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Duane Lowell Bickel, 89, passed away at home in hospice on May 15, 2019, due to Corticobasal Degeneration, a rare Parkinson's-like disease. His beloved wife, Darrcy Loveland Bickel, and caregiver, Grace, were by his side.
A native Californian, Duane was born November 16,1929, to Willie Alma Cooksey Bickel, a nurse, and Earl John Bickel, a radio patrolman with the LAPD, who died in the line of duty when Duane was 7 years old. Duane attended Verdugo Hills High School and received a bachelor's degree with a double major in Mathematics and Physics from UCLA and an MBA from the University of LaVerne.
Duane joined Lockheed Aircraft Company as a Mathematical Analyst upon graduation, and was a pioneer in the field of Computer Graphics. He held management positions in computing, including Department Manager of Advanced Technology. He was responsible for computer procurement, notably, purchasing the first Cray supercomputer, the most powerful computer of the time; and participated in the famed 'Skunk Works.' We know little else of his career, as he strictly complied with Department of Defense secrecy requirements. When Lockheed merged with Martin Marietta, Duane chose not to accept a move to Georgia, and took early retirement. He was entrusted with the keys to the company's operations in Burbank, where he turned out the lights and locked the doors for the last time.
Duane and his wife of 49 years, Patricia Mary Covick Bickel, a teacher and docent, deceased in 2002, moved from Glendale to enjoy retirement in Laguna Beach. They were members of St. Catherine Siena Catholic church and active in the community.
Duane and Darrcy Loveland, attorney, married in 2004 and celebrated their 15th wedding anniversary this month. Duane was a romantic asking Darrcy to marry him flying in a hot air balloon over Temecula with a champagne brunch in a vineyard upon landing. Duane and Darrcy enjoyed traveling the world but were always glad to return home to Laguna Beach.
Duane was fun-loving, honorable, a gentleman and a role model for his entire family. He was active in many Laguna Beach organizations and a member of both St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church and Laguna Beach United Methodist Church. He was Secretary and Treasurer of Neighborhood Watch, a presenter at Police Awards events and a member of the Exchange Club, helping to organize pancake breakfasts and purchase and wrap Christmas gifts for needy families. For over 30 years, Duane attended breakfasts weekly with his gang of men friends that he said met to solve the problems of the world. Duane also organized the annual Woods Cove End of Summer party.
Survivors include his wife, Darrcy Loveland Bickel; a daughter, Janice Fenster, and her husband Alan, of Tiburon; a son, Glenn Bickel, of Westwood; Georgia Bickel; four grandchildren: John, Henry, Peter and Madelyn Bickel of Georgia; and brother-in-law, Bill Dunagan, of Kansas, husband of Duane's deceased sister Lorraine.
Friends and relatives are invited to attend Duane's Celebration of Life on Friday, May 31, at 1 p.m. at the Laguna Beach United Methodist Church, 21632 Wesley Drive, with a reception to follow in the church Fellowship Hall. In lieu of flowers, contributions are requested in Duane Bickel's memory to any of the following: Laguna Beach Seniors, Laguna Beach United Methodist Church or St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church.
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Cobalt (CO, Larnaca) is set to make its African debut towards the end of the year, the Cypriot hybrid carrier's Egyptian GSA has revealed.
Speaking to Al Shorouk newspaper this week, Elhamy El Zayat said Cobalt had filed an application with the Egyptian Ministry of Civil Aviation to start 4x weekly Larnaca-Cairo Int'l flights beginning in early November. The route will primarily target European vacationers who visit Cyprus and who may be interested in onward excursions to North Africa.
The ch-aviation schedules module shows that despite its proximity to the African mainland, and with a sizeable expatriate community resident on the continent, Cyprus has very weak commercial aviation ties to Africa with EgyptAir the only operator in the market. At present, it plies a daily Cairo-Larnaca return service using its EgyptAir Express unit's E170s.
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Ingredients: Chioggia beets, pickled carrots, chickpeas, baby kale, apple cider dressing (apple cider vinegar, dijon mustard, olive oil, salt), white vinegar, salt, sugar
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These instructions assume that you have a working Pulp installation first. If you have not yet installed Pulp, please follow the Pulp installation instructions, and then return to this document.
The command line examples included here are written for systems that use yum as their package manager, and systemd as their init system. Please season to taste if your system is different.
Consider stopping httpd. If you need it to keep running other web apps, or if
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Shipping with Amazon
Amazon is creating its own shipping company specifically for its third-party sellers. "Shipping with Amazon" is expected to launch soon and should provide tremendous relief to sellers and buyers everywhere.
Amazon Taking On UPS and FedEx for FBA Amazon Sellers
Amazon's plan seems to include taking UPS and FedEx out of Amazon's shipping equation by shipping Amazon third-party sellers' products to customers itself.
The move makes sense for Amazon financially, who rapidly has had to spend more money on shipping than they have in years past. Business Insider reports that the Seattle-based company has had to spend a larger percentage of its money on shipping as its customer base has grown. The percentage has gone up every year since 2006.
This isn't the first time Amazon has worked to improve its shipping in recent years. E-Commerce Times notes that the company has taken other steps in the past to address these issues as well.
Amazon has relied on third-party shippers for many years, but those firms have tended to become overwhelmed and backlogged during the critical Christmas holiday delivery season.
To address the shipping challenges, Amazon has experimented with drone deliveries. It also created a service called "Deliver With Amazon," which lets local delivery services partner with Amazon to get packages to local customers. It has expanded its network of warehouses and fulfillment centers to locate merchandise closer to customers. Amazon also acquired a fleet of freight aircraft for its Prime Air business and built a US$1.5 billion hub in Kentucky.
However, this is certainly the biggest change Amazon has made to date with regards to its shipping.
Amazon and New Shipping Options by Christmas 2018 for Itself and 3P Sellers
"Shipping with Amazon" should be in full swing by the time the 2018 holiday season comes around. The program is expected to first launch in Los Angeles within the next few weeks as a test run before potentially expanding to other regions. Once Amazon sees how it stacks up with its competition, the company can determine whether to give the service a shot elsewhere. Amazon will even consider expanding its service to non-Amazon sellers down the line.
So, how could Amazon's new shipping services impact third party sellers and their businesses?
Amazon Shipping's Benefits to Third Party Sellers
Simply put, Amazon may do a better job of shipping Amazon Sellers' goods to consumers. Historically, Amazon has succeeded in increasing quality and lowering prices in many areas. The benefits, if they are realized, should inure to Amazon Sellers.
Additionally, Amazon is planning to make shipping cheaper through "Shipping with Amazon." Customers won't have to spend as much if they choose Amazon's shipping option, which will mean more business for sellers as well.
Axios praised Amazon for the move.
Amazon provides a master class on building a virtuous cycle, continuing to lower its costs as more third parties ship with Amazon. Those savings could then be reinvested into lower prices for Amazon's consumers, ultimately extending its reach over the competitors who use its DAAS service.
Amazon Shipping's Detriments to Suspended Amazon Sellers
If Amazon is the shipping company, Amazon 3P Sellers may face a major problem. Often, Amazon Sellers are suspended because of problems with shipping. The products arrive late or damaged. The customer complains and the 3p Seller is suspended. Amazon Sellers often argue in their Plans of Action that the root cause of their suspension was the shipping. Suspended Amazon Sellers often tell Amazon in their Plans of Action that they will address the root cause of the suspension and improve themselves by using a different shipping company.
Suspended Amazon Sellers that use Amazon shipping who would have blamed the shipping company will be faced with blaming Amazon itself…..which has not been a very successful argument in the past when an Amazon seller is suspended.
Shipping with Amazon Causing Loss of Well Paying Jobs
FedEx and UPS might be trouble after this move. Layoffs could occur for well paid UPS and Fedex employees. Amazon is the biggest retail company on the planet, and much of FedEx and UPS' business comes from online shopping. If the biggest sales giant isn't going to be using those two companies' services anymore, UPS and Fedex could face significant losses.
This article was researched and written by Anders Jorstad. Anders is a content creator for Rosenbaum Famularo, P.C., the law firm behind AmazonSellersLawyer.com. Anders will be earning his degree in journalism from Hofstra and has 5 years of professional journalism experience. He has written for numerous online and print publications including SB Nation and The Hofstra Chronicle.


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The legend behind Valentine's Day!
Valentine's Day is all about love, proposal, marriage, hearts, roses and a lot more. Every February 14, across the globe, candy, flowers and gifts are exchanged between loved ones, all in the name of St. Valentine. But does anyone know who is this mysterious saint, and where did these traditions come from? Let's find out more about Valentine, this year before celebrating it.
The Catholic Church identifies three different saints named Valentine or Valentinus and all of them were martyred. One of the stories argue that Valentine was a priest who lived in the third century in Rome. When the Emperor Claudius II declared that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and families, he prohibited marriage for young men. Valentine was against this law and defied Claudius. He still encouraged marriages and continued to perform marriage rituals for young lovers in private as a secret. When Valentine was caught for his illegal activities by the Emperor, he was sentenced to death as the punishment. The story seems quite lovable and stands as a symbol of love for the romantic couples.
The other stories are not as passionate as the previous one. One of them says that the Valentine may have been killed for attempting to help Christians escape harsh Roman prisons, where they were often beaten and tortured. Another legend claims that an imprisoned Valentine actually sent the first "valentine" greeting himself after he fell in love with his jailor's daughter, who visited him during his confinement. Before his death, it is alleged that he wrote her a letter signed "From your Valentine, "we are still into it. Although there are many stories regarding the Valentine and Valentine's Day, there are some commonalities for all. Every story emphasize his appeal as a sympathetic, heroic and most importantly romantic figure. Because of this fame, by the Middle Ages, Valentine became the most popular saints in England and France.
While some believe that Valentine's Day is celebrated as St. Valentine's feast day in the middle of February in an effort to "Christianize" the pagan celebration of Lupercalia. Lupercalia was a fertility festival dedicated to Faunus, the Roman god of agriculture, as well as to the Roman founders Romulus and Remus. There was another belief which existed in the France and England that February 14 was the beginning of birds' mating season, which added to the idea that the middle of Valentine's Day should be a day for romance. By 18th century, it became a common thing for friends and lovers of all social classes to exchange small tokens of affection or handwritten notes, and in 90's printed cards began to replace the traditional hand written letters due to improvements in printing technology. Thus, Valentine's Day turned out to be the most romantic day for love proposals, happy Weddings and love making. Happy Valentine's Day folks!
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Guest post: How important is the quality of open data?
By Dr Dennis McDonald, Senior Consultant at BaleFire Global
At risk?
Martin Doyle's Is open data at risk from poor data quality is a thoughtful piece but doesn't address this question:
Should data quality standards observed in open data programmes be any different from the data quality standards observed in any other programmes that produce or consume data?
My first response is to answer with a definite "No!" However, I think the question is worth discussing. Data quality is a complex issue that people have been wrestling with for a long time. I remember way back in graduate school doing a class project on measuring "error rates" in how metadata were assigned to technical documentation that originated from multiple sources.
Just defining what we meant by "error" was an intellectually challenging exercise that introduced me to the complexities of defining quality as well as the impacts quality variations can have on information system cost and performance.
Reading Doyle's article reminded me of that early experience and how complex quality measurement can be in programmes that are designed to make data accessible and re-usable.
One way to look at such questions is in terms of trade-offs. Would we gain more benefit by exposing potentially faulty data files now to public scrutiny and re-use than we gain by delaying and spending more time and resources to "clean up" the data before it's opened up for public access?
Setting aside for the moment how we define "quality" -- and not all the points made by Doyle are directly related to quality -- database managers have always had to concern themselves with standards, data cleaning, corrections, and manual versus automated approaches to data quality control. In fact, I'm not convinced that "adding" quality control measures throughout the process will significantly add to costs; in fact, adding quality control measures may actually reduce costs, especially when data errors are caught early on.
Ripple effects
One thing to consider when deciding whether or not to release data that may not be 100% "clean" -- whatever that is defined to mean -- is that it is a basic principle of open data that others will be free to use and re-use the data. If data are distributed with flaws, will re-use of that data compound those flaws by impacting other systems and processes that may be beyond the control of the issuer? Plus, if downstream problems do occur, who gets to pay for the cleanup?
Quality expectations
Data quality concerns in our own lifetimes have become central to commerce and communication as transactions of all types have moved online or onto the web. Buying, selling, and managing personal shopping, health, and financial affairs reliably place a high emphasis on data accuracy, completeness, and reliability. We're used to that. Our high expectations of data quality are at least partly due to how purpose-built systems with specific functions are expected to operate by delivering support for specified transactions. Data quality issues can directly impact system performance (and sometimes profitability) in immediately measurable ways. The same can also be true of data provided by open data programmes.
As Doyle reports, the move to more open data by governments (he focuses specifically on the UK but I think his observations are widely relevant) exposes issues with how some open data programmes are managed and governed. Such issues can include a variation in data standards, inconsistent or incompatible business processes, variations in software, and occasionally, outright sloppiness.
Even when you do everything "right," though, you may still run into problems. I remember once I was managing a large software-and-database consolidation project where, even after many hours of analysis and data transformation programming and testing, there still remained a group of financial transactions that were unable to make it from System A to System B without manual processing. It turned out that there were basic incompatibilities in the two systems' underlying data models due to their having been built on different accounting assumptions. What one system considered to be an outright "error," the other system considered to be 100% correct.
What's the remedy for situations where there are potentially so many areas where errors and data quality variations can creep into the system? Doyle's solution list is logical and straightforward:
- investing in standards that make data consistent
- ensuring encoding methods are used and checked
- ensuring duplicate data is always removed during frequent data quality checks
- removing dependency on software that produces inconsistent or proprietary results
- ensuring governance that avoids confusion
It's not all about standards
Note that the above solutions are not all about formally-developed and de facto "standards" -- though obviously standards are important. What is also needed is a recognition that publishing data is part of an ongoing process. Success depends not only on the adoption of standards but also on the ability to manage or at least coordinate the people, processes, and technologies that need to mesh together to make open data programmes effective and sustainable. Quality variations occurring at one location in the change may have no impact on that point and may not show up till later.
Who's in charge?
Blaming one company or product line for open data programme failures, as seems to be the case in ComputerWeekly.com's [Microsoft gets flak over "rubbish" UK data](http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/public-sector/2014/09/microsoft-gets-flack-over-rubb-8.html "ComputerWeekly.com article: Microsoft gets flak over "rubbish" UK data"), is simplistic. A lot of gears have to work together in an open data programme that depends on technology, software, and organisations working together. One crucial question concerns the last thing mentioned in Doyle's list: governance. Who's in charge? Who has authority, responsibility, accountability? Ultimately, where's the money to come from? And, who is responsible for managing expectations about how the system will perform?
Open data programmes wherever they occur can involve many different players who have to work together even though their loyalties lie with different organisations. If participants don't share a common purpose and strong central or top down leadership is lacking or unavailable, does that mean that open data programmes and their emphasis on standards are doomed?
Of course not. Support for open data at all levels of government is still strong. Planning exercises such as the World Bank's Open Data Readiness Assessment Tool explicitly recognise policy and governance issues as being important to the success of open data efforts.
Still, there certainly are real issues that need to be managed. These include not only the types of data problems mentioned in the ComputerWeekly.com article but also process changes associated with data standardisation that I have written about before.
Sharing as platform
Open data system development involving multiple systems and organisations is manageable when people are willing to work together in a collaborative fashion to pursue realistic and sustainable goals and benefits. Participants also need to share information about what they are doing, including the provision of "data about the data" as provided in the Open Data Institute's Data Set Certificates.
My own reading of the situation is that such sharing is occurring, partly as an outgrowth of the "open data" movement itself, and partly as an outgrowth of the increasingly social nature of work as more people become accustomed to information sharing via modern tools, relationships, and networks.
While social networking and sharing are no substitute for leadership, they do provide a platform for collaboration in all the business and technical areas relevant to open data.
Regarding the question, "How important is the quality of open data?" My answer is "Very important." One of our challenges, then, is to make sure that everyone involved in the process sees -- and understands -- how what they do along the way does have an impact on open data quality.


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The first day of the rest of my life: A hangover (HOW much champagne did I drink!?), a busy hour opening and reading cards, some frantic packing, a train to London, and a photograph of my wedding ringed hand in a posh London hotel suite just before heading off for a fabulous meal and an earlyish night!
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2019 SJ Food and Farm Fest
The SJ Food & Farm Fest is an interactive festival where people from urban areas can meet people who own peri-urban rural properties and who produce food, products and services that benefit our community. For one low entry fee, for all adults only, the community has the opportunity to participate in a variety of simple fun activities, demonstrations and listen to a number of very talented speakers all designed to raise awareness of the importance of soil health to the health of our plants the animals that eat the plants and ultimately US.
Guest speakers at the 2019 SJ Food & Farm Fest include:
Sabrina Hahn from ABC radio's "Roots and Shoots", and Josh Byrne from the ABC's Gardening Australia.
Garry Heady from Beyond Gardens, Linda Bonney and Peter Fearns (Fermented Foods), Nancy Scade (Australian Native Nursery), Paula Pownall from GrubsUp (all about growing crickets), Robyn Brown on worm farming and Tanvier talking about permaculture.There will be a variety of other demonstrations to keep you captivated on the day including Watching drones at work; Wicking beds demonstrations; St Johns teaching the principals of CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation); you'll learn how to de-husk macadamia nuts and the kids can learn how to make a worm farm and take a little one home.
There are great activities for the kids including arts, making musical instruments and making music, face painting, craft activities, camel rides, pony rides, and a petting zoo. There is even a pumpkin rolling competition for both big and little kids.
This year there is a fantastic new school scarecrow competition that you get to vote on to choose the winner.
2019 sees the Alpaca Society and the Waroona Poultry Society holding their breed shows for the first time at the Food and Farm Fest.
There will also be a great variety of stalls to wander about and an excellent range of healthy foods to enjoy, you can sit on a hay bale and munch on your lunch while you listen to a variety of music under the big gazebo or on the hill under the trees.
Reception Speakers area:
10.00am Bee Winfield - Helping to mitigate climate change by improving soil health
11.00am Josh Byrne - Importance of soil in the landscape
12.30am Blue Sky Bread - Sourdough bread
1.30pm Sabrina Hahn - Importance of Soil Health for Gardeners
2.45pm Nancy Scade - Know your soil type before you plant (Australian Native Plants)
The Mall Speakers area:
10.30am Paula Pownall - Grubs Up – growing crickets for protein
11.30am Linda Bonney - Food Fermentation Demonstration
1.15pm Tanvier Fowler - Building soil life with Permaculture
2.30pm Garry Heady - Improving the Soil for more Productive Gardens
Quarry Farm is hosting the 2019 Food & Farm Fest with its great facilities and picturesque outlook, so come with the family and enjoy the fun and festivities on Sunday 5th May 2019. Quarry Farm is located at 1475 South Western Hwy, Whitby.
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WPCR Alumni Meet-Up
Meet up with past students in WPCR and see what they've been up to, build and create an anti-racist community to continue the action of change.
Please contact WPCR on our Facebook Page or via our contact person if you have interest in participating in an alumni meet-up
Check out Boston's Anti-Racist My Knapsack is Not Invisible MeetUp Group
Description taken from their MeetUp page
This a meetup group for folks who see racism as a white problem and/or are interested in learning about the systemic role of whiteness in our society. We'll feed y'all (nothing fancy) and let you peruse the largest collection of anti-racist literature in New England (not to mention, you'll meet some great folks). Sometimes we'll have a reading, a talk, a movie and/or sometimes, we'll just put up our feet and rest and/or roll up our sleeves and get our hands dirty ;).


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The Jet Star Comfort Zone Challenge is asking Singaporeans if they are up to an adventure of a lifetime as they take on Australia's Top End!
Calling out to Singaporean urbanites, city slickers, and aircon-addicts who are perhaps more comfortable in a shopping mall than the the 'outback'! Or, if you prefer exploring the online social world to jogging by the reservoir then you just might be who Jetstar is looking for!
This April, two Singaporeans will have the chance to take a step out of their comfort zone and take an adventure with the offer to 'Take On Australia's Top End' and take a seven-day trip of a lifetime.
From tropical beaches to giant crocodiles, ancient rock art to lush rainforests, the lucky pair will experience some of the greatest natural and man-made wonders, and the true spirit of Australia.
"We are looking for city dwellers who enjoy their creature comforts, and typically plan destination holidays with lazing on a beach and shopping on the top of their list. Why? To show that you do not need to be an adventurer to conquer Australia's natural wonders. All you need is a sense of adventure and an open mind to experience something new," says Charles Leong, Managing Director, Tourism Northern Territory Representative Office Singapore.
With this amazing part of Australia so close to Singapore, we can explore the natural beauty, taste incredible cuisine and enjoy a lifetime adventure. With Jetstar flying low cost to Darwin and just four hours away, Australia's Top End and the vast outback really is right in our backyard!
So, if you have a sense of adventure within you and want to fulfil this dream then complete the Jetstar survey HERE
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Day 196: SImps VS BATS
Tonight join me as we watch the Stanford Improvisors face off against the BATS Company players, each hoping to take home the coveted Chicken trophy. The trophy, by the way, was made by the amazing Ron Madson, my husband.
Pictured here are Ted DesMaisons and Marshall Yuan, former Stanford Improvisers. Wonderful to hang out with scores of returning SImps for Stanford's Homecoming.
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A Whale of a Tale
Taking photos of giant marine mammals can be tricky. First of all, they simply can't be counted on to show up on set on time. Whale watching tour companies chart the movement of known pods and individuals to ensure that their trips offer the most likely chances of seeing whales but even then, getting dramatic images is challenging. What can you do to ensure that you get the best shots?
I have ventured out to sea to observe whales off the coast of Canada, spending what seemed like a lot of money for tickets, donned puffy and unattractive whale watching suits and went flying over the water in a zodiac only to find that whale tourists outnumbered the whales. (I didn't let go of the side of the boat so no way I could take photos.)
This weekend as I sat on my deck I heard shouts from a boat just off shore. As I looked up I saw a giant creature leap from the water. At first sight I had no idea what it was and involuntarily yelled out, "What was THAT??? A neighbor on the beach yelled back, "It's a whale!" For nearly an hour the whale stayed in our neighborhood spy hopping (see definition here), blowing and feeding. It was thrilling to see this giant creature so close to home.
At one point some kayakers in the water sought shelter by hanging on to a fish farm float in the water a few hundred yards to the north of us. The whale immediately swam directly up to them and lurched into the air. When I next looked the kayakers had made haste to the shore perhaps chased by visions of Moby Dick.
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Like many wonderful photo opportunities, this one came out of nowhere. Many of my neighbors were on the beach with their cameras and binoculars. At least five people took photos but when it was all over, no one had a picture that was identifiable as that of a whale.
How can you ensure that you will be ready when the next unanticipated action shot presents itself? A photographer I spoke to this week about his adventures with whale watching told me about a most unsatisfactory whale-watching trip with his family. His advice, "Don't forget your camera."
|© Ankimo
|© Hwinther
Photographing the behavior of animals is similar to sports photography. You must watch and be aware. Anticipate what will happen next so when the action unfolds, you're ready. Is there a repeating pattern to the action? After we watched only two breaches, a pattern was revealed. The whale surfaced, cleared its blowhole and then immediately began spyhopping. After a few jumps, it would roll on its side, leaving the enormous fin waving around on the surface while it fed. Then it would dive and stay under for 10 or 15 minutes. The photographers on the beach needed to watch for the blowing spout as the whale surfaced to take a breath. This was the clue that the above water action was about to start. I've been told that in the North Atlantic, the water turns a lime green just prior to a whale surfacing. That is something to watch for on tours in that part of the world.
Part of the reason that my neighbors had so much difficulty capturing the action was the cycling time on their point and shoot cameras. The faster the camera, again obviously, the more likely you are to catch any action…be it whales or action sports. If you are on a whale-watching trip in a small boat like a zodiac, you should be prepared for a lot of spray as the small boat speeds into position. Take care or you'll come home with a wet camera. Most tour companies usually offer tours in both the more flexible zodiac and a more protected, larger boat.
Another problem if you are shooting from shore in Alaska or the Pacific coast where migrating whales come close to shore, is that you may find yourself shooting into the sun. Time your whale watching tours to avoid this positioning if possible. "Our whale" moved about the area in and out of late afternoon sun reflecting on the water, but the savvy photographer could have gotten a great backlit silhouette.
Tips on whales and other marine mammals: in US waters there are restrictions on how close one can be to certain species of marine mammals. The boat that was near our whale chased the whale as it moved about and went right up within a few yards of it when it breached presumably to get photos. This is illegal and just silly as the whale could inadvertently hit the boat and also the creature is so big that a better image might be from a distance where the entire animal can be seen.
If you encounter a whale while on a non-tour boat, don't go closer than 100 meters to the animal. Don't try to pet or feed the whale. San Ignacio Lagoon in Mexico is a protected sanctuary for whales and visitors can get very close to the animals there. Strangely we have no images from this widely visited, although somewhat isolated place.
|© Nbda31
Whaling is a very controversial topic. Whenever there are disputes, there is need to illustrate the issues. We have no images of the giant Japanese factory ships that process whales nor anti-whaling protests on land or the boats that chase the factory ships.
Keywording: Searching on 'whales' reveals that some photographers seem to agree that a dolphin is a whale. It's not! Some think sharks are whales. They are not! Please use care when naming animals. Don't simply copy keywords from others without doing your own research. Just because a number of images are labeled a certain way doesn't mean that they are all correct.
Illustrators have a great advantage over photographers when documenting illusive subjects like whales. The illustration of the Killer whale here is a great example of how the illustrator's skill can take us where it is very difficult for a photographer to go.
More information on identifying types of whales here and here
Photo credits: Andy-kim Möller, Brett Atkins, Adam Hurley, Fritzkocher, Henrik Andersen, John Abramo, Napocska Leina, Andriy Nekrasov, Outdoorsman.
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I've just come back from a Whale watching tour in Italy. I could see a couple of Fin Whales and it was a fantastic experience. I had already seen dolphins and whales in New Zealand years ago, but I could go to such tours every day and be surprised and touched every time in the same way.
After reading of Ankimo's experience I wish I could leave and go to Canada right now!!!
Thanks Boughn for your very interesting article. Unfortunately the whales I saw didn't jump out of the water and we could only see their fin, but I can't complain!
So interesting to learn of your experience. It explains exactly why the whale came up to the kayaks here. We are only just 160 miles from Vancouver Island so maybe that whale was the same one you saw!
Thank you for choosing my humpback - kayak image. I did a 5 day whale - kayaking trip at vancouver island and i was so amazed, because the whales have no fear of kayaks.
In a kayak you have no chance to chase a whale so you always get whales that are interessted in you. On the image above we saw a humpback with its calve diving maybe 300 meters away from us and our experienced guide told us to paddle a little bit further and stand together. Only a few seconds later the whale and the calve popped through the surface only 15m away from us. They stayed for around 10 minutes inspecting the kayaks. It was an amazing experience.
I experienced same situations with orca (pure adrenalin), seals, otters and bald-eagles. All of them are less shy when you sit in a kayak.
Apologize my poor english, but i swear i gave my best ;)
Very grand picture, it is very difficult for me to take such a picture in Beijing.
Oops...yes Orcas are in the dolphin family but dolphins aren't in the whale family. Orcas are the most prevalent marine mammal here and since we call them whales...I slipped up. Sorry and thanks for the correction.
Great article. and kind of funny for me to read just one week after I was on a whale watching tour. Although you say whales are not dolphins, orcas are in the dolphin family.
very nice ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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1Pôle Santé Mentale et Addictologie, Centre Psychothérapeutique de Maubeuge, Centre Hospitalier Sambre Avesnois (CHSA), Maubeuge, France
2Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
3Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d'Amiens, Neurologie, Amiens, France
4Data processing consultant in mathematics, Brussels, Belgium. Unfortunately, JPVG died in May 2006
5Unité de Neurosciences cognitives (NESC), Place du cardinal Mercier 10, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Received date: June 02, 2018; Accepted date: December 11, 2018; Published date: December 18, 2018
Citation: Granato P, Shreekumar V, Godefroy O, Gansberghe JPV, Bruyer R (2018) Measurement of the Ability to Recognize Facial Emotions over the Adult Lifetime in a Supra-Normal Sample. Clin Psychiatry Vol.4 No.3:55
Copyright: © 2018 Granato P, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
This study on a culturally homogeneous small sample of white Caucasian French population opens many areas for future research, for replication in various other groups, clinical diagnostic studies, and early therapeutic interventions.
Recognition; Emotions; Measurement; Aging; Healthy subjects; MARIE; Supra-normal
The ability to express and recognize facial emotions (RFE) comes before language [1,2]. This is due to an innate competence [3-13]. Emotions enable a high level of social interaction throughout our lives [14-16]. During the aging process, it appears that 1) control of our emotions improves [17] and 2) the expression and experience of negative emotions decreases, whereas these abilities to express and experience emotions increase for positive emotions with aging [17]. According to Malatesta et al. [18], the ability to recognize anger, fear, and sadness decreases with age. Moreno et al. [19] state that the ability to recognize joy improves, while the ability to recognize sadness worsens. In the opinion of these two authors, the recognition of disgust and surprise is higher. Calder [20,21] reports that aging: 1) leads to a decrease in the recognition of fear, sadness, and anger, and; 2) aging has no effect on the recognition of disgust. Bucks et al. [22] note that older subjects have difficulties recognizing anger. Sullivan and Ruffman [23] report reduced ability to recognize anger and sadness, while joy is well recognized by older subjects.The research work on RFE shows a heterogeneity of: 1) demographic features of samples (sex, age, level of education, ethnicity, linguistic and cultural background, and cognitive level), 2) the canonical emotions used (number, type), 3) the measuring devices, and 4) paradigms used and experimental situation [24-29].The aim of this work was: 1) to demonstrate validity of a computerized measuring device (M.A.R.I.E.) for the RFE of the standardized representations of emotions in the series prepared by EKMAN without the use of language; 2) to examine the decision process involved in the recognition of facial emotions at different ages; 3) to study the effect of demographic factors, and; 4) to observe how the aging process affects the recognition of facial emotions.
Functional imaging (fMRI) locates brain regions that are activated during the recognition process of static or natural in other words canonical or prototypical emotions, and dynamic or morphed (blended or "intermediate") emotions comprising the emotional series (ibid SE) [30-32]. Our work aims to measure in numerical format the ability for facial visual recognition of two "static" (pictures 1 and 19) (unblended) and seventeen "dynamic" emotions (pictures 2 to 18) that are all blended. Our results should allow us to refine the statistical correlations in future between localized brain activation and 1) emotional typology, 2) emotional intensity, 3) static images, or 4) dynamic images.
The tests were set up using software that was developed for this study (Method of Analysis and Research of the Integration of Emotions: M.A.R.I.E) [33-35]. It was inspired by a previously used method [36-39]. M.A.R.I.E. examines the decision making of the subject when shown a photograph ("image") of a face that expresses a "canonical" or "intermediate" emotion. The canonical emotions [5] are anger, disgust, joy, neutral, fear, surprise, and sadness, all of which are expressed on the face of a "blonde woman", a "brunette woman", and a "man". We have created nine series of emotions (SE): anger-fear, anger-sadness, joy-sadness, neutral-anger, neutral-disgust, neutral-joy, neutralfear, neutral-surprise, and neutral-sadness. Each SE was made up of two canonical images number 1 and 19, and 17 intermediate images created by blending or merging both canonical images using computer technology [6]. Photographs of the "brunette woman" and "man" were lent by Paul EKMAN.
The methodology is discussed in detail in the previous articles by the principal author and the current authors in the Open Journal of Psychiatry. It is not practical to describe it detail here but is very simple for the subjects to grasp. [33] The other tools used by Ekman and others are computer programs for morphing of two canonical images with graded mixing of pixels. They are easily and amply available on the Internet.
Between April 2000 and April 2005, we enrolled 204 healthy, right-handed, native French-speaking volunteers (according to 10 items of the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory, Oldfield, 1971) [40] between the ages of 20 and 70 years at the "Clinical Investigation Centre" of the Lille's University and Regional Hospital complex. We formed seven groups, by age-bracket: three ten-year brackets for the subjects between the ages of 20 and 50 years, and four five-year brackets for the subjects between the ages of 51 and 70 years. Thirty subjects were recruited in each age bracket (except for the 66-70 group, n=24) for varied results evaluating the effects of sex, age and level of education. Each subject provided informed written consent in accordance with requirements of the Ethics committee overseeing the research with human subjects. This mono-centric (contrasted with multi-center study, conducted at a single site) study consisted of a controlled, randomized test (subjects were not randomly assigned to experimental and control groups) (randomized applies to random choice of emotional series), carried out as a single blind study of the parallel groups and without giving any direct benefit to any individual subject. Subjects were blinded to the goals and purposes of the study and were given no knowledge of what responses were being measured or evaluated. Eyesight and hearing, with or without aid, was optimum. Participants were given a medical consultation to determine history, current medications, and check for neurological disease, diabetes, hypertension, and psychiatric problems, amongst others. This consultation consisted of 1) structured interview: Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI) [41], 2) Mini Mental Status Examination (MMSE) [42], 3) Hamilton scale for anxiety (HAMA) [43,44], 4) Hamilton scale for depression (HDRS) [45], and 5) a blood and urine drug test. Subjects over the age of 50 were given a cognitive assessment consisting of the 1) Mattis Dementia Rating Scale [46] and the 2) episodic memory: Grober and Buschke scale (Table 1) [47-49].
|Age Bracket
|Sex (M/F)
|Level of education (1/2/3)
|Grober et Buschke
|23.2 ± 3.13
|8 ± 1,1
|10 ± 1,1
|35.3 ± 2.42
|8 ± 1
|9 ± 1,3
|44.8 ± 2.53
|7 ± 0,9
|10 ± 1,2
|53.2 ± 1.29
|9 ± 1
|11 ± 0,8
|144 ± 0,8
|16 ± 1 /16 ± 1/16 ± 1.2/16 ± 1.6/16 ± 1.4
|57.9 ± 1.44
|8 ± 0,8
|10 ± 1
|143 ± 1,8
|16 ± 1 /16 ± 1.8/15 ± 1.5/15.5 ± 2.1/15.2 ± 2.1
|63.2 ± 1.37
|8 ± 1,1
|9 ± 1,1
|142 ± 03,1
|16 ± 1.1 /15 ± 1.4/16 ± 1.9/14 ± 1.3/15 ± 2.1
|67.9 ± 1.59
|9 ± 1
|9 ± 0,8
|142 ± 3,8
|16 ± 1 /16 ± 2/15 ± 1.9/15 ± 2.3/15.3 ± 2.7
Table 1: This table displays all main the main effects and interaction effects of the M/ANOVAS analyses performed on alexithymia and OE.
Inclusion criteria for participating subjects were: men and women of ages between 20 and 70 years; women were not menstruating at the time of the testing for the REF; a score on the HDRS scale below 10; a score on the HAMA scale below 14; visual acuity (corrected or uncorrected) of 20/20; blood and UDS testing negative for drugs, alcohol, and no ongoing medical treatment; able to understand and sign the protocol, comprehend the methodology and; carrying health insurance. Exclusion criteria were presence of neurological or psychological disorders, belonging to the same family as another participating subject, use of any psychoactive drugs for a prolonged period before their visit, and pregnancy. Any subject who did not meet the inclusion criteria was excluded from the study. Any subject that met any exclusion criterion was not included in the sturdy.
Setting up of stimuli
An "intermediate emotion" does not completely represent either a canonical emotion "A" or a canonical emotion "B"; it is a controlled "combination" or morph created by computerized blending that is inversely proportional to the pixels of the two canonical images "A" and "B". Each SE was specified by the increase in the gradation of emotion's pixels "B": 0%, 10%, 20%, 30%, 35%, 38%, 41%, 44%, 47%, 50%, 53%, 56%, 59%, 62%, 65%, 70%, 80%, 90%, and 100% (Figure 1).
Each subject was seated in the same quiet room, facing a laptop screen while each of the images (10cm x 18cm) or "stimulus" (emotion stimulus, ES) was shown. The "stimulus" was shown in the center of the upper half of the screen. On the lower half of the screen, 1) labeled underneath the canonical image, to the left of the stimulus, was the name of the canonical emotion "A" (with 5° angle), and; 2) labeled underneath the canonical image, to the right of the stimulus, was the name of the canonical emotion "B" (with a 5° angle) (Figure 2). Images of the blonde woman were presented first, followed by images of the brunette woman, and finally images of the man.
The random order of the stimuli was the same for each subject (9 ES x 19 images per SE=171 stimuli for each poser). The canonical images of each series were labelled and were the two last stimuli at two ends of the series except in the case of the series for man's face.
The subjects undertook a forced-choice binary test by pressing with their right hand on the left or right button of the computer mouse, using the index or the middle finger. The stimulus remained on the display until the subject responded. The order in which the SE's were displayed was: anger-fear, anger-sadness, joy-sadness, neutrality-anger, neutrality-disgust, neutrality-joy, neutrality-fear, neutrality-surprise, and neutrality-sadness. The three first combinations were called "bipolar" and the last six were called "unipolar" due to the presence of neutrality as canonical expression A. A pause of one minute was applied after each ES similar to that estimated for repolarization of the brain after electrical stimulus. The duration of each ES was 2 minutes on average.
The nine following "measures" have been taken into account: 1) measures No. 1, 2, 8, and 9 corresponded to responses to the stimuli No. 1, 2, 18, and 19, and; 2) measures No. 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 corresponded to the average of the responses to the stimuli No. 3, 4, and 5; No. 6, 7, and 8 ; No. 9, 10 and 11; No. 12, 13, and 14, and; No. 15, 16, and 17, respectively. The saturation in emotion B was 0%, 10%, 28.3%, 41%, 50%, 71.7%, 90%, and 100%, respectively.
All of the subjects first passed a trial on a monitored task. They used the same skill of decision making on a test having to choose between two possible answers, but applied to a series of geometric intermediate images originally forming a continuum with square and circular outlines. The monitored task did not involve perception of emotion.
Reproducibility study
In order to verify the reliability of our procedure in which each subject only responded once to each stimulus, we carried out a "control test – retest" on a sample of 13 healthy subjects (6 women and 7 men) between the ages of 29 and 41 years (35 ± 5 years). These subjects took the test five times at 5-minute intervals. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were identical to those of the main sample. The individual standard for the consistency of the answers throughout the repetitions was measured at a minimum of 4 identical answers out of 5 (or at least, a concordance of 80%). The average level of concordance was 93.1% (blonde woman=93%, brunette woman=92.5%, man=93.9%). The benchmark of 80% concordance was passed in 481 / 513 cases (it was 100% in 108 cases).
The 32 remaining were tested against the value of 80%, by means of a unilateral Student's t-test: no result was significantly lower than this value. It therefore was confirmed that conducting the test for each SE once would be of sufficient validity and reliability. The ratio of discordant responses were not significantly influenced by sex (F(1,26)=1,53; p=0.218), age (F(6, 1,8)=1; p=0.405), or level of education (F(1, 2,8)=1,64; p=0.2).
The results were analyzed using variance analyses (ANOVAs), for which the "inter-subjects" factor was the age bracket (n=7) and the "intra-subjects" factors were face (n=3), emotional series (n=9), and measure (n=9). Analysis was implemented using the Bonferroni test (inter-subject factor) and by comparison (for repeated measures). For multivariate analysis, Wilks' Lambda was used. The alpha risk was fixed at 5%. The dependent variable was the number of answers "B". We used the software SPSS v.11 (SYSTAT Software, Inc., SPSS.com). The comparison of the qualitative demographic variables was carried out using Chisquare test.
We analyzed the subjects' performances using multivariate analysis. We carried out an analysis of covariance, with the level of education as the co-variable, and the age bracket (n=7), as inter-subject factors. The intra-subject factors were face (n=3), emotional series (n=9), and measure (n=9). The multivariate test Wilks' lambda was used, and subsequent analyses were performed with Bonferroni correction with a level of significance of 0.001.
Performances did not differ according to age bracket (F (6,19669)=1,35; p=0.2) (Figure 3)or according to level of education (F (1,1587)=0,6; p=0.4). The effect of measure was significant (F (8,189)=3896; p=0.0001) (Figure 4), as was the effect of face (F (2,195)=10; p=0.0001). The effect of the face was linked to a significantly higher level of responses "B" for the images of the man (62%) than for the images of the blonde (60.3%) and brunette women (59.7%) (Figure 5). The level of recognition of emotion "B" was significantly different on the degree of pixel saturation of the emotion "B", (F (8,189)=28; p=0.0001) (Figure 6).
The effect of the measure resulted from the increase in the number of responses to "B" with the increase in the saturation of the emotion "B" in the stimulus. The evolution of these two variables was not proportional. The graph of the answers has the appearance of a sigmoid curve (Figure 6). The maximum number of responses was reached at measure number 7 (faces 15, 16, and 17 of the series). A 100% saturation of emotion "B" did not lead to 100% recognition by the subjects. The same was true of emotion "A". As a result, it was concluded that 1% of this supranormal sample was unable to recognize canonical emotions.
The effect of the series was linked to the number of responses to "B": 1) significantly lower for the neutral-anger series (51.67%) than all other SEs and 2) significantly higher for neutral-joy (68.71%) than all other SEs (Figure 7).
The significant "face*series" interaction (F (16, 181)=11; p=0.0001) was linked 1) to a lower level of recognition of the anger-sadness and the joy-sadness series for the blonde woman and a higher recognition of the neutral-joy, and neutral-fear series; 2) for the brunette woman, to a lower recognition of the neutral-surprise and neutral-anger series, and a higher recognition for the neutral-sadness series; 3) for the man, to a lower recognition of the neutral-anger and a higher recognition for the neutral-joy series (Figure 8).
The significant "age bracket*face*series" interaction (F (96, 1032)=2; p=0.0001) was mainly linked to an important dispersion of the responses to "B" according to age. In addition, the responses for the entire set of emotional series of images of the blonde woman were dispersed, except for neutrality-disgust and neutrality-fear (Figure 9a). For images of the brunette woman, all of the emotional series were dispersed, except for neutralfear (Figure 9b). For images of the man, all of the emotional series were dispersed, except for neutral-disgust and neutralfear (Figure 9c). Regardless of age bracket, the responses rates for "B" were very similar for images of 1) the blonde woman: neutral-disgust, neutral-fear; 2) the brunette: neutral-fear; 3) the man: neutral-disgust, neutral-fear. The neutral-disgust and neutral-fear series had thresholds for recognition independent of age, and the responses were unaffected by the aging process. The scattered nature of the results for the neutral-joy series was significant. The recognition of the neutral-joy series improved with age and depended on the face presented in the images.
The samples of participants
The aim of having 30 subjects for the last age bracket was not achieved as planned, due to the difficulty of including subjects over the age of 65 with 1) an MMSE score of 30 or above, 2) a Mattis score higher than 140, 3) an optimum result in the Grober and Buschke test, and 4) who do not take any psychoactive drugs or medicines. The strictness of the inclusion criteria resulted in our selecting a "supra-normal" sample. On the positive side, this sample was homogeneous, as we had wished. Being able to control the cognitive factors meant that we could better appreciate the effects of sex, age bracket, face, series, and measure on the recognition of emotions.
Despite the higher cognitive functions, 1% of this sample of supranormal culturally homogeneous subjects did not recognize the canonical emotion "B" when all the representations of emotions were blended, merged, mixed, and randomly displayed. It is possible that this percentage could increase in a normal population with a heterogeneous cognitive level. Additionally, comparative studies on the recognition of emotion using "normal samples" that have different cognitive levels would be useful in the understanding of behavioral problems and aggressiveness in social interactional settings. Studies of participants with cerebral lesions or psychiatric pathologies appear to be possible now due to the existence and availability of these quantified benchmarks. The prerequisite is to confirm these benchmarks for various "normal samples" by replicating similar studies.
The faces
The level of recognition of the emotions differed according to the faces in the images. The performances of the participants for the three faces showed an advantage for the man over the two women, without any difference between the women. Furthermore, the effect of the face was quantified as it was found in several significant interactions: face*series, face*series*measure and face*series*age.
The learning process must be taken into consideration. Considering the order in which the images were presented: 1) blonde woman, 2) brunette woman with canonical emotions pictures, and 3) the man's ES without canonical emotions pictures the subjects will have a practice effect by the time they are exposed to the series of man's images. For this last series without canonical images, the aim was to put the subject in the most ecological condition as in real life there are no prompts for identifying emotions with subtitles. Paradoxically, we observed that: 1) the scores were lower for the brunette than for the blonde, and 2) the performances for man's ES were the best. The absence of the learning process between the blonde woman (first) and the brunette (second) could be explained by certain parameters: 1) the quality of the photography (contrast, blackwhite balance), 2) African-American origin, 3) the identity of the face 4) sympathy / antipathy / empathy, 5) theory of mind, or 6) other unknown parameters. The effect of the learning process (practice effect) could explain the high performance on the man's ES, despite the more confounding experimental conditions without prompts. However, the interference of the previous factors, including sex, should not be ruled out.
The significant differences between "face*series" interaction could be explained by 1) certain faces are able to better express certain emotions, and 2) the sample was more sensitive to a certain type of face and emotions. The performances or responses to the bipolar series were scattered, except for the anger-fear series. Surprise was very poorly recognized when displayed by the brunette woman (47.9% versus 61.6% for the blonde woman and 65.2% for the man).
The recognition of facial emotion does not merely depend on the emotion that is expressed on the face. However, this hypothesis suffers due to having a low number of stimulus faces in the experiment. Nevertheless, the ethnic origin of the stimulus faces and of the sample that was enrolled should be taken into consideration in this type of research. The systems involved in recognizing emotions could depend on many more parameters than solely that of the face's identity and the emotion that is being tested. This hypothesis would explain the paradoxical aspect of the performances depending on the different faces. Faces reflecting different ethnicities (White, Asian, African, aboriginal, etc.) should be tested in a variety of ethnic populations with the aim of testing this hypothesis. The technical quality of the canonical and intermediate emotions photographs should be agreed upon among the researchers for the best comparisons.
The aging process
Our study highlights the lack of change in the ability to recognize emotions with advanced age. This study supports the findings of Phillips et al. [50,51], but does not support [52]. Calder et al. [20,21] hold an intermediate position. According to Calder al., the aging process leads to a strong decrease in the ability to recognize fear and, to a lesser degree, anger. Our study showed a trend of scores becoming lower for the bipolar series, and for the three faces, as the population grows older. Aging did not seem to significantly affect the recognition of anger, surprise, and sadness for the three faces. It seemed more likely that recognition of disgust and fear was unaffected by age. The recognition of joy improved with age for all three faces.
Emotion series
The measures of ability to recognize each emotion showed significant differences when all of the faces were mixed up or randomly displayed, although interactions such as "series*face", "series*face*measure", and "series*face*age" did exist. The emotions "anger" and "surprise" were the least well recognized in the unipolar series. Joy was the best recognized, followed by fear and disgust. Observation of the average performance for the recognition of emotion, showed an increasing progression: anger, surprise, disgust, sadness, fear, and joy, with joy as the most recognized. These results point towards the possibility of a unique emotion recognition system with differential treatment of the emotions: 1) poor for anger and surprise; 2) higher for disgust, sadness, and fear, and; 3) highest for joy. This hypothesis from these findings concerns with underlying neuronal circuits in the brain of "autonomous system" for experiencing and expressing specific emotions with an index of innate emotions, with no relationship between it and other systems. What should also be remembered is that, for one of the faces, "the man", there were no photographs from the source of the emotion series shown on the screen, and in spite of that the scores were the highest.
The idea of emotional expressions and their recognition being "universal" in humans is defended by Ekman [4] and Darwin [12], but this would be true only for some and probably not all emotions. A study with M.A.R.I.E. of socially and ethnically different groups and the most primitive or aboriginals (without the influence of culture and civilization) would offer enriched information due to the numerical quantitative results. Our results reinforce the idea of an organic substratum for fear, disgust, and joy. Such organic substratum hypothetically has autonomous system of neuronal circuitry in the brain. Disgust and joy would be resistant to the effects of the aging process in the hypothetically postulated teleological aim to ensure the sustainability and survival of the human species. Joy is the emotion most recognized. This recognition improves with aging and depends on the face that expresses it. The recognition of joy could allow a meeting between a group of people and, more precisely, between two people of opposite sex, perhaps assuring sexual relations leading to sustainability of the species. The sensitivity to fear may be to ensure the survival of the species in the context of the contagiousness of fear in instant nonverbal communication. The same mechanism may be operating for the nonverbal recognition of disgust in the context of the group's negative response to food.
The recognition of any given emotion would therefore have many influencing factors. The following should be taken into consideration: 1) the age of the observer, 2) the emotion type, 3) the intensity of the emotion, 4) the identity of the face, 5) the emotional state of the observer, 6) the environmental context (Ekman and O'Sullivan 1988), and 7) the dynamic or static aspect. The background for our experiment was not intended to be ecological or ethnological. There was no bias in this research as to which factors will reduce or increase the performances. This lack of bias was constant, although the researchers were not blinded. Only subjects were blinded to the purpose and objectives of this study. The findings were based on statistical and mathematical analysis, and therefore, were not influenced by any bias in the researchers. As is the technical quality of the photographs of the faces M.A.R.I.E. was a constant, as it has always been used in the same conditions, with 204 subjects whose scores on HAMA and HDRS and cognitive tests were in the normal range and whose MMSE, Mattis scale and Grober and Buschke scale, related scores consistently fell in the average or above average range. To repeat, this consistency in the high cognitive level of this population, selected with all the inclusion and exclusion criteria, is what leads us to label this population "supra-normal".The bipolar emotion series had percentages of recognition of emotion that were fairly close or within a narrow range. This was an artificial series. An opportunity to measure the responses to a larger number of bipolar series would have been useful for drawing more accurate inferences and conclusions. This would have enabled us to individually call upon either 1) the distinct systems for the specific recognition of each of the canonical emotions, or 2) a unique system of recognizing emotions. The difficulty of recognition of bipolar series should seek more intensely the organic substratum of these recognition systems whose activity could more easily explored or mined through functional imaging (fMRI). Despite these qualifications, it is worth noting that secondary emotions, i.e., a mix of two basic or canonical emotions, are frequent in daily life. For example, a mix of surprise and sadness leads to disappointment.
The results and some of the conclusions of this study may intuitively appear to be universally applicable. However, since this study is on a small sample of white Caucasian French speaking culturally homogeneous population, these results may not be entirely applicable cross-culturally. Studies will need to be replicated with the same methodology in other countries, with populations with other ethnic, different social-cultural backgrounds before universal aspects of recognition of facial emotional expressions can be discussed in detail. The experimenters will need to use culturally compatible stimulus facial photographs and morphs. The presence of cultural relativism operating in this field will need to be reckoned with.
M.A.R.I.E., the software tool that we used to measure the visual recognition of facial emotions, appears to be relevant for such research with significantly high validity and yields rich quantitative information. This study focuses on establishing the value of standardization in quantitative and qualitative research, which will serve as a reference for later studies.
The results of this study are in agreement with findings of currently published studies. The findings confirm that joy is the emotion that is most recognized, comprehended and understood by humans. We learned that: 1) anger is the most difficult emotion to recognize, and 2) aging alters the ability to recognize an emotion. A certain emotion on a certain face will be recognized significantly differently by people of different ages.Based on these findings, we conclude that the ability to recognize an emotion depends on many factors: the type of emotion, the facial identity, the age of the observer, and other factors that we may not have yet identified. Our measure of the recognition of emotions would actually only be the measure of a combination of these factors. Also, we recognize that measuring the recognition of emotions could be viewed as a mistaken approach in the future when more advanced research in this area reveals more specialized knowledge. It may be necessary to define or specify what we intrinsically believe to be "emotion", and whether it is only an entanglement of neuropsychological and neurobiological processes, which take into account all of the identified and non-identified factors impacting neurobiology with innate endowment modified by learning, social interaction and enculturation in human species, or is it possible that all emotional experiences and expressions are totally autonomous and independent of the social environment in which the human infant is raised. Authors have an obvious bias resulting from the above findings that experiencing and expressing emotions as well as the acuity and accuracy of their recognition and discernment in humans are based on organism-environmental interactions and developmental factors influencing them and could be significantly disturbed by severe emotional traumatization, abuse and neglect, sensory and social deprivation, etc. especially in infancy leading to dyslexithymia or alexithymia evident in so called normal populations as well as in disturbances seen in the expression of emotions usually as signs of psychopathology.
After demonstrating the benefit of the device, M.A.R.I.E., to measure the ability to recognize facial emotions (RFE) with validity and reliability, we consider it to be useful to compare M.A.R.I.E. with other measuring devices. This will allow us to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses, as well as flaws and special qualities, of M.A.R.I.E. It will be an enormously useful tool as a software for future basic and applied research and diagnostic studies in the area of recognition of facial expressions of emotions.
The above discussion and conclusions naturally lead the authors to encourage future research with cross-cultural studies to continue the work of Paul Ekman and current authors. The most challenging will be research with minors to explore the Developmental Line of this ability and determine if infants, school age children and adolescents have full development of this ability (RFE) or if they have any developmentally normal limitations. It would be also enlightening to study the geriatric population that is delightfully normal cognitively as against cognitively compromised unfortunate geriatric populations with major as well as minor Neurocognitive Disorders. The interaction of this ability (RFE) with emerging functional and organic psychopathology in all age groups and the reversible and irreversible impact of psychopathology on this crucial ability that helps maintain social relatedness, trust, and signal sending power in human communication, communication of needs, both physical and emotional. It will be soon measurable as a result of numerical aspects of this and similar tools. The literature previously cited acknowledges five such computer-based software tools that are accepted by the scientific community, M. A. R. I. E. being only one of them. M.A.R.I.E and other similar tools will be useful in early diagnosis of the disturbances of RFE manifested in degenerative and functional brain disorders.
This work was supported by the grant 1998/1954 of the Programme Hospitalier de Recherche Clinique of the French government. Thanks are due to Paul Ekman who gave permission to use photographs from "Unmasking the faces" (Ekman & Friesen, 1975) and to Olivier Lecherf who designed the computer program for processing and displaying the pictures. This study was made possible thanks to the Centre d'Investigation Clinique (CIC-CHU/INSERM, Lille) and the Laboratoire de Neurosciences Fonctionnelles & Pathologies CNRS UMR 8160 CHR U Lille.


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So what is the most distracting food to have in the car while driving around Maumee?Is it: A Hamburger; Coffee; A Soft Drink, or Gummy Bears? Well, you may be surprised to learn that all but the gummy bears are in the top ten most distracting foods when you are driving. But if you chose 'coffee,' then give yourself an extra two points. Coffee is the number one food distraction for drivers in Maumee and around the country.Food distractions cause 25 percent of all car accidents; over a million and a half each year!You'll notice that all of the top ten distracting food items are messy. Messy foods are the types of food you might spill (very distracting!), then try to clean up (a safe-driving impossibility!). If you gotta eat on the run, take five-then drive. You'll thank yourself later for two reasons: one, that you can actually relax for just a moment in our fast-paced world, and two, you won't have to worry about getting th ... read more
Hello Maumee - let's talk differentials. If you have a rear-wheel drive vehicle, your differential is on the back axle. With front-wheel drive cars, the differential is up front. All-wheel drive and 4-wheel drive vehicles have three differentials - front, rear and in the middle. So you see, you've got a differential (or two or three) and it needs service now and then.What does your vehicle differential do? Well, it compensates for the differences in speed between your outer and inner wheels in a turn. Using the dimensions of a typical car, let's compare the distance the wheels travel from the start of a turn through to the completion of the turn.The inside wheel travels about 12.6 feet/3.8 meters. How much farther does the outside wheel travel? About 18.8 feet/5.7 meters – over 6 feet/1.9 meters more. This means the outer tire has to rotate 9 times in the same amount of time that the inner tire has to rotate only 6 times - so the ou ... read more
Today in our Lange`s Auto Care, Inc. blog, we're going to talk about following recommended service intervals. Your vehicle isn't the only aspect of your life with recommended intervals: What about six-month dental cleanings and regular physical exams? Then there's laundry, mowing the lawn, paying your electric bill, changing your furnace filter - you get the idea.Now, what would happen if you didn't follow these intervals?For one thing, your teeth may get more cavities. You might not discover health issues that benefit from early detection and treatment. And you'd have to wear dirty clothes, be embarrassed by your overgrown lawn and have your power shut off.We all realize there are some things in life that we have to take care of regularly. If we don't, there are negative consequences. Our quality of life diminishes and it inevitably costs more money.Have you ever wondered, "How often should I bring my car in for scheduled maintenance?"  ... read more
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Today we want to talk to Maumee drivers about timing belts. They're something that many drivers don't know much about and yet your vehicle won't run if it's broken – and it could cause many thousands of dollars damage if it does break. A broken timing belt is usually a tale of woe. Even though timing belt replacement is scheduled in the owner's manual, it's not the kind of thing that most Maumee area auto owners remember because it's not well understood.Let's review what a timing belt does. As most know, the engine's power is generated in the cylinders. A piston rides up and down in the cylinder. During the first down stroke, an intake valve at the top of the cylinder opens and air and fuel is drawn into the cylinder. Then the piston returns to the top, compressing the fuel and air mix. At the top, the spark plug fires, igniting the fuel, pushing the piston down in the power stroke. As the piston once again returns up in the final stroke of the cycle, an exhaust valve opens at t ... read more
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Hello Maumee drivers! Need a new battery? There is a good chance that you do – 70% of batteries need to be replaced within four years. As your battery discharges and then recharges as you drive around Maumee, bits of the surface of the battery plates disintegrate. As this process continues over a few years, the alternator has to work harder to supplement the battery charge. Over time, enough of the battery is damaged that it can no longer hold a charge and it needs to be replaced. This also speeds up wear on the alternator.Your Lange`s Auto Care, Inc. service advisor can help you determine the right vehicle replacement battery for the way you drive around Maumee, as well as the OH climate and durability needs.Contact Lange`s Auto Care, Inc. for information on battery replacement.Give us a call. Lange`s Auto Care, Inc. 825 Ford St Suite A Maumee, OH 43537 419-897-9988 http://www.langesauto.com ... read more
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