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If you are a baby boomer, and you grew up a Yankee fan, then allow yourself to go back in time via Buzz Bissinger's new homage to Mickey Mantle.
Turning pages laced with powerful photos, you remember your first visit to Yankee Stadium when you were 9 years old. You can see your parents' delight in your cheers as the Yankee slugger wearing No. 7 strode to the plate. You remember another day he cracked his ninth career grand slam to beat the Los Angeles Angels. And you recall still another Stadium outing when you summoned all your 10-year-old courage to yell "Hiya, Mick!" from behind the first base dugout during batting practice.
Then you remember how your hero replied with a big grin.
But even adoring baby boomers know that the kid from Commerce, Okla., evolved into a complicated and flawed human being. To learn that one of the all-time greats was a womanizer and a drunk who failed his family became a disappointing part of growing up for adoring baby boomers.
Bissinger, an acclaimed sportswriter who previously authored "Friday Night Lights," has given us a deeply personal view of Mickey Mantle. Sure, Jane Leavey a couple of years ago produced an exceptional and revealing biography – "The Last Boy." And New York sports writer Peter Golenbock earlier wrote "7 – The Mickey Mantle Novel."
But take Bissinger's work exactly for what it is – a baby boomer's view of a time when baseball was the biggest thing in American sports and Mantle was its greatest name.
The author gives us plenty of statistics, but from the perspective of a youthful fan. (It all recalls Roger Angell's observation in his 1970s classic – "The Summer Game" – that "only baseball is so intensely remembered because only baseball is so intensely watched").
But if you really remember Mantle, you relate to descriptions like this:
"Power hitters in the big leagues were typically big, hefty, lumbering. Mantle was all compaction, as if every muscle worked in perfect and optimal unison."
Or this:
"You can still see the monstrous back-to-front swing, where nothing was ever left out. And you can still see those home runs like the instant formation of the biggest rainbow, flying into the sky to shove aside the Big Dipper."
Yeah, Mantle was that good.
Bissinger explores now familiar slices into Mantle's life, including the complicated relationship with his father – Mutt – and how it dictated the course of so much of his life on and off the field.
And he provides wonderful insights into those championship years, Mantle's friendships with Yankee greats like Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra and Roger Maris, as well as how manager Casey Stengel rode him mercilessly – all to make him a better player.
Bissinger spares nothing in relating the Mantle that "might have been." Part of growing up and learning everything about the real Mickey Mantle was that he drank and caroused with guys like Billy Martin most of his career. And while he still hit prodigious homers while sporting major league hangovers, the question persists: what if he had taken care of himself?
And of course, through no fault of his own, what if he had been healthy?
Like Golenbock's novel, Bissinger delves deeply into the complex Mantle. He was often surly with fans, he practically disregarded his wife and four sons while either playing ball or carousing. And a sense of fatalism inherited from Mutt ultimately molded his complicated persona.
Bissinger portrays Mantle's decline from greatness, his frustration in playing for bad Yankee teams at the end of his career, and the pitiful descent into alcoholism that marked the end of his life.
"From that instant of retirement, Mantle could not find purpose," Bissinger writes. "He could not find peace. Booze became his salve and balm and medication, slowly destroying his liver. It was almost as if you could see, minute by minute, the disintegration of a man who had once seemed immortal in the way that all great athletes seem immortal, until the very second they stop playing and become wanderers, nomads."
Still, the author sees enough good even in such a flawed figure to chronicle the redemption Mantle sought in his last years. He quit drinking, repaired the troubled relationship with his wife and sons, and made sure every kid in America – including adoring baby boomers – knew the real score.
"I'd like to say to the kids out there," Mantle said, "if you're looking for a role model, this is a role model. Don't be like me."
It was part of the final reparations, Bissinger writes, that still make Mantle a hero.
No review of this book is complete without praising Marvin E. Newman's stunning photographs. A longtime specialist in Yankee photography, his shots of the mostly young Mantle – especially in that classic, power swing – are overwhelming. His candids, meanwhile, make you think of the Hall of Famer as just a big kid.
Even if you're a Yankee hater, you can't help but love this book – and Mickey Mantle. As Bissinger concludes: "There will never be another like him. Never."
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- March 30, 1987
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Don Aronow's Murder Leaves Miami Wondering: Were 'Cigarettes' Hazardous to His Health?
It happened Feb. 3 at 4 p.m. as dozens of workers were finishing their shifts in the marinas off Northeast 188th Street, a scruffy, weed-choked strip lined with high-speed powerboat plants bearing such names as Magnum, Cigarette and Apache Marine. Aronow stepped into his white Mercedes roadster and pulled slowly out of his U.S.A. Racing Team parking lot, bound for his home across the intra-coastal waterway in Miami Beach.
Aronow was just a few weeks from his 60th birthday and had every reason to be pleased with his life. His fast-boat construction business was raking in $3 million a year. His second wife, Lillian Crawford, 36, a former Wilhelmina model, had recently given birth to the couple's second son. He was thinking about making a much-publicized come back in July in the annual Miami-Nassau offshore powerboat race, the first time he would have competed professionally in 18 years. And he had just begun reconstructing a 23-room waterfront mansion.
But now, 200 yards down 188th Street a dark blue late-model Lincoln approached from the opposite direction. The Lincoln stopped; so did Aronow. The driver rolled down his tinted window, exchanged words with the boatbuilder, then whipped out an automatic and fired five bullets. With a screech and a roar, the gunman spun around and disappeared down 188th Street toward U.S. 1. Aronow, a 6-foot, 3-inch, 220-pound man, lay slumped over his steering wheel, dying.
It was the kind of crime for which Dade County has become notorious, a brazen, daylight hit carried out before a dozen onlookers. "Aronow's murder fits the pattern of 90 percent of the Colombian, drug-related assassinations we see in southern Florida," says Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) spokesman Billy Yout. "They like dramatic killings, and they usually don't care who witnesses them."
Why Don Aronow? That was anyone's guess, but everyone knew that the high-speed boatbuilding business attracted plenty of cocaine-smuggling clients. Customers on 188th Street were said to pay for their Cigarettes or Magnums with suitcases stuffed with $150,000 in cash, and there were reputedly frequent requests for speedboats customized with secret compartments or hollowed-out hulls.
In the offshore cat-and-mouse game between cocaine smugglers and federal lawmen, Don Aronow was known as a merchant who dealt with both sides. He had just fulfilled a $2.5 million contract to deliver 13 high-speed catamarans to the U.S. Customs Service, even as he continued to sell to the druggies. "If you came in and announced flat out you were a drug dealer, Don wouldn't have anything to do with you," says Mike Kandrovicz of U.S.A. Racing Team. "But if you [said nothing] and had the money, he'd gladly sell you a boat."
The rewards of dealing with drug runners could be practically limitless. "I had druggies promise that I'd never have to work again if I brought a cokeladen boat in from Costa Rica," says Knocky House, a mechanic and former offshore racer who once teamed with Aronow. "The business is rife with easy money."
But Aronow didn't need it. As the world's foremost fast-boat designer, he had earned a fortune founding and then selling off a succession of companies—Formula, Donzi, Magnum, Cigarette, Squadron XII. His clients included wealthy and powerful men—among them Vice President George Bush, King Hussein of Jordan and King Juan Carlos of Spain. The DEA and the Metro Dade police insisted they had nothing on him, and associates swore he would never have risked his reputation by getting directly involved with drug traffickers. "If Don found out a man who worked for him was dealing in drugs, [that man] didn't have a job. I know that for a fact," says a friend. "It makes no sense. Why would somebody shoot Don?"
All over Miami, where Aronow's uninhibited, macho antics had become as emblematic of the city as Miami Vice and the cocaine cowboys who swagger through Little Havana, people were asking the same question. Aronow, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, had appeared fully in command of his destiny. He had served in the merchant marine as a teenager during World War II, and had gone on to be a three-letter man at Brooklyn College, a lifeguard at Coney Island and a multimillionaire New Jersey housebuilder. Then, at 32, he chucked everything to move to Florida to indulge his love for the sea—scuba diving, swimming, deep-sea fishing and, of course, boat racing.
In 1962, as a novice, Aronow entered the Miami-Nassau powerboat race and finished fourth. He won it two years later in a boat designed for him by the legendary marine engineer Jim Wynne. From that time on Aronow raced only in boats he helped design himself, elongated "deep vees" or catamarans that he built in his succession of firms on Northeast 188th Street. Most famous was the Cigarette, named after a Prohibition-era rum-running vessel.
"Don was big, smart, strong and completely fearless," says Knocky House. "He never backed off. One time in 1968 he went into a swell that tore him out of the cockpit. He had terrible intestinal injuries that almost killed him, but he was racing again two months later." Aronow stopped competing abruptly in 1970 when his eldest son, Michael, a star athlete at the University of Florida, was paralyzed from the waist down in a car accident. "Don just wanted out after that," says his friend John Crouse. "He never raced again—I think the accident took the heart out of him."
Otherwise, though, his exuberant life-style remained unaffected. He jetted around the world with monarchs and millionaires and in Miami cavorted with a coterie of boat-racing jocks. He was famous for his attention-getting antics, once barging into a formal banquet at a hotel in Jamaica on horseback. And he hated to lose. "About 10 years ago he heard that I was a fast runner," Crouse recalls. "So he came up to my office one day and said, 'I want to race you.' We were on pavement—I'm beating him by a yard—and he dove at me on the asphalt. He hit me, skidded, and came up covered in blood, with his shirt ripped to pieces. That's how much he wanted to win."
Meanwhile, in the mangrove swamps, lagoons and bright coastal waters of south Florida, where cocaine smugglers engage in a nightly test of wits with local and federal authorities, Aronow's boats were always the carriers of choice. He was proud of that. "We in the ocean-racing fraternity are flattered that the dope runners prefer our kind of boat," he told SPORTS ILLUSTRATED in 1979, "but when they get caught we don't like it. We have torn emotions. A kid who works for me was offered $100,000 to run out to sea one night and resupply fuel for a dope boat. He refused, but it must have been a terrible temptation. Heck, lately we've been getting letters from jailbirds, asking for complete specs and prices on our Cigarettes."
As the investigation of Aronow's murder continued, some speculated that he could have been killed as a suspected informer. "Don was a very astute guy. He loved to keep tabs on his colleagues—he knew everything that happened on 188th Street," says Crouse. "It's possible he had learned something incriminating and was killed for that." Some Miamians theorize that the great racer may have run afoul of the law of the jungle. "Don Aronow could have been shot for something as stupid as delivering a bad boat to a drug smuggler," says Art Nehrbass of the Metro Dade police. "We've got emotions in this community that you just don't find anywhere else in America."
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Murder mysteries always go down quite well with me, and this game had me whipping out my magnifying glass and forensic kit. One whipping-out later and I was scurrying off to Dundee Manor where the heinous crime had been committed. Naturally enough I had my official Angela Lansbury hints 'n' tips book tucked in my back pocket!
The victim was one Philip Stowe who was only at the manor to celebrate his engagement to Emily, the daughter of Major Dundee. There's no mucking about in this game as there's the deadly serious matter of murder to look into, so without so much as an "'ello, 'ello, 'ello, what have we here then?" you're straight on the case, sniffing around the place for clues and interviewing potential murderers.
Dundee Manor and its grounds are large, and the guests (suspects) are numerous. After interrogating, erm, questioning a few likely-looking people you'll start to get an idea of who was where when the dastardly deed took place, and who might have had a motive for bumping the old boy off. With a bit of careful searching, you'll also begin to collect evidence from the locations you visit. Whodunnits often stand or fall on how well the character interaction is handled, and also on how clever the author has been in hiding the true identity of the murderer from the player. In both cases Jack Lockerby has done well. He's made it easy to grill the suspects without having to resort to an excessive amount of detailed questioning. At the same time he's managed to keep the murderer's (or murderers') identity hidden until the appropriate moment. You won't know for sure until you've amassed all the pieces of damning evidence.
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Drinking Game: Beer Pong
Type: Pong Game
Players: 2-4
Needed: Beer, at least 14 solo cups if doing 6 cup, 22 solo cups for ten cup, 2 ping pong balls
Video does a good job of the basics but there are many rules they left out. Read below for the complete list of Beer Pong rules and how to play...
Rules below...
Ok, so the video showed you the basic of how to play Beer Pong.
Basically you need two teams and a long table (or door)
You can either play 6 cups or 10 cups per side, set them up in a triangle formation like shown in video
Now heres where we get into what they left out in the video...
First, You need to shoot to see which side goes first. To do this your going to have a face off. Have one team member from each team step up to the table, while staring directly into the opposing players eyes (meaning don't look at the cups) you shoot for the opposing teams cups. Switch team members until someone makes it. Whichever team makes it first gets to go first.
Next, whichever team won the faceoff shoots the two ping pong balls (one shot per person) If you make it in the opposing teams cup they have to drink the cup and remove it from play.
*If your team makes two cups on the same turn this invokes the "Send it Back" rule. Basically, you get both balls back and you get to shoot again.*
If you don't make it in two cups then it is the other teams turn. They get to shoot at your cups to see if they can knock any of your out of play.
This repeats until all of one teams cups have been taken out of play. The team with cups remaining is the winner.
*Standard Rules of Beer Pong*
-If you make two cups in one turn your team gets the balls back
-You are usually allowed one "re-rack" per game. When you use your re-rack you may position your remaining cups any way you want. Common reracks are in a straight line, a 3 cup triangle, a 4 cup diamond, a 4 cup parrelogram, a sideways 3 cup triangle. This is usually used to get rid of a crappy rack (like a straight row of back cups) so that you have a better shot to sink in a ball.
-If both teams make all cups the game goes into overtime. There are many different overtime variations but basically you set up a pre-determined amount of cups and start the process over again to determine the winner. Usually the team who made all cups first goes first.
Theres probably some others...
As an example, here are my "house rules" for pong. You certainly don't have to follow these but they are tried and true...
1. No blowing or fingering (girls blow, guys finger for reference)
2. Start by saying "One, Two, Three, Shoot" (shoot the ball on shoot)
3. One re-rack whenever you want during a game but not in the middle of your turn
4. Bounce equals two cups
5. Make three shots in a row and you shoot till you miss (*NBA Jam Style* Your partner must say your heating up, your on fire for you to be able to use it)
6. If both teammates make it, you get the balls back
7. Bounce on the last cup ends the game
8. If there is beer left in the cup that has already been made, and that cup is made again, the game is over...with exception to females who have an option of removing an article of revealing clothing to continue the game
9. No naked lap unless women are running (If your team does not make any cups during a game you usually do a naked lap, we didn't feel like seeing guy's junk so we implemented this rule)
10.For redemption, both teammates shoot until they miss
11. If both players make the last cup, game is over
12. Overtime is racked as a triangle, no re-racks
13. Celebrity guest shots are allowed only by girls
14. If a roommate is playing, they have final say in what happens concerning rulings
15. Permanent player substituions only
16. Women are encouraged to distract as best they can
17. No bathroom breaks during the game
18. Any other disputes must be resolved by a roommate
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Dance Moms Miami Blog
Season 1, Episode 5 Song List
Hannah almost forgot her choreography, Lucas and Kimmy wrote each other lover letters and the dance team went primal. We've got all of the song information (plus select streams for some of the tunes!) for "Dance Moms: Miami" Season 1, Episode 5 below!
» Hear Season 1, Episode 5 music
Star Dance Studio's Group Dance: "Battle For Supremacy"
Kimmy and Lucas' Duet: "If This is Real"
Hannah's Solo: "Be Happy"
Jessi's Solo: "Fallen"


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Diane Hixon thinks her easy, eye-opening entree is something to crow about. "I call it Quiche Lorraine without the fuss of pie crust," she writes from Niceville, Florida. "And it also makes a wonderfully light, late-night meal or brunch item."
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 1/2 cup egg substitute
- 2 tablespoons fat-free milk
- 1 tablespoon dried minced onion
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 2 bacon strips, cooked and crumbled
- 1/4 cup shredded reduced-fat Swiss cheese
- 1 teaspoon dried parsley flakes
- In a small bowl, beat the eggs, egg substitute, milk, onion, salt and pepper. Coat a 10-in. nonstick skillet with cooking spray and place over medium heat. Add egg mixture. As eggs set, lift edges, letting uncooked portion flow underneath.
- When eggs are set, sprinkle bacon, cheese and parsley over one side; fold omelet over filling. Cover and let stand for 1 minute or until cheese is melted. Yield: 2 servings.
Originally published as Omelet Lorraine in Light & Tasty April/May 2006, p7
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Leonard Pitts: John Siegenthaler's extraordinary vision
Here we go again. Same stuff, different day. D�jà vu all over again.
A monthly New York newspaper, the WestView News, uses an objectionable headline ("The N----r In The White House") on a piece in its July edition, which argues that much of the shrill hatred toward President Barack Obama is rooted in racism.
Not surprisingly, the headline gets more attention than the argument.
Then a week ago Sunday, Attorney General Eric Holder again blames "racial animus" for some of the more strident opposition to the president. "Not true," says Rush Limbaugh. "Not constructive," says Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio). Because apparently they believe that when a president's mere election or re-election stirs the opposition to demand impeachment, secession and revolution, or to scream, "I want my country back!" or to call that president a boy, an ape or a subhuman mongrel, or to refuse to accept an ordinary birth certificate as proof of citizenship, that has absolutely nothing to do with race.
Happened to Ronald Reagan all the time, right?
There is, by now, something depressingly rote about this dance of accusation and denial. I might not have even bothered writing about it, except that John Seigenthaler died of cancer July 11 and that seems to demand it. His 86 years stand as proof that we are capable of better and that, while some of us refuse to see what others of us find glaring, none of us is doomed to denial.
Blindness is a choice.
That Seigenthaler made a different choice is evident in the arc of his career -- Robert Kennedy's emissary to the South at the height of the Freedom Rides; knocked senseless by KKK thugs when he tried to rescue two black women during a Klan riot; reporter and editor for the Tennessean newspaper in his native Nashville, who championed racial equality at a time when it was dangerous for a white man to do so; journalistic icon who brought reporters of color into a monochromatic newsroom.
The thing to understand is that none of that moral heroism was predictable or preordained. After all, he grew up as a white child of white privilege in the segregated South. Yet, somehow, Seigenthaler was able to make himself see what people around him could not.
For decades after, he wondered why he didn't do so sooner.
As he movingly explained in the 2011 PBS documentary "Freedom Riders," "I grew up in the South, child of good and decent parents. We had (black) women who worked in our household, sometimes surrogate mothers.
"They were invisible women to me. I can't believe I couldn't see them. I don't know where my head or heart was. I don't know where my parents' heads and hearts were, or my teachers'. I never heard it once from the pulpit. We were blind to the reality of racism and afraid, I guess, of change."
How he overcame that defect, I have no idea. But that he did suggests others can, too. And that makes his legacy one of hope.
It's a certainty that makes John Seigenthaler's life seem all the more ... singular.
Yes, that life proves blindness is a choice.
But it proves vision is, too.
LEONARD PITTS is a Miami Herald columnist (email@example.com).


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I just want to know if you can help a myeloma patient in india
I had BMT in Feb 2010. Kappa Free now 23.23, which is double 12-16 in October 2011. What does it mean? what damage does it cause? What are treatment options? I see my UCSF doctor, Jeffrey Wolf, on 4-24-12 but would like to prepare.
Aprpeciate all you do.
Me gustaria que me informen si tienen o conocen algun grupo de apoyo en Buenos Aires, Argentina, ya que la Fundacion Argentin de Mieloma no tiene nada ni deja que los armemos y yo como paciente necesito intercambiar ideas con algun grupo de apoyo ya que hace 6 a�os que tengo mieloma, tambien estoy trasplantedo, pero ahora estoy en recaida y no encontramos el remedio que me haga bien.
Les dejo esta inquietud y espero una respusta ya que de la Fundacion Argentina no tengo respuesta y de la Latinoamericana tampoco me dan respuestas a las notas que les escribo.
Ricardo, contactaste a la IMF Latin America? Ellos están trabajando en el nuevo sitio web que estará listo en Diciembre y quieren organizar grupos de apoyo en Argentina. EnvÃe un correo electrónico a la presidente Christine Battistini email@example.com
I would like to give you all the information we have on the care for myeloma, treatment and support in Buenos Aires. It would be best done by personal email at email@example.com or by phone at 800-452-2873. Please give us your address so we can send you an information packet as well.
Thank you, Judy
Me gustar�a darle toda la informaci�n que tenemos sobre el cuidado para el tratamiento de mieloma, y apoyo en Buenos Aires.
Ser�a mejor hacerlo por correo electr�nico personal en email@example.com o por tel�fono al 800-452-2873.
Por favor d�nos su direcci�n para que podamos enviarle un paquete de informaci�n tambi�n.
Gracias, Judy
I'd like to know if someone can help me decipher my lab results. My doctor has not explained anything to me, all he tells me is that my labwork looks good. Especially since I've been having a lot of bone pain over the past 2 months, it's really frustrating when all the doctor is looking at is lab results.
Thanks so much.
Hi Jackie,
If you provide me with your email I can set you up with someone at the hotline. Email me at email@example.com or you can email the hotline your question directly at email@example.com.
IMF Web Editor
Christina Phillis
Thanks so much. I now have another question. I was told that during a MRI I had done two weeks ago, it came back positive for 2 lesions on my right arm. What does that mean? What are my options?
I am having a hard time understanding my husbands 24 hour urine test. The doctor says he is not in kidney failure, but his total protein is 624. He has free light chain, IGg type myeloma and has had it for 10 years now. Here is the component results of his 24 hour urine tests. Total Vol. 2150; collection time 24 hrs; Tprotein, Urine 29.0 mg/dl; TOT Protein, UR 624 mg; Albumin, Urine 36.56%; Alpha1, Urine 5.87%; Alpha 2, Urine 16.72%; Beta, Urine 17.37%; Comment: Beta M-spike=22.17% or 6.43 mg/dl or 138 mg/24hrs;
Gamma, Urine 23.16%; PROT ELP E UwINT-comment: Monoclonal spike in the beta-gamma region.
Eric's Lambda Free Lt Chain, S 63.9 mg/dl; Be Microgloubulin 3.23 mg/dl; M-spike= 1.98g/dl
I hope you can help me I am worried since his Free Lt Chains has been this high for over a year, what it is doing to his kidneys. He also has heart failure and COPD and Diabetes. His treatment as of right now is Velcade, Revlimid, and Dex, he has been on this regiment for over a year.
Can you provide me an email so we can get in touch with you? Mine is email@example.com. Or contact the hotline at firstname.lastname@example.com.
IMF Web Editor
Hello, Diana:
Please call in to the Hotline, and we can talk about what information the 24 hour urine test gives us. It is also relevant to look at your husband's serum Creatinine and BUN as well as the specific gravity of his urine in conjunction to the urine values.
Has the doctor given you his GFR (glomerular filtration rate) as well? Take care, and look forward to hearing from you.
Judy IMF Hotline 1 800-452-2873
I see details about the June 28th webcast but I do not see how to register for the webcast with Dr. Brian Durie. I would appreciate assistance. Thanks, Linda
Hi Linda,
Here are the details for the call. On the date and just before the time of the call, dial in using the number provided below. You will be prompted to put in the passcode which will then give you access to the teleconference.
DATE: Thursday, June 28, 2012
TIME: 4:00 PM (Pacific); 7:00 PM (Eastern)
SPEAKER: Brian G.M. Durie, MD
DURATION: 60 minutes (presentation and Q & A)
Toll Free Dial-In Information: 877-441-5676
Event Passcode: 75699472
(Note: The EVENT PASSCODE is required to access this free teleconference)
I'm currently on velcade, subq,weekly.About a month ago, I had a small fracture in my pelvis and it's quite painful. I'm wondering if the velcade will mend the break or will I need to seek other treatment. Please respond. Thanx! R Charlton
My mother has multiple myeloma and thankfully her treatment is going well, but I feel she is getting depress and feels lonely. She only speaks spanish. Do you have any spanish speaking support groups she can either attend or call. I feel she also needs phychological help with dealing with this decease.We live in Indiana.
I want to know that can you help multiple myeloma patient in Pakistan.
He is in advanced stage myeloma and he is only supporter of his family,
Please if your answer is yes than reply me fast, may we can save his children's smile. Please consider!
Please contact the IMF Hotline at 800-452-2873
M-Th: 9-4 PST
Fri: 9-2 PST
-Christina Phillis
Web Editor
My sister has been diagnosed last year with MM and she's still very young, 38. She's reacting well to the treatment. I'm pregnant, and at the hospital they propose me to give my umbilical cord blood after the birth. I wonder if that could help my sister in her treatment? Can you use umbilical cord blood to treat Multiple Myeloma?
my husband was diagnosed on Sep. 28th-29th 2010, in the ER. He was 40years old,and very ill when we went to the ER,they said a few more days he would have died!
He had 3months of treatment& was in remission,did 2more treatments.His DR sent him to a BMT hospital.
He had an auto transplant in April 2011& by Oct.2011 his cancer came back. Jan. 2012 he started new chemo for 2months,switched to another chemo for 4months,was in remission,he did velcade for 8treatments.
Now his cancer is back again.The treaments only work for a while& the MM comes back.
His DR is starting Kyprolis on Tuesday. He has a very aggressive form of MM,he wants to do a Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplant.His DR is a great guy but he is saying with out the allo stem cell transplant there isnt many options left for my husband.He isn't pushing us, its my husbands choice,he is leaning toward NO!
We are very leery of this because its just not done often. There really are not any stats on it.
Has anyone had an allo stem cell transplant? Can anyone give us stats on this?
Please call the IMF Hotline:
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Dear Sir/Madam,
Recently my father has been diagnosed as MM. The symptoms are like MM. We are in Mongolia and want to find out where we can do treatment for my father. His arm was broken then his shoulder and now he has got pain on the back. MRI reported as MM. But blood tests are being done now. They say MM is treated in Isreal and N. Korea well. Is it true can you please give some advice?
Anat M.
To contact the hotline directly, please call 800.452.CURE (2873) or email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
I did a stem cell transplant about 60 days ago and just got the results of a bone marrow biopsy from a week ago. The biopsy showed that I still have cancer cells in my marrow; 5-10%. Apparently the transplant didn't work. I'm trying to understand why and what this means. Please advise.
i as diagnosed w/ MM in nov. 2012. i'm currently on RVD treatments. my question is regarding information that turned up on FISH test...deletion of 17p, amplification of 1q, trisomy 9 and monosomy 13. I would like your assistance interpreting these results. I understand that monosomy 13 results in poor prognosis.
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Hallo, mein Name ist Dascha, ich bin 17 Jahre alt, Ich lebe in Russland in St. Petersburg. Mein Gro�vater ist krank f�r eine lange Zeit mit multiplem Myelom. Er ist oft im Krankenhaus, weil der Chemotherapie Kurse. ihn vor der Krankheit hatte ein schwaches Herz, und jetzt Probleme mit Blut. Er f�hlt sich schreckliche Schmerzen in den Beinen, fast nicht gehen. K�rzlich Nacht, als er sehr krank wurde, wurde er in die Intensivstation aufgenommen. Bitte sagen Sie mir, wie die Dinge, die Krankheit zu entwickeln? Wie komme ich nach meinem Gro�vater zu leben? Ich frage aber Sie Neuqu�n.
My husband and I are considering a move to Costa Rica and wanted to know if there are any doctors in that country who would be familiar with Multiple Myeloma. My husband has been diagnosed with this 6 years ago, had a tandum stem cell and so far he is in remission. We just need a doctor in the country who would know about this. R
can you help me in finding a helping hand for myeloma treatment in india
Are you an indian diagnosed with MM? My father too was diagnosed with MM last month.Can you pls mail me at email@example.com. i reallywould like to now about your treatment and if you went stem cell transplant. thnx


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Posts Tagged 'John Mason'
Closing a gallery
This week, the Frank Lloyd Gallery announced the closing of the public exhibition program at Bergamot Station. As of February 14, the gallery will close its doors, and move to a private space in Pasadena. The current show, of Peter Voulkos and Craig Kauffman, will be the last. After a long and successful program of over 190 exhibitions, the founder and director, Frank Lloyd, sat down to talk with Kelly Boyd and answer a few questions:
Q.: Why would you want to leave the gallery business?
A.: Well, after nineteen years of exhibitions, publications, and sales, I am finally moving on. I consider it more of a transition. I have to leave behind this accomplishment, and forge ahead with another job, as the full-time representative of an artist's estate. I also have very personal reasons for the move, since I need to be close to my 91-year-old mother.
Q.: But what about your artists? What will happen to them?
A.: When I started the gallery, I had a specific mission of presenting ceramic artwork in a fine art context. The gallery functioned on three levels: as a commercial venue for individual artists, as an educational resource for the community of Southern California. I wanted to preserve a legacy of ceramics in Los Angeles. Finally, the gallery served as a forum for dialogue among artists, collectors and critics. I think it succeeded on all those goals.
Later, as the gallery expanded, I showed artists from other countries, including England, Mexico, France, Holland and especially Japan. Then, I further expanded the program to include contemporary painters and sculptors, because I thought they all came out of the same time period in L.A., the innovative post-war period. In many ways, ceramics, along with assemblage, led the way back then. Voulkos, Mason and Price were examples of fearless leadership and grew out of a common bond.
Q.: But the artists, what will happen to them? You didn't answer my question.
A.: Oh, you're right! I'm pleased to say that, for several reasons, ceramics has regained its rightful spot in the mainstream. Just today I had the pleasure of reading a review in the Boston Globe about an exhibition of 200 years of American ceramics at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Featured were Cheryl Ann Thomas and Adrian Saxe. Also, an artist that I represented for 16 years, John Mason, has now regained his position in the art world, with shows like the Getty's Pacific Standard Time, the recent Whitney Biennial, and his representation by David Kordansky.
I'm proud of showing Larry Bell since 2006, and now he's with an international powerhouse gallery, White Cube. Even a less well-known ceramic artist from Japan, Satoru Hoshino, is having a show with Dominique Levy. Others that I've shown, like Betty Woodman and Ken Price, both had retrospective exhibits at the Metropolitan. Back in 2003, Dave Hickey for Artforum named Ron Nagle's show at my gallery one of the top shows in the world. Now, he's been in the Venice Bienniale and had a survey at the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art. Adrian Saxe continues to win awards and recognition from critics and organizations.
Q.: Is that because of what you did? Do you take credit for that?
A.: No, I think the artists should get all the credit, I've always thought that. But the art world is increasingly aware of these artists, now, and there is a feeling of some vindication. I get some satisfaction out of seeing these artists, who I showed and believed in, get the change in visibility. I think it's due to several factors, actually. I just felt it was going to happen, twenty years ago when I started the gallery. The exhibition program was all about the place of these artists and that history.
Q.: What exactly are the factors you're referring to?
A.: First is the obvious trend: Young artists have been using the ceramic medium, and they have no real material hierarchy. That's a major factor. Younger artists will use anything; they are, quite fortunately, not bound to the old prejudices against clay. Critics have been champions of this use by young artists as well as the use by recognized artists. And curators have recognized the value of the work—look at the tremendous reception for the retrospective of Ken Price, for instance. The curators at major museums are making a big difference in the public's perception.
Q.: What other examples?
A.: Well, the gallery showed the ceramic work of a major woman sculptor, Lynda Benglis. We had two quite visible and successful shows of Betty Woodman's work, well in advance of the retrospective at the Met. We've shown a significant number of women, including the early group like Vivika Heino, Laura Andreson and Beatrice Wood, then more contemporary artists like Cindy Kolodziejski, Jennifer Lee, Marilyn Levine, Betty Woodman, and Elizabeth Fritsch, as well as sculptors like Lynda. Cheryl Ann Thomas is another example. We didn't just show the men!
Q.: What part of the gallery are you most proud of?
A.: Oh, that's easy: the publications. I've taken that job seriously, working with writers and a legendary graphic designer. In many ways, I was lucky to work with a superb graphic designer, the late Joe Molloy, and he mentored me through the process of publishing. I still have a huge stash of our publications, in which we published the writing of Kristine McKenna, Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, and the art historian Francis Colpitt.
I'd also have to say that every day in my gallery was enhanced by the architecture, designed by Fred Fisher. It's a sad thing to leave this space, so perfectly designed.
Q.: So, that's a regret. What was your biggest disappointment?
A.: Lack of attendance. We work our butts off, and then the attendance is poor.
Q.: Were there shows that drew in the audience?
A.: Yes, and it's a great memory. The big crowd pleasers were clearly deserving: Adrian Saxe's shows—any of them! And then, we had people return again with their family, just to see the stunning and heartfelt works of French sculptor Georges Jeanclos. The first show of Peter Voulkos in 1999, that had people lined up just to get in. All were extremely gratifying to present. But lately, the attention has shifted and we are working on other projects.
Q.: Will you be busy? Is there enough work in your new job to keep you busy? Or are you retiring?
A.: This is a common question. The truth is, with an artist of this significance, Craig Kauffman, there is more than enough research, conservation, and publication to keep a full staff busy for a decade. The representatives of artist's estates, and many foundations, are dedicated to the job of preserving and protecting the legacy and work of an artist. We'll have plenty to do.
Q.: Won't you miss the gallery business?
A.: I'll miss the people. I have a number of passionate colleagues. That's something I learned: many art dealers are passionate and committed individuals. We are fortunate to have them. I must say that there should be more recognition for the patrons and the dealers. I started by coming from the artists' side—and now I've learned more about the collectors and the dealers. Art world news is often about hot young artists, the big money that is spent, and the connections to celebrity, all of it coming in a steady stream on new portal sites, traditional news media, and social media. But the thing that sustains it all is the hard work and passion of the artists, dealers, and patrons. I'd hate to see an art world without art galleries.
Q.: How would you sum up the last 19 years?
A.: In five words or less? A lot of hard work. But seriously, when I started, I wanted to make a statement: a gallery with a sense of history, that presents itself as a strong and relevant component of the contemporary art world. Although it was originally media-specific and became known as a specialty gallery, everything we exhibited had a relationship to painting and sculpture. We presented ceramics as a vital part of the regional and national scene and we also proposed links between historical precedents and contemporary ceramics. That was the reason for the expanded program, and it succeeded in many ways. I think the last show is a good way to finish the statement, and I'll continue to try to set the record straight.
Portraits of the Artists
I know I've posted artists' portraits before, but I can't resist sharing these great photos of the artists in Los Gigantes: Larry Bell, Craig Kauffman, John Mason, Ed Moses, and Peter Voulkos. These giants of the West Coast art scene were all photographed by Jim McHugh, who was kind enough to send us these images. McHugh is a noted chronicler of contemporary West Coast artists and has published several books including California Painters: New Work, 1989 and The Art of Light and Space, 1993. More recently, his work was exhibited by Timothy Yarger Fine Art, and was included in the Getty Museum's Pacific Standard Time initiative. For over thirty years, McHugh has created compelling portraits of artists, capturing their individuality and offering unique views into their world. His respect and enthusiasm for his subjects and their work comes through in every image.
Los Gigantes Opening Reception
We had our opening reception for Los Gigantes at the gallery last Saturday, January 18th, and it was a great time. As you might expect, a show featuring the work of Larry Bell, Craig Kauffman, John Mason, Ed Moses and Peter Voulkos draws a big crowd. These artists are giants within the history of West Coast art, and their work attracts writers, other artists, museum and gallery professionals, and lots of fans!
We were lucky enough to have Larry Bell, John Mason, and Ed Moses in attendance. In the week leading up to the reception, we fielded phone calls from excited visitors who wanted to know if they would have the chance to meet the artists, and I'm glad we didn't disappoint them. The reception had the feel of a reunion, as Bell, Mason and Moses have known each other for many years, and they have a large circle of mutual friends. It was great to see so many members of the Los Angeles art world turn out to support these artists, who each have such strong histories in the city.
With a group like this, it was no surprise that visitors wanted to linger, spending time with both the artworks and the artists. It was a great opportunity to hear from the artists directly, in a relaxed atmosphere. In the end, we knew it was time to head home after a long night when Pinky, Larry Bell's dog and constant companion, curled up and took a nap in the gallery.
John Mason in Museums
It's always gratifying to learn that an artist is receiving deserved recognition. Especially when the work has been a key part of the history of American ceramic sculpture. This year, John Mason will be appearing in the Whitney Biennial, curated by Stuart Comer, Anthony Elms, and Michelle Grabner, on view March 7 – May 25, 2014. Of course, this isn't Mason's first time at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where Mason has a fifty year record of shows. His work has been included in exhibitions such as Fifty California Artists, 1962; the 1964 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Sculpture; the 1973 Biennial Exhibition: Contemporary American Art; 200 Years of American Sculpture, 1976; and Ceramic Sculpture, Six Artists, 1981.
The Frank Lloyd Gallery has a long history with Mason – we had the honor of representing him for sixteen years, and exhibited his work in nine solo shows. Mason was a key part of the gallery's primary mission to re-contextualize the achievements of the major figures of West Coast Art. In addition to that recorded history, we also worked to place Mason's work in major museum collections and private art foundations. Looking back, we facilitated the placement of fifteen artworks in seven institutions, including the Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation for Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Kaneko Foundation, the Anderson Collection, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Buck Collection, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Some of these works, such as the Untitled Wall Relief, 1960, donated by W.D. Fletcher to LACMA in 2007, are on display now!
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Taking a look around at Los Gigantes today got me thinking about the artists and their histories with the gallery. Larry Bell, Craig Kauffman, John Mason, Ed Moses, and Peter Voulkos have all exhibited here numerous times and most of them even have a gallery publication to their name! I'm always happy to produce catalogues for artists, and to support their work with scholarship that provides important context for visitors.
Right now, we have four gallery-produced publications available, as well as one collaborative effort. These include exhibition catalogues for John Mason from 2000, Craig Kauffman from 2008, and Peter Voulkos from 2012. Of course, we also have Sensual Mechanical: The Art of Craig Kauffman, the definitive monograph on Kauffman's life and work. To round things out, I also contributed an essay to the catalogue for the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery's 2012 exhibition Clay's Tectonic Shift, which I co-curated with Mary MacNaughton and Kirk Delman.
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Over the years, my gallery has taken on all sorts of guises, from exhibition space to lecture hall. But perhaps its most elegant makeover is when it becomes a private dining room. We've put together the menu, gone over the guest lists, and had the catering company plan the meal for dinners from 20 to 100 people. It's a great way to get friends of the artists and the gallery's supporters to gather in the space with the art.
The largest of these dinners was held in 2000, on the occasion of the Peter Voulkos show of bronzes, a massive and monumental group of work. I took the suggestion of my neighbor, Patricia Faure, and set the dinner up in her space—just to the east of the gallery. We had 100 guests—far more than originally planned, but a truly significant group of people who had known Peter during the previous five decades. As usual, the late Henry Hopkins (who had known Voulkos since the 1950s in Los Angeles as well as the 70s and 80s in San Francisco) served as the toastmaster. Guests ranging from Frank and Berta Gehry to Sid Felsen and Joni Weyl gathered to honor the legendary Voulkos.
Another dinner was just under 50 people, honoring artist Larry Bell in February, 2008. Larry was kind enough to talk about his show of new works on paper, and our guests were treated to a fabulous sit-down dinner. We had the honor of hosting the Director of MOCA, Jeremy Strick and his wife, as well as many of Larry's oldest friends, including Stanley and Elyse Grinstein and John Mason. Among the others were collectors and curators, all seated in a refined and elegant setting amidst the luminous new collages.
More recently, we co-hosted a dinner honoring Ed Moses, during his 2010 exhibition. Ed invited some of his long-time friends, and we invited some of his long-term supporters. This time, the connections made at the dinner resulted in the placement of a Moses painting at a museum! For this event we moved the feast next door, but still the style remained—a kind of transformation of the gallery space into a small and intimate private restaurant. It's that kind of personal experience, and sense of community, that makes the art world rewarding.
Conversations with Adrian Saxe and Richard Shaw
If you've been following this blog, you know that arts education is central to the mission of the gallery. In the past, we've hosted artist talks and interviews, exhibition walk-throughs, and even a class on collecting. Last Saturday, the gallery hosted one of our most popular events yet – a conversation between ceramic artists Adrian Saxe and Richard Shaw.
Visitors packed into the gallery on the morning of the 9th, happy to get a chance to hear from these two master ceramists and professors of art. I knew this event was going to be big – we received around 50 RSVPs – but I had no idea that nearly 70 people would ultimately arrive. Curators, collectors, and artists including John Mason and Henry Takemoto were all in attendance.
With some of their recent works arranged on plinths around them, Saxe and Shaw spoke to the audience about their methods and influences. Although their work is quite different in style and content, the two artists share a sense of humor and an interest in contemporary culture, which comes through in their art. Richard Shaw's trompe l'oeil still lifes in porcelain whimsically combine everyday objects, appropriating mass culture as well as drawing on personal experiences and memories. Adrian Saxe works primarily in the vessel tradition, where he sees an opportunity to deal with challenging and complex social and cultural content in a format that is appealing and accessible.
As their conversation wound down, the artists graciously fielded questions from the audience. If you weren't able to make it out to Santa Monica to hear from them in person, don't worry! We filmed the event and will soon make a video available online. I'll be posting it here when it's ready, so stay tuned.


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