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Five doctors-to-be toured the Internal Medicine Department at Carilion Roanoke Memo-rial Hospital earlier this week. They looked like any other doc-tor but this was a big day . . . a “monumental day,” said Dan Harrington, VP for Academic Affairs at Carilion Clinic and the senior dean for Academic Affairs at the Virginia Tech Car-ilion School of Medicine. “It’s because it’s the transition from being in the classroom to all of a sudden working with patients. And in every medical student’s life, the first day of clerkships is a huge deal.”
These five are part of the third-
year class of 42 students starting their clinical rotations for the first time in the history of the school, which opened its doors two years ago. They’ll spend six weeks in internal medicine before rotating to various hospi-tal departments. And with this step comes a lot of responsibil-ity, says Harrington.
“A clerkship is where the med-ical students rotate throughout the third year on core rotations such as pediatrics, surgery, in-ternal medicine, psychiatry, OBGYN, pediatrics - and here
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> CONTINUEDP2: Rotations
The Perfect Storm
Photo by Terry Aldhizer
Or at least a perfect storm picture . . . The Roanoke Valley has seen its share of thunderstorms and interestingly named “weather events” this summer. (Can you say Derecho?) Local photographer Terry Aldhizer has captured some amazing shots since early June and this is one of her finest taken on June 13th as an incoming storm arrived over downtown Roanoke. To see and/or purchase more of her remarkable work go to www.terryaldhizer.com.
Upward Bound Not Funded by Government
Roanoke College recently was notified by the U.S. Department of Education that their grant for the Upward Bound program has not been funded by the federal government for the coming five-year cycle. The summer residen-tial program for 70 high school students was set to begin in June, but was cancelled due to funding issues.
Roanoke College Upward Bound staff members notified the teaching staff, students and their parents and have noti-fied the seven area target high schools served by the program. Roanoke College officials say they are making every effort to appeal to the U.S. Congress for restoration of Upward Bound funding. However, due to the uncertainty of the funding situ-ation, the College had to cancel the entire 2012 summer residen-tial program. “We sincerely re-gret the cancellation of the sum-mer program and had hoped to avoid this drastic step,” said The-resa Jackson, director of Upward Bound at Roanoke College.
If efforts to appeal the fund-
> CONTINUEDP2: Upward
Elmwood Park Renovations To Begin In Fall Elmwood Park will close on
October 16 and (if the weather cooperates) the revitalized park will reopen 12 months later in the fall of 2013.
The first phase was expected to begin in mid-July and reopen in the summer of 2013 but that will not happen according to Steve Buschor, director of Parks and Recreation. The upside is that some events that had been scheduled for elsewhere now have the option of using Elm-wood Park through this sum-mer.
Phase one of the $4.7 million project received only one bid and City Engineer Phil Shermer said that they don’t like to award a project on a single bid. “Plan B is to combine the two contracts together,” he said.
Councilman Ray Ferris was concerned about going over budget at the July 2 re-vised presentation made by David Hill of Hill Studios. “Frills and some things con-sidered to be frills can be adjusted so they can be built later … What I’m looking at is
trying to get the major part of this project done and if we need to spend more money lets not spend it until we have it,” he said.
The long magnolia tree lined entrance to the park that features lily ponds was named “Saucer Magnolia Allee” in the first presentation. It has now been more simply named “Memory Lane.” The long debate on whether Bullitt Avenue would be a through street has finally been settled. It will not be
a through street and the green-way is now more clearly incor-porated into the design.
Some trees and plants will be removed or relocated. “Overall the park will have more trees when we are fin-ished,” said Hill. The walkway will be reconfigured to create a “much better curve” that will better accommodate amphi-theater seating. “That bought us 200 more seats,” he said. The terraces themselves will have about 1356 seats. The west wing will accommodate 253 seats and the orchestra
area will seat 372 people. The concourse tables will hold 100
people and the lawn will seat 1800 people. Finishing the available concert seating will be an area for 80 people at the top, 15 peo-ple at the gazebo, 180 people at the library balcony and 120 at various other spots.
The performance venue terraced seat-ing will be 3 ft. 8 in. wide and the design will embel-
An Artist rendering of the Elmwood Park Amphitheater area.
> CONTINUEDP2: Elmwood
Conference Costs To Taxpayers Questioned
Looking at the $12,691 cost for city staff to attend the Gov-ernment Finance Officer Asso-ciation’s 2012-2013 annual busi-ness conference and the benefit derived might create some angst among city taxpayers. City Man-ager Chris Morrill and seven other staff members attended the Chicago conference with Morrill and others bringing their fami-lies at their own expense.
Besides Morrill, Finance Di-rector Ann Shawver, City Trea-surer Evelyn Powers, Director of Management and Budget Ame-lia Merchant, Andrea Trent As-sistant Finance Director, Mike Shockley Budget Administrator, Susan Lower Real Estate Assess-ment Director and Kathy Cox Assistant Director of technology attended the conference. Susan Lower did not attend on city business according to Shawver.
It was a prestigious moment for Roanoke’s city manager who was named president of the GFOA. In his GFOA speech Morrill expressed his thanks to the mayor and city council for recognizing the value that his as-sociation with the GFOA brings back to Roanoke.
Former City Manager Darlene Burcham was not a member of GFOA but was “very active in other professional organizations such as the International City
> CONTINUEDP2: Conference
VT Carilion Students Enter Clinical Rotations for First Time
Left to right: Dr. R. Allen Blackwood, director, Internal Medi-cine Clerkship, Christopher Vieau, Caroline Osborne, Rebecca Kirschner, Matthew Joy, and Sean Fletcher.
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P7– UvA Radio Broadcaster Dave koehn told the Roa-noke Sports Club that he is bullish on the university’s foot-ball and basketball programs for 2012-13.
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Managers Association, Alliance for Innovations, and National League of Cities,” said Shawver.
Shawver also said, “Roanoke was very fortunate to be fea-tured in two sessions at the con-ference. It is wonderful for our community to be recognized for best practices in budgeting and retirement benefits.” Shawver serves on one of GFOA’s nation-al standing committees.
With the city just complet-ing its FY2013 budget pinch-ing exercise it may irk some residents that $12,000 was spent on a conference. “The GFOA is essentially the premiere organi-zation for government finance so we are very lucky we can be as involved as we are and bring back great ideas to Roanoke,” said Shawver.
Mayor Bowers read a reso-lution recognizing Morrill’s distinction at the June coun-cil meeting. “We support you
– we’re watching your back to make sure you are successful as President of the GFOA and as city manager of Roanoke,” said Bowers.
To learn more about GFOA go to their website at gfoa.org.
> Conference From page 1
By valerie [email protected]
lish the acoustical experience. The stage itself is 70 feet wide and 40 feet deep. The back will be constructed so as to separate musical performances from road noise. To the side there will be restrooms available to the public and dressing rooms for entertainers.
The circular library plaza that
is rarely used will incorporate a playground for all ages said Hill. Swings and a climbing net will be in the children’s park and the rocks that already look like a dragon will have a sculptured dragon head added at one end and a tail at the other.
Lantern designed entrances to the park will match the li-
brary. Food vendor trucks will fit in the rear of the library at basement level along with um-brella tables and seating. Other non-food vendors will be posi-tioned around the outer perim-eter and Memory Lane totaling about 100 tents.
In front of the stage there will be an expanded 2400 square
foot dance floor with a 16 jet in-teractive, lighted water fountain at the center. A 42-inch fence will be placed around the entire venue area.
> Elmwood From page 1
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> Rotations From page 1
we also do neurology and radiology to learn the basic skills of taking care of patients.” He says they’ll be examining patients, taking care of them, and participating in rounds.
Rebecca Kirschner is a VTC student from Winterpark, Florida. “I’m a little nervous. We’re going to be getting a lot more respon-sibility now moving from our second year of medical school into our third year.” She says she’s excited to get started. She’s inter-ested in pediatrics, but says “everything that we are going to learn here for the first six weeks is going to be applicable later.”
Christopher Vieau from Syracuse, New York, says he was overwhelmed by the move to clinical rotations. “It’s a brand new
environment and it’s amazing to see every-one at work.”
He hasn’t decided on a specialty and is considering everything equally at this point. “My goal is just to be like a sponge and learn as much as I can and to get my hands on as many patients as I can and to see as many patients as I can and to see as many proce-dures as I can and to read as much as I can about my patients.”
Matthew Joy from California is the third-year class president. He spent part of the first morning in rotations learning where to go and where to find things. “We actually have the chance to work with real patients in real time and are responsible for their
care to a certain extent. So it sort of brings meaning to all the book learning we’ve done to the point where you have to apply your knowledge and also apply your personal skills to interact with patients and establish relationships with them so you can treat them as best as possible.” He’s leaning to-ward specializing in surgery but said he too is open to all areas.
While the third-year students begin their clinical rotations, VT Carilion is getting ready to welcome its latest set of first year students next month.
ing are successful and funding is restored, the program may continue with the academic year program. If the funding is not restored, target area high school students will no longer benefit from the services, sup-port and enrichment provided by Upward Bound at Roanoke College.
Since 1965, Roanoke has hosted Upward Bound, one of the oldest federally-funded TRIO programs in the coun-try, and has served hundreds of students in the Roanoke area. Upward Bound is a highly suc-cessful college bound program
that assists socioeconomically disadvantaged high school stu-dents in developing necessary skills for success in college.
Typically 90-100 percent of the Roanoke College Upward Bound participants retained through 12th grade graduate from high school, and close to 90 percent of the students retained in Upward Bound through 12th grade enroll in college.
Since the beginning of the current funding cycle which be-gan in 2007, Roanoke College Upward Bound has served more than 180 students. Of this num-ber, approximately 116 entered
college, and at least 55 percent of the 116 students were still en-rolled during the fall of 2011.
Roanoke College Upward Bound alumni have earned de-grees from: Appalachian State University, College of Wil-liam and Mary, East Tennessee State University, Ferrum Col-lege, George Mason University, Greensboro College, Hampton University, Hollins Univer-sity, Howard University, James Madison University, Kent State University, Longwood Univer-sity, Lynchburg College, New Mexico State University, North Carolina A & T State Univer-
sity, North Carolina Central, Old Dominion University, Rad-ford University, Roanoke Col-lege, Shenandoah University, Spelman College, UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC-Greensboro, Univer-sity of Virginia, Virginia Com-monwealth University, Virginia State University, Virginia Tech, Virginia Western Community College, Winthrop University, and many other reputable insti-tutions of higher education.
> Upward From page 1
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City Responds to June 29 StormDuring the days that fol-
lowed the June 29 storm, the City of Roanoke says they made extensive efforts to ad-dress the resulting damage and to aid residents affected by the unusual "Dorecho" event.
Most visible to residents has been the work done by the Solid Waste Management Di-vision crews, who have been working 14-hour days to clear brush and debris from city neighborhoods. As of July 5, 86 workers had spent 4,214 hours collectively, picking up 447 tons of brush from the storm - enough to cover a football field nearly four feet deep. Histori-cally, crews have collected a total of 300 tons of brush from the entire city for the month of July. It is estimated that crews will collect a total of 1,500 tons (3 million pounds) of brush by Friday July 13th. Work is not expected to be completed un-til July 30.
Other responses to the storm provided by city work-ers include the following:
• In the first 12 hours af-ter the storm, 6:30 p.m. to 6:30 a.m., public safety tele-communicators in the E-911 Center processed 1,603 calls,
sometimes handling from 200 to 300 calls per hour. A total of 972 calls were entered into the dispatch system, and staff from Police and Fire-EMS as-sisted in directing responses to the calls; Police and Fire-EMS staff served as first responders to emergencies caused by the storm.
• Parks and Recreation crews responded to 217 emergency calls about city trees that were downed, and worked with Public Works crews to cut up trees and haul away debris.
• Public Works sign crews deployed more than 300 traffic barricades and traffic barrels to hazardous locations involving downed wires, closed streets, intersections with inoperable traffic lights, etc.
• Staff worked with Roanoke County and the American Red Cross to establish and open a cooling center/shelter.
• Operations at the Police Academy were suspended, and cadets were assigned to assist officers in directing traffic at intersections; At one point 50 out of 158 signalized intersec-tions were without power.
• Additional police officers were assigned to patrol areas
of the city that were without power.
• As power was restored, traffic signal technicians need-ed to reset signal operations at each intersection. Traffic signals at several intersections also required repairs to dam-aged components.
• Staff from Fire-EMS and the Office of Communications shared information with the public regarding safety, the city's cooling center, and up-dates on brush pickup.
In a news release the city stressed that they wished to, "thank employees for their
ongoing dedication to serv-ing citizens during this un-precedented storm situation." The city also said that efforts to work with Roanoke County and the Roanoke Valley Re-source Authority were crucial to the progress made in the city's response to collecting the debris resulting from the storm. Also, the city's partner-ship with the American Red Cross and Roanoke County was essential in providing shelter to those who lost pow-er because of the storm.
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Student Researchers Take A Walk On The 'Wild' Side
What do Florida bog frogs, Loggerhead shrike, and red-backed salamanders have in common? This summer, the species are being studied by Virginia Tech undergraduate researchers, in hopes that hu-mans might better understand their behaviors and habitat pref-erences.
Jeronimo Silva of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Alex Garretson of Rock-ville, Md and Tyler Williams of Wirtz, all seniors majoring in wildlife science, are working as research assistants to Carola Haas, associate professor of wildlife ecology. Each received a Summer Undergraduate Re-search Fellowship (SURF) ap-pointment from the Fralin Life Science Institute.
Silva is studying a bog frog native to western Florida and not known to exist anywhere else in the world. Using mark-and-recapture data collected by other scientists from 2002-03, and again from 2006 to 2008, he employs a computer program called MARK to analyze trends in the population over time.
"Florida bog frogs are con-sidered a vulnerable species be-cause they are so endemic," Sil-va said. "They were discovered in the 1980s and no one knows much about the population, such as whether it is increasing or decreasing." The goal of the project is to estimate the popu-lation size and apparent size of the adult frogs, in order to bet-ter understand population dy-namics.
Meanwhile, Garretson is stationed at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal where he can observe one of North Ameri-ca’s only captive Logger head shrike populations. Known as the ‘Butcher Bird’ because it skewers its prey on branches or barbed wire before eating it, these song bird populations have declined in the northeast-ern United States.
"A theory for the decline is the replacement of warm season
grass fields to cold season grass fields in the eastern U.S. in the 1950s and 60s, for cattle feeding purposes," Garretson said. "It doesn’t bode well for the birds because they need high nutrient levels in mid-summer."
To test this theory, Garret-son is collecting wild grasshop-pers (a primary food source of Loggerhead shrikes) from both warm and cool season grass fields. He records the number of grasshoppers he finds in each field and compares their abundance in each grass type, in addition to collecting some grasshoppers for carbon isotope analysis.
Garretson and Haas are in-terested in analyzing carbon isotope levels of grasshoppers caught in different fields, in or-der to tell whether the grasshop-pers fed on warm or cold season grasses. Garretson is also mak-ing behavioral observations of the captive shrike population at the Smithsonian site, and hopes to determine whether there is a difference in foraging suc-cess between shrikes hunting in patches of cool season versus warm season grasses.
Lastly, Williams is evaluating a fluorescent powder tracking method used on reticulated flatwood salamanders, which are endangered in Florida due to a decline in the habitat where they lay their eggs. If scientists
can determine the everyday be-haviors of the salamanders, they might be able to implement conservation practices to help them. Specifically, Williams is testing the addition of mineral oil to the fluorescent powder.
"Mineral oil may offer several advantages, like longer pow-der retention and increased resistance to moisture, specifi-cally rain," William said. "This is important because reticulated flatwood salamanders are com-monly active on rainy or moist nights and that moisture can decrease fluorescent powder tracking abilities."
Williams is testing the meth-od on red-backed salamanders, which are indigenous to Blacks-burg.
During the summer of 2012, the Fralin Life Science Insti-tute Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program and the Division of Undergraduate Education's Sci-eneering program have banded together to offer an unprec-edented number of students — 82 — paid research fellowships. For more information, visit the Fralin Life Science SURF web-site www.undergraduate.vt.edu/Scieneering
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Family Time, Unplugged & Outdoors
Memories are Made on Vacations; Tips for the RoadDon’t worry about record-
breaking gas prices – the U.S. Energy Information Admin-istration estimates prices to be $3.79 a gallon this summer, less than in 2008.
That’s good news for families considering reviving the tradi-tion of a road trip vacation, one of the best experiences parents and kids can share, says Michael DiLorenzo, author of Adven-tures with Jonny: Road Trip to the Parks! (www.adventure-swithjonny.com).
“This is a shared experience, and one that will be talked about during family gatherings for years to come,” says DiLorenzo, a father of three. “For busy par-ents, this is a time to savor their children’s youth. As moms and dads eventually find out, they grow up fast.”
It’s also a chance to get chil-dren outside and away from their computers, he says. Chil-dren today already have a deep-rooted interest in technology, which is why a road trip to a natural, outdoor destination is an opportunity to “give your child the gift of the outdoors, which is a gift for life,” says DiLorenzo.
The journey to a national park in the United States or Canada – perhaps Yellowstone in Wyoming or Banff in Alberta – is as bonding an experience as whatever happens at the desti-nation.
“And there are parks in every state,” he notes. “If you don’t have the time or money to go cross country, pick a park closer to home.”
DiLorenzo offers these help-ful tips for the road:
• Games, games, games! Yes, there is ample entertainment for both drivers and riders in cars
these days. BUT, the goal is to bond with the family, so consid-er some of the traditional Road Games like “Counting Cows” (remember graveyards on your side put you back to zero cows!) and the “Licence Plate” game where the object is to see who can find the most license plates from different states.
• Beware of dairy drinks (and other smelly snacks): A spill in the backseat can eventu-ally create quite a stink during a summer road trip. But do pack plenty of healthy snacks to save on pricey pit stops and avoid all the sugar and salt in junk food.
• Avoid big-city rush hours: When traveling through met-ropolitan areas, consider the busiest traffic periods. Whether you plan to stop and check out the city or simply zip through it, bumper-to-bumper traffic is something to avoid. A bit of consideration can save your family hours of grid-locked misery.
• Tech help: Various apps and websites can help drivers find the cheapest gas prices, food options, hotel rates and travel routes. Also, don’t forget a music mix that appeals to the
entire family on one of these de-vices. (Remember, leave work at home – forget about work-relat-ed calls, texts and emails! Use a non-work-related smartphone, if needed.)
• Schedule pit stops: Being in a hurry should be left for the morning commute; vaca-tion should be different. When traveling across states and prov-inces, consider local culture. For example, barbecue in South Carolina is very different from Missouri’s version. Enjoy din-ers and unique attractions, and don’t be afraid to take notes.
“The greatest family memo-ries are created in shared adven-ture,” DiLorenzo says. “Outdoor recreation is filled with these memories just looking for a family to bring them home.”
Michael A. DiLorenzo is a married father of three living in the outdoor-rich environs of Michigan. He created the “Ad-ventures with Jonny” series to entertain and educate children (and parents!) about the activi-ties available in the great out-doors.
Don’t Let Big Government Choose Your NewsA proposed new plan for government control of television news,
and perhaps Internet news, is now pending before the Federal Com-munications Commission. It would enable the government to sup-press opposing points of view, reduce diversity and chill speech.
The new "Localism, Balance and Diversity Doctrine" has much in common with the FCC’s old "Fairness Doctrine" – a policy the agency itself found deterred and suppressed news and chilled speech and which it revoked in 1987. An FCC-sponsored Future of Media Study has recommended that the Localism Doctrine pro-ceeding be ended as ill advised but FCC Chairman Julius Genach-owski has refused; the administrator of the White House’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Cass R. Sunstein, has long recommended that the government regulate news content broad-cast by stations to advance the incumbent government’s political and social objectives.
The new doctrine would suppress news, impose unnecessary and heavy burdens on television station news and be enforced by threats of license termination from both the FCC and a local control board at each station. Under the proposed plan, news broadcast by tele-vision stations would have to satisfy government criteria for “lo-calism” in production and news coverage – as well as government criteria for balance and viewpoint diversity.
Internet news sites stand to be affected as well. The FCC is plan-ning to transfer the broadcast spectrum used by local television to the Internet and the agency already has begun regulating the Inter-net.
Five federal communications commissioners in a central govern-ment agency in Washington, D.C., would review local news. The majority vote of three commissioners appointed by the president would make a final determination of news acceptability, overriding the news judgments of thousands of independent, local TV report-ers and editors. The stations would be threatened with loss of their licenses to broadcast if found to be non-compliant.
In addition, a local control board would be appointed for each television station to monitor its programming, including news, and recommend against license renewal if board members concluded the station is not complying with the FCC policy. This would im-pose a new blanket of government control over news. Much of the proposed new rule has not been made public including, for exam-ple, who would appoint the members of the local boards.
Requiring journalists to comply with a central government agen-cy’s policy on how to report the news and what the news should be means those journalists would no longer be free and independent of government. If the broadcast press is not free and independent,
it cannot act as a watchdog for the public, which is its constitutional role.
News gathering is not just taking government handouts; it’s prob-ing sources for what is really going on. It’s important that the TV and radio press continue to be able to do that so the public will be informed. FCC history shows government regulation of news con-tent deters and prevents effective news-gathering.
Corydon B. Dunham is a Harvard Law School graduate. His new book, Government Control of News: A Constitutional Challenge, (http://freespeech.authorsxpress.com), details the study tracing the history of the FCC’s Fairness Doctrine and development of the Lo-calism, Balance and Diversity Doctrine. As an NBC executive for 25 years, Dunham oversaw legal and government matters and Broadcast Standards. He served on the board of directors of the National Televi-sion Academy of Arts and Sciences and American Corporate Counsel Association.
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A High School Bluegrass Band: 1974-75
Arguing About Health Care Sometimes I feel like I’m
Commander-in-Chief of Camp Krazy.
I arrive at work; 7 a.m. Maybe a half hour later, I get a call from Sabrina. She’s out of breath. “Gahv! Gahv! Have we ever had some excitement around here this morning! A dog fight!”
But, wait a minute. Let me not get the plow in front of the horse. The story will mean nothing unless I tell you about one of our cats, Ozmitron [or ‘Oz.’]
Oz is colored or-ange and white, a cat of typical size with a most unusual coat. It’s not fur; it’s hair; long hair. Were you able to at-tach a handle to him, Oz would make the perfect dust-mop. This is the same mane he brings to Sabrina each morning for a brushing. It is this brushing which has created a most unusual depth of connectedness between he and she; a connectedness we had not fully appreciated.
Another thing Oz does, the significance of which we did not detect: he likes to spend most of his day on the stairs which lead from the kitchen to the cellar. If Sabrina or I use those stairs, we have to go around him; in fact, even our Dobermans step over him. Oz does not move. We missed that significance, until, that is, the morning of the dog-
fight.Owning a few dogs, Sabrina
and I are used to little scraps, a snap, a growl, and it’s over.
As Sabrina continued to ex-plain, this morning’s aggres-sion was serious; one or both of the contenders was going to get badly hurt. So, picture this: two large dogs going at each other
with homicidal intent, the rest of the pack in full throat, this close to jumping in; my Sabrina pulling at two collars to break up the chaos, while pushing would-be participants out of the way.
Then, over all the fray, Sabrina hears, “Budda, budda, bud-
da,” - a running across the floor?- and out of nowhere, something orange and white flashes past her vision, and lands on the dogs! Screaming, biting, and clawing maniacally on their backs… It was Oz, who’d busted through the stair cat-door in a rage, com-ing to help his momma!
Then, not wishing to be Do-bie-Brunch, Oz leaped mightily away, running in mid-air. He hit the hardwood floor and discov-ered something: be it hasty, stra-tegic, or otherwise, any retreat ultimately hinges on traction. He landed on hardwood floors. He kept running, but now his speed equaled five ‘budda’s’ for
every inch of linear progress. By the time he hit carpet, Oz was already in ‘passing gear’ and disappeared as if into another dimension. But, the dogfight was still on. Oz did a U-turn and jumped back into the fray hiss-ing, spitting, clawing, and biting, only to flee once again. But still the fight continued. As crazy as it sounds, over the barking, for the third time, Oz was in the middle of the melee like a lioness attack-ing jackals! He was giving those two dogs the business end of a hissy-fit.
Then the fight broke up, the dogs were kenneled, and Oz retired to the stairs uninjured, licking his coat calmly. It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no, it’s Osmitron the avenger! Although out-weighed and out-dogged, he was not out-Oz’ed, thus, he had the advan-tage. I suspect Oz is going to ‘live large’ for the next few months, thanks to his momma’s grati-tude. Sabrina, no doubt, would have prevailed over the dogs, but it never hurts to have a little or-ange and white back-up.
Oz still maintains his redoubt on the cellar stairs; we and the Dobies must still make our way around or over him. The Dobies walk quietly now. There is a law-enforcement presence in our home. To the Dobies, Oz seems to warn: check your guns at the saloon, boys, no fighting in my jurisdiction.
There’s a new sheriff in town…
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It’s truly amazing what politi-cians will argue about! Not only was everyone caught by surprise with Chief Justice Roberts’ sid-ing with the liberals in the Af-fordable Health Care decision, it was equally amazing how polar-ized the language became about what it meant. “It’s a tax . . . the greatest tax increase in history.” “It’s not a tax, it’s a penalty.” That people on all sides of the issue were saying both at the same time added to the confusion. Nei-ther of those statements is true nor do they add clarity to what we are facing.
One thing, I haven’t heard is, “All right, the Court has spoken; let’s get on with figuring out how we’re go-ing to deal with it.” Our gov-ernor has decided to sit on his hands and not investigate setting up a health exchange. Precious months may be lost in the hope that if Romney prevails, then he will overturn the law “on my first day in office.” Never mind that the law is basically what he proclaimed as a rousing success during his tenure as governor of Massachusetts.
There are a number of things depressing about the whole business and no one is address-ing those problems. How the Affordable Care Act will be fi-nanced is a matter of smoke and mirrors. That it will cost more than we can afford goes without saying. Where will the money come from? Entitlements will have to be reallocated or the debt will soar to unbelievable heights, not that it isn’t already out of sight. Counting Social Security, Medicaid, and Medi-
care, the true national debt is close to 60 trillion dollars, not the piddling 16 trillion that we are currently told. No one is talking about that.
If you are, as are many, un-happy with the ACA, with what would a republican administra-tion replace it? The optimistic
words, “We must have health care reform,” always draw applause. “We must have truly competitive health care.” What does that mean? That’s equally disingenuous. Has anyone heard a de-
tailed program of how that would be accomplished? Our
congressman proudly claims he has voted more than 30 times against the ACA but we’ve heard nothing but fatuous promises. The suggestion to just get rid of the current administration and all will be well is a message than only assumes the stupidity of the voters.
That the United States is the only developed nation that doesn’t have some plan in place for health coverage for all its citizens is worth a comment. We often hear how dissatisfied residents of France, Germany, Britain, and Canada are with their health care and the current debt crisis in Europe is partly due to their health care system. When you talk to individuals, the story becomes different. Most don’t seem anxious to lose their care and are pleased with the service they have personally received. Here at home, have you heard anyone on Medicare claiming how much they want it repealed? It was ironic that dur-ing congressional writing of the
ACA, many senior citizens were railing against it ignoring the fact that Medicare has worked quite well for them.
I recently read a survey that showed more that 30% of health care costs in this country are expended on paper work. Elec-tronic medical records are a great boon but it does take time away from patient care and it’s expensive. Most of us have had the experience of visiting a phy-sician, and after initial greeting the rest of the encounter finds the physician or nurse at the keyboard entering data. When a patient was asked, “Are you depressed?” he answered, “Of course, I’m depressed. I’ve been with you for 20 minutes and you haven’t taken your eyes of your computer!”
The most depressing thing of all and it goes far beyond health care, is that those who make our laws seem to have only two things in mind: Defeating the opposition and getting re-elected. I hope that account-ability can be brought into the elections, but I certainly am not counting on it.
We ourselves must assume a lot of the blame. We want all the benefits, we don’t want to pay for them ourselves or increased taxation, and we don’t want the government intruding on our personal freedom. Whoever can figure out how to balance that equation has a Nobel Prize in economics waiting.
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Jim Parker, now living in Tex-as and a Patrick Henry classmate of my older son Harry, reads The Roanoke Star.com online. He e-mailed me with a sugges-tion – I should write about the bluegrass band Harry and he played in at PH during their ju-nior and senior years, 1974-75. “We had a blast,” he said.
I replied that, being a mother, I did not have insight into the activities that caused them to “have a blast,” and would appre-ciate some help. My only knowl-edge concerned Harry’s interest in the banjo, that he frequently
went out with friends to play, practiced his banjo at home and sometimes the band practiced at our house.
Knowing that teenagers often lose interest shortly after acquir-ing expensive equipment for pursuing a current hobby, we were dubious about Harry’s request for a banjo. We agreed if he raised half the money required we would give him the remainder. He kept his part of the bar-gain and we kept ours. I gave him a tape, “Learning to Play the Banjo,” and soon he was taking a class in banjo at Virginia Western and practicing every spare moment he had at home.
Jim was more than happy to fill me in on what I did not know about the band. He said Rich-ard Greer, a postal carrier who worked with his dad at the Post Office, taught the class Harry took at VWCC. He also taught Jim at his home. “Richard didn’t teach us to read music—we just basically mirrored him. We both picked it up rather quickly how to play by ear,” he said.
Soon both boys knew “Crip-ple Creek” and “Foggy Moun-tain Breakdown,” which is the theme of any banjo player. They got together in their junior year with other interested PH stu-dents. The band was open to
whoever showed up for prac-tice and the purpose was to get together and have fun; they never got around to naming the band.
Peter Meek, who played standup bass, managed some-how to get that giant instru-
ment into his Volk-swagen. Nancy Thatcher and Anne Overstreet played guitar and sang. Jim said Nancy now lives in Florida and still sings folk music with a few friends on weekends.
Also on gui-tar were Ken-neth Roller and Wade Ballou, who
played a Dobro (trademark for an electric guitar with a metal-lic resonator). According to Jim, Wade’s father, Judge Bal-lou loved bluegrass -- “He was a hoot!” Jim said -- so they prac-ticed at Wade’s home frequently. Chuck Jennings was also a gui-tarist. He now lives in New York City and Harry sees him oc-casionally. Harry says Chuck is an accomplished and respected jazz musician making his way through life doing what he loves because he loves it and not for the money.
Jim recalls that after hearing the PH band play, a Roanoke bluegrass band (“The Dreadful Snakes”) invited fiddler David Thatcher to join their band.
And where did they play?
As juniors and seniors they played at the PH Talent Show, they played at the Lithia Fid-dlers’ Convention, and once they played at the Elks Club, where Jimmy remembers they received $5.00 each.
From my perspective, this bunch of high school kids had a good time playing music and that was wholesome. Harry al-ways let me know where they were going, though sometimes in a humorous way. For instance this note which I found on my refrigerator one day when I came home from school (and which I saved, obviously):
“Omnipotent Matriarch,I have donned the wings of
Achilles and in a flourish of fare-wells have departed with my companions of the arts for parts hitherto unknown to the in-habitants of this fair household. I, along with the noble Chuck Jennings, have gone from this warm home into the cold un-known of a friend’s farm, where under guidance of our minds and senses, we will express our innermost emotions with our instruments.
Alack, fear not, for I will re-turn safe, unharmed and full of life’s pep and vigor nigh onto four or five hours hence. Save not dinner, for my humble soul will partake of the ambrosia of the illustrious Texas Tavern upon returning from matters away and hence.
My time draws near, so for now I must close. . . Leaving only these words for the memo-ry of the hours that will separate my soul from thine… (over)”
And on the back this transla-tion:
“Mom, I’m going with Chuck Jennings to play some banjo. We’re trying to get a group to-gether. I’ll eat at the T. Harry”
Ah, the joy of the teenage years!
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Memories of Mill Mountain ZooI can hear it now: the cheer-
fully wailing whistle, and the chug of the "Zoo Choo" as it cir-cled the perimeter of the zoo. I particularly remember hearing the whistle as we walked up the gravel path to the zoo entrance; the anticipation was great, and when inside the magical place I think I was too distracted with other things to notice the whis-tle as much.
This month is the sixtieth an-niversary of the opening of Mill Mountain Zoo, and, having been enjoying it myself for close to fifty years, I've built up some memories of the place.
Early on it was known as The Mill Mountain Children's Zoo, and it definitely lived up to the "children's" part, for every de-tail about the place seemed to cater to little ones' imagina-tions, mainly through a story-book theme. At the entrance, visitors were greeted by a huge shoe, from "old lady who lived in a shoe" fame. Framing the big blue boot were stacks of giant al-phabet blocks which spelled out the words "baby pets," (?!) and arching above them was color-fully lettered "Children's Zoo." Talk about a grand entrance.
Upon entering the zoo prop-er, through an ingenious tun-nel in the shoe, it was easy for a little kid to get pleasantly over-whelmed by all the distractions. First there was the Mary had a Little Lamb enclosure for, yep, a few sheep. It was complete with even a miniature school-house that kids could enter and sit at the little desks. Next door was the craggy domain of Billy Goat Gruff, home to a few scruffy goats. On the way to the miniature castle, which held the reptile exhibit, one would be waylaid by the ever-popular funhouse mirrors. You can nev-er get enough of those.
There were many other mem-orable exhibits at that breezy, shady enclave of a mountaintop zoo. There was the small cement pool with a facsimile of Noah's ark in the middle of it. I've for-gotten what animals were ex-
hibited within the ark, but alas I'm pretty sure it was not two of every creature on earth. I remember asking my mother about that one.
Following in the small-ce-ment-pool-with-something-in-the-middle-of-it theme, there was a concrete, open-mouthed whale, like Jonah in the Bible, which housed, perhaps a little unexpectedly, the zoo's bird ex-hibit. I loved that one. The whale was painted bright blue.
Of course, most of the animal enclosures were no-nonsense chain link fence affairs, and they held for our observation - and amusement - creatures like fox-es, rabbits, a bobcat, some large birds with identities I don't re-call, and goodness even a lum-bering old bear.
The concession stand in the center of the zoo sold not only hot dogs and popcorn, but Ya-hoo chocolate drinks too. The Yahoos alone are worthy of a fine, lingering memory. A ramp led up to the roof of the conces-sion stand where you could eat at the picnic table there or just look out and soak up the view.
Riding the Zoo Choo was, and still is, a fine way to take in the lovely mountaintop scenery and soak up some of the charac-ter of the zoo. Besides the ding ding of the "rail crossings" and the sound of the whistle, I re-member best riding through the tunnel, where the chug-chug of the engine sounded especially
exquisite.The rustic little log mill, com-
plete with water flowing over the wooden wheel, was situated down the hill by the Zoo Choo tracks, and it housed a small gift shop. Once, when on a Vaca-tion Bible School field trip to the zoo I bought a cheap sheath knife with a four-inch blade. My teacher, Miss Andrews, with a somewhat horrified expression on her face immediately confis-cated it. Oh well.
There was one exhibit that stood out above all the rest, and mesmerized kids of all ages: The magnificent prairie dogs. What can I say? Watching the little dogs scamper around their circular cement pen, seeing them converse, argue, fight, and love each other, not to mention eating their bushy-ended car-rots, was always a treat. I think it was hard for our parents and grandparents to drag us away from them.
Even today the prairie dogs seem to embody the innocent magic of the Mill Mountain Zoo, and imagining what I sup-posed as a kid their network of endless tunnels and cozy homes beneath their pen will always stick with me as an example of one of my best childhood mem-ories.
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Wild Bill concluded his week-long run at The Greenbrier Clas-sic Sunday afternoon as two vir-tual unknowns battled through a three-hole playoff for the $ 1.098 million winner's purse.
It was a strange week from start to finish. The historic storm that wreaked havoc on the Roanoke Valley two Fridays ago, left simi-lar damage across the Greenbrier Valley. Consideration was made to postpone the tournament to a future date, but player com-mitments, a blockbuster musi-cal lineup and a pre-tournament sellout of tickets, gave Greenbrier Classic officials little choice but to go on with the show.
Greenbrier owner Jim Justice made pleas to all volunteers to help with the monumental clean-up of downed trees and debris that had brought The Old White TPC to its knees. The cleanup crews answered the call, and by Monday's opening day, less than 72 hours after the storm, The Old White showed little effects to the casual observer.
By Thursday's opening round of the 72-hole event, The Green-brier was abuzz with excitement as Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Tom Watson joined former Classic champions, Stuart Ap-pleby and Scott Stallings in the chase for the Springhouse Tro-phy.
Woods, Mickelson and Ap-pleby were never a factor as all three failed to make the 36-hole cut. Friday's second-round saw record crowds line the fairways, with spectators often fifteen deep hoping to catch a glimpse of Woods.
Webb Simpson, winner of the 2002 Scott Robertson Memorial at Roanoke Country Club, and 2012 U.S. Open in June, looked to be the clearcut favorite after holding a two shot lead going into Sunday's final round.
But, a funny thing happened on the way to the clubhouse. Simpson, who had made only one bogey in his first 65 holes of the tournament, suddenly found himself making 4 in the last sev-en holes.
Meanwhile, Ted Potter, Jr,, who started the week ranked # 218 in the world, and Troy Kelly, who began at # 464, fought to a 72-hole draw at sixteen-under par, forcing the sudden death playoff.
Give Potter credit for perse-verance. He had to finish regu-lation with eagle-birdie on the par-5 seventeenth and par-3 eighteenth just to make the play-off. Then, Potter seemed ready for a slam-dunk win by default
on the second playoff hole when he waited patiently for his five-foot birdie putt while Kelly made a scenic tour of the hole with a flubbed sand shot, and worse chip from the rough, before sinking a do-or-die putt from 25 feet that stunned Potter into a miss, sending the players back to the 18th tee for the third time in less than an hour.
This time, Kelly's good for-tunes ran out. His tee shot fell short on the lower tier, while Potter put his shot to within five feet. Kelly made a good effort on his 40-footer that rose, broke and fell down the mound to within 18 inches. Potter followed by finding the jar from five feet to secure the championship.
The tournament, despite miss-ing the big names at the finish, was still a huge success. And, the musical appearances of Toby Keith, Lionel Richie, Rod Stew-art and Bon Jovi were world-class. During the week it was announced The Classic has been extended to 2021 and is in the running to be a U.S. Open site.
Finally, we close with a Wild Bill Five-Star late-night product update that seems appropri-ate after our recent widespread power outages left many read-ers in the dark. We will therefore review the "Olde Brooklyn Lan-tern," a truly miraculous device available for $ 12.99. I'm going to comment that I get suspicious
when I see the letter 'e' added to the word 'old', but you make the call on this one.
The Olde Brooklyn Lantern is pitched as a luminary device that can light up an entire room, out-performing any group of flash-lights assembled in one's drawer. Conveniently, all the flashlights in the commercial have dead batteries. But, the Olde Brooklyn Lantern is quite the tool when it comes to longevity. The ad says the battery will last for 100,000 hours. (No typo here, that's 100,000 hours.)
It's time to go inside the num-bers. If this is accurate, the Olde Brooklyn will stay lit continuous-ly for nearly 11 1/2 years . . . but, wait . . . If you call now you get a second Olde Brooklyn for free. Now, you've got uninterupted illumination, even if your next power outage lasts for 23 years. Gives AEP plenty of leeway to get the juice back on. Sometimes they seem to need it.
In the meantime, I'm con-sidering changing my column name to Wilde Bill; I'm sorta get-ting hooked on the extra 'e'.
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What do you do when it is 100 + degrees and you have no electricity? Well you don’t find your-self in the kitchen with the oven on. Maybe YOU are cooking in the heat but the food is not!
Disaster preparedness is important but so is making a fun time out of a unique experience. Alongside your disaster relief equipment store some party supplies. When the lights go out next time invite the neighborhood over to your yard to pass the time and celebrate the sense of commu-nity we lost when we became so “plugged in.”
A distraction from the heat is always good. Pro-vide shade and a sprinkler or two for the kids and buckets of cool water for the weary adult to rest their toes in.
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The Foundation for Roanoke Valley has announced it has awarded $35,000 to The Rescue Mission from the Foundation’s Earl D. and Carrie Leigh Doran Fund. This Fund, which was es-tablished through the estate of local barber Earl Doran, has a number of purposes, including supporting agencies which pro-vide shelter, care and assistance to battered women.
“Many people do not realize the number of abused women sheltered at the Rescue Mission,” said Kim Gembala, Director of Administration for the Rescue Mission. “In a recent survey of our family shelter, 76% reported being a victim of sexual, physi-cal, and/or verbal abuse from a spouse or partner.”
Carly Oliver, Foundation As-sociate Director, noted: “The Foundation is happy to support The Rescue Mission through this initial grant from the Fund and grateful to Mr. Doran for es-
tablishing a significant fund that will assist many women who deal with domestic violence is-sues in the years ahead.”
The Rescue Mission refers all women who report active abuse
by a partner to other local shel-ters who specialize in domestic violence; however, special cir-cumstances make some of these women ineligible for services at these shelters.
“This grant will make a huge impact here at the Rescue Mis-sion,” said Sherry Gearheart, Manager of the Women and Children’s Center. “These funds will allow us to continue provid-ing the services for these women while ensuring their safety.”
The Rescue Mission of Roa-noke is a grassroots organiza-tion serving as a Christian Crisis Intervention Center for South-western Virginia since 1948.
The Foundation for Roanoke Valley has worked for more than two decades to administer and make grants from hundreds of named endowment funds on be-half of the community. For more information, visit their website at www.foundationforroanokeval-ley.org or call 985-0204.
Left to right-Sherry Gear-heart, Manager of the Women and Childrens Center and Carly Oliver, Foundation As-sociate Director.
Coalition To Hold Synthetic Drug Awareness Seminar
The Synthetic Drug Awareness Coalition will host a Roanoke Valley Synthetic Drug Seminars at two separate locations. The coalition consists of the Com-monwealth's Attorney's Office, The U.S. Attorney's Office, The DEA, Carilion Medical, RAY-SAC and Straight Street.
Synthetic drugs, commonly referred to as Bath Salts, have alarming effects on the hu-man body. For the past sev-eral months, local public safety agencies have been concerned with public safety and health is-sues involving synthetic drugs. Likewise, Carilion health and medical professionals have been concerned for the rise in health issues related to the use of syn-thetic drugs.
The informational seminar will educate parents, children and others on the dangers of synthetic drugs. The seminar will be offered in two locations; the Roanoke Police Academy, 5401-B Barnes Ave NW, Roa-noke, VA 24019 and the South County Library, 6303 Merriman Rd, Roanoke, VA 24018.
Roanoke Weekly Gas Price Update and Outlook
Average retail gasoline prices in Roanoke have risen 13.4 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.12/g yesterday. This compares with the national average that has increased 3.8 cents per gallon in the last week to $3.41/g, according to gasoline price website Roa-nokeGasPrices.com. Includ-ing the change in gas prices in Roanoke during the past
week, prices yesterday were still 26.2 cents per gallon lower than the same day one year ago and are 5.9 cents per gallon lower than a month ago. The national average has decreased 15.2 cents per gallon during the last month and stands 21.4 cents per gal-lon lower than this day one year ago. After a dramatic decline in gasoline prices in virtually every region in the
past month, gasoline prices have started to rise," said GasBuddy.com Senior Pe-troleum Analyst Patrick De-Haan. "While I don't neces-sarily believe that the recent uptick in crude prices will stick, I also don't see prices falling considerably lower until after the conclusion of the summer driving season, when demand declines, and more expensive blends are phased out," DeHaan said.
For more information con-tact: Patrick DeHaan at [email protected].
History Museum Desegregation Exhibit To Open
The History Museum of Western Virginia and the Harrison Museum of African American Culture will hold an opening reception for School Desegregation: Learn, Preserve, and Empower on Friday, July 13, 2012.
The exhibit, which will run from July 13th-31st, was created by the collaborative partnership of DOVE, the Virginia State Conference of the NAACP, and AARP to preserve the stories of those who lived through Massive Resistance in Virginia. It will include photographs and documentaries of the his-tory of school desegregation in Virginia.
Along with this exhibit, the History Museum will be hosting The Whisper Room, an oral history interview booth, which will allow visitors to tell their story about desegregation. It is the hope of the museums that this exhibit will allow for the collection and preservation of local oral histories about the desegregation process here in the Roanoke Valley. Please contact the History Museum of Western Virginia if you would like to share your story.
OPENING RECEPTION: July 13, 2012 6 – 9 p.m. EXHIBIT: July 13 – July 31, 2012 Hours: Tuesday – Friday 10am-4pm, Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm - www.vahistorymuseum.org
Celebrate “Second Saturday Science” in July with a BANG!
The Science Museum of West-ern Virginia has announced its July Science program: “WHIZZ! BANG! POP!: Things That Go BOOM!” that will be held on Saturday, July 14, from 11:00
a.m. – 12:00 noon.July is fireworks time, and the
Science Museum of Western Virginia has just the thing to help enjoy how the show works. What’s powering those rockets?
What creates those flashes and explosions? “Whizz-Bang-Pop” demonstrations will keep you and the kids on the edge of your seats!
“The science behind the art-istry of fireworks is not some-thing people often think about, but it’s fascinating stuff,” said Jim Rollings, Executive Director. “This presentation will provide a brief explanation each step of the way, from the rocket’s red glare to bombs bursting in air!”
The Museum opens at 10:00 a.m., and these programs fill fast, so come early to get your seat. Program is 11:00 AM – NOON, and included with regular Sci-ence Museum admission. The museum has interactive exhibits for all ages, including weather exhibits, geology exhibits, light, color and sound exhibits and the “Bridge of Fire.”
The museum is located in the upper level of Tanglewood Mall across from Belk. For more infor-mation, call 540.342.5710 or visit the Museum’s page on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Science-MuseumofWesternVirginia.
Blue Ridge Parkway Offers Old Time Craft Workshops
Skilled park rangers and master cultural volunteer demonstra-tors will once again be leading hands-on workshops this sum-mer at the historic area of Mabry Mill, milepost 176 on the Blue Ridge Parkway. The public is invited to come and learn a new skill and help keep these traditions alive.
There is a small fee to cover materi-als so participants can take their handiwork home. Space is limited and advance reserva-tions are required. Call the Park Service Visitor Center at (540) 745-9662 for more information or to reserve a spot.
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Cave Spring National 9-10 All-Stars Knock Off Covington 9-7
Cave Spring used a three-run rally in the last inning to overcome a 7-6 deficit, as the National 9-10 year-old All-Stars defeated their counterparts from Cov-ington 9-7 at Starkey Park.
Cave Spring third base-man Marqui Claytor blocks the base as he drops the tag on a Covington baserunner.
Nationals Charlie Urgo stirs the dust as he slides across the plate with the eventual game-winning run or Cave Spring in the final inning.
National's hitter Spencer Craig con-nects for the Cave Spring All-Stars.
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Northside's Lucas Nowlin swings for the fence during Saturday's matchup against the East.
It’s hard to miss the deep bari-tone voice of Dave Koehn, heard on local radio, as the voice of the University of Virginia football and men’s basketball programs. Koehn, who also broadcasts Cavaliers baseball games, was in town recently to address the Roanoke Valley Sports Club. A Colorado native who attended the University of Kansas, he broadcast Jayhawks basketball games and studied journalism.
Koehn replaced Mac McDon-ald in the UVA booth four years ago. He recently announced that Cavs football and men’s basket-ball broadcasts will return to WFIR 960 AM and 107.3 FM this fall. WFIR was previously the Roanoke outlet for UVA games, which were heard on 101.5 FM the past several years.
Koehn came to Charlottes-ville after stints at Sam Houston State in Texas and in Vermont, where he called games for the University of Vermont and the Vermont Lake Monsters mi-nor league baseball team. En-couraged to chase his dreams, Koehn said he was often told by his parents to “find something you would do whether you got paid or not.”
Since he couldn’t find a job sitting on the couch all day, eat-ing and watching sports, he did the next best thing and aspired to be a sports broadcaster. “I get to do what I love and get a front row seat.” Koehn grew up as a Denver Broncos fan, idolizing John Elway as he engineered comeback after comeback.
At UVA, Koehn has had a front row seat as he watches Mike London and Tony Bennett try to turn around the Cav’s for-
tunes in football and basketball, respectfully. Both pulled out wins last season “when they had the deck of cards stacked against them. They didn’t have the tal-ent that a lot of other teams did have [yet] they were able to do some pretty amazing things.”
High on that list was UVA’s upset win at Florida State, the first time they had ever won a football game in Tallahassee. “It comes back to that idea of over-coming the odds,” said Koehn, who marvels at the power of the human spirit. “Sports provide that opportunity to inspire.”
Koehn also marvels at inspi-rational stories like that of Jared King, a UVA baseball player who lost both his parents to cancer. His mother Brenda King, hired to coach Hidden Valley High School’s girls basketball team, never was able to do that as she battled cancer unsuccessfully.
When UVA baseball Coach Brian O’Connor suggested he take some time off after his mother passed away, King told him, “You guys are my family now.” In his first game after be-ing away for the funeral, King hit a home run. “It’s that kind of stuff that gives you chills. It’s
what makes sports so special to me,” noted Koehn.
He also believes London is on the right track with the Cavs football team and said the cur-rent recruiting class can go toe-to-toe with Virginia Tech. Keep-ing that momentum going – in large part by winning on the field - will help UVA keep up with the Hokies football-wise in the long run he believes.
Still learning his craft after graduating from college 12 years ago, Koehn listens to all of his broadcasts, critiquing his own performance, and counts on long time national broad-caster Gary Bender as a mentor. “I got a feeling that sports was that thing [for me],” said Koehn, who once broadcast Little League baseball games in Texas while sitting at a picnic table be-tween screaming parents as fire ants crawled up his leg.
Scott Stadium and John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville must seem like a universe away. “This was the first time I had a chance to have a destination job,” said Koehn, who called himself a long shot for the UVA position when it became available. His first broadcast at Virginia was a football game against vaunted USC. “I wouldn’t trade my path here for anything.”
The Roanoke Valley Sports Club welcomes assistant coach-es from UVA and Virginia Tech at two separate meetings on July 23 and July 30. Non-members can call Tom Marchi at 588-2969 for more information.
The Voice Of UVA Expresses Optimism At Sports Club Meeting
RVAA Swim Meet- Olympic Park and Castle Rock Visit the Otters at Forest Hills
Katie Lorens of For-est Hills waits for instructions as she
steps to the platform.
Griffin Kauffman of Castle Rocks skirts the lane in his 25-meter freestyle.
Olympic Park's Chas Downs,III sets for the horn in his 50-meter event.
Forest Hills swimmer Jack Collier stirs up the water as he puts on a strong push to the finish line.
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UVA broadcaster Dave Koehn (right) with Sports Club president Dave Ross.
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Implied WarrantiesVirginia follows the common
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waive, modify or exclude these statutory warranties and sell a new home as isby conspicuous language in the contract. If not waived, etc., the statutory war-ranties extend for one year from the date of transfer of title or the buyers taking possession, which-ever occurs first, except the war-ranty against structural defects in the foundation which extends for five years from such date.
The statutory warranties only apply to a new dwellingor a dwelling that has not been oc-cupied for a period of more than 60 days by anyone other than the seller or the buyer or has not been occupied by the origi-nal seller or subsequent seller for a cumulative period of more than 12 months. Also, the term structural defectsis limited to de-fects that reduce the stability or safety of the structure below ac-cepted standards or that restrict normal use.
Express WarrantiesAn owner considering the
construction of a new home, or an addition or substantial renovations to an existing home, should require certain express warranties in their contract for construction. A reputable con-tractor should agree to include, for example, express warranties such as those in the AIA Docu-ment A201 General Conditions (2007) that (1) all materials and
equipment furnished will be of good quality and new un-less the contract requires or permits otherwise; (2) all work will conform to the require-ments of the contract, plans and specifications; and (3) the work will be free from defects. Most contractors typically agree to an additional call-backwarranty or guaranteethat any work found to be defective within one year after substantial completion (excluding defects caused by al-terations or improper operation or maintenance by the owner) will be corrected promptly after written notice from the owner. Standard construction contracts also include provisions for spe-cial warranties, like those issued by manufacturers on roof mate-rials, major appliances, etc., to be transferred by the contractor to the owner.
Warranties on construction implied by law or expressly set forth by contract are important forms of protection for owners against defective workmanship or materials on construction projects. Anyone contemplating the purchase of a new dwelling-should resist the sellers attempts to waive, modify or exclude the protections afforded by the statutory warranties. Anyone contracting for construction of an addition or renovation of an existing home should require ex-press warranties of workmanship and materials and provisions for transfer of special warranties in the construction contract. A seller or contractor who insists on waiver or exclusion of im-plied statutory warranties or is unwilling to provide reasonable express warranties should not be considered.
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Shears Appointed Financial Center Manager at StellarOne Bank’s Franklin Plaza Office
StellarOne Bank is pleased to announce the appointment of Vareni Lewis Shears to Fi-nancial Center Manager of the Franklin Plaza office located at 111 Franklin Plaza in Down-town Roanoke. In her role, Ms. Shears is responsible for gener-ating, maintaining, servicing, and managing the business and retail relationships within the Franklin Plaza Financial Cen-ter.
Most recently, Ms. Shears was the Store Manager at Wachovia, now Wells Fargo, however, her prior eighteen years was spent in the Roanoke Valley serv-ing as the owner and operator
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Ms. Shears is a graduate of Northside High School in Roa-
noke and attended Virginia Western Community College with an emphasis in foreign lan-guage. She resides in Roanoke with her husband, Dexter and two children Sian, 16 and Mala-chi, 10. She serves as a board member of Youth Sports Inc. and The Harrison Museum of African American Culture. Ms. Shears and her family are also proud members of First Baptist Church Cloverdale.
StellarOne Bank is a tradi-tional community bank, offer-ing a full range of business and consumer banking services.
Advancement Foundation / Rowe Furniture Partner In Job Training
The Advancement Founda-tion has announced success-ful results from a partnership it formed with Rowe Furniture in creating a job training pro-gram. From the initial training class all those who participated completed the course and are now in line to receive positions as soon as there are openings. Two of the most outstanding trainees accepted job offers di-rectly out of their completion of the course.
The two participants who were the first to be given posi-tions of employment working with Rowe Furniture are also part of the Advancement Foun-dation’s LEAP (Lift, Educate, Advocate, Proclaim) program. The goal of the LEAP program is to assist economically disad-vantaged men and women in the Roanoke Valley by helping them achieve personal and pro-fessional satisfaction and suc-cess in their lives. Through the partnership, The Advancement Foundation has been able to encourage those involved with LEAP to join the training and gain skills they can use to secure stable jobs.
“It has been an amazing ex-perience," Said Kristen Flem-ing, LEAP participant offered employment after completing Rowe Furniture job training."I have had the opportunity to up my life skills and gain experi-ence. This has given me the op-portunity to get a good job to support my daughter. I am very thankful.”
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BBB in Western VA Issues Consumer Alerts: Utility Scam Hits Virginia
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Scammers Replicate UPS & Verizon Emails
Consumers nationwide are receiving fake emails that are al-most identical to the real emails many Verizon and UPS cus-tomers receive to remind them of their monthly payments or shipping status.
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The Verizon and UPS phish-ing scams are notable for their painstaking replication of each company’s emails. Only the large Verizon bill amounts (from $45 to almost $2,000) and links to third party websites are tip offs to the real nature of these emails.
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“Overnight” May Have Been Better Than Ever This Year
Perhaps it was Todd Ristau’s edict beforehand or just the right mix of writers, but the six short plays created and pre-sented within a 24 hour period last Saturday during Overnight Sensations seemed snappier and in many cases funnier than ever. Ristau, who heads up the playwriting program at Hollins University, implored the writers and directors the night before to adhere to the ten minute long guideline for the play’s length.
In some cases previously they had stretched to 15 or even 20 minutes long, with meandering plot lines as well. This time out, Overnight Sensations – billed as “pulling an all-nighter for art’s sake,” stuck close to the 10-min-ute rule. The event, created six years ago as a way to highlight live theater in the Roanoke area, featured local playwrights and several from out of town.
“The perfect expression of everything I love about theater,” said Ristau, after the last of the six short plays wound up on the stage at Hollins University, where Overnight was moved for this year only since Mill Moun-tain Theatre’s Trinkle stage is closed for renovations. Ristau noted that the main theater hall at Hollins, built in 1924, was only air-conditioned this year.
That was good news for at-tendees looking to beat the heat wave for a few hours. “It still looks like 1924, but it’s state of the art,” said Ristau. As part of the Hollins theater renovation (a million dollar grant helped pay for it), dark blackout cur-tains came down automatically just before the six plays began, covering the tall, distinctive arched windows that harken back to 1924.
The plays, created after the genre, themes and settings were drawn randomly from a hat last Friday night, included come-dic bits like The Last Secret of the Titanic – as the captain and first mate choose a singer from among the passengers. What could go wrong in the North Atlantic, in the middle of the night, at the edge of an iceberg field? asks the captain, aptly played by Dan Smith.
The Lonesome Whale fea-tured Gary Reid as a crusty lighthouse keeper, spurning advances from a bevy of female suitors due to his obsession with the sea. Eggwhites & Thumb-print Stains on Canvas with
Shadows spoke to, with humor, the pretentiousness of fine art and the way some regard pieces that may be nothing but a pile of junk. Veteran local actor Kris Laguzza directed that one; her husband Ross starred as a cad in another Overnight play, Unhos-pitable. Both had appeared as actors in an Edward Albee play recently.
Earlier that day, director Miriam Frazier put her cast of seven through its paces as they rehearsed #Ragnarok – as in “hash tag” Ragnarok for the non-Twitter crowd. Set in a newsroom, the employees of a newspaper deal with chang-ing technology like blogs and Twitter as they also encounter Norwegian gods sent down to announce the end of the world – Ragnarok in Norwegian. Cast member Celie Holmes, born in Norway, actually spoke several monologues during the play in Norwegian.
“I can’t believe how much we have done in a couple of hours,” said Frazier as the cast read through their lines and “blocked” where they would come in, stand, etc. At one point she said it was time to do a run-through without help, after everyone had spent time memorizing. “We just need to get to the end of it – no calling for lines,” ordered Frazier, ar-tistic director for the GAMUT troupe that mounts productions at Community High School.
“It’s a ton of fun, it’s a chal-lenge,” said Frazier of the 24-hour Overnight Sensations concept. “You have to work re-ally smart, really fast. Everybody comes here with an attitude to get the work done.” Many of the actors in Overnight Sensations
are not actors at all, which is part of the charm.
“People underestimate them-selves all the time. They’re able to do whatever they need to do to get it done. As long as they’re willing to take direction there’s very little difference.” Frazier has directed at Overnight Sen-sations several times; it’s a proj-ect of the Hollins Playwright’s Lab. “It’s really one of the true collaborative events that go on in town.”
Brian O’Sullivan, a semi-re-tired actor who did theater work in New York and San Francisco, appeared in Frazier’s play (writ-ten by Will Coleman) as a Norse God. “I’m just kind of going on the broadness of the play,” said O’Sullivan, who has also di-rected plays at Studio Roanoke. He likes the Overnight Sensa-tions concept, in part because it brings many players in the local live theater world together.
“You meet a lot of people you normally wouldn’t have contact with,” said O’Sullivan. It was also nice to be on the Hollins cam-pus for a change, drawing that theater world into the fold. “It’s very vibrant,” said O’Sullivan of the local theater scene, “there’s a lot going on here.” He does wish more people would turn out to watch it on a regular basis.
Ristau welcomed everyone back to Overnight Sensations next year, as he urged those in the audience to also support live theater venues in Roanoke. “[And] bring about ten friends with you,” he added.
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Short Story Author Says He Is 5k Guy, Not Marathoner
Kurt Rheinheimer, editor-in-chief for Leisure Publishing in Roanoke, has just released a second collection of short stories, works that he has writ-ten over the past several de-cades. Many have appeared in literary journals and popular magazines elsewhere. Finding Grace, from Press 53 in Win-ston-Salem, features tales of a Maryland family in the 40’s and 50’s, mainly through the eyes of a son, Alex.
It is fiction based loosely on Rheinheimer’s own upbring-ing near Baltimore; playing ice hockey back in the days when the Chesapeake Bay actually used to freeze, dealing with a kid brother, the early signs of romance, and a fractured fam-ily unit. Rheinheimer’s nostal-gic, smooth writing style evokes a past era and may make older readers remember their own upbringings fondly.
His previous collection of short stories, Little Criminals, was also well-received and won awards when it was released in 2005. Compared by one review-er to such well-known writers as Frank McCourt and William Maxwell, Rheinheimer said the short story genre suits him just fine. He’s tried writing a novel “but didn’t like it and didn’t go back to it. The parallel might be a 5K [race] and the marathon. I’m just not a marathon guy.”
A long time runner and avid hiker, Rheinheimer said the popularity of the short story has dwindled over the years, but there are still outlets for the type of prose he likes to write. His stories have appeared everywhere from Glimmer Train Stories and the Michigan Quarterly to Redbook and, of all magazines, Playgirl. That happened when Rheinheimer briefly took on an agent who landed him that placement. The New Yorker still runs short stories, he also notes.
Seeing the stories in Finding Grace collected and printed in one book, Rheinheimer real-izes it might have been more autobiographical then he first thought when they were writ-ten over the past 30 years. His father Walter – Edwin in the
book – read one of the stories some years ago and asked his son, “I thought you wrote fic-tion?” Edwin buys a second house, leaves his wife Grace and moves in with a Norwe-gian woman at one point; he’s also a packrat with an obses-sion for stamps.
Rheinheimer said the “writ-er’s curse” is often losing the distinction between what is real and what is created to help formulate a good story. The actual events concerning his family are sort of a “muddle” at this point for the 60-something Rheinheimer, who oversees The Roanoker magazine and Blue Ridge Country.
Many of the stories are cen-tered around Alex at age 12, growing up in a factory town on the peninsula in Maryland,
surrounded by water, play-ing baseball constantly. Gi-ant planes manufactured and tested there buzzed by in the sky overhead on a regular ba-sis. Men left their row houses in the morning, headed for the airplane factory, while moth-ers like Grace hung laundry out on lines and kept an eye on outdoor-loving kids. Life was simpler. Edwin is somewhat demanding and wants an intel-lectual life for his children in the stories of Finding Grace, according to Rheinheimer, while Grace comes off as a more sympathetic figure. “She’s always careful and loving of her children. [Perhaps] a little bit in the extreme.”
Alex and his brother are “addicted to being outside,” noted Rheinheimer, adding that parts of the book deal with Alex realizing that his parents, grandparents and siblings are real people, not just family members. That’s a lesson many children learn as they grow up, and one of the revelations some may uncover in Finding Grace.
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Read Montague asked for a show of hands: How many audience members possessed a behavioral superpower? “Oh! I actually see hands!” he said. “TED is a special confer-ence.”
Montague’s quip came in the first minute of his presen-tation last week at the TED-Global 2012 conference in Edinburgh, Scotland. Mon-tague, Director of the Com-putational Psychiatry Unit at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, kicked off the conference’s “Misbe-having Beautifully” session, which focused largely on mental illness.
Montague took as his topic the brain’s subtle, yet master-ful microprocessing systems. The few hand-raising audi-ence members were not the
only ones to possess a super-power, he contended.
“We all have a behavioral superpower in our brain,” he said. “We can deny every in-stinct we have for survival for an idea for a mere idea. No other species can do that.”
Montague used as an ex-ample the cult Heaven’s Gate, whose members committed mass suicide in 1997 in their quest to reach an alien space-craft they believed to be trail-ing the Comet Hale-Bopp.
“It was an incredibly tragic event,” Montague said. “But the point here is they were able to deny their instincts for survival using exactly the same systems that were put there to make them survive.”
Those systems are deep in the brain and involve dop-amine, a neurotransmitter,
Montague said, “that makes us chase sex, food, and salt that keeps us alive.” Dopamine drives valuation mechanisms in the brain, allowing us to navigate our world, whether foraging for berries or inter-acting in a complex social ex-change.
Montague identified two advancements that now al-low scientists to probe the role of the human brain’s deep processing systems in making valuations. The first is functional magnetic reso-nance imaging, a noninva-sive technique that allows
scientists to use microscopic blood-flow measurements as a proxy for brain activity. This discovery “revolutionized cognitive science,” Montague said, but omitted an impor-tant element: other people. Isolating mental functions in individuals is important yet incomplete, he said, because “even when we’re alone, we’re profoundly social creatures.” Montague noted, in fact, that we cannot really know our-selves until we interact with others.
The second advancement is one that Montague and his team invented hyperscan-ning, a technique that enables subjects in different brain scanners to interact in real time, whether across rooms or across continents. Hyper-scanning allows scientists, Montague says, to “eavesdrop on brain activity during one of the most important acts we do as humans interact with other humans.”
People are exquisitely sen-sitive to the social gestures of others, Montague said, and understanding that sensitiv-ity may provide important clues to mental disorders. At the heart of many mental dis-orders is a deficit in the ability to interact with others. And in these cases, using people with good mental health as coal-mine-dwelling canaries may be one of our most promis-ing avenues for capturing the subtle behavioral hallmarks of mental disease.
This approach, said Mon-tague, is “our way of rede-fining with a new lexicon a mathematical one, actually the standard ways we think about mental illness.”
Several of the speakers who followed Montague illustrat-ed the critical need for tools that allow mental illness to
be better understood. Come-dian Ruby Wax, for example, touched on her own experi-ence with the stigma of men-tal illness. “Your friends say, show me the lump, show me the X-rays, and of course you have nothing to show. … How come when people have men-tal damage, it’s always an act of mental imagination? How come every organ can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?”
Montague, a physics pro-fessor, has long worked to bring mathematics and com-putation to mental health, said Michael Friedlander, executive director of the Vir-ginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, in introducing a Roanoke-based simulcast of Montague’s talk. “Read’s use of rigorous, computationally based analysis of brain func-tion and his invention of hy-perscan technology have led to the development of a new field, computational psychia-try, which has been shaking up the world of psychiatry,” Friedlander said. “It has al-ready led to tremendous, exciting new insights into a range of psychiatric disorders, such as autism spectrum dis-orders, borderline personality disorder, and addiction.”
Computationally based in-sights may one day allow psy-chiatry to achieve the diag-nostic precision of such fields as cardiology, Friedlander added. “With an angiogram, for example, a cardiologist can say, ‘Your left anterior de-scending artery is blocked by 73 percent; you need a stent.’ We’re hoping Read’s work will bring such precise mea-surements to psychiatry, to enhance both diagnosis and treatment.”
During the TEDGlobal 2012 conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, Read Montague spoke about state-of-the-art computational approaches that can enhance the diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses.
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