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How To Present Well: Build Your Handouts
July 15th, 2007 by Dan Meyer
Far harder than delivering the presentation is creating the handouts. It's the hardest part of this entire process short of cooking up that awesome title two episodes back. Stay close.
We may have lost most presentation designers right here, in fact, 'cause when it comes to handout design most of them max out at hitting Print from PowerPoint's file menu. These presenters take a low-resolution medium (PowerPoint slides; only a few lines permitted per slide) and port them to a high-resolution medium (paper; lots of lines permitted per page) without scaling up the content. An opportunity tragically missed.
Furthermore, lemme ask you, as a conference attendee, how many of those packets have you kept a day past the presentation? A year? We could work out some numbers real quick on the back of an envelope reflecting paper waste but the result, regardless of our estimations, is kinda sad, right? No one keeps those things.
I wanted to design something my audience would keep, something they'd use. I wanted the attendees to carry their handouts past the trash can propping open the door. I wanted them to reflect on their handouts often and, after finally internalizing their content decades later, hand them down to a younger teacher.
If you laugh I'll get depressed again. Why should I aim any lower? Why would you aim any lower? What's the point?
To accomplish this, I knew the audience had to build the handouts themselves, which isn't the same as handing its members their own reams of blank legal. They needed lots of room to make the handouts their own, lots of blank space, but the blank space had to be carefully designed.
Two ways I could've blown this:
- I could've thrown down the points I wanted to make and then subbed in blanks for key words. Churches do this a lot.
- I could've handed them a blank piece of computer paper and let them write what they wanted, which would've been inane also, but for more obvious reasons than my last hypothetical blunder.
I mention it only to establish our extremes. Design equilibrium lies somewhere between handing them a blank slate and handing them a slide-for-slide PowerPoint printout.
Sure, there are a lot of folks who take a lot of pride in keeping up with those blanks, but that approach doesn't generate anywhere near the kind of ownership I needed or the presenter-audience chemistry I wanted.
So I needed to design a handout that encouraged them to work, that begged them to put their own words to my situations. It had to look good. My audience wouldn't bring me anywhere near its best if I hadn't reciprocated in advance.
So I thought hard about the handout's function and the process was simple after that. I divided a piece of letter paper into three partitions. I took half the page to illustrate each cliché. I split the other half into quarters for the audience to a) identify the cliché and b) concoct a method for kicking it out of the classroom.
We're tackling five clichés. Here's one of them.
What I got right:
- It would've been easy to leave the matter at white boxes for the cliché and its solution but, again, I wanted the design to be as inviting as possible, so I threw down some fine lines. (C — you reading this? That was you, girl.)
- I used a landscape layout because half a landscape is basically portrait and I needed lots of portraits. (Serious bonus points if you know who Roland Pryzbylewski is and what he's doing here.)
- I coulda left it here too, five clichés and the solutions we constructed together. I was pretty sure if I facilitated things properly they'd walk away with a valuable document. Still I went ahead and threw on some assessment resources — completed tests, blank tests, blank concept checklists, templates galore — to complement the last and largest cliché. And with that, we've value-added these handouts to death.
One way I blew this:
- I gave equal space to the cliché and its solution. Ethically, this bugs me. Equal space implies equal weight implies the cliché and its solution are doomed to this push-me-pull-you equilibrium when, in fact, it's possible to demolish the clichés. It's a subtle point but one which nagged me all morning.
If you think these things don't matter, you're only mostly right. Problem is, these little sacrifices compound quickly until all you've got is a great design that could've been.Should been this, with the second half split along the golden ratio:
Please take final note of fonts, photos, and layout, all of which will resurface during the slide design part of our show. If you've stuck with us from the start, I hope you've noticed by now that with a good presentation absolutely nothing is easy.
I'll leave you with the handouts:
12 Responses to "How To Present Well: Build Your Handouts"
I like Case Study 2, text on one side notes on the other. I might use it for my workshops. When I do workshops that refer to a lot of internet sites I capture the webpages using Hypersnap, then make the handouts with sequential links—people then can check off the ones they are interested in taking a look at. I publish the links to one of my websites so people can get to them quickly. Works for me–but probably is not what you need.
on 15 Jul 2007 at 3:43 pm2 Jackie
Case study #2 is eluding me. Care to elaborate?
Love the idea of the golden ratio – looks more appealing and I agree on their not deserving equal space.
65% needed for field trips – is this a school policy? If not, how does that fly with the rest of the staff and parents?
Great design on the handouts. FYI- you've influenced at least one of your readers. I'm spending hours on my handouts/presentations for my summer school class. Thinking about design, layout, white space… Now when I look at the materials that come with the textbook, I shudder. I'm no where near your level, but at least I'm not using comic sans anymore!
Hey, any chance of a video podcast of your presentation?
Nancy, you have any examples of your work on the ol' Intertubes? Sounds like good design I'd like to see.
Jackie, somewhere in the first week, no matter what the subject or the class, every teacher runs through her syllabus.
Maybe there is some innovative syllabus work out there I'm unaware of but I kinda doubt it. The reality for student x is that in five or more classes she's gonna get a thick packet including (variously) school policies, class policies, school expected learning results, and state standards. The teacher will take a linear route through the material and straight from the sound of this dull starter's pistol, the student knows it's gonna be a year like every other.
Which is fine if a student has enjoyed every other year, but for struggling math student y, she hasn't, and this isn't fine.
Somewhere in my second year I realized this and then built a condensed syllabus. Not only that, I chopped out the important parts so students would have something to occupy themselves while I talked, revealed each portion individually, and took guesses.
I hear rumor that some teachers develop class rules with the students during this time. I'm not sure I'm ready for that but I do know that something different has to happen here, that as first impressions go, your standard syllabus experience ain't a great one.
P.S. The field trip policy was school policy at my last school, my policy at this one. My students seems to understand the policy at this one but they forge my signature anyway.
P.P.S. This presentation's gonna surface in a couple different forms around here, video probably last among them.
on 15 Jul 2007 at 7:39 pm4 Mindy
Great point with the syllabus. I realized that when I taught in middle school. By the time my seventh period made it to my class on day one, they would have heard 6 other teachers talk, talk, talk.
And the things that we teachers told them that first day would have to be repeated throughout the year when relevant, because they wouldn't remember it from the first day anyway. For example, you can explain your homework policy, but when you assign that first homework, you're going to have to remind them. So why not wait until you assign that first homework, when you really have their attention and they have a need for the the "homework policy" info.
So, I try to think to myself, what would I (if I was a student) really want to know on that first day? What fears, concerns, questions and hopes would I have walking into my teacher's room?
In other words, how can I get those big questions answered for my students, leaving the details to be dealt with as they arise and are needed? I also see it as not wasting my precious class time with them by spending it on something that will have to be repeated, and would be more appropriately shared later.
Just another way I try to stay relevant to them and their needs.
on 16 Jul 2007 at 5:58 am5 Steve Peters
Wow Fischer and the Prez in the same handout. I wonder if gambling in class would have prompted Max to form the Rushmore dice and blackjack society.
Subtle references aside, that's a really nice syllabus you've got there. I had fun reading it, which is a lot to say for a class syllabus.
I'll second the request for a video podcast so I discuss good presentation techniques with strangers on the subway via my iPod.
Jackie, shuddering at those textbook-provided ancillary materials is among the most important steps. At least you know bad design when you see it. Those folks who work in the Ancillary Material divisions at McDougal, Prentice Hall, Holt, and others should be summarily fired. They do a horrible job across the board and haven't seemed to advance at all over the last 20 years in anything other than wasting paper and our time.
I see you all nodding your heads as you read Dan's post. Good ideas, right? Now how does this impact the handouts we give to our students? Are we "building" those or simply reproducing them? Take these techniques and apply them to our classrooms because we've got similar responsibilities there. I'll be the first to admit that I do waaaaay too much "Write Great Stuff Here." Proud to say that I have never hit Print from PP, though.
Where are my bonus points? I haven't seen the show, but from what I've read here and elsewhere I get why he's there and laughed when I saw that slide.
Do all those photos show up well on the copies you're handing out?
Reckon Todd & Steve win the bonus points for catching the return of Prezbo. Steve gets an extra pat on the back for catching Max Fischer. You have to amuse yourself sometimes, you know?
Todd's last question is worth addressing here, though the issue felt too specific when I wrote the post.
Printers are dumb. Copiers are dumber. And when you use both, you've gotta eliminate the guesswork. So I took those photos into Photoshop and crushed out the grays. So now we're at lots of blacks and whites and very few midtones, which should reproduce fairly accurately. We'll see.
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Tottenham burns!
Large parts of Tottenham have been burnt to the ground by rioters, a police spokesman has claimed that after the total damage has been assessed, it could come to as much as twenty pounds!Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
Kentish Maid Kentish Maid Aug 7, 2011 19:39 Flag
This is no time for sick humour!
What started as a peaceful protest was hijacked by others with a wider agenda and as a consequence innocent people have lost their livelihoods and homes. I doubt those who escalated matters will feel sorry or have any sympathy for the people whose lives have been destroyed. It could take years to restore community relations in such a deprived area of London and I don't envy those that task falls to.
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A Yahoo! User Aug 8, 2011 10:31 Flag
how can anybody make a sick joke about the mayhem caused by scumbags.....if that is your level of humour i pity you.....just go and tell that joke to somebody who livelihood has been destroyed and see if they laugh!!!
well said km
of course it doesn't matter to you reactionaries that all this was caused by the cops murdering an innocent boy - but then he was black, wasn't he, and to you scumbags that doesn't matter, does it?
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HighRoadJohn HighRoadJohn Aug 9, 2011 17:08 Flag
These people don't know why they're doing what they're doing until some stupid wet apologist tells them. Up until then it just feels good to hurt, maim, and burn out innocent people. And profitable. Now they can feel justified because the lefty weirdos have put the words into their mouths that they hadn't thought of themselves. This is more akin to what happened in Germany in the 1930s than any form of protest. And we get people more or less giving it their blessings? Nazis.
Kentish Maid Kentish Maid Aug 8, 2011 16:01 Flag
"cops murdering an innocent boy". What facts do you have to back up that statement Ed?
And you call us reactionary and scumbags! It seems it's pointless trying to reason with you since you've clearly already made up your mind about it.
Our responses to the original post were because somebody poked fun at those who've had their lives and livelihoods destroyed by wanton acts of vandalism and violence through no fault of their own. Have you no sympathy for them, and do you also condone the rioting and looting in other areas of London, organisers of which used this incident as an excuse for causing mayhem?
Or an armed drug dealing gang member who had been watch for some time because of his criminal activity was removed from the streets perminantly.
All depends how realistic you want to be.
HighRoadJohn HighRoadJohn Aug 8, 2011 18:16 Flag
Roy. No mate. Not funny at all.
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don't worry about roy, he's not the brightest!
he makes fun of tottenham being run down despite supporting man utd.
he probably lives in essex & has never been to manchester.
im sure once city start winning everything, he will change to support them.
Oh stfu ed. Labour made the mess, Tories cop the flack.
There is NEVER an excuse to do what is happening.
All that is happening is Total and utter crime.
But you morons seem to forget that you will all be moaning that there are no public services left and the prices have shot up and there are less jobs. All because of this pathetic bunch of scum wrecking everything. The money will come from councils, insurance firms to fix some of it, so up go council tax rates and insurance premiums along with utilities because of the repairs. The list goes on. So far, 30 businesses have gone to the wall because of the rioters buring them to the ground. So more people on the dole.
Well done. how proud the scum must be., now wait for the 6am riot squads to raid them as the CCTV coughs out face after face.
Yeah there is always someone else to blame other than themselves isnt there.
Amazing how robbing shops and burning peoples homes to the ground is justified because these people feel hard done by????
I'm sorry but with the UK everyone gets the same opotunities as everyone else in this country infact there is far more money and schemes poured into the so called poor areas than others, but the people are far more interested in doing what we have seen the last few nights than taking up whats offered to them to help them, and the areas are not poor they are just turned into a sh.t hole by the mindless twats who live there.
Where I live its just as poor, with just as high unemployment but we have the self respect not to ruin where we live, we understand the saying that you dont sh.t where you eat.
That is actually a very interesting article, so thanks for that, but the way you choose to make your points is only ever going to get one reaction-ie: a bad one! therefore you do very little to evoke empathy for your arguement even though some of your points are worthy of consideration.
The IPCC will do their jobs in due course, if a police officer has acted unlawfully they'll be exposed, the IPCC are unrelentless in ensuring the police act in a morrally sound way (or at least appear to)- in some case at the expense of allowing the officers to act logically without fear of reprisal.
This sort of behaviour cannot be justified (imo), it won't be long before the nuckle dragging, neolithic far right will dine out on these images for years, using them to further devide our communities.
These are just opportunists, looking to jump on a band waggon.
Total curfew! no one on the streets after 8pm? surely it has to be an option?!
A Yahoo! User Aug 9, 2011 10:51 Flag
here we go again ....right wing neolithic fascists....all the same old diatribe......the simple truth is they are scum that use any excuse to riot ,burn,loot.....and use the convenient excuse of colour discrimination to justify.....since when did righteous protesters burn,injure and loot.....typical left wing political rubbish defending them......a convenient excuse....other people.indigenous people are suffering ,but we don't use that as an excuse to steal and burn...
Going on the words of ed, we should assume that it will now be the turn of the shop/home/car owners who have had their lives destroyed (in many cases to go to the homes of the scum and burn their homes down.
I dont think this will happen. Mainly because despite the loss many poor people have just experienced at the hands of these rioters they themselves have too much compassion and concideration for society to cause such chaos.
In conclusion there is no excuse for the scum to act as they do. Many have probably never attempted to get a job, thus ever paid or contributed to our society in any way, other than most likely to fund the growing drug trade.
Criminals plane and simple. Give police more powers to use more force.
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A Yahoo! User Aug 9, 2011 22:39 Flag
Good call Marc
ed, whats all that got to do with burning down peoples homes.
& these arent rich peoples homes, these are other poor people in the tottenham area!
this country is a mess & as always the rich get richer & the poorer get poorer.
the MP's are corrupt & just out for themselves.
BUT burning downs poor peoples homes is not a commandable act!
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Had to laugh heartily at the 'Torys cop the flack' .
You can tell the Tories are in town!
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Elazar Barkan is the director of the Center for the Study of Human Rights, a professor of international and public affairs, and the director of the Human Rights Concentration at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs. Previously, Professor Barkan served as chair of the History Department and the Cultural Studies Department at the Claremont Graduate University, where he was the founding director of the Humanities Center. He also founded the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation (IHJR) in The Hague.
Professor Barkan is a historian by training and received his PhD from Brandeis University. His research interests focus on human rights and on the role of history in contemporary society and politics and the response to gross historical crimes and injustices. His recent books include The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices (W.W. Norton, 2000); Claiming the Stones/Naming the Bones: Cultural Property and the Negotiation of National and Ethnic Identity, (an edited volume with Ronald Bush, Getty, 2003); and Taking Wrongs Seriously: Apologies and Reconciliation (an edited volume with Alexander Karn, Stanford University Press, 2006).


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Definition of influence peddling in English:
influence peddling
noun[mass noun] North American
The use of position or political influence on someone's behalf in exchange for money or favours.
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- But it eventually begins to dawn on him that sports is out of control, with too much money, sex, drugs, influence peddling, and politics.
- Quite apart from whether political influence peddling distorts criminal policy, does such peddling weaken the case for privatization?
- Rather, behind the vague slogan of 'reform,' they focused on such issues as political corruption and influence peddling in Washington.
influence peddler noun
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- It will have to clear out the influence peddlers, corporate lobbyists, spin-doctors and fund-raisers and return to first principles.
- No candidate is more scornful of the Washington insider class of lobbyists and influence peddlers.
- 'And while I'm doing that, I will crack down on wasteful and abusive officials and influence peddlers,' she said.
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Film; A Young Trouper Who Plays Crazy as Well as Sexy
By MARGY ROCHLIN
Published: September 30, 2001
LOS ANGELES— THERE'S a videotape that has been making the rounds in Hollywood lately. In it, Janis Joplin appears to be bouncing around on the furniture, gesticulating wildly with a lighted cigarette and crooning an unusually sorrowful rendition of ''Me and Bobby McGee.'' A crew member in blue jeans strolls briefly across the frame, picking up slack camera cable. The chastizing voice of Joplin's mother can be heard off-camera, making the singer's face crumple. But this is not some newly discovered, archival Joplin footage. It's a screen test by the young actress Brittany Murphy for ''Piece of My Heart,'' a biopic that, because of a music-rights snag, is no longer being made.
No movie that she had appeared in up to this point holds any indication that Ms. Murphy could transform herself into Joplin, the raucous, anguished, feathers-and-sequin-clad rock vocalist who became a voice of the psychedelic era. So the tape has helped Ms. Murphy land auditions for the film versions of the Broadway musicals ''Chicago'' and ''Rent'' as well as the role of Drew Barrymore's best friend in Penny Marshall's ''Riding in Cars With Boys,'' which is to be released on Oct. 19.
In a way, the screen test also helped Ms. Murphy get the central role of a near-catatonic mental patient with a secret in ''Don't Say a Word,'' a psychological thriller starring Michael Douglas that opened on Friday. Gary Fleder, who directed the film, had also been tapped to make ''Piece of My Heart.''
When Mr. Fleder first met with Ms. Murphy for ''Piece of My Heart'' in 1999, he said, he wasn't expecting her to do any better than the scores of actresses he had already seen and dismissed over the previous nine months. He wondered, in fact, what an ingenue with a Valley Girl name and teenage-film credits was even doing on his casting appointment sheet.
''I mean, the name -- Brittany!,'' Mr. Fleder said. The most recognizable title on Ms. Murphy's résumé at the time, he said, was ''Clueless,'' the 1995 high school hit in which she played Tai, a scrappy Bronx homegirl trying to blend in in Beverly Hills. ''Then she walked in and for the first time I felt all the things about Joplin -- meaning her wit, madness and humor -- were present.''
Madness, or at least mental disturbance, comes into play again for Ms. Murphy in ''Don't Say a Word,'' which is based on Andrew Klavan's 1991 mystery novel of the same name. When the young daughter of a Manhattan psychiatrist, Dr. Nathan Conrad (Michael Douglas), is abducted, the kidnappers demand, as ransom, that he penetrate the disturbed mind of the institutionalized Elisabeth Burrows (Ms. Murphy) for a six-digit number buried in her subconscious. The kidnappers believe the number will lead them to a valuable red diamond. For most of the film, a pajama-clad Ms. Murphy must make her unbalanced character come alive within a barren set representing a holding cell in a hospital psychiatric ward. Ms. Murphy uses everything available to her, perching on the sill of her locked window or flopping on her thin mattress, always letting the relentlessly probing Dr. Conrad know it is she who owns the room.
The tension of ''Don't Say a Word'' lies almost entirely in the scenes in which Elisabeth alternately withholds and releases pieces of information to Dr. Conrad. Yet until Ms. Murphy saw the completed film last month, she was so convinced that her screen time had been fleeting that she issued a warning.
''On the way to the screening, I told my mom and my friend, 'You guys, don't be disappointed, because I don't think my part is very big,' '' Ms. Murphy said. The movie also stars Famke Janssen and Sean Bean.
Perhaps when somebody works as steadily as Ms. Murphy, productions tend to blur together. Since 1997, even during her eight-month stint in the Tony-winning Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's ''A View From a Bridge,'' she's been employed as the voice of the Texas beauty-school hussy Luanne in Fox's animated series ''King of the Hill.'' In the past five years she has appeared in 21 films and television projects, including ''Girl, Interrupted'' and a television remake of the 1962 film ''David and Lisa,'' making ''Don't Say a Word'' her third psychiatric-ward drama.
But anyone who thinks she's trying to corner the market on emotionally troubled types should take into account her entire filmography, which includes a fair amount of flakes and sex kittens in mainstream fluff like ''Summer Catch,'' released last month, and genre knock-offs with titles even a video store habitué would be hard-pressed to recognize. On paper, it looks as if Ms. Murphy is trying to alternate her serious roles with parts that will also emphasize that she's 23 now -- grown up, sexy and desirable -- and light-years away from the awkward, slouching teenager of ''Clueless,'' the quality of these projects notwithstanding.
But Ms. Murphy admits to no career strategizing at all. ''Edith Piaf: No regrets, baby!'' is how Ms. Murphy characterized her game plan. ''I pretty much ride on my instincts anyway.''


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A stem cell is a biological blank slate that can spawn many types of cells
in the body. The most generic and powerful stem cells are embryonic stem
cells, found in the embryo soon after conception. They can create all 200 cell
types, including blood, bone, skin, muscle, and nerve.
Stem cells not only generate specific kinds of cells, they also have the
power of "self-renewal." Unlike regular cells, which divide a certain number
of times and then die, stem cells can turn out identical copies of themselves
virtually forever.
Embryonic stem cells disappear when their work is done, but even after the
body is fully formed, adult stem cells remain to replenish specific cell types
that are lost or damaged. Adult stem cells are more limited in the types of
cells they can generate, but they can be used in research without the ethical
controversy involved in obtaining stem cells from human embryos, which are
destroyed in the process. Because stem cells are so versatile, scientists are
working to harness them for replacement tissues in patients with neurodegenerative
diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
The hypothesized "cancer stem cell" is a mutated, corrupted adult stem
cell that has cancer-causing properties and is self-renewing, making it a
dangerous renegade that some scientists blame for causing treated cancers
to recur. According to the hypothesis, solid tumors contain a small cadre of
cancer stem cells that often survive therapy, lurking silently to regrow months
or years after treatment to form another tumor.
Scientists continue to debate whether these
cancer stem cells are truly the root of all evil
in tumors. Nevertheless, the National Cancer
Institute and other funding sources continue to
support research that, in time, should answer
such questions.
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The Cay
by Theodore Taylor
The Cay Chapter 5 Summary
- On the third day drifting at sea, an airplane flies overhead. Timothy calls to it and lights a torch, but nothing happens and the plane disappears. They're alone again.
- Phillip starts to put his hand in the warm water, but Timothy stops him. The waters are swarming with sharks. As long as they stay on the raft, though, they should be okay.
- Timothy says Stew Cat is bad luck, but to cause his death would be even worse. Phillip doesn't believe Stew Cat is bad luck.
- Phillip asks Timothy what he sees, and Timothy describes the water, the sky, and a bird called a "booby" (5.36).
- Phillip wonders if he'll ever see a bird again.


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|Pierce, Lindsey
|Palti, Yniv
|Silverstein, Jeffrey
|Barrows, Frederic - USDA,ARS HAGERMAN FISH CU
|Hallerman, Eric - VA POLYTECHNIC INSITIUTE
|Parsons, James - TROUTLODGE, INC.
Submitted to: Meeting Abstract
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: March 22, 2007
Publication Date: September 2, 2007
Citation: Pierce, L., Palti, Y., Silverstein, J., Barrows, F.T., Hallerman, E.M., Parsons, J.E. 2007. Evaluation of family growth response to fish meal and plant protein-based diets of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Meeting Abstract. Technical Abstract: Both environmental and economic concerns have led to the development of fish-meal free diets for salmonids. The ability of rainbow trout to efficiently utilize plant-based diets for growth and reproduction, and the genetic variation within populations for these traits, has not been thoroughly examined. In a previous study we used microsatellites to determine the pedigree of the top 1% and bottom 1% of progeny in a commercial growth trial of 20 full-sib families reared in a common environment. Half of the fish from each family were fed a standard fish-meal based diet and the other half was fed a plant-protein (gluten) based diet. The family rankings were similar when either diet was fed, indicating no genotype X diet interaction is present in that commercial trout strain. In the present study, growth and reproductive performance of a pedigreed population from another commercial strain were assessed feeding both plant-based and traditional fish-meal diets. Families (95 full-sib and 47 half-sib) were reared in a common environment and parentage assignment performed on 1000 fish fed each diet. Growth and reproductive performance of families fed the plant-based diet were compared to identical families fed the control (fish-meal/oil) diet. Statistical analysis of mean family performance was used to assess genotype x diet interactions.


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SHADES OF THE FUTURE. We were talking about sunglasses and how you see things through them.
They were cool when you and I were young, no matter when that was, and they're cool now. Still cool long past things and people once cool and now long gone, like eight-tracks and Fabio. Always cool instead of once cool, not cool, and then cool again, like argyle socks.
SHOOTING THE MOON FOR GOLD. When the Olympics last rolled around, my fellow decathlete, Jeff Chamblin, and I laughed our way through the memories, remembering the competition as if it were yesterday.
THE RODNEY PERSPECTIVE. I was depressed. After a couple of weeks of political conventions and mind-numbing analysis by talking head armies to my left and right, I was wondering if I should bother to get out of bed. But I took solace as I sometimes do in the words of the late philosopher, Rodney Dangerfield, who reminds us that no matter how bad it gets, it could be worse, and a lot funnier.
WE ARE PRIVILEGED TO BE HERE. As poor as we are, we are far richer than we may realize. As so many struggle to make ends meet, one may wonder why so many are drawn to us. As difficult as it is to breathe the air this time of year, there is music in that air, there is a world-famous beat to this city.
THERE IS NO OTHER, OTHER THAN US. They came for them. They came for us.
You may not have heard of Martin Niemöller, a Protestant pastor in 1930s Germany, but you've probably heard him quoted, beginning, "First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a Socialist." You may have heard or seen some variation of the original referencing Communists or Catholics or Mexicans or Muslims or African-Americans or whatever other, but you got the point because the original and every version concludes, "Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out – because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me – and there was no one left to speak for me."
YOU'VE BEEN ZOOED. That headline is indicative of the last few months. In fact, it's the indicative present perfect usage of the new verb this city has created.
A LOSS FOR WORDS. We lost a good one two weeks ago. Good man. Good son and husband, father and grandfather, brother and friend. Good citizen and arts supporter. Good mentor to students and adviser to college presidents, Episcopal priests and copywriters.
THIS IS MINISTRY, BABY. Sometimes we don't see the difference we can make right where we are.
Brian McLaren – pastor and celebrated theologian, activist and prolific author – was here a couple of weeks ago, and he shared some thoughts about his visit in The Huffington Post:
Andy Holt.
The late Andy Holt from Milan, a schoolteacher, a coach, and once the principal of what is now Campus School in Memphis, the national president of the National Education Association and president of the University of Tennessee. His Columbia doctoral dissertation was about the struggle for public support of education in Tennessee.
SEEDING TOMORROW IN WEST TENNESSEE. Things grow in Hardeman County. Crops, livestock, husbandry in all its forms – and relationships grow there, too, between the wild and the tame, between an abundance of resources and their conservation, between awe and understanding.
THE MARKS WE'RE LEAVING. People were hooking up, shooting up and throwing up in the woods, on benches and in cars and right in front of children on the greensward. Like the weeds, pretty much everywhere. Like the privet, pretty much out of control. Like the shell and the rose garden and the lake and the forest and the picnic grounds and the pride of a city, pretty much left for dead.
THE REAL DEAL. When our daughter was 5 we took her to Disney World and totally encased ourselves in Disney plastic. To this day, I'm still haunted by strains of "It's A Small World" that won't leave my head, still having nightmares that I'm still in line for Space Mountain. The third day there, we took a boat to a lake island for a "nature walk." Hallie looked down into a stream and looked up at me, wide-eyed: "Look, Daddy, real fish!"
INTELLIGENT INSULTS. CLEVER COMEBACKS. As we brace for this summer's political conventions and a general election that promises to raise the lowest levels of public discourse to new heights, I thought I'd share some of my favorite exchanges collected over the years to remind us that we can do this sort of thing with style.
The old joke goes this way: Every morning on the commuter train to work a man watches another man read his paper, meticulously folding every page to a single column width, then unfolding and refolding as he reads each column top to bottom. Finally, unable to stand it anymore, the first approaches the second and asks, "Why do you do that?" "It keep elephants off the train," comes the reply.
LORD KNOWS, THE CRICK DOES RISE. The last time I was on a cook team, the Mississippi was lapping at the top of Tom Lee Park and I'd been lapping at a number of things for a couple of days myself.
IF YOU DON'T GET YOUR BARBECUE HERE, IT DOESN'T MATTER WHERE YOU GET IT. The World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest is next week. One of my first columns was about defining barbecue when no definition should be necessary. Sadly, we've slipped further and further down a saucy slope and basic definitions are required again.
THE STATE OF UN. In this nadir of presidential elections with everyone awash in slimy sound bites, with Congress and a Supreme Court nominee stuck in the mud, it takes truly jaw-dropping state legislative idiocy to draw the attention of the national media, make the monologues of late-night hosts and inspire "Saturday Night Live" skits.
MEMPHIS IN BLACK AND WHITE. AND PINK. I'm glad Billy Orgel got engaged at Justine's because that inspired his family to save it, not because they miss the crystal and crabmeat but because the place is personal.
DOUG, JANICE, SUSAN, PETE, DAD. AND SEARS. Doug Ford – two-time major winner and golf Hall of Famer – is 93, and coincidently that's what I shot at Ridgeway last week.Janice was a high school girlfriend, and she liked her horse a lot more than me. Susan was a junior-high girlfriend, or whatever you are when you're 12, and our relationship was worth peanuts. Pete was my best friend, and just about the coolest things we'd ever seen were vending machines that served hot food and Cokes in cups. My father believed in my mother, the United States Navy and Sears – because whatever story he was telling or advice he was giving, at least one and probably all three got in the conversation.
OVERTON EAGLES SOAR. When the city last talked about closing the Overton Park golf course, I told my story in a column.
Rumor has it, the course is in jeopardy again – a possible Greensward replacement – as if repurposing existing green spaces will justify destroying others, as if all the stories that have made the park so personal to so many are worth no more than a parking spot, as fleeting as a phone call from power to council.
WE CANNOT REMAIN STILL. When the news of the assassination broke on April 4, 1968, I ran to the dorm phone to call home to find out what in my world was going on, if my city was on fire, my family safe. All the lines to Memphis were busy, the answers would have to wait.
ON PORCHES. Whatever porches are about, the best ones are about time. Time for swings and rocking chairs and reflection. Time spent alone with your thoughts or time shared with others sharing space and experience. Time to be very quiet. Or very loud. Life in real time.
ZOO DOO IS BACK. In the early '90s, an enterprise started in Memphis to market recycled zoo dung – talk about organic – called the Zoo Doo Compost Co. A pungent and powerful fertilizer, raw product supplied seven days a week, a clever name, a great promotional headline, "Gardeners Love This Crap."
WE NEED THE SHARPEST PENCILS IN THE DRAWER. I don't do my own taxes. In fact, my taxes send TurboTax into default mode, crash laptops and fry transformers. H&R Block blocks my phone number. My accountant does my taxes, only because he's known me for decades, he speaks Dan, and he uses the Gordian Knots in my finances to train his people.
SHAME ON US. This week, the Memphis City Council ran over a whole room of citizens and a whole city and parked right on top of something they care about.
Every council member should be ashamed.
COMING TO SAVE US IS STARVING US. We recently dodged the state Legislature's latest effort to save us from ourselves, reaching into Shelby County to raise our poor and pitiful children from the depths of despair – Shelby County Schools.
Jeff Green leaves the Grizzlies for the Clippers and Lance Stephenson leaves the Clippers for the Grizzlies.That was the trade at the NBA's Thursday afternoon deadline that caused much of Thursday's deadline buzz as well as lots of social media reaction.Some of the reaction was tempered by the other part, a protected lottery pick for the Grizz as well.
POP-UP WAFFLES. Pop-up concepts are hot. Popping up in spaces – Broad, the Edge, the Brewery, the Fire Station – reclaimed and repurposed to show what's possible, the original character of the space adding flavor, the here-today-gone-tomorrow aspect adding spice, the unusual nature of the things served – things not seen every day and everywhere – adding adventure. Millennial curiosity addressed, the need for gratification met, the existential question asked and answered.
THE SPORTS QUOTES YOU HAVEN'T HEARD. While the Super Bowl, Iowa and New Hampshire are behind us, the rest of the primaries, the general election, and a million tired sports analogies and metaphors are regrettably still in front of us … as in, we're still in the early innings.
One seemingly ordinary winter's night in Downtown Memphis, I was going from event to event focused on work – specifically trying to stay on a schedule in which several things I wanted to cover were happening at the same time.That is usually when you miss the experience that is Memphis on an everyday but definitely not ordinary basis.So I get in a parking garage elevator and on the next floor David Porter – of Stax Records fame – gets on and he introduces me to his friend, Maurice White – the founder of Earth Wind and Fire. They too are trying to be in several places at the same time.As they went their way and I went mine, I remember thinking this is quite a special place.The encounter slowed my stride a bit and took some of the edge off the schedule – noticing for the first time how many people were out on a winter's night in our city having nothing but a good time made better by all of us going our different ways.White, who was from Memphis, died Thursday with his band's music stronger and more relevant than ever.If you grew up listening to EWF when the songs were new, you know that the bright and funky sound and the positive, affirming, and diverse identity of this music was quite intentional at a time when there was plenty going on that could have pushed it the other way.If your parents or grandparents grew up listening to EWF, this music is a part of your family's tradition that calls to mind special occasions and even your own mild surprise the first time you found yourself dancing to it with your children.And if your folks' vinyl record collection from back in the day included Earth Wind and Fire, that was one of the ones you listened to when they weren't around and one of the ones you took with you when you got a place of your own.
In his column last week, "History Lesson," Dan Conaway made an absurd comparison related to the Memphis Zoo's current parking challenges and the fight to prevent I-40 from cutting through Overton Park in the 1970s.
CARE ABOUT THE GAME. I'm a homer. I can't watch a sporting event for the beauty of the game, the spirit of the competition, the skill displayed on both sides. I want somebody's butt kicked and for good reason.
When I first wrote about attempts to steamroll Overton Park, a friend told me a great story. He was in his parents' living room one afternoon in the late '60s listening to his father go on and on about the battle to keep I-40 out of Overton Park ... too late to stop it, who are these silly protestors anyway, yadda yadda ... when they turned on the local news.
IT MIGHT BE RIGHT, BUT IT'S FLAT WRONG. A week or so ago, 27 trees disappeared from Overton Park's greensward – a fancy word for yours and my yard since Overton Park belongs to us.
WE HEAR WHAT WE WANT. I have an old white dog. She's like a lot of old white dogs. She has a lot wrong with her, aches and pains here and there, problems internal and external, sagging everywhere. She spends a lot of time napping in front of the TV, snoring while she's at it, talking to herself and dreaming about what used to be, having nightmares about what she imagines is coming.
BELL. BOWLING. CROWE. GARDENHIRE. KELSEY. NICELY. ROBERTS. AND NORRIS. As the Tennessee General Assembly gets going in 2016, let's remember how they started 2015 – with the abandonment of common sense and decency and hundreds of thousands of Tennesseans. The story of what they did bears repeating as a cautionary tale. If we let them do it again, we all bear responsibility.
The black kid across the hall came from Pearl in Nashville and had a full-ride scholarship.
All I knew about Pearl was that they'd bounced Memphis Treadwell out of the gym the year before to go 31 and 0 and win the state basketball championship. So the kid must be a baller, right?
CHRISTMAS TIME. Every Christmas I tell this story, and in the telling Christmas comes home.
It was my first time to England and overseas, and prime time for The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Soho.
THE INS AND UNS OF OUR TRUTH. Truth is the truth. It isn't inconvenient, inconsistent or incomplete. It isn't uncomfortable or unpleasant and certainly not untrue.
But what we've made of the truth is all of those things.
IF YOU CAN PARK A HIPPO, YOU CAN PARK AN SUV. "Finally," the young TV reporter said, "somebody who's happy with the zoo."
The zoo's general manager was involved in controversy, his vision in question. The reporter found plenty of people at the zoo gate ready to feed the GM to the lions, but Nora and I were the first he talked to who liked the guy and he wanted a little balance for his story. You remember balance? Good reporters used to have it, and this guy was good.
A SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS. WASHINGTON, D.C. – The United States government has mobilized against a clear threat to the country.
Troops have been sent to identify and capture members of an ersatz government openly operating here in defiance of federal law. This group claims theirs as the only true religion, and that laws be based on it as prescribed in the tome of that religion. They believe no other laws to be valid in the eyes of God, and no rights assigned or any authority recognized if any are based on such godless laws. They seek to prohibit the teaching, or even mention, of any other religion in schools.
LOOK FOR THE WONDER. REPEAT. I write about it every year. And it's happened again.
Right outside my window is a ginkgo tree, and another on the other side of the house. Every fall they engage in an ancient mating dance, a spectacular competition for attention. So exhausting is the effort, it doesn't last long. So intense is the result, it's explosive. And then it's gone.
SPIRITS OF A CITY. Emily Sutton and Annie Cook were prostitutes. And angels.
GOOD NEWS IS GROWING. Really. I only have 500 words here and what my friend Andy Cates had to say last week is worth far more, several billion dollars worth actually, and what St. Jude had to say at the end of the week adds billions more.
HIGH IQ OR NOT, STILL FUNNY. Friend Gene sent me something – as he often does – that was very funny. It was also something – as it often is – we'd both seen before but forgot.
WE'RE SIMPLY NOT COMMUNICATING. I've been saying for years that our city, as a city, does not understand or value the role of marketing and branding in the city's game plan.
If you think you know Memphis, and you don't know about him, you don't know Jack.
Following his father Phillip as patriarch to the Belz family, Jack Belz led Belz Enterprises for decades, a company close to or at the top of Tennessee property owners for all that time. A quiet philanthropist and quiet pioneer in the concepts of city gateway centers and discount malls, Belz went very public with the world-class renovation and reopening of The Peabody.
–30– In 1936, she was the society editor and all of 24 and he was a graphic artist for The Commercial Appeal and barely 21. A man walked up to her desk, the first one you came to off the elevator at the front of the old city room, and asked, "Could you tell me where I could find Cal Alley?"
CRUISING LIKE IT'S 1989. Let's pretend you can get three cans of tomato soup at Seessel's for a buck instead of just one, a six-pack of Bud for four bucks instead of six or seven, and a pound of hamburger for 89 cents instead of five bucks. Hell, let's pretend there's a Seessel's.
Since I allowed Apple to plant iOS 9 on my phone, on my iPad and in my psyche, my email is a crap shoot, iTunes is no longer playing my song, Siri won't speak to me, Firefox won't let me on my own home page and U-verse goes south daily.
A STORY IN EVERY BITE. Last week's column reminded me of a couple of stories about food. My main editor – my wife – reminded me that I've told them before. That happens a lot. It's about to happen again. Just think of them as second helpings.
MEMPHIS ON A PLATE. Presenting the fifth helping of the Tasteful List, updated for 2015 – an alphabetical survey of local flavor in one decidedly local man's opinion.
Could I get another napkin over here?
THE CHURCH OF GROUND ZERO. Headed to my desk, I passed a photograph on the wall. I pass it several times every day, but when I typed 9/11 at the top of the page, the date this column would run in The Daily News, I realized what the column would be about:
MEMPHIS FROM THE BEACH. When I first shared these observations a few years ago, I was doing pretty much what I'm doing right now – keeping the sand out of my beer and helping my dogs stare at the ocean. Like that activity, I think the observations are worth repeating.
4,880 MILES MORE SOUTHERN. There he was again. Nora and I were watching a show about historic homes in Memphis on WKNO and when they paused to pitch for support, he was one of the volunteers manning the phone bank behind those pitching.
OUR POOR KIDS ARE GETTING THE BIRD. During political seasons – that's pretty much all the time – I'm often reminded of what my first boss once told me, "You know that beautiful, almost iridescent, blue-gray dot in the middle of chicken (crap)? That's chicken (crap), too."
A THANK YOU NOTE FROM A COPYWRITER TO ELVIS. Elvis was once asked what kind of music he played. "I play all kinds," was his response.
That pretty much sums up Memphis, and Elvis was pretty much the sum up of its parts. Part gospel and part blues, part country and part soul. And all original. Part dirt poor and part flashy rich, part Mama's boy and part nasty and naughty. And all surprising. Part glitz and glitter and part sad and tragic. And all too real. Part Mississippi and part Tennessee. And all world shaking.
HOT? GET IN LINE. I have three absolute favorite expressions for hot – everyone who lives in the grits belt needs at least one.
My third favorite is Halle Berry hot – substitute your mercury raiser.
WORRY ABOUT THE DOGS. Depending on who's talking and when, history around Fort Pillow changes.
At the time of this story – one I shared first in a 2013 column – it was called the Cold Creek Correctional Facility, a minimum-security operation farming about 6,000 acres in Lauderdale County. Next it was called the Fort Pillow Prison and Farm, next door to something called the West Tennessee High Security Facility, now the West Tennessee State Penitentiary.
Before their last sheety little show here a couple of years ago, an Exalted Cyclops of the KKK – must be just one hole in his hood – was quoted on Channel 5 and in The Huffington Post, "Y'all are going to see the largest rally Memphis, Tennessee, has ever seen. It's not going to be 20 or 30 – it's going to be thousands of Klansmen from the whole United States."
COME ON BACK TO ELMWOOD, GENERAL FORREST. I first issued that invitation in 2013 and while we haven't yet heard from the General, we've heard from just about everybody else. The invitation stands because – as it has been for some time – it's past time.
THE LAW, AND I QUOTE. Oh, the outrage! Across the nation, people have reacted to the laws passed and validated by the courts, their liberty threatened, the Constitution violated, the republic at risk.
CRAZY LIKE CHISCA. Lauren Crews told me that people think he's crazy.
After all, he paddled a canoe from the Twin Cities to New Orleans – just him and his dog. He rode a bike to New Orleans, too, all the way down Highway 61 in the summer, the heat driving him dizzy into ditches.
WE'RE RELATED. For a few years, Nora was in a handbell choir at our church. The choir was invited to perform here and there. Being an Episcopal church, those trips were more a celebration than a solemn occasion, and, like the service itself, food and drink were central to the issue at hand. I tagged along because the here and there included roux-full places like Mobile and New Orleans.
BOOM. HERE'S TO THE IRISH. Recently, Ireland became the first country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage by popular vote. Ireland. Stereotypically, a country where conservative is a matter of degree not choice, where killing each other over religion isn't current news but DNA, where progress is measured in pints.
WHEN YOU'RE HOME, YOU CAN HEAR IT. I was recently reminded of a story I heard from an actor friend years ago when he was in town for a commercial I was making. His name was Robert Lansing – if you're old enough, you'll remember him from TV's "12 O'Clock High."
A MEASURE OF JOURNALISM. As I wondered what to write about while on vacation, I was bailed out by New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan and my friend Jay Martin, who sent me her article. Ms. Sullivan upon ending her teaching stint at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism left these parting words for her students:
WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE. Corporate speak – the art of saying very little with a great many words in order that something very little might appear to be very great, or that something very grave might be buried under so many words that there is little chance of digging it out – continues to thrive, its practitioners legion, its impact so significant that since the Supreme Court declared a corporation to be an actual person, corporate speak, is now, officially, the language of actual people.
MEMPHIS: THE SEQUEL. "People who make movies – people like Francis Ford Coppola and Milos Forman and Sydney Pollack, and our own Craig Brewer and Willy Bearden – and people like me who write and produce TV spots and videos all have something in common. We know just how damn good Memphis looks through a lens, we know how deep the local talent pool is for actors and crew, we know how wide the choice is for great locations.
A BIG BASS PROBLEM. We've done it. Just like a lure, the light reflects off a shiny object and draws a crowd.
A huge shiny object. A huge crowd. And we've done it again. We're letting something tiny by comparison, a minnow to a record catfish, foul the water and spoil the catch.
DIVORCE MAY BE BEST. After all, it was a shotgun wedding.
He grew up in an old neighborhood under the shade of old oaks – a big city boy with more ambition than brains, a dreamer always looking past the weeds in his own yard to greener grass. He was fun alright – into good times and great restaurants, live music and funky joints, nights that start with sunsets on the river and end at dawn next to somebody. He spent big, too big. Lived large, too large. And, truth be told, he could be a bit scary and more than a bit grabby.
GLORY BE. As an early convert, I was there for their first win ever – the first outward and visible sign for a city so in need of faith. While we knew grit and grind all too well, who knew we would come to embrace that identity and its disciples with religious fervor?
BIG STEPS. Part of our vacation ritual involves underwear, kitchen gadgets, camp shirts, socks and shoes – all items available in branded abundance on the cheap at Tanger Outlets.
GHOST OF A RIVER. Jimmy Ogle is a Memphis history savant. He knows things about our people that even they didn't know.
THE FACE OF UNINSURED TENNESSEE. I washed down my eggs with a big swig of cold reality, decidedly unsweet.
The woman serving me was familiar in the way regular customers and servers are familiar, not close but not strangers, not really friends but really friendly. "Haven't seen you in a while," I said, an opening that invites but doesn't require an explanation, that notes a change in appearance without referencing it.
PRAYING FOR TENNESSEE. This being Easter week, let's open with a prayer. Aren't we all Christians – at least all of us who matter – and in Tennessee, the Promised Land?
GOING RIGHT BACK OUT THERE ANYWAY. I get lots of email about the kind of days friends are having these days – days like mine.
I need to write a column, but looking at a video on my phone of grandchildren splashing in the rain, I realize I also need to wash the snow-salt-sludge off my car.
TENNESSEE. FIRST AT LAST. That's our new slogan. Time to own it. Some of you, my faithful readers, tell me I should be more positive about our prospects as a state. Look at the circus in Nashville – and remember how much fun I had at the circus as a kid, how hard I laughed at the clowns. Watch our march backwards, our retreat from progress – and think of it as a parade, marvel at how the marchers stay in lockstep with their eyes so firmly closed, applaud their speed and coordination.
STORIES 90 YEARS IN THE MAKING. The other day, Willy Bearden and I visited with Norman Blackley in his kitchen. Willy and I are suckers for stories and that kitchen was chock-full.
Matter of fact, Norman built the kitchen. "Everything in here cost about 200 bucks," he told us, "put it in myself. This was the garage. Needed a kitchen more than a garage." He has other garages behind the house. Like the one that holds the 1978 Lincoln Town Car he restored. Or the 1965 Chrysler New Yorker. Or the 1920-something Jordan he's working on now. His 1955 Chevy's not back there. It's in a museum. However, in another garage there's a tank he built to float his 1927 Chris-Craft 14-footer. He was with his mother when she bought it in 1930 and he's had it ever since. "Gotta keep it wet," he explained, "the mahogany shouldn't dry out."
MEMPHIS RITUAL. The Memphis of Memphis is best shared around tables, best accompanied by good food, and best expressed in good stories.
Mildred's story, for instance. I told it last year, but here it is again because Mildred spent 70 years earning the telling.
EYE OPENERS. I learned recently that Leadership Memphis is raising $50,000 to start something called Expanding Horizons College & Career Tours, taking 400 promising students from their SUCCESS High School program in eight Memphis schools on college tours in June.
"REALITY JUST IS." I stood in the bathroom in boxer shorts and shaving cream and cheered words coming from my radio – words good enough to overcome that image I just put in your head – words like these:
BELL. BOWLING. CROWE. GARDENHIRE. KELSEY. NICELY. ROBERTS. AND NORRIS. Since last week's debacle in the state Legislature – the abandonment of common sense and decency and hundreds of thousands of Tennesseans by their elected representatives – the ether and printed pages here and elsewhere have been full of various explanations and finger pointing. Let's keep it simple. Let's simply point that finger at those who raised their hands.
YOU GOTTA LOVE 'EM. When some fall in love, falling headlong and defenseless, even despite subsequent events and the weight of time and change, never mind the disappointment and the heartbreak – never mind life – the love remains because that fall and the feel of it last a lifetime.
DRAWING A CROWD. The line started at one end of the big room and wound its way out into the hall.
The widow and the son and the family received the soft words about the hard loss, the sympathy, the hugs and the tears, the emotional exchanges of finality, the shared experience of a life lived and now over. A visitation, yes, but it seemed more than that quiet, somber label would suggest.
OF FROGS AND TOADS. Years and years ago, I was served a couple of striking culinary metaphors that have not only proven to be unforgettable but seem to get better and better with age.
The first was on the wall of my dentist in the 100 North Main building, one of those focal points you stare at while somebody probes your molars with this and that. It was a photograph of a pyramid of frogs inscribed with this:
KNOWN BUT NAMELESS. Who the hell are you? I'm not mad at you, I'm mad because I don't know who you are and I should. No clue. Known you since the earth was cooling and I couldn't come up with your name under Dick Cheney's enhanced interrogation, not if I had to listen to Barry Manilow sing or Rush Limbaugh talk until I came up with it. You look so familiar we might be brothers … but I know my brothers. Their names are … give me a sec. I don't have any sisters. I think.
A SPECK OF CEREAL. Insure Tennessee reminds me of Lorne Greene, David Letterman and a can of Alpo.
You remember Lorne, don't you? Dad on "Bonanza"? In an old commercial for Alpo, he made his ancient dog fetch a stick to get fed. As she struggled back with the stick in her gray jaws, Lorne suggested that her longevity was due to Alpo – dog food, he said, "without a speck of cereal."
As is so often the story, 2014 ended with others seeing more in us than we see in ourselves.
A story of tween and teen sisters from Switzerland via Germany, of Scandinavian design and meatballs from Sweden, of a 12-year-old made a superstar chef by a national television audience.
CHRISTMAS TIME. Every Christmas I tell this story, and in the telling Christmas comes home.
GIVE THANKS. This Christmas, our country has given our kids a chance. As a county, we had a chance to do it for ourselves but local government wouldn't fund it and local citizens wouldn't pay for it. As a state, our governor had to be talked into asking for it and our Legislature would rather not talk about asking for help at all.
NORMAL. AGAIN. Last week, Bob Loeb and I took a stroll through the 1950s in the reality of 2014.
SUFFERING FOOLISH. Just when you think your cold is getting better, it snot. If you think that's bad, I'm just getting started.
As I write this, Thanksgiving weekend is winding down and my cold, a gift from my grandchildren, is just getting warmed up. Nora's gone to church, the dogs have fled to another room, I'm out of Kleenex, and the last sneezing exhibition numbered 18. Not feeling much like writing a column, I opened my email and saw these from my friend, Gene:
LOOK FOR THE WONDER. REPEAT. I write about it every year. This year, just last week, it happened again.
Right outside my window is a ginkgo tree, and another on the other side of the house. Every fall they engage in an ancient mating dance, a spectacular competition for attention. So exhausting is the effort, it doesn't last long. So intense is the result, it's explosive. And then it's gone, leaving only a memory.
FINDING MEMPHIS. Last week the Church of the Holy Communion inaugurated a reading group called Words, and enticed an eclectic baker's dozen of participants with Muddy's cupcakes. I can't speak for the rest, but I've worked for much less.
ALL THIS IS GETTING OLD. Mitch McConnell is 117. Across the aisle, Harry Reid is 132, same age as Nancy Pelosi over in the House, and John Boehner is 98.
The last time any of them had an original idea, they had to call it in on a rotary phone. The way they get somewhere, or fail to, is as antiquated as our infrastructure, as much in danger of collapse as our bridges.
HONEST EXCHANGES. Parked at the curb, he honked his horn when I walked by, earbuds firmly in place, somewhere in the middle of Morning Edition.
"Where's your wife?" he asked through the open door of the city bus he was driving. "Stress fracture," I answered, "I'm on my own." "Hope she gets better soon," he said, "and tell her I'm retiring November 21st." "I'll do that," I said, leaning in to shake his hand, "and good luck." I stepped back, and he pulled away with another toot of the horn and a wave. He's been waving at us like that for years since his bus is generally passing when we walk out of our driveway each morning, as familiar he to us and us to him as one morning is to another, a dependable sign that this day is up and on schedule.
MAY WE NOTE LEST WE FORGET. The day after Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee died last week, I told my audience that I was going to open my remarks with a question, and I knew I was going to be depressed by the answer.
A couple of guys I know have been renting tuxes around here for 50 years. The first guy, Guy Miller, was a photographer with a studio on Cleveland where Saigon Le is today. He started renting tuxes there as a sideline in 1965 and then hung up his camera and went formal full-time.
THIS MORNING. THIS TOWN. This morning, I woke up in a challenged neighborhood. You know the challenges well.
The population is declining and aging – talking about the good old days, bemoaning the present, fearful of the future. The city is trying to reinvent itself – built on a booming business now faded and all but gone. Young people aren't returning. One major employer dominates and other jobs are mostly in government or in lower-paying positions in service or tourism. People outside the city point to it as the source of the area's problems.
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Alex Kurtzman directs Chris Pine and Olivia Wilde in the drama People Like Us. But does Ron like it? Here's his review...
Sam (Chris Pine) is a salesman with a wonderful girlfriend named Hannah (Olivia Wilde), a great job where he wheels and deals and barters stuff between companies for a profit, and things are going great. Well, except for a few minor details. Sam's in serious debt, he's in trouble with the FTC, and his father just died. So yeah, it's not all good, and after an attempt to avoid going to the funeral fails to pan out thanks to his meddling girl, he's off to Los Angeles to see to his grieving mother Lillian (Michelle Pfeiffer).
There's also the little matter of his father's inheritance. While the late Jerry was successful enough, he dropped a lot of money on his medical treatments and didn't leave much to his son aside from a record collection. There's also a shaving kit full of money, but that money's not for Sam. It's for Frankie (Elizabeth Banks) and her son Josh (Michael Hall D'Addario). They're Jerry's secret daughter and grandson, respectively.
That's a wrinkle Sam never expected. Now, there's a problem. Does Sam keep the money and bail himself out, or help out a single mother ex-addict with a life-changing sum of money? It's definitely a quandary, and in order to get to the bottom of whether or not Sam is worthy, he has to get to know her. Hence, the movie.
People Like Us is a wonderful film in a lot of ways. Young Michael Hall D'Addario is quite charismatic and has good comic timing (and provides the bulk of the laughs in the film). The adult actors are very good as well; Chris Pine makes a great selfish jerk with a heart of gold (which is why he's a great Captain Kirk). Ditto Elizabeth Banks, who brings her usual sense of humor to the role she's given, and is capable of handling the more emotional moments of the film without overdoing it.
Alex Kurtzman is a more-than-competent director in his first time out, though dramas don't require a ton of flash behind the camera. The movie moves with a nice flow from scene to scene, though it does occasionally seem a bit too static and seems to lag a bit towards the end after the big reveal.
However, there's a fundamental flaw in People Like Us that I can't get past: the general plot.
The whole premise of the movie feels unnatural to me. The estranged father and son is fine; ditto the illegitimate daughter and estranged father. That the father might want to provide for his daughter after death is something I can also handle, but I absolutely cannot handle the way the script makes Sam dither and delay and screw around with Frankie's emotions. That just feels terribly unnatural to me, and it's a big stumbling block, if only because it feels like that Sam only delays his mission to give us a movie, not because it's something people do. (Maybe people do this, I don't know.)
That kind of colours the whole movie. The acting is great, the dialogue is usually very good, I like the child actor very much, and it's got some moments of levity. All that is to say that the movie has great components, but the final product is overpowered by the distinct problem at its core. The movie is inspired by true events in both Kurtzman and Roberto Orci's lives (Kurtzman, Orci, and Jody Lambert wrote the script) with estranged half-siblings and secret families, and while I'm sure that happens, how often do you have to deliver $150,000 to your half-sister?
When you can't get past a movie's one serious roadblock, it makes the rest of the movie look bad. I can step back enough to admit there's a lot to like about this melodrama, but it's still a melodrama at its heart, right down to the completely illogical actions taken by characters to further the plot. It's a decent watch in spite of its flaws, but People Like Us is far from a brilliant directorial debut.
US Correspondent Ron Hogan would love to give a secret relative an inheritance, albeit with a finder's fee taken out. Find more by Ron daily at Shaktronics and PopFi.


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Study Suggests Ability to Read Others' Emotions Is Impaired by Botox
By Denise Mann
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Does Botox Affect How You Read Emotions?
April 25, 2011 -- The Botox injections used by millions each year to turn back the hands of time may do more than paralyze frown lines and other wrinkles; they may actually inhibit the ability to read others' facial emotions.
In 2010, Botulinum Toxin Type Injections, which includes Botox and Dysport, were the No. 1 minimally invasive cosmetic procedure performed in the U.S., according to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery.
"People are getting a lot of Botox to look better according to standards of culture, but they may be paying some subtle indirect cost in terms of losing ability to read the emotions of other people," says study researcher David R. Neal, PhD, a psychology professor at the University of Southern California. "If you have a poker face because your facial muscles are paralyzed, you can't read others emotions as well."
The new findings appear in the April 22nd issue of Social Psychological and Personality Science.
Reading Emotions
We read other people's emotions in part by mimicking their facial expressions. This is akin to a very subtle "sixth sense" that we all have and use even without knowing it, Neal says.
"It gives you a clue that the person you just met was acting seductive or suspicious and then you mimic the signal," he says. "If we can't engage in mimicry, we lose that sixth sense."
In the study, people who had injections of Botox were significantly less accurate at reading others' emotions than those who had injections of the soft tissue filler Restylane. Restylane does not paralyze muscles; instead it adds volume to facial folds.
It is too early to know whether there are other ways that people compensate for this emotional disconnect, he says. "It could be that the more Botox you have, the worse your ability to read others emotions."
But "it is a fairly subtle effect. People are not becoming automatons," he says. "It's just a matter of weighing whether the aesthetic and self-esteem boost outweighs any subtle impact on your ability to perceive others emotions."
Joshua Ian Davis, PhD, a psychologist at Barnard College in New York City, says the new results are exciting from a social psychology perspective. Last year Davis published a study that showed Botox can dampen our ability to feel our own emotions.
"The findings extend to our understanding of reading other people's emotions, not just feeling our own," he says.


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Definición de revolution en inglés:
1A forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system.
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- By the end of the war, Woodrow Wilson hoped for a liberal revolution in Germany, whereas the Bolsheviks anticipated a socialist revolution.
- They regard the 1917 Russian revolution as merely a capitalist revolution overthrowing feudalism.
- This was necessitated by the severe economic problems the country faced in the aftermath of the civil war and the defeat of socialist revolutions in Europe.
rebellion, revolt, insurrection, mutiny, uprising, riot, rioting, insurgence, seizure of power, coup (d'état)
1.1 (the Revolution) The American Revolution.
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- What he showed was that at the time of the Revolution, consumerism exploded in the U.S.
- I've read a fair amount of American military history, and my sense is that war reporting has been an integral part of every American war since the Revolution.
- If I made a mosaic of George Washington composed of images of the American dead from the Revolution, would viewers likely take that image as an indictment of Washington?
1.2 (often the Revolution) (In Marxism) the class struggle that is expected to lead to political change and the triumph of communism.
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- They, too, saw a need to keep the Kadets on the side of the Revolution.
- Louis was now a prisoner of the Revolution and an enemy of the Revolution.
- But the Revolution has not yet fulfilled its tasks.
1.3A dramatic and wide-reaching change in the way something works or is organized or in people's ideas about it: marketing underwent a revolution
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- The materials revolution led to a dramatic and sudden decrease in the cost of building bridges up to 1000m in span a decade ago, and as a consequence we have seen these new kinds of bridges cropping up everywhere.
- While there may be a few scattered news operations that the revolution has not yet touched, the profession has undergone a technological transformation.
- This is also a cultural question, and Nigeria needs as much a revolution in attitudes and thinking as it does in new legislation or new measures.
dramatic change, radical alteration, sea change, metamorphosis, transformation, innovation, reorganization, restructuring
informal shake-up, shakedown
2An instance of revolving: one revolution a second
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- The Blazer also has a maximum power of 138 horsepower at 5,600 revolutions per minute (rpm).
- When you have a hamster in your head than runs on its wheel at 300 revolutions a second, you certainly don't have to plan your stand-up act.
- The researchers initiated this process by feeding their rotors with ATP, and saw them revolve under the microscope at around five revolutions per second.
2.1The movement of an object in a circular or elliptical course around another or about an axis or center: observing the revolution about the axis of rotation
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- In this work Dionysodorus calculates the volume of a torus and shows that it is equal to the product of the area of the generating circle with the length of the circle traced by its centre rotating about the axis of revolution.
- There are three distinct types of spiric surfaces depending whether the axis of revolution cuts the circle, it a tangent to the circle, or is outside the circle.
- Earth has also tidally locked the Moon, leaving it with identical periods of rotation on its axis and revolution around Earth.
turning, rotation, circling;
2.2A single orbit of one object around another or about an axis or center.
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- Before I do this, I have to revisit science concepts and make sure I understand orbits, rotations, revolutions and seasons.
- For example, the Hilda asteroids circle the Sun three times for every two revolutions of Jupiter.
- Since the rotations and revolutions of the moon were different from Earth, an artificial sky, sun, and moon were set up to simulate Earth.
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- But it conveys on Godard's part an unearned sense of being let down by them; like his revolutionism, his disillusionment with revolution has something brattish about it.
- Yet by and large, today's Shiite clerics in Iraq view the revolutionism of their predecessors as outdated, and few yearn to implement those designs in Iraq.
- From the anarchism of his youth to the apocalyptic Catholicism of later years, McAuley always found it hard to resist the lure of revolutionism.
- Oraciones de ejemplo
- They were what used to be called insurrectionists, but they probably wouldn't have minded being called Marxist and/or anarchist rebels, revolutionists, liberationists… you get the sort of thing.
- The New City rooms have been essential live venues since their opening in 1997, drawing everyone from the legendary Bad Brains to Czech revolutionists Uz Jsme Doma, while serving as an incubator for some of Edmonton's finest acts.
- 'Remember, remember always,' he said, 'that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.'
Late Middle English: from Old French, or from late Latin revolutio(n-), from revolvere 'roll back' (see revolve).
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"Parents today need to get over expecting to be intrinsically happy or rewarded doing what people have dutifully done for millennia under sometimes astonishingly adverse conditions: create and raise the next generation...Furthermore, if you count on your kids to make you happy, you will muck up not only your own life but theirs, too."There is the issue of class. Is the whole act of contemplating (or complaining, as some see it) parenting an exercise for those who are privileged wonders writer Monica Potts. "On the scale of difficult child moments, I can think of many that rank higher, like being unable to get your hungry child food, for example; or watching your child die as the victim of violence," she writes. Where do you stand? Are parents today expecting too much from parenting or are they justified in feeling unhappy?
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(Port Angeles) Clallam County commissioners say they plan to take up a regional solid-waste plan again after the three cities in the county weigh in.
Commissioners were briefed again on the draft plan during a work session yesterday.
They say they still have concerns about how the plan, which recommends forming a taxing district, to pay for solid waste management.
Commissioner Mike Doherty says he doesn't think the plan does a strong enough play toward recycling.
Commissioners Mike Chapman and Jim McEntire echoed concerns about how the plan might effect overall garbage rates throughout the county. Solid waste in central and eastern Clallam County primarily goes to the city of Port Angeles' transfer station. Commissioners in the past have stated concerns about rising prices and a limit on choices for where garbage can be taken. McEntire says he thinks it's prudent to hear what the cities plan to do with the plan before the county takes it up again.
The draft solid-waste management plan heads to the Port Angeles city council for review next week.
Last week, the city adopted new rate increases at the transfer station to pay for a collapsing bluff at the old city landfill that threatens to spill garbage into the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
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