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Plant Talk» Blog Archive » Jabuticaba: Fruit of a Different...

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:45:04 -0500

Plant Talk» Blog Archive » Jabuticaba: Fruit of a Different Sort- The official blog of The New York Botanical Garden
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I had never seen a tree sprouting fruit from its trunk before. It seemed absurd. Why all the effort to push out those long, sprawling branches? Why not fruit like an apple, or an orange? The Jabuticaba I came upon while trolling Tumblr stru…

Cauliflory: Theobroma, Jabuticaba, Jackfruit

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nybg: What’s shaped like a strawberry, looks like peppermint,...

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:14:00 -0500

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What’s shaped like a strawberry, looks like peppermint, and tastes like a pineapple? It’s a pineberry, naturally! Introduced to the U.K. market within the last couple of years, these shall we say…chromatically curious strawberries originate in South Africa, where Dutch farmers have been growing the previously wild variety in greenhouses.

Their availability in the U.S. is limited at the moment, but who knows? If The Telegraph is right about their growing popularity, we just might see them in the local supermarket as 2012 plays out. — MN

nybg: What’s shaped like a strawberry, looks like peppermint,...

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:13:50 -0500

nybg:

What’s shaped like a strawberry, looks like peppermint, and tastes like a pineapple? It’s a pineberry, naturally! Introduced to the U.K. market within the last couple of years, these shall we say…chromatically curious strawberries originate in South Africa, where Dutch farmers have been growing the previously wild variety in greenhouses.

Their availability in the U.S. is limited at the moment, but who knows? If The Telegraph is right about their growing popularity, we just might see them in the local supermarket as 2012 plays out. — MN

nybg: What’s shaped like a strawberry, looks like peppermint,...

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:13:40 -0500

nybg:

What’s shaped like a strawberry, looks like peppermint, and tastes like a pineapple? It’s a pineberry, naturally! Introduced to the U.K. market within the last couple of years, these shall we say…chromatically curious strawberries originate in South Africa, where Dutch farmers have been growing the previously wild variety in greenhouses.

Their availability in the U.S. is limited at the moment, but who knows? If The Telegraph is right about their growing popularity, we just might see them in the local supermarket as 2012 plays out. — MN

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Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:21:11 -0500

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dearcassandra:

All this shopping recently got me to thinking…

I always cringe a bit when I see things like this, especially when people outside of the industry see it. It makes the clothing industry look completely evil, but markups exist in EVERY business out there. Otherwise it’s not a business. I can make a graph about how many pennies it cost to produce the alcohol you’re paying $10.00 for at a bar, or how you theoretically are overcharging your consulting employer by 100% because you are not producing a physical product.

Please remember that markups exist so people like me and those that are working to produce these products can make a living. We to need to pay bills, buy food and pay people we employ.

I’m glad someone weighed in on this. Infographics like this can be way too misleading. I have a dog in this fight, so it’s hard to take my opinion as unbiased, but ‘markup’ is kind of a pejorative term. The idea that markups like this only exist in the fashion industry is ludicrous. Look at Apple.

How much should a designer get paid for designing something? How much would you want to get paid to sew the same thing over and over again for 5 days a week? What about the people who work in the warehouse, packing and shipping everything? They need to get paid, as do the drivers, the lawyer that helped right the terms of sale and return policies, etc., etc., etc. If you ordered the item online, what about the web developer, the credit card processor, bandwith fees, and domain name ownership?

Things like this just beg more questions than provide any real answers. Maybe a t-shirt should cost more than $6.70 to produce. What is a living wage? More importantly, what’s a wage that you would take for making something? Maybe t-shirts shouldn’t cost 15-20 dollars because it demonstrates that someone down the line isn’t getting paid fairly.

To be honest that “$6.70 a shirt” price is only going to keep going up. And not just because of inflation. And it should. The rising middle class in China and other developing countries aren’t going to swallow getting paid a few dollars on the hour for too much longer. It’s the same reason why we don’t manufacture things like this in the United States anymore - people want to get paid enough to not only survive, but enjoy their lives.

No one likes hearing justifications for things they find ‘overpriced’. But when’s the last time someone asked you how much your work is worth? Or questioned how much you get paid?

#knowledge

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Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:54:17 -0500

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Moon Hug by R.Gegen Noviara

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Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:50:08 -0500

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(by Colleen Wilcox)

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Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:49:08 -0500

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annamarie: Fancy Nails!!: Essie - Marshmallow Deborah Lippmann...

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:29:19 -0500

annamarie:

Fancy Nails!!:

Essie - Marshmallow

Deborah Lippmann - I Love The Nightlife

OPI - RapiDry Top Coat

1. Paint all the nails with two coats of Essie Marshmallow

2. Apply Deborah Lippmann I Love Nightlife to the base of the nail bad, loading it up with a lot of glitter. Using the edge of the brush lightly drag the polish/glitter up the nails.

3. Allow to dry

4. Apply OPI RapiDry TopCoat to the entire nail.