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Posted On Thursday, November 17, 2016 By Jennifer
In November 2015 I found out that I was pregnant for the first time in my life (at the age of 43) almost immediately. I am an RN in the emergency department...one night while at work I took a pregnancy test, not expecting it to be positive since I was only a day late. To my surprise it was positive...I actually thought that I was seeing things. I was working the night shift at the time, so when I came home in the morning and told my husband he was shocked as well, happy but shocked. We tried to not get too excited about it because we thought that my at my age I would miscarry, but as the days went by and our chances of miscarriage... Read More
Posted On Thursday, November 17, 2016 By Ashley
My husband and I conceived very quickly on April 1 2015. We were only trying for two months and then we were pregnant. My pregnancy was going great. As a first time mom I was pleased with how things were going. I was working, taking a prenatal swim class, finishing grad school and feeling pretty wonderful minus some lower back pain.At about 32 weeks, while my husband was away for work, I noticed that when I went to lay down at about 5:30p.m. I didn't feel the baby's usual movements. I was worried, I texted my husband, and he told me not to mess around. So I called my doctor, went into L&D with my mother in law by my side and that is when things got tricky.They noticed I had high BP... Read More
Posted On Tuesday, October 04, 2016 By Jaydelyn
I found out I was pregnant at the age of 23, I was healthy for the most part never really had any health issues but thyroid, which my doctor often monitored closely. I had no problems throughout my entire pregnancy not even a negative test! At 36 weeks I begin to have extreme pains in my stomach that I thought were contractions, our first visit to the hospital they had sent me home stating my contractions weren't stable enough and I wasn't dilated to 3-4 Cm. The Pain had gone away until 2 days later where I found myself back at the hospital this time they gave me morphine and stated contractions once again weren't stable enough. At this point I was co uncomfortable and in so much pain I... Read More
Posted On Wednesday, September 21, 2016 By Alejandro Hernández Pastora
Mi linda Sofia, aún no te hemos visto, pero sé que eres hermosa igual que mamá, estoy en un momento en el cual daría cualquier cosa por saber que leerás esto algún día, al tener la seguridad, sabré que superarás todo. Hoy no es un buen día para nosotros, siento tanta tristeza de pensar que puede pasar que trato de no imaginar, y es casi imposible hacerlo pues a cada lugar que voy o con cada persona que me encuentro me dice lo mismo, así que busco este pedacito de tiempo para yo también llorar, aunque sea hombre debo desahogarme, oculto de mamá, trato de ser fuerte frente a ella para brindarles un mejor estado de... Read More
Posted On Monday, September 12, 2016 By Cassandra
My journey with Preeclampsia started unknowingly at just 21 weeks pregnant. A usual person's New Year starts with excitement and fun while mine started with me waking up with hands so swollen I couldn't even bend my fingers and they hurt so bad. I was hot and grumpy and I really just thought it was pregnancy, but then I checked my blood pressure and it was 144/93 and I thought that was a little high compared to normal. I mentioned it to my mom, but we both just brushed it off. Every day from that point I woke up in the morning crying with swollen hands and I would spend my days sitting around with the windows open in the middle of winter because I was so hot... Read More
Posted On Wednesday, August 17, 2016 By
I found out I was pregant for the 5th time and shortly thereafter I learned I was expecting twins. I was 35 years old and happy to learn of our new additions. However, in the third trimester I began to have swelling and blood work indicated low platelets. As the end week progressed I learned I had a condition known as HELLP syndrome. My platelets were low bordering severe levels and liver enzymes and various other tests were being carefully monitored. I was admitted to the hospital as my platelets continued to lessen. Constant blood work being drawn and it was a less than joyous occassion as I became extremely anxious and concerned. I prayed daily and that faith brought me through. I was... Read More
Posted On Sunday, August 07, 2016 By owen
I am writing this one week + one day after the birth of my son Hudson Henry. I had shown no signs of high blood pressure, and tested negative for protein in my urine. I didn't show any signs of preeclampsia, and everything was looking normal for my pregnancy. On Thursday July 28, I went to my ob-gyn to find I was 3cm dilated. She checked me out inside, broke my plug, and started the process of my son coming into the world. I began getting contractions, sporatically for a couple of days. On July 30, at 3:30AM, my partner and I decided to head to the hospital. Upon arrival, I... Read More
Posted On Thursday, July 14, 2016 By Natalie Butterworth
5 suggestions for when you have a friend or family member in the hospital This is meant to be helpful for those who do have someone in the hospital. I spent 30 days in the hospital prior to my daughter being born. I learned a lot from my experience and want to share it with others to be helpful for those who do have to go through a tough time. It's impossible to know what someone will need or want until you experience it yourself. 1. If you have a friend or family member in the hospital, especially if it's for an extended stay, visit with her. Those hospital days are long and painful. It really hurts to be separated from your... Read More
Posted On Monday, November 30, -0001 By Brooke
Hi my name is Brooke Hotaling, I'm 18, when I found out I was pregnant at 6 weeks the doctors said that my blood work results were low and looked like I was going to miscarry so I then had to redo them and my numbers went up so they told me not to worry, at 8 weeks I was at a football game in Syracuse, Ny. I then was on my way home to Auburn, Ny. When I thought I had to use the bathroom and thought I peed myself so we stopped at my befriends brotheds house in Liverpool, Ny, where I then went to the bathroom and noticed I was gushing blood so I immediately got scared and told my sons father in a text what was going on and that we had to go because I was embarrassed to say it out... Read More
Posted On Monday, November 30, -0001 By Julia
On June 6th, I got sent to the hospital while I was at my obgyn appointment doing my stress test. I was having contractions 3 minutes apart, my blood pressure was extremely high, but was only dilated to a one. While at the hospital they tested me for pre-eclampsia and that of course came back positive. They decided to break my water, to try and help get my baby boy here. After 4 days, (72 hours) of labor, they decided it would be best to do a c section, because I was only dilated to a 3. June 9th, at 6:36am My precious baby boy was born, heatlhy weighing 7lbs 14oz. After his birth, I was still really swollen and blood pressure and heart rate was high. My doctor had to leave out of... Read More
Posted On Thursday, July 07, 2016 By Kimberly
It all started when I found out I was pregnant with difficulties. When I found out I was pregnant things turned badly, my baby was small and not growing like a normal baby should to my baby possibly have down syndrome. Things turned better but my little bean still was small but didn't have DS. I was just 22 weeks along when I realized my feet got swollen, blurry vision, and having bad headaches. I thought nothing of it and told myself, I'm fine. With my first I didn't have any complications she's ten years old now. I was sixteen when I had my first, I'm now twenty seven years old. I kept going on with my life happily being pregnant with number two. I made it to twenty three... Read More
Posted On Wednesday, July 06, 2016 By DIANA
Hola chicas quiero compartir mi historia ya que nadien esta a salvo totalmente de la preeclamsia esto puede servir de ayuda a otras mamitas, tenia 20 semanas cuando me diagnosticaron un trastorno hipertensivo del embarazo desde eso me empeze a preocupar y mi presion aumento mas tenia la dosi mas alta del medicamento y aun asi mi presion subia, tenia tanto estres que perdi peso 4kg en 15 dias y mi presion elevada luego me empeze a hinchar y un dia por la mañana me desperte y senti un dolor en mi espalda, no le preste mucha atencion, luego el dolor se extendio hasta el abdomen y supe que eran contracciones tenia tan solo 31 semanas y mi bebe ya tenia retraso del crecimiento pesa 1190 gr,... Read More
Posted On Wednesday, June 29, 2016 By Kristen
I had been diagnosed with hypertension when I was in my 20s. (Thank you, genetics). I was on and off meds for a few years, and for at least a whole year, my blood pressure was measuring fine, and I had not been on any medication. I got married in 2011, and we were finally ready to start a family in 2014. We found out my due date was smack dab on Valentine's Day, 2015! I was hesitant to tell family (even my parents) until 12 weeks, but my doctor said we could (I was almost 7 weeks) in case of any complications. At that point - I knew "complications" could probably only mean miscarriage - preeclampsia had not even entered my mind. So we went on and surprised... Read More
Posted On Monday, November 30, -0001 By BARBARA
Mi nombre es Barbara Rodriguez tengo 33 años de edad y es mi segundo embarazo con el cual desarrolle el sindrome de hellp en la semana 37, sin haber nunca presentado ningun sintoma previo, fui a todas mis consultas con el medico ginecologo, el dia que me dio el sindrome estaba sentada de lo mas relajada platicando con mi familia sde pronto senti ganas de ir al baño y despues de eso me empezo a doler la cabeza horrible y sude mucho al grado de bañarme en sudor en 5 minutos, no soportaba la luz, el ruido, todo me molestaba, llegue a una clinica de urgencia en la cual me canalizaron y me trataron de estabilizarme la presion arterial y poderme trasladar al centro medico de mi estado,... Read More
Posted On Thursday, June 02, 2016 By natalie
Hi: my name is Natalie and I am a 36-year-old wife and mother of 2 children. My Daughter is 6 and my son will be 5 this summer. Preeclampsia is not something that only occurs during pregnancy. Pregnant mothers just like myself can have wonderful pregnancies with no complications, deliver perfectly healthy babies and then suddenly symptoms of preeclampsia occur. I got a taste of postpartum preeclampsia shortly after my daughter was born. I was being released from the hospital and my nurse made mention that my pressure was on the rise and indicated that she was going to contact my OB. Later that day I was discharged with instructions to monitor my pressures… I went home and Googled... Read More
Posted On Monday, November 30, -0001 By 1rgs
In June 1990, my husband & I were expecting our third child. Out two previous pregnancies had been basically normal- I had extreme morning sickness & gestational diabetes (diet-controlled) in the first pregnancy, but typical morning sickness in the second and no diabetes. In this pregnancy I had been able to avoid morning sickness by making sure my stomach was never completely empty. Except for a single severe headache one Sunday in May (didn't even consider contacting Dr., since it was gone by next morning), I'd had no exceptional discomforts. On Father's Day, I woke feeling as though I had a kidney infection-something else I first experienced in my... Read More
Posted On Wednesday, May 18, 2016 By Paige
I found out I was pregnant in the middle of everything. I was finishing graduate school for my MSW and had been together with my boyfriend at the time for almost a year. We had literally just talked about getting married and planned on having our first child within a year of our marriage. I started feeling sick constantly so I took a pregnancy test and it was positive. I worried about us being ready for this huge, unexpected change, but when I called my boyfriend and told him I was pregnant, he was really happy. We got engaged the following month. We were martied in June, when i was 5 months pregnant. My pregnancy was an exciting, happy time, and seemed very normal... until I hit my... Read More
Posted On Monday, May 16, 2016 By Monica
Between Deguen turning 4 just a couple days ago and it being Preeclampsia Awareness Month, the fact that I'm a HELLP Syndrome survivor is on the forefront of my mind. Perhaps if I share my story, a mom-to-be may recognize some of the same symptoms and save her and her baby's life. My pregnancy with Deguen was straight forward and easy for the most part. There were a few common pregnancy complaints which now looking back were actually HELLP Syndrome symptoms. At 37 weeks my feet swelled considerably. The day before, I attended my friend's bridal shower and I had worn heels, walked all over the city and sat on a bar stool with my feet dangling for a couple... Read More
Posted On Wednesday, May 11, 2016 By ariana
My story begins in March 2016. My daughter Aarabella's birthday was March 1st, mine was March 9th, and my husbands was March 26th. We had a long month of March birthdays to celebrate. I started swelling. It was so bad, I broke my sandals from the heaviness of my feet. I also couldn't seem to keep food down. I would throw up before i even finished a plate. I saw my doctor as scheduled. He said it was "normal". I could feel something deep down telling me it wasn't normal. I also mentioned that I saw spots occasionally. That was nothing to be concerned about he had told me. So, after gaining no weight during my pregnancy i suddenly weighed as much as my partner. About 200 lbs from 178. I... Read More
Posted On Saturday, May 07, 2016 By Brittany
Part 1 I was scheduled for a planned c section on October 14, 2015 around 39 weeks. River arrived at 36 weeks instead on September 24. It all really started a few days before he was born. I hadn't been feeling well a few days leading up to his birth and had this weird sense of "impending doom" you could say. I actually got really depressed and weepy and felt so tired and ill. Intuition I guess. The day before I had him I especially started feeling bad and having a strange sharp squeezing and shooting pain right behind and above my belly button, sometimes in my ribs. It came and went in a pattern like contractions but it wasn't contractions and I was not in labor. My back... Read More
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With Michigan being home to so many unique, local restaurants, we thought it would be fun to ask fans "what do you think is the ultimate Michigan dish?" We got some great responses from our Facebook fans, and wanted to share a roundup of our favorites below.
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"Pan-Fried Whitefish!" – Noelle Kelly
"Pasties, of course!" – Lalah Godwin
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"Since moving away 7 years ago, it's coney dogs I miss the most." – Troy Rice
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Web design is a huge industry in Brisbane (and globally). We are in the middle of the digital age. Everyone and anyone want a website. But more than wanting a site, many Brisbane based businesses actually need an online presence. A good web design is vital to this end. Because of this, many people are looking to get their share of the pie and enrolling in website design trainings.
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Masterfit is an organization that's dedicated to bootfitting and bootfitters, and by extension, dedicated to skier performance and comfort improvement. Masterfit's goal is simply to make boots fit better. Founded and led by long-time ski industry entrepreneur and former Ski magazine editor Steve Cohen and legendary bootfitter and insole inventor Jeff Rich (who would've been on the Top 15 list if it weren't for his Masterfit owner status), Masterfit's influence on snowsports continues to grow.
Masterfit University is the organization's educational outreach program, teaching bootfitting courses in the United States since 1994 and now offering workshops in Australia and Europe. These courses are attended by shop technicians, owners and managers as well as by ski instructors and medical practitioners. Look for Masterfit University diplomas prominently displayed at better bootfitting shops across the country. www.masterfituniversity.com
A long-time partner with Ski Magazine in conducting the industry's most thorough boot product tests, this year's Ski & Skiing magazine boot test at Mt. Bachelor was a homecoming of sorts as the very first on-snow Ski magazine boot test conducted by Rich and Cohen was held at Mt. Bachelor in 1988.
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19TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT, NY — A Siena College poll shows Republican Congressman Chris Gibson with a commanding lead over his opponent Democrat Julian Schreibman. The two candidates are competing for the newly formed 19th Congressional district, which includes Sullivan, Ulster and Delaware counties.
In the northern counties, which Gibson currently represents, his advantage is huge, with the electorate favoring him 63% to 28%. But in other counties the margin is smaller: in Ulster and Dutchess the lead is 44% to 42%, and in Sullivan and Delaware, it's 51% to 37%.
Siena College pollster Steven Greenberg said one of the big factors working against Schreibman is name recognition. He said, "Schreibman is unknown to nearly two-thirds of the voters, including more than half who currently say they are voting for him."
In response to the poll, the Schreibman campaign issued a release saying the race still has a long way to go. It said, "Almost exactly two years ago to the day, Siena released a poll showing Congressman Scott Murphy up by 17 points; six weeks later, he lost by 10 points." Murphy lost to Gibson in the 20th district.
The Schreibman release then went on to attack Gibson on a matter where he thinks the Republican is vulnerable. The release said, "Most voters have not yet had a chance to learn about how Congressman Gibson voted to end Medicare's guarantee of coverage and make seniors pay an additional $6,400 a year and has voted to defund Planned Parenthood and cut women's access to lifesaving procedures, such as cancer screenings and mammograms," said Jonathan Levy, Schreibman's campaign manager. "Given how voters are already rejecting the Romney-Ryan ticket in this district, they're not going to vote for someone like Congressman Gibson who is 100% behind that agenda.'" (According to the poll, the Obama/Biden ticket has a 49% to 45% lead over the Romney/Ryan ticket in the district.)
In a phone interview, Schreibman also attacked Gibson's position on Medicare. He said, "Congressman Gibson voted for the Paul Ryan budget in 2011, which even The Wall Street Journal said essentially ends Medicare. What it does is it ends the guarantee of coverage. Right now, when you're on Medicare you have health insurance. Under the Ryan plan that Chris Gibson referred to as his own plan, that guarantee ends.
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Gibson did not respond to a request for a comment, but a statement on his website says, "Chris will not vote for any legislation that cuts benefits to current recipients of Medicare or Social Security, and will only vote for a bill that makes certain these programs are stronger in the future.
With Medicare projected to be bankrupt within a decade, keeping the status quo ends Medicare."
According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, only part of Medicare will face bankruptcy if lawmakers do not alter the funding formulas, and that will happen in 2024 to Medicare's Health Insurance Trust Fund. After 2024, the trust fund will be able to pay 87% of the costs that will likely be incurred.
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Skip to comments.Concealed-carry legal in Illinois after Senate joins House in blocking Quinns amendatory veto
Posted on 07/09/2013 4:56:54 PM PDT by umgud
SPRINGFIELD-Illinois joined 49 other states Tuesday by approving legislation allowing gun owners to carry their weapons in public places, overriding Gov. Pat Quinn and dealing the governor a resounding defeat.
The Senate put the finishing touches on the override push, voting 41-17 to reject a series of changes Quinn had recommended to the concealed-carry legislation that passed in May. The Senates action followed a 77-31 vote by the House earlier Tuesday.
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Illinois joined 49 other states? Only 7 more to go!
This vote has got to be ringing alarms all over. Is the Dem hold on this issue getting loose. You bet it is and local politicians recognize it. They want to be re-elected.
just in time for the trayvon riots. lots of IL people will be able to defend themselves with more legal standing when the riots start up, especially in chicago.
and it's a safe vote for them. ccw folks are the safest group of gun owners out there.
Must be raining blood.
Are those trumpets I hear?
Blood in the streets I tell ya!/sarc
(Actually the only blood running is in Chicago where the most stringent gun laws are)
The ruling elites will have to make some attitude adjustments. It will take some time before police management stops its overt hostility to private firearms ownership.
Now if we could just loosen up the CCW and OC standards in California... as it is, if one doesn't have a Constitutional sheriff, there is just no way.
Representatives of the Democratic [sic] party in Chicago weep real tears.
I am in Kern County (CA) and it is pretty close to shall-issue here. Our sheriffs campaign at our local gun clubs and gun show. If they aren't pro-CCW, they don't get elected.
I'm in the County of Santa Cruz. Need I say more?
I thought that if they didn't pass it on a certain date, they would be mandated to have constitutional carry.
They did pass it, the guv vetoed it and today their congress over-rode the veto and it is thus law. I haven't read it yet, but suspect it probably has some glitches.
AH! Got it.
Thank you.
Are those trumpets I hear?"
F'em. I'll have a Utah Conceal/Carry permit shortly (good in Illinois) and they can shove their $150 fee to exercise my Second Amendment rights, right up their political asses.
Are you saying that there is something in this new law about reciprocity?
Speaking of non residents, they as of right now get to carry a loaded handgun in a car. Not Illinois residents though, not even with a non resident permit. This law was very careful to discriminate against us Illinois folks.
I know. I'm very glad we are able to bear arms now however it is still out of reach for many. I guess the only ones with their constitutional right here are those with some money to burn. I mean, it's the principle of the thing. Maybe it's in line with other states for all I know but it doesn't seem like it should cost over a hundred bucks just to file a form with the state.
If it's CCW it'll probably be more than that. In Missouri it's $75-$100 to take the CCW class, $100 to the county sheriff for his services and $5.50-$20.00 to register with the DVM.
Send treats to the troops...
Great because you did it.
(An entirely free service)
I went on record early as saying this "law" is a sham, and needs to be appealed all the way up to the USSC and have it over-turned which would then (I think..) result in Illinois becoming a CONSTITUTIONAL carry state, which is my personal preference.
Hate to break the news to you, but what the Illinois Legislature passed is NOT a Conceal/Carry law. You CAN NOT carry a loaded weapon on your person under the new law.
It's more a "fanny pack" law than anything else. You can carry an UN-LOADED weapon on your person only. The way the law is written and as I've read, you can carry a weapon in a fanny pack or holster but it cannot be loaded. You can simultaneously carry a magazine or speedloader on your person but the two must be separate.
This means when you're getting robbed, mugged or raped, you'll need to ask the criminal to "please stop" while you load your weapon.
It's flat out ridiculous in that regard and IMO will get over-turned once appealed up to the USSC. That was the Illinois dumb-ass politicians (D's and R's alike) intention in the first place. Anything to delay implementation in their book!
The Concealed carry portion of the law is horrid. Written by the Chicago anti civil rights bunch and full of delays and traps and criminal penalties to Illinois License to Carry holders. In fact, it will be a year before the first license is issued. I'll leave my discussion of that horrid discriminatory part of the bill for later.
What else is in the bill? Well, state wide pre-emption and the revocation of ALL local ordinances concerning "handguns". Gone are magazine limits, and unconstitutional "transport" restrictions from dozens of Home Rule Communities. No more Chicago transport laws about "broken down" or "ammunition" separate. One law state wide. It's Fanny Pack Day! All you need is a FOID card or be a non resident.
Speaking of non residents, they as of right now get to carry a loaded handgun in a car. Not Illinois residents though, not even with a non resident permit. This law was very careful to discriminate against us Illinois folks.
However, if you have a concealed carry permit from ANY state, OR if you are either 18 or 21 without any permit or background check or anything from the following states:
AK,WA,OR,CA,ID,NV,AZ,NM,WY,CO,SD,NE,KS,MO,WI,MI,KY ,LA,AL,MS,OH,WV,PA,DE,NH,ME,VA,NC, or VT.
Then, you can drive or ride around Chicago or anywhere in the state with your loaded Glock and 30 round magazine AND you don't have to inform the cops when you are stopped.
No Illinois residents though. It's for the children.
What is left for Illinois residents, today, right now, is commonly referred to as "Container Transport" or "Fanny Pack Carry". It means having a FOID card (Illinois residents only) and transporting your firearm "Unloaded and enclosed in a case". Ammo is not regulated and you can have loaded magazines or speed loaders in the same case or in your pocket, or in an ammo pouch on your belt. Everywhere in Illinois! Also, there are different prohibited places for "Transport" than for concealed carry ; license holders. Places prohibited like public transportation or neighborhood festvals for concealed carry are perfectly fine to "Container Transport". Research these yourself.
So, a bad concealed carry laws passes, but a great Container Transport one does at the same time.
While transport of an unloaded firearm in a fannypack may not be optimum, it is far from useless either. This seems to be a little known feature of the new law.
As I've said: this law as written is a direct violation of the EQUAL PROTECTION clause of the United States Constitution. It treats Illinois residents differently under the law than residents visiting Illinois from other states who have conceal-carry permits from their home states.
I fully expect that once wind of that violation is caught by the NRA or other interested parties in Illinois, an appeal will be forthcoming and I expect this poorly written law designed to discriminate against the residents of this state will be shot down (no pun intended) by the USSC, or hopefully the Appeals Court first.
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Cancer Genetics Expert Chi Van Dang to Lead Penn Medicine's Abramson Cancer Center
PHILADELPHIA — Chi Van Dang, MD, PhD, a renowned cancer biologist and hematologist-oncologist, has been appointed director of the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania, effective September 1, 2011. Dr. Dang is currently a professor at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the departments of Medicine, Cell Biology, Oncology, Pathology, and Molecular Biology & Genetics. He also serves as Vice Dean for Research and Executive Director of The Johns Hopkins Institute for Cell Engineering. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
"Dr. Dang brings to Penn Medicine a rich combination of experience as a physician-researcher, educator and innovator in the biomedical sciences," said Arthur Rubenstein, MBBCh, Executive Vice President of the University of Pennsylvania for the Health System and Dean of the Perelman School of Medicine. "A true interdisciplinary investigator, he is perfectly positioned to lead us into a new era of collaborative research that will cement our role as an international leader in novel therapies — and cures -- for cancers of all kinds."
Dang points to Penn Medicine's efforts to harness academic rigor to improve the health and well-being of patients as a key factor in his decision to join the Abramson Cancer Center.
"I feel very privileged and excited for the opportunity to lead the Abramson Cancer Center into an era of innovative personalized cancer care through the establishment of disease-specific translational centers of excellence in partnership with outstanding leadership and the biomedical community elsewhere at Penn," Dang said. "The culture of collaboration and the collegiality is palpable at Penn, making my goal of harnessing Penn's scientific power to bring new hope for cancer patients an invigorating challenge."
Dr. Dang's laboratory has contributed to the understanding of the function of the MYC cancer gene, which has emerged as a central transcription factor, or gene switch, in many different human cancers. His group documented the function of Myc in regulating microRNAs that have been implicated in tumorigenesis, and his laboratory established the first mechanistic link between the MYC cancer gene and cellular energy metabolism, contributing to the concept that genetic alterations re-program tumors to render them addicted to certain fuel sources. His laboratory is now exploiting these concepts for therapeutic targeting of cancer cell metabolism as a new way to treat cancer. Most recently, he became the principal investigator for Johns Hopkins in a Stand Up to Cancer grant awarded to Penn Medicine to investigate how to "cut off the fuel supply" for pancreatic cancer. He also holds grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society to study Myc function, hypoxia, and the development of novel cancer therapeutics that target metabolism. He is the author of more than 200 scientific publications.
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Pasquale Patrizio, MD, MBE, HCLD
Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences; Director, Yale Fertility Center and Fertility Preservation Program
Research Interests
Eggs; Ethics, Medical; Fertility; Gynecology; Infertility; Infertility, Male; Oocytes; Ovary; Spermatozoa; Cryopreservation; Reproductive Medicine; Sperm Injections, Intracytoplasmic; Fertility Preservation
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Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences: Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility: Fertility Center | Reproductive Sciences
Cancer Center: Developmental Therapeutics
Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight
Stem Cell Center, Yale: Fertilization and Embryogenesis
Research Summary
In Vitro Fertilization and Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection; Fertility Preservation for cancer patients (Eggs-Embryos-Ovary-Spermatozoa-Testis Cryopreservation); Genetics of Female and Male Infertility; Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis; Ethical issues in reproduction
Specialized Terms: Fertility and Infertility; Cryopreservation; Oocyte biology; Embryonic competence
Selected Publications
- Johnston J, Gusmano MK, Patrizio P. Multiple births following fertility treatments: causes, consequences and opportunities for changes. Fertil Steril 102 (1): 36-39, 2014
- Levi Setti PE, Porcu E, Patrizio P,Vigiliano V, De Luca R, D'Aloja P, Bolli S, Spoletini R, Scaravelli G. Human oocyte cryopreservation with slow freezing vs. vitrification: The National Italian Registry data 2007–2011. Fertil Steril 102 (1): 90-95, 2014
- Davila A and Patrizio P. Reproductive outcomes in patients with male infertility due to Klinefelter's syndrome, Kartagener´s syndrome, Round–Head sperm, Dysplasia Fibrous Sheath and "Stump" tail sperm: An updated literature review. Curr Opin Obstet Gynecol 25(3): 229-46, 2013
- Chamayou S, Patrizio P, Storaci G, Tomaselli V, Alecci C, Ragolia C, Crescenzo C, Guglielmino A. The use of morphokinetic parameters to select all embryos with full capacity to implant. J Assist Reprod Genet 30 (5): 703-10, 2013
- Cetinkaya MB, Siano LJ, Benadiva C, Sakkas D, Patrizio P. Reproductive outcome of women 43 years and beyond undergoing ART treatment with their own oocytes in two Connecticut University programs. J Assist Reprod Genet 30 (5): 673-78, 2013
- Lazarin GA, Haque IS, Nazareth S, Iori K, Jacobson JL, Marshall JR, Seltzer KW, Evans EA, Srinivasan BS, Patrizio P. An empirical estimate of carrier frequencies for 400+ causal Mendelian variants: results from an ethnically diverse clinical sample of 23,453 individuals. Genet Med 15 (3): 178- 86, 2013
- Levi Setti PE, Albani E, Matteo M, Morenghi E, Zannoni E, Baggiani AM, Arfuso V, Patrizio P. Five years (2004-2009) of a restrictive law-regulating ART in Italy significantly reduced delivery rate: an analysis of 10,706 cycles. Hum Reprod. 28 (2): 343-49, 2013
- Fragouli E, Wells D, Iager AE, Kayisli UA, Patrizio P. Alteration of gene expression in human cumulus cells as a potential indicator of oocyte aneuploidy. Hum Reprod 27 (8):2559-68, 2012
- Wyndham N. Figueira P and Patrizio P. A persistent misperception: Assisted Reproductive Technology can reverse the aged biological clock. Fertil. Steril. 97(5): 1044-47, 2012
- Johnson J and Patrizio P. Ovarian cryopreservation strategies and the fine control of ovarian follicle development in vitro. Ann. N.Y.Acad. Sci 1221: 40-46, 2011
- Arav A, Gavish Z, Elami A, Revel A, Gosden RG, Patrizio P. A Six-Year Record of Ovarian Function after Orthotopic Vascular Transplantation of Whole Cryopreserved Sheep Ovaries RMB on line 20(1): 48-52, 2010
- Patrizio P and Sakkas D. From oocyte to baby: a clinical evaluation of the biological efficiency of in vitro fertilization. Fertil Steril 91 (4):1061-6, 2009.
- Wells D and Patrizio P. Gene expression profiling of human oocytes at different maturational stages and after in vitro maturation. Am J OB/GYN 198:455e.1-e11, 2008.
- Caplan A and Patrizio P Beginning of the end of the "embryo wars". Lancet, March 28, 373 (9669):1074-75, 2009.


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What Phillies Fans Can Be Thankful For: 2011 Edition
The annual tradition continues with my 2011 edition of things to be thankful for. Put down the fork for a few seconds and enjoy:
What We Can All Be Thankful For:
– 5 straight NL East Titles :O)
– The Houston Astros: Because some team has to suck this badly. Be glad it is not the Phillies.
– Soccer fans: Because they make baseball fans seem tame.
– Seeing Roy Halladay pitch. It never gets old.
– Text messaging: Because I did not feel like talking to you anyway ;o)
– Politicians: I can be 100% assured that my moral compass points in the right direction after watching these people.
– Panama: Because they produced Carlos Ruiz :O)
– Gravity
– Umpires: They make me feel really smart.
– Modern plumbing. Belize is a nice place to visit, unless you need to use the bathroom. :O(
– Form fitting baseball pants
– Chocolate
– Friends, family and my fellow Phans!
– Everything in this video:
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I am thankful we have a winning team although it comes at a price. I dread the day the Phillies sink back into oblivion like the Orioles did after the late 90's and still going forward.
Teams seem to have the best of times and then inevitably the worst of times, we're still riding high up on that wave! Never a better time to be a Phillies fan.
Ouch that lady with the soccer balls! lol. I am sure there are places in Belize with decent plumbing, just not the place you went to? -Emma


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Hi everyone!
I am starting to feel sad. I was informed that in order for my husband and I to try and conceive again, I will have to stop breastfeeding due to the fertility drugs I have to use.
I have a 16 month old daughter, and she LOVES to breastfeed. Recently, she wants to nurse more during the day and a few times at night too (we cosleep.) We are thinking of trying for another baby in May and she will be 21months old at that point. As stated earlier, I need to get on Clomid which is a fertlity drug, in order to ovulate (I have PCOS and don't ovulate regularly, if ever, on my own.) I am just dreading weaning her. I am so sad to think if it will be traumatic for her. It brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it! I wish I could still nurse her and take the medication.
I think it will be easier to wean her in the daytime because she is a VERY active little girl, but nighttime is going to be TOUGH. She really likes to nurse at night when she wakes. I know out of habit, she feels like she NEEDS to be nursed back to sleep. She does take a pacifier in place of nursing though, sometimes.
Does anyone have any advice for me on gently weaning her? Also, how many months in advance should I be starting the weaning process? Like I said, we are going to be trying in May (which is about 4.5 months from now.)
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Let him walk
Resign him and keep him long term
Resign him and trade him January 2013 with Amare
The article's title is equal parts moronic and hyperbolic (it's obvious he is doing it as a sensationalist piece, and is using a mundane, played out, and trite ploy at making a play on Harvard's rep).
The dumb**** writer answered his own questions at the end.
Financial certainty. Oh, and the motherucking Knicks didn't match the mother****ing offer which the mother****er Dolan pushed Lin to get in the first place.
Only a mother****ing idiot tells a player to test the open, free market, and then acts like his prom date ****ed his best friend when the open market doesn't go according to his plan (hint: your plan was moronic to begin with if you hadn't already considered situations being likely, like what happened with HOU).
This is all very simple. Hint #2: real businessmen don't read Forbes to derive actual business sense
Oh, and Lin prolly thinks Dolan is a ****, Melo is an antagonistic bitch, JR Smith is a racist thug, and the Knicks, fresh off another round of GM and Coach debacles, are mired in sub-contention for the next several years.....so why suckle up to Dolan's old dick and sell out for some extra bones?
Pretty obvious.
Reading is indeed fundamental. However, so is thinking.
*this is my last post on Lin from this perspective, as nothing else can really be said from this side of things
Any owner that thinks they are going to make money off of a Basketball team is fooling themselves. Each owner knows you don't make money off an NBA team. Its just a play thing for these billionaires like a yacht or G-5 airplane, they just throw money at to maintain it. The only way they make money is off of ratings, corporate sponsorships, ticket prices, merchandise, etc. Why let an assets walk when you have the chance to bring in those international dollars? This would of made the Knicks a global brand not just a U.S. based brand I can not simply understand or agree with that type of logic.
Anyways Shark Tank looks like a interesting show, I don't watch very much T.V so what channel does it come on at and what time? And there is nothing to take personally its just a debate
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Learn to read please.... "Expert" does not mean "perfect". There is "risk" in any investment. The key is to minimize the risk. There is no 100% perfect investor or the global economy wouldn't be what it is as we speak(uhhhh hello). But Mr. Dolan is showing the ability to learn from past mis-steps. Isiah is no longer team president and Mr. Dolan kept his checkbook in his back pocket when it came to J. Lin. That's what I call progress. Anyway, for all you fools screaming that Dolan is an idiot, why don't you put YOUR OWN MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS????? That's what I thought. Its you easy to play "coulda" "woulda" "shoulda" and criticize when it ain't your money.
Also knicks fan spend their money on the high priced tickets at MSG, merchandise, cable bills just to watch the knicks, we are in the end paying to have this team so we have a right to be upset if a fan favorite is not brought back for whatever asinine reason. Im still mad about the camby and latrell trade till this day
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Lin apparently now claims that he did not have a choice; that there was only one offer. For the reasons stated in an earlier post regarding the "statute of frauds," I do not buy it. There is very substantial evidence that Houston improved an offer already made and accepted. it is unlikely that the offer was not "memorialized" in some reasonably formal way and was simly awaiting legalistic details.
It was clear that the Knicks and apparently everyone else anticipated that the formalized offer would reflect the originally announced offer. I firmly believe that Lin could have held Houston to the first offer. In any event, it would have been a public relations nightmare for Houston to have refused a Lin request to complete the first offer.
AHAHahahaahahahahahaa ROFL!!!!
Dolan has pretty much zero track record in business success for starting or acquiring a new business on his watch. Everything he's ever had was handed to him
I actually favor Jim in this argument.
a) is still tethered to the NYK, and has Dolan's ear
b) Isiah is only gone because Dolan ****ed NYC so hard for so long, he finally relented. Oh, and Isiah got MSG/himself sued.
Literally, Stern was going to step in if Dolan didn't let go of Isiah and hire a guy like Walsh, bc the **** Dolan did the NYK franchise was getting so bad, it was having ramifications to the overall success of the league.
It doesn't matter.
You say Dolan saved money not signing Lin?
Wrong. Look at MSG stock. Even your homeboy at Forbes would have the sense that Dolan lost a lot more than Lin (or anybody else) in this matter ever will.
You wanna play a diff game and say Dolan saved our cap situation?
Wrong. We got blessed with a favorable Bird Right decision, and Lin's deal was pretty modest overall money to years.
Plus, we have a 3rd window, strategically, and even if he sucked and/or we sucked, his contract would have been an asset in the final year (when his salary was the biggest).
What say you, Jim?
And I would put my money where my mouth is against Dolan -- though idk what that even means?
If you mean make money off Dolan's idiocy regarding letting Lin go -- I already did.
I'd say it's unreal that you defend and like James Dolan like you do.
Yet, your history of defending people and wanting them tethered to the NYK primarily revolves around:
Eddie Curry
Isiah Thomas
Also, why would Lin (and his agent, who has undeniable authority in the situation....which Dolan allowed to happen, by pushing Lin's hand at testing the open market) trust the NYK?
They were behind the 8-ball and indolent in re-signing even *after* Dolan's master poker move to let him test FA.
Weren't even in the top3 teams to make the initial phone call to him after FA began. When it was assumed we would, obviously, be the first and make a call ASAP at midnight, as is customary in such a situation.
Melo's remarks?
Woodson making extremely weird, business-related declarations to the media which defied the very process of negotiation that Dolan established in wanting Lin to test the open market.
And like Dolan runs a well-oiled, respectable franchise to begin with? Cmon.
All this aside, Lin's final contract was very favorable to us.
It was favorable regarding cap due to our fortunate Bird Right windfall.
It was favorable strategically, bc the 3rd year in which it ballooned, coincides with the 3rd yr of our championship window and would have been a big asset to *TRADE* as an expiring if Lin was sucking and/or our team wasn't contending.
It was favorable to the overall value of MSG to sign Lin.
These are absolutes.
As was Dolan making a point to have Lin test FA and then respond.
You don't do that, and then act like a housewife who's husband forget their anniversary, when things get a little complicated or testy.
The complications and unknowns of Lin's FA are *PRECISELY* because THIS is what DOLAN orchestrated:
when he implored Lin to test FA.
In typical Dolan fashion, something happened that he didn't like, and he panicked, and acted out of emotion and ego.
Like a spoiled legacy kid. Which he is. And which is reflected in the legacy and downfall of the NYK franchise under his reign of terror.
Game. Set. Match.


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Death in slow motion
New reality of HIV emerges as victims live into older age
By Sara Cardine 04/05/2012
Bradley Land may look like an ordinary citizen, but anyone who's seen the 47-year-old Pasadena resident's medical records knows otherwise. Spinal meningitis, tuberculosis, osteoporosis and arthritis, neuropathy, hepatitis B and a triple bypass surgery last September are some of the standouts in Land's long list of chronic health issues.
"I have 26 co-morbidities. I don't even know them all," he confesses.
If Land had pen and paper, he could list more, but there's only one other condition that's crucial to this story. And, in fact, nearly all his health complications are rooted in it.
Land was infected with HIV at age 17, when AIDS was known as "gay-related immune deficiency" (GRID). Thanks to antiretroviral drug therapy — and his own participation in clinical drug trials that kept him on the forefront of evolving AIDS treatments — he has managed to live an astounding 30 years with a virus once thought to be the deadliest on the planet. His victory, however, has come at a cost, namely his overall health.
America has come a long way in reducing the fatality of AIDS. But while potent drug "cocktails" prevent the virus from replicating, they cannot erase the ravishing long-term effects of the virus on the body and the brain. And, for people like Land, who have been popping 20 to 30 or more pills a day for decades, other serious medical complications, from coronary disease to diabetes, are common.
Science is on the brink of discovering proteins that have attacked HIV in test subjects but has drawn no conclusions on whether the health complaints of long-term patients stem from the virus' presence in the body or decades-long medical regimens and their resultant side effects. Only now, as survivors reach older ages, are researchers accruing data about the very long-term health risks of living with HIV/AIDS.
"They definitely tend to have diabetes, neuropathy and certain types of cancers," says Karen Tinsley, program director of Pasadena's AIDS Service Center, which recently integrated into the city's Public Health Department to create a one-stop-shop suite of clinical and support services for clients. "We can take care of the HIV, potentially, but maybe not some of the other things that occur."
For many with HIV, the virus triggers opportunistic diseases that may already have been part of a person's genetic makeup. These conditions lay latent in the body until the immune system becomes too weak to stave them off. That's when they attack, explains Land, a longtime AIDS activist who serves on the Los Angeles County Commission on HIV helping advise policies related to treatment, education and prevention programs throughout the county. Despite his title, Land spoke for this story as a private citizen living with AIDS.
"HIV creates the heart problems you may have never had to deal with. You're going to have to deal with it now," he says. "If you were a candidate for diabetes, you're going to have it. You're going to have these various diseases going on. Managing life, it is now going to change."
Managing life
Surviving the onslaught of the HIV virus, its treatment and other co-occurring conditions is a full-time battle for 48-year-old Glendale resident Andres Laguna. He was diagnosed in 2009, after a trip to the hospital for severe stomach pains wound up in a dual diagnosis.
"I had stomach cancer," Laguna recalls. "They told me the cancer was related to HIV and that I needed chemotherapy. I was so scared."
Around the time of his diagnosis, Laguna had been managing Type 2 diabetes and underwent therapy for Hepatitis C. The chemotherapy treated the cancer but made his T-cell count drop to dangerous levels, while ongoing liver medications robbed his blood of platelets. After a surgery that removed part of his intestines, Laguna's blood sugar began to soar to as high as 500, forcing him to switch from simply medicating his diabetes to taking daily insulin injections.
Today, he takes three medications for the HIV, one for blood pressure, one for diabetes, along with insulin, and aspirin to manage headaches and muscle pain. Since being diagnosed, Laguna has lost two jobs — and his employee health benefits — his apartment and his car. Last year, unable to afford medical care, he filed for bankruptcy.
Laguna's situation exemplifies the new reality of surviving AIDS, from lost jobs and housing to depression and isolation, according to Tinsley. "We forget about the mental health issues can come from living with this illness for a long time."
That's something to which Monrovia resident Shasta Foster can personally attest. Diagnosed in 1994, the 63-year-old mother of two has been living with the virus for more than 25 years and admits that mental health is extremely important for those living with a chronic, life-threatening illness. Today, she describes herself as having to deal with the ramifications of AIDS and an early old age.
"It makes an old person of you more quickly," Foster says. "We lose our immune system, and our body breaks down because of that."
Foster regularly sees about 15 different doctors and specialists for gastric issues and conditions like skin cancer, asthma and shingles. She has taken as many as 55 pills a day and is a vocal self-advocate. A former escrow manager, Foster, like Land and Laguna, is now permanently disabled. She says she wishes more people knew that AIDS still kills, only now it does so in slow motion.
"Most of my doctors look at me and say, 'Shasta, you're not going to die of AIDS,'" she says. "I've got a chance — I either get my medications or I die. Those are hard words to say."
A new outlook
Among those who work in the field of HIV research and treatment, there is a growing optimism that antiretroviral drug therapy will continue to improve, affording patients a longer lifespan. Just how healthy that lifespan will be, however, is uncertain and partly up to them.
Dr. Judith Currier is a professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at UCLA, where she does clinical work and sees HIV clients in the outpatient clinic. A person's prognosis has a lot to do with his or her own genetic predisposition toward certain chronic conditions, she says. Some may take antiretroviral drugs for decades and present few problems, while others are more susceptible to illness stemming from the virus or the side effects of treatment.
That longer term chronic effects are now being reported and researched is a testament to the overall success of antiretroviral drug treatment, Currier says.
"It's a reflection of how good our treatments are," she adds. "There is no question in anybody's mind that the disease is worse than the treatment."
Currier says an individual's outcome depends on three components — how their body responds to the treatment, how they react to medications and behaviors such as smoking, diet and exercise or medication compliance contribute to their overall outlook.
Compared to where America has been, the future of HIV prevention and treatment is bright. It's somewhat of a victory for pioneers like Land, who still actively advocate for better, more comprehensive health coverage and ending the stigma of contraction.
"I'm so fortunate to be alive. I feel like I've beat the odds and there are people who really love me," says Land. "Love moves mountains."
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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/77578
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- Title
- Accreted versus in situ Milky Way globular clusters
- Author(s)
- Forbes, Duncan A.; Bridges, Terry
- Abstract
- A large, perhaps dominant fraction, of the Milky Way's halo is thought to be built-up by the accretion of smaller galaxies and their globular cluster (GC) systems. Here we examine the Milky Way's GC system to estimate the fraction of accreted versus in situ formed GCs. We first assemble a high quality database of ages and metallicities for 93 Milky Way GCs from literature deep colour-magnitude data. The age-metallicity relation for the Milky Way's GCs reveals two distinct tracks---one with near constant old age of ~12.8 Gyr and the other branches to younger ages. We find that the latter young track is dominated by globular clusters associated with the Sagittarius and Canis Major dwarf galaxies. Despite being overly simplistic, its age-metallicity relation can be well represented by a simple closed box model with continuous star formation. The inferred chemical enrichment history is similar to that of the Large Magellanic Cloud, but is more enriched, at a given age, compared to the Small Magellanic Cloud. After excluding Sagittarius and Canis Major GCs, several young track GCs remain. Their horizontal branch morphologies are often red and hence classified as Young Halo objects, however they do not tend to reveal extended horizontal branches (a possible signature of an accreted remnant nucleus). Retrograde orbit GCs (a key signature of accretion) are commonly found in the young track. We also examine GCs that lie close to the Fornax-Leo-Sculptor great circle defined by several satellite galaxies. We find that several GCs are consistent with the young track and we speculate that they may have been accreted along with their host dwarf galaxy, whose nucleus may survive as a GC. Finally, we suggest that 27-47 GCs (about 1/4 of the entire system), from 6-8 dwarf galaxies, were accreted to build the Milky Way GC system we see today.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies. Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
- Source
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 404, no. 3 (May 2010), pp. 1203-1214
- Publication year
- 2010
- FOR Code(s)
- 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences; 020103 Cosmology and Extragalactic Astronomy
- Keyword(s)
- Globular clusters
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- 0035-8711
- Publisher URL
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2010 The authors. Journal copyright © 2010 Royal Astronomical Society. The accepted manuscript of this paper is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. The definitive publication is available at www.interscience.wiley.com.
- Additional information
- The authors acknowledge financial support from the Australian Research Council.
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|Transparency and efficiency of the Judicial System of Ukraine (TEJSU)
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|Legal and Human Rights Capacity Building Department (LHRCB)
|01/06/2008 - 02/06/2011 (36 months)
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Outputs and results and possible follow up
The reform of the judiciary was one of the major commitments undertaken by Ukraine when it joined the CoE on 9 November 1995. Since then, a number of co-operation programmes, including joint initiatives with the EU, aimed at building an effective and transparent national judicial system. The present project has been one of the milestones on this way. 2010 was an important year since it was the last full year of the project's implementation. The project will end on 2 June 2011. The project continued providing, in close co-operation with all partners and beneficiaries, assistance to the Ukrainian authorities on the reform of the judiciary.
Although the uncertain political situation in the first few months of 2010 slowed down the process of judicial reform, the newly elected President and the new Government of Ukraine made it their priority to speed up the reform of the judicial system. As a consequence, the project activities for providing the Ukrainian institutions with expert advice on judicial reform, in particular concerning the legislative framework, were particularly timely and relevant. Given the adoption of the latest legislation in May and July (Law of Ukraine No. 2181-VI on amending certain legislative Acts of Ukraine in relation to the prevention of abuse of the right to appeal and the Law on the Judiciary and the Status of Judges), the project focused on supporting the priorities and requests of its Ukrainian counterparts, in particular as regards the preparation of the legal expertises for both laws, jointly with the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission).
A major result achieved by the project is related to the drafting of the legislation on automatic case-management system in Ukrainian courts. The project, along with its Ukrainian counterparts, prepared a draft regulation, commonly agreed, which was adopted and took effect on 1 January 2011. This regulation helps to make the courts' work more efficient and transparent. In addition, a list of categories of cases and levels of their complexity was drawn up within the framework of the project. The implementation of those documents allows the further specialisation of judges, based on objective criteria, and provides an efficient and realistic tool for the evaluation of the workload and allocation of resources between courts. This will contribute to an efficient administrative organisation of the judicial system.
The project also started improving the system of funding for the judicial system. Both judicial and governmental institutions emphasised their interest in the results in this area and requested the project's assistance.
The implementation in a short period of time of new additional activities requested by the stakeholders, such as training for judges on the application of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), as well as the organisation of a conference on judicial education, proved to be viable and successful for promoting European human rights standards and their domestic application by legal professionals. The project managed to bring together, for the first time under the same umbrella, the key stakeholders: the Academy of Judges and the Academy of Prosecutors. This has resulted in their dialogue and improved co-operation.
As a tool of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), mediation was included by the project on the map for Ukrainian citizens and authorities. Mediation was successfully introduced in four pilot courts around the country (Bila Tzerkva City Court of Kyiv Region, Vinnitsa Circuit Administrative Court, Appeal Administrative Court of Donetsk Region and Ivano-Frankivsk City Court) as a means for decreasing the number of cases in the courts, as well as strengthening the judicial efficiency. The project organised in-depth training on mediation focusing on skills and tools for judges to carry out mediation in cases assigned to them. Mediation has proved to be an important indicator of the project's success.
The Local Area Networks (LANs) and the Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) in the courts of Ukraine have been key initiatives under the project. On the one hand, the purchased LAN equipment resulted in establishment of necessary internal networks in all courts of general jurisdiction throughout Ukraine. Such infrastructure was necessary for the subsequent mass computerisation of the courts. On the other hand, the VPNs aimed at providing remote offices with a secure access to their organisational networks. Thus, the beneficiaries have been provided with necessary equipment to establish a proper link between the central judicial authorities and local courts.
During 2010, capacity building for the main beneficiaries of the project continued to be a priority within the framework of all project objectives. The Project Team assisted them through institutional support to overcome differences and to facilitate a dialogue. It also enhanced networking and the exchange of information through participating in conferences, seminars and training activities organised by other donors.
2011 will be the last year of implementation of this challenging project. It will be important to ensure that the legislative reforms adopted in 2010 are effectively implemented and that Ukraine continues to benefit of the CoE experience in promoting support to its member states so that they can achieve an independent, efficient and transparent judiciary. Focus will be put on reinforcing the national capacities for the reform of the judicial system, and in particular supporting the Academy of Prosecutors and the future National School of Judges through series of targeted activities including improvement of the regulatory frameworks for their functioning.


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Nutrition Facts
Serving Size ½ cup
Calories 149
Total Fat 2 g
Saturated Fat less than 1 g
Cholesterol 0 mg
Sodium 33 mg
Ingredients and Preparation
Ingredients Measures
Uncooked small seashell macaroni (9 cups cooked) 1 pound
Vegetable oil 2 tablespoons
Sugar ¾ cup
Cider vinegar ½ cup
Wine vinegar ½ cup
Water Enough to boil pasta + ½ cup
Prepared mustard 3 tablespoons
Black pepper and salt to taste
Sliced pimentos 2-ounce jar
Small cucumbers 2
Small onions thinly sliced 2
Lettuce leaves 18
- Cook macaroni in unsalted water, drain, rinse with cold water and drain again. Stir in oil.
- Transfer to 4-quart bowl. Place sugar, vinegars, water, prepared mustard, salt, pepper, and pimento in blender. Process at low speed for 15-20 seconds, or just enough so flecks of pimento can be seen. Pour over macaroni.
- Score cucumber peel with fork tines. Cut cucumber in half lengthwise, then slice thinly. Add to pasta with onion slices. Toss well.
- Marinate, covered, in refrigerator for 24 hours. Stir occasionally.
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Spring semester enrollment strong
Spring semester enrollment figures at Dordt College on opening day were almost identical to that of one year ago, with 1,172 full-time students in 2009, compared to 1,173 full-time students in January 2008. Add part-time students to the equation, however, and Dordt's total enrollment jumped by 23 students over last spring, coming in at 1,260.
Nearly 40 students completed their bachelor degrees in December, which created a slight enrollment dip when comparing fall and spring semesters.
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Also in this issue . . .
Historical Society Chooses Fessler
Summer Grad Ed Program Resumes
Schaap published in Books and Culture
Dordt students
make donation to American Cancer Society
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Dordt students do mission outreach in
Nicaragua, Belize, and the Dominican Republic
This international service/missions opportunity has been offered annually to students at Dordt College since the 1980s. Students serving on AMOR teams do construction/renovation projects and youth ministry and, in the process, are introduced to the culture and the mission challenges of their host country. They return with a much broader understanding of the needs of the world.
For photos, descriptions of the projects, and student reflections click here.
Fessler named to Iowa Historical Society Committee
Summer Graduate Education Program
Applications are now being accepted for Dordt's graduate education program that takes place in the summer. Between 40 and 50 students participate in our summer graduate program. Each year during the month of July, the campus is bustling with teachers from many states and provinces who come to participate in our Master of Education Program.
The M.Ed program provides professional growth
opportunities for teachers and principals who want to learn more
about what it means to teach in a distinctly Christian manner. This
10-course, 30-semester-hour program provides a concentration in
curriculum and instruction and provides practical, hands-on
instruction for elementary and secondary teachers. Interested in
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Schaap essay is cover story for Books and Culture
by Dr. James Calvin Schaap, professor of
English at Dordt College, is the January cover story and will run
for two consecutive issues in Books and Culture magazine, a
bimonthly publication of Christianity Today International.
"Rehoboth: Righteous acts, filthy rags, and a mission cemetery," begins in the January/February issue and will be continued in the March/April issue of the magazine. The essay (without photos) may be seen online.
Alumni and
friends events
The Stoneback Sisters, an identical triplet trumpet trio, will be the featured performers at the NISO Winter Pops Concert on Saturday, February 7, at 7:30 p.m. in the B.J. Haan Auditorium. The program for the evening also includes performances by the Northwest Iowa Symphony Orchestra and jazz bands from both Dordt and Northwestern Colleges. Tickets for this performance may be purchased at the door.
A travelogue featuring many national parks across the United States will be held at Dordt College's B.J. Haan Auditorium on Friday, Feb. 6, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for this event hosted by KDCR can be purchased at the door: $4.50 for adults and $3.50 for students.
Day of Encouragement on Saturday
Twenty-four workshops for elders, pastors, care
givers, deacons, youth leaders, and church members are being offered
at "Day of Encouragement" Saturday, Feb. 7, on the campus of Dordt
College in Sioux Center. For more information or to register click
Musica Antiqua, a professional touring ensemble specializing in the performance of music and dance of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, will perform at Dordt College's B.J. Haan Auditorium on Friday, Feb. 13, at 6:30 p.m. at the B.J. Haan Auditorium.
Campus Visit Days Scheduled
A Dordt College Junior Art Show is on display Feb. 18 through March 8 at the Campus Center Art Gallery. This free exhibit is open daily from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.
View Film Challenge Submissions
Dordt College will host the Prairie Grass Film Challenge screening and awards on Friday, Feb. 13. All eligible contest entries will be screened in viewing rooms located around Dordt College prior to the 8 p.m. awards ceremony in the B. J. Haan Auditorium. The public is welcome to attend or view film entries on the web.
Enchanted April to be Performed
The Dordt College spring theater production is Enchanted April, a funny, heart-warming production that offers the promise of better, sunnier times ahead. Show times at the TePaske Theatre (Sioux Center High School) are 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 26-28; March 5 and 7; and a 2 p.m. Saturday matinee on March 7. For reserved seating call Dordt's box office at 722-6430 (Monday-Thursday 3-5 and 7-9; Friday 3-5 p.m.) or reserve tickets online
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