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Deposition of Bishop Kenneth W. Hicks - Page 2
Q. Did he indicate that there were a great number
of people there?
A. Yes.
Q. Did he indicate how long the hearing itself lasted?
A. No. No, he didn't. He didn't indicate that to
me. Now he may have. I don't recall that he did.
Q. When you found out that he was not able to present
your views to the committee hearing, what did you do?
A. I don't believe I had any -- I didn't take any
course of action at all. You know, I probably expressed
personal indignation and that's all.
Q. did you make an attempt that afternoon or any
time after that to contact any legislators concerning
the bill?
A. No. No, I did not. By the time -- by the time I
was free enough to get back in touch with Reverend Tanner
later that afternoon, the information I had was that it
had advanced too far. Then I didn't see that I could
make any kind of difference.
Q. Did you contact anyone concerning your feelings
about the bill between the hearing date and the
date that it was finally enacted by the legislature?
A. Any legislator?
Q. Anyone in particular?
A. No, I think not.
Q. Did you contact any legislators after the bill
was enacted?
A. The -- let's see. I don't recall that I did. The
only contact that I recall was sometime after the -- some
maybe be even months after the enactment of the bill when
I did write a letter to Senator Holstead. In fact, I
think there is a copy in there expressing really a mutual
appreciation of him as a person since he is a member of my
denomination, member of a local Church within this
community. And I wanted him to understand that the fact
that we were at opposite ends on this issue did not diminish
my appreciation of him as a person, as a Christian.
Q. Did you contact any other legislators after the
bill was adopted?
A. Not to my recollection. I think not.
Q. Did you ever contact the Governer after the bill
was adopted and signed by him?
A. No. No. No, I did not.
Q. When did you first learn that a lawsuit challenging
Act 590 would be filed?
A. I can't put a date to that. I can't even -- I
can't even put an approximate date to it except it would
have been within -- within some, you know, may be two
weeks of the time that the lawsuit was actually filed.
And I can't -- I really can't vouch to that. But it
was sometime approximately approaching the time that it
was filed that I knew there was some consideration
being given to this.
Q. Do you know who contacted you about that?
A. That contact would have been Sandra Kurjiaka. I
believe, that would have been the source of my
Q. Do you recall what Ms. Kurjiaka told you?
A. No. There had been -- there was common discussion
of this I think and it may be that I had some discussion
with somebody -- with somebody on the ACLU staff prior to
the announcement of the decision to do this, to proceed
with the suit. And my -- the nature of my -- it seems
to me that there was a prior conversation that I had with
somebody other than Sandra. But I can't vouch to that
because by the time I know that the decision by ACLU to
proceed with the suit was done, was made I know I had
indicated -- I had had occasion to indicate that the -- my
feeling that this would be an action that I would
appreciate. And would be a means by which this issue could
be tested. And in a manner that I, or anyone else that I
knew that might be interested in this as I was, would have
the means to proceed on. And so it was -- there was some
assurance, I recall on my part, that this would be pleasing
to me if this kind of procedure could be arranged.
Q. Do you recall who that somebody else was that
contacted you?
A. No, I don't know.
Q. When did you learn that you would be a witness at the
A. Just a few weeks ago. I don't know how long ago
really. Time passes so fast. But five, six, seven weeks
Q. Who contacted you and told you that?
A. You know there is a -- as I've indicated, there is
a great deal of time -- in fact, most of the time I
am not in my office. And my secretary relates
information to me. And I -- in the hurry of things, many
times I don't concentrate on who it was. But I take the
information and I really can't say -- I don't know whether
it was Bob Cearley's office, ACLU's office. I don't know
where that information came from.
Q. Have you discussed what you will be testifying to
with any attorney involved in this litigation?
MS. VEHIK: I'm going to have to object to
that. That's attorney client privilege.
MR. CAMPBELL: I didn't ask the
substance. I just asked whether or not he had discussed
MS. VEHIK: Okay.
A. I have discussed the trial with -- do -- do you
need to know with whom? With an attorney, yes.
Q. Who did you talk to?
A. Phil Kaplan.
Q. When was that conversation?
A. It was this week, a couple of days ago I believe.
I forget which day.
Q. How long did that conversation last?
A. Oh, an hour or so. Probably about an hour.
Q. Where did it take place?
A. In my office.
Q. Other then your reasons for opposing the teaching
of creation-science and your unsuccessful attempt to testify
before the Arkansas Legislature in opposition to Act 590
which the Plaintiffs told us you would be testifying to,
will you be testifying to any other matters of trial?
A. On any other matter of trial outside of this
litigation? Not that I am aware of, no.
Q. Outside of these two things. Outside of your
opposition to the teaching of creation-science and
outside of your unsuccessful attempt to testify before
the General Assembly. Will you be testifying to anything
A. I can't think of anything else that I would be
testifying about.
Q. Recognizing that you are not going to be testifying to
this at trial. But what is your opinion as to the origin of
the universe?
A. Well, I believe that it has a divine origin. I
believe in the faith data, faith statement that's
presented in the book of Genesis, "In the beginning
God created...." That does not -- for me that does not
require that I circumscribe God in terms of how he
did it or how it was done -- he or she -- or anything
of that sort. But I do believe that God created the
heavens and the earth. I believe it was created with
intention. I believe that it was created with order in mind
and I believe it was created with purpose, With ongoing
purpose. Yeah.
Q. Again, recognizing you are not going to be
testifying to this at trial. But what is your opinion on
the origin of man?
A. Well, for me personally I am open -- I believe that
humanity, as with all other forms of life, was created by
God. I am open to the manner in which that was done. In
terms of it having been done instantaneously, if it could
be verified some day that it was that way, you know,
that's okay with me. If it took ten million years to do
it, that does not bother me at all. In fact, I think it
would be kind of neat if God did it that way. This, you
know, one of the concerns that I have is that I see the
whole process being circumscribed here too much to fit a
literal view of the Biblical accounts. And when the
educational process has to come out in support of the
Bible, then I think that it's turned around. I don't
believe it ought to have to do that.
Q. Have you had an opportunity to read Act 590?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. What does "balanced treatment" mean to you?
A. Balanced treatment should mean the presentation
of data of both types that would be equal in authority,
equal in validity. I really haven't thought about it beyond
that. To the extent that that's possible, uh-huh.
Q. What does the phrase "prohibition against religious
instruction" mean to you?
A. Prohibition against religious instruction to me
would mean that the insertion of a divine authority of a
described nature, or the insertion of a Scriptural
authority by which that divinity is described is -- is
material that is -- that is theological and philosophical
and belongs to the orientation of a fellowship of people
that might agree on a particular point of view. And I think
the phrase "to prohibit", that would mean to prohibit or
prevent a particular view from being inserted into the arena
or discussion.
Q. Did you see anything in Act 590 which, in your
opinion, would prohibit a teacher from expressing his or
her professional opinion on the relative merits or
demerits of creation-science or evolution-science?
A. That would prevent a teacher from expressing? I
really need to think about that a bit. That would
prevent -- I think that as I have looked at the bill and
have studied it, I don't think that there is anything,
you know, to prevent the teacher from presenting it. My
contention is that I don't think it can be presented on
the creation side. I don't think it can be presented
and I guess that would be a prohibition. And you see the
contradiction comes in that there shall be balanced
treatment. And yet the provision requires that the
treatment of creationism shall be void of reference to
Bible, religion, God and so on.
My contention is that the
creation-science point of view could not end up being
balanced because it is not only forbidden by the bill, it is
forbidden by the First Amendment. I believe that
creation-science cannot be taught without some kind of
reference to a form of deity or to a Scriptural source by
which one gains an understanding of that Creator. That's
part of the contradiction or part of the ambiguity that I
see in it.
Q. Then is it your opinion that an atheist could not
be a creation-scientist?
A. I can't imagine how -- I can't imagine how one could.
One might -- one might be an atheist presumably and teach
printed material. Just passing it on through a lecture
method. But to consider that as reliable data or as data
that has some basis of validity, I can't see how an
atheist could deal with that.
Q. Section 4.(a) of Act 590 defines creation-science.
And it states that, "Creation-science means the
scientific inferences" -- excuse me. "the scientific
evidences for creation and inferences from those scientific
evidences. Creation-science includes the scientific
evidences and related inferences that indicate...." and then
it lists six items. I would like to ask you about each of
those items and then ask you how those items are consistent
or inconsistent with the Genesis account of creation. Item
(1) is the "Sudden creation of the universe, energy, and
life from nothing." How is it consistent or inconsistent
with the Genesis account of creation?
A. It is consistent with a literal translation or a
literal interpretation of the first chapter of Genesis.
The issue there would be was the first chapter of Genesis
written with that intention of it being a literal laying
out of the order of creation, which I think the best
Biblical evidence indicates that was not the intention.
That this was -- that the happenings on the various days
as indicated in the first chapter of Genesis are pegged,
so to speak, upon which the greater idea could be hung.
Namely that this whole thing came from God. And that
God did it in an orderly manner. That it occurred
through a process.
So, you know, from my point of view, it
is -- yeah, it is consistent literally with the book
of Genesis. But I don't think that a literal
interpretation of the first chapter of Genesis is the only
authoritative way of looking at the creation account.
Q. (2) is "the insufficiency of mutation and natural
selection in bringing about development of all living
kinds from a single organism." How is that consistent or
inconsistent with the Genesis account of creation?
A. Well, you think that and I must admin that I
don't know that sentence too well. The phrase at the
end of it, of a single organism, I think -- "the
insufficiency of mutation and natural selection in
bringing about development of all living kinds from a
single organism." Whatever it is saying, it seems to me
that that is beginning to say what the creative process
is and is not. And I think we have to be open enough in
our understanding or in our search for truth that whether
it began from a single organism or from multiple
organisms, let's pursue each of these points of view.
And that whichever direction the
pursuit of that origin search takes, if our understanding
of God is great enough, you know, the deity is not going
to be threatened and faith does not have to be threatened.
But the moment you begin to try to implant upon a
document that was written, the best information seems to
indicate, oh, approximately -- let's say 500 B.C. in an era
that was not a scientific era by minds who were not
scientifically oriented minds. By minds that were poetic,
imaginative, deeply religious. They were not minds that
cared about scientific detail. And I see this sentence as
beginning to place restrictions, you know, on what the book
of Genesis or the Genesis account has to mean.
To state it another way, I don't believe
that the Genesis account describes all that there is to know
about God. On the other hand, I don't see the definition
of God or the nature of God as being a pursuit that is
applicable to the scientific methodology. This is the
thing that concerns me is that when you are talking about
divine origins, then you are talking another field. You
are talking theology. You are talking philosophy. You
are talking ideas. But in terms of pulling up pieces of
data, you are not in that field.
And this is where I'm really troubled
in the second statement that it seems to -- there is an
insufficiency of mutation and natural selection springing
from a single organisms. So what? Single organism,
multiple organisms, which just revealed more about my lack
of scientific knowledge than anything else.
Q. Well, how is that consistent with Genesis?
A. How is the sentence consistent with Genesis? I
don't know that it is consistent with Genesis. And if it
is a premise, you know, that defines creation-science, I
would probably have to say that it is not consistent with
Genesis. I think that this is -- as I understand this, and
I have to admin that I'm not really sure what that means --
I don't think it is consistent with Genesis in the larger
view of Genesis which I happen to hold to.
Q. And how is it consistent with the literal reading
of Genesis?
A. Well, it is apparently disagreeing with anything
that is related to natural selection. It is disagreeing,
you know, from even the possibility that things do spring
from a single organism. And my conviction is until we
know that is the case, let's pursue it. Let's pursue the
possibilities of the process of natural selection. I can't
see anything wrong with that. There is something wrong with
it, of course, if one's view of God has to be limited to the
data -- to the literal data that is in Genesis. And as I've
indicated, I don't think that Genesis was written with that
kind of limit in mind and particularly when you couple the
first chapter of Genesis with the other account of creation
that, begins in Genesis two four which apparently was
written at an earlier time by perhaps 4- or 500 years.
You've got two separate pieces of
material that really in no way relate or are consistent
with one another except to confirm the idea that creation
came from divine beginnings, there was a realization
-- in fact, I think it is in the second chapter that there
came a time, so to speak, when the two human beings were
aware of their nakedness. Well, there must have been a time
that they existed when they weren't aware of their
There is nothing wrong with that.
That is expanding the grandeur of divinity it seems to me
rather than inhibiting it as I see the creation-science
approach doing.
Q. Would it be fair to say that the definition of
creation-science as it appears in Section 4.(a) of Act 590
is, in your opinion, based upon a literal reading of the
book of Genesis?
A. This is the way I understand it. The way I take
it; yes, sir.
Q. And that would include (3) which is "Changes only
within fixed limits of originally created kinds of plants
and animal;" (4) "Separate ancestry for man and apes;"
(5) "Explanation of the earth's geology by catastrophism,
including the occurrence of a worldwide flood;" and (6) "A
relatively recent inception of the earth and living
A. Yeah, and you see I don't necessarily -- I don't
necessarily quarrel with the possibility that some of these
things might indeed be the way it ultimately turns out.
My quarrel with it is with limiting inquiry to the
presupposition that this is where it has to turn out.
For instance, separate ancestry for man
and apes. Well, I personally believe that man and apes
-- that man is man and that apes are apes and that
chickens are chickens. That's the way I feel about it.
Now if somehow some evidence comes along, as it does
from time to time on a theoretical basis, that there was
a commonality back here somewhere, that there was a
commonality of being, and then eventually there was some
separation took place. For me personally -- I just say for
me personally -- I have no problem with that at all. And
particularly if it turns out, you know, that that's
verifiable. If that's verifiable, then that becomes the
part of the data of life. But by all means, we need to deal
with it and not shut it out it seems to me. We mustn't shut
out inquiry. We must not shut out investigating it just
because Genesis does not happen to pick up on that.
Q. Why do you think we are limiting inquiry under
Act 590 when both creation-science and evolution-science
can be presented in the classroom?
A. Well, it -- I've tried to indicate that I believe that
creation-science, even within the definitions that are
in 4.(a), you know, that that already sets forth some
"givens" that creation-science has in mind. And the
fact seems to be that the understanding of deity and the
understanding of scriptural truth must be protected at all
costs. And therefore, the process of putting
creation-science in place has to prepare the science
teachers or somebody -- another facilty in the school system
or something -- has to prepare them for dealing with this
indoctrinational material, with material that is accepted on
face value, which is faith material but it is accepted as
Well, those who have come through the
educational process to prepare themselves as science
teachers somehow or other have to be retooled. Whose
description of reality and creation realty is to be
superimposed? Whose description of the creative origin,
whatever that's defined as, is going to be the one that
is used? And here, then, is where I see all of the
religions of the world -- their various views of
And I see this, you know, saying either
that we are going to have to get over a substantial
amount of the scientific time to the discussion of
religions or else we are going to have to block those
out. And the State will decide what that creation look
will be like, how it will be circumscribed, how it will
be defined, what would be the attributes of it. And
that can't be done. That really can't be done under under
the First Amendment or it cannot be done by a mixing of two
fields that are as unrelated in their disciplines as science
and religion are.
Q. You mentioned that creation-science as it is defined
in section 4.(a) carries with it certain "givens." And
if I'm misstating you, please let me know. Is it your
opinion that the definition of evolution-science in section
4.(b) has no givens, carries no givens with it?
A. Yeah, it does have givens. But I find those
givens in evolution-science as being non-dogmatic. Much
more so than I do than the paragraph above. For
instance, the "emergence of naturalistic processes of the
universe from disordered matter and emergence of life
from non-life." Okay. The agenda, it seems to me it has
to be, then, that out of that disordered matter to try to
put into some formula or into some order that at least
represents the theory. It is a pursuit. It is an
inquiry. Whereas up here I see more of the closed system
under creation-science being presented. "The sudden
creation of the universe, energy and life from nothing."
That seems to be a given. It can't be -- isn't supposed
to be meddled with.
Q. Recognizing you are not going to be testifying about
this at trial, but in your opinion, how would you define
"academic freedom"?
A. Well first of all, I've never been called upon to
do it before. And so what I will say will be very
preliminary and very unprofound. But academic freedom it
seems to me includes the opportunity to investigate any
piece of data that might, in any way, apply to knowledge
about a given object or given situation. Academic freedom
it seems to me would have presupposing in it. The
opportunity to move out in an attempt to see if any of those
pieces of data were true or real, were verifiable. And to
see if the process of putting data together to reach a given
end, to see if it can be repeated. And to have that
opportunity to make that pursuit no matter where it might
lead or what might be disproved of it as a result of it or
approved as a result of it. That, I think, is at least a
part of what I would think of as academic freedom.
Q. Do you think that the presentation of divergent
views can aid in the learning process?
A. I believe that they do -- that they can indeed
stimulate and contribute to the learning process if
they are divergent enough.
Q. How would you define "religion"?
A. Amazingly enough, as close to it as I am, I don't
know when I've ever done that before, either. But
religion I believe would at least include a set of
beliefs, ideas, and values which together formulate a code
of ethics and a view of divine reality.
Now one could turn that around, I
realize, and say that religion is a set of values, insights,
beliefs about a divine reality, which when translated into
life forms becomes a code of ethics. I'll have to work on
that one.
Q. Do you always see some type of divine reality being
involved in religion? In other words, is a deity
necessary for religion?
A. My understanding of religion would -- I believe
would make that a given.
Q. Have you prepared any documents or any papers
concerning what you would expect to testify to at trial?
A. No, sir. No, I haven't. I believe everything that
I have written and read or had printed up from anything
I've said is right there.
Q. In your meeting with Mr. Kaplan, did you provide to
him --
MS. VEHIK: Objection.
Q. -- any type of written statement as to what your
proposed testimony would be at trial?
A. Any kind of written statement as to what my -- no.
Q. Bishop Hicks, I'm looking at some of the documents
which you brought with you to this morning's deposition.
First I have in my hand a letter addressed to Senator
Holstead, dated June 5, 1981 and signed by you. Is this the
letter which you referred to earlier in the deposition as
stressing your appreciation to Senator Holstead for his
efforts as a citizen, concerned citizen?
A. Yes.
Q. What caused you to write Senator Holstead a letter?
A. That came out of simply a pastoral concern that I
had that here was -- see, at the beginning of every
regular session of legislature -- since I have been
here I have had a breakfast at which we invite the United
Methodist legislators, members of the assembly, to a
breakfast that I host and come with their pastors if they
can. Jim Holstead has been there. I've appreciated him
as a person. As this took on -- as this took on the
connotations that it did, I felt a responsibility as
a pastor to assure him that I separate the issue and my
esteem for him. I just wanted him to know that.
Q. I have here, I would like to be marked as Hicks
Exhibit #1 which appears to be a memorandum to members of
the Interfaith Denominational Executives Roundtable from
Bishop Kenneth W. Hicks. Can you tell me who the
memorandum was written to and what its purpose was?
[Thereupon Hicks Exhibit #1 was marked
for the record.]
A. Let's see. This would have been -- the members of the
Interfaith Denomination Executives Roundtable is a group of
denominational executives of Arkansas. Typical of these are
Bishop of the Catholic Church, the Bishop of the Episcopal
Church, the head of the Presbyterian denomination, Rabbi
Palnick represents the Jewish community. Typical of that
kind of person. And currently I am president of that body.
And this was a memo that obviously I
sent to them indicating that, in the course of
conversation with the ACLU that, you know, that this kind
of relationship might be helpful. And this statement
was submitted for their consideration to see whether
they would join in this position or not.
Q. Did they ultimately join in that position?
A. Many of them have. The -- oh, with regard to just
as members of Interfaith Denomination of Executives
Roundtable, yes. I cannot and I don't have, you know, a
verification of who did not. To my knowledge, there was
nobody who refused. I'm just not sure whether everybody
responded. Many of these persons, of course, are in the
list of Plaintiffs.
Q. I have what I would like to be marked as Hicks
Exhibit #2 a letter dated July 20, 1981 addressed to you
from Bill Briant.
[Thereupon Hicks Exhibit #2 was marked for
the record.]
MS. VEHIK: I'm sorry. Can we go off the
record? We're having an emergency.
[Short break.]
Q. Who is Mr. Briant? That's B-r-i-a-n-t.
A. Bill Briant is one of our United Methodist
pastors. He is currently pastor of the Mountain View
United Methodist Church, which is out on West Tenth.
Prior to the delay of the trial -- I forget what the
earlier date was. Well, this indicates that this was
done at least in July -- Bill had occasion to be in my
office. And at that time there had been -- I had been
approached to be on the Phil Donahue show as this
indicates. And Bill indicated in the course of visiting
about this that, "I took quite a bit of science in
college. I have some ideas about this. If you think it
would be helpful to you in working up your own attitude
and background about this, I'd be glad to work up
something." And I invited him to do so and that is the
source of this.
Q. Bishop Hicks, I have no further questions. I
appreciate your courtesy in being with us today. Thank
you very much.
[Thereupon the taking of the above
deposition was concluded at 1:50 p.m.]
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Short version of what this is: Each morning, during the week, I'll record the podcast as I drive to work. 10-15 minutes, Monday-Friday (save for sick days, vacation, etc.). I'll upload each episode here for your listening pleasure. Next episode: Tuesday, May 28.
Here it is. The inaugural episode of the Astros Morning Drive:
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- What The Heck said...
Good stuff. I enjoyed it and frankly with my schedule lately, that's about all the free time I've got!
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Genius time frame. Everyone's got 10-15 minutes for a podcast. Looking forward to the next one...
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I've never enjoyed spilling coffee down my shirt from laughter so much. I can't wait for the next episode. I'll have my sippy cup ready.
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Part II
This is Part II of my ongoing dissertation on Fusion Centers and the work they do. You can read Part I, Intelligence Led Policing and Fusion Centers: How the IACP Helped the USA to Cross the Rubicon, which dealt with the flawed and dangerous philosophy of preemptive or Intelligence Led Policing that makes the whole domestic terrorism apparatus, including fusion centers such a threat to the liberties of everyone.
In Part II I am going to explain what the centers really do and who is in control of them and how.
Fusion Centers-State of Federal?
It is all about collecting the data and getting it to the federal government. The most important function of Fusions Centers is also the most invisible portion of their work; the computer networks and information sharing that takes place through those networks.
Despite claims that the Fusion Centers were created by the states, the truth is that the modern day fusion centers were born of policy established at the federal level and they are largely funded, staffed and trained by representatives of federal agencies. The federal government likes to claim that the states are partners with the federal government in this and other programs like it.
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Answer: only to the degree that I am willing to pretend that you are.
When it comes to state fusion centers, the federal government has been paying the bills, they set the rules and they own the house.
Paying the Bills-Federal Funding
Since 2003 the Department of Homeland Security has given $31 billion dollars to the state and local governments.
3.8 billion was given to the states in 2010 alone. The programs funded by the DHS, largely focus on countering terrorism but also on natural and man-made disasters are required to be tuned to DHS dictates. According to the Government Accountability Office, Fusion centers have been received $426 million in general grant funding from fiscal 2004 through fiscal 2009. Stating the obvious about money and control, "You take the king's shilling, you become the king's man"—Tom Cole
This news article published Nov 27, 2011, Oklahoma's fusion center has a broad role these days, makes who is paying the bills pretty clear.
Oklahoma's federally funded information fusion center has a broader role today than it did when it began operations four years ago.
. . .Oklahoma's fusion center is housed inside the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation's headquarters, 6600 N Harvey Place, and includes a secured room where secret information from the federal government is received.
. . .A central office includes a small room filled with monitors and TV screens, relaying data to an analyst. Its operations are funded, for the most part, by grants from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Stenhouse said the federal agency provided Oklahoma's fusion center with about $400,000, which he said was used to pay the salaries of four analysts and training purposes. (All emphasis mine) Read more: http://newsok.com/oklahomas-fusion-center-has-a-broad-role-these-days./article/3626735#ixzz1i4z2ZOBQ
Oklahoma has received hundreds of millions of dollars in Homeland Security funds since 911 and the state understands who is in charge even if the officials choose to dance around the truth with the public.
The following is from the Oklahoma Information Fusion Center's "Privacy Policy." It is clearly stated that the Oklahoma Office of Homeland Security oversees the initiatives and mandates of the federal Department of Homeland Security-including our state's fusion center.
OKOHS (Oklahoma Office of Homeland Security) is directed to continue their efforts in combating terrorism, and shall continue to oversee the implementation of any and all initiatives or efforts mandated by the United States Department of Homeland Security, including the development of a state information fusion center. (Emphasis mine)Read more
Federal Personnel Staff state fusion centers-. According to the Government Accountability Office Report, as of July 2010, the DHS has deployed 58 personnel to fusion centers, and the FBI has deployed 74 personnel to fusion centers.
Setting the Rules
In 2008 we learned that the federal government has no qualms about yanking those strings attached hard and that includes subverting state law intended to protect the citizens of that state in the process. The Fusion Centers have a job to do and that job requires some changes to be made to pesky state laws meant to provide residents with openness to, and oversight of, their government.
EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg said, "the FBI memorandum indicates that the federal government is attempting to shroud the Virginia Fusion Center in secrecy and prevent meaningful public oversight. Virginia citizens deserve an open and transparent state government that is not constrained by federal secrecy policies."
Through the litigation, EPIC uncovered a secret contract between the State Police and the FBI that limits the rights of Virginia citizens to learn what information the State Police collect about them.
Fusion centers may be physically located in the states but their guts belong to Homeland Security!
If you think of Fusion Centers as a place you will miss what the centers are really about. Fusion Centers are part of a domestic intelligence system and the guts of the fusion centers are the data networks.
The federal government (guided all the way by the International Association of Chiefs of Police) defined the fusion centers and their processed from the start. They drew up the map.
"The National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan, developed by Global in partnership with the IACP, is the first of its kind in this country — and promises to bring us closer to achieving the goal, expressed at your 2002 Summit, of "intelligence-led policing." . . . it serves as a "roadmap" for our national criminal intelligence sharing initiatives." –THE HONORABLE DEBORAH J. DANIELS
The question of whether or not these institutions are state or federal entities is a moot point. Though they physically reside in the states, the federal government aside from defining, funding and staffing the centers, also controls the data networks and they set the standards for how data is collected and shared.
Federal standards equal federal control
Standards are important if you want to:
- SHARE DATA (speak the same language)
Standards Provide
- On-demand real time data access
Navigating the Standards Landscape
A Nationwide Network
You know what is worse for you privacy ant autonomy that a central database? A distributed network of databases that are constantly updated that the central government can reach into at will.
The DHS intelligence analysis center or the DCI's counterterrorist center do not need to accumulate and hold all relevant databases to which they may gain access. In other words, there is no need to build one big data warehouse. Instead, the centers should interface with such databases as needed.
—Markle Foundation Task Force Report 2002
Owning the House
In 2008, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, and Global jointly published a supplement to the Fusion Center Guidelines called Baseline Capabilities Baseline Capabilities defines the capabilities needed to create a nationwide network of fusion centers and sets forth the minimum standards for a fusion center to be able to perform basic functions.
The Department of Homeland Security set out an objective to create a network of fusions centers as a unique law enforcement and threat information resource that works across jurisdictions and is supported by multidisciplinary teams dispersed throughout a national network of information hives. Source EPIC
". . .Fusion Centers will be the centerpiece of state, local, federal intelligence-sharing for the future and that the Department of Homeland Security will be working and aiming its programs to underlie Fusion Centers." –DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano March 13, 2009
The Fusion Center Guidelines states that, "nontraditional collectors of intelligence, such as public safety entities and private sector organizations" will be "fused' with law enforcement data" The goal is to break down traditional barriers to information sharing.
These barriers are commonly referred to as "siloes" or "stovepipes"
Those "silos" or barriers can also be thought of as jurisdictions.
From the Legal Information Institute;
Jurisdiction-The term jurisdiction is really synonymous with the word "power" Jurisdiction is the territory within which a court or government agency may properly exercise its power
It is not difficult to understand that when the the lines of authority are blended power will default to the higher level.
Agency protectiveness over jurisdiction and it is the authority an entity has over that jurisdiction that is the real barrier. Simply stated, the problem with integrating data systems is not a physical or technical one; it's political. Until recently, the barrier was both political and technological. Now that the technological barrier has been removed, some think that the political barrier should follow suit. But just because something is possible does it mean we should do it?
"National employment databases, national medical databases, national criminal databases, and others have already been created.
The dream is to blend all these separate resources into a single centralized one…the only real impediments to creating the database that now remain are political and cultural: the stubborn assumption of so many Americans that they have rights."
The State's Quest for Total Information Awareness by David M. Brown
In the past, the technological or physical barrier acted as sort of a firewall to siloes of data. Data was shared on a legal right and need to know basis and the entity wanting it had to ask. While technology makes it possible to share lots of information in an instant with anyone in the world, there are still plenty of good reasons to protect sensitive information.
If you really, really want to settle this whole argument about whether or not fusion centers are state of federal, just read about Homeland Security's Federal Fusion Center initiative.
In 2010 The Department of Homeland Security announced its intention to;
"collect, plan, coordinate, report, analyze, and fuse infrastructure information related to all-threats and all-hazards, law enforcement activities, intelligence activities, man-made disasters and acts of terrorism, natural disasters, and other information collected or received from federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial agencies and organizations; foreign governments and international organizations; domestic security and emergency management officials; and private sector entities or individuals into the Department."
The DHS is creating a federal fusion center by 'fusing' information from the centers. DHS is laying claim to all of that data to use as they see fit.
The Department of Homeland Security has repeatedly stated that Fusion Centers were owned by the states, the creation of this new system of records action totally negates that dubious claim. They didn't ask anyone's permission. Why? Because they paid the bills, they set the rules and they own the house. The states are a "partner" up until the federal government decided they weren't.
Fusion Centers, for all practical intents and purposes, belongs to none other than Big Momma Gov. and if anyone tells you different, grab a pitcher because their pants are on fire!


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Our five-day forecast predicts four days next week with highs of 90° or more and one day with a high of 88°. If the humidity continues as it has this past week, the heat indexes will be close to 100° every day. Ugh. It's only June. It's too early for this!
Lately, I've been trying to do yard and garden work in the evenings after the worst of the day's heat is over. Even then, the warm temperatures and high humidity slow me down a lot. I don't have the stamina for working in the heat that I once did. I wish I could have done the work when the weather was cooler, but the weeds hadn't grown yet!
I saw the above quotation a few years ago at the National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian Institute).When I read it, I knew immediately that I was a winter person, not a summer person. I don't love winter, but I cope better with cold than with heat. I don't dread winter's cold, but I do dread summer's heat.
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The Bluffton High softball team had two more players sign Tuesday to continue their careers in college.
Seniors Morganne Parker and Kim Kerby signed national letters of intent to play next year at the College of Charleston and the University of South Carolina Beaufort, respectively. Pitcher Courtney Smith signed Thursday with Limestone College.
Parker, who starts in center field, is set to become the Bluffton softball program's third NCAA Division I player in as many years. Whitney Morrell signed last year with North Carolina Central and 2012 graduate Alexia Cortez walked on last spring at Ohio University.
Kerby, a third baseman, plans to join a USCB program entering its third season. The Sun Conference champion Sand Sharks were one victory away last season from their first appearance in the NAIA World Series.
Bluffton reached the SCHSL Class AAAA Lower State finals last season.
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Dogs Understanding words
Just wondering how many words/sentences your dogs understand. I think Bayley's got a pretty good understanding of words.
She's pretty good at names too. It's funny how I can say something and she'll do it. The other morning, the cats had left a few smidges of food in their bowl so I scraped it into her bowl while she was outside. When I let her in the porch, I told her that I put some stuff in her bowl, she went right to it. She knows 'go find me something' go get Noella..I think that's a fave, bring me your kong, Jacy's here (her dogwalking person), ok the nurse is coming, she knows to go jump up on my bed. There's probably more but that's all I can think of. The cats are pretty good too, they all know their names. Noella learned mousie and birdie pretty darned quick! I think she's the smartest, could be street smarts
Loki knows a good amount - enough for us anyway The biggest reacting words are 'car ride', 'collar' and 'walk'. Those get his tail wagging and running towards the door we keep the collars and leashes hung up.
He also responds really well to 'C'est qui ca?' - that gets his ears really alert and running to the door and windows to try and see who is outside.
He also knows the basics, of course
Oh, lots of words. A favourite training trick when we are at the nursing home is a random ordering of SIT, DOWN, STAND. I'll give a bunch but then I will double one up and see if he is really paying attention and really knows what I'm asking.
Sit, Stand, Sit, Down, Stand, Stand. Obviously on the double Stand he should not move and usually he does not, but his whole body will give a little quiver as he anticipates a change.
Marty understand the word cookie really good! He understand a lot words and shot demand , my last dog knew how to say "out" . A friend was surprised when I ask Finlay if he wanted to go out and he answered "out"
Marty does a little dance when I give him a cookie.
I can't stop thinking of Finlay ,I still miss him sooo much.
Bestia is very good, he knows "car ride, grandma's, treat, food, bed time" he also knows the difference between some of his toys, if I ask "bring me Mickey, bring me chicken or bone" he knows which one it is, if I just say "toy" he brings any of the other sorted items.
He also knows to sit, and "go to your pillow" when he is on the couch. If I ask him who is coming? he goes to the door and waits to hear something so sweet. Guero, well he is still very new, but I have noticed, that from watching Bestia he is picking up some things.
Dogs don't need to talk, their life is their message ~ unknown.
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." ~ Mahatma Gandhi
We've noticed that the dogs we've had since puppyhood pick up a lot more from our general conversations that the ones we've had for less time. We talk to our dogs all the time so the longer they're here and the more they're focused on us, the more language they've picked up. Not just commands or the word 'hungry' or 'out'...but whole concepts like "let's take the dogs out back for a romp" or "seems like a good day for chews" or even "gotta fit in a birthday party". Ember has the best language skills since we got him the youngest, and Macie (who has always been a bit more aloof because of her sad early history) is the least cognizant of what we're saying.
"We are--each of us--dying; it's how we live in the meantime that makes the difference."
"It's not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived!"
"Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle."
Oh, lots of words. A favourite training trick when we are at the nursing home is a random ordering of SIT, DOWN, STAND. I'll give a bunch but then I will double one up and see if he is really paying attention and really knows what I'm asking.
Sit, Stand, Sit, Down, Stand, Stand. Obviously on the double Stand he should not move and usually he does not, but his whole body will give a little quiver as he anticipates a change.
thats is so cool!! now do you think you could teach them "simon says"/
i hope tenderfoot training weighs in here.
They are HUGE into getting your dog to understand a large vocabulary.
I believe most of their dogs speak both English AND Spanish.
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I think they understand more than we give them credit for, I really dislike it when people say "they are just dogs, they don't understand"
Dogs don't need to talk, their life is their message ~ unknown.
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." ~ Mahatma Gandhi
i klnow dogs who under stand Spanish and english that no big deal the vogue around here is getting them to look at you and use your eyes or a head motion to command
Weighing in...
People tend to dumb dogs down. They are thrilled to have a 5 word vocabulary - come, sit, down, stay, heel. If you only had a 5 word vocabulary with your best friend it would be a very short phone call, and you wouldn't have a very deep relationship.
Dogs are capable of SO MUCH MORE!!!! And your own dog probably knows way more than you think! We say that 30-40 words is the tip of the iceberg. There is a dog out there with a 1000 word vocabulary and he can read! Of course its a Border Collie, but it certainly shows us what they are capable of.
Every action your dog can perform should have a word and hand-signal of association. Remember you are not teaching your dog HOW to sit, lay down, run towards you - they ALREADY KNOW HOW to do it all. You just have to create the action and give it a word and hand-signal of association AND be consistent. You can speak English, your partner can speak Spanish and your kids can speak French. The dog will not be confused. He is reading your words, your body language, hearing your tones and seeing the pictures in your mind. Lots of info for him to pick up on. In fact as much as we talk about a big vocabulary, we had a dog (Cowboy passed 2 yrs ago) who just had 1 word - Dog. But 'Dog' meant: come, down, get the horses, leave it, etc. He heard the word but read everything else about us to infer its meaning in that heartbeat.
Every toy in your dogs toy box (at least a dozen) should have a name, and every room in the house has a name. Even the car...get in the 'car', ride 'shotgun', get in the 'back', and get in the 'way back' - the car has 4 different different words.
We always provide a 40 word list for our clients to aspire to, but I love it when clients bring us a list and it far exceeds ours!
The next factor is the levels at which you can count on your dog to perform these words.
Level 1 - inside the house.
Level 2 - outside your front door (not at the dog park - which is Level 3 & 4 combined) where your dog gets an adrenaline rush from the sights, sounds and smells so it is tougher for him to concentrate, but you practiced in the house first so Level 2 will be easier.
Level 3 - at long distances. How good is your dog at 5 ft., 10 ft., 100 ft. away from you.
Level 4 - distractions. How good is your dog around cats, squirrels, other dogs, people, kids, balls....
AND there are levels within levels. I can have cats in the house, or long distances in the house, I can have squirrels in the trees 40 ft. away. These are ways to test your dog at higher and higher levels.
The other part of this picture is that is is great to have a big vocabulary but you have to use it! We all get lazy and start to take things for granted. If you speak a second language you need to keep practicing it to stay fluent. Your dog needs to keep working his whole vocabulary to keep it fresh. You could also make it a goal to teach him something new every week. It helps to keep your relationship in top form and keep you connected.
And yes, Marko, we use Swahili with our dogs just to prove a point.
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~Elizabeth & Doug
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exactly, even the cats understand quite a few words. Bayley is pretty good with her words and I'm sure with a bit more work she'd be even better.
Sit, Down and Roll. No more, no less.
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Walking from South Nassau Communities Hospital's busy parking lot to its main entrance, visitors pass trees and shrubbery lining an inviting path to a lobby with polished floors, snug couches and floor-to-ceiling windows. It is a pleasant way in to one of the region's largest health care providers, but many more enter from the opposite side.
Seventy percent of all admitted patients pass through the emergency department, according to Dr. Joshua Kugler, chairman of South Nassau's Department of Emergency Medicine since 2004. The E.D. — last renovated in 2003 — was originally built for 35,000 annual patients, and now sees nearly 70,000 patients per year, he said. South Nassau has taken the first steps of its $60 million expansion project to better handle the influx of South Shore residents in need of care.
Kugler attributed the patient increase to the hospital's growth in services. The 455-bed facility has more than 900 physicians, and provides care in oncologic, orthopedic, bariatric, pain management, mental health and emergency services. It is also a designated stroke center, an advanced cardiac center and the only Level II Trauma Center in southern Nassau County.
"What one person perceives as a problem, another person perceives as an opportunity," Kugler said of the department handling more patients than initially built for. "I would say that this has been a great opportunity to have the trust of the communities in this organization."
South Nassau Communities Hospital received roughly $170 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency funds after Hurricane Sandy severely damaged Long Beach Medical Center, which the hospital bought out of bankruptcy in 2014. Though $40 million is slated for a new medical arts pavilion in Long Beach, the other $130 million will go toward a four-story southwest addition to the Oceanside campus for new surgical suites and 14 more intensive-care beds. Using a majority of the funds in Oceanside, which was protested by many Long Beach residents since last year, was allowed under "alternative use" legislation introduced by U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer after Sandy.
"The improvements that we make in Oceanside benefit Long Beach and benefit all the South Shore communities," said Joe Calderone, South Nassau's senior vice president for communications and development, who said the hospital serves patients from Queens to Suffolk County.
Though parts of the emergency department's expansion are included in the southwest addition project, much of the $60 million to bolster the ED's size from 16,000 to 30,000 square feet is self-funded, according to hospital officials.
South Nassau, in the third year of its five-year campaign to garner $10 million of the total cost of the expansion through fundraising, has raised nearly $5.6 million. The hospital had its Casino Royale event on March 9, which last year netted more than $140,000 for the project, and will host a golf tournament on June 12.
The project is expected to implement bedside registration, larger and improved waiting areas, and establish dedicated treatment areas for behavioral health, pediatrics and geriatrics. The spaces will increase patient privacy and allow staff to better group patients based on their specific needs. The department is expected to accommodate roughly 80,000 patient visits per year once adding space and increases its number of beds from 35 to 60. But Kugler said quality of care is as important as quantity.
"Someone's heart may have stopped," he said. "That person is as important to me as the person who has a broken arm. They both are in acute need. They don't know what the other person has. We have to meet those needs, and we have to meet them at the level that they deserve. We need to meet them compassionately."
Currently, the department — shaped like a dumbbell, according to Kugler — lacks a line of sight between its two ends, which disrupts the staff's ability "to see and feel what is going on in real time." A machine room, which houses utilities integral to hospital operations, sits in the middle, which makes it harder to "line balance," he added, or distribute the hospital's resources — in an instant — to patients in need and changing situations.
Kugler elaborated on the term, comparing it to actions taken by Starbucks staff as a line of caffeine-seeking customers grows too long. "If the coffee maker is slow, they slide the person over and they make a second coffee maker," Kugler said. "If the cashier is slow, they put a second cashier in there. It happens almost in the blink of an eye; that's called line balancing. It balances it out so that they can get the end result accomplished. [Emergency departments] work the same way."
Ten beds, separate from the 14 intensive care beds, should be completed in May to kick off the expansion, officials said. The hospital has also begun clearing the 2500-square-foot machine room — to be repurposed as clinical space — by moving the air conditioning, heating systems and other equipment to other areas, according to Andrew Triolo, assistant vice president of design, development and construction.
Hospital officials said the emergency department's design is still being finalized, and though work will be done in phases to ensure smooth and consistent service during the construction, the number and details of the phases are unknown at this time.
"With an emergency department, you can't shut it down," Calderone said. "We're obviously open 24/7 and we provide a critical service to the South Shore of Nassau County, so the tricky part is to do renovations while you're still open for business."
The medical arts pavilion in Long Beach, along with the southwest addition, which still needs to go through the state's environmental review process, are projected to be complete by 2020.
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5/22/12 Royals at Yankees: Yankee Stadium
I like to commemorate events with baseball. I was graduating the day after, so what better way to spend the night before than to go to a baseball game, right? Look who I ran into at the gate:
That would be fellow ballhawk, Greg Barasch, on the left and myself on the right. I was pretty surprised he showed up since I offered him an extra ticket I had to the game the night prior and he denied it. Apparently, what had happened was he needed two tickets; one for himself and one for his dad. Oh and the picture was taken by a kid from Canada I met at the gate, who I explained to why Yankee Stadium is about the worst place in baseball to get autographs.
The sky didn't look "that" bad, as you can see in this next picture:
That said, when I got out of my underground subway station, (which can be seen below and slightly to the right of McDonald's) I could feel the softest touch of rain ever. It lead me to this train of thought: "I know this won't be enough to cancel bp, but it is really cloudy, so this might just be the beginning of the rain before it starts pouring, or the grounds crew might have the same thought as me and tarp the field prematurely even though there is no serious rain yet. Whatever it is, can you help me out, rain gods, and take the day off?"
When I ran in through the gates, look who I got my picture taken with:
That would be the Yankees' amazing set-up man, David Robertson. He was right inside Gate 6 for fans to take pictures with him. Obviously I wasn't going to pass up the possibilty of taking a picture with him. Now I can say I've taken a picture with a former Yankee closer. How many people can say that? If you're wondering about the weird look I have in the picture, it was because I was looking at the screen on my iPhone to make sure we were both in the frame, and I usually don't take pictures of myself with my iPhone so it didn't even occur to me that I had to look at the lens before taking the picture. Oh well, it's still pretty cool.
Once I got in and settled myself in right field, it wasn't very long before I got my first ball. Clay Rapada went over closer to center field to retrieve a ball, so I ran up to the first row and asked him for the ball. He then tossed it right to me and I headed back to my usual spot where I took this picture with Rapada on the right side of my glove:
Something would happen to me on the way back to that spot, though, that would come to define my day.
I was still in the first row and had the Rapada ball in my glove. Suddenly, I saw a ball coming towards me. The ball bounced off the top of the wall, and although it was going pretty fast it wouldn't have been a difficult catch for me. The only problem was, I already had a baseball in my glove, so I tried to drop that ball and catch the new one all in one motion, but the ball bounced off my glove and past me, where Greg picked it up. If you're wondering what the theme of my day was, it was missing hit balls because I was trying to get balls thrown to me.
My next ball was similar to the last one in that it bounced off the top of the wall. If you are having a hard time visualizing this, here is the wall:
As you can kind of see, it is made of some hard rock, so balls skip pretty quickly off of it. My second ball was hit at a high enough arc that it bounced off the wall and into the bleachers right above the "L"s in "Modell's" sign:
Right before this ball was hit, a person came up to me and said he read this blog. Right now I want to apologize to this person for never catching his name when he said that, so: if you're reading this, sorry I never caught your name. I thought I'd run into you later on, but it never happened, so don't hesitate to re-introduce yourself next time.
Anyway, everyone else besides me and this person gave up on the ball. He bolted out of the section, presumably to try to get it by going up to the bleachers. I, meanwhile, jumped up to see if I could locate the ball and try to pull it close enough to the fencing on the side with my glove trick to where I could reach through it and pull the ball through the gap between the metal. While I was jumping to see if this was possible, a security guard at the top of the section must have seen me, so she came down the steps. As she came down, I asked her, "could you possibly toss me that ball please?" She responded, "Yeah that's what I'm looking for." She located the ball and the tossed it to me. An interesting factor in this was that I still had the Rapada ball in my glove, so I had to transfer that discreetly enough to my right (non-gloved) hand as to a) be able to catch the ball she was going to toss me with my glove and b) not let her see I already had a ball.
I then moved over to left field where this was my view:
I was there for pretty much one reason. The ball boy magnified in this next picture goes to my high school (or I guess I should say "went" since we have now both formally graduated since this game):
As you can see, he was in the outfield shagging baseballs like the players. However, although I did not formally ask him for a baseball, I picked up though his interaction with other fans that he couldn't throw balls into the stands.
Although the reason I came to left field didn't come to fruition (get a ball from the ballboy who went to my school), I did get my third and final ball of the day when a Royals righty hit a ball to my right. The ball rattled around in the seats and I grabbed it before two other fans who were trying to could. Here's the ball with the person who hit it waaaay in the background:
After that came a slew of missed opportunities on my part. I'm not going to complain, I'm just listing them for everyone to see. The numeration starts at "2", though, because I missed the ball that bounced off the wall earlier, remember?
2. A Royals player went over to retrieve a ball in LCF and was walking back when he spotted a kid. I could tell from how he changed the direction he was walking in that he was going to toss the ball to the kid, pictured here:
so I lined up right behind the kid in case the Royals player over-threw him, but I didn't have my glove up because I thought that would make the player more careful to not over-throw the kid. What d'ya know, the player over-threw the kid. The ball deflected off the kids glove and was headed straight at me. It changed direction ever so slightly that it bounced off my glove and back towards the kid, so had I *not* been right behind him I could have easily picked up the ball and handed it to him, but I was just "heads-up" enough to line up with the kid but then botch the ball that came right at me.
3-7. Remember when I mentioned the theme of this game was missing hit balls because I was trying to get balls thrown to me? Well for the better portion of batting practice, I was in right field because Greg was in left field and I didn't want us to get in each other's way. Over there, I went down the steps numerous times to ask a Royals player for a ball. Five of those times, a ball sailed over my head to a spot where I almost definitely would have caught it had I been in my regular spot at that time.
8. Again I was down the steps calling out to a Royals player (none of which actually threw me anything). This time a player hit a ball close to where I was, but because I didn't have sunglasses (because I thought it was going to be a cloudy day since there was a forecasted 60% chance of rain) I lost the ball in the sun and had to hope I could pick it up in the seat but someone else beat me to it.
9. A ball was hit to my right but I picked a row that wasn't empty and I couldn't run all the way to the spot where the ball landed without running into anyone- which isn't an option for me.
I don't usually write all the missed opportunities for me in a game, and I'm sure I left out at least one, but it was just that this game was SO frustrating because I may have been able to get into double digits had I capitalized on these missed opportunities.
Speaking of double digits, did anyone read my tweet after the game? Well, if I haven't mentioned, Greg is that neighbor alluded to in the tweet. Yes, there are two ballhawks on the same floor of an apartment building in Manhattan. Serendipitous, isn't it. If you want to egg us next Halloween, our address is 478 Broadway New York, NY 10013. I'm apartment 5A and he's 5F. Anyway, since I snagged 3 balls, you can tell from the tweet that he managed to snag 10 balls at this game.
During the game, I went up and sat with a bunch of family and friend who were (most of them anyway) in town for my graduation the next day. I won't go through the process of naming them, but here they are:
I was actually the second person who had taken (after various attempts) a picture of the group, so if some of them looked less than enthused, that's why.
Being that it was a special occasion, I gave up my usual seat in the bleachers for this view:
Tragic, isn't it? Instead of being 500 feet from the plate on the second level, I had to sit on the second level in foul territory. Oh poor me. The only downside was nothing came within 20 feet of me, but I knew that coming in and was willing to give up my chances of catching something for being with my family for a night.
As for the game itself, the Royals won 3-2.
- 3 Balls at this game
numbers 356-358 for my lifetime:
- 36 Balls in 8 Games this year= 4.5 Balls Per Game
- 17 straight Games with at least 1 Ball
- 8 straight Games with at least 2 Balls
- 8 straight Games with at least 3 Balls
- 3 Balls x 37,674 Fans= 113,022 Competition Factor
- 46 Balls in 13 Games at the New Yankee Stadium= 3.54 Balls Per Game
- 13 straight Games at the New Yankee Stadium with at least 1 Ball
- 5 straight Games at the New Yankee Stadium with at least 2 Balls
- 5 straight Games at the New Yankee Stadium with at least 3 Balls
- Time at Game 4:27- 10:21= 5 Hours 56 Minutes


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I'm a big fan of the iPad, for both personal enjoyment and work use. Though I can do a lot with it, I still need a PC (in my case, a Mac) for heavy-duty jobs or simply to command multiple screens as I multitask and move data among apps and services. So I was surprised this last week by how many people asked me if an iPad could be their next PC, as they contemplated not adopting Windows 8 when their current (usually Windows 7) PCs got too old.
No one was asking about replacing a PC with an iPad right now; these people were thinking a few years out. Nonetheless, they were investigating the iPad and iOS -- not OS X (which could replace Windows today in many situations). A few also inquired about Android, a platform that finally seems to be maturing.
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Also last week, I noticed in a national retail chain's back-to-school Sunday circular a curious photo for a student desktop setup: Instead of the usual monitor or laptop, the desk had just an iPad and a digital photo frame on it.
These are all anecdotes, but they suggest that people are making the post-PC mental leap, that computing in the future will not be a new version of the entrenched, 25-plus-year-old Windows PCs and Macs. Instead, it will be iOS or Android. That's profound, especially as I didn't hear the question, "Should I consider a Mac instead?"
Why iOS? The extreme popularity of the iPad is surely one reason. But it's the most logical alternative platform for the post-PC era, at least given the current state of it and its main competitors: Android and Windows RT, the Metro-only version of Windows for ARM-based tablets.
iOS has many of the capabilities of a traditional PC: You can print from it, you can use an external keyboard and monitor, you can tap into online storage, and you have the everyday apps already available, such as email and browser. In some industries, such as music, the iPad is already a mainstay computer for everything but pro-level mixing. For broad office use, iOS has several office suites available (iWork, Quickoffice, Documents to Go, and Office2HD), and the latest version of Office2HD fills in a major hole in iPad editing: It supports revisions tracking in Office files.
In other words, many day-to-day bases are already covered in the platform, and the ones that are missing (for example, external pointing device support, scalable display on larger monitors, and mail filtering) are not technically difficult. Given that iOS and OS X are based on the same core and Apple regularly migrates capabilties from one to the other, it's a matter of time -- and increased hardware capabilities -- before Apple could imbue the iPad with some of these PC features, should it want to.


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William G. "Gurn" Satterlee, 83
William G. "Gurn" Satterlee, 83, Mahaffey, died Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013, at home.
He was born Oct. 6, 1930, in Marion Center, the son of the late William F. and Esther C. (Good) Satterlee.
On March 21, 1997, he married Beverly K. Campbell, who survives.
He was a member of the Mahaffey United Methodist Church.
He was a graduate of the Marion Center Class of 1950.
He served two years in the U.S. Navy in the early 1950s.
He was a member of the Masons and the Shriners.
On May 15, 1959, he started his own business, William G. Satterlee and Sons.
Surviving relatives include four children, Daniel Satterlee and wife Brenda of Treasure Lake, Karen Satterlee of Florida, David Satterlee of Indiana, and Gary Satterlee of Rochester Mills; twelve grandchildren, Chad and Nicole Satterlee, Kevin and Chris Donaldson, and Traci Lee, Ben and Andrew Satterlee, Elizabeth Roach, Gregg and Maleia Satterlee, and
Emily and Hailee Agostic; four great-grandchildren, Samantha Satterlee, Victoria and Zack Sidwar and Luca Roach; and step-children Kristy Agostic and Sean Bennett.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
Friends will be received from 2 to 9 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013, at the Deeley Funeral Home, Punxsy.
A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m., Monday, Oct. 14, 2013, at the funeral home with Pastor John White officiating.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial contributions be made to the American Cancer Society.
Interment will be at Mahaffey Cemetery.
Online condolences may be made at www.deeleyfuneralhome.com.


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Laying to rest the ghosts of 1948
Huw Richards
March 18, 2009
JC Daly crawls free of a ruck during Ireland's famous win over Wales at Ravenhill in 1948 © Getty Images
Not least of the pressures on Ireland as they approach the title-decider in Cardiff will be the reminders of how rarely, and how long ago, they have won Grand Slams. It is a fair bet they'll line up for the anthems at the Millennium Stadium quite happy so long as they never again hear '1948'.
The one Irish team to have won a Grand Slam had their own historical incubus. In their case it was 1899, the last time Ireland had won a Triple Crown. They kicked off against Wales at Belfast on March 13, 1948 knowing that it was 49 years since their previous triumph - and in the meantime they'd fallen at the final hurdle eight times. Each time, under the unvarying championship timetable of the period, they had lost to Wales.
Two of those defeats, in 1931 and 1939, had also been at Ravenhill Road, the usual venue for meetings with Wales. The Welsh had not been to Lansdowne Road since 1927, the Irish Rugby Football Union reasoning that their more working-class support preferred the terracing of Ravenhill to the larger grandstands in Dublin.
Ireland were already champions. They had scored 30 points in their three matches so far - which looks low to modern eyes, until you consider that this included eight tries and not a single penalty. They were led from hooker by a 21-year-old medical student, Karl Mullen. In an age before coaches captains were more important than they are now, and Mullen's tactical astuteness was as important to Ireland as his finely-tuned hooking technique.
Wales included nine players from Cardiff, who were enjoying the best season in their history. Among them were such all-time greats as scrum-half and captain Haydn Tanner and centre Bleddyn Williams, with Newport wing Ken Jones also ranking as a historic figure.
Confronted with such brilliance, Ireland took the logical step of keeping it tight and playing to their forwards. Veteran Welsh reporter W.J.Townsend Collins recalled, "Their great play in the line-out, their fiery rushes and their speed in defence were gain to their side and discomfiture to the Welsh, who were unable to produce behind the scrimmage the individual cleverness and combined skill which in many former games had given them victory against superior forward play."
There were 32,000 - a ground record - packed into Ravenhill and the Daily Telegraph's J.P.Jordan reported a 'perpetual roar of 'Ireland' which rose to a crescendo when their tries were scored.
Ireland attacked from the start and were rewarded when they went ahead after 20 minutes. From a scrum on the Welsh 25 they attacked on the blind side and Jack Kyle, the brilliant outside-half still in the early stages of an international career that would last until 1958 and bring him a then-record 46 caps, drew in the Welsh back row before sending a long pass to Clontarf left-wing Barney Mullan. He had already come close to scoring and this time dived through Ken Jones's tackle - the watching JBG Thomas reckoned it a rare defensive error in a 44-cap career that would last as long as Kyle's - to score with both Tanner and fullback Frank Trott hanging on to him. Mullan, a makeshift kicker who missed more than he landed, failed with the conversion.
Wales responded positively and levelled the scores with a classic Bleddyn Williams try, a swerving run reckoned by Thomas 'one of the best he scored for Wales'. It was though, recalled Collins 'the one bright incident in the Welsh play'.
It was 3-3 at half-time, but after that the Irish resumed the ascendancy and ten minutes into the second half regained the lead. Wales won a scrum on their own 25, but were immediately dispossessed. Wing Bertie O'Hanlon kicked on, Trott was unable to smother the ball and two London Irishmen - flanker Des O'Brien and prop John Daly- led what Thomas reported as 'a tremendous race for the touch-down, which was won by Daly, just short of the dead-ball line'. Daly is reported to have said to O'Brien, "Jaysus, if Wales don't score again I'll be canonised".
There was still half an hour to go, but Wales rarely threatened. Collins reported of the Irish, "Their players kept a tight grip on the game, and skilled touch-finding gained ground and limited the opportunities of the Welshmen to gain possession."
Daly was chaired from the ground by cheering fans, his shirt torn to shreds. It ranks as one of the great moments in Irish rugby history - and was recognised as such at the time. Much less noticed, though, was the singularity of a four-win season. Collins recalled that 'Shining before them…was the mythical Triple Crown'. Thomas, writing in his 'Great Rugger Matches' a decade later tells the story purely in terms of the Triple Crown. Jordan did notice the achievement, but mentioned it after the Crown.
There was a reason for this. France had only just been readmitted to the championship after a 16-year absence and it was still assumed that any team good enough to beat its three home rivals would also beat the French. Not until a year later, when Ireland claimed a second consecutive crown after losing their opening match in Paris, would this prove not to be the case. England emulated this slightly unwanted feat in 1954 and it became clear that winning all four was now an achievement apart from and beyond the long-cherished crown.
It is no fluke, then, that the term 'Grand Slam' was coined in 1957 to greet England's all-four of that year. Since then only 12 of the 27 teams who have won the Triple Crown - and none of the five Irish XVs - have been capable of turning the Crown into a Slam.
Neither try-scorer played for Ireland again. Mullan departed with a record of six tries in eight appearances while instead of canonization Daly acquired the non-person status of players who went to rugby league. He and centre Pat Reid joined Huddersfield during the close season. It was not, though, the end of Daly's big matches. He won the championship final in his first season with Huddersfield, then played in the Challenge Cup final for Featherstone on their first, losing, Wembley appearance in 1952.
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July 6, 2011
Nelson Vergel, B.S.Ch.E., M.B.A., is a leading HIV treatment advocate, author and founder of the Body Positive Wellness Center in Houston, Texas.
In a previous blog post, I reviewed the current situation for the minority of patients with HIV who have run out of treatment options.
Of the HIV medications in development with potential activity against highly resistant HIV (i.e., patients with GSS=0), two may become available within the next year: ibalizumab (formerly TNX-355), a monoclonal antibody currently under development by TaiMed Biologics, and dolutegravir (formerly GSK1349572), a second-generation integrase inhibitor made by ViiV Healthcare).
Ibalizumab has a completely new mode of action, so most patients should respond to it when using it with at least one other active agent. It is different from the entry inhibitor maraviroc (Selzentry, Celsentri) in that it blocks the CD4 receptor on T cells rather than blocking the CCR5 co-receptor. This means it could be effective against virus that uses either the CCR5 or CXCR4 co-receptor. It is a genetically engineered monoclonal antibody administered once every two weeks intravenously. TaiMed has finished its dosing phase 2b study and will be presenting the data in the near future. TaiMed is also developing a subcutaneous administration of ibalizumab; phase 3 studies should take place involving HIV-infected patients in eight to 12 months.
Dolutegravir has shown activity against many raltegravir (Isentress)-resistant viruses at a dose of 50 mg twice a day. Dolutegravir's phase 3 study, which is seeking patients with raltegravir resistance, is now enrolling nationwide. However, patients are required to have a GSS=1 to join the study. For those who do not meet the entry criteria, but need help, there may be another option: The company is planning to open an expanded access program for its drug by year's end.
However, "year's end" is not near enough for patients who are in dire need of new, active antiretrovirals. There are many patients who cannot join the phase 3 studies, and who cannot wait eight to 12 months for both drugs to become available through their respective expanded access programs.
In these extreme cases, physicians can apply for "single patient Investigational New Drug (IND)" access to either or both of these antiretrovirals. Both TaiMed and ViiV/GlaxoSmithKline have shown good faith in helping patients in deep salvage, and they are willing to provide their drugs for patients with declining health and high mortality risk.
The following steps must be followed by physicians for each drug they want to access on behalf of one of their patients.
If the patient's HIV has evidence of resistance to all commercially available antiretrovirals and his/her viral load suggests that his/her HIV is not responding to the current drug regimen, a phenotypic resistance test needs to be performed along with a tropism test. It is important to also know if phenotypic resistance to enfuvirtide (T-20, Fuzeon) is present. Additionally, genotypic integrase mutations need to be characterized to assess the patient's potential response to dolutegravir.
Once the test results have confirmed that the patient has developed resistance to all commercially available or expanded access HIV medications, and provided the patient's health is at risk (i.e., CD4+ cell count under 100 cells/mL and declining clinical outlook), physicians can follow this procedure required by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). (Note that the FDA has also changed its regulations to accept patient access for small groups of patients, which could save a lot of paperwork.)
This procedure is hardly used by doctors in HIV care due to lack of information or concerns about its complexity. But in actuality, it's very straightforward: three simple forms, a signed patient consent form and IRB approval are needed. Many local IRBs will even expedite approval of this kind of request due to its urgency.
Also, single patient IND can be approved verbally by the FDA if the patient has an expected survival of less than 30 days (this is called emergency IND). This will allow the drug company to ship the drug in an expedited manner, but the forms I mention above will still need to be processed while drug shipment is taking place.
If you need a sample patient consent form and cover letter for IRB submission, I recommend using these, which were used in the past for access to darunavir (TMC114, Prezista) and etravirine (TMC125, Intelence) while they both were investigational drugs:
ViiV and TaiMed can also make copies of consent forms for their drugs available if requested by the physician applying for access on behalf of his/her patient.
I welcome e-mails from physicians who need more information or would like additional help gaining access to investigational drugs for their HIV-infected patients whose virus is resistant to all currently available drugs. Please send e-mails to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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