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Do you think your senior parents have enough of a social life?
My mom seems to have no life other than work and she has only her sister and one friend to socialize with, it seems there should be more for an older person or a way to find stuf for them to do. Does anyone have some way to find these things to do in their area?
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Not since they got a Toyota Toilet Seat (aka a Venza). ;)
Just kidding... both of my parents have been dead for years (father for 37, mother for 22).
Have you considered that maybe she is happy the way things are? That being said, if "she" decides that she needs more in her life, many urban areas have community centers and offer craft programs, etc. And many places are looking for volunteers to get involved in charitable work. And there is always the local pub!
My parents, in their 70s, have plenty to do. My dad does Civil War reenactments and my mom is involved as well. They have plenty of other stuff they do too.
Is your dad still available? You didn't mention that. There are lots of things that seniors can do together.
Just how old is your mom? How are you defining "senior?" Have you asked your mom if she's happy with her life? Maybe she enjoys the peace and semi-solitude that she has, especially since she has a good friend and a relative at hand when she'd like company.
Sorry, i can't use reply from my . My parents have been divorced since I was 8 and my dad has been remarried forever. She is 70 + and is a flight attendant with more energy than anyone half her age, but most of her friends are dispersed around the country due to the nature of her work. It's not that I feel like I want to push her to get out and have a life or that I think she is unhappy. I was just wondering what things might be out there for her to do to make friends here and see what others are doing.
My mother and her husband have a way, way better social life than I ever did. Just got back from a long trip to Europe (France and Spain) at the end of last fall. Lots of activities with friends in their community, and she still works part time.
My mother-in-law is 98 years old. Getting up in the morning is about as social as she gets. She sleeps most of the day, sometimes through meals. It's a shame, because we used to call her the "Eveready Bunny" as she was always on the go. She volunteered at a local hospital, did the elections, walked a mile or two every day with her friends. Always too busy to be at home. The change came after she turned 92 and she couldn't drive any more. The lack of independence took everything out of her.

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Although hydroforming has gotten a lot of publicity in the last 20 years, a similar but lesser-known process, high-temperature metal gas forming, has been in use for more than 15 years. Because HTMGF works at elevated temperatures, it is useful for making complex shapes in titanium and aluminum, and it is making inroads into other industries as well.
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It's crunch time. Someone has gone into cardiac arrest and their life is in danger. EMT students at Wallace Community College in Dothan are taught to handle these high-stress situations every day.
"We get on-scene before they get to the hospital...before any doctors get to see them. We get there and we try to treat any problems they're having," says EMT student Joseph Ferguson. Now of course this is all staged, but Joseph feels very confident in his skills and even more confident in his college choice.
"At first I started it because it was closer to home but I actually enjoy it. We learn a lot more, we have a lot more pass rates. I've got friends that go to other colleges, same programs, but I feel like we learn a lot better and we get a lot more hands on experience," he added. Joseph is choosing a career as an EMT but there are other high-yielding career paths. Nursing, criminal justice and accounting are all top majors in the U.S.
Before you declare a major, you have to first determine where you want to go and whether that's a community college of a four-year institution, the Wiregrass is full of options to make your educational dreams a reality.
Now most of us are told to go the traditional route and earn that four-year degree but in today's economy tuition prices are on the rise every day.
"The annual average tuition cost for like a residential campus would be around 20,000 dollars," says Troy Dothan Dean of Students Bob Willis. Students are seeking more bang for their buck so the popularity of community colleges is surging.
"If you look across the nation today, with the economy the way it is, actually in most states, a two year degree is..starting salary, equal to or great than a bachelor's degree," explains WCC Dean of Instructional Affairs Tony Holland. No matter how you look at it, college is expensive and making the school fit into your schedule can be a challenge but the benefits of higher education can't be ignored.
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Is there a simple term for the question this one was closed as a dupe of other than "the question this one was closed as a dupe of", because "the question this one was closed as a dupe of" is pretty long and unwieldy and much in need of a simpler term than "the question this one was closed as a dupe of".
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It's not a single word, but the duplicated question seems like an obvious answer.
In the context of SE questions there's often a certain amount of debate over whether the later question is identical to the one cited as a duplicate, so I tend to avoid the term original.
Admittedly this approach deprives me of a convenient noun form, but I think it's less contentious to refer to it as the earlier question. But if you really want a noun I suggest antecedent.
Ideally on SE one would like to refer to the earlier question as the archetype, to imply we've already got a generic/canonical answer for any questions similar to the one currently being flagged as a later duplicate. Sadly, that isn't always the case, so people can often argue theirs isn't a duplicate.
In programming, I've sometimes heard original used as a relative term, as in "the original of the new bug is a year old." Perhaps this extends to online Q&A discussions.
Since each question is closed as a duplicate of exactly one, the relationship is unique and you can probably refer to it in context as simply the duplicate, even if that's somewhat backwards.
The notion of duplication and redundancy are very often justified in prose, but I agree that a pithy term is ideal here. Specifically, we want a noun describing "that which is immediately deprecated because it contains a strict subset of another preceding [concept or idea]."
Picking through Everything2's lexicon on writeup deletion (a site based on the concepts of social karma and article deprecation far predating StackOverflow and StackExchange), their chosen phrasing for this case is, loosely speaking, when one's article is "superseded by an existing writeup."
This phrasing lacks precision, however. The transitive verb supersede strictly means (according to Merriam-Webster):
Its etymology (as addressed in this English.SE answer) is, tersely:
I say this "lacks precision" because the order of operations is reversed in the case of a question or writeup that is instantly deprecated by another, previous question or writeup. It isn't a case of the previous "forcing out" or "displacing" the new one as inferior (implying subsequent action), so much as the new duplicate is, in fact, deprecating itself by virtue of not deferring to the previous one.
A word suggestion I would put forth here is not supersede, then, but subsede. This isn't currently a word in the dictionary. But, by our prior understanding of Latin prefixes and verbs, this would etymologically mean:
Or, literally, "sit under or undermine" the subsedee, as the subsedent or subsedent question.
But, I digress. The authoritative, original, or (bending the rules again) supersedent question should be expressively sufficient for your purposes when referring to the original authoritative source deprecating a now-unoriginal question or idea. I'd shy away from using the duplicated question only insofar as it's technically unclear, without additional context, which of the now-duplicate questions you're referring to.
Given that you seem to spend most of your time on programmers forums, they'll probably recognise the word deduplicate.
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CUYAHOGA HEIGHTS -- The Bellaire Big Reds had walked a fine line this season with the amount of close games it had won this season.
Unfortunately, the Big Reds found themselves on the short end of the stick Saturday night in the Division V, Region 17 quarterfinal against Cuyahoga Heights.
The Redskins advanced to the second round of the tournament by virtue of a 42-14 victory and ended the Big Reds' season with a solid 8-3 mark.
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THe Big Reds' playoff appearance was the first for the school in six years and Davis believes the slow start can be placed on that factor.
"We looked like early like a team that's not been in the playoffs for a while," Davis said. "We had some butterflies, but I was definitely proud of how we never quit."Cuyahoga Heights is preparing to deal with Youngstown Ursuline next Saturday at a site to be announced today by the OHSAA.
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Senior Nick Patrone went over the 1,000-yard mark receiving with 7 catches for 137 yards.
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How can I improve my memory so that I can remember more, faster... learn faster...?
I know some people are auditory learners, others visual... but once you figure out which one you are, how do you get better?
Spaced Repetition Software
I think Anki is the best out there right now, and its free/open source http://ankisrs.net/
I suggest you should read this HELPGUIDE article, really great tips include.
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To remember something, the thing you want to remember needs to have made an impression in your mind, and you need to be able to access it.
For strengthening the impression emotion helps - you are much more likely to remember something that e.g. surprised you, made you laugh, or angered you, than something you had no paricular attitude towards.
The other thing her is to connect what you want to remember it to as many things as possible. Things are remembered better not in isolation, but when they are a part of a system, or connected to other things you know. These connections do not need to be something that follows the direct meaning - they can be silly things that rely on some aspect of what you want to rememeber, such as an association with an animal that somebody's name reminds you of.
Repetition (such as with spaced repetition systems for vocabulary learning) certainly helps, since the pathways you create in your brain get reinforced through repetition.
For access the extra connections are also essential, since you now have more angles from which you can come across a connection that will lead you to the fact you want to recall.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Most memory techniques rely on such observation.
Both of the above will take a lot of training and practice but are the well known methods.
I would suggest researching into them and picking the method more compatible to you or perhaps combine them for remember different type of things.
The thing to stress is that memory improvement is hard work, there is no quick fix. You'll have to put time and energy to it and be persistent. The reward is great but the journey is hard as well. Good luck!
By being careful what you want to remember.
With this data out of your head, you create an empty head. Ready to remember more.
I found The Memory Book to be quite a good read, it deals with those associative and linking memory techniques in great detail.
Have a look at Increasing Memory Stamina and Remembering People's Names.
Some good answers in both of these, including vocalising, visualising and repetition - key techniques to implant a memory in short or long term.
learn to develop your focussing skills. living in the moment ensures you absorb the most out of your mind. often your consiously and even unconsiously distracted. ever noticed how after a long drive back home, you cannot remember how you got there, but you get there? your unconsiously drove all the way home! Every femtosecond in your life, your either living unconsiously or consiously.
some (very very old) fashioned methods are things like meditation: say http://www.dhamma.org/
yoga/martial arts: various
focussing: http://www.focusing.org/
the difference between someone who does well at school and one who dosen't is mostly a difference in ability to focus. the naturally gifted people have had either * a more suitable environment that taught them focussing. * are genetically disposed to focussing.
Use the Phonetic Mnemonic System. This is basically converting numbers to words or sentences. Humans can temporarily (as in seconds/minutes) store ~7 arbitrary digits in memory, but memorizing words is easier. For example:
Is easier to memorize than:
For long periods of time.
For memorizing really long sequences, such as pi, you're stuck with plain memorizing. But this gets easier as you keep doing it. A common strategy is to group the numbers in threes or fours.[1]
The quickest and dirtiest way to remember things would be with flashcards. That works well for remembering specific content. As far as long term overall memory improvement goes, I would recommend looking up memory-training games. Lumosity has some fun free memory games.
Another tip I like to use is: always try to stimulate your brain. Consciously analyze what you perceive, and try to recall a series of events from the day.
Memory isn't everything in learning faster. Being able to analyze and comprehend material leads to the memorization of it.
If you're looking for temporary boosts to mental capacity or functionality... try caffeine, ginseng, or ginkgo biloba, or do some research on herbal stimulants.
I've used James W. Heisig's "Remembering the kanji" book for memorizing Japanese characters. It worked remarkably well and used a mnemonics approach that divided the characters into parts, assigned a keyword to each of them and built stories from those keywords.
Depending on what you are trying to memorize, different techniques are available. If you want to memorize long numbers, you can use a number alphabet that assigns (consonant) sounds to numbers. Add vowels yourself and build words from the numbers, then build a story from the words.
Over all you need to practice all of those techniques, but it's way more fun to do it with a system than using rote memorization.
One contentious way to help your memory might be to make sure you have enough of the B group vitamins in your diet. This along with being well hydrated and having your mind free of distractions always helped me when studying to make whatever methods I was using more effective.
Try learning a language and use it, even if only writing for output.
Since I have learned a language, everything has improved for me: memory, recall speed, native grammar, native spelling, learning, etc.
This is one of the few disciplines where memory is make or break, and it's not something which you can just look up, so you must train your mind to memorize everything, which is intensive, to say the least.
Another way to look at it through this lens is to output everything that you learn/need to remember. You can teach somebody else what you learned, write a story about it, connect it to something else that you already know or have learned, etc.
I've learned over the years that Association is the key!
Three examples from today:
Given that these were three items I could easily forget I did the following.
You can talk more with yourself inside the brain. If the brain cells are heavily trained to remember everything they have discussed, they can easily remember inputs from external environment too. Combine this with heavy reading, thinking and then more exploration and thinking, eventually you will be extremely good at remembering.
Another advice is, link everything to your future career, love life, family life, monetary gain and ambition. When concepts are linked this way, you will not forget any.
To train the speed, try to use speed of 1.5 times on Youtube, Coursera, Adobe (computer reading out the pdf) or any other chances you get. Easy.
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ST. CLAIRSVILLE - The Belmont Correctional Institute held its first graduation of a preparatory program aimed at helping inmates obtain a new lease on life.
The Pre-Military program began at BCI in December, a 12-week program aimed at preparing inmates to join a branch of the armed service upon their release.
It was grueling setup, mixing equal parts physical training, classroom work and drills.
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THE INITIAL graduating class of the Belmont Correctional Institute's pre-military program stand together during their graduation ceremony this week. The graduates are: Harold Davis, Paul Koehler, Brandon Butcher, Terry Blue, Christopher Baker, Charles Winland, David Wheeler, James Pohl, William Karpenko and Danny Dugan.
They performed daily physical training (PT), studied for and took the ASVAB test, practiced drill and learned the ins and outs of proper American flag handling.
They also learned the core values of: loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity and personal courage.
"We are so proud of this program," said Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections Assistant Director Stephen Huffman. "What these young men are trying to do is change their lives and I believe they have a very good start
Fourteen men began the class in late 2012 and earlier this week, 10 were able to hold their heads high as graduates of the program.
Mike Meintel, the Unit Manager for the dorm that houses the pre-military program, along with some of the inmates who are also veterans, said there was a set of criteria potential candidates had to meet in order to be considered for the program.
The men had to have two years or less on their sentences. Only inmates with certain offenses could take part as the military will only allow certain past offenses to be waived when signing up.
Meintel noted that the group started with 14 young men. Two withdrew from the program, one was removed because of an infraction and the fourth was transferred to another facility.
He commended the graduates on their achievement, noting the work outside of the program was likely as difficult as the work inside it.
"We have a population of about 2,700 and these men are a minority in this facility," Meintel said. "They really had to stand above."
Graduate Charles Winland agreed.
Winland, perhaps more than any other graduate, personified what this program's purpose was for - making a positive change in your life.
Winland was named the honor graduate for the program's first cycle. He also gave a power-point presentation on what the graduates went through during the 12-week program.
While participating in the program, Winland was also working to complete his classes in Administrative Office Technology.
"Every day is was non-stop," Winland said. "It was tough and at first, I wanted to quit. But when I start something, I have to finish it and I pushed myself and the others.
"I told them 'Let's graduate. They are giving us a second chance.'"
Like Meintel, Winland agreed the outside influences he and his fellow classmates experienced were tough.
"We really experienced a lot of negativity from some of the other inmates," Winland said.
Meintel noted that the majority of graduates will be looking at either the Ohio National Guard or Army Reserves as they offer the best opportunity following their release.
However, each graduate is free to choose whichever branch of the armed forces he wishes to join up with.
For Winland, he's looking to parlay a solid ASVAB score into possibly working in obtaining a CDL and driving in the service. Either driving, or working as an automotive technician.
During his presentation, Winland told the large gathering in attendance about the progress he and his fellow participants made.
In the beginning, the average score on the PT test was 168. By the course's end, it jumped to 260. The ASVAB scores received a solid bump as well, thanks to class work.
This is the first graduating class, but it won't be the last. Meintel noted BCI is looking to have three cycles of the 12-week program each year, providing more inmates that second chance at life.
All they have to do is take it.
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The New York Times bestselling author brings back the Walker family in a multilayered thriller in which murders past and present connect the lives of three families
Every summer, in an event that is commemorated throughout the Tohono O'odham Nation, the Queen of the Night flower blooms in the Arizona desert. But one couple's intended celebration is shattered by gunfire, the sole witness to the bloodshed a little girl who has lost the only family she's ever known.
To her rescue come Dr. Lani Walker, who sees the trauma of her own childhood reflected in her young patient, and Dan Pardee, an Iraq war veteran and member of an unorthodox border patrol unit called the Shadow Wolves. Joined by Pima County homicide investigator Brian Fellows, they must keep the child safe while tracking down a ruthless killer.
In a second case, retired homicide detective Brandon Walker is investigating the long unsolved murder of an Arizona State University coed. Now, after nearly half a century of silence, the one person who can shed light on that terrible incident is willing to talk. Meanwhile, Walker's wife, Diana Ladd, is reliving memories of a man whose death continues to haunt her.
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In doing some research regarding SSL, I came across this topic. One of the common suggestions was not to serve content over HTTP. What does that mean from a website development POV? Referencing things like stylesheets with a full https URL? Something else?
It means to always use the SSL layer when serving pages. Links don't need to be absolute, but traffic received on port 80 without SSL should be redirected to port 443 with SSL. The rest of the magic is in avoiding attacks where the user doesn't visit the SSL site first and the redirect is hijacked using something like SSLstrip. That is covered in this question: Options when defending against SSLstrip?
It means that all content and resources should be served over HTTPS (not HTTP). Local scripts, stylesheets, and images should be referenced with a URL that will ultimately load the resource over HTTPS, not HTTP.
One way to achieve this is to make sure that all URLs are absolute and fully qualified, and start with https:.
Alternatively, you can continue to use relative URLs, as long as you verify they will ultimately resolve to a https: URL.
For example, suppose you have a page
I hope this makes sense.
I want to be able to encrypt certain things (like user passwords) but DO NOT WANT to enable any third party verification exploits (CAs have no idea about site content nor user wishes so so what exactly would they be able to verify?). It just opens up a huge security hole in browsers that could be exploited by a rogue CA, nor do I want WASTE resources encrypting PUBLIC content (that makes no sense).
Browser behavior is the problem … and we are still stuck with a mid-90's workaround was probably only intended to be temporary and the security hole opened up in browsers by it now is considered too high a price to pay for many of us.
I am getting very sick of the misinformation being bandied about everywhere regarding SSL and the endless attempts to sneak this exploit into software.
Until the third party verification exploits are removed from browser defaults SSL cannot be considered secure for website use, because the untrusted third party verification opens up a big gaping hole in those browsers that could potentially be abused to frighten your users away!
You get the same encryption with a self signed certificate, but browsers will tell users it is "insecure" - based not on anything on your site, nor anything the user asked for. No, it's just whether you paid someone for a certificate.
Now what would happen if a rogue or corrupt government or corporation took over a CA? (or even a corrupt employee working there)…
Think about it
… its a serious matter!
I've seen plenty of pretty dodgy scammy sites with "valid" certificates out there, and not yet in all these years ever seen those browser warnings happen on anything malicious (always just "expired", self signed, etc). It does not help anyone - people just buy certificates for the browser bling.
The actual encryption is no more or less secure than with a self signed certificate.
That could be abused.


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I found this here:
Sum Problem
Given eight dice. Build a $2\times 2\times2$ cube, so that the sum of the points on each side is the same.
Here is one of 20 736 solutions with the sum 14.
You find more at the German magazine "Bild der Wissenschaft 3-1980".
Now my question:
Is $14$ the only possible face sum? At least, in the example given, it seems to related to the fact, that on every face two dice-pairs show up, having $n$ and $7-n$ pips. Is this necessary? Sufficient it is...


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Oil and gas impacting area real estate market
April 1, 2013
Across the Ohio Valley, hotels are opening, houses are selling at higher prices and apartments are renting quickly — all because of the influx of natural gas and oil worker....
just remember folks... this is all artificial.
When the the nomads move on there is no other word to describe it except: VACANCY !
Most of all money these temporary "inflators" of our economy make is sent to every state except WV, OH, or PA. Most of it is probably sent to Mexico from the Staff I see that most of these gas and oil company employ.
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Do you need a search button next to a search box on a mobile website? On the iPhone for example the Enter button appears next to the standard ios5 ui keyboard.
Are you providing suggestions as the user types?
If there is immediate feedback as the user types then no, they can select either the suggestion or their typed search term.
If the feedback is non-existent, a button is helpful and intuitive more so than the enter button. You mention the iPhone as an example however if this is intended to be a mobile site, that mobile device can be any number of devices. If you were deploying this in to a given app store, marketplace, etc... the approach could be different.
All Android and iPhone devices have the Go/Enter feature on the standard keayboard. However, as Aaron McIver mentioned a different mobile device could enter the website and there is no guarantee that it has that feature in the keyboard.
So I would definitely recommend adding a button for Search if you want the site to be cross-platform compatible.


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I'm sure this is simple, but I can't seem to find any answers on the net (maybe it's just a matter of wording - please redirect me accordingly).
Imagine a "camera" with a square viewport zooms in on a shape (say a circle) that is off-center in its "visual field". At the end of the zoom, the circle fits perfectly inside the camera's viewport.
Now, I see how this could be done by moving the viewport's center to the center of the circle at the same time as the circle's diameter is scaled to the viewport's width/height.
But let's say I can't move the viewport at all; all that is allowed is scaling and moving the circle. What, then, are the corresponding geometrical transformations that must be applied to the circle to simulate the effect of the zoom without moving the camera at all?


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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Florida A&M University has gathered a panel of outside experts to investigate and recommend ways to end hazing on campus.
FAMU president James Ammons announced the school's new anti-hazing committee on Thursday at a board of trustees meeting.
The seven-member committee includes a former federal judge, a clinical psychologist, two hazing researchers, a former Los Angeles schools superintendent, another university's band leader and a director of a minority-oriented nonprofit.
The historically black public university has been dealing with the recent hazing-related death of drum major Robert Champion and the arrests of FAMU students on charges of hazing other students in the school's famous Marching 100 band.


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Today Bus E headed into Philadelphia. Their first stop of the day was at the SHARE Food Bank where they donated what was left of their snacks and food from the summer. Afterwards the wheelniks visited the "Rocky Steps" and raced their way to the top just like the Sylvester Stallone did in the movie. Next, the group headed over to see the liberty bell and had free time in the Independence Hall area. Later on Bus E went out to Amish country where they visited a local pretzel factory. There, the wheelniks had the chance to make their own pretzels. In the evening the wheelniks came together for their "end of the summer banquet" where they gave out paper plate awards and spent time sharing stories and memories from the summer. Later on the wheelniks changed into some more comfortable clothes and hung out together late into the night.


text: I'm stealing, I mean borrowing this idea from at least two other forums. Though we all know that the hook is not the story, there is still a sense in which the first few words of a story are kind of important. (I generally give it a chapter or two before I consider giving up.) So this is practice. Give it your best shot. Write, in 25 words or less the first sentence or so of a story, be it a story you've already done, or one you might right some day. Also, feel free to rate the "hooks" before yours. Don't be unkind. And, to be fair, I should go first. B5


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In the first 12 hours a pediatrician will give your baby a checkup. In addition to a head-to-toe examination, there will be checks made on skin color, temperature, and muscle tone, and on reflexes, such as sucking and grasping.
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Assume a tau-function of the KP integrable hierarchy is fixed by the point of the Sato grassmannian (that is by a semi-infinite set of Laurant series $\varphi_k(z)=\sum_{m>0}a_{km}z^{-k+m}$). Can one restore a spectral curve that corresponds to this solution?
This is explained in Segal-Wilson. Essentially, realize your point in the Grassmannian as as a space W of functions w(z), then look for all functions g(z) such that g(z)W is included in W. These functions form a commutative algebra, and Spec of this algebra is your spectral curve. Of course for most points of the Grassmannian the commutative algebra is just C.
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A new article, now up on otn/java, by Java Champion Johan Vos, titled "JSR 356, Java API for WebSocket," shows developers how to integrate WebSockets into their applications. JSR 356, part of the Java EE 7 platform, specifies the API that Java developers can use when they want to integrate WebSockets into their applications on both on the Java server and client side. The API is highly flexible, and frees developers to write WebSocket-based applications independent of the underlying WebSocket implementation, thus preventing vendor lock in. It also allows for more choice in libraries and application servers. Web clients or native clients leveraging any WebSocket implementation can more easily communicate with a Java back end.
As part of the Java EE 7 standard, all Java EE 7-compliant application servers will have an implementation of the WebSocket protocol that adheres to JSR 356. Vos explains:
"Once they are established, WebSocket client and server peers are symmetrical. The difference between a client API and a server API is, therefore, minimal. JSR 356 defines a Java client API as well, which is a subset of the full API required in Java EE 7….
The Java API for WebSocket is very powerful, because it allows any Java object to be sent or received as a WebSocket message.
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When using the annotation-driven model, for each different type of message, one @onMessage annotated method is allowed. The allowed parameters for specifying the message content in the annotated methods are dependent on the type of the message."
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It did not come as a surprise that the fee increases proposed by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation would become a reality. The elected state milkers in all of their self-proclaimed wisdom reduced their operating budget and told them (wink, wink) to look to the golden milking cows to make up the shortfall.
The milk is plentiful and the cows always enjoyed being milked. (Or is it bilked?) At least it appears that is the thinking of the milkers when they raised the gas tax and linked it to the rate of inflation. Absolutely brilliant. After all, in one respect, it was not really a tax, but a voluntary fee. What seems to be the problem? If you choose not to operate a motor vehicle then you are free from the tax, or is it fee? Simple Economics 101! Or is it 102?
What possibly could be next? Drivers licenses, electronic tolls on Route 24 and I-495, sales tax on clothing, prescription drugs, doctor's visits, surgeries. Hmm? What else could there be? Did we miss something? Probably. We are not thinking right since we are sore from the constant milking. A large majority of the golden milk cows have lost all trust in the elected congressional milkers and the trust is rapidly waning for those elected state milkers.
Many cities and towns in the commonwealth are on the brink of financial failure and would have already failed except for the golden milking cows. Unfortunately, we were reluctantly brought to the milking barn despite our bellowing and were milked again and again.
It is past time when we should band together as one and bellow that our state milkers demand that our congressional milkers cease expending our assets externally and divert them internally to restore the failing infrastructure and give the beloved golden milking cows some rest and relaxation.
The economy of the United States, despite daily propaganda from Washington, remains flat. True unemployment remains at double digits. Wages have been suppressed for the past 20 odd years, inflation continues to rapidly increase in the critical survival commodities, federal hourly minimum wage remains an embarrassing $7.25.
Jobs continue to be outsourced, illegal entry of people and drugs continues unabated. Meanwhile, corporations, major banks and a stock market with a questionable reputation continue to show record profits. We, the golden milking cows, continue to be in demand for our precious dwindling ability to provide milk to the ever-demanding milkers.
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I want to be able to redefine what the hardware buttons on my Motorola Droid do. By buttons I mean the 4 capacitive buttons on the bottom: Back, Menu, Home & Search and the Camera button and Volume buttons on the side. I have seen several apps that allow you to change what the Camera and Search buttons do but I want the ability to redefine them all. Can this be done? If so, how?
Got it, ButtonRemapper.
Button Shortcut will let you assign shortcuts to the camera and search buttons.
The home button could be replaced with another home launcher-like app that handles that intent.
However, I do not believe you will be able to re-map the menu and and back buttons without root access to the phone's system due to security reasons. Although within an application you should be able to programatically take control over these buttons with listener events (but it is strongly discouraged to override the default behavior of the back button without valid reasons).
Tasker looks like it allows you to remap at least some of the hardware buttons.
Note that the Android OS spec has some very specific requirements for Android devices. You may not be able to remap certain things.
I own a Droid (or rather, its brother Milestone, the GSM version of Droid) and I found its hardware keys not so durable: my power/lock key stopped functioning after a year and the volume down button is failing too. So you might wanna give it a second thought if the durability is ever a concern (I cannot lock/unlock my phone with a press of button anymore). In fact there are quite some apps out there trying to do the reverse, i.e. mapping hardware keys to on-screen touch buttons.


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Felt's Facts – Week 6
Halfway through the regular season, region competition begins in earnest. By Friday, every school will have played at least one league contest.
Only 27 of this year's 225 non-region games remain. Meanwhile 63 league battles – just over 22% – have been played with 218 to go.
Career Records
Timpview's Tyler Solorzano has booted 161 extra-points, the third most all-time. He needs just nine to reach second, but has a lot of kicking to do to match Pine View's Riley Stephenson's 194 set from 2002-05.
Logan's Jake Thompson has hit 22 field goals, tied for fifth all-time, only two away from a tie for second and six shy of Bingham's Justin Sorensen, who made 28 from 2005-07. Thompson is also fifth in PATs with 151.
Cottonwood's Inoke Lotulelei has 29 TD receptions, tied for eighth best in Utah prep history and just three away from joining the Top-5. (The state record is 41.)
Duchesne's McKade Nielsen has 17 interceptions, also tied for eighth most and also just three away from the Top-5. (The state record is 34.)
Millard's Jesse Rhodes is tied for eighth in 100-yard games with 19 and only five short of the state record. He's climbed to 19th in rushing touchdowns with 48.
Pine View's Prentiss Miller ranks 10th in rushes with 522, just two out of ninth place. (The state record is 782.)
Dixie's Blake Barney has passed for 5,578 yards and ranks 18th all-time.
Midpoint Stats
With the regular season half done, one state record has been set and another tied. Pine View's Prentiss Miller established a single-game record for most carries with 51 on Aug. 24. Pleasant Grove's Skyler Munson tied the mark for single-game touchdown receptions with five on Aug. 17.
Perhaps one more record will be eclipsed by season's end: Logan receiver Jesse Braddy has 52 receptions, just over half the state record of 100 set by West Jordan's C.J. O'Neal in 2009.
Look for more career, season and single-game records through the first half of the 2012 season at the end of this week's edition.
At 5-0, Stansbury, Syracuse and Timpanogos are all off to their best ever starts. The latter two also set school win-streak records.
Brighton and Northridge are both trying to go 6-0 for the first time since 2004 when the Bengals won their first 12 and the Knights took their first seven.
Jordan was 4-0 last season, but hasn't won its first five games since a 7-0 start in 1998.
Most Improved
Union continues to lead the turnaround teams. The Cougars have improved 5.5 games over last year, from 0-10 in 2011 to 3-2 this season. Cyprus is five games better (0-9 to 3-2). Snow Canyon (2-7 to 4-1), South Sevier (1-8 to 3-2) and Timpanogos (4-7 to 5-0) are also showing signs of progress (all 4.0 games better).
Road Warriors
There's just one first-time matchup and that involves first-year Summit Academy as the Bears visit Monticello. It's the last long road trip for S.A., which has yet to play a home game. In five away games so far, including such far-flung locales as Milford, Monument Valley and Whitehorse, the Bears have traveled some 2,350 miles and spent around 42 hours on bus trips. The excursion to Monticello adds another 540 miles round-trip and about nine and a half more hours.
But Summit Academy is 4-1, which takes away some of the pain of travel.
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BELTON (November 13, 2012)--Work officially started on a new family medicine clinic in Belton Tuesday.
A groundbreaking ceremony marked the second for a clinic in less than a week for Scott & White.
Last Wednesday, ground was broken for a 7,500-square-foot pediatric clinic at 1009 Arbor Park Dr.
Tuesday's ceremony, was at 1001 Arbor Park Dr., next door to the site where the pediatric center will be built.
This facility will be 14,390 square feet.
Arbor Park Drive is adjacent to the access road for West U.S. 190.
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Are you allowed to go daven with a minyan when you have the flu or other highly contagious illness? Is it considered potentially damaging someone else's health, or are the chances of someone else getting it from you small enough that that shouldn't be a factor? In addition, can you trust the others members of the minyan falling under "Shluchei Mitzvah Einan Nizokim"?
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I have not seen any specific halachic references to this point.
I think Hillel's maxim דעלך סני לחברך לא תעביד (Shabbos 31) is applicable.
Would you like to daven in a minyan with someone who had the flu?
R. Akiva Eiger (Igrot Sofrim 29) was asked whether minyanim should be held during a cholera outbreak or whether public gatherings should be avoided altogether. His response was that they should continue holding minyanim but in an open area, in groups no larger than 15, where the same 15 people always daven together. This is a compromise where one limits the spread of the disease without giving up tefillah b'tzibbur.
Of course, cholera is more severe than flu for most people, but in R' Eiger's case, no one yet had cholera in the group. My answer would be different if the minyan one goes to is populated by college students than if it were populated by octogenarians.


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Erythropoiesis Stimulating Agents: Where are we now?
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Carolyn Vachani, RN, MSN, AOCN
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Last Modified: May 20, 2007
Anemia is a common problem for patients with cancer, whether or not they are receiving therapy for the disease. Anemia is defined as a decrease in the number of red blood cells and can contribute to fatigue, require blood transfusions for relief of symptoms, pose a danger to those with underlying heart disease, and possibly even decrease the effectiveness of cancer therapy, such as radiation therapy. Erythropoietin is the body's natural hormone, which stimulates the bone marrow to produce more red blood cells. In the mid 1980's, researchers were able to clone the human erythropoietin gene, and two years later, epoetin alfa was tested in humans. Researchers found that this laboratory-produced version of erythropoietin resulted in increased red blood cell production, and in 1989, Epogen was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In 1993, the drug gained approval for use in patients undergoing cancer therapy.
Fast forward to 2004, when after many years of using these supportive care agents, two studies raise concerns of possible tumor progression and increased risk of death with their use. The FDA convened to discuss the results of these studies and address the associated risks. Two large, randomized, placebo-controlled trials found a decrease in survival among patients treated with erythropoiesis stimulating agents (ESAs) and a possible increase in tumor progression. Laboratory studies had long demonstrated tumor growth with erythropoietin as a possibility, given the presence of erythropoietin receptors on various types of cancer cells. The trials had used target hemoglobin levels higher than what is needed to avoid blood transfusion, which is not the approved usage. Many felt these studies were inconclusive, given the safety record of these agents and the use of higher than advised target hemoglobin levels. As a result of this meeting, the FDA mandated warning labels be added to product packaging describing the risk of tumor promotion and decreased survival and requested the manufacturers perform clinical trials to address these concerns further.
In December 2006, the Danish Head and Neck Cancer Study Group closed a trial involving ESAs early, due to an increased risk of death in the treatment arm. Radiation therapy achieves its best results when cancer tissue is well oxygenated. Anemia corresponds with low hemoglobin, which results in less oxygen getting to tissues and possibly, a decrease in the effectiveness of radiation therapy. The Danish study attempted to increase hemoglobin levels with ESAs in order to improve oxygenation and, in turn, outcomes. At an interim analysis, the investigators found a 10% increase in locoregional disease progression and a statistically non-significant trend towards poorer survival in the treatment arm.
In January 2007, Amgen reported the preliminary results of a trial involving 989 anemic cancer patients not receiving therapy, with a target hemoglobin of 12g/dl. The results found that darbepoetin alfa did not reduce the need for transfusions and resulted in increased mortality for patients receiving the drug compared with placebo. Concerns over these two studies led a Canadian research group to analyze their study of epoetin alfa on quality of life in non small cell lung cancer patients who were not receiving active treatment earlier than expected. They had enrolled 70 patients, with a target hemoglobin of 12-14g/dl. The m edian time to death in those treated with epoetin alfa was 68 days, which was significantly shorter than the 131 days in those treated with placebo. The majority of deaths were attributed to disease progression. In addition, this study found no decrease in the transfusion requirements or increase in quality of life in the treatment group.
In February 2007, Roche suspended a phase II study of a pegylated epoetin beta in stage III and IV non small cell lung cancer patients undergoing first line chemotherapy (target hemoglobin 11-13g/dl). Interim analysis found a higher than expected number of deaths in the treatment arms. We await further information on this study. In the same month, Ortho Biotech reported the preliminary results of a study utilizing epoetin alfa in patients undergoing elective spinal surgery to avoid transfusion (target hemoglobin 10-13g/dl). The treatment group was found to be more than twice as likely to develop deep vein thrombosis. Further analysis of this study is also expected. In addition, two studies using ESAs in chronic renal failure related anemia found increased risk of cardiovascular events (death, stroke, congestive heart failure and myocardial infarction) when higher hemoglobin levels were targeted (>12g/dl).
The Oncology Drug Advisory Committee (ODAC) met on May 10 th, 2007 to discuss questions raised by these recently released results and make recommendations to the FDA. ODAC members recommended that the FDA:
- Make further marketing authorization contingent of additional restrictions on the drug labels and additional clinical trials;
- Require that drug labels specifically state that ESAs are not indicated for use in specific tumor types in which clinical studies reveal safety concerns;
- Require that drug labels define hemoglobin levels for asymptomatic patients;
- Require that drug labels indicate that ESA use should be discontinued on completion of chemotherapy regimen and then the patient should be re-evaluated for anemia;
- And maintain current recommended dosing with the top hemoglobin level of 12 g/dL.
Concerns were expressed at this meeting by clinicians and advocates involved in the care of myelodysplastic syndrome, aplastic anemia and other diseases affecting bone marrow function. Because anemia in these patients is functionally different, they urged ODAC and the FDA to distinguish between bone marrow failure and anemia in other cancers when instituting further regulations. We will have to wait and see what steps the FDA takes in response to this meeting.
While these results and recommendations are sure to spur future research and ongoing evaluation of the safety of these agents, what are clinicians and patients to do with the information we have? The FDA advises clinicians and patients to remember that ESAs are given to reduce the need for red blood cell transfusions and not to treat symptoms such as fatigue. The risks and benefits of ESAs must be weighed against the risks and benefits of blood transfusions in each individual case when deciding whether or not to use the agents. The use of evidenced based guidelines, such as those developed by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network may be helpful in guiding the decision to treat with ESAs. In those who choose to use ESAs, it is imperative that doses be adjusted to maintain a hemoglobin level that does not exceed 12-13g/dl. In addition, the cost of these agents is not insignificant to the patient or health care system and must be considered in the overall risk benefit analysis.
Patients and clinicians must understand that no data exists to support claims of improvement in quality of life or fatigue. The manufacturers of these agents frequently used direct consumer marketing to promote these unsupported claims, a fact that concerns many patient advocacy groups.
Studies have found a decrease in the use of ESAs by oncologists in the months since the negative study results were publicized. There are likely to be changes in Medicare reimbursement for these agents as a result as well. We await the FDA's response to the past year's study results and ODAC recommendations. Follow-up studies addressing the concerns are sure to come, as the role of supportive care therapies is further defined, so stay tuned.


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Adapted from a story that originally appeared on the Alzheimer Research Forum.
This is Part 2 of a two-part series. See also Part 1.
15 November 2012. By allowing researchers to turn on or off specific classes of neurons in mice at will, optogenetics and pharmacogenetics promise to revolutionize the field of neuroscience (see Part 1 of this series). In a satellite conference held 11-12 October 2012 before the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, several researchers discussed how they have used the techniques to analyze basic memory mechanisms and to study Alzheimer's disease.
Triggering and synthesizing memories: real-world inception?
In the Christopher Nolan movie Inception, Leonardo DiCaprio's character inserted false memories into a man's brain. Sound like science fiction? Perhaps not. Optogenetics might allow scientists to create fake memories, said Susumu Tonegawa from MIT in his talk. If that could be done, it would demonstrate that scientists understand how memories are made, Tonegawa noted. As a first step to figuring out how the brain stores experiences, Tonegawa wondered if he could artificially trigger a memory by activating the proper engram, which is a network of synaptically connected neurons believed to record experiences. To demonstrate this, he needed a way to label only the neurons involved in the memory, and only at the time of memory formation, as well as a means to selectively stimulate those neurons later. He turned to optogenetics.
Tonegawa planned to specifically label the memory engram neurons with channelrhodopsin-2, a light-activated cation channel (see Part 1 of this series). That would allow him to reactivate those neurons later. The challenge was to induce expression of the opsin only in the memory engram cells. As a first step, the researchers focused on hippocampal memories formed in a contextual fear conditioning paradigm. In mice, they expressed channelrhodopsin-2 in the dentate gyrus under control of an inducible TetO promoter. That promoter kept the gene silent as long as the mice received doxycycline in their diet. With the gene off, the researchers habituated the mice to a safe environment. Then they stopped doxycycline treatment, de-repressing channelrhodopsin synthesis in cells that also expressed the TetO activator tTA. Meanwhile, the tTA gene under the control of the c-fos promoter only turned on in response to activity.
The researchers waited two days to allow the doxycycline to clear from the mice, then placed the mice in a second context, where they received a shock. In theory, the cells that fired during this experience would turn on c-fos, thus activating tTA, which would cause channelrhodopsin to be made only in those cells. To test this, the researchers resumed doxycycline treatment, put the mice back in the safe context, and then activated channelrhodopsin-labeled cells with a pulse of blue light. The mice froze, showing that they were re-experiencing a fear memory without any external trigger (see Liu et al., 2012).
Numerous control experiments demonstrated that this response occurred only when channelrhodopsin labeled a fear memory. For example, if the mice did not get a shock in the fear context, they did not freeze later in response to light, even though their memories of the new environment got labeled with the opsin. The findings validate the theory of memory engrams, showing that a network of cells does store particular experiences, Tonegawa said.
In the future, Tonegawa will investigate whether there are multiple engrams in different brain regions for the same memory, and if each is sufficient to recall the memory. Examination of labeled cells will also help map engrams and their connections. Tonegawa wondered if scientists could go further and implant a false memory by using optogenetics. Though this sounds more like Inception sci-fi, Tonegawa believes it could be done by light-activating a previously formed memory engram in conjunction with exposure to a new, unconditioned stimulus, e.g., an odor. The animal would then have a false memory of receiving a foot shock along with the smell. Although one previous study found this method does not work (see Garner et al., 2012), Tonegawa suggested that study activated too broad a swath of brain to really test the theory.
New approaches in Alzheimer's disease
Optogenetic and pharmacogenetic techniques are also being used to examine hypotheses and develop treatments for Alzheimer's disease. Sylvie Claeysen at INSERM, France, discussed a pharmacogenetic strategy that shows therapeutic potential in AD mice. She introduced a point mutation into the serotonin receptor 5-HT4 to make it a Receptor Activated Solely by Synthetic Ligands, or RASSL (see also Part 1). The receptor also shows some basal activity in the absence of any ligand, Claeysen noted (see Claeysen et al., 2003). Claeysen first used this receptor to study Parkinson's disease, but in recent studies found it beneficial in AD models as well.
When the researchers expressed this RASSL in mouse cortical neurons, the cells released more sAPPα, a product of the non-amyloidogenic α cleavage of amyloid precursor protein (APP). Levels of sAPPα climbed further in the presence of the synthetic ligand. Claeysen reported that 5-HT4 RASSL physically interacts with mature α-secretase ADAM10. The interaction probably occurs in the plasma membrane and serves to stimulate the secretase, Claeysen said. Knocking down ADAM10 levels sharply curtailed sAPPα release in this system. She is currently looking for more interacting proteins that might form a complex with ADAM10, APP, and the 5-HT4 RASSL.
In theory, stimulation of ADAM10 should reduce amyloidogenic processing of APP and could ameliorate pathology. To test this idea, the researchers expressed the RASSL in 5xFAD mice, which have particularly aggressive AD-like pathology, and treated them with the synthetic agonist at one or two months of age for several weeks. This stage corresponds to the prodromal phase of the disease, as the animals have amyloid plaques but do not yet show behavioral deficits, Claeysen said. Treated mice had fewer plaques and less inflammation compared to controls, with better effects the longer the treatment continued. Claeysen has not yet looked at behavior but plans to do that next.
In contrast to this pharmacogenetic approach, Li-Huei Tsai at MIT used optogenetics to look at the role of the cholinergic system in a different mouse AD model. Cholinergic neurons in the medial septum project to the hippocampus, and cholinesterase inhibitors improve cognitive function in mild AD. As cholinergic neurons are thought to mediate hippocampal ϑ rhythms, which have been linked to cognition, Tsai wondered if improved rhythms might explain some of the cognitive benefit of these drugs (see Yener et al., 2007).
To explore this, Tsai used CK-p25 mice, which accumulate amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles, and exhibit profound neurodegeneration, and, in common with the 5xFAD mouse model, show dampened hippocampal ϑ and γ rhythms. She expressed channelrhodopsin-2 in cholinergic neurons of the medial septum, activated the cells with light, and measured oscillations in the hippocampus. A single pulse of light ramped up oscillations for the next 10 minutes. The effects on cognitive performance were dramatic. These animals perform poorly in associative learning tasks, but one minute of light stimulation improved their learning skills to wild-type levels. The boost lasted up to one week, Tsai reported. She also saw improvements in spatial memory and long-term potentiation.
What lies ahead
Presenters emphasized that current tools and methodologies for optogenetics and pharmacogenetics have only scratched the surface. Many talks highlighted technical advances. For example, Feng Zhang, previously in Karl Deisseroth's lab at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, and now at MIT, talked about finding novel opsins that respond to different wavelengths of light. He noted that channelrhodopsin-1 from the green algae Volvox activates with green or yellow light, while rhodopsin-3 from the alga Guillardia theta inhibits neurons in response to blue light (see Mei and Zhang, 2012). As green fluorescent protein and related proteins from jellyfish and other marine organisms have revolutionized the study of cell and molecular biology, these and other opsins will broaden the tools available to researchers and permit finer control of neuronal kinetics, Zhang said. Likewise, Ed Boyden at MIT noted that red light penetrates deeper into brain than other wavelengths, making opsins that respond to this wavelength particularly useful. He is developing several red light receptors, as well as other optogenetic tools such as a fiber array that can bend light 90 degrees for better targeting of specific brain regions (see website).
Other researchers focused on hardware. One limitation in recording electrical activity from mouse brain is that these small animals cannot support heavy equipment on their heads. Chris Moore at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, described the creation of an UltraLight FlexDrive, weighing less than two grams. The device allows recording from 32 or 64 channels and can also independently control several optical fibers, Moore said. In collaboration with Josh Siegle and Jakob Voigts at MIT, he is also building a system for real-time detection of electrical activity, which he said would be cheaper than current slower systems (see website for details of other hardware).
Optical fibers that protrude from the head and tether mice, interfering with free movement and behavior, present another problem for optogenetic studies. Jordan McCall, a doctoral student in the lab of Michael Bruchas at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, said providing light through an implantable micro-ILED (inorganic light-emitting diode) could circumvent that issue. The 20-micron-thick device (smaller than many neurons) can be inserted into the brain with a thin needle. The device causes less gliosis than a standard metal cannula does, McCall reported. The micro-ILED can emit multiple, independently controlled wavelengths of light in numerous directions. Researchers control the device by radio signals, which the animal receives through a tiny, removable antenna placed on the head. The system allows mice to scurry around freely while their neurons are stimulated.
Numerous resources exist to help researchers carry out optogenetic studies. These include The Jackson Lab websites for optogenetics and useful transgenic mouse strains, and a "cookbook" that describes how to combine optogenetics with functional MRI to look at the network impact of activating specific cell types (see Desai et al., 2011). In concluding remarks, Gary Aston-Jones at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, praised the "amazing new technologies and devices presented" at the satellite meeting. He also invited attendees to submit papers to a special issue of Brain Research dedicated to optogenetics and pharmacogenetics that will appear next year.—Madolyn Bowman Rogers.
This is Part 2 of a two-part series. See also Part 1.
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