| Rickets cases: A medical time bomb
There's a lot about Jefferson Quishpe that isn't unusual for a 13-year-old boy. He loves Dragon Ball video games. He despises vegetables. He wears his hair short and spiky. But the similarities fade on stifling hot days, when Jefferson refuses to put on a pair of shorts. ''Everybody can see my legs and I don't want them to,'' he says, staring down at his Nike P-Rod sneakers. Crooked legs like Jefferson's haven't been seen much since the 19th century, when rickets -- the childhood disease that softened Jefferson's bones -- crippled kids working in factories. Rickets is caused by extreme vitamin D deficiency; vitamin D, necessary for the body to absorb calcium, comes primarily from the sun. Rickets was all but wiped out in the 1930s with the advent of fortified milk and kids spending more time outside.
Lost Journal For some, the glasses are always half-empty
Journal entry: February 12, 2007 (age 37) Eyes are the windows to the soul. Therefore, eyeglasses are the outside pane of double-paned windows to the soul. I could expound further on this analogy, but tears really aren't the inter-pane condensation of the soul. What I am trying to say is that for 34 years, my glasses have sent a message to the world about who I am. .
The green generation
Josh Barrows said he was nervous last week as he shook the hand of President Bush at the White House."He asked me how old I was," Barrows, a Central Elementary fifth-grader said. "I said 11 and three days from 12."The president responded by telling Barrows that it was on his 12th birthday that he decided he was going to be president."I said, oh cool, maybe I will too,' " Barrows said with a wide grin.Barrows was one of five Helena students who traveled to Washington, D.C., last week, accompanied by three teachers, to receive the President's Environmental Youth Award.The group represented 400 students who earned the award for Environmental Awareness and Response Through Human Action, a student-designed project to raise community awareness about environmental issues. .
Revance leases 90,000 square feet at Pacific Research Center in Newark
The biopharmaceutical company Revance Therapeutics Inc. will move from Mountain View to the Pacific Research Center in Newark in a new lease of 90,000 square feet. Revance recently signed a 10-year-plus lease for more than 90,000 square feet at the 10-building, 1.4-million-square-foot research campus owned by BioMed Realty Trust Inc., a real estate investment trust in San Diego. BioMed announced the lease April 14. Revance Therapeutics, a privately held company that develops aesthetic medicine treatments including the Relastin line of skin care products, is currently located at 2400 Bayshore Parkway in Mountain View. The lease takes up all of two-story, 90,378-square-foot Building 2, 7555 Gateway Blvd., at the Newark campus, said Gregg Domanico of GVA Kidder Matthews, who represented BioMed with Jim McPhee and Dan Harvey of Cushman & Wakefield.
Business licenses
New Asheville Business Licenses for February and March 2008 Adult Entertainer • Alicia Marie Hixson, 10 Monica Place, Candler, by Alicia Marie Hixson, of Candler. • Kala Blythe Mcguire, 907 Antioch Road Apt. 47, Johnson City, TN, by Kala Blythe Mcguire, of Johnson City, Tenn. • Miranda Lynn Long, 513 Merman Road, Kingsport, Tenn., by Miranda Lynn Long, of Kingsport, Tenn. .
Health Calendar: 04/24/2008
The Health calendar is published weekly. Information to be included can be mailed to the Record-Eagle, P.O. Box 632, Traverse City, MI 49685; faxed to 946-8632; e-mailed to sbeach@record-eagle.com or delivered to: 120 W. Front St. Traverse City. MICHIGAN COMMUNITY BLOOD CENTER Manistee, 12:30-4:30 p.m. April 24, West Shore Outreach Lab, 332 First St.; 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m. April 24, Little River Casino, 2700 Orchard Hwy., bus. Traverse City, 2-6 p.m. April 24, Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 1050 Peninsula Drive Brethren, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. April 25, Brethren School, 4400 N. High Bridge Road. Honor, 2-6 p.m. April 25, Honor Plaza, Main Street, bus. Frankfort, 1:30-6:30 p.m. May 1, Paul Oliver Memorial Hospital, 224 Park Ave.
Youth Citizenship Awards nominees Part 2
Nineteen McLennan County high school seniors are competing for Youth Citizenship Awards sponsored by the Rotary Club of Waco and the Waco Tribune-Herald. Ten nominees were presented last week; the remaining nine are shown here. Five students will be announced as award winners at a luncheon Monday. One will be selected as the Outstanding Young Citizen, while four others will be named finalists. All five will receive scholarship money with their awards. Judges use the Rotary Club’s motto of "Service Above Self" in choosing the award recipients. The students submitted a detailed application outlining their school and volunteer activities, and a letter or recommendation from someone familiar with their volunteer efforts. Parents: Greg and Kim Byrd Volunteer highlights: Mission trips, coordinated youth group activities at mission church in Poplar, Mont.; Vacation Bible School, facilitated activities with Meadowbrook Baptist Church youths at local apartment complex for five consecutive years; Upward Basketball summer camp, volunteered for three years as coach at church-sponsored camp; Waco City Youth Council, provided youth feedback to Waco City Council members for two years; youth council at Meadowbrook Baptist Church, coordinated youth activities and communicated with sponsors for three years; Feast of Sharing, served food at event for three years; Meadowbrook Baptist Church youth group, made visits to senior citizen center.
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