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We examined potential mediators of the reported association between diabetes and hearing impairment.
Data come from 1,508 participants, aged 40–69 years, who completed audiometric testing during 1999–2004 in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). We defined hearing impairment as the pure-tone average >25 decibels hearing level of pure-tone thresholds at low/mid (500, 1,000, and 2,000 Hz) and high (3,000, 4,000, 6,000, and 8,000 Hz) frequencies. Using logistic regression, we examined whether controlling for vascular or neuropathic conditions, cardiovascular risk factors, glycemia, or inflammation diminished the association between diabetes and hearing impairment.
Diabetes was associated with a 100% increased odds of low/mid-frequency hearing impairment (odds ratio 2.03 [95% CI 1.32–3.10]) and a 67% increased odds of high-frequency hearing impairment (1.67 [1.14–2.44]) in preliminary models after controlling for age, sex, race/ethnicity, education, smoking, and occupational noise exposure. Adjusting for peripheral neuropathy attenuated the association with low/mid-frequency hearing impairment (1.70 [1.02–2.82]). Adjusting for albuminuria and C-reactive protein attenuated the association with high-frequency hearing impairment (1.54 [1.02–2.32] and 1.50 [1.01–2.23], respectively). Diabetes was not associated with high-frequency hearing impairment after controlling for A1C (1.09 [0.60–1.99]) but remained associated with low/mid-frequency impairment. We found no evidence suggesting that our observed relationship between diabetes and hearing impairment is due to hypertension or dyslipidemia.
Mechanisms related to neuropathic or microvascular factors, inflammation, or hyperglycemia may be mediating the association of diabetes and hearing impairment.
Diabetes is associated with hearing impairment in population-based studies (1,2). Diabetes-related hearing impairment has been described as sensorineural in origin, implying that the lesion may be cochlear or of the eighth cranial nerve, but evidence favoring a specific mechanism is insufficient and contradictory (3). One possibility is that microvascular changes, which often lead to nephropathy and retinopathy, also affect the cochlear vasculature. Thickened basilar membranes and capillaries of the stria vascularis and atherosclerotic narrowing of the internal auditory artery were found among autopsied people who had diabetes but not in people without diabetes (4,5). Diabetes is also associated with neuropathic and peripheral artery complications that contribute to diabetic foot ulcers (6). Atrophy of the spiral ganglion and demyelination of the eighth cranial nerve among autopsied diabetic patients suggest a neurological etiology to diabetes-related hearing impairment (5). Regardless of whether the primary lesion is angiopathic or neuropathic, hyperglycemia may contribute (7).
Cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and other cardiovascular risk factors are associated with hearing impairment (8–10). Because people with diabetes have a greater risk of these conditions than those without diabetes (11,12), the relationship between diabetes and hearing impairment may be attributable to a greater prevalence or severity of cardiovascular factors.
Establishing effective interventions to disrupt the pathogenesis of diabetes-related hearing impairment will depend on understanding the mechanisms. This investigation studies potential mediators of the relationship between diabetes and hearing impairment. Specifically, we examine whether the presence of vascular or neuropathic conditions, cardiovascular risk factors, glycemia, or a marker of inflammation explain the association between diabetes and hearing impairment.
Data come from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) collected during 1999–2004, which used a complex, multistage, probability sample designed to be representative of the civilian, noninstitutionalized U.S. population (13). Of 3,192 study participants aged 40–69 years who were randomly assigned to audiometric testing, 2,847 (89.2%) completed the audiometric examination. One-half of the sampled subjects (n = 1,425) was also randomly assigned to attend the examination during the morning session after an overnight fast. Of those, 1,321 subjects (92.7%) could be classified as to whether they had diabetes either by reporting a diagnosis (n = 175) or by having valid plasma glucose measures after fasting 8–24 h (n = 1,146). Another 187 subjects who reported diagnosed diabetes and whose audiometric examination occurred in the afternoon or evening were added to the sample, yielding an analytical sample of 1,508.
Pure-tone audiometry signals were presented to each ear at varying intensities until the threshold at which the participant was just able to perceive the tone was identified. Higher thresholds indicate greater hearing impairment. Pure-tone air conduction hearing thresholds in decibels hearing level (dB HL) were obtained for each ear at 500, 1,000, 2,000, 3,000, 4,000, 6,000, and 8,000 Hz by trained audiometric technicians using audiometric equipment and methods that have been described (1,13).
Participants were classified as having low/mid-frequency hearing impairment if the average of pure-tone thresholds (hereafter referred to as pure tone average) measured at 500, 1,000, and 2,000 Hz in the worse ear exceeded 25 dB HL. High-frequency hearing impairment was defined as the pure-tone average measured at 3,000, 4,000, 6,000, and 8,000 Hz in the worse ear exceeding 25 dB HL. The pure-tone average in the worse ear was used to classify participants as having impairment in at least one ear. We identified 14 participants with at least one audiometric nonresponse (tone not perceived). Given that the average of these participants' available pure-tone thresholds exceeded 25 dB HL, we classified these participants as impaired at the frequency range within which the audiometric nonresponse occurred.
During in-home interviews, demographic characteristics and a medical history were obtained (13). We defined coronary heart disease as a positive response to any of three questions asking whether a doctor had told them they have coronary heart disease, angina, or had had a heart attack. Of participants who reported smoking at least 100 cigarettes in their lifetime, those who answered affirmatively to "do you smoke now?" were classified as current smokers. Occupational noise exposure was defined as a history of loud noise at work that required speaking in a loud voice.
Anthropometric and clinical measures were obtained during physical examinations that included a blood draw and urine collection (13). Participants were identified as having diabetes from a valid fasting plasma glucose of ≥126 mg/dl or a positive response to the question, "Other than during pregnancy (for women), have you ever been told by a doctor that you have diabetes?" BMI was computed from measured weight (kg) divided by square of the measured height (m) and categorized with cut points of <25, 25−29.9, and ≥30 kg/m2. We defined central adiposity as a waist measurement of ≥102 cm for men and ≥88 cm for women. We defined hypertension as systolic blood pressure ≥140 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure ≥90 mmHg or participant report of a diagnosis or current antihypertensive medication use. Peripheral arterial disease and arterial stiffness were derived from the ankle-brachial index in either the right or left ankle. We defined peripheral arterial disease as an ankle-brachial index <0.9 and arterial stiffness as an ankle-brachial index >1.4. Peripheral neuropathy was defined as having at least one insensate area of six metatarsal sites tested (three on each foot) using a standard 10-g monofilament test.
Urinary albumin was determined from a solid-phase fluorescent immunoassay, and urinary creatinine was analyzed using the Jaffe kinetic rate reaction. Albuminuria was defined as a ratio of urinary albumin to urinary creatinine ≥30 mg/g. As a marker of inflammation, C-reactive protein (mg/dl) was quantified in serum by latex-enhanced nephelometry using a Behring Nephelometer (Dade Behring, Somerville, NJ) and categorized into tertiles due to skewness. Total cholesterol and HDL were measured enzymatically. High cholesterol was defined as total cholesterol ≥240 mg/dl, a positive response to when asked if a health professional had ever told the participant he or she has high cholesterol, or participant report of current use of lipid-lowering medications. Low HDL was defined as HDL <40 mg/dl. A1C was assessed by Boronate affinity high-performance liquid chromatography using Primus CLC330 and Primus CLC385 (Primus, Kansas City, MO), and values were standardized to the method of the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial, yielding interassay coefficients of variation <3.0% (13).
Statistical differences in the distribution of covariates, including sociodemographic characteristics, noise exposure, peripheral neuropathy, glycosylated hemoglobin, and vascular factors, were examined using a t test (for continuous characteristics) or χ2 test (for categorical characteristics). For the t test, values for A1C were transformed by taking their inverse to meet the assumption of normality. We used logistic regression to establish preliminary odds ratios for the association of diabetes with hearing impairment at low/mid and at high frequencies, adjusted for age, sex, race/ethnicity, education, smoking, and occupational noise exposure. All covariates, whether conceptualized as potential mediators or confounders, were regressed on diabetes status while adjusting for age, sex, race/ethnicity, education, and smoking (14). Covariates were also tested for an association with low/mid- and high-frequency hearing impairment (without controlling for diabetes). Significant associations of these factors with diabetes and with hearing impairment were interpreted as evidence consistent with a mechanistic pathway operating through these variables (15), with the caveat that our cross-sectional study design does not permit distinction between biological mediators and confounders, which have no causal role. We then examined whether further statistical adjustment for a given covariate would diminish the preliminary odds ratios of diabetes with hearing impairment. Thus, if the odds ratio for the association of diabetes and hearing impairment decreased after adjusting for a potential mediator, we interpreted this observation as evidence of partial mediation or partial confounding by this factor. Finally, parsimonious models were developed to estimate associations between diabetes and hearing impairment simultaneously adjusting for all significant covariates. Age and A1C were treated as continuous variables in all regression models. Tests of quadratic terms for each suggested no significant curvilinear relationship with hearing impairment. Analyses were performed using SAS version 9.1 (SAS Institute, Cary, NC) and SUDAAN version 10.0.0 (Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park, NC), incorporating 6-year sample weights. For those in the fasting sample, fasting weights were doubled to account for the one-half of the fasting sample for whom audiometric measures were unavailable. For subjects with diagnosed diabetes, audiometric weights were used.
Characteristics of the U.S. population aged 40–69 years are presented in Table 1, stratified by low/mid- and high-frequency hearing impairment. People with hearing impairment were, on average, 6 years older than those without hearing impairment, and a lesser proportion was non-Hispanic black. Sixty-one percent of adults with high-frequency hearing impairment were male, which was over twice the proportion among those without hearing impairment. We found no difference in low/mid-frequency hearing impairment by sex. Adults with hearing impairment had significantly less education. Over 40% of those with high-frequency hearing impairment reported occupational noise exposure, compared with 24% of those without high-frequency hearing impairment. The lack of a difference in occupational noise exposure between those with and without low/mid-frequency impairment was expected because the frequencies over which the pure-tone average was calculated excluded those most susceptible to injury from noise. Age-adjusted prevalence of diabetes among the hearing impaired was twice that of those not impaired in the low/mid-frequency range and 75% greater than those not impaired in the high-frequency range.
Age-adjusted prevalence estimates of potential confounders or mediators of the association between diabetes and hearing impairment at low/mid- and high-frequency ranges are also presented in Table 1. Coronary heart disease was more prevalent among those with hearing impairment in both frequency ranges, but the difference was not significant in the lower frequency range (P = 0.09). Compared with the nonimpaired subjects, adults with high-frequency hearing impairment were more likely to be overweight or obese, but we observed no difference in the prevalence of central adiposity by hearing impairment status. Adults with high-frequency hearing impairment had a greater prevalence of peripheral neuropathy than those who were unimpaired; the difference was marginally significant at low/mid-frequency. Prevalence of albuminuria, peripheral arterial disease, hypertension, and high cholesterol did not differ by hearing impairment status. The proportion of adults with low HDL was higher among the hearing impaired at both frequency ranges. Adults with hearing impairment had a mean A1C that was significantly higher by 0.2%. C-reactive protein (CRP) was shifted to higher levels among adults with hearing impairment compared with those without impairment, but the distributions were significantly different only at the high-frequency range. The proportion of current smokers was higher among subjects with high-frequency hearing impairment than among those without.
A series of models that tested whether anthropometric, neuropathic, vascular, inflammatory, and glycemic factors may be mediating the association between diabetes and hearing impairment is presented in Table 2. In our preliminary model, diabetes was associated with twice the odds of low/mid-frequency hearing impairment (odds ratio 2.03 [95% CI 1.32–3.10]) and a 67% increased odds of high-frequency hearing impairment (1.67 [1.14–2.44]) while adjusting for age, sex, race/ethnicity, education, smoking, and occupational noise exposure.
Hypertension, high total cholesterol, central adiposity, peripheral arterial disease, arterial stiffness, and coronary heart disease were not associated with either low/mid-frequency or high-frequency hearing impairment (data not shown). Thus, these factors were not considered as potential confounders or mediators of its relationship with diabetes.
When added as an explanatory factor of the low/mid-frequency hearing impairment association with diabetes, peripheral neuropathy diminished the preliminary odds ratio to 1.70 (95% CI 1.02–2.82). Controlling for peripheral neuropathy did not attenuate the association of diabetes with high-frequency hearing impairment. Conversely, adjusting for albuminuria did not diminish the odds ratio for diabetes with low/mid-frequency hearing impairment but did lower the odds ratio for the association with high-frequency hearing impairment to 1.54 (1.02–2.32). The diminished association of diabetes with low/mid-frequency hearing impairment while controlling for BMI (1.85 [1.20–2.84]) should be interpreted with caution because BMI was not associated with low/mid-frequency hearing impairment in preliminary analyses; thus, it did not meet our established criteria for being considered a potential mediator or confounder. BMI was associated with high-frequency hearing impairment in preliminary analyses, and controlling for its effect attenuated the association of diabetes with high-frequency impairment (1.59 [1.07–2.37]). Low HDL did not appreciably attenuate the association of diabetes with hearing impairment in either frequency range.
Controlling for CRP did not appreciably diminish the association of diabetes with low/mid-frequency hearing impairment but did reduce the odds ratio for high-frequency hearing impairment to 1.50 (95% CI 1.01–2.23). Adjusting for A1C resulted in a slightly attenuated odds ratio of 1.90 (1.11–3.24) for the low/mid-frequency hearing impairment association and, for high-frequency hearing impairment, diminished the association so that diabetes was no longer significantly associated (1.09 [0.60–1.99]). In fully adjusted models, diabetes remained significantly associated with a 98% increased odds of low/mid-frequency hearing impairment (1.98 [1.26–3.10]) and a 50% increased odds (1.50 [1.01–2.23]) of high-frequency hearing impairment after controlling for age, sex, race/ethnicity, education, smoking, occupational noise exposure, and CRP (Table 3).
Diabetes-related hearing loss may be sensorineural, whereby a cochlear or neural lesion impedes the transmission of auditory signals to the brain. We hypothesized a biological model in which diabetes contributes to hearing impairment through a vascular or neuropathic mechanism, with either related to hyperglycemia. We tested this hypothesis by evaluating the extent to which controlling for A1C and markers of vascular, neurologic, and inflammatory pathology explained the greater prevalence of hearing impairment among subjects with diabetes (1).
Diabetic neuropathy is a heterogeneous disorder that affects sensory and motor nerves and those responsible for autonomic functions (16). Using monofilament testing on the sole of the foot, a common screening test for diabetic peripheral neuropathy, we found some evidence that peripheral neuropathy is mediating the association with low/mid- but not high-frequency hearing impairment. Using one or more insensate sites to classify insensate foot yields moderately high sensitivity and specificity (~80%) (17), but the degree of false-positivity may differ by diabetes status. The full effect of a possible mediator (or confounder) may not be detected if a variable is subject to misclassification. Alternatively, our measure may be a poor proxy for neuropathy of the cochlea.
Histopathological evidence of the inner ear suggests that angiopathic mechanisms plays a role in diabetes-related hearing impairment (5). We used albuminuria as a proxy for cochlear vasculopathy because there is increasing recognition of pathological mechanisms that may be shared by the renal and otological systems (18). We found a modest effect of controlling for albuminuria, which reduced the association of diabetes with high-frequency hearing impairment (odds ratio 1.67–1.54) but did not affect the association for low/mid-frequency impairment. Previous epidemiological evidence of an association between nephropathy (defined as renal transplant, dialysis, gross proteinuria [≥100 mg/dl], or creatinine ≥1.6 mg/dl) and hearing impairment among subjects with diabetes suggests that the relationship may only be observable with more severe kidney dysfunction (2).
We found no evidence that any vascular component to diabetes-related hearing loss is mediated through or confounded by high cholesterol, low HDL, hypertension, or history of cardiovascular events. These results are consistent with studies by Helzner et al. (19) and Torre et al. (20), although Torre et al. and Gates et al. (8) identified an association of cardiovascular disease with cochlear impairment among women, a result we did not replicate. Comparisons should be made cautiously, however, because methodological differences of the previous studies include sampling older individuals, excluding mild cases of hearing impairment, assessing preclinical hearing impairment, and not adjusting for diabetes. The low overall prevalence of peripheral vascular disease and arterial stiffness (3 and 1.5%, respectively) in our relatively young sample may have limited our ability to detect any effect of these macrovascular conditions. Of all cardiovascular disease risk factors that we examined, only BMI attenuated the preliminary associations. Our fully adjusted models do not include BMI, so obesity may be a marker for an inflammatory process that promotes atherosclerosis or neuropathy (6,21).
Our results showing CRP may mediate the association of diabetes with high-frequency hearing impairment suggest the role of an inflammatory mechanism. Inflammatory diseases resulting in sensorineural hearing loss have been described in clinical studies (22,23), but to our knowledge, this inflammatory marker has not been correlated with diabetes-related hearing impairment in population-based studies. CRP correlates with cardiovascular risk factors such as obesity, HDL, hypertension, and smoking, which might implicate an atherosclerotic mechanism, so it is unclear why our results do not suggest a role of other vascular measures (24).
Glycemia may be a factor in diabetes-related hearing impairment. In our analysis, controlling for A1C diminished the odds ratio for diabetes with low/mid-frequency hearing impairment slightly from 2.03 to 1.90 but attenuated the association with high-frequency hearing impairment to a nonsignificant level. Because most of the variance in A1C is explained by diabetes, interpreting the role of A1C as a mediator may be overstating the case. Glycated hemoglobin has not been associated with hearing impairment, both in a general population and among people with diabetes (2). However, we previously demonstrated a gradient in hearing impairment prevalence by glycemic status (comparing persons with diabetes, impaired fasting glucose, and normal glucose metabolism), implicating hyperglycemia as a possible mediator of diabetes-related hearing impairment (1).
These cross-sectional data limit our ability to distinguish between factors acting as mediators and those operating as confounders, because statistical adjustment for either will diminish the preliminary association. When we derived models adjusting for all independently associated potential mediators or confounders, there remained a 98% increased odds of low/mid-frequency hearing impairment and a 50% increased odds of high-frequency hearing impairment associated with diabetes that was left unexplained. This evidence may indicate that the measures available in these survey data do not adequately represent the neuropathic and microvascular mechanisms we hypothesized and highlights the difficulty in studying the pathology of the inner ear using noninvasive measures. Alternatively, there may exist unexplored biological mechanisms including glucose sensitivity, insulin resistance, temporal bone pathology, more frequent ear infections, or genetic factors that predispose to hearing loss and cosegregate with other genetic factors that predispose to diabetes.
In summary, we find that factors related to neuropathy, microangiopathy, inflammation, and glycemia explain part of the association between diabetes and hearing impairment. Additional studies are necessary to delineate temporal relationships among diabetes, potential mediators, and hearing impairment.
This work was financially supported by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (HHSN267200700001G).
No potential conflicts of interest relevant to this article were reported.
Preliminary results of this report were published in abstract form at the 68th Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association, San Francisco, California, 6–10 June 2008.
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Brachygobius nunus, the Golden banded goby,[1] is a species of bumblebee goby, a small genus of gobies that takes its common name from their round bodies, big heads, and their overall yellow to golden coloration interrupted by four brown to black vertical stripes reminiscent of the striped pattern of a bumblebee.[2][3] They have also been figuratively described as "buzzing" from one surface to another inside the aquarium.[3] Like other members of its genus, it is popular as an aquarium fish.[2][4]
B. nunus can reach a length of 2.5 centimetres (0.98 in) SL.[5] As in all true Gobiidae, the ventral fins of Brachygobius nunus have fused into a suction cup that they use to attach to surfaces in nature and even to glass inside an aquarium. This particular species can be identified by the one spine and seven rays that characterize its anal fin.[6][2][3][7]
As with other Bumblebee gobies, B. nunus is native to Asia. Its natural habitat is saltwater swamps and stream estuaries in Borneo, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Thailand.[2][5][8]
While B. nunus can often survive in a freshwater aquarium, brackish conditions (with at least two teaspoons of sea salt mix per gallon of water) are recommended.[2] Live or frozen brine shrimp, daphnia and whiteworms are optimal foods. While they might take flake food if hungry enough, a diet of dried prepared foods only is not recommended.[1][2]
Breeding this species in captivity is facilitated by housing them in a relatively small enclosure well-decorated with little "caves" such as snail shells in which they can breed. One source says that placing a dozen juveniles B. nunus together in a 10-US-gallon (38 L) aquarium is a good way of successfully matching pairs for breeding. This same sources recommends large and frequent water changes, an increase in salinity ( from 2 tsp/gallon up to 1 tbsp/gallon), and "spoil(ing) them with live food" rather than frozen food as effective means to coax captive B. nunus into breeding.[2]
Newly emerged B. nunus fry are tiny and should be isolated from adults so they are not cannibalized. A five gallon tank is big enough for them. The fry are very sensitive to water quality and changes in temperature or salinity so it is recommended to fill their new tank with water from their original tank and then maintain the water quality rigorously. Newly fry can be fed vinegar eels or commercially-prepared liquid fry food but are big enough to devour newly hatched brine shrimp within a few days.[2]
- ^ a b Aquarium Database: Brachygobius nunus
- ^ a b c d e f g h Breeding the Bumblebee Goby Brachygobius nunus
- ^ a b c St. Catherine's Aquarium Society, Canada
- ^ Schäfer F: Brackish Water Fishes, pp 49-51, Aqualog 2005, ISBN 3-936027-82-X
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Brachygobius nunus" in FishBase. April 2013 version.
- ^ Hamilton, Francis (1822). An Account of the Fishes Found in the River Ganges and Its Branches. Edinburgh: A. Constable and company. p. 54.
- ^ Weber, M. and de Beaufort, L. F. (1911). The Fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
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In Pale Fire Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999-line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade; an adoring foreword and commentary by Shade's self-styled Boswell, Dr. Charles Kinbote; a darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue.
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was born on April 23, 1899, in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Nabokovs were known for their high culture and commitment to public service, and the elder Nabokov was an outspoken opponent of antisemitism and one of the leaders of the opposition party, the Kadets. In 1919, following the Bolshevik revolution, he took his family into exile. Four years later he was shot and killed at a political rally in Berlin while trying to shield the speaker from right-wing assassins.
The Nabokov household was trilingual, and as a child Nabokov was already reading Wells, Poe, Browning, Keats, Flaubert, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Tolstoy, and Chekhov, alongside the popular entertainments of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Jules Verne. As a young man, he studied Slavic and romance languages at Trinity College, Cambridge, taking his honors degree in 1922. For the next eighteen years he lived in Berlin and Paris, writing prolifically in Russian under the pseudonym Sirin and supporting himself through translations, lessons in English and tennis, and by composing the first crossword puzzles in Russian. In 1925 he married Vera Slonim, with whom he had one child, a son, Dmitri.
Having already fled Russia and Germany, Nabokov became a refugee once more in 1940, when he was forced to leave France for the United States. There he taught at Wellesley, Harvard, and Cornell. He also gave up writing in Russian and began composing fiction in English. In his afterword to Lolita he claimed: "My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my untrammeled, rich, and infinitely docile Russian tongue for a second-rate brand of English, devoid of any of those apparatuses–the baffling mirror, the black velvet backdrop, the implied associations and traditions–which the native illusionist, frac-tails flying, can magically use to transcend the heritage in his own way." [p. 317] Yet Nabokov's American period saw the creation of what are arguably his greatest works, Bend Sinister (1947), Lolita (1955), Pnin (1957), and Pale Fire (1962), as well as the translation of his earlier Russian novels into English. He also undertook English translations of works by Lermontov and Pushkin and wrote several books of criticism. Vladimir Nabokov died in Montreux, Switzerland, in 1977.
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Never have I despised a novel's protagonist more than I do the excruciating Charles Kinbote as he dragged me through his interpretation, and subsequent self-promoting butchery, of his 'dear friend's' poem. So much so that I regularly had to remind myself that it wasn't real. And that's one of the great things about this book; whilst reading it we spend so much time wondering whether Kinbote is telling the truth or not that we forget that none of it's real at all. I got the distinct impression that I was being led to jump through hoops by Nabakov, whilst he sat back and laughed. In so far as I'm fit to judge, this is a work of true genius.
Pale Fire is a novel obsessed with the relation between fiction and truth, text and life, that which is read and that which is experienced. It is unfortunate that Nabokov is known almost exclusively for Lolita (quite possibly his least interesting and most pedestrian work), when such novels as The Defense, Pnin, and Pale Fire go unnoticed by most readers. Pale Fire, a challenging and exceedingly deep book, is one of the finest examples in any language of exploring the reader's relationship to a novel. In a mature, exact fashion, Nabokov uses this book to not only tell a fascinating story to his audience, but also to show how that story is both true, a lie, an experience, a dream, an epic poem, and possibly something even more amorphous than that. Recommended to anyone you wishes for more than simple entertainment or cheap thrill in their reading.
Although I desperately needed to keep reading this story, I needed just as much to stop, close my eyes, shake my head, tilt it back and smile a broad smile of worshipful delight at Vladimir Nabokov doing it again, giving me just what I wanted when I wanted it. He lets you into his private mind, and I feel privileged!
Nabokov creates a strange masterpiece that even surpasses LOLITA.Maybe the strangest most original book of the 1960s Nabokov makes us question every thing. Just explaining the plot is questionable but nabokovs writing is fantastic,his story and his unreliable characters are great.His work has lasted from the 1920s to the 1970s and included many great books and his opuses are LOLITA and PALE FIRE,LOLITA is very close to being his best but PALE FIRE is his crowning achivement.
Nabokov writes so well. His words flow or stick together so effortlessly. But at times his sink into the mire of strain, losing their way (oh Pale Fire!). The story is of Shade and his sedentary life; of little child and grieving wife. The poem, I think is the best part, aesthetically speaking; but the commentary is also held in high regard, focusing on the "editor's" relationship and his own life: more of a self-commentary than poem-analysis. But Nabokov surprises the reader with ingenious lines and the usual philosophical introspections of life, death, the such. But, all the same, very enjoyable.
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Finally, the award show that all of Cleveland can't wait for every year, it's the Burning River Awards, where we at Burning River Baseball will recognize the best of the Tribe in 2013.
"The Lee Award" for Most Improved Player – Scott Kazmir
Kazmir is the most apt player to win this award (in it's storied three year history), coming back from Independent League baseball to become an above average starting pitching in Major League Baseball. From 2011 through 2012, Kazmir threw just 1.2 innings in Major League Baseball for the Angels. With no expectations coming into this year after coming into Spring Training as an invitee on a minor league contract, Kazmir won the fifth starter job and didn't slow down. He threw 158 innings and made 29 starts with an ERA of 4.04, truly amazing for a pitcher who hasn't thrown professionally in two years.
In any other season, Ubaldo Jimenez would have won this award, but going from not pitching to being an average pitcher beats out an average pitcher becoming a great one.
2012 Winner – Shin-Soo Choo
2011 Winner – Justin Masterson
"The Super Joe" Rookie of the Year Award – Cody Allen
The 2013 Indians featured two amazing rookies, but Allen was the best, mostly because he was treated like a veteran reliever, while Danny Salazar was brought up slowly, keeping on low pitch counts until the very end of the season. Salazar also joined the team late and pitched less total innings than Allen, although he was arguably more dominant in those innings. No pitcher in recent history has risen to the top as fast as Allen, who was just drafted in 2011 and is already in discussions to be Cleveland's closer in 2014.
2012 Winner – Zach McAllister
2011 Winner – Vinnie Pestano
"The Steve Olin Memorial Award" for Best Reliever – Cody Allen
Allen threw in more games than any other pitcher this year (and all but one ever in Indians history) and was great in almost all of them. With the bullpen expecting to be a positive this year, Allen was supposed to be just another early reliever. When things didn't go quite as planned, Allen took over Vinnie Pestano's set-up man position, with Joe Smith taking over the eighth and Allen usually pitching the seventh. His 2.43 ERA was second to only Smith, but his 88 strike outs in 70.1 innings more than made up for that. Smith himself was a very close second for the award after leading the team in holds and ERA.
2012 Winner – Vinnie Pestano
2011 Winner – Joe Smith
"The Big O" for Most Outstanding Defender – Michael Brantley
This was a difficult choice this season as the Indians had many above average defenders (inlcuding Jason Kipnis, Nick Swisher, Michael Bourn and Drew Stubbs), but only two players stood out above the rest: Yan Gomes and this year's winner, Michael Brantley. Both Gomes and Brantley were responsible for many unexpected outs. Brantley did this with diving catches and a team leading 11 assists, while Gomes caught 41% of attempted stealers with an overall fielding percent of .996. While catching is more difficult than playing outfield, Gomes didn't take over the starting role until the second half and nothing can beat 100%, which was the amount of plays Brantley completed successfully this year. This is Brantley's second straight season leading the team in fielding percent and his second strait "Big O".
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2011 Winner – Jack Hannahan
"The Golden Belle" for Most Outstanding Hitter – Jason Kipnis
Jason Giambi may have had the most walk-off hits, but it was Kipnis who lead the team day in and day out. Kipnis lead the team in runs, RBI and steals. The Indians had three hitters worthy of consideration for this award including Carlos Santana and Michael Brantley, but none provided the combination of average, power and speed that the Indians' second baseman brought to the three hole.
2012 Winner – Shin-Soo Choo
2011 Winner – Asdrubal Cabrera
"The Addie" for Best Overall Pitcher – Justin Masterson
An injury late in the year made this race closer than it should have been, but Masterson still lead all Indians in innings pitched, wins and strike outs. The Indians ace also had three shut outs in 2013, giving him four in his career as an Indian, the most by any Tribe starter since C.C. Sabathia who had seven. Especially early in the year, every game Masterson took the mound the Indians thought they would win and they usually did. Despite missing all of September with an oblique injury, he still made 29 starts and rushed back as soon as possible to help the Indians in a relief role.
2012 Winner – Vinnie Pestano
2011 Winner – Justin Masterson
"The Rose Award" for Best Overall Player – Jason Kipnis
This was a tough race until the beginning of September, when Masterson dropped out due to injury and basically handed it to Kipnis. Not only was Kipnis the top offensive player as already detailed above, but he is a solid defensive presence at a very important position. The Indians have had very few great second basemen in franchise history (despite having the greatest ever) and it is very exciting to have a player as great as Kipnis that will be around for a long time still.
2012 Winner – Jason Kipnis
2011 Winner – Asdrubal Cabrera


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To review the prevalence and natural history of adrenal lesions occurring in patients from a single kindred with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN-1).
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Medical records of 33 patients from the Tasman 1 MEN-1 kindred who had undergone abdominal computed tomographic (CT) scanning were reviewed. In 30 patients, the results of abdominal ultrasonographic examinations were available for correlation with CT scans. Computed tomographic and ultrasound scans of 18 patients were reviewed by a radiologist blinded to the patients' clinical details. Three patients underwent adrenalectomy, and the histopathologic material was reviewed.
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Adrenal lesions were detected in 12 patients (36%) by CT scan examination. Ultrasound imaged 58% of these lesions. Pancreatic lesions were present in all cases of adrenal disease. Follow-up was available for 8 patients with adrenal disease. Over 5.5 years, 6 patients (75%) had stable disease, 1 patient had an adrenal lesion that enlarged by 5 mm, and I patient had a lesion that enlarged by 50 mm. Adrenal histopathologic material was available in 3 patients. Macronodular cortical hyperplasia was present in 2 patients and a cortical adenoma present in 1 patient. Another kindred had bilateral macronodular cortical hyperplasia at autopsy.
Adrenal lesions are common in MEN-1 and occur in association with pancreatic disease. Abdominal CT scan is more sensitive than ultrasonographic examination in detecting adrenal disease. Primary hypersecretory syndromes of the adrenal glands appear to be rare, and the majority of lesions follow an indolent clinical course.Arch Surg. 1996;131:699-702
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Artist: George Inness (American, Newburgh, New York 1825–1894 Bridge of Allan, Scotland)
Date: ca. 1891
Medium: Oil and crayon or charcoal on canvas
Dimensions: 29 x 45 1/4 in. (73.7 x 114.9 cm)
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Credit Line: Gift of George A. Hearn, in memory of Arthur Hoppock Hearn, 1911
Accession Number: 11.116.4
This late work has been variously dated to 1887, 1889, and 1891, a confusion resulting from differing interpretations of the five digits, "18891," which Inness inscribed in dating the canvas (the nine has been misread at times as a seven). When the painting was first exhibited at the American Fine Arts Society in New York in 1894, its date was given as 1891, and this presumably is correct. Inness lived in Montclair the last sixteen years of his life, a period during which he evolved his mistiest, most spiritualized, and most self-expressive style. The post-Centennial era also saw Inness elevated to the status of America's most beloved landscape painter, supplanting the formerly dominant Hudson River School artists.


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Spring, the vernal equinox officially arrives tomorrow at 12:57 p.m.
Looking around Aiken the past week and a half, it appears spring is already here. The cherry trees have bloomed, and the Bradford pears are now popping out with fluffy white flowers on their branches and the dogwoods and redbuds are about to flower.
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If you do not have any in your garden, this becomes your plan for next year – note to self "plant daffodils this fall." You will be thrilled you did when their flashy yellow flowers start popping up all over your yard.
Some of you may have forsythia bushes in your yard. A great way to add height as well as sunshine to your interior is with clipped forsythia branches. You have the opportunity to clip the branches as long as you choose, and the tiny yellow flowers that pop out of the woody stems will add rays of sunshine to any room.
Since it has been so cool for so long this year, there are multitudes of camellias still in bloom. The flowers come in so many shades from white, to pink, to exotic reds.
Clip some camellia blossoms and place groupings of single flowers or many flowers in one vase and spread them throughout your home. This will bring life and light back inside after this longer and colder winter we have all shared.
Tulips are available in many stores either in pre-planted pots or in glass vases. Unfortunately tulips do not perform well as re-bloomers in gardens here in Aiken, but, you can purchase them from local markets and display the vibrant color in any space you choose.
Local garden centers are now stocked with pots of herbs. Why not purchase a few pots of curly parsley to add the freshness of green to your kitchen window or your counter?
In mid-April you can plant the herbs outside and wait for the colorful caterpillars of black swallowtail butterflies to show up on your plants. This way you add texture to your garden, as well as nourishment for you and the butterflies. Hopefully, they will stay and take up of residence in your garden.
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Either way, the lush vegetation of this fern will certainly make you feel like spring is present inside your home and sitting in the center of your dining table.
Happy Spring!
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Milwaukee Muslim Women's Coalition to open resource center
Couple invests $600,000 of their own money for the project
For 17 years, the Milwaukee Muslim Women's Coalition has worked to dispel myths and educate the public about Islam through outreach, interfaith dialogue and informational programs. But it never had a home of its own.
That officially changes next month with the opening of the coalition's newest venture, the Islamic Resource Center for Community Outreach at 5235 S. 27th St. in Greenfield.
The 5,000-square-foot center, in addition to housing the coalition offices, will serve as a first-of-its-kind clearinghouse locally for all things Islam - offering a lending library, Arabic language classes, and an array of cultural programming from lectures and films to cooking classes.
"We want to be accessible to the general public, to public school teachers, anyone who just wants to learn about Islam," said Janan Najeeb, president of the coalition who with her husband, physician Waleed Najeeb, invested nearly $1 million of their own money into the project.
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The Milwaukee area is believed to be home to as many as 15,000 Muslims, representing one of the most diverse faith communities in the state with followers from every corner of the world.
That diversity is celebrated in the art and artifacts behind glass in the resource center lobby: ornate silver jewelry boxes from India; Egyptian and Palestinian pottery; an intricate wooden carving from Indonesia - many of the items embellished with verses from the Qur'an.
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Though the official debut is weeks away, some limited programming has begun.
On Friday, about 50 people attended the opening of an exhibit of paintings by Syrian artist Adib Fattal. On Tuesday, girls from the local Muslim Somali-Bantu community gathered for a coalition program aimed at keeping them in school and off the path to early childbirth.
At the same time, the work of getting the center up and running is ongoing.
On Monday, a library science intern from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee worked on cataloging the lending library.
Najeeb said the goal is to amass about 500 titles by the end of the year and begin lending in 2012. Until then, readers are welcome to peruse the volumes on site at the center.
The coalition didn't initially set out to create the resource center.
It grew out of the brainstorming that began about four years ago as the group discussed the possibility of creating a permanent home.
"We asked the question, 'If we had our dream space, what would we want?' " Janan Najeeb said. "And to be a place where people could get accurate information was on the top of the list."
The coalition scouted for property near downtown Milwaukee, but prices and the lack of parking were problematic.
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When the group members found the 27th St. property, it was too large for their purposes.
So Waleed Najeeb decided to expand his north-side medical practice south and open a clinic in half of the building.
The Najeebs bought the property and funded the renovations.
But the nonprofit women's coalition will cover the resource center's estimated $150,000 annual operating expenses.
The Najeebs' contribution is born of a sense of mission, a desire that people have accurate information about the faith they practice and love.
"Really, the only way to dispel fear is to promote understanding, to promote knowledge," she said.
Islamic Resource Center for Community Outreach at 5235 S. 27th St. in Greenfield will host an open house from noon to 5 p.m. July 23. For more information on the resource center, as well as Milwaukee Muslim Women's Coalition programs, go to www.mmwconline.org or call (414) 727-9600.


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The Invasive Species and Green Team classes from the Neighborhood Art House went to Presque Isle State Park to remove garlic mustard invasive plants. We were part of the Weed Warrior program.
After meeting with Matt Pluta and Marti Martz of PA Sea Grant to learn more about garlic mustard, we donned gloves and put bug spray on our wrists, waist and ankles. Then we went to different places and pulled up the garlic mustard from the roots; this was necessary to prevent it from coming back and spreading seeds. It was hard because the roots were deep in the dirt. It is important to pull the garlic mustard because it spreads and takes over the other plants.
We felt messy; our gloves smelled really bad, like onions. When we were pulling the weeds around the pond, we got wet all the way up to our elbows. While there we saw turtles, including a baby.
This was an enjoyable field trip and we hope that other people will join the Weed Warriors. We will all volunteer to go back!
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Note: The Weed Warrior program is also looking for adult volunteers. With so many days available, is there any reason not to help? Opportunities are available in May every Tuesday from 10 to 11:30 a.m.; every Thursday from 1 to 2:30 p.m.; and every Saturday 9:30 to 11 a.m. There are also opportunities on two additional Wednesdays, May 22 and May 29 from 4 to 6 p.m. You can see the calendar at www.facebook.com/WeedWarriorsPisp or you can contact Matt Pluta for more information about other dates and to sign up at 835-8069, ext. 104.
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Tensions are high in Jerusalem after the latest round of violence at the Temple Mount, a contested holy site.
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Mom might not be her sweetest self when the contractions are the most painful. So being her birth partner might not be that fun all the time. But it may also be one of your most intense and fantastic experiences if the two of you manage to work together. And one of your most important roles so far in life.
Just tagging along as the dad is not even near enough. But if dad is engaged, informed and supportive the childbirth can tie you together, helping each other with the birth of your child.
Here are some essential tips for dad when you are finally on your way to meet your brand new daughter or son.
Tips For Dad During Childbirth
Know what you should expect
Dad, you don't want anything to be a surprise. Make sure you know what to expect. Know what true labor is and be familiar with all the stages of labor. This information will enable you to be more helpful during the childbirth.
If you are the reading kind of person, I can highly recommend the book The Birth Partner: A Complete Guide to Childbirth for Dads, Doulas, and All Other Labor Companions.
This book will give all details and explanations you may need to really get to know what to expect and how you can support the woman giving birth.
Learn how to time contractions
Many people go to the hospital too early, which can be quite demotivating. A few go too late, but that is a lot less common for first time parents.
Know how to time contractions. You take the time from the end of one contraction to the start of the next. Once they get to five minutes apart or less, then it's about time to think about making the trip to the hospital. A good thing is to call the hospital and discuss with the midwives there. When you should go of course also depends on how far you are from the hospital, if there is a risk of traffic jam etc.
Don't take anything personally (Really)
Labor is different for every woman, but it is quite a job (like a marathon, only you can't drop out and it is a lot more painful…) and mom may be irritable. You never know what she will and won't like during this time. If she "bites" your head off or gets irritated with you, don't take it personally.
I know several moms who have yelled things like "Why did you do this to me? I hate you!" and tried to simply leave the room. This says nothing about you or her – it only shows that the labor pain is unbearable for her right now.
Become her advocate
While a woman is in labor, she is not always able to make good decisions. Know ahead of time what she wants so that you can be her advocate if she needs one.
Let the doctors know about her wishes, and do everything possible to keep her comfortable during the childbirth.
Keep mom relaxed and focused
As dad, it is your duty to keep mom relaxed and focused. Remind her on techniques from the classes you took to help her stay focused. Give her a back rub or foot rub to help her out. Breathe together with her if it helps her. Offer her liquid. Tell her over and over again that she is a hero and that you love her. (If she doesn't smack your face when you say it, of course.) The more relaxed and focused she is, the easier the labor and delivery will be for her.
Video tips from dad to dad about your role during labor
Here are some humorous been-there-done-that tips from dads to dads on how to act (and not) during labor and delivery.
The first video is about the Delivery Day – D Day – some things to think about.
And here are five really useful tips for dad during delivery. These will definitely make you a more popular birth partner!
And finally… Five things to not say in the delivery room… Can you guess which? (Don't miss these!)
Now that you are prepared with tips for dad during childbirth, you'll be better able to take care of mom while she does the hard work.
You'll find many related articles about childbirth here. And here are a number of birth stories. So start studying!
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