LONDON – British doctors designed a radical solution to save a girl with major heart problems in 1995: they implanted a donor heart directly onto her own failing heart.
After 10 years with two blood pumping organs, Hannah Clark’s faulty one did what many experts had thought impossible: it healed itself enough so that doctors could remove the donated heart.
But she also had a price to pay: the drugs Clark took to prevent her body from rejecting the donated heart led to malignant cancer that required chemotherapy.
Details of Clark’s revolutionary transplant and follow-up care were published online Tuesday in the medical journal Lancet.
Domino’s Pizza is launching an environmentally-friendly and potentially controversial marketing campaign with a unique twist to promote its Domino’s American Legends specialty pizzas. In an overnight secret mission, 220 Domino’s Pizza logos have been strategically “blasted” onto sidewalks in three legendary American cities (Los Angeles, Philadelphia and New York City) with the help of a high-pressure water sprayer.
Starting today, the first 250 people to email pr@dominos.com and submit a photo of them with a GreenGraffiti sidewalk Domino’s logo will receive a $15 Domino’s gift card, good for a Domino’s American Legends pizza.
Six-foot high posters of a toddler eating dog mess have been credited with persuading owners to clean up after their pets in the seaside town of Torbay, Devon.
Torbay Council launched the controversial poster campaign at the end of April to tackle a long-running problem of dog fouling.
Now local councillor Dave Butt said that dog mess on the streets has fallen by more than half from 400 reported incidents in April to 185 in June.
The campaign by Torbay Council features an image of a child eating what appears to be eating dog faeces she has found in a playground with the slogan: ‘Children will put anything in their mouths’.
Name one thing that has been ticking you off as of late.
For me . . . it’s people who don’t place shopping carts in a designated area. It ticks me off that shopping carts are in parking places ready to ding my car.
Because everyone likes bacon and there’s no reason to restrict its intake to breakfast, ice cream expert David Lebovitz experimented by making candied bacon ice cream. Considering that the resulting smoky/salty/cinnamon-tinged dessert got a thumbs up from his butcher, it seems that his recipe was a success.
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — A teenage hunter who shot and killed a hiker he mistook for a bear has been sentenced to 30 days in juvenile detention and 120 hours of community service.
Tyler J. Kales, then 14, was hunting with his older brother in August when he shot 54-year-old Pamela Almli of Oso, who was trekking on the popular Sauk mountain hiking trail north of Seattle.
Kales, who has since turned 15, apologized to the victim’s family at Friday’s sentencing and said he hoped they could forgive him.
The victim’s sister, Gail Blacker, told him that “in one second you destroyed everything.”
Kales, of Concrete, was convicted last month of second-degree manslaughter with a firearm. Skagit County Superior Court Judge Susan Cook also sentenced him to a year of probation and said his community service must include four hours of hunting safety education.
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Honestly, sometimes I feel like I work with a bunch of clowns.
For you local folks that like to eat neat but cheap, KRLD Restaurant Week just posted what restaurants will be participating. You can make reservations now, but Restaurant Week isn’t until Aug 17-23. In case you aren’t familiar with it, you can experience fine dining which consists of a three course meal for $35 at one of DFW’ best restaurants, with part of the proceeds going to the North Texas Food Bank.
I put our old dishwasher on CraigsList on Sunday, and the very next day someone contacted us about buying it. Funny thing, the guy on the phone had to ask WifeGeeding if I happen to be the one behind BagOfNothing.com because he recognized the name. When the gentleman came over, he said it just felt kind of surreal to be in my living room. We had a real nice conversation, and I asked him for some feedback regarding the blog. He likes that I keep it, for the most part, clean and positive, that it’s thought provoking at times, and that when I do express my views it’s not some kind of crazy rant.
It’s actually nice to meet my readers. It keeps me motivated. I can’t tell you the times I’ve felt that I wanted to shut this thing down.
Well, I hear Jessica Simpson is back on the market.
I was impressed with Senator Lindsey Graham yesterday.
I bet it was tough for a boy to grow up with the name Lindsey. Actually, I’m surprised he doesn’t go by another name.
I’m still surprised that a lot of people still go by the name Dick.
I think I understand where Judge Sotomayor is coming from regarding that Latino comment, that a person with a diverse cultural background has a better understanding of things than someone only exposed to the upper class, but I can certainly understand the Republicans’ concern about it.
I may have the numbers skewed, but I think I heard Charlie Gibson mention that of the 110 Supreme Court justices in our nation’s history, 106 have been white men. That’s absolutely crazy when you think about it.
Even though it was about 104 outside yesterday, I didn’t think it was that bad since there really wasn’t any humidity. It was a dry heat.
WifeGeeding will be going into surgery this coming Monday. Yes, it’s a boob job, and it’s about time, dang it.
Actually she’ll be going through with the procedure to make her glass eye appear more natural.
But you know, since she’s going to be under anesthesia, maybe I can talk the doctor into adding . . . oh, nevermind.
Six-foot high posters of a toddler eating dog mess have been credited with persuading owners to clean up after their pets in the seaside town of Torbay, Devon. 
