D5 Cat. 01 Victim perhaps targeted in basement classroom

Other factors were not immediately clear at Tuesday’s announcement, including:

■ When the Cummins powered Titan will be available.

■ Expected annual production.

■ Exactly when new employees would be hired.

Nissan is looking to increase its share of the light pickup market, which it projects could reach about 300,000 vehicles in the U.S.

Nissan has but a small share of the market, compared with the top-selling trucks from Ford, Chevrolet and Ram.

Nissan sold 22,000 Titans last year.

Even in a bad year, Cummins ships about three times as many midrange diesel engines to power Ram trucks.

Linebarger said after the announcement that lackluster Titan sales contributed to Nissan’s decision to form the partnership with Cummins.

“For them, this is a big opportunity,” Linebarger said.

Cummins produces the 6.7-liter diesel engine at Columbus MidRange Plant near Walesboro for the 2500 and 3500 versions of the Ram pickup.

The light-duty diesel that will power the Titan initially was conceived by Cummins for the 1500 version of the Ram, but that project was scuttled by the bankruptcy of Ram’s parent, Chrysler.

The diesel-powered light pickup market has gained some traction in recent months, as both Ram and Ford announced models with a 3-liter V6 this summer.

Unlike some of the Titan Turbo Diesel’s rivals, however, the new engine for the Titan was designed specifically for the light-duty truck, not revised from other applications, Linebarger said.

The Ram’s light-duty diesel, for example, also powers the Jeep Cherokee.

That engine was designed by Italy-based VM Motori, partially owned by Chrysler’s new parent, Fiat.

D5 – Cat. 08
Family’s birthday card gets heavy use
John Carlson

The Star Press (Muncie)

They’ve been sending that same card to each other since 2005, which was also the year that family matriarch Mary Barrett died.

“I thought we needed something to give us a pick-me-up,” recalled Jill Bartle, who is one of those Barrett siblings, who range in age from 55 to 75.

“I just thought it was time for something different to do.” As Jill spoke, she was sitting at her dining room table, upon which a bounty of baked goods was placed, along with a variety of coffee mugs.

Within reach of each mug sat a sibling or in-law, including Jill’s husband, Dave; her sister, Mary Jane James; her sister-in-law, Jaunita Barrett; her brother, Carroll Barrett; another sisterin- law, Sandy Barrett; her brother, Ronnie Barrett, and her sister, Beth Smith.

Missing were her sister, Karen Dodd, and her husband, Bob; her sister, Jackie Stephens, and her husband, Jay, and Mary Jane’s husband, Randy.

Still, the missing family members notwithstanding, this was a boisterous, happy group.

“A lot of people,” said Jaunita, “think we’re ...” “ Loud,” interjected Sandy, drawing a chorus of laughter.

Jaunita had meant to say “unusual.” “If everybody was here, you wouldn’t be able to hear anything,” Sandy added.

Meanwhile, amidst the coffee mugs, sweet bread and brownies, stood the card.

With a colorful, sort of cartoon-like front, it read, “You can yell and scream about another birthday – but there’s no getting out of it.” Opening the card and looking closely, the highlighted inside read, “like when someone flushes the toilet and you’re in the shower.” “It was humorous,” Jill said, explaining why she chose it to send to Carroll for the first time.

“It sounded like us.” Then it began making the rounds, which is the reason you had to look closely to read it.

After nine years of use, handwritten greetings seem to cover every square inch.

“We’re going to have to add a page in here,” Carroll observed, leading Mary Jane to note that because it’s so full, “It takes a while sometimes (to find the new birthday message).” But then Jill studied the card, almost squinting as she looked, and liked what she saw.

“There’s still a lot of room here,” she said, adding she figured it will last another year.

But let’s back up.

When Jaunita had meant to describe her family as unusual, it was because of the obvious bonds of warmth and love between them, bonds strong enough that they aren’t afraid to laugh about those ties.

“We have tolerated them all these years,” Mary Jane joked, of the in-laws who married into the clan.

But on a more serious note, Beth said, “It’s great to be part of a family like this.

There are a lot of families that don’t stay together like we do.” Meeting for regular dinners and coffee “klatches” is a part of that.

But nothing illustrates the familial bonds like that well-worn birthday card, which is only sent among the original family members, plus one non-family member the Barretts consider another sister.

“I was surprised the first time I got it,” Beth recalled of the card, adding that now, “Every year you want it back.” The birthday card has even ranged as far abroad as Africa, where Mary Jane and her husband spent a couple of years as missionaries in Nairobi’s Africa Nazarene University.

Did it surprise her when the card arrived there? “I expected it to come,” she said.

“Oh, here it comes again,” Ronnie deadpanned, offering the inlaws’ reaction to all this.

“We used to be able to write notes to each other,” Jill added, noting the present space restrictions.

“Now it’s down to “Happy birthday, 2014.” When it’s time to send the card on, some fevered searches have ensued.

“There’s been a couple times somebody’s misplaced it for a while and been in a panic,” Jill said.

But does it ever not arrive, period? Well, Mary Jane acknowledged, sadly, she was missed one year, which led her siblings around the table to quickly assure her that won’t ever happen again.

“Oh, sure,” she said dubiously, sort of faking a pout, or maybe not faking a pout.

“We’ll see.” Meanwhile, the Barrett siblings vow they will keep sending that birthday card as long as they live, and hope that when the time comes, the younger generations will continue the practice.

That will further reduce the per-use cost of that $2.25 card, since the immediate family and its offspring now number about 85 people.

“We’re a pretty fertile family,” Ronnie explained.

D5 – Cat. 09
Softer side
Jon Blau

The Herald-Times (Bloomington)

A flight for congressional testimony in Washington, D.C., is followed by a board meeting at Microsoft headquarters in Seattle, which is followed by a conference with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris. The data revolution calls because he arrived in the right time and place – an expert on privacy and the law in the age of Edward Snowden and the National Security Agency.

But years before Americans would hear the name Snowden, Beth Cate met her husband at the Charlotte airport and delivered news of a different sort.

“Snowflake died.”

“People passing by,” Fred Cate remembers. “They must have thought I had lost a loved one.”

The world’s weightiest struggles with technology and “Big Brother” are one thing; the death of a pet gerbil is another.

The man directing the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research at Indiana University comes to the airport armed with suits and ties and a cool command of intellectual debate, but he leaves the fray with his sensitivity intact.

He loves animals – big and small, real or imaginary. He tells time with a Winnie the Pooh wristwatch, a timepiece prone to slip out from under his left sleeve during committee hearings. He has collected thousands of stuffed animals, travel companions during long flights to and from meetings. Because of his crammed schedule, there is no place for live pets at the Cates’ Bloomington home these days, but they dote over an elephant and an Alaskan brown bear they “parent” at the Indianapolis Zoo.

Cate doesn’t take himself too seriously, but he’s an internationally respected voice in his field. The powerful listen as he tells them uncomfortable truths about invading privacy. The Transportation Security Administration placed hundreds of body scanners in airports; too bad, Cate said, they do more to show someone naked than to root out terrorism. Governments use metadata to pre-empt wrongdoers; but remember, Cate said, data can be misinterpreted.

Despite all his thinking, there is no keeping up with a bullet train of technological advances. At some point, between the flights, the briefings and the lectures, he withdraws back to his other life.

That life has its quirks.

Even as Beth Cate utters the name Snowflake years after the gerbil’s death, Fred Cate walks out of the living room, unsure of his composure. Snowflake started out as a neighbor’s pet. The Cates filled in so well during the neighbor’s vacation, her stay became permanent. They made sure she had a mountain of shredded cardboard to scale.

As he recalls Snowflake, his eyes are drawn to the backyard where he buried her. The motion-activated lights have turned on and now illuminate the manmade waterfall outside his bathroom window. “I’m going to see who that is,” Cate says. He grabs his camera and hurries down a dark hallway. Under a pair of bird feeders, a rabbit gnashes its teeth.

Before the lights switch off, Cate gets his bunny picture.

Petey and Timothy T.

The world was once a simpler place. Cate’s father was an Old Testament scholar and a Baptist preacher who taught the local kindergartners about Petey Church Mouse and Timothy T. Turtle.

According to Robert Cate’s stories, Petey lived in a tissue box in the preacher’s top drawer, but would embark on wild adventures. The fox and the raccoon, who also populated the stories, didn’t sneer at one another as they would in real life. They were friends.

Fred Cate’s own plush miniature of Petey sits in a glass case. Small things still captivate him. At the zoo, during one of his weekly Sunday visits, he set a pretzel down to photograph a lion. He then heard the dragging of wax paper beneath him. A mouse pulled his snack back into the brush.

A brave mouse to live where it did. An ambitious mouse to claim a prize twice its size.

“Needless to say, I wasn’t going to fight him for it,” Cate said.

He took a picture, or several.

On a Monday, Cate heads back to his office at the Maurer School of Law and a world far removed from the innocence of Petey Church Mouse or animals at the zoo. In the early 1990s, when he first started lecturing on the scope of the “World Wide Web,” he would bring a Kellogg’s cereal box to point to the “www.” The Internet was a small thing then. Now, the malicious code that spun Iran’s nuclear centrifuges out of control floats through cyberspace. A microchip no bigger than a grain of sand rests inside a pill.

When swallowed, the chip transmits data from within the human body.

Cate doesn’t see technology as a malevolent force by itself. “It could all be wonderful,” he says. He imagines a service where patients with multiple medications opt to have an ambulance rushed to their door if the data-producing pill detects a deadly mix.

But humanity’s fascination with technology can push it forward without accounting for the risks.

“Every time a former student walks in my office, I’d love if their image popped up on my glasses and told me who the hell they are,” Cate says. “On the other hand, it’s going to lead to instant fraud. If I can get your Google Glass to tell you I’m somebody that I’m not, you are going to believe I’m somebody I’m not.” In his role with Microsoft’s academic advisory board on Trustworthy Computing, as well as gigs advising the presidential campaigns of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense, Cate weighs the potential effects of the data revolution on private lives. It’s a complex picture. The Internet, after all, not only is a vehicle for porn, malicious viruses and massive theft, it also pays the bills, delivers Social Security checks and might even introduce you to the love of your life.

Such huge complexity is Cate’s life. But there comes a time for him to disconnect from the digital world. Below his desk and a pile of academic papers, a sheep named Norman rests at his feet. Just one of many.

Island of Misfit Toys One full bedroom wall is outfitted with shelves, and those shelves are completely covered by stuffed animals.

There are no cyber-terrorism thrillers on Cate’s bookshelves. He couldn’t stand to bring that part of his life home.

But the living room has two walls lined with shelves and Starbucks teddy bears – holiday themed for Christmas, Valentine’s Day and New Year’s, baseball themed from various cities across the U.S., along with a white-wigged George Washington from D.C. and a taxi driver bear from New York City.

Starbucks also has released 70 country-themed bears, but Cate has chosen only to get the bears from countries he has visited. “You’ll find a new wife,” Beth Cate warns him as he sorts through the collection, “if we get every country.” “You cannot walk into a room that has 400 bears in it and be depressed or sad or uptight or worried,” Cate said. “I’ll come out of a budget meeting, slamming things around, knocking stacks of paper over, but I come home and see all these furry, smiling faces.” A survey by the hotel chain Travelodge once found a quarter of men travel with a stuffed animal. Cate doesn’t hide that he’s one of them – a child-sized moose once sat in a nearby airplane seat, belt fastened. For Cate, a stuffed animal in a suitcase is no different than a child in one.

Cate and his furry companions have flown all around the world. He’s advised the governments of Finland, Japan and Taiwan. He’s worked with China, as well. He recently traveled there to talk to students about privacy protections, an awkward task following Snowden’s revelations of domestic spy programs in the U.S.; after all, American policymakers have been flogging China for years about its surveillance state.

Leaks from Snowden about NSA data-mining operations kept Cate’s phone ringing through the summer of 2013, with media outlets wanting his perspective on it all. Cate has access to confidential documents – guidelines on how to protect the cyber infrastructure of a water plant, for example – but he jokes he’s slightly bitter that, despite Snowden’s somewhat lower level security clearance, the young NSA contractor saw “juicier” information.

Called to serve on President Obama’s review group on the intelligence community, Cate advocated for an end to bulk data collection programs and a split of the NSA, one part securing data for the Department of Defense and the other responsible for surveillance. Otherwise, the intelligence gatherers will exploit the weaknesses uncovered by security personnel.

Obama recently called for legislative action to require a judge’s order before the government can access phone companies’ records. While the government will no longer store the data, legislators in the House want investigators to be able to access the data before it is reviewed by a court.

Cate has been watching, wondering how far the president, a former constitutional law professor, will go.

“My fear is that it’s an issue that is not worth his political capital,” Cate says of reforming the intelligence community, “and it will certainly take a lot of political capital.” His home, his privacy Beth Cate is a legal scholar herself – she went to Harvard with Obama – so the conversations about privacy law never quite end. Fred and Beth Cate might teach a class together and, an hour afterward, in the parking lot, continue to bounce back and forth about what they heard on the news.

Eventually, there’s a pause. They return to their plush animal kingdom, insulation against busy thoughts. A line of polar bears from Coca-Cola ad campaigns loop around the living room, and Cate once flirted with the idea of painting his ceiling with Michelangelo’s painting “The Creation of Adam,” with a bear subbing for Adam.

As over-the-top as this aspect of Fred Cate’s personality might seem, his colleagues understand it. He cares about people. He cares about animals, and he goes as far as to care about stuffed animals, rescuing a toy duck he later named Hu De from a display full of toy pandas in China. “They call to you,” Cate said, “and how can you say no?” The thought of Cate’s shelves evokes laughter from Microsoft’s Chief Privacy Officer Peter Cullen. But Cullen has seen both sides of Fred Cate, and he doesn’t underestimate either one – the person or the professional.

“He’s so smart, and he doesn’t suffer fools lightly,” Cullen said. “There’s just a part of him that is very compassionate. He’s a multi-faceted person.” Earlier this month, in Paris, Cate joined Cullen and privacy officers from large data-holding companies, and data protection officials from across Europe, to work on a “Privacy Risk Framework.” Cate wants a threshold-based system where some data face more stringent regulations against sharing than others, but individuals wouldn’t be burdened by choice. Does someone really have a choice, he asks, when they must click “I agree” or “No, thanks” on a user agreement that would take hours to read? On the other hand, why can the U.S. government collect information about every phone call, but laws make it almost impossible to collect medical information for research? “If we are going to have all the incursions of using data,” Cate said, “let’s at least heighten the benefits.” These questions circle through Cate’s mind as he sinks his teeth into a “Hobo banquet” breakfast at Le Peep restaurant in Indianapolis, an hour before he heads to the zoo. He pays with his credit card, leaving one “digital footprint.” Outside, there are cameras on street corners recording his walk back to his car.

A bear’s life Only a thin, black glove protects Cate’s clicking hand from the cold. The camera’s 400-millimeter lens is cupped by an ice-fishing mitt on his left. He works for his next photograph, encouraging a 3-year-old Alaskan brown bear to live completely as a bear. Mi-kal, impervious to the chill, sits up and relaxes as if he’s lounging in a lawn chair.

“I’m a bear, and I am very happy to be a bear,” Cate says to Mi-kal as the animal flops back to the ground. “There is no greater dignity in life.” This is nearly every Sunday for Cate, in the cold or the heat, before crowds arrive and the only sounds are the scratching of leaves along an abandoned trail. Tuesday will bring a flight to somewhere and important meetings with a who’s who of professors, politicians and executives, but on Sunday, he takes thousands of pictures and tells a keeper how his wife says he is 75 percent bear.

Only 25 percent removed from bliss.

Beth Cate will spend her time at the zoo rubbing the bottom of Tombi the elephant’s tree-stump feet and scooping up with a steel shovel what Tombi leaves behind. Fred Cate will stand outside of Mi-kal’s space and watch him lie flat on his back, legs spread apart.

Mi-kal offers Cate a reprieve from privacy questions. The bear doesn’t care if his picture is taken, how the image will be used, what it will look like.

He’s happy to be alive. His mother was shot after an encounter with a jogger. He was found in “disgusting condition,” Cate said. But fortune came at the right time. The female brown bear at the Indy Zoo, Kiak, had just had her brother die; bears don’t live together in the wild unless they are related.

“She conveyed heartbreak as effectively as you could convey it, to not use words,” Cate said.

It was a long shot, but with the help of FedEx and Cate’s sponsorship, Mi-kal was shipped from Alaska to Indiana to bond with Kiak. “It was an unmitigated disaster,” Cate said.

Mi-kal, younger and smaller than Kiak, cowered in fear when she graciously offered him her share of fish and cardboard.

But Mi-kal grew up, and now the two bears playfully bite at each other’s throats. They wrestle and slide on their backs in the winter snow.

A keeper throws slices of strawberry and peach into their enclosure, and Mi-kal sits in front of Kiak. He eats everything. “She brought you her fish, and you aren’t going to share?” Cate chides. Kiak slaps Mi-kal on the back, but he doesn’t move. Their heads turn in unison to follow a falling leaf as it floats by.

Leaving a half-hour stay with Mi-kal, Cate spend a minute or two with the sea lions – “You have to pay your respects,” Cate says – then joins his wife with Tombi, the elephant they helped bring to the zoo in the late ‘90s.

On the car ride up, Beth Cate had wondered if Tombi would take a liking to the shampoo she had used that morning. Tombi did, a point confirmed when the elephant inhaled the fragrance of Beth Cate’s hair with her trunk. Tombi gets her bath, extending her ears like wings as a hose blast cleans behind them.

Zoo staff then let Tombi out from her indoor enclosure, for only a few seconds because of the cold. Fred Cate nestles his head up against her thick skin and whispers into her ears. “Hey there, girl.” He takes a hundred photographs and says goodbye.

Before the drive back to Bloomington, Cate sits in his car, checks his Winnie the Pooh watch and waits for his wife to come out of the elephant enclosure. She slips into the passenger seat, the distinct aroma of what she’s been shoveling hanging in the air. One time, she says, the scent so overwhelmed a police officer when she rolled down the window that it got her out of a speeding ticket.

Tuesday will be a day for suits and airport security. Sunday is the smell of escape.

D5 – Cat. 10
The death and life of Daniel Kline
MaryJane Slaby

Journal & Courier (Lafayette)

It was Aug. 25, a Sunday morning, and the popular 23-year-old was driving north on Interstate 65 to West Lafayette from an Indianapolis hotel, where he had stayed after celebrating his cousin’s 21st birthday.

About four miles from the Indiana 38 exit near Dayton, Daniel’s 2006 Hyundai ran off the east side of the road and down a steep and heavily wooded embankment.

The vehicle rolled at least once.

A semi driver stopped to call 911.

Five minutes later, Indiana State Trooper Darrick Scott responded.

It took five more minutes for him to find the Hyundai with Daniel inside – his license, money and Purdue University student ID scattered on the ground. A preliminary blood test would later establish that his blood-alcohol concentration was well over the legal limit of 0.08 percent.

At that early hour, Daniel, an assistant manager at Discount Den, should have been preparing to open the near-campus store, where customers knew him as “Discount Dan” or “Dan from the Den.” Instead, state troopers escorted his parents, Stewart and Suzanne Kline, to IU Health Arnett hospital.

Shortly after 8 a.m., Stewart called Adrienne Weliky, Daniel’s sister.

She and her husband, Gordon, were in Indianapolis, too, and stayed at the hotel with Daniel and friends.

All Stewart said was that Daniel had been in a “serious accident.” Instead of going to breakfast, Adrienne and Gordon drove straight to the hospital.

And so began an ordeal for which no family is ever prepared but many must eventually confront: the agonizing, yet ultimately liberating, decision to donate Daniel’s organs.

Daniel was the third person in Tippecanoe County to give a live donation in August – something Coroner Donna Avolt said is extremely rare.

Even more rare was Daniel’s blood type – AB negative.

And that meant a longer-than-usual process to find recipients.