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Memory Monday: Fads and My Mom
My mother was not a person who followed every fad that came along, but neither was she a person who avoided fads. I guess you would say that she had particular types of fads to which she was susceptible. They all come under the category of home décor, moreover home décor which has come to be regarded as … how to put this … not surviving the (good) taste test after their 15 minutes of popularity passed. This is not to say that my mother had bad taste, because I don't believe that was the case. She was a beautiful woman and I think she knew how to choose clothes to highlight that beauty; most of our home furnishings were tasteful or at least inoffensively nondescript (though I suppose there could be some debate on the "earth tones" home decoration era).
It was just that there were certain things that caught my mother's eye and either tickled her whimsy or hit the "pretty – must have" button. I can only remember three sets of items that fall into this category. The first was our set of kitchen appliances, pots, and pans from the late 1960s: they represented the "autumn colors" fad of that time; our things were avocado (not sure why avocado was considered an "autumn color"). It wasn't that bad, though when I recently pulled out Mom's old hand mixer (pictured above; it only has one beater, but our Kitchen Aid is on the fritz, and I was desperate) and observed that moldy green, I had to wonder, "When was this ever considered a pretty color?" The answer is: probably never, because that which is "pretty" is not necessarily considered to be "tasteful." Maybe that is why tastes change so rapidly; one era's tasteful is the next era's tacky.
Which brings us to the next item: a lava lamp. I think lava lamps should get a pass from the taste police, simply because they're fun. And they're so relaxing … who hasn't felt calm and peaceful who has watched those milky globs drift slowly up and down?
The final set of fad items were three of Mom's clocks: her cuckoo clock and her two cat clocks (one black and one white, the Felix clocks with moving tails and eyes). I do not recall the cuckoo clock, which dated to my grade school years in California, ever being in the house at the same time as the cat clocks, which dated to my high school years in Texas. The cuckoo clock must have been a casualty of one of our many moves during my junior high school years, when many of our family possessions were lost. The cat clocks made a peaceful "click-click" sound as the cats' tails and eyes moved back and forth, but they were never synchronized with one another. One was in the kitchen and the other was in the living room, but in our little public housing apartment, that was only about 14 feet apart, and you could hear them anywhere in the apartment until you moved into the bedrooms down the hall. So between the "cl-click-cl-click" of the clocks and the soothing dance of the lava lamp globs, I guess you could say our home had a pretty peaceful atmosphere.
All in all, despite the jokes my family and I have made over the years, I do not think my mother's clocks, lamps, pots, and pans amounted to a terribly egregious violation of the dictates of good taste. However, I'm definitely not going to buy any avocado-colored appliances for our house. Though I do love the color green. And Kitchen Aids come in a beautiful dark forest green. And I do need a new Kitchen Aid….
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I know I'm dating myself here....but avocado green and harvest gold were the colors when I was married. My fondue pot was avocado and I think I even had an avocado stove. I've come full circle, now, everything is white!ReplyDelete
Linda - I remember how my mother adored those colors. They actually looked pretty decent when they were new and in our kitchen, which was painted yellow. It's just when that avocado color starts to fade with age, it starts to look more like olive....ReplyDelete
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Dr. Blankson's laboratory has focused on the mechanism of control of HIV-1 replication in a cohort of patients known as elite controllers or elite suppressors. These patients are HIV-1 seropositive, but maintain levels of viremia that are below the limit of detection of standard clinical assays. Dr. Blankson and his team feel that elite suppressors represent a potential model for a therapeutic HIV vaccine. Their central hypothesis is that many of these patients are infected with fully replication-competent HIV-1 isolates that are held in check by the immune system. To test this hypothesis, they are studying many different host and viral factors in these patients.
They have shown that CD4+ T cells from these patients are not intrinsically resistant to HIV-1 infection and that elite control is probably not due to HIV-specific neutralizing antibody or NK cell responses. While HIV-specific CTL responses are known to be important in controlling viral replication, they have shown that virus amplified from these patients have developed escape mutations in immunodominant epitopes. They are thus trying to determine how control of viral replication is maintained in the presence of immunologic escape.
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Salgado M, Swanson MD, Pohlmeyer CW, Buckheit RW 3rd, Wu J, Archin NM, Williams TM, Margolis DM, Siliciano RF, Garcia JV, Blankson JN. HLA-B*57 Elite Suppressor and Chronic Progressor HIV-1 Isolates Replicate Vigorously and Cause CD4+ T cell Depletion in Humanized BLT Mice. J Virol. 2014 Jan 3. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 24390323.
Pohlmeyer CW, Buckheit RW 3rd, Siliciano RF, Blankson JN. CD8+ T cells from HLA-B*57 elite suppressors effectively suppress replication of HIV-1 escape mutants. Retrovirology. 2013 Dec 12;10:152. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-10-152. PubMed PMID: 24330837; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3878989.
Chiu YL, Shan L, Huang H, Haupt C, Bessell C, Canaday DH, Zhang H, Ho YC, Powell JD, Oelke M, Margolick JB, Blankson JN, Griffin DE, Schneck JP. Sprouty-2 regulates HIV-specific T cell polyfunctionality. J Clin Invest. 2013 Dec 2. pii: 70510. doi: 10.1172/JCI70510. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 24292711; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3871241.
Ho YC, Shan L, Hosmane NN, Wang J, Laskey SB, Rosenbloom DI, Lai J, Blankson JN, Siliciano JD, Siliciano RF. Replication-competent noninduced proviruses in the latent reservoir increase barrier to HIV-1 cure. Cell. 2013 Oct 24;155(3):540-51. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.09.020. Epub 2013 Oct 24. PubMed PMID: 24243014; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3896327.
Salgado M, Gandhi S, Buckheit RW, Berkenblit GV, Blankson JN. Evolution of an Attenuated HIV-1 Isolate in an Elite Suppressor. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 2013 Nov 13. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 24117037.
Buckheit RW 3rd, Siliciano RF, Blankson JN. Primary CD8+ T cells from elite suppressors effectively eliminate non-productively HIV-1 infected resting and activated CD4+ T cells. Retrovirology. 2013 Jul 1;10:68. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-10-68. PubMed PMID: 23816179; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3702406.
Laird GM, Eisele EE, Rabi SA, Lai J, Chioma S, Blankson JN, Siliciano JD, Siliciano RF. Rapid quantification of the latent reservoir for HIV-1 using a viral outgrowth assay. PLoS Pathog. 2013;9(5):e1003398. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003398. Epub 2013 May 30. PubMed PMID: 23737751; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3667757.
Wendel SK, Mullis CE, Eshleman SH, Blankson JN, Moore RD, Keruly JC, Brookmeyer R, Quinn TC, Laeyendecker O. Effect of natural and ARV-induced viral suppression and viral breakthrough on anti-HIV antibody proportion and avidity in patients with HIV-1 subtype B infection. PLoS One. 2013;8(2):e55525. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0055525. Epub 2013 Feb 20. PubMed PMID: 23437058; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3577851.
Buckheit RW 3rd, Salgado M, Silciano RF, Blankson JN. Inhibitory potential of subpopulations of CD8+ T cells in HIV-1-infected elite suppressors. J Virol. 2012 Dec;86(24):13679-88. doi: 10.1128/JVI.02439-12. Epub 2012 Oct 10. PubMed PMID:23055552; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3503034.
Durand CM, Blankson JN, Siliciano RF. Developing strategies for HIV-1 eradication. Trends Immunol. 2012 Nov;33(11):554-62. doi:10.1016/j.it.2012.07.001. Epub 2012 Aug 3. Review. PubMed PMID: 22867874.
Buckheit RW 3rd, Salgado M, Martins KO, Blankson JN. The implications of viral reservoirs on the elite control of HIV-1 infection. Cell Mol Life Sci. 2013 Mar;70(6):1009-19. doi: 10.1007/s00018-012-1101-7. Epub 2012 Aug 4. Review.PubMed PMID: 22864624.
Thayil SM, Ho YC, Bollinger RC, Blankson JN, Siliciano RF, Karakousis PC, Page KR. Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex enhances susceptibility of CD4 Tcells to HIV through a TLR2-mediated pathway. PLoS One. 2012;7(7):e41093. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0041093. Epub 2012 Jul 23. PubMed PMID: 22844428; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3402510.
Shan L, Deng K, Shroff NS, Durand CM, Rabi SA, Yang HC, Zhang H, Margolick JB, Blankson JN, Siliciano RF. Stimulation of HIV-1-specific cytolytic T lymphocytes facilitates elimination of latent viral reservoir after virus reactivation. Immunity. 2012 Mar 23;36(3):491-501. doi:10.1016/j.immuni.2012.01.014. Epub 2012 Mar 8. PubMed PMID: 22406268; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3501645.
Buckheit RW 3rd, Allen TG, Alme A, Salgado M, O'Connell KA, Huculak S, Falade-Nwulia O, Williams TM, Gallant JE, Siliciano RF, Blankson JN. Host factors dictate control of viral replication in two HIV-1 controller/chronic progressor transmission pairs. Nat Commun. 2012 Mar 6;3:716. doi: 10.1038/ncomms1697. PubMed PMID: 22395607; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3549550.
Durand C, Ambinder R, Blankson J, Forman S. HIV-1 and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2012 Jan;18(1 Suppl):S172-6. doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2011.10.027. Review. PubMed PMID: 22226103; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3615639.
Witwer KW, Watson AK, Blankson JN, Clements JE. Relationships of PBMC microRNA expression, plasma viral load, and CD4+ T-cell count in HIV-1-infected elite suppressors and viremic patients. Retrovirology. 2012 Jan 12;9:5. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-9-5. PubMed PMID: 22240256; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3292811.
Salgado M, Rabi SA, O'Connell KA, Buckheit RW 3rd, Bailey JR, Chaudhry AA, Breaud AR, Marzinke MA, Clarke W, Margolick JB, Siliciano RF, Blankson JN. Prolonged control of replication-competent dual- tropic human immunodeficiency virus-1 following cessation of highly active antiretroviral therapy. Retrovirology. 2011 Dec 5;8:97. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-8-97. PubMed PMID: 22141397; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3293762.
O'Connell KA, Rabi SA, Siliciano RF, Blankson JN. CD4+ T cells from elite suppressors are more susceptible to HIV-1 but produce fewer virions than cells from chronic progressors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Sep 13;108(37):E689-98. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1108866108. Epub 2011 Aug 22. PubMed PMID: 21873218; PubMedCentral PMCID: PMC3174588.
Blankson JN. Killing the messenger to maintain control of HIV. Nat Med. 2011 Aug 4;17(8):927-8. doi: 10.1038/nm.2427. PubMed PMID: 21818087.
O'Connell KA, Hegarty RW, Siliciano RF, Blankson JN. Viral suppression of multiple escape mutants by de novo CD8(+) T cell responses in a human immunodeficiency virus-1 infected elite suppressor. Retrovirology. 2011 Aug 3;8:63. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-8-63. PubMed PMID: 21812985; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3173334.
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Paradigms, beliefs and values in scholarship: A conversation between two educationists
Paradigmas, vooronderstellings en waardeoriënterings in wetenskapsbeoefening: 'n Gesprek tussen twee opvoedkundiges
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Scientific paradigms constantly play a role in scholarship, but researchers tend not to examine the roles of the belief and value systems associated with them. From time to time, how-ever, a researcher may be confronted with a situation where such an analysis is unavoidable. This article takes the shape of a conversation between two researchers who have been work-ing for several years in quite different research paradigms in the field of Religion Studies/Religion Education/Religion in Education.1They investigate the possibility of collaboration as they were initially trained at the same university. After their graduate studies, their ways parted, and they developed quite different scholarly paradigms as well as belief and value systems. Their conversation not only highlights the differences in their respective current worldviews, belief systems, value systems, and academic approaches to Religious Studies, but also shows in practical terms how different scholarly paradigms (with their concomitant belief and value systems) can impact on researchers' (views of) scholarship, science practice and research in Religion Education and Religion in Education.
Key concepts: beliefs, education, paradigms, scholarship, values
Wetenskapsparadigmas speel deurlopend 'n rol in akademie-skap, maar min navorsers verwoord eksplisiet hulle navorsings-paradigmas. 'n Navorser word soms wel gedwing om analities na sy/haar navorsingsparadigma te kyk. Hierdie artikel is in die vorm van 'n gesprek tussen twee navorsers wat vanuit hulle verskillende paradigmas op die terrein van die Religiestudies/ Religieuse Onderrig/Religie in Onderwys2 werk en moontlike samewerking vanuit hierdie verskillende paradigmas oorweeg. Hierdie oorweging spruit daaruit dat hulle aanvanklik aan dieselfde universiteit studeer het. Hulle weë het egter na hulle voorgraadse studiejare uiteen gegaan, en gaandeweg het hulle heeltemal verskillende wetenskaplike, paradigmatiese waarde-oriënterings ontwikkel. Hulle gesprek lig nie slegs die verskille in hulle onderskeie lewensbeskouings, waardeoriënterings en benaderings tot Religiestudie uit nie, maar dui ook prakties aan hoe die verskillende wetenskaplike paradigmas (met hulle samehangende waardeoriënterings) 'n navorser se (sienings oor) akademieskap en navorsing in Religie in Onderwys en Religieuse Onderrig kan beïnvloed.
Kernbegrippe: akademieskap, opvoedkunde, paradigmas, waarde-oriënterings, waardes
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1 The terms Religion Studies/Religious Education/Religion in Education are de-fined in the South African Policy on Religion in Education (2003) and explicated in more detail in the Curriculum for Religious Studies for the FET-Band. The ambivalent use of the name for the subject Religious Education and/or Bible Education prior to 2003 led to confusion, and the various interpretations (natio-nally and internationally) that were bandied about necessitated the formulation of a definition for circumscribing the new subject in the curriculum, namely as a subject that would be fully inclusive. Its curriculum embraces a study of various different religions and value orientations (worldviews) and hence differs con-siderably from the content and definition of the previous religious education (cf. Summers & Waddington, 1996; Krüger, 2003; Prinsloo, 2008).
2 Die terme Religiestudies/Religieuse Onderrig/Religie in Onderwys word in die Suid-Afrikaanse Beleid oor Religie in Onderwys (2003) gedefinieer en in die kurrikulum vir Religiestudies in the VOO-band verduidelik. Die ambivalente gebruik van die naam van die vak, Religieuse Onderrig en/of Bybelonderrig, voor 2003 het tot verwarring gelei en verskillende interpretasies (nasionaal en inter-nasionaal) het 'n definisie genoodsaak om die nuwe "vak" in die kurrikulum mee te identifiseer, naamlik as 'n vak wat inklusief van aard sou wees. Die kurrikulum daarvan sluit die bestudering van verskillende godsdienste en waardeoriën-terings (werklikheidsbeskouings) in en verskil derhalwe aansienlik van die inhoud en definisie van die vorige religieuse onderrig/godsdiensonderrig (vgl. Summers & Waddington, 1996; Krüger, 2003; Prinsloo, 2008).


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"Subscribe Now!" was the title of a 1977 book by Danny Newman that became the marketing bible for performing-arts institutions in the United States.
"No!" comes the answer from audiences a generation later.
"That's a chestnut," 26-year-old Tony Heaphy, the new marketing director at Baltimore's Centerstage, said of Newman's book.
Yet that chestnut helped solidify the way many groups across the country still do much of their selling — even though evidence suggests that the subscription model is chugging into a ditch.
Last year, Theatre Communications Group's annual Theatre Facts study revealed that subscriptions were down 15 percent nationally since 2006. Most disturbing was the shrinkage of subscriptions — desirable as a paid-up-front and company-stabilizing source of cash — as a percentage of overall income, from 20 percent to less than 17 percent.
That doesn't sound like much, especially with single-ticket income rising from 22 percent to 25 percent of total income. But the psychological shift is profound, inevitably nudging not-for-profit arts groups toward the old commercial "Give me a hit show now!" box-office anxiety.
The situation is no better in classical music and dance. Amy Fitterer, executive director of Washington-based Dance/USA, reports that subscriptions are decreasing particularly rapidly among troupes with budgets of $15 million or more. Jesse Rosen, president of the League of American Orchestras, gave a speech last year noting that classical-music participation is down nationally 29 percent over the past 20 years. Classical-music season subscription revenue has dropped more than 5 percent since 2006, according to the league.
The idea of subscribing to a full season of theater, classical music or dance — choosing your seats and committing to six or a dozen or more dates through the coming year at the local culture palace — has been under siege for some time. Home video, the Internet and WiFi have altered the biorhythms and buying patterns of audiences. Arts groups have been retrenching for so long that Jeffrey Herrmann, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company's managing director, said the subscription problem is rarely discussed at industry conferences.
"We're kind of tired of talking about it," Herrmann said.
Still, Fitterer said, "subscriptions are not dead yet, because everyone keeps doing them."
Herrmann agreed. "No one has come up with what the next big thing is," he said.
Social media is not yet riding to the rescue. Facebook and Twitter may be claiming a lot of chatter, expense and energy, but Deeksha Gaur, Woolly's director of marketing and public relations, echoed the sentiments of Heaphy and others. "For the most part," Gaur said in an e-mail, "social media has been more of a communications channel rather than a direct sales channel for us."
Still, subscriptions aren't dead yet, and there have been wrinkles lately in the way they're pitched and packaged. One comes from dynamic pricing, which arts groups have begun to use like airline fares — prices go up as dates near and demand tightens. This can be fueled by special events or stars — Helen Mirren at the Shakespeare Theatre Company for one week a few seasons back, or Arena Stage's current "Red Hot Patriot," headlined by Kathleen Turner.
"Red Hot" tickets on upcoming Saturday nights are going for $109; subscribers will have paid $45. (Subscriptions are up lately at Arena.)
The Kennedy Center is using next summer's five-week stand of the Broadway hit "The Book of Mormon," by "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, as a similar carrot.
Subscribing is "the best way to guarantee your seats," said David Kitto, vice president for marketing and sales at the Kennedy Center, where subscriber numbers have grown over the past decade, from 11 percent to 16 percent of the audience across artistic disciplines (not including the Washington National Opera, which only recently came under KenCen auspices).
Subscriptions are on track to finish up this year, and Kitto said "Book of Mormon" — still a sellout on Broadway and commanding nearly $200 for premium tickets — "is clearly helping our cause."
Established hits and marquee stars have always been the best medicine for sales, of course, and the "Avoid dynamic pricing — subscribe now!" link is becoming familiar across the country. But what about strategies for the rank and file?
One hot topic is the flex pass, a version of which has been adopted by Woolly and other organizations — few more aggressively than A Contemporary Theatre in Seattle with its ACTPass. For $25 a month, patrons can see all the theater they like in ACT's four venues. The program began in 2009, and the company now has 1,400 ACTPass members, according to theater marketing and communications director Becky Lathrop. Customers get convenience and practically unlimited access, except when the smallest of ACT's four venues (a 60-seater) has a hot show. Theaters get a reliable source of cash planning, thanks to those gym- or Netflix-like automatic payments.
That's a tough plan to replicate, of course, unless you have shows on multiple stages each month. In Chicago, the Joffrey Ballet had the opposite problem: surplus seats in its near-5,000-seat auditorium. So in 2010, Executive Director Christopher Clinton Conway offered limited subscriptions through Groupon.
The Joffrey doubled its subscriber base and is selectively repeating the tactic. Conway said that 80 percent of the Groupon buyers actually came to all the shows they purchased and that almost 30 percent renewed — less than the typical 40 percent renewal rate for first-time subscribers but a good response from discount purchasers. Because of the theater's size, "these are truly seats we never would have sold," Conway said. "We were not cannibalizing our revenue."
Conway, Lathrop and Fitterer pointed to several pronounced patterns among younger patrons. They like flexibility and spontaneity — being able to say, as Fitterer put it, "After dinner we could actually go see this dance performance." They respond to add-ons — top-shelf liquor in a teeming, attractive lobby, Conway pointed to as a for-instance — and added social access.
This leads to a key change that Rosen sees — a new sensitivity to what audiences want, not just to what arts groups need. Newman, in "Subscribe Now!," was "institution-centric," Rosen said. Newman's subscription model worked great for arts organizations, guaranteeing audiences and a nice slice of income. But Rosen said models now are being forced toward what's more alluring for the new breed of consumers.
He cited efforts to make the concert experience more appealing to a broader segment of the public, like the New York Philharmonic's recent "Philharmonic 360" performance in the Park Avenue Armory. The orchestra surrounded the audience in the vast hall, and the unusual event attracted a different clientele than that which usually populates the orchestra's Lincoln Center home.
Will those first-timers subscribe? Rosen said studies are showing they don't like that hard-sell pitch right away, that a cooler pace of cultivation yields better results. Lessons are being learned, he said, about "responding to what audiences say they want instead of what the orchestra wants."
ACT's subscriptions are up slightly this year, possibly drafting on the success of the ACTPass, but Lathrop noted sharp differences in the profiles of subscribers and the pass holders, which she calls "members." The age range for subscribers starts at about 55, but that skews 20 years younger for ACTPass members.
"We're removing that crustiness," Conway said, "without making it too populist, because our brand is aspiration, and luxury, and elite to a degree. We have to keep a little bit of the gilt still on."
Heaphy said he thinks some of Newman's principles endure — namely the sense of belonging, a clubby-ness that younger audiences like without the old snob factor.
That clubby-ness is for sale. Baltimore's Centerstage calls the product a "Flex Pass," or, for the 18-to-34 crowd, the "Go Pass." Centerstage does not even use the word "subscriber" anymore; as in Seattle, the preferred term is "member." Heaphy said that suggests civic engagement, solidarity with an arts group, more than just a bought package of goods.
Said Lathrop, "Maybe in 20 years someone in our ticket office will say, 'What's a subscriber?' "
Today's volatile sales patterns are near-impossible to divine, Fitterer said, but Conway feels that the vibe around subscribing is definitely on the move, even if the increasingly flexible packaging tactics still come down to baiting the hook for buying art in bulk.
"When I come up with the term for it, you'll be the first to know," Conway said. "It may still be called an Oldsmobile, but it's very much a Lexus under the hood."


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The Markets and Tin Hau Temple.
Originally posted Monday, March 29, 2010 on my blog News From Italy
Hong Kong Trip Part Two
The next morning March 3rd we started to properly explore the amazing city of Hong Kong. We were to walk many miles during our stay and we started our tour using a useful little book 'Hong Kong Walks', a useful addition to our own Eyewitness and Lonely Planet guides.
Today's cacophony of sights and sounds took us to the Yau Ma Tei and Mong Kok districts, a non stop experience of local urban Chinese lifestyles in the heart of the Kowloon peninsula.
We visited the Flower Market, Bird Garden, Goldfish Market, Jade Market, Ladies Market (misnamed as not just for ladies but selling a vast array of items at bargain prices). Also Shanghai Street one of the city's oldest where kitchenware shops mingle with those selling Chinese style wedding clothes(more of weddings another time) and a Tin Hau Temple.
I will leave the photos to say the rest and remember if you want to see more take a look at LindyLouMac Flickr Photos
Mong Kok Flower Market
The Bird Garden
Owners take their birds with them to the Bird Garden for an outing, it is also a market for all bird related purchases.
Even live food!
The Goldfish Market
The Ladies Market
The Jade Market, where yes I did buy a little something from this lady.
Tin Hau Temple
No photography was allowed inside but to finish off, here are a couple of the ones I took in the garden.
These trees are amazing and we were to see many of them during our visit.
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Richard Aslin, the William R. Kenan Professor of brain and cognitive sciences and director of the Rochester Center for Brain Imaging at the University of Rochester, has been elected a fellow of the Cognitive Science Society.
Aslin, whose theory of "statistical learning" has helped to revolutionize the field of cognitive science, was recognized for the "sustained excellence and . . . sustained impact" of his work. He is one of only nine scholars elected to the position in 2012.
"Dick is one of a handful of world leaders in the area of developmental cognitive science," said Gregory DeAngelis, chair of brain and cognitive sciences at Rochester. "He has been at the forefront of understanding the development of cognitive abilities in babies, particularly in two key domains. He initially focused on visual perception and, after joining the Rochester faculty, a second major thrust has been in language."
In Aslin's theory of statistical learning, how babies learn is very much related to the statistics of their environment, or in other words the probability that something will or will not happen. "Learning is a matter of building up a mental model of those statistical tendencies," DeAngelis explained.
On a personal level, Aslin is "an incredible mentor," DeAngelis said. Students and post-docs over and over report how he guided their research, encouraged their independence, and provided critical advice about managing a research career. So many of his former students and post-docs have gone on to prominent positions in science, says DeAngelis. "The list is like a 'Who's Who' of the rising stars in the field of cognitive science."
Aslin received his doctorate in child psychology from the University of Minnesota in 1975, and taught at Indiana University before joining Rochester in 1984. Today, he is the principal investigator for the Rochester Baby Lab. He is an author on more than 100 publications and an editor or contributor to 36 books. Aslin serves on the editorial boards of the journals Infancy, Cognition, Language Learning and Development, and Cognitive Science, and is an associate editor for Developmental Science.
Aslin's research has been supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the McDonnell Foundation, and the Packard Foundation. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and he is president of the International Society for Infant Studies.
Founded in 1979, the Cognitive Science Society advances understanding of the nature of the human mind by bringing together researchers from the fields of artificial intelligence, linguistics, anthropology, psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, and education. The society publishes the journal, Cognitive Science, the premier outlet for brain research that intersects two or more disciplines.


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Obama unveils huge Pacific sanctuary as Leonardo DiCaprio gives Australia a blast
In an effort to protect diverse habitats of coral reefs, whales, dolphins, sharks, sea turtles and numerous fish species from commercial fishing and other activities, President Barack Obama announced on Tuesday that he intends to use his executive authority to create the world's largest marine sanctuary in the south-central Pacific Ocean.
The proposed marine sanctuary would be expanded from about 225,000 square-kilometres to more than 2 million square kilometres in a US-controlled Pacific Ocean area between Hawaii and American Samoa.
The plan was welcomed by Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio who also made some blunt comments about the state of Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
''Since my very first dive in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia 20 years ago to the dive I got to do in the very same location just two years ago, I've witnessed environmental devastation firsthand,'' DiCaprio said at the Our Ocean Conference in Washington DC.
''What once had looked like an endless underwater utopia is now riddled with bleached coral reefs and massive dead zones,'' he said.
DiCaprio's comments come as the reef's World Heritage status is being examined by the UNESCO group at Doha, Qatar.
Queensland's environment minister Andrew Powell says the World Heritage Committee is being misinformed about the health of the Great Barrier Reef, and he doesn't expect them to list the reef as in danger.
UNESCO is broadly expected to give Australia another year to continue its work ticking off previous recommendations on improving the health of the reef.
Getting around Congress
Mr Obama's Pacific plan is one of the few ways in which the President can create new environmental protections without action from Congress. He has also used his executive authority under the Antiquities Act of 1906 to designate 11 new national monuments on land, ensuring that millions of acres of wilderness will remain untouched.
"Growing up in Hawaii, I learned early to appreciate the beauty and power of the ocean," Mr Obama said at a White House event Tuesday. "And like Presidents Clinton and Bush before me, I'm going to use my authority as president to protect some of our most precious marine landscapes, just like we do for mountains and rivers and forests."
Presidents of both parties have used executive authority to protect public lands and waters. President George W. Bush created what was at the time the world's largest marine sanctuary, protecting 140,000 square-miles of water off the Hawaiian islands from commercial activity.
Republican lawmakers have criticised Mr Obama for using his executive authority to create monuments on land, thus blocking commercial activity such as oil and gas drilling. Experts said that commercial tuna fishing will likely be the only industry affected by the new sanctuary.
Republican House member Doc Hastings, who is chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, said in a statement, "Oceans, like our federal lands, are intended to be multiple-use and open for a wide range of economic activities that includes fishing, recreation, conservation and energy production. It appears this administration will use whatever authorities - real or made-up - to close our ocean and coastal areas with blatant disregard for possible economic consequences."
White House officials said they have not yet determined the borders of the new sanctuary, nor the specific statute under which it will be created. The officials said the White House will spend the next few months seeking input on the plan from outside groups, including environmentalists, the fishing industry and elected officials, before the plan is final.
Mr Obama is also directing federal agencies to develop a comprehensive program aimed at deterring illegal fishing, addressing seafood fraud, and preventing illegally caught fish from entering the marketplace. Black market fishing constitutes up to 20 per cent of the wild marine fish caught each year around the world.
Oceans and climate
The moves are part of a slate of actions that the White House and State Department are rolling out this week aimed at protecting the oceans. Secretary of State John Kerry, who hopes to make environmental protection a hallmark of his tenure, is spearheading the oceans initiative.
This week, he is hosting an oceans conference at the State Department, focused on the threats to oceans posed by overfishing, pollution and climate change.
In his own keynote this morning, Mr Kerry called for the creation of a global ocean strategy.
"Most people think the ocean is larger than life, an endless resource impossible to destroy. But people underestimate the enormous damage that we as humans are inflicting on the ocean every day," he said. "We run the risk of fundamentally breaking entire ecosystems."
In addition to praising the creation of the marine sanctuary, environmental groups also lauded the administration's initiatives on illegal fishing.
A 2013 study conducted by the environmental group Oceana found that 33 per cent of fish sold in metropolitan in the US areas are mislabelled, with lower-cost, lower-quality fish often swapped out for higher-quality fish. For example, the study found that fish containing high levels of the toxin mercury, such as tilefish, are often mislabelled and sold as red snapper and halibut.
"From the amount of mislabelled seafood and illegal seafood products entering the US markets, it's clear we need a comprehensive solution to ensure that seafood sold in the US is safe, legally caught and honestly labelled," said Beth Lowell, a campaign director at Oceana.
The New York Times, AAP


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Perfectly polished fingertips are like the jewelry of the beauty world, so it makes sense that BaubleBar.com, the go-to place for all things colorful jewels, would want to partner with Essie. Launching today is a limited-edition collection of bangles and complementing lacquers.
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HARRISBURG - Pennsylvania Senate Democrats on Tuesday challenged Gov. Tom Corbett's top budget adviser over the necessity of carrying out the administration's proposed pension fund changes and to explain how it developed an analysis that a Medicaid expansion would cost state taxpayers billions of dollars.
Corbett's budget secretary, Charles Zogby, gamely answered questions for nearly 2½ hours during the Senate's first Appropriations Committee hearing of 2013 as lawmakers begin to pick apart the Republican governor's spending plan.
The Senate's majority Republicans generally were complimentary of Corbett's stewardship of the budget, tending to focus on smaller dollar items. But minority Democrats, who have chafed under two years of cuts to education and public welfare programs as part of Corbett's plan to balance deficits, focused on broad themes and attacked his policies on everything from taxes to health care.
Corbett's ambitious proposal, released in recent weeks for the fiscal year that begins July 1, would increase core state government spending by nearly 3 percent to $28.4 billion, boosting support for public schools by $90 million, cutting business taxes by hundreds of millions of dollars and holding the line on sales and income taxes.
The governor's plans also involve privatizing alcohol sales to generate $1 billion over four years for public schools, raising wholesale gas taxes to generate nearly $2 billion a year for transportation systems and lowering public employee pension costs by hundreds of millions of dollars by cutting future benefits for public employees.
Sen. John Blake, D-Archbald, told Zogby that the Corbett administration could do a better job managing the state's money - he said the administration had missed out on $140 million in federal money for the Children's Health Insurance Program - and that it has given lawmakers a "false choice" of either cutting spending or raising taxes if they don't go along with his proposed pension changes.
"I think the governor's playing chicken here, saying, 'You've got to do pension reform under these conditions and that's the only way you're going to balance this budget,"' Blake told Zogby.
Zogby responded that the administration is running out of places to cut spending as it confronts a third year of a sizable increase in pension costs, while Corbett took a pledge not to increase taxes.
"You'd need a 24 percent increase in the (personal income tax) just to accommodate the $2.8 billion in increased pension costs that are coming over the next four years," Zogby said. "Those are the kind of magnitudes we're looking at and I don't know where else you go in the budget to find the revenue to pay for those increases."
Democrats also challenged Zogby to show how the Corbett administration came up with an analysis that a massive Medicaid expansion under President Barack Obama's sweeping health care law would cost state taxpayers billions of dollars over the next eight years.
Democrats, who say they initially asked in a Nov. 21 letter for the administration's analysis, contend that going along with the expansion will be a net tax benefit for the state that would also provide health insurance to hundreds of thousands of uninsured people.
Zogby said he is happy to discuss the number - which is probably inflated because some of the costs Corbett counts would occur anyway under the federal health care law.
Corbett has declined for now to go along with the expansion, which would be largely federally funded. But Zogby said the federal government cannot necessarily be trusted to follow through on its promises of delivering funding to states and that the administration has had a hard time getting its questions about the expansion answered by the federal government.
"I think it's ironic that you stress that you can't get any answers from the Obama administration and we've been asking for numbers since November and we haven't had any response," said Sen. Lawrence Farnese, D-Philadelphia.Budget secretary


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In this article, Jane Lewis summarises findings from a systematic review of studies from around the world published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The review found that patients have a tendency to overestimate the benefits of medical tests, treatments and screens, while underestimating their potential harms.
In this blog Dr Hazel McFarlane, Pathways Development Officer at RNIB Scotland, argues that self management is contingent upon a person being able to understand their condition and the management of the condition, but that visually, hearing and joint sensory impaired people face particular barriers to this. The blog sets out some simple approaches to overcoming those barriers.
In this blog, Diana Stilwell describes how patient stories can be used in patient education to help engage, inform, reassure, persuade, motivate, or model behavior. She argues that when used appropriately, stories can add real value for people facing hard health choices, without unduly biasing their decisions.
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Published in the NIHR Journals Library and featuring research commissioned by HS&DR, this study involved a rapid, systematic overview of the evidence on self-management support in people with 14 diverse, exemplar long term conditions. It is the most comprehensive, systematic study of the area to date.
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In this talk, and accompanying slide set, Richard Osborne sets out some definitions of health literacy and its impact on people's access and utilization of health care, their interactions with health services and providers, their ability to self-manage and care for their own health and their ability to participate in health discussions and decision-making.
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HITCHCOCK, Texas - Fast and relentless, the same words used to describe Tuesday night's hail, is also fitting for the roofers that have poured into Hitchcock knocking on doors, drumming up business.
The signs can be seen stuck in the ground all over town, advertising various roofing companies.
Contractors, some who drove from as far as San Antonio, started knocking on doors just hours after the hail storm.
"It was first thing in the morning," said Hitchcock homeowner Bill Vogler.
Vogler knows he needs repairs, but he said his insurance company told him to send the out-of-town contractors who showed up at his door packing.
"Because once they're done, they're gone," Vogler said a representative of his insurance company told him. "And if there's something wrong, they won't come back and fix it."
"I have a saying that nothing good comes from a strange knock at the door but Girl Scout cookies," said Houston roofer Jim Hardwick.
Hardwick said unless you have water coming into your house, there is no hurry to hire a roofer.
"You should take your time to get estimates and look up the history of the company you want to hire," said Hardwick. "You've got six, eight, according to insurance, you've got a whole year to get this done."
There's nothing illegal about storm chasing, or driving into an area after a storm to drum up business, but there are red flags that you should look out for.
Beware of roofers who ask you to sign a contract even before your insurance company has approved your claim.
You have three years to cancel a contract from anyone who comes to your door if you do sign.
"They'll hurry up and deliver material to your driveway," said Hardwick. "Then they'll sit there for a month because they know it's added pressure to you, that you don't want to cancel because there's material sitting in your driveway."
Lastly, if you don't know that a roofer is local, ask to see their driver's license. Many times, companies will claim they have offices in your town or nearby, but those are only P.O. boxes.
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NEW YORK, May 1 (UPI) -- James Franco discussed his place on Lindsay Lohan's infamous sex list during an interview with The Howard Stern Show on Wednesday.
Franco -- along with several other Hollywood A-listers including Justin Timberlake, Zack Efron, Adam Levine and Collin Farrell -- appears in Lohan's leaked sexual inventory. She admitted writing the list during her fifth step of Alcoholics Anonymous while she was recovering at the Betty Ford clinic. But according to the 27 Hours actor he doesn't belong on the list.
"I will swear on anything you ask that I have never had sex with Lindsay Lohan," Franco told Stern. "I bet if you brought her in here and you asked her face, 'Did you have sex with James?' she would say 'Yes.' I think she's that…"
"Delusional?" Stern said.
"Or doesn't remember?" Franco continued. "Alright, we maybe kissed. It was lame. I can't believe she put me on that private list! She's so delusional!"
Franco, who now stars in the Broadway revival of Of Mice and Men, went to say that he was "a nice guy" when he "made out" with Lohan "so long ago" adding that it happened while he was filming Spider Man 2 in New York City in 2004. At the time Lohan was 17 and he was 26.
Franco also revealed that Lohan attempted to get with him several times after their kiss.
"She even broke into my room one time," he said. "I was on the couch and opened my eyes and there's Lindsay in my room at 3 am."
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Across the board, agricultural commodity prices were slightly higher for the week. News of significance was rather scarce as traders await the USDA Grain Stocks and Prospective Plantings reports March 28.
Delays in loading out barge vessels in the Brazilian ports continues to provide underlying support to the soybean complex; however, this has not translated into renewed demand for either U.S. soybeans or corn. Late Thursday, the Argentine Ag Ministry estimated Argentine farmers would harvest 51.3 million metric tons (mmt) of soybeans and 25.7 mmt of corn.
Both forecasts were above most private estimates and viewed as slightly negative to prices. On Friday morning, Informa lowered its 2013 corn plantings to 97.753 milion acres, down 1.6% from its January estimate. Informa also lowered its soybean plantings to 78.457 million acres, down just over 300,000 acres from its January estimate.
A spring storm is expected to provide another dose of moisture for the U.S. Southern Plains this weekend. Look for a continued improvement to winter wheat conditions. If the cool/wet conditions currently being experienced across the southern Midwest extends into early April, look for additional strength to new crop corn prices as planting delays will develop.
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TOPEKA, Kan. — Students in Lisa Volland's advanced biology class examine flowers, lemons and corn under the microscope, pondering how the plants evolved over time to improve their chances of survival.
The Topeka West High School teacher does not discuss the biblical story of creation or "intelligent design," just "the big e-word," as she jokingly calls it.
"I don't think you can talk about living organisms without talking about evolution," she said. "We don't talk about religion."
Classrooms like Volland's have come under scrutiny — again — in Kansas' seesawing battle between left and right over the teaching of evolution.
The battle could heat up over the coming weeks, with Kansas' State Board of Education expected to revise its science standards in June.
Shifting majority
In 1999, the board deleted most references to evolution in the standards, bringing international ridicule and wisecracks from late-night comedians. Elections the next year made the board less conservative, resulting in the current standards describing evolution as a key concept for students to learn.
Last year's elections gave conservatives a majority again, 6-4. A subcommittee plans six days of hearings in May, and advocates of intelligent design plan to put nearly two dozen witnesses on the stand to critique evolution.
National and state science organizations plan to boycott the hearings, contending they are going to be rigged in favor of intelligent design.
"We are concerned that the hearings will be an attempt to give scientific credibility to a nonscientific concept," said Alan Leshner, chief executive of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Evolution and intelligent design
Evolution says that species change in response to environmental and genetic factors over the course of many generations. Intelligent design — viewed by many scientists as merely repackaged creationism — holds there is evidence that the universe was designed by some kind of higher power.
At a minimum, conservative groups like the Discovery Institute want to see science lessons in Kansas include more criticism of evolution.
"We don't think any textbook is good in presenting the scientific weaknesses," said John West of the Seattle-based organization.
Scientists fear that that will open the door eventually to incorporating intelligent design and creationism.
Similar battles have been waged in the past few years in Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Ohio's state school board adopted lesson plans last year that were praised by intelligent design supporters.
'Hear both sides'
Some Kansans are uneasy about evolution because of their religious faith and want to see alternatives given equal time in the classroom.
"Students ought to be given the opportunity to hear both sides," said Angel Dillard, the mother of two Wichita girls.
The state board's standards determine what is on statewide tests, but local school boards decide what is actually taught and which textbooks are used.
In Volland's Topeka district, for example, little or nothing is said about creationism and intelligent design in biology classes.
Similarly, at Blue Valley Northwest High in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park, teachers do not have to mention alternative theories, but biology teacher Jeremy Mohn did so anyway this spring, in addition to spending a month talking about evolution, including why peacocks have long tails.
Topics for teenagers
At Topeka West High, Stephanie Bailey, a 14-year-old who previously attended a Lutheran school, is skeptical of evolution, particularly the notion that man and other animals have common ancestors. "Scientists don't have all the answers," she said.
But Emily Hane, a 17-year-old in Volland's class, said: "If you don't understand evolution, you don't really understand biology."
In any case, she said, creationism has, in fact, come up in school — in history class, when the topic was the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, in which a Dayton, Tenn., teacher was convicted of teaching evolution.
"We're being exposed to ideas other than evolution," Hane said.
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Lebanese designer attempts to reinvent the toothbrush
"I solve problems through design," Leen Sadder writes on her website. The Lebanese freelance designer is using her talent and passion to solve people's everyday problems.
It was when Leen was given an assignment by her professor "to redesign the first object I threw out after class" that she accidentally stood before the challenge of reinventing the toothbrush. Panicking at first Leen began looking into the history and routine of tooth brushing.
"Eventually I came across an article online about the health benefits of the Miswak stick (a teeth cleaning twig made from the Salvadora persica tree, used in Islamic hygienic jurisprudence and considered sunnah in Islam). I thought to myself, 'You know what, you're in grad school. You're allowed to do crazy things like this,' and went ahead with the stick idea."
Maybe not so crazy after all; a few prototypes later, the media started to show an interest for the student project that would become THIS. THIS reintroduces and promotes the Miswak as an organic, biodegradable portable substitute for toothpaste and toothbrush. THIS is currently in its manufacturing stage, which Leen and her team is hoping to finance through a crowdfunding campaign.
Leen says that design is "more of an approach than a technical skill and that with the right training you could apply that approach to solve all kinds of problems."
But THIS wasn't Leen's only undertaking during her Design Entrepreneurship MFA in New York's School of Visual Arts. She also took on the challenge of tackling the ongoing problem of finding a comfortable space for girls in Beirut to discuss sexuality and health.
"When I told people what I was working on their first reactions were always 'But I thought you were a designer!' I hope to show people through the work I do that designers can accomplish a lot more than they've been given credit or opportunity for."
Despite the scepticism Leen quickly learned that being a "designer meant I had a lot more power and influence than I thought." However, it has required hard work, just at this moment Leen is workingon a digital analytics tool for the fashion e-commerceworld, branding a Manousheh place set to open in New York and setting up AIGA Middle East.
AIGA is the oldest professional design association in the US, with hubs all over the country. Its 23,000 members worldwide strive to advance design as a professional craft, strategic tool and vital cultural force. Leen and her business partner have noticed how frustrating it is that there is no consolidated design community in the Middle East and due to their strong connections to their Lebanese roots they decided to do something about this.
Realising the potential in the region they received green light from AIGA in New York to go ahead and establish AIGA Middle East. The initiative is dedicated to support design professionals, educators and students in the region. The goal is to bring both regional and international designers together through membership, networking events and educational programs. It also aims to spread awareness about the role of design in society and the importance of following global design standards and ethics.
"We'll be celebrating the launch of the Middle East chapter as part of Beirut Design Week on June 25 at Coop D'Etat rooftop in Beirut."
But it doesn't end here, Leen says that in the future she hopes that she will be "playing an active role in both the Beirut and NYC design communities, and somehow help others realize their potential, whether its in design or something else."
If in Beirut be sure to check out the AIGA ME Launch Party and follow Leen's undertakings on her website.


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Press Release: Orioles announce 2013 Spring Training schedule
Orioles announce 2013 Spring Training schedule
The Orioles today announced their 2013 Grapefruit League schedule, which opens February 23 with a 1:05 p.m. game against the Minnesota Twins at Ed Smith Stadium. 2013 marks the fourth consecutive spring training for the Orioles in Sarasota, and the third in the renovated Ed Smith Stadium.
Baltimore will face eight different opponents during the 2013 Grapefruit League campaign. The O's will host the Boston Red Sox and Pittsburgh Pirates three times each and the Minnesota Twins, New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies, Tampa Bay Rays and Toronto Blue Jays two times each, with the New York Mets also making one visit to Sarasota. In preparation for this year's World Baseball Classic, Team Brazil will come to Sarasota to play the Orioles, rounding out the 18-game home schedule.
The Orioles will play 16 games on the road during the 2012 Grapefruit League schedule. They will make four trips to play the Pirates, three trips to play the Blue Jays and Twins, two trips to play the Rays and Red Sox and one trip to play the Yankees and Phillies.
Fans interested in season plans, five-game flex packs or group tickets, or those wishing to receive additional spring training ticket information may call the Orioles spring training office in Sarasota at 941-893-6300.
The Orioles are also offering the official Spring Training Travel Package that includes hotel accommodations, rental car, game tickets, optional airfare through Southwest Airlines and other amenities. For more information or to order travel packages, fans should visit www.orioles.com/springtravel or call 1-800-892-7687.
Single game tickets for all 18 of the Orioles' Grapefruit League Games at Ed Smith Stadium will go on-sale January 26, 2013. Pitchers and catchers will report to Sarasota February 12 and position players will report on February 15.
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In what could only be described as an awkward letter, Palm CEO Ed Colligan sought to reassure Palm OS developers about the future of the platform.
Our Palm OS customer loyalty is extremely high, and we intend to continue to earn that loyalty with great Palm OS-based products. We have sold more than 30 million Palm OS-based products over the years, and it is not our intent to walk away from such a strong and loyal user base.
Why does the CEO of Palm hardware need to make such an explicit statement concerning Palm software? Part of the reason stems from a now retracted article, "Access foresees an end of life for Palm OS," published in Computer Business Review. The apparently misinterpreted quote stated that, "a logical end-of-life is expected for the Palm Operating system and that the company anticipates being able to offer an integrated OS solution "sitting on top of a Linux kernel." Access flatly denies this.
Access is planning to follow the current business model and management strategy as established by PalmSource, which includes comprehensive support for existing versions of Palm OS for customers, developers, and partners.
Interestingly, Colligan has also said that had it been up to him, he would "probably not" have sold off Palm Source. "If we owned the platform, could we do more integration right up the stack with that? Probably yes." However, continuing that discrete monologue Colligan also asks and answers the question, "Is it also possible to make great products when you don't own the platform? I'd say yes to that too." Apparently so, as the recent announcement of a Windows Treo appears to indicate Palm is trying to expand its share of the PDA market.
Palm, whose share of the PDA market was as high as 70 percent a mere five years ago, now finds itself with a dwindling fifth of the market. Competition from Windows PDAs and Smartphones, as well as an increasing number of cell phones with PDA functionality, has resulted in a steady decline. But does anybody see a trend here? How about few more compelling products (the Treo 650 and LifeDrive look like a nice start), the failed introduction of Palm OS 6, and the sale of PalmSource? And now Palm is selling a product that directly competes with its base, how can that not be a sign of trouble? Well, the CEO of Palm believes.
I believe that developing differentiated, software-rich products on a range of industry-standard platforms puts us in a unique position with customers and carriers and helps us expand the market opportunity for us, the developer community and everyone involved in the smartphone category.
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HOP! Along with Air France-KLM
HOP! will soon be joining the pantheon of "creative" airline names when Air France-KLM unveils a project next week to create a regional airline that will play a major role in the company's efforts to return to profitability.
HOP! follows a long-established trend in the industry–especially among discount carriers–to adopt onomatopoeically interesting names to give the impression of being young and hip and the opposite of fuddy-duddy which is how up-start airlines like to characterize former monopoly carriers like Air France and Deutsche Lufthansa.
HOP! joins a club that includes Buzz, Go, Jazz, Scoot, Wizz, Zip and Zoom, and will be created from Air France's three existing regional carriers: Airlinair, Regional and Brit Air.
Monosyllabic branding alone isn't enough to ensure survival in the cutthroat airline industry. Go was set up by British Airways but then sold to private-equity firm 3i, while Buzz, created by KLM, ended up being bought by Ryanair.
Still, Marcel Botton, head of French branding specialists Nomen, said one advantage of short names that don't refer to national identity and that simply sound right is that they can be understood in many languages. HOP!, for example, works as well in French as it does in English. Technology companies, most famously Yahoo!, have led the trend for short, catchy names in the past two decades.
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I can't believe I haven't updated in so long. OK, yes, I can believe it. Confession: I am intimidated by other garden blogs. They're so informative and authoritative and proper, and mine is so...well, just me. I'm afraid I'm doing it wrong! I've decided just to continue to be me though and try not to worry about it.
So, here I am! I have been gardening all this time! Planting new roses, planting vegetables, weeding, weeding, weeding. I spend a lot of time and energy (mental energy, at least) working on having clear water in big pond. It's my dream of dreams! I'll do a pond post soon.
Today, it's daylilies. Until they all started blooming, I didn't realize how many daylilies I've planted in the past few years. Only about half of them are labeled. Part of me is mad at myself about that. The other part of me wishes I could do away with all the label worry and just enjoy their beauty. Anyway, now that they're blooming, I have a better idea of where they should really be planted. You know what that means! I've been moving daylilies. Still have more I want to move.
'Forgotten Blues'
'Forgotten Blues'
'Pixie Pleasure'
'Pumpkin Kid'
'Pumpkin Kid'
'Nature's Wings of Morning'
These are the biggest blooms I've ever seen!
'Royal Saracen'
'Royal Saracen'
'Cajun Sunshine'
'Mildred Mitchell'


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CYHA is an affiliate of Massachusetts Hockey, Inc. and USA Hockey, Inc. We are required to comply with the rules and regulations of these organizations as an affiliated organization.
CYHA Players and coaches must register with USA Hockey (click here to register).
CYHA has its own set of By-Laws by which it organizes its affairs. There is Board of Directors elected by the voting membership. An annual election will be conducted and Board of Directors shall serve terms of office of one or two years. The Board of Directors shall direct the policies and operations of the association.
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Sunday, February 14, 2010
My Surname Visualization
Once upon a time I tried to use Wordle, but I could not get the image to show up on my blog. I also tried this time around to use Word It Out for the GeneaBloggers Games, but that didn't work either. Apparently I have to do some sort of screen capture thing to get the image, and Daughter #2 did tell me how to do that, but I have decided to do the easy thing: use Image Chef, which gives you the option of saving the image to your desktop. Full disclosure: I have used Image Chef before to make a surname visualization that I posted on this blog. This is a new one, but I do not know whether it counts for the tally.
The figure is supposed to be a star, but to me it looks a bit more like a little guy with shoes on.
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But they are cute shoes!ReplyDelete
Hah! You're right, Joan! I kinda think of it as "my little genealogy guy."ReplyDelete
I agree with Joan! LOLReplyDelete
I had the same problem with Wordle, but finally figured it out. You do have to do the screen capture and then paste it into Paint. After I crossed that hurdle it was much easier. I saved as a jpeg and then into Blogger. I will admit to some choice language during the process... Oh if I had only known about Image Chef.ReplyDelete
And they do look like feet!
I first saw it as a star! Thanks for telling me about ImageChef.com.ReplyDelete
Hi Carol, Tracy, and Becky! I'll have to figure out the screen capture thing at some point, but for word visualizations I think I'll stay with Image Chef.ReplyDelete
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Cross was contacted by PRWeek but declined to comment on the development, adding that it was an "extremely private matter".
It is not yet clear why Cross was suspended or for how long.
However, in a statement agreed by Cross and John Lewis, the company said: "Peter Cross is unavoidably away from the business for personal reasons. We are expecting him to return shortly."
Cross was appointed by the retailer in January 2013 and took up his post six months later. He was previously managing director of PR agency Portas, formerly known as Yellowdoor.
He succeeded Helen Dickinson, who had been John Lewis' director of communications since 2000.
Commenting at the time of Cross' appointment, John Lewis' managing director Andy Street said Cross had inherited a highly effective comms team developed under Dickinson's leadership and that he brought with him a "broad understanding of the UK consumer and the revolution under way on the British high street".
UPDATE 28 JULY: John Lewis comms chief Peter Cross to return to work following investigation


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It's pursuit,
a lifelong dream,
a shower of blessing and pain and sting,
Lift your head and see the sky,
Still your heart from all the "why's"
Let the pain and choke wear off,
Rise and see the summer stalks.
The fields grow green, just look, you'll see,
The pain and dark isn't meant for me,
I can walk in the here and there,
I can see eternity's share,
Mixed yet separate,
A full cup of glowing gold
I can't hold it all,
Here, have some.
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These deeds were reported as recorded by the office of Marion County Register of Deeds.
Vernon F. and Henrietta M. Waner to David V. Waner and Steven R. Waner, transferrable on death warranty deed; Lot 16 and south 15 feet of Lot 17, Block 10, Freeborn's Addition, Marion.
Doyle Lavern and Karalee Dawn Wiebe to Doyle Lavern and Karalee Dawn Wiebe, trustees, warranty deed; Tract 1: Part of N/2 N/2 SW/4; Tract 2: Part of SE/4 S29-T17-R1; Tract 3: SE/4 S31-T17-R1; Tract 4: Part of NE/4 S32-T17-R1; Tract 5: SE/4 S19-T17-R2.
Thomas James Murphy and Teresa Jo Murphy Jurgenson to Murphy Farms LLC, warranty deed; Lots 13 and 14, Block 3, original town, Tampa and part of Lot B, Block 3, original town, Tampa.
Bonnie M Deines living trust, to Deines Farms LLC, trustee's deed; Part of W/2 S1-T17-R3.
Margaret Stroda to City of Ramona, quit claim deed; West 80 feet of Lot 18, Block 5, original town, Ramona.
City of Ramona to Margaret Stroda, quit claim deed; East 80 feet of Lot 21, Block 5, original town, Ramona.
Erick J. and Cheryl K. Brandsted to Jeremy Ensey revocable trust, Jeremy Ensey, co-trustee and Tammy Ensey, co-trustee, warranty deed; South 15 feet of Lot 9 and all of Lot 10, Block 1, Eastmoor development, Marion.
Don and Peggy Ebel, Dennis Ebel, Debra and Fredrick V. Eccli to James K. and Susan Jantzen, warranty deed; Tract 1: South half of Lot 3, Block 18, original town, Hillsboro; Tract 2: North half Lot 14, Block 7, Bushman's Addition, Hillsboro.
Donald Joshua Mackey to Dale E. and Mashawn A. Weber, warranty deed; Lots 18, 20, 22, 24, and 26, Block 33, original town, Florence.
Roger A. and Shirley D. Buller to Windborne Energy, Inc., warranty deed; All of S35-T19-R5.
Windborne Energy, Inc. to JBL, Inc., warranty deed; All of S35-T19-R5.
LeRoy and Alice Funk to Brian Clair and Gayle Yvonne Funk, warranty deed; N/2 NW/4 NE/4 S20-T21-R1.
Ralph H. and Martha Peters to Rodney B. and Linda M. Peters, warranty deed; N/2 SE/4 S31-T20-R2.


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Negative Space Scraps
1. Cut out the negative punches in assorted sizes for a whimsical look. This layout is super simple.
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Long Paper Scraps
The next category of scraps is paper strips. Jazz up simple cardstock strips to make them a feature. With chevron patterns still very trendy, create an embossed version using Corrogate Paper Crimper.
1. Trim strips of paper to the same width
2. Run each strip through the crimper at an angle, being sure to switch the side you start with each time so the crimped stripes would alternate angles.
I wanted to create some coordinating flowers, but my strips weren't wide enough. I've run into this problem before and usually ended up punching out circles or ovals and adhering them around a circle for petals to build up a flower. As I was looking for my oval punches, I came across the brand new scissors squeeze punch and saw petals hidden in the handles. I get such a kick out of using shapes in unintended ways!
Punch out only the top half of the scissors, punching four pieces for each flower. I didn't have enough strips left for solid flowers, so I mixed and matched for a fun look. Fold each petal in half to crease for dimension and layer a set of two together as shown. Adhere two together and top with a button at the center.
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Retired Santa Ana Police officer Rufus Tanksley grows what he calls his "Ghetto Garden." It's a small, weedy patch alongside the house he rents until he seriously retreats to Texas in a year or two.
"It's my Mexican salsa garden," Tanksley said. "Red, white and green after the Mexican flag. Red is tomatoes, white is onions and green are the chilies. It's all you need."
Although Tanksley has been gardening since he was a teenager in Austin, he asked for help. So I pitched in and will tell his salsa garden story step-by-step.
We surveyed his site. It had foot-high weeds, Bermuda grass and gangly trellises from last season. But we did find thriving strawberry plants in the middle of his 6-by-6 raised bed.
"First thing you need to have in a ghetto garden is music," he said, setting up the radio tuned to oldies.
We decided to dig the soil over, pull out the weeds, add compost and amendments and then plant. It was off to buy the supplies.
"I like to sprinkle a bit of Miracle-Gro in each planting hole," Tanksley said.
I talked him into trying organic and explained that chemical fertilizers provide a quick hit, then wash away.
"Oh, so they're like crack?" he said, translating my garden advice to street talk. "You need another fix the next day?"
Crack for plants explains it all. As a former police officer, it makes sense for Tanksley.
We bought two bags of organic amendment and one bag of organic fertilizer and checked out the tomatoes, peppers and onions. And we picked up a pack of cilantro seed as an impulse buy.
Tanksley planted his first garden in the fireplace foundation of a burned down house.
"I think the fireplace ash had something to do with how big my collard greens grew," he said.
That promoted a lesson on potash that I could bore him with and did while we shopped.
"My grandfather always used the Farmers' Almanac," he said explaining his rural childhood.
"And that Mrs. Aimsworth used to sprinkle her plums with flour to keep us from stealing them," he said. "We thought it was poison."
In high school, Tanksley mowed the lawn at a local cemetery for cash. He studied journalism in college. But he chose a career in law enforcement.
Retired after 25 years with Santa Ana Police Department, what Tanksley is more than anything is funny. And funny is what he is working on.
He is giving himself two years to work on his stand-up routine before he settles in Texas on some sort of spread where he can be a bit more serious about his salsa gardening.
We turned the soil over once, removed the weeds and set aside the strawberries to plant in another area of the garden.
We added one full bag of organic amendment to the 6-by-6 space, sprinkled handfuls of organic fertilizer on the soil, then turned it over again.
Tanksley planted the tallest plants, the tomatoes, in the center of the bed. The peppers were planted on the sunny side, and we spread out the onions on the shady side.
To finish off his salsa garden, we sprinkled cilantro seed on top of the soil on all sides of the bed and covered them with 1/8 inch or so of amendment.
Done. Or I was done. He had plans for possible corn along his fence line, had to find a home for the strawberries, and still had a boatload of onion and garlic bulbs to find a place for.
It's just the warm-up act for the real garden he is going to get in Texas.
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