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A few days ago, Google said that it aims to dive deep into the blockchain world. Its strategy was to partner with EOS, a popular blockchain project. In their announcement, Google Cloud said that it intends to become the newest block producer on the EOS platform.
Allen Day, a Google Cloud advocate and developer, highlighted that the company had already initiated the process of becoming an EOS block producer. But, before this process is completed, Google Cloud is expected to seek approval from the vibrant EOS community. Currently, EOS has a total of 21 block producers but it faced massive criticism for being majorly centralized.
Organizations are beginning to insert DLT into their networks. In that context, Google Cloud promises that all the information stored on a public blockchain is securely and readily available. Also, it needs to be reliably accessible in a meaningful manner.
Brandan Blumer, CEO of Block One, said that EOS is the project that is quite responsible for a majority of the public blockchain activities. However, that is now up for discussion since the CEO never elaborated on the method that he used to get to the particular conclusion. He added:
"EOS is a powerful solution for anyone looking to leverage the decentralized ecosystem with ease."
Eventually, Block One introduced a new member to its advisory board. The new member, R. Martin Chavez, is a former executive at Goldman Sachs. He becomes the leader of the advisory board.
Google Cloud Is Not Aiming For Rewards
Google Cloud has said that it is not getting into EOS for the tokens since it is not getting into crypto mining. Allen Day said that it is just an infrastructure play for them. Google Cloud is one of the 21 nodes that were chosen by the EOS community to serve efficiently the same role as miners on Ethereum or Bitcoin.
But, EOS supports much faster transactions than any of the two biggest blockchains but has been affected by governance issues. In the October 6 release, Google Cloud declared its candidacy with Day commenting:
"We are committed to ensuring that the information on public blockchains are securely stored, reliably available, and can be accessed in meaningful ways."
This partnership comes in the same manner as the company announced its partnership with Hedera Hashgraph. Also, Google Cloud became a network validator for Theta Labs. As for Google, Day said:
"We're broadly interested in open-source protocols and distributed ledger technologies, which is why we're joining the EOS community. There isn't a revenue model for Google Cloud in connection with participating in open-source protocols. Of course, various protocols provide rewards to incentivize node operators to secure network services, but we don't intend to claim those rewards at this time."
Day went on to say that as more firms start participating in this type of technology, Google Cloud thinks that it can learn how to excellently support users who want to run validation nodes on projects like EOS. He wrote:
"We're also providing cloud infrastructure to Block.One, helping them host their own development efforts, so that obviously provides revenue to us as well."
Google did not say whether it wants to attain network tokens to stake in support of its candidacy. But, the team acknowledges that there is some learning curve to participate in these protocols. Day declined to comment on their internal strategy but confirmed that Google Cloud will work to support its candidacy as a block producer.
Block Producers
Every holder of EOS stakes their tokens and then casts their votes in a lengthy and continuous election for their preferred validators to support their block producer candidacies. They are allowed to vote for a maximum of 30 block producer candidates and they can change their votes at any time they want.
The top 21 candidates that have the most tokens staked in their favor are required to validate transactions and share in the token inflations provided by EOS. Currently, the least-supported block producer has over 273M staked or about $728 million worth of assets as highlighted by EOS Network Monitor.
EOS Block Producers will highly likely share block rewards with those that stake supporting their candidacy. That is what Vitalik Buterin famously foresaw before the mainnet launch.
Block.One is a major token holder that started voting for block producers in late May. At the time, the firm controlled around 10% of all EOS which made its support quite powerful for block producers.
Larimer Comments
While speaking to Naomi Brockwell on her YouTube channel, EOSIO architect and Block.One co-founder Dan Larimer acknowledged that Google's participation should eliminate fears surrounding the EOS blockchain. If Google Cloud's node is chosen to become a block producer, it would represent a significant shift in the decentralization of EOS.
Latimer speculated that Google's participation may make other companies to follow its lead. If Google enjoys a good experience, he said:
"Other big companies will want to get involved. Then that has the potential to really transform the image of EOS. Instead of being perceived as a group of Chinese of questionable quality, if we can get big tech companies to take the slots of block producers, now it's decentralized among a lot of companies with a lot of reputation."
After that news came up, the EOS token price surged from $2.50 to $2.88 but settled back down near $2.67 at the time of writing. Day never indicated a timeline to declare Google Cloud's block producer candidacy. He said that the firm hopes to do that soon enough.


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Deeter: The Ugliest, Nastiest, Dirty Trick Fly I've Seen
Some people say a San Juan Worm is a dirty fly. Might as well use a real worm. Others say...
Some people say a San Juan Worm is a dirty fly. Might as well use a real worm. Others say using egg patterns is a downright nasty trick in any conditions, at any time of year. And there are even a bunch of ultra- purist types out there who say a brass bead is at least a minor offense.
Well leave it to Orvis–that icon of all things pure and traditional–to give us a fly pattern that incorporates all these blemishes on the complexion of fly design in one neat little package: The "Eggi Juan Kenobi," which is part egg, part worm, part beadhead… and all gnarly. Hey, if you're going to take the gloves off, you might as well do it right. The only thing missing is the spray-on scent. Personally, having never been hung up too much on matters of "bad form," and with purely science-based interests in mind, I gave it a ride yesterday. Yeah… it catches trout so effectively, I now have a (mild) guilt complex.
I'm looking for absolution. They say "all's fair in love and war." But in flyfishing? What say you?

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Light Boxes by Shane Jones
The first time I heard about this surreal little gem of a novel was over at Savidge Reads, where Simon gave it a rave review. A visual, violent, unique, magical adult fairy tale? Sounds like Light Boxes is for me, I thought, so I immediately ordered myself a copy. And I'm so glad I did because I adored it.
The blurb on the back of the cover probably describes the plot of better than I can:
"The inhabitants of a closely knit town are experiencing perpetual February, and that means unending cold and darkness. It turns out that a godlike spirit, named February, is punishing the town for flying and bans flight of all kind, including hot air balloons and even children's kites. It's February who makes the sun nothing but a faint memory, who blankets the ground with snow, who freezes the rivers and the lakes. As the punishing weather continues, children go missing and adults become nearly catatonic with depression, all but giving up hope. But others find the strength to fight back – and launch a war against February."
The novel is stitched together by the short accounts of many different characters, a la As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner. Sometimes a character only gives a sentence on an otherwise blank page, or at most talks for two pages.
The imagery in Light Boxes is absolutely visceral. Jones' descriptions of the War Effort members in bird masks, or the dead bodies found with snow in their mouths, or the plague of moss that overtakes the town, or the painted on kites snaking up Belinda's arms before she disappears evoked such clear images in my mind that it was like I was actually watching the story unfold in front of me. I don't want to give away anything more about it because part of the book's charm is its mystery, but I can't recommend it enough.
Apparently Spike Jonze of the film Where the Wild Things Are is currently adapting the book into a movie, which sounds like such a great pairing that I'm already excited about seeing it. Also Jones' second novel The Failure Six seems to have been released this year. It sounds great, but I'll have to wait until The Book Depository stocks it, as it's too expensive to ship to Australia from Fugitive State Press' website.
Favourite Passages:
"Thaddeus, Bianca and Selah painted balloons everywhere they could. They pulled up floorboards and painted rows of balloons onto the dusty oak. Bianca drew tiny balloons on the bottom of tea-cups. Behind the bathroom mirror, under the kitchen table and on the inside of cabinet walls balloons appeared. And then Selah painted an intricate intertwining of kites on Bianca's hands and wrists, the tails extending up her forearms and around her shoulders. How long will February last, Bianca asked, stretching her hands out to her mother, who was blowing on her arms. I really have no idea, said Thaddeus, who watched the snow fall outside the kitchen window. Finished, her mother said. You will have to wear long sleeves from now on. But you'll never forget flight. You can wear beautiful dresses – that's what you can wear. Bianca studied her arms. The kites were yellow with black tails. The color melted into her skin. A breeze blew over the fresh ink and through her hair."
"One possibility is to attack with bees, I said. I could send thousands. The stings would force February to peel the clouds away. It's an idea. It could work. I told this to Caldor Clemens while we sat in a balloon basket staring up at the sky, under where the two holes were rumored to be. The balloon itself rippled, was deflated around us on the snowy plains like a gown. Go ahead and send them, Clemens said. Thaddeus would try it. I tapped my head. A swarm of bees moved up my neck and formed a funnel extending skyward. The bees disappeared through the clouds, and there was a terrible buzzing sound. Then, seconds later, the funnel collapsed and thousands of dead bees rained from the sky and filled the basket. Their little bodies were hard and cold. Clemens stood there staring at me while I shielded myself from the falling, dying, bees. The sadness was overwhelming."
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Among the gems of this conversation that took place on FS1 on Thursday:
Pete Rose on playing double-headers: "I loved it because I didn't get tired. I used to love hot days. Anything that was bad for a pitcher I liked. Like cold, it's cold you don't want to play but he can't get loose. Hot, he's sweating, he's going to get tired in the fifth inning."
And on what happens when you're in "a lull": The first rule? "Don't ever let a pitcher tell you you're in a slump." Call it a lull.
"You do one of six things," he continued. "Closer to the plate, further away from the plate, up in the box, back in the box, choke up in the bat more, choke down in the bat more. Make it heavier, make it lighter. Never change your swing. Your swing got you into the big leagues. You change your positioning in the batter's box … because what they do everybody charts every games. You're not going to go 0-for-20 and you're not going to have 15 at-bats where you're pulling the ball and five where you're hitting over first base. You're going to develop a pattern and you're going to make adjustments based on the pattern that you developed."
On how pitchers got Rose out: "When I first came up they tried to knock the bat out of my hand."
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Back in the days when one couldn't possibly keep up with all the restaurants that opened every week in Chicago, I used to get cranky about all the cheffy burgers I was supposed to keep tabs on. The tonnage of terrible barbecue I was obligated to eat drove me into a rage I could barely contain. But now that everybody's putting out pandemic pizza, I'm actually delighted by the proliferation of pie at nimble operations such as Pizza Fried Chicken Ice Cream (a collaboration between Eat Free Pizza, Kimski, and Pretty Cool Ice Cream); or Oriole chef Noah Sandoval's Sicilian slices at Pizza Friendly Pizza; or Milly's Pizza in the Pan, a Burt's Place tribute operating out of a Logan Square ghost kitchen.
In times such as these how could anyone not be positive about pizza? It's the one thing we all still love.
There hasn't been enough time or digestive resources to try all the interesting new, ahem, pizzabilities that have sprung up in surprising places over the summer, but I am not afraid of my mission.
I'm probably most interested in the possibility of scoring a pizza under cover of a dark Chicago alley from food writer and Revolution Brewing hype man John Carruthers.
Back in May, he launched a monthly pop-up in which he auctions off tavern-style pizzas to his Instagram followers, whose money goes directly to a charity of Carruthers's choice. "This pizza thing started as a way to keep myself sane during the shutdown," he messaged me a while back. "You've met me, so I think you probably remember that I'm one of those really fidgety, talkative, possibly annoying personality types. My job is very social, my off-hours pop-ups and stuff are very social. That was all gone, so I started doing pizza and movies with the kids on Fridays to get some routine going. I was super privileged to have a family around, to still have a job, to have food, etc. It's just that my mental health in those early days wasn't great. The uncertainty of everything was just something that I was almost specifically not built for. So doing one thing over and over and over—then kind of obsessing about it for the next 6 days—helped.
"Then George Floyd happened, and the protests happened, and the federal government continued to be a trash fire. And I think most people kind of have that helpless feeling if they have any empathy at all. And I'm thinking, 'Well shit, how do you help when all your skills are kind of insufferably twee for all the terrible problems going on right now?'
"But that seemed like kind of a cop-out, too. Help however you can help."
People stepped up to help. A pair of friends, Anthony Hall and Zach Sherwood, created a logo and menu design sporting a jolly, jaunty anthropomorphic slice, and Crust Fund Pizza was born. In August, Carruthers sold $501 worth of pepperoni, sausage, cheese, and vegan pizzas to eight bidders benefitting The TRiiBE. Last month, a giardiniera-topped "Royko" pizza joined the menu, and My Block, My Hood, My City was on the receiving end of $1,056.
"Through the first two months of Crust Fund Pizza, the average Pizza Pal (Not calling them customers. I don't sell anything!) paid $68.47 for each 14-inch pie," Carruthers reports. "And that is a true testament to how much Chicago gives a fuck about social issues. I make a decent pie, but I could practice every day for the rest of my life and never make a $68.47 pie. These are wonderful people, and I hope the pizza is at least acceptable. I know some people who order, but mostly it's people I haven't met. And usually people go way above and beyond the suggested $25 dollar donation. I don't post what people pay. No one knows but them and me, and they pretty much all do it. Someone got in too late to order and gave $200 anyhow. It's a big-hearted city."
Awww, right?
Not only does it warm the cockles, but by the looks of it, it's been one of the more fun and imaginative pop-ups to emerge along the ravaged hellscape of the last seven months. Carruthers puts out a bourbon barrel to signal his spot in the alley, and if he's not tending his double oven, he often hangs out to jawbone with winning bidders about pizza, the not-for profit of the month, or how much the initial pick-up resembles how "a Dateline episode starts before the first commercial break."
Carruthers is releasing the October menu—benefiting the Greater Chicago Legal Clinic—to his e-mail list today, and on Monday he'll post it on Instagram. You can peep this months' offering of pizza positivity right now, right under these words v:
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I've just taken delivery of 2 more sets of DT30, and one of the amps appears to not work.
I have swapped input signal to the good amp, and it drives both galvos fine (so both galvos are confirmed working on the good amp)
When I take the signal from the bad amp and plug it into the good amp, the good amp works fine.
When I take the good signal from the good amp and plug it into the bad amp, it doesn't work.
The bad amp has 2 steady green LEDs just like the good amp.
Also, the galvo fixed solid straight ahead when driven by the amp, so it is getting power. It's just not getting a signal by the look of it.
I'm not sure I have time to get another amp in time for a show now, so I need to see if this is something I could look at myself.


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How can we comprehend that which is incomprehensible? To "comprehend" means "to grasp mentally" or "to understand." To know facts and to understand are really two different things. We can know that the earth is 93,000,000 miles away from the sun, but who can really understand the magnitude of that distance. If we were traveling at the speed of light (186,000 per second) we could reach the sun in a little over 8 minutes. Even though we might not be able to comprehend the distance of 93,000,000 miles, we can comprehend 8 minutes can't we? Let's broaden our travels a little. Instead of traveling to the sun, let's travel across our galaxy, the Milky Way. Traveling at the speed of light, 186,000 miles per second, it would take us 100,000 years to take a trip across the Milky Way! Now try to get your mind around that trip!
Astronomers estimate that there are approximately 200-400 billion stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way. If we take the low number of 200 billion that is still an incomprehensible number isn't it? Of those 200 billion stars there are only about 2,500 stars that are visible to the naked eye at any one time. Of those 200 billion stars in the Milky Way there are about 5,800-8,000 total stars that are visible to the naked eye period. 200 billion stars? That's incomprehensible. The Hubble Space Telescope site estimates that there are hundreds of billions of galaxies in the universe. A German super computer simulation estimates that the number may be as high as 500 billion. The Milky Way that would take us 100,000 years to travel its length is just one galaxy among as many as 500 billion galaxies. We can't even comprehend the vastness of the Milky Way so how are we to understand the possibility of 500 billion galaxies? Incomprehensible! We can understand all of the "facts" that I've just shared with you. We can memorize the numbers so that we can spout them off on demand, but to comprehend them, to truly understand what they mean, now that is an all together different reality.
When we consider the vastness and the magnitude of our universe it is truly incomprehensible, but I would dare say that there is still something far more incomprehensible and that is the love of our Savior. We talk about how much Jesus loves us, but do we really, can we truly, comprehend the depth of His love? Paul prays for the brothers and sisters in Ephesus that they might have "…power to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge…" Let's take a look at our Scripture for today found in Ephesians 3:14-19.
14 For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15 from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge–that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. (Ephesians 3:14-19 NIV)
Though he is in prison, Paul prays for the brothers and sisters in Ephesus. Paul is not praying that they will escape persecution, or that they will be cured of their illnesses, or that their businesses will prosper, or that their children will grow up to be NBA All-Stars or Ivy League academics. He prays that they would be strengthened inwardly by the Holy Spirit so that the Lord would settle deep in their hearts and enable them to grasp His incomprehensible love.
Each week, as I spend time with the Scriptures, I also spend time with those who have gone before us. I've read the studies of John R.W. Stott, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, James Montgomery Boice, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, and others during this past week. They've brought something to my attention that is very important for us to understand. What they have brought to my attention concerns a phrase in verse 17 where Paul writes, "…so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith." John R.W. Stott writes,
Some are puzzled by this first petition when they remember that Paul is praying for Christians. 'Surely,' they say, 'Christ dwells by His Spirit within every believer? So how can Paul ask here that Christ may dwell in their hearts? Was Christ not already within them?' To these questions we begin by replying that indeed every Christian is indwelt by Christ and is the temple of the Holy Spirit. Nevertheless as Charles Hodge rightly comments, 'The indwelling of Christ is a thing of degrees.' (Stott, John R.W. The Message of Ephesians. pg. 135)
This letter was written to Christians. It wasn't sent as an evangelistic tool to try to win the hearts of those in the Kiwanis Club, the Rotary Club, or the Junior League—it was sent to the church in Ephesus. Why would Paul pray "that Christ may dwell in their hearts?" if they were already followers of Jesus? The key to help us understand Paul's prayer is the word, "dwell." The Greek word, "????????" (katoikeo) means, "to dwell, settle down." It carries with it a sense of permanence.
There are two Greek words that are used to describe different kinds, or different degrees, of dwelling. First there is the word, "????????" (paroikos), which means "dwelling near" or "neighboring." This was the word that was used of folks who lived in Jerusalem, but they weren't permanent residents there. They were strangers, aliens, even though they lived in Jerusalem. The word that is used in Ephesians 3:17 is the word that would have been used for Jews who lived in Jerusalem, it was their home.
Paul prays for the believers in Ephesus and it is his desire that the Holy Spirit would so work in their lives that Jesus would settle down in their hearts and completely control and strengthen every aspect of their lives. I know that there are many who will be troubled with this kind of teaching. They say, "If a person accepts Jesus as Lord and Savior of their life then they are as much a Christian as any other Christian. A person is either saved by the blood of the Lamb or they are not." Paul wouldn't dispute that assertion at all. We are saved by grace and not by works. We have not done anything to earn our salvation; it is a gift of God so that no one may boast. (Ephesians 2:8) The question that must be answered is this: "Is Jesus at home in your heart? Is He at home in my heart? Has He settled down there? Is He at home there? Or is Jesus a stranger or an alien in our hearts? Does He find within my heart or your heart a 'land' that is so foreign to His will and His Word that He just doesn't feel at home?" Martyn Lloyd-Jones writes,
These words then are addressed to Christians who have spiritual life, but who are in a very poor and immature condition. There is a sense in which they know the Lord Jesus Christ, but in a deeper sense they do not know Him. They are in a relationship to Him, but they are not controlled by Him. They are certainly in a position in which they are having dealings with Him; but He is not in the center of their lives. He is not really in their hearts, He is not 'dwelling' there, He has not 'settled down' there, He has not 'taken up His abode' there. (Lloyd-Jones, Martyn. The Unsearchable Riches of Christ: Ephesians 3. pg. 145)
Paul wants the brothers and sisters in Ephesus to have more than an intellectual understanding of Jesus. Paul wants the brothers and sisters in Ephesus to know Jesus, to be surrendered to Jesus' will for their lives. Paul wants the brothers and sisters in Ephesus to be so consumed by the love of Jesus that His love fills their every thought and controls their every action.
The final letter to the church in Ephesus that we have in our possession was not written by Paul, but it was written by the Lord Himself. We can read it in Revelation 2:1-7. In these verses we find that the Lord knows the deeds of the folks in Ephesus, He is familiar with their hard work, and perseverance. The Lord knows that they possess a sound theology and that they are intolerant of heresy. He knows that they have been tougher than nails as they have endured hardships for His name. The Lord knows all of this and more. Yet the saddest commentary on the state of the church in Ephesus is found in verse 4, where we read, "Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love." (Revelation 2:4 NIV)
Did the folks in Ephesus "know" the Lord? Sure they knew the Lord. They could recite all of the Creeds. Their doctrine was lock-tight, spot-on. Yet, they didn't know the Lord in the way that He wanted them to know Him did they? Their love for the Lord had waned. The Revised Standard Version says, "…you have abandoned the love you had at first." The New Living Translation says, "You don't love me or each other as you did at first." Their love for the Lord had faded. Their passion had died down. Their willingness to lay it all down for the One who laid down His life for them had grown cold.
I've had to ask myself this past week if this description of the folks in Ephesus also describes me? I can well remember when I first came to know Jesus. I remember praying, confessing to Jesus my need for Him, and letting Him know that I wanted to serve Him above all else in life. I was willing to do anything. I spent hours reading His Word and hiding His Word in my heart. I was willing to go anywhere. I was unashamed of the Gospel and I would go to the park in Duncan where teenagers went to get high and hang out so I could witness to them. I would go to "The Strip" in Lawton to share His love with those who were arriving to go into strip joints and bars. I went to the juvenile shelter in Lawton to shoot pool and hang out with the kids who were in trouble so that I could share with them the hope that I had found in Jesus. I would pray for my teammates with passion and expectancy. I would witness to my coaches because I wanted them to know the love of Jesus. Do you know why I did those things? I did them because the love of Jesus was unlike anything I had ever experienced in my life and I wanted, more than anything in life, for others to experience His incomprehensible love as well.
What about today? Has my love grown cold? Has His Word become just another book? Am I still unashamed of the Gospel? Am I still willing to go to those that nobody else wants to be around in order than I might share with them the incomprehensible love of Jesus? Or, have I lost sight of His boundless love and become more focused on the purity of doctrine and the soundness of my theology? These are the questions the Lord has been placing before me during this past week.
I am convinced that the reason the Lord wrote a tear stained letter to the folks in Ephesus was to let them know that their love for Him had grown cold. I am convinced that the reason the Lord has put these questions before me this past week was to open my eyes to the reality that my love has grown cold, it has become academic, and I have turned our passionate love affair into a cold, stale, religion.
How does this happen? I think I know the answer. A passionate love affair becomes a cold religion when we lose sight of His incomprehensible love for us. It is not my love that is the catalyst…it is His. The more I focus on His love for me and for others the more my love for Him and others will be fueled. The deeper my understanding of His incomprehensible love becomes then the more His love will embody my thoughts and actions. This must be why Paul prays for believers to be able to grasp the incomprehensible love of Christ.
We desperately need the Lord to continuously reveal Himself, especially His staggering love, to us. Apart from this divine, perpetual manifestation of His love we will no doubt grow cold and stale in our love even though we may very well think we are just fine. Let me give you an example, a warning, from the lives of some of His followers. Turn with me to Revelation 3:14-20. Remember, this letter was written to a church, a church not unlike your church or my church.
14 "To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God's creation. 15 I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! 16 So, because you are lukewarm–neither hot nor cold–I am about to spit you out of my mouth. 17 You say, 'I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.' But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. 18 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see. 19 Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent. 20 Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me. (Revelation 3:14-20 NIV)
The Lord offered this critique because He loved the folks in Laodicea. They believed they were doing just fine, but they just didn't know. They thought that because they were living in fine homes, surrounded by luxury, and lacking absolutely nothing that they were blessed and most highly favored by God. God's assessment was quite different. In verse 17 we read,
17 You say, 'I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.' But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. (Revelation 3:17 NIV)
Our assessment of ourselves can fall far short of the Lord's assessment of our souls my friends. How does a person who falls in love with Jesus find themselves "forsaking their first love" or eventually becoming "wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked?" Once again, I believe this metamorphosis begins the moment we begin to lose sight of the incomprehensible love of Christ. This is why Paul prays, above all else, that the believers in Ephesus might know "this love that surpasses knowledge…" Would you read with me once again from Ephesians 3:17-19?
17 …And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge–that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. (Ephesians 3:14-19 NIV)
We hear lovers say, "I've never known love like this before!" Yet, the kind of love they are describing, as they think about the love of their life, pales in comparison to the incomprehensible love of Christ. How do we even begin to understand it? Is there a book that I can pick up at Mardel's? Is there a sermon out there somewhere that I can read to help me understand? The answer is, "Sure. And we should read them." There are lots of resources out there that you and I can read which can help us to better understand this amazing love of our Savior, but all of the books and all of the sermons written about the love of God can't adequately describe His indescribable love. The greatest minds alive today can't dissect it, diagram it, or describe it.
The story is told about the great thinker Augustine who was born in 354 A.D. Augustine was trying to understand the Trinity. It was a mystery that no matter how hard he thought about the subject he just couldn't get his mind around it. One day Augustine was walking on the beach thinking about the Trinity. He was saying to himself, "Father, Son, Holy Spirit; three in one!" As he was walking he came upon a young boy with a seashell. The boy was running back and forth between the ocean and a little pool on the beach. The boy would fill the seashell with water, run to the pool, and pour the water into the pool. Augustine asked, "What are you doing?" The boy said, "I'm emptying the ocean into this pool!" Augustine was humored by the efforts of the little boy and he said, "Son, you can't do that!" As the story goes the boy, who was really an angel, turned to Augustine and said, "I will sooner empty the ocean into this pool than you will manage to get the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity into your head!" And I would say, "The boy will empty the ocean and Augustine will comprehend the mystery of the Trinity before any of us will ever fully comprehend the incomprehensible love of Christ."
How do you describe the indescribable? How do you comprehend the incomprehensible? Bullet points and dissertations will not suffice. Examples of His love can help to give us a glimpse of His love, but all of the examples of all of the people who have ever experienced His glorious love will still fall far short of exhausting its essence. Let me give you a weak example of what I am talking about. I can list all of the wonderful examples of the many ways I've experienced my wife's love during the years that I've known her. I can fill page after page with details. I can remember stories from when we are dating and I can describe, in detail, examples from this week—more than 30 years of experiencing the love of Connie. Yet, all of these stories will fail to truly capture the love of Connie my wife.
As much as I relish the love of my wife, her love is like a kiddie pool of love compared the oceans of the Savior's love for me, and for you. Paul wanted the folks in Ephesus, and God wants the folks at Britton Christian Church, to grasp "how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ." How can we begin to grasp His glorious, incomprehensible love if books, sermons, and theology will not suffice? The answer is quite simple—we must make knowing His love our highest aim in life. We must pray for Him to give us eyes to see His love that is demonstrated before us each and every day of our life. We must seek Him as a deep pants for water. Spurgeon wrote,
Brothers and sisters, it will be to small profit that we shall talk to you about the breadth, and length, and depth, and height of the love of Christ unless there is in your soul a devout longing ambition to set the Lord Jesus always before you, as the frequent, if not the constant Subject of your meditation! No progress to any extent is to be made in the school of the Cross unless you separate yourself and give yourself wholly to this. It must be the one great business of your life, to know Him and the power of His Resurrection… But to do this the heart must be full of Jesus, welling up with His love, flaming with it, overrunning with it! And therefore the Apostle prays, 'that Christ may dwell in your hearts.' Observe the words, 'that He may dwell'—not that He may call upon you sometimes, as a casual visitor enters into a house and tarries for a night—but that He may dwell. That Christ may take up His abode in your hearts. That the Lord Jesus may become the Lord and tenant of your inmost being, never more to go out, but to dwell there, world without end. Observe, too, the words that He may dwells in your hearts—that best room of the house of manhood—not in your thoughts alone, but in your affections! Not merely have Him in your minds, but have Him in your loves. (Spurgeon, Charles Haddon. Heavenly Geometry. 1866)
How can we know this incomprehensible love? It is impossible to fully comprehend it, but for those who will set their sights on diving deep into the love of the Savior they will experience a communion, a fellowship, an inexhaustible love that will transform every aspect of their being. They will see with new eyes. They will hear with new ears. They will walk with a security that only comes from walking with the One who is Love. It is this kind of love that moved Paul to write to the Romans and say,
38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:38-39 NIV)
I'm free in His love. I'm sheltered in His love. I belong in His love. I'm redeemed in His love. I'm forgiven in His love. I'm a person of purpose in His love. My provision is in His love. My past is overcome in His love. My present makes sense in His love. My future is certain in His love. My friend, you cannot know the fullness of the Savior's love for you by standing on the outside and gazing in through the stained glass windows. You can't come to know the glorious love of the Savior by listening to other's testimonies. You must dive in. Swim in the seas of His love and allow the Savior's love to wash over you in ways that you cannot even begin to imagine. Won't you cry out to Him this very morning?
"That God should love the good, the righteous, the pure, the godly, is what we can understand. But that the infinitely holy should love the unholy, and give his son for their redemption, is the wonder of all wonders. Herein is love: not that we loved God but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins." (Charles Hodge)
Mike Hays
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March 18, 2012
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The old saying for those who've relocated to the Lone Star state is "I wasn't born in Texas, but I got here as fast as I could."
That's certainly the case for Lanny Wadkins, a Virginia native who has maintained a residence in the Dallas-Fort Worth area for decades.
It's no surprise Wadkins has felt at home in the DFW — his second PGA Tour victory, one that solidified his standing as one of the game's great emerging players, came at the 1973 Byron Nelson Classic when he edged Dan Sikes in a playoff.
We caught up with Wadkins earlier this week in Dallas at a Golfweek Raters event at Las Colinas Country Club.
Golfweek: Tell us your memories of that 1973 victory at the Byron Nelson (then played at Preston Trail Golf Course).
Lanny Wadkins: I won in '72, which was my rookie year. I won in Las Vegas, and for my first win, I'd beaten Arnold Palmer by a shot, so then here at the Nelson, I was playing well coming in. I'd finished fifth the week before the Tournament of Champions in La Costa. So, I knew I was playing well. I came here and had a great week driving the ball. The last day was really windy. I was three back then I think I birdied five of the last seven holes on the last day and thought I'd won the thing, but Dan Sikes holed about a 40-footer from just off the back edge of the green on 18 to tie me.
Then I won on the first sudden-death hole, which was 15 back then. They went to 15 because that's where TV started.
GW: What did that win mean for you?
LW: I was playing really well. In fact, I went to Houston next week and finished third, so I had a fifth, a first and a third right in a row as a 23-year-old.
So it kind of put me up there. I finished fifth on the money list that year. I finished 10th my first year, which was technically supposed to be my senior year at Wake Forest, since I left a year early. I was 10th on the money list and so it worked out well. But like with anything — you go through something where you're feeling your way through.
GW: To win in your sophomore season on the Tour, did you kind of feel like, "hey, wait a minute, this isn't a fluke. I belong here."
LW: I mean, I felt I did anyway. I was runner-up at the Heritage in 1970 when I was U.S. Amateur champ. So I had finished second at a PGA Tour event as an amateur. I finished 13th in a U.S. Open as an amateur. So, I knew I could play before I got out there — that's why I went out there. So I was settled in.
GW: So, now let's come full circle. In 1983, you think you're going to win at the Nelson again. What happened?
LW: Yeah, well that was the first year they moved it (to TPC-Las Colinas). I played well there a number of times. And when it went to Las Colinas, I finished top two or three several times.
I lost to Payne Stewart by a shot one year (in 1990) and in '83, the first year we moved the Nelson to Las Colinas. I actually had the 54-hole lead. I'd won at La Costa in the Tournament of Champions. I won that so I was coming in here thinking, you know, I was playing well, they just moved the tournament.
I knew the course. I had the 54-hole lead. You know, I thought I might take down back-to-back wins, but I didn't do it. Ben Crenshaw played great on the final day and I think I ended up finishing third. That's one I really thought I had.
GW: So when a tournament like this keeps moving — and it's in its first year at TPC Craig Ranch — does that lose its luster for you, personally? Or doesn't it really matter?
LW: I think they've been trying to figure it out. I think, you know, they had to move away from Preston Trail. We didn't have the room for anything out there anymore. We had no room for parking. The neighborhood was growing up. The size of the venue wasn't large enough and the footprint got much larger at Las Colinas because eventually, they had 36 holes of this so that gave them ample room and they even used both courses during the tournament several times. It gave them other venues for pro-ams and they had plenty of room out there for corporate hospitality, so it all worked, you know. The corporate hospitality is a big part of it today, you've got to take that into consideration when you're planning a PGA Tour event.
I was surprised by the move to Trinity Forest and I'm not surprised by the move out to Craig Ranch. I believe Craig Ranch — it's a Tom Weiskopf course — it's a very good straightforward golf course. I think it's going to be an excellent venue for the tournament. I think the players will love it. Right down the road in Frisco there's hotels, there's restaurants, there's, you know, 10 to 15 minutes away there's everything in the world you could want, so I think all in all it's a wonderful spot for the tournament.
GW: You now have an interesting perspective, you were a player at a time when it was all about the golf course, pure and simple. People came to tournaments for the course. Now, it's much more about the staging and the hospitality and TV. Do you see a difference in the way players treat their schedules?
LW: The players are still coming because of the golf course and how they how the course suits them. The players themselves aren't coming because of the hospitality, right? I mean now this with the Nelson, it'll be a bigger venue, a bigger show on Tour, if you will. Like Phoenix, for example, is sometimes it's a show. It's a happening.
GW: Would you have changed your schedule if you played today?
LW: My schedule always revolved around if I liked the golf course. Did I play it well? I mean when you get down to the bottom line, it's a business and you've got to make money. I'm not going to go someplace where I miss the cut every year. That doesn't make sense to go spend $5,000 of your own money to make nothing, right?
So I mean even here in Dallas when I was living here, I was having a run at Colonial where I just played horribly. I love the golf course, but I played terrible at Colonial. I missed the cut every year. So finally, in '86 and '87, I just didn't play Colonial. Even though I was here, I didn't play Colonial. I went back in '88 and won. I hadn't made the cut there in forever but I needed a break from it. And I went back an '88 and won, and then played good there from then on.
GW: How come?
LW: I have no idea. I love the course. I like the grasses. I mean, I'm here. I just went over there the first year back in '88 and had a good first round, I think I shot a 67, and was like now I can shoot a score here. And that's all I needed. I just needed to know that I could and then it was OK.
I shot a 65 in the last round and won it.


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I used to pay their premium. Switched to Google's Nexus 5 last november and it does everything the iPhone does except...
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Does anyone know if there are any cinema options for watching local films (OV is in French or Dutch) with English subtitles? Brussels preferred but any nearby public transport-accessible city would do.
Thank you!
Nope, doesn't exist. You either need to wait for the DVD release (and if it's a Belgian DVD release it's not sure that it would have EN subtitles, although many do) or catch the movie in an English-speaking country.
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Dimension Therapeutics to Develop Gene Therapy Treatments for Patients with Glycogen Storage Disease Type Ia (GSDIa)
Dimension Therapeutics to Develop Gene Therapy Treatments for Patients with Ornithine Transcarbamylase (OTC) Deficiency and Glycogen Storage Disease Type Ia (GSDIa)
Severe Forms of These Diseases Have Devastating Consequences for Patients and Families, with Few or No Effective Treatment Options
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., April 23, 2015 – Dimension Therapeutics, Inc. ("Dimension" or the "Company"), a rare disease company advancing novel, liver-directed treatments for diverse genetic disorders, today announced that the company is advancing programs to treat two rare diseases with often devastating outcomes for patients and their families – Ornithine Transcarbamylase (OTC) deficiency and Glycogen Storage Disease Type Ia (GSDIa). Both diseases, due to genetically inherited inborn errors of metabolism, usually present in the neonatal period or infancy, and can have grave effects on patients of all ages. For severe forms, there are few or no effective treatment options other than liver transplantation, leaving patients with significant unmet needs. Dimension is developing novel gene therapy approaches to replace the missing or faulty gene, correcting the underlying defect to restore metabolic function.
"In an important step for both patients and for Dimension, we are launching our first two liver-associated, metabolic disease programs to address rare disorders with the greatest needs and fewest treatment options, other than liver transplant. Transplants are often associated with significant risks both during the procedure and over the long term," said Dimension's CEO Annalisa Jenkins, MBBS, MRCP. "Our mission – working in collaboration with patient advocacy communities and with the world's leading clinical investigators and advisors – is to rapidly and responsibly develop new therapies that can offer hope and better health to those patients in the greatest need."
Dimension looks forward to continuing the work previously championed by advocacy organizations, including The Children's Fund for GSD Research, which has funded much of the existing preclinical work in GSDIa. Eric Crombez, MD, Dimension's Chief Medical Officer, commented, "Dimension is developing and strengthening partnerships with the patient communities, families, and physicians focused on improving the lives of patients affected by OTC deficiency and GSDIa. We will ensure that patient organizations, as key partners, will play an active role in developing these clinical programs." The company anticipates commencing clinical trials in both patient populations in 2016.
Mark L. Batshaw, MD, Principal Investigator of the Urea Cycle Disorders Consortium (UCDC) and Physician-in-Chief of Children's National Health System, stated, "In order to solve the most pressing issues in pediatric medicine, we encourage diverse constituencies to come together in a true spirit of collaboration. This approach has been critical to the success of programs at the UCDC, and we believe it will be paramount in addressing the needs of patients and families affected by OTC deficiency."
David A. Weinstein, MD, MMSc, Director, Glycogen Storage Disease Program at the University of Florida, noted, "Our research program, the largest of its kind pursuing treatments for GSDIa, has dedicated substantial resources to enabling gene therapy, which we ultimately believe will be the most promising approach to long-term care of
patients with GSDIa. New therapies are critically needed, and I look forward to Dimension's progress in advancing its gene therapy program into the clinic."
Dimension's Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV) Vector Platform
Dimension is advancing therapies based on a next-generation AAV platform that has demonstrated early validation and compelling preclinical in vivo proof of concept across multiple disease states in leading academic research centers. Dimension's current efforts focus on AAV8 and AAVrh10, two forms of AAV vectors that selectively target liver cells and have been optimized to deliver missing intact genes in diseases associated with the
liver. Initial indications of positive net benefit of this approach in patients living with hemophilia B, plus demonstration of robust gene expression in multiple preclinical in vivo models and commercially viable novel CMC approaches, provide a strong foundation for Dimension's proprietary programs.
Background on OTC Deficiency and GSDIa
OTC deficiency, the most common urea cycle disorder, is caused by a genetic defect in a liver enzyme responsible for detoxification of ammonia. Individuals with OTC deficiency can build-up excessive levels of ammonia in their blood, potentially resulting in neurological deficits and other toxicities. Neonatal onset disease in males is severe and can be fatal at an early age. The greatest percentage of patients experience late-onset disease, representing a clinical spectrum of disease severity. It is estimated that more than 10,000 patients are affected by OTC deficiency worldwide. Currently, the only curative approach is liver transplantation.
GSDIa, the most common glycogen storage disease, has significant unmet needs. Patients have a defective gene for the enzyme glucose-6-phosphatase, resulting in the inability to regulate blood sugar (glucose). If chronically untreated, patients develop severe lactic acidosis, progress to renal failure, and die in infancy or childhood. There are no approved pharmacological therapies, and no ongoing clinical development beyond dietary approaches. An estimated 6,000 or more patients are affected by GSDIa worldwide.
About Dimension Therapeutics
Dimension Therapeutics, Inc., is a rare disease company focused on developing novel treatments for devastating disorders associated with the liver and based on an industry-leading, extensively validated adeno-associated virus (AAV) platform. The company is advancing multiple programs toward clinical development, including: programs addressing unmet needs for patients suffering from OTC deficiency and GSDIa; a collaboration with Bayer HealthCare in hemophilia A, and a wholly owned program in hemophilia B, which is expected to enter clinical testing in the second half of 2015. Dimension has preferred access to multiple best-in-class AAV vectors from REGENXBIO, which founded Dimension with Fidelity Biosciences in October 2013. The Dimension team and senior advisors include biotech industry veterans and renowned thought leaders in gene therapy and rare diseases. For more information, please visit www.dimensiontx.com.
Dylan Siegel, left, has raised more than half a million dollars to help Jonah Pournazarian, right, his friend who suffers from a rare liver disease. (Credit: ABC News)
Boy Author Raises $750k For Sick Friend
by Sydney Lupkin (@slupkin)
Every morning at 3 a.m. Lora Pournazarian is awake to feed her 8-year-old son Jonah a mixture of corn starch and water through a tube in his stomach.
If she doesn't, Jonah could die because he has a rare form of glycogen storage disease, a hereditary disorder that means his liver can store sugar but can't release it, causing him to have dangerously low blood sugar levels that can result in seizures or even death.
"That's huge anxiety every night," his mother Lora Pournazarian told ABC News. "We go to sleep going, 'We hope we don't miss an alarm clock because he could die.'"
But Jonah's parents aren't the only ones looking out for him. His best friend from preschool, Dylan Siegel has his back, too.
Dr. David Weinstein, who studies and treats patients with glycogen storage disease at the University of Florida, was almost out of funding when he heard that Dylan wanted to help raise money to find a cure for the disease. Dylan was only 6 years old at the time, so Weinstein mostly just thought he was cute.
But Dylan had other plans. He wrote a book called "Chocolate Bar," and explained to his parents "chocolate bar" means "awesome" to him. "Disneyland is so chocolate bar," the book starts out. The last page says, "I like to help my friends. That is the biggest chocolate bar."
Dylan's project raised more than $750,000 in a little more than a year by selling the books for $20 each in all 50 states and 42 countries. Every cent goes to Weinstein's lab.
"Boy, have I been shocked," Weinstein told ABC News in September, when the book had crossed the $400,000 mark. "He's raised more money for this disease than all the medical foundations and all the grants combined. Ever."
When this story aired on ABC World News Wednesday night, "Chocolate Bar" had raised more than $500,000. Fewer than 24 hours later, it had raised an additional $250,000.
When asked where the two boys will be in 10 or 15 years, Dylan said, "High school, and probably his disease would be cured 'cause it's not going to take like 15 years to be cured."
That would be so chocolate bar.
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To learn more about the story of Dylan and Jonah, and Dylan's goal of raising $1 Million dollars for Glycogen Storage Disease research, visit Chocolate Bar Book.
Charlotte Jordan, 6, (left) with her sister Alexis Jordan, 10.
Gift of Hope
by Melanie Stawicki Azam
For Lindsay Jordan, it was a mixed blessing when her daughter Charlotte was diagnosed with glycogen storage disease type 1a.
On one hand, the California mother finally knew why her 3-year-old little girl had been struggling to thrive since birth. At the same time, she faced the sobering reality that Charlotte had a rare genetic disease that could be fatal if not properly treated.
"It was a surreal experience, but I knew she'd been sick," Jordan said.
Little did she know that Charlotte's condition would take her to the other side of the U.S. for treatment and inspire her family to donate $1 million to UF to help find a cure for glycogen storage disease type 1a, also known as GSD 1a.
The Fry Foundation, which Lindsay Jordan's parents, Stephen T. and Cynthia Fry, created, donated the money to establish The Charlotte's Cure for Type 1a GSD fund. The money will support research geared toward finding a cure for the disease.
"Their gift is the biggest in the history of the program," said David Weinstein, MD, MMSc, a professor of pediatrics and director of the UF Glycogen Storage Disease Program. "It allows me to focus on some of the programs we're working on, including gene therapy."
The UF GSD program is the largest of its kind in the world for care and research for the liver forms of GSD, such as type 1a. It follows more than 425 patients from 37 countries and all U.S. states.
GSD type 1, which affects about one in 100,000 children, impacts the body's ability to correctly store and use sugar between meals.
After Charlotte was diagnosed with GSD 1a at her local hospital in California, she still struggled from complications related to the disease.
Charlotte met with Weinstein in November 2011 and thrived under his care. Now 6 years old, she visits him annually.
"He could have dedicated himself to anything and for him to pick this little–known disease and try to make a difference for these kids is amazing," Jordan said.
Photo Credit: Jordan Family Photo
A boy's serious ailment required only a simple fix once it was diagnosed.
By Sandra G. Boodman
When she heard her younger son's quavery cry of "M-o-o-o-m-m-m" drifting down the hall in the middle of the night, Jocelyn Mathiasen stiffened, braced for what lay ahead.
Sometimes the little boy would awaken just before dawn shaky and weak, complaining of hunger or thirst; after consuming something he would quickly recover. But on the bad nights Peter Dawson would spend hours lying on the floor of the bathroom clutching his stomach, vomiting intermittently and refusing to drink anything. It took him hours to rebound — and it was never clear what had made him so sick.
Mathiasen did not know what to make of these episodes, which at first were only mild and infrequent, blips in the life of her otherwise healthy child. But when Peter turned 5 in 2006 and the family moved to Easton, Conn., from Seattle, Mathiasen asked her new pediatrician whether the episodes were normal. Leveling a hard look at her, he told her that what she was describing was definitely not normal — and might signify a serious problem, such as juvenile, or Type 1, diabetes. But after tests for diabetes were negative, the search for the underlying cause of Peter's odd problem floundered.
It would take nearly five years for a specialist eight states away to figure out what was wrong. The solution was a surprisingly cheap and prosaic remedy — but one that recently drew attention in an airport security line.
As an infant, Peter would periodically wake up in the morning in obvious distress, grabbing his bottle and sucking down the contents "in one gulp, like he was desperate," his mother recalled.
"I didn't worry too much about it because it didn't happen often, and after he ate he seemed fine," Mathiasen said. For some reason the episodes were worse when the family traveled. Mathiasen said she refrained from mentioning them to his doctor, not wanting to seem alarmist. "I was trying to be this relaxed mother," she said.
After the test for diabetes was negative, the pediatrician referred Peter to a pediatric endocrinologist in New Haven. Once a tumor and several other disorders had been ruled out, the doctor settled on a diagnosis of reactive hypoglycemia: severely low blood sugar that occurs several hours after eating. She predicted that Peter would outgrow the problem when he hit puberty and recommended that he eat yogurt at bedtime: The protein would be slowly digested and would prevent his blood sugar from plummeting.
By 2007 Mathiasen had become increasingly uneasy. Despite the yogurt, Peter kept having episodes. She began keeping lollipops or Skittles in the house: A rapid hit of sugar seemed to help him recover faster.
After four incidents in four weeks, Mathiasen consulted a second pediatric endocrinologist. He admitted the first-grader to a hospital overnight, hoping to catch an episode, which could provide important clues. Peter underwent hourly checks; although his blood sugar dropped, the readings were not alarming.
When he was discharged the following morning, Mathiasen was told to continue the yogurt regimen; by now he was eating two heaping bowls at bedtime.
"It was a very, very disconcerting experience," recalled Mathiasen, who had become increasingly convinced that waiting for the problem to disappear was not a solution. In the spring of 2008, Peter had a scary episode on a trip. The family had forgotten his bedtime yogurt, and he awoke shaky and incoherent. His parents gave him a lollipop and bundled him into the car; at the airport he vomited several times, reluctantly ate a cookie and then fell into a deep sleep on the plane. After he woke up he drank six glasses of milk, then seemed fine.
"At that point, I said we really need to figure out what's going on here," Mathiasen recalled.
In December 2008, Peter underwent a complete workup with the second endocrinologist, which provided no answers. Mathiasen had been monitoring Peter's blood sugar when he woke; she found that readings on some days were very high, not low. Because nothing else seemed to fit, the endocrinologist suggested that Peter might have a rare condition: glycogen storage disease (GSD).
The inherited metabolic problem is a constellation of 14 disorders, ranging from mild to life-threatening, that result from the impaired regulation of glycogen, the stored form of glucose, which the body uses for fuel. DNA testing for the disease, which afffects about one in 20,000 people, according to Cincinnati Children's Hospital, had recently become available. The doctor suggested that Peter undergo a test for a mild form of GSD that seemed to fit his symptoms. After several months, the family's insurance company agreed to pay for it.
Months went by — genetic tests often take a long time — and Mathiasen, who had heard nothing, began calling the doctor. In October 2009, he sent her an apologetic e-mail: The lab had lost the sample before the DNA test could be performed.
"My clinical impression [is] that this glycogen storage disease diagnosis is highly unlikely," he wrote. He proposed that Peter undergo a procedure to implant a device that continuously monitors glucose levels to see if he might have a rare condition called exercise-
induced hyperinsulinism, or low blood sugar after exercise, because some episodes had occurred after skiing.
Mathiasen, who was then spending hours online researching Peter's symptoms, assisted by a friend who is an endocrinologist in Baltimore, decided that maybe GSD wasn't so unlikely. The name of one expert kept popping up: pediatric endocrinologist David A. Weinstein, who heads the Glycogen Storage Disease Program at the University of Florida College of Medicine.
One evening in February 2010, Mathiasen sent Weinstein an e-mail. She described Peter's case and said she'd hit a brick wall. Did Weinstein have any suggestions?
Soon afterward Weinstein called Mathiasen back. He agreed that Peter might have GSD and recommended the family buy a monitor that could check the level of ketones, potentially dangerous substances that can cause nausea and vomiting and, at sustained high levels, death. Ketones, produced when the body uses fat rather than glucose for energy, would be an important clue to a diagnosis; ketotic hypoglycemia is a symptom of some forms of GSD. Testing over the next few months showed that Peter's ketone levels were sometimes dangerously elevated; his body was literally starving for energy.
A cheap treatment
Weinstein agreed to accept Peter as a patient and to perform DNA testing. He advised Mathiasen to replace the bedtime yogurt with a drink containing several tablespoons of cornstarch. One of the cheapest ingredients in a supermarket at less than $2 per box, cornstarch provides slow-release glucose. Within weeks, Peter's episodes largely disappeared.
In June 2011, after the first DNA test proved to be negative, Peter and his mother flew to Florida to see Weinstein, who observed Peter having an episode in the hospital. Peter was then tested for two other generally mild forms. Six months later, just as the family was departing for a holiday trip, Weinstein called with the diagnosis that had taken five years: Peter's DNA test revealed he had a type of GSD that is caused by a deficiency in the liver enzyme phosphorylase kinase.
GSD has received scant attention and is, in Weinstein's view, underdiagnosed; in part, this is because there is little incentive to develop sophisticated treatments, since cornstarch has proven effective for certain forms of the disease if detected early enough. "One of the problems we've had is that treatments are not fancy — cornstarch is a gravy thickener," observed Weinstein, who said his program has treated 400 children from 31 countries and nearly every state. "Most people feel that if we're not treating it with a fancy medication, it's not a real medical condition," and in some cases schools don't take it seriously.
Although Peter's type of GSD tends to be mild and can be controlled with a combination of careful monitoring, a high-protein diet and cornstarch, Weinstein said he has seen babies who needed liver transplants. "There's a variability we don't quite understand" in the severity of the disease.
Peter, who will soon turn 11, has been told that when he is older he must completely abstain from alcohol, because it could damage his liver. He takes cornstarch dissolved in a drink at bedtime every night and also during the day if he is especially active. And he always travels with several boxes of the cheap white powder and a scale to measure it. For children who travel by air, the cornstarch regimen can raise questions. Recently, Mathiasen said, her family was stopped at a New York airport, where airline security guards tested Peter's cornstarch. (Weinstein said he offers patients a letter explaining the therapy.)
The strange, shaky episodes are a thing of the past, and Peter is living a normal life. "Now I know what's wrong, how to treat it, what's going to happen next and I have a doctor to call," Mathiasen said. "It's such a relief."
Photo Credit: Family Photo
Faces of Glycogen Storage Disease
Here is a video montage that was just put together by one of our GSD families for an upcoming fundraiser. It will really change your prospective by putting a face to the disease.
At 9 months old, Avery Robinson got a diagnosis that just three decades ago would have been a death sentence.
Avery has glycogen storage disease, a disease so rare that only one other child in the state of Mississippi is thought to have it, according to Avery's doctors and parents.
The rare genetic disorder is marked by her body's inability to produce an enzyme that allows her to maintain blood sugar levels. As a result, Avery has to eat or be fed every two waking hours or every four hours when asleep. She risks dangerous build-ups of lactate, uric acid and triglycerides leading to impaired breathing, seizures and coma if her strict regimen is disturbed in any way.
She has never eaten fruit, simple sugars or dairy. And at age 4, Avery, who lives in Hernando, knows more about GSD than even some of the local medical community.
"I have to wait now because in a minute I have to have my cornstarch," she said before heading off to gymnastics.
Cornstarch, which is slowly digested, is a major staple in Avery's life. She eats it to maintain her blood sugar between her carefully planned meals. When she is going to be active, she eats a little more than usual.
Just looking at her, it's hard to tell she is sick. Credit for that goes to her parents, Adam and Nikki Robinson, and Dr. David Weinstein at the University of Florida, the leading authority on the disease.
With about 400 patients, Weinstein said he treats about 90 percent of the cases diagnosed in the U.S. as well as treating patients from 28 other countries.
"Prior to 1971, it was fatal and even as late as 10 years ago, many children weren't surviving. That's why I have made this my life's work," he said.
Weinstein has run the GSD research program at the University of Florida for the past seven years. His research has been focused on finding a treatment that minimizes the disease in his patients' lives. He has already accomplished this in the lab.
"There is a breed of dog in which this condition is naturally occurring, and we have successfully treated them and they are now living very normal lives," he said.
Weinstein said he hopes to apply for FDA permission to begin his gene therapy treatment in humans in the next one to two years. He believes that the gene therapy treatment will make the disease a very minor part of the children's lives.
"Avery is thriving because of Dr. Weinstein's work on GSD," Adam said. "And the thing is, he is close to a treatment."
The rarity of the disease is what led the Robinsons to start Avery's Hope Fund. It's designed to raise public awareness so they will help fund Weinstein's research.
"Because GSD is so rare, it gets no federal funding and unlike autism, cancer or diabetes, no one has heard of it. How do you raise funds for something no one has heard of? We had never heard of it before Avery was diagnosed with it," Adam said.
Now, there is not an aspect of the disease the Robinsons are not familiar with, out of necessity. Any sign of something like a stomach flu in Avery's case is life-threatening. If she vomits, her parents have less than two hours to hook up a pump directly to a port in her stomach to maintain her blood sugar. If they are unable to for any reason, the next step is hospitalization.
"We have had to call paramedics and they always first think to give Avery glucagon like they would low blood sugar in a diabetic, but Avery's body can't take that. In fact, it could raise her lactate levels so high it could kill her," Nikki said.
But the Robinsons are quick to point out that none of the money donated to Avery's Fund is for Avery's care; they have that well in hand. The fund's goal is to make Weinstein's research and the gene therapy treatment a reality for everyone with GSD.
Since the Robinsons began the fund last summer, they have raised $15,000. Adam estimates it will cost about $3 million raised by funds like Avery's before the human trials can begin.
For more information on GSD or donate to Avery's Hope Fund, visit averyshope.org.
Photo Credit: Stan Carroll
There is hope for a cure of Glycogen Storage Disease thanks to Dr. David Weinstein and the University of Florida. Please consider donating today to help fund the research needed to find the cure.


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Easy Crochet Shawl Pattern: Falcon Wings
Which comes first? the yarn color or the inspiration? For this project, the yarn color way came first!!! I couldn't resist designing an easy crochet shawl in this color way when I saw the yarn being advertised.
There are various things about this beautiful shawl that makes me supper excited. First, the shape! Don't you just love it? This shawl was inspired by a beautiful bird I sported some times ago. Even though it wasn't a falcon, I have an affinity for Falcons and named this pattern after them – "the falcon wings shawl".
Secondly, I am not really a shawl kind of girl but this all changed when I started adapting them to fit my personality – that is make them serve more functions. This easy crochet shawl can be styled in so many ways which I am sure, you would love also.
Thirdly, I can't over emphasize how this shawl looks in the colors I have used. The sharp contrast between the orange and black is amazing.
Also, I have designed this shawl for 2 different sizes, so if you love a large airy scarf, this would perfectly fit you.
You should also check out my convertible shawl styled in different ways here.
Materials for this crochet shawl pattern.
Yarn – The prototype was made using Hobbii Cotton Kings Twirls Shadow, this is a 4 ply, #2 Fine yarn. You could substitute any other 4 Ply Yarn.
Hook – US size G (4 mm) Crochet Hook
Difficulty Level
Terms – US Terminology.
You can get the copy of this pattern on Ravelry here.
I would like to see your makes from this easy crochet shawl pattern especially eager to see your color choice(s). Do tag me on Instagram @crochet_fosbas, Pin on Pinterest @Fosbass and do check out my Facebook group here.


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|Opposition Senators: Allow Trillanes to Attend Senate Sessions Even Under Guard
|Columns - This Week With Nene Pimentel
|Tuesday, 19 August 2008 22:12
Opposition Senators Aquilino Q. Pimentel, Jr., Benigno S. Aquino III, Rodolfo G. Biazon, Panfilo M. Lacson, Loren B. Legarda, M.A. Madrigal and Manuel A. Roxas II, asked the Supreme Court today to allow Senator Antonio F. Trillanes IV to attend senate sessions in a motion to intervene in Mr. Trillanes' petition (GR No. 79817).
The opposition senators said that barring Senator Trillanes from attending the senate sessions impairs their right to check excesses of government and the senate majority and their capacity to block treaties prejudicial to national interest.
Senator Trillanes should be allowed to perform his duties as a senator even under guard, they said.
The senators cited four constitutional articles namely; Article II (Section 1), Article III (Section 14,(2) ), Article III (Section 1) and Article VI (Section 1). They also used the doctrine of separation of powers to support their motion.
The motion to intervene was filed by young lawyer Elmar Jay Martin de Jaresco in behalf of the senators. # # #
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