"Sharing A Precious Faith"
Yesterday a Christian employee was sharing with Brooksyne some teachings from Scripture while another employee was working beside her. After their brief interchange the employee shook her head and declared, "You guys are crazy!"
Most churches, in various ways, practice Communion or "The Lord's Supper". This ceremony seems strange to the world and sadly some churches have minimized the practice for this reason. But it was at this very time during Holy Week that Jesus established it and the Apostle Paul later state" (1 Corinthians 11:26). We see in the New Testament it was a practice in the early church.
Our church also practices a similar ceremony not as commonly practiced. Once a year we hold a "footwashing" service. The denomination I served during my 25 years of pastoral service did not practice this regularly in most of their churches, although it might have been done on retreats and special occasions. I had done so a few times as a sermon illustration regarding humility and servanthood.
Each year on Maundy Thursday we enjoy a light meal together, Scripture reading, singing, testimonies and sharing together in communion. The men and women are then dismissed to separate rooms where they gather in a circle and one by one wash the feet of the person sitting next to them. In the photo to the right Brooksyne is washing and praying over a sister. Each group not only prays one with another but sings hymns and choruses with the cross and resurrection theme. Finally we join together again and hear a brief meditation and share testimonies. It's a wonderful evening of fellowship with one another and with our Lord Jesus who suffered on our behalf.
The first Biblical footwashing was held at the Last Supper and is recorded in John 13. Earnest Christians differ on the extent this should be continued which is a matter of interpretation of John 13:14,15 which stateSome churches, like ours, see this as a literal command. Others (actually most) see it as figurative, an illustration of service, which we also believe it is as well.
Peter, who most certainly was among the most prominent of Christ's disciples, opens his final epistle by first asserting his servanthood even before his apostleship Perhaps the kind rebuke of Jesus at the footwashing had really hit home.6). Regardless of what positions or titles we may have, like Peter, we must always remember that we are called to serve.
The letter is written's us! The apostle Paul most clearly developed and articulated for the church the glorious doctrine of imputed righteousness, but Peter clearly expresses it here.
I find particular blessing in the phrase, "like precious faith." Wow. What a unique advantage of faith Peter had. He had walked and talked with the Lord during His earthly ministry. But in this passage Peter is writing to second-generation believers. He had written in his first epistleWe have received a faith as "precious" as Peter and the other disciples and apostles! The underlying Greek word for "precious", means "of equal value or honor". The NASV translates the phrase, "a faith of the same kind as ours." Today among the inevitable challenges of life don't forget this great gift!
I wonder if Peter had any possible thought that his words would reach generations some 2000 years after writing about the wonderful truths and experiences God has for us. Only the Scriptures bring about life changing messages that transform lives and prepare us for eternity. Just consider the opportunities we have to speak daily of our "precious faith" and allow the world to see this faith at work in our lives.
Daily prayer: Father, we thank You for the many, many precious saints spread throughout the whole world, who have obtained like precious faith through Your righteousness and the righteousness that comes through our Saviour Jesus Christ. Thocannot see You nowwe are among the redeemed who have an inheritance awaiting us in heaven, where no moth, rust or decay destroys. No matter the evil that surrounds us or the temptations that abound we seekalking in the steps of our Saviour. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Prayer for Kenyan believers: Father, we pray for the family and friends of the 70 plus university students of Kenya who have been slaughtered due to their faith in Christ. While they were praying to You, the most holy God, in the pre-dawn hours, the radical terrorists were following the orders of Satan, the ruler of evil. We pray for those who are injured and suffering as well as those who have been captured, over 300 at last count. God, we need a miraculous intervention, a mighty sweeping of Your Holy Spirit of conviction and deliverance from evil that we might see a worldwide revival. Fortify other Kenyan believers so that they are not disheartened or paralyzed by fear or discouragement.  We seek Your help here and now, yet we also feel peace in our hearts, that if deliverance is not here, those who perish at the hands of evildoers are transferred into a place where sin does not abide, where rest is eternal, and the Crown of Life is awarded the faithful servant of Christ. Amen.
Ester looked down the hall last year into the men's gathering where we held our footwashing and snapped this photo of the younger serving the older.
Jesse and Jim, two of our retired pastor friends washing one another's feet following the example of Christ, who washed the disciple's feet.
Following the footwashing the elder brothers pronounced blessing upon each other as, in the words of Paul, they also "greeted each other heartily in the Lord". Jesse, age 92, will share the devotional in our service this evening.
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Concerning the photo posted yesterday of our friend Rick with his tie tucked in Jim, a thoughtful reader from New Braunfels, Texas wrote, "When I was in the Air Force from 1952-1972, when we wore our tan uniform, the blue necktie was always tucked in to the shirt, as in the picture you posted. It was not just to keep it out of machinery, but was regulation, to make everyone look neat, and uniform, with no tie flapping in the wind. If you look at some WW2 pictures, you will see the same thing.


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IDAHO FALLS — With the recent “stay-home” order from the governor, the Idaho National Laboratory is transitioning to “minimum-safe plus” status.
Out of the around 5,000 people who work at Idaho National Lab, only 1,000 will continue to report INL facilities. The other 3,900 employees will have to work from home as the lab works to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
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16 April 2022 2:19 PM GMT
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LSG win by 18 runs
It's all over! Mumbai Indians remain winless as Lucknow Super Giants win their fourth match of the IPL-15. The new franchise register an 18-run win over the five-time champions.
16 April 2022 1:59 PM GMT
19 runs needed in 3 balls
Two runouts and a six in the first three balls, but the good thing for Mumbai is that Pollard is on strike. 19 runs needed in 3 balls.
16 April 2022 1:54 PM GMT
26 needed in 6 balls
Unadkat smacked a six and a four in Holder's over as Mumbai collected 17 runs in it. 26 needed in 6 balls for MI. Can Pollard pull off a miracle?
16 April 2022 1:45 PM GMT
OUT! Avesh Khan gets another wicket
Avesh Khan dismisses Fabian Allen and Mumbai is headed towards another defeat, barring a magical effort from Pollard. MI 157/6 after 17.4 overs.
16 April 2022 1:41 PM GMT
Kieron Pollard smacked two consecutive sixes in Chameera's over as MI collected 16 runs in it. MI 148/5 after 17 overs, need 52 runs in 18 balls.
16 April 2022 1:33 PM GMT
OUT! Suryakumar Yadav perishes
Is this the game for Lucknow Super Giants? Suryakumar Yadav departs after scoring 37 runs in 27 balls as Ravi Bishnoi gets the prized wicket. MI 127/5 after 15.3 overs.
16 April 2022 1:25 PM GMT
OUT! Holder cleans up Varma
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16 April 2022 1:14 PM GMT
Another good over for MI
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16 April 2022 1:10 PM GMT
FOUR! Varma ends the over with a boundary
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Usually, the pixel coordinates of detector and reconstruction grid are not aligned. In order to calculate an update of the object and probe function, the recorded detector image has to be transformed to match exactly the forward model, usually the Fourier transform of the exit wave. Furthermore, real-world implementations may require an FFT shift or inverse FFT shift to move the zero frequency to the correct position.
Doing this with numpy.fft.fftshift() and scipy.ndimage repeatedly for a whole dataset can be the rate-limiting step, while keeping an intermediate transformed version can be memory-consuming. Furthermore, it can be tricky to get the scaling in physical coordinates right.
Ptychography 4.0 offers a fast implementation that allows to perform the transformation of detector data to reconstruction coordinates on-the-fly. The implementation does not perform a precise interpolation, but chooses the nearest pixel value. If the detector data is scaled down, each pixel in the target area is filled with the average from the corresponding source area.
The transformation infrastructure consists of three components:
ptychography40.reconstruction.common.diffraction_to_detector() generates a function that transforms coordinates in the reconstruction coordinate system to detector coordinates. The parameters of this function correspond to the parameters of ptychography40.reconstruction.ssb.SSB_UDF and libertem.api.Context.create_com_analysis().
ptychography40.reconstruction.common.image_transformation_matrix() constructs a sparse matrix that maps a flattened detector image to a flattened target image in reconstruction coordinates by applying a function that transforms the pixel outlines of the target image to the source coordinates. Additionally, it can apply pre- and post-transforms in case the target or source coordinates are not euclidean. Most notably, a pre-transform of the reconstruction coordinates using ptychography40.reconstruction.common.ifftshift_coords() can apply an inverse FFT shift with zero overhead. A post-transform allows flexible mapping of detector positions to detector channels, for example to support detectors with nonstandard geometries.
ptychography40.reconstruction.common.apply_matrix() is a convenience function that applies a transformation matrix to a stack of detector images, taking care of properly reshaping the input and output.
Applying a transformation with this method repeatedly on stacks of images can achieve excellent performance compared with working on image data using scipy.ndimage since the matrix has to be calculated only once and can then be applied with fast implementations for sparse matrix products from scipy.sparse and cupyx.scipy.sparse.
diffraction_to_detector, ifftshift_coords,
image_transformation_matrix, apply_matrix
data_shape =
data = np.random.random
source_shape =
target_shape =
f = diffraction_to_detector(
lamb=1,
diffraction_shape=target_shape,
pixel_size_real=1,
# Detector is 2x finer than required
pixel_size_detector=(1/8, 1/8),
cy=source_shape[0] / 2,
cx=source_shape[1] / 2,
scan_rotation=90.
m = image_transformation_matrix(
target_shape=target_shape,
# swap y and x (transpose) and scale up
# Transformation goes backwards, from target to source
affine_transformation=f,
pre_transform=ifftshift_coords
res = apply_matrix
In this particular example this is equivalent to the following:
# Binning, not accumulating intensity but keeping same absolute values
binned = data.reshape(

).mean(axis=(2, 4))
# flip_y + scan_rotation=90 is equivalent to transposing
transposed = np.transpose(binned, (0, 2, 1))
ref = np.fft.ifftshift(transposed, axes=(1, 2))
assert np.allclose
Shifted products and shifted aggregation¶
Ptychography can often be performed with a relatively small illumination function that is mapped across a larger object function since the illumination is usually limited in size. That means the forward calculation can be performed efficiently by slicing out the appropriate portion of the object function, obtaining the exit wave with a product, calculating the update function and then applying it back to the object function at the correct place.
Since the reconstruction can be performed with rather small illumination functions, for example shape (32, 32), an efficient Python implementation should calculate and apply many updates in a batch. ptychography40.reconstruction.common.rolled_object_probe_product_cpu() and ptychography40.reconstruction.common.rolled_object_probe_product_cuda() calculate a stack of cropped, shifted and rolled products. ptychography40.reconstruction.common.rolled_object_aggregation_cpu() and ptychography40.reconstruction.common.rolled_object_aggregation_cuda() accumulate a stack of shifted updates.
The function to calculate products also supports subpixel shifts if an array of illuminations with subpixel shifts is supplied. Finer resolution than the reconstruction grid can be supported for the scan coordinates that way. ptychography40.reconstruction.common.rolled_object_probe_product_cpu() returns the index of the subpixel-shifted probe for each product so that the correct shifted version can be selected easily in downstream code if necessary.
Since the forward calculation often includes a Fourier transform, these functions can optionally perform an FFT shift resp. inverse FFT shift on-the-fly to avoid unnecessary memory transfers.
rolled_object_probe_product_cpu, shifted_probes
obj_shape =
probe_shape =
obj = np.linspace(0, 1, np.prod(obj_shape)).reshape
probe = np.zeros
probe[8:24, 8:24] = 1
probes = shifted_probes
products = np.zeros((count, ) + probe_shape)
shifts = np.array([
(3.25, 7.5),

subpixel_indices = rolled_object_probe_product_cpu(
This is equivalent to the following NumPy implementation:
subpixel_y = (shifts[i, 0] * 4).astype(int) % 4
subpixel_x = (shifts[i, 1] * 4).astype(int) % 4
shift_y = int
shift_x = int
ref = np.roll( # Roll the object under the probe,
(-shift_y, -shift_x),
)[  # slice out the probe region
:probe_shape[-2],
:probe_shape[-1]
] * probes[subpixel_y, subpixel_x]  # multiply with probe
# perform the inverse FFT shift
ref = np.fft.ifftshift
assert np.allclose
assert np.all(subpixel_indices[i] == (subpixel_y, subpixel_x))
Now the update function can be calculated:
from ptychography40.reconstruction.common import rolled_object_aggregation_cpu
acc = np.zeros_like
updates = calculate_update
rolled_object_aggregation_cpu(
shifts.astype(int),
fftshift=True
acc_ref = np.zeros_like
int_shifts = shifts.astype
shifted_updates = np.fft.fftshift(updates, axes=(1, 2))
# Roll the accumulator under the probe position
acc_ref = np.roll(acc_ref, (-int_shifts[i, 0], -int_shifts[i, 1]), axis=(0, 1))
# Add the update to the appropriate slice
acc_ref[:probe_shape[0], :probe_shape[1]] += shifted_updates[i]
# Roll back to the original position
acc_ref = np.roll(acc_ref, (int_shifts[i, 0], int_shifts[i, 1]), axis=(0, 1))


Ever wonder why Americans celebrate New Year's the way they doe "song that nobody knows" has remained popular wo centuries. But where did it come from?And what does it mean?
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Signing of the Emirates NBD and Etihad Export Credit Agreement to facilitate financing operations
Emirates NBD has signed a cooperation agreement between it and Etihad Export Credit, a government-affiliated credit protection company in the UAE, and it is a trade finance agreement with the National Bank of Dubai, as it is the leading banking group in a region in North Africa, the Middle East and Turkey, which will enhance Of the cash value of all exporters and UAE companies to compete strongly in global markets.
Details of Emirates NBD’s agreement with Etihad Export Credit:
This cooperation is considered a positive step for all Emirati companies, as “Al-Ittihad” will support these companies in facilitating the access of their products to global markets, which will lead to the promotion of all homemade and high-quality products in many market.
Emphasizing the company’s commitment to providing support to financial institutions in the UAE, Massimo Falcioni said: “We are pleased to conclude this agreement with Emirates NBD Bank Through which we aspire to support the “Make in the UAE” initiative that aims to create a sense of pride in homemade national products, as more than 80% of global trade relies on short-term financing most of the time, so we are happy to support banking institutions and encourage them to provide solutions. Innovative finance to support emerging, medium and large Emirati companies as well, which will be of general benefit toPrevious articleWhat about the Dutch nobility? ‘Not to Dubai, but Domburg’
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I have a pair of brothers who happen to be fraternal twins*--which means they were born within minutes of each other, but don't look any more alike than the rest of us siblings. Growing up, they weren't particularly "twinnish". They shared a mutual interest in comic books and martial arts, but then, so do a lot of boys. So do I, for that matter!They did sort of have their own "twin-speak"...
Anyway, eventually they grew up, as people do. One of them became a pilot and later a physical therapist; the other one, a physical fitness instructor and later an actor. Which is sort of parallel, but still not all that "twinly", right?
It boggles the mind that two people can be so unhappy being married to two of the nicest guys in the universe. (Well, you know, once the guys got done with tormenting their baby sister.) But leaving my personal opinions aside and just looking at it from an objective standpoint...It still boggles the mind, doesn't it?
Naturally, I need tbecause, you know, I'm just nerdy that way. Identical twins are born from the union of a single egg and a single sperm. Sometime during the pregnancy, the fertilized egg then splits, creating two embryos with exactly the same DNA--hence the term "identical", duh!


Credit Title IX, and Richard Nixon, for a U.S. Women's World Cup Win
Never mind all that. He was, if there was some method of proving it, the biggest asshole in the history of American politics. But when the U.S. Women win their second World Cup on Sunday, it would be nice if somebody placed a red, white and blue wreath on his!


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Twice a year (April and October) almost everybody who has anything to do with the world of furniture, accessories, and interior design converges on the High Point, North Carolina area to see what's the newest, the latest, the hottest. It's a lot of work but a lot of fun seeing new styles and fabrics for furniture. We also shopped for the latest incarnations of accessories to go with it.
ths! Enjoy!
The back of this leather chair is accented by a metal bit. Little details can give as big payback.
While not for everyone, this black, yellow, and white scheme shows how to add punch to a monochromatic room.
This bright contrast was an attention getter! Fun and function come together in this cocktail ottoman. This fabric combo is a winner!
Well, I've healed up pretty well from my bee stings; and we've moved into our new house! A good amount of the boxes are empty; and the main level is in pretty good shape! But please don't go into the basement yet! Yikes!
One of my favorite things to do when decorating my home is wall groupings. I'm all for one big picture, but if I can do a few well placed wall groupings then I'm a happy camper. I love to mix pictures of a similar theme or color palette. An interesting shelf or sconce and maybe a vintage plate or nicknack that I've dragged home from a trip can add interest.
Here are a few that I've done at home in the last few weeks since I haven't written you.
It seems like if you start from the bottom and with the biggest pieces the rest just kinda falls into place. I finished it off with my little metal swallows. They are made from old oil tins from Haiti. I found them in a charity based shop in Old Town Chicago. They really tie in with the painting and add a bit of humor to the room. They were worth the $12 that I paid.
The next room I did was the guest room. Obviously, I love old plates and I had to figure out a place to use some so they weren't just hidden away in a cabinet or hutch.
I loved using my Grandmother's Transferware plates in the Guest Room!
These brown transferware ones are so beautiful to me. The depth of the chocolate adds warmth and coziness to this little room. The vintage gold sconces have been in my collection for years and have been in lots of different room. The roses on them are repeated in the vintage print that anchors the grouping. A friend and I had a great time hanging this together. Sometimes a second eye or helping hand is a big help when hanging a grouping. They can stand back while you hold things up to the wall and give you the "yay" or " nay " that is needed to get balance.
I hung a large group of family black and white photos in the stair well to the basement. This was like putting a puzzle together. But since they are all of the same palette it went up rather quickly. I added a few more after this picture was taken and can add a few more as I collect them. That's the fun of it!
The large nest on burlap and sconces hang in the living room over the sofa. Because I have so many little accessories in the room, I wanted to keep this area simple. You'll notice that the nest canvas is only hung about 2" above the sofa and comes to within about 4" of the ceiling. This is OK.
Better a little large then way too small; or it ends up just floating in "space" on the wall. The best part of this is that every night at 6:30 the battery operated timer candles come on. No melting wax, no soot, just a beautiful ambiance.
It's a good space filler! Plus, it creates a unique look not always seen.
A fun eclectic mix gives your room personality!
This last grouping is in Mr W's office. It's a fun jumbly mix of new etchings, vintage prints, faux antlers, a shelf, dishes, and metal plaques that my uncle brought back from London in the 70's. I guess I would have to say this one was the most difficult because of all the small components. Don't try this more involved one your first time out. Work up to this. It took me a few tries and additions to get it right. Because it's made up of many smaller items it takes more trial and error. I started again with the two bigger pictures. I overlapped the bottom one across the corner of the one on the right. Then I used small nails behind it to keep it balanced off the wall. Next came the shelf and then the rest took some thought and patience.
Well, I hope you like seeing what I've been up to. It' s been fun setting up a new home for us to get cozy in. I'll try to share more details as we go along. I want to show you the patterned carpets I chose as well as the furniture pieces.


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Rowlene is a South African singer songwriter and aspiring actress well know for hit single SMA where she is featured by Nasty C.
She dropped her first single titled ‘Imposter’ early in 2015 as an exclusive debut track on Good ses”’s record label Tall Racks Records.
S“Bad Hair”ull-time. Rowlene has only decided to pursue her passion for music, actively September 2016, where she started on her most recent project entitled “The Evolution of a Robot”
After the release she featured on A-Reece second album “From Me To You and Only You” with single titled Pride. Shortly after the release she then featured on Flames debut EP titled Clouds, on the single “Between Me & You.” After the features transgressed she dropped her single “Swang” produced by Gobbla beats. On the 25th of September she released a 20 track project titled Evolution of A Robot 2nd Generation with features from Kid X, Nasty C, Gemini Major,Lastee,Crowned Yung,Tellaman amongst others
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Begin The Begin: R.E.M's Early Years by Robert Dean Lurie
This is the third book I’ve read recently about Athens and its bands. First was Cool Town, (tinyurl.com/zubathens) by Elizabeth Grace Hale. Elizabeth, a professor at the University of Virginia, was an Athenian in the late 80s, where she owned a small club and played in a band. Her well-written book’s focus is on the development of the Athens scene; it’s thoroughly-researched and definitely scholarly. The second book was Party Out Of Bounds (tinyurl.com/zubbounds) by Rodger Lyle Brown, who was there, in Athens, almost from the very beginning. His book concentrates on the people and bands of the Athens scene, and I found it a gread read. Now I’ve finished Begin The Begin, an R.E.M.-centric book by Robert Dean Lurie. Robert lived in Athens and he knows the place and people, but he was not really there during the growth and explosion of R.E.M. Still, he has written a compelling book.
I never lived in Athens, a city about 90 minutes away, but our band mate in The Beef People, Ken, went to school at UGA in the early 80s and was up on what was going on with local bands. As far as R.E.M. is concerned I can honestly say I saw them dozens of times before and after the ‘Radio Free Europe’ single on Hib-Tone Records (see our podcast at tinyurl.com/radiofreezub for some great R.E.M. stories). I saw them so much because I was going to shows almost every weekend in Athens and Atlanta, and they were always the opening band. Early R.E.M. was a thing to behold, with the melodic bass, ringing guitar, and the whirling dervish antics of Michael Stipe. We could all tell they were going somewhere.
Lurie’s book is interesting in that he does not interview any band members. He is clever in using the reams of existing interviews, and this seems to work well. He does, however, talk to many, many folks that knew and helped them, including Kathleen O’Brien (who essentially got the band together), Velena Vego, soundman Pat theWiz, Stipe’s friends from the Midwest, lots of booking agents and promoters, and record label people.
R.E.M. was a band featuring a tortured artist/chameleon frontman, a 60’s loving record collector guitarist, and two Macon, GA boys on bass and drums that could really play. They worked very hard to get what they wanted, playing all over the Southeast in lots of terrible pizza places-cum clubs, and were careful along the way. They were very canny about their career in music, getting a lawyer and a manager early on, and working their growth album by album.
I have many friends who are big R.E.M. fans, but I’m always surprised at how they got into the band, usually via Green or Monster. This confuses me. I personally loved Chronic Town and Murmur, and I stopped buying their records after Fables (or maybe Document). As they got bigger (and supposedly better) I kind of lost the plot. But that’s me. What I’m getting at is that if you want to know how R.E.M. got to Green, you need to read Begin The Begin.
Lurie does a few things in this book that I really like. One is he actually tries to make sense of Stipe’s lyrics. He really tries to give us some explanations about the lyrics and comes up with some interesting conclusions. I applaud him for trying. Second, he brings himself into the book a little bit, as when talking with Athens legend/village cryer Ort, he mentions a girl coming up to the bar to get a picture with Ort, “because he looks like Santa.” There’s a good story about going to Velena Vego’s house, and the best one is when he interviews Jeff Walls (who passed recently) of Guadalcanal Diary, and conveys a story of bad weed etiquette. I like these personal anecdotes.
R.E.M. have always basically been good guys who wanted to have a band, they wanted that band to be successful, and they worked hard enough to make it happen. If you are a fan I would say this is a must-read. If you aren’t, this is a chronicle of the end of the traditional music-making machinery that’s as old as the Beatles: form a band, start small, work yourself up via playing live, get a record contract. In the Internet-wired world, this model doesn’t really exist anymore. Lurie breaks it all down and you can’t forget this was always, always a talented band that treated people right. I applaud Lurie, R.E.M., and Begin The Begin.
----Steve McGowan


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@ all4cellularkindle, ipad. </s> Do you have any realistic fears?
i know we all have the fear that deals.woot! might someday shut down from lack of participation, but we all know that would never happen.
Reminds me of my first question asked and I remember how excited I was to get those 22 upvotes, I thought that was a massive success, how naive I was.
My greatest fear is that I'll never be able to stop lichme, and he'll be #1 forever.
TL;DR: Breakage of the nails is a big fear of mine
1. Something bad happening to my son
7. Ignorant people
Alzheimer's. It's a reasonable fear. It runs in the family.
I recommend the book "Still Alice" which is about a woman with early onset Alzheimer's, told from her perspective. Fascinating, very well written, and the author is a neuroscientist. It's surprisingly upbeat.
I stand as far from the sides as I can, knowing that's how they get you! o_0
i admitt i worry a lot
2. diabettes--runs rampant on both sides of my family
5. "something" happening to my sister 15 hours away and not being able to get there
6. my dad getting sicker and not telling me
9. getting serious injury from working on my house
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getting attacked/mugged.
also, a little less realistic, I always check the back seat of my car when I get in, just in case a serial killer is back there!lol
I have a fear of finding a dead body. People die every day and good number of those people do not die in a hospital. Someone always has to be the first to find these bodies.


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Similarly, in June 2012, OIG issued a report to CMS indicating that during 2009, Medicare Part D paid $33.6 million and hospice beneficiaries paid $3.8 million for prescription drugs that likely should have been paid for by hospice organizations.
In the latest OIG audit, hospices said they should have paid for the drugs associated with 86 of the 200 Part D records that OIG investigated. As a result, the Medicare program paid twice for these drugs—once under the Part A hospice benefit and again under Part D, according to OIG.
“CMS has not developed or required controls to ensure that Part D is not paying for hospice-covered drugs,” OIG said.
In its recommendations, OIG called on CMS to work directly with hospices and to dev.


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Cottage Garden Path is a charming 1000 Pieces Jigsaw Puzzle
Take a stroll in the summer sun, down the cobbled path of this stunning cottage garden. The perfect lawn is separated from the casual flower garden by a white picket fence. The perfect puzzle to pass the time with.


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Jan 7, 2019 By admin in TECHNICAL ARTICLES No Comments Tags: avrupa birliği, aysam akses, CE directive, emc, EU, LVD, standard, standart, yönetmelik
The most widely used marking on products today is undoubtedly the CE logo. This sign of conformity with European Union norms in fact symbolizes the conformity of the product used with the relevant technical standards of the European Union. In terms of electrical and electronic devices, this marking means;
Both directives share basic principles as I mentioned above. As a summary the most basic titles you will see in the content will be;
Obligations of the manufacturer, representative, importers, distributors
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Technology, though, if our preference or not, we have already put into every aspect of our lives. So, even when considering these issues I need to look at images from the Internet, and write using my tablet..At Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, free wireless internet available everywhere, enslaved thousands of people in the waiting saloons, heads all bend forward, having been broken from the world, just indulged to smartphones or tablets. The 3-4 year-old babies watching cartoons on the tablets, using it as skillfull as a baby bottle,at the sam time retired ladies and gentlemen over 70 years old, no matter which country they are from, are in social networking shares..a very familiar picture, a common picture we may face wherever we go nowadays.
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This article was published in periodical “Science and Technology to Everybody (Herkese Bilim Teknoloji)”, November 18, 2016
I have shared in my previous article that the dizzying development in Information Technology has led to a number of complications that make our life more difficult for “Information Security”. Personal, sectoral, commercial, national and, in fact, a global sense of information security requirements renew themselves every day.
Despite a central restructuring effort on National Information Security, our country has a balance formed by the support from the ministries, the General Staff and the Force Commands, the General Directorate of Security, TUBITAK and some other Public Institutions and even the banks.
It is very clear that measures to take, planned measures, laws, drafts of laws, agencies, committees will be in an ever-changing regeneration process every passing day. However, the fact that personal information of nearly 50 million citizens has been stolen and published on the internet in the very recent past is the most concrete indication that we should take more serious steps in this dynamic processOctober 7, 2016
It is very natural that keeping confidential information is very hard in such an environment as it is so easy to access every information.
Although the concept of information security today is almost synonymous with cyber security, the work done to protect information is very old. We know that special messages from Julius Caesar, the great leader of the Roman Empire who lived in the 1st century BC, were tried to be kept safe with the technique we call Caesar Encryption today. The example of a more recent past is the struggle of intelligence and intelligence counterattack in the Second World War. Germany’s legendary crypto device Enigma, today when it is called cryptology, is the first thing that comes to mind even for people who are not interested in this science.
Information security is an essential aspect of commercial secrecy and even personal privacy. The steps that commercial companies take before their competitors, the policies and strategies they pursue, the R & D work they do, the financial actions and many other issues have a very delicate balance based on the provision of information security. We are using our mobile phones by dialing the pin code, personal privacy has a priority of everything…
The most interesting statistic on this subject comes up when judicial cases related to cyber security are examined. The new trend of information security violation is seizing digital game accounts… Yes, even though every day we hear an internet fraud news, the case of unloading the bank account, the digital game account theft is surprisingly the same size illegal revenue gate.September 16, 2016


Cheyenne got into some heavy sniffing near the gate and my projected walk up the closed portion of the paved road was put on hold.
It isn't as interesting as it might sound, Crane Boulevard. There was a plan a few years ago to tear it up and let it revert to nature, a plan that met massive resistance from residents and users. Such was the protest by walkers and cyclists that all such plans were dropped.
I have cycled to the end of the road but honestly it isn't that much fun. It's just mangroves and there is nothing much to see and there is no shade. Yet people love love to cycle it.
little intrigue. Besides there are just too many bullet holes here.
Cheyenne finished sniffing and stood staring at the car. I got the hint and we left.


Plainview football has a lot on the line in showdown at Pauls Valley
The Plainview High School football team knows it is Friday night at Pauls Valley.
However, the Indians have a lot on the line, as a win secures at least one home playoff game and maybe more depending on another contest that’s played 27 miles south.
“Winning or losing this game is the difference with us getting first, second or third, just depending on what happens with (Lone Grove at Sulphur),” said Plainview head coach Joe Price. “… As long as we win, we have second locked in, for sure. Whatever happens with (Lone Grove at Sulphur) will determine if we get first or second. It’s kind of an odd deal. By Saturday, we could be first, second or third. It’s all right down to the wire. We have to go do what we’re supposed to do.”
The Indians did that last week by using a strong second half to take down district foe Sulphur to create a three-way tie for first place. And while it’s likely that two teams will be tied at the end of Friday night, only one will clinch a district crown and receive two home playoff games.
Plainview will be rooting for the Bulldogs to take down the Longhorns as that gives the Indians the top spot in the district.
However, the focus is on what’s in front of them and that’s Pauls Valley.
“They’re similar to Sulphur, as far as lining up in double-tight formations,” Price said of the Panthers. “They have a quarterback and running back who are both good football players. They try to play a physical run game with those two guys. And they have a couple of kids on the outside that are really athletic and can run, so they pose some issues on offense. … It’s going to be a game like last week, where we show up, win a physical battle and really play well.”
It’s safe to say Plainview will lean on Reis Taylor and company to do that. The senior quarterback, in the win over Sulphur.
However, he won’t be the only one who should make noise. Jeston Gilliam and Caden Pickens each rushed for a score last week and their success at linebacker has the Indians playing well on that side of the ball.
“We’re really hitting our stride there on defense,” Price said. “We have some things figured out, as far as how we’re going to use some people. That will continue to be a strong point for us.”
Only time will tell if that’s the case again this week, but the meeting will hold extra significance as Price played college football with Pauls Valley head coach Dusty Raper.
“There’s like six or seven of us who played at East Central that are all coaching in this district right now,” Price said. “I like to see all of those guys when we play different teams. It’s kind of an interesting deal.”


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current concepts divide fatty liver into two principal categories: alcoholic liver disease, which is related to ethanol (EtOH), and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Each category consists of a spectrum. In both, the earliest recognizable form is simple hepatic steatosis, which is typically reversible with removal of the inciting condition: EtOH abuse in the former or, most often, obesity in the latter. In both settings, however, simple hepatic steatosis may progress to steatohepatitis, either alcoholic or nonalcoholic (NASH), which in turn may result in heSince the transition to steatohepatitis is a critical point in the pathogenesis of severe liver disease, research interest in alcoholic liver disease and NAFLD has focused heavily on the pathogenesis of alcoholic hepatitis and NASH. Nevertheless, simple hepatic steatosis remains the essential first step in disease progression.
The aim of the present studies was to characterize the processes contributing to simple hepatic steatosis in various mouse models of fatty liver. We studied three different models of obesity-associated simple hepatic steatosis and simple hepatic steatosis in mice consuming three different doses of EtOH. Simple hepatic steatosisand by biochemical measurements of tissue TG; hepatocellular LCFA uptake was quantitated from studies of [3H]oleic acid (OA) uptake kinetics, and the expression of multiple genes involved in, e.g., LCFA uptake, synthesis, esterification to triglyceride, oxidation, and assembly and secretion of VLDL in many cases supported by Western immunoblotting. Results demonstrated important pathophysiological similarities among all these models but also significant differences, the most striking of which depend on the functional status of leptin signaling.
Male C57BL/6J, ob/ob, and db/db. Upon receipt, mice were housed in group3.07 kcal/g; LabDiet 5001, PMI, St. Louis, MO). Starting at 8 wk of age, groups of at least six ob/ob, db/db, and control C57BL/6J mice received the standard laboratory chow diet and water. Additional C57BL/6J mice received the chow diet and water containing 10% EtOH. Yet another group of C57BL/6J mice were fed a high-fat diet (HFD) containing 35% lard (5.45 kcal/g, 55% of calories from fat; Bio-Serv, Frenchtown, NJ) and water. In some of the EtOH groups, 10% EtOH was replaced with 14% EtOH after 4 wk (14% EtOH group), and in some of these, 14% EtOH was replaced with 18% EtOH after a further 4 wk (18% EtOH group). All EtOH-fed mice were killed after a total of 12 ± 1 wk of EtOH treatment. Thus, groups designated as receiving 10% EtOH received that dose for the full 12 wk, those designated as 14% EtOH received that dose for 8 wk, and those designated as 18% EtOH received that dose for 4 wk. This incremental increase in the concentration of EtOH was necessary, because the C56BL/6J mice will freely consume 10% EtOH in water but will only consistently consume 14% and 18% EtOH after a period of conditioning at lower concentrations. Weights were recorded weekly, as was consumption of water or water-EtOH and food, until the final week before death, when weights were measured daily. Mice were euthanized at 20 ± 1 wk of age after an overnight (12-h) fastal use of animals were followter.
Euthanasia was accomplished with intraperitoneal injections of ketamine (0.1 mg/g) and xylazine (0.01 mg/g). Upon their death, the mice were randomly assigned to one of two protocols.
Abdomens were opened, and after perfusion of the portal vein with HBSS, livers were removed and used for cell isolation (see below).
Determination of Hepatic Tissue TG and Cholesterol
Livers were homogenized in PBS. nalysis kit. Hepatic TG and cholesterol contents were determined, after Folch extraction (23) with the Cholesterol E and L-Type TG H kits described abon-eosin-, Masson's trichrome-, and ORO-stained sections of liver were examined. Semiquantitative estimates of neutral lipids in the ORO-stained hepatic sections were determined in a blind study by two observers (F. Ge and P. D. Berk) who were unaware of the treatments of the individual mice and resulting biochemical measurements of tissue lipid content. The degree of steatosis was visually scored on a scale of 0–3 in five noncontiguous high-power fields in three slides from each mouse on the basis of published criteria (32). Results of the two observers were averaged to calculate a steatosis score for each animal. Histological images were observed at ×250 magnification with a Nikon Eclipse 80i microscope and captured with a Nikon digital camera (model DXM 1200C) using a standard exposure for all photographs.
Cellular Uptake of OA
Computations and Data Fitting
Analysis of Hepatic Gene and Protein Expression
For qRT-PCR, QIAamp RNA mini kits (Qiagen, Valencia, CA), to extract total RNA from tissue samples. First-strand cDNAs wereRandom hexamers were used as primers. PCRs 0 ng of cDNA on the 7300 real-time PCR sguidelines. We used the mouse geNorm kit (β2-microglobulin), GAPDH, and ubiquitin C (PrimerDesign, Southhampton, UK) for housekeeping gene analysis. Primer sequences were selected with the use of Primer 3 software [S. Rozen and H. Skaletsky ()]. All primers were synthesized by IDT (San Jose, CA). The genes studied, the primers employed, and the commonly used names of the encoded proteins are listed in Table 1. We use the gene designation to describe RNA expression studies (e.g., qRT-PCR) and their results and protein names for studies of protein expression (e.g., Western blots).
Age, Caloric Intake, Body Weight, and Serum Biochemical Tests
Age and caloric intake.
The mean age of the mice at death was 19.8 ± 0.1 wk and was virtually identical in all the groups. Total caloric intake in the week prior to death is presented in Table 2. It was marginally inob/ob and db/db groups. Among EtOH-fed mice, as EtOH intake, which was nil in the control animals, increased from 3.0 ± 0.1 to 3.9 ± 0.2 to 4.8 ± 0.6 kcal·day−1·mouse−1 in the 10%, 14%, and 18% EtOH groups, respectively, food intake decreased to 9.8 ± 0.6, 9.5 ± 0.6, and 10.4 ± 1.2 kcal·day−1·mouse−1. Overall, there was a small, dose-related upward trend in total caloric intake in the EtOH groups, but in none was total caloric intake significantly greater than in controls. Total caloric intakes in the HFD and 18% EtOHBasic physical and biochemical data
Body weights and relevant serum biochemical parameters.
Data at death are summarized in Table 2. The 14% and 18% EtOH groups were slightly lighter than the chow-fed controls (P < 0.05), whereas the HFD, ob/ob, and db/db mice were significantly heavier. Among mice receiving EtOH, serum TG, AST, insulin, and leptin tended to be at least modestly increased, with values in the 18% EtOH group (TG), 14% and 18% EtOH groups (insulin), or 10%, 14%, and 18% EtOH groups (leptin) that EtOH had no consistent effects on blood glucose or serum cholesterol. By contrast, HFD animals were uniformly hyperglycemic, hypertriglyceridemic, and hypercholesterolemic, in addition to exhibiting elevated insulin and leptin concentrations. The highest glucose, cholesterol, AST, ALT, and insulin concentrations occurred in the ob/ob and db/db mice. Computed insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) values were increased compared with controls in all experimental groups, the increases being statistically significant in all but the 10% EtOH animals. Highest values were found in the ob/ob and db/dbValues in the 18% EtOH and HFD mice were also equivalently increased.
Fatty acid concentrations.
Unbound long-chain fatty acid (LCFA) concentrations in serum calculated for each experimental group from molar ratios of LCFA to albumin. EtOH, ethanol. Results in all experimental groups are s or better).
Liver weight and lipid content
Occasional, small inflammatory foci of predominantly neutrophilic inflammation were seen in all groups including controls in hematoxylin-eosin-stained sections but were not appreciated in ORO-stained sections. Ballooning, Mallory bodies, and fibrosis were not observed in any group in this study. In ORO-stained sections (Fig. 2), a limited number of small lipid droplets was seen in the centrilobular regions of normal livers. ORO-stainable droplets were visually more prominent in the EtOH groups as the EtOH dose increased. Coalescence into even larger lipid droplets occurred in HFD, db/db, and ob/ob mice. Hepatic steatosis scores ranged from 0.59 ± 0.2 in controls to 3.0 ± 0.0 in the ob/ob and db/db groups and were significantly increased (from 1.33 ± 0.2 to 1.7 ± 0.2, P < 0.001) in all the EtOH groups. The score in the 18% EtOH groupHFD mice (1.7 ± 0.2 and 2.33 ± 0.2, respectively). Hepatic steatosis scores were significantly correlated with log10(hepatic TG content) (r = 0.8, P < 0.05).
Vmax for hepatocellular LCFA uptake increased in a dose-dependent fashion in all three EtOH groups and in HFD mice (P < 0.001 vs. control in all; Fig. 3A) and correlated with liver weight (r = 0.8, P < 0.01) and TG content (r = 0.7, P < 0.05), suggesting that increased saturable LCFA uptake is a key contributor to steatosis in FLSG animals. By contrast, Vmax for hepatocellular LCFA uptake was not increased in ob/ob, and only marginally increased in db/db, mice, although these two strains had the heaviest, most steatotic livers. While it is possible that the marked hepatic steatosis in ob/ob and db/db livers inhibited further increases in LCFA uptake, no such inhibition was seen in the HFD group, which also had a highly significant increase in hepatic TG. Absolute rates of LCFA uptake in each group (Fig. 3B) were calculated from the kinetic constants and the values for LCFAu. The absolute rates of saturable uptake generally paralleled the pattern exhibited by the Vmax data buts, reflecting increases in Vmax and LCFAu in the FLSG mice and increases in LCFAu in the ob/ob and db/db animals. As with Vmax, the smallest increases in saturable uptake were found in ob/ob and db/db mice. Total LCFA uptake, reflecting increases in saturable and nonsaturable uptake, wasexcept db/db mice. Saturable LCFA uptake was increased 2.5- to 4.2-fold and total LCFA uptake 2.6- to 3.9-fold in the EtOH and HFD groups. Despite the small changes in Vmax, saturable LCFA uptake was, nonetheless, increased 1.6- and 1.8-fold in the db/db and ob/ob mice, respectively, principally driven by the increase in LCFAu. Total uptake in these groups was increased 1.5- and 2.4-fold, again principally reflecting the changes in LCFAu.
Hepatic triglyceride (TG) content plotted as a function of saturable hepatocellular LCFA uptake. Values are group means ± SE. Regression line for groups with functional leptin signaling (control; 10%, 14%, and 18% EtOH; and high fat) indicates that LCFA uptake is highly correlated with hepatic TG content in these groups (R2 = 0.8414, r = 0.92, P < 0.05). Hepatic TG is much greater than predicted by this regression in ob/ob and db/db mice.
The expression of 19 genes considered relevant to the pathogenesis of hepatic steatosis was quantitated by qRT-PCR (Table 1). The expression of six of these, three enzymes central to the de novo synthesis of fatty acids and three plasma membrane fatty acid transporters, was also studied by Western blotting. In all these cases, the direction of change from that observed in control livers was identical as measured by both methods, and expression ratios measured by qRT-PCR and Western blotting were highly correlated.
A: hepatic quantitative real-time PCR gene expression ratios in control mice, EtOH-fed mice, mice fed a high-fat diet (HFD), and ob/ob and db/db mice forc), 3 enzymes regulated by SREBP1c in the LCFA synthetic pathway [acetyl CoA carboxylase 1 (Acc1), fatty acid synthase (Fasn), and stearoyl CoA desaturase 1 (Scd1)], and diacylglycerol acyltransferase 2 (Dgat2). Values are means ± SE. *P < 0.05; **P < 0.01. B: representative Western blots of expression of ACC1, FASN, and SCD1 in control, 18% EtOH, HFD, ob/ob, and db/db mice. β-Actin was used as internal control.
LCFA transportersfor LCFA transporter genes in controls and 6 experimental groups with hepatic steatosis. No regulation was seen for Cav1, and no upregulation for Slc27a1 was observed in any of the experimental groups. Got2, Slc27a2, and Slc27a5, but not in HFD mice. Cd36 was upregulated in all experimental groups. *P < 0.05; **P < 0.01. B: relationship of hepatocyte Cd36 gene expression ratio to Vmax for saturable hepatocellular LCFA uptake. A similar relationship was found for total LCFA uptake (not shown). Cd36 expression shows a tight logarithmic correlation with LCFA uptake in groups with functional leptin signaling (r = 0.95). However, uptake is far less than predicted from this regression and Cd36 expression ratio in ob/ob and db/db mice. Values are group means ± SE.
Additional hepatic gene expression data.
Influence of Insulin and Leptin on Hepatocellular LCFA Uptake
Our studies found an increase in serum levels of insulin and leptin in all the FLSG mice. The increase in leptin in the EtOH groups, in particular, while reported previously (38), does not appear to be widely appreciated. The increase in the Vmax for hepatocellular LCFA uptake that characterized all the other models with hepatic steatosis was absent in ob/ob and db/db mice (Fig. 3). These data amplify observations reported earlier in leptin receptor-deficient Zucker fatty (fa/fa) and Wistar control rats (7). One possible explanation for these data is that leptin may be necessary for upregulation of hepatocellular LCFA uptake. An alternative is that the failure of Vmax to increase in parallel with the increased insulin concentrations observed in ob/ob and db/db mice reflects the marked insulin resistance also present in these strains (Table 2), rather than the absence of leptin signaling per se. To further explore the effects of insulin and leptin on saturable hepatocyte LCFA uptake, the respective Vmax data were plotted as functions of the values for serum insulin and leptis. In FLSG hepatocytes, Vmax for LCFA uptake appeared to be a saturable function of insulin and leptin concentrations (Fig. 7). On the insulin curve (Fig. 7A), the ob/ob and db/db Vmax at the Vmax-insulin data points was less than one-third of that predicted from the FLSG Vmax-insulin regression. On the leptin curve (Fig. 7B), the ob/ob Vmax at the Vmax-leptin data point was similar to that in controls and fell virtually on the FLSG Vmax-leptin regression curve, whereas in db/db animals the corresponding Vmax-leptin data point was, again, less than one-third of the value predicted by the FLSG regression. Thus, leptin and insulin appear to contribute to upregulation of hepatocyte LCFA uptake. The data are, again, consistent with either of two interpretations: 1) leptin is required for expression of the upregulatory effects of insulin on hepatic parenchymal cells, or 2) the failure of ob/ob and db/db mice to upregulate their saturable LCFA uptake processes reflects the marked insulin resistance in these strainRelationship of Vmax for hepatocyte LCFA uptake to serum insulin (A) and leptin (B) concentrations. Values are group means ± SE. Vmax for hepatocyte LCFA uptake in functioning leptin-signaling groups (FLSGs) was an apparent saturable function of serum insulin or leptin concentration, respectively. Deviations from these curves by ob/ob and db/db groups were consistent with a role for insulin in upregulating LCFA uptake. Leptin appears to be necessary for expression of upregulating effects of insulin in hepatocytes.
Because results in a number of lines of our investigation have diverged substantially between mice with functional leptin signaling (e.g., EtOH- and HFD-fed mice) and those with defective leptin signaling, we have used the term “FLSGs” as a convenient, descriptive shorthand for the former. While the data unequivocally indicate significant differences in some parameters between FLSG and ob/ob and db/db mice, this shorthand should not be interpreted to indicate that these differences are the direct consequences of differences in leptin signaling. As already noted, some of these differences are also interpretable in terms of marked differences in insulin resistance and, consequently, insulin signaling.
In the present study, upregulation of saturable, facilitated hepatocellular LCFA uptake, as reflected, for example, in an increase in the Vmax for total uptake, was found to account for the majority of the increase in hepatic TG content in mice consuming EtOH or an HFD (R2 = 0.73–0.84). In contrast to these results in mice with functioning leptin-signaling systems, the Vmax for saturable LCFA uptake was not increased in ob/ob animals and only modestly increased in db/db animals. Nevertheless, because of an increase in LCFAu in all strains studied, ob/ob and db/db mice also hadtotal LCFA uptake that were driven entirely by the increase in LCFAu. Liver weight and hepatic TG content in the ob/ob and db/db strains were increasedrelationships between these parameters and Vmax or absolute hepatic uptake defined in the FLSG mice. This suggests that another process is a major, if not the major, cause of hepatic steatosis in mice with these mutations. Gene expression studies in these strains suggest that an especially prominent increase in de novo hepatic LCFA synthesis is likely to be that process. Isotope infusion/dilution techniques can be used for direct measurement of de novo hepatic LCFA synthesis in mouse livers in vivo or in isolated mouse hepatocytes in vitro (24–26, 31, 51) and will be employed in our models in future studies. An additional factor that might contribute to the large discrepancy between LCFA uptake and hepatic TG content in the ob/ob and db/db groups is suggested by the upregulation of hepatic Lpl expression, which was observed only in these groups. If hepatic Lpl enzymatic activity is indeed increased in these strains, the resulting increase in local lipolysis of lipoprotein-TG might lead to a local increase in intrasinusoidal LCFA and LCFAu concentrations that are not detected by measurements of these parameters in peripheral blood. This would be unlikely to alter our measurements of the kinetic constants for LCFA uptake, but it is conceivable that, under these circumstances, calculations of absolute rates of LCFA uptake might underestimate the actual fluxes. It is unlikely that the underestimates would be sufficient to account for the large discrepancies between our estimates of LCFA uptake and hepatic TG content.
Then Dgat2 found in all strains studied suggest that the enzymatic machinery required to convert observed increases in LCFA uptake and/or synthesis to TG was also increased in all strains studied. Our studies found no evidence that significant decreases in LCFA oxidation or in LCFA and TG excretion in lipoproteins represent a major contributor to hepatic steatosis in our models.
Given the marked increases in saturable hepatocellular LCFA uptake in all models with functional leptin signaling, iof genes for putative LCFA transporters. FABPpm (12, 55), believed to be identical to mitochondrial AST (6, 58), the lipid scavenger receptor CD36 (1), fatty acid transporting protein isoforms 2 and 5 (FATP2 and FATP5) (29, 45, 52), and caveolin-1 (41, 60) have been reported to be transporters for hepatocellular LCFA uptake. Among >3,500 articles about hepatic steatosis published in the past 5 years, there iseach of these proteins in LCFA transport, summarized in multiple reviews (4, 10, 13, 59). All have been found to be upregulated in one or more cell types in a variety of models and systems. However, no prior study of which we are aware examines their roles simultaneously in multiple models. The studies reported here clearly document significant upregulation of saturable hepatocellular LCFA uptake in the setting of hepatic steatosis associated with consumption of an HFD or EtOH, but not in the setting of steatosis due to deficient leptin signaling (ob/ob and db/db mice). In the groups with increased saturable LCFA uptake due to EtOH feeding, there were appreciable increases in Got2, Cd36, Slc27a2, and Slc27a5 gene expression, all of which were highly correlated with increased expression of SREBP1c. Expression of Cd36, but not the others, was also upregulated in the HFD mice. Indeed, Cd36Vmax for hepatocellular LCFA uptake across all the FLSG mice (r = 0.89, P < 0.05). However, the relationship between transporter gene expression and saturable LCFA uptake breaks down in leptin-signaling-deficient strains. The strongest upregulation of Cd36 was found in ob/ob and db/db mice, which had the smallest increases in saturable LCFA uptake. The reasons for this interesting discrepancy remain to be determined. The nonsignificant upregulation of Got2 and absence of upregulation of Slc27a2 and Slc27a5 in HFD mice, which were hyperleptinemic, as well as in the ob/ob and db/db animals, suggest that overall regulation of these multiple transporters may well be multifactorial, with leptin, insulin, and EtOH playing a role. Hepatic expression of Slc27a1 and Cav1 was not found to be upregulated in any of the experimental groups.
The concept that facilitated LCFA transport is mediated by a single transporter in any given cell type is looking increasingly naïve (59). Indeed, evidence is growing that multiple different transporters, possibly responding to common and specific regulatory signals, may play a role in cellular LCFA uptake in a given cell type. This concept is most strongly supported in the heart, where several studies have presented evidence that FABPpm and CD36 may work cooperatively in facilitated LCFA uptake (11, 17, 46). Our study suggests parallel regulation of these two transporters, as well as FATP2 and FATP5, in hepatocytes.
The present studies provide strong functional evidence that regulated LCFA uptake processes play a dominant role in the accumulation of TG in the liver in hepatic steatosis associated with common causes such as obesity and EtOH. The gene expression studies also indicate that several transporters participate in the increased saturable LCFA uptake observed at least in EtOH-fed mice. Head-to-head comparisons of the hepatocellular expression of these multiple LCFA transporters have not been previously reported. However, as summarized in several cited reviews (15, 21, 34, 42, 43), gene expression data from these and other studies suggest that increased de novo synthesis of LCFA is a second, important contributing factor in simple hepatic steatosis from many causes and, perhaps, the dominant process in the absence of leptin signaling. By sequestering increased amounts of TG in lipotoxicity-resistant obese adipocytes, increased facilitated LCFA uptake, demonstrated functionally in rodents (8, 61) and humans (40), and decreased LCFA oxidation, suggested by gene expression results for Dci in mice and for multiple proteins involved in LCFA oxidation in humans (61), may play an important, protective role against lipotoxicity in tissues such as liver, heart, and pancreas01 and DK-72526 and the Columbia Liver Disease Research Fund.
We thank the Histology Servicr preparing the frozen sections and oil red O staining.


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Struggle of being young and impatient...
I recently started my online Ministry, 'Tribulation Ministries'...which is named for the tribulations we face daily being Christians...
I feel the Lord called me to do this and I will tarry on with His help, but it's very difficult at times to maintain a ministry online...and to get new people to join our site...
I struggle with the sins of my past...and am very reluctant to call myself a minister...because I don't feel I am qualified for that title...I feel I havent earned it...
Being young at 25 and trying to help people to see Christ and help those who know Him already...is awesome and suffocating at the same time...I pray though, that the Lord will bless my ministry and send more people my way to join in the fight against our common adversary...
Any suggestions and prayer is much needed...
How long has your ministry been online?
What have you done to advertise your ministry?
How many people have 'hit' your site?
Well, it's only been about 2 weeks...and I understand it takes time...I'm a web designer and time is part of the job...That's where my impatience comes into play...lol...
I've had over 150 "unique" hits in the past 2 weeks...it's not a lot..but it's a start...
As far as advertising...I only do what I can afford...which isnt much at all...mainly Google AdWords and a couple of banner exchanges...which it does help...
Just one further observation. Don't think you have a lock on impatience, I'm 66 and still want it NOW when I WANT IT!
Yah, youre right...the Lord will do the hard work and I know that...I just get impatient but I constantly remind myself that the Lord will guide me and He will do what is needed when its time...
LOL!...I guess I just thought that the older you get, the more patient you become...