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I took advantage of placing a bunch of my hoyas on my sewing table to take a few pics of subcalva and one of benguetensis. Subcalva is usually awkward to move around due to the way that it is growing. It is weighted heavily to one side, and the leaves are cascading downward, so in order to take it off the shelf, I have to dodge the sides of the tray it sits in while trying not to bash any leaves toward the top. It also has trouble sitting upright due to most of the growth being on one side. So, it was quite a surprise to me how much it's grown over the summer.
And the pic of benguetensis. This is mainly to show the trellis that I made. Benguetensis hasn't done a thing since I don't even know when. But it hasn't gone downhill or anything either. It's just status quo for this guy, I guess. Pardon the clutter, the sewing table wasn't really planning on housing hoyas.
I'm not sure why the photos all look a bit washed out. I edited them a bit with Photoshop, but then they uploaded this way, kind of flat and pale. Still, it's better than the unedited version. I'll have to see what the story is, later.
Neat trellis. It is like Christina's in Sweden. How did you make that...with wire hangers? I love your subcalva too. Great growin. Don't know why your other one is stuck, but various ones of mine do that too. Then one day...they just start to grow if their happy.
I used her pics as reference to make this. There is this green coated wire that I found in the hooks, drywall anchors, and picture hanging accessories section at Lowe's. It comes in a big roll. The green used to be much more vibrant, it's now sunbleached. Tip: don't use wire cutters, just bend the wire back and forth until it breaks. Then clip the plastic coating. The wire is pretty thick, so it may take some force to cut it. The bending back and forth trick is much easier.
I made benguetensis mad earlier this year when I was feeling overwhelmed and let it dry out too much too often. It hasn't forgiven me yet. But like I said, it isn't going downhill. Just sitting around pretending to be a fake plant. If it still doesn't do anything by next year, that's when I'll get irritated. For now, it's ok.
Sue, we posted at the same time. Yes, this is one of the ones that blocks all the sun from getting in my room, ha. It's bloomed a couple times, but the peduncles from those bloomings seem to have dried up since. The leaves it has grown this summer are huge, almost the size of my hand. I'm hoping to see more blooms soon. Also, I hope they smell like grape this time :) This one loves water, it wants to stay moist all the time. It stalls out if it gets dry.
You did a nice sleek job with that trellis. I'm impressed/inspired. I'll have to look around for some coated wire, I bet it would be a lot less expensive than buying the individual lengths. And you know how I have all this room in my apartment to put a roll of heavy duty wire...
Your plants look great as usual; I'm glad we got a peek at them. My subcalva is also stuck in a position that would involve a lot of annoyance to extricate and it's not even as big as yours.
Thanks everyone! I just thought I'd mention: I cheated and that is actually two subcalva plants in one pot. The side with a lot more growth is the original one I got, and the other one is one I got around 6-8 months later. I got the second one as a backup because the first one looked to be doing poorly and I wanted at least one around. I consolidated earlier this year after it was clear they were both doing well enough because I really don't have room for two separate plants of the same type.
They wintered this past one pretty well. The previous winter, I only had the first subcalva, and it did not enjoy it. It died back to half its size then refused to grow. This is when I got the second one. I think when it is a young cutting, it's a little sensitive to cold temperatures. Subcalva seems to love being warm, bright, and kept moist. It did not grow nearly as well when it was further back from the window. Also, it seems to be one that really takes off when it becomes more established, but is kind of touchy when it is young. I had the same experience with variegated macrophylla. THAT one has grown well too but is really tricky to extricate now.
GG, it is not a huge roll, it's just not a tiny one. It takes up roughly the size of a throw pillow (16x16, not the giganto ones). You can probably use some, then tuck the rest under a shelving unit for later use.
It is a bit unclear to me. Is there a true subcalva (distinct from BSI-1) or was it determined to be syn. megalaster?
Here is a link that might be useful: CB on BSI-1
What specifically leads you to state that it is not subcalva? And if it is not subcalva, what is it? I've been growing it as subcalva because I bought it as subcalva, and it arrived labeled as subcalva. I enjoy it whatever you call it (it could be named Bob, and I'd still love it) but I'd like to know what makes you say without hesitation that is isn't what it said it was, and what subcalva is really supposed to look like if that is the case. Just for the record, I did not get this from Ted, so if it is misnamed, I can't say whether or not he had anything to do with it in this specific case. You stated before something about subcalva not being the true subcalva but I can't find that post at the moment.
Remembered which post it was under now. Here is what you stated, RFG:
"Hoya subcalva we have in circulation is closer to naumanii than it is to subcava. I will try to find the original description for this species and post it here. Subcalva has not been seen or collected to my knowledge. The grape scented hoya you have been growing as H subcalva has not been formally described or properly named yet."
In addition to the questions in my post above, can I ask: what is the point of naming something that has not been seen or collected thus far?
I also looked up naumannii and it does look very similar. For reference, here's a pic from when my plant I know as subcalva bloomed:
David Liddle also has a species listed as Hoys subcalva IML 0229 which I assume he collected although it may have come from some other growers collection.
I would also like to see the description for Hoya subcalva to see just what differentiates it from the plants we currently grow with this name.
Well you all know I am a curious guy so I just could not help myself. LOL
This is the official description of Hoya subcalva which was published in the Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information page 141 (1901). This is a publication associated with KEW Gardens and the 1901 copy has been digitally scanned.
Here is the original Latin publication.
1 lin. longae. Corollw tubus basi dilatatus, extus pilis glandulosis
ornatus, j lin. longus; lobi ovati, acuti. Antherca apice conspicue
mucronata, basi tenuissime caudatae. Ovarium extus minute
verrucosum. Pappus nullus.
AUSTRALIA. North-west Queensland, Lester.
337. Hoya subcalva, Burlcill [Asclepiadaceae]; ex affinitate
H. purpurew, Blume, et H. Guppyi, Oliv., ab una corona radiis
elongatis, ab altera petalis subcalvis, ab utraque foliis tenuioribus
Folia ovato-elliptica, brevissime acuminata, basi rotundata,
4-44 poll. longa, 2-2j poll. lata, glabra, nervis utrinque sat con-
spicuis; petiolus 6-10 lin. longus. Inflorescentiw umbellataw,
8-10-flors; pedunculus et pedicelli ad 12 poll. longi, glabri.
Sepula subtriangularia, 1 lin. longa. Corolla ad medium divisa,
10-14 lin. lata, dorsa glabra, intus pracipue ad margines
minutissime pustulata nec pilosa ; segmenta anguste triangularia,
acuta. CoronCe radii 2J-3 lin. longi, medio vix 1 lin. lati,
NEW GUINEA. Kaiser-Wilhelms Land Hollrbig, 28. SOLO-
MON ISLANDS. In a collection chiefly from New Georgia, Officers
of H.M1.S. " Penguin."
The specimen collected in New Guinea was sent to Kew under
the name of H. puyrurea, Blume
Here is the English translation which leaves a little to be desired but botanical descriptions are never easy to decipher unless you know the terminology. There are some rather obvious spelling errors.
1 Lin. long. Corollw base dilated tube, externally glandular hairs
of ornament, j Lin. long, lobes ovate, acute. Antherca apex conspicue
mucronata, the very meanest of the base caudatus. Ovary minute outwardly
RUGGED. Pappus No one.
Southward. North-west Queensland, Lester.
337. Hoya subcalva, Burlcill [Asclepiadaceae] and from the affinity
H. purpurew, Blume, and H. Guppyi, Olive., A crown of rays from one
removed, on the other subcalvis petals, leaves from both thinner
Leaves ovate-elliptical, very briefly acuminate, base rounded,
Poll 4-44. long, 2-2j Poll. wide, glabrous, nerves on both sides enough con-
spicuis; Lin petiole 6-10. long. Inflorescentiw umbellataw,
8-10-flowered; peduncle and pedicels 12 to the Poll. long, pilose.
Subtriangularia buried, 1 Lin. long. Corolla divided to the middle,
Lin 10-14. wide, glabrous through the hips, to the margins within pracipue
PURIFIED nor minutely hairy; the segments narrowly triangular,
sharp. Lin CoronCe rays 2J-3. long, the middle, scarcely 1 Lin. broad,
NEW GUINEA. Kaiser Wilhelms-Land Hollrbig, 28. CHEER-
Mon Island. Chiefly in a collection from New Georgia, Officers
of H.M1.S. "Penguin."
The specimen was sent to Kew Collected in New Guinea under
the name of H. puyrurea, Blume
Apparently there is no type specimen for this species so deciphering the description is made even that much more difficult.
Some good photos of the plant we have currently identified as Hoya subcalva.
Here is a link that might be useful: Page 141 of Bulletin of miscellaneous information
One of the problems is that material that was sent to KEW under the name Hoya pupurea Blume (1850) consisted of multiple different species. Hoya megalaster and Hoya hollrungii were both sent under this name with the latter hollrungii being an Eriostemma. Hoya purpurea is also classified as an Eriostemma.
Hoya purpurea was published in 1850, Rumphia IV p.30, t182.
This information came from Hoyas Of North Eastern New Guinea which was originally a German publication titled
Die Asclepiadaceen von Deutsch- Neu Guinea.
That reminds me, Hoya megalaster what we have been calling today is also NOT Hoya megalaster. It is something else.
I will try to find my description and pollinia sheet. Christine burton did an accurate account of all pollinia from preserved materials of almost all the hoyas.
Subcalva may be an eriostemma.
Call it BSI-1 instead
Quinn to answer your question concerning Hoya subcalva and its collection. The original collection was done I am assuming in the year of publication 1901. At that time a type specimen complete with flowers should have been taken and dried and then mounted for keeping in the Herbarium at KEW where the specimens were sent.
1901 was the year the name Hoya subcalva was published, take this as an introduction to science as a newly described species. Now none of this means that a living specimen was ever in a botanical collection so jump ahead at least 50 years and imagine yourself in New Guinea or the Solomon Islands with a freshly collected Hoya that you need to assign a name by ideally using a botanical key or reading through the description of all known Hoya species of that area. This is where problems occur as it's much like fitting together the pieces of a puzzle that have been stored away and all but ignored for half a century.
The description on Hoya subcalva does fit quite well with what we currently see named as such although you would have to take a look at the pollinia and compare size and shape.
The description of the leaves with the glabrous surface and conspicuous veining on both surfaces is consistent with what we have as Hoya subcalva as is the leaf shape and leaf tip being described as briefly acuminate, this is the drip tip that is suddenly formed vs being part of a tapering leaf shape.
Flower measurements are only needed to be taken as rough guides and not down to the mm. Of course if the flower measurement describes a 2" flower and what you have is a 1/2" flower then it's obviously not a match. Yeah I know I mixed inches and millimeters. LOL
I still need to make some sense of the measurements although I believe it should be the Imperial System which would make the flowers in the description 10-14mm wide. My plant has not flowered although measurements given online state flowers closer to 30mm across so that is a noticeable difference in size which cannot be ignored.
At first the thought of Hoya subcalva being an Eriostemma struck me as odd because most Eriostemma section/sub-genus species do not have glabrous leaf surfaces, in fact some are so covered in hairs that they could almost be called tomentose.
There is a newly collected example of an Eriostemma from New Guinea that does have glabrous (bald) leaf surfaces and a photo is available on my favorite botanical blog which I have linked to below.
Here is a link that might be useful: Unidentified Eriostemma on HortLog
Mike you're terrific! Great explanation to this dilemma. The problem is that TG had labeled this hoya just based on the final end product description, not key its way through a binomial system for identifying hoya species.
Hoya subcalva is most likely an eriostemma as most species from the New Guinea, New Hebrides and outlying islands are.
There are many slick leafed eriostemmas (coronaria, NG Gold, Gold Star, etc.) I assume subcalva is named for being a very distinct leaf from the normal eriostemmas which do have some velvet feel to them. I also believe that the "subcalva" in cultivation did not originate from the location that the true subcalva originated from and this is the puzzling part of the reason why someone would name something subcalva when it didn't even originate from that region.


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Plinus, please share a photo of your new roof garden plant support when you've put it in place with plants. I agree, "You're so nice!"
I never see what's coming, I'm so stupid. Some weeks ago one of the people in my course phoned me and asked about my experience with a roof garden, so I told him about it, sent a picture and forgot all about it.
Today the group surprised me with a ladder-like structure to put flowerpots on, some pots with herbs and a big bunch of flowers. And very big grins! Lovely!
Check out this tag on a "Wet and Forget" container I recently bought.Shoot--it came out sideways. Anyway it says: You're wasting your time! This product is only effective if you read the instructions thoroughly. But I know you probably won't. So go ahead, do the job twice. You probably have a PHD in time wasting. Who am I to give you advice.
I think this is hilarious! Well, I DID follow directions. Now to wait to see if the product eliminates the moss and lichen from my porch roof as advertized.
Yes, neat old L.A. photos. Thanks. My mother was a big "collector" of green stamps. I still have a knife and hatchet set she gave me 60 years ago!
Speaking of my parents, I went to my father's house yest (Sun) to wish him a happy fathers day. He's 96 and sort of down and out with the "dizzies" from Meniere's disease, a life-long problem for him. No fun. Still sharp as a tack, however.
More old L.A. Without photos...so far.
His second wife was my paternal grandfather's sister, and my Dad's favorite aunt. She lived to be 97...seems to be a curse of our family.
A little late, but Happy Father's Day to all the fathers here. I spent an enjoyable afternoon with my parents. And great weather to boot!
Shorpy has some interesting historical photos. Cute monorail cat gif, sk8eycat.
My family used drinking glasses that were free from gas stations too, booklover.
I have a complete set of DescoWare that I got from Blue Chip Stamps (a west Coast version of Green Stamps) back in the 1960s.
They were so ubiquitous that NO gas station or retail store could stay in business for very long without "giving" them out. Of course the cost of the things was included in the price of the mdse they were selling, so the customer was really paying for the "freebies."
S'funny the way they all vanished with the first oil embargo in the 1970s...tee-hee!
They were a PITA to me because every bookkeeping outfit I worked for specialized in gas stations...and I got the job of costing them out. Gah!
Also...remember when there were gas stations on every damn corner? You could choose your brand, knew the owners, etc? Long gone.
I remember banks giving gifts. I notice some still will give $100 for putting so much in and leaving it there for a certain period.
I've been tempted, but it's too much trouble, especially because I like my credit union. I've been a member of a credit union since I started making money. They don't cost as much as a bank and give more in interest. Never used a bank.
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My life, filled with people I love to spend time with and things I love to do, is very, very busy. My schedule is bursting with things I want to do, so much so that at times I feel anxiety about getting it all done. I have many goals concerning my art, my work, my learning to fly a plane, my band, my speaking French and more. I didn't realize until today that all these goals are only of interest to me. I know that seems obvious, but there you have it. It somehow never dawned on me that nobody really cares if I achieve any of these things but me.
I spent this last week sick with some undiagnosed incapacitating illness. I had a week that was full of these I "had to" do, and none of it got done. Each day I had to cancel plans, lessons, or meetings hoping that maybe tomorrow would be better. But tomorrow would come, I'd still be terribly sick, and I'd do the whole cancellation round again.
I know that I often think, when returning from vacation, how overbusy my life seems and how I should tone it down. I'm sure I've written here about it before. I think this was the first time though, that it really hit me on a gut level: this overbusy shit is bogus.
Maybe all these goals are a bit absurd. What does it matter if I get a gallery show this year, or next year, or the year after that? What does the time really mean in terms of achieving the goal? I keep settings up these deadlines, but they are all artificially contrived. They are all invented by me, and it really doesn't matter if or when they happen. Having all these deadlines just makes me anxious, plus I'm always evaluating (perhaps judging) my progress, which is another energy drain. Look, things are going to get done or they won't. As I saw from my week of being sick, nobody cares if my stuff happens or it doesn't. Nobody. They just care if I'm happy.
Also, maybe I just can't keep in touch with everyone I want to be in touch with. W. said recently that he was trying to "free himself from friends", a phrase I could only hear him say. He has a point, though, as absurd as it sounds. Sticking close to the good and important friends and maybe letting some others slip away isn't the worst idea. In my case, it may be an idea whose time has come.
Here's my post-illness resolution. No more fake, self-created deadlines. I'm just going to enjoy what I'm doing and try letting some things slip through the cracks, let some things take their course, and others take their time. I bet, just like this last week, it's not going to matter at all other than I might be a whole helluva lot calmer.
The frozen St. Lawrence still flows
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I'm in Québéc for the Winter Carnival. The temperature is hovering around 0 degrees fahrenheit, sometimes a bit above and sometimes a bit below. Everyone knows I hate winter. Mostly everyone knows I refer to snow as "sky vomit". Just what am I doing here?
I've talked about my friend I. before (here and here). Since we first got back in touch five years ago or so she has been bugging me to join her here for a fun-filled trip. I protested, and protested and protested. But I. was so persevering and convincing I finally said, "What the hell? I'll go."
I did like the idea of spending a vacation with her, having an adventure with her after all these years. Two friends of her would be joining us, and even that — a vacation with complete strangers — I accepted.
When I told people I knew I was doing this, they were dumbfounded, or confused, or mocking. Some people accepted my premise that I would approach it like an anthropology study.
And now I'm here. I have to tell you, some parts of this is really hellish, and then some parts are great.
The hellish part isn't actually the frigid cold. It's that I didn't realize that when I signed up for this trip, that I was signing up for a tour bus filled with a gaggle of retired people and a relentlessly talking tour leader. On the the eight — count 'em, eight — hours up here, I had to play bingo, watch a movie about Québéc which showed all the things we were about to see in person, watch an incredibly trite Hollywood film, and other delights. Here in Québéc we were shuttled around in a huge herd on this bus, this huge, huge bus and oh! It's just awful.
Today my pals decided to break off from the herd and that's when things started to improve… for a bit. It turned out that they wanted to break off to go shopping. LOTS OF SHOPPING. I said, hey, why don't I just meet up with you 'cause you know what? I HATE SHOPPING. They said okay, let's meet up in an hour and a half and then we'll go tubing. I really want to go tubing.
I walked down to the frozen river for a while and thought about my messy life while watching giant chunks of ice flow by. Then I went to an independent bookstore and drooled over the all the books in French. I was so happy to be free! Free! Of the herd and on my own to walk down the slushy sidewalk and get a little lost. It was so great to not no exactly where I was and I briefly fantasized about disappearing forever.
Then I met up with them. You know what? They had decided they didn't want to go tubing after all because they wanted to do MORE SHOPPING.
I kept standing outside the shops, waiting, waiting, waiting and finally said to I. if you guys want to keep doing this, just tell me and I'll go meet up with you somewhere else. Somehow this snapped her out of the stupor and she said no, let's go for a walk instead.
I'm writing this in the hotel which has a little private office for anyone can use. I'm in here all alone. It's wonderful.
There's some great irony because currently I live alone and complain a lot about how I don't like it, how I hate sleeping alone and waking up alone. Yet. Let me say that all this togetherness, especially while doing things I don't want to do, is far, far worse.
And the good parts? Maple taffy made on snow. My god is that something crazy. Hearing French everywhere. I do have a weakness for that language. Even better is that I get to speak it a little bit. Another fun moment is when I went on the ice slide. Shit was hella fast.
But of course, the best part is being with I. There's just something about her that makes me smile. I guess it's the same thing that could make me take this trip, something so unbelievable not me, and still have some good laughs. There's something about my friends, each one, that always seems extraordinary to me. I. is no exception.
more chrysalis soup
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I remember thinking as I sat in the bathtub a couple nights ago of when I used to sit in the bathtub in a tiny, dark apartment I had in North Beach just before I moved to the Filbert Steps. I only lived there for six months but it seems that a lot happened there. I remember my life was kind of messy and unformed at that time. I had just moved back from my sentence in Minnesota, was reconnecting with friends, and having weird sexual liaisons. Although I thought I was being kind of stupid about some things, and even reckless, I didn't judge myself the way I am judging myself now.
I saw myself as evolving, and that was a key difference. I seem to have an expectation that because of my age, I should have certain aspects of my emotional and psychological life solidified. This concept persists even though I still allow myself to be a beginner at many things, almost incessantly, almost pathologically. It's an interesting dichotomy that I allow myself so much leeway in learning new skills in the external world, but not in learning new skills in my internal world.
I guess that's partly due to this current change being so painful, and somehow painful changes devolve into self-blame and criticism.
Clearly the part of me that loves exploring the world, learning new things and seeing life as an adventure is the same part that takes emotional risks. It's just that emotional risks can have a bigger fallout and that can lead to self-recrimination.
It doesn't have to. I'm trying to see this as an evolution or at least a metamorphosis. It might not feel so great when a caterpillar becomes chrysalis soup. There may a be a fragment of thought of "Oh great, what the hell was a thinking. Now I'm a goddamn liquid."
Yep, now I'm a goddamn liquid.
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My birthday is coming up in a few weeks, which is always a good time for me to examine my life.
I realized that this birthday is placing me, age-wise, strangely close to being considered a senior.
I don't feel anything like a senior. I don't feel like an old person at all. My Dad, who is 88 — he's old.
There's still so much I don't know, and if I was really an old person, I would think I would know these things. Such as…
I still have no idea what love is. Even after my many years of living and many experiences, I don't know. I know some kinds of love really well, like loving a pet or a best friend. Clear, uncomplicated love with almost zero dissonance — I'm really good at that. Every other kind of love I stumble about in a clumsy way, feeling all sorts of inexplicable intense things that I have no idea how to handle.
I don't know what it means to be alive. I know that my time to be alive is short, and have no way to gauge if I'm spending that time well or if it really matters in such a vast universe. I want to feel like I'm getting it right, but even if I get it right, I won't know definitely until it's over, and then I won't be around to evaluate.
I can't resolve the dissonance between my own insignificance and that vastness of my mind. My subconscious seems infinite, like an entire universe inside my head *and* I am just one of seven billion people, on one of innumerable planets in a vast galaxy. Clearly the mind of one person can't be as big as well, everything, so why does it feel that way?
Ode to a Red Comb
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The day has arrived. I lost my red comb.
It was a cheap comb, made of plastic, and had nothing significant about it other than I had owned it for 37 years. I have so few items from my childhood, basically: a few drawings, even less writings, the only postcard I ever received from my grandmother, a few photos, a toy dog, a doll that belonged to my Mom, a pin my grandmother gave me, a nightstand, a spoon, and a can opener. You can see from this little list that each item takes on great significance. The items are worth nothing. They are would literally be garbage if I didn't attach some sentimental value to them. Some of them, like the comb, have no value even to me other than they've managed to travel through time with me to numerous places.
In the vast expanse of time, that comb wouldn't have been in my possession much longer — maybe 50 years if I live to be very, very old. (my Dad was just telling me about a neighbor Of his who lived to be 103 and was playing tennis until he was 99). I guess its nice that its final resting place is in The Florida Keys where I was vacationing. There it will stay, probably for a million years, completely non-biodegradable. Perhaps a future civilization will find it and wonder at the significance of an object so brightly colored and so durable. Perhaps that comb will be the only proof that I ever existed, my only legacy.
I'm so high
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Yesterday was a day I'd been awaiting for about 15 years. The wait was caused by nothing other than my inability to perceive that what I wanted was completely doable. To whit, I flew a plane.
Flight lessons, and airplanes in general, are very expensive. Fifteen years ago I won a flight in a small plane at a silent auction for a school in Sonoma. I was enthralled and immediately started thinking about flight lessons. Soon afterward, I switched to part-time work so had very little money. The spare money I did have went to another type of flying I was enamored with — flying trapeze, an activity I was mightily addicted to for eight years. There's a lot of parallels between the two which I won't go into right now.
Once I had money again, another goal appeared: my life-long desire to own a home. Saving up for a downpayment when you are an artsy type who doesn't like to work is no easy feat, but I did it. But it didn't leave anything over for flight lessons.
Perhaps I was also distracted for a bit by my fantasy of being an astronaut.
This year I realized how much time has gone by and if I had started way back when, well, I would've been a pilot a long time ago. I vowed this year I would fly.
Here in the eleventh hour, or twelfth month, I've finally done it. When you don't have an pilots as pals, it's hard to know how to get started. I had a fortuitous meeting with a cousin who is a very experienced pilot at a family event this year. I don't think I ever even had a conversation with him but when I asked him about being a pilot, boy, did he want to talk. Not only that, but afterward he emailed me very useful information.
There was a little ass-dragging on my part and then some failed attempts to contact a disorganized flight club but finally, finally I was scheduled for a demo or introductory flight.
It was so bizarre to actually fly a plane that I barely believe it was real. It was strangely normal and completely dreamlike at the same time. My instructor's line, "Aim straight ahead for that cloud" keeps pinging around inside my skull.
I remember looking down at my neighborhood, at all the beautiful, freshly green East Bay Regional Parks, at the snow-capped Sierras shining in the sun out of reach of the storm clouds.
Most impressive was the incoming storm, just hours away, filling the sky with an amazing array of clouds.
And then we were on the ground, just like that.
I don't know how long it'll take until I'm a pilot, but who cares? I'm finally on my way.
Crows and Hawks playing: Photos!
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Thanks to Valerie Sylveste who sent me these photos. We finally have some proof of this phenomenon. She says:
I did a google search because I have been witnessing this phenomena in Linden MI for the last month or so. I throw scraps out daily for a family of crows so the same group visits regularly.
There is a small hawk that often joins them in the flying and swooping. Then they hang out in the tree together. I sometimes see them down the road hanging out on the ground together.
I have included the two pics I managed to get.
Maybe you can identify the hawk?
This looks to me like an immature Cooper's Hawk. It would make sense that it is a juvenile, and that the crow is a juvenile too – it seems it would be more likely that they would play together. If anyone has a better ID, please let us know.
Scrub Jays Rule Again: Western Scrub Jays Are Capable of Metacognition
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Evidence suggests that humans are not the only animals that can think about thinking
Scientific American September 2014
When you do not know the answer to a question, say, a crossword puzzle hint, you realize your shortcomings and devise a strategy for finding the missing information. The ability to identify the state of your knowledge—thinking about thinking—is known as metacognition. It is hard to tell whether other animals are also capable of metacognition because we cannot ask them; studies of primates and birds have not yet been able to rule out simpler explanations for this complex process.
Scientists know, however, that some animals, such as western scrub jays, can plan for the future. Western scrub jays, corvids native to western North America, are a favorite of cognitive scientists because they are not "stuck in time"—that is, they are able to remember past events and are known to cache their food in anticipation of hunger, according to psychologist Arii Watanabe of the University of Cambridge. But the question remained: Are they aware that they are planning?
Watanabe devised a way to test them. He let five birds watch two researchers hide food, in this case a wax worm. The first researcher could hide the food in any of four cups lined up in front of him. The second had three covered cups, so he could place the food only in the open one. The trick was that the researchers hid their food at the same time, forcing the birds to choose which one to watch.
If the jays were capable of metacognition, Watanabe surmised, the birds should realize that they could easily find the second researcher's food. The wax worm had to be in the singular open cup. They should instead prefer keeping their eyes on the setup with four open cups because witnessing where that food went would prove more useful in the future. And that is exactly what happened: the jays spent more time watching the first researcher. The results appeared in the July issue of the journal Animal Cognition.
Friederike Hillemann, who studies corvids at the University of Göttingen in Germany, thinks the experiment is an elegant way to determine whether animals are capable of reasoning about their own knowledge states. Although this experiment did not directly test consciousness, the findings are exciting because they provide further evidence that humans are not the only species with the ability to think about their thought processes. Or, as Watanabe put it, "some birds study for a test like humans do."


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HAVE: junipers and azaelas
crueltyfre(Tampa 9a heat 10 sunset 26)April 18, 2010
oops, obviously that was "HAVE" not want on the junipers. I wish you could go back and edit posts!
I have a bed full of ground cover Junipers that aren't getting enough sun and getting spindly and must go.
I also have a handful (5 or 6) of mature, standard Formosa Azaleas that must go. They're planted under a window and I'm forced to keep cutting them back to stop them from obscuring the light and therefore they never get a chance to bloom.
Free for the digging. I'm in NW Hills. right off the Veterans.


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According to the Census, 48 million people in the U.S. are food insecure. That's one in seven Americans who don't know where their next meal is coming from. Meanwhile, the EPA estimates that America wastes 68 billion pounds of food each year; enough to fill the up Rose Bowl every day.
The University of Maryland, College Park used to send all of its leftovers from student dining halls and from stadiums after games to landfills and composting facilities. Everyone, from the director to the dishwashers, hated to see good food go to waste, but there was no way to get it to those in need without taking on new labor and transportation costs.
So, a group of students took up the initiative. Since 2011, Food Recovery Network, a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit, has started chapters at over 90 colleges and universities and donated more than 420,000 pounds of food. These students have volunteered time and transportation costs to deliver more than 335,000 meals to community hunger-fighting agencies since the program started. The only operating cost left? Trays.
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The NCAA-GLVC Conference Men's Basketball Tournament is coming to Evansville's Ford Center Thursday, March 7 through Sunday, March 10. As you know, both the University of Southern Indiana and Kentucky Wesleyan are in the GLVC. The basketball action will be exciting and so will the Family Fun Fest on Sat., March 9.
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Aug 10, 2011
Education-Portal.com recently ran a survey asking readers to detail their familiarity and experiences with OpenCourseWare (OCW), free college course material available online to any interested learners. We wanted respondents to tell us how they use OCW, what OCW types they find most relevant to their studies and more. Here are the results.
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Among our questions on OCW usage, Education-Portal.com asked its readers to tell us what types of OCW they found most helpful to their continuing education. Were transcribed lecture notes a crowd favorite, or did people prefer watching classroom videos? Maybe course outlines or reading lists were all they required. As it turns out, the results didn't really indicate a clear winner; the three most favored types of OCW were clustered closely together percentage-wise, as were the next two. What might that mean, and how did our readers prefer their OCW presented?
Interactive Online Classrooms
Edging out the top spot by 0.2 percentage points, 20.4% of our readers responding to the survey indicated that their preferred type of OCW takes the form of interactive online classrooms. In other words, these folks like to use OCW to replicate a typical college experience in a wholly digital way. They have a (virtual) teacher, (online) classwork to complete and maybe even fellow students, but they never have to leave their home to access the learning process.
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Sliding up right behind interactive online classrooms, OCW video lectures nabbed the number two spot in our survey, securing 20.2% of our readers' votes. This isn't especially surprising; one might imagine that many OCW users also take advantage of Internet sites like YouTube and Hulu, where digital video is the norm. Plenty of OCW initiatives, such as Yale's popular Principles of Evolution series, offer streaming or downloadable lectures. Some are even hosted on the massive digital marketplace iTunes.
Course Outlines
One might assume those learners who make use of OCW are quite self-sufficient. That could account for why class outlines scored third in our survey, culling 18% of our users' votes. OCW course outlines can provide valuable structure for people diving into a subject for the first time. If they see an example of an accredited class taught in a certain field, they can in theory direct themselves to replicate that class by following along with syllabi posted online. Ideally, if the outline refers to reading material that isn't available in a published textbook (for instance, a teacher's own supplemental notes), that material should be available online as well.
Assessments and Quizzes
Although OCW doesn't yet offer any truly concrete methods of evaluating or accrediting its users, online course material can include quizzes and tests used by that course's instructor to evaluate his or her traditional classroom students. For OCW users looking to seriously test their knowledge of a given subject, these can be a tremendous help - it's a free peek at college exams! In total, 11.8% of our users found this the most beneficial way to use OCW.
Lecture Notes
Perhaps it's surprising that this falls so far down on our list, but only 11% of our survey respondents found the best use of OCW to be cribbing lecture notes from various classes. However, that could also indicate that many OCW purveyors just aren't as interested in text-based notes as they are in multimedia learning presentations. In fact, Blake Haggerty, Assistant Director for Instructional Design at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, told Education-Portal.com that 'digitally-based learning becomes more engaging to the student when appropriately infused with multimedia.'
Reading Lists
A type of more vague course outline, OCW course reading lists brought up the bottom of our survey; only 4.3% of our respondents named it the most useful type of OCW. It's probable that, since sites like Amazon.com and many blogs offer endless reading lists to familiarize people with any topic imaginable, not many people turn to OCW to fill that need. However, those who do can take solace in the fact that, rather than being assembled by a random Internet persona (probably with some ridiculous username like 'KoolDude43'), these reading lists have been proven effective in college classrooms across the country. If you want an authoritative source on key texts in the world of microbiology, for example, OCW might have what you need.
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I believe most older books list the large, "Swiss Cheese Plant" or split-leaf Monstera as Monstera deliciosa. I understand now that most of the common forms, and the variegates, are actually Monstera borsighiana, correct?? Is it a subspecies, rename or distinct species. I am also seeing ebay plants and variegates, of similar/same appearance, as (working from memory, could be wrong) M. pertusa. Can anyone help clear up this name game for me?
I won't claim to be an expert, but my understanding is that M. pertusa/pertusum (sometimes seen also as Philo. pertusa) is an invalid synonym of M. deliciosa. M. borsighiana is a separate species with a growth habit and appearance much like M. deliciosa, but smaller, less cold-tolerant, and with inedible fruit. The more knowledgable sellers are listing their aureo- and albovariegated plants as M. borsighiana.


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From the preface: This book is in one way a continuation of an earlier set of efforts about outcomes research and in others a totally new work. We have previously published two editions of a multi-authored text, Understanding Health Outcomes Research. When I was asked to consider a third edition, I opted to dramatically change the format and the content. I teamed with my colleague, David Radosevich, who has been teaching the course on outcomes research with me at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, to write a jointly authored text that would approach this topic afresh. The current text, Conducting Health Outcomes Research, is based on our collective experience teaching this material to a diverse group of students with varying degrees of clinical and epidemiological backgrounds. At the same time, a lot has changed. Evidence-based medicine has become the holy grail of medical care. Comparative effectiveness research has begun to blossom. There is a greater than ever need for such a text. We have tried to make the book more practical but readily acknowledge that in many instances we draw heavily on the work of earlier chapter authors. We have acknowledged that work whenever appropriate.
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