Sunday, July 05, 2009
Sunday, February 01, 2009
Gerbera illuminated with single flash.
Nerdy interests: Gebera jamesonii
Gerbera is a genus of the family of sunflowers, Daisies and Asters - Asteraceae, with a wide distribution from Africa to Madagascar, tropical Asia and South America. Through hybridization, Gerberas are available in a massive array of colors.
Kingdom
Plantae
Division
Magnoliophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Subfamily
Mutisioideae
Genus
Gerbera
Gerberas are perennial flowering plants featuring a large capitulum with striking, 2-lipped ray florets. The capitulum on the Gerberas has the appearance of a single flower, but is actually a closter of hundreds of individual flowers. The morphology of the flowers varies depending on their position in the capitulum of the Gerberas.
Facts About Gerberas
* Having a long vase life, Gerbera flowers are widely used in the Cut Flower Industry. Gerberas are great flowers for adding color to any room or garden.
* Gerberas are also referred to as Gerbera Daisies, daisy being a general name for all species in the family Asteraceae, to which Gerberas belong.
* Some species of Gerberas, such as Gerbera anandria, Gerbera aurantiaca and Gerbera jamesonii bear the suffix Daisy - Ghostly Daisy, Hilton Daisy, Barberton Daisy, Gerbera Daisy and Transvaal Daisy
* Gerbera flowers often measure 7 inches (17.8 cm) across.
* Gerberas come in a wide range of colors - from light to dark yellow, orange, pink, brilliant scarlet, deep red, and many more colors.
* Gerberas can be used in landscapes as bedding plants for borders and flower beds or as Cut Flowers for table arrangements.
* Gerberas are native to Transvaal, South Africa.
* Hybrid Gerbera varieties cloned through tissue culture are uniform, and have long-lasting flowers with thick peduncles that are not light sensitive; hence, flowers remain open in the dark, lending themselves to indoor use in flower arrangements.
Various Forms of Gerbera Flowers
Gerberas come in various forms. Broadly, they can be put into four groups-
* Single Flowers - These Gerberas have a row of non-overlapping petals (ray florets) with a green center (disc florets). These are the most common gerberas available in the market.
* Double or duplex - These Gerberas have a double row of overlapping petals with a green, black, or dark red eye.
* Crested doubles - These doubles contain two rows of overlapping petals with one or more inner rows of shorter petals with a green, black, or dark red eye.
* Full crested doubles - These have solid overlapping rows of petals with an inner row diminishing in size, covering the eye entirely.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
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Sunday, January 04, 2009
Monday, December 29, 2008
Christmas dinner report
The ACS (I) Boarding School has always strived to provide the best home-away-from-home experience for her boarders. In its essence, “Home” should conjure up images of a warm nurturing family environment. With this in mind, several special events in a year are celebrated to help make the boarding school experience so much more then just a place to stay. Christmas, embodies the spirit of caring, loving and sharing. It is no coincidence then that the annual Christmas celebration has always been one of the top four events here in the Boarding School.
Curiously taking place on the 17th of October 2008, a full two months before the actual day, it was therefore to be expected that there was no Christmas spirit in the air. Even moments before the event opened, there were many boarders looking skeptical about the whole event, bemused even at the prospect that somehow, by some magic, that this plainest of plain evenings was to become a blaze of light, filled with Christmas cheer and song. Sheepish looks jumped from boarder to boarder with eyes flirting towards the more adventurous, already decked out in Christmas themed clothes and red elfish fur caps.
What an evening it turned out to be! Whatever initial skepticism the boarders had, soon melted away with the sumptuous spread that was laid out for everyone. It was a time to eat, drink and be merry! Both staff and students sat shoulder to shoulder together in the joint appreciation of the feast. Young boarders conversed happily with their seniors and the seniors talked to their teacher mentors as old friends. Truly, all barriers were broken between age and rank.
Next came the performances put up by our very own JCRC committee, students as well as some guest items by the staff. Each item was met with ever increasing enthusiastic applause by everyone present. When the time came for the boarders to sing Christmas carols in union, those initial few sheepish looks at those better dressed soon turned to good natured envy with everyone wanting to have a go at wearing their own elfish cap.
With all the celebrations on ongoing, Dr Ong, Chief Warden of the Boarding School, also took the opportunity to thank the hardworking custodians as well as announce the winner of the ACS(I) Boarding School Sports Challenge Shield donated by Dr Lee Li Eng (Hall 7.) On reflective note, Pastor Reverend Kenneth Huang gave his heartwarming Christmas address, reminding everyone of the more spiritual aspects of Christmas.
To end the evening with a bang, came Santa Claus himself! All dressed in his red robe, bellowing “Ho Ho HO!” whilst dragging his sack of gifts to the children present that evening. Truly, the Spirit of Christmas must have come down that evening as everyone left with warm smiles on their faces.
It so murky going ahead...
From the POEMS daily report:
As the U.S. stock market heads into the last week of the year, what was inconceivable just 12 months ago is now a stark possibility: 2008 could be the worst year ever for Wall Street.
The U.S. market's most tracked benchmark, the S&P 500, is down 40.6 percent since last year's close with only three trading days left in 2008. Given the market's hair-trigger volatility this year, that's just one bad day away from surpassing 1931's 47.1 percent drop, the biggest yearly decline ever. As it is, the market's swoon this year will cement 2008's place in history by at least one measure: eviscerated
wealth. A record $7.3 trillion of stock market value has been obliterated this year, according to the Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 index, the broadest measure of U.S. equity performance.
Investors ran for the exits this year as a collapse originally thought to be contained to the U.S. home mortgage sector morphed into a full-blown global credit crisis that now threatens global recession.
The fallout from frozen credit markets permeated all sectors from banks to autos to resources, while unemployment climbed, house prices plummeted and cash-strapped consumers curtailed their spending.
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