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The next contestant to be featured in our series, "The Road to Miss America," is Miss Iowa, Kelly Renee Koch.
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Platform Issue: Pinky Swear Foundation
Talent: Ballet en Pointe
Education: Studying Child, Adult, and Family Services at Iowa State University
Scholastic Ambition: To obtain a Masters in Child Life Specialty
Scholastic Honors: National Society of Collegiate Scholars; Iowa State University Dean's List; Recipient of the New Member Scholarship for Iowa State's Greek Community; Completed a semester of college while in high school.
An Interesting Face About Me: I'm a huge history buff and even wanted to be Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State, when I was young. My love for American history sparked further in 4th grade when my parents took me to Washington D.C. to tour the city. Although I didn't get to personally meet Secretary Rice, she did send me a letter and an autographed photo!
My Defining Moment: In 5th grade I was selected to dance the lead role of Clara in the Nutcracker. This was the first moment I truly realized that hard work pays off, and I found my immense passion for dance.
Entering college, Kelly was an elementary education major. Her course work and career path changed the moment she first visited a Children's Miracle Network Hospital. While touring, she realized her life goal was to support children and their families as a Child Life Specialist. She changed her major, became a dedicated volunteer at a local pediatric hospital, and is now the National Ambassador for the Pinky Swear Foundation, which focuses on assisting children and their families emotionally and financially during the traumatic ordeal of facing pediatric cancer.


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In Battlefield of the Mind, Joyce Meyer guides you through an honest self-appraisal by sharing the trials, tragedies and ultimate victories of her own marriage, family and ministry---including the truth she learned about what she was thinking and feeling every step of the way. You'll gain insight into how Joyce won the battle in her own mind---and how you can as well. This special updated edition includes an additional introduction and updated content throughout the book.
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Joyce Meyer is one of the world's leading practical Bible teachers. A New York Times bestselling author, her books have helped millions of people find hope and restoration through Jesus Christ.
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Through Joyce Meyer Ministries, she teaches on hundreds of subjects, has authored over 80 books and conducts approximately 15 conferences per year. To date, more than 12 million of her books have been distributed worldwide, and in 2007 more than 3.2 million copies were sold. Joyce also has a television and radio program, Enjoying Everyday Life®, that is broadcast worldwide to a potential audience of 3 billion people. Access her programs anytime of day.
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Having suffered sexual abuse as a child and the pain of an emotionally abusive first marriage, Joyce discovered the freedom to live victoriously by applying God's Word to her life and in turn desires to help others do the same. From her battle with breast cancer to the struggles of everyday life, she speaks openly and practically about her experiences so others can apply what she has learned to their lives.
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|The best book that I have ever read!!!!!! Mar 11, 2007
|This book will change your life!!! I can't count how many additional copies that I have purchased to give to others and will continue to do so. There is a way to a better and joy filled life. This book will show you the way.
|And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. John 8:32 Feb 8, 2007
|Good, Biblical teaching in this book. I recommend Neil Anderson's "The Bondage Breaker" as well. For any Christian struggling with freedom from strongholds, both books are excellent. These books helped me identify the thoughts patterns (strongholds) defeating me. They were a great foundation. I then discovered Kenneth E. Hagin Sr. "The Believer's Authority" and my life has forever changed, praise the Lord. I listened to a CD version. The first two books teach 2 Corinthians 10:4-6 very well. The Hagin teachings led me to understand that I am already free Luke 10:19, Colossians 1:13. Whom the Son sets free is free indeed. I thank the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit.
2 Corinthians 10:4-6
The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, once your obedience is complete.
Luke 10:19-20
19 Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Colossians 1:13
He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love
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"OMG, OMG, OMG! One of my all-time oyster favorites ... in a dip! I plan to serve this with toasted baguette slices... or maybe toasted pita pieces... or maybe just a spoon! Will make for DF next visit while the oysters are still winter fat. Got this in my email - from gourmet_recipes_from_around_the_world. Attributed to "CHILI PEPPER MAGAZINE". Thank you ringwraith, you are my hero!"
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- 2 lbs frozen spinach (chopped)
- 12 ounces bacon, smoked, finely diced
- 1 cup white onion, finely diced
- 2 ounces butter
- salt, to taste
- black pepper, to taste
- 1⁄2 teaspoon dried chipotle powder
- 1 pint oyster, shucked in their liquid
- 1 ounce anisette
- 1⁄2 cup heavy whipping cream
- 8 ounces cream cheese
- 1⁄2 cup parmesan cheese, grated
- Drain all of the liquid from the spinach.
- Over medium flame, slowly brown bacon to render all of the fat, keeping fat in pan.
- Add the onions, butter, salt and pepper, and chipotle powder. Saute slowly until onions are lightly caramelized.
- Add oysters with juice and simmer until juice is fully reduced. Stir often to break oysters into small pieces.
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So I usually don't believe in this stuff, but I'm kinda suspicious now...
A couple nights ago I had a dream. In my dream, I was in an empty parking lot and it was dark and they clouds were very heavy and it was cold and I looked up and saw that one of the clouds was moving towards me. The cloud was a huge swarm of wasps and it engulfed me, I closed my eyes and when I opened them I was in a field of grass and it was bright and beautiful and the wasps had turned to butterflies. I looked around and realized that my boyfriend was also in the field and we were both naked, but it wasn't sexual. There was also an old woman in the field, she walked over and said "I'm meeting with god now, you have to take care of him" I looked at my boyfriend, but I don't think he saw her. I said "of course, I live him" and I woke up. Then today my boyfriend told me that his grandma had died a few days ago...
I asked my aunt (who is pagan) and she said that it was likely that his grandma had come to me in the dream...
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I would say that she wants you to take care of your boyfriend.
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It does seem like you just had a paranormal experience.
I've had two of those so far.
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City commissioners will consider revamping its advisory board that deals with issues related to the homeless.
The city currently has a board called the Community Commission on Homelessness, but several positions on the board had been left unfilled for an extended period of time over the last year. Remaining members of the commission are proposing that the name be changed to the Homeless Issues Advisory Committee and that the group be given a more specific set of tasks. Those tasks would include delivering an annual report on homeless issues to the City Commission, an annual analysis of the community's Housing Vision plan; and work on implementation of the Homeless Information Management System. The group also hopes that the City Commission will regularly seek the advice of the committee on issues related to the homeless.
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• Proclaim Monday, Oct. 31, between the hours of 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. as Halloween Beggars Night.
Consent agenda
• Receive minutes from various boards and commissions.
• Approve claims.
• Approve licenses as recommended by the city clerk's office.
• Adopt Resolution No. 6955, amending Resolution No. 6919 and reallocating the expenditure of the remaining $153,705 of the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) funds to the downtown streetlight project.
• Adopt these resolutions regarding economic development policies:
a) Resolution No. 6952, repealing Resolution No. 6790 and establishing a policy relating to Transportation Development Districts.
b) Resolution No. 6953, repealing Resolution No. 6887 and establishing a policy relating to Community Improvement Districts.
c) Resolution No. 6954, repealing Resolution No. 6921 and establishing a policy relating to Neighborhood Revitalization Areas.
• Authorize the city manager to execute a five-year agreement between the city and the Kansas State Historic Preservation Officer for the performance of project reviews required under state law.
• Authorize the mayor to sign a release of mortgage for Larry and Barbara Miller, 1325 E. 16th St.
• Receive city manager's report
Regular agenda
• Consider adopting Resolution No. 6951, renewing the purpose, restating the duties, and renaming the Community Commission on Homelessness to the "Homeless Issues Advisory Committee."
• Receive and consider a policy regarding Complete Streets.
• Receive presentation from the Sustainability Advisory Board regarding the Climate Protection Plan.
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|Publication date
|Jul 15, 2008
|Filing date
|Dec 7, 2001
|Priority date
|Dec 18, 2000
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|Gerhard Weber
|Original Assignee
|Becton, Dickinson And Company
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|Patent Citations (88), Non-Patent Citations (2), Referenced by (20), Classifications (18), Legal Events (3)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This application is a 371 of PCT/EP01/14389, filed Dec. 7, 2001, which claims priority on German (DE) Patent Application No. 100 63 096.0 filed Dec. 18, 2000, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference.
1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to an electrophoresis device, an electrophoresis method using an electrophoresis device and the use of the electrophoresis device.
2. Description of Related Art
Electrophoresis devices and electrophoretic separation methods are known in which sample substances are fractionated, at the interface between the liquid phase and the solid phase, into the individual sample species.
An analogous separation method, namely pressure filtration, has already been used in industry on a broad scale and is widely used to separate biopolymers. In comparison, electrophoretic separation, i.e., the so-called electrophoretic filtration process or, in short, electrofiltration is used rarely on the whole, although this process appears to be particularly advantageous. In contrast to pressure filtration, it is not the entire sample volume but only the ionic species and not the entire volume of the solvent which need to be transported during the electrophoretic transfer via the separation membrane provided in the separation chambers of the corresponding electrophoresis device. The reason for the rare application of the electrofiltration process is based on the fact that problems occur in particular during the separation of biopolymers according to this process. These problems appear to reside, inter alia, in the irreversible sorption and denaturisation of the biopolymers. The restriction imposed on electrofiltration by technical problems in the optimum dissipation of the heat, which arises during the electrophoretic process and in the changes in the separation characteristics of the material of the solid phase, i.e., the separation membrane.
Irreversible sorption at the interface between the liquid phase and the solid phase, i.e., the separation membrane, can be largely minimized by using biocompatible synthetic resin membranes. However, it has so far not been possible to prevent the change in the separating characteristics of the membrane after a prolonged period of contact with the biopolymers to be separated, which is referred to as "fouling."
The problems which occur during the use of electrofiltration as a result of the heat development inherent in this separation process decisively restrict, in practice, both the application range of this process and the quantitative throughput in comparison with pressure filtration. In the case of an unfavourable increased development of heat in the material of the separation membrane, the characteristic separation properties can be significantly altered and, as a result, the material can even be destroyed as a result of overheating.
Moreover, electrophoretic separation methods for separating bioparticles in aqueous solution, which are referred to as carrierless electrophoresis or free flow electrophoresis (FFE), and corresponding electrophoretic separation devices are known. During this electrophoretic separation of bioparticles in aqueous solution, media with a high conductivity need to be used in order to maintain the vitality of the bioparticles during and after separation. For this purpose, it is necessary inter alia to solve the problem of the optimum removal of heat from the separation chamber since rising temperatures in the separation chamber cause a substantial deterioration in the separation performance. This means that, for an optimization to be achieved, the temperature gradients at every point in the separation chamber gap as well as the temperature differences at the different points in the separation space need to be minimized. In order to improve the separation performance of FFE, the separation of the bioparticles must also take place with the electrical field strengths being as high as possible which, as a result of the high conductivity of the media, leads to a more than proportional increase in the process heat evolved during the separation process.
The electrophoresis devices available on the market for separating bioparticles, which operate according to the FFE process, have therefore been optimized insofar as, on the one hand, an electrical field strength necessary for the desired separation performance was used and, simultaneously, an optimum elimination of the process heat was achieved by selecting as small a separation chamber gap as possible. In European Patent EP 0 443 024 B1, an electrophoresis device with longitudinal hollow fibres is used to pass through a cooling medium.
The present invention is directed to creating a high performance electrophoresis device operating at high speed.
The electrophoresis device according to the invention operates according to a combined process of electrofiltration and FFE such that the electrofiltration is carried out under the boundary conditions of an optimized FFE separation process permitting a rapid electrofiltration process and simultaneously avoiding the problems, caused by overheating, of the change in the separation characteristics and a possible destruction of the membrane material.
In the following, particularly preferred practical examples of the invention are described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
The embodiment of the electrophoresis device according to the invention illustrated in
In the separation chamber, a hollow fiber 2 passes from the inlet to the outlet side and separates the separation chamber into two separation chamber parts 7 and 8. Electrodes 4 are arranged parallel to the hollow fiber 2 on both sides of the separation chamber from the inlet to the outlet side. By appropriately poling the direct voltage applied to the electrodes, separation chamber part 7 becomes the separation space for anionic species and the separation chamber part 8 the separation space for cationic species. The electrode voltage is preferably selected in such a way that short migration paths of the species are sufficient for separation.
The hollow fiber 2 is provided with an inlet and an outlet and exhibits in its interior a continuous hollow space leading from the inlet to the outlet. As illustrated in
Before being introduced into the separation chamber, the hollow fiber 2 used has an outside diameter substantially larger than the width of the separation chamber spacer, the values of the wall thickness of the hollow fiber 2 being distinctly smaller than half of the width of the separation chamber gap. On introduction of the hollow fiber 2 into the separation chamber, the hollow fiber 2 is flattened in terms of its inner cross-section from a circular shape to an oval shape which, nevertheless, allows the unhindered passage of the sample substances to be separated.
The hollow fiber 2 is arranged parallel to the electrodes 4 within the electrophoretic separation chamber such that once the electrophoresis device illustrated in
The electrophoresis device illustrated in
For electrofiltration, the sample, which is to be fractionated by electrofiltration, can be introduced either via the inner hollow space of the hollow fiber 2 or into the interspace between an electrode 4 and the hollow fiber 2. This is illustrated respectively in
If the medium within the hollow fiber 2 exhibits different salts and different concentrations of the salts, compared with the medium outside the hollow fiber 2, the original salts within the hollow fiber 2 are substituted by the salts outside the hollow fiber and/or their concentrations are levelled; this is also called sample conditioning.
If the sample conditioned in this way is to be separated in a subsequent independent process, it is eluated from the inner hollow space of the hollow fiber 2, for which purpose the pore size of the hollow fiber 2 is selected to be sufficiently small in order to retain the ionic analytes of interest in the interior of the hollow fiber 2.
If simultaneous sample conditioning and electrophoretic separation by FEE are desirable, a hollow fiber 2 with a pore size must be used which allows the analytes to be separated to be conveyed from the inner hollow space of the hollow fiber 2 into the separation chamber.
An extraction of ionic species between two aqueous solutions is also possible via the sharp interface formed within the separation chamber; this, however, is feasible only if the rheological properties of the media forming this interface for the substance transfer are similar and the adjacent media can be transported through the separation chamber at a similar linear speed. In many cases, however, these boundary conditions are not fulfilled. If a hollow fiber 2 is used for the addition of a medium, the media within and outside of the hollow fiber 2 can be conveyed at different linear speeds and it is even possible to use media with extremely different physical and chemical properties, such as density, viscosity, surface tension, electrical conductivity etc.
The direction of substance transfer and/or migration of the ionic species to be extracted can, in this connection, be selected almost at random; possibilities in this respect are illustrated in
A further application of the electrophoresis device illustrated in
In the case of the combined application of electrofiltration and FFE, conditioning of the sample, which is otherwise frequently necessary before FFE separation, can be omitted. A dilution of the sample is avoidable and can negatively affect or diminish a successful separation and/or the desired sample throughput. The introduction of a sample, which is unsuitable for FFE, a priori, into the separation chamber via the hollow fiber 2 in the way illustrated in
All FFE separation techniques, i.e., FF zone electrophoresis, FF isotachophoresis, FF isoelectric focusing and FF field jump electrophoresis, can be combined with the process of electrofiltration. In this respect, the combination with focusing FF separation techniques is particularly advantageous.
The combination of the separation technique of FF field jump electrophoresis with electrofiltration, in particular, provides the possibility of effecting the separation in a parallel simultaneous multiple process with an increased sample throughput. This combination in the form of a triple parallel simultaneous multiple process is illustrated in
The combination of electrofiltration with the focusing FFE separation technique of FF isoelectric focusing and FF isotachophoresis provides an even better separation performance than the above-mentioned combination, although the execution of a simultaneous parallel process is not possible within the separation chamber.
The introduction and discharge of the medium into or out of the hollow space in the flat membrane 16 takes place, in this case, via holes in the synthetic resin block 1.
In the practical example illustrated in
As previously discussed, the permeability of the filter membrane decreases during pressure filtration as the duration of filtration increases and the content of polymers in the solution to be filtered increases at a more rapid pace. This decrease in the permeability of the filter membrane may be referred to as fouling in the membrane.
In the case of electrofiltration, on the other hand, the significance of fouling is considerably less pronounced since not the entire sample volume but only the ionic species in the sample are conveyed in the direction of the separation membrane; however, the influence of fouling is no longer negligible with high contents of ionic polymeric species which need to be retained on the separation membrane during a prolonged duration of filtration.
In contrast to pressure filtration, in the case of which filtration with a cross-flow is known as a suitable counter-measure to reduce fouling, a cross-flow is achieved in the case of electrofiltration by the flow rate of the sample in the hollow fibre. But the flow rate is optimized not with regard to reducing fouling but to optimize the mass transfer via the membrane. In other words, this means that the cross-flow existing during electrofiltration is insufficient to effectively reduce or eliminate fouling.
A measure for reducing fouling further involves the selection of a pH of the solution to be filtered at which the charge on the polymers is reduced. In the case of biopolymers with amphoteric properties, a pH of the solution is selected which corresponds to the pH of the biopolymer or its main components. This means that the polymer remains unaffected by the electrical field strength.
The following modified electrofiltration process is considerably more effective in eliminating fouling: In the case of the standard process of electrofiltration, a certain direct voltage or a certain electrical field strength is applied throughout the entire period of electrofiltration. With an increasing duration of electrofiltration, the inside surface of the hollow fiber and the space in the pores of the separation membrane are increasingly taken up by ionic polymers, possibly leading to the complete coverage of the inside surface of the separation membrane. As shown in
By periodically connecting and disconnecting the effective direct voltage, fouling can be reduced substantially since a major portion of the polymer attached to the membrane during the electrofiltration period is conveyed further in the hollow fiber during the period of disconnected direct voltage and can be eluated from the hollow fiber after many periodic alternating connection and disconnection operations. This is illustrated in
As a result of the unfavourable flow profile of the laminar flow in the inner space of the hollow fibre, polymers which are in the direct vicinity of the surface of the membrane are eluated only very slowly and the polymers in the pores remain unaffected by the measures of periodic connecting and disconnecting of the direct voltage. If, however, a process is used in the case of which, after a certain period of active electrofiltration, the polarity of the direct voltage is changed, though for a much shorter period, the polymers that have migrated into the pores are drawn in the direction of the opposite inside wall of the hollow fibre. If the duration of the reverse direct voltage is chosen such that a major proportion of the polymers is moved, during this period of the separation process, from the peripheral area and/or the pores into the centre of the hollow fibre, the polymers get into the area of maximum flow rate. As a result, the polymers are highly effectively conveyed further within the hollow fiber and eluated following a few electrofiltration cycles and the effect of the changed polarity. This is illustrated in
Active flushing of the wall surfaces and the pores by means of electrophoresis can additionally be enhanced by periodically changing the pressure within the hollow fiber such that, during the period of active electrophoretic flushing, the inside pressure in the hollow fiber is also reduced in comparison with the outside space. In this way, flushing is enhanced by simultaneous pressure flushing in the same direction.
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the sword gets shorter over the years
may 1, 2004
A few Sundays ago, April 4, we were watching DVDs in bed when Mary, going out to the kitchen to get more ice water, noticed there was still a lot of cat food in the white styrofoam bowls arrayed across our kitchen floor.
We originally fed the cats twice a day, in the early morning when I got up, windows still black, again around five, when Mary took her prescription medications, but had been adding two more feedings during the day, for Chirper.
Chirper, the oldest of our cats, all of fourteen, has always had trouble with his teeth. Last year, after new infections set in, in the few molars he had left, we had his remaining molars pulled, leaving just his front fangs, much less prone to infection, and still enough teeth to eat. That finally solved the infection problem, but immediately after the operation, back home with us, he started losing weight.
Chirper has always been robustly stout, but now, a few weeks after his surgery, he was gaunt, little more than face, meow, spine, tail. So we started feeding him whenever he asked for food, two or three extra helpings a day, and he put some weight back on, not to where he had the girth he once did, which bordered on obesity, to be honest, but at least to where you could feel meat on either side of his backbone.
So all seemed well. He lost the love of his life, Elf, when she died of feline leukemia in the late nineties, and his best pal, Rudo, who died last year of kidney failure, who he would sleep with on the bed, nose nuzzled up into the long-haired plume of Rudo's black tail, so he was melancholy, maybe something odd to think of a cat experiencing, but animals do feel all the emotions we do, yet even in his melancholia he still jumped up on the bed to be petted, and when we played with the cats with our laser mouse, a handheld device that puts a glowing red dot on the carpet, the walls, across the furniture, he wouldn't leap and pirouette like the younger cats, but he would at least stand in the middle of the bedroom carpet, watching what was going on, and sometimes, when I danced the jiggling red dot right in front of him on the carpet, his orange and white paws would pat the carpet, left, right.
So this particular Sunday, April 4, why was there so much wet cat food left in the white styrofoam bowls? Chirper would normally have methodically eaten each bowl's contents, the bowl itself sometimes edging forward across the floor, because of its light weight, Chirper taking a step forward, two steps, to follow the food.
We experimented. Put fresh white styrofoam bowls up on our white kitchen counter, bent open the top of a new can of cat food, used a salad fork to divide the brown food within the can among the three bowls, put one directly in front of Chirper's nose.
He bent his head, sniffed the food in the bowl. Didn't try to eat it.
That evening, we decided to not cook what we had planned, and instead just reheated the leftover hot cheese chicken we had in the fridge, serving it over rice. We watched The Sopranos, and Deadwood, but our hearts weren't really in it.
The next morning, I called the vet, to arrange to bring Chirper in. By now, he was just lying full-length on the kitchen floor. We offered him food, which he didn't even sniff. Offered him water, of which he drank huge amounts, then vomited it all up, a wide, wide spread of brownish water across the kitchen floor. Then he lay his chin on the rim of the water bowl, gazing down at the water, but not drinking.
We had seen the same behavior before, in Elf, in Rudo, just before they died.
We were able to get an appointment at ten o'clock that morning. While we were waiting for the time to come when we should drive to the vet's, we took a walk in our backyard garden, morosely deciding where we would bury him. That's how sure we were he was dying.
Our regular vet was out for the day, so we settled for another. She looked at Chirper in the examination room. Felt under his abdomen, his front paws lifting off the hard white of the examination table as her probing fingers elevated him.
"His organs seem okay. His kidneys aren't enlarged, I don't feel any tumors, but obviously, he's lost a lot of weight and he doesn't look good." She inclined her head to one side. "We'll have to run some blood work. At this point, with the excessive water drinking, I'd say it might be a thyroid problem, or diabetes, both of which are treatable, or a kidney problem, or cancer. Given his age…if it's cancer, or kidney failure…"
I nodded. "We understand. We've been through this before."
We both kissed Chirper on top of his head, left him overnight for the blood work results to come in. Did our food shopping for the week. Went to Hobby Lobby, where Mary bought some patterns and fabric. One piece of fabric she bought, two and a half yards, for a blouse, had cats on it, with yellow and white colors. She held it up to me. Chirper colors. This would be her Chirper blouse.
A little after seven that night, we got a call from the vet. "It's diabetes."
"And that's treatable?"
"Yeah." I gave the thumbs-up to Mary, who was sitting on the edge of our bed, looking at me with red eyes. "You'll need to give him insulin shots, once or twice a day, probably twice a day, but he'll be all right."
Another thumbs up. "So what's his prognosis?"
"At his age, provided you keep up the shots, I'd say he probably has several years left."
"Doctor, thank you so much."
"I'll call you again in the morning, to let you know how he's doing. We'll need to keep him here a day or two, to get him stabilized, but then he can come home."
We were overjoyed. Such magical words. He can come home.
The vet called us around seven-thirty the next morning, to say Chirper was dead. He died during the night. Evidently, there was more wrong with him than just diabetes. The vet was sheepish, as she should have been. I could have gotten mad, what she did was unintentional, yet the giving of false hope is the cruelest slap, but I was too numb to do anything more than arrange to come in and pick up his body, and hang up the phone.
Mary and I moved into our home, where I'm typing these words in my upstairs study, in July of 1991.
Although before we got together, in early 1979, we had each owned houses, once we were together, to a large degree because we moved so often to different areas of America, living a few years here, a few years there, we had never owned a home together. We were apartment dwellers, for over a decade, living our lives with strangers on the other side of our walls.
Because we so often threw everything in the trunk of our car and moved on, we never had any children, which was fine with us, but also, for the same reason, never had any pets. In the winter of 1990, after we had been in Texas for about half a year, we knew this was a state we wanted to stay in, and thought about getting cats, the jewel eyes, purring rubs and lifted tails which each of us had always had throughout our separate childhoods.
So while still living in an apartment, in Carrollton, Texas, a suburb in northern Dallas, we got two cats. One, Nei, died a month after we brought him home. The shelter we got both cats from was a breeding ground for infectious diseases. The other, Elf, survived. We got her a playmate, Rudo.
Shortly after we brought Elf and Rudo home, to where our family expanded from just the two of us, two who always placed quiet home life above all else, we realized, feeling as good about Texas as we did, and still do, that we wanted to put down roots. We started looking around for a house, where there's no one on the other side of the wall, and eventually commissioned with a contractor to have a home built for us.
That's a great feeling, the morning after you move into your own house. The night before, you carry your lover in your arms over the threshold, you're unloading all this heavy, dusty furniture from the moving van, and an endless procession of cardboard boxes, dumping them in the rooms immediately off the front door, your front door, you own this front door, you're not just renting it, and after all that's done, since there's no food in the refrigerator, there's not even a refrigerator yet, just a tall, empty niche in the kitchen, it's on back order, you get a big red and white bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken, eat half of it sitting on boxes, tired, sweaty, then go to bed.
In our case, Mary woke up first the morning afterwards, made some coffee, then wandered through all the brand new, white-painted rooms, downstairs and upstairs, looking at all the potential, the security. She told me about her wanderings after I myself woke, an hour later. What do you think of, when you think of your lover? One of the first images I have of Mary, in our twenty-five years together, thinking the word, "Mary", is her walking through the different bright, blank rooms here, coffee cup in hand, and how happy she must have felt. I would love to see her face as she went from room to room. Perhaps someday I will.
After we were here a few months, we both came down with a terrible flu. Since we rarely got sick, the flu ravaged us particularly hard, all the worse because we were both sick, and therefore couldn't care for each other. At one point we had to go out to the supermarket, we were completely out of food, I mean soup, vegetables, stale Saltines, everything, not that we had much of an appetite, but our stomachs were indrawn and growling, so we pulled on mismatched clothes, drove with two hands on the wheel to the nearest supermarket, staggered down the aisles, bumping into each other, both holding onto the shopping cart's back handle, expanding rings of bright light emanating off the merchandise.
We drove back home, weakly carried our bags through the garage into the kitchen, ate something, crawled back into bed. Which is when we heard a cat meowing.
Mary wearily raised her head from her pillow. "It's not Elf or Rudo. They're right here. Their mouths aren't moving."
I managed to croak, "Maybe they're ventriloquists." Rolled over, went to sleep.
The next day, the meowing started up again, while we were lying in bed, blankets pulled up to our chins, watching a least objectionable program.
Feeling a little stronger that day, we investigated.
No, the meow wasn't coming from the garage. No, it wasn't coming from upstairs.
Mary walked over to the back door, hugging herself, coughing, pulled the white curtain to one side to look out the French door panes. "Rob, there's a little kitten on our back patio!"
I shuffled over, put my face next to Mary's, looked through the pane.
Sure enough, a small, orange and white kitten, the color of a Creamsicle, lying on the concrete of the patio, near our door.
Mary's blonde eyebrows knit together. "Should we give him something to eat?"
"No. He'll just keep coming around."
Later that day, back in bed, we heard the meow again, closer.
The orange and white kitten was walking along the brick casements outside our first floor bedroom, casement to casement, meowing at us through the windows.
That early evening, while I was heating up soup at the stove, Mary said, "He's at the back door again. Ants are crawling on him."
I looked out the back door panes.
He was slumped against the brick outside wall by the back door. As I watched, a tiny black fire ant worked its way up into the white and orange fur of his leg.
I unlocked the door. "That's it. Let's bring him in."
I opened the door wide enough to reach out, grab him around his ribby middle, haul him up off the concrete, inside our home.
Elf and Rudo immediately ran over, nostrils sniffing.
We took him through the kitchen into our bedroom, then into the long bathroom off our bedroom, shutting the bathroom's double doors.
I put the kitten on the vinyl floor. We both pet him.
He was overjoyed, purring loudly, rolling onto his small orange and white back, front and back paws lifting in the air as we rubbed his stomach.
He had a deep red gash in one of his legs, and it looked like one of his ears had been cut with a pair of scissors. Why do some children hate life so much?
We fed him, gave him water, kept him isolated in the bathroom in case he had any infectious diseases.
The next day, we took him to the vet, figuring we'd get him fixed up, try to find a good home for him. We got a call from the vet towards the end of the day. "Your cat's ready."
On the drive over to pay the bill, Mary in the passenger seat gave me one of those sly, Are you thinking the same thing I'm thinking? smiles that, with a couple, can refer to sex, the leftover pizza in the fridge, or, in this situation, Should we keep him?
We named him Chirper, after a harmless creature in a Sega role playing video game we were working our way through, level to level.
After we received the phone call telling us Chirper was dead, we had another cup of coffee, sitting in the breakfast nook, both staring off, the "long stare" you fall into when life has gone bad.
I put down my empty coffee cup. Glanced over at Mary, her face shadowy, in profile. "Let's go now, bring him back home."
She nodded.
We took our pajamas off, pulled some clothes off the hangers, put them on.
Mercifully, the vet's was relatively uncrowded when we got there. One of the older assistants recognized us standing in the short line, gave us a wan smile, and ushered us into an examination room.
"Do you want to talk to the doctor?"
I shook my head. "Thanks, no. We'd like to just pay our bill now, whatever it is, then have Chirper brought to us. Can we do all this as quickly as possible, Agnes?"
She closed her eyes. "Of course."
She was back in a few minutes, with the itemized bill. Four hundred dollars. I wrote a check.
We sat in the examination room, leaving the door open, ignoring the magazines on the table between us, looking up at the ajar door a couple of times when we heard footsteps in the hallway outside, but the footsteps each time were people going somewhere else.
After about five minutes Agnes reappeared in the room carrying in both hands a standard-sized cardboard box, sealed with tape at the top. On the side it read, Refrigerate Upon Receipt.
I took the box from her, feeling the weight inside, thanked her.
Out in the parking lot, where a light rain had started, I beeped open the rear door of our CRV. I leaned over, put the box, which was cold, on the backseat, then ripped off the top seal.
"Let's make sure it's the right box."
Mary agreed.
I didn't know what we'd find inside the box. What in fact was inside was a standard, thirty-gallon black garbage bag, sealed at the top.
My right and left thumbs pulled through the plastic material, sideways, away from each other, feeling a heavy weight shifting inside, which gave me a sense of dread, in that you have your hands around something you can't yet see.
The spreading rip bared the interior of the black plastic bag, and sure enough, there inside, chin curled down to his orange and white chest, was our Chirper. We saw him a million, million times alive, and now for the first time, we saw him dead.
"Dead" means very little until you look down at the face of someone you love, and they are dead. Inanimate. No more moments. Everything, now, in the past. A memory. Such a fucking, ridiculous, extravagant amount of life inside them, for so long, and now nothing, all gone, forever.
So what do I want to say about Chirper?
He was not an ideal cat. Because he had been abused at an early age, while he was still out in the world of front lawns and the sides of roads, he was skittish throughout most of his life. Even with us, at first. Loud noises would frighten him, and whenever we approached him, these two towering figures, massive hands lowering, I could see the flight vs. fight conflict in his eyes. He pissed in all the corners of our carpets, even though we had litter trays everywhere. If you petted him too long, although he very obviously enjoyed the petting, craning his head back, exposing his orange and white neck, wild-eyed, he'd suddenly get this look in his eyes and turn, banging his front fangs down on the top of the web between a petting hand's thumb and index finger, springing away. I always got the sense with him that he nipped at us despite his best efforts not to. He didn't want to nip, but his nature caused him to, when he got too happy. Maybe it was a test. Maybe it was not being able to give up the past.
He spent more time on our bed than any of our other cats, hopping up by our blanketed feet, then slowly, shyly working his way towards the open sheet area by our torsos, kneading the mattress with his front paws, casting us constant up-from-under looks like, May I humbly approach? He loved to lie between my chest and the bicep of my left arm, resting his head on the bicep, kneading, kneading, kneading his flexing front paws into my left armpit, eyes closing, body purring. I'd pet his back while he did this, and his kneading and my petting would slow down at about the same rate until he fell asleep. His whiskered profile would be motionless for a while, then he'd wake up, get up abruptly, as if surprised where he was, and leave.
He loved Elf. He'd wrap his front orange and white paws around her, lick her until her gray torte fur was sopping wet, sticking out in spikes. At night, between us on the bed, he'd sleep on top of her, while she was dying of leukemia, to keep her warm. When she finally died, something went out of him. He got that lost look in his eyes, which he never shook.
He was my cat. Like Elf was Mary's cat. If I were in the bathroom, he'd hop up on the bed, tolerating a pet from Mary, but looking down the bathroom tiles, waiting for me.
We developed this communication between us, based on our eyes. I read that cats sometimes give "eye kisses", where they shut and open both eyes, several times, at each other. Is that true? I don't know. But I tried it with Chirper, looking at him lying at the foot of the blankets, opening and closing both eyes at him. Miraculously, after a few times, he opened and closed both eyes back at me. What a thrill! Communicating!
Afterwards, I noticed he taught the same communication to Lady's kittens, to where one would come in the room, look at Chirper, or us, and do the double eye blink. We'd do it back.
One early Saturday morning, years and years ago, before there was so much death in our lives, I was lying in bed, awake but lazy, when I heard a loud, crackling noise outside our bedroom's bay windows (it turned out a tree had fallen into our backyard garden). Chirper, hearing the unusual noise, swiveled his head towards me from the carpet, rapidly double-blinking his eyes.
I understood immediately what he was asking.
"Is everything OK, Daddy?"
Staring into his frightened eyes, I double-blinked back.
"Everything's fine, Chirper."
In my previous Lately entry, for April first, I mentioned I had a dream about Rudo, our long-haired black cat who died a year ago.
In the dream, he was frolicking around the sidewalks of our neighborhood, much to my alarm, since he was strictly an indoors cat, front paws declawed, until I realized he was, in fact, a ghost, and therefore safe from all dogs. He communicated to me he was happy.
I never dream about our cats. Did I dream about Rudo that night, a few weeks before Chirper died, because Rudo wanted us to know Chirper would be okay?
The night we dropped Chirper off at the vet, the night he died at the vet, I woke up in the early morning, probably around two, to the sound of a cat meowing somewhere in our house. I realized, groggily, Mary was also awake.
We got out of bed, stumbling around, trying to figure where the meowing was coming from, counting cats, but all of them had their mouths closed.
Eventually, we realized the meowing was coming from the top of our carpeted stairs. We bent over on the top step in our pajamas, but there was no cat there.
Rubbing our eyes, we went back downstairs, back to bed.
At that time, we didn't know Chirper had died. We expected to bring him home in a day or two. Never before had we been awakened in the middle of the night by a cat's meow, to where we wandered around in the darkness.
Was that meow Chirper? Announcing his spirit was home again?
Obviously, I don't know.
And I'll never know. Maybe we're not meant to know some things on this plane, maybe it was an incredible coincidence, but I don't think so.
People, like nations, have different ages. The Age Of Spending Every Day At The Beach, The Age Of The Bad Neighbor, The Age Of Forming A Family.
One of our many ages was The Age Of The Original Three, meaning Elf, Rudo and Chirper. It lasted from late 1990, when we first got Elf and Rudo, to early 2004. With Chirper's death, that age, as full of meaning to us as the Victorian Age was to England, has passed.
We love Sheba, we love Lady and her five kittens. But something special, something glorious, something privileged, an entire age, has now passed into history.
By the time we drove back home from the vet hospital, Chirper's weight in the cold cardboard box in the back seat, the rain had turned heavy.
We left him in the back seat, gathering up an axe, a shovel from the garage.
Went out through the kitchen, into our garden.
Elf and Rudo are buried under a spreading pear tree in one of our beds. Dark green ivy covers the ground, purple oxalis, with delicate mauve flowers on stalks, near the front of the bed.
We chose a spot in the dirt near Elf and Rudo, since the three of them were friends, and started digging, in the rain, each brush of the back of my shoulders against the hanging wet leaves of the pear dropping cold drips down my back, but of course, I didn't care.
I dug the hole deep, and wide. I've dug a number of graves over the years, and each one turned out not to be deep enough, nor wide enough, so I went way down into the earth with my spade, and chopped at the edges of the hole.
We went back inside, tracking mud across the kitchen floor, out to the garage.
Picked up the heavy box in the back seat, carried it through the kitchen, more muddy tracks, set it outside on the patio, in the drizzle.
We decided not to bury him in the cardboard box, which was too large, but instead in the garbage bag, but with another garbage bag, one of ours, enclosing it.
So what should we bury with him?
Mary selected a yellow iris in full bloom, plucking it off its stalk.
I chose one of my pajama tops, and in fact the last pajama top in which he laid down by my side, front paws stretched forward, eyes squeezed shut, happily kneading my armpit.
We placed both treasures in the bag with him, touched his orange and white face one last time, then put the bag in the hole.
I shoveled dirt over the black bag, and more dirt, and more dirt, goodbye, until it mounded above the green ivy. We stuck the orange-handled spade blade down into the mound, as we had done with the others buried in our yard, as a marker, until we could find a proper monument.
And it was done.
We went back inside, not crying. You get dull to death. You survive it once, and you know you can survive it always. The disbelief, the horror, the agonizing, face-crumpling grief when someone you love is taken away from you that first time, as a child-- a grandparent, a turtle-- once you see that presence, but absence, the first time, you come to understand what this world is, and adjust. The sword gets shorter over the years.
All the cats, curious what we had been up to out there, greeted us at the back door.
Everyone except Chirper.


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When God sends lemons...
March 21, 2016 by Rafael Apellaniz
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When God sends you lemons…
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In an act of supreme cowardice, the Republicans and Democrats refused to show leadership to pass budget cuts. Instead they chose to allow the Sequester cuts to go into effect.
Budget cutting is a nasty business and no politician wants to be in the middle of it. No politician thinks they can cut programs without losing significant portions of their constituency.
You can see the perils of this situation for politicians every time that local schools must be closed within a school district. Board members and administration get roasted by the press, but only because they are the ones charged with decisions.
In budget cutting there is no "right" decision. That is, there is no decision that will make everyone happy. There are only bad choices among worse ones. Happily ever after only happens in fairy tales, never in the business of balancing deficit budgets.
So the politicians did the childish thing. They set up a scenario that allowed them all cover. They knew they had to cut and they knew they did not have the stomach to compromise.
What a pathetic and cowardly way to run our government.
But as some wise person said once, "The people have the government they deserve."
So shame on us all.


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