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Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Security
02/09/2008I have just heard that there was a break in on Kennon Road this week. The person broke in a glass door on an upper deck, sometime between 5:30 and 9:30 am. Keep your eyes out for suspicious individuals around your house and your neighbors. Notify KPD, if you see anything. Do not accost someone yourself!
October 2007 Joe, we also had that experience on Corteland. I had a cell phone stolen, and a ring that was in the glove-box of the car as it sat in our driveway in front of the house. I believe the car had not been locked - not our usual practice, but there was nothing broken, so I must have left it unlocked. I had intended to return to the car and get the cell phone to be charged, and didn't get that done. Not a large loss, but the ring was a family memento.
Again, we know better than to leave an unlocked car at the top of the driveway - just paid the price for not being vigilant. This occurred on Wednesday night, Sept 26th. Douglass
I have heard in the past few days of 2 series of events related to our safety. I n the first event cars along Broome, parked overnight in their driveways had windows broken, and valuables stolen. Today I have heard of a similar event on Ainsworth, with the perpetrator also entering the house thru the garage, and made off with a purse and some jewelry.
Please pass the message on to your neighbors to be alert to strange people in the neighborhood; do not leave valuables in sight in your cars, and of course keep your house and garage doors closed/locked when out of your sight.
Do not accost anyone suspicious! Get license plate numbers, etc. and call 911. Joe Fuhr.
SEPTEMBER 2007 Subject: Neighborhood Watch Type Item
Thought this information might be of value. You might wish to pass it on.
My name is Holly Williams and my husband Ty and I live at 8005 Chesterfield Drive.
Last Friday, August 17th around 5:00 PM a man
parked in front of our home and came to our front door. We were on our way out, so my husband asked him what he needed and he asked if we needed our gutters cleaned, which we did not. He then asked how to get to Middlebrook Pike and my husband pointed him in the right direction. We found this a little disconcerting since he just randomly pulled up to our house, and then drove away, not stopping at any other homes to offer services. After asking our neighbor to watch out for our home while we out, we found out that this man has been in the Westborough section of the neighborhood as well, and may have stolen some outdoor items. Our description and license plate number matched the one provided by a Westborough resident and they have not reported anything.
However, with that information in hand, I called the police non-emergency
number and asked them to be on the lookout for suspicious activity since they are around the neighborhood looking for speeders. Be a good neighbor, be vigilant! Williams
AT&T STEALTH BROADBAND OFFER FOR HOMEOWNERS AT&T is providing DSL service to some customers for $10 a month.
But it's a stealth offering because AT&T isn't broadcasting the deal widely.
Some users in AT&T's 22-state region can obtain the offer, which was agreed upon as a part of AT&T's acquisition approval of BellSouth last year.
While the 768-Kbps downlink and 128-Kbps uplink speeds are on the low end of AT&T's high-speed Internet access offerings, the $10 fee is precedent-setting for DSL from AT&T or any other provider. AT&T began offering the $10 service last weekend.
There may be more good news to come from AT&T, because its deal with the FCC in the BellSouth acquisition called for the company to also offer "naked" DSL without requiring consumers to also purchase telephone service or other features in a bundle.
So far, AT&T hasn't been promoting the $10 DSL, and subscribers have to ferret out the offer on their own.
Since I couldn't find any information on Bellsouth's Web site I asked Senator Tim Burchett to investigate ! Here is the information that Tim'a Assistant Alice got from the inquiry. ATT&T Response ! Thank you for your e-mail inquiry about the $10 broadband offer. For a potential customer to sign up, the customer should go to the website http://bellsouth.com. The page should automatically go to the Residential section. (If not, there are tabs at the top of the page for "Residential", "Small Business", "Enterprise", and "About Us". Select "Residential").
Down the left-hand side of that page are several icons (including "Local", "Long Distance", and "Internet"). Click on "Internet". On the internet page, there is a place to input your telephone number. Enter the telephone number. This will take you to a new screen, which will tell the customer whether DSL is available in his or her location.
If DSL is available, then the customer will be asked to indicate whether he or she is a current BellSouth broadband or dial-up customer (and complete address and contact information) and click to submit the information.
If the customer is qualified to sign up for the offer (not a current broadband customer), then the $10, 12-month term agreement offer will be listed as one of the options on the "Plan Selection" page that appears next. Summary : If you want good price, You must sign up on line!
Alice F. Bigham Assistant to Sen. Burchett
310A WMB
741-1766
AUGUST 2007 Back to School Time WBIR TV: LIVE at 5 Click on Watch Video ==> on the right hand side. Soon Knox County parents will have an easy way to get a better idea of what their kids are up to: point, click and read. A new internet program provides another communication tool for teachers and parents in Knox County Schools.
"It will be very easy," said Chief Technology Officer Gail Byard. "There is a login that will be provided by their student's school."
She demonstrated on her office computer how the new Parent Portal will give parents of middle school and high school students information. Parents log in and check report card grades, daily grades and classroom assignments. They can also see discipline information and even transcripts for high school students. Finally, they can check attendance, both daily and broken down by class period. And it's all in real time, updated every day.
"This is not intended to be big brother watching the students in the classroom," Byard said. "It's intended to be used for student accountability and for improving student achievement at the classroom level and for better communication with our classroom teachers."
Teachers can even receive e-mails directly from parents. A parent just clicks on the teacher's name, and types a message.
AUGUST 2007 Knox School Matters is a community of people who care about education; a place where people can discuss local, state and national education issues that affect all of us; a place for constructive dialogue and creative solutions; and a source of inspiration, learning.
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