Expect these kinds of crimes to occur more frequently as our jobs are sent overseas and the uneducated turn to petty (or more serious) crimes to get by.
Glad Mr. Grier was armed. It makes everyone a little safer b/c the criminals don't know who is and who isn't armed. Besides even with top notch police forces there is still a ~10 min delay between the time we call for help and help arrives.
I grew up going to Hamilton County schools. I left the area long ago but still have ALL my family there and quite a few of the family kids are still in Hamilton County schools.
Another thing the school board needs to consider is creating a single school in some rural corner of the county where the troublemakers are all sent. That school could have stricter rules and even a dress code. A troubled kid would get all sorts of counseling and tutoring made available to them if they wanted it. They would have to EARN their way out of the school and back to the neighborhood school they left. We do this in our rural TN county. The extra hassle for the parents driving to the school each morn and evening encourages them to encourage their kids to do better I suspect.
I have a nephew that went to a Hamilton Co school that skipped classes and eventually dropped out of school because the school board relocated goons from all over the county to other schools to separate them from their "friends". Divide and conquer I suppose. Anyhow the goons relocated to this school would not quit tormenting this kid. He would get called down by teachers for infractions like having his hoodie up when the goons had entered the classroom right before him and never got the same correction from the teacher.
Fortunately for him his mother cared and got him into some sort of home schooling program and he excelled and got his GED.
No kid should have to put up with that in this day and age. I had my share of troubles way back when and it killed my enthusiasm for going to school. Had I been able to drop out I would have. Resulted in bad grades, bad attitude, etc. I graduated and went on to military service and a 4-yr college degree in engineering and I'm doing well but it took the long hard road to get here. Thanks old school house... (not really). I still have no interest in going back to see any of those people.
We settled by chance outside of E.TN. and enjoy ourselves very much here but we are ever alert to the same kind of schoolyard/classroom/bus ride antics that kills any kids' enthusiasm for school and being with their classmates. The school may turn a blind eye but we won't. So far, so good.
We can blame the administration but the quality of education is wholly dependent on them AND us AND our kid's enthusiasm.
Get parents involved directly in school and solve the discipline problems at school and the grades will go up.
Kids are too distracted, too immature to manage their education by themselves, no idea what awaits the uneducated these days, and too eager to jump into the sack with their girlfriend/boyfriend risking a decade of poverty while they try to raise kids and work or raise kids/work/and attend university.
Kids ought to go to school with their mind on school. Not on their cellphone, going shopping, what somebody is wearing new this morn, etc. Education. So they can continue that education after high school and enter adulthood with some skills that will earn them some income.
We can blame the school system but let's not forget to take responsibility for our kids as well.
At my house I have a son not really confident to repeatedly ask the questions in class that would clear up whatever topic he doesn't understand. So i reteach some of his subjects at home while we work on his homework together. He has been distracted by a few boys over the years that liked to give him a hard time and yet the parents of those boys don't see anything wrong with their children's behavior and the teach is too busy to fix the problem every time it happens.
Consequently our family does homework together every night. End result? Honor Roll. It's working.
Would I the parent rather watch some TV or work on home projects or play a game or read a book? Sure. But working with my son now means that he will have the necessary foundation when he is older and on his own to learn and self-teach whatever he needs.
Self-responsibility is a rare commodity here in America these days. We gripe about jobs going to China but then we shop at stores that only sell Chinese stuff (Wal-Mart I'm looking at you). We gripe about the gov't but won't volunteer in our community or vote the same jokers back into office that have been there for 20 years. It's not about this party or another. It's about both parties selling us down the road.
These kids are more interested in each other than they are in you. It may not have dawned on them that anyone else is in the room.
No its not right, but it's not uncommon. Some folks just don't make the effort spread themselves around.
I have been to parties where one of the host spouses at some point calls it a night without even a goodnight. Just disappears. Odd but he doesn't mean anything negative by it. I guess that is how he was raised.
FWIW I try to accept people the way they are when they aren't the in family. Inside of the family I'd certainly make a comment.
I fear there is just too much money in continuing to do the same old same old in America and that we'll waste valuable years before we start making our air cleaner and we'll stop wasting our resources. We have the technology to move away from fossil fuels except where necessary (heavy trucks, trains, airplanes, heavy industry). Why don't we? For those of us who need a safe comfortable commuter vehicle, an EV is perfect.
For each kWh of battery capacity you can actually access, the vehicle will go 3 to 6 miles in all-electric mode. Kids raised closer to a freeway have more permanent lung damage than those raised farther away. It's not the freeway; it's the exhaust of acid-forming products that eat away delicate lung tissue during the crucial 12-18 years of lung development. Electric cars travel well over 100 miles on the energy equivalent of one gallon of gas. If the average consumer drives 1000 miles with wall-electric would take 250 kilo-Watt-hours of electric, about what's needed to run two refrigerators. If you live in a more arid place than TN you might be concerned to know that it takes 25 gallons of potable water to extract and refine that gasoline. Avoiding burning 250 million gallons of gasoline per week would release a lot of resources... Now here is something that we're supposedly looking for: American energy supplies that we can invest in that produce jobs here and build American manufacturing, without engaging in trade wars.
According to the financial pages today,GM lost 9.6 billion dollars in just the last quarter. Even using GM's inflated statistics that would have funded 9.6 EV1 programs. We're repeatedly bailing them out why? To save jobs of course. On the other hand if we just paid employees of GM and their suppliers to stay how it would be cheaper than the tens of billions of dollars to keep GM afloat.
FWIW I want to see GM and Detroit in general live and thrive. I don't want to fund their hardheadedness.
I encourage everyone to get onto the web and talk to people who owned EV1s, who own electric S-10s based on the EV1 tech, who own electric Ford Rangers built by Ford, and who own RAV4-EVs. Gasoline is obsolete for alot of us even if the auto industry won't admit it. Talk to the people who have the tech in their garage and who have driven these vehicles. There are plenty of naysayers who have never even seen an electric car who will argue until they are blue in the face that electric cars just won't work...
GM and the other car manufacturers are really pushing Lithium-Ion tech. NiMH delivers less power per pound but is MUCH more robust and forgiving. Amazing how quiet the big companies are about the NiMH batteries... The Volt is a mere shadow of what it could have been had GM not quit the EV program and had to start all over.
Our gov't (if they were truly dedicated to changing America) ought to encourage Chevron to release the NiMH patents or at least license the patents at a reasonable cost. They expire in 2015 I think.
Let us use this technology while the Lithium-Ion tech matures. The NiMH battery tech is the perfect 100 mile range battery tech for the next decade. Some Rav4-EVs have over 150K miles on the original batteries. Some of the Prius taxis have over 250K miles on the original batteries. Amazing durability.
Chevron sued Toyota to the tune of $30M to force Toyota to quit building NiMH batteries for EVs and there are indications that there was also a gag-order put in place. The last of the RAV4-EVs were sold in 2002 or 2003 and many of them are still running around the USA on electric power only. There are a number of people who have added solar to their rooftops in CA and they charge their vehicles for FREE.
How much do YOU pay for gasoline every year? Last summer when gas was $3.75 I figured up that over a distance of 200K miles an 18 mpg vehicles costs roughly $42K to fuel.
By the way this is the current price of several EVs nearly to market today. Hmmm, drive a gasoline vehicle that costs and cost and costs or buy an EV with 100 mile range that I can charge at home and that over 200K miles would pay for itself AND the solar roof top in savings over the gasoline version. EASY choice assuming the durable NiMH batteries were available.
GOOD FOR NISSAN. I will be ready for another car about that time and we will seriously be looking at the Nissan EV product.
I encourage everybody to watch "Who Killed the Electric Car". There is a sequel coming too.
It covers alot of facts that you can easily confirm on the web. In short GM (and most of the other car makers) make alot of money selling us the gasoline powered car. GM held the patents to the NiMH battery tech used in their EV1 in the late 90s. When they scrapped their EV program, they sold the patents to Texaco who 5 days later was bought up by Chevron who won't license the tech for EV vehicles.
This battery technology now at least a decade old is capable of pushing a small SUV or compact car over 100 miles per charge and the Toyota versions have lasted over 150K miles (still kicking). Imagine what a decade of improvements on this battery could deliver.
Beware Signal Mountain! You too can look just like every other busy thoroughfare in America - endless stores and shops on both sides of your streets squeezing out any good looks or charm your neighborhoods once had.
Oh and I should remind you that all those little existing shops and Pruett's stand a real chance of disappearing - replaced with vacant storefronts.
Keep what makes you unique Signal Mountain and keep those developers at arm's length.
Besides you can shop 'til you drop if you prefer right at the foot of the mountain or in Red Bank.
Chattanooga man shoots at home invaders
Expect these kinds of crimes to occur more frequently as our jobs are sent overseas and the uneducated turn to petty (or more serious) crimes to get by.
Glad Mr. Grier was armed. It makes everyone a little safer b/c the criminals don't know who is and who isn't armed. Besides even with top notch police forces there is still a ~10 min delay between the time we call for help and help arrives.
Hamilton County: Scales tells commission that schools have 'not failed’
I grew up going to Hamilton County schools. I left the area long ago but still have ALL my family there and quite a few of the family kids are still in Hamilton County schools.
Another thing the school board needs to consider is creating a single school in some rural corner of the county where the troublemakers are all sent. That school could have stricter rules and even a dress code. A troubled kid would get all sorts of counseling and tutoring made available to them if they wanted it. They would have to EARN their way out of the school and back to the neighborhood school they left. We do this in our rural TN county. The extra hassle for the parents driving to the school each morn and evening encourages them to encourage their kids to do better I suspect.
I have a nephew that went to a Hamilton Co school that skipped classes and eventually dropped out of school because the school board relocated goons from all over the county to other schools to separate them from their "friends". Divide and conquer I suppose. Anyhow the goons relocated to this school would not quit tormenting this kid. He would get called down by teachers for infractions like having his hoodie up when the goons had entered the classroom right before him and never got the same correction from the teacher.
Fortunately for him his mother cared and got him into some sort of home schooling program and he excelled and got his GED.
No kid should have to put up with that in this day and age. I had my share of troubles way back when and it killed my enthusiasm for going to school. Had I been able to drop out I would have. Resulted in bad grades, bad attitude, etc. I graduated and went on to military service and a 4-yr college degree in engineering and I'm doing well but it took the long hard road to get here. Thanks old school house... (not really). I still have no interest in going back to see any of those people.
We settled by chance outside of E.TN. and enjoy ourselves very much here but we are ever alert to the same kind of schoolyard/classroom/bus ride antics that kills any kids' enthusiasm for school and being with their classmates. The school may turn a blind eye but we won't. So far, so good.
We can blame the administration but the quality of education is wholly dependent on them AND us AND our kid's enthusiasm.
Hamilton County: Scales tells commission that schools have 'not failed’
Get parents involved directly in school and solve the discipline problems at school and the grades will go up.
Kids are too distracted, too immature to manage their education by themselves, no idea what awaits the uneducated these days, and too eager to jump into the sack with their girlfriend/boyfriend risking a decade of poverty while they try to raise kids and work or raise kids/work/and attend university.
Kids ought to go to school with their mind on school. Not on their cellphone, going shopping, what somebody is wearing new this morn, etc. Education. So they can continue that education after high school and enter adulthood with some skills that will earn them some income.
We can blame the school system but let's not forget to take responsibility for our kids as well.
At my house I have a son not really confident to repeatedly ask the questions in class that would clear up whatever topic he doesn't understand. So i reteach some of his subjects at home while we work on his homework together. He has been distracted by a few boys over the years that liked to give him a hard time and yet the parents of those boys don't see anything wrong with their children's behavior and the teach is too busy to fix the problem every time it happens.
Consequently our family does homework together every night. End result? Honor Roll. It's working.
Would I the parent rather watch some TV or work on home projects or play a game or read a book? Sure. But working with my son now means that he will have the necessary foundation when he is older and on his own to learn and self-teach whatever he needs.
Self-responsibility is a rare commodity here in America these days. We gripe about jobs going to China but then we shop at stores that only sell Chinese stuff (Wal-Mart I'm looking at you). We gripe about the gov't but won't volunteer in our community or vote the same jokers back into office that have been there for 20 years. It's not about this party or another. It's about both parties selling us down the road.
Let's get it together folks!
DEAR ABBY
These kids are more interested in each other than they are in you. It may not have dawned on them that anyone else is in the room.
No its not right, but it's not uncommon. Some folks just don't make the effort spread themselves around.
I have been to parties where one of the host spouses at some point calls it a night without even a goodnight. Just disappears. Odd but he doesn't mean anything negative by it. I guess that is how he was raised.
FWIW I try to accept people the way they are when they aren't the in family. Inside of the family I'd certainly make a comment.
Nissan to launch electric car in Tennessee
I fear there is just too much money in continuing to do the same old same old in America and that we'll waste valuable years before we start making our air cleaner and we'll stop wasting our resources. We have the technology to move away from fossil fuels except where necessary (heavy trucks, trains, airplanes, heavy industry). Why don't we? For those of us who need a safe comfortable commuter vehicle, an EV is perfect.
For each kWh of battery capacity you can actually access, the vehicle will go 3 to 6 miles in all-electric mode. Kids raised closer to a freeway have more permanent lung damage than those raised farther away. It's not the freeway; it's the exhaust of acid-forming products that eat away delicate lung tissue during the crucial 12-18 years of lung development. Electric cars travel well over 100 miles on the energy equivalent of one gallon of gas. If the average consumer drives 1000 miles with wall-electric would take 250 kilo-Watt-hours of electric, about what's needed to run two refrigerators. If you live in a more arid place than TN you might be concerned to know that it takes 25 gallons of potable water to extract and refine that gasoline. Avoiding burning 250 million gallons of gasoline per week would release a lot of resources... Now here is something that we're supposedly looking for: American energy supplies that we can invest in that produce jobs here and build American manufacturing, without engaging in trade wars.
According to the financial pages today,GM lost 9.6 billion dollars in just the last quarter. Even using GM's inflated statistics that would have funded 9.6 EV1 programs. We're repeatedly bailing them out why? To save jobs of course. On the other hand if we just paid employees of GM and their suppliers to stay how it would be cheaper than the tens of billions of dollars to keep GM afloat.
FWIW I want to see GM and Detroit in general live and thrive. I don't want to fund their hardheadedness.
I encourage everyone to get onto the web and talk to people who owned EV1s, who own electric S-10s based on the EV1 tech, who own electric Ford Rangers built by Ford, and who own RAV4-EVs. Gasoline is obsolete for alot of us even if the auto industry won't admit it. Talk to the people who have the tech in their garage and who have driven these vehicles. There are plenty of naysayers who have never even seen an electric car who will argue until they are blue in the face that electric cars just won't work...
Nissan to launch electric car in Tennessee
GM and the other car manufacturers are really pushing Lithium-Ion tech. NiMH delivers less power per pound but is MUCH more robust and forgiving. Amazing how quiet the big companies are about the NiMH batteries... The Volt is a mere shadow of what it could have been had GM not quit the EV program and had to start all over.
Our gov't (if they were truly dedicated to changing America) ought to encourage Chevron to release the NiMH patents or at least license the patents at a reasonable cost. They expire in 2015 I think.
Let us use this technology while the Lithium-Ion tech matures. The NiMH battery tech is the perfect 100 mile range battery tech for the next decade. Some Rav4-EVs have over 150K miles on the original batteries. Some of the Prius taxis have over 250K miles on the original batteries. Amazing durability.
Nissan to launch electric car in Tennessee
Chevron sued Toyota to the tune of $30M to force Toyota to quit building NiMH batteries for EVs and there are indications that there was also a gag-order put in place. The last of the RAV4-EVs were sold in 2002 or 2003 and many of them are still running around the USA on electric power only. There are a number of people who have added solar to their rooftops in CA and they charge their vehicles for FREE.
How much do YOU pay for gasoline every year? Last summer when gas was $3.75 I figured up that over a distance of 200K miles an 18 mpg vehicles costs roughly $42K to fuel.
By the way this is the current price of several EVs nearly to market today. Hmmm, drive a gasoline vehicle that costs and cost and costs or buy an EV with 100 mile range that I can charge at home and that over 200K miles would pay for itself AND the solar roof top in savings over the gasoline version. EASY choice assuming the durable NiMH batteries were available.
Nissan to launch electric car in Tennessee
GOOD FOR NISSAN. I will be ready for another car about that time and we will seriously be looking at the Nissan EV product.
I encourage everybody to watch "Who Killed the Electric Car". There is a sequel coming too.
It covers alot of facts that you can easily confirm on the web. In short GM (and most of the other car makers) make alot of money selling us the gasoline powered car. GM held the patents to the NiMH battery tech used in their EV1 in the late 90s. When they scrapped their EV program, they sold the patents to Texaco who 5 days later was bought up by Chevron who won't license the tech for EV vehicles.
This battery technology now at least a decade old is capable of pushing a small SUV or compact car over 100 miles per charge and the Toyota versions have lasted over 150K miles (still kicking). Imagine what a decade of improvements on this battery could deliver.
Developer eyes Signal land for retail center
Beware Signal Mountain! You too can look just like every other busy thoroughfare in America - endless stores and shops on both sides of your streets squeezing out any good looks or charm your neighborhoods once had.
Oh and I should remind you that all those little existing shops and Pruett's stand a real chance of disappearing - replaced with vacant storefronts.
Keep what makes you unique Signal Mountain and keep those developers at arm's length.
Besides you can shop 'til you drop if you prefer right at the foot of the mountain or in Red Bank.