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It started as a good afternoon, a father/daughter trip down to a far away city see Schuyler's godparents and enjoy a few days of fun. We were having lunch at a nice restaurant, and Schuyler was using her iPad to order her food.
I must admit, she was doing so under slight duress. When Schuyler is around people who mostly understand her impaired speech, she shies away from using her speech prosthesis, even now that she's using the iPad instead of a dedicated speech device. She's twelve, almost thirteen, and her powerful desire to pass for neurotypical has become a force of nature. We encourage Schuyler to be herself, but she has little use for neurodiversity as a philosophy in her own life. It's heartbreaking, because "passing" is almost certainly going to lead her down a sad dead end road. If she succeeds 90 percent, she's still a little girl with a broken brain and a disability that sets her apart from others. For now, however, as she begins to navigate the already difficult waters of her teen years, Schuyler remains deeply disinterested in exploring her differences.
But I pushed her to use her iPad, and it was going okay. The iPad affords her a needed measure of cool that her speech device never did, enough that using it publicly doesn't cause her a great deal of embarrassment.
Well, not until her PRC LAMP Words for Life speech app began to crash. Repeatedly. And not until some basic design problems with the app and its layout caused her to accidentally clear the screen and force her to start over more than once. Schuyler was fine until technical issues (which I will most likely discuss in detail in a later post) became an embarrassment. Everyone was very patient, including our server, but still. Schuyler was desperately trying to complete a very simple communication task, and her device was failing her. It was making her look incompetent.
It was humiliating her.
As soon as she finally managed to place her order, after the server left, Schuyler's meltdown began in earnest. Sensing where this was going, I took her away from the table, and as soon as we were away from everyone else, she began to cry. She didn't cry gently, or cutely, either. Schuyler was sobbing, clinging to me, soaking my shirt and shaking while she cried. She was hurt, and she was angry. Angry at her iPad, angry at me for making her use the device when she could have just as easily pointed to something on the menu so that I could order for her, angry at everyone for being kind and patient while she worked through her technical problems. And angrier still at her monster. She kept pointing to her head and then signing "angry".
Her brain was mad at her, she said.
After a few minutes of unrelenting tears, I grew concerned. Well, I grew more concerned, not about the crying but by the fact that it wasn't stopping. I stepped back from her and put my hand on her chin, bringing her eyes to mine.
"Schuyler, " I said, "why are you so upset? Why are you still crying?"
"I don't know," she said sadly, desperately.
Not casually, in the way that kids will say "I don't know" because they're not allowed to say "Kiss my ass." Schuyler's answer was a kind of pleading, a lack of understanding. They were words of desperation, born from mystery. Having said it, having expressed her confusion and her aimless rage, she began to calm down at last. long enough for me to get her to laugh through her tears and to break the terrible spell.
She didn't know, but I can imagine why she was so upset. Schuyler lacks the words to say what she's feeling sometimes, and she probably lacks a complete grasp of where her emotions are taking her in those moments. She's too innocent, too guileless, to clearly understand what she's raging against. I believe the frustration she wants to express might just be that she simply wants to be able order her stupid lunch with her own voice, just like everyone else around her, just to be able to say "I want the chicken chipotle enchiladas" without having to type it, and then retype it, and retype it again, on a device that she wishes was hers to play Angry Birds on, not to try with mixed success in some wholly inadequate and embarrassing way, to simply speak. To speak. Like people do. People who aren't broken, who never think twice about how to say the simplest things. She cries, she rages against the world and her iPad and me and God, because we've all failed her. She cries because her monster is unfair, and she knows it, and the unfairness of it rankles her. If these concepts are unclear to her now, I suspect they won't be forever.
Schuyler says she doesn't know.
But I think perhaps I do. And knowing doesn't help, not one damn bit.
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The market fell from the $1620 level to the $1590 level by the end of the session, and had formed a shooting star. At this point in time, it does look like we are race back down to the $1,560 level, but of course have to pay attention to the nonfarm payroll number later today to decide which direction we will go.
The recent consolidation area should still hold and we believe that the $1540 level will be supportive still, and the $1640 level will still be massively resistive. Wall Street is looking for roughly 100,000 jobs added for the number, and anything near that will more than likely be a problem for the market as they are hoping for a port number which will force the Federal Reserve into more monetary easing. If that happens, the theory of course is that gold should gain in response.
Is because of this that we think this market might be one to watch during the Friday session, and not want to trade necessarily. This is because we expect very whippy conditions during the trading session, and the truth probably won't be aired out until the end of the day. If you can keep your eyes on the wider targets and important levels, a lot of times you can avoid getting chopped up in these types of trading environment.
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Fur handcuffs, fishnet stockings, customized 'naughty' calendars and more - this V-day, online retailers have lovers hooked.
India's online lingerie portals seem to have pulled out all stops for Valentine's day this year. The websites know where the real action is on V-Day : in the bedroom. Whether it is sexy lingerie and accessories or role-playing costumes or even a lingerie stylist, there's something for every kind of couple this V-Day.
"Gifting sexy and seductive lingerie on Valentine's Day gift is an idea that's really taken off. We are seeing a huge surge in demand and it's grown tremendously since last year, " says Saurabh Dadu, founder of Straps and Strings. com.
No matter how tantalisingly naughty or evocative the shop window might be, men will not enter the lingerie store. Monica Anand understands that attitude well. So when she launched her online lingerie retail called Under Cover Lingerie, she knew she had to make men feel comfortable about shopping for lingerie for their wife or girlfriend. She ensured that when orders are delivered, the packaging is discrete, without any logos or signage.
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This year, Strap and Strings came up with a unique idea to sell its high-end and often pricey lingerie around this time: pop-up lingerie boutiques that you can surprise your partner with. For a small amount (Rs 5, 000, which is waived if you make a commitment to buy merchandise worth Rs 50, 000 and above), Straps and Strings will send a stylist-cum-fitter to your house armed with a suitcase full of the most delectable silk, satin and lace confections. "It's not just about buying lingerie, it's the whole experience of trying it on and admiring yourself in it... giving full play to your sensuality, " says Dadu.
Recently, a Delhi socialite booked them for a pop-up store to be set up in her home, tried out all the pieces and got a girlfriend to take pictures. Later, she created a personalised calendar out of the images and sent them to her boyfriend as a pre-Valentine gift. Oh, and incidentally, she made purchases worth Rs 2 lakh from Straps and Strings, where the average bill is Rs 25, 000-35, 000.
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Brazil garnering EU PVSEC's attention
07. September 2011 | Top News, Markets & Trends, Global PV markets, 26th EU PVSEC | By: Shamsiah Ali-Oettinger/Becky StuartAt the 26th EU PVSEC, among the leading photovoltaic technology developers, quieter Halls A and C, and some questionable marketing campaigns (more to come on those later), was one country garnering attention, without even being present: Brazil.
A large number of equipment manufacturers are predicting the rise of the South American country in the photovoltaic industry. With that said, however, it does not mean that China will be playing second fiddle.
The Chinese will continue to dominate and grow exponentially like the previous year, but as Oerlikon Solar's head of market development Chris O'Brien tells pv magazine, "Brazil definitely has a lot to offer". He adds that he sees Brazil as being on the "cusp of developing into a large grid-connected photovoltaic market".
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Brazil has been relatively active in photovoltaics for many years now. However, the country has been mainly focused on supplying electricity via off-grid solar installations. The Intersolar Award 2011 winner Autarcon, for example, brought photovoltaics and water purification with its SuMeWa|System, as pv magazine reported back in June.
Despite this off-grid activity, a major breakthrough into photovoltaics has been slow.
However, having the sunny status on being the B in the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries, Brazil has got the potential to reach the levels India and China have been achieving.
Furthermore, as was reported in pv magazine back in June, there are indications that the Brazilian government will promulgate market-enabling legislation, which will finally permit broad grid connections for solar installations by the end of this year.
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The European Photovoltaic Industry Association's 2014 Global Market Outlook states that Brazil is one of the markets with substantial photovoltaic potential. "Brazil has sun, the resources; the energy demand in the country is increasing and this calls for a need for more energy capacity," adds O'Brien.
While Oerlikon Solar is one company that has been active in Brazil, other equipment manufacturers are also beginning to see the country's potential, particularly as it already has the infrastructure necessary to support the set-up of photovoltaic production facilities, on top of power plants.
Local photovoltaic production started to take shape after the decision by the Brazilian Centre for Development of Solar PV Energy developed a pilot plant to manufacture cost-effective modules and silicon cells at scale with government support.
Now Brazilian companies are beginning to collaborate with the bigger names in Europe and the U.S. Turnkey solution provider, Spire, for instance, has its eyes on Brazil, and has already agreed to provide a 20 megawatt (MW) module production line to Tecnometal Equipamentos (Tecnometal).
Meanwhile, Brazil's first commercial scale (one MW) photovoltaic plant was connected to the national grid, in June. MPX Energia and General Electric (GE) signed an agreement last month to double the capacity of the Taua project, thus marking GE's entrance into the Brazilian photovoltaic market.
Other developers have also been teaming up with Brazilian counterparts. Gehrlicher Solar, for example, has joined up with Ecoluz Participaçõe to cater to the football stadium photovoltaic project trend that is beginning to emerge in the country.
As Gehrlicher highlights, the Estádio de Pituaçu project is the first of many photovoltaic installations planned for Brazil's football stadiums for the next World Cup.
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Children to be vetted for antisocial acts – 24 Jan 2008 – NZ Herald: New Zealand National news
Children as young as 3 are to be screened for signs of antisocial behaviour which could identify whether they are likely to become future criminals.
What exactly are these anti-social behaviours?
[quote]Last night the New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties chairman, Michael Bott, expressed concern that the plan would take the state further into private family matters.
"We may be encouraging a climate of fear where the state is looking into the private realm to find problems where there are none," he said.[/quote]
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Pigment epithelium-derived factor (PEDF) has been proved to be closely correlated with metabolic syndrome (MetS) and its components that are all risk factors of cardiovascular disease and may play a protective role against vascular injury and atherosclerosis. The present study was designed to investigate the relationship between serum PEDF and coronary artery disease (CAD).
A total of 312 consecutive in-patients (including 228 with CAD and 197 with MetS) who underwent coronary angiography were enrolled. Serum PEDF was measured by sandwich enzyme immunoassay and used to carry out multivariate stepwise regression analysis to assess correlation with patient demographic and clinical parameters. Multiple logistic regression analysis was performed to identify factors independently correlated with CAD.
Patients with MetS had significantly higher levels of serum PEDF than non-MetS subjects (11.1(8.2, 14.2) vs. 10.1(7.6, 12.4) μg/mL; P < 0.05). Patients with CAD also had significantly higher serum PEDF than non-CAD subjects (11.0(8.1, 14.2) vs. 10.3(8.1, 12.8) μg/mL; P < 0.05). Triglyceride (TG), C-reactive protein (CRP), estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), and hypoglycemic therapy were independently correlated with serum PEDF levels, and serum PEDF was independently positively correlated with CAD.
Serum PEDF levels are independently positively associated with CAD in a Chinese population. Elevated PEDF may act as a protective response against vascular damage and subsequent CAD.
Atherosclerosis; Coronary angiography; Coronary artery disease; Metabolic syndrome; Pigment epithelium-derived factorIntroduction
The pigment epithelium-derived factor (PEDF) belongs to the super family of serine protease inhibitors, and the major sources of circulating PEDF are liver and adipose tissues [1-3]. PEDF is characterized as a multifunctional protein possessing anti-angiogenic, anti-tumorigenic, anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-thrombotic, and neuroprotective properties. Demonstrated as a highly effective anti-angiogenic factor, PEDF not only is capable of inhibiting vascular endothelial growth and migration, but can also suppress secretion of angiogenic factors [4,5] as well as activate the FAS-FAS ligand death pathway to stimulate endothelial cell apoptosis [6]. Nakamura et al. reported anti-oxidative effects of PEDF, showing that PEDF-mediated suppression of NADPH oxidase inhibited generation of reactive oxygen species and the subsequent neointimal hyperplasia induced by balloon injury [7]. Takenaka et al. also showed a cardio-protective function by which PEDF inhibited occlusive thrombus formation in the carotis artery of a rat model [8]. Finally, various studies have demonstrated the strong anti-inflammatory activities of PEDF; for example, PEDF was characterized both as a regulator of cytokines' expression such as monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 and tumor necrosis factor-α as well as a mediator of macrophage and T cell function [9-11].
PEDF may rely on any of these protective properties to manifest a counteractive mechanism during the development of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease. Recent clinical findings have revealed that PEDF levels are closely associated with the presence of cardiovascular disease. Circulating PEDF levels were shown to be higher in subjects with metabolic syndrome (MetS) and to be correlated with the extent of MetS components [12-14]. The fact that MetS itself, and each of its components, are important risk factors of cardiovascular disease which has led researchers to hypothesize that increased PEDF levels might have occurred as a counter-regulatory response to the presence of vascular injury. A recent study showed that serum PEDF level was independently correlated with intima-media thickness and vascular inflammation, suggesting an association of PEDF with subclinical atherosclerosis in at least two aspects: morphological abnormalities of the vessel, and inflammation in the plaques [15].
The above clinical findings revealed that PEDF levels were closely associated with the presence of cardiovascular disease, however, no study to date has focused on the relationship between serum PEDF and coronary artery disease (CAD). Since such data may also help to identify PEDF as a promising therapeutic target for atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease [16,17], the present study was carried out with Chinese patients who underwent coronary angiography to investigate the association between serum PEDF and CAD.
Materials and methods
Study population
A total of 312 participants (206 men and 106 women; age range: 38 ~ 86 years, mean age: 66.2 ± 10.1 years) who were admitted to the Department of Cardiology of Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital to undergo coronary angiography because they have once suffered or was just suffering from chest tightness and/or chest pain between July 2008 and January 2010 were enrolled in the study. Patients were excluded from enrollment according to: serious hepatic or renal dysfunction; acute myocardial infarction within the past three months; coronary by-pass surgery or percutaneous coronary intervention within the past six months; congestive heart failure (defined as New York Heart Association functional class III-IV); acute infection; or history of malignancy. All women were postmenopausal. All enrollees completed a standardized questionnaire to self-report past and present illnesses, medications, and smoking habits. Enrollees who identified themselves as regular smokers, or who reported smoking at least one cigarette per day for at least the past six months, were classified as current smokers [18]. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Shanghai Jiao Tong University affiliated Sixth People's Hospital and complied with the Declaration of Helsinki. All the subjects provided written informed consent prior to the study participation.
According to the criteria of the 2007 Chinese Joint Committee for Developing Chinese Guidelines on Prevention and Treatment of Dyslipidemia in Adults [19], MetS was diagnosed if a patient had three or more of the following: 1) central obesity, defined as waist circumference (W) of >90 cm for men and >85 cm for women; 2) fasting triglyceride (TG) of ≥1.7 mmol/L, or receipt of specific treatment for previously diagnosed hypertriglyceridemia; 3) fasting high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-c) of <1.04 mmol/L, or receipt of specific treatment for previously diagnosed low HDL-c; 4) systolic blood pressure (SBP) of ≥130 mmHg and/or diastolic BP (DBP) of ≥85 mmHg, or receipt of treatment for previously diagnosed hypertension; 5) fasting plasma glucose (FPG) of ≥6.1 mmol/L and/or 2 h postprandial glucose (2hPG) of ≥7.8 mmol/L, or receipt of hypoglycemic therapy for previously diagnosed type 2 diabetes.
Coronary angiography
Each study participant underwent coronary angiography by the standard Judkins technique [20]. All major coronary arteries were imaged in at least two orthogonal views. The angiographic analysis was performed by two experienced cardiologists who were blinded to the patients' clinical information. Patients with ≥50% diameter lumen stenosis in a major coronary artery (left main coronary artery, left anterior descending artery or its first diagonal branch, left circumflex artery or its first obtuse marginal branch, and right coronary artery) were classified as CAD.
Anthropometric evaluation
Each study participant underwent complete physical examination to obtain measurements of height, weight, W, and BP. Body mass index (BMI) was calculated as: [(weight in kg)/(height in m)2]. W was measured at the midpoint between the inferior margin of 12th rib and the iliac crest on the mid-axillary line.
Laboratory measurements
Blood samples were collected after 10 h overnight fast and stored at −80°C until use. Study participants without a history of diabetes received the standard 75 g oral glucose tolerance test. All participants' samples were assayed for FPG and 2hPG by the standard glucose oxidase method. Fasting insulin was measured via radioimmunoassay (Linco Research, St. Charles, MO, USA) and insulin resistance was estimated using the homeostasis model assessment index (HOMA-IR) [21]. Glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) level was measured by high-pressure liquid chromatography (Bio-Rad Inc., Hercules, CA, USA). Serum creatinine (SCr), uric acid (UA), and lipid profiles, including TG, total cholesterol (TC), HDL-c and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-c), were assayed by standard enzymatic procedures on an automated bioanalyzer (7600–020; Hitachi, Tokyo, Japan). The estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR; expressed as mL/min/1.73 m2) was calculated according to the equation from the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) study: [186 * (SCr/88.4)-1.154 * (age)-0.203 * 0.742 (if female)] [22]. Serum C-reactive protein (CRP) was measured by a particle-enhanced immunonephelometry assay (Dade Behring Inc., Newark, NJ, USA). The 24 h urine albumin (24hALB) concentration was determined by standard rate nephelometry method. Sandwich enzyme immunoassays were used to detect the levels of PEDF (BioVendor Laboratory Medicine, Modrice, Czech Republic) and adiponectin (Li Ka Shing, Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, China). The inter- and intra-assay coefficients of variation were <6.6% and <4.1% for PEDF, and <8.6% and <7.3% for adiponectin, respectively.
Statistical analysis
All statistical analyses were carried out with the Statistical Package for Social Sciences software (version 16.0; SPSS, Chicago, IL, USA). The clinical and biochemical data of the subjects are presented as mean ± SD, except for skewed variables that are presented as median with interquartile range of 25-75%. Two-tailed tests and a 5% level of significance were applied for all statistical analyses. Intergroup comparisons of variables with normal distribution were carried out by the unpaired Student's t-test; variables with non-normal distribution were compared by the Wilcoxon rank-sum test. For dichotomous or categorical variables, intergroup comparisons were carried out by the Chi-squared (χ2) test. Spearman's correlation was used to assess the relation between serum PEDF and other clinical parameters. Multiple logistic regression analysis was performed to identify factors that were independently correlated with CAD; CAD was set as the dependent variable and age, BMI, PEDF, CRP, HOMA-IR, adiponectin, CAD family history, smoking status, hypoglycemic therapy, anti-hypertensive therapy, lipid-lowering therapy, components of MetS (including central obesity, hyperglycemia, hypertension, hypertriglyceridemia, and low HDL-c), as well as MetS itself were assessed as the independent variables. Multivariate stepwise regression analysis was used to further assess the independent correlated clinical parameters of serum PEDF; serum PEDF was set as the dependent variable and age, BMI, W, glucose levels, BP, lipid profiles, HOMA-IR, CRP, adiponectin, 24hALB, eGFR, UA, hypoglycemic, anti-hypertensive, and lipid-lowering therapy were assessed as the independent variables.
Clinical characteristics of study participants
The overall average of serum PEDF was 10.9 (8.1, 13.8) μg/mL for the entire study population. The average serum PEDF level was not significantly different between the male and female patients (10.7 (8.0, 13.9) vs. 11.1 (8.4, 13.2) μg/mL; P > 0.05).
Compared with non-CAD subjects, CAD patients showed significantly higher age, 2hPG, HbA1c, and SCr, but significantly lower level of HDL-c (all P < 0.05; Table 1). The frequency of low HDL-c was significantly higher in CAD patients (P < 0.05), while the frequency of MetS and other components of MetS showed no difference between the CAD and non-CAD groups (all P > 0.05). In addition, the proportion of patients with hypoglycemic therapy and lipid-lowering therapy was significantly higher in the CAD group than in the non-CAD group (both P < 0.05).
Table 1. Characteristics of patients according to the presence or absence of CAD
Association of serum PEDF levels with MetS
Serum PEDF levels were significantly higher in subjects with MetS than in those without MetS (11.1 (8.2, 14.2) vs. 10.1(7.6, 12.4) μg/mL; P < 0.05; Figure 1a). Spearman's correlation analysis showed that serum PEDF was positively correlated with hypertriglyceridemia (R = 0.213, P < 0.001), but no significant correlation was observed among other components of MetS.
Figure 1. Comparison of serum PEDF levels between study participants with and without MetS (a) and CAD (b). The bars represent median, 25th and 75th percentile of PEDF level.
Correlation of serum PEDF and CAD
As shown in Figure 1b, CAD patients had significantly higher levels of serum PEDF than non-CAD subjects (11.0 (8.1, 14.2) vs. 10.3 (8.1, 12.8) μg/mL; P < 0.05). Multivariate logistic regression analysis indicated that age, PEDF and lipid-lowering therapy were independently positively correlated with CAD (Table 2).
Table 2. Multivariate logistic regression analysis showing factors independently associated with CAD
Influencing factors of serum PEDF levels
Table 3 shows the correlation analysis results for serum PEDF with the various anthropometric variables and clinical parameters. Serum PEDF was found to be positively correlated with FPG, HbA1c, HOMA-IR, TG, CRP, SCr and UA, and negatively correlated with eGFR. Stepwise multivariate regression analysis indicated that TG, CRP, eGFR, and hypoglycemic therapy were independently correlated with serum PEDF (Table 4).
MetS is well recognized as an aggregate of cardio-metabolic risk factors subsequent cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes mellitus [23,24], and the association of PEDF with MetS and its components has been verified in previous studies [12-14]. In a 10-year prospective study, enhanced PEDF level was identified as an independent predictor for the development of MetS in men [13], which further affirmed the prediction effect of PEDF on MetS. However, these studies focused solely on subjects with CAD risk factors but no clinical evidence of cardiovascular disease, which may have limited their ability to extend this relation of serum PEDF with MetS to the subsequent onset of cardiovascular disease. To overcome this limitation, the present study enrolled CAD and non-CAD subjects (~3:4 ratio) as well as MetS and non-MetS subjects (~2:3 ratio) and still found that serum PEDF level was significantly increased in the MetS patient group. This finding agrees with previous functional studies that indicated enhanced levels of PEDF might exert a counteractive activity against simultaneous enhancement of CAD risk factors [13,14].
In the current study of the broad panel of MetS pathogenic components, PEDF was found to be significantly positively correlated with hypertriglyceridemia, and TG was identified as an independent influencing factor of serum PEDF levels. Dyslipidemia is known to play an important role in the development of atherosclerosis and CAD. Specifically, long-term dyslipidemia has been shown to cause physical injury to the vascular intima, and the accompanying pro-inflammatory state of the tissue promotes atherosclerosis and CAD. In clinical studies, patients with elevated TG levels developed CAD more frequently than their counterparts with TG levels in the normal range and TG has been identified as an independent risk factor for coronary events [25,26]. In the current study, TG was found to be strongly and independently correlated with serum PEDF in patients with CAD or at high risk of CAD. Moreover, these findings also agree with the previous studies in patients without CAD history [12,13]. It is possible that the enhanced levels of serum PEDF in CAD or CAD-risk patients reflect a response to hypertriglyceridemia, whereby the body is attempting to correct the perturbance in the lipid metabolism system [27]. Intriguingly, we failed to find any significant association of serum PEDF with the other two principal components of MetS, central obesity and hypertension. These negative findings may be explained by the fact that a large portion of our subjects had been receiving therapeutic treatments for hyperglycemia, hypertension, or hyperlipidemia for long periods prior to study participation; to account for this potential confounding aspect, hypoglycemia therapy was entered the equation in the multiple regression analysis of PEDF levels. Body weight and W in subjects of this study might have changed in response to a long-term influence of medications; therefore, the relation of PEDF with obesity might be masked by other determinants.
Substantial evidence exists to support the hypothesis that PEDF plays a protective role against microangiopathy; moreover, PEDF has been proposed as a potential protective factor against diabetic microvascular complications [28-30]. Yet, few studies to date have investigated the association of PEDF with macroangiopathy, as was done in the current study which demonstrated for the first time that serum PEDF was independently positively correlated with CAD in a Chinese population. This finding contradicts a previous study by Shiga et al., which showed no significant correlation between PEDF and the presence of CAD in a Japanese population [31]; however, this apparent inconsistency may merely indicate the different inclusion subjects.
Atherosclerosis, which is considered the pathological basis of CAD, is a chronic inflammatory disorder [32]. Previous studies have shown that CRP was positively correlated with PEDF, and suggested that this relation may reflect the body's attempt to suppress a detrimental inflammatory reaction involving the endothelial cells [14,33]. In our study, we found no difference in the CRP levels of CAD and non-CAD patients, possibly because the majority of those non-CAD patients actually possessed many of the CAD risk factors and >60% of them were MetS patients. Regardless, the multivariate stepwise regression analysis performed for the study population identified CRP as an independent influencing factor of serum PEDF levels, and this finding agrees with the proposed association of PEDF with chronic inflammation. Furthermore, oxidative stress, which is elevated in patients with metabolic disorder or CAD, could be one of the triggers in the liver (an important source organ of circulating PEDF), as hydrogen peroxide has been shown to induce PEDF expression in human hepatocytes [34].
Given the fact that PEDF exerts anti-angiogenic, anti-oxidative, anti-thrombotic, and anti-inflammatory properties on vascular tissues, researchers have speculated that PEDF levels might be elevated to counteract generation of a pro-atherosclerotic environment induced by vascular injuries [16,17]. Ueda et al. reported that PEDF injection suppressed cardiac fibrosis, inhibited tissue remodeling and improved cardiac function in a rat model of acute myocardial infarction and suggested that PEDF may be a novel therapeutic strategy for human acute myocardial infarction [35]. Since PEDF exerts a number of protective effects on vascular and myocardial tissues, elevated serum PEDF levels in CAD patients may also play a counter-regulatory and protective role against vascular damage caused by hypertriglyceridemia, hyperglycemia, and chronic inflammation.
Moreover, Rychli et al. found that PEDF was significantly associated with CAD (for trend, P = 0.037) and correlated with rehospitalization for heart failure (HF) worsening, with a more prominent risk increase association in CAD patients; these previous findings further support our current results. Rychli et al. also suggested that PEDF was associated with chronic deterioration of cardiomyopathy and played a role in the progression of HF by inducing apoptosis of human cardiac myocytes and fibroblasts [36]. We believe that the elevated PEDF observed in CAD patients occurs in response to vascular injuries, chronic inflammation, and oxidative stress, and that its function involves preventing CAD deterioration.
It has been reported that cardiovascular disease was closely regulated through the signaling pathways of the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) which was associated with endothelial cell survival and growth, as well as cardiomyocyte proliferation [37]. Wang et al. confirmed the antiangiogenic property of PEDF and firstly reported that insulin could down-regulate PEDF expression, which at least partly depended on mTOR kinase as the inhibitory effect of insulin on PEDF expression would disappear when added the mTOR inhibitor rapamycin [38]. It is possible that PEDF would offer exciting prospects for the development of new therapies for cardiovascular disease.
Another physiological factor that was correlated with the elevated PEDF levels in our study population was eGFR (independently negatively correlated). This finding is not surprising since renal filtration is known to affect serum PEDF levels, and is in line with findings from previous studies [15,31].
When interpreting the results from our present study, it is important to consider some of the features of the study design that may limit the generalizability of our findings. Firstly, the cross-sectional design of the current study precluded our ability to determine the cause-effect relationship for PEDF and CAD. Secondly, the study population was relatively small, and larger prospective studies are necessary to confirm the role of PEDF in the development of CAD. Moreover, the study population was composed of individuals who were suspected of CAD (admitted to hospital to undergo coronary angiography) and most had several of the known risk factors of CAD, which may have biased the results.
Nonetheless, the population of Chinese patients assessed in this study demonstrated a significantly independent correlation of serum PEDF with the presence of CAD. Biologically, PEDF is capable of exerting a number of protective effects under conditions of metabolic disorder, and the mechanism fits with the observation of elevated serum PEDF in patients with MetS and CAD. In particular, elevated serum PEDF levels may represent a counter-regulatory mechanism that acts as a protective response against vascular damage and subsequent CAD. Molecular targeting of PEDF might be a promising therapeutic strategy for treatment of cardiometabolic disorders and represent a useful predictive index for treatment effectiveness. Further laboratory and clinical studies are warranted to confirm the protective effect of PEDF on cardiovascular disease and to assess its potential as a therapeutic target.
BMI: Body mass index; BP: Blood pressure; CAD: Coronary artery disease; CRP: C-reactive protein; eGFR: Estimated glomerular filtration rate; FPG: Fasting plasma glucose; HbA1c: Glycated hemoglobin A1c; HDL-c: High-density lipoprotein cholesterol; HOMA-IR: Homeostasis model assessment-insulin resistance; LDL-c: Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; MetS: Metabolic syndrome; PEDF: Pigment epithelium-derived factor; SCr: Serum creatinine; TC: Total cholesterol; TG: Triglyceride; UA: Uric acid; W: Waist circumference; 2hPG: 2 h postprandial glucose; 24hALB: 24 h urine albumin.
Competing interests
All authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors' contributions
YB and WJ designed the study. MZ, JN, and MG collected the data. FW analyzed the data and drafted the manuscript. XP performed the PEDF measurements. ZL and JH carried out the angiographic analysis. XM, YB, and WJ revised the manuscript and contributed to discussion. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
This work was funded by 973 Program of China (2013CB530606), Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China (81170788), National Key Technology R&D Program of China (2012BAI02B03), Special Scientific Research Fund of Medicine Sanitary (201002002), and Key Discipline of Public Health of Shanghai (Epidemiology) (12GWZX0104).
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Standing on Top of the World™ A 2 to 4 day workshop on experiencing the freedom of support and balance Developed and taught by David Gorman
Why this? -¦- What is it? -¦- Who is it for? How is it structured? -¦- Who is the Teacher? Audio recording of the workshop -¦- Where is it held?
Your most precious birthright?
... Having a centered support on the earth at every moment — without which it is impossible to have wholeness and ease, impossible to have the presentness and the freedom to respond openly and easily in everything you do.
This workshop helps you claim that heritage...
WHY THIS? Support and balance are the two sides of our most fundamental moment-to-moment relationship with the planet. If you are like most people, you are probably going about your daily life in an uncentered and ungrounded support without realizing it. You may not feel particularly out of support or off-balance, but you are probably feeling the inevitable results—the holding yourself up and sense of weight and working against 'gravity'—that lead to ongoing tensions and effort. This not only wastes enormous energy but all-too-often causes chronic and progressive damage.
It is your birthright to have the poise and grace that come with balanced and supported movement. Without this, your best efforts at freedom and ease will always be undermined, and your sense of calmness and presentness will be lost to you.
This workshop is designed to help you claim that heritage.
WHAT IS IT ABOUT? The workshop comprises a series of demonstrations and explanations which have been developed over the last 15 years by David Gorman to teach you, in a very practical and experiential way, the principles of support and balance and how to live them in everything you do.
These simple practical demonstrations will show you clearly through your own experiences the benefits of freedom and ease this knowledge gives you.
Collectively, they will also refine your ability to be in touch with your own system's signals about your support and orientation—feedback that will become second nature in guiding you and telling you what you need to know in order to be supported, whole and easy, free to respond and present in your life.
WHO IS IT FOR? Everyone... after all, we all live and work in relation to gravity and the planet — why not make it a friendly and cooperative relationship rather than one of struggle and effort?
The workshop is especially valuable for actors, dancers, musicians, athletes, as well as teachers of body-work, movement, etc. For teachers, the workshop is, at one and the same time, a practical way to learn this knowledge for yourself, as well as to learn how to go about teaching it to others while adapting it in your own way to your own teaching style.
HOW IS IT STRUCTURED? The 2 days of the workshop progress through the series of step-by-step demonstrations in a natural sequence, each one giving an experience and an explanation of a fundamental principle then leading on naturally to the next step.
In this way the series builds through daily life activities — standing, reaching, walking, bending, sitting and standing up, lifting, squatting, etc. — showing how to recognize when you are supported and when you're not, highlighting the resulting freedom and ease of operating in support and balance, as well as the problems and symptoms when you are habitually out of support.
AUDIO RECORDING AVAILABLE: If you cannot attend an upcoming workshop, there is also an audio recording of this material recorded live from several recent workshops. The series of demonstrations is clearly explained and the questions from students and answers help deepen the understanding. More details.
David Gorman David Gorman has become widely known for his innovative and unique approach to making our human functioning understandable, relevant and fascinating. In 1980 he published a 600-page illustrated text on human structure and function called The Body Moveable (now in its 6th edition) and in 1998 another book, Looking At Ourselves (now in its 2nd edition) as well as many articles and essays
David has been helping people make sense out how they function since the mid-70s. He has taught the Alexander Technique since 1978 and trained Alexander teachers in London from 1988 to 1997 when he formally began his new LearningMethods work developed over many years from his discoveries. He is now writing another book covering the material of this workshop and the Anatomy of Wholeness workshop.
He teaches private workshops, at conservatories and for conferences as well as training teachers in the LearningMethods work. The work is now being integrated into the curriculum of many schools and colleges in Europe and North America.
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hi we got this bow from my uncle who got it from a man who just was going to sell it cus he never shot it and didnt know how much it was worth-my uncle and everyone of his friends and hes really big in bowhunting and has like a 70 pound recurve-NOONE COULD IDENTIFY THIS!-we odnt even know the worth though we got it for 50 dollars
On the upper limb it says Gull on the lower part of the riser right under where the hand rests-it says 64" Blemished 26# and on the lower limb it has an icon that says Wing Archery. Div. of Ski Co., INC |
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Wing made great target and hunting recurves, took a beating when compounds came out, ended up as a part of Head Ski,IIRC.
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"Once I started listening to jazz, it wasn't hard to realize it was very soulful, high-quality music that you could get totally engaged with. Good jazz doesn't get dated." Thus says Michael Chertok, who runs the Chertok Archives, one of the nation's most extensive collections of jazz performances. And Chertok should know. He claims to have footage of every jazz artist who has ever been filmed. (Only a precious few eluded the camera's unwavering gaze.) Topnotch jazz on film is the focus of the informative and enjoyable Jazz in Film Festival, sponsored by local radio station WDNA-FM (88.9) and commencing this Friday at the Absinthe House Cinematheque.
The festival has grown from a three- to seven-day affair this year and touts a diverse lineup of documentaries about outstanding jazz figures, such as trumpet virtuoso Louis Armstrong, ethereal songstress Sarah Vaughan, and stellar vocalists Joe Williams and Betty Carter (both of whom died within the past year). Cartoons will be screened and even prominent label Blue Note records will get its due. It won't be all jazz, though: Blues, bossa nova, and Latin music will be covered, too.
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Being a fan of every other type of music but jazz while growing up meant Chertok missed out on hearing Ellington in person. "I never saw him play live. By the time I realized how much I adored him, he was dead," Chertok notes sadly. "But when you're done with this kind of a program, you almost feel like you've seen him. You feel as if you had this Ellington experience."
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Archive for October, 2008
Rules, and Bridges to Your Own
Friday, October 31st, 2008
I think that a painting is more than the sum of its parts, but often it's the parts that have more to teach.
Some of the details in this painting are kind of groundbreaking for me, and new things I tried will be applied to future paintings, but with an honest and unbiased eye toward it, from a distance it looks like just another landscape. That seems to be the general opinion about most landscapes; being the most popular genre of painting, they are so common they need a second glance and closer study in order to be fully appreciated. Anyway, with this one I'm now pleased with the efforts, but when I started painting this one I had no intentions of posting it .
One of our neighbors thoughtfully collects our mail and waters the garden whenever we're away, even when not asked, so when he requested a painting to be copied from a postcard of his home town in France I cringed (you know, about the copying thing), then agreed, but to barter. With no deadline demanded there was plenty of time to wrap my head around this project, and I took it. I still wanted to do a good job despite my strong convictions about copying, and waited for a time when I felt ready to do my best – because the first few strokes are as important as the last.
There are decent arguments for and against a "right time" for things, and if a job needs doing immediately I have no problem doing it immediately, but I was thankful to have a little more time without the pressure to visualize this one.
I came to terms with the thing by finally just starting it, and the rest of this blog entry explains how that taught me more than my last five paintings all together.
Once I let go of all the over-thinking about ethics and integrity, while resolving to make it my own I got lost in the most important part of anything you create: the work; that zone (we all want to get lost in The Zone!). It turned into a really interesting, fun learning opportunity.
There are a lot of slogans, terms, traditions, quotes and Art-myths passed along through generations of Artists. We absorb them over the years and they gradually play a part in forming our opinions and our work habits to some extent. Impulsively we set up walls that can get in the way of seeing and discovery.
We need assignments like this that challenge us to break free from rules, if only temporarily…rules that may be fine for others but may prevent us from exploring the avenues that lead to our own personal best.
There's a lot of competition in the Art Biz, a surplus of advice, group lessons, suggestions, and strong opinions about what Art is and isn't, what you should and shouldn't do, and even a kind of unspoken "underground" rating system that some people have, pinpointing what style or motivational source is better than another.
The point here is: whatever the initial source is that gets you painting or creating something, then use it. If it feels right for you then it is right for you. There are things in each painting, successful or not, that bridge all our efforts into the next. The act of painting is valuable above all, whatever it is or however it's done. The value you hold for yourself translates into your work that, if successful, may also become valuable to someone else ($!).
A Studio Affair
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
"Your eyes are like plastic pearls"
"I bet you say that to all the inanimate objects"
The romance began last year.
The Fourth Of July – moving on
Saturday, October 18th, 2008
The Fourth of July, 36 x 48 x 2 inches, Acrylics on wrapped canvas $2,200.00
The Oxide Gallery in Denton had an open call today for Artists to bring in three paintings that best represented current work, to be judged for upcoming space openings. Even though I didn't think The Fourth of July was finished, I brought it in because it has the cheerful colors and bold marks that I'd like to start injecting more into future work. Usually there are lots of colors used, but they get layered over each other on the canvas and become muted. The gallery owners informed me that it is finished! OK, great, I'll take their advice…I'm quite happy to move on to another painting and decide at a later date if this is truly finished.
Especially toward the final stages when so much time and study has been invested, we can be so involved in the work we don't see it with a fresh perspective the way others do. Other people's eyes and opinions are so valuable.
Oh, and my apologies to whoever posted a comment that never got published. In my haste to delete 24 spams I was too quick with the click. In that split second I noticed that it was not a spam, but it was too late. I don't even know which post the was comment was on, so whoever it was, please try again – I appreciate all feedback, negative or positive..it's always helpful.
VAST/VACD Exhibition
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Merit Award winning Adam 11 x 14 inches graphite on paper, 21 x 25 framed will be on exhibit as part of VAST Connections running from October 3rd through November 1st. Sponsored by the Visual Arts Society of Texas (VAST) and the Visual Arts Coalition of Dallas (VACD), the exhibition will be held at the VACD Gallery in the Thompson Fine Arts, Inc. Building, 2902 Maple Avenue, Suite A , Dallas, TX. Gallery hours: Fri, Sat: 11a.m. – 5 p.m.


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