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Volume 2010, Article ID 171023, 7 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/171023
Resistance Exercise Training-Induced Muscle Hypertrophy Was Associated with Reduction of Inflammatory Markers in Elderly Women
Kishiko Ogawa,1 Kiyoshi Sanada,2 Shuichi Machida,2,3 Mitsuharu Okutsu,2 and Katsuhiko Suzuki2,4
1Research Team for Social Participation and Health Promotion, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, 35-2 Sakaecho, Itabashi, Tokyo 173-0015, Japan
2Consolidated Research Institute for Advanced Science and Medical Care, Waseda University, 513 Wasedatsurumakicho Shinjuku, Tokyo 162-0041, Japan
3School of Physical Education, Tokai University, 1117 Kitakaname, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa 259-1292, Japan
4Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University, 2-579-15 Mikajima, Tokorozawa, Saitama 359-1192, Japan
Received 20 July 2010; Revised 21 October 2010; Accepted 1 December 2010
Academic Editor: Giamila Fantuzzi
Copyright © 2010 Kishiko Ogawa et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Aging is associated with low-grade inflammation. The benefits of regular exercise for the elderly are well established, whereas less is known about the impact of low-intensity resistance exercise on low-grade inflammation in the elderly. Twenty-one elderly women (mean age ± SD, 85.0 ± 4.5 years) participated in 12 weeks of resistance exercise training. Muscle thickness and circulating levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), serum amyloid A (SAA), heat shock protein (HSP)70, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α, interleukin (IL)-1, IL-6, monocyte chemotactic protein (MCP-1), insulin, insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-I, and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) were measured before and after the exercise training. Training reduced the circulating levels of CRP, SAA ( ), HSP70, IGF-I, and insulin ( ). The training-induced reductions in CRP and TNF-α were significantly ( , ) associated with increased muscle thickness ( , ), respectively. None of the results were significant after applying a Bonferroni correction. Resistance training may assist in maintaining or improving muscle volume and reducing low-grade inflammation.
Accumulating investigations have proven that elevated levels of several circulating inflammatory mediators among apparently healthy men and women have predictive value for future adverse events [1, 2]. Prospective epidemiological studies have found increased vascular risk to be associated with increased basal levels of cytokines such as interleukin (IL)-6 and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α [3, 4] and downstream acute-phase reactants such as C-reactive protein (CRP), fibrinogen, and serum amyloid A (SAA) [5, 6]. The levels of these inflammatory markers increase as a result of local inflammation in response to an acute infection or trauma and then decrease when the infection or trauma is resolved. On the other hand, a low-level increase in the systemic concentrations of these inflammatory markers is defined as low-grade inflammation [7]. Chronic low-grade inflammation is related to atherosclerosis, which is characterized by the accumulation of lipid and fibrous elements in the large arteries [7]. Atherosclerotic plaques attract inflammatory cells, which in turn produce reactive oxygen species and inflammatory cytokines such as TNF-α and monocyte chemoattractant protein (MCP)-1. These inflammatory events exacerbate atherosclerosis and promote thrombosis [7]. Chronic low-grade inflammation is also related to insulin resistance. Individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus overexpress TNF-α in adipose tissue; this TNF-α spills into the circulation, inhibiting the action of insulin in metabolically active tissue such as skeletal muscle. Increases in circulating levels of CRP, TNF-α, and IL-6 have been observed in the aged population [8] and may partly account for the increased risk of atherosclerosis, type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and other cardiovascular diseases [6, 9]. Inflammatory responses are initiated to restore homeostasis in response to noxious conditions such as sarcopenia, frailty and disability in aged people. While acute inflammation resolves when the trigger ceases, chronic inflammation remains in response to the homeostatic imbalance caused by chronic noxious conditions.
Regular exercise training protects against atherosclerosis and type 2 diabetes [10, 11]; in addition, evidence exists to support a relationship between regular exercise and improvements in low-grade inflammation. In cross-sectional studies, persons who are more physically active have lower concentrations of white blood cells (WBCs), CRP, and fibrinogen [12–15]. Several longitudinal studies suggest that increasing physical activity could be effective in reducing systemic inflammation [16–18]. Experimental studies examining whether acute exercise induces the anti-inflammatory response have collectively provided support for the notion that exercise may protect against low-grade inflammation [19]. Furthermore, inflammation is associated with the age-related loss of muscle mass and muscle strength (e.g., sarcopenia) [20]. High levels of circulating inflammatory markers and/or cytokines are associated with low muscle mass in aged and obese people [20, 21]. To date, resistance exercise has not yet been shown to affect the plasma level of TNF-α, soluble TNF receptor (sTNFR), and IL-6 [22], but has been shown to affect skeletal muscle TNF-α mRNA expression [19]. In theory, IL-6 may partly contribute to the anti-inflammatory activities (e.g., decreased production of TNF-α) because TNF-α stimulates the production of IL-6. In return, IL-6 inhibits the transcription of TNF-α [23] and stimulates the production of anti-inflammatory cytokines and the shedding of TNF receptors that bind TNF-α with high affinity. An acute bout of exercise attenuated an endotoxin-induced increase in TNF-α in humans [24], but also decreased TNF-α in IL-6 knockout mice [25], suggesting that exercise may protect against chronic systemic low-grade inflammation via IL-6-independent pathways. Therefore, long-term resistance exercise in the elderly may be effective to protect against chronic systemic low-grade inflammation.
Whereas numerous studies confirm the benefits of regular exercise, determining the appropriate exercise intensity for aged people is an important and difficult clinical decision. It has been observed that one in five elderly subjects (older than 70 years) was unable to execute the classical treadmill-based exercise test, either due to a fear of falling or because of physical or cognitive limitations [26]. Since designated exercise protocols in intervention studies tend to be intensive, including a load equivalent to 50%–80% of maximal work rate several times per week, the impact of low-intensity exercise on low-grade inflammation in aged people may provide useful information for the design of exercise training programs and risk assessment of exercise training regimens. The aim of the present study was to examine the effect of low-intensity exercise on physical fitness, muscle thickness, and circulating markers of inflammation and growth factors in elderly women.
2.1. Subjects
The present study was part of a survey for nursing home residents in Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan conducted by Waseda University to test the effect of physical training for 12 weeks. Twenty-one elderly women (mean age, 85.0 ± 4.5 years) participated in the survey. Subjects received a medical examination, including blood pressure (Omron digital automatic blood pressure, HEM-1000; Omron Health Care, Tokyo, Japan), waist circumference (tape measure; TJM, Tokyo, Japan), weight (Inner Scan 50 V; TANITA, Tokyo, Japan), height (Digital height meter, 4D200R; Endo Electrics, Tokyo, Japan), blood tests (MBL Corporation, Tokyo, Japan), and an interview by a physician. None of the subjects had participated in any exercise training on a regular basis. The participants lived freely in the nursing home and sometimes participated in the social program provided by the nursing home. There was no physical exercise program in the nursing home during the intervention. A diet of 1600 kcal/day was provided based on Japanese nutrient intake standards. All elderly who voluntarily participated were considered eligible and were excluded only if they did not have permission to exercise by a physician. All participants were informed of the purpose and risks of the study before written informed consent was obtained. The Research Ethics Committee at Waseda University approved the study protocol.
2.2. Exercise Protocol
The participants took part in the exercise sessions at least once per week for 12 weeks. The exercise program involved low-intensity resistance exercise. The duration of each exercise session was approximately 40 minutes, consisting of a 5-minute warm-up period, 30 minutes of resistance exercise, and a 5-minute cool-down period. Four exercise forms, consisting of foot press, front traction, vertical traction, and shoulder press, were performed on Kinesis devices (Technogym Japan, Tokyo, Japan) designed for strength training. The Kinesis device contains elastic cables that are stretched by the subject to perform the following four exercise forms: foot press (a cable is attached to the foot from the floor, and the thigh is raised); front traction (a vertically drawn cable is grasped and stretched forward); vertical traction (a cable is grasped from above and stretched downward); shoulder press (a cable is attached to the shoulders from the floor and the shoulders are raised and lowered). The exercise intensity was progressively increased at the request of the participants. All participants were required to perform each repetition in a slow, controlled manner with a rest between sets. One set of ten repetitions was performed for the foot press, front traction, and shoulder press. Two sets of ten repetitions were performed for vertical traction. All sessions were supervised to ensure safety and to monitor the appropriate load of exercises.
2.3. Blood Sampling and Analysis
Blood samples were collected before and after the 12-week intervention program (at least 17 hours after the last bout of exercise). Blood was collected in the morning at 8 to 9 am after an overnight fast. Blood was drawn from a forearm vein into a sterile tube containing heparin (Termo, Tokyo, Japan). White blood cells (WBCs), lymphocytes, and neutrophils were counted with a Sysmex microcell counter pocH-100i (TOA Medical Electronics, Kobe, Japan). Blood was centrifuged for 10 min at 1000 g to separate plasma and stored at −80°C until analysis. Routine clinical tests were performed by a hematology laboratory (MBL Corporation, Tokyo, Japan) to determine the levels of total protein (TP), total cholesterol (T-CHO), high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, triglyceride (TG), free fatty acid (FFA), and glucose.
Commercially available enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kits were used to measure the plasma concentrations of CRP, SAA, insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-I (Diagnostic Systems Laboratories. Inc., Webster, TX, USA), vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) (BioSource International, Inc. Camarillo, CA, USA), heat shock protein (HSP)70 (Stressgen Biotechnologies Co., Victoria, BC, Canada), TNF-α (R&D Systems Inc. Minneapolis, MN, USA), IL-6 (R&D Systems Inc.), insulin (BioSource International), and monocyte chemoattractant protein (MCP)-1 (R&D Systems Inc.). The absorbance was measured spectrophotometrically with a microplate reader (VersaMax Molecular Devices, Sunnyvale, CA, USA). The plasma concentration of each marker was calculated by comparison to a standard curve established in the same measurement. Insulin resistance was calculated according to the homeostasis model assessment ratio with the following formula: [insulin concentration] × [blood glucose concentration]/405.
2.4. Physical Performance Test
A physical performance test that assessed muscle strength (hand grip), physical balance (one-leg stand with opened eyes), rapid motion (grasping a dropped stick), and body flexibility (anteflexion) was performed before and after the 12-week exercise training program. Muscle thickness was measured by B-mode ultrasound with a 5-MHz scanning head (SSD-500, Aloka, Tokyo, Japan) at six sites on the anatomical skeletal muscle belly including anterior and posterior upper arm, abdomen, subscapularis, and anterior and posterior thigh [27].
2.5. Statistical Analysis
The data analysis was performed with Statview software 5.0.1 (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA). values less than.05 and.0024 (e.g., applying a Bonferroni correction) were considered statistically significant. Data are presented as means ± standard deviations (SD) for all values. The data were not normally distributed; therefore, the Wilcoxon signed-rank test was used to compare the values before and after the exercise training program in order to identify potential exercise-induced changes in hematological variables, physical performance, inflammatory markers, and cytokines. Associations between various parameters before and after the exercise program as well as percent changes ([postvalues – prevalues]/[prevalues] × 100) in those values were evaluated by using the Spearman correlation coefficient.
The following chronic diseases were present in the subject group (as determined by the physician interview): type 2 diabetes ( ), hypertension ( ), heart disease ( ), chronic kidney disease ( ), and other comorbidities ( ). The other clinical characteristics of the study subjects are shown in Table 1. The participants took part in the exercise sessions at least once per week for 12 weeks. The average total number of sessions over the training period was 14.4 ± 3.7 (mean ± SD); some participants were highly motivated and completed more than 12 sessions.
Table 1: Change in anthropometric characteristics and biochemical factors before and after exercise training in elderly women ( ).
Systolic blood pressure (SBP) ( ), WBC ( ), T-CHO ( ), TG ( ), insulin ( ), and insulin resistance ( ) were significantly decreased after the training, but body weight, BMI, waist circumference, DBP, HDL cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, FFA, and glucose did not change significantly after the training (Table 1). There were no significant changes after applying a Bonferroni correction.
The 12-week physical training did not significantly improve physical performance. However, balance, rapid movement, and body flexibility showed some improvement after the training (Table 2). The muscle thickness of the posterior upper arm ( ), abdomen ( ) and subscapularis ( ) was increased after the training, whereas the thickness of the anterior upper arm, anterior thigh and posterior thigh did not change (Table 2). There were no significant increases after applying a Bonferroni correction.
Table 2: Changes in physical performance and muscle thickness pre- and post exercise training in elderly women ( ).
The plasma concentrations of CRP ( ), SAA ( ), HSP70 ( ), and IGF-I ( ) were significantly decreased after the 12-week training program when compared to the baseline levels but, there were no significant changes in IL-6, TNF-α, MCP-1, and VEGF after the training program (Table 3). None of the changes were significant after applying a Bonferroni correction.
Table 3: Changes in inflammatory markers pre and post exercise training in elderly women ( ).
Finally we examined the association between the change in muscle thickness following exercise training with changes in inflammatory markers and cytokines. The percent change in TNF-α was negatively correlated with percent change in subscapular muscle thickness ( , ) (Figure 1). The percent change in CRP was also negatively correlated with subscapular muscle thickness ( , ) (Figure 2). No significant correlations were detected in after applying a Bonferroni correction. The findings indicate that an increase in muscle thickness is associated with the decrease in TNF-α and CRP.
Figure 1: Correlation between percent change in TNF-α and subscapular muscle thickness , . Dotted lines (100%) represent the baseline value for each subject. A greater absolute increase would appear above 100%, and a greater absolute decrease would appear below 100%. Percentage change is calculated as [postvalues – prevalues]/[prevalues] × 100.
Figure 2: Correlation between percent change in CRP and subscapular muscle thickness , . Dotted lines (100%) represent the baseline value for each subject. A greater absolute increase would appear above 100%, and a greater absolute decrease would appear below 100%. Percentage change is calculated as [postvalues – prevalues]/[prevalues] × 100.
We found that the 12-week, low-intensity, resistance exercise training program improved metabolic factors, such as blood pressure, lipids (e.g., total cholesterol and triglyceride) and insulin, muscle hypertrophy, and inflammatory markers in aged sedentary women. These results suggest that even low-intensity exercise is beneficial for aged sedentary women. Furthermore, the inverse correlation between percentage changes in subscapular muscle thickness and percentage changes in CRP and TNF-α suggests that exercise training-induced muscle hypertrophy is associated with reduced levels of inflammatory markers and cytokines; this finding supports the hypothesis that low-intensity exercise training is effective in reducing chronic inflammation in elderly, sedentary women.
Inflammation may be associated with the age-related loss of muscle mass and strength [28]. Loss of skeletal muscle is the major factor that contributes to frailty and has a profound impact on the quality of life of older people [28]. TNF-α inhibits myogenic differentiation [29] and promotes protein catabolism [29]. In addition, TNF-α reduces skeletal muscle protein synthesis by decreasing translation initiation [30]. In the present study, the training program induced increased muscle thickness in the upper arm, abdomen, and subscapularis. In particular, the absolute percent change in subscapular muscle thickness (as compared to the other muscles) was associated with a reduction in inflammatory markers. Ultimately, these findings may reflect the focus on arm-specific exercises within this intervention program.
The circulating levels of CRP, SAA, and HSP70 decreased in elderly women in response to the present exercise training program (Table 3). SAA is produced by hepatocytes and secreted into the serum as well as CRP [31]. Both SAA and CRP show a strong independent relationship with future cardiovascular events [6, 32, 33]. Although the physiological significance of SAA remains controversial, some studies have demonstrated that SAA associates with HDL-cholesterol to remove it from the site of inflammation [31]. In the present study, the levels of HDL-cholesterol did not change after the exercise training program, and we did not find a correlation between HDL-cholesterol and SAA or CRP. This discrepancy may be due to the smaller sample size of the present study. Therefore, larger more diverse studies assessing changes in HDL-cholesterol and its relationship with CRP and SAA following exercise training are warranted.
In previous studies, serum HSP70 concentrations were found to be elevated in patients with hypertension [34], peripheral and renal vascular disease [35], cerebral ischemia [36], intermittent claudication [37], and critical lower limb ischemia [37]. The serum HSP70 concentration decreased following a 14-week cardiac rehabilitation therapy, statin treatment, and a combination therapy of rehabilitation and statin for patients with coronary artery disease [38]. Therefore, we interpret the reduction of HSP70 in our study as an indication that exercise training reduces inflammation. The mechanism by which circulating levels of HSP70 (e.g., extracellular HSP70) are involved in systemic low-grade inflammation is not known. While HSPs are leaked into the extracellular compartment due to necrotic cell death [39], HSP70 can be released independently of necrotic cell death in response to a number of stressful conditions including exhaustive exercise [40]. Future investigations will explore the physiological significance of extracellular HSPs.
Growth factors such as insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) are related to insulin and mediate many actions of growth hormone, including promotion of myoblast proliferation, differentiation, and protein accumulation in muscle. Serum IGF-I levels decrease with age and are regarded as a potential mediator of sarcopenia [41]. Therefore, IGF-I levels may reflect distal outcomes of clinical importance in the elderly, such as objective performance on muscle-dependent tasks and mobility in the elderly. However, in the present study, the level of plasma IGF-I decreased after the exercise program. The results from prospective training studies are controversial, as the levels of IGF-I in different studies have been elevated [42] or reduced [43, 44] following a strenuous training program for 4–11 weeks in young individuals. Future investigations will explore the physiological significance and interpretation of the exercise training—induced reduction on circulating levels of IGF-I.
The limitations of the present study were the lack of control group, small sample size, and no records for the daily physical activity outside of the sessions. Considering that the average number of sessions (14.4 ± 3.7) was more than 12, the results may be due to the motivation of the participants to exercise. The participants were encouraged to increase their physical activity during the intervention period. The number of daily steps was recorded for some of the participants ( ). There was an increase in the average number of daily footsteps from the 1st week (2100 steps per day) to the 12th week (3000 steps per day). Also, the participants enjoyed their interactions with the young instructors and college students who visited and talked with them every week during the exercise sessions. Thus, there might be a physiological confounding factor in the increase in daily activities that contributed to the reduction of these metabolic factors. In addition, none of the results were significant after applying a Bonferroni correction. It is possible that there were spurious positive tests due to the large number of statistical comparisons performed.
In conclusion, our data further support the beneficial role of exercise training in elderly women as a valid strategy to improve blood pressure, insulin resistance, and muscle mass, and reduce the circulating levels of CRP, SAA, and HSP70. Our data provide additional information on the design of an exercise training program for preventing sarcopenia in aged people and the risk assessment of exercise training regimens. Understanding the association between exercise, nutrition, and inflammatory biomarkers is essential given the public health importance of frailty and sarcopenia with ageing.
All authors declare that there is no conflict of interests.
K. Ogawa, K. Suzuki conceived and designed the investigation. K. Ogawa, K. Suzuki, S. Machida, and M. Okutsu performed the experiments. K. Ogawa analyzed the data, and K. Suzuki contributed the reagents/materials/analysis tools. K. Ogawa wrote the paper.
The authors thank the residents and staff of Care House Tokorozawa Keyaki. They also thank Osamu Terada, Takahiro Yamazaki, Shogo Wada, and Takamasa Kondoh from Waseda University for supporting the experiments and interventions. This study was partly supported by a Grant-in-Aid for the Scientist (1403 B: 21300261) of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan. They thank Haruko Sawada from Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology for her skillful managing support.
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As you might imagine, from time to time I get responses to my blogs. Some of them express disagreement.
I single out Israel because my government supports Israel's actions by giving billions of dollars every year which are used to steal land and water, imprison, humiliate and even kill the people of Palestine.
The email invited me to react to such obvious footage. I responded that if this were an authentic filming, the Israeli government and Fox News would have been all over it. Why has no responsible news agency exposed this to the world, especially since the Turkish government inspected the ship and its cargo before allowing it to proceed to Gaza? The ships had been inspected at all ports for weapons and none were ever found. This video was a deliberate hoax designed to justify an act of overpowering aggression in violation of international laws.
He calls them the terrorists. The 700 participants on the Mavi Marmara represented over thirty countries. They were doctors, human rights activists, professors, a U.S. diplomat, a Nobel Peace laureate, in addition to clergy and journalist from around the world. What exposes this charge is that anyone who seeks relief for the suffering Palestinians can be automatically labeled a terrorist. The real question is how he can so casually assign heinous motives to such distinguished volunteers? Is a terrorist anyone who feels empathy for their beleaguered fellow human beings? After forty years of occupation, 90 percent of the people in Gaza have no clean water to drink, and two-thirds of the population live without adequate food, medical care, sanitation systems, electricity and fuel.
Name us as human beings who believe that when one of us suffers all of us suffer, that we never have to ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for us all, the tears of the mother in Gaza are our tears, that the wails of the bloodied children in Al Shifa Hospital are the wails of our own children.
Let me close tonight with one last name. Let me name those who send these tanks and fighter jets to bomb the concrete hovels in Gaza with families crouching, helpless, inside, let me name those who deny children the right to a childhood and the sick the right to care, those who torture, those who carry out assassination in hotel rooms in Dubai and on the streets of Gaza City, Those who deny the hungry food, the oppressed justice and foul the truth with official propaganda and state lies. Let me call them, not by their honorific titles and positions of power, but by the name they have earned for themselves by draining the blood of the innocent into the sands of Gaza,. Let me name them for who they are: terrorist.
Of course, the Israeli government said that it would have gladly delivered the supplies by land if they had been asked to do so. However, such an offer belies that fact that what was being delivered by the flotilla was precisely those emergency supplies that Israel had denied entrance into Gaza for years. These "terrorists" carried no weapons, but were armed with X-ray machines, wheelchairs, crutches and medical equipment, seesaws and sliding boards. These were ordinary people, full of compassion, seeking to help ordinary people, deliberately denied the basic necessities of life.
Why attack a ship in the darkness of night after it had reversed its course and was steaming as fast as it could away from Gaza? Why did the commandoes drop percussion bombs onto the deck and fire weapons before attacking the ship? The humanitarian workers defended themselves with whatever they had such as their own bare hands, sling shots, and water hoses. According to The Guardian, nine people, including a nineteen year old American born high school student, were shot no less than a total of thirty times. Even after the passengers had "surrendered," the Israelis refused to offer medical assistance to the wounded. Why?
So, from time to time I get responses to my blogs and I am grateful for them, even those that express disagreement.
 Chris Hedges, The Tears of Gaza Must be Our Tears, Hedges made these remarks August 5, 2010 in New York City at a fund-raiser for sponsoring a U.S. boat to break the blockade of Gaza. Cited in Other Voices, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, November 2010, p. OV-6.
 Moustafa Bayoumi, Midnight on the Mavi Marmara, p.6.
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SI Cobas coordinator of Novara, Adil Belakdim, murdered while on the picket line of the strike – a collective crime of the bosses and the Draghi government
We publish the press statement of Revolutionary Internationalist Tendency abount the killing of comrade Adil Belakhdim:
This morning, during the strike at Lidl in Biandrate, a truck driver forced the picket of the striking workers, overwhelming and crushing Adil Belakdim, the coordinator SI Cobas of Novara, under the wheels of the truck.
The behavior of the truck driver was criminal, as was that of the truck driver who overwhelmed Abd Elsalam Ahmed Eldanf, a worker of the Usb, years ago in Piacenza, in very similar circumstances.
It would be too easy, however, to blame an individual for this murder.
The killing of Adil Belakdim is a collective crime that directly involves the bosses of logistics, with FedEx at the head, the entire boss, the Draghi government.
This killing calls into question the bosses of logistics because, with FedEx at his head in the role that was of the Fiat / FCA of Marchionne, they appear willing to launch a frontal attack on that immigrant logistics proletariat that in a cycle of struggles that lasted a decade, of which SI Cobas was a protagonist in the front row, was able to inflict important blows (although not definitive) to the mafia system of contracts and sub-contracts, conquering levels of wages, hours, freedom of organization in the workplace for a long time denied, respect for their dignity – a mafia system, which is the weapon through which multinational companies super-exploit worker labor (not only in logistics, think of Fincantieri, world record holder in the use of sub-contracts), imposing levels of precariousness, of intensity of work, of hours, so devastating that within 10-15 years they wear out and break the muscles and bodies of many workers, for wages that were often, until yesterday, below the subsistence levels.
These bosses, with the US FedEx in the lead, which have been working for some time to build and put into action their private squads against workers' strikes, have blood on its hands.
But it is not just about the mastery of logistics.
Behind the growing bosses' aggression that generated this crime, there is the whole capitalist class, with Bonomi's Confindustria at its head, which, sensing the possibility of a "recovery", that is, a recovery of the accumulation of profits, does not intend to bear any obstacle in its way. Capitalists are in a hurry, a cursed haste, they push with bestial fury on the acceleration pedal of trucks, assembly lines, computers, all sorts of operations in the production and circulation of goods. Profit, the sole purpose for which the masters of every notch and managers of every skin color live, is made up of moments of time stolen from the working class, and every single moment is precious for this class of vampires thirsty for the vital energy of the proletarians and proletarians.
Why was Luana D'Orazio (*) crushed in Prato by a warper? Now it is official: the owners of the factory had tampered with the electrical panel and the mechanical part of the machinery to make it go faster; they cared nothing that was working at the dangerous machine an apprentice, and she could leave there, together with her youth of 22 years, her dreams. The one and only thing that mattered to them was the maximum speed of the machine because that was the measure of the speed of making profits. And in this, as in the rest, for example in the violation of the most elementary rules regarding apprenticeship, they were, they are a perfect embodiment of the capitalist class – which is absolutely indifferent to the "unfortunate chance" of producing every year, in the world, 2 millions of deaths from "accidents" at work and occupational diseases – plus the murder of hundreds of union activists.
To call into question only the bosses, however, is too little, incredibly little.
Because to protect and legitimize this climate of brutal exploitation of labor and violent aggression to workers' struggles, to the avant-gardes of struggle, and Adil was exactly this – a real vanguard of struggle, it has been in recent months the Draghi government, the government of the worst anti-worker scoundrels in circulation. For months the police and carabinieri have been hammering against the SI Cobas pickets. For months, police officers, magistrates, toady journalists, under the shrewd direction of the government, have resorted to every means, first of all physical violence and disinformation combined, to try to crush the struggle of the FedEx porters fired in Piacenza. With this behavior, the executive urges the employers to do their part directly, as well understood the Amerikan FedEx, the very Italian Zampieri and Fincantieri (a few days ago in Ancona there was the wounding of a young Bengali worker by a foreman because he made a wrong operation and was going "too slow"), the Chinese masters of Texprint, and so on. And when you say government, you say: state, because the executive is the main operational institution of the state. That state which for the very large part of the workers, and a large number of comrades, still remains, unfortunately, an entity "above the parties", or at least a less capitalist entity than the capitalists.
Obviously, this is not just an Italian trend – the continuation of increasingly deep crises in the last twenty years by global capitalism, gives a global character both to the intensification of the exploitation of labor, and to the intensification of authoritarian processes, and to the "state of exception" which increasingly resembles to a police state – as we see day after day, in the pandemic and outside the pandemic.
If we do not react to this trend with the maximum of energy, concentration of forces, spirit and class organization, from now on it will be not only with the usual maneuvers of division and diversion, but also with iron clubs, sticks, the brick blows in the head, the tear gas, the arrests and the murders that the bosses / government axis will move to stop the inevitable awakening of the working class. We must do everything possible to stop this course in the bud, and in any case equip ourselves to fight it with the appropriate forms of workers' self-defense because this is certainly not a passing phenomenon.
The tragic end of our comrade Adil gives a particular meaning and strength to today's strike, for the first time (in a long time) a strike that involves almost all of the "grassroots" trade unionism. It gives a particular meaning and strength to tomorrow's demonstration in Rome, called against layoffs, against repression, against the Draghi government. It gives a sign of further urgency to the preparation of a great general strike that marks the beginning of a proletarian recovery far beyond the logistics alone.
The immigrant logistic proletarians have given, in an entire decade of sometimes memorable battles, an example of class combativeness and pride, which is time to be picked up by the most lively and conscious part of the autochtonous proletariat. In these hours, it is a good sign that in many parts, in the "grassroots" trade unionism, there is talk of giving this employer-state escalation "a response of a determined and unitary general struggle". Another good sign is that something is also moving within the CGIL; that the comrades of the opposition in the CGIL of the Elettrolux of Susegana immediately called a strike in solidarity with the struggling logistics workers, and in mourning for the death of Adil. But we cannot be satisfied with these first signs – we must aim at the mass of proletarians and proletarians, unionized and non-unionized, sure that their present silence contradictorily contains, together with fear, mistrust, and even resignation, an anger, a suffocated desire for reaction, which can suddenly become irrepressible due to thequantity and brutality of humiliations and harassment suffered.
We comrades of the Revolutionary Internationalist Tendency who for years have insisted on the need to work on the constitution of an anti-capitalist struggle front capable of speaking to the proletariat as a whole, confident that the stagnation of the struggles is not forever, we can only see positively the dynamics that led to this strike day and tomorrow's demonstration in Rome. But this dynamic will have to take further impetus, and overwhelm particularisms, opportunisms, winks or compromises with bourgeois institutional forces, minoritarist attitudes, sedimented by years of recoil of struggles and growing (and theorized) mistrust in the class, to regain a vision of the class conflict, an integral revolutionary perspective that is able to cope with the attack that is being brought to us, here and on the international scale.
Revolutionary Internationalist Tendency
(*) Luana D'Orazio: 22-year-old worker in a textile company in Montemurlo, Tuscany, was the victim of an "accident": she was trapped in the gears of the machine she was working on – and for which she had not had a complete training; the investigation verified that the safety systems of the machine had been deactivated.
It was not an accident: Adil was killed in the name of profit! – SI Cobas
Assassinato il coordinatore SI Cobas di Novara, Adil Belakdim, mentre era al picchetto dello sciopero – un crimine collettivo dei padroni e del governo Draghi
Non è stato un incidente: Adil è stato ammazzato in nome del profitto! – SI Cobas
Aggressione armata alla FedEx-Zampieri di Tavazzano: un lavoratore del SI Cobas in fin di vita!
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» Hot Jazz: Can Utah Keep Climbing Up the Crowded Western Conference?
The Jazz haven't discovered the divine secret of basketball. They're not smarter or brighter than any other organization. No sui generis life-form is sprouting up amid the desert salt grass of the Great Salt Lake's alkali playas.
Nope, nothing to see here: "We haven't figured anything out," Utah's first-year coach, Quin Snyder, told Grantland.
Except that the Jazz — a franchise assumed to be wallowing in the depths of a rebuild — have dominated the NBA since the All-Star break. Over that stretch, they've gone 11-3, suffocating opponents with the league's top-ranked defense and racking up a higher margin of victory than the Warriors and the Cavs. A team that suffered an 0-9 stretch in late November has recently waxed heavy hitters like Portland, San Antonio, Memphis, and Houston. And if the Jazz played in the Eastern Conference, they'd now be tied for the eighth seed.
All very ho-hum for a team whose starting lineup is, on average, a year younger than that of nearby Brigham Young University, right?
A conspiratorial type might suspect that Utah has an organizational interest in staying beneath the radar. General manager Dennis Lindsey came aboard in 2012, following a lengthy tenure as an assistant GM in San Antonio, a place where a veil of blandness intentionally obscures the mechanics of the killing machine the Spurs have spent decades constructing. As branches of the Spurs tree extend throughout the league, one continually hears phrases like "The Program" and "The Process" from not only Snyder, but also Atlanta's Mike Budenholzer and Philadelphia's Brett Brown, both of whom were assistants to Gregg Popovich.
Part of Snyder's reticence to indulge in his team's newfound success might be personal. After playing point guard for the Duke Blue Devils in the '80s, a then-33-year-old Snyder, with his piercing eyes and glorious hair, took over at the University of Missouri in 1999 and promptly led the Tigers to four straight tournament berths. But by 2006, he had resigned in the wake of several disappointing seasons, rumors of impropriety, and three years of probation handed down by the NCAA. Over the last decade, Snyder resuscitated his reputation, coaching the D-League's Austin Toros and serving as an assistant for the Sixers, Lakers, CSKA Moscow, and Hawks. His coiffure remains intact, but he's keeping a lower profile.
While still not flawless, Utah wasn't supposed to be this good, this fast. After allowing All-Star big men Al Jefferson and Paul Millsap to bounce in free agency during the 2013 offseason, the Jazz began an overhaul. Locking Hayward and forward Derrick Favors into long-term contracts, they bet on youth. Although those deals initially looked like more cases of a small-market team overpaying just to get someone, the impending torrent of TV money due to capsize the current salary cap makes Favors's and Hayward's contracts downright sensible. In addition to the marquee signings, Utah ate a few undesirable veteran contracts in exchange for draft picks, added an assortment of foreign talent along the way, and now has four rookies on the roster.
Already, the Jazz are blooming into a younger, westward version of the Pacers, a defensive juggernaut that blockades the paint, pummels shots, manhandles the boards, and scores enough to get the job done. A team can win a lot of games like that.
To some degree, Utah's recent success involves addition by subtraction. At the trade deadline, the Jazz sent starting center (and impending restricted free agent) Enes Kanter and the little-used Steve Novak to Oklahoma City in a three-team deal that brought back Kendrick Perkins (who was soon waived), Grant Jerrett, the rights to FC Barcelona's Tibor Pleiss, a protected 2017 first-round pick, and a 2017 second-rounder. More important, the move opened up minutes for Rudy Gobert, a 7-foot-2 Frenchman who patrols the paint with a nearly inconceivable 7-foot, 8.5-inch wingspan.
Going forward, much of Utah's ability to elevate its offense will depend on the development of young guards such as Exum, Burke, Rodney Hood, and Alec Burks (who had season-ending shoulder surgery in January). Exum, a 19-year-old point guard from Australia who was taken fifth overall in the 2014 draft, has made strides since being installed into the starting lineup. He's averaging a modest 4.9 points and 2.3 assists in about 24 minutes a game in his new role, but he has used his 6-foot-6 length to inconvenience opponents at the point of attack.
Utah is last in the league in pace, both before the deadline and after.


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Community wants justice after woman beheaded
By Nonkululeko Njilo
Image: Supplied Sibongile Zenzile, 29, who was allegedly murdered by her boyfriend.
Courtroom A in the Kempton Park magistrate's court was packed to capacity on Thursday as men and women gathered to demand justice for slain Sibongile Zenzile, who was allegedly murdered by her boyfriend.
Zenzile was found beheaded at her Kempton Park flat on April 26 this year.
Concerned residents alerted metro police of foul play after Zenzile allegedly fought with her Senegalese boyfriend, Elhadji Adama Kebe.
Kebe, wearing a black bomber jacket, appeared briefly at the court on Thursday. During his appearance he maintained a straight posture with his hands around his waist.
Shortly after the gruesome discovery, 31-year old Kebe was arrested at a shop that he operated with Zenzile.
Days after she was found, neighbours and flatmates used her Facebook account to locate her family, who are based in the Eastern Cape.
Police spokesperson Capt Jethro Mtshali, confirmed her head was later found in a fridge.
Image: Nonkululeko Njilo Resident and members of the ANCWL protest outside the Kempton Park magistrate's court on Thursday.
Community members and members of the ANC Women's League (ANCWL) protested outside the court.
Deputy secretary of the ANCWL in the area Liliwe Mlilwana said the demonstration was to call for the harshest possible sentence.
"We want justice [and] to put an end to the scourge of gender-based violence crimes. We will follow this and other related cases till justice is served. We cannot keep quiet as if women are just objects," she told Sowetan's sister publication TimesLIVE.
Mlilwana expressed concern at the postponements of the case.
"On Tuesday the case was postponed because of an interpreter... We're saying we will monitor this case throughout to ensure justice is served. No women deserves to die in such a manner, "she added.
Meanwhile, a resident in the area, Pfukani Mhlongo, expressed concern at how women now lived in fear.
"It's bad we are always watching our back and not feeling free in our own country.... We hope justice will be served," she said.
Kebe's murder case was postponed to October 2 to allow for DNA results, further investigations and a decision from the director of public prosecutions.
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Q: Unable to connect Fortify Scan Central Controller with SSC (Softare Security Center) For my Organizantion i have upgrade Fortify Scan tool version from 18.20 to 20.1.0. Post upgrading the binaries in local server for Scan Central Controller, I am able to access controller from local at address "http://servername:8080/scancentral-ctrl/" but the same is not accessible from my workstation. Also while trying to Integrate Fortify SSC with ScanCentral Controller I am unable to view the controller status. I have added the url details under Configuration Tab on Fortify SSC portal.
The Config.properties file has been updated in ScanCentral install with the required details.
Please suggest any fix/insight on the issue.

A: Did you check your client.properties file in your Fortify installation folder at Core\config? It should have the client_auth_token paramater value set with the same token in the config.properties file found in your controller installation folder at tomcat\webapps\scancentral-ctrl\WEB-INF\classes.

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Hotel in Carcare
The medieval village developed on the banks of the Bormida. In the Middle Ages Carcare was an important road junction because of its position on the crossroad where the roads converged that came from the north and the west to join together and continue to the sea. Of probable Roman origin, it belonged to Bonifacio del Vasto (1091) and in 1142 went to the Del Carrettos of Savona, then marquises of Finale, following its vicissitudes. In 1621 the College of the Scolopi was founded there, with innovative criteria of free schooling for everybody; in 1833 it was rewarded by King Carlo Alberto with the title of "Royal College." The prestige of the school attracted many characters, among them Goffredo Mameli (who it seems wrote the text of the Italian national anthem there) and a group of painters that in the second half of the 19th century gave life to the "Grixi School", which drew inspiration from the Val Bormida landscape. In the later eighteenth century and early nineteenth century Càrcare was a theatre of Napoleonic battles.
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Biografia
Milanese, seguì i corsi di strumento e composizione diplomandosi con il massimo dei voti in chitarra e in composizione, specializzandosi poi in composizione musicale elettronica presso i conservatori di Parma e Milano. Fu allieva del chitarrista e violoncellista Abner Rossi.

Effettuò registrazioni radiofoniche e televisive con molti special a lei dedicati, per emittenti di stato, quali: Rai, ZDF (Germania), TVS (Svizzera), Radio Monte-Carlo (Francia), Radio France (Francia), WDR (Germania), ORF (Austria), Radio Salzburg (Austria), RTS (Svizzera).

In qualità di solista con l'orchestra eseguì i concerti di Antonio Vivaldi, Krebs, Mauro Giuliani, Luigi Boccherini, Joaquin Rodrigo, Villa-Lobos, Leo Brouwer e San Francesco per chitarra e orchestra, composto per lei da Ennio Morricone e inciso per RCA.

Eseguì, anche in prima esecuzione assoluta, numerose partiture contemporanee, molte delle quali a lei dedicate e con diretta radiofonica e televisiva.

Tra i compositori che hanno scritto per lei: Ennio Morricone, Azio Corghi, Umberto Rotondi, Fausto Romitelli, Fabio Vacchi, Enrico Renna, Irlando Danieli, Luca Cori, Marcella Mandanici, Massimiliano Viel, Jean-Louis Petit, Herbert Grassl, Juan Trigos, Daniel Sanchez, Victor Razgado, Patrice Challallau.

Fu esecutrice ufficiale delle master class di Franco Donatoni, Jean-Louis Petit, Azio Corghi, Giacomo Manzoni, Umberto Rotondi, André Richard mit Experimentalstudio H. Strobel Stifftung der Freiburg. Sempre in qualità di esecutrice ufficiale, fu prescelta a rappresentare l'Italia al Musik Messe International Messe di Francoforte, al European Conference of Promoters of New Music di Brescia e a Como per gli Incontri Europei di Composizione (Anno Europeo della Musica).

Dalla stretta collaborazione con i compositori nacque un testo specialistico scritto a quattro mani con Ruggero Tajè La Chitarra nella Musica del '900 pubblicato da Sonzogno Editore, dedicato alle nuove tecniche di esecuzione della musica contemporanea.

Nel 1995 fondò insieme ad altri musicisti Musica20 Ensemble.

La sua spiccata curiosità la portò sempre a sperimentare ambiti musicali nuovi e insoliti. Nel 2003 fu invitata da Gone, band di deep house/son noir, a collaborare all'incisione di Hitchcock Road, CD dedicato a Bernard Hermann, il quale collaborò molto con il regista Alfred Hitchcock. Nel disco, pubblicato da Minus Habens Records/EMI, oltre all'esecuzione delle parti solistiche scrisse e realizzò la parte effettistica.

Patrizia suonava due chitarre del liutaio bolognese Enrico Piretti.

Le sue ceneri riposano in una celletta al cimitero di Lambrate, nella sua città.

Premi
Primo Premio assoluto in 12 Concorsi Nazionali e Internazionali, nel 1970 vinse il Concorso Internazionale RCA International Young Interpreters Competition che le valse un contratto discografico di 5 anni con RCA.

A riconoscimento della sua attività concertistica nel 1972 ricevette il Premio Nazionale della Musica Diapason d'Oro e nel 1978 con Goffredo Petrassi, il Premio Internazionale Red Carpet International Music Awards.

Concerti
Ha tenuto concerti per istituzioni e festival internazionali, tra i quali:
 Milano - Teatro alla Scala, Teatro Strelher
 Salisburgo - Mozarteum, Aspekte Salzburg Festival
 Vienna - Künstlerhaus
 Roma - Accademia Filarmonica Romana, Stagioni Pubbliche della Rai, Festival Nuova Consonanza,
 Venezia - Biennale
 Colmar - Été Musical
 Parigi - Achante Festival
 Torino - De Sono Musica, Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi, Salone del Lingotto,
 Palermo - Teatro Massimo, Cantieri Culturali,
 Parma - Conservatorio Arrigo Boito, Fondazione Toscanini,
 Mentone - Festival International Musique de Chambre,
 Firenze - Musica ex Machina Festival, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht - Gaudeamus Foundation

Libri
La chitarra nella musica del '900, con Ruggero Tajè, Sonzogno Editore.

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I know exactly what you are going thorugh. Its difficult. I didn't think I would get through it. But, I did thanks to Oliver. Our pets are such a special part of our lives that only a pet lover would comprehend. I cried everytime I thought of Rio. My emotions were up and down. I felt it wasn't fair that he was taken from me. However, it also wasn't fair that he continue on with his doggie senility. I think of him now and remember how full of life he was until the end. He wasn't the same Rio. We conquered his heart disease, but I never saw the doggie senility coming. He lasted 6 months after he was diagnosed, but to see Rio go through the physical changes is something I would never want to go through again nor would I want Oliver to go through this either. Have comfort in knowing that you provided Rudy with a wonderful and lovely life. Bless you.
When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water, and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.
All of the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor; those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we rememver them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behindl.
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He was well loved. I hope he will be waiting for me on the other side, in Heaven. I know he was good enough to be made an Angel. Now he is young and healthy again. I will not forget him until I see him again. I love you, Rudy!
Dee, I read your comment on the medicine blog. My Callie is a rescue dog and she is a maltese mix. And is she ever like your Rudy. Callie has a liver shunt and feeding her has been near impossible. I have to cook for her and she rarely will eat the same thing after three days. The vet and I tried everything. She won't touch any kind of dog food. I bought it all and donated to shelters after Callie wouldn't touch it. Medicine has been a real problem as well. I have three different pills we've tried to give her but I ALWAYS find it on the floor. She's the sweetest dog I've ever had and her love is endless. I don't know how long I'll have her but she will be happy and spoiled the rest of her life. The only medicine I can get in her is liquid because I can give it from a syringe. Well, just wanted to say hello and thank you for the knowledge that Callie is just being Maltese with her diet!
dee yor rudy is so sweet.
dee thank you i loved your videos, and i dont no how to use my lap top i dont no how to put on my pic, of my missy to show you shes tiny to your pic, of your dogs are lovely, pamela.
Hi Dee, hope thing are going well for you, Rudy and your daughter. My little fur family is doing great.
it breaks my heart he gets so destressed. We have meds to give him which make him calm thank goodness. Well give sweet Rudy a big pat from us. Hope your day is wonderful.


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Gas spill in the Thunder Bay River
Illegal dumping led to plume, officials think
Steve Schulwitz
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News Photo by Steve Schulwitz Alpena Firefighters use a boom to contain a small gasoline spill in the Thunder Bay River on Wednesday. The source of the spill is believed to be a catch basin nearby, where officials believe somebody illegally dumped gas. The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy and the U.S. Coast Guard were notified of the spill and the Coast Guard will determine what steps, if any, will be needed to address the situation.
ALPENA — A call from a concerned resident about a possible oil leak into the Thunder Bay River on Wednesday led to a hurried search for the cause of the discharge and cleanup of the contaminant.
The chemical, which was found to be gasoline, was flowing out of a storm drain near the 9th Avenue dam. Officials believe it came from a catch basin in the parking lot of the Alpena Area Credit Union on Miller Street, where officials think someone illegally dumped gas into the catch basin, which flows to the river.
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The emergency call came into central dispatch around 9:30 a.m. and prompted a quick response of Alpena fire trucks and ambulances, as well as crews from the city Department of Public Works, Alpena utility management company Suez, and Alpena County Emergency Coordinator Mark Hall.
Units searched feverishly upstream and downstream to find the plume, which was eventually located near the storm drain at the foot of the dam. After more searching, the source of the discharge was found.
The fire department's boat was launched and boom netting was installed to contain and absorb the oil.
Alpena Fire Marshal and Deputy Chief Bob Adrian said the city gets call periodically about leaks and they are handled with the highest degree of response.
"We take them all seriously and respond accordingly," Adrian said. "If there is a spill or any other environmental threat, we do our best to contain it to protect the public and the environment."
Adrian said he believes the boom that is in place to contain and capture the gas could be the only remedy needed, because the spill was small. He said it is best, however, to let DEGLE and the Coast Guard investigate the seriousness of the matter and draw up plans from there.
"It doesn't take much to create a sheen on the water, and it only takes a little gas or oil to make it look like a large plume," he said. "We will have follow-ups with the state and Coast Guard to see if more attention to it is needed, or if it is something the environment will take care of on its own."
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