CRDAMC Looking for woman exposed to rabies in Central Texas

From a release from CRDAMC Public Affairs

FORT HOOD, Texas -Fort Hood, Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center, and the Texas State Health Department request your help in identifying a family that may have been exposed to a rabid cat. The animal may have been found near the Fort Hood Post Exchange.
Authorities are looking for a young white female, approximately 5 feet 2 inches, with dark blond hair who drives a black, long-bed four-door 2009 or 2010 Chevrolet Silverado pickup. On July 19, she dropped off a gray tabby cat and six kittens at the Animal Control Facility on Fort Hood.
The woman had two small children and an older woman in the truck. This individual may be able to identify others who came in contact with the cat before July 19.
If you have knowledge of this person, please contact Beverlee E. Nix, DVM, Texas Department of State Health Services, Zoonosis Control Program, Temple, Texas 254/778-6744, or Dr. Charles Lucey, Darnall Army Medical Center Preventive Medicine Services, 254-288-9193.

Woman embarks on 5,000-mile walk for Marrow Registry

Great effort here.  Would that it didn’t take such extraordinary means to attract people’s attention to such a great way to help others

Woman embarks on 5,000-mile walk to raise awareness of registry
Jeana Moore, a 57-year-old woman whose granddaughter was cured of leukemia through a bone marrow transplant, has committed to a 5,000-mile cross-country walk in order to raise awareness about the need for more people to sign up with the National Marrow Donor Program as potential donors. Moore is now halfway through her journey and is aiming to get 20,000 people to sign up for the registry.  Oklahoman (Oklahoma City), The (8/1)

Superhighway To Hell

Sounds like the AlterNet but I think this may be a scarily prescient article.  Just one more shitty thing we leave to the next generation?:

Companies like Google and Facebook are pioneers in the areas of profiling and search inversion, but the Internet’s nature (distributed, standards-based, open to all) makes it easy for others to follow their lead. Any Web company that owns servers storing user information can participate in profiling, as can any network service provider providing the pipes.

Profiling will take off fast for another reason: It’s legal. It doesn’t have to be an invasive activity. It’s not necessary, for example, to read e-mails or listen in on Skype calls in order to create prescient profiles. “Patterning”–or knowing which sites users visit, with whom they communicate, and how often–provides companies with more than enough data to create a valuable user profile.

via Superhighway To Hell — InformationWeek.

A Georgia Peach speaks

From Donna.  Chris – you can never be replaced:

Keep Austin Fast!

Best newspaper headline I’ve seen in forever!

Formula One World Championship Limited and Formula One Administration Limited (together, the F1 Commercial Rights Holder) and Full Throttle Productions, LP, promoter of the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix™, announce that a historic agreement has been reached for Austin, Texas to serve as the host city of the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix™ for years 2012 through 2021.

via Formula One headed for Austin.

One dog night saves 3-year old

Great dogs and reasons to have them number million and two:

PRESCOTT, Ariz. – A family dog is credited with keeping a little girl safe after she spent the overnight hours Friday in 30-degree temperatures near Cordes Lakes, 36 miles east of Prescott.

via Family dog kept missing 3-year-old girl safe – TODAY People.

TWN – Obama Freeze Forfeits America’s Future

I think that Steve Clemon’s analysis of the SOTU comes the closest to what I felt.  Sounds good – but you haven’t done what you already had the chance to do.  This may be the more important note that he’s made this week

“Barack Obama’s plan to unveil tonight a non-defense discretionary spending freeze for the next three years will essentially forfeit America’s growth future to China.

via Obama Freeze Forfeits America’s Future – The Washington Note.

Farmers’ Insurance reaps profits after treating customers like fertilizer

Ahhh – business-friendly Texas.  Who cares about those dumbass homeowners anyway.  (via Chris Turner)

“The Texas Department of Insurance is failing to protect consumers by allowing Farmers to pocket these overcharges instead of returning the money to policyholders,” said Alex Winslow of Texas Watch. “This is a gimmick for Farmers to claim they are lowering rates. … Farmers should never have been allowed to charge rates this high.”

Winslow said the situation is a “perfect example” of why the Legislature should require that insurance rates be approved before they take effect.

“Instead of homeowners having to pay excessive rates and the commissioner coming in on the back end to straighten things out, we should have a system where the insurance company has to get approval before it raises rates,” he said.

Under current law, an auto or home insurer can raise rates immediately after notifying the insurance department.

via Farmers Insurance, state agree to cut ‘excessive’ rate hike | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Latest News.

Must love dogs – and Angel

via Family’s ‘Angel’ dog saves boy from cougar attack – CNN.com:  One more reason to have a dog – cougars.

“The dog obviously knew that something was up because she ran towards me just at the right time and the cougar ended up getting her instead,” the boy explained.

Angel and the cougar fought under the family's deck, while the boy's frightened family called 911 for help. Fortunately a Royal Canadian Mounted Constable was in the area and able to make it to their home and kill the cougar quickly.

Despite receiving a few deep bite and scratch wounds Angel miraculously survived the attack.

Dillie the pet deer

Watch the deer on the bed and playing on the plastic sheet. Too funny:

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