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Andrew D. Wells
- Research Assistant Professor of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (2001 – 2002)
- Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (2002 – 2010)
- Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (2010– present)
My laboratory studies the cell-intrinsic, molecular mechanisms that T lymphocytes use to decode extracellular signals and translate these into the appropriate immune vs. tolerant responses. Our research has focused primarily on 1) the regulation of T cell activation by factors coupled to the receptors for antigen, B7 and IL-2, which provide the co-signals necessary for T cell activation and anergy avoidance, and 2) the molecular basis for failed cytokine gene transcription in regulatory T cells and T cells rendered anergic by activation in the absence of the appropriate costimulatory signals. We have defined a series of intracellular proteins expressed in quiescent T cells that sense signals from costimulatory and growth factor receptors.
One of these proteins is p27kip1, a potent inhibitor of cyclin-dependent kinases (CDK) that is highly expressed in resting cells. This cell cycle regulator is targeted for degradation in CD4+ T cells receiving signals through CD28 and IL-2R, and is elevated when T cells receive anergizing signals through the TCR alone. We showed in a series of studies that p27kip1 is required for the induction of anergy in vitro and the establishment of acquired immunological tolerance in vivo, as T cells genetically deficient for the cdkn1b gene that encodes p27kip1 are resistant to anergy induction in vitro, and costimulatory blockade in vivo fails to induce tolerance to fully-mismatched cardiac allografts in mice that lack p27kip1. Using CDK2-deficient mice and shRNA approaches, our most recent work has established that p27kip1 promotes anergy in large part through opposing the activity of CDK2, a kinase that licenses CD4+ T cells that receive costimulatory signals to avoid anergy. CDK2-deficient T cells exhibit a phenotype resembling anergy even after receiving full costimulation through the TCR and CD28, and mice lacking CDK2 are more susceptible to transplantation tolerance. We are currently screening for downstream targets of CDK2 in CD4+ T cells to determine how CDK2 couples TCR/CD28 signals to the il2 gene.
We have identified another protein (and potential CDK2 substrate) that senses costimulatory signals in resting T cells as Ikaros, a zinc finger transcriptional repressor previously known to be involved in lymphocyte development. In a series of four papers in the past four years, we have shown that anergy in both CD4+ and CD8+ T cells is an epigenetically imprinted state that is reinforced by active histone deacetylation and DNA methylation at cytokine genes. More recently, we have shown that Ikaros is in large part responsible for targeting these processes to the il2 and ifn? genes and for silencing of the cytokines in tolerant T cells. Ikaros is bound directly to the il2 promoter in mature, naïve CD4+ T cells, where it recruits co-repressor complexes containing histone deacetylases (HDAC) and DNA methyltransferases (DNMT). Ikaros is required to maintain the il2 promoter in an epigenetically quiescent state, is required for repression of il2 transcription in the absence of CD28, and is required for the induction of anergy in conventional CD4+ T cells. Interestingly, in work submitted for publication, we also show that Ikaros directly silences the gene encoding T-bet in developing Th2 cells, and loss of Ikaros function results in failed silencing of the il2 and ifn? genes in this T helper lineage. Together, these studies suggest a general role for Ikaros in cytokine gene silencing under a variety of circumstances where the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines is not appropriate. We are currently investigating the network of genes regulated by Ikaros in mature T cells, and how Ikaros activity is controlled by extracellular signals.
My laboratory has also been very interested in Foxp3, a lineage-specific protein required for the development, suppressive function, and anergic phenotype of regulatory T cells (Treg). When we began studying this factor in 4-5 years ago, it was not clear how Foxp3 established the Treg transcriptional program. For instance, evidence at the time suggested that Foxp3 could only repress gene expression, and it was not clear whether the ?winged-helix? domain of Foxp3 could bind directly to DNA. This left unanswered the major question of how Foxp3 activates Treg-specific genes, which constitutes a larger subset than the repressed genes. We began to address this question using a chromatin immunoprecipitation approach to study binding of ectopically expressed, tagged Foxp3 (antibodies against Foxp3 were not available at the time) to the endogenous regulatory regions of genes whose expression was known to be Foxp3-responsive. We showed that Foxp3 binds directly to the cytokines genes that are repressed in Treg (e.g., il2 and ifn?). Interestingly, our studies demonstrated that Foxp3 is not bound constitutively to these cytokine genes, but requires active signaling from the antigen receptor and can be inhibited by cyclosporine A. This indicates that Foxp3 is not constitutively active, but responds to extracellular signals to repress transcription. These results were confirmed by the Rao group, who showed that Foxp3 binds cooperatively to the il2 gene with the cyclosporine-sensitive transcription factor NFAT1. We also showed that Foxp3 binding to these cytokine genes is accompanied by strong histone de-acetylation that could be blocked by HDAC inhibition, indicating that Foxp3 actively silences cytokine genes by recruiting co-repressor complexes. Importantly, we also confirmed that Foxp3 binds directly to the promoters of several Foxp3-induced genes, such as cd25, ctla4 and gitr, and instead of inducing histone de-acetylation in these regions, Foxp3 binding leads to histone hyper-acetylation. These studies made it clear that both Foxp3-repressed and Foxp3-induced genes are direct Foxp3 targets (a finding confirmed by subsequent genome-scale studies by the Rudensky and Von Boehmer & Young groups), and that Foxp3 can function as both a transcriptional co-repressor, and as a transcriptional co-activator. In recent studies that we are submitting for publication, we found that Foxp3 and Ikaros physically interact and cooperate to repress cytokine genes in regulatory T cells. These data show that Ikaros is required for anergy in both conventional and regulatory T cells, and suggest that Ikaros partnering may form a biochemical switch that determines whether Foxp3 represses vs. induces a given target gene.
The decision between anergy and productive T cell activation is made by a series of intracellular proteins that actively oppose induction of the il2 gene, but are inactivated by signals from CD28 and/or the IL-2 receptor. Ikaros and p27kip1 fulfill this role, as these factors are present in naïve T cells (i.e., their expression is not anergy-specific), and are required for the induction of anergy. In the absence of Ikaros, quiescent T cells are able to produce IL-2 and differentiate in response to signals from the TCR alone. T cells lacking p27kip1 still require CD28 costimulation for IL-2 production during the primary stimulus, but during restimulation behave as though they received an anergy avoidance signal. Ikaros is also functions downstream of p27kip1 and CDK2 to decode signals from the IL-2R, as T cells with reduced Ikaros activity cannot be anergized by IL-2/IL-2R blockade. Therefore, I refer to these factors as anergy avoidance sensors, and together with costimulatory and mitogenic signals, they form a ?lock and key? mechanism that ensures that only T cells meeting their antigen under the appropriate inflammatory conditions gain immune effector function. Foxp3 in regulatory T cells is a specialized anergy factor that also acts as a sensor of mitogenic signals. However, instead of being inactivated by anergy avoidance signals (like p27kip1 and Ikaros), Foxp3 responds to antigenic signaling by binding to and actively silencing pro-inflammatory cytokine genes in conjunction with NFAT1 and Ikaros. The action of these (and other) factors is why antigenic stimulation in the absence of costimulation is not a neutral event leading to ignorance, but rather results in the loss of function characteristic of anergy. Our current work and immediate future directions include identifying TCR/CD28/IL-2R-coupled kinases or enzymes that regulate Ikaros transcriptional function, the significance of Foxp3-Ikaros partnering on Treg function, the nature of the co-repressor and co-activator complexes recruited by Foxp3 or Foxp3-Ikaros complexes to Treg-specific genes, what functions of Foxp3 are affected by IPEX mutations, whether these factors function downstream of CDK2 in T cells, and how these events impact immunity vs. tolerance in autoimmune and transplantation models.
Additional Research Information
- Ph.D., Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1996)
- B.A., Microbiology, Miami University (1991)
- Andrew D. Wells. New insights into the molecular basis of T cell anergy: anergy factors, avoidance sensors, and epigenetic imprinting. The Journal of Immunology. Vol 182. 2009 June:7331.
- Troy R. Torgerson*, Anna Genin, Chunxia Chen, Mingce Zhang, Bin Zhou, Stephanie Añover-Sombke, M. Barton Frank, Igor Dozmorov, Elizabeth Ocheltree, Petri Kulmala, Michael Centola, Hans D. Ochs, Andrew D. Wells*, Randy Q. Cron*. FOXP3 Inhibits Activation-Induced NFAT2 Expression in T Cells Thereby Limiting Effector Cytokine Expression. The Journal of Immunology. Vol 183. 2009 June:907.
- Thomas, Rajan M., Chen, Chunxia., Chunder, Neelanjana, Umetsu, Sarah E., Winandy, Susan, and Wells, Andrew D.. Ikaros enforces the costimulatory requirement for IL2 gene expression and is required for anergy induction in CD4+ T lymphocytes. The Journal of Immunology. Vol 179. 2007:7305.
- Thomas, Rajan M., Saouaf, Sandra J. and Wells, Andrew D.. Superantigen-induced CD4+ T cell tolerance is associated with DNA methylation and histone hypo-acetylation at cytokine gene loci. Genes & Immunity. Vol 6. 2007:813.
- Tao, Ran, de Zoeten, Edwin F., Ozkaynak, Engin, Chen, Chunxia, Wang, Liqing, Porrett, Paige M., Li, Bin, Turka, Laurence, Olson, Eric N., Greene, Mark I., Wells, Andrew D. and Hancock, Wayne W.. Deacetylase inhibition promotes the generation and function of regulatory T cells. Nature Medicine. Vol 13. 2007:1299.
- Chen, Chunxia, Rowell, Emily, A., Thomas, Rajan, Hancock, Wayne, W. and Wells, Andrew D.. Transcriptional regulation by Foxp3 is associated with direct promoter occupancy and modulation of histone acetylation. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. Vol 281. 2006:36828.
- Northrop, John K., Thomas, Rajan M., Wells, Andrew D*. and Shen, Hao*. Epigenetic remodeling of the IL-2 and IFN-gamma loci in memory CD8 T cells is influenced by CD4 T cells. The Journal of Immunology. Vol 177. 2006:1062.
- Rowell, Emily, A., Wang, Liqing, Hancock, Wayne, W. and Wells, Andrew D.. The cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p27kip1 is required for transplantation tolerance induced by costimulatory blockade. The Journal of Immunology. Vol 177. 2006:5169.
- Thomas, Rajan M., Gao, Ling and Wells, Andrew D.. Signals from CD28 induce stable epigenetic modification of the IL-2 promoter. The Journal of Immunology. Vol 174. 2005:4639.
- Rowell, Emily A., Walsh, Matthew C. and Wells, Andrew D.. Opposing roles for the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p27kip1 in the control of CD4+ T cell proliferation and effector function. The Journal of Immunology. Vol 174. 2005:3359.


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The startling facts about women and hysterectomies: l)
Approximately fifty percent of the women in the United States will undergo a
hysterectomy by age 70. 2) The average age for a hysterectomy in this country
is 35.6 years. 3) Hysterectomy is second only to caesarean section as the most
commonly performed major surgery in the United States - nearly one million each
year. 4) About 650,000 hysterectomies are performed each year. 5) The medical
term for removing the ovaries is "female castration". Approximately half a
million women experience this surgery each year in the United States. 6)
Ninety-eight percent of the women referred by HERS (Hysterectomy Educational
Resources and Services Foundation) to gynecologists for second opinions were
told they did not in fact need a hysterectomy. 7) The hospital cost alone for
hysterectomies alone in this country is approximately three billion dollars
When are hysterectomies recommended? Women who are diagnosed
with endometrial (uterine) cancer, ovarian cancer, or advanced stages of
cervical cancer generally need a hys-terectomy as a life-saving measure. Other
benign tumors, such as uterine fibroids or ovarian tumors, are occasionally so
large that the tumor alone cannot be removed.
In my experience, I have seen uterine fibroids to be the most common
reason for hysterectomies. Women often tell me, long after their surgeries,
that their mothers and grandmothers also had their uteruses removed for the
same reason. Some of these women have experienced fibroid-caused symptoms such
as excessive bleeding, urinary problems, pelvic pain, or painful intercourse.
Yet many women whose fibroids are diagnosed on a routine pelvic exam and who
are asymptomatic still end up with hysterectomies. There are natural alterna-
tives to surgery for uterine fibroids (see "Healing Uterine Fibroids" by my
husband and myself, The New Times , August, l990). And, in most cases,
even when surgery is necessary to take out the fibroid, it is usually possible
to leave the uterus and ovaries.
Hysterectomies are also recommended to some women who have excessive
bleeding during their perimenopausal period. Again, there are natural therapies
which usually control the bleeding (see my article "Womenopause", The New
Times, October, l990). These women are often told that they're not
going to need their uteruses anymore anyway, so "Why not take them out?". They
may also be urged to have their ovaries removed for the same reason. There are
other women who have endured excruciating menses since menarche and feel
relieved by the idea of ending their suffering early. A smaller number of women
receive hysterectomies for more unusual conditions such as recurrent ectopic
pregnancies or severe endometriosis.

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Hi All,
I allow my mind to wander sometimes (particularly on the bus) and somehow wound up thinking about incest. I get that it's wrong, The thought of being sexual with my brother is definitely not appealing, but I don't get why.
What are some objections to incest?
The two I can think of is genetic diversity is compromised in cases of reproduction from incest, and psychologically it may not be healthy.
The genetics argument is essentially invalid due to the availability of contraception, abortions, and the fact that there are over 7 billion people on the planet.
The psychology argument would be valid if shown to be true, although even then it should be treated as a psychological problem, not a criminal one.
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"On the other hand, siblings are very closely related. So they are much more likely to be carriers of the same diseases. And their kids are more likely to get two broken copies of those genes and end up with the disease. But how much more likely?
It turns out that two siblings are 50% related. This means that for any given gene there is a 1 in 4 chance that they have the same copy as each other.
Carriers of recessive genes can
pass them on to their children.
Say their dad (but not their mom) is a carrier for a harmful disease such as cystic fibrosis (CF). So dad has one broken copy of CFTR, the CF gene. This means that the brother and sister have a 25% chance of both also being carriers.
If the brother and sister are both carriers and have a child together, then each oftheir children would have a 1 in 4 chance of ending up with CF by getting a disease copy of CFTR from each parent. So the odds of this brother and sister having a child with the disease is (1/4)(1/4) or 1 in 16.
Now imagine that dad is a carrier but that his kids go on to have children with unrelated people. What are the odds that these grandkids will have CF? Around 1 in 240.
We can calculate this number because we know how likely it is for any random person in the U.S. to be a carrier of CF--around 1 in 30. We also know that because dad is a carrier, each of his children has a 1 in 2 chance of getting the disease version of the CFTR gene. So the odds that both parents would be carriers is (1/2)(1/30) or 1 in 60.
The chances that both of these parents would then pass on the disease version of CFTR is the same 1 in 4 that we talked about in our previous example. So the chances are (1/4)(1/60) or 1 in 240.
So the difference between our two examples is 1 in 16 vs. 1 in 240. The siblings are 15 times more likely to have a child with CF than if they had had kids with an unrelated person. The risk becomes more pronounced with more rare diseases."
It's OK to have a relationship but maybe irresponsible genetically to produce offspring.
I agree, thanks for the detailed genetics report.
This gets deep, fast, but we'll probably have to face it when the technology gets cheap enough to show what the actual risks are in parent's genes. I'll bet it'll be reasonable someday to *encourage* abortion in some cases. (Of course that will also apply to non-incest pregnancy.)
But note that the theme that seems to run through the bible, is maintained here as well: the woman is the instigator, the man, blameless!
Of course we're also left with a multitude of unanswered questions:
Logic doesn't take a bag seat, it doesn't even get into the car! People don't read the bible, and if they do they don't ask questions. It irritates the living daylights out of me.
Back* not bag.
It's very unhealthy psychologically. Humans need to have a range of different types of relationships...platonic, famillial, and romantic...each type helps meet the needs of a person.
On a societal level, isn't it better for people to leave the home and encounter different ways of thinking, living, etc. leading to innovation and cultural development? Incest would seem to promote insular communities.
I agree that it should be treated as a psychological problem, but legal intervention may be necessary if consent cannot be proven and the relationship is harmful.
Dos anyone know any facts regarding incest and mormons?
The old schoolers had to have committed incest even if unknowingly.
Going back to the OT, you've got Abraham married to his half-sister, Sarah; their son, Isaac, married to his first cousin, Rebekah; their son, Jacob, married two of his first cousins, Rachel and Leah; and of course there's Lot and his two daughters, rolling around in that cave - think of it as a prequel to "All in the Family."
Before you get anywhere near Abraham, don't we have the incongruity of Adam and Eve and the absence of wives for their sons? I mean Eve must have been a very busy lady with all that begatting to manage...
It's very unhealthy psychologically.
Intuitively, I agree. Has there been any studies done though?


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AMES, Iowa — Dressed in a thick coat and winter hat, DeAndre Kane escapes 2-degree weather on this afternoon and walks into Hilton Coliseum's warm hallways, making his way through Iowa State's arena until he finds one of his most coveted items hanging in the empty locker room: his number 50 jersey.
"There it is right there," he says.
Much of the attention this college basketball season centers on a handful of glamorous freshmen whose arrival was anticipated for years. But what can be found in this college town is a man who has been playing as well as any of them, a 24-year-old who has become one of the most unlikely faces of this season.
RELATED: Kane injures ankle
In an era when AAU basketball trumps the high school season in significance and prestige, Kane says he played only one true season of summer-league basketball in Pittsburgh. In two of three eligible seasons at Marshall, Kane led the nation in technical fouls. And in April, Marshall coach Tom Herrion dismissed him from the program for unspecified reasons.
Because Kane earned a degree from Marshall this summer (business), NCAA rules allowed him to play immediately at Iowa State, which has served as both a fresh start and a last chance. He has made the most of it, making such an impact on the once-beaten and seventh-ranked Cyclones that Baylor coach Scott Drew says they can win the national championship.
Kane, a 6-4 guard who is a game-time decision for Monday's game against No. 20 Kansas with a sprained left ankle, has earned back-to-back Big 12 player of the week honors in a league that features more high-profile players, such as Oklahoma State's Marcus Smart and Kansas' Andrew Wiggins. He has won Oscar Robertson national player of the week honors and, in his last five games, is averaging 21.4 points, 6.4 rebounds and 6.6 assists, while shooting 61% from the field and 50% from three-point range.
"If there is a theme in Ames," ESPN's Fran Fraschilla says, "it's redemption."
Kane looks again at the jersey hanging in the locker room. For Kane, the motivation — and the only reason he did not quit the sport 23 months ago after the darkest day of his life — is found in the meaning of that number 50.
Kane had watched the video tapes and heard the stories from locals in Pittsburgh's Hill District. He knew his father, Calvin Kane, was a pass-first point guard who helped Schenley High to a state title in 1978 — 29 years before DeAndre accomplished the same feat — by scoring 10 points in the PIAA Class AAA title game against Lebanon High, which featured Sam Bowie. He knew that his dad played on the Lamar team that made an unexpected appearance in the NCAA tournament's Sweet 16 in 1980 under coach Billy Tubbs.
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Kane's mother, Carol Robinson, and Calvin never married but remained close. DeAndre has five siblings — three sisters, two brothers — but family members say Calvin's entire world was his son, DeAndre. And DeAndre cherished time with his father, the man who first put a basketball in his hands as a toddler.
"All Calvin talked about was his son," Carol says. "He lived through DeAndre."
Calvin prodded DeAndre to wake up early to work on his game. He preached academics first, basketball second. He told DeAndre that he could make it in basketball, even when DeAndre was unsure. Calvin did not always have money to fill up his gas tank, so he and DeAndre would run to the local park to shoot and conduct drills under the hot sun.
"He was a great role model for me," DeAndre says. "He was a great father. He was always there for me."
Even at a young age, DeAndre implored Calvin to stay on the right path. But Carol and DeAndre say Calvin associated with a troubled crowd in Pittsburgh, got wrapped up in the drug scene and served a year in jail.
The memory that is crystallized in DeAndre's mind occurred when he was about 10, waiting eagerly for Calvin to return from jail and then sprinting outside to greet him as fast as his spindly legs could move. But Calvin needed to then go to the store, and DeAndre was not allowed to go with him. Even though his dad was going to return, DeAndre bawled, wanting nothing more than to sit next to his dad, to look at him, to talk with him again.
"His dad was his everything," Carol says.
In July 2006, DeAndre and one of his best friends, 20-year-old Antonio Hampton, went to a party near West Park on the North Side. But not everyone at the party welcomed them.Pittsburgh offered a dangerous combination of drugs, violence, gangs and guns. Calvin preached for DeAndre to make good decisions, even as Calvin struggled at times to remain on the right side of the law.
Tensions rose. They left the party. They started running. Faster and faster they sprinted. Gun shots rang out. DeAndre, 17, ran side-by-side Antonio until he saw Antonio fall, thinking his friend was dropping to the ground to best avoid the gunfire.
But Antonio never got up.
When the shots stopped, DeAndre backtracked to find his friend and saw what happened. Antonio had been shot in the head.
"He was on life support for a while," DeAndre says. "But he was a vegetable. His mom came and they pulled the plug. That was hard, growing up, and seeing one of your best friends shot in the head, dead right there."
"And a few years later …"
He didn't finish the sentence.
In his final two years of high school, DeAndre lived with his dad, who would attend every game and holler encouragement from the stands. On the basketball court, DeAndre was beginning to thrive on a high school team that also featured acclaimed prospects DeJuan Blair (Pittsburgh) and D.J. Kennedy (St. John's). As a junior, his first season as a starter, DeAndre scored 18 points in a win against Aliquippa, which was led by heralded prospect Herb Pope.
DeAndre attended The Patterson School in Lenoir, N.C., during the 2008-09 season. The next year, he sat out his first season at Marshall as a partial academic qualifier.
DeAndre succeeded on the court, earning Conference USA freshman of the year honors followed by all-league recognition the next two season, but he was clashing as well. He racked up a total of 14 technical fouls during his first two eligible seasons – seven in each, according to the Web site statsheet.com.
He developed a friendship with another Marshall student, Sean Hornbuckle, who would become the school's student body president. Hornbuckle, who routinely talked with DeAndre about how to control his emotions, says DeAndre was too demonstrative and wore his emotions on his sleeve too much. Hornbuckle says DeAndre had trouble communicating with some teammates at times.
In one game against Memphis, Hornbuckle recalls, someone on the Memphis team started talking trash to DeAndre. Instead of responding or talking to his teammates, DeAndre looked into the crowd and hollered for his father.
"Here's a college player in a Division I game," Hornbuckle says. "And he does not say anything bad back or say anything to his teammates. I thought that was unique that he yelled for his dad. That's how close they were. Best friends."
In early February 2012, DeAndre was playing video games with two teammates and thought it was unusual that he had missed two calls from his stepmom.
Back in Pittsburgh, Calvin had packed his bags two weeks earlier and was ready to soon visit DeAndre to help him with his shot. But then Calvin suddenly collapsed from a brain aneurysm.
Family and friends flocked to Mercy Hospital, where Carol was struggling to figure out a way to break such devastating news to DeAndre.
She finally talked on the phone with DeAndre's teammate and good friend, Shaquille Johnson. She told him to tell DeAndre that his dad was not doing well. And she told Johnson to hold DeAndre when he spoke.
Johnson got off the phone and put his head down.
"What's wrong, brother?" DeAndre asked.
"Your dad, man," Johnson said. "He is not doing too good."
Almost two years later, DeAndre's voice slows and dips to a whisper when he speaks of that day, the saddest of his life.
"Everything stopped," Kane says. "I just went numb."
DeAndre remembers Marshall coaches coming over to the apartment and hugging him. And Josh King, then a graduate assistant, driving DeAndre four-and-a-half hours to Mercy Hospital.
He arrived at 1 am. DeAndre walked in with his head bowed. Everyone was in tears.
"It was like I was watching a movie," DeAndre says. "He was so swollen. I touched him. He was cold. Sent a chill through my body. I just went numb. No way. Not my dad, not my dad. We'd had been through so much together. That's my guy right there. It was crazy."
"He was my other half … " Kane says. "Even if he stayed alive, he would not remember who I was or anybody was. I punched the wall so damn hard."
At that point DeAndre, seeing his dad in a helpless state, recalled a conversation with his dad a few weeks earlier, after a relative suffered a similar ailment. Calvin told DeAndre that if anything like that ever happened to him, "don't let people feed me with tubes."
DeAndre told this to his family in the hospital. They agreed. And soon the doctors took Calvin off life support.
As DeAndre says, "I saw him take his last breaths."
Kane flew to Florida the next day for Marshall's game against Central Florida. He flew back the next day and attended his father's funeral services at Macedonia Baptist Church. The church was packed as if Calvin was a celebrity, Carol says.
DeAndre was in a fog, just lying in the bed at his late father's home. He was certain he was done with basketball. Hornbuckle says Calvin's death "sucked the life out of him." He missed his dad's voice in his ear giving advice and encouragement.
"I was ready to quit," Kane says. "I was done with ball. I was going to get a job or something. I was going to leave Marshall. Basketball was my last worries. When he died, I was done. There's nothing to play for anymore. He wanted me to make it more than I wanted to make it."
Even before his dad died, DeAndre would call his mom and tell her he wanted to leave school. But this time it did not look like he would return.
Carol implored DeAndre to go back, but he initially refused. Finally, he came to the realization that the best way to honor his father would be to play for his father, fulfill that dream for his father, and to get his degree. His dad would not want him to "sit around and weep and mope," he says.
After that season, DeAndre asked teammate J.P. Kambola if he could wear his jersey number 50. DeAndre's father was 50 years old when he died Feb. 7, 2012, and DeAndre wore number 50 his junior season at Marshall.
After that season, DeAndre and the school both looked to part ways. Herrion then dismissed DeAndre from the program. Because he was going to earn his degree and was talented, DeAndre had several options but fell in love with Iowa State during his visit.
DeAndre praises the Marshall coaches for helping him during his career, and says he still communicates occasionally with assistant Dino Presley. In a 400-word letter, which was published in The Herald-Dispatch in June, DeAndre thanked the fans and called the city his second home. He wrote that during four long years he learned that life was about more than basketball. He apologized for failing to lead the team to the NCAA tournament.
Herrion and Presley declined to comment on DeAndre's career at Marshall. Team spokesman Andrew Piper told USA TODAY Sports, "Just to clarify, he was dismissed from the team. I want to make sure that is explicitly clear. No explanation with it. Just a dismissal by Coach Herrion."
DeAndre became the first person in his family to graduate from college, an accomplishment he and family members speak of with pride. DeAndre's family and friends say he has matured significantly. They say he has been humbled by his time at Marshall.
"I have learned from it," DeAndre says. "And I grew up."
Iowa State coach Fred Hoiberg says DeAndre has been a mentor to the team's younger players. But Hoiberg recognized that, with the loss of DeAndre's dad, the 24-year-old still needed his own mentor when he arrived in Ames.
"I knew coming in that you had to be a mentor to him and a fatherly figure and help him with his progressions as he leaves Iowa State, so when he moves on he can adapt and adjust in the real world," Hoiberg says. "That is what you try to do with all kids, but when you have somebody who lost somebody as important as he did, there's probably a little something extra in that."
DeAndre's family gathers to watch every game he plays on television. Every time, they see the same mannerisms once exhibited by Calvin. For that reason, DeAndre's aunt starts crying and can't watch when DeAndre play.
But on the court, whether DeAndre is slashing by bigger defenders or posting up, the tattoo of his father's face is visible on his arm. And so is the number 50, fueling the motivation for one of this season's most unique stars. It remains as close as possible to his heart.
"Every day I step on the court, I know I am stepping on it for him, no one else," DeAndre says. "Part of him is inside me when I play. Every time I pick up a basketball, I think about him. I won't let him down."


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New London - On the city's waterfront Sunday evening, Sailfest was winding down.
Trucks carted off serving trays and pans, vendors scrubbed grills, and workers took down carnival rides and games. Visitors left the area, traveling home with memories of ships and fireworks.
Lingering festival-goers sat in the breeze by the water, as children hopped around on the bleachers remaining from the event.
And for the festival's volunteers - who finished up their final tasks of the three-day festival - it was time to celebrate.
Sailfest's Executive Director Barbara Neff, along with some volunteers, drove up in golf carts - smiling and honking - to the beer tent at Custom House Pier, as the volunteers congregating at the tent cheered.
They toasted the festival over beers and fries, and the more than 20 volunteers went around a circle sharing their happiest memories from the festival. The list included eating deep-fried Oreos, selling out of beef fat fries from The Four Drummies BBQ vendor, running the festival without any security issues, hearing no complaints from vendors and simply being together with one another.
They also offered improvements for next year, if money is no issue: four-wheel drive golf carts, new phones, free french fries all weekend, mandatory vendor meetings and bigger bands.
After the group posed for a photo, Neff said the 30 to 40 volunteers all come into the office and attend planning meetings on their own time. They often take off days from work to set up the festival.
"They're a great team," she said.
Volunteer Anne Ogden, who has contributed for several years, said she enjoys giving back to the community and helping out.
"It really is a team effort," she said.
"It falls right into place. We've got it down to a science - everyone knows their assignment," she added.
Kendra Zaugg, Sailfest's waterfront coordinator, agreed, saying the cleanup happened very quickly.
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"It's absolutely amazing how many people come to the event and see the hard work Barbara does all year," she said.
"It's not just me," Neff added, standing on the pier surrounded by volunteers.
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Interstate Theatre Collection
The history of the Interstate Theatre Circuit is inextricably linked with the personal career of Karl St. John Hoblitzelle, a pioneer in the theatre industry in the Southwest. Born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1879, Hoblitzelle's first professional contact with the world of theatrical entertainment, which he had been raised to view as "the gateway of hell," came while he worked in the office of the Director of Works at the St. Louis World's Fair. A group of concessionaires at the Fair who admired his managerial abilities suggested that he start a circuit of vaudeville theatres in the South and Southwest. At the time this was the only section of the country which did not have such amusement facilities. In spring of 1905, Karl and his brother George Hoblitzelle founded the Interstate Amusement Company, a Missouri Corporation. Karl did not originally plan to guide the company personally, but unfavorable financial conditions of the company caused him to step into its management in summer 1905. Hoblitzelle was named president of the firm in 1906. The Interstate Amusement Company began operating theatres in Little Rock, Shreveport, and Birmingham as well as Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, and Waco. Their programs stuck strictly to family-oriented, high quality vaudeville acts; in 1920, motion pictures were added as a supplement to the bill.
Interstate Amusement pioneered in the use of air-conditioning in theatres in Texas, which formerly had to close because of heat during summer months. Karl Hoblitzelle was also the first operator in the Southwest to install sound equipment in his theatres.
Upon his marriage to Ester Thomas in 1920, Hoblitzelle made his permanent home in Dallas and throughout the rest of his life evinced his love for this city and state through his deep involvement in a wide variety of civic endeavors.
By 1929 Hoblitzelle had decided to retire, and was negotiating with Fox for takeover of his circuit at the time of the stock market crash. Fox was not financially stable enough to close the sale, so in May 1930 Hoblitzelle sold his theatre interests to RKO, retaining only ownership of certain theatre buildings purely as real estate. RKO leased these buildings for their own operations in the name of one of their subsidiaries, RKO Southern.
Just after this deal was struck, the theatre business all over the country went into a severe decline. The depressed state of the business in Texas was due in part to the overall economic depression and in part, in Hoblitzelle's opinion, to the competition between RKO and the Paramount-Publix chain of theatres. In 1932 Hoblitzelle went to New York to try to arrange a consolidation of the two groups of theatres in Texas, but these early efforts were unsuccessful. In early 1933 both RKO and Paramount went into bankruptcy. Hoblitzelle was concerned about what would happen to the theatre business he had built and the many workers he had formerly employed. He worked out an arrangement by which he took over the entire RKO operation in Texas. He reorganized a new Interstate Theatre Circuit which included the former Interstate Amusement Company-RKO Theatres and the Southern Enterprise Theatres (affiliated with Paramount). In the summer of 1933, W.E. Paschall, who operated a separate chain of Paramount theatres also, but under a separate chain of Paramount theatres in smaller towns in Texas (the Dent Circuit), was killed in an auto accident. Paramount asked Hoblitzelle to assume control of these theatres also, but under a separate corporation. Thus was established the Texas Consolidated Theatres, which operated in smaller towns while Interstate Theatres covered larger cities such as Houston, Fort Worth, Dallas, and San Antonio. By 1935 the receiverships of the parent companies were dismissed, and Hoblitzelle was president of both new corporations. Interstate's relationship with Paramount was that Hoblitzelle controlled 50% of the stock and Paramount the other 50%. However, Hoblitzelle controlled all Class A stock which carried with it management privileges; Paramount's Class B stock had no such privileges attached.
Interstate began to grow, acquiring other theatres, both fee and leasehold. They also entered into several 50/50 partnership deals, such as that with I. B. Adelman and Will Horowitz in Houston, L. Novy in Austin, and A. Martini in Galveston. Interstate was one of the chief circuits in the state. By the late 1930s there were several other major circuits in Texas besides Interstate and Texas Consolidated. The Jefferson Amusement Company was a chain of Texas theatres also affiliated with Paramount. Robb and Rowley were affiliated with 20th Century Fox, and the Griffith Amusement Company and J. C. Long were larger unaffiliated circuits.
Independent theatre operators complained that the larger circuits were using their ties to choke out any competition. The larger circuits had distinct territories and rarely encroached upon one another. Independents who had theatres in such territories claimed that it was difficult to contract for good pictures, and that the chains conspired to force the independent theatres to wait an undesirable length of time before allowing them to show particular films. This siphoned off most of the audience and reduced the profits of the independents, who claimed the chains were trying to force them out of business by unfair competition.
The federal government in 1938 instigated antitrust litigation against several major film companies; one of the first attacked was Paramount. After years in court, in February 1949 Paramount entered into a Consent Judgment with the Department of Justice whereby Paramount's domestic exhibition business was completely divorced from its production and distribution business. Paramount was given three years to dissolve all its joint interests with local theatres. It split into two new corporations, Paramount Pictures Inc. which produced and distributed films, and United Paramount Pictures which exhibited films. Hoblitzelle's stock was sold to United Paramount; Interstate remained affiliated with Paramount and reported to New York. In February 1953 the Federal Communications Commission allowed the merger of United Paramount Theatres with the American Broadcasting Company. Interstate was a subsidiary of the new corporation formed, American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres (AB-PT). In July, 1965 this corporation changed its name to American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. By 1967 ABC's motion picture exhibition operations, of which Interstate was a part, were the largest of their kind in the United States.
Despite the connections with a national firm headquartered in New York, Hoblitzelle remained active and influential as president of Interstate until his death in 1967. Leadership in the company passed to other men who had been with Interstate since its early days: R. J. O'Donnell, Raymond Willie, John Q. Adams, and W. E. Mitchell. It was not uncommon for a company officer to have begun as a theatre usher and then to have moved through the ranks to the top. This remarkable longevity of top-level staff accounts for the intense personal loyalties which characterized the Interstate operations. The civic-mindedness of Karl Hoblitzelle was duplicated in the philanthropic activities of many of his staff. Karl Hoblitzelle's ideal was not simply to turn a profit, but to make his theatres an integral part of the community and to set high standards of civic involvement. On the cornerstone of the Majestic Theatre in Dallas, which was the flagship of the Interstate theatres, were inscribed these words of Hoblitzelle's: "Dedicated to art, music, and wholesome entertainment in grateful recognition of the support always given me by the people of Dallas."
The Majestic in Dallas closed in July, 1973. The economic problems of operating a theatre on such a grand scale (2,400 seats) combined with the trends in audience theatre attendance had altered the theatre business as Hoblitzelle and the Interstate Circuit had known it for so many years. It is evident from the product shown in many Interstate theatres in the mid-1970s that Hoblitzelle's original ideal of "wholesome family entertainment" had slipped greatly as public tastes changed. Interstate retained regional offices in the old Majestic until 1976, but major management had shifted to the East Coast. When the Majestic Theatre was turned over to the City of Dallas by the Hoblitzelle Foundation, many records of the Hoblitzelle era were considered unuseful residue and abandoned by ABC Interstate as it moved its offices. These records show how the history of the Interstate Theatre Circuit charted entertainment history in Texas from the days of traveling vaudeville acts and flickering movie shorts to the time of x-rated motion pictures.
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The Interstate Theatre Collection consists of office files abandoned by the ABC Interstate Company when they vacated their offices at the Majestic Theatre in Dallas in 1977. The Majestic Theatre had housed the administrative offices of the Interstate Theatre Circuit from its date of reorganization in 1933 under the auspices of Karl Hoblitzelle. Over the course of time the Interstate Circuit came under the control of the national offices of the American Broadcast Company (see history), but regional offices remained at the Majestic. When the Majestic Theatre ceased operation in July 1973, Interstate continued to lease office space from the theatre's owner, the Hoblitzelle Foundation. The Foundation donated the building to the City of Dallas with the stipulation that it be restored and made available for productions; when the city took possession, it found abandoned records literally heaped in piles. Diana Clark of the City of Dallas and Lynn Harris of the Hoblitzelle Foundation were instrumental in salvaging the mterials and having their possession turned over to the Dallas Public Library. The Interstate Theatre Collection was formally received by the Library in March 1977.
The collection comprises correspondence, leases, photographs, maps, surveys, legal records, promotional literature, financial records, interoffice memos, theatre reports, corporate minute books, posters, film trailers, and contracts. The material dates back to the mid-1910s with leases and correspondence relating to theatre organizations that were the forerunners of the Interstate Theatre Circuit. The complex interrelationships between the Interstate Circuit and its national parent company, Paramount, on the one hand and with its local theatre partners, such as I.B. Adelman in Houston, on the other necessitated the keeping of longterm records. Moreover, the continuing legal difficulties experienced by both Interstate and Paramount during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s also dictated the keeping of documentary proof of contracts, leases, accounts, and correspondence. These legal problems centered around antitrust litigation instigated by the federal government and around antigambling and censorship laws on the state and local level. Roughly 10% of the collection is given over to legal files. The efforts of Interstate to avoid government interference in its operations are revealed in correspondence with its lobbyist in Austin (1930s-1940s) and its material on Operation Round Table conducted in Washington D.C. in 1947 and 1948. The loss of antitrust suits against film producer-distributors led to the organization of an extremely confidential effort among major theatre chains to dissuade the federal government from stepping in to further regulate the film industry. Because Karl Hoblitzelle took a personal interest in the project and John Q. Adams of Interstate was in charge of finances, the Interstate collection contains probably the most comprehensive records of these often secret negotiations held at a crucial point in film industry history.
The collection also houses records of the Texas World's Fair Commission, which evolved into a film project called Cavalcade of Texas meant to tout the glories of the state; Karl Hoblitzelle was chairman of this endeavor. There are records of Interstate subsidiary companies such as the Dallas Dispatch-Journal, a local daily newspaper, and Mar Productions, an oil company. The interest of theatre chains in closed-circuit television opportunities and their fear of competition from television, especially cable television with its feature films, are revealed in files on telecommunications from the early 1950s.
The early period of Interstate from 1933 to 1953 is well represented. The challenges faced by the theatre circuit during this time, as disclosed by records in this collection, include: finding suitable tenants for commercial space connected with theatre buildings, especially during the depression years; contracting for Mexican made Spanish language films for theaters in the Valley which catered to the Mexican populace; developing a reliable popcorn supply and managing to get it shipped to theatres, a particular problem in wartime (Interstate even subsidized popcorn research by Texas A&M to solve this particular problem); creating exciting promotional gimmicks to entice customers into the theatres while staying one step ahead of the state lottery laws; dealing with the advent of the television, at first seen as a mortal competitor; adjusting to population movement to the suburbs and the building of theatres outside of the downtown area; building and promoting drive-ins in the late 1940s; coping with the declining amounts of film production available for exhibitors and the economic difficulties created for theatre management by the beginnings of unionism and the minimum wage law; and combating local censorship laws as films became more "adult."
It was in 1953 that Paramount, Interstate's parent company, merged with the American Broadcast Company. The national offices of ABC in New York oversaw the regional operations of the Interstate Circuit. In time records of the Hoblitzelle era were no longer as important to the national office, which accounts for why so many of them were left behind. However, more recent records had value to the ongoing operations of the circuit and were moved when Interstate vacated the Majestic. The majority of the collection materials from the later period (1960 to the mid-1970s) are duplicates of interoffice memos, advertising and promotional material, and periodic reports filed by local theatres with the regional and national offices on such subjects as features expenses, film rental and booking, admission receipts, ticket inventory, payroll and managers' funds.
The collection's subject headings are of mixed classification. The oldest records, from the 1910s through the 1940s, were generally arranged chronologically and by general headings such as correspondence with local theatres, correspondence with state legislature lobbyist, subsidiary records (i.e., Mar Productions) and legal suits. These materials arrived in a hodgepodge and often with no discernable provenance. Material from the later era, especially from 1960 through the mid-1970s, often pertained to a particular department of the company. An attempt was made to keep particular organizational sections intact as they appeared to have been divided in Interstate's working files. Thus were kept in separate series the office files of W.E. Mitchell and Raymond Willie, vice presidents and general managers of Texas Consolidated and Interstate Theatres respectively. Series of reports, such as Feature Expenses and Manager's Fund Reports, are also grouped together and arranged chonologically.
The Interstate Theatre Collection offers a magnificent resource on the entertainment industry in Texas. Often film industry histories are written from the top; that is, they focus on the movie production or the biographoes of celebrities. The Interstate Theatre Collection offers the opportunity to explore change in entertainment technology and public demand from the point of view of the middleman, the exhibitioner, who is the vital connection between the audience and the film maker. Here in the Interstate Theatre Collection is embodied the history of movie theatres from their vaudeville roots through neighborhood family entertainment to X rated movies and drive-ins.
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MA77-1 Interstate Theatre Collection, Texas/Dallas History & Archives Division, Dallas Public Library
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WALTHAM, Mass. – The Brandeis University women's basketball team forced a season-high 34 turnovers today as the Judges rolled to a 63-43 win over Husson University in Red Auerbach Arena. Brandeis improves to 6-5 on the season, while Husson falls to 1-6.
Brandeis got scoring contributions from 13 of the 14 players who were dressed for the game. All 14 Judges also grabbed at least one rebound as they won the battle of the boards, 50-38. Junior guard Kasey Dean (Southbury, Conn./Pomperaug) led all scorers with 12 points, shooting 6-of-8 from the field. Eight of her 12 points came in the first half. Dean also had five rebounds, trailing sophomore Mikaela Garvin (Providence, R.I./Hope) and Nicolina Vitale (Clinton Township, Mich./Chippewa Valley) who led the squad with six caroms each.
Sophomore guard Hannah Cain (Gloucester, Mass./Gloucester) was the only other Judge in double figures with 10 points, all in the first 20 minutes. Cain also led all players with four assists. Junior Janelle Rodriguez (Peabody, Mass./Peabody Veterans) added eight points and a career-high seven steals, part of a season-high 23 for the team. Ten Judges had at least one theft, as their 34-19 turnover advantage turned into a 29-14 edge in points off turnovers.
Husson was led by rookie Amanda Johnson (Skowhegan, Maine/Skowhegan), who scoed 11 points off the bench, hitting 4-of-6 overall and 2-of-4 from 3-point range. Sophomore forward Chrissy Larrabee (Brooks, Maine/Mountain View) just missed a double-double with nine points and a game-high nine rebounds.
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The host of Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor" has invited the host of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" as a guest Monday. Fox News said Friday that O'Reilly and Stewart will debate the invitation for Grammy Award-winning rapper Common to perform at a White House poetry night this week.
O'Reilly has criticized Common's presence at Wednesday's event. He says some of Common's lyrics celebrate violence.
Common is known for socially and politically conscious rhymes. He was on his best behavior at the White House. He took the criticism in stride and tweeted, "Fox News doesn't like me." He added on Facebook, "Peace yall!"
Stewart let loose with an anti-Fox News Channel rap on his show.
The O'Reilly-Stewart faceoff airs Monday.
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KDE Ships September Updates to Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Platform
Today KDE released updates for its Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform.
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After years with Ubuntu/Gnome, I come back to KDE again. It's the best of the best.
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I was a happy kde 3.5 user for some time, but when kde 4.0 came out it didn't work for me. I switched to gnome. Now, years later, due to the lack of a viable future for gnome, I started looking into alternatives. I discovered that kde 4.8 was quite usable, and finally switched back. I'm running 4.9 now, looking forward to 4.9.1
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Excellent DE
Upgraded from KDE 4.9.0 to 4.9.1 yesterday in Gentoo, and it went very smoothly. KDE these days is a pleasure to use.
My only grumbles are with a few KDE applications. KsCD has refused to play audio CDs on my machines for many releases now (Bug Report). Dragon Player cannot play audio CDs on my machines either. Amarok loses CD covers, cannot play audio CDs using the KDE GStreamer Phonon backend, and, when using the VLC Phonon backend, the disc spins so fast that the noise makes Amarok impractical. Fortunately there are plenty of alternative multimedia applications to choose from.
By Fitzcarraldo at Sat, 2012/09/08 - 11:04am
Kaffeine, for example.
Kaffeine, for example
By Sys at Sat, 2012/09/08 - 7:54pm
New to KDE
I have been a happy Gnome user on Ubuntu for many years, I have always liked the way it was customizable to my needs and tastes.
After having forced myself to use Unity and (for a very short time) Gnome 3, these last years, in the hope it would grow on me, I have concluded that they probably would be great on a tablet or mobile phone, but not on a desk- or lap-top, and that I am incompatible with both desktop environments.
So I have had to find another desktop.
Many years ago I tested KDE with little success, so I started testing Xfce but it was simply too buggy.
It was with some trepidation I installed KDE, but after having played with the latest KDE this weekend I realised this was my future desktop environment, and now I find it even better than the Gnome 2, as I remember it ;)
Great work, just what I needed !


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With growing pressure on athletes to be the very best in their perspective sport, eating disordered behavior can start at a young age. 13.5% of athletes have been clinically diagnosed with an eating disorder.2 Parents of young athletes can help prevent these disordered eating patterns by educating themselves, coaches and other parents about eating disorders to help recognize them at an early age.
The emphasis placed on low body weight/low body fat in some sports today may confused athletes and increase the risk of inappropriate dieting. Those involved in the lean, aesthetic sports consisting of gymnastics, diving, figure skating, the endurance sports including cycling, distance running, triathlon and the weight-class sports of rowing, wrestling and martial arts seem to be at greatest risk. These athletes are being judged both on appearance and performance, which can lead to eating disordered behavior. "Young athletes are the athletes who are most at risk for several reasons. First, they have most or all of the same risk factors as older athletes, but they have additional ones. While older athletes often have coaches who are informed regarding the identification and treatment of eating disorders in athletes, many youth coaches have not had the same learning opportunities. Additionally, the younger athletes do not have the same level of medical backup provided to older athletes by sports medicine physicians, sport psychologists, and athletic trainers. And, finally, younger athletes are more at risk because they are at a high risk age for developing an eating disorder, especially about the time they begin to be serious about their sport," said Dr. Ron Thompson, Co-Director of The Victory Program at McCallum Place.
Since young athletes are at risk for developing eating disorders, parents can take steps to help prevent or help those with eating disordered behaviors. By becoming informed about nutritional requirements, healthy weight ranges and the risks of dieting, parents are able to support their children, recommend informational resources and encourage others to educate themselves. When necessary, parents should also be assertive, asking about nutrition requirements for teaching and alerting coaches about noticing behavior changes, as parents know their children best. Lastly, parents should encourage and participate in appropriate and effective treatment for their child athlete. "We know that educated parent involvement in treatment, Family Based Treatment, leads to better outcome in teens," says Dr. Kim McCallum.
Dr. Kimberli McCallum, MD, FAPA, CEDS, and Medical Director of McCallum Place is a nationally recognized expert in treating eating disorders and has developed several eating disorder treatment programs, including The Victory Program for elite athletes with eating disorders. Dr. Ron Thompson, PhD, and Dr. Roberta Sherman, PhD, are pioneers in the field of treating athletes with eating disorders and have advised both the NCAA and the Olympic committee on these issues. Along with Dr. McCallum, they have created The Victory Program, the first treatment center in the country to specifically treat elite athletes facing eating disorders.
The Victory Program at McCallum Place is located in St. Louis, Missouri, offering evidence based comprehensive treatment in a safe and home like setting. While in treatment, athletes will receive care from a team of eating disorder professionals, including a family practice physician, a psychiatrist, sports psychologist, athletic trainer, therapist and a registered sports dietitian.
McCallum Place Eating Disorder Centers is committed to providing quality, accessible care for patients and their family members. Dr. McCallum serves on the board of the National Eating Disorder Association and the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals. She received her medical degree from Yale University and is board certified in child, adolescent and adult psychiatry.
Ron A. Thompson, PhD, FAED, is a consulting psychologist for Indiana University Athletics Department and has served as a consultant on eating disorders to the NCAA and on the Female Athlete Triad with the International Olympic Committee Medical Commission. Dr. Thompson regularly speaks to coaches, athletic directors and athletes at universities around the country on the dangers of eating disorders and the increased risks associated with sports.
Roberta Sherman, PhD, FAED, serves as a consultant to Indiana University Athletics Department and the NCAA on eating disorders and other mental health issues of collegiate athletes. Additional, Dr. Sherman has served as a member of the Educational Committee on the Female Athlete Triad for the Medical Commission of the International Olympic Committee. She is an editorial board member of Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention.
Together, Dr. Thompson and Dr. Sherman have coauthored their fourth book, Eating Disorders in Sport. To learn more about The Victory Program at McCallum Place, call 1-888-234-0578, or visit www.victoryprogram.com.
1 http://www.anad.org/get-information/about-eating-disorders/eating-disorders-statistics/


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And yes, Maestro will transpose the bottom two Clarinet notes (as well as the bottom Horn note and bottom two Pibgorn notes*), just like it does with notes that are out of range. There's no way to get the breath/cough sound using Maestro, so you'd have to manually edit the ABC if you wanted that.
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ATLANTA (AP) — People with serious egg allergies may no longer have to worry about flu shots.
A federal advisory panel on Thursday said a new vaccine that's made without eggs is an option for adults with severe allergies. Current flu shots are made from viruses grown in eggs and could trigger allergic reactions in some cases.
The new Flublok vaccine is made with cell technology, which is used for other kinds of vaccines. It was licensed in January by Protein Sciences Corp.
Officials don't know how many Americans skip flu shots because they're allergic to eggs.
About 1 in 66 children have egg allergies, though most kids outgrow them. The new vaccine is not an option for kids. So far it's licensed only for adults ages 18 to 49.
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By Mark Chalifoux
A Louisville National Championship seems inevitable now. The Cardinals are the strongest team remaining and now have the emotional component of playing for an injured teammate after Kevin Ware's gruesome injury Sunday. They have NBA prospects dotting their roster but there's one player who has been the most integral to their success yet still gets occasionally overlooked and that's guard Russ Smith.
Russ Smith, nicknamed Russdiculous for his frenetic style of play, has been simply wonderful in the tournament. Smith is a gifted scorer and a playmaker on defense (as evidenced by his 14 steals in the tournament) and has been the real driving force behind Louisville's rise to the Final Four.
The 6-foot 1-inch junior guard from Brooklyn has averaged almost 19 points per game this season, but he has stepped his game up to another level in the tournament, averaging 26 points per game and shooting near 50 percent. He's getting to the foul line at an absurd rate (10 or more free throws in his last three games) and his unconventional style has been near impossible for other teams to slow down.
He's also done this while battling illness this past weekend and after seeing his teammate suffer one of the most unsettling injuries in sports history. His scoring prowess (31 points against Oregon and 23 against Duke last weekend) has always made him a fan favorite but Smith is starting to turn some heads in the NBA with his play in the tournament.
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The knocks against him aren't unfamiliar; he plays off the ball for Louisville and would have to play point guard in the NBA. His play at the point for the Cardinals has been less than inspiring. He's not the greatest passer or the best decision maker, but his athletic ability has bailed him out in the college level because he can blow past defenders.
His defense stands for itself, however. Louisville is a tremendous defensive team and Smith is an absolute terror for opposing guards. His defense will help set him apart from other guards, but most scouts went into the tournament with plenty of doubts about Smith's pro potential. Some of them have to do with his inconsistent outside shooting as well.
Smith has done all he can to change hearts and minds with his dominating play in the tournament. His head coach Rick Pitino has been trying to help change minds about him as well, calling him a poor man's Allen Iverson, a description some pundits are starting to warm too.
One thing is for sure. We have not seen the best of Russ Smith just yet. As stellar as he's been throughout the season and even more so in the tournament, Smith is poised to really break out in the Final Four. He's a big time player and his play will decide just how easy it will be for Louisville to cut down the nets.
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Mark Chalifoux is a college basketball contributor for CBS Local Digital Media and can be reached at email@example.com and @markchalifoux on Twitter.


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On April 27, more than 250 people attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the NOvA far detector facility near the Ash River in northern Minnesota. On hand were Eric Kaler, President of the University of Minnesota, Pier Oddone, Director of Fermilab, Mos Kaveh, Associate Dean of the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota and Marvin L. Marshak, Director of the NOvA Ash River Laboratory. The 45 million dollar facility will be home to The NOvA far detector, which when complete, will be the largest plastic structure in the world.
Visiting dignitaries and local business people had a chance to see the building up close, including the shielded detector hall that is 280 feet long, 67 feet wide and features a 70-foot ceiling. To eliminate cosmic-ray radiation, the hall's roof is shielded by four feet of concrete and covered by an additional six inches of barite. Attached to the hall is a 72-foot long assembly area and 124-foot loading dock area with space to house dual overhead cranes. The block pivoter, weighing more than 750,000 pounds, will be used in moving the more than 12,000 modules that comprise the neutrino detector into position.
The far detector will measure neutrinos produced at Fermilab near Chicago and sent hundreds of miles straight through the earth to the new laboratory. "As this remarkable NOvA facility opens, we celebrate a huge milestone on the journey to discover how our universe began," said Marvin Marshak, laboratory director and professor in the university's School of Physics and Astronomy. "Together with our Soudan Underground Laboratory, the NOvA building further establishes the University of Minnesota and the state as international leaders in neutrino research."
Construction of the facility was supported under a cooperative agreement for research between the U.S. Department of Energy and the University of Minnesota. The DOE Office of Science provided $40.1 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for construction of the project, which was managed by Fermilab. Adolfson & Peterson Construction, along with their subcontractors, successfully completed more than 140,000 hours of labor in building the NOvA laboratory, providing a boon to the local community's economy in nearby Orr, Minn.
With the laboratory successfully completed, work can now begin on assembly and installation of the neutrino detector. Each of the more than 12,000 modules will be made at the University of Minnesota Module Factory, under the leadership of Professors Dan Cronin-Hennessy and Ken Heller, and factory coordinator Nathaniel Pearson.
An additional $9.9 million in Recovery Act funding is being supplied to Fermilab for purchasing key high-tech components from U.S. companies, enabling those firms to retain and hire workers. Starting in May, Fermilab will upgrade its complex of accelerators to provide the world's most powerful beam of neutrinos to Minnesota.
"Neutrinos could be the key to understanding why matter exists," said Fermilab Director Pier Oddone. "After years of preparation, we're excited to see the NOvA experiment come together, and can't wait until the first neutrinos make their way through this cutting-edge detector."
Truly an international collaboration, the $283 million NOvA experiment involves nearly 180 scientists and engineers from 28 institutions in seven countries. When the detector in Minnesota is completed, physicists will explore the mysterious behavior of neutrinos by examining pulses of the subatomic particles two times - as they leave Fermilab's Illinois site and as they pass through the detector facility in Minnesota. The neutrinos travel the 500 miles in less than three milliseconds.


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There are a lot of ways to say things. For instance, instead of using the word "rich" you could say "affluent". Or instead of using "gossip" you could use "quidnunc". One might say, "I like waffles!" Or one might say, "Waffles are massively preferable to lima beans." It is the art of wordsmithery, which may actually not be an art at all, at least not in the sense that you might visit a Wordsmithery Gallery. Rather, it is a way of saying or writing things and events, in such a way as to make them more readable. Generally, when I retell the story of something that happened to me I try to put my readers in that place. I want them to see it, feel it, and smell it. And I spend a lot of time with my good friend Roget in an attempt to do just that. And while it's usually worth the effort to help people understand what life is like from my perspective, it's almost never easy. In fact, many times I've not relayed something simply because I could not find the right words. Today, I'm at a loss for words. But I'm going to write it anyway because it just feels important enough, in light of my job as a chaplain, to tell the story.
Recently, we've had some personnel changes, as is normal in the military. People come and people go and just this week one of the chaplains I work with here went home. So besides being happy for him and his family, I now find myself having to absorb many of the duties he fulfilled around here until a replacement arrives. Today we had another call to come to the hospital as there were wounded US soldiers inbound. I and one of the chaplain assistants headed there to find out what we could and wait. What we found out was that no one knew much of anything about this particular situation. So I didn't know if I was waiting to anoint a young American body, or pray over a new amputee, or console a gunshot victim. So the waiting was a little unnerving. As we waited, we chewed the fat about life before, during, and after this deployment. Finally, after about 45 minutes we could see two choppers on the horizon approaching our FOB. When they landed the sense of relief was immense as we watched 3 young American GIs walk off the birds. They had been in an MRAP (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle) that had a mine roller on the front. Naturally, it hit an IED, as it is meant to which did some pretty serious damage to the vehicle. But as is always the case with the wonderful MRAP there was no real damage to the people inside. Just 3 young American GIs walking off a helicopter. A little shaken but none the worse for wear and in need of a check up to make sure all was well. I thought, "God is good!"
At the entrance to the hospital we stood and talked, while they removed their gear. I tried to calm and comfort them as best as I could and we started to walk into the hospital. The assistant I was with stood just outside and decided to head back to the office as this event was pretty much over. At that moment, I heard what I believe is the loudest single noise I've ever heard. A rocket fired from who knows where impacted approximately 25 feet from my assistant and about 35 feet from me. Everyone rushed into the hospital, as it is a hardened facility, to escape any additional incoming ordinance, which never came. For the next 30 minutes we waited for the "All Clear" so that we could resume our "normal" day.
Once we were able to leave the safety of the hospital, curiosity dictated that we go check out the impact site. That's when it became very clear that we had been watched out for. As far as I can tell, my assistant, Michael, was the closest to the impact. I may have been the second closest, I'm not sure. It doesn't matter. What does matter is that the impact was in a storage area on the opposite side of several concrete barriers designed to stop shrapnel that flies around willy nilly during an explosion. They seemed to have worked quite well. It could have landed on our side, but it didn't. In the debris was the shell of an oxygen cylinder with a 3 inch hole in it. It didn't explode. If it had I don't think I'd be typing this. But it didn't. Instead of acting like bottled oxygen usually acts, it just vented and the releasing pressure sent it flying somewhere.
In the end, no one was hurt while my assistant and I walked away with little more than a slight ringing in our ears. I can't wordsmith it any more than to say God is good and waffles are way better than lima beans.
In the end, no one was hurt while my assistant and I walked away with little more than a slight ringing in our ears. I can't wordsmith it any more than to say God is good and waffles are way better than lima beans.


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Habitat: Grows in most Northern Countries.
Part used: The entire plant. It is a lichen.
Collection: The lichen may be gathered throughout the year, though between May and September is perhaps best. It should be freed from attached impurities and dried in the sun or the shade.
Indications: As a soothing demulcent with its high mucilage content, Iceland Moss finds use in the treatment of gastritis, vomiting and dyspepsia. It is often used in respiratory catarrh and bronchitis, soothing mucous membranes. Its nourishing qualities contribute to the treatment of cachexia, a state of malnourishment & debility. King's Dispensatory describes it as " demulcent, tonic and nutritious. Excessive doses may induce nausea and looseness of the bowels, while ordinary doses improves the appetite, digestion and general nutrition. Constipation is not produced by it, and the circulation is unaffected. Its nutritive qualities are undoubtedly due to its starch. The bitterness of cetrarin may be detected in the nursing mother's milk. Used as a demulcent in chronic catarrhs, chronic dysentary and diarrhoea, and as a tonic in dyspepsia, convalescence and exhausting diseases. Boiled with milk it forms an excellent nutritive and tonic inphthis is and general debility. It relieves the cough of chronicbronchitis.
Combinations: For the treatment or nausea and vomiting, it can be combined with Black Horehound.
Preparations and dosage: Decoction: put l teaspoonful of the shredded moss in a cup of cold water, boil for 3 minutes and let stand for l0 minutes. A cup should be drunk morning and evening. Tincture: take l-2 ml of the tincture three times a day.


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Hadley Saluted Upon Retirement• May 20, 2012 Share:
Crawfordsville Mayor Todd Barton declared Monday, May 21, 2012 as David J. Hadley day in the city of Crawfordsville.
The proclamation was made Saturday evening at a retirement reception for Hadley, who has served on the faculty at Wabash College for 43 years. More than 150 people attended the reception for the political science professor and community volunteer.
In making the proclamation, Mayor Barton saluted Dr. Hadley for his inspirational teaching, mentoring of students, and leading the South Montgomery School Board and the Indiana State Ethics Commission, among other accomplishments.
Hadley earned his undergraduate degree in journalism from Indiana University, and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He later earned his master's degree and Ph.D. in political science at IU. He began his career at Wabash in 1969 and was promoted to full professor in 1986. He chaired the political science department at Wabash from 1989 to 1991, and from 2000 until his retirement this year.
He also served Wabash as its Dean of Students from 1991 to 1997. In 1990 he received the College's highest teaching honor — the McLean-McTurnan-Arnold Excellence in Teaching Award. He has specialized his teaching on American government and political behavior, but he has constantly pursued new interests. Twice in his final four years at Wabash, he guided a freshman tutorial class to Montana and Wyoming as part of his innovative course, "Fly Fishing: The Liberal Art."
He has been an active force in state and local politics, chairing the Indiana State Ethics Commission from 1995 to 1998 and again from 2005 to 2006. He chaired the Montgomery County Democratic Party from 2001 to 2007; served as a precinct committeeman for 12 years; and served on the South Montgomery School Board for eight years, six as its president.
He and his wife, Sheridan, are members of the Wabash Avenue Presbyterian Church, where he has served as the president of the board of trustees and president of the board of deacons.
Mayor Barton's proclamation was one of many tributes paid to Dr. Hadley; he also received proclamations and notes from an Indiana State Senator, U.S. Representative Todd Rokita, and Rahm Emmanuel, mayor of Chicago.
His 43-year service to Wabash makes him one of the longest-serving members of the faculty in the College's 180-year history.
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