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This year's GrapeFest -- billed as the largest wine festival in the Southwest -- not only saw the unveiling of medal winners from the Lone Star Wine Competition, but also glimpsed the official birth of the sixth Grapevine tasting room: Lone Star Winery. Lone Star is the agricultural opus of commercial real estate developer Dale Bullough, who operates a 50-acre vineyard on the Texas side of the Red River. To make his wines, which so far include a 1997 Chardonnay, a 1996 Cabernet Sauvignon, a 1998 fume blanc, a 1998 white Merlot, and a 1998 California Syrah, Bullough inked a five-year lease deal with Grayson County College for its T.V. Munson Winery in Ivanhoe. Mike Friend, onetime wine buyer for Pogo's and Neiman Marcus, came on board last March to charge up the winery's marketing. And right out of the chute, North Star captured a bronze for its California Syrah. Among the three competition gold-medal winners this year (seven were handed out last year) were Becker Vineyards 1998 Muscat Canelli Amabile, Messina Hof Wine Cellars 1998 Muscat Canelli, and Cap*Rock Winery 1997 Merlot. Fifty-eight wines from a pool of 129 entries captured medals, compared with 55 medals out of 113 wines entered last year.
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Album Rating: 4.5I saw these guys and football etc. on monday, they were both excellent. I love their older stuff and this record is absolutely stellar, they just get better.
Album Rating: 4.5dig the last sentence of the first paragraph so much. ordered this on vinyl 2 months ago, still dont have it, thank god i
finally found a download for it. listening now. joie de vivre fucking rules.
Album Rating: 4.0thanks dud. yeah i haven't gotten my copy yet either. i listened to the stream like 20 times when it was up but i still haven't downloaded it.
Album Rating: 4.0BUT I'D RATHER BE IN A BASEMENT
Album Rating: 4.0IN AKRON
Album Rating: 4.0just randomly heard a song on this for the first time and am now downloading it out of interest
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Album Rating: 4.0This one is all about the lyrics, hits me hard bro
Digging: Captain, We're Sinking - The King Of No Man
Album Rating: 4.0http://thenest.bandcamp.com/
yo pmmets check this, i feel like you'd dig it. this band opened for la dispute and sainthood reps a couple of weeks ago
and i had never heard of them. starting to like them a little
Album Rating: 4.0really like this album also
Maybe I'll check this out. A lot of bands in the genre have been hit or miss for me lately.
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I'm just in the beginning of mastering Freezer Cooking! 🙂 The other day I shared my first recipe of Pineapple Chicken Sandwiches and today I'm going to share another recipe that I have used and froze and ended up tasting delicious!! If you get time be sure to check out our other Freezer Cooking recipe and I will be sure to add more on here as I figure them out!!
This recipe is super simple and it doesn't take much time at all to cook making it a perfect addition to those busy nights when you don't have time to cook! This is definitely better than running thru a drive thru somewhere!!
Freezer Cooking: Scalloped Potatoes with Ham and Broccoli
- 1 bag Frozen Diced Hashbrowns
- 1 head Broccoli (Chopped)
- 2 Packages of Julienne Sliced Ham (*You can also use Diced or Cubed Ham*)
- 2 cans Cream of Mushroom Soup
- 2 cans Water (Use the Soup cans and fill with water)
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|Step 3
|Chop the broccoli into small pieces and add half the broccoli into each container
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CLEVELAND, Texas — Authorities in Liberty County have located the body of Devon Davis, the two-year-old boy who went missing earlier this week. The toddler was found dead in a body of water Saturday afternoon just one hour after Liberty County officials announced their decision to suspend the search.
Authorities frantically searched for the child after he disappeared Tuesday from the family's home in the Sam Houston Lakes Estate subdivision. The toddler was last seen when his mother put him down for a nap.
Devon's mother told investigators that she put the toddler and his sister down, locked the front door and went to sleep herself. When she woke up, the boy was gone.
Devon and his family had only been living at the home in Liberty County less than a week. They recently moved from Virginia, and were staying with a friend of the family.
Investigators said after she realized the boy was gone, the mother called 911. An Amber Alert was issued for the child late Tuesday evening, and crews aided by helicopters immediately launched an extensive search. Search dogs and sonar equipment, volunteers and authorities combed through the rough, wooded terrain, but found no sign of the child.
Concerned neighbors said the area was full of wild animals and water.
"It's a mean river. She'll take a life in a heartbeat, she's taken a lot of them," neighbor Deborah Scott said. "What I'm worried about is the gators. There's gators everywhere, and they're crawling real bad, and we've got snakes out here too. I can't believe this baby is missing."


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The four of us – Steve, Karen, Dee and myself – had just finished a relaxing evening in the hotsprings in Bath, and a few drinks in a chill little pub playing some drum'n'bass, and were on our way back to the Travelodge. Walking through the empty downtown streets, it was a cold night even though it was the middle of summer. Enjoying ourselves and chatting it up, we stopped at the crosswalk outside the main bus station to wait for the crosswalk to change when a large Englishman and his lady friend came up beside us.
Just then from far across the street, we hear some random yelling. Knowing this was England and they get a bit out of control, I figured it was just some guy blowing off some steam. But the yelling didn't stop, and in the shadows from across the street a figure of craziness and destruction appeared. This guy was kicking garbage cans, body checking bus stops and being loser drunk. As he swayed and swerved up to the very same crosswalk we were about to cross, my eyes met Steve and we knew there was going to be trouble.
Someone got far too drunk and was now looking to cause a ruckus. He was pretty young, probably 21 or 22, but looked like he had fallen down all the way from the next town's bar.
Sizing the situation up, I looked over next to the guy with his lady friend standing beside us, and he reminded me of Dolf Lundgren. About 6'4 and at least 220lbs of lean muscle, he looked like a man who could handle himself. Just then the drunk started yelling in a drunkish slur: "whooo are you? Whoo smuchka fee??" Other negative sounding babble poured from his mouth and just as the crosswalk turned green, the drunk started to cross the street, continuing his incoherent yelling. Steve and I started to walk in front of the girls and kept our eyes on the drunk, knowing in our minds something was bound to happen.
What happened next happened so fast. In the middle of the crosswalk the drunk came running up to Dolf, and literally jumped to swing at his head. Taking the punch like it was from Jean-Claude van Dam, Dolf swung around and proceeded to punch the guy 10-12 times in the head, all within 3 seconds! The drunk was now on the ground with blood coming from his lip. Dolf and his girl starting walking away as did we, all thinking that ordeal was said and done.
But no, the drunkard hadn't had quite enough and started yelling at Dolf shouting, "Shake my hand asshole" and coming up to him again in a threatening manner. I have to give it Dolf as he stayed calm and kept walking away until the guy pushed him from behind. Another 15 punches in 5 seconds pursued and then it was completely over. The drunk was again knocked down to the ground. Finally, we all made it to the other side of the street and gave Dolf the nod and some praise.
An unbelievable 3 minutes later we saw the drunken guy again, smashing into the bus stop and yelling at nothing. I wonder what the 6 security guards inside the bus station were doing, almost certainly avoiding this loser.
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It's no surprise that Medicare has become a big campaign issue -- it is somewhat surprising that the Republicans are pushing it.
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, running mate Paul Ryan, and other Republicans are stressing $716 billion in cuts to Medicare that are part of President Obama's health care plan.
That attack has forced Obama and company to play defense, even as they emphasize that Romney and Ryan want to turn Medicare into a voucher program that will cost seniors thousands of dollars a year.
The $716 billion in cuts are aimed not at Medicare recipients, but at health care providers, such as hospitals and medical device makers; they also target what the administration calls waste and inefficiency in Medicare.
"We made reforms that extended the life of the program," Obama said Saturday in New Hampshire, adding that his health care plan has reduced the costs of prescription drugs and provides preventive services like cancer screenings.
As for Republican idea of Medicare vouchers -- to be used in the private insurance market -- Obama cited studies estimating "that this could force seniors to pay as much as an extra $6,400 a year for their health care."
Meanwhile, speaking in Florida -- where the Medicare issue is particularly resonant -- Ryan told a group of senior citizens that Obama's plan "raids $716 billion from the Medicare program to pay for the Obama care program."
Ryan said the cuts are hurting nursing homes and Medicare Advantage insurance plans, and that "Medicare should not be used as a piggy bank for Obama care."
The Republican plan would not affect Americans who are already 55 or over, say Ryan, Romney and other Republicans. But changes must be made for future beneficiaries or the program will go insolvent, they say.
Speaking to a crowd that included his 78-year-old mother, Ryan said: "Mitt Romney and I will protect and strengthen Medicare so that the promises that were made that people organize their retirements around, like my mom, will be promises that are kept."
Obama aides quickly point out that Ryan included the $716 billion in Medicare reductions in his own budget, though Romney has not; the Republican candidate has vowed to repeal Obamacare in its entirety.
Republicans, who many analysts consider to be vulnerable on the Medicare issue, say they welcome the debate over the program's future. Said Ryan: "We want this debate, we need this debate, and we are going to win this debate."
Obama and aides are equally confident about the Medicare issue.
"My plan has extended the life of Medicare by nearly a decade," Obama said. "Their plan would shorten the life of Medicare and end Medicare as we know it, because they'd turn it into a voucher system."
David's journalism career spans three decades, including coverage of five presidential elections, the Oklahoma City bombing, the 2000 Florida presidential recount and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He has covered the White House for USA TODAY since 2005. His interests include history, politics, books, movies and college football -- not necessarily in that order. More about David
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I'm trying to remove the cigarette lighter socket from my center console. I have managed to remove the small plastic piece that holds the tiny bulb, and loosen the socket unit with the green plastic sorround, but when I try to pull it out it stops after ca. 1cm (or 0.4"). Does anyone here know how to remove the socket and sorrounding parts without damaging them?
If someone wonders why I want to remove the cigarette lighter socket, it is because my car had a severe leak from the heater core. This caused the car to smell of antifreeze. After I took the plastic parts of the ventilation system out again() and washed them in the bathtub with some dishwashing liquid, the car smelled much better. Now I want to wash the console before I put it back in, but I dont want to get the electrical parts in the lighter socket to get wet, as it might cause them to corrode and cause crappy connections.


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Murata, Yaegashi, Inoue appear in deluxe card
By Joe Koizumi
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Olympic gold medalist in the middleweight class in London, Japan's Ryota Murata (1-0, 1 KO) will participate in his second pro bout against Dave Peterson (13-1, 8 KOs), a southpaw from Minnesota, in an eight-round bout in Tokyo on December 6. It was publicly announced in Tokyo today (Tuesday). Hard-punching Murata impressively decked his debut by demolishing current OPBF 160-pound champ Akio Shibata in two quick rounds this August to be newly ranked atop in the OPBF and Japanese middleweight categories.
Supporting is a WBC flyweight mandatory title bout where defending champ Akira Yaegashi, two-time world champ of Japan, will cope with official challenger and ex-WBC 108-pound titlist Edgar Sosa, a Mexican veteran, in twelve frames.
Sensational future world champ, unbeaten Naoya Inoue (4-0, 3 KOs) will engage in an OPBF 108-pound elimination bout with Philippine ruler Jerson Mancio over twelve. The 20-year-old Inoue wrested the national belt by whipping world-rated defending champ Ryoichi Taguchi in his fourth pro bout, and will try to gain the vacant OPBF throne (renounced by Japan's Shin Ono) in his fifth.
Inoue's younger brother Takuma Inoue, only seventeen, was formerly two-time national high school champ, and will make a professional debut beneath his brother's OPBF engagement. Takuma, whose amateur mark was 52-5, 14 stoppages, said, "My brother took four fights to acquire the national belt, so I'll try to win it within three pro bouts." Good luck.
Also booked on the undercard will be an OPBF bantam title go with WBC#11 Hiroki Shiino to defend his regional belt against WBC#2 southpaw compatriot, ex-national 118-pound titleholder Ryosuke Iwasa over twelve heats.
The deluxe card will be presented by Teiken, Ohashi and Misako Promotions.


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The School That Jack Built
This book tells the fascinating story of the talented, energetic, and far-sighted faculty, students, and university administrators, as well as the circumstances and opportunities that shaped the sometimes rocky evolution of the department.
City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1945–2012.
By Edward J. Kaiser and Karla Rosenberg
The Department of City and Regional Planning (DCRP) at UNC-Chapel Hill was the seventh university planning program in the country and the first to be based in the social sciences. Boldly initiated in 1945 on a university campus with no architecture or engineering program, DCRP was entrusted to a young administrator who had not yet completed his graduate degree in planning at MIT. Despite its atypical start, DCRP would establish a solid foothold by the early 1950s and grow in size and reputation over the next six decades. We hope that the story of this planning education enterprise will be of value to those who studied and taught within its walls, perhaps providing an impetus to reflect on past efforts, friends, and experiences while appreciating a good story. We also hope that story will be of interest to friends of DCRP and perhaps to planning education historians looking for insights into the evolution of planning education.
Observations and anecdotes by alumni and faculty are sprinkled in the margins along with 100 photos of people, occasions, and places. Sidebars describe some of the main characters in the establishment and evolution of the Department. There are indexes of people, places, and illustrations, as well as a detailed table of contents, to facilitate browsing.
Published by The Department of City and Regional Planning, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This book is published in both hard copy and digital versions.
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Karla Rosenberg is an alumna of the Department of City and Regional Planning at UNC-Chapel Hill, class of 2012. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree as well as a Master of Social Work, both from UNC-CH, and a graduate certificate in historic preservation from UNC-Greensboro. She presently works as a bilingual therapist at Carolina Outreach, LLC in Durham, North Carolina.


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03 SVT ticking?.....
My 03 SVT has a ticking noise on idle... Are the SVT motors a bit loud on idle? I do have a bad motor mount, (front passenger). I will be replacing the mount tomorrow or monday, but I am kinda nervous about the noise, oil
Level is good. Also I had a coolant line break, no overheating, but how do I burp the coolant system on this car? Sorry I just got it yesterday.
Mine has a tick off idle on a cold starts. Once its warmed up it stops tho
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have you replaced your mount yet? mine made a ticking noise at idle and slow acceleration but if floored it (engine rotated) and stopped ticking. but down hills and other odd angles it would return. replaced the motor mount. issue resolved. so if you know you need a new mount replace it first then see if its still ticking. its amazing how much noise a bad mount can make. my check engine light even came on saying that my engine was knocking. why? because it was making a ticking noise and that's exactly what the knock sensor picks up. replace that mount and let us know if its still acting up. maybe you'll be lucky with the same problem i had with a simple solution.
Well replaced passenger side mount, still making noise, just not as often. It seems to come and go.... Could I need a valve adjustment? Im pretty sure my driver side mount is bad too
I wanna hear it, hopefully we can get a meet set up.
If you think your other mount is also bad, that could be it. but its hard to say. A video with the sound would help. so many sounds it can make. and trying to describe the sound with text only goes so far.
when the clicking is there, is your heater on? put it at 0 and listen. on idle.
Nope not with the heater.. Just replaced the rest of the motor mounts with steeda mounts, and the rattling only happens when I have my foot off the clutch when idling. I'm thinking maybe a shift linkage rattling? I'm really not sure. Doesn't seem to affect the performance or driveability. Is the power steering a problem in this car? Sometimes it's really stiff when it's cold. The fluid is up and I can find any leaks.
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The Turbo 40 Has Superb Accuracy!
I know I am somewhat opinionated here, but to me a gun is no fun if it's not accurate. One of the key attributes of the Turbo 40 cartridge that makes it fun is its extraordinary inherent accuracy. Couple that with its superior Ackley-like performance, all out of an AR-15 semi auto platform and you have a recipe for some really great shooting. What more can you ask for?
The term "spacegun" is clearly an appropriate name for this type of AR-15 rifle, but when built up right a spacegun can offer up a lot of highly accurate rapid firepower, whether it is used for high power rifle competition, varmint hunting with fast follow up shots, tactical matches, or other applications.
Since I am a high power shooter, most of the load and accuracy testing I do is in a slow prone position with a sling and a scope on the rifle. The x ring at 100 yards is the size of a dime and on a good day when my pulse is low and I am holding well, it is no problem shooting 10 shot groups all in the x ring with an AR-15 chambered in the Turbo 40. It is also fun, at the end of a shooting session at 100 yards, to shoot the staples out of the corners of the targets so that the targets fall on the ground and all I have to do is go down and pick them up. Hitting staples at 100 yards, it can do with relative ease.
One of the benefits of the 6mm Turbo 40 is the great and plentiful supply of Lapua brass for it. The base brass for the 6mm Turbo 40 is 6.5 Grendel Brass, and making Turbo 40 cases is a snap, just spray the necks with spray lube, run the virgin brass through a Turbo 40 re-size die, load the cases up and shoot them.
The 6mmAR Turbo 40 Cartridge Easy To Make!
With some wildcats, making brass for them can be a real chore, which makes it so it is only viable for the most hardcore reloaders and shooters. In the case of the 6mmAR Turbo 40, making brass for it is easy and you can have fun or compete shooting very accurate fire forming loads while you do it.
The steps needed to make 6mmAR Turbo 40 brass are simple:
1. Take new 6.5 Grendel brass and spray the necks with something like Hornady One Shot spray lube;
2. Run them through a Turbo 40 full length sizing die (die sets are available through www.6mmAR.com);
3. Load up the cases and shoot them magazine feed or single loading out of an AR-15 Turbo 40 chambered upper (and with the right powder charge, fire forming loads are very accurate in and of themselves and adequate for competitive and other types of shooting).
There is also no neck turning and no trimming of the brass needed, and in most cases the brass never needs to be trimmed over the life of the cases (10 reloads or so) since brass growth, because of the sharper 40 degree shoulder angle, stays at a minimum.
One of the benefits of shooting a 6mm is the great lineup of bullets that are available. Shown in this photo (left to right) are some of the popular bullets used with the Turbo 40, including the Hornady 75 gr. V-Max (far left) and then the 87 gr. V-Max, folowed by the Berger 90 gr. BTHP, the Berger 100 gr. BTHP, the Berger 108 gr. BTHP, and then the Sierra 107 gr. MatchKing (far right).
Feeds and Functions 100% From An AR-15
One of the big questions I had when I developed the Turbo 40 cartridge was whether it would feed out of an AR-15 with a 40 degree shoulder angle. What I quickly found out after making the first prototype upper for the cartridge and shooting it a while was that in an AR-15, the shoulder of the case normally does not make contact with the feed ramp so as to guide the loaded cartridge into the chamber. What typically makes contact (if anything) is the corner edge of the shoulder (at the junction of the shoulder and case wall) of the case, which suggests one could make the shoulder angle even 45 or 50 degrees without issue (but I am not going there at least for now).
The reality is, I found that if you follow some simple rules (that apply to all AR-15 cartridges) the feeding and function of Turbo 40 cartridges in an AR-15 is the same as it is with other AR-15 cartridges.
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Moving On - Series 1
Release Date: 22 June 2009 | Certificate: Suitable for 12 years and over
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text: I put down a deposit on a V2 quite some time ago and told the salesman that I wanted it Black with black interior (cause black is faster:cool2:) but this was before we knew what the color choices would be. Now after the color choices have been released I'm having second thoughts about my choice the Diamond blue tricoat sounds interesting. Has anyone seen this color? Is it similar to the blue ZR1 Corvette thats been shown at the Detroit auto show?:hmm:


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Derrick Rose gave a candid interview to USA Today this morning where he discussed basketball and his new role as full time father. Rose has been out since tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee last April, and he's apparently in no rush to the court. Rose is taking the necessary time to heal and enjoying being a father during his down time.
Rose's manager, Gar Forman, told USA Today that he would like to get an exact date for Rose's return, but Rose only says that he'll be back once he's at 110 percent.
What's capturing Rose's attention while he's off the court? Fatherhood. The new dad is determined to be a great dad to his kid:
"Growing up without my dad being around, it's definitely going to help me to raise him. If I just do everything the opposite of what my dad did, I think that will make things pretty easy."
"I can joke about it now because I'm past that stage where it used to hurt. By having a kid, it's gone. I could take all that negative energy that I had and put it in a positive way."
Rose has always been a family man, and has used his basketball career to take care of his family.
" My whole life has been nothing but trying to find a way to take care of my mom and take care of my family as quickly as possible" he says.
Rose also has some poignant words about what he'll teach his son.
"I'll always teach him to be humble. Appreciate everything he has. The value of a dollar. Respect his elders. He's going to be a cool little dude. He is, man. Being around [his mother's] family. They're cool people. This whole experience is going to be great. He's going to have a great group around him" said Rose.


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This year, Conan O'Brien brought back his "Human Centipede menorah" sketch for Hanukkah. However, one of the show's viewers thought that Conan was lighting the menorah the wrong way. (The fact that there were people connected face-to-butt, though? Apparently not as problematic.) Here's Alexander's video and Conan's response. … [Read more...]
A Fan Takes Issue with Conan O'Brien's Human Centipede Menorah (But Not the One You Think)
Conan O'Brien's Hanukkah Offering: The R2D2 Dreidel
Last year, Conan O'Brien icked the hell out of me by creating a Human Centipede menorah. The menorah is back again this year (tonight's the sixth night, for those of you keeping track at home), but thankfully there's a second much-less-icky accessory to go along with it: the R2D2 dreidel. Here's the spinner making its debut: … [Read more...]
Conan O'Brien Presents the Human Centipede Menorah
What happens when the grossest movie in recent memory is crossed with a Jewish holiday that celebrates miracles? This. And true to the spirit of the holiday, I will have nightmares for at least eight nights. … [Read more...]


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- Jason Parks of Omaha, Neb. Jason was driving to work one morning when he witnessed a collision between two semitrailer trucks. He rushed to the scene of the accident and, with no regard for his own safety, pulled one of the drivers from the flaming wreckage only moments before the truck exploded.
- Lois and Bill Hall of Clinton, Iowa. The Halls and the K-9 dogs they raise and train provide more than 1,500 hours of service to their community each year, assisting with emergency search and rescue missions and offering therapy visits to local schools and hospitals.
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa, Nov. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- An Omaha, Neb. man and a couple from Clinton, Iowa will represent their respective states as "citizen heroes" when the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers meet the University of Iowa Hawkeyes on Friday, Nov. 23 rd in the second-annual Heroes Game presented by Hy-Vee. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110729/CG43683LOGO) The Heroes Game uses the national stage created by this new Big Ten football rivalry to honor the heroic efforts of individuals and organizations in America's heartland. Fans of both schools were invited to nominate residents of Iowa and Nebraska who have performed extraordinary acts of heroism and service in their communities. From among those nominated, staff and volunteers from the American Red Cross selected the following winners, who will be recognized during a halftime ceremony on the field in Iowa City's Kinnick Stadium:


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This is a discussion on Lawyers; In The Event Of... within the Concealed Carry Issues & Discussions forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Originally Posted by Echo_Four It is unlikely that you'll find a lawyer that specializes in CCW work. There simply aren't enough cases to make a ...
HELGA: Where are you going?
HAGAR: To sign a peace treaty with the King of England.
HELGA: Then why take all those weapons?
HAGAR: First we gotta negotiate...
ALWAYS carry! - NEVER tell!
"A superior Operator is best defined as someone who uses his superior
judgement to keep himself out of situations that would require a display of his
superior skills."
In regards to choosing counsel be aware that the police do not usually chose attorneys because they are the ones who defend "the good guys"...they chose them because they are able to handle stick, dirty, nasty situations in which a police officer is alleged to have done something to turn him from a police officer into a criminal defendant.
You get no points because your attorney's other clients are (or were) municipal employees.
Additionally, don't get sold on the idea that you want a former state or federal prosecutor. Prosecuting is different from defense work. Just because someone was successful as a prosecutor, doesn't mean they are the one you want as a defense attorney. Mind you, many do make the transition successfully and are great at it, but it should be A factor in your choice of counsel, not THE factor.
How do you chose counsel?
Send me $50 and I'll tell you in email...OK. OK...put the gun down...no sense of humor...
You ask.
You ask at the shooting range if any attorneys come in to shoot.
If so, does the person at the desk know their name & contact info?
Now, that attorney may be an insurance defense attorney who doesn't do criminal defense work but he knows someone who does.
You might ask your tax guy if he or someone he knows is able to talk to you about self defense and related topics.
Have you ever had a car accident? Did that lawyer do a good job? Do they do criminal work and are they able to talk to you about self defense issues?
If you are asking attorney for a referral, ask who would they hire if they got in trouble?
Get that guy/gal's info and call that person's office and see if you can talk to them on the phone for a little while.
Be honest with them about what you are asking about.
You are asking about laws relating to self defense in your state and how they are applied, how the "post-fight" is usually handled;
What (if anything) you should say to the police;
How fast the lawyer could get to you in case you do have an incident? If the incident occurs at 1:00 AM Sunday morning - will you be seeing your lawyer at 3:00 AM Saturday at the PD or the hospital (Doable, but expect to pay a premium for that kind of service) or at 11:00 AM Monday in lockup at the courthouse? ;
How much it would cost to retain the attorney in the aftermath of an incident for the purposes of getting you bonded out if you need a real estate bond done should you not be able to come up with the cash for a bondsman?;
An in depth conversation is an hour or so of time, and you should expect to pay for it. It will be money well spent to get accurate information and establish a relationship with an attorney should you need it.
Now Some people have mentioned a retainer.
Some may ask What exactly is a retainer?
Every case is looked at and evaluated for how much time the matter will take, the complexity of the matter and its urgency.
In a typical situation either the defendant or his family will make an appointment, pay a consultation fee and talk to the attorney about the situation.
The lawyer is told what happened, what the charges are, and based on their experience, they estimate the amount of time involved in a defense and the complexity of the matter.
The retainer is the hourly rate multiplied by the amount of hours it is estimated the matter will take. If the matter exceeds the amount of hours projected, expect another bill.
Find out from the attorney you talk to what it would cost for them to get out of bed and come see you in the immediate aftermath of a situation, and put that amount in cash in your gun safe, or buy some sort of easily negotiable, safe, security like a savings bond or something to that effect which can be signed over in the event you need to hire the attorney.
The money you would pay an attorney to keep him on retainer is better spent on savings bonds or other instruments you can cash in, that will grow in value.
Some very good advice, thanks.
Related to this, would you happen to know if Paul Chinigo is still practicing in the Norwich area? Our kids played ice hockey together, and I seem to recall he was a rather highly thought of criminal defense attorney.
I may have to make an appointment with him to sit down and talk as you mentioned.
Thanks Mitchell, I live in Ledyard so Norwich is right next door. I will have to call and see if I can make an appt. with him.
Thanks Mitchell... good scoop!
ALWAYS carry! - NEVER tell!
"A superior Operator is best defined as someone who uses his superior
judgement to keep himself out of situations that would require a display of his
superior skills."
Thanks for the insight...very good.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
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I was in fear for my life and I want to talk to my lawyer, thats it.
If involved in a shooting don't call the police call 911 for an ambulance for the guy you shot trust me the police will be there before the EMS. Your first concern after that is to call your lawyer from a safe place.


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The goal of the Composition Program is to provide students with the opportunity to practice those writing skills which will enable them to write successfully in all their college courses. By the end of the program, students should be skillful at reading analytically and critically; their writing should demonstrate an understanding of organization, audience, voice, and the conventions of college-level written English.
In any of the courses in the Composition Program, students will be expected to write several papers; they may be asked to keep a reading journal and practice peer editing in small groups or engage in some form of collaborative learning in which essays will be read by other students in the class. Some in-class writing is required in all writing courses.
Transferable Credits
Although PCC does not offer a degree in English composition, writing courses are lower division collegiate courses that transfer to a four-year college or university. English composition courses may transfer as:
- elective credits
- program requirement credits
- and/or graduation requirements for the receiving institution
Students are always encouraged to check with the receiving institution, your PCC academic advisor and the University Transfer website for the most accurate and timely transfer requirement information.
Disability Services
If you have a disability which requires accommodation in the classroom, please make this request through the Disability Services. Then, make arrangements to meet with your instructor outside of class to discuss your specific request. The Composition Department will make every attempt to meet any request which does not require substantively changing the requirements of the course. (For example, while you cannot ask to do less work or work of lower quality, you can ask to do your work in a different way.)
What's Next?
- Apply for admission to PCC.
- Take the College Placement Writing Test.
- If you aren't quite ready for credit writing courses, Developmental Education Writing can help you prepare. Many students already enrolled in credit courses take developmental classes as needed to meet the requirements of their degree program.
- Meet with an academic advisor.


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Rob Burbank's Outdoors with AMC: They are a few of my favorite (outdoor) things
ROB BURBANK | November 30. 2013 1:16AM
Such compilations tend to be personal, and it's unlikely one person's favorites would be exactly the same as those of someone else. See if any of the items below are on your list of preferred gear.
Rob Burbank is the director of media and public affairs for the Appalachian Mountain Club in Pinkham Notch. His column, "Outdoors with the AMC," appears monthly in the New Hampshire Sunday News.
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This article was published 21/10/2013 (1345 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The fire hall and town office of Rapid City have burned down in an overnight fire.
Rapid City mayor Orest Woloski says two trucks were also lost in the blaze, which was reported at about midnight. However, there were no reported injuries.
The town's siren was sounded, bringing people out of their homes to the scene of the fire.
The two were housed in the same building, at the corner of Fourth Street and Third Avenue in the town, about 30 kilometres north of Brandon.
RCMP say that they were called to the fire shortly after midnight. Information is still being gathered and they say the cause of the fire is undetermined. Investigation is ongoing with the Manitoba Office of the Fire Commissioner.
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Armitstead excited by Tour start
Lizzie Armitstead will relish the pressure of being the British champion at the Friends Life Women's Tour, which race director Mick Bennett hopes will become the biggest event in the sport within three years.
The 25-year-old from Otley is the star home name in the field which is without Joanna Rowsell, who has withdrawn due to illness, while Laura Trott will start for Wiggle Honda in Oundle on Wednesday despite suffering from laryngitis.
Armitstead won the British title - and with it the white jersey with red and blue bands for the following year - in Glasgow last June and claimed Britain's first medal of London 2012.
She finished with Olympic silver behind Holland's Marianne Vos, the most complete and dominant rider in cycling, men's or women's, and a rival for this week's race, which concludes in Bury St Edmunds on Sunday.
"For me pressure is always a good thing. I'm in good shape," she said.
"It's an honour to be British champion in Europe because people recognise you for something, even though the stripes confuse people a little bit. They often think I'm Dutch.
"It will be a really proud moment for me to wear the stripes in this race."
It was a thrilling Olympic race almost two years' ago when Armitstead was pipped on The Mall by Vos in torrential rain which encouraged Bennett and Sweetspot, the race organisers, to embark upon the Women's Tour.
Bennett said: "It is our ambition that in three years we make this the biggest and best women's tour in the world.
"What inspired us to want to organise this was watching the women's Olympic road race, which was eons better than the men's Olympic road race, which we all felt was quite boring.
"It was the excitement of these women in pretty dreadful conditions and how exciting they made women's road racing and we thought 'my goodness' and we thought we had to take this and turn it into something special."
The plan is to move the event around the country, with Armitstead lauding the claims of her native Yorkshire, which this summer hosts the Tour de France Grand Depart.
Armitstead, with tongue in cheek, said: "I've heard the police in Yorkshire aren't so friendly.
"It's some of my team-mates' first time in England. It's nice to show them the countryside and everything, but obviously it's nothing compared to Yorkshire."
Armitstead races for the Dutch Boels-Dolmans team - in a six-rider line-up which also includes Trott's sister Emma - believing that will be an advantage in a race where the wind could have an impact.
She said: "The wind will be a key factor and I'm in one of the strongest teams to use that to our advantage, because the Dutch are notorious for riding in the wind.
"In Europe we're used to nice smooth roads and in the UK it's feeling a little like you've got two punctures. Hopefully those roads will be heavy enough to make it hard."
Laura Trott's role is likely to be a team one, working for Giorgia Bronzini and Linda Villumsen.
Race organisers will hope the double Olympic champion will be involved until at least Saturday's start in her hometown of Cheshunt, where she is scheduled to open the sports centre bearing her name and ride out ahead of the peloton alongside her elder sister.
Whether Laura Trott completes the race or not, Vos' presence ensures a sprinkling of stardust.
Vos, a multiple world and Olympic champion across a range of formats, said: "When I heard about the Women's Tour of course I wanted to participate. It's big.
"This year, 2014, I feel we're getting a change. Women's cycling gets more and more attention with La Course (in Paris on the final day of the Tour de France) and this race.
"After London I still have good memories of that race, with big crowds and all the people were so enthusiastic about cycling.
"I definitely wanted to come back here and race."


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The Witcher 3 ends with a thrilling battle – and a confusing mess of cutscenes. The last minute twists may rankle, but there's a great deal of satisfaction in there for those willing to look at the broader context.
The Witcher 3's charming open world is a joy, not a chore
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is brimming with open world content, but unlike its many competitors, exploring doesn't feel like a chore.
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Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada took the stage at Evo 2014 to officially announce Tekken 7 – somewhat ahead of schedule.
Dark Souls 2 DLC: Is Crown of the Sunken King worth your money?
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Dark Souls 2 reviews - all the scores
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it happened ~ I'd be pissed off too. I don't know what to tell you because I didn't navigate that road very well when we had our 1st. Something like a year later DH told me that he was really scared at that time and wasn't as ready as he thought he was for a baby. I did eventually forgive him and the second time is going better.
The gas plus rash makes me think that you might want to start keeping a food journal-- you little Rassa might be extra sensitive to something in your diet (dairy and soy are the ones that I eliminate first, because my guys have tended to not tolerate well). Cut dairy out and see if in a few days if it makes baby happier. Or at least if you know that she is extra fussy one evening it might be because of something you ate...
I had to do this with my DD and it made a HUGE difference in our lives. She had the same thing--was gassy, had a rash in the diaper area only, and would cry and cry. When I cut out all the dairy and soy it was a new, happy, rash free baby.
this site has a lot of good info on diet and nursing:
I hope you guys get some sleep soon!
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We weren't able to take Alex out for dinner until he was 4 months old because of the colicky screaming, and just had to accept that our main meal of the day HAD to be at lunchtime.
Mom to DS(14), DS(12), DD(9), DS(6), DS (4), and DS(2)
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ETA: does anyones ds/dd sleep up against your boob? my ds nures to sleep and then sleeps with his arms around my boob and face pressed up against it most nights.. Im just starting to worry that maybe he loves my boob a little too much..
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when you guys say "sling" are you talking a specific contraption, baby wearing in general or a position? I'd love to get something to work but have not found the right one yet...
We are all surviving, but I guess I was hoping to do more than just survive :-Z
Having a newborn is so much harder than I thought, and I have yet to feel any kind of overwhelming in-loved-ness or even maternal instinct kick in. I keep waiting it out til we get to the 1 month or 6 wk point, maybe things will get a little better then (we are at 2 wks right now)
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Ishi Swings for the Pop Fences on Digital Wounds
Jay Barker
Electro-dance outfit Ishi, celebrated the release of their sophomore LP, Digital Wounds, this weekend at the Granada Theater. Frontman John Mudd (One of two remaining original members, along with producer Brad Dale) says they wanted to make a new record that captured the energy from the dance-floor numbers of the first album.
"Our key goal was always to have a record that was cohesive and worked together. So it didn't sound the same, yet tapped into the nostalgia of listening to a record front to back. Not being tired of it."
The band is moving away from the folk sound that launched them into local fame, to embrace a more holistic electronic sound.
"I can't pigeonhole us," Mudd says. "For the next couple records I'll be trying to explore Ishi as an electronic dance band. Really seeing how far I can go with that." Mudd says the folk element of the band's lineage will be used for separate projects. "I'll always write folk songs, and we'll release some as a EP, embracing the folktronic aspect that got us all started."
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To find inspiration for Ishi's new sound, Mudd turned to a few kings of pop.
"John Lennon and Michael Jackson were our inspirations for this record, the same way Daft Punk and Simon and Garfunkel were for the first," Mudd says. "It helps my vision to have a marrying pair of artists that I'm really inspired by."
The record's title, Digital Wounds, came from the band wanting to tackle society's increased depended on technology through, oddly enough, electronic music. "Digital Wounds means battling with the mundane lifestyle that technology can lock us into," Mudd says. It gets us disconnected with reality and human interaction. We wanted to explore that and find ways to heal, and not to be a slave to that mentality." And Mudd's solution?
"To really look inside one self to understand what makes you who you are. I personally have been able do that and it's helped me grow and interact with people on a deeper level by understanding your strengths and weakness."
The messy revolving door of the Ishi's members is part of the band's well-chronicled criticism. Mudd embraces his strong personality as the reason his band has come this far, but he knows he needs to better appreciate the talent he has around him. "My strength as a frontman is being able to have a vision of a mood and feel with the band, and then creating that vibe and energy and expressing it with a live audience," Mudd says. "My weakness has been embracing all the talent that's in my band and letting them shine. And that's gonna come with time."
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A simplified subnormothermic machine perfusion system restores ischemically damaged liver grafts in a rat model of orthotopic liver transplantation
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Liver donor shortages stimulate the development of strategies that incorporate damaged organs into the donor pool. Herein we present a simplified machine perfusion system without the need for oxygen carriers or temperature control, which we validated in a model of orthotopic liver transplantation.
Rat livers were procured and subnormothermically perfused with supplemented Williams E medium for 3 hours, then transplanted into healthy recipients (Fresh-SNMP group). Outcome was compared with static cold stored organs (UW-Control group). In addition, a rat liver model of donation after cardiac death was adapted using a 60-minute warm ischemic period, after which the grafts were either transplanted directly (WI group) or subnormothermically perfused and transplanted (WI-SNMP group).
One-month survival was 100% in the Fresh-SNMP and UW-Control groups, 83.3% in the WI-SNMP group and 0% in the WI group. Clinical parameters, postoperative blood work and histology did not differ significantly between survivors.
This work demonstrates for the first time in an orthotopic transplantation model that ischemically damaged livers can be regenerated effectively using practical subnormothermic machine perfusion without oxygen carriers.
KeywordsLiver Transplantation Rat Machine Perfusion Preservation Ischemia Donor Shortage
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The discrepancy between the amount of livers transplanted annually and patients on the waiting list has been growing over the past decade. In 2009, the waiting list mortality rate was 15% in the United States (approximately 1,500 patients), whereas the transplantation rate was about 38% (5,000 transplantations) [1]. This shortage has driven scientific efforts to increase organ availability targeted at upgrading conventional storage methods (static cold storage (SCS) in University of Wisconsin (UW) solution) or employing graft optimization to allow for extension of donor criteria. First reported in 1967 [2], machine perfusion is a modality whereby organs can be assessed, preserved and treated. In 2009, the first clinical trial with hypothermic machine perfusion (HMP) of human livers was conducted [3]. Besides preserving organs [4], HMP can regenerate ischemic damage and shows potential for reclaiming livers derived from donation after cardiac death (DCD) [5, 6]. Although an environment of hypothermia facilitates preservation by slowing cellular metabolism and thereby reducing the need for nutrients and oxygen, the low temperature can cause damage to the microvasculature. Intravital microscopy of hypothermically perfused rat livers has demonstrated that temperature-dependent cellular deformation of sinusoidal endothelial cells obstructs flow, which congests the sinusoid and decreases parenchymal perfusion [4, 7]. In addition, the lower temperature decreases the fluidity of the plasma membrane, which can lead to cell lysis and increased enzyme leakage [8]. It follows that because HMP is superior to SCS at temperatures where metabolism is slowed, a separate, perhaps mechanistic phenomenon contributes to this advantage [9, 10]. One possibility is that during machine perfusion, harmful waste products are flushed out of the organ and the continuous flow facilitates better availability of the beneficial solution to the peripheral parenchyma of the organ. In addition to HMP, researchers in many studies have explored normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) [11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17]. Because higher temperature involves increased metabolism, it becomes more essential to promote oxygen delivery, cellular function and bile homeostasis while restricting adverse processes such as nutrient depletion, apoptosis and cellular swelling. Raising the temperature extends both the potential for resuscitation and the risk of organ damage [11, 13, 14]. Although few studies have compared HMP with NMP in the same setting, NMP has been successful in regenerating warm ischemic grafts and preserving livers in rat and porcine models, proving its superiority over SCS [17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24].
Studies of machine perfusion have led to the need for additional research, but new trials have been slow to emerge. A potential reason lies in the relative complexity of machine perfusion, which also has hampered its progress when introduced in kidney transplantation [25, 26]. A simplified machine perfusion protocol might expedite its implementation, benefiting from the practicality of cold storage while not relinquishing the advantages of machine perfusion. In this context, subnormothermic machine perfusion (SNMP) may offer multiple advantages: no temperature control and a moderate rate of metabolism in which beneficial processes still occur while adverse cellular processes may be controlled.
Coupled with metabolism at the temperatures used in SNMP and NMP is the need for aerobic respiration. Although erythrocytes or artificial oxygen carriers added to the perfusate are effective in delivering oxygen to the liver [11, 18, 27, 28], Vairetti et al. successfully used oxygenated SNMP without an oxygen carrier to investigate the temperature-dependence and functional integrity of the graft postperfusion [29, 30]. Recently, Gringeri et al. applied SNMP without an oxygen carrier to liver grafts for 120 minutes in a porcine model of autotransplantation [31]. Moreover, Tolboom et al. calculated the oxygen use of livers during machine perfusion at 20°C and 30°C with an oxygen carrier and concluded that though livers consume more oxygen at 37°C, the addition of the oxygen carrier was not required for adequate liver metabolism at room temperature [32]. Currently, no studies are underway to investigate the validity of SNMP without an oxygen carrier in a long-term transplantation survival model. Moreover, it has not been shown whether, similarly to HMP [3, 8, 33] and NMP [13, 15, 16], ischemically damaged organs can be reclaimed and successfully transplanted using this technique.
In this study, we used a SNMP protocol that did not involve dialysis, oxygen carriers or donor pretreatments such as anticoagulants or preconditioning, enabling high-fidelity simulation of DCD. We report herein for the first time that both fresh and warm ischemic livers can be successfully treated by using such a system and transplanted into healthy recipients with good 30-day survival.
Laboratory animals
Male Lewis rats weighing 250 to 300 g (Charles River Laboratories, Boston, MA, USA) were used for transplantation. The animals were maintained in accordance with National Research Council guidelines, and the experimental protocols were approved by the Subcommittee on Research Animal Care, Committee on Research, Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, MA, USA). The animals were divided into four groups: the UW-Control group (n = 4, 3 hours at 4°C, SCS preservation and subsequent transplantation), the WI group (n = 4, 60 minutes at 34°C, warm ischemia and transplantation), the Fresh-SNMP group (n = 6, 3 hours of SNMP and transplantation) and the WI-SNMP group (n = 6, 60 minutes at 34°C, warm ischemia followed by 3 hours of SNMP and then transplantation).
Liver procurement (all groups)
All surgical procedures were performed under aseptic conditions. Each animal was weighed and anesthetized with isoflurane (Baxter, Deerfield, IL, USA). The right phrenic vein was ligated, and the liver was freed of its surrounding ligaments. The infrahepatic vena cava (IHVC) was mobilized and elongated by ligation and dissection of the adrenal vein, lumbar plexus and right renal vein. The bile duct was cannulated (SURFLO 28-gauge polyethylene stent; Terumo Medical Corp, Somerset, NJ, USA) and dissected. The portal vein (PV) was mobilized, and its most proximal side vessels (gastroduodenal and splenic veins) were ligated and cut. The hepatic artery was ligated and dissected. The PV and IHVC were cross-clamped, marking the start of ischemic time, and the liver was excised from its recess and weighed. Cuffs fashioned from 16- and 14-gauge intravenous catheters (Becton Dickinson, Franklin Lakes, NJ, USA) were applied to the PV and IHVC as described by Delrivière et al. [34]. The suprahepatic vena cava (SHVC) was tailored for a sutured anastomosis.
Static cold storage group
SCS was performed using UW solution (CoStorSol; Preservation Solutions, Inc, Elkhorn, WI, USA). No other preservatives, pharmaceuticals or anticoagulants were used during SCS. Rat livers were procured, prepared for transplantation and cold-stored for 3 hours (matching the established machine perfusion time), then transplanted as described below.
DCD model (WI group and WI-SNMP group)
After procurement, the liver was placed without flushing into a chamber filled with saline and maintained at 34.0 ± 0.1°C for 60 minutes. Ex vivo warm ischemia has the advantage of temperature control and has been shown to be a relevant and severe model of warm ischemia [35].
Subnormothermic machine perfusion (Fresh-SNMP group and WI-SNMP group)
Perfusate analysis
Perfusate samples collected every 5 minutes for the first 20 minutes and on the half hour thereafter were tested for alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) using InfinityTM ALT(GPT) and AST(GOT) liquid stable reagent kits (Cellomics/Thermo Electron, Pittsburgh, PA, USA). Every 30 minutes PV inflow and inferior vena cava (IHVC) outflow were sampled and analyzed using a Bayer Rapidlab 845 blood gas analyzer (Siemens Medical Solutions, Malvern, PA, USA) to record the partial pressure of oxygen (pO2). Those values were used to calculate the oxygen uptake rate (OUR) as detailed previously [18]. Bile was collected, quantified and reentered into the system.
Tissue ATP content
Livers (n = 3 per time point) were flash-frozen in liquid nitrogen directly after procurement (Fresh-SNMP group), after 60 minutes of warm ischemia (WI group/WI-SNMP group) and after 1, 2 and 3 hours of SNMP (Fresh-SNMP group/WI-SNMP group). Various sections (n = 7 ± 1) were sampled per liver. Cellular ATP levels were measured using the ApoSENSOR ATP Luminescence Assay Kit (BioVision Inc, Milpitas, CA, USA). The results were normalized for protein content using a Bradford assay (Fisher Scientific, Pittsburgh, PA, USA).
Orthotopic liver transplantation
Surgery was performed by TB in all cases according to the technique invented by Kamada [37] and described in detail by Delrivière et al. [34]. During the final 20 minutes of perfusion, the recipient hepatectomy was carried out up to the start of the anhepatic phase. At the end of machine perfusion, the liver was weighed and flushed with sterile PBS containing 10 U/ml heparin. The recipient hepatectomy was completed, and the donor graft was transplanted, starting with the SHVC anastomosis using a Prolene 7–0 polypropylene suture (Ethicon, Inc, Somerville, NJ, USA). Portal reperfusion occurred 13 to 17 minutes after the start of anhepatic time and approximately 20 to 30 minutes after the end of machine perfusion. Anastomoses of the IVC and bile duct were completed, the animal was administered 1 to 2 ml of sterile PBS intravenously and the abdomen was irrigated with warm PBS and closed. The skin was closed, and the animal was placed under a heat lamp to recover.
Posttransplantation analysis
Blood samples (about 80 μl) were taken from transplantation recipients by way of tail-snip hourly after the procedure for 3 hours, then daily for 7 days after the surgery and finally after 30 days. The blood samples were analyzed using a Piccolo xpress blood chemistry analyzer and a metabolic panel (Abaxis North America, Union City, CA, USA). The animals were inspected regularly for signs of jaundice or infection and were killed 30 days posttransplantation. The liver was mobilized, resected and prepared for histology.
Livers from each group were sacrificed for histological analysis. Samples were incubated overnight in formalin and embedded in paraffin, then processed and stained with H & E and terminal deoxynucleotidyltransferase 2′-deoxyuridine 5′-triphosphate nick-end labeling (TUNEL). As a negative control for cellular damage, stains derived from fresh liver tissue were used, in comparison to samples from the preserved, treated and transplanted groups. As a positive control for apoptosis, the TUNEL stains from the WI group were used because it has been reported that tissue from warm ischemic liver can exhibit extensive cellular degeneration and apoptosis [16, 38, 39].
Statistical analysis
A paired Student's t-test was applied to compare values for each parameter independently. The results were deemed statistically significant if time point comparisons had a P-value <0.05. Statistical significance is indicated in each figure where applicable.
Subnormothermic machine perfusion
The pO2 in the perfusate was used to calculate the OUR (Figure 5C). The OUR was stable during SNMP, without differences between the groups. The pO2 in the outflow remained above 200 mmHg, indicating that the pO2 in the inflow perfusate was sufficient for hepatic oxygenation.
As a determinant of synthetic function, bile production is a prerequisite for successful transplantation [42]. In vivo bile flow ranges from 15 to 20 μl/g liver in healthy rats. During SNMP, bile flow averaged about 10 μl/g liver. It seems likely that the lower bile flow is due to the lower temperature during SNMP. Bile production was not significantly higher in the Fresh-SNMP group than in the WI-SNMP group (Figure 5D).
Posttransplantation blood analysis
TB increased mildly over the first 7 days, which was more apparent in the Fresh-SNMP group (Figure 6C). At the end of the 30-day period, TB was increased to approximately 2 mg/dl in all surviving animals. BUN levels were stable during the postoperative phase and throughout the 30-day period (Figure 6D).
SCS is practical and cost-effective but does not allow the resuscitation of damaged grafts, which is vital to the extended incorporation of marginal organs [43]. In addition, evaluation of organ quality during SCS is limited to subjective assessments. To combine the simplicity of SCS with the therapeutic impact of machine perfusion, we established a practical SNMP system that requires no temperature control, donor blood or artificial oxygen carriers. In an analogous study by our group, this system was used to optimize livers for hepatocyte isolation (ML Izamis, personal communication). Herein we have shown that fresh livers could be preserved for 3 hours and transplanted successfully, with survival rates and secondary outcomes equivalent to conventional cold storage parameters. Furthermore, we used this system to treat livers with sustained warm ischemia, which were then successfully transplanted.
In the animal from the WI-SNMP group that died within 72 hours after transplantation, the highly elevated levels of AST and ALT point to primary nonfunction. During treatment, the portal pressure of this liver was significantly increased, suggesting a correlation between high vascular resistance and graft failure. Although this is a singular finding in our study, the principle of vascular resistance as a predictor of graft viability has been suggested elsewhere [44]. We conclude that high vascular resistance during machine perfusion could serve as a warning sign indicative of a mechanical or physiological problem. However, specific research into this phenomenon should be continued on a broad scale.
Cumulative ALT levels during SNMP were highest in the WI-SNMP group. After 1 hour of SNMP, these levels reached a plateau, signifying that the hepatocyte damage caused by the WI period had been contained. Warm ischemic and fresh livers consumed similar amounts of oxygen during the SNMP period. We observed that oxygen consumption rates were not affected by the organ's condition. We can conclude that resuscitation of a warm ischemic liver to a transplantable state does not require more oxygen than the SNMP preservation of a fresh liver. In addition, the high residual oxygen content in the outflow perfusate indicates that none of the livers exhausted the supply of oxygen. Moreover, the ATP recovery of warm ischemic livers beyond fresh levels also points to adequate aerobic respiration in the ischemic grafts. Thus we conclude that our system did not require an oxygen carrier.
The WI-SNMP group showed higher levels of transaminase leakage posttransplantation, indicating that although the livers were reclaimed adequately for recipient survival, there was still regenerative potential that remained unfulfilled. These observations are concurrent with the body weight trends: animals in all groups initially lost weight, but the UW-Control and Fresh-SNMP groups regained that weight sooner than the WI-SNMP group. Possibly, SNMP was responsible for only part of the restoration process and the remainder was carried out at the expense of the recipient. Another explanation may be that certain specific effects of warm ischemia were not mitigated by the SNMP and could be only restored by the recipients themselves, which in this case were young and healthy animals. As rats have great regenerative capacity, this phenomenon may be of greater consequence in a higher-order species. Although patients with end-stage liver disease are often in a fragile physical state, it has been shown that human livers from patients with elevated transaminases [45] or sustained warm ischemia [46] can be successfully transplanted. Whether our findings call for a longer or enhanced SNMP period will be clarified by continued investigation.
In this study, we have established a protocol for SNMP, without oxygen carriers and without temperature control, that uses oxygenated and supplemented cell culture medium as perfusate. We applied this system to demonstrate feasibility against the current gold standard for the preservation of fresh organs, as well as the potential for regeneration of DCD grafts.
Funding from the National Institutes of Health (R01DK096075, R01EB008678, R00DK080942) and the Shriners Hospitals for Children are gratefully acknowledged. This work was funded in part by Health Resources and Services Administration contract 234-2005-37011C. The content is the responsibility of the authors alone and does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the US Department of Health and Human Services, nor does mention of trade names, commercial products or organizations imply endorsement by the US government. TB was supported in part by the Michaël-van Vloten Foundation. The authors gratefully acknowledge Dr Charles Lee for instruction on orthotopic liver transplantation in rats.
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