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Want to learn more about America's historic theatres? Here are some key books to start your journey:
Best Remaining Seats
By Ben M. Hall
The book that started it all, The Best Remaining Seats — The Story of The Golden Age of the Movie Palace, written by THS Founder Ben M. Hall is a tale of the briefest of eras, as golden as ages go, swept in on a floodtide of splendor, fantastic architecture, music, laughter and dreams. The Best Remaining Seats is your ticket to all the fun and foolishness that-used-to-be in the days when going to the movies was an adventure – and anyone with a little loose change might dwell in marble halls for a couple of enchanted hours.
American Theatres of Today (Deluxe Reprint)
by R. W. Sexton & B. F. Betts
American Theatres of Today (ATOT) was originally published as two separate volumes in 1927 and 1930. To celebrate the Theatre Historical Society's 40th Anniversary, it was decided to publish a special numbered, limited edition reprint of this long unavailable reference work. ATOT is one of the very few books on theatres produced during the era when large movie palaces were being built all across the country. Included in the reissue is a wonderful introduction by famed showman Samuel L. "Roxy" Rothafel. Also, this fabulous book contains numerous essays on many design and operational aspects of theatres from the period, and is illustrated by hundreds of beautiful photographs, drawings and plans.
Cinema Treasures: A New Look at Classic Movie Theaters
By Ross Melnick & Andreas Fuchs
More than 100 years after the first movie delighted audiences, movie theaters remain the last great community centers and one of the few amusements any family can afford. While countless books have been devoted to films and their stars, none have attempted a truly definitive history of those magical venues that have transported moviegoers since the beginning of the last century. In this stunningly illustrated book, film industry insiders Ross Melnick and Andreas Fuchs take readers from the nickelodeon to the megaplex and show how changes in moviemaking and political, social, and technological forces (e.g., war, depression, the baby boom, the VCR) have influenced the way we see movies. Photographs from archives like the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and movie theater ephemera (postcards, period ads, matchbooks, and even a "barf bag") sourced from private collections complement Melnick's informative and engaging history.
Great American Movie Theaters
By David Naylor
Published by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1987, this guidebook provides a guided trip through over 300 theatres organized by geographic region. Entries include architect, date of opening, current ownership and use as well as architectural design and theater's history.
by Craig Morrison
This visual sourcebook traces the development of its colorful and varied forms as they developed in early America, on the western frontier, and in cities from coast to coast. The first comprehensive study of American theaters, it illustrates their wide range from raucous music halls to vaudeville, from circus to grand opera, from World's Fair to Coney island, from nickelodeon to glorious picture palace. Also featured are theaters for burlesque, theaters afloat, military theaters, Shakespearean theaters, summer theaters, theaters and African-Americans, and arenas (when a stage just won't do), enlivened by a cast of entrepreneurs and showmen who were the movers and shakers of our theatrical heritage. Includes over 1,200 b/w illustrations.


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Can You Suggest Some GF Snacks?
Posted By Shelley Case, RD On 2010/12/10 @ 10:41 am In The Celiac Expert | No Comments
Q. I often need a snack when I'm on the run, but am hard pressed to find something gluten-free when I need it. Do you have any suggestions?
Shelley Case, RD: Whether you're rushing between meetings or getting the kids to music lessons or a sports event, grabbing a snack on the go is all too common for many of us. But on a gluten-free diet, a little planning is required before you are time-crunched and ravenous. The good news is that there are many healthy, gluten-free options that can be kept at home or in your car, backpack or desk at work. Following are some ideas, along with a few recommendations of gluten-free products you may wish to try.
In a Crunch
Keep some gluten-free crackers at your desk and some hummus in the office fridge. A quick nibble on these will keep you going through that next conference call.
On the Move
Make your own trail mix. Combine almonds, cashews, raisins, dried apricots or mangoes with gluten-free cereal. Keep a container in your purse, in the car and one at your desk. You'll never be without a protein boost.
Butter Up
Keep some single-serve nut or seed butters on hand. Eat one of the squeezable packs on its own, or spread on fruit such as apples or pear slices or on gluten-free crackers or rice cakes.
Before You Go
Top some plain or flavoured yogurt with some gluten-free granola for a nutritious bite as you're running out the door.
Bar None
When convenience is of the utmost importance, a gluten-free snack bar (made with nuts, seeds and/or dried fruits) is what you need.
More No-Fail Snack Ideas
Shelley Case is a consulting dietitian and author of Gluten-Free Diet [2]: A Comprehensive Resource Guide. She is on the advisory boards of the Canadian Celiac Association, the Celiac Disease Foundation and Gluten Intolerance Group.
Thank you for understanding that Shelley won't be able to answer every question received. The editors at Allergic Living highly recommend her book Gluten-Free Diet, a vital resource for those interested in celiac disease and living gluten-free.
For more information about oats in the GF diet see:
www.celiac.ca [3]
www.glutenfreediet.ca [4]
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9Wants to Know first reported Wednesday night that Denver Police and the IRS shut down what has been called the largest and most exclusive escort service in Denver when they served a search warrant and seized the agency's business records last month. Keep checking 9NEWS.com throughout the day for updates and watch for more details on 9NEWS at 4, 5, 6 and 10 p.m. The Jan. 25 raid has raised questions about the elite list of clients whose names and phone numbers were included in the records seized by police and federal officials. Denver Players, which is also called Denver Sugar, catered to high-end clients across the state, according to employees of the agency who talked with 9Wants to Know. The club is located near 17th Avenue and Fillmore Street. Escorts told 9NEWS their clients were lawyers, doctors, professional athletes, politicians and judges. Sources say more than two dozen women worked for the escort agency, but so far none of the escorts have been charged. One former employee of Denver Players told 9NEWS the client list was in the hundreds. Escorts charged hundreds of dollars The escort said she charged $250 for 30 minutes and $300 for an hour. In-call services, where the customers travel to the escort, cost $300 an hour, while out-call, where the escort would meet the customer in a hotel room, cost $350 an hour. The escorts gave a cut of what they earned - typically 25 to 30 percent, sources said - to business owner Brenda Stewart of Denver, known to her employees as "Carter." Stewart would pay the women for their cut through her "media consulting" business called Phoenix Media LLC, escorts said. Both the Denver Police Department and the IRS declined to talk about the case with 9NEWS. "No one in the IRS can discuss any investigation of any taxpayer due to disclosure laws," said spokeswoman Jean Carl. Contacted at her home on Monaco Parkway in Denver, Stewart declined to talk on camera and referred questions to her attorney. Escort sources tell 9NEWS that police seized business records, credit card receipts, computers and other documents from Stewart's home and business. Stewart kept detailed records of her clients' information, including their names, phone numbers and e-mail addresses, according to sources. Possible charges Several sources told 9NEWS they think it's unfair if law enforcement pursues charges against the escorts, but not the clients. "I think it's important, if they are serious about the problem of escort agencies, that they need to fully prosecute the patrons as well as the escorts," one source told 9NEWS. "If they are going to bust escorts, they should bust everyone." Escorts told 9Wants to Know they've been interviewed by police and some have identified their clients by name. Even so, 9NEWS legal analyst Scott Robinson says the so-called "johns" may not be charged and the public may never learn their identity. "Traditionally, police departments are very reluctant to release the names of the clients," Robinson said. "There are good reasons, right reasons to not release the names of clients of prostitutes - maybe they haven't committed a crime." "The wrong reason," he said, "is to hide the identity of the guilty because they're a prominent member of society." If police charge the escorts, Robinson said, they should also charge their customers. "Ultimately, if a crime is proven to have occurred, both the prostitute and the client should be held accountable publicly, "Robinson said. "Their name should not be held secret in a society that has open and public justice." Investigation has chilling effect The investigation has scared several escorts enough that they have taken their ads off Internet message boards, according to sources. "I have never seen everyone so freaked out. This is having a major impact on the community, the women are not working," one source in the escort industry told 9Wants to Know. The source said some escorts are only working with clients they know well, while other escorts are opting for other jobs. Investigation still ongoing Escort sources tell 9NEWS Denver Players has been in business at least five years. The U.S. Attorney's office is working with the IRS to see what, if any, charges should be filed, according to Exec. Assistant United States Attorney David Gaouette. The search warrant is expected to be unsealed within the next few days, according to Gaouette, who declined to elaborate on the case. "It is an ongoing criminal investigation and I will not comment on it," said U.S. Attorney Troy Eid. "It's a substantial investigation and there's lots of investigating still to do."
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FMR Tiger sets microcar auction record, selling for $322,000
Photos by Darin Schnabel, courtesy RM Auctions.
Four hundred ninety-four cubic centimeters may not sound like much, but compared to most of the putt-putt two-strokes that powered the cars at this past weekend's Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum auction, the 1958 FMR Tg500 Tiger's 20.5 horsepower twin-cylinder engine was an absolute beast, certainly one of the factors in its astounding $322,000 sale.
One of 320 such cars built by Fritz Fend, designer of the Messerschmitt KR175 and KR200 three-wheeled microcars, the FMR Tiger was Fend's ultimate sports car vision for the Messerschmitt automobile, with far superior power and handling – a Super 'Schmitt, if you will. Free to develop the idea after splitting from Messerschmitt in 1956 (and after Messerschmitt nixed production of another Fend-designed four-wheeler, the K-106), Fend revised the three-wheeler chassis not only to include four wheels, but also to include a beefier front suspension, fully adjustable rear suspension, and hydraulic brakes. He used the KR200's basic body shell with a few improvements, along with the aforementioned engine, developed by Fichtel & Sachs. Released in September 1957, it was capable of a blistering 0-60 time of 28 seconds and a face-melting top speed of 78 MPH. According to the Tiger's auction description, the Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum's example is the only one in Rose of the 150 or so that remain.
Estimated to sell for $125,000 to $150,000, the Tiger nearly blew that estimate out of the water with its opening bid of $140,000. According to RM Auctions, which conducted the auction of the museum's collection, the $322,000 final sale price constitutes not only a world record for an FMR Tiger, but also for any microcar.


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First, the Thunder played poorly. Then, the Thunder lost.
Moral defeat became literal defeat as the Thunder slump deepened Wednesday night with a 114-104 loss to the Cavaliers. Losing to the Heat and Clippers is one thing. Losing to the Cavaliers is another. And that's exactly what the Thunder did Wednesday night, 114-104, a verdict that handed the Thunder its first three-game home losing streak since Year 1 in Oklahoma City.


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The mother of a 2-year-old who died in February, her boyfriend, and her boyfriend's parents remain in jail today after each was arrested and charged with felony child neglect and felony homicide.
Ashley Sperow, 23, Doyle "Fayne" Cumbo Jr., 31, Teresa Cumbo, 53, and Doyle Cumbo Sr., 57, all of Haysi, Va., were arrested Tuesday after indictments were handed down Monday by a Dickenson County grand jury, said Kenneth Hill, an investigator with the Dickenson County Sheriff's Office.
No details about the circumstances of the child's death have been released, although the indictment labels it accidental.
Hill said the name and gender of the child is not being released at this time; he said the child was identified only by initials in the indictments.
The child died Feb. 7 at Dickenson Community Hospital in Clintwood, Va., after the mother reported the toddler unresponsive and CPR was unsuccessful.
"After a short time there, [the child] was pronounced dead," Hill said Thursday afternoon. "It's obviously suspicious any time a child dies."
He said the body was sent for autopsy to the medical examiner's office in Roanoke, Va., and the medical examiner told investigators the death was suspicious.
The delay in pressing charges – some eight months after the death – is due to the "extensive checking for evidence" by the medical examiner's office, he said.
Trauma was the cause of death, the investigator said.
Hill said that according to the indictments, the four are accused of causing the child's death "accidently, contrary to the intention of the parties while in a felonious act."
Hill said that neither alcohol nor drugs was involved in the child's death.
The father and son have criminal histories. According to online court records, Doyle Cumbo Sr. pleaded guilty to three counts of distributing a Schedule II controlled substance in February 2008. His son, Doyle "Fayne" Cumbo Jr., was found guilty of grand larceny and breaking and entering in February 2010, of being drunk in public in 2004 and 2008, of inhaling drugs in 2008 and of eluding police in 2009.
Teresa Cumbo was found guilty of a few traffic violations in 2006 and 2010.
The four are being held without bond at the Southwest Virginia Regional Jail in Haysi. They face an Oct. 6 hearing to schedule pretrial motions.


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Excellent tour with lots of interesting places to visit and see. Tour guide was excellent. Well worth seeing!! I appreciate the small groups with lots of interaction with tour guide and other participants.
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These toffee pecan cookies are big, flavorful, and full of chips, candy, and nuts.
Calories: 320
Fat: 19g
Cholesterol: 50mg
Sodium: 210mg
Carbohydrates: 37g
Dietary Fiber: 0g
Protein: 3g
Fabulous cookies!! Who could resist pecans, chocolate chips and toffee bits :) These were a family favorite and will be made for years to come. We also made smaller cookies, using a cookie scoop rather than the 1/4 cup.
This has become a staple of our holiday celebrations every year even though it's not a "seasonal" cookie. The only adjustment I make is to use a small 1" cookie scoop rather than baking at 1/4 C fulls. That way they can be enjoyed in smaller quantities and you don't OD on the sugar!
I made this recipe with carob chips instead of choco chips, for a sister-in-law who can't have chocolate. They tasted great and she loved them! Thank you for such a tasty recipe.
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No Bake Energy Bites
We had a bake sale at work and I wanted to contribute something that wasn't overly sugary but was still full of great flavour. I found this recipe while I was on Pinterest and they turned out great. What is awesome about these No Bake Energy Balls is that they are so versitile that you can add or omit different ingredients depending on your preference. For my version that I made, I omitted the coconut and added more oatmeal instead and they still turned out great. Enjoy!


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Butterflyby Monika Strigel
Set of folded stationery cards printed on bright white, smooth card stock to bring your personal artistic style to everyday correspondence. Each card is blank on the inside and includes a soft white, European fold envelope for mailing.
All original rights on this artwork are owned by Monika Strigel. Downloading or sharing is forbidden, also for private use. If you post the work on tumblr or another publishing site on another platform, be sure, that you have set the backlink to this site. Every violation I will find and report it to the provider of the site.
Photography of a cosmea flower, switched into a butterlfly ...
white, butterfly, abstract, light, summer
This piece in particular, genius in concept as well as execution. Bravo!


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New Work: One Laptop per Child
Since it began issuing laptops in 2007, One Laptop per Child, the initiative to put low-cost computers in the hands of the world's poorest children, has provided its XO laptops to an astonishing 2 million students and teachers in countries and regions all over the world. The program, founded by Nicholas Negroponte, has fostered a growing community of educators, developers and supporters, and has helped change the lives of children in Afghanistan, Paraguay, Madagascar, Kenya, India, Argentina, Nepal, Gaza and the West Bank, among others.
Pentagram's Lisa Strausfeld and her team have designed a new site for OLPC that helps focus on this new phase of the project: the use of the laptops and how they are helping to empower children. Previous versions of the OLPC site emphasized the organization's mission and laptop technology. Now that the laptops are in use, the new site details the accomplishments of the program, helps create a sense of community and encourages continued support. The site has an editorial focus and acts as a kind of OLPC "mother ship," or hub, that serves to aggregate news and information about OLPC and surface the communities that have grown up around the program. The homepage shares stories and photos of children and classrooms that use the laptops. News updates are color-coded by source, and the site features an interactive map of the world that shows the countries and regions that have signed on to the initiative, with links to local updates via the OLPC Wiki. The site uses the language of simple graphic icons that Pentagram's Michael Gericke developed for the organization's identity. The new site was developed by Upstatement.
Pentagram has been involved with OLPC since the organization's inception. This is the third time we've designed the OLPC site, following the initial launch in 2007 and an update in 2008. Michael Gericke designed the OLPC identity, and Lisa Strausfeld designed Sugar, the XO laptop's graphical user interface.
Project Team: Lisa Strausfeld, partner-in-charge and designer; Takaaki Okada and Michael Deal, designers. Developers: Upstatement.


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This short video (~2 minutes) explains how a raindrop falls through the atmosphere and why a more accurate look at raindrops can improve estimates of global precipitation. This information is important to scientists working on the Global... (View More) Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission - understanding the micro world of raindrops provides insight to scientists about the macro world of storms. (View Less)
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This collection of activities is based on a weekly series of space science mathematics problems distributed during the 2012-2013 school year. They were intended for students looking for additional challenges in the math and physical science... (View More) curriculum in grades 5 through 12. The problems were created to be authentic glimpses of modern science and engineering issues, often involving actual research data. The problems were designed to be one-pagers with a Teacher's Guide and Answer Key as a second page. (View Less)
In this demonstration activity, students make structural models of gas molecules using pipe cleaners and polystyrene balls and test their molecules for their resonant frequency. Students shake the models, count vibrations, and compare the resonance... (View More) frequencies of different gases. Students learn that photons of infrared energy vibrate at the right frequency to transfer their energy to carbon dioxide and methane, which in turn causes those molecules to vibrate, which is experienced in the real world as heat. The teacher's guide includes illustrative videos for this resource. This activity is supported by a textbook chapter, What's So Special about CO²?, part of the unit, Climate Change, in Global Systems Science (GSS), an interdisciplinary course for high school students that emphasizes how scientists from a wide variety of fields work together to understand significant problems of global impact. (View Less)
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In this textbook chapter, students review concepts of matter and energy as a precursor to understand how carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. This is the second chapter in the unit, Climate Change, which addresses the question of how human... (View More) activities are changing Earth's climate. The resource includes three demonstration activities, a textbook chapter, integrated hands-on and inquiry activities, links to current news articles, and a suite of pre- and post-unit assessments. A teacher's guide supports classroom use. The resource is part of Global Systems Science (GSS), an interdisciplinary course for high school students that emphasizes how scientists from a wide variety of fields work together to understand significant problems of global impact. (View Less)
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In this lesson, students explore a discrepant event when they design an experiment to measure the rate that ice melts when in pure water versus salt water. It is designed to help students realize that a carefully-designed experiment may yield... (View More) unexpected results, due to unseen events, even though the experiment is precisely planned and executed. The addition of a new technology may clarify factors in the experiment which were previously unknown. Note: the experiment requires advance preparation the day before: two buckets of water are set-up (one with plain tap water, the other with as much salt dissolved in it as possible), which need to be at room temperature. It also requires ice cubes of uniform shape (e.g., from an ice maker or ice trays filled to uniform capacity). This lesson is part of the Cosmic Times teachers guide and is intended to be used in conjunction with the 1993 Cosmic Times Poster. (View Less)
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This is a lesson about density. Learners will relate the concept of density to the density of dust in space. They will use mission data from the Student Dust Counter (SDC) interface to determine the density of dust grains in a volume of space in the... (View More) Solar System in order to answer questions concerning the distribution of dust in the solar system. They will discover that space is much more sparsely populated with dust than they may have thought. Students discuss their findings with the class. (View Less)
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In this problem set, learners will analyze a table on the reflectivity of various substances to three kinds of wavelengths in order to answer a series of questions. Answer key is provided. This is part of Earth Math: A Brief Mathematical Guide to... (View More) Earth Science and Climate Change. (View Less)
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In this problem set, learners will apply the concepts of reflectivity and absorption to derive the likely composition of the materials described in different scenarios. A table with the reflectivity of common materials and the answer key are... (View More) provided. This is part of Earth Math: A Brief Mathematical Guide to Earth Science and Climate Change. (View Less)
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Gas Main Break in Berlin
November 11, 2010 11:14 AM
The Home Depot and some surrounding stores on the Berlin Turnpike in Berlin were evacuated Thursday morning after a contractor broke a two-inch plastic gas line going into the store. Crews are working on repairing the problem. There are no reports of injury. The incident was over by early afternoon.


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My landlord was out fixing doors at our house yesterday. We live on a little over an acre. I nonchalantly brought up fencing a portion of our property, putting up a walk-in shelter and moving my horse here. He said, Sure I don't care. He said that if I did it would mean he could charge more rent for the next tenants. BUT he has to look over the deed and make sure that doesn't say anything about not having horses or livestock on it. I'm not sure if it will. The farmer who sold the lots has livestock. So (a big possible) YIPEE!
We were/are trying to buy a house but we still have some credit issues to work out. So it might take another year (or more). I'm personally starting to dislike where I'm keeping my horse at for various reasons.
So here are my questions:
If I feed hay and grain how much of my property would I have to fence in for 2 horses? I can't fence the whole acre in because the kids need space and we have a dog that has to be chained (when she goes out) or she'll run off.
I need fence recommendations:
Not costly (Because the fence stays behind once we move)
Durable (We live close to a road. I need something I KNOW will keep the horses in)
Semi-Attractive (Landlord's stipulation)
Which option?
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Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH
Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH, is an associate professor of medicine in the divisions of HIV/AIDS and infectious diseases at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Gandhi completed her MD degree at Harvard Medical School and then came to UCSF in 1996 for residency training in internal medicine. After her residency, Dr. Gandhi completed a fellowship in infectious diseases and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS), both at UCSF. She also obtained a master of public health degree from Berkeley in 2001 with a focus on epidemiology and biostatistics and has been on faculty at UCSF since 2003.
Dr. Gandhi's current clinical responsibilities include directorship of the AIDS consult service at San Francisco General Hospital and attending on the infectious diseases consult service at Moffitt-Long Hospital. She also serves as an HIV and primary care provider in the Women's HIV Program at UCSF, a multidiscliplinary specialty clinic for HIV-infected women in San Francisco. Her research efforts have focused on HIV/AIDS in U.S. women through the Women's Interagency HIV Study, a large, multisite prospective cohort established in 1994 to study the natural history and clinical and laboratory findings of HIV in women. Her particular research is on differences in antiretroviral exposure between men and women and finding low-cost methods to measure antiretroviral levels in resource-poor settings, such as determining drug levels in hair samples. Dr. Gandhi has also participated in research efforts involving the impact of HIV/AIDS among women in India.
In her teaching, Dr. Gandhi co-directs the public health section of the Immunity, Inflammation and Infection (I-3) course for UCSF medical students. She also co-directs the Communicable Diseases of Global Health Importance course in the new master of science program in the Global Health Sciences Division at UCSF. She serves as a guest lecturer in the Behavioral and Policy Science in HIV Treatment and Prevention course at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. She also travels to India regularly to perform clinical training on HIV management for residents and physicians in Bangalore and Mumbai.
Selected publications:
Gandhi M, Bacchetti P, Miotti P, Quinn TC, et al. Does patient sex affect human immunodeficiency virus levels? Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2002 Aug;35:313–22.
Gandhi M and RM Greenblatt. Hair it is: The long and short of antiretroviral treatment monitoring. Annals of Internal Medicine, 2002 Oct;137(8):696–97.
Gandhi M, Greenblatt RM, Aweeka F, Blaschke T. Sex Differences in Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics. Annuals Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology. 2004 Feb;44:499–523.
Gandhi M, Ameli N, Bacchetti P, Sharp GB, et al. Eligibility criteria for HIV clinical trials and generalizability of results: The gap between published reports and study protocols. AIDS. 2005 Nov;19(16):1885–96.
Riley E, Gandhi M, Hare CB, Cohen J, et al. Poverty, unstable housing and HIV infection among women living in the United States. Current HIV/AIDS Reports. 2007 Nov;4:181–86.
Huang Y, Gandhi M, Greenblatt R, Gee W, et al. Sensitive Analysis of Anti-HIV Drugs, Efavirenz, Lopinavir and Ritonavir in Human Hair Samples by Liquid Chromatography Coupled with Tandem Mass Spectrometry. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 2008 Nov;22(21):3401–09.
Merenstein D, Gandhi M, Schwartz R, Robinson E, et al. Association of child care burden and household composition with adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy in the Women's Interagency HIV Study. AIDS Patient Care and STDs. (in press).
Gandhi M, Benet Z, Bacchetti P, Kalinowski A, et al. NNRTI pharmacokinetics in a large unselected cohort of HIV-infected women. JAIDS. 2009 (in press).
Gandhi M, Huang Y, Bacchetti P, Anastos K, et al. Protease Inhibitor Levels in Hair Samples Strongly Predict Virologic Responses to HIV Treatment. AIDS. 2009 (in press).
Wong EB and Gandhi M. The Feminization of an Epidemic: HIV in Women (chapter). In Fundamentals of Global HIV Medicine, IHL Press, Temesgem Z, Ed. 2009 (in press).


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Vegan - Vegetarian Recipe Book
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Baked Butternut Squash with Saba Cooking Banana Stuffing
|Butternut Squash
Stuffing with Rice, Saba Cooking Bananas, Sweet Potatoes and More
Cinnamon, ground
(To enlarge the photo of the baked and stuffed butternut squash, click on the photo or link)
Pictured above is a large stuffed half of a butternut squash which makes a great main dish by itself when served with a large tossed salad. If you desire to have other dishes for a festive meal, we suggest that you use smaller butternut squash, so that each person is served their own half, and still has room on their plate for the other recipes that have been prepared.
For cooking one large or two small stuffed butternut squash, they can be covered and baked in the microwave oven in about 30-40 minutes on high heat. If using a glass baking pan, cover tightly with plastic wrap. For a larger number of butternut squash, we suggest baking them in a conventional oven at 350 degrees F. in a covered baking pan until the squash flesh is soft, which will take about an hour or a little longer.
We usually make the stuffing the day before, or earlier in the day.
Begin by thoroughly washing the butternut squash. Place the squash on a cutting board, and with a large sharp knife, split the squash lengthwise.
Using a small stuff spoon, scoop out the seeds and set them aside for making Toasted Squash Seeds. Their great!
Firmly pack the stuffing into the seed cavity of each butternut squash half, and sprinkle some cinnamon on the squash surface, avoiding the stuffing, so that you don't change the flavor.
Place in the oven to bake.
When they are baked, serve and enjoy!
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Like a lot of folks, when he's looking for answers, Floyd Little will often point and click to Google.
Even if the Hall of Famer's topic for the do-it-all search engine is the NFL's $9 billion labor squabble, which figures to change the career landscape of players — past, present and future.
"Look, all you have to do is Google it," Little said. "You can see the problems. Playing careers are short, life expectancy is short and the health issues extend well past when you're done playing.
"When they're done with all this, we need to have something in place for guys to get the help they need. Because all of the guys in the league now are going to be where we are someday a lot sooner than later. That's it. There's enough money to go around on both sides, so do the deal and take care of the people who play the game we all love."
Little, in Denver this weekend for former Broncos tight end Daniel Graham's youth football camp, sees the NFL lockout through the eyes of an almost 70-something former player who has dealt with health issues since his career ended because of knee injuries. But Little also believes that while most of the public discourse regarding any new collective bargaining agreement has been about how the two sides split the enormous revenue pie, the long-standing solution may also rely on what kind of benefits the players obtain for themselves after their playing careers.
"There's life expectancy and there's quality of life, and neither one of those is very good right now for some guys," Little said. "A lot of us are in wheelchairs, nursing homes. Some are taking their own lives.
"I think people understand that. Again, the leaders now, the Peyton Mannings, the Drew Breeses of the world, they understand they're set, but that their careers and their teammates' careers will finish someday with their lives left to live. It's important everybody thinks about that."
All of that said, Little, as well as Graham, believes a resolution is coming soon simply because of the pressure the calendar is applying to each side. While teams and players usually don't have much incoming revenue during the spring and summer, the loss of the preseason and especially any regular-season games will cost everybody involved significant amounts of money.
Representatives of the team owners and the players have negotiated in earnest for much of the past two weeks. There are many in the league who believe, despite the reservations some may have in a compromise, a deal could still come in early July.
"This thing will be done right when everybody is done posturing," Little said.
"They've got 90 percent of the issues resolved or know what it takes to resolve them, 90 percent. Now they're just posturing on the rest. They all need the season, and if they don't realize that, then they didn't represent themselves well."
"I think it's going to be over soon," Graham said. "I think now I'm anxious to get back to work, see where I'm going to end up this season and the last few years of my career.
"We're all just waiting for that call to come, and I think it's coming pretty soon."
Jeff Legwold: 303-954-2359 or firstname.lastname@example.com
Key dates on the NFL calendar as team owners and players continue to try to negotiate a new labor deal:
Mid- to late July: U.S. Court of Appeals expected to rule on the fate of the league's lockout.
Aug. 6: Pro Football Hall of Fame's Class of 2011 induction ceremony, including Shannon Sharpe.
Aug. 7: Scheduled preseason opener — Hall of Fame game, Bears vs. Rams in Canton, Ohio.
Sept. 8: Scheduled regular-season opener, Saints vs. Packers at Green Bay.


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NORMAN — Running down the Cotton Bowl tunnel for pregame warmup, Frank Alexander heard the roar of the crowd swell. It grew louder and stronger until it was an indistinguishable wall of sound.
Oklahoma's Frank Alexander: A son on the rise playing for a father on the mend
That's when he heard a familiar whistle.
"Man," he thought, "that's my daddy."
He looked into the crimson-filled stands, and sure enough, there was his father, arms raised, hands waving.
Alexander isn't even sure how his dad makes the sound — a pattern that is so special to the two of them that the elder Alexander refuses to reveal exactly what he does — but the father always gets the son's attention.
"He's been doing it since I was a little boy," Alexander said. "No matter what, I know it's him."
Hearing that whistle and seeing his dad made Saturday all the better — if that's even possible. Alexander had a career day in OU's blowout of Texas. Three sacks. Four tackles for loss. One forced fumble. One fumble recovered.
On a day that the defensive end earned Walter Camp national defensive player of the week honors, nothing was more special than having his dad in the Cotton Bowl stands.
That's because he wasn't there last year.
He was recovering from a heart attack.
Alexander's parents, Frank and Juanita, were on their way to Norman last season for the Air Force game when he starting having chest pains. Juanita wanted to take him to the hospital, but Frank waved it off as indigestion.
He suspected, though, it might be something worse.
"God might be telling me my time here on Earth is coming to an end," he remembers thinking. "I may go ahead and watch my son play if that's to be my last game."
He was in pain the rest of the weekend. Before the game. During the game. After the game. Even on the 10-hour drive back to Baton Rouge, La., on Sunday, the discomfort continued.
Early Monday morning, the chest pain turned into a full-blown heart attack.
The Alexanders rushed to the hospital where doctors determined that he had six blockages and a blood clot. He would need open heart surgery.
Juanita called her son from the hospital.
"I need to be on the first plane," he insisted.
She refused.
"The best thing you can do for your dad right now," she told him, "is continue to do what you do."
That was hard enough as it was. Alexander had big plans heading into last season. Playing opposite of Jeremy Beal, they were going to terrorize opponents and tear up the Big 12.
Then the week before the season opener, Alexander sprained his ankle. He missed the opener, and even though he returned the next week against Florida State, the injury hampered his speed and slowed his pursuit.
"I didn't want to be one of those players that just came through OU," Alexander said. "I wanted to leave a mark, put my names in the books."
What had seemed so likely early in his career was no longer so sure. Had it not been for Sam Bradford's famous flip in the 2008 edition of Bedlam, Alexander might've had the play of the game. His rumbling return of a botched Cowboy two-point conversion was an exclamation mark on an honorable mention All-Big 12 season.
His sophomore season, he was more of a marked man, and his numbers dropped.
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Is it just me or does this movie seem to be like a Victorian age version of gossip girls...The leading man reminds me so much of chuck bass that its scary! The way he intimidates and the way he plays games, to the way he spoke and the how he was all about seduction!!! Just watch the first ten min of the movie and then watch an episode of gossip girls w/ chuck in it and you will soooo see the resemblance.
Gossip Girls and Dangerous Liaisons
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I've seen Dangerous Liaisons before and I semi-agree with your comment about Chuck and the main character of Dangerous Liaisons being similiar.Have you seen Cruel Intentions? It's sort of a remake of Dangerous Liaisons but it's based in the Upper East Side around two step-siblings.You'll probably find the same similarities between Chuck and the main character of Cruel Intentions too.


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IV Busulfan With Allo-BMT: Study for Patients With Acute Myelogenous Leukemia and Myelodysplastic Syndrome
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The goal of this clinical research study is to learn if giving busulfan in a dose based on blood levels, along with a fixed (unchanging) dose of fludarabine, is more effective and causes fewer side effects for AML or myelodysplastic syndrome patients than the standard method of giving a fixed busulfan dose based on body size, along with a fixed dose of fludarabine. The safety of dosing based on blood levels will also be studied.
Myelodysplastic Syndrome
Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Drug: Busulfan
Drug: Fludarabine
Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Randomized Study of Once Daily IV Busulfan With Fludarabine With Hemopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML) and Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS)
- Time to failure (TTF) [ Time Frame: From transplant at Day 0 to Day 100 following transplant then quarterly thereafer (3, 6, 12 months) ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]TTF defined as either disease recurrence or death, from the time of bone marrow transplant (BMT).
|Study Start Date:
|June 2005
|Primary Completion Date:
|November 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Fixed-Dose Busulfan + Fludarabine
Busulfan Fixed Dose = 130 mg/m^2 IV Daily Over Three Hours x 4 Days. Fludarabine 40 mg/m^2 IV Daily Over 1 Hour x 4 Days.
Drug: Busulfan
Drug: Fludarabine
Fixed Dose = 130 mg/m^2 IV Daily Over Three Hours x 4 Days.
Adjusted Dose = 32 mg/m^2 IV Over 2 Hours Test Dose x 1 Day.
Proceeding dosage level determined by pharmacokinetic studies to achieve a daily area under curve (AUC) of 6,000 microMol-min ± 10%.
40 mg/m^2 IV Daily Over 1 Hour x 4 Days
Experimental: Adjusted Dose Busulfan + Fludarabine
Busulfan Adjusted Dose = 32 mg/m^2 IV Over 2 Hours Test Dose x 1 Day. Fludarabine 40 mg/m^2 IV Daily Over 1 Hour x 4 Days.
Drug: Busulfan
Drug: Fludarabine
Fixed Dose = 130 mg/m^2 IV Daily Over Three Hours x 4 Days.
Adjusted Dose = 32 mg/m^2 IV Over 2 Hours Test Dose x 1 Day.
Proceeding dosage level determined by pharmacokinetic studies to achieve a daily area under curve (AUC) of 6,000 microMol-min ± 10%.
40 mg/m^2 IV Daily Over 1 Hour x 4 Days
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|up to 65 Years
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Acute myeloid leukemia past first remission, in first or subsequent relapse, in first remission (cytogenetics other than t(8;21, inv 16, t(15;17)) or induction failures. Only myeloid leukemia but not biphenotypic leukemia is allowed on this study.
- Myelodysplastic syndromes with intermediate or high risk International Prognostic Scoring System score
- Patient has not been administered any other systemic chemotherapeutic drug (including Mylotarg) within 21 days prior to trial enrollment (BMT Day -7 or day -9 for the test-dose arm of the study). Hydroxyurea is permitted if indicated to control induction refractory disease, and IT chemotherapy is allowed if indicated as maintenance treatment for previously diagnosed leptomeningeal disease, that has been in remission for at least 3 months prior to enrollment on this study).
- No active infection. Protocol PI will be final arbiter if there is uncertainty regarding whether a previous infection is resolved.
- age <=65
- Patients must have a matched related or unrelated donor willing to donate. A donor who is HLA identical or mismatched in 1 locus on Class I [HLA, A or B], or molecularly mismatched in 1 locus on Class II [HLA, DR or DQ] is also acceptable.
- ZUBROD performance status <2
- Life expectancy is not severely limited by concomitant illness and expected to be >12 weeks.
- Left ventricular ejection fraction >45% No uncontrolled arrhythmias or symptomatic cardiac disease.
- No symptomatic pulmonary disease. Forced expiratory volume at one second (FEV1), forced vital capacity (FVC) and diffusion capacity of lung for carbon monoxide (DLCO) >/= 50% of expected corrected for hemoglobin. In patients </= 7 years pulmonary function will be assessed per pediatric BMT routine
- Serum creatinine </= 1.5 mg%.
- Serum glutamate pyruvate transaminase (SGPT) </= 200 IU/ml, serum bilirubin and alkaline phosphatase within accepted laboratory standard normal limits or considered not clinically significant. No evidence of chronic active hepatitis or cirrhosis. If positive hepatitis serology, discuss with Study Chairman and consider liver biopsy.
- No effusion or ascites >1L prior to drainage.
- HIV-negative.
- Female patient is not pregnant (negative B-human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) pregnancy test in all women of child-bearing-potential in accordance with departmental routine).
- Patient or patient's legal representative, parent(s) or guardian able to sign informed consent.
- No prior autologous stem cell transplants
Exclusion Criteria:
1) None.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00469144
|United States, Texas
|University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
|Houston, Texas, United States, 77030
|Principal Investigator:
|Richard E. Champlin, MD
|M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Additional Information:
No publications provided
|Responsible Party:
|M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00469144 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|May 3, 2007
|Last Updated:
|November 7, 2014
|Health Authority:
|United States: Institutional Review Board
Keywords provided by M.D. Anderson Cancer Center:
Stem Cell Transplantation
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Leukemia, Myeloid
Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute
Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Bone Marrow Diseases
Hematologic Diseases
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Pathologic Processes
Precancerous Conditions
Fludarabine phosphate
Alkylating Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic
Antineoplastic Agents
Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating
Antiviral Agents
Immunologic Factors
Immunosuppressive Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Myeloablative Agonists
Pharmacologic Actions
Physiological Effects of Drugs
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Nothing can spoil a summer weekend like a sunburn. When you're feeling the painful consequence of not having worn enough sunscreen, find some relief in these natural remedies for over-exposed skin.
Take a soothing bath:
1. Add a cup of apple cider vinegar to your bath and soak for 10 minutes.
2. Add ½ cup of baking soda and a small handful of sea salt.
3. Take an oatmeal bath: Add two cups of oatmeal to the bottom of a nylon sock. Tie up the sock, and let warm water pour over the pouch. Leave pouch in tub as you bathe.
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The Kayak Chronicles ©
by Darren Caffery
Fort DeSoto County Park, Florida
Thursday June 23, 2005
The day after paddling Mullet Key, JSSKA member Tom Kelly and I gave up our rental tandem and went back to paddling our own individual kayaks. We again launched from Fort DeSoto County Park, just outside of St Petersburg for our second day of paddling in the Gulf of Mexico. Our destination for this trip was Egmont Key State Park.
The Island of Egmont Key has unique natural and cultural histories which have made it a valuable resource since the time settlers first arrived in Florida. Named in honor of John Perceval, the second Earl of Egmont and member of the Irish House of Commons in 1763, Egmont Key has had Spanish conquistadors and nuclear submarines pass its shores as they entered Tampa Bay.
In the 1830's, as shipping increased, so did the number of ships that were grounded on the numerous sandbars around Egmont Key. On March 3, 1847, Congress authorized funds to construct a lighthouse on Egmont. The construction was completed in May,1848. Once completed, it was the only lighthouse between St. Marks and Key West. When the Great Hurricane of 1848 struck, tides 15 feet above normal washed over the island and damaged the light. Another storm in 1852 did additional damage and prompted Congress to appropriate funds to rebuild the lighthouse and lightkeeper's residence.At the end of the third Seminole War in 1858, Egmont Key was used by the U.S. Army to detain Seminole prisoners until they could be transported to Arkansas Territory.
In 1858, the lighthouse was reconstructed to "withstand any storm." The new tower is 87 feet high with an Argard kerosene lamp and fixed Fresnel lens. Confederate troops occupied the island when the Civil War began. Realizing they could not defend their position, the Confederates evacuated Egmont, taking with them the Fresnel lens from the tower. The Union navy used Egmont to operate their Gulf Coast blockade of the Confederacy. Union troops raided Tampa in an unsuccessful effort to locate the missing lens.
The lighthouse returned to normal operation at the end of the war. After the Civil War, the lightkeeper, his assistant and their families were the principal residents of the island from 1866 to 1898.
Fort Dade was established on Egmont Key when the Spanish-American War was imminent. When construction was completed in 1906, Dade was a small city of 300 residents with electricity, telephones, movie theater, bowling alley, tennis courts, hospital and a jail. The fort was deactivated in 1923.
The Tampa Bay Pilots Association, established in 1886, set up operations on the island in 1926. When ships approach Tampa Bay, a pilot boards the vessel in the main channel and directs the ship to the docks. As the vessel leaves the dock the pilot guides it out and returns to Egmont Key on one of the pilot boats. The work of the pilots helps to protect the Bay from environmental damage that would result from grounding and/or collisions.
In 1939, the Lighthouse Service was transferred to the U.S. Coast Guard, which has maintained the light as well as radio guidance equipment. Egmont Key was designated a National Wildlife Refuge in 1974, managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Due to staffing limitations and increased public visits, the Wildlife Service was unable to protect the resources on its own. When the Coast Guard automated the light, Coast Guard personnel were reassigned. The Florida Park Service began operations at Egmont Key on October 1, 1989, as part of a co-management agreement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Visitors to Egmont Key can spend the day on the beach sunbathing, swimming in the warm bay waters, walking through the historic ruins of Fort Dade, or walking the brick paths that remain from the days Fort Dade was an active community with 300 residents. A gopher tortoise can be seen at almost every turn as you walk the historic paths. Many visitors are treated to the sight of hummingbirds as well as other seabirds.
For our kayaking adventure, we got a bit of a late start, but finally launched at the canoe & kayak outpost
on the paddling trail at about 11:30 am. Conditions in the area were much
sunnier than the previous day of paddling with little wind. Air temperatures
were the same as the previous day reaching the mid 80's but it seemed much
hotter because the sun was shining bright.
We began to sweat shortly after beginning to paddle. Our trip out of the mangroves of the canoe trail into the Mullet Key Bayou was uneventful and we didn't see any manatee on this trip. We paddled a nice steady pace out of the bayou, into Bunces Pass and finally into the crystal clear blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico. The Gulf was again very calm. After we entered the Gulf we headed northward along the pristine shoreline and finally landed on one of the beautiful white sand beaches. The beaches had a few more people on them today but nothing like the crowd we typically see at the Jersey Shore.
After rehydrating a bit, I began to chart our course to Egmont Key. As I charted our course to the island, Tom combed the crowd of the beach in search of a lighter or matches since he forgot his. We wouldn't be able to continue our trek to the island until he had a smoke.
Luckily he returned with a lit cigarette and after he finished, we launched back into the gulf. Because of the calm conditions and little wind, we decided to paddle a straight line course to the island from the north beach on Fort DeSoto. It was a 3.6 mile trek of open water which required crossing a major shipping channel in which some of the worlds largest ships use to enter Tampa Bay. Notes of caution in Nigel Foster's Guide to Sea Kayaking in Southern Florida report the channel is 80-90 ft deep and currents can be very swift at the tidal rush. On the beach, a park ranger cautioned us we may see some bull sharks, however I never really looked too hard for those and wasn't disappointed when we didn't see any. We also didn't see any dolphin. Because of the distance of open water paddling, the strong currents, the shipping channels and the potential for rough conditions in the afternoon wind, the trip is suggested for paddlers of at least, intermediate experience.
The open water paddle was awesome. There were some nice
rolling swells on our way. Unfortunately, we also paddled near a small residual
patch of a red tide that had recently affected the area. The patch of bacteria
had dead puffer fish and large sea worms in them and left a putrid odor as we
paddled near it.
As we neared the channel marker, we saw a freighter in the distance and decided to wait and let it pass before we crossed. We relaxed and just bobbed up and down in the swells as we waited for the large boat to pass. It threw no wake as it passed and after it was out of our path, we continued our trek across the 1.5 mile channel to Egmont Key.
We reached the white sand beach at the southwest end of Egmont Key. There was one powerboater on the island with his family and they were swimming and combing the beach. While beachcombing, we observed quite a few more dead fish in the shoreline. One of the dead fish was a huge grouper which looked like probably reached over 100 lbs before it started to decay. After a short swim and taking a few pictures of the ruins of the fort, we decided to get back on the water before the ebbing tide would create difficult conditions in the channel. I would have been nice to stay on the island a bit longer but waiting would have required us to paddle in the swifter period of the tidal rush that Nigel Foster warns to avoid.
crossing to our takeout was about 2 miles of open water. For our return trip we
paddled west, aiming for the Sunshine Skyway Bridge and counting on the outgoing
tide to correct our course somewhat as we made our way into the Tampa Bay. When
we approached the channel, we could feel the resistance of the beginning of the
outgoing tidal current in the channel as we struggled to maintain a 2.5 mile per
hour pace. The tide was against us, and although we had a mild wind behind us
to help push us through the opposing current, it did nothing to keep us cool. I
soaked my hat periodically and wrists in the water to keep cool because it was
We made the crossing of the shipping channel with no large tankers or freighters in our path and when we finally entered Tampa Bay, we paddled closer along the shoreline of the east beaches of Fort DeSoto. The sun was still shining over us however in the distance to the west we could see some heavy storms dumping rain. Luckily, these dark clouds and streaks of lightning moved north and away from us.
At around 3:30 pm, we finally reached our beach destination at the bay pier
where we landed safely after 9.3 miles of paddling. Ironically, within literally
minutes of our landing, the wind significantly increased and as we unloaded our
kayaks on the beach, the entire visible portion of Tampa Bay became filled with
large whitecaps.
Although I don't mind playing around in choppy whitecaps for short periods, I was glad we didn't have to paddle for two miles in them! It was another great day on the water and another chapter in the Kayak Chronicles.
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Drs. Charles Dinarello and Patricia Gabow, along with Hal Gould, are the recipients of the 25th anniversary Bonfils-Stanton Awards [5]. Also known as the Colorado Nobel Prizes, the awards were presented at a luncheon held at the Westin Tabor Center.
Dinarello, a professor of medicine at the University of Colorado Denver [6], is considered one of the founding fathers of cytokines, having purified and cloned interleukin-1. Cytokines are a category of signaling molecules that are secreted by specific cells of the immune system and figure in inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis.
A former profesor of medicine at Tufts University [7], Dinarello received his medical degree from Yale [8] and has been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. The Institute for Scientific Information [9] says he is the world's fourth most-cited scientist.
Gabow, who heads Denver Health [10], is an internationally recognized advocate for increasing access to basic health care. Under her leadership, Denver Health has become a model for providing quality care for all; in particular, for vulnerable populations. Gabow also is an authority in polycystic kidney disease and has been voted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame [11].
Gould, a fine-art photographer and founder of Camera Obscura Gallery [12], has had a varied career, to say the least. He has repaired railroad ties, served in the military, boxed, painted and flown airplanes. Camera Obscura is one of the oldest — if not the oldest — gallery in the United States devoted to fine-art photography.
The luncheon also was the occasion for the foundation to introduce the 2010 Livingston Fellows. Each recipient is a leader in Colorado's nonprofit community and is to use the money to make a greater difference for the greater good. They are: Sonya Garcia Ulibarri, executive director of the Denver-based YouthBiz [13]; Erin Pulling, executive director of Project Angel Heart [14]; Maurice "Mo" LaMee, executive and artistic director of Creede Repertory Theatre [15]; Bridget Coughlin, vice president and curator of human health for Denver Museum of Nature and Science [16]; and Chris Watney, president of the Colorado Children's Campaign [17].
The awards are presented annually by the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation [18]. Recipients are those who have made exemplary contributions in science, community service and the arts.
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College baseball: St. John Neumann grad guides South Alabama to NCAA tourney
Raised on Marco Island, Calvi spent 17 years as a college baseball assistant before getting his own team. Two years after taking over a struggling South Alabama team, the St. John Neumann graduate already has led the Jaguars to one of their most successful seasons in a decade.
When South Alabama begins play today in the NCAA baseball tournament, it represents a rapid rebound brought on by Calvi's recruiting and motivational skills.
"I knew it had to be sooner than later," Calvi said of the turnaround. "I don't have a lot of patience, and I don't like losing."
The Jaguars are 42-18, their best record since 2003, and qualified for the NCAA regionals for the first time in seven years. They earned a spot by notching 20 wins in the Sun Belt Conference, their most league victories since 1999.
South Alabama is the No. 2 seed in the Starkville (Miss.) Regional hosted by top-seed Mississippi State. It's one of 16 four-team double-elimination regionals that begin today. The winner of each region advances to next week's Super Regionals.
Calvi's work turning around the Jaguars began before taking over the team. After helping South Carolina win the 2010 College World Series as the pitching coach, Calvi was hired as associate head coach at South Alabama to take over when Steve Kittrell retired.
During his year as the head coach in waiting, Calvi hit the road. He traveled the country missing a majority of the Jaguars games as he recruited players. Most of the team that takes on Mercer today were brought in by Calvi South Alabama had only seven returning players for the 2011-12 season when Calvi took over.
"His recruiting is unbelievable," said Paul Calvi, Mark's father who lives in Naples. "He doesn't pull any punches with the parents. He tells it like it is. He's a team coach, and everything he does is for the team."
Calvi rebuilt South Alabama — which boast 22 alumni who have played in the Major Leagues — with hard workers. The 1986 Neumann graduate stressed effort and playing together, which he says has turned things around.
After the Jaguars went 23-34 in Calvi's first year, the coach never gave up hope. South Alabama won five of its final eight games that year to provide a glimmer of optimism.
"I knew we had a long way to go," Calvi said. "We basically redid the whole program. We've added two recruiting classes, and they're all on the field contributing."
Now Calvi hopes to do as a head coach what he did as an assistant — win a national championship. To pull an upset in Starkville, Calvi said his team will have to win with relief pitching and defense as it has done all year.
A title might still be a ways off, but Calvi is excited about the direction he has his program headed.
"It's been a long time since this program has been in the postseason," Calvi said. "This program has such great history. I'm proud for the university, the players and all the alumni. It's great to see the University of South Alabama relevant again in college baseball."
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PAWTUCKET – Julie Nolan is happy again, and it's because she can leave her Harcourt Avenue home for a walk. She can place her three young grandchildren in her lap and read them a Berenstein Bears book, make them laugh. She can move freely.
She now revels in the fact – at 5' 5" – her body matches her height, as she weighs a svelte 118 pounds. Her penchant for overeating has ended, though also calls it a lifelong journey.
Nowadays, this 46-year-old retired Army veteran, mother of six adult children and longtime Pawtucket resident – a woman who once weighed 272 pounds – adores helping others overcome the serious disease of obesity.
A certified bariatric support group leader at Roger Williams Medical Center in Providence, she's the charge behind four separate "families" – the oldest her "Living Life" contingent – who gather and discuss ways to deal with their lap band, gastric bypass or other weight-loss surgeries, stick to their diets and exercise regularly.
Nolan even organized Rhode Island's first-ever "Walk from Obesity" Five-Kilometer event, held Sunday, Oct. 24 at Slater Park, and was astonished when 96 folks – including nine children – signed up at $25 a pop ($30 on "Walk Day").
"The highest weight we had was 550 pounds, and the lowest, I'd say, 120," she offered. "My goal for my 'Living Life' group was to have 20 people register and raise $2,000. From that group alone, we had 45 registrants and took in $3,600. I was thinking, 'Oh, my God!'
"Ultimately, we wanted to raise $5,000, but – in our first year – we raised $12,000, over twice that much (for the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery); it was crazy!" she continued. "My goose bumps have goose bumps just talking about it. My son has a friend who's a disc jockey, and he did it for free. The Rhode Island National Guard donated a rock wall, 20 tables, 40 chairs and banners – for free.
"Ocean State Job Lot donated 500 bottles of water, and Ana Novais, the Department of Health's Executive Director, spoke. You know how that made me feel? I was on stage to hand out three bouquets of roses to the team captain that raised the most, and the top two individuals with the highest amount of pledges. All I could get out was, 'Hey, everybody' before I started tearing up.
"I looked around after the walk and saw people who were united to support something not well accepted in the public. People don't view obesity as a disease. They just think, 'He has to stop eating' or 'She just has to exercise.' With some, that's the case. With others, there are underlying circumstances. Too few understand that."
Nolan's feeling pretty good about herself after losing a whopping 152 pounds since 2008, but – trust her – that wasn't always the case.
Without embarrassment, she revealed she began having weight problems as a senior at Windham (Conn.) High in 1981-82. She had married the love of her life shortly after graduation, and soon became pregnant with first son Adam, who was born in October 1983.
"I dieted constantly; I would go to an all-women's gym called 'Gloria Stearns,' and I would even use that belt machine to make you shake," she said. "I'd lose weight, gain it back, lose and gain it back again. In 1988, I got pregnant with twins (Brian and Jordan), and that was the first time I realized how big I was.
"The day before I had Adam, I weighed 197, the day after, 211. I was 19, and I thought, 'OK, Julie, you can lose.' Needless to say, I didn't. Then came the twins, and I weighed 197 the day before, 211 the day after. Two years later, my daughter Michelle came along, and it was the same thing – 197, then 211. I knew I was in trouble when, without being pregnant, I stepped on a scale and weighed 211."
She claimed she walked her kids to Mohegan Elementary School in Uncasville, Conn. that January day in 1997, and returned home "huffing and puffing.
"I was thinking, 'How'd I get here? This isn't who I am,'" she stated. "I joined Weight Watchers, and lost 82 pounds by eating right and running five miles a day. I was feeling good about myself, but I was working as an oral maxillofacial surgeon's office manager in New London, and I wasn't making enough to support my family. The pay was less than stellar."
That March, she figured she had no choice but to join the U.S. Army.
"I was afraid, nervous, because I had put my body through so much having kids," she explained. "I was 33, and I knew I'd be with kids 18-19. I thought about signing on with the Navy because I always wanted to be a nurse, but I knew I needed to challenge myself physically and mentally."
After enlisting in the Connecticut National Guard, she experienced basic training at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri that September and became a heavy equipment operator. She figured the Army would help pay her way through college, fulfilling her lifetime dream of entering nursing.
In January 1998, she went back to work in the same office and found her salary wasn't enough to provide for her children, so applied for a job as a supply sergeant for the 192nd Engineer Battalion in New London.
"That paid a lot better than being a medical assistant, plus I got medical/dental (insurance) for my kids," she said. "Still, my weight was a constant struggle. The Army medics would give us checkups every six months, where we'd have to weigh in and have our physical training tests. I'd barely make it.
"A month before, I'd start running again to prepare. I'd live on salads, then starve myself the last couple days. I'd just squeak by. I didn't think I was a big overeater. I think it was more the types of food I ate. I always had healthy stuff in the house for the kids, but they'd go to bed, and I'd go into the bedroom and eat chips, ice cream, white chocolate.
"I was rewarding myself for doing my job at work, my job with the kids."
Previously divorced, she met John Nolan at Fort Dix, N.J. on March 26, 2000 and weighed 171. Head over heels, she married him.
"I think I loved the snacks, that was part of it, but it also was depression, worrying about my family, money, etc.," she offered. "I gained weight because I was relying on food to make me feel good – instant gratification. Instead of smoking or drinking, I ate. That was socially acceptable, because you can't get arrested for being fat."
Due to a dislocated shoulder and five herniated disks in her neck, she received her discharge in 2003. She went through three surgeries in eight months in 2002-03, and quickly ballooned to 272 pounds.
"I couldn't walk; I could barely move," she indicated. "I was depressed, even though I had this terrific husband, a sergeant major in the R.I. National Guard. He and the six kids (including John's children, Jessica and Justin) took care of me. I got to the point where I needed a cane, couldn't go upstairs without assistance. I made a joke to my husband I wanted my mouth sewn shut.
"It was so bad, I couldn't go see the kids play sports. Other parents had to pick them up for practices and games, and they'd say – some I could hear – 'She's lazy. She won't even go to the (Tolman High) gym and see Michelle wrestle.'
"I was crying all day every day. I was jealous of my family because they had lives outside this house. I couldn't even drive. I told John he married a lemon, and felt sorry for him. He looked at me and said, 'There's got to be something we can do.'"
As Nolan suffered from high blood pressure, sleep apnea, bursitis in her knees and osteoarthritis in her hips, John came home one day in January 2008 and explained their insurance included lap band surgery. The couple researched it, and she went to a three-hour RWMC seminar to hear Dr. Dieter Pohl, who gave her advice.
Her three doctors later suggested she have gastric bypass surgery because it would remove the excess poundage quickly, allowing her to exercise.
"I didn't think I was big enough for a gastric bypass," she mentioned. "I thought that was only for the morbidly obese. Then my (body mass index) came back at 46.6, which is morbidly obese. My reaction? 'Oh, my God!' I was in so much pain, I couldn't take it anymore."
She returned to the same seminar in March, paid closer attention and had her first appointment with Dr. Pohl in April. On June 4, he performed the surgery.
"He's the trendsetter in the field of bariatrics in Rhode Island," she said. "He was the first one to do the pre-op, high-protein diet, and the first to do education seminars. He made Roger Williams the first hospital to become a center of excellence for bariatric surgery statewide in 2005."
Slowly but surely, she began losing three-four pounds a week. She joined an East Providence health club on her 44th birthday, July 25, began walking in the 25-meter pool and worked with trainers Colin Aina and Kerry Taylor, a former New England Patriot.
"I'd still be walking with a cane if not for them," she said. "They pushed me to work harder, and made me feel more confident. They would challenge me, saying, 'C'mon, Julie, put the cane down! If you fall, we'll catch you.' I never did fall."
Three months later, she stepped on a scale and discovered she was well on her way – with help from dieting, walking, biking and lifting weights – and grandchildren. She claimed her realistic goal was to drop to 160 pounds, her unrealistic hope 140, but reached the latter in April 2009.
Nolan promised herself that, when Jessica got married in Pawtucket on July 17, she would walk down the aisle cane-free.
She succeeded.
"I'm 46 now, and I feel like I'm 33, or younger," she grinned. "I don't feel invincible, but I feel like I can do anything I want to. One thing I always hoped to do was go para-sailing, and – last year – I flew to Tampa and did. It was better than I ever imagined.
"I have a mantra," she added. "I look in the mirror, whether I'm having a day from hell or everything's good, and say, 'I'm lovable, I'm capable and I'm worth it.' I used to say that, but didn't believe it. Now I do. I've kept the weight off – 152 pounds – for over a year.
"Sure, it's hard, the hunger comes back, but I have a tool. It's the pouch that's part of my stomach. The surgeon takes off the top part, connects it to the esophagus and that creates a pouch. That becomes your new stomach. The 'old' stomach is still used, not for housing the food but by creating gastric juices that help digest it.
"It prevents me from overeating, eating wrong things; otherwise, I'd get sick. They're called 'The Pouch Rules.'"
Simply put, those are to eat proteins first, then complex carbohydrates (vegetables), then a small potato or fruit, if one has room. Also, one shouldn't drink anything 30 minutes before, during or after a meal. Nolan says, if you do, you turn your food into "soup" and will become hungry again.
After her surgery, she trekked to support groups, but quickly noticed they were for pre-op or post-op patients, not those who experienced it months before. Concerned, she asked Pohl if she could start a self-help congregation. Naturally, he loved the idea.
The initial meeting was held two years ago Nov. 19, and about 15 showed. Attendance now is near 50.
"I knew this was something I and others needed," she noted. "I decided to call it 'Living Life' because it was all about living your life after bariatric surgery. Last year, I started up the gastric band group, and – because there was such a low percentage of men – I decided they needed a group to talk about their individual needs, sports, whatever.
"The new one, for all weight-loss surgery patients, starts Dec. 9 at Roger Williams. I don't have to do this, but I just love helping other people. I'm giving back what I received from my family during my down time. Dr. Pohl even sent me to San Antonio to become certified as a bariatric support group leader."
She also became an official RWMC volunteer.
"I can go anytime someone asks me," she said proudly. "There have been folks who told me they'd be alone before surgery, asked me to be there with them. Of course, I do. I'll stay for an entire day, or get up at 5 a.m. I even get phone calls at 3 (a.m.), but I don't mind. I tell them my family was there for me, and I want them to have the same support because they're lovable, capable and worth it."
She still suffers pain in her hips and neck, but doesn't let that interfere with her life.
"I'm now out of my own jail. I'm free. I can breathe again," she stated. "Yes, I always wanted to be a nurse, but I don't need a credential behind my name. Now I feel, 'You can do this. You're wonderful.' I used to rely on that stuff to feel good about myself, but it all comes down to self-esteem, personal accountability and integrity."
When you read this article you only get a small peek into who Julie really is. She is very modest in the telling of her story. What you don't read about are the countless people's lives she has impacted!
Julie is now healthy and happy and "Living Life" in a big way, but he is also helping numerous people on their journey from obesity to a life of health and happiness! I am one of those people Julie has been there for through thick and thin and she is my angel. I hoestly don't know what I would do without her! Everyone's journey from obesity is different and mine has had a bump or two and she has been there to literally hold my hand.
Julie gives her all when it comes to family, friends, and the weight loss community. What can you say about someone who gives her heart and soul to help others and expects nothing in return? All I can say is thank you Julie and I love you! L. Massey


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