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2-15-23 / Class of '95 / Type: non-secretory / Died 7-29-99
Written by Glenn M. Schroer; submitted by his daughter, Janie Manley (email@example.com)
The following story tells about my dad's battle with MM:
I was born in Red Wing, Minnesota on February 15, 1923. I had a normal
childhood with normal childhood diseases (measles, chickenpox, etc.) Prior to
MM, I was never sick a day in my life and never missed a day of work due to
In 1943, I joined the army as combat infantry in the Pacific. I was
discharged from the army in 1945. In 1946, I worked for a Chicago firm as a
spray painter, using some lead based paints. In 1949, I rejoined
the army. I served in Korea as combat infantry in 1950 and suffered many
hardships during the war. I chose to make the army my career and was stationed
primarily at Fort Bliss, Texas, White Sands Proving
Grounds, New Mexico and Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands. I worked with
high-powered radars designed for research and development of an anti-missile
missile system. In 1967, I retired from the army, moved to
Cedar Rapids, Iowa and worked for Rockwell Collins and later for Norand
Corporation. I retired in 1983 and moved to Oquawka, Illinois where I spent time
hunting, fishing and traveling. My wife and I moved back to the Cedar Rapids,
area in May 1995.
By January 1995, I had intense pain in the rib area every time I coughed or
sneezed but did not go to the doctor. In March 1996, I developed a middle back
problem. I could not straighten up completely and when I
tried to do some painting, I developed severe muscle spasms in my middle back.
After three doctors sent me home with muscle relaxers and pain pills, I went to
an osteopath, who cured the muscle spasm in one day, but the doctor told me that
I still had a serious back problem and ordered a bone scan. The radiologist said
that I had bone cancer but I did not believe it. I was referred to an
oncologist, Dr. Chirantan Ghosh. I spent a few days in the hospital and had many
tests, including a Bone Marrow Biopsy. Dr. Ghosh diagnosed MM (non-secreting). I
had a tumor on my spine which prevented me from standing straight, along with
numerous rib lesions. I received twenty radiation treatments which eliminated
the tumor and allowed me to stand straight.
I began chemotherapy (Melphalan, Cyclophosphamide and one other that I don't
know the name of) and was also on Prednisone. I tolerated chemo very well until
July when I developed extreme shortness of breath. It was found that the chemo
had caused lung damage and the doctor decided to triple the Cyclophosphamide and
eliminate the others. The chemo did not make me sick and I did whatever I wanted
- mowed that lawn, waxed the car, weeded the garden, etc. I continued with this
chemo for one
In October 1997, I noticed I was losing sight in my right eye. The oncologist
assured me that the cancer had nothing to do with this vision problem, so I had
cataract surgery with no improvement. In fact, my
vision continued to deteriorate - I developed double vision, which disappeared
in short time due to all loss of vision. I was told that this was due to macular
degeneration and nothing could be done. I was
sure there was something else wrong. In January 1998, I made an appointment with
a brilliant ophthalmologist, Dr. Lee Birchansky, who thoroughly examined my eye
and agreed that the problem was external to my eye. I had an MRI which revealed
tumors on the right side of my head, preventing my eye muscles and nerves from
functioning. The eye problem was a result of MM and my right eye vision was
permanently lost. At the same time, I fractured my right clavicle merely by
picking up a light snow shovel. I was told that my bone density was very low. I
received fifteen radiation treatments on the right side of my head and clavicle
and started chemo again. (VAD) (Doxoruvic and Cincristine Sulfate). By
February-March 1998, I was very ill with continuous stomach pain and shortness
of breath. After three chemo treatments, it was decided that the chemo was doing
more harm than good and it was
In April 1998, I was hospitalized and many tests were performed looking for
blood clots (looking for reasons for shortness of breath). No blood clots were
found. Carafate solved my stomach problem and I noticed that I had regained
very, very slight vision in my right eye. Prednisone was prescribed for my
lung/breathing problem. The oncologist said there was no hope for me, that I had
less than six months to live and signed me up with hospice. I didn't believe
that I had only six months to live. A hospice nurse came to the house once a
week, checked my blood pressure, pulse, listened to my lungs and heart and
furnished medication. I believe hospice to be a very necessary and worthwhile
program. By September 1998, it was obvious that I wasn't going to cooperate and
die within six months as scheduled and I was discharged from hospice. My family
says that I flunked hospice!
By October, 1998 I had practically no vision in my right eye due to the
damage from the tumors and noticed that my left eye had become very blurry. In
January 1999, I decided that since I wasn't going to die
right away, I would have cataract surgery on my left eye. At this time, I was
nearly blind, couldn't drive or read any more and could barely make out anything
on TV. The cataract surgery results were
unbelievable. I ended up with 20/30 vision without glasses - 20/20 with glasses
in the left eye. I could read and drive again, even at night! It was such a
wonderful result - we never expected that much
In February of 1999, I developed a hoarse voice and was examined for lung
cancer and tumors and my vocal chords, both of which were negative. Prilosec was
prescribed, but has not helped much. Then in
March, I developed shingles and was given Valtrex which cured the shingles. I
have been receiving Aredia once a month for eighteen months. My bone density
must be much improved because there have been
no more broken bones and coughing causes no pain. I can lift fifty pounds and
have fallen four times with no adverse effects. I have now lost forty pounds and
three inches in height and I'm currently on 40 mg.
of Prednisone daily, which probably accounts for my good appetite and feeling
I hope my history provides some hope to other MM patients. I am a 76-year-old
man who has survived over three years since diagnosis. I failed hospice, do not
feel sick and do just about anything I want to. I
still enjoy life, but do not have the strength and stamina I once had, but that
is understandable. Hang in there. Develop a positive attitude. Don't give up. If
I can beat the odds, even temporarily at my age, so can you!
I am sorry to say that my dad lost his very brave battle with MM on July 29,
1999. He never stopped living and was active until the end, even though we could
see how ill he was. His death was sudden and unexpected - I believe his heart
finally just gave out. He woke up that morning and started having a lot of back,
chest and hip pain, which was unusual for him. We did not know what was
happening. In a short time, he died very peacefully with his loving family
beside him. The manner in which he lived his life and his bravery in this last
battle is a source of great pride to his family. At this point, we are
devastated by our loss and hope that we will have happy memories some day.
The following is a poem that I wrote for my dad.
I never would have guessed that day
The sorrow that would come my way
A part of me went with you then
My heart cannot be whole again
I'll never hear your voice again
Or see your bright blue eyes
Your hands are still, your work is done
Your brilliance is forever gone
You fought so hard and did your best
But now it's time for you to rest
You're with me everywhere I go
The greatest DAD that I loved so
And how I miss you every day
Although I knew you could not stay
My heart would break to see your pain
There was no sunshine, only rain
You taught me well and gave your love
Now you can watch me from above
I'll carry on your gentle way
And make you proud every day


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Putin's Hollowed-Out Homeland
Russia's human capital is in steep decline. A 15-year-old boy there won't even live as long as one in Afghanistan.
History is full of instances where a rising power, aggrieved and dissatisfied, acts aggressively to obtain new borders or other international concessions. In Russia today we see a much more unusual case: This increasingly menacing and ambitious geopolitical actor is a state in decline.
Notwithstanding Russia's nuclear arsenal and its vast territories, the distinguishing feature of the country today is its striking economic underdevelopment and weakness. For all Russia's oil and gas, the country's international sales of goods and services last year only barely edged out Belgium's—and were positively dwarfed by the Netherlands'. Remember, there has never been an "energy superpower"—anywhere, ever. In the modern era, the ultimate source of national wealth and power is not natural resources: It is human resources. And unfortunately for Russia, its human-resource situation is almost unrelievedly dismal—with worse likely in the years to come.
Let's start with the "good" demographic news for Moscow: Russia's post-Soviet population decline has halted. Thanks to immigration chiefly from the "near abroad" of former Soviet states, a rebound in births from their 1999 nadir and a drift downward of the death rate, Russia's total population today is officially estimated to be nearly a million higher than five years ago. For the first time in the post-Soviet era, Russia saw more births than deaths last year.
Yet even this seemingly bright news isn't as promising as it seems. First: Russia's present modest surfeit of births over deaths comes entirely from historically Muslim areas like Chechnya and Dagestan, and from heavily tribal regions like the Tuva Republic. Take the North Caucasus Federal District out of the picture—Chechnya, Dagestan, etc.—and the rest of Russia today remains a net-mortality society.
Second: Despite its baby surge, which takes Russia's fertility level from below the average to just above the average for the rest of Europe, the 1.7 births per Russian woman in 2012 was still 20% below replacement level. According to the most recent official Russian calculations, on current trajectories the country's population, absent immigration, is still set to shrink by almost 20% from one generation to the next.
But while Russia's childbearing patterns today look entirely European, its mortality patterns look Third World—and in some ways worse. According to estimates by the World Health Organization, life expectancy in 2012 for a 15-year-old male was three years lower in Russia than in Haiti. By WHO's reckoning, a 15-year-old youth has worse survival chances today in Russia than in 33 of the 48 places the United Nations designates as "least developed countries," including such impoverished locales as Mali, Yemen and even Afghanistan. Though health levels are distinctly better for women than men in Russia, even the life expectancy of 61 years for a 15-year-old Russian female in 2012 was an estimated three years lower than for her counterpart in Cambodia, another of the U.N.'s least-developed countries.
How is this possible in an urbanized and educated society? In least-developed countries, life is foreshortened by such killers as malnutrition and communicable "diseases of poverty" such as tuberculosis, malaria and cholera. Data from WHO in 2010 show that in Russia the major threats are cardiovascular disease (resulting in heart attacks, strokes and the like) and injuries (homicides, suicides, traffic fatalities, deadly accidents).
For decades, Russia's death rates from cardiovascular disease have been higher than the highest levels ever recorded in any Western country. For Russian women in 2010, the rate was over five times higher than for Western European women. In 2008—the latest such global figures available from the World Health Organization—working-age Russian men had the worst cardiovascular-disease death levels in the world.
As for injuries, death rates for working-age Russian men were four times higher than would have been predicted for their income level—with absolute levels of violent death exceeded only in a handful of places, civil-war-riven Iraq and Sri Lanka among them. Violent death is overwhelmingly a male problem more or less everywhere, but in today's Russia the injury death rates are higher for Russian women than they are for Western European men.
Russia's "high education, low human capital" paradox also shows up in Russia's extreme "knowledge production" deficit. Long-term economic progress depends on improving productivity through new knowledge—but this is something Russia appears mysteriously unable to do.
Patent awards and applications provide a crude but telling picture. Consider trends in international patent awards by the U.S. Patent and Trade Office, the world economy's most important national patent office. Of the 1.3 million overseas patents awarded since 2000, applicants from Russia have taken home about 3,200—a mere 0.2% of the overseas total. In this tally Russia is behind Austria and Norway, barely ahead of Ireland. The Russian Federation's total annual awards from the Patent Office regularly lag behind the state of Alabama's.
Or consider applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty, the international convention associated with the World Intellectual Property Organization. Once again Russia's performance is miserable. In 2012, the latest such data available, Russia comes in No. 21—after Austria—racking up less than 0.6% of the world's total. The population of Russia is more than 15 times that of Austria. Russia's "yield" of patents per university graduate is vastly lower than Austria's—35 times lower. By this particular metric Russia is only fractionally better placed than Gabon.
And sure enough, Russia performs like a knowledge-poor economy. With about 2% of the world's population, 3% of its GDP and 5% of its college grads, Russia generates only just over 1% of the globe's service exports—which is essentially a trade in human skills. Russia fares the worst in the most knowledge-intensive sectors, such as exports of computer and information services, where its share of the global market is only slightly ahead of the Philippines'.
Grim as Russia's current human-resource inventory may appear, the outlook is worse. Given the birth slump of the past two decades, Russia's labor force will be smaller in 2030 than it is today. The U.N. Population Division's projections suggest that the country's life expectancy will remain below Third World averages through at least 2030. Moreover, there is reason to expect that Russia's depopulation will resume. Thanks to the post-Soviet baby crash of the 1990s and the early 2000s, the pool of Russian women entering their 20s will shrink sharply for the next decade and more, while the overall population gets grayer.
These trends promise pressures for fewer births and more deaths—and thus for what demographers inelegantly call "negative natural increase." Projections by international demographic authorities—the U.N. Development Program, the U.S. Census Bureau and the like—all see Russia as a net-mortality society in the years ahead. Strikingly, this vision is shared by Russia's official statistical service, Goskomtat, even in its most optimistic demographic scenario.
If all this were not bad enough for Moscow, Russia's geopolitical potential is being squeezed further by the rapid world-wide growth of skilled manpower pools. According to the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis in Austria, in 1990 Russia accounted for nearly 9% of the world's working-age college graduates; that share is declining and by 2030 will have dropped to 3%. On this front, as on many others, Russia is simply being left behind by the rest of the world.
Despite Vladimir Putin's posturing, he is leading a country in serious decline. If his dangerous new brinkmanship is a response to that bad news, then we should expect more of it in the future, possibly much more.
Mr. Eberstadt is a political economist at the American Enterprise Institute. His books include "Russia's Peacetime Demographic Crisis" (National Bureau of Asian Research, 2010).


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OSHA News Release – Region 4
U.S. Department of Labor
Region 4 News Release
Release Number: 05-501-ATL (61)
Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Contact: Ken Atha Jo Anne Burgoyne
Phone: (251) 441-6131 (404) 562-2076
Join with OSHA to Protect Auto Manufacturing Workers
Partnership is One of First to Include Suppliers
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Ensuring that automotive workers have the safest and healthiest possible work site is the goal of a partnership between the U.S. Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama, Hyundai suppliers, the Alabama Industrial Development Training Institute and Safe State-Alabama Consultation Program. The agreement will be signed Friday, April 1 in Montgomery.
"This collaboration covers workers at Hyundai's first automotive facility in the United States and is the first to include workers employed by an auto manufacturer's suppliers," said Ken Atha, OSHA's Mobile area director.
Such partnerships are part of U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao's ongoing efforts to improve worker safety and health through cooperative ventures and demonstrate that government, business and academia can work together to develop an effective culture of safety.
"The partnership is targeted to reduce hazards prevalent in the automotive industry," said Roberto Sanchez, OSHA's Birmingham area director. "Effectively controlling and isolating stored energy; properly guarding machinery; and using, storing and disposing of hazardous chemicals in an appropriate manner -- all of these contribute significantly to a safer and healthier workplace."
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Since its Strategic Partnership Program began in 1998, OSHA has formed more than 330 partnerships, impacting almost 13,000 employers and more than 573,000 workers across the United States.
Employers are responsible for providing a safe and healthful workplace for their employees. OSHA's role is to assure the safety and health of America's workers by setting and enforcing standards; providing training, outreach, and education; establishing partnerships; and encouraging continual improvement in workplace safety and health. For more information, visit www.osha.gov.
U.S. Labor Department (DOL) releases are accessible on the Internet at <http://www.dol.gov>. The information in this news release will be made available in alternate format upon request (large print, Braille, audio tape or disc) from the COAST office. Please specify which news release when placing your request. Call (202) 693-7765 or TTY (202) 693-7755. DOL is committed to providing America's employers and employees with easy access to understandable information on how to comply with its laws and regulations. For more information, please visit www.dol.gov/compliance.
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Mulan and Aurora ('Once Upon a Time')
When the writers introduced Mulan as the comrade-in-arms to Prince Philip in season two of 'Once Upon A Time' they were probably trying to create some love triangle tension with Sleeping Beauty. Unfortunately for them — and fortunately for the much ignored femslash community — the women form a close friendship over their shared affection for Philip until one day they realize they've been in love with each other all along, with Mulan going so far as to almost profess her feelings in one episode before the plot intervened. Now all we need is the kiss. DO IT ADAM HOROWITZ!
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Let the sun shine on city's renaissance
Everyone paying attention in the region knows Buffalo is experiencing a sort of renaissance. A few projects fitting this label include renovation of the Lafayette Hotel and H.H. Richardson Towers, resurrection of the Olmsted grounds design at the Buffalo Psychiatric Center, expansion of the medical campus and construction of a new hotel and ice rinks in front of the hockey arena downtown. It's marvelous and wonderful to have these projects done or in progress. They aren't promises of a renaissance – they make one.
There's another, quieter renaissance going on. There are over 60 buildings the Catholic Diocese has equipped with solar panels in Western New York. These panels come with financial support from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, and bring savings on the buildings' energy bills. But wait. The solar company can set up software for the school building so that students can learn about the renewable energy source on top of their building. This renewable source of energy will reduce carbon in the atmosphere, and perhaps help save our students from the worst ravages of climate change, which is already clouding their future.
Every building in the area can be part of our solar renaissance. These projects can then create green union jobs that don't get eliminated when the gas runs out. Let the sun shine on our renaissance.
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The orchestra, under the baton of guest conductor Jeff Tyzik, presented an evening of George Gershwin. It avoided the most often heard of Gershwin's pieces, in favor of lesser-known works, capping the evening with concert excerpts from his quintessentially American opera, "Porgy and Bess." »Read Full Article
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Stickgate? 'It's no big deal'
PITTSBURGH -- It was a day later, and there was still much discussion about Stickgate, or whatever we're calling Sidney Crosby's uncharacteristic display of emotion in Game 2.
The Penguins captain smashed his stick against Montreal's goal post and then flung the broken handle into the corner. Crosby wasn't available to the media Monday, but veteran forward Bill Guerin said it's no big deal.
"I think a lot of what happens with Sid is that he is so emotional and he invests so much into the game and sometimes he lets it show," Guerin said. "I don't see a problem in that, but I think a lot of the times, people take it the wrong way.
"Inside our dressing room, we don't. We know what Sid is about. It's only for good reasons. We all handle things differently, too. Yesterday, he was letting his emotions show and, personally, I don't have a problem with that."
Penguins coach Dan Bylsma said he hadn't spoken to Crosby about the incident, but suggested the playoffs are about dealing with emotions and not letting them rule how you play.
"It was a situation in a game where I think he felt like we could do more and there was more to be done out there," Bylsma said. "Whether it's the power play or the referee or not cashing in on the chances that were there, there's sometimes that frustration is evident in everybody. That was maybe what we saw."
The coach said he thought the team as a whole, and Crosby specifically, worked around some of their frustrations even though they lost Game 2 by a 3-1 count.
"I think we readjusted as the game went on and Sid adjusted and got back to [being focused on] playing, as well," Bylsma said. "Those things do happen, but it's playoff hockey. You've got to fight through those situations and we know that and expect that having watched this team, scouted this team, and we expect that to be how the games play out."It's four games and counting for Evgeni Malkin, who has not scored a goal since Game 4 of the Penguins' opening-round series against the Ottawa Senators. But if Bylsma is concerned, he sure wasn't showing it.
"I wish I had mini-slumps like this," Bylsma, a gritty winger in his playing days, quipped. "I think it's just an indication of five-on-five, where we've been at so far this series. It's not just Evgeni Malkin, but we have to do a better job of getting inside and we have to do a better job in certain areas in the offensive zone, and Geno and other players are part of that, as well. The great thing about playoffs is that it is always about your next game."
Cammy on a rollMichael Cammalleri (he told reporters in Montreal on Monday he prefers it to Mike, but really doesn't care) has been on fire with eight postseason goals, one off the league lead as of Monday morning. He has scored in six of nine postseason games, including two goals in the Habs' big 3-1 win over Pittsburgh on Sunday that tied the series at 1.
It's a stark change from a year ago, when Cammalleri had one goal in six games for Calgary in a first-round loss to Chicago.
"Last year was my first playoffs. I really liked the way I played last year in the playoffs," Cammalleri said. "The puck maybe didn't go in as much, but I felt good about my game. I enjoyed it a lot. It was more a disappointment of the group. But there's no added pressure this year. I'm excited about being in the playoffs again."
Did he learn lessons from that experience in Calgary?
"Yup, I learned some valuable lessons. First was how really enjoyable it is to play in the playoffs," Cammalleri said. "Another is that I think we as a group came out of our game a bit in Calgary to try to play a certain way to beat Chicago, and reflecting on it in the summer, maybe we would have been better off to play to our own identity and allow that to win games for us. But you live and you learn."
The 5-foot-9 forward said he doesn't really understand the idea that the size of the Habs' small forwards, often referred to as "Smurfs," would be a factor in the playoffs.
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Jennifer Aniston and fiancé Justin Theroux stepped out for a cozy dinner with Courteney Cox at the Sunset Tower Hotel's Tower Bar on Monday.
"Jennifer looked adorable!" an onlooker tells PEOPLE. "She looked so pulled together and very chic. She was dressed casually, but in heels."
Aniston recently returned to L.A. during a break from filming We're the Millers in North Carolina with Jason Sudeikis.
"They were very calm and carrying on a regular dinner conversation," the source adds. "Jennifer had a big smile on her face. She and Justin both looked very happy."
It was the first time Aniston and Theroux have been seen out together since their Aug. 12 engagement.
The Sunset Tower holds fond memories for the couple. It's where Aniston and Theroux were first spotted out together publicly when they shared a three-hour casual dinner back in May 2011.
After dinner, the trio greeted designer Tom Ford, seated at a nearby table with Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson – who double dated with Aniston and Theroux last April – and several others. Ford was celebrating his 51st birthday.
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The Association will offer 10 grants of up to $250 USD to assist AHA members who have childcare costs during the meeting. The grants are intended to help offset the cost of child care, enabling attendees with dependent children to attend the meeting.
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- Grant recipients must be AHA members and must be registered for the annual meeting.
- Only one parent of a child or children may apply for a grant.
- Allowable expenses include babysitters (on-site at the conference location or child care at home) and airfare/hotel costs for a caregiver to accompany the child to the annual meeting location.
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An Interfaith Family's Bar Mitzvah
I recently had the honor of working with an interfaith family as their son, Jonah, prepared for his
The ceremony began with his grandfather putting a tallit (a prayer shawl) on Jonah's shoulders. His grandfather explained to him that this tallit had been bought in Israel by his great grandfather. This tallit had been worn by Jonah's grandfather and father. Now Jonah, as a Bar Mitzvah, wore the tallit with pride. His grandfather said that his hope is that Jonah would give the tallit to his son one day. Continuity.
Here is what Jonah had to say:
This is my Bar Mitzvah because it is the first time that I will have the opportunity to read aloud from the Torah. To do this, I had to learn to read Hebrew and even harder, learn to read without vowels and with the fancy Torah script. This took much time to study and practice. To me learning about my Jewish heritage is very important because it shows the other side of my religion that has not been so clear to me. Since I'm neither fully Jewish nor a full catholic, I declare myself a "cashew." No, I'm not the nut cashew but the cashew that means I have grasped both of my religions and wish to continue both of them in the future. This is very important to me.
My Torah portion is from the book of Deuteronomy. It is part of the Torah that is also read on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the calendar, because this narrative is so powerful. It is about God saying to the people to never give up. Even if it is so far out of your reach you must never give up because one day you will reach it. Also, I will be reading a part of the book of Jonah, not me, the prophet. It is traditional on Shabbat morning to read from the Torah and from the Prophets. I picked Jonah for obvious reasons. He has a cool name! What I learned from the story of Jonah is to trust God no matter what the circumstances. For example, Jonah was sent to Nineveh by God, but chose to go somewhere else because Nineveh is so outrageously uncivilized. Jonah was then swallowed by a whale and then spit out after three days of prayer and regretting his decision to disobey God. He was spat out onto the land of Nineveh where he brought forth God's warning to change or bare the wrath of annihilation. Jonah waited patiently for the annihilation of the people but it never came. The moral is that you should never lose trust in God and that God has forgiveness and caring."
There is a debate in the Jewish world about whether families who want both religions in their lives can find a place within the organized community for learning and fellowship. I hope that by sharing this experience of a family who has sought out Jewish learning and living in real and meaningful ways, can help us think about how we might be able to open our gates a little more.
I wish you all a happy and healthy new year. May this be a year of getting to know the individuals who call us for information, or stop in for programming. It is through hearing each other's stories and intentions, struggles, questions and yearnings that assumptions can be dropped and judgment held so that sharing can ensue.
Moms and Membership
I recently had the honor of meeting five women who are due with their first babies in the fall (one brought her four week old). While none of them grew up Jewish, they are married to Jews and they want to create a home with Judaism (traditions, holidays, values) for their growing families. They all felt that their spouses did not have the literacy or resolve to accomplish this goal alone. They are seeking fellowship among other women in the same boat, and they are eager for their own Jewish learning and for ways into Jewish communal life.
Sitting with these women reminded me of a core truth of the work we do: Intermarriage is not the end of Judaism. Intermarriage does not mean the Jew is abandoning Judaism. Partners who aren't Jewish are often open and ready to take on aspects of Jewish living, even though the learning curve is often so darn steep.
One of the moms-to-be said that they are ready to join a synagogue but that she "heard" the membership dues were $3,000. Someone else chimed in that there must be a lower rate for a new family or first time members. The first mom seemed hesitant to call the synagogue to find out.
On the High Holidays, synagogues will be filled with non-members. This is not a great term. InterfaithFamily suggests trying to avoid "non" in any kind of description about someone. We advocate saying "not Jewish" verses "non-Jew." The people who are not dues paying members may be friends and family of members or they may have no connection to the congregation other than they bought a ticket. How can we tell all of these people that they already "belong?"
One idea is to have members say aloud the following words and to write them on literature that is handed out and on the homepage of every synagogue website: If you are interested in learning more about this open and warm community, please call (give the name and title of the membership person with his or her direct line and email). It is helpful to have a real person to call rather than have to search a website for membership information which is anonymous. We want our words to reflect a sentiment of welcome. If I were writing something, I would say:
I know there are lots of people studying new dues structures. This is not about a dues structure–fee for service, voluntary donations, etc. This is about the feeling of what it means to be a "member."
Each of these five women and the new faces in synagogues over the next few weeks will make great synagogue members.
Jewish Educators: Keeping It Real
My last blog post was a plea to program providers to look at their enrollment forms with new lenses this summer. This blog post is for Jewish educators with the hope that they keep it real and honest with their curriculum.
Some synagogues have a ritual policy that women who are not Jewish cannot light Shabbat candles on Friday nights at the congregation. This blog post is not about the ramifications of this ritual boundary. Ritual committees, clergy and synagogue board of directors sometimes spend time studying the meaning of the ritual, the words to be said, the act itself. They look to denominational guidelines, see if their policies make sense given their population, and probe their hearts and souls about when to include those policies in ritual participation of the community of people who aren't Jewish.
Often, if the synagogue finds that the ritual cannot be performed by someone not Jewish using the traditional Hebrew, for instance, another reading or another way of performing the ritual can be created. This can sometimes work very well. In addition, some can understand and appreciate that it would not make sense for them to say certain words if they haven't officially joined the Jewish people, entered into the covenant and taken on the religion. Other times, those who are not Jewish feel totally comfortable saying Hebrew and performing rituals because the deeds are personally meaningful to that person and their family.
This is a conversation about making sure that there is not a disconnect between what children in the religious school learn and are expected to come home and do and what is done in communal worship at the synagogue.
If there are children in the synagogue who have moms who aren't Jewish and the children learn about Shabbat with pictures in books and suggestions made that it is the mom who lights the candles, then the school should assume and expect that moms who aren't Jewish would be the ones to fulfill this mitzvah, this important and beautiful aspect of bringing in Shabbat.
If the synagogue has a rule that only Jews can light Shabbat candles, then should the instructions to the children reflect that? Children can be taught that either parent, depending on who is Jewish, can light the candles. The synagogue could teach that men can light Shabbat candles by calling up Jewish dads to perform this act. Perhaps the whole family could come up and the father could light the candles but all of the faces of the family members would reflect the glow from the Sabbath light. Maybe families would be encouraged to share Shabbat together.
While it is challenging, I do believe that there are ways to explain ritual policies which show respect to a parent who isn't Jewish who is raising Jewish children and doing Jewish in the home. There are ways to talk about all of the ways a parent who is not Jewish can participate in so many aspects of Judaism.
Children and families should be expected to practice what children learn in religious school in home and at shul. You could say some families don't keep kosher at home but understand that their synagogue does have kosher standards. Synagogues keep a higher level of observance than people do in the home. However, it could be a negative experience for a child to learn that only women light the candles while their own mother is not allowed to light the candles in the synagogue.
What are your feelings about this?
Membership Has Its Benefits
Like many, I grew up in a community with lots of relatives and close family friends. I always knew that even though I wasn't with my parents, there was always the likelihood (or inevitability) that there was a family friend or relative nearby. It definitely discouraged me from making a bad or embarrassing decision. More important, when I walked down the street, I felt loved and connected.
As a parent, I want that sense of connection for my kids. Though we are friends with some of our neighbors, our kids can no longer wander through the neighborhood as carelessly as we did 30 years ago. Our neighborhood doesn't provide the same sense of a tight knit community as it did during my childhood. I know my neighbors well but I wouldn't pick up the phone and call them for help when my washer breaks down.
Joining a synagogue was one of the first things that my husband and I did when we moved to our town. We didn't know anyone and we felt like we needed an anchor. I have to say, it was one of the best decisions (and investments) we ever made. Developing close friendships within the synagogue took a few years but the more we participated, the more friends we made, and the more connected we felt. Through our synagogue membership, we became friends with people of all ages and backgrounds. Our kids know that they are being watched and loved. It is amazing to see that they appreciate this love of community even at a young age.
We have lots of friends outside of the synagogue and Jewish community, but those from our synagogue are particularly special to me. I think it's because our shared experiences that there is a comfort level that can't be matched. For all couples and families, including interfaith couples, finding a synagogue community with other couples or families exploring similar issues provides a place for dialogue, support and grounds for deeper friendship.
Several years ago I was on bedrest with my third child while my older two were still toddlers. The synagogue community stepped in to help by making meals, driving my kids and supporting me in ways that I never dreamt. Many of those that helped were people I barely knew before but became close friends just because they reached out to help.
My experience is not unique. This type of support is an added benefit of synagogue life. One friend was our synagogue president a few years ago. I once asked why she was doing all of this work for the synagogue. She replied that she had had cancer several years back and the synagogue community took care of her. She promised herself that she would "pay it forward" since people had been so good to her.
There are lots of benefits to synagogue membership but the most important one to me is community. You may not feel it the first time you walk through the door, but when it happens, there is nothing more valuable. If you would like to find out more about some welcoming synagogues in the Philadelphia area, visit our list of organizations. If you don't see your synagogue on the Organizations tab of our Philadelphia page, but know it is a place that welcomes interfaith couples and families, email us at email@example.com.
Have you had a similar experience in your synagogue community? Please tell us about it in the comments section below.
Boxed In: The Call in Option
It's that time of the summer when we need to register for fall activities. This blog is a request to synagogues administrators, Jewish preschool and day school directors and program providers to look at your enrollment forms, preferably with a participant who isn't Jewish to figure out how to best ask questions to get the information that is needed and to leave the one filling it out with a sense that they are meant for this program.
When we ask people to fill out enrollment forms for religious school and synagogue membership and to sign up for Jewish programs, the forms may seem clear-cut and simple to us, yet feel frustrating to the person filling it out. We need to figure out what we want to know and then try to ask questions in a way to gather that information. We need to know what we want to do with the information we collect and let the person filling out the form know why we are asking the question so that they know what information to provide.
For instance, one question that congregations usually want answered on forms is whether the parents are Jewish and if not, what religion they grew up with or now identify as. Sometimes the choices are: Reform, Conservative, Orthodox, Secular, Traditional, Other. The "other" category is for someone who didn't grow up Jewish. Maybe some wouldn't mind checking "other" to describe themselves. I imagine some would feel other and different just from this seeming innocuous registration question.
Synagogues and program leaders may need to know whether the parents are Jewish for halachic (legal) reasons in terms of matrilineal or patrilineal descent. They may want to know this to better understand the make-up of the program or congregation. Maybe they will seek to bring together people with similar backgrounds.
As we all know, the simple question of: "State the religion of parent 1 and parent 2" can be complicated.
Here is an excerpt of an email I received which illustrates the messiness and wonderfulness of this all:
"I was raised in a culturally Jewish household and have never received any religious education. My father was raised Catholic, but since marrying my mother has become very interested in the Jewish faith. We often joke he is the most Jewish out of all of us despite not being raised so. My partner was raised with slightly more religious Jewish education and went to a reconstructionist temple and attended some Sunday School and Hebrew school. She had a
We love simple labels and easy check-offs. This helps us with tracking and data entry. However, maybe instead of boxes to check and short lines to write answers to profound questions, we need to leave room on forms for people to call in their answers. The call-in option would connect the person registering to the teacher or leader so that they could engage in a conversation of meaning.
If you are a program administrator and help create forms, visit our Resource Center for Program Providers to find best practices in terms of enrollment forms and website language.
Don't Call Me a "Rent-A-Rabbi"
Recently, a good of friend of mine suggested to an interfaith couple who was looking for a rabbi for their wedding ceremony that they be in touch with me. I met with the couple for about an hour and we had a great conversation, at the end of which they asked me to officiate at their wedding. I told them that I'd be honored, and over the next year we would get together several more times so that I could get to know them as individuals and as a couple before standing with them under their chuppah (wedding canopy) next July to unite them in marriage.
The other day, I saw my friend who referred this couple to me. "I'm so excited!" she exclaimed. "The rabbi of the bride's congregation wouldn't marry them because her fiancé isn't Jewish. They were going to hire a 'rent-a-rabbi.' I'm so happy that they are going to be married by YOU instead!" While my friend meant to give me a compliment, instead I felt offended by her pejorative term "rent-a-rabbi." I felt that she was implying that non-congregational rabbis who perform wedding ceremonies (or baby namings, B'nai Mitzvah, funerals or other life-cycle events) were simply doing so to "make a quick buck" and were of inferior quality to congregational rabbis. According to her logic, the only thing that separated me from the "rent-a-rabbis" that she disparaged was that she personally knows and respects me.
For the past ten years, since leaving my position as assistant rabbi at a large synagogue in order to spend more time with my family, I have officiated privately at life-cycle events – what some would refer to as a "rent-a-rabbi." I've continued to do so over the past five years even as I've worked part-time at a small congregation. (My congregation, which I absolutely love, is made up mostly of members in their 70s and 80s, so it would not be an ideal "fit" for many of the young couples and families with whom I've worked privately. Plus, many of them do not live near the synagogue.)
The fact is that I've gotten to know the wedding couples I've worked with who are not congregants of mine just as well as I knew couples who were congregants that I married; and I've gotten to know the parents and siblings of the babies that I've named just as well as I knew the parents and siblings of babies that I named in my congregation. And whereas when I served over ten years ago as a congregational rabbi at a synagogue in which there were as many as a hundred B'nai Mitzvah each year, now that I only work with a handful of B'nai Mitzvah students a year I get to know them MUCH better than I ever could as a rabbi at a large congregation. When I work privately with B'nai Mitzvah students, I meet with them on a regular basis so that by the time of the Bar or Bat Mitzvah I know the student – and usually the parents and any siblings – very well.
This serves in contrast to when I was at a large synagogue and I was only scheduled to have two or three half-hour sessions with each B'nai Mitzvah student. At the congregation (which was often referred to as a "Bar Mitzvah mill," another term I dislike), if the Bar or Bat Mitzvah student and his/her family were not "regulars" at Shabbat services or other synagogue activities, I did not know them nearly as well as I know the students with whom I now work privately.
Just because many of the wedding couples, baby naming parents and B'nai Mitzvah students that I have worked with over the past decade do not belong to the congregation that I serve, their life-cycle events are no less important, meaningful and sacred to me as a rabbi – or to them. And I am certain that this is true of the vast majority of my colleagues who privately officiate at lifecycle events. Yes, we charge a fee for what we do, since we do not receive a salary to be available for these services as full-time congregational rabbis do. But just because we are paid directly for our services does not make the experience any less meaningful for anyone involved.
Over the years I have paid doctors, therapists, yoga teachers and a vast array of others for their services. They have almost without exception been caring and committed to helping and healing, often getting to know me on a deeply personal level – yet there is no doubt that they are entitled to compensation for their work.
I have heard people claim that when rabbis officiate privately at lifecycle events this makes it easier for people not to join congregations. Personally, I would love it if every Jewish person and family (whether every member is Jewish or the family is interfaith) would join a synagogue, but that is simply not the reality in which we live, and it is not the fault of so-called "rent-a-rabbis." The fact is that in this day and age congregational life just isn't for everyone – at least not at every moment of their lives.
There are a multitude of reasons why people don't join synagogues, ranging from financial reasons (while the vast majority of synagogues will "work with" potential congregants to make membership financially feasible, this sometimes requires submitting tax returns and other personal information, which many people are not comfortable doing) to not feeling welcome to the fact that they simply are not interested. I cannot imagine that that the availability of non-congregational rabbis to officiate at their lifecycle events has very much to do with their decision not to affiliate.
When a wedding couple comes to me – either because a congregational rabbi with whom one of them is connected (usually his or her parents are members of the congregation) will not marry them because their partner is not Jewish or because they are not connected to a congregation – I strongly believe that the best thing I can do to increase the odds that they will become more involved in the Jewish community, and hopefully join a synagogue at some point, is to work with them and make them feel welcome. After all, they have many options besides going to a rabbi (such as hiring a celebrant or a justice of the peace) and by working with them I have the opportunity to expose them to the beauty of Judaism.
I feel the same way about the baby naming and B'nai Mitzvah families that come to me. I would much rather work with them and enable the parents of the baby or the Bar or Bat Mitzvah student to have a positive, meaningful experience than to turn them away. And when I am approached about officiating at the funeral of a Jewish person who was not affiliated with a congregation, I feel privileged to be able to help his or her family to mourn the deceased according to Jewish tradition and to bring honor to his or her memory through Jewish ritual. Is this really something to be looked down upon?
Ironically, when congregational rabbis officiate – for compensation – at lifecycle events for non-congregants (some rabbis' contracts with their synagogues allow for them to do this, while others do not) they are rarely referred to as "rent-a-rabbis." I think that the fact that I serve as a part-time congregational rabbi is another reason why the friend I mentioned at the beginning of this blog, the one who had referred a wedding couple to me, did not view me as one of the "rent-a-rabbis" that she disparaged. But the reality is that congregational rabbis officiating for non-congregants who do not join their synagogues is really no different than non-congregational rabbis officiating.
There are many fantastic rabbis who do not work in congregations, perhaps because they work at other jobs within or outside of the Jewish community or perhaps because they currently are not employed, either by choice or by circumstance. Just because they earn money by officiating privately at life-cycle events does not mean that they are not talented, committed and sincere. So please, don't call them "rent-a-rabbis." Just call them "rabbis."
What has your experience been? If you are married, were you married by the rabbi or cantor of a congregation to which you and/or your partner belonged, or the rabbi or cantor of a congregation in which one of you grew up?
Were you married by a rabbi or cantor (as a sole officiant or co-officiant) that you found outside of a synagogue setting? If so, how did you find this rabbi or cantor? And what was your experience with him or her like?
Have you ever used the term "rent-a-rabbi?" How do you feel about this term?
What Apple Stores Can Teach Synagogues
A Reform educator in town, Vanessa Ehrlich, wrote an interesting blog post recently. She spoke about how much she has enjoyed the one-on-one tutorial sessions the Apple Store provides. They are a safe space to ask any and all computer and technology questions and receive easy to understand information that is useful and relevant in a friendly and supportive way. She wonders in her post what synagogues can learn from this model.
InterfaithFamily/Chicago will be joining with Philadelphia and San Francisco from November 15-24 to bring Interfaith Family Shabbat to each community. Philadelphia has taken part in this program for over five years with more than fifty congregations and community centers offering a program of interest over this time frame to interfaith couples and families within their community which is open to anybody who wants to join in. The programs have told the interfaith families who have made a commitment to that synagogue that their presence is appreciated.
Acknowledging that interfaith families have added to our community and may have questions, concerns and approaches specific to having family who didn't grow up with Judaism and are now living with Judaism is important and meaningful to many. Some interfaith couples and families come in to a synagogue or community center for the first time as a couple or new family just to attend a unique Shabbat service or workshop because of the special invitation it provides.
Some congregations and the Jewish Community Center in Chicago are already planning their program for our first community Interfaith Family Shabbat. It may be interesting if some congregations offer "Ask a professional" in which Jewish leaders can have a table set up under a tent or in a big room and people can come and ask the right person the questions on their mind. From Jewish cooking advice to spiritual parenting to Jewish mediation and ethical and moral questions to current events in Israel, what if there was an open "Find your answers here" type of day? Or at least within Judaism, it might be a "Get more questions" day as opposed to simple answers—this could be especially true if one expert answers questions about theology!
Check at interfaithfamily.com/chicago for the events that are being planned already for this November (as well as events happening right now in Chicago of interest).
The Challenge of a Jewish Education – A Plea to Educators
I am a day school kid. I didn't like learning Hebrew much but I didn't like school much either. I have some anxious memories of Hebrew verb conjugation from second grade in the 1970s. Through Jewish camps and youth groups, I learned to love Jewish music. I have since recovered from day school and have picked the parts of Judaism that I like and find that I am quite happy.
When it came time to think about a Jewish education for my own kids, I had some flashbacks. But I also have some fun memories. We would have lively gatherings of the Jewish kids in the community for various holidays. Later we had youth group activities and fun parties. I enjoyed being with the kids that I had known forever. I have many memories associated with Judaism that are not necessarily religious. I attended a leadership program in high school and much of it was just fun—the focus was not on religion but being a good person.
My husband and I have struggled with what to do for our own kids'education. We considered day school. We considered camp. We joined a synagogue with a reputable Hebrew school. We decided to enroll them in a Jewish camp. We celebrate the holidays—decorating a sukkah is a favorite for the kids (but tons of work for me and my husband). Everyone has their own path and we are navigating our way so that our kids enjoy Judaism.
I have spoken with many people who have had a Jewish education. They often say they hated Hebrew school or day school. Still, many of them enroll their children in Jewish schools. Though some Hebrew schools have made a great effort to ensure that the new generation of students have positive experiences, it makes me so sad that some Hebrew schools have turned people off to the joys of being Jewish.
So, for the future of the Jewish people, I encourage educators to make sure that kids are engaged in the Hebrew school experience. A fun Purim spiel can be entertaining for the whole family. Spirited music, cooking classes and dressing up in costume for holidays are all wonderful ideas. Let's encourage creative and fun ways to learn Hebrew. Decorate the sukkah and learn prayers with joy instead of dread.
Religious schools must bring Judaism into the 21st century in dynamic and fun ways. The educational system of the 1950s will not ensure the future of Judaism—indeed, it can be detrimental. Many parents complain that their child seems to be a round peg and the Jewish educational system is trying to force the child into a square hole. A lackluster Jewish education will adversely affect the future of Judaism. Teachers and schools must adapt to the families of today, whether Conservative, Orthodox, Reform, interfaith, etc. Sensitivity to the families and kids is key. Accept families and kids where they are and help them on their own journey. Welcoming kids in the door and keeping them there with a smile on their face is crucial. The entire family should feel welcomed and engaged. Hebrew school should not be torture—there are so many positive aspects of Judaism and it's time to break the cycle.
Do you have a suggestion of something that your kids loved at their Hebrew School? Please post it in the comments below. Sharing your positive experiences is a great benefit to everyone.
The Blessing of the Parents
I attended an informative and provocative session at Limmud Philly. This conference is held in several major cities and is a usually a day or weekend of Jewish learning. The learning includes philosophy, prayer, entertainment and socializing. It is quite an event for those that like to think Jewish!
I attended a session entitled "We Totally Accept You (Almost): Ritual and Leadership Roles in Synagogues." The participants learned about the Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist perspectives regarding synagogue membership and prayers. Our presenter was InterfaithFamily's own Benjamin Maron. Benjamin did a great deal of research regarding different synagogues and their policies regarding interfaith involvement.
I was fascinated by the discussion of prayers and who is allowed to say what from the bimah. Frequently synagogues limit the participation of the parent who is not Jewish. We discussed that the reason that some synagogues don't want the partner who is not Jewish to participate in the prayers at a Bar and
I understand the principle of this – Jews have been through a lot. Our ancestors have been persecuted in our efforts to practice our religion and we have worked hard to educate ourselves. Those that have had a bar or bat mitzvah know that there is a lot of work and education going into this process. We feel the need to hold fast to our religion. Will someone who isn't practicing Judaism threaten my Judaism by saying a prayer?
The children of many of my friends are becoming bar and bat mitzvah. I am familiar with the frequent scene of the parents and grandparents surrounding their young teenager, beaming with pride. I was thinking about this further. I know many families where the spouse does not practice Judaism but has agreed to raise the kids in Judaism. How do they feel during the blessings? Do they feel included, awkward, proud? Maybe a mixture of feelings and emotions? If there were a blessing from the parent who wasn't Jewish, what would that look like? Would it be sacrilege to bless your child in their arrival in their Jewish adulthood?
As a Jew, I want anyone standing on the bimah during a simcha to feel joy! I don't want anyone to feel excluded or simply tolerated. I want them to feel WELCOME! So now, I look at this from another perspective: the parent who is not Jewish, standing in front of the Jewish community, blessing this event is equivalent to saying, "I was not raised Jewish, but I am proud, thrilled, and elated that my child is entering into Jewish adulthood. I fully support this choice and my child." To me, this has great meaning and this concept strengthens the joy of the day. Here is this parent supporting their child's Jewish journey – how great is that!?
Do I feel threatened that someone who isn't practicing Judaism is saying a prayer and including themselves in the Jewish community? Not at all. In fact, I am elated that this parent is allowing and encouraging their child to be Jewish! While I know some of the movements are having trouble "moving" forward toward adapting to interfaith issues within our American society, it is critical that they work to keep those that want to be Jewish.
I will be attending two bar/bat mitzvahs this weekend, and I know that I will be thrilled to witness each child stepping into the role of being a Jewish adult. I love Judaism and am delighted to see someone make the choice to practice Judaism. I think that their parents should be allowed to bless their child's arrival into Jewish adulthood. And with that I say, Amen, L'chaim and WELCOME!
Preparing Parents For Their Child's Bar or Bat Mitzvah
two online courses for parents in interfaith families. One course is for parents with young children, and the other course is for parents with 4th-7th graders preparing for bar orWe run
Most of the families who read through our materials are members of congregations and are actively raising children with Judaism. Many congregations offer family education around bar and bat mitzvah, to help make this rite of passage more meaningful for the full family. Congregational leaders often bemoan low enrollment or seeming disinterest in different programs the synagogue offers, but when it comes to bar and bat mitzvah, the family is lined up for each class and program, not wanting to miss anything relating to this central event for their child and family.
When I ask clergy and educators whether interfaith families have their needs met around bar and bat mitzvah, I'm met with quizzical looks. "These families are Jewish, they are raising Jewish kids, and the material we cover in family education sessions address all of our family's questions and concerns," I am told. I wonder though, whether for some parents who aren't Jewish or who are newer to Judaism if there is a safe space to talk openly about their feelings.
The following are three ideas to keep in mind when planning family sessions in a synagogue. In addition, if you are reading this and you do work with synagogue families, they can always access our free, online materials to supplement and enrich all they learn at the synagogue. Anyone can email me for help accessing our materials.
When you think about the programs you attended in preparation for your child's bar or bat mitzvah, or when you think about what you would want in such a program and experience, what would you be looking for? If you think it would be helpful, chances are other families would think so too.


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Posted on 07/29/2003 8:56:47 AM PDT by RightWhale
New Theory: Catastrophe Created Mars' Moons
By Leonard David Senior Space Writer
posted: 07:00 am ET 29 July 2003
PASADENA, California The two moons of Mars Phobos and Deimos could be the byproducts of a breakup of a huge moon that once circled the red planet, according to a new theory. The capture of a large Martian satellite may have taken place during or shortly after the formation of the planet, with Phobos and Deimos now the surviving remnants.
Origin of the two moons presents a longstanding puzzle to which one researcher proposed the new solution at the 6th International Conference on Mars, held here last week. "Nobody has been able to explain the origin of Phobos and Deimos," said S. Fred Singer of the University of Virginias Science & Environmental Policy Project in Arlington, Virginia.
Violating laws
Based on research performed as a visiting scientist at the Lunar & Planetary Institute in Houston in October 2002, Singer said that conventional hypotheses about the moons either violate physical laws or have difficulty accounting for their observed orbits
Singer reported at the meeting that "there are no ready alternatives to explain the origin of the Martian moons."
At present, both satellites have near-circular and near-equatorial orbits. Phobos orbit, however, has been observed to shrink since its discovery in 1877. The present track of Deimos -- just beyond the synchronous limit where it nearly matches the spin rate of Mars is an important data point, Singer said. "Is that by accident? I dont think so it gives you a clue about its origin," he told SPACE.com.
Through a complex set of orbital calculations involving Mars, the large hypothetical Mars moon itself, and tracing back in time the past and present whereabouts of Phobos and Deimos, Singer believes he has a case. In the Singer scenario, the close proximity of a large original moon to the red planet captured in Mars synchronous orbit -- would have eventually fractured the object. Gravitational pushes and tugs would have turned it into a rubble pile that would still cling together gravitationally. "Forces would soon drive the largest pieces into Mars, with the smallest pieces remaining as Phobos and Deimos," Singer said. In the breakup process, the most massive pieces would spiral in far more rapidly, crashing into the planet. "We need to look for some sign that these existed."
Phobos: going, going, gone
A fundamental prediction by Singer is that the moons are similar in composition and petrology. However, Phobos and Deimos do not appear to be comparable. That distinction is obvious in looking at the differences in their regoliths each moons topside covering. "We need both surface and deep samples to decide this issue, and to investigate whether Phobos and Deimos once formed as parts of a larger body, most of which has now disappeared, perhaps by impacting on Mars," Singer said.
Singer said Phobos will die in a few million years. "Were lucky in the sense that were seeing Phobos while its still around," he said.
Destination Deimos
Singer has plans for Deimos. The scientist believes the moon would serve as a natural space station for future human explorers.
"First of all, humans on the surface of Mars cannot really do the exploration directly. They have to use rovers to get around. To go from the equator to a pole on Mars just takes too long. Its a big, dangerous journey," Singer said. What Singer envisions is a Deimos gateway to extensive Mars exploration. An encampment of astronauts would reside on the Martian moon. From there, dozens of rovers could be autopiloted, in real-time.
"There would be no time delay, or so short that its within the human reaction time," Singer said. From Deimos, quick, down-to-the-surface sorties could be undertaken by humans to select areas, he added.
"This would be a 15-year project, as I look at it. It would cost roughly $30 billion, funded at some $2 billion a year average. Thats well within the existing NASA budget," Singer said. On the political side, Congress is not likely to fund a long series of robotic roving probes to Mars that extends over decades. "That would not be a very efficient way of studying Mars. If you want to solve the really big problems of Mars, like origin of life, you need to do this in one fell swoop," Singer concluded.
Why can't we get it right anymore? 90% of the time it is wrong these days. Cultural decadence: can't keep a tradition alive for a trivial year.
Unfortunately, nobody has been able to explain the origin of any moon in our solar system. Why should Phobos and Deimos be any different?
I'll say we're lucky! Another few million years and we'd have missed the whole thing!!
That's the problem. If they were captured asteroids they should have elliptical orbits. Phobos and Deimos have nearly circular orbits like Earth's Moon.
Circular orbit is tough to acheive in a gravity capture.
Hey, I can come up with just as plausible a conspiracy theory as anyone else!
That's van Flandern's radical proposal. Nothing adds up, mass, orbits, composition, time schedule. We may never know. If we did know, it would be one of the few things we actually know.
There has to be an explanation of the fact that it is plastered on one side, though. It was close to a planet-size or at least a large-moon-size object that disintegrated. If it weren't for that then this would be a radical theory because there wouldn't be much evidence. I think it's more radical to ignore this plastering than to consider a theory that explains it.
Heres why I want to go.
Look again. One side is blasted off. Just like earth. Where is the missing crust?
This discription is within 20% accurate
It's not within 20% accurate. The orbital radii of the moons are at 9378 km and 23459, or about 1.4 and 3.5 diameters.
Still, it is remarkable.
LOL! Good one!
You're a marine, one of Earth's toughest, hardened in combat and trained for action. Three years ago you assaulted a superior officer for ordering his soldiers to fire upon civilians. He and his body cast were shipped to Pearl Harbor, while you were transferred to Mars, home of the Union Aerospace Corporation. The UAC is a multi-planetary conglomerate with radioactive waste facilities on Mars and its two moons, Phobos and Deimos. With no action for fifty million miles, your day consisted of suckin' dust and watchin' restricted flicks in the rec room.
For the last four years the military, UAC's biggest supplier, has used the remote facilities on Phobos and Deimos to conduct various secret projects, including research on inter-dimensional space travel. So far they have been able to open gateways between Phobos and Deimos, throwing a few gadgets into one and watching them come out the other. Recently however, the Gateways have grown dangerously unstable. Military "volunteers" entering them have either disappeared or been stricken with a strange form of insanity-babbling vulgarities, bludgeoning anything that breathes, and finally suffering and untimely death of full body explosion. Matching heads with torsos to send home to the folks became a full-time job. Latest military reports state that the research is suffering a small set-back, but everything is under control.
A few hours ago, Mars received a garbled message from Phobos. "We require immediate military support. Something fraggin' evil is coming out of the Gateways! Computer systems have gone berserk!" The rest was incoherent. Soon Afterwards, Deimos simply vanished from the sky. Since then, attempts to establish contact with either moon have been unsuccessful. You and your buddies, the only combat troop for fifty million miles were sent up pronto to Phobos. You were ordered to secure the perimeter of the base while the rest of the team went inside. For several hours, your radio picked up the sounds of combat: guns firing, men yelling orders, screams, bones cracking, then finally, silence. Seems your buddies are dead. It's Up To You Things aren't looking too good.
You'll never navigate off the planet on your own. Plus, all the heavy weapons have been taken by the assault team leaving you with only a pistol. If only you could get your hands around a plasma rifle or even a shotgun you could take a few down on your way out. Whatever killed your buddies deserves a couple of pellets in the forehead. Securing your helmet, you exit the landing pod. Hopefully you can find more substantial fire power somewhere within the station. As you walk through the main entrance of the base, you hear animal like growls echoing throughout the distant corridors. They know your here. There's no turning back now.
This picture seems to show plastering though: Plus topographical studies show that the plastered side is sitting on top of the exposed unplastered side.
Let me rephrase that. Topographical studies (or studies of the crust) show that the loose pastered debris is sitting on top of a former surface that is visible on the unplastered side.
When they taught in the 50s the story of where the moon came from, they had diagrams showing the moon material being ripped from one side of the earth's crust presumably where the Pacific Basin is today. Something similar could have happened to Mars, but there is of course nothing left of this material except the two small pieces Phobos and Deimos, if they came from that event and aren't just some kind of captured asteroids. There is no reason to expect that a captured asteroid would settle into a circular orbit except that is what happens apparently around Jupiter and Saturn. What could circularize such orbits when there are only a couple of small moons?
The faster something travels the more speed it loses when it collects space dust, meteors, etc., perhaps. If there was a giant disentegration of a large planet, then all the extra dust and debris in the inner solar system would serve as a drag on any object in an elliptical orbit because objects in an elliptical orbits would have portions of their orbits where they are going faster than the dust and objects their colliding with before gravitational attraction sped up the dust and debris right before impact. It would be more of a drag when the object is going fast and less of a drag or perhaps even a push when the object is going slow in it's various positions of it's elliptical orbit. Over time, that would circularize the orbit, I would think, especially on a relatively small planet like Mars, or on a small moon like Phobos. As the inner solar system has been cleaned up over time, this drag is less apparent now but it could've been a lot greater right after the event. Maybe Mars hasn't collected enough debris and dust to circularize it's orbit, I don't know. From what I understand Mars orbit isn't all that stable. It could mean it hasn't been where it's at for very long.
Are you kidding me? You'd have to have 'nads to try a stunt like that. Those guys usually took a giant-size chunk outta my face before I could fire up the 'saw. I'd rather shove both barrels of my shotgun into its mouth and pull the trigger. Or whip out the plasma rifle and liquify its eyeball.
I've uttered more naughty words than I can count stalking those things late at night. Of course, nothing beat the feeling of hearing the blood-curdling roar of a Pinkie behind you, whipping around, then blowing him away.
The same effect that causes comets to break up as they pass Jupiter could lift the crust from a planet to form a moon, without a direct impact between the two bodies.
Of course, if the bodies pass too close, the less massive one becomes an asteroid belt.
Lock the door.....QUICK!
I posted it more for the reloading double-barreled shotgun, but I'm glad you liked it for that too. :-)
Sounds so serene and decorous. Lift the crust. That's the model they taught, and it seems to be popular again. Some large body came by earth way back when and pulled the material out into space where it recollected forming the moon. It would probably work for Mars, too, even though Mars seems to have totally lost most of its material from one side of the planet anyway, not even a good-sized moon left. If Mars had a moon formed that way, it seems to be long gone, who knows where; it ought to be in a similar orbit as Mars, but there is nothing there. Perhaps Mars was farther out when that happened and has migrated inward toward the sun leaving the debris in the asteroid belt. Perhaps we'll track it down when we have done enough geological prospecting in the asteroid belt and have some good data.
And hope they don't have blasters?
Yeah, you're right. I don't think we understand much about about the rotation and orbits of planets. Just looking at the earth science says that our magnetic field is created by the iron core spinning faster than the mantle. If so why does magnetic North wander so unevenly around. There appears to be more than just momentum, angular momentum, and mass involved on the orbits and rotation of planets. It could be that our planet rotates in equilibrium. Maybe the electromagnetism from the sun rotatates our core so that it's force versus the friction of the oceans and the liquid parts of the mantle create a 24 hour day, unable to speed up because of the friction of the liquids mentioned, and unable to slow down because of the electromagnetism of our core and/or the sun. Then there's the spiralness of galaxies and Saturn's rings. Doesn't make sense if there is just gravitation and momentum involved. Just too many inconsistencies for me to accept mainstream sciences explanations for the movement of plantary bodies. I spent the last day looking into some theories but it's just too broadbased to try to make a point on. :^)
Since the iron core model of the earth doesn't work for me (because of the jaggedly wandering poles), I have my thoughts on the movement of continents and the Pacific Basin also. The nature of our magnetic field with it's flips, etc., resembles more a nuclear core than just an iron core. If only 1 percent of the magnetic strength is able to get through the mantle of the earth, then there may be some other physics going on. Perhaps a Meissner effect that could have spread the continents apart.
(Just a word to the scientifically wise because this has implications that I don't want to get into publically...and that's all I have to say about that...:^)...)
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