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JUNE 19, 2011

LIGHTING THE FUSE

PUBLISHER’S STATEMENT

McDougle’s legacy

lmost exactly two years to the day after he assumed the leadership role at Owens Community College, president Larry McDougle will leave for another try at retirement. Two years may not be long enough to carve the legacy of a decadelong tenure, but there are several advances and triumphs McDougle has earned credit for. First, he came out of retirement to help Owens when it needed him. Taking control during an uncertain time in the wake of the departures of President Christa Adams and Provost Paul Unger, McDougle kept calm and stability in his “cabinet” and ensured a smooth transition. He also helped focus the ongoing efforts to address the state of Owens’ nursing program, which lost its accreditation from the National League for Nursing (NLN) in July 2009. The school’s candidacy for reinstatement has been approved and it is more than halfway through the multi-step process to realize that goal. Thomas F. POUNDS He has overseen the successful opening of a satellite campus at Arrowhead Park in Maumee. Owens continues to work with The Source of NW Ohio, which aids job hunters through education. Owens’ Findlay campus continues to grow, as does the school’s commitment to alternative energy. As a member of the Owens Community College Foundation Board, I echo the comments of Dee Talmage, chairwoman of the Owens Community College Board of Trustees: “President Dr. Larry McDougle’s leadership has been invaluable in furthering Owens Community College’s mission and vision of McDOUGLE providing a superior academic experience through excellence, innovation and collaboration,” she said. “The Board of Trustees looks forward to continuing to work with President McDougle to meet the educational needs of students throughout the Northwest Ohio region in the coming year and receiving his guidance during the search process for the next President of Owens Community College.” In a 2010 Toledo Free Press profile on McDougle, writer Michael Stainbrook related this story: “The president demonstrated [the many elements of leadership] with a multicolored ball he once bought for his grandchildren. The ball initially comprised many spikes joined only at the center. But McDougle then reshaped the ball to reveal a web of interconnected points without a central core. ‘It’s more conducive to free flow of information‚ he said. ‘I focus on the nursing program, but it’s not my only piece by any means’’.’ We wish McDougle many years of teaching his grandchildren such lessons and thank him for the service and lessons he has given us. ✯ Thomas F. Pounds is president and publisher of Toledo Free Press and Toledo Free Press Star. Contact him at tpounds@toledofreepress.com.

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married Shannon Marie Scott on a Sunday morning in I was sure the water would deepen to his eyebrows by then. the warm sand at Dania Pier. Dania, just north of Fort A novice kick-and-thrash swimmer like Evan needs full atLauderdale, is home to a public beach with clean sand, tention, and with Sean on my shoulders, it seemed wise to clear water and several open-air huts that offer shelter from stop, wave to Mom on the shore and head back to land. I love the open water. The ocean erases a lot of the sins the intense and insistent Florida sun. We were married in of middle age. I do not need my glasses, as formal wear and bare feet, with our closest there is nothing to read. I do not feel gravity family and friends as witnesses, standing pulling on my weight, as the waves buoy and around us in the saltwater breeze. support my frame, which approaches as close We married in March 2002, after a long to a state of grace as I am going to achieve in courtship; we planned and assumed we this life. The water, especially the clear saltwould welcome a baby within a year or so. water, is also an effective mental cleanser. At But it was four years before we were blessed one with the calm Atlantic, it doesn’t matter with our first son, Evan. There are undoubtwhat Toledo’s politicians, its battered citizens edly couples who consider four years to be a or its corrupt media elements are up to. walk in the park compared to their ongoing None of the ongoing concerns that domiwait, but on the far side of 35, every barren Michael S. MILLER nate the news cycle in Toledo can follow me year feels increasingly ominous. into the water — although even as I watched It was Sweetest Day 2005 when I came home from work, surprised to find that Shannon had a card my boys splash in the waves and knew I would write about and small gift bag waiting; surprised, because Sweetest Day the moment in this five-year series on their birthdays, I isn’t one of our big holidays. I reached in the bag and pulled could hear the scoffing of the vacuous and nugatory who out a baby bib. It took several beats and happy tears in my think writing about life, love and the brief existence of both is somehow less legitimate than dissecting the latest local wife’s eyes before I understood the message. We first held and kissed Evan on June 16, 2006; his political idiocy. We reached the shore and Mom’s waiting dry-towel embrother Sean made our family complete on June 12, 2008, a brace. I did my job; no undertow, jellyfish or errant speedbirthday shared by my only sibling, Mark. Mark lives in north Miami. He would rather eat a game- boat touched my boys on that day. The slippery puzzle of worn LeBron James sneaker than board an airplane, so we fatherhood rarely offers such in-the-moment symbolic optravel to see him two or three times a year, as finances allow. portunities to feel like a good shepherd, so I let the modest During each trip, we make it a point to take our sons to glow fuel my smile as we drove back to my brother’s condoDania Pier. We don’t make a fuss about the importance of minium home on the Intercoastal waterway. That day, during a poolside conversation with a building the site to us, but we spend a few hours each trip watching them play in the sand, becoming increasingly brave with resident, I mentioned that we had earlier in the day visited Dania Pier and waded nearly all the way to the sandbar. the Atlantic Ocean surf. “Dania Pier, down by the huts?” he asked. On June 12, we spread our towels on the multi-colored I confirmed the location. sand and walked the boys to the edge of the surf. In pre“I was just there yesterday afternoon,” he said. “We saw vious years, neither of them showed interest in venturing into the waves beyond knee level, but this year, both of them a 5-foot shark on the beach side of the sandbar, where they wanted to see how far into the water they could go. Evan, I hardly ever go. It just looked around and then darted off. am guessing, was hoping to find Frisbee-size shells or other Cleared the beach for a while, though!” I looked over the top of my bifocal lenses to see if the pirate treasure. Sean, I know, was seeking mermaids. I lived on the Florida coast for a while, so I know that man was playing games with me, but he was not. I had stood tall in the sand, believing I had enveloped stretch of ocean well. It beckons with a lover’s whisper of seduction, but it holds cruel and dangerous surprises. There my growing sons in a bubble of vigilance and safety, ignoare often sharp rocks or shells or — spiny things — un- rant that we swam in waters where a shark had sniffed for derfoot. There are nearly invisible sea lice and jellyfish and lunch the day before. That night, I dreamt of razor teeth and helpless screams man-o-war waiting to sting. As a father, it is my job to allow my sons to explore the and clear South Florida water running red with blood. And I am reminded, as I guide my sons through the wonder around them while keeping watch for any threats. The eternal quest is to find the balance between all-out waves in their third and fifth years, that a man who stands on shifting sand is never in a position to feel like he is freedom and overcaution. I put Sean on my shoulders and took Evan’s hand standing tall. ✯ and waded toward the bosom of the Atlantic Ocean. About 50 yards from shore, the water was still only chest- Michael S. Miller is editor in chief of Toledo Free Press and Tohigh to Evan; a sandbar beckoned about 15 yards away, but ledo Free Press Star. Email him at mmiller@toledofreepress.com. Thomas F. Pounds, President/Publisher tpounds@toledofreepress.com

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SHREDDING THE CURTAIN

Silent auction

Wagoner did not return his calls, n the transportation appropriation bill the Ohio General As- Pletcher said. When Toledo Free Press contacted sembly passed one section created stringent rules for obtaining Wagoner on June 15, he said Senator a construction equipment auction Cliff Hite had proposed to solve the license. The rules were so stringent, issue by placing an amendment in only one company operating in Ohio HB 153. Sears was contacted, said — Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers — met she would comment on the issue, but did not respond by press time. all of the requirements. Pletcher said HB 153 does not reOne requirement is maintaining a permanent auction site in Ohio peal what was passed in HB 114, nor that is at least 90 acres in size and does it eliminate the concerns about also maintaining more than 60,000 unconstitutionality. It still allows square feet of total facility space. An- one company, Ritchie Bros., to conother is to receive more than $1 mil- duct auctions that other construction auction firms like Yoder & Frey lion in gross annual sales in Ohio. When the bill first passed in would not legally be able to conduct March, auctioneering companies in Ohio. OAA said HB 114 and HB that were impacted did not know it 153 will impact more than half of had happened. They were not con- the companies that do construction tacted, asked to testify nor given an equipment auctions in Ohio. “The public should be the ones opportunity to protest. The Ohio Auctioneers Associa- that are angry, this will not allow them to get the best tion (OAA) members price for equipment or started contacting their allow them options,” elected representatives Pletcher said. “They after learning of the bill’s are giving a Canadian passage. Few legislators company the ability to were aware that HB 114 do what they are not alcreated a monopoly for lowing any other Ohio Ritchie Bros. OAA obcompany to do.” tained legal advice that Instead of a local included the opinion that this section of HB Lisa Renee WARD company being able to sell or buy heavy equip114 violated the Ohio Constitution’s uniformity clause and ment that would include dump trucks could be struck down as unconstitu- at a local auction, the local company could only sell construction equiptional if challenged. Canadian-owned Ritchie Bros. is ment that did not have a motor vehicle the largest auctioneer operation in title. You could buy or sell a backhoe, Ohio. It employs two legislative lob- but not a dump truck. To sell all of byists. This isn’t just about one giant your equipment you’d either have to corporation trying to eliminate all of take it out of state or go to the one aucits competition through legislation. tion location in Ohio where you could The auction issue is also one that sell or buy both — Ritchie Bros. Yoder & Frey have been in Northinvolves the Ohio Auto Dealers Association, which has its own lobby- west Ohio since 1964. Like a maists and does not want construction jority of auction operations, they are equipment auctioneers to sell equip- family owned and operated. HB 114 as passed and HB 153 as it is written ment that has a motor vehicle title. HB 114 allows Ritchie Bros. to will mean the company will have to auction motor vehicles at its Co- seek more out-of-state auctions to lumbus location as long as they only survive as a business. Members of OAA don’t want speaccount for 10 percent of its gross ancial treatment; all they want is to be nual sales revenue in Ohio. A local company impacted by allowed to compete fairly. They don’t this is Yoder & Frey Auctioneers. Its have scores of lobbyists with powgeneral manager, Dan Pletcher, said erful friends, but they should have he contacted his legislators, Rep. Bar- been able to count on our elected representatives to read bills before bara Sears and Sen. Mark Wagoner. “Sears came out the day after the passage. The General Assembly still phone call. When we explained the has time to do the right thing — let’s impact of the bill and how our busi- hope they do it. ✯ ness plan operates, she appeared to get it,” Pletcher said. “She said she Toledo Free Press Web Editor Lisa would see what she could do, then Renee Ward operates the political blog GlassCityJungle.com. stopped returning my phone calls.”

JUNE 19, 2011

GUEST COLUMN

House Bill 45 allows guns in bars, restaurants

f you remember Toledo’s “Route 66” incident a few years ago, you’ll know why I oppose a bill recently passed by the Ohio House allowing an owner of a concealed carry permit to carry their firearm into any bar or restaurant in Ohio. It means there might be people with guns in any place you go that serves liquor, including restaurants, clubs, malls, marinas and even museums. Allow me to refresh your memory of the incident at the Route 66 Bar and Grill on Westwood Avenue near Nebraska Avenue in Toledo, where on October 8, 2009, there was an old-fashioned Western shootout. The incident was captured on surveillance tape for all of us to witness. The surveillance video showed the place packed Michael ASHFORD with patrons when some people began exchanging words. A few seconds later, gunfire was caught on video with approximately 20-30 shots exchanged. Innocent bystanders fell to the floor and some patrons scrambled to the door. Luckily, no one was hurt. This is exactly the type of incident that we want to try to prevent by not allowing guns in places where alcohol can be a serious factor. The shootout made national news and gave Toledo a black eye in the national media. As a former City Council member, I had the opportunity to serve on the Zoning and Planning Committee. Almost 90 percent of liquor licenses are renewed each year without objection from the vice division of the Police Department. Yet when those licenses

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Many everyday citizens enjoy visiting our local bars and restaurants to meet with friends and to blow off some steam; there is no need to possibly make those locations any less safe for them.” are revoked it is usually because of the number of 911 calls made about an establishment, the majority of which are assaults and battery. Many everyday citizens enjoy visiting our local bars and restaurants to meet with friends and to blow off some steam; there is no need to possibly make those locations any less safe for them. Now, because of the passage of House Bill 45, guns will be allowed in troubled liquor establishments, causing concern for citizens’ safety. Here in Northwestern Ohio, Representatives Barbara Sears and Randy Gardner voted for this bill. Representatives Matt Szollosi and Teresa Fedor, joined me in voting no. The simple truth is: Guns and alcohol don’t mix. ✯ Michael Ashford (D) is State Representative for Ohio House District 48. Call his office at Phone: (614) 466-1401 or email him at district48@ohr.state.oh.us.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

No compassion for snake-killing punks TO THE EDITOR, What hogwash this editorial is (“Black snake prone” by Michael S. Miller, June 12). Pul-ease, spare me the whining about how sorry you are for the punks and yourself. How dare you sit there and watch a snake be tortured and killed then write about it in condescending tones! To watch four punks harass, torture and then kill a snake while you sat there is so typical of people like you who watch things happen but don’t make things happen. I, as a woman, would have immediately confronted the punks, called the police, saved the snake and chased the punks on their way then written about how lazy and worthless they were to find nothing better to do with their time than to kill a snake. I have stopped people on the street, in stores and on the road to berate their actions concerning how they

The union of the snake are treating their children, each other and the environment and animals. Get some moxie and actually speak up against something face to face instead of writing about it from the other side of the window. Then for you to say, oh by the way they were black, is worse. Start out with the facts. Four black punks were torturing and killing a snake and you did nothing but write about it and how bad you feel that you did nothing. Just think how bad the snake felt? Oh, they were black, too. Does that give them a pass? And finally, boo-hoo, that you couldn’t help the four young men who “must also feel cornered, trapped and under siege.” Huh? Who picked them up and smacked them against the plate glass window? Who got them up that morning and dressed them? Who made them pick the snake up? Who walked them downtown past your office? Their mommas? No, they did. Life is a choice and they picked a poor one to do what they did. I do not feel sorry for such punks, only for

those who have to come in contact with them. Hopefully it’s me one day to set them straight. ✯ KAREN ASH

Lack of intervention is disheartening

Author just as much to blame for snake death

I read Michael S. Miller’s article in the June 12 Toledo Free Press. I was so upset to think that he did not come to the aid of the black snake. The saying: “All creatures great and small ... the Lord God loves them all.” If the gang of four can torment and mutilate a four foot snake, Heaven help the cats and dogs of the Downtown Toledo area. To go a little further, this gang would be capable of any violence and you know, not many gangs respect human life anymore. How sad. I would have been so relieved to think that Miller went to the aid of the lowly snake. I am sure I could not have witnessed such violence and torment and not intervened. I probably would be called stupid. Maybe that is why no one helps their fellow men anymore. I would have called the police. They would not have responded but I could live with myself and the courage

TO THE EDITOR, Regarding Michael S. Miller’s story in the June 12 Toledo Free Press about the black snake, that is absolutely horrible. But you know what sir, why did you not call the police or holler out the window at them? You are just as much to blame as the youth are that beat the snake as you just stood by and thought “how awful.” I don’t like snakes at all, and I’m a 60-year-old woman, but I would have made my voice heard when I witnessed this. I understand your reluctance to face the youth person to person as most probably you would have felt the “towel” or worse, but you could have yelled at them and called the police. ✯ MARILYN WALLACE

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Address Toledo’s high crime issue TO THE EDITOR I read Michael S. Miller’s June 12 article about the killing of the snake. It was upsetting. I hate to see any animal abused. But here again we have young black males engaged in crime. With all the shootings since April, The Blade police report map that shows most were in the black neighborhoods. When is someone going to address the too high amount of crime being committed by young black males? ✯ MIKE JARR

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HEALTH CARE

By Matthew Irwin SPECIAL TO TOLEDO FREE PRESS

First, the coughing begins — just a scratchy throat, so I try to ignore it. Then, my cheeks burn and redden. Skin gets tight and dry. Chest, blotchy. Breathing gets difficult. And, finally, panic. For anyone suffering from severe allergies, the symptoms of anaphylaxis should be familiar. But having experienced it for the first time at 29 years old, I had a few urgent questions, such as: How did I have an allergic reaction while on medication that should have prevented it? The prescription for Prednisone was my gastroenterologist’s latest attempt to treat regular diarrhea and stomach cramps that felt like golf balls moving through my intestines. Instead, I spent two weeks cracked out and suddenly empathetic to menopausal women, not to mention angry that, again, my doctor had ignored my request for a blood test to rule out celiac disease, a poorly understood, yet common, intestinal autoimmune disorder. Celiac disease, also called celiac sprue, is a genetic condition that causes damage to the small intestines after its sufferer consumes gluten, a protein in common grains. According to a celiac center in Southern California, the disease often reveals itself through irritability (one of my lifelong traits), weight loss (check), “diarrhea with greasy stools” (check), and “abdominal cramping and discomfort” (check and check). Though opinions vary, most experts agree that up to 1 percent of Americans have celiac, less than 4 percent of those people know about it, and the average delay in diagnosis is 11 years. And these numbers don’t include Americans affected by other forms of gluten sensitivity, which some experts believe is much higher. Having suffered for only seven years, I fall below the national average, but I’m still unofficial because I diagnosed myself, which at least one expert discourages. But the proof is in the result: I’ve been gluten-free for four years — the first four years in a long time I haven’t had frequent unpleasant symptoms. More important, my friends don’t think I’m as much a

cranky grouch as I used to be. This is my story — one person’s struggle to understand why eating hurt, why his moods were unpredictable and why diagnosis was so difficult. I’ve had colonoscopy, small-intestine X-rays, an MRI and an endoscopy, the latter requiring a drug that encouraged me to reveal all my nasty transgressions and infidelities. (I apologize in advance for all the poop talk.)

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The fire down below: How I discovered celiac disease and came to live gluten free

Lack of information When I conveyed my angle over the phone to gluten-free advocate Danna Korn in San Diego, I could almost hear her shaking her head: “I hear that every day, and it drives me nuts.” Nineteen years ago, after being told repeatedly by doctors that nothing was wrong, Korn’s young son Tyler was diagnosed with celiac disease. Upset by a lack of information, she educated herself and wrote two books, “WheatFree, Worry-Free: The Art of Happy, Healthy, Gluten-Free Living,” and “Kids with Celiac Disease: A Family Guide to Raising Happy, Healthy Gluten-Free Children.” Since then, the 47-year-old professional recruiter has written several books, including “Living Gluten-Free For Dummies.” She started a nonprofit for kids with celiac and has become an advocate for gluten-free lifestyles. My symptoms probably began in college, most noticeably senior year, when I’d hurry out of parties and classrooms for the bathroom. But I shrugged it off: I’d been dealing with a failing relationship and anxiety over my impending graduation from Miami University with a degree in poetry, class of 1998. I didn’t know what I was going to do with myself next, so I returned to my parents’ house in Toledo to decide. A family doctor diagnosed me with separation anxiety and offered a prescription for Prozac, but I refused, deciding instead to deal with it on my own, which, of course, meant that I drank a lot — so I figured excess caused my frequent bathroom visits. I moved to Wyoming and spent the next two years snowboarding, hiking and climbing in Jackson Hole. Life was good, but my digestion sucked. An internist there tested me for parasites, and when the tests came back negative, she said that maybe I had irritable

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GLUTEN-FREE ADVOCATE DANNA KORN, LEFT, AND HER SON, TYLER, WHO HAS CELIAC DISEASE.

bowel syndrome (IBS). For another year, I coped, occasionally eliminating foods from my diet: Milk went first, then eggs. Still, the symptoms continued. I returned to the internist, who again tested me for parasites, and again suggested IBS, so I requested a specialist referral. A gastroenterologist in Idaho Falls said I was too young to have anything real — it was all in my head. (This diagnosis would become familiar during the next seven years.) He scheduled a colonoscopy, nonetheless, which found nothing. I walked away with the unpleasant memory of him inserting the scope before the anesthesia kicked in. For Korn’s son, the diagnosis was much faster, but much more frightening. One-year-old Tyler got sick, and the family doctor told her he was fine. A second doctor and then a third — they all told her she was neurotic. Finally, a fourth doctor sent him for “a bunch of tests.” They thought he had cystic fibrosis. They thought he had cancer. They didn’t know what he had, but they knew it was something. Finally, they tested him for celiac. Ask the average gastroenterologist (GI) the number of celiac patients they

treat, and they’ll say one or two, Korn said. Then ask the same GI how many patients they’ve tested for celiac and the response will be the same: one or two. When Korn began her research, information was scarce. She scoured medical libraries and talked to experts with one goal in mind: “I wanted Tyler to have a birthday party when he didn’t have to ask, ‘Can I eat this’?” She founded Raising Our Celiac Kids, or ROCK, a celiac kids support group that originally consisted only of her family but later grew into the nation’s largest, with 100 chapters. Since then, a 2004 consensus report by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) centralized much of the information about celiac disease.

A clear diagnosis Dr. Martin Kagnoff is a member of the NIH consensus committee. At the William K. Warren Medical Research Center for Celiac Disease at University of California, San Diego, he and a small team of investigators and clinicians study the disease. He said educating physicians and other clinicians about celiac disease and its various “atypical and silent

presentations” should be a priority. This means doctors should not only be looking for chronic intestinal pain, but also for patients with relatives who suffer from celiac, as well as patients with iron-deficiency anemia, premature osteoporosis, vitamin KAGNOFF deficiencies, delayed growth in children, abnormal liver function or Down syndrome. Some of his patients in the clinics have complications with neurological disorders, IBS and other autoimmune diseases, such as diabetes, thyroid disease and autoimmune hepatitis. Many of the people Kagnoff sees are like me — undiagnosed, but have stopped eating gluten and feel better. Kagnoff does not recommend going gluten-free without a clear diagnosis, as self-diagnosis may not be accurate and can make later evaluation much more difficult. ■ CELIAC CONTINUES ON A7

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■ CELIAC CONTINUED FROM A6 When I moved to San Diego in 2003, I’d been looking for an answer for only about five years and I still hadn’t heard the words “celiac” or “gluten,” but my symptoms worsened, and I couldn’t eat without becoming distended and angry. Uninsured at that time, however, I put off the search. Not until I started a new job with a good health plan did I resume the diagnostic process a year later. A new primary physician ran me through the parasite tests, again, and when the laboratory reported negative, again, he sent me to a gastroenterologist, who prescribed an MRI. When I complained at work about the process, a coworker asked if I had been tested for celiac. Nineteen years ago, when she gave birth to her daughter, she suddenly and inexplicably lost weight and couldn’t move her bowels without diarrhea. My symptoms sounded familiar, she said, especially lack of diagnosis. Turns out, celiac remains dormant in many people until triggered by a traumatic event, like pregnancy, Korn said. Other triggers include surgery, a car accident and emotional distress, such as a divorce or, probably in my case, anxiety. This information came in August 2005, and I was 29 years old. Seven years had passed since I began looking

for answers. I accepted that maybe some of the pain in my gut trickled down my spinal cord from obsessive worrying about money, family, career — and though I found a sustainable job, started grad school, met a girl and believed that life was all-around pretty sweet, eating got worse. Every time I ate, illness and mood swings followed. For someone with celiac, gluten causes nutrient-absorbing intestinal villi to flatten. Kagnoff compared it to shaving the shag off a shag carpet. The small intestines can’t absorb nutrients. Those of us fortunate to have the digestive symptoms may discover the disease sooner, but many sufferers live with other conditions. For this reason, Korn wants everyone to test for celiac disease and gluten sensitivity. “The common misconception is that the symptoms are always [intestinal],” Korn said. “But most symptoms are headaches, fatigue, joint pain, depression, even infertility.” But here’s where her work differs from Kagnoff ’s: “No one can fully digest wheat,” she said. “And gluten sensitivity is much more common than celiac.”

Controversial test Korn pointed me to Dr. Kenneth Fine, who runs a clinical lab, called EnteroLab, and heads the nonprofit Intestinal Health Institute in Texas. Ten years of research at En-

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teroLab showed Fine that about 30 percent of healthy people and 50 to 70 percent of sick people have some form of gluten sensitivity, but not necessarily celiac disease. Fine said that non-celiac gluten sensitivities can affect any part of the body. To detect non-celiac gluten

sensitivity, Fine developed a $100 fecal test, which he sent to me, free of charge, in late February 2007. A nurse in his office told me that the test — which Korn says is controversial — works by searching for gluten antibodies in the small intestines that absorb into the fecal matter.

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So, I self-consciously relieved myself into a margarine-like tub, sealed it in a bio-bag and mailed it back to Dallas. Six years ago, after my GI told me the MRI showed nothing, I asked him for two blood tests to rule out celiac. But he suggested an endoscopy first. ■ CELIAC CONTINUES ON A8

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GI blues The nurse said the endoscopy went well. For the procedure, the doctor needed to move me around easily, according to the patient release form. As such, I was given an anesthesia that basically deadened my short-term memory but kept me awake. While doctors had a tube down my throat, I was coherent and responsive but also lobotomized. My memory isn’t clear, but I think it went like this: I woke up in the recovery room holding photographs and had asked for my girlfriend. I may have been alone, and it could have been seconds, or it could have been an hour, when she finally walked in. “What am I doing with these photos?” I wanted to know. “They’re of your esophagus,” the nurse said. “You asked for them during the procedure. The doctor showed you the screen and you asked for copies. Don’t worry, the drugs will wear off.”

“And don’t worry,” the nurse added. “Everything you said is between us.” I still don’t know what I said in that operating room. In his office, my gastroenterologist said he didn’t remember or wasn’t paying attention. “I have to admit, though” he said, “that I didn’t test you for celiac, but I do think I found the trouble. You have eosinophilic esophagitis.” He wrote it down on a prescription pad, and explained that some kind of allergy or autoimmune disease that caused swelling in my esophagus probably also affected my intestines. Whereas allergies cause a hypersensitive immune system to attack allergens like it would attack a cold virus, Korn said, autoimmune diseases antagonize the immune system to attack tissue when a “foreign invader,” such as gluten, comes around. An autoimmune disease, such as celiac, causes the body to attack itself. “Could esopho-whatever come from celiac?” I asked my GI. His annoyance showed. I had done my own research, and he didn’t appreciate it. His expensive education won out against my Internet research. “It’s possible,” he said, “but I’d like to try steroids first and see what happens.” I accepted — two 10-milligram pills of Prednisone by mouth for a week, then a reduction by half a pill each week until finished. Having

begun the graduate creative writing program at San Diego State University that year, I had due a 20-page research report. Though I took an extra day off work and closed my social calendar for the weekend to write, I spent the time impatient, jittery and unfocused — basically, cracked-out from the pills. A week later, while eating Mexican food and drinking margaritas with a friend, I started coughing, and my throat got scratchy. My cheeks burned and turned red. My skin got tight and dry, my chest blotchy, my breathing constricted, and my heartbeat increased. I panicked and called my girlfriend to pick me up. She dosed me with Benadryl and covered my body in cold wet towels. I counted the ticks of my heart against the ticks from the ceiling fan until I finally fell asleep. With my gastroenterologist out of town, I spoke to his baffled colleague, who said steroids should have prevented that reaction, but since they didn’t, I should quit taking them. Though I had sworn not to return to my gastroenterologist, I needed him to move ahead with testing. Attempts to switch doctors failed when my HMO referred me over and again to specialists in the same office. So, as I stood in my GI’s office, again requesting a celiac test. He finally wrote a prescription for a tTG test — one of several serology tests — in his office’s lab.

JUNE 19, 2011 “I haven’t eaten gluten in a couple weeks,” I said. “Do I need it in my system for the test to work?” “No,” the GI said. Wrong. Korn and Kagnoff, and all available information shows that gluten must be in the digestive system for a serology test to be accurate.

Two choices Instead of using my gastroenterologist’s lab, I went another way. I went to an allergist, who diagnosed me with allergies to dairy, eggs and corn. Corn, in corn starch, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup — as in margarita mix, as in what I had been drinking with corn tortilla chips when I first experienced anaphylaxis. Margaritas and tortilla chips have been two regular parts of my diet since before I could drink legally, and I’ve never reacted to either prior to the steroids. But I’m not a doctor, so what do I know? It was probably a coincidence. The allergist gave me two choices: avoid allergens or begin immunotherapy, which involves one $15 shot every week until the symptoms go away, which could be years or never. I chose avoidance. And what about celiac and gluten sensitivity? Not his specialty, he said, but if avoiding gluten makes me feel better, stay away from it, too. Most people I know don’t un-

derstand what gluten-free means. It means no gluten. None. No wheat, barely or rye. No bread. No pasta. No pizza, subs or beer. The list of foods to avoid also includes malt, spelt, durum, semolina, bulgur, cake flour, matzo, matzah, couscous, wheat starch, modified wheat starch, hydrolyzed wheat protein and more. Celiac support groups also warn against “natural flavorings,” dextrin, seasonings, processed cheese, flavored yogurts, alcoholic beverages (fortunately this doesn’t include wine) and soy sauce. I haven’t even touched on crosscontamination during food processing or preparation (an issue at restaurants) or the many pharmaceutical drugs that use gluten as a binder. I also have the additional displeasure of avoiding corn and its derivatives that exist in many gluten-free foods. Which brings me to the favorite question of friends and coworkers who do not understand or experience problems with food: What the hell do you eat? For a while, I ate nothing — maybe one meal a day because I didn’t want to get sick. I lost weight, so much that a concerned professor remarked that my skin had turned translucent. But a clinical nutritionist taught me how to eat all over again. ■ CELIAC CONTINUES ON A10

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■ CELIAC CONTINUED FROM A8 Allergies and autoimmune diseases can be aggravated by poor nutrition, which is why Kagnoff frowns on self-diagnosis and keeps a nutritionist on staff. My nutritionist suggested yams and sweet potatoes for breakfast, rice for dinner with fresh meats and vegetables, especially spinach for the iron, and maybe a daily supplement. Throughout the day, she said, I should eat handfuls of nuts and I should think about taking probiotics (digestive bacteria) to replace what I’d lost from diarrhea. At restaurants, she said — better yet, avoid restaurants. Yes, finding food to eat is frustrating. The pain and tests and unanswered questions have been frustrating since 1998. But having some idea, as unofficial as it is, feels good. Then, on March 13, 2007 came the results of the controversial fecal test I did with Fine at EnteroLab: “Antibody was elevated, indicating that you have active dietary gluten sensitivity,” the e-mail said. It recommended a “strict and permanent” gluten-free diet. Kagnoff refused to comment on the fecal test or the results and suggested, nonetheless, that I get a genetic test to look for the celiac marker. It’s been 10 years since I began

trying to understand my digestive trouble, and four years since I’ve been (mostly) gluten free. I occasionally slip up when eating out, and I always pay for it. Sometimes with an immediate visit to the restroom, other times with a fever and some kind of cold. Overall though, my life has improved dramatically. I returned to Jackson Hole in late 2008 to discover a number of restaurants had gone gluten-free, from Thai food to American bistro, and a new grocery had opened dedicated to organic and allergen-free foods, basically a locally owned Whole Foods. I experimented with my ancillary food allergies and discovered that not only has cheese ceased to be a problem, but that I’m also able to enjoy larger quantities of eggs, which before bothered me even in small doses, in cakes for example. I haven’t tried corn, yet, though, because the borderline anaphylaxis is just plain frightening.

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a list of allergies, I say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Is that all?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? In the past four years, Krabach has noticed a vast improvement in the availability of gluten-free foods at traditional grocers, such as Kroger, though products differ from location to location. She also shops at and Claudiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Natural Food Market (3343 Secor Ave). And once in a while, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll travel to Whole Foods in Ann Arbor. In addition to the food at Organic Bliss, Krabach suggests the gluten-free options at Red Robin, Biaggiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Carrabbaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, PF Changâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Outback Steakhouse and Ginoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pizza. Charlieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pizza and Edibles on Sylvania Avenue uses Krabachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pizza crusts, at least a dozen every week. Hypersensitive eaters, she said, should stay wary: â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are the risks anybody takes going out to eat,â&#x20AC;? Krabach said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know two people who will seizure if they have even a hint of gluten. They canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t risk going out. Most people, however, if they take the proper precautions, can comfort-

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A memorandum to members of Toledo City Council was sent June 15 from Toledo’s Law Director Adam Loukx sharing a June 7 administrative ruling from the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System (OPERS). It said City of Toledo sanitation employees who work for Allied Waste would be considered employees of Lucas County as far as responsibility for pension pickup. On March 28, Toledo City Council passed legislation that would cease solid waste and recycling services and allow the city to enter into an agreement with Lucas County Solid Waste Management District (LCSWMD) to take over those services. LCSWMD would contract with a private company, Allied Waste, to provide the collection services. The City of Toledo employees are covered under OPERS. Questions were raised during the discussion phase of ceasing collection services as to the responsibility of Toledo or Lucas County should those employees take a position with Allied. The city had requested clarification from OPERS on if employees impacted would be deemed “carryover” employees. Under Ohio law, a carryover employee is an OPERS member who continues to perform the same or similar duties for a private employer that contracts to provide functions that were publicly operated. The administrative ruling from OPERS said, “On review of the agree-

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Visit www.toledofreepress.com m ■ OPERS CONTINUED FROM A14 Employees impacted would have 90 days to decide to pay both or to opt out of OPERS. “The private employer is responsible for remitting employee and employer contributions to OPERS. The former public employer pays the contributions only if the private employer fails to do so,” Graham-Price said. “Our position is if the determination is made someone is liable, then the city will take responsibility for that, not the county,” Herwat said. “State law prohibits us from indemnifying another political jurisdiction and once this is resolved, we will be able to proceed with a final contract.” “We will lose complete control over our solid waste except we will be subsidizing it to the tune of $1.5 million to $1.7 million per year, ” Councilman D. Michael Collins said. “This includes the new tipping fees, the cost of the Department of Public Utilities being the responsible billing agent and the employer portion of pension pick

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up.” Collins estimates the OPERS cost at $200,000 to $250,000. Gerken said considering the $6.8 million in savings, it still makes the mechanics of the Allied contract favorable for ToGERKEN ledo regardless of the outcome with OPERS. Collins said members of Council should have been provided the administrative ruling when it was received. “If they would have received a ruling that supported their position, I believe they would have shared that immediately,” Collins said. “When the command officers decision was made by [the State Employment Relations Board], that opinion was immediately provided to Council and the public.” Gerken and Herwat both said they expected an answer on the appeal within the next week to two weeks. ✯

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Section 108 loans proposal unanimously approved By Zach Davis TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER zdavis@toledofreepress.com

Toledo City Council approved a proposal to change how Section 108 loans can be utilized in Toledo on June 14. All 11 council members in attendance voted in favor of the proposal to create a multimillion dollar revolving loan pool. “I was very impressed,” Councilman Adam Martinez said. “This proposal was introduced by both Councilman [Rob] Ludeman and I. We worked very hard on it.” “I’m very happy it was passed,” Director of the Department of Neighborhoods Kattie Bond said. “This is going to be a great economic development tool for the City of Toledo.” Section 108 is a system of loan guarantees funded through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) which local governments can utilize. The portions of those Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds can be used for federally guaranteed loans to benefit low to moderate-income individuals. The plan passed by City Council aims to “create a multimillion dollar re-

volving loan pool that may be accessed by for-profi t and nonprofit organizations for the express use of development as defi ned by governing body.” It also will allow for “creative financing with fi scally responsible underwriting criteria to ensure beneficial development within the City of Toledo” as well as helping to create new jobs in the city. “We are in the unique situation that we are able to utilize the Port Authorities bonding authority to really magnify the impact of the 108 fund,” Martinez said. “We only have available $9 million at this point but magnified by four that’s $36 million for job creation. This is all about jobs. Sustainable, long-term, good-paying jobs.” “It’s extremely unique,” Bond said. “We will be able to leverage our Section 108 dollars by millions. That will give us that much more leverage and the opportunity to be able to do that many more projects.” Th is proposal is something that is unlike anything that has ever been done before. Martinez said that Toledo is “first in the country to do this” and that the city will be “leading the country in this type of development project.” The next step for Bond requires an application to be fi led with HUD

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is expected to be done by the middle of July. He also is putting together a working committee, although details of its structure or who will lead it are not yet known. ✯

Anita Lopez, Lucas County Auditor Data Collectors to Begin Inspecting Homes to Aid in the 2012 Revaluation Process As you may be aware, our of ﬁce is required under the law to appraise each individual parcel of real estate in the county every six years. Called a revaluation, this program is required by Ohio law to equalize values and to take into account the need to adjust values based on current trends in the market. To aid in this process, data collectors are going to your area to gather information about your property. During the month of June, data collectors will be in the following areas: Holland

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For hungry children, the cheapest and most readily attainable meal is oft en a burger and fries from a fastfood chain. Anthony Johnson, director of inner-city program Kids Unlimited, said children raid trash bins behind fast-food t-food restaurants after closing time By Patrick Timmis me for a late dinner. TOLEDO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER er. These foods ptimmis@toledofreepress.com are unhealthy althy When Toby Siebeneck read a news- and, when depaper story about child hunger in To- pended on n for survival, ledo 11 years ago, he wasn’t buying it. result “Man, that’s not true,” he recalled can lt obesity saying. “Don’t give me no bleeding in ty and Type heart story.” pe But aft er a year of grassroots re- II diabetes es open search with a group of friends, he and n decided the article had been un- c h i l d r e n derstated. Siebeneck founded Feed to a host of Lucas County Children in response. other diseases, eases, Jeannie Th e group works to feed healthy said annie regmeals to up to 6,200 children at Wagner, a regdietimore than 67 locations on weekdays istered dieti tian at St. Vincent Mercy Medical all summer. In Lucas County, 29,962 children Center who works primarily with under the age of 18 — 27.4 percent adult diabetics. Twenty years ago, Wagner said, — live at or below the poverty line, according to the U.S. Census. During she never saw Type 2 diabetes, but the school year, the National School the disease has fl ourished as people Lunch Program ensures at least one have become more obese. Today, meal a day for them. But that program she said nine out of 10 diabetics she halts during the long summer break, treats are Type 2. Feed Lucas County Children is leaving many children scrounging for trying to combat the issue by offering cheap food. Toledo Free Press will focus a six-week series this summer on the mission of Feed Lucas County Children (FLCC). From July 3 to July 17, Walt Churchill’s markets will participate in a “Round Up Hunger” campaign to raise funds for FLCC.

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Siebeneck worries that FLCC is running out of kitchen space. Unless the organization expands into another building, he said, it will soon have to turn hungry mouths away. But expansion costs money — anywhere from $850,000 to almost $2 million, depending on the project’s scale —and that’s money the FLCC does not have. Sonia Najjar, director of UT’s Center for Diabetes and Endocrine Research, said about 33,000 Type 2 diabetics live in Toledo. She estimated that fi ve years ago, 6 percent of them were children. Today, she estimated, more than 9 percent are children. “Our bodies, our children’s bodies are basically aging due to obesity,” she said. “They are using computers much more than we did. They are not using playgrounds like we did.” Blacks and Hispanics, populations with a high percentage under the poverty line in Ohio according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, are at an especially high risk for Type 2 diabetes. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that Hispanics have a 66 percent higher risk and blacks have a 77 percent higher risk of contracting the disease than non-Hispanic whites. ■ FLCC CONTINUES ON A18

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regular, balanced meals — avoiding fried and heavily processed foods in favor of healthier options. “This is a chicken patty,” Siebeneck said, picking up a particleboard piece of meat resembling McChicken sandMcChi wich meat. “Processed. cess Garbage.” “Th is is a prime example pri of what makes us different,” he added, indicating a wholecat muscle chicken m breast in his b other hand. o The lunch menu for June m 15 consisted 1 of barbecue chicken, Mexican chic corn, an orange, a wheat whea roll and a carton carto of milk. The organization focuses on providing fresh or frozen fruits and, when it does use canned produce and vegetables, avoiding heavy syrups. Siebeneck prides himself on the fact that the FLCC kitchen is without a fryer. Instead, 14 industrial steamers line the wall, which Siebeneck said is the healthiest way to cook food — conserving the most nutrients possible.

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■ FLCC CONTINUED FROM A17 According to the most recently available data from the CDCP, about half of the newly diagnosed cases of diabetes each year for black children between the ages 10-19 are Type 2, as opposed to Type 1, which is not dietrelated. Just under half of new cases for Hispanic children in the same age range are also Type 2. Many Toledo children survive on one or at best two meals a day, said parent Dacia Bolden, whose children have eaten at FLCC when she struggled to pay the grocery bills. Wagner at St. Vincent said skipping meals is a major contributor to obesity and, by extension, diabetes. If a child doesn’t eat breakfast, his metabolism doesn’t start working to burn food, and he is then more likely to gorge on food when it is available — junk food out of a trash bin, for instance. Danny Gray, a black Toledo resident, has had Type 2 diabetes for years and was in the hospital during the winter. He doesn’t have healt insurance, so fighting the disease with a healthy diet is vital for him. During the summers, he volunteers and eats at FLCC, which he said has helped him to balance his diet. Last year, his son Danny Jr. — who Gray believes is also diabetic — also worked and ate there. “It keeps me at the portion I should have, rather than overloading my plate like it’s Thanksgiving,” Gray said. The healthier meals have also helped him avoid his habitual fastfood run, which he believes contributed to many of his problems. “I’m trying to break that,” he said. “I’m a fast-food junkie.” ✯

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Sylvania health system unveils new name Sylvania Franciscan Health is the new name of the Sylvania-based health and human services organization formerly known as Franciscan Services Corporation. The new identity, launched June 1, also includes an updated logo featuring a cross shaped like a tree with three branches. The branches represent the organization’s core values of reverence, service and stewardship. The changes better reflect the organization’s sponsorship and heritage with the Sisters of St. Francis as well as its focus on health ministry, said President and CEO James W. Pope in a news release. “These are exciting times in the organization’s rich history. Sylvania Franciscan Health is not a new company, nor a change in our values,” Pope said. “The launch of our new corporate identity better represents

who we are today and our direction for the future.” Sylvania Franciscan Health consists of six hospitals, seven long-term care facilities, four assisted living facilities, independent senior housing, a counseling center and a long-term shelter for victims of domestic abuse. It has facilities in Ohio, Kentucky and Texas. The sisters have been in Sylvania for almost 95 years, said Diane Knerr, director of communications for Sylvania Franciscan Health. “We have a really rich history,” Knerr said. “We’re growing, and to grow we want people to know us as a system of health and human services sponsored by the sisters here in Sylvania and to do that we redesigned everything. It’s for better recognition in the area that we serve.” For more information, visit www. sylvaniafranciscanhealth.org. ✯

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Local businessman Ford Cauffiel has helped more than 15,000 elementary school students in Northwest Ohio school districts improve their academics through a peer tutoring program, Students for Other Students (SOS). Cauffiel said he has invested more than $1 million in the SOS afterschool program. He established a nonprofit corporation, Students for Other Students, to fund the program he began more than 20 years ago. Cauffiel reported that the SOS program has received funds from the Rotary Clubs in Northwest Ohio and numerous other local companies and organizations. “I want to raise some big money for this program,” Cauffiel said. He plans to approach educational foundations and philanthropic organizations for grants and donations with the goal of raising $1 million per year for the SOS program. Since its inception, Cauffiel reported

the peer tutoring has been applied in urban, suburban and rural school districts in four Ohio counties, and districts in Illinois, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Rhode Island. Cauffiel said the program pays older, academically bright students to tutor younger, struggling students in need of assistance in their studies. Paying students up to $8 per hour to tutor their peers has proven to be a win-win for both tutors and students, he said. Struggling students learn new effective study habits from their contemporaries, while tutors serve as role models who communicate to students in their language as opposed to the more formal style of adults. By being paid, tutors experience responsibility and the satisfaction of earning money using their mental skills, Cauffiel said. “It has changed the lives of thousands of children who for various reasons found learning difficult in the public school environment. Many of those students were at risk of falling through the cracks of society,” he said. He first introduced the program to

Perrysburg Schools in 1989 when the district became the original adopter. It has used the tutoring program annually, according to Kadee Anstadt, director of teaching and learning for the district. Anstadt reported the district is helping about 135 middle and high school students with the SOS program funded by Cauffiel and additional students at the elementary level with a similar program funded by the Perrysburg Rotary Club. Seventy-eight students participated in the SOS program in Springfield Local Schools during the 20092010 school year. With the help of 42 high school student tutors, the third through fifth graders earned an average gain of 13 percent in test scores. The Springfield district used title funds to assist with the program as the total number of students needing the tutoring service was larger than normal, according to a report filed by Todd Cramer, director of instruction and technology for the district. ■ CAUFFIEL CONTINUES ON A22

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“I just heard like a gunshot in the back of my right ear and I just fell to the ground.” That was the last memory that Toledo junior safety Jermaine Robinson had of himself on a football field after rupturing his right Achilles tendon during a 34-32 loss to Florida International in the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl in December. “I went to the middle of the field running just a normal zone read and planted,” Robinson said. “It sounded like somebody shot me, there was just a pop. I fell to the ground and touched my ROBINSON foot and it was moving. It didn’t hurt at all. I got up and started walking and my ankle just gave out and I knew it was something bad.” Robinson had surgery two days later and has been rehabbing ever since. He wore a cast on his foot until March and was forced to use crutches. His recovery time is an estimated six to eight months. As for his status in 2011, Robinson hopes to be back for the Sept. 1 opener when Toledo hosts New Hampshire in the Glass Bowl. Unfortunately, it is still unknown whether or not he will be able to return by that time. “I went to see the doctor a few weeks ago and he said he just wants to see me before camp,” Robinson said. “That hopefully is the last one where he just lets me go ahead and puts it in the trainer’s hands. Hopefully, I can make [the opener].” “I think he is coming along great,” Toledo head coach Tim Beckman said. “I would say that he is ahead of schedule, but we haven’t been able to see him since May 1 working out.” Robinson said he has been working out at full capacity — including sprinting, backpedaling, cutting and even running a 40-yard dash with a time of 4.66. “I’m just building it up each day as much as the pain will let me,” Robinson said. “I haven’t had much pain since last month.” A speedy return is now even more important. Isaiah Ballard, who started all 13 games last season at the “star” position (linebacker/safety hybrid), was kicked off the team on May 25 after being charged with felonious assault, one day after reserve lineman

Damien McIntosh was removed for the same offense. Ballard finished third on the team in tackles (83) behind only Archie Donald (146) and Dan Molls (143), who both finished in the top nine in the nation. “Damien and Isaiah are great players,” Robinson said. “Damien was starting to have a good spring. He’s big, athletic and a good dude. Isaiah, everybody knows he was an All-Conference player and he could have even been All-American. “Both of them were really good teammates. We had a lot of fun with them. I’ve known them since my freshman year. Sometimes you just make the wrong decisions.” If Robinson is unable to return, senior Diauntae Morrow will take his place in the starting lineup. The former Iowa transfer played in every game last season. Another option could be junior safety Vladimir Emilien, who is awaiting word from the NCAA on his eligibility for the upcoming season. Despite the depth, Robinson is determined to make it back to the lineup for the beginning of the season to play in two tough rematches looming in weeks two and three. The Rockets travel to Ohio State on Sept. 10 before hosting Boise State on Sept. 16. The Buckeyes shut out Toledo 38-0 in Cleveland in 2009 while the Broncos rolled to a 57-14 victory over UT on its home turf last season. “It’s a good thing for the program and the City of Toledo,” Robinson said. “Since my freshman year we have been playing BCS schools. It can be a big momentum builder and we can really do something special if we can go to Ohio State and beat them and then come home to Boise. You don’t see too many teams in the MAC that can bring a top-10 or even top-5 team for a home game on ESPN.” Robinson and the Rockets should be catching Ohio State at the right time after head coach Jim Tressel was forced to resign in the midst of NCAA violations. Starting quarterback Terrelle Pryor, who set career-

highs in passing (262) and rushing (111) yards while totaling four touchdowns against the Rockets, had been suspended for the first five games of the season for violations he committed, but has since left the team and declared for the NFL Supplemental Draft. Others suspended for the Toledo game include starting running

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Goodwill Industries of Northwest Ohio will celebrate the Halloween season by scaring up a new Toledo tradition. “The Ghoulwill Ball” will take place at the Heatherdowns Country Club on Oct. 28 and will feature music, food, a casket raffle, a HARRIS cash bar and other surprises. The inaugural theme will be “Resurrecting the ’20’s.”

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Maestro Kayhan Kalhor, a Grammy-nominated composer and kamancheh player, is bringing his Persian music to the University of Toledo on June 24. The concert is organized by the Persian Students Association at UT. Senior Shayan Parsai requested Kalhor perform at Toledo KALHOR after holding kamancheh lessons with him via Skype.

“It was really a surprise for me that he accepted to come to Toledo,” said Parsai’s father Ishmael, a professor of radiation oncology at UT and Chief of Medical Physics Division at the Health Science Campus. “I talked to him and said it would be great if he could come. We’re all very excited. It’s a big, colorful feather on UT’s hat. I’m puzzled at how the student organization was able to pull this. It’s wonderful.” The concert will take place at UT’s Doermann Theater at 8 p.m. Premium and handicap tickets are $40 for guests and $30 for students. Standard seating tickets are $25 and $20 for students. See the June 22 edition of Toledo Free Press Star for a feature on Parsai. ✯

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Even on a sweltering June day routing around in the attic of his Massachusetts home, Lloyd Cole still sounds cool. The British-American artist was getting ready to go back on the road in support of “Broken Record,” which was released in the States last month. For the disc, Cole, best known as the cerebral frontman of the Commotions, assembled a band. “I wrote a few songs that seemed to demand drums, and that’s when we put together the band,” he said during a phone interview. “I thought it was so much fun, we might as well do a whole album like that because you never know — I might never do another one.” While he laughed, he wasn’t joking. “I think it’s natural there will come a point where you reach maybe the diminishing returns, a sort of watershed, and at that point, I think I’d be quite happy to just sing my old songs,” Cole said. “I think actually it’s really to be applauded if people realize that the next album that they might make is maybe really not that good,” he continued. “I don’t want to become one of those artists who keep making albums when they should stop. As long as I can feel I’m doing good work, I will try to keep making records, but it doesn’t get easier.”

The singer-songwriter turned to fans to help finance “Broken Record.” For $45, 1,000 fans prepaid for a deluxe edition. “It was nice because they’re all sort of executive producers of the record, and they know the record is there because of them,” he said. The Lloyd Cole Small Ensemble — Mark Schwaber, guitar and mandolin, and Matt Cullen, guitar and banjo — will play The Ark in Ann Arbor at 8 p.m. June 23. Tickets are $25. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. “I just really was looking for a break from being a troubadour/folk singer,” he said of the ensemble. “And then when it came to making the record, we ended up expanding on that sound.” Fans can expect to hear some Cole classics. “We are reinventing old songs. We’re playing quite a few songs from ‘Rattlesnakes’ and quite a few songs from the new album, and almost at least one song from every album,” he said. The brooding Brit’s catalog includes “Jennifer She Said,” “Perfect Skin,” “My Bag,” “No Blue Skies” and “Are You Ready to be Heartbroken?” A noted golfer, Cole isn’t sure if he’ll hit the links before the concert. “I know we get into Ann Arbor the night before the show,” he said. “You don’t really want a 50-year-old dude trying to play a big round of golf and trying to do a concert the same day; I might fall asleep onstage.” ✯

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FAMILY PRACTICE

How to succeed in making friends without really trying

eople occasionally joke with me that I seem to know everyone in town. Although I obviously don’t literally know everyone, my apparent propensity for collecting friends and acquaintances makes me sometimes wonder what it is exactly that causes some people to walk into rooms full of strangers and others to walk into rooms full of friends. I spend the vast majority of my time at home with the same four people, so how I am generally able to spot a friendly face when I do make it out in public is slightly perplexing. I have a few theories, however: Theory 1: I’m a native. Natives certainly have a leg up when it comes to acquaintance-spotting. Being in an area for the better part of 35 years allows one to recognize others and be recognized with greater regularity than someone who transferred in just a few years ago. I had an entire local contact list mentally filled with neighbors, teachers, friends, siblings’ friends,

friends’ parents, siblings’ friends’ way, I think the quiet detachment I parents and so on before I even en- held onto as a child allowed me to formulate some of my most useful tered adulthood. Theory 2: I’m not too picky. social tools. When you are too shy to One of the greatest gifts my engage people, there is a lot of time to study the ins and grandma, Lucille outs of social interacPurdy, bestowed upon tion while standing me was the idea that awkwardly and inno one was too imporvisibly nearby. I’ve tant, or not important also discovered that enough, to approach. meeting many people In fact, when you imone on one, which plement the “talk to makes me only slightly anyone” practice, you uncomfortable, is an often find that those excellent way to inwho may not appear Shannon SZYPERSKI crease my chances to have much to say turn out to be the most intriguing of already knowing at least one and vice versa. I’ve never found how person in a large, unfamiliar group, people look or even their reputation which still requires me to fight my to necessarily be the best indicator flight instinct. Theory 4: I genuinely like of how much I am going to take people and care about their deaway from a conversation. Theory 3: I like to study. A tails. When I was in high school, not-so-fun little tidbit is that I’m there was an upper classmate, who actually quite socially anxious and I didn’t really know, who drove a have been for as long as I can re- yellow car. I would see her driving member. However, in some odd around town at least once or twice

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a week. I began to wonder if we traveled in very similar circles or if paying attention to a particular detail about her made me take better notice when we did continually cross paths. I assumed the latter was true and have used it to gain an appreciation for how taking an interest in one another’s details gives us the opportunity to connect at least in some way on occasion Theory 5: I make new friends but keep the old. While my husband may find my tendency to not let things go exasperating at times, it is a decent quality when it comes to staying in touch and on good terms with people. Although I have a small and tight-knit crew that I interact with on a regular basis, I also enjoy my intermittent friends and acquaintances and find there are moments in life when I need them almost as much. As a child, I watched my parents take on the world with open arms as I struggled to imagine myself with the ability to ever quite

do such a thing. Yet, learning by example and witnessing how it enriched our family life gave me the confidence and desire over time to create my own positive pattern of human interaction. Having a child who seems to be following in my clam-up-andcower past, I hope to pass on the tools that will eventually lead her to live an even more connected and loving existence. I realize through my own experience that all of my children will struggle as they find that not everyone in the world is willing or able to connect with them, and that there will even always be people who don’t care for them in the least. I can only hope they find more success in foraging human relationships than not and that they never stop making the effort in a sincere and meaningful way. ✯ Shannon and her husband Michael are raising three children in Sylvania. Email her at letters@toledofreepress.com.

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