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MicroRNA-720 promotes in vitro cell migration by targeting Rab35 expression in cervical cancer cells
© Tang et al. 2015
- Received: 2 August 2015
- Accepted: 22 September 2015
- Published: 25 September 2015
MicroRNA-720 (miR-720), a nonclassical miRNA, is involved in the initiation and progression of several tumors. In our previous studies, miR-720 was shown to be significantly upregulated in cervical cancer tissues compared with normal cervical tissues. However, the precise biological functions of miR-720, and its molecular mechanisms of action, are still unknown.
Microarray expression profiles, luciferase reporter assays, and western blot assays were used to validate Rab35 as a target gene of miR-720 in HEK293T and HeLa cells. The regulation of Rab35 expression by miR-720 was assessed using qRT-PCR and western blot assays, and the effects of exogenous miR-720 and Rab35 on cell migration were evaluated in vitro using Transwell® assay, wound healing assay, and real-time analyses in HeLa cells. The influences of exogenous miR-720 on cell proliferation were evaluated in vitro by the MTT assay in HeLa cells. In addition, expression of E-cadherin and vimentin associated with epithelial-mesenchymal transition were also assessed using western blot analyses after transfection of miR-720 mimics and Rab35 expression vectors. The results showed that the small GTPase, Rab35, is a direct functional target of miR-720 in cervical cancer HeLa cells. By targeting Rab35, overexpression of miR-720 resulted in a decrease in E-cadherin expression and an increase in vimentin expression and finally led to promotion of HeLa cell migration. Furthermore, reintroduction of Rab35 3′-UTR(−) markedly reversed the induction of cell migration in miR-720-expressing HeLa cells.
The miR-720 promotes cell migration of HeLa cells by downregulating Rab35. The results show that miR-720 is a novel cell migration-associated gene in cervical cancer cells.
- miR-720
- Cervical cancer cells
- Rab35
- Cell migration
Discovered in 1993, microRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of short, non-coding RNAs that are highly efficient gene expression regulators in various cellular processes [1–5]. They modulate gene expression predominantly through an interaction with the 3′-UTR of their target mRNAs [6, 7]. Increasing evidence suggests that dysfunctions of miRNAs are involved in the initiation and progression of cancer [8, 9], as well as in animal developmental processes [10]. It has been reported that miR-720 is not a classic miRNA, but is probably a fragment of tRNA [11]. Hara et al. identified miR-720 as a novel miRNA regulator in the differentiation of dental pulp cells [12]. Other studies suggested that circulating miR-720 was a novel serum biomarker in some tumors, such as colorectal cancers [13] and myelomas [14]. Furthermore, miR-720 could act as a colorectal cancer-promoting factor, and could be a marker for the prognosis of colorectal cancer [15]. Previous results have reported that miR-720 is also frequently decreased in breast cancer and functions as an anti-metastatic gene by downregulating TWIST1 [16]. Our previous studies suggested that miR-720 expression is significantly upregulated in cervix uteri squamous cell carcinoma tissues, when compared with normal cervix uteri tissues [17]. Cervical cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer, and the fourth most common type of cancer among women, worldwide [18]. However, the roles of miR-720 in the initiation and progression of cervical cancer are still largely unknown.
The small GTPase, Rab35, is a member of the RAS oncogene family. It regulates many essential cellular processes, such as recycling from endosomes for neurite outgrowth [19–25], exosome release [26], cytokinesis [27], and actin cytoskeleton organization [28–31] by cycling between a GTP-bound active form and a GDP-bound inactive form [32]. In addition, Rab35 is involved in the early stage of FcγR-mediated phagocytosis in macrophages [33] and also acts as a regulator of vesicle transport required specifically for phagocytosis [34]. Although Rab35 has been shown to regulate various cellular processes, its precise roles in these processes are not fully understood. Moreover, several recent studies have reported that dysfunctions of Rab35 also exert vital functions, such as regulation of myoblast fusion and cadherin-dependent adherens junction formation [35]. Some studies showed that Wnt5a promotes breast cancer cell migration via the Dvl2/Rab35/Rac1 signaling pathway [36], and Rab35 maintains cadherins at the cell surface to promote cell–cell adhesion [37].
In the present study, we therefore sought to determine the role of miR-720 in cervical cancer cells. We first defined miR-720 as a new, in vitro cell migration-associated miRNA in HeLa cells. And overexpression or inhibition of miR-720 did not significantly affect HeLa cell proliferation. Moreover, we identified Rab35, a key regulator of endosomal membrane trafficking, as a direct and functional target of miR-720. The newly identified miR-720/Rab35 axis provides a molecular mechanism for abnormal cell migration in cervical cancer cells via its effects on the expression of an epithelial marker, E-cadherin, and a mesenchymal marker, vimentin.
miR-720 promotes cell migration but does not affect cell proliferation in HeLa cells
In addition, inhibition by miR-720 inhibitors resulted in a dramatic decrease in miR-720 expression (Fig. 1e). We therefore used these transfected cells to conduct 3-4,5-dimethyl-2-thiazolyl)-2,5-diphenyl-2-H-tetrazolium bromide (MTT) assays to assess the effects of miR-720 on cell proliferation. The results showed that neither the miR-720 mimic nor the miR-720 inhibitor had significant effects on cell proliferation (Fig. 1f, g). Thus, we next studied the role of miR-720 in cell migration of HeLa cells.
Identification of the miR-720 targets by integrative bioinformatics analysis
Recent studies have shown that miRNAs can reduce the levels of many of their target transcripts, and not just protein expression deriving from these transcripts [41]. Based on these observations, we used a high throughout genome mRNA microarray to identify potential target genes of miR-720. We performed global microarray gene expression profiling using the Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0 Array (Affymetrix, Santa Clara, CA, USA) in HEK293T cells transfected with pre-miR-720 or negative control mimics. Twenty-four hours after transfection, the expression level of miR-720 (relative to endogenous U6 RNA) in HEK293T cells was determined by qRT-PCR. The expression level of miR-720 was increased about 550-fold as compared to the negative control. The microarray results showed that when compared with the controls, 216 probes, representing 195 genes (three of these genes are still unnamed and not included) were downregulated by ≥2-fold (p < 0.05) in pre-miR-720 transfected HEK293T cells (Fig. 2a; Additional file 1: Table S1). Using a Gene List Venn Diagram, we identified 10 potential target genes as CHP, INSIG1, INTS7, KCTD15, METTL2B, NRXN3, PER2, RAB35, SGK3, and TET2 among the microarray results and the putative miR-720 target gene list (as predicted by TargetScan and miRanda) (Fig. 2c).
Identification of miR-720 targets by the luciferase reporter assay
Rab35 is a target of miR-720 in HeLa cells
Rab35 can suppress cell migration of HeLa cells
miR-720 mediates cell migration by targeting Rab35 in HeLa cells
Molecular mechanism of the miR-720 effect on cell migration of HeLa cells
Tumor metastasis remains a major cause of cancer-related death. Metastasis is comprised of various sequential steps, involving cancer cell dissemination, cancer cell spreading, and formation of secondary tumors in other organs and tissues [51, 52]. The first essential step of tumor metastasis and invasion is the change in the expression of cell adhesion molecules (CAM), and the breakdown and remodeling of the extracellular matrix (ECM), resulting in the ability of cancer cells to metastasize. Increasing evidence suggests that miRNAs play critical roles in the regulation of cell migration and invasion, as coordinated regulators of ECM remodeling during cancer cell migration and invasion [53]. We previously reported that miR-720 expression is significantly upregulated in cervix uteri squamous cell carcinoma tissue when compared to normal cervix uteri tissue, indicating that miR-720 is closely related to the pathological processes of cervical cancer [17]. Some studies have reported that miR-720 impedes cell invasion and migration, and then inhibits metastasis in breast cancer by directly targeting TWIST1 [16]. In the present study, we showed that overexpression of miR-720 leads to a reduction of E-cadherin and an increase of vimentin protein levels in cervical cancer cell lines, which indicates that miR-720 can induce EMT in cervical cancer cells and promote cell migration. In combination with our previous studies and reports from other investigators, we propose that miR-720 may be an important regulator of cell migration and invasion in various cancers, in spite of its functional differences that are dependent on distinct cellular microenvironments. It was reported that individual miRNA has the potential to regulate hundreds of targets [54]. In addition, a miRNA can not only directly affect the levels of target mRNA but also indirectly affect the levels of target mRNA, in other words, a miRNA can have secondary effects or even tertiary effects on its target mRNA [55]. Besides, the effects of a miRNA on regulating its targets crucially depends on its expression levels and the regulation happened to have a cell-type dependent effect [56–58]. Therefore, we propose that miR-720 may regulate the cell migration processes in various cancer cells by distinct molecular mechanism.
Since miR-720 was discovered, it has been widely studied as a miRNA. A study showed that miR-720 could negatively regulate p63 involved in an autoregulatory feedback loop, which then contributed to epithelial development processes [59]. The miR-720 could suppress cell migration and invasion in breast cancer by directly targeting TWIST1 [16]. Furthermore, miR-720 participates in the control of the stem cell phenotype of human dental pulp cells by directly repressing NANOG levels [12]. miR-720 is closely related to the pathological processes of various tumors [17]. A more recent study showed that overexpression of miR-720 in primary human CD8+ T cells inhibits the T cell receptor (TCR) stimulation-induced proliferation in patients with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, which suggests that therapies targeting miR-720 may help restore impaired immunity in chronic HBV-infected patients [60]. However, another study reported that miR-720 is probably a fragment from a tRNA, rather than an miRNA [11]. And other report showed that, as a tRNA-derived miRNA, miR-720 is one of the four most abundant MCF7 extracellular vesicle miRNAs, suggesting that miR-720 may be a new biomarker in breast cancer cells [61]. Although there is controversy over whether miR-720 is a miRNA or a tRNA-derived RNA fragment (tRF), functional studies of miR-720 will provide valuable information concerning the possible clinical significance of this small non-RNA molecule.
As a key regulator of endosomal membrane trafficking and the actin cytoskeleton, Rab35 in this study was found to be directly regulated by miR-720 at the posttranscriptional level. The small GTPase, Rab35, a member of the RAS oncogene family, regulates many essential cellular processes, such as recycling from endosomes, exosome release, cytokinesis, and actin cytoskeleton organization by cycling between a GTP-bound active form and a GDP-bound inactive form. Active Rab35 controls recycling pathways to increase cell adhesion and decrease cell migration [32]. It is noteworthy that many studies have demonstrated a close relationship between Rab35 and Arf6, which is also a small GTPase. Both these two small GTPases are involved in functionally related cell processes, such as cell migration and cytokinesis, endocytosis, actin remodeling, sorting, and recycling of adhesion molecules. However, the activities of Rab35 and Arf6 are inversely coordinated [24, 27, 62, 63]. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to provide experimental evidences that Rab35 is posttranscriptionally regulated by miR-720, which then contributes to the regulation of cell migration. Based upon these observations, it is important to further validate the functions of the miR-720/Rab35 axis in tumor metastasis and invasion in animal models and clinical tissues in future studies.
Our results show that miR-720 promotes cell migration in cervical cancer cells by directly targeting Rab35. Targeting the miR-720/Rab35 axis is therefore a promising therapeutic strategy for cervical cancer treatment.
Cell culture
HeLa cells and HEK293T cells were obtained from the Type Culture Collection of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Shanghai, China). HeLa cells were cultured in Minimum Essential Medium (Gibco/Life Technologies, US) and HEK293T cells were incubated in Dulbecco's Modified Eagle's Medium (Gibco/Life Technologies, US). The base medium was supplemented with 10 % fetal bovine serum (Gibco/Life Technologies, US) to make the complete growth medium, and the cells were incubated at 37 °C with 5 % CO2.
Oligonucleotide transfection
The pre-miR-720, miR-720 mimics, inhibitor, and corresponding controls were designed and synthesized by RiboBio (Guangzhou, China). HEK293T cells were transfected with pre-miR-720 or pre-miR-control at a final concentration of 100 nM. HeLa cells were transfected with mimics at a final concentration of 100 nM, or transfected with inhibitor at a final concentration of 200 nM using Lipofectamine® RNAiMAX reagent (Invitrogen, US), following the manufacturer's instructions. After 48 h, the cells were harvested for further analysis.
RNA extraction and quantitative real-time PCR
Total RNA was extracted using TRIzol® Reagent (Life Technologies, US) according to the manufacturer's protocol. One µg of total RNA was reverse transcribed into cDNA with a FastQuant RT Kit (Tiangen Biotech, Beijing, China). Quantitative analyses of miR-720 were performed using the Bulge-LoopTM miRNA quantitative RT-PCR primer (RiboBio, Guangzhou, China) and/or a S-Poly(T) real-time PCR assay of microRNAs assays [64], and SYBR Select Master Mix (Life Technologies) on an ABI Prism 7500 real-time PCR system (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA). Quantitative analysis of Rab35 was performed using designed qPCR primers (forward, 5′-ACGACCACCTCTTCAAGCTG-3′; reverse, 5′-CCGGATCTTGAAATCCACTC-3′) and the same SYBR Select Master Mix with miR-720 qPCR. PCR was performed using 20 µL reaction mixture in triplicate at 95 °C, for 10 min, followed by 40 cycles of 95 °C for 10 s, 60 °C for 34 s, and 72 °C for 30 s. U6 snRNA was used as an internal control for miRNA analysis, and glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) mRNA was used as an internal control for quantitative analysis of mRNA. The results were calculated using the 2−ΔΔCT method.
Microarray analysis
After the experimental HEK293T group was transfected with pre-miR-720 and the control HEK293T group was transfected with the pre-miR-control for 24 h, the HEK293T cells were lysed with TRIzol® reagent (Life Technologies, US) and total RNA was extracted according to the manufacturer's protocol. The RNA samples were then sent to the Shanghai Biotechnology Corporation to perform microarray analysis (Affymetrix GeneChip® Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0 Array). Each group sample set was comprised of three replicates. The Affymetrix GeneChip® system was used for hybridization, staining, scanning, and imaging of the arrays. Raw data were analyzed with the Affymetrix GeneChip® Operating Software (GCOS1.4) using the manufacturer's default analysis settings and global scaling as the normalization method. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was performed with GeneSpring 7.31 software (Agilent, Santa Clara, CA, USA) to identify genes whose expression changed significantly between the pre-miR-720 group and the control.
Luciferase reporter assay
The putative binding sites of the 3′-UTR of the human genes for miR-720 targeting were predicted by TargetScan Human (http://www.targetscan.org/) computational methods.
Primers used in this study
Sequences (5′–3′)
The mutant 3′UTR inserts, with an opposite mutation in the miRNA seed sequence binding sites, were generated by overlapping PCR methods [66] using the mutated primers, listed as Table 1.
Wild-type and mutation inserts were confirmed by DNA sequencing. HEK293T cells were seeded in triplicate at a density of 2 × 105 cells per 24-well plate. The following day, cells were transfected with 100 ng wild-type or mutated firefly reporter vector, 10 ng of the control vector containing Renilla luciferase, and pRL-TK (Promega, US), at a final concentration of 50 nM miRNA, or negative control (NC) precursors, using 1.5 μL Lipofectamine® 2000 (Invitrogen) per well. Cells were assayed 48 h after transfection with the Dual Luciferase Assay (Promega) according to the manufacturer's instructions. Each experiment was repeated at least in triplicate. The efficiency of transfection was normalized using the Renilla luciferase activity.
The pcDNA expression plasmids and plasmid transfection
The coding sequence of Rab35 was amplified from HeLa cell cDNA by PCR using primers: forward, 5′-CGCGGATCCATGGCCCGGGACTACGACCA-3′; reverse, 5′-CCGCTCGAGTTAGCAGCAGCGTTTCTTTC-3′. The PCR fragment was inserted using BamH I/Xho I into the pcDNA3.0-Vector to generate pcDNA3.0-Rab35. The empty pcDNA3.0-Vector was used as the negative control. HeLa cells were transfected with plasmid using the Lipofectamine® 2000 Transfection Reagent (Invitrogen) according to the manufacturer's protocol. After 48 h, the cells were harvested for further analysis.
Western blot analysis
Total cell extracts (40 µg) were resolved on a 10 % SDS-PAGE and transferred to nitrocellulose membranes (Millipore, Germany). Membranes were blocked with 5 % skim milk (BioSharp, US) and further incubated with the following primary antibodies: Rab35 and the mesenchymal cell marker vimentin (1:2000; San Ying Biotechnology, China), the epithelial cell marker E-cadherin (1:200; BD Biosciences, US), and GAPDH (1:10,000; Ray Antibody Beijing, China). After washing, membranes were incubated with a 1:10,000 dilutions of HRP-conjugated secondary antibodies (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Santa Cruz, CA, USA). After washing six times with TTBS, with each wash lasting 5 min, the membranes were incubated with Pierce ECL western blotting substrate (Thermo Fisher Scientific, US), and the protein bands were visualized by autoradiography and quantified by Image J software (NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA).
Cell proliferation assay
For the HeLa cell proliferation assay, cells were transiently transfected for 24 h, and then seeded into 96-well plates (6 × 103 cells/well), with each group comprised of six replicates. The cell growth was regarded as the initial value when the cells had been seeded for 2 h. At indicated times, cells were incubated with 10 μL of 5 mg/mL 3-4,5-dimethyl-2-thiazolyl)-2,5-diphenyl-2-H-tetrazolium bromide (MTT) for 4 h at 37 °C, and then the generated crystals were dissolved by dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO). Absorbance was measured at 450 nm using a microplate reader (Biotech) every 24 h for four consecutive days.
Wound healing assay
After transfection for 24 h in 6-well plates, cells were replated into 12-well plates (2.5 × 105 cells per well), in triplicate, for the wound healing assay. When the cells reached ~90 % confluency, a 10 µL pipette tip was used to scrap across the confluent cell layer, followed by gentle washing three times with phosphate-buffered saline (PBS), and then addition of culture medium containing 2.5 % fetal bovine serum. The scratch was immediately subjected to photography using a light microscope. After incubation for 24 h, additional photographs were taken. Wound healing ability was determined by measuring the scraped area alteration because of cell migration using Image J software.
Transwell® assay
After transfection for 24 h, HeLa cells (2.5 × 104 cells) were suspended in 300 µL of Minimal Essential Medium (MEM) without serum and then reseeded into the upper chamber of the Transwell® inserts (8 µm pore size; Corning, USA) of a companion 24-well plate in pre-warmed containing 10 % FBS. After incubating at 37 °C for 24 h, cells on the top surface of the insert were removed by gentle wiping with a cotton swab, and the cells which migrated to the bottom surface of the insert were fixed in 4 % paraformaldehyde for 15 min, stained with 0.1 % crystal violet (Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, MO, USA) for 15 min, rinsed in PBS, and then photographed. Cell migration ability was determined by counting the stained cells in the bottom surface of the insert under a light microscope (100×) in eight randomly selected fields. The average number of cells in the eight fields was taken as the final result. Each group had three replicates and each experiment was repeated three times.
Real-time cell analysis
For real-time cell analysis (RTCA), HeLa cells were transiently transfected for 24 h, and 6 × 104 cells were suspended in 100 µL of MEM without serum in the upper chamber (ACEA Biosciences; Hangzhou, China) according to the basic cell migration assay protocol of the RTCA xCELLigence system (ACEA Biosciences). Each group had four replicates, and the cell migration index was calculated by real-time detection for 48 h.
Statistical analysis
Data were expressed as mean ± SEM. Student's t test (unpaired, two tailed) was used in the analysis of differences between the experimental groups and control groups, with p < 0.05 considered statistically significant. Statistical analyses were performed using GraphPad Prism, version 5.0 software.
Authors' contributions
MG and YT designed experiments and analyzed data; YT, YLin, CL, XH, YLiu, MH and JL performed experiments; MG, YT and GS wrote the manuscript; MG, WL, TW and GS supervised the project. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China Grants 30871245 and 31271511 (to M. Guo), 81170049 and 81470252 (to T. Wang), 31370187 (to G. Sun) and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities Grant 2042014KF0243 (to M. Guo).
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The American Way? Not only, Europeans adopt just as many children, and are promissed children in exchange for money (expenses).
But then thanks to the Hague Convention adoptions are now well regulated, no?
That's unfortunately one of the lies we love. The Hague Convention has replaced the traditional baby merchants by accredited adoption agencies. And anyway, most of the children still get adopted from countries that did not ratify The Hague Convention.
As I saw in Romania, the Hague Convention creates a full blown market. With adoption agencies making pink promisses, cashing the money long before any adoptable child would be even in sight. And indeed, when in such cases adoptions are closed down, the pressure for 'pipeline cases starts. And not only in Romania, the same could be seen in Guatemala, Nepal, Vietnam...
Thanks to Marley Greiner for putting this on her Blog The Daily Bastardette
Saturday, 29 November 2008
Thursday, 27 November 2008
Baby J placed in Dutch care system
The Dutch court ruled today. Baby J. will be placed in the Dutch care system until further investigation.
Bought by a Dutch couple, I would say the right place for this child would be in the Belgian care system. And it should be up to the Belgian Court to decide on her future. TO be continued...
Bought by a Dutch couple, I would say the right place for this child would be in the Belgian care system. And it should be up to the Belgian Court to decide on her future. TO be continued...
Dutch court says Internet baby to be taken into care
Fri Nov 28, 2008 1:19am IST
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Belgian baby bought over the Internet for adoption by a Dutch couple must be placed in the temporary care of the Dutch authorities, a court ruled on Thursday.
According to media reports, the couple bought the boy in July from a Belgian couple in Ghent. One TV report said between 5,000 and 10,000 euros ($6,450 to $12,900) was paid.
The Dutch couple denies buying the baby, saying on Dutch TV that they only paid the pregnancy costs incurred by the parents.
The court in the Dutch city of Zwolle said the couple had broken the laws for adopting foreign children, and had to hand the baby over to child welfare authorities.
The Council for the Protection of Children, part of the Netherlands' Justice Ministry, had asked the court to place the baby boy into temporary custody until a decision was made by the Belgian authorities on what to do with him.
"Clarity over your family history is of fundamental importance for a child growing up. Obscuring your true identity is harmful," the council said in a statement.
The public prosecution office in the Netherlands has started an investigation into the case, while Belgian authorities are also making inquiries, Dutch news agency ANP reported.
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Tuesday, 25 November 2008
Baby Donna & Baby J
The Netherlands are caught by another case of 'illegal adoption' where a Dutch couple procured a Belgian child. Baby J. was offered for sale on the Internet and bought by a Dutch couple. Yesterday night Netwerk broadcasted a documentary in which the Dutch couple was interviewed. According to them both the Belgian Hospital and the Dutch Youth Care Department were informed about the case. However, when asked about it by Netwerk, they denied any involvement.
Dutch MP Marleen de Pater called to include baby selling for adoption into criminal law, because like in many countries the buying of children for adoption in not a crime, as there is no intention of exploitation.
The proof of that came today, when the Dutch High Court put their final ruling in the Baby Donna case.
In 2005, a Dutch couple bought Baby Donna from a Belgian woman who had 'produced' the child as part of a deal with a Belgian couple.
For more of the harrowing details read The Sad Tale of Baby Donna
Today in its wisdom the Dutch High Court decided that Baby Donna can stay with the Dutch couple who bought her, for reason of established family life (article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights). The biological father will get, in due time, visiting rights.
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Thursday, 20 November 2008
Tuesday, 18 November 2008
Adoptions Down Under
Australia's first National Adoption Awareness Week has led to some interesting debates.
Orphan Angels are lobbying to increase the number of intercountry adoptions for Australian families. Not an easy task in current times, where intercountry adoptions are worldwide in a downward spiral.
Today's AP article shows how deep the adoption industry in in trouble
Foreign adoptions by Americans drop sharply
I'd like to complement Ian Robinson for the countering of the Orphan Angel's spreading of the orphan myth.
Orphan Angels are lobbying to increase the number of intercountry adoptions for Australian families. Not an easy task in current times, where intercountry adoptions are worldwide in a downward spiral.
Today's AP article shows how deep the adoption industry in in trouble
Foreign adoptions by Americans drop sharply
I'd like to complement Ian Robinson for the countering of the Orphan Angel's spreading of the orphan myth.
These Angels Aren't Telling the Whole Story
By Ian Robinson
18 Nov 2008
Deborra-Lee Furness wants us to import a lot more children from other countries for the Australian adoption market — but it's an ignorant and selfish approach to the problem of child poverty, writes Ian Robinson
In a recent Weekend Australian Magazine, Deborra-Lee Furness breathlessly told her interviewer that there were "103 million orphaned children in the world". "How can we have two-year-olds walking the streets," she asked, "fending for themselves, looking through rubbish for food?"
Indeed, how can such a distressing situation be permitted to exist?
Well, you'll be glad to know it doesn't. Furness is just manipulating the numbers to persuade you to support her campaign to import more third-world children to Australia for childless couples here. By preying on public sympathy for these "103 million" poor alleged orphans she is trying to garner support for her pro-child-procurement lobby, charmingly entitled "Orphan Angels", in their attempts to convince the authorities to make inter-country adoptions much easier and supply the local demand.
The truth is quite different and there is no need to panic.
What Furness didn't mention in her PR spiel is that while it is true that UNICEF does cite a large total of "orphans" in the world, the UNICEF definition, for complex historical reasons, includes children who have lost just one of their parents as well as those who have lost both, thus most of them are not orphans by our Australian definition. The UNICEF estimate for true "orphans", those who have lost both parents, is closer to 13 million.
This is still a lot of kids, but the image of this many toddlers scratching around alone for mouldy crusts in the rubbish dumps of the world is also totally misleading. According to UNICEF, "Evidence clearly shows that the vast majority of orphans are living with a surviving parent, grandparent, or other family member". Nor are they typically helpless two-year-olds: "95 per cent of all orphans are over the age of 5" says UNICEF — still pretty young, but already at the point where they're not really attractive on the Western adoption market.
In fact, UNICEF itself is rightly concerned about people misusing the orphan figures in this way because it "may then lead to responses that focus on providing care for individual children rather than supporting the families and communities that care for orphans and are in need of support."
For anyone genuinely concerned about the plight of children in developing countries there is an enormous variety of programs available that do help the families and communities to support and nurture their children in need and keep them with their own relatives in their own culture. Invitations to contribute to such programs appear in your letterbox often.
Although Furness concedes that "Adoption will only ever be a partial solution for the homeless and abandoned children of the world", and her group mentions some of these other initiatives on their website, it is clear that their main focus is not helping children where they are, but bringing them here to live with relatively well-to-do Australians.
The danger is, as UNICEF warns, that the focus on bringing an infinitesimal proportion of needy children to Australia (one thousandth of one per cent), tends to take attention away from the needs of the majority. The cost to an Australian parent of one inter-country adoption would ensure literally hundreds of children thrived in their own countries.
Moreover, there are significant problems with inter-country adoption that Furness and her group have not addressed in their publicity. The first is that it encourages child kidnapping. This practice is rife anyway in many of the countries the children come from and the presence of rich foreigners looking for "orphans" is an open invitation to unscrupulous criminals to supply their needs. The governments of the countries involved are too poor and often too corrupt to set up adequate protective mechanisms to guard against this.
For example, US professor and inter-country adoption expert David Smolin was horrified to eventually discover, after having taken all possible precautions and working through a seemingly authorised agency, that both the children he and his wife had adopted from India had been stolen from their parents.
He subsequently studied the inter-country adoption system in depth, and concluded "there are systemic vulnerabilities in the current inter-country adoption system that make [such] adoption scandals ... predictable. Further ... there are no actors in the inter-country adoption system with the requisite information, authority, and motivation to prevent abusive or corrupt adoption practices. Under these circumstances, 'reform' of the inter-country adoption system remains elusive and illusory."
It would appear that what is needed is more regulation and monitoring rather than less, but what Furness and her group are lobbying for is easier access and less "red tape", which can only exacerbate these problems.
The second thing Deborra-Lee Furness and her "angels" neglect to mention is that frequently adoption — in particular inter-country adoption — does not have a fairytale ending, but on the contrary can be quite problematic.
The most extensive research has been carried out in Sweden, where the practice has been going on longer, and where it was found that inter-country adoptees had significantly higher rates of suicide than national adoptees and both were higher than their non-adopted peers. Additionally, inter-country adoptees had higher levels of drug and alcohol problems; males had significant rates of ADD, while females had significant rates of depression, anxiety, and schizoid and delinquent behaviour.
The same negative outcomes are also becoming evident in other countries, such as the United States, but not as much hard research has yet been carried out there. One of the few Australian studies, on a group of 102 Vietnamese children adopted in NSW during the 1970s, reported that the majority of children placed between the ages of 4 and 6 had difficulties bonding or establishing family relationships, as did 40 per cent of the children placed at 18 months and above.
The truth is that no adoption, inter-country or local, can ever be an ideal or even an admirable solution to any problem. It is always a last resort and is always the unfortunate consequence and cause of more than one person's loss and pain.
All of this has been known for many years and has been studied in detail by plenty of people who have the best interests of the child at heart. But don't advance "pro-child" views in front of Furness or she'll label you part of the evil "anti-adoption culture" which is trying to prevent her group, and the well-to-do Australians they are lobbying for, from getting their hands on more lovely, cute third-world children.
Furness's heart may be in the right place but her polarising attitude and her refusal to come to grips with the limitations of inter-country adoption and its misuse by wealthy westerners has led her not just to see the world through rose-coloured glasses but even to be selective with her facts in order to convince us her campaign is a good thing.
There is a myth in wealthy countries that just as everyone is entitled to vote, have health care and so on, everyone is entitled to a child. The truth is that no-one has the right to a child and in particular no-one has the right to someone else's child. Children are not commodities to be bartered nor possessions with which to complete the perfect home. Other people's children are real people, not just "cures" for infertility.
The author would like to thank Christine Cole for helping with the research for this article.
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008
Swedish Adoptees Speak Out Against Child Trafficking
Informal translation of yesterday's article in Aftonbladet.
Adoption may be child trafficking
12 foreign adoptees: Western needs should not allow human trafficking.
We support the Social Ministry's decision not to extend adoption agreement with Vietnam.
We want to protest against the Western-centric perspective that dominates the international adoption business, and defend our and all other adoptees right not to have to live with the suspicion that irregularities were committed in terms of our own adoptions, such as excessive commonly forged documents, false identities and invented stories, are writing 12 foreign adoptees.
The international adoption business since the turn of the millennium not only exploded in scale with the now nearly 40 000 adoptions per year, but was also shaken by a variety of reports on irregularities. Never before were so many children from the Third World adopted to the West, but at the same time, the business has never before involved so many corruption scandals than just in the 2000s.
Due to the falling birth rate in the West and growing prosperity in many countries in the Third Worldm international adoption is today facing an unprecedented situation: There are now more childless adults in the West who want to adopt, than there are adoptable children in the Third World. Then increasing sums of money in circulation have tagged this delicate situation for activities that increasingly are spiraling out in pure human trafficking.
Therefore, the adoption scandals were repeatedly documented over the recent years in leading countries such as China, Vietnam, India, Nepal, Ethiopia, Brazil, Paraguay and Guatemala. This has led many beneficiary countries such as Germany, England, Canada, Holland and Australia to terminate its adoption agreement with the most
corruption-stricken countries of origin.
In Sweden, which is the country in the world that proportionately adopted far the largest number of foreign-born children, have adoption organisations, however, chosen to ignore the destructive developments by expanding its operations into new countries that are notorious for child trafficking, and by continuing to adopt from such countries with the argument that the Swedes have a higher morale than other
Westerners. In 2002, for example Adoptionscenter got authorisation of the State Agency for International Adoption Affairs to adopt from Cambodia, despite reporting
about trafficking and the U.S. that stopped adoptions from the country.
The authorization was later lifted after the Swedish Embassy in Cambodia protested against this with reference to the extensive trafficking in the country.
Now this pattern was recently repeated by Social Affairs that decided not to extend the adoption agreement with Vietnam with reference to the presence of child trafficking, and that the country is not to enter the Hague Convention on Protection of Children in International adoptions. This convention back in 1993 meant to curb an increasingly uncontrollable adoption industry, but still Sweden has a number of
Swedish adoption agencies engaged in activities in countries of origin, including Korea, Thailand and Colombia, that not signed the Convention.
We wish to express our support for the Social Ministry's decision not to extend the adoption agreement with Vietnam. Western needs to receive adopted children should not steer the international adoption industry, thus risking that trade in human beings gets legitimized and legalized.
As foreign adoptees, we want to protest against the Western-centric perspective that today dominates the international adoption affairs, and assert our and all other adopted children's right not to have to live with the suspicion that irregularities occurred in terms of our own adoptions, as they are unfortunately too common,
with forged documents, false identities and fake histories, which is a consequence of the adult needs and profit-making governing the international adoption business.
Today's debaters
Daniel Cidrelius, socialantropolog and adopted from Sri Lanka
Gitte Enander, jur. Lawyer. and adopted from Korea
Charlotta Göthlin, Information and adopted from Korea
Daniel Hansson, jur. Stud. and adopted from the Dominican Republic
Linda Place, PhD, and adopted from Korea
Mikael Jarnlo, social and adopted from Ethiopia
Fatima Jonsson, PhD, and adopted from Korea
Patrik Lundberg, a journalist and adopted from Korea
Danjel Nam, a journalist and adopted from Korea
Helena Nilsson, behaviorist and adopted from Korea
Matilda Sjödell, teachers and adopted from Korea
Malena Swanson, jur. Lawyer. and adopted from Korea
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Friday, 7 November 2008
Adoption under Fire
Justitiele Verkenning (Judicial Explorations) is published eight times per year by the Research and Documentation Centre of the Dutch Ministry of Justice. The central theme of this month's issue is: ADOPTION UNDER FIRE.
The full Dutch text, as well as an English summary can be found by clicking HERE
Adoption and prosperity; an analysis of the demand and supply of adoptive
children, B.M.J. Slot
The perverse effects of the Hague Adoption Convention, R. Post
The development of intercountry adoptees; a research survey, F. Juffer
Alternatives for (intercountry) adoption, P. Vlaardingerbroek
The adoption practice: is it in the obvious best interest of the child? A.P. van der Linden
The full Dutch text, as well as an English summary can be found by clicking HERE
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HopHacks participants will pursue solutions for cities
More than 300 undergraduate and graduate students from across the country will gather at Johns Hopkins University this weekend for HopHacks, an annual hackathon event that challenges students to work intensively on a technology- or software-based design.
Held every fall and spring on the university's Homewood campus, this year's HopHacks features a new design track: the Civic Hack challenges participants to develop apps aimed at improving urban living.
Sponsored by the Maryland Institute College of Art and the Baltimore City IT Department, the Civic Hack will use Lutèce, an open-source platform created by the City of Paris. The platform is free for cities to use and boasts 400 out-of-the-box modules designed specifically for city government needs, including a participatory budget, reporting platforms, and website design. Experts from the City of Paris' IT department will lead a workshop on how to use the open-source platform immediately following the HopHacks kickoff on Friday evening. These specialists will be on hand throughout the 36-hour hackathon to offer technical support.
For inspiration, community liaisons from the Baltimore City Council have compiled a list of real-world, high-priority community issues that need solving, and hackers will have access to city data.
"Baltimore is a city of millennials, and we're fortunate to benefit from their energy, enthusiasm, and innovative approach to identifying solutions that make city living better," said Catherine E. Pugh, mayor of Baltimore City. "Smart city government means depending on smart individuals who offer approaches that might not have been considered. I'm eager for the good ideas and insights that students here in our community will generate, and those from across the country, and welcome the best ideas that will support our efforts to move our city forward."
Baltimore City officials—alongside those from MICA, local community organizations, and the City of Paris—will judge the Civic Hack competition. The winning team will receive in-kind prizes valued at $1,000, as well as opportunities to collaborate with the BCIT public sector to prototype their products. Students who don't participate in the Civic Hack competition are also eligible to win a $1,024 grand prize, a $512 second place prize, and a $256 third place prize.
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Our panel of mortgage experts share their views on Canadian mortgage rate trends each month by answering this question: What is your outlook for Canadian mortgage rates over the next 30-45 days?
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December 2013 Overall Summary
Fixed mortgage rates will see slight discounting this month, as bond yields remain low amid slow but stable economic improvement, both in Canada and internationally. However, such gains are still below growth benchmarks, leading to no change in the Bank of Canada's rate stance, and as a result, variable borrowing costs.
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Government of Canada bond yields continue to see slight downward pressure, as investors remain confident that national benchmark rates will remain low. Market fluctuation as a result of U.S. monetary policy has also subsided, as the Fed appears to have deferred any changes to quantitative easing until the new year. As well, new government-imposed risk fees to the CMHC are not anticipated to have adverse effects on the availability of mortgage insurance in the near future. As a result, fixed mortgage rates will see slight discounting this month.
An increase to the Bank of Canada benchmark rate is not anticipated prior to late 2014, as sufficient slack remains in economic output to allow the rate to remain at its current one per cent.
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Ron Butler - Mortgage Broker at Verico Butler Mortgage
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The tapering news and rumors swirling around the U.S. Fed seem confusing at times, but the bond market voted with its feet and fixed bond yields remain in the low 170s on five-years, indicating not much change in fixed rates for the upcoming month.
With the Prime rate certain to stay the same and Libor swap rates falling, the outlook is positive for variable rate mortgages. The farther off into the future a change in Canadian Prime rate is pushed, the better the news for borrowers with variable mortgages.
Dan Eisner - President, True North Mortgage
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Canadian bond yields have been flat for the last few weeks. As a result we don't expect mortgage rates to fluctuate much in the coming days and weeks. Of course this can change suddenly if the Bank of Canada makes an unexpected statement during the next rate announcement.
We will have to see a sustained recovery in the U.S.'s economic situation before we start seeing the Banks change their variable rates. As a result, we don't foresee any changes to the variable rates in the near future
Dr. Ian Lee - Program Director, Carleton University
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The five-year Bank of Canada bond rate is down very slightly. Indeed, the continued uncertainty in the U.S. and Canada, manifested in the weak recovery, is reflected in the bond rates. Moreover, the Minister of Finance has announced yet another round of mortgage insurance tightening focused on CMHC with the imposition of a risk fee. This provides additional evidence of the government's intention to induce a further slowing of the housing market and thus demands for mortgage financing which will impose downward pressure on fixed rates.
The release of the most recent Bank of Canada reports and comments thereto in addition to the IMF report reveal what we already know. The recovery is not as robust as it should be by this point in the cycle. There will be no central bank rate increase before late 2014 at the earliest if comments by the Federal Reserve and Bank of Canada are credible.
Kelvin Mangaroo - President of RateSupermarket.ca
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While the Department of Finance recently imposed a $50-million annual risk fee on the CMHC, the Crown Corporation has stated such measures will not negatively impact the availability of mortgage insurance funding. While some analysts speculate the change could bring about a slight mortgage rate increase in the new year, current bond yield levels face downward pressure, as Canadian benchmark rates remain unchanged, and U.S. Fed QE fears have been deferred until 2014. As a result, fixed mortgage rates may see some slight discounting this month.
Ever since the BoC dropped their rising rate bias in their last announcement, there have been contrasting analysis on whether the benchmark rate will rise again in the near future - while the OECD has called for an increase as early as next year, other sources such as the IMF have stated there is sufficient economic slack to allow rates to linger at one per cent until 2015. As economic growth still remains below target, there is no reason to anticipate a Bank of Canada rate change this month.
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There are some on ebay using the same ignition cylinder, but I think the wiring/plug is different.
Last year the ignition switch failed on my 750, the solder on the back of the switch had been attacked by the weather and the barrel was that worn that the key could be removed in the 'on' position, so I looked into it, but decided to buy new from Robinsons..with Bob's discount.
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To celebrate the launch of the new Chile Team Kit, we worked with Nike Football to create this endlessly zooming animation which was used across social media as well as in-store.
Fun fact: With each frame being drawn at 10,000 x 10,000 pixels, the exponential scaling within the spot means that by the end, the first frame would be bigeger than the solar system! #maths


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Most Internet videos never needed to be videos in the first place. Audio would have worked fine, if not text. Bandwidth hogs are running wild, uploading 40-megabyte stacks of tomfoolery that wouldn't pass muster on community-access television.
But it might not be that way if the New York Times Magazine were in charge. It enlisted chef Dave Arnold of the French Culinary Institute to build an "edible martini" by vacuum-infusing a rectangular slice of cucumber with a mixture of gin (and a reasonable, not stingy, pour of vermouth). Between the bubbling, the color change from opaque to transparent, and the gut appeal of looking at a geometric, crunchy martini that you can eat, this is one video that goes the distance.
Zinfully Delicious provides some interesting backstory for the chef, who originally trained as a sculptor: "He worked with metals and machinery as an art student and once battled a fire-breathing dragon. (It was a modified air blower that spit flaming kerosene; he wore a welding jacket and carried a lance.)"
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The U.S. Dept. of Commerce is banning American companies from selling components to leading Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE for seven years. ZTE is a leading equipment maker in the field of telecom. The company buy components from U.S. producers, such as Qualcomm, Microsoft, and Intel. And it sells smartphones in the U.S. to companies, like AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint. Last year, ZTE pleaded guilty to conspiring to evade U.S. sanctions by illegally shipping its products and technology to Iran. As part of the agreement, it promised to dismiss four senior employees and discipline 35 others. It did the former but omitted the latter. As a penalty, the Commerce Department is now banning American companies from doing business with ZTE.


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1935 Stromberg Carlson Model 84 floor model. I have had this for years
but just yesterday I removed the chassis for the first time. It was
stuck on the large rubber mounts and I had to saw them off with a long
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I heard it was serviced in the early 80's and saw where 3
electrolytics were replaced. The repair guy removed the original
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Hi everyone, here is my entry for the Artbymiran Progress Challenge.
Card recipe:
White hammered card blank
Backing card from DCWV
Green co-ordinations card
Tonic scalloped square dies
Faux gem
Hunkydory sentiment
Leonie Pujol flower and leaf dies
Artbymiran Classy Cheryl image coloured with Distress Inks
Tim Holtz distress inks as follows:
Skin and Eyes: Vintage Photo, Tattered Rose, Aged Mahogany, Forest Moss and Bundled Sage
Hair: Walnut Stain and Antique Linen
Flower: Aged Mahogany
Clothes: Forest Moss and Bundled Sage
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Here is today's Thing-a-Day Thing!
Yeah, it's a Vine.
Yeah, it's a joke I stole from Chris Hardwick (the Nerdist).
Yeah, it's sideways (I couldn't figure out how to turn them inside the Vine app. And it had synced up so well that I decided to leave it sideways instead of spending more time to get it not quite as well-synced but tilted the right way).
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Rochester, New York - October 04, 2013
Quintel Adds WCS Support with Release of 8-Port Pentaband Slimline Antenna
Quintel's 8-Port Pentaband Antenna adds support for WCS and allows operators to deploy five major frequency bands in North America on one antenna.
Rochester, New York - October 04, 2013 - Quintel®, a leading innovator of spectrum-and space-efficient antennas for wireless networks, has introduced for commercial operation its next series of industry-leading MultiServ™ 8-Port Slimline Antennas. The Quintel Ultra Broadband (UBB) Antenna was announced in Q2 of 2013 and is now available for order by customers across North America.
The Quintel UBB MultiServ 8-Port Pentaband Antenna with patented QTilt™ technology uniquely delivers 8 ports and up to four independent service tilts as two low-band (i.e. 1x 698-787MHz service (3GPP Bands 12, 13, 17, 29) and 1x 824-894MHz services (3GPP Band 5), and 2x 1710-2360MHz services (including 3GPP Bands 2, 4, 25, 30) in a single slim-line 12"/300mm wide antenna. This enables existing Cellular and/or PCS Band antenna-constrained sites to be upgraded to LTE in 700MHz, AWS and/or WCS bands with the replacement of one like-for-like antenna. The Quintel UBB MultiServ Pentaband 8-Port Slimline Antenna is an ideal solution for independently optimizing multiple services when rapidly introducing new services. Technology agnostic, each band provides flexibility for optimizing existing and future technologies such as GSM/GPRS, UMTS/HSPA, CDMA/EVDO, LTE/LTE-Advanced including MIMO implementations. The tilt of each service is controlled independently via internal RET actuators compliant to AISG1.1, AISG2.0 and 3GPP protocols. Quintel's Pentaband Antennas also allow for 4-Branch MIMO using CLA-2X antenna configuration to be exploited at the high-bands.
"Quintel introduced its first generation of 8-Port antennas in 2012, which were immediately adopted and deployed by major operators for their antenna-constrained sites. With the release of our Pentaband platform, operators can continue to enjoy the ability to deploy all their bands and technologies on fewer antennas without compromise of their coverage and capacity goals," said Joe Veni, Quintel's Vice President of Sales and Business Development. "Operators can also extract the maximum capacity for minimum cost from their existing physical sites without incurring the cost of tower upgrades and redevelopment or having to install costly, complex and inefficient combining schemes."
Unlike conventional multi-port antennas, Quintel's technology empowers operators to reduce unnecessary infrastructure and thereby allows them to more quickly and efficiently expand their services and networks. Since 2006, North American, European and Indian deployments are demonstrating positive and measurable performance and economic results relative to operator coverage through a combination of increased radiation (RAD) centers, antenna consolidation, and additional cost savings on both initial capital outlays and recurring operating expenses. Thus operators can deploy faster, with lower costs, and fully maintain their desired quality of service with complete reliability and minimal downtime.
About Quintel
Quintel is an innovative leader in wireless network antenna technology development. The company's products enable wireless operators worldwide to independently deploy and optimize multiple air interfaces or services on a single standard antenna platform. Quintel is the only antenna maker whose products can increase a wireless network's capacity, and the number of services, without increasing the number of antennas or size. Its core technologies originated in the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence and are now deployed throughout the world. Quintel is headquartered in Rochester, NY, USA with additional offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. More information about Quintel is available at http://www.quintelsolutions.com.
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UNBELIEVEABLE VALUE! I cut OVER HALF THE RETAIL PRICE! Paid $5500 selling for $2250!
Signature couture dress by Ysa Makino and Stephen Yearick (Style 2666). This gown has incredible Swarovski crystals and beading on the entire bodice. The ruffle and ostrich feather panels on the skirt are like nothing you have ever seen!
If you want more pictures please let me know. I did not end up going through with the marriage so I want someone to enjoy it as I wish I could have.
This dress is made of luxurious fabrics with exquisite hand embroidery and is truly a work of art which highlights the meticulous detail infused to craft each creation to evoke a true sense of femininity and style. Absolutely unique and stunning! It's a size 8 (fits true to size).
Trust me, everyone will gasp when they see you in this dress! I special ordered it in white rather than ivory which made the "bling" pop even more! Truly a WOW factor dress.
No alternations necessary, however, I did add boning in the bodice because of the heaviness of the beading so there would be no "slipping" during the wedding/reception.
This dress was professionally cleaned (not preserved) and looks brand new. Any crystals that seemed to be loose were secured. I wanted to make sure it looks perfect for someone else's special day!
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Features of the G5 Soft Sponge rubber, 2 5/8 inch Diameter:
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Black Tie Ski Rentals; your premier Ski and Snowboard Rental Delivery Service is happy to offer a rental location in The Ptarmigan Inn.
NEW THIS SEASON, we are located just downstairs from the main lobby!
It is our goal at Black Tie Ski Rentals to make your rental experience as enjoyable as possible. As a Black Tie customer, you will receive:
- Custom Fitting of the best rental equipment on the market.
- Slope-Side Assistance for any needs or requests.
- Free Storage on-site at The Ptarmigan.
- Easy Drop Off Return of your equipment at the end of your vacation.
For your convenience, if you forget to bring any important items, or simply need to make a purchase, Black Tie has a variety of retail items for purchase including ski socks, goggles, hand and toe warmers, and chapstick to offer as well.
Please take a moment to complete the Black Tie reservation form. Note that we request a delivery time, but you will actually pick up your gear from our location in The Ptarmigan.
If you have any questions, please call us directly at 970.870.3172.
Of all the ski-in ski-out, bike-in bike-out hotels in Steamboat, the full-service Ptarmigan Inn is the coziest. This Steamboat hotel offers the convenience of stepping out onto the slopes of the Steamboat Ski Resort. A quick ski/ride over to the Christie lift or the Steamboat Gondola and you'll be at the top of the mountain in no time – true ski-in, ski-out luxury! For your added convenience, Black Tie Ski Rental and valet ski storage is available on site. Contact us to learn more!