Rochester Schools Superintendent Robert Shaner apologized to the family of a U.S. Army officer who was turned away from a district high school for wearing his uniform.
Lt. Col. Sherwood Baker went into Adams High School in Rochester Hills to talk to his daughter's counselor about her class schedule, but he was not allowed to enter the building because he was wearing his military uniform.
"They stopped him at the door and told him he couldn't go in because it was against policy," wife Rachel Ferhadson said.
Shaner, a veteran who served in the U.S. Marines from 1990-94, stressed that this is not the district's policy. He said the security company is contracted and that school officials have met with the security officers to make sure this doesn't happen again.
"I've been on deployment. I understand what people go through and the sacrifices people make. I understand the expectation to be respected for what you've done," Shaner said. "I understand that what has taken place deeply hurts people. We will correct it."
Other sources mentioned the wife saying "The security guard told him men and women in uniform were not allowed because it may offend another student."
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I'll be someone in arab like clothing carrying a rather large, heavy [,ticking] satchel would be escorted right in. The guard would probably even offer to help carry the bomb documents.
Don't want to offend anyone right?
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Other sources mentioned the wife saying "The security guard told him men and women in uniform were not allowed because it may offend another student."
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Update - The very top guy is an ex-Marine who was deployed on US missions also, and said the issue will be resolved with the contracted security company. He said the military uniform will be honored at his district.
[Fusion] Time to change your password again. A database containing nearly 5 million Gmail user accounts and passwords was leaked on Bitcoin Security, a popular Russian website devoted to the cryptocurrency.
The text file was published on Tuesday night by user tvskit, according to CNews, the Russian news outlet that first broke the story. The leaker claimed that the majority of the accounts belong to users who speak English, Russian, or Spanish, and that approximately 60 percent are active. The passwords not only give access to Gmail, but a slew of other Google services such as Drive and the mobile payment system Google Wallet.
Svetlana Anurova, a Google representative, told CNews that the tech giant is aware of the breach and encouraged users to select a stronger password and enable two-step verification, a security measure where users are required to provide a passcode sent to their mobile devices before any changes can be made to their account.
The Gmail leak comes on the heels of two other major security breaches leaked on the same Bitcoin forum, which targeted Russian email service prodiver Mail.ru and search engine Yandex. Those two breaches affected nearly 6 million Internet users.
Find out if your account was compromised
You can verify whether your account was affected by clicking here
Go to the link and do it there, just in case. They deserve the clicks for providing the service.
and entering your gmail address. It's that simple. You can also enable Google's 2-step verification by following the company's easy steps.
UPDATE 3:01 PM Google issued the following statement to Fusion:
"The security of our users' information is a top priority for us. We have no evidence that our systems have been compromised, but whenever we become aware that accounts may have been, we take steps to help those users secure their accounts."
Remember, why should journalist (who lack depth of knowledge) ever be questioned about their reporting? They have all those fact checkers and editors to cover that. Right?
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Bloom is the surfing elf and perhaps the worst Zeus ever. No idea who Packer is, wiki says she is a model but has no picture of her, so she has that going for her.
[AnNahar] U.S. President Barack Obama Republicans can come along for the ride, but they've got to sit in the back... said Thursday that the United States would intensify sanctions in the defense, finance and energy sectors to punish Russia over its "illegal actions" in Ukraine, as the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... said it could lift a new set of sanctions if a Ukraine ceasefire holds.
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[Pak Daily Times] North Korea is ready to provide Japan with initial findings from a special investigating team that looked into the fate of Japanese citizens kidnapped by Pyongyang's agents decades ago, Kyodo news agency quoted a North Korean diplomat as saying.
North Korea admitted in 2002 to kidnapping Japanese citizens; five abductees have since returned to Japan. Pyongyang had said the remaining eight were dead and that the issue was closed, but Japan pressed for more information about their fate and others that Tokyo believes were also kidnapped. Japan eased some sanctions on the reclusive state in July in return for Pyongyang's reopening of a probe into the abductees.
"What can be said is that we are conducting the investigation not only in a specific area, but all concurrently in a scientific and objective manner," Kyodo quoted Song Il-ho, North Korea's top negotiator in talks with Japan, as saying in an interview in Pyongyang on Wednesday. "We are fully prepared (to release the first report)." Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga has said the initial report will likely come out sometime between late summer and early autumn.
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We're not saying that it'll necessarily be the truth, mind you, but it will be typed on some of the paper the UN monitors left behind, on a 1954 Underwood Deluxe typewriter recently acquired from Norway.
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[Al Ahram] The Ukrainian authorities acknowledged on Thursday that pro-Russian rebels had extended their control over territory on the eastern border with Russia to the Sea of Azov. The announcement by the National Security and Defence Council follows a lightning offensive across the southeast area launched by the pro-Russian separatists last month.
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Convenient for control of both sides of the Kerch. And Crimean logistics.
[CTVNEWS.CA] Federal Finance Minister Joe Oliver will announce Thursday a small business tax credit that will save business owners about half a billion dollars over the next two years, CTV News has learned.
The tax credit, which will help offset employment insurance premiums, will benefit up to 90 per cent of small businesses in Canada, CTV's Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fife reported Wednesday night.
The Canadian Federation of Independent Business estimates the measure will create 25,000 new jobs over the next two years.
The announcement comes as Prime Minister Stephen Harper prepares to put a major focus on jobs and the economy when Parliament resumes next week.
Opposition parties have been saying for some time that employment insurance premiums are too high and should be slashed for both businesses and employees.
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When the Shale Oil thing kicked off, the Canadian Government couldn't help but notice that there's a lot of small contractors involved, and, well, being small, without the 'benefits' of a large corporate accounting department to watch them, tend to spray money around quite freely.
This it mean to help that process.
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[ARABNEWS] The Philippines on Thursday put on display dozens of ancient maps which officials said showed that China's territorial claims over the South China Sea did not include a disputed shoal at the center of an acrimonious standoff.
The Philippines is in dispute with China over parts of the South China Sea, including the Scarborough Shoal, an area believed to be rich in oil and natural gas as well as fisheries resources.
China seized control of the shoal in June 2012 and has prevented Philippine fishermen from getting close to the rocky outcrop, a rich fishing ground.
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When the insular government of the Heavenly Kingdom literally broke up Zheng He's fleet, they threw away all claims to that which laid beyond the coasts and waters. For them, the Kingdom was the center of the universe and nothing else was worthy of their attention.
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Its NOT enough for the PHIL, VIETNAM, + ASEAN in general to claim interests in the disputed seas - they M-U-S-T be able to able to militarily + unilaterally defend their claims from any + all comers.
Unless the Bammer or successor is willing to base 1-3 "NIMITZ" - CLASS CVNS' + OTHER MAJOR OR HEAVY MIL ASSETS in the region to back them up, China is just going to be PC + all but absolutely ignore the rants-n-raves of the PHIL, VIETNAM, + ASEAN. ETC.
FYI, asper News + Mil Blogs a recent survey indicates that most Chinese believe there will be a war between their country + JAPAN, IMO among other to broadly decide which country will be Asia's #1.
Iff such a conflict occurs, China + [still-modernizing] PLA may initially suffer setbacks, but it will NOT stop its war wid Japan until final victory or defeat.
TO PARAPH DARTH VADER, "IT IS CAROLINE KENNEDY'S DESTINY"!
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* WORLD NEWS > [Atlanta Journal Constitution] WHY IS CHINA BUILDING A MILITARY BASE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN?
* RELATED WORLD MILITARY FORUM > CHINA BUILDING SIX MILITARY ISLAND FORTRESSES IN DISPUTED SOUTH CHINA SEA, PHILIPPINES [ + Vietnam, etal.] ULTIMATELY TO LOSE ALL RIGHTS TO "WEST PHILIPPINE SEA".
VERSUS
* RUSSIA TODAY > JAPAN MAY RECEIVE OFFENSIVE MILITARY WEAPONS [Conventional, for now?] FROM US AMID RISING TENSIONS WID CHINA, NORTH KOREA.
Widin FIVE YEARS = 2019 [2019-2020].
* See CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > [AFP] MORE THAN HALF OF CHINESE SEE [future] WAR WID JAPAN.
* RELATED SAME > [Time.com] MAJORITY OF CHINESE [53%] EXPECT WAR WID JAPAN BY 2020 [end of decade].
* WORLD NEWS > [SCMP] JAPAN EXTENDS ITS SEA TERRITORY [continental shelf] BY 177,000 SQUARE KILOMETERS IN LINE WID UN RULING.
* RELATED SAME = ...
> [Japan News] SEABED MOVE TO HOLD CHINA AT BAY.
> [Japan Times] CABINET APPROVES ORDINANCE EXPANDING JAPAN'S CONTINENTAL SHELF.
Just as RUSSIA fears MilPol-resurgent, Nuke-armed Germany + "Neo-Ottoman" Turkey in Europe, ditto China vee Japan in the struggle to be Asia's #1.
The above Artics can only make "Mahanist", future World #1 Rising China = US-Style OWG "Co-Superpower" Rising China more nervous per its Manifest Destiny than it already is.
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* WORLD NEWS > MALAYSIA OFFERS TO HOST US NAVY AIRCRAFT.
P-8 ASW aircraft.
* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > PRO-INDEPENDENCE, OKINAWA, RYUKYUS INDEPENDENT POLITICAL CANDIDATE VOWS TO INVITE CHINA TO SET UP A FORMAL MILITARY PRESENCE ON ISLAND.
* RELATED SAME > VIDEO: JAPAN ATTEMPTS TO CLAIM, SEPARATE OKINAWA + LESSOR ISLANDS FROM RYUKYU CHAIN.
* RELATED SAME > GLOBAL TIMES EDITORIAL: CHINA MUST CHANGE ITS TRADITIONAL "LAND POWER INTERESTS OR RIGHTS" IN FAVOR OF "SEA POWER INTERESTS OR RIGHTS. DEVELOPMENT OF LONG-RANGE EXPEDITIONARY AND RAPID-REACTION FORCES, AIRLIFT FOR THE PLA IS IMPERATIVE.
As I've said before, right behind Rising China + PLA = OWG Co-Superpower China as per WESTPAC access is Nuclear Islam.
Another reason for GUAM-WESTPAC to like RUSSIAN TOURISTS, even those "BEAR" BOMBERS flying around pretending to threaten JWR???.
A federal judge on Thursday awarded more than $4.4 million to attorneys who won a long-running racial profiling case against the operations of Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, although that pared the sum plaintiffs' lawyers had sought by about a third. You just can't fight them
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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[CTVNEWS.CA] Federal Finance Minister Joe Oliver will announce Thursday a small business tax credit that will save business owners about half a billion dollars over the next two years, CTV News has learned.
