Kokko

You have to weigh the criteria on both sides, Kokko said.

Freed Scott sister must lose 120 pounds for surgery 2011

Kokko said medical officials may restrict doing a transplant if the recipient's Body Mass Index is 30 or 35%.

Freed Scott sister must lose 120 pounds for surgery 2011

A weight problem could lead to infections, hernias and blood clots in the recipient, Kokko said.

Freed Scott sister must lose 120 pounds for surgery 2011

As to the origin of the _Kokko_ fires, no one in Finland seems very certain.

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Then comes the lighting of the _Kokko_, and, later in the evening, the _bond-dans_ or ball -- no one apparently going to bed that night -- which ball is followed by a universal holiday.

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_Kokko_ fires, more famous in Finland to-day than the Baal fires formerly were in Britain.

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When we landed about ten o'clock on the private pier at _Ilkeäsaari_, at which we had asked our captain to set us ashore, we were warmly met by our former hostess, and told that their _Kokko_ was ready and only waiting our arrival to be ignited.

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The people look forward from year to year to these _Kokko_ fires, as

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Nevertheless, the _Kokko_ are so big that they assert themselves, and as we sailed down the canal we must have passed a dozen or more of those flaming beacons.

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All the members of the family had assembled -- some thirty or forty people, in fact, for Finland is famous for big families -- and tables of cakes and coffee were spread at a point from which every one could see the enormous _Kokko_, as high as a haystack, standing on a lonely rock in the water.

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