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Athirapally is a perfect Monsoon destination. When all other tourist attractions and destination get drenched in the heavy monsoon falls, the rains make Athirapally a breathtaking natural wonder. The gigantic waterfall gets additional greatness due to the heavy monsoon water overflowing from the Chalakudy river.
Attractive Tourist Places Near Athirapally
Athirapally is a small town in Chalakudy of Thrissur district. You can get to Athirapally easily from anywhere in Kerala. The largest waterfall in South India, Athirapally waterfall, has been a location for many South Indian movies including the song sequence in the famous Tamil movie Baahubali: The beginning. The waterfall is located in the entrance of Sholayar forests that extends up to Tamil Nadu.
Athirapally Waterfalls – This magnificent waterfall falling from a height of 80 feet, forms several parallel streams on its way down. It has an extremely captivating view from all sides. This is on the entrance of Sholayar forests which gives it a wild attraction. You can go for trekking through the sides of the fall enjoying the break taking the beauty of the surrounding forests and mountains. Also, go for jungle safari into the forests in the jeep arranged by the district administration.
Thumboormuzhi Dam– If you are looking for a place to relax sometime, this Dam and nearby places will you calm and pleasant environment. This dam is famous for the hanging bridge that connects Ezhattumugham and the Dam. The Thumboormuzhi butterfly garden is also the main attraction in this place. If you're going with your family this is a must go place. Children will enjoy watching diverse species of butterflies fluttering around them.
Ezhattumugham – This is an excellent getaway place surrounded by water, trees, and great facilities where you can enjoy with friends or family. The place has children's play area, tree houses, and food stalls. Play in the wide natural pool of water formed by the flow in Chalakudy River through the forest lands.
Vazhachal Waterfalls – Seven kilometers away from Athirapally waterfalls, lays another breathtaking waterfall that will captivate you with nature's wonders. You can see this waterfall from a long distance. During the heavy rains, Vazhachal becomes fascinating with its full glory.
Chapra Waterfalls – On the way to Vazhachal, you can see Chapra fall which is a seasonal waterfall. During the peak seasons, the fall was seen falling from about 63 feet high. This is a narrow waterfall in Athirapally that is not even visible in other seasons. This forms due to the overflow of Chalakudy River.
Paniyeli Poru – A less crowded picnic spot in the outskirts of Chalakudy, formed when the flow of River Periyar is affected by the formation of rocks while flowing through the forest. The surrounding forests, atmosphere, birds and the climate in this place add to its elegance. As being amid dense forest this is a less crowded place and rarely visit. The place is popular among the villagers and they have interesting stories to tell about Paniyeli Poru.
Illithode– Illithode is an attractive eco-tourism place amidst thick Mahogany and Teak forest. The river flowing through the forest is the main attraction in this place. The river has strong undercurrents in some areas and is risky to swim. This is also a less crowded place with an amazing backdrop.
Abhayaranyam Zoo– Abhayaranyam is an eco-tourism project by the district administration, which is a mini zoo in the forest where you can spot animals like elephants and spotted deer. Protected in a forest environment the forest department has tried to give them an atmosphere similar to their natural habitat. This is a vast land with facilities like the food court, washrooms, etc. There are a lot of places in the Zoo where you can sit and relax. It also has a Children's play area.
Winter is the best time to visit Athirapally for exploring the jungle and playing in the pool formed by the waterfall. You can enjoy trekking to the woods in Winter and summer. Whereas if you want to see the waterfall in its full glory we suggest you come during the Monsoon. You can enjoy trekking, river rafting, swimming, sightseeing, jungle safari, bird watching, etc from various locations in Athirapally. This is an excellent one-day getaway place for adventure lovers.


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Every once in a while, we all need a quick escape from our busy lives. However, from careers and families to everyday responsibilities, finding the time to take a vacation is becoming more and more difficult.
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When your explorations have worked up an appetite, you'll have plenty of choices for dining in the historic district such as Harry's Seafood Restaurant or Burrito Works Taco Shop.
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There's much more to St. Augustine than just history and cobblestone streets. In fact, many people would be surprised to learn that our city is actually ideal for a beach vacation!
St. Augustine boasts over 42-miles of pristine Atlantic coast beaches, providing more than enough space to soak in the famous Florida sunshine and take a refreshing dip in the ocean.
St. Augustine Beach is our area's most popular stretch of shoreline and the perfect spot for a relaxing day by the water. If you're interested in a more quiet beach experience, Crescent Beach may be for you! This small slice of Atlantic coastline is mostly untouched by commercial development, so you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of beach activities in a much more peaceful and natural setting.
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The St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park is the oldest continuously running attraction in Florida and also the only place in the world in which you can view all living species of crocodilian!
Many St. Augustine visitors love this local attraction for its incredible exhibits, awe-inspiring animals, and the park's dedication to ensuring the survival of those creatures in the wild.
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All-year-round, St. Augustine hosts several fun-filled events that are the perfect additions to your itinerary. From indulgent food festivals to concerts, there is always something to celebrate in the Nation's Oldest City!
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- St. Augustine Film Festival (January): Recognized as one of Florida's top celebrations of cinema, the St. Augustine Film Festival is a must for moviegoers and film fans from all over the world. Many fantastic films are showcased at the festival and encompass a wide variety of genres including documentaries, foreign films, and independent films.
- Lions Seafood Festival (March): This is one of the city's largest and most family-friendly celebrations! The festival features a wide variety of delicious seafood for you to try as well as musical entertainment, craft vendors, kiddie rides, and shows. The best part? Proceeds collected at the event go to local organizations that assist those in need.
- Nights of Lights St. Augustine (December): To commemorate the holiday season, St. Augustine hosts one of the nation's most beloved Christmas light displays known as the Nights of Lights! Over three million Christmas lights are strung throughout the city for your viewing enjoyment during the event. Downtown shops and restaurants also join the celebration by staying open later so you can dine and shop into the night.
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There are many cities near St. Augustine that make one tank trips in Florida easier than ever! Here are some of the most common to help you get started with your planning.
- Jacksonville, FL: 40.6-miles and approximately 45 minutes from St. Augustine.
- Gainesville, FL: 74.4-miles and approximately one hour and 40 minutes from St. Augustine.
- Orlando, FL: 107 miles and approximately one hour and 45 minutes from St. Augustine.
- Tallahassee, FL: 205 miles and approximately three hours and 10 minutes from St. Augustine.
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The Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) has recently launched the ambitious DigiThane application, an interactive digital citizen platform, to connect residents with civic services like tax payments, civic project alerts, in addition to getting discounts at affiliated shops, restaurants, and certain housing projects across the town.
With this, TMC has become the first in the country and second in the world after Tel Aviv Jaffa, Israel, to have an online interactive connection between the local government and the citizens. The application is known to have seen around 1,000 downloads within the first few minutes of its launch. The application entails providing civic facilities on the digital platform for residents.
Users can remain updated about upcoming roadblocks or developmental works undertaken in their respective areas and also pay taxes or register complaints about potholes or any other civic facility in the TMC jurisdiction. In addition, residents can also avail of discounts offered by traders, including hotels and the real estate industry from across the city. Information about upcoming events will also be available to users.
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Embossed ivory ceramic oil burner, with a simple line of gold around the opening. Add your own favourite oils to the top and place a little tea light inside to perfume your home.
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Based on the designs from the ancient city of Azcar in Peru. This woolly feeling geo cushion will brighten the room.
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This adorable little square cushion packs a mighty punch, cream, and lime coloured threads are woven into a neutral woven cover, with silver paint accents over the top.
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This little gem will bring a hint of wow to anywhere it's placed.
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This cushion can be displayed with either the lighter, side showing or flip it over to see a completely different patterned, darker, predominately black side.
The black zip is on the on the edges making it almost invisible. It is made from a heavy material, which means it can be used either on the floor or as a sofa cushion and will last for years.
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"Validation in progress": these NeuroMabs have not yet met our highest testing standards for some reason (e.g., we lack the reagents to complete the validation in-house). However, we are making them available to end users with the aim of receiving feedback as to whether they would benefit research and should be put forward for large-scale production and IgG purification. If you test a "Validation in progress" NeuroMab, then please let us know how it worked, one way or the other, and send us data.
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For 22-weeks we've been working together to Reboot our media sales career. We've talked about setting the tone for our meetings and addressed the temptation to overpitch. We've discussed how to raise anticipation before a prospect call and how to maintain inspiration after we hang-up. We talked about craving change and even worked through the difference between pitching up and pitching down. We've covered a lot of ground in the five months we've seen each other.
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At 1:18 PM last week I received a phone call from a Ride-Along viewer. She was over-the-moon excited! Why? Because after 22 weeks of watching, listening, and learning from the Ride-Along's she finally applied what she'd learned.
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We understand that your smile is as important to you as it is to us. In an effort to help our patients reach their dental needs both physically and financially, we will assist you in reaching a comfortable financial solution that will fit your situation and financial budget. We accept most insurance plans and the coverage is dictated by your employer's dental plan and limits. We will do everything possible to maximize your dental plans but we will not let that be the driving factor for your oral health and smile. Our payment options include cash, check, MasterCard, Visa, American Express, and CareCredit.
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We are pleased to announce that we have appointed transport and logistics experts, Geodis to manage the warehousing and distribution of our ambient portfolio to retail customers throughout the UK and beyond.
The new partnership will enable our ambient operation to become carbon neutral, in line with the B Corp company's ethos that holds people and planet in equal value to profit.
Geodis will provide a complete supplier to retailer logistics service, collecting products from listed suppliers, warehousing and stock managing, picking and delivering orders direct to retailers.
We are chuffed that a combination of Geodis' Euro 6 compliant fleet and eradicating the trunking goods through regional hubs will reduce our carbon footprint by 46%!
The remaining carbon output incurred will be offset using ClimateCare, meaning that we will be the first fine food wholesaler in the UK to be completely CARBON-NEUTRAL as of August 2019.
Paul Hargreaves, CEO at Cotswold Fayre says: "I am delighted, that following an extensive review of our ambient warehousing and logistical arrangements, we have found a partner that aligns so well with our values and culture.
"Our partnership with Geodis will provide a distribution solution for retailers and fine food manufacturers, seeking to consolidate the environmental impact of multiple deliveries. Using an experienced and expert partner for our logistics is something we originally implemented more than three years ago – which has also significantly improved our service level for our customers, many of whom say it is the best in the sector.
"We look forward to working with Geodis to create and implement innovative ways to continuously improve our environmental impact."
In 2015, Cotswold Fayre became a B Corporation, a certification which recognises businesses which are using the power of business to solve social and environmental problems. The company's aim is to use business as a force for good to benefit both people and planet.
Anthony Champness, Network Director, Geodis, said: "We are delighted that Cotswold Fayre has placed its trust in us to work in partnership to reduce the carbon footprint of its distribution operation.
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God places the lonely in families. (Psalm 68:6 NLT)
The higher position of "Ephesians" is this – that now, being quickened and raised together with Christ and seated in the heavenlies is a matter of relatedness to other believers, and in that relatedness, you are going to find your fullness. You are never going to find spiritual enlargement just as an isolated, separate individual, but in relation with other believers. "God setteth the solitary in families" (Ps. 68:6), and there is no doubt about it, whether or not you understand or accept the doctrine of it, you can prove very quickly in experience that our spiritual enlargement does come by way of true spiritual and heavenly relatedness with other believers. That is proved by the fact that it is not always easy for Christians to live together for very long. It sounds a terrible thing to say, but you have a lot of other factors to reckon with. If you were ordinary people in this world, you might get on very well, but being Christians you have to meet the whole force of Satan working upon any little bit of natural life he can find. So he makes for difficulty between Christians that they would not find if they were not in a heavenly position. They are meeting forces in the heavenlies. There are the rub and friction and all the cross currents that try to divide Christians but which do not try to divide other people, because there is so much bound up with true spiritual oneness amongst the Lord's people – so much for the Lord, and so much against Satan. Satan is going to break up that spiritual oneness if he can. He knows what that means for him, and the Lord knows what that means for Himself – and hence the special and extra difficulties when it is a case of Christians living together, especially for a long time.
Now what is the upshot? When these difficulties arise we must say, "It is evidently necessary for me to get a new spiritual position, to get on top of this. If I am not going to give it up and leave, I must come to some spiritual enlargement; I have to know the Lord in a new way, to have more grace, love and patience." That is spiritual enlargement, and it comes by relatedness. (Of course, that is only one way; there are many others by which spiritual enlargement comes by relatedness.) If only we can keep together in prayer, there is spiritual enlargement.
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The importance of inflammation pathways to the development of many human cancers prompted us to examine the associations between single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in inflammation-related genes and risk of ovarian cancer. In a multisite case–control study, we genotyped SNPs in a large panel of inflammatory genes in 930 epithelial ovarian cancer cases and 1,037 controls using a custom array and analyzed by logistic regression. SNPs with P < 0.10 were evaluated among 3,143 cases and 2,102 controls from the Follow-up of Ovarian Cancer Genetic Association and Interaction Studies (FOCI) post-GWAS collaboration. Combined analysis revealed association with SNPs rs17561 and rs4848300 in the interleukin gene IL1A which varied by histologic subtype (Pheterogeneity = 0.03). For example, IL1A rs17561, which correlates with numerous inflammatory phenotypes, was associated with decreased risk of clear cell, mucinous, and endometrioid subtype, but not with the most common serous subtype. Genotype at rs1864414 in the arachidonate 5-lipoxygenase ALOX5 was also associated with decreased risk. Thus, inherited variation in IL1A and ALOX5 seems to affect ovarian cancer risk which, for IL1A, is limited to rarer subtypes. Given the importance of inflammation in tumorigenesis and growing evidence of subtype-specific features in ovarian cancer, functional investigations will be important to help clarify the importance of inherited variation related to inflammation in ovarian carcinogenesis. Cancer Res; 72(5); 1064–9. ©2012 AACR.
In 2011, there were 225,500 estimated new cases of ovarian cancer worldwide (1). High-risk mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 are responsible for most familial clusters of 3 or more cases; however, a substantial proportion of familial risk is unexplained (2). Part of this remaining risk is due to loci which confer moderate risk, such as common, low penetrance alleles identified in recent genome-wide association studies (3, 4). Although characterization of recently confirmed genetic variants is critically important, the search for additional variants continues and includes comprehensive analysis of key candidate pathways.
Inflammation is a suspected initiator and promoter of ovarian carcinogenesis (5). Events which delay ovulation and the subsequent inflammatory response are associated with decreased risk of ovarian cancer, consistent with the hypothesis that increased lifetime ovulations create an inflammatory microenvironment promoting tumor growth and suppressing adaptive immunity (6). The Cancer Genome Atlas has described an immunoreactive subtype of high-grade serous disease characterized by expression of T-cell chemokine ligands CXCL11 and CXCL10 and the receptor CXCR3 (7), and overexpression of receptors of the inflammatory lipoxygenase pathway has been observed (8). Finally, reduced risk of ovarian cancer has been reported for a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in PTGS2, encoding prostaglandin endoperoxide synthase 2, or cyclooxygenase, which is thought to be responsible for the prostanoid biosynthesis involved in inflammation and mitogenesis (9).
Here, we hypothesize that inherited variants in inflammation-related genes are associated with risk of ovarian cancer and may have subtype-specific risks. Therefore, we examined SNPs in 27 inflammation-related genes in 2 case–control studies and sought replication in the studies of the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium (OCAC).
Materials and Methods
Study protocols were approved by the appropriate Institutional Review Board or ethics panel, and all participants provided written informed consent.
Discovery analysis
Participants included 930 epithelial ovarian cancer cases and 1,037 controls who were enrolled at the Mayo Clinic (MAY) and in the North Carolina Ovarian Cancer Study (NCO; ref. 10, Supplementary Table S1). TagSNPs for ALOX12, ALOX15, ALOX5, CCL11, CCL2, CCL3, CCR3, CRP, CXCL16, IL10, IL15RA, IL18, IL1A, IL1B, IL1RN, IL4R, IL6, IL6R, IL7R, IL8RA, IL8RB, IL9, NOS3, PTGS1, PTGS2, TLR2, and TNF were identified using HapMap CEU data (release 21a, ± 10 kb, minor allele frequency [MAF] ≥ 0.05, r2 ≥ 0.8, Supplementary Table S2). These and nonsynonymous SNPs (MAF ≥ 0.05) were genotyped using a custom Illumina GoldenGate BeadArray assay; SNPs with call rates below 90% were failed (10). Logistic regression estimated per-allele risk of ovarian cancer (ORs and 95% CIs) adjusted for site, age, race, region of residence, body mass index, hormone therapy use, oral contraceptive use, parity, and age at first birth, to alleviate potential confounding effects.
Replication analysis
Participants were self-reported white women including 3,143 invasive epithelial ovarian cancer cases and 2,102 controls enrolled in studies at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), the NCI Ovarian Case-Control Study in Poland (POL), the Tampa Bay Ovarian Cancer Study (TBO), the Familial Ovarian Tumor Study (TOR), and a British collaboration (UK) including the UK Ovarian Cancer Population Study, Studies of Epidemiology and Risk Factors in Cancer Heredity - Ovarian Cancer, the UK Familial Ovarian Cancer Registry, and the Welcome Trust Case Control Consortium (11; Supplementary Table S3). SNPs with P < 0.10 in the discovery analysis described above were assessed using Illumina 317k or 610-Quad arrays, with harmonization of alleles and imputation to HapMap v 26 (www.sph.umich.edu/csg/abecasis/MACH/) as part of the Follow-up of Ovarian Cancer Genetic Association and Interaction Studies (FOCI) collaboration. Log-additive logistic regression models estimated risk of ovarian cancer adjusted for study site using direct genotype calls or imputed allele dosage values. Combined analysis of discovery and replication data was restricted to self-reported white participants, adjusted for study site, and included tests for heterogeneity between study phases. For SNPs highlighted in combined analysis, we conducted regression including multiple SNPs per gene, and we estimated risks by histologic subtype using polytomous regression to test for heterogeneity. Finally, among 6,253 combined participants with available age data, we ran analyses with and without age adjustment to assess potential confounding effects. P values were not adjusted for multiple testing.
Estimation of ovarian cancer risks associated with minor alleles of SNPs in inflammation-related genes began with analysis of 162 successfully genotyped SNPs in approximately 900 epithelial ovarian cancer cases and 1,000 controls described in Supplementary Table S1. Twenty-one SNPs (in ALOX15, ALOX5, CCL2, CRP, IL18, IL1A, IL1B, IL6, NOS3, and PTGS1) were associated with risk of ovarian cancer with per-allele P < 0.10. Two SNPs were associated at P < 0.01: ALOX5 (arachidonate 5-lipoxygenase) rs1864414 (OR = 0.77, 95% CI = 0.64–0.92, P = 0.004) and NOS3 (nitric oxide synthase 3) rs743507 (OR = 0.79, 95% CI = 0.68–0.92, P = 0.003). Analyses within ALOX12, CCL11, CCL3, CCR3, CXCL16, IL10, IL15RA, IL1RN, IL4R, IL6R, IL7R, IL8RA, IL8RB, IL9, PTGS2, TLR2, and TNF did not suggest associations between genotype and risk of ovarian cancer (P > 0.10). Complete results are provided in Supplementary Table S4.
Twenty-one SNPs with P < 0.10 in discovery analysis were evaluated in an additional approximate 3,100 cases and 2,100 controls described in Supplementary Table S3, and, to enable combined analysis, discovery data were reanalyzed excluding self-reported nonwhites and adjusted for only study site. These results and estimates of pairwise linkage disequilibrium (r2) are shown in Table 1. Of 21 SNPs in 10 genes, those in IL1A (interleukin 1, α) and ALOX5 (arachidonate 5-lipoxygenase) were associated at P < 0.01 in combined analysis.
Two highly correlated SNPs in IL1A (rs17561 and rs4848300, r2 = 0.990) yielded essentially identical results, showing associations with decreased risk of ovarian cancer in combined analyses (OR = 0.90, 95% CI = 0.83–0.97, P = 0.005). Replication analysis yielded P < 0.05 (Table 1), and results were consistent between discovery and replication phases (Pheterogeneity = 0.30; Fig. 1). IL1A rs17561 (MAF = 0.31) is a missense change (A114S), and rs4848300 (MAF = 0.32) resides 3,586 bp from the 3′ end of the gene. As other loosely correlated IL1A SNPs (r2 = 0.300) were also associated with ovarian cancer risk (rs3783516 and rs2856838, r2 = 0.993, OR = 1.10, 95% CI = 1.03–1.18, P = 0.01), we attempted logistic regression including all 4 IL1A SNPs in the combined data set. However, modeling was uninformative due to convergence issues and unstable parameter estimates.
Of particular interest, analysis of IL1A rs17561 by histologic subtype revealed evidence of heterogeneity (P = 0.03, Fig. 2). Specifically, an inverse association was present for risk of clear cell subtype (P = 0.004), mucinous subtype (P = 0.02), and endometrioid subtype (P = 0.01), yet absent for risk of the more common (54%) serous subtype (P = 0.26). Consistently, the risk estimate for tumors with mixed or unknown histology was intermediate to those for rarer subtypes and serous subtype (OR = 0.87, 95% CI = 0.75–1.01, Fig. 2).
In combined analysis, the estimated ovarian cancer risk associated with minor alleles at ALOX5 rs1864414 (MAF = 0.18, intron 1), one of the strongest initial discovery set signals, was 0.86 (95% CI = 0.79–0.95, P = 0.002). Results were consistent between discovery and replication data sets (Pheterogeneity = 0.71), and, with the exception of POL, risk estimates were less than 1.0 in each study (Fig. 1). Because a correlated ALOX5 SNP was also associated with ovarian cancer risk (rs745986, r2 = 0.651, OR = 0.89, 95% CI = 0.82–0.97, P = 0.01), we included both SNPs in regression modeling. Results suggested that rs1864414 was driving the association (rs1864414, OR = 0.88, 95% CI = 0.75–1.03, P = 0.009; rs745986, OR = 0.98, 95% CI = 0.85–1.14, P = 0.11). No heterogeneity by histologic subtype was observed (P = 0.74).
As shown in Table 1, combined analyses at IL1B (interleukin 1, β) rs7596684 and PTGS1 (prostaglandin-endoperoxide synthase 1) rs2282169 suggested association with ovarian cancer risk (P = 0.02 and 0.04, respectively). Results were null or inconsistent with study phases at SNPs in ALOX15, CCL2, CRP, IL18, and IL6. Among women with available age information, combined analyses adjusting additionally for age yielded similar results at all SNPs.
Chronic inflammation has shown an important role in cancer (12); tumor microenvironments of numerous cancers, including ovarian, have shown high levels of inflammatory proteins, such as cytokines, and aberrations in interleukin 1 α, interleukin 6, and tumor necrosis factor α (13). Thus, examinations of genetic variants in these pathways may shed light on inflammation-related carcinogenesis. In the largest study to date, we examined the relationship between SNPs in inflammation-related genes and risk of ovarian cancer using a 2-study discovery analysis followed by examination of 5 studies participating in the OCAC. We found that minor alleles at rs17561 and rs4848300 in IL1A and rs1864414 in ALOX5 were consistently inversely associated with risk of ovarian cancer, and, intriguingly, that the IL1A associations were limited to rarer histologic subtypes.
Interleukin 1 α is a cytokine which is involved in numerous immune responses and inflammatory processes; it is produced by monocytes and macrophages and released in response to cell injury for the induction of apoptosis. A recent analysis of 4,552 SNPs in cytokines reported that IL1A rs17561 is one of only 8 SNPs leading to a predicted intolerable amino acid change, that it is by far the most widely studied cytokine SNP, and that minor alleles here have been "strongly" associated with risk of numerous diseases involving an inflammatory response such as allergic rhinitis, atopy, nasal polyposis, malaria, gingival hyperinflammatory response, systemic sclerosis, severity of periodontitis, antibody responses to periodontal microbiota (14) and, more recently, ankylosing spondylitis (15). Although we are the first to report an association with ovarian cancer risk, a meta-analysis of prospective breast cancer studies has reported increased risk with IL1A rs17561 (P = 0.008) as well as modification of the dose–response relationship between cumulative personal diagnostic radiation and breast cancer risk (Pinteraction = 0.004; ref. 16). Another study of breast cancer risk found that IL1A was the most significant of 232 inflammation genes in gene-level and haplotype analyses (P = 4 × 10−4; ref. 17). Of note, a prior ovarian cancer study of approximately 300 participants in total found no association between risk and other SNPs in IL1A; they did not examine rs17561 or rs4848300 and were underpowered to detect associations of the type we observed (18).
Epithelial ovarian cancer has several histologic subtypes with characteristic molecular signatures, cytogenetic features, oncologic signaling pathways, and clinical behavior. Nonetheless, for maximal sample size and smaller numbers of tests, molecular epidemiologists have traditionally combined cases and conducted subtype analyses only on SNPs associated with risk overall, as we did here. However, our IL1A findings show that, if multiple rarer subtypes share a common genetic etiology, associations with rarer subtypes (rather than the most common and most studied serous subtype) may drive the result among all cases. These results underscore the need for additional candidate gene or genome-wide studies of clear cell, mucinous, and endometrioid ovarian cancer.
Arachidonate 5-lipoxygenase is a member of the lipoxygenase gene family assisting with conversion of arachidonic acid to leukotrienes, which are important mediators of a number of inflammatory and allergic conditions; it is expressed in the ovarian cancer (8). Interestingly, we previously reported an association with poorer survival and ALOX5 rs2115819 and rs12264801 among the MAY cases studied here (serous HR = 1.54, 95% CI = 1.18–2.02, P = 0.002; HR = 1.31, 95% CI = 1.02–1.69, P = 0.04, respectively; ref. 19). Even though rs1864414 was not associated with ovarian cancer survival (P = 0.23; ref. 19), we evaluated whether the minor allele may be underrepresented among cases studied here leading to a false inverse association with risk. We saw no association with rs1864414 genotype and time to enrollment and no difference in risk estimates by mean time of enrollment, and therefore do not expect that the inverse association reported here is due to survival bias.
In addition to a large sample size (7,212 participants), strengths of this report include inclusion of numerous genes (most comprehensive to date), use of the tagSNP approach, and independent analyses of discovery and replication datasets. The latter issue requires some consideration. Because false discovery is a concern in SNP association studies, we sought replication of initial results in a large independent data set. Some argue for the routine analysis of the likelihood of false positive results. With one commonly used method (20), the IL1A and ALOX5 associations are "noteworthy" (probability of a false positive result <0.2) only if the prior probability of an association was 0.1 or greater. Of course, choice of the appropriate value for prior probability is a matter of great debate. Some argue that in a discovery replication study, prior probabilities of association is high, given that significant results were seen in discovery analysis; others argue that in a candidate gene study, biological plausibility is increased. Regardless, additional replication is the key to revealing the "truth" of these associations.
Limitations of our analyses include lack of genotypic coverage of uncommon variants, assessment of epistasis or gene–environment interactions, and multi-SNP IL1A analysis. Additional genotyping or next generation sequencing efforts are needed to target additional variants, and, due to the need for greater statistical power, larger samples sizes are needed to address uncommon variants as well as interactions. A larger study would also enable simultaneous examination of multiple SNPs in IL1A and the related chromosome 2 cytokine gene cluster. We also note that the boundaries of biological pathways, such as inflammation, continue to evolve; thus expansion of genes from this set of 27 genes will be informative in future efforts. Finally, incorporation of genotype–phenotype studies considering quantification of tumor immune cells, tumor mRNA or protein expression, or inflammatory serum biomarkers into studies of inflammation SNPs will enhance these projects as well.
In conclusion, SNPs in ALOX5 and IL1A seem to harbor common inherited variants associated with modest differences in risk of ovarian cancer. Efforts to expand current data on inflammation and this deadly disease are a high priority.
Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest
No potential conflicts of interest were disclosed.
Grant Support
The scientific development and funding for this project were in part supported by the National Cancer Institute U19 Post-GWAS Initiative (U19-CA148112), the Mayo Clinic Ovarian Cancer SPORE (P50-CA136393), National Cancer Institute Research Project Grants (R01-CA086888, R01-CA122443, R01-CA106414, R01-CA76016, R01-CA114343), Cancer Research UK (A10119, A10124, A8339, A6187, A11306, A7058), the Medical Research Council (G0801875-89310), the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund, and the Mayo Foundation.
Note: Supplementary data for this article are available at Cancer Research Online (http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/).
- Received October 21, 2011.
- Revision received December 19, 2011.
- Accepted January 4, 2012.
- ©2012 American Association for Cancer Research.


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When I use the word "unthinkable" in connection with the Supreme Court under the leadership of Chief Justice John Roberts, I typically have in mind the long line of unthinkably bad decisions the court has issued since Roberts assumed office in 2005.
Topping the list are such abominations of constitutional law and statutory interpretation as the 2010 Citizens United case, which opened the floodgates on campaign spending in federal elections; the 2012 ruling in Shelby County v. Holder, which gutted the Voting Rights Act; and last year's decree in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, which recognized the religious personhood of closely held corporations.
When it comes to the constitutionality of same-sex marriage, the opposite, shockingly, may prove to be true. If Tuesday's oral arguments in the four appeals from Kentucky, Michigan, Tennessee and Ohio that have been consolidated under the name of Obergefell v. Hodges are any indication, the court's historic decision on the issue will be close. But I believe that when the dust finally settles, a majority of the justices -- consisting of Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and perhaps Roberts himself -- will hold that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to wed that no state may deny.
The day's festivities included a raucous protest, with security guards escorting an anti-marriage-equality heckler from the courtroom, his shouts of "burn in hell" echoing as he departed.
Once underway, the hearing lasted two and a half hours. The questions the justices asked -- with the exception of Clarence Thomas, who, as usual, invoked his right to remain silent -- stayed true to form.
Justice Kennedy, the court's most frequent "swing" vote in hotly contested cases, voiced apprehension over changing a conception of marriage that had "lasted millennia," but he also worried aloud about the fairness of excluding gay families from the "sacredness and nobility" of marriage.
Chief Justice Roberts raised similar concerns, noting that the petitioners in the case were "not seeking to join the institution [of marriage]...but to change" it. The chief also asked pointedly why same-sex marriage bans don't amount to sex discrimination.
The panel's liberals, on the other hand, expressed no equivocation about their support for marriage equality. Justice Breyer referred to marriage as a "fundamental liberty," lamenting that only same-sex couples "have no possibility to participate in that fundamental liberty." Endorsing Breyer's observations, Justices Kagan, Ginsburg and Sotomayor emphasized that a ruling granting recognition of same-sex marriage would harm no one -- least of all heterosexuals, whose rights would remain fully intact.
Expressing the opposite outlook, Justice Samuel Alito raised the specter of polygamy, asking that if the petitioners prevailed, what would prevent a group of two men and two women from obtaining a marriage license. Justice Antonin Scalia, long renowned for his homophobic diatribes, warned that a pro-equality ruling would force clergy to perform same-sex ceremonies in violation of their religious beliefs.
Given the Roberts court's overall track record and in view of where the nation as a whole stood until very recently, if the liberals joined by either Kennedy or the chief prevail, the court's final decision will still be "unthinkable" -- but in the most enlightened sense of the word.
Now, I'm not saying that victory is assured. It is entirely possible that a majority of the justices will align once again with the enemies of progress and deliver a repugnant surprise. Oral arguments can be deceiving. So before we pop the champagne or pen any epitaphs on anti-gay bigotry, let's consider a little background:
The Obergefell caseswere brought by over 30 litigants to topple same-sex marriage bans in the four states that comprise the territorial jurisdiction of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Some, including plaintiffs April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse of Michigan, have yet to wed. Others, including Greg Bourke and Michael DeLeon of Kentucky and Valeria Tanco and Sophy Jesty of Tennessee, were legally married elsewhere, but their unions have not been accepted in their new locations.
The lead party, real estate broker James Obergefell of Ohio, presents yet another factual scenario. In July 2013, Obergefell married his longtime and gravely ill companion, John Arthur, who suffered from Lou Gehrig's disease, in Maryland, which recognizes same-sex marriage. When they returned to Ohio, they filed a federal lawsuit to compel the state to acknowledge their nuptials, but Arthur died a few months later. Obergefell wants Ohio to list him as a surviving spouse on Arthur's official death certificate.
In each of the consolidated cases, federal district judges ruled in favor of the plaintiffs. Last November, however, in a ponderous 2-1 opinion written by Judge Jeffrey Sutton, the 6th Circuit reversed. Sutton, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, asserted that his hands were tied by an obscure 1972 Supreme Court decision -- Baker v. Nelson -- that consisted of a one-sentence order, dismissing a same-sex couple's petition for "want of a substantial federal question."
Citing Baker, Sutton admonished that the definition of marriage has traditionally been left to the states and is best decided by voters and legislatures.
But he didn't stop there. Assuming for argument's sake that Baker actually isn't binding precedent, Sutton concluded the marriage bans under his review are lawful because same-sex marriage -- as distinct from heterosexual marriage -- is not a fundamental constitutional right. The bans, he continued, rationally further states' legitimate interests in regulating sex, specifically "male-female intercourse." In Sutton's view, the bans also legitimately reflect the states' rational policy decisions to "wait and see [how gay marriage plays out in other locations] before changing a norm that our society (like all others) has accepted for centuries."
With Sutton clinging to the past, the 6th Circuit became the first -- and thus far only -- federal appellate panel since the Supreme Court's 2013 decision in United States v. Windsor to uphold state restrictions on marriage equality. The 4th, 7th, 9th and 10th Circuits have gone the other way.
By a vote of 5-4, Windsor invalidated Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act and compelled the federal government to recognize same-sex marriages approved by the states. Windsor did not, however, resolve the constitutionality of state laws that continue to limit marriage to heterosexual pairings. According to Lambda Legal, same-sex marriages currently are recognized in 36 states, the District of Columbia and parts of Kansas and Missouri but not in the rest of the country.
To clear up the double standards and settle the split among the federal circuits created by Sutton's opinion, the Supreme Court agreed in January to hear the Obergefell cases, directing the parties to address two key points:
1) Does the Fourteenth Amendment require a state to license a marriage between two people of the same sex? 2) Does the Fourteenth Amendment require a state to recognize a marriage between two people of the same sex when their marriage was lawfully licensed and performed out-of-state?
Before Tuesday's hearing, few commentators predicted that same-sex marriage opponents would win on both counts. Still, some cautioned that we could be looking at a split decision--that in a nod to federalism and states' rights, the court would allow recalcitrant jurisdictions not to issue their own gay-marriage licenses but require them to accept out-of-state ceremonies.
I think not. After much hand-wringing and deliberation, a majority of the justices, either by a margin of 6-3 or 5-4, will brush aside Baker v. Nelson and answer "yes" to both key constitutional questions.
It's not just the civil rights and gay communities that are asking the court to do so. In what is surely an unprecedented step, 379 of the world's largest employers and employer organizations -- including corporate giants Apple, Alcoa, Aetna, Microsoft, JP Morgan Chase, American Express, Google and Facebook -- have filed an amicus ("friend of the court") brief advising that same-sex marriage restrictions are bad for business.
The court's decision is due by the end of June. Until then, the biggest element of suspense won't be whether the high tribunal will declare same-sex marriage bans unconstitutional, but how far --from a constitutional perspective -- it will go to define and protect marriage equality.
Both the equal protection and due process clauses of the 14th Amendment will figure prominently in any final ruling, as they did in Loving v. Virginia, the 1967 landmark crafted by Chief Justice Earl Warren that overturned prohibitions on interracial marriage.
Under equal protection principles, laws that treat (or in constitutional parlance, "classify") people differently are subjected to varying degrees of judicial scrutiny to test their legality. The tests range from what is called the "rational-basis" standard, which is highly deferential to the judgment of legislatures and electorates (and was used by Judge Sutton) to the "strict scrutiny" test, which is the least deferential and the hardest to satisfy.
Frequently used to review economic regulations, the rational-basis model requires only that a statute be logically related to a legitimate governmental purpose.
By contrast, laws that classify people on the basis of race, religion, alienage or national origin (so-called "suspect" classifications), and those that impair fundamental rights, trigger strict scrutiny. To withstand equal-protection discrimination challenges, such laws must further a "compelling state interest" and be narrowly tailored to achieve that interest. Strict scrutiny is also applied to due process claims when fundamental rights are implicated.
In Loving, the Supreme Court proclaimed that "marriage is one of the basic civil rights of man" and evaluated Virginia's ban on interracial marriage--and those then in effect in 15 other states --under strict scrutiny. Applying that benchmark, the court determined that the bans ran afoul of both equal protection and due process.
In their briefs, the lawyers representing Obergefell and his co-petitioners urged the court to follow Loving's teachings and regard same-sex marriage as another iteration or subset of the fundamental right to marry. As such, they were not asking the court to carve out a new constitutional entitlement but to expand one that has long been established.
As a fallback, they argued that same-sex marriage bans are so illogical and founded in animus and prejudice that they can't even withstand rational-basis review. This was the approach taken by Justice Kennedy in his majority Windsor opinion, as well as by former District Judge Vaughn Walker in his blockbuster 2010 decision declaring California's Proposition 8 unconstitutional.
Clearly, it would be best if our most powerful judicial body accorded same-sex marriage the greatest degree of constitutional protection possible. But the Roberts court remains an essentially conservative panel that has been dragged into an epic battle by an overwhelming sea change in public opinion and the steadfast militancy of the gay-rights movement. Nonetheless, even if the court chooses some intermediate legal theory on which to ground its opinion, it is poised to discard the country's last same-sex marriage bans, dispatching them to the proverbial dustbin of history.
The once-unthinkable is about to happen. Get ready. Marriage equality is the future.
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Well, it's Sunday night and the end to a very relaxing weekend. I told my fiancee Julie that I would blog tonight, I have so may things I want to do but never find the time to do them all. I have to start making time and prioritize things better. I am good at starting things but then some thing else will get my attention and I will forget about what are the things I need to do the most. I feel lost some times, I don't do what needs to be done all the time. It makes me feel like I am lazy, why can't I get it all together and get things done? Some times I just don't care, I'll do it later. I need to get on the ball and take care of all the little things. Some times I think it's because of my Crohn's disease , my energy is not what it once was and that could be because of my Crohn's. I will find out next month as I will have a check up with my GI doctor.
This weekend, Julie's mother and Aunt and Julie's daughter Katey came down to visit. This weekend was Acquire The Fire in Des Moines, it's a 27-hour, life transforming event built around bringing volume and clarity to God's voice in the lives of teenagers. I was going to go with our youth group but canceled because I wanted to spend some time with Katey and Julies's mom. I was I could have been in two places at one time! The youth group have a great time and I hade a great time getting to know Katey more. I don't tell most people how much I wish I was a real dad. I have been in relationships before with kids involved, I've even been a "step-dad" but the kids had a "real" dad of there own. I never felt close to them, I didn't want to over step the line and push myself onto them. I loved them but there was a kind of wall in between us that keep them from loving me. They had a dad and I was there just when they needed me. Being a father to a sweet young girl who wants a daddy is the greatest gift a man could ever ask for. I didn't think I would ever get this chance, and I am so ready!
I know God has been getting me ready to be a dad for a long time now. I also know I will make a great dad and look forward to all the great times (good and bad) together. Julie and I are a great team and we have just started to see what we can do together. We both have had some real hard times and have a long way to go but God is acting in our lives and we couldn't be any happier. I can't wait to be with Julie more and more, it's kind of hard right now but I know she is doing so much better. I will do any thing for her, I love how she thinks and how willing she is to talk about her life.
Well, it wasn't the best blog I have done but it's nice just to put my thoughts down. I am still kind of feeling some pain and I will work haft days for the next 3 days. I am getting sleepy as I took a sleeping pill to help my shut down. I don't always get enough sleep and can stay up till after midnight and then have to be up at 4 or 5 AM. Julie is so good for me and I have to start getting all my shit together. I have never had someone who I talk to about any thing let alone someone who made me feel like I can do any thing. I will (try) blog more tomorrow and let you know more about my life and feeling, fun, I know.


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Its a nice 'other side' of Notre Dame. The soft colors and difuse focus are quite right.
Now, there is a small problem: The lamp and the towers look like they are falling to the right. Correct the tilting and the picture will be perfect.
Maybe just tilting will not be enough as it appears to be some distortion, with convergence to the top. This happens when you use a wide angle (i'm guessing you used the 18mm end of your lens) and forget to level the camera. PaintShop should solve it...
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dalia (608)
Even when a shot goes wrong it can go right and produce a nice image. Good color combination and nice composition. You could enhance it by croping the bottom part, that adds nothing to the composition and even results a bit distracting.
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clnaef (5769)
What I love the most in your photo is the color. The cold colors in the window go just perfect on the white/grey background. Altough the composition doesn´t follow the standard rules it results very wel anyway and it is a very pleasant image. Good work.


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