Michael Bates: January 2022 Archives
My Pancreatic Cancer Defies the Odds, and I Believe This Alternative Treatment Helped
Teri Cettina writing for Prevention magazine:
"For several weeks after getting this news, I could barely function. It seemed that my only hope for a cure had been ripped out from under me. Then, by pure coincidence, I ran across an intriguing book: How to Starve Cancer...and Then Kill it With Ferroptosis by Jane McLelland. This book opened the door to an entirely new world of unconventional cancer treatment and to patients who were working with open-minded doctors to direct their own care.
"How to Starve Cancer isn't a book about food or lack thereof. It's actually part memoir, part geeky medical research by a London-based woman who survived stage 4 cervical cancer. McLelland's self-studied treatment includes using a cocktail of fairly well known, nontoxic, generic drugs and natural supplements to block cancer from growing.
"The FDA-approved drugs McLelland describes were originally developed for use with other medical conditions, including diabetes, high cholesterol, and ulcers. In recent years, though, researchers have found that these drugs may have anti-cancer properties. Using these drugs to treat cancer instead of their originally targeted health conditions is considered "off label" use."
Inside Jeff Overturf's Head: "Gopo Gossum!" - Wally Wood - Mad Monday!
Color scans of the Mad Magazine parody of Walt Kelly's Pogo comic strip.
National Archives collection of Railroad Right-of-Way maps
Showing grade crossings, viaducts, stations, and other structures, and list of transactions by which right-of-way was acquired. 981 maps currently in the collection, including several pertaining to the Sand Springs Railway. (Index map, showing stations and route; Downtown Sand Springs and industrial area; "Colored Park" on the south side of the tracks at about 31st West Ave, Joe Station at 25th West Ave, City Water Works at Newblock Park; Crosbie Heights, with the depot SW of 3rd and Maybelle, and crossing TSR & OUT tracks; street running on Archer St in downtown Tulsa, with passenger station on SE corner of Archer and Main, also showing TSR & OUT tracks and MKT & Frisco stations; through Greenwood and connecting to Midland Valley & AT&SF.)
"Brown said she is able to track down the descendants of about 80% of the items she finds, as she typically opts exclusively for things that contain some form of a clue, be it a name, date or other identifying marker. She then uses MyHeritage to build a family tree and scour for potential descendants.
"Recently, she found an old Valentine's Day card written by a woman to her husband, and returned it to the couple's granddaughter. She also returned love letters from the 1960s to the woman to whom they were originally written - marking the first time Brown gave back an item to its original owner and not a descendant. She is now working on returning a baby journal from 1908."
Football | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
Semi-pro football in Tulsa: "In Tulsa the Oilers formed in 1966 and played in the Texas Professional Football League, played the 1967 season as the Thunderbirds, moved to Bartlesville as the Quickkicks, and folded. In 1974 the Tulsa Knights organized in the Mid-America League but disbanded in 1975. The Tulsa Mustangs played five games of a fifteen-game American Football Association (AFA) season [in 1979] before disbanding. In 1982 the Tulsa Thunder played in AFA but died when the city announced that it had attracted a United States Football League (USFL) team. In 1983 a San Diego team shifted to Tulsa as the Oklahoma Outlaws and signed Doug Williams, the first established NFL quarterback to move to the young league. In 1984 the team moved to Arizona."
The Tulsa Mustangs were coached by Glenn Dobbs, retired coach of the University of Tulsa where he was known for an aggressive passing game. The Mustangs managed only a 1-4 record, drawing tiny crowds to Skelly Stadium, before they shut down. The Sackheads, a group of regular callers to Hal O'Halloran's "SportsNite" talk show on KXXO 1300, attended one of the games "in sack."
covid: T cells triggered by common cold also fend off Covid: Study - Times of India
"The findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, provide further evidence of the protective effects of T cells, an arm of the immune system that's gaining attention as the pandemic stretches into its third year and new variants like omicron erode vaccine protection.
"'Being exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus doesn't always result in infection, and we've been keen to understand why,' said Rhia Kundu, the study's lead author and a researcher at Imperial's National Heart and Lung Institute. 'We found that high levels of pre-existing T cells, created by the body when infected with other human coronaviruses like the common cold, can protect.'"
News -- Calgary Classical Academy
"Alberta's Ministry of Education has given approval for a new tuition-free, public charter school serving Calgary students. The school plans to offer grades K-6 beginning in the 2022/2023 academic year, and will expand thereafter to include middle and high school programs.
"The Calgary Classical Academy will offer an academically rigorous liberal arts education focused on developing "the knowledge, virtues, and habits befitting free citizens." Among the school's distinct features are a smartphone-free environment; its embrace of traditional pedagogy and teacher-led classrooms; ancient and modern language offerings; a focus on character and the nurturing of virtues; classical fine and performing arts; and an explicit commitment to the pursuit of truth and beauty....
"Over the last several years, there has been a resurgence of interest in classical education in the United States, with an estimated 750,000 - 1 million American students now enrolled in classical education programs. Canadian families seeking this style of education for their children have had few options, however, being limited to either homeschooling or a very small number of private or religious programs.
"As a tuition-free charter school, the Calgary Classical Academy will be the first public and non-denominational classical education program in Canada."
The Pacific Electric Railway and Its History In The San Bernardino Valley
"For a railroad town, this spelled certain doom. San Bernardino no longer had its critical strategic importance as a transportation hub. It was no longer the "Gateway City." Third Street degraded into a dismal ghost town. It is also not a coincidence that the Central City Mall was built (obliterating much of Third Street) at the site where the Pacific Electric Railway station had been, and that other demolition and "redevelopment" projects took place in the 1960s and early 1970s. This was the same time period when San Bernardino lost most of its critical railroad industry, which would ultimately seal the city's fate. Today, it can be said that San Bernardino still has never completely recovered from that loss. For over 50 years, the Pacific Electric Railway, though only one of many railroads to serve San Bernardino, played a huge and inseparable role in its early development and prosperity."
Mike's Monthly Tip: The Glorious Mea Culpa | Pizza Today
Mike Bausch, owner of Andolini's Pizzeria, tells how he recovered from and built brand loyalty out of his 15th anniversary promotion (January 8, 2020) that drew five times as many customers as expected.
"The day was going pretty standard until people started to call in to reserve their $15 pizza. I didn't think much of this at the time, but that's never happened before. In my experience, people don't typically reserve a discount in advance. Come 4:45, every Andolini's location started to get annihilated. By 6:00 pm, it was on, and we were in full nonstop pizza mode at every location with a crowd that looked like a grunge-era mosh pit.
"Now to put this in perspective, I expected three to four times the regular sale of that one particular pizza that was only available for this promotion. What occurred is we sold 25 times what's typical for that pizza. I'm not saying that to be braggy. I'm saying that because we p***ed a lot of people off....
"The second I could pull away, I went and wrote this response to my customer base and sent it out via Facebook. I explained the situation clearly and rationally and told people to e-mail me if they ran into problems. The ones that did e-mail me, I sent them a certificate in the mail for a completely free pizza on me for any style to use whenever they wanted. I wrote over 150 direct e-mails to customers. That's not counting all the social media exchanges or review responses."
Bausch writes a column, Mike's Monthly Tip, for Pizza Today, interesting reading even if you don't make pizzas for a living. Here's his latest, on the importance of appreciating the value of the quietly consistent employee.
Enid: 2005 architecture tour sites | enidnews.com
Bookmarked for the next time I'm in Enid: A list of historic buildings in the capital city of Oklahoma's wheat belt for an architectural tour that was held on August 14, 2005, sponsored by the Greater Enid Arts and Humanities Council. This list and the accompanying article were published in the August 7, 2005, edition of the Enid News.
On the list is the Bamboo Club, a dance hall that hosted Bob Wills on Christmas day 1964, followed by Billy Parker and His Western Swing Band on New Year's Eve, and Conway Twitty two days later. Enid native and western swing saxophonist Rudy Martin performed with Ray Price at the Bamboo Club, which led to an opportunity to tour with him, and later worked several years with Leon McAuliffe. (That's Rudy Martin singing the "Baby Bear" part on the far left in this Ozark Jubilee performance of "The Three Bears," with Keith Coleman, Chet Calcote, and Leon McAuliffe.) Here's the obituary of Bamboo Club owner Bill Pauline, Jr.
