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When Apple announced the new Apple TV, we got very excited. This would be the perfect platform for PartySnapper, the social photo wall app we'd developed for iOS. It would help solve some of the adoption barriers we saw with PartySnapper.
One App, Two Devices, Two Roles
At just a couple of dollars revenue per sale, developers have to come up with a clever way to turn the product into its own ad. Usually this is done by offering potential customers a free download and some initial content and sell them additional content in the form of premium features or additional game levels. This concept is called "freemium" and it is the most successful model for mobile apps. With PartySnapper, our idea was that party goers could use the app for free on their iPhones when shooting photos and that only the party host would pay for hosting the party. We thought a particular clever way would be to have only one app that can fill both roles: party guests would use it to shoot and submit photos and the party host would use it to host the photo wall. If a party guest liked the idea, they would already have downloaded the app and would only have to unlock the hosting part with a simple in-app purchase. We hoped this would kick off a viral effect with every party host helping to spread the app to their party guests who would then become the next wave of customers.
Apparently, this was a bit too clever. It proved difficult to explain the two different roles for the same app and that customers had to have the same app on two devices to fulfill those different roles. I should have realized this when we struggled to describe it properly on the web site and in the App Store description, but I liked the idea too much.
PhotoWall+ now comes in two apps: PhotoWall+ on the Apple TV and the free "PhotoWall+ Camera" for iOS for your photographers.
Connecting a display to an iPad or iPhone is not commonplace
Another huge adoption barrier that we underestimated: Not a lot of people have an external display connected to their iPad or even know that this is possible. And it requires an adaptor that costs 10 times as much as the app.
Fortunately, the Apple TV will be connected to an external display or projector by default.
Freemium and Education
It turns out that, as has been the case with a lot of our previous apps, educators came up with some of the more interesting use cases for PartySnapper. One teacher told us how he loves to use it in the class room to document class progress with assignments and how he is telling all the other education customers about it. This is very exciting for us as we have come to love the education market for its vibe and enthusiasm. Unfortunately, PartySnapper's freemium model prevented teachers from purchasing the product as the Apple Volume Purchase Program for education does not work with in-app purchases.
By offering a separate, free camera app, we can now offer PhotoWall+ for purchase via the VPP.
Finally, the name
PartySnapper is a cool name. We love it very much, but industry influencers and potential customers from the event planning industry told us they didn't like to call their events a "party". Looking for a new name, we found that a name that is more descriptive of the purpose of the app just seems to make more sense:
PhotoWall+ is the photo wall on your Apple TV.
Accessing The Photos
One new challenge we faced is the lack of local storage on Apple TV. While apps can store data on the Apple TV, tvOS may remove it from the device whenever it needs more space to store something else. With PartySnapper on the iPad, we could simply store the photos in albums in your Photo Library, on Apple TV, apps do not have access to that (yet). Until that changes, PhotoWall+ stores the photo walls and the photos in iCloud. If users want to download and share their photos, we provide a web app for that.
And it's coming to your new Apple TV on Tuesday, Dec 8th 2015 with an introductory 48 hour sale at just $0.99 (down from the regular $4.99).


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This embroidery by Sarah Henshaw had the Henshaw and Bill family crests. I knew I was related to the Boston Bill family, so as soon as I returned home I researched the family genealogy. Fascinating stuff!
Joshua Henshaw born 2 August 1703, Boston, Massachusetts. ( He was born in the house owned by his parents in Boston on the corner of Hayward's Place and Washington (then Newberry) St. He was the son of Joshua Henshaw and Mary Hay Webster. He married Elizabeth Bill, daughter of Richard Bill and Sarah Davis on 27 December 1733 in Boston. They were married by Reverend Benjamin Colman of the Brattle Street Church, Boston.
Richard Bill, an influential and opulent merchant of Boston, on Jan 16, 1741-2 conveyed to Joshua Henshaw and wife "the house and land in Sudbury street on the S.S.E., there measuring forty feet; ... on the south west on land of Thomas Cooper, late deceased, there measuring 99 feet; N.W. on Bartholomew, three needles nineteen and a half feet". (1)
In 1774, in consequence of the enforcement of the "Boston Port Bill" and the occupation of Boston by royal troops, Joshua was forced to move to Leicester in the county of Worcester, Mass., where his brother Daniel lived. He boarded for a short time with Rev. Conklin, then moved to Dedham, near Boston, where he resided until his death in 1777, most of the time an invalid.4
Joshua Henshaw died Aug 5 1777, at the house of Hon. Sam Dexter, Dedham, Massachusetts. (1) A portrait of Joshua Henshaw was painted about 1770 by the noted colonial artist John Singleton Copley. This painting is currently in the collection of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor museum in San Francisco. Copley's painting can be seen on this link http://www.flickr.com/photos/wordster1028/5407996131/
1. Sarah Henshaw 16 January 1736-4 January 1822
2, Richard Bill Henshaw, 1737-?
3. Elizabeth Henshaw, 1744-?
4. Joshua Henshaw, 1746-1823
5. John Henshaw, 1749-?
6. Andrew Henshaw, 1752-1782
Sarah Henshaw was born 16 Jan 1736 in Boston, and she married Joseph Henshaw on 25 May 1759 in Boston, son of Daniel Henshaw and Elizabeth Allen Bass. (2) They were first cousins, grandchildren of Joshua Henshaw and Mary Hay Webster. She died 4 January 1822 in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. (1) Sarah Henshaw was a student of Elizabeth Murray, a Boston schoolteacher. Her embroidered, above, was made in 1748, when she was about 12 years old. It is silk satin embroidered with silk and metallic thread. According to the sign at the MFA "Henshaw's embroidery...introduced a new level of opulence for these symbols of social and economic status". There were several other embroideries by Sarah Henshaw on display.
The teacher Elizabeth Murray (1726 – 1785) was born in Scotland and was also painted by John Singleton Copley. Over her lifetime she had three husbands, and made a fortune by arranging lucrative pre-nuptial agreements. She had a shop selling the latest fashions, and she taught embroidery to the upper class young ladies in Boston. But also taught them to gain economic independence through business.
(1). The "New England Historical and Genealogical Register", vol 22, 1868, The New England Historical and Genealogical Society. This issue includes a complete copy of the recorded pedigree of Joshua Henshaw.
(2). Manuscripts relating to William Henshaw, archived at the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, including a handwritten family lineage
For more information:
The History of the Bill Family, by Ledyard Bill, 1867, see pages 141 – 143.
http://www.radcliffe.edu/schles/exhibits/enterprisingwomen/merch/murray.html A biography of Elizabeth Murray, Schoolteacher in Boston.
http://samplings.com/curator-archives/boston-colonial-embroidery-schoolgirl-pictures a page of information on the exhibit Boston Colonial Embroidery: Schoolgirl Pictures.
Copyright 2011, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

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This week Richard Allen, Physicist, NIST, will be live blogging from RoboCup 2009 covering the MEMS-scale robot league.
June 27, 2009
First, I would like to introduce myself to those who don't know me. I am Richard Allen and I am a physicist in the Semiconductor Electronics Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland U.S.A. I have been at NIST since 1990. At NIST my research has been in metrology tools for MEMS (recently) and semiconductor devices.
As I write this, I am on a train, traveling from Vienna, Austria to Graz, Austria. For the upcoming week, I will be blogging from RoboCup 2009 for MIG. RoboCup is an international competition devoted to the goal of achieving a team of robotic soccer players who can compete with, and defeat, the human World Cup champions. Although this goal seems like quite a reach, the target date is 2050. Soccer was chosen as a means for advancing robotics and artificial intelligence as it is an exciting area, with well-known and well-defined rules and accomplishing this goal will meet many, if not all, of the outstanding technical challenges faced in robotics.
Now the question might arise as to why I am here this week and why MIG asked me to blog this competition: About three years ago, Michael Gaitan, my co-worker from NIST, proposed to the RoboCup organizers that a MEMS-scale league be developed. The key parameter defining these MEMS-scale robots are that the largest dimension must be no larger than 300 micrometers. I will discuss the technical issues associated with these devices over the next few days and I suspect the reader will see many areas where the technical issues associated with making these robots work map to those challenges faced by MEMS device manufactures.
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Google put up the official page for the Nexus 7 tablet and has already taken it down, but before it did, we gathered some info for the tablet which is expected to be unveiled shortly. From the looks of it, all of the rumors were correct. The Google Nexus 7 tablet follows most of the rules of a 7-inch tablet and it is clear that the Kindle Fire is on its attack list, with a price of $200 and specs that greatly outmatch Amazon's tablet. Google has changed the default orientation of its tablet OS to a portrait orientation for the Nexus 7, with a focus on Google Play apps and services. Those who buy the tablet will get a $25 Google Play credit as well. Again, another response to the Kindle Fire.
The Nexus 7 tablet also comes with Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). This new version of Android will come with a number of new features like Google Now (a Siri competitor), customizable homescreens, upgraded notifications, better speech-to-text dictation, and many other incremental updates.
- Screen: 7-inch 1280×800 pixel
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Number 80 didn't come easy, but one of sport's most impressive current streaks remains intact.
The new look, yet remarkably familiar No 1. Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team stormed back from a late eight-point deficit to capture their 80th straight victory, beating No. 2 Baylor 65-64 after a three-point shot from the Lady Bears fell just short of the basket.
Huskies coach Geno Auriemma held his head in his hands, shocked that his team had pulled out the win, continuing a winning streak that started two years ago.
"I don't think they knew if they could do it," Auriemma said. "I was really anxious like everyone else was. The rest of the way here, let's see what happens."
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The win pulls the Lady Huskies within striking distance of one of college basketball's most hallowed records. They are eight wins away from tying the 88-game win streak put together by John Wooden's legendary UCLA teams in the 1970s. Should they continue to win, they can tie the record December 21.
Connecticut is still on top, but the rest of women's basketball is inching closer. Most of the games during the streak were over by halftime, and only once has a team come within single digits at the end — that was in last year's NCAA championship game against Stanford.
Showing they could win a close one, too, the Huskies overcame 6-foot-8 Baylor star Brittney Griner and a 56-48 gap with 6:42 to go.
UConn star Maya Moore led the way to the victory with an impressive stat line: 30 points, 7 rebounds, 2 assists, 6 steals and 1 block.
"I thought we played great for long stretches. Obviously, Baylor is a great team and they made their run," Auriemma said. "Then the improbable happened — people other than Maya began scoring.
"They don't know what it's like to come back from a run."
It's true. The Huskies have spent the last two seasons rolling over every opponent, waiting for a real challenge.
They got one against Baylor.
"This was the perfect scenario," Moore said. "First because we got the win when we needed it. We made just enough great plays to show that side of us — how good we can be. Keeps us humbled that we can't go for stretches like that where a team gets a (huge) run."
Though Moore was the star, freshman Bria Hartley who saved the Huskies after they wasted a 15-point lead early in the second half.
Moore shot an airball from the corner with 6 seconds left as the shot clock went off and Melissa Jones grabbed the rebound. Instead of giving the Lady Bears the ball on the side for a shot-clock violation, the officials let the game continue.
Having just used its last timeout, Baylor had no choice but to try to get to the basket. Odyssey Sims brought the ball up the court, but her 30-foot attempt was nowhere close.
"I think there's always something cool when you do something for the first time with a group of people," Auriemma said. "You know you don't have all the answers. For the last two years it's been, let's do that. Now it's not going to be like that."
After the game, Mulkey wondered about the final sequence.
"Was that a shot-clock violation?" she asked reporters. "Did anyone watch that?"
The Big East quickly answered her question.
"If the other team has the ball as the horn is going off, that's a possession. So there's no shot-clock violation," said Big East assistant commissioner Barb Jacobs, who is in charge of officiating.
Mulkey downplayed the result.
"Do you see us crying? Could we have won the game?" she said. "I learned I have a talented basketball team."


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CHICAGO -- Royals right-hander James Shields had a bat in his hand on Thursday morning and was headed for the batting cage at U.S. Cellular Field. Someone asked him if he was feeling "hitterish."
Shields just smiled.
"I'm feeling hitterish right now, because I'm going to the batting cage," Shields said. "I don't know if in the game I'm going to be feeling so hitterish."
Shields is one of three starting pitchers who'll be batting this weekend at Philadelphia, where the Royals' first Interleague series of the season will be played. With the new schedule prompted by Houston's move to the American League, the AL visits to National League parks are occurring throughout the season rather than in a midyear clump.
The other Royals' series at NL parks: April 16-17 at Atlanta; May 29-30 at St. Louis, and Aug. 2-3-4 at the New York Mets. In anticipation, manager Ned Yost had his pitchers, primarily the starters and long relievers, begin batting and bunting practice early in Spring Training.
"They'll be prepared, but it's not like being a National League pitcher where you're hitting every five days," Yost said. "So Shields might hit in three games of 162. So, benefits? I don't know. ... We've always been prepared -- it's not that we weren't prepared, but we started Interleague Play in June and six weeks out, we started batting practice. So this year we started maybe eight weeks out, so we're no more prepared than we've ever been in the past."
Wade Davis, who'll start on Friday in Philly's home opener, will get the first hacks.
"It's going to be cold, it's probably going to rain and I'll probably be in the back corner of the box, trying to work a five-pitch at-bat without swinging," Davis said with slight grin. "Hopefully, avoid swinging at all."
Davis, though, has a different take on the benefits of pitchers' batting practice: "It helps us become a more complete player and understanding the game. I've always enjoyed hitting, not necessarily because I enjoyed swinging the bat, but understanding why my hands couldn't hit certain pitches and stuff like that helps you understand your opponents' swings -- why they work one way and why they can't hit certain pitches."
Luis Mendoza will start Saturday night and had the benefit of a couple of at-bats in a Cactus League game.
"It's been better than last year. I've been more confident at the plate," Mendoza said. "The two at-bats I had when we faced Milwaukee gave me kind of an idea how it's going to feel. Last year, I got two at-bats and felt like I hadn't hit in 10 years so it was weird. But now we start early in the spring practicing hitting and that gives you more confidence."
Shields has the prospect of facing Phillies left-hander Cole Hamels on Sunday and remembered, correctly, that he's 1-for-2 against him. That came on June 16, 2006, at Philly, when Shields not only pitched Tampa Bay to a 10-4 win, but went 2-for-3 at the plate.
"That was when I was 24 years old and young," Shields said.
In his career at the plate, Shields is 7-for-37 (.189). We'll see how "hitterish" he is on Sunday.


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Not everyone deserves a second chance, but most of the characters on "American Horror Story" didn't belong in the Briarcliff Manor asylum in the first place.
For those who survived the torturous evil of Dr. Arden, demon Mary Eunice and Dr. Oliver Thredson, this week's episode was about redemption and starting life anew.
That is, except for Pepper. The little bald mutant gets sentenced to steaming bath therapy in what might be her last appearance. And Sister Jude, who will have plenty of time to diddle herself with cucumbers now that all her friends are gone.
But for everyone else, vengeance is sweet.
Mother Claudia releases Lana from the asylum and gives Ms. Winters "documentation of every foul thing" that was done to her at Briarcliff. Now Lana can write her tell-all book, the one that cost her a lover and brought her an illegitimate child.
Together, Mother Claudia and Lana share their desire to take down Briarcliff.
"I want it pulled down and the Earth salted," says the nun.
As Lana takes off in a cab, Thredson observes her riding away, middle finger pressed against the window and the confession tape sealed and ready to be sent to the authorities.
But Lana isn't happy with just her freedom. Her first stop after Briarcliff Manor is Thredson's house, where she plans to wait for the cops.
"I am the one who's going to put your ass in the electric chair," she tells the doctor.
Knowing Thredson, he would probably get a sexual thrill from that.
The doctor doesn't seem too rattled by Lana's threat. He laughs at the thought of being ruled insane.
"I have no use for you anymore," Thredson says as he reaches for a gun. "At best, you should be known as my last victim."
Instead Lana makes Thredson her victim by blowing a hole through his head. This is no country for paroled men. Lana wasn't going to allow Thredson the chance to ever be free again.
Unfinished business
Before leaving the asylum, Lana thanks Sister Jude and says, "I'm coming back for you Jude. I won't leave you here."
Lana tries to make good on that promise by entering Briarcliff with police backup and a warrant but Monsignor Timothy Howard is uncooperative.
"She's dead," he tells the police. In what he calls "the saddest day of my life," the monsignor says Jude hung herself.
"You murdered her," Lana proclaims. "You might as well have tied the noose yourself."
Lana and the police leave without Jude, who is cremated according to the monsignor. But we know that Jude is really being stored in solitary confinement for an argument she had with Timothy Howard in which she said, "I am more sane now as a mad woman than I ever was as the head of Briarcliff."
If her definition of sane is spacing out and daydreaming about dancing with mental patients then I'd agree.
Lana sees a doctor to have an abortion, but as we already know from seeing Bloody Face II talk about skinning cats, she has a change of heart.
"I can't," she says. "No more death."
Lana gives birth to the son of Bloody Face and still wants nothing to do with the killer's offspring.
Bring it on home
Grace gives birth to a baby boy and the child is promptly taken away because Kit and Grace are deemed unfit as parents.
The nuns just might change their minds if they saw what an orphanage did to Thredson.
There is good news for Kit however. Once the confession tapes are leaked, the monsignor has no reason to hold Kit hostage for Bloody Face's crimes.
Kit is released and he bargains for Grace's freedom and custody of their child. Everything is roses and sunshine as the couple returns to Kit's old home. That is until Kit hears a startling noise and finds Alma sitting in the house with a baby of her own.
Maybe the aliens aren't physically harmful but they do have a cruel sense of humor.
Final thoughts
In light of their recent clash, it's safe to say Jude is no longer fantasizing herself unveiling her red undergarments to Monsignor Timothy Howard. Those thoughts are better kept locked away in her mind, along with the ones of her one night stands and hit and run accident.
We already know Bloody Face II is twisted from watching his dialogue with the psychiatrist, so the scenes with the prostitute seemed unnecessary. He solves his calcium deficiency and mommy issues by feeding on the breasts of call girl, but we didn't learn much that we didn't already know about his character.
Show creator Ryan Murphy likes to push the envelope with scenes that feature excessive violence or sexuality. Some of these scenes make the show unique and entertaining but some go too far.
Lana's first abortion attempt was one of those borderline weird moments. There was another one this episode that featured a flashback of Thredson in his necrophilia attempt on Lana's ex-lover Wendy. At least we can take solace in the fact that, as a dead man, Thredson has nothing else to skin, decapitate, or rape.
What to expect next episode
Sister Jude remains the monsignor's sole opposition, Lana benefits from her expose book sales and the grown-up Bloody Face Jr. wants to meet his mommy. The Angel of Death comes for Jude but she's not ready to die.
Not everyone deserves a second chance, but most of the characters on "American Horror Story" didn't belong in the Briarcliff Manor asylum in the first place.


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The Rev. Julian Pridgen raises the awareness that too much light, while illuminating, can also make one blind.
Quite often, in the language of intellectuals, light is compared to knowledge and innovation.
Our God given gifts and talents have ushered us into a world that barely existed in even the imaginations of our fore-parents.
On the one hand, we are privileged to live in what some say are the most exciting and wonderful days of all creation.
We are privileged to enjoy life and, what I consider, life more abundantly. We live in a great day � a time when it seems innovation and possibilities are limitless.
And if knowledge and innovation are true and accurate indicators of light, we are walking in a time of great light.
As we consider our capabilities, it seems as though there is nothing that we cannot do.
Aeronautics has taken us around the world; oceanographers have taken us underneath the world; and NASA has taken us out of the world.
The medical sciences are simply mind-boggling. Our bodies are treated like expensive automobiles, with delicate parts that can be inspected, removed, inserted, adjusted or repaired.
We can have a major surgery in the morning, be up walking by noon and discharged by supper.
Our human bodies can be scrubbed, buffed, sanded, massaged, made-up, opened-up, made-over, cracked, stretched, lightened, darkened, lifted, bypassed and much, much more.
My point: With our human power and abilities to do the almost supernatural, it gets hard to see that there is a God outside of our own implicit claimto be; a creator and sustainer of all living things.
As we live in a world that is so enlightened with human knowledge � human light � we should be aware that too much light can also make one blind.
So, the voice of the prophet inside of me wants to say that perhaps, in the midst of life, we are in death; and in the midst of great light, we find ourselves walking in darkness.
We live in communities full of people, yet plagued by loneliness. Collectively, we have more money than ever before, but are bankrupt inwardly. We have toys innumerable, yet find that authentic joy is a stranger. We have larger places of worship, but a fading faith in anything outside of self.
It seems the more we have the less we are, and the more enlightened we are the darker our lives ... except for those of us who use the scriptures as our lamp and guide.
We who find ourselves stumbling through dark times are reminded in the biblical story that God, the one who is the true light of knowledge and salvation, dwells in dark places.
The Jewish leader Nicodemus finds the Lord in the dark. And from the Hebrew scriptures the psalmist declares that the light of God�s salvation shines in the night, when he writes in Psalms 139:11-12, �If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.�
Thankfully, God dwells in dark places.
The Rev. Julian Pridgen is pastor of Saint Augustus AME Zion Church. Reach him at email@example.com.


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· The Themed Garden will feature 70 artists' impressions expressed through gardens, which will include a Fantasy Garden, a Children's Play Garden, a Maze and a Rock Garden;
· The Hanbang Medicinal Herb Centre will give visitors a hands-on experience of the power of plants that can be used to heal various ailments of modern living;
· The Arboretum, encompassing the Korean Garden, the Garden Tree Experience Centre and the Rhododendron Centre, will provide information as well as show-case horticultural systems and research that is being done on plant development and breeding;
· The International Wetlands Centre, which from the road, resembles a grassy hill, will focus on 'living ecology', telling the story through eco-tours and a green Theatre
· Suncheon Bay Lake, designed by world renowned architect and garden designer, Charles Jencks, will provide a focal point for the expo.
Connecting the Expo Site and Suncheon Bay, the first Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system in South Korea, will convey up to 6 people in driverless environmentally-friendly podcars. Spanning the Dong Cheon River, the Dream Bridge, made of recycled containers, displays 160,000 works of 'dream' art from children around the world.
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July 26, 2004
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Sunday, July 25
It is one of great joys of early summer to admire the abundant fresh fruits piled up and filling up a large corner of the produce section of the store. Several weeks back, there were huge piles of baskets of berries and cherries, which are now taken over by a variety of peaches, nectarine, and plums. I love them all, and I wish I could buy the whole fresh fruit section for myself to flatter the senses with their colorful beauty, sweet fragrance, and of course, juicy flesh.
When I went to one of supermarkets in my neighborhood last week, something attracted my attention; it was a huge pile of yellow peachy-looking fruits. I granced at the tag and it read mango peach. I had never seen them or heard of such a thing, but they sure had the color of bright yellow mango. As I was in a hurry that time, I didn't buy any of those.
And back in the same store a couple of days ago, I realized that I had gotten it all wrong; they were mango nectarine, NOT peach.
(Now I feel bad if someone have stumbled across this site and browsed the first couple of paragraphs without bothering to read all the way down to here, and got the same wrong "mango peach" idea like I had done...)
Either way, I like nectarine too, and I had never seen or heard of mango nectarine anyways, this time I got a few of them, along with a couple kinds of peaches.
Mango nectarines were relatively small compared to regular nectarine, and had flesh as bright yellow as their tender skin. Although reminding a bit of apricot, they tasted basically the same as regular nectarine. (*Place the mouse pointer over the pic to see the image of the fruit cut in the halves!)
Another first-time experience for me this time was doughnut peach. Yes, they were peaches, NOT nectarine. Apparently, they must have been named after how they look like... doughnuts, which I don't disagree. It was in a Boulder, CO shop where I first saw there funky peaches about a month ago, and it was a funny view of those small, fat wheels tightly lying around at a corner of the store.
But the other day when I was in yet another supermarket, a pile of the same chunky peaches were sold under the name of "Saturn peach". Saturn? They mean, Saturn's ring?? Hummm... If you try really hard, it might not be impossible to associate them with Saturn...
And then this time at the same store where I got the nectarines, the tag said "Saturn peach" but the stickers on individual peaches read "Jupiter peach". Jupiter... ring? Like Saturn? Hey, what's going on with the name of this peach??
I imagine that this peach might be a relatively new comer in the US market and it hasn't had its name established yet, thus causing a chaos in the peach-naming industry. Or what?
Names aside, the doughnut peaches (I prefer to call them this way) were ripe and juice-dripping delicious. They were basically the same as regular white peach, which is my favorite; as a fresh fruit the white peaches are definitely more common and popular than yellow kinds in Japan, although things look quite different here in the US. In Japan, yellow peach is more commonly seen canned in sugar syrup and available all year around, and I had never seen fresh yellow peach sold in the store up until quite recently. In that sense, it is a really precious experience to me to be able to find fresh yellow peach everywhere here... I have a couple of plan to work on those fresh peaches while they are still here!
11 comments:
- Santos said...
*wow*. that mango nectarine is one crazy customer.
i vote for space peach.
- 5:52 PM, July 26, 2004
- Reid said...
Hi Chika,
We don't have the mango nectarine here yet. I wonder why! I have eaten the Saturn peaches, as they are known here, and they are very much like white peaches although I think the white peach has a bit more sweetness to it. =)
- 7:27 PM, July 26, 2004
- Cathy said...
Hi Chika - Reid pointed me in this direction because I just did a similar post about Honeydew Nectarines! They weren't very good - but it was fun to try them.
- 3:34 PM, July 27, 2004
- chika said...
Hi there,
Santos - hm, space peach is a more neutral name, for sure!
Reid - gosh, I haven't had a "good" white peach yet over here... have you ever had white nectarine? A friend of mine told me that they are more like "white peach" commonly available in Japan and I'm just curious...
Cai - sorry your Honeydew Nectarines were terrible... I should better have honeydew melon and nectarine separately!
- 2:20 AM, July 28, 2004
- Estelle said...
I discovered the mango nectarines this summer, too. They are very good but unfortunately cost a fortune: about $4 a pound, which means that the price of each nectarine is $1. Oups. That is expensive!
I tried the doughnut peaches in Turkey, last summer, they are as cute as good!
- 3:27 AM, July 28, 2004
- chika said...
Hi Estelle,
Yeah those guys (gals?) cost quite a bit - I checked the receipt and found out that the mango nectarines cost about the same, a little less. but the doughnuts peaches were like $5/lb! I got two for $3.3 or something... mmm... but the most expensive peaches I've ever seen (NOT bought) were ones at a high-end fruits shop in Tokyo. One large (reall large), beautiful white peach would cost like $10. Just one! Can you believe that??
- 2:56 PM, July 30, 2004
- Reid said...
Hi Chika,
No I haven't had a white nectarine before. I wonder what that's like. I just recently had some delicious Ranier cherries which I got in Chinatown for $2 a pound. They were a steal and so good!
- 2:18 AM, July 31, 2004
- chika said...
Hi Reid,
I just got some white nectarine. They don't seem to be ripe yet, but I'll report once they're ready and I have tried some. And cherries... I saw some in the store, too... I should try some before they're gone!
- 3:04 PM, August 01, 2004
i got 55 different fruit trees planted in my back yard but no saturn peaches nor that mango nectarine
will look to see if i can find one to plant
oh i have tried white peaches and white nectarines
they are much sweeter..but not that expensive
where are u buying them..wow anyting over 2bucks usa per pound is way too much.
normally price is about 1.50 to 1.75 per pound
but on sale they go as low as 45 cents per pound
Posted by myardor
- 3:12 PM, February 22, 2005
I'm not sure if anyone is still going to read this blog, as it looks like the last posts were almost one year ago.
I work for a company that sells the doughnut peach - and recently we found out that we can no longer sell the peach under that name as it is trademarked.
That said, we have to come up with a new name for it (a small challenge ; ). We've been brainstorming internally, and have come up with the following ideas:
1. Button Peach
2. Puffin Peach3. Pillow Peach4. Pudgy PeachWhat do you guys think? I would be very interested to hear your thoughts.
Posted by vertrebr
- 10:51 AM, March 08, 2005
"Donut" peach and "Stark Saturn" (unfortunately there is another "Saturn" peach that is not flat) are synonyms for a type of peach grown for hundreds of years in China.
There is a flat yellow peach called "Sweet Bagel" as well.
Another, bigger variety of flat white peach is "Jupiter", which is a proprietary variety name.
An even newer one, that is again white and larger than "Donut" is called "Galaxy".
There are lots of varieties of peaches, and they keep getting better.
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1 box of penne
1 jar of marinara sauce
1 jar of a quality Alfredo sauce - I have found that all Alfredo sauce is not created equal. Skip the value brands and go for a good quality sauce. I like new the Newmans brand.
2 cups of mozzarella cheese-divided
Parmesan to top
Cook the pasta as directed on the box. In a large bowl mix marinara and alfredo, add the hot pasta and combine. Add 1.5 cups of cheese and stir it until the cheese is evenly distributed. Pour into a 9X13 baking dish and top with the remaining cheese and grated Parmesan. Bake at 350 until the cheese is melted and bubbly, maybe 20-30 minutes but I really don't know the exact. I just watch it.
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Note: Another day, another round of X-Men redesigns! This time out, Toks Solarin returns with a militaristic take on Marvel's merry mutants. The original five are here, strapped, locked and loaded to take on threats to mutantkind. The longtime X-Men fan in me subconsciously posits that this looks like an X-Men team organized by Cable rather than Professor X, but Toks has his own impetus for each character's design which we've shared below. The one that stands out to me most is the Iceman, which follows along with Drake's recently revitalization in Uncanny X-Force and Wolverine & The X-Men as a more offensive attacker. – Chris A.
When ever I think of Cyclops I always think of Jim Lee's version so the current version looks weird to me, it's not bad it just doesn't feel like cyclops to me. This is what came out when I set about designing my own version of the x-men team leader. Scott seems like the type of guy that would take his role as leader very seriously. The X-Men find themselves fighting for their lives almost daily and as a result I think Scott would study military tactics and deployment and so I made his uniform reflect that. I tried to stick to the blue and yellow colour scheme where I could, I gave him a flak jacket providing protection for his vital organs and made his suit a bit more protection based in general. I gave him a utility belt of sorts as the X teams are often deployed all over the world and the belt gives him the ability to carry medicine, food, water, communications, tracking devices and many more helpful items, which would prove indispensable on missions.
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Jean is the communications specialists. Linking the teams minds allows for tactics and intel to be shared instantaneously which gives them a huge tactical advantage in battle. The ability to control minds comes in handy when extracting information from an enemy combatant and the telekinesis is a great offensive weapon. (on a side note, Jean carries steel ball bearings with her so if there is nothing else she can use in battle she can project them like bullets.)
Hank is the Tech officer on the team and with an IQ off the charts there isn't much he can't understand or build. He's also the team member that is most suited to stealth missions. With his augmented abilities (which came at a cost.) there isn't a place on earth Beast can't infiltrate. Violence doesn't come naturally to Hank, but he believes in the x-mens cause and is fully prepared to defend it. Beast will never start a fight but you can be certain he will finish it.
Bobby Drake is the powerhouse of the team. With almost limitless power at his command Iceman is able to fight in many different ways but his favorite is as a giant ice golem, which enables him to go toe to toe with some of the most powerful beings on the planet.
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Tubman's great-great-great-grand-nephew, Charles E.T. Ross, and Tubman's great-great-grand-niece, Valery Ross Manokey, were present at the Washington wax museum Tuesday to see the statue join a collection of historical figures.
The museum says it added the Tubman likeness in honor of Black History Month. It already has wax figures of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and others.
Tubman was born into slavery on Maryland's Eastern Shore. After escaping in 1849, the abolitionist led countless slaves from the South to freedom along the Underground Railroad.
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Hey guys. Another work week winds down. Where did the time go? Well, I say the weekend is a perfect time for a tropically inspired treat. Especially for my peeps who are in the dead of winter right now, sometimes it's fun to take our tastebuds and our minds on a mental vacation from the cold outside.
We've talked on here about how, even in the dead of winter, I sometimes enjoy cold treats. Yes, I know some people find that weird. Oh well, too bad. 😉 I'm just glad this quirk allows me to enjoy smoothies 12 months out of the year.
Recently, I had an amazing smoothie from a place in Manhattan, Juice Generation. I often hit this spot after Yoga class. It was a coconut-acai based smoothie. Problem was, they used a soy-coconut milk blend. I didn't realize this until it was too late. I still chugged it, and it was delicious. I resolved right then and there to reverse-engineer their recipe at home, and to make it without soy milk. Not only would this keep me from drinking soy milk, making the smoothie at home would be easier on my wallet as well.
(I avoid soy whenever possible, for many reasons. For one, it's generally bloating. Yes, bloating. NO THANKS! Other reasons–Watch Food Inc., and you'll get what I'm saying.)
As fortune would have it, my local health food store had frozen packets of Sambazon Acai on sale that week. So I bought some, along with some coconut milk that was on sale as well. Love it when the stuff I covet is on sale. It's like the universe conspiring to help.
My very first attempt at reverse-engineering the recipe was, miraculously, on point. I enjoyed the smoothie and mentally filed the recipe to drink and post another day. Then a few weeks later, my friend Kim Snyder featured a Skin Plumping Smoothie on her blog. It had very similar ingredients AND used avocado. (Funny story–Kim was filming a TV appearance and was asked to come up with a smoothie at the last minute. The Skin Plumping Smoothie is what she came up with. Brilliant!)
Do you guys ever find that you're often on the same wavelength with family and friends, even if you haven't spoken or communicated about specific things? For example, Kim and I were both thinking of combining similar ingredients in our respective smoothies. And with my Yoga crew, I often notice that we're teaching or working on the same asana combinations and transitions, even without having consulted one another or even taken one another's classes.
This sort of cosmic connection shows how together we can be stronger and even more creative. So I took inspiration from Kim, and added avocado to my Coco Acai smoothie the next time I made it. It was even better. By the way, I love how avocado is so versatile–the way it has its own distinct flavor but can also meld seamlessly into other dishes.
Ok, so real quick, why is this skin so nourishing, smoothing, and yes, plumping to the skin? The info that follows is quoted from Kim:
- Frozen Acai: (Found the in frozen section of health food stores big and small). This stuff is loaded with antioxidants and Omega fatty acids that plump and nourish the skin, as well as fiber.
- Coconut Water: Coconut water is one of the best hydrators because it has the same electrolyte balance as human blood. Some countries even use it for plasma transfusions. It is also full of potassium, which facilitates cellular cleansing.
- Fresh Avocado: Raw beauty fat that digests easily, and is full of beauty minerals and fiber.
So let's put these nutritional powerhouses, plus a few more ingredients, together for a tropical treat that's healthy, nourishing, and beautifying. Not bad for something you can garnish with a cocktail umbrella!
Smooth Your Skin Coconut Acai Smoothie
1 Cup coconut water
1 Cup coconut milk (I used unsweetened So Delicious brand; find in the milk section of your health food store or perhaps the regular grocery store)
1 banana
1/2 avocado
1 100 gram packet frozen acai (I used Sambazon brand)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Optional: powdered stevia (to taste)
4-8 Ice cubes
1. Combine ice cubes, frozen acai, and half of the liquids and blend. Add in the rest of the (non liquid) ingredients and blend again. Slowly add in the rest of the liquid to achieve the desired thickness of your smoothie and blend again. Taste for sweetness. Add in vanilla extract, more liquid if desired, and Stevia (if using) and give it one final blend to incorporate all ingredients.
2. Garnish with a decorative drink umbrella (optional) and enjoy!


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Area residents are invited to submit written or visual entries that describe your experiences on, memories of, and ties to our public lands. These could include personal essays, poetry, photographs, artwork, or other information that is written or visual.
The Redd Center will give cash prizes for the best entries. Judging will be in three age categories: children, young adults, and adults.
The Redd Center will post selected entries on a San Juan County Story Contest webpage at www.SanJuanCountyStoryContest.org
The general question that the Redd Center would like writers to consider is: Describe an experience you had on the public lands in San Juan County.
Some questions that may help prime your memory are:
• Tell us about your parent's, yours, and your children's best memories on the public lands.
• Tell how those experiences have changed from generation to generation.
• How do you hope the public lands will look 50 or 100 years from now?
There will be two general categories, written and visual. Depending on the number of entries received, the written category might be broken into subgroups, such as poetry, history, personal essay, etc.
The subcategories for visual are artwork and photographs.
Age Groups are Children (8-12), Young Adults (13-17) and Adults (18+).
Prizes for Children are $20 for first place, $10 for second place, and $5 for third place.
Prizes for Young Adults are $50 for first place, $30 for second place and $20 for third place.
Prizes for Adults are $100 for first place, $50 for second place and $30 for third place.
The grand prize is $300.
Writing entries should be no more than 1,000 words.
One entry per person.
Submissions can be made electronically on the webpage, www.SanJuanCountyStoryContest.org; via email, email@example.com; or by snail mail to San Juan County Story Contest, Charles Redd Center, 366 SWKT, BYU, Provo, UT 84602. Artists should submit photograph of their submission. No submissions will be returned to authors.
Copies of all submissions will be archived in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections at Brigham Young University and in San Juan County libraries and schools.
Applicants will be required to sign a consent to archive and publish form. The applicants will maintain copyright of the work.
Submissions may be made between January 31 and March 15, 2013.
Awards will be announced on or before Aprl 15, 2013.
All submissions will be notified that their information has been received via email if possible or via snail mail. All submitters will receive a list of winners.
Please refer questions to Jessie Louise Embry at email@example.com; 801-422-7575; or Redd Center, 366 SWKT, BYU, Provo, UT 84602.


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I had the chance to attend one of my favorite conferences last week, albeit not my favorite location (Vegas). The Gartner Datacenter Conference is the world's longest-running datacenter conference at over 30 years of age. It brings together top analysts and research, vendors, and guest speakers to help IT decision makers understand where this industry… Read more


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Adult Swim is adapting online comedy series "Children's Hospital," created by and starring Rob Corddry, for air on the cabler beginning July 11.
Web series premiered on TheWB.com in 2008 and earned Webby Award recognition for its parodies of primetime medical dramas like "Grey's Anatomy" and "House." Malin Akerman, Lake Bell, Erinn Hayes, Rob Huebel, Ken Marino, Megan Mullally and Henry Winkler are among the regular cast.
Online segments of "Children's Hospital" run about five minutes; Adult Swim will launch its broadcasts of the series by pairing two of those segments once a week for five weeks. On Aug. 22 it will begin offering 12 newly produced, made-for-TV 10-minute episodes.
Series has a lengthy guest cast list including Ed Begley Jr., Lizzy Caplan, John Cho, Rachael Harris, Ernie Hudson, Kerri Kenney-Silver, Nick Kroll, Nick Offerman, Marion Ross, Will Sasso and Kurtwood Smith.
Corddry exec produces with Jonathan Stern and David Wain (director of "Role Models" and "Wet Hot American Summer"). Warner Bros. TV is the distributor.


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When it comes to planning for retirement, the questions you ask today have a huge impact on your future.
That's because your questions determine where your focus is. In my experience, people often overlook the most important questions and that can be really costly. In order to make sure that doesn't happen to you, I've compiled the 7 crucial questions people have to ask themselves when planning their retirement:
1. Do I really ever want to retire?
Depending on what kind of work you do and your health, you may have no choice one day but to trade in your grindstone for a gold watch. But even if you can retire, you may not want to. And you may not have to. I have seen scores of people retire and over 60% go back to work doing something for which they get paid – because they want to.
According to the Cornell Retirement and Well-Being Study, 44% of us who officially retire, go back to work for some period of time. 89% of us want to stay active and an amazing 83% of baby boomers say they'll work after retirement. Almost a third of us say we'll work as long as our body will allow us to do so. Granted, the study was done 12 years ago but my experience tells me that more and more of us prefer to keep working if possible.
And just because you stay in the workforce doesn't mean you'll stay glued to the same desk. You might get sick of your profession or particular job. But odds are you won't get sick of making a little money. That being the case, it may not be unreasonable to figure in some side income from work even after you retire.
2. How long will I live?
This is a tough question to answer of course. But in order to plan for retirement, you should assume you are going to live to be 90 years old at the very least. If you are 70 today, the guys with the sharp pencils in the big offices at the insurances companies figure you'll make it to 84 if you are male and 87 if you are female. If you are younger than 70, your life expectancy is less.
I suggest you exaggerate your life expectancy just to play it safe. Most people under estimate the number of years they expect to live and as a result fall short. You don't want to be 95 year old and have to work Flippy Burger do you? Plan to live a long time and you won't have to worry about it.
3. How much income am I really going to have? How much will I spend after I retire?
It's relatively easy to answer the first part of this question. Most people know what their future sources of retirement income are going to be. But not many people really understand what it's going to cost them to live in retirement.
In fact, very few people know what it costs them to live today let alone what it will cost them 10,20 or 30 years down the road. Until you have a clear picture of your current cost of living there is no way you can do any serious kind of retirement planning. This is the reason you really need to track your current spending starting now.
4. Do I have the best asset mix for creating enough income?
Many people don't have the best investment portfolio and as a result they have substandard income. They don't really know how to squeeze all that tasty income from the portfolio that they really could.
Scores of people are sitting on a potential avalanche of income but they don't realize it. They hold on to non-performing real estate and lack luster stocks for example. Then they lament their lack of income.
The best way to make sure you don't make this mistake is to reevaluate every investment you currently own. If you wouldn't buy it today, there is a good chance you shouldn't hold it either.
5. How much will I be able to help my children?
You love your children. I get it. So do I. But when is enough…enough? Sure it's harder for our kids than it was for us when we were younger. And if you can afford it, I'm a big fan of giving the youngsters a helping hand. Why not?
But keep in mind that you don't want to give away so much that you become a burden to your children later on. Always maintain sufficient assets and income to protect yourself first. You must know how much you can afford to help your children and when to say "no". The only way to do this is to run your own personal financial plan and update it frequently.
6. Do I need to make any changes now in order to increase the likelihood of retirement success?
Based on all the questions you asked up until now, what changes do you have to make now? Do you have to start tracking your spending? Run a mini-financial plan? Reallocate your investment portfolio? What changes are you going to have to implement? When are you going to start? How?
7. Am I willing to do what is necessary to better secure my retirement?
This is the most important question there is. What I've provided you with up until now is knowledge. But knowledge that isn't applied is just about worthless. Make today the day you do yourself the greatest favor you possibly could. Make today the day you commit to identifying what needs to be changed and create an agenda so you know what you have to do and when you are going to do it. Share our plan with another human being and become accountable to her.
As you can see, the questions I've presented above aren't mysterious. They are common sense considerations. But people don't ask themselves these questions – I think because they are afraid of the answers.
Don't let fear stop you from doing what you know you can do to vastly improve your financial future. You don't need to hire anyone or buy any books to do most of this. You just need the commitment and willingness to get out of your comfort zone and do what it takes to create the future you want. Are you going to go for it? Starting when? What is your first step?


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Executive Director of Greenpeace International Kumi Naidoo interacting with Greenpeace volunteers during his visit at the Greenpeace India office. Image: Greenpeace / Sudhanshu Malhotra
On a recent visit to our Indian office – my first time there since I joined Greenpeace International last year – I found myself meeting with the leadership of many of the country's biggest information technology and telecommunications companies. The roundtable, organized by Greenpeace India, was a high-profile affair; India's Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry had clearly taken a keen interest in our question: how can the country's ICT sector continue to grow and, at the same time, lower its carbon emissions and set India on a path to a low carbon economy?
We invited ICT CEOs to meet with us because we wanted to better understand the industry's perspective. We wanted to understand the particular challenges that exist for ICT as part of the larger climate problem. We also wanted to talk about opportunities for companies to develop climate friendly policies and policies for energy efficiency. ICT companies must realize that the adoption of renewable energies could make "electricity for all" a reality.
India's ICT industry is in a very powerful position because the country's economic growth depends on the industry. That means that companies can play an important role in the development of the country by influencing government policy. When it comes to energy in India, the right kind of influence could go a very long way in our global fight against climate change.
Right now, energy demand in India greatly exceeds available supply; more than 400 million people are not even connected to the electrical grid. Furthermore, coal-fired power – one of the main drivers of climate change – supplies more than half of the country's energy. Clearly, change is called for if we want to steer the country towards a more sustainable future, powered by the sun, the wind and the natural forces of the earth, with fair energy access for all.
During our fascinating discussion we learned that some incentives are already in place to entice the industry to move to renewable energy sources. For example, the government offers a 30% subsidy to companies that power their telecom towers with solar energy. Several companies and banks have joined forces to provide solar power to poor villages currently without access to energy – for the same price of the kerosene villagers have been using to light their lamps. This was of course music to our ears.
But this discussion was only a first step. We need to start a real relationship from which to move forward and actively create ICT-based climate solutions. We need companies to make tangible commitments to cut their emissions and we need to see the industry use its influence to steer India towards a future based on renewable energy and increased energy efficiency.
India's ICT sector has revolutionised the country's economy. Together with civil society it now has the opportunity to assume a key role in revolutionising the country's energy sector – placing India firmly on a pathway to clean and sustainable development.
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Seishu Hanaoka (1760-1835)
Seishu Hanaoka was a Japanese physician who studied traditional Chinese and Japanese medicine, as well as European techniques. He specialised in breast cancer and pioneered the use of general anaesthetics in surgery.
While new and more effective anaesthetics were developed in the West around the middle of the 1800s, in Japan general anaesthetics were used as early as 1804. Hanaoka developed a formula based on traditional Chinese medicine. The active ingredients in the mixture were atropine and scopolamine, both of which are still used today.
Hanaoka performed his first surgery on a 60-year-old woman with breast cancer. Although she survived the operation, she died six months after her surgery. However, he continued to perform complex surgery, which was often successful. He also trained more than two thousand students throughout his career.
The events behind the development of the first general anaesthetic in Japan are portrayed in Sawako Ariyoshi's novel The Doctor's Wife.
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