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import "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
Package logrus is a structured logger for Go, completely API compatible with the standard library logger.
The simplest way to use Logrus is simply the package-level exported logger:
package main import ( log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus" ) func main() { log.WithFields(log.Fields{ "animal": "walrus", "number": 1, "size": 10, }).Info("A walrus appears") }
time="2015-09-07T08:48:33Z" level=info msg="A walrus appears" animal=walrus number=1 size=10
For a full guide visit https://github.com/sirupsen/logrus
alt_exit.go doc.go entry.go exported.go formatter.go hooks.go json_formatter.go logger.go logrus.go terminal_linux.go terminal_notwindows.go text_formatter.go writer.go
const ( FieldKeyMsg = "msg" FieldKeyLevel = "level" FieldKeyTime = "time" )
var AllLevels = []Level{ PanicLevel, FatalLevel, ErrorLevel, WarnLevel, InfoLevel, DebugLevel, }
A constant exposing all logging levels
var ErrorKey = "error"
Defines the key when adding errors using WithError.
AddHook adds a hook to the standard logger hooks.
func Debug(args ...interface{})
Debug logs a message at level Debug on the standard logger.
Debugf logs a message at level Debug on the standard logger.
func Debugln(args ...interface{})
Debugln logs a message at level Debug on the standard logger.
func Error(args ...interface{})
Error logs a message at level Error on the standard logger.
Errorf logs a message at level Error on the standard logger.
func Errorln(args ...interface{})
Errorln logs a message at level Error on the standard logger.
Exit runs all the Logrus atexit handlers and then terminates the program using os.Exit(code)
func Fatal(args ...interface{})
Fatal logs a message at level Fatal on the standard logger.
Fatalf logs a message at level Fatal on the standard logger.
func Fatalln(args ...interface{})
Fatalln logs a message at level Fatal on the standard logger.
func Info(args ...interface{})
Info logs a message at level Info on the standard logger.
Infof logs a message at level Info on the standard logger.
func Infoln(args ...interface{})
Infoln logs a message at level Info on the standard logger.
IsTerminal returns true if stderr's file descriptor is a terminal.
func Panic(args ...interface{})
Panic logs a message at level Panic on the standard logger.
Panicf logs a message at level Panic on the standard logger.
func Panicln(args ...interface{})
Panicln logs a message at level Panic on the standard logger.
func Print(args ...interface{})
Print logs a message at level Info on the standard logger.
Printf logs a message at level Info on the standard logger.
func Println(args ...interface{})
Println logs a message at level Info on the standard logger.
func RegisterExitHandler(handler func())
RegisterExitHandler adds a Logrus Exit handler, call logrus.Exit to invoke all handlers. The handlers will also be invoked when any Fatal log entry is made.
This method is useful when a caller wishes to use logrus to log a fatal message but also needs to gracefully shutdown. An example usecase could be closing database connections, or sending a alert that the application is closing.
SetFormatter sets the standard logger formatter.
SetLevel sets the standard logger level.
SetOutput sets the standard logger output.
func Warn(args ...interface{})
Warn logs a message at level Warn on the standard logger.
Warnf logs a message at level Warn on the standard logger.
func Warning(args ...interface{})
Warning logs a message at level Warn on the standard logger.
Warningf logs a message at level Warn on the standard logger.
func Warningln(args ...interface{})
Warningln logs a message at level Warn on the standard logger.
func Warnln(args ...interface{})
Warnln logs a message at level Warn on the standard logger.
type Entry struct { Logger *Logger // Contains all the fields set by the user. Data Fields // Time at which the log entry was created Time time.Time // Level the log entry was logged at: Debug, Info, Warn, Error, Fatal or Panic // This field will be set on entry firing and the value will be equal to the one in Logger struct field. Level Level // Message passed to Debug, Info, Warn, Error, Fatal or Panic Message string // When formatter is called in entry.log(), an Buffer may be set to entry Buffer *bytes.Buffer }
An entry is the final or intermediate Logrus logging entry. It contains all the fields passed with WithField{,s}. It's finally logged when Debug, Info, Warn, Error, Fatal or Panic is called on it. These objects can be reused and passed around as much as you wish to avoid field duplication.
WithError creates an entry from the standard logger and adds an error to it, using the value defined in ErrorKey as key.
WithField creates an entry from the standard logger and adds a field to it. If you want multiple fields, use `WithFields`.
Note that it doesn't log until you call Debug, Print, Info, Warn, Fatal or Panic on the Entry it returns.
WithFields creates an entry from the standard logger and adds multiple fields to it. This is simply a helper for `WithField`, invoking it once for each field.
Note that it doesn't log until you call Debug, Print, Info, Warn, Fatal or Panic on the Entry it returns.
Returns the string representation from the reader and ultimately the formatter.
Add an error as single field (using the key defined in ErrorKey) to the Entry.
Add a single field to the Entry.
Add a map of fields to the Entry.
func (entry *Entry) Writer() *io.PipeWriter
func (entry *Entry) WriterLevel(level Level) *io.PipeWriter
type FieldLogger interface { WithField(key string, value interface{}) *Entry WithFields(fields Fields) *Entry WithError(err error) *Entry Debugf(format string, args ...interface{}) Infof(format string, args ...interface{}) Printf(format string, args ...interface{}) Warnf(format string, args ...interface{}) Warningf(format string, args ...interface{}) Errorf(format string, args ...interface{}) Fatalf(format string, args ...interface{}) Panicf(format string, args ...interface{}) Debug(args ...interface{}) Info(args ...interface{}) Print(args ...interface{}) Warn(args ...interface{}) Warning(args ...interface{}) Error(args ...interface{}) Fatal(args ...interface{}) Panic(args ...interface{}) Debugln(args ...interface{}) Infoln(args ...interface{}) Println(args ...interface{}) Warnln(args ...interface{}) Warningln(args ...interface{}) Errorln(args ...interface{}) Fatalln(args ...interface{}) Panicln(args ...interface{}) }
The FieldLogger interface generalizes the Entry and Logger types
Fields type, used to pass to `WithFields`.
The Formatter interface is used to implement a custom Formatter. It takes an `Entry`. It exposes all the fields, including the default ones:
* `entry.Data["msg"]`. The message passed from Info, Warn, Error .. * `entry.Data["time"]`. The timestamp. * `entry.Data["level"]. The level the entry was logged at.
Any additional fields added with `WithField` or `WithFields` are also in `entry.Data`. Format is expected to return an array of bytes which are then logged to `logger.Out`.
A hook to be fired when logging on the logging levels returned from `Levels()` on your implementation of the interface. Note that this is not fired in a goroutine or a channel with workers, you should handle such functionality yourself if your call is non-blocking and you don't wish for the logging calls for levels returned from `Levels()` to block.
type JSONFormatter struct { // TimestampFormat sets the format used for marshaling timestamps. TimestampFormat string // DisableTimestamp allows disabling automatic timestamps in output DisableTimestamp bool // FieldMap allows users to customize the names of keys for various fields. // As an example: // formatter := &JSONFormatter{ // FieldMap: FieldMap{ // FieldKeyTime: "@timestamp", // FieldKeyLevel: "@level", // FieldKeyMsg: "@message", // }, // } FieldMap FieldMap }
func (f *JSONFormatter) Format(entry *Entry) ([]byte, error)
Level type
const ( // PanicLevel level, highest level of severity. Logs and then calls panic with the // message passed to Debug, Info, ... PanicLevel Level = iota // FatalLevel level. Logs and then calls `os.Exit(1)`. It will exit even if the // logging level is set to Panic. FatalLevel // ErrorLevel level. Logs. Used for errors that should definitely be noted. // Commonly used for hooks to send errors to an error tracking service. ErrorLevel // WarnLevel level. Non-critical entries that deserve eyes. WarnLevel // InfoLevel level. General operational entries about what's going on inside the // application. InfoLevel // DebugLevel level. Usually only enabled when debugging. Very verbose logging. DebugLevel )
These are the different logging levels. You can set the logging level to log on your instance of logger, obtained with `logrus.New()`.
GetLevel returns the standard logger level.
ParseLevel takes a string level and returns the Logrus log level constant.
Convert the Level to a string. E.g. PanicLevel becomes "panic".
Internal type for storing the hooks on a logger instance.
func (hooks LevelHooks) Add(hook Hook)
Add a hook to an instance of logger. This is called with `log.Hooks.Add(new(MyHook))` where `MyHook` implements the `Hook` interface.
func (hooks LevelHooks) Fire(level Level, entry *Entry) error
Fire all the hooks for the passed level. Used by `entry.log` to fire appropriate hooks for a log entry.
type Logger struct { // The logs are `io.Copy`'d to this in a mutex. It's common to set this to a // file, or leave it default which is `os.Stderr`. You can also set this to // something more adventorous, such as logging to Kafka. Out io.Writer // Hooks for the logger instance. These allow firing events based on logging // levels and log entries. For example, to send errors to an error tracking // service, log to StatsD or dump the core on fatal errors. Hooks LevelHooks // All log entries pass through the formatter before logged to Out. The // included formatters are `TextFormatter` and `JSONFormatter` for which // TextFormatter is the default. In development (when a TTY is attached) it // logs with colors, but to a file it wouldn't. You can easily implement your // own that implements the `Formatter` interface, see the `README` or included // formatters for examples. Formatter Formatter // The logging level the logger should log at. This is typically (and defaults // to) `logrus.Info`, which allows Info(), Warn(), Error() and Fatal() to be // logged. Level Level // contains filtered or unexported fields }
Creates a new logger. Configuration should be set by changing `Formatter`, `Out` and `Hooks` directly on the default logger instance. You can also just instantiate your own:
var log = &Logger{ Out: os.Stderr, Formatter: new(JSONFormatter), Hooks: make(LevelHooks), Level: logrus.DebugLevel, }
It's recommended to make this a global instance called `log`.
When file is opened with appending mode, it's safe to write concurrently to a file (within 4k message on Linux). In these cases user can choose to disable the lock.
Add an error as single field to the log entry. All it does is call `WithError` for the given `error`.
Adds a field to the log entry, note that it doesn't log until you call Debug, Print, Info, Warn, Fatal or Panic. It only creates a log entry. If you want multiple fields, use `WithFields`.
Adds a struct of fields to the log entry. All it does is call `WithField` for each `Field`.
func (logger *Logger) Writer() *io.PipeWriter
func (logger *Logger) WriterLevel(level Level) *io.PipeWriter
type MutexWrap struct {
// contains filtered or unexported fields
type StdLogger interface { Print(...interface{}) Printf(string, ...interface{}) Println(...interface{}) Fatal(...interface{}) Fatalf(string, ...interface{}) Fatalln(...interface{}) Panic(...interface{}) Panicf(string, ...interface{}) Panicln(...interface{}) }
StdLogger is what your logrus-enabled library should take, that way it'll accept a stdlib logger and a logrus logger. There's no standard interface, this is the closest we get, unfortunately.
type TextFormatter struct { // Set to true to bypass checking for a TTY before outputting colors. ForceColors bool // Force disabling colors. DisableColors bool // Disable timestamp logging. useful when output is redirected to logging // system that already adds timestamps. DisableTimestamp bool // Enable logging the full timestamp when a TTY is attached instead of just // the time passed since beginning of execution. FullTimestamp bool // TimestampFormat to use for display when a full timestamp is printed TimestampFormat string // The fields are sorted by default for a consistent output. For applications // that log extremely frequently and don't use the JSON formatter this may not // be desired. DisableSorting bool // QuoteEmptyFields will wrap empty fields in quotes if true QuoteEmptyFields bool sync.Once // contains filtered or unexported fields }
func (f *TextFormatter) Format(entry *Entry) ([]byte, error)
|The Test package is used for testing logrus.
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Like most everyone else here, I say go with what makes YOU comfortable. I hate to even wear a HELMET when I play, but the younger guys have no respect for other people's faces and heads these days, so you have to wear one.
I had a full shield Itech, but it fogged up every time you slowed down, plus it scratched easily. The full cage is very hard to see out of when you are not used to it, and if you are a player like me who is a passer, it really affects your game. I went to a half shield for several years, but when it got scratched and the screws holding it on got stripped, I took it off and have not regretted it. Although I have seen several of my teammates get carved this year, so I'm thinking seriously about getting a new helmet/half shield combo. I have good dental insurance, but only 2 eyes, so I should probably protect them both!
I had a puck go up under my half shield about 15 years ago and cut my eyelid for 8 stiches, and sticks will fit under them, so don't think you are invincible with one on. But at the same time, a full cage may make you more reckless (or "brave"), but remember, if you wear one and hit someone in the face with your stick, you will probably be heading for the boards head-first on your next shift! Just play the game straight-up and you will be fine.
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In a series filled with blowouts and drama, the Cavs will look to become the first team to come back from a 3-1 deficit to win the NBA Finals. It would be a monumental win not only for the Cavs but the entire city of Cleveland. However, they'll have to win a road game in Golden State in Game 7 over one of the best teams of all-time. The last time the Warriors lost 3 consecutive games was from Nov 20, 2013 to Nov 23, 2013 (vs. MEM, at LAL, vs. POR).
Before Game 6 even ended, 5Dimes opened Warriors -4.5 for Game 7. Before the series began, the lookahead line was Warriors -5 so this made sense. However, after the Warriors won the first 2 games of the series, the Game 7 lookahead line was Warriors -6.5. Oddsmakers made an adjustment and possibly an overreaction even though the Cavs would still have had to win a game in Golden State to get the series to 7 games.
At our contributing sportsbooks, spread tickets are nearly even with 51% on Cleveland and 49% on Golden State. When looking at the individual breakdown at each book, it's incredible how even the spread betting has been:
Since opening, most of the market moved the Warriors from -5 to -4.5 on Friday morning, but moved back to Warriors -5 by Friday night. As of Sunday morning, the money wagered from our source has been nearly split, which is ideal for oddsmakers to avoid any risk. Here's a look at how the line and betting percentages have moved since opening:
Over at William Hill, the Warriors are getting 59% of the tickets but only 22% of the money wagered. This indicates that early, bigger bets are taking the Cavs to cover the spread. On the moneyline, both tickets (80%) and money wagered (86%) are on the Cavs +160. Bettors have clearly started feeling comfortable taking Cleveland to win straight up as Golden State has started to look rattled the last couple games.
This has even spilled over to the families of the players, most notably Ayesha Curry, who voiced her opinion on these games being rigged for ratings. The NBA doled out a questionable suspension to Draymond Green for Game 5 and a lot of talk has indeed been about the officials and their role in the series. Tim Donaghy, a former NBA official guilty of fixing games, tweeted out "I am told Game 7 officials are D. Crawford, M. McCutchen and M. Callahan. You don't need to wait till Sunday to find out." Well it turns out Donaghy was absolutely correct, and here are their ATS records for home teams all-time:
Crawford 320-309
McCutchen 299-320
Callahan 290-301
Judging by the numbers, there's no real advantage for either side. It's hard to believe that someone like Donaghy would know well in advance of the ref assignments but that's the way the NBA goes. You can also check out our Referees page to view the historical records.
As for the total, Pinnacle opened 206 while CRIS opened 207.5. Right now most of the market is sitting at 206.5 despite the majority of bets on the over. From our contributing sportsbooks, 75% of tickets are on the over but just 56% of the money wagered is on the over. This is the same over at William Hill, where nearly 60% of tickets are on the over, but 75% of the money wagered is on the under. The public typically will bet overs which creates value for sharper bettors who tend to lean towards the under. It's been an odd series to gauge because of all the blowouts, but oddsmakers are standing firm that they expect points. The six highest NBA Finals totals that we've ever tracked have all come from this series (previous high was 205.5 in 2009 between the Lakers and Magic).
Now, does either team have an edge based on historical trends? First off, road teams have won just 24 of 125 Game 7's in the NBA Playoffs all-time (19.2%). When looking at just the NBA Finals, road teams have won just 3 of 18 Game 7's (16.6%). Since 2005, home teams in Game 7 are 28-9 straight-up and 23-14 ATS (+$767).
Teams with home-court advantage throughout the playoffs also tend to have the best player, and the NBA Regular Season MVP has won 18 straight Game 7's in the playoffs. The MVP has also gone 6-1 all-time in NBA Finals Game 7's. These trends clearly all point to the Warriors taking care of business at home, but that's why they play the games. Here's a quick look at how this year's NBA FInals has unfolded:
|Game #
|Closing Odds
|1 (at GS)
|2 (at GS)
|3 (at CLE)
|4 (at CLE)
|5 (at GS)
|6 (at CLE)
Prior to the series starting, the exact outcome of Warriors in 7 was listed at +300 odds, and the Cavs to win in 7 was listed at +800 odds. Cavs even reached +1450 to come back and win the series after going down 3-1:
|After Game 1
|After Game 2
|After Game 3
|After Game 4
|After Game 5
|After Game 6
(GS up 1-0)
(GS up 2-0)
(GS up 2-1)
(GS up 3-1)
(GS up 3-2)
(Tied 3-3)
LeBron James is now the big favorite to win NBA Finals MVP at -260 odds. He was available at +1200 odds after Game 4, which shows how massive his impact has been in Game 5 and Game 6.
Lastly, home teams have absolutely dominated on the 1st half line in this year's playoffs, going 58-25 ATS. The home team has also gone 5-1 ATS on the 1st half line in the Finals, so it will be interesting to see if Golden State can continue this trend and get out to a hot start in Game 7.
Are the Warriors the smart play at home in Game 7, or will LeBron James and the Cavs make history? Are you hedging any future bets based on this game? Feel free to leave your comments and thoughts below and track all the latest line moves and betting percentages at our Free Live Odds page.
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Dr Guttler saved my life 36 years ago when he diagnosed a massive goiter that was pressing on my airway. He is more knowledgeable about thyroid disease and cutting edge thyroid treatments and procedures than any other Endocrinologist I have met, and I have met many over the last 36 years. I continue to travel from Las Vegas to Santa Monica, CA for my treatment and will continue to do so until he chooses to no longer practice.
I am absolutely shocked by some of the reviews I read here. I wonder if these people saw the same endocrinologist as I did because the Dr. Richard Guttler I saw is nothing less than exceptional. It was a misdiagnosis in Scottsdale, Arizona that lead me to drive 8 hours to be seen by someone who is passionate about what they do. It was refreshing to find an endocrinologist that is dedicated to excellence
Arrogant and rude. Completely unprofessional. Staff is uneducated. This doctor is old as dirt and doesn't care about patients only your money.
My mom was treated horribly by the unprofessional unknowledgeable staff. I think his wife is the office manager who is clearly uneducated and has zero managerial skills. This office is money hungry and runs on greed. If you have a medical concern I URGE you to seek professional help. This 'DOCTOR' is a clown who is RUDE and only wants you money.
Will not return to this physician. Abysmal bed side manner, and lack of interest in resolving my symptoms.
horrible. would strongly recommend seeing a different doctor.
The doctor did not take my insurance, I had to pay in cash. He ran all sorts of costly tests. The meds he prescribed for me left me feeling worse and he didn't believe me, his attitude was something else, however lab tests confirmed this to be true. It became obvious that I needed to seek other help. Because he wouldn't take my insurance, I ended up with a balance that I couldn't clear up quick enough for him, so he sued me. An awful experience.
Won't patronize this physician or have any further contact. He has a very specific view on thyroid disease, and follows that to the letter, and does not seem to be particularly interested in anything that might contradict or challenge his own very strong opinion on things. His services are not, in my opinion, worth what he charges.
He is an able and highly qualified doctor. He has a level of informed integrity that sometimes seems lacking in thyroid medicine these days. It's obvious he's not into 'woo' and has taken a beating for publicly speaking out against it when it comes to thyroid disease. It actually would be nice if more endocrinologists spoke out in the same manner.
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Nietzsche has something to say about everything. Including Facebook Distraction, an 'impulse' whose 'vehemence' we seek to combat, and for which he has found 'not more than six essentially different methods.' ('The Dawn of Day', trans. JM Kennedy, Allen Unwin, 1924, Section 109)
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The Phenomenology Of Encounters With Notification Icons
It's 630 AM or so; you're awake, busy getting your cup of coffee ready. (Perhaps you're up earlier like the truly virtuous or the overworked, which in our society comes to the same thing.) Your coffee made, you fire up your smartphone, laptop, tablet, or desktop, and settle down for the morning service at the altar. Your eyes light up, your antennae tingle in pleasurable anticipation: Facebook's blue top ribbon features a tiny red square–which squats over the globe like a ginormous social media network–with a number inscribed in it; single figures is good, double figures is better. You look at Twitter: the Liberty Bell–sorry, the notifications icon–bears the weight of a similar number. Yet again: single figures good, double figures better. You look at GMail: your heart races, for that distinctive bold lettering in your inbox is present, standing out in stark contrast from the pallid type below; and there is a number here too, in parentheses after 'Inbox': single figures good, double figures better.
That's what happens on a good day. (On a really good day, Facebook will have three red circles for you.) On a bad day, the Facebook globe is heartbreakingly red-less and banal; Twitter's Liberty Bell is mute; and GMail's Inbox is not bold, not at all. You reel back from the screen(s) in disappointment; your mood crashes and burns; the world seems empty and uninviting and cold and dark. Impatience, frustration, anxiety come rushing in through the portals you have now left open, suffusing your being, residing there till dislodged by the right kind of sensory input from those same screens: the appropriate colors, typefaces, and numbers need to make an appearance to calm and sooth your restless self. We get to work; all the while keeping an eye open and an ear cocked: a number appears on a visible tab, and we switch contexts and screens to check, immediately. An envelope appears on the corner of our screens; mail is here; we must tear open that envelope. Sounds too, intrude; cheeps, dings, and rings issue from our machines to inform us that relief is here. The silence of our devices can be deafening.
Our mood rises and falls in sync.
As is evident, our interactions with the human-computer interfaces of our communications systems have a rich phenomenology: expectations, desires, hopes rush towards with colors and shapes and numbers; their encounters produce mood changes and affective responses. The clever designer shapes the iconography of the interface with care to produce these in the right way, to achieve the desired results: your interaction with the system must never be affectively neutral; it must have some emotional content. We are manipulated by these responses; we behave accordingly.
Machine learning experts speak of training the machines; let us not forget that our machines train us too. By the 'face' they present to us, by the sounds they make, by the 'expressions' visible on them. As we continue to interact with them, we become different people, changed much like we are by our encounters with other people, those other providers and provokers of emotional responses.
The Virtuous, Ubiquitous Skipping Of Lines And Pages
In Immortality (HarperCollins, New York, 1990), Milan Kundera writes,
If a reader skips a single sentence of my novel he won't be able to understand it, and yet where in the world will you find a reader who never skips a line? Am I not myself the greatest skipper of lines and pages?
As a child I was frequently accused by my 'friends'–never by my family–of skipping lines and pages; perhaps because I was thought to read quickly, too quickly. I detected, even then, some envy in these accusations, some resentment (or 'ressentiment') even as I never took myself to be engaging in any bragging about my supposed speed-reading prowess. I defended myself against these charges strenuously but they stuck, hammering away at me, casting doubt and suspicion upon my assessments of my reading abilities and accomplishments. It made me hyper-sensitive about making sure I had read every single word and line in the books I consumed; those accusations bred a peculiar sort of anxiety and insecurity. (Even though, as Kundera notes, everyone skips a line or two.)
Years later, when I first encountered 'difficult texts,' ones that required working through, I was still sensitive to this charge; a book was either read cover to cover, or it was not read at all. This immediately induced a crisis: I was now constantly a failure. I could not read many of these texts from cover to cover; they were too long and doing so took up too much time that had to be spent elsewhere; they were too difficult and simply could not be engaged with at the level required for too long; and so on. As a child, when I was confronted with a book that did not catch my fancy, I dropped it and took up another. But as an adult, 'dropping' a book–or skipping lines and pages–became an indicator of all sorts of moral and intellectual failure; there was no virtuous 'flitting around.' It was all straight ahead, nose to the wheel, or it was not reading at all.
Now, as I look at the many unread books on my shelves, the length of my wishlist on Amazon, and the size of the directories that house the various electronic books I have procured through methods of varying legality, it seems that tactical and strategic skipping of lines, passages, and perhaps entire texts is a practical and intellectual necessity. So much yet to read; so little time left; perhaps a little flitting around is in order? As my dear friend Doris McIlwain once said to me, "you need to be a child again; drop the book you don't like and move to the one you want." And yet, old and new guilt persists: I am not a serious enough reader (or worse, 'scholar'), an easy fear to entertain when one is afflicted with the impostor syndrome; I've always been this way; I've been persistently inauthentic; and so on. As I noted in an older post, these fears tap into a host of others, all concerned with whether we possess the requisite nous and inner resources with which to deal with this life's challenges. Reading being a particularly acute one; here we find a very particular challenging of our supposed virtues.
Hermione Lee On Wasting Nothing
The Art of Biography series of interviews at The Paris Review includes the following exchange between Hermione Lee and Louisa Thomas in No. 4:
This is something you consistently look at—the ways in which a period that is commonly considered a dead period in a writer's life feeds into their work. I'm thinking especially of Cather and her journalism, and Wharton and the marriage years before she writes.
There's a wonderful quotation from Proust, which that great Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen uses. She puts it in her preface to The Last September. "It is those periods of existence which are lived through carelessly, unwillingly, or in boredom, that most often fructify into art." Isn't it excellent that that can be the case. My friend Victoria Glendinning has a motto she uses, which I sometimes steal—"Nothing is wasted." It's a very reassuring and consoling idea, even if it isn't always true. Think of those terrible phases in your life when you're just grinding along, or you're missing your way, or everything seems arid and disappointing. It helps if you can say to yourself, But something will come out of this. Penelope Fitzgerald wrote a note to herself that I take to heart—"Experiences aren't given to us to be 'got over,' otherwise they would hardly be experiences." [links added.]
This is very encouraging, I must admit, for someone quite used to 'grinding along' and 'missing [my] way' all the while thinking that 'everything seems arid and disappointing.' Perhaps that 'experience' itself will form the basis of what I write in the future as indeed, my terrible distraction and attention-deficit, which keeps me from writing and reading as well or as often as I would like to, has served as subject for several posts on that topic.
There is a more fundamental point at play in Lee's remarks. As the friends and families of writers ruefully note, everything serves as raw material for writing. If the dramatic, the astonishing, the spectacular, and the curious can be so pressed into service, then why not the boring, the mundane, the tedious, the weekday? They too make us and our lives into what they are.
As for material being 'wasted,' every book project of mine generates, besides a manuscript file, a 'bit bucket' file, a space where I keep all that I excised from the book: sterile notes, irrelevant asides and digressions, redundancies, orphans of truncated chains of thought. This collection can grow alarmingly large; my current 'bit bucket,' for a book whose notes–I will not dignify that misshapen mass with the appellation 'draft'–run to about eighty thousand words, is almost seven thousand words and twenty-three pages long. These buckets have, over the years, not been pressed into service; the material collected in them has not found its way into other writings of mine. But neither have I deleted them. I have not given up on them. Here, I'm a hoarder; driven by the same spirit that animates Lee remarks, I persist in hoping that they will 'fructify', if not into 'art' then at least into the passably readable.
Repent, The End Of Yet Another Year Is Nigh
It is June 30th, 2015; half the year is over. Depending on your age, you will react to this news with indifference or a curious mix of panic, terror, and melancholy. My reaction, as you might guess by my decision to write this post today, veers–sharply–toward the latter.
Forty might be the new thirty, or perhaps fifty is the new forty, but whatever the latest form of the pithy consolation handed out to those who sense the downward slope on life's hill, there is no getting around, over, or under, the sense of the precipitous acceleration of the clocks as one ages. The theory of special relativity has something to say about this, I'm sure, obsessed as it is with observers, clocks, measurements, and sometime twins doomed to age at differential rates, but the central problem at hand can be described quite easily: the days feel too short, the bright light seems to be approaching a little too quickly. William James, in a characteristically melancholy mood–don't let his sometimes sunny optimism and flowing turn of phrase fool you–noted that "the days and weeks smooth themselves out…and the years grow hollow and collapse."
(As the James reference shows, many bright minds have concerned themselves with this puzzling business, and they haven't stopped:
Friedman, W.J. and S.M.J. Janssen. 2010. Aging and the speed of time. Acta Psychologica 134: 130-141.
Janssen, S.M.J., M. Naka, and W.J. Friedman. 2013. Why does life appear to speed up as people get older? Time & Society 22(2): 274-290.
Wittmann, M. and S. Lehnhoff. 2005. Age effects in perception of time. Psychological Reports 97: 921-935.)
My particular morose take on the rapid passage of time is most acutely manifest in my worrying about about tasks completed or left unfinished and fretting over how to adequately allocate and manage time between my various personal, professional, intellectual, and existential responsibilities. The most depressing variant of this activity was my extremely imprecise calculation of the number of unread books I could see on my shelves, my Amazon wish list, and my 'Downloads' folder. As you might have guessed, my arithmetic confirmed my worst years: There are not enough years left for me to read them all.
My writing on this blog shows I'm a little obsessed by the speedy passage of time. Once–in a post written on July 1st, 2012–I made note of how travel slows down time, and on another occasion, on how a mere change of environment can have the same effect. These maneuvers are of limited efficacy: vacations do not last forever, and the unfamiliar, for an adult, all too rapidly becomes the familiar (that's part of what it means to be an adult, the growing ease of the contextualization of life's offerings.) I had hoped my daughter's birth would slow clocks down, but as our family's marking of two and half years of her life last week showed, that hasn't helped either. Indeed, as many parents keep admonishing me, I'd better hurry up and take more photos and videos of these years, supposedly 'the best ones of all.'
Time is running out; I'd better wrap up, and go do something.
The Clock-Watcher's Punch In The Gut
Last Monday, as I taught my graduate seminar on The Nature of Law, one of the students in attendance turned to look at the clock: we still had some forty-five minutes to go in a two-hour meeting. As I saw this, I experienced a familiar feeling, one that, as usual, temporarily, if not visibly, incapacitated me, tempting me to call a halt to the proceedings right there and then. I didn't, of course, but neither did I just get over it. (I'm blogging about it, am I not?)
I taught a university-level class for the first time, as a graduate teaching assistant, almost twenty-seven years ago. Thirteen years ago, I became a full-time member of the teaching faculty at Brooklyn College. All of which is to say: I've been teaching a long time. But no matter how old that gets, the clock-watching student always manages to cut through the haze and deliver a punch in my gut. Some look left and right, some look back over their heads at the clock behind them. Doesn't matter; they all make me feel the same way.
At that moment, I stand accused of a particularly devastating combination of pedagogical and personal sins: I am boring; I have failed to make the subject matter interesting enough. My pride is buffeted: I am not a riveting performer, entertaining and educating in equal measure; I'm not like those great teachers I keep hearing about who keep their students spell-bound and rapt with attention, sometimes keeping their uncomplaining and adoring brood in class well beyond closing time. Clock watching students seem to inform me, rather unambiguously, that their time could be better utilized elsewhere, that whatever it is I'm selling, it's not worth their hanging around for it.
Little of what I have written above is 'rational', of course. Students are human beings and tire, just like I do. In particular, attending a night-time class is always onerous after a tiring day spent elsewhere, perhaps reading and writing dense material, perhaps working a full-time job. Sometimes clock-watching can be instinctive; we are used to the idea of calibrating our progress through the day with frequent consultation of our time-keepers. Classes are held indoors, and with windows granting access to what might be a more salubrious outside, who wouldn't want to check on how long it will be before the frolicking begins? (This is especially germane now, here on the East Coast of the US, as we recover from a brutal winter and enjoy a glorious spring that has sent temperatures soaring into the sixties.) Lastly, it is not as if all my students are so engaged in clock-watching. One or two out of twenty or thirty might do it; is that so bad? You can't really please all the folks all the time.
And then, of course, there is dirty little secret that many students are well aware of: their teachers also watch clocks. They too want to be done subjecting themselves to this experience, which no matter how inspiring and edifying at its best moments, always carries just a tinge of terror: that unshakeable feeling that your ignorance, instead of your wisdom, will soon be on display.
Learning From Freud: Addiction, Distraction, Schedules
In An Anatomy of an Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted and The Miracle Drug Cocaine, Howard Markel writes:
At some point in every addict's life comes the moment when what started as a recreational escape devolves into an endless reserve of negative physical, emotional, and social consequences. Those seeking recovery today call this drug-induced nadir a "bottom."…The bottom that Sigmund experienced featured far more than the physical and mental ravages of consuming too much cocaine….Most recovering addicts insist that two touchstones of a successful recovery are daily routines and rigorous accountability.
As Sherwin Nuland noted in his review of Markel:
Around 1896, Freud began to follow a constant pattern of awakening before 7 each morning and filling every moment until the very late evening hours with the demands of his ever enlarging practice…writing, lecturing, meeting with colleagues and ruminating over the theories he enunciated in such articulate literary style.
Markel goes on:
It appears unlikely that Sigmund used cocaine after 1896, during the years when he mapped out and composed his best-known and most influential works, significantly enriched and revised the techniques of psychoanalysis and…attempted to 'explain some of the great riddles of human existence.'
Because I consider myself an excessively and easily distracted person, one who finds that his distraction makes him miserable, I was struck by the description of the 'drug-induced nadir' that Markel refers to. In noting my own state of distraction, I wrote:
Like many users of the Internet I suffer terribly from net-induced attention deficit disorder, that terrible affliction that causes one to ceaselessly click on 'Check Mail' buttons, switch between a dozen tabs, log-in-log-out, reload, and perhaps worst of all, seek my machine immediately upon waking in the mornings.
The effect of this distraction on me is not dissimilar to that experienced by other sufferers: I sometimes feel a beehive has taken up residence in my cranium; my attention span is limited to ludicrously short periods; my reading skills have suffered; writing, always a painful and onerous task, has become even more so. Because of the failure to attend to tasks at hand, my to-do, to-read, to-write, to-attend-to lists grow longer and cast ever more accusing glances my way. Worse, their steadily increasing stature ensures that picking a starting point from any of them becomes a task fraught with ever-greater anxiety: as I begin one task, I become aware that several others are crying out for my attention, causing me to either hurry through the one I have started, or worse, to abandon it, and take up something else.
I experience distraction as a fraying at the edges, a coming apart at the seams, a sundering of the center–whichever description you want to use, it's all that in my feverish imaginings and experiencing of it.
Since my primary mode of distraction is 'Net distraction, I'd like to offer another description it. I sometimes use 'screeching' or 'scratching' in trying to describe the activity in the inside of my cranium that makes me want to stand up and run away–and check mail or reload a page–from reading or writing. All too quickly, when working on a computer, I need 'release' and the act of moving the mouse so that something else appears on my screen promises relief. A change of screens, that's all it is. And ironically, I can never take in whatever it is that I switch to. My mind is too blank at that moment, still perhaps processing residual irritation. Then, seething with rapidly accumulating anxiety about my still-on-the-burner work, I switch back. A little later, the 'scratching' begins again. I jump in response. Repeat ad nauseam.
And then, I thought about some of the techniques I've used to try to combat these these states of mind and being:
In the spring of 2009, as I sought to make a book deadline, I first tried to impose internet fasts on myself; I was only intermittently successful. I pulled off a few eight-hour abstentions, starting at 10AM and going till 6PM. I found them tremendously productive: I got long stretches of writing accomplished, and on my breaks, for diversion, read through a stack of unread periodicals. But I found it too hard; and soon, my resolve faltered, and I returned to the bad old days.
This past spring and summer, in an effort to inject some discipline into my writing habits, I began working in forty-five minute blocks; I would set a timer on my phone and resolve to work for that period without interruption. For a few weeks, this method worked astonishingly well. And then, again, my resolve decayed, and I slowly began to drift back to the constantly interrupted writing session, a nightmare of multiple tabs open at once, each monitored for update and interruption.
I have tried many strategies for partial or total withdrawal: timed writing periods (ranging from 30 minutes to an hour); eight-hour fasts (I pulled off several of these in 2009…to date, this remains my most successful, if not repeated since, intervention; since then, somehow, it has been all too easy to convince myself that when I work, I should stay online because, you know, I might need to 'look something up'); weekend sabbaths (only accomplished once, when I logged off on a Friday night, and logged back on on Sunday morning); evening abstentions (i.e., logging off at the end of a workday and not logging back on when I reached home). None of these strategies has survived, despite each one of them bringing succor of a sort.
I do realize, as many others have, that all of this sounds most like an incurable, pernicious addiction.
I take some solace in the fact that the strategies I have adopted–even if unsuccessful–at least put me in some very good company.


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Who Has Better Prices–Walmart or Dollar Tree?
I frequent both places. Walmart more for food and household items. Dollar Tree for cleaning and what I call "temporary" items. Things for my kids that they will break easily.
Missing Texas Boy Found Living In Walmart [Video]
I have to admit, hanging out and "living" in a large retail store would probably be kinda fun.
Like when sitcom TV characters are locked in some sort of funny predicament. Fonzie and the gang locked in Mr. C's vault in Cunningham Hardware. The "Friends" friends in the bedroom, while Ross and Rachel discuss their break-up.
RECALL: Fruit Sold At Costco, Trader Joe's, Walmart
A company in California has issued a voluntary nationwide recall of specific lots of its fresh peaches, plums, nectarines and pluots (a type of plum) because of concerns of possible listeria contamination.
Local Wal Mart Featured In Latest Fresh Over Commercials
The guy who is the "Fresh Over" specialist in the Wal Mart ads is an actor named Earl Chaney. A few weeks back I compared him to local MLive reporter and former radio host Todd Chance. I think the similarities are spooky. Well Earl was in the area not too long ago...
I Couldn't Be The Only One Who Sees This?
I notice who people look alike. Alot. Whether it's someone walking down the street or on TV. If you look like someone I will figure it out. And for the longest time, I have been trying to figure out who the Wal Mart Steak and Fresh Over guy looks.
Woman in Bikini Told to Cover up at Wal-Mart
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I have been married for some time. I got my wife a ring that we could afford. I didn't get her a ring that would make her stand out. I have noticed a few rings in the past week during conversations with customers. It seems like the rings get bigger, and bigger. Some of these rings look like they are elaborate artcarved wedding bands.
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I have been using enigmail for some years and although it is maintained essentially by a single developer it has generally worked very well, including for nightly builds of Thunderbird. Occasionally changed in Thunderbird make it incompatible with Enigmail until the enigmail is patched and rebuilt. This happened in the past month, but today the latest nightly version of Enigmail works beautifully with the current nightly of Thunderbird (3.1pre on 3rd May 2010).
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The Daily Resource 06/26/2009
Good morning …
Precious Metals
Gold was dead flat until an hour before New York opened on Thursday, at which point it commenced a daylong rally that pushed it higher, albeit not very dramatically, as it plodded to a finish at $938.90/oz., up $6.80. Overnight, gold is trending higher.
Platinum finally constructed a solid day, adding $20 during the Comex session and ending at $1185/oz., up $27. Overnight, platinum is pushing higher.
Silver buyers kept appearing after every selling spell, slowly inching the metal higher, and it closed just off its intraday highs at $13.99/oz., up 16 cents. Overnight, silver is sharply.
A strong day for platinum, though hardly a banner one for the other precious metals. Nevertheless, gold and silver both finished comfortably in the green.
The day's disappointment had to be that gold and silver didn't do even better, considering that the usual suspects were leaning in their favor, with the dollar declining against the euro and oil sharply higher.
Analysts also suggested that there was some speculation that record low interest rates—left in place by the Federal Reserve on Wednesday—will spark some demand for the metal as an alternative investment. The Fed said that rates are likely to remain at "exceptionally low levels" for an "extended period."
Kitco's Jon Nadler said of the Fed's decision: "While the Fed's take on the US economic situation reveals a central bank that is encouraged by the signals being broadcast from various sectors, it also shows that when it comes to hiking interest rates in order to avoid deleterious inflationary effects from recent liquidity injections, the time is...well, it is not now."
How far will inflation be allowed to run, and how far the dollar allowed to fall? These are key questions.
In another comment supporting a higher gold price, Commerzbank analysts wrote that, "It is likely that China will buy further gold over the coming months and years, as, in contrast to other countries, gold still accounts for only a small proportion of China's entire foreign exchange reserves."
Many in that country agree. China should buy gold rather than U.S. debt because the Fed's policies make dollar depreciation inevitable, Li Lianzhong, a senior Communist Party official, told a conference in Beijing yesterday.
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In the currency market, the dollar lost ground to the euro. Late Thursday, the euro was trading at $1.3991 vs. $1.3926 on Wednesday.
"Equity and commodity markets advanced, encouraging rotation out of the greenback," said analysts at Action Economics.
Also noted was that, "The dollar has been driven over the last two days by central bank activity. One is the Swiss National Bank, which appears to be continuing its buying of dollars," said Meg Browne, a currency analyst at Brown Brothers Harriman.
The Swiss National Bank is publicly committed to stemming any haven-related appreciation in the franc, but as to what it may be doing, said that it doesn't comment on intervention rumors.
However, the franc's strength has proven "increasingly self-sustaining," says Ashraf Laidi, chief market strategist at CMC Markets in New York. It has attracted support because of "broadening risk aversion, short-lived dollar strength and emerging doubts" about euro-zone banks," Laidi said.
The day's hard number was from the Labor Department, which said the number of U.S. workers filing new claims for jobless benefits unexpectedly rose for the week ended June 20 by 15,000, to 627,000. Ccontinuing claims—those drawn by workers for more than one week—climbed 29,000, to 6,738,000. Both numbers had fallen the previous week.
In the energy market on Thursday, crude for August delivery was higher, closing at $70.23/barrel, up $1.56. July reformulated gasoline rose 5.58 cents, to $1.8983/gallon.
"It seems oil is rallying with stocks," said Zachary Oxman, managing director at TrendMax Futures. "There are no major supply demand issues present."
However, traders were also reacting to the weaker-than-expected inventory report from Wednesday, and to further violence in Nigeria.
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, or MEND, claimed responsibility yesterday for a predawn attack against Royal Dutch Shell facilities, calling it a warning to Russia not to invest in the African country's oil and gas industry, according to Dow Jones Newswires.
The attack on the Bille-Krakama pipeline, which feeds the key Bonny export terminal in southern Rivers State, was carried out to coincide with a visit to Nigeria by Russian President Dmitry Medvedevk, MEND reportedly said.
Base Metals
The base metals were all smiling again on Thursday. Copper was down until just before the New York open, then took off, peaking north of $2.31 near noon, before sliding a bit to finish at $2.2996/lb., up nearly 4 1/2 cents. Nickel was like a yo-yo all day, but with an upward bias, ending at $7.0292/lb., up 9 2/3 cents. Zinc pushed steadily higher from the late pre-dawn hours on, closing at $0.7267/lb., up more than a penny and a half. Aluminum had a good day, adding a penny and a third, to $0.7448/lb., while lead filled out the plus column, tacking on a penny and a half, to $0.7761/lb.
Copper led the industrial metals higher as analysts saw more budding economic optimism, along with strong momentum among the technical indicators.
On the economic front, "Whenever any kind of good data comes out, people like to think that they are seeing some 'green shoots' for the economy," said Gijsbert Groenewegen, a Gold Arrow Capital Management partner in New York. "The idea of the better growth has made people buy copper."
However, Copper's 64% gain this year may be "unsustainable" as prices have "gotten ahead of demand," Groenewegen said. "People are just looking at these numbers through rosy glasses and not seeing that even though they are slightly better, things are still weak … People are oblivious to what's really happening in the underlying economy."
And over on the technical side, "When we took out [Wednesday's] high ($2.3020 a lb), that was significant and we saw more upside interest in the market once that occurred," said Larry Young, of Infinity Futures in Chicago.
But, Young added, "Keep in mind we have the end of the second quarter coming up next week and have had a really good quarter in terms of the metals, so I wouldn't be surprised to see prices sell off maybe by tomorrow or early next week as some funds book profits."
RBC Capital Markets takes a look at the tea leaves and sees mush, writing that, "Closed arbitrage windows between the Shanghai and London Metal Exchange markets, the summer slowdown and speculation that China's SRB may be looking to sell copper continue to muddy the short-term picture."
But on the stockpile front, copper inventories monitored by the LME declined another 3,450 metric tons yesterday, to 271,600 tons, the lowest level since mid-November.
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A hepatoprotective
In traditional Chinese and Korean medicine, an aqueous extract derived from wood and bark of the Japanese spice bush
Four human HCC cell lines representing diverse stages of differentiation were treated with
The traditional application of the extract is confirmed by our experimental data. Due to its potential to inhibit critical receptor tyrosine kinases involved in HCC progression via the IGF-1 signaling pathway and NF-κB, the standardized
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) results from chronic liver disease and is the most common malignancy of the liver
The receptor tyrosine kinase insulin like growth factor-1 receptor (IGF-1R) and its ligands, IGF-1 and IGF-2, are essential for cell growth and development
IGF-1R signaling via the PI-3K/AKT-axis also impacts the nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-κB), which is not only considered a key factor in inflammation but also regulates angiogenesis and as a major characteristic mediates inhibition of apoptosis
Traditionally, Oriental medicine makes use of compositions from or mixtures of different plants to prevent or to treat cancer and liver diseases
In traditional Chinese and Korean medicine preparations from
Bioactive components from the leaves of
However, experimental data from in vitro or in vivo studies on anti-neoplastic effects of
Materials and reagents
Tissue culture plates and polystyrene microtiter for ELISA as well as for fluorimetric analysis were from Nunc (Roskilde, Denmark) and Dynex (Chantilly, VA), respectively. If not stated otherwise, all reagents were purchased from Merck (Darmstadt, Germany) or Sigma-Aldrich (Deisenhofen, Germany) and were of the highest purity available. Cell culture media and solutions were purchased from Invitrogen (Karlsruhe, Germany) or Biochrom (Berlin, Germany).
Preparation and standardization of
Freeze-dried extracts of
Cell culture
The human HCC cell lines HepG2 (ATCC HV-8062), Hep3B (ATCC HV-8064), Huh-7 (JCRB 0403; Tokio, Japan) and SK-Hep1 (ATCC HTB-52) cells (Fuchs et al., 2008) were cultured in a humidified atmosphere at 37°C and 5% CO2. Standard culture medium consisted of DMEM with 862 mg/l L-alanyl-L-glutamine, 4.5 g/l glucose, 50 μg/ml streptomycin, 50 units/ml penicillin, 50 μg/ml L-ascorbic acid, supplemented with 10% heat-inactivated fetal bovine serum (FBS). Cell layers were detached with 0.05% trypsin/0.02% EDTA solution. Cell morphology in culture was directly examined by inverse phase contrast microscopy (Zeiss, Oberkochen, Germany).
HCC cell proliferation
HCC cells (5 × 103) were seeded into 96-well tissue culture plates in 100 μl standard culture medium. After 24 h, cells were cell cycle synchronized in 100 μl culture medium containing 0.2% FBS for additional 24 h. Cultures were treated with up to 200 μg/ml
Cell invasion assays
50 μl of 3 mg/ml Matrigel™ (BD Biosciences, Heidelberg, Germany) diluted in ice cold, serum free DMEM were used to coat the upper compartments of 24-well transwell inserts (BD Biosciences; pore size 8 μm) for 16 h at 37°C. 2 × 105 cells diluted in 300 μl serum free medium were seeded into the upper compartments and
Apoptosis by caspase 3/7 activity
Apoptosis was quantified fluorimetrically from caspase-3/7 activity. In brief, 2 × 105 HCC cells in standard culture medium were seeded into 24-well tissue culture plates. Confluent cell layers were thoroughly washed with DMEM and subsequently incubated with culture medium containing 0.2% FBS for 24 h. Cells were then treated for another 24 h in the presence of 100 μg/ml L.obtusiloba extract or 100 nM staurosporine and 0.2% FBS. Apoptosis was determined using the SensoLyte™ Homogenous AFC Caspase-3/7 Assay Kit (AnaSpec, San Jose, CA) according to the manufactures instructions. Briefly, cells were lysed in 200 μl lysis buffer for 1 h at 4°C. The clear supernatant obtained after centrifugation at 2,500 × g for 30 min was stored at -80°C until measurement. Caspase 3/7-mediated conversion of the substrate N-acetyl-Asp-Glu-Val-Asp-7 amino-4 trifluoromethyl coumarin was monitored fluorometrically using a Spectramax Gemini EM microplate reader (λex: 380 nm, λem: 500 nm; Molecular Devices, Sunnyvale, CA).
HCC cells cultured in 6-well tissue culture plates with 125 ng/ml human recombinant IGF-1 (Biomol, Hamburg, Germany), 100 μg/ml
Transient transfection of HCC cells
Transfection of the cells was performed using the electroporation method and a NF-κB-luciferase reporter plasmid as described by Stroh et al.
Assessment of NF-κB activation by luciferase assay
Twenty hours after transfection with the NF-κB-luciferase reporter plasmid
Statistical Analysis
One way ANOVA/Tukey Tests were performed using SigmaStat for Windows (version 2.03; Systat, San Jose, CA). P < 0.05 was considered significantly different.
Effects of
Figure 1
Proliferation, apoptosis and invasion of HCC cell lines treated with
Proliferation, apoptosis and invasion of HCC cell lines treated with
HCC represents a highly vascularized tumor entity and the tumor cells contribute to that process by production of proteins regulating angiogenesis. Thus, we next investigated whether
Table 1
Expression of VEGF and HIF-1α in human HCC cell lines
VEGF expression
HIF-1α expression
IGF-1 and
IGF-1 and
1.02 ± 0.03
0.75 ± 0.10*
0.93 ± 0.06
3.58 ± 0.26*
0.72 ± 0.07*
0.82 ± 0.11#
0.82 ± 0.18
0.67 ± 0.09*
0.54 ± 0.10*,#
1.52 ± 0.21*
0.62 ± 0.11*
0.63 ± 0.07*,#
1.38 ± 0.05*
0.28 ± 0.10*
0.47 ± 0.08*,#
0.89 ± 0.12
0.14 ± 0.04*
0.05 ± 0.03*,#
3.28 ± 0.24*
0.93 ± 0.10
0.83 ± 0.09#
1.28 ± 0.13*
0.67 ± 0.09*
0.68 ± 0.12*,#
Whole cell lysates from cells treated with 100 μg/ml
The expression of the nuclear transcription factor PPARγ and its target genes COX-2 and iNOS are implicated in hepatocarcinogenesis and in the formation of enhanced microvessel density in HCC tissues. Effects of
Table 2
Expression of PPARγ, COX-2 and iNOS in human HCC cell lines
PPARγ expression
COX-2 expression
iNOS expression
IGF-1 and
IGF-1 and
IGF-1 and
4.31 ± 0.51*
0.76 ± 0.14
1.15 ± 0.09#
1.17 ± 0.07
0.21 ± 0.14*
0.21 ± 0.09*;#
1.33 ± 0.12*
0.84 ± 0.09
0.81 ± 0.05#
2.28 ± 0.19*
0.77 ± 0.08*
1.09 ± 0.04*;#
1.17 ± 0.05
0.21 ± 0.10*
0.31 ± 0.12*;#
1.43 ± 0.11*
0.75 ± 0.09*
0.89 ± 0.07#
3.21 ± 0.34*
0.80 ± 0.07*
0.82 ± 0.09#
1.87 ± 0.12*
0.27 ± 0.12*
0.35 ± 0.06*;#
Cell lysates of HCC cell lines as described for Table 1, were subjected to specific western-blots for PPARγ, COX 2 and iNOS and for β actin as equal loading control. Densitometry of specific band intensity was normalized to β-actin expression. Mean values ± SD from three independent experiments. PPARγ, COX-2 and iNOS protein expression levels were calculated in relation to the respective untreated cells. Mean values ± SD from three independent experiments. *P < 0.05 compared to the untreated control, # P < 0.05 compared to IGF-1-treated cells, n.d. - not detected
Taken together and complementing the results from the preceding experiments, these data suggest direct effects of
The IGF-1/IGF-1R axis plays an important role in angiogenesis and therefore the development of HCC. To investigate signaling pathways involved, western-blots specific for (p)IGF-1R and the activation states of its target proteins were focused on Hep3B as one out of the three less invasive HCC cells (compare Figure
Figure 2
Effects of
Effects of
Table 3
Effects of
L.obtusiloba extract
IGF-1 and L.obtusiloba extract
L.obtusiloba extract
IGF-1 and L.obtusiloba extract
4.81 ± 0.40*
0.73 ± 0.08*
2.21 ± 0.31*; #
22.3 ± 1.98*
0.81 ± 0.07
5.02 ± 0.60*; #
2.96 ± 0.25*
1.02 ± 0.10
1.67 ± 0.19*; #
27.7 ± 2.84*
1.12 ± 0.09
19.3 ± 1.45*; #
2.01 ± 0.18*
0.20 ± 0.07*
0.38 ± 0.21*; #
2.91 ± 0.22*
1.23 ± 0.20
1.18 ± 0.19#
1.32 ± 0.14*
0.13 ± 0.03*
0.57 ± 0.07*; #
2.81 ± 0.32*
1.01 ± 0.10
1.82 ± 0.17*; #
HCC cells were treated with 100 μg/ml
These findings that
NF-κB is a key regulator of crucial pro-inflammatory cytokines during carcinogenesis and promotes cell survival and angiogenesis. Since
Figure 3
NF-κB activity of HCC cell lines in the presence of
NF-κB activity of HCC cell lines in the presence of
In the present study with human HCC cell lines we provide evidence that a well standardized aqueous extract from wood and bark of
Initially, we examined the effects of a standardized active extract of
Aberrant growth and apoptosis regulation in carcinogenesis is mediated by growth factor receptors such as IGF-1R which therefore represents an attractive therapeutic target
IGF-1R signaling also impacts the expression of the transcription factor PPARγ which in turn modulates the expression of other angiogenesis-regulating proteins like COX-2 and iNOS. The implication of PPARγ in carcinogenesis is still debated. Some data show anti-tumor effects of PPARγ ligands. However, these effects could also be independent of PPARγ activation and in addition the usage of PPARγ antagonists also exerts anticancer effects
In line with previous reports
Beside PPARγ, IGF-R-signaling, through different upstream pathways, could trigger the activation of the transcription factor NF-κB
As shown in Figure
In summary, our findings
Regarding biologically active compounds in the extract several studies describe the isolation and structural characterization of drugs from
Complemental to the anti-fibrogenic, anti-inflammatory and anti-adipogenic efficacy of
Due to its potential to inhibit critical receptor tyrosine kinases involved in HCC progression via the IGF-1 signaling pathway and NF-κB, we conclude that
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors' contributions
CF participated in the design and coordination of the study, carried out the analyses and wrote the manuscript. MR and UE helped to draft the manuscript. UN and DS provided the HCC cell lines and helped to draft the manuscript. KK helped to prepare the
This study was supported by the Collaborative Research Centers (SFB366 C5/C10) and (SFB633 Z1) from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and by the Medical Research Council, UK.
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So my son is almost 2, and we were happily at the point where he had been waking up once a night, for the most part. He was always a rotten sleeper, but I just got used to it. He never wanted a pacifier or any kind of "lovey" except for me (nursing and my belly button). I am 5 months pregnant and he weaned himself about a month ago, which I was pretty sad about. We have found some different ways to get him off to sleep, like rubbing his belly and lying next to him, talking about everything being "sleepy," etc. Now his preference is to take a small toy to bed, like a little car or train, and I'll do the rest like I usually do. He also likes to take the toy de jour to eat with him at the table at dinner and on trips in the car. The toy changes periodically. It's actually really cute.
But in the night, he is waking up crying and asking, "Where'd it go?" and wanting help searching for the toy. He will sometimes stuff the toys under his blanket, maybe to "tuck them in," but then they get lost in there. It's kind of frustrating for me now, though, especially nights when he seems a little more fragile/restless and we have to retrieve the toy 3+ times (on top of the water/snuggling request, etc.) in the night.
I was wondering if anyone has any ideas for either taking the toys out of the picture, or if you know this phase and can tell me it will end without me doing anything :). Nap time is getting harder now because he is making special sleeping toy requests, even if he already has one in hand. If I give in, the falling asleep part takes much longer, but if I don't give in, there is a tantrum. I feel conflicted about setting limits around this one, because he seems to love having these special things accompany him and I don't want to totally take that away.
Any thoughts?
My just turning 2yo takes toys to bed when she doesn't fall asleep nursing It started as a way for her to be comfortable with me leaving he room after putting her in bed, and in the beginning it started to get out of hand with her wanting more stuffies (mainly Minnie mouse) than there was room in her bed, and if I didn't grab ALL of them for her night nursing, she would flip out, hyperventilate....like on the verge of passing out even with us holding her. I casually implemented the rule that mommy's arms can't hold anything more than her, blankie, and 2 Minnie's. She threw one or two more fits n the middle of the night, but calmed down and stopped requesting the circus in bed. I think partially it was just a phase that she outgrew. She does still take a few novel toys to bed, but it hasn't been too much of an issue.
When DS1 was that age (or in that phase, and yes, it is a phase) we made a special place in the corner of the bed for his 'toy d'jour' as you called it. That way the toy could be with him, but he could also help put it to bed as well which he liked. When the toys were hard (wooden toys or cars or such) I would make a little "bed" for it with a receiving blanket or something. I toyed with the idea of sewing a pocket that would hang from a headboard or on the wall next to his bed for the smaller toys. The phase was over before I had a chance to start that project though! That might work for you guys...
Good luck mama!
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