Growth in reading and how children spend their time outside of school

Running title: Growth in readingIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 36-38)Performed pursuant to contract no. 400-81-0030 of the National Institute of Educatio

Vegetable Production Budgets for a High Tunnel

Figure high tunnel profitability for vegetable production with the systems and budgets described in this publication. The information is based on the detailed production records of five farmers growing crops such as bell peppers, cucumbers, eggplant, herbs, lettuce, and tomatoes.https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/extension_pubs/1015/thumbnail.jp

Exile Vol. VII No. 1

EDITORIAL 4 Silent Strife (story) by Robert Kribbs 5-12 Six Haiku (poems) by Jean Ludwig 13 Carter (sketch) by Sara Curtis 14-16 FELT PEN DRAWING by Lucinda Piersol 17 A Summer Chapter (narrative) by Clark Blaise 18-24 One, Two, Button My (poem) Sara Curtis 25 To Recognize the Chair (poem) by Linda Chase 26 In Case of the Twelfth Pig by Linda Chase 27 Awarded the semi-annual EXILE-Denison Bookstore Writing Prize: A Summer Chapter by Clark Blaise 18-2

Exile Vol. VII No. 2

EDITORIAL 4 The Catcher (woodcut) by Wilford Baumes 6 The Littlest Orphan (story) by Clark Blaise 7-17 Dead Tree (poem) by Christine Cooper 17 Two Poems by Janet Tallman 18-19 Untitled (pen and ink drawing) by Virginia Piersol 20 The Monkey (story) by Nancy Schieber 21-24 To Kandinsky (poem) by Linda Chase 24 Athena (line etching) by Virginia Piersol 25 Visions of Peanut Chocolates (poem) by Linda Chase 26 The Second Day of Summer (story) by Neil J. Weintraub 27-39 Great Exploitations (poem) by Linda Chase 40 Awarded the semi-annual EXILE-Denison Bookstore Writing Prize: The Littlest Orphan by Clark Blaise 7-1

Red Blood Cell Transfusion Independence Following the Initiation of Iron Chelation Therapy in Myelodysplastic Syndrome

Iron chelation therapy is often used to treat iron overload in patients requiring transfusion of red blood cells (RBC). A 76-year-old man with MDS type refractory cytopenia with multilineage dysplasia, intermediate-1 IPSS risk, was referred when he became transfusion dependent. He declined infusional chelation but subsequently accepted oral therapy. Following the initiation of chelation, RBC transfusion requirement ceased and he remained transfusion independent over 40 months later. Over the same time course, ferritin levels decreased but did not normalize. There have been eighteen other MDS patients reported showing improvement in hemoglobin level with iron chelation; nine became transfusion independent, nine had decreased transfusion requirements, and some showed improved trilineage myelopoiesis. The clinical features of these patients are summarized and possible mechanisms for such an effect of iron chelation on cytopenias are discussed