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The prevalence of hypertension increases after menopause with 75% of postmenopausal women developing hypertension in the United States, along with hypertensive end organ diseases. While human and animal model studies have indicated a protective role for estrogen against cardiovascular disease and glomerulosclerosis, clinical studies of hormone replacement therapy in postmenopausal women have shown polar results with some improvement in hypertension but worsening of hypertensive kidney disease, or no effect at all. These observations suggest that the pathogenesis of postmenopausal hypertension and its target organ complications is more complex than projected, and that loss of endogenous estrogens induces epigenetic changes that alter genetic susceptibility to end-organ complications per se resulting in pathogenetic mechanisms beyond correction by hormone replacement. We studied postmenopausal-induced changes in renal disease and performed a total genome scan for quantitative trait loci (QTLs) affecting kidney disease in postmenopausal 16m-old F2[Dahl S x R]-intercross female rats. We used glomerular injury score (GIS) as quantitative trait. We compared QTLs amongst premenopausal, ovariectomized and postmenopausal F2[Dahl S x R]-intercross rats using identical phenotype characterization. Postmenopausal F2[Dahl S x R]-intercross rats exhibited increased hypertensive glomerulosclerosis (P<0.01) and equivalent levels of kidney disease when compared to premenopausal and ovariectomized F2[Dahl S x R]-intercross rats respectively. We detected three significant to highly significant GIS-QTLs (GIS-pm1 on chromosome 4, LOD 3.54; GIS-pm2 on chromosome 3, LOD 2.72; GIS-pm3 on chromosome 5, LOD 2.37) and two suggestive GIS-QTLs (GIS-pm4 on chromosome 2, LOD 1.70; GIS-pm5 on chromosome 7, LOD 1.28), all of which were unique to this postmenopausal population. Detection of increased renal disease phenotype in postmenopausal and ovariectomized subjects suggests a protective role of ovarian hormones. Furthermore, the detection of distinct GIS-QTLs in postmenopausal intercross female rats suggests that distinct genetic mechanisms underlie hypertensive glomerulosclerosis in premenopausal and postmenopausal states.
In general, hypertensive kidney disease is less common in women compared to men [1]–[5], however this gender protective effect diminishes and tends to disappear with the onset of menopause [6] leading to the accepted paradigm that hormone replacement in postmenopausal women would prevent hypertension and its end-organ complications such as hypertensive kidney disease. However, cumulative data report polar results regarding the benefits from hormone replacement therapy for hypertension [7] as well as for its end-organ complications with some studies reporting improvement in kidney function [8]–[10] while other studies detecting either no change [11] or worsening of postmenopausal kidney function in postmenopausal women [12]. These discordant results have been attributed to several factors such as the use of distinct study populations [8], [9], [11], the type of hormone replacement therapy (estrogen or progestin), and/or differences in dosing or route of delivery [9], [11]. Alternatively, barring technical errors, discordant observations on the efficacy of hormone replacement therapy for postmenopausal hypertension raises the hypothesis that the pathogenesis of hypertensive kidney disease is far more complex than projected and is currently poorly understood. Differential pathogenic mechanisms could underlie postmenopausal hypertension and its end-organ diseases thus explaining differential response to the same therapy, or that hormone replacement could simply be non-protective, if not detrimental to post-menopausal hypertensive kidney disease or renal function in general.
Given that some patients have worsening of kidney function with hormone replacement therapy [12], it is important to determine the phenotype of hypertensive kidney disease in a postmenopausal F2[Dahl S x R]-intercross rat cohort which has demonstrated increased salt-sensitive hypertension in postmenopausal rats far greater than the mean blood pressure levels reached in both premenopausal female rats and premenopausal ovariectomized female rats [13], and wherein experimental environmental and genetic confounders are minimized if not eliminated. Furthermore, given that distinct genetic factors, or quantitative trait loci (QTLs), underlie premenopausal hypertension [13], [14] as well as in premenopausal ovariectomized female rats [15], it is important to determine whether distinct QTLs also underlie postmenopausal hypertensive kidney disease. Identification of distinct QTLs for postmenopausal renal disease will elucidate that premenopausal and postmenopausal kidney disease has distinct pathogenic mechanisms. This is important to dissect and elucidate as prerequisites to the identification of novel approaches to prevent or treat postmenopausal kidney disease.
In order to investigate potential differences in genetic mechanisms underlying premenopausal and postmenopausal susceptibility to hypertensive renal disease, we performed a total genome scan for QTLs affecting glomerular injury score (GIS) as a quantitative measure of hypertensive nephrosclerosis [16] using an F2 (Dahl S x R)-intercross postmenopausal female rat population characterized for glomerular injury scores. Results were then compared to phenotype characteristics and genome scan results obtained in premenopausal [14] and premenopausal ovariectomized F2 [Dahl S x R]-intercross female rats [15]. Data demonstrate that distinct QTLs underlie postmenopausal hypertensive renal disease in contrast to premenopausal kidney disease.
To determine whether worse hypertension observed in postmenopausal rats [13] is also associated with increased end-organ disease or the opposite as observed in some clinical studies [12], we analyzed established quantitative measures of hypertensive nephrosclerosis, glomerular injury scores (GIS) [16] and compared GIS measures among postmenopausal F2[Dahl S x R]-intercross rats, premenopausal ovariectomized F2[Dahl S x R]-intercross rats [15], and premenopausal F2[Dahl S x R]-intercross rats [14]. As shown in Figure 1, glomerular injury scores were increased significantly in postmenopausal and premenopausal ovariectomized F2[Dahl S x R]-intercross rats when compared with premenopausal female rats (P<0.01). These results indicate concordance of hypertension and renal disease susceptibility in postmenopausal F2[Dahl S x R]intercross-rats showing increased susceptibility to salt-sensitive hypertension [13] and hypertensive nephrosclerosis in postmenopausal state.
In order to demonstrate the robust spectrum of the hypertensive kidney disease phenotype measured by GIS, histological photomicrographs images are presented representing the tail-ends of the spectrum of GIS scores (Figure 2). Histological review of representative rat kidney sections with low GIS (≤115) shows that low GIS is associated overall with less glomerulosclerosis, less thickening of glomerular mesangial matrix and basement membrane, less number of tubular casts and tubular basement membrane thickening (Figure 2 A–D). In marked contrast, representative kidney sections with high GIS scores (≥265) kidneys show glomerulosclerosis, thickening of glomerular mesangial matrix and basement membrane, as well as thickening of renal tubular basement membranes and more tubular casts (Figure 2 E–H). The analysis of representative histological images of low (≤115) vs high (≥265) GIS values reveal the concordance of histopathological severity of hypertensive kidney disease with GIS, thus corroborating the robust phenotype measure.
One hundred and thirty postmenopausal F2 female hybrids were genotyped at 100 markers informative for Dahl S and Dahl R strains. Using dominant and recessive models, we detected five GIS-QTLs not previously reported in premenopausal [14] and premenopausal ovariectomized [15] females (Table 1, Figure 3). One with highly significant linkage on chromosome 4, GIS-pm1 (Figure 3A, LOD=3.54), two with significant linkage on chromosome 3 GIS-pm2 (Figure 3B, LOD=2.72) and on chromosome 5 GIS-pm3 (Figure 3C, LOD=2.37), and two with suggestive linkage on chromosome 2 GIS-pm4 (Figure 3D, LOD=1.70) and on chromosome 7 GIS-pm5 (Figure 3E, LOD=1.28). We note that in GIS-pm1, GIS-pm4 and GIS-pm5, the S allele decreases susceptibility to renal disease, thereby corroborating distinct pathogenic mechanisms involved in susceptibility to glomerulosclerosis in premenopausal and postmenopausal states.
Our analysis also reveals a number of gene-gene interactions in the postmenopausal female F2-intercross cohort for GIS that surpassed the threshold criteria for interaction (Table 2). In contrast, a single interacting-locus was detected in the premenopausal female F2[Dahl S x R]intercross-rat cohort affecting glomerular injury score that fulfilled criteria for gene interaction [14].
Premenopausal females are less susceptible than men to hypertensive renal disease [17] and heart disease [18]. However, after menopause the incidence of chronic renal disease in women increases suggesting that the loss of sex hormones contributes to the development and progression of kidney disease [6]. This is supported by some experimental data. In studies using ovariectomized Dahl-S rats as an animal model of surgically-induced postmenopausal salt-sensitive hypertension, 17β-estradiol attenuated age-related renal dysfunction [19], [20]. However, studies of hormone replacement therapy in aging women are controversial, with some studies showing improvement [8]–[10] and others showing loss of kidney function [12].
Our studies in premenopausal, premenopausal-ovariectomized and spontaneously postmenopausal female rats clearly show that hypertensive kidney disease or nephrosclerosis, measured as glomerular injury score, is more severe in postmenopausal and ovariectomized rats compared with premenopausal rats concordant with higher blood pressure levels detected in postmenopausal rats when compared with premenopausal rats [13]. These results confirm differential pathogenesis of hypertension and its end-organ diseases in premenopausal and post menopausal states, as well as corroborate the role of ovarian hormones in postmenopausal hypertension–protective role(s) for blood pressure and for hypertensive renal disease. These observations are concordant with the studies reporting that estrogen/progestin replacement therapy improved renal function [8]–[10].
The identification of five distinct QTLs affecting renal disease in postmenopausal rats but which were not detected in premenopausal [14] and premenopausal ovariectomized F2[Dahl S x R]-intercross rats [15] demonstrate distinct pathogenetic mechanisms involved in development and progression of kidney disease in postmenopausal rats. These observations also indicate complex roles of sex hormones in postmenopausal female heath, and that given the known complexity of aging mechanisms, hormone replacement for postmenopausal hypertension and its complications would likely not suffice for projected restorative efficacy.
In three out five GIS-QTLs detected in postmenopausal rats the S allele decreased susceptibility to hypertensive glomerulosclerosis. In contrast, in both premenopausal [14] and ovariectomized [15] cohorts the S allele increased susceptibility to kidney disease. Analysis of reported QTLs affecting glomerulosclerosis in other Dahl S intercrosses using different normotensive strains revealed that GIS-pm2 and GIS-pm4 chromosomal regions overlapped with QTLs affecting glomerular injury in a premenopausal female F2[Dahl S x Brown Norway]intercross rat cohort [21], however the directionality of the GIS-pm4 S allele effect on renal disease differed with the S allele decreasing susceptibility in our postmenopausal cohort and increasing susceptibility in the premenopausal F2[Dahl S x Brown Norway]intercross rat population [21]. This suggests that the gene underlying GIS-pm2 might affect glomerulosclerosis independently of environment and age, in contrast to the gene accounting for GIS-pm4 which appears to affect renal disease in an environment and age-dependent manner. Identification of corresponding gene variants will be necessary to verify this hypothesis.
Candidate gene analysis encompassing ±15 Mbp from the peaks of GIS QTLs detected with significant and highly significant linkage revealed several candidate genes. For GIS-pm1 on chromosome 4 Adcyap1r1 (adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide 1 receptor 1) gene is located at Chr4-84.2 Mbp. For GIS-pm2 QTL peak on chromosome 3 Avp (arginine vasopressin) gene localizes to Chr3-118.2 Mbp and for GIS-pm3 the CYP4A gene cluster (Chr5-135.5 Mbp) and Edn2 (endothelin 2) at chr5-140.7 Mbp are possible candidates. Interestingly, Adcyap1r1 (also known as PAC1 receptor) and its ligand (PACAP) are present in kidney, mainly on tubular epithelial cells [22]. The PAC1R/PACAP system has been associated with tubuloprotective effects in the kidney [23]–[25]. Avp mapping to GIS-pm2 is a potential candidate based on its well known relationship to chronic kidney disease [26]. On the other hand, the CYP4A gene cluster has been shown to affect renal injury in male congenic Dhal S rats introgressed with the chromosome 5 CYP4A region of Lewis rats [27] and Edn2 has been implicated in feline naturally occurring renal failure [28] and in development of glomerulosclerosis in transgenic rats expressing the human Edn2 [29], thus both genes could be candidates that might underlie the effect of GIS-pm3 on hypertensive nephrosclerosis as represented in GIS measures.
In conclusion, our study demonstrates the involvement of distinct genetic mechanisms in premenopausal and postmenopausal hypertensive renal disease, and confirms the paradigm that differential genetic mechanisms underlie hypertension and its different target-organ complications in both premenopausal and postmenopausal states. These observations imply that treating hypertension resulting in the lowering of blood pressure does not necessarily address hypertensive target organ complications since the latter have distinct genetic mechanisms as demonstrated by different QTLs. The elucidation of distinct genetic mechanisms in premenopausal and postmenopausal hypertension as well as in hypertensive end organ diseases establishes a primary etiological framework for novel prevention and intervention strategies that needs to be studied further.
Altogether, these data mandate that the study of hypertension genes requires stage specific analyses for female hypertensives. Given that current anti-hypertensive therapies and prevention strategies have not eradicated hypertension nor adequately addressed postmenopausal hypertension, studies of postmenopausal hypertension and end-organ diseases need to be prioritized, if not mandatory, especially since hypertension remains a major risk factor for heart disease, kidney disease and stroke, which combine to be the number-one causes of mortality and morbidity in females.
This study was performed in strict accordance with the recommendations in the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals of the National Institutes of Health. The protocol was approved by the Committee on the Ethics of Animal Experiments of Boston University School of Medicine (Permit Number: AN-14966).
Inbred Dahl S/jrHsd and Dahl R/jrHsd rats were obtained from Harlan (Indianapolis, Indiana). Parental strains (Dahl R/jrHsd female x Dahl S/jrHsd male) were crossed to produce F1 progeny. The F2 subjects were derived from brother-to-sister mating of F1 hybrids to produce the F2 female (n=130) segregating population.
In order to ascertain postmenopausal status of the female F2 hybrids daily vaginal smears were performed on females to determine the stage of their estrous cycle (diestrous, proestrous or estrous) essentially as described [30], [31]. Female hybrids bred for phenotypic characterization were subjected to vaginal smears commencing at 12 months of age until 14 months of age. Cessation of cycling in the female hybrids was defined as continuous estrous for 4 weeks [30]. The postmenopausal F2 population showed that >99% of females stopped cycling by 14 months of age.
Female subjects were maintained on a low salt (0.008 % NaCl) diet until high salt (8 % NaCl) challenge began at 14 months of age to avoid raises in blood pressure prior the high salt challenge. Females were fed a high salt (8 % NaCl) diet for 8 weeks. At 16 months of age animals were sacrificed and kidneys were immediately removed, fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde, processed for histology and renal pathology quantified as described [14], [32]. All glomeruli (on average n=209) in one frontal renal section were analyzed in a blind manner for degree of glomerulosclerosis and mesangial matrix expansion. Glomerulosclerosis was defined as disappearance of cellular elements from the tuft, collapse of capillary lumen, and folding of the glomerular basement membrane with entrapment of amorphous material. Mesangial matrix expansion was defined by the presence of increased amounts of PAS-positive material in the mesangial region. PAS-stained slides were reviewed using a Zeiss Axioskop microscope and digital photomicroscopy performed using identical settings to validate visual comparative analysis. Cortical glomeruli and tubules were analyzed at low (50x) and high magnification (200x). Renal pathology grade I, 0–25% involvement of glomerulus with pathology; II, 26–50% involvement; III, 51–75% involvement; IV, 76–100% involvement. For premenopausal and postmenopausal cohorts comparison the extent of injury for each renal section was calculated as the glomerular injury score (GIS)=(1 x % grade I)+(2 x % grade II)+(3 x % grade III)+(4 x % grade IV), increasing with worse injury represented by glomerulosclerosis and mesangial matrix expansion [14], [32]. For linkage analysis we used [% grade III+% grade IV] as quantitative trait because gave the most robust results on QTL analysis.
Distributions were analyzed for normality; data transformations were done and datasets that passed Kolmogorov-Smirnov normality testing (SigmaStat) were used for linkage analysis. QTL analysis was performed using glomerular injury score (GIS) defined as [% grade III+% grade IV] as quantitative trait. In our postmenopausal female F2 intercross population, previously characterized for blood pressure [13], renal disease (GIS) showed no significant relationship with systolic blood pressure upon Pearson Product Moment Correlation analysis (GIS-SBP Correlation Coefficient =0.149, P=0.09), thus QTL analysis for GIS was performed without adjustment for BP. Linkage maps, marker regression and composite interval mapping were done with the Map Manager QTXb19 (MMQTXb19) program for windows [33] which generates a likelihood ratio statistic (LRS) as a measure of the significance of a possible QTL. Genetic distances were calculated using Kosambi mapping function (genetic distances are expressed in centiMorgan, cM). Critical significance values (LRS values) for interval mapping were determined by a permutation test (2000 permutations at all loci tested) on our postmenopausal female cohort using Kosambi mapping function and a constrained (dominant or recessive) regression model. Values for suggestive linkage LRS=5.3 (LOD 1.15), for significant linkage LRS=10.0 (LOD 2.17) and for highly significant linkage LRS=14.6 (LOD 3.17). LRS 4.6 delineates LOD 1-support interval. Confidence interval for a QTL location was estimated by bootstrap resampling method wherein histogram single peak delineates the QTL and peak widths define confidence interval for the QTL. Histograms which show more than one peak warn that the position for the QTL is not well defined or that there may be multiple linked QTLs (QTX Map Manager). We also performed interaction analysis using the Map Manager QTXb19 program applying a two-stage test paradigm for determination of interaction in which the pair of loci must pass two tests in order to be reported as having a significant interaction effect. First, the significance of the total effect of the two loci must be <0.000001 and second, the pairs of loci must exhibit a P value <0.01 for the interaction effect.
SNP genotyping was carried out on an Applied Biosystems 7900 Real-Time PCR System. SNPs (n=97) and SSLP markers (n=3) were selected from the RGD SNP database. SNP assays (TaqMan assays) were procured from Applied Biosystems and were validated in our laboratory.
Analysis of phenotypes in F2 female cohorts was done by one-way ANOVA followed by all pairwise multiple comparisons using Holm-Sidak test. The statistical analysis was performed using the software SigmaPlot for Windows Version 11.0, Build 22.214.171.124 (2008 Systat Software, Inc.).
This work was supported by a grant from the NIH: HL086532 to NR-O. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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Inspired by true events, David Wenham stars in this extraordinary story of a country's birth by fire. After the East Timorese vote for independence from Indonesia, the militia teams begin to burn the country to the ground in this dramatic conclusion to Answered by Fire, screening Sunday 28 May, 8.30pm.
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As the UN contingent hunkers down within the compound, a group of 1500 Timorese create an improvised refugee camp next door. Their hopes of safety evaporate late one night as TNI soldiers start firing over the heads of the terrified refugees. In a panic, the Timorese rush the UN gate, climbing over the compound wall and right into razor wire. New York orders the UN mission to evacuate to Darwin. Reading the signs, Madalena slips out of the compound and into the hills... back to Nunura, to find her brother and father.
Meanwhile, the militia have already found them, hiding with other locals in the Nunura church. They offer a deal: if Joao agrees to turn himself in, the rest are free to go. Joao accepts, but Ismenio insists on going with him and his worst fears become reality.
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Michael Saunders called in from her vacation home to comment on November's housing numbers.
Though the Sarasota-Bradenton market led the state in a November median sales price drop of 18 percent, it also led in a 2 percent sales activity uptick.
While Saunders says she typically places more stock in quarterly or year-to-date trends, "This particular one-month uptick in unit sales gives us good reason to be cautiously optimistic.
"The numbers echo what the financial pundits have been saying for some time and coincide with a similar uptick in the latest Trendgraphix statistics and our own internal sales figures for the same period.
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Saunders' own internal postings during the month of November show slightly more than a 5 percent increase in unit sales of single-family homes, coinciding with a 17 percent drop in average sale price.
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Dave Beachy, an award-winning former Re/Max Properties and Century 21 Advantage broker/salesman, has gone out on his own.
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The 2005 inductee into Re/Max's "Real Estate Hall of Fame" has his new office at 1500 Caribbean Drive in Sarasota.
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The Concord design is base-priced at $437,990, including the lot.
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Brian Lamb, formerly chief financial officer at the now vastly-downsized Tampa discount realty broker Home Discovery Real Estate Services Corp., was hired as the new CFO at Fifth Third Tampa Bay, an affiliate of Cincinnati-based Fifth Third Bancorp.
Lamb has a bachelor's degree in accounting from the University of South Florida and previously worked at the utility company TECO Energy for six years.
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Do you feed your baby at specific times each day (breakfast, lunch, and dinner?) just about yes. Breakfast, lunch, dinner and bed (oatmeal and
Bottle only) his meals are usually a little earlier than ours so he gets snacks when we eat too lol
Where does baby eat? (high chair, seat, at table, in lap, etc) highchair or bumbo seat
How much solid food does baby usually eat during one meal time? Anywhere between 2 and 6 ounces.
Does baby eat the same meals you fix for the family? He picks off of our meals but he usually gets purees with his. I think I am behind here. I have been so afraid of him choking and havent let him experiment with many foods until recently.
What are some of your baby's favorite foods? He loves squash, mashed potatoes, mac and cheese, bananas, ice cream ( i know - bad) he hates the consistency of watermelon and gags on it lol
Do you offer drinks with each feeding? At his meals he gets his bottle right after he eats his purees. When he snacks on our food usually water or watered down apple juice
Do you let baby feed themselves? A little bit but not enough. Probably behind here too
Are there some foods you feed baby without letting them feed themselves? Most his purees lol. Mac and cheese.
Any tips/tricks to make cleanup easier? I agree with Ami - dogs! Lol we were at my future in laws and they dont have one and i felt lost. Haha. Terrible i know
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Help!! I haven't posted for awhile cuz hosp visits take up much of my time. I began retaining fluids when they did the experimental Atgam treatment on me in May. Since then I've gone in to have my stomach drained twice. The first time 2 liters and on the 26th, 5.5 liters. Now I am so full again, but my onc wants to wait till I see the GI. Which is not until the 22nd of Sept. I haven't had a good day since I was I first found I out out that I had this, bowel movements continue to kill me, did something go wrong in the hemmy surgery? She gave me two medications to take while I wait for the Gi exam, and alls they do is make me sleep and pee. Thanks, Melodie
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I've tried walking, and on Monday night I fell. I now have a fractured femur in my right leg and am hospitalized once again. Spent Monday in surgery, then have been laid up with one leg dangling in the air. I never even did this while I was single, LOL. Hurts like a *****, and I hate taking pain meds, but I think I'll start. My son is gonna be here in 18 days and I want to be outta here by then. No matter how much I eat, I'm still holding at 82. They tell me my bones are just waiting to crack...but why don't they do something about it? Melodie
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I couldn't believe it when I read that you now have a fractured femur! You've certainly had way more than your share of things to deal with. This should be a wake-up call to any and all of us who have had pelvic radiation. Our bones have been cooked and are not as strong as they once were, making fractures a real possibility. I fell off a chair awhile back (standing on it like an idiot to get something out of a cabinet) and landed on my left hip. I am so fortunate I didn't end up breaking something. I hope you get out of that hospital ASAP and mend quickly!


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Unanswered: MIN expression
I have a table called "Monthly Activity Report" with a field called "Campaign End Day Desc". I want to use the MIN function to return the minimum of either the field value or a hard coded date. See below:
Min([Monthly activity report]![Campaign End Day Desc], #10/31/03#)
I get the following error: The expression you entered has a function containing the wrong number or arguments.
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I have just returned from a trip…no, a spiritual adventure, in the country of Uganda. I am still jet lagged, so I am here at my computer at 4:30 in the morning. For anyone who knows me…I love my sleep, so I am choosing to understand this as a call from the Spirit. It is hard to find the words for this experience. It has been a sankofa: It is not wrong to go back for that which is forgotten. I return with images of color, texture, dance, spirituality…in the ten days we were gone (two taken up by plane maintenance delays, another movement of the Spirit?) we went to church three times and visited a number of spiritual sites. We went without any agenda or plan except for the first two nights reserved in a historic Kampala hotel. The Spirit led us to the places of transformation through our friend Nuwa Nnyanzi. We met when he was an artist in residence here in Madison, WI.
Baptist Church, under construction and yet in full use!
Roman Catholic Church dedicated to martyrs who died rather than renounce their faith.
Indigenous Spiritual Sites along the hiking trails
The photo I did not take was a tiny girl with flower earrings. Ugandans love their children. She was a street child. We were told that many of these children are brought here by traffickers, from other cities, even other countries. Again this deep issue of human trafficking arises. When people do not have enough…when others have more than enough. I have come to understand that the consideration of another culture can strengthen one's understanding of one's own culture. Seeing the physical poverty and yet experiencing spiritual abundance in Uganda contrasted with my experience in the United States of affluence but a deep sense of spiritual poverty. What do we need to go back for to find what we have forgotten? That little girl will remain in my heart as I continue to search for the answers.
Our worship focus this year of 2017 is sustainability. How does the Spirit of God sustain us? We also celebrate 50 years of this Jail Ministry. How can we sustain the next 50 years? How can we be part of a movement that sustains people, moving away from the need to incarcerate at such a high rate and leading people to the healing they need to build a sustainable life? Embrace the questions!
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I was officially off any kind of diet for this past weekend, which started on Friday, because that day I went out with my mom on Part 2 of my 4P mission (I do really owe this blog a proper update on that, soon, soon!) and eating is as much for survival and health as it is a social thing. So, I didn't want to make any weird requests to fit a Paleo diet. Yet. I'm still reading up on it and I've decided to take it slow.
So on Friday I ate like this:
Late breakfast / brunch at 11am:
One egg fried in olive oil, with cheese melted on one slice of wholemeal bread instead of the usual two (this is how I take it slow; I reduce the grain by half). Downed with plain water (no sugar – score!)
Lunch at 2pm: Nasi Ayam Penyet from the hawker stall with some rice, fried chicken, fried tofu cake and cucumbers going to my mom, and I finished off the rest plus lettuce and tomato. I had to admit I felt a teeny bit of guilt and hesitance eating the rice (I shouldn't be as my readings later on revealed that white rice is not as bad as grains). I actually considered ordering mutton chop without egg and peas from the Indian stall, but considering that I have no idea what goes into the mutton chop sauce (possibly lots of processed flavouring and colouring), Nasi Ayam Penyet seems like a more straightforward meal in terms of ingredients used to make it. Not to mention balanced, due to the fresh vegetables. Downed with mineral water (no sugar – score again!)
1.5 hours post lunch: One relatively small-sized, thin piece of home-made wholemeal chappati with a bit of dhal and a chunk of mutton cooked in tomato puree-based gravy. Downed with mint tea mixed with minimal sugar. (I am a bit sensitive to sweetness, even from something like carrots so I could tell the tea did not have much sugar.) This is the part where eating is a social thing because it would be rude not to eat what a host served – especially since the host is my FMIL.
Early dinner at about 5 or 6pm:
Small serving (about 2 to 3 heaped tablespoons) of Nasi Bukhari amal that I got my dad to redeem at Masjid Sultan since I could not redeem the coupon myself, with a bit of mutton (really small bit it was, since I had to leave some for my sister and the amount of mutton was disproportionate to the amount of rice.)
Interestingly, despite the short intervals between meals, I did not feel too full to the point of wanting to just sleep right after eating.
Saturday's intake went like this:
Late breakfast / brunch (I started working on my wardrobe revamp in the morning and got carried away without realising the time. I wasn't hungry too – I think my body thought it was fasting):
One chappati and a bit of mutton packed home from Friday's obliging-guest meal. Downed with plain water, and then half a mug of warm soya milk made from the soya milk powder (shared with my sister, hence the half mug). We wanted to try it and I'm happy it's not so sweet. There were 15 sachets in there so I told my sister since there's 14 left, we could finish it in one and a half months if we were to drink one sachet each a week (yes, that's as much as I would allow myself, seeing how soy aren't as good as they're made out to be). As it turned out, I don't even need to consume it anymore as my mom took the rest of the pack and her own (unopened) pack of organic oats the following night to my 2nd brother's place as a buah tangan (translation?) since he was down with lung infection. It feels like a double-edged sword; while I was glad I didn't have to consume something just for the sake of not wasting it, having someone else consume it instead, knowing what I know now, makes me feel a bit guilty. Yet, I couldn't possibly stop my mom from taking the pack (it would look terribly selfish), with the ridiculous-sounding reason that it's not good for the body so I'd rather protect my loved ones and finish it off slowly myself, could I? So that was that, no more soya milk for me. 🙂 😦
Lunch at 3 or 4pm:
Spaghetti aglio olio with mixed mushrooms and carrots. This was a more reasonable serving than the last time I cooked. It was a plate full rather than a plate-with-seconds full. I still didn't feel satiated so then I ate an egg fried in olive oil with not-quite-melted cheese. Plain water. 🙂
No dinner as I went to bed pretty early at 8pm or so; I had been up since 7 or 8am without napping, moving and folding / hanging clothes (while mentally cursing my shopperholic tendencies – more about that in another post) the whole time I was awake, with the exception of a few hours cooking and eating, then resting in front of the telly.
Sunday's meals:
No breakfast. Resumed wardrobe revamp and simply did not feel hungry until noon.
Early lunch:
One scoop (about 3 heaped tablespoons) of rice, one sotong hitam (squid in black ink gravy) – one squid equals one body and tentacles (I call them badan and janggut respectively) and sup petola (I googled it and it's called luffa. Or loofa. Something like that.) Plain water. 🙂
Early dinner at 5pm:
Same as lunch. (I'm surprised at how I managed to refrain from taking more rice at each meal, as I usually take one scoop first, then if the dish is good – and my mom's sotong hitam IS good – I would take another scoop, and maybe a third)
'Supper' at 9pm:
An apple and some mixed nuts. I know by right I shouldn't eat past 7 or 8pm if I want to lose weight / fat because supposedly it is those hunger pangs that mean your body is burning fats from your body (according to something I recall hearing on The Oprah Show), but I was just feeling peckish so I snacked. Healthily, I hope.
Exercise? None for all 3 days; Friday was 4P mission-filled, Saturday's Zumba class got cancelled because the instructor was on course, and I neither replaced it with Dee Dee's class nor go for the one on Sunday. Once I had started on my wardrobe revamp project I couldn't stop. It's still not fully done, there's still about 20% to go. Will post about that once I'm done.
Monday's food:
Egg fried with palm oil on cheese partially melted by the hot egg from the pan, with a sprinkle of ground black pepper. Why palm oil this time instead of olive oil? Because I found out that olive oil gets oxidised easily when heat is applied to it, and is then considered 'damaged fats'. Palm and coconut oil are OK for high heat cooking along with other solid fats. The following chart lists what other fats to use and not to use in food preparation, taken from this site, which explains why.
Vegetable oils that claim to be 'healthy' are apparently not, as they go through a lot of processing which involves chemical solvents.
Lunch at close to 2pm:
A bit of fried bee hoon (2 to 3 heaped forkfuls) and 2 pieces of fried chicken. Plain water from the water cooler.
Snack at around 4pm:
2 mini curry puffs. Plain water.
I didn't have time to prepare lunch in the morning, plus I had a forum to attend in the afternoon and I knew lunch was provided. The last time I attended this annual forum last year, the food served was rice with meat and vegetable dishes. I thought it might be the same this time, especially since the venue is within proximity of established nasi padang restaurants, but I was wrong. So I went for protein and fats (fried chicken) but limited the grain (bee hoon, though I think it's made from riceflour, have to check that.) Of course that wasn't filling so I had to have the snack.
Dinner at close to 7pm:
Fried fish soup from my favourite (actually the only one I know) halal Chinese coffeeshop! No laksa noodles, no rice, just plain fried fish with cabbage, tomato and seaweed in clear soup. It did occur to me that the fried fish batter is obviously made from flour (that's grain!) but I had to have my fried fish soup since I was disappointed not once, but twice when I went to there previously because on both times, the fried fish soup stallholder balik kampung (literal translation: returned to his village) and had not come back! So yes, I had to have my ultimate comfort food, after walking all the way there from the forum venue, in the rain to boot!
Anyway, it did also occur to me that whatever fried things I consumed that day could have been fried in vegetable oil, but what the heck, I can't control that can I? (Well I can, provided I cook and pack my food. Which I didn't, that day.)
Tuesday's Paleo FAIL meals:
Breakfast at 7.30 am:
Nasi Lemak (rice cooked with coconut milk, served with half a hardboiled egg, sambal which is a chilli-based condiment, some ground nuts and fried anchovies), some kampung fried rice shared with my 1st brother, and a cut slice of roti canai (Indian oily pan-fried bread made with flour, better known to Singaporeans as prata).
Fail, I know! Overeating and too much rice! And that bit of grain from the prata! The question is, why? Well, for one, I was in another country, on Part 3 of my 4P mission (this shall be the 2nd time I'm telling myself in this post that I've got to update on that). I was with my sisters, mom, 1st brother who drove, his wife and his mother-in-law. We went to eat breakfast at this place which by right should serve a variety of dishes (typically eaten with rice) and you could choose what you want in any combination and portion, and they'd charge you for what you have on your plate. By left, however, since we were there pretty early, those dishes were not ready yet.
What's available were 2 types of fried noodles (kway teow and bee hoon), kampung fried rice, Nasi Lemak already wrapped in banana leaf and brown paper, plain rice porridge with condiments, eggs fried or hardboiled, pau goreng kacang / sambal (fried Chinese dumpling filled with red bean or chilli-based condiment), hot prata station and that's about it. I took Nasi Lemak because save for the anchovies, sambal and groundnuts which I could take sparingly, the rice and egg are essentially cooked without oil (specifically vegetable). However, the rice was a bit of a disappointment. Somehow it did not taste as lemak (fatty? savoury?) as I expected it to be. I suspected that the coconut milk was replaced with low fat milk (the horror!) or it was just not good quality or not fresh coconut milk. I really hope it's just the latter.
So what happens when my food is not satisfactory? I hanker to eat something else. As it so happens, my family's the sort that would offer each other a taste of our own food; that way we'd get to sample many different food items even though we only ordered one for ourselves. My 1st sister (the already married one, whereas the other sister whom I always refer to is the 2nd one who's not married yet) offered me a taste of her kampung fried rice. Obviously, after a few dismal spoonfuls of the Nasi Lemak, I wouldn't reject something else. The fried rice was so hot (equals delicious) because of the chilli padi (bird's eye chilli), I tell ya, I wanted more than just a spoonful. So my brother, after eating his own food – I'm not sure what – took a plate for us to share. My 1st sister wanted to have more of the prata from my 2nd sister's meal, so he ordered another one for us to share too. And that's how I ended up eating 3 different things in one meal. My only consolation is I ordered a glass of tea without sugar to down all that food.
Lunch at 3pm:
All processed food at my brother's place when we returned; one piece of battered tongkeng ayam (I shall not translate that), one piece of Mexican-spiced chicken and more than a handful of fries. My only consolation was that they're all air fried, so no possibility of (additional) vegetable oil there, and the fries were unsalted. And I drank mineral water.
An observation: when I eat lots of carbohydrates like this I get sleepy easily. I slept in the car all the way back home after that lunch, then continued napping at home, waking up after an hour or so only to go back to sleep throughout the night – kind of opposite to what we've been taught about carbohydrates giving you energy, isn't it?
And then, on to today! Today today happy day! Why?
Ok beginning today til the next 10 working days or so (might be less), I've been sent to work outstation at
New Zealand this place with a word meaning 'new' in it. It means taking a different mode of transport and leaving earlier in the morning because not only is it further from my home, I had to report earlier than the late October / early November datang suka hati later reporting time.
It being a different routine, I was rushing around in the morning and didn't have time for breakfast or even a drink. I grabbed a pack of the Jacob's crackers before leaving but only managed to eat at 10 am, after the first part of the briefing. For the first time ever I voluntarily made and drank hot green tea (thank god there was an option of green tea sachet among the other instant tea and coffee 3-in-1s), and that was my breakfast. I didn't need that much energy because I was merely listening and then 'trying out' the task that I had been appointed to do.
For lunch, I had to brisk walk for a good 5 to 8 minutes (yay to any opportunity to exercise!) to the nearby mall, where many food options are available, but if one thinks Paleo then that figure gets shrunk a bit. In the end I ate Caesar's salad at BBQ Chicken, without any dressing save for a special request to have some olive oil spritzed on it after a bite proved the salad too plain. (Seriously, that shows the calibre of a chef; a not-so-mediocre chef would have provided an alternative to the dressing without being asked.)
It was just lettuce, hardboiled egg, boiled chicken strips and those small cubed hard bread (I have no idea what they're called.) I could have ordered the main course, but what stopped me was: any chicken fried would have been fried in 100% pure olive oil as claimed by the restaurant, which as we know is not as healthy as widely thought to be. (The oil itself is healthy, but frying with it on high heat makes it turn unhealthy.) The grilled or bbqed ones were bound to be grilled with a sauce that has sugar in it. I was willing to compromise with something pan-fried, but it came with a choice of fries or coleslaw or mashed potato (all obviously processed) and I wanted plain salad vegetables to go with the meat but could not negotiate that with the restaurant, so in the end it was just plain salad without dressing. The hard salty bread helped to keep it interesting, and I felt satiated at the end of the meal without feeling too full that I start getting sleepy.
And get this: when I got back to the workplace and got started on the task for real, I was not fighting sleepiness! Neither was there any lethargic or fatigued feeling that usually ensues a typical carbohydrate-filled lunch! Happy happy happy!
I took a long bus ride home instead of the train. I had to transfer buses at the neighbouring town but before I did, I dropped by the supermarket at one of the malls. The plain Caesar's salad cost me a mean $11 plus, and if I were to buy lunch everyday that's going to cost a lot! So I had to start cooking and packing my own lunch again. A trip to the supermarket was due to get Paleo-approved foods. Hating crowds, I went for the one at the mall which is usually less crowded. Lo and behold! There's a new FairPrice Finest! So there was definitely more choice there.
Here's my food loot:
Skin-on garoupa fillet ($7.25), beef sukiyaki ($7.99), baby honey salad ($4.75), piri piri seasoning ($3.90), red and green capsicum ($2.34), sliced white button mushrooms ($2.45) and Freedom Range barn-laid eggs ($3).
Most pricey loot so far at $31.65! The fish and meat I plan to Happy Call pan fry with olive oil and the piri piri seasoning (which is ok because that's on low heat, and on a different note I'm beginning to get sick of just Italian seasoning so yay for the piri piri!), with the red and green capsicum possibly grilled direct on the gas stove (finally got great looking capsicums, and Nom Nom Paleo lady did the grill on the gas stove before!) to pack for lunch. I might throw in the sliced mushrooms (saves time and effort) and the yet-cooked eggplant from my previous food loot every other day for variety.
The Freedom Range barn-laid eggs are damn expensive at 50 cents each, but I just have to know if there's any difference in taste to normal eggs. Plus it feels good to know that the chickens that laid them had space to roam around just like, well, chickens! Instead of being cooped up in tiny cages and exploited like machines. The only thing left is to know what they're fed with. And since the company that produces them is local, I could possibly get in contact with them and ask! I could even technically even visit to see the barn for myself!
I could pack hardboiled eggs with the baby honey salad for breakfast, or I could make fritatta with egg, capsicum and mushrooms!
Now, if only I could get a halal-slaughtered chicken from there! I spent some time looking at the frozen chicken range, considering whether to buy them as it would definitely be easier to cook (just boiling and steaming), and found that most of them are imported from Brazil! Now I have this suspicion on chicken from Brazil because I heard they're reared factory-farm style, and even when slaughtered, a conveyor machine cuts them while arabic verses are played out loud in the facility! In other words, not respectfully and properly slaughtered by a person! Although some packs were labelled 'hand-slaughtered according to Islamic rites', they'd carry another label that states 'all natural feed' with a picture of corn in it. And corn is a grain! So after much consideration, I decided against buying such packs. I saw kampung chicken amd considered just buying a whole chicken to boil, strip off the meat to be kept frozen and to be used bit by bit in salads, while the broth can be kept as stock for soups. Unfortunately, the kampung chicken is not halal.
Now I've got the ingredients for breakfast and lunch, and what's left is to cook! It's either I cook the night before to avoid rushed mornings, or sleep earlier and wake up earlier too to do it. I hope I can do it!


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A refreshing alternative to the well-traveled trails of Cowles, Mt. McGinty offers a 4.8-mile round-trip hike about 25 minutes east of downtown. An ascent of about 1300 feet means views across Proctor Valley to the south and, on a clear day, the harbor and ocean shimmering to the west. The trail can easily take over three hours if you stop to take in McGinty's aromatic collection of native flora and numerous mines along the way. A dirt lot and trailhead are located a quarter-mile west of Jamul Community Church. Turn right at the gate where the hill crests.
El Cajon Boulevard near 49th Street
Little Saigon Association, 4654 El Cajon Boulevard, suite C, City Heights, [email protected]
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7575 University Avenue, La Mesa
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San Diego is nationally known for our bustling craft-beer scene. Scavengers Beer Adventures, a Carlsbad-based company, offers a unique take on the beer-tour circuit. Guests are driven around in a 12-passenger Swiss military truck. Scavengers offers both weekday and weekend tours. Each tour includes a visit to three breweries, a production tour at one brewery, up to six tasters at each stop, a Phil's BBQ meal, a beer-geek tour guide, and a Scavengers souvenir tasting glass. The tours run from Thursday–Sunday and range in price from $89–$119.
Breweries frequented include Lost Abbey/Port Brewing, Iron Fist, Stone, Mother Earth, Rip Current, Latitude 33, Belching Beaver, Offbeat, Breakwater Brewery, Ballast Point, Coronado, Mission, and others.
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Forty-five minutes northeast of the city lies a community of growers where one can find organic, pesticide-free avocados, grapefruit, persimmons, and other produce. The Morning Star Ranch is part of an international network of religious communities known as the Twelve Tribes. They aim to be a community of agricultural people, living to serve God and care for their earth. The drive to the ranch is a constant, grand display of the brushy, floral beauty of Southern California, ending with fields of lavender, fruit trees, farm animals, and open-armed owners. Morning Star Ranch is also accepting WWOOFers (worldwide opportunities on organic farms) where guests can stay for a time and help farm in exchange for room and board.
The Morning Star Ranch is always welcome to visitors, but they prefer to be contacted ahead of time.
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With an urge to explore, but with little time for an all-day trekking venture, the Mission Valley Adobe Falls is a ten-minute hike off the freeway. Located by I-8 across from San Diego State University, two multitiered waterfalls channel Alvarado Creek on its way to join the San Diego River a couple of miles to the west. To get to the falls, park at the west end of Adobe Falls Road. Walk around the fence and follow the dirt road toward the freeway. When the road ends, follow the trail that will lead to the Adobe Falls rock formations. You will have to scramble and crawl up a few rocks to spot the falls. The rock graffiti, reminding passers-by of the close proximity to a college campus, adds an interesting touch, depending on one's outlook.
Regarding the Disney cartoons at the 805/52...don't bother. Spent 2 hrs looking and didn't find anything. Was told by another cyclist on the trail that they were there "years ago" and he hasn't seen them in a long time. Curious to know what background check the Reader did to verify anything in this article. The wild goose chase was definitely not one of the 75 reasons San Diego is so much fun!
I too went searching for hours for the Disney art to find nothing but graffiti. I've boycotted SD Reader for years due to you homophobia and should have know better than to trust anything I've read on your site.


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Relational Integrity Constraints. Rohit Khokher. Relational Integrity Constraints. • A relational database schema (i.e. DB definition) consists of – relation schemas (table definitions) – integrity constraints • Integrity constraints are rules which all instances
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• A relational database schema (i.e. DB definition)
consists of
– relation schemas (table definitions)
– integrity constraints
• Integrity constraints are rules which all instances
of the DB must satisfy in order to correctly model
the real world.
• Any operation that would violate a declared
constraint will be disallowed
• Many real-world constraints are imposed by
a combination of
– good design of relations (such as via ER modelling)
– maintenance of key (uniqueness) constraints
An employee has
only one name, is in
one department, has
one supervisor
It is impossible to violate the rules so long as no two tuples in the employee relation have the same ID.
• specify attributes or combinations of attributes which must be unique.
• Primary keys must be unique to allow the key to be use to identify tuples.
– e.g. Employee ID must be unique in the
Employee table
• we may wish to specify that other (non primary key) attributes should be unique
• ENTITY INTEGRITY: no part of a primary key field can contain NULL
– if it did it would not be distinguishable from any other NULL.
• Total participation constraints are encoded by insisting that the foreign key representing the relationship is NOT NULL
– E.g. Student Course can not be NULL
• We may wish to specify that other attributes are required (i.e. not null).
– e.g. every order must have a date associated with it.
• In Access use "Required" property for such fields.
• Aka Foreign Key constraints;
• require that a value referred to in some attribute actually exists as an entity in some table.
– The employee in a Works-On tuple, unless it is
null, must exist as an employee ID in the Employee table
• Most referential integrity constraints arise from relationships in the ER model.
Each arrow represents a referential integrity constraint.
The source of the arrow is called a foreign key.
• DBMS checks ref. integrity when a referencing value is inserted or changed
• e.g.
– when an order is entered, the entered customer
id must exist in Customers
– if the customer associated with an order is changed, the new value must exist in Customers
• user is asked for a valid value
• DBMS checks ref. integrity when a tuple in the referenced relation is deleted or its primary key is modified e.g.
– if you try to delete a customer tuple and there is an order which references that customer
– if you change the item# of an item which appears on some orders
• If deletion or modification would cause a constraint violation, DBMS has three
• cascade the deletion or modification
– e.g. delete any order associated with the deleted customer
– e.g. change that item# in all orders to be the new item#
• nullify the referencing value
– i.e. set the order customer number to NULL
• reject the deletion or modification
• express general restrictions on the data and changes to it.
– e.g. salary should not exceed 200,000
– e.g. salary cannot decrease
– e.g. an employee's salary should not be greater than that of the manager of the department.
• Limited support for semantic constraints in some RDBMS.