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There you are eating that delicious cookie that you've been waiting for all day. It's the last one, and you've earned it. Then just as you're about to bite into its ooey gooey goodness, you drop it on to the floor. What do you do?
If you're like me, you shout (either internally or out loud if you're feeling particularly defensive) "5-Second Rule!" and eat it anyway. I've heard before about all of the germs, and blah, blah, blah, but I typically choose the cookie anyway. A new video from Michael Stevens of Vsauce circulating on the web, however, is making that harder than ever for me to do. It's just so ... graphic.
It's clearly a hot topic as more than 1.4 million people have viewed the video in the few days since he uploaded it. It's not that he's found anything new, but rather he's just taken a lot of scientific data and put it together into one pretty unappetizing argument.
He presents some interesting data, like the fact that 50 percent of men use the 5-second rule, while 70 percent of women do. (What does that say about us, ladies?) And perhaps the fact that I will have trouble ignoring the most the next time I drop something -- that 93 percent of shoes have fecal material on them. That means basically, that there's probably traces of poop all over the floor on which my cookie lands. Gag.
But what if we're REALLY quick? I mean it's a cookie, and I can be pretty quick if we're talking dark chocolate. Maybe just 1 second or so and it's okay? No such luck. He says contamination happens instantly. He says that in five seconds about 150-8,000 bacteria bond to dropped food, wet or dry. Oh, and bonus, it only takes 10 seconds for some strains of salmonella to infect you.
His big conclusion: Don't touch food that's touched the floor ever. And honestly I'm not sure I'll ever be able to do so again.
Here's the video if you want to hear it straight from the source and make it even more vivid in your mind. After about three minutes in, he gets all scientific about touch and the charge of protons and electrons, and you feel like you're back in science class. If you watch the whole thing you'll be smarter for it though. Before you do, however, remember, ignorance is often bliss.
Do you embrace the 5-second rule? Will knowing the science behind food dropped on the floor change your habit?
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Evidently the U.S. Secretary of State is not beyond breaking diplomatic protocol and using a little macho street-talk to deal with an American fugitive.
John Kerry on Wednesday urged the infamous national-secrets leaker Edward Snowden to "man up" and return to the United States. The former Massachusetts senator and presidential candidate issued his challenge in an interview with NBC's "Today" show.
In a separate interview in Moscow, Snowden told NBC that he ended up accepting asylum in Russia because the U.S. revoked his passport. Kerry responded by calling the answer "pretty dumb."
"If Mr. Snowden wants to come back to the United States, we'll have him on a flight today," Kerry said. "A patriot would not run away … let him come back and make his case. If he cares so much about America and he believes in America, he should trust the American system of justice."
The guess here is that Snowden won't "man up," a phrase that's lost most of its political currency.
Just a few years ago, it was a different matter. Many politicians in the U.S. and even the United Kingdom adopted the phrase to taunt their opponents. Female candidates were especially quick to demand that their male rivals "man up."
In 2010, for example, Republican challenger Sharron Angle told Nevada Sen. Harry Reid to "man up" about long-term financial problems with Social Security. And Democrat Robin Carnahan told Republican Roy Blunt to "man up" about his effort to repeal Obamacare.
Perhaps most famously, Hillary Clinton demanded that Barack Obama "man up" during a debate in 2008 – albeit a fictional event created by comedy writers for a Saturday Night Live sketch. (Hillary never actually told Barack to "man up.")
Given its macho connotation, a backlash against the phrase as entirely predictable. Some language experts and other sniffy types decided the phrase was sexist and gave undue weight to an ideal of toughness associated with a certain part of a man's anatomy. Flashback: Manning up isn't the problem in this election.
In 2013, the famous U.K. football club Liverpool even banned the use of the phrase among its fans amid an effort to ensure that its supporters avoided discrimination. Just a year earlier, Liverpool manager Brendan Rogers had publicly urged his players to "man up" after a rash of injuries depleted his squad. Oops.
Ironically, the origins of phrase "man up" almost certainly has its roots in another kind of football – American style. The phrase become common in the 1980s and 1990s to describe a type of approach NFL teams adopted to stop opponents from scoring.
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Best hotels in Bordeaux
Set on the banks of the Garonne River in eastern France, Bordeaux is a city noted for its harmonious architecture and its proximity to France's premiere wine-producing vineyards. The town boasts hundreds of historical monuments, from amazing sculptures to towering chateaus. There are miles of cobblestone streets to explore, many shops to visit and numerous wine tastings held right in the city. To enjoy all of the ambiance, attractions, and history of the area, it's best to stay in one of the many fine hotels in Bordeaux. There are numerous accommodations from which to choose, whether you seek a luxury suite or a more budget-minded room. The best way to find vacancies and deals on hotels in Bordeaux is by visiting Hotels.com. On our website, you'll find listings of the best hotels in the world, including those in Bordeaux. The prices, amenities and availability are all noted, and each listing includes recent photographs and reviews to help you select the best room for your travel needs.
What's Bordeaux like?
Bordeaux is defined by its pale golden buildings made of limestone, which line the clean streets in an endless procession through the city. If you're a traveller who's interested in the history of the region, there are several museums you'll enjoy, including the Aquitaine Museum, the Wine and Trade Museum and the Museum of Natural History. The Saint-André cathedral is the largest religious building in Bordeaux, and since 1998, has been listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. It's definitely worth a visit to see its two imposing facades, its rich and ornamental sculptures and its stunning stained glass windows. While in Bordeaux, be sure to try some of the oysters for which the town is famous. You'll want to arrange to take at least one trip out to the French countryside, where you can tour wineries and vineyards and soak up some local color. There are numerous tour guides and groups that will pick you up in Bordeaux and whisk you away to the vineyards, so you don't have to worry about making transportation arrangements. While in the city of Bordeaux, you can tour the town via a river cruise, or on a guided coach. Your guides will give you a deeper, more intimate portrait of this cultured and ancient French location.
How To Get Along With Locals In Bordeaux
Meeting people in Bordeaux is easy. Get off the main streets in town and head for some of the more outlying neighborhoods to find the smaller, charming cafes and wine bars where the locals congregate. If you show appreciation for their special wines, they will show appreciation for you. The weekend farmers markets are great places to meet people, and they're also awesome places to find fruits, vegetables and locally-produced cheeses. Take a cooking class to learn some new tricks with French cuisine. You'll be rubbing shoulders with some of the area's best chefs. There are also several restaurants where you are served "family style." Locals and tourists alike gather at table and are served together. It's a fantastic way to make new friends. Or take a bike tour in town or out to the wine country. Your fellow bike travellers will enhance your enjoyment of this lovely region of France. The Promenade along the Garonne River is where the town goes to let off steam. You can walk along the waterfront and watch people all day long. This area has misting fountains that cool off skateboarders and joggers. There are open market stalls nearby where you can purchase mementos and, of course, more wine.
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I don't know how this has happened, but original rave nutters The KLF have had some of the rarer albums made available to purchase on iTunes.
It's a bit of a surprise because these album are sample-tastic jail bait, and one of them was not even officially released at the time (such as The White Room Original Motion Picture Soundtrack from 1990, which differs considerably from The White Room, which was released to international acclaim in 1991).
Pick of the bunch of KLF album re-issues, for me anyway, are both the band's ambient albums from 1990, Chill Out and Space (which is sometimes credited as artist name Space). Both albums were made in collaboration with Alex Patterson, who went on to form the mighty Orb, and his influence is palpable.
Similar in style and structure to The Orb at their most out there, both albums were cut from tape recordings of live ambient dj sets, and feature a gentle shower of found and pre-prepared sound to make you feel like you're floating on a cosmic river. You can easily get lost in these records. To resurrect that old cliché, they really take you on a journey, maaan. Underground culture hasn't felt this psychedelic in a long time.
The KLF and Tammy Wynette, via thefuckersburnedthelot, h/t to John Power
The KLF are one of the greatest "joke" bands of all time, and I don't mean that in a "comedy band" or "wacky" way, I mean more in the style of the Merry Pranksters, or the Bonzos. Situationist humor. They took their original name (The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu) from the Illuminatus! trilogy, after all. They pushed some sharp critique but mixed it up with a liberal dose of the bizarre. Just look at that picture of them with Tammy Wynette. It's genius!
Don't forget that they brought a dead sheep to the Brit Awards, played live at that bloated, complacent shindig with thrash metallers Extreme Noise Terror, and fired fake machine guns into the audience while they did it. Oh yeah, and this one time they burned a million pounds. .
At the time these albums were first released they were seen by some as mere novelties, curios from a band who made it hard to take themselves seriously. Time has been very kind to them however, and over twenty years later they still retain their charm, and that elusive sense of magic.
Maybe The KLF appearing on iTunes is a huge cosmic joke on all our expenses. Or maybe Caughty and Drummond badly need some cash. Either way these albums are worth getting, before they're possibly withdrawn. Again.
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"Dr. Drew" Debuts on HLN March 28
Dr. Drew, the new HLN primetime program hosted by Dr. Drew Pinsky, will debut on the network on Monday, March 28, it was announced today by Scot Safon, executive vice president, HLN. Pinsky's nightly program will focus on the newsmakers at the center of the day's most-talked-about HLN news stories, focusing on the motivations and issues that drive the "extremely human" behaviors at the core of these events.
"We'll start with honest discussions and direct questions, and we'll hear from a wide range of people with diverse perspectives and experiences. We'll dig deep to discover what is really going on behind the headlines to get at the real experiences happening to the people involved," said Pinsky. "There will be resolution to the discussion, and what began as a distant headline will become relevant to the viewers. At the center of these stories are issues and behaviors worth examining closely, and worth talking about with depth, compassion and insight."
"There are events and news stories that strike a chord with all Americans, and what Dr. Drew does better than anyone is to focus on the human behaviors of those people in the middle of these events," said Safon. "This level of discussion and examination in this format does not currently exist on television. We're proud to give viewers a chance to see Dr. Drew each night."
Dr. Drew Pinsky is a practicing physician with a private practice and is on staff at Huntington Memorial Hospital. He is also Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Keck USC School of Medicine.
Dr. Drew remains the host of the radio show LOVELINE, which is nationally syndicated by Westwood One. Dr. Drew and Vh1 teamed up for the first reality TV series to depict the process of overcoming addiction. Now in its fourth season, CELEBRITY REHAB with DR. DREW was critically acclaimed by the addiction community for pulling back the veil of secrecy about what goes on in rehabilitation programs. SOBER HOUSE chronicles the sober living process. Dr. Drew is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Mirror Effect: How Celebrity Narcissism is Seducing America (Harper-Collins) and Cracked: Putting Broken Lives Together Again (Harper-Collins). Dr. Drew co-authored with Dr. Mark Young the first academic study on celebrities and narcissism. The study was published in the Journal of Research in Personality (Elsevier) and received worldwide press coverage.
After receiving his undergraduate degree from Amherst College and his M.D. from the University of Southern California, School of Medicine, Dr. Drew continued with USC for his residency. He then became chief resident at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena. Dr. Drew is a member of the American College of Physicians, the American Medical Association, the American Society of Addiction Medicine, the California Medical Association and the American Society of Internal Medicine.
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You know Lupita Nyong'o as your new glamour and fashion icon. But did you also know she also played Final Fantasy 8 relentlessly for hours as a teenager? And that she loved Full House and Hangin' With Mr. Cooper almost as much as I did (NO ONE WILL EVER LOVE MARK CURRY AS MUCH AS ME. NO ONE,MARK.)
My favorite part of this is the admission that she rode the roller coaster at Knott's Berry Farm and tried to do the Step by Step wave until the coaster started to plummet to the ground and she, like so many of us before her, screamed for fear her soul would be ripped from her body and stolen by an invisible sky giant of some sort. I may have embellished the specifics of that last part. Either way; love her, love this wonderful interview with Jimmy Kimmel. Good luck at Oscar time, indeed, Lupita!


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whadup ya'll. mo' rome... it's kind of a large one so go take a dump while it loads.
they sell bottles in three packs in romelandia. i'm not much of a pesimist but in this case, the six pack is half empty.
welcome to rome, martin. this here's a geeze bag friend of ours from the states that stayed with us for a bit.
me n' dewd lurked at the colosseum drinking some beer.
these torture devices were added to the colesseum fairly recently. they make people line up in front of them for hours on end only to be smacked in the balls or vagahole when they pass through. nice one.
then martin proceeded to piss on some old ass shit.
and not too long later... pissed on some not so old shit. sorry kids, i had to edit this one.
hahahahahaha! true story!
vs. spy.
we went to see the monestary of the capucine monks. i forget exactly what their deal is but they basically decorate these rooms below the church with all of the skeletons and bones of past monks. it's pretty dark in there and you're not allowed to shoot photos so most of the ones i took are blurry. sorry bout that.
even the ceiling is decorated.
more ceiling.
this says 'what you are now we used to be; what we are now you will be'. creepy awesomeness.
the church upstairs complete with escaping monk ghost.
fish making the italian hand sign that means 'damn this thing is sick and it looks like i hand painted it myself'.
and drink.
and eat and drink some more not long later. emiliano's busting out the italian hand sign for 'hey guiseppe, we need more beer!'
hell yeah dewd. way to scoop up a nice one before you even have a hair on yer balls.
then eat some more later. allesondro's rad.
simone is also rad and owns the gallery where the show was at.
dinner party.
beastiality, also way up there on my radness scale. i remember my first threesome.
then drink some more. bo and matteo are super geezers. you think they skin?
aw, hell yeah!
they even like to talk about how much they like to skin. and on a side note, it's pretty cool knowing people read yer crappy blog on the other side of the world hole.
homo. i saw quite a few cock fags checking out other dewds at the internet points. i think he's looking at a site called wood. totally gay faggot.
i remember the first time i choked the priest.. i certainly wasn't perusing the interweb looking for dewds.
speaking of boy touchers.. look how creepy holy man is eyeing this little dewd. i'm sure he's thinking 'someday you will be able to fit both my nuts in yer mouth, amen'.
roman broom technology is right on par with their internet technology... behind the times.
there was a pre-show collector viewing thing (or something like that). i believe these two fancy pants were doing some shopping.
then an after party at paulo and domitillas house complete with a fancy spread, butler/service type o dewdz and plenty o wealthy guests. me and martin walked in holding the roman equivilent to forty ounces and the first thing i did was yell 'va fan culo!' to everyone (it means go fuck yourself). it was quite a gas, lemme tell ya. i had a small 'i would like to hide stuff in this girl' type of crush on the one in the middle of this pik. i talked to her for about a half an hour then wandered off to shoot some photos. the next time i saw her, she pointed at me from a safe distance and said 'yer fuckin crazy'. hmff. so... no, i didn't play hide n seek with her.
this here is nicola. i forgot to mention that there's gonna be a book coming out next year with all of the work fish did for the show (and some extras), mirai's portraits of fish, and a grip of photos i took while we were there. nicola is doing the design and layout for it. it'll be for sale on umbrella market and a bunch of other places.
i couldn't figure this out. at first i thought it was someones vomit in the bidet but then i realized it was some seashells or rocks. is that fancy for 'our bidet is currenlty a seashell display so don't wash your scumbag ass in it' or 'we know you are a dirtbag so we installed an extra butt nugget filter for you'?
kalli (also know as swoon) is fackin awesome and has really really small feet. check out martin after having moved onto cocktails. yeah dewd, go.
bottle gut. this photo reminded me of one of fishs shirts.
snappio! bo skinning up hard in what was likely a very non-smoking section.
martin putting the zzzzzzz... back into bzzzzzzzdtt!
that there is paulo on the right. i don't have many piks of him even though i thought i took quite a few. this here was his party and he is the geeze bag that will be putting out the book (called rome-antic delusions). thanks again for all yer radness, paulo!
a bit of a 'pick our asses up' to get us home. i drank the one in the middle with the spoon in it.
i don't remember if i brought up the shower problem in our apartment.. so if i have skip this part. this is a photo of our backup shower. the normal one would typically have hot water for about two minutes then ice cold switching back to hot for a minute.. then just freezing water. when this happened, you had to go into the kitchen, climb onto the counter, onto the fridge and hit a button on the water heater to get hot water again... or use the mexican shower in the sink. roman technology yo.
me and martin went to see the inside of the colosseum and he spotted this free baby out front (it's a real dewd). italy took it back going through customs or else this blog would be a partial classified ad. yes, in the 'babies for sale' section.
on the way in, this dynamic dumper was attached to a saucy broad and standing in line in front of us. unfortunetly, it went the same way we did once we were inside and i wasn't able to look at anything else for the first half hour.
damn, these dewdz get around.
dewdz have excavated the ground level (death area) to reveal the paths of doom that the gladiators and animals and other missle anus people used.
i've become kind of obsessed with shooting photos of tourists... here's some..
here's the rest of that ass wearing the bergay. looks nice from the front too.
tourist douche.
super tourist douche with the obligatory american can of coke.
i don't really know what's up with this one. a preist talking to some scotsmen about how rad banging little boys can be?
next we went to the vatican where, apparently nobody wearing neon pink lederhousen are allowed in.
i believe that's god on the right with some of his many yes men in the backround.
shit's cool looking inside. those religous people sure do put on quite a show just to get some boy cock.
people rub this statues foot for good luck or good health.. or whatever. it sounds pretty ridiculous but if you think about the fact that these people also believe there's a dewd hanging out in the sky that 'made them', is watching their every move, and controlling everything that happens.. foot rubbing's not all that weird.
the plaque under this painting said 'i'll take that one. he's got sexy boy tits. lets bring him up this hill and takes turns fucking his virgin ass!'
went to a strip club that was right off of via tasso (badger street).
it was called the office. i've never been in a club that was so dead. i'm not really a fan of strip clubs or strippers so it didn't matter much.
a 'white rocks' t-shirt.. so racial.
art show time.. that means free beer.
this is also made of half of papik.
yet another fan of the blog in a far away land. nice one, dewd.
thanks for everything alice!
jeremy and his mom.
kelli has proper robot technique.
we smoke bombed.. tired and drunk, waiting patiently for a taxi attack.
thanks to all the geezers in rome, here in sf and all you reader people all over that really help tie my blog together.
don't be a cunt stick (deep fried style).. come back soon.
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Law School Admissions / Re: Stanford 1L taking questions« on: December 17, 2008, 12:21:09 PM »
Maybe this isn't a great question for a 1L, but I'm sure you have a perspective from when you were choosing schools:
How portable is a Stanford degree really, compared to YH? If one's long term goals involve work in DC or NY, do you think attending Stanford could put one at a disadvantage? I kind of dream of going to LS on the west coast, but I know I won't be relocating there permanantly.
As an SLS 2L, I'd like to add my two cents about recruiting: Although most Stanford students prefer to stay on the West Coast (self-selection), I've not noticed any disadvantage for people looking in NY or DC. Even friends of mine who were substantially below mean were able to get fantastic NYC firm jobs, including offers from V10 firms. In DC, it's a bit harder, but I know many people who got offers from top DC firms. I don't know anyone who didn't get the location they wanted, and almost everyone I knew got their top choice firm (and many offers overall).
Although our lay prestige on the East Coast may not be as strong as Harvard's and Yale's, we do benefit tremendously from our small size. Most firms would like to have at least a few SLS students in their summer classes, and because (1) there are so few of us to begin with, and (2) an even smaller number go to the East Coast, we tend to fare just fine.


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Divided by language, united by gut bacteria – people have three common gut types
Europe is a divided land. For such a relatively small continent, it is split into 50 different countries and its people speak hundreds of languages. But within their guts, there is common ground. The intestines of Europeans, like those of all humans, harbour massive communities of bacteria. According to a new study, these microscopic worlds fall into just three different groups, which transcend the borders of geography and politics. In gut bacteria, we are united.
Our gut contains trillions of bacteria, known collectively as the microbiome. Their cells outnumber our own by ten to one. We are, to the closest approximation, thriving communities of bacteria encased in a human shell. No two people have quite the same collection – we differ slightly in the species we contain, and there can be hundreds jostling for space.
But this variation isn't infinite. Previous studies have shown that once people reach adulthood, their microbiomes become remarkably stable. Even after the communities are rocked by antibiotic assaults, they rebound to their old selves, recruiting members in the same proportions as before. Now, Manimozhiyan Arumugam and Jeroen Raes from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) have found that these constraints go even further. There seem to be just three preferred ways of building a community of gut bacteria.
The duo collected stool samples from 22 Europeans from Denmark, France, Spain and Italy, sequenced all the DNA within them, and compared them to 13 similar samples from Japan. They found that these sequences collapsed into three general groups, which they called enterotypes. Arumugam and Raes also showed that sequences from 154 Americans and 85 Danes, taken from other studies, fit within the three groups.
The enterotypes transcend boundaries of countries and continents. That is surprising – two years ago, John Novembre showed that the genetic variation in Europe mirrors its geography with startling precision. But human genes are outnumbered by those of their gut bacteria by a hundred to one, and these bacterial genes are apparently far more straight-forward.
Enterotypes aren't quite as well-defined as, say, blood groups, but they could have similar uses as medical markers. The microbiome helps us to digest our food and it affects our susceptibility to diseases; the enterotypes could reflect these roles. Each enterotype was dominated by a specific genus of bacteria, and varied in the proportions of the other members. They produce energy in subtly different ways, they're particularly efficient at breaking down different nutrients, and they specialise at creating different vitamins.
These are clues, but they stop short of telling us what the three enterotypes signify. Peer Bork, who led the study, says that the groups don't seem to be driven by diet. However, his team has only looked at Westernised or developed countries. It's possible that more enterotypes lurk in the guts of hunter-gatherers from remote villages; after all, one earlier study found that African villagers have different gut bacteria to Europeans.
The enterotypes aren't driven by the age, gender, nationality, or body weight of their hosts either. However, they could be affected by their hosts in more subtle ways. For example, the gut bacteria of older people contain more genes that are involved in breaking down carbohydrates than those of youngsters, but they have fewer genes that help them cope with harsh conditions. These changes could reflect the bacteria's responses to their ageing human hosts, whose failing digestive systems need more help and whose weakening immune systems pose less of a problem.
It's clear that this line of research is just beginning. "This is the first hint that there might be types of gut microbiome that are reproducible in different populations," says Rob Knight, who also works on gut bacteria. "It will be fascinating to determine in future work whether these enterotypes are associated with disease risk and reproducible in other populations and ages."
"I do think the enterotypes will have an impact on human health," says Bork. His team has found hints that everyone with a certain disease belong to just one enterotypes, although for now, he isn't revealing which disease it is. That will come in time…
Reference: Arumugam, Raes et al. 2011. Enterotypes of the human gut microbiome. Nature http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature09944
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Wow. This seems huge. I wonder what medicines might work differently for people with different "gut types," or what treatments might become less risky after knowing which type someone has. Very cool stuff!
Sort of an un-related question…can you measure and compare organisms' gut bacteria with other organisms (of a different species) to determine evolutionary relatedness?
Interesting speculation: I wonder if this gut biota distinction could have anything to do with original diet: primarily carnivore, primarily herbivore or omnivore.
Scary follow-up speculation: Could these three categories define/include the political categories of totalitarian-fundamentalist/apolitical-passive/anarchist-humanist? If so, the Nazis will have objective criteria, this time around, by which to identify ubermenschen allies and untermenschen victims, regardless of subjective, erroneous and self-defeating criteria like race, nationality, creed, sex, etc.
In that case, we are in for a global war of extermination that will make every prior one look like a picnic.
Just speculations, easily proven or disproved (perhaps regrettably).
As a pharmacy student I can't help but wonder what unknown impacts this might have on how medications are absorbed from the gut.
Thank you Ed for this nice piece on the enterotypes paper. I will make the same comment as on Carl's blog and nytimes article earlier today: your articles on the human microbiome are always very interesting and perfectly translate to the general public what our research focuses on.
I would like to reproduce below the comment we posted this morning (Paris time) under the New York Times article (currently under moderation).
The enterotypes paper is the result of a wide European collaboration. The EU-funded Project MetaHIT (metagenomics of the human intestinal tract) is behind the enterotypes discovery. Many fields of expertise, teams, labs, researchers are gathered in order for this collaboration to publish such exciting results. We believe that it is more than normal that the whole consortium be thanked and its name, MetaHIT, put forward.
Congratulations to all the contributors of this wonderful adventure that is our collaboration! Stay tuned for more, it s only a beginning!
Visit our website for more information http://www.metahit.eu & Follow us on twitter, @MetaHIT
Do not hesitate to get in touch with us, we'll be more than happy to give further details on our activities.
"Europe is a divided land. For such a relatively small continent, it is split into 50 different countries and its people speak hundreds of languages."
Okay that made me blink, because if I didn't know better my first reaction would have been "Said like a true American". Not quite a metaphor that sits well with me.
I suppose they didn't look at if the enterotype might change with relocation? Or is this even a local thing? I can see the age relation and how it would make sense, but it would be interesting if there are other influences (external ones rather than internal) that could change this balance.
Since fetal gut is pretty sterile, initial-seeding differences would be suspects for this divergence. Makers of yogurt and mead would probably agree with me. Naturally, diet is the candidate variable for the gut biome. My guesses for the 3 groups:
1. natural delivery birth (mother's feces)
2. Caesarean delivery birth (no feces)
3. breastfed or formula (pure guess)
I remember reading that gut micro-biomes get transmitted at birth via trace amounts of mother's feces that newborns ingest (Caesarean births are different story entirely, that article stated).
Please provide more specific information and functional analysis of the 3 types. Which types produce which vitamins, break down which foods, are involved in which reactions, (and as above, medications) etc. Thanks
This is an interesting discovery and I wonder about any relationship to eocinophilic esophagitis, which my husband suffers from and probably my children do too.
If I had to guess, the disease where everyone shares a biome would be digestive related such as Celiac's disease.


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A 25 kg dog should be fed 238 - 266 grams per day.
FRESH CHICKEN, chicken meal, rice flour, chicken fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols), ground corn, beet pulp, whole dried egg, brewers yeast, fish meal, linseed, fish oil (preserved with mixed tocopherols), lecithin, minerals and vitamins. Chondroitin, Glucosamine and MSM.
Typical analysis:
Protein 30%
Ash 7%
Oil 21%
Fibre 3
Moisture 8%
Vitamin D 1424 IU/kg
Vitamin A21420 IU/kg
Vitamin E 148 IU/kg
Calcium 1.4%
Copper 23mg/kg
Phosphorus 0.95%
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First two ingredients are named meat products.
Use of grain fragments, corn and other controversial filler. Fat as fourth ingredient (a bloat risk factor for large breed dogs)
The first two ingredients are named meat products. The first is chicken inclusive of its water content (about 80%) and once that is removed it is likely that this ingredient would be more accurately placed somewhat further down the ingredient list (ingredients are listed in order of weight). Since the next ingredient is chicken meal, however, we can still be confident that the first ingredient in the food really is a meat product. Note also that this is an example of the practice of splitting (see note on main page), but in this case serves to increase our level of confidence in the amount of meat product in the food.
There is a further meat product (fish meal) 8th on the ingredient list but it is unlikely that this comprises a substantial part of the food (ingredients are listed in order of weight). The manufacturer does not claim to use ethoxyquin-free sources (ethoxyquin is a chemical preservative commonly added to fish meal, that is believed to be carcinogenic).
The main grain in the food is rice (2nd on ingredient list). Unfortunately, this is rice flour which we consider to be filler.
It is a concern to see chicken fat as the fourth ingredient. Research at Purdue University has identified a fat in the top four ingredients of a dry dog food as a factor that increases the risk of bloat in large breed dogs. Smaller breeds are untested.
Corn is the fifth ingredient. Corn is difficult for dogs to digest and thought to be the cause of a great many allergy and yeast infection problems.
We appreciate the use of whole eggs, but beet pulp is a controversial ingredient it is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food especially so high on the ingredient list. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required.
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I haven't posted since May – mostly because life has been good and I've been busy. I did have an experience with the evil skin infection cellulitis, which thankfully resolved itself pretty quickly. But mostly the last few months have been full of big business decisions and happy family times.
Until this morning … I was returning home after a lovely yoga class and was in a car accident. On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the worst, it was about a 3 to 4. NOT what I was hoping for from my day. My car is really a mess thanks to the winch on the other guy's truck. It's safe in the towing company's storage lot for now while I wait for the adjuster to assess the situation. And I am sitting in bed … waiting to hear if I broke any ribs. Or really to find out if my seatbelt broke any of my ribs!
The accident happened in the middle of a string of rainy days, which were already making more achey than normal. Now I am having trouble moving in some directions with this rib pain. Strangely, there's no bruising on the outside. It's the perfect example of "But You Don't Look Sick."
Interestingly, this accident reminds me how closely connected my core muscles are to my ribs. The hardest part of this pain is what happens when I try to lie down or rise back up from horizontal. I just can't access my core muscles to help me. But I'm grateful for strong legs and arms to help support what my core can't. Now I have to be careful not to strain those joints and muscles.
As I said to the x-ray tech, "I feel like a feeble old lady." And as my spoonie peeps know, we all have been there and we don't like it at all!
And here's the rest of the challenge. Much of my ability to see massage therapy clients depends on my ability to move freely. For the last eight years I've been able to work pretty darn consistently even with RA, but I cancelled all of my clients today. It's been quite some time since I've had to do that. And as a small business person, I don't have paid vacation or sick time. So I'm pulling out all the stops to get better soon!
One of the things I always tell my clients is that the MOST important time to eat healthy food is when your body is trying to heal. Your body needs all the fuel for its building blocks to rebuild the injured tissue … and this doesn't come from cheeseburgers and french fries. It comes from fresh veggies, whole fruits and some lean protein. So although my mom suggested hot cocoa (and I may do that!), I am also making sure I eat super healthy. In fact once I made it back home, I made myself a green smoothie right away. Some part of the reason was to have food in my stomach to calm my nerves. Another part was to get food in my stomach to take my meds. And then the general need to feed myself the healing food!
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Impact of Climate Change on Flood Factors and Extent of Damages in the Hindu Kush Region
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Natural Hazard Science. Please check back later for the full article.
Hindu Kush is a high mountain system located in the immediate west of Karakorum and Himalayas. It is the greatest watershed of River Kabul, River Chitral, River Swat, and River Panjkora in Pakistan and the Amu River in Central Asia. The Hindu Kush system hosts numerous glaciers, snow-clad mountains, and fertile river valleys; it also supports a large population and provides year-round water to replenish streams and rivers. The study region is vulnerable to a wide range of hazards including floods, earthquakes, landslides, drought, and desertification. However, in the Hindu Kush region, riverine and flash floods frequently occur as well as extreme hydro-meteorological events. The upper reaches experience characteristics of flash floods, whereas the lower reaches experience river floods. In the upstream areas, flash floods are sudden and more destructive in nature. Every year in summer, monsoonal rainfall, together with the heavy melting of snow, ice, and glaciers accelerates discharge in rivers. Climate change has a strong relationship with trends in temperature and resultant changes in rainfall pattern and river discharge. In the wake of observed climate change, there is a rising trend in temperature, which indicates the early and rapid melting of snow and glaciers in the catchment areas. The analysis reveals that in the late 20th and early 21st centuries a radical change in behavior of numerous valley glaciers has been noted. Similarly, a fluctuation in the amount of snowfall occurrences together with its timing and seasonality has been recorded. In addition, the spatial and temporal scales of violent weather events have grown during the past thirty years. Such changes in water regimes including the frequent but substantial increase in heavy precipitation events and rapid melting of snow in the headwater region, siltation in active channels, excessive deforestation in the past three decades, human encroachments onto the active flood channel and the bursting of temporary dams have further escalated the flooding events. Analysis reveals that the Hindu Kush region is beyond the reach of existing weather RADAR network and hence flood forecasting and early warning is ineffective. In the study region, almost every year, the floodwater overflows the levees and causes damages to standing crops, infrastructure, sources of livelihood. And worst of all, there are human casualties.


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The Texas Renaissance Festival Food Diet: What's lurking inside your favorite Ren Fest foods
Sure, we go to the Texas Renaissance Fesitival for the costumes, to lookie-loo at grown men pretending to be centaurs, to send wenches to a watery finish at the dunk tank, and – hey – where else are you going to get a fair price on a new or gently pre-owned broadsword these days?
But the reason we all really go to the Texas Renaissance Festival is for the food.
Well, sorry, but we're about to spoil your fun.
It should come as no surprise that some of the most popular foods at the Texas Renaissance Festival are a tad on the unhealthy side. (Funnel cakes unhealthy? Say it ain't so!?!)
Here's the rundown.
All of these will vary based on the maker of the food, specific ingredients used and method of preparation.
Turkey Legs: The turkey leg is a Renaissance Festival staple. Fryer-roasted, it's one of the least horrible things you can eat from a health standpoint at the fair. A turkey leg contains about 417 calories – or two thirds of what you'd find in a Burger King Whopper without cheese. It also has about a fifth of the sodium of the Whopper, a third of the fat and almost three times the protein. We're not calling this health food, but it's probably a better pick than stopping by the drive-thru on the way home.
Mead: The honey wine known better as mead is a definite belly buster. An eight-ounce serving packs 356 calories and 40 grams of both carbs and sugars. If you're ordering it in the 32 ounce "flagon," that brings the caloric total to 1,400+ calories: more than a McDonald's Big Mac, large fry and 30-ounce Dr Pepper combined. The flagon also packs 160 grams of cabs and sugars and offers little nutritional value (granted, you're probably not drinking it for its nutritional value) with no protein, vitamins or minerals. Meads only positives: it's fat and cholesterol free.
Corn Dog: You can't say you've been to a fair or festival if you haven't eaten a corn dog. A large corn dog made of a beef, pork, chicken and turkey mix contains 359 calories before a trip to the deep fryer and 26 grams of carbs. It's 10.6 grams of protein is low for a food considered a meat dish: about the same as 10 ounce glass of milk. The 970 mg of sodium is on the high end.
Funnel Cake: Seriously, do you really want to know? It's deep-fried sweet batter covered in powder sugar and syrup. But if you really want to know ... first, the good news: it's only 276 calories. That's practically health food! Now the bad news: noone actually gets the 276- calorie funnel cake. The 276-calorie funnel cake is is only six inches in diameter, hasn't been put in the fryer yet and has no powdered sugar or syrup. You don't get that one. You get the hubcap-sized one, with a pillowcase-full of powdered sugar covered in enough strawberry syrup to drown a small child. And it's delicious!
Cotton Candy: If it weren't for the sugar, cotton candy would be the perfect health food. Of course, if it weren't for the sugar, cotton candy would be just an empty cardboard stick. An ounce of cotton candy – and the ones you get at fairs and festival are a lot bigger than one ounce – contains no fat, no cholesterol, and no sodium, but 27 grams of sugar – about the equivalent of drinking two-thirds of a can of Coca-Cola. But your average cotton candy bag or stick will contain several more times that amount.


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The Oscars are going to be a little later next year.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Monday the dates for the next two years' ceremonies — March 2, 2014, and Feb. 22, 2015.
With the shift, the 2014 awards season calendar is shaping up to be an unusual one, with a frenetic January full of guild awards and then a long lull until the Oscar telecast in March. (The show was Feb. 24 this year.)
Oscars 2013: Winners list | Red carpet | Highlights
On the bright side, the later award date does give voters more time to see all the contending films.
Next February poses some thorny scheduling challenges for awards season planners, mainly the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, taking place Feb. 7-23. Another key live-TV event, the 2014 Super Bowl, is scheduled for Feb. 2.


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When Kesha was born into the pop world in 2009, there was no Carly Rae Jepsen (in America, at least), no One Direction and Justin Bieber still had bangs to make a Renaissance sculptor weep. How will her glitter, feathered gear and tequila go over in a world where fresh-scrubbed dance-pop is the lingua franca? We're about to find out.
The singer has released her first new music since 2010's mini-album "Cannibal," in the form of a new single "Die Young." It's no major departure from her classic template of ravey pop spiced with gum-smacking raps and occasional vocal acrobatics.
But even when delivering a stock-and-trade message about partying, and how we should all do it now, she hangs out on the phrase "Die Young" to make that fate sound less like a thing to be avoided, and more like the goal is to live fast and leave a good-looking corpse. Party nihilist indeed.
The song, which is up for grabs on iTunes and YouTube right now, teases her forthcoming album "Warrior," out Dec. 4. It reportedly features collaborations with the Black Keys, Iggy Pop and the Flaming Lips alongside her usual slate of pop savants Dr. Luke and Max Martin. Perhaps it's worth it to put off dying young until we get to hear the whole thing.


text: Business Matters: Achieve Your Margin Goal September 4, 2013 10:22 PM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Chris Barron Top Producer Columnist Email After years of record margins for grain producers, 2013 might present some challenges. We have been rewarded to "not plan" and "not sell ahead." Price opportunities have appeared later in the season, but that might not be the case this year. No one knows exactly when a margin opportunity will present itself, but if passed over, there are no guarantees for a profit down the road. There are a few bullish components to the market that might provide windows to capture profits. Late-developing soybeans; the actual number of prevented plant acres; weather conditions; outside market conditions, such as the value of the dollar; realistic yields and a potentially oversold market will create market volatility. Revisit, Reevaluate, Revise. As this volatility occurs, what price level do you need to lock in for your operation? If current prices are not sufficient, what price would be? Now is the time to revisit your 2013 marketing plan. It's as simple as following three steps. First, assess your production costs so you know and understand your exact expenses per bushel. Second, review your price goals to determine if the price levels you hope to achieve are realistic. Third, calculate yield projections and then translate them into actual yield results during harvest. While doing this, it's important to calculate your revenue coverage, as the fall price is determined during October. It's also a good time to calculate what your breakeven sales price is at each yield level. Don't think of price alone; calculate what your gross revenue needs to be to achieve your margin goal. Yield can dramatically improve margin opportunity. For example, at the spring price of $5.65, every 10 bu. of yield increase adds $56 of revenue per acre. If conditions across the Corn Belt improve, there could be an added $113 per acre of revenue, despite the lower price of corn. To help achieve your gross revenue per acre, continually measure your yield prospects before and during harvest, as it's a moving target. I've created a tool called "Scenario Planner" to help you keep current on margin opportunities as you discover actual yield numbers this fall. Revenue coverage might be the final saving grace that helps farmers capture a profit. This safety net could be especially important to those with very little grain sold or reduced yields. If the fall price average comes in below the spring guarantee of $5.65, the yield guarantee is increased to equal your revenue guarantee. Locking in a profit margin is critical to remaining sustainable. Focus on the gross revenue needed to achieve your goals. Visit www.TopProducer-Online.com/Scenario_Planner to keep current on margin opportunities. Chris Barron is director of operations and president of Carson and Barron Farms Inc. in Rowley, Iowa. He is also a farm business consultant and the author of the AgWeb.com blog, "Ask a Margins Expert." To submit questions and comments, e-mail Chris at firstname.lastname@example.com. Back to news


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The brewmaster said "mouthfeel" and I knew I was in over my head.
This was some years ago, surrounded by fellow beerophiles in the belly of the beast at the Sam Adams brewery in Boston. Sam's top hop-ologists did their experiments here, a lab of sorts to concoct the brewery's next Big Thing. You'll see it on their commercials, containing large copper kettles that house the sweet liquid gold for America's next mass-produced "craft" beer.
We learned how to sample beer the right way: color, nose (oenophiles will know this term already, but I came to know it as "smell"), taste, mouthfeel or body and finally, the finish.
Over the years I came to appreciate beer as a complement to nearly every meal. It graciously scrubs the palate between courses, or sets the stage for a new one. In the past 20 years the rise of the American microbrew has produced a new connoisseur: one who delights in the finer notes of a well-mixed hop-and-yeast waltz over the staccato salsa of a traditional paired wine.
I didn't know it at the time, but I quickly became a card-carrying member of the beer snob squad.
Since moving to Southern California, I've made several friends who brew their own. Their setups include beakers and burners that would make Dr. Frankenstein blush, and in the comfort of their kitchens they devise ales and lagers with the sophistication of a classical symphony. Each recipe builds on itself, and there is an order involved; as one might bring in the horns section too early, so too does the malt maestro calculate how and when his hops enter the song.
Home-brewers love to talk about their home brews. They love it so much that I can't often keep up in the conversation, getting lost somewhere between the positive and negative charge of yeast and the proper temperatures at which your copper-pipe contraption must cool the boil.
So I'm going to learn. This weekend I'm bringing several home brewers to my home to compare, contrast and collaborate on how the art of the brew is really done.
Did I mention I have no idea how to host a beer tasting?
For pointers I visited Tony's Darts Away on Magnolia. There's really no better collection of beer barons in Burbank than this craft-brew bar. My first lesson: Beer tasting is not as high-brow as one might expect if one compares it to wine tasting.
There's no spitting a sample when you're done with a beer, but otherwise you can run a beer tasting in similar ways to a wine event. Erin Killean, a bartender at Tony's, tells me you want to pay attention to a beer's look, its nose (smell), taste, then swallow it to see how the hops hit the back of your palate.
She suggests starting with the lighter, less-octane beers first. That way you can understand the subtler notes of hops and sweetness that might ensconce a lager or light ale.
Killean says one should separate each course with some water and lightly salted crackers or pretzels, to help cleanse the taste buds.
"And so your friends don't get completely obliterated," she said. "Pizza's always a good remedy for that."
At a nearby table playing Clue with friends, Raliegh Drennan suggested I provide a relaxed, calm atmosphere in which to enjoy the serving course.
And yes, start with light beer "because you don't want to get everyone knocked out halfway through."
Bartender Tony Essa recommends a 4- to 5-ounce sample for each tasting (any smaller and you won't get the full experience), and Killean suggested even hosting the event "brown bag" style, in which everyone brings a sample but no one knows what they have until the end.
No matter what you sample, Essa says the important thing is how to enjoy each facet of the beer. Take in the look, then the nose, then sip it and swirl it. This releases more of the beer's flavor, Essa says, and will allow you to get past the dominant ingredients (hops and malt) to sample the more subtle notes of sweet and bitter, floral and spicy.
Serve the beer light to strong, provide plenty of palate-cleansers in between, and most of all enjoy yourself. Maybe this craft beer thing isn't so complicated after all. Now where'd I put my barleywine?
BRYAN MAHONEY is a recent transplant from the East Coast. When he isn't sampling saisons, he can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com and on Twitter: @818NewGuy.


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NEON Summer Symposium - Widening Access in Higher Education8th June, Leeds
The NEON Summer Symposium 2017 and to submit a proposal to present a paper. If you haven't already booked your place, please note that the deadline to submit a paper proposal and/or to book your place under the early bird rate is 5.00pm on Friday, 17 March. Details can be found here: http://www.educationopportunities.co.uk/neon-events/neon-summer-symposium/
We had to operate a waiting list for last year's Summer Symposium and since bookings are already going quickly, I want to make sure that anyone who wants to come to the 2017 Summer Symposium doesn't miss out!
Widening Access in Higher Education – Are we there yet?
Thursday, 8th & Friday 9th June 2017
Leeds Beckett University
This year, the NEON Summer Symposium will address the question of 'Widening Access in Higher Education: Are we there yet?' Over the two day conference, we will examine what have we learnt in the last two decades and crucially, what should the goals for the next decade and beyond look like in the area of access and equity in HE participation?
NEON has already assembled an outstanding line-up of speakers for the 2017 NEON Summer Symposium, including:
· Dr Roberta Blackman-Woods MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary University Group & Shadow Minister for Local Government and Housing
· Nick Hillman Director, Higher Education Policy Institute
· Kate Howell, Senior Policy Executive, UCAS
· Sarah Howls, Head of Student Opportunity, Hefce
· Shahid Omer, Head of Widening Participation, Department for Education BIS
· Professor Peter Slee, Vice Chancellor, Leeds Beckett University
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March 6, 2011
Just hours after the Wabash baseball team's plane landed in Los Angeles, the Little Giants began their California Spring Break trip with a nine-inning game against the 17th-ranked Chapman University Panthers and 2010 Division III Pitcher of the Year Brian Rauh. Wabash took an early lead before falling 4-3 to the Panthers.
The Little Giants got to Rauh early, scoring in the first inning after Brian Lares led off the game with a walk. John Pennington's single moved Lares to second before eventually scoring on a groundout by John Holm. Chapman rallied for single runs in the fourth, fifth, and sixth innings off starter Andrew Swart, who suffered his first loss of the season. Swart worked six innings, giving up just six hits and three runs while walking one and striking out three Panthers batters.
Chapman added a run in the eighth to take a 4-1 lead, but Wabash had a chance to draw even in the ninth. Facing reliever Kyle Tachibana, the Little Giants picked up two runs in the top of the ninth. Sophomore Montana Timmons led off the inning with a triple to right field, then scored on a single by Tanner Coggins. Trey Fankhauser came into the game as a pinch runner for Coggins, eventually scoring on an RBI single by PJ Tyson. Wabash had the tying run at second and the go-ahead run at first with two outs, but the Little Giants were unable to extend the rally, falling to 2-3 with the loss.
Pennington, Timmons, Coggins, Tyson, and David Seibel accounted for all five Wabash hits in the contest. Chapman (8-4) was held to seven hits in the game. Adam Kordich went 2-for-4 at the plate with an RBI, while Tyler Surnbrock was 2-for-3 with an RBI.
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AAAS OPPOSES TENNESSEE ANTI-EVOLUTION LAW according to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) news release 21 March 2012, AAAS Policy Alert 19 April 2012 and AAAS Advances Monthly Newsletter, April 2012. As part of a campaign of strong opposition to a new education law in Tennessee, Alan Leshner, CEO of AAAS, has written to the Governor of Tennessee urging him to veto a bill passed by both houses of the Tennessee State legislature that allowed teachers to present scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of issues that may cause debate and disputation, including evolution and climate change. Leshner wrote: There is virtually no scientific controversy among the overwhelming majority of researchers on the core facts of evolution and climate change, and these subjects should not be taught as if there were such a controversy. It is discouraging to see legislation that encourages teachers to help students critique the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of what are in fact well-established theories. He went on to say that the legislation denies students the ability to gain the strong understanding of science necessary to compete for high-skill jobs in an increasingly high-tech world environment. As part of AAASs opposition to this, and similar bills in other states, Leshner has invoked the support of more than 12,000 Christian leaders who have signed the Clergy Letter Project in support of teaching evolution. AAAS and other science education groups such as the National Center for Science Education are also strongly opposing similar education bills in the state of Oklahoma. A group named Oklahomans for Excellence in Science Education commented: This bill will harm the Oklahoma economy, bring costly lawsuits, and irreparably harm our students education in science. In spite of the intense pressure to veto the bill the Tennessee State Governor allowed the bill to pass into law on 10 April 2012.
ED. COM. In Evidence News 21 March 2012 we reported a comment by one of our supporters: Wanted to let you know that Tennessee schools received a D in science... because of lack of teaching evolution and natural selection. Hope you can help turn that D into an F. It seems the state of Tennessee has done that without our help. Over the last few years a number of state governments in the USA have proposed similar laws that have likewise been proclaimed by organisations such as AAAS as anti-evolution bills. (AAAS Policy Alerts, 24 Jan 2011, 7 Feb 2011, 24 Feb 2011) However, if you read the actual wording of these laws you will see they are not against the teaching of evolution, but for the proper scientific analysis of it. The Tennessee law reads: The state board of education, public elementary and secondary school governing authorities, directors of schools, school system administrators, and public elementary and secondary school principals and administrators shall endeavor to create an environment within public elementary and secondary schools that encourages students to explore scientific questions, learn about scientific evidence, develop critical thinking skills, and respond appropriately and respectfully to differences of opinion about controversial issues. Examples of controversial issues are listed as some scientific subjects, including, but not limited to, biological evolution, the chemical origins of life, global warming, and human cloning. The Bill goes on to say: Toward this end, teachers shall be permitted to help students understand, analyze, critique, and review in an objective manner the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of existing scientific theories covered in the course being taught. The Bill also states the education authorities must not prohibit teachers from helping students understand, analyze, critique, and review in an objective manner the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of existing scientific theories covered in the course being taught. Tennessee House Bill (HB) 368/Senate Bill 893. PDF copy available here
By calling these laws anti-evolution, and even anti-science, the leaders of AAAS and other secular education organisations have deliberately forgotten that understanding, analysing, critiquing and reviewing are the very processes that advance science and teach students how to think about scientific ideas. To permit such activities in classrooms is not anti any idea. If the science teaching organisations and the Clergy Letter Project signatories looked at the history of science they would see that was because there were people prepared to analyse and critique the majority scientific beliefs of their time that stimulated research and led to advancements in science. Otherwise, they would still be teaching their students about phlogiston, and that the atom could not be split, along with many other firmly held beliefs that have been debunked because people were prepared to challenge them.
Perhaps the secular science and education groups that condemn these laws are revealing their fear that the theory of evolution might not stand up to honest scrutiny if the normal processes of scientific analysis were allowed. If evolution was such a good scientific theory it would stand up to any honest criticism, and not need politicians and lawyers to protect it. (Ref. politics, philosophy, world view)
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Kollyva (Greek: Κολλυβα, (kólliva); Serbian: кољиво, (koljivo); Romanian: colivă ; Bulgarian: коливо, (kolivo); Ukrainian and Russian: Kutya (or Kutia)) is an offering of boiled wheat that is blessed liturgically in connection with the Memorial Services in Church for the benefit of one's departed, thereby offering unto God, as it were, a sacrifice of propitiation (atonement) for the dead person, and in honor of the Sovereign Lord over life and death.[1]
While recipes may vary widely, the primary ingredient in today's Kollyva consists of wheat kernels which have been boiled until they are soft. These are usually mixed with a variety of ingredients which may include pomegranate seeds, sesame seeds, almonds, ground walnuts, cinnamon, sugar, raisins, anise and parsley.
The Kollyva mixture is then placed on a platter and shaped into a mound or cake, to resemble a grave. The whole is then decorated with a powdered sugar covering, often with Jordan almonds, raisins, or other sweets decoratively placed on the surface. A cross is traced or created with the sweets on the top, and on its sides are placed the initials of the departed for whom the memorial is held. A candle, often placed in the center of the Kollyva, is lit at the beginning of the requiem service and extinguished at its end; the candle symbolizes the light wherewith the Christian is illumined in Baptism, and also the light of the world to come, which knows no setting.
Some Orthodox parishes have a designated individual charged with making the Kollyva. This is in part due to the health risk of fermented wheat if the Kollyva is not prepared correctly.
Sometimes Kollyva is made with rice instead of wheat. This custom began as a practical response to a famine that occurred in Soviet Russia, when the faithful did not have wheat available for Kollyva, so they used rice instead. Some communities continue to use rice for their Kollyva to this day. In the Japanese Orthodox Church where rice is mainly eaten, Kollyva is commonly made from rice sweetened with sugar and decorated with raisins, without reference to famine.
The size and decoration of the platter varies according to the time elapsed from the date of death. The fortieth day memorial service is the most important which practically no Orthodox neglects to hold for the repose of the soul of their beloved. This ritual food is blessed after the memorial Divine Liturgy, performed at various intervals after a death. The Kollyva are then distributed to the congregation after the service, who in return say "may God forgive his soul!".
It is also customary for the priest to pour wine, oil, and some of the Kollyva onto the grave site at the cemetery, following the Memorial Service in church.[note 1]
Ancient World
The origin of the religious use of Kollyva predates Christianity. The word stems from the Ancient Greek word κόλλυβo (kollyvo), which originally meant cereal grain.
The Ancient Greek first fruits offerings (or dedications) known as panspermia,[note 2] consisted of a mixture of cooked seeds and nuts (Pulse) which were offered during the festival of the Anthesteria.
The Anthesteria[note 3] was one of the four Athenian festivals in honour of Dionysus (collectively the Dionysia), held annually for three days, from the eleventh to the thirteenth of the month of Anthesterion (February-March). The festival predates the Ionian colonisation of the early eleventh century B.C.,[note 4] making it the oldest datable part of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Although its name indicates a Festival of Flowers (anthos), the festival focused primarily on opening the new wine and on placating the spirits of the dead.
Wheat, like barley, was also associated with the Egyptian cult of Osiris. Grain was planted in the ground on the same day traditionally commemorating the death of the god,[note 5] while the germinating seed symbolized Osiris rising from the dead.
The association between death and life, between that which is planted in the ground and that which emerges, is deeply embedded in the making and eating of Kollyva. The ritual food passed from paganism to early Christianity in Byzantium and later spread to the entire Orthodox world.
St. Theodore Saturday
The tradition of blessing and eating Kollyva at the end of the first week of Great Lent is connected with an event in the reign of Julian the Apostate in 362 AD. The tradition states that the Emperor knew that the Christians would be hungry after the first week of strict fasting, and would go to the marketplaces of Constantinople on Saturday, to buy food. Therefore he ordered that blood from pagan sacrifices be sprinkled over all the food that was sold there, making it "polluted sacrificial food" (food "polluted" with the blood of idolatry), in an attempt to force upon the people the paganism of which he was an ardent supporter.
However St. Theodore the Tyro appeared in a dream to the Patriarch of Constantinople Eudoxios, ordering him to inform all the Christians that no one should buy anything at the market, but rather to boil the wheat (already called Kollyva) that they had at home and eat it sweetened with honey.
As a result, this first Saturday of Great Lent has come to be known as Theodore Saturday. After the service, the Kollyva is distributed to all who are present and, after Holy Communion and the antidoron, is the first food eaten after the strict fasting of the first week.
Since then Kollyva, having become connected with celebrating the memory of saints, are brought to church and are ordained by the priest during memorial prayers known today as Memorial Services.
The Kollyva are symbolic of the resurrection of the dead on the day of the Second Coming of the Lord. St. Paul said, "what you sow does not come to life unless it dies" (I Corinthians 15:36), and St. John, "unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit" (John 12:24).
Thus, as the wheat is buried in the soil and disintegrates without really dying but is later regenerated into a new plant that bears much more fruit than itself, so the Christian's body will be raised again from the very corruptible matter from which it is now made; however, it will be raised not in its previous fleshy substance but in an incorruptible essence which "will clad the mortal body with an immortal garment", in the words of St. Paul (I Corinthians 15:53).
The Kollyva then, symbolize the Apostolically rooted hope in the resurrection of the dead as the only eventuality that gives meaning and attains the longed perfection on the part of the individual who takes his life to be a divinely ordained meaningful living forever.[2]
The 16th century Archbishop Gabriel of Philadelphia[note 6] wrote that the Kollyva are symbols of the general resurrection, and the several ingredients added to the wheat signify so many different virtues.[3]
Occasions of Use
Memorial Services
During memorial services (requiem services), the family or friends of the departed will often prepare a Kollyva which is placed in front of the memorial table before which the service is chanted, while submitting a list of first names of the deceased loved ones to the priest. Memorial services are served on the third, ninth, and fortieth days after the repose of an Orthodox Christian, as well as on the one-year anniversary.
In addition, there are several Soul Saturdays (Psychosabbaton) during the church year, including the two Saturdays prior to Great Lent, the first Saturday of Great Lent, and the Saturday before Pentecost, during which general commemorations are made for all the departed, as well as on Radonitsa, the second Tuesday after Pascha.
These prescribed times are still observed in most Orthodox places.
Commemoration of Saints
It is also customary in the Slavic practice on the feast of the Patron Saint of a church or of a family, or on the feast of saints of special significance to offer Kollyva. Instead of serving a memorial service, the Kollyva is set in front of an icon of the saint and a Moleben is served to that saint.
There is also a practice on Mount Athos whereby the icons of saints are incorporated onto the surface of the Kollyva offerings made in their honour.
Kollyva offering at Vatopedi Monastery (Athos), for the Righteous Eudokimos of Cappadocia (feast day July 31).
Slava, Serbian family feast in the name of Patron Saint St. John the Baptist.
See also
- Memorial Services (Mnemósynon; Pannikhida)
- Prayer for the Dead
- Saturday of the Souls (Psychosabbaton)
- Radonitsa
- Slava
- Birnstan of Winchester
- Prosphora
- Koliva
- Colyba
- Kutia (also: Kutya, Kutja; similar to Kollyva; a sweet grain pudding, traditionally served in Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Belarusian and Polish cultures. Kutia was also part of a common Eastern Orthodox tradition in the Russian Empire, and to this day Kutia is served at funerals across Russia as a dish of remembrance.)
- Cuccìa (a traditional Sicilian dish containing boiled wheat berries, which is eaten on Saint Lucy's feast day (December 13).
- Saturday of Souls
- All Souls' Day
- Requiem (funeral Mass in the Roman Catholic Church)
- ↑ The Church uses bread, wine, wheat, oil, water, flowers and fruits as signs of God's love, mercy, goodness, life and the very presence given to man in creation and salvation. Indeed, all elements of creation find the "truth" of their very being and existence as expressions and manifestations of God, as "symbols" of his presence and action in the world for man. This is the reason for their use in this way in the Church. (Christian Symbols. The Orthodox Church in America.)
- ↑ For this reason, in Greece, Kollyva is also called sperma (i.e., "seed"). The ancients also used the word pankarpia.
- ↑ The name Anthesteria (Ἀνθεστήρια) is usually connected etymologically with the Greek anthos (ἄνθος; plural: ἄνθη or ἄνθεα; root: ἀνθεσ-), "flower" or "bloom", cognate to the Sanskrit andhas ("Soma plant/juice").
- ↑ "The traditional date of the Ionian migration is the early eleventh century B.C. (1086/85 or 1076/75; Jacoby, Mar. Par. 27, pp. 151-52 and FGrH No. 239, Comm. on 27) or in its third quarter (1044/43 according to Eratosthenes, who placed it four generations after the fall of Troy; 1045/44 for Ephesus and 1039/38 for the other cities according to Eusebius 1. 187. 36). These chronological indications have been accepted by most historians who regard the migration as a consequence of the Dorian invasion of mainland Greece." (Carl Roebuck. The Early Ionian League. Classical Philology. Vol.50, No.1 (Jan.,1955), pp.26-40. p.37.)
- ↑ The 17th of Athyr (November 13).
- ↑ Consecrated by Patriarch Jeremias II.
- ↑ Recipe For Kutya (Koliva)---Alaskan Tradition. St. Luke the Evangelist Orthodox Church (Palos Hills, IL).
- ↑ Rev. Dr. Nicon D. Patrinacos (M.A., D.Phil. (Oxon)). A Dictionary of Greek Orthodoxy - Λεξικον Ελληνικης Ορθοδοξιας. Light & Life Publishing, Minnesota, 1984. pp.225-226.
- ↑ Chambers, Ephraim (1680-ca.1740). COLYBA. In: Cyclopædia, or, An universal dictionary of arts and sciences. 1728. Pg. 266.)
- Rev. Dr. Nicon D. Patrinacos (M.A., D.Phil. (Oxon)). A Dictionary of Greek Orthodoxy - Λεξικον Ελληνικης Ορθοδοξιας. Light & Life Publishing, Minnesota, 1984.
- Chambers, Ephraim (1680-ca.1740). COLYBA. In: Cyclopædia, or, An universal dictionary of arts and sciences. 1728. Pg. 266.
- Recipe For Kutya (Koliva)---Alaskan Tradition. St. Luke the Evangelist Orthodox Church (Palos Hills, IL).
- Christian Symbols. The Orthodox Church in America.
- Anthesteria at Religion Facts.
External Links
- KOLIVA: A SYMBOL OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD. Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church (Lewiston, ME).
- The Symbolic Meaning of Wheat. HistoryofPainters.com.
- Bread, Symbolism of. eNotes.com (Encyclopedia of Food and Culture).


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Talking with the Wall Street Journal, Guillermo del Toro said he'll begin work designing for 'Pacific Rim 2' this August, which should take about six to nine months. As for what we can expect in the sequel, Del Toro explained that there were things he wanted to explore more in the first film:
It was hard to create a world that did not come from a comic book, that had its own mythology, so we had to sacrifice many aspects to be able to cram everything in the first movie. Namely, for example 'the Drift,' which was an interesting concept. [Then there was] this portal that ripped a hole into the fabric of our universe, what were the tools they were using? And we came up with a really, really interesting idea. I don't want to spoil it, but I think at the end of the second movie, people will find out that the two movies stand on their own. They're very different from each other, although hopefully bringing the same joyful giant spectacle. But the tenor of the two movies will be quite different.
So it seems that vague concepts like the Drift and the portal that allowed the Kaiju to enter our world will be more of a focus this time around, and the idea that these two films could function as separate entities while also existing in the same universe is an intriguing notion.
As for the planned animated series, Del Toro says they are talking about the possibilities of different television networks right now, and adds:
We're formulating ideas that are, again, interesting and not the usual route, but the series tackles the stories that happened to pilots working in the Shatterdome, but also cadets learning how to become pilots. All of this happens prior to the first movie, and it gives you a little more depth into the background of certain characters that will appear in the second movie.
Regarding the continuation of the graphic novel and how that will fit in with the animated series and the sequel, the director says:
By the time the second movie comes out, you will have probably one year of the animation airing, and you will have three years of the comic book series ongoing, so we are trying for all these things to be canon, to be in the same universe, to not wing anything, so that if anyone... a lot of kids, for example, have discovered 'Pacific Rim' through the toys. They come in through the toys, and then they watch the movie, and then they learn this, they learn that through the movie or the comic book series, so we're trying to make it canon so we can expand the universe.
It seems like Guillermo del Toro and Co. are hard at work trying to build a new and original universe -- not unlike the existing world of superheroes with comic books and movies and TV shows. We have to say, we're pretty excited to see someone building a new world from the ground up instead of capitalizing on existing properties and mining our nostalgia to reboot old franchises. Go Guillermo!


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HSU made another push over the next three minutes and cut the lead to one (49-48), but ECU countered with a 5-0 run to take the lead for good. The Lady Tigers kept pushing and built their lead out to as many as 12 in the final minutes of play before earning the 65-57 win.
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Country singer Brad Paisley and rapper LL Cool J have teamed up for a song called "Accidental Racist" - and it's sparking an internet backlash. WSJ's John Jurgensen reports. Photo: Getty Images.
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