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s a summer employee at Dravo Construction during my college years, my starting time at the phosphate mine where I clocked in was 6 am.

It was a mountainous 45-minute drive to the job and required getting up in total darkness. Most days my brother and I wanted to roll over for just a few extra minutes of shut-eye. However, this did not happen as my Dad had delineated the importance of being on time. At the manufacturing facility that Dravo mined for, he proclaimed how smooth production only happened when everyone was present. Each job and person was dependent on another to complete the product assembly line.

Unless you are a sloth or in a total meditative state we depend on one another to get us through most days of our lives. Now more than ever, the whole world realizes how much we rely on people halfway across the world to feed us, clothe us, and supply our cars and technology. No one could ever have imagined the repercussions of what happens when production stops for a while.

Without writers and printers and people that make the paper and mail the magazines, nothing would happen in my business. Universities and our learning institutions depend on donors and scholarships to survive and fund the education of many brilliant minds today. We count on our soldiers to protect us as they depend on one another in the battlefield. Countries rely on treaties and depend on their allies to help defend and protect their homelands. Countries rely on other countries for their food, energy and even weapons of war.

Families and friends depend on each other for growth and happiness. With a deadly pandemic in full kill mode, at no time did anyone stop to realize what a magnanimous interference shutdowns would have on our mental health as well as the supply chain.

Interdependency is counting on a friend for support. Children depend on their parents for love and security, education, emotional and financial support.

As is the case with many families this interdependency reverses itself as the child becomes the adult and the parents begin aging.

There is a lot of interdependencies that get tested each and every day. While it seems that everything can be done by computer we still depend on one another to get things done.

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Asia Society Texas Center

Making Home: Artists and Immigration

Houston Museum Of Natural Science

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Special Exhibits Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs

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Through the works of artists Phung Huynh, Beili Liu, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, and Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, ‘Making Home: Artists and Immigration’ centers the complexities of deeply personal histories of immigration.

Through 23 May 2022

Gaia – Earth by Luke Jerram Body Worlds & The Cycle of Life MUSIC & DANCE

Museum Of Fine Arts Houston

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Beautiful: The Carole King Musical

The Obama Portraits Tour

Houston Ballet

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Dawoud Bey: An American Project

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Song Of Me

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Through June 5 2022

Virtual Realities: The Art of M.C. Escher from the Michael S. Sachs Collection Through Sept 5 2022

Leandro Erlich: Seeing Is Not Believing Opens June 26–Sept 5 2022

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

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Through Aug 28 2022

Amoako Boafo: Soul of Black Folks May 27 through Oct 2 2022

Mariah Garnett: Dreamed This Getaway

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Originals

Through May 30 2022

Shahzia Sikander: Extraordinary Realities

STAGES REPERTORY THEATER

June 10 through Aug 28 2022

Amoako Boafo: Soul of Black Folks Holocaust Museum Houston

Notorious RBG

Through Jul 31 2022

Menil Collection

Collection Close-Up: Bruce Davidson’s Photographs Through 29 May 2022

Theatre Under the Stars The Jersey Boys 10-22 May 2022

2-12 June 2022

LA Sylphide

16-26 June 2022

SPORTS Baseball

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Apollo 8 - 4 May - 5 June Lean On Me

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Intown’s Classical Music Critic, the Hon. Philip Berquist Honorary Consul of the Republic of Croatia for Texas

Classical Music Update Believe it or not, just as we seem to be getting started again, the end of the 2021-2022 performing arts season is upon us. As is often the case, some of the best is saved for last.

Houston Symphony Orchestra - all performances at Jones Hall This is the last season of HSO Music Director Andrés Orozco-Estrada and his final concert on 1 May will be spectacular - the Mahler Symphony 2 - “The Resurrection.” This symphony is an extraordinary audience experience performed with chorus and soprano and mezzo-soprano soloists.

• 1 May 2022 One week later, Robert Spano conducts an interesting program consisting of the Symphony No. 3 by Aaron Copland as well as a world premier that was commissioned by HSO, Jennifer Higdon’s “Duo Duel for Two Percussionists and Orchestra,” featuring HSO percussionists Matthew Strauss and Svet Stoyanov.

• 6-8 May 2022 The symphony’s “Artistic Partner,” Itzhak Perlman leads the orchestra in performances of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4, and leads and performs two works by Mozart, Adagio and Rondo for Violin and Orchestra. (Photo of Perlman) • 12-14 May 2022 Concluding the 2021-2022 season will be

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performances of the Beethoven Symphony No. 9 conducted by the Music Director Designate, Juraj Valčuha. Maestro Valčuha will begin his official duties with the 2022-2023 season. He was born in Bratislava, Slovakia in 1976 and was educated at the Konzervatórium in Bratislava and the Conservatoire de Paris and has formerly led the RAI Symphony Orchestra and the Teatro di San Carlo and is the principal guest conductor of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin.

Houston Grand Opera - all performances at the Brown Theater, of the Wortham Center except where noted Three performances remain for Puccini’s final masterpiece, “Turandot.” This production

is directed and designed by the brilliant Robert Wilson and is conducted by the HGO Principal Guest Conductor, Eun Sun Kim, who is also Music Director of the San Francisco Opera. My wife, Lisa Powell, and I attended the opening night and the production is truly stunning. Wilson’s staging and incredible lighting are breathtaking. Three performances remain.

• 3, 6, 8, May 2022 HGO’s 2021-2022 season concludes with “Romeo and Juliet” by the French composer, Charles Gounod. Internationally known tenor Michael Spyres sings Romeo and Juliet is performed by Adriana Gonzalez and conducted by HGO Music Director, Patrick Summers. Also, an alternate cast production will be at Miller Outdoor Theater on Friday, 20 May. • 1, 7, 11 May 2022 20 May at Miller Outdoor Theater - free - tickets will be available online on 19 May at 10:00am at milleroutdoortheater.com 2 hours, 51 minutes, with one intermission.

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Cheniere LNG Crushing It with Global Exports

Cheniere moves LNG cargo

By Virginia Billeaud Anderson

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While it was incautiously buying oil and gas from Russia, Putin began mowing down Ukrainians, which essentially turned Germany’s payments into a war chest. Then Putin made the sleazy request that “unfriendly” purchasers pay him in rubles. Germany called this “blackmail.” Scrambling to wean his country off Russian oil and gas and to diversify energy sources, Germany’s economic minister signed a deal to buy liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Qatar, and with the ink still wet, admitted it was a mistake to be so dependent on Russia for energy. Germany would begin phasing out Russian fossil fuel exports, the minister said, and constructing its first import terminals to receive LNG. Like Germany, other countries are reevaluating their energy independence and turning to LNG. With demand 14 | Intown | May + June 2022

through the roof, the United States ramped-up LNG production. In this, Houston-based Cheniere LNG leads the pack as the largest U.S. exporter of LNG. Headquartered downtown Houston, with LNG production facilities at Sabine Pass Louisiana and Corpus Christi Texas and offices in Washington D.C., London, Singapore, Beijing and Tokyo, Cheniere’s 2021 annual report claims it is the largest U.S. producer of LNG and the second largest LNG producer globally.

In November 2021, Cheniere LNG’s CEO Jack Fusco looked overwhelmed as he told a CNBC interviewer that demand was “off the charts” and his company’s cargo deliveries to Europe had increased 200% year to date. Fusco predicted higher demand, but he couldn’t predict Putin’s geopolitical jack-assery or President Biden eliminating Cheniere’s permit hassles. Hell-bent on Ger-

many and the rest of Europe pivoting away from Russian oil and gas, Biden greenlighted the Department of Energy’s approval for Cheniere to export its maximum LNG capacity to Europe.

Furthermore, Biden announced at the G7 wartime powwow in Brussels that the U.S. will “work with international partners” to boost LNG supply for the European market by at least 15 billion cubic meters in 2022, aiming for 50 billion cubic meters by 2030.

The climate crowd moaned of course, yet Biden was signaling that LNG was an acceptable solution to energy independence. His DOE order stated, “U.S. LNG remains an important component to global energy security” and the department was committed to helping allies and trading partners with energy supplies. Germany, for all its green new deal zealotry, concurred. Multiple LNG suppliers and increased storage volumes

were necessary to “govern energy supply on our own state territory and guarantee sovereignty.”

What’s LNG? In simple terms, natural gas (methane) is cooled and turned into liquid form. Mega-cooled liquefied natural gas shrinks considerably in volume, in fact, gas in a liquid state occupies approximately 600 times less volume than its gaseous state, making storage and transport easier. Liquefied gas is transported on a cargo ship called an LNG carrier or tanker. When the liquefied gas reaches its destination, a regasification facility like those Germany will build to receive Qatar’s LNG, converts the LNG back to natural gas.

Pipelines then carry the gas to contracted purchasers such as utilities.

On February 24, 2016, the carrier “Asia Vision” departed Cheniere’s Sabine Pass production facility with LNG cargo. It was headed to Brazil. Although the U.S had commercially produced LNG for decades, this was the first time it exported LNG. By February 2022, Cheniere LNG had exported 2000 cargoes totaling approximately 140 million tonnes to 37 countries.

It’s fun to drive along the Cameron Parish coast road. Standing at the shore you can look across the water and see large ships in the distance. South of Sabine Pass, a short distance from the Gulf of Mexico, is one of the largest LNG production facilities in the world. The size of Cheniere’s Sabine Pass terminal is due to its 6 liquefaction “trains.” Trains hold the series of refrigerant compressor loops that cool the gas. Near them are immense LNG storage or containment tanks, vaporizers for regasification, marine berths to receive vessels and a 94mile pipeline that connects to other interstate pipelines. Smaller but hardly puny, Cheniere’s Corpus Christi terminal has 3 trains, storage tanks, marine berths and a pipeline. Its berths accommodate the world’s largest LNG carrier, a 1132 ft. long monster called Q-Max. Cheniere’s Corpus facility is permitted for expansion. New contracts promising delivery through 2042 warrant increased production capacity.

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Cheniere ships 1000th cargo in 4 years

In 2018, state owned CPC Taiwan knocked on Cheniere’s door needing diversity of LNG supply. CPC was dealing with the fracas of U.S. Iranian oil sanctions because Iran wouldn’t play nice with nuclear. Even though U.S. sanction waivers allowed CPC time to find alternative oil sources, it chose to promptly stop importing Iranian crude, a risky mess. CPC had been buying LNG from Qatar and Australia when it signed a $25 billion 25-year deal with Cheniere, deliveries beginning in 2021. The purchase, CPC’s Chairman said, advanced its objectives of “further achieving diversification of LNG sources and stability of energy supply.” When its cargo split

Cheniere Loads MOL Challenger. Largest LNG vessel ever to load in U.S.

for Taiwan in January 2021, Cheniere avowed it was increasing CPC’s “energy security.”

You can’t be the big cheese of U.S. LNG and supply Poland, China and all those others without gas. Cheniere is the country’s largest buyer of natural gas, purchasing from over 70 producers.

CEO Fusco told CNBC the company spends a billion dollars a month on gas.

Recent gas supply contracts with EOG Resources and Apache offered sweet terms linked to international LNG pricing and opportunities for the gas producers to partner in sales whereby Cheniere profits from liquefaction and shipping.

Cheniere Sabine Pass facility at night. Image from offshore-energy.biz .

In 2021, Cheniere inked a supply contract with Tourmaline, the largest gas producer in Canada.

The desire to convert power plants from dirty nasty coal to natural gas has Asia, Europe and South America clamoring for LNG. Gas releases 50% less CO2 than coal. This country is up to its butt in natural gas, with enormous deposits, and is grinding production. According to the American Petroleum Institute, the U.S. is the largest natural gas producer in the world. Every single Bcf produced meets the most stringent standards on the planet. https://www.cheniere.com/ Cheniere Sabine Pass loads LNG for Poland 2017

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Discovering Darioush Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

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n the last issue, I shared my discovery at Spec’s Wines of a Pinot Noir from Burgundy. The wine had a smooth, full-bodied taste and was surprisingly inexpensive. Readers learned about the winery, the location and age of the vines, and some fun history about winemaking in Burgundy. Hearing the article boosted sales of the Pinot made me want to share another discovery. This time I’m coming at you with a Napa Valley Cab.

My friend John is a formidable host. While hanging out in his kitchen one night, he yanked from his stash a bottle of Darioush Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon and said, “A friend turned me on to it. It’s a big ass wine with fruit forward, you don’t have to wait for it.” When the Cab hit my throat, I experienced a moment of utter happiness, like the night I heard Sinatra at Caesars, or climbed a mountain in Crete and saw the sea above North Africa.

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I located the big ass wine in the Montrose neighborhood HEB, locked in a cabinet with double padlocks.

Labeled “Highly Rated,” HEB sells the Darioush Cab’s 2018 vintage for $135.67. While assisting me, HEB’s wine guy Rich had an expression of awe. “It’s such a fine wine.” Darioush Winery prefers to sell “in house” to hotels and restaurants, Rich explained, but sells to HEB because of its volume.

Kroger in Montrose had the Cab, and the locked cabinet. Lacking “supply chain” disruptions, Total Wine near West University, and Spec’s Wines downtown sell the Cab. My next step was to check Darioush winery’s website to learn the location of the vines. The Cabernet Sauvignon

vines are in the southern part of Napa Valley where warm days and cool nights cause grapes to retain acidity. More precisely, on Darioush estate vineyards located in the Napa Valley, Mount Veeder and Coombsville Appelations, just south of famed Stags Leap. Wine nerds know that Napa wines gained prominence after a Stags Leap Cabernet left French producers in the dust in a 1976 Paris wine competition.

“Wine Enthusiast” called the Darioush Cab “a robustly built, concentrated and grippy wine.” Another tasting note asserts, “A luxuriously thick and decadent wine integrated in tannin and oak with a length on the palate.”

The bottle’s label reveals more.

Its image of a fop with an artificially

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curled beard borrows from the ancient citadel of Persepolis, built by the Persian king Darius the Great in 515 BC. Persepolis’ monumental imperial architecture echoes the fact that Darius was the ruler of the largest empire in the world. The King of Kings claimed autobiographically to be the legitimate heir of Cyrus the Great, with the gods’ congratulatory thunder and lightning as proof, even if the historian Herodotus crawfished between legitimate and usurper. Two hundred years later, with Persia’s fifth century sack of the Athenian Acropolis stuck in his craw, Alexander retaliatorily plundered and burned Persepolis in 330 BC. Darioush winery’s Iranian born owner Darioush Khaledi, named for Darius, lived near ancient Persepolis.

Khaledi nods to ancient Persia and his namesake King Darius with more than his bottle label. When Khaledi and his wife Shahpar founded Darioush winery in 1997, they designed their headquarters with architectural features inspired by Persepolis’ palaces, including Persian Achaemenid style columns with “double bull” capitals. Additionally, they named the estate’s southeast corner where the oldest Cabernet Sauvignon vines grow “Apadana Block,” after Persepolis’ ceremonial hall.

Many millennia before Darius, Khaledi’s ancestral land practiced wine making. Khaledi’s birth city Shiraz was historically tied to viticulture, with evidence of grape cultivation dating to 2500 BC. In Shiraz, Khaledi’s father harvested grapes and made homemade wine. As a kid, Khaledi would sneak sips. Significantly, archaeological findings in Northern Iran’s Zagros Mountains prove winemaking was practiced 7000 years ago, in the Neolithic era.

Wine deposits dating to 5000 BC are the oldest recorded. Khaledi fancies himself part of this history. In Shiraz, important moments with family were centered on wine and hospitality.

Until the Islamic Revolution waylaid hooch in 1979. Iranian wineries shuttered because despotic clerics thought they could vanquish 7000 years of wine

history by outlawing alcohol. A civil engineer, Khaledi had built a successful Iranian construction business, which he lost to the new regime, along with money and real estate. But he owned a California grocery store, so he started over. While Iranian morality police were detaining unveiled women and mullahs were hissing about Western decadence, Khaledi was expanding into a lucrative chain. Back on top, he parlayed his love of drinking excellent Bordeaux in France into a Napa Valley winery.

This guy is dead serious about the American dream, and about providing chances for others. He came here, “seeking opportunity, freedom and personal liberty.” He’s also dedicated to exposing others to Iran’s art and culture, a reason he sponsored the Victoria & Albert Museum’s 2021 Persian arts exhibition.

So interesting to see on the winery’s website quotes by the poet Rumi, who like Omar Khayyam, the regime censored and banned for degeneracy.

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HEALTH UPDATE

Ask the Doctors

A Team of Kelsey-Seybold Specialists Answers Orthopedics – hip replacement/knee replacement

Dr. Catherine Cahill https://www.kelsey-seybold.com/Find-a-Houston-Doctor/catherine-cahill-orthopedic-doctor

Q: What options are there for hip and knee replacement procedures to be done in an ASC setting?

A: Kelsey-Seybold Clinic is currently building a large multispecialty clinic in Memorial, near I-10 and Campbell, named Memorial Villages. This new location will include an Ambulatory Surgery Center where patients will be able to have procedures such as hip and knee replacements. Because the Memorial Villages Ambulatory Surgery Center will have 23-hour observation, patients may have surgery and stay for observation for longer than a few hours but less than 24 hours. Memorial Villages is scheduled to open late summer 2022.

Q: What are the recommended age limits (min/max) for hip replacement/ knee replacement surgery?

A: Some doctors have age limits, but there is no true age limit. We base surgery decisions on the overall health and activity level of the patient.

Q: What can patients expect when they have hip replacement surgery?

A: Arthritis pain goes away with surgery; recovery is usually quite fast, and patients are able to walk the same day. Patients are usually released to normal activity by six weeks, but recovery begins right away.

Q: What can patients expect when they have knee replacement surgery?

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own. Recovery may take a few months, but most patients are released to normal activity six weeks after surgery.

Q: What can patients do in advance of surgery to improve outcomes?

A: When it comes to joint replacement surgery, adhering to an exercise program and weight management are key to help improve post-op outcomes.

Q: What are things patients can do after the procedure to improve outcomes?

A: Patients undergoing joint replacement surgery, including hip or knee, should work to maintain a healthy diet and weight, continue to exercise as instructed after surgery, and walk as much as you can. Post-operative success is also dependent on controlling chronic conditions, including diabetes.

Plastic Surgery – Face & Neck

Dr. Shayan Izaddoost https://www.kelsey-seybold.com/find-a-houston-doctor/shayan-izaddoost-plastic-surgery

Q:

What are the kinds of procedures that can be done in the office to improve the look of aging in a person’s face and neck (think 50+ for the target age)?

A: Plastic surgeons can perform small procedures in their office to help different areas of your face look more youthful.

These procedures are usually performed under local anesthesia without going under general anesthesia for surgery. Some of these procedures include Botox, fillers, upper eyelid surgery, lower eyelid surgery, and even a brow lift. Sometimes, we can also perform fat transfer to the face under local anesthesia.

Q: What are the kinds of procedures that can be done in the ASC to improve

the look of aging in a person’s face and neck (think 50+ for the target age)?

A: The ambulatory surgical center (ASC) is the optimal facility to have a variety of surgical procedures that can freshen up your look under “twilight” sedation or general anesthesia. In an ASC, we can perform more involved aesthetic procedures such as a complete facelift or a neck lift that require more time and are more invasive. In addition, we can combine smaller facial procedures such as brow lifts or eye lifts with neck lifts or a facelift and fat transfer in the ASC. We tailor these procedures to the goals of our patients to deliver a rejuvenated, younger look.

Q: How safe are neck and eye surgeries for those 50+? Do these procedures really improve the look of aging?

A: The Ambulatory Surgery Center is a safe place for outpatient surgical procedures and affords privacy, cleanliness, and efficiency. The use of local anesthetics allows your surgeon to complete many anesthetic procedures of the face without the use of general anesthesia.

Eye lifts or brow lifts can be performed comfortably and safely with minimal sedation and local anesthesia while our patients are awake. Other procedures, like neck lifts or face lifts, may require more of a “twilight” anesthesia along with the use of local anesthetics.

Q: What are some other benefits of having these procedures done?

A: Simple procedures like an eye or brow lift removes wrinkles, extra skin, and years from your upper face helping take weight off of your eyes and make you look your best. Eye lifts can even improve vision. A face lift and neck lift can help erase the damage that the sun and gravity have caused over years and help our patients put their best faces forward when meeting their family, friends, or coworkers. All our procedures help to restore our patients’ confidence.

Cardiology – Advancements in Cardiovascular Treatments Dr. George Adesina https://www.kelsey-seybold.com/Find-a-Houston-Doctor/george-adesina-cardiologist

Q: What are some of the most common cardiovascular treatments that cardiologists perform on an outpatient basis?

A: We routinely perform electrocardiograms (EKG) to evaluate for acute or previous heart damage and arrhythmias.

Echocardiograms (ECHO) (ultrasound of the heart) can be obtained in the office to look at the heart’s valves and pumping function. We also do a stress test and even can ablate varicose veins all while in the office.

Q: What are some of the most important changes people can make today to

improve their cardiac outcomes?

A: Lifestyle modification and prevention are key. A healthy diet, regular exercise, avoiding tobacco use, and seeing your doctor regularly can drastically decrease the chances of developing heart disease.

Q: What are some things we know today about heart health that we didn’t know 20 years ago and have made a significant positive impact on outcomes?

A: We as cardiologists are equipped with so many more tools for accurate diagnosis and treatment than ever before.

This allows us to detect disease more efficiently and effectively, which leads to better clinical outcomes. In addition to incorporating personalized medicine, this has truly been a game changer.

Kelsey-Seybold Clinic Ambulatory Surgery Dr. Jose Nolla https://www.kelsey-seybold.com/Find-a-HoustonDoctor/jose-nolla-orthopedic-doctor

Q:

What are some of the procedures that were delayed during the pandemic that are now getting done?

A: During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a delay of preventative procedures such as colonoscopies and cataract removals. Other procedures that were delayed included reconstructive knee surgery and nerve reconstructions, which are conditions that we know will worsen if they are neglected for prolonged periods of time.

Q: What are some of the new procedures/surgery capabilities that Main Campus ASC offers to patients?

A: During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a large push to stay out of the hospital to avoid unnecessary exposure. As a result, Kelsey-Seybold Clinic transitioned a large portion of gall bladder removals from the hospital to the ASC. Through improved anesthesia techniques, we have also been able to transition many of the larger plastic surgery reconstructions, and we are currently in the process of transitioning some major joint replacements, including hip and knee, to our ASC.

Q:

If a patient is healthy enough to have surgery at an ASC, what are the reasons why would you advise them to choose that setting over a hospital setting?

A: The main reason why people used to stay at the hospital after surgery was for management of pain. The latest anesthesia techniques, which we employ at the Kelsey-Seybold Clinic Ambulatory Surgery Center, allow patients to have minimal pain during their early recovery, making an overnight hospital stay unnecessary.

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Neurology – Alzheimer’s Disease Dr. Desiree Thomas https://www.kelsey-seybold.com/Find-a-Houston-Doctor/desiree-thomas-neurologist

Q: What is

dementia?

A: Dementia is a cognitive disorder that affects your attention, learning, language, memory, and decision making. As we age, we may be forgetful, such as not remembering where you put your phone or having difficulty remembering a celebrity’s name.

Dementia is when it progresses to the point that if affects daily living activities, like driving, performing your job, or handling your medications and finances.

Q: What is Alzheimer’s disease, and how is it related to dementia?

A: Alzheimer’s is the most common type of dementia. It happens due to de-

terioration in the part of the brain that controls memory. Other types of dementia include vascular due to strokes, drug/alcohol induced, and damage caused due to head trauma.

Q: Traditionally, what are some of the treatment options patients with Alzheimer’s disease can use?

A: Medications such as Aricept/donepezil or Namenda/memantine, which alter brain chemicals involved in memory, can help with symptoms. Some people try various nonprescription supplements, but there isn’t as much data to know how much they help. Medications to help with the mood and sleep disturbance that occur are also important.

Q: How does the new weekly patch that has been FDA approved for use of the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease help patients?

A: The patch called Aldarity has donepezil, which currently comes in pill form. It is placed on weekly and may have fewer GI side effects like nausea/diarrhea than the pills and may help when

patients won’t or can’t remember to take their pills. There is already a once-daily patch of another medication in the same family. It may be difficult to obtain insurance approval, as the brand patch will be much more expensive that the generic pills.

Q: Are there ways to prevent dementia and Alzheimer’s disease?

A: Eating a healthy diet, frequent exercise, social stimulation, and brain games can help decrease the risk of developing dementia.

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Play It Safe This Summer

By Magda Ragab, M.D

Follow These Rules for Outdoor Activities with Children Spending time outdoors with children is a great way to make memories together as a family. But before heading outdoors, you should be prepared for the risks.

Here are six ways to help make sure children are safe while they play outside: • Protect against UV rays: Before going outside, caretakers need to make sure children have plenty of sun protection, including sunscreen, sunglasses, and brimmed hats. The hottest part of the day is from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., so if outdoor activities are happening during that time, be sure to plan accordingly with additional sun protection. Sunscreen should have an SPF of at least 30.

Reapply every two hours — or sooner if playing in the water.

• Keep them hydrated: When in the sun, our bodies need even more water than usual. Bring lots of water for chil-

dren when they’re playing outdoors, and make sure they take breaks out of the sun to cool down.

• Be sure they’ve dressed appropriately: For outdoor play, children should wear comfortable clothes. But for hiking in tall grasses and wooded areas, outfits may need to include thick-soled walking shoes or leather boots and long pants made from a natural fiber like cotton to help protect against bug bites.

• Teach them to be aware of their surroundings: Teach children how to recognize poison ivy and oak and avoid the rash-causing plants and vines. Children should also watch where they walk to avoid fire ants and other bugs.

• Protect against bug-borne illnesses. Children spending time outdoors, especially during peak mosquito activity (dusk and dawn) should wear insect repellent to protect against bug-borne

illnesses. Products with less than 30% DEET are safe to use on children older than two months and should be used when children are playing or spending time outdoors. Avoid applying repellent to hands, as children are prone to putting their hands in their mouths. Do not use combined sunscreen and insect repellent, as sunscreen should be reapplied more frequently.

• Explain why wild animals are to be avoided: Children should stay away from wild animals, including stray cats and dogs. These animals may carry disease or react poorly to the child out of fear.

Outdoor play is a great way for children to get exercise and Vitamin D. By following a few simple precautions, they can enjoy the summer season and the fun it has to offer.

Magda Ragab, M.D., F.A.A.P., Pediatrics, is with Kelsey-Seybold Clinic – Meyerland

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DESIGN

Kitchen Design Ideas

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FROM TWO LEADING MANUFACTURERS AT DIFFERENT PRICE POINTS Try A Contrasting Material and Color Online kitchen design postings have steadily been shifting away from all white and grays and moving toward color and multiple hues of stronger contrast. When choosing multiple colors consider a secondary material and ones that complement the subtle undertones of the surrounding colors. For example, pairing white cabinets and blonde wood can be paired with dark hues without overloading on color.

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Consider warming the design with a cool blue navy or another darker color.

Poggenpohl Generosity is the prerequisite for casual, inspiring togetherness. Like an upbeat melody, seemingly contradictory elements fit together harmoniously and have room to develop their own character. Easily accessible from all sides, the angled design of the kitchen island offers the right space for every usage area.

Food preparation and cooking are the focus of the centrally placed side. The hard-wearing ceramic worktop with its sand and stone tones blends in harmoniously with the color nuances of the neighboring elements.

With its softly drawn radii and curves, the raised bar in greybeige stained ash is in keeping with the idea of all-round comfort. Its intimate size and the naturalness of the material are an invitation to linger. A richly varied arrangement of cabinets echoes the soft color tone in the background. Meticulously crafted metal frames give the fronts from the Contour 3.5 series their refined character. The flush-mounted Showcase series of tall cabinets in the wall create a visual highlight, accentuating the all-round elegance of the smaller kitchen island.

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Bridgewood Cabinetry Allure & Mirage The Allure and Mirage lines feature a highly reflective, mirror finish with a high-gloss acrylic with color richness enhanced by a UV stabilized topcoat for ultimate depth and clarity. The impeccable surface consistency is achieved with a cleanroom lamination process. The Allure series features color-matched edge banding, while the Mirage series has contrasting edge detailing, which creates the effect of an inset, brushed metal band, or back painted glass.

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Houston’s NEW Mega Patio Bar

Candice & Lonnie Schiller

Houston Restaurateur Opens Expansive Bar sans Food

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ou’ve heard of megachurches and megamalls but now let us introduce the Height’s latest “Patio Bar”. This long in the works venture from serial entrepreneur Lonnie Schiller and company encompasses over 9,000 square feet, offers sports viewing on over 40 TVs and 40 craft beers, and is likely a haven for Gen X and Y. Lonnie Schiller of Schiller Del Grande Restaurant Group has had this property and idea in the works as far back as 2018 before it finally came to fruition in April. The spacious venue features excellent views of downtown, a firepit, and plenty of spaces to chill, but the food is limited to food trucks. This new locale tucked away just south of I-10 is about the beer and cocktails and laid-back atmosphere. It is truly a family affair as Schiller’s wife and partner Candice is the designer, and their daughter Caroline Murphy and son-in-law Brendan Murphy are co-owners.

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by William Hanover the ever-popular food trucks that come and go with names such as Mama’s Latin Kitchen, Hoopz BBQ, and my favorite Hidden Garden Tacos. The specialty drinks rule with drinks such as the Schwayze, made with Deep Eddy Lime Vodka, Pomegranate syrup, and soda.

My favorite is the Figit About It with Basil, Hayden Vanilla Liqueur, Fig, and Lemon.

Let’s face it, this is a giant ice house, albeit a fancy one a la Kirby Ice House and longtime Heights hang out at the Cedar Creek Bar & Grill.

From the original creator of Culture Map (a digital publication launched in 2009) and some say along with partner Robert Del Grande the inventor of “Tex-Mex.” Yes, of Schiller Del Grande/ Cafe Annie fame, and notorious for creating Cafe Express, which they sold to Wendy’s and yet later repurchased and sold again. Back in the summer of 2020, Schiller told anyone that would listen that the new normal and the COVID

economy could render a “corporate restaurant wasteland,” adding that Houston “will be a different city” if it loses its independently owned staples.

Unfortunately, the dust has still not settled, and the restaurant casualties continue to mount. While many bars have suffered a similar fate, the prohibition detractors had it right, and we as Americans love to imbibe. Not only that, but we love money and the jobs and tax revenue it creates.

Before making this proclamation in 2020, Schiller and his Schiller Del Grande group, along with a team of investors and restaurant veterans, purchased the land in 2018 and began construction in the fall of 2019.

Dog-friendly Patterson Park offers organic wines and nitro brewed coffee.

The plan is to have two food trucks, one serving American food and another serving international fare.

It is on Patterson Street along White Oak Bayou just north of I-10.

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“Hero Honorees”: Dr. Boerwinkle, Dr. Boom, Dr. Klotman with Gala Chairs, Jim and Carole Looke

Vanessa Motta, Julia Motta Brockton (kidney/liver recipient, Nora’s Home guest testimonial), Sean Alfortish

Nora’s Home Honors Healthcare Heroes at Sold-Out Event

Drs. Thy and Christopher Nguyen

Dr. Eric Boerwinkle, Vicki Huff

Judah and Stacy Auld Jackie and Derek Zepp

Farouk Shami, Amy McCall

More than 700 supporters of Nora’s Home, the hospitality home for organ transplant patients and their families honored Heroes Among Us during their annual gala at the Post Oak Hotel in Uptown Park.

Carole and Jim Looke, along with their daughter-in-law and son, Lindsey and Steven Looke, chaired the sold-out event, which honored three hometown healthcare heroes, including: • Dr. Eric Boerwinkle & UTHealth School of Public Health • Dr. Marc Boom & Houston Methodist Hospital • Dr. Paul Klotman & Baylor College of Medicine “We are grateful for Drs. Boerwinkle, Boom, and Klotman for their commitment and leadership throughout the pandemic.

They have become tremendous advocates of our mission of providing organ transplant patients and their families a safe place,“ said Natalie Lencioni, executive director of Nora’s Home.

Attendees heard powerful testimonials from two Nora’s Home clients, including 11-year-old Julia Brockton, a kidney/liver recipient from New Orleans, Louisiana, and Robert Escobedo, a double-lung transplant recipient from San Antonio.

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Phillip Hawk, Carl Jordan, Ron Hulme, Larry Dickerson

Carla and Cole Dawson

Cindi and Dr. Franklin Rose

Jay Jones, Russell Brown, Deborah Keener Brown, Terry Wayne Jones

Sneha and Naushir Merchant, Ahmad and Naureen Malik, Dr. Sippi and Ajay Khurana

Scott & Sandi Pollock, Exec Dir Jorge, Steve & wife Flodder, Board Chair Bill Dukes

John Segovia, David Vasquez (won TX Hold’em) and Mike Kacal Lance & Dianne Ross with friend Exec Dir Jorge

Outreach Center’s ‘Casino Night’ Breaks Fundraising Records Board Member Doug Atnipp, Exec Dir Jorge, Board Member Kaitlyn Sharp

Board Member Dan Monson, Carolina Richardson

The Outreach Center of West Houston (OC-WH) held their annual Casino Games Night at the Houston Racquet Club. Co-Chairs Shawna Dukes and Ron Atnipp hosted the 2022 OC-WH event which broke last year’s attendance and fundraising records.

The OC-WH.org mission is to provide inexpensive space and mentoring for Non Profit Organizations and individuals in our Community. The Center hosts Family Point Resources, CrossWalk, OpenDoor Church, PDAP, Young Life, 15+ AA meetings each week and other non-profits.

Beginning as a community outreach program of St. Thomas Presbyterian Church, the OC-WH incorporated in 1996 with its mission of providing a space and offering an array of programs to individuals and families who can restore purpose and productivity to their lives, learn new skills, develop healthy relationships and experience positive mental, physical, spiritual and emotional growth.

For more go to www.oc-wh.org

Event Co-Chair Shawna Dukes & friends

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Board Presid Exec Directo ent Bill Dukes, r Jo Board Treasu rge Quinones, rer Rick Tuck er

Committee C0-chairs Shawna Dukes and Roni Atnipp with Exec Dir Jorge Quinones

Volunteer Sherelyn Dalton, OCWH Marketing Coordinator Alera Rivera, volunteers Gabriel Cole, Carolyn Geis, and Christine Mikulich

Leticia and Steve Trauber

Chuck Yates, Dr. Fred Lang

Cory and David LeNorman Emeka and Uche Ndefo Cole and Carla Dawson

Carlos and Luvi Wheelock

Kelly and Steve Provenzano

The 10th Annual Stand Up For Brain Cancer Gala Benefitting The Broach Foundation As they say, laughter is the best medicine, nothing was more true than this year’s 10th Annual Stand Up for Cancer Gala benefiting the Broach Foundation. Comedian Mike Birbiglia had the audience roaring all night long. The crowd of more than 450 well-dressed people packed the Ballroom at River Oaks Country Club.

The Broach Foundation was established in honor of James Broach who endured countless surgeries, radiation, chemo treatments and experimental trials. Despite the difficult treatments and cancer growing in his brain, James knew he wanted to make an impactful difference in the fight to cure brain cancer. Along with his wife, Jamie, he decided to actively join the effort of pursuing a cure for this extraordinarily challenging and under-funded disease. The Broaches, along with the Executive Board, consequently established The Broach Foundation for Brain Cancer Research to raise funds and awareness for the benefit of adult brain cancer research.

To date, The Foundation has raised over $6 million dollars.

James lost his battle against brain cancer in 2013, but the impact his life will have on those who continue to fight this disease lives on through the cutting-edge research the foundation funds.

For more information: info@thebroachfoundation.org or 224.465.9728.

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