Beaumont trauma surgeon to compete on reality show

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson and Dave ParkusPhotos courtesy of TNT

By Kevin KingStaff Writer

This summer, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is going to challenge a diverse group of nine individuals to face extraordinary situations and see who can emerge as the ultimate champion in TNT’s new competition series “The Hero.” Dr. Dave Parkus, a board certified trauma surgeon at Christus Hospital – St. Elizabeth in Beaumont and director of its Trauma Center, is one of those nine.

Parkus doesn’t need the notoriety of a television show to be seen as a hero. In 2002, he risked his own life helping law enforcement officials tackle a terrorist in the Los Angeles International Airport. And that’s not to mention what he does every day at St. Eliza-beth’s Trauma Center — sav-ing patients from life threaten-ing injuries caused by motor vehicle accidents, stabbings, gunshot wounds and falls. He also has a general surgery

practice, Surgical Critical Care Associates, where he performs surgical procedures in the abdomen such as cholecystec-tomies, appendectomies, bow-el resections, hernia repairs, and colon and breast cancer surgery. Parkus even per-formed surgery on his own mother, who was suffering from lung cancer.

“During the middle of the surgery I looked down, and there was my mom’s heart,” he said. “I put my hand on my mom’s heart. Who can say they actually touched their mom’s heart?”

“The Hero” isn’t the first reality TV show that Parkus has tried out for.

Parkus said he also tried out for “Big Brother,” but didn’t make the cut. Three years lat-er, Parker said he endured a rough time in his life that included a torn rotator cup, a nerve entrapment, a blown knee and a pinched nerve —

all of which resulted in four surgeries.

“It was just a really rough time for me,” he said. “I got out of shape.”

Parkus’ luck changed, how-ever, when he received a phone call from casting producer Bonnie Clark, whom he’d met while trying out for “Big Brother.” Clark was producing a new TNT show, “The Hero.”

“She said, ‘We’re doing a new TV show with Dwayne Johnson, and we think you’d be perfect for it,’” Parkus said. “They flew me up to Dallas, and I did a video audition and sent it to TNT. They said I killed it.”

But the challenge had just begun for the 50-year-old trauma

surgeon, who had four months to prepare for the show.

“I started really training hard — swimming 50 laps a

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day, running every day. I got my weight back down. I need goals, and this came at a perfect time for me,” he explained.

Parkus endured several tests and audi-tions to see if he was physically and mentally able to make the cast. Out of several thousand people, he was chosen.

“The next month I was in Panama filming the show with Dwayne John-son,” he said. “It’s been a really crazy ride the last couple of months. It’s been surreal.”

Parkus said the show is similar to “Real World” in that he and eight other contestants are stuck in a house togeth-er and not allowed to leave.

“It’s like a psychological fishbowl. Every room has a camera,” he said. “We’re wired 24/7. They give us these clues, and we go out on what are called ‘team challenges.’ If we win the team challenge in the time that’s allotted, then we win 10, 20 or 30 thousand dol-lars for charity.”

The next stage, following the team challenge, is called the “hero chal-lenge,” Parkus said.

“It’s a huge epic challenge that’s done by one person,” he said. “Out of the people that win the group (chal-lenge), the house votes on who gets to be the hero.”

The person voted to participate in the hero challenge has a to win from $50,000 to $100,000 thousand, accord-ing to Parkus.

“You can keep the money or you can add it to a pot of money,” he said. “As the show goes on, the pot builds up. Some people keep the money; some people don’t. There are conse-quences if you keep the money, and other people offer temptations to screw other people over.”

With temptations around every cor-ner, viewers get to see what the contes-tants are willing to overcome, undergo, and sacrifice on behalf of themselves and others. To keep the audience up to date, the show will incorporate social media throughout, according to a TNT press release.

“Through the series’ unique and interactive digital platform, viewers will be able to engage with the show and one another, ultimately playing an important part in the outcome and helping to define what it means to be a true hero. In the end, it’s America’s call on who will be ‘The Hero.’”

The competition includes almost every single phobia one can imagine, Parkus said.

“Claustrophobia, darkness, spiders, snakes, heights, ocean, jungle, tear gas, bees … whatever you could imagine, they threw at us,” he said. “But, there’s no way I’m gonna wimp out with America watching. There’s a million dollars up for grabs.”

Parkus, who said he believes his chances of winning are good, said the show appealed to his drive for life.

“I’m an adrenaline junkie; that’s why I chose trauma and critical care as a profession,” he said. “It’s exciting,

life or death. Trauma is about taking care of the sickest of the sick and giv-ing them the best possible chance for recovery. Being on a reality show was less stressful than my real life.”

Parkus, who enjoys rappelling, scu-ba diving with sharks, snow skiing and marathons in his spare time, grew up in California, where he was captain of Long Beach State’s college football team. He earned his medical degree at Emory University School of Medicine. He completed his residency at Univer-sity of South Florida College of Medi-cine and his fellowship at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

In 1997, Parkus began serving the trauma, critical care and general sur-gery needs of the Beaumont area.

“They wanted to build a trauma cen-ter and they were looking for a trauma director,” he said. “I built a trauma center from the ground up. It was the most rewarding thing I’ve ever done in my life. “

Parkus said he would be attending a premiere party for the show at Madi-sons, 4020 Dowlen Road in Beaumont, on June 6 at 7 p.m. The show will air at the bar and grill every Thursday through July at 7 p.m. on TNT.

For more information about the show, go to www.theherotnt.com. For more information about Dr. Parkus and the Christus Hospital – St. Elizabeth trauma team, go to www.christushospi-tal.org/criticalcare.

Kevin King can be reached at (409) 832-1400, ext. 225, or by e-mail at [email protected].

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If reaching its 100th birth-day wasn’t enough reason to celebrate, American Cancer Society (ACS) has even more cause to commemorate the occasion. The Beaumont Relay for Life event, held May 3 at Ozen High School raised more than $150,000 total, with Relay for Life team Survivor Jefferson County alone raising $32,096 for ACS.

The team is comprised of members that work in the Jef-ferson County Clerk’s Office, including Jamie Smith, who is office administrator and also serves as Beaumont City Councilmember for Ward IV.

“The cause is important,” Smith said. “Hopefully this hard work will get enough funds together so they’ll be able to fight cancer, eradicate it and save lives.”

Smith, who has participated in the relay for five years, said he knows first hand how can-cer affects families, as his

grandfather lost a battle with the disease. Smith said he is proud to be a part of the team.

“It’s always good to a part of something that is special like that to try and fight can-cer,” he said.

Desirre Dickenson, Beau-mont Relay for Life Co-chair, presented Smith and his fellow team members with a trophy as the top fundraising team. The team won the 2012 trophy as well.

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On May 21, relayers, service volunteers, cancer survivors and loved-ones of cancer vic-tims alike gathered at the ACS office in Beau-mont to commemorate ACS’s 100th birthday and to commemorate struggles lost and battles won. To celebrate ACS’s 100th birthday, each participant was given a birthday card and encouraged to honor a cancer survivor or vic-tim by writing his or her name on the card and pinning it on a cancer ribbon-shaped board.

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“I’m glad to see my office take part in such a worthy cause,” Guidry said. “I’m so very proud of them for taking such an active role. It’s giving back to the community and outside of the community as well because it just reaches out and touches so many people. If you’ve ever had a loved one who had cancer, you know what it is (like) to go through the process of chemo and radi-ation treatment. It’s good to have a support system.”

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As a side note, Jefferson County Master Gardeners would like to thank the com-munity for its support in the annual Spring Plant Sale at the Jefferson County airport. With their hard work and the sup-port of gardeners just like you, they raised considerable funds to keep teaching, training and

learning about gardening in our community. For informa-tion on becoming a master gardener, call Texas Agri-Life at (409) 835-8461. Ask for Peggy or master gardener and president Jackie Steen.

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Community Christian School’s valedictorian, salutatorian

Community Christian School’s valedictorian for the 2012-13 school year is Matthew McAfee, and salutato-rian is Hannah Breaux. McAfee is the son of Ken and Nancye McAfee. He has an older sister, Katie. He has partici-pated in multiple clubs in high school, including National Honor Society, Stu-dent Council, and Student Leadership Institute. He has played varsity basketball, tennis and golf for four years, and has achieved All-State and Aca-demic All-State hon-ors in each. He has won four State Championships in doubles tennis. He has also played AAU basketball for Team Sneed of Beaumont the past two years. He plans to attend Lamar University and has received the Mirabeau Scholarship at Lamar, which

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Neches Federal Credit Union is donating and collecting monetary to aid the residents of Oklahoma affected by the destructive tornado of May 20.

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LU alumni, friends will mark campus with brick campaign

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SETMA has been acknowl-edged by many organizations for the use of electronic patient records to improve care and for excellence of care. Since 1998, SETMA has been expanding the use of electron-ics in improving patient care resulting in SETMA receiving the HIMSS Davies Award in 2005, National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Patient-Centered Medical Home recognition and Diabe-tes Recognition in 2010, Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care accreditation for Medical Home and Ambulatory Care in 2010, formal Affiliation with the Joslin Diabetes Center affiliated with Harvard School

of Medicine, and many otherSince its founding in 1995,

SETMA has focused on pro-cesses, believing that out-comes will inevitably follow, which outcomes will the inevi-tably be sustainable.

The goal of the LEAP proj-ect is to identify and share innovative staffing arrange-ments that make primary care more accessible and effective for patients. In October 2012, A LEAP team conducted a three-day site visit to under-stand how the SETMA prima-ry care team delivers high quality, patient-centered health care. The exemplar practices will then join together in a learning community to share best practices and distill their innovations into training and technical assistance materials that can be used by others.

SETMA will be influential in developing creative work-force models that will be dis-seminated to primary care prac-tices nationwide. SETMA’s integrated approach to primary care is organized as a set of teams formed into one team. Using the same EMR in the clinic, emergency department, hospital, physical therapy, nursing home – everywhere SETMA patients are seen – SETMA has improved the con-tinuity of care, the safety of care and has decreased the cost of care. In 2011, RTI Interna-tional was commission by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) to

contrast 312 Medical Home Practices with 312 non-coordi-nated practices. SETMA results demonstrated a 37.4 decrease in the total, annual cost of the care of fee-for-service Medi-care recipients over other prac-tices, while maintaining supe-rior quality and coordination.

Because many of SETMA’s patients have limited resourc-es, the SETMA partners inau-gurated the SETMA Founda-tion to which they have per-sonally given over $2 million in the past four years. This money cannot profit or benefit SETMA or SETMA employ-ees but is used to care for SETMA patients who cannot afford their care. Foundational funding has been the differ-ence in the health and recov-ery of many of SETMA’s patients. Other healthcare pro-viders in Southeast Texas have either donated their services to these patients or have signifi-cantly reduced their fees to enable these neighbors to get critically needed healthcare.

“With millions of Ameri-cans about to enter the health care system, primary care must become more effective and efficient. Building high per-forming care teams is a key step,” said Ed Wagner, MD, MPH, co-director of the LEAP project and director emeritus of the MacColl Center for Health Care Innovation at Group Health Research Insti-tute in Seattle. “This new proj-ect will allow us to identify

best practices and help other primary care sites replicate and adopt innovations to improve access to care and the quality of care they provide.”

“Now more than ever, the country recognizes that a great health care system has to build on a strong primary care founda-tion. We are seeing innovation all over the country, particularly in the area of primary care but there has been little study of how prac-tices have redefined traditional roles and developed a team approach to caring for patients,” commented Margaret Flinter, PhD, APRN, LEAP project co-director and senior vice president and clinical director of the Com-munity Health Center, Inc. and director of its Weitzman Center for Innovation. “We are very excited to have the opportunity to study these innovations that improve patient and practice out-comes and share them so they can be replicated.”

About the MacColl Center for Health Care

Named for a Group Health founder and pioneering physi-cian, W.A. MacColl, MD, the MacColl Center for Health Care Innovation at Group Health Research Institute (GHRI) was established in 1992 by Ed Wagner, MD, MPH, who is a senior investi-gator and founding director of GHRI. In the mid-1990s, the Center developed the Chronic Care Model, a widely endorsed and adopted approach to

improving ambulatory care that has guided clinical quality initiatives in the United States and internationally. The Cen-ter was also the home of Improving Chronic Illness Care, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation program that has been involved in further devel-oping, testing, and disseminat-ing Chronic Care Model-based clinical improvement efforts. To learn more about this work, visit www.improvingchronic-care.org. For information on Group Health Research Insti-tute, go to www.grou-phealthresearch.org.

About the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation focuses on the press-ing health and health care issues facing our country. As the nation’s largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to health and health care, the Foundation works with a diverse group of organizations and individuals to identify solutions and achieve comprehensive, measurable, and timely change. For more than 40 years, the Foundation has brought experience, commit-ment, and a rigorous, balanced approach to the problems that affect the health and health care of those it serves. When it comes to helping Americans lead healthier lives and get the care they need, the Foundation expects to make a difference in your lifetime. For more informa-tion, visit www.rwjf.org.

SETMA recognized as innovative primary care practice

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Fishing for king mackerel can be big-time fun from 10 to 35 miles off the Sabine jetties. From now until the end of October, they can be caught all day long around baitfish, shrimp boats and the rigs. Probably the most exciting way to catch king mackerel is with a topwater plug or by fishing jigs and spoons around shrimp boats.

A “hot” king mack-erel won’t even hesitate to blast a topwater lure. Two of the best are a 5-inch Super Spook and a Bomber Long A. When fishing either lure, I’ll be using a 7-foot All Star bait-casting rod that can handle line in the 20 to 30 pound class. My favorite reel is an Ambassadeur 7000. This particular rod-and-reel combo is perfect for casting lures for kings and fishing live baits. You can fill the reels up with 30-pound test Silver Thread and you’re good to go. When fishing lures for kings, I’ll rig ‘em up with a two-foot length of 40 to 50 pound test wire leader. The lure end of the leader is connected to a 50 to 60 pound test black snap swiv-el. The line end is connected to

a black barrel swivel.The Super Spook I’m using

now is the new 5-inch Zara Spook XT. It’s built extra tough with two 3X treble hooks and heavy-duty saltwa-ter grade hook hangers and split rings. In short, it’s built to catch kings without falling apart. Top producing colors

include mackerel, sar-dine and silver mullet.

The Bomber Mag-num Long A is a 7-inch lure with a pair of beefed up 4/0 hooks. Like the Spook XT, it’s built to handle toothy fish like a king mack-erel. Top colors are bonito, silver/blue back, chrome/black

back and baby striper.The Super Spook has a

completely different action than the Long A. It’ll move from left to right in a steady walk-the-dog retrieve. Con-versely, the Long A is a shal-low-running lipped lure. It can be trolled or popped on the surface. The popping retrieve creates lots of action and will draw some serious blowups.

Most of the time, the best topwater action for kings will be anywhere from a half mile to five miles off the Sabine jet-

ties. This is the time of year when huge schools of pogies will be rafted up within sight of the McFaddin Beach surf. That’s when you want to get out the topwater plugs and work them close to and over the menhaden.

Another option is to troll lures around schools of bait-fish. From now through the end of September, finding schools of menhaden and shad is easy anywhere east and west of the Sabine jetties. Some of the best lures for trolling up kings are the metal-lipped div-ers that are anywhere from 7 to 10 inches long. One of the best is the Bomber A-Salt HD Min-now. It’s built to withstand the toothy mouths of kings and is built with a pair of tough treble hooks and a stainless-steel lip. The Bomber HD Minnow can be trolled from 4 to 5 knots with 25-pound test line to depths of 20 to 25 feet.

Trolling around the oil and gas production platforms is

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Hit the short rigs for Sabine kings

King mackerel are big, bad and fast, and they can be caught on a variety of lures. This one blasted a Heddon Super Spook fished over a school of pogies. Some of the best action can be had around anchored shrimp boats and the many oil and gas platforms straight out from the Sabine jetties.

Robert Sloan

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For solution, see page 15C

Dear Annie:I am in my 20s and am

engaged to a beautiful girl. Our religion prohibits sex before marriage. But when “Donna” tells me to stop kissing her, I persist. I don’t see why not. It’s just kissing.

Donna says she has not been firm enough with me and when she says no, she means no. Yes-terday, I was sitting next to Donna and started kissing her on the lips. She said no, and when I didn’t stop, she slapped my face. It felt like I had been stung by a bee. Donna told me she definitely had to slap me.

My cousin said that in a dat-ing situation, the woman sets the rules, and it is her preroga-tive to slap a man’s face if she feels he has gone too far. Do you agree? I don’t think she had to slap me.

— John

Dear John:It’s hard to believe you are

living in this century. While we don’t recommend that women go around slapping men, any-thing you do after Donna says “no” could be considered assault or even attempted rape. She is entitled to defend herself. She could call the police. Show some respect for your girlfriend, and stop kissing her when she asks you to stop. You sound too immature to get married.

Dear Annie:I am a 32-year-old profes-

sional woman and a newlywed. I have been best friends with “Martha” since the first grade, although we began to drift apart after college. But we always talked about our future wed-dings and vowed to attend each other’s. Meanwhile, I moved to the East Coast, and Martha moved to the West Coast. We stayed in touch and occasionally saw each other in our home-town.

I was not asked to be a brides-maid at Martha’s wedding, but I traveled to California with my

fiance to attend and also went to her bridal shower in our home-town. Very few others did because of the cost and the dis-tance. Her parents told me they were thrilled that I was there.

About 10 months after Mar-tha’s wedding, I married on the East Coast. Of course, Martha was invited, but she RSVP’d that she could not attend. She gave no reason. My first anni-versary is approaching, and I have yet to hear any words of congratulations from my “best friend” — no card or gift or even a phone call. I also haven’t heard anything from her par-ents. Back in my hometown, my mother occasionally runs into Martha’s mother. She has never mentioned my marriage.

I am terribly hurt. It seems clear that Martha doesn’t care about me or want to continue our friendship. I am trying to put this behind me, but I am puzzled that neither she nor her family had the common courtesy to send a note of congratulations. I am thinking of “unfriending” her on Facebook.

— Raised with Manners

Dear Manners:Martha was remiss not to

send a card of congratulations. But when friends go in different directions — figuratively as well as physically — the close-ness tends to fade. It doesn’t mean Martha no longer cares, only that the friendship has become a casual interest. Face-book is actually perfect for that. You can keep track of each oth-er without having to invest any genuine effort.

Dear Annie:I am a skinny woman with

large breasts. I know there is a crazy stereotype that women like me are wild party girls. I’m actually quite conservative. But other women seem to think it’s OK to poke my breasts or lift them, probably to check wheth-er they are real.

Last week at a party, some

insufferable girl I just met turned the entire conversation to my breasts. I walked away to cool off, but someone overheard me say that the girl was obnoxious. So “poking girl” started shout-ing at me, and you can guess how the rest of the night went.

Annie, please tell your read-ers that just because a woman has large breasts doesn’t mean she wants to be poked and prod-ded in public. Where have basic social graces gone?

— Staying Classy

Dear Classy:You hang around with some

inappropriate, rather creepy women. Your body, all of it, belongs to you. If someone touches your breasts, gasp in horror and perhaps yell loudly for the police. What nerve.

Dear Annie:Thank you for recommend-

ing the NAMI Family-to-Fami-ly class to “Parents at Wits’ End.” When I took that 12-week class, I learned so much about mental illness, as well as finding support and hope from other parents. I have no doubt my son is doing better because of it.

— Grateful Mother

Dear Annie:I believe you missed the boat

with your answer to “Irritated by Lack of Thoughtfulness,” who said a woman carried on a cellphone conversation during a funeral. You said it was impo-lite, but added that the phone could be turned on “mute” or “vibrate” and emergencies han-dled out of earshot.

We have lost all sensitivity to others. At funerals, weddings and church services, phones should be left at home or in the car. If something is so important that one must stay connected, one should not attend the func-tion.

Not so long ago, cellphones didn’t exist, and we managed to survive.

— Litchfield, Maine


By Darby Conley

For solutions, see page 15 C

Find the 7 words to match the 7 clues. The numbers in parentheses represent the number of letters in each solution. Each letter combinaion can be used only once, but all the letter combinations will be necessary to complete the puzzle.


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Medium

— Puzzle No. 2

Easy — Puzzle No. 3

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where you will find some magnum-sized kings. The near-shore rigs in 20 to 30 feet of water hold lots of small kings. That’s been my experience while fishing the short rigs anywhere from 12 to 18 miles off the Sabine jetties. The rigs out at about 32 miles usually hold heavier kings.

Kings like to hang out under and around anchored shrimp boats. The best action will be off the boats that are anchored anywhere from 10 to 25 miles out. Shrimpers usually drag their nets all night, then anchor up dur-ing daylight hours. Once they anchor or tie off to a rig (usually at dawn) they will finish culling the night’s catch. That’s when the

kings will move in for some easy pickings. And that’s when they will be all over jigs. One of my favorites for kings is the Bomber

twin tail shrimp and jig com-bo. It’s four inches long and weighs 3 ounces. You can troll them, or cast them out and reel

them in on a yo-yo retrieve. Best colors are chartreuse, red/white tail,

glow and white/pink tail.A 1/2 to 1 ounce silver spoon is deadly on

kings. When deckhands are shoveling out their bycatch, the kings, along with jacks and bonito, will be swarming on the surface. Pitch a jig or spoon into the melee and you’ll get an instant hook-up.

SLOANfrom page 9 C

paid official, plus “longevity” pay of $54,000 a year, plus a car allowance — and that she will be paid that total amount per year as her pension for life (in addition to a private pen-sion of $46,000 a year that the county purchased for her).

• The Way Washington Works: (1) Congress estab-lished a National Helium Reserve in 1925 in the era of “zeppelin” balloons, but most consider it no longer useful (most, that is, ranging from President Reagan to the Demo-cratic congressman who in 1996 called it one program that, if we cannot undo it, “we cannot undo anything”). The House of Representatives recently voted 394-1 to contin-ue funding it because of “fears” of a shortage that might affect MRI machines and, of course, party balloons. (2) In rare (these days) bipartisan action, con-gressional military “experts” of both parties are about to force the Army to continue building Abrams tanks — when the Army said it doesn’t want them and can’t use them. The tank manufacturers, of course, have convinced Congress that it needs the contracts, no matter what the Army says (according to an April Associated Press analysis).

Great Art!• The Jewish Museum in

Berlin is currently staging what has become popularly known as the “Jew in the Box” exhibit to teach visitors about Judaism — simply featuring

one knowledgeable Jewish person who sits in a chair in a glass box for two hours a day and answers questions from the curious. Both supporters (“We Germans have many insecurities when it comes to Jews”) and critics (“Why don’t they give him a banana and a glass of water (and) turn up the heat?”) are plentiful.

• The weather in Hong Kong on April 25 wreaked havoc on American artist Paul McCar-thy’s outdoor, 50-foot-tall piece of “inflatable art” in the West Kowloon Cultural District. “Complex Pile” (a model of an arrangement of excrement) got punctured, which mostly pleased McCarthy’s critics since his recent work, reported the South China Morning Post, has often centered around bodi-ly functions.

Police Report• News of the Weird has

reported several times on the astonishing control that inmates have at certain prisons in Latin American countries, with drug cartel leaders often enjoying lives nearly as plea-surable as their lives on the outside. However, according to an April federal indictment, similar problems have plagued the City Detention Center in Baltimore, where members of the “Black Guerrilla Family” operated with impunity. Between 2010 and 2012, cor-ruption was such that 13 female guards have now been charged, including four wom-en who bore the children of the gang’s imprisoned leader, Tavon White. Cellphones, drugs and Grey Goose vodka

were among the smuggled-in contraband, and the indictment charges that murders were ordered from inside. (Balti-more City Paper had reported 14 stories in 2009 and 2010 on the gang-related corruption at the center, but apparently state and federal officials had failed to be alarmed.)

• Frequent Flyers: (1) Chi-cago police have arrested Ms. Shermain Miles, 51, at least 396 times since 1978, under 83 different aliases, for crimes ranging from theft (92 times) to prostitution and robbery. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, she is a virtuoso at playing “the system” to delay her proceedings and avoid jail time. (2) Alvin Cote, 59, passed away in February of poor health in Saskatoon, Sas-katchewan, following a “career” of 843 public-intoxi-cation arrests.

The Weirdo-American Community

The biggest news out of Newtown, Conn., recently — not involving the tragic shoot-ings at Sandy Hook Elemen-tary School — came when local environmental officials announced on April 29 that they were investigating the finding of “200 to 300 one-gallon plastic jugs” filled with urine in a home “in a state of disrepair.” No charges were filed against the homeowner, but officials sought to assure neighbors and users of the property that no health hazard was present. (The average per-son, reported the Connecticut Post, produces about six cups of urine a day.)

WEIRDfrom page 5 C


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Available from the IObit at www.iobit.com are both a free version and a paid pro version ($19.95 for a one year license). Both offer real-time protection from malware attacks with a security package that does not significantly slow down the computer, is frequently updated, can detect and remove malware infections that may have pen-etrated the existing securi-ty software, and is explicit-ly designed to run on top of other antivirus and security software in order to pro-vide security in depth. Both ver-sions use IObit’s proprietary “Dual-Core” anti-malware engine, which claims to detect complex and deeply hidden malware, including spyware, adware, trojans, keyloggers, bots, worms, hijackers and other malware threats. If a suspicious file or behavior is detected that is not included in the updated Malware Fighter’s database, the questionable file is uploaded to the new “IObit Cloud Security” service for further analysis and resolution. For users who prefer simplicity, Malware Fighter offers a “Smart One-Stop Solu-tion” that can detect and repair any malware security issues with a single mouse click. The only major difference between the free and pro versions that I could find is that the pro version updates automatically, and the pro version can be set to per-form a scan at selected times.

As good as they may be, no security product offers 100 per-cent protection; it is often desir-able to implement a layered defense that will impose addi-tional barriers and defenses to a variety of cyber threats. Today, several anti-malware products are intentionally designed to

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The real-time functions in Malware Fighter provide com-prehensive protection from threats, including a series of “Guards,” that each protect from an attack targeted at a specific computer function. These guards include a “Start-up Guard” that prevents unwanted programs from installing themselves such that they load every time the com-

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I have some dear friends that are going through what some would term “tough times.” Each of them is hurt-ing in different ways and needs a friend, helping hand, and kind words. I thought about the old adage, “Tough times don’t last, but tough people do.” But then I asked myself, “Do we really want to be thought of by those we love as ‘tough people’?” I realize the word “tough” is relative, and I think I know what the writer of that little bit of sage advice meant, but I find I still ques-tion the meaning.

In a more personal manner, I know I have gone through what I would term “tough times” in my own life. I was a single mother after being mar-ried for more than a quarter of a century to one man. I had children to educate, a home to pay for, and groceries to pur-chase. I remember clearly hav-ing to decide whether to pay the electric bill on time, put it off, or to buy groceries and gas to get to work. This time of the year was harrowing for me because I knew I could not respond as I had in the past to graduation invitations, bridal showers, weddings and such. I felt terrible because my love for the people in my life was no less — it was just that my bank account was more mea-

ger at the time.I have also lost those I loved

dearly. When my Mama Cole died and we buried her in the dark ground, I felt terrible. My sense of loss was overwhelm-ing. I had never before that time lived one day on this earth without her by my side, either figuratively or physical-ly. I felt that without my life anchor, I was adrift. But you know, I got through that first day and night and was able to attend the visita-tion, funeral and buri-al. And I survived. The second day was perhaps a little less frightening, and so on and on the days and nights passed and I lived. I had to live. I had children to care for, a home to keep, and a job to return to.

God really does know just how much He can trust us with at one time. I had a dear friend tell me honestly the other day that she just wished that God didn’t trust her with quite so much, and I knew what she meant.

What do we do when life is coming faster than we can comfortably handle it? What can we cling to when we don’t know we are where going or how we will get there? Where

are our guidelines and our hope? What is our anchor? I can tell you with certainty that for me, it is the Word of God, my faith in Him, and the abil-ity to pray and find comfort in being with other Christians. “My hope is as an anchor, both sure and steadfast” (Hebrews 6:19). I know that God loves me and that He cares for me

and that even if death should come for me or my loved ones, they will be in Heaven waiting for me one day, or I for them. I sincerely believe that.

May I suggest that if you are struggling as you read this column, you take or make time to clear your head and heart, and ask God to give you guidance? He will be more than happy to do that for you because

every single man or woman, boy or girl, is important to Him. Think of some positive insights you can hold on to until you are stronger. I tend to think that God will take care of me today as I remember the many times He has in the past. He has proved Himself to me over and over. I wish I learned things more easily, but I’ll admit I am a bit hardheaded — some would say stubborn — so there are times when the les-

sons have to be administered more than once.

Without sounding prideful, I have also learned to trust myself a bit more. I have undertaken new goals and suc-ceeded in the past, and I can do it again. Secondly, ask yourself, “What does God want me to learn from this experience? Am I learning it well?” I love this quote I found in one of my darkest hours: “If the brook had no stones, it would have no song.” And I have also learned not to expect quite as much from myself and from others. Maybe things won’t go my way. I can change my way a bit without giving up my standards. When the way is especially hard, cling to good, solid, positive friends

who are willing to help. Every-one has troubles. You are not alone.

Retrain your thinking to move toward something, rath-er than away from something. And learn to rest. Rome really wasn’t built in a day, and we cannot gain our losses back all in one quick step. Be willing to rest in the valley for a while, if necessary. God will be with you as you take one tiny baby step at a time. Stay with Him, for His way is best, and He can deliver us from our every trou-ble and sadness. May God bless you today in your need.

Brenda Cannon Henley can be reached at (409) 781-8788 or at [email protected].

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What is God like? Can I really know Him? Over the next weeks we are going to be looking at questions like these and others as we explore the theme, “Discovering God.” I am reading today from John 10:22-30:

“(22) Now it was the Feast

of Dedication in Jerusalem, and it was winter. (23) And Jesus walked in the temple, in Solomon’s porch. (24) Then the Jews surrounded Him, and said to Him, ‘How long do You keep us in doubt? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly.’ (25) Jesus answered them, ‘I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father’s name, they bear witness of Me. (26) But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you. (27) My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. (28) And I give them eter-nal life, and they shall never

perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. (29) My Father, who has given (them) to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch

(them) out of My Father’s hand. (30) I and (My) Father are one.’”

Here is the key to our theme, Discover-ing God. Jesus said, “I and My Father are one.”

For nearly every-one, there comes a time when his “God ques-tions” become the most important ones he has.

As children, our sons used to ask such questions as, “Which cloud is God in?” As they grew up, their God questions

become more insistent. They wanted contact with Him, and they wanted assurances that He is a God of love.

Those who are really serious about knowing God will have to look into the Bible. There we discover Jesus Christ of Naza-reth, and we are told emphati-cally that He is God. This is what He meant when He said, “I and My Father are one.”

In a glorious way which escapes our understanding, this simple statement is part of the Bible’s teaching that God is a triune God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The benefits that come to us because God is this kind of being are marvel-ous. We may be so thankful that Jesus, God’s son, and His Father are one God.

This means that in Jesus all our questions about God find their answers. Jesus reveals God’s love to us. Here is real reason for joy: God has come so close to us, He has become one of our race. He has done it in the person of His only begotten son, our Lord Jesus Christ.

Now we must work hard at knowing this Jesus better and better. Those who know that Jesus is their savior from sin know that God will never abandon them. Jesus assures us of that in His statements here recorded by John: “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they

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My name is Scutty. I’m a pretty handsome boy, huh? I prefer pictures without a rain-bow colored cat-toy scarf (although it does bring out the yellow in my eyes!), but I’m a pretty laid back guy and just decided to go with it! You should also know that I am very sweet and love attention so much that when I think you’re coming near to pet me, my whole tail quivers with happiness! I think I get so excited about a little TLC because when I was young, I was dumped out of a car and left in the woods with no one to love me or give me any attention. I was eventually rescued by a family, but they recently had to surrender me to the shelter because they could not care for me any more. I just want some-one who loves me, who I love, and who I can shake my tail at in happiness! I prefer the great indoors to the great outdoors!

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Q. I can no longer afford to pay my car note. One friend told me that if the car is repos-sessed or I return it, I am off the hook for any more payments. Another said no matter what, I would still owe the remaining payments. What really happens following the return of a car?

A. Actually, neither of your friends is correct. The conse-quences of repossession depend on the value of the car. Whether a car is voluntarily returned or repossessed, the results are the same. Follow-ing the return of the car, the creditor usually will arrange for the sale of the car. After the sale, the creditor will apply whatever is obtained from the sale against the amount you owe. At that point, there are three possibilities. First, the amount you owe might be the same as what the car sold for. In that case, you will not owe anything addi-tional. Second, the amount obtained at the sale might be more than you owe. If that happens, the creditor may keep the amount necessary to cover your debt but must return the surplus to you. The third and most likely option is that the car sells for less than you owe. In that case, the amount obtained at the sale is applied to the debt, and you still owe the difference.

Here is an example of how this works. Let’s assume you owe $12,000. The returned or

repossessed car is sold at auc-tion for $8,000. The creditor will apply the $8,000 to your debt, leaving a “deficiency” of $4,000. You still owe the defi-ciency, and the creditor may pursue a claim to collect the $4,000. The bottom line is that unless the car is worth the same or more than you owe, you will still owe some money follow-ing its repossession or return.

Q. I rented an apartment to be close to my new job. After just two months, I have been transferred. Is this a legal

excuse to get out of my lease?

A. As a general rule, you may terminate a lease only for those rea-sons spelled out in the lease. Read your lease carefully to see if it gives you the ability to terminate it early due to a change in your employment. If it does not, you will be in breach of the lease and the landlord could be entitled to damages if you stop paying rent.

My guess is that this will not be a valid reason to terminate your lease early. If that is the case, my suggestion is to dis-cuss this with your landlord and see if you can work out a mutually agreeable settlement. For example, the landlord may agree to let you leave early if you forfeit your security deposit. Be sure to get any agreement in writing.

Q. Am I entitled to recover

child support from my child’s father, whom I never married?

A. Generally, if you can establish that someone is the father of a child, he has an obligation to help support the child. The fact that you did not marry him does not matter.

Q. My wallet was stolen. The thief charged $2,500 to my credit card. Am I responsible?

A. Good news — under federal law, your maximum liability for the unauthorized use of your credit card is $50. In fact, you have no liability for any charges made after you report the loss. If your card is stolen, be sure to immediately call the credit card company.

Q. How do I get a copy of a living will? Does it have to be notarized to be valid? What does it cost?

A. For a free copy of a liv-ing will, visit my website www.peopleslawyer.net and go to “Legal Topics,” then click on “Wills and Living Wills.” A living will, formally called a “Directive to Physi-cians,” does not have to be notarized, but must be signed by two witnesses. You may make several originals and give them to a number of peo-ple to ensure that it will be available when needed. For example, you can keep one and give one to a family mem-ber and your physician.

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shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand. I and My Father are one.”

I need that sense of secu-rity. So many things are changing in my life and yours. More and more, our world becomes a strangely

alien place. The Bible that I was taught to love as a child, both in my home, my public school and my church, is little regarded today. The moral values that we were raised to love and respect and practice seem so foreign to many. I need to know that God will never abandon me. Jesus tells me it is true.

Almighty God, we are grateful for Jesus Christ of

Nazareth, Who reveals You perfectly. Answer our deepest questions, and show us the fullness of divine love, as we learn to know Jesus better each day. Amen and amen.

The Rev. Delmar Dabney was a spiritual inspiration in South-east Texas for many years before his death in 1994. This and other messages from his daily televi-sion show, “Coffee with Pastor Dabney,” are featured here regu-larly.

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