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Head Jefferson football coach Mike Simmonds has stepped down after eight successful seasons to join the coaching staff at the University of South Florida.

By STAFF AND TIMES WIRES
Published January 31, 2006

THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH Florida's mini-Med School will be 6:30-9 p.m. Monday at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center's Ferguson Hall, 1010 N W.C. MacInnes Place. The program focuses on your health and how to care for others. It features some of USF's finest teachers, researchers and clinicians from the colleges of medicine, nursing and public health. To enroll or for more information, please call USF Health Public Affairs at 813 974-3300, or visit www.health.usf.edu

MONDAY

- "Responding to Disasters: Aftermath of Environmental/Infectious/Occupational Exposures," Dr. Steve Morris, RN, professor and program director, Disaster and Bioterrorism Training, College of Nursing

- "Relaxation and the Mind-Body Connection," Cynthia Myers, Ph.D., LMT, director, Integrative Medicine Program, Moffitt Cancer Center.

- "Affording Drugs Under the "New' Medicare D - Have You Figured it Out Yet?" Dr. Jay Wolfson; distinguished service professor, Medicine and Public Health, associate vice president, USF Health.

DRINK THIS/NOT THAT . . . at your next party:

- Martini: 135 calories (standard martini glass)

- Mai tai: 220 calories (with 2 ounces rum)

- Mike's Hard Lemonade: 220 calories (11.2 ounces)

- Zima: 235 calories (12 ounces)

- Champagne: 85 calories (4 ounces)

- Water: 0 calories

NO-SWEAT HEALTH PLAN: Lose weight and get healthy without perspiration with The No Sweat Exercise Plan: A Simple Way to Lose Weight and Improve Your Health Without Spending Hours in the Gym, by Harvard Medical School physician Harvey B. Simon (McGraw-Hill; hardcover, $21.95). The book is written for people who know they need to exercise but aren't into the idea of spending extra hours doing organized workouts. The book explains that optimum health can be achieved with slight modifications to your daily routine. It also includes self-assessment tests that determine your current physical level and help you achieve your optimum health goals.

THE MORTON PLANT Mease Women's Healthy Heart Initiative is celebrating its one-year anniversary by providing a day of heart-healthy screenings Friday at Morton Plant Hospital, Cheek-Powell Heart & Vascular Pavilion, 455 Pinellas St., Clearwater. All events are free and open to the public. Reservations recommended. Call (727) 462-7500. Here's what planned:

- 7:30-9:30 a.m.: Free blood pressure, body mass index and glucose assessments.

- 10-10:30 a.m.: Learn how exercise keeps your heart pumping

- 10:30-11 a.m.: Healthy eating for a healthy heart.

- 11:30-noon: Women's Healthy Heart Initiative celebration to commemorate one-year anniversary.

- Noon-1 p.m.: Five tips every woman should know to protect her heart.

- 1-2 p.m.: Survivor stories.

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