12160 Social Network2024-03-28T20:51:58ZDTOMhttps://12160.info/profile/DTOMhttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1798375711?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://12160.info/forum/topic/listForContributor?groupUrl=nanny-state-politics-exposed&user=zrzl8ltaywnd&feed=yes&xn_auth=noToronto school bans junk food snacks from students’ lunch bagstag:12160.info,2013-10-17:2649739:Topic:13408532013-10-17T22:08:48.834ZDTOMhttps://12160.info/profile/DTOM
<p><a href="http://davefarmersblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/nanny_state.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="align-left" height="408" src="http://davefarmersblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/nanny_state.jpg" width="362"></img></a> The battle over nutrition for young people has escalated in one Toronto school, where kids now are banned from bringing any junk food in their packed lunches.</p>
<p class="first">The new policy at James S. Bell Junior Middle School in suburban Etobicoke, which covers grades one to nine, now bars students from bringing snacks like chocolate, candy, pop and chips. Only fresh, healthy…</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://davefarmersblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/nanny_state.jpg"><img class="align-left" src="http://davefarmersblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/nanny_state.jpg" height="408" width="362"/></a>The battle over nutrition for young people has escalated in one Toronto school, where kids now are banned from bringing any junk food in their packed lunches.</p>
<p class="first">The new policy at James S. Bell Junior Middle School in suburban Etobicoke, which covers grades one to nine, now bars students from bringing snacks like chocolate, candy, pop and chips. Only fresh, healthy foods will be allowed, <em><a href="http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/toronto-school-bans-junk-food-from-students-lunch-bags-1.1500394" target="_blank">CTV News</a></em> reports.</p>
<p>Even granola bars are verboten as an everyday snack, although they're apparently allowed on special occasions such as holidays. Granola bars? The high levels of sugar, salt and other dodgy ingredients make them dubious health snacks, as the <em><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/granola-bars-a-healthy-snack-or-dressed--up-junk-food/article572493/#dashboard/follows/" target="_blank">Globe and Mail</a></em> noted a few years back.</p>
<p>“If we do find something like a box of Smarties or a KitKat bar … we will just kindly ask the student to take it home,” school principal John Currie told <em>CTV News.</em></p>
<p><a href="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/toronto-school-bans-junk-snacks-students-lunch-bags-190553720.html">http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/toronto-school-bans-junk-snacks-students-lunch-bags-190553720.html</a></p> Glendale is paying service to monitor students online, Company keeps an eye on social media posts including those on Facebooktag:12160.info,2013-08-26:2649739:Topic:12969732013-08-26T05:05:55.189ZDTOMhttps://12160.info/profile/DTOM
<p><span class="byline">By Kelly Corrigan, <em><a href="mailto:kelly.corrigan@latimes.com">kelly.corrigan@latimes.com</a></em></span></p>
<p class="date"><span class="dateString">August 24, 2013</span> <span class="dateTimeSeparator">|</span> <span class="timeString">12:37 p.m.</span></p>
<div class="clear"><br></br>Glendale school officials have hired a Hermosa Beach company to monitor and analyze public social media posts, saying the service will help them step in when students are in danger of…</div>
<p><span class="byline">By Kelly Corrigan, <em><a href="mailto:kelly.corrigan@latimes.com">kelly.corrigan@latimes.com</a></em></span></p>
<p class="date"><span class="dateString">August 24, 2013</span> <span class="dateTimeSeparator">|</span> <span class="timeString">12:37 p.m.</span></p>
<div class="clear"><br/>Glendale school officials have hired a Hermosa Beach company to monitor and analyze public social media posts, saying the service will help them step in when students are in danger of harming themselves or others.</div>
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<p>After collecting information from students' posts on social media platforms such as Facebook, <a title="Instagram" class="taxInlineTagLink" id="ORCRP0017741" href="http://www.glendalenewspress.com/topic/science-technology/technology/instagram-ORCRP0017741.topic" name="ORCRP0017741">Instagram</a>, YouTube and Twitter, Geo Listening will provide Glendale school officials with a daily report that categorizes posts by their frequency and how they relate to cyber-bullying, harm, hate, despair, <a title="Substance Abuse" class="taxInlineTagLink" id="HEBEC000020" href="http://www.glendalenewspress.com/topic/health/behavioral-conditions/substance-abuse-HEBEC000020.topic" name="HEBEC000020">substance abuse</a>, vandalism and truancy.</p>
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<p>Glendale Unified, which piloted the service at Hoover, Glendale and Crescenta Valley high schools last year, will pay the company $40,500 to monitor posts made by about 13,000 middle school and high school students at eight Glendale schools.</p>
<p>Read More <a href="http://www.glendalenewspress.com/news/tn-gnp-me-monitoring-20130824,0,4640365.story" target="_blank">Here</a></p>
</div> Victims’ Dilemma: 911 Calls Can Bring Eviction... Even In Cases Of Domestic Violencetag:12160.info,2013-08-19:2649739:Topic:12914382013-08-19T03:21:06.381ZDTOMhttps://12160.info/profile/DTOM
<p>NORRISTOWN, Pa. — The police had warned Lakisha Briggs: one more altercation at her rented row house here, one more call to 911, and they would force her landlord to evict her.</p>
<p>They could do so under the town’s “nuisance property” ordinance, a law intended to protect neighborhoods from seriously disruptive households. Officials can invoke the measure and pressure landlords to act if the police have been called to a rental home three times within four months. </p>
<p>So she faced…</p>
<p>NORRISTOWN, Pa. — The police had warned Lakisha Briggs: one more altercation at her rented row house here, one more call to 911, and they would force her landlord to evict her.</p>
<p>They could do so under the town’s “nuisance property” ordinance, a law intended to protect neighborhoods from seriously disruptive households. Officials can invoke the measure and pressure landlords to act if the police have been called to a rental home three times within four months. </p>
<p>So she faced a fearful dilemma, Ms. Briggs recalled, when her volatile boyfriend showed up last summer, fresh out of a jail stint for their previous fight, and demanded to move in. </p>
<p>“I had no choice but to let him stay,” said Ms. Briggs, 34, a certified nursing assistant, even though, she said in an interview, she worried about the safety of her 3-year-old daughter as well as her own. </p>
<p>“If I called the police to get him out of my house, I’d get evicted,” she said. “If I physically tried to remove him, somebody would call 911 and I’d be evicted.” </p>
<p>Over the last 25 years, in a trend still growing, hundreds of cities and towns across the country have adopted nuisance property or “crime-free housing” ordinances. Putting responsibility on landlords to weed out drug dealers and disruptive tenants, the laws aim to save neighborhoods from blight as well as ease burdens on the police. </p>
<p>But the laws are sometimes forcing victims, especially women facing domestic violence, to choose between calling the police and holding on to their homes, according to legal aid groups and experts on housing and the poor. </p>
<p>“These laws threaten citizens’ fundamental right to call on the police for help,” said Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at Harvard. </p>
<p>In a <a title="Links to study report." href="http://scholar.harvard.edu/mdesmond/publications/unpolicing-urban-poor-consequences-third-party-policing-inner-city-women">study of citations</a> issued to landlords in Milwaukee, conducted with Nicol Valdez of Columbia University, Mr. Desmond found that domestic violence was involved in nearly one-third of the cases and that rentals in largely black areas were disproportionately singled out. </p>
<p>Legal experts say the laws can give tenants the lasting stain of an eviction record without due process. </p>
<p>In a <a title="ACLU description with links to complaint and amicus briefs." href="http://www.aclu.org/womens-rights/briggs-v-borough-norristown-et-al">federal lawsuit</a> being watched by legal aid groups elsewhere, Ms. Briggs has challenged the Norristown ordinance as unconstitutional. </p>
<p>She did so after her fears were realized. </p>
<p>In June 2012, days after her ex-boyfriend, Wilbert Bennett, moved into her house in this struggling town northwest of Philadelphia, he started another drunken, late-night argument. Then came his most violent attack yet: an assault with a broken ashtray that left a gash on her head and a four-inch stab wound in her neck. </p>
<p>Before she passed out, Ms. Briggs begged her neighbor not to call 911 because of the eviction threat, according to the suit, which is being argued by the <a title="groups Web site." href="http://www.aclu.org/">American Civil Liberties Union</a>. </p>
<p>The neighbor called anyway. Ms. Briggs was taken by helicopter to Philadelphia for emergency treatment. Mr. Bennett is now serving a sentence of one to two years for aggravated assault. </p>
<p>And Norristown officials instructed her landlord to evict her within 10 days or lose his rental license. </p>
<p>“I was afraid I’d lose my house, my job and, what’s next, my daughter?” Ms. Briggs recalled. </p>
<p>A legal aid lawyer put her in touch with the A.C.L.U., and the city backed away from the eviction demand. Ms. Briggs moved anyway, to a location she hopes Mr. Bennett will not discover when he is released.</p>
<p>Read More <a href="http://dilemma-911-calls-can-bring-eviction.html?pagewanted=all&_r=4&" target="_blank">Here</a></p> NYC mayor says fingerprints should be used to access public housingtag:12160.info,2013-08-17:2649739:Topic:12900872013-08-17T12:59:39.982ZDTOMhttps://12160.info/profile/DTOM
<p><img alt="http://www.adweek.com/files/imagecache/node-blog/blogs/bloomberg_the_nanny_484.jpg" class="shrinkToFit decoded" height="438" src="http://www.adweek.com/files/imagecache/node-blog/blogs/bloomberg_the_nanny_484.jpg" width="236"></img></p>
<h1>mayor says fingerprints should be used to access public housing</h1>
<p>"What we really should have is fingerprinting to get in," Bloomberg said while speaking on WOR-AM radio about ways to improve safety in public housing. "We've just gotta find some ways to keep bringing crime down there."</p>
<p>Bloomberg, whose third term in office expires at the end of this year, pointed out that locks on buildings were often broken.</p>
<p>The mayor said the projects, run by the…</p>
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<h1>mayor says fingerprints should be used to access public housing</h1>
<p>"What we really should have is fingerprinting to get in," Bloomberg said while speaking on WOR-AM radio about ways to improve safety in public housing. "We've just gotta find some ways to keep bringing crime down there."</p>
<p>Bloomberg, whose third term in office expires at the end of this year, pointed out that locks on buildings were often broken.</p>
<p>The mayor said the projects, run by the largest public housing authority in North America, account for 20 percent of New York City's crime even though they house about 5 percent of its residents. Some 620,000 low- and moderate-income tenants live in the city's public housing.</p>
<p>Marc LaVorgna, a spokesman for the mayor's office, said Bloomberg was talking about using fingerprint technology to replace traditional locks.</p> Reno Nevada Health Inspector Shuts Down Girls Lemonade Standtag:12160.info,2013-08-08:2649739:Topic:12831162013-08-08T21:41:33.661ZDTOMhttps://12160.info/profile/DTOM
<p>By: Robert Fernandes <strong>-</strong> <a href="http://www.lemonadefreedom.com/" target="_blank">www.lemonadefreedom.com<strong><br></br><br></br>RENO --</strong></a> A summer cannot go by without hearing more news reports of kids’ lemonade stands being shut down by a bureaucrat. And this summer is no different. This time the “illegal” lemonade stand was in Reno Nevada, and the “perps” who were running the stand were 12 year old Emma Farrell and 14 year old Alex Farrell.<br></br><br></br>The family lives…</p>
<p>By: Robert Fernandes <strong>-</strong> <a href="http://www.lemonadefreedom.com/" target="_blank">www.lemonadefreedom.com<strong><br/><br/>RENO --</strong></a> A summer cannot go by without hearing more news reports of kids’ lemonade stands being shut down by a bureaucrat. And this summer is no different. This time the “illegal” lemonade stand was in Reno Nevada, and the “perps” who were running the stand were 12 year old Emma Farrell and 14 year old Alex Farrell.<br/><br/>The family lives inside the housing development where the Reno Tahoe Open PGA Tournament is hosted every August. Alex and Emma sell ice cold lemonade, homemade cookies, and gently used golf balls that they custom decorate for customers. They have been operating this stand in front of their house for the past five years with nothing but compliments and support from the community. They have even built a loyal and established customer base that returns year after year.<br/><br/>But this year on August 3rd, they were shocked to receive a visit from the Washoe County Health Inspector. They were told to cease operations immediately. They received a written warning and were told that they would be fined if they did not comply.<br/><br/>According to the girls’ mother Kelly, the Washoe County Health Inspector stated that the girls’ stand was being shut down this year because another vendor launched a complaint claiming that sales were low because of the girls’ lemonade stand.</p>
<p>Read More <a href="http://www.foxreno.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/reno-nevada-health-inspector-shuts-down-girls-lemonade-stand-250.shtml#.UgQG6_uV88o.reddit" target="_blank">Here</a></p> “Excuse me, are you a robot in the Surveillance State?tag:12160.info,2013-07-12:2649739:Topic:12554012013-07-12T11:57:25.902ZDTOMhttps://12160.info/profile/DTOM
<p><i>“President Barack Obama has ordered federal employees to report suspicious actions of their colleagues based on behavioral profiling techniques that are not scientifically proven to work, according to experts and government documents.”</i> (McClatchey News)<br></br> <br></br> In 1959, two friends of mine, Carl and Michael, staged a spy experiment at the small Ithaca, New York, airport. They were students at Cornell University.<br></br> <br></br> Michael was coming in on a little commercial plane from New…</p>
<p><i>“President Barack Obama has ordered federal employees to report suspicious actions of their colleagues based on behavioral profiling techniques that are not scientifically proven to work, according to experts and government documents.”</i> (McClatchey News)<br/> <br/> In 1959, two friends of mine, Carl and Michael, staged a spy experiment at the small Ithaca, New York, airport. They were students at Cornell University.<br/> <br/> Michael was coming in on a little commercial plane from New York late at night.<br/> <br/> In the one-room terminal, Carl waited for him and paced around, wearing a British raincoat and sunglasses. Occasionally, he’d look at his watch and glance out at the airstrip.<br/> <br/> Finally, the plane arrived.<br/> <br/> <a name="more" id="more"></a>Michael, also wearing a British raincoat, descended the steps from the plane, and Carl walked out to meet him on the tarmac. They stood, head to head, for a few minutes, talking to each other. They gestured toward the terminal.<br/> <br/> Security personnel arrested them.<br/> <br/> On suspicion of seeming suspicious.<br/> <br/> Which was the point of the experiment.<br/> <br/> Since America is now a spy state, where everyone is expected to snoop and snitch on everyone, why not play the game?<br/> <br/> A hundred college students walk into a large coffee shop and sit down.<br/> <br/> They starting passing notes to each other. (1950s spy-iconography)<br/></p>
<p><br/> A few of these students approach the counter, ask for the manager, and when he appears, inform him that the waiters/waitresses are doing suspicious things: staring; avoiding eye contact; lingering too long at tables while taking orders.<br/> <br/> This little stage play is repeated every day, until media pick up on the story.<br/> <br/> A few hundred college students gather in front of a government building. As employees come out at the end of the day, the students pull out cell phones and pretend to make calls. They talk loudly, mentioning that they’re seeing suspicious activity from government workers.<br/> <br/> Repeat daily, until media pick up on the story.</p>
<p>Continue reading at: <a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2013/07/excuse-me-are-you-robot-in-surveillance.html">http://www.activistpost.com/2013/07/excuse-me-are-you-robot-in-surveillance.html</a></p> Today’s Hysterical Gun Freakout: Teacher Invades Kid’s Privacy, Threatens Him Over Digital Photo of Airsoft Guntag:12160.info,2013-03-05:2649739:Topic:11401992013-03-05T21:11:56.470ZDTOMhttps://12160.info/profile/DTOM
<p>Airsoft BB guns are not real guns. Photos of airsoft guns are not real guns. Some teachers, though, are <a href="http://www.tonykatz.com/actor-joseph-c-phillips-teacher-threatened-my-son-questioned-his-mental-state-over-photo-of-bb-gun/">hysterical idiots</a>. Tony Katz has the story on his web site:</p>
<blockquote><p>[Joseph C.] Phillips, best known for his role as Lt. Martin Kendall on The Cosby Show, lives with his wife and three sons in the San Fernando Valley. In addition to being a…</p>
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<p>Airsoft BB guns are not real guns. Photos of airsoft guns are not real guns. Some teachers, though, are <a href="http://www.tonykatz.com/actor-joseph-c-phillips-teacher-threatened-my-son-questioned-his-mental-state-over-photo-of-bb-gun/">hysterical idiots</a>. Tony Katz has the story on his web site:</p>
<blockquote><p>[Joseph C.] Phillips, best known for his role as Lt. Martin Kendall on The Cosby Show, lives with his wife and three sons in the San Fernando Valley. In addition to being a regular fill-in host for Larry Elder on KABC radio in Los Angeles, he owns Daddy J’s Wingshack, where his 15-year-old son works and earned the money for an Airsoft bb gun. Last week his son brought a digital camera to school to show his friends <a href="http://www.airsoftgi.com/product_info.php?products_id=6266" target="_blank">a picture of the Airsoft</a>.</p>
<p>Read More <a href="http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/03/04/todays-hysterical-gun-freakout-teacher-invades-kids-privacy-threatens-him-over-digital-photo-of-airsoft-gun/" target="_blank">Here</a></p>
</blockquote> High School Student Disarms Gunman – Gets Suspended For ‘Involvement in Violent Incident’tag:12160.info,2013-03-03:2649739:Topic:11376812013-03-03T01:18:58.312ZDTOMhttps://12160.info/profile/DTOM
<p><img alt="" height="290" src="http://www.mrconservative.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Cypress-Lake-HS-WFTX-620x362.jpeg" width="496"></img></p>
<p>A Florida high school student and his friends discovered the truth of the cynical adage that “no good deed goes unpunished” when he was suspended for disarming a fellow student on the school bus. The teens, all students at Cypress Lake High School in Fort Myers, Florida, were on a school bus when two students got into a heated argument. One of them then pulled a loaded .22 caliber revolver on the other, and aimed it at his head.</p>
<p>One of the suspended students, who…</p>
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<p>A Florida high school student and his friends discovered the truth of the cynical adage that “no good deed goes unpunished” when he was suspended for disarming a fellow student on the school bus. The teens, all students at Cypress Lake High School in Fort Myers, Florida, were on a school bus when two students got into a heated argument. One of them then pulled a loaded .22 caliber revolver on the other, and aimed it at his head.</p>
<p>One of the suspended students, who spoke later with WFTX-TV news, knew instantly that this was no prank.</p>
<p><a href="http://amresolution.com/2013/03/02/high-school-student-disarms-gunman-gets-suspended-for-involvement-in-violent-incident/" target="_blank">SOURCE</a></p> ‘Fresh Prince’ theme leads to school lockdowntag:12160.info,2013-03-03:2649739:Topic:11374952013-03-03T00:55:38.114ZDTOMhttps://12160.info/profile/DTOM
<p>A student's outgoing voice mail message quoting the theme to "Fresh Prince of Bel Air" led to a school lockdown in Ambridge, Pa.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.timesonline.com/news/police_fire_courts/schools-locked-down-over-ambiguous-message-taken-as-threat/article_e0ead4e5-046f-5679-991c-4aea6d915123.html">Times Online</a> in Beaver, Pa., explains what happened. A receptionist from a doctor's office called to remind student Travis Clawson about an upcoming appointment. Clawson didn't pick…</p>
<p>A student's outgoing voice mail message quoting the theme to "Fresh Prince of Bel Air" led to a school lockdown in Ambridge, Pa.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.timesonline.com/news/police_fire_courts/schools-locked-down-over-ambiguous-message-taken-as-threat/article_e0ead4e5-046f-5679-991c-4aea6d915123.html">Times Online</a> in Beaver, Pa., explains what happened. A receptionist from a doctor's office called to remind student Travis Clawson about an upcoming appointment. Clawson didn't pick up, so the call went to voice mail.</p>
<p><a href="http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2013/02/28/perceived-threat-prompts-lockdown-at-ambridge-schools/">The receptionist heard</a> what sounded like a threat about "shooting" and "school" on Clawson's outgoing message. Apparently, the message was intended to quote a lyric from the Will Smith sitcom's theme song that goes, "And all shooting some b-ball outside of the school." It's unclear if the receptionist misheard Clawson's message or if the student altered the lyrics.</p>
<p>Read More <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/fresh-prince-theme-leads-school-lockdown-224259936.html" target="_blank">Here</a></p> 19 Signs That America Has Become A Crazy Control Freak Nation Where Almost Everything Is Illegaltag:12160.info,2013-01-21:2649739:Topic:10991122013-01-21T00:31:22.791ZDTOMhttps://12160.info/profile/DTOM
<p>Do you think that you are free? Most Americans would still probably answer “yes” to that question, but is that really the case? In the film Edge of Darkness, Mel Gibson stated that “everything is illegal in Massachusetts”. Well, the same could pretty much be said for the United States as a whole. Our lives are governed by millions of laws, rules and regulations and more are being piled on all the time. In fact,…</p>
<p>Do you think that you are free? Most Americans would still probably answer “yes” to that question, but is that really the case? In the film Edge of Darkness, Mel Gibson stated that “everything is illegal in Massachusetts”. Well, the same could pretty much be said for the United States as a whole. Our lives are governed by millions of laws, rules and regulations and more are being piled on all the time. In fact, <a title="40,000 new laws" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45819570/ns/us_news-life/t/new-laws-toughen-rules-abortions-immigrants-voters/#.T01odvVXk3w" target="_blank">40,000 new laws</a> just went into effect in January. Every single new law restricts your freedom just a little bit more. The truth is that America has become a crazy control freak nation where virtually everything that we do is highly regulated. You have probably broken multiple laws today that you don’t even know exist. We have all become criminals and lawbreakers because almost everything is illegal at this point. Our politicians are convinced that they are “making life better” by piling gigantic mountains of laws on to our backs, and law enforcement authorities are convinced that they are helping society by “cracking down on crime”, but the reality is that our liberties and our freedoms are being strangled by all of this government oppression. This is not the way that America is supposed to work.</p>
<p>Yes, every society needs laws. But the laws should be short enough and simple enough that everybody can read them and understand them.</p>
<p>In America today, there is no possible way that any of us could ever read all of the laws that apply to us. Most of us just live our daily lives and try to do the “right” thing. But there is no guarantee that men with guns will not show up at your door one evening because of some obscure regulation that you have broken.</p>
<p>The following are <a href="http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/19-signs-that-america-has-become-a-crazy-control-freak-nation-where-almost-everything-is-illegal" target="_blank">19 signs</a> that America has become a crazy control freak nation where almost everything is illegal….</p>