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Deep-sea fish with tubular eyes and transparent head

February 26, 2009 By Administrator

The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute recently solved the half-century-old mystery of a fish with tubular eyes and a transparent head. This is the barreleye fish, or Macropinna microstoma.

Amazing article and pictures, accompanied by a cool video.

“A new paper by Bruce Robison and Kim Reisenbichler shows that these unusual eyes can rotate within a transparent shield that covers the fish’s head,” says the site. “This allows the barreleye to peer up at potential prey or focus forward to see what it is eating.”

Why not? Don’t we all like to see what we are eating?

ACDL – Arizona Court of Appeals Victory

February 11, 2009 By Administrator

Last week, says the Arizona Center for Disability Law, the Arizona Court of Appeals struck down Arizona’s restrictive denture coverage rules, which required a beneficiary to show more than an inability to chew and eat normally to establish a medical necessity for dentures. In relevant part, the Court found that:

“We hold in this case that AHCCCS exceeded its statutory authority by requiring Sharpe to establish a medical need in addition to the ability to chew. Therefore, to the extent that A.A.C. R9-22-201, Medical Policy 310, and A.A.C. R9-22-101(B) either expressly state or are interpreted to require a medical need in addition to the inability to chew, they are invalid…Based on the factual record before us, the undisputed facts show that dentures here were (1) ordered by a dentist, and (2) medically necessary.”

Our client is a 32-year old woman with a disability who has severely decayed teeth and needs all of her teeth removed and whose primary care and dentist have recommended dentures as medically necessary.

Click here for PDF of Arizona Court of Appeals Decision

Judy wears PawFun.com T-Shirt

January 26, 2009 By Administrator

Here’s a picture of me in my new PawFun.com T-shirt…with a picture of one of my two favorite cats: Shadow.

PawFun.com is BL Ochman’s fabulous new site. You gotta go there. The T-Shirt is the finest I’ve ever had. And you can have so much fun making cards or shirts with your pet’s photo(s).

How to do Social Networking, Run a Business & Still Have a Life

October 21, 2008 By Administrator

Publicity Hound, Joan Stewart discovered a brilliant way to help business people understand social networking while still having a life: On November 6, she’ll be interviewing my friend and colleague, BL Ochman at a teleseminar called “How to do Social Networking, Run a Business & Still Have a Life.”

Join Joan on November 6 for a 70-minute teleseminar and hear Ochman explain how she rations her time, uses a variety of social networking tools, and still manages to set aside a huge chunk of her schedule each day for client projects. She’ll also explain how she’ll use social networking to launch a new business.

Will Judy be there? Absolutely. Wouldn’t miss this for anything.