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From student identification and performance tracking systems to transportation routing and employee evaluation software, data and technology are driving decisions big and small in public education.
It's important to remember, however, that preserving data is as important as collecting it.
"The unexpected is something everyone needs to prepare for," says Keith Krueger, chief executive officer of the Washington, D.C.-based Consortium for School Networking (CoSN). "Whether it's the electricity going out or a terrorist attack or a natural disaster, it's hard to say firmly what to expect but you need to have a backup plan."
More precisely, Krueger says, school districts need to have a business continuity plan, a corporate practice that forward-thinking districts are adopting with increasing frequency.
In essence, schools must move from merely preparing for a crisis toward planning for how to keep critical operations and communications going through and beyond one. Data and IT protection are a part of that planning process.
"We rely on technology so much in education, if you don't have a plan for what to do when those are taken out, you're going to be in trouble," Krueger says. "The flipside is that same technology gives us a real opportunity for meeting those challenges, but you need to have a plan."
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Prior to the beginning of action at BB&T Atlanta Open's "Bro Down Showdown," on July 22, four sets of brothers who have all battled on the ATP World Tour – James and Thomas Blake; Ryan and Christian Harrison; Jack and Eric Sock and former Georgia Tech doubles partners and roommates Juan Spir and Kevin King – met at center court before going head-to-head for the chance of becoming the top "Bros," and taking with it bragging rights.
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Roy Smith: Frost scare
This is the time of year that shows, on my long term seasonal charts, as the "frost scare" period. With the early planting and heat we have had so far this year, convincing the soybean markets of a frost scare will be tough. However, calling what usually happens this time of year a frost scare is really a misnomer. In reality, during the last half of August and first week of September, it is typical to see the soybean trade worried about a whole list of things that can go wrong with the crop during this critical pod-filling time.
For non irrigated farmers in the western Midwest, dry weather is probably more apt to cause poor yields than frost. Here in southeast Nebraska, we had hot weather with little rain for almost four weeks. Monday and Tuesday of this week we got almost an inch of rain. The amount depended on the location. While it will not make for a bumper crop, it certainly is better than four more days of heat with no moisture.
For parts of the soybean growing area, the concern is with diseases that could kill the plants prematurely or insects that could still damage yields and quality. Reports of Sudden Death Syndrome in large areas of Iowa illustrate how such things can be a market factor. There is no doubt that the disease has infested soybeans in that state. The questions are how much yield loss the infestation will cause and whether ideal growing conditions in other states will make up for the loss in Iowa.
It seems that every year problems pop up somewhere which cause farmers and soybean traders to worry about production. Seldom do there problems cause major yield losses nationwide. Reality strikes just often enough to scare producers into not selling as much of the new crop as they probably should.
The situation this year is somewhat unusual in that there has been a major rally in soybean futures during the early part of August. I normally would expect to see prices higher on September 10 that they are today. However, looking at the charts it is difficult to see how the recent price strength could continue for another three weeks. In the last week, futures prices have broken through a steep uptrend line that has supported the rally for several weeks. Maybe the frost scare, dry weather and SDS rally has gone as far as fundamentals will take it and prices will pull back for a few weeks before harvest.
On the other hand, here in southeast Nebraska soybeans for delivery in August maintain a premium of 52 cents over those for delivery in September. This is certainly not indicating an imminent collapse in prices. In fact, the last time we had a similar huge spread in soybean prices in 2003-2004, it was followed by a big rally after harvest. Stay tuned. I have a feeling that the fun is just beginning!


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You've seen it many a time--a horse gallops across a field and dirt clods fly every which way. With normal activity, your horse's hooves are subject to a natural cleansing process that scours the bottom of the hoof and removes debris collected there. Any reason for inactivity, such as lameness or constraints on exercise and turnout, can influence how successful the natural cleaning action is that comes with moving across dry ground. It doesn't require a fast run to accomplish this; even just regular movement at a walk and trot will be beneficial.
Bill Moyer, DVM, department head of Veterinary Large Animal Clinical Sciences at the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Texas A&M University, has had a special interest in equine foot health for decades. He stresses, "Most cases of thrush occur in inactive horses that live in stalls. Unfortunately, this describes a huge percentage of horses in the United States, since over the past few decades horses have become 'apartment dwellers.' As a result they may be standing in any number of different conditions, yet the foot isn't flexing and so doesn't get the opportunity to self clean."
The nature of your horse's environment impacts the health of his hooves to some degree. Certain conditions and environments predispose the frog to bacterial or fungal infections; horses live in the presence of manure and soil where potentially destructive organisms proliferate, particularly if dirt and debris remain trapped in the crevices or grooves (sulci) of the frog. Pads also tend to trap moisture in the bottom of the foot and facilitate such bacterial or fungal growth. While poor hygiene can set the stage for development of thrush, even with the best of care infection can develop in the frog or sulci of the frog if conditions are excessively moist. Horses in the western United States don't tend to have nearly as many--or as severe--thrush infections as those living in damp parts of the United States. Moyer can't overstate the importance of activity enough, saying, "I have seen thrush in some of the best-cared-for and -managed places, but the common denominator is that it develops in horses that live 'in.' "
Moyer notes, "Susceptibility to develop thrush varies with the configuration of the foot. A foot with an upright heel and deep crevices is a foot that is a real setup for thrush." When the heels are high, the frog becomes recessed below the heels of the hoof wall, debris accumulates, and disease results. Horses with a chronic lameness condition that causes heels to contract and/or limitations on exercise are also primed to develop thrush, as are horses with unproperly trimmed heels. Moyer has noticed that while some affected horses have deep crevices of the frog, in other cases there is no depth to the frog clefts at all. He says, "My impression is that the incidence may be higher in Draft breeds than in light horses, mainly due to the nature of their feet with a deeper cleft that is more likely to retain moisture, which becomes the media for bacterial growth."
What Does Thrush Look Like?
The consistency of a normal frog is much like that of a rubber eraser: firm, but pliable. Normally, the central sulcus is fairly shallow. In a horse that has limited exercise, and/or other hoof health issues, this central sulcus can deepen. If the crevice deepens, the tissues within have limited access to air and--especially if debris becomes lodged there--infection can develop, evident as a black and pasty discharge and often having an offensive odor.
A thrush infection usually is fairly superficial in its invasion of the tissues. Initially, it might be difficult to identify the presence of thrush, since in the early stages the horse is not lame and might show no other clinical signs. A more deep-seated infection can penetrate even further and, thus, move closer to sensitive tissue and potentially involve the digital cushion or other critical tissues. This can pose a real risk to the horse. In such cases, a horse can become lame and resent probing or squeezing of the tender heel and frog areas affected by thrush.
A severe form of thrush with substantial tissue damage might be confused with another condition called canker. Moyer describes canker as an explosive form of granulation tissue that tends to outgrow its blood supply, leading to a particularly noxious odor. The tissue that looks like spongy, rotten cauliflower is fragile and bleeds easily with finger pressure. Presently, no one knows what triggers canker.
An ounce of prevention truly serves as a cure when it comes to hoof cleanliness and health; regular turnout or exercise is essential. Moyer states, "Thrush is a disease that could have a much-lessened incidence if people would allow horses to be horses and to be outside, moving. The horse is so dependent physiologically on motion to circulate blood through their limbs; confined living conditions set them up for problems like thrush."
As you pick out your horse's hooves daily, inspect carefully for abnormal changes. Moyer comments, "Owner and/or farrier recognition of a foot that may be susceptible to thrush can go a long way toward avoiding infection. The frogs should be trimmed in a way that while clefts may remain somewhat deep, the frog isn't allowed to grow to a point where it is overlapping. This keeps the clefts open for self-cleaning as the horse walks and frolics in turnout."
Moyer notes that in the vast majority of thrush cases, an owner isn't even aware that a problem exists and it is the farrier who is the first to recognize a problem.
Moyer has noted another possible reason for development of thrush, saying, "Some cases are potentially created by people through overly aggressive use of a hoof pick. I have seen cleaning that is rough enough to reach to fairly sensitive tissue, even to the point of bleeding." While daily use of a hoof pick is to be encouraged to keep the frog sulci open and clean, he urges common sense and judicious care when using a pick.
Another main strategy is to keep your horse's environment clean--daily mucking of the stalls and paddocks is important. All living areas should have good drainage, including pastures used for turnout. Try to limit your horse's access to areas that could become simmering soups of bacteria.
The specific organisms that create such damage are not particularly easy to identify. As Moyer points out, "The problem with trying to culture these feet is that you end up culturing the barn." A main objective is recognition; once the problem is identified, steps can be taken to eradicate the infection and to prevent recurrence.
The horse with thrush should be housed in a clean, dry area. Having the foot trimmed is essential. Daily inspection and cleaning of the hooves is critical to successful resolution of the infection. Effective treatment for thrush relies on generous removal of affected and infected frog structures with a hoof knife and nippers, along with thorough cleansing of all crevices. Vigorous use of a wire brush helps to scrub away all necrotic material.
Most thrush organisms are extremely susceptible to antibacterial solutions such as tamed iodine and bleach. Moyer believes that a dilute solution of iodine works as well as anything for disinfection of thrush-affected tissues. He recommends cutting regular iodine, such as Lugol's, with water to a 2% solution. He says, "I like to administer it through a ketchup squeeze bottle that directs the iodine specifically into the frog crevices."
Moyer cautions against applying a philosophy of "if a little bit helps then a lot more is that much better." He remarks, "Many substances, including iodine, are caustic materials that can cause a chemically induced dermatitis if it drains onto skin above the hoof. What might have helped clear up the thrush problem with a couple of treatments might then turn into another problem due to a 'too much' or 'too often' approach."
In some cases, it might be beneficial to treat the horse with poultice bandages and/or to implement daily foot soaks with antiseptic solutions. Moyer stresses, "While iodine is one of the world's greatest disinfectants, it'll only work for a short period of time if the foot remains continually exposed to the same thing that put the infection there. If the foot is very involved, as, for example, if the frog is so degraded that it peels away, then foot bandages should be used to protect the foot from the environment until the infection clears up."
He has found diapers to be useful as part of a foot bandage since they "breathe." Moyer also suggests that hoof boots can protect the affected areas, but he has concerns that these don't breathe, while at the same time the foot continues to sweat, keeping the area damp--this is counterproductive to treatment.
Moyer also points out, "It is really worthwhile for the person managing a thrushy foot to wash their hands after treatment and/or to wear latex gloves. Take care to scrub under fingernails as well, as you don't have any idea what has contaminated your hands. This is a good precaution in all cases, and even more important if the handler has an open wound."
If a horse's foot develops a bad smell, the frog feels "funky," and/or if the horse exhibits lameness, you should call your vet. Moyer urges, "A veterinarian must be involved as soon as possible if there is any hint of complications. Even if the horse seems comfortable, there may be deeper tissue involvement that an owner may not be able to identify. Veterinary intervention is necessary to remove affected tissue to allow healing."
You can check the degree of discomfort your horse is feeling by watching him on the longe line for lameness and by using your fingers to push on various structures on the bottom of his feet to check for soreness. Timely intervention is important so the infection does not invade deeper tissues, such as the frog and digital cushion between the heel bulbs. There is the potential for a persistent case to develop extensive degeneration of these structures, leading to instability of the heel bulbs or a sheared heel condition. If your hands are able to move each heel bulb independently of the other, this is typical of sheared heels. Such loss of support and stability in the rear portions of his foot can be quite painful for a horse, causing varying degrees of lameness. It takes time for the hoof to grow out, the supportive structure to be restored, and for soundness to return. It might be advantageous to apply a special bar shoe to hold the heels in stable position while the hoof grows and the infection is resolved.
Take-Home Message
Thrush is an infection of the frog and associated structures in the hoof. Regular exercise and good hoof hygiene are important to prevention and treatment. Owner observation, rapid recognition, and proactive management can avert the development of deeper tissue infection and the need for associated medical care.
About the Author
Nancy S. Loving, DVM
Nancy S. Loving, DVM, owns Loving Equine Clinic in Boulder, Colorado, and has a special interest in managing the care of sport horses. Her book, All Horse Systems Go, is a comprehensive veterinary care and conditioning resource in full color that covers all facets of horse care. She has also authored the books Go the Distance as a resource for endurance horse owners, Conformation and Performance, and First Aid for Horse and Rider in addition to many veterinary articles for both horse owner and professional audiences.
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He was born May 16, 1943, in Ada Valley, and was the son of the late Walter and Mary Bell McGowan Sharp.
He is survived by two daughters, Debbie Wise and Katina Smith; one son, Christopher Sharp; two granddaughters, Kylee Smith and Ashley Rodgers; a great-grandson, Gavin Bolyer; a brother, Hobert Sharp; and a sister, Ola Gail Morris .
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October 13, 2008
The Fourth Annual Wabash Day had Wabash men spread across the country helping their communities. Wabash men started new projects in their communities and several cities saw Wabash men return to work at the same site for the fourth year.
Wabash Day is short for Wabash Alumni Benefiting And Serving Humanity. It is the national day of community service organized by Wabash alumni and carried out by alumni, families, friends, and students.
NAWM Wabash Day Committee Chairman Jon Pactor '71 reports the total number of volunteers exceeded the numbers from 2007. See a full census report here.
This year's projects involved fix-up work, food distribution, food preparation, non-profit thrift stores, and environmental clean up projects. As an innovation, Indianapolis alumni, headed by Tim Craft '00, officiated a touch football tourney for Special Olympics. A large group of current students worked on projects in Crawfordsville.
The alumni of Grand Rapids, Mi., had more than 50 volunteers, a record for a single location. New projects included Portland, Or., Pittsburgh, Detroit, and some Indianapolis' suburbs.
"We aim to make Wabash Day the single largest alumni event each year in terms of alumni participation," Pactor said. "It may happen in the fifth annual Wabash Day next year. As we grow, we must remember that Wabash Day is based on Wabash's core values to be responsible citizens and to act and lead responsibly to make our works more humane. Indeed, the core values are making us grow."
That growth and strength in numbers, whether its a small work group or the 50 in Grand Rapids strikes a chord with the participants.
"The alumni network of Wabash is incredibly strong in every sense of the word," said Dave Jackson '87, who was working on a trails project with fellow Wabash men in Avon, Ind.
"This has been a labor of love. It's intimately local, and where better to show that we care than in our own hometown? This has been well worth the time we've invested into it, and I only hope that we are able to stir up more interest."
One of the great things about Wabash Day is not just the community service, but it also is a time for alums to get together and talk about their days at the College. "We also reminisced about our time at Wabash College and the professors who positively impacted our lives," Scott McEuen '83 said of his group's work in Northwest Indiana. "I think I speak for all the Wabash grads that day: our love and respect for Wabash College and the people who work there were refreshed."
We have a lot more Wabash Day reports to share. We're updating the web as quickly as possible. Many remain to be posted so check back throughout the week to learn how Wabash men are living out the college's mission statement.
In photo above: Andrew Naugle '98 and John Kasey '08 work in Seattle.


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For most Dynamo players, Friday night's match against D.C. United is just another match against a new Eastern Conference rival, but for Bobby Boswell, Friday's match is an opportunity to see old friends when he lines up against the team that gave him the start to his professional career. After graduating from Florida International University but going undrafted, Boswell was signed by D.C. United during the 2005 preseason and quickly earned his place in the starting rotation.
"I'm really thankful for that organization and the opportunity they gave me," Boswell said of his time with United. "The fans were great, and it was a great organization to play for."
In his rookie season, Boswell started 26 games and tallied three goals and an assist from his center back position. Boswell followed up his rookie campaign with a stellar sophomore season, earning 2006 MLS Defender of the Year honors and being named to the MLS All-Star and Best XI teams. The defender credits much of his success to the veterans he played with during his tenure in D.C. One of those veterans, Ben Olsen, will be sitting on the opposite bench Friday night, as head coach of D.C. United.
"Ben is great," Boswell said. "He's got a charisma that you can't really explain. He is great at knowing when a player needs to be knocked down and knowing when he needs to be picked up. If everyone else was yelling at you, he would always be there to give you a pick up to make you play better."
After the 2007 season, Boswell was traded to Houston for Zach Wells and continued his dominance along the backline. He started 29 league games for the Dynamo in 2008 and aided a defense that ranked first in MLS. Having never won at Robertson Stadium as a member of United, Boswell understood the challenges that visiting teams faced when coming to Houston.
"Houston has always been a tough place to play," he said. "When you come here as a player, all you can focus on was how hot it was going to be and you don't look forward to it. It stinks when you get into town and you realize how humid it is and you go on your team walk and you are just sweating. It's a mental thing. When you finally get to the stadium, you are still hot, and with the fans getting all over you, it's a tough place to play."
The Dynamo have continued their success over D.C. United since the arrival of Boswell. Houston is 5-0-1 at home in all competitions against United, and with the Dynamo's move to the Eastern Conference, every match has more significance for the men in orange.
"When Houston had a lot of success, it was because they were winning all the home games," Boswell said. "Any time you take care of business at home, you set yourself up for a good situation come playoff time. We have also been getting these ties on the road, and if we can keep winning at home, we are going to pick up a lot of points, which sets us up well for playoff contention."


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Kanye West Returns to Twitter to Remember Steve Jobs
Kanye West is a man of his word.
Just a couple of days after deleting all of tweets and leaving his 8.6 followers with a simple "Be back soon," West, 35, is tweeting again -- this time, to pay homage to Apple's late co-founder, Steve Jobs.
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"WE LOST STEVE A YEAR AGO TODAY . . ." West wrote Friday evening, using his signature all-caps style. "HE IS ONE OF THE MOST INSPIRING AND INFLUENTIAL HUMAN BEINGS OF OUR EXISTENCE ALONG WITH MICHAEL JACKSON, WALT DISNEY AND DR. [MARTIN LUTHER] KING."
Added West, "LET'S BE THANKFUL FOR HIS LIFE AND RESPECT HIS LEGACY BY NEVER COMPROMISING ON OUR FUTURE."
VIDEOS: Kanye tells Kim how to dress
Prior to clearing his Twitter feed, the outspoken Grammy winner was known for his always entertaining, often outrageous musings about life on the A-list. (Among the best? "I specifically ordered persian rugs with cherub imagery!!! What do I have to do to get a simple rug with cherub imagery uuuuugh," he wrote in July 2010. And, "I hate when I'm on a flight and I wake up with a water bottle next to me like oh great now I gotta be responsible for this water bottle," he tweeted that October.)
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More recently, West had been keeping his Twitter transmissions short and sweet.
"Mercy," he captioned a photo of girlfriend Kim Kardashian, 31, in a formfitting backless Tom Ford dress in early August. A few days later he let his followers know, "I wrote the song 'Perfect Bitch' about Kim."
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Imagine if someone offered you a shiny new MacBook (or PC, if you don't follow the Cult of Jobs) to replace your dinosaur of a laptop. You'd jump at the chance, wouldn't you?
But what if you had to hand it over right there, along with all your files, documents, pictures and music that you had stored on it? And what if you then had to smash it to pieces and watch all your work be destroyed right in front of you?
It turns out that mom was right. It really is what's inside that counts. Our research shows that people in the UK valued their data, on average, at £12,484. Suddenly the swap doesn't seem such a good idea, does it? Of course, if you'd backed up your data, all you'd be handing over would be worn-out keys and a smudged screen.
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Letter: Dreading the traffic logjam at Hillview School
Original post made on Sep 4, 2007
Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, September 5, 2007, 12:00 AM
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a resident of Menlo Park: Linfield Oaks
on Sep 4, 2007 at 4:15 pm
A couple of notes with respect to this letter - Hillview has been the Menlo Park City School District's (MPCSD) only middle school for at least 15 years. This means that children who live within the MPCSD boundaries on the east side of El Camino have been crossing that town divide for that whole time - so this crossing is not a new development.
Secondly, Willow Oaks School (on Willow Road) and East Palo Alto Charter High School (it's neighboring campus on Pope St.) are Ravenswood City School District schools and have never been a part of MPCSD (ref: Web Link).
The campus east of Middlefield that owned by MPCSD and rented to the German-American School is on Elliot Dr. and is the district's smallest campus.
a resident of Menlo Park: Linfield Oaks
on Sep 4, 2007 at 6:55 pm
Nancy, I apologize for the fact that our grubby middle schoolers are frolicking on the pristine west side. If it's any consolation, we would much rather keep them on our side of the tracks. There is simply no space. Encinal School, which will soon house grades K-5, is going to double in size and does not have room for older kids.
A couple of points:
* The school board has been an inbred, self-selected group of volunteers who are generally trying to do their job the best way they can, without a lot of praise or kudos. Everyone in town ignores them until something happens that gets people riled up. You don't have to have kids in the schools to care about what's happening with our district. If you take an active role in the process, the outcome might prove more palatable.
* You think the growth is bad? It's going to get worse. And part of the reason is that west siders have been ignoring a lot of the developments on the east side of the tracks. "100 new housing units in Linfield Oaks? And another hundred+ on Derry Lane? Not my neighborhood! Why should I care?" Well, maybe now you understand why you should care.
Anything that happens in Menlo Park affects all of us who live in this city and many of our neighbors too. Pay attention and don't wait until it's too late to speak up.
a resident of Menlo Park: The Willows
on Sep 4, 2007 at 10:13 pm
some hillview neighbors got the city council to recognize the urgency of the school district getting O'Connor school back for the Willows.
The lease with German American school expires in 2011, and sooner would be better. Measure U school bond construction of $91M that passed last JUne provided for a 5th campus (O'Connor) if enrollment increases dictated that. The school board is clueless about the severity of the situation and has the overbuild attitude on the existing 4 campuses, instead of looking at the big picture. The east of ECR area desperately needs O'Connor school back. Go to the school board mtg. on Sept. 11 and let them know that their present course is unacceptable.
a resident of Hillview Middle School
on Sep 6, 2007 at 7:31 am
I think the point the first author was trying to make was the traffic problem due to school starting again...not the students themselves.
I think a school bus system would help solve this problem in the short run.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Sep 8, 2007 at 10:27 am
the school district should be required to pay for 2 new signals, one at Elder/Santa Cruz, the other at Olive/Santa Cruz, with turn restrictions/timing to give a break to kids on bike/foot crossing Santa Cruz, and a break for residents trying to get out onto Santa Cruz during peak hours. It's just an endless caravan of cars, some signalization is long overdue. Side streets could be protected with signal timing management to minimize cut through traffic. Just go look at Sand Hill and see how the cross traffic is managed with signals.
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Discussion in 'Star Trek - The Original & Animated Series' started by Jeri, Feb 5, 2010.
^ "...that ought to be just about right..." - James Kirk, "Tomorrow is Yesterday."
My understanding is that the ion pod doesn't have any communications equipment. The CO communicates with the officer getting ready to enter the pod with an estimate of when he'll have to jettison it. "I don't think I'll have to jettison for the next five minutes or so." Or "Make it quick, this storm is looking bad." The CO is responsible for estimating how long preparing the pod will take, waiting at least that long, and sounding a red alert prior to jettison. The person in the pod can hear the klaxons, but doesn't have any other communication with the rest of the ship. He's hurrying through a manual procedure, so he can't use a communicator easily. Starfleet failed to provide any kind of handsfree communication.
This is a poor system that would probably have been improved by TNG and would probably not be allowed in a civilian job. But in a TOS-era Starfleet job, this risky operator-judgment-intensive procedure was seen as acceptable.
Kirk communicates with Finney while he present in the pod, warning him that a red alert and a ejection might be coming soon. Given that a red alert is the signal for Finney to get the hell out of the pod, it's reasonable that both a light signal and a klaxon would be present inside the pod.
It's really ridiculous any way you cut it. Why would someone need to be INSIDE the pod to take measurements? You are asking for trouble? Given that the whole case hinged on something that was never well explained (what the pod was, why someone had to be inside it, why it had to be jettisoned, why Finney wasn't given enough time to get out, why bridge camera records weren't the very first piece of evidence consulted, etc), it just throws this ep on the pile of 'bad Trek episodes', which is a shame, as it wouldn't have taken much effort to make the central conundrum the same without having such a contorted, hard-to-explain scenario at the core of it.
It is great fun. Cogley's overacting, his love of books, Finney's voice, "Heloo CAP-tain." Flawed, yes. Like me and many other things. But not a bad Trek episode in my opinion.
Peace to all.
I agree. I would have preferred a little more info into the incident that triggered all this, which is esp appropriate in science fiction, and a little less court drama.
I wouldn't call veteran character actor Elisha Cook Jr.'s performance "overacting," considering he was playing a lawyer who's "well-known for his theatrics." Besides, he had a cool-looking jacket.
I didn't mind the courtroom drama, but given that it hinged so heavily on technicalities, they could have made those technicalities less obscure.
It's also probably one of the very few times he wasn't playing someone who would normally be on trial himself.
He played a lot of gangsters in his time.
The pod did something that the Enterprise was incapable of. If the Enterprise was capable of taking the reading without the pod, there would have been no pod.
The readings could not be taken remotely. this thread has gone though a number of possibilities.
Spock can monitor most of the sensors from the bridge, but not the ones from the pod. Sulu can fire the phasers from the bridge, but there is still a phaser control station elsewhere. Scotty can do a lot from the engineering panel on the bridge, but there are still jeffries tubes, engineering rooms and spaces through out the ship. Finney was in the pod because somebody simply had to be.
Kirk said he had to jettison because of the storm.
Given that he actual did get out, apparently he was provided enough time..
But the records were altered by Finney, possibly by Finney prior to his entering the pod. Consulting the cameras would have produced no truth.
I doubt Kirk would have bothered to check his own bridge cameras for verification that he pushed buttons in a specific order. He knew he had pushed them in the right order, after all. And the prosecution already opened its case by establishing that the computer had indicated Kirk pushed those buttons in the wrong order; visual evidence would be superfluous (if dramatic) and showing it early on would really just make the court think that there was some reason to doubt the words of the prosecution.
I guess the more interesting question is why cameras around the ion pod were not checked. The 1960s audience might not have expected them to exist - and indeed TOS doesn't indicate that there would be cameras everywhere. Just remember how Scotty had to rig extra visual recording gear for the Martine/Tomlinson wedding... But the 21st century audience would certainly assume that the ion pod, or at least the corridors close to it, would be under visual surveillance. Now, Finney would definitely have made sure that surveillance didn't thwart his dastardly plan. But if the defense thought that the visuals on bridge activity were wrong or tampered with, but couldn't prove anything, they'd certainly go through the ion pod camera material with a fine comb as well, looking for discrepancies or oddities they could use for propping up their faltering case.
(Of course, there'd probably not have been any cameras in the pod itself, if we assume that no other remote technology was available, either. If Finney had to manually operate stuff there for treknological reason X, the only way to get visuals out would obviously have been by midget draft artists and carrier owls.)
Generally speaking, I'd think the whole ion pod affair would ring true to those who were familiar with 1960s or preceding military technology. Lone assignments where men risk their lives in servitude to stupid pieces of machinery were and are very much part of the military life, especially so in hostile environments such as the sea or the air. What might bother the audiences is that a high-ranking officer was lost, in a job that to their experience should have been assigned to an expendable enlisted.
Timo Saloniemi
I think the reason they lost communication was because it was an Ion-Pod 4, and Finney was standing on the antenna, shorting it out! They weren't due a rubber bumper for it until more stock was delivered to the nearest Star-Base.
^ Love your avatar. I always knew Capt. Kirk had great legs!
Really? If ever there was something that didn't need explaining, it was the ion pod.
Need I add it's a fucking FTL spaceship. You're not supposed to know how it works, because we don't know how it works.
Only if all the fans are lawyers.
Nothing person Beaker, but you are obviously out of your element. If the pod contains sensors AND
Only if all the fans are lawyers.
Nothing person Beaker, but you are obviously out of your element. If the pod contains sensors and the sensor output can be reduced to data capable of being read and understood by a human being inside the pod, than the same output can be fed to systems inside the ship so that nobody need be inside the pod. That discrepancy does need to be explained because it's very obvious to people with a technical background - as obvious as Cogley's incompetence is to a real lawyer.
There is a fairly easy explanation though: The pod the Enterprise was carrying was a prototype without an interface to the ship's systems. It was experimental. It wasn't considered a big deal to require a person inside it because it was easy enough to rig a simple red-alert signal through its communications interface that could warn a person to get out fast.
Or perhaps the pod's instrumentation needed to be calibrated on-the-fly to compensate for the ion storm's effects, and a direct link from the ship to the pod could provide some kind of 'conduit' for the ion storm effects to leapfrog into the ship's systems, so it had some kind of non-networked system that couldn't be controlled remotely, in order to protect the ship. Although if that was the case... why would the pod EVER need to be jettisoned?
Your explanation works in conjunction with the explanation that the pod was a vulnerable extrusion that might even prevent raising shields in its area.
All they really needed to say was that it was an experimental pod. That gives enough wriggle room to suppose it needs to be manned.
Basically, the pod was a small doohickey with a guy inside that's deployed to take readings of any conveniently passing ion storms. This is dangerous to the ship for two reasons: when it's deployed, the shields can't be raised, putting the ship in greater danger than it would be normally, and because the pod is physically attached to the ship, there is added stress at the point of connection. If that connection breaks, we could be talking severe damage to the ship, including having the pod slammed into the hull, hence why it has to be jettisoned when things get too hairy.
I suppose the 1960's equivalent would be a B-52 going up into a hurricane with some sort of sensor drone with a guy inside, hanging out of the bomb bay or attached to the wing, and the pilot having to dump it when the turbulence gets too heavy; the inherent drama being whether or not the guy in the drone can get back inside the plane before the drone gets cut loose.
As for why it has to be manned, as mentioned above, the nature of ion storms makes remote operation and monitoring of the pod problematic at best.
And why Finney and not Ensign Ricky? Nobody in the military has just one job. You've got your primary occupation (in my case while in the Air Force, Administration Specialist, in Finney's case, records officer), your "war skill" (what you do when the shooting starts; I worked in Rapid Runway Repair, and learned all kinds of nifty ways to patch up a torn up runway and about the various types of bombs that are used to tear up the aforementioned runway...who knows what Finney did when the order came to assume battle stations), and apparently in Starfleet, when you're on a ship on a scientific mission, you occasionally have scientific duties to perform, like manning the ion pod when it's your turn.
And don't worry, Ensign Ricky's name is somewhere on that duty roster, too. It was just Finney's turn.
The above highlights the dramatic/logical problems of the story rather nicely. If Finney went to the pod completely at random, because he was part of a duty roster 430 names long, then we're watching a coincidence of cosmic scale unfold. How often would the ship face ion storms? Not another time in the three or five years we witnessed! Yet Finney based his whole plan, calling for careful preparation, on such an event...
Of course Finney could and probably would have manipulated the roster. Yet it would help if the list of names weren't that long - if indeed only certain top officers had the training or the authority to operate the pod.
Another dramatic/logical shortcoming is the idea that a tiny pod would endanger the mighty starship in any fashion. It just doesn't sound intuitively possible; nothing else did, at least not in TOS. Unless we count the magnetic containment pod in "That Which Survives"...
Which makes me wonder if the ion pod in fact was unrelated to the ion storm and was not an observation instrument at all. Perhaps it was a key component of the ship's engines (or perhaps some other system Finney was in charge of), and was in danger of exploding in an ion storm unless carefully monitored? Kirk would want to keep the pod aboard as long as possible, because the ship needed the pod - but would have to eject it if problems arose. And Finney would be sent to establish that the pod was safe; if he didn't confirm it was, by taking the required "readings of the plates", it would have to be jettisoned at red alert by default.
I'm still more partial to the idea that the pod was a delicate scientific instrument that posed no danger and was not intended to be crewed, but was to be prepared for launch by a member of the crew and then fired away uncrewed to study an ion storm. In this analogy to tornado hunting, the preparations would have to be performed on short notice, since ion storms were unpredictable, and would call for a trained specialist. And like StarryEyed suggested, it would be a rarely used and largely experimental piece of hardware, so the list of competent specialists would be short, but their workload high.
There'd be no scientific return if the pod were released prematurely (it would not be ideally positioned, and Finney would not have all the experiments running yet), but there'd be risk to the ship if she stayed in the storm too long - so Kirk would personally control the complicated joint action of the launch and the escape from the storm with a single button push. When red alert sounded, the crew would snap to desired action: Sulu would start saving the ship, as always in red alerts, while Finney would know that the alert was his signal to leave the pod prior to its launch.
Tornado hunting is a simple enough analogy here: it explains Kirk's seeming desire to sail into the storm and covers all the technicalities that follow with the same sort of accuracy we saw in Twister - that is, sufficient for carrying the drama. Alas, it's probably not what the writer had in mind, so he didn't insert cues that would make it more obvious that this is a logical motivation for our heroes and villains...
Timo Saloniemi
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Nel seems to enjoy this game. Take one blanket (not a heavy bedspread) and simply spread it out and toss it over the bunny. Doesn't seem to bother nel. Rabbits are burrowers after all so the dark doesn't much bother her. After sitting still for a moment she began burrowing around underneath, eventually finding an edge, poking her head out only to dart back under and continue her simulated underground adventure.
while pulling out the winter clothes, i came across a pair of my son's jeans from last year. he's only four so they're very tiny (maybe a size 3T) anyways... i had them on the floor going thru the boxes of clothes to keep or donate, and Meadow has to come over and see what i'm up to. she grabs the pair of jeans and runs away with them. they are now officially her jeans. she plays fetch with them. she stands up to grab them if i hold them over her head. she even flops on them when she's done doing her bunny running. and i think it's so sweet how she has adopted something that belonged to her "brother".
Oh my that is simply adorable! Does she try to crawl into the legs? They might be small and "trap" her in there so be sure to keep an eye on her, of course she may not try that at all either. I'm such a mother hen aren't I?
she crawls in thru the waist about halfway and digs at the fabric. i'm always a step away... the pants are little bit frayed, so i don't want her to try and eat a them if she pulls a piece off.
I take a blanket corner and chase my bunnies while making funny sounds and saying "I'm gonna get you". This gets lots and lots of binkies out of them lol. So yep, I think lots of buns can have fun with a simple blanket Even if your bunny doesn't exactly do the peek-a-boo, it makes great pictures when they are coming out from under the blanket


text: No there is nothing special about it unless you're a fan which is a small portion of the audience. What are you going to do, rejuvenate Shatner or Stewart? Or do you really want a bunch of kids playing them? Good actors can be found for a new show, just like Stewart and Brooks were. The appeal of Star Trek was strange new worlds and technologies in adition to writing and acting. New generations of kids want to see wonders just like I did when I was a kid, not same old rehashed technologies. Everybody has a laptop now, everybody has a powerful database, everybody can buy a video game and play with phasers, starship combat etc... there's a million "gritty" shows on TV like the nuTrek, that type of stuff is just not interesting. A Trek series like that would flop in 1 season. What needs to happen is that new, revolutionary technologies need to be invented, new strange stories need to be told, with a new compelling characters that we don't know, but want to know more about, etc etc. That's why I'd set it in the 25th century, have Picard and Sisko come in a cameo aboard new ship as 145 year old admirals or captains. That said, I'd like movies to feature them, but a new series needs to be totally independent.


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Three times each year the Congressional Budget Office releases its budget projection for the next 10 years. This "baseline" makes a variety of assumptions about taxation, spending, and the economy. Some of these assumptions are reasonable and others are not because of the peculiarities of budget law. Our baseline compensates for the more unreasonable assumptions and presents a more plausible scenario. Recent CBO reports have included alternative estimates that we use in constructing our "plausible baseline". Like the official CBO baseline, it is not a prediction, but a projection of where current trends are leading.
For the underlying chart data click here. (Excel spreadsheet download)
The Concord Baseline makes some key assumption changes to the CBO baseline. CBO is required to assume that congressional appropriations continue increasing only at the rate of inflation for the 10 year baseline. They also extend emergency supplemental at their "current" level plus inflation over the duration of the baseline. For tax legislation, they assume current law will govern--so if there are tax cuts that have sunsets (as the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts have), CBO is required to project revenues assuming the tax cuts expire as written in the legislation. They also project economic growth in a very conservative fashion--they do not try to anticipate major changes in the economy, either recessions or accelerations.
The Concord Coalition takes the CBO baseline and adjusts it to assume appropriations increase at the same rate as the economy (GDP growth). This increase is closer to the historical average rate of increase. We also assume that supplemental appropriations do not continue indefinitely. For recent appropriations for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we include realistic estimates from CBO about how much will be spent under a scenario where troop levels slowly decrease to about one-third of their level at the time of the estimate. We assume that Medicare physician payment cuts (under the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) are postponed, as they have been for the last several years.
For taxes, we assume that all of the major tax cuts will be extended beyond 2010. We also assume the one-year patches to the Alternative Minimum Tax will continue to be enacted, holding the level of taxpayers hit by the tax roughly constant throughout the baseline period. We assume that the tax cuts enacted in the 2009 stimulus package are extended. Finally, we include a calculation for the increased debt service (interest payments) that these policies (both on the tax and spending side) would cause by their increasing the deficit. We do not make any changes to CBO's economic assumptions.
For more information on how CBO calculates their baseline and the alternative scenarios click here.
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Red Cross volunteers help out in the wake of Hurricane Isaac
By by Dianna Wray - firstname.lastname@example.com
Aug. 30, 2012 at 3:30 a.m.
As Gulf Coast residents begin to survey the damage of Hurricane Isaac, two Victoria residents are on their way to help clean up the mess.
Red Cross volunteers Len Walker and Marguerite Griffin loaded up the Red Cross truck and headed to Orange, in east Texas, to pitch in.
Hurricane Isaac swept into the Gulf Coast seven years after Hurricane Katrina devastated Louisiana and Mississippi. Isaac did not bring with it the devastation of that legendary storm, but still people are reeling in the wake of hurricane that will need help, Griffin said.
Red Cross volunteers are gathering in East Texas to await further instructions.
Walker and Griffin have worked in disaster relief for years. They aren't sure where they'll be sent, but the longtime volunteers are happy to go wherever they are needed, they agreed.
"It just gives you a good feeling to help people," Griffin said. During her years helping people struggling to make sense of things in the wake of Hurricane Katrina or the fires in Bastrop, Griffin said they can give people hope as they hand them food or clothing.
"It's never the same. Some people are hungry and they're glad to see us drive up," Walker said, noting the needs of people are different in the wake of each disaster. "But if they need us, we're there."
Walker and Griffin will be there for two weeks or as long as emergency response teams are needed.
They never know what to expect when going to a disaster, Walker said.
Hurricane Katrina was Walker's first time working as a Red Cross volunteer. Nothing could have prepared him for the destruction he encountered. Each disaster is unique in this respect, he said.
"Each one is different. Not one of them is ever the same," he said.
At 73, Walker enjoys the work of helping people, but he said he and Griffin, 83, hope more people will take the time to get certified so that they can be volunteers in the future.
"I'll keep doing it as long as I can, but I know I'll get to the point where I can't. We need more volunteers. I hope we'll get them," Walker said.


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WESTMINSTER – A former Huntington Beach police officer was sentenced Friday to a year's probation and 30 days in jail for conspiring with a former Garden Grove officer to dismiss a woman's traffic ticket.
Erik Michael Krause, 44, had been found guilty by an Orange County jury last year with Michael John Zannitto, 47, of one misdemeanor count of conspiracy to obstruct justice.
In January, Zannitto received the same sentence as Krause at the Westminster Justice Center. Both will be spared jail time if they each complete 100 hours of community service.
At the time of the crime, Krause was a 22-year veteran of the Huntington Beach Police Department, and Zannitto was an 11-year member of the Garden Grove Police Department, the Orange County District Attorney's Office said in a news release. Both no longer work with the departments.
In November 2011, Krause issued the 32-year-old woman a ticket, and later that month, Zannitto met her at Knott's Berry Farm when he was off-duty. He got in touch with Krause, whom he did not know before speaking of the ticket, and Krause eventually agreed to dismiss the ticket, prosecutors said.
A Huntington Beach lieutenant became suspicious and initiated an investigation, the district attorney's news release said. Huntington Beach police investigated the case with cooperation from Garden Grove police, according to prosecutors.
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BELLEFONTE, Pa., June 16 (UPI) -- Jerry Sandusky's defense can present evidence about his personality disorder, the judge in the ex-Penn State assistant football coach's sex abuse trial ruled.
Judge John M. Cleland's ruling Friday came after defense lawyer Karl Rominger asked the court for permission to present expert psychological testimony on Sandusky's diagnosis with histrionic personality disorder, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported.
The American Psychiatric Association said individuals with histrionic personality disorder exhibit "an excessive need for approval and inappropriately seductive behavior," among other symptoms.
The Tribune-Review said Cleland said the diagnosis could be used to counter prosecution claims letters Sandusky wrote to one of his alleged victims amounted to grooming the boy for a sexual relationship.
In his petition to the court, Rominger said "the goal of a person suffering from this disorder in writing those letters would not necessarily be to groom or sexually consummate a relationship in a criminal manner, but rather to satisfy the needs of psyche belabored by the needs of such a disorder."
The prosecution has rested its case in the trial and the defense is to begin Monday.
Sandusky, 68, is on trial in Bellefonte, Pa., charged with 52 counts of sexually abusing 10 boys during a span of 15 years.
He has denied the allegations.


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Hampton will hamper smaller inns
After reading the statements made by "non-innkeepers" at the planning commission meeting that took place on July 9, I felt compelled to finally speak out. I don't believe that simply because a person "seeks out Hampton Inns when he travels" gives him knowledge enough to make decisions concerning a local innkeeper's livelihood. He is correct in saying "That a Hampton Inn in town will bring about more business." It will bring more business. More business to the Hampton Inn. And a lot less to your neighbors. It will do so by taking the business away from the smaller local inns and breakfast places. Local innkeepers, all of whom are struggling in a town that after the closing of two local inns is still saturated with open rooms.
We as lodging properties in the town are mostly in contact with each other when a potential guest needs something we cannot offer. We place phone calls to those that do to see if they can accommodate, thereby keeping the guest in town for the stay. We work together to see that the guest gets to stay here in town. When the chamber (of commerce) is closed, we then become the Chamber.
It's interesting to think that "multiple individuals mentioned on a Friday night on a Friday night during ski season, many cars with out-of-state plates can be seen getting off the highway and turning right toward the mountain." well, of course they are! That is where a guest can 'stay and ski free." Another reason why the Hampton Inn will not necessarily bring more business to town. Especially during "ski season." It is real hard to compete with a free room. Winter is tight in town. It is the only time of year when I wish The Barnstead Inn was located on the mountain and not in Manchester. (It surprises me that so many people with nothing to do on a Friday night actually sit up on Exit 4 and watch cars and know where the drivers are headed. There are at least five local hotels beyond the exit, south on Route 30.
It was mentioned that when "Chris Ams, a 'former' director of Riley Rink had contacted local inn during tournaments they either told him that they did not want a team staying at the inn or they couldn't offer a group discount." I have never heard of, or heard from, Mr. Ams and I would be the only one to speak to at the Inn. We do take teams an offer discounts. In a small town it is a necessity.
This is not whether a "non-locally owned business cannot come to Manchester." It's a matter of whether it should. It will in fact take away from the already, some struggling inns. It is a matter of can they survive it. They will not.
No one at that meeting, especially Kevin Mullaney, vice president of Mullaney hospitality Group, "can honestly look me in the face and say we are not going to take your customers away." because the fact is, you will. If you thin you can "honestly" say that, you may want to think about another line of work. If you think that is not "about us vs. them," wrong again. It is about someone attempting to tamper with another person's livelihood and passion. The "passion" that comes when someone tries to negatively impact another. Another who doesn't only do this for a living but, because they love it and it is also their home.
"Moore said that Hampton Inn will bring business to other retailers and restaurants in town." Of course it will. It will take customers that would normally have stayed with the existing "mom and pop" inns and hotels and send them to the places of business just as mom and pop do now. In other words, the only people that get hurt are the people that are already struggling to fill rooms in a town that after several local inns have closed are still scrambling to fill rooms in an already "room saturated" town.
Will there be "more business sent to these establishments?" Probably not. Because the Hampton Inn may be all you have.
Neil Humphrey
The Barnstead Innstead
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Every year, approximately 60% of Scott County High School students enroll in college; however, less than half of those students actually earn their degree. As a result, just 34% of Scott County residents have a two- or four-year college degree, according to the Council on Postsecondary Education. A partnership between Bluegrass Community and Technical College (BCTC) and Scott County Public Schools intends to raise that percentage.
This partnership program, called Early College, enrolled its first students this fall. Early College, offered at Scott County High School, allows high school students to earn college credit while fulfilling their normal coursework. In two semesters, a student may earn up to 15 college credit hours, which will transfer to all public and most private colleges in Kentucky. Since these classes are actually college classes, there is a tuition cost. Even though the rate is half the regular BCTC tuition, not every student who has the ability to take these classes can afford to pay the expense.
A Scott County Scholarship Campaign is now underway to benefit those motivated students who lack the funds to enroll. This campaign will benefit those students who wish to continue their education at BCTC, especially through the Early College Program.
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A deputy district attorney was found guilty Wednesday of conspiracy to obstruct justice in a ticket-fixing case involving a San Diego police sergeant.
Prosecutor Allison Worden, 37, also was found guilty by a San Diego Superior Court jury of two counts of destroying a traffic citation. All three counts were misdemeanors.
Worden, who was referred to in court by her married name Debow, faces a maximum sentence of one year in jail. It is not known if the state Attorney General's Office will seek jail time for the prosecutor.
Judge Louis Hanoian scheduled a sentencing hearing for Feb. 20.
Deputy Attorney General Michael Murphy argued during the trial that Worden tried to use her title to get out of seat belt citations she and a colleague received from a traffic officer on May 28, 2011. When that didn't work, she called a friend — police Sgt. Kevin Friedman — to do something about them.
The tickets were later removed from a Police Department filing bin and concealed or destroyed.
"Everybody knows that as a public official you don't try to take advantage of your position to get preferential treatment," Murphy argued to the jury.
Another deputy district attorney, Amy Maund, was the driver of the car Worden was riding in. Although Maund had her seat belt fastened, she was ticketed when Worden removed hers briefly to bend down and retrieve her cellphone.
Maund testified she told Worden not to do anything about the tickets. She said Worden told her that Friedman dismissed them and that she should shred her copy.
Eventually, Maund discussed the matter with a supervisor.
But Worden testified that she never asked Friedman to delete or destroy the citations. She said she called him to complain that the ticketing officer had behaved inappropriately, by invading her personal space during the traffic stop.
She admitted she used "poor judgment" by mentioning to the officer that she and Maund were deputy district attorneys.
Friedman pleaded no contest to destroying a traffic citation. He resigned from the department in February 2012.
Worden did not speak to reporters Wednesday. Her lawyer, former District Attorney Paul Pfingst, said she'd had a long and distinguished career as a prosecutor and was "devastated" about the verdict.
"This is a sad day for her," he said.
Steve Walker, a spokesman for District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, declined to discuss what effect the verdicts may have on Worden's employment.
In a written statement, he said: "The District Attorney's Office respects the jury's verdict and will take the appropriate action."
Worden has been on paid administrative leave while the case was pending.


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HOUSTON - One-hundred-sixty-seven people died in alcohol-related crashes in Harris County last year, making it the deadliest county in the country for drinking and driving.
On June 25, 2011, 19-year-old Aaron Pennywell become one of those victims when he was hit and killed by a drunk driver less than 2 miles from his home in northwest Harris County.
On the morning Pennywell died, one of the most expensive tools in Harris County's arsenal to catch drunk driving was sitting idle. It's a breath-alcohol testing van, commonly called a BAT van.
The sheriff's office first put its $80,000 BAT van on the streets in May 2010. It's designed to save time and save lives in that it is a completely mobile breathalyzer system. At least it's supposed to be. Local 2 Investigates discovered that the van hasn't moved in more than nine months.
"Why did they buy this thing at all?" asked Trent Seibert, when Local 2 Investigates told him what it had found.
Seibert is the editor of the Texas Watchdog, a website dedicated to uncovering government waste.
"This is $80,000 for a vehicle that's sitting dormant, not being used," he said.
Local 2 Investigates had the same question, so it went straight to Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia.
"We did use it," Garcia initially replied.
Local 2 Investigates checked. Since it was put into service in May 2010, deputies used the van for 80 breath tests. It hasn't been used at all since October 2011. When the cost is calculated, it comes to $1,000 for each breath test conducted. The van has less than 4,000 miles on it.
The sheriff said the BAT van hasn't been used recently because it's easier for deputies to drive suspects to one of 16 breathalyzers scattered throughout the county. He said the machinery on the BAT van is sensitive and it's difficult to keep the equipment cool in the Texas heat.
"Couldn't you put more people in jail if you used this bat van effectively?" Local 2 investigator Amy Davis asked the sheriff.
"Probably not," he replied. "Our ratio of arrests has not been affected with the fact that we have not deployed this van in this calendar year. It makes me think that that resource, that BAT van, may not have a future, at least in this organization."
"I mean, think about this," said Seibert. "You have an $80,000 van sitting unused in a parking lot while drunk driving is happening all over the county."
Garcia is quick to point out that the van was purchased with money from criminal seizures and forfeitures. No tax dollars were used. The District Attorney's Office gave the money to the Sheriff's Office before Garcia took office. The van was already purchased when he was sworn in, but it was outfitted with the breathalyzer and dispatched under Garcia's watch.
"This is $80,000 that could have gone to anything else," said Seibert. "Think about it … another salary, another squad car."
Garcia said it's important that citizens know that his office is putting people in jail for drinking and driving. A spokesman told Local 2 Investigates that the latest statistics that show DWI arrests have consistently gone up since 2008. DWI fatalities increased in 2011 from 2010, but, so far, fatalities are down this year.
The sheriff said he doesn't know what he'll do with the BAT van. Other law enforcement agencies have suggested parking it in busy areas with bars to remind people not to drink and drive. Garcia said he will consider that, selling it or just hanging onto it in case the agency does want to use it in the future.
If you have a news tip or question for KPRC Local 2 Investigates, drop them an e-mail or call their tipline at (713) 223-TIPS (8477). Copyright 2012 by Click2Houston.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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The gift we can't wait to explain
I'm often seeking beautiful stories of child sponsorship, because I know so many exist out there. When I find one, I eagerly await the author's permission to republish their words on our blog so it can be shared with so many more. Brynn's post -- which came highly recommended from a World Vision sponsor, who I'm blessed to call a friend -- eloquently captures the beauty of child sponsorship and why it's really a gift to every person it touches. Merry Christmas! —Lindsey Talerico-Hedren, managing editor, World Vision Blog
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This is my most favorite gift that we are giving this year.
Even more than the tablets we are giving the kids, but that might just be because I'm frustrated with trying to set them up and figure out why they won't connect to our wifi. Seriously, Apple has spoiled me because all of their stuff just works and works easily, but with a 10- and 12-year-old, there was no way that we were going to buy them iPads because they are 10 and 12, which means their gifts have to be indestructible or at least not cause their father to cry if they break them.
...And on that point, can I just say I miss the days when you got the kids presents that you spent four hours putting together instead of electronic gifts that require massive hours and Google to set up?
Anyhow. Back to the point.
My 10-year-old stepdaughter Shelby has such a sweet tooth, and the biggest heart. Truly, Shelby just loves on everybody, and there isn't an animal, baby, or person who escapes her hugs and kisses. She delights in trying to find ways to show you that she cares about you.
Brynn's husband Michael with his daughters Shelby and Abigail.
This gift is technically for her, but is also for our entire family.
We sponsored a child through World Vision -- a little girl born on the exact same day as Shelby, so they are the exact same age. Her name is Veronica, and she lives in Bolivia. We have absolutely no doubt that Shelby will delight in writing her letters, making her cards, and sending packages every month. Those are Shelby's favorite activities as it is. She loves mailing us pictures she's colored and cards she's made. They lovingly cover our home.
For us, though, the gift is deeper, and we hope this brings an awareness of so much more for the girls.
The greatest values I personally wish to impart upon the girls are kindness, graciousness, and humbleness. In fact, what we say to the girls the most -- other than "no more marshmallows or cookies for now" -- is remember to be kind, gracious, and humble. They get this reminder every time we are going anywhere or they are going to be spending time with others.
We hope that this opens up their world even more and fosters an interest in things that are bigger than themselves or the Disney Channel, and, dare we hope, Justin Bieber.
Brynn and Michael's wedding day with a beautiful flower girl, Shelby.
We hope this inspires them to want to do good in the world. We hope this inspires them more in their faith. We hope that they start developing the desire to have a meaningful life when they become adults and that they feel like they have a purpose in the world already, beyond being the apple of our eye and the delight of our hearts.
We hope that this gift reminds not only the girls, but our entire family, of the true meaning of the season. We hope that this gift makes us not only thankful for the blessing God has given our family, but thankful that we are blessed beyond our means and can bless the lives of others. We hope that this reminds us that it is indeed far greater to give than receive.
We hope that this gift enriches more than our girls' lives, but Veronica's life as well. We hope that she will feel loved and connected and realize that there is so much good in the world. We hope that this imparts kindness, graciousness, and humbleness in her life, and that she will use those values to do good in the world when she grows up as well.
We hope that she always feels comforted, knowing that she's important in our lives and that we are hoping and praying big things for her and her family.
We hope that this gift is one that enriches all of our lives. We are hopeful that this will exceed our expectations and that we might even go to visit Veronica in Bolivia one day.
I love this gift, and I'm so excited that our family is doing this. This is the gift we can't wait to explain when it's opened.
Because, Lord help us, it's not looking like we will be able to explain much about the tablets.
Brynn is a Calamity Jane who is just enjoying the adventures of being recently engaged, turning 30, and living everyday life! She loves seersucker, Jesus, cupcakes, and red wine. She just moved back to the South and is madly in love with a Yankee from New England.
This post originally appeared Brynn's blog and was reposted with permission.


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Fraley: Lance Berkman successful in Rangers debut, but keeping everything together will be 'a difficult assignment'
SURPRISE, Ariz. — The first game went well for Lance Berkman. What happens for the duration will be a story line of the spring for Berkman and the Rangers.
Berkman appeared in an exhibition game for the first time Thursday and reached base twice in three plate appearances during a 10-0 win against Cleveland. He started the day with a nine-pitch walk and added a single before being retired on a pop-up to the infield.
Berkman twice took an extra base — going from first to third and later scoring from second — without blowing out a tire. He walked away intact, a triumph after last season's injury problems with St. Louis.
"It was good to get the first one out of the way," said Berkman, whose spring debut had been delayed by a strained left calf muscle. "Hopefully, I'll get into a rhythm of playing, the timing will come and everything will stay together."
That is a difficult assignment.
By any measure, Berkman is an accomplished hitter. A .296 career average does not do him justice. The more telling numbers are a .409 on-base percentage and .544 slugging percentage. He is neither a hacker nor a slasher but a hitter. Berkman is the reverse image of free-swinging former Ranger Josh Hamilton in terms of approach to the craft.
Berkman also is 37 years old. A 37-year-old hitter, no matter his intelligence and dedication, is looking at the end.
"At some point, you're not going to have it," Berkman said. "I certainly don't feel like I did when I was 25, but that doesn't mean I can't be the same kind of hitter."
The caveat is this is unlike any other spring for Berkman.
He had only 81 at-bats with St. Louis last season. That includes only six at-bats in the final 57 games. About half of his total at-bats, Berkman said, were under duress because the right knee was failing.
Berkman has little to draw on from last season. He is close to starting all over.
"Maybe I should have gone to play winter ball," said Berkman, with a puckish grin.
He does have more work to do to put his game back together. At this point, Berkman cannot measure the rust on his swing. It will take about two weeks for him to get an initial read on his status.
The task is more complex because Berkman is a switch-hitter. He has to get two swings ready, not one.
"It's hard to judge," Berkman said. "I feel like I do pretty much at the beginning of any spring. In terms of the rapidity with which the swing comes around … if it still feels like this [in two weeks], I'd say yes, there is more rust that needs to come off."
The Rangers will not push the issue, manager Ron Washington said. The goal is to get about 50 at-bats for Berkman by the March 31 opener at Houston.
"My only concern is that when it's all over, he's healthy," Washington said. "He's a professional hitter. He certainly knows what he's doing at the plate. He knows what he's capable of hitting. As long as he gets his at-bats between now and the time we break camp, he'll be fine."
Do not judge Berkman's progress by the spring numbers.
With St. Louis in 2011, Berkman had a terrible spring. He hit .182 with a .196 on-base percentage and .258 slugging percentage in 55 at-bats. He had only one walk with 10 strikeouts.
In the regular season, Berkman hit .301 with 31 homers, 94 RBIs and a .959 OPS. His surge continued all the way through the World Series triumph over the Rangers.
The tell-tale signs will be whether Berkman feels comfortable at the plate and fine-tunes his timing. A simple three-plate-appearances day was a start in that direction.
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Lance Berkman ranks among the all-time leaders in home runs and slugging percentage by a switch-hitter. A look at the lists:
Home Runs:
Mickey Mantle - 536
Eddie Murray - 504
Chipper Jones - 468
Lance Berkman - 360
Chili Davis - 350
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Mickey Mantle - .421
Lance Berkman - .409
Roy Cullenbine - .408
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* EC367 International Economics
* EC151 Principles of Macroeconomics
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Jouini, E., Napp, C., & D. Nocetti. Forthcoming. "Collective Risk Aversion." Social Choice and Welfare.
Echazu, L., & D. Nocetti. Forthcoming. "Priority Setting in Health Care: Disentangling Risk Aversion from Inequality Aversion." Health Economics.
Echazu, L., Nocetti, D., & W.T. Smith. Forthcoming. "A New Look into the Determinants of the Social Discount Rate: Disentangling Social Preferences." B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy (Advances) 12.
Nocetti, D. & W.T. Smith. (2011) "Precautionary Saving and Endogenous Labor Supply With and Without Intertemporal Expected Utility." Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 43,1475-1504.
Nocetti, D. & W.T. Smith (2011) "Price Uncertainty, Saving, and Welfare." Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 35, 1139-1149.
Nocetti, D. & W.T. Smith (2010) "Uncertainty, the Demand for Health Care, and Precautionary Saving." B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy (Advances) 10.
Heintzelman, M. & D. Nocetti (2009) "Where Should we Submit our Manuscript? An Analysis of Journal Submission Strategies" B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy (Advances) 9.
Nocetti, D., Jouini, E., & C. Napp (2008) "Properties of the Social Discount Rate in a Benthamite Framework with Heterogeneous Degrees of Impatience" Management Science 54, 1822-1826.
Nocetti, D. (2008) "Industrial Fatigue Redux." Economics letters 99, 286-289.
Nocetti, D. (2008) "The Biasing Effects of Memory Distortions on the Process of Legal Decision-Making." Review of Law and Economics 4, 219-239.
Nocetti, D. (2007) "Optimal Monetary Policy under Risk and Uncertainty" Economic Issues 12, 93-108.
Nocetti, D. (2006) "Central Bank's Value at Risk and Financial Crises: An Application to the 2001 Argentine Crisis." Journal of Applied Economics 9, 381-402.
Nocetti, D. (2006) "Markowitz meets Kahneman: Portfolio Selection under Divided Attention." Finance Research Letters 3, 106-113.
Nocetti, D. & W.T. Smith (2006) "Why do Pooled Forecasts do Better than Individual Forecasts Ex Post?" Economics Bulletin 4, 1-7.
Nocetti, D. (2006) "Hyperbolic Policymakers and Economic Growth" Economic Issues 10, 41-48.
Nocetti, D. (2006) "A Model of Mental Effort and Endogenous Estimation Risk." Economics Bulletin 4, 1−10.
Chang, C., D. Nocetti, & R. Rubin (2005) "Healthy Life Expectancy for Selected Race and Gender Subgroups: the Case of Tennessee" Southern Medical Journal 98, 977-984.


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Dinesh Gauri, associate professor of marketing at the Whitman School of Management, was quoted in a story last week on Channel 9 WSYR in which he offered insight as to why large department stores are opening their doors to customers earlier every year in preparation for Black Friday. Along with JCPenney and Macy's, Kohls has announced its plan to open all stores at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving night, four hours before the usual start of the notorious shopping holiday. Gauri says pure competition is driving stores do this because, if stores don't open up for shoppers, they risk losing out on a significant amount of revenue during the four-day shopping weekend.


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He was born Sept. 6, 1954, at Dover to the late Alvie William and Lucille Munford Lay. He was of the Baptist faith, and was a hard worker and known to many as the best roofer around. Most of all, he loved his family.
He was preceded in death by his parents; six brothers, William Paul Lay, Gene Lay, Charles Lay, James Lay, Jerry Lay and Gary Lay.
Survivors include three sons, Kevin Lay and wife, Tina, of Dover, Joseph Lay of Dardanelle, Dakota Lay of Dardanelle; two sisters-in-law, Lena Lay of Dover, Delores Lay of Hector; four grandchildren, Kyle Lay of Dardanelle, Dusty Lay of Atkins, Mason Lay of Russellville, Benjamin Lay of Dover; and many other relatives and friends.
Cremation arrangements are by Cornwell Funeral Home and River Valley Cremations in Dardanelle. Online guestbook and condolences are at www.cornwellfuneralhomes.com.