How many times a day do you read about a brand messing up?
It's a sport at this point. Some people make a living by showing brands just how much other businesses are screwing up, as some kind of warning/lesson. A bad customer experience is about as prevalent in the online feeds of the world as selfies and what people are eating for dinner. It has become so commonplace, that most of us read it, shake our heads and continue buying from the same brands, in the hopes that what happened to our friend won't happen to us. My friend, Jay Baer, is in the middle of promoting his new talk and soon-to-be book, Hug Your Haters. My other buddy, Scott Stratten, offers an endless supply of case stories that act as real warnings, along with brands that have turned a challenge into an opportunity that they later leveraged to tell a better brand narrative. We have not tired on the topic of better customer service, and continue to demonstrate how the Internet allows brands to understand the issues, overcome them and even come out of the other side being in a much better place.
It feels like this is always a challenge for the bigger brands.
We often hear the phrase, "bigger is better," but don't believe it when it comes to corporations. Take a brand like Apple. Putting aside their market capitalization, their stunning technology tools and retail environments, there are many people who struggle with their products and services. The Internet is littered with issues (and, I have had my own… just like anybody else). Still, when it works, it is something to marvel.
How Apple gets it so right. (Warning: this is a "market of one" story).
The other day, I noticed that the letter "I" on my MacBook Air keypad was getting loose. By the following day, it had lifted. The key still worked, but the last thing I needed was to loose that letter in some random airport. I figured I would book a Genius Bar appointment, and pray that I would not have to relinquish the computer for a bunch of days to get one single, dorky key replaced or repaired. I went to the Apple website, clicked the link for a customer support rep to call me, and took a deep, meditative breath. It took about five seconds before my phone rang with a message that the average wait time would be fifteen minutes due to the high volume of traffic. I was at my desk, so I switched over to speaker phone and got back to work. Within two minutes, someone was on the other line, we went through the issue, and I got booked into a meeting the next day, at the exact time I needed it. I went over to the store, thinking that this would take about an hour, and that there was a high possibility that I would leave the store frustrated and without my laptop for a bunch of days (either that or the "I" button would be replaced with "Z" or something like that). I was served, it was replaced on the spot, and the Apple employee even changed other keys that were worn. Yes, I have AppleCare, so there was zero charge. I was thanked, and asked if there was anything else that they could help me with.
It seems simple enough, but knowing the business, there is so much elegance going on behind the scenes to make what seems like an easy fix… easy to fix. They set the expectations that the phone call might take a while, but it did not. They made the reservation at the store happen in a quick and efficient manner. I was not left waiting for days to get an appointment. The in-store experience over-delivered, because they did not make me sit around and they had the pieces in stock. They were able to solve it at that moment, and not push the computer over to a conveyer belt of technical support that the consumer could not see. They didn't just resolve the current problem, but looked to fix other problem spots as a precaution.
…And that's the point. Most of the customer complaints are not big deals, but because of process, the size of the organization, supply chains and more, the littlest of issues are often the ones that create a proverbial "pebble in the shoe" for the big organizations. For all of their foibles and fall-downs, Apple never felt like a bunch of silos between customer support on the phone, the digital experience and the in-store experience. It all felt like one connected channel (the true omni-channel experience). Again, this is a market of one tale (and I've had unresolved and frustrating experiences at Apple as well), but this experience did demonstrate that big organizations can make things happen, if they're willing to take these complex circumstances and design for elegance and simplicity. No one tossed my problem over to another department. No one complained that my issue wasn't their problem. And, a smile, handshake, kind voice and a willingness to try to make everything right still goes a long way.
Big can be much better.


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Star Trek Animated Series Re-Watch: "Mudd's Passion"
– June 23, 2011 8:00 amPosted in: Animated Series Re-Watch
"Mudd's Passion"
Written by Stephen Kandel
Enterprise makes a special trip to Motherlode in the Arcadian star system in search of one Harcourt Fenton Mudd, wanted on several counts of being annoying. They find the infamous swindler hawking a love potion to the human and ursine miners on the planet, claiming that all it takes is a drop of a magic liquid to compell any woman to love them with a single touch. "It matters not whether you are young, old, fat, ugly or repugnant," he assures the crowd–and what better way to prove three out of four than by a personal demonstration? He brings up a young blonde who implores, "Please, darling, come back to the ship with me." Yecch!
Kirk and Spock arrive just in time to witness this disgusting display. Spock exposes Mudd as a fraud by firing his phaser at the woman, revealing her to be a "Rigelian hypnoid," a lizard that cleans up nice. (Possibly a distant relative of the Hypnotoad.) Apparently Kirk can't arrest Mudd because Motherlode is a lawless den of iniquity, but he can save the conman from being stoned to death by angry miners. The opportunist recognizes this as an offer he can't refuse and soon finds himself safely in Enterprise's brig.
Spock requests that Nurse Chapel examine the slightly injured prisoner, which gives her a convenient excuse to stick around the brig with a phaser.
CHAPEL: Of course, Mister Spock. I think you deserve congratulations for trapping him so cleverly.
SPOCK: You exaggerate, Nurse. Kindly see that your medical summary is more precise.
Mudd sees Chapel get shutdown by the unfeeling Vulcan and tries to give her a love crystal to solve her problems. She doesn't trust him because hey, it's Harry Mudd, but he goes into informercial mode: "One touch evokes friendship between men or women. But between woman and man, love."
Just "friendship," huh? What incredibly discerning love crystals!
Chapel decides that maybe she could take one after all, just to "analyze" it, of course. She lets Mudd out, and he convinces her to use herself and Spock as test subjects. She breaks the capsule and rubs the liquid on her skin, which causes her to swoon–allowing Mudd to steal her medical pouch, along with her credibility. He locks himself back in the forcefield and she heads off to touch Spock.
Mudd uses Chapel's phaser to overload the forcefield and escape, then uses the Enterprise computers to change the picture on Chapel's ID to his own. Meanwhile, Chapel delivers her medical report to Spock's quarters and "accidentally" falls into his lap.
SPOCK: Was there something else, Miss Chapel?
CHAPEL: Wouldn't you like me to, well, stay? Help you?
SPOCK: That would be illogical, Miss Chapel.
Chapel's pissed that the love potion didn't work and returns to the brig to file a complaint with the home office, only Mudd is gone. She realizes that her phaser and pouch are gone too. Oops! She tracks him down to the shuttlebay, where she beats the crap out of him and reclaims her stolen property, but not her pride. Mudd cajoles her and she shoots at him, but misses. He drops some love crystals, which get sucked up as vapor into an air vent. She hits a panic button that initiates a Red Alert, but Mudd somehow recovers and takes her hostage.
Unbeknownst to them both, Spock is starting to feel amorous toward the nurse and goes to the Bridge to confide in his best friends, and the rest of the eavesdropping Bridge crew.
SPOCK: Captain. Doctor. I wish to report a, er, a number of very strange, um, emotions.
He's alarmed to find out that Mudd has kidnapped Chapel and escaped in a shuttlecraft, and insists on immediately going to fetch his "love." Kirk decides there's no way to deter his lovestruck first officer and accompanies him to the planet Mudd is heading for. Just before they beam out, they're exposed to fumes from the air vents, along with everyone on the Bridge. M'ress and Scotty cozy up to each other, while Kirk and Spock get friendlier on the planet.
SPOCK: It's good to have a friend like you.
KIRK: Strange, that's the way I feel about you, too. My dear friend, Spock. Come, let's go get Mudd and Christine.
They find Nurse Chapel and Mudd, and Chapel is delighted to learn that Spock is in love with her, but less pleased by the two giant rock monsters that crush the shuttle and attack them.
SPOCK: Don't worry. You'll be safe, darling.
CHAPEL: Yes, Spock. How wonderful.
MUDD: They're coming closer.
KIRK: Emergency beam up. Enterprise, come in. No response. Spock, can't you take your hands off her?
SPOCK: That's my affair.
CHAPEL: Captain, please.
Spock and Kirk have a moment of clarity, realizing that they're feeling the effects of the love potion, which Mudd didn't even think really worked. Unfortunately everyone on the ship is so busy trying to score, they aren't paying much attention to the plight of the people on the planet. Not only is Kirk and Co. about to be squished, but they're starting to get on each other's nerves. The love crystal-induced honeymoon is over; the Enterprise crew is hungover and surly, but they're finally coming to their senses enough to check on the captain.
Mudd reluctantly volunteers his love crystals, which Kirk uses to dose one of the rock creatures. The rock creature suddenly becomes affectionate and protective of the humans and turns against the other rock creature, which buys them enough time to be rescued by an emergency beam out.
Now that everything's sorted, Chapel records Mudd's confession for his many crimes.
SPOCK: May I help you record his confession, Nurse?
CHAPEL: You? You'd be the last person I'd choose.
SPOCK: A few moments of love, paid for with several hours of hatred. Your potion is scarcely a bargain, Harry.
MUDD: Ah, well, Spock. So few things in this universe are perfect. Think I'll get rehabilitation therapy again?
SPOCK: I can guarantee it.
MUDD: Well, that's all right. I just hate to leave you all. All my loved ones.
If I had to take a guess, I'd say Harry Mudd wasn't the only one who was stoned in this episode.
The more I thought about "Mudd's Passion," the more disgusted I became with it. This episode is written like bad fanfiction from start to finish, forcing the actors to demean themselves and behave wildly out of character. The only saving grace is that we don't have to see them embarrass themselves onscreen, as we did in "Plato's Stepchildren," but their animated counterparts still made me plenty uncomfortable.
Plotwise, this adventure unfortunately is more along the lines of "Mudd's Women" than "I, Mudd," most notably in how offensive and inappropriate it manages to be, though also by revisiting the idea of the swindler preying on lonely miners. But the worst sin committed here is the awful depiction of Nurse Chapel, which singlehandedly reduces her to an unsympathetic parody of her former self.
Ignoring her orchestrated "fall" into Spock's lap–one of the worst moments I've ever witnessed in Star Trek–I was most disappointed by Chapel's half-hearted rejection of Mudd's love crystal. She is rather easily swayed, never even considering the moral implications of forcing the Vulcan to love her; instead, she was only concerned with whether or not the crystals were genuine. And as far as I can tell, there were no lasting consequences to her dangerous lapse in judgment and the resulting chaos caused by her inept handling of a prisoner. Though Mudd compliments Chapel ("You're not simply a beautiful woman, you are a scientist.") it's evident that he's just buttering her up and, perhaps, speaking facetiously–he doesn't respect her as a person at all, and I'm not sure the writer does either.
As for the love crystals (Or are they capsules? Liquids?), I was stunned by the explanation that they merely initiate "friendship" in people of the same sex and love in those of the opposite sex. I know it's a cartoon, I know it was 1973, but still–wouldn't it have been better to avoid that question entirely, if they were simply going to write it off so simplistically? Do Kirk and Spock really need a dose of the love potion to admit they're good friends? I mean, that scene of them embracing each other seemed tailored for all the K/S writers out there.
The crystals also don't even function consistently! Kirk never touches the rock creature after feeding it the crystals (which never seemed to match the number mentioned in dialogue), but the alien develops strong feelings for him anyway. M'ress doesn't touch Scott, but finds him attractive anyway. And I still can't quite figure out how they were sucked into the air vents in the first place.
This episode shocked me at every turn, from M'ress blatantly cozying up to Scott on the Bridge to Dr. McCoy bragging to a woman just to impress her. Why do love potions always make people change their behavior so drastically? Why must love always be shown as obsessive, instead of dealing with a shift in attitude and feeling more realistically and thoughtfully? Why does Arex start playing a banjo at his station? I was also constantly creeped out by Spock's smarmy facial expressions when he's thinking about Nurse Chapel. That's just wrong.
Though I enjoyed Roger C. Carmel's performance as Mudd, reprising his role from the original series, I don't particularly like his character. His particular acting style is conveyed very well in his voice acting and translates well enough to animation, but his usually entertaining interactions with Kirk simply feel copied from previous episodes.
The plot also drags considerably, despite too much going on for me to follow much of the time. Once again, I have the impression they tried to cram a forty-minute script into a twenty-minute runtime, or put more accurately: ten pounds of crap in a five-pound bag. And when the episode was finally over, I felt like I had a hangover and hated everyone involved with it.
Eugene's Rating: Impulse (on a scale of 1-6)
Torie Atkinson: While he irked me on his first appearance ("Mudd's Women"), Harcourt Fenton Mudd warmed on me a lot the second time ("I, Mudd") and so I was pretty excited about this episode. That was unfortunate. Compared to laserbeam-shooting Lucifer and jolly green giant Vulcan clones, it's all right. "Mudd's Passion" actually manages a coherent plot and keeps things moving quickly. It takes advantage of the format to pack a punch into each little scene. If only that were enough… The weaknesses (most significantly, a strong creep factor) were nontrivial, and I have to give negative credit to an episode that had me making noises for a full twenty minutes–cringing in horror and squealing in empathetic embarrassment.
Carmel remains a brilliant comic actor, but I felt that only hurt him here. His (fun!) line delivery is undercut by lifeless animation and some of the creepiest, least human expressions I've ever seen. Most of the joy of watching him as a performer are the little physicalities missed in this kind of show: the way he narrows his eyes, moves his hands around, carries himself. Even so, he blows the rest of the actors out of the water in every scene. (Nimoy is especially awful, delivering some of the best lines with wooden indifference.)
The rigid animation's chilling effect on comedy sabotaged everything from the starting line. Reaction shots became painted backdrops of creepy faces, and any time a character was supposed to respond to a joke or something funny, it looked like he or she had just seen a deer. There isn't enough vitality or expression in those drawings to convey real humor. Some of the lines are just phenomenal, though. My favorite is Scotty's bit about how this hangover compares to the (obviously numerous) others in his memory. A light that shines in dark places…
I really liked the idea that Mudd's crystals wound up being genuine (even if I loathed the actual repercussions), and his reaction when he learns it is priceless. It's fun to see a conman get conned with something legitimate. Unfortunately, the plot elements that weren't Mudd-specific are muddled and embarrassing. I found a good thirty percent of the screentime frankly kind of disturbing. Spock's lines about wanting to hold and protect "his" Christine, in addition to Mudd's weird speech on Chapel's "feminine" profession of being a healer (what is this, a D&D campaign?), felt twenty years out of date even for the 70s. It seemed especially odd given the extraordinarily slashy little scene between Kirk and Spock. That'll be imbued in my memory forever, yep. Do they need to be wasted to communicate their friendship? And oh god, M'Ress, phone sex operator from the stars. Scotty, what's going on! At least in the most surreal Krofftian nightmares there was some hint of Star Trek, and the characters we know so well. Not here. Who are these people?
And so many things are nagging at me. Why doesn't Mudd fall in love with Chapel, seeing as she touches him almost immediately after rubbing the crystal on herself? And why does Mudd bother changing the ID picture when it still says "Christine"?
I can see why Carmel has fans, but Mudd? No more, thanks.
Torie's Rating: Warp 2
Best Line: McCoy: "I've saved just about everybody on this here ship. If the Enterprise had a heart, I'd save her too."
Trivia: This episode is a direct sequel to "Mudd's Women" and "I, Mudd," which were also written by Stephen Kandel.
The illusion-making reptile Mudd uses to fool the miners is from the Rigel star system. Enterprise first encountered Mudd at the lithium mining station on Rigel XII, back in "Mudd's Women."
Producers considered bringing back Roger C. Carmel as Harry Mudd in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
This is the last time we see Chapel's feelings for Spock. That's probably for the best, all things considered.
Other notes: Mudd returned in the tie-in books Mudd's Angels in a novella titled "The Business, As Usual, During Altercations" by J.A. Lawrence and Mudd in Your Eye by Jerry Oltion.
Previous episode: Season 1, Episode 9 – "Once Upon a Planet."
Next episode: Season 1, Episode 11 – "The Terratin Incident." US residents can watch it for free at the CBS website.
Tags: breeding, emotional Spock, loneliness, lovable rogues, love, rocks, sexism, sexual harassment, why did this have to happen to our beloved legacy
About Eugene Myers & Torie Atkinson
EUGENE MYERS has published short fiction in a variety of print and online zines as E.C. Myers. He is a graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop and a member of the writing group Altered Fluid. When he isn't watching Star Trek, he reads and writes young fiction. His first novel, Fair Coin, is forthcoming from Pyr. TORIE ATKINSON is a NYC-based law student (with a focus on civil rights and economic justice), proofreader, sometime lighting designer, and former Tor.com blog editor/moderator. She watches too many movies and plays too many games but never, ever reads enough books.
1. DeepThought
Posted June 23, 2011 at 9:30 AM
I love how Mudd's crystals are high school romance in a tin — a brief period of obsessive infatuation followed by awkwardness and resentment through at least finals.
Yeah, the weakness of the drawings really hampered this show. Although I'm not as completely horrified as our reviewers here by love-potion plots in general, this was pretty darn horrifying. The episode suffers from plot-arbitrariness, general silliness, and poor execution. The one thing I did like — strangely enough — were the drawings of M'Ress and Arex. Their emotions were the only ones really clearly conveyed with the line work — though maybe I'm just holding them to a different standard because, as aliens, they don't have to compete with my knowledge of what a human face can actually do when it isn't just turning on an axis with no other visible change . . .
To answer Eugene's musings, I think it's pretty consistent in the depiction of love potions across stories/media generally. Love is too complex to be strictly pharmacological — it's one possible result of close friendship and high esteem, though by no means the only possible result. A potion that makes you feel close to someone really might just induce close friendship/bro'ship/slash-bait; a potion that makes you an obsessed, leg-humping creep troll is a lot less ambiguous — but also a lot more blunt and obviously manipulative, with characters clearly being compelled by the potion, rather than just influenced by a potion that gives good feelings.
For a love potion to produce love, it would have to produce a subtle enough change, and with sufficient variance in its effects, that you wouldn't even be sure it worked at all. So the only love potion that you know works is the love potion you know doesn't work (at least not to produce actual love).
2. DemetriosX
I'm going to agree more with Torie here, mostly because, hey, Harry Mudd/Roger Carmel. I'm also going to cut them some slack for Arex's "banjo". Early in the first season we also had Uhura singing at her station with accompaniment from Spock on a zither. But other than that, this is pretty bad.
I can't see how Harry could have been included in ST:IV. Would they pick him up on the way and have to take him to the past with them? In TNG he was scheduled to be in the season finale, where the Enterprise picks up a sleeper ship. He would have fit in well there, but Roger Carmel died. Alas, he might have been the only thing that could have saved that episode.
3. Ludon
Posted June 23, 2011 at 10:47 AM
To clarify what Deep Thought was saying in #1, as used in fiction, most 'Love Potions' should really be called 'Lust Potions' because they are shown triggering or amplifying physical and/or sexual desires. (I'd include Cupid's arrows in this.) Real love (not "love on first sight") is too complex to be something triggered on command or drugging. Love on first sight is probably lust that mellows into love.
This episode probably ruined any chance for love to come to Spock and Christine. Otherwise, given time, something could had slowly developed between them. Hey, if it could happen between Goodie-Too-Shoes and The Filthy Beast (See Father Goose with Carry Grant and Leslie Caron.) then it can happen between anyone in fiction.
4. Eugene Myers
@1 DeepThought
The one thing I did like — strangely enough — were the drawings of M'Ress and Arex.
Yes, M'Ress's swishing tail certainly conveyed that she was feeling frisky.
@2 DemetriosX
I read that in STIV, Mudd would have been a character witness for Captain Kirk, calling back to Kirk's offer to be a witness at Mudd's trial in "Mudd's Women." Having Mudd in "The Neutral Zone" would have been something to make that otherwise poor episode at least mildly entertaining.
@3 Ludon
The problem is that most network shows can't show the lust aspect very well, so it just ends up being a ridiculous obsession–an exaggerated high school romance, as DeepThought put it. It's also a problem that to portray love subtly and realistically, you'd probably need a season's worth of episodes, not one 20-minute episode.
Still, I do wonder how many shipboard pregnancies might result from behavior-modifying events like this.
@4 Eugene
So Harry would have wound up on the cutting room floor, just like Majel Roddenberry. It would have been a terrible waste. In "The Neutral Zone" they could have replaced the rich dude with Harry and had a lot of fun with him trying to figure out how to run a scam in a post-scarcity economy. Roger Carmel may have really only had one schtick, but he did it so beautifully.
6. CaitieCait
Y'know, it's funny, I used to have the whole series on VHS (bootleg!), and I own all the JAF novelizations (which are generally better than the episodes, by a long chalk)…but I seem to be able to completely forget the true stinkers, like this one.
Maybe that's why I always think of the series as running about 15 episodes, rather than a season's worth. I just block out the horrors.
Some excellent comments here about love potions…makes me want to include one in a story, just to see if something more like love can be potioned-up, rather than the usual frottage and French kissing result.
7. bobsandiego
This one was simply painful to watch. There simply isn;t time in 22 min for subtle maniptulation of established characters like Chapel and blunt manipulation like this is horrid.
Was anyone else chanting "garignack" when the rock monsters showed up?
Oh something else that really bugged me about this episode.. the phasers. I had no idea the phasers had a setter 'dispel illusion.' And that weapons capable of reducing matter to its components were powerless against rock-monsters. (or maybe monster of Rock, we should try that out too.)
Best 'love potion/spell' thing I have seen on TV, "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered" from Buffy The Vampire Slayer, 2nd season.
9. Torie
You've all got me thinking about love potions, and I agree–there hasn't been a single love potion story I liked. They're all lust potions, and any comedy/humor comes from people humiliating themselves in front of those they most want respect from. What a horrendous genre.
Either that or the person who falls in love with you turns out to be a heartless shrew. Wasn't that a Twilight Zone episode?
10. Dr. Dave
Posted June 24, 2011 at 11:18 PM
Love potion or lust potion, it doesn't matter — they're all basically date rape drugs. In the long run, the simple lust version is less squicky — it's not raping your mind forever, too. That's why I can't stand "love potion" plots.
I was even more appalled by the way this episode blithely portrayed Nurse Chapel as unprofessional, incompetent, easily-manipulated, transparent, and pretty much every other girls-can't-really-be-grown-ups cliché you've ever seen. Feh. Maybe when they stretched her neck(*) they damaged something. It's one thing for the crew to be irresponsible and incompetent when drugged; Nurse Chapel apparently doesn't need the drug for that.
Warp Rating: abandoned in dry-dock during construction
(*) Seriously, what's with the necks? The female crew in this show all look like Padaung/Kayan refugees, minus the metal rings.
11. DeepThought
@Torie #9
Yeah, that's part of why I'm really not in favor of love potions in humorous plots. Great as a source of high tragedy, e.g. Tristan und Isolde; or as a "they fell in love and must struggle against it!" sort of thing — I'm much more tolerant of love-potion plots in the circumstance where 1) they're drugged by accident; and 2a) either they know they're drugged and are trying to compensate, or 2b) everyone around them knows they're drugged and are trying to compensate or at least refuse to hold them at all responsible for the resulting behavior.
But even a lust potion shouldn't be a "do completely stupid things for no reason" potion.

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Here's why Metro Phoenix has become a darling for data centers
Data centers in the Greater Phoenix area saw absorption rates up 38% compared with 2019, with supply struggling to keep up with demand. This surge is due in part to technology's centrality in modern life that was exacerbated by COVID-19.
"With the growth of the internet, practically everything you do runs through a data center somewhere in the world. Every time you check your phone, that request is processed by a data center," says Mark Krison, senior vice president at real estate services firm CBRE.
READ ALSO: Phoenix sees increase in leasing demand for data centers
While the pandemic may be waning, data center construction throughout the Valley is not, thanks to a favorable business environment, lack of natural disasters and the ubiquity of online services.
Ease of Access
Like many states, the Arizona legislature has crafted programs to incentivize companies to invest here, primarily in the form of tax relief. The Computer Data Center Program, administered by the Arizona Commerce Authority, encourages data center expansion in the state by providing a 20-year tax exemption at state, county and local levels on certain equipment purchases.
"It's the biggest hook we have," explains Mark Bauer, senior managing director of the JLL Data Center Solutions Group. "A company refreshes its servers every three to five years. Let's say an average rack of servers costs $1 million, and the company is going to refresh 20 racks. That $20 million investment isn't subject to an 8.6% sales tax."
The Valley also has something that can't be legislated: affordable land.
"In the last 36 months, data center developers have taken advantage of the availability of reasonably priced land in the region to expand their operations. All these co-locating companies, such as Compass Datacenters, Stream Data Centers and Vantage Data Centers, have decided to buy land parcels and build. That is a result of customers saying they're satisfied with their decision to come to Greater Phoenix," Krison notes.
Since a data center can provide services
to states beyond the one in which it located, it makes sense to choose a site where land is more affordable.
"Many companies from California and the Pacific Northwest have found it easier to grow here in Phoenix. The total cost to acquire land, build facilities and actually do business is anywhere from 30% to 50% less [than other Western states], on average," Bauer says.
Beyond comparatively cheap land prices, the process to acquire zoning permits is quicker than in other markets. This means data centers can go from concept to completion quickly, an important factor for meeting demand.
"Phoenix has very little risk in terms of your ability to get zoning permits, provide power to the property and actually have a facility up and running. There are several examples of large projects here in the Valley, such as Compass and Stream, that were built in 12 to 18 months. You can flat out double that time frame in certain parts of the country," Bauer says.
Mission Critical Conducive
In February, Texas experienced extreme weather that caused rolling blackouts throughout the state. Not only did the storms cause human suffering, but they also disrupted business operations that cost millions in lost productivity. For data centers, reliable power is crucial to keep mission critical operations functioning.
"Some of these data centers are running emergency communication, hospital and banking systems. Those are all mission critical operations that you don't want to go down in any scenario," says Brad Smidt, senior vice president of business development at the Greater Phoenix Economic Council.
The Valley has a long track record of favorable climate conditions. The lack of hurricanes, snowstorms and earthquakes reduces the possibility of situations where power might go down. The upfront cost of construction rises when facilities must build in protections against adverse weather.
Arizona's dry air and cool winters also are an asset for data centers. The racks of servers housed in these facilities generate heat that can damage the equipment if not properly managed. Technology has improved so servers don't require frigid environments, but cooling systems are still necessary to prevent malfunctions.
"When I started building data centers, the operators said the colder, the better. Over the years, the temperature tolerance of the servers has improved. Greater Phoenix's cool, dry winters allows operators to utilize free cooling, which saves on operational costs and lowers the environmental impact," says Kevin Connor, vice president and project executive at construction and development firm Skanska. Bauer adds, "Phoenix has hot summers, but these are well-insulated buildings. We're more focused on pushing heat out of the building and maintaining a steady temperature."
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in the Valley also makes the area attractive for mission critical operations.
"Our primary power providers are SRP and APS. If you look at their generation mix, it's a combination of natural gas, nuclear, coal and renewables. It's a more diversified portfolio than you have in places such as Texas, where they're more dependent on natural gas," Smidt notes.
The Post-Pandemic Picture
For many, the COVID-19 pandemic has meant living life through a computer. Schools closed and shifted online, workers set up home offices, and entertainment options narrowed to what's available on a screen.
"This pandemic accelerated everyone's need to work remotely and utilize technology for services that they typically would've driven to the store for. I look at my kids as an example. They're ordering six packs of cola, and Amazon delivers it in a couple hours. That is a shift in one's way of living," Bauer explains.
This increased reliance on technology for work and play was already in motion before the pandemic accelerated it. Advances such as 5G will only escalate users' ability to access more data, which will require additional centers to meet demand. The result will be an even greater investment in the Valley of the Sun.
"The data center sector outperformed every other property sector in 2020. This did not go unnoticed by institutional capital," says Carl Beardsley, director of capital markets at JLL. "From both an investor and lender standpoint, there's been a big shift in willingness to lend toward the data center space as it's become a darling of the real estate property sector."
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It's not a secret: We don't like failure. We like success. We crave it. We pine after it. We look for security, identity and even salvation in it.
Whatever the foundation for our search of a pristine resume complete with shelves full of accolades, we all have that numbing ache to do well with and be excellent in each and every endeavor we take on.
In our addiction to success, we shy away from any activity or long-term discipline where the chance of failure is greater than that of a spotless performance. With hyper-vigilance, we monitor the discrepancies that lie between joy-filled reward and heartache-laden risk. After all, the feelings of success are warm and sweet while the feelings of failure are cold and bitter.
When it comes to each of our spiritual journeys, this potent aversion to failure can keep us from dedicated time with God, ingesting His Word and communing with Him to avoid the all-consuming waves of disgust that batter us when we miss one, 10 or 68 days of Bible reading.
We develop a consistent inconsistency, frequent infrequency and firm commitment to being noncommittal for fear of being labeled "fake" or "disingenuous." After all, if we know we're going to fail, why even start?
Each year when March arrives, we look at the calendar and all we see is another year of incomplete goals and short-lived promises. Of course we know we need to pray more. We know we need to spend more time feeding on God's Word. But in our shame, the weight from our lack of discipline breeds sorrow instead of perseverance, insecurity and shame instead of assurance and comfort.
When we're alone with God we seem to hear more shouts of condemnation than shouts of deliverance (Psalm 32). We feel distant. We feel disgusted. And, in the end, we're disinterested.
Yet, when we actually open God's Word, we find good news.
Despite what you might believe, God isn't waiting to berate you and put your frailties, faults and failures on display for all to witness. When you approach Him each day, His Word replenishes you and brings strength. It doesn't steal and dismantle.
Instead, God's Word revives our hearts (Psalm 19:7). John Piper makes this point in Desiring God when he explains the Scripture is clear that we go through a repeated process of restoration and renewal day-in and day-out. Every day will not be the same, much less dripping with palpable feelings of elation.
Let God's Word do what it has the power to do: Bring new life and a wealth of encouragement to you; daily nourishment to a dry and weary soul, no matter how long it's been since you unfurled its pages.
Instead of pointing His finger at you first thing in the morning to show where you've gone wrong and where you've fallen (Psalm 130:3-7), God sees that Christ has been perfect in your place and risen from the grave (Psalm 103:10; 2 Cor. 5:21; Galatians 5:1; Ephesians 2:4-5).
God's grace isn't like your local Redbox; it doesn't go out of stock and isn't available for only 24 hours. His Word promises that He starts fresh with you and with me every morning (Lamentations 3:22-23).
Our account of mercy and grace are just as full on the morning after we didn't get up to read as it was the year before when we were spending two hours a day in Scripture. As Jerry Bridges once said, the moment grace is given out on the basis of merit it ceases to be grace.
Let us not make the mistake of believing that God sets out to treat us the same way the enemy does; His aim isn't to destroy us but rather to save us. Our gracious God welcomes us each morning with fresh eyes and a clean, swept welcome mat.
Don't let your sporadic nature and lack of discipline keep you from God's presence. We can go confidently to Him and rest in His presence, secure in who we are in the Son (Hebrews 4:16).
Aware of his mistakes, the prodigal son in Luke 15 returns home to confess his selfishness, disrespect and pride to the father he abandoned. He had an entire speech prepared for when he stood before his father to convey his genuine remorse. But before he could even get to the front porch, his father darted down the road to meet his beloved son, greeting him with the warm embrace that only a longing father can give.
His father waited in anticipation for his boy to come back home. No matter how long his son had been gone, no matter what his son had done before, all his mistakes were swallowed up in the loving, forgiving arms of his dad.
It would do our souls a great and glorious good to meditate on this parable when we're overcome with fear and shame, too nervous to return to God after a season of being gone. Rest in knowing your Heavenly Father is waiting each and every day to embrace you with joy, not burden you with guilt and condemnation.
It doesn't matter how long you've been away. Because of Jesus, feel the freedom to return home without fear and shame.


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Melvin Maxwell was known as a powerful man of God and prayer warrior by those who knew him. On Saturday, July 4, 2020, Dr. Maxwell graduated from this life to his eternal home and was united with his Savior whom he loved. He was born in Georgetown, Ohio, on November 15, 1921, and grew up during the Great Depression. Though his mother died at an early age, his father was a godly man and
Melvin Maxwell was known as a powerful man of God and prayer warrior by those who knew him. On Saturday, July 4, 2020, Dr. Maxwell graduated from this life to his eternal home and was united with
Alumni Spotlight: Zach Mason
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CIRCLEVILLE, OH – After graduating from Ohio Christian in 2018, Zach Mason was still unsure the plan God had for him. A four year member of the Trailblazer baseball program, Mason graduated with a
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CIRCLEVILLE, OH - Ohio Christian University Head Men's Basketball Coach Casey Coons was inducted into the Taylor University Athletics Hall of Fame this past Saturday, joining the Class of 2019 that also included Molly Currens, Tanya Crevier, Rick Atkinson, and Tyler Beachler. Coons was a member of the Trojan's basketball team as a player from 2009-2013 and later served as an assistant coach
CIRCLEVILLE, OH - Ohio Christian University Head Men's Basketball Coach Casey Coons was inducted into the Taylor University Athletics Hall of Fame this past Saturday, joining the Class of 2019 that
Alumni Return to Play at Homecoming
Ohio Christian University is excited to host their annual Men's and Women's Alumni Basketball games during Homecoming
Ohio Christian to Recognize Alumni at Trailblazer Celebration
As part of Ohio Christian University Homecoming
Students Serve Alongside WGM in Uganda
At the end of May, a team from Ohio Christian University traveled to Uganda to serve alongside World Gospel Mission missionaries already working in the area. This trip would best be described as a vision trip rather than the typical mission work some may think of. The team got to see many different ministries the missionaries are working with as well as support them through fellowship and prayer. During the two weeks the team was abroad, they worked with a wide range of ministries, one of which is known as the Dignity project, providing women and girls with reusable feminine products
At the end of May, a team from Ohio Christian University traveled to Uganda to serve alongside World Gospel Mission missionaries already working in the area. This trip would best be described as a vision trip rather than the typical mission work some may think of. The team got to see many different ministries the missionaries are working with as well as support them through fellowship and
At the end of May, a team from Ohio Christian University traveled to Uganda to serve alongside World Gospel Mission missionaries already working in the area. This trip would best be described as a
Gerald Murphy Encourages Revival
Gerald Murphy ('13) had one goal in mind for the campus of Ohio Christian University as he spoke during Fall 2019 Revival Week, and that was to have an encounter with Christ. Murphy, a graduate of Ohio Christian, encouraged students to let go of their former selves and take on their new identity as sons and daughters of God. In order to take on this new identity, Murphy said that one must first stop self-identifying as a sinner saved by grace. "If you continue to call yourself a sinner," he said, "you're going to keep acting like one." Next, one must stop relying on their own actions
Gerald Murphy ('13) had one goal in mind for the campus of Ohio Christian University as he spoke during Fall 2019 Revival Week, and that was to have an encounter with Christ. Murphy, a graduate of Ohio Christian, encouraged students to let go of their former selves and take on their new identity as sons and daughters of God. In order to take on this new identity, Murphy said that one must
Gerald Murphy ('13) had one goal in mind for the campus of Ohio Christian University as he spoke during Fall 2019 Revival Week, and that was to have an encounter with Christ. Murphy, a graduate of


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1700 Years of Jewish Life in Germany: A Single History through Many Voices
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November 4, 2020 17 Heshvan 5781 – Introductory Lecture
Prof. Yfaat Weiss, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Dubnow Institute, Leipzig; Dr. Stephan Leit, The Israel National Library:
A Respectable Burial? German Jewry in Israel's Archives
December 2, 2020 16 Kislev 5781 – Jewish Languages in the German Sphere
Dr. Aya Elyada, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jew, Speak German: Linguistic and Cultural Identity in the Annals of German Jewry
Dr. Mark Wolowitz, Birkbeck College, London University, German Jews and Their Language: A View from Eastern Europe
January 6, 2021 22 Tevet 5781 – Jewish – Christian Relations
Prof. Ephraim (Effi) Shoham-Steiner, Ben-Gurion University in the Negev: Jews and Christians in Medieval German Cities, Archaelogy Art and Remnants of the Past
Prof. Debra Kaplan, Bar Ilan University: Neighbors in a City Without Jews: Jews and Christians in Strasbourg in Early Modernity
February 3, 2021 21 Shvat 5781 – Between Heresy and Secularization
Prof. Shmuel Feiner, Bar-Ilan University: The Roots of Secularization and the Strategies that Shaped Modern German Jewry
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March 3, 2021 19 Adar 5781 – Homeland Landscapes
Prof. Tal Alon Moses, The Haifa Technion: Nature and Garden Among German Jews in Israel
Prof. Ofer Ashkenazi, The Koebner-Minerva Center of German History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Homeland Landscapes of the Third Reich in the Photo Albums of German Jews
April 7, 2021 25 Nissan 5781, Eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day – The Many Faces of Antisemitism
Prof. Yair Mintzker, Princeton University: The Jew Suess between Fiction and Reality
Dr. Tsafrir Barzilay, Ben Gurion University in the Negev: Poisoning the Well: Hatred of Jews in the Middle Ages and the Historical Residues it Left
May 5, 2021 23 Iyar 5781 – Gender and Masculinity in the Annals of German Jewry
Dr. Eyal Levinson, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: "Because My Soul Desired You and I Pledged You Undying Love": On Masculine Love in the Communities of Ashkenaz in the Middle Ages
Dr. Viola Rautenberg, The Bucerius Institute for the Study of Contemporary German Culture and History, Haifa University: How to be a Man in Eretz Yisrael? The Body, Gender, and Sexuality among German Immigrants in the 1930s
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Q: SQL Treatment of Decimal and Float Data Types Why does this
weightedValue = CAST(prob*value as FLOAT(53))/CAST(totalValue as FLOAT(53))

return the decimal answer in its entirety, but this
weightedValue = CAST(prob*value as DECIMAL(38,14))/CAST(totalValue as DECIMAL(38,14))

returns the decimal answer truncated at the 6th decimal place?
'Prob' is declared as a DECIMAL(16,14), 'value' is DECIMAL(17,0), 'weightedValue' are all decimal values and assume total value doesn't exceed the exceed the DECIMAL(38,14) specification.
Unless I'm missing something, the DECIMAL(38,14) notation ought to give a value with up to 38 total numbers and up to 14 decimal precision.  Thus, I shouldn't encounter any truncation in the result, no?
Further, I had previously thought that using DECIMAL(,) was always preferable to using FLOAT() based on the imprecision implicit in float arithmetic and associated uncertainty with results--DECIMAL() could be used to do anything FLOAT() could do but not vice versa.  What am I missing and is this, in fact, not the case?

A: The problem is with how SQL Server handles Decimal division (or multiplication).
The formula for the resulting precision is a follows:
p1 - s1 + s2 + max(6, s1 + p2 + 1)

So, when you have a DECIMAL(38,14)/DECIMAL(38,14), you get a precision of

38 - 14 + 14 + max(6, 14 + 38 + 1) = 81

Therefore your result would be a DECIMAL(81,43) which far exceeds the allowed (38,14).  Therefore, SQL Server automatically truncates the answer.
See blogs.msdn.com for a more detailed explanation.

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There are 34 reviews of Calandre.
I specifically wanted to say nice things about the current formulation, having purchased it a couple of weeks ago and not worn anything else since.
I've enjoyed it as a palate cleanser - it has the appeal of a single clear, unaffected singing voice when there's been too much bass and autotune. It has no sweetness, yet the florals come in and keep it from being too aloof. I've seen conflicting pyramids, though the flowers that come through on me after the opening rose are distinctly rose geranium, hyacinth, and a surprising and heartbreaking lilac.
I once had an older bottle of Calandre, and it was warmer and deeper. Yet I didn't like it better, for I appreciate the delicacy and sparkle of the new one.
Creamy pink flowers on a dark green chypre, texture like varnished wood; a dusting of powder, a little pollen, a total absence of sweetness.
A formal scent, it seems to demand sharp tailoring with an affinity for the scratchy worsteds of its day.
Anyone who smelled their boss wearing this would be in no doubt she means business.
I am an aldehyde junkie and I've loved Calandre since 1970, when my mother first purchased it in Bloomingdale's. They used to give great samples in those days; tons of little vials and other goodies to try on.
I unashamedly wear Calandre. There are other aldehydes that I also wear a little more cautiously but I've found Calandre blends fabulously well with Paco Rabanne Pour Homme, which I've worn since he came out with it.
Whereas certain aldehydic perfumes seem to be forever looking to the future regardless of when they were created, Calandre, in my opinion, is one of the unfortunates firmly rooted in the past. It's like an exploding vintage powder compact at the start, the kind of perfume one imagines has sat on someone's dressing table since the 1960s, used once in a while, aging rather than maturing.
This is perhaps unfair, as there is actually quite a punchy, if somewhat syrupy, floral with grown up green accents behind that veil of powdery aldehydes which comes increasingly into focus. The rose is central, supported by fat, heady jasmine and lily of the valley. This strong floral bouquet is mediated by some soapiness in the background which injects air into the creation and a sharp and mossy, somewhat bitter green note which cuts the concentrated sweetness. But it's difficult to shrug off the air of old make up which is Calandre's opening statement.
Roja Dove hails this "hot, metallic" scent as reflective of Rabanne's use of plastics, metals and synthetic materials in his Pop Art clothes designs. He also notes the use of a new isolate, called Evernyl, which occurs in oak moss and "when added to it, sublimates its naturalness."
Turin follows suit, calling it an "aldehydic floral" and giving it five stars. He compared it favorably, in the long run, to the similar Rive Gauche, but does note its contemporary reviews, running from "a mess" to "brilliantly simple."
Barbara Herman called it a "fresh floral," which reminded her of Courturier's rose chypre, Coriandre, and called it "heart-breaking in its fragile beauty." It reminded her of "the lovely sweat of a teenage girl."
So what does it smell like? I get a woody floral, slightly metallic, a but unpleasant, and nothing to spend good money on, or God forbid, actually wear.
Dab on Calandre and you get a quick aldehydic, bittersweet, green floral kick in the pants, soon bolstered by a whiff of fleshy indoles. The aldehydes subside to some degree over the next few minutes, as Calandre settles down into an indolic green jasmine and white flowers accord. At this stage I find Calandre rather ordinary in and old-fashioned "perfumey" manner.
Happily Calandre's floral blend is eventually joined by a honeyed, evocatively hay-like note that I read as green narcissus. Beneath this emerges an intriguing smoky/salty caramel component that quickly drags the composition out of the conventional white floral territory. In the course of hours Calandre pares itself down to the faintly smoky green narcissus over a soft and somewhat sweet musky base. Throughout its evolution Calandre projects well and offers plenty of sillage, with better than average lasting power. I like the surprising destination that it reaches after its nondescript start and consider it a useful scent for everyday wear – and unisex to boot!
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Fourie, Carina. "Wrongful Private Discrimination and the Egalitarian Ethos." In The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Discrimination, edited by Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen. Routledge, 2018.
Hereth, Blake. "Animal Rights Terrorism and Pacifism." Blog of the APA (February 22, 2018).
Hereth, Blake. "Queer Issues and Pacifism." In The Routledge Handbook of Pacifism and Nonviolence, edited by Andrew Fiala, 281-92. New York: Routledge, 2018.
Rosenthal, Michael. "What Is Real About 'Ideal Constitutions'? Spinoza on Political Explanation." In Spinoza's 'Political Treatise': A Critical Guide, edited by Yitzhak Melamed and Hasana Sharp, 12-28. Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Fourie, Carina. "Sufficiency of Capabilities, Social Equality, and Two-Tiered Health Care Systems." In What Is Enough?: Sufficiency, Justice, and Health, edited by Carina Fourie and Annette Rid, 185-204. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Fourie, Carina. "The Sufficiency View: A Primer." In What Is Enough?: Sufficiency, Justice, and Health, edited by Carina Fourie and Annette Rid, 11-29. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Gardiner, Stephen M. "Climate Ethics in a Dark and Dangerous Time." Ethics 127 (2017): 430-465.
Rosenthal, Michael A. "Spinoza's Political Philosophy." In The Oxford Handbook of Spinoza, edited by Michael Della Rocca, 408-433. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Rosenthal, Michael A. "Spinoza on Circumcision and Ceremonies." Modern Judaism 36 (2016): 42-66.
Julio Covarrubias, "Report on the 2015 Fleishhacker Chair Lecture Series and Latin American Philosophy Conference," APA Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy 15:1 (Fall 2015).
Fourie, Carina. 2013. The Basic Structure Objection and the Institutions of a Property-Owning Democracy: Comment on Andrew Walton. Analyse & Kritik 35, 187–192.
Fourie, Carina. 2012. What is Social Equality? An Analysis of Status Equality as a Strongly Egalitarian Ideal. Res Publica 18, 107–126. doi:10.1007/s11158-011-9162-2
Blake, Michael. "Why Deporting the 'Dreamers' is Immoral." The Conversation, February 28, 2018. https://theconversation.com/why-deporting-the-dreamers-is-immoral-91738
Publications, Books
Fourie, Carina and Annette Rid, eds. What Is Enough? Sufficiency, Justice and Health. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Keyt, David. Nature and Justice: Studies in the Ethical and Political Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle. Leuven: Peeters, 2017.
Gardiner, Stephen M. and Allen Thompson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Publications, Reviews
Fourie, Carina. "Review - Inequality: What Can Be Done?" In Economics and Philosophy 32, no. 2 (2016): 366–73. doi:10.1017/S0266267116000067.
Gardiner, Stephen M. A Perfect Moral Storm: The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2013 (paperback).
New book, Nature and Justice, from Professor Emeritus David Keyt
Events mentioning "Political Philosophy"


11 Outstanding Topics for Research Papers in English Literature. If there is a subject that offers one a plethora of characters, facets and life teachings, it is English Literature. May 02, 2012 Research topics on English Literature initially start off broad and then narrow down and you come up with your thesis.
Using any of the research topics listed to the left (gender, comparisons, historical background, politics, and religion) can take you almost anywhere.
Choose your general topic Topics For Literature Based Research Paper. 1. Tragedies of Ancient Greece Fathers and Sons: Sins of the Father (explore the concept from the Greek perspective); also, see topic under Fences. Sophocles Antigone Being a Wife Through a comparative literary analysis look at whether or not the power of women in public and private life grows Literary Research Paper Structure (A loose outline to follow) I.
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It's #NationalCupcakeWeek, which gives you an excuse to bake and eat as many cupcakes as you like! Vanilla cup-cakes are so easy to make, yet taste delicious and are perfect for so many occasions.
Preheat the oven to 180 and then line a 12-hole muffin tin with paper cases.
Beat the butter, sugar and baking powder together in a bowl for a few minutes, until it's all completely mixed in. Then slowly beat in the 2 eggs and pour in the vanilla extract.
Then beat the mixture with a whisk until the mixture is thick and creamy, and spoon the mixture into the 12 tins.
Bake in the oven for 10-15 minutes until the cupcakes are golden brown on top. Insert a skewer into the cakes and if they all come out clean, your cakes are ready.
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First Alert Weather: Winter Weather Advisory issued for the Ozarks
A MoDOT snow plow is seen clearing a road in Camden County in January 2020.(KY3)
By KY3 Staff
Published: Jan. 14, 2021 at 2:56 PM CST|Updated: Jan. 15, 2021 at 10:54 AM CST
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - Prepare for another round of winter weather for the Ozarks Friday.
The National Weather Service issued a Winter Weather Advisory for several counties. It lasts from 3 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday. The counties include:
Benton, Mo.
Camden, Mo.
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The KY3 First Alert Weather Team is tracking the potential for up to two inches of snow in spots. The storm will move into the Ozarks from north to south. The wintry weather could impact roads throughout the day.
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