Oops! New York State Police Admit to Major Mistake in Gun Confiscation Case. In a surprising turnaround, New York State Police have admitted that they made a mistake when they confiscated the guns and suspended the permit of an Erie County resident on the grounds of mental health.
Late Wednesday, Erie County, NY, released a statement (posted below) blaming the New York State Police for giving them bad information regarding the suspension of a pistol permit and demand to surrender firearms sent to Amherst resident David Lewis. (Mr. Lewis was not identified in our original story, his name has since been released in conjunction with court documents filed by his attorney, Jim Tresmond.) “Erie County Clerk Chris Jacobs said that late today he received a call from the New York State Police informing him that they had provided information on the wrong person when they notified his office of someone whose permit should be suspended because of the new mental health provisions in New York’s SAFE Act,” the release begins.
Read WBEN’s full story on Jacobs here. 7 Habits of Highly Frugal People. EmailEmail One of the most direct way to change your life, you need to change your attitude.
No one else is responsible for what happens to you but you, so you can either complain about the things you don’t like in your life or you can set about changing them. Not surprisingly, this directly relates to the state of your finances. If you’re tired of living paycheck to paycheck, having your phone regularly cut off, or making excuses to skip dinners with your friends, then you can use these seven habits to take control of your money situation and live a happier and more frugal lifestyle.
Habit One: Be Proactive The first habit to develop is to take responsibility; if you fail, you have no one to blame but yourself. [Here are 6 action steps to take when you feel financially vulnerable.] What most people forget is that though you can’t control the stimulus, you can control your response. How to be proactive for effective frugality: Take the first step. Habit Two: Begin with the End in Mind. A Computer Inside a Living Cell? It Has Now Been Done.
Humans have long been adding technology to their body to improve health, like pacemakers for example.
But scientists have recently announced the creation of a bit of technology from a living system — they’ve made a computer in a cell. Illustration of DNA (Image: Shutterstock.com) Stanford University bioengineers made a transistor – the “transcriptor” – out of genetic material (DNA and RNA). “Biological computers can be used to study and reprogram living systems, monitor environments and improve cellular therapeutics,” Drew Endy, assistant professor of bioengineering and senior author of the paper published in the journal Science with the lead author Jerome Bonnet, said in a statement. As the San Jose Mercury News explained further, it could detect things like diseases and toxins and be programmed to kill cells that are multiplying out of control.
While in electronics a transistor would control electrons, the “transcriptor” controls the protein RNA polymerase along a strand of DNA.