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Currently, the Lakers only have a 37 percent chance at attaining a top-three pick, as the team has won various different must-lose games down the stretch. All in all, the Lakers are putting the finishing touches on their worst season ever as a franchise. With only four games left in the regular season, fans must poise themselves for a very long offseason and brace for more possible disappointment ahead. It has become Harry’s & McCoy’s Moving Family Owned & Operated for 66 Years Time starts at your door Free use of boxes & wardrobes Short notice moves Home-Office-Apartments Local and Long Distance Licensed & Insured – CAL-T-160-989 Jerry Cohen, CEO with his granddaughter Moving handled with patience and kindness! Free Estimates 310.329.3493 of his profession. They were interesting, yes, but dry. Fasha said, “They were all the same but a new journal started several years ago out of the UK called The Analytical Scientist. They wanted, naturally to provide the same thing…in their publication but they wanted to put a bit of flair so they started to do a lot of interviews,” said Fasha. The new publication included interviews with scientists, managers, etc. and highlighted what companies around the world were doing with regard to philanthropy, which made the publication that much more exciting. Since Phenomenex does an incredible amount of philanthropy, they were featured in The Analytical Scientist where Fasha was interviewed on December 5, 2012. Between Fasha and the publication, they decided to come up, as Fasha says, “We decided to do something for scientists who have done something recent for humanity, sort of like the Oscars of analytical science. They wanted a company to be the sponsor of this award. Who did they come to? They came to us because of our philanthropy; we naturally try and do a lot. We do charity in many parts of the world. We said absolutely we would take this on, and it became a joint award between The Analytical Scientist and Phenomenex.” Several press releases were sent out and hundreds of scientists applied for the award. Seven judges, highly respected scientists in the field, chose the winner. The basic theme was ‘how it helped humanity.’ This is the first time the Humanity in Science Award was presented. Fasha then told me the most amazing story. While Alex Gharagozlow was in New Orleans presenting the Humanity in Science Award to the winners, Dr. Peter H. Seeberger and Dr. Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern, Fasha was at the same time in Britain during the celebration of ‘red nose day,’ which has been going on since 1985, where the entire country wears red noses and people donate to help charities. The way it was explained to me was it is similar to our telethons to raise money à la Jerry Lewis. “I am watching this [on TV] and there were comedians and celebrities, and I hear the whole thing is about malaria. This is the ironic thing – [they asked] if you sent 5 pounds in, [via text] you would buy a tent to prevent malaria and they were showing stories of horrific . . . there was a guy in a village in the middle of nowhere, and a famous English comedian who was actually in tears. An African guy takes him to the backyard of a shed and says, ‘that was my son, that was my daughter,’ and he had to bury them! I started texting . . . simultaneously I hear the news from New Orleans [about the Humanity in Science Award winner] – and [of course] I didn’t know what the award was for [or who had won]. These two gentlemen created something that makes [malaria] tents obsolete!” At that moment I got chills. Wow, can you imagine how Fasha must have felt? How an idea to honor scientists resulted in a way to help the world. At this point, these brilliant scientists need funding and backing. Alex Gharagozlow, Executive Director of Operations at Phenomenex went to New Orleans for the Pittsburgh Conference (Pittcon), which is the world’s largest annual conference and exposition for laboratory science, to present the Humanity in Science Award to Dr. Peter H Seeberger and Dr. Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern of the Max-Planck Institutes in Potsdam and Magdeburg, Germany. “Basically, they both bring two different aspects of the technology together. One is more on the actual malaria drug itself [Peter] and Andreas is more of the chromatography technique that they need to do the extractions to bring purity and the cost so they would be able to do it,” said Alex. He went on to tell me that Peter got involved building malaria tents in Africa. Then Fasha said, “Right now, more people in Africa in particular are killed because of malaria than in any other part of the world.” To desperately try and prevent these deaths, and because mosquitos are generally the way malaria is transmitted, people sleep with nets/tents over their beds at night. Fasha went on to say, “Mosquitos are generally out in the evenings, therefore, most people - to prevent it – [use nets/tents]. Obviously, vaccination would be good, or a cure would be good in the Western world – but not there – it is too expensive. So you build a tent that you sleep in so the mosquito can’t penetrate.” Alex told me that a lot of the drugs sold in Africa for malaria are counterfeit drugs and they don’t contain the active ingredients they need to have. They can actually contain other components that can create other side effects for the patients. The real drugs that do work, if they manage to find their way to the patient, are very, very expensive. “Malaria can easily be contained, but unfortunately in many poor countries the reason people die is because these medications are very expensive and the governments, people, and villages, can’t afford it, therefore they end up with the consequences of it and more people die than not. So the ultimate benefit of what these two gentlemen did was to produce the drug, making the manufacturing and producing of it very cheap,” explained Fasha. Also, I might add here that chromatography (purifying) keeps the drug pure and clean. Alex explained, “So the whole genesis of this work started in the Vietnam War. They found out that more North Vietnamese were getting killed from malaria than the actual war…so the Chinese government, who were supporting the North Vietnamese, sanctioned the project to find natural products [to fight malaria]. There are trees that grow in that part of the world – [which contain the active ingredient needed] - and for farmers it is basically, waste. They clear it, [the trees] so they are able to extract the active ingredient. The challenge is to extract this active ingredient at a very economical price to make new vaccine. Peter and Andreas have figured out how to do that.” Simply, these two men discovered how to inexpensively make the malaria drug from the trees in Vietnam and have broken ground there to do just that. Amazing seems too little a word for what these two men have accomplished. But they do need funding and I am praying that comes their way. As I write this I wish I could have included the entire afternoon’s conversation with my meeting with Fasha Mahjoor, Kari Kelly, and Alex Gharagozlow. These extraordinary people, with Fasha at the helm, are changing the world. What makes me proud is this whole endeavor is grounded in the city of Torrance. Wow. • No Hope from page 6 Visit us online: www.heraldpublications.com Centennial and West. The season is young, however, and once these competitive teams start facing each other, there is sure to be a shakeup or two in the wins and loss columns. Torrance High Unlike their adversaries from around the city, the Torrance Tartars have been struggling mightily as of late. Eight straight losses, including a close one to El Segundo last Thursday night at Stevenson Field in El Segundo, have dropped the Tartars significantly in the standings with league play around the corner. Torrance was able to score first against El Segundo, but unfortunately for head coach Ollie Turner and the defending Pioneer League co-champs, they ran into El Segundo’s ace. William Mostert pitched a one-hitter against the Tartars and after their run in the top of the second inning, Torrance went dry for the remainder of the game. El Segundo was able to rally behind their pitcher and score runs in the bottom of the fourth, fifth, and sixth innings against Torrance pitcher Paul Moon en route to their 3-1 victory. Coming off a year in which the Tartars secured their first ever CIF-Southern Section title, Turner and his team have been struggling mightily this season. Though they have been involved in many close games to start, the 2-10 Tartars will have to step things up before they face South next Wednesday to start league play. North High The North High Saxons are on a break of sorts before they start league play, but the team will be entering their first game against Centennial coming off of a nasty loss last Tuesday against the Bay League’s Redondo Union. Starting pitcher Jonathan Narimatsu allowed six hits, four earned runs and three walks in just three innings pitched on the day as Redondo scored two runs in the third, fourth and seventh inning to ultimately secure the 7-0 victory. Despite the loss, North has still been able to maintain a decent record. At 6-5 on the young season, the Saxons find themselves in fourth place in the Pioneer League standings with a date with the first place Apaches looming next Wednesday to start the league season. North has been able to put together a winning streak of five games this season already and will hope to do at least the same again once the games begin to really count for playoff seeding. • Like Us on Facebook clear that there is no immediate hope for the Lakers unless drastic changes are made. Whether those changes involve cutting out Jim Buss, getting rid of Kobe Bryant or anything else that may make the Lakers a desirable destination once again, remains to be seen. For a city and an organization that has made a name for itself as a winner, however, those changes must be made with haste before even more damage to a loyal, worldwide fan base is done. •
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