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Where in the ear - outer ear canal, middle ear? - was the polyp found?
You believed that her condition would improve - in time or after the polyp was removed?
What does "completely different cat" imply? She stopped dragging her rear leg, her pupil wasn't dilated, and she wasn't ataxic?
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370618735150365301.post8500889845233355004..comments2016-08-27T13:27:06.621-07:00Comments on Maxie Girl's Books: A bit more about the gardenMarilynnehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370618735150365301.post-61843797689718962612016-08-27T13:27:06.621-07:002016-08-27T13:27:06.621-07:00I have come to the point where I cannot take care ...I have come to the point where I cannot take care of a big house and a huge yard. My hubbie OTOH, has always wanted a big garden and some distance from our neighbors. So, I just hire a cleaning lady and wait. I like this place too, but I would have so much time to do other things if we moved to a smaller place.Marilynnehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370618735150365301.post-59506709767774336262012-04-02T18:21:23.271-07:002012-04-02T18:21:23.271-07:00I like surprises in my garden. My hubbie not so m...I like surprises in my garden. My hubbie not so much because he likes to eat what he grows.

I was just telling Oldest Daughter about the frogs in your pond. She has just moved to a new house and there's a pond there. It needs to be set up again. No one had been taking care of it. I think there are lots of native frogs in her area. It might be a fun project.

I guess we'll just have to wait and see what she does with it.

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Well I'm back in Level land and I brought some treasures home with me. The weed patch out the back is full to over flowing with the most beautiful weeds, so I thought my new Mathew Scheiman jug deserved a nice welcoming on my kitchen table. When is a jug a vase? Usually when I own it. I am thrilled with the pot and the beauty it and Mother Nature have given the man cave. Some poor suckers without any imagination would go to their local florist and pay thru the nose for a bouquet of weeds like this.
Wait till I show ya all the pots I brought home from Amerika. Man,
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That is gorgeous. Looking forward to seeing what other treasures you brought home. Deb
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Grafixoft is now ISO 9001:2015 and ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certified!
Grafixoft Ltd. is pleased to announce the receiving of ISO/IEC 27001:2013 and ISO 9001:2015 certificates for its integrated information security and quality management system. After 9 months of hard work and preparation we are delighted to share that we managed to develop a system that follows well-known and proven approaches in the IT area.
The ISO certification highlights our commitment to adopt the best international practices across our operations in order to better serve our clients. We will continue strengthening our technological capabilities and exploring new breakthroughs that offer a trusted framework while benefiting from the freedom to grow, innovate, and broaden our customer-base in the knowledge that all our confidential information will remain that way. This certification is an important step forward in our aim to operate and deliver quality, trust, security and reliability.
ISO 9001:2015 is a standard that sets out the requirements for a quality management system. It helps businesses and organizations to be more efficient and improve customer satisfaction. A new version of the standard, ISO 9001:2015, has just been launched, replacing the previous version (ISO 9001:2008). Created by the International Organization for Standardization, the ISO 9001 is the most internationally recognized standard for quality management systems (QMS), representing almost 72 percent of the total number of certificates issued globally. The standard guarantees that an organization's products and services are among the best in the world.
ISO/IEC 27001:2013 is created by a joint technical committee of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). It helps make businesses more resilient and responsive to information security threats. The standard reduces the likelihood of breaches and ensures confidentiality, integrity, secure exchange of data and availability of critical information.
This official seal of approval bears testament to the strategy that our company has spearheaded ever since its establishment in 1998. Obtaining these certifications demonstrates the commitment of Grafixoft to deliver service excellence and reflects the quality of our solutions, while enabling our company to affix a recognized hallmark to our products and services.
RemedyForce, Salesforce and ITIL® certified employees
Grafixoft has always claimed itself as a company which supports people in both personal and professional aspect. We actively encourage staff to reach their full potential through different programs and trainings. The partners and staff wish to congratulate the following members of our team:
The first in Bulgaria BMC RemedyForce Certified Professionals:
- Gergin Harizanov
- Peter Petrov
- Rayna Laleva
The BMC Remedyforce is a cloud-enabled IT Service Management solution that delivers service desk, self-service, and inventory management capabilities. The solution is hosted on the Software as a Service (SaaS) Force.com platform from Salesforce.
Salseforce.com Certified Force.com Developers:
- Konstantin Tachev
- Yasen Kolev
A Salesforce.com is the first and the most popular SaaS platform. It has been chosen by BMC as foundation for the Remedyforce. A Certified Force.com Developer has knowledge of custom application development, certified employees perform extreme customization of CRM applications and use the right mix of declarative and coding capabilities to create completely custom apps for the company or the clients. With a Developer credential, they'll demonstrate their ability to use the Force.com platform to the fullest.
ITIL Certified consultants:
- Dora Popovа
- Maria Popova
The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is the foundation for achieving the goals of BMC Remedyforce. ITIL provides the leading set of best practices for service management. BMC Remedyforce is ITIL V3 certified by Pink Elephant's PinkVERIFY for the incident, problem, change, service level, service asset configuration, knowledge, request fulfillment, service catalog, and release management processes.
Grafixoft is proud of the achievements these talented individuals have made. We support employees who work within the firm to excel in their career. We encourage them to strive towards their personal and professional goals with the help of their team and the partnership.
BBBA membership
April, 2015 | Sofia, Bulgaria
Grafixoft is happy to add a new promising name in its partnership list. As a member of the recently established British Bulgarian Business Association (BBBA) we hope to help and take part in strengthening the bilateral relations between Bulgaria and UK. The active function that BBBA has, is a great way to provide a diverse and wide-ranging added value in the informational, marketing and business platforms. Beside the information, the resources and the advocacy that every member gets, there are also investment opportunities and cross-border trade that will increase the credibility and the recognition. Grafixoft believes that this partnership will lead to more opportunities for cooperation with UK companies.
Grafixoft – one of the top 100 ICT companies in the country
August, 2014 | Sofia, Bulgaria
We are pleased to announce that for the first time Grafixoft has applied and has been rated in the prestigious "Top 100 ICT Companies in Bulgaria", a rank annually published by Computerworld magazine.
The unique ranking of the companies in the field of information and communication technologies on the Bulgarian market was released in 2014 for the 17th consecutive year. This unique for Bulgaria edition ranks companies according to their financial performance over the last financial year, makes comparative analysis in various segments such as distribution, software development, supply and installation of communication solutions, production of ICT products, systems integration, outsourcing, etc. The publication gives information about the current state of the industry and is being a guide not only for both IT companies and their customers in the country, but also for foreign companies and partners as well.
According to the ranking, IT business grew in 2013 compared to 2012. The total turnover of the ICT companies in the ranking for 2013 is over 1.57 billion levs with largest share of the distribution of hardware, software and communication products, second place – outsourcing activities with over 17.2%, and third place remains system integration with 15.6% of the turnover of IT companies. The total profit of the IT sector is lower than last year.
Besides getting in the big 100, Grafixoft marked success in the following categories of the list as well:
- "Leading providers of consulting services for 2013″;
- "Top 50 IT employers on the number of employees for 2013″;
The full list of rankings can be found here.
15 years of software engineering that makes difference
December, 2013 | Sofia, Bulgaria
This December 6, the company celebrated 15 years of successful work on the software engineering market.
Since its founding in 1998, Grafixoft's priority has always been exceptional quality and win-win partnerships. For the past fifteen years the company has completed a series of successful projects thus contributing to businesses' growth. Our main focus has always been on driving innovation and thinking out-of-the box. We believe that working on revolutionary projects is what moves the software industry forward.
This anniversary has also been a happy occasion to note that some of our clients and employees have been with us since our early years. The birthday party got our team together in the celebration spirit reminding us that much has been achieved but everything is still ahead of us!


text: Retail Stocks End June With Gains Retail index ekes out advance for day, up 1.3% in month. By Samantha Conti and Arnold J. Karr on June 30, 2014 U.S. retail stocks managed a small gain to start the week, enabling them to finish the month with a 1.3 percent increase.The S&P 500 Retailing Industry Group rose 0.1 percent to 888.66, adding a 0.1 percent advance to finish the month ahead 1.3 percent. The result put the performance for the first half of the year at down 5.4 percent, with 124 trading days divided between 66 gains and 58 declines.Neither the Dow Jones Industrial Average nor the S&P 500 made it into positive territory for the day. The Dow was off 0.2 percent to 16,826.60 and the S&P off 0.04 percent to 1,960.23, trimming their monthly gains to 0.7 percent and 1.9 percent, respectively.American Apparel Inc. shares ended the day down 6.8 percent at 90 cents, their high for the day, after dropping as low as 75 cents in morning trading. Investors continue to weigh possible scenarios as ousted chief executive officer Dov Charney looks to acquire more shares after the company sought to frustrate those efforts with a poison pill plan and a firm refusal to hold a special shareholders' meeting to change the company's bylaws and expand its board.Among other retail, fashion and beauty equities tracked by WWD, Sears Holdings Corp. scored the biggest gain of the day, rising 4.7 percent to $39.96, while Destination XL Group was up 3.8 percent to $5.51. Vince Holding Corp., Burlington Stores Inc. and Stage Stores Inc. also performed well, with Vince rising 3 percent to $36.62, Burlington up 2.7 percent to $31.86 and Stage ahead 2.4 percent to $18.69.American Apparel had the largest decline among companies in the WWD sample. Other companies with decreases on the day included Elizabeth Arden Inc., down 3.6 percent to $21.42; Bebe Stores Inc., down 3.2 percent to $3.05, and Tumi Holdings, down 2.6 percent to $20.13.While the DAX in Frankfurt was up 0.2 percent to 9,833.07, other European markets contracted. The CAC 40 in Paris fell 0.3 percent to 4,422.34 while both the FTSE 100 in London and the FTSE MIB in Milan receded 0.2 percent to 6,743.94 and 21,283.03, respectively.All four indices surrendered ground during the month, with the CAC 40 down the most, 2.2 percent, and the DAX down the least, 1.1 percent. Milan was down 1.6 percent in June and London off 1.5 percent.The day's biggest gainers included Mulberry Group, 3.2 percent to 7.60 pounds; Salvatore Ferragamo, 1.4 percent to 21.78 euros, and Ted Baker, 2.7 percent to 18.12 pounds. Among the stocks that lost the most ground were Mysale.com, 3.6 percent to 2.14 pounds; Gemfields, 5.7 percent to 47 pence, and Geox, 1.6 percent to 4.25 euros.The euro traded at $1.36 against the U.S. dollar, while the pound fetched $1.70 and the Swiss franc $1.12. WWD logo To Read the Full Article SUBSCRIBE NOW Already a Subscriber? Log in. Tap into our Global Network Of Industry Leaders and Designers load comments blog comments powered by Disqus


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Assessment of Offshore Wind Energy Leasing Areas for the BOEM Massachusetts Wind Energy Area
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), under an interagency agreement with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), is providing technical assistance to identify and delineate leasing areas for offshore wind energy development within the Atlantic Coast Wind Energy Areas (WEAs) established by BOEM. This report focuses on NREL's development of three delineated leasing area options for the Massachusetts (MA) WEA and the technical evaluation of these leasing areas. The overarching objective of this study is to develop a logical process by which the MA WEA can be subdivided into non-overlapping leasing areas for BOEM's use in developing an auction process in a renewable energy lease sale. NREL worked with BOEM to identify an appropriate number of leasing areas and proposed three delineation alternatives within the MA WEA based on the boundaries announced in May 2012. A primary output of the interagency agreement is this report, which documents the methodology, including key variables and assumptions, by which the leasing areas were identified and delineated.
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- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
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- 1118096
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- Technical Report
- Research Org:
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Org:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Wind Energy Technologies Office (EE-4WE); Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 17 WIND ENERGY OFFSHORE LEASING; BOEM; WIND ENERGY AREAS; MASSACHUSETTS; NREL; Wind Energy
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Coles College of BusinessKennesaw State University Coles College of Business
Newly Admitted MBA Students
Congratulations on being accepted into the MBA program at Kennesaw State University's Coles College of Business. Before beginning your studies you must:
Shortly after formally accepting our offer of admission, you should receive e-mails providing information about verifying that pre-requisites are met and registering for New Student Orientation. The MBA New Student Orientation is mandatory. It is a two-part orientation that includes an informational session and a workshop. The session will be facilitated by the MBA Program Administration. Topics of discussion include program expectations, class selection, degree progression tracking, registration procedures, alumni services, and other important information. There will also be an opportunity for Q&A. If you do not receive these e-mails within 4 business days after accepting our offer of admission, please contact Tanya Mosley, Assistant Director of MBA Programs.
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Following a hugely successful launch of the Sunshine Coast Hospice last night, a week long gold coin donation drive will now take place throughout the Sunshine Coast and Cooloola regions.
Schools, RSL clubs, churches, sports clubs, businesses and other locations across the region have kindly agreed to feature the gold donation boxes being placed at schools, RSLs, churches, sports clubs and in work places aimed at raising the funds required to build the first stage of the Sunshine Coast Community Hospice.
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At the launch event last night, which featured 600 guests featuring the Body Language Expert, Allan Pease as MC, columnist and hospitality personality Ashley Robinson and Katie Richardson who was recently crowned Miss World Australia) and many other esteemed guests from the community, the pair also unveiled the opportunity for members of the community to become 'Friends of the Hospice'.
"We know there are many, many people out there who have been affected by long term illness or death where there has been a desperate need for hospice care, but until now this has not been an option for them or their friends or family. We imagine they, and other very generous members of the community will like the concept of becoming a Friend of the Hospice (F.O.H)."
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SHANE WARNE took his 1,000th first-class wicket to help Australia to a nine-wicket victory over New Zealand in Christchurch after the home team, who held a one-run first-innings lead, were bowled out for 131. Warne took five for 39 to extended his world record to 573 Test dismissals during a New Zealand second innings that featured a world-record equalling seven leg-before decisions.
South Africa beat Zimbabwe by an innings and 62 runs at Centurion Park to complete a 2-0 series victory. Monde Zondeki, the fast bowler, took six for 39 in his second Test. Ashwell Prince finished unbeaten on 139 as South Africa declared on 480 for seven before the visiting side were dismissed for 149, losing their last four wickets for six runs.


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Nonmyeloablative conditioning is less toxic and results in initial establishment of mixed hematopoietic T cell chimerism for up to half a year with prolonged presence of host T cell immunity. In this study, we examined whether this translates into differences in the risks and/or severity of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection and disease. We analyzed data from 537 nonmyeloablative (NM-HCT) and contemporaneous 2489 myeloablative hematopoietic cell transplant (M-HCT) recipients. In CMV seropositive recipients, no difference in the overall hazards of CMV infection at any level [adjusted hazard ratio (adj. HR) 0.9, 95% confidence interval (95%CI): 0.7-1.0, P=0.14] was noted; however, NM-HCT was associated with a lower risk of high-grade CMV infection (adj. HR 0.7, 95%CI: 0.5-0.9, P=0.02). CMV disease rates were similar between the groups during the first 100 days after HCT but NM-HCT recipients had an increased risk of late CMV disease (adj. HR 2.0, 95% CI 1.2-3.4). The increased risk of late CMV disease after NM-HCT was pronounced during the earlier years of the study period but not detectable in more recent years. Contrary to earlier reports, survival following CMV disease was not reduced after NM-HCT when compared to M-HCT recipients. These results suggest that residual host cells after NM-HCT reduce progression to higher CMV viral load in NM-HCT recipients; however, this effect does not appear to protect against serious complications of CMV. Therefore, CMV prevention strategies in NM-HCT recipients should be similar to those used in M-HCT recipients.
Nonmyeloablative HCT (NM-HCT) is now widely used in patients with hematological and non-hematological malignancies who are ineligible for myeloablative HCT (M-HCT) due to advanced age or comorbidities (1-3). NM-HCT includes reduced or minimally intensive conditioning therapy before transplantation combined with more intensive immunosuppression after transplantation. The nonmyeloablative regimen used in Seattle consists of low-dose total body irradiation (TBI) 2 Gy with or without fludarabine followed by cyclosporine (CSP) or tacrolimus and mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) as post-grafting immunosuppression (3-9). This regimen causes minimal toxicity and results in initial establishment of mixed host/donor T cell chimerism for up to approximately 6 months. Thus, risk or severity of viral infections, such as cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, may be reduced.
We initially reported that the time of CMV disease onset was delayed after HLA matched related NM-HCT, supporting the hypothesis that extended presence of host memory immune responses after NM-HCT might play a role in protection against early CMV infection (10-12). We also reported that the risk of CMV disease was similar after NM-HCT from HLA-matched-unrelated and related donors (13). Our study also suggested that CMV disease might be associated with a lower mortality in NM-HCT recipients (10). These studies were done early after the technique was introduced, which limited the power of statistical analyses due to small sample sizes.
This report examines the incidence, risk, and outcome of CMV infection in a large cohort of recipients undergoing NM-HCT and compared the outcomes with those of contemporaneous M-HCT recipients.
This retrospective analysis was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC; Seattle, WA). Informed consent was provided according to the Declaration of Helsinki.
We compared outcomes in 537 consecutive patients who received NM-HCT between December 1997 and December 2005 at the FHCRC and 2489 patients who received M-HCT between January 1995 and December 2005 at the FHCRC (Table 1). Recipient and donor age, proportions of a prior transplant history, peripheral stem cell source, CMV high-risk patients and MMF use as a post-grafting immune suppressant were significantly higher in NM-HCT compared to M-HCT. NM-HCT became more common in the later years and no T-depletion regimen was used in NM-HCT.
The CMV risk was stratified into three groups: low (recipient negative and donor negative); intermediate (recipient negative and donor positive); and high (recipient positive and either donor negative or positive) based on recipient and donor CMV serostatus before HCT.
Three hundred forty-eight (64.8%) NM-HCT recipients received fludarabine (30 mg /m2/day for 3 consecutive days) and low-dose TBI (2 Gy, day 0), while 90 patients (16.8%) received low-dose TBI (2 Gy, day 0) alone. Patients in the M-HCT group received different types of conditioning. The most common regimens consisted of cyclophosphamide (60 mg/kg/day for 2 consecutive days) followed by TBI (12 - 13.2 Gy) or busulfan (4 mg/kg/day for 4 consecutive days) followed by cyclophosphamide (60 mg/kg/d for 2 consecutive days) in 805 (32.3%) and 779 (31.3%) patients, respectively (data not shown). The distribution of stem cell sources used in NM-HCT and M-HCT is shown in Table 1.
GVHD prophylaxis regimens are shown in Table 1. NM-HCT patients most commonly received CSP and MMF orally as immune suppressants post HCT (n= 457, 85.1%) (data not shown). MMF was administered 15 mg/kg orally twice a day from day 0 to day 27 and discontinued for the HLA-match related NM-HCTs and MMF 15 mg/kg orally two or three times a day from day 0 to day 40 with a taper to day 96 for the unrelated NM-HCTs were given. For the single HLA-antigen and combined HLA-antigen and allele mismatched NM-HCTs, 15 mg/kg MMF was given 3 times a day and was tapered at day 100 over 2 months (5-9).
M-HCT patients most commonly received the combination of CSP and MTX (n=2122, 85.3%) (data not shown). CSP was given at a dose of 1.5 mg/kg intravenously twice a day or 6.25 mg/kg orally twice a day. MTX was administered intravenously at a dose of 15 mg/m2 on day 1, and 10 mg/m2 on day 3, 6, and 11. Diagnoses of acute GVHD or chronic GVHD were performed according to established criteria (14, 15).
CMV surveillance including polymerase chain reaction (PCR), pp65 antigenemia (AG) and blood culture was performed on a weekly basis until day 100. After day 100, surveillance and preemptive therapy were recommended for CMV intermediate and high-risk patients on a weekly or biweekly basis. Patients were monitored for the development of CMV infection and diseases until day 365. CMV pp65 AG was quantified as the average number of positive cells per 200,000 peripheral blood leukocytes and quantitative detection of CMV DNA in plasma by PCR was performed as described (16).
Ganciclovir (GCV) treatment was started when CMV AG/PCR became positive during the first 100 days after HCT. All patients with CMV AG at any level received GCV (5 mg/kg IV twice daily) for 7 to 14 days as induction therapy, followed by maintenance therapy with a half dose of GCV (5 mg/kg IV daily) or valganciclovir 900 mg once a day orally until negative surveillance testing was detected or day 100. After day 100, pre-emptive therapy consisting of IV GCV or valganciclovir induction, followed by maintenance therapy, was recommended when CMV AG became positive or when PCR was greater than 1000 copies/mL. GCV was substituted with foscarnet in patients with neutropenia.
Between January 1995 and November 1998, no patients received acyclovir for varicella zoster virus (VZV) prevention; but herpes simplex virus (HSV) positive recipients were given acyclovir, 250 mg/m2 twice daily from day -7 until engraftment and resolution of mucositis. From November 1998 until May 2002, VZV seropositive HCT recipients received prophylaxis against VZV (acyclovir 250 mg/m2 intravenously followed by 800 mg orally or valacyclovir 500 mg orally, all drugs given twice per day for 1 year after transplantation (valacyclovir was preferred for patients who received more than 0.5 mg/kg per day of steroids). HCT patients undergoing transplantation after May 2002 received the same regimen until 1 year after transplantation. In patients who were still receiving inmmunosuppression at one year, acyclovir/valacyclovir prophylaxis was continued until 6 months after discontinuation of all immunosuppression (17).
CMV AG was diagnosed by blood pp65 antigen testing, CMV viremia by positive blood culture or shell vial centrifugation culture (10), and detection of CMV DNA by PCR (16). CMV disease was defined by established criteria (18).
In the present study, we evaluated the following 6 endpoints: 1) CMV infection (any CMV AG/DNA detection) by day 100; 2) high-grade CMV infection (CMV AG > 10/200,000 peripheral blood leukocytes or PCR > 1000 copies/ml by day 100; 3) CMV viremia (culture) by day 100; 4) CMV disease by day 100 and 1 year; 5) late CMV disease which occurred after day 100 after HCT; 6) survival after CMV disease.
Characteristics of NM-HCT and M-HCT patients were summarized using frequency counts and percentages for categorical variables and medians and ranges for continuous variables.
The cumulative incidences of CMV infection, CMV high-grade infection, CMV disease and late CMV disease were compared between NM-HCT and M-HCT groups, with subsequent transplantation or death considered competing risks. Cumulative incidence curves for these endpoints also were stratified by CMV risk groups defined by donor and recipient seropositivity and by transplant year groupings between 1995 and 2005. The probability of survival was estimated by the Kaplan-Meier method. Hazards were compared using log-rank tests. The median times to onset of CMV disease were compared by the Wilcoxon rank sum test.
Univariate and multivariate Cox regression models were used to estimate hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI). Cox regression analyses for CMV infection, high-grade CMV infection, CMV viremia and CMV disease were performed in the CMV high-risk group.CMV viremia was analyzed in just a slightly smaller subset because CMV viremia was tested only through 12/2003. Covariates included recipient/donor age and sex, recipient/donor race, donor CMV serostatus, sex mismatch, HLA disparity, donor relationship, intensity of conditioning, stem cell source, HSV type I, II serostatus, T cell depleted conditioning, transplantation year, disease risk, GVHD prophylaxis, acute GVHD and chronic GVHD. Additionally, CMV risk group and maximum values of CMV AG and PCR testing were evaluated as risk factors for CMV disease.
Acute and chronic GVHD, CMV AG and PCR testing were analyzed as time-dependent variables. Variables less than P=0.05 in the univariate models were candidates for the multivariate models. Nonmyeloablative vs. myeloablative conditioning was forced into multivariate models of all endpoints.
The cumulative incidences of CMV infection by day 100 were similar between NM-HCT and M-HCT in CMV low and intermediate-risk groups. High-grade CMV infection was very rare, particularly in CMV low-risk groups and was not noted in any low-risk NM-HCT patient (Table 2)
In CMV high-risk group (n=1571), there were trends towards lower CMV infection and high-grade CMV infection rates in NM-HCT (Table 2, Figure 1). When high viral load was analyzed stratified by HLA-matched related vs. unrelated/HLA-mismatched related donor status in the CMV high-risk group, the lower incidence of high-grade CMV infection in NM-HCT was seen both in the HLA-matched related and unrelated/HLA-mismatched related settings (Figure 2). Unrelated and HLA-mismatched donor status was associated with a somewhat higher cumulative incidence of high-grade CMV infection at day 100 than HLA-matched related donor status (Figure 2). This effect was seen in both M-HCT and NM-HCT recipients. In the CMV high-risk group, other factors associated with increased risks of any CMV infection were recipient age and acute GVHD (III or IV). Other factors associated with an increased risk of high-grade CMV infection were recipient race (other than Caucasian) and acute GVHD (Table 3).
Among seropositive patients transplanted between 1995 and 2003 (n=1263), the incidence of CMV viremia (culture proven) by day 100 was significantly lower in NM-HCT compared with M-HCT (10% vs. 19%, P <0.001). However, in the multivariate model, the significance was not sustained. Other risk factors for CMV viremia were recipient race (other than Caucasian) (adj. HR 1.9, 95%CI: 1.2-3.0, P<0.01) and acute GVHD II to IV (adj. HR 3.4, 95%CI: 2.2-5.2, P<0.0001). CMV viremia was less common in the later years of the study period (2001-2003) compared to 1995-1997 (adj. HR 0.4, 95%CI: 0.6-0.6, P<0.0001) (data not shown).
As a surrogate marker for duration of anti-CMV treatment, we compared the duration from first positive to the first negative AG/PCR result between NM-HCT and M-HCT and found no difference in all patients [median (range):7 (0-13) vs.7 (0-50) days, respectively, P=0.98] or in patients at high risk for CMV (seropositive recipients) [median (range):7 (0-13) vs.7 (0-50) days, respectively, P=0.97]
Among CMV low and intermediate-risk groups, there was no significant statistical difference in the risk for CMV disease by day 100 and by 1 year between NM-HCT and M-HCT (Table 2).
In the CMV high-risk group, the cumulative incidence of CMV disease by day 100 (but not by 1 year) tended to be less frequent in NM-HCT compared with M-HCT (Table (Table2,2, ,4).4). A significant decline of CMV disease incidence was noted after 2001 compared to 1995-2000 (Figure 3a, b). The cumulative incidence for CMV disease in CMV high-risk NM-and M-HCT patients from 1995 to 2000 were 27% vs. 18% (P=0.25) compared to 12% vs. 11% (P=0.94) between 2001 and 2005 (Figure 3a, b). A significant delay in the onset of CMV disease was observed in NM-HCT in the high-risk CMV group [median day of onset; 106.5 (6.0-1273.0) vs. 69.5 days (6.0-1775.0) P=0.02]. Among NM-HCT, the cumulative incidences of CMV disease at 1 year between HLA-matched related and unrelated/HLA-mismatched related donors were very similar (15% vs. 14%, P=0.05).
Other risk factors associated with CMV disease in multivariate analysis were donor female sex, acute GVHD, chronic GVHD, HSV type I seropositivity, and positivity of CMV AG and/or PCR (Table 4).
The probability of survival in CMV high-risk patients who developed CMV disease (n=226) was not significantly different between NM-HCT and M-HCT recipients (P=0.88) (Figure 4).
No significant statistical differences in incidences were observed between MN-HCT and M-HCT. Late CMV disease was not observed in any CMV low-risk NM-HCT patient (Table 2).
No statistically significant differences in late CMV disease incidences were detected between MN-HCT and M-HCT in CMV high-risk group (Table 2).
Among all the risk groups, NM-HCT was significantly associated with late CMV disease after adjustment of multiple covariates (adj. HR 1.8, P=0.01) (Table 4). However, this was mainly driven by a high incidence of late CMV disease during the earlier years of the study period (Figure 3c, d). Additional factors for late CMV disease were: HLA-mismatch or unrelated donor, acute GVHD (III or IV) or chronic GVHD before day 100, and maximum CMV AG >10/ PCR > 1000 copies/ml before day 100. Furthermore, late CMV disease was less common in more recent years (2001-2003) compared to 1995-1997 (Table 4).
We compared the incidences of secondary bacterial infection before day 100 and fungal infections before 1 year after HCT between NM-HCT and M-HCT. There was no significant difference in risk of probable and definite invasive fungal infection between NM-HCT and NM-HCT in all CMV risk groups (p=0.77), nor in high-CMV-risk group (p=0.83).
Secondary invasive bacterial infections were less common in NM-HCT (23% vs. 28%, Chi square p-value <0.0001). There was a significant difference in hazard of bacterial infection between NM-HCT and M-HCT adjusted for CMV risk group (HR=0.6, 95% CI=0.5-0.8, P<0.0001); when the analysis was restricted to the CMV high risk group (seropositive recipients), a similar effect was seen (HR=0.7, 95% CI=0.5-0.9, P<0.01).
We comprehensively examined risks and outcomes of CMV infection and disease in a large cohort of uniformly treated patients that provided the necessary power to analyze CMV endpoints in NM-HCT recipients. NM-HCT recipients had similar rates of CMV infection and disease compared to M-HCT, although a delayed timing of disease and lower maximum CMV viral loads were noted. Contrary to an earlier small study that showed a trend towards improved outcome of CMV disease in NM-HCT (10), the present study did not show evidence of such an effect.
In a previous study, we demonstrated that NM-HCT showed trends towards lower incidence of CMV infection pp65 antigenemia, CMV viremia, and CMV disease during the first 100 days after HCT. However, we did not show statistically significant differences in the incidence of these CMV events between NM-HCT and M-HCT, possibly due to the small sample size (10). In the present study, we were able to provide statistical evidence that the incidence of high CMV viral load in NM-HCT is lower compared with M-HCT. This effect was seen in both HLA-mismatched-related or unrelated HCT and HLA-matched-related HCT recipients (Figure 2). Similar to an earlier study, there was a trend towards a more profound reduction of high CMV load in HLA-matched related NM-HCT recipients than in HLA-mismatched related or unrelated NM-HCT recipients, but even with this large sample size, this did not reach statistical significance (Figure 2). We speculate that the strong immunosuppressants and/or the high incidence and severity of GVHD in HLA-mismatched related or unrelated HCT might somewhat diminish the protection from persisting host T cell immunity in NM-HCT. We confirmed that the onset of CMV disease was delayed, which resulted in a trend towards less CMV disease before day 100 in NM-HCT recipients (Table 2). Collectively, these data suggest that the residual CMV specific host memory cells had a limited or no effect on reactivation of CMV but contributed to preventing progression to higher levels of viral load, at least early after less intensive conditioning. This is consistent with laboratory studies that showed a persistence of host memory T cells in HLA-matched related NM-HCT recipients (11, 12). However, after complete donor chimerism has been achieved in NM-HCT recipients, the benefits of protection against CMV infection seem to disappear. Our previous studies of CMV immunity showed that, after day 100, there was no difference in CMV-specific T cell immunity between NM-HCT and M-HCT recipients (11, 12).
Somewhat surprisingly, more patients developed late CMV disease following NM-HCT compared to M-HCT. Further analysis suggested that the effect was driven by the earlier years of the study period (10) (Figure 3c). This was likely due to less virologic surveillance for late CMV infection and less use of late preemptive therapy, possibly due to the perception that infectious complications were less frequent and/or severe (10). Additionally, the prolonged MMF prophylaxis or treatment, particularly in the unrelated NM-HCT, possibly contributed to more frequent incidence of late CMV disease in NM-HCT than in M-HCT. In more recent years, there was no increased risk of late CMV disease in NM-HCT recipients (Figure 3d). Also, the overall incidence of late CMV disease declined in both NM and M-HCT recipients, likely due to extended monitoring of CMV by PCR and increased use of preemptive anti-CMV treatment beyond day 100.
Risk factors for late CMV disease seen in this study (Table 4) were consistent with earlier reports by our group and others (20, 21, 22).
Although we were unable to separate the effect of GVHD on the risk of CMV endpoints in our previous studies (10, 20), in the current study, both acute GVHD and chronic GVHD were statistically significant risk factors for early and late CMV disease in the current study. This was consistent with previous reports (21).
The strengths of this study were the large sample size permitting multivariate modeling, well defined and homogenous transplant protocols, highly standardized supportive care, CMV surveillance, and a comprehensive and standardized workup of BAL and biopsy specimens (including autopsy specimens). Limitations were the retrospective nature of the analysis and that co-medications could only be analyzed by protocol (as supposed to on a per-patient basis). Also, the data might not extend to different reduced-intensity protocols. Furthermore, in this study, the majority of the NM-HCT patients received peripheral blood stem cells (Table 1). Although we could not detect a significant effect of the stem cell on CMV outcomes in the multivariate models, NM-HCT and peripheral stem cell use are tightly linked so we cannot conclusively rule out an interaction between the two modalities (19).
In conclusion, this large study provided robust data on the risk of CMV infection and disease in recipients of NM-HCT. The study confirmed and added statistical strength to some of the earlier findings, including the delayed onset of CMV disease and a lower risk of progression to higher viral loads during the first 100 days. Of note, the earlier reported trend towards an improved outcome of CMV disease after NM-HCT could not be confirmed in this study. In addition, the study showed that the survival rate after CMV disease was still very unfavorable and emphasizes the need for improved prevention and treatment strategies for CMV. Maribavir, a novel antiviral agent (23) and immune enhancement strategies with CMV-specific T cells (24) or CMV vaccination (25) or preemptive strategies that combine virologic and immunologic monitoring may be options in this regard.
We thank Daniel Stachel, MD, for chart review, and Gary Schoch and Craig Silva for database services.
Grant support: This study was supported by the National Institutes of Health (CA 18029, CA15704, HL36444, CA78902). Hirohisa Nakamae was funded by the Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan.
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"Desire is movement rather than place… A sense of the beautiful hovering just beyond your reach."*
He's standing right there. Just grab him and hold him.
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You stare straight ahead and for a moment, become lost in the sea of sameness surrounding you.
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He's gone. Close your eyes and picture him.
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Also see, "Lawrence O'Donnell: 'Trump's mental health: 'The elephant in the room,'" – The Last Word, MSNBC; February 23, 2017
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"Avoiding questions about Trump's mental health is a betrayal of public trust," by Lee Siegel, Columbia Journalism Review; February 22, 2017
"It is time to say it: Trump is Mentally Ill," by Jeff Jarvis, Medium, January 28, 2017
Dear NurSerial Readers,
This article could be construed as political. Fair enough, it's an examination of the mental state of the President. Look further, however: It's about the relationship between mental health and decision-making. Narcissism has got to be an incredibly painful condition to have or be around. The very nature of narcissism is that it distorts the perception of the person affected, often leading to false beliefs about elevated personal power and importance. People with narcissism can be easily offended and impulsively over-reactive to perceived slights.
This isn't a good feature in a world leader.
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Shorten & hem a vintage dress…
I recently brought this dress from my local vintage store for £3.00, I thought it would be perfect in the summer and couldn't pass it up! The only problem was the length, I chose to shorten it and show you how to do so in the process (well hopefully). Heres my very first step by step guild to shortening and hemming a dress, I hope you like it and find it useful.
What you will need –
Scissors, thread, measuring tape, pins, un-picker (incase you need it),
Firstly try the dress on and pin in place to the desired length, then lay the dress down flat and measure to the pin. Using the measurement repeat at least three times across the width of the dress and pin to desired length each time, don't for get to add 1-2 cm's to the length for hemming.
Pin front and back of dress together along the original hem line, this will help while cutting.
Cut along pin line of desired length. Once cut measure from the waist to the hem across the dress to make sure the middle and sides are all cut to the same length.
Thread up bobbin and sewing machine.
If you have an overlocker great, sadly I don't so I set my machine a setting which is most like an over locker. You can also use a zig zag setting.
Using the overlocker like stitch, sew the raw cut edge all the way around the bottom of the dress. This will stop the fabric from fraying.
Fold over stitched edge and measure 1-2 cm's (depending which amount you left for hemming). Pin all the way around the dress and keep measuring the hem to check its the same width all the way around.
Finally using a straight line stitch, sew the folded/pinned area, keeping as close lose edge and taking out the pins as you get close to them.
The all you have left to do is try it on and check your happy with the length and how it looks!
Hope you found this little tutorial helpful. Let me know what you think.
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Ooh, this is so interesting – I am awful at sewing but I really want to be able to do adjustments like this to my clothes. I think I've even got my grandma's own sewing machine in my loft somewhere – a proper old turn the handle one!
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Cannibalism and early instar survival in a larval damselfly
Cannibalism by larval damselflies late in larval development on larvae a few instars smaller has been widely documented. I examine here the survival of eggs oviposited near the end of the flight season of adult Enallagma boreale in the presence and absence of potential cannibals, individuals that hatched from eggs earlier in the season, over an extended part of the life-cycle. The role of competition as a modifier of cannibalism was examined by manipulating egg density, environmental productivity, and habitat complexity. Survival in the absence of potential cannibals ranged from 5% to nearly 50% but was only 0–3% in the presence of cannibals. Survival of small larvae was related to manipulations of habitat complexity but not initial density or resources. There were no significant interactions of the presence of large larvae with other experimental treatments on the survival of small larvae. The mean size of small larvae was greater in the presence of cannibals. This may be because the cannibalism treatment reduced the density of small larvae and reduced competition for resources, or that the cannibals preferentially fed on small larvae and only relatively large individuals remained. Fertilization of the habitat or manipulating the initial density of small larvae did not affect mass of small larvae at the end of the experiment, which would be expected if small larvae were affected by competition for resources. Potential cannibals, however, emerged at higher mass when small larvae were present at low density and when productivity of the habitat was increased. This suggests that the negative effect of competition by small larvae outweighs the positive effect of being potential prey for large larvae.
Key wordsCannibalism Competition Exploitation Enallagma boreale Interference
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|New York, United States of America
Lang's father was a Colonel in the United States Army, stationed at USAG Brussels in Brussels, Belgium. It was in Brussels that he met Lang's mother. The family lived in Bruges and he made the 1 hour commute back and forth each day. Lang's father never wanted children and he made sure both she and her mother knew. He started verbally abusing her around the time she turned 5.
He retired shortly before Lang turned 7 and the family moved to Den Haag, Netherlands where they lived until she was 14. It was then that her father uprooted them all and decided they'd move back to his home state of of New Jersey. Lang started high school that fall, feeling like an outsider--a feeling made worse by a lack of confidence in her English.
At the beginning of the school year, Lang signed up for an Intro to Keyboard class and even though it was just an electric keyboard, she fell in love. She also signed up to play in the school's orchestra. The orchestra director started her on oboe because no one else wanted to play that instrument.
Lang's best friend Caroline frequented parties thrown by upperclassmen and it was at once such party in the fall of sophomore year that Lang was introduced to a boy her friend had been hooking up with on and off the year before. That boy was Sebastian Noriega carlos_marron.
Junior year, the school's orchestra director decided violin might be a better fit for her because of her perfect pitch. But Lang had been spending all of her free hours, as much as she was able to, at the school practicing on the piano in the band room. What she really wanted to do was audition for the open piano spot in the orchestra. The orchestra director said they needed someone with more experience and filled the spot without giving her a chance.
In the spring of junior year, Sebastian OD'd on heroin. Lang found him unresponsive in his mother's garage. He spent a week in the hospital where she was able to convince him to go to rehab where he spent six months.
Lang had spent the summer months perfecting an audition tape for Juilliard and with Sebastian's encouragement, she sent it to the school in the fall. She had proven to be technically proficient on violin, but piano was her true love.
Lang binge drank her way through the rest of senior year. When college acceptance letters came out, she was accepted to New York University, Boston University, Brandeis, and Boston College. But not the New England Conservatory of Music. Not Berklee. And most devastatingly, not Juilliard.
She decided on NYU and moved out, telling her parents she was living on campus. It was easy because they had no interest in visiting. Secretly, she moved in with Sebastian to a tiny apartment in Newark, in a bad neighborhood near the airport. He made the proposal official that Christmas.
After that, she decided she was done following the path her father wanted her on. She got out of the psychology degree path and got out from her father's financial control. She applied for scholarships and financial aid and started pursuing a degree in music, scraping by with what little money they had.
After college, she started auditioning for jobs with local and national orchestras, but nothing ever resulted in invitations for further auditions. Giving up, she started teaching piano at a local record store where she met Stefan Van der Berg and Thomas Haas. The three of them found a common passion for heavy metal, with Thomas being the guitar teacher at the same record store and Stefan being the parent of Hannah, one of Lang's students. This is where Tunguska Effect formed, with Lang as frontwoman.
It was through her husband's job as a package car driver for UPS that she's connected with legendary producer Rick Rubin. Immensely impressed, Rubin signed Lang's band.
History is still unfolding.
EP (Jan 2014)
1. Paradise ft. Tarja
2. Shot in the Dark ft. Sebastián Noriega
3. Fire and Ice
4. Let Her Go (Passenger cover)
LP (Jan 2015)
1. Mother Earth
2. Jane Doe
3. And We Run ft. Xzibit
4. Iron
5. Faster
6. Covered by Roses
7. Sinéad
8. Memories
9. Whole World is Watching ft. Dave Pirner
EP (Sept 2015)
1. Living On Fire (demo version)
2. And We Run (evolution track)
3. Covered By Roses (evolution track)
4. Silver Moonlight (demo version)
5. Keep On Breathing (demo version)
6. Radioactive (Imagine Dragons cover)
LP (Jan 2016)
1. Towards the End (live)
2. Somewhere ft. Anneke van Giersbergen (live)
3. Memories (live)
4. Shot in the Dark (live)
5. Utopia ft. Chris Jones (live)
6. Iron (live)
7. Let Her Go (Passenger cover) (live)
8. Murder (live)
9. Forgiven (live)
10. Ice Queen (live)
11. Lost (live)
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