Volume 49 | Issue 10
ClevelandCommunityNewsOctober 2015 —Complimentary— East and West Edition
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Purple concert benefit series: Lupus Awareness at the House of Blues Sunday November 29th Thanksgiving weekend
Featuring national recording artist mystikal Cleveland, Ohio -National recording leg-end mystikal has come on board to bring awareness and support by performing at the inaugural purple concert benefit se-ries in cleveland ohio sunday november 29th thanksgiving weekend at the house of blues.
The purple miracle butterflies foundation in partnership with the cleveland founda-tion, famicos foundation and the glenville community foundation. A fund has been established to help lupus patients have a better quality of life through the difficulties that people may experience. We would like everyone to leave the event with their spir-its lifted through music and inspiration.
Mystikal is an enthusiastic person that has set his sights on giving back and resto-ration. His comback has been tremendous. When kimberly todd huffman group llc contacted him for this powerful purpose he was more than abliged to appear for the lupus awareness cause. Other artists appearing for this event is donnie lynee, the footprints band, humble g tha fiddla cleveland’s own hip-hope violinist and leg-end dj johnny o.
The purpose of the purple concert ben-efit series:lupus awareness event is to edu-cate, advocate and connect with those that are living with the disease as well as people that have loved ones that have it as well but just don’t understand what they are going through. The concert will educate everyone that attends as well as entertain them. The benefit is projected to tour ten (10) cities and four countries to spread the awareness about the affects of lupus and how to over-come all obsticals the disease tries to put in the way of patients. The next one for cleve-
land is projected for summer of 2016. Lupus is a chronic inflammatory disease
caused when the immune system attacks its own tissues. Lupus attacks all major organs because it is all foreign to the antibodies. It is the highest form of rheumatoid arthirits. Lupus attacks the joints, skin, kidney, liver, brain and the heart. It is more common for it to be diagnosed in women between the ages of 15-44. Any one can have lupus. It is found to be more common in african ameri-can, hispanic, asian and native american women. Selena gomez has just come out to let everyone know how the disease has began to effect her life and bring awareness as well.
There is no known cause or cure for the disease.The medication can help or hurt the patients. Many patients take the medica-tion to try to limit the amount of “flarr ups” which occur. But sometimes the medication does not help but can also make the disease turn for the worst.
The city of cleveland is going through a lot presently. The response about the aware-ness for lupus as well as being able to attend a benefit where mystikal is the special guest has the city excited.
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Sittenfeld’s supporters establishing Super PACSabrina Eaton
Washington — Supporters of Cincinnati coun-cilman PG Sittenfeld last week filed paperwork to establish a new Super PAC to support his U.S. Senate bid.
The organization, called New Leadership for Ohio, is headed by Cincinnati lawyer and Demo-cratic activist Paul De Marco, according to a news release announcing the group’s founding. Neil Kammerman of Media Inc. will serve as general strategist and media consultant, and its pollster will be Mike Bocian of GBA Strategies.
The group says it will raise “substantial funds” to spread Sittenfeld’s message throughout the state.
“PG Sittenfeld is a fresh, new leader who can help break the gridlock in Washington and solve the big problems facing Ohio,” said a statement from De Marco.
“Our group firmly believes it’s time to pass the torch to emerging leaders like PG, instead of blocking them. We’re determined to make sure Ohioans don’t miss the opportunity to send this bright young visionary to the Senate”
“Conventional politics and political thinking have not solved Ohio’s problems,” added Kam-merman. “We want to make sure people get to hear PG’s great ideas and understand how he can solve problems.”
Documents the group filed at the FEC on Sept. 15 did not indicate that it has raised any money so far. Kammerman declined to comment on its fundraising goals.
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As of June 30, Sittenfeld’s campaign had raised slightly more than $1 million and spent around $300,000, according to figures compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.
Former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, who is also seeking the Democratic party’s nomination to oppose incumbent Republican Rob Portman in the 2016 race, had raised about $1.7 million and spent about $500,000.
Portman had raised $11.7 million and spent almost $3.2 million. A Super PAC formed to help Portman’s campaign had raised $186,000 by the middle of this year.
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A few months ago, Victoria Young was one of the hundreds of parents of Akron school children to open a letter from LeBron James.The date was February 5, and James was writing to celebrate his mothers birthday. “I feel like we were just celebrating my mother’s birthday last year and here we are again, another birthday for mom,” wrote James, who signed the letter as a “Proud Son of Gloria James.”“As I take today to reflect and celebrate her, I also want to give it up for you,” James wrote. “Being a parent or guard-ian of young children is a huge responsibility. Now that I
am the father of three, I know how much responsibility. It makes me think about how much my mother did for me when I was growing up and how much you are doing for your kids.”Young says every time James reaches out to her home – no, the letter was not the first nor will it be the last from the Cavs superstar, “I get just excited as the kids do.”Young’s daughter, La’Zurae Gary, is in the sixth grade in Ak-ron public schools and a member of the LeBron James Fam-ily Foundation’s mentoring program for at risk kids.
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Monheit’s sense of liberation is appar-ent throughout The Heart Of The Matter, the acclaimed, Grammy-nominated vocalist’s ninth studio album. It can be felt in her wide- ranging choice of material, in the unique arrangements, and in her own fearless performances and interpretations. The diverse and very personal set of songs includes both familiar standards and compositions by Lennon/McCartney, Randy Newman, two songs by Ivan Lins, recorded in the original Portuguese, and, for the first time, a Monheit original.
“I knew that I wanted the material to be chosen based on the lyrical content”, says Monheit of the eclectic track list.
“Over the years, my singing has really taken on that focus. At the beginning of my career, I wanted to show proof of my knowledge of music, that I could impro-vise and sing through the changes. But as I got older, especially after getting married and having a child, I started feeling the lyrics more simply because I had more to sing about. Focusing on the technical side was part of my learn-ing process, but over time, all of that became a natural part of my singing. Now I use it to support the lyric, not just to prove myself.”
Monheit has been a leading light in both the jazz and cabaret worlds since emerging as a finalist in the Thelonious Monk Institute’s 1998 vocal competi-tion. In addition to her own recordings, she has worked alongside the likes of Terence Blanchard, Tom Harrell, and Ivan Lins. She says that the distinctive, continually surprising sound of The Heart Of The Matter is the result of an especially satisfying collaboration with Grammy-winning producer Gil Gold-stein, who has previously worked with such giants as Wayne Shorter, Gil Evans, and Pat Metheny. The pair first joined forces for part of Monheit’s 2009 album The Lovers, The Dreamers, and Me.
Though the dozen tracks were re-corded in just three days, Monheit notes that the sessions came at “a very intense time” in her own life. Her young son had recently injured his arm and needed
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From the song choices to the perform-ances, The Heart Of The Matter is a work deeply informed by Jane Monheit’s life- as a woman, wife, and mother in the second decade of a remarkable career- and it reaches emotional levels she at-tributes to an “extreme comfort zone” in the recording studio. “It was a small group, we’re all friends, and everyone really wanted to be there,” she says. “I’m very close with my band, so to hear Gil’s beautiful work with my family beneath it inspired me to be completely unself-conscious… I think I’ve finally reached my level of onstage, live interpretation in the studio, which has always been a challenge for me.”
“When you’re playing with people you love,” says Monheit, “it always makes for better music.”
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Open to all municipalities for issues and local options N/A 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 10/22 12/11All Boards of Education 8/5 8/24 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 10/22 12/11Bay Village (NP) See Primary Election 8/24 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 12 10/22 12/11Beachwood (NP) 8/20 8/24 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 10 10/22 12/11Bedford (NP) 8/5 8/24 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 12 10/22 12/11Bedford Judicial (NP) 8/5 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 75 10/22 12/11Bedford Hts (NP) See Primary Election N/A 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 10 10/22 12/11Bentleyville (NP) 8/5 8/24 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 1 10/22 12/11Berea ( I ) 3/6 8/24 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 15 10/22 12/11Bratenahl (NP) 8/5 8/24 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 1 10/22 12/11Brecksville (NP) 8/5 N/A 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 11 10/22 12/11Broadview Hts (NP) See Primary Election 8/24 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 15 10/22 12/11Brook Park ( I ) 6/10 N/A 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 13 10/22 12/11Brooklyn (NP) 8/5 8/24 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 8 10/22 12/11Brooklyn Hts (NP) 8/5 8/24 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 1 10/22 12/11Chagrin Falls Township (NP) 8/5 8/24 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 1 10/22 12/11Chagrin Falls Village (NP) 8/20 8/24 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 4 10/22 12/11Cleveland Council Ward 16 ONLY (NP) See Primary Election 8/24 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 17 10/22 12/11Cleveland (NP) No Candidate Election 8/24 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 348 10/22 12/11Cleveland Judicial (NP) 6/25 8/24 8/5 n/a 10/6 10/5 349 10/22 12/11Cleveland Hts (NP) 9/4 9/24 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 37 10/22 12/11Cuyahoga Hts. (NP) 8/5 8/24 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 1 10/22 12/11East Cleveland Council (NP) 8/5 N/A 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 18 10/22 12/11Euclid (NP) 8/5 8/24 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 48 10/22 12/11Fairview Park (NP) See Primary Election N/A 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 15 10/22 12/11Garfield Hts (NP) See Primary Election N/A 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 22 10/22 12/11Gates Mills (NP) 8/5 8/24 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 2 10/22 12/11Glenwillow (NP) 8/5 8/24 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 3 10/22 12/11Highland Heights (NP) 8/5 8/24 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 8 10/22 12/11Highland Hills (NP) 8/5 8/24 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 1 10/22 12/11Hunting Valley (NP) 8/5 8/24 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 1 10/22 12/11Independence (NP) 8/5 8/24 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 5 10/22 12/11Lakewood (NP) See Primary Election 8/24 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 41 10/22 12/11Lakewood Judicial (NP) 8/5 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 41 10/22 12/11Linndale (NP) 8/5 8/24 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 1 10/22 12/11Lyndhurst (NP) 8/5 8/24 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 12 10/22 12/11Maple Hts (NP) See Primary Election 8/24 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 19 10/22 12/11Mayfield Hts. (NP) 8/5 8/24 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 15 10/22 12/11Mayfield Village (NP) 8/5 8/24 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 4 10/22 12/11Mayfield Village Charter Review Commission 8/5 8/24 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 4 10/22 12/11Middleburg Hts (NP) 8/20 8/24 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 13 10/22 12/11Moreland Hills (NP) 8/5 8/24 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 3 10/22 12/11Newburgh Hts ( I ) 5/4 8/24 8/5 9/4 10/6 10/5 2 10/22 12/11
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^Protest deadline for candidate petitions is generally 74 days (12/28/2015) before the election.
# Military / Overseas ballots begin to be mailed 45 days before the election (9/19/2015)
^Protest deadline for candidate petitions is generally 74 days (8/21/2015) before the election.
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Selena Gomez’s Lupus:
Expert Q&ABy Brenda Goodman
WebMD Health News
Pop star Selena Gomez recently revealed she has lupus, an autoim-mune disease that can cause joint pain, rashes, fatigue and organ damage. In an interview with Bill-board magazine, the 23-year-old pop star said a much-publicized stint at a rehab center last year was really a chance to collect her-self after her diagnosis and treat-ment.
“I’ve been through chemo-therapy. That’s what my break was really about. I could’ve had a stroke,” Gomez told the maga-zine. “I locked myself away until I was confident and comfortable again.”
WebMD asked Howard Smith, MD, a rheumatologist who directs the Lupus Clinic at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, what lupus is and how chemotherapy drugs are used in treating it.
WebMD: What is lupus?
Smith: Lupus is an autoimmune disease, where the body attacks itself. A lot of women have lupus; it’s not rare. About 1 in 250 Afri-can-American women have it and 1 in 400 white women.
WebMD: Are certain organs and tissues affected more than others?
Smith: Any part of the body can be affected. The two most com-mon are the joints for arthritis and the skin, which is prone to rashes.
Half of lupus patients have kid-ney disease and half don’t. People
who have kidney disease usu-ally end up on chemotherapy with medications that are toxic, but not taking the drugs is riskier than taking them.
The muscles can be involved. The eyes can be involved. It can affect anything, head to toe. Be-cause there are so many parts that can be affected, each patient with lupus is unique.
WebMD: Gomez said she could have had a stroke. How does lupus cause strokes?
Smith: Some young women with lupus have a syndrome called an-tiphospholipid syndrome, which means that their blood clots too easily. It’s only 10% of lupus pa-tients, but it can obviously cause major problems. Those women have multiple miscarriages and don’t do well during pregnancy because they have blood clots that go to the placenta and cause miscarriages or they have strokes. It’s not uncommon for a 30-year-old patient to have a stroke.
WebMD: We think of chemo-therapy as cancer treatment. How do chemotherapy drugs help lupus?
Smith: Sometimes similar drugs can be used for totally different diseases. In lupus, the immune system goes haywire. The body starts rejecting itself. The same thing happens in cancer. Chemo-therapy can help rein in runaway cells.
WebMD: Does the fact that
Gomez was treated with chemotherapy tell you any-thing about the severity of her condition?
Smith: Chemotherapy is usu-ally reserved for people who have more advanced disease. Most patients with lupus are on non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and another medication called hydroxychloroquine. Depending on how active their disease is, they may end up needing other medications … [including] ster-oid drugs, which suppress the im-mune system.
Most patients with lupus have a mild to moderate disease that of-ten does not require chemothera-py. Most people with lupus lead a relatively normal lifestyle. They’re able to have a job and have a fam-ily. It’s an inconvenience and im-pacts their quality of life, but they lead a relatively normal life.
Then there are those who have severe disease and have, say, re-jection of a kidney and bad kidney disease or problems with their heart or lungs or brain, and those patients require more aggressive therapy.
WebMD: What’s the goal of treatment?
Smith: Unfortunately, we don’t yet talk about cure. Someday, but not now. The goal is to get the disease into remission, so people don’t have signs and symptoms. If we can’t achieve remission, we go for the next best thing, which is to at least get the symptoms under relatively good control. And we want to preserve as much of the organs as we can.
WebMD: Is lupus more com-mon among certain racial or ethnic groups?
Smith: It’s more common among women of color — Hispanics, Af-rican-American, Asian. When they get kidney disease, it tends to be worse than in white women. There’s genetics involved.
WebMD: Is age a risk?
Smith: Women ages 18 to 45 are at greatest risk. Hormones play a role, too. It’s more common in women of childbearing age.
WebMD: If there’s no cure, is there at least some hope on the horizon?
Smith: I think there are some-thing like 27 new drugs being studied for lupus. There have been some great breakthroughs in our understanding of the immune system. Hopefully we’ll find some-thing that will do a better job than what we have now.
Back in the ‘50s and ‘60s, pa-tients with lupus had a terrible prognosis. The chance of living five years with lupus was only about 5%. Now, that chance is at least 95%, so there have been gains made.
I always counsel patients to get information. It’s really important because this is something people will have for years, if not their whole lives. They have to know what to expect and how to take care of themselves.
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Hands-free driving prompts legal concerns
Aaron Kessler, New York Times
A General Motors promotional film envisions the future: Drivers enter the highway, put their cars on “auto pilot” and sit back as the vehicle takes over and heads for the horizon. The film’s date? 1956. Sixty years later, automakers are making that dream a reality.
But the technology has sprinted ahead so fast that lawmakers and regulators are scrambling to catch up with features like hands-free driving that are now months away, rather than years.
This summer, Tesla, the maker of high-end electric cars, is promising to equip its Model S sedan to take over highway driving under cer-tain conditions. In January, Audi will introduce a vehicle that can pilot itself through traffic jams. And next year, Cadillac will offer no-hands high-way driving with its “Super Cruise.”
Limited forms of hands-free driving have al-ready arrived. Luxury brands like Mercedes-Benz and Infinity offer “lane keeping” features that al-low drivers to take their hands off the wheel for periods of time on straight stretches of road.
But the innovation has prompted the ques-tion: Is it legal?
The vast majority of states do not have any rules at all. The few that do passed the laws pri-marily to allow research and testing. Only New
York specifically requires that drivers keep one hand on the wheel, but that dates to a law from 1967.
As a result, automakers are pushing into a regulatory void.
“Where it’s not expressly prohibited, we would argue it’s allowed,” said Anna Schneider, vice-president for governmental relations at Volkswagon, which owns Audi.
“We don’t need any change in legislation to put Super Cruise on the road,” said Dan Flores, a spokesman for General Motors. Tesla declined to comment on the issue.
On a recent afternoon, a Volvo official demon-strated its new XC90 sport utility vehicle along a leafy road in New Jersey. Set for release in June, the XC90 has a semiautonomous feature called “pilot assist” intended for congested traffic.
After a driver pressed a button on the steering wheel, sensors scanned the road and locked on to the vehicle a few lengths ahead. A white icon lit up on the dashboard, and the wheel began moving on its own.
As the road curved, the Volvo steered itself through it, automatically adjusting the throttle and steering. The vehicle seamlessly kept on going, though after about five seconds, a subtle dashboard light asked the driver to keep a gentle
touch on the wheel.Not that it was needed
— the Volvo could keep go-ing hands-free for miles at speeds up to 30 mph on a properly marked road. But for now Volvo has programmed the XC90 to start slowing down if a driver does not heed the warning light, making the vehicle a bridge between “lane keeping” and the truly hands-free technology set to hit the market soon.
“This is about making the tedious parts of people’s drives less stressful,” said Jim Nichols a spokesman for Volvo. “We’re not talking about a driver sim-ply checking out and not pay-ing attention.”
Car manufacturers see hands-free as the natural next step in driving — an evolu-
tion that has gone from cruise control to anti-lock brakes to electronic stability control. None of those innovations required permission from regulators.
And legal experts say the automakers’ po-sitions are most likely correct — that in the absence of specific laws against it, hands-free driving is legal.
“Most states don’t expressly prohibit auto-mat4ed vehicles,” said Bryant Walker Smith, as professor of law and engineering at the Univer-sity of South Carolina.
But that does not necessarily mean drivers will not face scrutiny.
“It’s not just what’s going on the books; it’s what’s enforced,” Smith said. “If a police officer sees you driving down the road with no hands, he could determine that’s reckless and still give you a ticket. Individual officers have tremendous leeway in enforcing traffic laws.
No federal rules explicitly bar the practice, ei-ther. Part of why federal and state officials have struggled to define autonomous rules is that the issue cuts across traditional legal turf.
“The federal government largely regulates vehicle design, such as ‘Does it meet crash safety standards,’” Smith said. The states are the ones that have regulated drivers and their behavior,
he said. “Now the car is becoming the driver.”California, Nevada, Michigan, Florida and the
District of Columbia legalized autonomous tech-nology in certain circumstances — primarily to encourage testing. Several others are consider-ing rules.
But for consumers, and local officials them-selves, the fractured nature of what is allowed, and where, may create uncertainty.
“All of the states are concerned, because no one wants to see a patchwork of regulations across the country,” said Bernard Soriano, deputy director of the California Department of motor Vehicles. “The right way to go would be to have federal standards that the automakers could fol-low.”
The National Highway Traffic Safety Admin-istration says it lacks the authority to pre-empt automakers’ new autonomous features until something goes wrong.
“If someone wants to sell a totally automated vehicle today, you could probably get a court to decide there’s nothing NHTSA can do about that until it presents and unreasonable risk to safety,” said an agency spokesman, Gordon Trowbridge.
Providing such an unreasonable risk to safety under the agency’s mandate, he said, means cit-ing crashes or malfunctions that have already happened.
For now, that leaves a legal vacuum, which states only now are waking up to.
A group of state transportation officials re-cently gathered for the first time to begin devel-oping consumer-focused guidelines for states to share. Soriano leads the group, which has federal regulators’ support and aims to publish its rec-ommendations by the end of 2016.
But with hands-free technology coming to market sooner, California and Nevada are al-ready moving ahead with their own consumer regulations.
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