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Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Quick update on Blaze
Didn't get a chance to let you know earlier, but Blaze came through her surgery to be spayed just fine. She wasn't feeling too good for most of the day, but finally seems to be resting comfortably. Thank you for all your thoughts and prayers. Still have no regrets, we are just happy she made it through today. Keep your fingers crossed we can "contain" her as she starts to feel better. I can't wait to see that spunk in her eyes again. ☺
5 comments:
- Molly The Wally said...
Sending healing vibes and POTP. Have a terrific Tuesday.
Best wishes Molly
- May 6, 2014 at 4:09 AM
- Jeanne Pursell said...
We agree with Molly and we are also sending POTP and many healing vibes for Blaze. Sure hope things are back to normal SOON!!
- May 6, 2014 at 5:07 AM
- KB Bear said...
I'm so glad that Blaze came through fine. Gentle pats from us to her.
- May 6, 2014 at 9:14 PM
- Rebekah and My Rotten Dogs said...
I'm glad everything went well.
- May 6, 2014 at 11:07 PM
- Siku Marie, White Dog said...
Wags of joy that all went well. Sending our strongest White Dog healing energies and wishes for a VERY speedy and complete recovery!
- May 7, 2014 at 12:43 AM
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Freedom and Respect for All
One week from today is the day we set aside as a nation to celebrate the life of Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK). As you know, King was the chief spokesman for nonviolent activism in the civil rights movement. He believed in civil rights for all, peaceful means of protest and service to one's community. The latter is also the reason the day is set aside as the MLK Day of Service in our country. For those of you who take advantage of the day off to serve others, I thank you. There will be opportunities within our community to celebrate both his legacy and his commitment to service.
Dr. King's legacy can teach us so much. He believed in the common good, faith in fellow man, the need to speak up against tyranny, and that justice, democracy and human kindness would surely prevail over cruelty and prejudice. This one day set aside to celebrate his legacy is not enough. His widow noted in the Washington Post in 1983, "The holiday must be substantive as well as symbolic. It must be more than a day of celebration. Let this holiday be a day of reflection, a day of teaching nonviolent philosophy and strategy, a day of getting involved in nonviolent action for social and economic progress." I encourage you to check out this link from the Teaching Tolerance Project. It sets forth a plethora of ideas to make her wish come true:
MLK left our world a better place, albeit not a perfect place. Even after all these years, we seek to fulfill his dream where all people are respected regardless of skin color, wealth, gender, abilities or disabilities, and any other characteristics that make us individuals. Freedom and respect for all. As a nation, we have work yet to do. As individuals, we seek to be culturally proficient. As educators, we model and teach these important principles to future generations. Thank you for sharing Dr. King's messages this week, next week and every day of the year.
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The P-7808u FX includes the Intel Core 2 Quad processor Q9000 (2.0GHz, 6MB L2 cache, 1066MHz FSB), allowing consumers to enjoy games and cinematic entertainment, said Gateway.
The notebook is equipped with Nvidia's GeForce 9800M GTS graphics solution with 1GB of GDDR3 discrete video memory and a 17-inch widescreen display with 1440×900 resolution.
The notebook includes 4GB of memory and a 500GB capacity hard drive.
Illuminated multimedia keys are integrated into the keyboard to allow access to frequently-used audio and video functions, while a touch-control slide lets users conveniently increase and decrease the volume, highlighted Gateway.
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S.F. Opera season to feature premieres, favorites
San Francisco Opera General Director David Gockley believes he can have it both ways in the company's 2012-13 season. With two world premieres, the first local production of a Jake Heggie opera and two standard works of the Italian repertoire, the goal for the season, Gockley said, is to accommodate the company's difficult financial constraints without sacrificing artistic excellence.
"We're trying to find a way to balance the budget of this organization, and stop the bleeding," he said. "After running deficits of $1.5 million, $1.8 million and $2.4 million, we are now within striking distance of a balanced budget for 2013."
Gockley has followed through on his stated plan to reduce the number of main-stage productions from nine to eight (not counting the world premiere of Nolan Gasser's adaptation of "The Secret Garden," a family offering co-sponsored by Cal Performances). That shift, he said, would save the company between $1.5 and $2 million.
The season, which opens Sept. 7 and runs through July 7, 2013, will conclude with the world premiere of "The Gospel of Mary Magdalene," a commissioned work with a score and libretto by Mark Adamo, and the San Francisco premiere of Heggie's "Moby-Dick," which premiered in Dallas in 2010.
The fall season will begin with Verdi's "Rigoletto" and end with Puccini's "Tosca," each of them given 12 times with two closely alternating casts. The tight performance schedule, Gockley said, will save money on the costs of moving stage sets in and out. Also on the docket are Bellini's "I Capuleti e i Montecchi," Wagner's "Lohengrin," Offenbach's "Tales of Hoffmann" and Mozart's "Così fan tutte."
The company also announced a commissioned premiere for the 2013-14 season, an adaptation of the Stephen King novel "Dolores Claiborne" by composer Tobias Picker and librettist J.D. McClatchy. Mezzo-soprano Dolora Zajick will sing the title role.
Music Director Nicola Luisotti, who will conduct four of the season's productions, has renewed his contract through 2015-16, as have principal guest conductor Patrick Summers and resident conductor Giuseppe Finzi.
The title role of Rigoletto is shared by baritones Zeljko Lucic and Marco Vratogna, with sopranos Aleksandra Kurzak and Albina Shagimuratova as Gilda and tenors Francesco Demuro and David Lomelí as the Duke. For "Tosca," sopranos Angela Gheorghiu and Patricia Racette will alternate in the title role.
Soprano Nicolle Cabell and mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato star as Juliet and Romeo in the Bellini, and tenor Brandon Jovanovich will be joined by debuting soprano Camilla Nylund in "Lohengrin." The cast for "Moby-Dick" includes tenor Ben Heppner as Ahab.
"Mary Magdalene" will feature mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke making her company debut in the title role, and baritone Nathan Gunn as Jesus. Gockley said he knew that the subject matter - drawn from the Gnostic Gospels - would be controversial.
"I know it's going to be a hot potato, but I'm so impressed by Mark's libretto, and his treatment of the subject, which is the repositioning of Mary in the history of the church and the philosophy of early Christianity."
The full season schedule follows:
Rigoletto (Giuseppe Verdi) - Zeljko Lucic/Marco Vratogna, Aleksandra Kurzak/Albina Shagimuratova, Francesco Demuro/David Lomelí, Kendall Gladen, Robert Pomakov, Andrea Silvestrelli; Nicola Luisotti/Giuseppe Finzi, conductor; Harry Silverstein, director; Michael Yeargan, set designer; Constance Hoffman, costume designer; Chris Maravich, lighting designer; Ian Robertson, chorus director; Lawrence Pech, choreographer. Sept. 7, 8, 11, 12, 15, 16 (m), 18, 19, 21, 23 (m), 24, 30 (m).
I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Vincenzo Bellini) - Nicole Cabell, Joyce DiDonato, Saimir Pirgu, Eric Owens; Riccardo Frizza, conductor; Vincent Boussard, director; Vincent Lemaire, set designer; Christian Lacroix, costume designer; Guido Levi, lighting designer; Ian Robertson, chorus director. Sept. 29, Oct. 3, 11, 14 (m), 16, 19.
Moby-Dick (Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer) - Stephen Costello, Ben Heppner/Jay Hunter Morris, Morgan Smith, Jonathan Lemalu, Talise Trevigne, Matthew O'Neill, Robert Orth; Patrick Summers, conductor; Leonard Foglia, director; Robert Brill, set designer; Jane Greenwood, costume designer; Don Holder, lighting designer; Ian Robertson, chorus director; Keturah Stickann, movement director. Oct. 10, 13, 18, 21 (m), 23, 26, 30, Nov. 2.
Lohengrin (Richard Wagner) - Brandon Jovanovich, Camilla Nylund, Petra Lang, Gerd Grochowski, Kristinn Sigmundsson, Brian Mulligan; Nicola Luisotti, conductor; Daniel Slater, director; Robert Innes Hopkins, production designer; Simon Mills, lighting designer; Ian Robertson, chorus director; Leah Hausman, movement director. Oct. 20, 24, 28 (m), 31, Nov. 3, 6, 9.
Tosca (Giacomo Puccini) - Angela Gheorghiu/Patricia Racette, Massimo Giordano/Brian Jagde, Roberto Frontali/Mark Delavan, Christian Van Horn/Ryan Kuster, Dale Travis, Joel Sorensen; Nicola Luisotti/Giuseppe Finzi, conductor; Jose Maria Condemi, director; Thierry Bosquet, production designer; Christopher Maravich, lighting designer; Ian Robertson, chorus director. Nov. 15, 16, 18 (m), 20, 21, 24, 25 (m), 27, 28, 29, Dec. 1, 2 (m).
The Secret Garden (Nolan Gasser and Carey Harrison) - cast TBA; Jose Maria Condemi, director; Naomie Kremer, projection designer. March 1, 2, 3 (m), 9, 10 (m).
Les Contes D'Hoffmann (Jacques Offenbach) - Matthew Polenzani, Natalie Dessay, Alice Coote, Christian Van Horn, Steven Cole; Patrick Fournillier, conductor; Laurent Pelly, director and costume designer; Chantal Thomas, set designer; Christian Räth, associate director; Agathe Melinand, dramaturge; Ian Robertson, chorus director. June 5, 11, 14, 20, 23 (m), 27, 30 (m), July 3, 6.
Così fan tutte (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) - Ellie Dehn, Christel Lötzsch, Heidi Stober/Susannah Biller, Francesco Demuro, Philippe Sly, Marco Vinco; Nicola Luisotti, conductor; Jose Maria Condemi, director; Robert Perdziola, production designer; Ian Robertson, chorus director. June 9 (m), 12, 18, 21, 26, 29, July 1.
The Gospel of Mary Magdalene (Mark Adamo) - Sasha Cooke, Maria Kanyova, William Burden, Nathan Gunn; Michael Christie, conductor; Kevin Newbury, director; David Kornis, set designer; Ian Robertson, chorus director. June 19, 22, 25, 28, July 7 2, 5, 7 (m).
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|Molecular analysis of fragile X syndrome in Antalya Province.
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|PMID: 15876779 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|BACKGROUND: Detection of the (CGG)n repeats in the FMR1 gene that cause the fragile X syndrome (FXS), has become a milestone for phenotype-genotype correlation in FXS. AIMS: To screen the FMR1 gene CGG repeats in index cases with FXS and their family members in the Antalya Province. SETTING AND DESIGN: This study was prospectively conducted between January 2000 and March 2005 in Department of Medical Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Akdeniz University, Antalya. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A series of 132 cases from three hospitals in Antalya Province were studied. All cases were molecularly screened using non-radioactive Expand Long PCR method that was confirmed by Southern blotting. RESULTS: Seventeen out of 132 cases were found to have a full mutation, including three that were mosaic for premutations/full mutations. Of the 132 cases, eight were found to have the premutation size of the CGG repeats. The remaining 107 cases were identified as normal. CONCLUSIONS: Due to premature ovarian failure and Fragile X premutation Tremor/Ataxia Syndrome related with the premutation, the detection of the premutation will provide valuable information both for clinical follow-up and genetic counseling. In conclusion, our data suggest that expansion of CGG repeats in the FMR1 gene can be analyzed by Expand Long PCR, an efficient and non-radioactive method that can be used to monitor the expansion of premutation to full mutation, which would eventually lead to reduce the FXS prevalence.
|T Bilgen; I Keser; E Mihci; S Haspolat; S Tacoy; G Luleci
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|Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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|Title: Indian journal of medical sciences Volume: 59 ISSN: 0019-5359 ISO Abbreviation: Indian J Med Sci Publication Date: 2005 Apr
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|Created Date: 2005-05-06 Completed Date: 2005-06-21 Revised Date: 2006-11-15
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|Nlm Unique ID: 0373023 Medline TA: Indian J Med Sci Country: India
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|Department of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey.
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Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein
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Advances in Anatomic Pathology
An Update on the Clinicopathologic Features and Pathologic Diagnosis of Hepatitis E in Liver Specimens.
Lenggenhager D, Weber A. Adv Anat Pathol 2018;25:273–281.
This review paper highlights how to diagnose hepatitis E (HEV) on liver specimens. Once thought to be a self-limiting waterborne infection restricted to developing countries where it had its worst impact on pregnant women, it has become clear for nearly a decade that HEV is more common in industrialized countries than previously known. The seroprevalence is 30% in France and up to 21% in the US. Molecular detection of HEV RNA in the blood is over a short viremic period of about 3 weeks. In stool samples, the virus is detectable for an additional 2 weeks. Molecular detection is more robust than antibody-based serological testing. Acute HEV infection can be in the typical acute hepatitis pattern. The cholestatic pattern can show swollen hepatocytes, rosette formation and bilirubinostasis. Immunocompromised patients may get chronic HEV infection with rapid progression to cirrhosis. Chronic HEV can look similar to those of chronic viral HBV or HCV. Ancillary tools are necessary to help make the diagnosis given the nonspecific and overlapping morphologic histologic features. PCR targeting the ORF2 and 3 gene region of the virus can be done on formalin-fixed paraffin embedded tissues. In situ RNA testing is specific but less sensitive than PCR. Immunohistochemistry using ORF2 antibody can be useful particularly in immunocompromised patients.
Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Associates With Increased Overall Mortality and Death From Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease, and Liver Disease in Women but Not Men.
Hwang YC, Ahn HY, Park SW, Park CY. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 2018;16:1131–1137.
Using a large health study database of 318,224 people from Korea, followed for a median of 5.7 years, the causes of mortality were identified in subjects with NAFLD. The prevalence of NAFLD determined by ultrasound was 26%. The cumulative mortality rate was 0.51%, with cancer being the highest cause of death. In men, having NAFLD at baseline was not associated with overall cardiovascular or liver associated death. Women with NAFLD at baseline had higher cancer related and liver related mortality. Having liver fibrosis had an additional risk of death compared to NAFLD alone in women as well. In men, neither obesity nor NAFLD alone was associated with cancer-related mortality. Cardiovascular-related mortality was increased in men who had either obesity or NAFLD alone. In women, having either obesity or NAFLD alone was associated with increased overall and cancer related mortality, although the combination of the 2 conditions did not confer additional predictive power for mortality. In women, cardiovascular and liver related mortality was increased when they had both obesity and NAFLD. The study concludes that the impact of NAFLD appears stronger in women than in men, with NAFLD associating more closely with obesity metabolic syndrome and inflammation in women than in men, which may explain the higher mortality rate.
High Prevalence of Liver Fibrosis Among European Adults With Unknown Liver Disease: A Population-Based Study.
Caballería L, Pera G, Arteaga I, et al. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 2018;16:1138–1145.
This population-based, cross-sectional study investigated the prevalence of liver fibrosis as evaluated by transient elastography using Fibroscan with M probe. Three thousand fourteen participants were randomly chosen from a total of 162,950 subjects between 18-75 years. Those with a history of liver disease were excluded. In 92 subjects, a liver biopsy was performed and assessed by 2 liver pathologists blinded to the liver stiffness measurement. Risk factors associated with increased liver stiffness included male gender, abdominal obesity, type 2 diabetes, serum glucose level, triglyceride levels, and increased AST or ALT levels. Comparing biopsy to liver stiffness measurement, patients with F0 to F1 had measurement of 8.4, whereas those with F4 had a measurement of 30.8kPa. Per the table listed in the article, 53% of those with F0 had liver stiffness measurement of greater than 8.0kPa. The authors state that using a cutoff of >6.8kPa, 32% of the the patients had significant liver fibrosis, but using a cutoff of >9.0 kPa, 65% of the patients had significant liver fibrosis (defined by F1-F4). This gave a sensitivity of 93%, specificity of 78%, and predictive accuracy of 83%. They propose a screening algorithm that starts with a detailed medical history identifying risk factors for liver fibrosis, followed by calculating fatty liver index, and then screening with transient elastography for only those with risk factors and a fatty liver index >60. They suggest that transient elastography can be useful for screening for liver fibrosis in the community.
Hepatic elastin content is predictive of adverse outcome in advanced fibrotic liver disease.
Kendall TJ, Dolman GE, Duff CM, et al. Histopathol 2018;73(1):90-100.
Elastin is an extracellular matrix (ECM) protein conferring elastic recoil to tissues. The aim of this study was to determine if elastin content in needle core native liver biopsies was predictive of clinical outcome in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus-related chronic liver disease. The authors evaluated elastin contents in liver biopsies by image analysis and correlated it with outcome in patients with advanced (Ishak stage ≥5) chronic hepatitis C virus-related chronic liver disease. Elastin content (but not absolute scar content or Ishak stage) was predictive for future clinical outcomes. In a cohort of patients without sustained virological response, the median hepatic elastin content was 3.4%, and 17 patients (57%) progressed to a liver-related clinical outcome; 11 of the 15 patients (73%) with a hepatic elastin content of >3.4% progressed to a clinical outcome, as compared with only six of 15 (40%) with an elastin content of <3.4%. The difference in time to outcome was significant. This study describes a simple and reproducible method for elastin quantification in liver biopsies that provides potentially valuable prognostic information to inform clinical management.
Hepatic angiomyolipoma: mutation analysis and immunohistochemical pitfalls in diagnosis.
Yan Z, Grenert JP, Joseph NM, et al. Histopathol 2018;73(1):101-108.
Hepatic angiomyolipoma (AML) often shows epithelioid morphology with inconspicuous fat and can mimic hepatocellular adenoma (HCA) or carcinoma (HCC). This study examines the expression of commonly used markers for HCA or HCC in hepatic AML and highlights pitfalls in diagnosis. 16 resected cases of AML were stained with reticulin, LFABP, glutamine synthetase (GS), beta catenin, CD68 and CD117. Sanger sequencing of exon 3 of CTNNB1 and next-generation sequencing (NGS) was also performed. High-risk histological features were often present in tumors with benign outcome: marked atypia (19%), mitoses (20%) and necrosis (33%). GS staining (≥10% of tumor) was seen in epithelioid components in 13 (87%) cases, and was diffuse (>50% of tumor) in six (40%) cases. LFABP staining or nuclear beta catenin staining was not seen in any case. Sanger sequencing and NGS did not reveal CTNNB1 mutation in any tested case. NGS demonstrated TSC2 mutations in all five cases tested. The authors conclude that absence of LFABP and presence of fat can be mistaken for HNF1a-inactivated HCA. Diffuse GS staining can be mistaken for b-catenin-activated HCA or HCC. Diffuse GS expression is not related to CTNNB1 mutation. All tested cases showed TSC2 mutation, supporting this as the driving genetic event for hepatic AML.
Hepatic granulomas: a 17-year single tertiary centre experience.
Gaspar R, Andrade P, Silva M, et al. Histopathol 2018;73(2):240-246.
The reported incidence of granulomas in liver biopsies ranges from 1 to 15%. The authors assess the clinical relevance, presenting features and underlying aetiology in a non-transplant, tertiary referral center. During the 17-year study period (January 1998–December 2014), 9374 biopsies were performed and granulomas were found in 297. Of these, 57 were excluded. Overall, the most common etiology was tuberculosis (35.8%), followed by primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) - 15.0%. In 30 patients (12.5%) granulomas were idiopathic. From 1998 to June 2006 there were 147 granulomas in 5304 biopsies (2.8%), a frequency that did not change significantly compared to the period from July 2006 to December 2014 (93 granulomas in 4070 biopsies, 2.3%, P > 0.05). However, for the majority of cases (61.9%) there was a shift in granuloma etiology during the former time-period that infectious diseases were responsible, whereas in the latter, autoimmune liver diseases (43%) were the main etiology. The authors conclude that hepatic granulomas can result from various infectious and non-infectious diseases. During recent years, an epidemiological shift regarding granuloma etiology was observed, from systemic infectious diseases to non-infectious, mainly immune-mediated primary liver disorders.
Liver transplantation
Morphological characterization of chronic antibody-mediated rejection in ABO-identical or ABO-compatible pediatric liver graft recipients.
Dao M, Habès D, Taupin JL, et al. Liver Transpl 2018;24(7):897-907.
American Journal of Surgical Pathology
A Point-based Histologic Scoring System for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Can Stratify Risk of Posttransplant Tumor Recurrence.
Roberts DE, Kakar S, Mehta N, et al. Am J Surg Pathol 2018;42(7):855-865.
Eligibility for liver transplant in patients with HCC relies on tumor size and number that is based on radiographic assessment. However, the pre-operative radiographic impression and pathologic assessment of explanted livers for HCC has been shown to be discordant in up to 30% of cases. The goal of this study was to determine whether certain histologic features were associated with tumor recurrence after transplant. Evaluation of 109 explanted livers showed that scirrhous and solid growth patterns, nuclear pleomorphism, nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio, and cytoplasmic amphophilia were found to be high-risk histologic features. Assigning points based on these parameters, the total score was called the Recurrence Risk Assessment Score (RRAS). The authors then validated the RRAS performance in a separate cohort of 81 explants in predicting tumor recurrence. When compared against conventional tumor grade by WHO histologic criteria, the RRAS was superior in predicting HCC recurrence. This study provides further support that histologic evaluation may provide another useful, if not better, method of predicting HCC recurrence as compared to radiographic studies alone.
Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Factors Impacting the Performance Characteristics of Bile Duct Brushings: A Clinico-Cytopathologic Analysis of 253 Patients.
Hacihasanoglu E, Memis B, Pehlivanoglu B, et al. Arch Pathol Lab Med 2018;142(7):863-870.
The goal of this study was to determine the performance of bile duct brushings (BDBs) in detecting malignancies over a span of 15 years at a major academic medical center. 253 cases with at least 18 months of histopathologic or clinical follow-up were reviewed. Overall, the authors found BDBs to have a sensitivity of 35%, specificity of 100%, positive predictive value of 100%, negative predictive value of 58%, and accuracy of 66% in detecting malignancy. In addition, a number of detailed analyses and statistics were generated, including various grouping of diagnostic categories (from benign, atypical, suspicious, and malignant), comparison of conventional smears to ThinPrep, accounting for stent effects, categorizing the type of carcinoma, and evaluating test performance over time. In brief, the finding that sensitivity nearly doubled and accuracy increased while specificity and positive predictive value only minimally decreased when atypical, suspicious, and malignant categories were combined suggests that further refinement in atypical and suspicious categories may be helpful. Also, in cases where patients had a history of stenting, the statistics generated suggest that cases were only diagnosed as malignant when cytologic features were unequivocal.
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Bim is an independent prognostic marker in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma.
Zhang H, Jenkins SM, Lee CT, et al. Hum Pathol. 2018;78:97-105.
Bim protein is an important cell apoptosis initiator that can be altered in tumorigenesis. The authors analyzed the correlation of Bim expression by immunohistochemistry with various clinicopathological features and survival in a cohort of 56 patients with intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma. Nineteen of 56 (34%) tumors had high Bim expression (>10%). Patients who had tumors with high Bim expression had significantly longer overall survival than those with low or no staining. Additionally, high Bim expression correlated with low Ki-67 index and lack of lymph node metastasis at the time of surgery. The study findings suggests Bim is an independent prognostic marker in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma.
Mucinous intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma: a distinct variant.
Chi Z, Bhalla A, Saeed O, et al. Hum Pathol 2018;78:131-137.
In this retrospective study from a tertiary medical center with a large volume of hepatectomies, mucinous variant of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinomas (n=7) were compared to conventional intrahepatic cholangiocarcinomas (n=79). This study describes demographic, histopathologic, immunohistochemical, and molecular findings specific to mucinous intrahepatic cholangiocarcinomas. This variant presents at advanced stage upon diagnosis with shorter survival time compared with conventional type cholangiocarcinomas.
Resection of the largest reported hepatic small vessel neoplasm.
Walcott-Sapp S, Tang E, Kakar S, et al. Hum Pathol 2018;78:159-162.
A case report describing a large hepatic small vessel neoplasm with characteristic morphologic and staining features, which underscores consideration for his entity regardless of lesion size.
Compliance With Hepatocellular Carcinoma Surveillance Guidelines Associated With Increased Lead-Time Adjusted Survival of Patients With Compensated Viral Cirrhosis: A Multi-Center Cohort Study. Costentin CE, Layese R, Bourcier V, et al. Gastroenterol 2018;155(2):431-442.
This multi-center study aimed to determine how compliance with hepatocellular carcinoma semi-surveillance guidelines affects survival times of patients with HCV and HBV-associated compensated cirrhosis who developed HCC. 216 patients with detected HCC with biopsy-proven viral cirrhosis were included. After lead-time adjustment, overall survival time was longer in patients compliant with surveillance guidelines (53.2 months) than noncompliant patients (25.4 months). This study offers the most robust evidence available of a survival benefit with six-month HCC surveillance and strongly supports the implementation of interventions aiming at improving patients' compliance.
Incidence of Hepatocellular carcinoma in Patients with HCV-Associated Cirrhosis Treated With Direct-Acting Antiviral Agents.
Calvaruso V. Gastroenterol 2018;155(2):411-421.
Studies have produced conflicting results of the incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in patients with in hepatitis C virus (HCV)-associated cirrhosis treated with direct-acting antivirals (DAAs). This was a large prospective study of 2, 249 consecutive patients with HCV-associated cirrhosis treated with DAAs were followed. At 1 year after exposure to DAAs, HCC developed in 2.1% of patients with Child-Pugh class A with an SVR and 6.6% of patients with no SVR; and in 7.8% of patients with Child-Pugh class B with an SVR and 12.4% of patients with Child-Pugh class B. This study demonstrated that the SVR to DAA treatment decreased the incidence of HCC over a mean follow-up of 14 months.
Macrotrabecular-Massive Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Distinctive Histological Subtype with Clinical Relevance.
Ziol M, Pote N, Amaddeo G, et al. Hepatology 2018; 68(1): 103-112.
The authors report a series of "macrotrabecular-massive" hepatocellular carcinoma (MTM-HCC), defined as the presence of >50% macrotrabecular architecture (more than six cells thick). They retrospectively reviewed 237 HCC resections and 284 HCC biopsies, and identified MTM-HCC in 12% of the whole cohort. It was associated with poor prognostic factors, including tumor size, AFP level, satellite nodules, and vascular invasion. It was an independent factor of early and overall recurrence. There is an editorial on the paper by Dr. David Kleiner in the same issue.
cHCC-CCA: Consensus Terminology for Primary Liver Carcinomas With Both Hepatocytic and Cholangiocytic Differentiation.
Brunt E, Aishima S, Clavien PA, et al. Hepatol 2018; 68(1): 113-126.
This article is a consensus paper from an international group of pathologists, radiologists, and clinicians and gives recommendations for working terminology surrounding combined hepatocellular-cholangiocarcinoma (cHCC-CCA). They recommend the diagnosis be based on H&E, with immunostains being supportive of the diagnosis. Other recommendations include morphologically typical HCC with positive CK19 or other markers of "stemness" should NOT be called cHCC-CCA, and morphologically typical CCA with only immunohistochemical expression of hepatocytic or stem-cell markers should NOT be called cHCC-CCA. They also recommend "there should no longer be formal diagnostic subtypes based on the identification of stem/progenitor cells, but rather if stem/progenitor cell features are observed, they are noted in a comment as 'stem/progenitor cell features present.'" The paper is essential reading for anyone who routinely diagnoses primary liver carcinomas.
Polycystic Liver Disease: Hepatic Venous Outflow Obstruction Lesions of the Noncystic Parenchyma Have Major Consequences.
Barbier L, Ronot M, Aussilhou B, et al. Hepatol 2018; 68(2): 652-662.
The authors retrospectively reviewed 125 cases (resection or transplantation) of polycystic liver disease and evaluated for features of hepatic venous outflow obstruction (HVOO), seen in 92% of the cases, and correlated the findings with clinical parameters.
Modern Pathology
Progression and regression of fibrosis in viral hepatitis in the treatment era: the Beijing classification.
Theise ND, Jia J, Sun Y, et al. Mod Pathol 2018; 31:1191–1200.
New staging system, the Beijing Classification, for assessment of liver biopsies from patients with treated chronic viral (B and C) hepatitis. The Beijing Classification includes extent (stage) of fibrosis, and adds quality of fibrosis to the staging in order to clarify presence of regressive vs progressive fibrosis.
Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Role of heat shock factor 1 expression in the microenvironment of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinomas.
Kawashita H, Morine Y, Saito Y, et al. J Gastroenterol Hepato 2018;33(7):1407-1412.
Clinical significance and biological effect of Heat shock factor 1 (HSF1) expression in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (IHCC) remain unknown. Specimen from forty‐nine patients with intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (IHCC) who underwent hepatic resection was stained with HSF1 immunostain. HSF1 expression was significantly higher in tumors than in normal tissue. The overall survival rate was significantly lower in patients with high than low HSF1. Multivariate analysis showed that high HSF1 expression was a factor independently prognostic of patient survival.
American Journal of Clinical Pathology
Detection of Albumin Expression by RNA In Situ Hybridization Is a Sensitive and Specific Method for Identification of Hepatocellular Carcinomas and Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinomas.
Lin F, Shi J, Wang HL, et al. Am J Clin Pathol, 150: 58–64.
Ever wonder what the data is regarding the detection of albumin expression by ribonucleic acid (RNA) in situ hybridization in HCC, ICCs, and carcinomas from various organs using manual and automated staining? This original article addresses the utility of RNAscope (Advanced Cell Diagnostics, Hayward, CA) employing 482 cases on tissue microarray sections and on 22 cases of ICCs. This study concludes that RNAscope for albumin is highly sensitive and specific for identifying HCCs and is highly specific and moderately sensitive for detection of ICCs. Further, rare non-HCC and non-ICC, can also have aberrant expression of albumin.
Journal of Hepatology
European Association for the Study of the Liver. EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines: Management of alcohol-related liver disease.
Thursz M, Gual A, Lackner C, et al. J Hepatol. 2018 Jul;69(1):154-181.
The July publication of J. of Hepat contains the current clinical practice guidelines for alcohol-related liver disease. While many clinical aspects are addressed, the article merits a closer read by pathologists specifically regarding the importance of our role in diagnosis, identification of co-morbidities, and in provision of prognostic pathological features.
Hepatology Snapshot: Drug-induced chronic liver injury.
Dakhoul L, Ghabril M, Chalasani N. J Hepatol. 2018 Jul;69(1):248-250.
Visit this extremely helpful, easy to use, and guaranteed to make your signouts more efficient tabular illustration of drug induced liver injury by causative agents detailing distinguishing histopathological findings and helpful clinicopathological features.
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Bella Goyal, MD; California Pacific Pathology Medical Group
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A mixture of Arabic luxury and culture, dramatic mountain terrain and sublime views over the Gulf of Oman create a recipe for relaxation and rejuvenation in this desert oasis. Just minutes from the modern centre of Oman's capital, yet set in an exclusive 124 acres of idyllic landscaped gardens, peace and relaxation is never far away at this aduly only hotel.
Enjoy the delightful spa therapies, the ever-changing desert scenery, magnificent mountain views and 500 metres of private beaches. The plush Al Husn is built in the style of an ancient fort offering a luxuriously-indulgent Arabic retreat with panoramic views across the Gulf of Oman. The hotel incorporates a soothing infinity pool for guests that are looking for the ultimate in peace and tranquillity.
There are two further swimming pools at Al Husn for over 16's to explore, and guests over 16 years old can enjoy their own exclusive 100-metre private beach. All rooms epitomise Arabian luxury, offering splendour and butler service on every floor.
CHI, The Spa, an exclusive Shangri-La service, will indulge guests with a range of calming treatments. There are also Turkish baths, saunas, steam rooms and Jacuzzi's to enjoy. CHI has been voted as one of the top 25 spas in Africa, Middle East and Indian Ocean, by the Conde Nast Traveller magazine.
The more adventurous can choose from a dive centre, a range of water sports or can experience the shopping centre, the art gallery or walking around the Omani Heritage Village. Guests staying at the Al Husn may enjoy the facilities offered by the Al Bandar and Al Waha hotels that are also located in the Al Jissah Resort and Spa.
Start the day with a superb breakfast, then enjoy club lounge cocktails every day between 18:00 and 19:00.
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- 3 Pool
- Massage services
- Pool Bar
- Spa
- Coffee shop
- Exercise gym
- Internet services
- Hairdresser/barber
- Off-Site parking
- Tennis court
- Hair dryer
- On-Site parking
- Free parking
- Dry cleaning
- Safe deposit box
- Complimentary in-room coffee or tea
- Business center
- Sauna
- Beauty shop/salon
- Ironing board
- Laundry/Valet service
- Room service
- 2 Lounges/bars
- 2 Restaurant
- Shop
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• Complimentary internet access throughout the resort
• Complimentary daily shuttle to downtown Muscat and Muttrah souk
• Cool Zone is the resorts children's club located in the Al Waha part of the resort with indoor and outdoor play areas.
• Adventure zone is an exciting family entertainment venue with a variety of different play areas for all ages.
• GameZ is a games area for all the family with billiards, snooker, air hockey electronic darts and video games.
• Lazy River - meander your way between Al Waha and Al Bandar sections of the hotel (or vice versa) on inflatable tubes. (May close at short notice throughout the year due to essential maintenance).
Dining information
Hotels in Oman have restricted hours for the sale of alcohol. Bars are open Saturday to Thursday from midday to 15:00 and 18:00 to 01:00, and Friday midday to 01:00.
• Sultanah - international themed food
• Shahrazad - The Shahrazad restaurant located at Al Husn Hotel has now introduced both Lebanese and Arabic cuisine in addition to the Moroccan cuisine for a full, authentic Middle Eastern fine dining experience
• Al Muheet - cocktails, health drinks and light snacks
• Al Husn Lounge - afternoon teas, pre-dinner cocktails and light snacks
• Mahhara Beach Bar and the adjoining beach area are for the exclusive use of guests at Al Husn
- Guests can also enjoy a variety of restaurants and bars in the resort:
• Bait Al Bahr - fresh seafood
• Samba at Al Waha
• Tanoor, Capri Court, Tapas & Sablah, Circles, Piano Bar and The Long Bar at Al Bandar
• Asia, Fairouz and Zafran Café at the souk.
• Families will be invited to join the breakfast at the Sultanah restaurant or they can choose to dine at either Al Tanoor or Samba in Al Bandar and Al Waha hotels. Families are invited to join the daily High Tea in the Sultanah restaurant. For daily pre-dinner cocktails, children 16 years of age and above can attend, without the service of alcohol. A children's menu is available for in-room dining.
Additional information
• We strongly recommend that transfers are booked in this destination. Transfers must be booked as additional items, for which separate vouchers will be required
• The pool and the beach facilities of the Al Husn are available to children 16 years and above only, this also applies to the dining outlets of Al Muheet Pool Bar and Mahara Beach Bar. Children under 16 are invited to use the beach and pool facilities of both Al Bandar and Al Waha hotels.
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The news, for the past month, like so many others, has been filled with guns. There was the gun that the Tsarnaev brothers used in Cambridge, where they killed a cop—perhaps in an effort to get his gun. There were guns used elsewhere, too. In Akron, Ohio, four people were murdered, execution-style, in a basement of an apartment complex. The next weekend, another four people were shot and killed in a different apartment complex, along with their killer, just south of Seattle. A few days later, the crime scene was Manchester, Illinois, population two hundred and eighty-seven: a man allegedly shot and killed the grandmother of his daughter and four other people, including a five-year-old and a one-year-old. What happened in Manchester, in Washington state, and in Akron garnered little attention around the nation—part of what we've come to see as an unremarkable epidemic in which thirty-three Americans are murdered every day with guns.
In the middle of April, the Senate defeated a bill that would have expanded background checks on gun purchasers. The measure fell short despite polls showing that nine in ten Americans and eight in ten gun owners supported the measure.
For me, the defeat in the Senate brought back a familiar, sickening feeling. From 2006 to 2011, I managed a coalition called Mayors Against Illegal Guns, led by Michael Bloomberg and Boston's mayor, Thomas Menino. The organization started in 2006, with an initial group of fifteen mayors; it now includes more than nine hundred mayors, who represent most of America's big cites and many smaller towns.
Fighting for stronger gun laws has long been gruelling and slow. In my years on the job, we tried everything—emotionally affecting television advertisements, lengthy reports and interactive Web sites, undercover investigations. I gave the project everything I had. Except one thing. I never told anyone—not the people I worked with every day, or the victims I convinced to go on camera to share their stories—how my own life was changed by a gun.
My gun story begins with a crane.
My father was also named Arkadi Gerney. He died, of colon cancer, on Valentine's Day, 1983, when I was eight years old. Two years later, my mother, Brigitte Gerney, was walking home from the dentist on a bright day in late May. At Third Avenue and Sixty-third Street, there was a construction site—a deep pit on one side and a crane on the other, a covered plywood walkway for pedestrians in between. As she walked through, the crane toppled and caught her. It crushed my mother's legs between its thirty-five-ton base and the pavement, and pushed her to the edge of the pit.
The weight of the crane acted as a tourniquet, preventing the blood from flowing out of my mother's body as she teetered over the hole in the ground. For the next six hours, E.M.S. crews, the Fire Department, and men from the N.Y.P.D.'s Emergency Service Unit tried to save her. The E.S.U. cops and the E.M.S. guys crawled out onto a strip of plywood—under the crane and over the pit—to run an I.V. to my mother, to stabilize her. They risked their lives. Some of their names were Terry Smith, Paul Ragonese, Alex Terrero, and Ron Herreid. There were many others.
A team of surgeons from Bellevue and N.Y.U. Medical Center used what was then groundbreaking microsurgery to save her legs. President Reagan called. Nancy Reagan visited. Mayor Koch gave me a football helmet that Doug Flutie, the Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback, had given him. The News and the Post dubbed her the "crane-lady."
Ten more surgeries followed, months of hospitalizations, years of rehabilitation. During this time, my mother got to know many doctors, among them an orthopedist named Peter Rizzo. He and my mother started dating in September, 1986. Peter was a father of three college-aged children. His first marriage ended in an annulment. He was a devout Catholic and, like my mother, he enjoyed enjoying—food, drink, and conversation. He was a kind, generous man with a great breadth and depth of friendships. And I hated him.
I hated him for the obvious reasons. I'd lost my father. I'd almost lost my mother. I wanted all my mother's love and I feared that too much of it might be diverted to this man. I can clearly remember moments at night, trying to fall asleep under a big poster of Don Mattingly, when I wished Peter dead.
A few times that fall, I pleaded with my mother: Promise not to marry him, at least not for a year. But they were in love. By February, they had plans to marry—and then came the gun.
Peter was the chairman of the medical board of the New York City Fire Department's pension fund. He and two other doctors were responsible for assessing disability claims. On February 5, 1987, he was at a pension-board meeting when Peter McNamee, a retired firefighter with a deferred claim, came to the meeting with a gun.
Peter McNamee shot Peter in the head with a sawed-off .22-calibre rifle. Peter was rushed to St. Vincent's Hospital, where he died the next day. There was a funeral at St. Patrick's Cathedral, with the full F.D.N.Y. treatment. Hundreds of firefighters. Bagpipes. Fire trucks. If you remember all those funerals after 9/11, you know what it looked like.
In the days and weeks that followed his death, my mother told me many times that she loved me and that it wasn't my fault. My mother was fifty when Peter was murdered. She never remarried. She never even dated again.
The shooting changed things. Something had happened to her—and I felt that I had estranged myself from her sadness. For months and years after the shooting, she would close the door to her room and play the soundtrack to "The Mission." She and Peter had seen the film. The composer is Ennio Morricone. There is one song in particular: "Gabriel's Oboe." When I heard that music, I didn't go in.
Shootings almost always leave more than one person wounded. There's the person who is shot, of course, but there's also the damage to those who are left behind. About eleven or twelve thousand Americans are murdered with guns each year, and another twenty thousand or so die in gun suicides and accidents—behind them are hundreds of thousands more who suffer. I was hardly the most proximate victim in Peter's shooting.
In 1987, Peter Rizzo was one of sixteen hundred and seventy-two murder victims in New York City. Then, as now, most murders involved guns. Last year, there were only four hundred and eighteen murders in New York City. That's the lowest number since the first reliable records were kept, in the early nineteen-sixties.
Part of the explanation for the drop is that New York City and New York State have tough gun laws. But the city's ability to get the numbers any lower is undermined by remarkably weak federal and state gun laws around the country. Crime-gun-tracing data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (A.T.F.) suggests that gun dealers in other states originally sold eighty-five per cent of guns recovered in New York City crimes. In each of the past five years for which data are available (2007-11), Virginia, where the N.R.A. has its headquarters, has been the leading source for illegal guns flowing into New York State.
In 2006, shortly before I went to work for the Mayor, New York City initiated lawsuits against twenty-seven out-of-state gun dealers, seven of them in Virginia. The city hired private investigators to simulate what are called "straw purchases"—one person purchasing a gun on behalf of another, like a teen-ager asking someone to buy him beer. Straw purchasing, a felony under federal law, is, according to the A.T.F., one of the most common methods by which criminals acquire guns.
One investigator would select a gun, handle it, ask questions about it, "dry-fire" it (cocking the gun and pulling the trigger with no bullets), pay for it, and walk out of the store. The only thing the investigator would not do was fill out the required background-check form. For that, he'd call in a second undercover investigator. Twenty-seven dealers were caught facilitating these obviously suspect transactions, and twenty-one eventually settled with the city.
In 2009, I led a gun-show investigation of illegal sales at gun shows, which involved so-called private sellers—people who maintain that they only occasionally sell guns. Under current federal law, these unlicensed private sellers can sell guns with no questions asked. Our 2009 investigation found that nineteen of thirty private sellers would sell guns even to buyers who said they "probably couldn't pass a background check"—which would indicate to the seller that buyer was likely a felon or other prohibited buyer. (Closing this "private sale" loophole was the subject of the bill the Senate rejected in April.)
Virginia lawmakers responded by passing a law to prohibit straw-purchase investigations by out-of-state investigators without the express permission of federal or Virginia law enforcement. On April 13, 2007, Virginia's attorney general (and now its governor), Bob McDonnell, sent Mayor Bloomberg a feisty letter, threatening to prosecute civilian agents and officials of New York City for unsanctioned future investigations in Virginia. Three days later, Seung-Hui Cho, an undergraduate student at Virginia Tech, shot and killed thirty-two people in the deadliest mass shooting in American history.
Cho, who had been determined by a Virginia court to be mentally ill, was armed with a Walther P22 and a Glock 19 semi-automatic pistol. Under federal law, his mental-health status barred him from purchasing and possessing firearms. And yet, Cho bought his guns from licensed dealers and passed their background checks, because Virginia had failed to submit the appropriate records about Cho to the F.B.I.'s background-check system.
In the work I did for Mayor Bloomberg, one regular task was encouraging those affected by gun violence to tell their stories. One was Tatayana Timoshenko, the mother of Russel Timoshenko, a twenty-three-year-old New York City police officer who was killed, in the summer of 2007, after he pulled over a stolen BMW in Brooklyn. The man in the passenger seat had a gun from a Virginia gun dealer, and he fired at Timoshenko as the officer approached the car, striking him in the face and throat and killing him.
In 2009, Mayor Bloomberg visited Virginia with Tatayana Timoshenko. Speaking at a Marriott hotel in Arlington, Virginia, the Mayor, Timoshenko, and members of the families of the victims of the Virginia Tech massacre unveiled a new TV ad focussing on McDonnell's opposition to state legislation to require background checks for private sellers at Virginia gun shows. The ads were paid for by Americans United for Safe Streets, another group largely funded by Mayor Bloomberg. They succeeded in making the gun-background-check issue a major topic of debate in the elections that year, but McDonnell won by a large margin in November.
In 2010, A.U.S.S. made a heavier ad buy: four hundred and fifty thousand dollars for TV ads and direct mail focussed on Virginia's Eleventh Congressional District, in northern Virginia, where the N.R.A. is based. I'd asked Omar Samaha, whose sister Reema had been murdered at Virginia Tech, to be in an ad and talk about how broken background checks had led to her death. Omar and other family members of Virginia Tech victims confronted the Republican candidate, Keith Fimian, at events during the last two weeks of the election, urging him to support ending no-background-check gun sales. In what was otherwise a wave election for Republicans, Fimian lost to his Democratic opponent, Gerry Connolly, by just nine hundred and eighty-one votes.
All these efforts depended on survivors and family members telling their stories. Internal public-opinion research we conducted showed that the scale of gun violence made the numbers hard to comprehend. It was important, we determined, to put human faces on the problem. People listen when victims talk to them.
In my years with Mayor Bloomberg, I asked Patricia Tucker to film a TV ad telling the story of how her husband, a North Carolina sheriff's deputy, was murdered with a straw-purchased gun. And I asked Tom Mauser, who lost his son Daniel in the massacre at Columbine High School, to record radio ads and appear at events. Tom would often bring a pair of sneakers with him—the sneakers that Daniel was wearing the day he was killed. The guns that killed Daniel, eleven other teen-agers, and a teacher at Columbine had been purchased at a gun show, with no background checks.
It's a strange thing to ask someone who has lost a sister, a husband, or a child in a gun murder to take the particular circumstances of that person's death and then compress it into a thirty-second advertisement. How do you ask someone to do that? And, at the same time, if you are a victim or a survivor, how could you not tell your story if you believe it might make a difference? These are the kinds of questions I think these people wrestled with. But in those years of asking people to tell their stories, I didn't tell mine.
I never told anyone I worked with in Mayor Bloomberg's office about the 1987 shooting of Peter Rizzo. It wasn't a secret, exactly. People who've known me well for a long time know about it (though perhaps not the part about me wishing him dead).
I could have told the man who would become my boss, John Feinblatt, when I interviewed for the job. John is Mayor Bloomberg's chief policy adviser and the original architect of the gun initiative. But bringing up the shooting when I interviewed didn't seem right. I thought it would be cheap—exploitive, even.
And, honestly, I was interested in the job because it was an opportunity to play the lead role in helping to build a new national initiative, almost regardless of what that issue was. What happened to Peter Rizzo didn't play a big role in my choice to do the job (or if it did, I didn't quite realize it at the time).
In my first days on the job, it seemed too early to convey this bit of personal information to John and my other colleagues. But then, quickly, it seemed too late. By 2007, we were neck-deep in a campaign to get Congress to remove the "Tiahrt amendment" restrictions on gun-tracing data. The moment had passed. It seemed weird to suddenly bring up this strange personal fact. The right time may have been around four weeks into the job—perhaps at a regional summit of mayors we organized in Atlanta. Maybe over a beer at the airport on the way back to New York. But I guess we didn't get to the airport in time for that beer. Or if we did, I drank it and kept my mouth shut.
Maybe the closest I came to telling someone was in June, 2010, in Albany. With us that day was Steven McDonald. Twenty-four years earlier, Officer McDonald had been patrolling Central Park. He encountered three suspected bicycle thieves, one of whom shot him in the neck. He survived, but he is unable to move from the neck down and he breathes with the assistance of a ventilator tube. Six months after the shooting, his wife gave birth to a son, Conor. Now Steven was with us advocating for stronger gun laws, in his wheelchair, with his breathing tube, and in his full N.Y.P.D. dress blues.
I'd known about Officer McDonald for a long time, because of my mother and the crane. After her accident, Cardinal John O'Connor, the colorful leader of the Catholic Church in New York City in the nineteen-eighties and nineties, got to know my mother, and after the shooting he asked her to go see Officer McDonald to provide comfort and inspiration. And so she did.
That day in Albany, in 2010, in a waiting room between lobbying meetings, I told Officer McDonald that the crane-lady was my mom. He remembered her. Then I almost told him about Peter Rizzo, but I didn't. It was a chaotic day. But something more than timing was getting in the way of my telling that story. There was a profound reluctance to expose myself—to take down a last wall of separation between my personal life and my professional pursuits.
On December 27, 2010, Conor McDonald graduated from the New York City Police Academy, along with eleven hundred and forty-six other recruits. Officer McDonald was given badge No. 15978—the number of Ray Kelly, the Police Commissioner. That's like a Yankees rookie being given Mickey Mantle's No. 7 jersey. Steven and Patricia McDonald live in Malverne, New York, a village of eight thousand five hundred and seventy-four in Nassau County, on Long Island. Patricia Norris-McDonald is the mayor of Malverne, and one of the more than nine hundred members of Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
Three days before Conor got Kelly's badge, on Christmas Eve, I gave notice that I was leaving my job. I had a new opportunity at a fast-growing energy-efficiency software company. It seemed exciting, and a relief, to do something else.
I gave ten weeks' notice, which seemed like a lot, but I wanted to leave things in good shape. A couple of weeks later, on Saturday, January 8, 2011, I got a call as I was walking past G. Esposito and Son's Pork Store in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.
A congresswoman had been shot—Gabrielle Giffords. She would live, but six people died in the shooting, including a federal judge, John Roll, and a nine-year old girl, Christina-Taylor Green. Like most people, I was shocked and disturbed. But I also had another reaction: having worked on guns for so many years, I was doing grisly math.
Multiple-victim shootings are all too common in America: our media, our politicians, and our people are pretty desensitized to it. Only the most spectacular killings—when a school is invaded and children are killed, or when a public figure is shot—are cause for widespread public attention. This was one of those instances. The Giffords shooting would be different. It would be noticed.
In the days that followed, Mayors Against Illegal Guns sprang into action. For a while, we thought we might see something that we'd imagined for years: the moment when Congress suddenly realizes it fears the public more than the gun lobby.
We did daily news releases. We did events every few days with Mayor Bloomberg, members of Congress, and victims of gun violence. We issued a new plan from Mayors Against Illegal Guns on how to stem gun violence—for the first time calling for background checks on all gun sales, no matter who sells the gun and no matter where it is sold.
We also needed to pressure President Obama. In his first two years in office, Obama did nothing on guns, other than to sign into law measures that made it easier to carry guns in national parks and transport them on Amtrak. After Giffords was shot, the White House promised a plan, but then the President said nothing about guns in the State of the Union address. Eventually, Obama published an Op-Ed piece in the Arizona Daily Star. It struck the right notes, but it was less leadership than what was required.
In an effort to extend the possibility of the moment, we came up with what I privately christened "the murder truck": a mobile billboard with an electronic screen counting the number of Americans murdered with guns since the Gabby Giffords shooting. On the morning of February 16, 2011, when Mayor Bloomberg launched the truck on a national tour, the digital display read "1,311." Omar Samaha , whose sister was murdered at Virginia Tech, would captain what was officially called the "Fix Gun Checks" truck on a journey across America.
Omar and the murder truck kept rolling for months—beyond the time that my tenure working for the Mayor came to an end. By then, the potential for a breakthrough, which had seemed within sight in those days after the Giffords shooting, fell back beyond the horizon.
Mayors Against Illegal Guns has now more than a million and a half grassroots supporters. After the shootings of twenty schoolchildren in Newtown, Connecticut, this past December, Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, started their own Super PAC, and pledged to raise more than twenty million dollars to spend in the 2014 elections—they've already raised eleven million. The 2014 midterms could be the first in which the N.R.A. is out-spent and out-organized. That prospect means that, despite the Senate defeat, stronger gun laws remain within reach.
In a strange, dystopian press conference a week after the terrible murder of twenty-six people at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice-president of the N.R.A., lamented that some gun-control advocates "exploit tragedy for political gain." Perhaps there's a kernel of truth in LaPierre's distorted vision of what it is we do. The gun issue is emotionally charged—and ripe for emotional appeals. It's easy to make data-driven arguments for stronger gun laws built on statistical evidence; but that levelheaded approach has never been enough.
Second Amendment advocates know this, too; they've developed a case with its own emotional weight, on which the core issue is not guns but freedom. It's about liberty fought and died for two hundred and thirty years ago, and paid for with blood in fields in foreign lands ever since. Advocates for stronger gun laws would be unwise to diminish the deeply felt sense of history, culture, and liberty that for so many years has motivated millions to send thirty dollars a year to the N.R.A., call a member of Congress, hold a sign at a rally, or run for office.
But LaPierre is wrong to suggest that there is something unseemly about people on our side telling our stories. It can be hard to dredge up a private agony for a public purpose—that, I suppose, is why I didn't talk about my own history for so long, and why many other people are so reluctant. But gun violence touches people all over this country: from Boston to Akron to Seattle to Manchester, Illinois. And it's the stories of the people whose lives are changed that can help to permanently change the debate, and thus make our country safer.
Every day, an average of thirty-three Americans are murdered with guns. Another fifty or so die in gun suicides and accidents. And another two hundred or so are shot and injured. That's a lot of stories.
Above: A gun show at the N.R.A. convention. Photograph by Nina Berman/NOOR/Redux.


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