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With so many different entertainment options out there for your children, we at PopcornBiz thought we'd take a moment each week to dissect one piece of family entertainment strictly from a parent's perspective, so that you know what parts are appropriate for your loved ones, and which are not. This week's COVER YOUR EYES subject: "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation."
There are so many different family Christmas movies out there to choose from, and many of your options are terrible. I know this because we bought "Santa Buddies" for our car ride up to grandma's house. Do NOT watch "Santa Buddies." In fact, do not watch any movie with "Buddies" in the title. You will be in for a world of talking dog-inflicted pain. And don't force "It's A Wonderful Life" on your kids, either. That's downright cruel. You've got two hours of boring olde tymey movie with a half-hour episode of "The Twilight Zone" tacked onto the end. It's intolerable if you're a modern child.
That leaves us with a handful of options. You can watch "A Christmas Story," which is fantastic. You can watch "Elf," which is good but will persuade your kids to put syrup on their pasta. Or you can try and imbue your children with a dose of 80s nostalgia and subject them to "Christmas Vacation," which isn't as good as the original "Vacation" but is MUCH better than "European Vacation" (I won't mention "Vegas Vacation"). Is this holiday classic, written by the legendary John Hughes, appropriate for your little ones? Let's see consider a few factors:
The "Will Parents Be Able To Tolerate It?" Factor: Yes. "Christmas Vacation" falls squarely into the category of "80s movies you pray your children will love just as much as you did".
The Dead Parent Factor: None. The only serious moments in "Christmas Vacation" have to deal with Clark Griswold's economic concerns, which seem quaint in today's day and age. No bonus, Clark? AT LEAST YOU HAVE A JOBBY JOB.
The Sexy Sex Sex Factor: Can we talk about the pool scene? We should talk about the pool scene, because it's awesome. That's Nicollette Scorsese (daughter of Martin), stripping out of her bikini while standing on the diving board. I cannot begin to tell you how strong of an impression this scene made on me when I was a child. Scorsese would later get fully naked in "Boxing Helena." Seems like you should know that. Anyway, between this scene and Scorsese's first scene displaying her underwear at the store, NLCV has more sexual overtones than your standard Christmas movie. That's probably why people like it.
The Scare Factor: If you're scared of horrible relatives, deflating turkeys, and holiday-induced psychopathy, it's quite a scary film. But not anywhere near as scary as "Wonderful Life." That thing is terrifying.
The Violence Factor: Mostly of the pratfall variety, with Chevy Chase falling from pretty much every elevated platform you can think of. There's also the kidnapping at the end, with Cousin Eddie bringing Clark's boss to the Griswold house in an attempt to force the boos to give Clark his Christmas bonus. AND IT WORKS! Who knew kidnapping would pay off so handsomely? A sound lesson for your little ones.
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If students were protesting the Vietnam War, who or what did they want to stick it to?
The Vietnam War ran for 20 years (1955 - 1975). Combine that with the draft, civil rights and the assassinations of high-profile leaders, and it's no surprise that the '60s were full of protests, boycotts and people who wanted to stick it to the establishment, meaning the government, powers that be, or just conventional society at the time.


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Lena Dunham is a 26-year-old director, actor and writer, and the creator of HBO's hit series Girls. Which you NEED to get hold of somehow if you haven't already, because it's completely addictive and wonderful.
She'll be an author soon, too, after an intense bidding war between publishers resulted in a book deal from Random House that makes my head spin. (I thought publishers were in financial crisis? Maybe that's why?) Tentatively titled Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's Learned, it "will cover topics like work, friendship, travel, sex, love, and mortality," according to the New York Times.
But Dunham's wry hipster tones have most recently been channeled into an ad for Barack Obama, which debuted last week on the official BarackObamadotcom YouTube channel. Called 'Lena Dunham: Your First Time', she speaks to first-time female voters about losing their voting virginity and making their "first time" count.
"Your first time shouldn't be with just anybody," advises Dunham. "You want to do it with a great guy. It should be with a guy with beautiful ... somebody who really cares about and understands women."
"My first time was with @BarackObama - I highly recommend you do the same," Dunham tweeted when the video went up. And later: "The video may be light but the message is serious: vote for women's rights."
Anyway, because sex is fundamentally wrong, conservatives have hit the roof. "How could a president with two, young blossoming daughters release an ad as disgusting as this," tweeted John Notle, Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. (Side note: I really think it's time grown men were banned from describing young women as "blossoming".)
Republican columnist Ben Shapiro was equally as repulsed: "It's an astoundingly tasteless ad comparing voting for the first time to losing your virginity," he spluttered. "Obama has young daughters. But that didn't stop him from releasing this commercial. Because this is what Obama thinks of your daughters."
Eric Erickson, CNN contributor and editor-in-chief of Red State, declared the video "further proof we live in a fallen world destined for hell fire."
And batty Fox News contributor Monica Crowley tweeted: "Average Obama work day: sleep in, work out, blow off intel briefings, smoke, lie, swear, go to Vegas, lie again, & deflower 1st time voters."
Funnily enough, conservatives seem to have forgotten the words of their very own, most treasured President, Ronald Reagan, who made a similar sex/voting comparison in 1980: "I know what it's like to pull the Republican lever for the first time because I used to be a Democrat myself, and I can tell you it only hurts for a minute and then it feels just great."
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Darren Kimura, president and founder of Sopogy, Inc., will address the University of Hawaii at Hilo College of Business and Economics at its Celebration of AASCB Accreditation on Wednesday, March 31, 3 p.m. in UCB 127. The public is invited to attend.
Sopogy, 2010 Hawaii Business Magazine Innovation Award winner, is a leader in MicroCSP technologies that bring the economics of large scale Concentrating Solar Power systems (CSP) to the distributed generation market. These technologies are used to create process heat, solar air conditioning or electrical power.
At the recent Hawaii Venture Capital Summit in Honolulu, Sopogy was cited as an example of a Hawaii-based company that would be successful in a global setting.
Founded in 2002 at the Energy Laboratories, an energy concept incubator of Energy Industries, another Kimura company, Sopogy is focused at bringing a new renewable energy technology to the market and envisions a future of clean power, green systems and LEED™ smart buildings. The company has expanded operations to seven western states, while maintaining its research and development in Hawaii.
Kimura is a 15-year serial energy entrepreneur and is experienced in acquisitions, having led the purchase of the Quantum Energy companies, and in private placements, having sold Energy Smart News, Pacific Energy Services and eControls.
He is an award-winning entrepreneur, as Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year 2000, Inaugural Top 40 under Forty 2000, SBA West Coast Regional Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2002 (California, Hawaii and Arizona), Hawaiian Electric Trade Ally of the Year 2006, Technology Leader of the Year 2006 and Green Entrepreneur of the Year 2007.
He holds a B.A. from the University of Hawaii and is a graduate of Waiakea High School.


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Federal regulators and flight officials may soon crack down on noisy, annoying helicopters that hover over Los Angeles, carrying media, sightseers and other curiosity seekers.
Several hundred residents from throughout Los Angeles County attended a public hearing in Sherman Oaks on Monday night and demanded that Congress and the Federal Aviation Administration do something about the annoying helicopter flights over their neighborhoods.
For more than two hours, residents from the Palos Verdes Peninsula, Brentwood, the San Fernando Valley and other communities complained to Rep.Howard L. Berman(D-Valley Village) and two top-ranking FAA officials, including William C. Withycombe, the regional administrator for four Western states, including California.
"My promise to you is that we will follow up on this," Withycombe told the audience. "I can't promise I will solve this overnight. But I will try to solve as many of the problems as I can."
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Colorado detox facility sees 50% bump in pot DUIs
Nearly six months after recreational marijuana was legalized in Colorado, the first state to allow its purchase has some new numbers to crunch in evaluating its pros and cons.
Arapahoe House, a Denver detox facility, said 15% of their patients arrested for driving under the influence were driving under the influence of marijuana, up from 8% in the same time period in 2013, according to data released Wednesday.
Over its first four months, recreational pot raked in more than $10 million in taxes for the state, with $1.9 million going towards schools, according to the Drug Policy Alliance's report, released Wednesday, citing state department of revenue data.
Recreational marijuana became legal for purchase Jan. 1 in Colorado. Arapahoe House's data tracked patients from Jan. 1 to May 31.
"This percentage increase is significant because recreational marijuana legalization is in its infancy, and there has clearly already been an impact on public safety," Art Schut, president and CEO of Arapahoe House said. "Our hope is that this new data will create awareness so that if Coloradans choose to use marijuana, they do not get behind the wheel."
According to the facility's data, the average DUI-marijuana patient they see is a 30-year-old white man. A driving-under-the-influence citation typically costs $10,000 and includes mandatory substance-abuse classes.
Violent crime has decreased by 2.5% since this time of year in 2013 in Denver, according to the Drug Policy Alliance's report.
The Drug Policy Alliance calls themselves "the nation's leading organization promoting drug policies that are grounded in science, compassion, health and human rights." It is made up of various members who seek to "roll back the excesses of the drug war … and promote sensible drug policy reforms."
The president of the Drug Policy Alliance's board, Ira Glasser, is the former executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Thursday, a teleconference is scheduled by the Drug Policy Alliance on marijuana's impact on Colorado's local economy, crime and safety.
Colorado voters approved Amendment 64 during the November 2012 election.


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Atheists have a lot of hurdles to jump out there in the fast paced world of religion and bigotry. Everything from losing jobs, being ostracized in schools, being disowned by families, hate crimes. You name the bigotry and we atheists have to face it. (If we're out that is.) I'm 30 and fast evolving into a Radical Atheist. I find myself paying attention to politics for (really) the first time. (It's pretty crummy to be a liberal atheistic woman in America right now.) As I become more and more vocal about my nontheisim I've noticed a trend. It's getting harder and harder to find a relationship that isn't ultimately destroyed because of my unwavering position that religion (most especially organized) is immoral and dangerous, despite what the religious will tell you about peace, and fluffy-ness. (A wrathful vengeful god leads to wrathful, vengeful believers.) I'm having arguments with my "agnostic" boyfriend weekly, bi-weekly. Eventually I'll get fed up and dump him probably if we can't learn to disagree. (He thinks I'm prejudice because I was "abused" (hazed would be a better word) by many Christians in my home state. So much so that I moved away. I don't necessarily think I'm prejudiced, I think I'm not beguiled into a false faith. I pity those who are. My political view is that I should be open and honest, challenge those who are willing to have theological debate in a non hostile manner. I'm not going around knocking over crosses, or throwing rocks thru church windows. (I'll leave that sort of behavior for the simple minded.) I'm not even really that much of an activist (yet!). I attended the Reason Rally. My boyfriend refused to go with me, and tunes out every time I try to talk with him about it. I try not to date religious people. My view is that religion will always come between myself and Mr. Religious. So I've always tried to avoid that particular problem. But let's face it, Atheists are pretty thin on the ground. Radical Atheists even thinner.
I was wondering how other nontheists deal with finding partners in their lives? How do you open conversations with people you're interested in? And how do you know when it is and isn't working? I never thought I'd have the problems I'm having with an Ag. I figured godless is godless... Turns out... there's just as many types of godlessness as there are religions. Jeezy Creezy, why is this stuff so complicated?
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I can understand where you're coming from. Try being a gay atheist. My dating pool is almost nothing where I live. It can be a lonely life, but I refuse to pretend just to get a date. I know I am hated by many in this country, so I find it hard to even be honest when meeting new people. If I had money I would try to move somewhere that I would be more accepted.
I'd emigrate if I could. Trouble with that is all the cool nations don't want Americans.
I'm an atheist who is engaged to a new 'out of the closet' atheist. When I tried dating online, I was very honest, and only one guy tried to give me 2 hour sermons of why I was wrong. I met my fiance in the 'real world' and I was very honest with him too. And while he didn't know where he stood, he respected my views and I respected his. We talked a little bit here and there about religion, and I would read him some of the 'started' discussions from Atheist Nexus, and after a while, I asked him very plainly and told him he could answer whenever he was ready; "Do you believe in God?". I really didn't care what his answer was, I was just curious. I would respect him no matter what, even if he declared he wanted to become a religious leader. He told me 'no'; he didn't believe in god.
My advice for these potential partners/boyfriends/whatever is that you are respectful yet serious. If this guy you are about ready to dump cannot respect your lack of faith, even if you do respect his you will be forced not to. What if you 2 get married and have kids? A couple needs to have respect, even religious respect, in order to have a healthy relationship, and in the future to raise healthy children. Yes, even if children are raised on religion, it's much healthier than hearing "Oh your mother is lying" "No your father never tells the truth". Then they can't trust either parent.
Bottom line: Respect and honesty. If someone can't handle that you are a nontheist, then how are you supposed to handle them being religious? Just be patient, and don't dwell on being unhappily single, and the right person will come to you.
religion is supposed to separate men and women that's the whole point...
as if women and men did not have a crazy different enough bio-clock to being with! sheeesh!
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peace. luv. and nature walks folks! tiz the only way outta the psychological depression post bush errer
Hi there, I am writing a book for Columbia University Press on "coming out as atheist" and am still looking for submissions that can speak to relationships. Please consider submitting a piece! More details here: http://faculty.tc.columbia.edu/upload/meb2222/CALLFORSUBMISSIONS-Au...
It does becomes less complicated with age. Relationships are really complicated when we are young. Believe me, I know! You'll find him. I didn't marry the right person until I was 37. He and I have the same world view, and it is great. I really can't even conceive of being with a person on a daily basis and not sharing the same ideologies. I know some do it, but I could not because I have a zealot kind of personality as do you, it seems. You just keep being who you are, evolve, and the men will come and go. You'll learn something from each one and then one day, he won't go and it will be good. It won't be hard work at all...just contentment. :)
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A Compilation of Environmental Education News from Across Louisiana.
Connecting Youth to the Great Outdoors (Deadline: September 19)
The National Environmental Education Foundation, in partnership with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, U.S. Forest Service and The Bureau of Land Management are launching the America's Great Outdoors: Connecting Youth to the Outdoors 2012 Grants. Schools that partner with the Forest Service or Bureau of Land Management are eligible to apply. Projects should provide students with meaningful conservation education outcomes and enhance STEM learning. For more information: Connecting Youth to the Great Outdoors
Green Schools! Action Project Grants (Deadline: September 30)
GreenWorks! is a service-learning, community action grant program for educators, students and communities to undertake environmental neighborhood improvement projects. Eligible schools must have established Green Teams and have completed one or more of the Project Learning Tree GreenSchools! Investigations. Learn more
Bays and Bayous Deadline for Abstracts Extended
The deadline for submitting abstracts for the Mississippi-Alabama Bays and Bayous Symposium has been extended. The new deadline is Friday Sept. 14. Details about the call for abstracts can be found at http://masgc.org/page.asp?id=776.
Scales & Ales at the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas is Friday night!
September 14, 2012 · 8:00 pm-11:00 pm
General Admittance Tickets are $55. Tickets are limited. No tickets will be sold at the door the night of the event.
Joining us at Scales & Ales? Get the App!All the information you need right in your pocket! The Scales & Ales Event App includes the entertainment schedule, maps, restaurants, bars and more! For more information, visit: Scales & Ales or follow this linkon your smart phone and you're good to go.
Ozone Day – September 16th
The United Nations' International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, or "Ozone Day," is observed annually on the anniversary of the 1987 signing of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. This event is designed to highlight the problems facing the ozone layer, its relationship with climate change, and what individuals and industries can do to protect the ozone layer from further damage. The 2012 theme is "Protecting our Atmosphere for Generations to Come." Learn more
Re-Light the Light Run/Walk & Re-Light the New Canal Lighthouse Celebration (NEW DATE: September 26)
Please join us for the 1st Annual Re-Light the Light Run/Walk and Relighting of the New Canal Lighthouse Celebrationto be held on Wednesday, September 26 on Lakeshore Drive near the New Canal Lighthouse Museum and Education Center. For more information and a schedule of events see our website. Sponsorship opportunities are available. See our websiteor call (504)836-2205 for more information.
Recycle Bowl Competition (Register by October 8)
Recycle-Bowl aims to establish new recycling programs within schools, increase recycling rates in schools that currently recycle, and provide teacher/student educational opportunities about recycling and waste reduction. A winner from each U.S. state and the District of Columbia will receive $1,000 based on the most recycled material per person per school. An additional grand prize valued at $2,500 will go to the top performer among the State Champions! Learn more
Spirit of Innovation Challenge(Deadline: October 24)
Each year the Conrad Foundation challenges youth ages 13-18 from around the globe to Get Their Genius On and conceptualize a solution in the areas of Aerospace and Aviation, Energy and Environment, Cyber Security and Technology, and Health and Nutrition. Winning teams in each category receive $5,000 in seed grant money toward the commercialization of their product. Learn more
President's Environmental Youth Awards(Deadline: December 31)
Since 1971, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has annually sponsored the President's Environmental Youth Awards. The awards program recognizes forward-thinking youth with outstanding ideas about the environment and how to sustain it. All applicants receive a signed certificate by the President honoring them for their efforts. Learn more
Ninth Annual Keep Louisiana Beautiful State Conference (October 24-26)
Keep Louisiana Beautiful hosts its ninth annual state conference October 24-26 at the Sliman Theatre in New Iberia. The event offers a variety of topics related to green living and its impact on community development, litter law enforcement trends, community building, and sustainability of community anti-litter programs. This year's presenters include keynote speaker Lt. General Russel Honore, Louisiana native who led Task Force Katrina. General Honore will speak on leadership and volunteerism. Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Secretary Robert Barham will address law enforcement's engagement with litter prevention. Other sessions cover youth programs, waterway cleanups by young people and other volunteers, and innovative and successful statewide projects and programs. The conference concludes with the Keep Louisiana Beautiful awards luncheon recognizing exemplary programs, organizations and individuals promoting and strengthening cleaner communities. Visit www.KeepLouisianaBeautiful.orgto register.
Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference
MAKE RESERVATIONS NOW! GOMA's Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative will host the first annual Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference in January 2013 in New Orleans, LA. Registration and abstract information below:
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Early Bird (through Aug 30, 2012): $200 (EXTENDED UNTIL SEPTEMBER 17, 2012)
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Abstract submission deadline: September 1, 2012 (EXTENDED UNTIL SEPTEMBER 17, 2012)
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Keep America Beautiful's Call for Presentations for 2013 National Conference & Webinar Series
Keep America Beautiful is soliciting speakers for the 2013 National Conference and Webinar series. The National Conference will be held January 29-31, 2013 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC. As part of their 60thanniversary celebration, approximately 400 attendees will participate in general and concurrent sessions over 2 1/2 days. Attendees include government, business, civic and community leaders working toward the KAB mission to "engage individuals to take greater responsibility in improving their community environments." KAB offers on-going webinars throughout the year to train, share trends and research and promote dialogue with affiliates as well as over 1,200 partnering organizations. An invitation is extended to interested parties to submit an application to present a concurrent session at the conference or webinar later in the year in your area of expertise. Please see attached and submit to April Wennerstrom, email@example.com, by October 1, 2012.
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The Project WET Foundation and Metropolitan State University of Denver are proud to be hosting the 2013 Water Education: Developing 21st Century Solutions Conference August 7-9, 2013 at the SpringHill Suites on the campus of Metropolitan State University of Denver. The Project WET USA conference team requests proposals for presentations from educators, policymakers, businesses, municipalities, program designers, implementers and practitioners, proposals that focus on school districts in partnership with local organizations to provide a community-based approach to water education and all others interested in water education. The goal of the conference is to increase the knowledge and capacity of conference participants to effectively reach children, parents, educators and communities of the world with water education. In the interest of innovation, engaging and interactive presentations are encouraged. Presentations must address one of the following strands:
- STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) and STEAM (STEM & The Arts) in Water Education
- Water Education in the Classroom
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- ActionEducation™: Applying Water Education Skills
- Other Water Topics
Strand descriptions and a presentation request form can be found at this link.
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Past Interglacial Sea Levels: Lessons For The Future
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Ellen Wildermann with the U.S. EPA will describe how the School Flag Program can help schools improve the health and wellness of students and staff. EPA's School Flag Program helps the school community be aware of outdoor air quality conditions so teachers, coaches, and students can take protective measures to reduce exposure to air pollution. States, districts and schools may attend this webinar to discover how the flag program raises awareness of the air we breathe, understand how air pollution can affect the health of children, especially those with asthma, and find out recommendations for modifying outdoor activities when air quality has reached unhealthy levels. Learn the simple steps to get the School Flag Program started at your school to ensure healthy learning environments. This webinar is one in a series of webinars developed for the U.S. Department of Educations' Green Strides Webinar Series.
Teaching Outdoors with Aldo Leopold: The Leopold Education Project
September 21, 2012, 10:00am–4:00pm
This FREE workshop at the Nueces Delta Preserve includes curriculum materials designed for use by teachers, interpreters, naturalists, park rangers, zoo educators, youth group leaders, as well as private citizens. Each lesson, based on Leopold's writings, provides students with direct experiences to the natural world outside the school classroom by making greater use of the outdoors as a learning laboratory. Lessons are presented in an easy to use format. Leopold's writings are both sound science and excellent literature, making them an outstanding tool for meaningful environmental education. This curriculum encourages flexibility, creativity, and experimentation in using the lessons in a variety of subject matter areas. It uses hands-on critical thinking activities to not only teach students about nature and conservation but to instill what Leopold called a "land ethic", an appreciation of and respect for the land. Receive FREE materials, too! To register: www.nuecesdeltapreserve.org
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The Department of Emergency Management at Jacksonville State University (JSU) is seeking eligible candidates for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position (emphasis on disaster recovery and/or preparedness) starting from January, 2013. The Emergency Management program at JSU is one of the largest academic programs related to disaster management with well over 500 active students enrolled in Bachelor of Science, Master of Science and Doctor of Science degrees in emergency management. Interested candidates should apply directly to the JSU job site: https://jobs.jsu.edu/postings/3808Inquiries related to this position can be directed to the EM Department Head, Dr. Jeff Ryan (firstname.lastname@example.com).
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Human gastrointestinal tract
|Human gastrointestinal tract (Digestive System)
Stomach colon rectum diagram
Tractus digestorius (mouth to anus),
canalis alimentarius (esophagus to large intestine),
canalis gastrointestinales (stomach to large intestine)
|Digestive system
|Anatomical terminology
The human gastrointestinal tract, or GI tract, or GIT is an organ system responsible for consuming and digesting foodstuffs, absorbing nutrients, and expelling waste.
The tract consists of the accessories.[3] The tract may also be divided into foregut, midgut, and hindgut, reflecting the embryological origin of each segment.
The whole digestive tract is about nine metres (30 feet) long.[4]
The GI tract releases hormones from enzymes to help regulate the digestive process. These hormones, including gastrin, secretin, cholecystokinin, and ghrelin, are mediated through either intracrine or autocrine mechanisms, indicating that the cells releasing these hormones are conserved structures throughout evolution.[5]
Structure 1
- Upper gastrointestinal tract 1.1
Lower gastrointestinal tract 1.2
- Small intestine 1.2.1
- Large Intestine 1.2.2
- Development 1.3
Histology 1.4
- Mucosa 1.4.1
- Submucosa 1.4.2
- Muscularis externa 1.4.3
- Adventitia and serosa 1.4.4
Function 2
- Immune function 2.1
- Immune barrier 2.2
- Immune system homeostasis 2.3
- Intestinal microbiota 2.4
Clinical significance 3
Disease 3.1
- Symptoms 3.1.1
- Treatment 3.2
- Imaging 3.3
- Other 3.4
- Disease 3.1
- In other animals 4
- Additional images 5
- See also 6
- References 7
- External links 8
The structure and function can be described both as gross anatomy and as microscopic anatomy or histology. The tract itself is divided into upper and lower tracts, and the intestines small and large parts.[6]
Upper gastrointestinal tract
The upper gastrointestinal tract consists of the buccal cavity, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, and duodenum.[7] The exact demarcation between the upper and lower tracts is the suspensory ligament of the duodenum (also known as the Ligament of Treitz). This delineates the embryonic borders between the foregut and midgut, and is also the division commonly used by clinicians to describe gastrointestinal bleeding as being of "upper" or "lower" origin. Upon dissection, the duodenum may appear to be a unified organ, but it is divided into four segments based upon function, location, and internal anatomy. The four segments of the duodenum are as follows (starting at the stomach, and moving toward the jejunum): bulb, descending, horizontal, and ascending. The suspensory ligament attaches the superior border of the ascending duodenum to the diaphragm.
The suspensory muscle of duodenum is an important anatomical landmark which shows the formal division between the duodenum and the jejunum, the first and second parts of the small intestine, respectively.[8] This is a thin muscle which is derived from the embryonic mesoderm.
Lower gastrointestinal tract
The lower gastrointestinal tract includes most of the small intestine and all of the large intestine.[9] In human anatomy, the intestine (bowel, or gut) is the segment of the gastrointestinal tract extending from the pyloric sphincter of the stomach to the anus and, in humans and other mammals, consists of two segments, the small intestine and the large intestine. In humans, the small intestine is further subdivided into the duodenum, jejunum and ileum while the large intestine is subdivided into the cecum, colon, rectum, and anal canal.[10][11]
Small intestine
The small intestine begins at the duodenum, which receives food from the stomach. It is a tubular structure, usually between 6 and 7 m long.[12] The area of the human, adult small intestinal mucosa is about 30 m2.[13] Its main function is to absorb the products of digestion (including carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, and vitamins) into the bloodstream. It has three major divisions:
- Duodenum: A short structure (about 20–25 cm long [12]) which receives gastric chyme from the stomach, together with digestive juices from the pancreas (digestive enzymes) and the gall bladder (bile). The digestive enzymes break down proteins and bile and emulsify fats into micelles. The duodenum contains Brunner's glands, which produce a mucus-rich alkaline secretion containing bicarbonate. These secretions, in combination with bicarbonate from the pancreas, neutralizes the stomach acids contained in gastric chyme.
- Jejunum: This is the midsection of the small intestine, connecting the duodenum to the ileum. It is about 2.5 m long, and contains the plicae circulares, and villi that increase its surface area. Products of digestion (sugars, amino acids, and fatty acids) are absorbed into the bloodstream here.
- Ileum: The final section of the small intestine. It is about 3 m long, and contains villi similar to the jejunum. It absorbs mainly vitamin B12 and bile acids, as well as any other remaining nutrients.
Large Intestine
The large intestine consists of the cecum, colon, rectum, and anal canal. It also includes the vermiform appendix, which is attached to the cecum. The colon is further divided into:
- Vermiform appendix and Caecum (first portion of the colon)
- Ascending colon (ascending in the back wall of the abdomen)
- Right colic flexure (flexed portion of the ascending and transverse colon apparent to the liver)
- Transverse colon (passing below the diaphragm)
- Left colic flexure (flexed portion of the transverse and descending colon apparent to the spleen
- Descending colon (descending down the left side of the abdomen)
- Sigmoid Flexure
- Rectum
- Anus
The main function of the large intestine is to absorb water. The area of the human, adult large intestinal mucosa is about 2 m2 (Helander HF, Fändriks L. Surface area of the digestive tract – revisited. Scand J Gastroenterol 49: 681-9, 2014.)
The gut is an endoderm-derived structure. At approximately the sixteenth day of human development, the embryo begins to fold ventrally (with the embryo's ventral surface becoming concave) in two directions: the sides of the embryo fold in on each other and the head and tail fold toward one another. The result is that a piece of the yolk sac, an endoderm-lined structure in contact with the ventral aspect of the embryo, begins to be pinched off to become the primitive gut. The yolk sac remains connected to the gut tube via the vitelline duct. Usually this structure regresses during development; in cases where it does not, it is known as Meckel's diverticulum.
During fetal life, the primitive gut is gradually patterned into three segments: foregut, midgut, and hindgut. Although these terms are often used in reference to segments of the primitive gut, they are also used regularly to describe regions of the definitive gut as well.
Each segment of the gut is further specified and gives rise to specific gut and gut-related structures in later development. Components derived from the gut proper, including the stomach and colon, develop as swellings or dilatations in the cells of the primitive gut. In contrast, gut-related derivatives — that is, those structures that derive from the primitive gut but are not part of the gut proper, in general develop as out-pouchings of the primitive gut. The blood vessels supplying these structures remain constant throughout development.[14]
|Part in adult
|Gives rise to
|Arterial supply
|Esophagus to first 2 sections of the duodenum
Esophagus, Stomach, Duodenum (1st and 2nd parts), Liver, Gallbladder, Pancreas, Superior portion of pancreas
(Note that though the Spleen is supplied by the celiac trunk, it is derived from dorsal mesentery and therefore not a foregut derivative)
|celiac trunk
|lower duodenum, to the first two-thirds of the transverse colon
|lower duodenum, jejunum, ileum, cecum, appendix, ascending colon, and first two-third of the transverse colon
|branches of the superior mesenteric artery
|last third of the transverse colon, to the upper part of the anal canal
|last third of the transverse colon, descending colon, rectum, and upper part of the anal canal
|branches of the inferior mesenteric artery
The gastrointestinal tract has a form of general histology with some differences that reflect the specialization in functional anatomy.[15] The GI tract can be divided into four concentric layers in the following order:
The mucosa is the innermost layer of the gastrointestinal tract. that is surrounding the lumen, or open space within the tube. This layer comes in direct contact with digested food (chyme). The mucosa is made up of:
- Epithelium - innermost layer. Responsible for most digestive, absorptive and secretory processes.
- Lamina propria - a layer of connective tissue. Unusually cellular compared to most connective tissue
- Muscularis mucosae - a thin layer of smooth muscle that aids the passing of material and enhances the interaction between the epithelial layer and the contents of the lumen by agitation and peristalsis.
The mucosae are highly specialized in each organ of the gastrointestinal tract to deal with the different conditions. The most variation is seen in the epithelium.
The submucosa consists of a dense irregular layer of connective tissue with large blood vessels, lymphatics, and nerves branching into the mucosa and muscularis externa. It contains Meissner's plexus, an enteric nervous plexus, situated on the inner surface of the muscularis externa.
Muscularis externa
The muscularis externa consists of an inner circular layer and a longitudinal outer muscular layer. The circular muscle layer prevents food from traveling backward and the longitudinal layer shortens the tract. The layers are not truly longitudinal or circular, rather the layers of muscle are helical with different pitches. The inner circular is helical with a steep pitch and the outer longitudinal is helical with a much shallower pitch.
The coordinated contractions of these layers is called peristalsis and propels the food through the tract. Food in the GI tract is called a bolus (ball of food) from the mouth down to the stomach. After the stomach, the food is partially digested and semi-liquid, and is referred to as chyme. In the large intestine the remaining semi-solid substance is referred to as faeces.
Between the two muscle layers are the myenteric or Auerbach's plexus. This controls peristalsis. Activity is initiated by the pacemaker cells (interstitial cells of Cajal). The gut has intrinsic peristaltic activity (basal electrical rhythm) due to its self-contained enteric nervous system. The rate can of course be modulated by the rest of the autonomic nervous system.
Adventitia and serosa
The outermost layer of the gastrointestinal tract consists of several layers of connective tissue.
Intraperitoneal parts of the GI tract are covered with serosa. These include most of the stomach, first part of the duodenum, all of the small intestine, caecum and appendix, transverse colon, sigmoid colon and rectum. In these sections of the gut there is clear boundary between the gut and the surrounding tissue. These parts of the tract have a mesentery.
Retroperitoneal parts are covered with adventitia. They blend into the surrounding tissue and are fixed in position. For example, the retroperitoneal section of the duodenum usually passes through the transpyloric plane. These include the esophagus, pylorus of the stomach, distal duodenum, ascending colon, descending colon and anal canal. In addition, the oral cavity has adventitia.
The time taken for food or other ingested objects to transit through the gastrointestinal tract varies depending on many factors, but roughly, it takes less than an hour after a meal for 50% of stomach contents to empty into the intestines and total emptying of the stomach takes around 2 hours. Subsequently, 50% emptying of the small intestine takes 1 to 2 hours. Finally, transit through the colon takes 12 to 50 hours with wide variation between individuals.[16][17]
Immune function
Immune barrier
The gastrointestinal tract is also a prominent part of the immune system.[18] The surface area of the digestive tract is estimated to be the surface area of a football field. With such a large exposure, the immune system must work hard to prevent pathogens from entering into blood and lymph.[19][WP:V]
The low enzymes in saliva and bile. Enzymes such as Cyp3A4, along with the antiporter activities, also are instrumental in the intestine's role of detoxification of antigens and xenobiotics, such as drugs, involved in first phase metabolism.
Health-enhancing gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT).
Immune system homeostasis
Beneficial bacteria also can contribute to the gastrointestinal system homeostasis. A case in point is the relationship between human gut and Clostridia, one of the most predominant bacterial groups in the gastrointestinal tract. Clostridia play an important role influencing the dynamics of our immune system in the gut.[20] It has been demonstrated that the intake of a high fiber diet could be the responsible for the induction of Treg cells. This is due to the production of short-chain fatty acids during the fermentation of plant derived nutrients such as butyrate and propionate. Basically, the butyrate induces the differentiation of Treg cells by enhancing histone H3 acetylation in the promoter and conserved non-coding sequence regions of the Foxp3 locus, and thus regulating the T cells, having as a result the reduction of the inflammatory response and allergies.
Intestinal microbiota
The large intestine hosts several kinds of bacteria that deal with molecules the human body is not able to break down itself.[21] This is an example of symbiosis. These bacteria also account for the production of gases at host-pathogen interface, inside our intestine(this gas is released as flatulence when eliminated through the anus). However the large intestine is mainly concerned with the absorption of water from digested material (which is regulated by the hypothalamus) and the re absorption of sodium, as well as any nutrients that may have escaped primary digestion in the ileum.
Clinical significance
There are a number of diseases and conditions affecting the gastrointestinal system, including:
- Infection. Gastroenteritis is an inflammation of the intestines. It occurs more frequently than any other disease of the intestines.
- Cancer may occur at any point in the gastrointestinal tract, and includes mouth cancer, tongue cancer, oesophageal cancer, stomach cancer, and colorectal cancer.
- Inflammatory conditions. Ileitis is an inflammation of the ileum, Colitis is an inflammation of the large intestine.
- Appendicitis is inflammation of the vermiform appendix located at the caecum. This is a potentially fatal condition if left untreated; most cases of appendicitis require surgical intervention.
Diverticular disease is a condition that is very common in older people in industrialized countries. It usually affects the large intestine but has been known to affect the small intestine as well. Diverticulosis occurs when pouches form on the intestinal wall. Once the pouches become inflamed it is known as diverticulitis.
Inflammatory bowel disease is an inflammatory condition affecting the bowel walls, and includes the subtypes Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. While Crohn's can affect the entire gastrointestinal tract, ulcerative colitis is limited to the large intestine. Crohn's disease is widely regarded as an autoimmune disease. Although ulcerative colitis is often treated as though it were an autoimmune disease, there is no consensus that it actually is such. (See List of autoimmune diseases).
Several symptoms are used to indicate problems with the gastrointestinal tract:
- Vomiting, which may include regurgitation of food or the vomiting of blood
- Diarrhoea, or the passage of liquid or more frequent stools
- Constipation, which refers to the passage of fewer and hardened stools
- Blood in stool, which includes fresh red blood, maroon-coloured blood, and tarry-coloured blood
Surgery of the gastrointestinal tract can often be performed in the outpatient setting. In the United States in 2012, operations on the digestive system accounted for 3 of the 25 most common ambulatory surgery procedures and constituted 9.1 percent of all outpatient ambulatory surgeries.[22]
Various methods of imaging the gastrointestinal tract are used:
- Radioopaque dyes may be swallowed to produce a Barium swallow
- Parts of the tract may be visualised by camera. This is known as endoscopy if examining the upper gastrointestinal tract, and colonoscopy or sigmoidoscopy if examining the lower gastrointestinal tract. Capsule endoscopy is where a capsule is swallowed in order to examine the tract. Biopsies may also be taken when examined.
- An abdominal x-ray may be used to examine the lower gastrointestinal tract.
- Celiac Disease
- Cholera
- Diarrhoea
- Enteric duplication cyst
- Giardiasis
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Pancreatitis
- Peptic ulcer disease
- Yellow Fever
- Helicobacter pylori is a gram-negative spiral bacterium. Over half the world's population infected, mainly during childhood, it is not certain as to how the disease is transmitted. It colonizes the gastrointestinal system, predominantly the stomach. The bacterium has specific survival conditions that our gastric microenvironment: it is both capnophilic and microaerophilic. Helicobacter also exhibits a tropism for gastric epithelial lining and the gastric mucosal layer about it. Gastric colonization of this bacterium triggers a robust immune response leading to moderate to severe inflammation. This inflammatory response triggers a cascade of mucosal changes that can persist from chronic gastritis, duodenal cancer, metaplasia, dysplasia, carcinoma, to mucosal associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma (MALT lymphoma). Many individuals go through life without realizing they are infected because they were exposed young and their body sees it as normal flora. However, signs and symptoms are gastritis, burning abdominal pain, weight loss, loss of appetite, bloating, burping, nausea, bloody vomit, and black tarry stools. Infection is easy enough to detect: GI X-rays, endoscopy, blood tests for anti-Helicobacter antibodies, a stool test, and a urease breath test (which is a by-product of the bacteria.) Luckily if caught soon enough there is a treatment: it is three doses of different proton pump inhibitors as well as two antibiotics and it takes about a week to cure. If not caught soon enough surgery may be required. [23][24][25][26]
- Intestinal Pseudo-Obstruction is a syndrome caused by a malformation of the digestive system, characterized by a severe impairment in the ability of the intestines to push and assimilate. Symptoms include daily abdominal and stomach pain, nausea, severe distension, vomiting, heartburn, dysphagia, diarrhea, constipation, dehydration and malnutrition. There is no cure for intestinal pseudo-obstruction. Different types of surgery and treatment managing life-threatening complications such as ileus and volvulus, intestinal stasis which lead to bacterial overgrowth, and resection of affected or dead parts of the gut may be needed. Many patients require parenteral nutrition.
- Ileus is a blockage of the intestines.
- Coeliac disease is a common form of malabsorption, affecting up to 1% of people of northern European descent. An autoimmune response is triggered in intestinal cells by digestion of gluten proteins. Ingestion of proteins found in wheat, barley and rye, causes villous atrophy in the small intestine. Lifelong dietary avoidance of these foodstuffs in a gluten-free diet is the only treatment.
- Enteroviruses are named by their transmission-route through the intestine (enteric meaning intestinal), but their symptoms aren't mainly associated with the intestine.
- Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is the most common functional disorder of the intestine. Functional constipation and chronic functional abdominal pain are other disorders of the intestine that have physiological causes, but do not have identifiable structural, chemical, or infectious pathologies. They are aberrations of normal bowel function but not diseases.[27]
- Endometriosis can affect the intestines, with similar symptoms to IBS.
- Bowel twist (or similarly, bowel strangulation) is a comparatively rare event (usually developing sometime after major bowel surgery). It is, however, hard to diagnose correctly, and if left uncorrected can lead to bowel infarction and death. (The singer Maurice Gibb is understood to have died from this.)
- Angiodysplasia of the colon
- Chronic functional abdominal pain
- Constipation
- Diarrhea
- Hirschsprung's disease (aganglionosis)
- Intussusception
- Polyp (medicine) (see also Colorectal polyp)
- Pseudomembranous colitis
- Ulcerative colitis and toxic megacolon
In other animals
Animal intestines have multiple uses. From each species of livestock that is a source of milk, a corresponding rennet is obtained from the intestines of milk-fed calves. Pig and calf intestines are eaten, and pig intestines are used as sausage casings. Calf intestines supply Calf Intestinal Alkaline Phosphatase (CIP), and are used to make Goldbeater's skin.
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- Dysbiosis
- Gastrointestinal hormone
- Major systems of the human body
- Host-pathogen interface
- Anatomy and Physiology
- ^ "gastrointestinal tract" at Dorland's Medical Dictionary
- ^ Gastrointestinal tract at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
- ^ "digestive system" at Dorland's Medical Dictionary
- ^ Kong F, Singh RP (June 2008). "Disintegration of solid foods in human stomach". J. Food Sci. 73 (5): R67–80.
- ^ Nelson RJ. 2005. Introduction to Behavioral Endocrinology. Sinauer Associates: Massachusetts. p 57.
- ^ "Length of a Human Intestine". Retrieved 2 September 2009.
- ^ Upper Gastrointestinal Tract at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
- ^ David A. Warrell (2005). Oxford textbook of medicine: Sections 18-33. Oxford University Press. pp. 511–.
- ^ Lower Gastrointestinal Tract at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
- ^ Kapoor, Vinay Kumar (13 Jul 2011). Gest, Thomas R., ed. "Large Intestine Anatomy". Medscape. WebMD LLC. Retrieved 2013-08-20.
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- ^ a b Drake, Richard L.; Vogl, Wayne; Tibbitts, Adam W.M. Mitchell; illustrations by Richard; Richardson, Paul (2005). Gray's anatomy for students. Philadelphia: Elsevier/Churchill Livingstone. p. 273.
- ^ Helander HF, Fändriks L., "Surface area of the digestive tract – revisited", Scand J Gastroenterol 49: 681-9, 2014
- ^ Bruce M. Carlson (2004). Human Embryology and Developmental Biology (3rd ed.). Saint Louis: Mosby.
- ^ Abraham L. Kierszenbaum (2002). Histology and cell biology: an introduction to pathology. St. Louis: Mosby.
- ^ Kim SK. Small intestine transit time in the normal small bowel study. American Journal of Roentgenology 1968; 104(3):522-524.
- ^ Uday C Ghoshal, Vikas Sengar, and Deepakshi Srivastava. Colonic Transit Study Technique and Interpretation: Can These Be Uniform Globally in Different Populations With Non-uniform Colon Transit Time? J Neurogastroenterol Motil. 2012 April; 18(2): 227–228.
- ^ Richard Coico, Geoffrey Sunshine, Eli Benjamini (2003). Immunology: a short course. New York: Wiley-Liss.
- ^ Animal Physiology textbook
- ^ "Commensal microbe-derived butyrate induces the differentiation of colonic regulatory T cells". Nature.
- ^ Judson Knight. Science of everyday things: Real-life earth science. Vol. 4. Gale Group; 2002. ISBN 978-0-7876-5634-8.
- ^ Wier LM, Steiner CA, Owens PL (February 2015). "Surgeries in Hospital-Owned Outpatient Facilities, 2012". HCUP Statistical Brief #188. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
- ^ Fox, James; Timothy Wang (January 2007). "Inflammation, Atrophy, and Gastric Cancer". Journal Of Clinical Investigation. review 117 (1): 60–69.
- ^ Murphy, Kenneth (20 May 2014). Janeway's Immunobiology. New York: Garland Science, Taylor and Francis Group, LLC. pp. 389–398.
- ^ Parham, Peter (20 May 2014). The Immune System. New York: Garland Science Taylor and Francis Group LLC. p. 494.
- ^ Goering, Richard (20 May 2014). MIMS Medical Microbiology. Philadelphia: Elsevier. pp. 32, 64, 294, 133–4, 208, 303–4, 502.
- ^ http://www.irregularbowelsyndrome.info
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- Pediatric Overview of Human Digestive System
- Anatomy atlas of the Digestive System
- Overview at Colorado State University
- Your Digestive System and How It Works at National Institutes of Health
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2.Beacause agent's thread is daemon,so if a application doesn't use any agents,the thread pool must not started.I think the agent's thread pools should be lazy initialized.
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(define a (agent :executor (java.util.concurrent.Executors/newFixedThreadPool 2)))
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"Gunpowder" by Joe Hill
6 comments:
- Hagelrat said...
I loved heart shaped box! I prefer Hill to King by a long way.
- February 12, 2009 at 3:55 PM
- Plinydogg said...
I hated "Heart-Shaped Box" but have been meaning to give Joe Hill another chance with either "Gunpowder or "20th Century Ghosts." The problem is that there are so many good books coming out shortly...
- February 12, 2009 at 5:31 PM
- Highlander said...
Excellent review and I agree with you Mihai, Joe Hill could easily surpass his fathers talents (even if not his sales).
- February 13, 2009 at 9:44 AM
- Dark Wolf said...
Adele, I still stick with Stephen King ;) but Joe Hill climbs my favorites list in full speed :D
Ben, you definitely have to give Joe Hill another chance. He is fully worth it :)
Colin, thank you very much :)
Although I admit that sales are important, I tend to look on other criterias more ;)
- February 13, 2009 at 11:23 AM
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Holy Hell, I never realized that Joe was King's son! I've had H-Shaped Box on my shelf for two months now - will definitely read it now!
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Dave, he is as talented as his father :)
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The following question has been asked on Twitter: "Answers in <240 characters, please! RT: @thesherrin: What would a iPad app for conservators do, or what would they want it to do? #mtogo". I asked one of our Conservators, Sheldon, what he thought...
The #mtogo hashtag on Twitter is worth following - collegiate, generous with sharing and a mine of useful information. My interest was piqued with the Tweet asking what museum conservators woudl like from an app, so I asked Sheldon (who I've happily got to know through working on the Our Oldest Display Case project) for his ideas. Here's what he said:
"I have actually been thinking about conservation uses for an iPad (cos Im such a geek). I thought about having some of our materials information put into a dictionary/encyclopedia type app so we could have instant access to material properties and MSDS sheets at our desks. Would save us wandering around looking up all the different texts. ... Also a visual reference of materials, damage, mould, materials so we could identify things faster. You often need to have a reference to compare against when doing materials identifications. Colour charts and colour science information would also be handy."
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