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Lost Cat Spruce Grove, Alberta
Our Cat went missing on the evening of October 15, 2012 in Rolling Meadow Estates - #16-53219 Range Road 271, also known as Pioneer Road
(just North of the Yellowhead Highway near Spruce Grove) at approximately 7 pm. Her name is Cleo and has blue eyes, tattoo in left ear, front paws declawed, spayed and has a "lion clip". She is quite friendly but afraid of dogs and may have run up a tree. I am offering a reward for her return and would greatly appreciate if you live in the area to take a look around your property to see if she is around. Please contact Lynn or Jack at 780-235-3360 or 780-962-3730 if you have seen her. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts, she is our baby and sadly missed.
If you can put her litterbox and/or a worn but unwashed t shirt or pair of smelly shoes of yours out on the deck this may help lead her home.
Go around the neighbourhood at dusk/dawn calling her, rattling a treat container or tap a spoon on her dish or tin of food. Bring a flashlight to pick up the shine off her eyes from under cars/decks/bushes or up trees.
If you can poster the neighbourhood, plus leave one w/ local businesses, schools, pet supply stores, grocery stores, bus stops, vets & all animal shelters in the area that will help garner attention that this kitty has a home who wants her back
Please visit the animal shelters in person often times the shelters are understaffed/over worked with so many animals/requests etc they may not have the time to personally look into each phone call or an emergency/something comes up in the meantime & the request gets overlooked.
Going in person means you can visit & identify the cat right away, if an animal comes in terrified it may act out of character & be labeled as sick or a feral and not be placed with the general population please ask to see these areas as well.
Good luck &
Avoid biting when a simple growl will do
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Chance of more charges on horizon for former City Councilman
Editor�s note:Some readers may find content in this story disturbing and objectionable. Please use discretion.
Thursday at 7:39 p.m., agents with the State Bureau of Investigation executed a search warrant at former Kinston City Councilman Will Barker�s home.
That�s when he reached for a gun and attempted to commit suicide.
Already facing 10 counts of felony third-degree sexual exploitation of a minor, Barker could end up with more charges against him, Assistant District Attorney Imelda Pate said Monday at Barker�s first court appearance. Law enforcement is just beginning the intensive forensic investigation of a vast amount of electronics seized from his home and from his business.
The initial charges stem from images found on a laptop seized at Barker�s residence.
Barker attempted to reduce his $300,000 bond Monday in Lenoir County District Court. In attempting suicide, Attorney Allen Foster said his client made a �rash, harsh and poor decision� and has �no desire to do anything to harm himself.�
According to the bond worksheet entered at the time of Barker�s arrest, the arresting officer wrestled the handgun from Barker. The officer later suggested an unusually high bond because Barker was suicidal at the time of arrest, authorities were unaware of his mental state and believed him a possible flight risk.
An apparent change of mindset worked well for Barker, who saw a reduction in his overall bond to $105,000. Foster told Judge Lonnie Carraway that Barker had �overwhelming family and friend support from his community,� is of �high character� and not a flight risk. Pate agreed the weekend served as �a cooling off period� and the prosecution wouldn�t oppose, necessarily, a reduction in the bond.
Foster said he and an associate discussed treatment and counseling with Barker over the weekend, and Barker would go immediately into treatment once he�s released from custody. As of press time on Monday, Barker remained in isolation at the Lenoir County Jail.
Barker entered the courtroom late Monday morning with two other defendants, all clad in the kelly-green scrubs of the Lenoir County Jail. Otherwise expressionless, Barker sometimes smiled while talking to members of the court who knew him.
During his initial hearing on the 10 counts, Barker appeared removed from the desperation of Thursday night as friends and family packed two rows end-to-end at the front of the courtroom.
The trouble began for Barker at a meeting of the Fremont Board of Alderman on Nov. 20. According to affidavits in support of the search warrants, Barker spoke to the board regarding a town financial audit. He left his seat on two different occasions to address the aldermen at their table and then left the premises after speaking during a closed session.
Fremont Town Administrator Kerry McDuffie received a USB thumb-drive that had been found on the floor next to the table, asked if anyone had lost it, and finding no claimants, gave the drive to town Police Chief P.E. Moats.
Moats took the drive and endeavoring to find its owner through viewing the contents, discovered images of young boys, clothed and naked, including images that showed the boys genitals. He also discovered a file titled �Sitterson & Barker PA,� and subsequently alerted the SBI.
Special Agent Kevin Roughton corroborated the findings, noting the children were 12-15 years old and appeared to be sexually exploitative. He also discovered more files indicative the drive was used for business-related purposes, and there was reasonable evidence the drive was Barker�s property.
Roughton received warrants to search Barker�s home and place of business at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, and searched the residence and offices about 12 hours later.
A warrant was issued for Barker�s arrest that evening resulting from the following 10 images found on a laptop at his house. Allegedly, the images contain:
Charge No. 1
� Unknown juvenile, approximately 9-12 years old, engaging in sexual activity consisting of lewd and lascivious display of the pubic area
� Unknown minor, approximately 9-13 years old, engaging in sexual activity consisting of touching of a juvenile�s penis by an adult male
� Two juveniles, approximately 9-14 years old, engaging in sexual activity consisting of mutually performing oral sex
Charge No. 2
� Two unknown juveniles, approximately 8-14 years old, engaging in sexual activity consisting of each engaging in masturbation
� Unknown juvenile, approximately 10-13 years old, engaging in sexual activity consisting of performing oral sex on an unknown male
� Unknown juvenile, approximately 11-14 years old, engaging in sexual activity consisting of with apparent ejaculate of his genitalia
Charge No. 3
� Unknown juvenile, approximately 8-11 years old, engaging in sexual activity consisting of holding his erect penis
� Two unknown juveniles, approximately 7-12 years old, engaging in sexual activity consisting of masturbating each other
� Two unknown juveniles, approximately 7-14 years old, engaging in sexual activity of one is masturbating the other
Charge No. 4
� Two unknown juveniles, approximately 7-14 years old, engaging in sexual activity of one is masturbating the other
Each count qualifies as a sexually violent offense, placing Barker under the requirements of sexual offender laws if convicted. Under the state�s sentencing guidelines, Barker could face between about three years and four months, and six years and eight months in prison if convicted on each count.
Wes Wolfe can be reached at 252-559-1075 or email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at WolfeReports.
Breakout Box
Former Kinston City Councilman Will Barker was charged Thursday for multiple felonies by the State Bureau of Investigation
Offense: 10 counts of felony third-degree sexual exploitation of a minor (N.C. General Statute 14-190.17(a))
Maximum potential sentence: Six years and eight months in prison
Nov. 20 � Fremont police chief found evidence of child pornography on a USB drive attributed to Will Barker
Nov. 26 � SBI receives and reviews the USB drive
Nov. 29 � SBI searches Barker�s home and business, arrests him
Dec. 3 � Barker�s first appearance in district court

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text: This week, the U.S. and its allies will sit down with some of their arch-nemeses: the Iranians. The meeting in Baghdad is the definition of high stakes, as 2012 has been characterized by frequent speculation that Israel would bomb Teheran to prevent it from going nuclear, launching a war that would inevitably draw the U.S. in. That's something the U.S. doesn't want – the Air Force chief of staff has publicly questioned the wisdom of a bombing campaign – but big, unresolved questions persist about Iran's nuclear program, which Iran swears exists just to produce peaceful nuclear energy. In particular, those questions primarily concern five installations that trouble the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the world's nuclear watchdog. And unless you're a nuclear wonk, you probably don't understand them. But you should. Granting the IAEA unfettered access to these five sites – some of which concern the IAEA more than others – is probably the most important step Iran could take to avert a war. Getting Iran to "Yes" will be an arduous diplomatic process that likely involves international economic sanctions, a U.S. military buildup off its shores, some prospect for improved relations with the world – and, arguably, the threat of a war. And there's an additional X-factor: nuclear sites that the IAEA doesn't know Iran even has. But watching what happens over the following five sites, during the Baghdad talks and afterward, will go a long way to determining if the U.S. will be dragged into its third mideastern war in a decade. Fordow (Qom) Fordow is a uranium enrichment facility not far from the clerical hotspot of Qom. (That's why the facility is often referred to as "Qom.") Under construction since 2009, when Iran was already under tight IAEA scrutiny, the existence of the facility was a secret until Western intelligence agencies uncovered it. Not surprisingly, in a November report, the IAEA said that "additional information from Iran is still needed in connection with this facility." Here's what the IAEA thinks it knows about Fordow. There are a variety of centrifuge cascades, or arrays of centrifuges for enriching uranium, totaling 696 centrifuges. The IAEA initially understood that Fordow would only enrich uranium to a 5 percent standard, which is too low for use in a bomb. But the IAEA had to confirm that the Iranians had a change of heart, and began enriching to 20 percent. To be clear, the enrichment process is a method to get rid of most of the atoms in uranium, yielding the fissile isotope Uranium-235. Twenty percent enrichment isn't sufficient for bomb-grade fuel, which is 90 percent enriched uranium. But as the Arms Control Association clarifies, "such material can be further enriched to weapons-grade levels relatively quickly." The U.S. called the extra enrichment a provocative act of bad faith, which will almost certainly be revisited in Baghdad. Photo: Institute for Science and International SecurityParchin Parchin, shown above, is a massive military R&D facility that works on rocket, ammo and high-explosives tech. All of which is important to the detonation of a bomb, so the IAEA wants to inspect the place again, as it did early in the '00s. No luck. After January's meeting between the IAEA and Iran, the nuclear watchdogs reported "Iran did not grant access to the site at that time." To be clear, nuclear fuel work doesn't appear to occur at Parchin. That's the rub. The Iranians say that the IAEA is out of its jurisdiction to inspect it. The IAEA says it can't be sure Iran's nuclear activities are peaceful unless it sees Parchin for itself. That's because Iran "constructed a large explosives containment vessel" at Parchin "in which to conduct hydrodynamic experiments." Like, for instance, detonating a bomb. More recently, the Institute for Science and International Security, a nuclear-weapons think tank, released satellite photography, shown above, indicating Iran has scrubbed Parchin down, which could either mean it's hiding evidence of nuclear-relevant work or practicing good sanitation. Either way, access to Parchin will surely be a key issue discussed in Baghdad. Photo: Institute for Science and International SecurityNatanz The site that launched a decade-long panic over an Iranian a-bomb. Shown here in a 2006 satellite photo from GeoEye and annotated by the Institute for Science and International Security, it's a sprawling campus of nuclear development. A "pilot" plant does R&D on individual centrifuges, while a fuel enrichment plant holds over 9,100 centrifuges in 54 cascades. According to the IAEA's most recent report (.pdf), Natanz has produced 5,451 kilograms of 5 percent enriched uranium since 2007. The IAEA wants to keep monitoring Natanz, although at the pilot plant site, "the Agency has concluded that the facility has operated as declared by Iran." Photo: Institute for Science and International Security/GeoEyeEsfahan Iran is supposed to stop both enriching uranium and working on so-called heavy water, another step in processing nuclear fuel. But the IAEA's February report found that Iran is "conducting a number of activities at [its Uranium Conversion Facility] and the Fuel Manufacturing Plant (FMP) at Esfahan" that it considers "in contravention of those obligations." That month, Iran sent at least 8 kilograms of uranium enriched up to 20 percent to the Esfahan fuel plant -- in addition to 144.3 kilograms of uranium dioxide, another nuclear fuel, currently present at a facility that the IAEA is supposed to have under safeguard. Photo: Institute for Science and International Security/DigitalGlobeArak Arak is a heavy-water nuclear reactor – that is, a reactor that will make plutonium. Located in central Iran, it's another one of the sites that came to light in 2003 and prompted fears of an Iranian bomb. (Although it's worth noting that the Shah wanted a bomb long before the Islamic Revolution of 1979 swept him from power.) And it remains, to the consternation of the international community, an active facility. "Contrary to the relevant resolutions of the Board of Governors and the [United Nations] Security Council, Iran has not suspended work on all heavy water related projects," the IAEA reported in November. At this point, the agency's efforts to monitor the processing plant are dependent on "satellite imagery," the IAEA says. It wrote to Iran in October requesting further access. Denied. It's hard to see how the world will consider Iran's nuclear file closed until the IAEA gets into Arak for good. 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by Terry Duffy
CWM Chemical Services in Porter announced Wednesday that the state Department of Environmental Conservation has approved its application for renewal of its 6 NYCRR Part 373 overall site wide/RMU-1 permit for its Balmer Road hazardous waste landfill facility.
"The NYSDEC has reviewed all public and CWM comments, including those made during the legislative public hearing and have not identified any substantive and significant issues specifically related to the CWM Permit renewal application," wrote David S. Denk, DEC regional permit administrator, in a letter to Jill A. Banaszak, CWM technical manager. "Therefore DEC has determined in accordance with NYS Uniform Procedures Regulations in 6NYCRR Part 621 that an adjudicatory hearing is not warranted with respect to this particular application, and has decided to issue a permit renewal of CWM's Part 373 Hazardous Waste Management Permit.
"The renewed Part 373 Permit which is being issued to CWM is a revised version of the Draft Part 373 Permit. Such revisions were made as a result of the comments received by DEC and from the public and CWM."
Lori Caso, public affairs spokesperson for Waste Management, parent of CWM, reported no "significant changes" were made to the permit that would affect company operations. However, CWM did comply with changes to its financial assurances and to its physical plant at RMU-1 to conform to DEC wishes.
"While there were no significant changes made to the permit that would affect operations, it should be noted that the financial assurance required by CWM was increased from $70 million to $100 million," Caso said. "The permit renewal also included the installation and operation of two new groundwater pumping systems and the addition of two new hazardous waste storage tanks to store the pumped groundwater prior to on-site treatment. A new access road onto the landfill was also temporarily approved to accommodate trucks as we begin construction of the final cover."
DEC reported it received 83 comment documents from the public and 145 comments from CWM on the Part 373 Permit renewal. The agency reviewed all comments and responded with revisions to the final approved renewal. It did not elaborate.
The approval covers CWM's existing RMU-1 landfill; it does not include CWM's newest application on file with DEC and under review for the company's sought-for RMU-2 landfill expansion.
In response to this news, activist and Lewiston resident Amy Witryol wrote, "We are relieved that after 40 years, DEC has approved the Final Cover and closure of CWM's last hazardous waste landfill in Lewiston-Porter. CWM's 10-year-old application for a new landfill enters its final phase this fall, and is unlikely to overcome U.S. EPA and NY DEC findings that New York does not require additional hazardous waste disposal capacity. CWM has sharply curtailed operations and is expected to close within the year."


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Arthur Horwich, MD
Sterling Professor of Genetics and Professor of Pediatrics; Investigator HHMI
Departments & Organizations
Genetics: Horwich Lab
Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
Kavli Institute for Neuroscience
Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Biochemistry, Quantitative Biology, Biophysics and Structural Biology (BQBS) | Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development | Neuroscience: Neural Disorders
Horwich received undergraduate and M.D. degrees from Brown University, trained in Pediatrics at Yale, was then a postdoctoral fellow first at Salk Institute in the Tumor Virology Laboratory, and then in Genetics at Yale, then joined the Yale faculty. His work was initially involved with protein import into mitochondria and resulted in discovery of a "folding machine" inside mitochondria, Hsp60. He has used genetic, biochemical, and biophysical tools to study the mechanism of action of these ring shaped so-called chaperonin machines that provide essential assistance to protein folding in many cellular compartments. More recently he has focused on neurodegenerative disease as caused by protein misfolding, seeking to understand how misfolded SOD1 enzyme in the cytosol of motor neurons leads to one form of ALS. His lab is modeling mutant SOD1-linked ALS in mice transgenic for a mutant SOD1-YFP, the YFP moiety offering a fluorescent reporter of the mutant protein and "tag" for biochemical studies. The transgenic mutant strain presents YFP fluorescent aggregates in motor neurons by the time of weaning, develops muscle weakness, and paralyzes by 6 months of age. By contrast, a wtSOD1-YFP transgenic strain with the same amount of total SOD1-YFP protein in spinal cord remains asymptomatic even after two years, and the cord remains free of aggregates. The nature of injury to the motor system of the mutant mice is under study, particularly at the level of lower motor neurons, examining their dendritic arbors, cell bodies, axons, and neuromuscular junctions, using both morphologic and electrophysiologic approaches. What is the most immediate target of the misfolded protein, and at what level in the motor system? Notably, endogenous molecular chaperones, Hsc70 and Hsp110, associate with the misfolded protein – they are obviously not able to fully protect the system. Can their overexpression alter the progression of motor dysfunction?
Education & Training
|Brown University (1975)
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|Yale School of Medicine
Honors & Recognition
Honorary Doctorate of Medical ScienceBrown University (2014)
Herbert Tabor Research Award of the ASBMB (2013)
Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine (2012)
Massry PrizeMassry Foundation (2011)
Lasker Award for Basic Medical ResearchAlbert and Mary Lasker Foundation (2011)
National Lecture Biophysical Society 2011 (2011)
NIH Director's Lecture (2010)
Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Science (2008)
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (2008)
Institute of Medicine (2008)
Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences (2007)
Stein and Moore Award, Protein Society (2006)
Gairdner International Award (2004)
National Academy of Sciences (2003)
Hans Neurath Award, Protein Society (2001)


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The purpose of the event is to showcase outdoor recreation opportunities in East Texas while teaching some of the skills that will help you enjoy them, such as camping, fishing, dutch oven cooking, birding and more. The Blackland Prairie Raptor Center will display various birds of prey while explaining their place in the ecosystem and why it is important to protect them. You can get an up-close look at the birds during a 12 noon presentation in the Hart-Morris Conservation center, and they will also be displayed around the grounds at other times. Returning for another year will be the popular Wildlife on the Move "The Unhuggables" show, which features a variety of animals and lots of information about them. Presenter Eric Brittingham delivers a rapid-fire presentation about the animals' habitats and conservation and debunks myths such as "snakes are slimy." You'll be able to prove that to yourself by touching a 12-foot python following 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. presentations in the Hart-Morris Conservation Center. Some of the creatures will also be on display at other times on the grounds near the Conservation Center. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's Coastal Fisheries Division will present a salt-water touch tank that is always good for smiles and squeals as kids touch creatures that are harmless but don't look it. The Lone Star Bowhunters Association and Dutch oven cookers are perennial favorites at Outdoor Fools Day. Young and old alike enjoy flinging arrows at life-size replicas of deer, hogs and turkeys almost as much as they like snacking on tasty goodies cooked over coals and served up warm. Tracking dogs from Texas Trackers will do their thing along the Wetlands Trail, demonstrating how these amazing dogs with their sensitive noses can follow the trail of a wounded animal. They also love to be petted. (Please leave your own dog at home. Pets are not allowed at TFFC.) Other exhibits will include a state park area that will help you learn how to identify animal tracks. There will be fly-fishing and kayaking instruction and information on hunter education. TFFC is one of the best places in the state to take your hunter education course, and you can visit with the instructors during Outdoor Fools Day. Shopping for a variety of outdoor products will be offered by Cabela's, and the TFFC gift shop is well-stocked with snacks and fishing-related clothing and gift items. Don't forget to bring an ice chest so you can take home some rainbow trout. Fishing is always free at TFFC, you never need a license, and bait and tackle are always furnished. You are welcome to bring your own fishing gear, but only single hooks with the barb mashed down are allowed. Currently each person can harvest and keep up to five trout for free. Just be sure to check in at the Anglers Pavilion for orientation before fishing and report your catch there before leaving. Outdoor Fools Day is made possible by the generosity of our sponsors: Holiday Inn Express Hotel and Suites--Athens; First State Bank; Schneider Electric; Dr. Mark Roberts, DDS; McDonald's--Lilly Enterprises; Red Hat Rentals; FutureMatrix, Inc., Aaron's Sales and Lease; Best Western Royal Mountain Inn--Athens; Cabela's; East Texas Medical Center; Friends of TFFC; and Wulf Outdoor Sports. The Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center is at 5550 F.M. 2495, Athens, Texas, which is about 75 miles southeast of Dallas. For information or directions, call (903) 676-2277 or visit http://tpwd.texas.gov/tffc. -30- [ Note: This item is more than seven years old. Please take the publication date into consideration for any date references. ] [ Media Contact: TPWD News, email@example.com, 512-389-8030 ] [LH] March 19, 2012 Falcon, Fork Produce Toyota ShareLunkers ATHENS--Perennial big-bass lakes Falcon and Fork each produced a Toyota ShareLunker over the weekend. Falcon started the ball rolling March 16 with a 14.39-pounder, the biggest fish entered into the program so far this season. Gary Wingate of Amarillo caught the fish in 12 feet of water using a plastic worm. The fish was 26.5 inches long and 20.75 inches in girth. It was weighed at Robert's Fish 'n Tackle in Zapata. Wingate's catch boosted him into the front-runner spot for Angler of the Year. The person who catches the season's largest entry will be named Angler of the Year and will receive a prize package from G. Loomis valued at $818. The package includes a G. Loomis NRX854C jig and worm rod, a Shimano ChronarchD1007 casting reel and 150 yards of moss green Power Pro super-braid fishing line. If a Texas angler catches the largest entry of the season, that person also receives a lifetime fishing license. Lake Fork chimed in Sunday with a 13.1-pounder caught in a JC Outdoors individual tournament. Michael Justus of Garland was fishing alone when the big bass took his finesse worm on a dropshot rig in six to seven feet of water. This weekend's fish are the eighth and ninth entries of the season. "It was a battle," Justus said. "I got the net after her five times before I finally netted her. Then I realized how big she was. It was awesome. It's something I'll cherish forever, that's for sure." Anyone legally catching a 13-pound or bigger largemouth bass from Texas waters, public or private, between October 1 and April 30 may submit the fish to the Toyota ShareLunker program by calling the ShareLunker hotline at (903) 681-0550 or paging (888) 784-0600 and leaving a phone number including area code. Fish will be picked up by TPWD personnel within 12 hours. ShareLunker entries are used in a selective breeding program at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center (TFFC) in Athens. Some of the offspring from these fish are stocked back into the water body from which they were caught. Other ShareLunker offspring are stocked in public waters around the state in an attempt to increase the overall size and growth rate of largemouth bass in Texas. Anglers entering fish into the Toyota ShareLunker program receive a free replica of their fish, a certificate and ShareLunker clothing and are recognized at a banquet at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens. For complete information and rules of the ShareLunker program, tips on caring for big bass, a list of official Toyota ShareLunker weigh and holding stations and a recap of last year's season, see http://tpwd.texas.gov/sharelunker. The site also includes a searchable database of all fish entered into the program along with pictures where available. Information on current catches, including short videos of interviews with anglers when available, is posted on www.facebook.com/sharelunkerprogram. The Toyota ShareLunker Program is made possible by a grant to the Texas Parks & Wildlife Foundation from Gulf States Toyota. Toyota is a long-time supporter of the Foundation and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, providing major funding for a wide variety of education, fish, parks and wildlife projects. -30- [ Note: This item is more than seven years old. Please take the publication date into consideration for any date references. ] [ Media Contact: TPWD News, email@example.com, 512-389-8030 ] [ Additional Contacts: David Campbell, (903) 670-2230 through March 30; Larry Hodge, (903) 670-2255, email@example.com ] March 19, 2012 ShareLunker Program Coordinator to Retire ATHENS--David L. Campbell, coordinator of Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's ShareLunker program, will retire at the end of March. Campbell has worked for Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for 46 years. He was inducted into the Texas Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame in 2011. As manager of the Tyler Fish Hatchery, he was instrumental in the introduction of Florida largemouth bass into Texas and has helped stock fish into almost every public reservoir in the state. He has been associated with the ShareLunker program since its beginning. He picked up the first fish entered into the program in 1986 and most of the more than 500 entered since. Through his years of experience of caring for trophy largemouth bass, Campbell contributed a great deal to the knowledge of how best to care for big fish and communicated this information to the public through countless interviews with media from newspapers, magazines, radio and television. This emphasis on the proper way to handle big fish appeared in newspaper articles as early as 1990 and may prove to be one of Campbell's most enduring legacies. Coming as it did at the same time catch-and-release of big bass became the norm, the impact of proper fish handling on the conservation of trophy bass can hardly be overestimated. "David Campbell and the ShareLunker program are almost synonymous," said Gary Saul, director of TPWD's Inland Fisheries Division. "He is without doubt the number one ambassador for the ShareLunker program, which is TPWD's most highly visible program, gaining more media coverage annually than all other TPWD programs combined. To hundreds of anglers and the public, Campbell is Mr. ShareLunker." "David Campbell has been one of the most dedicated employees of TPWD I have ever worked with," said Allen Forshage, director of the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens, where the ShareLunker program is headquartered. "His work ethic is legendary within TPWD. Few people have so completely and selflessly dedicated their lives to making fishing better for the anglers of Texas as David has. Every big bass caught from a Texas reservoir is part of his legacy." Following is a synopsis of Campbell's career with TPWD. Campbell started work in 1965 as a fish hatchery assistant at the Lewisville State Fish Hatchery and worked his way up to Hatchery Manager at the Tyler Fish Hatchery and later the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center. He has raised and stocked literally millions of fish in Texas waters including black bass, channel catfish, blue catfish, crappie, striped bass, hybrid striped bass, northern pike, walleye, peacock bass and several sunfish and forage species. In 1973 Campbell went to Florida to collect Florida largemouth bass. The stocking of Florida largemouth bass into Texas public reservoirs elevated trophy fishing in Texas forever and earned Campbell the nickname "Godfather of Big Bass." Under the direction of former TPWD Fisheries Director Bob Kemp, Campbell began breeding and stocking pure Florida bass as an experiment to increase the size of trophy bass in Texas. By the early eighties, these efforts began to pay off as the 13.5-pound state record that had existed since 1943 was broken four times in six years. Then in November 1986, Mark Stevenson caught a 17.67-pound bass named Ethel out of Lake Fork. That fish shattered all previous records, garnered nationwide media coverage, and changed fishing in Texas forever. Campbell spent hours every night trying to get the fish to eat until he finally nursed her back to health. The importance of the success of that effort is enormous: In part because that fish lived, a series of events took place that had a national impact on bass fishing, a huge impact on the Texas economy, and significant improvements in the TPWD hatchery system, including construction of a state-of-the-art hatchery, ShareLunker care and breeding facility, visitor center and Texas Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame. With Ethel the ShareLunker Program was born, and catch-and-release conservation became a way of life for trophy bass anglers. Since that time, there have been more than 500 entries into the ShareLunker program, and Campbell's research and insight into trophy bass have not only given TPWD the largest collection of data on big bass in the world, but have earned him the respect and admiration of anglers and outdoor writers alike. In addition, Ethel proved to be a fish that changed the world of bass fishing. After Campbell nursed the fish back to health, she was put on display at Bass Pro Shops in Springfield, Missouri, where she pulled millions of visitors into the store. Bass Pro Shops founder Johnny Morris credited Ethel with much of the success of the business, saying that she was the best thing that ever happened to Bass Pro in terms of getting people into the store. In recognition of that contribution, Morris donated $650,000 for the construction of the Richard M. Hart and Johnny Morris Conservation Center at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center, which was built largely to house the ShareLunker program. Bass Pro Shops now has more than 50 stores and donates millions annually to conservation. As the coordinator of the ShareLunker program for most of its 26-year history, Campbell picked up most of the fish from anglers, driving 10,000 miles or more annually and working all night and many weekends to do so. Campbell is untiringly modest about his achievements, preferring to give credit for his success to others. "What stands out more than anything else from the 26 years of the ShareLunker program is the cooperation from the anglers," he said. "Anglers have been very supportive of the program. They have learned how to care for their big fish, and they understand the objective of the program is to increase the number of trophy bass caught in Texas. If you don't have the support of the people using the sport fishery itself, you haven't accomplished anything." David L. Campbell has accomplished a great deal. Timeline of Campbell's Career with TPWD --1965 -- Employed by TPWD at the Lewisville State Fish Hatchery --1968 -- Transferred to Tyler Fish Hatchery --1973 -- Promoted to manager of the Tyler Fish Hatchery --1973 -- Traveled to Florida to bring back Florida largemouth bass for rearing and experimental stocking --1986 -- Picked up ShareLunker No. 1 --1989 -- Held workshops in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana teaching how to culture Florida bass --1995 -- Texas Black Bass Unlimited, President's Conservationist Award --1996 -- Transferred to Ed Cox, Jr., Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens as hatchery manager and ShareLunker program coordinator --1999 -- Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Employee Recognition Award, Special Achievements --2005 -- Office of the Governor of Texas, Certificate of Appreciation for 40 years of public service --2010 -- Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, 45-year Service Award --2011 -- Inducted into the Texas Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame --- On the Net: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyxYN1zIy20&feature=youtu.be -30-


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The Macon County Grand Jury met for it's June session last week before Judge David E. Durham and handed down 70 true bills, 3 no true, 43 sealed and 3 hold.
During the session, 34-year-old Anthony Jason Summers was indicted for attempted second degree murder. Charges stem from the Lafayette Police Department's investigation on Saturday, February 2, when a stabbing was reported at 201 Walton Avenue that night. Upon arriving at the home, Officer Matt Looper secured the area and began a line of questioning. Evidently, Summers and a female, Mary Louise Ward, had gotten into an argument and he pulled a knife and stabbed her twice in the back. The officer located the knife along with the bloody clothing worn by Ward. Summers, who was intoxicated, was found hiding under a blanket. Looper charged the suspect and transported him to jail. Ward was carried to Vanderbilt Hospital by ground ambulance after helicopters declined to fly due to the weather conditions.
Several drug indictments were also returned:
William C. Andrews, of Lafayette, was indicted on charges of promotion of methamphetamine, drug paraphernalia and quarantine of property when a meth lab was discovered by the LPD at his home on Chamberlain Avenue in the summer of 2012. He was found back inside of the home that night and was arrested by Sgt. Shane Reed.
43-year-old Fanessa Lynn Duke, of Lafayette, has been indicted after LPD Officer Matt Looper found several pills and methamphetamine in her purse following an investigative talk in the parking lot of Walgreens on Friday, January 18. In the trunk of her vehicle the officer also found a bottle that Duke had set up for a "shake n bake" meth lab. This resulted in her arrest for promotion of methamphetamine manufacture, possession of a Schedule II drug and possession of a Schedule IV drug.
Theresa Czapla, age 35, of Lafayette, was indicted for possession of drug paraphernalia, reckless endangerment, and intent to manufacture methamphetamine after Sheriff Mark Gammons and officers went to her Wilmore Hollow residence and found her along with two other male subjects outside. One of the men was carrying a bottle of product used to cook meth and they also found a bottle that he had dropped, which contained finished product. Czapla's one-year-old child was located inside the home, and in an outbuilding they discovered components used in cooking meth.
Chester Loudy was indicted for promotion of meth manufacture, intent to manufacture methamphetamine and aggravated child abuse/neglect of a child under 6 years of age, after the RBS Police discovered two active meth labs on his property. One was located inside a truck tire and the other inside the trunk of a car. There was also a female companion present, along with two small children.
Douglas Jay Havens – Initiate manufacture of methamphetamine, simple possession, unlawful possession of paraphernalia.
Charlene Primeaux Ladd – Schedule V Drugs mfg/del/sell/poss., Schedule IV drugs mfg/del/sell/poss., aggravated criminal trespass, possession without prescripition.
Frances D. Lilly – Schedule VI Drugs, possession of paraphernalia.
Don Junior Marshall – Promoting Methamphetamine manufacture, and initiate manufacture of methamphetamine, possession of Schedule II Drugs.
Teresa D. Marshall – Initiate manufacture of methamphetamine, promoting methamphetamine manufacture, and simple possession.
Marty A. Oldham – Initiate manufacture of methamphetamine, promoting methamphetamine manufacture and simple possession.
Deborah Perdue – Schedule II drugs mfg/del/sell/poss.
Brent Lynn Sadger – Initiate manufacture of methamphetamine, and promoting methamphetamine manufacture.
Shelia Gail Smitty – Promoting methamphetamine manufacture, simple possession, contra in penal facility, possession of paraphernalia.
Patrick Wayne Stewart – Simple possession, possession of paraphernalia, promoting methamphetamine manufacture.
Cecil Clark Strong – Schedule II Drugs mfg/del/sell/poss.
Cynthia M. Ward – Promoting methamphetamine manufacture, possession of paraphernalia, simple possession.
Matthew A. White – Promoting methamphetamine manufacture, spotlighting deer, wildlife rules and regulations, and initiate manufacture of methamphetamine.
Sky Lynn White – Promoting methamphetamine manufacture, spotlighting deer, wildlife rules and regulations.
Daniel Jacob Wilson – Simple possession, probation violation, and driving while license suspended.
Other indictments:
Tamyra Albanese – Light Law, Registration Certificate must be carried, financial responsibility, driving while license revoked.
April Boles – DUI, first offense, financial responsibility, open container, light law.
James Ray Bristow – Theft of property and vandalism
Sheron Davis – Theft of property (2 counts).
Brad T. Dozier – Theft of property and criminal trespass.
Jackie L. Dozier – Theft of property and criminal trespass.
Holly Ann Dycus – DUI, first offense, resist stop, arrest, search.
Amanda Lynn Goad – Assault, threat of bodily injury, domestic assault, resist stop, arrest, search, disorderly conduct.
William C. Gregory – Driving while license revoked, financial responsibility law, registration certificate must be carried.
Timothy Jines – Driving while license suspended, leaving the scene of an accident, with property damage, exercise due care, financial responsibility.
Shirley Inez Johnson – False reports to officer.
Charlene Primeaux Ladd – Fraud use of credit/debit card, simple possession.
Rhonda Jean Lampley – Theft, forgery and evading arrest.
Dustin L. Likens – Criminal impersonation, evading arrest and hindering secured creditor.
Melissa Lynn McGlothlin – Criminal trespass, allowing unlicensed driver to drive, contributing to the delinquent of a child, fraud use of credit/debit card.
Terry Meadors – Driving while license revoked.
Lauren Warren Perez – Public intoxication, simple possession, DUI first offense, theft, forgery.
Anthony R. Raney – DUI fourth offense, habitual traffic offender, driving while licensed revoked.
Anthony Singleton – Theft of property.
Otis Singleton – Theft of property and vandalism.
Curtis Lee Strong – Theft of property.
Shelley Thompson – Theft of property.
Kimberly Lane White – Reckless driving, financial responsibility, evading arrest, speeding, registration must be carried.
Joseph A. Whittemore – Aggravated burglary and theft of property.


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Monticello's young volleyball team has been hard at it already, with great results.
The Lady Bucks raced through the bracket and claimed the championship at the North Sevier Tournament in Salina on August 27. The Lady Bucks defeated 1A Tabiona 2-0, and 2A Millard 2-1, North Sevier 2-0, and Gunnison 2-0.
In the championship match, the Bucks defeated Millard again, 2-0. They dominated the tournament, dropping only one game along the way.
The Lady Bucks travel to Blanding on Thursday to take on the defending 2A state champions of San Juan. Should be a great game.
Head Coach Tony Esplin reports, "We had a pretty good weekend in St. George (on August 19-20). The varsity went 6 and 2 for the weekend. We beat Waterford 2-0, South Sevier 2-0, Kanab 2-0, Panguitch 2-0, Panguitch again 2-1 and Grand 2-1.
"The losses were to Enterprise 2-0, and Hurricane 2-0. Both our losses were really close games, but we still lost.
"I think that many will be surprised that we may be better this year than last year, even after losing four starters. The younger girls have really improved and have stepped right in. We are pretty excited about our possibilities this year.
"These girls are having fun and are fun to watch. We expect our toughest matches will be San Juan and Grand. They both have pretty solid teams. You never know, other teams in our region have improved and will be tough this year."
Broncos are 2-0
It was Bronco against Bronco on August 26 in Blanding and the Broncos, of course, prevailed 45-7. The San Juan Broncos, that is, who have now taken seven straight from Kirtland, which last defeated the San Juan in 1987.
San Juan won last year too, 19-7, and claim a 14-9-1 series lead. (They didn't meet from 1992 through 2008.)
The Kirtland NM Broncos played like it was their first game of the season, which it was as evidenced by their first offensive series: two penalties, a two-yard loss, a seven-yard sack and a fumble on fourth down, giving the ball to San Juan on their own 27.
The Broncos quickly scored in five plays, capped by a 17-yard, shook-several-tackles run by junior Logan Meyer. San Juan led 6-0 just five minutes into the game.
After sharing fumbles, the SJ Broncos scored again on a 65-yard drive in just two plays, a 40-yard pass play from QB Barkley Christensen to Bobby Bowring and a 24-yard TD pass to Meyer.
Early in the second quarter, Landon "Landmass" Palmer blocked a Kirtland punt with San Juan recovering on the 19 yard line.
After a couple of running plays, Cole Einerson scored on a nine-yard TD pass from Christensen and San Juan had a 20-0 halftime lead.
Christensen was radar-like in that first half, completing seven of nine passes for 121 yards and two touchdowns.
The Broncos from Blanding came out a little flat at halftime, making their first punt and allowing Kirtland some life with a touchdown pass to narrow the lead to 20-7.
Then San Juan took the life out of the NM horses the old fashioned way, a kickoff return that Meyer ran for 67 yards, which set up a one-play drive for TD, a 23-yard Christensen scamper.
Then San Juan recovered another Kirtland fumble on the Kirtland 19 yard line. Cole Einerson then was escorted into the end zone untouched and accompanied by the entire offensive line and, it seemed, seven or eight Broncos from the bench.
Ammon Mitchell and Trevor Buck added TD runs of 18 and two yards in the fourth quarter to account for the final score.
Christensen completed ten of 16 passes for the game for 147 yards and three touchdowns. Bobby Bowring had four catches for 78 yards. Eight Broncos rushed for 148 yards and four TDs on 19 carries, capped by Maverick Shumway's 40 yarder.
Said San Juan Coach Monty Lee, "I was pleased with the first (two) games, even though we made far more mistakes than we would have liked. Grand and Kirtland have some really good kids. We really showed our youth in our lack of discipline.
"Kids can do great things with their athletic ability on sub-varsity competition; but when they play varsity it becomes as much mental as it does physical. That is where we saw many of our mistakes Friday and that is where these younger players are going to have to focus their progression.
"We have had the luxury of a gifted passing quarterback to run our offense the past couple of years. Now we have to alter our focus to running a bit more from that position.
"We will see what the season brings as we allow our quarterback the opportunity to run more and get outside the pocket to throw the ball."
Next up for the Broncos, the Parowan Rams in Parowan.
The first thing Sportshorts noticed Friday night was Shane Shumway, watching the game by leaning on the brand new fence around Bronco Stadium with a BYU hat on. He was not on the sidelines as usual, assisting with Coach Lee.
Shumway isn't the only one missing on the Bronco sideline.
Lee commented, "We lost Shane, Ryan Nielson, and Ryan Palmer as coaches this year and it really hurts. Shane and I came to the program together a hundred years or so ago and with him leaving, it leaves a huge void in the program, as well as with me.
"Shane brought a dimension to the program that no one else could. We have experienced the good, and bad, the joys, and some really sad times together and maybe with all his free time he can sit down and write a book about some of those times.
"I will really miss him. All three coaches played key roles in our success and they will be impossible to replace and no one can take away our memories.
"Great programs like ours are created on the backs of great assistant coaches and I have the best in the country so you don't replace the Shane Shumway or the Ryans, you just try to adjust and move on. They all know if they ever decide to come back their spots will always be here."


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Today was Amy and my 8 month anniversary, and we packed in a full day's worth of activities. We started by going around to garage sales and buying lots of clothes for our daughter. There were some pretty nice things that we found that looked 'like-new.'
Today was also Neil Walker bobblehead day, so a sellout crowd of 38,000 would be on hand. Therefore, it was important to get on the board early. When I ran into the left field bleachers, I found ball #1 laying in the front row in this area.
The Pirates BP was pretty tame, not too many home runs.
There weren't many opportunities for toss up balls either, every request went ignored.
My second ball of the day was a long home run hit by an unknown Pirates batter.
Here Nick and I are racing for it.
Nick had the lead, but we both took a wrong route to the ball. Since it wasn't at the bottom of the rotunda, I figured it was on the rotunda. I raced up and was correct. It was sitting on the rotunda, waiting to be claimed. Amy got this shot of us returning from the chase.
My third ball of the day was a clean catch in the front row of section 134. I had to reach out over the wall and make the catch as there was some pressure put on me from the side. I reached out and swiped at the ball and luckily made the catch.
Here I am just a moment after making the grab:
It was a particular sunny day, and I lost two balls in the sun. One would've been an easy grab, and it zipped by my head. The other I would've made on a cloudy day. That's one of the negatives of PNC Park. Left field is the sun field, so folks in left get blinded by the sun, especially on fly balls.
I had another close call on a home run that was about two rows over my head. The guy in the white jersey reached out and caught it right in front of Nick:
I then changed into my Tigers gear, but it wouldn't matter much since it got so crowded around 5PM.
Check out the crowd:
That's the downfall of PNC Park's bleachers. There's not much room when it gets crowded. There's about six rows in the bleachers, and they get packed, severaly limiting a ballhawk's range.
I did get ball #4 with the glove trick in left field before heading over to center field.
In center field I glove tricked ball #5 here:
Also, while in center field, I caught an opposite field Miguel Cabrera home run ball in the third row here:
The guy in the red shirt, who's usually aggressive, backed off and let me make the catch. I appreciated it, as I probably would've missed it had he tried for it. It was a ball I had to reach high and to my left to catch, as it was slicing back towards right field.
My seventh and final ball came at the conclusion of BP. The Tigers left a ball on the warning track in left field, so I went over and glove tricked it for my seventh ball of the day.
After BP, I went to turn in 54 tickets for Neil Walker bobbleheads. I traded in a bunch of my season tickets so I could turn a profit on the bobbleheads. I made the mistake of pulling out the tickets and counting how many I had. As soon as I did, I was surrounded by people waving twenty dollar bills at me, offering to buy my tickets. The game was sold out, so there was nothing left at the box office. I relented and sold twenty of the tickets within 5 minutes. So, I went back to my car with a pocket overflowing with cash and 34 bobbleheads. Amy and I headed home to spend the rest of the evening baseball free.
Game: 7 balls (3 hit, 3 device, 1 found)
Season: 150 balls (59 hit, 35 thrown, 33 device, 22 found)
Games: 24 games
Average: 6.25 balls per game
Career: 1,272 balls
Attendance: 37,958


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Rodent of the Week: How habits are formed
When I was in high school, I had to drive a long distance on a freeway to get to school. After arriving, I often wondered how I got there. I didn't remember the drive or even thinking about driving.
This feeling is a common (and, yes, somewhat scary) experience that a group of neuroscientists think they can better explain. In an experiment with rats, researchers at MIT identified two distinct neural circuits in the brain that show distinct changes when the rats were learning to navigate a maze and, later, after they mastered the task.
The rats were placed in a maze that had chocolate sprinkles at the end. The activity in specific parts of their brains was analyzed as they learned the maze, which included a T-juncture where they had to stop and choose to turn right or left. The rats performed the maze repeatedly until they had learned it.
The study showed that one specific neural circuit became stronger with practice. A second neural circuit showed high activity occurring at times when the rats had to make a decision in the maze. But as they learned the maze, activity in this circuit declined. The task had become habitual.
So, arriving at school in one piece wasn't just a matter of luck. "It is good to know that we can train our brains to develop good habits and avoid bad ones," the lead author of the study, Ann Graybiel, said in a news release.
Understanding how specific regions of the brain change through learning could help in developing new treatments for brain-based diseases. The study was published Thursday in the journal Neuron.
-- Shari RoanPhoto credit: Advanced Cell Technology Inc.
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Mushroom maze
Maze of Mushrooms by Yonatan Frimer 2006 Maze Portrait of Albert Einstein.
"Genius Maze" - By Y. Frimer
Maze Cartoon of Erdogans comparison of Flotilla raid to September 11th.
Maze cartoon of Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan comparing the Flotilla raid to September 11th. Someone from the crowd asks how it would "stack up against the Armenian Genocide." Created by Yonatan Frimer
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Switch in the stocking? Health plan sickens some 'Hoos
In late December, when Sandy Ruseau started to make plans for a routine mammogram, she got a nasty surprise: The procedure, which she'd never had to pay for, would now cost her a budget-busting $350.
Ruseau quickly learned the new fee was the result of a switch in her UVA-sponsored health care plan. So what's the problem? Ruseau says she had no idea her policy would be changing. And she believes she is not alone.
Every fall, UVA holds "open enrollment," a period of time during which employees, retirees, and their families can make changes of any kind to their healthcare policies.
This year, however, there was a twist: Anyone who did not specifically request to remain on the current plan a PCP option that entails a $15 co-payment for every office visit– would be switched to a "direct access" plan, which features a lower monthly premium but a much higher deductible in addition to the office co-payments.
The direct access plan also allows subscribers to visit doctors of their choice without a referral from their primary care provider.
UVA health care ombudsman Anne Dawson says that before and during the open enrollment period, November 3 to December 12, the university sent out emails and letters to all policyholders notifying them of the impending change.
In the end, however, a mere 5.8 percent of the 13,000 policyholders ended up with the "direct access" plan. Perhaps even more significant: Only 1.9 percent 247 people actively selected the new plan. The rest were assigned to it by default.
Ruseau says she believes those are the people like her who didn't receive notification by mail or email. Others, she fears, didn't understand the importance of responding.
Dawson has a different take: "Theoretically, folks may have wanted the direct access and knew that their lack of response would result in their being placed into their program of choice," she says.
Ruseau says it's hard to imagine someone choosing direct access.
She says that though the monthly premium for her and her 16-year-old daughter did drop $32– from $570 a month to $538 she will likely pay far more overall if she needs the same medical services she has had in the past few years under the PCP plan.
"I won't be going to the doctor very much this year, that's for sure," says the 53-year-old mother, who suffers from chronic neck problems.
Ruseau's biggest issue with the direct access plan? A $350 deductible and an out-of-pocket patient expense limit of $3,500, bringing a patient's total responsibility under the plan to $3,850. Or, in Ruseau's case, to $7,700 for her and her daughter. That's in addition to the nearly $7,000 in premiums she'll pay for the two of them this year (her husband is on a different company's policy).
"I don't have that kind of money," she says.
Ruseau says her efforts to revert to her previous policy, the standard PCP option offered by UVA, have been unsuccessful.
"They tell me if they let me do it, they'll have to let everyone do it," Ruseau says, "and they say they have to justify that to the IRS."
Dawson explains that UVA's healthcare plans are covered by Section 125 of the IRS code, which allows employees and the employer to deduct healthcare premiums on a pre-tax status. The deduction benefit requires an employer to establish an open enrollment period when changes can be made without a necessary mid-year qualifying event such as a birth, marriage, or death. In accordance with the open enrollment requirements, no changes could be made after 5pm on December 12.
"If we do not consistently apply the outlined rules," she says, "we could cause the health plan to lose its favorable status with the IRS under section 125 and lose the pre-tax benefit."
Ruseau says she's appealing the switch to the university.
"But I'm not just worried about me," she says. "I'm also worried about the employees who don't speak English or who didn't receive notice."
Dawson says Herculean efforts were made to ensure that every employee understood the differences in the two plans. She cites articles in both the Cavalier Daily and Inside UVA magazine, as well as numerous meetings in every department to go over the complicated details of each plan.
In addition, she says, the university contacted by email individuals who had not made a decision, to remind them of the pressing deadline, and had department heads check with every person under their supervision before the deadline.
But Jan Cornell, president of UVA's newly formed staff union, says even with the mailings and meetings, she thinks the new health care option was "unduly hard" to understand, pointing to the lengthy documents policyholders had to sift through. She says she's not surprised: "It's a nightmare with all the benefits," she says, citing the school's retirement plan for employees and reported difficulties reaching benefits representatives when questions arise.
And Ruseau and Cornell both question why the university made the direct access plan the default instead of keeping healthcare subscribers on the original plan.
"I think they were counting on some people not figuring it out," says Ruseau of the university. "It saves them a lot of money."
UVA's health care system is no stranger to financial difficulties. Back in the mid-'90s, the University's health plan administrator, QualChoice, required regular infusions of UVA cash to stay solvent. The efforts to keep QualChoice afloat ended in 2001 when it and its parent company, Blue Ridge Health Alliance, were sold for $12.5 million to Coventry Health Care, parent company of Southern Health.
But Dawson says the recent events have nothing to do with financial difficulties and that making the direct access plan the default choice was actually done out of courtesy. "We didn't want to assume people wanted a greater amount deducted from their paycheck," she says.
And Dawson claims that any implication that the university adopted the new plan to save money is patently false. "We decided to offer the plan at the request of employees who wanted to be able to see specialists without a referral," she says.
Jason Coleman, a manager at the University of Virginia Press, says he initially considered the direct access plan, but eventually his family chose to stay with the original plan. He feels the university did all it could to make employees aware of the change– including sending him numerous emails and having his supervisor remind him.
"I wanted to tell them to stop telling me," he laughs.
And Joe Orsolini, an employee with Medic Five, a UVA ambulance unit, agrees with Coleman.
"There was a lot of information available and telephone numbers to call," he says.
But for Sandy Ruseau, the fact that many people knew about the switch is small consolation, at least until the next open enrollment period when she can switch back.
"If my daughter and I have serious medical problems this year," she says, "my family will be destroyed."
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Monday, March 24, 2008
The thundering herd of elephants that courses through the halls and up and down the stairs every night is a 7lb streak of lightning named Winkie. She is occasionally chased by Tonka, who is double her weight and not as light on his feet. But she asks for it. I have seen her innocently stroll by, then just as she is past him, reach out a paw, smack him, and then run. You can almost hear her laughter. It is a game they both enjoy. She is so full of energy that she sometimes runs just to run.
She is now a very different kitty from when she came to me. Living in an empty house with her owner packed off to a nursing home, she became fearful and skittish. The neighbors came in to feed her and Bourka once a day. No one scooped their litter. The whole house smelled. The day I went to visit, I only saw a black streak dash past to disappear into the basement. When we went to look for her in the dim unlit nether regions she bolted for a Stygian hole in the cinder block that led to a crawl space. In the end they had to trap her to get her out of the house.
When they came in with the cat carrier and opened the door she was huddled in the back. We left the carrier in the kitchen and went into the family room. When we came back to check on her the carrier was empty and she was not to be found. Later I discovered her in the basement squeezed under the landing box. A few days later, she migrated upstairs under the guest bed in the blue room. She stayed there for weeks, coming out only to eat and make the long trek down to the basement to use the box. At that time I had 3 cats that no one ever saw, including me.
Eventually they all came around. Now Winkie sleeps on my hip, riding the wave when I turn over in the night. She insists on sitting on my lap or will perch on one knee if that is the only thing available. She will visit with company if they are well-mannered adults, allowing them to pet her--shoulder to tail (she does not like having her head touched). She is a joy. It has taken 5 years for her to gain confidence. Now she is a terror, that strikes fear in the heart of guests sleeping in the blue room when she thunders past in the wee hours.
4 comments:
- djbrown said...
There is a special place in heaven for those who save the abandoned.
- March 25, 2008 at 7:00 PM
She doesn't look scary...she is a beauty. Love the snap. Carrie
- March 26, 2008 at 6:15 AM
My friend Carolyn in Utah recently rescued a cat. Same behavior: she got to Carolyn's house and fled to the basement. She stayed there, hidden, for 3 days. Carolyn would leave food; it would be gone by morning--but no sign of kitty. Flash forward several months: Kitty now sleeps around Carolyn's head at night. What love, and patience, will do . . .
- March 26, 2008 at 5:19 PM
- Bevson said...
I submitted the Winkie story to the Carnival of the Cats. She appears with other sweet catly stories here:
- March 31, 2008 at 6:33 AM
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Which came first, social dominance or big brains? Wasps may tell
There's new evidence supporting the idea that bigger brains are better. A study of a tropical wasp suggests that the brainpower required to be dominant drives brain capacity.
University of Washington researchers have found that key processing regions in the brains of both males and females of one wasp species not only increased in size with age but were also associated with being dominant. The study also showed different patterns of brain development in males and females. Certain subregions were larger in males and others were larger in females. This matched expectations based on males' greater use of vision and females' greater reliance on their antennae.
UW researchers Sean O'Donnell and Yamile Molina found increased brain growth in areas of the insects' brains called the mushroom bodies, which vaguely resemble the cerebrum in humans and other vertebrates. A mushroom body sits atop each hemisphere of the wasp brain. The mushroom bodies process input from the eyes and antennae, and are involved in learning and memory.
The social paper wasp that was studied, Mischocyttarus mastigorphorus, is unusual because males are dominant over females, a rarity among social insects, said O'Donnell, a UW associate professor of psychology. Most social insect societies – bees, ants and wasps – are predominantly female, with males short-lived and subordinate.
O'Donnell and Molina, a UW doctoral student, focused on a part of the insects' mushroom body, called the calyx, where neural connections are made. While the overall size of the calyces did not differ between the males and females, specific subregions were larger in each sex. Males rely on vision when they leave the nest for mating opportunities, and the part of the calyx that receives visual input was larger. In contrast, most female interaction takes place on the nest, where tactile and odor senses are important and the part of the calyx that received input from the antennae was bigger among the females.
"When you are dominant among insects you get more food," O'Donnell said, "and in this case it gives males more energy to leave the nest and mate. The fact that the males are dominant and long-lived makes this species interesting from a neurobiological standpoint. We think they have pretty sophisticated cognition compared to males of other wasp species."
The researchers studied five wasp colonies in a tropical cloud forest near Monteverde, Costa Rica. They first marked all resident adult wasps on the nests and these individuals were excluded from further analyses. Newly emerged wasps then were captured and marked over the next several days and returned to their nest. Each colony then was observed in the morning and afternoon every three days over the course of more than a month. Behavioral data such as giving and receiving aggression were collected, as well as time spent on and off the nest. After this observation period, sections of the wasps' brains were examined under a microscope.
Among the unanswered questions stemming from this study include how long these wasps live and how long these patterns of brain growth continued.
"We only followed them for 42 days, so we don't know how long they live," said O'Donnell. "We also don't know if their brain development is similar to humans in terms of if and when they start to decline cognitively.
He said an exciting new idea – the social challenge hypothesis – suggests that large human brains evolved in response to the demands of complex social interactions. The wasp work extends this idea to individual brain variation.
"Do you get to be dominant because of a big brain or does being dominant drive brain size? That's still an open question and we don't know which comes first," said O'Donnell. "This study suggests the high cognitive demands of being dominant drive brain capacity and supports the social brain hypothesis. The next step is to broaden the scope of the research by looking at more species of paper wasps. We are interested in how brains evolve in concert with social evolution. There is the intriguing possibility that there are similar patterns across wide spans of evolutionary time. My goal is to get a bigger sample of social wasp species and examine this."
"You are looking at super-distant animals when you compare wasps and people. Yet there may be an interesting commonality between them. Increased brainpower may be part of being social, no matter who you are. What makes this exciting is we see some common patterns in how brains change as societies evolve. As we see changes in social complexity, there are changes in brain structure. If it is good for people it should be good for wolves, dolphins and paper wasps."
The research, funded by the National Science Foundation, has been published in the online edition of the journal Developmental Neurobiology.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 99 diseños de 34 diseñadores freelance.
AQoL is an acronym for "Assessment of Quality of Life", we've created a series of questionnaires and now we are creating a new stand-alone website and need a logo.
We are researchers at Monash University's Centre for Health Economics, our set of Quality of Life questionnaires measure a person's life quality. The new website will be used solely to disseminate and promote the use of these questionnaires.
http://www.buseco.monash.edu.au/cen…/che/aqol/ - that's our Monash website, there's lots of information about our research and about us. Very wordy.
The AQoL questionnaires can be used for both clinical and research applications in the fields of economic evaluation in health sector, such as evaluating medical interventions, educational programs, as well as use in psychology research.
Researchers and Clinicians - who need, above all, a sensitive and comprehensive questionnaire to measure quality of life and do economic evaluations of health changes.
The Media and Governmental Advisors - the website will have press releases and educational materials.
The logo will be used on the website, on posters, on the questionnaires themselves and on brochures and pamphlets and for all correspondence.
Audience – all ages and both genders.
This is the website of one of our competitors http://www.euroqol.org/ Obviously we don't want to copy their logo, but I thought you could take a look to understand the feel we're looking for.
We'd like to use the acronym AQoL in a modern style.
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