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"when Adam Lanza started shooting his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School last Friday, he'd been confronted by qualified armed security?" asked Wayne LaPierre earlier today?
We don't know, to be honest. But we do know that on April 20, 1999, a "uniformed community resource officer", in this case a trained Sheriff's deputy, was armed and on duty at Columbine High School.
An honest to goodness, qualified, "good guy with a gun".
h/t Billy Bragg
etc., good guys with, guns
Born in San Jose, grew up in Seattle, received a Ph.D. in poli sci from University of Washington in 2000. I worked for three years at Universiteit Twente in Enschede, Netherlands, and have worked at the University of Plymouth for 16 academic years now in Plymouth, United Kingdom. I also currently serve as joint campaign coordinator for the Plymouth Sutton & Devonport Constituency Labour Party.
"A vision of a paramilitary America."
It Can't Get Stupider, But It Can Get Lazier
But video games . . . Hollywood . . . Video Games!!!!
commie atheist
Plus: register loonies, not guns.
joe from Lowell
Community resources officers are not equipped to win a firefight with someone carrying a semiautomatic rifle. Nor do they patrol the perimeter looking for such a threat, which is the level of awareness you'd need for them to function as such a security force.
For them to provide even a moderate level of security against such a threat, they'd have to be equipped, stationed, and deployed in such a way that they wouldn't be school resource officers – basically, people doing community policing in the schools – anymore. They'd be more like Marine embassy guards.
They'd be more like Marine embassy guards.
Is there even any such thing these days? I thought it had all been outsourced.
Belle Waring
There are Marines as guards, but there are also Nepalese Sherpas at the US Embassy in Singapore, with their hats all mashed down sideways, and with a noticeable refusal to smile at anyone. So random.
As I pointed out in another thread, there is also the Ft. Hood shooting, which ought to put this bullshit to rest once and for all.
The Ft. Hood shooter was surrounded by highly-trained, highly-armed soldiers who were also mental health professionals.
Well, there's the problem! Mental health professionals? SOUNDS FRUITY.
What was clearly needed were qualified, obsessed, and moderately doughy mall ninjas.
Don't forget the Keyboard Kommandos! You know how butthurt they get when anybody questions their masculinity.
c u n d gulag
And what's the solution to the shootings in PA, including some State Troopers, while Erik's Wayne "Popsickle" LaPierre was speaking?
Do we want the "School Shield" solution there, too?
Do we want armed volunteers carrying shotguns, riding shotgun with the Troopers?
If everyone were arrayed so that everyone was pointing a gun at someone and had a gun pointed at them by someone else there'd be no more shootings.
It stands to reason.
The Onion News Network is on it.
John Protevi
This one is also appropriate.
That's why everyone lived happily ever after at the end of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
God damned Mexican standoffs, coming here illegally and stealing good old-fashioned American mass shootings.
Eli Rabett
Circle of jerks.
Live Fast, Die Young
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2IBM7ovgvQ
That was the exact theme of a recent SNL skit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_EcWbzM3hQ&feature=endscreen&NR=1
How about a machine gun nest on the roof, or a pillbox in the parking lot.
Jeebus. Where's Godwin when we need him.
zombie rotten mcdonald
I keep thinking of the scene in Idiocracy, where Not Sure escapes from the prison, and the roof mounted automatic guns swivel back and forth, eventually shooting each other.
Everyone, kids included, walks around in head-to-toe reinforced kevlar.
There are other possible solutions, but I think that everyone pulling on kevlar before they go out so they don't get shot is the best solution. We wouldn't want to interfere with people's freedom.
No no. You have to arm each individual school teacher. They thought too small. Maybe even some of the students. I know teachers in inner cities schools. I'm sure they will feel much safer that way. Not really.
Still thinking too small.
What if the (hypothetical) uniformed community resource officer had a B-17? Hmmm?
We need 1984 or Fahrenheit 451 style mass surveillance with satellites on the ready to shoot laser beams at the people ready to kill.
Jon H
Claymores, throughout the school.
It's the only way to be sure.
Leeds man
Didn't work very well at Culloden.
Wrong kind of claymore . . .
Really!!!?
Sorry for the snark, rea. My humour spark plugs have been misfiring lately.
worked brilliantly .. for the English :)
She's like a claymore,
that's what she's there for
She's waiting 'round here
to get blown apart
Is it the NRA position that there will be more massacres, that society is sick, and armed security is the only solution?
Yes. And don't forget, Walmart is having a 2 for 1 special on ammo this week only.
Thats crazy, I never realized their was an armed officer at the scene of Columbine.
I don't understand why anyone finds the armed security guard argument convincing in the first place. If the person we have armed on school grounds actually has training for this kind of situation, they are the last person that is going to be running along the halls playing hero.
I never realized their was an armed officer at the scene of Columbine
Well, he was out to lunch whwen it started. He fired four shots and missed–wasn't wearing his glasses.
so now the spree killers have to shoot the security guards in the head at the start of their massacres
maybe it causes an outsider to pause before going on a rampage at a school but I doubt it deters any students who want to murder their classmates
Look, you're trying to hold the NRA to the impossible standard of recognizing reality. The fact that LaPierre's fantasy of the bad guy being gunned down before committing mayhem has never happened never enters it the NRA's reckoning. The fact that actual experience indicates that the armed guard will likely die in the initial hail of bullets before the poor sap ever gets to draw his weapon never enters the NRA's reckoning.
What DOES enter their reckoning is the tens of millions of dollars gun makers funnel to the NRA's coffers. And apparently that amount of money is enough to buy the souls of many, many dead innocents off of one's conscience.
I stand by my plan: hand grenades.
I am willing to compromise, and to teach roomfuls of small children to rush shooters equipped with hand grenades.
Tactical nukes. It is the only reasonable solution.
Malaclypse
Tactical? Why settle for half measures? America's schoolchildren deserve strategic weaponry. That will be a game-changer.
Rush them with schoolchildren from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
They're just grunts – they can't make a decision like that.
What do you expect them to use, man? Harsh language?
We couldn't use tactical nukes anyway. They only explode in Germany.
This is only half on topic, but I haven't yet seen any reference to this Onion classic. We laugh to keep from crying.
SatanicPanic
There's a word for using one example to make hasty generalizations about an idea, regardless of the merit of said idea.
I know a good word, too: Counterexample. You are at liberty to provide one. At the moment the score seems to be 0-1, advantage Example.
Are you proposing a game of Competing Anecdotes?
(the other) Davis
When Person A argues for General Rule X, and Person B points out Counterexample Y, the onus is now on Person A to explain why General Rule X has not been rebutted. Especially when zero evidence has been provided in support of General Rule X.
If General Rule X is "Armed guards will repel all attacks, always" then sure, consider it rebutted. But this strikes me as a little too close to the guns nuts' argument that "We never prevent ALL crimes, therefore gun regulation is a waste of time."
But this strikes me as a little too close to the guns nuts' argument that "We never prevent ALL crimes, therefore gun regulation is a waste of time."
Except that here, the *only* piece of direct evidence we have on the matter runs counter to the original argument. Since statistical validation is unlikely with such rare events, that single example is the best we've got to go on (along with reference to analogous situations).
somethingblue
When Person A argues for General Rule X, and Person B points out Counterexample Y, the onus is now on Person A to explain why General Rule X has not been rebutted.
No true Scotsman would have time for this sort of alphabetic trifling.
Is Wayne LaPierre really suggesting that all American schools should end up looking like this. One armed guard is never going to stand a chance unless the periphery of the school is thus secured. Perhaps he might if the gunman is dumb enough to walk through the front gate.
I should point out that this is a Royal Marine Commando base, that the artillery piece is for display purposes only, and that there is enough fire power within to give Wayne LaPierre a permanent stiffie and/or fight a small war. In fact, the occupants of this establishment have fought a few small wars.
Is Wayne LaPierre really suggesting that all American schools should end up looking like this.
I don't think he is. I think he's proposing to have a security guards or police officer with a sidearm walking around in the school. Maybe two.
I think he's living in a fantasy world – or at least pretending to live in a fantasy world – in which this will serve to either deter a suicidal spree shooter from bringing a high-capacity semi-automatic weapon to a school and opening fire, or prevent him to killing people there if he does conduct such an attack.
I think he's an overpaid version of the guy who says he would have "taken out" the VT shooter, if only he'd been there with his 9 mm in his hip holster.
Sherm
Joe, he's not proposing shit. He is engaging in obfuscation.
Uncle Kvetch
Exactly. He's not "proposing" anything at all, apart from "I 'propose' that we talk about anything…and I do mean anything…other than our current gun laws."
This is trolling in its purest form.
You're right. He's standing by the road biting the heads off live chickens, in the hopes that we'll talk about the idiot biting the heads off chickens.
well, of course, we want guns/armed guards everywhere. that way the NRA could have a win-win on their hands.
what a stupid question! why do we have to have armed guards everywhere? this presumes it is all right to bring guns everywhere, including schools. like there are places where guns "should" automatically be.
saying yes means we would turn every public place into play as a "armed" unless otherwise noted. which is such a backways and gun centric way of thinking.
God the audacity of these gun nuts thinking we "should" think their way.
what a ignorant and gun filled way to "make' society, as if it isn't filled with enough/too many guns. some places need to be "gun" free. or maybe we should just teach gun "theory" in schools. which i'm sure the NRA/gun nuts would love. more guns and more gun nuts, a perfect NRA heaven.
sounds like Somalia or Yemen or some other Rightwing paradise. Make them move if that's the kind of "paradise" society they want.
In other news: Paging Erik Loomis, paging Erik Loomis…
Well, at least no one is calling for my "head on a stick" — but that's probably because Prof. Erik Loomis of the University of Rhode Island is about the only person or entity that hasn't denounced me for pointing out in NRO's Sandy Hook symposium that the school could have used a few male teachers on the premises who might have tackled down the runtish Adam Lanza before he did the worst of his damage.
Bonus points: she calls out "the Holy Trinity of online liberal journalism: David Weigel (Slate), Alex Pareene (Salon), and Jessica Valenti (The Nation)."
I have to say the comments there are way better than I expected.
Substance McGravitas
Even Jonah Goldberg called her out. And sometimes the NRO seems to be lighter on the moderation than others. The original Allen column was a bloodbath for her.
Got that? A BLOODBATH.
Vance Maverick
Recently (before the Newtown shooting), one of my colleagues in software development used the term "bloodbath" to describe a particularly inconsistent group of variable names. The countertop brigade naturally hounded him out of the company. Not.
That's strange, because everyone in the field knows that inconsistent variable names are referred to in the plural form as "clusterfuck". Can I check out your countertops?
I think that's because of all the links from Charlie Pierce and other godless lefties (not to mention the "holy trinity") – when even Jonah Goldberg thinks you're an idiot, you're not going to get too much support from the rank-and-file of conservadom.
Murc
… Dave Weigel is a liberal now?
Christ. I know we have a big tent, but really.
(This isn't to say Weigel doesn't do generally good work, but dude is pretty conservative.)
Pretty much a straight-up libertarian – he used to write for Reason – but one of the less idiotic ones.
Yeah, he's a libertarian, but kind of a "what the fuck is wrong with these libertarians?"-libertarian. Too lefty for Reason, as I understood it at the time.
Joe Regular
Too bad the principal at Sandy hook didn't have something more than her bare hands that day. Too bad the teacher in the closet couldn't do anything besides take bullets.
Too bad we have painfully stupid trolls, who either don't bother to read the post, or are unable to understand it.
Colin Day
Or a nice stack of pancakes. Feel the maple syrup slorp up the bullets.
olexicon
"Take Bullets" Oh you mean try and save peoples lives, why are you insulting the honour of the heroes of Sandy Hook?
Yes. Whoever disagrees with you is a dirty troll. All opinions besides your own are filthy and shouldn't even be considered, just rejected summarily. You have the answers and those fuckers on the right aren't going to tell you anything.
those fuckers on the right aren't going to tell you anything.
Nonsense. Those fuckers tell me lots of things. They tell me the earth is between 6,000-10,000 years old, that climate change is a myth, that Erik Loomis is a bloodthirsty monster, that single mothers cause crime, that gays are icky, that gun control doesn't work, that other nations have bad health care, that Mittens is going to win in a landslide. And then they complain because I won't grant credence to their every pronouncement.
All of the above must be true since we know the one about me is true….
Climate change is a myth. Eric Loom is rants like an idiot. Children abandoned by their fathers are gravely at risk. Sick politicians from around the world come to the US for treatment. Yes, forecasters on both sides were stunned that the biggest failure in 50 years won a second term.
Gays and the age of the universe I will give you. Far right people hold absurd views on gays and evolution.
Anticorium
The biggest failure in fifty years? Man, Jimmy Carter can't even catch a helicopter in Tehran these days.
MAJeff
Well, Ronald Reagan forgot his entire term while Nancy changed his diapers….
Children abandoned by their fathers are gravely at risk.
TAKE THAT LIBS!
Nonsense. I abandoned my child at birth, and being raised by wolves turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to him.
But whatever happened to his twin brother?
You obviously went to a Christian academy and only watch Fox News.
Far right people hold absurd views on gays and evolution.
Right, but their view on everything else–the definition of sensible! It certainly doesn't make sense that believing crazy things about the origins of the universe would involve a level of crazy that would spill over into the REST of their views. Perish the thought!
Sick politicians from around the world come to the US for treatment.
No wonder Hugo Chavez keeps having to go to Cuba for treatment.
Yes, forecasters on both sides were stunned that the biggest failure in 50 years won a second term.
No, just your guys. We knew what was coming.
I had really hoped that 2004 would go the other way, actually.
It really is funny. It's not hard to make a case that Dubya was the worst President in 150 years, making Obama at worst the second-biggest failure in fifty years – but the wingers have, through sheer act of will, wished the entire George W Bush administration out of historical existence.
Because if you're rich, it's the best health care system in the world. This is not really all that controversial.
But if you're not, well …
Actually, that is central to Joe Regular's point. Rich people = winners and poor people = losers, so fuck 'em, amirite?
Major Kong
So, um, where's the tax money going to come from to pay for all these full-time security guards?
Does Grover Norquist know about this?
Steve S.
Let's say for the sake of argument that armed guards (and metal detectors, and surveillance cameras in every room and hall, and random inspections of lockers, etc.) in every school would reduce violence of this type. What are the consequences of raising generations of children in this atmosphere? Anybody know? Or care?
The kids are too busy playing playing first person shooters, so they don't care.
In Charlotte Allen's world, HPV vaccines are more dangerous than guns.
Personally, I care about children who are abandoned by their fathers especially when it happens to a whole community. I don't think it's a joke. What do you think? Do you consider it a problem or do you not give a shit?
I don't agree with the armed guard idea. An armed guard would be expensive, bored to death with nothing to do all day long, and, yes, s/he would be the first one dispatched.
What I believe is that I wish that principal and that teacher in the closet had access to a gun that day? Don't you wish they had access to s gun that day?
I think the right is way off when it comes to the HPV vaccine. I would give it to any child, male or female. I'm personally conservative but socially libertarian.
As for Fox TV, I would say that it would not hurt to watch it once in a while, if you can stop spitting on the TV long enough to hear it. There's something called keeping an open mind which in my experience is totally devoid on the left. My experience of the left is a bunch of raving holier-than-thou know it all's who just shout down everything that doesn't lock into their officially sanctioned ideology. The left is always shouting in the streets, always shouting down other people, screaming loud enough to drown out opposing words. Now Erik Loomis knows what it is like to be pubicalky dragged through the mud like you guys have done to dozens of "ignorant stupid mouth breathing knuckle dragging Neanderthals" on the right. You don't let them speak. You just fire up Colbert and Stewart and Letterman and the whole MSM and laugh them to scorn until they are public ally destroyed. You refer to this tactic as "Alinskying" someone. As soon as they gain a voice you destroy them. Finally one of your guys got alinskied.
You refer to this tactic as "Alinskying" someone.
[citation needed, of someone who calls themselves a liberal, because trust me, we're already full up on cites from Robert Stacy McCain]
How precious! I love it when trolls call out "the left" for not being open-minded. The word "projection" comes to mind, but that doesn't seem strong enough somehow.
The right's Alinsky crazyness is the sort of thing you just can't make up.
i.boskone
"…pubicalky dragged through the mud…"
I want to hear more about that. Doesn't it usually cost extra?
Don't you wish they had access to s gun that day?
Not really, because I have no idea if they would have had any idea how to use it.
Maybe they would have. I don't know. But putting guns in the hands of the unprepared and untrained and inapt – especially around kids – is a really shitty idea.
The gun fetishists, as in this case, insist on the unchangeable assumption that you are going to have some crazy murdering nutball carrying a small arsenal of the most efficient killing machines in world history rampaging through a school hallway, and then ask if it wouldn't really be better to have the teachers armed, or a SWAT team in every Teachers' Lounge, or suicide vests on the toddlers or something. Because, once you've assumed there is nothing to be done about the existence of murderous nutballs with small arsenals, the answer must be to tool up their prospective victims.
Those of us who refuse to accept their sociopathic premises propose to change our society such that would-be murderous nutballs don't have almost casual access to such arsenals.
herr doktor bimler
I'm personally conservative but socially libertarian.
That's good to know because I really really gave a fuck.
I'm an economic and political conservative. I believe that the economic and political tactics of the conservatives solve problems, and those of the Left create problems create social misery. I am a moral and social libertarian because I am a Christian and so therefore I believe in the personal freedom of every individual. On abortion I'm still in the dark.
I believe when I fall in love someday it will be forever.
I believe that the economic …l tactics of the conservatives solve problems
They don't, at least not in the real world. In the hermetically sealed Economics Lab at the University of Chicago, though, they're golden.
And I know this because unlike you, I've actually studied economics (from conservative professors, naturally) in enough depth to understand it.
Problems like large class sizes in schools.
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I happen to know for a fact that I am open minded because I know for a fact that I look very carefully at the arguments I disagree with and I often take something from them and evolve my opinions. Every person knows whether or not s/he is behaving in an open minded manner. I am not afraid to think the thoughts of the other side and see what becomes of it. I know that I am looking for solutions to human suffering and if and when I find them on the Left I adopt them. When was the last time you sincerely listened to anyone on the right and evolved your opinion? Or do you just write off every single conservative as one of "them," as a "hater" or an absolute moron? I know I'm open minded because I know I have changed my mind by listening to the other side. We all know if we are being open minded or not.
This is some hilarious stuff. I mean, we know wingers are lacking in all self-awareness, but to see one of them spelling it out like that—magical. Keep it up.
Hmm. . . Pancakes. Light, fluffy, golden pancakes. And maple syrup, ans butter, and . . .
Yes, I do remember hearing something about an armed guard at Columbine.
But then it kind of faded out of the Main Stream Media. Nobody talked about it much anymore.
Now I understand why.
It does not fit with the MSM Left Wing narrative.
You will remember that Harris and Klebold killed a little over a dozen. But they planned to kill hundreds. They gave up and committed suicide long before the police confronted them.
It turns out that the armed security guard traded shots with Klebold and Harris. He forced them down one wing of the school. He denied them the run of the place.
But you will never hear about this from the BSMedia, because the BSMedia is so far to the Left their head is screwed on backwards.
Not only that, but the BSMedia routinely alters history to fit the Left Wing narrative.
There is nothing and no one more vile than the Main Stream Media. They are liars for the Left. They shout down conservatives and hide stories that embarrass liberals. They are lower than dirt.
If your previously asserted open mindedness actually exists, I'm going to strongly suggest you study the period of 2001 to 2004 again before you start going off about the mainstream media carrying water for the left.
And my memory of Columbine by Dave Cullen, a ridiculously detailed account of the tragedy, did not agree with the "forced them down one wing of the school" theory. It's been awhile, so I'll admit I'm not sure. A quick look at wiki suggests they did most of their killing in the school's cafeteria after their short shootout with the deputy sheriff.
"Armed guards in schools would keep these things from happening" is not, in fact, a left-wing narrative.
Gee whizz Geo, that's not a very substantive observation. Maybe you should try again.
That's it. Keep 'em coming.
Spenser, don't you think teachers are at least as smart as security guards, and that they could be trained?
Two or three teachers in every school could have training and access to a weapon nearby. It could be locked up and they could have a key on their wristband. The school has fire extinguishers and probably a defibrillator on hand in case of emergency. Why not a weapon close by?
Of course, now that I've suggested arming teachers, Erik Dumbass will want to beat me to death, if he doesn't already.
I really wish that I lived in a country that did everything possible to keep guns from Mr lanza
Okay, Dave, I take back every hopeful thought I had from dinner Wednesday night. Today was a nightmare of NRA proportions.
How do you think we can do that, pepper?
Concerntrolling liberal here:
Basically, I don't think we should be ridiculing non-insane ideas right now. Condemn the NRA for offering this idea now as a diversionary tactic, but that isn't dispositive of the idea's worth. Neither is the failure or success of armed guards in particular scenarios in the past dispositive of the value of all possible variations of options related to this proposal (would greater numbers improve effectiveness; better training; ensuring all the personnel are fully trained, sworn, and unionized police officers, etc.?). Further, I far prefer a proposal to deploy trained security professionals (and Wayne LPierre can go masturbate to Gun & Ammo: they can have guns or they can not have guns, or they can not exist – this should all be on the table) to what preceded it from, essentially, Wayne LaPierre's constituency – proposals to force arms and responsibility ofr the defense of schools in to the hands of teachers in exchange for no compensation, as well as the notion of training unarmed children to aggressively defend themselves against armed madmen.
Perhaps this is the wrong path. But it's not particularly clear to me at this time that it is, and I'm a squish with no particular ken to put armed officers into elementary schools if we don't need to. But maybe it's the right call. It certainly doesn't seem so ridiculous as to be worthy of being laughed or shouted out of the room without any examination. Hell, even Megan McArdle acknowledged the naturalness of the pro-gun control response to events like this, refrained from ridiculing it, and accept the need to give (bad) reasons to oppose the measures that a reasonable natural response indicated. I think the notion of looking into whether and how to harden targets as valuable as elementary schools – and they do seem quite soft to me in ways that less socially valuable if commercially powerful spaces tend not to be allowed to be – is a similarly natural, not-daft response to an event like this. The fact that it came out Wayne LaPierre's mouth a day after I had similar thoughts and expressed them here isn't enough to get me to just foreclose the idea and dispense with it. Those who are or claim to be expert enough to know it's folly, go on with your bad selves – I want to hear more views on this. I continue to be open to both evidence and argument on the question. But I'll only take those rejections seriously that take the idea itself seriously, because it is serious – a reasonable, natural, and not-insane even if ultimately misguided response to an event like this, not a ridiculous fantasy like teaching unarmed kids to defeat armed invaders of their schools, or an intemperate flail like a proposal to burden educational professionals with the responsibility of handling firearms in class and be potentially responsible foe school security with inadequate training and incommensurate compensation.
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Kiwanda
Another example of the limitations of the "let's all pack heat" idea: at the Tucson shooting that included Gabby Giffords as a victim, a guy with a gun, Joe Zamudio came on the scene shortly after the shooter was disarmed. Zamudio came close to shooting the wrong person.


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FILE - In this Dec. 2, 2019, file photo, Nissan Chief Executive Makoto Uchida speaks during a press conference at the automaker's headquarters in Yokohama, near Tokyo. Japanese securities regulators are recommending that automaker Nissan be fined 2.4 billion yen ($22 million) for the under-reporting of compensation of its former chairman, Carlos Ghosn. The Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission said Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019, it made the recommendation to the government's Financial Services Agency. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
Japanese regulators recommend $22 million fine on Nissan
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese securities regulators are recommending that automaker Nissan be fined 2.4 billion yen ($22 million) for under-reporting compensation for its former chairman, Carlos Ghosn. The watchdog, the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission, said Tuesday it made the...
Perry Santillo walks outside the federal courthouse in Scranton, Pa., Monday, Nov. 4, 2019, after pleading guilty to a federal fraud charge. Prosecutors say Santillo masterminded a Ponzi scheme that took in more than $115 million from investors around the country. (AP Photo/Michael Rubinkam)
Ponzi schemer 'King Perry' pleads guilty; had lived lavishly
SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — The fraudster called himself "King Perry," and for a while he lived like royalty. Perry Santillo masterminded a long-running investment scam that collected more than $115 million from 1,000 investors around the country, using some of the proceeds to fund a lavish lifestyle of...
Justices to consider key SEC tool in securities fraud
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will consider taking away an important tool that federal securities regulators used last year to recoup $2.5 billion in ill-gotten gains in fraud cases. The justices said Friday they will hear an appeal contending that the Securities and Exchange Commission lacks...
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London Stock Exchange rejects Hong Kong takeover bid
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HK stocks surge on withdrawal of law that sparked protests
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Whistleblower accuses GE of fraud, misleading investors
NEW YORK (AP) — A whistleblower who warned regulators about Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme is now accusing General Electric of misleading investors, sending the company's stock on a downward spiral. Investigator Harry Markopolos accused GE on Thursday of engaging in accounting fraud worth $38...
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Hey my dear girls! Your Fashion Diva is always here to inspire you and to show you the newest fashion trends that has appeared on the street. My post for today is called "Street Style Black And White Enjoyment". The Spring and the sunny days are already here. Are you excited? As fashionistas, we should always look amazing, so we should update our wardrobes with some stylish pieces that will highlight our beautiful curves. Don't neglect the makeup, the hairstyle and the nails, because they are also important. What kind of pieces of clothes you should wear this season? What colors are going to be popular and much more you will discover if you read the text below.
Despite the pastels and the other fresh colors, the black and white will hit the street style. The stripes dyed in black and white, in some cases, red, brown, yellow, milky pink and gray will be undoubtedly the biggest hit among the girls. But in this article we will stick to the classics. With the advent of the new season, the editors are eager to create a cover photo shoots and clothing with stripes. This "new" trend totally captures the vision to give it individuality and rebellious unconventionalism dose. Stripes are a great way to create an illusion – attracting glances add some drama and accentuate the silhouette of a woman.
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Keratoconus is a condition where the cornea becomes thin and stretched near its center, causing it to bulge forward into a conical shape. As a result vision becomes distorted.Keratoconus does not cause total blindness, however, without treatment it can lead to significant vision impairment. With current treatments now available most patients with keratoconus are able to lead normal lifestyles. Keratoconus is a progressive eye disease, usually affecting both eyes. The degree of progression in each eye is often unequal, and it isn't unusual for the condition to be significantly more advanced in one eye. The cornea is the clear surface at the front of the eyeball. It refracts the light entering the eye onto the lens, which then focuses it onto the retina.
The cause of keratoconus is unknown. However, it is believed to be an inherited condition. Some studies have connected keratoconus with allergies such as asthma and eczema. It has also been found that poorly fitted contact lenses and excessive rubbing of the eye may contribute to the cause.
Most people with keratoconus begin to develop the condition in their late teens or early 20's, with the majority of transplants being performed on patients between 20 – 45 years of age.
There are various options for the treatment of keratoconus, including; spectacles/glasses, contact lenses, corneal implants and corneal transplants.
Glasses – In the early stages of keratoconus, glasses are usually successful in correcting the myopia and astigmatism, however as the condition advances the cornea becomes highly irregular and vision is no longer adequately corrected with glasses.
Contact lenses – Contact lenses are used to maintain the regular shape of the cornea, however in 5 – 10% of patients there comes a stage when contact lenses are no longer effective and a corneal transplant is considered.
Contact lenses do not slow down the rate of progression of the conical cornea, however they do give good vision during that period which could not have otherwise be achieved.
Surgery – Corneal transplants have a very high success rate following transplantation, with 98.1% of transplanted corneas surviving the first year, and 97.5% surviving beyond four years
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Chiefs defense, Tyreek Hill and more could break big milestones against Chargers
by: PJ Green
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI – DECEMBER 12: Josh Gordon #19 of the Kansas City Chiefs celebrates with Travis Kelce #87 after scoring a touchdown during the second quarter against the Las Vegas Raiders at Arrowhead Stadium on December 12, 2021 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Photo by David Eulitt/Getty Images)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs have allowed 10 or fewer points in the last three games. If they do it on Thursday night vs. the Los Angeles Chargers, they could take another step up in this record books.
They'd break a tie for the second-longest streak in franchise history allowing 10 or fewer points.
The Chiefs also aim to allow 17 or fewer points for the seventh-consecutive game, which would tie for the third-longest streak in franchise history holding opponents to 17 or fewer points.
Here are some other milestones the Chiefs could break Thursday against the Chargers.
NEXT MAN UP: Who will fill the void with Chiefs defensive lineman Chris Jones out?
With a win on Sunday, Head Coach Andy Reid (100) would tie Marty Schottenheimer (101) for the second-most regular-season wins in franchise history.
Kicker Harrison Butker (19) needs to convert two field goals of 50+ yards to pass Nick Lowery (20) for the most 50-yard field goals made in franchise history.
Tight end Travis Kelce looks to extend his streak to 124-consecutive games with a reception, the second-longest streak in franchise history and fourth-longest active streak in the NFL. Kelce ranks second in franchise history with 68 career receptions.
Kelce aims for his 29th career game with at least 100 receiving yards. Kelce's 28 games of 100+ receiving yards are a franchise record and the third-most by a tight end in league history, trailing only Rob Gronkowski (30) and Tony Gonzalez (31).
Here's what a win over the Chargers would do for the Chiefs in AFC standings
Kelce needs 125 receiving yards to become the first tight end in NFL history with six consecutive 1,000-yard receiving seasons. His six-straight seasons with at least 1,000 receiving yards would tie for the 11th-longest streak by any player in NFL history.
Wide receiver Tyreek Hill (6,421) needs 125 receiving yards to pass WR Henry Marshall (6,545) for the fifth-most receiving yards in franchise history.
Hill needs 10 receptions to become the first wide receiver in franchise history to record a 100-catch season. Kelce (103 catches in 2018 and 105 catches in 2020) and Gonzalez (102 catches in 2004) are the only Chiefs players to ever have 100 receptions in a season.
With 100 receiving yards against the Chargers, Hill would tie WR Carlos Carson (18) for the fourth-most games with 100 or more receiving yards in Chiefs history.
With 55 career touchdown catches, Hill needs one touchdown reception to pass WR Chris Burford for the third-most in franchise history. With two touchdown receptions, Hill would tie WR Otis Taylor (57) for the second-most in Chiefs history.
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In this previous article we took a look over the various technologies that can be used to create a Virtual Private Network server. In this article, we'll look at how to set up your Debian or Ubuntu server with as a PPTP VPN server.
For those who haven't been following this series and have started at part 3, in the first part of this series we looked at what database replication is and why it could be useful, as well as starting the configuration of our MySQL master server. In part 2, we prepared our master server for replication and backed up the databases we wished to replicate. Today we'll be configuring the slave server to replicate the databases from the master.
In our previous article, we looked at what master-slave replication and master-master replication are and how they can be used to scale your database usage as your website popularity grows. We then began configuring a MySQL server to act as a master in a replication group.
One of the challenges when running a popular website or service is that eventually the software will outgrow the abilities of a single server to manage everything.
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In Pacific discovery, traces of Nantucket and 'Moby-Dick'
By Beth Daley
Globe Staff / February 11, 2011
NANTUCKET — Remains of an 1800s Nantucket whaling ship with a poignant tie to the book "Moby-Dick'' have been discovered on a remote reef almost 600 miles northwest of Honolulu.
The Two Brothers is the first wrecked Nantucket whaler to be discovered, and the chance find illuminates an era when close to 150 whaling ships from this tiny island set out across the world's oceans in search of the lucrative oil extracted from blubber and left behind the near-extinction of many whale species.
While marine archeologists are ecstatic at the information they hope to glean from the coral-encrusted cooking pots and blubber hooks, the artifacts also complete the tale of a famously cursed captain: George Pollard Jr., who had commanded the Essex, the whaler from Nantucket that was sunk by an enraged sperm whale and inspired Herman Melville to write his classic novel.
Pollard survived the sinking of the Essex, resorting to cannibalism to do so, and returned home to Nantucket. He soon took command of the Two Brothers, only to have it sink on Feb. 11, 1823. Pollard again survived, but he never went whaling again.
"Pollard is the heart and soul of the whole story,'' said Nathaniel Philbrick, who recounted the Essex tragedy and examined Pollard's psyche in a best-selling book "In the Heart of the Sea.'' "He has been through hell once again, slamming into destiny and almost going down with the ship. Something about there actually being physical remains [means] it is not just a story, but it really happened.''
The ship's remains were found by marine archeologists in the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, an almost 140,000-square-mile US conservation area in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands known for its coral reefs and multitude of marine species. The atoll chain includes the location where the World War II air Battle of Midway was fought, and it is believed to entomb the remains of more than 120 aircraft and vessels.
Nearing the end of a research expedition in 2008, archeologists working with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries came across a large anchor, three cast iron pots used for melting whale blubber, ship rigging, and other artifacts in 10 to 20 feet of water near French Frigate Shoals, where Two Brothers sank.
The items were clearly from an early 19th-century whaler, but a definitive identification took several more years. The remoteness of the site prevented the team from returning until 2009, and that year and again in 2010, they recovered more conclusive evidence, including blubber hooks, five whaling harpoon tips, three whaling lances, and glass.
The ship's wooden hull had long since degraded, but American-made ceramics, probably used by Pollard because such high-quality goods would have been reserved for captains, were also discovered.
"We weren't looking for the Two Brothers,'' said Kelly Gleason, the monument's marine archeologist. "While we know it sank on French Frigate Shoals, it was still like looking for a needle in a haystack. But by 2010, we began to put the pieces together.''
Researchers feel confident they have located the Two Brothers because they painstakingly compared the artifacts to similar items preserved from the period of the sinking. The design of anchors, blubber hooks, and other ship gear evolved over time, so archeologists were able to date most of the items they found to the 1820s. Gleason also visited the Nantucket Historical Association to examine artifacts and look for clues in an epic poem about the sinking by Thomas Nickerson, who sailed with Pollard on both the Essex and the Two Brothers.
Nantucket still captures a whiff of the whaling heyday in the first half of the 19th century, with its magnificent captains' homes on cobbled streets. Whalers first plied the cold waters off New England, with their catches providing the oil used to illuminate early America and to make a suite of goods from candle wax to soap.
But as the giant mammals were fished out locally, whalers fanned out from home. Many sailed around South America and passed through the low-lying atolls of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, whaling along the way, and then onto whaling grounds off Japan and in the Arctic.
"These were little gold rushes each time they found new whaling grounds,'' said James Delgado, National Marine Sanctuaries' Maritime Heritage Program director and former president of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology. "Nowhere was the leviathan safe.''
Catching the beasts was a fantastically dangerous job. Men would leave for two years or more in boats that, early on, were only marginally bigger than some of the whales they were chasing. Most whalers seemed to have a near-death experience with the sea, whales, or wild weather.
But no story captured the imagination more than the Essex tragedy, one of the first times a whale was reported to have seemingly struck back at its would-be executioners by ramming and sinking a boat.
What followed was even worse: Pollard and a shipmate spent 94 days at sea in a small boat, eventually eating fellow crewmen to survive, including, according to Philbrick's book, Pollard's 18-year-old first cousin.
Pollard was rescued, recuperated in Chile, and returned home to Nantucket to an awestruck, silent crowd of some 1,500 who had heard the tale, according to Ben Simons, curator of the Nantucket Historical Association who wrote a recent piece for Historic Nantucket about the Two Brothers. Pollard, meanwhile, had so impressed the captain of the Two Brothers, the boat that brought him home, that he was recommended as its next commander.
About three months later, he set sail again. On that journey, he was asked by a sailor how he could dare go to sea again, according to Philbrick's book. Pollard reportedly answered "that the lightning never struck in the same place twice.''
But, of course, it did. The Two Brothers broke up on a shoal in the middle of the night "with breakers apparently mountains high,'' according to Nickerson's careful account. Pollard was reluctant to leave the ship, but eventually did and spent a harrowing night with other crew in a small boat. All were rescued the next day by a sister ship.
Pollard never whaled again, instead taking a job as a lowly night watchman. Melville, who had never visited Nantucket before publishing "Moby-Dick'' in 1851, met Pollard a year later. "To the islanders he was a nobody — to me, the most impressive man,'' Melville later recalled.
Now, as archeologists plan a return to the reef to look for more of what is left of Pollard's last ship, they say the seabed may hold new secrets about Two Brothers and other whalers.
"It sparks the imagination; it makes you wonder how many vessels are out there,'' said Simons.
Earlier this week at the historical association's library, he carefully opened a manila folder that contained Nickerson's original account of the Two Brothers in careful script. One verse speaks to the horror Nickerson and Pollard must have felt when they realized they were about to lose another boat.
But here again, new terrors on us seize We have no food, our hunger to appease and thirst steals o'er our parched lips in vain Pale death's stern visage threatens now again.
Beth Daley can be reached at bdaley@globe.com.
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Hows the Kimchi? Secret Lives of North Korean Workers Abroad
Feb. 27, 2006: North Korean workers toil at sewing machines at a South Korean-run plant in the inter-Korean industrial park in Kaesong. Photo: AFP/Jung Yeon-Je
SEOUL—Under U.N. sanctions and facing the prospect of renewed famine, tightly closed North Korea has found a new source of hard currency—exporting contract workers to labor in grueling conditions overseas for wages then taken by the government, experts say.
Residents of Qatar who have nothing to do with construction sites may not even know about the existence of North Koreans here. However, given my line of work, I see North Koreans quite often. Although they approach Qataris or third country nationals, they always try to avoid encounters with South Koreans.
"They are desperate to get out, and they sell everything they have, even their own house and their relatives' houses, in order to be allowed to work overseas," Kim Tae San, who testified last year on North Korean migrant labor to the European Parliament, told RFA's Korean service.
"They go overseas and work hard, but they eat and live worse than the beggars in those foreign countries," said Kim, who estimates that at least 70,000 North Koreans are currently working in various countries around the world.
Kim once managed around 200 North Korean workers at a joint venture shoe factory in the Czech Republic. He said Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, Mongolia, Iraq, Kuwait, and Russia had all used North Korean migrant labor, and that conditions in other countries were often worse than those he witnessed in the Czech Republic and Poland.
Huge sacrifices
He said North Koreans who win a coveted place on overseas work teams are willing to put up with any hardship, just to make a little more money.
"Just because they have to make up for the huge investment they made to secure a workplace overseas, they are willing to put up with any hardship just to make a little more money," said Kim, who defected to South Korea in 2002.
"It is considered unacceptable that they have to work for 14 or 16 hours a day, but they want to work even more. Even so, they still try to work a second or third job."
The reason for the second job? They rarely enjoy proceeds from the first, according to Kim, who testified at the March 2006 hearing that the wages of North Korean workers dispatched overseas were deposited into a collective bank account controlled by the North Korean government.
"In the Czech Republic, the North Korean workers were paid in U.S. dollars," he told RFA. "The government took away much of their pay, but they were still left with something, and that is why they worked hard."
"I remember an 18-year-old North Korean girl who had injured her hand and kept on doing grueling leather work, producing twice more than her Czech, Ukrainian, or Mongolian peers. That is precisely why the Czechs are always willing to welcome North Korean workers," he said.
Just because they have to make up for the huge investment they made to secure a workplace overseas, they are willing to put up with any hardship, just to make a little more money.
North Koreans have also been farmed out to work in Qatar. In a brief interview Dec. 7 with a North Korean migrant at the Asian Games women's soccer match between North and South Korea, one worker said he had been in the Gulf state for two years.
"I have been in Qatar for two years now, and I'm very happy that I'm going to return home soon," said the worker, who declined to be identified. Asked if he had managed to get hold of the beloved pickled cabbage dish kimchi, he said: "You can get it, but it is almost unaffordable."
One South Korean resident of Qatar confirmed that many North Koreans seek second jobs during their overseas work trips and have to live in appalling conditions.
"Residents of Qatar who have nothing to do with construction sites may not even know about the existence of North Koreans here. However, given my line of work, I see North Koreans quite often. Although they approach Qataris or third country nationals, they always try to avoid encounters with South Koreans," Yoon Choong Ho said.
North Koreans found consorting with South Koreans would likely be sent home, Yoon said. "But the South Koreans in Qatar believe that the North Korean supervisors take bribes from the workers and turn a blind eye to their after-hours activities," he added.
Thousands in Qatar
Yoon said thousands of North Korean workers are thought to be working in Qatar, although no one knows the exact number.
"They mostly perform low-skilled labor, such as plastering and bricklaying. The North Koreans receive meager wages, even lower than the Nepali workers, who have been known to receive the lowest pay of all foreign laborers," he said.
"The entire wage received by North Korean workers goes to the North Korean authorities. In order to make some money they can keep, they have to moonlight."
According to Yoon, Nepali workers earn between U.S. $190 and U.S. $275 a month, while North Korean workers are paid a nominal monthly wage of about U.S. $170.
In Brussels, Kim Tae San also testified that more than half of the wages of North Korean women workers dispatched to the Czech Republic are deducted under the pretext of "voluntary contributions" for the cost of food for celebrations of Chairman Kim Jong Il's birthday, or birthday gifts for the North Korean leader.
Yoon said North Koreans who work hard at their second jobs could earn U.S. dollars to take back home with them. But he said their living conditions are thought to be appalling.
"Although I haven't visited their quarters, as outsiders are not allowed, I've heard that their living conditions are dreadful. Despite the hot weather, the air conditioning is turned on only for a little while, before they go to sleep." He said their freedom of movement within Qatar is severely restricted, and that they are often picked on by police.
Report raises 'questions'
"For example, there have been instances of North Korean workers who were arrested as thieves and deported, simply because they had petted a camel in the street," Yoon said.
The U.S. State Department's 2006 Trafficking in Persons Report identified "questions" regarding the control exercised by the North Korean government over workers dispatched to countries such as Mongolia, Russia, and the Czech Republic.
Oil and natural gas revenue mean Qatar has one of the highest per-capita incomes in the world, estimated at more than U.S. $30,000. But its relatively small population of fewer than 900,000 means it needs a steady influx of foreign workers.
North Korea and Qatar established diplomatic relations in 1993 but have not yet reached agreement on exchanging embassies. North Korean workers are dispatched to Qatar through agencies based in China, experts say.
According to German public broadcaster ARD, French, German, and U.S. auto manufacturers are pressuring a Czech auto parts plant to ensure better protection of its North Korean women workers' human rights.
The Snezka factory, located in Nachod near the Polish border, employs 82 skilled North Korean women who produce auto parts supplied to major firms including Renault, Opel, Volkswagen, and Mitsubishi, the report said.
The North Korean authorities retain about 70 percent of their wages, and their freedom is severely restricted through close surveillance by their North Korean supervisors. About 400 North Korean workers are currently in the Czech Republic, 90 percent of them women, ARD said.
Original reporting in Korean by Kyu Lee, Myeong Hwa Jang, and Naeri Kim. RFA Korean service director: Jaehoon Ahn. Edited by Sooil Chun. Translated and researched by Greg Scarlatoiu and written in English by Luisetta Mudie. Edited and produced in English by Sarah Jackson-Han.
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Tutta mia la città/Cominciava così è un singolo del 1969 dell'Equipe 84.

Il disco

Il disco ebbe un notevole successo, arrivando fino alla prima posizione per quattro settimane e rimanendo in hit-parade per dodici settimane

La copertina rappresenta un disegno dei componenti del gruppo, con lo sfondo del cielo con le nuvole.

I brani
Tutta mia la città

Tutta mia la città è la reinterpretazione di Blackberry Way, successo dei The Move, scritta dal leader del gruppo, Roy Wood; il testo in italiano fu scritto da Mogol.

Con questo brano l'Equipe 84 partecipò al Cantagiro 1969.

Cominciava così

Canzone melodica con un testo sulla fine di un amore; due anni dopo venne inserita nell'album Casa mia, utilizzando la stessa registrazione.

Accoglienza

Formazione
 Maurizio Vandelli: voce, chitarra
 Victor Sogliani: voce, chitarra, basso
 Franco Ceccarelli: chitarra, cori
 Franz Di Cioccio: batteria (in Tutta mia la città)
 Alfio Cantarella: batteria (in Cominciava così)

Tracce

 LATO A

LATO B

Note

Bibliografia

 Marino Alessio - "BEATi VOI! - Interviste e riflessioni con i complessi degli anni 60" - I libri della BEAT BOUTIQUE 67 vol.1 - 2007 (pag. 160)

Collegamenti esterni

 La pagina della Discoteca di Stato sul 45 giri

Singoli al numero uno in Italia


Pretend you're Ginger Rogers or Ruby Keeler in this artisan beaded deco-style charmer!
The incredibly intricate vintage brass filigree centerpiece is probably from the 1930s.
It measures about 1-1/2" long by 2-1/8" at its widest point.
It's been set with a beguiling deep Siam ruby red rhinestone, so I've added vintage and contemporary Czech firepolish crystal to match.
The drop ends 2-1/4" below the centerpiece, and the strand is approximately 18" long, closing with a gold plate over pewter hook set.
This pendant necklace is another bargain beauty from SPARKLE PLENTY!


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Folly Farm's pensioner sloths move into new retirement home
By Khristine Faith June 03, 2021 0 comments
Two pensioner sloths have joined a brand-new retirement home to spend their days lazing about.
Over lockdown, Tuppee, 26, and Lightcap, 36, moved into the new, purpose-built home for older sloths in Folly Farm, Pembrokeshire.
The visitor attraction takes in sloths which have "retired" from other zoos, giving them a place to settle and relax.
Sloth keeper, Becky Dyson, said lockdown suited the lazy animals well.
While the zoo was closed during lockdown, the farm's zookeepers like so many others wanted to do some home improvements.
So they built the two-toed sloths a new, bigger retirement home in the Tropical Trails exhibit.
Designed for the more experienced sloth, 'Sloth Forest' has biomass heating and extra places to snooze.
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Becky said: "Like us humans, sloths are prone to aching muscles and creaking joints as they get older. Our new sloth retirement home has lots of warmth, cosy places to cuddle up and plenty of humidity."
Some of the new features include softer flooring made out of cocoa fibre soil and branches that are close together so it is easier for them to climb.
"We all know how important it is to keep active as we get older and sloths are no different. We've spaced things like their feeding stations and sleeping boxes a bit further apart in Sloth Forest to encourage them to keep moving around," Becky continued.
"But as we all know, sloths aren't famous for being active. They spend a lot of time cuddled up together in their boxes.
"Lightcap is a sweetheart, she's really curious and always interested in what we're doing so we're pretty confident she'll love meeting our visitors when the experience is up and running.
"Tuppee is a typical grumpy old man, but he's definitely softened since Lightcap moved in a couple of years ago. They enjoy each other's company and we often find them cuddled up together."
She added: "As you might expect, Tuppee and Lightcap weren't really affected by the lockdown. Sloths aren't exactly known for being party animals so the 'stay at home' order didn't bother them at all."


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SEE IT: Tennessee man gets arrested while trying to pick up kids at school
By Joel Landau
Jim Howe was arrested by School Resource Officer Avery Aytes for not taking proper protocol when picking up his kids at an elementary school in Tennessee. (HoweMotorsports/via YoUTube)
A Tennessee man was arrested after trying to pick his children up from their elementary school last week because he did not follow the proper pickup procedures.
Jim Howe, 40, a resident of Crossville Tenn., posted a video on YouTube from when he was arrested for disorderly conduct at the South Cumberland Elementary School. Howe can be seen in the video arguing with School Resource Officer Avery Aytes over the school's policy for picking up children.
"The county jail is where you're going," Aytes said at one point of the conversation.
"That's fine, I've been there before," Howe answered.
"Good, you're about to go there again," Aytes said.
True to his word, Aytes eventually did handcuff Howe and charged him with disorderly conduct as he was led into a county sheriff's vehicle. Howe told The Daily News Wednesday he was released and faces a Dec. 2 court date.
The controversy stems over a change in the procedure last week. Before, parents could park in the lot and come into the school to pick up the children, Howe said. But now the parents must wait in their vehicles and line up on the side of a local highway -- which Howe said stretches a mile and is a safety concern.
The father of an 8- and 14-year-old said he learned of the policy when it went into effect Nov. 12 and got into an argument with Aytes when he tried to pick up his kids on foot.
Aytes told Howe to get back into his vehicle.
"You are the only one -- the only one -- who is making a big deal out of this," the officer said. He later asked Howe is he "was proud of himself."
So on Thursday, Howe said he decided to walk to the school instead of waiting in the long line.
That's when he got arrested.
"They're walking with me when school's dismissed," Howe told Aytes.
"No, they're not," the officer replied.
Policy dictates that parents such as Howe (right) wait in their vehicles to pick up their children. School Resource Officer Avery Aytes (left) warned Howe that he would be going to jail if he didn't comply. (HoweMotorsports/via YoUTube)
Donald Andrews, superintendent for the Cumberland County school district, told The News they made the change in policy, which parents received multiple notices about, to protect the students. Instead of anyone being able to just enter the building they now must wait in their car with a placard containing their child's name.
"I make no apologies for the policy," he said. "It was done for the safety of the children."
Andrews also said he stands by Aytes' actions - noting Howe was becoming disruptive inside the school building.
"I thought he showed a lot of restraint throughout situation and he finally had enough," Andrews said. "I talked to the police officer. He replied to me he didn't want to do this, but he said he had no choice."
The district is working out the problems with the new policy and said many parents are in favor of it, Andrews said. The change came from a suggestion by the school's Parent teacher Organization, he said.
Cumberland County Sheriff Butch Burgess did not yet return a call to The News, but told TV station WATE that Aytes was correct in following the school's policy.
"The resource officers are there to enforce the law," he said.
Howe said he is now following the policy.
"We have no choice but to follow it," he said. "Either that or go to jail."
But he said he still thinks the new policy is ultimately more dangerous because it makes parents sit in their cars and kids travel through traffic to get to their vehicle. He said he posted the videos his fiancée shot with her cellphone to create awareness on the issue.
"It's a violation of our parental rights. It's a violation of our rights as people," he said. "I don't have any regrets. … We have to stand up against bad policy and stand up for our rights. If we don't we won't have any."
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Can't run our units, not feasible, say industrialists
Posted: Mar 31, 2020 07:14 AM (IST)
Aakanksha N Bhardwaj
Jalandhar, March 30
Several industry owners have opposed the move of the government asking them to run their units and retain the workforce.
The industry owners asked as to how they could run their factories amid such a crisis.
An industry owner said they were seeking relief and the government in turn was asking them to work. "We have been asking to give relief on our electricity bills, among other things, but we are being told to run the factories instead. This is not right. How will we work when everything else is shut?" he asked.
"There is a lockdown and curfew has also been imposed. There will be no work now. There are no raw materials and whom will we send our products to? How will we receive our payments?" asked Ravinder Dhir, Veopar Sena president. He said this was not feasible at all.
The industrial owners said they would instead help workers with essential needs. "We are with our working class at this hard time and will always be. But it is not easy for us to work at this point. The government must understand," another industrial unit owner said.
Deputy Commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma had on Sunday said: "The industrialists can operate their units if they retain their workforce in proper safe conditions in the wake of coronavirus."
To address the problem of migrant labourers and prevent their exodus from the state amid the Covid-19 crisis, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh had asked all industrial units and brick kilns in the state to commence operations with such migrants if they have adequate provisions to accommodate them safely within the premises.
"The owners of industrial units and brick kilns can commence production if they have enough space to accommodate the migrant labourers and provide them with food," the Chief Minister had said, while appealing to the owners to ensure that social distancing was maintained during this period.
He had asked them to take all precautions at such industrial facilities for workers, adding that the owners should also make soap and water freely available for use for workers and regularly sanitise the common facilities. Hand wash facilities and sanitisers should be placed prominently at strategic points, the Chief Minister had said.
The directions and discussions came amid reports of lakhs of migrant labourers getting stranded across the nation and the problem assuming ominous proportions with such labourers gathering in large numbers at the borders of many states, according to an official spokesperson.
The CM said this would be beneficial for both — industry/brick kiln owners as well as labourers, who had lost their employment and homes in the wake of Covid-19 lockdown and had been left to fend for themselves.
Deputy Commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma on Sunday had said industries could operate their units by ensuring proper sanitisation condition and practicing social distancing at workplace in the wake of coronavirus outbreak.
The DC said industrialists must contact ALC Baljit Singh at 97803 69350 or their area labour inspectors to get consent to operate.
Don't demand fee from parents, pvt schools told
Providing a major relief to parents in the district from submitting school fee of their wards, Jalandhar Deputy Commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma, on Monday evening directed all private schools not to demand school fees from the parents.
It was brought to the notice of the administration that even during the curfew hours the schools in the district were circulating notices to the parents to submit the fee.
Avoiding the mass gathering advisory, the schools were even asking parents to visit their account offices and deposit the fee either in cash or by cheque. Subsequently, Sharma stated that all private schools, under the PSEB and CBSE, couldn't not ask parents to deposit the fee till the curfew was observed. The school authorities could clear the pending dues only after the curfew was lifted.


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Tiger Woods Slammed for 'Winning Takes Care of Everything' Ad
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Tiger Woods has landed in a little bit of hot water because of a recent ad that he did for Nike. In the ad, Woods is quoted saying: "Winning takes care of everything." Many media outlets feel like those words send the wrong message. It makes one believe that an athlete can get past any situation — no matter how severe — as long as they continue winning. Does he have a point though?
Some outlets think it was just Nike's way of showing their support for Woods and his rise back to the top. After all, the once respectable athlete had been on a losing streak for years after his affairs went public. Now he has found his swag with a new girlfriend and the number one spot in his career. "They're looking at this and saying, 'Time has passed, he's winning again, it's time to turn up the volume on our association,' " Allen Adamson, managing director of branding firm Landor Associates in New York said. "But it's risky when you associate with a celebrity only based on winning or losing. Consumers care about how you play the game: both the actual game and the game of life."
In 2009, the media viciously attacked Woods after it was revealed that he had been having affairs with numerous women. Every day it seemed like a new woman was coming forward to reveal a relationship with Woods. Most people were extremely disappointed in Woods' behavior and felt as though one of our last "pure celebrities" had been corrupted.
How do you feel about the ad?
Malcolm Morrow, a Your Black World Network contributor, is a senior, criminal justice major at The University of Southern Miss
Allen Adamson
Landor Associates
Malcolm Morrow
Demitrus Edmond
March 27, 2013 at 21:41 pm, Reply
It doesn't bother me. What the people in the media want to hold things over people's heads. People mess up. We all do. His wrong doings just have the sun shinning over his while ours don't. Get over it media. Besides, you all habitually lie to us everyday. You are the ones who should have things hanging over your head. If you don't believe or agree with what he said, what effect does that have on your lives. Get a life and leave that man be. If the shoe was on the other foot, most of you would be silent or singing a different tune.
John Matthew Holden
April 3, 2013 at 00:25 am, Reply
I mean really people are going after this young man for absolutely nothing. He is a great golfer and has made an amazing recovery in his life but nobody talks about that they just try to find another racist way to bring him down. Lets get this straight Matt Lauer on the Today Show can get an Asian woman fired, sleep with like 1000 women and it doesn't even make TMZ but Tiger woods is Satan for his indiscretions. What gives? Tiger is an athlete, Lauer is a news personality who is supposed to be looked up to for his credibility? Huh what is credible about lying to your wife? Golf has nothing to do with integrity versus a National news anchor.
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The Salmon Run is one of the great state QSO parties. This year, it was held on the 17-18 September. Six years ago, the Salmon Run was the first state QSO party I ever participated in, and the first mobile contest I ever participated in. I've done every Salmon Run since, and learned a lot since that first contest in 2010.
One thing that has greatly changed over six years is propagation. Conditions were a bit tough this year, from what I could tell, although not nearly as bad as last year, when a solar flare wiped out the bands for much of the contest. The only thing one can do is make the best of whatever the sun dishes out. And have fun trying.
The day before the contest, I published my route and schedule. This is, pretty much, the route I've followed for the past 4 years, although I spent a little time tweaking the route, and some more time unsuccessfully trying to find major improvements. The two-day, 22 county trek would begin an hour southwest of my home in Redmond on the King–Pierce county line and would end a little east of the Grand Cooley Dam on the Okanagon–Ferry county line.
This map shows the Saturday route. It begins on the King (KING)–Pierce (PIE) county line and then goes through Kittitas (KITS), Mason (MAS), Grays Harbor (GRAY), Pacific (PAC), Thurston (THU), Lewis (LEW), Cowlitz (COW), Wahkiakum (WAH) and ends on the Clark (CLAR)–Skamania (SKAM) county line for the last hour or so until the contest suspends at midnight.
Sunday morning begins with a 2.5 hour drive to Eastern Washington before the 9:00 am starting time. The contest resumes at 9:00am on the Yakima (YAK)–Klikitat (KLI) county line. The route continues through the Benton (BEN), Franklin (FRA), Adams (ADA), Lincoln (LIN), Grant (GRAN), and Douglas (DOU) counties, and ends on the Okanagon (OKA)–Ferry (FER) county line for the last 90 minutes.
As in previous years, the primary contesting rig was a Kenwood TS-480SAT at 100W. A Yaesu FT-857D and an LDG tuner served as a second rig for exploring other bands. A second FT-857D monitored either 6m or 2m SSB, and fed a 2m and 6m brick for higher power . Finally, a pair of TYT-9800 quad band rigs monitored 6m FM, and several 2m FM simplex frequencies.
The equipment rack. Note that the heads are remotely mounted.
The black box on the left controls a remote antenna switch. This allows for quick antenna reconfiguration. A K1EL WinKeyer can be seen on top of the LDG tuner.
The operating position has five remote heads (TS-480, 2 FT-857Ds, and 2 TYT 9800 heads) mounted on a piece of sheet metal. On top of the dash, two Android devices, and a GPS are mounted. One Android serves as a 24-hr clock and the other provides real-time information on the current county. A TomTom GO60 GPS (out of the picture on the left) is used to navigate, and is pre-loaded with the day's route.
The antenna farm included three home-built screwdriver antennas, one of the front center of the truck, one on the rear right side and one on the rear left side. A 10m 1/4 wave whip has two purposes: (1) it can be used for 10m in the event there is a band opening or a nearby QSO, and (2) it can be used with the LDG tuner for "investigating" other bands up to 40m on the FT-857D. A 6m whip and two 2m antennas were stuck to the roof with magnets for monitoring those bands.
Three screwdriver antennas minimize the amount of time required for band changes. The antennas have two standard configurations. By day, they are set up for 15m (left rear), 20m (right rear) and 40m (front), and by night, 20m (left rear), 40m (right rear) and 80m (front). For this year, I added something new to the front antenna: a removable horizontal extension wire to create, while stationary, a near vertical incidence skywave (NVIS) modification for 80m or 40m.
The antennas are optimized for the night-time configuration. The front (40M/80M) screwdriver has a large capacitance hat. Additionally, the whip is cut so that the antenna is just under the legal height (14′ in Washington state) when tuned for the CW portion of 80M. The 20M/40M screwdriver has a smaller capacitance hat and, again, the whip is cut so that the length is barely street legal in the CW portion of 40M. The 15M/20M whip is a bit shorter and has no capacitance hat so that it can tune to 15M phone portion of the band.
I spent much of Friday installing equipment and making other preparations for the contest. Everything was installed, tested, and antennas were calibrated by Friday night. The journey began at 7:30am for the 75 minute trek to the first stop on the King–Pierce (KING/PIE) county line. After arriving, I spent the few minutes remaining before the contest to explore the bands. This revealed that 20M was open to Europe for the Scandinavian contest, 40M had some local activity, and 15M was dead.
I began on 20M CW, and first worked OG30OJ. Domestic signals were not great on 20M, but I managed 17 CW QSOs in the first 25 minutes before turning to 40M CW for about 15 minutes and half a dozen QSOs. The log then shows me moving between bouts of 20M and 40M CW with a brief foray to 20M SSB. I also called CQ on 2M SSB and worked one station. That was it for 2m for the rest of the contest.
In all, I made 38 pairs of QSOs at the opening county line in a little under 2 hours. Several years ago, from the same spot, I made at least double the QSO count. My assessment was that the bands were in mediocre shape. Making QSOs took some effort. Long "runs" of QSOs were not likely to happen often. That is how it would be for most of the contest. Of course, some of the "bad conditions" could reflect reduced participation or changes to my station that made things worse, but at least the latter seems unlikely as I've used the same radios and antennas in recent year, but now have more efficient antennas from the longer whips.
It was a 30 minute trip through PIE and Kitsap (KIT) to my next stop. Part of the trip was through heavy traffic, so I didn't work on making QSOs. Still, I managed to work SM5COP, LA8OM, LY3T, and OG3G while in-motion! A spell on 40M yielded a handful of QSOs.
The next stop was on the Mason (MAS)–Kitsap county line on a little dirt road I used for the first time last year. This is an excellent, secluded location. The 40 minutes spent there did not feel very productive with only 21 pairs of QSOs.
The contest next took me to the Grays Harbor (GRAY)–Pacific (PAC) county line along a gravel road west of Oakville, WA, about 1/3 of the distance to Raymond, WA. Here, I first set up and tried the NVIS antenna for 40M. It seemed to work well. Overall, however, the QSO rate happened at the same rate, about a QSO every 2 minutes (but worth 2 QSOs each for being on a county line).
Sitting on the Grays Harbor–Pacific county line.
A 30 minute dash to the Thurston (THU) and Lewis (LEW) county line produced about 30 in-motion QSOs primarily on 20M CW. Once I was stopped on the THU-LEW line, the QSO rate slowed down (uggh!). Eighty minutes later, I had about 43 more QSOs. Last year, from this same location, at the same time, I had twice the QSOs.
Twenty meters fizzled out by the time I left Lewis county and hit Cowlitz (COW) county.
The rest of the evening was all 40m and 80m. When I got to the Columbia river, I took a road up-hill to higher elevations in Wahkiakum (WAH) county. Here I set up the NVIS attachment to the front antenna and got busy, primarily on 75M SSB and 80M CW. Ninety minutes in WAH only produced 41 QSO, but I worked many new Washington counties.
At 0400Z, I headed back through COW and into Clark (CLAR) county for a 90 minute journey to my last stop on the Clark–Skamania (SKAM) county line. Sadly, the QSO rate tapered off to almost nothing. My last QSO was at 0638Z, and I continued calling CQ until 0700Z (midnight local time). At midnight, I headed east, a little way past N. Bonneville to a motel for the night, and hit the sack at about 1:00am (local).
The totals for day one of the Salmon Run were 326 CW QSOs and 82 SSB QSOs, for a total of 408 QSOs. (Last year the day-one total was 448.) Aside from one 2m QSO, all the action was on 20M, 40M and, after 0230Z, 80M.
Five hours later, I was getting ready for day two of the Salmon Run. I hit the road by 6:30am (local) for the 2.5 hour drive to the Yakima (YAK)–Klikitat (KLI) county line. I spent about 55 minutes working mostly 20M CW, with a few phone QSOs sprinkled in. I did manage three 15M QSOs with east coast stations, and a 40M CW QSO to MT.
After leaving YAK–KLI, I headed toward Benton (BEN) county. K2SSS called me on 20M SSB with the KLI–BEN county line sign in sight, so I pulled over for a few minutes to work several stations. From Benton, I drove into Franklin (FRA) county and then to the FRA–Adams (ADA) line for a 15 minute stop. The QSO rate picked up a bit here giving me 27 non-duplicate QSOs for the stop.
The 30 minute drive from Adams to Lincoln (LIN) county produced one 15M CW QSO, a few 20M SSB QSOs, and 14 40M QSOs. The drive through Lincoln county is over 1.5 hours long but only yielded about one QSO for every three minutes, mostly on 20M CW, but one on 15M CW and a couple on 40M CW.
After the contest, a 4.5 hour drive home was before me. But before leaving, I took the screwdriver antennas down to save them the wear and tear of the highway. For the first 30 minutes, I simply enjoyed the silence. Eventually, I turned up the radio and listened to classic rock and the blues. It was a pleasant trip home.
After eliminating duplicates, 719 QSOs were made–a little over 100 more than last year. 590 of these were CW and 129 were phone. Like last year, I only worked W7DX on CW, for 500 bonus points.
Multipliers included 38 states, 28 Washington counties, four Canadian provinces (AB, BC, MAR, ON), and six DX entities (JA, LY, OH, OM, SM, UA) for a total of 76 multipliers. Last year, I worked far fewer multipliers. Therefore, I spent a lot more time on 40M and 75/80M, particularly SSB, trying to pick up more multipliers. The strategy worked.
The final preliminary score, including the 500 bonus points, was 154,628. This was way up from last year's 119,636, but still down from my 2014 score of 200,927.
This was a fun Salmon Run for me. Almost everything went quite smoothly; I made lots of QSOs, nothing broke and I didn't get lost. I'm looking forward to the next one.