I was sitting next to my gastroenterology clinic nurse reviewing a couple of patient phone calls and what they needed, so my assigned nurse could take care of them. As we were finishing up the last patient contact, when in walked the clinic nurse manager, Kate.
Peripheral vascular disease, is a disease of the lower limbs where they have atheroslerotic plaques within the blood vessels. Peripheral vascular disease is very similar to coronary artery disease, where there is plaque formations in the coronary arteries. As just like in the coronary arteries, which have plaque formations with patient's having angina (chest pain) due to not enough blood flow being presented to the heart muscle, the same thing happens in the legs. The plaque formations prevent an adequate amount of blood flow from getting to the legs/muscles. When this happens patients end up with leg pain.
The risk factors for peripheral vascular disease include: 1) hypertension, 2) hypercholesterolemia (high levels of blood lipids or fats), 3) history of smoking, 4) diabetes.
Most patients also have a family history of cardiac disease, which Kate's family had.
Patients can present to their clinician with symptoms (as in Kate's case) or be asymptomatic. 20-50% of patients will be asymptomatic, 40-50% of patients will have atypical leg pain, 10-35% will have classic claudication symptoms, and 1-2% will have critical limb ischemia (totally impaired lack of blood flow).
I didn't follow-up with Kate for several weeks, due to a busy clinic seeing patients. One day in clinic I was sitting at my clinic nurse's desk, signing some prescriptions for patients that needed to be faxed off. Kate just happened to walk by my clinic nurse's desk and I called out her name.
Kate turned around and seeing that there wasn't anyone else in my clinic nurse's office, she walked in and sat down.
Prevalence of peripheral vascular disease increases with age. For those over age 50 the prevalence is 2.5% in the general population, for those over age 60 the prevalence is 4.7%, and for those over age 70 the prevalence is 14.5%.
A quick and easy way to determine whether a person has peripheral vascular disease is to do take a blood pressure reading of the patient's ankle vs. their brachial artery. The two systolic pressures are compared. If the pressures are the same, i.e. comparison is 1 to 1, then this is considered a normal test. If the pressures are different, i.e. less than 1 to 1, ankle systolic pressure less than the brachial pressure, <.9 then this is considered a positive test and the patient most likely has peripheral vascular disease.
Patients are treated for peripheral vascular disease based on how extensive the plaque formations are. Type A formations usually show only a single formation. Type B is multiple plaques. Type C is multiple, long lesions. Finally, Type D is lesions which are 20 cms or longer. Based on the type of lesions patients have they receive either medical intervention (balloon angioplasty, stent placements) or surgical intervention (arterial bypass, i.e. some type Cs and all type Ds).


Last night, apparently, was a riot. People in the office can't talk about anything else – how they drank "loads" and that they "Can't believe you did that!"
Well done. You're a real record breaker! One in a million. Back in the day I'd have drunk you under the table, you little smug millennial!
They may think I am over the hill, boring and a waste of space, but I reckon I still have my uses.
Here's why every PR office needs an old fart like me.
1. The voice of reason. I'm not interested in the political or hyped up nonsense of agency world, I care about the truth, good work and to be fair - making money!
2. Work is not a fashion show. I no longer feel the urge to follow the latest fashions, and boy, what a relief it is to wear nice jumpers and comfortable shoes. The youngsters in this office may sneer at my nondescript fashion choices, but I think over-trendy people are scary.
3. Working hours are not a competition. People who have been in this game for a few years know that it's pointless to work long hours. You can only be productive if you aren't tired. By running out of the door at 5.30pm I am setting everyone a good example. And sometimes I don't even scream as I make my mad dash for the door.
5. Coffee counts. Why do young people drink the instant stuff? Thanks to me, the office kitchen is well stocked with decent, fresh ground coffee.


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The parylene polymers are deposited from the vapor phase by a process which in some respects resembles vacuum metalizing. Unlike vacuum metalization, however, which is conducted at pressures of 10-5 torr or below, the parylenes are formed at around 0.1 torr. Under these conditions the mean free path of the gas molecules in the deposition chamber is in the order of 0.1 cm. Therefore, unlike vacuum metalizing, the deposition is not line-of-sight and all sides of an object to be encapsulated are uniformly impinged by the gaseous monomer. This is responsible for the truly conformal nature of the coating. The process consists of three distinct steps as shown in Figure 2.
In contrast to parylene, the thickness of liquid coatings is related to viscosity, working temperature/humidity, and application process (spray or dip), and can only be controlled to a tolerance of approximately +/- 50% of final thickness.


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Princess Sophie of the Netherlands (Wilhelmine Marie Sophie Louise; 8 April 1824 – 23 March 1897) was the only daughter and last surviving child of King William II of the Netherlands and of his wife Grand Duchess Anna Pavlovna of Russia. She was heir presumptive to her niece, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, for seven years, from the death of her brother until her own death.

Marriage and children
Princess Sophie married her first cousin, Charles Alexander, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, at Kneuterdijk Palace in The Hague on 8 October 1842. Their mothers were sisters, and daughters of Tsar Paul I of Russia.

They had four children:
Karl August, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (b. Weimar, 31 July 1844 – d. Cap Martin, France, 20 November 1894), who married Princess Pauline of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.
Princess Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (b. Weimar, 20 January 1849 – d. Trebschen, 6 May 1922), who married Prince Heinrich VII Reuss.
 Maria Anna Sophia Elisabeth Bernhardine Ida Auguste Helene  of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (b. Weimar, 29 March 1851 – d. Weimar, 26 April 1859)
 Princess Elisabeth Sybille of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (b. Weimar, 28 February 1854 – d. Wiligrad, 10 July 1908), who married Duke Johann Albrecht of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

Catherine Radziwill, a contemporary of Sophie's, commented that,

"...[Sophie] was very different from her husband, and, though extremely ugly, was a most imposing Princess. She was clever, too, and upheld the reputation of the Weimar family. She was a Princess of the Netherlands by birth...and kept and maintained at her court the traditions in which she had been reared. Notwithstanding her want of beauty, moreover, she presented a splendid figure, being always magnificently dressed and covered with wonderful jewels, among which shone a parure of rubies and diamonds that were supposed to be the finest of their kind in Europe".

Ancestry

References

Sources

External links
 Royal House of the Netherlands

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1824 births
1897 deaths
House of Orange-Nassau
House of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Nobility from The Hague
Heirs presumptive to the Dutch throne
Hereditary Grand Duchesses of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Grand Duchesses of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Princesses of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Princesses of Orange-Nassau
Daughters of kings
Non-inheriting heirs presumptive

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He probed the wound with his finger. 彼は傷口を指で探ってみた.
probe a person's feelings 人の感情を探ってみる.
probe into the cause of a crime 犯罪の原因を探究する.
The police are probing the details of the case.
((正式))[通例 a 〜]〔…の〕(徹底的な)調査, 精査〔into〕《◆investigation, examination に代る新聞見出し語》.
〔…を/…で〕精密に調べる, 探りを入れる〔into, in, for, at / with〕.
He didn't like the media probing into his past.
A process that checks that a memory-address range is in user-mode address space and that the range can be read or written in the context of the current process.
Electron energy-loss spectroscopy is a powerful method to probe chemical bonding states and electronic structures in a wide range of materials at the nanometer scale.
TEM-SPM is used to probe electrical and mechanical properties of materials in situ.
For verb: borrowed from Latin probare ("to test, examine, prove"), from probus ("good").
For noun: borrowed from Late Latin proba ("a proof"), from probare ("to test, examine, prove"); Doublet of proof. Compare Spanish tienta ("a surgeon's probe"), from tentar ("try, test"); see tempt.
They launched a probe into the cause of the accident.
Insert the probe into the soil and read the temperature.
If you probe further, you may discover different reasons.
(transitive) To insert a probe into.
probe in Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
probe in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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Home Biafra Nigeria Press Release WHY JUSTICE BINTA MURTALA-NYAKO MUST DISMISS COUNTS #1, #2, #4, & #8 ON THE CHARGES AGAINST NNAMDI KANU
Press Release WHY JUSTICE BINTA MURTALA-NYAKO MUST DISMISS COUNTS #1, #2, #4, & #8 ON THE CHARGES AGAINST NNAMDI KANU
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WHY JUSTICE BINTA MURTALA-NYAKO MUST DISMISS COUNTS #1, #2, #4, & #8 ON THE CHARGES AGAINST NNAMDI KANU AND THE OTHER THREE BIAFRANS The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) assert that Justice Binta Murtala-Nyako must dismiss counts #1, #2, #4, and #8 on the charges brought against the leader of IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, and the other three Biafrans. In her ruling on March 1, 2017, Justice Binta Murtala-Nyako dismissed six counts namely #3, #5, #7, #9, #10, and #11 while sustaining five counts which are #1, #2, #4, #6, and #8. As IPOB prepares for a full trial on count #6, we hereby demand that the remaining four counts be dismissed on the grounds of fraud/perjury, false claim/identity, and for conflicts with relevant sections of CAP-C38 and ACJA-2015.
Counts #1, #2, and #8 must be dismissed because the charges do not conform with Section-196(1) and Second Schedule of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act of 2015 (ACJA-2015). The cited section and schedule in the ACJA require that every charge must include the date, year, and location of the commission of the offence for which the accused is being charged. When it comes to the specificity of time of the commission of an offence, there is no provision for the term "Diverse Dates" either in Section-196(1) or in Second Schedule of ACJA-2015.
Secondly, Section-43 of CAP-C38 requires that an accused person is no longer triable for treason and related felonies after two years from the stated date of commission of the offence. It is because of this same Section-43 that, today, Muhammadu Buhari is not being tried for treason which he committed on December 31, 1983. Without a specific date of commission of the offence, how then can the prosecution prove that two years have not elapsed as at the time of commencement of this case in Binta's court? In addition to dismissing these three counts, we urge Justice Binta Murtala–Nyako to indict, convict, and jail the prosecution for committing a crime punishable under Section-118 of CAP-C38.
On the 29th of May, 2015, Retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari was sworn-in as the President of Nigeria which includes the occupied territories of Biafraland. Count #4 stated that Buhari, as the President of Nigeria, was defamed by Nnamdi Kanu on the 28th of April 2015. This is not only a false claim on the status of Buhari as at April 28, 2015, it is also a case of perjury, and the prosecution must be indicted and convicted of committing a crime as specified in Section-117 of CAP-C38. We also categorically state that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu could not have referred to Buhari as the President of Nigeria as at April 28, 2015.
We warn Justice Binta Murtala–Nyako that should she refuse to dismiss count #4, we shall base our argument for the continuation of the charge on Section-379(5) of CAP-C38 and the court must grant us our rights to subpoena everyone that will be linked to the charge in line with our argument. Based on the evidence we have and those to be subpoenaed, we foresee a scandalous embarrassment to the person of Buhari, his wife Aisha and her children, and the entire Nigerian political establishment if Justice Binta Murtala-Nyako chooses not to dismiss this charge of defamation (count #4).
In conclusion, IPOB is demanding that Justice Binta Murtala-Nyako dismisses four out of the five remaining charges because they are based on fraud, false claims, and are in conflict with the relevant sections of CAP-C38 and ACJA-2015. Also, the prosecution should be tried and convicted on Section-117 of CAP-C38. Failing to dismiss these four charges will spell doom for the Judiciary in Nigeria and will result in monumental embarrassment on Buhari and his family in particular and the Nigerian government in general. The facts and evidence in our possession are overwhelming and may not be palatable to Justice Binta Murtala-Nyako, the prosecution, and the Buhari family. A stitch in time saves nine!!! Signed Barrister Emma Nmezu Dr. Clifford Chukwuemeka Iroanya Spokespersons for IPOB
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Q: TypeError: can only concatenate tuple (not "int") to tuple - no sum() I got this error TypeError: can only concatenate tuple (not "int") to tuple for the part of my code which is in bold. How can I do a sum without the function sum() ?

q_0_seq = ()
q_3_seq = ()
q_3 = 0
q_0 = (input('Voulez-vous ajouter un jour ? (o/n)'))

if q_0 == "o":
    q_0 = True
    q_0_seq = q_0_seq + (q_0,)
else:
    q_0 = False

while q_0 == True:

q_3 = int(input("Combien de minutes d'activité physique avez-vous effectué?"))
q_3_seq = q_3_seq + (q_3,)
q_0 = (input('Voulez-vous ajouter un jour ? (o/n)'))

q_3_sum = 0
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q_3_mean = q_3_sum / len(q_3_seq)
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    print("Vous ne faites pas suffisamment de sport! Visez 30 minutes par jour en moyenne.")```

A: Make that:
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On behalf of the Committee we wanted to say a huge thanks to each and every one of you that participated in some way shape or form with yesterday's Retro Day. Whether you were working behind the scenes, on the day setting up, or packing up, helping with registration, canteen, marshalling on the track, taking photos, spectating, racing or just being there, the event wouldn't have been the success it was without you.
The day was a celebration of cycling at the …wonderful facility we have at Heffron Park. The history that was on display yesterday was phenomenal – from old scrapbooks, photos, race results, some amazing old bikes, to some of the original members of our Club. Even though you may not have known some of these people personally, you all played a huge part in allowing our Club to showcase what a special thing we have and to bring some old friends and clubmates together to reminisce late into the afternoon.
To say the day was a success is an understatement and we sincerely thank you all for being a part of something special. I hope you enjoy the album of photos that captured the day and spend some time reflecting on what a great club spirit we have.
We are looking forward to seeing you all at the AGM and Christmas Party next Sunday afternoon.
Retro Day at Heffron – this Saturday!


To help increase the interactivity of pack members, RoW is implementing "Pack Threads". These threads are single thread role plays that are open to all pack members. This thread is placed in the pack den area and serves as a meeting ground for those casual interactions. Think of it as a way of accounting for the time spent between your usual threads - pack wolves should return home, socialize with each other, etc. These threads act as a way to do that!
Though pack threads work slightly differently than normal threads --as you will notice below in the following explanation-- they are simple enough to understand and participate in. The interactions are meant to be brief encounters with others in your pack and unmotivated by any specific plot.
Now, pack threads are different from the typical RP thread. They are never "complete" and never "dead". The time setting for the threads is a real life system, so that if wolf A posts on a Monday, they are in the pack area on that Monday. But if Wolf B doesn't arrive until Tuesday, then Wolf A and Wolf B are not considered to be at the pack den at the same time.
What does this mean for interactions between characters? Well, it means that sometimes Wolf A is going to be at the pack den and nobody is going to be there. Other times, it means that Wolf A and Wolf B are both going to be there and have a short interaction. These interactions between the pack wolves are meant to serve as the casual conversation you have - think about the random conversations you have with your family members as you pass each other walking through the living room or the kitchen: they're not so important that you'd recount them, but they are what helps bring families together.
However, we are all aware of the limitations that online RPing brings, and thus some rules to help with these interactions have been established.
— Interactions last a total of three real life days (ie. if Wolf A posts on the 1st, Wolf B has until the 3rd to post a reply to Wolf A before it is assumed that Wolf A has left).
— Once the 3 day extension has passed since the last post, it is to be assumed that the characters in that interaction have left the den area.
— Players should indicate OOCly when their character has left the area (does not apply if the 3 day window has expired).
— Given that both packs have newborn pups in their ranks, it is to be assumed that the pups, as well as the mothers are in the den doing what they do best: resting. This gives them the freedom to RP if they want to, but it is not a requirement to respond.
— Interactions in these threads cannot be private. If two characters are spreeing and a third one enters the interaction, that is perfectly legal.
This is a rather interesting idea, and it is understandable if there are any questions. I've listed an example at the bottom of this post to try and give you an idea of how these interactions will take place, but feel free to respond to this threads with comments, questions, and suggestions.
Jun 26 - Wolf A posts.
Jun 26 - Wolf B posts and interacts with Wolf A.
Jun 27 - Wolf A posts once more and then leaves.
Jun 30 - Wolf B does not respond in the three day limit, it is assumed that they have left.
Jul 4 - Wolf B posts; no one has visited since the 27th. Wolf B caches something away nearby.
Jul 4 - Wolf C comes by and finds the hoarded treat, but Wolf B is still there.
Jul 4 - Wolf B interacts/posts and leaves.
Jul 4 - Wolf C interacts/posts and leaves after Wolf B.
None yet. Ask a question?


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A Columbia University-trained psychotherapist with more than a decade of clinical experience, I've come to believe that what it means to help people in therapy is to help them create their lives and I relish in this challenging, playful activity.
Posted on May 24, 2011 in Couples Therapy and Relationships, Group Therapy
I got an email this morning from someone in New York who found my website searching for group therapy. He said a few things about himself, what he's struggling with, and then wrote, "I'm looking for a therapy group with people just like me."
I was touched. It was clear that this guy spends most of his life feeling like the oddball. I could relate. For an awful lot of my life I felt the same way, and at the time, if I was looking for a therapy group (or any kind of group) I would have said the exact same thing.
It reminds me of the American Girl store. I've never actually been personally, but I've heard more than a few mothers recount with wide, stunned eyes the experience of taking their daughters. They sell a few things, but mostly if you're taking your daughter to American Girl (in New York it's on 5th Avenue) it's to buy a doll. Not just any doll; this doll, apparently, is a "custom-made" doll (read: expensive) where a child can specify not only hair color and style and skin tone, but choose from an assortment of outfits and accessories. The idea is that your daughter can walk out of the store with a doll that's just like her.
When it comes to 6-year olds and dolls, just like me works okay, I guess. But in the world beyond dolls, when it comes to people finding a place where they belong, where there are those they can be close to and build with, I'm afraid that just like me is a myth.
Part of what comes up short is that "like me" is based on privileging certain attributes as being more important than others. Does like me have to mean people of the same gender, ethnic background, class, part of town, age, etc? Does it mean, "those who struggle with the same things as me?" Like is a relative term.
Like can also get in the way of building a relationship. It might seem counter intuitive at first, but try this on: When you're building with people who aren't so much like you (at least in the categories of like-ness that seem to be the most important) there's a certain amount of work you've got to do from the start. "Given that we're different, how do we want to do X?" It also supports an environment of curiosity from the start; after all, if you're aware of the differences, and choosing to get close anyway, there's just so much to be curious about you can hardly help BUT be curious.
Finally, just like me is an effort at creating mythical pockets of safety in an otherwise harsh world. I say mythical because the reality is there is no such thing as a group or community that's separate from or removed from the world. Search as we might, the world is filled with all different sorts of people. Some of those differences might be exciting, and others (no matter how much we grow) may be cruel or scary. If we want to get along better in the world, we've got to find ways of being in the world with all of its complexities.
It turns out there's an awful lot one can build with people who aren't like you (which is, of course, a myth of its own–we're all alike in some ways and different in others). Maybe someday I'll get an email to that effect: "I haven't had much success building close relationships with people and I'd like to find a group of people who are really different from me." I think it's possible that's a better plan.


lauren Looks like this was perfectly done!
Apple galette with fresh picked apples!
Brianne Totally agree @mirasingh. I started doing fig and arugula on pizza a few years ago, and it is a game changer.
lauren Ooh almost like dessert pizza... Yum!


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New Rolling Walker for Patron Use
The Lanpher Library now has a rollator, or rolling walker to make the library more user friendly for older adults, persons with disabilities, those with temporary injuries, and chronic fatigue sufferers. There is a seat to sit on while looking for materials and a basket to store them until check-out.
We hope this will encuorage community members who need assistance to come on in and use the library. Patrons who are already using a rollator and don't want to have to carry it from car to building, may find one at the library handy too.
Kids Save Pennies for Elephants
Read the story on "Kids Korner" to find out what the storytime group decided in response to reading, "Pennies for Elephants" by Lita Judge!
Check out Teen Talk!
We, at the Lanpher Library, are taking steps to stress the importance of the Library and its services to our Teen population. We are in the mere beginning stages of offering a seperate section for Young Adult fiction (to the left of the fire place), and we want to celebrate Teens by giving them their own spot on our website. Check out our "Teen Talk" section and read reviews and thoughts posted by young adults who use the library.
Junior Naturalist Program
On Monday, January 11th at 3:00, Carrie Riker from the Lamoille County Nature Center will be here to lead a program for children age preschool and up. "Bears, Bears, Bears: What kind of bears live in Vermont? What are they doing right now? What do they eat? What's it like to be a bear? We'll answer these questions and more as we check out a slide show plus play a variety of games to learn more about these interesting creatures!"
The Lanpher Library hosts a Junior Naturalist Program each month. As always, they are FREE! FUN! INFORMATIVE! & INTERACTIVE!
Monday Feb. 8th: Winter Wonders
Monday March 8th: Turtles
Monday April 12: Spiders
...and more new titles....
"Breaking the Rules", by Barbara Taylor Bradford (Large Print); "Hidden Flame", by Davis T. Bunn; "Remarkable Creatures", by Tracy Chevalier; "Double Black: A Ski Diva Mystery", by Wendy Clinch; "Summertime", by J.M. Coetzee; "Not my Daughter", by Barbara Delinsky; "Honor of Spies", by W.E.B. Griffin; "Fired Up", by Jayne Ann Krentz; "Fair Maiden", by Joyce Carol Oates; "Iron River", by T. Jefferson Parker......
Just in today: "Unfinished Desires" by Gail Godwin; "Divine Music", by Suruchi Mohan; and "STAR WARS: The Visual Dictionary", by Simon Beecroft (This is the Lego Visual Dictionary, so not only is it a DK Publishing photo extravaganza, it is also all built with Legos.....this will not be on the shelf for long....!)
We're open for business today. If you can tear yourselves away from playing in this amazing snow, come on in from 10-1.
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Fenton style jug with octagonal body and moulded detail to the handle, gorgeous floral border and ochre rim. Backstamp: Ashworth Bros Hanley England. Light all over crazing with a little minor discolouration inside. There is a little minor damage under the foot which just peeks through and on one side part of the pattern is quite blurred.


Tabasco Sauce and Rice! – Let's Go RVing!
A pretty cool day, cooler than I had anticipated and rainy so we decided to take a couple of inside tours today. We started with the Tabasco Company. It is located on Avery Island which is actually a salt dome. The Garmin GPS and Waze took us on a real roundabout way but we saw some interesting landscapes of South Louisiana. Many houses are up on stilts which we are used to because of living on a river but the interesting thing was the garages were also up in the air with ramps leading to them. The land here is extremely flat and when it rains apparently there is nowhere for the water to run off. Although it rained last night it wouldn't have caused all of the standing water and mud we saw if there had been some place for the water to go. Jerry made another interesting observation about Louisiana. He said the speed limit signs must just be suggestions because no one seems to abide by them. We do!
Tabasco tours had been suspended while some sort of update was done but fortunately for us they reinstated the tours this week. We began with the Tabasco store which was full of souvenirs, shirts and Tabasco sauces ranging in price. Jerry said this was the first souvenir store we'd been in that had several things he'd like to buy but we decided to wait until after the tour.
We went to the museum, bought the inexpensive tickets and walked around reading the history of Tabasco Sauce and the McIlhenny family who founded the company and still operate it today. Our next stop was the wonderfully warm greenhouse that held jalapeno, habanero and red pepper seedlings. Next we went in the barrel rooms where we watched a short video on the preparation of the barrels. Then we looked into the warehouse that held the many, many barrels.
Our next stop was the building where the mash was added and then we went into the building that held the bottling process. Before entering the processing part of the building we read some more of the history and then walked through a mock salt mine. It was amazing to watch as a worker systematically removed bottles that appeared to hold less than the required amount from the line. Next the bottles were capped and then sealed. There was an automatic counter that kept up with the number of bottes produced each day. When we were there 364,100 bottles had been bottled and stamped. While I took the picture and put the camera down 100 more bottles were completed!
The entire tour is self-guided with a lot of information. It certainly was a great way to spend a rainy day. After the tour we went to café and had lunch. We only got a hot dog but on the table were the various kinds of Tabasco Sauce so we sampled most of them. Our favorite was the sweet and spicy and I ended up eating it on my potato chips. Our lunch cost about $15 and we got two free coozies which sell for $8 in the Tabasco store. Umm, maybe we owed them $1! We had also gotten four free bottles of sauce, albeit small when we purchased the tour tickets. Tours of the Tabasco plant are a real deal!
After lunch we went back to the store, bought the ubiquitous magnet for the fridge and each of us got a shirt. Also on the grounds are the Jungle Gardens, a 170 acre garden with many examples of wildlife, flora and fauna. It was such bad weather though that we decided to skip that part.
Apparently Gypsy and Waze rested while we were in Tabasco because when we programmed New Iberia in we went a much simpler and direct route. Go figure.
Our next stop was the Conrad Rice Mill and the Konriko Rice Store. We had a few minutes before the tour so we wandered around the store and bought another magnet. We watched an interesting video that explained the Acadian culture and the rice company. We then went through the building where the rice is delivered from the farmers and then processed. Some of the equipment in use is original. That's amazing considering that the company was started in 1912. The original part of the mill was built in 1914 and received additions in 1917 and 1930. In 1981, the Mill was placed on the National Register of Historic Places thus ensuring that no structural changes would be made to the building. Actually, it appeared that the building was in the center of town surrounded by other businesses/buildings so there appeared to be little room for expansion.
We stopped by the grocery store on the way back and then headed into the Happy Hour at the park. We have met some of the nicest people on this trip and they keep encouraging us to abort our planned trip and spend a few more days here. Our four days have already turned into eight but unfortunately that will have to be enough as we have reservations somewhere else on Sunday. Betty's RV is everything that the reviews said it would be. They make you feel like family whether you've been there a couple of months like several others or a few days like us. Several of the couples come year after year.
After the Happy Hour we came back and actually fixed dinner!


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The Big Cheese Show Presents Gregory Porter
September 1st, 2012 / Stephane
Here it is… Our second episode of 'The Big Cheese Show' with Grammy Nominated singer, Gregory Porter. The Big Cheese Show had the pleasure of interviewing this jazz sensation earlier this year in London.
A truely insightful interview with this jazz legend as he shares with us his musical journey, inspirations and ultimately the heart behind why he does music.
Gregory Porter is known for showing an incredible degree of vocal mastery. Born in Los Angeles and raised in Bakersfield, Gregory performs around the UK, Europe, Russia and USA.
Gregory's success on the stage with "It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues" paved the way for another theatrical outing and pairing with Eloise Laws. In his semi-autobiographical "Nat King Cole and Me," he dramatically documented his childhood, which was marked by an absentee father and the joy and pain he heard when listening to his mother's Nat King Cole records. He here talks about his father, Jazz greats that inspired him and of course his sophomore album, Be Good.
With a rich and emotion filled voice, Gregory Porter is undoubtedly the next big male vocal jazz star!


Oxegen is hardly the perfect festival. It's kind of like an old friend who you have out grown, gone your differing ways but still feel obligated to keep in touch, well that's my relationship with Oxegen. This year brought more optimism with the dearth of talent on offer particularly Friday. With bags of optimism (and no wellies) the day started nicely with Dublin band Sweet Jane in 2fm/Hotpress stage. A good way to begin proceedings, they battled with some slight sound issues to belt out some enjoyable sleazy rock n roll, they certainly warrant further investigation.
Up next was a dreaded trip to the Main Stage for The Black Keys, perfect for day time festival consumption giving the punters exactly what they want and to my delight it wasn't packed,. The set revolved heavily around their latest (and best) album, Brothers, which sees the refinement of their standard fuzzy rock and blues riffs. Much like The White Stripes they make one hell of a racket for a two piece (a mate did help out on bass for a few songs) even so they would be better suited to somewhere more enclosed.
Suitably acclimatised to the Main Stage environment Vampire Weekend were next, on almost everyone's 'to do list' except mine as the albums couldn't hold my attention, things can change right? The band did their best to lift the crowds spirits who seemed unperturbed by the arrival of the customary downturn in the weather. The cheery, fun and uplifting afro-beat indie might be more suited to sunnier climes but it was just what was needed and totally at home on the big stage the place went nuts for 'A-Punk'.
Over in the Heineken Green Spheres tent a sizable crowd was gathering for The Coral. This was the first time I'd been able to catch them live and with a plethora of great albums behind them I was expecting a lot. They battled bravely with some serious sound issues belting out favourites 'Goodbye', 'Pass It On' and 'Dreaming of You' in what was a rather unspectacular but fun set leaving you with a feeling of what might have been.
On next to what really is the Jewel in the Crown of Oxegen the indoor (yes dry and warm) Dance Arena for one of tonight's big hitters, Vitalic. On arriving I was feeling a bit deflated after the pervious let down but was quickly dispelled as the main man stepped on stage. Assisted by some nifty visuals he captivated the entire arena into submission, dropping massive tune 'Terminator Benelux' early as a signal of intent. For close to an hour everyone was under his masterful spell, dancing and weaving, it may have been impossible to stand still, perfect sound, venue, crowd and artist.
It was now time to dash through the rain to swap the chaotic scenes of the Dance Arena for the mellower surroundings of the 2fm/Hotpress tent where Villagers were on. They have a well deserved and growing reputation around their native Dublin, having already released one of the best albums of 2010, 'Becoming a Jackal', this was one not to be missed. Gladly it lived up to the billing with the band showing no ill effects of being 'pretty drunk' as Connor O Brien put it, delivering a super tight performance. It was the highlight of the night without doubt, soaring and emotional vocals adding to what are already great songs, if it wasn't for the fact of who was up next I could have gladly gone home happy there and then.
No time to be wasted, or so we thought as we hastened the pace so as to get a decent spot for Headliners Arcade Fire at the Main Stage. To my delight there was no rain but was bemused but happy there was no horde of people so straight up the front it was. There has already been lots of discussion on this, that and the other surrounding Arcade Fire's slot but I for one was delighted there were only people who wanted to be there unlike Blur last year (the crowd were awful). Arcade Fire, though, were not to be put off by this mishap, the band's chemistry was in full flow from the off which saw instrument changes throughout what was an awesome set. This was another live first for me and I was delighted at the mix of old and new songs, especially the rocky 'Month Of May' getting an airing.
I'm sure the debate will rage on about this and other slots at Oxegen but for what its worth they might be best deciding what kind of festival Oxegen is and booking acts accordingly and not squandering vast sums in attempt to be all things to everybody – just a thought.


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If you want to put Denis Phillips in a box, make sure it's a big box — to quote singer/songwriter Dan Bern — "with lots of windows, and a door to walk through." Call that box, if you will, "one of Utah's most talented abstract painters," as Bob Olpin once did, but make sure it's a duplex of a box (at the very least), to fit both Phillips' expressionist and his hard-edge stuff; with maybe an annex for those overall paintings; a guesthouse for the landscape work; and an ample garage to house everything else: the drawings, sculpture, collage, found objects, etc.
As mild-mannered as he may be in person, Phillips is a creative manic in the studio and you'll find a surprising variety of his work — from all the boxes mentioned above, plus more — at his show this month in the Dibble Gallery, Phillips Gallery's more intimate downstairs space. As one of the gallery's big hitters (not to mention owners), Phillips usually shows upstairs, but the artist says he's always wanted to show in the Dibble. Besides, he needed the upstairs gallery for the exhibition he's curated of the work of 45 artists, spanning a hundred years of Utah art.
It may be hard to tell when Phillips' exhibit starts. Halfway down the stairs, the gallery tags transition, without fanfare, from the gallery's traditionally printed tags to ones hand-drawn by Phillips, announcing that yes, that digital collage of a dozen nostalgic images or that southern Utah river scene in oil are his, are part of the "show." Turning the corner into the gallery proper, the additional landscapes that greet you on the first wall may be a surprise for those who think of Phillips as an abstract painter. His scenes of the southern Utah desert or Wasatch farmland prove he can hold his own with the state's many landscape painters. More impressive are his works inspired by the landscape but filled with the abstract. In "Canyons," he uses the palette knife like a trowel, building up layers of color, like so many millennia of geologic time, so that in the micro we see scores of abstract expressionist moments, made dynamic by color and weight, but the macro becomes easily identified with what we might see down any canyon of the Colorado Plateau. Equally exciting are the paintings based, as their titles suggest, on the San Rafael Swell. The landscape is seen from a high vantage point, the earth below evoked by various mark-making techniques fighting for attention and providing a base for the works' real focus, an expansive, sweeping, color-infused sky. Seeing these works in the context of the upstairs exhibit, you'll notice the cues Phillips has taken from predecessors like George Dibble and Doug Snow, while making these works wholly his own.
Phillips builds up his surfaces in a markedly different way in the kraft paper paintings, where drips, sprays and blotches of paint pool into shifting clouds of color. In these works, one suspects the artist has used an airbrush before, but wanted to make its results more "human," so turned to a spray bottle. The surface for these works — chosen possibly for its easy ability to quickly absorb the paint — may have one worrying about their archival quality (the Plexi surrounding one example will not do much to assuage doubts) but the expansive, shimmering quality of the paintings — they look as if they've been dipped in the Milky Way — should be sufficient recompense, however long they'll last.
In "#982," one of the show's largest works, Phillips has incorporated this paint-splattered technique into its seemingly opposite, the hard-edge designs which were part of his last show at Phillips. He isolates the paint dusting into bands of color — turquoise here, carmine and magenta there — framing a central, hard-edge motif. In these works the compass and ruler (and plenty of masking tape) replace the brush or trowel. The motifs are crisp, the colors almost digital, but the feel of the computer age is kept at bay by the background spattering of hues that, despite our habituated prejudice, never become simply "pixelated." In nearby grids of smaller works, this flirtation with the digital takes full form with an array of inventive designs displaying sophisticated understanding of both color and design, though these "giclée" works, as they are identified, don't bear a closer gaze as well as the original types. Also in giclée reproduction are drawings and figurative work, as well as the artist's digital collages that bring together cartoons, drawings, and found images in visual conversations that deserve a review of their own to be fully appreciated.
Denis Phillips, Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City, through Feb. 9.


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The nasty new collectivism
My parent's generation harboured bigots. People who put all Women, all Maori, all Teenagers, all Poms (to name a few of the flawed) into each of their collective boxes. They lazily stereotyped to their heart's content.
My generation wrote TV series that highlighted the Alf Garnetts and Archie Bunkers - bigotted collectivists on steroids. Some viewers laughed with them. Others laughed at them. But they weren't muzzled. The players or the audience.
The response came by way of a rejection of nationalism (war), rejection of racism (civil rights) and embrace of feminism (women's rights). Like the welfare state these -isms have well-intentioned roots but get unwieldy, distorted and become a bigger problem than that which they formed to alleviate.
But there was also an underlying move towards individualism. A greater diversity of thought. Enabled by the improving economic conditions.
Individualism describes those who don't conform or subscribe to ANY collective. Individualists refuse to hold allegiance or obligation by sheer dint of type or class which are mere accidents of birth. Their identities, loyalties and reciprocal dependencies are chosen. Not imposed.
This freedom to choose lies at the heart of a truly free society.
I thought we were ever-so-slowly getting somewhere (along with the self-destructive over-indulgences along the way that have caused considerable havoc.)
But right now we seem to have come full circle, and collectivism is fashionable like never before. People hanker to be part of a group - especially those groups perceived as victimised. Grievance is earnestly sought and if the seekers can't legitimately be part of the aggrieved group, they protest vigorously in the group's name. Brand new groups are created and labelled, with the non-member creators then patting themselves on the back for embracing them! Unwittingly people are forced into groups of believers and deniers, enemies or allies. It's almost comical. Almost...
Except the new collectivism is best characterised by its propensity to rapidly lash out at, denigrate and silence any party that questions. Despite their largely collective facelessness, through mass communication they are far more powerful and influential than any individual bigot. This monstrous movement changes the meaning of words and disregards facts. So detractors are left impotent.
Though its economic 'solutions' to inequality and climate change are largely state-driven, its enormous power now displays in controlling the private sector by naming and shaming businesses and manipulating corporate cultures.
None of it is sustainable but they don't care. Because they think the world is ending anyway.
I took a break to look at today's 'news' and found this from Alison Mau:
"[David] Seymour's attempt to skewer Mallard for wasting taxpayer money in litigation is misdirected, shallow and self-serving. Why is he not more seriously concerned about addressing, if not his women colleagues' victimisation by his male co-workers, then the current epidemic of sexual crime experienced by the female population of New Zealand, as evidenced by the 6-month waiting list for help reported by all relevant agencies?
"In short, there is no help. There is just lots and lots of rape and serious sexual assault, everywhere.
"This is the serious concern Seymour should be raising in the media. This is where the serious cost is, both in taxpayer dollars and wasted female potential, most of it young. Perhaps he could initiate a cost deficit analysis to the country about this. He won't, because nobody cares, least of all Parliament."
This is the perfect example of everything wrong with the new religion that Mau is part of (kudos that she at least is not faceless).
First the chosen adoption of a severely contorted word - 'rape' - landed Mallard in hot water but devastated an innocent man. Mau approves of going after people first and finding out if they are innocent second.
So then she attacks Seymour for not behaving how she wants him to. Which is to collectively share the guilt of male harrassers because he happens to be a man. Idiocy.
I feel no shame or guilt for being the same sex as Mau.
(As an aside Brooke van Velden has taken mental health as her porfolio and is proposing remedies for waiting lists.)
But what can we do about this stifling atmosphere of convoluted and controlled thinking?
Resist. Communicate with your younger ones. Encourage them to think. Oddly, encourage them to rebel. That's the prerogative of youth. Some of their world view has justified roots, and we should listen. But many of us do have something they don't. A lifetime's experience of the world and its many earlier bouts of madness and mayhem.
Posted by Lindsay Mitchell at 10:05 AM
Mark Wahlberg said...
Lindsay, the Common Good be damned. After 70 years of driving on my 4 lane highway of life and being overtaken by every Hoon imaginable, I reserve the right to exercise personal prejudices.
If your observations were made into a system it would produce the Theory of Moral Cultures...
"...well-intentioned roots but get unwieldy, distorted and become a bigger problem than that which they formed to alleviate."
Dignity Culture becomes Victimhood Culture. Initially this is a wonderful arrangement and the Victimhood Culture emerges to identify needful causes to spend the DC's money on. Orphan's homes, charities for cripples, single mothers, battered women. Votes for women...
"I thought we were ever-so-slowly getting somewhere"
We are. But so are the other Moral Cultures. We're all getting better at what we do, including Victimhood.
"But right now we seem to have come full circle, and collectivism is fashionable like never before."
That's because our history repeats in a circle. A spiral, really. All of this happened about 20 years ago. And 20 years before that too.
"Grievance is earnestly sought and if the seekers can't legitimately be part of the aggrieved group, they protest vigorously in the group's name....then patting themselves on the back for embracing them!"
The very definition of Victimhood Culture. They are descended from Workhouse Union delegates and the middle-men of chiefs and lords such as tax collectors and sheriffs and viziers.
Those who have no philosophy are simply Non Player Characters getting blown about in the winds of Moral Culture.
Ref. http://ahnz.anarkiwi.co.nz/moral-cultures/
Ref. http://ahnz.anarkiwi.co.nz/parasitism-by-victimhood/
Ref. http://ahnz.anarkiwi.co.nz/cycle-of-moral-cultures/ (tomorrow's post)
captainofthegate said...
Victimhood is the new power card. It's simply elevating losers, or encouraging everyone to think like a loser. What could go wrong.
I see this at work too. Accountability has been removed. Nobody can think properly. PC has smothered creativity because of the hate speech thought suppression inherent in the new collective. Debt has allowed this bad decision path to survive longer than it should.
The Slippery Slope said...
https://www.womenarehuman.com/law-lets-female-rape-victims-select-female-forensic-examiners-trans-activists-react-with-outrage/?fbclid=IwAR0ZIAfcNdCkX-h5OXznHwQcKyNTLh68qGiEtyHo5ZrZ0Mk4jqizGiGYUZA
Yep, because feeling like a woman is more important than protecting victims of male violence.
I'm done.
"Debt has allowed this bad decision path to survive longer than it should."
The longer it takes for balance to be redressed the bigger the correction will be.
ref. http://nzb3.anarkiwi.co.nz/2019/03/24/the-enormous-millennial-sjw-turnip/
At face value, an odd juxtaposition
Is a return to the bad old days of high inflation ...
Revised forecasts
Sensationalism?
Corrections - violence increasing
Iwi working constructively with OT


Upgraded my HP home printer into a more powerful tool. Parked my new workhorse at #4. – Death!
Upgraded my HP home printer into a more powerful tool. Parked my new workhorse at #4.
← It's like eating a book.. But not quite as much so..


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Should killer whales be captive?
Photo of orcas in the wild by Paul Chetirkin/Marine Photobank
The tragic death of killer whale trainer Dawn Brancheau in Florida, after a 12,000-pound orca named Tilikum pulled her into a tank, has raised new questions about the confinement of dolphins and whales in theme parks. eScienceCommons discussed the topic with Emory neuroscientist Lori Marino, an expert on the brains of cetaceans, which include porpoises, dolphins and whales.
Q: What are some common misconceptions about killer whales, also known as orcas?
Marino: Killer whales are actually dolphins. They are called whales because they are the largest dolphins, but they are in the same family as the bottlenose dolphin. Although they are top predators, they are not naturally aggressive to people. I have colleagues who research orcas and swim with them in the wild. People will go out in very small boats and paddle among orcas. They could easily reach up and grab you and gobble you up. And yet there is not a single incident of an orca injuring, let alone killing, a person in the wild.
Q: What do we know about killer whale intelligence?
Marino: The orca brain is the most convoluted brain on the planet. These are very, very intelligent animals with major, impressive brains.
I think people would be surprised to know that orcas form cultures in the oceans, and they pass these on through generations. It's stunning. Different groups of orcas make distinct sounds and we call these dialects. It's like a Brooklyn accent versus a Manhattan accent.
Orcas have really creative ways of getting prey. In the Arctic, a sea lion may try to escape them by getting on a floating chunk of ice. A group of orcas will form a line and rush forward together to create a wave to make the ice chunk wobbly and throw the sea lion into the water. You see a lot of group cooperation like this among orcas.
Q: Why are you so strongly against keeping killer whales and other cetaceans in theme parks?
Marino: The normal range of an orca is several 100 kilometers per day, and they like to dive really deep. They don't have room in these tanks to swim as far as they would like to. There is no evidence that they kill each other in the wild, but they have been known to kill each other in captivity. When you take all of that energy and put it into a small tank, a lot of stress builds up and it's like a perfect storm waiting to happen.
I understand that people want to see these animals up close, but I want people to understand the price that the animals are paying. What happened at SeaWorld is tragic all around, for the trainer who lost her life and for the whale.
What do you think? Should killer whales be kept in theme parks for entertainment?
What's in a dolphin's tool kit?
Dolphin therapy is all wet
What is the impact of zoos?
Tags: Bioethics, Biology, Environmental Studies, Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology, Yerkes National Primate Research Center
The anger myth: Read this before blowing up
Emory psychologist Scott Lilienfeld, author of "50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology," and his co-authors write in Scientific American Mind about the bewildering mix of fact and fallacy in pop psych lore:
"Popular media assure us that anger is a monster we must tame by 'letting off steam,' 'blowing our top' and 'getting things off our chest.' In the 2003 movie Anger Management, the meek hero (played by Adam Sandler) is falsely accused of 'air rage' on a flight, causing a judge to order him to attend an anger management group run by psychiatrist Buddy Rydell (played by Jack Nicholson). At Rydell's suggestion, Sandler's character tosses dodgeballs at schoolchildren and throws golf clubs to purge his anger.
"Rydell's advice echoes the counsel of many self-help authors. One suggested that rather than 'holding in poisonous anger,' it is better to 'punch a pillow or a punching bag. And while you do it, yell and curse and moan and holler.'
"Yet more than 40 years of research reveals that expressing anger actually amplifies aggression. In one study, people who pounded nails after someone insulted them became more critical of that person than did their counterparts who did not pound nails. Other research shows that playing aggressive sports, such as football, actually boosts self-reported hostility. And a review of 35 studies ... suggests that playing violent video games such as Manhunt, in which participants rate assassinations on a five-point scale, heightens aggression in the laboratory and in everyday social situations."
Is hypnosis just hocus-pocus?
Test your behavioral IQ
Tags: Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology, Psychology, Science and Art/Media
Invention lets art sleuth see through walls
Four hundred and fifty years ago, a Leonardo da Vinci mural of clashing soldiers disappeared from the hall where Florence's political leaders used to meet. Art sleuth Maurizio Seracini has strong clues that the "The Battle of Anghiari" lies hidden behind a brick wall, built during a renovation of the hall. In order to prove it, however, he needs to see through the wall.
Emory physicist Ray DuVarney came up with an idea, based on the fact that paints get colors from different chemical elements. White paint from da Vinci's time contained lead, for instance, and red paint contained mercury. DuVarney reasoned that shooting a beam of neutrons through the brick wall should induce the paints' atoms to send back gamma rays, each emitting an energy distinctive to a particular color. These "pixels" of color could then be plotted onto a graph to indicate whether they formed an image akin to the missing mural.
"This is a passion project," DuVarney says. "It's more than a physics problem. It's about finding one of the lost wonders of the world."
Seracini has tested the technology successfully, and is now building a portable machine to scan the actual wall in Florence. The mystery of one of the world's greatest missing masterpieces may be solved by the end of this year. If it works, it will open a new era in art sleuthing. As Seracini told Scholastic's Free Library: "Once we have built this portable unit, we will use this technology to search for hundreds of murals hidden everywhere on the planet."
Physicist sheds light on da Vinci mystery
Tags: Physics, Science and Art/Media
Tiny aphids hold big surprises in genome
Pea aphids, expert survivors of the insect world, appear to lack major biological defenses, according to the first genetic analysis of their immune system.
"It's surprising," says Emory biologist Nicole Gerardo, who led the study, published this week in Genome Biology. "Aphids have some components of an immune system, but they are missing the genes that we thought were critical to insect immunity."
Pea aphids are major agricultural pests and also important biological models for studies of insect-plant interactions, symbiosis, virus vectoring and genetic plasticity. These resilient insects thrive despite a host of enemies, including parasitic wasps, lady bugs, fungal pathogens and frustrated farmers and gardeners the world over.
The immune-system analysis is among a group of findings generated by the International Aphid Genomics Consortium, which just published the full sequence of the pea aphid genome, and sponsored dozens of in-depth analyses of different areas of the sequence.
"This is the first look at the genome of a whole group of insects we know little about," says Gerardo, an evolutionary biologist who focuses on host-parasite interactions.
All insects previously sequenced belong to a group that undergoes metamorphosis. Pea aphids, however, belong to an insect group known as basel hemimetablous – meaning they are born looking like tiny adults.
"We went into this expecting to find the same set of immune-system genes that we've seen in the genomes of flies, mosquitoes and bees," Gerardo says. "Given these missing genes, it seems that aphids have a weak immune system. Our next step is to figure out how they protect themselves." One hypothesis is that aphids may compensate for their lack of immune defenses by focusing on reproduction. From birth, a female aphid contains embryos that also contain embryos.
"She is born carrying her granddaughters," Gerardo says. "In a lab, a female aphid can produce up to 20 copies of herself per day. About 10 days later, those babies will start producing their own offspring."
Over 50 million years, aphids have evolved complex relationships with beneficial bacteria that supply them with nutrients or protect them from predators and pathogens. It's possible that the weak immune response in aphids developed as a way to keep from killing off these beneficial microbes, Gerardo says. "A key question is whether these microbes could have changed the aphid genome, or changed how the aphid uses its genes."
Further study of how the aphid immune system interacts with microbes could yield better methods for controlling them in agriculture.
Aphids are not just pests, Gerardo says. They are also potential resources for questions related to human health.
"Humans need beneficial bacteria for proper digestion in the gut and to protect against cavities in the teeth," she says. "Some people feel sick when they take antibiotics because the drug kills off all the beneficial bacteria. If we can study the process of how to keep beneficial bacteria while clearing out harmful bacteria across several organisms, including aphids, we might be able to understand it better."
Are depressed people too clean?
Farming ants reveal evolution secrets
Tags: Alternative Medicine, Biology, Computational and Life Sciences, Environmental Studies, Health, Population Biology Ecology and Evolution Program
Bad science in films bugs physicist
The next time you see a sci-fi film with people battling insects as big as houses, consider this: An insect scaled up to that size would collapse under its own weight, according to physicist Sidney Perkowitz.
From the Guardian in London:
"Science fiction movies should be allowed only one major transgression of the laws of physics, according to a US professor who has won backing from a number of his peers after creating a set of guidelines for Hollywood.
"The guidelines are by Sidney Perkowitz, a professor of physics at Emory University and a member of the Science and Entertainment Exchange, an advisory body run by the US National Academy of Sciences.
"The Science and Entertainment Exchange is backed by Dustin Hoffman, Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker and Lawrence Kasdan, who wrote the screenplays for The Empire Strikes Back and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Perkowitz said: 'The hope is that it will get better science into films while still making them interesting.'"
Stranger than science fiction: A physicist's foray in Hollywood
Movies go under the microscope
Tags: Humor/Fun, Physics, Science and Art/Media
Biology may not be so complex after all
Centuries ago, scientists began reducing the physics of the universe into a few, key laws described by a handful of parameters. Such simple descriptions have remained elusive for complex biological systems – until now.
Emory biophysicist Ilya Nemenman has identified parameters for several biochemical networks that distill the entire behavior of these systems into simple equivalent dynamics. The discovery may hold the potential to streamline the development of drugs and diagnostic tools, by simplifying the research models.
The resulting paper, now available online, will be published in the March issue of Physical Biology.
"It appears that the details of the complexity of these biological systems don't matter, as long as some aggregate property, which we've calculated, remains the same," says Nemenman, associate professor of physics and biology. He conducted the analysis with Golan Bel and Brian Munsky of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
The simplicity of the discovery makes it "a beautiful result," Nemenman says. "We hope that this theoretical finding will also have practical applications."
He cites the air molecules moving about his office: "All of the crazy interactions of these molecules hitting each other boils down to a simple behavior: An ideal gas law. You could take the painstaking route of studying the dynamics of every molecule, or you could simply measure the temperature, volume and pressure of the air in the room. The second method is clearly easier, and it gives you just as much information."
Nemenman wanted to find similar parameters for the incredibly complex dynamics of cellular networks, involving hundreds, or even thousands, of variables among different interacting molecules. Among the key questions: What determines which features in these networks are relevant? And if they have simple equivalent dynamics, did nature choose to make them so complex in order to fulfill a specific biological function? Or is the unnecessary complexity a "fossil record" of the evolutionary heritage?
For the Physical Biology paper, Nemenman and co-authors investigated these questions in the context of a kinetic proofreading (KPR) scheme.
KPR is the mechanism a cell uses for optimal quality control as it makes protein. KPR was predicted during the 1970s and it applies to most cellular assembly processes. It involves hundreds of steps, and each step may have different parameters.
Nemenman and his colleagues wondered if the KPR scheme could be described more simply. "Our calculations confirmed that there is, in fact, a key aggregate rate," he says. "The whole behavior of the system boils down to just one parameter."
That means that, instead of painstakingly testing or measuring every rate in the process, you can predict the error and completion rate of a system by looking at a single aggregate parameter.
Charted on a graph, the aggregate behavior appears as a straight line amid a tangle of curving ones. "The larger and more complex the system gets, the more the aggregate behavior is visible," Nemenman says. "The completion time gets simpler and simpler as the system size goes up."
Nemenman is now collaborating with Emory theoretical biologist Rustom Antia, to see if the discovery can shed light on the processes of immune cells. In particular, they are interested in the malfunction of certain immune receptors involved in most allergic reactions.
"We may be able to simplify the model for these immune receptors from about 3,000 steps to three steps," Nemenman says. "You wouldn't need a supercomputer to test different chemical compounds on the receptors, because you don't need to simulate every single step, just the aggregate."
Just as the discovery of an ideal gas law led to the creation of engines and automobiles, Nemenman believes that such simple biochemical aggregates could drive advancements in health.
Biochemical cell signals quantified for first time
Tags: Biology, Computational and Life Sciences, Health, Mathematics and Computer Science, Physics, Population Biology Ecology and Evolution Program
Dolphins have been seen using sponges, perhaps to protect their mouths from coral. And some bottlenose dolphins create rings of mud with their tails to trap fish.
"You don't need hands to create tools, you just need a clever mind," says Emory neuroscientist Lori Marino, an expert in dolphin neuroanatomy. Marino is speaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting on Sunday, Feb. Feb. 21, about how the high intelligence of dolphins calls for us to rethink how we treat them.
Do dolphins deserve special status?
Read more about Marino's work in the Washington Post.
Photo by Brenda McCowan shows bottlenose dolphins playing with a bubble ring they created.
Tags: Biology, Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology, Yerkes National Primate Research Center
Drawing by Erica Endicott shows Tibetan script for parts of the atom. The words were created for the Tibetan language by the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative.
Nascent Buddhist April Bogle writes in Emory Magazine:
"I want to be happy. Coming to the end of a terrible decade that has included two debilitating divorces, a wrenching child custody battle, and my beloved father's diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, I've decided it's time to figure out this happiness thing. ...
"The journey took me to Washington, D.C., where Buddhist monk and author Matthieu Ricard, actor Richard Gere, and Daniel Goleman, author of "Emotional Intelligence" and several other books on the science of the mind, were coming together to help raise money for the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative. A joint project of the University and the Tibetan monastic academic system, the initiative is perhaps the boldest and most challenging program in the Emory-Tibet Partnership."
Read more in Emory Magazine about Bogle's first-hand experience with how Emory is applying modern Western science to ancient Eastern tradition -- and why Richard Gere thinks it will change the world.
Dalai Lama supports science education
Tags: Health, Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology, Physics, Psychology, Science and Spirituality
Galileo's view of the sky
NASA photo of Halley Comet from 1986.
Emory celebrated Galileo's birthday Feb. 15 with a talk by Vatican astronomer Brother Guy Consolmagno.
"Because of light pollution, I suspect many of the undergraduates in this room have never seen the Milky Way, which is a real tragedy," he said.
Consolmagno told of his own "soul-shaking experience" of seeing his first comet. He described the 1618 comet controversy, when Galileo asserted that comets were an optical illusion, and how he ridiculed a more accurate theory by Jesuit mathematician Orazio Grassi. The controversy was among the circumstances contributing to Galileo being put on trial by the Catholic Church, for championing the idea of a sun-centered solar system. He ended his life under house arrest.
"Both Galileo and Grassi reacted with deep passion to this comet, and both were guilty of seeing more of what they wanted to see than what was actually there," Consolmagno said.
"Galileo was brilliant. He got so many things right that the things he got wrong stick out like sore thumbs," he added. "Scientific truth is at best always incomplete. No one who wants to study comets today bothers to read Grassi or Galileo, because our understanding has come so much further. And a textbook on comets in 2410 will make our work today look pretty obsolete. At least, I hope so."
Check out this hilarious video of Consolmagno's appearance on "The Colbert Report."
The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Gold, Frankincense and Mars - Guy Consolmagno
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Colbert Report Full Episodes 2010 Election March to Keep Fear Alive
Tags: Mathematics and Computer Science, Physics, Science and Spirituality
How to make your Valentine last forever
Are you seeking sustainable love?
Then don't toss all your Valentine's Day boxes after you eat the chocolates. In the video above, Emory paleontologist Tony Martin shows how to scientifically recycle them as fossil containers. You, too, can change a perishable sentiment into something to last for millennia.
If you don't receive any Valentines, you may want to read up on the research of Larry Young, Emory's "love doctor." He's studying brain chemicals linked to the ability to form lasting bonds of affection.
What is the chemical basis of love?
Tags: Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Studies, Humor/Fun, Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology, Yerkes National Primate Research Center
'Avatar' theme can make you blue
Avatar: An incarnation of a Hindu god; an embodiment of a view of life; a personification of a computer user; and, now, a science fiction movie.
Emory biologist Alexander Escobar interprets "Avatar" the movie this way: "The perspective that the natives have and the perspective that the miners have is very different. The technological perspective is that you can take something apart, and you can put new parts into it, just like any machine. It's pretty much the dominant reality we have in the western world. In the movie, the natives see (mining) as taking apart their mother. And if you think about something that is a system, a whole, that works together, you can't go in and start taking pieces out. It begins to fall apart. I think part of the reason that this movie has become so popular is that this sort of clash between these two world views is playing itself out in our world. "
Escobar is the author of a new book, "Mythology for the New World: A Synthesis of Science and Religion."
Is Iron Man suited for reality?
The sociology of 'Sex and the City'
Tags: Anthropology, Bioethics, Biology, Climate change, Environmental Studies, Mathematics and Computer Science, Science and Art/Media, Science and Spirituality, Sociology
Scenes from our wild campus
Foxes, deer, otters and ... beavers? Keep your eyes peeled. You never know what you'll see strolling about Emory's woodsy campus. But please don't pet the wildlife.
Warning to campus squirrels
Tracking clues to life
Tags: Biology, Environmental Studies, Humor/Fun
A brainy time traveler
Anthropologist James Rilling, founder of Emory's Laboratory for Darwinian Neuroscience, is mapping the evolution of our minds.
"It's like the space program," he explains. "We believe that we should be trying to understand the universe around us. I feel the same way about exploring the brain to learn who we are and how we got here."
The Milwaukee native came to Emory as a graduate student, drawn by the anthropology department's emphasis on human biology. "It's a definite strength," says Rilling, citing the department's access to the Yerkes National Primate Research Center and the quality of the faculty.
For his dissertation, Rilling used fMRI to compare the neuroanatomy of humans and 10 other primate species at Yerkes. The 1998 study was the first in-depth look at whether the human brain is merely a scaled-up version of the brains of other primates.
"We found that human temporal lobes are larger than you would expect for a primate of our brain size," Rilling says. "We've done subsequent work that shows this larger size is likely due to the evolution of language pathways in humans."
The Laboratory for Darwinian Neuroscience is a leader in the use of non-invasive imaging technology to compare the neuroanatomy of living primates.
Much previous work has focused on the gray matter of brains. Rilling's group is the only one in the world using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to compare the white matter connections of monkeys, humans and our closest relative, chimpanzees. White matter contains the fiber tracts that connect and "wire" the brain.
"We've discovered a difference in both the size and the trajectory of the fiber tract that runs between Wernicke's area in the left temporal lobe and Broca's area in the left inferior frontal cortex," Rilling says. Broca's area is involved in speech production and Wernicke's in understanding language. In humans, the pathway that connects the two areas is much more massive, and projects beyond Wernicke's area down to the ventral part of the temporal lobe.
"There's something special going on in the human brain with that pathway," Rilling says. "It's organized differently than in other primates."
The lab is also exploring the neural basis of human cognition and behavior. One of its studies showed that reciprocation in humans is tied to activation of a reward pathway in the brain. "The magnitude of that reaction correlated to how likely the person was to cooperate in the future," Rilling says.
Why are some people more cooperative than others? How does the brain change with age? What promotes social bonding and attachment? These are just a few of the many research questions the lab is tackling.
"We want to start to understand individual human differences in social behavior, at both the genetic and neurological levels," Rilling says.
He's particularly interested in understanding why some men are more nurturing as fathers than others. "It's important to have someone besides the mother involved in a child's care. I think one way that we could improve childhood development is to have more committed dads," says Rilling, who is married to a psychiatrist and hopes to one day become a father.
Brain expert explores human dawn
Inside the chimpanzee brain
Give your mind a hand
Exploring our brains: The internal frontier
Tags: Anthropology, Biology, Computational and Life Sciences, Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology, Psychology, Yerkes National Primate Research Center
Economists do it with models
Heard any good economist jokes lately? The recent Economics Convention in Atlanta was full of them, as the so-called "dismal science" celebrated the fact that sex and humor sell, even during a recession.
PBS NewsHour covered the event, including a presentation by Emory's Hugo Mialon on the economics of faking ecstasy in lovemaking.
"This paper was suggested to me by my lovely wife and colleague, Sue Mialon," he says.
Listen to the full report by PBS. Believe it or not, there is even a knock-knock joke.
Who's more likely to fake it?
Tags: Economics, Humor/Fun
Grounded cognition gives your mind a hand
Before you read this, pour yourself a cup of hot tea.
Now, sit up straight. Smile. Hold that warm cup in your hand. Research is showing that these kinds of actions can positively influence what you think about a piece of writing.
"All the states of your body affect how you think. So does the environment," says Lawrence Barsalou, an Emory psychologist and a leading researcher of grounded cognition -- the idea that thought is shaped by bodily states. And vice-versa.
For instance, you may feel anxious about an upcoming presentation. Just thinking about forgetting your speech can produce the same physical stress reactions that occur when you actually are standing in front of a group of people and draw a blank.
"We're just barely beginning to understand the mechanisms, at a detailed and specific level, that operate to produce these experiences," Barsalou says.
We are entering a new era in psychology research, says Barsalou, who is especially interested in how meditation might be used to alleviate stress reactions.
New thoughts on cognition
Gestures may point to speech origins
2010: A science odyssey
Tags: Biology, Computational and Life Sciences, Health, Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology, Psychology
Putting teeth into Barker hypothesis
Teeth from a site near Cuzco, Peru, show grooves of enamel damage. Source: Valerie Andrushko.
Ancient human teeth are telling secrets that may relate to modern-day health: Some stressful events that occurred early in development are linked to shorter life spans.
"Prehistoric remains are providing strong, physical evidence that people who acquired tooth enamel defects while in the womb or early childhood tended to die earlier, even if they survived to adulthood," says Emory anthropologist George Armelagos.
Armelagos led a systematic review of defects in teeth enamel and early mortality recently published in Evolutionary Anthropology. The paper is the first summary of prehistoric evidence for the Barker hypothesis – the idea that many adult diseases originate during fetal development and early childhood.
"Teeth are like a snapshot into the past," Armelagos says. "Since the chronology of enamel development is well known, it's possible to determine the age at which a physiological disruption occurred. The evidence is there, and it's indisputable."
The Barker hypothesis is named after epidemiologist David Barker, who during the 1980s began studying links between early infant health and later adult health. The theory, also known as the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease Hypothesis (DOHaD), has expanded into wide acceptance.
As one of the founders of the field of bioarcheology, Armelagos studies skeletal remains to understand how diet and disease affected populations. Tooth enamel can give a particularly telling portrait of physiological events, since the enamel is secreted in a regular, ring-like fashion, starting from the second trimester of fetal development. Disruptions in the formation of the enamel, which can be caused by disease, poor diet or psychological stress, show up as grooves on the tooth surface.
Armelagos and other bioarcheologists have noted the connection between dental enamel and early mortality for years. For the Evolutionary Biology paper, Armelagos led a review of the evidence from eight published studies, applying the lens of the Barker hypothesis to remains dating back as far as 1 million years.
One study of a group of Australopithecines from the South African Pleistocence showed a nearly 12-year decrease in mean life expectancy associated with early enamel defects. In another striking example, remains from Dickson Mounds, Illinois, showed that individuals with teeth marked by early life stress lived 15.4 years less than those without the defects.
"During prehistory, the stresses of infectious disease, poor nutrition and psychological trauma were likely extreme. The teeth show the impact," Armelagos says.
Until now, teeth have not been analyzed using the Barker hypothesis, which has mainly been supported by a correlation between birth weight in modern-day, high-income populations and ailments like diabetes and heart disease.
"The prehistoric data suggests that this type of dental evidence could be applied in modern populations, to give new insights into the scope of the Barker hypothesis," Armelagos says. "Bioarcheology is yielding lessons that are still relevant today in the many parts of the world in which infectious diseases and under-nutrition are major killers."
Marshall Scholar reads the classics -- and bones
Getting skeletons to talk
Tracing origins of deadly syphilis
Tags: Anthropology, Biology, Health


The CAAB's third Evidence to Practice Seminar was held on the 21st of May 2009. The purpose of this seminar was to introduce a collaborative and proactive framework to engaging children and young people in behaviour management and restoring healthy relationships in a variety of settings from educational to social welfare to justice. For further information about restorative practice and how it would benefit your organisation please click benefits for your organisation.
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SCHILLER PARK, Ill., Jan. 12, 2010 – Life Fitness is proud to announce it has received a 2009 body LIFE Award for its cardiovascular machines. The company has received the award for nine consecutive years since the contest began in 2000. Body LIFE is the leading fitness publication in Europe, and is distributed in eight European countries.
"Life Fitness has consistently wowed the marketplace with their reliable and innovative cardiovascular product lines," said Olaf Schneider, body LIFE director of publishing. "The company has proven it is an industry leader seeing its cardio products have been recognized nine years in a row."
"The body LIFE cardio equipment award is particularly gratifying because it is selected by our customers," said Frank van de Ven, vice president, Life Fitness Continental Europe, Middle East, and Africa. "This award is an indication that we're designing and manufacturing the most advanced, ground-breaking cardio equipment in the industry. A goal we always strive to achieve."
Life Fitness was chosen for the cardio equipment award by 500 randomly selected gym and fitness club owners who completed a computer aided questionnaire and were interviewed. The survey measured customer satisfaction and publicity in seven award categories: cardio, strength, indoor cycling, solarium, software, education and consulting.
The business unit Fitness of the Health and Beauty Group is the leading publisher of B2B fitness magazines in Europe. Overall 8 printed magazines in 5 different languages are published. All magazines are created locally. This ensures marketability and guarantees a high quality, that is adapted to the needs of the markets, for readers as well as for advertisers.


What a great day Paul Couch put on for the members on his Captain's day. He was well supported with over 200 people playing over the two courses, and with the favourable weather it helped to produce some very good scores.
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What can Europe do for music? What can music do for Europe?
The European Music Council (EMC) will present the European Agenda for Music (EAM), which was launched in March 2018. A powerful confirmation of the European music sector's desire to join together in the promotion of a common cause, the Agenda details which directions to pursue in order to ensure a music sector that remains strong, fair, innovative and diverse in a rapidly changing world. Now it is time to put the EAM into action! How can the EAM help you to advocate for your goals? How can actors from the world music scene become involved and contribute to the impact of the EAM?
The EAM puts forward a number of suggested measures ranging from education and access to music, mobility, recognition to data collection and analysis. Which of these measures are particularly interesting for WOMEX delegates?
We will talk about actions that are already going on and explain how you can get involved: from a European Music Observatory to actions on national and regional level. What are the next steps? Are there are other ideas you want to explore?