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Colorado residents upset over possible gas, oil development

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AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Residents in the Shenandoah subdivision in Aurora are upset they were not notified of the possible development of a gas and oil field next to several homes. The Durango Herald reports (http://bit.ly/2khsbOp ) the residents say they weren’t told of a public comment period that ends Oct. 10. The Bureau of […] Reported by Seattle Times 3 hours ago.

Roycroft Campus expands offerings with new museum

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The East Aurora campus will showcase personal letters, artifacts and other items connected to Elbert Hubbard and the founding of the Arts & Crafts Movement. Reported by bizjournals 3 hours ago.

Inevitably, amnesia will follow this horror

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The usual calls for tighter control of firearms will emerge. And then, after a few days, and we will move on. We will choose to be distracted, and we will forget. Sandy Hook, Tucson, Aurora, Boston, Virginia Tech, Orlando, Oak Creek ... Reported by Seattle Times 44 minutes ago.

After Vegas Shooting, It's Time To Take Private Security Seriously

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After Vegas Shooting, It's Time To Take Private Security Seriously Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute,

In the wake of the Aurora Theater shooting, *I suggested that private sector establishments ought to be expected to be more concerned about the safety of their customers*. In the case of the Aurora Theater, this was magnified by the fact that the theater was a "gun free zone" and did not allow patrons to carry their own firearms as self defense. At the same time, the theater owners themselves couldn't be bothered with taking even the most rudimentary steps against allowing a gunman to casually carry multiple weapons from his car into one of the theater's back doors. 

*The issue came up again with the Orlando shooting in 2016, when the perpetrator simply walked into a private establishment with a rifle and started shooting.* Again, we find ourselves with a situation in which the owners of a private establishment refused to take simple steps such as checking entrances for people with rifles, or employing reasonably well-trained security personnel to be present inside the club. 

*I wasn't the only one to suggest that maybe, just maybe, private establishments such as the Orlando nightclub and the Aurora Theater may share some responsibility in preventing violence on their own premises. *

In response to this position, numerous commentators - mostly conservative and libertarian - took the position that it is outrageous to expect private owners to take steps to prevent events like these. At the time, I noted Reason magazine's response as representative of this type of thinking:



Reason magazine has ... hopped on the bandwagon of pre-emptively and unconditionally absolving the theater owners of any possible responsibility. Reason writer Lenore Skenazy claims that a focus on worst-case scenarios is "worst-first thinking" and that such thinking "promotes constant panic. The word for that isn't prudence. It's paranoia."



*In other words, Skenazy's position is that private owners should simply assume terrible things won't happen and proceed accordingly. If bad things do happen, then let's all just throw our hands in the air and declare "who woulda thunk?" *

This sort of thinking results in what security consultant Bo Dietl calls  the "panic, forget, repeat." It's not a serious approach to security. 

*Unfortunately, this problem has become apparent again with last weekend's shooting in Las Vegas which has so far claimed at least 59 lives, making it the worst mass shooting in modern American history.*

To perpetrate the shooting, the shooter used the Mandalay Bay hotel as a sniper's nest from which to rain down death on a crowd assembled at a nearby music festival. (Both the hotel and the venue are owned by MGM Resorts International.)

*At the same time, it appears the organizers of the event did not take steps to prevent a shooting of this nature. The police response to the shooting, not surprisingly, appears to show disorganization and lack of knowledge about the situation. *

The State Protects Its Own

*Some readers will scoff and say "how could anyone be expected to anticipate a sniper situation like this?" *

In response, I suggest this thought experiment: *imagine that a US president or any important political figure were present at the music festival. What do you think security would have looked like?* There would have been well-trained security personnel stationed to keep an eye out for snipers, with spotters and "good guy" snipers all around. 

Obviously, we would have found out that looking for the worst-case scenario would suddenly have mattered when "important" people are involved. But protecting ordinary members of the public? Well, that's just "paranoia," we're told. The state, of course, is highly invested in protecting its own personnel and its own interests. The organizers of the music festival, however, appear to have relied on blind faith as their primary defense. 

*The importance of competent professional private security in this case is also illustrated by the fact that a large number of private individuals armed with side arms would have done little to prevent the situation. *Even if festival-goers on the ground had been able to quickly spot the source of the gunfire — which itself seems unlikely — a handgun would have been of little use. The often-repeated claim by gun-rights activists that conceal-carry is the answer to all shootings falls flat in this case. 

Inaction from Public and Private Police Forces 

*Private security weren't the only ones who appear to have taken a rather lackadaisical view of the situation. *

Interviewed in the wake of the Las Vegas shootings, The Boston Herald interviewed former Boston Police Commissioner — and current security consultant — Edward Davis about the situation. Davis notes: 



There's always been a fear — not so much among the security chiefs, but by the police out here — that there would be an attack. It is their worst fear coming true.



*There are two things we can take away from this claim.* First of all, assuming Davis is right, we learn that the private sector security chiefs weren't terribly concerned about this situation arising. Second, we learn that the public-sector police were concerned about it. Yet, it appears that nothing was done to address the fear by either group. 

*Moreover, Las Vegas has long been recognized as a target for terrorism, given its iconic status. *"This is, just on its face, a big glaring target for Islamic terrorists," Davis added. (Davis is right that it's a target. But he's wrong that only "Islamic" murderers are interested.) 

Davis also confirms our suspicion that the safety of government personnel in the area have been a subject of worry, in regards to security. The general public? Not so much:



Working on presidential visits and with the Secret Service, snipers are a concern for them, but you don't think about it around a concert.



*And why not consider security around a concert? Are we already incapable of remembering the Paris theater shooting of 2015? *This sort of amnesia-based thinking is apparently the best that our security personnel have to offer. Had security personnel and their employers been taking the situation seriously, they might have concluded that the chosen locale for the event could not be conducted while offering sufficient security. Certainly, were the Secret Service to conclude that a location can't offer sufficient safety for a political figure, they would recommend against that political figure accepting the risk at all. Perhaps concert organizers in Vegas should bring the same level of scrutiny to their own events. 

The Imagined Cure-All: Gun Control 

*Predictably, in the wake of the shooting, gun control advocates have already seized on the tragedy to push for preferred legislation.* They like to portray the US as an exceptionally violent place, and claim the reason is too little gun control. 

Forgotten, of course, is the French Bataclan Theater shooting, which resulted in 130 deaths. Forgetten, of course, is the 2016 Brussels airport bombing which took 35 lives. Forgotten is the spate of car-rammings, including the Nice, France, massacre which alone took the lives of 86 innocent people. 

Indeed, if we look at mass-murder events such as these public rammings and shootings in 2016 and 2017 - and thus excluding the 2015 Bataclan Theater shooting - we end up with a total of approximately 140 victims in Western Europe, and around 120 victims in the US (this includes the Orlando shooting.) This alleged juxtaposition between chaotic America and serene Europe appears to be rather misplaced.

*Moreover, as total gun sales in the US climbed repeatedly in the 1990s and the 2000s, homicide rates fell. *Stringent gun control laws are common in Latin America, yet homicide rates are much higher in that region than in the more laissez-faire United States. Clearly, gun control does not explain away differing levels of violence absent consideration of other factors. 

Government Won't Protect Us 

*Shootings in night clubs and theaters simply are not matters requiring national policy. *Nor is the challenge of stopping terrorists from driving trucks through crowds of revelers, as has happened repeatedly in Europe in recent years. Prevention in these cases require that security personnel on the scene employ competent security to control what goes on inside their own buildings and venues. 

*The knee-jerk appeal to national policy such as nationwide gun control, however, highlights what happens when the private sector blithely relies on a disinterested government to provide security instead. *In the US, the Supreme Court has ruled (in Castle Rock vs. Gonzalez) that police are not obligated to provide protection to citizens. As a result, de facto policy is that the lives of police officers receive priority over that of members of the public. It also means that government police are protected from any liability should they be AWOL or incompetent when homicidal maniacs unleash themselves on the public. Thus, there is absolutely no reason to expect public-sector police agencies to provide security at night clubs, movie theaters, or large public events. 

*Nor is there any reason to simply sit back and assume that gun control will protect us. Experience in high-gun-control zones like Latin America, Russia, and Europe suggests otherwise. *

Should Private Owners Be Expected to Provide Security? 

But, as soon as someone suggests that private owners of public-access venues be expected to take security seriously, then* the very idea is denounced by many as simply a bridge too far. For these critics, apparently, it's much better to just trust in government, and hope for the best. *

It's easy to see why the private sector and its defenders might vehemently oppose the idea that private owners need to do more. Private security is costly and could drive up prices of goods and services. If the legal system simultaneously protects these owners from any responsibility in allegedly "unforeseeable" events, then we have no reason to expect them to do anything differently. The Aurora-Shooting lawsuits against the theater's owners was significant because it called into question whether or not a private owner should be held legally liable for allowing a nut with multiple guns to so easily plan and set-up a mass-shooting scenario under their noses. 

*In the end, the theater was found not liable, and the theater owners's attorney claimed the event was "unpredictable, unforeseeable, unpreventable and unstoppable." This claim is obviously nonsense. Of course the shooting was preventable. It simply wasn't preventable using the minimal amount of time and effort the theater owners were willing to devote to customer safety. *

In the future, will we continue to label shootings of this nature as "unforeseeable"? It's true that, given the size of the population, events of this magnitude remain exceedingly rare. Yet, how many times must an event of this nature take place before it does become foreseeable? How long will it be before customers should enjoy a reasonable expectation that private owners will plan ahead to prevent these sorts of threats?

The response of some people to this revelation will be to indulge in maudlin declarations of "it's a crying shame.""It's a crying shame we have to live in a world where we have to worry about gunmen!" Perhaps. It's also a crying a shame we live in a world where not everyone drives the posted speed limit in residential areas. If they did, we wouldn't have to worry about our children as much when they play outside. It's a crying shame we live in a world where the plane you're flying in might malfunction and fall out of the sky. Thanks to human error, malice, and stupidity, many bad things happen every day. 

*Many other bad things happen thanks to an unwillingness to plan ahead. *And so as long as we continue to declare things like mass shootings on private property to be "unforeseeable" and "unstoppable" and generally not worth the effort needed to prevent them, we'll just be left relying on the same government agencies who are under no obligation to protect citizens from anything. Reported by Zero Hedge 39 minutes ago.

Highly Anticipated Aurora HDR 2018 for Mac & Windows Now Shipping

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The #1 HDR software delivers realistic tone-mapping, new tools and a highly efficient user interface — ships today at https://aurorahdr.com

San Diego, CA (PRWEB) September 28, 2017

Over the past few years, Aurora HDR has become the industry standard for HDR photo editing on Mac. Today marks the beginning of a new era with the long-awaited release of Aurora HDR 2018 for Mac and Windows. Support for the Windows platform is a first for the 9-year old company, and a 14-day free trial is available at https://aurorahdr.com.

Next-generation tone mapping in Aurora HDR 2018 creates very realistic HDR images from the start, and makes it easy to achieve great results without any further editing. When merging brackets, the algorithm analyzes each image separately, automatically detecting dark and light zones and adjusting the level of detail which will produce a very natural looking HDR image. With single image processing, the tone mapping algorithm brings out colours and enhances dark and light zones.

Going further, the new HDR Enhance filter adds details and clarity to an image to make it more vibrant without creating artificial halos or “overcooking” the result. A completely redesigned user interface brings an efficient and joyful experience to HDR photo editing, and, along with overall speed gains, quicken the workflow and allow more time behind the camera.

The new version of Aurora HDR has garnered favorable early feedback from prominent HDR photographers around the world:

Trey Ratcliff, Co-developer of Aurora HDR, photographer, pioneer in HDR with over 16 million followers
“Aurora HDR is the best software to create amazing and vibrant HDR images. It’s your one-stop HDR solution and the new version will just blow your mind. I couldn’t be more excited that the new Aurora HDR 2018 is now available for PC.”

Scott Kelby, Photographer, educator, President and CEO of KelbyOne
“Forget about all those oversaturated and unrealistic HDR images we’ve all seen — this is a new era of HDR, and Aurora HDR 2018 is the tool that’s taking us there. You’ll be amazed with how a subtle level of HDR can create a visually balanced and beautiful image — it’s what you always wished HDR would one day become, and thanks to Aurora HDR 2018, that day is finally here”.

Serge Ramelli, Photographer and educator
“I absolutely love the new Aurora HDR 2018. It’s so much faster and the new interface looks really incredible. I’m also a big fan of the new realistic tone mapping and HDR Enhance filter. HDR enhance brings all those nice details and creates a natural base for going as creative as you want to from that point”.

Aurora HDR, a powerful all-in-one HDR editor, brings countless options to create perfect HDR photos - from one-click presets and advanced tone-mapping, to layers, noise reduction and powerful luminosity masking controls.

FULL LIST OF NEW & IMPROVED FEATURES OF AURORA HDR 2018:· NEW: Next-generation Tone Mapping
· NEW: Mac and Windows versions
· NEW: Lens Correction and Transform Tools*
· NEW: Dodge & Burn Filter
· NEW: HDR Enhance Filter
· NEW: User Interface
· NEW: History Panel
· NEW: Touch Bar support for Mac
· NEW: Image Flip and Rotate*
· IMPROVED: New Structure Algorithm
· IMPROVED: RAW handling
· IMPROVED: Crop tool update
· IMPROVED: Speed

· Features available in the Mac version at launch, schedule to arrive for the PC version in a free update at the beginning of October. Other tools and features that are currently available only for Mac will be added to the PC version by the end of the year as free updates.

Pricing:
Mixed-computer households can share the same product key for Mac and PC which can be activated on 5 devices.· 14-day free trial
· $59 for current Aurora HDR users
· $99 for new users

$5 from every Aurora HDR 2018 sale in September will be donated to support people affected by Harvey, Irma & Jose hurricanes.

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Note To Editors:
Media kit: http://bit.ly/Aurora2018launch

About Trey Ratcliff, Co-developer of Aurora HDR
Photographer, pioneer in HDR with over 16 million followers
Trey’s images and stories capture the beauty of exotic travel destinations and the humor of the bizarre situations he often finds himself in. There is always something new, unexpected and beautiful to see.

About Macphun
Macphun is a California-based photo software developer with the mission to make complex photo editing simple and user-friendly. Thanks to its innovative approach and high-end proprietary technologies, Macphun photo editors have won dozens of various awards, including “Best of the Year” awards by Apple for 6 straight years. The company’s Luminar product was awarded “Best Imaging Software 2017” honors by TIPA.

To learn more about Macphun, please visit http://www.macphun.com. Reported by PRWeb 6 days ago.

Aurora hospitals vs. key competitors

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How do Aurora hospitals’ margins compare head-to-head with competitors in affluent suburban areas? And what’s the score in Milwaukee County where Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center and Froedtert Hospital vie for the top spot in revenue and net income? Reported by bizjournals 6 days ago.

Parents of Aurora theater shooting victim gain small measure of peace by learning gunman’s whereabouts

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Victims of the Aurora theater shooting and their families have expressed some relief at finally learning where the man convicted of killing a dozen people and wounding dozens of others is being held. Reported by Denver Post 6 days ago.

Chicago-area man sentenced in girlfriend’s killing

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AURORA, Ill. (AP) — A judge has sentenced a 49-year-old suburban Chicago man to a 60-year prison term for fatally shooting his girlfriend when she tried to break off their relationship. The Kane County state’s attorney’s office says a circuit judge sentenced Christopher M. Whetstone Thursday. A jury convicted him in March of first-degree murder […] Reported by Seattle Times 6 days ago.

Will This Top Marijuana Growth Stock’s Latest Acquisitions Propel its Share Price Through 2018?

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Aurora Cannabis Inc. (TSX:ACB) might have made a brilliant strategic move in its latest acquisitions, and this could aid the stock price in 2018. Reported by Motley Fool 13 hours ago.

Aurora Cannabis Stock Is Setting Up for an Explosive Move

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ACBFF Stock: The Completion of This Technical Price Pattern Will Determine What Follows Writing about investments in this market environment has been a fruitful endeavor. The market seems to only v... Reported by FinanzNachrichten.de 13 hours ago.

Aurora Cannabis Stock Is Setting Up for an Explosive Move

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ACBFF Stock: The Completion of This Technical Price Pattern Will Determine What Follows
Writing about investments in this market environment has been a fruitful endeavor. The market seems to only venture in one direction, the indices continue to forge new highs, and daily advances are becoming the norm. One would assume that all investments are on the move, but that is not always the case.

At the moment, I am currently watching *AURORA CANNABIS IN COM NPV* (OTCMKTS: ACBFF) stock for a very particular reason. Aurora Cannabis Inc is a licensed marijuana producer, and ACBFF stock really stands to benefit now that the government has made strides to create a.

The post Aurora Cannabis Stock Is Setting Up for an Explosive Move appeared first on Profit Confidential. Reported by Profit Confidential 1 day ago.

Large Solar Storm Sparks Global Aurora and Doubles Radiation Levels on the Martian Surface

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Large Solar Storm Sparks Global Aurora and Doubles Radiation Levels on the Martian Surface Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 03, 2017

An unexpectedly strong blast from the Sun hit Mars this month, observed by NASA missions in orbit and on the surface. "NASA's distributed set of science missions is in the right place to detect activity on the Sun and examine the effects of such solar events at Mars as never possible before," said MAVEN Program Scientist Elsayed Talaat, program scientist at NASA Headquarters, Washington, for NAS Reported by Space Daily 9 hours ago.

Buying Homeland Insecurity – OpEd

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Thank god for the US Department of Homeland Security!

Thanks to its $40-billion annual budget, and Homeland Security laws like the PATRIOT Act that Congress passed quickly after the horrific attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we have not had a major terrorist attack in the US in the ensuing 16 years.

Oh, wait a minute. My bad.

We have had some major mass murders over the ensuing years, haven’t we, including some being officially labeled “acts of terrorism.”

There was the sniper shootings of 10 people in suburban Washington, DC back in 2002. There was the execution of 5 Amish schoolchildren in their one-room schoolhouse by a gunman in 2006. There followed the 32 students and faculty killed at the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007, the lone gunman who opened fire at an open-air meet-and-greet session hosted by an Arizona Congresswoman which killed six people and gravely wounded the Congresswoman in 2011, the 12 killed in the Aurora, Colorado theater shooting in 2012, the Vietnamese immigrant who shot and killed 13 people in Binghamton, NY in 2009, the 20 grade-school kids and a teacher murdered in the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting, also in 2012, and the Navy contractor and former sailor who killed 13 in a Washington, DC industrial complex, the murder of 9 people in their church in Charleston, SC in 2015, and now this latest killing of over 58 people in Las Vegas. I’m just naming the big ones here, or particularly outrageous one like those that focused on killing little kids.

Thank god not one of these horrible incidents was considered an act of terrorism!

Of course there were some at least nominally terrorist mass killings too — the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, which killed three or four depending on whether you count the killing of a police office during the later manhunt part of the deal, the 2014 attack at Fort Hood by a deranged Army psychologist, the 2015 San Bernardino rec center attack, and the 2016 murder of 49 at a disco in Orlando, but in most of these cases the link to organized terror was tenuous at best, and in the Orlando case in particular, which was touted at the time as the worst mass killing in modern US history (at least until this latest Las Vegas incident), the killer appears to have had no connection to ISIS and was probably just claiming a link in order to ensure that he would be killed by police, and not captured (he succeeded in that plan). We know these were acts of terrorism not just because the government calls them that, but because, well, they were committed by Muslims.

The few actual or supposed “terrorist’ attacks aside, what all these mass murders in the US not committed by Muslim terrorists have in common, along with many more that I did not list either because the number killed was less than 10, or because the cause was so mundane — worker laid off, family dispute, road rage or whatever — is that they were the work of lone usually deranged (and usually white) men using guns — and often guns designed for killing people.

The New York Times reports that since 2000, mass shootings and the deaths caused by mass shootings in the US have been on the rise, with the rise being especially sharp in the last six years ended in 2014 when the article was published (and when Homeland Security was supposedly fully staffed up and running like a finely oiled machine), and that rise has continued since over the next three years, especially with the help of this week’s epic Las Vegas slaughter.

So what has all that money spent on “homeland security” gotten us? What has the surrender of our right to private phone and internet conversation, our right to be left alone in our homes, our right not to be monitored in our travels, and our right not to have massive dossiers gathered on our lives, what has the militarization of our local police forces, and the training of cops to behave as occupiers and centurions instead of peace officers gotten us?

Are we more safe now?

Actual terrorist attacks have occurred, or at least the government is calling them that, while most of the alleged planned terror attacks the FBI says it “foiled” have turned out to be the creations of FBI “informants” — that is, people paid and planted among unfortunate low0-wattage or psychologically vulnerable people the Bureau hoped to induce into attempting some act of terror that the FBI could then swoop in and bust up, then claiming to have saved the day. That means that for all its awesome invasive technology and its multi-billion-dollar assets and interlinked law enforcement personnel, America’s Homeland Security Industrial Complex has been remarkably unable to prevent terrorism.

And meanwhile, mass shootings — terrible even if they don’t get called terrorism because they are committed, for the most part, by American white men like Stephen Paddock— are becoming increasingly common and also increasingly deadly.

To me, it appears obvious that the War on Terror has been a spectacular bust — and not just the $40 billion a year spent on Homeland Security, but the $10 billion a year (at least) that we are told is spent on the National Security Agency, as well as a fair amount of what is spent on both the FBI the CIA, the National Security Council’s Office of Counterterrorism, and of course all the anti-terror budgets of state and local police.

What is really making this country unsafe, let’s just face it, is the ready availability of really deadly firearms — let’s call them Guns of Mass Destruction (GMDs).

The only reason so many people died in Las Vegas is that wack-job Las Vegas mass killer Stephen Paddock was reportedly able to obtain and bring, unimpeded, into his hotel room, some 19 high-powered rapid-fire rifles and handguns, including at least one fully-automatic rifle capable of firing dozens of rounds per second. (That’s in addition to some 20 more such weapons police found in his home and car, including, reportedly, explosives.)

What’s nuts is that in some parts of this country, Nevada being one of them, guns, including military weapons, are so ubiquitous and so unregulated that the sight of someone checking into a hotel with two golf bag’s worth of lethal weaponry suitable for mass murder wouldn’t raise an eyebrow. Heck, he probably asked at check-in for a bellhop to carry them for him. No doubt they just figured the old duffer was headed for a gun show or was a salesman with product to show to gun dealers.

Hey, if the guy doesn’t look or dress like a Muslim, what’s to worry, right? Nice older white dude with a friendly southern accent? He should be okay.

Maybe now that we have a case of a friendly-seeming older white guy mowing down good decent white folks attending a good-ol’ American country and western music concert, the pro-National Rifle Assn. crowd will start to re-evaluate their absolutist position on GMDs.

My suggestion would be not banning guns, an extremist idea which will never happen in this country and which isn’t even done in Europe, but at least registering every single weapon from its point of import, sale or manufacture until it ends up in private hands. I would make it illegal to transfer a gun to someone else without that transfer being registered with the government. I’d eliminate the gunshow loophole to registration too. I have little hope that such measures could be passed, though. There is to much political opportunism among Republicans in Congress who want that National Rifle Assn. money and the votes of the gun-toting yahoos of Middle America who think registration is akin to giving up their right vote (though they want everyone to have to register to do that).

But if we could at least limit our American-grown terrorists to single-round-per-trigger weapons, and outlaw high-capacity clips that allow them to kill more than, say, five people without reloading, we’d all be a hell of a lot safer in America. At least more of us would be able to run out of a crowded area safely when an attack happens, and there’d be more opportunity for heroic types to tackle a guy who has to stop and reload all the time.

Also, keeping America safe wouldn’t cost us $50 billion a year for an army of spooks and federal investigators, or require the surrendering of our hard-won freedoms either, so more money could be made available for treating mental health problems.

We should give it a try. It’s obvious that the Homeland Security/War on Terror approach has been a bust. It sure hasn’t provided security in the “homeland,” and, as the spread of ISIS and al Qaeda/al Nusra or whatever they’re calling themselves demonstrates, the “War” on terror has clearly been lost. (There’s another example of wasted treasure. With just a fraction of the trillion-plus dollars spent on the 16-year US war in Afghanistan to date, the US could have paid that country’s impoverished 10 million families, who eke by on an average of $400 a year, an income of $2500 a year back in 2001 for the next decade— enough to turn the country overnight into an economic powerhouse and its people from virtual serfs to a bustling middle class and into America’s BFFs.)

We’ll never be able to prevent the domestic American nut jobs who snap and decide they need to kill a lot of people or do enough damage to be killed by the police. But at least we could reduce the carnage they can do here at home if we made it a little harder and slower for them to cause their desired mayhem. Reported by Eurasia Review 12 hours ago.

Honor 9i with 2 dual-cameras, edge-to-edge display launched in India: Price, specifications

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Just about three months ago, Huawei’s sub-brand Honor, launched the Honor 8 Pro in India. And today, the company has launched the Honor 9i. While the Honor 8 Pro caught attention for its dual-camera assembly at the rear, the highlight of this device are two pairs of cameras. The Honor 9i has been launched at Rs 17,999, and will be exclusively available via Flipkart. It comes in three color options of Prestige Gold, Aurora Blue, and Graphite Black. The talking point of the Honor 9i remains to be the two dual-camera setups, one on the front, and one at the back. At the front is a combination of a 13-megapixel dual cameras with selfie flash and bokeh mode. More features Reported by BGR India 8 hours ago.

Boeing Plans To Buy Aurora Flight Sciences; Terms Undisclosed

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CHICAGO (dpa-AFX) - Boeing (BA) said that it plans to acquire Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, a world-class innovator, developer and manufacturer of advanced aerospace platforms, under an agre... Reported by FinanzNachrichten.de 4 hours ago.

Boeing buys drone maker Aurora Flight Sciences

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Reported by SeekingAlpha 4 hours ago.

Boeing Buying Drone Maker

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Boeing plans to acquire Aurora Flight Sciences, a maker of aerial drones and pilotless flying systems that also expands the company’s reach in the new field of electric-powered aircraft. Reported by Wall Street Journal 3 hours ago.

Boeing borgs robot aeronatics biz Aurora Flight Sciences

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Reported by The Register 2 hours ago.

Boeing buys maker of drones and advanced robotic systems

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Boeing is acquiring Aurora Flight Sciences of Virginia, a specialist in developing innovative aerial drones and advanced robotic systems. Reported by Seattle Times 1 hour ago.

Boeing is buying the company that is helping Uber develop flying taxis (BA)

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Boeing is buying the company that is helping Uber develop flying taxis (BA) Boeing announced Thursday that it will acquire Aurora Flight Sciences, an aviation and aeronautics research company that has partnered with Uber on its flying taxi project. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Based in Manassas, Virginia, Aurora specializes in the design of unmanned aircrafts. The Pentagon in 2016 awarded Aurora with an $89 million contract to continue developing its X-Plane, a Vertical Take-Off Landing (VTOL) aircraft that's being developed to achieve a two-fold speed increase over helicopters.

As the name suggests, the X-Plane doesn't require a runway to operate because it can take off vertically. Aurora's concept for Uber's flying taxi is based on the X-Plane that's being built for the Department of Defense. The vehicle is a hybrid and relies on 24 ducted fans driven by electric motors to hover.

An Aurora representative said Thursday that it will continue to work with its existing partners and suppliers following the Boeing acquisition.

Uber is also partnering with Pipistrel Aircraft, Embraer, Mooney, and Bell Helicopter on the flying taxi project. Uber has said it will use electric, flying taxis built by partners for an Uber Elevate ride-hailing service that will make its debut in Dallas-Forth Worth and Dubai in 2020

"The combined strength and innovation of our teams will advance the development of autonomy for our commercial and military systems," Greg Hyslop, CTO and vice president of Boeing Engineering, Test & Technology, said in a press release.

*SEE ALSO: We just got our first glimpse of Uber's vision for flying taxis*

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