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Friday, June 24, 2011
It's Auction Time On SPEED!
Friday features a clash of timeslots that will leave NASCAR fans talking. TV executives get put in tough spots sometimes and when push came to shove, this time NASCAR lost.
SPEED comes on the air at 2:30PM with a preview edition of NASCAR Live. John Roberts hosts with Randy Pemberton. Wendy Venturini and Hermie Sadler are the reporters.
Sprint Cup Series practice is next on SPEED at 3PM. Adam Alexander hosts with Darrell Waltrip and Jeff Hammond in the TV booth. Matt Yocum and Ralph Sheheen are the reporters.
At 4:30PM, SPEED closes out the NASCAR coverage with a final edition of NASCAR Live. Roberts, Pemberton and Venturini return this time joined by reporter Bob Dillner.
What follows at 5PM has been the subject of much discussion. SPEED has opted to tape delay the Sprint Cup Series road course qualifying from Infineon Raceway in favor of six live hours of another Barrett-Jackson auto auction.
This one is from Orange County, California. You can click here to see the cars that will be crossing the auction block. Less than spectacular is a nice way to sum it up.
The Cup Series qualifying begins at 6:30PM ET and it will be tape-delayed by SPEED until 11PM ET. That pushes NASCAR out of East Coast primetime and ends a long streak of SPEED presenting the best NASCAR practice and qualifying coverage on TV.
It will be Adam Alexander, Kyle Petty and Larry McReynolds calling the road course qualifying for SPEED. Handling the reporting duties will be Chris Neville and Marty Snider. There should be several interesting aspects to this delayed coverage.
Today, social media makes tape-delaying any kind of live sports programming meaningless. This will be the situation for SPEED. Across Facebook and Twitter, the qualifying results will be passed along by the teams, the sponsors and even NASCAR live as it happens.
None of the major NASCAR Internet websites will hold the information until the TV coverage hits the air. In today's world, the only thing that SPEED will have at 11PM on Saturday is upset fans. They have a reason to be, because there were options.
One would be to utilize the NASCAR.com website and stream live coverage of qualifying through the RaceBuddy application. Just like TNT will do for the race on Sunday, this simple Internet application is effective and can be seen on iPads, iPhones and on the Sprint Mobile app.
SPEED could certainly air the entire show at 11PM on delay as planned, but at least the live qualifying would have been made available online to fans as it happened. In the current scenario, trying to shut the TV door and pretend fans will tune-in late at night to see what they can easily find out happened hours earlier is ridiculous.
This TV scenario is made even more ironic because PRN radio will have live coverage of qualifying as well. With many of the PRN stations streaming online, it's not hard to find this coverage. Many veteran NASCAR fans already use the "I Heart Radio" app for cell phones to hear the local MRN and PRN affiliates.
Sure, it's just qualifying. Sure, there is a top 35 rule. Sure, there are all kinds of excuses and reasons to use for justifying the Barrett-Jackson coverage. It's the right of the network executives to make decisions they believe are in the best interest of SPEED.
Perhaps, FOX and SPEED executive David Hill picked a bad week to tell the national media that he wants six of the Sprint Cup Series races currently on FOX to move to SPEED eventually. His reasoning was simple. After all, SPEED is the home of NASCAR coverage. Right?
We welcome your comments on this topic. To add your opinion, just click on the comments button below. Thank you for taking the time to stop by The Daly Planet.
33 comments:
- PJ said...
Watching NASCAR qualifying is like watching grass grow. I love NASCAR and watch most of the races, but enough already! We don't need endless hour after hour of practice, qualifying where most of the field is pre-determined and the same talking heads always saying the same thing. Bring on the auction. Barrett Jackson ROCKS!
- June 23, 2011 at 11:27 PM
- Roland said...
I know that Barrett Jackson is streamed online, so for an event as lackluster as the Orange County auction it should be predominantly online, since Nascar wont allow qualifying to be streamed. That is the most logical solution to the situation. I agree completely that tape delaying in the era of social media is pointless.
- June 23, 2011 at 11:38 PM
- Spencer said...
And Speed call themselves the motorsports authority
- June 23, 2011 at 11:56 PM
- Anonymous said...
Who wants to watch when you already know the results? NASCAR going downhill fast and it seems nobody is willing to stop it.
- June 24, 2011 at 1:03 AM
- Anonymous said...
I can hear the screaming now :( from fans upset about the spoilers. Even when it's "live" people scream at those saying what happened.
It definitely would have been nice to see them stream it via racebuddy or on their website. They've streamed many things so know how to do it :(.
I'm a night owl so the late night run wouldn't be a biggie for me. But I don't see a lot of fans staying up to watch. Even if something big happens most would DVR it & FF to it.
I have my trackpass, Twitter & may search out a PRN stream. *sigh*
- June 24, 2011 at 2:45 AM
- Anonymous said...
Amen JD. But nascar has got their money so everything is gooood. MC
- June 24, 2011 at 5:02 AM
- Anonymous said...
The insult to NASCAR fans by SPEED is made exponentially worse by the fact that the Barrett Jackson auctions suck! Over on Discovery they carry Mecum auctions every Saturday and they are awesome. More excitement, better announcing and better cars than BJ. Either Speed is the NASCAR channel or its not. It cant be a part time deal. Putting an auction on the air just shows how disconnected SPEED management is and why VERSUS will eventually supplant them.
- June 24, 2011 at 7:52 AM
- AncientRacer said...
Since we are batting arounf coverage of Barrett-Jackson I have wondered for awhile are their auctions paid programs? In other words do they buy the time, pay for the talent and production and also sell ads during the broadcasts?
I have wondered this as there are a number of auto auctions (not the used car type -- good cars), but Barrett-Jackson is the only one Speed covers.
- June 24, 2011 at 8:22 AM
- GinaV24 said...
I know a lot of people don't like qualifying but if its on during a time when I'm at home, I do like to watch.
Nascar loses again? Big surprise. It is obviously no longer the "hot" property it once was.
As you say, I'll know how they qualified long before 11 p.m. EDT, so I probably won't watch it on tape delay.
JD, is that app only for Iphones or will it work on any of the so-called "smart" phones. I still have a regular old cell phone but am considering upgrading.
- June 24, 2011 at 8:39 AM
- OSBORNK said...
I enjoyed qualifying back when it meant something. It no longer means much so I have no interest in it now. It is usually important for a few teams who ae not locked in the top 35. With the potential loss of more teams, it will not be important to anyone. Even now, the only cars that find qualifying important are start and parkers.
- June 24, 2011 at 8:40 AM
- glenc1 said...
it's called "Speed"--last I knew, cars being auctioned barely move. I suspect, however, that a lot of people like to watch rich people buying cars for some reason I can't fathom (PJ, I consider five minutes of a car auction like watching grass grow, much less five hours--unlike qualifying, where something is actually happening and I have an interest in the outcome.) I will look for PRN online, I'm not bothering to stay up that late.
- June 24, 2011 at 8:42 AM
- Ir42nate2bhere said...
JD, curiosity question. Is this a Speed problem or TNT's? During the Fox season, Speed does their qualifying. ESPN, they do their own Cup qualifying for their part of season. So does Speed do pole for this stretch because they have to, or do it as a favor/agreement for TNT?
- June 24, 2011 at 8:51 AM
- Mad Mikie said...
I don't know which is more boring? Bondo Jackson or watching qualifying on Speed?
- June 24, 2011 at 9:12 AM
- JT said...
Last week I was watching qualify at Michigan on Speed and simultaneously monitoring Jayski's semi-live qualifying site on my iPad. Normally, Jayski's site updates are 5 to 10 minutes behind the live broadcast, but last week, Jayski's site was a full 10 minutes ahead of Speed's "live" broadcast.
Just saying.....
- June 24, 2011 at 9:36 AM
- Anonymous said...
A. Qualifying and starting position on a road course are very important.
B. It's so much fun to watch road course qualifying. Watching some of the big boys just barely hang on and the ringers going for broke.
Compared to watching someone buy a car....
- June 24, 2011 at 10:10 AM
- rich said...
IMHO qualifying on a road course is fun to watch and very very important to the race.
Buying a car...tape delay...no brainer.
Must be the bottom line talking at Speed.
- June 24, 2011 at 11:13 AM
- Zieke said...
I have mixed emotions about the BJ auction vs. Cup qualifying. Won't watch anything Waltrip is broadcasting for very long so that's usually out anyway. Road course qualifying is probably more important than ovals but practice is somewhat boring because of all the different agendas.The prices and commissions at BJ are so far out of reach it's like dreaming when you watch it. I agree Mecum is alot more realistic. Agree Speed's tape delay is useless. Lose it.
- June 24, 2011 at 12:28 PM
- diane said...
Barrett Jackson bores me. It seems to be middle aged men trying to recapture their youth by buying a car that was hot when they were young in the 50's or 60's.
I want live racing, practice and qualifying.
Oh well, maybe the rain delay will pass for Wimbledon soon.
- June 24, 2011 at 12:56 PM
- Anonymous said...
NASCAR and Barrett-Jackson are two completely different types of car lifestyle events- to each their own, but in all honesty the cars featured on Barrett-jackson are prettier
- June 24, 2011 at 1:20 PM
- Garry said...
Barret-Jackson is fine, as long as it is in January. They have beat the dead horse enough with the others. Cup qualifying is good as long as it is "rapid fire" on ovals. The way it should always be. Not two cars, then ten commercials, two cars, twenty commercials, etc.Do it like the short tracks across the country: Rapid fire, then done.
- June 24, 2011 at 1:49 PM
- Jonathan said...
It sucks nobody gets to see anything from Road America today, and now I cant even see Cup qualifying cause I go to work at 9pm central time tonight!!! Whats up with this??????? Not good
- June 24, 2011 at 1:51 PM
- Charles Krall said...
If Speed wants to create additional "lifestyle" programming, why not have these auctions live on, say, a Thursday night? Thursday is a big TV night for the networks and most have their biggest shows on. And it's not like the people buying and selling cars at the auction need to be punching the time card at work. So why aren't the auctions during the week and the NASCAR coverage live on the weekend?
- June 24, 2011 at 2:45 PM
- Anonymous said...
I had the Nascar shows from Speed on with the TV on mute while I watched another TV and did other things. I had the volume on for the beginning of Cup practice. Someone said their water temp was rising on the twisty sections of the track. Durrl chimed in and opined that the jostling of the constant lefts and rights could be causing it. By the way, let me assure that what DW said was nonsense. Then he caught himself and said he couldn't prove what he just said. I immediately hit the mute button again. I tried listening in a few more times and caught more blather and left the TV on mute which is really an enjoyable way of watching the broadcasts. If something happens or catches your eye, you can turn up the volume. I agree with the earlier posts. B-J should be on in the Winter or during the week, but heck, why should Speed get real now??
- June 24, 2011 at 5:21 PM
- tonybct said...
funny, doesn't seem to be the same outrage as when ESPN bumps anything NASCAR, weird
- June 24, 2011 at 7:15 PM
- Anonymous said...
barrett jackson is speed's college football
- June 24, 2011 at 7:59 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Tony, that is a Saturday issue!
- June 24, 2011 at 8:13 PM
- Anonymous said...
Logano is on the pole! Good for Joey! He's had some awful luck this season. Infineon is a challenging track. The end of that race always has some furious racing. Can't wait!
- June 24, 2011 at 8:25 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
It is a SPEED issue. TNT does not do any practice or qualifying and has never done it in this contract.
- June 24, 2011 at 9:24 PM
- Adam Wood said...
Carl Edwards isn't racing at Road America now....that means no cup drivers at Road America. Should be interesting to see how ESPN reacts to this.
- June 24, 2011 at 10:19 PM
- Chris said...
We're missing qualifying coverage for this? Are you serious? Who cares about the stupid auction? They show the ridiculous thing fifty times a year it seems anyway! I don't give a damn about watching people I don't know bid on cars I will never own for prices that I could never fathom spending on in the first place. If I could afford that much I'd do a lot more sensible things with the money than buy an overpriced show vehicle. This is entertainment? "Oh! Someone just raised the bid! Honey! Make some popcorn and get back in here quick, it went up to 75k! You're missing it!" Give me a break. Let me know when the executives at Speed get their heads on straight. Speed and Fox fear the possibility of a Nascar channel? Well now, I wonder why...
- June 25, 2011 at 2:23 AM
- Vicky D said...
I don't like the auto auctions shows and won't watch them and as PJ said, tape delayed qualifying isn't much fun to watch either we already know the results.
- June 25, 2011 at 11:51 AM
- Ginny said...
I can tolerate almost everything on SPEED except the auctions. The minute they switch to the auction, I hit the remote. To me, they are no different than infomercials, to be treated as dead air.
- June 25, 2011 at 6:05 PM
- Anonymous said...
While road course qualifying isn't as sleep-inducing as oval qualifying, I'd still prefer to watch the auctions. I always find them entertaining and pick up a bit of car knowledge from Varsha and crew.
- June 25, 2011 at 8:15 PM


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MHS BOYS BASKETBALL: Mexico High School basketball Bulldogs advanced to the championship game at the Montgomery County R-6 Tournament after beating New Haven 59-28 Thursday night.
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The top-seed Bulldogs return to action Saturday at 7:30 p.m. when they play the second-seed Fulton Hornets.
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COMMUNITY R-6 BOYS: The Community R-6 Trojans boys basketball team lost its season opener Tuesday night in a close game against the Mark Twain Tigers. The final was 59-51. The Trojans had two players in double figures, Justin Durham scored 16 while Clay Thebeau scored 10; Conner Brooks had 9 points with one 3-point basket; Lane Thebeau scored 5P, with 1 3-pointer. Tyler Mays 4P, Shane Myers scored on a 3-point basket and Kaleb Harris and Kyle Curtis each had 2P. Curtis (5) and Durham (4) lead in rebounds, while Myers had 3 steals.
The Trojans play again tonight at Madison.
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Senior foward Paige Harris had another solid game with 8 points, followed by junior Emmalee McCoskey with 8, and Paige Curtis with 7. Julie Hale led in steals with three and Danielle Brooks had 4 assists. For Van-Far Renee Nelson scored 4P.
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The Lady Trojans return to the court tonight at home against Madison.
In junior varsity action R-6 defeated Van-Far 29-10. Leading the way for the Lady Trojans were Danielle Brooks and Rebecca Hagan, with 8 points each, followed by Karissa Graves with 6P and Sam Jackson, 4.
NORTH CALLAWAY BASKETBALL: The North Callaway Ladybirds junior varsity team had trouble finding the basket in the fourth quarter of the game. At the end of the third quarter the score was 12-12. Then in the fourth quarter, New Haven outscored North Callaway 22-4 with the final score 34-16 New Haven.
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Schmitz placed fourth at 157 pounds at the NCAA Super Regional meet, which qualified him for his first trip to the Division II Wrestling National Championships. Schmitz started the season wrestling at 165 pounds and put up a very respectable record at 15-3. After the Christmas break he decided to drop some weight and start wrestling at 157, which allowed him to become practice partners with Maus.
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3 years & up. Year after year, children and adults alike are baffled by the mystery of how Santa really knows who's been naughty or nice. After much urging by the elves and Mrs. Claus, Santa has allowed his biggest secret to be revealed in "The Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas Tradition." Touted as the best thing since "The Night Before Christmas", this gift set includes a light skin, blue-eyed North Pole boy pixie-elf, hardbound children's book and keepsake box. Children can register their elf online and receive a special response from Santa.
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Stanczyk just read EOGN (Eastman Online Genealogy Network) and could not believe what he read. So I followed the source and read that and still did not believe. So I checked further – because I could NOT locate the benchmark/methodology of the survey which is NOT credible. I then Googled and found this source here: http://www.progenealogists.com/top50genealogy2011.htm . I certainly would agree with these rankings as these are what I use most often throughout the year.
Perhaps I am not Canadian as the source EOGN quoted was and perhaps the methodology was geographic based (in Canada, with UK add-in). Dick Eastman should do some extra checking rather than just re-broadcasting bogus news. That is my expectation for EOGN. Read the EOGN blog post that I am railing against here: http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2011/09/genealogy-site-rankings.html
Certainly if I surveyed Polish Genealogy websites, my list would look differently too.
Here is the only credible 2011 Rankings:
Rank Website Coverage/Content
- Ancestry.com $ – Ancestry.com is the leading genealogical data site, and includes articles, instruction, and reference help.
- MyHeritage.com – Focuses on genealogy community building and networking.
- FindAGrave.com – This database of 57 million cemetery inscriptions adds about a million per month and often includes tombstone photos.
- FamilySearch.org – This major data website sponsored by the LDS Church includes the IGI, census records, the library's catalog and a growing collection of historical records from throughout the world, along with instruction and reference help. (4>5>5)
- Genealogy.com $ – A major data site, includes family trees, instruction and reference help. (5>2>4)
- Geni.com – Free, with the world's largest collaborative family. (31>8>18)
- MyFamily.com – Hosts family websites for sharing photos, genealogy, and more. (33>5>5)
- FamilyLink.com $ – One of the most popular FaceBook applications helps people identify and network with their family and search billions of records. (2>80>72)
- RootsWeb.com – One of the largest, free, user-contributed data sites, includes 575 million names in family trees, also instruction and reference help. (6>4>2)
- AncestorHunt.com – Free genealogy search engine linking to free data. (11>11>12)
- AccessGenealogy.com – Millions of names in 250,000 pages, along with links to free data; especially useful for Native American information, and some data. (13>14>13)
- SearchForAncestors.com – Interactive directory of free genealogy websites and data. (12>19>21)
- GenealogyBank.com $ – 1 billion exclusive records from 4500 newspapers and historical books. (19>31>41)
- USGWArchives.net – A large collection of free data, arranged by state and searchable across the entire collection. (8>not ranked)
- CyndisList.com – The best subject catalog of genealogy webpage links. (14>17>15)
- Interment.net – Transcribed and indexed cemetery inscriptions. (16>16>16)
- OneGreatFamily.com$ – A family tree sharing and collaboration website. (9>11>9)
- GenealogyToday.com – Includes instruction, reference articles, and some unique data collections. (10>12>11)
- SurnameWeb.org – A collection of surname website links; online since 1996. (48>62>26)
- FindMyPast.co.uk$ – (Back in) 650 million British records of many types [formerly FindMyPast.com]. (57>46>50)
- Geneanet.org – (Back in) A European collection of 400 million names in family trees, community, and submitted records. (58>42>36)
- DeathIndexes.com – Lists of links to United States death records, by state. (23>25>31)
- Linkpendium.com – Nine million genealogy links organized by state/county and surname. (24>24>35)
- EllisIsland.org – Database of 24 million New York passenger arrivals that is free to search. Actual passenger list images can be printed or purchased. (15>20>14)
- GeneBase.com – A DNA ancestry cataloguing project with 675,000 users. (21>24>24)
- GenealogyTrails.com – Five year old site with free U.S. data contributed by volunteers. (25>35>NR)
- GenealogyBuff.com – A free genealogy search site with hundreds of data sources. (27>134>NR)
- FamilyTreeMaker.com – Homepage for Ancestry.com's genealogical software. (28>21>20)
- USGennet.org – Historical and genealogical web hosting service. (18>15>17)
- WorldVitalRecords.com $ – The data collection provided by Family Link, with over a billion records, as well as instruction and reference help. (17>13>10)
- FamilyTreeDNA.com – DNA testing service focused upon family history test types. (20>26>27)
- Footnote.com $ – In conjunction with the U.S. National Archives, Footnote offers data, original records images, and more. (37>9>8)
- KindredKonnections.com $ – Grassroots created data site with compiled family trees, and some extracted records. (29>22>19)
- CensusFinder.com – Links to free census records. (22>29>40)
- Archives.com $ – A major new subscription data site, launched in July 2009 and already with more than a billion names. (41>New)
- DistantCousin.com – An online archive of genealogy records and images of historical documents. (34>23>22)
- FamilyHistory101.com – Less than four years old and full of instruction and guidance for genealogists. (38>47>107)
- ThePeerage.com – A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe. (44>53>58)
- TribalPages.com – Family trees hosting with 300,000 members and 80 million names. (35>28>25)
- RootsChat.com – (New) Free family history messaging forum with almost 3 million mostly UK messages. (57>54>NR)
- HeritageQuestOnline.com $ – Census, PERSI (the periodical index), books, all free to you at many libraries. (32>39>39)
- NewspaperObituaries.net – (New) A directory of obituary databases and archives on the web. (91>84>126)
- AncientFaces.com – Share genealogy research, community pages, family photos & records more for free. (46>48>38)
- JewishGen.org – Jewish, reference, instruction, coordination, and databases. (26>32>28)
- PoliticalGraveyard.com – Comprehensive source of U.S. political biography that tells where many dead politicians are buried. (36>33>34)
- CousinConnect.com – A large free queries website. (39>27>23)
- DAR.org – Site of the largest lineage society; includes their library catalog and 32 million name index. (43>49>67)
- FamilyTreeMagazine.com – (New) Website for popular magazine that includes shopping, links, and research tools. (55>67>47)
- AmericanAncestors.org $ – (New) The new name for the NEHGS website and their 3,000 databases. (73>89>87)
- GenealogyLinks.net – 50,000 links to free sites, arranged by state and county. (53>50>43)
Dropping out of the top 50:
- GenWed.com– Online marriage records, where to order, some indexes, and more. (42>43>42)
- ObitLinksPage.com– State-by-state directory of obituaries and obituary resources. (47>not ranked)
- Genuki.org.uk– Large collection of genealogical information pages for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man. (50>34>32)
- GenoPro.com– Genealogy software that produces genograms (40>37>53)
- US-Census.org– Census abstracts (U.S. GenWeb Census Project) (49>45>37)
- Genealogy.org– (New) A listing of 400+ registered websites, ranked weekly by hits. (45>69>56)
- FamilyTiez.com– (New) A site where families can establish their own pages to share news, photos, events and genealogy with each other. (30>not ranked)
Send Me your top 10 Polish Genealogy Websites. This will be a non-scientific survey and I will only publish my findings if I can get 36 emails and I will add in my own top 10 Polish Genealogy sites too. Do not include from the above "generic" genealogy sites. I will allow only Polish (or German, Russian, Austrian, Slavic, Czech, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Jewish, or Hungarian genealogy websites that have ties to Poland).
Email your top 10 to: Stanczyk Email


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As I've already explained, you're basically just being an internet tough guy when it comes to this topic, as is Nam.<snip>
I will make one caveat - if you are insane then I would understand your thinking that you would have a preference of real eternal torture to {not} real eternal torture. Are you insane?
Religions need books because they don't have gods.
Let's leave it a mystery.
It's not a mystery.
HAL, you must point out where I said that I'd be able to handle it.
All I said is that I'd prefer it to bowing down to something that is as far away from perfect as possible
Who are you to say that I would/do not? The answer is "nobody". You don't know me better than I know myself.
I'd rather not say. Let's leave it a mystery.
Seriously, you guys are the meanest people I have ever met. I hope you are happy and feel really good about yourself.
Getting back to the question in the OP, I'd have to admit I would fall in and give this tyrant his insincere worship and start looking to see if he has a potential weakness and try to fall in with the underground and revolt.
I think the mystery is becoming less mysterious.
You're assuming I can handle bowing down and worshiping imperfection for eternity, as well as everything else that heaven would entail. I can't. It's worse (for me) than physical pain.
Nice bold statement, but it's not believable.
You aren't that tough, because you are merely a human. You will not be able to do it.
I know myself, and I can damn well say that I can and would do it.
To add to this, I believe that each individual's experience in hell would differ depending on what they would consider to be true suffering. Basically, I believe that the idea of hell is to be the absolute worse suffering for each individual person, which words could not describe, and for anyone to really claim that just because they're tough in our mortal world and can take pain, this toughness and high tolerance of pain does not translate to an eternity of suffering in hell.
Oh well. I'm done here.
I propose an experiment! HAL kidnaps One Above All, ties him to a chair and tortures him constantly with no mercy and the only way he can get out of it is to propose to Shirley Phelps, HAL documents the torture. How many years of torture would suffice? I don't think it'd be possible to emulate an eternity. those poor test subjects. At least they'd all have cake.
But let's say that his suffering in Hell is exactly what he refuses to do to prevent him from going to Hell in the first place. He either chooses to worship Biblegod and stay out of Hell getting all the other benefits of afterlife out of Hell, or if he refuses, he has to worship Biblegod forever with no breaks.
HAL, I just wanted to take a moment to let you know that I officially agree with Nam and have had a similar position to his since my deconversion some many years ago.
Ok, I'm done reading the last two pages. But I have some questions as I don't fully understand the nature of the bible's hell. So is it just that you go "live" or "exist" in a lake of fire for all eternity? Or is there some mind control, and other torture methods present? Are all of your human coping mechanisms and attributes removed when you enter this place? Is there literally no time limit?[1]You can't literally burn forever, that's silly. So, how exactly does this lake of fire work, does it just "boil" at a level that prevents nerve damage? Do you just eventually turn to ashes? I really, honestly, don't understand the biblical concept of hell. So if someone could explain this stuff to me first I can then attempt to answer the OP. It's kinda like the matrix, I already have all the information I need to prevent me from ever being able to worship the biblical god. There's literally no going back. I can't fake worship because he would know. So aside from pride, toughness, and masochism what option do I really have? Edit to add: All that being said, it seems perfectly logical to me to choose torment, at least that way it gives me the perception of choice. Because from my understanding of the bible I have no choice, I'm destined for hell any ways, so why not allow myself this one last pretend +1 on god? 1. I think I've read several Christians with biblical sources that claim it's not really all eternity.
You can't literally burn forever, that's silly. So, how exactly does this lake of fire work, does it just "boil" at a level that prevents nerve damage? Do you just eventually turn to ashes?
There's literally no going back. I can't fake worship because he would know.
Thanks for your attempt at it WeZzZzRURR... But what you provided is your interpretation of the bible. I don't really want an interpretation because I've read many of those, none of them make sense to me. You see there are too many contradictions for me to wrap by head around the concepts.
I always say what I mean. But sometimes I'm a sarcastic prick whose tone can't be properly communicated via text.
Like I posted earlier, my interpretation of hell is suffering beyond description, the worse suffering that each individual could go through... Like someone previously stated, you could think of it kind of like magic, whereby you continue to feel the same amount of suffering repeatedly for an eternity, not getting used to the pain, not withering away, just a continuation of indescribable suffering. And I would have to say that, if someone had felt this suffering prior to making their decision, they would have no choice but to try and believe in a bible god even if they don't agree with the morals of that said bible god..... But being that you could not have any idea what kind of suffering would ensue you in hell, you would naturally do what is right to you, deny the thought worshiping something that you completely disagree with, but later regret it in your suffering.
If Biblegod was shown 100% to exist, i'd be happy to burn foever (sic) in Hell.
All that being said, it seems perfectly logical to me to choose torment, at least that way it gives me the perception of choice. Because from my understanding of the bible I have no choice, I'm destined for hell any ways, so why not allow myself this one last pretend +1 on god?
I think I would give in and worship. Principals go out the window when "eternity" comes into play. I can't stand a frickin' toothache for 5 minutes, much less what biblegod could come up with. More power to those stronger than me tho.


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Dead or Alive: A pioneer town is infiltrated by a gang of thieves and murderers, and it's up to Dave Wyatt and Tex Haines to weed them out. Posing as a hardened train robber with secretly buried loot, Wyatt joins crime kingpin Clint Yackey and his gang, then uses a series of brilliant cons and misdirections to bait and catch the criminals in action. When the gang conspires to empty a bank's vault of a quarter million dollars, the law mistakenly arrests Wyatt, refusing to believe he is an undercover ranger. He is immediately sentenced to death by hanging. Meanwhile, the real criminals have captured Haines, the only man who knows Wyatt's true identity, and the only one who can save his life.
Enemy of the Law: Rugged cowboy and lawyer Tex Haines (Tex Ritter) is summoned to the Texas Rangers field station in an effort to locate and recover almost a million dollars in gold coins stolen from a US Government wagon train years before. Tex, along with Ranger Dave Wyatt (Dave O'Brien) and the lanky cowpoke Panhandle Perkins (Guy Wilkerson), must follow the criminal mastermind Wild Charley Gray when he is paroled from prison in hopes he will lead them to the hidden money.
Guns of the Law: Thugs working for greedy, powerful lawyer Kendall Lowther are illegally evicting families from their homesteads. Ranchers who protest meet with unfortunate and lethal "accidents." Civil War veteran Jed Wilkins and his sassy granddaughter, Lillian, are forced from their farm, but Jed, half-crazed and full of frontier gumption, plans to counterattack and lay siege to his stolen land. Jed and Lillian seek help from the Texas Rangers.
Gunsmoke Mesa: Texas Rangers Jim Steele, Tex Wyatt and Panhandle Perkins discover the corpses of a miner and his young wife in a remote cabin. While looking for clues, they find the couple's infant son hidden in a back room. Leaving the baby in Panhandle's care, Jim and Tex ride into town to get to the bottom of the killings. They learn that the child is the sole heir to a valuable mine, and that an outlaw gang is desperate to locate the boy and eliminate him as part of their scheme to claim the inheritance.
Return of the Rangers: Tex Wyatt, Jim Steele, and Panhandle Perkins point their horses towards the town of Custer, where a rash of cattle thefts has placed Anne Miller's ranch on the verge of bankruptcy. Land company manager, Frank Martin, has been secretly orchestrating the rustling of Ann's herds, intent on selling the property out from under her. Anne's only hope to save the ranch is the estate's trustee, Mr. Dobbs, so Martin orders his men to kill him before he makes it to Custer. Happening upon the crime scene, Tex is fingered for the shooting, but his pal, Panhandle, masquerading as Custer's new circuit judge, frees him. With Tex out of jail, the trio must unravel Martin's operation before their true identities are revealed.
Spook Town: The Texas Rangers believe they've found a perfect place to guard a treasure when they hole up in a ghost town. A bandit who wants the locked chest hires three notorious drifters to eliminate the Rangers. Their first assault is held off by the quick reflexes and sharpshooting of Tex and his men, forcing the thieves to look for more devious methods. One by one the Rangers are waylaid by shadowy figures that strike and then disappear. The action breaks just long enough for radio star Jim Newill to deliver two rousing songs.
Three in the Saddle: John Rankin and his Southwestern Stage Line have been granted the right of way in Oak Flats Texas, and have bought out every property except Peggy Barlow's Tin Cup Ranch. Unwilling to sell, Barlow is on the verge of being forced out by court order, so Tin Cup foreman Tex Haines suggests that they take the law into their own hands. His call to violence is quickly tempered by a plan to resolve the matter with diplomacy and a petition to the governor is drafted. The fragile peace is shattered when the unarmed bearer of the petition is shot by one of Rankin's gunmen. Tex isn't aware that the governor has already sent two of his finest agents to look into the matter, and that they're posing as ranch hands at the Tin Cup. Includes BONUS feature, Matt Clark, Railroad Detective Meets Belle Starr.
Whispering Skull: Tex Ritter is on the trail of a menacing phantom badman in this classic western whodunnit. Along with fellow Texas Ranger Dave Wyatt, Tex pursues the ruthless Whispering Skull, a mysterious midnight rider who terrorizes homesteaders and kills anyone who stands in his way. It's up to Tex, Wyatt and their trusty sidekick Panhandle Perkins to catch the culprit and stop a group of scheming varmints who cash in on the Skull's grip of fear with coach robberies and diamond heists. The film features two musical numbers from the crooning Tex, "In Case You Change Your Mind" and "It's Never Too Late," both of which he co-wrote.


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The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) drew straws over the weekend and Sen. Rand Paul came out on top as the leading Republican figure for their party. Florida Senator Marco Rubio came in a close second.
CPAC is already putting their thoughts together for 2016. Wow, no time like the present to looking toward the future. Pres. Obama is only three months into his second term and already the Republicans are strategizing. I find the whole scenario silly and just another reason to not trust them.
Right now those in Congress (both Democrats and Republicans) should be working diligently to come to comprise over our national debt problems – instead Republicans choose to go and play their little political games. I'm more inclined to call them "Republicants."
From what I saw of CPAC on the news I wasn't impressed. Why was Sarah Palin there? My God – Are they that stupid? Didn't any of them even see "Game Change"? She, of all party affiliates, should have avoided such a conference, let alone, even been invited.
Mitt Romney passed the so-called "torch" to the next generation of republicants, to which Rick Santorum hoped to get. He came up in just single digits in the straw poll. Somebody needs to kindly tell him to go home. His own party can no longer get behind a man who wants to take us back 100 years. Santorum spoke and said, "Obama wants a Godless America." What kind of crap is that?
The Republican party is in desperate need of an overhaul and no one present can do it. Senate Majority Leader John Boehner can't do it either. The man is a divider and not someone who wants to unite the country.
People and life is ever-evolving. Republicans need to embrace the change and grow with it. Then, and only then, will they come back to being a party worthy of leading our nation. I don't see that happening for a long time, though – at least from what we continue to see from them. I'm not impressed, to say the least.
Pres. Obama is not a perfect man. No man is, however, he is at least trying. That is more than I can say for most republicans. I have never seen a leader tackle so many issues in as shortest time as he has and manage to accomplish something – no one since Roosevelt has been able to do so many monumental things for America than Obama has done. I secretly believe they are holding that against him because he was able to do what they've tried to do for years and failed.
CPAC or not, the Republican party is in trouble and weary of existence if they don't change.
The Republican party is in trouble
The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) drew straws over the weekend and Sen. Rand Paul came out on top as the leading Republican figure for their party. Florida Senator Marco Rubio came in a close second.


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Quinn Phillips, 5, was the smallest individual Wednesday night at a meeting of the Central Delaware Marine Corps League, but he stood straight as he received two awards for donating his birthday toys to Toys for Tots for the past four years.
"It was something I started," said his mother, Crystal Phillips, of Hartly. "We took a full Toys for Tots donation box starting with his fourth birthday. Once he understood at five, he insisted that it become a tradition."
Quinn, who attends the Calvary Christian School on Route 10, walked bravely to the front after being summoned by Central Delaware Commandant Ralph Willis, of Milford. There, Quinn received two framed certificates; one was from the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves, praising Quinn for his "outstanding support of Toys for Tots in 2012." It was signed by Lieutenant General Steven Hummer. The second was a "distinguished citizen award, in appreciation and gratitude," for his contributions, presented by the Central Delaware Marine Corps League and signed by Willis.
Following the presentation, last year's toy drive was reviewed.
Willis and Assistant Drive Chairman Dennis Sipple said there was a slow start in collections, followed by an unprecedented burst of generosity from Kent County individuals and businesses.
The Marines collected 4,402 toys, 124 books and 828 "stocking stuffers," which are new, small gifts that recipients can add to make Christmas a little more satisfying for underprivileged children. The Toys for Tots Foundation added 1,840 toys.
In the end, the Marines distributed 7,363 toys, the books and the stocking stuffers. As a result of the generosity of Kent County citizens and businesses, several bicycles were donated.
"Every parent that received a bicycle wept," said Sipple. With no notice, donors were dropping off large numbers of toys at the headquarters, the former Blockbuster store in the Greentree Shopping Center on Route 8.
And Quinn, who allowed that "This is my first award," went home to Hartly, ready to donate again for Christmas 2013.


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Steve Jobs could get his own postage stamp.
Jobs appears on a list of approved designs that could start circulating in 2014, according to a document obtained by The Washington Post.
The Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee typically keeps information very secret until stamps are released, according to the Post, to create buzz around new stamps. The document was marked "Confidential/Restricted Information."
Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Wilt Chamberlain are among the other icons on the list, at least partly in a bid to increase stamp collecting among young Americans.
"The approved subjects include many more traditional historical, cultural and literary figures that have long been the hallmark of the stamp program. But the financially strapped service is embarking on a new path now to increase revenue and attract young collectors, one more heavily tilted toward popular subjects," wrote the Post, Friday.


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Few people think less of the state's power rankings, at least until the final few weeks of a season, than I do. Still, that doesn't mean there aren't interesting trends every now and then.
Southern Oregon Hybrid baseball coaches annually talk about their league being one of the toughest — if not THE toughest — in the state, and the Class 6A power rankings certainly support that early on.
Last week, North Medford and South Medford spent time atop the constantly evolving RPI system and, entering Monday's games, all five SOH teams were ranked among the top nine on the 42-team list. The teams have combined to go 37-5.
"I think truly what that shows is we've got a pretty good conference from top to bottom," said South Medford head coach Ray Smith. "I truly believe that all the teams are pretty close. Obviously there are some teams that are a little more talented and experienced with playing together, but we play some pretty good baseball here in southern Oregon."
Thurston (4-2) overtook North Medford and South Medford over the weekend for the No. 1 spot in the power rankings with a 760.30 RPI, but the Black Tornado (8-1, 738.15) and Panthers (8-0, 716.40) aren't far off in the next two spots.
SOH defending champion Roseburg (8-1, 669.87) stands fourth, followed by Sheldon (6-1, 668.20), Clackamas (8-0, 662.63) and South Salem (6-2, 606.11). SOH teams Grants Pass (7-2, 600.78) and Crater (6-1, 600.05) stand eighth and ninth, respectively.
"Right now I don't believe they're relevant to where we're at at this time of the season," Smith said of the early rankings, "but we just have a competitive league. It's been that way and we've had to fight and scrap for everything we've gotten for the four years since I've been here as varsity coach and before that."
Preseason favorite North Medford has proven its abilities against teams from outside Oregon, going 4-1 on last week's trip to Arizona, and the dangerous Comets will strive to similarly show their abilities in San Jose, Calif., this week.
The biggest surprise has to be Smith's bunch at South Medford, which was picked to finish last in a preseason SOH coaches' poll but joins Clackamas as the only undefeated 6A teams. Only eight teams in all the classifications had yet to suffer a defeat entering Monday's games.
The Panthers have matched win total of last season, when they were 8-16.
"We've got some kids that are swinging the bats really well and that's why we are where we're at," said Smith, noting his team will certainly be tested today against Class 5A Ashland. "Our pitching has really been pretty good, too. Really what it's come down to is our kids are competing and we're making the plays that we needed to."
Joe Cooney, Caleb Newman and Brandon Lupton have helped stabilize the pitching rotation.
Offensively, Jimmy Sporer is hitting .577 in the leadoff spot with 12 stolen bases and 16 runs scored in eight games. Pat Alexander is hitting .286 with 15 RBIs and Nate Walker is at .440 with seven doubles and nine RBIs for the Panthers, who are hitting .394 as a team and have outscored their opponents 88-29.
"We're nowhere where we need to be but hopefully we'll get to where we want to be," said Smith.
As good of a start as it has been for the entire SOH, that only means each team will have to lace their cleats up that much tighter beginning next Tuesday, when the conference season opens.
"Now going into the league season we'll truly find out where we fit in," said Smith. "They're all talented teams, and look what happened last year with Crater. They were picked to finish last and they went on to take second."
"Baseball's a funny game at times," added the coach. "You just kinda have to go out there and play game to game and day to day and we'll see where South Medford winds up in the end. I'm pretty happy with the accomplishments our kids have made to this point, but we're going to have to get out there and get after them and play the best baseball we can play and see where that takes us."
Smith said another potential reason for the good start by most all the local teams is in the good weather the Rogue Valley has seen leading up to the spring season. Last year, practice days — and even games — were few and far between for the first month of the season, but that's not been the case this year. In fact, Smith said the weekend rain leading up to his team's practice Monday has been the only issue thus far in its schedule.
"We haven't missed a practice and haven't had any type of true issues with the weather as we have in the past and that's a big part of it for us," he said. "To be able to practice a little bit more in the early going really has been important."
DESPITE DEDICATED efforts by the athletic directors at North Medford and Ashland high schools on behalf of the southern Oregon area, the Oregon School Activities Association appears set on continuing the current six classification system.
North Medford's Tim Sam and Ashland's Karl Kemper spoke to the OSAA's Classification and Districting Committee recently and asked the group to reconsider the benefits of a potential five-classification system. Despite their pleas during a gathering two weeks ago, the OSAA committee let it be known that they have maintained a consensus to recommend a six-classification system.
The committee has also reached a consensus that adjusted average daily membership (ADM) figures will be used when classifying public and private schools, and any school's petition to play down must use more quantifiable data when doing so, including combined RPI standings in a three-year span, as well as winning percentages, and free/reduced price lunch statistics. If a school meets all the criteria, its request to play down would be granted, while anything short of that would be up for review.
In the most recent draft for reclassification, and we all know that's OSAA code for "We want this," it appears that only the local 6A and 5A schools will have vastly different setups than they currently do.
In the committee's latest draft proposal, there are two options for 6A leagues but the 5A to 1A piece of the puzzle is clearly defined
The 4A Skyline Conference is exactly the same, while the 3A Southern Oregon League is made up of Cascade Christian, St. Mary's, Rogue River, Illinois Valley, Glide, Lakeview and South Umpqua.
The 5A Midwestern League would have Crater, Ashland and Eagle Point, as well as Churchill, Marist, North Eugene, Springfield and Thurston.
The 6A options for the 44 schools involve using five conferences overall (option A) or six conferences to create more similarly sized groupings (option B). The Southern Oregon Conference is the same in both and consists of North Medford, South Medford, Grants Pass, Roseburg, Sheldon, South Eugene and Willamette.
The next public meeting of the Classification and Districting Committee will be next Monday at the Holiday Inn in Wilsonville, and follows the Delegate Assembly meeting. The committee will meet throughout this school year and will make its final recommendations in October for the 2014-18 time block to the OSAA Executive Board.
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Area schools were on heightened alert last week as a pair of potential shooting threats, one in Dodge City and one in Greensburg, came just before the start of Christmas break.
Area schools were on heightened alert last week as a pair of potential shooting threats, one in Dodge City and one in Greensburg, came just before the start of Christmas break.
Last Wednesday the Dodge City Police Department (DCPD) and officials from USD 443 increased security at Dodge City High School and the Dodge City Elementary School, rumored to be the location of a "hoax" shooting organized by students.
"We immediately investigated the threat," said Dodge City Chief of Police Craig Mellecker. "There were two officers assigned to investigate and they spent multiple hours and interviewed more than 20 students and faculty from the high school."
Eventually determined to be an unsubstantiated rumor, police were put on alert after the parent of a student reported hearing about it from her child.
Mellecker said his investigators determined the threat was purely "rumor, innuendo, assumption" and said the threat began as a misunderstood comment taken out of context. "It just keep going and going and turned into a really bad rumor," he said. "There was no specific threat made."
USD 443 released a statement Thursday assuring the community that the safety of students is a top priority and reminded residents about the comprehensive safety plans in place to help avoid tragedies.
"We take every rumor or concern very seriously and investigate them with the help of local law enforcement. None of the recent rumors some of you may have heard were ignored, but neither were they found to have any substance," the statement read. "Both law enforcement and school administrators are satisfied that the issues have been looked into fully and feel that having children in school, where they have the support of their classmates, teachers, and staff, is in their best interests."
Chief Mellecker said the response was "swift and immediate" and said his department takes every threat seriously. "Even if the threat was a hoax we'd have no way of knowing that, and someone could get seriously injured." said Mellecker, adding that the heightened awareness and concern in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting may have played a role in the claims.
On Thursday Kiowa County Sheriff Dept. officers were posted at all county schools as a precautionary measure after a county student received a somewhat cryptic and threatening text message.
The message read only "I was told there was going to be a shooting at school tomorrow" and gave no other specifics.
"It was not a direct threat," said Kiowa County Sheriff Kendall Lothman. "It was not a text that said, 'I'm going to come to school tomorrow and shoot a bunch of people.' It implied a possible threat, but it didn't say why or where."
Lothman dispatched three officers to Kiowa County Schools in Greensburg, a pair of officers to Haviland Grade School and a single officer to Barclay College Campus in Haviland. Lothman also said an officer was not designated to a single location and spent the day at multiple locations.
Initially it was thought the message had been sent randomly and from an unknown number, but a "distant" connection was discovered between the owner of the phone that sent the message and the Kiowa County student.
Lothman said he believed the relationship between the two people was "not immediate or frequent."
The text message originated from a phone located around the Fort Leonard Wood area, a Missouri military base about 90 minutes northeast of Springfield.
"We felt confident that the content of that text was not directed at our school, any school in Kiowa County or any school in the state of Kansas for that matter," said Lothman. "We believed it was isolated to that Missouri location. We also felt comfortable that the phone originating the text was still in Missouri. After contacting Missouri law enforcement we discovered that the authorities there already had an open investigation related to that text."
Lothman thought it was possible the text message had been sent to multiple phone numbers in the cell phone's contact list.
School administrators were briefed on Thursday evening.
"After we were done with our investigation I contacted all of the administrators and told them what was going on," said Lothman. "I felt confident that there was no direct threat to our school, but I just didn't want to take any chances. I wanted to put uniformed officers at all of the schools. They all agreed and thought it was a good idea. We developed a strategy and a plan. They all worked well with us. I felt like everyone was on top of the situation."
All of the county schools had a full day of classes, though Haviland school was scheduled to be dismissed early, at about 12:15 p.m. and most Barclay students had already left campus for Christmas break.
"Rest assured that if there were a more eminent danger we would not have kids come to school," wrote Haviland Superintendent Mike Couch in a statement on the school's website. "Beyond this, we want the public to know that our safety procedures will be reviewed and revised where needed prior to second semester. The plan now is to have each door locked except for the front door of the elementary school building."
The heightened security at the school in Greensburg also affected students and faculty at Skyline High School in neighboring Pratt County.
Administrators at USD 438 instituted an "exterior lock down" after a Skyline student alerted faculty about what was happening in Kiowa County.
The Skyline student had been in communication with a student at the Kiowa County Schools in Greensburg via text message and shared the information with a teacher.
"At no time was there anyone in danger to our school or any school facilities in the county, nor was there ever a threat to our school or any school in the county," wrote Skyline Superintendent Mike Sanders in a statement on the school's website. "We decided to lock the front door as a precaution. As a service, the Pratt County Sheriff's office sent a plain-clothes officer to be on site [Friday] to assist us."
Sanders explained that all exterior doors of the school, except for the front door, are typically locked during school hours.
School days at all of the affected facilities were without incident.
A tidal wave of arrests and shooting threats has swept across the country in the weeks following the Dec. 14 Newton, Conn. shooting tragedy that killed 26 students and faculty.
There were widespread reports of shooting-threat related arrests on Friday alone.
Law enforcement officials in Canyon City, Colo. arrested a 13-year-old student for allegedly sending threatening text messages students at his school.
Graniteville, S.C. police were also on high alert after rumors of a possible shooting spread throughout the school.
Local police questioned two high school students, one from Anchorage, Alaska and one from Burkburnett, Texas after both made school shooting threats on social media websites.
According to a report in the Times Record News a 17-year-old Texas high school student was arrested after a cryptic post equating a school shooting and the "end of the world" along with a photo of him shooting a shotgun appeared on his Facebook page.
The Alaska Dispatch reported that a 15-year-old student was suspended after making threats to other gamers while playing an on-line video game.
Communities across the country seem to be extremely sensitive to threats right now, especially when tragedies, like the shooting in Newtown, are still fresh.
"That has got to be on everybody's mind," said Sheriff Lothman. "With an incident of that magnitude people get wind of something or any kind of talk or even a mention of something like that and it gets everyone thinking 'what if?' No one thinks it could happen in our community, but 'what if it could?' It's really hit people and maybe put them more on guard."
As lawmakers discuss increases in school security nationwide, law enforcement officials are expected to look for ways to improve security measures on a local level.
"I've heard lots of discussion in the news about putting armed guards in schools and I definitely think some need it, but you can't make choices based on past experience," said Lothman. "I think talking about things, having plans and resources can help prevent things like that. The key to this is prevention and training the school staff. You can never have too much of that stuff."
Abigail Wilson of the Dodge City Daily Globe contributed to this report.


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'Aaaawwwww that must be lovely, all the cutesome little animals!' people inevitably drool when you tell them you've landed a summer job working for the local vet. Honestly, have you all lost any capacity for logical reasoning? Think about it – do you take Fido to the vet when he's young, healthy and in fine fettle? No, you don't. You haul him along there because he's got diarrhoea or exotic parasites, or he's taken to biting everyone he meets.
Certainly there is a liberal sprinkling of kittens and puppies, and these are indeed cute even if the puppies do have a tendency to wee on the floor in an excess of excitement. But their appeal is rather outweighed by the abundance of huge smelly hounds with matted fur and halitosis. Seriously, why would you think of keeping 50kg of incontinent rottweiler in the house? The stench in there must be worse than the zoo's lion enclosure at cleaning time on a hot day in August.
If you really must keep an enormous hairy thing the size of a small bear, then possibly think about brushing him now and then. And I venture to suggest that he'd smell a bit less like something marinated for three weeks in rancid yak milk if you bathed him accasionally. Yes, I know hauling eight stone of reluctant Rover into the bath is no easy task. Getting the bugger onto the operating table when he's out cold isn't funny either, let me tell you.
Furthermore (and I know you don't want to think about this, but it comes to all of us), when Fido reaches the end of his rich and varied existence and the vet releases him to gambol off into the afterlife, somebody has to get him into a big plastic sack and stash him in the freezer until he can be respectably cremated. That would be me then. And I can tell you that wrestling my own body weight in dead dog into a plastic bag is not easy, especially when he's covered in wee. (Look, if you euthanase something half the size of a horse at a moment when he was just about thinking of going out for a tinkle, there's going to be a lot of wee, all right?) Apart from any one of the many other considerations, it makes the bag slippery.
All of which has taught me that there's far more to choosing a pet than just taking whichever mutt looks at you with the biggest eyes when you're browsing in Pets 'R' Us. In fact, what I've mostly learned is that if you're going to keep an animal at all, you're probably best off giving the pet shop a miss altogether and shopping at the taxidermist. An ex-boyfriend once bought a house from someone who kept a stuffed Jack Russell on top of the piano, something which I thought strange at the time, but which I now fully understand.
But I accept that despite the clear advantages offered by a stuffed best friend, many people might feel that it lacks a certain something (though I bet there are others out there who even now are wondering how much it would cost to have their life partner stuffed and mounted in a glass case on top of the piano – I can see serious plus points in that arrangement as well).
The first thing to consider here has to be size. No matter how much of a 'big softy' that rottweiler is, the fact remains that he weighs nearly as much as you do, and if he decides to take off after something you'll just have to hope that you didn't wrap the leash round your wrist, because if you did you'll be picking gravel out of your skin for months. He could also eat you if he decided he fancied the idea, which is rather worrying. Rule of thumb: do not keep aggressive household carnivores unless they are at most a quarter your size, and preferably a lot less. Reject the rotty and consider a chihuahua – I know they look ridiculous, but you have to admit they have comedy value.
Next, I'd look at hairiness. You thought people left hair in the plugholes? You should see how much loose fur there is lying around a vet clinic at the end of a day. You could make one of those '70s Starsky and Hutch style cardigans out of it by the end of a week and still have enough left for a scarf and matching woolly hat. Share your house with one of those Bernese mountain hounds and it's going to be all over carpets and furniture all of the time. You'll be changing the hoover bag every two days. Short is good in the fur department. Bald could be better. Consider the attractions of a fish tank.
Finally, think about hygiene. While cats, being fastidious critters, can be left to get on with their own housetraining and will generally only wee on your bed when they wish to communicate displeasure, puppies take a lot of convincing before they get the idea that the world is not their toilet. So you might as well get rid of all your carpets straight off, because you'll have to do it eventually and it will make mopping up easier in the meantime. Or entertain the idea of a gerbil, an animal which doesn't wee at all. Ever. (Seriously – they live in the desert, can't afford to waste the water. If they did wee they'd have to drink it, and how disgusting would that be?)
In summary, your ideal animal companion needs to be small, bald and continent. Ladies and gntlemen, I give you ……….. the perfect dog!
All right, he looks like a cross between Dobby and Gollum, and I can't actually guarantee the continent part, but cross him with a gerbil and you could probably sort that out in a couple of generations. Result.


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Everyone is entitled to his/her own opinion, and each has the right to express that opinion. I, too, have the right to express opinions. I agree with my opinion about what I just wrote.
Everyone is entitled to his/her own opinion, and each has the right to express that opinion. I, too, have the right to express opinions. I agree with my opinion about what I just wrote.
Within the Oak Ridge City Council and School Board there are 12 elected officials — all of whom were elected by the same citizens. But we were elected to do two different jobs. We should not be stepping on each other's toes. Both elected bodies are accountable to the citizens of Oak Ridge.
Earlier this year, our BOE Chairman Keys Fillauer asked us (Board members) to meet one-on-one with members of City Council. I met with five of the seven (Trina Baughn, Anne Garcia Garland, Chuck Hope, Charlie Hensley and David Mosby). I have not yet made the time to ask Tom Beehan and Jane Miller for such a meeting. (I am not neglecting you, Tom and Jane. I just haven't done it yet.) We had nice, cordial chats about a variety of subjects — principally school maintenance, school resource officers (SROs), the Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) and school safety. There were other topics that crept in, of course. Nothing was decided or resolved. However, we did agree (at least some of us) that we should continue the one-on-one chats. We also seemed to be in general agreement that casting blame on each other is not productive. So, where am I going with all this?
I am going to hope for several things.
• We move forward rather than backward. If we keep looking backward, we're going to run in to something or, perhaps, turn into pillars of salt.
• Members of the BOE and City Council continue with the one-on-one chats. I think I will be very disappointed if we don't continue these.
• Members of City Council reach out to BOE members also for these little chats. I look forward to your phone call or email.
• All members of the City Council meet with our new Superintendent, Dr. (Bruce) Borchers. I think that he and our City Manager have met already, and Chief Akagi is scheduled to meet with Dr. Borchers within days. Dr. Borchers has certainly reached out. These are positive signs. Truthfully, I can see no reason why these meetings cannot/should not take place. Again, I think I will be very disappointed if these meetings don't happen.
• We talk more. Maybe even joint City Council/BOE meetings — or as David Mosby suggested during our chat, a "Summit." Folks, I will freely admit that I am probably not the brightest bulb in the box, so there may be lots of things that I don't see in a particular issue. But that's why we get together, have meetings and talk to each other. There is value in a person-to-person conversation. And, as the old saying goes, none of us is as smart as all of us.
• If we disagree, we need to remember that disagreements are just that – disagreements. They are not the end of the world. How we handle those disagreements is far more important.
• We can remember that we were elected by the same people to lead the community. A part of leading is unifying — not splintering. Nationwide, at every level of government, this seems to be a problem. We don't have to go there. But first we need to unify ourselves.
Among us 12 elected officials and even those employed by us, I am sure there are some Rotarians. When I attended, they ended every meeting with a recitation of the four-way test — one of its hallmarks.
For Rotary, The Four-Way Test is the cornerstone of all action. It has been for years, and it will be in the future. Of the things we think, say or do …
• Is it the TRUTH?
• Is it FAIR to all concerned?
• Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
• Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
Without formally adopting this, we can still operate that way — individually and collectively.
It really is not important who has the upper hand — if there is such a thing. We are all working for the same city and hopefully want the same thing(s).
Oak Ridge, in my opinion, is a very fine city. I never fuss about paying my taxes. We have a very fine police department, fire department, school system, very fine city services of all kinds, etc. Yes, our city can be improved. That's our job while we serve — and even after. Our nation's founding fathers even knew the same thing when they formed the nation and wrote the Constitution: "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union …" They certainly seemed to have known that the job is never done.
These are my opinions.
Donato "Dan" DiGregorio is an Oak Ridge Board of Education member.