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If you've been reading this blog for a while, you know we dealt with these evil, stupid pantry moths for a while. Even once you nip them in the bud, you still continue to look over your shoulder for their fluttering wings.
I've been quite surprised and almost alarmed that this has become one of the most popular posts on NOH. I don't know if that's because these moths are becoming more prevalent (I can't remember ever having them or hearing about them growing up) or if I'm just more aware of them now. But to put it in the words of the Waterboy's mama, "These bugs are the Devil!"
I decided to put together a free comprehensive guide for those who are battling pantry moths but getting nowhere. I know it can be frustrating and feel like you're not progress, but you're not alone. Find out what you need to know about the life cycle of these little buggers, how to sweep your home of all traces of them (plus what you're looking for exactly when you search for them) and how to keep them from coming back! Just enter your best email address below, confirm your address in the email you get immediately after and start reading. You'll also start receiving the NOH News weekly newsletter with recaps of what has been happening on No Ordinary Homestead, tips, contests, blog highlights, personal insights from me that you won't find elsewhere and more!
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If you've had pantry moths in your home, what did you do to get rid of them? Or are you still battling them months/years later??
I've been putting off writing this post…because to be honest I'm totally repulsed by these things. In fact I am utterly disgusted by what I'm about to share with you. But they are an incredibly common problem in the kitchens and pantries of the world. And since we almost all buy staple products that have been sitting on a warehouse shelf for at least some stage in their lives, we're all at risk.
Let me forewarn you the following pictures are icky, gross and not appetizing in the least. They may even cause you to get the creepie crawlies or the heebie jeebies. I apologize in advance.
A few months ago, I noticed a fine, silky webbing in what I thought was an airtight container of oats. Then I saw it in some cereal, a container or rice and so on.
"What the heck is that??" I thought. And then I pulled out a package a wheat germ, ready to bake some muffins and found this guy on the bottom of the package:
GROSS! These little larvae actually make me want to hurl. But at the same time they also make me really mad that they think they can invade my pantry and eat our food. I mean seriously.
Meet the pantry moth, properly know as the Indian Meal moth (Plodia interpunctella). They are usually most active in summer months, and that's when they got really bad for us…but they will hang with you for a long while and having you praying every day that you don't see any more traces of them. And they will hunt down those little kernels of wheat germ that drop to the bottom of the box or spilled flour on a shelf and begin a thriving colony in your home.
I now have a vendetta against these creatures in all stages of life. You may first notice the little brownish moths that flit around your kitchen. They will lay somewhere between 60 and 300 eggs which will hatch 2-14 days later. The mommy moth, wanting to take good care of her kids, will usually lay these close to a food source. Then, once they hatch, they don't have very far to travel before they start to feast. The larvae/worms look a bit like small caterpillars are a whitish-yellowish color with little black heads and about 2/3-inch (1 cm) long. They will burrow into anything and everything they can find, continuing to eat for 2 – 41 weeks, depending on the temperatures. They take longer to complete their life cycle in cooler weather. And once they are finally full and have left behind their tell-tale webs, they will find crawl off somewhere looking for a cozy place to nest and spin a cocoon. This will often be crevices in your kitchen you don't normally see or maybe even where the ceiling meets the wall. They seemed to find that a particularly nice nesting place in our house.
So not only will you find these delightful creatures in your pantry, but sometimes you will actually be lucky enough to see them crawling across your ceiling. We went into the kitchen one morning and I swear there were no less than 5 of these things crawling around up there. We promptly killed them and hoped not to find anymore. But there were more…there always are.
I seem to find moths in cycles, after a couple of them seemed to have hatched at once. They're very easy to catch in your hand and then I just smoosh them in a paper towel or on my dirty work jeans. And I have to say I'm really not a fan of bugs, but somehow killing those moths is a pleasure.
The only really good way to get rid of these evil creatures is to go on a massive cleaning mission. You need to take everything out of your pantry, cabinets, etc and wipe it down. Make there there are absolutely no food crumbs anywhere. They don't need much to feed and they will find even the smallest collection of crumbs to live off of until you still some flour or a bag of rice and forget to clean it up. If you have your cabinets lined with paper, remove it and put down new stuff. I'm pretty sure these moths would LOVE to nest under the paper.
Indian meal moths will eat a lot of things, from dried fruit to nuts, grains, rice, cereal, OATS, powdered milk, chocolate, candy, seeds, pet food, crackers, pasta…they will seriously devour just about any sort of staple in your pantry, leaving silky webs in everything. You can sift out the webbing but in the case of nuts, they will probably eat a hole through every nut in the bag which really tends to make them a lot less appetizing.
And apparently, they love to nest under things you don't use very often…
I have a collection of baskets on top of our very high kitchen cabinets that I don't too regularly. The took a liking to one basket in particular which had some sort of fruit in it at one point (it's been a few years so I can't remember anymore). So I was moving some of the baskets around, searching for something, I go to lift this one down and notice that there is a pantry moth jamboree taking place.
Disgusting! So this basket promptly went into the trash and I did as good a job dusting up on top of there as I could. I didn't find any more of the bugs on the other baskets but I can assure you I inspect each one of them closely now before I use them.
Apparently these things tends to overwinter and we might get a rash of pantry moths hatching in April. I just can't wait. Until then, I have quarantined all packages of oats and wheat germ to the freezer (they seem to be especially tasty and I have to wonder if I brought them in with the oat packaging from Lidl). I also keep a very close watch on all of my "airtight" containers that don't really seem to be as airtight as originally thought.
How to Get Rid of Pantry Moths
- To prevent pantry moth problems, carefully inspect every package you buy for signs of tiny little holes. I honestly never saw anything when I bought the foods and if you're looking at something that has flaps or is a bag inside a box (like cereal), you likely won't see any evidence of them until you get the box home.
- For foods that you rarely use but are especially susceptible to pantry moths (like seeds or spices), try to buy smaller quantities that you can use up quickly. I know it's not always economical but it can save you a lot of headaches. Or make sure that the items are stored in the fridge or freezer, airtight containers to prevent infestation.
- If you think something could be infected or see evidence of infection, do one of the following:
- place it in your freezer 0°F for four to seven days
- microwave it for five minutes
- bake it in a shallow pan or tray in the oven at 140°F for one hour or 120°F for two hours. Stir food periodically to prevent possible scorching.
- Dried fruits can be placed in cheese cloth bags and dipped into boiling water for six to ten seconds to kill external pests.
- Sift the food to remove insect silks and any larvae that may be pigging out at the buffet. Silks and bugs will not harm you if eaten, just make you gag if you realize you've eaten one.
- If you are certain insects have been killed, contaminated food like seeds or nuts can be used outdoors during winter months for bird feed.
- If you've had an infestation, the only sure way to prevent them from continuing to grow is to start cleaning like mad. Take everything out of your cabinets and vacuum up every trace of food, no matter how small. Pull out appliances from your wall and clean behind and under them with soap and water.
- Immediately destroy or bag any cocoons or worms you might find and heavily infested bags of food. Get them as far from your house as quickly as you can. Don't just leave them sitting in your garbage can in the kitchen for a week or two. Bury them, squish them, drown them, take them out to the curb…just get these pests away from your home and their food sources.
- Be vigilant and constantly on the lookout for them. As I mentioned, we have been dealing with pantry moths (well more than larvae than the moths) for several months now and I have really had enough. The numbers are certainly fewer now but I have not torn apart my kitchen yet to clean up anything and everything I can find, but I do think I have eliminated all of the major problem areas. So we'll see what happens!
- Be especially careful wen purchasing grains, flour, seeds, pasta, spices and dry pet food. They seem to find birdseed especially tempting.
- If you continue to find moths, you need to make a another pass through your food stores and clean everything again. There are likely some holed up in a collection of plastic bags or in a box of brownie mix or an airtight container you think they'd never get into (or escape) — but they do!
Have you ever had pantry moths in your home? I have to say this is the first time I've ever experienced something like this and I was pretty surprised. I'm not a neat freak but I always clean up spills and keep my flour and things like that in snap-top containers. But apparently I either wasn't closing them well or they're just not truly airtight because I found a lot of webbing inside those things.
Update August 22, 2011
I purchased pheromone traps a few moths ago and these have made a huge impact on catching moths — but it still doesn't catch them all. I have bought many different kinds of traps at this stage because you need to change them every 6 months (they get full and the stickiness/scent decreases) but I find the ones that are open paper traps work far better than the little houses.
One of our big problem areas has been my spice cabinet so I finally had had enough last week and I tore the whole thing what I found was really gross.
I have a tendency to buy sesame seeds for one recipe and then swear to myself that if I buy the bigger, cheaper bag, I will find a great recipe to use the rest of them in. Or sprinkle them in my salad. But then I never figure out what to do with the rest of them. Now I know that I can just leave them out for pantry moths and turn it almost into a science experiment for Mackenzie. I was pretty amazed at the way these things just tunneled around in the jar, eating their way through the seeds.
It was really an entire pantry moth ecosystem inside this jar, from worms to moths to eggs galore. Oh joy.
So I hope and pray that this was what was causing my spice cabinet (which I have to admit is a regular-sized cabinet so kinda large) to be infested. I have caught and killed quite a few more moths since then. And found another package of spices that had a hole in it which they infiltrated. It went immediately into the trash.
I also discovered them inside a box of brownie mix that I was finally going to make, just to have it out of my kitchen. I tend to stay away from mixes and like to make my own, but we had a box that was sent in a care package from the US, so I though Mack would enjoy them. I did find it a bit strange that there was some chocolate powder on the top of the box, but didn't give it too much thought — then opened the lid and saw all the webbing inside and the moths. Into the trash it went (outside, not inside!)
I've also still been finding and killing a bunch of worms on the ceiling and walls in the kitchen lately, but not too many moths. My fear at the moment is that they have built a nest behind my kitchen cabinets — and if that is the case, I'm just going to have to wait them out. I hope that now that I'm seeing mostly worms, I will be able to kill them all and stop the cycle.
My pantry (which is a closed off room separate from my kitchen), also experienced an infestation over the last couple of months. I was killing moths like crazy in there whenever I walked in. The pheromone traps caught tons of them, and a lot I squished by hand. I have not yet found any major areas of infestation (aside from all the nuts I threw away at Christmas) so I'm keeping my eyes peeled for worms and what not. I just hope and pray things are under control in that room now.
Are they everywhere?
On a side note, we recently had a friend here who used to work for a major national drug store chain in the US. I asked her if they had ever had any run-ins with pantry moths (she immediately called them by their proper name of Indian meal moths) but said that there had been occasions when large amounts of food had been tossed out because moths had been found. They are actually required to throw out the food which is infested — but I have to wonder how many chains just fail to notice that they are infested, how many things get shipped out in winter months when the bugs are mostly dormant and as Chris comments below, how many non-food products are infested with these things as well. They will definitely build nests in small cracks and crevices, and I've heard that they love stuff like bunched up bags as well. So just because it's not food doesn't mean there are no moths in it.
Updated July 26, 2012
A little over a week ago we moved from the farm to an apartment in Berlin. I have been looking around for these crazy bugs with every thing I packed, and with everything I unpack. I managed to find a few dead ones in several places that had nothing to do with food at all (like between two flaps of cardboard in some boxed up espresso cups I rarely use) and trashed a few things that looked questionable before we even left.
I am hoping and praying that the moths and their larvae stayed behind at the farm and will be eradicated as the house sits empty. All of the shelves have been thoroughly scrubbed down there as well. So far I haven't seen any in the new place (knock on wood) so I will remain vigilant and pray that they don't resurface in something new we bring home.
I hope that if you are on a quest to destroy these pests, that your journey is swift and successful. There is a ton of good advice within the comments, so be sure to read them all!
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June 7th, 2010
What is Darth Vader's diagnosis?
By Elizabeth Landau
The manipulations of Anakin Skywalker, also known as Darth Vader in the "Star Wars" saga, have long been ascribed to the Dark Side of the Force. Now, psychiatrists suggests that the actions of the Jedi Knight could be used in teaching about a real-life mental illness.
A letter to the editor in the journal Psychiatry Research explores just what is wrong with Vader. French researchers posit that Vader exhibits six out of the nine criteria for borderline personality disorder. Unstable moods, interpersonal relationships, and behaviors are all characteristics of this condition, according to the National Institutes of Mental Health. It affects 2 percent of adults, mostly young women.
The young Anakin Skywalker was separated from his mother at an early age, and his father was absent, factors that could have contributed to borderline personality disorder. His "infantile illusions of omnipotence" and "dysfunctional experiences of self and others" are also indicative of this condition from an early age.
The researchers argue that Vader experienced two "dissociative episodes," one when he exterminated the Tusken people after his mother's death, and the other when he killed all of the Jedi younglings. He often showed impulsive behavior and had difficulty controlling his anger. He also may have showcased a disturbance in identity by turning to the dark side and changing his name.
Darth Vader may thus be used to educate the public about borderline personality disorder and help combat stigma associated with mental illness.
But Emory psychiatrist Dr. Charles Raison, CNNhealth.com's mental health expert, has a different take. In the original three movies - which are the last three chronologically - Vader appears to be under the control of an evil emperor, making his character difficult to ascribe to a psychiatric disorder.
UPDATE: Dr. Raison would like to clarify that his comment was specific to Darth Vader and not to Anakin Skywalker. "Anakin is a much better exemplar of personality disturbance," he says. "On the other hand Darth Vader laid down his life to save his son and kill the evil emperor when all was said and done. Perhaps there is a lesson here, too, on type casting people who struggle with personality disturbances?"
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I know rachel is attempting her own bicycle lighting project, so I am hoping that by putting notes on the wiki we can share ideas. Rigel
rigel's dynamo lighting system
This will be based around the Shimano DH-3N71 Dynamo hub. It outputs 3W at 6V. I'm not sure how the voltage or current changes as speed increases, but I am under the impression that it is fairly well-regulated internally.
Currently, I have it wired directly to a rectifier, whose output is a 220uF cap and a Cree XR-E LED. This produces light adequate to ride in the dark and avoid most obstacles. None of this is regulated in any way, so at low (slightly faster than walking) speeds it begins to flicker. This might be a problem for long steep climbs in the dark.
What I would like, ideally, is to have the ability to draw current from a li-ion battery pack when it begins to flicker. In addition, I would like to be able to charge the batteries, and additionally a cellphone if feasible, from the dynohub when i am riding in daylight. I have not found the drag to be noticeable from one LED, but presumably if drawing more current this could become a problem.
Since I am a n00b, I dont know the first thing about implementing this, but i have been led (ha!) to believe that i need the following modules:
- voltage regulator
- battery charging circuit
- led driver circuit
- 5V usb output for alternative uses
The cree LEDs are brightest, i'm told, when drawing 600-700mA. The voltage drop, i believe, is 3.3v per LED, and they are best wired in series to avoid thermal runaway (not sure why this happens, but it's been talked about on several forums i've seen, so i think it best to avoid it altogether) I would probably start with 2, but may use as many as 4 li-ion cells for this purpose.
What voltage regulator should i use? do i need a multiple output voltage regulator or should i step up the voltage in the battery charger module itself? what battery-charger IC should i use? what kinds of interconnects (i would like this to be modular for the working design) are waterproof (and cheap!), as i will be using this in potentially foul weather?


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Benh Zeitlin's "Beasts of the Southern Wild" won grand prize and best actor for Dwight Henry at the 14th Mumbai Film Festival, which wrapped Thursday.
Julia Garner took best actress for another U.S. film, Rebecca Thomas's "Electrick Children." Musa Syeed's "Valley of Saints," an India-U.S. co-production, won the special jury award while Anand Gandhi's "Ship of Theseus" (India) nabbed the jury award for technical excellence for DoP Pankaj Kumar.
Antonio Mendez Esparza's U.S., Mexican and Spanish co-production "Here and There" won for first feature.
U.S. helmer Andy Tennant ("Hitch") headed the international competition jury that also included Korean director Im Sang-soo ("The Housemaid"), Indian thesp Rahul Bose ("Midnight's Children"), French editor Pascale Chovance ("Bluebeard") and Brazilian filmmaker Sergio Machado ("Lower City").
Best film in the India Gold competition went to Ashim Ahluwalia's "Miss Lovely."
"Star Wars" producer Gary Kurtz headed the India Gold jury, the other members of which were the Tribeca fest's Geoffrey Gilmore, Cannes' Christian Jeune, cinematographer Declan Quinn ("The Reluctant Fundamentalist") and "Sleeping Beauty" helmer Julia Leigh.
Prize money this year totalled $220,000.
Chinese helmer Zhang Yimou was on hand to collect the international lifetime achievement award while Indian thesp Waheeda Rehman nabbed the equivalent Indian honor.
Fest opened Oct. 18 with David O. Russell's "Silver Linings Playbook" and closed with Pablo Berger's "Blancanieves" (Spain).


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So, I got an email from Historiann the other day, and she alerted me to the fact that I haven't posted on this here blog since December. No, I have not been basking in my promotion since December. I have been: 1) presenting at MLA, 2) dealing with program assessment, 3) serving on faculty senate, 4) dealing with department colleague craziness, 5) mentoring undergraduate research (I have two students going to a conference to present their own work next month!), 6) solving problems created by terrible communication and poor administration (involving being THAT full professor who EMAILS THE DEAN), 7) Getting rejected for an NEH grant ONCE AGAIN, in spite of POSITIVE REVIEWS of my application, 8) planning my NEXT book even though I'm STILL not done with THIS book, 9) conducting a functional, happy, adult relationship (don't you love how I buried that?), and 10) adopting a homeless kitten who (literally) showed up on my doorstep in March!
I know you wanted to see tiny Beatrix Sassafras. Don't deny it.
However, there is also another thing that I think neither you nor I can deny. I'm apparently done in this here space. I've resisted pulling the trigger, but it's time. Dr. Crazy of Reassigned Time 2.0 just isn't who I am as an academic anymore, or even as a person anymore. It's time to call it a day here, friends. I have so appreciated all of you who have been reading what I write, not only in this space but in Dr. Crazy's previous locations for the past 11 years. And while I am closing up shop here, I do think that I am going to reinvent myself in order to blog another day, though not as Dr. Crazy but as my Actual Self (though I've yet to figure out exactly how or where). If tenure means never having to say you're sorry (as a certain Madwoman once said), then full promotion means that you don't need a flipping pseudonym. I have things that I want to say now that I want to own, and I want to write in ways that speak to the value of my discipline, of the humanities in general, and of the work that we as faculty do in higher education. Basically, I've (finally) had enough of all of my bitching 🙂
So again, thank you all for your interest in what I've had to say, for your support when I've needed it, and for giving me a community when I felt like I didn't have one as an assistant and then associate professor. Without you all (and this isn't an exaggeration), I wouldn't have kept at blogging for this long.
So until we meet again. . . only next time it will be as "me" and not as the super-hero alter-ego that is Dr. Crazy.
(Oh, and a postscript: whatever happens in the new iteration of my blogging life, it will include updates on the kitties, because the internet exists for kitties.)


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'Horrible Bosses' is gleefully silly
"Horrible Bosses" wallows in silliness — gleefully, and without an ounce of remorse or self-consciousness — and even though you're a grown-up and you know you should know better, you will be happy to wallow right along, as well.
It's a film that's wildly, brazenly stupid — but also, you know, fun.
Because like "Bad Teacher," another recent raunchfest, "Horrible Bosses" knows exactly what it is and doesn't aspire to be anything more (or dare we say "better"?), and that lack of pretention is refreshing. It isn't trying to say anything profound about society or the economy or the fragile psyche of the post-modern man.
It's about three guys who hate their jobs and want to kill their bosses. And really, who among us hasn't pondered such a plan?
Naturally, no member of this trio is nearly as clever or sophisticated as he thinks he is. Together, they bumble and bungle every step of the way and occasionally, by accident, they get something right. But the dynamic between Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day as they bounce off each other is cheerfully loony, and the energy of their banter (which often feels improvised) has enough of an infectious quality to make you want to forgive the film's general messiness. Although maybe such a sloppy approach was intentional given the subject matter.
Seth Gordon, who previously directed the inspired documentary "The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters" (and the Vince Vaughn-Reese Witherspoon romantic comedy "Four Christmases," which we're going to try and overlook), introduces us to each of the horrible bosses with great style and punch off the top.
Bateman's Nick Hendricks, the group's voice of reason, has been toiling away under sadistic taskmaster Dave Harken (Kevin Spacey in classic shark mode) at some generically corporate-techie sweat shop. Nick keeps hoping to be rewarded with a promotion that never comes.
Sudeikis, as horny accountant Kurt Buckman, actually likes his boss at the chemical company where he works (Donald Sutherland in a cameo) — but upon the man's death, his crazy, coke-snorting son, Bobby (Colin Farrell), takes over with idiotic plans that surely will destroy the place.
And Day's Dale Arbus, an engaged dental hygienist, must endure endless and increasingly explicit sexual harassment from Dr. Julia Harris (Jennifer Aniston) — which, as his friends point out, doesn't sound so horrible. (If you're a fan of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," you'll be happy to see Day doing a similar brand of clueless man-child craziness.)
One night, after too many drinks, they hypothetically toss around the idea of knocking off their bosses. In no time this hazy notion snowballs into an actual plan, if you can call it that — they get some guidance from Jamie Foxx as an ex-con who suggests that each guy should kill another guy's boss to avoid any suspicious connections. (Screenwriters Michael Markowitz and John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein at least have the decency to acknowledge that they're stealing their premise from Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train.")
From there, a series of misadventures and showy performances carries the film through its suitably brief running time to its vaguely satisfying conclusion. Playing against type, Farrell is a cartoon character with his bad comb-over and his obsession with kung fu; his house is such a garish monstrosity, it must have been a blast for the production designers to piece together. Spacey is in his comfort zone as a commanding, condescending jerk; on the opposite end of the spectrum but just as over the top is Aniston, who seems freer than she has in a while as an aggressive vixen.
At the same time, it would have been nice to see the women in "Horrible Bosses" be in on the joke more often, rather than merely serving as the target of jokes. Aniston is a one-dimensional nymphomaniac; Julie Bowen, as Spacey's impossibly sexy wife, is a serial adulteress. Lindsay Sloane as Dale's fiancie is a wide-eyed innocent. The only other woman in the cast is an employee Farrell's character refers to as Large Marge.
As "Bridesmaids" proved earlier this summer, women are just as capable of carrying this kind of comedy as men — when given the chance.
Three stars out of four. Directed by Seth Gordon. Starring Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Charlie Day, Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Spacey, and Colin Farrell. Rated R for crude and sexual content, pervasive language and some drug material. Running time: 98 minutes.


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2005 Chevrolet SSR LS2 6.0
We froze our tails off in a 2005 SSR during a Michigan December so we could give you the lowdown on the upgrades that Chevrolet granted its sweet-looking but poor-selling retro roadster truck. Chevy didn't give us an SSR without a heater, mind you: we just dig convertibles, and the SSR's nifty tri-fold power hardtop is too cool to resist.
During our maiden SSR voyage to the 2003 Indianapolis 500 (August 03:78), we weren't impressed with its power, but said "it is probably fast enough" to be a boulevard cruiser. Not many people want a slow $41,995 cruiser, though, and sales were disappointing, with a 301-day supply as of December 1 (which prompted GM to halt production at the SSR-factory in Lansing, Michigan, for five weeks of the first nine weeks of early 2005).
For the SSR's third model year, Chevy finally woke up and added 390 hp and 405 lb-ft of Corvette power and an optional manual transmission. Also new is retuned steering, revised exhaust routing, the addition of a dead pedal, an optional mp3-capable stereo, and more.
The host of "Tool Time" would grunt about the 30 percent more horsepower and 22 percent added torque that the '05 SSR picks up from the Corvette-sourced LS2 6.0-liter V-8. With the new Tremec six-speed manual 'box, the 4760-lb SSR will blast to 60 mph in 5.3 seconds and through the quarter in the 13.8s, more than two seconds faster than the '03-'04 models. The new four-speed automatic is about two-tenths slower than the stick, but still gives the acceleration you'd expect from a "Super Sport Roadster." We'd be pretty pissed if we had an '03 or '04 model, however, because the '05 price increased by less than $500, and you'd have a hard time selling an underpowered, used SSR with such a surplus of the fast ones dormant on dealer lots.
The added muscle still doesn't make the Trailblazer-based SSR the hands-down choice of car buyers searching for an under-$50,000 toy. There are quite a few $45,000 roadsters out there today, most of which are just as quick as the new SSR, use higher-quality materials, and handle much better than the hefty truck. Even so, the convertible pickup doesn't have any apple-to-apple rivals, and it has a ton more cargo space than an Audi TT or Chrysler Crossfire.
Notice we didn't say "stowage space." While the SSR has 23.7 cubic-feet of cargo space in a carpeted bed that's capped by a nice hard tonneau cover (which leaked a bit in heavy rain), the truck is worse than a regular-cab S-10 for stowage space in the passenger compartment. The smallish door pockets are only hand-scrapingly accessible and the thin center console is big enough for a couple Clementine oranges and the owner's manual. Coaxing your grandmother's cat out of a tree is easier than closing the glovebox, which isn't big enough for the owner's manual. Smoker? Your pack of Winstons won't even fit in the nearly useless drawer next to the ignition. Nor will your cell phone. We wouldn't suggest budgeting space behind the seats for a jacket. And don't even get us started on the Little Tyke-quality flip-down cupholder, which jammed at the plastic pins when we tried to flip it closed once.
Still, GM does a good job of matching the SSR to its hot-rod image. Besides the head-turning looks, some of our favorite custom touches include the bow-tie side-marker lights, body color highlights in the interior, semicircular brushed aluminum doorhandles, round silver HVAC controls, and an optional wood-trimmed truckbed. The five-star 20-inch wheels in the back and 19s on the front are mega-sharp. Despite all of these slick custom elements, the corporate parts bin still contributed nasty pieces like the Cavalier turn-signal stalk and Suburban radio.
The nifty convertible-top mechanism is an impressive feat of engineering and a head-turner by itself (check out photos at www.chevy.com/ssr). Yet like your favorite drop-top of yore, the solid-looking convertible exhibits excessive top-up wind noise, body shake, and cowl shudder. Driving the SSR top-down is an invigorating experience, especially on a 30-degree Michigan evening, although the optional heated seats make this a tolerable trick. If you have the seats on low, though, there are detectable gaps on the cushion and seat that don't get the heat.
We drove the automatic, which shifts with the rapt authority of an American muscle car. If you want more influence in cog choice, you'll have to manually shift like you would in a Chevelle because there's no manu-matic mode. According to a few co-workers, the automatic is preferable for proving the SSR's worth as a smoky-burnout monster, even with fat 295/40R20 Goodyears fastened to the rear wheels. Further proof of its tire-searing intentions is that the traction control automatically disengages if you manually downshift into first gear.
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To throw light on famous figures of the Turkish modern medical school, this article introduces a set of nine posters on the contribution of eight late Ottoman and early Turkish physicians (whose careers spanned from the middle of the 19th century until the mid-20th century).
The shift in medical practice and learning from the Ottoman tradition, rooted in Islamic medicine, to the modern medicine, learned and practiced along western standard, is an important moment of the transformation that occured in Turkey and in the rest of the Muslim world since the middle of the 19th century. In this article, a set of PPT poster files endeavours to set light on this radical shift in scientific ideas and medical practice, through the glances on the lifes and works of eight famous late Ottoman and early Turkish physicians who had outstanding contributions in medicine. The posters were prepared by the students of the post graduate Medical History Course Workshop at Cerrahpasa Medical School, Medical Ethics and History Department at Istanbul University. They were presented in the 39th International Congress on the History of Medicine (September, 5-10, 2004), in Bari (Italy): Eight physicians study, Megaposter by Nil Sari, Esin Karlidag, Ibrahim Topçu, Elif Vatanoglu, Emrah Kurt, Ferda Gündogdu, Necla Kinik, Zeynep Belbez and Ahmet Ataman (see the list of posters in the congress program here).
The eight physicians whose biography and medical work were surveyed included: Esat Isik Pasa (1865-1936), Celal Muhtar Özden (1865-1947), Akil Muhtar Özden (1877-1949), Besim Ömer Akalin (1885-1940), Hasan Resat Sigindim (1884-1971), Hulusi Behçet (1889-1948), Ihsan Sükrü Aksel (1899-1987) and Münir Ahmet Sarpyener ( 1902-1982).
The work of this group of physicians allows a characterization of elements and, hence, provide a general view of the medical science of the period. All of the eight physicians were born during the late Ottoman period; they had medical education in an Ottoman medical school; then they went to a European medical center for training and research, and they all returned to Turkey, where they held official positions in the network of medical care, medicine teaching and medical research. Each of them was an eminent physician, who contributed to medicine by introducing one or more innovations or starting a foundation in different fields of medicine, such as ophthalmology, pharmacology, internal medicine, obstetrics, pediatrics, hematology, dermatology, neurology and orthopedics. These physicians and their work symbolize the peak of the efforts of the Ottoman intellectuals in modernising the field of medicine through the introduction of new discoveries, instruments, theories, and practices.
We must note also that most of them played political and social roles in their country, and contributed to the creation of professional organisations with a clear social and charitable dimension (Red Crecent, medical socities, etc.) In some cases, they participated to establish organs of the academic scene in Turkish modern medicine, such as the creation of institutions, chairs, and journals.
Hereinafter we present short summaries about the eight physicians and their works.
1. Akil Muhtar Özden (1877-1946)
Between 1896 and 1902, he was educated at the Medical School of Geneve, then he worked at the L'Institut Pasteur in Paris and prepared a doctoral thesis on ''Long Lasting Cerebrospinal Meningitis'. He carried out researches on ''chloralose' and ''opium alkaloids', which he carried out at Dr. Mayor's experimental therapy laboratory, and were published in French. In 1909 he was appointed to the Civil Medical School of Istanbul as a lecturer and embarked on a long career of medicine teaching (1908-1944).
Figure 1: Akil Muhtar Özden (1877-1946).
In 1926 he found the exact effect period for digitaline; and proved that 20 drops of oral digitaline started to be effective in 1-1.5 hours, with its maximum effect seen in 3.5 hours. This was an important discovery at that time because till then it was thought that it took as long as 12-24 hours for digitaline to be effective. This experiment came to be known as the Usskof experiment, for he made use of the Usskof device in order to trace the radial pulse rhythm and amplitude.
Figure 2: The colorimeter designed by Akil Muhtar for the Santonin Experiment to measure the detoxifying function of the liver.
2. Besim Ömer Akalin (1862-1940)
He was the founder of modern obstetrics and gynecology in Turkey. He contributed greatly in establishing the first obstetrics clinic and the first midwifery school in Turkey affiliated with the Medical School of Istanbul.
Figure 3: Besim Ömer Akalin (1862-1940).
In his medical research, Besim Ömer Akalin published on preventive medicine and public health issues (mouth hygiene, smoking, alcoholism, spas, sea baths, first aid etc.) His article on tuberculosis was the first to be published as a booklet for the campaign against tuberculosis. In an age when even the medical examination of women was not tolerated well by the public, he tried to establish scientific methods in modern obstetrics.
He also designed courses for uneducated midwifes and thus made possible a remarkable decrease in the mortality of puerperal fever. Among his other social activities linked to medical care, he contributed to the reorganization of the Turkish Red Crescent Society and had a leading role in founding the Society for the Protection and Care of Children, occupied the office of president of the Ottoman Society of Fight Against Tuberculosis, and one of the founders of the Turkish History of Medicine Society.
3. Celal Muhtar Özden (1865-1947)
In another medical field, that of dermatology, mention was made of Celal Muhtar Özden (1865-1947), who is famous for having promoted the Turkish Red Crescent. Indeed, he was General Inspector of the Turkish Red Crescent (1913-1925). He was distinguished by his simple and practical approach in his clinical education of medical students. The following phrase which he insistently repeated to his students during bedside visits, well demonstrate the importance he gave to clinical observation and practice:
Figure 4: Two books by Celal Muhtar Özden.
4. Esad Isik Pasa (1865-1936)
After his studies of ophthalmology in Paris School of Medicine, Esad Isik he was appointed as an associate professor of ophthalmology at the Istanbul University Medical School (1894) and then at the Military Medical School in Istanbul (1899). He established the first private ophthalmology clinic in Turkey, where he employed students from the senior classes of the medical school as his assistants and trained them. He crowned this professional career by being Minister of Health in 1912.
Joining concave and convex mirrors in 1903, he modified the original ophthalmoscope invented by the German physicist Helmholtz in 1851. This new ophthalmoscope was used widely throughout the world and was known as the Essad Ophtalmoscope.
5. Hasan Resat Sigindim (1884-1971)
The specialist of hematology Hasan Resat Sigindim graduated from the Civil Medical School in Istanbul in 1905. He continued his medical studies in Germany and in 1913, after his return to Turkey, was appointed as the director at Damascus and Beirut Medical Schools. In the period 1916-1933, he served as the Director of Internal Medicine Department and lectured on Physiology at the Istanbul University Medical School. Later on, between 1941 and1963, he served as a dermatologist at various hospitals in Istanbul.
An important mark in the career of Dr. Resat Sigindim is the discovery of Monocytic Leukemia. In 1913, while he was working at the Sankt George Hospital of Hamburg he observed that the blood samples from a patient diagnosed as acute myeloid leukemia had a very peculiar microscopic appearance. This was an uncommon form of leukemia where the predominating cells were monocytes. He published his findings together with Dr. Schilling in a famous article: Über eine neue Leukämie durch echte Übergangsformen (Splenozytenleukämie) und ihre Bedeutung für die Selbstständigkeit diser Zellen. For long years this type of leukemia came to be known as the Schilling type monocytic leukemia, or simply Schilling's leukemia. Later, with the new classification of leukemias, this name was changed to M5- monocytic leukemia.
6. Hulusi Behçet (1889-1948)
The best way to describe the medical contribution of Hulusi Behçet is that he is the doctor whose name was given to a disease. After his graduation in 1910 from the Istanbul University, Medical School, he worked at the Gülhane Dermatology Clinic as an assistant to Esref Rusen, Talat Çamli and the bacteriologist Resat Riza. During the war (1914-1918), he was appointed as a dermatologist to the Military Hospitals in Thrace. Later on, he had an academic stay at the Charité Hospital's Dermatology and Syphilology clinic in Berlin, before he returned to Turkey where he occupied, beginning in 1923, the functions of director of the Hasköy Venereal Disease Hospital, dermatologist at the Gureba Hospital and in 1933 professor and head of the Dermatology and Syphilology Clinic of Istanbul University Medical School. Almost three decades after his death, and in honour of his memory, the Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Organization (TUBITAK) was established in 1975 and awarded in the name of Hulusi Behçet.
Figure 5: Turkish stamp depicting Hulusi Behçet.
With careful observations from 1929 onward, he found out that various symptoms of the skin, the eye and the internal organs attributed to different diseases were actually the different manifestations of a specific disease. During the International Dermatology Congress assembled at Geneve on September 13th, 1947, Hulusi Behçet's thesis about various cases with evidences of mouth and genital ulcers and infection of the eyes was acknowledged as a new disease of viral origin. Also, on the proposal of Dr. Miescher, a dermatology professor of the Zurich Medical School, the disease was named "MORBUS BEHÇET" (Behçet's Disease).
7. Ihsan Sükrü Aksel (1899-1987)
He was Turkey's first Neuropathologist. After his medical studies and graduating from the Istanbul University Medical School, marked by the influence exerted upon him by the clinical demonstrations, specially the treatment of hysteria with psychotherapy, by Mazhar Osman, the eminent professor of psychiatry, he was certified as a Psychiatrist and Neurologist in 1922 and some time later he established the first neuropathology department and laboratories at the Toptasi and Bakirköy Mental Hospitals.
Figure 6: Issue of Acta Ortapedica Turcica (vol.8-n° 1, 1974).
Medical work: He developed Mann's Method for marking the Negri particles, used in the diagnosis of rabies. With Aksel's method it became much simpler and reliable to depict these particles in the brains of infected animals; author of 260 articles; and wrote the chapter on rabies in the world famous pathology textbook of Henke-Lubarsch. He knew world fame and received many international awards. In 1971 he was honoured by the International Federation of Psychiatry as "one of the 16 most prominent psychiatrists of the world".
8. Münir Ahmet Sarpyener (1902-1982)
Dr. Sarpyener was a surgeon and he excelled in the diagnosis and surgical correction of canal stenosis. He graduated from the Istanbul University Medical School in 1923 and worked at Gülhane Clinical Practice Hospital and Haydarpasa Military Hospital. In 1927, he was a resident at the Pediatric Surgery and Orthopedics Department of the Lyon Medical School in France, before he returned to Turkey to work in several military hospitals and he was appointed as professor to the Pediatric and Orthopedic Surgery Clinic of Hamidiye Etfal, the Childrens' Hospital. From 1958, he became the director of the Pediatric Surgery and Orthopedics Department of Istanbul University Medical School.
His doctorate thesis (1934) was on spina bifida. Following his studies on cadavers and examinations on his patients and their X-rays, he described in 1944 a specific congenital malformation, which he proposed to treat by surgery expanding the spinal canal. He showed that this malformation, thereafter known as "canal stenosis", was a congenital stricture of the spinal canal, constricting the nerves, causing paresias, walking disorders, paresthesias, urinary and fecal incontinence, paralysis and inward bending of the feet.
Sarpyener was also the first to establish that canal stenosis might also be encountered in the adult population. With this contribution, many patients who had been misdiagnosed, or many cases which were thought to be untreatable till then, could successfully be diagnosed and treated. He published the journal Acta Ortapedica Turcica and was one of the founders of the Turkish Orthopedics and Traumatology Society, and the Turkish Sports Medicine Society. He wrote 6 books and more than 200 articles, 25 of which were in foreign languages.
Further Readings
Akkan, A. 1992. "Dr. Besim Ömer Pasa (Akalin)", Mimar Sinan (Istanbul), vol. 84: pp. 15-20.
Atici, E., Oncel, O. 2006. "The Place in the History of Medicine of Prof. Dr. Hasan Resat Sigindim (1884-1971), the Discoverer of the Acute Monocytical Leukemia", 40th Congress of the International Society for the Histrory of Medicine (Budapest, August 2006), online here.
Barlas, U. 2001. "Ord. Prof. Dr. Akil Muhtar Ozden (1877-1949): His Life and his Scientific Contributions" (in Turkish), Tip Tarihi Arastirmalari vol. 10: pp. 207-20. Abstract online here.
Esat Isik, Hasan 1965. "Discours de Son Excellence Monsieur Hasan Esat Isik, Ministre des Affaires Etrangères de Turquie, Prononcé au Cours du Débat Général de la XXème Session de l'Assemblee Générale des Nations-Unies", Milletlerarasi Münasebetler Türk Yilligi (Ankara) vol. 6: pp. 199-211.
Naderi, Sait et al. 2007. "Dr. Ahmet Munir Sarpyener: Pioneer in Definition of Congenital Spinal Stenosis", Spine (Philadelphia), vol. 32, no. 5: p. 606.
[On Ihsan Sükrü Aksel (2007)]. "Ihsan Sükrü Aksel (Istanbul)" (in Turkish), online here.
Piller, G.J. 2001. "Leukemia: A Brief Historical Review from Ancient Times to 1950". British Journal of Haematology 112(2): 282-292.
Sehsuvaroglu, B.N. 1948. Türk hekimleri biyografisi (Biography of Turkish physicians). Archives of Prof. Dr. Bedii N. Sehsuvaroglu, Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine Department of History of Medicine and Deontology Library.
Ünver, A. Süheyl, "Dr. Akif Muhtar Özden", Istanbul Üniversitesi Tip Fakültesi Mecmuasi, Istanbul 12 (2), 1949, 102-121.
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Washington (CNN) – President Barack Obama's annual pre-Super Bowl television interview Sunday turned into a showdown with Fox News host Bill O'Reilly, who quizzed the president on the 2012 terror attack in Benghazi, Libya, and the targeting scandal involving the IRS – both topics that Republicans frequently use to criticize Obama.
The live interview, aired during the Fox Broadcast Network's pregame coverage, kicked off with a question on the botched rollout of the federal health care website and later moved to the Benghazi and IRS questions, which some Republicans say involve administration-led cover-ups. Obama pointed out during the session that multiple congressional hearings on the topics over the past year have failed to turn up anything.
"These kinds of things keep surfacing in part because you and your TV station will promote them," he said, referring to the Fox News Channel, where O'Reilly hosts a primetime hour.
The administration response to the September 2012 attack at the American diplomatic post in Benghazi - which some conservatives say was botched – was focused on getting Americans to safety, Obama said, noting that information was extremely difficult when the attack was happening. Obama said his Defense Secretary at the time, Leon Panetta, told him there was an attack, but didn't specify whether it was terrorism.
"The fact of the matter is people understood at the time that something dangerous was happening. And we were focused on making sure we were doing everything we could to protect them," he said.
He later proclaimed there was "not a smidgen of corruption" involved in the IRS targeting case, which sprung up last spring after the agency admitted to applying extra scrutiny to conservative groups applying for tax exempt status. Later, it was revealed the word "progressive" also singled groups out for extra screening.
And when O'Reilly wondered why Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius hadn't been fired for her role in the HealthCare.gov website, Obama said he was focused instead on trying to make his signature legislative achievement function well.
"When we're midstream, we want to make sure our focus is how do we make this thing work," he said.
The interview ended with O'Reilly telling the president he thought "his heart's in the right place."
Obama, smiling, said he enjoyed it.
Obama never answers direct questions! He always "blah, blah, blah" ..That's what he is good at...re: IRS, come on some of these groups STILL have not been approved! And I, for one, will never let people forget how Obama/Hillary/Rice lied to us about Benghazi ==all for political gain! This president will go down in history as the biggest lair - never forget "If you like it you can keep it" or "What difference does it make"
The big news here is that he has stopped blaming Bush, it is now Fox News. The same person that told is we could keep our plans, doctors and that we would save $2500 with Obozocare is now telling us he could not find any corruption in the IRS harassment of the Tea Party. Thus spake the most corrupt president in the history of this country. Blame the only media outlet that doesn't have its rounded in his ear.
Sad Mr. President. And even sadder.....the people that support you. Take off the blinders .
I'm a doctor and a Republican that used to support other Republicans until they stopped acting like Republicans. Get your acts together! Obviously, this president is not the biggest liar in history. Stop acting like children and start talking about domestic policy that can help change America for the better. Nobody likes a hater.
Oreilly asked straight forward, legitimate questions....and look at the answers he didn't get. And you libs support the President which makes you look as inept as he has proven to be.
Bill O'Riley speaks for the 25% of America that watches Fox News and believes what they see and hear while watching. This is the America motivated by fear. They cannot get past the change that is happening in this country; a younger, browner, 'gayer' America is now mainstream; overtaking the gun loving, immigrant fearing, tax hating white minority. The 'biggest lie' is that Fox News and Bill O'Riley represents the 'real America'. That real America went away ten years ago. I'm white, over 50 and I vote.
Our President did a great job during his interview with Mr. O'Reilly yesterday. Now, it's time for the GOP to "turn on" Mr. O'Reilly (Like they did on Justice Roberts) for saying "You're heart is in the right place", thus acknowledging he is NOT trying to destroy our country like so many Tea Party members insist on spewing. The President conducted himself with his typical class and dealt with the rudeness of O'Reilly with his usual grace and humility!! Best President our country ever elected!! TWICE!!
Do you believe Fox excrete? Nonsense. Where were they when WMD was not found? Fox needs to be uprooted. I don't care Benghazi. Just rich politics, you believe? They want to ruin with corporate greed.
So it's ok to be disrespectful to the commander in chief because you don't share the same political views? Shameful, just shameful.
Republicans are claiming he didn't answer any of the questions – but they secretly know that he did, and did quite well. No amount of hyperbole can cover that up. Obama is a competent, intelligent president that is doing a pretty good job, despite all of the continuous attacks and manufactured scandals.
America motivated by fear?, best president we have ever had?a president with humility?
I truly know now way our founders were very afraid of the uneducated voter. Leadership does not come from the hole in the center of ones face speaking soft,sweet nothings but in doing what is needed in a forum one was placed in. This guy obama is the most inept, void of leadership skills, lying as policy, so called leader in my short history of politics.
His leadership techniques(rules of the radical) defame opposition, distract,blame, throw some candy for the masses and rely on the short memories of the masses.
Oh for humility this guy has not one humble bone in his body, Anyone using that definition of obama has got no sense of common sense. His lust of power is the principal element in his character.
Gurgle you have learned well comrade.
Always people on power become liars at the end bangazi issue is tricky so His excellency the present dont dare make bad end
the profit over people party failed again
Gurgle you have learned well comrade.
Comrade? Lawlessness? Dictator? Republican talking points directed against a sitting President of the United States of America. It is YOU who have learned well. Yes, these are the points coming from the Fox News crowd. For shame CNN spends its entire day embracing these people.
I laugh at the short memory that people have of the previous administration, without acknowledging their incompetence, lies, and cronyism, you can't be taken serious with your argument because you are choosing to overlook key facts that come out during the investigations. If Obama is a liar, then what was W? What was HW, and what was Reagan. If you can't remember their lies and how it impacted the country then you are definitely in denial or reality. Just admit, you don't do your own research before you come to a conclusion.
If this President was white a lot of you on here will not call him, these names liar of the year just shows the hatred a lot of you have for this President, and the GOP cannot tell the truth don't matter how hard they try they lie so much that they themselves think it's the truth.The racism that raised it's ugly head since this blackman became President is worst than the 1950s.
I tuned in to the pre-game show of the SUPERBOWL only to find that Fox took up MY time with POLITICS!!... Why is that? Why are all of you not outraged at THAT? Did you REALLY want to hear more political posturing? Do you not get enough of it all week long? Fox accomplished exactly what they hoped for? $$'S!!.. Fox, as well as Cnn, and Msnbc are money making machines because they encourage conflict, and bias and drama.. O'reilly makes approx. $17 MILLION a year by getting those of you who buy in to HIS bias all riled up (CNN and MSNBC do the same)... your blogs just proved that.. The fact that " I " am writing this proves that. There is tremendous power in the media to make you REACT to THEIR agenda! Why don't we take back our OWN power to THINK and REASON on our OWN and do more of what I did after seeing just one minute of this crap... CHANGE THE CHANNEL!!
Lemme guess, the opinions go right down party lines. Blah blah blah bunch of sheep, make up your own opinion on something for once, using a little free thought.
I agree Tone. And that is because in the 50's, we still knew our place. And if we dared step out of our place, the punishment could be death and no one would be held accountable.
Were you expecting the modern day Che Guevarra/Valdimere Lenin to suddenly smack his forehead and say, "Boy, you're right... I was so mistaken"!
I would still like to know why this interview wasn't about football or the Super Bowl?? Once again the pitiful GOP show that combined, they don't have the class the POTUS has in his pinky toe.
This was NOT the venue for politics, period.
above comments sound like the company employees for FOX. Please O'Reilly and above fox supporters GET A LIFE. How many times can you say and spell no. O'Reilly claims "exclusive interview" with same old news, yeah right. He's getting old and the story is old....hello
ps: as with the rest of the above complaints!


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Serves 5
Romaine salad recipes are a great base for fun alterations and additions. This Shavuot romaine salad recipe was inspired by the classic mozzarella, tomato, basil salad. It's sweeter and even brighter looking with the substitution of strawberries for tomatoes. It's a great addition to your Shavuot recipes.
4 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
1 tablespoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
1 heart romaine lettuce, torn or cut into bite-sized pieces (3 cups lightly packed)
1 8-ounce container of strawberries, hulled and sliced
3 ounces mozzarella cheese, diced (about 3/4 cup), try and use the freshest kind that comes in a ball
1/4 cup fresh basil leaves, cut into ribbons
¼ cup pine nuts, toasted
In a small bowl whisk together the oil, vinegar salt and pepper. Place the lettuce in a large bowl and toss with half the dressing. Place the lettuce onto a serving platter.
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I start this post by thanking Angela Towndrow, a fellow Aussie whom I met virtually via a mooc, and from whom I continue to draw insights on things related to education.
After reading my previous post Let's get rid of the instructors!, Angela pointed me to the journal article Giving Teaching Back to Education: Responding to the Disappearance of the Teacher by Gert Biesta. And I'm glad she did.
Professor Biesta's article is a response to the marginalisation of teaching in modern society, and a call for teachers to teach, to be allowed to teach, and to have the courage to teach.
The premise of the professor's argument is that there is a difference between "education" and "learning":
"…the point of education is never that children or students learn, but that they learn something, that they learn this for particular purposes, and that they learn this from someone. The problem with the language of learning and with the wider 'learnification' of educational discourse is that it makes it far more difficult, if not impossible, to ask the crucial educational questions about content, purpose and relationships. Yet it is in relation to these dimensions, so I wish to suggest, that teaching matters and that teachers should teach and should be allowed to teach. And it is also in relation to these dimensions that the language of learning has eroded a meaningful understanding of teaching and the teacher."
It is this learnification of educational discourse that has rendered the words I cited in my previous post – "training", "lecture", "course" and "teaching" – dirty. And I must confess it gives me heart to find someone of Professor Biesta's calibre in my corner (or more accurately, to find myself in his).
In describing our general mindshift from teaching to learning, Biesta tells the story of two English schools that, upon merging, no longer wanted to call themselves a "school". So they named their merged entity Watercliffe Meadow: A Place for Learning. Beyond the deliciously Waughian nature of this name, Biesta objects to its semantics:
"…the language of learning, particularly in its constructivist form, has repositioned the teacher from someone who is at the heart of the educational process to one who literally stands at the sideline in order to facilitate the learning of his or her 'learners.'
Some of the arguments that have contributed to the rise of the language of learning are not without reason – there is indeed a need to challenge authoritarian forms of education; the rise of the internet does raise the question as to what makes schools special; and, to a certain extent, it cannot be denied that people can only learn for themselves and others cannot do this for them (although this does not mean that there are no limits to constructivism).
However, the language of learning falls short as an educational language, precisely because, as mentioned, the point of education is never that students learn but that they learn something, for particular purposes and that they learn it from someone. The language of learning is unable to capture these dimensions partly because learning denotes a process that, in itself, is empty with regard to content and direction; and partly because learning, at least in the English language, is an individualistic and individualising term whereas the educational question – if, for the moment we want to phrase it in terms of learning – is always a matter of learning something from someone.
From this angle it is just remarkable, if not shocking, how much policy – but increasingly also research and practice – has adopted the empty language of learning to speak about education. Yet if this is indeed the only language available, then teachers end up being a kind of process-managers of empty and in themselves directionless learning processes."
I certainly agree that the language of learning pushes the sage off the stage and recasts them as a guide on the side. But I feel compelled to point out that this does not in itself render the art of facilitation devoid of educational purpose. On the contrary, I see facilitation as a means of education. Assuming the teacher has in mind a certain something for his or her children to learn, then to "teach" may mean to stage the encounter indirectly – that is, to seed, scaffold, clarify and validate – as opposed to direct instruction.
Indeed, Biesta offers the most eminent of examples in Socrates:
"…when we look more carefully at Socrates we can already see that he is not just there to facilitate any kind of learning but that, through an extremely skilful process, he is trying to bring his students to very specific insights and understandings. Seen in this way, Socrates is actually an extremely skilful didactician, because he knows all too well that to just 'rub it in' is unlikely to convince his students about the things he wants to convince them of."
Biesta goes on to suggest that that Socrates was a manipulative teacher, and I whole-heartedly agree. If there were no manipulation underpinning the Socratic method, then I dare say that sales people wouldn't use it! Yet while facilitative teaching is by definition manipulative, I implore that it need not be deemed so in the negative sense. It is rather a manifestation of the teacher exercising his or her judgement in the context of the given situation.
To Biesta, it is teaching (not learning) that makes the school special. He sees teaching as a gift, and the giving of this gift as the raison d'être of the institution. So instead of thinking of a school as a place for learning, he prefers to think of it as a place for teaching.
But does this swing the pendulum too far back the other way?
Indeed I agree that we should think of a school as a place for teaching. As my rambling in Let's get rid of the instructors! will attest, I very much advocate teaching under the right circumstances. However, just as the learnification of educational discourse devalues teaching, I believe the teacherfication of educational discourse devalues learning.
Notwithstanding the importance of our students learning something for particular purposes from someone, sometimes that "something" can not be taught because it hails from the future; which is a round-about way of saying that we need to teach our children how to learn so that we can future proof their education.
My understanding of "learning" in this sense is not empty and directionless because the teacher is there to guide and support the process. I contend that the role of the teacher can find the middle ground between the ultra-conservative view of teaching – whereby the curriculum is transmitted from state to child – and the neo-liberal view that would have us throw the curriculum out the window (except where it furthers its own agenda, of course). On this middle ground the teacher is empowered to work with the curriculum as he or she sees fit; whether that be via direct instruction, or facilitation, or perhaps even – sometimes – rhizomatic exploration.
So I advocate neither Watercliffe Meadow: A Place for Learning nor Watercliffe Meadow: A Place for Teaching. If learning skills are to be incorporated into the education that our schools give our children, then let's call a spade a spade: Watercliffe School: A Place for Teaching and Learning.


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Aphids, green flies, plant lice, adelgids, phylloxeridsDavid L. Stern
This tree diagram shows the relationships between several groups of organisms.
The root of the current tree connects the organisms featured in this tree to their containing group and the rest of the Tree of Life. The basal branching point in the tree represents the ancestor of the other groups in the tree. This ancestor diversified over time into several descendent subgroups, which are represented as internal nodes and terminal taxa to the right.
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Aphids are a group of about 4,400 species of small insects that feed on the phloem fluid of plants. Many species of aphids attack important agricultural crops and are therefore of major economic importance. Aphids combine three traits - thelytokous parthenogenesis (obligate parthenogenesis where females give birth only to female offspring), short generation time (about 10 days on average), and telescoping of generations (where grandaughters begin developing directly within the daughters which are themselves not yet born) - to reach very large population sizes very quickly. These reproductive characteristics allow aphids to quickly colonize ephemeral resources and quickly growing plants and make them ideal enemies of monocultured crops. Many species of aphids display complex life cycles with alternation of sexual and asexual generations and host plant alternation. Host alternation has evolved at least three times independently in the aphids: (1) in the Phylloxeroidea, (2) in the common ancestor of the Pemphigidae, Hormaphididae, and Anoeciidae (Aphidoidea), and (3) in the Aphididae (Aphidoidea).
Alternation of Generations
Aphids are one of the few groups of animals that undergo cyclical parthenogenesis - that is, the alternation of one or many generations of asexual (parthenogenetic) reproduction with a single generation of sexual reproduction. All asexual generations are entirely female. Species that produce both sexual and asexual morphs are holocylic. When a species produces only asexual morphs it is anholocyclic.
In a holocyclic life cycle, as illustrated below, both asexual and sexual morphs are produced at different times of the year. Note that males are present only in one part of the life cycle. They are produced de novo by parthenogenetic females, usually only in the autumn. Aphids can accomplish this feat because they have an XO sex determining mechanism. Individuals with two sex chromosomes (XX) develop into females, whereas individuals with one X chromosome (XO) develop into males. To produce a male, a special "mini-meiosis", which involves only the X-chromosomes, eliminates one of the X chromosomes during oogenesis. Blackman (1974, 1987) provides a detailed review of the phenomenon.
In contrast, anholocyclic species only produce asexual females. They do not produce sexual females and males. Comparing the diagram of holocycly above, with the diagram of anholocycly below, notice that more than just the sexual males and females are missing from the anholocyclic species. In fact, anholocyclic species also lose the direct descendants of the sexual morphs, namely the egg and the fundatrix. Since the fundatrix is often specialized for feeding on the primary host (see discussion of host alternation) anholocyclic species often lose the primary host. Thus, simplification of the life cycle often, but not always, entails both loss of the sexual morphs and loss of host plants. Although many species are either holocyclic or anholocyclic, many other species possess both holocylic and anholocyclic populations.
Host Alternation
Many species of aphids alternate between two taxonomically different host plants at different times of the year. When an aphid species uses only a single host plant it is autoecious. Species that alternate between two host plants are called heteroecious. Two distinct kinds of heteroecious life cycles are found in aphids. Species of the Hormaphididae, Anoeciidae and Pemphigidae have a type of heteroecy with sexuparae. Other aphid species with host alternation do not have sexuparae, but have a life cycle with winged sexual females and winged males.
A typical life cycle of a heteroecious species from the Hormaphididae, Anoeciidae, or Pemphigidae is illustrated below. Aphids alternate between two taxonomically unrelated host plants. The primary host, a tree or shrub, is considered the "ancestral" host, in that the monoecious ancestor of aphid is thought to have attacked such trees. The secondary host is often an herbaceous plant. A specialized winged morph, the sexupara, flies from the secondary host to the primary host and deposits sexual males and females. The males and females mate and the female typically produces a single egg. In temperate regions the egg overwinters and produces the fundatrix, or foundress, in the spring. In many species the fundatrix induces abnormal plant development that results in a gall in which the colony lives for one or several generation.
Some species of the Aphididae have a different kind of host alternation, as illustrated below. The primary difference is that sexuparae are not produced. Instead, winged males and specialized winged females depart from the secondary host. The females produce unwinged oviparous females that mate with the winged males.
Other Names for Aphidomorpha
- aphids
- green flies
- plant lice
- Aphids, green flies, plant lice, adelgids, phylloxerids
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Blackman, R.L. 1987. Reproduction, cytogenetics and development. in Aphids: Their biology, natural enemies, and control, vol 2A. Eds. A. K. Minks and P. Harrewijn. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
Blackman, R.L. and V.F. Eastop. 1984. Aphids on the world's crops: an identification and information guide. Wiley, Chichester.
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Dixon, A. F. G. 1985. Aphid Ecology. Glasgow: Blackie & Son Limited.
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Heie, O. E. 1987. Palaeontology and phylogeny. in Aphids: Their biology, natural enemies, and control, vol 2A. Eds. A. K. Minks and P. Harrewijn. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
Heie, O. E. 1994. Aphid ecology in the past and a new view on the evolution of Macrosiphini. in Individuals, Populations and Patterns in Ecology. Eds. S. R. Leather et al. Intercept, Andover. pp. 409-418.
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Moran, N. A. 1988. The evolution of host-plant alternation in aphids: Evidence for specialisation as a dead end. The American Naturalist 132:681-706.
Moran, N. A. 1992. The evolution of aphid life cycles. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 37:321-348.
von Dohlen, C. D. and N. A. Moran. 1995. Molecular phylogeny of the Homoptera: a paraphyletic taxon. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 41:211-223.
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