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GROCH: Winning recipes from fair contests
-- Alberta Dunbar of San Diego, Ghirardelli Chocolate Championship
Turtle Truffle Tart
1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
1/3 cup sugar
3 1/4 cups chopped, toasted pecans, divided
1/2 cup butter, cut into slices
1 large egg
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups Ghirardelli Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels
3/4 cup whipping cream, divided
2 teaspoons instant coffee granules
1 (14 ounce) package caramels
2 pinches salt
Make sugar cookie dough: Position knife blade in food processor bowl. Add flour, sugar and 1/4 cup pecans. Whirl until pecans are in fine pieces. Add butter and process 1 minute or until mixture is crumbly (like wet sand). Remove food pusher. Add egg and vanilla through chute with processor running. Process until mixture forms a smooth dough.
Press sugar cookie dough into bottom and up sides of a 10- or 11-inch tart pan. Prick bottom generously with a fork. Refrigerate for 10 minutes. Bake at 400 degrees for 10 to 15 minutes or until golden; cool.
Combine Ghirardelli chocolate morsels, 1/4 cup whipping cream and coffee granules in a small microwave-safe bowl; microwave on HIGH 1 to 1 1/2 minutes until chocolate melts, stirring once. Spread 1 cup mixture evenly in bottom of baked cookie dough crust. Reserve remaining chocolate mixture. Cover and chill pastry for 30 minutes.
Combine caramels and remaining 1/2 cup whipping cream in a heavy saucepan. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until caramels melt and mixture is smooth. Stir in remaining 3 cups pecans and 2 pinches salt. Spread evenly over chocolate layer.
Spoon reserved chocolate mixture into a small zip-top plastic bag. (If chocolate is firm, microwave on HIGH 30 seconds or until soft.) Cut a small hole in one corner of bag; drizzle chocolate over tart. Cover and chill at least an hour. Let stand for 30 minutes before serving. Yields: 8 servings.
-- Moira Jones of Carlsbad, Ghirardelli Chocolate Championship
Sweetheart Brownies
7 ounces marzipan
4 large eggs
2 1/2 cups Ghirardelli Sweet Ground Chocolate and Cocoa (see note)
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
8 ounces butter, melted
1/2 cup raspberry jam
1/4 cup sliced almonds
Note: If using unsweetened cocoa, reduce to 1 1/4 cups cocoa and increase sugar to 1 3/4 cups
Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Grease a 9-inch-by-13-inch pan and line with a parchment "sling" (helps to pull the brownies out of the pan).
Roll out the marzipan into a layer large enough to lay across the pan. If the marzipan is sticky, use a little cocoa powder on the rolling pin. Set aside.
Beat eggs in a large bowl at medium/low speed until they're light and frothy. Sift cocoa, sugar, flour and salt into the eggs in three parts, beating on low to incorporate each addition. Add vanilla and incorporate.
Slowly beat in melted (not hot) butter and beat for about a minute.
Pour half of the brownie batter into the pan and spread it out evenly. Lay marzipan over brownie batter. Gently spread the raspberry jam over marzipan.


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A heart transplant consists of replacing a diseased heart with a healthy donor heart. Transplantation is used for patients with refractory end-stage cardiac disease.
Heart failure may be the consequence of a number of differing etiologies, including ischemic heart disease, cardiomyopathy, or congenital heart defects. The reduction of cardiac output is considered to be severe when systemic circulation cannot meet the body's needs under minimal exertion. Heart transplantation can potentially improve both survival and quality of life. According to the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network (OPTN), patient survival rate at 1 year is 87.5% in males and 85.6% in females and at 5 years is 72.4% in males and 67.4% in females. (1)
The shortage of donor hearts has led to the use of transplantation in those most likely to derive benefit. At the same time, advances in medical and device therapy for patients with advanced heart failure has improved the survival of patients awaiting heart transplantation. Due to the variable natural history of heart failure, functional and hemodynamic parameters have been utilized to estimate prognosis.
In 2011, 2,322 heart transplants were performed in the U.S. There were 3,329 patients on the waiting list at the end of September 2012. (1)
Potential contraindications subject to the judgment of the transplant center:
Patients must meet the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) guidelines for 1A, 1B, or 2 Status and not currently be Status 7.
The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) prioritizes donor thoracic organs according to the severity of illness, with those patients who are most severely ill (Status 1A) given highest priority in allocation of the available organ as follows (2):
Adult patients (18 years of age or older)
Status 1A
A patient is admitted to the listing transplant center hospital and has at least one of the following devices or therapies in place:
Status 1B
A patient has at least one of the following devices or therapies in place:
A patient who does not meet Status 1A or 1B is listed as Status 2.
Pediatric patients
A candidate listed as Status 1A meets at least one of the following criteria:
A candidate listed as Status 1B meets at least one of the following criteria:
A candidate who does not meet the criteria for Status 1A or 1B is listed as Status 2.
Note: Pediatric heart transplant candidates who remain on the waiting list at the time of their 18th birthday without receiving a transplant continue to qualify for medical urgency status based upon the pediatric criteria.
Status 7 patients are considered temporarily unsuitable to receive a thoracic organ transplant.
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Literature Review
Due to the nature of the population, there are no randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing heart transplantation with alternatives, including ventricular assist devices. Systematic reviews are based on case series and registry data. The extant RCTs compare surgical technique, infection prophylaxis, or immunosuppressive therapy and are not germane to this policy. The following is a summary of evidence based on registry and case series data.
Prioritization of candidates
The majority of heart transplant recipients are now hospitalized Status 1 patients at the time of transplant. This shift has occurred due to the increasing demand on the scarce resource of donor organs resulting in an increased waiting time for donor organs. Patients initially listed as a Status 2 candidates may deteriorate to a Status 1 candidate before a donor organ becomes available. At the same time, as medical and device therapy for advanced heart failure has improved, some patients on the transplant list will recover enough function to become delisted. In 2007, Lietz and Miller reported on patient survival on the heart transplant waiting list, comparing the era between 1990 and 1994 to the era of 2000 to 2005. (3) One-year survival for UNOS Status 1 candidates improved from 49.5% to 69.0%. Status 2 candidates fared even better, with 89.4% surviving 1 year compared to 81.8% in the earlier time period.
In 2010, Johnson and colleagues reported on waiting list trends in the U.S. between 1999 and 2008. (4) They noted an increasing trend of adult patients with congenital heart disease and retransplantation. The proportion of patients listed as Status 1 continued to increase, even as waiting list and post-transplant mortality for this group decreased. Meanwhile, Status 2 patients have decreased as a proportion of all candidates. Completed transplants have trended toward the extremes of age, with more infants and patients older than age 65 years having transplants in recent years.
As a consequence, aggressive treatment of heart failure has been emphasized in recent guidelines. Prognostic criteria have been investigated to identify patients who have truly exhausted medical therapy and thus are likely to derive the maximum benefit for heart transplantation. Maximal oxygen consumption (VO2), which is measured during maximal exercise, is one measure that has been suggested as a critical objective criterion of the functional reserve of the heart. The American College of Cardiology (ACC) has adopted maximal VO2 as one criterion for patient selection. (5) Studies have suggested that transplantation can be safely deferred in those patients with a maximal VO2 of greater than 14 mL/kg/min. The importance of the maximal VO2 has also been emphasized by an American Heart Association Scientific Statement addressing heart transplant candidacy. (6) In past years, a left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) of less than 20% or a New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class III or IV status may have been used to determine transplant candidacy. However, as indicated by the ACC criteria, these measurements are no longer considered adequate to identify transplant candidates. These measurements may be used to identify patients for further cardiovascular workup but should not be the sole criteria for transplant.
Methods other than maximal VO2 have been proposed as predictive models in adults. (7-10) The Heart Failure Survival Scale (HFSS) and Seattle Heart Failure Model (SHFM) are two examples. In particular, the SHFM provides an estimate of 1-, 2-, and 3-year survival with the use of routinely obtained clinical and laboratory data. Information regarding pharmacologic and device usage is incorporated into the model, permitting some estimation of effects of current, more aggressive heart failure treatment strategies. In 2006, Levy and colleagues (11) introduced the model using multivariate analysis of data from the PRAISE1 heart failure trial (n=1,125). Applied to the data of 5 other heart failure trials, the SHFM correlated well with actual survival (r: 0.98, standard error of the estimate=+3). The SHFM has been validated in both ambulatory and hospitalized heart failure populations (12-14) but with a noted underestimation of mortality risk, particularly in blacks and device recipients. (15, 16) None of these models has been universally adopted by transplant centers.
Survival after heart transplant
A 2012 study by Kalic and colleagues analyzed prospectively collected data from the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) registry. (17) The analysis included 9,404 individuals who had survived 10 years after heart transplant and 10,373 individuals who had died before 10 years. Among individuals who had died, mean survival was 3.7 years post-transplant. In multivariate analysis, statistically significant predictors of surviving at least 10 years after heart transplant included age younger than 55 years (odds ratio [OR]: 1.24, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.10 to 1.38), younger donor age (OR: 1.01, 95% CI: 1.01 to 1.02), shorter ischemic time (OR: 1.11, 95% CI: 1.05 to 1.18), white race (OR: 1.35, 95% CI: 1.17 to 1.56), and annual center volume of 9 or more heart transplants (OR: 1.31, 95% CI: 1.17 to 1.47). Factors that significantly decreased the likelihood of 10-year survival in multivariate analysis included mechanical ventilation (OR: 0.53, 95% CI: 0.36 to 0.78) and diabetes (OR: 0.67, 95% CI: 0.57 to 0.78).
A 2011 study by Jalowiec and colleagues compared clinical outcomes in sex-matched and sex-mismatched heart transplant recipients. (18) They retrospectively reviewed data from 347 heart transplant recipients; 237 (78.7%) received a heart from a same-sex donor, 40 (11.5%) cases involved a female donor and male recipient, and 34 (9.8%) cases involved a male donor and female recipient. There was not a statistically significant difference in the mortality rate during the first month post-transplant between the sex-matched and either sex-mismatched group. In adjusted analyses, 2 of the other 9 study outcomes differed significantly among the 3 groups. The male donor-female recipient group had significantly more treated rejection episodes during the first year post-transplant and significantly more days of rehospitalization after the initial discharge than either of the other 2 groups. The incidence of steroid-induced diabetes, cardiac allograft vasculopathy, non-skin cancers, number of intravenous (IV)-treated infections post-transplant, and initial hospital length of stay were not significantly different among groups.
Pediatric considerations
According to the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, 532 heart transplants in children younger than 18 years-old were reported worldwide in 2010. (19) This number compares to 543 reported in 2009. Among the pediatric transplants, about 25% were in infants younger than age 1 year, 37% were in children between the ages of 1 and 10 years, and 38% were in adolescents between the ages of 11 to 17 years. In infants, the most common indications for heart transplant were congenital heart disease (56%) and cardiomyopathy (40%). For children older than 10 years of age, the most common indication was cardiomyopathy (63%). Median survival has varied with age of the transplant recipient. Median survival was 19.2 years for infants, 15.6 years for 1 to 10 year-olds, and 11.9 years for 11-17 year-olds.
Noting that children listed for heart transplantation have the highest waiting list mortality of all solid organ transplant patients, Almond and colleagues analyzed data from the U.S. Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients to determine if the pediatric heart allocation system, as revised in 1999, prioritizes patients optimally and to identify high-risk populations that may benefit from pediatric cardiac assist devices. (20) Of 3,098 children (younger than 18 years of age) listed between 1999 and 2006, a total of 1,874 (60%) were listed as Status 1A. Of those, 30% were placed on ventilation and 18% were receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Overall, 533 (17%) died, 1,943 (63%) received transplants, 252 (8%) recovered, and 370 (12%) remained listed. The authors found that Status 1A patients are a heterogeneous population with large variation in mortality based on patient-specific factors. Predictors of waiting list mortality included extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support (hazard ratio [HR]: 3.1), ventilator support (HR: 1.9), listing status 1A (HR: 2.2), congenital heart disease (HR: 2.2), dialysis support (HR: 1.9), and non-white race/ethnicity (HR: 1.7). The authors concluded that the pediatric heart allocation system captures medical urgency poorly, specific high-risk subgroups can be identified, and further research is needed to better define the optimal organ allocation system for pediatric heart transplantation.
In 2010, Patel and colleagues presented a retrospective review of echocardiography and serum markers as a predictor of death or need for transplantation in newborns, children, and young adults with heart failure. (21) A total of 99 children with 139 admissions were evaluated on LVEF and tricuspid regurgitation, as well as on various serum markers for their predictive ability of death or need for transplantation in a stepwise multivariate Cox regression model. While brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) and tricuspid regurgitation were not predictive of need for transplantation, ejection fraction and lymphocytosis were predictive (ejection fraction odds ratio [OR]: 0.94, 95% CI: 0.90-0.98; for lymphocytosis, OR 5.40, 95% CI: 1.67–17.4). Serum levels of creatinine and sodium were also predictive. Clinical prediction rules based on these findings have not been compared to current strategies and await clinical validation.
Another retrospective review of pediatric cardiac transplantation patients was published by Auerbach and colleagues in 2011. (22) A total of 191 patients who underwent primary heart transplantation at a single center in the United States were included; their mean age was 9.7 years (range, 0 to 23.6 years). Overall graft survival was 82% at 1 year and 68% at 5 years; the most common causes of graft loss were acute rejection and graft vasculopathy. Overall patient survival was 82% at 1 year and 72% at 5 years. In multivariate analysis, the authors found that congenital heart disease (HR: 1.6, 95% CI: 1.02-2.64) and requiring mechanical ventilation at the time of transplantation (HR: 1.6, 95% CI: 1.13-3.10) were both significantly independently associated with an increased risk of graft loss. Renal dysfunction was a significant risk factor in univariate analysis but was not included in the multivariate model due to the small study group. Limitations of the study include that it was retrospective and conducted in only one center.
Potential contraindications
Individual transplant centers may differ in their guidelines, and individual patient characteristics may vary within a specific condition. In general, heart transplantation is contraindicated in patients who are not expected to survive the procedure or in whom patient-oriented outcomes, such as morbidity or mortality, are not expected to change due to comorbid conditions unaffected by transplantation e.g., imminently terminal cancer or other disease. Further, consideration is given to conditions in which the necessary immunosuppression would lead to hastened demise, such as active untreated infection. However, stable chronic infections have not always been shown to reduce life expectancy in heart transplant patients.
Concerns regarding a potential recipient's history of cancer were based on the observation of significantly increased incidence of cancer in kidney transplant patients. (23) In fact, carcinogenesis, primarily skin cancers, is 2 to 4 times more common in heart transplant patients, likely due to the higher doses of immunosuppression necessary for the prevention of allograft rejection. (24) The incidence of de novo cancer in heart transplant patients approaches 26% at 8 years post-transplant. For renal transplant patients who had a malignancy treated prior to transplant, the incidence of recurrence ranged from zero to more than 25% depending on the tumor type. (25, 26) However, it should be noted that the availability of alternate treatment strategies informs recommendations for a waiting period following high-risk malignancies: in renal transplant, a delay in transplantation is possible due to dialysis; end-stage heart failure patients may not have another option. A small study (n=33) of survivors of lymphoproliferative cancers who subsequently received cardiac transplant had 1-, 5-, and 10-year survival rates of 77%, 64%, and 50%, respectively. (27) By comparison, overall 1-, 5-, and 10-year survival rates are expected to be 88%, 74%, and 55%, respectively, for the general transplant candidate. The evaluation of a candidate who has a history of cancer must consider the prognosis and risk of recurrence from available information including tumor type and stage, response to therapy, and time since therapy was completed. Although evidence is limited, patients in whom cancer is thought to be cured should not be excluded from consideration for transplant. UNOS has not addressed malignancy in current policies.
Solid organ transplant for patients who are HIV-positive (HIV+) has been controversial, due to the long-term prognosis for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positivity and the impact of immunosuppression on HIV disease. Although HIV+ transplant recipients may be a research interest of some transplant centers, the minimal data regarding long-term outcome in these patients consist primarily of case reports and abstract presentations of liver and kidney recipients. Nevertheless, some transplant surgeons would argue that HIV positivity is no longer an absolute contraindication to transplant due to the advent of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), which has markedly changed the natural history of the disease.
In March 2009, the Organ Procurement Transfer Network (OPTN) revised its policies on HIV status in recipients. It reiterates an earlier position that: "A potential candidate for organ transplantation whose test for HIV is positive but who is in an asymptomatic state should not necessarily be excluded from candidacy for organ transplantation, but should be advised that he or she may be at increased risk of morbidity and mortality because of immunosuppressive therapy." (28)
In 2006, the British HIV Association and the British Transplantation Society Standards Committee published guidelines for kidney transplantation in patients with HIV disease. (29) These criteria may be extrapolated to other organs:
Older age
A 2011 study by Daneshvar and colleagues examined data on 519 patients who underwent heart transplantation between 1988 and 2009 at a single institution, with a particular focus on survival differences by age group. (30) There were 37 patients who were at least 70 years-old (group 1), 206 patients between 60 and 69 years (group 2), and 276 patients younger than 60 years (group 3). Median survival was 10.9 years in group 1, 9.1 years in group 2, and 12.2 years in group 3 (non-significant difference among groups). The 5-year survival rate was 83.2% in group 1, 73.8% in group 2 and 74.7% in group 3.
In 2012, Kilic and colleagues analyzed data from the UNOS on 5,330 patients age 60 and older (mean age 63.7 years) who underwent heart transplantation between 1995 and 2004. (31) A total of 3,492 individuals (65.5%) survived to 5 years. In multivariate analysis, statistically significant predictors of 5-year survival included younger age (OR: 0.97, 95% CI: 0.95 to 1.00), younger donor age (OR: 0.99, 95% CI: 0.99-1.00), white race (OR: 1.23, 95% CI: 1.02 to 1.49), shorter ischemic time (OR: 0.93, 95% CI: 0.87-0.99), and lower serum creatinine (OR: 0.92, 95% CI: 0.87 to 0.98). In addition, hypertension, diabetes, and mechanical ventilation each significantly decreased the odds of surviving to 5 years. Patients with 2 or more of these factors had a 12% lower rate of 5-years survival than those with none of them.
The literature, consisting of case series and registry data, describes outcomes in patients treated with heart transplant. Given the exceedingly poor survival without transplantation, this evidence is sufficient to demonstrate that heart transplantation provides a survival benefit in appropriately selected patients. Despite an improvement in prognosis for many patients with advanced heart disease, heart transplant remains a viable treatment for those who have exhausted other medical or surgical remedies, yet remain in end-stage disease. Heart transplantation is contraindicated in patients in whom the procedure is expected to be futile due to comorbid disease or in whom post-transplantation care is expected to significantly worsen comorbid conditions.
Practice Guidelines and Position Statements
The accepted indications, probable indications, and contraindications for heart transplantation listed in the Description section of this policy reflect the 2005 update of the ACC/AHA joint statement on diagnosis and management of chronic heart failure in the adult. They are unchanged in the 2009 update of the ACC/AHA statement. (5)
The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) recommended in a 2004 statement that children with the following conditions should be evaluated for heart transplantation (32):
The AHA Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young; the Councils on Clinical Cardiology, Cardiovascular Nursing, and Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia; and the Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Interdisciplinary Working Group stated in 2007 that, based on level B (non-randomized studies) or level C (consensus opinion of experts), heart transplantation is indicated for pediatric patients as therapy for the following indications (33):
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The presence or absence of procedure, service, supply, device or diagnosis codes in a Medical Policy document has no relevance for determination of benefit coverage for members or reimbursement for providers. Only the written coverage position in a medical policy should be used for such determinations.
Benefit coverage determinations based on written Medical Policy coverage positions must include review of the member's benefit contract or Summary Plan Description (SPD) for defined coverage vs. non-coverage, benefit exclusions, and benefit limitations such as dollar or duration caps.
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ABSTRACT: While the role of p75(NTR) signaling in the regulation of nerve-related cell growth and survival has been well documented, its actions in osteoblasts are poorly understood. In this study, we examined the effects of p75(NTR) on osteoblast proliferation and differentiation using the MC3T3-E1 pre-osteoblast cell line. Proliferation and osteogenic differentiation were significantly enhanced in p75(NTR)-overexpressing MC3T3-E1 cells (p75GFP-E1). In addition, expression of osteoblast-specific osteocalcin (OCN), bone sialoprotein (BSP), and osterix mRNA, ALP activity, and mineralization capacity were dramatically enhanced in p75GFP-E1 cells, compared to wild MC3T3-E1 cells (GFP-E1). To determine the binding partner of p75(NTR) in p75GFP-E1 cells during osteogenic differentiation, we examined the expression of trkA, trkB, and trkC that are known binding partners of p75(NTR), as well as NgR. Pharmacological inhibition of trk tyrosine kinase with the K252a inhibitor resulted in marked reduction in the level of ALPase under osteogenic conditions. The deletion of the GDI binding domain in the p75(NTR)-GFP construct had no effect on mineralization. Taken together, our studies demonstrated that p75(NTR) signaling through the trk tyrosine kinase pathway affects osteoblast functions by targeting osteoblast proliferation and differentiation.Differentiation 08/2012; 84(5). DOI:10.1016/j.diff.2012.07.001 · 2.84 Impact Factor
Article: CD271/p75(NTR) inhibits the differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells into osteogenic, adipogenic, chondrogenic, and myogenic lineages.[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: We describe a novel role for CD271 in the differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), including deciduous dental pulp stem cells (DDPSCs) and murine multipotent MSCs (C3H10T1/2 cells). The CD271(+) subpopulation of deciduous dental pulp cells (CD271(+)/DDPSCs) and the forced expression of CD271 in C3H10T1/2 (10T271) were analyzed by fluorescence-activated cell sorting. CD271 expression was detected in DDPSCs that expressed both CD44 and CD90, simultaneously, and the clonogenic capacity of the CD271(+)/DDPSCs was higher than that of the CD271(-)/DDPSCs that expressed both CD44 and CD90. Further, the differentiation of CD271(+)/DDPSCs into osteoblasts and adipocytes was inhibited although CD271(-)/DDPSCs were capable of differentiating into osteoblasts and adipocytes. CD271 was overexpressed in C3H10T1/2 cells, which have the potential to differentiate into osteoblasts, adipocytes, chondrocytes, and myocytes. CD271 inhibited the differentiation of C3H10T1/2 cells into any of these lineages. These results indicate a role for CD271 in inhibiting the differentiation of MSCs.Stem cells and development 05/2011; 20(5):901-13. DOI:10.1089/scd.2010.0299 · 4.20 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Recent studies have demonstrated that human dental pulp contains adult stem cells. A pulse of the thymidine analog BrdU given to young animals at the optimal time could clarify where slow-cycling long-term label-retaining cells (LRCs), putative adult stem cells, reside in the pulp tissue. This study focuses on the mapping of LRCs in growing teeth and their regenerative capacity after tooth injuries. Two to seven peritoneal injections of BrdU into pregnant Wistar rats revealed slow-cycling long-term dense LRCs in the mature tissues of born animals. Numerous dense LRCs were postnatally decreased in number and reached a plateau at 4 weeks after birth when they mainly resided in the center of the dental pulp, associating with blood vessels. Mature dental pulp cells were stained with Hoechst 33342 and sorted into (<0.76%) side population cells using FACS, which included dense LRCs. Some dense LRCs co-expressed mesenchymal stem cell markers such as STRO-1 or CD146. Tooth injuries caused degeneration of the odontoblast layer, and newly differentiated odontoblast-like cells contained LRCs. Thus, dense LRCs in mature pulp tissues were supposed to be dental pulp stem cells possessing regenerative capacity for forming newly differentiated odontoblast-like cells. The present study proposes the new hypothesis that both granular and dense LRCs are equipped in the dental pulp and that the dense LRCs with proliferative capacity play crucial roles in the pulpal healing process following exogenous stimuli in cooperation with the granular LRCs.Histochemie 09/2010; 134(3):227-41. DOI:10.1007/s00418-010-0727-5 · 2.93 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Although there are numerous reports describing the in vivo bone forming capability of recombinant human bone morphogenetic proteins-2 (rhBMP-2), studies have reported limited effects on human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs). However, the reasons for these discrepancies are not well understood. The aim of this study was to investigate the responsiveness of hMSCs to osteoinductive signals, focusing on rhBMP-2 and the effect of serum on that responsiveness. Human MSCs from six donors were analysed. When those cells were treated with osteoinduction medium including dexamethasone (Dex), alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activities increased in all cell lines. On the other hand, rhBMP-2-containing medium failed to increase ALP activity. When five different sera were used for cultivation and induction with rhBMP-2, ALP activities increased in two of them, but not in the others. The expression of BMP-2 antagonist noggin was induced in almost all combinations regardless of the responsiveness to rhBMP-2. On the other hand, the expression of follistatin showed significant variations depending on the serum and cell line. However, the expression did not correlate with the responsiveness to rhBMP-2. The results from this study showed limited but heterogeneous osteogenic response of hMSCs to rhBMP-2 and that the results are affected by the choice of serum. This fact should be concerned for the successful and effective clinical application of rhBMP-2.Growth factors (Chur, Switzerland) 10/2009; 28(1):34-43. DOI:10.3109/08977190903326362 · 3.09 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Although human bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) have the ability to form bone when transplanted, the responsible factors for in vivo osteogenic abilities are poorly understood. Here we report conditions that are required for human BMSCs to demonstrate their in vivo osteogenic abilities. BMSCs were obtained from healthy donors and their in vivo osteogenic abilities were analyzed. Transplantation analyses revealed that the passage number and length of osteogenic induction significantly affected ectopic bone formation. Although 2-week induction increased the percentage of success in bone formation compared with the 1-week induction, BMSCs completely lost their in vivo osteogenic ability after passage 4 regardless of the length of osteogenic induction. Despite their in vivo osteogenic ability, no significant difference was observed in alkaline phosphatase activity or gene expression of osteogenic markers between BMSCs at passages 1 and 3. Differences were only observed in in vitro mineralizing abilities. Application of basic fibroblast growth factor helped to maintain the BMSCs in vivo osteogenic ability; basic fibroblast growth factor altered cell growth and expression of HLA-DR. The results strongly suggest that there are several required conditions for human BMSCs to demonstrate their bone-forming capabilities, which should be further investigated and considered when designing a protocol for clinical bone tissue engineering.Tissue Engineering Part A 09/2009; 16(2):663-73. DOI:10.1089/ten.TEA.2009.0500 · 4.64 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: Current standard techniques for bone tissue engineering utilize ex vivo expanded osteogenic cells. However, ex vivo expansion requires serum, which may hinder clinical applications. Here, we report the feasibility and efficacy of bone tissue engineering with human bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) expanded in serum-free conditions. Bone marrow was aspirated from 4 healthy donors and adherent cells were cultured in either serum-free medium (STEMPRO((R)) MSC SFM) or conventional serum-containing medium (alpha-MEM supplemented with 10% serum). Efficacy of expansion was greater in serum-free medium. Phenotypically, serum-free expanded BMSCs were smaller in cell-size and showed expression of CD105(++) and CD146(dim). After osteogenic induction, serum-free expanded BMSCs showed lower alkaline phosphatase activity. However, they showed higher responsiveness to induction. In vivo bone-forming ability was also confirmed. In conclusion, bone tissue engineering with serum-free expanded BMSCs is feasible and as efficient as that obtained with BMSCs expanded in conventional serum-containing medium.Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 06/2009; 382(2):353-8. DOI:10.1016/j.bbrc.2009.03.023 · 2.28 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: That generation of allele-specific anti-human leukocyte antigen (HLA) monoclonal antibodies (ASHmAb) is very difficult is well known. This is thought to be due to the unique epitope structure, an assemblage of amino acid residues that lie separately in the amino acid sequence of human HLA, and to its low antigenicity compared with that of common epitopes recognized as xenogeneic determinants by mice. Here we report a rapid and efficient strategy to generate ASHmAb. Different from usual immunization methods is that we suppressed the production of non-allele-specific anti-HLA antibodies against xenogeneic determinants of HLA molecules by immunizing human HLA-B51 transgenic mice against non-HLA-B51 HLA tetramers. In addition, HLA-coated beads enabled rapid and efficient screening for ASHmAb. ASHmAb generated by this strategy will be useful for HLA typing and for clinical diagnosis, such as flow cytometry-based chimerism analysis for early detection of graft failure and relapse of leukemia after HLA-mismatched hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.Journal of immunological methods 02/2009; 343(1):56-60. DOI:10.1016/j.jim.2009.01.007 · 2.01 Impact Factor
Article: Recipient-derived cells after cord blood transplantation: dynamics elucidated by multicolor FACS, reflecting graft failure and relapse.[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Although umbilical cord blood has been increasingly used as an alternative donor source to treat hematologic malignancies, cord blood transplantation (CBT) is frequently complicated by graft failure and relapse of primary diseases. Because persistence or increase of recipient-derived hematopoietic or malignant cells has pathogenic import under these conditions, analysis of recipient-derived cells should be useful to understand the pathogenesis of graft failure and relapse of primary disease. Because most CBT involves human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-mismatched transplantation, we developed a 9-color fluorescence activated cell sorter (FACS)-based method of mixed chimerism (MC) analysis using anti-HLA antibodies to detect mismatched antigens (HLA-Flow method). Among CD4(+) T cells, CD8(+) T cells, B cells, NK cells, monocytes, and granulocytes, donor- and recipient-derived cells alike could be individually analyzed simultaneously in a rapid, quantitative and highly sensitive manner, making the HLA-Flow method very valuable in monitoring the engraftment process. In addition, this method was also useful in monitoring recipient-derived cells with leukemia-specific phenotypes, both as minimal residual disease (MRD) and as early harbingers of relapse. Leukemia relapse can be definitively diagnosed by cytogenetic or PCR studies using recipient-derived cells sorted for leukemia markers. Multicolor HLA-fFlow analysis and cell sorting in early diagnosis of graft failure and relapse was confirmed as valuable in 14 patients who had received HLA-mismatched CBT.Biology of blood and marrow transplantation: journal of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation 07/2008; 14(6):693-701. DOI:10.1016/j.bbmt.2008.04.001 · 3.35 Impact Factor
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The meeting will take place on MONDAY 15th JUNE 2015 at Wednesfield Community Centre.
The usual paperwork will be issued nearer the date.
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Cup Finals
Results of this seasons Division cup finals as follows:
Div 1 - Woodfield A 6 Woodfield B 4
Div 2 - Albert A 6 Woodfield H 4
Div 3 - Baggeridge B 6 Woodfield K 2
Handicap final Woodfield I v Albert A being played on Tuesday 21st April
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Wolves Tournament
The event took place on Sunday 11th January and results were as follows:
Mens singles; R Mlynarcyzk bt S Horton 11-5 6-11 11-5 11-6
Veterans: A Dixon bt P Worrallo 11-8 11-5 14-12
Mens Doubles: S Horton/R Fellows bt A Dixon/P Worrallo 11-3 9-11 11-6 11-7
Ladies singles: T Bloor bt J Hodgetts 11-5 11-4 12-10
Savoy; B Okonek bt B Willson 6-11 5-11 11-9 11-6 11-9
Div 2-3: T Bloor bt M Mitchell 11-6 11-6 11-8
Mixed doubles: T Bloor/DAllen bt J Hodgetts/P Worrallo 8-11 11-5 8-11 11-8 11-8
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Match card submission
This season match cards should be submitted as follows:
Division 1 Send by e mail to me if possible, but if not to be posted.
Division 2 Post card to division secretary Eric Barker with e mail copy to me if possible.
Division 3 Send by e mail to division secretary Martin Garrington if possible, but if not to be posted.
In all cases to be sent within 24 hours after the match.
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Doubles change
Don't forget that following a change to rules from this season it is now allowable for a 4th registered member of a team to play in the doubles.
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Season 2014 - 15
Welcome to the new season.
Following the handbook meeting on Thursday 18th September fixtures are now available for the season which starts week commencing 29th September 2014.
Fixtures are also fully available on this website - for the league cup (which starts on 29th September) and the league (which starts on 3rd November).
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The blockade of two national highways in Manipur by Naga groups entered the 55th day on Sunday and the prices of essential commodities remained high. Hundreds of trucks are still stranded.
The All-Naga Students' Association launched the blockade on April 12 to protest against elections to six autonomous district councils in the hills which, it alleged, were given not enough powers to carry out development works. However, the Manipur government has denied the charge.
The blockade, which was intensified after Manipur refused entry to NSCN (I-M) general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah on May 3, has throttled the regular supply of essential commodities, pushing the prices up.
A litre of petrol now costs Rs.120-Rs.150, onion Rs.28 a kg and rice Rs. 26. The exorbitant prices apart, many essential items were not available, official sources said. Before the blockade, 300-400 trucks transported the items on the highways 39 and 53 daily.
On May 12, the Manipur government decided to bring hundreds of stranded trucks, loaded with essential items, from Silchar to Imphal, through Jiribam, a distance of 212 km, by providing them with security. However, the authorities used NH 150, from Silchar to Imphal, through Aizawl, a distance of 512 km.
The sources said very few trucks could be brought along this route because the terrain is difficult.
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PAUL SMITHS - The Adirondack Park Agency's Visitor Interpretive Center at Paul Smiths will be the base of operations for the seventh annual Great Adirondack Birding Celebration June 5-7.
As it has in past years, the GABC will include birding field trips, trail walks, canoe trips, exhibits, lectures and the popular Teddy Roosevelt Birding Challenge.
This year, the Adirondack Park Institute, the not-for-profit friends group of the Paul Smiths and Newcomb VICs, will begin hosting this perennial spring favorite. "The Adirondack Park Institute is vital to our mission at the VICs, and we continue to work with the API Board and Director Martha Van der Voort on environmental education projects," said Paul Smiths VIC Director Mike Brennan. "Having the API organize the Great Adirondack Birding Celebration is just one way we are working closer together to offer high-quality, affordable programs that teach the public about the Park's unique natural resources."
In order to provide better services to participants, a few other changes have been made to the Great Adirondack Birding Celebration for 2009. A registration fee will be charged this year as follows: individual registration, $35; family registration, $50.
Registration entitles participants to the following: a June 5 dessert reception and Owl Prowl at White Pine Camp, morning field trips on June 6 and 7, barbecue lunch at the VIC June 6, and a one-year membership to the Adirondack Park Institute.
All indoor GABC programs on June 6 at the Paul Smiths VIC are free and open to the public, and registration is not required.
The GABC starts at 2 p.m. Friday, June 5 with a Wetland Hike at the Paul Smiths VIC with Dan Spada, supervisor of the APA's Research Analysis & Scientific Services Division. The GABC dessert reception, which will be held at the historic White Pine Camp in Paul Smiths, begins at 7 p.m. It will be followed by an Owl Prowl. All of these events require registration.
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Sensei Kimura laid the foundation for what was to become Kimura Shukokai International during his lifetime. Upon his passing, the chief instructors of the countries Sensei Kimura taught in (America, England, South Africa, Finland, Switzerland, Germany, Canada, Portugal, Sweden, Norway, Estonia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe) banded together in March of 1996 to form Kimura Shukokai International (KSI).
KSI is headed by the four most senior students of Sensei Kimura in the world, Sensei Lionel Marinus, and Sensei Chris Thompson of South Africa, Sensei Eddie Daniels of the United Kingdom, and Sensei Bill Bressaw of the United States, all today 8th Dans with approximately 35 years of experience. (Pictured left to right, Sensei Bressaw, Sensei Daniels, Sensei Thompson, and Sensei Lionel).
The mission of Kimura Shukokai International is the perpetuation of Kimura Shukokai Karate throughout the world. The Chief Instructors of the participating countries meet once every two years at the World Kimura Shukokai International Championships, and at the European Championships occurring on alternate years, to further strengthen the unity of KSI.
Additionally, each country invites one of the 8th Dans to conduct training sessions on advanced technique once a year on a rotating basis. KSI is dedicated to understand the teachings of Master Kimura and to continue it in the direction and to the next level that Sensei Kimura was headed. The maintenance of quality, a deep understanding of Bushido and its etiquette, a lifetime of dedication to perfection of his technique, following through with Sensei Kimura's statement that it will take seven lifetimes to understand his teachings.
Kimura Shukokai International, was formed in 1995, after the untimely death of Soke Shigeru Kimura 10th Dan.All of the Chief Instructors were training with Master Kimura for many years prior to Master Kimura passing.
Kimura Shukokai International today is led by Master Kimura's four Senior Instructors, Shihan Eddie Daniels 8th Dan from Great Britain, Shihan Bill Bressaw 8th Dan from U.S.A, Shihan Chris Thompson 8th Dan and Shihan Lionel Marinus 8th Dan both from South Africa. All four Shihan's, trained with Master Kimura for at least 25 years, and continue to teach Master Kimura's unique technique.
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BBMP has taken up weighing garbage in earnest from February 1
As if solving the garbage crisis was not tough enough, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is now facing another challenge: of correctly weighing the solid waste generated in the city.
So far, the BBMP had been claiming that around 4,000 tonnes of garbage was generated in the city every day. With the garbage weighing exercise under way, it seems that the BBMP's approximation was less, albeit marginally, than its estimate.
According to sources in the BBMP, the weight of the garbage has been varying between 3,200 tonnes and 3,800 tonnes.
"We will be able to get a correct picture on the average only at the end of February, a month after the exercise was taken up," the sources said and added that the estimate was "more or less" accurate.
Following directions from the High Court of Karnataka, the BBMP has taken up the garbage weighing exercise in all earnestness from February 1. The trial run was taken up between January 25 and February 1.
A senior official said that garbage weighing was being taken up at private weighbridges on the way to the landfills. There are weighbridges in the landfills at Doddaballapura, Mandur and Mavallipura.
"The executive engineers of the 28 sub-divisions have been directed to monitor garbage weighing. They are now collating the data from all the receipts issued at the private weighbridges," the official added.
While stating that the quantum of garbage cannot be constant, the official said that there may be several reasons for the fluctuations in weight. "There has been no exercise to weigh the garbage generated in the city. We concur with the High Court's view that the data on actual garbage generated in the city is a crucial aspect to decide on commissioning waste processing units," the official said.
After the High Court directed the BBMP to weigh the garbage, there was a proposal to procure at least five or six weighing machines. However, the sources said that BBMP Commissioner Siddaiah rejected the proposal given the civic body's precarious financial condition.
Mr. Siddaiah told The Hindu that he had issued directions to the officials to use private weighbridges. He said that there were a few unused weighing machines at Mandur. He said that he had directed the officials to shift these machines that had not been commissioned to other landfills in Bingipura and Lakshmipura.
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George R. Hinely, 76, of Hamilton, died Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011, at Anne Arundel Hospital in Annapolis, Md.
He was born May 6, 1935, in New York City.
Mr. Hinely was a supervisor with the Rola-Jensen Company in Punxsutawney and Lumberton, N.C.
Surviving relatives include a daughter, Joyce Ann Thompson of Roanoke, Va.; two sons, George Michael Hinely of Raleigh, N.C., and Kenneth Raymond Hinely of Gambrills, Md.; five grandchildren, Sonya, Holly, Carolyn, Michael and Alexa; and two great-grandchildren, Daylynn and Hayden.
Rose Marie Ferraraccio, 91, formerly of Spring Avenue in DuBois, died Sunday, July 31, 2011, at Christ the King Manor.
She was born March 12, 1920, in DuBois, a daughter of the late Joseph A. and Helen (Cook) Schalk.
June 14, 1946, she married John Rubino Ferraraccio, who preceded her in death March 17, 1998.
She was a homemaker and co-owner of Ferraraccio Bros. Service Station on Franklin Street in DuBois.
John Donald Filipovich Sr., 80, of Creekside, died Saturday, July 30, 2011, at Indiana Regional Medical Center.
Known to everyone as "Don," he was born Feb. 2, 1931, in Adrian, the son of William J. and Pauline (Kutoloski) Filipovich Sr.
Mr. Filipovich and his family relocated to Indiana in 1941, and at the age of 10, he began delivering newspapers.
Lois L. "Sis" Shaffer, 78, a guest at Jefferson Manor, Brookville, and formerly of Coolspring, died Sunday, July 31, 2011, at Jefferson Manor.
She was born Jan. 5, 1933, in Pine Creek Township, a daughter of the late Wilbert Byron and Twila Rebecca (Osborne) Wolfe.
Sept. 11, 1952, in Brookville, she married Lee Shaffer, who preceded her in death Jan. 28, 2009.
Mrs. Shaffer was a homemaker and worked as a seamstress at the Brookville Glove Factory for more than 15 years
Daryl M. Kicher, 84, Punxsutawney, passed away Saturday, July 30, 2011, at Wellington Heights.
He was born Sept. 30, 1926, in Sykesville, a son of the late Joseph and Lydia (Burhenn) Kicher.
Aug. 19, 1948, he married E. Jean Hoover, who preceded him in death Nov. 19, 1980.
Mr. Kicher worked for Auto Parts in Punxsutawney and the U.S. Postal Service.
He attended the Chestnut Grove Independent Church and enjoyed playing tennis, gardening and traveling.
Surviving relatives include two daughters, Nancy Kicher of Forest, Va., and Jackie Pryber of Knox; and two granddaughters.


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Manotoc matches par, grabs Jr Am lead by 2
GABRIEL Manotoc fired a level par 72 yesterday to take a two-stroke lead over Rupert Zaragosa after the first round of the NGAP's Philippine Amateur Junior Open championship presented by MVP Sports Foundation at the tough Sherwood Hills in Trece Martirez City, Cavite.
The shy 15-year-old hit all but three greens and fired two birdies against the same number of bogeys as he put himself in position for a first big individual win in the event, part of the PLDT Group Amateur Golf Tour.
"I hit it solid all day, I just couldn't attack some of the putts because of the pin placements," said Manotoc, who powered Beacon Academy to the recent Inter-Scholastics championship.
Zaragosa carded a 74 after a wet triple-bogey 7 on the 18th hole. He hooked his tee shot into the thick rough and the former World Junior champion paid for still trying to go for the green.
Basti Lorenzo, a teammate of Manotoc at Beacon, had a 75 in the event also backed by Pancake House, Nike, Golf Depot, Pacsports and Microtel.
Raymart Tolentino, a qualifier for the Philippine team to the Junior Worlds in San Diego this June, had a 76 like Ryan Monsalve, Thomas Tan of Singapore and Park Min-ung of South Korea.
Pauleen del Rosario returned a 73 to set the pace in the girls' division by one stroke over Malaysian Nur Eliana Ariffin and the fancied Princess Superal.
Abegail Arevalo, the 13-year-old new recruit of the ICTSI program, assembled a 75 like Daniella Uy, with Felicia Medalla and Sofia Chabon carding 76s.
While Sherwood Hills, the official home of the organizing NGAP, didn't play that tough yesterday with the absence of winds, the slippery greens stymied the field with more than a third in the boys' field failing to break 80.
Manotoc birdied the second hole and made the turn at 35 only to bogey 11 and 13 before returning to even with a birdie on 17. Musong R. Castillo
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Evicted From His Own Head: On Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky is a writer even most Russians knew nothing about until his work was resurrected from Soviet archives and published--most of it for the first time--in the late 1980s. He was ethnically Polish and grew up near Kiev. He studied law without much enthusiasm, worked for an attorney in that city for a few years and spent as much time as he could writing and lecturing on literature, drama and music. In 1922, when he was in his mid-30s, he moved to Moscow hoping to make a living from his writing.
His timing was not auspicious. Krzhizhanovsky became acquainted with other Moscow writers, gave private readings of his work and collaborated on scripts with experimental theater director Alexander Tairov. But publication eluded him. In the story "The Bookmark," he describes the situation of a writer who has arrived in Moscow just after the revolution with a collection of stories he's eager to publish. One editor after another rejects his manuscript: the style and subject do not fit with the new Soviet ways of thinking. "On one manuscript," the writer recalls, "I remember finding the penciled comment: Psychologizing." Another editor tells him:
You have talent.... [But] your stories are, well, how shall I put it? Untimely. Put them away--let them wait. In the meantime.... Have you ever tried writing criticism? A reappraisal, say, of reappraisals? You know what I mean. Do try.
Krzhizhanovsky did try, scratching out a living for decades writing criticism and entries for the Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Friends helped him to obtain sinecures so that he would not be in danger of arrest for being unemployed. Some of his stories came close to being published in collections that were censored before they went to press. Many stories--including the seven in Memories of the Future, available for the first time in the United States--he never even showed to publishers. It's not hard to see why. His stories depict, with remarkable frankness--and with a mix of surrealism, fantasy and satire, all of which were falling out of favor with the Communist Party--the poverty and political repression of 1920s Russia.
The subject of the story "Quadraturin" is a Soviet city dweller, Sutulin, who lives in an apartment so tiny that when he hears a knock on his door one evening, he doesn't need to get out of bed to open it: he merely "threaded a toe through the door handle, and pulled." The stranger at the door persuades Sutulin to take a free sample of an experimental substance that is supposed to make rooms bigger. Sutulin begins to apply the Quadraturin to his walls as the instructions on the tube advise, but he accidentally spills the entire contents of the tube on his floor. He wakes up the next morning in a "faintly familiar, large, but ungainly room," where his furniture looks awkward and the angles of the walls are uneven. He enjoys the novel pleasure of strolling from one end of his room to the other, but he must enjoy it in secret, for like other citizens he is legally allotted only ninety-seven square feet of living space, and owning more than his share could mean losing his apartment. Sutulin is, like Akaky Akakievich, Raskolnikov and Joseph K, a bachelor whose quarters contain a secret--something at least obscurely embarrassing, perhaps criminal. As usual, there is a talkative landlady and neighbors to be avoided. Sutulin realizes he has to buy curtains to hide his apartment from the eyes of passers-by.
It only gets worse from there: every time Sutulin leaves the room, he returns to find that his apartment has grown still bigger. He realizes that he forgot to apply Quadraturin to the ceiling, so his apartment is only growing outward, not upward, the dimensions increasingly oppressive even as the room becomes larger. It outgrows its electric circuitry and Sutulin is trapped in the darkness. "He knew that there, behind his back, the dead, Quadraturinized space with its black corners was still spreading."
The scenario is a nightmare familiar to the Russian imagination: a vast expanse of space, terrifying in scope, its limits invisible, its territory inhospitable. And this is Sutulin's punishment for having wanted to escape the other Russian nightmare, the squalor of cramped urban quarters. "Quadraturin" is the story most obviously indebted to Gogol in this collection, Sutulin's apartment evoking both the windy square where Akakievich loses his prized possession in "The Overcoat" and the sprawling country itself that Gogol apostrophizes at the end of part one of Dead Souls. Its dark, expressionistic Moscow settings and flashes of paranoid humor also owe something to the Russian symbolists, in particular to Andrei Bely's novel Petersburg.
But "Quadraturin" is not particularly representative of the collection--no single story is. Krzhizhanovsky tried out different tones, framing devices and surreal and fantastical juxtapositions, many of which Western readers would later know better through his near-contemporary Mikhail Bulgakov, as well as Kafka, Borges and the French Surrealists. (According to translator Joanne Turnbull's introduction, Krzhizhanovsky did not read Kafka until 1939, and was "very surprised.") Krzhizhanovsky called his own work "experimental realism," and the second word applies as much as the first: his are not the experiments of the Russian futurists. Krzhizhanovsky is not interested in picking apart the sense-making mechanisms of language that readers take for granted. Instead he is feeling out ways of conveying both the quotidian dreariness and the horrifying threat of violence of 1920s Soviet life. The difficulties of adjusting to Soviet society was a recurring subject among writers on the left through much of the 1920s, and some of them--including Vladimir Mayakovsky, Evgeny Zamyatin and Yuri Olesha--produced scathing depictions of smug party hacks and their attempts to regiment most aspects of daily life. But Krzhizhanovsky's pessimism about Soviet life seems to run deeper than theirs, unchecked by any hint of communist ideals.


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Just 10 days to shape up for Smart Gilas five
MANILA—Smart Gilas coach Rajko Toroman is cramming to get the national team in peak form and have the PBA-loaned players adjust to his system in 10 days for the Fiba Asia Championship.
Talk 'N Text's Jimmy Alapag finally showed up in training Sunday after a week-long vacation in the United States while Toroman is hoping the 6-foot-7 Kelly Williams would arrive Monday to complete his roster bound for the Asian championship in Wuhan, China, on September 15-25.
"We have a very short time and we have to use these remaining days to put the guys in shape," said Toroman after the team's practice at the Ynares Center in Pasig City.
Aside from Alapag and Williams, skipper Chris Tiu, playmaker JVee Casio and naturalized center Marcus Douthit had missed practice for quite some time.
Casio, whom Powerade selected as the top overall pick in the PBA Rookie Draft, was forced to sit out for almost three weeks due to a swollen knee, Tiu recently recovered from an ankle sprain and the 6-foot-10 Douthit just arrived from the US.
Except for Williams, who is still in the US, Smart Gilas completed its lineup for the first time in weeks Sunday with Mark Barroca, Mac Baracael, Japeth Aguilar, Chris Lutz, Marcio Lassiter, Dylan Ababou, Jason Ballesteros and Asi Taulava reporting for training.
"There are basically two important things to do. First is to get the players in good shape and second, put the three guys (Alapag, Williams and Ranidel De Ocampo) into the system," said Toroman. "With these guys, we'll be a different team."
The Nationals are bracketed in Group D along with China, United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in the opening round of the Fiba Asia Championship, which offers one continental slot to the London Olympics next year.
"It's definitely a stronger team. We'll be able to complete the missing pieces of the puzzle," said Smart Gilas team manager Frankie Lim.
"Our weakness at the four spot will be compensated by the addition of Kelly and Ranidel and we also got stronger at the point with Jimmy's leadership and skill."
Smart Gilas will play a series of tuneups against Jordan and Qatar on September 8-11 at 7 p.m. at the Filoil Flying V Arena in San Juan, the team's final preparations two days before leaving for Wuhan on September 13.
"Our focus is to try help the team in whatever capacity possible in preparation for China. I want to help but not at the risk of breaking the chemistry of these guys," said Alapag, the reigning PBA MVP.
The Nationals will face Qatar on September 8 and will take a break with Jordan and Qatar meeting up the following day. Smart Gilas will take on Jordan and Qatar again on September 10 and 11.
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Wide receiver Percy Harvin is inactive for the Minnesota Vikings' game against the Detroit Lions on Sunday, according to NFL.com. Harvin had been listed as doubtful with a left ankle injury suffered in last week's loss at the Seattle Seahawks, but head coach Leslie Frazier had held out hope that the team's leading receiver might be able to play against the Lions. Harvin has 62 receptions for 677 yards and three touchdowns in eight games this season. He has been a safety valve for struggling quarterback Christian Ponder, with most of Harvin's catches coming at or even behind the line of scrimmage. The versatile Harvin also has a package where he lines up in the backfield.
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BUSH:Good morning. Thank you.
Yesterday, America lost an extraordinary first lady and a fine Texan, Lady Bird Johnson. She brought grace to the White House and beauty to our country.
On behalf of the American people, Laura and I send our condolences to her daughters, Lynda and Luci, and we offer our prayers to the Johnson family.
Before I answer some of your questions, today I'd like to provide the American people with an update on the situation in Iraq.
Since America began military operations in Iraq, the conflict there has gone through four major phases.
The first phase was the liberation of Iraq from Saddam Hussein.
The second phase was the return of sovereignty to the Iraqi people and the holding of free elections.
The third phase was the tragic escalation of sectarian violence sparked by the bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra.
We've entered a fourth phase, deploying reinforcements and launching new operations to help Iraqis bring security to their people.
I'm going to explain why the success of this new strategy is vital for protecting our people and bringing our troops home, which is a goal shared by all Americans. I'll brief you on the report we are sending to Congress. I'll discuss why a drawdown of forces that is not linked to the success of our operations would be a disaster.
As president, my most solemn responsibility is to keep the American people safe. So on my orders, good men and women are now fighting the terrorists on the front lines in Iraq.
I've given our troops in Iraq clear objectives. And as they risk their lives to achieve these objectives, they need to know they have the unwavering support from the commander in chief.
And they do.
And they need the enemy to know that America is not going to back down. So when I speak to the American people about Iraq, I often emphasize the importance of maintaining our resolve and meeting our objectives.
As a result, sometimes the debate over Iraq is cast as a disagreement between those who want to keep our troops in Iraq and those who want to bring our troops home.


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Eduserv Symposium 2010: The Mobile University
Shailey Minocha reflects on the one-day symposium organised by Eduserv in May 2010. The aim of the event was to discuss whether and how mobile technology will play a significant role in the delivery of UK Higher Education in the future.
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|Each Saturday, this feature links and excerpts commentary and reporting from a dozen progressive state blogs in the past seven days around the nation. The idea is not only to spotlight specific issues but to give readers who may not know their state has a progressive blog or two a place to become regularly informed about doings in their back yard. Just as states with progressive lawmakers and activists have themselves initiated innovative programs over a wide range of issues, state-based progressive blogs have helped provide us with a point of view and inside information we don't get from the traditional media. Those blogs deserve a larger audience. Let me know via comments or Kosmail if you have a favorite you think I should know about. Standard disclaimer: Inclusion of a diary does not necessarily indicate my agreement or endorsement of its contents.
For several weeks now, BART management has mounted a sophisticated PR campaign, stating that its workers are overpaid and unreasonable. But its evidence on employee pay and benefits has been misleading at best; its estimates of average pay include many highly paid managers, thus exaggerating significantly the pay of frontline employees. Likewise, management's statements on employee contributions to health benefits have failed to account for the significant out-of-pocket expenses incurred by many BART employees.
Denigrating your workers in the media may be a winning strategy in the battle for public opinion, but it's a foolhardy one for senior management running an organization whose success depends so heavily on employee commitment and flexibility.
This week's public hearing in Oakland before Governor Brown's three-member investigative panel provided an entirely different version of events from BART's media campaign. During several hours of testimony, union witnesses described in great detail BART management's "Comedy of Errors" bargaining style. If their account is accurate -- and BART did not dispute the specific allegations, though it did add a couple of its own -- this behavior provides almost a textbook example of 'surface bargaining,' i.e., going through the motions of negotiating with no intention of reaching an agreement. Without exception, moreover, union officials stated that this year's BART negotiations were not only the worst ever at BART, but the worst they had ever seen in several decades in the labor movement.
Rather than make a legitimate effort to negotiate a settlement, management has repeatedly employed delaying tactics [...]
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At Dirigo Blue of Maine, JURISDEBTOR writes David Brooks is just making this up out of thin air: Structural vs Cyclical Unemployment Edition:I finally got already to going through all the bills that were plowed through by our General Assembly on June 30. Yes, it took over a month. No, not really, I've been enjoying the summer too. This time, the Vote Tracker is downloadable in PDF form, rather than the Excel spreadsheet. Further, the Tracker, or rather, the legislation we are tracking, is organized into the following categories: 1) Passed and Signed Bills, 2) Passed One House, But Not the Other, 3) Waiting for Votes, either in Committee or on the floor, and 4) Defeated and Tabled Bills.
Now, remember, this Tracker only keeps track of legislation that is of a priority or of concern to those of us on the liberal and progressive side of the aisle. Indeed, the Tracker is a joint effort between Delaware Liberal and the Progressive Democrats for Delaware (PDD). The PDD announced their legislative priorities earlier this year, and it was and is a pretty good, and long, list (in no order of priority)::
Minimum Wage Increase • Opposing Cuts to Medicaid • Marriage Equality • Death Penalty Repeal • Gun Control Legislation • Progressive Tax Rates • Single Payer Healthcare • Lobbying Disclosure Reform • Independent Redistricting Reform • Amending the Anti-Discrimination Law to Include Transgendered Persons • Charter School Reform
• No Excuse Absentee Voting • Manufactured Home Rent Justification
RECENTLY I discussed the fallacies contained in the arguments underpinning Senator Susan Collins' legislation that the ACA is or will cause a drastic shift in the labor market from full-time to part-time work. The problem with Collins' legislation–and the arguments underpinning it–is that it seeks to treat the problems in the labor market with the wrong cure. Simply stated, the recent downturn in the economy and labor market is a cyclical problem–slack demand where consumers fail to purchase goods, fewer purchases means business incomes decline, which results in businesses laying off workers to reduce costs, and so on. Collins' legislation basically wants to ignore the cyclical cause of the recent economic downturn, and instead argue that the ACA–not yet full implemented, and passed by Congress after the economy tanked–is what ails the labor market/economy.
At HorsesAss of Washington, Lee writes in the News Roundup:
The state that Dave Reichert represents voted by a comfortable margin to set up a legal market for marijuana. But instead of working with his fellow Washington representatives to stand up for his voters, he's just going to sit with his thumb up his ass and watch it "crumble."
Personally, I don't think it will crumble. There will be problems, in particular with how new businesses do their banking, but the fact that people would much rather buy marijuana in regulated stores will eventually bring us to a stable system. But the important point here is that these are problems that Congress has the ability to fix. So Dave Reichert's position is: I could do something about it, but I'd rather watch it crumble and let criminal gangs continue to run the market. He really does fit in with his fellow House GOP buffoons.
At Blog for Iowa, Paul Deaton writes Climate March Staff Trained by Al Gore:
At Raging Chicken Press of Pennsylvania, Sean Kitchen writes Pennsylvania's 8th Challenger Kevin Strouse Discusses NSA Debate at Grassroots Meeting:The staff of The Great March for Climate Action was spotted by Blog for Iowa at the Climate Reality Leadership Corps training held in Chicago from July 30 through Aug. 1. (L to R: Shari Hrdina, Zach Heffernen and Courtney Kain). The event was the 23rd training of climate leaders conducted by former vice president Al Gore since exiting politics. As Gore said about himself, "I am a recovering politician." The Climate Reality Project has become an important part of his life's work.
On July 31, Gore began a twelve hour day by presenting the latest version of the slide show he developed that became the book and film An Inconvenient Truth. He then explained the slide show, one slide at a time, so attendees could present it themselves. He closed the day with group photos with training attendees. The Great March for Climate Action staff was part of a cadre of 1,200 people from all 50 states and 40 countries who participated in the training.
At R.I. Future.org, Bob Plain writes Priest to legislators: I will campaign against you from church:On Thursday, August 1, Montgomery County DFA hosted an intimate talk with 8th Congressional District Candidate Kevin Strouse, attendees tested the first-time candidate on multiple issues. Strouse responded to tough questions on issues including the Affordable Care Act, economic regulations, the NSA controversy, environmental issues, climate change and much more. Progressives seemed to be impressed with the tone Strouse responded to attendees and the direct answers he gave to persistent questioning. If he advances past the primary, Kevin Strouse is a solid progressive who has a chance to snag Mike Fitzpatrick's highly contested seat. In the last election, the 8th Congressional District was one of several districts that voted for Barack Obama, but chose to keep an incumbent Republican.
At this point, Strouse is shaping up to be the frontrunner in the local primary by out-fundraising Shaughnessy Naughton $254,000 to $89,000. While this is Strouse first run for public office, he has a strong resume and family history in the area. Veterans organizations have endorsed the candidate for his three tours in Afghanistan and one tour in Iraq. On top of that, Strouse spent [eight] years in the CIA; [six] in counter-terrorism and [two] years in financial crimes. When the meeting began, Strouse explained that it was government obstructionism coupled with budget cuts and budget deadlines affecting his work at the CIA that pushed him into the race for Pennsylvania's Congressional 8th District.
Because of Strouse's service as a CIA agent and Army Ranger, I was curious about his positions the recent NSA revelations and the conversation. Pertaining to the NSA, the crowd raised questions about the leaker, Edward Snowden, how the leaks have been unveiled, feelings on the national conversation the leaks have sparked, his experience with those in the NSA and CIA and the privatization of our national security spectrum.
At Blue Oklahoma, DocHoc writes Editorial Claims Anti-Abortion Bills About Health:"I'm praying for each of you, that you turn back to God," said an email purportedly from Father Brian Sistare, who is now the priest at Sacred Heart in Woonsocket. "I'm also going to let my Parish know exactly how you voted, so come re-election time, you will not be re-elected." [...]
The email was sent to the 26 state senators who voted for marriage equality and was signed and seemingly sent by Sistare. Sistare, who was a priest at St. Rocco Church in Johnston at the time, did not return a call for comment earlier this week to RI Future and has since declined to comment to other media outlets as well.
At Blue Virginia, NARAL President Ilyse Hogue Discusses "Outrageous Lies" at VA "Crisis Pregnancy Centers":Another anti-abortion editorial published in The Oklahoman is so excruciatingly disingenuous and so filled with false comparisons it deserves a mention if only for conducting a rhetoric analysis of juvenile argumentation.
The short editorial, titled "Health question:," (Aug. 5, 2013), makes the point that a recently proposed Alabama bill and other similar bills throughout the country restricting abortion is really an issue about good health standards, which "would be noncontroversial if abortion weren't involved." But the clear intent of the Alabama bill, sponsored by state Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin and later blocked by a federal judge, is to essentially do away with the abortion procedure in Alabama, not protect women's health. In other words, so this argument goes, to ensure good health standards we should do away with medical procedures. That's setting good standards, isn't it? Let's do away with basic medical treatments in order to have good standards.
At Blue Jersey, Rosi Efthim writes Steve Lonegan for Senate tries to rescue candidate from racist campaign tweet:As Hogue explains: "Not only are [these centers] lying to women, but they are actually endangering women's health...[they] take money from much-needed programs that actually support families that need the help and moving them into these "Crisis Pregnancy Centers" that try and shame and humiliate women and endanger their health by giving them the kind of information that you played for your viewers. This is the face of the anti-choice movement, and the politicians that stand with them like Ken Cuccinelli in Virginia...voters have a right to know that these politicians support these centers that intimidate women and like to them and are often doing it with taxpayer dollars."
Also note that these so-called "crisis centers" are funded in part by the state of Virginia's "Choose Life" license plates, and of course they're strongly supported by Gov. McDonnell, Attorney General Cuccinelli, and Cuccinelli "clones" Mark Obenshain and EW Jackson. It's disgusting.
P.S. The lies include that condoms don't work, that birth control pills cause cancer, that all abortion (even in cases of rape or incest) is murder (and destroys a woman's self esteem). Again, this is YOUR TAX MONEY AT WORK! Grrrrr.
At My Left Nutmeg of Connecticut, abg22 writes Democrats' Disarray in Municipal Elections Doesn't Bode Well for 2014:Politico:
The tweet read, "#breaking just leaked - Cory Booker's foreign policy debate prep notes," and below it was a map of heavily African-American Newark. Scrawled over the map in different places was, "West Africa, Guyana, Portugal, Brazil." Another annotation, pointing to Newark, read, "Middle East," followed by "Afghanistan, Pakistan, plus Bangladesh and Trinidad."
It went up. And then it quickly came down. Before it did, Politico snapped [a] screen shot. It came from the @LoneganForNJ Twitter account, which has an embarrassing 85 followers (one of which is @BlueJersey).
Running the damage control is campaign consultant and Lonegan frontman Rick Shaftan. Playing the Steve's-more-wholesome-and-gooder-than-our-staff-or-consultants card, Lonegan said "didn't find it funny or reflective of the way he thinks and asked that it be taken down immediately".
I love it when these people are simply ... themselves.
At New Mass Group, ronconsalvo writes It's Time to Hold Big Banks Accountable in Boston:This year's municipal elections have displayed a disturbing level of incompetence and internal dissension among Democrats that should be troubling to Dan Malloy and his political team going into next year's gubernatorial election.
In New Haven, the Democratic Town Committee - "under new management" since the pro-City Hall machine was deposed in 2011 and 2012 -- missed a key filing deadline that nullified all the party's candidate endorsements, forcing even endorsed candidates to petition onto the primary ballot. For a few days, local party leaders -- who had mistakenly mailed the paperwork to the Secretary of the State rather than the city clerk's office - formed a circular firing squad; but ultimately not a single member of the DTC's executive committee was held accountable for this monumental lapse in competence. In Norwalk the hopelessly divided Democrats failed to endorse a mayoral candidate after multiple ballots. The Democrats' inconclusive convention took place a few weeks after a violent fracas between the chair of the Democratic Town Committee and a disgruntled Democratic Board of Education candidate, that ended only when police were called to the scene. In Danbury, where Democrats outnumber Republicans two-to-one, Democrats could not even field a candidate to challenge incumbent GOP Mayor Mark Boughton. In Stamford, Democratic mayoral candidates are poised to wage an extremely expensive primary battle that will make defeating probable Republican nominee Michael Fedele much more difficult in the state's most GOP-friendly big city. Bridgeport and Hartford do not have mayoral elections this year, but Democratic mayors in both cities are currently embroiled in damaging scandals: in Bridgeport regarding the construction at taxpayer expense of a driveway to the seaside mansion of a politically connected developer (not to mention an embarrassing meltdown of the mayor's "education reform" efforts that has been well-chronicled by Jonathan Pelto), in Hartford over the almost unbelievably stupid misbehavior of the mayor's now-former chief of staff and the increasingly dysfunctional relationship between the mayor's office and the city council (both controlled by Democrats).
In every neighborhood of Boston there are abandoned, neglected homes that become eyesores, drag down property values and attract crime. Last week, I went to one of these disgraces in Hyde Park where piles of trashed ringed the perimeter, sharp nails poked through loose lumber dangling from the roof and signs posted on a window warned that the structure was unsafe.
What's really outrageous is that this shameful sight is owned by a huge international bank that foreclosed on the house several years ago. A bank whose CEO shuttles around the world on a corporate jet, but won't cut the grass in front of a house they own in a proud neighborhood of this city – it's outrageous.
In 2010, I passed an ordinance that started to hold big banks accountable for the blighted properties they own in Boston. That ordinance established a registry of foreclosed properties and allowed the city to impose fines on landlords who failed to keep them up. Now, many big banks just pay the fine – it's a cost of doing business for them – without fulfilling their responsibility as good neighbors.
Now, I've proposed going even ever further to hold big banks accountable and as mayor, that's exactly what I'll do.


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Three teenagers were arrested Tuesday in connection with the burglary of a convenience store, police said.
The Ashland Mini Mart on Grand Caillou Road was burglarized twice over the weekend, deputies said.
Two of the teens, ages 13 and 14, are connected to both burglaries, the Sheriff's Office said. A 15-year-old is accused of participating in one.
The three, who names are being withheld because of their ages, are in the Juvenile Detention Center.
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I am 5cm dilated and 80% effaced(saw OB 12 hours ago) I am 37 w 2 days pregnant. He stripped my membranes and I started having contractions right away, but I have irratable uterus and I waited and they went away....BOO
Well about an hour ago I lost my mucus plug!!!! YAY, since then I have been contracting again, still not regular enough and not to strong. I have had them every 4 minutes and strong before(34-36 weeks pregnant then) I was told that since my cervix is so dilated and effaced I would probably not be turned away from L&D again. I was also told to come to L&D when I get contractions 7 minutes apart or closer. Doc does not think I will make it to my next appointment, and told me I will probably go into labor today.
So....What can I do to help keep up the contractions? I am making sure I eat often and drink a ton(DR orders). I am using my birthing ball, I am standing and rocking. I am walking around in the house. nipple stimulation hurts, my nipples are overly sensitive.
What else can I try? We want to try to get her out.....been having preterm labor since 31 weeks. Doc says baby is measuring on the large side and she seems ready to come out, which they are fully fine with since I am full term.


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Apr 16, 2015 11:00 AM - The Lake County 4-H program will be conducting a "Jungle Rocks" Day Camp for youth ages 5- to 8 years. You do not need to be a member of 4-H to attend the day camp. What is unique about the Lake County 4-H Day Camp is that the 4-H teens design and teach the day camp along with adult support.


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Hello everyone!! I just wanted to post this to give all of those mommies that are scared and stressed right now some hope. In November I had a SCH that caused some pretty heavy bleeding. I was only given a 50% chance that the pregnancy would continue. Well last Saturday 6/19/10 my baby girl was born at 38w3d perfectly healthy with absolutely no complications! So keep praying and hoping and good luck to you all. I know how scared I was when I was in your place.
Successful Pregnancy Birth After SCH
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That gives me hope to definitely try again. I just lost my baby at 17wks due to a subchorianic hematoma. The bleed started at 13wks and never stopped. The baby stopped growing at that same time. I am going to try again right away. It gives me a encouragement. Everyday that passes I question whether I can really do it again. The fear over takes me at times. I see a specialist on July 5th to check for clotting disorders and hoping I get some good news.
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I want to second this post by saying I had a SCH as well & delivered twins at 37 wks w/ no problems! :D I wasn't given a percentage of survival rate when the SCH was diagnosed, but was told to take it easy & that it would either clear up on its own, or it would just bleed out until it was done. I was on semi-bed rest for a week at one point, but besides that was just low key for a season & by 20 wks it had mostly gone away. Please don't give up.. even if you've lost a LO. I lost one as well- not to a SCH, but from developing complications.. & I'm so thankful my DH & I didn't give up.. & now we have two healthy twins.
Hang in there. Praying for you all.
This pregnancy was after a miscarriage 3 months before due to blighted ovum...so this was my second try. Just don't give up! Last year at this time I was crying tears of anguish because I was losing a baby now I am crying tears of joy just one year later because I have a perfect beautiful baby girl.
"Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness."
Congrats on your little girl! I'm sure your story will offer much hope and reassurance to those just starting out, and/or those who have suffered a recent loss. Enjoy this special time! :)
Megan (32) married to Karey (33) Mom to Mallory (4) and Jack (2) EDD #3 7/8/2010 ***WE PRAY!**
Congrats on your new little one! Glad to hear everyone is doing well.