and turn it into a triumph.
Thank you very much.


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16th Jun 2001, 11:12 PM | #1 |
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I told u about the souped out comp im getting in 2 weeks, and have another question. It says it comes with 128-bit 3D AGP Graphx Accellerator with 64MB frame buffer embedded in North Bridge(shares memory), up to 1920x1200 16M resolution. Wondering if this is a good video setup to run UT effencially. Oh yea for those of u who didnt see my other post heres the quick specs(to help u to make a decision on my video setup):1.2 Ghz, 256 MB of Ram, and 40 gb HD. Thx for any help!
17th Jun 2001, 12:37 AM | #2 |
Hmm.. while I'm not a big fan of integrated systems I suppose the specs you provide won't be too bad. I'm am guessing you are referring to a system with an Intel 810 graphics chipset. I think the most important step you need to make is making sure that you have your proper motherboard drivers installed so everything is running at its potential and not being hampered by reference drivers from Microsoft or someone else.
Aside from that it should provide you with an adequate gaming experience.
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Nah its a AMD Athlon, chipset! I invested in a AMD, cause heard its better for gaming, than the Intel's chipsets.
17th Jun 2001, 01:20 AM | #4 |
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Well sorry about that. Wasn't sure either way. But you don't know for sure what actual graphics chip it is? Is it AGP 2X? 4X? Where is your post about the specific system you are referring to? I did not see it. The best cards I've used and read used for UT are the ATI Radeon and GeForce 2 GTS. I have personally used both and am currently using the GeForce as it has more horsepower overall and I believe will be more widely supported over a broader range of games. I am very picky about my fast paced games such as Half-Life, UT, Oni, etc. I like precise, fluid, responsive movement and when I tried the integrated Intel chipset on a 1GHz P3 system it was OK but not great. I don't know for sure how well yours will be but I would say probably decent. It may well outperform the Intel chip simply because of the higher motherboard FSB. Are you using a DDR Athlon or original? Original will have 200Mhz FSB while the former will be 400.
Unless you simply don't have any cash I'd ignore the built-in chip and buy a separate card. I think you'll have a better gaming experience because of it. You can get very good cards for under $200 these days in fact probably closer to $150.
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You really need to know the chipset of the video card.
That should tell us a lot.
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hmmmmmmm you must have a 22" monitor then if your planin a 1920 res UT i think it'll reach 30 at that, you may want to spend time at 1024 for a while.
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Nowadays, punches mean large format cocktails designed to keep you drinking while forgetting that winter cometh.
Grab your cocktail crew and dive into this rundown of the Chicago's top 5 rum punches:
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- 1/2 cup well-shaken low-fat buttermilk
- 2 tablespoons low-fat sour cream
- 1 tablespoon mayonnaise
- 3/4 teaspoon finely chopped fresh tarragon or 1/4 teaspoon dried tarragon, crumbled
- 1/2 teaspoon minced garlic, mashed to a paste with 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon dry mustard, or to taste
- 1/2 cup finely chopped red onion
- 1 small head red leaf lettuce (1/2 pound), torn into pieces
- 1 bunch watercress, coarse stems discarded
- 1 cup thinly sliced seedless cucumber (usually plastic-wrapped)
Make dressing:
Whisk together all dressing ingredients in a small bowl with salt and pepper to taste.
Make salad:
Soak onion in 1 cup cold water 10 minutes, then drain well in a sieve.
Toss lettuce, watercress, and cucumber together in a bowl and divide among 6 plates. Spoon dressing over, then sprinkle salads with onion.
Each serving contains about 50 calories and 3 grams fat.
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Dear Editor:
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Sexual assaults in our military are running into the thousands and are way out of control! Victims usually are required to report all incidents to their military superiors. A very bad move ... very little justice will come out of this idea.
I urge you to introduce legislation requiring Congress to create a civilian review board with power to discipline any accused military sexual predator found guilty.
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I've seen references to "evergreen" Amorphophallus species here and there but I've been unable to find a list or table of which species typically go dormant and which don't - does anyone know of such a list / table? I could probably guess by geographical range but I'd rather take advantage of other people's experience! This is an issue for me this year because I've acquired a couple of species which are new to me and about which I'm unsure. My usual approach with the species that go dormant is to leave them outside until the foliage is completely dead (I grow in containers) but it's typically somewhat cold by then (perhaps in the high 40's F) and I'm afraid that the low temperatures will kill the "evergreen" species. Any help will be appreciated! |
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- Posted by araceaelover 6b (My Page) on Sun, Aug 26, 07 at 10:22
The only 2 that I have that are "evergreen" are: A. Titanum and Any others that are "evergreen" I am not aware of, you would think there are many. I am fairly new to this genera and my rule of thumb here in zone 6b is to bring them inside when the nighttime temps reach around 45 F. I have noticed that some go dormant inside right away and others take a few months to do so, in other words I really only have 2 Species that are in fact "evergreen". If you do find such a list please post it. Sorry I couldn't help much. Have you tried joining the aroid-l mailing list and posing the question there? you can find the link for the mailing list at the ariod.org site. I have been folowing all the threads and posing some questions there for about a year now. These are some of the brightest and most highly knowledgeable people you will ever meet when it comes to members of the Araceae family of plants. Literally the best knowledge about Aroids in the world is shared on this list. |
- Posted by blackislebennet 10B/ Sunset 23 (My Page) on Sun, Jul 22, 12 at 14:52
Amorphophallus coaetaneus, one of the most primitive species of Amorphophallus, is evergreen. I grow it outdoors all year in the shade, under an eve. A great species. |
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EDIT: Hello, everyone here from gluten-free forums! If you're interested in gluten-free recipes, I have an archive here; about two thirds of the recipes on the site are gluten-free, and I'll be posting another gluten-free cake recipe later in the week. If you're here because you're upset by the line about gluten intolerance in the post below, then I'm sorry to have upset you. The piece is intended as a parody of articles about food trends, written in-character by an imaginary food writer. However, I realise some of you recognise this and still find it offensive, and I don't like upsetting people, so I've edited the joke to get rid of the line that seems to have been the specific cause of your anger. I should perhaps explain that I've been doing a lot of gluten-free cooking over the last year, and I do realise that gluten intolerance (and the specific subset of it that is coeliac disease) is a real, and serious, condition; but I can see that the tone of the piece perhaps implied that I'd just picked it as a random "funny" disease. Feel free to stick around for the recipes; the cake coming later in the week really is very very delicious. END EDIT
It's always hard to keep track of which foods are fashionable. A few weeks ago, the Observer told me that strawberry cornettos are in, for example; who would have thought it? But at the same time, tiramisu is unfashionable despite its similar redolence of the 80s. It's simply much too popular. Out: truffle oil, chocolate lava cakes, butternut squash, chicken breasts. In: foie gras speakeasies, bread. Oh, it's all so difficult!
The main trouble with comprehensive in-and-out food lists is that everyone else reads them, so the "in" foods become popular, and then they're "out" again, all within six months. To make things worse, the lists are usually published at the end of a year, so those of us in July or August are left without guidance. Fortunately, I've managed to get hold of an advance copy of next year's Official Food Ins and Outs, and I'm ready to share them with you. Only with the help of the list can you can be safe from the risk of serving your friends pesto (in for quick-service restaurants, so out for the rest of us, I'm afraid).
IN: Portable pizza ovens. Back in the sixteenth century, many households had no oven. Instead, it was common practice to send a loaf of bread or a cake out to the local baker, who would pop it in his oven once he was done for the day. This is no longer necessary for most of us, but what are we to do about pizzas? It's famously difficult to make home-made pizza that lives up to good restaurant pizza, simply because home ovens don't get hot enough. This doesn't mean you should give up on making your own! Once the weather has cooled down, ice-cream vans will take out their freezers and fit super-hot ovens instead. Consider prepreparing three or four pizzas in a range of flavours, and when you hear that tinkling Greensleeves you'll know it's time to run out to the street and get them cooked properly.
OUT: Putting cocoa percentages on chocolate wrapping. This used to be IN, but now it's filtered down to Magnums and Cadbury. The thing to do with mid-level chocolate wrapping these days is to attribute abstract nouns and emotions to the different varieties; see Newtree's FORGIVENESS, Chuao's PASSION, Dagoba's ECLIPSE.
IN: Truffle booths. At the moment the truffle booth is an underground movement, but it's heading mainstream. Customers pay for a private booth in a restaurant, and a selection of truffles is wafted in front of them while they breathe deeply.
OUT: Food processors. It just tastes so much better if you chop it by hand.
IN: Remember perfectly spherical watermelons, square tomatoes, and all the rest of the "grow things in moulds so they're a weird shape" fad? It goes back at least as far as the nineteenth century, when glass cucumber straighteners came into fashion. Relatedly: you know how corsets can deform the ribs and permanently change someone's waist shape, if worn consistently enough? By 2009 you can expect cattle corsetry to be the big new thing: buckle in the young cows and wait for exciting rib shapes on your table come 2010.
OUT: Gluten intolerance. The Atkins people started eating bread again years ago, after all.
IN: Brownie intolerance. Brownies are cheap, easy and delicious, so they're ubiquitous these days, and the only way we can get them off menus is to develop an allergic reaction en masse.
OUT: Truffle booths. Yes, already. It was a fleeting moment of popularity; you had your chance, and you missed it.
IN: Heritage cutlery. In the past, good cutlery was inherited; only an arriviste would buy her own. Look for heritage cutlery to make a resurgence soon, though due to changing standards of serving size, nineteenth-century salad servers may need to function as twenty-first century spoons and forks.
OUT: Vegetables. Vegetables are everywhere these days, which means top chefs are already looking elsewhere for inspiration. The behind-the-times tastebuds of the masses might mean that potatoes are still listed on the menu, but the with-it restaurants will treat you well if you ask, quietly, for a side-dish of mashed squirrel instead.
IN: Mulling. Give it a couple of months and we'll be firmly into Autumn, and mullers will spring up everywhere. This may be your last chance to get some mulling done before the rush.
Mulled White Wine
750 ml white wine, maybe something Riesling-y (raspberry tea works too, if you'd rather it was less alcoholic)
100 ml apple or pear juice
100 ml dessert wine
50 ml brandy
50 ml honey
100 g strawberries or cherries (or both if you like)
1 orange or lemon
2 cinnamon sticks
1 teaspoon cloves
1 teaspoon whole coriander seeds
4 or 5 green cardamom pods
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
Put the wine, juice, dessert wine, brandy and honey in a saucepan over a low heat.
Slice the orange into rounds, dehull the strawberries and cut them in halves, and break the cherries in two to take the seeds out. Add these to the saucepan as you go.
Add the cinnamon, cloves, coriander, nutmeg and the little brown or black bits from inside the cardamom pods.
Warm gently, not allowing it to bubble, for twenty minutes to half an hour, adding a little lemon if it's too sweet, or more honey if it's not sweet enough.
Strain through a sieve into a container and chill, covered, for an hour or two. Serve over ice.


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Since I don't like running to the grocery store, I will admit I sometimes "over buy" when I do my routine shopping to restock the pantry. And in summer, it's even worse. How do you ever get out the door when there are so many fresh fruits and vegetables to inspect?
I go very slowly through the produce department… I review, inspect, think of what I can make, bag it and then move to the next items. Unfortunately, sometimes my refrigerator is so packed I don't have room for the things I make… well, only sometimes.
I love to grab the 3-pack of Romain lettuce because I enjoy making salads during the summer. But last week I still had spinach in the fridge and forgot about the Romain.
It's been in the fridge for a while, so I really didn't trust it for a nice fresh salad. The lettuce wasn't moldy or brown, so it was just fine to use in a soup.
Then I remembered I have not made lettuce soup in a while, so I quickly checked and found that I had what I needed:
- Romain lettuce
- Rice
- Chicken broth
- Onions
- Parmesan Cheese
- Lemons
- Garlic
- Basil
I don't usually make this soup during the winter because I don't put meat in it, but you certainly can. You can easily replace the rice with potatoes and add more lemon juice. I like the tanginess of the lemon; that's my "secret" ingredient. I even like this soup cold.
Use freshly grated hard cheese, such as parmesan, romano, or asiago.
Start chopping and heat up the slow cooker!
Have you made a lettuce soup? Leave your comments and share!
- 1 cup uncooked rice
- 1 onion, chopped
- 3 cloves of garlic, rough chopped
- 2-4 tablespoons fresh basil, rough chopped
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- Juice of 1 lemon
- 1 tablespoon lemon pepper
- salt to taste
- 1 3 lb 1½ oz. can chicken broth
- 3 small heads romaine lettuce, rough chopped
- Cold water
- Parmesan, Romano or Asiago cheese, grated fresh
- Place uncooked rice, chopped onion, chopped garlic, fresh chopped basil, olive oil, lemon juice, lemon pepper and salt in the slow cooker; mix thoroughly.
- Add the chicken broth to the pot and mix well.
- Add the chopped lettuce to the pot and add enough cold water to fill the pot.
- Cook on high about 4 hours or until done.
- Adjust the seasoning and add more lemon juice if desired.
- Top each serving with fresh grated cheese.


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I had some blooms open today!!! Here are some of them..i have more ready to open this week.. Hope you all like them!!! Laura in VB ET Lemon Drop Divine "Sparky" Pu'u Kahea Have a great day everyone... Laura in VB |
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Laura, beautiful pics, thanks for sharing. Here in zone 7, we tend to get excited for 1-2 blooms per plant. |
- Posted by loveplants2 8 (My Page) on Mon, Jul 18, 11 at 21:02
Hi Kandhi, LOL...You are so right!!! Here in Zone 8,, i'm excited with one bloom as well! I/We will take what ever we can get!!! Im just happy to see inflos!!! Take care.. How is the Divine? Laura in VB |
- Posted by tropicalzone7 7 (My Page) on Mon, Jul 18, 11 at 22:19
Awesome blooms!! My divine also just opened up its first bloom of the year today! Did you notice that your blooms were smaller and more colorful with this heat, because mine is really small, but also more colorful than usual. The fragrance is really nice though! -Alex |
I love the name and the flower "Sparky"--fantastic! Still no J105? |
- Posted by sunseeker53 10a CA USA (My Page) on Mon, Jul 18, 11 at 23:48
Nice blooms Laura! It's so exciting when the inflos finally open some blooms! I can almost smell that ET Lemon Drop, looking at the picture! And "Sparky" is beautiful! |
- Posted by loveplants2 8 (My Page) on Mon, Jul 18, 11 at 23:49
Hey Jen, J-105 is taking its time...ill post soon!! Elsie,, Lani, Lavender, Mary Moragne and a few others look like they will open next week...that J-105 wants to drive me crazy with anticipation..LOL!!! "Sparky" is very special, Bud gave me this cutting..i love it!!! Alex, The Divine is very colorful right now..we are expecting heat into the upper 90*s alll week...so i hope to see some really vibrant colors, hopefully! Take care everyone.. Laura in VB |
- Posted by loveplants2 8 (My Page) on Tue, Jul 19, 11 at 0:28
Hi Sunseeker... We were posting at the same time...LOL I do Love the Elizabeth Thornton Lemon Drop!! I have many favorites, and this is on of my all time favs...The fragrance is the best that i have ever smelled in a Plumeria bloom! I can walk out on the deck and smell it before i can even get close..its that fragrant!!! Jen, I just went outside and looked at the J=105. I bet it will open tomorrow or the next day...i cant wait to show you...i dont want to jinx myself...LOL so ill post when "she' is ready!!!! Take care everybody!!! Happy SUmmer!!! Laura in VB |
Hi laura, my divine is doing great.. here is the pic. |
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We're planning a major renovation to our house that will convert the existing rectangle to an L-shape, with the new wing running across the front (north face) of the house. The impact on the home's street-face will be pretty significant.
The style of the house has evolved from a flat-roofed brick mid-century modern into a 'Northwest, semi-Craftsman' hybrid with a low-pitched shingle roof and stone replacing the brick, and IMO, the architectural transition has actually gone fairly well. What we're contemplating now is the windows on the front face -- The current structure has NO windows on the front face that won't be replaced by the addition. All of the windows that will remain (located on the east, south and west sides of the house) are relatively new, energy-efficient Pellas, with clad exteriors in a putty shade, no mullions. Most are fairly large casements. The exterior trim on the house is a dark green-brown that is very similar to Pella's dark bronze color, and we both agree that Pella's dark bronze is a much better color for the overall look we want. He is also willing to repaint the windows on one wall adjacent to the front so they are the same color. Windows in areas that could never be seen together with the bronze windows, no matter where you stand, would remain tan. But the bigger question has to do with mullions -- The current windows don't have any. We're wondering if it would be an architectural faux pas to have craftsman- or prairie-style mullions on the front wall windows, while not on any of the others. It would certainly move us in a craftsman direction, but I'm hesitant. We both want the renovation to integrate well into the existing... What do you say? |
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- Posted by palimpsest (My Page) on Fri, May 18, 12 at 20:30
There are various trains of thought on this but if you look at classical architecture, or at least the revival architectures of the 19th century, it was pretty common to have a hierarchy of windows with the best facade receiving the best windows. The fancy windows would have larger panes of glass and be two over two perhaps, while the sides and back would have 6 over 6. There are even townhouses here that revert to 6/6 on the fourth floor where you really have to stand back to see them. Ironically the process has reversed and now the fancy ones are the ones with divided lites and the plain ones are not. I would say yes, you could do mullions on the front windows if they are essentially the same "style" of window with a bit more detail. If they so different that even the quality looks different it may just look like you went cheaper on the other facades even though this really isn't the case. Since you can generally design these things, perhaps you can do a muntin that makes a nod to craftsman without being a full-on fancy craftsman window in isolation from the existing. |
- Posted by flgargoyle (My Page) on Sat, May 19, 12 at 6:46
We are doing just that. Our house is a Craftsman bungalow design, so I am going with simulated divided light (SDL) double hungs just on the front. The rest of the house will be casements. I prefer the added light, ventilation, and security of casements, but wanted an authentic looking window for the front. The SDL's are expensive, too! Other, cheaper grid options really only show from the inside, so defeat the purpose of enhancing the facade. In our case, casual visitors can only see the front, and I don't worry about what close friends and family think. |
Thanks Pal & Gargoyle -- Good to know that it's not necessarily architectural heresy. I'm wondering also if there's a good way to add mullions to existing casements or fixed-pane windows? There are two other sections where, if we had a 'do over', we'd go more craftsman. A half-baked look won't work for our neighborhood, but Hubby's a skilled and meticulous carpenter. If it can be done, he could do it well. |
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
We can be the pillars of strength when called upon. We can ease the pain of a boo-boo with just a kiss. We can find missing puzzle pieces or a Barbie shoe and stop a temper-tanrum with the wag of a finger. We can put the world back on its axis with a hug.
We can rule the world all while wiping butts, picking boogers out of hair and picking up toys. We can whip up science fair winners on a hours notice. We can sew buttons, wash loveys and not pass out at the sign of blood on our children.
We do all of these amazing thing on little sleep and little food.
I account all these feats as a signal of strength.
Oh, the strength that radiates from a Mother is an awe-inspiring thing.
Some say we are born this way while others say we learn from those around us, our children.
I like to think that my strength was given to me from my first born. The second Roo was placed in my arms, I felt empowered and capable.
My strength grew as I learned to become a mother. Sure, there were times that I failed and I cried myself to sleep after hard days, but every day was a fresh beginning and every day gave me more strength.
When Turtle was born, she tested me.
And I proved to her, and myself, that I was capable.
Being a Mother to these beautiful girls makes me feel like Super Mom (cape and all!).
Being their Mother gives me courage, humor and dexterity (yes, dexterity).
And if I never accomplish another feat in my life, I'll know I've succeeded with them.
They are the proof that I am a strong woman.
And that's all the reassurance I need.
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Jake & The Never Land Pirates - Peter Pan Returns to Never Land
It's cute and the songs on it are the kind that get stuck in your head for hours on end.
Peter Pan was always one of my favorite characters on the Disney lineup.
It was destined that Peter Pan would make an appearance on Jake and the Never Land Pirate series.
Now, it's happening.
Here's the information about the upcoming prime-time special coming up next month featuring Peter Pan.
From the press release:
Mom Down!
I closed out my laptop that day thinking, "Thank goodness we aren't sick."
Ha ha ha... ha ha ha.
How silly was I?
The very next day Turtle woke up with a horrid snot nose.
Then as the day progressed, Roo came up with a cough.
And it just all went downhill from there.
Turtle now has green snot, Roo has a fever and I have a chest rattling cough that has me coughing up crap out of my lungs.
It's miserable.
There's nothing like spending the last week of your vacation holed up in your house with a sickness.
At least we have tons of new toys and craft projects to keep us company.
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Tree Down!
I cannot wait to put up the tree, turn on the music, enjoy the movies and bake every cookie under the sun.
Then Christmas day comes, flies by with the blink of an eye... and then it's over.
And the day after Christmas, I tear through the house and take everything down.
It's like I erase every trace of Holiday cheer and then it's like it never happened!
Of course, it doesn't help when your kids do this to the tree.
After that disaster happened, I had no choice but to follow tradition and take down the tree.
Now the only thing that lingers from Christmas is all the toys my girls received from Santa and I feel like it's my duty to figure out how to organize that mess.
And start planning my New Years resolutions.
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Merry Christmas.
And I couldn't be more excited.
My parents are in town, my kids are tickled pink and I am so happy to be in the kitchen baking my tush off.
I'll be taking the next few days off to eat, shop and be merry.
Merry Christmas!
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Party City's Holiday Kits
A piñata for your kids to steal off the table and cuddle.
Plates, utensils, napkins and cups.
Festive banners to hang by the Tree (with care, of course).
And wall decorations!
The Party City Holiday Kit took a lot of stress out of my holiday party. I just picked a theme, ordered and set it all up. I didn't need to spend hours locating everything I needed for my table and the best thing about it, minimal clean up.
There will be ton pile of dishes to wash when you are done!
If that doesn't sway you, I don't know what will.
You can order your very own Holiday Kit from Party City online.
I received a Party City Holiday Kit for this review. All opinions in this review are 100% my own.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Growing Up
But I think I've grown up.
Sure, I'm positive some people that know me would argue with me here... but it's my blog.
The other day I had a discussion with a friend and we disagreed on something. We both took some time to think about things and when we came back together, all was well. We talked, made our points and moved on.
It was so grown up.
So unlike my past.
In the past when a friend and I got into a spat, it would last for 6 months or so. My feelings would be so hurt that I held on to my anger and I let it take over everything.
It wasn't pretty.
But no more, I'm an adult now.
Another example that proves I'm an adult was making a decision that tore my heart in half, but knowing in that broken heart that it was the right decision.
I think it's official... I'm a grown up.
I do have the two children to prove it.
Oh, now I feel old.
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Saturday, December 17, 2011
All Clear!
And after they forgot about me and I had to go hunt someone down, an ultrasound and a round of question and answers, I was given the all clear to resume my normal life!
The first thing I did?
I went straight to Turtle and picked her up for a good solid cuddle.
Turtle is my snuggle buddy and being apart for a whole week was crippling.
So we hugged it out and the world was put back on the correct axis.
Then I got down on the floor and had a huge tickle fest with Roo.
I'm able to resume running too.
I haven't... yet.
I'm still a little off from the beta blockers they have me on (they are going to wean me off of them within the month) and I pulled a muscle in my left foot (don't ask how, I have no clue), so I don't know when I'll get back to pounding the pavement. But eventually I will and I will lose these few pounds I put on from not running and all really will be right in the world.
Oh, and I can drive!
I drove myself to the store last night and it felt glorious!
I feel almost normal (gasps!).
Now it's time to get in the Christmas spirit and start wrapping gifts and baking cookies.
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Holiday Must Have: Jingle the Husky Pup
Hallmark has continued stepping up their game in the whole interactive gift arena. Their latest endeavor is the Interactive Storybook & Story Buddies.
Jingle the Husky Pup arrived on our doorstep and my girls have been crazy about him since.
Jingle comes along with a book and if you press his ear and read the story, he responds.
Seriously (how does he do it?!).
Jingle has an adorable story to tell, one that ends happily, and Turtle loves pressing Jingle's ear and listening to his bell jingle while Roo loves to cuddle with him.
Yes, sometimes they fight over Jingle but we got a second one and solved that problem.
Another great thing about Jingle is that there is more than one story that he responds to. Hallmark offers two other books for Jingle to read along with you.
There are five other adorable animals to pick from to keep your kiddos happy all year long.
Jingle and his interactive friends can be picked up in a Hallmark Gold Crown store.
I received an interactive Jingle pup for review. All opinions in this post are 100% my own. Please see my full disclosure policy for more information.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Sea World's Kid Fest!
I have them all penciled in my calendar and I've got my Fun Card in hand!
Check out all the details (word for word from the press release):
Super Kid Savings
Beauty and the Beast: Two Special DVDs
Beauty and the Beast has always been my favorite Disney movie of all time.
I can remember seeing it in the movie theatre when I was a girl and how excited I was when my Mom had bought me the movie on VHS for Christmas one year.
I can also remember watching the movie every day one summer vacation with my sister.
It's obvious that I adore the movie. I also adore sharing my favorite Disney movie with my girls.
Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Magical World and Beauty and the Beast: the Enchanted Christmas are out on DVD now and I recently got to share them with my girls.
Roo was over the moon that there were more Belle movies to watch and Turtle delighted at pounding her tiny fist on the screen of the television and shouting, "Ariel!"
In her defense, all Disney Princesses are Ariel.
We have watched both movies a dozen times, especially the Christmas one. Roo loves all the new characters associated with two of her own favorite Disney characters.
Here's a clip from the Enchanted Christmas:
Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Magical World and Beauty and the Beast: the Enchanted Christmas are on store shelves now and would be perfect under any Princess's Christmas tree.
I received copies of both DVD for this review. All opinions in this post are 100% my own. Please see my full disclosure policy for more information.
Monday, December 12, 2011
Recovery Sucks
Okay, not laid up. Laid down!
I've been laying flat on my back with my legs extended and my head down for the past five days.
And it's been torture.
My surgery was a success and there was no need to burn any extra nerves around my heart. But it still sucked because I had four very large, very long catheters in my groin and it was damn painful.
Add in the fact that I threw up as they took two of them out and caused a little bit of damage on my insides.
And it was a lovely mess.
After my surgery (procedure, whatever you call it) I had to lay flat for four hours to make sure my catheter areas didn't bust open.
Four hours after laying flat on my back, with some major back pain, I got up and started bleeding out everywhere.
Needless to say, I was freaked out of my mind.
And there was blood everywhere.
The nurses were able to toss me on a bed and climb on top of me to stop the blood flow (seriously, a lot of blood poured out... I still freak out about the amount) and it was back on my back for another two hours with a monstrous pressure bandage on my leg.
When it was time to go, I was freaked out and made myself a mess by getting dizzy and having a mini panic attack. I was so worried that I was going to start bleeding again that I drove myself (and my nurse) crazy.
Finally, I was able to go home and was put in bed and wasn't allowed to do anything for myself.
I couldn't do a thing, not even go to the bathroom alone. I was waited on hand and foot, which sounds like fun but I'm a do-it-yourself kinda gal and hate not being able to get my own drink of water.
Now it's day five and I actually managed to get up by myself and even got to sit on the couch.
It was heaven.
Of course, it wore me the f out and I took a three hour nap to recover.
And recovery is great, but it still sucks because I have no energy to do a thing and I feel so weak. I just want to get back to normal. Back to running, back to taking care of my girls and back to the holiday spirit.
I'll get there, eventually.
Friday, December 9, 2011
Holiday Happiness: King Arthur Flour's Gingerbread House
It's always full of yummy treats and recipes.
And when their holiday catalog enters the house, it gets passed around like the toy catalog.
I recently had the chance to review their Gingerbread House.
I don't know who was more excited, me or Roo!
We waited until Turtle was napping or else we would've never gotten a thing done (she can be quite the destructive baby).
We ripped into the package and got to work.
The kit comes with everything you need: icing, candy, the works.
The icing was really easy to pipe out and it held the gingerbreads pieces together quite nicely. You held the pieces together for a minute and it stuck, like magic.
The only problem we encountered was that we had to hold the roof pieces together for longer than Roo wanted and she got antsy.
Her favorite part was putting all the candy pieces on (and eating some in the process). We did have a little trouble with the sprinkles, they didn't want to adhere to the icing very well and ended up all over the table instead.
The end result was fabulous.
And I have to confess, it was yummy.
My kids ate most of it in two days. My cousin ate the rest.
You can order your own King Arthur Flour Gingerbread House online.
I received a Gingerbread House kit for this review. All opinions in this post are 100% my own. Please see my full disclosure policy for more information.
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Under the Knife
Today I am going under the knife for my heart ablation.
And booo.
I am super nervous, like to the point I've been having anxiety attacks (mini ones) all week long. Plus, I've been off my meds since Monday so my heart is a little freaked out having to work on its own.
But I am being positive.
I have faith.
I am praying.
I am going to be fine.
I'll be off-line for the next few days, but hopefully not for long.
Wish me luck!
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Holiday Must Haves: Junque Trunk
Monday, December 5, 2011
Celebrate the Holidays at Legoland
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Ho Ho Ho...Blech.
I like it call it a Mommy Confession.
I'm not feeling the spirit today.
You know that glorious holiday, ho ho ho, life is wonderful, bring on the egg nog mood (except I've never had egg nog).
Mind you, I had this spirit the other day... just not today.
Remember when you were a kid and you knew Christmas was right around the corner so every damn day was filled with excitement and all you wanted to do was get through the day so you could move the Christmas tree on the advent calendar?
It was so thrilling to color Santa Claus activity pages and watch the cartoons and sing the songs.
Yes, most days I'm still that kid dying with excitement. I adore watching my girls fall in love with the holidays and dance around the tree and baking cookies shaped like reindeer.
But sometimes, I'm an adult.
And sometimes being an adult sucks.
When you're adult you have bills to pay, lists to make, surgeries to schedule (or not schedule in my case), lunches to packs, clothes to wash... and sometimes it's hard to do that whistling "Frosty the Snowman."
A lot of my disenchancement comes from the fact that I still haven't had my surgery approved by insurance and I'm sitting here waiting with heart palpitations for that call.
I could've already had this surgery done with, I could already be recovered and moving on with the holiday spirit! Not getting pissy with every passing phone call because the doctor isn't calling me back.
And that, my dears is why it sucks to be an adult.
I know that my holiday spirit will return and I'll be decorating cookies and belting out Christmas carols at the top of my lungs (and quite badly too) because not only am I an adult, I'm a mother and being a mother requires that we suck it up sometimes for the enjoyment of our children.
WESH's Share Your Christmas
- Dec. 4: Kissimmee Fire Station No. 2, 1409 Denn John Lane, Kissimmee
- Dec. 7: Sunshine Park Shopping Center, 2400 S. Ridgewood Ave., Daytona Beach
- Dec. 8: Post Commons Shopping Center, 4100 N Wickham Road, Melbourne
- Dec. 9: Forty East Shopping Center, 3450 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala
- Dec. 10: Palm Springs Crossing, 482 E. Altamonte Drive, Altamonte Springs
- Dec. 11: Big Lots Plaza, 923 N. 14th St., Leesburg; WESH 2-CW18 Studios, 1021 N. Wymore Road, Winter Park
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Celebrate the Holidays at Universal Studios & Islands of Adventure
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Please note that as of October 24, 2014, the Nokia Developer Wiki will no longer be accepting user contributions, including new entries, edits and comments, as we begin transitioning to our new home, in the Windows Phone Development Wiki. We plan to move over the majority of the existing entries over the next few weeks. Thanks for all your past and future contributions.
Web 2.0 Overview
Web 2.0 does not have a boundary, it has been compared by O'Reilly [2005] to a solar system. We could consider the concept as the Sun and its services as the planets that are tied to it and that have a different relation between each other and the core (concept). As it happens with the solar system, the most challenging aspect is to understand the diversity of the objects in it and to understand that in the most fundamental sense they are all part of the same family and therefore share a common genetic inheritance [Lewis, 1981]. In the same way Web 2.0 services are different but they all share the same principles and practices. They come from the same origin. Like the solar system, Web 2.0 services have relations between them just as planets do.
Web 2.0 was formulated by example.
Key principles behind Web 2.0
There are several key principles behind the Web 2.0 concept that have been discussed on the initial Web Conference held in 2004 and that authors other than O'Reilly et al. are discussing between themselves. Web 2.0 has three main building blocks behind it: platform, collectiveness and data.
1) Web as a Platform
This concept is considered to be Tim O'Reilly strategic positioning on the definition of Web 2.0. We can consider the web as being another layer on top of the traditional computer layers, is the new operating system which is graphic just like Mac OS or Windows is, we can consider it to be our new interface with the computer in which we have different Web 2.0 services., " In the end, both web browsers and web servers turned out to be commodities, and value moved "up the stack" to services delivered over the web platform" [O'Reilly, 2005].
This desktop concept is known as the "Webtop" and it is a trend that the borderline between the internet and the PC is fading, this is why the main internet and SW companies such as Yahoo!, Google or Microsoft are offereing tools that allow users to personalize the web interface as if it was an operating system [Gomero, 2006]. The net has replaced the PC as the platform that matters, just as the PC replaced the mainframe and minicomputer [Tim O'Reilly]. As Negroponte [1996] states, "Nowadays big changes in IT and telecom come from the applications and basic human needs", this is how a new desktop that is ubiquous, connected and embracing a social interaction has been created. Just like the O.S. interface made the PC HW a commodity, ubiquity is making both HW and O.S. interface a commodity.
2) Services instead of Applications
Web 2.0 is more about services rather than about applications and the SW programs are conceived more as services rather than products [Gomero, 2006]. These services are all social services in the sense that they are built around user data and create relations and communities between users. They are mash ups of different applications that are joined together independently; they are connected between each other and interact dynamically. The bottom line is that SW is delivered as a service instead of as a product [O'Reilly, 2005].This is why it is independent of the device where it is delivered. It is no longer "tied to the PC platform" [O'Reilly, 2005].
These services are continuously being updated so we never really have a closed version: it is the eternal β stage. SW gets better the more it is used [Reilly, 2005] it does no longer get modified and updated every 2 years, it is constantly updated [Gomero, 2006] by the usage and the service it provides.
3) Collectiveness
It is about harnessing collective intelligence and creating an open source environment in which an architecture of participation appears and users gain control over the Web. Network effects created by this architecture start happening, all data sources can be mixed or changed by users. Collectiveness intelligence is used to create Web 2.0 services. A new concept appears, "social media" which is the content that is created by users [Gomero, 2006]. According to wikipedia "Access to consumer-generated content facilitated by Web 2.0 brings the web closer to Tim Berners-Lee's original concept of the web as a democratic, personal, and do it yourself medium of communications."
When a company opens its databases to users, as Amazon, Google, and eBay have done with their Web services, it encourages participation at new levels. "he corporation's data becomes "part of the commons" and an invitation to participate. People who take advantage of these capabilities become the company's developers [Kelly, 2005] they are gaining control over the service and shaping it. As Tim O'Reilly [2005] states: "Leverage customer-self service and algorithmic data management to reach out the entire web, to the edges and not just the center, to the long tail and not just the head". An example of this is Amazon, where almost 1/3 of its on-line book sales come from non-popular books that are usually not available on traditional stores [Gomero, 2006]. As Anderson [2006] states, "the traditional line between producers and consumers has blurred. Consumers are also producers." Consumers are now co-creators of services and technological expertise is no longer a barrier to produce web pages.
The fact that there is so much scattered content available posted by users is creating a new equation for the supply and demand model: the long tail. This model states that a big number of items (offer) in the tail multiplied by a relatively small number (demand) is still equal to a big number [Anderson, 2006] which is only getting bigger as the Web 2.0 community which means that demand will start increasing more rapidly and so will the offer.
4) Data
Data and its management are crucial as the heart of Web 2.0. This is why all successful internet applications have been backed by a specialized database: Google, Yahoo!, Amazon, eBay, Napster. Data base management is a core competency, according to Tim O'Reilly, "The value of the SW is proportional to the scale and dynamism of the data it helps to manage." A new software concept is emerging, infoware" [O'Reilly, 2005]. The data are dominating Web 2.0 and it is becoming like the "Intel inside" cliché, the better the data quality and the way it is managed, the better the service will be.
Since services are based on data, there is a big volume of it in the Web 2.0 which needs to be managed. This is an artificial intelligence challenge; in order to manage data, tags are used to help categorization and searching for others to discover [Cavanaugh, 2002]. This is what is commonly known as Folksonomy: "a style of collaborative categorization of sites using freely chosen keywords which are referred to as tags" [O'Reilly, 2005]. Further evolution of tagging is the Semantic Web in which data is tagged in a way that it can be understood by machines also, although this subject does have some relation to the Web 2.0 but seen from a different perspective and thus it will not be included in the scope of this document.
Key drivers that enable web 2.0
There are some factors that drive the existence of Web 2.0 according to O'Reilly and Gomero [2004-6]:
•Evolution of software tools for data management that help content classification and discovery.
•High speed access to the internet that allows users retrieve high volume of information rapidly.
•Pervasive access to Internet anywhere any time.
•Internet applications open nature in which the user is the producer.
•Similarity with desktop of Internet services make them easy to use.
•HW price decrease provides master devices with more storage capacity for Server applications.
•Ease of maintenance since content is updated by users. The key driver behind Web2.0 has been the evolution of technology's presence in people's lives.
•Evolution of the Web user who has shifted his/her behavior from passive user to active user, hw/she is now in control. Users like to contribute, participate and be part of the Web.
•New social needs driven by IT, Telecommunications and Media convergence. People are now experts on using technology tools such as their PC, their mobile device and the TV and are now expecting more services that allow them to be connected and to be part of a social community that share the same interests.
•Maturity of the Web as a technology product in a way that it needed to "re-invent" itself in order to continue to attract users and grow


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