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Thursday, July 7, 2005

This just in from my Aunt Judi in White Castle, Louisiana:

It's been around for a while but it's still sort of fun. (I am an Okra.)

WHAT'S YOUR SOUTHERN SIGN?

Some Southerners are pretty skeptical of horoscopes and the peoplethat read them. If we are to ever fully understand all the star signs and the people they represent, we need symbols that all true Southerners understand.

OKRA (Dec 22 - Jan 20) Are tough on the outside but tender on the inside. Okras have tremendous influence. An older Okra can look back over his life and see the seeds of his influence everywhere. You can do something good each day if you try.

CHITLIN (Jan 21 - Feb 19) Chitlins come from humble backgrounds. A Chitlin, however, will make something of himself if he is motivated and has lots of seasoning. In dealing with Chitlins, be careful; they may surprise you. They can erupt like Vesuvius. Chitlins are best with Catfish and Okra.

BOLL WEEVIL (Feb 20 - March 20) You have an overwhelming curiosity. You're unsatisfied with the surface of things, and you feel the need  to bore deep into the interior of everything. Needless to say, you are very intense and driven as if you had some inner hunger. You love to stay busy and tend to work too much. Nobody in their right mind is going to marry you, so don't worry about it.

MOON PIE (March 21 - April 20) You're the type that spends a lot of time on the front porch. A cinch to recognize the physical appearance of Moon Pies. Big and round are the key words here. You should marry anybody who you can get remotely interested in the idea. It's not going to be easy. You always have a big smile and are happy. This might be the year to thi nk about aerobics.... Maybe not.

POSSUM (April 21 - May 21) When confronted with life's difficulties, possums have a marked tendency to withdraw and develop a don't-bother- me-about-it attitude. Sometimes you become so withdrawn, people actually think you're dead. This strategy is probably not  psychologically healthy but seems to work for you. You are a rare breed. Most folks love to watch you work and play. You are a night person and mind your own business.

CRAWFSH (May 22 - June 21) Crawfish is a water sign. If you work in an office, you're hanging around the water cooler. Crawfish prefer the beach to the mountains, the pool to the golf course, and the bathtub to the living room. You tend not to be particularly attractive physi cally, but you have very, very good heads.

COLLARDS (June 22 - July 23) Collards have a genius for communication.  They love to get in "the melting pot" of life and share their essence with the  essence of those around them. Collards make good social workers,psychologists, and baseball managers. As far as your personal life goes,if you are collards, stay away from Crawfish. It just won't work.  Save yourself a lot of heartache.

CATFISH (July 24 - Aug 23) Catfish are traditionalists in matters of the heart, although one's whiskers may cause problems for loved ones. You Catfish are never easy people to understand. You run fast. You work and play hard. Even though you prefer the muddy bottoms to the clear surface of life, you are liked by most. Above all else, Catfish should stay away from Moon Pies.

GRITS (Aug 24 - Sept 23) Your highest aim is to be with others like yourself. You like to huddle together with a big crowd of other Grits. You love to travel though, so maybe you should think about joining a club. Where do you like to go? Anywhere they have cheese, gravy, bacon, butter,or eggs and a good time. If you can go somewhere where they have all these things, that serves you well. You are pure in heart.

BOILED PEANUTS (Sept 24 - Oct 23) You have a passionate desire to help your fellow man. Unfortunately, those who know you best, your friends and loved ones, may find that your personality is much too salty,and their criticism will affect you deeply because you are really much ofter than you appear. You should go right ahead and marry anybody  you want to because in a certain way, yours is charmed life. On the road of life, you can be sure that people will always pull over and stop for you. Boiled peanuts and Catfish what a delicacy!

BUTTER BEAN (Oct 24 - Nov 22) Always invite a Butter Bean to a party because Butter Beans get along well with everybody. You, as a Butter Bean, should be proud. You've grown on the vine of life ,and you feel  at home no matter what the setting. You can sit next to anybody. However, you, should find happiness with a Moon Pie.

ARMADILLO (Nov 23 - Dec 21) You have a tendency to develop a tough exterior, but you are actually quite gentle and kind inside. For you a good evening would be old friends, a fire, some roots, fruit, worms and insects. You are a throwback. You're not concerned with today's fashions and trends. You're not concerned with anything about today You're almost prehistoric in your interests and behavior patterns. You probably want to marry another Armadillo, but a Possum is another somewhat kinky mating possibility.
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TOO COOL!: An environmental engineer at Washington University in St. Louis has created a device similar to a hydrogen fuel cell that uses bacteria to treat wastewater and create electricity.

... Lars Angenent, Ph.D., assistant professor of Chemical Engineering, and a member of the University's Environmental Engineering Science Program, has devised a microbial fuel cell which he calls an upflow microbial fuel cell (UMFC) that is fed continually and, unlike most microbial fuel cells, works with chambers atop each other rather than beside each other. Angenent has created electricity with the device [~] in its current mode, about the size of a thermos bottle [~] and says it has to be scaled up considerably to someday handle the two million or so gallons of wastewater it needs to treat to churn out enough power.

"We have proven we can generate electricity on a small scale," Angenent said. "It will take time, but we believe the process has potential to be used for local electricity generation.

"The upflow microbial fuel cell is a promising wastewater treatment process and has, as a lab-scale unit, generated electricity and purified artificial wastewater simultaneously for more than five months."

http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/5435.html?emailID=5857

Memory study shows brain function in schizophrenia can improve with support, holds promise for cognitive rehabilitation.

...[A]s part of a new wave of research aimed at helping people with schizophrenia lead fuller, more normal lives, a study at Washington University in St. Louis has demonstrated that people with schizophrenia can be helped to remember things just as well as healthy subjects as long as they are given proper cues and memory aids.

The study suggests a new way of understanding the cognitive problems that underlie schizophrenia, and offers hope that schizophrenias' suffering can be alleviated through the development of more effective cognitive rehabilitation programs.

"These are interesting findings for a number of reasons," said Aaron Bonner-Jackson, lead author of the study and a psychology doctoral student in Arts & Sciences at Washington University.

"First, they demonstrate that individuals with schizophrenia possess the ability to learn to the same degree as healthy control subjects, although they may not spontaneously use such memory strategies in everyday life.

"Second, our findings also indicate that use of these beneficial strategies can actually cause memory-related brain activity in schizophrenia to 'look like' brain activity in healthy controls. Thus, there seems to be a strong tie between the strategies used to remember words and the brain activity that results when people try to remember information."

...The use of more effective memory strategies not only improves recall, it also seems to trigger a more normal pattern of memory-related brain activities.

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