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The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning is an important theme in environmental sciences. We propose a new index for configuration of the biomass pyramid in an ecosystem, named integrated trophic position (iTP). The iTP is defined as a sum of trophic positions (i.e. the average number of steps involved in biomass transfer) of all the animals in a food web integrated by their individual biomass. The observed iTP for stream macroinvertebrates ranged from 2.39 to 2.79 and was negatively correlated with the species density and the Shannon–Wiener diversity index of the local community. The results indicate a lower efficiency of biomass transfer in more diverse communities, which may be explained by the variance in edibility hypothesis and/or the trophic omnivory hypothesis. We found a negative effect of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning.
The transfer of biomass via prey-predator interactions in food webs is a fundamental ecosystem process1. A higher efficiency of trophic transfer implies that more agricultural, livestock, and marine animal products are available per unit basal production, and such ecosystem functioning and service are critical for humanity2. As both the theoretical and empirical evidence suggest that primary productivity is sensitive to primary producers' biodiversity3,4,5, the amount of biomass transferred across food webs is also likely to be influenced by the diversity of preys and predators6, 7. Therefore, a rigorous assessment of the relationship between biodiversity and the trophic transfer of biomass in ecosystems is a key challenge for predicting one of the consequences of ongoing species loss on the Earth8.
The trophic position (TP) is useful for integrating the flow of biomass from basal resources to an organism because the TP value reflects the average number of steps involved in biomass transfer9. Moreover, determining the mean TP for an entire animal community is indispensable for assessing conservation strategies, resource availability in fisheries, and the bioaccumulation of toxic substances10, 11. For example, the Marine Trophic Index (MTI), the mean TP of fisheries landings, has been used to evaluate the integrity of marine ecosystems12, 13, demonstrating that the average TP for commercially valuable fish has decreased globally since the 1970s. However, because the MTI did not consider non-fisheries species14, the index was biased toward commercially important and large predatory fish. Thus, it appears that the MTI was unable to represent the biomass flow in a whole community. Until recently, few studies have holistically examined the mean TPs of all animals in food webs, with the exception of a study by Williams & Martinez (2004), which reconstructed a trophic network to estimate the average TP for a whole community by using a large dataset based on gut contents15.
In the present study, we propose a new index of food web properties, the integrated trophic position (iTP), which we defined as the summed TPs of all animals in a food web integrated by their individual biomass. The iTP of an animal community containing n species is represented as:
where TP i is the TP of species i, and B i and B T are the biomass of species i and the total biomass of the focal community per unit area or space, respectively. Hence, the iTP can be a measure for the average number of times x that the assimilated organic matter is transferred along trophic pathways in a food web (i.e. iTP = x + 1). It should be noted that the iTP for macroinvertebrates in the present study does not include primary producers (i.e. TP = 1) and predatory vertebrates (e.g. fish).
The iTP can be easily determined by measuring the TP of the composite biomass in the community. This is a unique and advantageous feature because it is practically infeasible to calculate the iTP by integrating the TP and biomass for each species in an ecosystem, which are measured individually for each of the animals included. The TP has often been estimated using stable nitrogen isotope ratios (δ 15N) based on the bulk tissue of an animal and its food source(s) according to a constant enrichment of 15N during each trophic transfer, although fluctuations in the δ 15N values of basal resources often lead to high uncertainty in TP estimates9, 16, 17. More recently, the compound-specific isotope analysis of amino acids (CSIA-AA) has emerged as a new analytical technique for estimating the TPs of animals more precisely and accurately in diverse ecosystems18,19,20,21. The CSIA-AA method only needs the δ 15N value for a focal animal and no source data, so it is independent of the δ 15N fluctuations in basal resources, thereby leading to much smaller errors in the TP estimates compared to bulk δ 15N analysis22.
To explore the effects of biodiversity loss on organic matter flows in ecosystems, we focused on benthic macroinvertebrate communities in stream ecosystems where the spatial scale of the food webs can be constrained using a simple quadrat sampling methodology23. The community composition often differs greatly among stream reaches, even within a watershed, depending on multiple factors such as the longitudinal heterogeneity of surrounding landscapes, disturbance regime, and anthropogenic impacts24. These contrasting features are expected to contribute to variations in the iTP values of local macroinvertebrate food webs. A previous CSIA-AA study25 showed that macroinvertebrate individuals in stream food webs had TP values ranging between 2 and 3, but the iTP was not investigated for each community. In the present study, macroinvertebrate communities were collected from 15 sites in the Yasu River, Japan, to estimate the iTP for each local community using CSIA-AA, where their spatial variation was examined relative to the community properties (e.g. diversity indices) of food webs.
For each local community, the biomass-integrated δ 15N values for glutamic acid (δ 15NGlu) and phenylalanine (δ 15NPhe) ranged from 12.0 to 21.7‰ and from –3.7 to 7.0‰, respectively (Table 1). The δ 15NGlu and δ 15NPhe values were significantly correlated with each other (R 2 = 0.89, p < 0.001). The observed iTP for macroinvertebrates ranged from 2.39 to 2.79 (Table 1), and had negative relationships with species density (R 2 = 0.66, p < 0.001) and individual-based diversity index H′ (R 2 = 0.51, p = 0.003) (Fig. 1a and b). The species density tended to increase with the total number of individuals found in a unit area (Fig. S2a) because a higher population density increases the probability of sampling a larger number of species in a given area26. The effects of diversity indices (i.e. both the species density and H′) on the iTP were significant, indicating that the species diversity was primarily responsible for the variation in the iTP. The biomass-based J′ (i.e. evenness index) and biomass itself were not significantly correlated to the iTP (R 2 < 0.01, p = 0.67–0.95, Fig. 1c and d
It is possible that the iTP was affected by the TPs of a few dominant species in terms of biomass in the local community because the iTP value is determined by all of the macroinvertebrate individuals. If a few large carnivores or large algivores dominated the local communities, iTP would have a negative or positive correlation, respectively, with J′. A low J′ and a moderate iTP would be expected if the community was dominated by both carnivores and algivores, or by a few species with moderate TPs. However, the biomass-based evenness index J′ was not correlated to the iTP, and thus the biomass-integrated TP was not attributable to the skewness of the biomass distribution among species. In case where production and biomass are interchangeable, and trophic transfer efficiency of biomass is identical among communities, theory expects a positive relationship between biomass and the iTP. This is because higher productivity (i.e. a larger amount of biomass) can support a longer food chain length (FCL)27, which is comparable to a higher iTP. However, our results indicate that the trophic transfer efficiency of biomass is different among local communities.
A lower iTP value with a higher species diversity in macroinvertebrates implies that smaller proportions of the biomass were assimilated by predators from more diverse communities. In natural food webs, a more diverse prey community is known to increase the likelihood of including species with resistance to predation (e.g. a hard shell or toxicity)7, 28, 29. In these cases, the predation-resistant "inedible" species (e.g. species 4, 6 and 7 in Fig. 2a) compete with edible species for common resources, thereby decreasing the biomass flow from edible prey to a predator (Fig. 2a, Scenarios II and III). McNeely et al.30 showed that removal of an armoured and predation-resistant grazer, the larvae of the caddisfly Glossosoma penitum, increased the biomass of competitive vulnerable grazers and slightly increased the biomass of predators30. However, inedible prey species are unlikely to be included in less-diverse communities where only a few species dominate the faunal components, thereby increasing the amount of biomass transferred through trophic pathways (Fig. 2a, Scenario I). Moreover, as shown in Scenario III in Fig. 2a, if an inedible predator (species 7) competes with the other edible predator (species 2) for their common preys (e.g. species 1), the biomass flow from species 1 to 2 is indirectly reduced via the top-down effect of species 7 on species 131. This may in turn decrease the flow from species 2 to species 3 (Fig. 2a, Scenario III).
Another, but not mutually exclusive, mechanism is a potential increase of trophic omnivory in communities including more prey species, where a predator eats preys from more than one TP7, 32. In Fig. 2b, we assumed that the top predator (species 3) eats intermediate predators (species 2 and 7) as well as their respective preys (species 4 and 6). In this case, the biomass that is transferred via species 3's direct feeding on species 4 and 6 is allocated at the intermediate level of the biomass pyramid instead of the top level (Fig. 2b, Scenarios II and III). Furthermore, it reduces trophic flows of the biomass from species 4 and 6 to species 2 and 7, respectively, if total flow from a prey to its predators is constant. This may finally reduce the flow from species 2 and 7 to species 3, which decreases the biomass at the top level of the pyramid. Therefore, food webs with the trophic omnivory are expected to show lower iTP values than those without. Overall, in diverse communities, a major increase of the biomass at the bottom and intermediate levels of the pyramid is predicted by the variance in edibility and the trophic omnivory hypotheses, respectively. Either or both of the two hypotheses can be useful for explaining a negative correlation between species diversity and iTP.
The spatial variation in the iTP for macroinvertebrates may be attributed to resource subsidy from terrestrial ecosystems (e.g. inputs of amino acids derived from terrestrial vascular plants). In Eq. 5, the β value is −3.4‰ for the aquatic food chain, but +8.4‰ for the terrestrial food chain22, 33. Thus, if terrestrial subsidization makes a great contribution to the biomass of the macroinvertebrate community, its iTP value would be underestimated. A previous study in the Yasu River estimated the relative contribution of terrestrial resources to macroinvertebrate communities as 10%–30%25, which is equal to variations of 0.16–0.47 units in TP estimates. However, when we analysed only the middle and downstream study sites (i.e. third or fourth stream orders), where macroinvertebrate communities may depend greatly on autochthonous algal production, the significant negative relationships between the iTP and both species density and H′ were still evident (N = 6, R 2 = 0.78, p = 0.02, Fig. 1a and b). Therefore, terrestrial subsidy was unlikely to be a major factor that determined the pattern found in the present study.
The mechanisms that underlie the negative relationship between the iTP for macroinvertebrates and species diversity are still unclear. In extremely simple communities with no predators (e.g. only plants and herbivores), increasing diversity should add an additional trophic level, which in turn increases the iTP. Thus, a positive relationship between iTP and species diversity might be found if the species density is much less than 50 m−2 (Fig. 1a). When the species density increases to >50 m−2, the iTP is decreased by inedible prey (the variance in edibility hypothesis) or edible prey (the trophic omnivory hypothesis) for species both at intermediate and high trophic levels. The addition of edible prey for species only at an intermediate trophic level (e.g. species 5 in Fig. 2) is unlikely to affect the iTP, and this is probably why >100 species are required per m2 to decrease iTP by at most 0.2 units.
Fish and amphibian species were not investigated in the present study. According to a general rule that consumers are more mobile with increasing TP34, the spatial scale of the fish and amphibian movement is much larger than that of macroinvertebrates, which made it difficult to involve these animals in estimating the iTP of a local food web in our study system. Furthermore, since the present study was intensively conducted in a single watershed and over a single season, further studies should assess spatiotemporal variations in the iTP by comparing multiple watersheds and seasons.
Despite several limitations, the iTP index is comparable to traditional food web properties such as the FCL. The mean FCL has been used as a quantitative measure for the average TP among all top predators in each of the respective food chains nested in a focal food web27, 35, 36. Interestingly, a meta-analysis by Doi et al. (2012) found that the FCL in lakes tended to decrease as the number of endemic species increased37, and this pattern is similar to our identification of a negative relationship between species richness and iTP in the stream macroinvertebrate community. The traditional FCL is highly sensitive to the sampling procedure and typically focuses only on top predators, so it does not consider the "dead-end" species within trophic networks, except for the top predators themselves. By contrast, the iTP is highly independent of sampling bias and considers the effects of inedible species in its estimate, which are never transferred to the top predators. For example, the FCL in Fig. 2a (i.e. TP of the top predator species 3) does not change, regardless of the species diversity, whereas that in Fig. 2b decreases with decreasing the iTP in more diverse communities. In other words, under the variance in edibility hypothesis, only the iTP captures changes in the top predator's biomass per unit basal production (i.e. trophic transfer efficiency), which is a "multi-trophic" ecosystem functioning7. It should be noted that neither FCL nor iTP detect changes in the trophic transfer efficiency under the trophic omnivory hypothesis. Our results are supported by a few previous studies that showed negative relationships between prey diversity and trophic transfer efficiency38, 39, and contrasts with most of the previous understanding of the positive relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning without trophic interactions. In conclusion, the iTP index provides a novel, simple, and universal measure of food web properties, such as the trophic transfer efficiency and the configuration of the biomass pyramid in an ecosystem. It will be applicable to a wide range of taxonomic groups inhabiting a certain area or space in various ecosystems and will improve our understanding of the relationships between biodiversity (i.e. species richness) and ecosystem functioning (i.e. trophic transfer of biomass).
Study sites and sample collection
The Yasu River is the largest tributary of Lake Biwa in Japan. The headwater streams of the Yasu River run through forested mountainous areas, whereas the middle and downstream rivers are influenced by urban development and agriculture. The nitrate concentrations and isotope values increase longitudinally from upstream to downstream in the Yasu River due to anthropogenic nitrogen loading from human-dominated terrestrial environments40. In total, 15 sites were established within the watershed, including streams of different sizes (first to fourth order streams with catchment areas ranging from 0.3 to 71 km2) and different surrounding landscapes.
In October 2012, three samples of stream macroinvertebrates including Annelida, Arthropoda, Mollusca, Nematomorpha, and Platyhelminthes were collected from each study site using a Surber net (30 cm × 30 cm area, mesh size = 475 µm). In the laboratory, two of the three samples were fixed with formalin to identify the lowest recognizable taxa of macroinvertebrates using a binocular microscope (Table S1). Because 124 taxa out of 130 in total (95%) were identified to species level, we regarded taxonomic diversity as species diversity in the present study. The number of individuals for each species was counted (Tables S2 and S3). Individuals were then selected from each species to measure individual biomass by average wet weight. For molluscs, muscles were used to represent their biomass. The biomass values of armoured caddisflies were measured without cases. The biomass of each species was calculated as the average individual biomass multiplied by the number of individuals.
Using the number of individuals and biomass of each species and species density (i.e. the number of species), the Shannon–Wiener diversity index (H′) was determined based on either the number of individuals (i.e. individual-based) or biomass (i.e. biomass-based) for each sample as:
where S is the total number of species in the community, and p i is the proportional number of individuals or the biomass of species i relative to the local community (0 ≤ p i ≤ 1). When p i was equal among all species, H′ took the maximum value as follows:
Therefore, the individual-based and biomass-based evenness indices (Pielou J′) (0 ≤ J′ ≤ 1) were derived as follows:
The values of the species density (m−2), H′, and J′ for each of the two sampling replications were averaged for each site. For the remaining sampling replication, all of the macroinvertebrates were manually selected, dried in an oven at 60 °C for 24 h, blended, homogenized, and weighed to calculate the community biomass (g m−2). For the shell organisms, only soft tissues contributed to the community biomass. The homogenized macroinvertebrate samples were then used for the isotope analysis described below.
Isotope measurements and iTP calculations
For CSIA-AA, amino acids in the homogenized sample were purified by HCl hydrolysis followed by N-pivaloyl/isopropyl (Pv/iPr) addition, according to the improved procedures described by Chikaraishi et al. (2007)19. The δ 15N values of amino acids were determined using the modified method described by Chikaraishi et al. (2010)41, using a Delta XP plus isotope ratio mass spectrometer (Thermo Fisher Scientific, U.S.A.) coupled to a gas chromatograph (GC6890N; Agilent Technologies, U.S.A.) via combustion and reduction furnaces. Isotopic reference mixtures of nine amino acids (δ 15N ranging from −26.5 to +46.3‰) were analysed every five or six sample to confirm the reproducibility of the isotope measurements. Analytical errors (1 σ) for the standards were better than 0.5‰ with a minimum sample quantity of 0.5 nmol N.
During amino acid metabolism, glutamic acid is subject to deamination, leading to an increase in the δ 15N value (~8.0‰) associated with trophic transfer. Conversely, phenylalanine retains its amino group because of the low deamination flux during metabolism, thereby resulting in a negligible increase in the δ 15N value (~0.4‰) during trophic transfer. Based on this principle, the δ 15N values of glutamic acid and phenylalanine within a single animal were employed to determine its TP using the following equation with analytical precision (1 σ) of 0.12 units22:
where δ 15NGlu and δ 15NPhe are the δ 15N values for glutamic acid and phenylalanine, respectively. β is a constant value for the difference between δ 15NPhe and δ 15NGlu in a primary producer at the base of a food chain (i.e. −3.4 for algae and cyanobacteria and +8.4 for vascular plants)22, 35. A β value of −3.4 was used in our stream food webs, where benthic algae were regarded as primary producers. TDF is the trophic discrimination factor between δ 15NGlu and δ 15NPhe during each trophic transfer (i.e. 8.0‰–0.4‰ = 7.6‰). The iTP for each macroinvertebrate community was estimated as the TP value in the homogenized, biomass-integrated macroinvertebrate sample, which was determined using the δ 15NGlu and δ 15NPhe values and Eq. 5.
Statistical analysis
Regression analyses were performed to test correlations between iTP and the four parameters (i.e. the species density, the Shannon–Wiener diversity index H′, the Pielou evenness index J′, and the biomass). The significance level was set at α = 0.05.
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Ishikawa, N.F., Chikaraishi, Y., Ohkouchi, N. et al. Integrated trophic position decreases in more diverse communities of stream food webs. Sci Rep 7, 2130 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-02155-8
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Most people get a set, like when buying mittens or socks. For rare special folks like me, only one kidney is available at birth.
I didn't discover this fact about myself until 2010, which I wrote about in this blog post, when a simple stomach scan revealed that my right kidney was missing it's normal buddy, lefty.
All of this is to say, since I learned this about myself nine years ago, I'm pretty attuned to kidney news. I am always asking about my kidney at doctor appointments, I encourage people to sign up to be organ donors, and I worry that with only one good one, I might one day need a transplant.
If that day ever comes, I can only hope and pray that there's someone out there as selfless, warm, and giving as Dr. Catherine Pearlman, who I am so damn lucky to call a friend.
This week, in the best lede to a Good News Friday I can remember, my friend walked into UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles and donated one of her kidneys. To a total stranger she'd never met.
Months ago, Catherine was in a California Starbucks when she saw a flyer with a photo of a man she'd never seen before, and the flyer said he was in need of a kidney donation. His blood type was O+, just like hers.
Ninety-nine percent of people in the world would've thought "Hmmm. Poor guy. I hope he gets a kidney," and moved on with their life.
But she's in the one percent in the best way possible: She's empathetic, warm, and so, so selfless (she's married to Jeff Pearlman, so God knows she's filled with patience, too 🙂
After getting tested and cleared, this week she went into surgery, and her perfectly healthy kidney was transplanted into Eli Valdez, who she's never met.
Jeff wrote a heartwarming blog post about the whole saga, and his emotional meeting with Eli's family. I don't want to spoil it, because it's such a good read; please read it here. (Both Catherine and Eli are doing well since the Wednesday surgery).
When I found out Catherine was doing this, I was… in awe. And filled with joy. That there are still so many good people out there, willing to do something so selfless.
I don't think I've ever been prouder of a friend of mine. Since I first met her 20 years ago, when Jeff invited me to dinner to meet his new girlfriend, she has been a wonderful source of goodness and light.
So many good people in this world. Some of them may even give you a kidney one day.
"We can't all be heroes," the great Will Rogers once said. "Because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by."
I'm on the curb clapping very loudly today, Catherine. You're a true hero.
**Whew, that was heavy. OK, time for something fun. How about this completely random video of a T-ball game, and a great hit from a batter, only to see an even-greater home run robbing catch by a left fielder?
I have no idea where this is from, but it appears to be Japan, and the fact that there are announcers at a T-ball game is kind of weird, but forget all that; How awesome is this catch???
Future Ichiro, that kid in left field.
**And finally today, a wonderful story I heard about through the Only Good News Network, a great follow on Twitter.
A charity called Alice's Kids buys small, necessary items for homeless kids whose parents simply are unable to afford them. Things like noise-cancelling headphones for a girl with sensory disorders, or a trumpet for a talented music student who really needed it.
Alice's Kids was founded in 2011, and gets these requests from teachers, social workers, and others who work with children less fortunate.
The nonprofit then grants the wish by sending gift cards to the parents so they can purchase the gift themselves.
"We're not going to solve all the pains of all the children," Ron Fitzimmons, the co-founder of Alice's Kids, told The Washington Post. "But we just want to be part of the answer at least."
What a wonderful idea. Here's a great Washington Post story about Alice's Kids, which brought them a huge amount of publicity. And find out more about Alice's Kids on their website here.


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You Raise Me Up was composed by Brendan Graham and Rolf Lovland in 2002, and became a huge hit for Josh Groban in 2003. Angi Bemiss has arranged this popular religious and pop song for harp.
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WEST PARK, Fla. – The two teams ready to take to the field to battle it out in the Orange Bowl game, joined forces Thursday to give back to needy families in our community.
The Ohio State Buckeyes and the Clemson Tigers teamed up to volunteer at Feeding South Florida before the big bowl game.
Feeding South Florida feeds nearly one million people each year in our community. And while the two teams are not part of that community, on Thursday they focused not on football, but on feeding the hungry.
Inside the warehouse, it was frenzy as students, athletes and coaches from both teams got together.
"All days we are enemies, but today we can work together," said one volunteer.
About 150 volunteers from both schools were hoping to sort, pack and ship over 100,000 pounds of food in one day.
"We're putting together meal boxes for the individuals who struggle to put food on the table in the 4-county service area here in South Florida," said Feeding South Florida CEO Paco Velez.
All the volunteers worked together in a labor of love.
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"This is really neat to know that while you're having fun with the Orange Bowl you can come and make a difference," said Clemson volunteer Scott Sampson.
Inside the warehouse, it was really a cooperative spirit. Everyone had a lot of fun and it didn't matter if they were from South Carolina or Ohio, they were here to help.
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The South American treat.
So I polled some friends and acquaintances a while back to see what kind of desserts they liked and someone said Alfajores. I looked it up and realized that I liked that as well. Well shiver me timbers, we have something in common.
When I made it (Alfajores) my daughter caught sight of it and kept saying "cookie, cookie, cookie." The look was enough to get her.
So my conclusion on what makes a dessert great is appearance. If a dessert/sweet looks funny and smothered and it is in an ugly dish, it deserves to sit in the fridge. Food should be fun and enticing. Most desserts don't disappoint –however if it looks horrible no one wants to try –even if it tastes great.
The recipe is actually good to do with kids. Once the dough is mixed, they can use a cookie cutter to make the circles. After all are cooled, they can spread the dulce de leche. I used the store brand but bought some regular condensed milk to try getting the homemade effect. (did not repeat as yet so did not used my home method)
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It might just be me, but I feel like here recently there have been a lot of things come up that remind me and make me miss Kenya. I know I was only there three weeks (a far cry from my husband's five month adventure there), but it was still the best three weeks of my life. I learned so much from the people I encountered and the entire experience itself. I went over to Kenya to help make a difference in THEIR lives and it actually turned out to make a difference in MY life, more than I ever expected.
God is good.
The other day, Chris and I randomly ran into the guy (Dennis) who helped us get to Africa, because his sister started the orphanage we volunteered with. Dennis and Chris met at WKU, a few months before Chris was going to graduate. He decided he wanted to use those five months after graduation to volunteer before starting work. Dennis was a graduate student at WKU who grew up in Kenya, but moved here for education and work.
Every time that I have seen Dennis since our journey to Africa, the memories immediately rush back. All I can think about are those precious kids and their contagious laughs, those adorable smiles and their toothless grins; it almost always brings tears to my eyes.
After talking with Dennis for a while, he introduced us to his friend that was graduating with her Masters from WKU and they invited us to her graduation party. As soon as the words "African food will be there" left his mouth, we were sold. The party was that coming Saturday evening (last Sat.). I was stoked.
When we got to the party on Saturday, they were just about ready to line up for the food. I went through the line and recognized almost every dish on the table. Of course among these was my favorite, chapati (kind of like flatbread). They had goat meat (usually served at special occasions in Kenya – such as christmas and other celebrations), rice (very different tasting from what we're used to in America), coo coo (chicken), a meat and vegitable mix, and more. I was just so happy to be eating this delicious food again.
It's funny looking back now, because when I was preparing to leave for Kenya, I thought, "I'm going to lose so much weight while I'm gone. I won't like any of their food!" Boy, was I wrong. I loved the food! I literally can't think of one meal I did not like.
Anyways, back to the original point of this post: I MISS KENYA! Everytime I walk into our living room and see the picture of two little boys from the orphanage sitting on our bookshelf, I want to go back. Everytime I pray for Kenya, I want to go back. Everytime I hear someone even mention Africa, I want to go back. I want to go back!
Can you tell I want to go back?
Chris and I are continually praying that the Lord would show us where he wants us to be over the next couple of years. At least I know where my heart is.
PS: Asante sana means thank you very much in swahili. Rafiki was just being silly when he said squash banana in The Lion King.


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In the summer of 1945, Dresden factory workers send their colleague, Kalle, hundreds of miles north to pick up carbide, which is needed for welding jobs in their factory. His attempts to bring the supplies back through the Soviet occupation zone become a hilarious odyssey full of high jinks and misadventures. A rare classic of German film comedy!
Right after WWII, factory worker Karl Bluecher, nicknamed Kalle, sets out from Dresden for Wittenberge to procure carbide, which is desperately needed to re-start production in a bombed-out factory. Kalle was not chosen by chance. On one hand, his brother-in-law works at the Wittenberge carbide plant; on the other, he is a vegetarian - and so will definitely manage to find food along the road on his journey. He gets through to Wittenberge and could bring seven drums of carbide back to Dresden ... if only he had a means of transport! But his journey home becomes quite an adventure, complete with a love story, an arrest and many close calls. Combining fast-paced humor, keen social observation and popular appeal, this film reached over a million viewers in its first three-months.


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I've been reading with interest a lot of the responses to CentreForum's recent report highlighting the relative underachievement of white, working class children and the suggestions for why this might be the case.
I was one of those working class children in the 70s, 80s and 90s and recall that period without a hint of nostalgia. There is talk in the press of a poverty of aspiration. In my case, we didn't have much room to aspire, to be ambitious – we were too busy trying to survive, to get by. (Ben Elton tells an amusing story of his time at Manchester University in which he never saw a tomato ketchup bottle the right way up. His whole life was about eeking things out). Sure, I daydreamed about what I would do as an adult, but the harsh reality of life would puncture those dreams with depressing regularity.
We lived in a council house, which we now tend to use as a proxy for "succeeded against the odds" – I'm not sure why as most people I knew lived in a council house in those days. My parents bought it, interest rates soared and it was then promptly repossessed when I was doing my GCSEs. We were technically homeless for about a week, and slept on the floor of a friend's house. We then ended up in a bed and breakfast twelve miles away for a few months until we were rehomed by the council. In that time the single most depressing thing in my life happened. I answered the door one day after school to be met with, I was told, a representative of the court, who issued a repossession order to me for the B&B. The landlord hadn't been keeping up with his mortgage payments either. So, out we went, off to another B&B for a few weeks. My mediocre set of GCSE results and a whopping 50-odd days of absence in Year 11 were statistics that were sources of ridicule when I went for an interview at the Army careers office. I had dreams of being an army officer, but that time in my life was about survival, coping with the nausea of watching my mum get ill with the stress and wondering where we were going to live.
Bad things happen to people. They have setbacks, they cope with difficulties. So what, you no-excusers may say. Get on with it.
Financial difficulty was one thing. However, the more chronic problem was that I didn't know what to aspire to. Adults I knew were labourers, chippies, sparks, brickies and plumbers. I was working on a building site days after I finished my GCSEs – an exceptional experience that probably did more for me in terms of convincing me to do something different with my life than any careers lesson. The poshest people I knew were my teachers and I regarded them as a class apart. How could I aspire to be an engineer, a doctor, a solicitor? I had no idea who these people were or what they did. I'd had the misfortune to experience up close how bailiffs worked on more than one occasion and the only good thing that came out of that was a certainty that I'd never be one. I'd never met anyone, apart from my teachers, who had been to university. I didn't even know what one looked like or what people did there (see Paul Mason's Guardian article here). I defined people as posh if they went to Spain on their holidays, or if they were able to afford to fill up their car or pay for 12 months road tax on their car in one go. Andy, who lived in our street, was a quantity surveyor and I regarded him as superior because he wore a shirt and tie to work.
This was only reinforced by experiences in my mid-teens.
I applied to join the Irish Guards at 16 and received a letter soon after to be told that they had no vacancies in my year of birth. Some time later a friend, a highly-decorated officer himself, told me that they were doing me a favour. My dad's job – he's a digger driver – meant I would be unlikely to be able to afford the lifestyle it demanded. It took some explaining to me why my dad's job had any bearing on my ability to be a soldier. I tried another regiment, where I got chatting to another candidate.
"What school do you go to?" he asked.
"Brakenhale," I responded.
"I've never heard of that school. I go to Pangbourne College."
"It's a comprehensive. Why would you have heard of it?"
"I went to a comprehensive for a day once. It was horrible."
He's in his 40s now, I guess. I hope he's ok.
In the Officers' Mess that week I was talking to a Captain and another candidate. They were talking rugby and asked me what position I played. When I responded that I had never played rugby they both looked at me with utter disdain. It was quite clear to me that I didn't belong.
Much of my life up until then had reinforced my place in the world. This was brought home to me when working in Slough in a school for children with emotional and behavioural difficulties. We lived in a static caravan when we first moved back from Ireland and I remember the hilarity that met this fact when I told my tutor group. I was regarded as the poshest person in the school by the kids and they reminded me of me when I was their age. I counter it with an example when I worked in a selective independent school. Year 10 (Fourth Year in their parlance) were off for a week's work experience. I asked James in my physics class where he was going. "Dad's sorted me a week at a political think tank in [Washington] D.C." I was stunned, but it just tripped off his tongue without a second thought.
What's in our children's frames of reference? What do they think is achievable? Don't blame these kids for having a poverty of ambition. They need to be shown the way. They need to believe that they're as good as anyone else.


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He was born on July 14, 1924, in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico.
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Over two days with our expert guide in Paris and Versailles, the essential elements of the Revolution and the Napoleonic era are brought to light.
The Château de Versailles is the centrepiece of the tour, and it is coupled with a visit to the real tennis court where the members of the Estates General launched the Revolution with their oath of 20th June 1789.
Within Paris, you will walk from the Palais Royale to the Louvre and through the Tuileries Gardens to Place de la Concorde, where Louis XVI was one of thousands executed by guillotine
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The kids and I grabbed some outdoor time today, and it was awesome.
Victoria and I spent some time in the round pen working Vaquero. He did great, and was responsive with lateral flexion on the ground and better with maintaining his speed and going through speed transitions. He was doing so well, I put a saddle on him. He danced a bit for mounting, but MUCH less than our first few rides. He was still trembling under saddle at first, but within 30-45 seconds, got it under control. The experience on the ground was duplicated in the saddle (shocking) and he kept his speed easily at paso corto for most of our ride, going into the largo only when I asked for it. He still doesn't walk well, but he can't do that from the ground yet either, so we still have work to do.
Victoria was fascinated by his different walk. Sofia said he moves like he's walking fast, and proceeded to demonstrate! V was so intrigued, that I was able to sell her on the idea of riding him while I led her in the round pen. She was grinning from ear to ear, and enjoyed the smooth ride. It was good for Vaquero, because I held him while she mounted, and he put up with her crude efforts to get on him without dancing underneath her. He also got to practice his flat walk, because I kept it slow while leading V for most of the ride; although, I did get him into a slow corto for V to "ride the glide".
The girls then proceeded to pamper him with endless brushing after the ride. It is CLEAR that Vaquero likes to be groomed.
I grabbed Woody next, and Sofia was led around. She and Woody were doing so well, I gave her some instructions on the reins, and she rode Woody free, with me walking ahead, but off the lead rope. She was turning him well, and using both hands. She is clearly a natural, and understands horses well.
Weather permitting, we'll make some time for more horse adventures tomorrow. I am very encouraged by the progress the paso fino is making, and I got the sense that he genuinely likes children. He was very attuned to the kids, and calmed down in their presence. Just one of those days when it's good to be a dad and a horseman.


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I will focus on the concept of risk in Plato, as the condition for the occurrence (or the outbreak) of emotion. In particular I will examine two distinct passions: courage (ἀνδρεία) and love (φιλεῖν/ ἐραστεύειν). In both it seems that we should assume that there is an external condition of risk (κίνδυνος) which interacts with an inner emotional state. Perhaps this one is the pure expression of desire. But certainly from here comes the decision of acting in a certain way: a decision not completely (or not at all) controlled by reason. The context of "risk" is decisive, but in the ancient philosophical tradition it was not evidently perceived. In particular, a clear distinction between risk and danger does not seem to be established.
Plato seems to take the first steps in this direction, towards a careful awareness of the concept of κινδυνεύειν. In the Laches we find a specific analysis of temerity: it is compared to courage. In the Simposium we can find the ways by which, in the erotic game, the risk to achieve success emerges in the foreground. But what is also important, along with the external condition of risk, is the decision to dare (τολμᾶν), i.e. to follow an emotional impulse interiorly perceived. What are the characteristics of this internal condition? How these internal conditions are related to the external environment, namely the civil environment, the historical moment, but also the direct relationship between two different people? How the situation of risk will be a kind of precondition for the emotional experience? These are the three major issues that I would like to address in relation to the philosophy of Plato. I will try to see how, according to Plato, it is possible to avoid remaining in the condition of risk, and to understand how this one is connected with the emergence of 'logos'. From 'emotions' (from the condition of emotion, i.e. from the 'risk') to 'logos': to the reason which, through the instruments of τέχνη, tries to "define" the risk and to circumvent the dangers. Although there is a good bibliography on the problem of emotions and their characteristics in ancient world (see the researches of Graver, Reydams Schils, Nussbaum, Engberg‐Pedersen, Cairns, Brennan, Candiotto), a study which examines in detail the role of the 'risk condition' compared to the emotion is not there yet. My works on the risk as a philosophical category [namely: Fondements philosophiques du risque, Paris, L'Harmattan 2006; "Risque", in Dictionnaire de la mort (éd. Di Folco), Paris, Larousse 2010, 896‐98; The risk in the educational strategy of Seneca, in "Journal of Ancient Philosophy", 5 (2011), 1‐20; Rischio e techne nella filosofia antica, in P. Barrotta, Il rischio. Aspetti tecnici sociali etici, Roma, Armando, 2012, 183‐ 204; Val la pena rischiare? Qualche osservazione sulla categoria filosofica di 'rischio' in Platone, "La ricerca folklorica", 66 (2012), 85‐96] today has not been completed yet. I would now like to investigate, thanks to the opportunity of this colloquium, its role in the generation, development and resolution of the emotional experience.


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Though it's titled "Easter Dresses," it was a Mother's Day poem, written for my beautiful Mother a couple of years ago. She's a woman of many talents, a constant source of inspiration, and my rock. And, that really doesn't begin to describe her. I try to find the right words, but they're inevitably inadequate in measure to what she has given me....
Wishing a Happy Mother's Day to all my fellow Moms - may you all be blessed with a beautiful day!
:) Roari
(In case you can't read it in the picture above....)
"Easter Dresses"
Bright pastels and flowered prints,
Big bows and ruffled patterns,
All stitched by a pianist's hands
With the aid of her faded green Singer,
Another art neglected by her daughter
Who would proudly wear her dress on Sunday,
Twirling around in a flowing skirt,
Laughing as she displays her mother's handiwork,
The making of which she often found a nuisance
Having to hold still, and yet still wriggling
So that she occasionally got stuck with a pin,
(And suspecting it sometimes was with purpose),
When she would rather be off running
To other worlds through the realms of imagination,
Guided by books, by film, by a step out the back door,
A nature lover's and gardener's daughter
Found her love of the outdoors in her mother's yard
Accompanied by her sister and a yellow dog,
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Found her love of the written word and lyric,
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Adventures writers, and eventually she created,
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But always following her compass home,
To dutifully pose to take in seams or measure the hem,
For the joy of seeing her mother's smile
When she danced in the sun on Easter,
Knowing she would find fortune if she ever found
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"It's a track of land that we lived on, hunted, had a lot of recreation, raised families on and so to be able to protect that large part of it so it will become part of the life of south Huntsville and in a larger sense part of the life of the region is something that was very important to our family," says Enfinger.
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Arsenal defender Gabriel has had the red-card he received in last weekend's game against Chelsea rescinded following a successful appeal. The Brazilian defender was sent off for violent conduct by referee Mike Dean after he had appeared to deliberately stand on Diego Costa's foot whilst shuffling backwards.
The news will come as a relief to manager Arsene Wenger, who will now be able to make use of the Brazilian for the next three Premier League matches rather than a three-match ban. Although the suspension for violent conduct has been lifted, Gabriel still has an FA charge of improper conduct still hanging over him from where he refused to instantly leave the pitch following that sending off. He has until 6pm on Thursday to respond to the charge.
Gabriel and Diego Costa started clashing from the off at Stamford Bridge, with Costa seemingly doing his best to rough the feathers of the entire Arsenal back-line in order to seek a reaction. However, despite Costa getting away with his erratic and provoking actions during the match, the Spanish international now faces a three match ban after retrospective action has been taken by the FA for violent conduct due to an earlier incident with Laurent Koscielny.
Because the match officials didn't see the incident they couldn't include it in their match report, so an independent panel of former elite referees were left to decide whether they deemed the actions of Costa to be a red card, which they duly did. Costa has until 6pm on Thursday to appeal, which if unsuccessful will mean a three match ban.
For Arsene Wenger, the reversal of the ban and the retrospective action taken on Diego Costa add only a tiny bit of light following a dismal weekend where they struggled to compete in a 2-0 loss to reigning champions Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, and in a match where they also had Santi Cazorla sent off for two bookable offences. For Arsenal fans, it was further evidence of the frailties within the Arsenal squad and the seemingly lack of a world class striker, which most fans believe would propel them to challenge for honours.


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