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Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer
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Paul B
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Diana this is the only place in New York where you can go on the beach and look both ways for miles and never see anyone. That is one reason I moved here. I also have a permit to drive on it.
That and the fact that we have the biggest and deepest pool on Long Island, 90 yards from my condo. No..It's not mine personally but there is hardly anyone ever in it.
Diana, I also like the fact that you are one of the only people who read my Gibberish.
This picture above looking North, You can just about make out Connecticut 23 miles in the distance because this is the Long Island Sound.
This last picture is looking east. If I walk all the way, about 2 miles out towards the sunrise at that point, there are 5 WW1 Shipwrecks on the beach. They are little more than rotted timbers now
That and the fact that we have the biggest and deepest pool on Long Island, 90 yards from my condo. No..It's not mine personally but there is hardly anyone ever in it.
Diana, I also like the fact that you are one of the only people who read my Gibberish.
This picture above looking North, You can just about make out Connecticut 23 miles in the distance because this is the Long Island Sound.
This last picture is looking east. If I walk all the way, about 2 miles out towards the sunrise at that point, there are 5 WW1 Shipwrecks on the beach. They are little more than rotted timbers now
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Probiotics and immunity: A fish perspective
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Probiotics are usually live microorganisms which when administered in adequate amounts confer a health benefits on host. Nowadays, probiotics are also becoming an integral part of the aquaculture practices to obtain high production. The common probiotics that are used for aquaculture practices include Lactobacillus, Lactococcus, Leuconostoc, Enterococcus, Carnobacterium, Shewanella, Bacillus, Aeromonas, Vibrio, Enterobacter, Pseudomonas, Clostridium, and Saccharomyces species. The involvement of probiotics in nutrition, disease resistance and other beneficial activities in fish has proven beyond any doubt.
Among the numerous health benefits attributed to probiotics, modulation of immune system is one of the most commonly purported benefits of the probiotics and their potency to stimulate the systemic and local immunity under in vitro and in vivo conditions is noteworthy. Different probiotics either monospecies or multispecies supplementation can eventually elevate phagocytic, lysozyme, complement, respiratory burst activity as well as expression of various cytokines in fish.
Similarly, probiotics can stimulate the gut immune system of fish with marked increase in the number of Ig+ cells and acidophilic granulocytes. Furthermore, mono-bacterial association studies (with non-probiotic bacterial strains) in gnotobiotic fish also indicate the up-regulation of various immune related genes. Though the exact mode of action of probiotics is yet to be established in any animal including fish, probiotics often exert host specific and strain specific differences in their activities.
Various factors like source, type, dose and duration of supplementation of probiotics can significantly affect the immunomodulatory activity of probiotics. The review is therefore, aiming to highlight the immunomodulatory activity of probiotics and also to evaluate the factors that regulate for the optimum induction of immune responses in fish.
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The kidney and spleen make antibodies specifically built to fight each particular antigen (invading disease). This process can take up to two weeks. The antibodies attach themselves to their antigen and fight it in one of three ways:
It is important to note that environmental pollution also hampers the immune system and reduces a fish’s response to pathogens.
Immunology of Fish
Thelma C Fletcher, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
Christopher J Secombes, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
Published online: November 2015
DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0000520.pub3
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Innate immunity provides some form of defence against pathogens in all multicellular organisms but with cartilaginous and bony fish, although the lowest group of jawed vertebrates, the addition of a classic adaptive immune response becomes apparent. This provides the refinements of specificity for antigen recognition and memory. The T and B lymphocytes are the effector leucocytes, acquiring their antigen‐specific receptors (immunoglobulin for B cells and T‐cell receptor for T cells) in the anterior kidney (bone marrow being absent) and thymus. The B cells are responsible for the production of antibodies that function as different immunoglobulin classes, whereas subsets of T lymphocytes are capable of killing target cells or helping with B‐ and other T‐cell functions. Knowledge of these mechanisms is important for the use and design of vaccines, now so essential for the aquaculture industry, whereas studies of fish immunology contribute to the understanding of the evolution of adaptive immunity.
- S.K. Nayak
- Laboratory of Fish Pathology, Department of Veterinary Medicine, College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University, Japan
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Probiotics are usually live microorganisms which when administered in adequate amounts confer a health benefits on host. Nowadays, probiotics are also becoming an integral part of the aquaculture practices to obtain high production. The common probiotics that are used for aquaculture practices include Lactobacillus, Lactococcus, Leuconostoc, Enterococcus, Carnobacterium, Shewanella, Bacillus, Aeromonas, Vibrio, Enterobacter, Pseudomonas, Clostridium, and Saccharomyces species. The involvement of probiotics in nutrition, disease resistance and other beneficial activities in fish has proven beyond any doubt.
Among the numerous health benefits attributed to probiotics, modulation of immune system is one of the most commonly purported benefits of the probiotics and their potency to stimulate the systemic and local immunity under in vitro and in vivo conditions is noteworthy. Different probiotics either monospecies or multispecies supplementation can eventually elevate phagocytic, lysozyme, complement, respiratory burst activity as well as expression of various cytokines in fish.
Similarly, probiotics can stimulate the gut immune system of fish with marked increase in the number of Ig+ cells and acidophilic granulocytes. Furthermore, mono-bacterial association studies (with non-probiotic bacterial strains) in gnotobiotic fish also indicate the up-regulation of various immune related genes. Though the exact mode of action of probiotics is yet to be established in any animal including fish, probiotics often exert host specific and strain specific differences in their activities.
Various factors like source, type, dose and duration of supplementation of probiotics can significantly affect the immunomodulatory activity of probiotics. The review is therefore, aiming to highlight the immunomodulatory activity of probiotics and also to evaluate the factors that regulate for the optimum induction of immune responses in fish.
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The kidney and spleen make antibodies specifically built to fight each particular antigen (invading disease). This process can take up to two weeks. The antibodies attach themselves to their antigen and fight it in one of three ways:
- Detoxify it – so that white blood cells can ingest and destroy it
- Attract a “compliment” – another blood component that helps destroy the antigen
- Deactivate reproduction – to stop the antigen proliferating
It is important to note that environmental pollution also hampers the immune system and reduces a fish’s response to pathogens.
Immunology of Fish
Thelma C Fletcher, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
Christopher J Secombes, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
Published online: November 2015
DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0000520.pub3
Quote:
Abstract
Innate immunity provides some form of defence against pathogens in all multicellular organisms but with cartilaginous and bony fish, although the lowest group of jawed vertebrates, the addition of a classic adaptive immune response becomes apparent. This provides the refinements of specificity for antigen recognition and memory. The T and B lymphocytes are the effector leucocytes, acquiring their antigen‐specific receptors (immunoglobulin for B cells and T‐cell receptor for T cells) in the anterior kidney (bone marrow being absent) and thymus. The B cells are responsible for the production of antibodies that function as different immunoglobulin classes, whereas subsets of T lymphocytes are capable of killing target cells or helping with B‐ and other T‐cell functions. Knowledge of these mechanisms is important for the use and design of vaccines, now so essential for the aquaculture industry, whereas studies of fish immunology contribute to the understanding of the evolution of adaptive immunity.
Paul B
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The lady who I was on TV with about that Viet Nam letter thing a few months ago called me yesterday to invite me to speak the week of Veterans Day about Viet Nam. It's on the Jersey Shore but I think I can do it on a Zoom call because it's about a 3 hour drive from here and I don't want to take a train.
I can only imagine. It took my 2hrs each way to work and home going into NYC.
What part of the Jersey shore are you interested in getting to? It's a big difference if it's Cape May verses Asbury Park.The lady who I was on TV with about that Viet Nam letter thing a few months ago called me yesterday to invite me to speak the week of Veterans Day about Viet Nam. It's on the Jersey Shore but I think I can do it on a Zoom call because it's about a 3 hour drive from here and I don't want to take a train.
Considering where you live, you might make better time going by boat (grin).
From Penn Station to Asbury Park is about 1 hr and 40-50 minutes. At your age, you're entitled to Senior ticket prices!
SeaStreak from lower Manhattan to the Highlands is about 40 minutes, but you'd then need a cab or Uber or a bicycle to get out to the Hook. Nice ride on a hot day. My wife and I have taken it a number of times when we want to be in lower Manhattan.
Paul B
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And an hour and a half further to where I live. I'm not sure where the thing is in Jersey. I will probably find out next week.
Yes I am.At your age, you're entitled to Senior ticket prices!
But they want to buy me a ticket so it doesn't matter. I asked for a private jet. 
Paul B
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This thing is 5' long and about 100 lbs. A little to big for any tank I owned. But there is a lot of driftwood on the beach behind my home on the beach,
I really love this, but it is on Mystic in the Caribbean and they frown on taking stuff from there but not as much as the airline
I really love this, but it is on Mystic in the Caribbean and they frown on taking stuff from there but not as much as the airline
Paul B
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I just came back from my favorite LFS across the street from my wife's doctor. He was almost sold out of livestock but not to waste the trip I got 3 small fish just for kicks even though I have way to many fish.
The woman who wrote me the letter in Nam who I was on TV with called me and her Veteran group are going to interview me soon. I also have two fish interviews. My main issue is that I take my wife to doctors a few times a week and it will never end as MS doesn't get better so we try all these treatments none of which do anything but I am sure someone is making a lot of money on them.
My wife wants me to write another book. Not about fish but memoirs of Viet Nam. I was thinking, of making a novel "based" on real events but sort of like in my fish book if that is even possible. I would stretch the truth a lot to make it more interesting although the truth may be interesting enough. I will see if I want to do it.
My Grand Daughter acting cool on a trip to Montana
The woman who wrote me the letter in Nam who I was on TV with called me and her Veteran group are going to interview me soon. I also have two fish interviews. My main issue is that I take my wife to doctors a few times a week and it will never end as MS doesn't get better so we try all these treatments none of which do anything but I am sure someone is making a lot of money on them.
My wife wants me to write another book. Not about fish but memoirs of Viet Nam. I was thinking, of making a novel "based" on real events but sort of like in my fish book if that is even possible. I would stretch the truth a lot to make it more interesting although the truth may be interesting enough. I will see if I want to do it.
My Grand Daughter acting cool on a trip to Montana
