This kid is not convinced by the dogding and covering up of incompetence. Nor does he think the situation is all roses. He is really uncomfortable. The tragedy of this is that if he is indeed a son or nephew of this man, he is being torn inside between familial ties, and the need for truth.
How very sad.
I dont know who is head of marketing at Kroger, but they certainly should be fired for false claims. LOL.
i bought some kroger sliced almonds….. there was this tiny tiny print which i photographed being unable to read it on the package…. “are you serious” — i laughed at the absolute nonsense, stupidity of what the words were…..
You judge for yourself, was this label necessary? free from “unwanted ingredients”, how comforting, they did not define unwanted ingredients, the list would be infinite… but to make such an absurd statement when the contamination of all our food is a fact, at least to some degree, hopefully less than more, to think that this comment has any meaning at all is just some atempt at being funny…. maybe why it was unreadable.
TOXI’city: honesty in science, conflict of interest. There are honest people, though it is difficult not to be biased (aka current US administration), but I knew Kehoe, and he was a dedicated environmentalist. How sad that he was demonized.
I collected this empty container to use for holding stuff — and looked at the advertisement (NO SUGAR) and then looked at the list of ingredients. Water is the first ingredient, then comes the second, High-fructose corn syrup. You have to be kidding me…. do they actually really not consider corn syrup a sugar. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar). These guys (i assume most of the decision making is still done by the male gender, where the tendencies for prevarication and ignorance and making money are alive and well) must just enjoy deceit. I can think of no other reason for this kind of fraud and deception.
Their definition of sugar needs to be up front, and clearly stated, it is narrow and misleading on purpose.
High-fructose corn syrup is a liquid sweetener made from corn. When corn starch is broken down into individual molecules, it becomes corn syrup, which is 100% glucose, a simple sugar. Enzymes are added to convert some of this glucose into fructose.
Xanthan gum is a chain of sugar building blocks made by fermenting simple sugars with a specific kind of bacteria
What is guar gum? Also known as guaran, guar gum is made from legumes called guar beans ( 1 ). It’s a type of polysaccharide, or long chain of bonded carbohydrate molecules, and composed of two sugars called mannose and galactose.
Sorbitan Monostearate is a synthetic compound that is derived from sugar alcohols. Sorbitan Monostearate is often used as an emulsifier or thickener. People can also use Sorbitan Monostearate to stabilize foams.
Fun with Copilot — SP-D dodecamer — no where near reality:
I asked Copilot to generate an image of a Surfactant protein D dodecamer as seen by atomic force microscopy thinking that the image that have been published, mainly by Arroyo et al, would have sparked some kind of realistic image, first pop, here is what came up. Not atomic force microscopy but some kind of conglomeration of a molecular model.
a surprise to say the least, not partiularly a good surprise. Looks like dredlocks to me.
I adked again mentioning that I didnt want a ribbon molecule of just the carbohydrate recognition domain, to please try again. I mentioned that it had three trimeric arms, and was shaped like an X.
Try 2 with Copilot was not much closer to the images actually shown with AFM. 
Try 3. This time i mentioned that most atomic force micrographs have an orange, deep red, and bright yellow coloring, and the the arms of the SP-D dodecamer were long, and here is what was generated.
Try 4. I mentioned that the arms were not wide on the dodecamer, and that the N termini were joined together in a bright peak in the center of the dodecamer, and here we have —
I am a little surprised that since there are so many image of the SP-D X shape, and so many references to the alpha helix in the neck (and adjacent collagen like domain) that this image still looks like a form of spagetti. I am pretty sure i mentioned that the trimeric arms were identical which apparently Copilot did understand.
Try 5. Arms are indeed a little thinner but there is nothing at all that looks like an alpha helix, and totally missing is any appearance of the three carbohydrate recognition domains that flop around as the three C term elements of the trimer…. that also is open information in terms of molecular models and diagrams.
Try 6. This made me laugh, and it also must have frustrated Copliot, cause that was the end of the exploration, I guess I had used up to much valuable time. LOL, this looks like something from a restaurant that sells gourmais deserts.
Here just for the record is one of the very nice atomic force images of SP-D produced by Arroyo et al, which I have worked on to determine how many peaks per trimeric arm are present.
There is something very wrong here, the onus is upon you guys, you guys who voted this seriously “ill” individual into office. Do something, call your senators and congressmen and say. “i am sorry”
THis is NOT MY PRESIDENT.
SP-D drawing: street art, yes but no. This the beginning of my trying to make a diagram, image, representational of the real structure, which is missing from most publications.
So while this is “art” it is also getting closer to the truth of what a “fuzzyball” of SP-D might look like.
Just trying to emphasize in my own mind what I derived from looking at many many AFM images of SP-D, yes, its my artistic license (aka Paul Kingma, LOL)
While this looks like a ‘brainless’ depiction of a surfactant protein D dodecamer, it really is the result of looking at many many images, counting peaks, estimating peak number from CRD to CRD in a hexamer, and i am pretty sure its quite realistic from the perspective of what is shown using AFM. I challenge anyone to work out (from actual images) a better diagram. 15 peaks per hexamer, 8 peaks per trimer. Please let me know when you have succeeded. Reminds me of a comment i made to someone at UC, working on this protein when he created the most rediculous diagram of a dodecamer of SP-D, he bragged that it was “artistic license”. no such license exists when depicting science. THIS IS NOT artistic license, it is the culmination of a lot of work, but rendered with “street art” flavor.
