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Dold too Bold for Carol Sente, So It's Back To the Drawing Board for Dems; Quick, Get Susan Garrett on Speed Dial, Stat!
Sente put out a press release today stating:
While I am flattered that many constituents and friends asked me to consider running for Congress in the 10th Congressional District, I believe there is too much unfinished business in the General Assembly. The challenges we face in Illinois and in our communities requires dedication, resolve and commitment to put the practices of the past behind us, and it is crucial that we continue to improve upon the reforms we have begun.
I guess cooler advisors and friends must have convinced Sente that the new 10th District wasn't quite drawn as a walk-away for a Dem as some might like to think, or was intended, plus anyone running against Bob Dold is already about a million dollars behind, not to mention facing a three or four-way primary before even getting to the general.
So, Dems, it's back to the drawing board, unless socialist/facist/anarchist Ilya Sheyman is your cup of tea. I bet not a day goes by that Susan Garrett's phone isn't ringing off the hook.
36 comments:
How can Sheyman be a socialist and facist and anarchist all at the same time? If you are going to call someone names, shouldn't you try to make them look worse than you make yourself look?
- July 15, 2011 at 11:31 PM
Certainly, one can be a fascist and a socialist at the same time. Hitler being the most obvious example. Anarchists, I think, are different animals.
- July 16, 2011 at 12:32 AM
- Team America said...
Anon 11:31, the facist/socialist/anarchist reference was tounge-in-cheek, i.e., supposed to be funny. Come back when you have a sense of humor.
- July 16, 2011 at 8:07 AM
It would be funny if your minions were not, in fact, using those very terms on this blog and you utterly failed to suggest to them, as you do with any poster who isn't walking in arm-banded lock-step with your views, that perhaps they were just a smidge out of line. You fail to admonish some horrendously vile and demeaning comments regarding female office-holders and yet threaten to ban anyone who might dare suggest that certain well-heeled supporters of Dold might be engaged in the stuff that many a US Attorney would call loan sharking. With values that skewed, TA, asking to see your humor is asking a lot. Maybe even more than you deserve.
- July 16, 2011 at 9:44 AM
As the great comedian Mort Sahl said: "A libertarian is an anarchist with credit cards". And in your previous post it is always good to be so openly racist in the 21st century. I guess it helps the "Republican brand".
- July 16, 2011 at 11:55 AM
Rob Nev reminds me of Robin Williams' senior officer in Good Morning Vietnam, who is the most in need of something than any white man in history. Rob, You need to chill baby, and save all your clever progressive hopey changey hate-mongering for next year when it counts.
- July 16, 2011 at 11:56 AM
Got caught putting ants on a girl in Kindergarten, "I was just joking." Got caught sending phony valentines in grade school, "It was supposed to be funny." Got caught knocking a kid's books to the floor in junior high, "Can't he take a joke?" Got caught slandering a political candidate, it was "supposed to be funny." This is just juvenile. Have the courage to stand behind what you say. Want people to take you seriously, young man? Try acting like an adult.
- July 16, 2011 at 11:57 AM
Anon 11:56? Are you high?
- July 16, 2011 at 12:33 PM
It's early in the game for all of this truly inane chatter. Hard to imagine that it will be Ilya vs Dold, but who knows. Going through the just posted FEC reports one notes that Ilya's money comes from a vast number of donors nationally. Could that be the network of MoveOn.org? Regardless, it makes for interesting reading. Lee Goodman is an Ilya supporter together with the Borris family. Foklaes called it right about the Schnieder supporters. Bob Dold's impressive showing, by and large from supporters here in the area, continues to be outstanding. Politico has a piece about Bob Dold being in second place nationally for this quarter's fundraising. It's more than a year from the election so many things can change.
- July 16, 2011 at 12:43 PM
- A. Bees said...
Wow these are some of the most pathetic attacks on TA I've ever seen. The reality is that he's taking a shot at a candidate that's not even close to being a real contender. So stop wasting your time defending this minor league candidate and come back when you have someone who understands that the tenth expects an aisle crossing moderate, not a left or right wing stalwart.
- July 16, 2011 at 12:48 PM
Your buzziness? You missed the point. TA's cabal has sunk to this whole "he's a communist" melodrama. But rather than step up to the plate and try to bee a man, he just let it go. He also lets the likes of foklaes spew his bile-ridden, spittal-laden fomentations with nary a 'down-boy'. You also dip into the darkness on occasion as well, so I guess I can see why you might wish to allow TA to play the can't-you-see-I-was-kidding game. But the rest of us think TA's getting distastefully bitter. Perhaps he's tired of getting utterly scooped by The Eye?
- July 16, 2011 at 1:02 PM
Lake County Eye, July 11: "Your LakeCountyEye doubts that Carol Sente will throw her hat into this ring."
Just sayin'....
- July 16, 2011 at 1:05 PM
schneider is an evan bayh type democrat which means he's too conservative for that party and will not win the primary. He'll win some newspaper endorsements because he has an mba and isn't still in diapers, but that's as far as he'll go.
Scheyman has 0 chance of winning election to congress no matter how many ads democrats hit dold with for his ryan plan vote, but his command of the nutwing of that party will make it hard for others to get in and win.
I still think national democrats will spend the next 6 weeks trying to recruit someone for this seat, garrett, schoenberg, the merchandise mart kennedy, a former obama official, someone because they can't win congress without this seat and right now don't have a candidate in the field who can do that.
- July 16, 2011 at 1:24 PM
- Team America said...
Anon 1:05 - what exactly are you just sayin'? The Eye was not the exclusive doubter that Carol Sente was less than serious about the 10th: On July 11, 9:55 am, we wrote:
Lynn Sweet at the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that State Rep. Carol Sente (D-Vernon Hills) of the 59th District is thinking about throwing in for the newly-remapped 10th District. How real this thought might be and how much might be a little vanity on Sente's part remains to be seen.
So, looks like the Eye and I agreed. BTW, I love the Eye - they throw a lot of blog hits my way, since they seem rather obsessed with us, sometimes. Plus, their sometime bizzare sense of humor makes us here look rather tame.
- July 16, 2011 at 2:19 PM
Isn't it funny that TA responds to the Lake County Eye issues and not the venal comments of his team.
Good to have priorities.
- July 16, 2011 at 8:29 PM
Anon, are we supposed to debate your venality and name calling while you remain anonymous?
Is that the purpose of your multiple flaming today?
Louis G. Atsaves
- July 17, 2011 at 12:56 AM
Are you trying to be funny, too, like Team America? Almost all of the posts that ever appear on this blog are anonymous. You are one of the only real names that ever appears. Even the blog's owner doesn't identify himself. And so you know, I am one of the anonymous posters today, but I did not post all of the anonymous comments. More than one person, and maybe several, are critical of the unsupported and mean-spirited name calling.
- July 17, 2011 at 8:41 AM
All of the anon critical postings on this thread have the same writing style as yours. Who are you kidding?
You want to separate yourself from the crowd of yourself/yourself and yourself? Pick out a moniker.
Louis G. Atsaves
- July 17, 2011 at 9:52 AM
Oh Louis, there you go again. Think about your first comment. In court, if you raised an objection to testimony in court because, say, the witness wasn't dressed properly, you know the court would tell you it was not germane and tell you to sit down. Here, unlike court, anonymous posts are permitted. Bloggers can set the preferences so that they are not. So, speak to substance or sit down and hold your forked tongue.
I have, in the past, posted under my own name and actually got a call from someone, at my home. I found that intrusive and told that to the GOP official. I went so far as to contact the Illinois Inspector General, who agreed. I asked them to take no further action at the time, but it now stands that the next call from that individual will trigger a full-on investigation. TA's cabal with the likes of Cook and Castella and Venturi are not shy about intimidation, impotent as it might be, especially in Castella's case. Note should be taken also that TA himself brought this on by a failed attempt to out Senator Bond as an annonymous commenter, even though, based on the time stamp, he was on the floor of the Senate.
I find it funny that you want a moniker. What, can't handle the time stamp thing? I also note that you were silent when the right-wing nut-jobs started this whole, Sheyman's a communist bunk.
Objection overrulled counsel. We find that TA's 'just kidding' back-pedal is spurious.
- July 17, 2011 at 10:34 AM
Bad detective work, Louis. This is my fourth post on this thread. There is indeed someone else out there. And, by the way, why doesn't Team America identify himself, like you do?
- July 17, 2011 at 11:09 AM
Louis? One to many Saturday night cocktails?
"Anon, are we supposed to debate your venality and name calling while you remain anonymous?"
Read up, folks. The point here was that commenters on this blog, anon ones at that, have repeatedly referred to Sheyman as a communist and a bolshevik, but TA and our master of pompous bloviation, Louis, remained silent. But call a Dold big-money hitter a loan shark, and TA threatens to ban the poster. Louis and Foklaes are the biggest name-callers on the block, but that's just because their boat always seems to be falling behind in discussions of substance. Louis whips out his tin-foil-hat reference every time his arguments loses steam. The anon posts above were neither venal or resorted to name calling. They characterized foklaes' posts, not the individual. (Who, we all know is Louis himself, because it's good to be your own fan club. Or, someone's gotta do it!) But, what the hell, why not?!?
Louis, you're a pompous doodie-head and your mother dresses you funny!
- July 17, 2011 at 11:10 AM
- Team America said...
Anon at 11:09 - the name is Falbe, Larry Falbe. I have addressed this often before. Team America is a nom de plume, and a few minutes of research on this blog, Lake County Eye, the Daily Herald, and/or other blogs that shall remain nameless because we don't like to plug them, brings up plenty of references to my name. I go by TA here because it's more fun to be TA on this blog than Larry.
So you have mine, show us yours.
Well, actually, no one here probably cares. But you could at least pick a nickname so we can keep track of you.
I would suggest "Flounder". But it's up to you.
- July 17, 2011 at 11:21 AM
Love "Flounder"! Great movie reference (or maybe I'm just dating myself). And yes, some of us do get (and have) a sense of humor.
Keep up the good work.
Another Anon (haven't posted enough to earn a moniker).
- July 17, 2011 at 12:52 PM
the question that needs to be asked of 10th dems is are you satisfied with your current field? not what did team america say in a blog post. Do you really think an extreme leftwing 21 year old is ready to be your next congressman or are you ready to support a right wing democrat with no political experience in schneider?
PS team america-any chance we can get a syllabus from alexi giannoulias's course he's teaching this fall at Northwestern?
- July 17, 2011 at 1:59 PM
TA's article mentions that State Reps. Sente and Mathias might run against each other, but it doesn't mention the conservative Republican, in that district. Greg Jacobs announced that he's running for state rep., in the 59th District, since he thinks that Rep. Mathias is as liberal as many Democrats.
Northfield Conservative
- July 17, 2011 at 3:34 PM
Greg Jacobs no better than a trojan horse sent to us by Michael Madigan. The 59th is a very strong Dem district, and only Mathias with his DEEP roots in BUffalo Grove gives us a chance to etch this district out so we mitigate some of the loss from redistricting.
- July 17, 2011 at 4:55 PM
I get it. Anon postings on this thread are from yourself, yourself and yourself.
A coordinated flame attack no less!
And yes, I sign my own name to my postings. My mama raised me right, even though you may not like the way she dressed me.
Louis G. Atsaves
- July 18, 2011 at 12:01 AM
Oh Louis, don't be such a baby! In all your whining, you never once responded to the substance of the arguments here. Silence being an admission after you've had an opportunity to speak, you accept TA's endorsement of the nasty comments of your bro-mance buddy and all the rest of the Red-Scourge hunters. You're a boob, Louis. A hack and a Boob.
But, if it makes you feel more warm and fuzzy, I am the poster from 7/16 9:44, 12:33, 1:02, 8:29, 7/17 11:10am. Happy now, (pardon me while I use a phrase one of your minions used on Lake County Eye) you pathetic d-bag!
- July 18, 2011 at 2:16 AM
But if it makes you more comfortable, Louis, from now on I'll post as LADB; Louis Atsves Douche Bag. Okay?
- July 18, 2011 at 4:10 AM
Good gracious, these posts are getting as bad as they were during the last months of the Kirk senate race. Can we please stop this childish name calling.
Baxter and Beau's Mom (a big fan of Senator Kirk, Congressman Dold and all Republicans)
Hey Larry, why didn't you show up at the First Annual Senator Kirk 4th of July BBQ?
- July 18, 2011 at 9:31 AM
5 years of this blog. there have been heated exchanges-I am guilty of probably most of them, although rob n, and fielding have had a few, but don't think it's ever reverted to this. play nice in the sandbox or find another one where you can throw sand in other peoples faces. Team America shouldn't have to waste an off cycle summer editing words like dbag.
Fan of King Louis Astaves Ellen Slayer
- July 18, 2011 at 11:17 AM
It would seem that the ANON, nameless and genderless, is intent upon childish rants instead of quiet, intelligent conversation on the issues.
- July 18, 2011 at 11:36 AM
This is why that moniker came to mind:
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Your douchery floors me. So typical. Wow! What a finding! People involved with the legislature who live outside of a certain mileage circle of Springfield actually get a stipend or prearraged lodging at a contracted rate. Great work - I wait in great anticipation for your solving of the Lindbergh Baby caper! Maybe you can track down some juicy tidbits on the other people that are in that lease amount such as what type of corn is in their stool or somthing of that nature.
July 5, 2011 11:04 AM
If TA's minions feel it appropriate call candidates communists and pollute the Lake County Eye with this sort of nastiness, then perhaps such a moniker would be also be appropriate.
But it was a little crude, and demeaning to women, so I apologize for it. Consider my cyber-mouth washed out with Dr. Bronner's soap.
But Louis, you're still a doodie-head.
- July 18, 2011 at 1:58 PM
From doodie-head to douche bag? Am I supposed to be impressed with such "refined, intelligent debate"?
Louis G. Atsaves
- July 18, 2011 at 2:48 PM
"reference was tounge-in-cheek, i.e., supposed to be funny. Come back when you have a sense of humor."
- July 18, 2011 at 3:09 PM
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Brucie is a bit of a maniac, as you may or may not already know, and that man has some plans for you. If you check your e-mail at any internet café in the city after getting the go-ahead from him, you'll receive instructions, one after another, of vehicles that have to be stolen from certain locations. Sadly, the vehicles and locations are randomly mixed and matched, meaning yours won't necessarily correlate with ours, but each location will be covered once, as will each vehicle. So, use our instructions below as a primer, since the vehicle you steal at a particular location may be different but the place you have to steal it from and the circumstances of the theft won't differ.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military and its main suppliers must globalize and adopt more commercial practices to stay competitive, according to a report released this week.
"We're at another tipping point in the evolution of the defense industry," said former U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn, who co-chaired a task force that helped shape the report by the Center for a New American Security.
"If we're going to maintain our technological edge, we need to ensure that our industrial strategy and our acquisition structures take account of these commercialization and globalization forces," said Lynn, who now heads DRS Technologies, a unit of Italy's Finmeccanica SpA.
U.S. military spending is falling, but China, India and other countries are spending more and making strides in development of satellites and other advanced technologies. To maintain revenues, Lockheed Martin, Boeing and other big U.S. firms are increasingly turning to overseas sales and hunting for opportunities in non-defense markets.
Lynn told Reuters the CNAS report was intended as a "warning bell" on the need for changes like those that swept through the auto industry decades ago.
The report said the U.S. weapons industry moves too slowly to adjust to current trends. For example, the Pentagon has switched from taking the lead in developing technologies like GPS satellites and now looks to commercial players for innovations like 3-D printing.
It said industry and government need to invest more in new technologies and remove regulatory and acquisition barriers that hinder U.S. firms.
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Export controls have also hampered commercial sales of infrared technologies developed for the U.S. military, Lynn said. "Our not exporting it doesn't mean it's not available. It just means U.S. companies aren't getting the business, and U.S. jobs aren't being put to use," he said.
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Former Raytheon Co chief engineer Andy Lowery said cost pressures were prompting shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries and other defense suppliers to adopt virtual reality technologies to cut production costs and improve quality.
Lowery, who is now president of DAQRI, which develops virtual reality software, said smaller, more commercially oriented firms, like privately held Space Exploration Technologies, are quicker to adopt such technologies. "The big companies are interested, but they have a natural propensity to crawl, walk, run," he said.
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Near Remote Sensing to Track Changes in Phenology in Forests, Team Harvard
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Team Harvard is comprised of Dmitri Ilushin of Harvard University; Sascha Perry, Lincoln University in Missouri; and Hannah Skolnik of Columbia University. We are under the direction of the Richardson Lab within the Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. Phenology is the study of life cycles in various organisms. Specifically, we've been looking at tree phenology, tracking spring leaf out (when the trees start growing leaves after lying dormant all winter) and autumn senescence (when the leaves begin to change colors and drop from the trees). This summer, we have had the opportunity to challenge the question "Can webcam imagery track phenological changes?" Believe it or not, we can do just that! By looking at over 1800 different webcams with about 60 million images from all over the world, we were able to track the cameras' stability and views of vegetation. With this information, we've been able to track Green Chromatic Coordinate (GCC), a measure of the percentage of greenness of an area of an image. The GCC graphs yield quantitative information to track the changes of the seasons.
Below is a map of all the sites that are on the AMOS archive.
Great sites are green. Good Sites are yellow. Unusable sites are red.
In order to parse through such a large data set, we had to come up with a protocol. Firstly, we conducted a preliminary, visual inspection of the 1879 sites with known locations. We looked through a subset of a site's images and noted FOV (field of view) shifts, when the camera moved noticeably. Based on the number of FOV shifts, we marked the sites either as stable (no movement), constant (consistently changing), or poor (too many shifts to use the site). Of the stable locations, we looked through each photo and found the exact times when FOV shifts occurred. We then made ROIs (Regions Of Interest), or selections of certain pixels of the image, that covered trees, shrubs, grass, or crops. Finally, a program was run that takes all of this information, calculates the GCC from the ROIs we made, and makes a time series (GCC graph) for each year. We decided to focus on creating GCC graphs for a vertical gradient along the Atlantic coast of the United States as well as two horizontal gradients in the US, one in the north, and one in the south.
A sample vegetated site:
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Studying phenology has been a blast. We've been able to study the immediate effects of recent climate phenomena. By calculating Green Chromatic Coordinate (GCC) curves and studying them across the United States, we have been able to see how these warming patterns have been affecting growing seasons across the country. What we have been doing has been on a smaller scale than satellite imagery so we can compare patterns even between species. However, by using the Archive of Many Outdoor Scenes (AMOS), we have huge spatial coverage, which allows us to compare how a certain species of tree is growing on the east coast versus the west coast, for example. Thus, webcam imagery represents a happy medium of scale. We can study the small scale and compare it to almost all other biomes and the same biome in different parts of the world.
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MODIS Satellite Imagery as Applied to Phenological Assessment, Team BU
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Observations of vegetation phenology can be collected not only from ground-level field studies but also space borne remote sensing instruments. In particular, satellite images may be used to assess vegetative phenophase transition dates such as spring onset, maximum vegetation cover and senescence across regional scales. One approach to such assessment entails analysis of data from the MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) instrument. MODIS provides measurements of light reflectance that can be analyzed to estimate phenophase transition dates with respect to variation in land cover type. Despite the utility of the MODIS data, atmospheric factors including cloud coverage and presence of aerosols as well as land cover features such as snow and ice, can distort data received by satellites, rendering this information unreliable. Differences between the outputs of various MODIS satellite products are also a result of factors including the timing of the satellites' orbits, intervals between image collection and the way in which the reflectance values are processed. These anomalies result in each product yielding a varying quantity of valid data. A goal in remote sensing research is determining which MODIS product contains the greatest amount of high quality information to be used to accurately calculate phenophase transition dates. In order to assess the differences between and overall utility of these MODIS products, we have created a variety of plots and maps which address: NDVI (normalized difference vegetation index), EVI (enhanced vegetation index), date of spring onset, land cover variation, differing levels of quality control, comparisons across time series within and between years, and quantity/location of 'good' data— all of which illuminate the unique strengths and weakness of the MODIS products.
In addition, team BU has been analyzing data from satellite imagery and the resulting picture tiles. Pixel values can tell us the date of Green Onset and yearly trends for entire tiles, corridors, and even single pixels. We opened MODIS 12Q2 tiles in ArcMap, which is a great tool for working with these images. We then created six buffer zones around the city limits of the metropolitan area of Boston, Massachusetts (1-3km, 2-2km, 3-3km, 4-2km, 5-5km, 6-5km). Then, MatLab was used to produce graphs for 10 years (2001 - 2010) and then compared and analyzed to see what trends were present. We found that standard deviation declines as you leave the city and enter more rural and stable forests and this is apparent in all the buffer zones. The reasoning behind this is that the forest is more stable and deviates less. In contrast, as you get closer to Boston, the deviation is higher due to temperature increase. Due to the urban heat island effect, Boston greens up sooner and loses its leaves later than vegetation in rural areas. By looking at Boston, we can relate what could happen with a temperature increase of a few degrees Fahrenheit at a small scale to a global scale. Ultimately, we can use this data to better understand global warming and inform the population.
K-12 Phenology Lessons for the Phenocam Project
By Katherine Bennett
In the fall of 2011, the Ashburnham- Westminster Regional School District became the first of five schools to join Dr. Andrew Richardson's Phenocam Network with the installation of a digital phenocam on the roof of Overlook Middle School in Ashburnham, Massachusetts. As a part of the Phenocam project, students at the K-12 level have expanded the scope of phenological monitoring that is part of the Harvard Forest Schoolyard Ecology Program protocol, Buds, Leaves, and Global Warming. In this protocol, students work with Dr. John O'Keefe to monitor buds and leaves on schoolyard trees to determine the length of the growing season. Lessons are being developed for comparing student data on budburst, color change, and leaf drop to phenocam images in Ashburnham and other locations throughout North America, GCC (Green Chromatic Coordinate) graphs extracted from the images, and satellite data. Lessons addressing map scale and Urban Heat Island effect will also be available for teachers.


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WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. - William Dym eulogized the three members of his family involved in Friday's double murder/suicide at a funeral at a funeral service attended by hundreds at St. Patrick's Church in Bedford.
Father Steven Dym was remembered fondly by his 20-year-old son along with his 50-year-old mother Loretta and 18-year-old sister Caroline, according to multiple reports.
"He was my hero, no matter what the circumstances," William said of his father. "No matter what the circumstances, my love for him is everlasting."
When speaking of his mother, William said "(she) was the most caring and hardworking person I ever knew," he said. "No one worked harder than she did. She helped my father provide for our family."
The murder-suicide happened while William was away at college in California. Steven Dym, a Manhattan real estate executive, was facing financial trouble and stood accused of embezzling money from several residential properties he managed before the shooting, according to media reports.
Shortly after 11 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 25, state police troopers teamed with the Pound Ridge Police Department to investigate a possible suicide at the Dym's Fox Hill Road home. Upon arrival, officers reported that they had found all three bodies dead inside the residence.
It was determined that Dym killed his family with single shots to the midsection with a 12-gauge shotgun before shooting himself in the head. The Westchester County Medical Examiner's office officially ruled his death as a suicide on Monday.
Dym had several active civil lawsuits against him, claiming that he had stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars from properties he managed, according to People. He had recently come into financial woes, having put the family's 4,600-square-foot home, valued at more than $1.5 million, on the market.
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The shootings in an Omaha shopping mall in December 2007 brought home, once again, what security experts have known for decades: retail malls are "soft targets." Based on surveys of private mall security directors and State homeland security officials, researchers reported in 2006 that U.S. retail malls had received "too little attention" from security officials as potential sites for terrorist and other attacks.[1]
An Assessment of the Preparedness of Large Retail Malls to Prevent and Respond to Terrorist Attack, a study funded by the National Institute of Justice, was based on data from the 3-1/2 years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. It was performed by the Police Foundation, the Vera Institute of Justice, ASIS International, the Midwest Research Institute, Eastern Kentucky University, and Carleton University.
The researchers noted that it is the very nature of retail malls that makes them vulnerable: Large numbers of people, many carrying sizeable parcels, come and go through multiple entrances and exits, making it easy for a shooter to blend in with the crowds. Overseas, open-air street markets—the world's original malls—have similar risk factors. And natural disasters, such as fires, tornados, and earthquakes, pose many of the same security issues for malls. But regardless of the event—natural disaster or attack via automatic weapon, bomb, or chemical or biological agent—casualties in malls can be high. The December 5 shooting at Omaha's Westroads Mall left nine dead and five injured.[2]
In our research, Christopher Ortiz, Robert Rowe, Joseph Broz, George Rigakos, Pam Collins, and I examined the state of private security in U.S. shopping malls in the post-9/11 world. We found significant gaps in the emergency preparedness of malls:
There are several steps that could be taken to be better equipped for all emergency situations, whether terrorist attack, mass shooting and other violent acts, or natural disaster. State homeland security officials, local police, and mall owners and tenants all have roles to play in protecting the Nation's malls.
My colleagues and I examined whether malls have become better prepared to respond to incidents since terrorists attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 9/11. Our investigation—designed to go beyond earlier surveys on mall security—consisted of four parts:
The discussion in this article is based on the two surveys and the legislative analysis. See U.S. Site Visits Confirm Lack of Preparedness, for a discussion of the domestic site visits.
We asked the State homeland security advisors to characterize the level of preparedness of large malls in their States: Of the 33 who responded, 31 percent said "poor," 24 percent said "fair," 27 percent said "good," and 18 percent said "very good."
The most frequently cited reasons for the "poor" rating were inadequate training and equipment, or the opinion that private mall security would be irrelevant during an attack because the responsibility for response would fall to law enforcement. When asked how retail malls could better prepare, nearly half (15) of the security advisors endorsed improved training for security staff and emergency responders.
The need for better training was also cited by the mall security directors. Fifty-two percent of the 120 who responded said that their employees received special training on preventing and responding to terrorism; however, 50 percent also said that their mall's antiterrorism training was inadequate.
In our analysis of State laws—which was performed approximately 3-1/2 years after 9/11—we found that although 22 States had mandated a minimum number of hours of general training for private security officers, no State had mandated specific training on preventing or responding to terrorism.
Our legislative analysis also revealed that, at that time, two-thirds of States required some level of background investigation for prospective security officers, most commonly a criminal history check. Nearly all mall security directors said they required criminal background checks. Slightly more than half (65 directors) responded that they also required drug tests.
Notably, we found that few hiring standards had changed in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks: only 6 percent of the 120 mall security directors who responded to the survey said hiring standards were made more stringent, and just one in 10 said they required additional background verification.
Our research indicated, however, that many malls had made operational changes to improve security after 9/11. Sixty-three percent of the 120 mall security directors reported, for example, that patrol and surveillance strategies were modified post-9/11, with the most frequently reported change being the increase in security officer visibility.
Sixty of the security directors said their malls had a closed-circuit television system, the large majority of which (81 percent) were used to monitor events in real time (as opposed to taping for later review, if necessary). Thirty percent of the malls had passive barriers, or bollards, to prevent vehicles from breaching the entrance. Nearly half (49 percent) reported that their staff were instructed to be on the lookout for unusual behavior or dress of mall clients, including generally suspicious activity such as taking photos or notes of the facilities, suspicious (such as extra-bulky) clothing, and large or unusual packages.
Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of the security directors reported that they had protocols for security staff to follow in the event of a disaster. The same proportion reported that these plans included coordinating and communicating with local law enforcement, fire, and medical first responders.
But our research revealed little cooperation in rehearsing emergency response. Only 30 percent of mall security directors held exercises to rehearse emergency protocols with first responders. Fifteen of the State homeland security advisors said they were aware of joint exercises between private security staff in some malls and local police. Only 13 of the State officials were aware of joint exercises between mall security staff and fire or EMT professionals.
The 120 mall security directors reported a low level of support from their State homeland security office in working to improve security. Only 3 percent characterized their State advisor as "very involved" in planning, reviewing, or approving mall security measures. Seventy-eight percent reported that their State security advisor was "not at all involved."
The mall security directors did, however, report that local law enforcement agencies were significantly more involved in mall preparedness than were their State homeland security advisors. Two-thirds characterized their local police as being "somewhat involved" in their security planning. Slightly more than one-third (36 percent) reported that their relationship with local law enforcement had become closer since 9/11.
The majority (63 percent) of security directors said they would welcome more involvement by State homeland security offices and local police, including:
When asked to identify the biggest impediment to improved mall security, the majority of the State homeland security advisors cited cost and lack of funding. Only 16 percent of the mall security directors said that their budgets had increased beyond the rate of inflation since 2001.
Private mall security directors and State homeland security officials could take some steps to improve emergency preparedness. Our recommendations include:
These measures would not only help prepare malls against attack, but the risk assessments, emergency plans, and drills would also mitigate the impact of random acts of violence, fires, earthquakes, and other natural disasters.
NIJ Journal No. 259, March 2008NCJ 221503
Robert Davis is senior research analyst for the RAND Corporation. At the time of the research discussed in this article, he was with the Police Foundation. Davis has directed projects on policing, domestic violence, victimization, crime prevention, courts, prosecution, and parole reentry. He is the author of two books on crime prevention and editor of five books on crime prevention and victimization.
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An Assessment of the Preparedness of Large Retail Malls to Prevent and Respond to Terrorist Attack (pdf, 50 pages), final report submitted to the National Institute of Justice, December 2006 (NCJ 216641).
[note ] "Police: Nine Killed in Shooting in Omaha Mall, Including Gunman," CNN.com, December 6, 2007.
[note 3] Although we do not claim that the eight U.S. malls we visited were representative of the industry, it should be noted that the malls were geographically diverse: They were located in California, Texas, Wisconsin, and Utah.
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This is George. He's a toad.He likes slugs, long hops on dark rainy nights, and...hanging about in people's studios.
George turned up in my studio late last July, just in time to help me bang out a new pattern (using LOFT, no less!) for Brooklyn Tweed's forthcoming publication Wool People 2.
And yes, it is quite diffcult to work when someone won't get off the book that one is trying use...George.Luckily I knew of someone else who has a couple of lovely studios that I knew George would absolutely love. Besides, George shares Tom's predilection for flamboyant headgear.From what I understand they are now getting on quite well together, which makes me happy. I hope you're behaving yourself, George!
Another thing that makes me particularly happy (happy? More like ecstatic as a raving crazypants LOON,) is WOVEMBER - the month-long celebration of REAL SHEEP and REAL WOOL that has been organized and executed by Kate and Felicity. In a burst of utter JOY and LUST to celebrate WOVEMBER I promptly swooped down upon Felicity's Etsy Shop and picked up a couple of her limited edition WOVEMBER 2011 tweed-covered badges. They turned up in the post just the other day......accompanied by the sweetest note. Thank you, Felicity - I will now be properly decked out for the rest of this WONDERFUL, WOOLLY WOVEMBER. Baaa!
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7 comments:
- Sally said...
Oh my, but he's cute! Love Kate; love those badges; love Wovember.
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- Felicity Ford said...
Royal Mail did us proud this time! So glad everything reached you in good time for a happy and woollen Wovember. That Toad is awesome and I am loving his regal headwear. x
- November 11, 2011 at 11:53 a.m.
- kmkat said...
I thought that was a crown on George's head -- The Crowned Toad, right?
- November 11, 2011 at 1:33 p.m.
- Gillian said...
What an adorable toad. Love it!
- November 12, 2011 at 9:45 p.m.
- Jen said...
Got a pattern for the toad? My 13-year old LOVES it and I'd love to make one for her for the holiday.
- November 14, 2011 at 5:55 a.m.
i just lost it over this toad.
i need one in my life.
- November 27, 2011 at 8:40 p.m.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — After all this time running to lead America, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are still trying to show they really believe in America.
Both men have made the election not just about the economy or even the American Dream, but about America itself. They see a pessimistic nation nervous about its future, hardly the American way.
They see political opportunity if they can come across as the one who gets what it means be American, the guy who restores the glory.
What's more, for reasons quietly tied to religion or race or family roots, Romney and Obama can never do enough to shore up their own American bona fides in voters' minds.
This despite the fact that one of them will be the president next year, and one already is the president.
In the midst of their patriotic push, Obama and Romney have never overtly accused the other of being un-American.
But they spend no small amount of time raising doubts about the other's belief in America's promise, its workers, its resilience, its basic compact with its people.
Both talk about the goodness of Americans and the exceptional nature of America itself. They rarely concede that the other candidate shares that view.
Obama and Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, have vastly different visions on how to create jobs and opportunity, and that contrast in governing philosophy is a defining choice for voters in November.
They often make it sound personal, too.
"I think this election will decide the soul of America," Romney said while campaigning for the Republican nomination April. "And I have a very different view of the soul of America."
When Romney stood up at the GOP convention to accept the nomination, the theme of the night was on the giant screen behind him: "We Believe In America." The sentiment is on the side of his campaign plane, too.
The suggestion is that the other party, led by Obama, does not believe in America, and that it's chiefly Obama. He flies on an airplane, Air Force One, with "United States of America" on its side.
The believe part is implied.
In Obama's acceptance speech at the Democratic convention, he framed the election as a choice of two visions. His was the one that would "restore the values" of America. The other vision he offered was of a Romney presidency that dismisses the role of citizenship; the one in which, for example, it would be OK for children to breathe toxic pollution in the name of corporate progress, he said.
"You know what? That's not who we are," Obama said. "That's not what this country is about."
There is something to this nagging sense that America has lost its way.
Associated Press polling has not found a majority saying the nation is moving in the right direction since 2003. The richest nation on earth is divided over whether today's children will have a better standard of living than their parents do.
When the national debt surpassed $16 trillion just days ago, Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan held it up as indictment of Obama's leadership.
"That's a country in decline," Ryan said.
Vice President Joe Biden quickly turned those words back on him, working in a don't-you-doubt-America riff to his convention speech, and hitting that theme in campaign stops since.
"America is not in decline," Biden boomed. "I've got news for Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan. It's never been a good bet to bet against the American people. Never."
Obama, campaigning in Florida on Saturday, called the U.S. "a young nation with the greatest diversity of talent and ingenuity from every corner of the globe, so no matter what the naysayers may say for political reasons, no matter how dark they try to make everything look, there's not a country on Earth that wouldn't gladly trade places with the United States of America."
While the values of policies and budgets they envision are part of the debate, Romney and Ryan have never actually bet against the American people.
They are running to represent them.
Romney has even gone so far as to sing "America the Beautiful" at events. The Obama campaign used it against him in a mocking ad about Romney's record on jobs and his taxes. On Saturday in Virginia Beach, Va., Romney recited the Pledge of Allegiance at a rally, going through it phrase by phrase to suggest Obama has fallen short of its promise.
The candidates know the nation is divided politically, but not patriotically. Almost 90 percent of people called themselves "very patriotic" in a Pew Research Center poll in April.
"Patriotism is very emotional. When people are scared — and essentially they're scared about where our country is going — they are prone to relate to that argument," said Barbara Perry, a senior fellow who studies the presidency at the University of Virginia's Miller Center.
"Most Americans, whether liberal or conservative, fall into the patriotic category," she said, "because we all created this experiment of a country together."
Romney and Obama have their personal reasons, too.
The challenger is the first major party nominee to be a follower of the Mormon religion, which means he is subject to voter bias that hasn't budged much in decades in the United States. Nearly 20 percent of Americans say they would not vote for a well-qualified presidential candidate who happens to be a Mormon, a Gallup poll in June found.
Many voters still aren't sure about Obama's faith, either. Just under half of registered voters in a Pew poll in June correctly identified him as Christian.
Obama, of course, is the first president in U.S. history to dig up a long-form birth certificate just to prove he was born in America, and this was long after he had already been on the job. The notion that Obama was born anywhere other than in Hawaii has long been discredited, although Romney stirred it up again last month when he said "no one's ever asked to see my birth certificate."
He later said he was joking.
Associated Press Deputy Director of Polling Jennifer Agiesta and Associated Press writer Kasie Hunt contributed to this analysis.
EDITOR'S NOTE — AP White House Correspondent Ben Feller has covered the presidencies of Barack Obama and George W. Bush.
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