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Hello and welcome to UNC REX Health Talk Live brought to you by UNC REX Health or UNC REX Healthcare. I'm Sharon Delaney and we're coming to you live from UNC Medical Center in Chapel Hill. Tonight our topic is Food Allergies 101, so start sending your questions in right now. Whatever your food allergy question might be, we have an expert here to answer your questions. Joining me is . Dr. Edwin Kim and I'm going to have to pick up my paper because you're all your things, your introductions are very long! Now, I don't want to make you feel uncomfortable, but check this out: Director of UNC Food Allergy Initiative, Director of the UNC Allergy and Immunology Fellowship Training Program, as well as Assistant Professor at the UNC Division of Rheumatology Allergy and Immunology and faculty at the UNC Thurston Arthritis Research Center. Do you ever sleep? I try! That's a lot going on! But really, one of your specialties Dr. Kim, is food allergy. That's right. And not only as a professional, but as a father too, tell me about your child. Yeah, so actually I've got three kids and so my middle son Elliot, who's now about four and a half, he actually has peanut allergy as well and interestingly he developed his allergy, while I was in the middle of doing all the research that I do now – it was sort of, it was a real big game-changer for me because I had always sort of seen it from the physician, the clinician, researcher point of view and suddenly this became real for me, it's all of a sudden you know, ah, he was about nine months old and we had introduced him to peanuts, just like he was being advised these days early on, but sure enough, shortly after eating a peanut he started developing redness all around his mouth, so similar stories other people told me, he started scratching everywhere and me being an allergist of course I knew what we were dealing with and actually as it turned out, I had Benadryl sitting right there on the counter and so we treated him, but over the next hour really started developing all the symptoms that we worry about so… The bad ones, like? Oh yeah. Oh wow. And so, he a, shortly afterwards started having vomiting, he developed a rash that eventually became head to toe rash and even had coughing, which is a sign of potentially having trouble breathing. Oh goodness! And at nine months of age he couldn't tell you…exactly, he couldn't, he couldn't, and so it was frightening and so eventually, we ah, we got him to the medical center and he got his epinephrine just like a lot of other kids have had to do with their reaction – and he got better, and sure enough we had testing shortly afterwards that confirmed what we knew, that he was allergic to peanuts, and so from that day on, again the research I've continued to do research but I've definitely seen it in a very different light because a lot of again the things that these families have been going through we're sort of living it at the exact same time. You really probably have a lot of empathy for your patients, because that you can't say well let me try to understand, you really do understand what they are going through. (Exactly.) I"m sure they love that, that they have a sympathetic partner, in treating their kids! Yeah, I mean I wish there was an easier way to kind of get there. Yeah, I'm sorry that that is the case.. Yeah, it really is the case and even the simplest things, of how do you deal with situations like going to school or going to restaurants, I mean these things that families with food allergies have to deal with every single day. You know I tried my best before Elliott, to sort of get on that same level with them, but it's not until you live it that you really understand. That you know it. Now you are leading some research, that is being done right here at UNC and you're doing a three year study, we featured a sweet little family in getting ready for this show, we got to meet this nice family, with little Jane, who's four, getting ready to start school next year and her parents are understandably quite nervous about letting their little one go off and they can't watch every morsel going into her mouth. Tell us about this research and the trial that she's in. Sure and so the overall concept of all of these trials are something to call immunotherapy and immunotherapy what that is essentially giving small amounts of what the person might be allergic to, with the idea of building it up and essentially retraining the immune system. Trying to make it again be able to tolerate the food or foods that they may be allergic to – we're trying to do this in a bunch of different ways. So the way that we initially had tried to do this was actually an injection in shots and this is many years ago probably 20-30 years ago and unfortunately there we saw a lot of side effects, we as researchers and that one sort of got put on hold, but since then, we've started to look at trying to do it in a form that's eaten – so flower forms and in her case, actually trying to do them in liquid drops. Little drops, yeah and she's a great little patient and she's following the instructions and after the end of the three years you're hoping you can do it like a challenge to see how much she could tolerate? That's right and so on the first day of this study what happened was we did her challenge as well, which is a very frightening day because she hadn't been treated yet, but what we try to do is establish…confirm that they are allergic and then establish what that baseline is, how much does it actually take to get sick, to have a reaction and then we do our treatment and then do it again to try to show that yes, we have provided a level of protection that the children have and to give those families some level confidence, when they actually go out there into schools, into restaurants or wherever it may be, that there is a level of protection. Sure ok, if you're just joining us on Facebook Live we are coming to you from UNC Medical Center here in Chapel Hill and our topic tonight on UNC REX Health Talk is Food Allergies 101. We want you to send us your comments and questions now, we already have a couple of people who sent in some questions ahead of time, let's see, we want to say hello to Alana and Katie and Alana is asking "we just found out my son has a peanut and an egg allergy, I'm also afraid to try tree nuts how likely is it that he would have an allergy to those as well?" Yeah and so that's a really, really good question and so what we do know is kids who have peanut allergy and even egg allergy but especially peanut allergy seem to be at higher risk of allergies to tree nuts, so in this situation definitely would make sense to go to an allergist and be evaluated to confirm this, whether or not they actually have the allergy and that may mean skin testing or blood testing, but unfortunately there's up to a thirty percent chance that there could be an overlap where someone with a peanut allergy has a tree nut allergy as well. Ok, all right Beth would like to know, ah, she wants to know about new – some insights into new research regarding tree nut immunology or therapy like you were discussing without peanuts, do you have a similar sort of clinical trial going for tree nuts? Right, and so at this point those are in development, so for the last bunch of years, we've really focused on peanut to try to optimize what we're doing and we have seen a lot of good preliminary data and now I think we're starting to take those same ideas and shift it over to tree nuts, so I wouldn't be surprised in the next couple years to start to see more of these studies start to come out and one interesting thing with tree nuts is there is a hope that that there is an overlap between the different tree nut.s For example, I mean if you're allergic to walnuts, perhaps if we can treat the walnut part, maybe the cashew allergy would get better or the pistachio or something else like that. So that would be a really nice thing that we could discover in this as well for tree nuts. Ok, we had a question come in from Jessica, why does it seem that there are so many more people with food allergies than before? I know when I was growing up, I don't think I knew a single person who had a food allergy and now it seems to be quite common. Is that just perception? Oh no, so that's the thing, so I mean everyone, every family, parent or anyone else that I meet, they all have that same question – and all of us say the same thing we knew nobody or maybe we knew one person, so clearly there's a tremendous increase. A couple things we know, so one piece is we know there is a genetic component, so there is some family history that probably sets people up for it, but not everybody has a family history and so what we also know there's got to be an environmental component to it and that's where we get stumped is you know a lot of folks are worried about is it the way that our food is being produced or processed, is it other exposures that are out there as far as antibiotics or is it exposure to the sun, is it you know other things that could be happy to infections or otherwise and to be honest at this point we we just don't know and a lot of the research that we're doing in the background is trying to understand why people are becoming allergic so what is changing in the immune system and not only trying to get those patients better the ones that we're studying, but also through them learn more about them. Ok, all right this is a really interesting one and we brought a plate of the meat to illustrate it, it's not a laughing matter actually, but Michelle is asking, "I've been diagnosed with alpha-gal. I'm allergic to beef, pork and lamb. What are researchers doing to potentially either get rid of this or treat it?" And that's – that's a really odd one. Tell people what alpha-gal is because a lot of people haven't even heard of it. Yeah and so alpha-gal is a sort of a nickname for a new allergy that's really started to become a problem we started to notice more in the last probably five to ten years. And specifically here in North Carolina and in the southeast? Right yeah, so Virginia and North Carolina or major hotbeds for this and one of the reasons is different than most of the food allergies you think of it seems to be actually related to being bit by a tick and this tick happens to live in the southern states, ah, including Virginia and North Carolina. And it seems that the tick somehow, again we don't understand how, is setting people up to develop this allergy. Once they have it, it's not an allergy to one food like maybe in the case of peanut, but it's an allergy to all these different meats. So basically all meats that come from mammals, such as beef and pork and lamb. You can stretch it out the deer and bison and whatever other kinds of meat. Really, the way I try to describe it to patients is that really the state meets are more poultry and fish but everything else sort of beware. My goodness and how do it we spend time outdoors, you hear about ticks all the time in the summer and does it take a while to realize what's going on? Do you have the allergic reaction right away after getting bitten by the tick or does it take some time? Right and so even there we're trying to trying to understand that because some tick bites we're well aware that we got many of them we don't and it could have been that it happened years before whatever else. Some studies have shown again immediately after tick bites that there are changes in your immune system so very well could be sort of a next-day type of a situation what's going on, but another piece that's really interesting with this meat allergy that shows that is potentially a different type of allergy is that most food allergies when we're thinking about same milk or egg or peanuts, those usually happen within minutes of eating the food and in the case of these meats, for whatever reason, it takes an extended period of time. So maybe four or five six hours after the first person eats the food that they actually have these symptoms and that could be difficult in that there might be the scenario where you go out and have a wonderful anniversary dinner, you have a nice steak dinner, you go home and you think everything's fine, you go to bed and then the next thing you know you wake up at two in the morning covered in rash or maybe even feeling like you need to vomit or something like that. And so there are definitely aspects of this allergy that are that are very different and that we're trying to use, as best we can, to learn more out how all allergy works through this different type, this strange different allergy. And what's interesting to note too, is UNC is one of the leading institutions in this research and partly because of our proximity to it. Right, so you know again we have many, many, many patients in the region that have had this, and we've also recruited experts from the Virginia area that also have brought a lot of patients as well and so it's just been a you know again a great place to be to try to learn this and we have patients that are basically you know banging down our doors to try to come in and and volunteer to help us learn more about this. My goodness Michelle, I hope that helps to answer your question – at this point it's just in the research phase, there's no real treatment except avoid all those meats? Unfortunately, at this point yeah, it is really about understanding again, why this was happening, how is this different from the other allergies we know about and hopefully, really quickly after that we can turn it into what can we do to treat them. Okay, all right – Grace wants to know why are so many people unwilling to take food allergies seriously and what can be done to better educate the general public about this? Sure and I think there's a couple things going on there, one of them is exactly that idea we talked about before that many of us growing up never saw anyone with allergies and so all of a sudden why is there so much more and so I think there's first of all that, that perception that you know again is there something made up? Also there is again one until you've actually seen someone with an anaphylactic reaction, somehow it's not real and I so I think there's a couple of those different things that sort of make it difficult. Another piece to it and again i'm sorry that is multi prong but it really is is that the testing that we have available is also imperfect, so unfortunately there probably are some folks out there that are worried that they're allergic, that maybe is not so there might be a small level of overdiagnosis, but I think a lot of a really has to do more with just, this is not something that we used to deal with and all of a sudden the last 10-20 years, there's so much more out there and we can't tell anyone why at this point. Hmm, I'm sure there's a lot of theories (oh yeah) that could be a whole other show! Let's talk about some of the more common allergies, which I would imagine are the dairy ones, so milk, eggs… So when we think of sort of your classic kind of anaphylaxis potentially life-threatening allergies, really there are eight sets of foods that are going to be most common and that's going to be milk, egg and peanuts of course, but then also your tree nuts and then you have your shellfish and your fish and wheat and soy fall into that category too and we think of those eight groups of foods as a basically accounting for 85, almost 90% of all food allergies that are out there and again clarifying that this is sort of the anaphylactic, life-threatening allergy that we're talking about. Ok, all right ,if you're just joining us this is UNC REX Health Talk, we're live from UNC Medical Center in Chapel Hill and we're taking your questions tonight about anything to do with food allergies. Dr. Edwin Kim is a researcher and professor here at the Food Allergy Center and he has a son who also has a food allergy, so he's the expert on all things right now. We're taking your questions, ah, we'd like to say hello to Ashley and Lindsay. Misty would like to know where can we do oral immunotherapy? Right, so again that idea of the immunotherapy being small increasing amounts of what you're allergic to so oral typically is going to be taking flower forms of the food you might be allergic to, so in the case of peanut flour, milk flour, egg flour or something else like that, at this point it really is something that's still in research. It is something that we've seen a lot of good preliminary data and we are very hopeful in the next couple years that this will be available to the public approved through the FDA. There are some practices that are trying to start providing or are trying to provide this as a service at this stage, but you know we are somewhat hesitant on that, because we do feel like there are still some major safety and efficacy questions that are out there at this point. So we do think of this is purely a research center. So it's still in research, but if you are local could they apply to be in one of your trials? That's right and so we are constantly involved in different trials again trying to understand the different aspects of the allergy and the treatment and so on our website we actually have a place where folks can actually sign in and really tell us a little bit about the allergy they're dealing with so that we can quickly be able to respond to them when the appropriate trial comes up. Ok, Dallas asks, "I hear a lot of discrepancy about the best age to test infants and children for allergies. What is your recommendation? Yeah and so there um, you know again, we kind of joke with our trainees, that for the skin testing that we do as long as they have skin we can kind of test them, but in all seriousness really it comes down to when the right time is really when that family is going to do something different about it so testing someone who's never going to eat that food for the next three or four or five years probably doesn't make sense, but if they're at a stage where for example they're about to go to school and they want to know is my child allergic to peanut and are they going to be exposed at school, for that for that family that would be the right time. Or, for perhaps the kid who's been having formula is about to switch over to some sort of soy or milk or something else – and so really that would be probably the right timing. So that's usually going to be discussion within the family, potentially the family with the pediatrician and they ultimately with the allergist as well. Ok, Amy would like to know, "she'd like to get both of her children tested for food allergies adding that she wants a large panel done, but apparently her pediatricians office doesn't offer a large panel, so what would be a resource for her? Yeah and so you know that I'm glad that that question got brought up because I think that is a place where a lot of education could be helpful, is unfortunately the testing that we have available so our blood and our skin testing, although it's good, it's far from being perfect and there is sort of a there's a higher than we would like chance that people could have a false positive reaction, meaning the test says that you're allergic, but you actually are not – and when you do broad panels of food meaning many – 50, 60, 100 foods you run that that risk gets higher and higher and higher and for any family that's actually actively trying to avoid food I mean they could easily tell you how difficult is avoid one food and to potentially to avoid many foods and theoretically, for you know when they're not even allergic, could just be terrible and so we really do discourage sort of doing many, many foods and really try to focus in on what are the foods that that person, that child is eating at the moment, what are the foods that are causing the problems and try to hone in on those instead of doing everything. Ok. All right, Aaron hello to you and hello to Ashley and Shelly would like to know, she's a dietician 'her clients often ask her the difference between blood tests and skin tests for food allergies. What is the difference and is there an accuracy difference as well with these tests blood vs skin? So that's a really, really good question as well – so both tests, the skin and the blood, try to tell us the same thing. They're really trying to show us, is there that part of the immune system that can cause allergic reactions, so when you talk strict numbers, they're pretty much equivalent – skin tests have slight added benefit there is it actually shows you not only do you have that component of your immune system but it actually causes a reaction a little itchy bum that's on your skin and so gives us a slight increase confidence in there, but in reality both that should be near equivalent, now I will add in there that for a lot of patients who are allergic, checking the the antibody level checking this immune level is a way that we can track whether they are trying to outgrow it and a blood test seems to be a slightly easier way, I think, to actually track trends and so the way I usually approach it is very often when I'm first trying to diagnose someone I'll lean towards the skin test but then over time as I'm tracking and I made you a blood test, but each practitioner might be slightly different in that. Now I discovered something recently and when I first met you I told you about it, I'm not even going to touch it, (don't go there!) because I have mango mouth! Right. It sounds crazy, my lips blow up when I eat mango, if i get the skin of the mango too close to my mouth. What is that? Yeah and so it's just a fascinating part and a lot of folks who study plants probably could tell us this, but i discovered this as well my own training, is that as it turns out in mango in the peel, there is the same oil that's contained in poison ivy and poison oak. So that again just by touching it you can get that same kind of rash and I I'm sure you could tell me all about it that crazy itching sensation that you probably had from it. Well, here's the crazy thing, is I… have, ah, I said this at work the other day like why were you rolling around in poison ivy? That sounds insane! I was camping (right) and was in the poison ivy and didn't realize it, until someone said you're all in or you're inside the poison ivy. I am not allergic to poison ivy, but yet that makes me go "la la"! Right well so that, well now, you know well we're gonna probably have to figure that out for you then! Yeah the typical scenario I would think it would be related to that but it's possible that there's a whole other scenario that's going on for you, and I'm guessing that that's why you're going to ask me about these other fruits. Well, that's the thing too I thought that was very interesting that certain people also have and what are we calling it? An oral (that's right) allergy syndrome, so is that to certain kinds of fruit and what is that? Yeah and so ah, you know we're actually outdoors in the exact time of year that's perfect for that and so oral allergy syndrome is something where and actually I suffer from it as well so looking at this fruit to makes me itchy already (oh gosh!) but as it turns out now folks who have allergies to pollen they have this part of the immune system that is specifically looking for that pollen to cause allergic symptoms and what we've discovered is that there are proteins that are in these different fruit that are here so the pear and the peach and the plum, that look very, very similar to your immune system to that same pollen, it can over overlap and cause a tremendous amount of itching in the mouth, in the tongue, even in the back of the throat and a lot of the patients you come and see me who have this symptom, they worry oh there must be something, a pesticide or something that's going on with these fruit, but as it turns out there's a lot more of that protein in the skin and so for a lot of patients peeling that off will somehow make it better for them, but especially during that season, so in my case during the spring season when that part of my immune system is really fired up, that same allergy to those fruits is a unbearable. So I'm going to avoid those! So it makes you all a itchy and is very uncomfortable. Ok, let's see, Kim asks, "I've had an onset of tree allergies as an adult, is it likely this will fade or go away?" Yeah so tree nut, kind of like peanut, unfortunately, as an allergy where most people do not outgrow it. We estimate maybe 20% of people outgrow both of these allergies peanuts and tree nuts, but even there most of people that are going to do it, they do it as a child – and so most adults who have those allergies, unfortunately, the bad news is they'll probably hang on to it. Ok, similar question Linda is asking, "I became allergic to shrimp at age 32, I'm now 59." What are the chances that she may have outgrown this and how would she find out without eating and swelling? Yeah, so unfortunately there's bad news here too, so for shellfish and fish, we think of it very similar to peanuts and tree nuts, so we think it's very likely, especially as a grown adult, that this will probably stay with her (okay) for most of her life. o there's not a way to reverse that sort of thing? Not at this point, again we are slowly starting to think about are the same treatments that we're thinking about for milk and egg, can we transition those over into seafood, because it does affect the tremendous amount of adults that are out there, we're just not there yet. But unfortunately, other than trying to eat it and seeing what happens, it really comes down to the same types of tests – the skin set and blood tests to try to help predict whether that person is outgrowing it or not. Ok, hi Christian, hi Marie! Thanks for joining us on UNC REX Health Talk! Angela asks, "my son is highly allergic to fish, including salmon, tuna and cod. We carry an Epipen for it – and can he possibly eat scallops and mussels and is there a safe way to find out? Yeah and so there I think there's a couple things we'll talk about there, so one of them is we do think your immune system is very specific to the particular food that you're allergic to, so those antibodies are allergic to salmon should not be reacting the mussel – so it's possible that they're, that person is allergic to mussel, but again it wouldn't be sort of those same antibodies, but I think another piece that's important to think about though is not only sort of what's going on in your immune system, but what's actually going on at the fish counter at the restaurant. So unfortunately, if you think about most restaurants, they're not separating out mussels and salmon and tuna. Oh, they might all be prepared for the same counter? The same counter, the same fridge. the same knife, whatever may be – so even in cases where patients may not be allergic to all the different seafood, there's always going to be that chance of cross-contamination, so for many families or many patients, the safest way to go is to try to avoid them. Or if you're really wanting to try and do it at home where you control the environment that you're preparing and cooking in. Ok, let's see, Shelly asks, "my son is tree and peanut allergic, how does a doctor determine if a child's numbers qualify for oral immunotherapy?" Sure, so again what they're talking about there is going to be how much of that allergic antibodies you have in your system, so whether the blood test is a big, big number or the skin test is really large and at this point really we've taken all comers for our studies, we've taken people with numbers that are in single digits and then even ones that are sort of higher than the machine can even detect and we've seen benefits really for everybody. There is sort of a hint with some of our research that the lower you start the better, but again we've taken all comers and we've seen benefit at all levels, so I think that's one of those where it really is going to be important to go to the allergist and have that discussion and see if it's appropriate for other reasons, but I don't know that that blood test itself would be a reason not to. OK, Melisha says, "my son out grew tree nuts at age 12, he still has dairy and peanut allergy, so she hasn't given any tree nuts. Just in case he's now 15, I feel like I shouldn't let him try tree nuts unless he outgrows the peanuts as well," now what you said before there's a crossover right? Right, so there I'm going to qualify that a little bit in that one good thing that's come with the increase in food allergies there seems to be a lot more sort of just a general awareness of it and one of the things that comes with that, is labeling of foods is better than it was and so in the world of peanuts and tree nuts, I feel like there is better labeling to the point where you might be able to discriminate that more and so we do have more patients out there now who have peanut allergy that do feel safe and confident eating tree nuts again reading off of labels (sure) as well again not really the case for fish and shellfish at this point, because it's not typically packaged, but for peanuts and tree nut it is something that may be more realistic than it was say 10 years ago. Ok, Alicia has a follow-up question, she's heard that "coconut is separate from tree nut allergy – is a coconut a nut?" Exactly, so that's well… So we think of it as a fruit and not a nut, it has the word nut in it and it's gotten really confusing, but there have been a lot of small studies that try to prove the fact that it doesn't overlap and so that I would think of that as a totally separate type of thing and unless that person is really eating coconut and had a problem, it would be fine. Are there people who are allergic to coconut? There are, unfortunately, there are, but it's usually not going to be something that's overlapping at all with the other tree nuts. Ok, Linda asks or Lisa rather, she "had a reaction to oysters at 19 and has not eaten any seafood since" and she's now 59, do you think she could try to eat shrimp? Yeah, so I think again, this is something that if it's important to her to have shrimp and it's absolutely worthwhile to go to that allergist and get that testing done (just be safe) yeah and for two levels, one of them is that it's a different food we are talking about shrimp versus oyster and also with that amount of time, although not a lot of people outgrow it, some do and so it would be helpful for finding find that answer out. I wanted to go back and ask about the alpha-gal (sure) because you were describing how it's different than sort of the peanut and some of these other ones where there's almost an immediate reaction, there could be hours after you've eaten this nice steak dinner that you're all of a sudden getting up in the middle of the night very ill. Do people think that that's actually food poisoning? Like they may go to their doctor thinking they've gotten food poisoning? Yes, that's exactly right and it's hard to- it's hard to tell the difference, because food poisoning can of course cause throwing up, horrible stomach ache as well and so usually one of the first things folks will do is, if they've gone to dinner with other folks, ask who else got it? Because anyone else who's had the same dish, you expect should have that problem as well or at the restaurant, maybe restaurants may not be willing to share that information, but someone else may have ordered that same dish and it's you know other people at the restaurant have that problem, that could be one way to answer it as well, but unfortunately, a lot of things especially with the alpha-gal, what you find out happening is people are going to have multiple reactions and then they came here and they put two and two together. I actually have a friend who I believe she is an environmental scientist is her career and during her thesis she spent a lot of time in wetlands and she got bitten by the tick and it took six months to figure out that she had alpha-gal (right) it was like the craziest thing, she was sick and then well, because she never put two and two together that it was always after she ate some kind of red meat, but then sickness began. So it actually took a good six months to figure it out, which is probably not that long in the alpha-gal world. That story is very very, very common and again because with the other food, you eat it you get sick within a few minutes, you can make that connection directly, but when it comes to sort of the timing and then even with the alpha-gal again we don't understand why but there are situations where people can eat small amounts and be okay with it, so it doesn't necessarily happen to every single time you eat it (wow) and that makes it even more confusing as far as trying to figure this stuff out. Ok, Kristin asks, "my son has an egg and peanut allergy, he also has reflux, which used to be severe before we determined his allergies. Are they related?" Right, so a couple things could be going on here, one of them is there is a whole other disease that looks very much like reflux, that's called this big word eosinophilic esophagitis, but it's basically an allergy, (oh my lord, goodness) in the feeding tube (I know…) We call it EOE which is a lot easier (say again) So it's eosinophilic esophagitis, but EOE is definitely good enough! Wow, we'll stick with EOE! We will definitely stick with that and so with EOE, very much what the symptoms can look like on the outside is trouble swallowing food, maybe regurgitation, maybe even straight up vomiting – and so for some folks that's what's happening. Those foods are triggering this other kind of allergy as well, in other cases, it could just be that they do have bad reflux and began for whatever reason these trigger foods are making that go on, but for someone where there is sort of a direct connection that they see with this food and may be worthwhile again start the conversation with their doctor or their allergist. Ok, another viewer wants to know, "can you get mango mouth with fresh pineapple?" Well, it would be pineapple mouth, right? Right! And so I mean that would be sort of a nice segue way into there are some folks where different types of citrus, can cause what sounds like what you described with mango mouth – and there again, likely what's going on, is they're having more of a reaction to the acid, the citric acid, so it could be that not only pineapple but other citrus fruits could do that, or it could be very specific to pineapple as well, but it probably is very similar to what you described and maybe not necessarily related to poison ivy oil or anything else like that. Ok, Elaine asks, "my son is severely allergic to wheat. We discovered his allergy when he started eating solid food as a baby. The doctor predicted he'd outgrow it by age five, he's 13 and still cannot eat anything with wheat. Are there any food desensitization studies going on here at UNC for wheat allergies?" Yeah, so unfortunately, at this point we're not involved in any particular studies focused on wheat. There are definitely other major food centers out there that are doing it and the number of folks out there continues to grow every day and so I think done again as we are learning more about peanut allergy. I think that attention is in a good way, spreading out to other foods and so it wouldn't be surprised if we started studying wheat in the very near future, especially considering other places are doing it at this point. In your field Dr. Kim, are there researchers who are trying to find the source of why there is this uptick in allergies? Yeah and so I think one of the ways that we're really, really, really hoping to do this, is to try to do essentially sort of what we call birth cohorts or even registries- the idea of finding folks before they're even allergic and then track them over time and see when do they become allergic and then try to work backwards and see there, were there any differences in their exposures? Was it where they grew up, was It what they drank as a formula, was it you know, whatever else it might be. But as a way of trying to answer that question, because right now sort of working backwards with someone who's already is already allergic is helping us only to a limited amount, but I think really finding folks before they're allergic and then tracking them through becoming allergic is going to be probably the way we find this answer out. Yes, and that's really many, many decades of study involved. Unfortunately, many decades and lots of people. Ok, well questions are still coming in but it's going to be time for us to wrap it up, but we will answer your questions, just keep them coming, put them in the comments section and the nice folks here at UNC and UNC REX Healthcare will answer those for you. Dr. Kim, thank you so much, (yeah, thank you) I wish you the best of luck with your son and with the rest of your clinical trial work that you're doing here at UNC. 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Never let it be said that the 2016 Iowa legislature accomplished nothing
In four months of work this year, Iowa lawmakers made no progress on improving water quality or expanding conservation programs, funded K-12 schools and higher education below levels needed to keep up with inflation, failed to increase the minimum wage or address wage theft, let most criminal justice reform proposals die in committee, didn't approve adequate oversight for the newly-privatized Medicaid program, opted against making medical cannabis more available to sick and suffering Iowans, and left unaddressed several other issues that affect thousands of constituents.
But let the record reflect that bipartisan majorities in the Iowa House and Senate acted decisively to solve a non-existent problem. At a bill-signing ceremony yesterday, Governor Terry Branstad and supporters celebrated preventing something that probably never would have happened.
Iowa House Republicans try to evade accountability on medical cannabis
Thursday, Apr 28 2016
What do state lawmakers do when they don't want to pass something the overwhelming majority of their constituents support?
A time-honored legislative strategy involves 1) keeping the popular proposal from coming up for a vote, and 2) giving your members a chance to go on record supporting a phony alternative.
Iowa House Republicans executed that statehouse two-step this week in order to block efforts to make medical cannabis more widely available to Iowans suffering from serious health problems.
Who's who in the Iowa House for 2016
Monday, Jan 11 2016
The Iowa House opened its 2016 session today with 57 Republicans and 43 Democrats. The 100 state representatives include 27 women (21 Democrats and six Republicans) and 73 men. Five African-Americans (all Democrats) serve in the legislature's lower chamber; the other 95 state representatives are white. No Latino has ever been elected to the Iowa House, and there has not been an Asian member since Swati Dandekar moved up to the Iowa Senate following the 2008 election.
After the jump I've posted details on the Iowa House majority and minority leadership teams, along with all chairs, vice chairs, and members of standing House committees. Where relevant, I've noted changes since last year. All are on the Republican side, mostly following from Kraig Paulsen's decision to step down as speaker, Chuck Soderberg's retirement, and the passing of Jack Drake.
Some non-political trivia: the Iowa House includes two Millers (one from each party), two Taylors (one from each party), and two Moores (both Republicans). As for first names, there are six Davids (four go by Dave), four Roberts (two Robs, one Bob, and a Bobby), four Marys (one goes by Mary Ann), four Johns, and three Brians. There are two Lindas, two Elizabeths (a Beth and a Liz), and two men each named Dan, Mark, Greg, Tom, Bruce, Todd, Chris, and Charles (one goes by Chuck).
Charles Holz set to replace Chuck Soderberg in Iowa House district 5
Charles Holz won a special nominating convention last night in Iowa House district 5, where former House Appropriations Committee Chair Chuck Soderberg resigned his seat last month. Two Republicans sought the nomination for the November 3 special election. Holz is retired after a long career as a large animal veterinarian in Le Mars; he has also published work in his field. Citing a press release from the Plymouth County GOP, the Sioux City Journal reported earlier this month that Holz "served on the Le Mars school board for 18 years, including two years as board president." UPDATE: Added below a Republican Party of Iowa statement containing more biographical information.
According to The Iowa Statesman blog, Holz "defeated rural Woodbury County small business owner and homeschool parent Brad Hopp on the first ballot" at the nominating convention.
To my knowledge, no Democrat has announced plans to run for House district 5, which covers all of Plymouth County and some rural areas of Woodbury County. Click here to view a district map. Ideally, Democrats would compete for every state legislative district, but House district 5 is one of the safest for Republicans. Mitt Romney carried 65.9 percent of the presidential vote here in 2012, and Joni Ernst won 71.2 percent of the 2014 votes for U.S. Senate. The district contains 3,819 active registered Democrats, 9,015 Republicans, and 6,697 no-party voters, according to the latest figures from the Iowa Secretary of State's Office.
Five-term State Representative Pat Grassley is set to replace Soderberg as chair of the Iowa House Appropriations Committee for the 2016 legislative session. Although that's a plum committee assignment, working out a deal with Iowa Senate Democrats on the state budget will likely be more difficult than usual next year, because of the fallout from Governor Terry Branstad's latest line-item vetoes. The key Republicans involved in this year's budget deal-making quit their jobs this summer.

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Back in the 1980s, if you wanted to buy a 2-seated sports car and didn't have a little fortune to spend on it, there were only a few choices you had: The Toyota MR2, the Pontiac Fiero or this little beauty, the Fiat X1/9.
Designed by Bertone this car looked like a "Ferrari for the people", something like the Porsche 914 a few years before.
So this is my 4-wide LEGO Fiat/Bertone X1/9.
I've always love the X1-9, great rendition here !
Great car! I like the back windscreen!
One of my favourite cars - I'll get round to doing a big one, one of these days... for now I'll just enjoy this little beauty.
Very good! Love the shape. I tried my hand on one of these, but I failed.
very nice!! I like the back detail!!
Quoting Senator Chinchilla . For whatever reason I can't stop interpreting this as a 914, but its still wholeheartedly awesome. Like the yellow on black color scheme, looks brilliant.
The rear end is very similar to my 914, but the front of the X1/9 is much longer.
For whatever reason I can't stop interpreting this as a 914, but its still wholeheartedly awesome. Like the yellow on black color scheme, looks brilliant.
Another fantastic MOC Nils! I love how you have done the windows! Keep it up!
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Tired of the same old taco on your "Taco Tuesday" nights? Give these easy loaded baked nachos a try! They're bright, filling, and easy as pie!
This post originally appeared on Catz in August of 2013. We've updated the recipe just a bit – though it's still one of those "do whatever you want" kind of dinner ideas – and the main pictures are new as well. Though the step-by-step photos aren't great, they are helpful, so we've left them in, and left the post itself alone as well. Enjoy!
We like to have what most people have dubbed "Taco Tuesday" in our house. If I go a week without Mexican food, I start to twitch and shake from withdrawals. Our taco Tuesday's don't always involve tacos though. On a Tuesday, pretty much any kind of Mexican variety will do.
One of my family's favorite Tuesday dinners are nachos. They are pretty quick to assemble, filling, and full or color!
Chips are the most important component to a nacho-we really like these Mission Organics white corn tortillas. They have a really delicious flavor to them and they don't soak up as much moisture as some other tortilla chips do. Update: While these are still great, if you have a local store that carries Juanita's, get Juanita's. They are wonderful.
Get your largest baking sheet (with high sides) out and pour the chips onto your baking sheet.
Sprinkle some chopped green bell pepper over the chips and beans next. One bell pepper is perfect!
If you want something with more kick, you could add a chili pepper in its place.
Evenly distribute diced tomatoes and your meat.
Cover with shredded cheese and stick in a 350 degree pre-heated oven for 10 minutes.
and set out your condiments.
Remove from oven when the cheese has melted and cover the nacho with the lettuce. The lettuce is definitely optional.
Serve up a plateful (you might want to use a fork as well as your fingers to eat this) and top it with your favorite Mexican-style condiments.
This a great dinner to make when your running short on time, your kids are having their friends over for dinner, or even a game day snack! Trust me, it feeds a ton! So if you need something new to try on "Taco Tuesday" give this nacho a try!
Tired of the same old taco on your "Taco Tuesday" nights? Give these easy loaded baked nachos a try! They're bright, filling, and easy as pie!
Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Cook, brown, shred and season any meat toppings you are using. Set aside.
On a large baking sheet with sides, pour the tortilla chips out and spread them around evenly.
Top the chips with beans, bell pepper, olives, meat, tomatoes, and cheese.
Place baking sheet in oven and bake for about 10 minutes, or until cheese is totally melted.
Remove and optionally top with chopped lettuce and condiments. Serve warm.
My family would love the steak that's in this recipe!! I must make this sometime soon! We love our Mexican food too!


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We teach groups of adults (including some teenagers, maximum 10 students per group) at all levels from elementary to proficiency. Some of our students take the Cambridge and IELTS exams.
Pay is very satisfactory and you will be able to live comfortably. We can provide help with finding accommodation and any paperwork which moving to Poland necessitates (minimal for EU citizens).
• Recognised ELT qualification, e.g. CELTA or TESOL with practical component/teaching practice.
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This unit focuses on productive skills: speaking and writing. It discusses purposes of both, and introduces some communicative activitites, as well as shows the differences between accuracy-focused activities and fluency-focused activities. There are also several examples of popular games included in this unit, that can potentially help practicing speaking and writing skills in class.this unit has brought out some basic problems that a teacher may encounter when dealing with learners or students. i have learned that no matter the problems is , there is a solution to that. since we have groups of student from our previous unit. that is monolingual and multilingual students, the learning abilities will vary and hence the problems of students understandings will vary.


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"Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb toward it."
A little bonus for everyone. I recently read this hack in a book for moms and it works really well.
If you have dry skin on your hands or around your nose from a cold, try Lanolin. I have been using it all winter and it has worked really well and is safe for kids to use, too. Lanolin is found in the baby or nursing section of stores. Enjoy!
Several friends and family members have passed away recently and it has led me to think deeply about the idea of legacy. (See Part One here: http://www.pancakesandperseverance.com/2017/03/legacy-part-one.html ) I love the idea that we have a great cloud of witnesses cheering us on. I believe we can learn a lot from their stories, both from their deep faith and perseverance and in some cases from their mistakes. Story is so powerful as a catalyst on our spiritual journeys.
Today I will begin with my first story, perhaps the hardest one, about my mother. My mom passed away suddenly on February 18th, 2017 from unknown causes after a several years long battle with mental illness. Preparing to speak for her funeral, I thought back on her life and her legacy. My relationship with my mom wouldn't fit neatly onto a Hallmark card, so in some ways it is tough to think through what her legacy was and is. But, as I dig deeper, I find that several things stand out about my mom that will live on long after she has passed.
First of all, my mom raised us the best that she could. Isn't that all you can really ask for from you mom? My mom loved hugs. She hugged us in the morning, when we came home from school, and whenever we said hello or goodbye. She made sure we had food and clean clothes and a neat and pretty home to come home to. We didn't eat too much candy and we had a strict bedtime every night. We would eat dinner together as a family and enjoy stories of my parent's growing up years and the story of how they met each other disco dancing. My mom taught us by example that no matter what you are going through, you can get through it with a sense of humor.
My mom's faith legacy will live on in our hearts. She brought us to church every Sunday, rain or shine, sickness or health. We were dressed up and shined up and excited to be there. Church was a positive experience for me and I credit that in part to my mom.
My mom loved Bible study. She loved fellowship with other women and encouraging them in their daily struggles. I remember her walking a friend through her battle with cancer and talking to us about her Bible study friends. She also led our church's Fellowship Committee for a time and helped to create beautiful coffee hours and receptions for the church. Her example of faith and commitment to the church and to fellowship was an example to me of God in the flesh.
I recently received a sympathy card stating that I, as her daughter, am her legacy. That struck a chord with me. My mom's main job for most of her life was raising my sister and I. Now that she has passed, I would agree that we are her living legacy. She has passed on to me her love of music, dance and writing. Her love for the beauty of flowers and decorating. Her love for the Lord.
It's a big job to be someone's legacy. I want to emulate the things she did well and to learn from the things she did not. I sometimes worry that my mom got stuck in the process of motherhood and never really moved on to other things after we were grown. She didn't always remember to have a life outside of it, to be her own person as well as our mother. From this, I will remember to do these things. To be the best mom that I know how to be, but also to be my own person. To be who I am and to be it boldly. To love with abandon, to live creatively in my context and to push beyond my limitations to reach for my dreams.
Her legacy will live on in my life and I will continue to unpack just what that means. For now, I will remember to love and to laugh as we did together while watching Jay Leno and eating ice cream in front of the television.
I've been thinking a lot lately about legacy. I've had several friends, acquaintances and family members pass away in the last few months and it has left me thinking about their legacies in this life. I also saw the wonderful movie, "Hidden Figures," recently. This movie challenged me to think about those who had an amazing legacy, doing something so important in our country's history, only to be recognized later.
I also recently realized that if I live a full life, I may have already lived about half of it. That scared me. And motivated me. What have I already done in my life and what do I still want to accomplish? More importantly, what has God done through my life and what does he still want to do? I will be spending time in prayer about this, asking "What's next?" What does God have planned for my next steps in life?
I love the quote above from The Message version of Hebrews. Talking about Jesus, it says that "he never lost sight of where he was headed." May that be the case for us. May we not get so caught up in the everyday monotony of life that we lose sight of heaven. May we keep in mind every day that we are living this life for God and that he isn't finished with us yet.
I've always loved to think about this "great cloud of witnesses" who have gone before me, paving the way and pointing me to God in big and small ways. Today I will begin a weekly series on legacy, exploring the stories of those who have taught me about faith, perseverance and strength in the midst of life's challenges.
Join me as we take a walk among the clouds.
We yield because you, beyond us, are our God.
by your holiness made our true selves.


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The other side of the coin
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TEXT BY SHIVAM GIRI & AANCHAL MALHOTRA
PHOTOGRAPHS BY SHIVAM GIRI
Ramnagar, Uttar Pradesh
Mitlesh Giri, my grandmother, Maaji, is 89 years old. She was born in 1929 in Haridwar Uttarakhand, in saawan, the fifth month of the Hindu calendar, though the exact date is unknown. As a ritual, she has been presenting silver coins to each of her grandchildren when they turn 22 years old. It might seem odd, but perhaps that is the age she considers children to be grown up enough to take care of a coin minted in solid silver. My younger cousin has a 50 paisa coin and another holds a 25 paisa coin. My own coin was bequeathed to me on July 13, 2016. A one rupee silver coin from 1906. Initially, I gave it to my mother for safekeeping, but on our next visit home to Ramnagar, I decided to ask her more about it.
"Babu iss umar ab kya hi yaad rehta hai, sikka hi to hai lekin dhyan se rakhna," she said to me in Hindi, "Now what can I remember at this old age; it might be just a coin, but handle it with care." Nothing more was offered to me in terms of history of the precious object. Then upon asking my grandfather, babaji, about it, I got the same answer.
It shocked me at first how heirlooms of such age could exist without amassing their own curious histories. It made me more adamant than ever to unearth the story, if not of all coins, then certainly the one that I had received. Still in pristine condition, devoid of any cracks, but worn down now with age. The obverse of my coin shows the head of King Edward VII, and on the reverse are inscribed the words, 'ONE RUPEE INDIA' in English and Urdu with branches of delicate flowers surrounding the words. A Crown sits above the inscribed words and the year, 1906, at the bottom.
The obverse of the coin
The reverse of the coin
Keen as I was to find out more, everytime my grandmother visited us, I would show her the coin and unfailing, like before, she would ask me to take care of it and keep it someplace safe. Then in January 2018, when she was visiting us, I noticed her sitting by herself, sliding the coin back and forth in her hands, and carefully scanning it as if searching for something. I called out to her, asking if she had finally remembered something more about the coin, "Maaji, kuch yaad aya?"
Her response that day was unlike anything I could have imagined. "Meri ma ka tha yeh, this was my mother's," she said, "yeh sikka nahi hai betaji, gehna tha meri ma ka. She told me that it was no mere coin, but rather a piece of her mother's jewellery. With that, her eyes moistened and she finally narrated the tale of her childhood. Maaji had never seen her mother, she passed away while she was very young and so Maaji was raised by her aunt. All the memories she has of her mother have been collected from conversations, recollections and anecdotes told to her by her aunt.
Mitlesh Giri, wearing the tagdi that once belonged to her mother. The ornament has now been slightly altered from its original design.
Over the next few visits, more details kept being added to the story of the coin. We learnt that it was a part of Maaji's mother's tagdi, the silver belt she wore around her waist on top of her sari, which was eventually bequeathed to my grandmother. Tagdi designs differ across the country – In the North, it is generally a silver chain from which dangle ornaments, charms or in this case, precious coins. In the south, a tagdi is generally a broad belt of gold, fitted, at times, with jewels. The tagdi is worn often by brides over a draped sari, to accentuate their waists. So, the story goes that so beautiful was her mother that when her future father-in-law came to see the young girl, he immediately liked her for his son, and presented her with a silver coin. This silver coin, to be exact. A token, a marker, a gift. The family was well off, for coins like this were worth quite a lot in the day. Maaji tells us that the two coins that now belong to my cousins were also a part of this ornament, as was a fourth one, which she is holding onto until my 8 year old cousin is old enough to inherit it.
The tagdi became Maaji's mother's favourite ornament and according to her aunt, she wore it all through the day and night, safeguarding as if it was a treasure. "Saare angan mein ghoomti thi teri maa ye sikko wali tagdi pehen kar, na sote waqt utarti jaise khajana hi mil gaya ho". It was tradition in our family for women to wear a tagdi with coins on it. In fact, it was status symbol- the more coins one had in the tagdi, the higher status she had in the household. The coins, naturally, were presented by an elder, like an in-law or one's husband, anytime they wanted to bestow a gift upon the women of the house. Maaji has presented my mother with five such coins, as she is the elder daughter-in-law of the family. The tagdi has also passed down to her – though it is slightly altered now in style- making her the third generation in our family to wear it.
Mitlesh Giri, wearing the tagdi over her sari
Detail of the tagdi with the 1906 coin placed atop it
I later learnt that the history of the 1906 coin, though romantic and beautiful, also bore a shade of darkness. During the Partition of India in 1947, my grandparents, with their five children, resided in Issarpur, Punjab. The village was not exactly near the imminent border with Pakistan, but close enough for communal riots to infiltrate the otherwise religiously harmonious environment. My grandmother recalls days where they wouldn't be able to leave the house, surviving without food or water, because of the unrest outside. She recalls farmer's crops being burned, the land transforming into fire and ash. So the family decided, when it became safer, to migrate to Ramnagar, Baghpat District in present day Uttar Pradesh. They were afraid to carry much, but the coins were too precious to be left behind. They were carried, hidden in between the ponytails of my aunts and the braided parandi of my grandmother. Along with them, the family carried a portable radio as well, perhaps to keep up to date with the news, and made their way to Ramnagar, where most of my grandparents' family already lived.
Even there, fear for their future remained though. Maaji recalls sleeping on the roofs, knives hidden underneath their pillows, a barricade of bricks fortifying the roof, in case there was an attack in the middle of the night. They'd listen to reports of massacres in other parts of North India, but thankfully, Ramnagar was unaffected. But still, the place was new and they couldn't survive on the kindness of relatives forever, and so my Maaji divulged sadly that one by one, to buy land and construct a home, the couple had to sell whatever valuables they had, including the pure silver coins.
The courtyard of the house in Ramnagar
Some of the coins that were carried during the Partition from Issarpur to Ramnagar
"Lekin Masterji [which is what she called my grandfather, Ranjeet Singh Giri] ne haar nahi maani, he did not lose hope," she tells me that my grandfather didn't lose hope and gradually, acquired enough money to buy back each of these coins, returning them to their rightful owner. "Meri maa ko mujhe lauta diya, your grandfather returned my mother to me." After hearing my Maaji's story, the silver coin from 1906 is not just a gift, rather a memory of a child who has never seen her mother, a totem signifying a new beginning, and a reminder of the value of my grandfather's hard work and undying perseverance to return my grandmother's past to her.
But there remained yet another interesting twist to the story. Every year on Diwali, we visit Ramnagar and this year, while cleaning the house, my grandfather found a coin – an identical one like my grandmother had given me, One rupee from 1906. The only difference between the coins is in their conditions- this one is worn out and has black marks on both the sides. When I asked my grandfather about the coin, as I had once asked my grandmother, he was quick to say that he had absolutely no idea where the coin had come from, "Beta, mujhe toh pata hi nahi nahi key eh aaya kahan se!"
Should I call this a story of fate or coincidence? Two identical coins part of the same family- one that is infused with memory and nostalgia, and the other that has shed its very history over time.
Mitlesh & Ranjeet Singh Giri
The twin coins from 1906
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Viaduct van Cheratte is een brug over de Belgische autosnelweg A3/E40 (km 98.9) bij de plaats Cheratte, gemeente Wezet. De brug bevindt zich 37 meter boven de weg, op de top van een heuvel. Als gevolg van een daad van vandalisme met dodelijke afloop, werd de brug voorzien van een hoge afrastering zodat het niet langer mogelijk is om vanop de brug voorwerpen naar het voorbijsnellende verkeer op de autosnelweg te gooien.

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but it doesn't and so the sewing room is back to looking freshly burgled.
This evening I will be sending out my last newsletter for the year, full of Holiday wishes, a discount code for the shop and a brand new free pattern. That makes right now just about the perfect time to sign up if you haven't already. You won't get another newsletter untill next year and you can unsubscribe once you get the freebie if you like.
Let your friends know, let your mum know - I hope you like it !
Comment take two - is Blogger playing silly buggers or is it me??? Looking forward to the newsletter - love it, but am surprised, impressed and pleased that you actually have a functioning brain after all the frazzlement. Happy (uneventful) Sunday to you and Mr Ric Rac and all the little Ric Racs, Jodie!
I didn't know you had a newsletter, I need to pay more attention. So I have subscribed and will look forward to your emails.
I want that pencil installation.
"freshly burgled" that's the style that is missing from the posh house magazines.
Have a great week. Thanks for the great newsletter and for entertaining me this year. Even if you haven't been as creative as you would have liked, you pace has been perfect for those of us who are trying to keep up!!
Thank you Jodie for the lovely newsletter, I have ordered the hangers too! I have bought some of your lovely patterns on sale and have blogged and face booked it too. I hope things get a little bit easier in your household soon.
Ah, I've been mourning my lack of energy and messy house and your words always refresh me and make me laugh! Alas, I wish my mind was ordered too, but then maybe we wouldn't be so creative and I'm really glad we have your creative mind and all it produces!
I think your creative brain IS all structured -- look at how beautifully you've organized that felt!
Creative chaos is comfortable. Freshly burgled is another matter indeed, as is slack-mess and pig-style. Your output suggests creative chaos for sure..


Forestry is the science and practice of studying and managing forests and their natural resources. Much research and development has been invested in improving varieties of trees for commercial use and in better methods of planting, pest control, thinning, felling, and extraction and of processing timber into usable products. In most countries the timber industry is of major economic importance. The science of managing forests for its many uses is called silviculture.
Growing concerns about environmental problems arising from massive deforestation (especially in the rain forests) have recently put forestry and its implications into the spotlight.


GitHub - Shilin-Li/Test_a_Perceptual_Phenomenon: Use descriptive statistics to describe qualities of a sample, set up a hypothesis test, make inferences from a sample, and draw conclusions based on the results.
Use descriptive statistics to describe qualities of a sample, set up a hypothesis test, make inferences from a sample, and draw conclusions based on the results.
Want to be notified of new releases in Shilin-Li/Test_a_Perceptual_Phenomenon?
In this project, the goal is to investigate a classic phenomenon from experimental psychology called the Stroop Effect. Firstly, we will learn a little bit about the experiment, create a hypothesis regarding the outcome of the task, then go through the task. We will then look at some data collected from others who have performed the same task and will compute some statistics describing the results. Finally, we will interpret our results in terms of our hypotheses.
In a Stroop task, participants are presented with a list of words, with each word displayed in a color of ink. The participant's task is to say out loud the color of the ink in which the word is printed. The task has two conditions: a congruent words condition, and an incongruent words condition. In the congruent words condition, the words being displayed are color words whose names match the colors in which they are printed: for example RED, BLUE. In the incongruent words condition, the words displayed are color words whose names do not match the colors in which they are printed: for example PURPLE, ORANGE . In each case, we measure the time it takes to name the ink colors in equally-sized lists. Each participant will go through and record a time from each condition.
1 What is our independent variable? What is our dependent variable?
2 What is an appropriate set of hypotheses for this task? Specify the null and alternative hypotheses based on what we think the researchers might be interested in. Justify our choices.
We can try out the Stroop task for better understanding.
3 Report some descriptive statistics regarding this dataset. Include at least one measure of central tendency and at least one measure of variability.
4 Provide one or two visualizations that show the distribution of the sample data. Write one or two sentences noting what we observe about the plot or plots.
5 Now, perform the statistical test and report our results. What is our confidence level or Type I error associated with our test? What is our conclusion regarding the hypotheses we set up? Did the results match up with our expectations?
6 Optional: What is responsible for the effects observed? Can we think of an alternative or similar task that would result in a similar effect? Some research about the problem will be helpful for thinking about these two questions!
According to the statistical analyze, we reject the Null Hypothesis, which is to say the time spent on Incongruent condition is significantly higher than that of Congruent condition.
It makes sense, as from my own anecdotal experience incongruent words requires more time for recognition as the words displayed are color words whose names do not match the colors in which they are printed.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police say $700,000 worth of counterfeit cosmetics seized from vendors in downtown's fashion district have tested positive for bacteria, lead and traces of animal feces.
The seized products include bogus versions of cosmetics by Urban Decay, MAC, Kylie Cosmetics by Kylie Jenner and others. Officer Norma Eisenman says at least six people received citations during raids at 21 locations in the Santee Alley area last week.


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9-year-old 'guardian of the galaxy' applies for NASA's Planetary Protection Officer job
Jack Davis: 'I may be nine but I think I would be fit for the job'
Updated: 8:36 PM PDT Aug 4, 2017
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A self-proclaimed "guardian of the galaxy" applied for NASA's Planetary Protection Officer job this week – and his application is grabbing the internet's attention.NASA posted an opening for the job, which has been around since the 1960s, last month. The position went viral this week for many reasons – including the six-figure salary that comes with it. On Friday, NASA tweeted 9-year-old Jack Davis' cover letter and the agency's reply.Jack said he should be considered for the position because his sister says he is "an alien" and he's seen "almost all of the space and alien movies." Read the full letter below:Dear NASA,My name is Jack Davis and I would like to apply for the planetary protection officer job. I may be nine but I think I would be fit for the job. One of the reasons is my sister says I am an alien also. I have seen almost all the space and alien movies I can see. I have also seen the show Marvel Agents of shield and hope to see the movie Men in Black. I am great at video games. I am young, so I can learn to things like an Alien.Sincerely,Jack DavisGuardian of theGalaxyFourth GradeNASA's Planetary Science Director Jim Green responded to Jack's letter, encouraging him to continue to study and saying that they "hope to see you here at NASA one of these days." Read Green's full reply below:Dear Jack, I hear you are a "Guardian of the Galaxy" and that you're interested in being a NASA Planetary Protection Officer. That's great!Our Planetary Protection Officer positions is really cool and is very important work. It's about protecting the Earth from tiny microbes when we bring back samples from the Moon, asteroids and Mars. It's also about protecting other planets and moons from our germs as we responsibly explore the Solar System.We are always looking for bright future scientists and engineers to help us, so I hope you will study hard and do well in school. We hope to see you here at NASA one of these days!Sincerely,Dr. James L. GreenDirector, Planetary Science DivisionJack also got a phone call from NASA's Planetary Research Director Jonathan Rall at the agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C. Rall congratulated the 9-year-old on his interest in the position."At NASA, we love to teach kids about space and inspire them to be the next generation of explorers," Green said in a statement. "Think of it as a gravity assist -- a boost that may positively and forever change a person's course in life, and our footprint in the universe."The Planetary Protection Officer position has not been filled yet. According to the job posting, the application process will close on Aug. 14. If you are interested, apply here. "Although the Planetary Protection Officer position may not be in real-life what the title conjures up, it does play an important role in promoting the responsible exploration of our solar system by preventing microbial contamination of other planets and our own," NASA said in a statement.
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A self-proclaimed "guardian of the galaxy" applied for NASA's Planetary Protection Officer job this week – and his application is grabbing the internet's attention.
NASA posted an opening for the job, which has been around since the 1960s, last month. The position went viral this week for many reasons – including the six-figure salary that comes with it.
On Friday, NASA tweeted 9-year-old Jack Davis' cover letter and the agency's reply.
Jack said he should be considered for the position because his sister says he is "an alien" and he's seen "almost all of the space and alien movies." Read the full letter below:
Dear NASA,
My name is Jack Davis and I would like to apply for the planetary protection officer job. I may be nine but I think I would be fit for the job. One of the reasons is my sister says I am an alien also. I have seen almost all the space and alien movies I can see. I have also seen the show Marvel Agents of shield and hope to see the movie Men in Black. I am great at video games. I am young, so I can learn to things [sic] like an Alien.
Guardian of the
Photo courtesy of NASA
NASA's Planetary Science Director Jim Green responded to Jack's letter, encouraging him to continue to study and saying that they "hope to see you [him] here at NASA one of these days." Read Green's full reply below:
Dear Jack,
I hear you are a "Guardian of the Galaxy" and that you're interested in being a NASA Planetary Protection Officer. That's great!
Our Planetary Protection Officer positions is really cool and is very important work. It's about protecting the Earth from tiny microbes when we bring back samples from the Moon, asteroids and Mars. It's also about protecting other planets and moons from our germs as we responsibly explore the Solar System.
We are always looking for bright future scientists and engineers to help us, so I hope you will study hard and do well in school. We hope to see you here at NASA one of these days!
Dr. James L. Green
Director, Planetary Science Division
Jack also got a phone call from NASA's Planetary Research Director Jonathan Rall at the agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C. Rall congratulated the 9-year-old on his interest in the position.
Courtesy of NASA
NASA's Planetary Research Director Jonathan Rall
"At NASA, we love to teach kids about space and inspire them to be the next generation of explorers," Green said in a statement. "Think of it as a gravity assist -- a boost that may positively and forever change a person's course in life, and our footprint in the universe."
The Planetary Protection Officer position has not been filled yet. According to the job posting, the application process will close on Aug. 14. If you are interested, apply here.
"Although the Planetary Protection Officer position may not be in real-life what the title conjures up, it does play an important role in promoting the responsible exploration of our solar system by preventing microbial contamination of other planets and our own," NASA said in a statement.
When 4th grader and self-proclaimed "Guardian of the Galaxy", Jack, wrote to us about applying for a job, we replied https://t.co/932pj3Q50B pic.twitter.com/RhcGdnzGAw
— NASA (@NASA) August 4, 2017