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COLUMBIA — Republican and Democratic leaders in the Legislature agree that state government failed to protect the 3.8 million South Carolinians whose Social Security numbers and tax information were compromised in a Department of Revenue security breach last fall.
What they dont agree on is how to fix the problem in hopes of preventing further loss.
During a legislative workshop in Columbia Thursday, House Democrats and Republicans unveiled competing legislative agendas that along with addressing ways to pay for health care, education and highways aim to determine how the state will recover from the security breach.
In hindsight, securing the Department of Revenue with layers of protection should have been a no-brainer, said state Sen. Kevin Bryant, R-Anderson, chairman of a Senate panel investigating the breach.
House Minority Leader Harry Ott, D-Calhoun, said lawmakers requests for information about the breach have gone nowhere.
I dont believe you can fix a problem until you know how the current problem happened, he said. South Carolina is still exposed until the state develops a protocol to deal with bad emails which officials say gave hackers access to private information that wasnt encrypted.
The state is paying $12 million to the Experian credit reporting agency to provide free daily credit monitoring to taxpayers for a year. If lawmakers want to extend that service for another year, the state will have to pay $10 million.
But paying Experian wastes money, since residents already have free access to credit protection services, said state Rep. Mandy Powers Norrell, D-Lancaster.
Taxpayers whose identities have been stolen can count on up to $1 million from Experian to help buffer the impact.
But that insurance coverage was already available under the federal Electronic Funds Transfer Act of 1978, giving states protection from unauthorized bank and credit transactions, Powers Norrell said.
Were already protected, she said.
Powers Norrell also blasted the states rejection of the 2003 Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act, which gave states the option of providing free access to credit scores to residents more than once a year.
We should see our credit reports once a month or once a quarter, at least, she said. Its our information.
Hiring Experian was an immediate response to news of the breach, said House Majority Leader Bruce Bannister, R-Greenville. Other options, he said, will be explored in the coming months.
If taxpayers already knew how to manage fraud, they wouldnt need Experian, he said, but a vast majority of South Carolinians have never had their identities stolen.
Because of the breach, Ott said, its improbable Gov. Nikki Haleys hopes for the creation of a Department of Administration to replace the State Budget and Control Board will ever reach fruition.
Senate Republican Leader Harvey Peeler of Gaffney, whose district includes much of western York County, disagreed, arguing that the governor should be responsible for executive functions of government, including having oversight into state agencies and prevent unnecessary spending.
If the government requires you to give us your information, its the governments responsibility to protect it, he said.
Peeler said improving highways will be high on his list of priorities for the 2013 legislative session, which begins next week.
Taking jabs at a recent decision by the state Transportation Infrastructure Bank Board to pay for expanding the Mark Clark Expressway in Charleston and the completion of Interstate 73, scheduled to connect Myrtle Beach with Detroit, Mich., Peeler said taxes collected in the states 46 counties pay for road improvements in only a few cities.
More money should be spent in counties with roads in poor shape, including I-85 in the Upstate.
One road that has seen improvements is S.C. 5 leading from York County to the Cherokee County line, Peeler said. Years ago, he fielded concerns from the parents of Winthrop University students who dreaded their children driving on S.C. 5, he said.
The countys Pennies for Progress one-cent sales tax initiative has made the difference, he said, and is a model for the rest of the state.
Ethics and education
Legislators will consider forming an ethics task force to investigate complaints of ethics violations, said state Sen. Wes Hayes, R-Rock Hill, chairman of the Senates ethics reform panel.
Such a public integrity unit would include investigators from the State Law Enforcement Division, the Department of Revenue and the Attorney Generals office. Lawmakers on Thursday promised that details of investigations after which probable cause is found would be made public.
Punishment for violators, Hayes said, still would rest with the Senate and the House.
Hayes said he will continue to lobby for changes to education, including making the now-elected state Superintendent of Education an appointed position in the governors cabinet and meeting the demand of rapidly growing school districts by spending more state dollars to hire teachers and other staff.
The target of an unidentified political groups mailers in October, Hayes also wants lawmakers to consider changes to the law that allows such anonymous attacks.
Many of us have been victims of the shadows, he said.
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The wait is over, the Journey is nearly complete. What has been a battle of EPIC proportions will come to a conclusion at UFC 137!!!
Much credit has to be given to Dana White, Joe Silva and the UFC Brass (or GOLD as I like to call them) have brought us the conclusion to the UFC Heavyweight Grand Prix in RECORD time!!!!
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January 22, 2011: UFN 23 UFC Fight for the Troops II saw Matt Mitrione and Pat Barry compete and win their quarterfinal bouts in two outstanding dogfights vs Tim Hague and Joey "The Mexicutioner" Beltran, respectively. As a war of words broke out there was much hope that the two would meet in the Finals of the tournament. Above all else, they looked fierce, scary and ready.
March 26, 2011: UFN 24 UFC Nog vs Davis rounded out the quarterfinals with two more epic fights when Christian Morecraft simply OBLITERATED Sean McCorkle and Jon Madsen was pwned by Mike Russow.
With all quarterfinals in order, we saw 3 of the 4 fights get early stoppages, the FIREPOWER in these contenders was unquestionable. Though Pat Barry went to a decision vs Mexicutioner, the powerful K-1 Fighter's heart was unquestionable.
Of course, the nature of the Grand Prix was to expect the unexpected. Naturally, Dana White and Joe Silva threw the proverbial wrench in the machine by placing the dangerous Chieck Kongo in the mix by facing Pat Barry. It was a great move to showcase the deep striking talent of the UFC HWs.
The competition was FIERCE, the Momentum was gaining!!!
June 26, 2011: UFC LIVE: Kongo vs Barry The fans were amazed at the reception of the Grand Prix, while others failed to judiciously move their tournaments forward, the UFC DELIVERED placing the UFC HW GP as the MAIN EVENT of UFC on VS 4.
What was an amazing showing by Meathead was trumped by the one of the greatest come from behind victory in MMA. Kongo, battling the mighty Barry, was on the verge of defeat, yet when all hope was failing, he fell back to his K-1 Roots, and delivered his mighty uppercut to instantly knock out the master of leg kicks. Alas, the bitter rivalry brewing between Barry and Mitrione would not come to fruition...Expect the Unexpected indeed!!!
The fans immediately lit up twitter, while Matt Mitrione told Ariel Helwani that he was honored to gain entry into the finals
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For the family of Saba Girmai, the process toward justice can now begin.
The Mountain View Police Department and Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office announced Monday that they had arrested and charged Daniel Garcia, 53, with the murder of Girmai 28 years ago.
"Although there is still more investigative work to be done, the successful outcome of this decades-long investigation was only possible through the hard work and dedication of many investigators and law enforcement agencies. Hopefully this will help bring some closure to Ms. Girmai's family," Mountain View Police Department Chief Scott S.G. Vermeer said. "We never forget about unsolved murder cases and continuously seek out new technology and new leads to help us solve them."
The 21-year-old Girmai's strangled body had been tossed into a supermarket dumpster in the rear of the Safeway at the Bailey Park Plaza at 570 N. Shoreline Blvd and found by a passerby on Jan. 18, 1985, who reported it to the police.
Over the years, the cold case murder investigation produced no leads.
According to the MVPD however, on Jan. 12, 2010 the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Crime Laboratory developed a DNA profile from the victim's fingernails. The profile matched a convicted offender, Garcia, who had never previously been linked to the death of Girmai.
With this new information, in 2011 the MVPD and the newly-created D.A.'s Cold Case Unit began to reinvestigate the case.
After being extensively interviewed by a detective and investigator, Garcia was booked for murder on Friday, Jan. 4, Garcia was held without bail. He was arraigned Monday, Jan. 7 in Palo Alto.
"No matter how long ago someone was murdered, we don't forget about them," said Deputy District Attorney Ted Kajani, head of the Cold Case Unit.
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You may recall that I recently called for the resignation of New York State Education Commissioner Dr. John King. The initiatives he has undertaken in his brief tenure as Commissioner of the State Education Department, including his roll-out of the Common Core curriculum, testing, teacher evaluations, and gathering of student data, are shaping up to be among the most controversial issues I've ever dealt with as a public servant. It's easy to see why. These changes have created confusion among parents, anxiety for our children, and put life-long educators at odds with the department of education in Albany. This was only exacerbated when he canceled town hall meetings on the issue.
So on Wednesday, Nov. 13, I moderated a forum, coordinated with the 15 school districts from our Seventh Senate District, at Mineola High School. Dr. King attended and fielded questions from parents, educators, school board members and even students on the Common Core standards and rollout, teacher evaluations, testing, and student privacy. We had more than 800 in the audience and over 2,000 watching on a live feed via the Internet.
Reporting the event's conclusions is a challenge best summed up by a letter I received from an attendee who said it was like blind men trying to explain an elephant by describing just one body part at a time. The issues we're facing in education in New York are multidimensional and require a holistic approach to appreciate and address them.
It's not just the rollout of the Common Core and its impact on students and teachers.
It's not just the teacher evaluation system that has created conflict and anxiety without any apparent purpose or meaningful result.
It's not just the overreliance on testing and its impact on a child's educational experience and the teacher's role as educator.
It's not just the concern of parents for the protection of their child's privacy.
It's all of these things individually and collectively and much more. It speaks volumes to the reality that we are moving too quickly with no apparent purpose other than the claim that it will all be better when we get "there", wherever "there" is.
The writer went on to conclude "that no care was invested in a process" that should have been conducted with "years of close observation and input from actual teachers and administrators in the classroom." I agree.
Most importantly, we are left asking the most basic of questions: How does any of this improve the educational experience of our children?
In theory, as the Commissioner explained, it may.
In reality, as we heard from parents, students, teachers, and educators, it has not and will more than likely have just the opposite effect. It seems wiser then to re-evaluate these initiatives as a whole and take the time to phase in only the parts that work.
While we all want higher and more rigorous standards for our children, it must be rolled out gradually, allowing teachers to properly prepare and give students the advantage of growing with the new curriculum. Judging by the
temperature I took in that auditorium, parents and educators are more than up to the task should Dr. King care to work with them and I hope he will.
While I feel the evening was productive in identifying these issues, I know full well that political pressure will ultimately be necessary to institute any changes. The powers that be seem entrenched in their position, however wrongheaded they may be.
Which brings me to the title of this column: "Where Is the Students' Lobbyist?"
You may remember that a few years ago during his "State of the State," Governor Andrew Cuomo remarked how students were the only group in schools that didn't have a lobbyist and valiantly volunteered to take on that responsibility. He recognized then that our children had to be protected from special interests more intent on exploiting education for gain, than furthering learning and life opportunities for students. He pledged to do so.
But he's been notably silent.
Let's hope for our children's sake that he has not abandoned his post as the students' lobbyist and that he's not counting on blind men to tell him what the elephant looks like.
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Howard Kroplick was just settling in to his new position as North Hempstead's town historian in April of 2012 when a phone call from a resident who found an old headstone led him into a comprehensive study of all 28 cemeteries within
the town's boundaries.
Kroplick, an East Hills resident for 29 years, serves in the unpaid role as an advisor to the North Hempstead board, out of his longtime love of history. His exhaustive study of the area's cemeteries has helped him complete a history of
North Hempstead that will be published in January, which will coincide with the 400-year anniversary of the discovery of Long Island, by Dutch explorer Adriaen Block. It was Block, according to Kroplick, who first identified Long Island as an actual island, not a peninsula as many believed back then. The 128-page book from Arcadia Publishing is the first ever written about North Hempstead.
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For the time being, much of the Roslyn area is without representation on the Town of North Hempstead council. Recently, Thomas K. Dwyer, who has represented Roslyn on that body since 2002, announced that he would step down from the board while he is in negotiations with a Manhattan-based consulting firm.
Dwyer, who is the chief operating officer of Syosset-based American Land Services, would not identify the firm he is talking to, but he said that the new job would represent a conflict of interest with his work on the town board.
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Albertson resident and Kellenberg sophomore Gabby Schreib qualified for the Millrose Games in New York City. Schreib qualified as a member of the Sprint Medley Relay along with Danielle Correia, Bridget McNierney, and Jazmine Fray.
The Kellenberg relay's close second place finish in January's Millrose Trials has moved them closer to defending the title they won in the same relay at last year's Millrose Games. Schreib and her teammates time is currently second in the United States for girls track and field performances.
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Registration for Farmingdale's Over the Hill Gang Softball League will take place Feb. 1, Feb. 8 and Feb. 15, from 10 a.m. - Noon at the Allen Park meeting room on Motor Ave. in Farmingdale. The league is open to men 40 and over who live in Farmingdale or the Town of Oyster Bay area. Players can also apply online at www.othgny.com, however must attend one registration session to show proof of age and residency.
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by Unwipable (not verified) on 9. October 2011 - 21:06 (81163)
I maybe wrong but DBAN does not delete or wipe the Host Protected Area (HPA) on hard drives or sectors hidden by Device Configuration Overlay (DCO).
I have used DBAN,WipeDrv,Active Kill Disk,an Ubuntu live CD and many other bootable wiping utilities to wipe an infected hard drive with no luck!
Even after a 26 hour continuous wipe session using Ubuntu live the rootkit was back!
There are some products which claim the ability to wipe both the DCO and the HPA but they require to be installed first in order to create an iso to boot from.An infected system would then create an infected boot cd!
HDDErase also claims to wipe the entire hdd but it is a confusing mess with fast moving text and poor user guide.
Do you know of any live software that actually wipes an entire hard drive effectively?
So now I have migrated to Linux and after almost six moths of using Kubuntu I have come to the conclusion that hunting down hidden rootkits and destructive Trojans is still easier and less aggravating than using an operating system created by some psycho!!
I'll take TDL4 over Sudo any day!!
I've used DBAN and Eraser to wipe drives. I've reinstalled operating systems after wiping them.
I make sure the drive is formatted first, though most operating systems will give you the option of formatting the drive during installation.
They were all IDE or SATA drives.
I found DBAN and Eraser to be pretty easy to use - DBAN can take a very long time even on small IDE drives.
I would have no problem using SDelete since it's a Sysinternals product and I'm fond of their programs - they do tend toward the geekier side of things and I wouldn't recommend them to anyone fairly new to computers.
I'm not familiar with forensic data recovery so I can't measure how well they worked or how hard it is to retrieve data after their use.
Most of the programs in the article have been around quite a while and have a reputation for being good programs.
Personally I would go with one whose interface is easier to navigate.
by Donner (not verified) on 4. December 2010 - 5:35 (62009)
Is it still possible to reinstall a fresh OS after using SD Delete or DBAN? I wish to wipe my hard drive on my 4 year old Desktop. Later the new owner, my cousin, may wish to reinstall XP or use Windows 7 or even Linux. Also in wiping a desktop hard drive of this age is there one product that is most effective? Thank You
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Not to disparage the serious points that you make in this article, to me, the credentialling effort is doomed. All that is needed is a "Universal Life" Press for which anyone would be allowed to write and obtain credentials--or maybe just obtain credentials.
If a degree is required, then we could invent the Universal Life College. There are plenty of precedents for diploma mills, and who's to say that the journalism department at Universal Life College is not accredited? And, who does the accrediting?
Think of the questions that any regulatory credentialling apparatus would have to address:
1. Does electronic publishing, such as Slate, count as a medium to qualify journalists?2. In determining types of publications eligible to establish credibility, how does one distinguish between a well-put-together web site and one that looks just like a blogspot that anyone can contribute to?3. Are high-school or college students in journalism departments journalists even though they have not received their degrees? If I take a one-hour course at my local community college, would that qualify me if college students are qualified in that manner?4. If I'm required to show an income from my journalism profession, how much constitutes an income? If I volunteer to write in an unpaid capacity for a legitimate journal, however defined, am I excluded from getting a journalism credential?5. If I contribute an article unpaid to, say, the Botswana Gay Times or the Soweto, South Africa, Register, does that qualify me as a journalist? Do I have to document the printing of such an article?6. Does this comment I'm writing count toward making me a jouralist?7. If it were to appear as an op-ed piece, would it count?
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Probably my favourite series mathSOC has ever had, surpassing even Watman and Duck, was The Zone. This ran for about three terms, approximately between Trevor Green's editorship and my own, and nobody really knew who the author was -- submissions just kind of appeared in the BLACK BOX. This was essentially an airing of MathSoc's dirty laundry: the author, who must have been on Council or even the Executive, gave a regular report on what the Society was up to, especially the more unusual decisions it was taking. (By "unusual", I mean "bad".) I thought it was great that mathSOC was willing to expose its parent organization in such a manner, and particularly good for the democratic process: the more accountable a political body is, the better. Besides, Council gets far too serious about itself sometimes.
Of course, sometimes it does have serious things to deal with, like a president who used Society money to promote a ski trip to Vermont, and even to subsidize some of the participants, so he could get a free trip. And who, even after being put through the wringer for that, went on to spend $1000 on the end of term party. That particular story came to a satisfactory conclusion, but it still has anecdotal value so long as the individual remains unnamed. It's a good cautionary tale: no one person should ever have control over the Society's finances.
Rumours about the tunnels under UW never seem to cease, and the most pervasive one is that they are somehow secret. They aren't! They're just utility tunnels. The reason they're not on any maps is because they're underground and students don't have access to them (or aren't supposed to anyway, but that's a different story) so why should they be on a map?
In fact, there is a map of the tunnel system -- in the Campus Architect's office, along with diagrams and blueprints for everything else in the university. I went there one day with my friend Mike (who is now a grad student, hi Mike!); we asked for a copy of said map and the Architect gave it to us. If you want a copy, let me know; it makes a nice poster.
mathSOC made a jigsaw puzzle out of it and published a few of the pieces under Michael Melvin's editorship. They stopped after a while, though; I don't know why. Of course, there are always rumours.
The Inner Circle of mathSOC (which doesn't exist) requires your assistance. For reasons which they would rather keep to themselves, they need to know who among a group of five notorious troublemakers will be the first to graduate (i.e. finish courses), and who will be the last. Until it has that information, it will be unable to continue its current nefarious scheme, so this is a matter of some urgency. Hence this announcement. A reward is offered: mathSOC (which doesn't exist) has been able to pay off a key member of the Powers that Be, and as a result, one randomly chosen person who submits a correct answer will escape retribution.
So, given the following information, who in the group will be first to graduate and who will be last?
All the students started in Fall terms, none before 1994. Each is (and has always been) in regular stream, co-op, "crazy stream" -- which is like regular stream, but without any terms off---or the unpredictable part time. The co-op student is in a 4-year program, of course; the others are in either 3-year (general) or 4-year (honours) programs. All are taking courses this term.
"Andea", the part-time student, is in the last of eleven terms in which he has taken courses.
The Pure Math student is tickled pink by the fact that many of her co-op friends from Frosh Week have yet to start second year, while she is already half done her degree.
The Computer Science student (who is not the one in honours crazy stream), the C&O student (who is the one in co-op), and the Applied Math student (who is not the one in honours regular), play darts together. The player with brown hair usually wins.
Two people in the group started before "Dasa"; the others started after her but in different years.
"Bo", who is in Actuarial Science, makes a point of being androgynous. The rest of the group is evenly split between females and males.
"Coryn"'s head is shaved, and "Eve" wears her brown hair long.
P.S. It should be noted that there is no such organization as mathSOC, despite anything you might hear to the contrary.
P.P.S Get those submissions in!
Kivi Shapiro was born at a very young age. Later in life, he went on to study C&O at U(W), although his time spent with MathSoc, MATHNEWS, the CSC, FASS, etc. rather outweighed the time he spent studying. Nonetheless, he graduated and went on to pursue a Master's of Library and Information Science at Western (which he successfully captured), as well as a Ph.D. (which continues to elude him, but the chase is still on.) He is currently looking for Canadian work in information management, so if you know anyone... Oh, and he is honoured to share a birthday with the C&D's manager emeritus, Brenda Wilson.
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What is the best way to curb evening snacking?
Lately I have been staying up later and I find myself craving carbs after dinner. Does anyone else have this problem? What do you do to solve it?KateHough by:
by: Kell
I drink water as well...but if it gets really bad it's usually because I'm sitting down, watching tv...so I try to do something crafty or just get up and walk around...I've also put an exercise bike in front of the tv...and will hop on if the cravings get really bad. By the time I'm done cycling for 10 minutes, the craving is gone.
That's interesting. I will have to try that sometime.
I like your answer! I'll have to use that technique.
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I drink a tall glass of water then eat an apple or a bag of mini carrots. Doesn't really satisfy me, but it takes the edge off and makes it a lot easier to just go to bed.
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I also drink water. I read that sometimes we snack because we think we're hungry but really we are just dehydrated and it really is true. Good luck :]
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Good lord yes! When I have a craving for anything after dinner I either have a teaspoon of peanut butter or a forkful of sauerkraut to curb the craving. Typically, avoiding giving in to cravings is the best way to stay on track, but if it gets bad you should give in, just don't overindulge. I did recently see this table and think it might be useful: http://media-cdn.pinterest.co...
Sauerkraut? What's that about? That seems excessively random to me.
I read somewhere that fermented foods are supposed to be good for digestion. I don't know how true it is, but I'm testing it out.
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Are you eating enough calories during the day? Sometimes I find that if I've only salads and fruit all day I am crazy hungry at night. I figure my body is wanting to make up for the deficiency.
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They do say that you can have 3 bites of anything you crave. So if you are craving carbs you dont have to keep yourself from them but have some will power and only take 3. Then keep yourself busy like Kell said and get on that exercise bike.
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City officials are ready to welcome electronic bingo to Hopkins following a meeting Tuesday night with local charitable gambling managers and the businesses that host their organizations.
The managers said they're fine with allowing electronic bingo in Hopkins as long as it doesn't pave the way to full-scale bingo halls that would hurt organizations already running bingo games.
"Times change. You have to go back and look at why times changed and where we're at," Mayor Gene Maxwell said.
Legislators last year allowed charities to use electronic gaming devices under the theory that they'd lead to an increase in charitable gambling—resulting in more money for both the charities and the state, which already gets a cut of charitable gaming. The state is counting on the devices, which will eventually have both bingo and electronic pulltabs, to help pay for about one-third of the new Vikings stadium— although that's not happening as expected.
Charitable organizations hope the bigger pots increase the number of customers, and they fear that not having electronic bingo will cause them to lose business to places that do have it.
But in Hopkins, existing legislative policies only allow organizations to host bingo games in locations they own and operate. That prevents organizations, including those that already conduct pulltab games in local bars, from using electronic gaming devices that also include bingo.
The City Council created the policy years ago in order to close off Hopkins to the standalone bingo halls that were sprouting across the metro at the time. Policies also require organizations to occupy a site for five years before they can receive a premises permit and explicitly prohibits sites whose primary purpose is gambling.
But state law caps electronic bingo machines at between six and 12 machines, depending on the size of the establishment. (Up to 50 devices are allowed in places where bingo is the primary business.)
"It seems this is dramatically different from traditional bingo," Assistant City Manager Jim Genellie said.
Susie Normandin, gambling manager for the Hopkins Raspberry Festival, agreed: "It's six machines or 12 machines versus sometimes the VFW has 200 people down there."
Hopkins plans to carve out a narrow exception for electronic bingo instead of removing bingo restrictions altogether. That would allow the new devices without opening the doors to standalone bingo halls.
Because electronic bingo has been slow to roll out, Hopkins is taking a deliberate approach to changing its legislative policy. It will send out proposed wording to charitable organizations in February and likely vote on the measure at the City Council's March 5 meeting.
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According to reports on Groklaw, Gulf Capital Partners LLC, a group formed by Stephen Norris of Stephen Norris & Co. Capital Partners, a private-equity firm, has offered to buy SCO, just as the company faced the end of the bankruptcy road. If the deal is real and goes through, SCO's nearly dead Unix business will continue, and, oh the pain of it all, so will its zombie-like lawsuits against IBM, Novell, and other Linux companies.
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This isn't the first time that Norris has tried to ride in to save SCO's bacon. Last February, Norris came up with a deal that would give SCO $5 million, and a credit line of up to $95 million, on the understanding that the money would be spent trying to kick IBM and Novell's rump in court. Never mind that SCO has never come close to proving any of its claims about Unix IP (intellectual property) in Linux in court. Norris, or more properly his backers who had ties to Microsoft, wanted to fund SCO's anti-Linux lawsuits.
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BOISE — Shane Williams-Rhodes signed up for his first football team when he was 8 years old.
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"So I went to another team in that same conference and ended up playing them and doing really good," Williams-Rhodes said, "so the next year they allowed me on the team."
Williams-Rhodes has been stunning doubters, juking defenders and scoring touchdowns ever since.
At 5-foot-6 and 157 pounds, the Boise State sophomore wide receiver and kick returner is among the smallest players in college football. Only 12 position players in the Football Bowl Subdivision are shorter.
Williams-Rhodes leads the Broncos with 55 catches, ranks second with 863 all-purpose yards and is tied for second with five TDs.
He has been particularly potent in the past four games as the starting slot receiver in place of Kirby Moore, who is week-to-week with a foot injury. Williams-Rhodes has 37 receptions in that span.
"I'm glad I got the opportunity to start a couple times," he said, "and I'm glad I took advantage of it. Hopefully I just keep getting chances and I keep producing."
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That's why the Broncos throw him so many passes at or behind the line of scrimmage, where he has made 34 catches this season. Coaches count on him to make at least one tackler miss.
Last week at BYU, Williams-Rhodes caught a trick-play pass from wide receiver Matt Miller near the right sideline at the 30-yard line. He cut left to dodge a defender and put his hand on the ground to stay upright, darted forward to elude a second defender, slipped left to avoid a third, ducked back to the right to break the arm tackle of a fourth and finally was tackled at the 21.
That's four Cougars who failed to make significant contact in 9 yards - and Williams-Rhodes never ventured more than a few yards from the sideline.
"That little guy is deceptive," BYU linebacker Kyle Van Noy said. "People would think it's easy to stop a guy like that, but I give him credit, he's a good player. He has guys wanting to put some good hits on him, but he gets away or he gets right back up."
There once was a whole field of T-ball players in Texas saying the same thing. Williams-Rhodes was born in Austin, where his mom was a student at Texas. His biological father, Bobby Rhodes, is a former Longhorns linebacker.
His mom moved to Houston shortly after he was born. He still has a relationship with his biological dad, who lives in Dallas, but was raised by his mother and stepfather.
His stepfather is so important in his life that the former Shane Rhodes legally changed his name to Shane Williams-Rhodes as a high school senior.
"I've always wanted to change my name to my dad's name," said Williams-Rhodes, who refers to his stepfather as his dad, " but it was a lot of money. I decided to do it for my dad for Christmas."
Williams-Rhodes' first foray into sports was T-ball at age 5. It quickly became apparent that he'd fit better on a football field.
"When it was time to run the bases, I would hit it and just wouldn't stop," he said. "When they'd try to tag me, I'd just juke 'em out and keep going."
His dad started a summer track team when he was 8 to help him build speed and quickness. Williams-Rhodes contributed to two undefeated seasons with that youth football team that rejected him the first time. "Even with me being small, I was always faster than everyone else," he said, "so I felt like I had the upper hand."
That confidence stayed with him at Klein Collins High in Spring, Texas, where he played a specialty role as a sophomore like he did with Boise State last year.
He broke out as a junior - racking up 1,517 yards and 20 touchdowns from scrimmage as a runner and receiver to earn district offensive MVP honors. He also gained attention for his "did you see that?" kick returns.
Former Boise State special teams coach Jeff Choate, who recruited the Houston area, told Williams-Rhodes he would offer him a scholarship as a punt returner if his colleagues weren't interested in him as a wide receiver.
"The film sold itself," said Choate, who now is the special teams coach at Florida. "I think any reservations that there were about his size were quickly dispelled because of who he was. You're like, 'We have to have this guy on our team.' I'd take him here in a heartbeat. He's great in the locker room. He has an infectious personality. I just like hearing from him because he's that type of kid."
Choate's concern: that the Broncos' other coaches would think he was crazy. Robert Prince just arrived as the wide receivers coach with an NFL pedigree.
Choate came up with a plan. He would list Williams-Rhodes as 5-5 - to undersell him - and lead with clips of Williams-Rhodes dominating prep defenders as a blocker.
The worrying was wasted. Undersized players are a tradition at Boise State.
"(Choate) was like, 'Every coach says I really wish we could take this guy, I wish they'd let us take this guy,' " Petersen sad. "I'm like, 'Yeah, typical, we'll take him. You don't have to convince me.'
"I knew he'd do something, and I knew it would be a bigger role than we'd even count on from him."
Said Prince: "First of all, his blocking was very impressive for as small as he is. He's a very strong, very powerful man. He's very dynamic and that's what we needed - we needed playmakers."
Williams-Rhodes chose Boise State over Kansas State. Those were the two biggest football programs to offer him scholarships in early recruiting - and Boise State had the best track record of success. He ignored later advances from schools like Baylor, Texas A&M and Oklahoma State, he said.
"I figured the reason (Boise State and Kansas State) offered me early was they needed me," he said.
That proved true in 2012, when he played as a true freshman. Williams-Rhodes mostly served as a screen receiver and fly-sweep runner, contributing 239 yards from scrimmage and three TDs. He also became the primary kickoff returner and delivered a 47-yarder that set up the game-winning field goal in the MAACO Bowl Las Vegas.
Senior wide receiver Aaron Burks, who is 6-foot-3, said his initial reaction to Williams-Rhodes was, "Are you kidding me?"
But it only took one scrimmage in fall camp to wipe out any doubts.
"The kid can turn any direction at any time running full speed," Burks said. "It seems sometimes like he doesn't have an ACL. He's just kind of crafty."
Williams-Rhodes' role has expanded greatly this year, with more catches down the field and the starting punt-return job (19.2-yard average). He prefers traditional receiver routes to the screens at the line of scrimmage - and likely will do more of that in the future. The Broncos considered using him as a wildcat quarterback during recruiting, Choate said. And they still could use him as a kickoff returner, a job Petersen took away to lighten his workload.
So the guy who once was considered too small to do anything on a football field now is considered so versatile that coaches worry about using him too much.
"He's a get-it-to guy," Colorado State coach Jim McElwain said. "I wish I had a get-it-to."
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It Turns Out Women Don't Like Being Randomly Groped by Cops
A front-page story in today's New York Times highlights the special humiliation inflicted on women who are detained and patted down by police under the NYPD's stop-and-frisk program. Male officers grope them, concentrating on "the waistband, armpit, collar and groin areas," and go through their purses, pulling out personal items such as tampons, birth control pills, and lacy underwear. "Yes, it's intrusive," Inspector Kim Y. Royster tells the Times, "but wherever a weapon can be concealed is where the officer is going to search." Yet these searches almost never yield weapons.
The stops supposedly are justified by a "reasonable suspicion" of criminal activity, and the searches ostensibly are aiimed at protecting officers from hidden weapons they "reasonably" suspect may be present. Yet 46,784 stops of women last year yielded 3,993 arrests, suggesting that officers were wrong in suspecting criminal activity more than nine times out of 10. The hit rate for weapons was a lot worse: The Times reports that guns were found in 59 out of about 16,000 searches, or 0.37 percent of the time. (The numbers for men are similar.) How's that for reasonable?
A 22-year-old woman, Crystal Pope, tells the Times she and two female friends were frisked last year in Harlem Heights by two male officers who said they were on the trail of a rapist:
"They tapped around the waistline of my jeans," Ms. Pope said. "They tapped the back pockets of my jeans, around my buttock. It was kind of disrespectful and degrading. It was uncalled-for. It made no sense. How are you going to stop three females when you are supposedly looking for a male rapist?"
Another woman, 21-year-old Shari Archibald, says she was standing on the stoop of her building in Morris Heights one evening, retrieving her keys from her purse, when two male officers approached her, patted her down, and dug around in her purse:
The encounter was made worse by the number of people out on the street that night. "There were a lot of guys from the neighborhood outside," she said, "and here is this officer squeezing one of my sanitary pads in front of everyone."
One officer, she recalled, lifted up her long tank top and lightly brushed his hand over the elastic waist of her spandex leggings. They instructed her to pinch the shirt fabric between her breasts and yank at her bra.
"They asked me to snap my bra, to pull and shake it a bit, to see if anything fell out," Ms. Archibald said.
"When officers conduct stops upon shaky or baseless legal foundations," the Times notes, "people of both sexes often say they felt violated." And "if a woman believes there is no legal basis for the frisk, [civil rights lawyer Andrea] Ritchie said, then she may feel that she is being groped simply for the officer's sexual gratification." So when Inspector Royster insists the stops are not random, she may be telling the truth. Would a careful analysis find that shapely women are especially likely to be stopped and frisked?
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I remember one time I was riding my bicycle down the road and the cops stopped me. They said they were looking for someone in a military jacket. I was wearing a denim jacket. I knew better than to point that out though, I didn't feel like getting beaten up. So I handed them my ID so they could run me for warrants and let them search me. Better than getting beaten bloody and charged with assaulting a police officer.
It's for the children! Submit!
Why the hell would anyone live in NYC?
bagels.... and pizza. That's what I suspect.
If you're a white guy, it's not too terrible.
Ska answered this once: "Thin, slutty girls who buy their own drinks."
who said they were on the trail of a rapist
It made no sense. How are you going to stop three females when you are supposedly looking for a male rapist?"
Also, how can they be expected to operate on this man? He's their son!
Subtle. Nice.
Would a careful analysis find that shapely women are especially likely to be stopped and frisked?
I doubt it would matter. It's pretty obvious that this policy is unconstitutional but apparently there isn't any remedy available no matter how outrageous the state's agents' behavior.
Crystal Pope for instance.
The NYPD is the biggest, baddest gang in New York. Why the hell would they ever stop doing whatever the fuck they want? Who the fuck is going to stop them? Seriously, they are a standing army with 35,000 officers, and Greater New York is their territory.
Everything you see belongs to me, to one degree or another. The beggars and newsboys and quick thieves here in Paradise, the sailor dives and gin mills and blind tigers on the waterfront, the anglers and amusers, the she-hes and the Chinks. Everybody owes, everybody pays. Because that's how you stand up against the rising of the tide.
Cyrus (from the Warriors) was going to stop them but got wasted. "Can you dig it?"
They're remaking that, you know. Tony Scott is doing it...and it will be in LA, not New York. I wonder if Walter Hill will be involved at all.
I honestly don't know how that would work without that 70's kitsch. I mean a gang of baseball players with black and white war paint.
It would be interesting to see what they keep/take out. Twitter as opposed to a pirate radio broadcast I guess.
It's all various obscure and indistinguishable sub-sub-genres of hipsters: Scarfs vs. PorkPie Hats vs. Capris.
So the Bronys would get their own gang in this one?
Yes. And the "Can you dig it?" scene is in Redhook.
Am projectile vomiting...
Warriors come out and plaayy.
As much as it sucks to be a woman, I can only imagine how terrible it must be to be a black woman in a poor neighborhood.
As much as it sucks to be a woman
Maybe you should cut your hair and buy a prosthesis?
I'm at the point now where I fear the police more than I do the official criminals: if an Official Criminal attacks me, at least I have the legal right to either defend myself or try to escape. And the American court system doesn't operate under the de facto maxim "Anytime an Official Criminal's story contradicts that of his victim the victim MUST be lying." Dirty cops, by contrast, have carte blanche to assault any damn body they please, and unless a bystander happened to videotape the encounter, the courts ALWAYS assume the cops is telling the truth, despite the prevalence of "testilying."
then you are clearly a fool, if you "fear the police"
jesus fucking christ, the ignorance it burns.
and countless times, a story conflicts with the police, REASONABLE doubt is found and the person is found not guilty.
have you ever even attended a trial? an actual trial, not a media account of one.
plenty of cops have been fired, suspended, and/or prosecuted without video evidence.
again, these are just blatant falsehoods you may want to believe, but are not supported by evidence.
I don't blame them. It doesn't matter how few bad cops there are when the good cops refuse to police their own.
then you are clearly a fool, if you "fear the police"
Way to label people that don't share your view, Buckaroo. Perhaps the myriad stories of police abuse sans accountability have giver her pause to trust that cruiser in her rearview more than the lowrider Impala.
again, these are just blatant falsehoods you may want to believe, but are not supported by evidence.
Yes, Jennifer, please believe the words of a cop who has admitted he does not hold other officers as accountable as "civilians" before you believe your own two eyes.
What a fucking tool.
you are clearly a fool, if you "fear the police"
Can you actually refute my comment, though? "if an Official Criminal attacks me, at least I have the legal right to either defend myself or try to escape." And that's true -- if I'm strolling down the street and a random thug demanded to feel me up, I could legally either run away or -- if he laid hands on me anyway -- defend myself.
But if that thug has a cop's badge, what then? What legal recourse would I have? What legal recourse do the low-income black women in this story have? Do they have the legal right to attempt to either escape, or slap the molester's hands away?
No, they don't. Neither would I. Or are you going to pretend otherwise?
But if that thug has a cop's badge, what then? What legal recourse would I have? What legal recourse do the low-income black women in this story have? Do they have the legal right to attempt to either escape, or slap the molester's hands away?
You could report them to Internal Affairs and they could be investigated according to how their union contract was written (by the people whose political campaigns the cops financed).
If that's not justice, I don't know what is. Right, Buckaroo?
I gotta go with Jennifer on this one Dunphy. I have attended a number of trials. Discovery is a joke, DA's lie their asses off and so do testifying cops. Bald-faced, blatant lies. These occurrences are not out of the norm. If the DA's office decides you should be prosecuted and you dont take a plea, they will do whatever it takes to convict. I have even seen judges in bench trials tell the defendant 'yes, I know you can beat this on appeal, but it will cost you another $ XXXX so just bite the bullet'.
There are a lot of good cops out there, but one's chances of running into a bad one are pretty good, and when you do, your remedies are few or non-existent.
Yes, cops are feared, and not for no reason.
I'm at the point now where I fear the police more than I do the official criminals
For a lot of people, I think the risk is greater that they will suffer Bad Things at the hands of the cops than at the hands of criminals.
The only reason I would ever call the police is to pick up the body.
That's it.
The only reason I would ever call the police is to pick up the body.
And then get charged with murder. Remember the approved protocol is to hide in a corner in a fetal position and pray the cops get there before the criminal kills/ ass rapes/ beats you within an inch of your life. And then, in the latter two cases, pray the cops don't go ahead and finish the job once they do arrive. Now, STOP RESISTING!
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Why do you say "troll-o-meter" when that is the prevailing opinion on here? ITFPAP(on reason)IC, the number of bad cops is small, but the number of other cops that enable their wanton disregard for the law is quite large and is growing thanks to their unions and the political lackeys they negotiate with (right after they finance their campaign).
Did you ever stop to realize that you're the troll on this site? That maybe, just maybe, you're the asshead that comes on here to fuck with people because your life is so devoid of happiness? That you're the one who sits at home waiting for certain people to comment so you can throw a monkey-wrench into a thread because you have nobody to spend your time with except for other roid-raged cops...only, the gym isn't open 24/7? That you're the loser with a spittle-flecked computer screen and a keyboard that's been against the wall more times than a 19 year old black man in New York City? That you're the one who comes on here as often as you do because one can only masturbate to teen porn so many times a day before you're shooting blanks and, golly!, there's still another 6 hours efore my shift starts?
Did you, Buckaroo?
Call from a pay phone some distance away.
from a what???
Hahahahahahaha. Luddite.
fortunately, normal people, the ones who make this country work, don't have the ridiculous fears you do and routinely call police.
and the %age of incidents taht cops respond to that are even remotely questionable is a incredibly tiny percentage.
the incidents of misconduct being even smaller
again, i love threads like this, because it makes me realize how great this country is, and how deluded and fringe, the isolated anti-cop delusional bigot minority is.
You're missing a couple of things, dunphy,
(1) Even if the incidents of misconduct are ridiculously low, that doesn't mean that they are lower than the risk of violent crime.
(2) Many encounters with police that are not "misconduct" are nonetheless a Bad Thing for citizens.
To put it anecdotally:
I have lived my entire life so far without being the victim of a crime.
I have never done another person criminal harm, but I have had a number of encounters with police that were negative to some extent (ranging from wallet lightening up to highly unpleasant personal interactions, but no arrests or beatings so far).
Given my history, which is probably typical to relatively favorable as far as police interactions go, what, exactly, is delusional about fearing the police more than criminals?
It's not whether more cops are good than bad, Dunphy.
It's that if one does have a run-in with a bad cop (a not remote chance in both my experience and through reading anecdotes on a near daily basis), there is virtually no chance for recourse, and absolutely no chance of NOT being fucked in real-time. One's chances are much greater dealing with a criminal than dealing with a cop with a grudge.
Nice post, MLG. Now be prepared to be called a bigot, a liar or stupid.
Oh, and be prepared to score a .001 on Buckaroo Banzai's troll-o-meter.
For a lot of people, I think the risk is greater that they will suffer Bad Things at the hands of the cops than at the hands of criminals.
It's a unforeseen consequence of crime rates being so low. My own experience as a victim of property and violent crime is much rarer than my frequency of having cops grab my wallet (traffic violations). Accordingly, I'm more worried about the cops taking my stuff than I am about criminals doing so. So far, they've racked up a higher score.
Anecdotally, I've batted about .500; douchebag authoritah types to guys doing a job. I think the former are more prevalent now than in the past, but I wouldn't swear to it. Most of the time, I'm happy to make it out of the encounter with everything that I had going into the encounter, so when that's the best you can do, I try to avoid them.
Yet 46,784 stops of women last year yielded 3,993 arrests, suggesting that officers were wrong in suspecting criminal activity more than nine times out of 10.
I have it on good authority that this is evidence of good policing.
and how many of those 3993 were arrested via the old "trick them into breaking the law by publicly displaying their otherwise-not-quite-criminal doobie" tactic ? that gets em every time, amirite?
The stops supposedly are justified by a "reasonable suspicion" of criminal activity, and the searches ostensibly are aiimed at protecting officers from hidden weapons they "reasonably" suspect may be present.
If your suspicious are reasonable, get a warrant. The two-ply 4th Ad.
If there is criminal activity, you can be stopped in order to reduce said criminal activity. But if there is reduced criminal activity, how are they still allowed to stop you? This doesn't make any sense.
rubbish. how do you get a warrant for somebody you see walking down the street or driving or whatnot. do you follow them while you call the judge at his house and verbally outline your PC?
NYPD is egregiously violating the constitution
but your logic is faulty.
terry stops are, have been, and will be a constitutional investigation tool of law enforcement.
NYPD's abuse of same is the problem.
How is it legal to squeeze a tampon as part of a terry stop? I thought they are authorized to conduct a cursory search for weapons, not a micro-analysis of your possessions?
Might have a knife hidden in there, jasno. Vagina dentata and all.
NYPD's stop and frisk program is an unconstitutional abomination
that being said... this reason logic is faulty: . "Yet 46,784 stops of women last year yielded 3,993 arrests, suggesting that officers were wrong in suspecting criminal activity more than nine times out of 10"
i've seen this logical error before. in brief, assuming a terry stop IS done with reasonable suspicion (which again, it appears NYPD is not doing and is blatantly violating the 4th amendment), it does not follow that if the stop doesn't RESULT in an arrest, that they were wrong in suspecting criminal activity.
the reality is that whether or not there actually was criminal activity, the cops cannot arrest without evidence rising to probable cause. it doesn't follow logically that GIVEN criminal activity, that a terry stop WILL produce evidence that rises to the level of probable cause.
fwiw, many times for example in a terry stop, the intel gained at the time of the terry stop much later may result in probable cause given additional information found after the terry (witnesses located, etc.)
but again, this is a basic logical error on reason's part.
the original terry case (i suggest most people who opine on these issues have NEVER READ THE CASE TERRY v. ohio) involved some guys basically seen casing a business for burglary. at that point in time, it was never determined what exact evidentiary standard cops needed to investigate stuff. the PC for arrest was established, but not the standard for a stop.
regardless, reason can criticize NYPD egregious stop and frisk program without resorting to the faulty logic that boils down to "if the cops didn't arrest person X that means person X was not engaged in criminal activity". what would be correct would be "if the cops didn't arrest person X that means the cops were unable to get sufficient EVIDENCE a the time of the stop that person X was thusly engaged" (or just had committed said crime, or been interrupted or whatnot.
terry is a valuable tool for law enforcement. i've made well over 1,000 terry stops. it pisses me off that NYPD is ABUSING the constitution
but it also irks me when such obvious analytical reasoning/logical errors are used in advance of a good cause.
Your obvious reasoning error is assuming that terry stops- your "valuable tool for law enforcement"- is somehow a reasonable search and seizure of a person just because the Nazgul gave their consent 40+ years ago.
Just so you know, it pisses off the rest of us that you have ABUSED the Constitution over a thousand times, and seem proud of it.
Where's Buckaroo Banzai today? I'd have expected him to come on here and call for the NYPD to be condemned for this (as opposed to prosecuted) and then spend comment after comment after comment explaining to us how it's justified because more blacks are reported (not necessarily convicted) of violent crime in NYC.
Also, New York City is the cesspool of American law enforcement and government overreach. If I had to pick a city to fall into the ocean, it would be ahead of LA or San Francisco. Way the fuck ahead.
wow. a personal attack
how utterly typical of you.
and i find it wonderful the way you still clutch at trying to explain away the crime victimization survey. clearly, inner city minorities are lying about the race and gender of people who victimize them.
new york city IS a cesspool of govt. overreach. and NYPD's stop and frisk is a fucking abomination
and your obsession with bringing up past shit already discussed and making personal attacks because i have bitch slapped you so many times wit h the facts?
sad as fuck, little man.
jesus, you are like buzz lightyear. you are clearly deluded into thinking that all your internet spouting MATTERS.
what you have you ever DONE to increase justice in this world? anything? note: circle jerking at reason.com doesn't increase justice or help anybody.
and your obsession with bringing up past shit already discussed and making personal attacks because i have bitch slapped you so many times wit h the facts?
Bringing up "past shit" is necessary so newcomers will know your stories are almost exclusively lies, exaggerations or distortions of the truth.
What constitutes a "personal attack" with you? A little innocent name-calling? Boo-fucking-hoo, you pussy.
And what's this bitch-slapping you are referring to? It would be news to me and everybody else on here. Do you have anybody on here to corroborate the claim?
what you have you ever DONE to increase justice in this world? anything? note: circle jerking at reason.com doesn't increase justice or help anybody.
I've been arrested standing up for free speech on more than one occasion. I would imagine that's doing more for justice than turning a blind eye while one of my co-workers beats the piss out of someone. Either way, inactivity does more for justice than enabling others to break the law (and peoples' bones) with impunity. I'm waaaaaay ahead of you just on that basis, Buckaroo.
btw, for those that are interested...
terry v. ohio
an interesting case. for those wishing to have an informed opinion...
btw, fortas' dissenting opinion (Included at the link) is excellent. for those opposed to terry stops as a constitutionally justified activity, i suggest reading the dissent in terry v. ohio for some well REASONED argumentation
No one gives a shit
the dissent in terry v. ohio.
good ammunition for people opposed to terry stops. from a constitutional law, vs. derp derp angle...
from Fortas' dissent in Terry v. Ohio: To give the police greater power than a magistrate is to take a long step down the totalitarian path. Perhaps such a step is desirable to cope with modern forms of lawlessness. But if it is taken, it should be the deliberate choice of the people through a constitutional amendment. [p39] Until the Fourth Amendment, which is closely allied with the Fifth, [n4] is rewritten, the person and the effects of the individual are beyond the reach of all government agencies until there are reasonable grounds to believe (probable cause) that a criminal venture has been launched or is about to be launched.
There have been powerful hydraulic pressures throughout our history that bear heavily on the Court to water down constitutional guarantees and give the police the upper hand. That hydraulic pressure has probably never been greater than it is today.
Yet if the individual is no longer to be sovereign, if the police can pick him up whenever they do not like the cut of his jib, if they can "seize" and "search" him in their discretion, we enter a new regime. The decision to enter it should be made only after a full debate by the people of this country.
From yesterday:
Define "reasonable suspicion" and then show us empirically how it is a consistent and uniformly applied criterion. Or admit "driving while sketchy" is a completely random and arbitrary reason (after the fact) to pull anybody over at any time FOR NO LEGITIMATE REASON WHATSOEVER.
Still waiting.
p brooks, it is not my burden to justify the terry stop doctrine.
i linked to the case, which is decades old
read it yourself.
read the dissent
i linked to that, too
and like any intelligent person, come to your own conclusion
descriptively speaking, terry v. ohio is the law of the land. i've made well over 1000 terry stops
normatively speaking, imo under the 4th it is a REASONABLE seizure.
one could argue under a more restrictive amendment, such as WA state's (my state's), that protect PRIVACY, that a higher standard would be needed.
a good argument can be made.
either way, the issue in NYC isn't - is terry v. ohio valid
the issue is they are skirting the boundaries and violating the constitution
and like any intelligent person, come to your own conclusion
Yeah, Brooksie. And when your conclusion isn't the exact same as Mr Buckaroo Banzai here, he'll call you a bigot and pull out the old troll-o-meter, because he can't stand for people to make principled arguments that portray criminal behavior and/or enabling of such in a bad light when it happens at the hands of one of his fellow officers.
one could argue under a more restrictive amendment, such as WA state's (my state's), that protect PRIVACY, that a higher standard would be needed.
Your state may have some good laws, Buckaroo, but in practical application, they are sorely lacking in justice. Not only do several cases come immediately to mind, but so do the numerous investigations that have been ignored by your unions. Law Enforcement in your state might be more corrupt than NYC. And that's really saying something.
utter rubbish.
disagreeing with the case law in terry v. ohio imo is reasonable.
it's only unreasonable to claim it isn't the law of the land. not that it was wrongly decided by the scotus
sloopy, get over your childish obsession and your bogus predictions about what i am going to say. you just keep making a fool of yourself. let the adults discuss issues.
as for terry, the constitution never states an evidentiary standard FOR seizures. it only says that they must be 'reasonable'
thus, the scotus ruled based on a # of factors (read the decision) and imo made a sound decision
but intelligent analysts can disagree
that's what adults can do. disagree without engaging in petty childish ranting.
and GIVEN that terry v. ohio is the law of the land, and imo a constitutional and just standard, i will do my duty, serve the people of my community, and continue to act pursuant to terry, AS WELL AS MY STATE CASE LAW that places greater restrictions on me than the (imo lacking) federal constitution
Oh, I wasn't talking about Terry, per se. I was talking about the murders, violent altercations and coverups that seem to be par for the course in Washington specifically and police departments across the country in general.
Does John T Williams ring a bell? How a bout your union policies that make sure cops don't have to turn over evidence when they commit a crime while on duty? Any word on the DoJ investigation that found a systematic disregard for the law when cops are being investigated?
Face it: your state treats cops better than the rest of us. And you like it that way. You've said so yourself when questioned about double standards. So, fuck you.
sloopy, this meta shit is getting old
there can't ever be a real discussion of the issue if you slip into 15 different previously discussed disagreements, etc.
stop acting like a petulant child.
what you think "seems" to be par for the course is anything but
but again, i'm not going to get meta in every thread and rehash the exact same shit
stipulated: you think there is a pervasive double standard, especially in WA (i always find this amusing since your state residents cede WAY WAY WAY more power to cops than we do in WA) that allows cops to routinely get away with shit that others can't, that cops do this shit with impunity and aren;'t called on it bla bla bla
and of course i point to metric assloads of evidence to the contrary, numerous cases, the scores of police officers fired/forced to resign for all sorts of misconduct, criminal prosecutions of cops, the numerous instances of cops turning in other cops (against your blue wall 1970 bullshit), etc.
and for the 100th time, i am the first to admit there are double standards that favor cops. what you fail to recognize is there are also double standards the disfavor cops.
just like you will accept as gospel a subjective doj report (without knowing the details) that claims SPD has a UOF problem but then will ignore the statistics that i have posted that show SPD has lower UOF rates per capita than other similar sized cities.
but again, this is about NYPD and terry not WA state and your fantasies about how it's a haven for cops run amuck (tell that to the scores of cops fired every year for misconduct, not to mention two good friends of mine who were prosecuted for bogus on duty assaults (and both were acquitted)). both retained their jobs too. thanks to due process and arbitration
and of course i point to metric assloads of evidence to the contrary, numerous cases, the scores of police officers fired/forced to resign for all sorts of misconduct, criminal prosecutions of cops, the numerous instances of cops turning in other cops (against your blue wall 1970 bullshit), etc.
You may claim that a metric assload of the evidence exists, yet you never, ever provide links to it. That's why most of us on here think you're a liar.
(tell that to the scores of cops fired every year for misconduct, not to mention two good friends of mine who were prosecuted for bogus on duty assaults (and both were acquitted)
Again, citation required.
Sorry, shit for brains. You don't get to make the claim that this exists without providing links when called out on it. You live off of anecdotal bullshit and hide behind your some absurd need to be anonymous. From now on, put up or shut the fuck up. Your made up claims are a fucking joke...just like your one example of a cop getting sentenced "4 to 5 times as long as a civilian would have been" turned out to be.
You are a liar and we all know it.
terry v. ohio is the law of the land. i've made well over 1000 terry stops
Based on what specific articulable reproducible indicator? Still waiting for a definition of reasonable suspicion which is anything other then some bogus tingling sensation.
Fuck you, piggo.
Here comes the troll-o-meter!
I think I'm just sit back and watch this one.


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NORMAN — The volunteer of the week has been making the trip to Goldsby each Thursday for the last six years.
We are recognizing Larry Miller for his dedication to veterans and their families. We appreciate the time and money that he has spent to support the men and women who have served in the military. Larry's wife, Kathy, supports him in his efforts to improve the lives of the nation's veterans.
I hope all of you were able to spend time with your families during the Thanksgiving holiday. Several volunteers have family members serving in the military who were not able to spend time with them. I encourage everyone who knows someone in the military serving in faraway places to send them cards or emails thanking them for their service.
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When I returned from Vietnam in 1967 after serving in the Marines, there was no welcome home and no place for us to go for any type of readjustment counseling. In 1992, several other veterans and I enrolled in a program at the Oklahoma City Veterans Center to better understand what had happened to us during that war.
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I always read your newsletter and fully appreciate what you do. Please keep up the good work assisting Oklahoma deserving veterans and their families.
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To honor her spirit and dedication, a memorial bench will be dedicated in her honor on April 17 at the boat launch, according to her daughter, Christa Mansur. The dedication will be held at 11:30 a.m. A luncheon will be held at afterward.
"As a dedicated servant of the community … she just loved waltham," Mansur told Waltham Patch in a phone interview.
Kennedy often transported injuried animals to rescue centers for assistance, according to Mansur. She also supported the Circle Of Rememberance on the City Common along with her husband William Kennedy. The pair met during the blizzard of 1978, according to Mansur.
Even after her diagnosis in 2001, Kennedy continued to feed birds near the boat launch. With the bench now installed, Kennedy's spirit will linger along with the animals she loved.


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The operators of the 86-room Salem Waterfront Hotel recently completed an environmental review by the state and are making plans to file for permits with the city.
"We'll probably be filing in the fall," said Michael Rockett, a principal of the hotel.
The hotel owners plan to demolish an existing marina on Pickering Wharf and build a six-story hotel with 32 rooms, 14 condominiums on the top two floors, a 110-seat restaurant, a 60-seat lounge, and banquet and function facilities, according to plans filed with the state. The main hotel lobby would be relocated to this new building.
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