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LOS ANGELES — The husband-and-wife team that operates AdultDVDTalk.com have been hit with infringement claims by a mainstream photo agency over eight celebrity images posted in its online forum.
The suit, which seeks $2.4 million, claims that AdultDVDTalk infringed on copyright-registered photographs taken by Pacific Coast News of celebrities Amanda Seyfried, Sarah Highland and Selena Gomez.
AdultDVDTalk has provided a space for fans, performers, directors, retailers and industry insiders to connect since 1999.
Drew Black, who with his wife runs AdultDVDTalk, told XBIZ that the plaintiff that is suing them is clearly a "copyright troll" that is using an "opportunistic lawsuit" that threatens the future of his company.
"It's more than a bit ironic that we're being dragged into a suit like this," Black said. "We don't allow any form of promotion of pirated content in our message forum. No links to tube sites, no discussion of how to grab movies from Torrent sites, etc. Some fans get upset with us over these policies."
Pacific Coast News, which has filed 126 similar copyright claims against defendants in the past four years, said in its suit against AdultDVDTalk that its business isn't "safe harbored" by the DMCA because its forum has moderators that have "specific forum-related powers beyond that of a typical user."
"Defendant cannot claim that it was unaware of the infringing activities …," according to an amended complaint filed last week at Los Angeles federal court.
But Black said that the photos in question were posted at the direction of a user and that the plaintiff is claiming otherwise in the suit. He also said that AdultDVDTalk has had a published DMCA takedown policy and procedure in place since the site went live.
"It's worked well for us and we're always cooperative when copyright owners reach out to us," Black said. "We are responsive and remove the images in question within an hour or two.
"However, the plaintiff is claiming that because AdultDVDTalk was not registered with the U.S. Copyright Office and that the takedown process and 'safe harbor' provisions do not apply to us and we are therefore liable for the maximum damages allowed by law."
Black said that the plaintiff never sent a DMCA takedown request, and that he hasn't yet even been served. He only knows about the complaint because the first lawsuit misidentified the name of the company and that he later found out about it.
"No extortion letter. Not even an email or message through the various public means available on our site," Black said. "The first contact we are likely to have with the plaintiff is when the process server shows up at our door with the summons that was issued on March 21."
Black said that AdultDVDTalk has "two experienced anti-troll attorneys" lined up to help battle Pacific Coast News.
"The suit seeks $2.4 million in damages," he said. $150,000 per image for direct infringement and $150,000 per image for vicarious Infringement. Eight images times $300,000."
"Unfortunately, a defense of any type is going to be more expensive than we can afford. That's why we launched the fundraising campaign the day after the summons was issued."
Black said that he and his wife have created a legal defense fund on FundRazr.com and are seeking donations, with a goal of $30,000, to help defend the case.
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In Choose Odd Word, There are four words in each group. One word in each group is different from the rest. You must choose which is the odd word. Which word does not match with the rest of the group?
Choose or find odd word
Tomato , Cucumber , Peas , Cabbage , Potato
A. Tomato
B. Cucumber
C. Peas
D. Cabbage
E. Potato
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The Big Carrot has funds for New Farmers!
For thirty years The Big Carrot has been searching for Nature's Finest to provide our shoppers with delicious, nourishing and sustainable food. In celebration of this commitment to sustainable food production we are launching the Nature's Finest Fund. This will become an annual grant program to expand the availability of locally produced food and to support and strengthen the working relationships between local family farms and The Big Carrot.
As founding members of Carrot Cache (a small foundation that funds local organic food initiatives), we have seen the transformative power of investing in our regional food economy. Inspired by this success, we want to provide a similar opportunity for our own producers. This year, The Big Carrot is committing $25,000 for grants to eligible Ontario Producers. This inaugural Nature's Finest Fund will focus on Fresh Offerings. Priority will be given to applicants who focus on fresh commodities such as: extended season produce, specialty grains and pulse, artisanal cheeses, and pastured livestock.
- To invest in our community of local sustainable food producers
- To expand the availability of locally produced Organic food
- To strengthen the working relationships between family farms and The Big Carrot
Criteria for Eligibility
- Meet The Big Carrot's Quality Standards
- Products marketed as Organic must have a current Organic Certificate
- Be a registered farm business
- Funds are to be used for capital expansion (i.e. investments in new equipment, greenhouse extension, perennial crops, breeding stock, etc), not for operating expenses.
Desired Attributes of Applicants
- Be an Ontario producer of high quality food
- Be an existing vendor to The Big Carrot in good standing
- Be a business that is ready to expand (not a new venture)
- Be Co-op positive
- Share our values of an Organic and non-GMO food system
Appropriate Projects Might Be:
- Row covers, low-tunnels, high-tunnels and greenhouses that can extend fresh production seasons
- Purchase of Quota for managed products so our customers can obtain foods they feel comfortable using
- Harvesting equipment, washing facilities and packing equipment for reduced labour and more effective post-harvest practices
- Energy efficient Refrigeration and Storage facilities that will lengthen shelf-life to extend seasonal availability
- Market Research to identify customer values so that packaging, labels, and website become more effective marketing tools
- Laboratory testing to provide nutrient content and best-before-dating on labels for additional customer assurance
- Training and equipment for effective fencing, composting, compost tea, biological pest controls, and green manuring that will contribute to improved quality and reliability
- Soil testing and application equipment that will improve soil fertility for higher yields, improved flavour, and reduced susceptibility to disease
- Irrigation equipment and water sourcing that will extend the ability to adequately irrigate with reduced effort and water usage
- Transportation and administrative systems to more reliably and regularly deliver products to The Big Carrot
- Processes that contribute to food safety with recommended cull and manure handling, water monitoring and treatment, animal welfare, traceability, and installation of more cleanable equipment
Application Process:
- Submit a Project Proposal by January 6, 2014.
- Project Proposals will be reviewed by our consultant, David Cohlmeyer, to help outline an appropriate and complete Grant Application for submission by January 27, 2014.
- Completed Grant Applications will be reviewed by The Big Carrot Nature's Finest Fund Committee and Membership.
- Recipient(s) will be announced by end of January, 2014.
More information at: http://thebigcarrot.ca/about-us/community-giving/natures-finest-fund/
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Trump's White House Budget Director Mike Mulvaney summed it up best: "Elections have consequences at every agency."
He is absolutely spot on. There's an old saying anyone involved in politics knows — "when you are in, you're in; when you are out, you're out."
The magical number is holding the majority; anything else is participation. Even with a filibuster the Senate is held in control by the majority party.
Polls don't elect the Congress or the President; or pass legislation. Only those voters that actually bother to show up in November count.
Supposed "good will" by the majority party doesn't mean any more than giving you a butt to kiss. "Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Many other minorities really don't care if DACA and other "unworthy" immigrants of the moment are thrown out; they'll wait for the higher wages if the work pool tightens enough. This is not rocket science. No vote, no real power.
Belatedly in the recent Virginia and Alabama races a lot of "minority" voters finally showed up; that did not show up in 2016. A start, but nothing changes unless Congress flips in 2018.
Republicans have made good use of their "Emperor in New Clothes" to get whatever they want, irrespective of the actual future consequences.
Just last week Speaker of the House Paul Ryan tweeted and crowed proudly (then deleted it upon reflection) that a secretary saw her takehome pay go up $1.50 a week because of the new tax law! Huh?
However, he got $500,000 in Koch contributions days after the House passed the tax bill. If he decides not to run the money will be his anyway to do with as he wishes. Harvest Time.
Trump and his GOP lackeys are betting that you'll ignore their demand to control the bodies of women, their killing those without health care, visceral xenophobic hatred of immigrants (who built this country from day one), and their profligate spending and debt creation — if the economy gets better.
There is a good chance they're right. Many have heard the same phrase innumerable times: "it's just business."
Trump didn't create the better economy. Ten years of many trillions in printed cash, added debt, and especially Federal Reserve prolonging abnormally low interest rate bailouts to Wall Street, Corporate America, and the banksters did. The recent market tantrum over a possible extra ¼ point rate hike shows that.
But don't blame The Donald. His entire history was well documented long before 2016 as the torch bearer for P.T. Barnum's "there's a sucker born every minute."
Read "The Art of The Deal" — he told us the way he thinks and works. Just like Adolf Hitler told us what he believed in, in "Mein Kampf." Both are autocrats who were and are thoroughly consistent with their writings. No mystery.
Trump, like most businessmen, will tell you whatever he needs to tell you, to get to go where he needs you to go.
Trump said Democrats that didn't clap for him at the State of the Union address are "treasonous" and "un-American." He questions our patriotism if we don't become his willing collaborators and perpetrators like the Republicans in Congress in setting Americans against each other in the GOP version of the "Hunger Games."
Now Trump wants a military parade so he can be just like North Korea, his beloved Putin Russia, China (whose positive trade winnings have only grown under Trump), and a host of other modern day dictators.
Perhaps he will ask that the loyalty pledge of the military and civil servants be changed as it was in Nazi Germany in 1934 (a year after Hitler took power) — loyalty to Der Fuhrer personally, not the Constitution of the Country.
Trump wants to run America like King George III did prior to 1776.
Perhaps Trump should appoint his next Big Mactm as a Senator; like Caligula proposed appointing his horse as a Consul of Rome (although that still remains unverified).
My family line survived near extinction by the Nazis and the Stalinist Russians. America gave us a chance to start again.
We will survive Trump. But we will not supplicate to him or his party of collaborators. We know from history where that can lead.
• Anselm Staack, is registered non-affiliated, is a CPA and an attorney who has been an Alaska resident for over 43 years. He was the Treasury Comptroller for Alaska under Gov. Jay Hammond and worked directly on the creation of the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation. He resides in Juneau.


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Samuel and Nathaniel Buck were brothers who were born in Yorkshire, England at around the turn of the 18th century. After spending their formative years in the north, they moved south to the great bustling metropolis that was London, as so many rural people did in those days, seeking their possible fame and fortune. As young men, around 1724, they set out and began an ambitious work to traverse each and every county within England and Wales. They began to engrave and prepare the particular countys antiquities be they free standing or semi ruinous castles, stately homes, or religious and monastic buildings of importance and consequence although many were in an extremely poor state of neglect and abject disrepair after the first King Henry VIII in the 16th century, and then Oliver Cromwell later in the 17th century had their respective religious purges. It was during the preparation of these collections of county antiquities that the Buck brothers struck on the novel idea to also engrave some of the more important cities and towns. So, in my opinion, what resulted was the most wondrous, most influential and most important topographical undertaking that was ever done of England and Wales, not only of the 18th century but also for many years afterward. Prior to Bucks magnificent copper plate panoramas, virtually nothing had been done to depict views of significant English cities and towns. Only a handful were included in the atlas by Braun and Hogenberg in their Civitates Orbis Terrurum published in Cologne in 1581. I honestly feel that there is nothing at all to compare with these exquisite panoramas, in terms of technical skill, engraved detail and sheer scale and size. I also feel that a huge debt of gratitude is owed to these two enterprising and ambitious brothers, who have left us not only with a wonderful and enduring legacy, but also a truly unique glimpse and brief insight into an English way of life that can never be replicated nor indeed pass our way ever again. Samuel and Nathaniel Bucks copperplate panorama of Manchester, published in 1728, depicts an attractive, small, orderly town, neatly and tidily arranged. People are viewed rowing on the River Irwell in the foreground. From the other side of the river, we see townsfolk walking along the inviting open spaces that have yet to be developed. As is usual, in these panoramas, the towns churches are prominent, and in the distance, the surrounding hills and moorlands are in full view. There is evidence to suggest that there was Bronze Age activity in the area that became Manchester. The Romans established a fort in Manchester, mainly as a continued presence, and to provide protection along their road from Chester to York late in the first century. Flemish weavers come to the town in the fourteenth century to produce wollen and linen products. This was the towns first introduction to a trade that in centuries to come, would provide enormous wealth and prosperity for it and its inhabitants. Manchester sits in North West England, alongside the River Irwell. It was only a small market town up until the late eighteenth century when, the Industrial Revolution came along and swept it off its feet. It was the importation of cotton from Liverpool, via the newly opened navigational canal system, that began to fuel the textile revolution that changed Manchesters fortunes for ever. The town became a national, and then an international distribution center. This is a rare and significant opportunity to acquire one of these much sort after panoramas by Englands premier topographical engravers, and is entirely in keeping with Arader Galleries fine and long standing tradition of only offering items of the highest quality for forty years. Description prepared for Arader Galleries by Ian Williams.


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Whether your aim is to apply them to your current position or to move to another challenge in your career, the LSBF Executive Development Face-to-Face series will give you the necessary knowledge to make your aspirations a reality.
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LSBF Executive Development in Singapore is supported by the corporate training arm of LSBF UK and Global University Systems (our group HQ) and leverages on both our in-house expertise and our wide international network of strategic partners to offer the best-in-class training programmes and solutions with a global outlook, tailored for Singapore and the region.
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Women's Daily Classic Bicolor Slim Zip Wallet
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Many compartments make this wallet the perfect option for ladies with no time to lose. Coordination is a snap, since the collection includes a matching handbag.
- Interior includes ten card slots, various pockets and change pouch
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Once you allowed your child to experience the joy of having a swing then you would not be able to take him from any swing! The experts explain this fact by special feelings which are felt by the child, being swing. The psychologists also espousing this point of view and speaking about it much. They comparing the swing process to rocking the baby, more precisely, with a certain rhythm which calms the child and gives him the pleasant moments.
From there, it becomes clear that many children have a lack sense of stability, security, a pacification, zero gravity, and rest. All these feelings stay in subconsciousness from the first moments of life of the person when he was in a maternal womb. For this reason the grown-up kid, playing, from time to time resorts to mother, just to embrace her and to stand like this a minute, slightly rocking. Therefore the adults, having embraced, are sometimes shaken too. Have you ever noticed?
Understanding what a swing are not luxury goods, but real antidepressant, stresses medicine and over fatigue, it is just a shame to owners of the country site or normal size backyard not to purchase them! Instead of campaigns on consultation to the psychologist to complain of a troubled sleep of the child or of his aggression, purchase a reliable lifesaver – a swing or even a swing set (a set of several swings and other different activities). It is serious purchase. Therefore it is worth choosing it after studying of the main and the most important qualities of this product. In such instance go to like this website.
That the swing process passed more effectively, arrange them in the quietest and beautiful corner of the yard/garden. However, do not forget that when swinging the seat can move forward and backward on a certain length. Do not swing without verifying the length.
The swing is obligatory for whom each trip in transport is fraught with such troubles as nausea and dizziness. The only rule does not speed-up that suddenly, having soared up into clouds not to understand that you/your child swing to seek feeling and it is necessary to stop urgently. Begin to strengthen a vestibular mechanism, slowly shaking and considering everything on the parties. Periodic change of angles of view will lead to what that you/your child to cease of sick feelings. After a while, not only a swing but also the car would not cause any trouble.
Besides, the regular swing can become a pleasant sport and strengthen muscles of hands and a back. Of course, the regularity and persistence are obligatory.


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i am finished for the spring semester!!!!!!!!! i have one whole month off before i start microbiology.
tonight, i had shaved ice with one of my best friends ;) tried a new flavor orangeade (can you guess...yep...orange and lemonade) and stole a bite of raspberry colada (raspberry and coconut??yeah i think that's what it was)(thanks for that, buddy)...both flavors equally delightful. i love it when it works out that way!!!
i now have a semi-clean apartment (it has gotten pretty scary in the last few busy weeks), laundry is going, as well as the dishwasher. clean sheets are on my bed, i just got out of the shower and after that bit of productiveness, i'm going to sleep the sleep of the not stressed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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text: Cakes with Fruit Toffee Apple Cake Total Time 1h 20m Prep Time 30m Bake Time 50m Serves 12 Skill Level Easy Dietary Needs 1 Review 5 star rating Save Save this recipe Share Share Print Print This delicious flavour combination of toffee and apples goes hand in hand with one another and is a really tasty treat on a cold winters day. Method Preheat the oven to 180C / 160C fan / gas mark 4 and grease and line the base of a 9 inch round cake tin. Combine the dates and apple juice in a small saucepan and heat gently. Once boiled remove from the heat and allow to cool. Cream together the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy. Gradually beat in the eggs, adding a spoonful of flour if the mixture looks like it is starting to curdle. Sift and fold the flour and spices into the mixture as well as the cooled date mix. Pour into the cake tin and level. Cut the apples into slices and dip into the lemon juice. Shake off the excess juice and arrange on top of the cake in a circular pattern. Bake the cake for 50 -55 minutes until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Leave to cool slightly before removing from the tin and leaving to cool fully on a wire rack. To make the toffee sauce, combine all of the ingredients in a small saucepan and heat gently until they start to bubble. Continue to heat until for a few minutes until ingredients are all combined and the sauce has a characteristic toffee colour. Serve the cake with the toffee sauce drizzled over (toffee sauce still warm is lovely!) and enjoy. Let's Bake The easiest way to follow a recipe Bonfire Bakes Reviews Claire Birkin 10 November 2017 5 star rating This was so easy to make and super yummy Leave Your Thoughts Unfortunately reviews are not permitted to non-registered users. Please Log in to leave your review or ask us a question. Ingredients For the cake 175g Butter (unsalted) (softened) 125g Unrefined light muscovado sugar 100g Dates (dried) (chopped) 70ml Apple juice 3 Egg(s) (free range) 220g Self-raising white flour 2 tsp Mixed spice 3 Apple(s) ((small, Eating)) 1 Lemon(s) ((juice of)) For the toffee sauce 150ml Double cream 85g Butter (salted) 100g Unrefined demerara sugar 1 tbsp Black treacle Recipe Alternatives Plum and hazelnut cake Plum and hazelnut cake Total 1h 5m Serves 8 Skill Easy Diet Rating No ratings yet Save this recipe Pear and blueberry cake Pear and blueberry cake Total 1h 30m Serves 10 Skill Easy Diet Rating 5 star rating Save this recipe Cherry & Almond Cake Cherry & Almond Cake Total 1h 20m Serves 12 Skill Easy Diet Rating 3 star rating Save this recipe


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The Community Preservation Committee has completed the Community Preservation Plan 2017 (pdf).
Because our goal is to make this funding available to carry out projects for public benefit as soon as possible, we are working under a tight time frame to complete and adopt the plan and open the first application round. Following is our schedule:
- November 7: Draft Plan posted for public review
- November 14: CPC will provisionally adopt the Final Community Preservation Plan
- November 21: Public comment period closes
- November 27: Presentation of Plan and introduction to open first application round. (South Medford Fire Station, 7-9 PM)
- January 5, 2018: Project eligibility applications due for first funding round
To view and download a CPA Application packet for FY2018, visit the "How To Apply for Funding" page.
We welcome feedback on the draft plan and look forward to further discussion about the plan or the application process. Contact the Medford Community Preservation Committee at email@example.com.


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It takes an entire studio of highly skilled individuals working as a team to produce the level of quality and craftsmanship that goes out our doors each day. Over 24 pairs of hands touch each piece – that begins as a lump of clay and ends as a twice-fired piece of Deneen Pottery. Pictured to the right (in our always warm kiln room) is the whole Deneen Pottery team – even Olive, our shop dog. Please feel free to scroll down to learn a little bit more about leadership team.
I have never had more fun than I am right now – and I remain focused on producing the best stoneware for our customers.
I love working with my parents and I especially enjoy talking about our stoneware. Growing up around this creative medium has given me a real appreciation for the art but also the business that allows OUR art to continue. I'm blessed with two wonderful children who keep us on our toes...Little TT Buddy and Weezie-Beezie.
We enjoy being creative consultants and helping tend to this wonderful "business family." What a joy it is to see it grow and flourish because we strongly believe that…"Nowhere is beauty more important than in the objects we use everyday" – Marguerite Wildenhain
I'm back in Minnesota after living in Philadelphia for over 11 years! What luck to land amongst friends at Deneen Pottery. I love cheerleading our awesome staff, helping customers with billing questions and energizing the office with my dance moves. My current favorites are: riding my bike on the Midtown Greenway, eating popcorn and strolling around Lake of the Isles!
I enjoy helping people, especially customers, and I am a type 'A' person so Niles is extremely lucky to have me. Time off is just as fun – going for bike rides, walks, and helping my husband brew beer… Le Petit Saison is my favorite.
I love doing the drawings and making them GREAT. Give me a hula hoop and some open space and look out. My family is very important to me especially my mom, Elaine, who is back in Texas. I am an artist in my own right and love creating my own work each and everyday.
I love all things DESIGN! I especially enjoy sketching with my trusty pencil and watercolors. When I'm not busy hand-lettering in my sketchbook, you can usually find me training for my next triathlon or indulging in a Harry Potter marathon.
Nothing makes me happier than getting to greet people when they come to visit us! I've got a pretty sweet set up in the office – my own leather chair to sit on, and a custom doggie dish with my name on it. When you come please bring me a treat, I love treats!


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Assessing Transfer Skills.
Knapp, Joan E.
Following a summary of what is presently known about transfer skills, the options available for assessment of transfer skills are identified and problems inherent in that task examined. Transfer skills (the ability or capacity of the learner or worker to transfer skills or knowledge from prior experiences to new ones) are discussed using the work of a number of contemporary theorists and noting points of general agreement. Types of educational measurements that can be applied to the assessment of transfer of skills are classified as either traditional or nontraditional methods. Traditional methods examined are paper and pencil, multiple choice, and objective tests. Nontraditional methods analyzed are interviews and oral examinations; simulations; essays; performance tests; and self-assessment devices. Examples of each, their use as well as advantages and disadvantages, are given. It is noted that no specific tests or procedures could be recommended as end-alls; rather, they are presented as tools to help determine if transfer has occurred. A bibliography of selected documents describing nontraditional assessment methods is included as an appendix. (MEK)
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Essay Tests, Higher Education, Individual Testing, Interviews, Job Skills, Learning Theories, Mastery Learning, Objective Tests, Performance Tests, Secondary Education, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Simulation, Skill Development, Skills, State of the Art Reviews, Testing, Transfer of Training
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Inst. of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: Ohio State Univ., Columbus. National Center for Research in Vocational Education.
Note: For related documents see ED 138 834, ED 146 420, ED 146 458, ED 174 809, CE 024 835-836, CE 025 246-247, and CE 025 306.


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This is challenge 2 of the Mystical creatures challenge and I have to say I am loving it!! In this challenge we had to do a monochrome L/O using shades of Brown, we also had to have hidden journaling, a little bling and a house. There is some fabulous work going up in the gallery so if you want to have a little looksy pop on over to the Mystical gallery here
Close up of my flowers, these have all been hand made :)
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GOP's midterm strategy takes shape
Key GOP senator: Don't link legal immigration cuts to DACA fix
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) is urging the White House to back off from a plan to require cuts to legal immigration as part of a deal to protect young immigrants brought to the country illegally.
Cornyn, the No. 2 Senate Republican, said Congress should have a "bigger debate" about what the country's levels of legal immigration should be - separate from a legislative fix for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
"We ought to be narrowly focused on the DACA fix that the president's asked us to consider ... and then we can turn to these other issues in the next legislation," he told reporters Thursday.
Cornyn said he supports "merit-based immigration" but "the most immediate thing we can do is to address the DACA situation. And I think the most logical way forward is to tie that to border security and interior enforcement."
The White House is expected to send a proposal to Congress demanding strict immigration measures in exchange for helping current DACA recipients.
A source told The Hill earlier Thursday that the proposal, drafted by senior policy aide Stephen Miller, would cut legal immigration in half over the next decade and dramatically ramp up punishments for immigrants living illegally in the U.S.
But such a request would spark backlash from Democrats and many Republicans, who panned a similar White House-endorsed bill from GOP Sens. Tom Cotton (Ark.) and David Perdue (Ga.), know as the RAISE Act.
That bill would cut legal immigration levels in half over the next 10 years while transforming the visa system from a family-based one into a merit-based one.
Cotton and Perdue, as well as Cornyn, were part of a White House meeting on immigration Monday night. Perdue said after the meeting that they discussed DACA, the RAISE Act, border security and e-verify as parts of a potential legislative solution.
Cornyn, however, warned on Thursday that tying cuts to legal immigration in the DACA debate could sink legislation altogether.
"I think the problem is once we start getting into the legal immigration debate, and what the appropriate fixes are, then we are in danger of getting back into the comprehensive immigration reform debate, which leaves us basically empty handed," he said.
Cornyn has offered his own border security bill that would allocate $15 billion over four years for enforcement and security.


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BERLIN — "I tried to look at my situation pragmatically," Mikhail Khodorkovsky said quietly, trying to explain how he kept himself going for 10 years in prison and labor camps. "I said, O.K., so they got me; O.K., so the situation is bad. But it has certain possibilities."
So he used the time to write, and think, and review his life. He did not succumb to a longing for revenge, he said, or regret for the loss of his business empire. And he did not dream too much of the future, just in case there was none.
Thirty-six hours after his release from a Russian labor camp, Mr. Khodorkovsky, now 50, was speaking to a small group of reporters on Sunday in the Checkpoint Charlie Museum in Berlin. The museum is all about the dissident heroes of the Cold War, the victims of the East-West division that the Berlin Wall so starkly symbolized, and their successors today. Among the exhibitions is one dedicated, in fact, to Mr. Khodorkovsky.
Once the best-known and richest of Russia's oligarchs, his arrest in 2003 and trial were widely perceived as a personal vendetta by President Vladimir Putin — the same man who abruptly released him by presidential decree on Friday — and transformed him from ruthless oligarch to a symbol of the arbitrariness of Mr. Putin's Russia.
Yet on Sunday, dressed formally in a dark suit and white shirt, Mr. Khodorkovsky was often self-deprecating, and consistently reluctant to don the mantle of dissident hero or opposition symbol. Nor did he see his release as a sign of better things to come.Continue reading the main story
"My release is a 'symbol' of the fact that the authorities and President Putin are seriously concerned about the image of Russia," he said. The impending Winter Olympics in Sochi was one factor, another is the damage that Russia's negative image is doing to its international standing.
Was he grateful to Mr. Putin for releasing him? Mr. Khodorkovsky paused: "It's not so simple. In all these years, all the decisions about me were taken by one man: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. So today it is hard to say I am grateful. I have thought quite a bit about what words would express what I think. I am happy at his decision — I think that's it."
But Mr. Putin is not the problem in Russia, he said. "The problem is that the large majority of our fellow citizens do not understand that they must take responsibility for their own fate. They entrusted their fate to Vladimir Vladimirovich, then they will entrust their fate to someone else." Democracy, he said, will become real only when people learn to choose structures, political parties and representatives they control.
Mr. Khodorkovsky said that in prison he avoided thinking too much about his future, "to preserve my psychological stability," since he did not know whether he would ever be released. In his appeal for a presidential pardon, he said, he wrote to Mr. Putin, telling him that he had no intention of returning to business, or of fighting for the shares in his dismembered oil company, Yukos, or of entering politics.
"I have earned one right for myself, at great cost: I have the right not to say what I don't believe," he said. "This precludes politics."Continue reading the main story


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Shadows Over Innistrad releases today!! Tonight's Friday Night Magic tournament (Friday April 8th at 6pm) will be our first Shadows Over Innistrad booster draft. We charge a $15 entry fee for booster drafts, which covers the three boosters used plus the prize pool. You will keep all of the cards that you draft.
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The Austin area's Old Settler's Music Festival will move to a new site starting with the April 19-22, 2018 festival.
The 30-year-old organization was surprised and disappointed to receive a letter on Aug. 8 from Scott Roberts, owner of the Salt Lick Barbecue Pavilion in Driftwood, informing the board that the property would not host the festival in 2018.
The Salt Lick had verbally confirmed those dates in 2016 and again in June, two months ago. The festival has been held on that site and the accompanying Camp Ben McCulloch since 2002.
Roberts said in his letter that the decision was based on the changing use of the surrounding property and concern about alienating his new neighbors.
In June, Old Settlers's board took an important step to ensure the festival's future by finalizing the purchase of 145 acres in Dale, Texas, a small community nestled in Caldwell County just 20 minutes east of Lockhart and less than an hour from downtown Austin.
This will be Old Settler's third site after what began as a small bluegrass event at Old Settler's Park in Round Rock, TX
The new site doubles the festival's space and allows for numerous improvements, while maintaining the previous site's comfortable feel. An expanded Kids' Village, more room for eclectic food offerings, elimination of the need for satellite parking and shuttles, more camping space and other amenities will be available at the new location.


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I was in a dark place and it gradually got darker.
I gained 50 pounds, I lost most of my friends, my binge eating was up, and my school performance was down. I lost all motivation, I slept too much, and I was angry all the time. I felt confused, helpless and out of control.
I didn't understand why I was no longer interested in doing anything. I had this urge to quit my job. I dropped most of my classes. I would close myself in my room, draw the curtains and avoid everyone.
The most confusing part is that I was happy sometimes. I would have a good day or a good couple of hours where I would smile, laugh and enjoy myself; yet the happiness was always fleeting. My smiles didn't last for long, and when I was alone again with my thoughts I was miserable.
After six months of this, and putting my loved ones through hell, my mother suggested I speak with someone. One week later I was on the couch in a dimly lit room. A therapist sat across from me. She was reading the questionnaire I had filled out and every once in a while she would nod, or look up at me.
That day, after hours of questions and answers, I was diagnosed with moderate-to-severe depression, anxiety and a binge-eating disorder.
My therapist suggested I see a psychiatrist for a second opinion and an anti-depressant prescription.
I was ashamed – I thought I was supposed to be ashamed. I couldn't fully grasp this information and it threw me into a depressive episode; I cried, I slept, I binged – a constant destructive circle.
Finally, I gathered myself and saw the psychiatrist. I got my second opinion: I was confirmed a person with depression, anxiety and binge-eating.
My psychiatrist prescribed Prozac and I began to take the pills in secret – afraid of what my mother and family might think.
After a month, I started feeling better than I ever have. I was looking at things more positively, my eating and sleeping were under control, and I was enjoying the company of people more. I suddenly wanted to do things and I had my motivation back.
My family noticed the changes and I decided to open up about the diagnoses and the medication. They were cautious but supportive; anything that would help me be happy.
I applied full-time for the spring semester at Ohlone, prepared for a trip to Italy, celebrated the holidays with my loved ones and didn't feel a need to get away from everything and everyone.
I branched out and embraced myself during my trip abroad. I came out of my shell because I was not afraid, I was no longer withdrawing within myself, but rather I was embracing life with open arms.
It is six months later now and I am at the best point in my life; I'm involved at school, I'm focused, I'm happy and I'm enjoying things.
I required help to overcome this challenge. It took all the strength I had to take that step and decide I needed help.
I'm not ashamed of this, nor should anyone be. If you had a broken leg, no one would tell you to get over it. Mental health is no different; mental health is biological and uncontrollable.
If you have addictions and other mental illness in your family, you may be at a biological predisposition for mental illness yourself.
Seeking help is hard, whether it is for yourself, a friend, a loved one or a colleague. But if you arm yourself with knowledge and empathy for mental illness, you may save a life. It could be yours.


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There couldn't have been a more perfect way to close out summer this year than joining Jen and Joe for their one of-a-kind Martha's Vineyard wedding-weekend.
On August 26th we kicked off our first night in the Vineyard at the Homeport Restaurant, where Jen and Joe hosted a welcome party for their guests. The night was filled with endless amounts of laughter as friends and family shared some funny, yet heartfelt memories of the couple.
The sun couldn't have been shining any brighter on the day of the wedding. As Jen put it best, her father (Big Leo) truly wouldn't have had it any other way. After a beautiful ceremony officiated by a long time friend, the new Mr. & Mrs. Talia joined family and friends for an evening filled with food, drinks, and dancing at the Beach Plum Inn. It was a true pleasure to have been part of such a magical weekend. Thank you Jen & Joe!
Rehearsal Dinner Venue: Homeport Restaurant
Wedding Venue: Beach Plum Inn
Photography: Vitae Weddings
Planner: KG Events & Design
Florist: Tea Lane Farm
Hair & Makeup: Sea Spa Salon
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Officient: Godfrey Gill
Ceremony Music: Rebecca Tinus
Band: Mike Benjamin Band
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Cake: ValCakes
Beverages: Your Market
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This combination gives you the opportunity of a more extensive adventure with our 3 hour ATV Tour with Waterfalls, you will get to experience the Rainforest from a bird�s eye view and also go deep in the paths, trails, rivers and lots of muddy roads in a transitional Costa Rica Rainforest, located only 10 minutes from Jaco Beach and Los Suenos Resort.
You will start with or famous Zip Line Tour in the Costa Rica Treetops, this tour includes a 15 minute tractor ride up to the top of the mountain; you will then descend on a series of 12 platforms and 10 cables, including one of the longest in Costa Rica�s Central Pacific.
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The package does not include lunch, but for an additional cost Vista Los Sue�os offers a Costa Rican "Typical Casado" this traditional dish is a combination of rice, beans, salad, fried plantain, vegetables and one portion of meat to choose from, natural drink and dessert. Once your tour ends we will be waiting to serve your lunch in a beautiful fresh open air area surrounded by nature, you can also buy additional drinks at the Park.
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language
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Rarely has a book so packed with accurate and well researched factual information been so widely read and popularly acclaimed. This Second Edition of The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language has been fully revised for a new generation of language-lovers. The book is longer and includes extensive new material on world English and Internet English, in addition to completely updated statistics, further reading suggestions and other references. First Edition Hb (1995): 0-521-40179-8 First Edition Pb (1997): 0-521-59655-6 David Crystal is a leading authority on language, and author of many books, including most recently Shakespeare's Words (Penguin, 2002), Language and the Internet (Cambridge, 2001) and Language Death (Cambridge, 2000). An internationally renowned writer, journal editor, lecturer and broadcaster, he received an Order of the British Empire in 1995 for his services to the English language.
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When Megan McAllister's knight in shining armor finally popped the question, he even had the good taste to supply the horse. It was during a romantic carriage ride in Connecticut last May that Philip Markoff proposed to girlfriend McAllister, 25. She eagerly accepted, and months later it seemed the glow of the moment hadn't dimmed at all. Standing in a friend's backyard one day, Megan's father, Jim McAllister, described how thrilled his daughter was about her impending nuptials. "Her dad had the nicest words to say about Phil," says Kristy Greenwood, whose own father was a party to the conversation. "How Megan met a great guy and they're engaged and happy and excited about it."
That excitement officially ended April 20, when Boston police arrested Markoff, 23—a medical student at Boston University—on charges that he was the Craigslist Killer. But since then the portrait of Markoff—who is being held for the murder of Julissa Brisman, 25, and the assault of another woman, both of whom advertised themselves on the popular site's erotic services area—has grown more disturbing by the day. On April 27 a young man appeared on NBC's Today show, maintaining that Markoff had made contact with him on Craigslist, this time on a bulletin board catering to men seeking transsexuals. "I was scared like you wouldn't believe," said the man about noticing the resemblance between the man with whom he had been communicating—who had sent him sexually explicit photos—and post-arrest pictures of Markoff.
With his life unraveling around him, Markoff was initially put on suicide watch at the Nashua Street Jail after guards found evidence that he might have tried to hang himself with his shoelaces. According to the Boston Herald, which quoted a jailhouse source, the suspect told his family, "forget about me" and "move to California." The Herald quoted Markoff as warning his brother and sister-in-law, "There is more coming out."
His fiancée has yet to visit Markoff in jail. McAllister, who was due to start medical school at a university in the Caribbean in the fall, has been holed up at her parents' home in Little Silver, N.J., struggling with each day's revelations about the man she loved. The leader of the B-Street Band, a Bruce Springsteen tribute band booked to play at the couple's August wedding, broke the news to PEOPLE that the event was off. "Megan is not doing so well," her misty-eyed dad said on April 27. "It's a very tense situation." Nevertheless McAllister, in a statement to reporters that same day, offered what sounded like her unequivocal devotion. "I also love my fiancé and will continue to support him through this legal process," she said through her lawyer. "What has been portrayed and leaked to the media is not the Philip Markoff that I know. To me and my family, he is a loving and caring person."
According to friends who have known her over the years, McAllister is uncommonly loyal and sweet-natured—the sort of person who might find it hard to think the worst about anyone, let alone the man she was planning to marry. "She was always very polite and friendly," says Ray Dweck, 26, who has known her since childhood. "She was never catty, always nice." She grew up in Little Silver, one of four children. Throughout her school years she had a tight circle of friends to whom she was devoted. Indeed several in her wedding party have been her pals since grammar school. Hardly a party girl, McAllister doesn't even seem to have had a serious boyfriend in high school. "She was very shy," says Dweck. "Very sweet but very quiet."
Although she looked forward to getting married someday, it didn't seem to friends as if matrimony was her top priority. "She was not like how some girls are obsessed," says Greenwood. "She wasn't like, 'Oh my God, I can't wait to be married.'" She and Markoff, both of whom attended the State University of New York at Albany, met while doing volunteer work at a local hospital. The couple seemed to spend a good deal of time together. One of his medical school classmates recalls that Markoff would make frequent trips to New Jersey. But he evidently did not go out of his way to talk about his fiancée. "I didn't know he had a girlfriend until he was really moody after a weekend he went to visit her and they had a fight," says the classmate, who adds that Markoff seemed odd. "Nobody has said it, but other people knew," says the classmate. "There are a lot of socially awkward people in the world. But he was socially awkward in a creepy way."
Nonetheless a handful of Markoff's friends have rallied to his defense. Andrew Hookway, who knew him in high school and has started a Facebook group called "Phil Markoff is Innocent Until Proven Guilty," told PEOPLE, "[Phil was] a well-respected member of his circle of friends. What I knew about Phil then does not line up with the accusations placed against him now." The problem for Markoff's supporters, however, is that if even a fraction of the reported evidence against him turns out to be true, authorities would appear to have a strong case (see box). According to numerous reports, for instance, underwear from two of his alleged victims was found in Markoff's apartment in Quincy, Mass. Even now police in Boston and elsewhere are searching for other women who might have had encounters with Markoff.
There are also potential clues turning up online. PEOPLE discovered that someone using a screen name sexaddict53885—almost identical to the one reported by the source on the Today show—had been trolling on gay and bondage Web sites. In court papers Markoff disclosed that he was $130,000 in debt as the result of student loans. As for the reports that he may have incurred gambling debts in March and April—which could provide a motive for attempting to rob the women he allegedly met on Craigslist—these remain speculation, supported by the fact that he and McAllister were on their way to Foxwoods casino when he was arrested. And in any case, points out District Attorney spokesman Jake Wark, the gambling angle may be a red herring even if true. "There are a lot of people who have gambling debts," says Wark, "and very few of them choose to murder young women."
Markoff was at first held in an isolation cell, swaddled in a special antisuicide smock—the fabric is difficult to tear into strips to fashion a ligature. "The transition from being free to being incarcerated is very difficult for him," his lawyer John Salsberg told reporters. No Markoff friends contacted by PEOPLE said they had any inkling of a double life. But one person who has known Markoff for years, and who thought he knew him well, admits he's stunned by the recent torrent of revelations. "I'm very shocked about it," says the source. "There must be two Philips inside that body—one I knew, one I didn't know."


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Heart Transplant
Quick look
Uxue Murgoitio Esandi
Story of an indication
Magic happens
Pharmacology matters: Immunosuppression
Complications: never late
I. Absolute indications
Hemodinamic disrepair due to heart failure
Refractory cardiogenic shock
Inotrope-dependent for correct perfusion
VO2 max < 10ml/Kg/min after reaching the anaerobic threshold
Severe activity limited myocardial ischemia without possible revascularization (PCI or CABG)
Symptomatic resistant ventricular arrithmias
II. Relative indications
VO2 max 11-14 ml/Kg/min with important limitation of the functional capacity
Recurrent and unstable ischemia without any possible intervention
Recurrent instability of the water equilibrium/renal function not due to therapeutic failure
III. Insufficient indications
Low left ventricle ejection fraction
Previous NYHA II or III functional class
Previous ventricular arrithmias
VO2 max > 15 ml/Kg/min without other indications
Age >70 (biological and chronological age)
Malignant tumors with a high probability of recurrence after immunosuppression
Diabetes Mellitus with severe target organ damage
Active infection
Smoking, alcoholism and drug addiction
Unfavourable phsychosocial environment that could keep from treatment adherence
Severe damage of renal or hepatic function if combined transplant is not possible
Fixed severe pulmonary hypertension
Obesity. Severe peripheral and cerebral vasculopathy
Peptic ulcer or active diverticulitis
Recent thromboembolism
Other systemic diseases with poor prognosis
Drugs acting on immunophilins
Antiproliferative agents
Acute Rejection
Graft Vascular Disease
It was developed as an alternative to CsA
Some shared adverse efects; many avoided.
Better bioavailability: more soluble and less need of bile production
Mechanism of action: it needs to form complexes with immunophilins, the FKBP-12 cytoplasmic protein in this case, in order to inhibit calcineurin. Therefore, IL-2, TNF-a, INF-y and IL-10 should also be inhibited.
Pharmacokinetics: poor oral bioavailability (25%) due to erratic gastrointestinal absorption. Coadministration of Tac with Mycophenolate mofetil (MMT) increases the bioavailability of its active metabolite, the Mycophenolic acid.
Main adverse efects: renal toxicity, less hypertension and hyperlipidemia, Diabetes Mellitus, (not gingival hyperplasia, hypertrichosis, but alopecia), neurotoxicity, hypomagnesemia, hyperkalemia and hyperuricemia.
Initial dose: orally 0,075 mg/kg/day in two dosis or continuous perfusion 0,01-0,02 mg/Kg/day
Mycophenolate Mofetil (MMF)
Mechanism of action: The MMF is rapidly hydrolyzed, becoming mycophenolic acid (MPA), and blocks the
de novo
synthesis of purines by the reversible and non-competitive inhibition of the Inosine-5-monophosphate dehydrogenase. This one is the only pathway through which the lymphocytes can synthesize DNA.
The MMF inhibits selectively the T and B lymphocyte proliferation in cases of allogenic stimulation.
IL-2 production is not blocked, as with CNI.
Pharmacokinetics: the MMF depends on the gastric and hepatic hydrolyzation to become MPA, then, the bioavailability reaches the 90%. After having his job done, the MPA is conjugated to a bile inactive metabolite for its excretion.
The MMF dose is 2-3 g/day, making it twice a day adjusted by secondary effects, mainly myelotoxicity and gastrointestinal intolerance.
The Mycophenolate Sodium, recently developed, happens to have a similar security and efficacy profile.
Glucocorticoids are a regular component in the induction, maintenance and rejection treatment after heart transplant.
Example of an induction and maintenance treatment protocol:
Two 500 mg doses of methylprednisolone before and after surgery
Three 125 mg doses every 8 hours after the intervention
Initially, one dose of 1 mg/Kg/day of prednisone which will go decreasing in 0,1 mg/Kg every 48 hours until the 0,2 mg/Kg/day dose is reached.
The 0,2 mg/Kg/day dose will be reduced to 0,1 mg/Kg/day about the 6th month after transplant
Many adverse effects: hypertension, emotional lability, cataracts, peptic ulcer, delayed wound healing or proximal myopathy as well as hyperlipidemia, salt and water retention, Diabetes Mellitus, osteopenia or estaturoponderal delay.
The regularly performed endomyocardial biopsies would lead to a glucocorticoid dose reduction if negative, yet the total removal is still controversial. Nowadays, the rate of corticoid withdrawal is 23% the first year, and 39%, the fifth.
Acute Rejection
Acute cellular rejection:
first 6 months after the transplant.
It is based on a T cell response, the myocardial infiltration leads to cell death and diastolic dysfunction of the graft, the lack of early treatment enables systolic dysfunction and graft failure.
- Inespecific (asthenia, dizziness, nausea or febricula)
- Left and right congestive symptoms
- Low output symptoms
- Rhythm disorders
Under suspicion of acute cellular rejection:
Start urgent treatment
Endomyocardial biopsy
Nevertheless, many of the rejection episodes are asymptomatic:
- Endomyocardial biopsy (EMB)
Antibody-mediated rejection:
the B cell response.
Graft dysfunction with few or no signs of cellular rejection.
Etiology unclear: multifactorial hypotheses
Normally, heart failure or sudden death are the first clinical manifestations.
Prevention and diagnosis:
Primary prevention: close follow-up of the cardiovascular risk factors
Coronary angiographies are recommended once a year or every two years (level C of evidence).
Stress echocardiography
Treatment is reduced and has a poor efficacy:
- Immunosuppressive drugs' replacement
- Revascularization: firstly, PCI; secondly, CABG (surgical)
- Retransplant
Diffuse, concentric and longitudinal thickness of the intima of the vascular tree, affecting from the big epicardial coronary arteries to the microvasculature and leading to ischemic cardiomyopathy.
When acute heart failure, differential diagnosis between GVD and acute rejection
Main cause of late death after transplant
Most frequent:
- Cutaneous
- Lymphoproliferative syndromes
- Lung
- Prostate
- Screening for breast, colon and prostate cancers
- Close follow-up of cutaneous tumors
- Minimization of chronic immunosuppression
- Similar to general population
Infection etiology or frequency depends on the time after transplant:
- First month
- Between the 2nd and 6th month
- 6th month forward
Particular aspects:
- Early and specific diagnosis
- Poor clinical presentation
- Microbiological or histological diagnosis
- Opportunistic infections
- Interactions and toxicity of the antibiotics
- Utility of the reduction of immunosuppression
Hyperacute rejection:
- Graft implantation moment
- Preformed antibodies
- Inflammation, ischemia and generalized myocardial necrosis: fulminant clinical course.
Treatment: diminish the antibody count
Glucocorticoids, plasmapheresis, monoclonal antibodies...
Drugs acting on immunophilins
Immunosuppressive drug: transplants and autoimmune diseases
Mechanism of action: it needs to form complexes with immunophilins, cyclophilins in this case, in order to inhibit calcineurin. Therefore, IL-2, TNF-a, INF-y and IL-10 should also be inhibited.
Pharmacokinetics: lipophilicity makes its bioavailability unpredicable: Neoral.
CsA is metabolized by CYP3A4 in the liver and then excreted by the kidneys and intestines.
Main adverse efects:
- Renal toxicity - Hypertension
- GI disorders - Transient hepatotoxicity
- Gingival hyperplasia - Hypertrichosis/hirsutism
- Angioedema - Neurotoxicity
- Hypomagnesemia - Hyperkalemia
- Hyperuricemia
Monitor the hepatic and renal functions: control the cyclosporine blood levels!
Maintenance dose: 2-6 mg/kg/day divided in two dosis
Antiproliferative agents
Azathioprine (AZA)
Mechanism of action: Azathioprine - 6-mercaptopurine - tioiosine monophosphate (TIMP)
The purine analog gets in the DNA and inhibits its synthesis.
Suppressed T and B lymphocyte proliferation; tumor development.
Pharmacokinetics: Good intestinal absorption and prolonged effect (12-24h). Azathioprine is metabolized in the liver and excreted through urine.
The catabolism depends on oxidase xanthines: alopurinol!
The AZA dose is 1-2 mg/kg/day, if combined with CNI and with possible dose reduction if leukocytes<3000mL, platelets<100000mL and Ht<30%. Aza blood levels are not monitored.
Adverse effects:
- Myelosuppression: anemia, thrombocytopenia and leukopenia.
"...Once the donor's heart is on the operating table, we proceed to remove the diseased heart. The first incision is made through the interatrial groove to the base of the mitral annulus and the base of the LAA. Then, the superior and inferior cava veins are sectioned and the left atrium gets finally sectioned too. Subsequently, two other sections are performed a few millimeters from the aortic and pulmonary valves and, therefore, the receptor's heart is completely removed. The vascular structures are then adjusted and improved to proceed with the donor's heart's anastomosis. The first anastomosis is going to be the left atrium with a 3/0 Prolene...
...While the patient gets heated the pulmonary artery's anastomosis is done with a 4/0 Prolene. From 5 to 10 minutes later the heart starts beating spontaneously in sinus rhythm with satisfactory ventricular contractions which leads to a soon disconnection of the CPB pump because of good systolic pressures. The
total donor ischemic time
has been 3 hours and 30 minutes and after an approximately 25 minute assistance the CPB pump is disconnected with a total ECC of 2 hours and 15 minutes..."
Myocardial ischemia and preservation
- No myocardial preservation techniques
- Principal of hypothermia
- Cardioplegic principle
- Reperfusion and reoxygenation damage
Cold static preservation
Continuous perfusion for cardiac preservation
Monday, 9th of June 1997
"60 year old patient. Male.
History of anterior myocardial infarction in December 1989,
in January 1990 operated on of septoapical aneurysmectomy and triple aortocoronary bypass.
The patient was periodically followed being in a NYHA class II.
The 24th of November 1995, though good physical appearance, a 5 second pause was found due to carotid sinus massage, syncope also happened. The electrocardiogram showed a trifascicular block, a pacemaker was implanted.
The patient evolved successfully until April 1996, when he presented with major cold symptoms. It was treated with antibiotics and theophyllines. As a consequence of the bronchodilator therapy, the patient has presented malaise and precordial oppression with progressive dyspnea ever since.
Nowadays, the patient has an important orthopnea, PND and generalized edema.
The patient enters the waiting list for heart transplantation."
Saturday, 4th of May 1996
Cyclosporine 175 mg/12 hours, orally at 9am and 9pm
Azathioprine 200 mg/day, orally at 4pm
Prednisone 5 mg/day, orally at 8am
Cyclosporine 150 mg/12 hours, orally at 9am and 9pm
Azathioprine 150 mg/day, orally at 4pm
Cyclosporine 125 mg/12 hours, orally at 9am and 9pm
Mycophenolate Mofetil 500 mg/12 hours, orally at 9am and 9pm
Cyclosporine 75 mg/12 hours, orally at 9am and 9pm
Mycophenolate Mofetil 750 mg/12 hours, orally at 9am and 9pm
Cyclosporine 25 mg/12 hours, orally at 9am and 9pm
Mycophenolate Mofetil 500 mg/8 hours
Cyclosporine 25 mg/day, orally at 2pm
Mycophenolate Mofetil 750 mg/12 hours
Prednisone 5 mg/day
August 2011
February 2012
June 2003
December 2002
June 1999
June 1997
Screening for acute rejection
- Every 15 days during the first 3 months
- Sixth month
- Once a year
Monitorization of the immnosuppressants' blood level
Screening for
"The 28th of May 1998, under local anesthesia and via femoral, the right ventricle's emdomyocardial biopsy was performed.
The pathological study revealed a IA acute rejection,
light and focal"
Mycotic pseudoaneurysm of the ascending aorta is a rare but potentially life-threatening
complication after orthotopic heart transplantation.
CUN: once a year
hemodynamic study, coronary angiography...
"Exercise Stress Echo Test (26/07/01):
Treadmill: Stress44 Time: 11:00
Left Ventricle: Concentric hypertrophy
TDD(mm): 46 TSD(mm):30 EF(%): 66 VS:62 TDV(ml): 96 TSV(ml): 33 DS(mm): 11
FS(%): 35 SS(mm): 14 SPP(mm): 16
Contractility: septal normal, anterior normal, apical normal, inferior normal, posterior normal, lateral normal
Right Ventricle: normal
Atria: dilated left atrium, dilated right atrium
LA-length(cm): 6.7 LA-Trans(cm):4 LA-antero-post(cm): 6.3 RA-length(cm): 4.8 RA-Trans(cm):3.7
Mitral Valve: Normal
E(cm/s):84 A(cm/s):43 E/A:2 THP(m/s):66 DT(ms):210
Aortic Valve: Normal
Root(cm):3.2 Opening(cm):2
Pulmonary Valve: Normal
Tricuspid Valve: Normal
Pericardium: Normal
ECG: Sinus rhythm, no alterations
Basal Echo: Orthotopic heart transplant. Hypertrophic left ventricle with normal global systolic function (EF=0.65). Dilated left atrium. Typical transplanted heart filling pattern, DT of 210 ms, IVRT of 60ms and WMSI of 1.
Dobutamine echo: Infusions of dobutamine were performed at doses of 5, 10, 20, 30 and 40 µg/Kg/min with a three minute gap for each dose. The Optison 3 mg echocardiographic contrast was previously administered for cavity opacification. Heart rate reached 145 bpm (93% of his MHR). Blood pressure reached 164/100 mmHg. The maximum double product was 23780. Clinically asymptomatic. No electrocardiographic changes. Regional motility alterations were not observed. WMSI of 1.
Conclusions: Negative study for ischemia."
2009: Prostate adenocarcinoma
2010: NHL - postransplant follicular lymphoma grade II, stage IV-A
2011: seborrheic keratosis
2013: Lung nodule compatible with adenocarcinoma
Multiple episodes of urinary tract infections, herpes virus and CMV infections, complicated cholelithiasis...
"A heart transplant patient comes to the ER with respiratory distress. He started with fever (39ºC) and malaise five days ago. After talking to Dr Rabago on the phone, he started taking Tavanic. The fever improved but the dyspnea didn´t.
When hospitalized, empirical antibiotic therapy is started with Piperacilin/Tazobactam and Levofloxacin intravenously, adjusted by renal function. Clinical improvement is observed the next days, the patient remains apyretic and without any need of oxygen. At the time of discharge, the patient has reached 8 days of intravenous antibiotic therapy.
Diagnosis: Left pneumonia without microbiological isolation.
The patient is hospitalized for asthenia and a mainly morning febricula which subsides with paracetamol. The cultures were negative.
On the CT performed the 21st of September an 8 cm mycotic pseudoaneurysm was found. Therefore, a preferred surgery is scheduled for the 25th of September.
Under general anesthesia and CPB pump the replacement of the ascending aorta is performed using a 28 mm Hemashield Gold graft. An important recessed mycotic aneurysm is found with an infected thrombus in it (sent to microbiology). Severe adherences were also found and were difficult to dissect.
On the first days after surgery, the patient presented with bilateral effusion and atelectasis with air leak. Once diuresis was forced, the patient progressively improved and was moved to the ward, where positively evolved.
The cultures of the aortic tissue were positive for
Streptococcus pneumoniae
. The patient was treated, first, with intravenous Ceftriaxone during 2 weeks and, after, with Levofloxacino 4 more weeks."
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Stewart Superior Day/Date Wall Clock, 300mm Diameter
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"Good, not Great"
Alright, so from the beginning of the movie I am absolutely hooked but then the story goes all over the place, it becomes a big mess. Throughout watching the movie I began to realize the flaws and the problems BvS has. Before I go more in depth about my flaws with the movie I'll tell you about the positive stuff, "the great moments." Ben Afleck as Bruce Wayne/Batman was great! Jeremy Irons as Alfred was fantastic! Gal Gadot did a wonderful job as Wonder Woman! Like most of Snyder's films, they are a treat for our eyes. The action sequences are fantastic and really well choreographed. Cinematography was gorgeous as expected. I dig the soundtrack, especially the score for Wonder-Woman. I thought every scene with Batfleck was phenomenal.
Okay, time for the flaws. There were way too many storylines taking place which resulted in some storylines not getting enough screen time to be well developed and interesting. The way the movie was edited felt really weird and clunky to me. The pace of the movie did not flow well. Another thing I didn't like was some of the dialogue. Eisenberg was too goofy and did not feel like a real character at all. I also think that some of Henry Cavill's and Amy Adam's lines were pretty bad and super cheesy but they did the best with what they were given. Overall, lots of script issues that really affect scenarios and moments in the movie, such as some of the character's motivations not being fleshed out enough.
In conclusion, is Batman V Superman a great movie? No. Is it a terrible movie? No. It's simply "okay." Batman V Superman could have been so much better if they didn't try to shoehorn so many things in it. Overall, I enjoyed Batman V Superman despite its many flaws. It was fun. I have high hopes for the DC universe. You should watch this but don't go in with too high expectations. It could have been way better but it's still worth yout time.
Rating – ★★★


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text: Jonathan Ayerst began his musical experience as a chorister in the english cathedrals of Truro and Wells, later winning several scholarships to study piano with the Armenian pianist Nellie Akopian. As a pianist he has performed throughout Europe, most notably with Remix Ensemble of Portugal, and recorded for radio stations such as BBC Radio 3, Classic FM, and the CD label Hyperion. Since 2000, Jonathan considerably diversified his career, studying organ, improvisation and composition. As a composer, his output includes an oratorio Exodus, a ballet Seagulls and Seahorses and a series of brass and organ works based on Gregorian chant. His own organ compositions were featured in the BBC Radio 4 play This Cold August Light by Jerome Vincent. He divides his time between Porto and London, teaching and performing as a choral conductor and completing a masters course in Psychology for Musicians at Sheffield University.


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'Tis the season to make & share homemade Cranberry Liqueur: B&B owner Chloe Tuttle shows you how!
Trilogy of Bowmore 1964 scotches sells for $21,600 at auction, Off the Presses reports.
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A look at the mysterious "Martini Bitter", and an Angostura bitters heavy cocktail that uses it.
Canlis in Seattle serves up house-infused liquors made using the sous vide technique
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Another cozy fall cocktail, the Apple Cidercar (instead of sidecar, get it?)
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Whisky! Highland Park 1964 and 1968 vintage w/ bespoke black glass bottle and silver cap
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Hey guys! So this is the Saskatchewan Entertainment Expo! My city is kinda small so this was sorta of the first attempt at something to the extent of comic con. I was only able to attend part of one day but still managed buy a bunch of stuff. Less books, more art but pretty art nonetheless! There some pretty nice costumes too. Here's photos!
Let's start with the pretty art!
By Andrei Feheregyhazi. This was the first set I bought: The Eggs (or that's what I call them). I was only planning on buying one,but they're just sooo cute I wouldn't resist, so I bought all of them haha. The eggs getting it on just crack me up … hahaha.
These are the comics I ended up with. It was more based on pretty covers haha. I actually wanted issue 1 of Batman and Robin but, my friend already sold it. poo.
Totoro! by Chrissie Zullo. It's so prettyyyyyy! I love Totoro.
By Justin Shauf. Ahh. I love this one! I think this was my favourite non-comic book print. The colouring is just gorgeous.
By Michael Walsh. Deadpool!!!! So I figured being at a comic convention I should buy at least one comic print, but I couldn't find one I love. That was until the end, during my last round of looking, this beauty popped up. I couldn't resist. Mister Walsh had so many pretty prints, I'm sort of regretting only buying one haha.
My sister also ended up buying Andrei Feheregyhazi's steampunk pieces. I think these are quite nice too. The little robot cleaning up garbage reminds me of steampunk WALL-E heehe.
Okay that's all the arts! Next post will be the cosplay!
Author: Cyn
a bum OT, procrastinator. reader. eater. sleeper. music listen-er. movie go-er. Loves food too much.


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Don't have much time to write and have SOOO much I want to share on the amazing Coachella weekend that just passed (my favorite in the 4 years I have been to the festival and possibly my favorite weekend EVER). One band that was present, James Murphy's LCD Soundsystem, who had THE performance of Coachella (with 10 foot disco ball hanging overhead the whole time) has put their new album This Is Happening (which is as unbelievably brilliant as their last, Sound of Silver) up for free streaming on their website HERE. He is also playing the Hollywood Palladium on June 4th and the Glass House in Pomona on June 5th - more info on presales HERE.
Not to be outdone, the two other most anticipated albums of May (and in my opinion the year, unless Radiohead surprises all of us) have been put up for streaming as well. The National's High Violet is on the NY Times website HERE only until April 27th so listen soon! It is destined to be another classic slowly burning into your mind.
If that wasn't enough, Broken Social Scene's new album, Forgiveness Rock Record, that I have raved about on this site multiple times already, is streaming on their website HERE! They have already put out two songs ("All Is All" and "World Sick") that will definitely be on my year end best songs list.