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Jose Reyes became the second free-agent All-Star to join the Miami Marlins this week.
The shortstop, who won the National League batting title last season playing for the New York Mets, will join a team that had the lowest payroll twice in the past five seasons.
Reyes said today at a news conference announcing his free-agent signing during Major League Baseball's Winter Meetings in Dallas that the Mets forced him out of New York.
"They didn't make me a real offer," he said. "They didn't want me there."
The Marlins this week also signed relief pitcher Heath Bell, formerly of the San Diego Padres.
Reyes, 28, hit .337 last season to become the first Mets player to win the National League batting title. He also had seven home runs, 44 runs batted in, 101 runs scored and 39 stolen bases.
The Marlins didn't release contract details. ESPN reported Reyes agreed on a six-year contract worth at least $111 million.
Reyes's contract would be the biggest in Marlins' history, surpassing All-Star Hanley Ramirez's six-year, $70 million deal, MLB.com said.
With the addition of Reyes, the Marlins will move Ramirez to third base from shortstop, the only position he has played during his seven-year major-league career.
Bell, 34, saved 132 games for the Padres the last three seasons. He agreed on a three-year contract worth $27 million, according to MLB.com.
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The signings come as the club revamps its image and moves into a new 37,000-seat, retractable-roof ballpark. Owner Jeffrey Loria changed the name to the Miami Marlins from the Florida Marlins, and hired Ozzie Guillen, who in 2005 led the Chiago White Sox to their first World Series title in 88 years, as manager. The Marlins have made the playoffs twice since joining the NL as an expansion team 19 season ago, in 1997 and 2003, winning the World Series each time.
Reyes, a four time All-Star, had a .292 batting average with the Mets, with 735 runs scored and 370 stolen bases. He's missed 191 games because of injuries the past three years.
The loss of Reyes is the another setback for the Mets, who have had losing records and declining attendance for the last three seasons. The Mets, who haven't made the postseason since 2006, went 77-85 to finish fourth in the five-team National League East division, 25 games behind the Philadelphia Phillies. The Marlins finished last in the NL East at 72-90.
Mets Deal
Reyes declined to negotiate a new deal with the Mets during the season, saying he didn't want any distractions. He was in the option season of a four-year, $23.3 million contract.
Mets General Manager Sandy Alderson told reporters at the Winter Meetings that the Mets never made a formal offer to Reyes, though he had frequent conversations with his agents.
"You have to draw a line somewhere, and based on our experience -- not just with Jose, but with multiyear contracts generally -- we decided that there were some conceptual limitations to where we would go," Alderson said. "One of the reasons we held back so long is because we wanted to see where the market would take us."
The Mets may lose as much as $70 million this year and remain engaged in a court battle with the trustee in charge of recovering money for investors in Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme. The franchise, which has had attendance at $850 million Citi Field drop 26 percent since 2009, cut 10 percent of its front-office staff last month.


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MIDLAND CITY, Ala. -- By all accounts, a 5-year-old in Alabama endured an unforgettable horror: Held for a week in a closet-size bunker underground, a captive of a volatile killer, his only comforts a Hot Wheels car and other treats passed to him by officers.
Yet after being whisked to safety by federal agents in a raid that left his kidnapper dead, the boy appeared to be acting like a normal kid: He was running around, playing with a toy dinosaur and other action figures, eating a turkey sandwich and watching "SpongeBob SquarePants," relatives and Dale County Sheriff Wally Olson said.
"We know he's OK physically, but we don't know how he is mentally," Betty Jean Ransbottom, the boy's grandmother, told the Associated Press on Tuesday. She added that she feared the ordeal would stay with the child, who turns 6 today, the rest of his life.
Meanwhile, authorities grateful for a happy ending embarked on a careful investigation. Agents swept the 100-acre property for explosives as part of an investigation so painstaking that authorities had not yet removed the body of the abductor, Jimmy Lee Dykes, officials said.
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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. - There was magic surrounding Tiger Woods on a Sunday in a big tournament. This time, though, it had little to do with him.
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"It's frustrating in the sense that I wasn't really ever able to get it going," Woods said.
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Northeast Historic Film in Bucksport, Maine, invites you to be a part of a symposium dedicated to the topic of work and amateur film. The symposium is open to anyone interested in the relationship between the moving image and representations of work. Students, teachers, researchers, museum, library and archives professionals, programmers, amateur film and video creators, and labor and union specialists may find the symposium of particular interest.
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A Marion County letter carrier was indicted Thursday on charges he stole gift cards that were in the mail.
Greg Mitchell is accused of a stealing a variety of restaurant gift cards over a three-month period, according to federal court papers.
The alleged thefts took place between October and December of 2012, investigators said.
The court papers detail six separate cards that were stolen on three different dates. The stolen cards add up to a value of $200.
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Our fantasy question for today: Say you had the power to implement one change that would become part of the rules/setup for standard fantasy leagues. What would it be?
40 replies , Last at 05 Aug 2009, 9:45am by spotatl
Make it DYAR-based.
If that were feasible, wouldn't that take some of the strategy out of it? Since most fantasy game-planning involves evaluating strength of schedule, and DYAR is supposed to negate the variance. Besides, real games do not have their outcomes adjusted for strength of schedule.
No kickers!
It's guessing, the scoring isnt based on any real predictive factors (other than offensive strength)
Having the kicker on the best mediocre offensive team (ie can move the ball, but struggles in the red zone, etc)
.. is actually better than having the kicker on the best offensive team (more TDs, fewer FGs)
Fully agree! The league I manage ditched kickers five years ago, and nobody's missed them. It's a weird, semi-random bonus round.
I'm debating if I feel the same way about team defenses.
Start 2 QBs. It makes all three positions better balanced. Fantasy league set-ups nod towards simulation of real lineups, but if you're dealing with a 10 team league, you don't have anything close to a real team. Take the next step away from that and make a better game out of it.
NO WAY. If your league is more than 8 teams, the QB pool gets WAY too short and QBs become SUPER important. To the detriment of all other positions.
I know RBs are too important in most leagues but IMHO the 2QB league goes to far in the other direction.
One thing I do to temper running back importance is to give 1 point for every 7.5 receiving yards, while keeping 1 point for every 10 rushing yards. This does inflate the value of some running backs, but it also greatly increases the value of wide receivers.
It all comes down to the reason running backs are so valuable in the first place: consistency. This is especially true in the touchdown department. The best wide receivers will consistently get 60-80 yards per week, but touchdowns are much more fluky, whereas a running back can be counted on to get goal line carries.
I also don't like flex positions. Not sure why, but I don't.
Agreed...flex is a cop-out: 2 RBs, a TE and 2 WR is the typical pro set-up. Also DEF should have more categories, like 3 and outs, TOP, etc. (after all, it's half of the game) or IDPs shoudl become standard with a DL, LB and DB required...2QB leagues are a whole different animal though I try to play in one each year bc they are a lot of fun.
I'm experimenting with reducing the points (6 to 4) for rushing TDs, on the grounds that they are more likely just to be from a fullback pounding it in than any particular greatness of the individual player.
I also increased passing TD from 6 to 10 to emphasize QBs a little bit more.
In my league we had 16 teams last season (one QB spot). Finding a backup was quite the challenge.
Although, one guy drafted Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers, so he was pretty much set from Day 1.
I have a league that is dynasty with 2 QB and it's absolutely brutal. We keep 10 players and I'm basically forced to keep Shaun Hill just so I have an actual playing QB as a backup (a pox upon Alex Smith.) There are *40* QB owned - 8 players since there are only 32 teams - 4 byes a week - quantity of decent QB - injury = yuck.
If I could think of a better system for the playoffs I'd do it. It's so random. IMHO, the real winner is the guy with the most points at the end of the season. On the other hand, playoffs let the people in 3-6 place to have a shot at it after week 10. I'd play for playoff spots for 17 weeks. Then resolve the playoffs during the playoffs.
I also hate kickers and Defenses who can randomly score massive points.
I agree--I love 2 QBs. It also allows for smarter managers to get more of an advantage over others. Anybody can draft Peyton Manning, but it takes the more astute mind to realize when to put in Dan Orlovsky instead of Shaun Hill (those are two more-or-less randomly chosen QBs, please don't analyze them as though I'm saying anything about their abilities.
I've thought about removing kickers, since both FG% and FGA are close to random. XPA correlates very well with strength of offense, but the main drivers of kicker points are (nearly) random.
The thing is, occasionally having games decided by random kicker luck makes fantasy football more like real football. Our league tends to like that.
Get rid of Points per Reception and replace them with first downs.
10 yds = 1pt
first down = 1pt
touchdown = 6pt
You'll get pretty good balance between RB and WR with that setup, and not overly reward the dumpoff pass to RBs and slot receivers.
Unfortunately, Yahoo doesn't offer first downs as a stat. I requested it last year and they said they would look in to it, but I guess they decided not to.
I think all readers of this site would enthusiastically concur...also when your wideout gets a 50 yd DPI call but no fantasy points, that blows rakestraw
Points for rush/rec first downs would be AWESOME.
My league has return yards: 2-10 kick RTN YRD's and 3 points for 10 punt RTN YRD's it adds value to some RB's and WR's and if you play IDP it adds value to CB's
Put all free agents on waivers at the start of games for the week, and don't allow pickups until Wednesday.
I'm in a few leagues that do this. It's just much better. You don't have people hovering at their computer, ready to drop a solid player for the backup RB they think will be starting now that the starter got hurt and left the game. And if you can't be at your computer for some reason, you don't lose out. It just makes the game better, and I wish all free league sites allowed for this setup. Unfortunately, it seems like most sites want you to pay to get that level of control over your player pool.
That's how we do it in my league. The problem then is that we have people (like myself) hovering at the computer when we can make pick-ups.
In some leagues, you can put in claims all weekend/Monday, and then they get resolved by priority instead of a big random clump of who clicked first (inverse order of draft, standings, etc.)
free Yahopo let you do this now.
Can create free league there where all players go on waivers starting with either 1st game of week or first Sunday game. You get option of what system you want or thrid optiosn is old crappy system . some weks first game is on a thursday or saturday so thats why yahoo give you that options, but most commisssioners probaly go with Sunday-Tuesday waiver thing
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Limit the number of runningbacks per roster. The reason why RBs are overvalued isn't so much to do with points as it is position scarcity. If each team were only allowed to carry a certain amount of RBs (say, 4-5), then the scarcity wouldn't exist, and the position would be more balanced. I'm tired of every fantasy football discussion being derailed by discussions of backup's backups being the hot pick-up of the week.
Increase the standard negative point value associated with turnovers. All experience from real football tells us that turnovers are more costly than TDs are beneficial. A QB having an 1:1 TD:INT ratio is not considered good, but in fantasy leagues, he ends up ahead. A more balanced standard scoring would be +6 points for all TDs, -6 points for INTs, and -3 points for fumbles (regardless of recovery).
@#5, I like 2 QBs in a 10-team league. When you push it up to 12 teams, though, the effect of QB injuries becomes too exaggerated.
I'm a big fan of having 3 WR/TE's per roster, rather than 2 WRs and 1 TE; it is not a unanimously held position in my league though.
To brainstorm a bit outside the restrictions of what can be done in standard online leagues, I also wish there was an "Offensive Line" position to go with "defense" and kickers. Positive points for general offensive performance (esp. rushing), negative points for sacks and penalties.
I'd also like to see points for first downs.
I would add (offensive) return points as follows--
return TD's=6 pts.
any NON-TD punt return of 15+ yds.=2 pts. 30+ yds.=4 pts.
any NON-TD kick return of 35+ yds.=2 pts. 50+ yds.=4 pts.
Note: the above values are PER RETURN, NOT CUMULATIVE. In other words, having the Lions primary return man won't help unless he breaks a big one. Whereas having had Reggie Bush against the Vikes last year would have earned you (IIRC) 6+6+2=14 return points, besides any other fantasy points he may have earned in the game. Since I don't play much FF, I don't know if standard leagues reward return TD's anyway. But this is a way to reward guys who may have GOOD returns on a regular basis, without actually scoring a TD on the given return
A couple of minor points.
First, if your QB is hurt during the game, or is scratched at the last minute, you should get the points for his backup. After all, in the real world when a QB goes down the backup gets the snaps and, unlike RBs, there isn't the issue of predicting which of them is going to get the majority of the snaps.
This should especially be the case when the team owner is vacationing in the middle of nowhere when he hears about the change on the radio, and has five minutes to scramble all over what passes for the town trying to find a hot spot to make the roster change before the game starts, but he can't find one, and gets incredibly aggravated, and his wife gets annoyed about how a grown man can take something like this so seriously.
Also, I think if you have a wideout that you just watched score a TD, but then it turns out that he dropped the ball on the one half yard line so you don't get any points, but then the guy who runs the ball in on the next play is owned by your opponent that week, so he gets the points, and you wind up losing by one point, I think that whole week shouldn't count.
I take it this happened to you... my condolences.
ESPN allows you to set up leagues that draft team QBs instead of individual QBs.
I haven't used that option, but I've thought about it.
I'm kind of new to fantasy, so apologies if this is a stupid suggestion, or if it's already done, but my first thought when I started learning about it was that it would be fun to have to pick and play an O-line (individual linemen would be too hard). Kind of like how in some leagues you pick and play a team defense, and get points for how well that defense plays.
Also, this would reduce the overvaluing of running backs. If RB A gets X yards and Y touchdowns, on a given day, credit him for half of those yards and TD points, and credit the O-line for the other half. Or maybe do a 60%-40% split or something. Also, lose points for half of the sacks given up (charge the other half to the QB, for example).
The league that I play in we use an OL scoring system where not allowing a sack is 10 points, the team gains over 125 yards rushing is 5 points, and team gains over 250 yards passing is 5 points, for a max of 20 points. We have been using this scoring system since 1992 with the only change to it was that we folded the OL scoring in with the Defensive scoring, so an owner is drafting a team Defense and OL while before we were drafting both a D and an OL. And this was mostly done just to speed up our draft, and it make it less confusing during the draft as to who and what was drafted.
The only draw back to this scoring system was realized two years ago, where one owner just needed Tom Brady and the Patriots Defense to win the league.
More rate stats, fewer counting stats. QB yard/attemp, RB success rate, Defense points/possession. Not sure if that would work for WR's though. Lots of really good WR's make their pay just a yards past the LOS.
Maybe the first down points suggest above are a good way to go for everyone.
I understand that fantasy football's best players don't correlate with who the actual best players of the game are. IMO, that makes the game more fun. If you understand what makes the best football players you can take a little time to also understand what makes the best fantasy football players. I gave up that dream a long time ago once EA sports made playing 20 minute football games fun.
Give QBs half a point per completion, and minus half per incompletion. Rewards both accuracy and workload, and increases the value of QBs in a manner more reflective of real life.
A new turnover point system, something like in #15, would be great. -4 for interceptions and lost fumbles seems appropriate, with a corresponding +4 points for the defense. -2 for a fumble recovered by the offense and a +2 for any player recovering a fumble means that someone getting back their own ball takes no penalty, while a teammate bailing you out still hurts. ESPN let me do that last year, and I was thrilled.
Also, 1 point for the defense on a tackle for a loss. It's the same as a sack.
I just discovered that ESPN let's you do some amazing stuff. I want to make a league that is more in line with VOA or YAR in it. I remember reading a post last year with some numbers that would approximate that. Anyone know where I can find it?
- Alvaro
"Also, 1 point for the defense on a tackle for a loss. It's the same as a sack."
Mystyc, I like the cut of your jib.
I do my league through sportsline. Their waiver options suck. We can never get it to work right. Also, individual players should be able to get points on kick/punt returns. I had DeSean Jackson last year and lost to a guy with Eagles D in a game in which Jackson returned 1
Make touchdowns worth 1 or 2 points and put the focus on yards/catches/first downs. No one else in my fantasy league seems to agree with this.
That's because it sounds incredibly un-fun.
I think the one change I would make is that whoever finishes last in the league should pay double. (or the last 2 people in the league) One of the worst things about fantasy football is how teams stop paying attention after they draft a team that sucks- it would make the league far more fun if those bottom feeding teams still had a major incentive to keep playing competitively.


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Author Affiliations: Departments of Otolaryngology (Drs Eustaquio and Chan) and Pediatrics, Divisions of Pulmonary Medicine (Dr Deterding) and Rheumatology (Dr Hollister), University of Colorado Denver, School of Medicine, Denver; and Department of Pediatric Otolaryngology, The Children's Hospital, Aurora, Colorado (Dr Chan).
To examine the prevalence of airway involvement in children with Wegener's granulomatosis (WG) at our institution and to evaluate the utility of a treatment paradigm involving a multidisciplinary team.
Retrospective medical chart review.
Tertiary children's hospital.
Pediatric subjects with WG treated at a tertiary children's hospital over the past 15 years.
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The medical records of all subjects with airway lesions were reviewed for clinical characteristics of airway involvement and for the medical and surgical treatment regimens.
Seven of 28 pediatric patients with WG were identified to have airway lesions (25%), including vocal fold granuloma, subglottic stenosis, and multilevel stenoses. Three of these patients had isolated and limited lesions. The 4 remaining patients are the focus of this study. One patient underwent a cricotracheal resection. All patients underwent repeated surgical treatment from combined services (otolaryngology and pulmonology) with flexible and rigid endoscopy, dilatation, and corticosteroid injection to manage subglottic, tracheal, and bronchial stenoses. Operative findings were communicated to the rheumatology service for manipulation of medical therapy. The 3 most recent patients received the anti-CD20 chemotherapeutic agent rituximab. This treatment approach led to temporary remission in some of the patients.
Airway involvement in pediatric patients with WG is known to occur, but multilevel airway involvement is rare and clinically challenging. We advocate a combined surgical approach involving otolaryngology, pulmonology, and rheumatology in managing aggressive cases of multilevel airway involvement in WG.
Wegener's granulomatosis (WG) is a necrotizing granulomatous vasculitis primarily affecting the small and medium-sized vessels. Any portion of the body may be involved, but most commonly the upper and lower respiratory tract are affected, with eventual renal involvement. Presenting symptoms are often manifested in the ear, nose, and throat such as sinusitis. In children, there appears to be a female predominance, and patients often present in adolescence with subglottic stenosis causing symptoms of cough and dyspnea.1- 3 The course of the disease tends to be relapsing and remitting, but in untreated instances it can become rapidly fatal.4
Conventional treatment for WG involves steroids as well as cyclophosphamide with the occasional addition of methotrexate and/or other immunomodulating drugs. Cyclophosphamide often has limiting adverse effects such as bone-marrow suppression, alopecia, and hemorrhagic cystitis. Recently, rituximab has been used as an additional treatment in cases refractory to other therapies or in which adverse effects make the treatments intolerable. Rituximab is a monoclonal anti-CD20 chimeric antibody that was originally used to treat B-cell lymphoma. The therapy depletes B cells as well as the antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCAs). Previous reports have shown good results in patients treated with rituximab in whom the cytotoxic effects of cyclophosphamide could no longer be tolerated.5,6
Surgical interventions are typically reserved for complications from the disease to preserve the airway or prevent progressive infections. Within the tracheobronchial tree, preservation of airway patency and adequate gas exchange are the most important goals. There are limited reports regarding tracheostomy, dilatation, intralesional steroid injection, pulmonary stenting, and pulmonary resection for the treatment of airway disease.7- 13 Traditionally, these procedures may involve otolaryngologists, pulmonologists, or cardiothoracic surgeons as needed, but each operating independently. Our recent experience in managing several complex cases of WG has made us rethink the utility of the traditional method. Hence, we conducted a retrospective review of our institutional experience to examine the prevalence of airway involvement in our WG population and evaluated the utility of a paradigm involving a multidisciplinary team of rheumatology, pulmonology, and otolaryngology to combat progressive airway involvement due to WG with both rituximab and corticosteroids as medical therapy and periodic surgical intervention.
Approval was obtained from the Colorado Multiple Institute Review Board to conduct a retrospective medical chart review for this study. A 15-year retrospective review at The Children's Hospital, Aurora, Colorado, was undertaken to identify children with WG and airway involvement. Records were analyzed for general descriptors such as age at presentation, sex, medical treatment, and surgical intervention. The children requiring surgical intervention by otolaryngology were then placed in a subgroup for further review. These cases are reported herein to describe and evaluate the surgical interventions undertaken by the otolaryngology and pulmonology services in partnership with medical therapy by the rheumatology service in a multidisciplinary approach.
Twenty-eight patients were identified from a database encompassing patients who were treated between 1994 and 2009 for pediatric WG our institution. There were 14 boys and 14 girls. The mean age at presentation was 13.0 years (range, 6-19 years).
Of these 28 patients, 7 (25%) had airway lesions at initial presentation categorized as multilevel involvement (4 subjects) or isolated lesions (3 subjects) using a chronologic numbering system based on the date of presentation (Table 1). The mean age at presentation for subjects with airway involvement was 12.7 years (range, 6-19 years). No age difference was found between the 2 subgroups. Isolated airway lesions included 1 with vocal fold granuloma and 2 with subglottic stenosis. Two of these subjects (patients 5 and 6) did not require surgical intervention beyond endoscopy. One patient (patient 7) underwent pleurodesis with cardiothoracic surgery for recurrent pneumothorax and pulmonary blebs but did not require otolaryngologic intervention. The remaining 4 patients (14%) (patients 1-4) with multilevel airway involvement necessitating intervention by pulmonology and otolaryngology services are further discussed herein. The clinical characteristics of these 4 subjects (identical to patients 1 through 4 in Table 1) are detailed in the following case series and summarized in Table 2.
This case series describes 4 pediatric patients with WG and multilevel airway involvement whose clinical courses are outlined in Tables 1 and 2. Patient 1 was seen in the mid 1990s, while the others (patients 2-4) were seen in the late 2000s. These subjects were managed by the rheumatology service for laboratory testing and medical treatment both as outpatients and inpatients. Medical treatment for this cohort could be categorized into steroidal anti-inflammatory (prednisone), antineoplastic agents (cyclophosphamide, azathioprine, chlorambucil, and methotrexate), immunomodulators (cyclosporine), and monoclonal antibodies (rituximab). All subjects received corticosteroids and antineoplastic agents. The timing of immunomodulator and monoclonal antibody treatment along with the patient's disease course paralleled drug approval by the US Food and Drug Administration and promising scientific publications on treating adults with WG.
Patient 1 initially presented at age 15 years with a rash, arthralgias, and pulmonary hemorrhage. He was diagnosed as having Henoch-Schönlein purpura based on initially negative cytoplasmic ANCA (c-ANCA) findings. Subsequently, he tested c-ANCA positive and had renal and pulmonary pathologic findings consistent with WG. His treatment prior to WG diagnosis was with steroids. He eventually was treated with immunosuppressants and antineoplastic agents and underwent plasmapheresis. Surgically, he required pleurodesis and bleb resection to treat recurrent pneumothoraces. For both subglottic and tracheal stenosis, he underwent endoscopy with dilatation, granulation tissue removal, and steroid injection intermittently over the 9 years following initial presentation. As his hoarseness and stridor continued to progress, he decided to transfer care to Canada, where, at age 26 years, he underwent a cricothyroid resection. At his last follow-up at age 28 years, he continued to have subglottic narrowing and vocal cord paresis resulting from his resection procedure.
Patient 2 initially presented to the otolaryngology service with a history of eustachian tube dysfunction and chronic sinusitis at age 13 years. The diagnosis of WG was made based on a positive c-ANCA finding and persistent sinusitis. As her disease progressed, she developed a saddle-nose deformity and subglottic and tracheal stenosis. She was initially treated with steroidal anti-inflammatory and antineoplastic agents. She underwent a total of 5 procedures involving balloon dilatations with carbon dioxide laser excision and/or triamcinolone acetonide injection of subglottic and tracheal constrictions. Two of these procedures were performed at an outside tertiary referral center where she had sought a second opinion. Her symptoms did not significantly improve, and so she began rituximab therapy. She went into remission for 3 months but then began having dyspnea again and required 2 additional dilatation procedures during the year after rituximab therapy. At last follow-up, she had been treated for 3 years without any additional severe exacerbations.
Patient 3 was initially diagnosed at age 8 years as having subglottic stenosis after recurrent episodes of steroid responsive stridor. She also had frequent sinus infections and bouts of otitis media. Initial biopsy specimens of the subglottis did not show vasculitis, and her ANCA findings were negative. However, because of the high likelihood that she had WG, her physicians began treating her with steroids and immunosuppressants. Soon after therapy was started, she tested c-ANCA positive, and her disease progressed to her airway.
Prior to her presentation at our institution, she had undergone numerous sinus surgical procedures and 11 dilatations of her subglottic and tracheal stenosis. On first presentation to our hospital for respiratory distress, she was found to have stenoses in her trachea and left mainstem bronchus. She has since undergone numerous bronchoscopies, angioplastic balloon dilatation, and granulation tissue removal involving both the pulmonology and otolaryngology services. The utility of angioplastic balloon dilatation in resolving stenoses is illustrated by predilatation and postdilatation endoscopic photographs of this patient in Figure 1. Her primary maintenance medical therapy included predinsone, azathioprine, and rituximab.
Endoscopic photographs of patient 3 showing left main stem stenosis before (A) and after (B) angioplastic balloon dilatation.
The patient's treatment course was complicated by a self-limiting pneumothorax that occurred after one of her bronchoscopies with dilatation. Her most troubling ongoing airway complication was the persistent inability to ventilate the superior lobe of her left lung owing to scarring and/or granulomatous overgrowth and recurrent left main stem stenosis. Recently, she underwent a left pneumonectomy by the thoracic surgery service to avert repeated high-risk bronchoscopies with balloon dilatations.
Patient 4 presented with lymphadenopathy, nephritis, and arthritis at age 14 years. Lymph node and kidney biopsy specimens showed necrotizing granulomatous disease but no vasculitis. Findings for c-ANCA were initially positive. He was treated with steroids for 2½ years and had intermittent gastrointestinal symptoms. He then presented with respiratory distress from subglottic stenosis as well as lower airway granulomas and pulmonary nodules requiring intubation. Treatment with additional steroids, cyclophosphamide, plasmapheresis and rituximab was started. Surgically, we instituted a combined approach with the pulmonary medicine and otolaryngology services to dilate the trachea, right main stem, and distal bronchi and remove granulation tissue. He was extubated after 5 days and continued to improve. His response to treatment, particularly to rituximab, in resolving the right main stem granulation tissue is illustrated in Figure 2. His ongoing lower airway issue was the inability to ventilate the superior segment of the right lower lobe owing to scarring and/or granulomatous overgrowth.
Endoscopic photographs of patient 4. A, Significant right main stem narrowing by granulomatous tissue before bronchoscopic removal and angioplastic balloon dilatation. B, Bronchoscopy shows resolution of granulomatous tissue and maintenance of the right main stem patency following rituximab therapy.
Pediatric WG is an uncommon disease, and airway involvement either at a single level or at multiple levels was rare in our series (7 of 28; 25%). Presenting symptoms may include constitutional symptoms, renal involvement, and often head and neck disease.1 Pediatricians are first-line caregivers who evaluate and manage sinusitis, otitis media, and stridor. When standard treatment fails to help these patients, otolaryngology referral should be made, and in turn otolaryngologists must have a high level of suspicion to include WG as part of the differential diagnosis. In our cohort of patients, chronic sinusitis was the most common presenting symptom, and arthralgia, hemoptysis, and nephritis were seen in multiple patients as well. Constitutional symptoms are seen in 96% of patients at presentation, and head and neck manifestations are seen in 84%.1 Ensuring that such patients with a similar constellation of symptoms are promptly evaluated by the rheumatology service may facilitate earlier diagnosis and treatment of WG.
While ear, nose, and throat manifestations are seen in 91% to 96% of patients with WG throughout the disease course, multilevel airway involvement is not commonly seen.1,4 Subglottic stenosis is more common in pediatric-onset WG, but it is only present in 4% to 48% of patients with WG overall.1,4,12 Concurrent pulmonary involvement is present in approximately 17% of pediatric WG patients.4 In our series, 21% of pediatric patients had subglottic stenosis (6 of 28). Multilevel involvement, including the subglottis and lower airway, was seen in 14% of our cohort (4 of 28).
Multiple approaches have been used to control the airway in WG. Langford et al14 compiled a review of 43 adult patients treated for subglottic stenosis due to WG. Twenty patients required intervention consisting of intraoperative dilatation with intralesional steroid injection. None of these patients required a tracheostomy. In comparison, 18 patients were not treated using this technique who did require temporary tracheostomy. Similar results were reported by Hoffman et al10 in 21 adult patients with WG who underwent a mean of 2.4 dilatations. This treatment with or without steroid injection has also been advocated by many other groups for subglottic stenosis related to WG.7- 9,11 The treatment for bronchial obstruction, however, has not been frequently described. Daum et al12 reported on tracheobronchial involvement in WG that was treated with rigid dilatation, YAG laser treatment, and placement of Silastic (Dow Corning, Midland, Michigan) stents in patients for disease control. Utzig et al13 described polytetrafluoroethylene stent placement for bronchial stenosis. However, such interventions do not focus on inducing remission or inhibiting the disease process and were exclusively reported in the adult population.
In dealing with a surgical adolescent population, as in our case series, luminal size and length of instrumentation (flexible and rigid scopes) and equipment (angioplastic balloons) creates additional constraints and challenges. At our institution, we refrain from using stents, without knowing the long-term risks of stents and the duration of remission for our patient population. The surgical management of multilevel airway stenoses has evolved into a joint procedure of flexible and rigid bronchoscopy performed by the pulmonology and otolaryngology services, respectively. Flexible bronchoscopy has the obvious advantage of being able to reach into segmental openings. Rigid bronchoscopy, while only able to view a portion of the lung segments, allows more efficient removal of granulation and scar tissue, angioplastic balloon dilatation, and intralesional corticosteroid injections. Although this combined approach has not been completely successful in resolving all lobular (patient 3) and segmental (patient 4) stenoses, it is our hope that manipulation of the medical therapy for these patients may bring about future improvement. The need to perform repeated surveillance endoscopy and the ever-changing endoscopic findings underscore the dynamic nature of this disease in children. We view our current approach to be a workable solution for this complex population.
Rituximab is a new alternative therapy to the traditional mainstay therapies of corticosteroids, immunosuppressants, and antineoplastic agents. Prior studies have shown that rituximab can be effective in WG at a dose of 375 mg/m2 weekly for a 4-week period.5,6,15,16 Most of these studies have focused on the adult population and often do not include patients with lower airway involvement. Seo et al6 describe 5 patients with pulmonary nodules and 1 with subglottic stenosis who decreased their steroid dependence or became asymptomatic after rituximab treatment. However, 3 of these patients required a second treatment, and by inclusion into the study all had limited disease (ie, room air saturations, >92% and oxygen pressure, >70 mmHg).6 In our experience rituximab helped to decrease airway manifestations of WG and prolong periods between surgical interventions. Patient 2 was able to remain asymptomatic for a period of approximately 3 months after starting rituximab treatment. Even after she had a return of mild stridor, her frequency of surgical intervention decreased from 5 times in a year to twice a year. Patient 4 showed a remarkable turnaround after starting aggressive immunosuppression and rituximab therapy. He was weaned from ventilator support, and had only grade 1 subglottic and right lower lobe segmental stenoses with minimal granulation tissue after 3 months of treatment. In our most severe case, patient 3, rituximab in combination with corticosteroids did not alter the frequency of endoscopy and dilatation. Unfortunately, it is difficult to isolate the effects of rituximab from surgical interventions and adjuvant care techniques such as positive pressure assistance or increases in steroid doses.
This study is inherently limited in its retrospective nature and small sample size. The interplay between surgical and medical therapy deemed important by the authors cannot be easily demonstrated owing to the rarity of WG in children and the paucity of multilevel airway disease in those with pediatric WG.
In conclusion, to our knowledge, this study represents the largest reported series of children with WG with multilevel airway involvement. The varied clinical presentation and course of this cohort highlights the need for the otolaryngologist to be keenly aware of this clinical entity because he or she serves as the sentry for the initial diagnosis for most of these subjects. When managing children with WG, and particularly those with multilevel airway disease, it is imperative to involve rheumatology and pulmonology colleagues in a team management paradigm.
Correspondence: Kenny H. Chan, MD, Department of Pediatric Otolaryngology, B455, The Children's Hospital, 13123 East 16th Ave, Aurora, CO 80045 (email@example.com).
Submitted for Publication: December 13, 2010; final revision received January 21, 2011; accepted February 16, 2011.
Author Contributions: All authors had full access to all the data in the study and take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. Study concept and design: Eustaquio, Chan, Deterding, and Hollister. Acquisition of data: Eustaquio. Analysis and interpretation of data: Eustaquio, Chan, Deterding, and Hollister. Drafting of the manuscript: Eustaquio and Chan. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: Eustaquio, Chan, Deterding, and Hollister. Administrative, technical, and material support: Eustaquio, Chan, Deterding, and Hollister. Study supervision: Chan.
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Lemon Chocolate Bark
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Found this recipe while looking for a different one, & thought the lemon & chocolate combo sounded interesting! It's on my to-make list! If you plan on having this bark at room temperature for long periods of time, you should temper the chocolate to make it temperature-stable.
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- 8 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped
- 8 ounces white chocolate, chopped
- 4 lemons, zest of, candied
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1⁄4 teaspoon lemon extract or 1⁄4 teaspoon lemon oil
- 2 drops yellow food coloring (optional)
- Line a 13"x9" rimmed baking sheet with a smooth sheet of heavy duty aluminum foil.
- To candy the lemon zest, in medium saucepan place 1 cup of water & 1 cup of granulated sugar, & bring to boil.
- Add zest & cook, stirring occasionally, 20 minutes, or until water is yellowish & zest is translucent.
- Drain water & spread candied zest on wax paper to dry several minutes, then coarsely chop zest.
- In microwave OR in a double boiler, melt bittersweet chocolate, then pour on prepared baking sheet. Use spatula to spread chocolate in a thin layer, then place in refrigerator to set.
- In microwave OR in a double boiler, melt white chocolate. Stir in lemon extract or oil, then, if desired, add several drops of yellow candy food coloring.
- Pour white chocolate on top of dark chocolate & smooth into a thin layer.
- While top layer is still wet, sprinkle chopped lemon zest on top & gently press into the chocolate.
- Place tray in refrigerator to set.
- When set, break into irregular pieces & serve.
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This is really good. The flavors of lemon/chocolate go very well together. We made a half batch and cheated a bit by using store-bought candied lemon peel and it turned out fine. :)
These are delicious and sweet! The candied lemons give it texture and was chewy (often gets stuck on my tooth..oops lol) while the brown and white chocolate gives the bark an appealing contrast. I used a peeler, scissors and non stick wok when I made the lemon zest candies. Scissors to cut the peel into strips, non stick wok so that it doesn't harden in the pan. Advantage of the NS wok is that I don't have to mix it constantly and just wait a bit for the water to evaporate a bit. Mix every now and then making sure they don't stick to each other. Then I spooned out the peels making sure they're an inch apart from each other. That way, they don't clump together. Then cut it again into small bits. Clumping happens at the last stage when they're simply poured together as it settles quickly out from the fire so probably for it not to be too hard, there should be more water left in the pan (abt 1/4) before spooning it out. Anyway, these are great to have homemade chocolate around! That means less for more! Thanks, Sydney !
I scaled this back to 16 serves and made in a 20cm x 20cm (8" x 8") cake tin. Used 185 gm of each chocolate (a 1/2 packet). I basically did this twice (as a 16 serve) first as per recipe and the second one I subbed orange extract and used orange zest and candied that (burning the first batch). Don't think I did it quite right and may have not had my zest thin enough, only used half recipe for zest but had more than enough to cover 8 x 8. Took to the DS's music recreation group (for intellectually challenged adults) and they thoroughly enjoyed both versions. One also suggested instead of the peel how about scattering chopped nuts (you choice of) over the top - maybe putting some rum essence in the white chocolate (optional) - and calling it nut chocolate bark. Thank you for a great recipe. Made for 123 Hit Wonders 2008.


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A Bethlehem man slapped, choked and threatened to kill the mother of his two children in the victim's bathroom during an argument, according to court records.
Police say Carlos A. Rivera, 22, of the 500 block of Broadway, was arguing with Cristal Ruiz Saturday morning at her home in the 1600 block of Hastings Road when the argument turned physical. Rivera allegedly pushed Ruiz into the wall where she struck her head and then punched her several times in the face as she tried to escape.
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RSL - definitely less than 1000 cals a day is too few. Starving yourself is NOT the way to lose weight. Cut all grains, processed crap, dairy, and limit yourself to 1 serving of fruit a day (because of the sugars). Eating more than the .5g/lb of protein isn't likely going to make you gain weight unless you go overboard with it, so don't worry about sticking so low (.7 would be fine, for instance).
Honestly at <140lbs you are not that overweight! What it sounds like you want to (and should) focus on is converting body fat to lean mass. This is hard to do without exercise, but what I would suggest is doing any exercise you can! You're limited by recovering from surgery but I would think you can find some activities to perform. Anything helps, since being totally inactive is definitely a recipe for muscle loss.


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