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" Brand: ELC / Type: Paint Brush "
This chubby paintbrush from ELC is an essential piece of equipment for any artwork.
The brush comes in a variety of colours but we have red as shown in the picture.
The children find this brush really easy to hold and control because of the chubby handle. It is a great size for their small hands.
It's 33cm long which I think is a good length as it means there hands are quite far away from the paper, they still manage to get messy though.
The bristles of the brush are packed in tightly and we have had none (or barely any) that have come out. Sometimes the children are very rough with the brushes but they are still in good condition.
They are easy to wash but some paint leaves the bristles a little discoloured. This is the paint though, not the brush. It is also harder to wash if the paint has dried, so however tempting it is to leave it until later, we try and wash straight away.
The children love the fact the brush is chubby as the bigger the brush, the more paint they can get on it, the bigger mess they can make. Whilst the adults love the size because the bigger the brush the quicker the paper is filled giving time for more children to do a painting. The brush is soft and glides across the paper with ease.
This brush is £1.20 on Early Learning Centre which I think is a great price, we have loads.
It is recommended for children over three but I have used it with any aged children. I have one myself which I use when thinking up craft ideas and I have used mine with a 1 year old (with a lot of supervision). I never leave a child alone when painting as I don't want to return to a big mess.
A item which is useful for anyone.
For my daughters second birthday last November her uncle bought her a load of crafty items from Early Learning Centre since he knows how much she loves anything arty. One of things he purchased was this chubby paint brush.
The paint brush is available to purchase from either Early Learning Centre or Mothercare in store or online or alternatively can be bought from Amazon. The brush costs just £1.50 and there are usually codes kicking around for 20% off too.
The brush to look at looks like any other paint brush pretty much, it has long bristles that are connected to the handle of the brush by a metal material. There are a few different coloured handles available to buy, we have it in blue.
The bristles of the brush are quite long and thick and there are a lot of them. As the whole brush in general is quite chubby, there are a large number of bristles so you don't have a fat handle with next to no bristles. As there are a lot of bristles, with cheaper paint brushes you know that these bristles will end up falling out but that isn't the case with this brush from ELC. The bristles are secured in place really well and I don't think I've encountered any falling out when my daughter is using it.
The chunky handle makes it easy for younger children to hold the brush without any problems. Although it's recommended age is three years plus, my daughter hasn't had any problems using it from her second birthday. The whole chubby appearance of the brush means that she can make her mark on paper with no problems as the large amount of bristles cover the paper well. This might be a little bit of a problem for older children that are painting something specific as the thickness means that the lines are thick too.
We've had the brush for almost a year now and it's still in a great condition. I wash this is warm water and leave it to dry on the washing up rack and it cleans it well. The paint doesn't totally come off the bristles so it doesn't look brand new for long, they normally stain from the paint but that doesn't affect the ability to reuse the brush over and over again.
I'd definitely recommend this paint brush from Early Learning Centre. The price is a little expensive compared to others but the quality is fantastic and it really is a long lasting paint brush.
Even from my son being a young age I was keen for him to get stuck in to art and crafts activities. I actually have a picture of him possibly around the age of two sat in a nappy and nothing else and covered in paint as I had just let him go wild and covered the floor with paper and allowed him freedom to paint. I think creativity is a great way for children to express themselves and to develop and so I always like to have a well stocked cupboard full of crafty items. One item that we have had for a few years now is the ELC chubby paint brush and this is my review of that.
The chubby paintbrush is available from the early learning centre for the price of £1.50 per brush. What you get is basically a paintbrush with thick and plentiful bristles which is sealed with a silver metal clasp around it which also attaches to a chunky wooden handle which makes it easy for a child to hold. The wooden handle does come in various colours and we bought ours in store and so we have a red, a blue and an orange coloured brush. The description of this brush makes it sound as though it could be for any brush but I have to say we have tried lots of different paint brushes over the years and the chubby paintbrush is the one which has been used the most.
What is great about this brush is the fact that the bristles are quite long and thick yet they really do stay in place in the brush and so you aren't being left with loose bristles on your pictures as you paint. Whilst you would think this would come as standard there are many children's paint brushes out there which fall apart after just a few uses and are then rendered useless but that is not the case with this one.
The thick wooden handle is a good size and I would say children aged three years plus would have no problems in using this one as their hand eye coordination and physical motor skills would be refined enough by then. For younger children I still think they can use this brush but obviously they aren't going to have the same kind of control as an older child would have.
I think these brushes are particularly useful for a child looking to either cover a large area or one who is not yet quite ready to do detailed intricate paintings because the brush head is pretty large and you are never going to be able to use these brushes for fine detail. My son does like to use these ones when he needs to cover quite a large area with paint though as it is obviously covered quicker with the thick brush head.
These brushes wash well using hot soapy water and whilst the bristles do stain a little from using some colours it doesn't make the brush any less useful. I tend to just wash them in the washing up bowl and then leave them to dry on the drainer and then pop them back in the art cupboard for the next time that we use them.
I would totally recommend these paintbrushes for children aged around two onwards as I think they are really made to last and they are perfectly functional as well. At just £1.50 you can buy a few for the different coloured paints should you wish to as they will last and won't break the bank.
Thank you for reading my review!
Twenty-one month old Freddy and I love our art time and have a vast collection of different materials and accessories. When we first started painting we used finger paints and sponges, but I recently decided it was time to add a little more variety and start using paintbrushes. Most paintbrushes aren't really suitable for young children, they're generally too thin or the heads are too small or they're simply too prone to shedding bristles and falling to bits. This is where the Early Learning Centre Chubby Paintbrush comes into it's own as although it's billed as being suitable for children over the age of three, in my experience it can be used by children far younger than that.
As you would imagine from it's name this brush is quite chunky, with a diameter of approximately 1.5cm at the bristle end tapering down to just over 1cm at the tip of the handle. The brush is also a good length, being 20cm from top to tail. While the handle is made of wood, the bristles are synthetic and the splash guard separating (and securing) the bristles from the handle is metal. What I especially like about this brush is that this metal section is far longer than with most brushes, meaning that paint has further to drip before it reaches Freddy's fingers. The bristles themselves are a good 4cm in length and when the brush is new they are tightly packed to form a rounded end. The brush is available in various colours including red and blue, but the one we are currently using is green, with a glossy, varnished surface that is completely free from splinters.
Although Freddy is pretty clued up with what paint is and uses crayons and chalks regularly, he was a little nonplussed when it came to this paintbrush. But after I showed him what to do he was starting to create masterpieces within moments. Although the brush is a really good diameter for him to grasp, it is a little long for him meaning that he holds it nearer the bristles than I would like and gets quite a lot of paint on his hands. The bristles pick up a good amount of paint (we use ELC Ready Mixed) and transfers it easily to the paper. Although the brush is not particularly good for fine detail, Freddy is able to create a number of different effects including dabbing and stippling as well as standard strokes. I would say that as far as Freddy goes, this brush has been a huge success, so much so that I've placed an order for three more.
As well as using this brush for paint we have also used it for gluing as it is much easier for a toddler than using a glue stick. Again it holds a decent amount of glue and easily spreads it over large areas for glittering or collages. An important aspect of a paintbrush is how easy to wash out and I can confirm that this comes up clean with just a little soapy water. But I will say that it does hold a lot of paint and a quick swirl in a water jar is not enough to wash all the colour out. Darker colours of paint will also stain the bristles but this doesn't interfere with performance. Another important consideration is whether the bristles fall out and ruin the masterpiece and again this brush performs very well, only shedding a couple of bristles on the first use. What does tend to happen though is after continuous use the bristles will splay out, especially if the child is a little heavy handed.
Believe it or not the design of this brush hasn't changed in the twenty years since I bought some for my eldest child. Those brushes were used for over five years and although the varnish did start to flake towards the end they barely lost any bristles and were perfectly usable. These brushes were particularly appreciated by one of my older children who is tactile defensive and couldn't cope with getting paint on his hands. The length of the brush meant he could hold it by the very end and not worry about the paint dripping onto him. While my older children were using these brushes up to the age of eight or so, they were only using them when they wanted to cover large areas in the same colour or glue junk models after the age of five or so.
I'm sure I don't need to tell what an important part of a child's development painting is, from helping them improve their hand-eye coordination, to colour recognition to expressing themselves and this brush is the best I've found for young children and toddlers. It's extremely well made, durable and designed for little hands. It's also reasonably priced at £1.50 and even better it is often on special offer at 20% or even 50% off. So after a little chat (and painting session) Freddy and I before agree the Early Learning Centre Chubby Brushes deserve a hearty five out of five and a place in any buddy artist's art box.
*Since writing this review I've discovered the Chubby Paint Brush comes in two lengths, the one I've reviewed and another twice as long that is much harder for Freddy to use accurately and more suited to painting at an easel.


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text: With North Carolina acts Phonte, 9th Wonder and J. Cole all dropping albums on Sept. 27, it may be a blessing that the release date for Live From the Underground—the sophomore album from Southern rap redeemer Big K.R.I.T.—was recently pushed back to the beginning of next year. Let those other guys slug it out; in the meantime, K.R.I.T. can campaign for some more 808-crazed followers. Initially, this bill included Curren$y, but his decision to jump off a stage to greet fans at last month's Rock the Bells Festival in LA left him with a broken ankle. —Eric Tullis


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Business As Usual
By Congressman Randy Forbes
June 27, 2013
The first family recently departed on their travels to Senegal, South Africa, and Tanzania as a part of a week-long visit across the continent of Africa. The agenda lists efforts to boost economic partnerships and promote democratic development in African nations, all at a cool cost of $100 million to American taxpayers.
An elaborate security infrastructure for the first family is a major contributor in the cost of the trip, which will involve airlifting bullet-proof support vehicles, sending hundreds of U.S. Secret Service agents to each country, and stationing a Navy aircraft carrier or amphibious ship offshore to be made available in case of an emergency.
But while the President flies across the world with his family, civil servants continue to receive furlough letters in the mail. Families sit around the kitchen table over spreadsheets and calculators, working and reworking their budgets, trying to decide whether they can afford, not vacations, but life's everyday essentials.
I have long supported the use of Presidential visits overseas for diplomatic purposes. We can reap valuable benefits from goodwill and engagement overseas. However, the cost of diplomatic travel needs to be carefully weighed in the context of our current climate. Considerations must be made to formulate the most cost-effective plan as possible – for instance, streamlining multi-country visits or traveling with fewer family members, to name a few.
Our nation faces austere times. Thousands of civil servants have had their regular salaries reduced. No sequestration solution is in sight. Our federal spending is a mess. Quite simply, using millions of taxpayer dollars to fund such an elaborate trip is not only symbolically reckless, but shows a lack of focus on cutting spending and solving sequestration.
Furthermore, the estimated $60 to $100 million in tax dollars that will be used to fund the President's trip to Africa with his family, emblematically sends the wrong message to those civil servants who have been forced to cut their family budgets to make ends meet during this time.
This week, I introduced a resolution expressing those concerns. Specifically, H.Res.275 brings to attention that the $100 million used to fund the President's trip is a misguided use of taxpayer dollars at a time when thousands of families face furloughs and with no sequestration solutions in sight. It is important for Americans to see that our government leaders are tuned in to the ramifications of sequestration, the current state of our federal budget, and our national debt. They need to know leaders are laser-focused on bringing resolution to these issues, rather than continuing to operate under business as usual.
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" Brand: Asda / Type: Deodorant Spray / Suitable for: Body "
I moreso bought this for to review but then again it may have been a great bargain find for myself. I think we can all be concious of trying to save money and I know that I have downgraded my brands over the years. Sometimes it hasn't worked well, but other things I am happy to buy a cheaper brand.
This is found where the other Deodrants are. This is on the bottom shelf of my local Asda and it is as if they are trying to hide it away kind of. It does stand out with the look of it though as it is just a plain white and green colouring so not a pretty pastel looking tin compared to the other brands. This cost me 89p for the 250ml tin and I bought this a few weeks ago.
When I opened the tin I couldn't smell anything at all. I gave the tin a good shake and squirted this out. It seemed to be pretty powdery when it came out and seemed to be not quite as fine a spray as the other brands I had used.
The scent of this is alright. It does smell clean and Fresh and if I were to sum this up then I would say it is a pretty Soapy scent with Florals mixed through. I can't say it is an overly nice scent and it does smell kinda cheap but then again it is a cheap product after all.
Did this keep me fresh and dry? Yes in a way but I noticed after a few hours that I did feel a bit damp under the arms so it definitely doesn't have the staying power of the more expensive brands.
Yes the tin looks cheap and it is a cheap priced product. It performed alright if you find that you don't sweat overly much but the scent just isn't for me. I have only used this a few times and may keep this in the cupboard of an emergency but I will not buy this again myself.
This review is for the roll-on version of the smartprice antiperspirant from Asda. 50mls is priced at 30p. The question for many is, is it any good?!
Well, I can give this product a resounding thumbs-up. I do need to add the following criteria though:
I am female - the fragrance of this is unisex (see below)
I have an average amount of sweat - it works
I prefer my antiperspirant to smell non-floral.
Okay so, the bottle is tacky, it looks awful on the bathroom shelf, so it's not really something to leave out (not to mention it yells 'cheapskate!'). I picked the label off!
It has an easy rollerball action which glides (I have used rollerballs that clog up overnight or never really work in the first place). The liquid dries quickly, has left very little residue of any note on clothing, and has a really pleasant smell which is very much like clean washing. I am quite taken with the smell, which I expected to be similar to cheap air fresheners; thank god it isn't or I would have binned it to be honest. It certainly isn't overpowering and would be mistaken for clean clothes (excellent).
I usually also use a spray antiperspirant, roll-ons aren't my first choice. Going back to using one I've been reminded that they really aren't any different to sprays, but without clogging the bathroom with choking fumes!
It really does work for me, although I am not in a job where I get mega-sweaty or someone who perspires a huge amount. I have to say it works as well as any other more expensive brand, and beats quite a few of them on fragrance.
Even if you aren't looking to save the pennies I would say try this one out. It might surprise you as much as it has done with me.
I also think that that it's one of those items to take on holiday, you can both use it, it's good to put in your luggage, and best of all you can leave there when you pack to come home, because at that price you can't go wrong.
I usually only buy a branded deodorant but I am trying to buy and try lots of lower branded products to save some money and budget a little better than I have in previous years and this one is a deodorant I had not tried before and so I bought it to see if I liked it or not.
It comes in a large can and it is very basic looking and it the usual colours of Asda Smart Price range of cheaper product of green and white. It has a pull off top and a nozzle of a good size. It is a nice thin can and very easy to hold to spray when being used.
The deodorant for me does not have enough fragrance and although it does smell quite pleasant it is not one that I like very much when it is on my body. It smells quite fresh with a scent which is not feminine and I would say it is for both men and women, it does not last that long on my body. It is a sweet kind of smell and it does spray from the can very well onto my skin. I have been using it for around a week and I have found in that time it does not last that long but I am using the full can so not to waste money.
It does not dry quick enough for my liking as I like my deodorants to dry quicker because I am always in a rush at times and so really prefer one that dries in a much quicker time than this one has on my skin. Once dried it is fine and I have not had any rashes or irritated skin with this one. I have found it does not keep me as dry as I like a deodorant to work on my body and I have found I have had to keep topping it up a lot more often than my usual ones. I do not like to keep re applying it and I would rather pay the extra so that I do not have to keep doing it.
I bought it recently for only 24p for 100ml, which is very cheap for a deodorant but I do not think the quality is that good as I have found I am going through the can far much quicker than I would another brand and so it is not worth the money because some others are priced cheaply sometimes at around a £1 sometimes and they last far longer than this one.
I did find that this one did not leave marks on my clothing and so I am happy about that or I would not be still using it but I think the quality is not so good either with this deodorant because it does not have a lasting effect on my skin.
I think if you are on a really low budget then it would probably be suitable until your income has improved but otherwise I would not recommend it and I would certainly not buy it again as it is not one that I found suitable for my liking.
I rate it only 3 stars.
At the minute I am trying to save all the pennies, and am trying out all sorts of brands for all sorts of products. I've recently tried the Asda smart price deodorant, which costs an amazing 41p for 200ml, compared to say £2.41 for 250ml of Sure deodorant.
I would say that for the price this deodorant really does well. The smell is just a general clean, almost soapy smell, nothing fancy or floral here, but we're expecting something fairly basic, right? I found it to be effective, in terms of anti-perspirant and anti-odour action, even on days when I was cycling to work (OK, so I reapplied when I was getting changed, but then I do that with any deodorant I use).
One downside to this is that it can almost be powdery on application. I found that sometimes when I sprayed it onto my underarms, it seemed to turn into a white powdery substance, some of which then fell to the floor. This didn't seem to alter its effectiveness, but just wasn't very pleasant. I did find that giving the bottle a really good shake before use reduced this problem.
I'm going to give this 4 stars out of 5. I think for being effective at that price it deserves 5, but the strange powdery problem was a little off-putting, and knocks off a star. I tend to usually buy one step up from this now, Asda's own brand, which is still only £1 for 250ml and currently on at 4 for £3, but has a more flowery scent and no odd powder, but would still buy the smartprice if I was looking to cut back.
I've recently been trying to save as much money as humanly possible in these recent (And very tough!) times.
I was in Asda holiday shopping for toiletries as I visited Turkey around a month ago and decided to give this deodorant a go, as I'd never tried it and I was trying to cut costs.
I first applied it at my friends house before we left for the airport (as obviously aerosols etc aren't allowed on airplanes anymore!), and I didn't re-apply until we got to Turkey, and I must say, I barely broke a sweat!
I mean okay, traveling, and then arriving in a hot country, does go a little bit beyond this particular deodorant's means, but it did a damn good job in my opinion, I've yet to find a deodorant that can keep me smelling fresh as a daisy for two hours on a coach and four hours on a plane, this did a good job though.
When I was in Turkey (average of around 28 degrees celsius every day!) it kept me very fresh, applied as soon as I was dry out of the shower each evening, and it kept me dry all night!
Quick re-application in the morning before the sunbathing and I was fine, despite it being a hot country and obviously warmer than I'm used to.
Can't fault this deodorant really and I have no excuse to ever buy an expensive brand of it ever again!
I have been trying to economise wherever possible recently and when I spotted this in the deodorant aisle at my local Asda store I decided that as it was so cheap I just had to give it a try and see if it was any good!
The bottle is a standard aerosol and is very simple in appearance with the standard green & white packaging which is instantly recognisable as belonging to the Asda Smartprice range. It has a white plastic lid and a press down aerosol to dispense the deodorant. I would strongly advise giving this a good shake before use to ensure that everything is mixed correctly inside the can and that you don't get sprayed with a coating of white deodorant flakes as can sometimes happen. The can contains 200ml of deodorant which would last me a good few weeks of twice daily use.
Because of the cheap price of this product I was not expecting it to have any great results at all and I was pleasantly surprised. When spraying the deodorant it gave a good burst of air and did not leave any white marks on my clothing (after I waited a moment or two) it does not smell quite as fresh as some other products available on the market and I did think that the scent would be more suited to the more mature woman as it was quite floral and a little musky. It was a pleasant smell though and not too chemical like.
I applied this in the morning before heading up to the town on the bus to carry out some shopping. When I returned home I still smelt nice and did not have any excess moisture under my arms or anything like that. I was surprised at how well this deodorant had performed both in the moisture and the scent stakes!
It is currently 41p for a 200ml can from Asda stores or asda.co.uk and I would not hesitate to purchase this again. It is a fantastic price for a product that worked really quite well for me. I would be willing to pay more for it if the scent was fresher but if you are looking for ways to save costs without noticing much of a difference then this is definitely a product for you.
I am rating this deodorant 4/5 and have been very satisfied with the results, my only complaint would be that the smell is not very fresh and a little too mature for my tastes. Nobody complimented (or complained) about any scent while I was wearing it so that was good enough for me.


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T. R. Revisits Albany
One of the most charismatic American figures returns tomorrow as the subject of ''Theodore Roosevelt: Icon of the American Century,'' at the New York State Museum in Albany. Here once again is Roosevelt: on canvas as a Rough Rider in the Spanish-American War; in bronze as the model for Gutzon Borglum's Mount Rushmore portrait; on safari in Africa from 1909 to 1910; and campaigning in 1912. Through July 9, paintings and memorabilia from the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery will be on view.
Mortals vs. Gods
When the bass James Morris as the god Wotan stormed offstage at the end of Act II of ''Die Walkure'' at the Metropolitan Opera on Tuesday, most in the audience recognized unscripted volatility. Act II is supposed to conclude with an angry Wotan's warning his daughter, Brunnhilde, that she will pay for interfering in a fight between his son, Siegmund, now dead, and the hulking mortal Hunding, also a corpse. But before Mr. Morris could cry vengeance, down came the curtain. Then, with James Levine and the orchestra playing away, it popped up again, revealing Mr. Morris en route to a furious exit. ''There was a miscue,'' said Peter E. Clark, a spokesman for the Met. ''It was human error.'' He declined to identify the culprit and said there would be no repercussions. For the moment, peace reigns in Valhalla.
Role Models
On the one hand, it's jazz; on the other, it's classical music. Either way, the focus of tributes at 7 tonight and at 4 on Sunday afternoon is on eminent musicians. Tonight the Henry Street Settlement Music School's annual tribute to Dizzy Gillespie will bring young jazz greats and the Settlement's Symphony Orchestra to the Harry De Jur Playhouse, at 466 Grand Street on the Lower East Side. On Sunday, in the Paul Recital Hall of the Juilliard School, former students and associates of the violinist and Juilliard teacher Joseph Fuchs, who died in 1997, will participate in a concert celebrating the centennial of his birth.
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BRUNSWICK — Valerie Hepburn had a lot to smile about Friday. The president of the College of Coastal Georgia beamed with pride while discussing the past year's accomplishments and the plans of the newly minted four-year institution.
Friday was the "First Anniversary Vision Check" of the 10-year strategic master plan for the college, which has adopted the motto, "Dreams in Action."
Hepburn went over student enrollment, upcoming course offerings and construction of a new student center, residential facility and Health and Science Building during a lunch meeting with members of the college's Campus Master Plan Steering Committee.
"For us, this master plan has been a to-do list. We've been about 95 percent on it, and when we've veered from course it was for a good reason," Hepburn said.
Saturday marked two more milestones for the college.
The final class composed solely of two-year associate degree students graduated from the college, which became a four-year institution last fall.
Next year's graduates will be either two-year or four-year degree students.
Chancellor Earl B. Davis Jr. of the University System of Georgia was the keynote speaker at the 10 a.m. graduation ceremony. Admission is by ticket only.
Then at noon, Hepburn, university system officials and other dignitaries broke ground for the college's first student dormitory and a new student center.
The 352-bed residential building will cost about $14 million and is expected to be open in August 2011.
The estimated $12 million student center will include food service and a dining room, a bookstore with a cafe, a theater and area for students to simply hang out. It is scheduled to be done in July 2011.
Hepburn said ongoing construction of the estimated $15.8 million Health and Science Building is proceeding under budget and ahead of schedule. It should be ready in January, she said.
Student enrollment is increasing.
The spring enrollment was 3,182, an increase from 3,080 in the fall of 2009, Hepburn said.
"I think we will be about 3,400 in the fall," she said. "As for the summer, I think we'll have about 2,000, which is about 700 more than we had last year."
Hepburn said new course offerings in the fall should attract students. The college is adding bachelor's degrees in health information systems, biological sciences, coastal ecology, secondary education and hospitality management.
"Our target is to diversify our student body to get more people from outside the region," she said.
The prospect of new buildings and new courses appealed to Peggy Kelcher of Brunswick, who visited the campus to look around and pick up a course catalog.
Kelcher, 26, said she has a GED diploma, but wants a college degree so she can get a good job.
"I've been thinking about nursing or medical technology … I'd like to stay close to home while I go to school because it's cheaper," she said.
Hepburn said the college is preparing for future expansion.
As a result of efforts by the College of Coastal Georgia Foundation, Hepburn said the college now has "the right of first refusal" should the Brunswick Exchange Club put its property up for sale. The club owns about 32 acres adjacent to the college campus.
"We don't see being able to buy it anytime soon, but we would be in a position to get it," Hepburn said.
"We want to be a college town, not a town with a college," said committee Chairman Duane Harris, who wondered whether the committee should be planning for an enrollment of 10,000 instead of the current projection of 6,000 students by 2020.
"I think we will hit our 4,000 target by 2015," because enrollment is driven by the number of four-year degree programs offered and availability of housing, Hepburn said.
Harris lauded the college's progress and plans for the future.
"On behalf of the community, I think I can say, this is what we want. This what we asked for," Harris said. "I think we have exceeded all our expectations."
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Jake Morgan, who is currently Head of Children's Services at Carmarthenshire County Council, is said to have a track record of 'successfully managing services across both education and children's social care'.
Originally from Gloucestershire, Mr Morgan started his local government career as a social worker with the London Borough of Havering.
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He is a qualified social worker and has an MA in Public Administration from Warwick University.
Mr Morgan currently lives in Carmarthen and is married to Cressy. They have two children aged nine and seven.
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I can't believe they got my letters. For years now, I've been writing to Columbia Tri-Star requesting they find a project that finally combines the comedic talents of the definitely-not-past his prime Eddie Murphy, and Owen Wilson. At last, my prayers have been answered, as I get the chance to review "I-Spy." I'm sorry I had to start off this review with that overly sarcastic statement, but aside from "The Nutty Professor", Eddie Murphy hasn't been in a funny movie in years. Unfortunately for us, "I-Spy" doesn't help to break his streak.
Meet Kelly Robinson (Eddie Murphy). He is the Heavyweight boxing champion of the world. He's cocky and always refers to himself in the third person. Now meet Alexander Scott (Owen Wilson). He's not exactly by-the-book, but he definitely plays the straight man to Robinson's brash character. They are paired up to stop the "evil bad guy who wants to rule the world du jour" Gundars (Malcolm McDowell). Simple enough, right?
The plot of the movie is completely inconsequential, as you know how it will end before you're even three minutes into it. Murphy and Wilson do show signs of chemistry at times, unfortunately, "I-Spy" as brings out that dreaded movie cliché involving the "white guy who gets lessons in hip by his black partner", as Wilson tries to woo Famke Janssen's character. Wilson is likeable, and to a certain extent, so is Eddie Murphy. The only problem is that they're not particularly funny… just likeable.
Columbia Tri-Star presents "I-Spy" in Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 and Full Frame 1.33:1. Through the menu, you can toggle which format you prefer. The transfer is very good, with flesh tones looking true to life. The special effects look pretty good as well. There's very little grain, and virtually no artifacting.
The audio is presented here in Dolby 5.1 Surround and French 2.0. Everything sounds very good, as the movie certainly takes advantage of the 5.1 setup at times (the boxing scenes sound particularly good, as well as gunshots). There are no audio dropouts present, and the dialogue is clean.
Interactive DVD menu with scenes from the movie offers the choices of "Play Movie", "Audio Set Up", "Subtitles", "Scene Selections", "Special Features", and "Trailers."
The first extra is a commentary from director Betty Thomas, editor Peter Teschner, producer Jeno Topping, and writers David Ronn and Jay Scherick. They have a good time commenting on screen specific happenings, offering fun bits of technical information as well as funny set stories (they don't taking themselves too seriously, which is a good thing).
Also thrown in are several featurettes (four in total, each with a running time of less than five minutes). There's a few trailers also included, one for "Adaptation", "Blue Streak", "Formula 51", "National Security", and "Punch Drunk Love."
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Okay, this is a tough one. The movie is not that bad, but on the flip side, it's not good. The audio and video presentations are very good, but aside from the commentary and fluff featurettes, there isn't much meat to this release. Therefore, I'll suggest a rental and let you decide for yourself.


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The Senate is about to extend unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed. Without passing along any opinions your correspondent may have on that matter, let us agree that such action pretty well renders moot many of the comments filed after last week's post about the chances of Arizona's 300,000 unemployed people filling 50,000 seasonal jobs in agriculture.
It's my mistake that so many readers seemed to think I was berating welfare and unemployment payments. And unfortunate that so many anonymice forgot their manners. Again.
For purposes of the subject at hand, berating the jobless is off-topic.
We need to talk about a serious guest worker program, one that involves minimal red tape. There are several points we should consider.
Point one is that we're—not even you young folks—ever going to live long enough to see the end of welfare in the U.S. Even if we had the political will to end such programs, employers would have to fret about the work ethic of people who would choose to accept such payments rather than work. If you don't believe me, try hiring one of those "will work for food" dudes from the street corners.
A weak work ethic is not something you'll find to be common in the folks who are now crossing the border. So, point two is that guest workers would be better help
Immigrants would work harder and break less stuff than displaced welfare recipients or unemployed journalists. Trust me.
Point three is, as I mentioned a few days back, these people are already here. They don't have work at home. There is plenty of work in the U.S., despite the advertised unemployment rate. There will be no law and no fence strong enough to keep the two separated, even if such were the wisest course of action.
Point four: A guest worker program would create jobs for Americans.
I'm remembering Hereford, Texas, back during the bracero program. There were vegetables grown all about. There were packing houses and vegetable brokers.
There was a whole section of town devoted to servicing the needs of the workers. From ropa usada to groceries, there was a whole economy built around them, an industry that provided jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities for local, legal, residents.
That's all gone now. The region around Hereford has long since gone back to commodity crop production. Yes, Mr. Anonymous from last week, subsidized commodity production. Involving chemicals! There are plenty of illegals available to hire around here, mind you. But nobody is going to try to build a business around them. Too iffy.
Politically, we should recognize that we're GOING to eat hand-picked, hand-tended, fruits and vegetables in the U.S. The choice is whether they will be hand picked and tended in Chile or Mexico or in the U.S. Will they be subject to U.S. quality controls or not? Will the return to capital and risk accrue to producers and retailers in the U.S. or elsewhere?
The unions—including the near-sainted farm workers union—drove all that out of the country. So who, in the U.S., at least, is the better off for that?
The Obama Administration claims to be all about "jobs, jobs, jobs." Unless they are prepared to force the unemployed to take those hot, hot, hot jobs in Arizona, they should endorse a serious guest worker program.
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1:27 most of them have none of the above.....so no citizenship for them.
I should also mention that any talk of a path to legelization should start with no criminal record (them or any kids that they want to live with them), a sponser, no history of recieving government assistance nor the right to get it for a decade or so. Also they would have to show proof of medical insurence and car insurence.


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It was a good week for Pasadena (Calif.) wide out Armon Binns. The receiver had a great game in the teams season opener last weekend and then picked up his first scholarship offer a few days later.
Binns, 6-2, 185 pounds has excellent size and hands and has worked hard on improving his speed over the last year. He ran a very respectable 4.72-40 at the NIKE Camp at USC but plays faster than that.
Pasadena kicked off their season last Friday and Binns had his coming out party. The athlete caught seven passes for 176 yards and three touchdowns including the game winner with 36 seconds left in the game as the Bulldogs defeated Harvard-Westlake 34-33.
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His recruitment has definitely picked up since the Spring and his first offer came his way Tuesday night.
"Pat Hill at Fresno State called last night and offered a scholarship," Mark Binns, Armon's father said. "Nevada has also called this month and Oregon, Arizona and Washington are sending mail on a daily basis.
"Michigan, Utah, San Diego State and Colorado State have all requested transcripts as well so things are going good right now. Right now, Armon is planning to take all his trips and although we haven't set anything up yet, it looks good that we'll be visiting Fresno State, Oregon, Washington and Arizona."
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1. Re: problem with special charactersStanislavL Jan 25, 2012 8:53 AM (in response to 889677)I assume you use BufferedReader. Create the InputStreamReader using the constructor
public InputStreamReader(InputStream in, String charsetName)
passing FileInputStream of your file and desired charset.
2. Re: problem with special characters889677 Jan 25, 2012 6:18 PM (in response to StanislavL)Hello,
Thanks very much. Good guess - I work indeed with the bufferedReader - and good suggestion. I am afraid I forgot a bit about the
handling of the stream readers. I tried to give the result of the InputStreamReader to the RufferedReader afterwards but this doesn't work. So using
the StringBuilder together with the InputStreamReader - exactly - as follows it works :
As you see I used "windows-1252". If I use utf-8 it does not work. Any idea how this is possible?? I found "windows-1252" on some webpage with a similar problem.
public void loadUTF8FromFile (String filename) { String fileZeile = ""; Charset myCharset = Charset.defaultCharset(); List<String> fileArrayList = null; System.out.println(myCharset + " " + myCharset.displayName() ); try { InputStream is = new FileInputStream(filename); fileZeile = this.convertStreamToString(is); String [] sa = fileZeile.split("\n"); fileArrayList = Arrays.asList(sa);; } catch (IOException ex) { Logger.getLogger(StringList.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex); } } public String convertStreamToString(InputStream is) throws IOException { java.io.InputStream s = null; java.io.InputStreamReader r = null; StringBuilder content = new StringBuilder(); try { s = is; r = new java.io.InputStreamReader(s, "windows-1252"); char[] buffer = new char[4*1024]; int n = 0; while (n >= 0) { n = r.read(buffer, 0, buffer.length); if (n > 0) { content.append(buffer, 0, n); } } } finally { if (r != null) r.close(); if (s != null) s.close(); } return content.toString(); }
I verified that I saved the file with utf-8 under Notepad++.
For the Charset myCharset = Charset.defaultCharset(); I get UTF-8 printed. I should perhaps mention that I use a french version of windows.
A use MySQL as a bundle with Apache etc. (EasyPHP) with utf-8 as default in the ini file. Also netbeans 6.9 is set to utf-8.
Any idea where there might be the problem ?
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3. Re: problem with special charactersdarrylburke Jan 26, 2012 2:11 AM (in response to 889677)Nothing to do with Swing. Moving to i18n.
4. Re: problem with special charactersStanislavL Jan 26, 2012 5:58 AM (in response to 889677)I can't say what exactly wrong with encoding. May be something out of java scope. At least you have working solution with the "win-1252". Try to check bytes of the saved file and compare with UTF-8 and win-1252 chars.
Or use the current solution.
5. Re: problem with special characters889677 Jan 27, 2012 8:03 PM (in response to darrylburke)Sorry,
I didn't see that I was under "Swing".....
6. Re: problem with special characters889677 Jan 28, 2012 11:15 AM (in response to StanislavL)Hello,
I have a very strange problem. After some changes concerning utf-8 as characterset I got trouble with my german table. As you can see I am working with address data. To treat any number of country files I created a method which verifies all countries in my list if there are data available for a country wit all its cities regions etc.
The following lines are the output from my program under netbeans. Each table is first dropped, then created from the name in the list and then a table with data for the cities is created. Because the german data gave an error I took the same data as in the french file, copied them in the german file and exchanged only the name of the table to fill. I printed the sql commands used for the batch command first (as below) then I executed the statement.batchexecute.
I got the following result:
Table Deutschland created !
INSERT INTO deutschland VALUES(4, '01300', 'Ambléon', '01', 'Ain', 22, 'Rhône Alpes', 45.7495384, 5.6013808, ' ');
INSERT INTO deutschland VALUES(3, '01330', 'Ambérieux-en-Dombes', '01', 'Ain', 22, 'Rhône Alpes', 45.9974632, 4.9032125, ' ');
' INSERT INTO deutschland VALUES(2, '01500', 'Ambérieu-en-Bugey', '01', 'Ain', 22, 'Rhône Alpes', 45.9577827, 5.3588285, ' ');
SQLException: null
id=-1 country=Frankreich tabellenname=Frankreich
SQLException: Erreur de syntaxe près de '?INSERT INTO deutschland VALUES(2, '01500', 'Ambérieu-en-Bugey', '01', 'Ain', 2' à la ligne 1
SQLState: 42000
Message: Erreur de syntaxe près de '?INSERT INTO deutschland VALUES(2, '01500', 'Ambérieu-en-Bugey', '01', 'Ain', 2' à la ligne 1
Vendor error code: 1064
Table Frankreich created !
INSERT INTO frankreich VALUES(3, '01330', 'Ambérieux-en-Dombes', '01', 'Ain', 22, 'Rhône Alpes', 45.9974632, 4.9032125, ' ');
INSERT INTO frankreich VALUES(4, '01300', 'Ambléon', '01', 'Ain', 22, 'Rhône Alpes', 45.7495384, 5.6013808, ' ');
INSERT INTO frankreich VALUES(2, '01500', 'Ambérieu-en-Bugey', '01', 'Ain', 22, 'Rhône Alpes', 45.9577827, 5.3588285, ' ');
id=3 plz=01330 City=Ambérieux-en-Dombes
id=4 plz=01300 City=Ambléon
id=2 plz=01500 City=Ambérieu-en-Bugey
So there is an error for the german table although I use the same data. After some trials I found out that there is allways a little point before one of the lines. All data until this line has been inserted but at the line with the point it crashes. As I ddin't know what to do and tried several hours, I finale replaced programmatically this character by a space and it worked. But this is very strange. There is no character like this in the file when it is read. I didn't found it after the reading of the file in the arraylist of strings, only after printing. In the text above I put a normal character ' instead of the real one to show how it looks like.
I copied the real character from the netbeans output, it is a little point in the upper part of the line, much smaller than any similar character (`, `, *, ') I know. I copied it in notepad++ and when I changed the encoding in notepad to ANSI I got a question mark "?". I don't l like very much my work around. Do you have an idea how this character have been created ? If you look at the syntax error message, there is also a question mark shown, the syntax error once more, in english:
syntax Error near : '?INSERT INTO...
First I didn't know why there was this question mark and ignored it, but now as I found out that in the output the little character (upper point in the output from netbeans (also utf-8 format) ) looks like this "?" when encoded in ANSI - this is finally really the problem and I wonder where this might come from because I didn't put any character in the text before the sql commands !
I opened the file with a hex editor and I found out that in several files this character is in the beginning. So simply by deleting it I solved the problem: It was not visible looking at the array list entries because it is not visible if it is not UTF-8 - that is why I couldn't represent it on this web site. So my question: where might it come from because I didn't put it?
PS: I don't know what has changed but utf-8 is working now, the windows-1252 encoding does not work any more.
The strange character seems to occur each time before the last line.
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Surprising inventiveness in the molecular interactions in fish hemoglobins that express the Root effect (decreased oxygen-carrying capacity at low pH) and in metabolic adaptations in swim bladder gas gland cells and retinal tissues causes local acidification of blood and generates hyperbaric oxygen tensions that drive oxygen into the swim bladder (regulating buoyancy) and ensures the oxygen supply to the avascularized retinae.
Aerobic metabolism requires a supply of oxygen to the tissues and adequate elimination of acid end products like carbon dioxide to prevent undue acidification of tissues. Accordingly, metabolic and ventilatory activities are tightly coupled in most animals. In addition, the low solubility of oxygen in body fluids is compensated by the presence of respiratory pigments like hemoglobin or hemocyanin, which increase the oxygen-carrying capacity of blood or hemolymph by one to two orders of magnitude. The optimal use of these respiratory pigments often requires loading and unloading of the oxygen in a very narrow range of oxygen partial pressures. Furthermore, variations in lifestyle, environmental conditions, and internal organization require accurate fine-tuning of the oxygen-binding characteristics of the respiratory pigments.
Intensive studies on the structure and functions of the best-known respiratory pigment, hemoglobin, have revealed a striking flexibility in its intrinsic oxygen-binding characteristics even among closely related species, caused by replacements in various amino acid residues of the protein moiety of these pigments (4). In addition, the hemoglobins may show large variability in their sensitivity to effectors like protons, organic phosphates, or bicarbonate, which commonly bind to the deoxygenated state of the pigment and reduce its oxygen affinity.
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Although the exact molecular mechanism basic to the Root effect is still debated, it is widely accepted among fish physiologists that the Root effect is required to generate hyperoxic oxygen partial pressures in the swim bladder and eyes of fish. These high oxygen partial pressures are necessary to fill the swim bladder, especially of physoclist fish (whose swim bladders are not connected to the esophagus after the embryonic stage), with gas and to ensure a sufficient oxygen supply to the retina.
Presence and nature of the Root effect
The presence of a Root effect in blood can be investigated gasometrically and spectrophotometrically by measuring the oxygen content or the oxygen saturation, respectively, of blood or hemoglobin solutions at various pH values. These different approaches may imply variations in the oxygen partial pressure used as a reference for 100% oxygenation, which have contributed to controversies about the distribution of the Root effect. Nevertheless, it is generally accepted that the Root effect is a peculiarity of teleost fish hemoglobins, although a few studies have reported it in elasmobranchs and even in amphibians (13). The possible physiological function of the Root effect in nonteleosts remains obscure and is not dealt with in this review, which focuses on teleost fishes.
Fish hemoglobins can be separated into electrophoretically anodic and cathodic components, and the relative distribution of these hemoglobin components varies from species to species (17). Although the Root effect is clearly established in the anodic components, it is absent in cathodic hemoglobins (13). Accordingly, the magnitude of the Root effect varies from species to species. In eel or trout, for example, in which ~50% and ~60%, respectively, of the hemoglobin cannot be oxygenated at low pH, these values match with the fraction of anodic hemoglobins.
The molecular basis of the Bohr effect is a binding of protons to specific amino acid residues of the globin chains that results in extreme stabilization of the low-affinity, deoxygenated conformation (T-state) of the hemoglobin. Consequently, higher oxygen tensions are required to oxygenate the hemoglobin, i.e., its oxygen affinity is decreased. On the basis of the concept that the Root effect is distinct from the Bohr effect, it was proposed that specific amino acid replacements (14) in Root hemoglobins are implicated in blocking full oxygenation at low pH even under high oxygen partial pressures.
Root hemoglobins appear to exhibit marked chain heterogeneity and characteristically show negative cooperativity (the Hill coefficient is below unity at low pH). Recent molecular studies suggest that protonation of specific positively charged residues within the central cleft between the two β-chains causes a destabilization of the oxygen conformation (R-state) at low pH (6). Additional amino acid replacements (Table 1⇓) appear to make the α1β2 switch interface, which is loosened during oxygenation, particularly stable at low pH, so that Root hemoglobins can bind oxygen at the high-affinity α-chains while remaining in the T-state conformation. This ability to accommodate conformational changes in liganded subunits while remaining in the T-state is not observed in hemoglobins showing a normal Bohr effect but no Root effect (3). The molecular mechanisms hitherto proposed based on single amino acid exchanges have not been supported by experimental data, and Mazzarella et al. (5) therefore proposed that more than one amino acid constellation might cause the presence of the Root effect. This might imply that the Root effect was invented more than once during evolution.
Blood is acidified by secretion of protons into the blood or through increases in carbon dioxide partial pressure. Reoxygenation of hemoglobin is achieved by alkalinization of the blood. The kinetics of the Root-on and Root-off reactions are rather complex because they not only include the chemical reaction and the diffusion of oxygen but also the transfer of acid into the blood and erythrocytes and binding of protons to the hemoglobin (12). Carbonic anhydrase is found in the red blood cells and is involved in both processes. The pH dependence of their hydration and dehydration reactions significantly contributes to differences in the kinetics of the Root-on and Root-off reactions. Nevertheless, both reactions are completed within <1s, and these differences in the kinetics do not appear to be of physiological significance.
Physiological importance of the Root effect
Given that the Root effect is switched on by acidification, we have to address the question of when and where acidification occurs. Acidification of blood is observed in specific stress situations, such as strenuous exercise, during which the anaerobic production of lactic acid in muscle tissue results in a severe drop in the pH of venous and even arterial blood. Acidification of arterial blood, however, reduces the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood in the gills, where it cannot be fully oxygenated. This would be deleterious in situations in which as much oxygen as possible is required for muscular contraction. Intriguing ion transport mechanisms in the membranes of the erythrocytes ensure that this lactic acidosis is not transferred to the cytoplasm (11).
A sodium/hydrogen exchanger (NHE) is present in most erythrocytes and is usually involved in osmotic volume regulation. In fish with Root effect hemoglobin, this exchanger is under β-adrenergic control (β-NHE; Ref. 8). Stimulation of the β-adrenergic receptor via cAMP as a second messenger and protein kinase A activates the NHE, which extrudes protons from the red blood cells and thus alkalinizes the cells and acidifies the blood plasma. Thus intracellular pH of the red blood cells may even increase under exercise-induced blood acidification.
These considerations show that, physiologically, the Root effect is not tailored to bring about an overall reduction in oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood. To understand the physiological importance of the Root effect, we therefore turn our attention to special organs. Only the swim bladder and the eye of the fish have been identified as organs that rely on the Root effect. Both organs depend on a buildup of oxygen partial pressures that far exceed the 20 kPa that, under optimal conditions, can be reached in the gills. In combination with a sophisticated countercurrent arrangement of the vascular system, oxygen unloading via the Root effect allows for the generation of hyperbaric oxygen partial pressures of several hundred atmospheres in the swim bladder.
Swim bladder function
The swim bladder originates ontogenetically as an outgrowth of the esophagus. Although it is not clear whether it originally was a buoyancy organ or a structure involved in aerial gas exchange, its homology to the lung is generally accepted. The teleost swim bladder primarily functions as a buoyancy organ, and, being flexible, its volume and internal pressure change with changes in hydrostatic pressure. To retain neutral buoyancy, teleosts must be able to keep the volume of the swim bladder constant. This means that gas needs to be secreted into the bladder while descending and removed while ascending. Removal of gas occurs by releasing gas bubbles via the esophagus or by reabsorbing gas along gas partial pressure gradients in special sections of the swim bladder. The secretion of gas into the swim bladder is a more complicated phenomenon that includes the release of oxygen from the hemoglobin via the Root effect. The swim bladder gas consists mainly of oxygen, carbon dioxide, and inert gases, mainly nitrogen. This present discussion is limited to the secretion of oxygen, which is the major constituent. Other gases have been dealt with elsewhere (10, 11).
Although the commonly used term "gas secretion" implies an active process, swim bladder gas filling occurs by simple diffusion along partial pressure gradients initiated by the release of oxygen from the hemoglobin via the Root effect, typically when extracellular pH values fall to ~7.3–7.5 (and intracellular values are ~7.1–7.3). The acidification of the blood within the swim bladder capillaries is brought about by the release of acid from the so-called gas gland cells of the swim bladder epithelium (Fig. 2⇓). These cells are cuboidal or cylindrical and may be lumped together, forming a compact, sometimes multilayered gas gland, or may be spread over the whole swim bladder epithelium, as in the eel. Gas gland cells show structural and functional polarity. The apical side, oriented toward the swim bladder lumen, is characterized by a few small microvilli. The basal side, facing the blood vessels, shows extensive membrane foldings. In contrast to most other cells that carry out active transport, gas gland cells apparently are not equipped with a large complement of mitochondria.
Recent studies have revealed that this structural polarity is functionally important. Gas gland cells serve a dual function, producing surfactant, which is secreted into the swim bladder lumen via exocytosis (15), and secreting acidic metabolites into the blood at the basolateral membranes. Acidic metabolites are produced mainly from blood-borne glucose. A large fraction of this glucose is converted into lactic acid, even though gas gland cells are usually exposed to hyperoxic conditions. This is possible because these cells do not show a Pasteur effect and thus produce lactate even at an oxygen pressure of 50 atmospheres. The lactic acid is released into the blood. Although pharmacological inhibition of lactate transport (using cinnamate) does not impair the acid release, inhibition of sodium/hydrogen exchange, anion exchange, or of vacuolar (V)-ATPase activity significantly reduces acid release from the cells (9). Sequence data on the B subunit of V-ATPase of eel gas gland cells has revealed the presence of two isoforms (7). In mammals, one of these isoforms is found in very few organs, such as kidney. In kidney cells, its function in association with acid-base regulation is partially controlled by being inserted or removed from the membrane. The second V-ATPase B subunit isoform (brain isoform) can be found in intracellular vesicles of virtually all cells. If this would be a general model that could be transferred to the gas gland cells, the kidney isoform of the B subunit might be involved in acid secretion at basolateral membranes and the brain isoform may be necessary for the acidification of lamellar bodies, in which surfactant is stored before exocytosis.
Thus several mechanisms appear to cause the release of protons in the gas gland. The pH of blood circulating through the swim bladder of the European eel has been found to be in the range of 7.5–7.8 when the gas gland cells are inactive. The blood becomes acidic, with pH values of 6.5–6.6 at times when the gas gland is active and gas is being secreted into the swim bladder. The presence of different mechanisms for proton transfer across the cell membrane may be related to the fact that the cells must provide for a well-controlled secretion of protons over this wide range of pH values.
The transfer of protons through the cell membrane acidifies the extracellular fluid. This acid load is transferred into the erythrocyte via the Jacobs-Stewart cycle. Extracellular protons react with bicarbonate, forming carbon dioxide that diffuses into the red blood cell, where it is hydrated to bicarbonate and protons. With an increasing proton concentration within the red blood cell, the threshold for the Root effect is reached and oxygen is liberated from the hemoglobin. In swim bladder tissue, the time necessary to complete the whole series of reactions is significantly reduced due to the presence of a membrane-bound carbonic anhydrase in gas gland cells. Although blood plasma typically is devoid of carbonic anhydrase activity, membrane-bound enzyme rapidly accelerates the equilibrium of the carbon dioxide-bicarbonate reaction in the extracellular fluid (9). The high carbonic anhydrase activity of the red blood cell reestablishes the intracellular equilibrium of the bicarbonate-carbon dioxide reaction.
Besides lactic acid, carbon dioxide is produced and released from gas gland cells and is especially important for the initiation of the Root effect. A comparison of the oxygen consumption and the carbon dioxide production of eel gas gland cells revealed that most of the carbon dioxide is produced by decarboxylation in the pentose phosphate shunt and that only a small fraction of the glucose is actually oxidized by aerobic metabolism (10). This intriguing metabolic design ensures that the highest carbon dioxide partial pressure is always found in the gas gland. In contrast to the protons, which cannot penetrate membranes easily and require special, time-consuming transport mechanisms, carbon dioxide rapidly diffuses from the gas gland cells into the red blood cells. Thus the carbon dioxide produced ensures a very rapid acidification of the erythrocytes and initiation of the Root effect. The oxygen that has been liberated from the hemoglobin as blood passes through the gas gland readily diffuses into the swim bladder lumen along the partial pressure gradient.
Some of the oxygen will also remain in the blood, and blood returning from the gas gland tissue travels through the countercurrent system of the rete mirabile with a higher oxygen partial pressure than afferent blood traveling to the gas gland tissue. Given the production and release of carbon dioxide from the gas gland cells, this also applies to carbon dioxide tensions. The metabolic activity of gas gland cells thus brings about initial increases in blood oxygen partial pressures and carbon dioxide partial pressures.
The swim bladder rete mirabile represents a very efficient countercurrent exchanger. Oxygen and carbon dioxide molecules returning to the venous side of the rete mirabile will therefore diffuse back to the arterial side, resulting in a countercurrent multiplication of the initial increases in oxygen and carbon dioxide partial pressures. The back diffusion of carbon dioxide again is of crucial importance for the initiation of the Root effect within the swim bladder tissue because it results in an acidification of the arterial blood of the rete mirabile, induces the Root effect, and elevates oxygen partial pressure in the blood supplying the swim bladder tissue. The metabolic activity of gas gland cells causes further acidification, which enhances the Root effect and the increase in oxygen partial pressure. Model calculations demonstrate that this dual acidification, together with the very efficient countercurrent multiplication of the increases in blood oxygen partial pressure and blood oxygen content in the rete mirabile, can readily explain the generation of oxygen partial pressure values of up to several hundred atmospheres in swim bladder tissue of deep sea fish (10).
The fish eye
In contrast to most other vertebrates, the retinas of most fish are not vascularized, and diffusion distances for nutrients and oxygen to the retina therefore can be more than six times larger than in primates. Because the retina has a high metabolic activity, this raises a question about how the necessary oxygen supply to the retina is secured. Although the situation is far from understood, obvious parallels exist to the situation in the swim bladder, and the Root effect appears to be involved. The vitreous humor of the fish eye is highly oxygenated, and oxygen partial pressure values of 1 atmosphere and higher have been reported (11, 18). Furthermore, the ophthalmic artery passes through a countercurrent system, the choroid rete mirabile, before branching to the choriocapillaris, the capillary network from which the retina is supplied.
To initiate the Root effect, blood must be acidified in the choriocapillaris. As with the gas gland tissue, teleost retinal tissue produces lactic acid even in the presence of oxygen. Furthermore, in addition to aerobic glucose oxidation, part of the glucose is metabolized in the pentose phosphate shunt. Thus, as in the swim bladder, the retina apparently produces lactic acid and carbon dioxide, which are released into the blood stream and initiate the Root effect, and the initial increase in oxygen partial pressure is subsequently multiplied by back diffusion of oxygen in the countercurrent system of the choroid rete mirabile (Fig. 3⇓).
Despite the homologies with the swim bladder, an intriguing twist complicates the situation in the fish eye, since retinal tissue is very sensitive to acidification and acidification down to pH 6.4 results in blindness. Thus the unavoidable drop in blood pH associated with the countercurrent concentration of carbon dioxide must be moderate to avoid an acid-induced damage of the tissue.
Comparative studies demonstrated that the presence of a choroid rete mirabile in the eye coincides with the presence of a pseudobranch (1). This gill-like hemibranch receives arterialized blood from the first gill arch, and the efferent artery gives rise to the ophthalmic artery. The fish eye thus receives its blood supply from the pseudobranch. Although the pseudobranch has attracted attention for more than 150 years, its physiological function remains a mystery. Nevertheless, most fish physiologists subscribe to the idea that it is implicated in the oxygen supply to the retina.
It has recently been proposed that the pseudobranch is equipped with a sensor and titrates the blood to a pH value just above the value at which the Root effect is initiated (1). In this way, only a small amount of acid needs to be released to switch on the Root effect during passage of the choriocapillaris, and the countercurrent concentration of acid, especially of carbon dioxide, is reduced. This scenario indeed could build up high oxygen partial pressure values with only a minor acidification of the blood. In this context, it is important to keep in mind that, in contrast to the swim bladder, where the oxygen partial pressure necessary to drive diffusional oxygen transport into the swim bladder lumen increases with increasing water depth, the choriocapillaris oxygen partial pressure must only be high enough to meet the oxygen requirement of the retina. At this point, no further increase in oxygen partial pressure is necessary. Accordingly, the length of the capillaries of the choroid rete, which is crucial for the maximal countercurrent multiplication that can be achieved, is short compared with the length of capillaries in most swim bladder retia mirabilia.
The Root effect represents an intriguing example of the ecophysiological variability and adaptability of hemoglobin. Although hyperoxia is deleterious for most tissues, extremely high oxygen partial pressures must be generated in the swim bladder and retinae of fish to ensure their proper physiological function. These high oxygen partial pressure values are generated in a complex system that includes a remarkable capacity of certain cells to produce and secrete acid metabolites, the presence of Root effect hemoglobins, and of a rete mirabile. The rete mirabile is necessary for countercurrent multiplication but also acts as a barrier to prevent the acid from spreading through the whole organism. In addition, hormone-induced acid-base regulation in red blood cells prevents the initiation of the Root effect during situations of general acidosis, thus preventing a reduction in hemoglobin oxygen-carrying capacity that would curtail oxygen transport.
I would like to thank Dr. R. Weber for helpful comments on the manuscript.
Parts of this study were financially supported by the Austrian Science Foundation (FWF, P-11837-BIO, and P14174-BIO).
- © 2001 Int. Union Physiol. Sci./Am.Physiol. Soc.


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