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Sherry Ann Minor West, 55, of Spotsylvania County passed away Sunday, June 1, 2014, at her home surrounded by family.
Survivors include a son, Vichael Minor of Spotsylvania; two daughters, Ashley and Shawntoya Minor of Spotsylvania; her parents, John Willie and Alice Minor of Spotsylvania; sisters Regina Fairchild of King George County and Nadine Ellis, Tracy Maye (Curtis), Denise Brown (Charles), Bernadine Hill (Maurice), Johnise Wright (Jamie) and Melissa Minor, all of Spotsylvania; brothers Gregory, Anthony, Dwayne and John Jr., of Spotsylvania; six grandchildren; a special friend, Talaya Fairchild of Spotsylvania; and a host of nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends. She was predeceased by a brother, Douglas Minor Sr.
A public viewing will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, June 6, at A.L. Bennett and Son Funeral Home, Fredericksburg. A funeral will be held at noon Saturday, June 7, at Mount Hope Baptist Church, Fredericksburg, with a viewing one hour prior to the service.
The Rev. Dwight B. Michael Sr., pastor of Piney Branch Baptist Church, will officiate the service. Burial will follow at Little Mine Road Baptist Church cemetery in Spotsylvania.


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Off to Cinque Terre by organized tour. It was about and 1 1/2 hours to La Spezia and then onto Portovenere to have a walk through the castle and eat some breakfast overlooking the little jetty where our boat awaits. We sat on the top of the ferry and enjoyed the most magnificent view of the Mediterranean Sea our first real glimpse …
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Washing day today or how not to keep smelling so bad. But the highlight is ride the wall day.
On borrowed bikes from our B&B we set off to ride the wall of Lucca. A beautiful tree lined road of light colored blue metal. Lots of other people out enjoying the sunshine too. Riding, walking pushing prams or jogging. A very popular part of …
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Today is a special day in Italy it is called Santa Zita day but I also believe it is like Italian Independence Day because this is the day the Italians were delivered from the oppression of the Nazis.
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Rain today lucky we are leaving Rome. Four trains to catch today. The first two within the Rome area and then to Florence. This was a very fast train and the speedo was on the screen above. It got up to 245 km per hour and reached Florence in an hour and a half.
Now the wait and then the slow train to Lucca.
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Next, we skipped over to the church, which was entirely surprising. The inside was gorgeous. Far more ornate than the interior of even the Duomo, I did not expect such opulence in Pisa. The ceiling was probably the most incredible part, completely gilded. The church also housed a sculpted pulpit, this one by the former's father, or son. I'm not sure. I lingered here for a ...

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Break Up Quotes, Sayings about break ups - Page 36
Boy: I heard you found someone new…
Girl: Yes.. And he is better than you…
Boy: Oh really? Can he make you smile, like I do?
Girl: No, but he never makes me cry like you do.
It's always better to cry because someone left you than to cry because there's never been someone that could have left you.
My mind says give up, but my heart says go on.
When I look at you, I wanna be able to see that you care. When I think about you I wanna believe you aren't what people know you as. But the truth is when I do look at you I see the boy who didnt care enough to handle my heart with care. And when I do think about you, I remember that you are just a player. Always have been and always will be.
This goes to the one boy I have ever loved…
Love is like a dove, its beautiful but once it dies you'll never get over it.
Yesterday I lost someone I felt I could not live without.
Today I know, although it may be difficult; time will heal this hollow wound.
Tomorrow I will look back and smile at the victory; of having the courage to love, to loose, and again the power to choose.
Some people come and go, and I might just be the next one to go.
Not all guys are bad and not all guys cheat. Girls hurt guys just as much.
Its hard to get over someone you loved so much. But its impossible to realize they're not yours anymore.
All I know is that he loves me….in my dreams!
Tell me when things went wrong. Tell me what I did to make you stop loving me. Tell me why its so hard to get over you when you broke my heart.
Your smile melts my heart, but the day you leave, you shred it.
When it ends, you must let go and move on. Otherwise you will be holding on to unnecessary torture.
I want to go back to the time…
when the only thing that could "hurt" were "skinned knees"
when the only things "broken" were your "toys"
when "goodbyes" only meant till tomorrow.
Its funny how the ones that break your heart are the ones who said that never would!
It hurts so deep its hard to sleep.. Why are the good things so hard to keep??…
If your love doesn't work out… It just means that special someone that god made just for you wasn't him.
Never Regret The Love That You Had Because At One Piont…
You Wanted IT…
I never wanna listen to any song anymore, since we broke up, especially love ones, cos they always make me miss you and even weep for you.. But the thing is I can't help stop thinking about you. Its the only thing I can do when I'm alone :(
I want you to be happy. The hard part is i'm not the one who makes you happy.
If the truth was told instead of a lie, then the pain would go away sooner and not hurt as much.
Guys and girls at least remember that when you break up with him/her basically what your saying to the one you are dumping is "you are not good enough for me anymore" or "at one point you were good enough but I have found somebody better so you're are not good enough for me anymore" (No matter how you word your break up with someone that is what you are saying.)
Cause maybe I don't need you. Maybe I don't want this anymore. Cause maybe, just maybe, I'd be better off without you.
Ok girls think about it, if he broke up with you, then there was seriously something wrong with him.
Some people think that it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go.


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I have seen the "size" thread and the magic chef 7.2 would be perfect...but they don't make it anymore. I have a large chest freezer for lagaring and want a small one to fit 4 cornys...I want to by new but don't know what to but. People say the GE 7.0 is too tight to fit 4...and I'm trying to stay under $200... ideas?
You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. ----Frank Zappa
Is there a reason why you're stuck on Magic Chef? There are other 7.2cu/ft chests out there.
not at all...just want something that will fit 4 on the floor...frigidair 7.2?
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The holiday 7.0 is on sale for $179 at lowes right now. Not sure if it fits 4 on the floor comfortably or not, but it might be worth a quick trip with a tape measure to find out.
The Sunbeam 7.2 will fit 4 on the floor and 2 more on the hump with an 8 in collar. From what I have heard/read it is just a newer model of the magic chef. I found mine at menards for $200. See Here
It might be 8.9cf - I forget. But it very easily fits 4 on the floor.
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Battle of the Bling: Kim Kardashian's Big Engagement Baubles
For Kim's last jaunt down the aisle with Kris Humphries in 2011 it all started out as a fairytale TV wedding complete with a Lorraine Schwartz 20.5-carat emerald cut engagement bauble worth $2 million. The NBA star lit some candles and speckled the floor with rose petals to ask those four little words… and we all know how that ended.
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For his turn at getting down on one knee, Kanye West wouldn't be the "no. 1 rock star on the planet" if he didn't out-do the ex.
So he rented out the entire Giants stadium in San Francisco where he popped the question in front of friends and family. And if that didn't take Kim's breath away, the 15-carat flawless cushion cut diamond he presented to her most certainly did the trick.
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And, of course, according to the jeweler and close Kimye friend Ms. Schwartz, it's only the best quality diamond you can buy, which jewelry expert Michael O'Connor estimates at around a whopping $3 million.
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Jesse RogersKolten Wong redeemed last year's World Series embarrassment by striking a decisive homer for the Cardinals in Game 3 of the NLDS against the Dodgers.
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Jesse RogersIf Chicago Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville was openly joking about his decisions regarding his lineup late Wednesday night, after a dramatic 6-5 overtime win over the Boston Bruins in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup finals, then just imagine what fans we...
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Jesse RogersSo here we are again. The Chicago Blackhawks are at a crossroads heading into Wednesday's Game 4 of the Stanley Cup finals against the Boston Bruins. Down 2-1 in the series, all is not lost for the Hawks, but in some ways it seems like it is. U...
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Jesse RogersThe Minnesota Wild will start Josh Harding in goal in Thursday' critical Game 5 of their Western Conference quarterfinal series against the Chicago Blackhawks, coach Mike Yeo said.
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Jesse RogersCHICAGO -- Chicago Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville stunned everyone by starting center Brendan Morrison in place of Jamal Mayers in Game 4 Thursday night. Mayers missed just one game this season and that was due to illness. "Brendan Morrison has...
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First-period wrap: Hawks 0, Coyotes 0
Jesse RogersCHICAGO -- The Chicago Blackhawks and Phoenix Coyotes are scoreless after the first period of Game 4 of their Western Conference quarterfinal series. The Hawks came out on fire, earning an early power play chance, but they weren't able to convert. P...
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Jesse RogersCHICAGO -- The loss of Chicago Blackhawks star Marian Hossa has opened the door for the hottest prospect in the organization. Brandon Saad, a 2011 second-round pick, is set to make his playoff debut on Thursday in Game 4 of the Hawks' quarterfinal...
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Marian Hossa leaves on stretcher
Jesse RogersCHICAGO -- Blackhawks forward Marian Hossa left the ice on a stretcher Tuesday night after sustaining an apparent head injury midway through the first period of Game 4 of Chicago's first-round series against the Phoenix Coyotes. Hossa was leveled ...
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Rapid Reaction: Hawks 5, Canucks 0
Jesse RogersCHICAGO -- A quick look at how the Chicago Blackhawks defeated the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday to keep their season alive. The Hawks still trail in the series 3-2. How it happened: The Hawks carried over their dominant performance from Game 4. A...
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Bolland has full attention of Canucks
Jesse RogersVANCOUVER -- Even though he starred in last year's postseason series between the Chicago Blackhawks and Vancouver Canucks, Dave Bolland has taken his fame to a new level. Debuting in the series in dramatic fashion in Game 4, Bolland had four point...
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Seabrook's injury motivates Hawks
Jesse RogersChicago Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville has been around long enough to know what sparked his team to a 7-2 win over the Vancouver Canucks in Game 4 of their best-of-seven playoff series. "It was all attitude," Quenneville said before boarding the...
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Jesse RogersCHICAGO -- Facing the brink of elimination, the Chicago Blackhawks came together for a complete win, 7-2 over the Vancouver Canucks in Game 4. It was a victory reminiscent of the dominant Hawks team which won the Stanley Cup a season ago. And it's...
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Jesse RogersCHICAGO -- The Chicago Blackhawks led the Vancouver Canucks 5-1 after two periods of Game 4 at the United Center on Tuesday night. The Hawks exploded for four goals in the second, mostly thanks to Dave Bolland, who is playing in his first game sin...
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First-period wrap: Hawks 1, Canucks 1
Jesse RogersThe Chicago Blackhawks and Vancouver Canucks were tied 1-1 after the first period on Game 4 at the United Center on Tuesday night. The Hawks came out energized, getting the game's first goal 1:43 into the contest. Bryan Bickell had a highlight-ree...
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Jesse RogersTalk about a double whammy. First, Vancouver Canucks forward Raffi Torres is let off the hook for his hit on Chicago Blackhawks' defenseman Brent Seabrook, and now Seabrook has been ruled out for Game 4. Oh, and the defending Stanley Cup champ...
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An equestrian statue on one of the main squares of Kosovo. Nice, but nothing special or impressive. Makes a nice photo though.
The Skanderbeg Statue is a good place to stop for a quick picture. Located next to the Kosovo main government buildings, on the pedestrian walkway, (Bulevardi Nene Tereza, near the water fountains. It is probably one of the best statues in Pristina. Also, because it is in a well-traveled area, there are many places to eat and watch the people.... More
Beautiful statue! Skenderbeu is a very important man in the role of all Albanians. Should be visited!
The main square is a great place to relax and the statue adds to the atmosphere. Its seems to be a gathering spot for people and is nice on a sunny day
I pass by it everyday. One of the marvelous things about Pristina is that here and at the colorful fountains next to the statue life is thrieving all day long, every day. The inhabitants (and the so-called villagers) love to embark on long strolls up and down Mother Theresa Boulevard and it is an absolute see and be seen place.
This statue is located at one end of the main pedestrian street on downtown Pristinha. Take some photos and then a stroll down to many of the excellent sidewalk eateries. I recommend Mery's where I had a truly excellent fish soup for € 2.40!
As others have implied, why are these things even rated on TripAdvisor? The fact is that it is a statue. As a statue, it's fine. There's a Skanderbeg statue down the road in Skopje, not to mention what you can find in Albania. if you don't know his role as a hero of the Albanians, this statue will mean little.... More
If youre interested in the albanian history,youre right here.Its a stature beside the kosovarian govement in Prishtina.You need to make a pocture there because its one of the best sights in Prishtina.
The area where this statute is located is now looking good and has been cleaned up so the statue at long last looks quite impressive. Interesting history connected with Skanderbeg.
...and that is an improvement because until recently it was a man on a horse located at a Yugoslav style square. Now, there is a fountain, a square where children play, coffee bars to enjoy and even the Benetton shop inside the old theatre has opened. Still, nothing extraordinary but for Pristina certainly an improvement.
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Dr. Joel L. Martin graduated from the SUNY Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine in 1964. He works in Hollywood, FL and 1 other location and specializes in Urological Surgery. Dr. Martin is affiliated with Memorial Regional Hospital.
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This is the same time period that my ggrandfather and his family left MI and came to Arkansas. I have been told that a few of his brothers and family also came and that one went back to MI. I believe that the brother that went back was Emory. The unusual last name, the fact that my Ggrandfather was born in NY, and the fact that my grandfather was born in Cass Co., MI, and the fact that my father was born in Arkansas started me in genealogy. According to the 1850 NY census the first one I can find of this line was named Stephen and his wife was Elizabeth. This would be my gggrandfather. Maybe others will join us here and we can find more Dokkeys. Notify Administrator about this message?
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If you decide to check out this famed rink, be prepared for hordes of children and slow-moving newbies. There won't be room for speed skating or fancy tricks, but braving the crowds is worth it for the priceless Central Park scenery. If you're a skating greenhorn yourself, take heart—Trump Rink is home to the largest learn-to-skate program in the country.
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4joys added a post in a topic: IPB 4.0 Forum
I can understand waiting to be approved to see all the features of IPB4, but it would be nice if a few forums would be open for the public to see the basics. Just seeing the "Awaiting Approval" is frustrating.
4joys added a comment on a file: Luminous by IPS Themes
I've been using Luminous for a while now and it is great style that my members love. They love the style and the fact that they can change the color to whatever they would like. As a webmaster, I love the fact that it is constantly updated when new versions of IPB come out. Do not hesitate to buy, you will not regret it.
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I do not believe that IPS is going downhill, in fact I believe the opposite. Among all the major bulletin board platforms, I believe that the future is the best with IPS. I would not be running my boards with IPS if that was not the case. When I open a ticket, I'm pleased with the response time. I understand the weekend skeleton crew also, so I take that into consideration when looking for a response from a ticket. Sometimes somethings slip through the cracks, it happens to every company at one point.
I love the fact that they patch and update the software frequently, it is comforting to know that they are constantly working to improve and secure the software. Now I do have my gripes with how somethings are handled, but I would have that with any software that I did not write myself.
4joys added a comment on a blog entry: Mobile Apps Status
Man, this news ruined my day. Where is the dislike button?
4joys added a post in a topic: What is the status of making IPB better with SEO?
I may be in the minority here, but when I moved my website over from other software I suffered the normal loss of traffic associated with switching software. It took a little while, but after making all my appropriate SEO changes and sticking with IPB, my search traffic is now higher than it was before with more members registering and posting. I'm pleased with my organic search results with IPB. You can't just use the default IPB settings, you should take the initiative and time to change/customize settings like Matt mentioned above . That goes with any software.
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Awesome, thank you. Upgrade from 1.2 went smooth.
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The instructions are located in the DOCUMENTATION.html file.
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I do not even know where to start. In my opinion I think it does 90% things better than VB.
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Had problems also. All set now though.
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Looks awesome. I'll be purchasing when 2.0 comes out.
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I must say that before I even consider Nexus, Stripe must be supported.
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What if I don't want my board to have any of those features? Many things are best left as mods.
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I just wanted to give a shout out to mention that my community loves the 3.2 upgrade. I upgraded a few days after 3.2 came out and so far I have not had anyone complain about any missing features.I can't speak for all communities, but my members have not missed any of the features that were taken out.
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This files works exactly as described. My only problem is that the admin section of the mod is not in English. The front end is, but not the admin section.
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You will never have a 100% members satisfied on any software upgrade, but it does seem that IP listened to the majority of their customers here. I for one can't wait to upgrade, and I will be using the default skin with a few minor tweaks. Do I love everything about it? No, but they did not develop it just for me, but for the majority of their customers.


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thank you for your advice. perhaps this is really somewhat crazy... Anyway I heard Apache's code is well written, and I have previous programming experience under Unix environment ,though not much.So I think it is worth doing so... well, I am still not sure reading 2.0 beta or latest stable version.2.0 seems to include a lot of new and useful features, maybe it makes good to read the code as the developer group is releasing the final ? btw,I use MSVC to open dsw file in source tarball ,but no project is loaded, why? Cheers Liu | |
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Yes, the taxes on top of the order are a PITA - especially as UPS want COD and I'm often not able to be at home when the delivery is due! I'm not sure what the cut-off value is here, but it's a lot, lot lower than Oz.
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Yes, the taxes on top of the order are a PITA - especially as UPS want COD and I'm often not able to be at home when the delivery is due! I'm not sure what the cut-off value is here, but it's a lot, lot lower than Oz.
Go for it. Bring a list. It is a small, unassuming showroom. You will not be overstimulated. It's very helpful to see and lay hands on bags, etc. that you've been pondering.
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Is there a picture comparison of the two zipper styles?
Thanks! Thought I read them all, not sure how I missed that. I agree that the old style gives a much smoother look to the bag. Wouldn't the zipper showing allow water in easier without an overflap? What is the reasoning behind conforming to the masses? I thought the smoother look was a nice Tom Bihn feature.
@taminca One way to handle this is to reply with quote on the post you want to reference, then copy the quoted post and paste it into your new reply, like this:
@hamiltee gave a link to the thread discussing new zipper styles:
I pasted in the quoted reply. This works whether I am using an iPad or an iPhone, in the Safari web browser or in TapaTalk. If you are using a web browser (on your iPad or on your computer), you can either click on the link for the number of the post in the thread (e.g. #5 in the case of @hamiltee's post) to bring it to the focus of your browser (so the URL in the address bar now has the specific address of that post, such as http://www.tombihn.com/forums/though...html#post61367
or you can just try to copy that link and insert it into your reply post like: see @hamiltee's post from earlier in this thread. I typed "@hamiltee", then highlighted those words, and clicked on the web-link symbol in the forum page reply field, then pasted the post's URL into the address field.
In Safari on the iPad or on the Mac, clicking on the red arrow to the right of the name that is quoted on the quote line that says "Originally posted by hamitee" will take you to the originating post. Simon (the support person for the forum web pages), has set things up so that pasting in either the thread URL or the URL of a particular post in the thread, will resolve to the name of that thread such as "Lesson Learned" in the Safari browser. (This doesn't happen for me in the TapaTalk app). You won't be able to tell from the appearance of the resolved link in Safari whether you'll be sent to the start of the thread or to a particular post. However, if you pasted in the address of a particular post, clicking on that link will take you directly to that post. This seems to also work in TapaTalk (though it didn't used to work correctly some months ago.)
Hope these directions did not sound too cryptic or confusing.
Here's the post where Darcy first explains the change in the zippers and the motivation for it: http://www.tombihn.com/forums/tom-bi...html#post56699
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First motivated by our desire to reduce the weight of our bags when and where possible, we realized that, if we sew the zippers right side up, we are able to save a bit of weight because we can utilize the woven edge of the zipper tape to finish the zipper seam, rather than adding binding tape as we did before. And when we made samples of the Aeronaut, Pilot, and other bags with the YKK Aquaguard splash-proof zippers sewn right-side up, we took note of how how much we liked the looks of them.
Sewing the Aquaguard zipper in right-side-up (or "teeth-side-out") also overcomes a minor disadvantages to sewing it in upside-down: mainly, the urethane coating on the zipper is no longer exposed to the elements and abrasion. We've found that when we sew the Aquaguard zipper up-side-down (coating exposed), there was occasional, minor shredding of the urethane itself, resulting in a minor change to the aesthetic though not impacting the splash-proofness of the zipper. Sewing the Aquaguard zippers in the same way as we would sew in regular zippers, right side up, puts the urethane coating inside the bag where it's protected, and also allows the teeth to expand, rather than compress, as the zipper rounds corners. Does it affect the water repellency? Nope.


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Conway supports tweaking to pill bill; says fiscal cliff could hurt Ky.'s efforts on drugs
Attorney General Jack Conway is among the growing chorus of Kentucky officials who say legislators must revise the law aimed at curbing prescription pill abuse to reduce the unintended consequences on law-abiding citizens.
The General Assembly passed the law in April aimed at curbing prescription pill abuse. The law tightens restrictions on pain clinics. But it also called for additional regulations and oversight of doctors who prescribe drugs.
But increasingly the new rules and regulations that have followed the law's implementation have come under fire. That has prompted the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure to scale back some of them, as the Courier-Journal reported.
Conway told Pure Politics on Friday that he believes the General Assembly might have to revisit the issue when the General Assembly convenes in January.
Meanwhile, like other programs that receives federal funding, Kentucky drug task forces could be at risk if Congress allows the nation to go over the fiscal cliff at the end of the year, setting into motion deep, across-the-board spending cuts, Conway said.
Conway, who is finishing his fifth year as attorney general, said federal Byrne Grants have funded regional and local drug task forces. And he said those could be at risk:
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Conway said Kentuckians and increasingly turning to heroin as pain pills become more difficult to get.
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Steven Porter, a Johns Hopkins University senior from Cherry Hill, N.J., has conducted original research that adds new and potentially decisive evidence to a debate about the identity of one of the first organisms to make the epochal leap from the sea to dry land approximately 400 million years ago. As one of 42 Johns Hopkins students who received Provost's Undergraduate Research Awards in the 2001-2002 academic year, Porter will present an overview of his project during an upcoming awards ceremony. It will run from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursday, March 7, in the Glass Pavilion on the Homewood campus, 3400 N. Charles St., in Baltimore. Although he's a pre-med student majoring in English, Porter sought out an undergraduate experience in laboratory research that would allow him to explore areas beyond his training in molecular biology and cellular biology. Through a Web site devoted to undergraduate research opportunities at Johns Hopkins, he connected with Hope Jahren, an assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences in the university's Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.
Jahren's lab analyzes isotopes of elements like carbon, nitrogen and oxygen in living and fossilized plants to better understand their relationship to contemporary and prehistoric climates. Isotopes are forms of an element that differ only by the addition of one or more subatomic particles known as neutrons. Different isotopes of the same element have different mass, which affects the way plants use them. Porter chose to study a unique, high-quality fossil specimen of Spongiophyton minutissimum from Jahren's collection of fossils. Kept in a sealed vial, the specimen is a little bigger than a dime and dates from the Devonian Period, a time about 400 million years ago when the seas of Earth teemed with life but the continents were barren wastelands. "Now, look at that morphology [shape]," Jahren asks when showing the fossil sample to a visitor. "It's very tough to get much insight into what type of organism this was based solely on its shape, but a look at certain aspects of its chemistry that have been preserved in the fossil may help give us more clues." Whatever it is, Jahren notes, the sample probably represents a crucial step from life at home only in the sea to the types of life that could spread over land over the course of millions of years. To learn more about the fossil, Porter resolved to compare it to its nearest modern relatives. But based on studies of the shapes of various fossil samples of Spongiophyton minutissimum, paleontologists were divided into two schools of thought on what those nearest relatives were. Some thought the fossil was an example of a bryophyte, a class of plants comprised mostly of mosses; and some favored the idea that the fossil was a lichen, which is a close association between a fungus and an alga. Porter conducted an extensive literature search to familiarize himself with the debate, and then sought the advice of experts in the field to further firm up his understanding. He relishes the fact that he was able to use his inexperience in the field to get a chance to speak with prominent people in it. "My naivete paid off," Porter says. "I probably would have been much more intimidated talking to these people, since they are very much the leaders of their fields." Thanks in part to the advice and assistance of people like Paula DePriest, an associate curator in the department of botany at the Smithsonian Institution, Porter was able to select a range of contemporary species of mosses and lichens to test with the fossil. Using training and equipment from Jahren's lab, he looked at the isotopes of carbon found in each group and in the fossil, and found that the types of carbon in the fossil more closely resembled those found in modern lichens. "It's very clear from these results that the fossil cycled carbon in a manner that much more closely resembles that of the lichens than it does the bryophytes," Jahren comments. "Why does that matter? This is one important piece of how we go from sterile land to what we have today. This tells us the type of biology that was most effective, at the very beginning, was the strategy of the lichen, not the moss." Porter and Jahren hope to present the results at an upcoming meeting of the Geophysical Society of America. Both agreed that Porter has come away with valuable insight into what the process of scientific research is like. "He's learned that it's labor-intensive work, but that there's a lasting effect to birthing a new piece of knowledge," Jahren says. "I think he also recognizes as a result of his provost project the amount of luck, in addition to good planning, that goes into research."
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WAAPA Presents BACK TO THE THIRTIES, Now thru Nov 22
The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) Postgraduate Classical Vocal students present the mesmerising Back to the Thirties at The Roundhouse Theatre from tonight, 16 November to 22 November 2012.
Back to Thirties will transport audiences through time in a thrilling aural celebration of the period. From the iconic photographs, letters and speeches of the Depression era, to the heartfelt and hopeful music of the time, with familiar music from George Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart.
The music is in many ways a fascinating reflection of how Americans imagined themselves during this tumultuous time of financial hardships, emerging technologies and the growing populations of cities.
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The tragedy at Newtown and senseless criminal violence overall is personal and hits close to home for me as it does for so many. This is not typically the conversation we might undertake in this forum, but it is an important discussion to have.
I understand the right and want of individuals to have guns for protection or sport. I also believe that it is a fundamental right of all individuals to be kept safe from the devastation guns can bring. And as a disaster management and business continuity professional, I have given a tremendous amount of anguished thought to the active shooter scenario, so devastating because there is little that can be done to stop it.
The discussion of gun violence has focused on policy and culture. Policy is limited in what it can address and culture is difficult to change:
- Background checks are critical, but it may not be the owner of the gun who uses it in acts of violence.
- Restricting high powered weapons and large magazines limits casualties, but offers no consolation for the families of those attacked using conventional guns with a limited number of rounds. It only takes one bullet.
- We are asking legitimate owners of high powered 'military style' weapons to give up a freedom they believe is constitutionally protected and that they enjoy today.
I have been a speaker and advocate for private sector partnership in support of law enforcement and public safety for a long time. Through my organization the Heroes Partnership I helped with the sponsorship of a law enforcement training exercise that simulated a crisis at a New York high school a few years back. Law enforcement can bring tremendous capabilities in response to a crisis, and I have seen and have immense respect for the capabilities of the police. Unfortunately, faced with an active shooter, the role of the police is control and containment. It is a painful and frustrating response in the recognition that a devastating event has already occurred.
Security and Safety vs. Privacy and Freedom
Focus has turned to the gun. There have been several articles recently proposing technologies to make a smarter and safer gun. Some propose peripheral controls that need to be worn or carried for the gun to fire. One proposed developing Radio Frequency ID (RFID) tagged guns and deploying RFID proximity sensors at entrances to vulnerable locations so that tagged devices would be detected as they came near. Another responded to the risk to children using size recognition capabilities proposed to minimize gun accidents. All have their place.
Any solution proposed will be contentious to some in that to achieve security there is always some divestiture of freedoms or privacy. It is a balance of community safety and the rights of the individual. We endured the naked body scans at the airport for safety in the skies. Fortunately, both for us, and I am sure very often for the monitor attendants, these unpopular scanners are on their way out. That said, their introduction and passive acceptance in the first place is an indication that fear has weighed in favor of security over privacy.
Security is a slide switch. We can slide the switch all the way to the right and provide maximum security, but none of us would enjoy the impingement on the quiet enjoyment of our lives. We can slide it all the way to the left and we will all live in fear unable to enjoy our freedoms. It is finding that correct setting that sufficiently satisfies both that brings balance. Despite the fervor and name calling when these forces meet, in fact, when cool heads do prevail, it is clear that there is merit on both sides of the discussion.
This is not the forum to discuss the politics, morality or civility of the question of guns or to weigh in for or against. It is however relevant that there are technologies available or contemplated that will reduce gun violence today and these can be improved upon with innovative approaches for tomorrow. Prudent steps, transformational thinking and innovation need to define our approach to guns and gun safety.
Is there is a role for technology in gun safety?
Technology can and does have a role in gun safety today, and perhaps effective use of technology will bring new approaches to gun safety and the mitigation of gun violence and increased law enforcement capabilities tomorrow. I will describe a few existing approaches, discuss what is already here, what is around the corner, and what I think is possible. I welcome thoughts and comments.
Biometric Locks
Today there are readily available conventional gun locks and also biometric trigger locks. These latter typically require finger print recognition of the registered owner to disengage the lock allowing the gun to be used. These are relatively inexpensive. They have benefits particularly for the recreational gun user in that only the registered owner's biometrics could unlock the trigger to make the gun usable, children could not fire an unattended gun and if the gun were stolen it could not be used as long as the lock was engaged. It has limitations in that once the biometric lock is removed from the trigger anyone can fire the gun and other than the threat of penalties after the fact there is nothing to assure that the lock would be kept in place. Those who see the gun as a means of protection for home and family fear the delays of fumbling with any lock that needs to be removed before the gun can be used in self defense.
The Smart Trigger
The technology also exists to have the electronics for biometric recognition built into a 'smart trigger', hand grip or other peripheral means of authentication in proximity to the gun that allows it to fire so that there is nothing to remove and the gun recognizes the shooter as legitimate. This has value and potential in that:
- Police confronting violent situations or individuals defending their homes would no longer be at risk of having their own weapons used on them.
- Stolen guns would be completely unusable and have no resale value on the street.
- Newly manufactured guns could be mandated to support biometric 'smart triggers'
- Ideally, after-market industries could develop the technologies to allow existing guns to be fitted with biometric 'smart triggers'.
There are still limitations to the technology options we have now:
- What if the shooter was disgruntled and crazed, but was the legitimate owner of the gun? Biometrics wouldn't help in that case because it is the rightful and registered owner.
- An active shooter may have multiple guns or there may be multiple shooters. If these guns can determine the identity of the shooter wouldn't it be valuable if that could rapidly be communicated to police to aid in identification, investigation and apprehension?
We could take this on
The President has called out technology as a principle element of his strategy for the control of gun violence.
I believe that this is correct, and in fact, it is the most ubiquitous of technologies available today, the smartphone, that may offer a potential answer, or at least a direction for advancing the gun safety options already in place or previously considered. It is a direction that may satisfy the legitimate recreational gun owner and those concerned with protecting homes and family. It may also be the best answer for providing safety to our communities and our public safety responders.
I have suggested that smartphone technology may offer a contemporary solution to the problem of gun violence. That is a bold statement and needs some explanation. The smartphone in this case is a smartphone embedded on a chip. Different in this case we will be asking the smartphone to provide many of the capabilities we depend on in our smartphone every day, but leveraged to manage the working behavior of a gun. This chip is installed and integrated to the biometric aware trigger mechanism of an automatic weapon. This is not what we refer to as a 'smart gun'. The introduction of digital logic and the ability to communicate are critical components of the formula for what I will call for this discussion a 'really smart gun'.
In a meeting with public safety officials a few years back I suggested the use of smartphone technologies as a component of a contaminant detection strategy. Given the nation's focus on gun violence I have again turned to the smartphone and see an opportunity for a solution to many of the issues of gun violence under discussion today. It is a solution that we could do, and we may do, in one form or another, if not today, in a not too distant tomorrow. There will be many that feel that a solution as I will describe impinges on their rights and freedoms. There is a cost for security and sometimes that cost is higher than some are willing to pay. I understand that and many have legitimate fears or concerns. The balance of rights, freedom, safety and security are part of a larger and needed discussion. The emergence of terrorism as a domestic reality has brought that sharply into focus.
Can the 'Smart Gun' become the 'Really Smart Gun'?
New thinking and the innovative use of technology can create a 'really smart gun'. This approach can change the rules, provide transformative capabilities for law enforcement and create an environment much safer from gun violence. It would call on existing patented or marketed technologies including Biometric Recognition and Location Based Firearm Discharge Prevention. Other capabilities that would be needed exist in one form or another right now and we use them daily. They are in every smartphone. More would come from the Mobile Device Management Solutions deployed in most enterprises to remotely manage hundreds to thousands of deployed smartphones.
A gun equipped with a 'smart trigger' that uses 'biometric recognition' knows who you are. That technology has been implemented in varying ways with varying success, but can be effective. The gun equipped with a 'really smart trigger' would use 'location based firearm discharge prevention' and not only know who you are, but where you are, and whether it is permitted to discharge a gun at that location. This is not a new concept. This approach to the use of technology to solve gun violence has been defined under a patent in existence for a decade!
The Gun Free Zone (GFZ) at the core of this makes vulnerable locations safe by using technology to disable the discharge of guns.
For the purpose of this discussion I will take the liberty to apply easy to understand labels to the concepts I will describe. That which for this discussion I will call the "Gun Free Zone" is as noted above not a new concept, but is a component of location based firearm discharge prevention and the basic concept underlying an approach that transforms vulnerable locations into safe locations.
It uses very basic technology. It is a simple list that dictates locations where guns are free to fire or where through the use of technology they will be made incapable of firing. The Gun Free Zone file could contain the location of schools, churches, malls, transportation centers, sports arenas, entertainment facilities and any business or large assembly location that opted to register as a gun free zone.
Unlike in some of the RFID solutions proposed there is no need for sensor equipment or proximity to an entrance location where a sensor is typically installed. It would exist as an always present permission file that is continually updated and cached at the gun to maximize speed of access.
How could it work? The GFZ entry would specify and thereby determine the 'absolute' and 'in proximity' coordinates it has registered as 'gun free' for a facility or location. For example the Gun Free Zone might dictate that use of a gun is restricted at a school or within a 300 yard perimeter of the school. Any gun attempting to discharge inside that perimeter would be prevented. The 'really smart gun' simply wouldn't fire.
If all guns were 'really smart' guns
- When in a gun free zone they would not fire.
- It would not matter if the shooter had multiple guns or if there were other shooters. Any guns attempting to discharge in a GFZ location would be rendered useless.
- Shooters standing across the school yard, but within shooting range would be frustrated as well. The GFZ could define not only the absolute location, but also a safe perimeter.
It doesn't matter if it is a militarized assault rifle with a million rounds of ammunition. The location dictates the terms.
- The threat of the mass shooter could be reduced.
- Vulnerable targets would have been made resistant to guns.
- This is a fundamental change in thinking. The focus is no longer on the gun, but the location..
How could the 'Really Smart Gun' work?
- Biometric awareness provides "who", a means for identifying the hand that is on the gun. If it does not recognize the hand it does not fire.
- The smartphone provides location awareness or "where" by leverage of GPS, cell tower proximity and other means to determine location.
- The GFZ described above would be a file that provides a list of vulnerable locations registered as Gun Free Zones. The GFZ determines what a firearm is permitted to do at a location.
This all takes a bit of brains. The embedded and integrated smartphone would provide processing power.
- Now it is no longer just a gun. It is a gun and three pieces of information - who, where and what it is allowed to do. This will make the gun really smart.
- With the three pieces of information (who is pulling the trigger, where it is and is it allowed to fire at this location) the really smart gun will have the information needed to determine whether to fire. An embedded app would then control the trigger mechanism. This could all be done in micro seconds invisibly.
How would 'Gun Free Zones' be managed?
The GFZ would need to be maintained and updated. There would need to be a process for adding, changing and removing a location from the list. I would envision it as a centrally administered list. It would need to be kept small and limited in the geography it covers for instant download. It would update as the gun moved beyond its home location and would check for updates frequently. This would be important. Police could temporarily add a residence to the GFZ list to mitigate a violent gun situation and respond more safely to a domestic threat. I don't know who should administer that list, but that is a detail for further discussion.
- It might be managed centrally by the FBI, Homeland Security or some other federal government entity
- It could be managed independently by municipalities that would manage the schools, churches, parks and registered businesses in their jurisdiction.
- Private security and alarm companies could provide gun disability as a service to home owners concerned about gun violence or gun accidents in their home
How would this affect police?
- Law enforcement of course would need and should have unrestricted use of their firearms. They could not be governed by Gun Free Zone limitations.
- Biometric recognition would provide police a measure of safety assuring that only they could use their weapon and it could not be turned on them by an assailant.
Even more is possible. All of the above has been contemplated for more than a decade. Smartphone capabilities and Mobile Device Management (MDM) provide transformative capabilities that may not have been considered:
- The 'really smart gun' can participate in a more effective police response by alerting police and providing details whenever there is an attempt to fire in a Gun Free Zone. An attempt to fire, even though unsuccessful, could prompt notification of authorities and transmission of the shooter's identity and gun configuration. Police responders would face a less dangerous situation when responding. They would arrive informed enabling them to more easily and safely bring the situation under control.
- If there is a shooting in an area not designated as a Gun Free Zone, the police can immediately pull information from the gun identifying the shooter, the type of weapon, how many bullets it held, and how many were fired while en route in response.
- Guns that were present in an area where an unreported shooting incident took place would have been logged as part of the frequent GFZ update process and could be subsequently interrogated remotely during the investigation process to see if they were fired, where and when
- These really smart guns would be addressable, traceable, and manageable using MDM and even when fired outside of gun free zones in commission of a crime could be remotely disabled by law enforcement so that police can more quickly contain the situation and more safely engage the shooter.
- An event log could tie biometric authentication to GPS location, time and device firing status as court admissible forensic evidence.
- Smartphone like technology on a chip could be installed in the electronics of all newly manufactured guns governing the firing mechanism. It may be possible to retrofit existing guns through after-market kits in some cases.
- The communications capability built into the trigger could be used to re-register the gun and verify the individual's biometrics annually to assure the gun remains in the hands of the registered owner. The database of gun ownership would be more current, accurate and complete.
- If lost or if the ownership or possession is in question, a gun could be remotely disabled using the MDM console just as we do in the management of other mobile devices.
- If the chip is r emoved the gun is rendered useless.
- Safer and smarter guns would allow legitimate owners the right to quietly enjoy their guns in places where it is safe to do so.
What is required of the 'really smart gun' as we would define it today?
- It needs the biometric recognition of current smart trigger technology. Numerous patented technologies and approaches exist for this.
- It needs location awareness, a technology anticipated in an existing patent.
- It needs access and updates to the Gun Free Zone file that would likely be locally cached, again, anticipated for over a decade.
- It needs to be tightly integrated with the firing mechanism of the gun
This is where the smartphone, O/S and software contributions would be differentiators:
- It needs the ability to run an onboard app that manages decisions and logic
- It needs to be remotely addressable and have a unique Identifier
- It needs the ability to communicate and provide identity, configuration, capacity, status and coordinates to law enforcement if queried
- It needs to be remotely traceable as to location if lost, MDM manageable and capable of being disabled administratively from a remote console
There are barriers that would need to be overcome.
This is not a solution that many will find popular today, but it a discussion that is worth having. A small group of friends and colleagues including several attorneys, a forensic specialist, law enforcement personnel, gun owners, some strongly anti-gun thinkers and an engineer provided feedback that I have presented in summary:
- There were concerns regarding the privacy issues which some described as Orwellian Big Brother and the futuristic use of technology as Demolition Man. Fortunately for me I love tacos.
- Security and privacy are often at odds and we are in a privacy focused culture. I am reminded that you can make out the check to pay for your kids college tuition, but despite being the one who pays, you don't have the right to see their grades! Privacy would be a major challenge. The payback however would be considerable in security and transformation of law enforcement capabilities.
- Some said that if you shut down the guns, lunatics would just turn to bombs, knives and arson. I agree with that and accept that a gun violence solution is not necessarily a solution to violence.
- Some gun owners would rightly say that their gun activities could be monitored and their guns could be shut down by government in violation of their constitutional rights.
- There was also concern about trusting complex technology. There was a concern that if the technology was not flawless the gun could fail at a time when the gun was needed for protection.
- Another concern would be exposing our gun 'infrastructure' to malware and cyber crime. Once on the grid, like smartphones, they would be exposed.
- There are millions of legacy guns on the street today. Legitimate gun owners might comply with the new standard, but if we cannot successfully get the old guns off the street the problems of gun violence would continue. Existing guns would need to be replaced with 'really smart guns'. This would require all of the approaches in legislative discussion today including mandates, buy-back or trade-in programs, license fees or other combinations of stick and carrot mechanisms to maximize adoption and replacement.
- Not everyone will be able to trade in their guns. Collectors may have valuable guns, antiques, heirlooms, guns with family significance, etc.. Provisions would need to be made for these.
- And of course the bad guys won't worry about mandated locks or established policies and so finding and eliminating illegal guns remains a core issue. Perhaps a pricing model for ammunition sold to anyone without an officially issued "I have a really smart trigger, I have been retrofitted, or I have a dumb gun but its OK" card could make acquiring legacy ammunition prohibitively expensive.
- If we could get the old style guns manufactured in the United States off the street by any of these means we would still need to deal with black market introduction of conventional and assault style weapons manufactured elsewhere.
Why hasn't anyone thought of this before?
Using sets of technology in this manner is powerful and an idea that may be right for our time. Why hasn't anyone thought of this before? Well, again, in large part they have.
I provided a link to an article by Lucas Mearian that describes the technologies behind biometric recognition. It will provide relevant background. I performed a patent search on the term 'smart gun' and found a US public patent filing (Bates et al #6,415,542) from 2002 for Location-based firearm discharge prevention . I was very surprised to see that this technology has been anticipated so long ago. Granted they developed this idea before the smartphone era, but the approaches to the use of technologies are addressed in their filing. I wouldn't begin to traverse the patent filings for mobile devices and mobile device management, but as is obvious, the technology needed to make those pieces work are widely available and implementable today.
I don't know if any of the technologies I have described above have envisioned the uses or capabilities that would provide the feedback to police, forensic evidentiary value of the logged data, and the remote gun management and remote disable proposed here, but these are all now possible with exactly that mix of tools. It is also, I might add, these remote management and control features that will be the most contentious if ever deployed, but could be transformative to law enforcement.
So, if people have been thinking about these approaches, and if the ideas and tools are available and have been on the table for so long, this begs the larger question, why haven't we pursued an approach like this? Why is it not being discussed?
In Summary:
It is more than unfortunate that mass tragedy has brought us to weigh the rights of individuals against the community good. Both should be the same. We should cringe any time the rights of someone to peacefully do, buy, collect, use and own what they enjoy are challenged for whatever reason. It takes us down a slippery slope that none of us should want. I apologize in advance to any legitimate gun owner, sportsman or collector troubled by this discussion. In paraphrase of a quote from someone posting under the pseudonym of Boston T. Party "a gun should never be governed by any technology more complex than Newtonian physics".
With that said, absent any other move towards effective abatement of the potential for tragedy through policy or personal action, I do believe that before too long technology will be called upon to address the horror of mass shootings and other gun violence, perhaps not now, perhaps too far in the future to matter to any of us, but in the minds and hearts of many, something does need to be done. Most have passed fatigue and have exceeded all tolerance for mass shootings. Frustration will force action.
There are probably more than a few who at a minimum are rolling their eyes just about now.
How many remember the days when we put film into our cameras, dialed phones and waited for the bank to open to get cash? Is there anyone who doesn't believe that in twenty years GPS and databases will drive our cars and coordinate the safe flow of traffic? Technology moves forward. Innovation doesn't stop. Without a doubt, gun manufacturers already recognize that innovation is faster and cheaper in software than hardware. How long until a digital interface will allow the recreational shooter to change the rate of fire, burst patterns and even tactile and audible characteristics of the gun to increase enjoyment and personalize preferences? I haven't checked. Perhaps that is available already.
Let's recap what is on the table:
- Egregious violent gun crime could be reduced
- Mass shootings at schools, churches and the offices and factories where we work would be less a source of fear
- This could add to the capabilities of law enforcement providing better information, increased officer safety and more effective tools
- The recreational shooter can enjoy guns safely and responsibly
On the other hand:
- There will be a cost to the privacy and individual rights of law abiding citizens with whatever approach we take
- Hearts and minds sufficiently confident in technology to entrust the safety and protection of home and family will be hard to find
- The impossibility of getting several million conventional guns off the street may render this discussion academic
In reality:
In a utopian world these solutions would address many of the issues of gun related violence in a significant way, but we don't live in a utopian world. Technology, no matter how well applied, cannot end gun violence, and in truth, all of this would only be a small step forward. The untouchable inventory of guns on the street remains an impasse. Policy is difficult to implement. A society and culture that produces people that take lives is inexplicable. If this were easy it would already have been addressed.
We will need to decide in policy, technology and the prudent choices we make whether we are going to begin and at least take the baby steps forward or resign to accept things as they are. There is really no other choice on the table. We need focus, commitment, new ideas and new ways to approach the problems of violence and guns. Without this there is no technology we can introduce, or policy we could put into place, or cultural change that will end the potential for further tragedy.
We can show that a technical solution is feasible and that it would foster more effective capabilities for law enforcement and ultimately a society a bit safer from guns. We know what is at stake. In the end it is for each of us to determine how much more gun enabled violence we can tolerate and for people, policy makers and professional law enforcement to whom this matters as a life and death issue to call for change. This will not be easy to do.
For law enforcement and others in public safety this discussion is not academic. As long as there are conventional weapons out there the assumption has always got to be made that along with every 'really smart gun' on the grid that we could manage, there is another conventional one that we cannot, and they will encounter on the street. That may be the reality forever. When I speak of transformative technologies for the police as of now that is at best a statement of direction. It is also a hope that as they put their lives on the line we can offer some contribution through technology or other that will help make their jobs safer as they protect us.
One quote from a friend in law enforcement captured it all:
"This is really good stuff. Well thought out and truly the wave of the future. I am glad I won't be around when this is fully implemented someday, because with my luck the technology will fail me at the moment of truth, when my gun fails to fire, and I need it to save my life or protect my loved ones."
There is technology that we can use. The realization that change will come is there. Fear of change and moving forward is also there as is distrust in the reliability of technology. We lean on and protect what we know. Politicians lean on policy, technical people technology, and those in law enforcement and others concerned with self protection, their guns. It is the perceptions of those to whom this does matter, prudent thinking and the concerns of an anxious society that will determine what we will do. It will have to be technology, along with culture and policy that will shape the answer in the end. We do need an answer.


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