Structure, Function and Organization of Neurons in the Nervous System – Physiology Tutorial – Video

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Scottish News: Pennington surprised at honour

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Jun 14 2013

Renowned bacteriologist Professor Hugh Pennington has told of his surprise at being made a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours.

The Emeritus Professor of Bacteriology at Aberdeen University is honoured for services to microbiology and food hygiene.

"It was a very pleasant surprise when the letter came," he said. "It's nice to be recognised for the work one's been doing over the years in microbiology and food safety. It's a top award and it shows one has been working hard."

The professor was chair of bacteriology at Aberdeen University from 1979 until his retirement with Emeritus status in 2003.

He is best known for chairing an inquiry into the outbreak of E.coli in Lanarkshire in 1996 and leading another inquiry into an outbreak of the bug in Wales in 2005.

Looking back over his career, he said: "Over the years I've had some really very good mentors and people supporting career development.

"I've worked in London, the US, Glasgow and Aberdeen, and each place has been very good for the sort of interests that I've developed.

"I have also been lucky in the way that technology has developed as well, which has allowed us to get to grips with some of these bugs.

"People said bugs are finished, they are not a problem any more. With the benefit of hindsight it was wise to reject that advice, and it all followed from there."

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Grab your favorite gardening gloves, get smarter while weeding

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Garden dirt might make you smarter. Research by the American Society for Microbiology indicates that exposure to Microbacterium vacae is believed to increase learning behavior by stimulating the neurons in the brain. Luckily this bacterium occurs naturally in garden soil.

I should eat it by the spoonful, but maybe Ill wait for conclusive research. Two great ways to come in close proximity to garden soil are the June projects of weeding and thinning the vegetable garden.

Weeding

Garden weeding involves two operations. Cleaning between rows is the easy part, once rows are visible. A hoe, small rototiller, or wheeled cultivator will work. The challenging part is weeding within the row.

Rows of potatoes, tomatoes, broccoli and cabbage are easily hoed, because the plants are spaced within the row. But weeding carrots, beets, lettuce, beans and radishes requires patience.

I become a garden crawler on hands and knees. My favorite tools are fingers and a table knife. Dont tell Mary, but sometimes I borrow one from the kitchen drawer. A knife slices just below the soil surface with precision, letting you weed closely to the vegetables without injuring them.

Weeding is as addictive as eating popcorn if the weeds are tackled when tiny. Total despair is defined as a garden in which the weeds are six inches high and the vegetables are in there somewhere, maybe.

Thinning

Carrots, radishes, lettuce, spinach, beets, and similar small-seeded types often need thinning out. Larger seeds like corn, beans, peas and squash can be spaced evenly at planting, and thinning is often not required.

Thinning is necessary because the vegetables mentioned emerge thickly. Imagine a dozen carrots trying to become edible size in a space one inch wide.

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Pennington surprised at honour

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Renowned bacteriologist Professor Hugh Pennington has told of his surprise at being made a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours.

The Emeritus Professor of Bacteriology at Aberdeen University is honoured for services to microbiology and food hygiene.

"It was a very pleasant surprise when the letter came," he said. "It's nice to be recognised for the work one's been doing over the years in microbiology and food safety. It's a top award and it shows one has been working hard."

The professor was chair of bacteriology at Aberdeen University from 1979 until his retirement with Emeritus status in 2003.

He is best known for chairing an inquiry into the outbreak of E.coli in Lanarkshire in 1996 and leading another inquiry into an outbreak of the bug in Wales in 2005.

Looking back over his career, he said: "Over the years I've had some really very good mentors and people supporting career development.

"I've worked in London, the US, Glasgow and Aberdeen, and each place has been very good for the sort of interests that I've developed.

"I have also been lucky in the way that technology has developed as well, which has allowed us to get to grips with some of these bugs.

"People said bugs are finished, they are not a problem any more. With the benefit of hindsight it was wise to reject that advice, and it all followed from there."

He added: "It's nice to have this kind of accolade to remember that microbiology is important and the work one does, I hope, has led to some improvement for the public at large."

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Prashanti Herb Journal: Centella (Gotu Kola) is the Longevity Herb of the Wise – Video

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In this clip I describe how Centella (Gotu Kola) is the Longevity Herb of the Wise. For millennia those people who had the greatest wisdom, the monks-nuns-sages-acaryas, etc chose Centella...

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Caesars Palace shows world travelers how Las Vegas parties

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LAS VEGAS, NV - JUNE 12: President of Caesars Palace Gary Selesner and the Colosseum at Caesars Palace headliner Celine Dion during the closing night party for IPW 2013 at the Garden for the Gods pool at Caesars Palace on June 12, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by DeniseTruscello/WireImage)

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Thursday, June 13, 2013 | 1:26 p.m.

No other city on earth throws a party like Las Vegas! The 4,000 visitors from around the globe for the IPW World Travel Congress convention were speechless Wednesday night when Caesars Palace hosted their final exciting night on the Strip.

IPW is the largest and most prestigious international tourism trade show held and the largest generator of travel to America. Some 1,200 international and domestic buyers from more than 65 countries conduct business negotiations expected to result in more than $3.5 billion generated in future U.S. travel. Over 1,000 travel organizations from every region of the U.S. also attend.

Their five-day glamorous Vegas visit had been packed with sightseeing and Vegas experiences. Five hundred world travel writers were welcomed at the Smith Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday to an all-star brunch.

Wednesday night featured an even larger mega-power star turnout with Celine Dion, Donny & Marie Osmond, Penn & Teller and a host of other Caesars Entertainment Strip headliners. Donny started the Osmonds' portion of the show without Marie, who got separated from him and had to push her way through the crowd at the front of the stage. She arrived 30 seconds into the segment.

The travel delegates were treated to a near three-hour white hot party hosted by the Quads comedy juggler Jeff Civilico. Also entertaining were Flamingo comedy headliner George Wallace; Frank Marino and his Divas Las Vegas cast from the Quad; and the casts of Million Dollar Quartet at Harrah's and Recycled Percussion at the Quad.

Our thanks to photographer Denise Truscello for her gallery of shots.

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Rahman infuses spirituality in ‘Raanjhanaa’ music: Sonam Kapoor

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Mumbai, June 14 (IANS) Composer A.R. Rahman has cast a magic spell yet again with "Raanjhanaa" songs and the film's lead actress Sonam Kapoor says the music maestro has infused spirituality into the film's music with the track "Tum tak".

"'Tum tak' is like a spiritual bhajan. The spirituality that comes through is something that only Rahman sir is capable of doing in this day and age," the 28-year-old said here during the making of the song.

It seems "Raanjhanaa" team can't stop raving about the composer's work in the movie.

Southern star Dhanush, who plays the male lead, too praised the composition of the Oscar-winning music director saying: "It is rooted, you can sense and feel the culture in the song."

A romantic tale, "Raanjhanaa" has been directed by Anand L. Rai who said: "Actually, Rahman sir has put 'the raanjhanaa' factor completely in 'Tum tak'." (Rahman sir ne pure ka pura raanjhanaa utha kar 'Tum Tak' mein daal diya hai).

Coming out June 21, "Raanjhanaa" also stars Abhay Deol and Swara Bhaskar.

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Three Chinese Astronauts Dock to Nation’s Space Station

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A Chinese space capsule carrying a crew of three docked with the nation's orbiting space module today (June 13), two days after launch.

State media reports that Nie Haisheng, Zhang Xiaoguang and Wang Yaping the second female Chinese astronaut to fly in space automatically docked their Shenzhou 10 spacecraft to the Tiangong 1 module at 1:11 a.m. EDT (0511 GMT). The astronauts entered the orbiting module at 4:17 a.m. EDT (0817 GMT), beginning a 12-day stint onboard the space laboratory.

At 15 days in space, this mission is scheduled to be the longest spaceflight for a Chinese crew in the history of the country's space program.

"The Shenzhou 10 spacecraft has been successfully launched and precisely put into orbit, which means that our country's fifth manned space mission has succeeded in the first phase," said China's president, Xi Jinping, according to state-run news agency Xinhua. "At this very moment, I am sharing the same feeling with everyone. I am very happy and excited."

During their time on Tiangong 1 (also known as the Heavenly Palace 1), the spaceflyers will dock their spacecraft to the module once more using manual docking procedures and perform experiments. The crew is also expected to send down a science lesson to Chinese school children on Earth at some point during their stay.

Shenzhou 10 is the last of three missions designed to help master space-based docking and rendezvous technology, officials have said.

The mission is expected to help the Chinese space agency gain necessary experience that can be applied to building and operating a larger space station by 2020. The eventual 90 ton orbiting station will have three capsules: a core unit and two laboratories, according to Xinhua.

Tiangong 1 has orbited Earth since Sept. 2011, and is scheduled to remain operational for another three months. The module has played host to eight other Chinese astronauts before the Shenzhou 10 mission, with the first crew docking in June 2012.

China's first astronaut, Yang Liwei, was sent to orbit in 2003, making China the third nation after Russia and the United States to launch astronauts to space using its own vehicles.

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Off and No Longer Running: Space Station’s First Treadmill to be Jettisoned with Trash

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UPDATE: This article was updated at 4: 23 p.m. EDT to reflect an error in information provided by NASA:

The space station's original treadmill has not yet run its course.

The "Treadmill Vibration Isolation System" (TVIS), which was used by both astronauts and cosmonauts to exercise aboard the International Space Station for more than 12 years was not jettisoned on Tuesday (June 11) onboard a spent Russian cargo freighter, as earlier reported.

A NASA spokesperson confirmed Tuesday afternoon that the information earlier provided to collectSPACE.com by the space agency was in error.

The device, which is no longer in use, will instead leave the station and be discarded with the next Russian unmanned resupply vehicle, Progress M-18M (50P), which as of Tuesday was scheduled to undock on July 26. After its departure, the cargo craft and its contents including the TVIS treadmill will be destroyed during its descent back into Earth's atmosphere.

The TVIS was replaced aboard the station by a Russian-built unit that was first put into use recently and by a more advanced U.S. treadmill named after television comedian Stephen Colbert.

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A space apparatus that for more than a dozen years enabled both astronauts and cosmonauts to literally run around the Earth bid farewell to its home on orbit Tuesday (June 11). The International Space Station's original treadmill is now on its way to its fiery destruction aboard a spent Russian cargo freighter.

The now-discarded exercise device, called the "Treadmill Vibration Isolation System," or TVIS (pronounced "tee-viss"), was used by the orbiting outpost's first 34 resident crews from November 2000 until March of this year, when it was replaced by a new Russian-built unit. The 12-year-old running machine (and sometimes marathon track) was previously succeeded by a more advanced U.S. treadmill that was famously re-named after the television comedian Stephen Colbert.

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Off and No Longer Running: Space Station’s First Treadmill Jettisoned with Trash

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UPDATE: This article was updated at 4: 23 p.m. EDT to reflect an error in information provided by NASA:

The space station's original treadmill has not yet run its course.

The "Treadmill Vibration Isolation System" (TVIS), which was used by both astronauts and cosmonauts to exercise aboard the International Space Station for more than 12 years was not jettisoned on Tuesday (June 11) onboard a spent Russian cargo freighter, as earlier reported.

A NASA spokesperson confirmed Tuesday afternoon that the information earlier provided to collectSPACE.com by the space agency was in error.

The device, which is no longer in use, will instead leave the station and be discarded with the next Russian unmanned resupply vehicle, Progress M-18M (50P), which as of Tuesday was scheduled to undock on July 26. After its departure, the cargo craft and its contents including the TVIS treadmill will be destroyed during its descent back into Earth's atmosphere.

The TVIS was replaced aboard the station by a Russian-built unit that was first put into use recently and by a more advanced U.S. treadmill named after television comedian Stephen Colbert.

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A space apparatus that for more than a dozen years enabled both astronauts and cosmonauts to literally run around the Earth bid farewell to its home on orbit Tuesday (June 11). The International Space Station's original treadmill is now on its way to its fiery destruction aboard a spent Russian cargo freighter.

The now-discarded exercise device, called the "Treadmill Vibration Isolation System," or TVIS (pronounced "tee-viss"), was used by the orbiting outpost's first 34 resident crews from November 2000 until March of this year, when it was replaced by a new Russian-built unit. The 12-year-old running machine (and sometimes marathon track) was previously succeeded by a more advanced U.S. treadmill that was famously re-named after the television comedian Stephen Colbert.

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Old Space Station Treadmill to be Dumped from Orbit

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Its always a chore when, at home, a big hulking piece of equipment needs to be dumped. Do you break it up and put it in the trash? Try to sell it for space parts on eBay? Refurbish it? Recycle it? Make special arrangements with a hazardous waste company? Leave it in your front lawn in the hope someone might pilfer it?

On the International Space Station, however, the choices for disposing outdated equipment are few, inevitably ending with the ultimate garbage disposal technique: atmospheric reentry.

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Thats exactly the fate waiting for the faithful old space station treadmill a.k.a. the Treadmill Vibration Isolation System, or TVIS that kept the first 34 astronauts resident in the orbital outpost fit and healthy for the past 12 years. Superseded by the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (COLBERT) so named in honor of comedy talk show host Stephen Colbert the TVIS will be loaded on board the returning Progress M-18M (50P) cargo vehicle. Progress will then detach on July 26 and commence its fiery reentry over the Pacific Ocean.

The TVIS went into operation on November 2000 but it ran its last lap in March 2013, so now its just taking up space. Although this piece of kit would likely fetch quite an impressive bid on eBay, the astronauts and cosmonauts have no means of delivering the piece of keep fit kit to any prospective buyer, so theyll just have to toss it into the atmospheric incinerator with the rest of their junk. Oh well.

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Image: Keep fit memories: Leroy Chiao, Expedition 10 commander and NASA ISS science officer, equipped with a bungee harness, exercises on the Treadmill Vibration Isolation System (TVIS) in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station (ISS) on April 10, 2005.

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