VERMILLION — The Universityof South Dakota Sanford School ofMedicine is hosting a symposiumon Ubiquitin, Protein Quality Con-trol and Molecular Pathogenesisat Deadwood Gulch Resort inDeadwood June 13-15.

Due to the rapidly growing fac-ulty research in the area of Pro-tein Quality Control andDegradation (PQCD) at the San-ford School of Medicine of theUniversity of South Dakota, thisthree-day conference will focus onthe role of the ubiquitin-protea-some system (UPS) and au-tophagy in cardiovasculardisease, neural degeneration and

cancer biology. In addition, a se-ries of general discussions andposter sessions will provide par-ticipants an opportunity to net-work with researchers and fieldexperts.

State-of-the-art lectures fromworld-renowned scientists and pre-sentations by the Protein QualityControl Degradation faculty of theSanford School of Medicine willcover diverse topics related to pro-tein quality control and their rele-vance to disease pathogenesis.Invited speakers include Ivor J.Benjamin, M.D., of the University ofUtah (Reductive Stress and Pro-teostasis); George DeMartino,

Ph.D., University of Texas South-western (Regulation of ProteasomeAssembly, Activation and Func-tion); Mark Hochstasser, Ph.D., ofYale University (Biogenesis of Pro-teasomes): Peipei Ping, Ph.D.,UCLA (Proteasome Regulation byPTMs); and X. William Yang, M.D.,Ph.D., of University of California,Los Angeles (Designer Mouse Mod-els to Dissect Huntington’s Dis-ease).

Visit www.usd.edu/biomed for acomplete schedule of events and aregistration form.

WAYNE STATE COLLEGE WAYNE, Neb. — Wayne State

College (WSC) has accepted morethan 20 students into the RuralHealth Opportunities Program(RHOP) at Wayne State College.

"The need for rural health pro-fessionals continues to grow,''said Dr. David Peitz of WayneState College. "These studentshave proven themselves to begifted and dedicated to their pro-fession. They have displayed thepotential to develop into strongcommunity leaders.''

RHOP is a cooperative effortbetween Wayne State and theUniversity of Nebraska MedicalCenter (UNMC) and encouragesstudents from rural areas of Ne-braska to return to rural settingsafter graduation to pursue theircareer. Individuals selected ob-tain guaranteed admission toUNMC Colleges upon successfulcompletion of studies at WSC andreceive a full-tuition waiver atWSC.

Students from communities ofpopulations less than 10,000 aregranted special consideration foradmission to the RHOP program.Areas of study under the pro-gram include medicine; phar-macy; dentistry; dental hygieneand medical technology.

A shortage of rural healthpractitioners in Nebraskaprompted higher education insti-tutions to implement the RHOPprogram in 1989. Selection of can-didates is based on an applicant'sresidency in a rural Nebraskacommunity, academic potentialand commitment to practice inrural Nebraska.

Area individuals who willenter the RHOP program in thefall, their hometowns and areasof study include:

• Nursing: Bailey Kuchta ofWynot

• Pharmacy: Jazmin Lee ofCreighton

Information about the RHOPprogram can be found at:http://www.wsc.edu/schools/nss/rhop/ or call 402-375-7329 or 800-228-9972 or EMAIL:PREPROF@WSC.EDU.

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTAVERMILLION — Two Univer-

sity of South Dakota studentswere awarded Critical LanguageScholarships for Intensive Sum-mer Institutes by the U.S. Depart-ment of State Bureau ofEducational and Cultural Affairsand The Council of AmericanOverseas Research Centers.

Jessie Milstead from Hartfordwill study Arabic while KendraVan Nyhuis of Hull, Iowa, willstudy Korean through this pro-gram, which allocates funding for

students to participate in begin-ning, intermediate and advancedlevel summer language programs.Scholarship recipients are ex-pected to continue their languagestudy beyond the scholarship pe-riod and later apply their criticallanguage skills in their profes-sional careers.

SCOTT KINDLEScott Kindle graduated with

High Distinction from the Univer-sity of Nebraska Medical Centeron May 5, 2012 with his Doctor ofMedicine.

He will attend a one-year resi-dency in Sioux Falls and a three-year residency in Dermatology atthe Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.

Scott is a 2004 graduate ofYankton High School. He is theson of Wayne and Marjorie Kin-dle, Yankton.

MATTHEW ZEEBMatthew A. Zeeb has been

awarded a $10,000 four-year Fra-ternal College Scholarship in anational competition with otherstudents who are members ofModern Woodmen of America.Modern Woodmen, a fraternalbenefit society offering financialservices, has local representa-tives and is based in Rock Island,Ill.

Zeeb, who plans to use thescholarship to attend Northeast-ern University, Boston, is the sonof Jeff and Cida Zeeb, Nashua,N.H., and the grandson of Elmerand Verna Zeeb, Menno.

Zeeb is one of 36 regionalscholarship winners chosen thisyear. Selection is based on stu-dents’ personal and academicachievement, including the re-sults of the American CollegeTesting Program or the Scholas-tic Aptitude Test. Qualities ofleadership and character and ex-tracurricular activities were alsojudged.

During the past 40 years, Mod-ern Woodmen has committed mil-lions of dollars in financialassistance to hundreds of stu-dents through its Fraternal Schol-arship Program.

Applications for the 2012-2013Scholarship Program will betaken in the fall of 2012.

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BY TOM AND RAY MAGLIOZZI King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Dear Tom and Ray: I never would have imagined that my auto-

motive life would be interesting enough tomerit communicating with you guys, but 20or so years after first discovering you, I thinkI have an experience worth sharing. Actually,it’s my wife’s experience, but she has no ideawho you guys are, so I get to do the honors.My wife drives a 2003 VW Passat GLX 4Mo-tion Wagon with just over 47,000 miles on it.She took it to a local dealer for service lastMay after smoke began billowing from theright side of the car and sweet-smelling liquidwas dripping out. The dealer replaced theheater core and coolant bottle, and all waswell ... until the next warm day, when my wifenoted that her air conditioning (which hadworked prior to the heater-core replacement)would not blow cold air. The dealer admittedthat they had not properly shoved some hosein some opening, and fixed it at no charge. Afew days later, while my wife was chauffeur-ing her elderly mother around, her steeringcompletely failed. This happened as she waschanging lanes, so when the steering failed,she was pointing directly into oncoming traf-fic. She managed to stop the car before collid-ing with any of the oncoming cars as shecrossed the center line. When the police ar-rived and interviewed the parties, they noteda threaded bolt, about 1 1/2 inches long, lyingon the driver’s floor mat. Everybody was OK,but my wife was very shaken, and she refusesto drive her car ever again. The car ulti-mately was towed to the dealer, and we havea rental (paid for by the dealer) sitting in ourgarage. The dealer called this week and ac-knowledged that they were negligent and didnot tighten down a bolt in the clockspring toVW specs. They swear it’s fixed. Should webelieve them? — Robert

TOM: Well, we have to give them credit forowning up to their mistakes, Robert.

RAY: But that doesn’t nearly make up for

the debit we have to take for them beingcareless morons.

TOM: Here’s my reconstruction of whatprobably happened. When your wife went infor the heater core, they had to take off thedashboard, which is a big job. That requiredremoving the steering wheel and lowering thesteering column.

RAY: While they were replacing the heatercore, they created a leak in the AC evapora-tor. That’s what caused the AC to fail.

TOM: When you brought it back, theyforced the guy who had replaced the heatercore to take apart the dashboard again andfix the AC problem he caused. I’m guessinghe was none too happy about this, since theyprobably made him do it on his own time forno pay.

RAY: So he was cheesed off, zipping thebolts off with his air gun, grousing about hav-ing to do the job again, and working quicklyand carelessly. And he forgot to tighten some-thing crucial. I doubt it was the clockspring,since that doesn’t hold anything on. I thinkmore likely it was the nut that holds thesteering wheel to the steering column. But re-gardless, this guy was eager to be done withyou — and he almost was!

TOM: The question is, Is it fixed now? I’d

say it probably is. But here’s what I’d do: I’dsend the general manager of the dealership acertified letter, reminding him of the se-quence of events, and that your wife was al-most killed due to their negligence. And thenI would insist that he have a senior mechanic(not the guy who left the nut loose) inspectthe entire car and have the dealership certifyto you in writing that it’s now safe to drive.

RAY: By doing this, you’re letting themknow that, should anything else go wrongand be traceable to any work they did, theywill be held legally responsible for any death,dismemberment or temporary loss of blad-der control that occurs in the future. Theyshould take that very seriously and inspectthe car carefully.

TOM: That still may not be enough tosoothe your wife’s concerns. In which caseYOU’LL have to drive the car for a fewmonths and allow your wife to see that thereare no further incidents (I’d up the value ofyour life insurance before doing that, just incase).

RAY: And you have to accept the possibil-ity that your wife may never feel safe drivingthis car again. She may just opt to keep yournew Porsche Cayenne Turbo and make youthe new owner of an ‘03 Passat Wagon. Con-gratulations, Robert!

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Are options worth what you pay for them, orare you better off just going with the basics?Order Tom and Ray’s pamphlet “Should I Buy,Lease, or Steal My Next Car?” to find out.Send $4.75 (check or money order) to NextCar, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475.

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Blame Dealer’s Shop For This One

BY TED KOOSERU.S. Poet Laureate

We’ve published a number of engaging poems about parent-hood in this column, and we keep finding more. Here’s Wendy Vide-lock, who lives in Colorado, taking a look into a child’s room.

DISARMED I should be diligent and firm,I know I should, and frowning, too;again you’ve failed to clean your room.Not only that, the evidenceof midnight theft is in your bed—cracked peanut shells and m’sare crumbled where you rest your head,and just above, the windowsillis crowded with a green giraffe(who’s peering through your telescope),some dominoes, and half a glassof orange juice. You hungry child,

how could I be uncharmed by this,your secret world, your happy mess?

American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Founda-tion (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. Itis also supported by the Department of English at the University ofNebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright © 2003 by Wendy Videlock fromher most recent book of poems, “Nevertheless,” Able Muse Press,2011. Poem reprinted by permission of Wendy Videlock and thepublisher. Introduction copyright © 2012 by The Poetry Founda-tion. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as UnitedStates Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Con-gress from 2004-2006. We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.

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SUBMITTED PHOTOThe Yankton Middle School Chess Club recently completed its annual tournament. Winners pictured above are,front from left: Eighth grade: Bashir Abd Al Kreem — 3rd place tie, Andrew Peitz — 2nd place, Ashley Lacey —1st place, Talitha Greaver — 3rd place tie; back row: Seventh grade: Mason Novak, Ben Rust, Hunter Lippert —three-way 1st place tie; 6th grade: Brad Hento — 1st place, Josh Carr — 3rd place, and Nick Harris — 2ndplace. There were 91 players in the YMS Chess Club this year. The advisor for the club is Sandy Rupiper.

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opened May 7 for Nebraska Med-icaid’s Electronic Health Record(EHR) Incentive Payment Pro-gram according to the NebraskaDepartment of Health and HumanServices.

The federal Medicaid andMedicare EHR incentive programsprovide payments to eligible pro-fessionals, hospitals and criticalaccess hospitals who acquire andultimately meaningfully use certi-fied EHR technology.

Electronic health records con-solidate and digitize a patient’shealth information. The technol-ogy has many potential benefitsfor patient care; for example, elec-tronic records can be sharedmore easily between health careprofessionals and result in afaster diagnosis while reducingthe need for repeat or unneces-sary testing.

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