Chamber's 'Lunch with Leaders' to feature Gary eateries
July 22, 2008
By Jon Seidel Post-Tribune staff writer
GARY -- The city's Chamber of Commerce plans to highlight local eateries in the coming weeks by inviting Gary's leaders to a lunchtime chat and giving the public a chance to listen.
Chuck Hughes, the chamber's executive director, will be joined at Dusties Southern Style Buffet at noon on Monday by Mayor Rudy Clay for the first of his "Lunch With a Leader" sessions.
Hughes hopes Clay and the other participating leaders will be joined by members of the public who will buy lunch for themselves and increase revenues at the chamber-member restaurants.
"We do have eating establishments in the city of Gary that offer good food and good service," Hughes said.
Four sessions are planned for next week, including the lunch with Clay. Each one begins at noon.
Hughes will be joined July 29 by Dwain Bowie of United Water at Davis Seafood, 3405 W. 15th Ave.
He will break bread July 30 with his wife, Danita Johnson Hughes of Edgewater Systems for Balanced Living, at Miller Beach Cafe, 555 S. Lake St.
City Council President Ronier Scott will join Hughes at Dolly's Restaurant, 1801 Grant St., on July 31.
Mary Steele-Agee, superintendent of the Gary Community Schools, will sit down with Hughes on Aug. 7 at Bennigan's Bar & Grill, 500 E. 5th Ave.
Restaurants that would like to be featured in the "Lunch With a Leader" program can contact Hughes at 885-7407. Hughes said the business must be a chamber member to participate.
Contact Jon Seidel at 881-3148 or jseidel@post-trib.com. Comment on this story at www.post-trib.com.
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According to Houston attorney Mark Bennett, there are only two times when you should refuse a breathalyzer test at a traffic stop: When you're guilty and when you're innocent. The reason innocent people should refuse, he says, is the machine's high error rate (up to 25%) and the risk of a false positive.
It was poor accuracy in breathalyzer tests that first turned this blog's attention toward the reality that accuracy appears optional in many forensic science endeavors, with error rates of 10% or more routinely accepted in a variety of forensic fields.
Indeed, in some states breathalyzer results must be accepted in court "regardless of whether the particular breathalyzer was broken, defective, given incorrectly or otherwise inaccurate."
Stephen Gustitis at The Defense Perspective has been posting an excellent blog series on the subject of scientific flaws with the Intoxilyzer 5000, the primary forensic tool used in most jurisdictions for DWI breath tests. Gustitis has offered up these detailed critiques so far:
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And more's coming, he promises. Bottom line, says Gustitis, the scientific assumptions behind breathalyzer tests assume results are measured in a closed system, which the human lungs are not. The tool works fine in the lab, in other words, but probably isn't accurate enough for field work involving humans. E.g., the device assumes a constant breath temperature, and slight variations can cause the machine to overstate blood alcohol levels.
Most people don't think about forensic errors except in high-profile cases - e.g. when DNA disproves old forensics to identify a wrongful conviction. More frequently ignored but just as corrosive to justice are routine errors tolerated in lower-level workaday cases like DWI.
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