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Oh, and I also forgot to add that once your boy has all his shots and can go for walks, I know both Esme and Zoe got housebroken faster when they walked with older dogs who would show them the ropes, as it were. Maybe you can walk him with a relative or friend's dog?
Esme followed my Aunt's two dogs lead when she was a puppy and Zoe follows Esme's lead now and maybe it's just a coincidence, but after a few walks with other dogs they got the hang of going outside.
I didn't have an issue with Zoe--I really lucked out, she got the hang of puppy pads the day I brought her home which surprised me. However, my older dog Esme was a total pain to housebreak. It took her almost a year for her to fully grasp the concept, heh.
One of the things I did was to get a spray from the pet store that's designed to give your pup the urge to pee outside. You spray it on a tree or grass, place your puppy next to the area you sprayed, and the idea is that'll help them go to the bathroom. I think I used Nature's Miracles "Go Here" brand, IIRC.
I also noticed with housebreaking Zoe that she prefers going to the bathroom on grassy areas. So maybe pick an area with a lot of greenery and see if that helps?
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I have a 11 week old GSD puppy obviously and i have had him for a few months and as soon as i got him from the breeder I started with crate training. He does well with this. He sleeps at night in there and when i can't watch him i put him in there. Well during the crate training i started the house breaking process as well. Watching him all the time and taking him out like 20 mins after meals and after he wakes up and after i take him out of the crate. He lets me know when he needs to go #2 but he still urinates in the house. He holds it in is crate which i know dogs don't like to soil where they sleep. Its like if he gets the urge to urinate even if its a little he will just go regardless of where i am or where he is. I have tried praises when bringing him outside to urinate and treats but he can't seem to grasp it. Is there any tips you guys and give me or another routine to try or maybe a link? I'm really at a loss here and can't seem to get him to understand that i don't want him to urinate in the house. I heard don't rub their noses in it because it doesn't work. I would really appreciate it guys.
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|Then a female pup would be a good idea if your parents are up to the task. My WD is also 10 months old and needs tons of training and exercise so make sure both dogs get what they need. Make sure they don't bond too closely. If you take Sampson with you after college the new dog should not be traumatized so your parents will have to do the majority of her training so she bonds well to them. Enjoy this projec and the years to come.
|I should have been a little more clear, my apologies. I purchased Sampson at 8 weeks from a breeder in Albion, NY and he is now 10 months. My intention was to get a female as that is commonly the best option when I already have Sam. This same breeder has a litter from the same Sire, but different Dam.
I see you are in Buffalo - not sure where you will be adopting the new dog from, but perhaps Sampson could help choose the dog - I am not saying puppy because he might like an older buddy - you never know. With rescue we always have the dogs meet and see how they do - there is usually a pretty clear message one way or another - though sometimes it's just "meh" which is okay too!
Of course, the owners are not always the best judge of it because they see a dog they want badly and try to shove that square peg in round hole - and end up with a bad situation - so you want to have a few different eyes on the dogs' meetings. You do say "as you raised and trained Sampson" which is only since you got him at 10 months - so there is a lot more to go there, but if they are the ones getting the dog, and they are the ones taking care of it, I am guessing that means that the whole family will be involved in its care.
I believe there are 2 Karen Pryor trained clicker trainers in the Buffalo area, and there is another (I am just copying and pasting one of my old posts here):
I do not know this trainer personally - I did a search on the CPDT website for find a trainer: http://www.purrfectpawsabc.com/Staff.htm
But she has 2 Dutch Shepherds and more than a trainer who can work with Shepherds, I look for trainers that work with breeds that are harder to train and she does have a JRT/Bulldog mix - yeep.
I would contact and go out to observe, and do that with some other places as well, and see what you think. I do appreciate her philosophy as it is written and always like to see it in action if I can before bringing my dog in.
Good luck.
ETA - Is Sampson adopted/are you actually adopting as in a shelter/rescue?
Telling whoever you are getting the dog from what you told us will be helpful to them.
Editing again - a female MIGHT be the better bet, personalities and temperaments matching will matter most.
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Currently I live at home with my parents with a year left of college. I adopted Sampson (born 4/1/2012) earlier this year who acted as a friend and best pal of our 13 y/o Lab, Kelsey. She has since passed on and left not only Sampson without a friend, but also my parents without a dog of their own. As I do not plan on living with them for the majority of Sampson's life, I am going to adopt a puppy for them as a christmas gift. Yes I have already consulted them and yes they know what it entails as they were there as I raised and trained Sampson. I know most of you are against the idea of adding a puppy to the family when Sampson will only be 10 mos. but beyond the bickering and fighting over whether it is the right thing or the wrong thing, I am simply asking what steps I can take to make sure both dogs are trained properly, while still behaving well as friends.
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1976: Actress Rosalind Russell, best known for her movie roles in "His Girl Friday" and "Auntie Mame," dies of breast cancer at the age of 69 in Beverly Hills, California. [ + - ]
1968: John Lennon pleads guilty to a charge of misdemeanor possession of cannabis and is fined $360 in London. Yoko Ono, who was arrested with Lennon on Oct. 18, was cleared of charges. [ + - ]
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1949: Orchestra leader Paul Shaffer, best known as David Letterman's sidekick and band leader since 1982, is born in Thunder Bay, Ontario. [ + - ]
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1944: The MGM movie musical "Meet Me in St. Louis," starring Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien and Mary Astor, opens in New York. It would prove to be the second-highest grossing picture of the year, only behind "Going My Way." Garland debuted the standards "The Trolley Song" and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," which both became hits after the film was released. [ + - ]
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1909: Sergei Rachmaninoff makes the debut performance of his Piano Concerto No. 3, considered to be one of the most technically challenging piano concertos in the standard classical repertoire, with the now-defunct New York Symphony Society at the New Theater in New York City. Rachmaninoff is seen here in 1910 proofing copies of the concerto. [ + - ]
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1895: Frank Duryea wins the Chicago Times-Herald race, the first gasoline-powered automobile race in the United States. The 54-mile race ran from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois, with Duryea winning the $2,000 first prize in approximately 10 hours, averaging about 7.3 miles per hour. [ + - ]
1893: In New Zealand's general election, women vote for the first time ever in a national election. This Tribute to the Suffragettes memorial in Christchurch, New Zealand, honors the country's suffragettes, including (from left to right) Amey Daldy, Kate Sheppard, Ada Wells and Harriet Morison. [ + - ]
1861: Despite Missouri being a Union state, the Confederate Congress officially admits it as the 12th confederate state at the urging of Gov. Claiborne Fox Jackson, a Southern sympathizer who favored secession. Missouri's Confederate government would be driven into exile from Missouri after losing control of the state and Jackson died a short while later in Arkansas. The secessionist government continued in exile, eventually setting up a legislature in Marshall, Texas, until the end of the war. [ + - ]
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Already posted in the jetpack thread as well for your record keeping.
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As in the other threads for these fantastic decals Ordered and paid for a set of ESB and ROTJ.
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Dear Doctor's Racaniello and Despommier,
Huzzah! I have tracked down Dick's missing book on tropical medicine, or at least another copy of said book. While listening to TWIP #40, my ears perked up when Dick said he had lent a book to a student only to have it never return. A quick Google search found the following book: "Tropical Medicine and Parasitology: Classic Investigations" by Mott and Kean of Columbia University circa 1974, which I believe is the book in question. I managed to find a copy online for a steal (less than $10, including shipping!) and immediately ordered it. In 4-14 business days, I should receive a copy, which I will gladly send along to Dr. Despommier as a token of my gratitude for everything that he has done for me (more than you would think).
As a pharmacist working the night shift at a popular chain store, I quickly grew tired of listening to internet radio at night and needed some further stimulation. Your podcast was one of the first that I found and I quickly listened to every episode (multiple times even). This podcast, along with a few other life changing experiences, has inspired me to completely change the direction of my life. I now have solid plans in place to go back to medical school (once my debts are knocked down a bit) with hopes of becoming an infectious disease specialist. My dream is to join Paul Farmer's organization (Partner's in Health) and practice "tropical medicine" while helping those most in need.
Thank you both for all that you do and for taking the time to read my email. If you reply with a mailing address for yourselves at Columbia University, I will gladly send along the missing book once it arrives. As always, looking forward to your next TWIP!
P.S. Are you missing any books Dr. Racaniello? Your work on Polio is greatly appreciated, as my grandfather suffer's from a mild case of Polio myelitis -- so it is obviously a topic that is near and dear to me.
Keely writes:
Hello Dr. Racaniello.
To introduce myself, my name is Keely, and I'm currently a second-year graduate student at UCLA. I work on parasitic worms under Elissa Hallem, and I TA for the undergraduate parasitology class taught by Patricia Johnson.
First off, thanks for all the podcasts. I really enjoy them, and they keep me reading new and interesting papers that are a bit outside of what is usually on my radar. Also, though I was a microbiology major with a strong interest in parasites, my undergraduate institution lacked a full parasitology course, so I learned most of my parasitology from my own reading. I really appreciated the review that TWiP gave me before I started working on parasites for my graduate program.
Anyhow, I was listening to an older episode that I missed somehow, and you mentioned at some point having listeners on the show as a guest. If you ever decided to try and do this, I would love to toss my name in the hat.
Thanks again!
Michael writes:
I am 63 years old. I became ill while serving in Vietnam at the age of 20. For 43 years I have been going to one physician after another physician. Army, VA and private physicians have never been able to identify or diagnose my illness correctly, because every treatment or medicine they gave me, oral and topical, never worked.
For years I argued that I felt that it was parasitic, but the VA eventually convinced me that I had Agent Orange related illnesses and that my idea of parasites was not only futile, but hypochondriasis (a diagnosis, which they actually gave me).
Well, I am still hopelessly suffering. Boils are breaking out all over my body, particularly on my scalp and arms, and I truly feel that I am in late stage severe and chronic Parasitosis, but the VA has me diagnosed with Delusional Parasitosis. Last year in November, I had three very large lesions/boils that grew so large that they burst and left large continuously draining holes (blood and infection) in my arms and scalp. I became interested in the fluid samples and began collecting them in small plastic jars with tight lids. I took these samples to the VA and asked them if they would have them tested/cultured or examined under a microscope to see if anything could be determined or diagnosed. They refused and said that their blood tests for parasites was all that they needed and it had come back negative and there was nothing else that they could or would do. So to date, after years of complaining and arguing, all that they give me in medicines is anything medicines for para
After that I decided to buy a USB 200x Microscope that could take photos of what I focused on underneath the lens, which I found on Amazon marked down from $250 to $80, and examine these fluid collections on my own.
Doctors Racaniello and Despommier, both of you may be surprised. Thus far (for five months now), I have 200x photographed over 3000 pictures of the fluids draining out of these non-healing, large, deep, open wounds. In January I took nearly 1000 (what I had at the time) of these photos to the VA and they wouldn't even look at them, notwithstanding that they also did not give me the necessary wound either. If what I am looking at in the photos is correct I am acutely infected with millions of nematode microfilariasis worms and flukes.
Lastly, is it possible for me to send you a few of these photos (I can send them all on a snailmail CD or post them to Photo Bucket) for you to look at and advise me on whether or not they are in fact one or more of the over 10,000 nematodes that find humans as a desirable host? Thank you.
Raphael writes:
Good day, doctors!
I did not hesitate to write this right after hearing an email you responded on TWiP 39.
I would like to thank cytotechnologist Rebecca for the comment and Dr. Dickson for additional info on how tricho is vertically transmitted from mothers to female newborns and how it could be lifelong. Not so many years ago, I had a rare opportunity to have a urinalysis result that came out which was trichomoniasis positive. The female patient who was in her early twenties denied that she had no history of sexual contact but knowing very well that tricho is a sexually-transmitted infection, I immediately did not believe her. Nevertheless, I treated her with an antiprotozoal drug.
Now that I know how tricho is transmitted, I owe that patient my apology.
Tracy writes:
Dear Dick and Vincent (if I may be so bold)
I listened to the podcast on Leishmania this week as I prepped for my Leishmania lecture in Medical Microbiology. I was struck by Dick's comment that we didn't know what the amastigotes ate while in the the phagolysosome. I ran across an annual review in Microbiology article that seems to address the metabolic needs and potential nutrients sources for the amastigotes while in the phagolysosome.
Here is the link to the paper: (Metabolic Pathways Required for the Intracellular Survival of Leishmania)
I enjoy your podcasts and my students find them an easy way to approach very complex material.
Keep up the good work!
Laura writes:
Firstly i would like ot say that I followed your podcasts whilst i undertook my undergraduate degree and found them useful for revision. I am now starting a PhD at Nottingham University in England this year and would like to thank you for providing such great podcasts.
I would like to ask, as mosquitoes carry a number of parasites/viruses that can infect humans, is it possible for one mosquito to infect a person with more than one species of parasite/virus, for example could a person get malaria and leishmania at the same time from the one mosquito?
Jon writes:
Ok, this sounds rather unpleasant - but may explain a lot about the world :)
The Brain: Hidden Epidemic: Tapeworms Living Inside People's Brains
Suzanne writes:
Maybe Dickson knows or maybe someone else has mentioned it, but if you wash immediately with soap and cold water poison ivy oil washes off more easily. Wash all your clothes in cold water, too. Most people want to wash with warm water (I've done it and boy did the rash spread) but cool or cold water works best. I hope his has cleared up by the time you get this!
Jim writes:
Dickson mentioned this 2 vol set on the last TWIP. This link from the World Catalog may have specifics as well as where Vol 1 can be bought, and cheaply too, it appears. Volume 2 is in the World Cat database, but not linked to any library or store -- odd. The key thing is that the title may be "Tropical Medicine and Parasitology." I found a few Vol 1's, but no Vol 2. Might a Vol 2 be sold as a Vol 1? Here is a link that at least shows a Vol 1 & 2 set has at one point been listed on Amazon, so a periodic search may eventually be productive. I like looking at old books and will keep an eye out in this area. Maybe a mention on a TWIP would alert listeners to also watch for the set. Not an expensive item.
Ref deer flies: I have used these tred-not patches on my hat for several years and they are quite good. Just ordered another big batch. Sound like something Dickson can use, if he is not doing so already. Only negative aspect is that they are only good for one day. The last of my current batch were purchased last year and worked just fine.
Beautiful shows, all!
Smithfield, VA
Stephen writes:
This is actually for TWIP, FYI
(BTY: It's not easy to send to TWIP from the Nature app, because it assumes an email address.)
Bovine TB disguised by liver fluke
Nature News,Published online: 22 May 2012; | doi:10.1038/nature.2012.10685
I have been one of your silent fans for about a year now. And I absolutely LOVE all three of your podcasts. I am a scientist at heart and by training, but a horse trainer for my living. I recall a past podcast about a dressage barn that had an outbreak of toxoplasmosis, and I am trying to search for it, but Toxo is a very popular subject for you guys and the list is long. While I am willing to listen to all episodes again to try to find it, can you give me a hint as to which episode it was and shorten my search?
Your show has been an inspiration to me as well as a fun link to my past life as a scientist. Listening to TWIM has prompted me to go on a several days long spree of reading reprints of my grandmother's research. The earliest I can find is 1933 and she is the lead author in The Journal of Bacteriology on carotenoids and Vitamin A in bacteria. She also was interested in nutrition and color inheritance in Serratia and published her research for four decades. I cant help but think that she was the rare woman bacteriologist who led by example for so many women back then. Thanks for keeping me interested and helping me know my grandmother better.
Meika (pronounced: mica, like the mineral.)
Mike writes:
Doctors, I have recently discovered podcasts and the very first thing i searched for was one on parasites. I have been fascinated with parasites since grade school and will be starting my 3rd year of veterinary school in the fall so i was very excited to see a podcast devoted entirely to parasites. granted a bulk of my parasite knowledge is animal based i still very much enjoy TWIP. I started your first episode and have just finished the episode on hookworms. a few things i wanted to bring up, from the perspective of a budding veterinary parasitologist. First: A. caninum is capable of infecting young pups through the bitches milk and i was wondering if any human hookworms have been documented to do the same, at least for animals, hookworms can also be contracted from eating the 3rd larval stage (generally pica) or from eating a variety of other animals that have eaten the 3rd larval stage and act as a transport host, for example, the larva eaten by a mouse, enter a hibernation state until a cat or a dog comes along and eats the mouse. as the tissues are digested away the larva wakes up, receives environmental cues and will proceed to develop to an adult, this is a particularly common way for cats to contract A. tubaeforme given their predatory nature. Has anything similar ever been documented with a human species of hookworm?
Second: as to the question of prevalence of hookworms in dogs in America, yes they are definitely endemic. they are a problem across the nation especially shelters, as are whipworms, ascarids, coccidia.
Third:in one of the episodes on tapeworms Dick was comparing the pork tapeworm to the beef tapeworm and mentioned that horses and cattle are different from pigs and asked Vince why. Dicks answer was that cattle and horses are both ruminants while a pig is an omnivore, i don't know if this was an accident but horses are not ruminants, they do not have the complex foregut fermentation system of cattle, sheep, goats, deer and other similar animals, horse are hindgut fermenters and do a bulk of their digestion in their colon and cecum (appendix) but both are herbivores.
and last, to Vince, you had peppered Dick with questions on what animal species had what nematode parasites, to broaden your list, ascarids are found in horses, pigs, cats, dogs, cattle, raccoons, wild canids and felids and mostly any other mammal. hookworms are just as ubiquitous in the animal kingdom. that's all for now but i am sure i'll write again, keep up the great work gents. I understand that this is a long email and will not be offended if you don't read it on the air but i would greatly appreciate answers to my questions if possible
Mike writes:
Doctors, again i write to you because a few things had slipped my mind while writing my last email. Dick, when you were describing the live cycle of ascaris, you said there was an operculum on ascarid eggs. I have seen many ascarid eggs of several species and have never seen an operculum, did you miss speak or have i just not been looking carefully enough? or is it specific to A. lumbricoides? it has always been my understanding that the operculum is rather rare in nematode species save members of the orders Oxyurida and Enoplida. speaking of Enoplida, one of the many parasites we discussed in parasitology course that is part of our curiculum was Dioctophyma renale, the giant red kidney worm, a particularly cool video of a dog in canada that was unfortunate enough to contract a few of these has been posted on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ob6S_EqR1c Has there ever been a case in people that you know of?
Lastly, I just listened to the Strongyloides podcast, do pigs, like people often pass the larva in their stool but in the veterinary world they are the exception, most of the time in other domestic species the eggs are what are passed does this ever happen with people? have you ever seen a Strogyloides egg? This particular parasite can be debilitating and even fatal to piglets but with the modern management techniques in the American swine industry the problem has ceased almost entirely.
thanks again for humoring me gents,
Daniel writes:
Hello again professors. Sorry to keep bugging you but I thought you might be interested in a website I happened upon the other day.
It's a crowd sourced pseudo-video game designed by UCLA students in which the players have to identify RBCs that are infected with malaria. Here's a bit of text from the site and the link.
The Idea
Analysis and related diagnosis of medical images, regardless of the source and imaging modality, are tasks that require a great deal of expertise, demanding significant training of medical practitioners prior to being able to accurately interpret and diagnose such images. This is particularly true in analysis of microscopic data, creating challenges in resource-limited settings and developing countries, where properly trained health-care professionals are difficult to find.
We have shown that by utilizing the innate visual recognition and learning capabilities of human crowds it is possible to conduct reliable microscopic analysis of biomedical samples and make diagnostics decisions based on crowd-sourcing of microscopic data through intelligently designed and entertaining games that are interfaced with artificial learning and processing back-ends. We demonstrated that in the case of binary diagnostics decisions (e.g., infected vs. uninfected), using crowd-sourced games it is possible to approach the accuracy of medical experts in making such diagnoses.
Specifically, using non-professional gamers we report diagnosis of malaria infected red-blood-cells with an accuracy that is within 1.25% of the diagnostic decisions made by a trained professional.
Wish you both the best and let me apologize again for bombarding your inbox.
Nick writes:
Hi Vince and Dick,
I'm writing hoping that you haven't already been flooded with emails regarding heartworm treatment and resistance, and if you have, maybe I can still be able to contribute something. I'm a dual degree student (DVM/PhD) at Cornell University and am studying the mosquito vector ecology of heartworm. As your listener mentioned, there have been some reports of persistent microfilaremia in dogs on preventive medication. Some of the issue has been shown to be due to lack of owner compliance to administering the drug, but, after controlling for that, there have still been dogs identified with persistent microfilaremia despite preventive treatment (and often after the adults have been killed or removed), which currently is the only standard method to clear the microfilariae.
This loss of efficacy is specifically of the microfilariae to clearance, not to melarsomine (Immiticide), which is the adulticide. Ivermectin formulations used as preventive/microfilaricidal, which you eventually got to during the podcast anyway! There have been some studies looking into the effect of doxycycline on clearing the Wolbachia in Dirofilaria immitis to reduce their ability to reproduce and possibly reduce microfilarial and larval fitness for transmission, which I thought you'd find interesting.
I'll be sure to chime in on veterinary topics or, more likely, vector biology topics that I know something about. Also, I was surprised to hear that Dick came to speak at Cornell but I had missed it! I'll have to be more attentive next time,
Keep up the good work!
Alberto writes:
Dear Parasite Hosts
I thought Dickson would be interested in this story from ABC's ( Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Science Show which features an interview with A/Prof Daryl Davies of USC, LA in which he discusses the potential use of ivermectin for the treatment of alcoholism.
I found this recent article in Neuropharmacology from the Davies lab which describes the experimental use of ivermectin in a mouse model of alcohol dependence.
I quote from the abstract:
".. in the present study we investigated the effects of this agent on several models of alcohol self-administration in male and female C57BL/6 mice. Overall, IVM (1.25-10 mg/kg, intraperitoneal) significantly reduced 24-h alcohol consumption and intermittent limited access (4-h) binge drinking, and operant alcohol self-administration (1-h)."
The mechanism of action appears to be via antagonism of a purinergic receptor in the brain. In the interview, A/Prof Davies explains that in parasitic organisms, the drug acts by stimulating an excitatory glutamate chloride channel.
Keep up the great work guys.
Ethan writes:
I found this in the mail today from my water department and had to forward it to you guys. Looks as though my city's water is clean of any cryptosporidium parasites, but inhabitants of other middle Tennessee areas perhaps are not so lucky!
Peter writes:
Watching 'Origin of Us' a BBC2 documentary on Human evolution. In Episode 2, 'Guts', the host Dr. Alice Roberts mentions an interesting hypothesis relating to tape-worms.
It appears that the lion tape worm and human tape worm are very closely related. A DNA study is used to determine the time of worm
speciation. It is assumed that around this time Humans began to steal or eat the same prey as lions. Eventually the worm evolves from Humans as the intermediate, host to becoming the definitive host. Aprox 800k to 1.7 million BCE.
She does not cite the work but, being a BBC doco, I have no reason to doubt the work is genuine and published somewhere.
Novel idea to use tape worms for plotting meat eating in Humans.
Stephen writes:
Might this help to learn how Cobbold named Loa loa.
I don't have access to the journal, and didn't find the full text on line. Pubget.com finds it at the nearest university library, but it's $31.
A bit steep just to satisfy curiosity.
Rohit writes:
Dear Dr Racaniello and Despommier,
I listened to the fascinating episode Worm in the Eye: TWIP 40 earlier this week. Coincidently, I saw this news story, about a doctor taking out a worm from the eye in Mumbai India today. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-18640495
I thought that it would be interesting to hear Dr Despommier's expert comments about this worm/case. I apologize if this worm has already been discussed and I have just not caught up with that particular episode yet. I am curious if the doctor's statement "The worm could have travelled deeper into the eye or gone to the brain through the optic nerves, which could have been fatal" is true. Being a virologist, I know that Polio and other viruses travel through nerves but can worms too travel through nerves?
Dr Despommier is a wonderful story-tellier. I find it amazing how much he can remember. Keep the awesome worm-stories coming along with some very intriguing questions from Dr Racaniello.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Chandran Lab
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Ethan writes:
Dickson mentioned how crazy it is that ticks can live up to 50 years in a dormant state without taking a blood meal, and it immediately reminded me of this:
After subjected to conditions within a vacuum and being blasted by an electron beam, the tick keeps ticking.
Joann writes:
Hi Drs. Racaniello and Despommier,
Great podcast!
I'm a graduate student in epidemiology and am completing my practicum this summer working as a health inspector in a coastal town. One of the health agents I work with used to be a chef at one of the local restaurants. She described to me (warning this is gross!) how they used to use tweezers to pull out little (~1" worms) from cod and swordfish that would later be cooked in served. My questions for you: do you have any idea what these worms might be? And, is there any chance that ingesting them (or perhaps eggs/larvae, etc.) of these worms would make humans sick? Regardless, still pretty nasty.
Keep up the great podcasts! I have a long commute usually and have been twipping and re-twipping.


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hi people,new guy here.i have a 71 chevelle with a mild 355 at the moment and am considering building a 383 for it over the winter.i'd like to hear your thoughts on the combo i'm contemplating.late model 1 pc rear main seal 350 block w/arp main and head studsscat 383 rotating assembly w/cast crank,i-beam rods and forged pistons9.8:1 comp w/64cc chambers and total seal ringscomp cams thumper hyd roller cam and liftersgear drive(for accuracy and a little noise)regular volume oil pump w/cromo drive shaftmoroso road race oil pan(plan to autocross the crap out of it)iron vortec style heads maybe engine quest performance castings.anyone tried them?hardened pushrods and screw-in studs and guide platescomp cams aluminum rockers(1.5:1 ratio)edelbrock rpm air-gap intakeholley 770 cfm avenger carbmsd billet ready to run distributor,coil and wires w/ngk plugsi have flowtech afterburner headers and like them,but am considering 1 3/4"primary headers instead.also have 2 1/2" dual exhaust w/dynomax super turbo mufflers now,but thinking flowtech warlock mufflers w/electric cutouts just to scare the hondas a bit at the track.so,whattya think?the car has a turbo 350 with a shift kit and a 2500 rpm stall and 3:36:1 gears now,but i have a saginaw 4spd sitting on the garage floor(a 5 or 6 spd would be better of course)i'm thinking of putting in.i'm looking forward to your feedback guys,so don't be shy.
Your combo sounds good, except for your Thumper cam choice, not my fav for making power.Your Saginaw will not handle the torque of a 383 for very long.WHY, beause the Sagiaw has 4 forward gears and reverse in the main case. This mean the gears are narrow and much weaker than a Muncie or Borg Warner Super T-10,,, these tranmissions have only the 4 forward gears in the main case, with reverse in the extension housing. This allows for wider, stronger gears. These boxes will handle your 383 power, with no problem.
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Professional hi-performance engine builderHorsepower sells Engines and torque wins races.
thanks for the input guys.the thumper cam isn't written in stone,it was that one or the extreme energy xr282hr hyd roller.i've seen good things with the extreme energy cams so that's the one i picked out.i'm hoping for about 425hp and a nice flat torque curve for the street and occasional track use.sound reasonable?the saginaw's also just an option i got for cheap(traded an old sled for it).got the bellhousing too,supposed to be from a 65 el camino.maybe i'll just sell it.anything to feed the small budget y'know.
Hey man, i'm new to this forum, but I saw your question and thought i'd reply. I have a 69' chevelle that weighs 3540lb with driver with a mild 383 in it and am running in the 7.70 range with 26" tall DOT tires in the eight mile. I think you'll be satisfied with the 383. The only thing I think you'll want to consider is to change that carb. to a smaller double pumper I never thought the vacuum secondary carbs were worth anything and that is a little big with the size torque converter you have. Also you might want to consider a larger exhause system with the larger size headers you have on it. I'm only running cheap 1 5/8 tube headers with a 3" inch piping and it seems to provide great torque. Sounds like a great combo and good luck with it.
The larger exhaust will only help the top end power band. Is that the idea??..
It depends what he wants out of it but if you put those 1 3/4 headers with a large exhaust, then yeah it would be top end but if he puts on 1 5/8 headers with large exhaust he should maintain good torque at the lower rpms. It would make no sense to put large headers and small exhaust that would definitley not be efficient at scavenging the exhaust at all, whether your looking for top end or low end power. Everything must match and work in harmony, if you go big on one go big on the other, atleast thats my experience and what i've found that works for me.
thanks for your opinion dude.my '71 weighs about the same as yours and it moves ok with the 355 so i'm excited to see what the 383 will do.i'm running a 600cfm 1850 holley converted to center hung bowls and a "soft" secondary spring and it has lots of snap out of the hole,so i thought maybe the 770cfm would work with the bigger engine.a 650cfm double pumper might be a possibilty though.i'm not too concerned with ultimate top end power as much as good torque from the bottom through the midrange.if i want more on the top maybe i'll slap it with a 100-150hp shot at the strip.then i'll probably really need the 3" exhaust.
Those heavy cars like ours likes more torque, so I think you'll be real happy with the 383. If you need any info on mine or anything that can help just let me know, I mixed and matched a lot of parts to get mine running faster, so maybe I can help ya without you spending a lot of wasted money. Thats the great thing about these forums, find out what really works so you don't have to spend a ton of cash. Good luck to ya.
sounds good,i will.thanks.
Check out this thread. A young gun did a real nice street 383 with great results. He posted everyting as he went along-Got all the 383 parts inhttp://forums.chevyhiperformance.com/70/8308974/general-discussion/got-all-the-383-parts-in/index.html
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a couple thoughts for ya,tri-y headers,an accusump oil accumulator,a snow water/methanol injector system,burn 87 octane fuel and save money.
Your Carb choice will be fine... I had a 383 with a Comp XE284 Cam, air gap, Dart Pro1 200cc heads and a Demon 750... the out of box Demons flow more than the out of box Holleys, and I had NO Problem with torque down low... in a 4000 Lbs Vehicle. I did have 3.73 Gears... What do you have for Gears?
this post is almost 6 months old.
Yup,,, newcomers raising the dead,,, but that's OK Joe, no biggie
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Some people have asked me for this helmet, so I decided to do it. and what better place than this to receive your comments or criticisms about this helmet.
well, here's the model...
is still a bit raw, but I'll go update their progress in the coming days.


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My laptop is overheating. Can you recommend any methods or products that would help?
Does your laptop tend to overheat? Is your laptop suddenly shutting down? That could be caused by overheating. You might not immediately notice that your laptop has an overheating problem. Actually, it may take over a year of usage, depending on the type of usage and care you've given it. This tip describes some techniques that you can use to prevent laptop overheating problems and therefore extend the life of your laptop.
Typically, laptop overheating is a design flaw. The best way around overheating problems is to not buy a laptop that has an inherent overheating problem. You can do this by going to the laptop manufacturer's forums and by viewing Internet reviews from credible sites. I did a quick search and found that the Dell Inspiron 1100, 1150, 5100 and 5150 laptops are prone to overheating.
If, however, you've already purchased the laptop and are currently facing overheating problems, try these tips:
Check the environment: Using a laptop in a hot environment will inevitably lead to overheating.
Check the laptop vents: Every laptop has vents that channel hot air out of the laptop. These vents should always enable air to pass out of the laptop. You should check for blockages within the laptop and outside the laptop. For example, if you are using the laptop on a desk and have blocked one of the air vents with a book or something else on the desk, it's safe to assume the laptop will overheat, regardless of the design! Also, if there are vents under the laptop, you could try propping it over the desk by placing the laptop on a couple of books, taking care not to cover the vents.
It is common for dust and dirt to block air vents. Use a compressed air duster spray to clean the laptop. Apart from air vents, laptops breathe through the keyboard. Therefore, ensure the keyboard is free of any dirt or grime. For more, take a look at the Fellowes CRC 22020 Deluxe Laptop Cleaning Kit at the WorldStart store.
Use Cooling Pads: These pads have a fan that improves laptop cooling. All you have to do is place the laptop on the pad. Considering that the cost of this product is a very small percent of the laptop cost, this is worth the investment. For more, take a look at the PremierTek PT-CP01 Notebook Cooler Pad at the WorldStart store.
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By Giuseppe Muro
Cesc Fabregas has failed to recover from a muscular injury and has not travelled to Germany for the Club's pre-season training camp.
The midfielder missed the recent tour of Asia with the problem and will not join up with the rest of the squad, who flew out to Cologne on Friday afternoon, Arsène Wenger has confirmed.
Summer signing Gervinho has made the trip and is in line to make his Arsenal debut against FC Cologne on Saturday. There is also a place in the squad for goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski, who returns from the shoulder injury that kept him out of action at the back end of last season.
Nicklas Bendtner, Abou Diaby and Emmanuel Eboue have stayed in London.
"[Fabregas] has not completely recovered from his muscular injury," Wenger told Arsenal.com on Friday. "It is too early for him, he is not ready.
"Gervinho is with us. Fabianski is back. Eboue is injured and is behind and Bendtner is behind.
"Diaby is out longer term so that is why I do not speak about him. We do not count Diaby for August. He will miss the start of the season for sure."Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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So Jimmy around age 20 finally watches Star wars and is facinated with boba fett. He watches the moveis again and again quoting the fett anytime he is on. Eventually Jimmy finds fans and online pages dedicated to Boba. Determined to get his own set of mandalorian armor he setouts to start saving money and get the most authentic set ever. He buys only what the long-time fans buy and paints details carefully.
His gauntlets and backpack arrive later than the rest of his amror. He opens up the box carefully and is delighted to lay it on the floor. A thought hits him when he realizes the hose that goes with his gauntlet reaches the jetpack. After some custom work he makes a "waterthrower." Placing a bag in the jetpack to avoid getting anything wet he drills a hole to have the hose connect to. The swithc on his gauntlet opens the waterflow for a quick squirt of water on an unsuspecting person.
Jimmy goes to his first convention and is loved by everyone. Photos are taken from familys and the media, he is even interviewed by his local news station. During the interview he explains how expensive all the parts were and he leads on about his waterthrower and has a supprise demonstration. Unfortunatly his jetpack had rolled itself loose and didn't allow his arm to come all the way up. The gauntlet released a jet stream of water right into the televisions camera short-circuiting it.
A camera man caught the jet stream in mid flight, Jimmy was horrified the next day when the newspaper main article read "The $4,000 star wars water gun"


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This salad must be prepared right before you are going to serve it. Don't let it sit around with the dressing on it. Now, here's how to make that fantastic salad:
Restaurant Quality Salad at Home
(2 servings)
3-4 handfuls absolutely fresh salad greens, preferably a mixture of baby greens
1-2 T best quality extra virgin olive oil, enough to barely coat greens
1-2 tsp. balsamic vinegar
fresh ground black pepper
2-3 T crumbled gorgonzola cheese or other flavor addition of your coice
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So hunting in gusts to 30 mph in mid-Minnesota tomorrow morning. Anyone have any experience in high winds? Ducks will still hit the rice early or should I hunt the back bays in the bulrushes to get out of the wind?
I am thinking the ducks/geese might be flying nice and low into the rice still but its been a while since I've hunted a lake in the wind like that.


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Surgery may be used to treat a small number of people with COPD. It can improve symptoms, make breathing easier, and sometimes prolong life. However, it cannot cure the disease. Surgical procedures include:
Bullectomy improves breathing for a small number of people with COPD. This is a rarely done elective procedure. It involves the surgical removal of a large air space, called a bulla, which is filled with oxygen-depleted air. When the bulla is removed, healthy functioning air sacs around it have room to expand. This makes muscles used for breathing work better. Usually only one large bulla is removed.
Surgeons do bullectomy in 2 different ways. An incision is made in the side of the chest wall between the ribs. This is called a thoracotomy. Then, a tube mounted with a small video camera, called a video thoracoscope, is inserted. Surgical instruments are also attached to the thoracoscope. The surgeon is able to view the lung on a video screen while removing the bulla. The bulla can also be removed through this incision.
Lung Volume Reduction Surgery (LVRS)
This procedure is done to relieve symptoms in people with advanced COPD. Surgeons remove a portion of the most diseased lung tissue. This allows the diaphragm to return to a more normal position, allowing it to work more efficiently. This may improve lung elasticity. In some people, surgery can improve symptoms.
Surgeons do LVRS with a thoracotomy. The surgeon removes the diseased lung tissue through a large incision. In another method, surgeons insert a video thoracoscope through a small incision. They remove diseased tissue while viewing the lungs on a video screen (VATS). In both procedures, surgeons remove about 20%-30% of the most damaged lung tissue.
Lung Transplant
A lung transplant is a surgical procedure to remove severely diseased lungs and replace them with healthy lungs from a human donor. One or both lungs may be transplanted. The procedure may be done in people with end-stage COPD.
In a single lung transplant, the surgeon makes an incision on your side, about 6 inches below your underarm. A horizontal incision across the lower chest is made for a double lung transplant. You will be put on a ventilator and a heart-lung machine. The heart-lung machine takes over the functions of the heart and lungs during the operation. A small section of rib is permanently removed to allow access to your lung. The old lung is cut away from the main blood vessel and bronchus. The new lung is then inserted. The blood vessels and bronchus are attached to the new lung. You will probably remain on medications indefinitely to prevent rejection of your transplanted organs.
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I used to walk my GSD and Sibe. We could go for 2-3 hour walks and it wouldn't even tire them, plus it would take up too much of my time. I would use a "traffic lead" (basically the handle portion of a leash and the clip, totaling 12" in total length) and keep one dog on each side of me. I could maintain positive control over my 2, even if off leash dogs were running around.
Eventually I felt the need to find a new way of exercising them together that wouldn't take hours every day. That's also around the same time we added a 3rd dog, another Sibe. This lead me to learning about bikejoring, carting, dog scootering, and all of the other various dog powered sports aka urban mushing. This is basically dog sledding in areas where or when you don't have any snow. I found a local sled dog club that helped me outfit my dogs with the proper gear, and off we went! Here's a pic of what we (me, Paw Paw and Beowulf) look like so you get the idea:
We find places to bikejor where there are little to no cars, dogs, and people. The location in the pic is a cemetery where pets are allowed, and that we were given permission to use. The staff and security were dealing with thieves, and welcomed me in there as an extra presence to help deter people from stealing the precious metals on the tombstones. Oh, and the dogs have been trained to know all of the sled dog commands, and we've run into off leash dogs and people and cars, so they know to behave. The only real problem we ever had was coyotes, sometimes individuals or the entire pack of 10-12, that would run up on us and just stop and stare without backing away. My dogs didn't appreciate that. I was just happy to observe coyotes so up close and personal, but eventually we had to leave to keep the dogs from wanting to go fight them.
I'm in the process of finally purchasing a Diggler dog scooter, which seems to be the top of the line scooter to give you the most real "sled" experience, as you stand up and can kick to help the dogs, instead of sitting down and pedaling. Usually when I bikejor, I let the dogs do most all of the work, and normally don't have to pedal at all. They get to run and pull, so they're building strength and endurance.
Bikejoring, and soon dog scootering, helped us a ton. I now have 4 dogs and can take them all out together to exercise at one time. We do about 5-10 miles, 6 days a week, and it takes us an average of 1 hour versus those old 3 hour walks. Ha! Love it. Good luck!!
This is probably bad advice so *disclaimer* BUT it works for us. You also have to consider how 'doggy active' active your neighborhood is (for us we see maybe 2 or 3 dogs total on an hour long walk).
My husky pulls. So he's on a prong and a retractable (I know; bad idea :C). Zeeva is reactive, so she's close to me on a rope leash and a prong. The prongs are really the only thing that (in my mind) give me control enough to walk them this way...
What I should be doing is taking them one by one on a half hour walk each. Or taking each one for an hour every other day. When I do walk them individually, they are much better behaved so IMO this is the best way to walk multiple dogs until they're trained enough to not fall into each others bad habits. Bad habits are always easier to pick up than good ones...
Walking multiple dogs is an art, do like Cesar does!
|I love walking my pack together. When I lived in town I usually took two at a time for potty breaks (picking up poop is much easier with less amount of dogs meandering around you), but for long walks I enjoy walking all four together. I put the prong collar on the gsds just in case the pack gets too excited about something but I have put in a lot of time and effort working on reactivity and leash skills so they are pretty well behaved passing anything. And the looks and comments I get! People stop their cars to ask if they are all mine
|I have 4. I don't mind if they are doggie. I have 5 acres so I never walk them off property unless we are going to vet or someplace and then they go individually.
|The more dogs I walk the more I enjoy it. :-) I walk both my dogs together and sometimes other peoples dogs. I don't worry about anything going wrong. Both my dogs are pretty similar in that they walk nicely and do not react to other dogs, small animals, or people.
|Leash walk yes only because i am really lazy and cannot be bothered to leash all 3 and stummble around fiddling with my phone trying to find good tunes, so i will stagger walks but when its a rip around the feild they all go.
Nope. I enjoy a pack walk. It does mean I need to spend extra effort training each dog as an individual to not be reactive or to come when called off prey, because the pack feeds off bad energy especially, but I don't have time to run each dog separately, and running with a bunch of dogs is just fun.
I use E-collars, train the older dogs before introducing the younger. And prongs for multi-leash walks. The dogs have prey drive, and they outweigh me. Control is paramount. If you can have that, walking a bunch of dogs can be great fun.
I have two dogs. A reactive GSD, 18mths and a 10yr old Huntaway who loves everyone and everything. The GSD is very well behaved and much less reactive when walked on her own. They feed of each other's energy and even though the Huntaway is a very happy dog it makes no difference, the reactive dog needs calm which the Huntaway doesn't always provide. They love their walks together so they get walked together in the morning and at night and separate walks during the day. I also do individual training now on their joint walks. I think it's important each dog sees me in charge and since I started doing training this way my GSD has become more focused on me and less on the Huntaway.
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When I had three dogs, I walked them as a pack, BullMastiff/APBT/Lab,Boxer and my GSD. Only my GSD is with me today.
Multiple dogs are going to take more time to train becasue you have to train them individually. It's best to have a dog without issues before adding another but water under the bridge now.
Dogs learn form each other, if you train them together all the time...it's easy to "think" one dog knows something when he is actually cueing off the other dog! Saw that when I took my Boxer out without her buddy and I parked the car, opened the door and she popped out the door!!!
Oops so one on one training is a must!
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There are a couple of local WL breeders in the area. You should visit the local PSA club. Josie on here is a member. She doesn't get on here anymore but I can put you in touch with her. She occasionally comes on the sat walks. Koi typically has a waitlist but you can certainly visit and see what psa is all about. They have some sch folks working with them as well. K9 Working Dogs
If you are interested in visiting the sch club pm me, that's another story. Also I have a friend on the Lewisville SAR team. Search One Rescue Team: HOME. I can put you in contact with her. Vistors are welcome to their practice sessions. They have team member roles without dogs if you are interested in getting involved before you get your next pup.
Next time I see you I can give you some breeder suggestions as well It's never too early to start planning!
|I've worked a very nice male from meerhout in tx
|I'm up in Denton, but willing to travel quite a distance, likely even across the country for the right dog.
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|Where are you in Tx? I'm about to purchase a pup from a local breeder. He is really big into training schutzhund. His Dogs are west german. He only breeds a couple litters a year. I get my girl in less than 3 weeks!
Any Advice on a Breeder?
I'm not planning on getting another puppy for another year or two, but I thought I would start looking into breeders sooner rather than later. Since buying from a breeder is still very new to me, I would be extremely grateful for advice from those with more knowledge of breeders and the types of dogs they may produce.
In my next dog, besides the obvious good health and stable temperament, I would really love to have a dog with much higher drive and motivation to work. I am in the process of learning agility and I am enjoying it immensely, so I would definitely like to do agility with my next dog.
I would also love to do schutzhund or mondio (depending on which is more accessible to me). So I need to find a puppy that has the drive and willingness to go for the bite, but not so nuts that it absolutely needs someone who has done years of the sport to be able to handle.
I'm really just not sure what I'm looking for. I have read that I shouldn't worry too much about whether it is West German/Czech/DDR etc lines because I likely wouldn't be able to tell the difference anyways. So I really just need help finding a breeder from whom I could get a dog with the drive and temperament to do some agility and primarily schutzhund, but not so easily overstimulated that it would tear me apart while I am learning the sport.
I wanted to learn schutzhund with Kaiju before I got another dog, but he's simply not right for the sport. He likes to chase down the rag/sleeve, but it seems like no matter what we do, he just has no earthly interest in biting unless we put a ridiculous amount of energy into encouraging him to go for it. And even then, it's iffy. So I'll be channeling him into agility and obedience.
I've decided against going back to the breeders I bought Kaiju from because besides a few IPO1 titles in his ancestors' pedigrees, they were focused more on just breeding solid dogs for active families and sports newbies. I've come to call them "newbie working dogs" Enough drive that I can see the difference between Kaiju and the couch potato shepherds that are milling around my apartment complex, but not drivey enough that he compares to some of the schutzhund dogs I've seen.
Sorry if I come across as ignorant about different lines and what it takes for a dog to be competitive in schutzhund. It's all very new to me and I want to learn as much as possible before I decide on my next dog. Again, any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Hi !!
I'm Peter from Poland.
My first project of mando costume I realised 1 year ago for my son.
So it is time to make costume for me . What do you think about my project of mandalorian pilot's helmet?
I made several versions:
The idea was to not change much in the shape of the helmet.
I think about doing in the future a pilot Mandalorian costume. The inspiration for me is this picture (love it):
[img width=465 height=650]http://i571.photobucket.com/albums/ss151/TheGrandDuck/Mandalorians/MandalorianPilot.jpg[/img]
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Senior Leading Young Phoenix After Opening Round
By: Andrew Gavin (@GBGavin)
HOWEY-IN-THE-HILLS, Fla. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) – Senior Christina De Boer (Onalaska, Wis.) carded four birdies and posted an opening round 80 on Friday, leading Green Bay on Day 1 of the 2013 Horizon League Championships on the par-72, 5,817-yard Las Colinas Course at Mission Inn Resort and Golf Club.
Freshman Katie Pokrandt (Eau Claire, Wis.), who on Thursday was named the Horizon League Newcomer of the Year, matched De Boer's score as both players sit in a tie for eighth place.
Green Bay's team score of 331 left the Phoenix in sixth place after the first 18 holes with the 54-hole tournament set to resume with round two on Saturday morning. To follow the action on Saturday and Sunday with live scoring, click here.
Two other freshmen made their Horizon League Championships debuts on Friday. Sammi Grunder (Pardeeville, Wis.) carded an 85 to stand in a tie for 28th while Steph Laude's (Slinger, Wis.) 87 has her in 33rd place. Junior Grace Abitz (Appleton, Wis.) shot an 86 and is in a tie for 30th place.
Team Scores
T1. Detroit, 312
T1. Cleveland, 312
T3. Youngstown State, 321
T3. Valparaiso, 321
5. Loyola, 327
6. Green Bay, 331
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T8. Katie Pokrandt, 8
T8. Christina De Boer, 80
T28. Sammi Grunder, 85
T30. Grace Abitz, 86
33. Steph Laude, 87
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In light of the USGBC's recent release of LEED for Neighborhood Development, EcoHome checks in with Perkins+Will urban designer and Georgia Tech School of Architecture professor David Green, who has helped to plan sustainable communities across the country for more than two decades.
In more than 20 years designing sustainable neighborhoods, what are some of the lessons you've learned?
The most important lesson I have learned is that everyone comes to the table with predetermined ideas about what green or sustainable means. Generally developers think of green from a marketing perspective, which drives their decision-making process; builders look to green for cost-saving measures; designers think of green as the newest trendy technological innovation, such as green roofs; local jurisdictions think of green as something that gets checked off on a list; and residents want green features if they maintain the status quo. This is a very general characterization, and things are changing, but this is the context in which many of the decisions are made on a project-by-project basis.
Changing some of these perceptions will be a very long and difficult process. Because of this, I don't concentrate on specific debates about technology, but on instituting an open environment where these discussions can take place. The first question I ask on any project is, 'What kind of city do you want?' If the answer is a walkable, sustainable city then the focus is to design the community to be as transit-accessible as possible because the more people using public transportation, the more sustainable the project.
What are the most important elements of a sustainable community?
I tell my students and clients that the single most important element of a sustainable urban system is a clearly defined public realm that is made up of connected streets and the smallest possible blocks that allow for easy development. If the blocks are too small, we know from experience that developers will simply ask to remove a street and combine two blocks. Shortcuts like this lead to a short-term, unsustainable system that requires substantial infrastructure modification as the world changes.
Unfortunately, thinking long-term is not an easy sell in our culture. I have learned over the years that much of the work done in the pursuit of making our world more sustainable actually moves us further from our goal. For example, we generally think of public transit as good for the environment, but many of our suburban stations are surrounded by parking lots, which actually produce more greenfield development and more carbon.
To combat a narrow-minded approach, we need to look at the entire system and set very basic goals; for example, the reduction of carbon output and minimizing infrastructure replacement as projects change. With these goals in mind we can determine the best way to begin.
Why are some regulations that drive neighborhood design and development counterproductive to sustainability?
Unfortunately many of the legal and technical requirements in urban planning are products of a previous era when community goals were quite different than they are today. For example, the idea that cities should be designed to facilitate automobile travel is so entrenched in our thinking that it is virtually impossible to convince people that this is not only unnecessary but also detrimental to the ultimate goal of sustainable cities. Also challenging is the requirement for useable open space in many city ordinances. The idea has its origins in a very noble pursuit: making early 20th-century tenements in dense urban areas livable. But over the years this simple and seemingly benign regulation has changed urban frameworks to ones that are unwalkable and inflexible because it has led to buildings separated by open spaces that aren't oriented to the street. This creates a spatial system that is highly uncomfortable for pedestrian activity, but the idea has gained such a deep-seated currency with planners, the general public, and designers, that to advocate for less open space is to generally lose all credibility.
Most people, even architects, have never analyzed the impact these types of regulations have had on the built environment so they continue to gain credibility through use. These ideas have become so accepted in the minds of many people involved in designing cities, towns, and suburbs that it will probably be our grandchildren's generation that first sees substantive change regarding these requirements.
Will the release of LEED for Neighborhood Development help in the pursuit of a more sustainable built environment?
Of course LEED-ND will help greatly. The USGBC has done an admirable job compiling huge amounts of information and formatting it in such a way as to make better buildings and better neighborhoods. At the most basic level, they have brought the conversation to the forefront of the public consciousness as well as embedded in the hearts and minds of almost every planner, urban designer, and architect the idea that we need to build more sustainably.
Jennifer Goodman is Senior Editor, Online for EcoHome.