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As life expectancy grows, many people are faced with the difficulties of caring for a parent with Alzheimer's disease.1 According to Jewish law, is it permissible to institutionalize such a parent?
This question presents a difficult moral dilemma. On the one hand, the Torah commands us to "Honor your father and your mother" (Exodus 20:12, Deuteronomy 5:16) and again: "You shall each revere his mother and his father" (Leviticus 19:3), which seem to be absolute requirements regardless of their behavior. On the other hand, if the parent has deteriorated to such an extent that he or she requires being strapped into bed or being drugged or having a diaper changed, is it "honor" and "reverence" for a child to do this? Or is it greater honor for an outsider to do so? What about the emotional strains on the child? How much must he or she bear?
This sounds like a new dilemma but, in fact, the problem of parents who have deteriorated mentally is mentioned in Jewish sources as early as the second century b.c.e., and the specific question raised above has been hotly debated by halakhic authorities for over 800 years.
The apocryphal book of Ben Sira, dating to the second century b.c.e., tells us (3:12-13):
My son, be strong in the honor of your father; and do not leave him all the days of your life. Even if he loses sense, let him do [all that he wishes] and do not shame him all the days of his life.
A post-Talmudic midrash teaches much the same thing:
Even if your father's spittle is running down his beard, obey him immediately. 2
The Talmud does not explicitly deal with our issue, but it contains three passages which discuss the erratic behavior of parents. 3 Dama ben Netina, the gentile "Mayor" of first-century Ashkelon, was once chairing a meeting of the City Council. His mother entered, tore off his golden silk cloak, hit him on the head, and spat in his face - but he did nothing to shame her. 4
Another Talmudic passage reads:
They asked Rabbi Eliezer: "To what extent must one honor one's father and mother?" He replied: "To the extent that if he takes your wallet and throws it in the sea, you should not shame him" (Kiddushin 32a).
These two Talmudic passages were codified by Maimonides (Mamrim 6:7) and Rabbi Joseph Karo (Shulhan Arukh, Yoreh Deah 240:3, 8) and they seem to agree with Ben Sira and Seder Eliyahu - no matter what you parent does, you must obey him and not shame him.
But if this is the case, what can a child do if he can no longer bear his parent's strange or abnormal behavior? This dilemma is dealt with in a third Talmudic passage which became the basis for most subsequent halakhic discussion:
Rav Assi [who lived in Babylon] had an aged mother. She said to him: "I want jewelry!" He made some for her. "I want a husband!" He replied: "I'll look for one for you." "I want a husband as handsome as you!" He left her and went to Israel. When he heard that she was coming after him, he asked Rabbi Yohanan: "Is it permissible to leave Israel for Hutz La'aretz [the Diaspora]?" He replied: "It is forbidden." [He asked:] "Towards his mother - what is the law?" He replied: "I don't know.".. . In the meantime, Rav Assi heard that her coffin was coming. He said: "Had I known, I would not have left Babylon!" [Or: "Had I known, I would not have asked permission to leave Israel!"] (Kiddushin 31b).
This story is very problematic. Was Rav Assi's mother mentally disturbed (she seems to be interested in marrying her own son) or merely crotchety? Can a child run away when he can no longer tolerate a parent's erratic behavior? And what does the final ambiguous sentence mean? Did Rav Assi regret abandoning his mother or is he saying that not only did he act properly by leaving her, but he was not even required to meet her coffin?
The halakhic authorities interpreted this story in two conflicting directions. Maimonides (1135-1204) and his followers used it to legitimate custodial care, while Ra'avad of Posquieres (1120-1198) and his followers came to the opposite conclusion.
Maimonides codified the story as follows:
If one's father or mother should become mentally disordered, he should try to treat them as their mental state demands, until God has pity on them. But if he finds he cannot endure the situation because of their extreme madness, let him leave them and go away, commanding others to care for them as befits them (Mamrim 6:10).
According to the last sentence, it is perfectly legitimate to institutionalize a parent with Alzheimer's disease, even though this is not explicitly stated in the story about Rav Assi.
Ra'avad of Posquieres (1120-1198), Maimonides' classic critic, disagrees (Hassagot, ad. loc.):
This is not a correct ruling! If he goes and leaves him, who shall he command to watch him?!
Apparently, in Ra'avad's time and place there was no option of custodial care and, indeed, the first Jewish old age home seems to have been founded in Amsterdam in 1749. 5
All subsequent halakhic authorities aligned themselves with either Maimonides or Ra'avad. The Maimonidean camp, 6 replies that since Rav Assi's mother was brought to Israel in a coffin, he must have ordered others to take care of his mother. Regarding the practical issue raised by Ra'avad, they reply that the child can hire someone to take care of the parent. They further state that in cases of a parent who has deteriorated mentally, an outsider can do a better job than a child for two reasons: First of all, the parent will be embarrassed to misbehave in front of an outsider. Secondly, an outsider can raise his voice or physically restrain the parent if necessary, while a child would never be able to do such things and is not allowed to do so.
Ra'avad's followers reply that it is clear from the end of the story (see the first translation above) that Rav Assi regretted having left his mother and therefore the story proves that custodial care is prohibited. 7 Furthermore, if, as Maimonides claims, "others" can take care of the parent, then why can't the child do so himself since he has a better understanding of his parent's desires and idiosyncrasies? In addition, this camp seeks support from R. Jacob ben Asher (1270-1343) who in his code (Tur, Yoreh Deah 240) quotes Ra'avad after Maimonides, which seems to indicate his agreement with the former. Lastly, this camp asserts that Rav Assi's mother was not mentally disturbed but rather old and crotchety. Rav Assi left her because he knew he could not honor her requests properly. But a demented or senile parent needs extra physical care from the child while his demented requests can be ignored because he no longer has all of his faculties.
What then are the halakhic options open to a child faced with the dilemma of caring for a parent with Alzheimer's disease? It appears from the above analysis that there are three legitimate halakhic options:
1. A child with stamina and emotional fortitude can follow the line of thought expressed by Ben Sira and advocated by the Ra'avad and his camp. They view "honor thy father and thy mother" as an absolute value which cannot be absolved by the erratic behavior of the parent. Regardless of how the son feels, he must personally take care of his parents as commanded by the Torah and must not "leave [them] all the days of his life".
2. Others may place their parent in a nursing home, following the example of Rav Assi as interpreted by Maimonides and his followers. According to this view, a child is not personally obligated to care for the parent, if he must sacrifice his own emotional health Responsa in a Moment 40.in the process. They further state that in cases of mental deterioration, the honor of the parent can be better served by an outsider who can do things the child cannot do and that the parent would not want him to do.
3. Yet I believe the preferred halakhic solution is one implied by a number of the rabbis in the Maimonidean camp - to keep the parent at home 8 but pay an outsider to attend to the functions which are painful or inappropriate for the child to perform. This solution incorporates the concerns of both Ra'avad and Maimonides. On the one hand, the parent feels wanted and loved by his or her child, a feeling frequently lacking in an institutional setting. The parent functions better at home than in a new and strange environment. 9 By keeping the parent at home, the child fulfills the commandment to "honor your father and your mother" in a direct and personal fashion as demanded by Ra'avad. On the other hand, following Maimonides, the child protects the parent's honor and the child's own emotional health by ensuring that a professional is on hand who can perform functions not in keeping with the honor owed a parent by a child. 10
1. Some four million Americans are now afflicted with Alzheimer's disease - see Newsweek, December 18, 1989, pp. 54-63 and March 20, 2000, pp. 48-56; Muriel Gillick, Tangled Minds: Understanding Alzheimer's Disease, New York, 1998. 2. Seder Eliyahu Rabbah, Chapter (27) 25, ed. Friedmann, p. 136. 3. Two of the three Talmudic passages cited here are aggadic or non-legal in nature. This is not unusual; halakhic authorities frequently rely on non-legal passages in the Talmud when there is a dearth of halakhic sources. 4. Kiddushin 31a and cf. Yerushalmi ibid., Chapter 1, fol. 61b. According to a parallel passage in Devarim Rabbah 14:1, she was hasrat da'at - mentally deficient in some way. 5. Encyclopaedia Judaica, Vol. 2, col. 346. 6. R. Shem Tov ibn Gaon (fourteenth century), in Migdal Oz ad. loc.; R. Nissim Gerondi (1300-1380), on Rif to Kiddushin, ed. Vilna, fol. 13a; R. David ibn Zimra (1479-1573) in Radbaz ad. loc.; R. Joseph Karo (1488-1575) in Shulkhan Arukh Yoreh Deah 240:10; R. Solomon of Chelm (eighteenth century) in Mirkevet Hamishneh to Maimonides ad. loc.; R. Yehiel Michal Epstein (1829-1908) in Arukh Hashulhan, Yoreh Deah 240:32; and R. Eliezer Waldenberg, Tzitz Eliezer, Vol. 12, no. 59. 7. R. Shlomo Luria (1510-1574), Yam Shel Shlomo to Kiddushin, chapter 1, par. 64; R. Joshua Falk (1555-1614) in Derishah to Tur Yoreh Deah 240; R. Joel Sirkes (1561-1640) in Bah ibid; R. David Halevi (1586-1667) to Shulkhan Arukh Yoreh Deah 240:10, subparagraph 14; and R. Samuel Strashun (1794-1872) in Rashash to Kiddushin ad. loc. 8. The growing phenomenon of adult day care centers enables many children to keep parents with Alzheimer's at home - see Newsweek, July 2, 1990, pp. 56-58. 9. Midrash Hagadol to Genesis 35:6, p. 597 relates that in the ancient city of Luz "when a man became disgusted with his father and mother he would remove them to another city and immediately they would die". 10. For further reading, see Gerald Blidstein, Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother, New York, 1975, pp. 116-119; Levi Meier, "Filial Responsibility to the 'Senile' Parent" in Levi Meier, ed., Jewish Values in Bioethics, New York, 1986, pp. 75-84; Barry Freundel, "Halakhah and the Nursing Home Dilemma", Proceedings of the Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists 10 (1990), pp. 85-106.
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The trip was exciting. We actually had a tailwind! The downside, however, was the miles and miles of construction on I-29. The northbound lanes are closed off, so we shared our lane with the northbounders. At sixty-five miles an hour, the journey got tedious and finally annoying.
When we got to Watertown, we sought out the Lake City RV park. The Hussey got us there fine, only to find out that it was full. In looking at the park, I could immediately see why. Most of the sites were under water! So much rain here too, much as you've been receiving in Helena. We found another place in the Woodall's Campground Guide and made it here with no trouble. The Wind... It's a basic place, but the sites are level and it offers full-hookups for twenty dollars. And the wind...
Lynnie is reading and I'm writing and listening to: The Wind... According to the weather app on the phone, we have had gust up to 32 MPH. Real tough on the fly fishermen... At least we're not flooded and are content to spend the night. As a variation in our culinary routine, we're having Truzzilino's Tamales tonight. They've patiently ridden along in the freezer, just waiting to help us out here in South Dakota.
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Yes, $75/nite. Although that is steep, the campground was one of the cleanest, well kept campgrounds we've ever visited. The grass was immaculate, the site was wide and overlooked the White Oak River which was why it was so expensive. Unfortunately, we had to back in which blocked our view from inside, but outside we had a panoramic view. Lots of amenities: huge pool with water slide, concrete pier, boat launch, paved road for walking, great electrical service, etc. Only thing missing was wifi. Our ATT service was strong so it was tolerable for a few days. Apparently, they have been unsuccessful in finding a provider but they've tried. Would highly recommend. We camped at White Oak Shores Camping & RV Resort in a Motorhome.
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Very nice, new campground. Our site was huge and offered a great view of the river. Convenient for visiting friends in Emerald Isle. Bathrooms and showers were nice. Beautiful pool with a great waterslide. W,E,S worked fine as did the 70 channel cable. I could never connect to the Wi-Fi when I was here. Would certainly stay here again. We camped at White Oak Shores Camping & RV Resort in a Fifth Wheel.
Date of Stay: June, 2012 - $42.00
We camp here at least twice a year with our group. The campground is new and shade trees are scarce. The sites are good sized and most are pull through sites. The clubhouse is available for group use and is very, very nice. They have a 300' long concrete pier that protrudes into the White River that you can fish from or just sit in the pavilion at the end and enjoy the tranquil views. The staff is friendly and tries very hard to meet your expectation. The campground also features cabins for rent and sale as the section closest the river is a full time/part time residential section. We camped at White Oak Shores Camping & RV Resort in a Motorhome.
Date of Stay: June, 2011 - $65.00
Very clean park. Mostly permanent sites; however, they do have RV sites along the riverfront. The sites are spacious. I will stay here again. I would have rated this a 10, except for the fact that the campground is some driving distance to stores. However, the cleanliness of the park is well worth the extra driving to stores and attractions. We camped at White Oak Shores Camping & RV Resort in a Motorhome.
Date of Stay: June, 2010 - $30.00
We were told to set up our tents in a grassy area. We tried to cope with the sand spurs and red ants. In less than an hour of rain we were in several inches of standing water. Our gear was soaked. We were left with no place to sleep, nobody at office or answering phones, and a truck full of soaked gear with red ants crawling all over it. I will post photos on Flickr with the campsite name attached. None of our calls were returned. We contacted the Chamber of Commerce where we had gotten the name of the campground. They contacted the owners but we still have not heard from them. Thirty dollars was taken from us, our gear smells and has ants, we had to go to a hotel, and they are not taking responsibility for having rented space without adequate drainage. The most awful camping experience I have ever had. Just plain horrible. We camped at White Oak Shores Camping & RV Resort in a Tent.
Date of Stay: May, 2010 - $40.00
This is a wonderful park from all aspects. Clean, well maintained, all park models and permanent residents took pride in their sites. The staff was friendly. One of the owners stopped by to check that all was well. Bathhouses were private and immaculate. Has a nice, well stocked general store, and the clubhouse was clean and roomy. There were planned activities. Pool with slide was very clean. Nearby Swansboro was a nice little town. Aquarium nearby we were told by friends, was worth the trip. We would go back. One draw back, no escape from the sun. We camped at White Oak Shores Camping & RV Resort in a Motorhome.
Date of Stay: April, 2010 - $60.00
We arrived late and picked up our late arrival packet at the check-in office. We were given a map of the campground with directions marked to our site. We had a view down the dock over the river from our breakfast table and it was great! We were within sight of the pool, which has a water slide. The employees in the office were very helpful and friendly. The bathroom/showers are cleaned daily. I felt that it was a little expensive for the sites near the water but we will definitely stay there again! We camped at White Oak Shores Camping & RV Resort in a Fifth Wheel.
Date of Stay: September, 2008 - $35.00
No mature trees or shrubs, so we felt the brunt of a windstorm. Also would be very hot during the summer. Pull-through sites are grass and level. Many full time residents but their sites are very clean. It was about one-half mile to the swimming pool and the dock on the river. Some 10 miles from the beach. They do not tell you that the Wi-Fi is not free and when you try to log on, you learn it is $10 a day. Most expensive we have seen in 20 months of full timing. We camped at White Oak Shores Camping & RV Resort in a Motorhome.
Date of Stay: May, 2007 - $35.00
Very refreshing to find such a nice, new campground in North Carolina. The staff is very friendly. Quiet, friendly campers on all sites. Smooth roads are great for walking & skating. Great fishing off the new pier. The upcoming campsites and plans for the campground look very promising. While there are no trees, the sites are very nicely manicured lawns (reminded us of a golf course). Location is convenient to the beaches. The facilities are all very nice & well-maintained. We camped at White Oak Shores Camping & RV Resort in a Travel Trailer.
Date of Stay: March, 2007 - $35.00
This is a new campground and they are still in the process of adding additional sites. There is a gated entrance, large, level grass sites, wide paved interior roads, and very friendly owners. The recreation area is near the river and is beautiful. Large pool, playground, and pier. The only drawback is there are a lot of permanent sites. Campground is only about 10 minutes from the beaches of Emerald Isle and Atlantic Beach so there is plenty to do in the area. We have already booked a site for June and think it will be beautiful in the summer. This is how a campground should be..large sites, paved roads, and friendly people. We camped at White Oak Shores Camping & RV Resort in a Motorhome.
Date of Stay: October, 2006 - $35.00
This campground is located in a low country marsh type area with no trees. It was great place to watch the sunset. I camped near the water/swimming pool away from other motorhomes, it was very pleasant and peaceful (the pool was closed). The fog was so bad in the morning that I got lost walking to the shower. The area was safe (had an entrance gate), exceptionally clean and the staff very friendly. We camped at White Oak Shores Camping & RV Resort in a Motorhome.
Date of Stay: July, 2006 - $35.00
Agree with the other poster. Since this is a new CG, the facilities, hookups, etc., are first class. We wish our home had the beautiful grass area that they have here…it looks like a golf course on all sites. The staff is very nice. They have first class cable TV, electric, water, sewer, site tables, paved roads, store, and a very nice pool complex. But, to be a complete review, we need to point out some other things. The park really caters to permanent/yearly rentals, not traditional day or weekly. Probably only a third of the sites are designated for transients, if that. There is a river here, but it is hard (impossible?) to see from the transient sites. There are no fire rings or BBQ grills. They have great wifi on Roadrunner cable but it isn't free. They tend to be hesitant to admit this. I asked several times about paying for it when we registered but the conversation was evaded…when you hook up to wifi, it shows that it is $9.95/day, on top of a $35 site fee. They need to be more forthcoming about this. The other thing is that there is not a tree in sight! This is one huge open field. Satellite TV RV'ers, will love it. We camped at White Oak Shores Camping & RV Resort in a Motorhome.
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February 13, 2009
-- Home Textiles Today,Basel, Switzerland – Textile dye and chemical producer Huntsman said its Textile Effects division has completed its restructuring, with a new focus on Asian markets.
"The sales and customer support organization in Asia is now the largest in Textile Effects, consistent with the latest trends in market requirements as well as current forecasts of future business development potential," the company stated.
Some research and technology assets have been relocated to the division's Panyu, China facility, while a team in Mumbai, India is also being expanded. These moves coincide with what the company called "a major consolidation of the division's sales offices and laboratories" … "taking place in many countries."
Meanwhile, Huntsman said, "the division has suspended production for up to seven weeks at its largest site," in Basel, where one-third of the workforce will work a short-time schedule.
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To live in France, and to think about sexuality, perversion, mutilation and death, is to situate myself within a paradoxical canon of 'the tradition of the avant-garde'. De Sade can be seen as this tradition's prime mover of course, but it has been faithfully extended into the twentieth century at greater or lesser degrees of intensity by writers like Anais Nin and Alain Robbe-Grillet. This tradition has also received extra contemporary momentum through the writings of nouveau philosophers like Georges Bataille, a thinker whose works were introduced to the Anglo-American intelligentsia via Barthes, Foucault, Derrida, and the Tel Quel 'movement' (itself perhaps one of the latest blossoms of this avant-garde heritage of transgression). Early in the century entire artistic movements inhabited this essentially Sadean territory and explored or transformed it with gusto, the most notable being the Surrealists. Now it is VR's turn. Thus may I present......
"At the end of the millennium", Stahl Stenslie writes, "the
body has turned
into a muti-sensorial schizoid corpus. It is on the one hand a single,
unitary, physical object with a life span of approximately 70 years, and
the other hand it has done the quantum jump into a synthetic
transcendental, multiple self of mediated realities". The question
is no
longer what or who I am, but all that I can be.
The idea of the body in cyberspace is both an old and a new one. It is old
with respect to the fantastical aspects projectable into the qualities of
an ideal body - this we know from any kind of fantasy fiction. On the other
hand it is radically new through its personification within the virtual
reality of interactive, computer constructed environments.
The art of Stahl Stenslie concerns the virtual body. He strives for the
"tabula rasa" of the body where all can be rewired anew, and to
and explore the body and its many senses within the context of new media.
He sees the body - including personality - as a construction. The body as
we have come to know it does no longer exist for him - as new technologies
allows us to perceive and experience the body in radically new ways.
"The body of the future depends more upon context, presentation and
abstraction than ever before. The emerging replicant techno-body is
continuously resampling itself at hyper speed, disintegrating an
recombining itself more according to principles of multiple sense lust than
to principles of necessity. The cyb-erotic is the new libido." Stahl
On the one hand I cannot avoid being overwhelmed with a certain euphoria
thinking of all one could possibly do with the senses in the brave, new
world of cyberspace. On the other it is not hard to annihilate every
optimism if one was to criticize the subject on an empirical basis. Except
for text-based Virtual Reality (VR), the field of new media is more built
on hype than on experiential realities, but then again, it does bring forth
the cerebral pleasures - i.e., concepts and ideas - we all desire.
Tactile Technologies (TT) is about expanding upon the perceptual limits
technology. Focusing on bodily sensations and stimuli, TT brings the body
back to digital perception. TT takes a holistic approach to media and
mediated experiences, recombining the body + cognition + hardware into new
contexts and situations.
Within networks your hands use the keyboard as input and control device
and your eyes depends on the monitor for feedback. This just spells out
present low-bandwidth of computer based communication systems.
Low-bandwidth is great for the fantasy and it is one of the reasons why
MUDs are such great places to be. However, perception ought to involve more
than fingers and eyes, and it is time to do away with the last hindering
for the digital cyborg; the body. Without a possibility of complete
corporal emergence into computer mediated experiences and environments the
digital highway to "info-heaven" and networked communication will
Check out - http://www.gar.no/sec for more infor on his upcoming project
"Solve et Coagula". If you are going to DEAF in Rotterdam (17.
- 23.09)
you will see his group project "sense:less". Sense:less was a
first step
in the direction of what he will do with "SeC".
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According to WWE.com. Do you agree with the list? 1. Miss Elizabeth 2. Randy Orton 3. Trish Stratus 4. Eve 5. The Rock 6. Stacy Keibler 7. Ricky Steamboat 8. Sunny 9. Cody Rhodes 10. Torrie Wilson 11. Batista 12. Edge 13. Rick Martel 14. Sable 15. John Morrison 16. Maryse 17. Shawn Michaels 18. Alberto Del Rio 19. Rick Rude 20. Layla 21. The Miz 22. Candice Michelle 23. Paul Roma 24. Kofi Kingston 25. Chris Jericho 26. Lita 27. David Otunga 28. Jeff Hardy 29. Magnum TA 30. Kelly Kelly 31. Wade Barrett 32. Maria 33. Jim Londos 34. Justin Gabriel 35. John Cena 36. Kimberly Page 37. Ted DiBiase Jr. 38. Jack Brisco 39. Bella Twins 40. Stan Lane 41. Mickie James 42. Eric Bischoff 43. The Kat 44. Triple H 45. Molly Holly 46. Dolph Ziggler 47. Matt Striker 48. Melina 49. CM Punk 50. Kaitlyn
That list is all sorts of fail. I really do believe WWE.com randomly selects names from a hat when compiling these lists. I mean, not a single member of the Hart family made the list? Not even Tyson Kidd?
Mickie James at 41 is insanely low. i lol'd pretty hard at Otunga's goofy ass tho. dude has a huge torso with a tiny head. also laughed at Molly Holly being above Melina/Kaitlyn.
LMAO the people at WWE.com would literally make a list about anything. Can't wait to see their list for "50 Greatest Eye Irises in WWE History"!
From what I've heard, Bischoff was a damn handsome man in his 20s. I paid $3 to post on an internet message board.
If this was going by general perception from casual fans, Trish, Rock, and HBK should be the top 3. I've heard/seen for years how females admired Rock and HBK in their prime and how many men wanted to do nasty thangs to Trish, especially when she was slutty.
If that's the case, I guess Cena should be top 5. Ladies man is pretty much part of his character by this point lol.
I just think her face is terrible looking, lol. ...and I'd say it in Brock's face while I rip his arm off and hit him with it.
Naw, Sable was every man's dirty dream back in the day. Maryse is hot but she doesn't have that same it factor Sable does.
WHOA! Okay Maryse is hot all and I'm not trying to derail this topic but we are seriously overlooking this bootiful ass here... This is almost on the level of Brooke Bourne's.
Ziggler is pretty low on the list. No **** but I'd do some things to Ziggler if I was a chick. Stacy Keibler is pretty low, too. Are we srsly forgetting how hot Stacy was?
In her early days with the company and her days as SD GM I would say so too but now days she's just getting too damn manly looking for me
I KNOW Icee is trolling. Edge making the list completely ruins any credibility of the list. Sable > Maryse Trish when we were 15 > everything


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Switchable dual-wavelength SOA-based fiber laser with continuous tunability over the C-band at room-temperature |
Optics Express, Vol. 20, Issue 21, pp. 23367-23373 (2012)
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We propose and demonstrate a simple compact, inexpensive, SOA-based, dual-wavelength tunable fiber laser, that can potentially be used for photoconductive mixing and generation of waves in the microwave and THz regions. A C-band semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) is placed inside a linear cavity with two Sagnac loop mirrors at its either ends, which act as both reflectors and output ports. The selectivity of dual wavelengths and the tunability of the wavelength difference (Δλ) between them is accomplished by placing a narrow bandwidth (e.g., 0.3 nm) tunable thin film-based filter and a fiber Bragg grating (with bandwidth 0.28 nm) inside the loop mirror that operates as the output port. A total output power of + 6.9 dBm for the two wavelengths is measured and the potential for higher output powers is discussed. Optical power and wavelength stability are measured at 0.33 dB and 0.014 nm, respectively.
OCIS Codes
(140.3600) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, tunable
(250.5980) Optoelectronics : Semiconductor optical amplifiers
(230.2285) Optical devices : Fiber devices and optical amplifiers
(060.3510) Fiber optics and optical communications : Lasers, fiber
ToC Category:
Lasers and Laser Optics
Original Manuscript: July 10, 2012
Revised Manuscript: August 14, 2012
Manuscript Accepted: August 23, 2012
Published: September 26, 2012
M. A. Ummy, N. Madamopoulos, M. Razani, A. Hossain, and R. Dorsinville, "Switchable dual-wavelength SOA-based fiber laser with continuous tunability over the C-band at room-temperature," Opt. Express 20, 23367-23373 (2012)
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Microsemi (Nasdaq: MSCC ) reported earnings on Jan. 24. Here are the numbers you need to know.
The 10-second takeaway
For the quarter ended Dec. 30 (Q1), Microsemi missed slightly on revenues and missed estimates on earnings per share.
Compared to the prior-year quarter, revenue increased slightly and GAAP earnings per share expanded.
Margins expanded across the board.
Revenue details
Microsemi reported revenue of $247.6 million. The 12 analysts polled by S&P Capital IQ hoped for sales of $252.1 million on the same basis. GAAP reported sales were 2.8% higher than the prior-year quarter's $240.9 million.
Source: S&P Capital IQ. Quarterly periods. Dollar amounts in millions. Non-GAAP figures may vary to maintain comparability with estimates.
EPS details
EPS came in at $0.50. The nine earnings estimates compiled by S&P Capital IQ predicted $0.52 per share. GAAP EPS were $0.16 for Q1 versus -$0.52 per share for the prior-year quarter.
Source: S&P Capital IQ. Quarterly periods. Non-GAAP figures may vary to maintain comparability with estimates.
Margin details
For the quarter, gross margin was 57.6%, 540 basis points better than the prior-year quarter. Operating margin was 10.7%, 800 basis points better than the prior-year quarter. Net margin was 5.7%, 2,420 basis points better than the prior-year quarter.
Looking ahead
Next quarter's average estimate for revenue is $253.8 million. On the bottom line, the average EPS estimate is $0.53.
Next year's average estimate for revenue is $1.03 billion. The average EPS estimate is $2.27.
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Our Corvette price guide has an average 1977 Corvette Coupe valued at $10,000. Our High price is $13,000. Prices are fairly low compared to other years because the 1977 Corvette had the third highest production total ever with 49,213 produced. Most 1977 Corvettes came with the base engine, the L48 350/180. Just over 6,000 Corvettes came equipped with the optional L82 350/220 engine and just over 2000 came equipped with the optional 4-speed. So of the 1977 Corvettes, the most valuable was the L82 coupled with the 4-Speed manual transmission.
The good news is that our appreciation figures for the 1977 model are 5% for one year and a whopping 19% over five years.
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Still planned are efforts to eliminate the Hay system, introduce role assignments, reduce the number of job levels and institute broader salary bands, all key components of the original reengineering proposal.
"The implementation of behavioral stages is being reconsidered, but the process for performance planning and assessment has continued," says Mike Willard, Compensation section head. "The key competencies were incorporated, and the PADS Web tool is being used. Based on feedback and lessons learned from this year, users will see improvements to the Web tool before the next assessment period."
ORNL Lab Director Bill Madia observed in an April Reporter interview that promotions are "a part of our culture, fundamentally ingrained as a way to recognize and reward."
Director of Human Resources and Diversity Programs Darryl Boykins says the proposed job evaluation approach and compensation system was too heavily based toward behavioral traits, such as collaboration, teamwork and mentoring.
"Although team and collaborative efforts are critical individual and organization success factors, individual contributions are equally important to the Laboratory," Boykins says. "We saw a need for a system that was less behavioral-based and brought teamwork and individual effort into better balance. Our pay and recognition systems must recognize the value of both. Redesign of the system is under way and implementation is targeted for mid-2001."
Some employees thought the entire process was on hold and were surprised when they were asked to submit, as usual, self-assessments and performance plans. Although the job evaluation and compensation systems are being re-evaluated, the performance planning and assessment process itself is proceeding as it always has, with the introduction and use of the new PADS Web tool.
"I think one reason people were confused is because some employees referred to all HR reengineering as 'PADS' and inferred from HR reengineering being on hold that PADS and the associated Web tool was also on hold," Willard says. "The PADS Web tool was designed to support our performance planning and assessment process and will continue to be modified until we've completed a total performance management and compensation system."
Meanwhile, the performance planning assessment process goes on. By now this year's performance ratings have been entered into PADS. Final approvals and performance discussions with employees began in early August. Salary planning for the next fiscal year also began in early August. All performance discussions will be completed by the end of October.
One of the most marked and obvious changes in the Annual Results Assessment is a set of seven performance ratings. The definitions of the new ratings are available on the PADS Web page, www-internal.ornl.gov/~izu/ara/gen/araTraining11.htm.
In the meantime, the PADS team will continue to adjust the Web tool. "We'll be looking at things that worked well—and things that didn't—and modify the system accordingly," Willard says. "We have either fixed, or documented for future consideration, concerns and problems experienced with PADS during this review period."
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Comments and suggestions regarding PADS may be submitted to Willard, firstname.lastname@example.com. Additional information, such as answers to frequently asked questions about PADS, is on the PADS Website at http://www-internal.ornl.gov/pads.—B.C.
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HR reengineering proceeds as HR fine-tunes the new system
As most employees who have completed their required self-assessments and performance plans know, reports of the demise of the Performance and Development System, or PADS, were greatly exaggerated. Human Resources reengineering, after being placed on hold during the change in contractors, is proceeding.
The Leadership Team put a hold on the career stage assignments, Willard explains. "That's where they had the most reservations. It was essentially behavior-based and promotion-less. They asked us to reevaluate and continue development of a new system that will still meet most of the reengineering objectives, while retaining promotions and job-based criteria."
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CUNY joins forces with Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI) for an evening of fascinating talk, music, and images by physicist James Crutchfield [the Santa Fe Institute] and David Dunn, composer and audio engineer. Together they spearhead "The Theatre of Pattern Formation" project, a visual and auditory articulation of Chaos Theory, designed for the immersive environment of the LodeStar Astronomy Center in Santa Fe, NM. Please join us if you are in town.Crutchfield and Dunn hope this project will also provide a natural extension of the "Planetarium" concept in that the resultant visualizations-auralizations can demonstrate generative principles for the kinds of celestial structures (nebulae, galaxies, etc.) being revealed in greater detail by recent advances in astronomical imaging such as the Hubble Telescope. It would also show how these generative principles apply to an immense array of natural phenomena at both the microscopic and macroscopic levels of physical scale. For details on the Crutchfield-Dunn collaboration:http://atc.unm.edu/research/asl/asl.htmlInformation about CUNY's Science and Arts Program:http://web.gc.cuny.edu/ashp/nml/artsci/sciart.htm
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Martin Freeman Joins "Captain America: Civil War" Cast
I thought it would be an interesting look into our nation's political cartoon history if, this month, I took a look at a different editorial cartoon each day that won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. Do note that we're talking basically 1922-1967 here, as since then, the Committee has awarded cartoonists generally for their work, not for an exemplary single cartoon. So in many ways, this is a snapshot of American politics (for better or for worse) over a forty-five year period. Here is an archive of the cartoons featured thus far.
Today we look at Frank Miller's 1963 award-winning cartoon.
It is pretty remarkable, when you think about it, that the Des Moines Register has had its political cartoonist win the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning a stunning THREE times. The first two were for Ding Darling, and that was sort of expected, as Darling passed up the big name papers in New York to move back to Iowa. Darling's successor, though, Frank Miller, was a Midwest man, through and through, only leaving the Midwest for tours of duty in World War II and the Korean War.
Miller began his career in Kansas City at the Kansas City Star before moving to Iowa and taking over the lead editorial cartoonist gig at the Des Moines Register in 1953 (Darling had retired in 1949). He stayed at the paper until his death in 1983.
Miller was an institution in Iowa for decades, but unlike Darling, he was not nationally syndicated until 1981, just two years before his death!
So with his lack of a national profile considered, it's quite remarkable that he was renowned enough for the Prize Committee to award him the 1963 prize for this fairly straightforward yet powerful anti-war (specifically anti-Nuclear Weapons) cartoon, titled, appropriately enough, the dialogue that the one figure is saying to the other, nicely satirizing the folly of nuclear conflict, "I said — we sure settled that dispute, didn't we!"
By the way, amusingly enough, I've found at least one Who's Who that confused Miller with the legendary comic book creator, Frank Miller (once you toss in the popular newspaper comic STRIP artist of the same name, and damned if you can think of a single name better represented in comic history!).
I, the Real Frank Miller, should redo this. I could include things like:
The Earth, age 65 million.
What was it, dense? Was it retarded or something? What the hell did it think I am? I'm the Goddamn A-bomb!
Phew! For a second I thought that Dark Knight Strikes Back won a Pulitzer Prize.
The Earth, age 65 million. What was it, dense? Was it retarded or something? What the hell did it think I am? I'm the Goddamn A-bomb!
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Car motor cycle and cleaning garage stuff for $ale
Well first I have a 350 2 bolt .40 over 11:1 flat tops hasnt been ran since put together...comes with 2:02 - 1:60 pro topline heads.... not sure on runners they did flow real nice on 406 took them off and made upgrade..... screw in studs and rollor rockers.
$600 with stand [img width=645 height=480]http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa223/dominicsworld/block.jpg[/img] [img width=645 height=480]http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa223/dominicsworld/heads.jpg[/img] next is a radial arm saw cost 750 new looking for $550 OBO never been used ..... [img width=645 height=482]http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa223/dominicsworld/lasertrac.jpg[/img] [img width=645 height=480]http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa223/dominicsworld/armsaw-1.jpg[/img] [img width=645 height=480]http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa223/dominicsworld/armsaw.jpg[/img] I also have some stereo stuff I want gone.... I have 2 15inch audiobahn speakers in box P.Jones series $150 1000 watt kenwood amp $150 [img width=645 height=480]http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa223/dominicsworld/kenwoodamp.jpg[/img] percison power amp $100 [img width=645 height=480]http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa223/dominicsworld/precisonpoweramp.jpg[/img] I also have a alpine radio very nice cost over 300 new I dont need it and I want $100 [img width=645 height=480]http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa223/dominicsworld/radio.jpg[/img] Two 10inch subs in box $200 [img width=645 height=480]http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa223/dominicsworld/subs.jpg[/img] Also a 2000 sportster 1200 alot of after market bolt ons..... $5500 I also have a 2000 dodge intrepid for sale or trade had new motor put in last year.... there is 11,000 miles on new motor.... new tires brakes and many other parts $5,500 I think I have more stuff I just have to dig it out.... Last edited by JohnR; January 11th, 2010 at 07:00 PM. |
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The cast numbers I put up are EXACTLY whats on the block..... roller?....Ummmm its roller if you make it roller.... I dont get what your saying.... you looking for a vortec block?
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I have got a lot of messages about trades...
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I guess some people are confused about my post.... I have had some PMs so I guess I will clear up any confusion now.....
The motor isnt running..... thought you could tell that by the pics.. The motor is rebuilt and hasnt been put back together..... The motor and heads are sold together but if you only want one and not the other the price is still $600 and I guess you can just have the other stuff for free or I will keep it for you..... |
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Rakoff is an excellent writer. His prose is somewhat heavy, not allowing for decent skimming, but it is worth it to take the extra time and read Rakoff's sentences slowly. Rakoff's humor sneaks up on you—he isn't broad, but I found myself reading a sentence and laughing aloud on more than one occasion. Though a few of the essays moved a little slowly (the first one was actually the hardest one for me to get through), all are worth reading.
The final essay in the book, "Another Shoe" is absolutely phenomenal, and if you don't have time to read the entire book, it's worth buying or borrowing just for the single essay. It takes the reader through Rakoff's discovery of a tumor in his arm, his fears that the arm will need to be amputated, and his thoughts on the struggle with cancer. And, I don't want to spoil anything, but the final sentence of the essay made me look at the entire book in a new light.


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Athens has 100,266 residents. It is located in Clarke county.
The average in-state tuition for full time undergraduate students in science schools in Athens during the 2009 - 2010 school year was $3,314.00. The average tuition was $12,052.00 for non-residents studying in Georgia.
The average cost of books and supplies for science schools in Athens is $1,230.00. Students who live on campus while attending a science school in Athens, can expect to pay an average of $8,046.00 for room and board. Students who live at home can expect average costs to be $7,600.00. There is one science college in Athens. 102 students were reported to have graduated from science programs in Athens in the 2008 - 2009 school year.
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Inquisitor 1243: Paradise by Kruger
Posted by kenmac on August 29th, 2012
Preamble: Wordplay in each clue, presented in alphabetical order of solutions, yields an extra letter. When clues are arranged in conventional order, the extra letters give a vision of paradise and the name of its creator that should help to identify the 7 unclued entries (a sample of the delights allegedly found there). Additionally, the initial letters of the first 12 reordered clues pose a question, the answer to which (3 words) should be written below the grid.
I think this is the first time I've had to blog a crossword whose clues aren't in the conventional order. When the clues are in answer order like this, once you have some answers then others become easier as you have an idea what their starting letters are. This grid lent itself to an easy start when it came to filling the answers as column g contained a single 13-letter answer, however, this also caused grief as I initially had LETTER MISSIVE (without full justification, of course.) Another thing that made the grid fill difficult was the fact that there were seven unclued answers.
As the grid began to fill, I could see BLUEBELL as a possible candidate for 5a but as that gave me LR__ in 10d it looked unlikely, aha, it's BLUEBIRD. Then when LEMONADE (21d) started to appear something triggered my memory and I realised that the "vision of paradise" that we were seeking was The Big Rock Candy Mountain – one of my favourite songs from childhood. The lyric can be found here.
Thus the "delights" (all from the second verse) are: BIRDS and BEES (32d, 1a), CIGARETTE TREES (16a, 35a), LEMONADE SPRINGS (21d, 23d) and BLUEBIRD (5a.)
The extra letters once put in conventional order spelled out: BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAINS HARRY MCCLINTOCK. Surely this is a mistake as all references I found have the mountain as singular rather than plural!
The final piece of the puzzle, the initial letters of first 12 reorder clues revealed the question: WHAT DO HENS DO? And the answer, to be written below the grid is: LAY SOFT-BOILED EGGS.
I have one query, I can't quite see how SAGAS (14a) works. And, surely the word in the last clue should be AUTONOMOUS.
Nice, relatively easy and fun puzzle, thanks Kruger – and, if you're reading this, perhaps you'll explain all about Katherine and Lee and their "Special Day."
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Entry |
Extra letter |
Wordplay |
Startle mailman delivering odd letters to gypsy |
36a | ALARM | O |
mAiLmAn+ROM (gypsy) |
Warmed cabin sheltering Tom at first – it was fantastic! |
11a | ANTIC | B |
T(om) inside CABIN (anag: warmed) |
Arabian artist with current weapon put on trial |
37a | ARRAIGN | U |
AR(abian)+RA (artist)+I (current)+GUN (weapon) |
Left in charge, abuses wobbly seesaws | 1d | BASCULES | I |
L(eft)+IC (in charge)+ABUSES (anag: wobbly) |
Most vile and brutal person devours wings of albatross |
5d | BASEST | A |
A(lbatros)S (wings of) inside BEAST (brutal person) |
Girl in Aberdeen wears somewhat low Spanish petticoats |
8d | BASQUINES | Y |
QUINE (Scottish girl) inside BASSY (somewhat low) |
Dakota's space makes me cold (American space) | 29a | CELOM | D |
ME COLD (anag: makes) |
Caught stashing beer in dangerous shepherd's hut |
29d | CHALET | O |
ALE (beer) inside C(aught)+HOT (dangerous) |
Eccentric person from the south won raffle | 10d | DRAW | C |
CARD (eccentric person, rev: from the south)+W(on) |
Enforcers of the law mostly order the French |
22a | EDILES | C |
EDICt (order, mostly)+LES (French "the") |
Lamb's following priest with cut ragwort |
28d | ELIANS | T |
ELI (priest)+TANSy (ragwort, cut short) |
Refurbish den twice over | 38a | ENDED | N |
DEN DEN (twice, anag: refurbish) |
Harry, Reg and Angie: one could secure their services (THEIR: his or her; thus singular) |
12a | ENGAGER | I |
REG ANGIE (anag: harry) |
Half of sirens beside river delta put in pits |
2d | ENSILED | N |
sirENS (half of)+NILE (river)+D(elta) |
Earl's sensible domestic slave | 40a | ESNE | A |
E(arl)+SANE (sensible) |
Floor in European theatre | 3d | ÉTAGE | S |
E(uropean)+STAGE (theatre) |
Salmon for those in lowest class? | 33d | ETAS | K |
KETAS (salmon) |
Design car speedo incorporating knots | 13d | GNARS | C |
desiGN CAR Speedo (hidden: incorporating) |
Disrespectfully, woman revolutionary turned up in school |
27d | HEDER | N |
HEN (woman, disrespectfully)+RED (revolutionary, rev: turned up) |
Joyous cry when Ben possibly joins motoring organisation |
31d | HURRA | C |
HUR (Ben)+RAC (motoring organisation) |
Allow mostly brusque author time absorbed in document conferring privilege |
6d | LETTERS PATENT | R |
LET (allow)+TERSe (brusque, mostly) +T(ime) inside PARENT (author) |
Oldish comedian nearly takes wife in county town |
19a | LEWES | C |
W(ife) inside CLEESe (comedian, nearly) |
Places to sign engine drivers | 25d | LOCOMEN | I |
LOCI (places)+OMEN (sign) |
Believe merchant went round engaging chief magistrate |
9d | REEVE | M |
beliEVE MERchant (hidden: engaging, rev: went round) |
Holding incomplete endorsement for passport, northern holidaymaker returns for newer version |
20a | REVISAL | K |
VISa (endorsement, incomplete) inside LAKER (rev: returns) |
Crass tits upset church officers | 39a | SACRISTS | T |
CRASS TITS (anag: upset) |
Ancient narratives : boastful talk about good Norse god |
14a | SAGAS | G |
GAS (boastful talk) G(ood) SAGA (Norse god) somehow they all go together but it beats me |
Public alarms leader of council visiting allotments |
4d | SCARES | H |
Council (leader) inside SHARES (allotments) |
Stupid person in school initially lost two of encyclopaedia's pages |
26a | SCHLEPP | N |
SCH(ool)+Lost (initially)+ENcyclopedia+PP (pages) |
Different size? Ours contains elastic at the front and fits |
18a | SEIZURES | O |
Elastic (at the front) inside SIZE OURS (anag: different) |
Not married – celebrate with beer! | 24a | SINGLE | A |
SING (celebrate)+ALE (beer) |
Overstated article on art lay neglected |
30a | THEATRAL | Y |
THE (article)+ART LAY (anag: neglected) |
Canons in educational establishment have rows |
7d | UNITIES | R |
UNIversity (educational establishment)+TIERS (rows) |
Tree-moss from America not far away | 15a | USNEA | R |
US (America)+NEAR (not far away) |
Introduction to viceroy's announcement yielding name in corruption |
34a | VITIATION | M |
Viceroy (introduction to)+InTIMATION (announcement, without N(ame)) |
Clearly, road to autonymous region is alas no more |
17d | WELLANEAR | L |
WELL (clearly)+LANE (road)+AR (autonymous region) |


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Sunday, April 29, 2012
I have a Dream: Lawncare Edition
I have dream, that one day, this pile of dirt will rise above its circumstances and become something more than just a pile in the middle of my yard. I dream that it may become a doctor or a lawyer or, most hopefully, a nice place where potatoes live and grow.
I have a dream. Similar to the way that if you mow over poison ivy, you get it everywhere, I dream that mowing over honeysuckle will make you smell like honeysuckle, instead of just like mulch and grass.
I have a dream that the contents of my yard will not be judged by my neighbors and found wanting. That someday, my yard will be filled-in to such an extent that I will be able to see where I have already mowed and not mowed, while the mower is still running, and not just after I've put it away.
Most importantly, I have a dream for my children, and my children's children. I dream that one day, they will be accepted even if they are wearing an outfit similar to this one. I dream that a painting of this picture will hang in a fine arts gallery. I dream that this pose will become a symbol of hope for peoples everywhere, regardless if they are wearing pajamas in public or not.
A girl can dream,
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Oh, this is not just a dream.
This is encouragement for outdoor, pajama wearers/home owners/dog owners/lawn mowers and wanna be honey suckle smellers everywhere.I do have to ask: what were you doing when this picture was taken and is this a real pose or a candid pose? 'Cause girl, even the dog is looking at you like "what on earth???" I wonder what the neighbors were thinking... ;)
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Title: | Planning for development: national physical development plan background paper: Development potential. (National physical development plan background papers; no. NP-BP4) |
Author: | Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Ministry of Finance (Planning and development). |
Date: | 1977 |
Description: | Identifies the potential, by sub-region, for urban and industrial development, agricultural and forestry development, recreation facilities and development of conservation areas. |
Repository: | `Ministry of Planning, Economic and Social Restructuring and Gender Affairs - Library Services Unit. Trinidad and Tobago |
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The Transient Receptor Potential, Melastatin-like 7 (TRPM7) protein is composed of a long amino terminus, 6 trans-membrane domains, and a carboxy terminal α-kinase domain; TRPM7 tetramers form non-selective cation channels with unusual permeability to Mg2+. TRPM7 is thought to be expressed in all cell types, and studies conducted primarily on cultured cells have implicated TRPM7 in cellular functions that include cell adhesion, synaptic vesicle release, kidney cation balance, differentiation, survival, and cellular magnesium homeostasis. The full extent of its physiological functions in vivo remains elusive because mouse TRPM7 homozygous null mutants die at embryonic stages. By contrast, zebrafish homozygous for hypomorphic alleles of trpm7 survive for two weeks post fertilization, making it possible to study the physiological consequences of Trpm7 deficiency in a living organism. My work primarily utilizes homozygous animals carrying the trpm7b508 allele, which we suspect encodes a non-functional protein for three reasons. This protein variant is predicted to lack a kinase domain, patch clamp studies fail to detect current, and morpholino knockdown of Trpm7 yields a similar phenotype. Herein, we explore the mechanisms behind each of three phenotypes in trpm7b508 homozygous embryos, i.e., trpm7 mutants. First, we find that cell death of embryonic melanophores in trpm7 mutants is not by apoptosis, and it is dependent upon melanin synthesis and the ion channel Trpm2. Second, we show that paralysis of trpm7 mutants is rescued by surgical opening of the circulatory system to surrounding media, implying that paralysis results from an organismal ion imbalance. Third, we report a variety of findings supporting the model that abnormally low levels of spontaneous swimming in larval trpm7 mutants results from reduced dopamine signaling. We find that specific populations of catecholaminergic neurons are reduced in mutants relative to their unaffected siblings, and that mutants are sensitized to the neurotoxic effects of 1-Methyl-4-phenylpyridinium iodide (MPP+). Together, these results suggest that Trpm7 has a role in ameliorating the toxic effects of reactive oxygen species in certain populations of melanophores and neurons. These findings advance understanding of the function of TRPM7 during embryonic development, and may have relevance to the gene-environment interaction behind certain neurodegenerative conditions.
dopaminergic, melanophore, Parkinson's, TRPM7, Zebrafish
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Parida, BK and Prakash, Raghu V and Ghosal, AK and Mangalgiri, PD and Vijayaraju, K (1996) Compression buckling behavior of laminated composite panels. In: Proceedings of the 13th ASTM Symposium, 20-21 May 1996, Orlando, United States.
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Compression buckling tests on 6.0-mm-thick carbon fiber composite (CFC) panels are described for which a reasonably good simulation of the boundary condition was achieved, especially under the simple supported condition. Carefully designed test fixtures that provided excellent alignment of the panel with the loading axis and adequate lateral stiffness for edge supports during buckling of the CFC panels were used to achieve this goal. Both simply supported and clamped boundary conditions are studied. Tests in room-temperature-as-received (RT/AR) and hot-wet (H/W) conditions are described. A buckling test on a simply supported panel with prior moisture conditioning was performed under the H/W condition with an environmental test chamber mounted on the test rig to prevent any loss of moisture during the test at 100 C and not less than 85 percent relative humidity. Based on these results, a test procedure was developed to identify buckling loads through measurement of out-of-plane displacements rather than relying solely upon longitudinal strata measurement.
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Carbon fiber composite;Longitudinal strata management |
Subjects: | ASTRONAUTICS > Spacecraft Design, Testing and Performance |
Division/Department: | Structural Integrity Division, Structural Integrity Division, Structural Integrity Division, Other, Other |
Depositing User: | M/S ICAST NAL |
Date Deposited: | 19 Sep 2006 |
Last Modified: | 24 May 2010 09:50 |
URI: | http://nal-ir.nal.res.in/id/eprint/2760 |
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Editor's note: This is part of a series about candidates for the Indian Hills Fire District board in the May election.
Former Indian Hills fire chief Don Schoenbein says the "firehouse fiasco" is the reason that he decided to run for the district fire board in the May 6 election.
The $5 million bond issue, which the Indian Hills fire board asked residents to support to build a new station, prompted him to challenge incumbent board members, Schoenbein said.
Evergreen resident Linda Kirkpatrick took first-place honors and bragging rights for guessing when the Ice Melt Barrel would fall into Evergreen Lake.
She was followed by Carla Boyd, second place; Beth Feldkamp, third place; and Rod Hock, fourth place, all Evergreen residents. First place wins $1,000, second place gets $500, third place $250, and fourth place $125.
The barrel hit the water at 1:17:31 p.m. on Friday, March 28. It was placed on the lake on Jan. 7.
Evergreen residents at the first community forum of the Evergreen Park and Recreation District voiced concerns about noise, traffic and overcrowding at area parks--especially during special events.
"I sleep here, right across the street," Evergreen resident Kristina Sherwood said, referring to an event at Buchanan Park at which loud music was played. Sherwood said the music seemed to be directed toward her home.
From the tip line
Talks between the school district and the teachers union ended abruptly Monday evening when the union declared an impasse and left the bargaining table.
"It has become clear … that this year's bargaining process is broken and is disrespecting a 45-year tradition that has made us great," said Stephie Rossi, bargaining chair for the Jeffco Education Association. "The JCEA team cannot meet the board's interests if we don't know what they are."
Former Inter-Canyon fire chief David MacBean pleaded guilty Monday to three charges in the theft of more than $647,000 from the fire district.
MacBean, who was indicted last October, seven months after he was asked to step down as chief, entered guilty pleas in district court to two counts of theft and one count of embezzlement of public property. MacBean's sentencing is scheduled for June 24; he faces up to 27 years in prison.
The search was called off last week for a Minnesota father and son reported missing April 6 after they failed to return from a hike in the Mount Evans area.
After four days of intense searching, no sign was found of Damian McManus, 52, and Evan McManus, 19, in the Mount Evans area, said Bill Barwick, a spokesman for the Alpine Rescue Team.
The search was called off about 4 p.m. April 9 by the Clear Creek Sheriff's Office. At its peak, the search included about 70 rescuers from several mountain agencies.
At least four businesses were victims of a recent phone scam involving someone posing as a representative of Xcel Energy, the Jeffco Sheriff's Office reported.
The scammer would call a businesses and say its Xcel bill was past due. The caller then said that unless a payment was made immediately with a reloadable cash card, the power would be turned off, said Jeffco sheriff's spokeswoman Jacki Kelley.
Editor's note: This is the second installment in a series on the two new members joining the board of the Evergreen Fire Protection District.
Wildfires are a persistent threat to the Evergreen community — and John Anderson wants to help combat them.
"I think about wildfire every day," Anderson said. "We need to be prepared for a wildfire event, as well as all other services and natural and manmade threats."
A November job fair was so successful that folks at Evergreen Christian Outreach have decided to hold another one May 1.
The Mountain Area Job Fair is slated for 2 to 5 p.m. on Thursday, May 1, at Aspen Ridge Church, 27154 North Turkey Creek Road. It will be free to both employers and job seekers. It's being co-hosted by EChO and the Mountain Resource Center in Conifer.
Three job seekers were hired on the spot at the November fair, where more than 110 job seekers met with representatives of 32 area employers.