Highly recruited wide receiver . . .

Texan David Nelson enjoyed his visit to Notre Dame. Here he is in uniform:



Update.

Dave keeps busy

--In Burlington, Iowa, he's organizing a motorcycle rally, declaring "The Hell's Angels are gone";

--In Saline County, Missouri, as a newly appointed TIF (tax increment financing) commissioner, he'll have to deal with conflicts of interest;

--and in town called Wellsville (N.Y.), David listened with other '04 classmates to speculations about their future, including the assertion of anti-reincarnationist valedictorian Tanya Gardner that “We all only have one lifetime — make the best of it.”

"It feels like it's completed."

In a follow-up to a previously reported story, the Rev. David Nelson and his wife Sandy



have returned a gravestone to its proper place, 146 years after the death of the grave's occupant.

"It's a great dream..."

Commenting on the first totally private venture into space, engineer David Nelson said: "It's a great dream to dream about for small kids and big kids. To be able to maybe have the chance of someday going into space yourself is a great dream, and this is something that gets us a step closer to being there."

"It sells itself."

That's what Dave Nelson, the safety director for Wiley Sanders Truck Lines, Inc., based in Troy, Alabama, says about the IdleAire unit being installed at truck stops. The environmentally friendly gadget allows truckers an alternative to running the motor all night to keep the air conditioner in the cab operating while they take a rest. What's more, it has ports for telephones, computers, pay-per-view movies, Internet access, even an in-cab continuing education center. It sells itself.

(The inventor says he came up with the idea for the device after his trucker brother-in-law received a ticket for roadside idling in 1999.)

South Dakota state's attorney Dave

is serving on a commission looking to revise the state's criminal laws. According to the Aberdeen News, Nelson cautioned against diminishing prosecutorial discretion because of a few instances of misuse.

Update.

Dave the biological oceanographer

is quoted in a National Geographic article about tracking ocean nutrients.

In Fitchburg, Mass., engineer Dave admits a mistake.

(And a costly one, too.)

This isn't the engineer, is it?

One Massachusetts David Nelson is showing his photos at the Boxford Village Library, 10 Elm St., East Boxford, through July 15. Hours, Mon.-Thurs., from 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Fri., 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Handicapped accessible. Call 978-887-READ.

"D, I got 'im"

That's what base stealer Scott Podsednik whispers to first-base coach Dave Nelson before he takes off for second, as here recently against the Dodgers.

The Rev. Dave's looking for a grave . . .

. . . to go with the 1858 gravestone he and his wife found in St. Cloud, Minnesota, shortly before Memorial Day.

David speaks for the disabled

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) states that “A public entity may not deny the benefits of its programs or activities or its services to individuals with disabilities because its facilities are inaccessible. A public entity’s services, programs or activities, when viewed in their entirety, must be readily accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities.”

David Nelson, president and chief executive officer of the Fort Wayne (Indiana) League for the Blind and Disabled, says that means that government buildings must allow all citizens equal access, including parking places close to the county jail for handicapped visitors.

Boar war in western Wisconsin

According to a report in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, feral pigs have become a major problem. Quoted in the article is David Nelson, the director in Wisconsin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Services: "They're what we call omnivores. They're like a bear. They'll eat anything."

Dave the Chartman

Dave Nelson, CEO of DC Nelson Asset Management, appeared last month on a Fox business show and made some predictions:

Dave Nelson was once a Rock ‘n Roller playing with the likes of the Turtles and David Johansen. But now he’s all grown up and picks hit stocks instead of pickin' a guitar.

So he had some big hits on the music charts, but now he’s looking for stock charts that will be hits.

Dave’s number one hit right now is National Semiconductor (NSM). He owns the stock and said it has some upside because he thinks the semiconductor sector is going to start heading up again....

Dave said another stock hitting all the right notes is Automatic Data Processing (ADP), a payroll processor. He owns it because more people are employed in the United States and rising interest rates will mean a higher return.

A final prediction: "Bush loses election! Even if Usama is killed AND stocks rally!"

Two killers in the news:

In Maine, the parole board makes sure one killer named David Nelson won't be back on the streets soon, while the Supreme Court has ruled that an Alabama death row inmate can make a last-minute challenge under a federal civil rights law to the procedures that may be used to carry out his execution by lethal injection. As my literary friend Peter summarizes: "the unlikely tale of David Larry Nelson, spared from lethal injection at least temporarily by this Supreme Court because, as a longtime drug addict with damaged veins, he might be wounded by the people trying to kill him."

And here's an editorial from the Palm Beach Post about Killer Dave # 1.