This year's Divapalooza was an incredible, fabulous success, raising over $70,000 for our life-saving Moveable Feast services.
Check out these pictures of the Divapalooza check presentation from May 24th. A group of the Divas and Divos met with Moveable Feast staff to present them with the official check!
And if you missed this year's extravaganza, or want to see it again, mark your calendars for August 27th for the Divapalooza 2011: Cirque du So-Gay video premiere. Bring your chairs, blankets and coolers (and a small donation of $10.00) and see the show in this fully edited video. Your donation will help the Divas cover the costs for next year's show. DVDs and Blu-rays will be available for purchase at the screening and online. You may arrive as early as 7:00 PM; the video will begin when darkness falls. For more information and directions, please contact Sam@divapalooza.com.
Finally, SAVE THE DATE for:
October 22nd: BINGOPALOOZA at Baldwin Hall in Millersville, MD
April 13th & 14th: DIVAPALOOZA 2012. Theme TBA.
Adapted from a recent Divapalooza e-newsletter (sign-up here).
Importantly, they found that these people's immune systems, unlike our own, focus specifically on attacking a certain part of the HIV virus called "Gag sector 3."
"Gag sector 3" helps to form a protective shell around the virus, protecting it from being destroyed by our immune system or vaccines.
What does this mean? The researchers want to design a vaccine that makes specific, "surgical strikes against Gag sector 3 and other similar regions of the HIV virus."
(To do this study, the researchers used the same math theories that are often used in analyzing the stock market. Cool!)
What is the most important thing that you can do today? Get tested.
Fill in your zip-code below to find an HIV service provider near you, courtesy of AIDS.gov. (Please wait 10 seconds for widget to load!)
P.S. For those of you in Harford County, here's some info on some free HIV testing going on near you! Click here.
P.P.S. Tomorrow, June 28th 2011, the CITY UPRISING event takes place. City Uprising is a unique opportunity for people to unite throughout Baltimore to love and serve the city TOGETHER. From 10:00AM-8:00PM, Gallery Church, HopeSprings, and the JACQUES Initiative will lead the effort to test over 1,000+ people for HIV at 9 different locations throughout Baltimore City.
If you'd like to volunteer tomorrow at one of the following nine locations, please contact Ashley at afrancis@hopesprings.org.
In fact, the study said that taking aromatase inhibitors reduced risk by 65%.
The study was conducted on over 4,500 high-risk women across the United States, Canada, France, and Spain by Canadian scientists. The results of the study were definitive early-on; 32 women taking placebos got cancer while only 11 on aromatase inhibitors, after just halfway through the study.
Aromasin, one of a few brands of aromatase inhibitor drug.
Aromatase inhibitors do not carry many of the side effects associated with other breast-cancer-preventing drugs, such as uterine cancer and blood clots. (However, some long-term effects are not known, and some doctors question medicating high-risk but otherwise perfectly healthy women.)
Next Thursday, June 30th, come mix and mingle with Baltimore's top professionals - including the Good Fellas of Baltimore.
A portion of the proceeds will benefit Moveable Feast, so if you're looking to enhance your professional network and meet some new connections, join us next Thursday!
The event takes place at the Havana Club (600 Water St.) from 6 to 9 PM.
Who ARE the Good Fellas? The Good Fellas of Baltimore are "seven entrepreneurs joining WITH the community to help a different charity and family in need every episode." Their efforts are featured in a WBFF Fox Baltimore television series of the same name, airing on Saturdays at 1:00PM.
Best of all, they will be featuring Moveable Feast in an upcoming episode. This year, they also participated in Ride for the Feast!
Check out Episode 2: "Balance," below. To see more of the Good Fellas episodes, click here.
In the past few years, the Moveable Feast Garden Program has grown to include three different plots, countless varieties of fruits and vegetables, and the involvement of communities and volunteers.
This summer, each Friday morning, you can join the Moveable Feast dietitians, staff, and volunteers as they tend to our plot in the Duncan Street Miracle Garden.
This past Friday, June 10th, a bunch of us headed out to Duncan Street. The goals of the morning? Weed the plot, plant some more starter plants, and nourish the plants with water.
Currently, the Duncan Street Miracle Garden grows tomatoes, hot peppers, basil, carrots, beets, lettuce, squash, zucchini, onions and cabbage. All of the produce harvested will be used in our nutritious meals and groceries for our clients.
If you would like to join us for a fun-filled Friday morning of gardening, please contact Sara McClean! No experience is necessary - whether you have a tried & true green thumb, or you've never gardened before in your life - we welcome volunteers of all ability levels. Everyone can make a difference!
