WHAT: View the first works of art from the "The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Chair Design" to be installed at the Figge Art Museum.

WHEN: 1p.m. Thursday, June 9, 2011 at the Figge Art Museum, 225 West Second St., Davenport, IA, 52801

WHO: Dr. Rima Girnius, Figge Art Museum Associate Curator, will be available to answer questions about the exhibition.

OTHER INFORMATION:

Media will enter the Figge through the loading dock entrance just east of the main entrance, where they will be met by staff who will guide them to the exhibition. Dr. Girnius will be available to provide information on the works of art on display.

The exhibition presents the history, innovation and construction of American chair design.  Curated from a private collection, this exhibit showcases important selections from the 1800s to the present by designers and manufacturers including John Henry Belter; George Hunzinger; the Herter Brothers; the Stickley Brothers; Frank Lloyd Wright; Charles and Ray Eames; Isamu Noguchi; Frank Gehry; Knoll; Herman Miller; Steelcase and others.

Jordan Catholic School is proud to release the following:

2011 Award Recipients (8th  grade graduates)

Jordan History Award?Andrew Rea

Sister Mary Paulina Sullivan Math Award--- Kadie Klauer

Jordan Middle School Language Arts Award?Claire Dodson

Carl and Marion Schorpp Award?Isabelle Anderson, Molly Chambers, Daria Guzzo, Michaela Hird, Kadie Klauer, Claire Schroeder, Andrew Lekowski, & Sydney Ruggles

Knights of Columbus Award-R.I.-Anthony Hoang & Sydney Ruggles

Gerard & Colleen Huiskamp Foundation Scholarship- Sam Kelly

Edward Kenney Alleman High School Tuition Scholarship- Grace Copen

Sister Mary Catherina Walsh Award- Joe Bryant & Daria Guzzo

Glenn and Lou Wood Award- Michael Do & Isabelle Anderson

St. Ambrose Parish Memorial- Joe Bryant

Frank & Evelyn Noe Scholarship- Claire Benisch

Knights of Columbus- Milan- Mason Mc Guire

Al & Pat Kukla Scholarship- Phuc Do & Molly Chambers

American Legion Award- Kadie Klauer & Michael Do

Jordan Booster Club Award- Isabelle Anderson, Daria Guzzo, & Tommy Davies

 

Friends of Jordan Scholarship Recipients (6th-7th  grade)

Rebecca Nonnenmann

Will Mihm

Brendan Hird

Alyssa Carpita

Connor Boyd

Maris Boelens

Sidney Boelens

Samantha Sharp

Emily Bauer

Cassie Wales

Peter Mihm

Matthew DiIulio

 

 

2011 Graduating Class

Isabelle Anderson

Jacob Bain

Claire Benisch

Jacob Bierman

Adrianna Brenny

Joseph Bryant

Molly Chambers

Grace Copen

Morgan Cusack

Clarence Darrow

Tommy Davies

Jalen Davis

Caitlin DeWitte

Michael Do

Phuc Do

Claire Dodson

Samuel Foster

Griffin Fowler

Daria Guzzo

Michaela Hird

Anthony Hoang

Emily Hoffman

Justice Humphrey

Sarah Hunter

Dale Huntley

Sam Kelly

Kadie Klauer

Matthew Larson

Andrew Lekowski

David Lommell

Denise Lommell

Adrianna Lozoya

Abigail Matya

Mason McGuire

Tatum Metzger

Jacob Orth

Anna Parkinson

Andrew Rea

Sydney Ruggles

Samuel Schaecher

Mitchell Schissel

Jacob Schoeck

Claire Schroeder

Sofia Serrano-Griffiths

Hannah Standefer

Julia Thomer

Molly Thompson

Cole Vetter

Isabel Watts

Patrick Willert

Also to participate in discussions about NATO missions, anti-corruption efforts and immigration

WASHINGTON - May 29, 2011 - Senator Chuck Grassley is traveling this week to participate in meetings in Brussels and Moscow.  He said the trip provides an opportunity to address market access problems for soybean and pork producers in the United States and the need to protect intellectual property rights.  He also will receive a briefing on NATO-led efforts in Libya and Afghanistan, discuss anti-corruption efforts of Russian law enforcement in cooperation with U.S. authorities, address human rights and press freedoms, and discuss U.S. visa requirements for Russian travelers.

Of the trade issues for American agriculture, Grassley said, "Both the European Union and Russia are imposing non-tariff trade barriers against soybeans and pork produced by U.S. farmers for the export market.  The European Union's position on soybeans has created uncertainty for farmers, traders, co-ops and processors in the United States.  American farmers need the EU to engage in a dialogue to try to resolve an unfair situation.  Likewise, Russia's unjustified position against U.S. pork has delisted plants that account for 60 percent of U.S. pork production capacity.  I look forward to taking on both of these issues in meetings this week."

Grassley said he will deliver a letter on the soybean export dispute addressed to European Union Commissioner Karel De Gucht, the Directorate General for Trade.  The Renewable Energy Directive of the European Union relies on a faulty Brazilian model to establish emission savings and applying directive guidelines all the way down to the farm level.  Grassley said aggregate certification is needed as a fair trade matter for U.S. oilseed producers, along the lines of the sustainability requirement in the U.S. renewable fuel standard.

Separately, Grassley plans to deliver a letter about Russia's unjustified limits on U.S. pork addressed to First Deputy Prime Minster of the Russian Federation Igor Shuvalov and Aide of the President of the Russian Federation Arkady Dvorkovich.  Pork products from the United States face an array of sanitary phytosanitary restrictions by the Russian government.  Grassley said that if Russia is to gain membership in the World Trade Organization, which it is currently seeking, then Russia needs to abandon import restrictions, like this one, which are unscientifically based.  The United States was able to obtain commitments from China and Vietnam to overcome similar obstacles as part of those countries' accession to the World Trade Organization.  Twenty-five percent of all U.S. pork is produced in Iowa.

Grassley said that Russia's desire to join the World Trade Organization also should help to encourage Russian officials to improve enforcement efforts to protect intellectual property rights, which are important to promoting innovation, creating jobs and advancing economic growth.  He said the Senate-passed PROTECT IP Act that he sponsored this year with Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont provides a model for working to stop online piracy and the sale of counterfeit goods.

In other meetings, Grassley said he will seek more information about possible outcomes for the NATO-led effort in Libya and how military operations have shaped those possibilities.  He also wants to ask for a NATO assessment of support from the Afghan people for the Karzai government, progress in eliminating government corruption, the capability of Afghan security forces, and the outlook for the strength of the Afghan National Army.

In Russia, Grassley said he is concerned about human rights abuses and efforts by government authorities to restrict media coverage and allow political pressure in the judicial system.

Grassley and others senators on the trip left Washington yesterday and will return on June 4.  Grassley is Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary.  He is a senior member of the Senate Agriculture Committee.  He is a senior member and former Chairman and Ranking Member of the Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction over international trade.

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Study: High-risk minority groups not being screened for diabetes

Even for patients with insurance, screening is below desired levels

 MADISON, Wis. -- Although people from certain ethnic groups are at high risk for getting diabetes and should be screened, a new study suggests that such screenings are not being done as often as they should.

Dr. Ann Sheehy, a hospitalist and clinical assistant professor of internal medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, was lead author of the findings, which will appear in the June edition of Diabetes Care.

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) says that African-Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, Asian-Americans, and Pacific Islanders should be screened through fasting blood tests. The research gathered data from more than 15,000 patients between 2003 and 2007.  All patients were insured and eligible for diabetes screening based on a number of ADA risk factors: 45 years or older, high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels, polycystic ovarian syndrome, obesity, heart disease, history of pre-diabetes, and ethnicity.

Sheehy and her colleagues at the University of Wisconsin Health Innovation Program say according to information obtained from the doctor visits of those in the study, more than 40 percent of minority patients should have been screened for diabetes based on their ethnic background, but were not.

"I believe there is a lack of awareness that minority status is an independent risk factor not only for having diabetes, but for complications with diabetes," she said.  "Minorities get diabetes more often and tend to do worse when they have diabetes.  I don't think providers are necessarily aware of this.  There has also not been enough public and provider education about the increased risks minority patients face not only in getting diabetes but also to have complications with the disease. We hope the information learned in this study will help us care for these patients better."

Sheehy said the research proves that increased screening efforts are needed for minority populations.

"Studies have previously shown that minority preventive care is less optimal due to a lack of health care insurance or lack of clinic visits," she said.  "In this study, we wanted to look at the effect of minority status alone without the confounding effects of lack of insurance or lack of visits.  That's why we only included patients with insurance and mandated at least one visit per year.  So, we were really able to focus on the fact that insurance status and access to care were not factors in our findings. In fact, the minority patients in this study actually had significantly more primary-care visits than our non- minority patients, so access to health care was clearly not a factor in our findings."

Sheehy said it is possible primary-care providers recommended diabetes screening for minorities, but those patients did not follow through on what needed to be done.

"Although we were unable to test for this possibility in the current study, it may be that minorities had unique barriers that prevented them from being able to return for fasting labs as frequently as other patients," she said.  "Historically, a patient would come to clinic, the doctor ordered lab work to be done, and since diabetes screening used to require fasting, the patient would have to return another day after an overnight fast to get this done."

Sheehy says new standards endorsed last year by the ADA that allow a non-fasting test to be done at the same time as the clinic visit may lead to increased diabetes screenings for minorities.

For more information on diabetes programs offered at UW Health, visit www.uwhealth.org/diabetes

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