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Interdisciplinary student team produces video for the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment
Posted by Kurt Schliep '10, Howard Lake, and Judy Korn on Tuesday, Sep. 15, 2009
What's harder than trying to showcase the University of Minnesota, Morris's multitude of green projects in five minutes? How about creating a five-minute video on campus projects in less than a month? That's the challenge five students accepted. The culmination of their month-long artistic struggle—a well-composed, condensed walk-through of the campus plan to be carbon neutral in 2010—illustrates just how beautifully they accomplished a difficult but rewarding task.
Chosen by ACUPCC and Apple, Inc.
Morris was one of six colleges chosen to produce a video for the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment (ACUPCC). The project was co-sponsored by Apple, Inc., a Gold level sponsor of the ACUPCC. The video will be used to encourage other colleges to join the higher education movement to reduce carbon emissions and reverse global climate change. Jacqueline Johnson, chancellor, is an ACUPCC charter signatory and member of the governing body steering committee. Campuses that sign the commitment develop short- and long-term plans to achieve carbon neutrality.
Interdisciplinary student producers
The interdisciplinary team that produced the video includes Evan Gragg '09, Chanhassen, studio art Tara Greiman '11, Dayton, environmental studies and psychology Sam Krump-Johnson '11, Maple Grove, theatre arts and communications, media, and rhetoric Matt Privratsky '11, Walker, political science with a communications, media, and rhetoric minor and Luke Toso '11, Falcon Heights, environmental science and biology. Greiman, Toso, and Privratsky coordinated the planning and writing of the script. Gragg and Krump-Johnson handled the filming and editing.
Project highlights green initiatives
While it's hard not to miss the defining wind turbine gently rotating on the ridge beyond campus, the students report that creating the video helped them discover more details about less visible green initiatives on campus and in the community.
Says Privratsky: "I hadn't known a lot about Stevens Forward! or the local foods program, and they are both huge movements that will be changing our region in the immediate and long-term future. Our [campus] goal for 50 percent local foods by 2013 was probably the greatest and most intriguing piece of information I picked up."
In addition to learning about Stevens FORWARD!, a county effort to identify a shared vision for the future, and the Pride of the Prairie local foods program, the group also delved into the who, what, where, when, and why details behind green initiatives on campus.
Community and campus voices in the video
Voices in the video note Morris's connection to the creation of green jobs and an emerging green economy, including an approximate $500,000 that will be injected into the region through the purchase of agricultural by-products for the biomass gasification system. In layperson's terms, the gasification system is explained, and the benefits of wind energy—on a very windy prairie—are discussed. Student involvement is praised and green renovation of the Community Services building highlighted.
And, in the words of Peter Wyckoff, associate professor of biology, excitement is conveyed as 2010 approaches and the campus is on track to become the first higher education institution in the nation to be "truly fossil fuel carbon neutral" through on-campus efforts.
The film also includes comments by Troy Goodnough, campus sustainability coordinator, Abdullah Jaradat, United States Department of Agriculture North Central Soil Conservation Research Laboratory research leader, Lowell Rasmussen, vice chancellor for finance and facilities, Sandy Olson Loy, vice chancellor for student affairs, Dave Aronson, Community Services renovation project manager, and student Jenna Sandoe '10, Rochester.
The video has been featured on the ACUPCC iTunesU channel, distributed to existing and prospective ACUPCC signatories, and shared through the Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium. View the video produced for the ACUPCC.
Photo by Kurt Schliep '10, Howard Lake, from left: Sam Krump-Johnson '11, Matt Privratsky '11, Tara Greiman '11, and Evan Gragg '09 tape an on-site interview with Dave Aronson, project manager, in the Community Services building currently undergoing renovation to LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Platinum specifications.


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Dear Vincent and Dickson,
Let me start thanking you for encouraging me to carry a healthier life. Since taking the bus to the lab each day meant a 20 mins ride, and your podcasts are usually longer, I decided to start waking up earlier and walk every day instead, that way I can hear the whole episode! I feel somehow infected by a parasite podcast that modifies my behaviour in order to be listened, reaching its objective when I arrive at the lab commenting on the last episode heard.
After your discussion on the origins of the term Loa loa, I did some internet research and came up with an article published in 1991 by John D. Ruby and John E. Hall. Since it's really short, I copied it here for you to read:
"It has recently been called to our attention that the word 'loa', used for centuries, first by Africans and later by parasitologists, to refer to the 'eye worm', also appears in the terminology of voodoo or Vodun where it refers to a large pantheon of deities that may possess one's soul or being. The word 'loa' may be derived from the Yoruba word 'l'awo' meaning 'mystery', but according to Bourguignon its origin remains uncertain. To the devotees of vodun, the noon hour, when the sun casts no shadow, is a perilous time. A man without a shadow is a man without a soul and therefore vulnerable to possession by such spirits as 'loa'. To ward of these spirits, believers wear amulets and cast spells. African vodun evolved in Benin, formerly Dahomey, and was brought to Haiti with slavery during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Since both adults and microfilariae of the 'eye worm' Loa are diurnal, with maximum activity occurring at noon (when the West African would be most susceptible to spirit possession), and since West African vodun and the 'eye worm' share a common geographic origin, we have reached the tentative conclusion that one is probably the etymological source for the other. Whether the helminthological Loa predated the anthropological one remains a matter of conjecture"
Knowing something about the origin of the name and the way the parasite was discovered really helps to remember things better!
Looking forward to your next infectious TWIP,
Todd writes:
Found the following reference for the origin of 'Loa'. Still don't know what it means...
Love the show!
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Just to get you started <grin>
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Did you see this about Toxoplasma gondii?
Spencer writes:
Dear Vincent and Dickson,
Here is a news piece very relevant for TWIP: The first congenital case of Chagas disease in the US. With a great video from Dr. Jim McKerrow.
Here's the link:
Thanks and keep up the great episodes!
Spencer MD PhD


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'The visible difference with the Sabres is a new, freed-up offence that is getting encouragement from coach Lindy Ruff to hold on to the puck longer and be more creative. The question, though, that the Sabres will have to answer is whether they need to score more goals now that Dominik Hasek has moved on to Detroit after eight years in Buffalo.'
Archives for September 2001
Hasek-less Sabres get offensive
Mogilny struts his stuff
'Mogilny, who scored 43 goals for New Jersey last season then jumped into the free-agent pool, made his first big splash with his new team by setting up one goal then adding two of his own in the third period. He is the dynamite sniper Toronto has been lacking.'
Maple Leafs 3, Sabres 1
'Alexander Mogilny had two goals and an assist Thursday night to lead the Toronto Maple Leafs to a 3-1 exhibition victory over the Buffalo Sabres.'
Toronto 3, Buffalo 1
'The Toronto Maple Leafs rode a big third period by the line of Alexander Mogilny, Shayne Corson and Nik Antropov to a 3-1 exhibition victory over the Buffalo Sabres.'
Sabres putting up shots, with consistency the goal
'Buffalo's offense has started each of its three games rather cooly before igniting in the second and third periods with numerous scoring chances and impressive shot totals. Entering their game against the Toronto Maple Leafs tonight at 7:30 in Air Canada Centre, the Sabres have averaged 5.7 shots in the first 20 minutes and 24.3 shots over the last 40 minutes. Opponents are averaging 26.3 shots the entire game. The Sabres, however, haven't taken full advantage of their scoring opportunities. They are 1-2 in the preseason and have scored six goals.'
Waiver list makes no waves
'Teams were allowed to protect 18 skaters and two goaltenders. The Sabres had 29 players eligible for the waiver draft, but they exposed only one who spent time with them last season: center Chris Taylor. The others left unprotected were forwards Christian Matte, Francois Methot and Darren Van Oene, defensemen Rory Fitzpatrick, Doug Houda, Mike Hurlbut and Mario Larocque and goaltender Tom Askey.'
Sabres assign four players to Rochester
'Sent down were forwards Jeremy Adduono, Christian Matte, Francois Methot and Darren Van Oene. The cuts leave the Sabres with 28 players, five above the roster limit for the start of next week's regular season.'
Buffalo Sabres Season Preview
'Ruff's future looks bright with the Sabres, as long as he continues to win. But post-season success or failure will determine how long Ruff will remain with the organization.'
Brown's miscue costs Sabres
'A fluke goal early in the third period proved to be the difference Tuesday night as the Columbus Blue Jackets held on for a 3-2 victory over the Buffalo Sabres before 16,304 at Nationwide Arena. The Jackets took a 3-0 lead when Curtis Brown of the Sabres accidentally shot the puck into his own net during a delayed power-play call.'
Ramsey is honored
'Former Buffalo Sabres' player and coach Mike Ramsey heads the list of inductees into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame. Ramsey, currently an assistant coach with the Minnesota Wild, will enter the Hall here on his 41st birthday, Dec. 3, along with two other Minnesota natives – Ramsey's 1980 U.S. Olympic teammate Dave Christian of Warroad, and Paul Johnson of West St. Paul.'
Top line clicks against Buffalo
'Although Sabres didn't bring a full A-team, they showed how well they can skate. Sabres center Tim Connolly (acquired from the New York Islanders in the Mike Peca deal) and right wingers Maxim "Tonguetwister'' Afinogenov and J.P. Dumont have extra gears in their transmissions. When the Jackets got a little lax in their own end late in the game, the Sabres buzzed around and eventually stung.'
Blue Jackets 3, Sabres 2
'J.P Dumont scored at 14:17 of the third period for the Sabres. With their goaltender pulled and an extra attacker on the ice, Tim Connolly scored with 2:11 left as the Sabres closed within 3-2.'
Columbus 3, Buffalo 2
'Martin Spanhel was credited with the decisive goal when Curtis Brown passed into his own net in the third period, helping the Columbus Blue Jackets to a 3-2 victory over the Buffalo Sabres. With goaltender Mika Noronen pulled for an extra attacker during a delayed penalty, Brown accidentally sent a pass into the Buffalo net 4:41 into the third period.'
Noronen gets to make his case tonight
'Sabres General Manager Darcy Regier has stated if Noronen can't beat out Biron, the team would rather put Noronen back in Rochester to play on a regular basis. Veteran Bob Essensa will be Buffalo's backup.'
Warrener told to take rest of preseason off
'A second concussion in a 10-month span will shelve Rhett Warrener for the remainder of the preseason, but the Buffalo Sabres defenseman should be cleared before the real games begin Oct. 4. "It doesn't look like he'll be ready to play another preseason game, but (he'll) be ready for the regular season," Sabres coach Lindy Ruff said Monday.'


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Wayne State University Law School Announces Izumi Family Endowed Scholarship
DETROIT (May 1, 2008) – Wayne State University Law School is pleased to announce the creation of the Izumi Family Endowed Scholarship to recognize scholastic achievement, encourage continued progress, and provide assistance to students in financing their education at the Law School.
The Izumi Family Fund was originally established by the ninth dean of Wayne Law Frank H. Wu and his wife, Carol ("Debbie") Izumi, to honor the memory of her parents Shinsuke Edwin and Misao Izumi. It was set up as an independent account of Wayne Law, which had exclusive purpose supporting Law School activities. At the request of Wu and Izumi, the existing Izumi Family Fund has been revised to create the Izumi Family Endowed Scholarship with $125,000 in gifts already received by the university.
"We wanted to honor the memory of my parents by ensuring that law students are encouraged to work toward righting wrongs in our society," said Carol Izumi. "Even though my parents were unjustly viewed with suspicion and interned because of their Japanese ancestry, they always believed in the values and principles of American democracy."
Shinsuke Edwin Izumi was born in 1905 in the Wakayama prefecture of Japan. Known as Ed, he was the second child in a family of six children. At 16, he emigrated to Los Angeles, Calif., where he worked at his brother-in-law's shoe store.
Misao Oshima was born in 1909 in Sacramento, Calif., the only daughter in a family of three children. In 1928, she moved to Los Angeles, where she worked at the Rafu Shimpo, a Japanese newspaper, and met a young shoe store executive, Edwin Izumi. Oshima and Izumi were married in 1931. They bought a produce market in Hollywood, and soon thereafter daughter Nobuko Anne was born.
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941, the family was held at the Tule Lake internment camp in Northern California. Izumi was recruited out of Tule Lake to work for the U.S. government, and the family moved to Cleveland, Ohio.
After the repeal of the racial bar on naturalization, Izumi became a citizen in 1952. A few years later, he was transferred to the Army Map Service in Washington, D.C. In Washington, Oshima worked at the Bureau of Standards, and later at the Department of the Interior and the Library of Congress. Another daughter, Carol Lynne, was born during their years in the nation's capitol.
The family moved to St. Louis in 1958, when Izumi was transferred to work at the Aeronautical Chart and Information Center. He had a long career at ACIC and retired in 1973. In St. Louis, they spent time with many friends and family, including their three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Oshima died in 1997. Ed Izumi died in 2001.
For more information on how you can support the Izumi Family Endowed Scholarship or other scholarships at Wayne State University Law School, please contact Mary Hollens via email at firstname.lastname@example.com or by phone at (313) 577-4141. You can also visit the Office of Development online at http://giving.wayne.edu/index-makeagift.html.
Wayne State University Law School has educated and served the Detroit metropolitan area since its inception as Detroit City Law School in 1927. Located at 471 W. Palmer St. in Detroit's re-energized historic cultural center, the Law School remains committed to student success and features modern lecture and court facilities, multi-media and distance learning classrooms, a 250-seat auditorium, and the Arthur Neef Law Library, which houses one of the nation's 30 largest legal collections. Taught by an internationally recognized and expert faculty, Wayne State Law School students experience a high-quality legal education via a growing array of hands-on curricular offerings, five live-client clinics, and access to well over 100 internships with local and non-profit entities each year. Its 11,000 living alumni, who work in every state of the nation and more than a dozen foreign countries, are experts in their disciplines and include leading members of the local, national and international legal communities. For more information, visit www.law.wayne.edu.


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Ugh, it's cold season again. Most teens get between two and four colds a year. That's not surprising — colds are the most common infectious disease in the United States, and cause more school absences than any other illness.
Luckily, there are ways to feel better when you catch one.
Most colds are caused by viruses (called rhinoviruses) that are in invisible droplets in the air you breathe or on things you touch. If one of these viruses gets through the protective lining of the nose and throat, it triggers an immune system reaction. This can cause a sore throat and headache, and make it hard to breathe.
No one knows exactly why people become infected with colds at certain times. But no matter what you hear, sitting or sleeping in a draft, not dressing warmly when it's chilly, or going outside with wet hair will not cause someone to catch a cold.
Rhinoviruses can stay alive as droplets in the air or on surfaces for as long as 3 hours or even more. So if you touch your mouth or nose after touching someone or something that's been contaminated by one of these viruses, you'll probably catch a cold (unless you're already immune to the virus from having been exposed to it before).
Dry air — indoors or outside — can lower resistance to infection by viruses. So can allergies, lack of sleep, stress, not eating properly, or being around someone who smokes. And smokers are more likely to catch colds than people who don't smoke. Their symptoms will probably be worse, last longer, and be more likely to lead to bronchitis or even pneumonia.
If you already have a cold, you're more likely to spread it to others if you don't wash your hands after you cough or sneeze. Going to school or doing normal activities probably won't make you feel any worse. But it will make it more likely that your cold will spread to classmates or friends.
Cold symptoms usually start 2 or 3 days after a person has been exposed to a source of infection. People with colds are most contagious for the first 3 or 4 days after the symptoms begin and can be contagious for up to 3 weeks. Although some colds can linger for as long as 2 weeks, most clear up within a week.
Drink plenty of fluids like water or juice to help replace the extra fluids you lose while your body is producing a lot of mucus or fighting a fever.
Whether you feel like sleeping around the clock or just taking things a bit easier, pay attention to what your body is telling you when you have a cold. A warm bath or heating pad can soothe aches and pains, and the steam from a hot shower can help you breathe more easily.
Don't worry about whether to feed a cold or starve a fever. Just eat when you're hungry. And you might have heard that chicken soup can cure a cold. There's no real proof of this, but sick people have been swearing by it for more than 800 years.
Over-the-counter (OTC) cold medicines can't prevent people from catching colds in the first place, but some people think these medicines help relieve cold symptoms. They don't actually help people with colds get better faster, though. Some people find that OTC cold medicines can cause stomach upset or make them feel dizzy, tired, or unable to sleep.
Ask your parents (who can talk with a doctor or pharmacist) what medicine you should take, if any. Most doctors recommend acetaminophen for aches, pains, and fever. If you have a cold, you should not take aspirin or any medicine that contains aspirin, unless your doctor says it's OK. Use of aspirin by teens with colds or other viral illness may increase the risk of developing Reye syndrome, a rare but serious condition that can be fatal.
Your doctor can let you know if it's OK to take an antihistamine or decongestant, but there is little evidence that these really make a difference.
Like all viruses, those that cause colds have to run their course. Getting plenty of rest and drinking lots of fluids can do as much good as medicine as far as helping someone with a cold feel better.
Teens who catch colds usually don't get very sick and don't need medical attention. But talk to a doctor if any of these things happen to you:
You should see your doctor if you think you might have more than a cold or if you're getting worse instead of getting better.
Other signs that it's time to call your doctor include:
A doctor won't be able to identify which specific virus is causing a cold. But your doctor can check your throat and ears and possibly also take a throat culture to make sure your symptoms due to another condition. A throat culture is a simple procedure that involves brushing the inside of the throat with a long cotton swab. Examining the germs on the swab will help determine whether you have strep throat and need treatment with antibiotics.
If your doctor does prescribe antibiotics, be sure to take them exactly as directed. If you stop taking them too soon — even if you're feeling better — the infection may not go away and you can develop other problems.
Sooner or later everybody catches a cold. But you can strengthen your immune system's infection-fighting ability by exercising regularly, eating a balanced diet, and getting enough rest.
Virus particles can travel up to 12 feet through the air when someone who has a cold coughs or sneezes, so try to keep your distance from anyone with a cold. Stay clear of smokers, too: even secondhand smoke can make people more likely to get sick. Don't use the same towels or eating utensils as someone else; don't share lipstick or lip balm; and don't drink from anyone else's glass, can, or bottle — you never know who might be about to come down with a cold and is already spreading the virus.
Although some people recommend alternative treatments for colds (such as zinc and vitamin C in large doses, or herbal products such as echinacea), none of these is proven to prevent or effectively treat colds. Because herbal products can have negative side effects, lots of doctors don't recommend them.
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April 3, 2012
Ryan Helms
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., - Diver Ryan Helms and basketball player Glory Johnson have been nominated for the H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Post-Graduate Scholarship, and track and field athletes Kevin Carney and Chelsea Knotts have been nominated for the Brad Davis Community Service Post-Graduate Scholarship by the University of Tennessee, the Southeastern Conference announced Tuesday afternoon.
The H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Post-Graduate Scholarship has been presented by the Southeastern Conference since 1986 to the league's top male and female scholar-athletes.
The SEC Community Service Post-Graduate Scholarship was named for former Associate Commissioner Brad Davis. Davis succumbed to cancer on March 2, 2006. He had been a member of the SEC staff since 1988, first serving as an assistant commissioner until 1994 when he was promoted to associate commissioner. The Southeastern Conference will name the 2012 recipients of the H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Post-Graduate Scholarship on April 6 in conjunction with National Student-Athlete Day. The Davis Community Service Post-Graduate Scholarship winners will be announced on April 5.
Highlights of Tennessee's nominees include:
Ryan Helms, Swimming & Diving (Male McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Nominee)
Will earn a B.S. degree in Education in August 2012
Four-time UT Thornton Center Honor Roll and named to Fall 2011 Thornton Center Highest GPA List
Earned College Swimming Coaches Association of America Academic All-America status
Named twice to SEC Academic Honor Roll
2012 Olympic Trials and Canada Cup Grand Prix qualifier
Earned honorable mention All-America honors at 2011 NCAA Championships in the 1-meter and platform dives
Placed second at the 2011 SEC Championships in the 1-meter and 3-meter dives after finishing third in same events at 2010 SEC Championships
Named SEC Freshman Diver of the Year, 2008-09
Active in Fellowship of Christian Athletes, serving as a mentor, leading Bible Studies and planning meetings
Participated in the SEC's "Together We Can" food drive and worked at food bank in his hometown
The Jefferson, Ga. native is the son of Michael and Tina Helms
Glory Johnson, Basketball (Female McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Nominee)
Earned B.A. degree (cum laude) in Interdisciplinary Studies in May 2011, graduating in just three years, and currently in Master's program
Named to Vol Scholar Honor Roll, Dean's List and SEC Academic Honor Roll
Is just the fourth player in UT Lady Vol history to post 1,000 points and 1,000 rebounds in career
Has been named SEC Player of the Week six times in her career
Played on the gold-medal winning USA team at the 2011 World University Games in Shenzhen, China
Two-time first-team All-SEC, SEC All-Defensive Team and Women's Basketball Coaches Association All-Region 3 Team performer
Member of 2012 Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) All-America Team
2011-12 SEC Defensive Player of the Year
Two-time member of the SEC Women's Basketball Community Service Team
Two-time member of the SEC All-Tournament Team and named MVP of the 2012 SEC Tournament
Volunteered with Habitat for Humanity, Hoops for Hope and UT Athletics Donor Thank-a-Thon
Visited with cancer patients at East Tennessee Children's Hospital and read to children at various Knox County Schools
The Knoxville, Tenn. native is the daughter of Mercy Bassey Johnson and Bassey Johnson Udofot.
Kevin Carney, Track and Field (Male Davis Community Service Nominee)
Will earn a B.S. degree in Logistics in May 2012
Three-time member of the SEC Academic Honor Roll and VolScholar Honor Roll
Recipient of the 2011 Team Vol Spirit Award
Served as volunteer coach for Precision Track Club, coaching children in multiple events
Volunteered for "Race for the Cure," assisting meet organizers
Helped to build homes as part of Habitat for Humanity
Participated in Red Cross disaster relief in April 2011, helping people who were displaced by storms in Tennessee, Alabama and Missouri
Has visited local children's schools and sports teams to talk about sports and the transition from high school to college
Assisted in the planning and execution of "Soles4Shoes," a campus-wide shoe drive
Member of UT's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and UT Athletics Board
The Brentwood, Tenn. native is the son of Dave and Pam Carney
Chelsea Knotts, Track & Field (Female Davis Community Service Nominee)
Will earn a B.S. degree in Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology in May 2012
Came to UT in the inaugural 15-member class of Haslam Scholars, a premier honors program aimed at attracting the nation's top students to campus
Member of SEC Academic Honor Roll and VolScholar Honor Roll
Two-time recipient of Lady Volunteer Academic Achievement Award
National Merit Scholar and recipient of Chancellor's Honors Scholarship
Active in Fellowship of Christian Athletes, projects including collecting toys for children
Participated in SEC's "Together We Can" food drive
Active in West Virginia's Special Olympics
Directed and organized "Running with Hope 5K" to raise funds for Redeeming Hope Ministries
Created a homeless running group through Redeeming Hope Ministries to foster community, commitment and goal setting
Member of UT's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, and organized a Thanksgiving dinner for the homeless
Has also volunteered with Habitat for Humanity
The Ripley, W.Va. native is the daughter of Steve and Melinda Knotts
Kevin Carney
"This is one of the most amazing things that have happened since I've been in college and one of the most humbling as well. None of us do community service for the recognition; we do it because it is the right thing to do. It's nice to be noticed for our work, but also it is inspiring and refuels the fire to get out there and find a way to make a difference.
"The wonderful thing about the Brad Davis Scholarship is that it has enabled me to go to graduate school and stay around Knoxville. We're already working on a couple of programs (community service) for next year that I think will have a bigger impact. I'm looking forward to being part of those."
Chelsea Knotts
"It was an absolute honor to be chosen for this award. I know many people who were equally qualified, if not more, so to be selected for something as prestigious as this is a real compliment.
"I've taken an interest in community service at Tennessee because I've always believed `to whom much is given, much is required.' I've been blessed with innumerable opportunities and the support of so many in my life, so it is important to me that I give back to the community and the people around me in some way. In my first years at Tennessee, I did that through many of the community service opportunities that are offered to athletes, but working with Redeeming Hope Ministries for the past couple years has been the most rewarding and fulfilling experience I have had here."
The SEC Office will be releasing each of its institution's nominees periodically until the April 6 winners are announced. The schedule is as follows:
Alabama - McWhorter: Kyle Weeks, swimming & diving; Brooke Pancake, golf; Davis: Nate Corder, track & field / cross country; Leigh Gilmore, track & field / cross country
Arkansas - McWhorter: Ben Skidmore, track & field; Courtney O'Grady, swimming & diving; Davis: Matt Walters, Tennis; Kelli Stipanovich, Volleyball
Auburn - McWhorter: Cory Luckie, baseball; Katy Frierson, soccer; Davis: John Stembridge, golf; Laura Lane, gymnastics
Florida - McWhorter: Greg Larson, Baseball; Teresa Crippen, Swimming & Diving; Davis: Brian Howell, Swimming & Diving; Joanna Mather, Tennis
Georgia - McWhorter: J.P. Hackney, Track & Field; Wendy Trott, Swimming & Diving; Davis: Aron White, Football; Kathleen Gates, Volleyball
Kentucky - McWhorter: Stuart Hines, Football; Rachel Riley, Softball; Davis: Jake Lewellen, Football; Ann Armes, Volleyball
LSU - McWhorter: Matthew Vieke, Swimming & Diving; Brittany Mack, Softball; Cullen Doody, Track & Field / Cross Country; Ashley Applegate, Softball
Ole Miss - McWhorter: Marcel Thiemann, Tennis; Gabriela Rangel, Tennis; Davis: Devin Thomas, Football; Amanda Hutcheson, Softball
Miss. State - McWhorter: Louis Cant, Tennis; Kim Pettit, Soccer; Davis: Caleb Reed, Baseball; Misty Flesher, Softball
South Carolina - McWhorter: Michael Roth, Baseball; Katie Burnett, Golf; Davis: Chris Campbell, Track and Field; Courtney Newton, Basketball
Tennessee - McWhorter: Ryan Helms, Swimming & Diving; Glory Johnson, Basketball; Davis: Kevin Carney, Track & Field; Chelsea Knotts, Track & Field
Vanderbilt - April 4
National Student-Athlete Day was created in 1987 by the National Consortium for Academics and Sports (NCAS) and Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society, and presented by the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) and the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS).
National Student-Athlete Day is held each April 6 to celebrate outstanding student-athletes who have achieved excellence in academics and athletics while having made significant contributions to the community. It is also a time to recognize those parents, teachers, coaches and school systems which make it possible for young people to find the balance between academics and athletics.
Each year, the SEC, in conjunction with AT&T, an SEC Corporate Champion sponsor, provides the league's male and female McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Post-Graduate Scholarship recipients with a $15,000 post-graduate scholarship. The 22 remaining male and female finalists for the award will also receive a $7,500 post-graduate scholarship. The Davis Award recipients each receive a $10,000 post-graduate scholarship, provided by the SEC. The 22 remaining male and female finalists for the award will also receive a $5,000 post-graduate scholarship. The award recipients are chosen by a committee of Faculty Athletics Representatives from the 12 SEC institutions and are honored at the SEC Spring Meetings in Sandestin, Fla. on May 31.
Last year's McWhorter Award recipients were Dan Mazzaferro and Erica Meissner, both members of the Auburn swimming & diving teams. The Davis Award recipients were Ole Miss track & field athlete Barnabus Kirui and Georgia track & field athlete Bridget Lyons.


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Discussion in 'Other Sports' started by skipaway, Jan 23, 2012.
Gave birth to a colt by Curlin....so cute
Happy Birthday Little Boy
What is the sweetest picture ever, anywhere.
Another cute picture and article:
Rachel's Boy
He's adorable! I look forward to seeing many, many pictures of him as he grows up.
Click on
First Steps
Can't get the first steps, but that star, those legs, everything's precious.
Just born and already walking? Such a fast learner!
His hindquarters are freaking huge! He's so cute.
That first picture w/his front legs splayed out and him looking around...*wibbles*...
Wat a wittle precious baby boy!!!
Seriously now, he's gorgeous!! What a lovely little colt he is indeed.
So happy to hear all went well and there's happy and healthy new little guy in the Horse World.
His name should be Star Bright, look at that blaze on his forehead.
Transported to Rood and Riddle for "pain management related to birth".
I don't know a thing about the care and feeding of horses, but I hope this is not a big deal. The other boards I'm on for thoroughbred racing are alite with this story. Hope she feels better soon.
Rachel Alexandra makes Precautionary Trip to Hopsital
Rachel's baby romping in paddock at Rood and Riddle.
Stonestreet stable says Rachel's doing well.
Hey, look how fast I can go when I get all four legs moving together!
They look good. Now I hope all runs smoothly from now on.
from Coronado's Quest on TC and Rachel's FB page.
Rachel and her Foal are Home!
Now the big countdown...Queen Z's been moved to the foaling barn!
(Right now, btw, Vegas is saying something like 50-1 the Curlin-Rachael Alexandra foal is in the Derby in three years, 100-1 on No. At the current odds I'd happily but $20 on no. I'll be impressed if he makes it out of Maiden Special Weights and fully expect him to be nothing of consequence. Great race mares rarely produce great runners--biggest disaster was Genuine Risk, with two foals that were worthless in flat racing and one slipped pregnancy, and of course that was the one by Secretariat.)
Z will get her own thread
As to your other point, there's about a 1:1235 chance of little Rachel/Curlin making the field. Live foal births estimates for 2012 by the Jockey Club are approx 24,700. I still wouldn't make a bet either.
Personally, I don't care if he races or not. Everything went well, there was a live birth and the little guy's doing well. That's all that's important to me.
Although, I do know there's a lot of money riding on this lil guy. I'm not that far into a fantasy world here. However, I do believe that anything after what I posted up there is just gravy now.
There's a name that colt contest on Stonestreet's web page for Rachel. Winner gets a meet and great with Rachel and the little one, and overnight stay in the guesthouse there.... Hmmm.... {puts thinking cap on}
Current Photos of Rachel and Son
Sooooo cute! He's so fluffy!
There's a cute new video of the little guy on the bloodhorse website. He's getting a whole lot of attention and petting, and seems to mostly like it. He's pretty adorable.
Rachel Alexandra is now in foal to Bernardini (sire of Zenyatta's colt)
I need to give some time to Rachel Alexandra:
Rachel's boy
Calvin reunites with Rachel
And meets the Little One
Just announced after the running of the Curlin Stakes at Saratoga was the name of RA and Curlin's colt: Jess's Dream. Kind of meh to me.
Stonestreet is having another Meet Rachel day, on October 12. There are 4 sessions, 25 fans max per session, rsvp instructions on their facebook page.
I put in for it. I figure, what the heck, maybe I can meet the Princess (sorry, I have to call Zenyatta the queen, but I love Rachel, too). We'll see if I get in.
So I was notified today that I get to meet Rachel Alexandra on October 12. Who would ever have thought I'd get to meet Zenyatta and Rachel Alexandra within 6 weeks of each other? We won't get to feed her, but I have always heard the farm hosts a very nice visit for people. I will also check about seeing Union Rags when I'm there, and of course spend time with my boy Tinner over at Old Friends.
Awesome sk8pics, give her a pat for me.


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Grantsville • Some days he works on horseback.
But most days, Paul Dart tools around the few washboardy roads of the Stansbury Mountains in a U.S. Forest Service pickup, checking on cows and the grasses they eat, largely, but also dealing with weekend campers and homeless squatters, ATV riders and the occasional marijuana farmer.
"I see new things every day," Dart said, even after 52 years on the job.
"He's our eyes and ears in the Stansburys," said Dart's Forest Service boss, Salt Lake District Ranger Cathy Kahlow, referring to the mountains on the Tooele Valley's west side.
"Damned near 72 years old now," Dart has plenty of duties as the agency's sole daily caretaker in the 25-mile-long range. Watching for fires. Cleaning up trash. Checking trails. Gently encouraging squatters to move on.
But his primary job is to check on the health of grasses in Forest Service grazing allotments and to let ranchers know when it's time to move their cows to the next pasture over. He also informs them when cows get loose and wander into places they're not supposed to be, like sensitive streambeds flowing from the semi-arid hillsides.
"You see the cows so much you almost know who they are and who owns them," Dart chuckled after chasing a brown heifer out of a thicket along South Willow Creek, whose headwaters are in Deseret Peak Wilderness Area.
Right away, he recognized that this AWOL cow belonged to somebody named Anderson, which was good. "Anderson has a cowboy who's real talented," Dart said, clearly eager to get on his horse and help with a roundup.
He's been doing work like this since he was 19 and got a summer job fighting fires, building fences and doing range studies for his hometown Spanish Fork Ranger District. He transferred to the agency's Tooele office after graduating from Brigham Young University and landing a real job as a teacher.
For years, until his 2001 retirement, Dart taught science and physical education at Tooele High School, where he also coached wrestling and served as the athletic director. But each summer and on many weekends year-round, he headed into the hills to conduct range-utilization studies and to help keep the land from being abused.
"This is my office. I have all of my stuff here," he said recently, pointing to the binoculars, handheld radio, gloves and cowboy hat on his pickup's dashboard. Dart works 10-hour days, four days a week, touring the range from Timpie Springs on the north to Johnson Pass on the south, spending a few nights here and there at a 1930s-era Forest Service cabin that his wife, Geneal, maintains near South Willow Canyon's highest campground.
"We quite like it here," Dart said, watching a dozen hummingbirds flit around feeders hanging from the front porch of the white, clapboard building, with a barn in the back and a corral occupied by two horses. "We bring the grandkids and have picnics up here."
Most days on the job he's by himself. "My wife needs me out of the house," he joked. But he doesn't mind solitude. "I've been out in the outdoors forever and ever. If I get lonesome, I go to town. But that doesn't happen very often."
And when he's on horseback inspections, Dart often has been accompanied these past few years by his granddaughter, Baylee Barrus, now 18, of Grantsville. "She's a cowgirl," he beamed, recollecting their many trips along the Stansbury Front Trail, a dirt path for hikers, two-wheel riders and horses that extends the length of the Stansburys. "It's my I-15."
For her part, Barrus could not have asked for a better childhood mentor.
"I appreciate the opportunity to ride with him. There's been a lot of grandfather/granddaughter bonding time," she said, noting that her grandfather "knows that mountain range more than any other person I've ever met. I've heard countless stories about things that happened there lots and lots of years ago."
Dart is especially proud of being hurt only once in his half century on the job. It happened in 2010, when he was riding into South Willow Canyon to do a range utilization study, accompanied fortunately by a buddy on a mule.
"My horse, he just folded up," Dart recounted. "He reared up and sat down, slam-dunked me. Twisted my foot underneath and broke my ankle."
Over the decades, Dart feels like the Forest Service has protected its lands fairly well. "We're holding our own. Some places are better, some are worse," he said, the greatest challenge being the carelessness of some all-terrain vehicle drivers.
"There are more ATV trails than ever," he said. "Roads that go nowhere are a pain. I don't know what we're going to do to keep ATVs on the road. We don't have enough people to patrol all the time."
On the other hand, Dart finds the ranchers and recreationists he encounters now to be more conscientious about protecting the environment than the colorful individualists who roamed the range years ago.
All in all, he added, "this has been a pretty good job, … a good way to spend my retirement."
Twitter: @sltribmikeg
Stansbury Mountains
Name • Honors Capt. Howard Stansbury of the U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers, who led an 1849 survey of the Great Salt Lake and its surroundings.
Geology • The Stansbury Mountains are a massif, a compact, uplifted block of old rocks resistant to erosion and bounded by faults similar to the Teton Range in Wyoming.
Highlight • Deseret Peak, elevation 11,031 feet. A 25,500-acre wilderness area surrounding the peak was created by Congress in 1984.
Other attractions • South Willow Canyon has six campgrounds; informal camping sites are scattered throughout other drainages. The 23-mile Stansbury Front Trail traverses the range.
Paul Dart
Age • 71.
Family • Wife Geneal was a Tooele Army Depot budget analyst. They have four children, 13 grandchildren.
Employment • Retired science and physical education teacher at Tooele High School, where he was also wrestling coach and athletic director.
Passions • Fan of Atlanta Braves since they were in Boston and Milwaukee, particularly Hall of Fame third baseman Eddie Mathews.


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AMES, Iowa -- The Iowa State University Integrated Crop Management Conference will be Dec. 4 and 5 on the Ames campus. Registration begins at 7:30 a.m., Dec. 4 in the Scheman Continuing Education Building and the program concludes at 4 p.m., Dec. 5.
The latest information on crop production and protection technology in Iowa and surrounding states will be covered during 30 conference workshops. Workshop presenters are Iowa State faculty and staff, and invited speakers from around the Midwest. A popular feature of the conference is the variety of guest speakers on the program.
"Each year Iowa State specialists invite colleagues to share their research activities at the conference. This gives those attending an opportunity to hear expertise and opinions from across the region and country at one location," said Alison Robertson, extension plant pathologist and planning committee chairperson.
Current topics of interest added to traditional conference topics include presentations on pest resistance to herbicides, fungicides and insecticides, and sustainable biofuel production using perennial plants.
The conference is limited to 1,000 attendees and has filled to capacity the last several years. Early registration is encouraged to guarantee enrollment. Certified Crop Adviser credits as well as recertification for Commercial Pesticide Applicators in categories 1A, 1B, 1C, 4 and 10 are available.
Online registration can be made on the conference website at www.aep.iastate.edu/icm. Registration is $185. After Nov. 22, registration increases to $235. No registrations will be accepted at the door.
The conference is hosted by ISU Extension and Outreach, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the departments of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Agronomy, Economics, Entomology and Plant Pathology & Microbiology.


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Storm Damage
Photos submitted by Vinnie Tran and Dr. Doug Jeffries on 6/15/2009.
On Friday, June 12, a large cluster of thunderstorms moved through the state, with the leading edge of the storms forming what the National Weather Service refers to as a "bow echo" as winds reached speeds of up to 80 mph (see storm reports from NWS). Clarksville took a direct hit from the storm -- the wind caused some structural damage to buildings in town and much of the city had extensive tree damage. This oak did significant damage to this off-campus residence...thankfully, there were no personal injuries reported in Clarksville as a result of the storm.
A campus icon, the tree in Gilbert's Park, was a casualty of Friday's storm.
Some limbs were brought down at Hurie Athletic Field, damaging some of the fencing around the field.
The tree between Mabee Administration Building and Raymond Munger Memorial Chapel lost a large limb.
A large limb down in Dr. Niece's front yard….
One of the trees in front of Smith-Broyles Science Center was heavily damaged by the strong winds.


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|Bob Heine
About 8 months after my run-in with the train I had a melt-down. Spent some time with a psychiatrist who didn't say very much but led me to a breakthrough. He made me realize that my misery was self-inflicted. I wasn't happy when I had a 100% functioning body so it seemed OK to be unhappy with less. I eventually gave up on the coulda, shoulda, woulda and if onlys and got on with life -- with a few adjustments.
I can tie my shoes but it's a pain so I wear loafers or sneakers with Velcro straps. I tie my welding apron in front and then pull it around -- same with tool belts. I don't play the clarinet any more but that's a bonus for those who never heard me play.
My only regret is not working with veterans. I lost my arm before the draft caught up with me for Vietnam so I never served but I have learned to cope with the inconvenience of doing everything one-handed. I thought that would be helpful for young amputees and I've done a fair number of presentations at Physical Therapy seminars. I've written to the VA a bunch of times and even button-holed a manager at the VA who I met at jury duty. Never heard back from anyone. A few of the physical therapists I've worked with are amputees but all of them were lower limb. A two-armed person teaching a one armed person how to do stuff makes no sense but that's what happens. Kinda like teaching someone to drive a stick shift using a car with an automatic.
Have taken your words to heart Kevin. The operation on my shoulder was minor I had a partially torn rotator cuff. The surgeon who did mine does all the arthroscopic work for the Dallas Mavericks, Rangers, and Dallas FC soccer team and he came very highly recommended. The surgeon did not have to re-attach anything but did remove some bone spurs and scar tissue around the rotator cuff area. That was three weeks ago and I can already tell it is going to be a lot better. Like you I could not sleep on my left side before the surgery, now I can. I did not even need therapy.
Bob...it's great to see that through all of your tragedy, you can still find humor in things. That's the makings of a great person. I'm thankful that I still have my arm although it won't do what it's supposed to do, but I still have my fingers and such that work. I just can't get it up high enough to flip some other drivers off though. LOL!!! I know that they have come a long way with prosthesis. And it is great too because of all the Veterans that are coming back and needing something. God Bless Them All!!!! Hopefully they can get their lives adjusted where they will eventually be able to find some humor in a tragedy
Vince....take care of that shoulder. If I were a little smarter 8 years ago, I wouldn't be where I am today. My shoulder just started out as a pain if I would toss a ball, rock, stick or something. I always thought I just pulled a muscle. Then it started to hurt at night while I was sleeping, so I went to see my doctor. Then the test started. MRI's, X-rays and the doctor told me I had bone spurs and arthritis. So I was scheduled for arthroscopic surgery to clean things up. The pain never went away. So I talked to an Orthopedic surgeon and he told me that I needed a shoulder replacement. He also said that after the replacement I would be golfing and playing tennis in six weeks time. B.S. The surgery took 1 1/2 hours more than what it should have. The surgeon told my wife that the Rotator Cuff was in bad shape, so he had to repair it first. I think if he stopped there, then things may have been good, but why stop there? Go for the big money. I think all in all it was something like $52,000 when it was all done and over with. My shoulder was never right and always hurt. So 5 years later I talked to another surgeon that come highly recommended and he said I was a prime candidate for a "Reverse Prosthesis". I looked online and did some research. It showed older people able to lift their arm straight up. Said they never felt better. B.S. AGAIN. I had it done, two weeks it fell out of place, th esurgeon redone it, two weeks later another surgery to replace components, two weeks later it was out of place and yet another surgery to put it back in place, two weeks later it was out of place and he told me to live with it for a few months to see how it was healing. If at that time it was healing well he would put it back in place. He also told me he cut the Axillary Nerve, which controls the Deltoid Muscle, which in turn is supposed to help hold the shoulder in place. He blowed me off for almost a year. Finally I had to go for another EMG test to see how much the Axillary Nerve was working and it was working at about 35%. He then told me that there was nothing he could do with me.
My life plans took a change after that and I had to deal with my parents failing health, then I ended up with a cough that eventually turned into a huge cancer scare that took almost 6 months of my life away. The cough turned into a massive tumor, which I ended up having two P.E.T. test ran. This involve a nurse coming in with a lead encased syringe shooting you full of radioactive isotopes. Don't go into any airports afterwards, don't get around any pregnant women, and for God's sake, don't hold any babies for 24 hours. I was scheduled to have the tumor removed, but I pleaded with the surgeon to run one more test to see how bad it was. So he was going to do a needle biopsy. The risk was collapsing a lung. If that happened, I was to be rushed into the operating room and have the tumor and a third of my lung removed. I was on the table and they had to do a CT Scan. The doctor was shaking his head no and looking at the ground. He then told me he had to run another CT Scan. Same thing. Hell, I thought I only had a few months to live after that. He told me to get dressed and he went to get my wife as he had some news to tell us. For craps sake, I didn't even have a will made out. He came in and told me to go home. There was nothing there. All the doctors have been seeing was pneumonia. Which is what I told them months before. I was cutting a bunch of MDF wood and had gotten into the sawdust without wearing a mask and breathed it in.
So anyways, I went three years with my shoulder out of place. I worked every day. I worked on large punch press dies wrestling them around plus all of the other stuff I had to do. I am a Toolmaker so what I do involves a lot of lifting of different tooling. I managed but in doing so I really screwed things up. With the shoulder out of place it constantly tried to heal itself and in doing so, created a lot of scar tissue and fluid buildup. The surgeon I have now said he would operate but it was to just get rid of the pain and not for range of motion. I was fine with that. At least I have a chance of getting off of narcotic painkillers that I have been on for eight years. He operated and put in larger components that were made to hold the ball into the cup. The cup was deeper so the ball would not pop out. Two weeks later it was out of place. I went to the E.R. and luckily we got it back in before surgery, so the decision was made to leave it like that and see how it healed. Two weeks later it was out of place again and would not go back in. So all of the components came out except for the stem. On the stem he put a huge ball that fit back in to my original socket. But he had an extra hour operating because he said that I had more massive scarring and fluid buildup in the shoulder. He said he has never in all of his years seen anyone scar as fast and as massive that i do. And by doing that causes complications. Then on top of it, he decided to do a culture to see if everything was alright as I had one place that did not heal like the rest in the suture. In doing so, he found that I had Osteomyelitis, which is bacteria around the bone. And with that it can cause muscle atrophy, which I have no muscle in my left arm at all.
But I won't bore you with how I think that came about but I have a good idea and it stems back to another doctor. Oh....I did think about sueing a doctor, but I spoke with three different lawyers and none would take it on a contingency basis. They steered me towards a firm in Cincinnati, but all warned me that it would cost me $80-$100,000 out of my pocket. And then you only have a 50/50 chance. So I have a bum arm, my insurance company is out a few hundred thousand, my shop sent me a letter stating that since I have been off work for so long that there is no guarantee my position would still be open, and they want me to sign up for SSD.
So anyways....I'm very sorry for rattling on, but once I get to talking about it, it kind of turns into a RANT
Take care of your shoulder Vince, and don't let them talk you into something like I went through. It never as good as the real thing!!!
Kevin, it's also been a while since I have been on and I ran across your post. Man you have had one bummer of a year . I am assuming your doctors have checked for MRSA infection, if not please suggest they do. I have a coworker who has been in ICU for several months fighting the MRSA infection. Almost lost his kidneys and will be going through a heart valve replacement because of the infection. He has been on some really stout antibiotics both oral and IV. He now gets an antibiotic shot once a week to the tune of $1000 a pop. It has been a Herculean struggle for he and his wife and kids but he finally is on the mend thank God.
I am recovering at the moment from rotator cuff surgery. The injury happened six years ago when I pulled the transmission out of my 34 on back on the garage floor. I have been putting up with the pain since then and decided it wasn't going to get any better so I had it fixed, should have had it done six years ago
I hope 2012 is a much better year for you and your wife.
Take Care
|Bob Heine
I rarely "laugh out loud" but your shoulder picture put a big smile on my face. Orthopedic surgeons do not spend a lot of time closing up their work. Hey, at least they made the same cut on you each time. In your case, a zipper might be a better closure. I once thought of having a zipper tattooed on the end of my stump but was told scar tissue isnt a good surface for the ink. I also thought about a big M-o-t-h tatoo running down the length (instead of M-o-t-h-e-r). My wife has a great sense of humor but even she thought it would be in poor taste.
The first surgeons to work on me were orthopedic specialists. They sewed a big flap of skin back on my skull. It healed up just fine but their stitches left me with six or seven really weird cow-licks. Luckily they called in a plastic surgeon for the rest of the gashes in my face.
They didn't sew up the stump the first day because they needed to do a secondary amputation. Only about 15% of amputations are upper limbs and most of those are fingers. Above-elbow amputations are pretty rare and the fitting of a useful prosthesis requires some 3-bears care on the length of the stump (not too long, not too short). My surgeons did an excellent job on the bone and internals but the skin closure looked like it was done by a Girl Scout sewing team. I don't think they had staples back then so they used fine stainless steel wire. A year after the surgery, a piece of wire they accidentally left in there worked its way to the surface. Not expecting the scars to change after 46 years....
A few weeks after the accident the doctors sent me to a lovely place in lower Manhattan across from Bellevue Hospital. It was called the Institute for the Crippled and Disabled and the place matched its name. The building was dark and old with artificial limbs hanging from hooks in the workshop. They asked me what I did for a living so I told them I was starting a new job as a technical writer -- big mistake. They made the arm with the lightest weight cables and thinnest fiberglass. They gave me an artificial hand but the $180 vinyl glove would stain from ball point pen ink, newsprint, mustard and a host of other things. I elected to wear a hook instead. Actually a good choice for avoiding burns to my good hand.
Working around the house and on the cars I managed to snap the operating cables about every three weeks. After my fourth repair they gave me a supply of parts to make my own cables at home but they were still light duty. When I had a new arm made eight years later, I told the prosthetist I worked as a ditch-digger. Never broke another cable. The harness has been replaced twice but it has held up pretty good. It came in real handy when I was pulling the cast iron heads off the big block in my Corvette (safety chain around my neck helped as well).
Three years ago (before I qualified for Medicare) I was checking the $10K a year health insurance plan I had (the $10K a year was in addition to the $7.5K contribution by my former employer). I discovered they covered prosthetic devices 100% so I got a prescription for a new arm (I bet you'd love to be able to do that right about now). The new arm is myoelectric and although the technology has been around for decades, advances in battery technology has made above-elbow arms possible more recently. The arm is called a Utah-3 and is really cool. Without my insurance I can pick one of these up for $80K but it was a mere $26K for my insurance company. A couple of powerful motors operate the elbow, wrist and hand. The hand can put 22 pound of pressure between the thumb and fingers -- same with the motorized hook. Sensors in the stump socket pick up electrical signals from the bicep and tricep muscles through the skin. Only issue with the insurance was the battery. Two chargers and six batteries ran nearly $600 and the insurance company thought they were a luxury. A short letter explaining that the battery packs are unique to the Utah-3 and the arm is a decoration without them. I guess that convinced them to cover the expense because I never got another bill.
As cool as the arm is, it has a few drawbacks. I can't use it around water, it needs to be in a relatively dust-free environment and I can't have it turned on when I'm driving (cell phone signals can trigger a sudden elbow, hand or wrist movement). I need to have a spare battery with me at all times because the battery is very difficult to remove if it dies and the arm is not fully contracted. It would be useful while watching TV but the motors make a fair bit of noise which turns out to be annoying to my wife. I have to admit its fun to trigger the wrist motor and just let the hand do non-stop revolutions. It creeps me out so it must really be bad for onlookers.
A few months after I got the arm, a lawyer contacted me to find out the date of my accident and how much money I received as a settlement because they expected me to reimburse United Healthcare for the cost of the arm. Told them it was 43 years ago and the railroad didn't even refund my unused ticket. Haven't heard back from them. I never thought I'd be happy to not win a settlement but knowing I could/would have been screwed out of it by an insurance company anyway made me chuckle.
I don't know Bob, I think you got me beat by a longshot. Just reading the part about hearing your arm snap, made me cringe. I'm glad that it broke something loose, but I imagine the pain was quite terrible. My biggest fear is falling in the winter and doing damage to my other arm. I know that if I fall on the one with the prosthesis I stand a chance of shattering the complete upper bone that the prosthesis is in. The second time they put the stem in they reamed it out again so now I don't have much bone around it.
As far as the PICC goes, it is in through the bicep and I have a stretchy knit piece that goes over it to hold the line down. A little uncomfortable but by far not unbearable. Bekow is a pic of the PICC line and the components that the finally had to remove from the shoulder. I'm left with just a huge ball in the shoulder now. Basically back to where I was eight years ago only worse.
|Bob Heine
I looked up SOL in the dictionary and found what appears to be your picture. I've got nothing -- your rant is well deserved.
My mother had an artificial hip so she went through the antibiotics routine before every visit to the dentist. Friend of mine contracted TB that settled in his knee and had the PICC for a loooong time. I've been lucky with only bridgework in my mouth to replace the ones knocked out.
Ten years after my arm went missing we moved from New York to Florida. The day we moved into the house was my son's 12th birthday and he wanted a skateboard. Having roller- and ice-skated for years, I thought it would be the same thing. I couldn't get the skateboard to move on the epoxied gravel on the patio so I pushed off a wall. Skateboard took of and left me behind -- I landed on my one and only elbow. Hurt like hell but I didn't want to ruin the party. Two hours later it was swelling pretty bad so my wife suggested going to he hospital to have my head examined. Nurse was very encouraging when she took X-rays. She said it couldn't be broken because the pain would be excruciating and I couldn't possibly move the arm the way I had for the X-rays.
Turned out the nurse was wrong and I had fractured the elbow through the joint. Doctor gave 50-50 chance that surgery could fix the joint but I didn't like the odds. Elbow went in a half-cast and I had to exercise the joint as often as I could stand. Doctor was thrilled that I recovered 120-degree extension but I was not nearly as pleased.
Exactly one year later we took our kids to DisneyWorld and stayed in one of the trailers at Fort Wilderness (long gone). It was Halloween weekend 1976 and they had opened River Country that year (also long gone). I had been exercising my arm all year and could almost do a 1-arm chin-up. The kids saw a platform in the middle of the lagoon that had a wire clothesline stretching to a log cross-bar twenty or thirty feet from the platform. Just grab the t-bar on the trolley and you rode the line down to the cross-bar. When I jumped off the platform my elbow snapped. The sound was loud enough to catch my wife's attention over on the beach. Saw a lot of stars and fell in the water without making it more than six feet from the platform. I guess it broke the calcium loose from the joint -- arm extends 180-degrees ever since.
Of course you know better than anyone that those joints make excellent weather stations and repetitive motion (like sanding primer by hand) is a short-term activity. I remember clearly how having both arms messed up was a nightmare. Unless you have help, just showering and getting the wildlife out of your hair is a giant pain. Kevin, it's bumming me out just thinking about what you are going through. Best thing you can do is take it a quarter of a day at a time. A whole day is too tough to bite off. Just try to get through the morning, afternoon and evening and hope nighttime brings some relief. I hope they didn't put the PICC where you can't even lie down.
Not sure if it helps but know that I'm thinking of you. This whole getting old thing is not for wusses.
Just an update. I had to have another surgery on my arm. Surgery #7 and it will be, or should be the last one. They had to remove all of the components except for the stem, then they ended up putting one large ball on top of the stem. So basically I am back to where I was 8 years ago except I now have no rotator cuff. Today I had to go to the hospital to have a PICC line put in my other arm. This is basically an IV line that goes in through the bicep through an artery towards the heart. I will be doing 42 home IV's due to an infection that has settled around the prosthesis into the bone. The IV's are one a day, 7 days a week, for 6 weeks.
I think the infection may have started with a dental implant I had a couple of years ago that did not work out right. The dentist though that I might have had an abscessed tooth next to it, until he pulled that tooth. The infection was in the dental implant. I was on antibiotics then but evidently it wasn't enough to knock it. And for anyone that doesn't know, any dental work requires that you take antibiotics before the dental work for the rest of your life. A few years ago they changed it to only having to take them for two years, then went back to life.
So now I have two bummed arms. With the PICC, I can't use my arm overhead or lift any more than 20 lbs. with that arm
|Bob Heine
Somehow I survive being stupid but I think I've pushed my luck far enough.
It seems like you should be able to get a brace or strapping system to lock your shoulder in the socket. If you can keep it in the socket and avoid the horrendous pain, you might be able to get back to working on your car. I've been working on my '72 big-block Corvette for nearly 30 years and I don't care if I ever drive it - I enjoy working on it. My '87 Corvette is always available to drive. They're both automatics and although they are nothing compared to your Impala, it's better than driving a Kia (no offense intended if you do).
It's a bump in the road. A nasty, painful, ugly bump but a bump none the less. I was doing some research on an artificial hand that has a motor for each finger (mine has one motor for all five). One story featured Bryan Anderson, who was blown up in Iraq and lost both legs and his left forearm. He is walking on artificial legs and using what is left of his body. And he's laughing. He and a couple of million others who are way worse off than me make me keep going and help me smile on my worst days. It's better than a pill....
As far as doing things with one hand, the last three years I've basically had to do that.Simple things like taking medication, I've had to do it one handed. As stupid as that may sound, my arm only bent at the elbow. The shoulder would not move enough to even get my hand to my mouth. There are so many simple things that a person takes for granted until you don't have full faculties. Fastening my pants was a chore in itself. For eight years now I have not been able to put my arm on the car door while driving. Going to a drive-thru bank or some place like MickeyD's was a challenge. I had to sell my '62 Impala because I was not able to work on it the way I wanted to. I've had to sleep on my right side only for eight years because of the pain of laying on my left side.
So we'll see what this latest operation brings. Like I said, earlier, this surgery was only done to relieve the pain and not for range of motion. I'd much rather be off of all the pills, before they do anymore damage than they may have already done.
|Bob Heine
No one knows the pain another suffers but it seems like you are in that "...so I smiled, and things got worse" cycle these days. I don't think you should be crossing your fingers -- good chance your shoulder will pop out. I can't imagine going through all this just to be back where you started. I went over the handlebars of a mini-bike and landed on my shoulder. Gave myself traumatic bursitis and couldn't believe the pain. You've been dealing with worse than that for years.
If I were you, I'd strap that arm down tight for a month. Sounds like you heal quickly but not in a good way so give the scar tissue time to toughen. Before you even think of using that arm, figure out how you can do the job with one hand. Trust me, you can do an awful lot with one arm but you have to get your mind adjusted. Also helps to have a lot of patience. Doing things one-handed usually takes longer and when you get tired or frustrated, it's best to walk away and come back to it when you're rested. Oh, and take care of the 'good' arm because you are going to be putting a lot more stress on it.
Well, we went through surgery #7 yesterday. And damn it is really sore. The shoulder popped out last week and we couldn't get it back in place. The surgeon was also explaining to me that for some odd reason, I scar rather fast. This is what has been pushing my shoulder of of socket. Once it popped out than the scar tissue continued to grow, not letting it pop back in.
This should be the last surgery. There are no other revisions that they can do to the shoulder. And the shoulder is basically back to where it was 8 years ago. He removed the components from the Reverse Prosthesis, the ball out of the socket, and the socket from the stem, then added one large ball to the stem creating a Standard Prosthesis. Only now, I have absolutely no Rotator Cuff, and will have a very limited range of motion, if any at all. I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that I won't have pain on down the road. I'm really tired of eating painkillers
Thanks for sharing this sad story with us....
I know it was for Kevin.. But it really hit home for other's here as well.... If this don't give someone hope,,, NOTHING WILL !!!! You my friend are a true Man... You never gave up...And was hit with some hard stuff in life.. I been hit hard a few times as well.... I wrecked a street bike when I was 17 ripped the whole left side of my face off with a few other things.... Never thought I would look the same again... Healed up really good..
So reading your bad times make some of mine look like nothing.... Thanks again for sharing... And most of all Not giving up...
|Bob Heine
You have had a horrible year. I hope the new year is a fresh start.
I went through a couple of FUBAR years in the 60s and all I can tell you is to hang in there. Maybe my 'luckiest day' will make you feel a little better.
September 9, 1965 I was running a minute or so late (not unusual) and the Long Island Railroad was running right on time (very unusual). As I was running up the stairs of the train station, I heard the train start to pull out. Not wanting to be late for work, I scanned the moving train for an open door and saw two near the middle of the train. Having boarded moving trains many times before, I ran toward the open doors, reversed direction and attempted to jump on -- through the first of the two doors -- almost.
Instead of landing inside the train, I fell between the two cars and onto the tracks. The train's undercarriage beat me up pretty bad and my left arm was crushed at the elbow. It spit me out about twenty yards from the station. No one saw me fall if they had and pulled the emergency brake handle, the train would have stopped with me under it and I would have bled to death while they jacked the train off me. As it was, I was conscious, going into shock and managed to get closer to the station platform.
Two unidentified men arrived and saw me on the tracks. One jumped off the platform and used my tie as a tourniquet on what was once my left arm (ties ARE good for something). The second man ran down the stairs and flagged down a police car that was passing by just at that moment. Remember, AT&T put 9-1-1 into effect in 1968 and there was no such thing as a cell phone back then. When the police officer radioed the local volunteer fire station two blocks away, two firemen were having coffee before heading off to work and rushed to my aid. Both had trauma cards that allowed them to move seriously injured victims. They had me in the hospital (six miles away) 13 minutes after the accident.
The only nurse in the hospitals emergency room, who happened to be a former neighbor, found I had no pulse and gave me a Demerol injection to slow my heart down (it was fibrillating). The hospital had no B-negative blood so the 70-year old elevator operator donated a pint on the spot. The two best orthopedic surgeons in town had just scrubbed and were ready to begin their first elective surgery of the day. I was wheeled in instead. No one asked about my health insurance, which was minimal. They just started patching me up.
Over the course of the next six hours they were able to stop the bleeding from my arm, leg and head. They stitched my scalp back on and thankfully invited a plastic surgeon to work on my face, which had a gash on the right temple and a large hole through my chin (180 stitches). The plastic surgeon then invited an oral surgeon to look at the damage to my front teeth, most of which were smashed. By the time the neurosurgeon arrived to review the x-rays of my head, they had already determined the bleeding from my right ear was only a punctured eardrum. Unfortunately the x-rays did show 7 major skull fractures, one of which severed the nerve that controls the outer muscle of my right eye. Even with five surgeries over the years, the double vision has never gone away.
Twelve hours after the accident, when I woke up in the hospitals intensive care unit, my wife leaned over and quietly said Youre not getting out of painting the house this easy. We were only married 3-1/2 years at the time and everyone was sure she was going to take our two infants and leave me for a more able-bodied person. The kids did leave but not for another 15 or 20 years. My wife stuck around but I figure she's going to leave in a few months, as soon as she gets the 50th anniversary presents appraised.
What was left of my arm required a secondary amputation so I could wear a prosthesis. I wore the arm for ten years but when we moved from New York to Florida in '75 the weather makes it too hot to wear every day. I still use the mechanical arm when I'm digging ditches or pulling cylinder heads. A couple of years ago I got myself fitted with a bionic arm. I had done some research and thought it might be useful. They didn't give me the manual first -- big mistake. The manual says I can't get it wet, it has to be kept out of dusty environments and I have to shut it off when I drive -- cell phones may trigger unwanted movement. When I asked about air tools, gasoline, lacquer thinner and epoxy primer it was obvious this was not a solution -- just another problem.
Been working on my cars and houses with one arm for my entire adult life -- the accident happened 9 days before my 21st birthday. Wasted a year or two after the accident feeling pretty sorry for myself. Lawyers gave up on the lawsuit when they found out my brother had committed suicide 18 months earlier (another part of the FUBAR years). Health insurance covered half the bills and my parents helped with the rest.
Decided to get a degree at night school. In the blink of a decade I had a degree in English to match my job as a technical writer. When folks got bored watching me touch-type one handed faster than my colleagues did with two, they forced me into a series of management jobs. I prefer dealing with steel and wood so I retired at 50.
I've been here to see my son and daughter grow up and even see my 9 grandchildren grow up. It hasn't been perfect and we've had stretched or broken ties with our son and daughter a few times. OK, it was probably our fault -- we moved to Australia for two years and didn't bring our kids with us.
It hasn't always been smooth and some days are worse than others but I sure will miss the ride when I go.
A few decades back I was enjoying a drink at a Club Med with my wife and some close friends. Didn't have a shirt on and this young woman came up and asked me "What happened to your arm?" I looked down and screamed "Oh S**t!" Had to run after her to apologize.
Yesterday, I had to run a couple of errands, had the sling on, turned the corner in the truck and my shoulder roll out of place again. So I have to call the doctor in the morning, let him know about it, and surgery #7 will more than likely be coming up this week.
Surgery #7 will be the very last surgery they can do. What will happen is that they will take out all of the components of the Reverse Shoulder Prosthesis, except for the stem that is cemented into the arm. Then they'll add a large titanium ball to the stem and let it ride in the socket that I now have. I won't hardly have any range of motion but the shoulder will, or shouldn't ever pop out of place again AND it SHOULD be pain free. But the Axillary Nerve has been partially severed from the previous surgeon, plus the multiple operations, plus cutting around muscle, tendons, and ligaments, not to mention that I have no Rotator Cuff left at all, will only be anyones guess whether there is much use left or not. From the elbow down it isn't bad except the pain from my shoulder now travels all of the way down to my hand. If they get the pain stopped, I will have use from my elbow down.
Oh well....chit happens!!!
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