text: mef_57 #1376 Posted October 19, 2019 12 hours ago, redlady62 said: Evening everyone: not really sewing related but I figured you guys would be a great resource. I have a lovely evening bag that I believe is made with satin. And of course it has a stain/watermark of some sort on it. Meant to clean it post cruise last fall. . . . you know where this is going . . . any suggestions? Thank you in advance, Sue >M< Because I sew a variety of fabrics, I tend to have less regard of the 'dry clean only' labels so sometime more DIY tha recommended. I wash silks, for example. So I checked google and see there are several techniques for cleaning your handbag. I suggest following ones that clean the entire fabric, rather than spot cleaning. Of course, you can spot clean any heavily soiled areas first (dabbing, not rubbing) and then do an overall clean. This way, any texture or colour changes are uniform and makes the bag reusable. One suggests soaking the bag in luke warm water and mild soap for 2 hours. I would check after 10 minutes and again at 20 to see if there is colour bleed. If the purse has a light lining, dark exterior, that could be messy well before 2 hours. If it is a vintage bag, 2 hours could mean rust starting on any metal frame. Personaly, I would soak an hour, look to see if stains have lifted. If not, rub lightly with a little diluted baking soda and a clean sponge. Rinse out sponge, move bag to clean luke warm water, and give entire surface a very light brush (or dabs) with sponge over all surface. This is to dislodge any residual dirt. If water isn't looking dirty, then you are done. Put hand towel inside. With a low nap towel...like a dish drying towel press and blot exterior surface to remove as much water as you can. Dry any metal work. During drying, you can give it some shots of warm air from a blowdryer to the inside of the bag only. Close it to hold shape and hang to dry. If there is some air circulation, even better. You don't want to force immediate drying but you want to reduce any chance of any metal pieces rusting, so help it along. Some bags actually are hand sewn to the metal frame, in which case, I would unstitch and clean them separately...restitching after fabric is totally dry. Let us know how it goes. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Lego Friends Olivia's House 3315
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Woman charged with drunk driving causing death in Saskatoon parking lot crash
Published Saturday, June 6, 2020 8:12AM CST Last Updated Saturday, June 6, 2020 4:31PM CST
SASKATOON -- A 22-year-old woman has been charged with drunk driving causing death and failing to stop after another woman was struck in a Saskatoon parking lot Saturday morning, police say.
The crash happened around 4:30 a.m. in a parking lot in the 700 block of Appleby Drive, according to a news release.
Kionna Nicotine, 23, was hit by a vehicle and died at the scene, police said in a news release.
The suspect was found a short time later at another location and was arrested, police say.
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National Coalition for Literacy, is focused on Census 2020 in an effort to ensure a complete and accurate count of adult learners and their families. Adult learners often fall into one or more groups that the Census Bureau has identified as "hard to count," which means they are at risk of being undercounted.
The census determines how $800 billion annually is spent on programs affecting schools, housing, health care, and much more. Results also determine the allocation of seats and draw district lines for the U.S. House of Representatives, state legislatures, and local boards. The census will determine these allocations for the next 10 years.
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John Mayer Thanks Fans for the Love Following Emergency Appendectomy
December 6, 2017
By Scott T. Sterling John Mayer has sent a heartfelt thank you to fans for the outpouring of love and support after the guitarist was rushed to the hospital for an emergency appendectomy earlier this week. Related: John Mayer Hospitalized for Emergency Appendectomy "Thank you everyone for the well wishes," Mayer shared on Twitter. "Had surgery yesterday and woke up to see some amazingly kind and loving tweets. I'm so sorry that we couldn't finish out the last few dates of the tour. This band and these shows mean the world to me. Love you all dearly." Dead & Co. have been forced to postpone a handful of shows while Mayer recovers from the surgery. "The Dead & Company concerts scheduled for Dec. 7 in Orlando, Florida and Dec. 8 in Sunrise, Florida, in addition to the Dec. 5 show in New Orleans, are postponed," according to a statement from the group. "All tickets for these shows will be honored for the rescheduled dates. Information on the rescheduled concerts will be announced as soon as possible. Should ticketholders choose to seek a refund, they will be available at the point of purchase." See Mayer's tweet below.
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Ft. Custer Army National Guard Base
Ft. Custer Army National Guard Base in Michgan is one of the most heavily used training facilities in the Midwest with its close proximity to Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. It is used primarily for small arms and maintenance training at the company level. The 20th Century Tactical Studies Group (based in the US Midwest), holds two battles here in this National Guard base in Battle Creek every year.
Fort Custer Recreation Area features 22 miles of hiking trails, 20 miles of mountain bike trails and 16 miles of bridle trails. Trails are open for cross-country skiing in the winter. The park also rents 2 mini cabins and 3 rustic cabins, with one rustic cabin along the banks of the Kalamazoo River. Ft. Custer Recreation Area is located north of I-94 between Battle Creek and Kalamazoo. From I-94 take Exit #85 or #92 and go north to M-96. The park is just east of Augusta on M-96.
Construction first began in 1917 at Camp Custer. Men arrived - 8,000 strong, from across the Midwest. They came carrying their own hammers and saws for the immense construction undertaking. It was hot, dusty, strenuous work, clearing the land and building railroad spurs, roads and barracks. The sound of hammer on spike rang across the hills.
Tens of thousands of men and women serving in WWI, WWII and the Korean War completed training at Fort Custer Military Training Base. In 1964, the base was closed. Grassy fields and woodlands grew temporarily silent.
Battle Creek Unlimited has turned Fort Custer, an abandoned military base, into an industrial park that contains over ninety businesses that provide over 8,000 jobs. The Fort Custer Industrial Park provides good-paying jobs to thousands of individuals by harnessing the dynamism of the global economy. Nearly, three-quarters of the workers in the Ft. Custer Industrial Park are employed by Japanese owned companies. A workforce of 8,000 now produce goods ranging from shopping carts and noodles to fiber optic traffic signals, automotive parts, water purification pumps, and products for the microscopic study of surgical specimens.
An orderly master plan began by relocating Battle Creek companies to Fort Custer Industrial Park. The next step in the plan called for a national and international marketing program to attract new businesses. Overseas efforts paid off. Keiper Recaro Gmbh and Nippon Cable arrived as the first German and Japanese manufacturing firms Establishing an inland U.S. Customs Port of Battle Creek and Foreign Trade Zone 43 proved to be attractive inducements to global manufacturers. Merchandise valued at hundreds of millions of dollars has been cleared through the inland port of entry since it opened in 1976.
The charge to retain, develop and attract employers led to resounding success in Fort Custer Industrial Park, at 3,000 acres the largest modern industrial park in Michigan. The conversion of former military property transformed the rolling, wooded tract of abandoned military land into a thriving industrial setting.
The United States Department of Veterans Affairs FY 1999 Annual Accountability Report indicates that as of September 30, 1999 Fort Custer National Cemetery had 11,955 total burials. During FY 1999 (Oct 98-Sept 99) there were 1,112 burials. The VA estimates Fort Custer National Cemetery has sufficient space to continue providing full casket gravesites beyond the year 2030.
Secretary of Defense Recommendation: Close the US Army Reserve Center Stanford C. Parisian in Lansing, MI, and the Army Reserve Area Maintenance Support Activity #135 in Battle Creek, MI, and relocate units to a new Armed Forces Reserve Center on Fort Custer Reserve Training Center, MI.
Secretary of Defense Justification: This recommendation transforms Reserve Component facilities in the State of Michigan. The implementation of this recommendation will enhance military value, improve homeland defense capability, greatly improve training and deployment capability, create significant efficiencies and cost savings, and is consistent with the Army's force structure plans and Army transformational objectives.
This recommendation is the result of a state-wide analysis of Reserve Component installations and facilities conducted by a team of functional experts from Headquarters, Department of the Army, the Office of the State Adjutant General, and the Army Reserve Regional Readiness Command.
This recommendation closes one Army Reserve Center in Lansing, MI, and one Area Maintenance Support Activity in Battle Creek, MI, and constructs a multifunctional Armed Forces Reserve Center (AFRC) capable of accommodating Reserve units. This recommendation reduces the number of separate DoD installations by relocating to a new AFRC.
This recommendation provides the opportunity for other Local, State, or Federal organizations to partner with the Reserve Components to enhance homeland security and homeland defense at a reduced cost to those agencies.
Although not captured in the COBRA analysis, this recommendation avoids an estimated $9.0M in mission facility renovation costs and procurement avoidances associated with meeting AT/FP construction standards and altering existing facilities to meet unit training and communications requirements. Consideration of these avoided costs would reduce costs and increase the net savings to the Department of Defense in the 6-year BRAC implementation period, and in the 20- year period used to calculate NPV.
Community Concerns: There were no formal expressions from the community.
Commission Findings: The Commission found no reason to disagree with the recommendation of the Secretary of Defense. In addition, the Commission notes that the Army's process was well thought-out and inclusive of the leadership of the Reserve Components and the State.
Commission Recommendations: The Commission found the Secretary's recommendation consistent with the final selection criteria and force structure plan. Therefore, the Commission approved the recommendation of the Secretary.
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ThingLink Mobile: Tips for Adding Live Videos to Images
ThingLink Mobile is the ideal iOS App for creating interactive images with embedded video players, text links and @Twitter IDs. This post focuses on adding live videos to images.
Take a picture with your iPhone using ThingLink Mobile (or use an existing photo). I saw the band Chicago at Westbury Music Fair this weekend and used ThingLink to capture videos of my favorite songs on images shot at the show.
Here's how you can take family and concert photos and capture moments around you daily by adding videos into your images.
1 Open ThingLink Mobile on your iPhone.
2 Take a new photo or use any image from your gallery.
3 Touch the image and two options appear:
Add Text – touch and add any text including #hashtags and @Twitter handles.
Add Video – touch and you'll see three video options
Now lets add a video.
Take a Video – shoot your own 30 second videos.
Choose from Gallery – add videos you've already shot with iPhone.
Add from YouTube – touch and open up a search on YouTube – add your favorite videos from YouTube.
TIPS for Adding Live Video – to avoid seeing upside down or sideways videos inside the image:
Shooting video with the REAR camera, hold the iPhone with the HOME button to your right.
Shooting video with the FRONT camera, hold the iPhone with the HOME button to your left.
IMPORTANT: NEVER shoot videos with the camera held vertically.
If you see an iPhone image overlay while getting set to shoot a video, it means you're holding the camera incorrectly.
The iPhone image overlay is an error message. Flip the camera until that overlay disappears. When the image disappears, you're ready to shoot.
The image below is what you see if you shoot video and have the HOME button on the wrong side. The image overlay is an error message. Flip the camera until that overlay disappears.
Here is what you should see when you're holding the camera properly. Now, you're ready to shoot.
Good luck shooting ThingLink Mobile videos. Questions? Write to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Greece's First 'Grexit'
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Because if Greece got booted from a single currency before, it could happen again.
By Ulli Kulke
When the European Central Bank recently threatened to turn off its funding tap to Greek banks, one proposed solution sounded laughable, even absurd: "Then we'll print up to 100 billion euros ourselves," said Greek politician Rachel Makri. Yet the Greeks had actually implemented a similar plan once before — and, in 1908, they had to leave a single currency as a result.
Indeed, 2015 marks 150 years since a kind of forerunner to the euro was launched in Paris in the Foreign Ministry's guesthouse. Top diplomats from countries that wanted to join the Latin Monetary Union — as it was known back then — were invited. According to Luca Einaudi with the Joint Centre for History and Economics at the University of Cambridge, the union was part of Napoleon III's quest for supremacy in Europe. (He had been elected president, then staged a coup d'etat to become monarch, but still believed Europe's weak could benefit from a single currency if everyone joined.)
Keeping the Union together was "little more than a ploy to avoid the forced redemption of those coins if a member state left."
When representatives from the founding countries of France, Belgium, Italy and Switzerland met up on the Quai d'Orsay in November, they agreed that each country's coins should be made using a standard amount of gold and silver as per the French franc, on which the Belgian and Swiss francs as well as the Italian lira were based. The relative value of gold to silver was set at 15.5 to one, and leading banks from the four countries agreed to accept foreign coins at the same rate as domestic ones so that other banks could join without risk.
Here's how it was supposed to work: All four currencies were meant to circulate in all four countries. For example, Swiss francs would be sent back from France and changed back into French francs, and the number of coins produced was meant to reflect the countries' population figures, with monetary growth increasing accordingly. Broadly speaking, a single currency was created that was similar to today's euro. The only formal difference was that the various countries retained their currencies' names. (Unlike today, they didn't just use logos to show country of origin.)
The Union invited other states to join as well, and Greece followed as the fifth country in 1868. It took a few years for the country to be recognized as a full member. Even then, while Greece accepted the other currencies, the Greek drachma wasn't valid in partner nations, which reduced Greece's participation to very little, Einaudi notes. Gradually, Greece became something of a fifth wheel. It was a country with little to offer economically. Its exports amounted to barely half of its imports and consisted almost entirely of currants, which at the time were subject to severe price fluctuations. Greece stumbled through one currant crisis to another. The state was heavily indebted, and any money it did have was poured into an army that had a top-heavy hierarchy full of expensive generals and officers.
In 1893, President Charilaos Trikoupis declared, "Regretfully, we are bankrupt." He halted payments to Greece's creditors — Germany, France and Great Britain — although foreign financial oversight along with debt restructuring and interest rate reduction was the norm in Athens back then. Greece's bankruptcy "destroyed the country's reputation as a borrower" for a long time to come, according to a report by the Bank of Greece. (Yes, some things never seem to change.) In 1908, Greece was officially booted from the Union — the first "Grexit." And by World War I, the paper drachma had depreciated more than 90 percent, according to Einaudi.
The country later rejoined its former members, though wartime turbulence had such an impact on the precious metal markets that monetary values had to be constantly readjusted, and they also varied from country to country. As a result, a single currency was virtually inconceivable. In addition, there was no central supervisory authority like the European Central Bank to control the currency's circulation and look into irregularities. In the end, reads a report from the Review of Development Finance, keeping the Union together was considered "little more than a ploy to avoid the forced redemption of those coins if a member state left," and the Union officially ceased in 1926.
But, Einaudi notes, one positive did come out of the venture: It helped slowly modernize and stabilize the European monetary system, while setting the stage — and perhaps serving as an example of what not to do — for the European Union that reigns today.
This article first appeared in the German newspaper Die Welt. Meghan Walsh contributed reporting.
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My How to Succeed experience (with some pics)
Jan 26, 2012 23:04
Leaving this as an open post cause some ppl not on my flist would like to read it:
(this isn't my pic though! But I couldn't get back far enough to get it all in one pic)
So, we headed off this week to catch Nick's opening night in How to Succeed...and here's a REALLY long recap with some pics.
Reignjonas and I each flew in to NYC on Monday, although due to the insane crazy weather we didn't get out of the airport until after 4PM. We headed to our hotel, then a few other friends (although they were Joe Hoes, they were still excited to see Nick) gathered into our hotel room to watch Nick's Cambio chat. We probably looked kind of funny...6 of us gathered around 3 laptops watching Nick Jonas. LOL!
Then to celebrate reinjonas's birthday(which was that week) we headed over to Nick's favorite place to eat in NYC to have dinner, John's Pizzeria (if only we knew they'd all be there the NEXT night!! Such was our luck this trip!) If you are in NYC and get a chance to eat there...do it. The baked ziti was quite amazing!
The next day it was finally Nick's opening night!! But first we were on a Joe mission! We headed down to Soho only to find out Joe had left the hotel about 5 minutes before we got there!! We walked around Soho for a bit, then decided to head to Chelsea for lunch, and maybe we'd run into Nick out walking around (maybe with Elvis!) We headed to Chelsea Market, had gourmet hamburgers for lunch, kinda flirted with the cute waiter, and I spent way too much buying awesome cupcakes and brownies at two stores I saw on Food Network. We decided to head back to the hotel to get ready, but walking down the street I saw a store that sells puppies so we stopped in for some puppy bonding time. I picked the quietest French Bulldog puppy out but once we got into the play area he turned into a maniac. An adorable maniac, but a maniac!! I forgot how much puppies love to untie shoes.
The devious puppy--he looks like he's resting his chin on my hand. He's actually trying to eat my ring:
We got to the hotel and all got dressed up in our finery (we were kind of glamming it up since it was opening night for Nick) and headed to the theater early to hopefully see Nick arriving. There was quite a big crowd outside the stage door, and we stood around for a while before finding out Nick was already inside! Whoops!!
We headed in to find our seats...we had sprung for the premium seats, so we were 4th row, dead center. The seats were AMAZING. We had better seats than the Jonas family even! I turned around and saw Joe, he was like 8 rows behind us. We were so close to the stage. Seriously, Nick was like right there. I had a moment of concern when he hoisted up over the audience because my dress was cut kinda lower than I normally wear and if he decided to look down...well, he'd be looking right down my dress at that angle! LOL!
Our seats opening night:
Nick did an amazing job. At first, it sounded like he was a little drowned out by the music, but that could have been the microphone. But he was so super charming, and he really became Finch exactly as I envisioned him. When you're watching him....he's not Nick Jonas. His dancing was decent. We all know he's not a trained dancer, but he was right there keeping up, and while some of his moves didn't POP like DanRad's, I honestly think that's just because they have different builds--Nick just has a different body/center of gravity than Dan. But Grand Old Ivy is a crazy physical routine, and he kept up there (although I was a little afraid he was gonna keel over at the end!) There is a part in that dance that will have those of you who see it dying with laughter (think slow motion.)
And what can you say about Nick's voice other than it was on point. His singing was really, really, really good. Like, anyone who has ever said he doesn't have a good voice, has a whiny voice, etc...you'll probably have to reconsider that. It was sooooo beautiful, and this is a show that doesn't require great singing but he did it. I need that EP TODAY! He got a HUGE standing ovation at the end, and it was well deserved.
The rest of the cast did a great job. Michael Urie as Bud really stole the show the first night, and he and Nick have awesome chemistry on stage. I wanted more of their scenes. Rosemary was adorable. The Smitty character also had me laughing up a storm. I loved all the costumes too! Beau Bridges was my concern, since I heard he was flubbing all over the place during Darren's run, but he got it together it seemed because he did well also.
For people who wanted souvenirs, I snagged a poster/window card (I think I'll frame it) and a program. They were each $20. Just FYI, the program is basically the DanRad version with a fold out cover of Nick. I don't know if they'll reprint ones with Nick inside or what. Maybe not, just because I think there are interviews & stuff inside it that don't have anything to do with Nick's run, like how the show came about and all. I thought about buying a bow tie, but IDK what I'd do with it. They did have t-shirts with Nick too for people who wanted those.
We went outside to the stage door, but as you can see it was *madness*(although I heard this was calm compared to Darren's so...) :
Michael Urie signing:
So no way we were getting anything.
Next day, Reignjonas and I got up to go get rush tickets for one of the two shows on Wednesday. Now, people had told me that you had to get there early, like at least by 7:30. Now, seeing as Jonas fans sometimes wait outside for hours, we weren't sure what it would be like, so we got there at 7:30. *crickets* That's right, nobody was there! LOL! We got some snacks and waited it out anyway. People were shocked that so few people showed up for rush tickets. We were #1 in line, and got two front row box seats for the evening show. They're marked partial view, but it was basically this view:
So don't discount the rush tickets...for $30 you'll still get a good view. More on that later.
Later that afternoon, we all met up back at the theater again, around 1pm, to see if Nick would stop when he showed up for the matinee. He did, and he stopped to sign. There were maybe 50 people there and people were being well behaved, so he stopped. Some dumb girls in front of us left when he started with the other side of the barricade, so we got right up front. He came over, and was sooo...he's very attractive. He came up and I was afraid Reignjonas would not say it, so I did. I said "Nick, will you please take a picture with my friend because it's her birthday today?" Nick was all "Oh, happy birthday!" and she got a hug and a picture. Then he kinda turned to me, and we just looked at each other for a second, and I was kind of like(in my mind), "Oh, I'm supposed to ask?" while he was kind of like "What would you like?" Or at least that's what his face looked like. So I asked him if I could get a picture, and he said "Sure." He leaned in and put his arm around me, but I had left the zoom like WAYYY in on my camera so while my friend was fixing it we had a minute. I said, "You did a great job last night Nick. We're really looking forward to seeing it again tonight." He said "Aww, thank you so much" and we got the pic and then he did a little back rub/back pat hybrid. We kind stood there for a second just looking at each other like "Is that all?" Nick and I are too awkward around each other apparently...we just spend our time looking at each other like "What?" I said thank you and I moved away so others could get a chance. But nobody was behind me anymore. We stood there while he signed for our friends, then he headed inside. I was off to the side by the door, so as he went in I said "Bye Nick!" but everyone had gotten kind of quiet so he heard me, looked over at me and waved.
Pics of Nick signing:
The whole album is
with a few more pics.
We headed back to Soho just to see if we could run into Joe. There were only like 6 of us out there so we hung out for a couple hours talking and people watching...but we were freezing our asses off. The security guards were pretty funny though. But we had to get back for the evening show, so we took off. Then Joe came back. Of course!
We got into the evening show, and passed Mama and Papa J at the concession stand. I didn't want to go say anything to them though because they were talking to each other and I didn't want to interrupt.
We got to our seats, and I was kind of excited to see Nick getting rigged up for his entrance...when the usher came over and asked us if we wanted to move to non blocked seats. So they put us in the 4th row of the lower mezzanine. So our view went to this:
Those are like $132 each seats I think, so it was a total of $60 well spent!
The second night, it kind of was like watching a different show, esp from a different angle. Nick did even better the second night, his voice was on point in all areas again and he seemed to be looser and having more fun with it.
After Nick's curtain call we headed to stage door. The crowd was smaller, so we got closer to the front, and I got Beau and Michael's autographs. I told Michael I thought the
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was funny, and he and Nick need to make more, and he agreed. He was really sweet. I'd hoped the crowd would stay calm when Nick came out, but they didnt and it was huge shoving. I kept getting pushed over to the side, while trying to fling my Playbill out there. The cop kept saying "He's not coming back!" to me like he had passed me, even though he was right in front of me. Finally Nick took the Playbill--I don't know if he heard me and thought I sounded annoyingly pathetic or what. I thanked him (he prob didn't hear, he prob didn't look up to see who he signed for) and I got the hell out. My heart was pounding, it was seriously fucking scary. Little did I know he'd come down the side of the street where there was less of a crowd and keep signing. He stayed even after we left and tried to sign for nearly everyone.
His signature at least on mine was scribble, so that makes me think he was signing just to shut me the frack up!
And that was the end of our trip. No Joe, no Kevin but some Nick run ins, and he was just as fabulous on stage as I'd hoped he'd be when I said all those months ago if DanRad ever left they should hire Nick. He exceeded my expectations, really. He had a few bobbles--sang one line twice on opening night, kinda got a little tongue tied once on the second night (but prob not noticed unless you had just seen the show the day before)and just little minor things that will fix themselves when he settles into the role. But he did a fantastic job and all of you who are thinking about seeing it really should.
I'd like to go back for closing night. I said I wouldn't, but....
And if you read all of that you deserve a medal of honor!
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Cristina Valencia from Andes Travel is awarded the Grand Prize by Clara Rangel, Copa Airlines; Marjorie Bravo, Consul for Panama in Toronto & Yolanda Molinuevo Ortega, Copa Airlines
Luis Vargas & Martin Harrington (Uncle Marty) greeted everyone with a big smile
Some of the yummy breakfast spread
Chris Stubbs from Rainforest Adventure.
As the small group of agents and operators mingled and munched on a plentiful breakfast spread, we learned what Panama has to offer, directly from the suppliers themselves.
All reports suggest that sunny Panama is gaining in popularity with North Americans: with amazing beaches on both the Atlantic and Pacific, a well-deserved reputation as a safe destination, a growing economy and a cosmopolitan capital city, this shouldn't be a surprise, there's a lot to love beyond the famous canal.
Some of the hoteliers and operators came all the way from Panama to meet Canadian agents and explain their unique products. These included the appropriately-named Happy Tours, where Martin Harrington (AKA "Uncle Marty") has been a charmingly gregarious host to visitors for "as long as [he] can remember!"
On hand were representatives from Trump Hotels, Hilton and Waldorf Astoria Panama – all with excellent options for upscale clients. And Turista Internacional, a local Panamanian operator, was present to promote a wide selection of city stay packages for all budgets. Another familiar face in the crowd was Chris Stubbs, representing Rainforest Adventure. This creative operator offers adventurous excursions and tour packages throughout Panama. Agents get a very competitive 15% commission (20% every September & October) on each booking made.
There shouldn't be any question left about visiting Panama, at least in Molinuevo Ortega's mind – she shivers triumphantly as she tells us that she made it through last winter in Toronto, and (amazingly) plans to do it again this year. But only if she has a chance to get some Panamanian sunshine at some point during the season!


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Action: Use an alternative protein source: krill
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- Two replicated studies in Norway found similar final weight gain between salmon that were fed diets containing fish meal only or a krill meal substitute. When the krill were de-shelled, growth rates were closer to salmon fed fish meal, compared to leaving the krill whole.
- Feed conversion ratios were found to be similar in both the fish meal and krill meal diets.
- The number of aerobic bacteria in the hindgut of salmon fed fish meal and krill meal were higher and composition of the bacterial flora was different.
Supporting evidence from individual studies
In 2002, a replicated, controlled study in Norway (Ringø et al., 2006) found that salmon, Salmo salar, had similar final weights and feed conversion ratios when fed diets containing fish meal or fish meal and krill meal. Fish weighed an average of 105g at the start of the study and increased to 169.0g and 167.2 g in the fish meal and krill meal groups, respectively. Feed conversion ratios were 0.68 and 0.69, respectively. There was a difference in the composition and number of aerobic bacteria colonizing the hindgut of salmon between fish meal and krill meal diets (2.2 x 106 and 8.5 x 104, respectively). Salmon were fed either a diet containing fish meal as the protein source (58.9% of the diet) or a diet containing a 1:1 mix of fish meal and krill meal (64%) for 46 days. Three hundred salmon were stocked in 1.5 m3 x 1.5 m3 x 1m3 fibreglass tanks for the duration of the experiment. On day 46, fish were anaesthetized and measured for weight and feed conversion.
A replicated study in Norway (Hansen et al., 2010) found that salmon, Salmo salar, fed partially de-shelled krill meal had similar growth rates to those fed a whole krill meal diet. During the first 56 days, growth rates of 0.86% and 0.76% were recorded, respectively. Average final weights of salmon were 1060g, 1100g and 956g in fish fed diets containing fish meal, de-shelled krill and whole krill meal, respectively. Three diets were fed to 225 salmon for 100 days: a control diet based on high-quality fish meal or one of two experimental diets where the fish meal was substituted with either partially de-shelled or whole krill meal. Growth rates and final weights were recorded.
Referenced papers
- Ringø Einar, Sperstad Sigmund, Myklebust Reidar, Mayhew TerryM., Mjelde Agnar, Melle Webjørn & Olsen RolfErik (2006) The effect of dietary krill supplementation on epithelium-associated bacteria in the hindgut of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.): a microbial and electron microscopical study. Aquaculture Research, 37, 1644-1653
- Hansen J.Ø., Penn M., Øverland M., Shearer K.D., Krogdahl Å., Mydland L.T. & Storebakken T. (2010) High inclusion of partially deshelled and whole krill meals in diets for Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). Aquaculture, 310, 164-172


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Saturday's news that NL MVP Ryan Braun's performance-enhancing drug test came up positive has turned the baseball world upside down. Very much like when Alex Rodriguez ultimately admitted to steroid usage back in 2009.
I won't sit here and say Braun is for sure guilty, because he's not. Innocent until proven guilty. That's how America works, right?
But either way, Braun's name and good image are being dragged through the mud. He may not have been for baseball what Tim Tebow has been for the NFL, but he was pretty darn close. The Brewers have utilized their outfielder's popularity to help promote the team and the city while the league has been quick to have the reigning MVP help pump up the game's image.
Justifiably so, I might add. Up until about 24 hours ago, Braun seemed like one of the best people in baseball.
Now that this news has come out, however, it could change the entire game. Baseball was supposed to be the cleanest professional sport and the new CBAs were supposed to do more to get the game even cleaner. The league has been doing its best to try to rid the sport of all performance-enhancing drugs.
And then the MVP gets busted. That doesn't look good. At this point, maybe the only person that could help make the game look worse than Braun just has is Albert Pujols, what, after his quarter-of-a-billion-dollar contract and all the attention he received after leading the Cardinals on the most improbable of improbable playoff runs that culminated into a World Series win in St. Louis.
Al Yellon over at SBNation has a great column examining the impact Braun's test has had -- and could have -- on the game.
My question is, how did it even get here? How was Braun so careless as to even find himself in this position? Professional athletes -- especially baseball players -- should never put anything into their body without checking and double-checking with the team's training staff that it won't make them test positive in PEDs.
It's either carelessness or ignorance on Braun's part that he even tested positive, whether he is actually guilty or not. Either way, he makes himself and the game look bad.
This saga isn't over and likely won't be anytime soon. But it's important to watch closely as both Cubs fans and baseball fans. Whichever way it goes, the ruling will have a big effect on the game and the Brewers. If Milwaukee is without their best player and Prince Fielder does indeed leave town like all are assuming, it will be an awfully wide-open NL Central that will already be without Albert Pujols.


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Preheat oven to 450°.
Coat a 15 x 10-inch jelly-roll pan with cooking spray; line bottom of pan with wax paper. Coat wax paper with cooking spray, and set pan aside.
Combine flour and cornstarch in a small bowl; stir well, and set aside. Combine 1/2 cup sugar, oil, 3 egg yolks, and 2 egg whites in a large bowl; beat at high speed of a mixer until thick and pale (about 5 minutes). Add vanilla; beat until blended. Add flour mixture to egg mixture, beating at low speed until blended; set aside.
Beat 4 egg whites and 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar at high speed of a mixer until foamy. Add 1 tablespoon sugar; beat until stiff peaks form. Gently fold egg white mixture into batter; pour batter into prepared pan, spreading evenly. Bake at 450° for 6 minutes. Turn oven off.
Loosen cake from sides of pan, and turn out onto a dishtowel; carefully peel off wax paper, and let cake cool 1 minute. Starting at narrow end, roll up cake and towel together. Place, seam side down, on a wire rack, and let cool completely (about 1 hour).
Unroll cake carefully; remove towel. Brush Chocolate Syrup over cake, leaving a 1/2-inch margin around outside edges. Spread Pastry Cream over syrup, leaving a 2-inch margin around outside edges. Reroll cake; place, seam side down, on an ovenproof serving platter.
Preheat oven to 325°. Beat 4 egg whites and 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar at high speed of a mixer until foamy. Add powdered sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, beating until stiff peaks form. Add almond extract, and beat until blended. Spread meringue over cake roll (cake should be completely covered with meringue), and sprinkle almonds over meringue. Bake at 325° for 25 minutes. Cover loosely, and chill at least 1 hour.
Lighter Than Light version: Here's how you can lower the fat in Jolynn's Meringue Gâteau even further without sacrificing the taste.
Omit the chocolate morsels in the Chocolate Syrup, and increase the water to 3 tablespoons.
Use 1 (32-ounce) carton plain non-fat yogurt in the Pastry Cream, and use 1/8 teaspoon vanilla extract in addition to the almond extract. Increase the sugar to 1/3 cup.
CALORIES 232 (10% from fat); PROTEIN 2g; FAT 7g (sat 7g, mono 1g, poly 4g); CARB 6g; FIBER 1g; CHOL 65mg; IRON 3mg; SODIUM 89mg; CALC 130mg


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Hubris, humanity and humour of Henry V
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Cast members Nick Duddy & Ellie McPhee as well as director Megan Dansie joined Lisa to discuss Adelaide Uni Theatre Guild's upcoming production of Shakespeare's Henry V (6th-20th May).
Tickets and further info can be found here and on Facebook.
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The project explores the connection between an increasingly important but problematic feature of contemporary labour markets (underemployment) and a crucial dimension of housing research and policy (housing security). It incorporates a background discussion of underemployment, including through the review of ABS statistics, but the central empirical component is an analysis of labour force and housing data from the first nine waves of the HILDA survey.


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The only reason I found out about the spiralizer was because my mother, a Type 1 diabetic, was trying raw veganism to help regulate her blood sugar levels.
More on that story here.
Despite this, I've never really made raw vegan recipes on this blog. Interesting, right?
The main reason I don't make many raw vegan recipes is because spiralizing was already popular with raw vegans – it's a raw version of pasta. Take the beautifully talented Kristina from Fully Raw. She's got it covered!
When I first tasted the raw vegan dish my mother prepared for me, that lightbulb immediately went off and I thought, "This is amazing, but, what if I added a nice warm tomato sauce with some grated parmesan cheese?"
Heck, I'm Italian American- can you blame me?
Since I wasn't a raw vegan and I figured raw vegans were already mastering spiralizing, I decided to build a community for omnivores – people who wanted to healthfully incorporated spiralized veggies and fruits into their diets, regardless of their dietary preferences.
I've actually had a few requests from raw vegan readers for more recipes.
I'm never really motivated to design raw vegan recipes, mainly because I've never eaten as a raw vegan and I don't feel comfortable writing those types of recipes.
However, after eating today's recipe, I might have to incorporate a weekly raw vegan meal into my diet (spiralized, of course!)
The kicker to this recipe? The unsweetened shredded coconut from Bob's Red Mill. I'm a huge fan of Bob's Red Mill, because their products are just real. They're flavorful!
If you're looking for ways to incorporate healthy coconut into your diet, I also suggest crusting fish or chicken with this shredded coconut from Bob's Red Mill – it adds such naturally delicious flavor and texture!
The texture of the coconut gives this crunchy noodle dish that extra oomph and adds a natural sweetness that complements the canned coconut milk to bring out those fresh, Caribbean flavors.
Of course, the mango doesn't hurt either – it adds more sweetness, since zucchini and avocado can be a bit bland.
The cashews offer healthy fats and protein, while the lime juice in the dressing gives this dish a tang and makes it perfect for a summer day or, if you're me, on another freezing cold day of NY spring.
When will it finally warm up!?
Note: While Bob's Red Mill sponsored this post, all opinions are my own, always.
Are you a raw vegan? Have you ever tried raw veganism?
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Yields 4
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20 minTotal Time
- For the noodles:
- 3 medium-to-large zucchinis, Blade C, noodles trimmed
- 3/4 cup roughly chopped raw cashews
- 1 cup cubed mango
- 1.5 tablespoons unsweetened coconut flakes (I used Bob's Red Mill Unsweetened Coconut Flakes)
- For the dressing:
- 1 can full-fat coconut milk, refrigerated overnight or stored without shaking*
- 1/4 cup freshly squeezed lime juice
- flesh from 1 avocado
- salt and pepper, to taste
- Open the can of coconut milk and carefully scoop out a half of a cup of the creamy top portion of the coconut milk. Reserve the rest of the can for future use or discard.
- Add that half cup into a food processor, along with the rest of the ingredients for the dressing. Pulse until creamy. Taste and adjust to your preferences.
- In a large mixing bowl, toss together the zucchini noodles with the dressing until the noodles are completely coated in the dressing. Fold in the cashews and mangoes and toss again.
- Divide onto plates and garnish with about 2 teaspoons of coconut flakes per plate.


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The microalgae Spirulina is considered a healthy food that contains all of the amino acids, omega 3 and is a complete protein. Its growing rates are very fast because, like all photosynthetic monocellular organisms and unlike more complex green organisms, close to 100% of its cells participate in the growing process. The LillyBots are a series of small scale photobioreactors to grow edible microalgae like Spirulina in domestic environment.
MiniLilly is the smallest photobioreactor we ever made with its 2,5 liters in a frame of 30x12x50(h) cm. It's conceived to be easy to mount, easy to use, easy to customise, and affordable for everybody. It's dedicated to bio-geeks that are willing to start culturing algae in a domestic environment with a good-looking system.
It works on the principle of a closed loop water fall with a container tank at the bottom of the acrylic frame, a pump, and additional electronics for control. The microalgae solution is pumped up from the tank to the top of the frame, where it begins its descent through a series of sloping planes that create a number of little waterfalls to enhance the microalgae gas exchange with air. At the end of the fall, the solution goes back to the tank and is ready for another loop.
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To make the most efficient use of your article marketing, you need to try to get articles accepted on as many sites as possible, or as quickly as possible.
As well as the problems in articles discussed in another article, why you should write articles for people, not search engines, here are some more reasons why an article can get rejected.
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Anyone familiar with article marketing, on article directories and other sites that allow you to submit articles, will have no doubt come across pen names. As well as a username, typically used to login to the site, you will also usually be allowed to add a pen name, or multiple pen names, which will then be used as the name of the author of the article in question. There are definitely some types of pen names that will cause you problems.
If you submit an article through a submission service, such as Distribute Your Articles, the submission service may create a new account at the article directory for you, or they may use your supplied pen name with their own account. Should you already have an account at that directory that uses that pen name, you may occasionally wind up with a blank pen name, as the directory rejects the duplicate.
Not only will this mean that their is no valid link to an "Author" or similar page, which reduces the ability of search engines to spider your articles, some directories may reject outright an article that has no pen name.
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Anything other than using the standard First Name, Last Name format increases the likelihood that an article will be rejected, or your account deleted, even though specific rules do vary depending on the directory. A plain and simple "John Smith" pen name is unlikely to cause problems, but "mysite.com" or "The Internemt Marketing Expert" may well cause rejection. Using a standard name format is the best idea, even if it isn't your actual name and is a genuine pen name, unless you have checked in a particular case that other formats aren't prohibited.
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I don't even have to play Death Stranding in order to review it. All I need is the 39 minutes' worth of trailers released thus far, my hideous enthusiasm, and my terrible imagination. Allow me to utilize all three in this video presentation, a "pre-review" of Death Stranding.
What could possibly qualify me to review Death Stranding three months before its release, at a time when no person who is free to speak publicly about the game's deeper details has played it? Well, for starters, I own more than two military-spec fashion accessories. Furthermore, a tweet I made about a "Tactical Baby Gear" papoose got retweeted more than 300 times. That's practically viral!
If that's not enough, I also buy my eyeglasses from the same shop where Hideo Kojima buys his. In fact, it was Hideo Kojima who first told me the location of this shop. One might say, therefore, that we have similar worldviews.
"Where do you buy your glasses?" was actually the first question I asked Hideo Kojima when I sat down to talk to him for three hours 16 years ago. For a full hour of that time, we discussed literature and film. I asked him if he'd read Kobo Abe, and he said no. Fourteen years later, he'd reference a specific play of Kobo Abe's as a thematic inspiration for Death Stranding. That's almost a connection! It's too bad I can't prove it with 17-year-old audio recording excerpts from my first sit-down with Kojima.
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In summary: There's a chance my head will explode in an art-appreciating paroxysm of joy while playing Death Stranding. It would be difficult for even me to compose a thoughtful critique of Death Stranding in such a decapitated scenario. Therefore, I figured I'd jump the gun and compose this video as a sort of last will and testament.
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Preservice Teacher Education Benchmarking a Standalone Ed Tech Course in Preparation for Change
Teresa S. Foulger; Ray R. Buss; Keith Wetzel; LeeAnn Lindsey
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In an effort to reform a teacher education program by strengthening content-area preparation and adding opportunities to practice by extending the time for student teaching, Arizona State University's Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College eliminated a...
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Confessions of a Baby Boomer Parent
My generation, the Baby Boomers, witnessed some changes that probably couldn't even have been imagined by the "Greatest Generation" that preceded us. For example, the Boomers championed the feminist and civil rights movements, which made our society more tolerant, diverse, and culturally-sensitive than ever before. The Boomers also brought NASA and Woodstock, putting a few Americans on the moon and many others just hallucinating space travel.
We also changed parenting forever, allowing more moms and dads to feel comfortable choosing to work either inside or outside the home. But along with this positive development came an unfortunate compensatory concept that I apologize for on behalf of my entire generation. We introduced the notion of "Quality Time" to help us deal with our guilt about spending less quantity time with our kids. Quality Time was a "scrapbook" family outing to the theater, ballet, or a nice restaurant—short bursts of uber-parenting, memorialized with souvenirs that attested to how much we loved our kids. It was typically both intensive and expensive. And after each carefully planned activity, we patted ourselves on the back and returned to our busy lives.
Don't get me wrong—the theater, ballet, and nice restaurants are fine if you have the time, interest, and money. Or maybe you'd rather go to the park, zoo, botanic garden, or museums. All are excellent ways to enjoy family time with your kids, and worthy of setting aside protected time.
But there's a better and more affordable way to experience high-quality time with your kids that's less structured and will leave you feeling much more fulfilled. You can have it in the kitchen preparing dinner together; in the car on the way to soccer practice or to the ice cream store on the way home from practice; walking your kids to playdates instead of driving; backyard insect hunting with a magnifying glass after dinner; collecting leaves during the day and then tracing them and coloring together before bed; or building a snowman by starlight.
This "New Quality Time" does require is a different mentality than we Boomers had as parents. Rather than thinking of what you have to do with your kids to get all of you through your day's commitments and responsibilities, think of all those logistical hurdles as opportunities to be with your kids. Quality Time is all the time before and after your planned outings. It's the cameo appearances you make with your kids throughout the week that you never acknowledged as true family time because you're so consumed by the choreography of daily family life. If you can make this time with your kids special, seeing it as moments rather than minutes, you'll never have to audit how much time you spend with your kids. Quality Time is whenever you are with your kids, doing whatever it is you are doing together.
Dr. Harley A. Rotbart is Professor and Vice Chairman Emeritus of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children's Hospital Colorado. He is the author of four books for parents and families, including No Regrets Parenting and 940 Saturdays. He is also a Parents advisor and a contributor to The New York Times Motherlode blog. Visit his blog at noregretsparenting.com and follow him on Facebook and Twitter (@NoRegretsParent).
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I really enjoyed the 17 days I spent in Baja last year. I wasn't ready to leave, but decided to head back for fear the unanticipated cloud cover in San Diego was prohibiting my solar panels from sustaining life in the Winnie without me. So I left La Paz last March before I was ready to go. I was eager to return this year and pick up where I left off.
Last year, I entered the Baja at the Tijuana border crossing, traveled south all the way to Cabo San Lucas, looping back up to La Paz where I flew back to Tijuana. This year, I entered via ferry from Mazatlan with the intention to reverse my trip northbound. Not wishing to subject blog readers to a series of "reruns," I didn't plan to blog about Baja on my repeat visit. Yet as I branch out on my longer stay this time, it's impossible to keep the camera in its case. La Paz is just too lively!
The Central Zone of La Paz nestles a beautiful horseshoe-shaped waterfront overlooking the Sea of Cortez. In the middle of the bay is a small peninsula, "El Mogote," which tends to shelter the waterfront, giving a calm, peaceful feel in keeping with the city's name which translates to "The Peace."
The waterfront is rimmed by a wide, heavily trafficked multi-use path. And when I say "multi-use," I mean nowhere are you going to find a more creative mix of fitness and fun. Construction on the malecón continues from last year, with the extension now linking the Marina de La Paz in the southwest to the Marina Palmira at the northeast end of the bay. It's mayhem on the malecón with the usual mainstream marathoners, running, power-walking, and riding bikes. But then there are also skateboarders, rollerbladers, dog walkers, strollers, and even the occasional recumbent bike fashioned from a lawn chair. Can a place be lively and relaxing at the same time?
Another thing I love about La Paz is the close proximity to pristine beaches, the best of which are Balandra and Tecolote, just a 20 minute ride by bus. The EcoBaja bus line offers frequent schedules throughout the day. For 100 Pesos round trip, or $5 US, the bus follows the bay, dropping off passengers at the public beaches along the way. Last year, I spent a good bit of time at Playa Balandra which is on the "lee side," meaning the water is glassy calm. This year I ventured a bit further to Playa Tecolote on the windward side. Bigger waves, fluffier sand, and more beachside bars and restaurants. It also appears to be a boondocker's dream.
I visited the beach on three separate occasions while in La Paz…once to Balandra and twice to Tecolote. Only one of the three times was I able to "gut up" enough to get in the water. It's been unseasonably cool on the Baja this trip, and in spite of repeated attempts, I just can't seem to make myself "submerge." Last year, I was in shorts and flipflops the entire visit. This year, I am wearing a fleece jacket over my swimsuit, and a sarong wrapped around my neck like a winter scarf. Still…..as the ad campaign says, "No bad days in Baja!"


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Many studies have characterized the brain as an efficient coding system (Olshausen and Field, 1996). A common claim in this "efficient coding" approach is that the brain has evolved to code sensory information in an efficient way by using information-processing strategies optimized to the statistics of the perceptual environment. An influential theoretical and computational framework, closely related to efficient coding, is predictive coding. This framework provides a novel means of understanding the interactions between distinct brain areas. Predictive coding posits that the brain actively predicts upcoming sensory input rather than passively registering it. Predictive coding is efficient in the sense that the brain does not need to maintain multiple versions of the same information at different levels of the processing hierarchy. Indeed, activation in early sensory areas no longer represents sensory information per se, but only that part of the input that has not been successfully predicted by higher level areas. The activity in lower level areas can therefore be considered an "error signal" that updates the predictions at higher areas and guides learning.
One articulate example of predictive coding is the model of Rao and Ballard (1999). In this model, predictions generated at higher levels are used to "explain away" lower level representations that are compatible with the higher level interpretation. The explaining away component of predictive coding has a remarkable consequence: predictability reduces activity in early areas through feedback from higher level areas. This might seem counter intuitive. Indeed, due to the ambiguity of sensory input and the limited reliability of neural responses, one might expect feedback to enhance early information that is in agreement with higher level representations. However, two recent studies published in The Journal of Neuroscience seem to provide fMRI evidence consistent with this notion of explaining away.
Focusing on the primary visual cortex, Alink et al. (2010) observed a lower blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) signal for predictable compared with unpredictable stimuli. These authors exploited an apparent motion illusion, in which the alternation between a stationary bar at the top and at the bottom of the screen leads to the illusory perception of a moving bar between the two physically presented stimuli. Alink et al. (2010) measured the neural response to an additional bar at one location along the path of the illusory moving bar. The timing of this additional bar was manipulated such that it was presented at a time point that was either consistent with the motion illusion (and thus predictable) or at an inconsistent (unpredictable) time point. The lower BOLD response for the predictable stimulus (in contrast to the unpredictable stimulus) seems to be in line with the explaining away notion of predictive coding: predictable representations at lower levels are actively suppressed by feedback from higher levels.
The lower BOLD response for the predictable versus unpredictable bar was observed in a region of V1 that retinotopically corresponded to the location at which this bar appeared. Because this region did not directly respond to the "inducing" bars, it seems logical to conclude that predictability effects at this location must reflect feedback from higher levels with larger receptive fields. Alink et al. (2010) acknowledge, however, that BOLD signal changes cannot be taken as direct evidence for feedback effects, and they highlight that it is not possible to rule out a role of lateral interactions within V1.
The increased neural response to the unpredictable stimulus could be thought to reflect an increased allocation of attention to a surprising stimulus. In a separate psychophysical experiment however, Alink et al. (2010) found that detectability rates were in fact higher for the predictable stimulus. This behavioral result rules out any straightforward explanation of the changes in fMRI response in terms of an increased allocation of attention to the unpredictable stimulus.
It is worth considering how Alink et al. (2010) operationalized predictability, because in their experiment the unpredictable stimulus was, in fact, always presented at the same location and at a constant delay. Thus, although the timing of the unpredictable stimulus was inconsistent with the illusory motion (and therefore unpredictable with respect to the brain's long term assumptions about moving stimuli), it could still be considered predictable in the context of the experiment. If predictive coding is to provide a flexible means of learning about the statistics of one's environment, one might expect the brain to be sensitive to such short-term (within experiment) contingencies.
Evidence for a sensitivity to short-term contingencies is in fact provided by another paper recently published in The Journal of Neuroscience. den Ouden et al. (2010) found that when one of two tones consistently preceded the visual onset of either a face or a house, activation in brain areas recruited when processing these stimulus types [fusiform face area (FFA) and parahippocampal place area (PPA), respectively] was reduced. Importantly, this reduction occurred even though the association between the tone and stimulus type was artificial and the probability with which a given tone would be followed by a given stimulus changed across the experiment. Furthermore, participants were not explicitly informed when these probability rates would change; they were simply informed that the probabilistic relations between the auditory cues and the target would change over the experiment. Nevertheless, den Ouden et al. (2010) found a negative correlation between the neural response to a particular stimulus type and the predictability of that stimulus type. Thus, den Ouden et al.'s (2010) results seem to corroborate Alink et al.'s (2010) finding of reduced activity levels in sensory areas in the context of predictable stimulus contingencies, but demonstrate this effect for an arbitrary contingency developed over a short time scale.
In addition to this sensory sensitivity to predictability, for faces in FFA and houses in PPA, den Ouden et al. (2010) reported higher levels of activation in the putamen whenever a tone was not followed by the stimulus type it predicted. The putamen therefore seemed to signal a generic (nonstimulus specific) "prediction error," which was elicited for both face and house stimuli. den Ouden et al. (2010) used dynamic causal modeling to suggest that activation in this area gated the connection between perceptual (FFA/PPA) and motor areas (responsible for generating the participants' response). It appears, therefore, as if the error detection in the putamen ensures that, whenever predictions are not met, the standard perceptual resources used in decoding a particular stimulus have a stronger influence on response selection. This mechanism could play a role in changing connectivity weights that might mediate long-term learning.
Viewed in parallel, Alink et al. (2010) and den Ouden et al. (2010) provide evidence that across different time scales, experimental contexts, and levels of the visual hierarchy, the brain is not only highly sensitive to predictability, but that this predictability can lead to a reduction of activation in sensory areas. This finding is consistent with Rao and Ballard's (1999) hypothesis that predictions in higher level areas are fed back and compared with incoming sensory signals, such that lower areas come to represent the discrepancy, or error signal, and not the stimulus per se. However, it is important to remember that the fMRI BOLD signal is an indirect measure of the underlying neural representation, where each voxel can reflect an average of >100,000 neurons. Indeed, reflecting upon similar reduced-activation levels in early visual areas in the context of perceptual grouping, Murray et al. (2004) highlight that, although a reduction in activation is consistent with an overall reduction in the strength of that representation, it could also be the case that the reduction reflects a sharpened tuning for predictable stimuli that lead to them being represented more efficiently (i.e., a lower average activation with a higher signal-to-noise ratio).
Thus, although the BOLD signal reduction found in sensory areas by Alink et al. (2010) and den Ouden et al. (2010) could well be described in terms of a higher level of representation influencing the activations at a lower level, it is not possible to conclude whether predictable stimuli are explained away at low levels and represented at higher levels, as predicted by the predictive coding framework of Rao and Ballard, or whether the representation of predictable stimuli is adjusted at the lower level itself. The latter possibility is consistent with a recent study (Nienborg and Cumming, 2009) suggesting that efficient decoding mechanisms may be implemented at the level of sensory neurons through top-down changes in neuronal gain. Distinguishing between these "fine-tuning" and explaining-away explanations at different levels of the visual hierarchy will be an important goal of future research.
In summary, Alink et al. (2010) and den Ouden et al. (2010) highlight different ways in which the predictability of sensory input alters the processing of those stimuli by the brain. Alink et al. (2010) show that even at the first stage of cortical visual information processing, predictable and unpredictable stimuli are processed differently. den Ouden et al. (2010) not only highlight how this effect of predictability can manifest at higher stages of visual information processing but also demonstrate that it can develop for arbitrary contingencies over short time scales. Furthermore, den Ouden et al. (2010) provide evidence for a more generic error-signaling system, contingent on the putamen, that appears to act to functionally increase the connection between sensory and motor responses when our predictions are not met, providing a link between predictive coding and learning. Further experiments however, ideally combining fMRI and single-cell electrophysiology (Tsao et al., 2006), are needed to identify whether the reductions in BOLD signal really do reflect a predictive coding-based explaining away or a fine tuning of sensory representations.
Editor's Note: These short, critical reviews of recent papers in the Journal, written exclusively by graduate students or postdoctoral fellows, are intended to summarize the important findings of the paper and provide additional insight and commentary. For more information on the format and purpose of the Journal Club, please see http://www.jneurosci.org/misc/ifa_features.shtml.
This work was supported by a Methusalem grant (METH/08/02) from the Flemish Government. T.P. is research assistant of the Fund for Scientific Research-Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen). We thank Jonas Kubilius, Hans Op de Beeck, and Johan Wagemans for valuable feedback on this manuscript.
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