ANYONE 17+ CAN VOTE Go where it's most convenient: polls close at 7 p.m. CST, 6 p.m. MST. • No ID requirement. • Fargo – Fargo–Moorhead AFL-CIO, 3002 1st Ave. N, Fargo, ND 58102 • Grand Forks – IBEW, 1714 N Washington St, Grand Forks, ND 58203 • Bismarck – AFL-CIO House of Labor, 1323 E Front Ave # 1, Bismarck, ND 58504 • Minot – IBEW, 125 35th Ave NE, Minot, ND 58703 • Williston – James Memorial Preservation, Classroom, 621 1st Ave W, Williston, ND 58801 • Jamestown – Gladstone Hotel, Gladstone I Conference Room, 111 2nd St NE, Jamestown, ND 58401 • Devils Lake – Holiday Inn Express, 875 Hwy 2 East, Devils Lake, ND 58301 • Valley City – Straus Mall, Upper floor, 200 Central Ave N, Valley City, ND 58072 • Dickinson – Dickinson Elks Lodge, 501 Elks Dr, Dickinson, ND 58601 • Belcourt – Sky Dancer Casino & Resort, Event Center, 3965 Sky Dancer Way NE, Belcourt, ND 58316 • Fort Yates – Standing Rock High School, Gymnasium, 9189 ND-24, Fort Yates, ND 58538 • New Town – Northern Lights Center, 710 East Ave, New Town, ND 58763 • Wahpeton – Wahpeton Community Center, 304 5th St S, Wahpeton, ND 58075 • Fort Totten – Cankdeska Cikana Community College, Gymnasium, 214 1st Avenue, Fort Totten, ND 58335
North Dakota ANYONE 17+ CAN VOTE - Go where it's most convenient: 11 a.m.-7 p.m. CST, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. MST.
• No ID requirement. • Fargo – Fargo–Moorhead AFL-CIO, 3002 1st Ave. N, Fargo, ND 58102 • Grand Forks – IBEW, 1714 N Washington St, Grand Forks, ND 58203 • Bismarck – AFL-CIO House of Labor, 1323 E Front Ave # 1, Bismarck, ND 58504 • Minot – IBEW, 125 35th Ave NE, Minot, ND 58703 • Williston – James Memorial Preservation, Classroom, 621 1st Ave W, Williston, ND 58801 • Jamestown – Gladstone Hotel, Gladstone I Conference Room, 111 2nd St NE, Jamestown, ND 58401 • Devils Lake – Holiday Inn Express, 875 Hwy 2 East, Devils Lake, ND 58301 • Valley City – Straus Mall, Upper floor, 200 Central Ave N, Valley City, ND 58072 • Dickinson – Dickinson Elks Lodge, 501 Elks Dr, Dickinson, ND 58601 • Belcourt – Sky Dancer Casino & Resort, Event Center, 3965 Sky Dancer Way NE, Belcourt, ND 58316 • Fort Yates – Standing Rock High School, Gymnasium, 9189 ND-24, Fort Yates, ND 58538 • New Town – Northern Lights Center, 710 East Ave, New Town, ND 58763 • Wahpeton – Wahpeton Community Center, 304 5th St S, Wahpeton, ND 58075 • Fort Totten – Cankdeska Cikana Community College, Gymnasium, 214 1st Avenue, Fort Totten, ND 58335
Joel Lovelien is Beaten to Death at a Halloween Party, Numerous Costumed Individuals are Considered Suspects
On October 27, 2007, 38-year old Joel Lovelien and his fiancée, Heather Eastling, went to a Halloween party at the Broken Drum Lounge and Casino in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Joel dressed up as a hockey player and wore the green jersey for the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux. At around 11:30 PM, Joel received a call on his cell phone and stepped outside to answer it. A few minutes later, Joel returned to the bar and told Heather that he was going back outside to check on someone who had been left behind by a bus. Shortly thereafter, Joel’s body was discovered in the parking lot. He was seriously beaten and suffered a massive head injury and died from choking on his own blood. The only piece of evidence was a yellow paw in the parking lot with blood on it. Police sent out a plea for a man seen at the bar wearing a yellow sweatshirt, which was made up to look like a lion costume, thereby explaining the presence of the paw. Within two days, a 23-year old nursing student named Travis Stay came forward. He verified being at the Broken Drum on the night of Joel’s death, but had become so intoxicated that there was a one-hour time period where he could not remember anything. Travis claimed he recalled being punched by a man dressed like a hunter in the parking lot before blacking out and the next thing he remembered was arriving at his apartment in a taxi. When he was questioned, Travis had bruises on his face and cuts on his hands, but was certain he had not harmed anyone. He willingly turned over his shoes, which had blood on them, and allowed police to search his apartment, where they found a yellow sweatshirt with blood on it in the trash. While the blood on Travis’ shoes belonged to him, DNA testing revealed that the blood on the sweatshirt belonged to Joel Lovelien. He was subsequently charged with Joel’s murder. At trial, Travis’ defense team maintained that since he was only five-foot-nine and 160 pounds and Joel was six-foot-four and 240 pounds, Travis was not capable of beating him to death, particularly since Joel had no offensive wounds on his hands. They acknowledged that Travis was likely in the parking lot when Joel was killed, but pointed toward other suspects as being responsible. Travis had arrived at the Broken Drum on a party bus containing 40-50 people in Halloween costumes, who chartered the bus to chauffeur them around the town on an all-night pub crawl. After Travis pulled one of the costumed partiers, James Wavra (who was dressed as a hunter), to the ground in the parking lot, he was punched out and told he wasn’t allowed back on the bus. The prosecution’s theory was that Joel went over to help Travis, who was so enraged about being punched out that he took out his aggression on Joel and beat him to death. The party bus was gone by the time police arrived at the Broken Drum, but they were able to track down some of the partiers through descriptions of their costumes. The organizer of the party bus was Bryce Larson, who was dressed as a cowboy. When approached by police at another bar, Larson was very uncooperative and aggressive and allegedly mentioned Joel’s green hockey jersey before he was even told what happened. Police also tracked down another partier named Jon Deziel, who was dressed as a clown. He appeared to be crying, his hands were shaking and was heard saying: “I guess things got out of hand tonight”. The investigations into Larson and Deziel came to a halt once Travis Stay showed up on the radar. At trial, Travis’ defence team put all their focus on the party bus, alleging that Larson and two of his friends, Mitchell Dahlen and Josh Deziel (Jon Deziel’s brother), planned to teach Travis a lesson for his attack on James Wavra. When Joel attempted to intervene, the trio wound up beating Joel to death, causing his blood to spill on Travis’s clothing. Larson admitted that they did go after Travis in the parking lot before Joel intervened, but the two sides only had a friendly conversation before they hopped on the bus and left the scene. However, the defence produced surveillance footage from inside the Broken Drum that night, which showed Jon Deziel (distinctly dressed as a clown) exiting the bar three-and-a-half minutes after Joel went outside for the final time. Since Deziel was established as being on the party bus when it left the scene, this meant the bus was still parked there for several minutes while Joel was outside, leaving ample time for him to be beaten up by Larson and his friends. The prosecution also produced a witness from that night named Steve Raasakka, who claimed that while walking home from the Broken Drum, he was followed by Travis, who subsequently took a failed swing at Raasakka and fell to the ground. However, the defence used this incident to their advantage, stating that if Travis was so drunk that he fell over while attempting to punch James Wavra and Steve Raasakka, how would he have been capable of beating Joel Lovelien to death? In the end, after deliberating for six hours, the jury thought there was enough reasonable doubt to acquit Travis. However, the prosecution and the police continued to maintain that they got the right man all along. They’ve pretty much established that the investigation into Joel’s murder is now closed and they will not be pursuing any other suspects. I cover this case on this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”: http://trailwentcold.com/2017/10/11/the-trail-went-cold-episode-44-joel-lovelien/ Sources: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/othehalloween-murder-mystery-who-killed-man-hockey-costume-f8C11470596 http://www.grandforksherald.com/news/2086041-taxi-driver-tells-jurors-ride-travis-stay http://www.grandforksherald.com/news/2086010-party-bus-riders-testify-lovelien-murder-trial
A.I. Security Cameras Are the Latest High-Tech Attempt to Combat Mass Shooters
In July, Shagaf Khan, a longtime member of the Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, and president of the region’s Muslim association, froze as one gunman after another entered the house of worship. Just four months prior, the mosque had been ground zero for that country’s deadliest massacre, in which the attacker live-streamed on Facebook his shooting rampage that killed 51 and wounded 49. This time, the guns were part of a drill. Police officers were simulating a siege on the mosque, brandishing a variety of firearms to test a new high-tech security system developed by Athena Security. With the help of artificial intelligence, surveillance cameras mounted inside and outside the mosque recognized lethal threats within seconds. They set in motion a rapid emergency response, alerting authorities and ultimately the congregants inside of imminent danger. “We were impressed,” Khan says of the technology’s performance that day. “We saw all kinds of arms—whether it be a pistol or a larger gun. All of them were detected.” Mass shootings like the one in New Zealand, and more recent ones in Dayton, El Paso, and Odessa, Texas, are prompting some businesses and schools to install A.I.-powered security systems. The hope is that the emerging technology will help save lives in a mass shooting, which, according to Mass Shooting Tracker, a crowdsourced database, occurs an average of at least once a day somewhere in the land of the free, home of the brave. Chris Ciabarra, CTO of Athena Security, installs his firm’s security system at Archbishop Wood High School in Warminster, Pa.Courtesy of AthenaStill, there’s only so much cameras and computers can do to stop a determined gunman armed with an AR-15-style weapon. Furthermore, the technology is prone to occasional false positives, while critics worry about the privacy implications of monitoring for firearms anyone and everyone who happens to be walking by. Whatever the case, investors are pouring money into intelligent security. Athena Security, a year-old startup based in Austin, has raised $5.5 million. The Israeli firm AnyVision, meanwhile, closed a $74 million funding round in June, and Canada’s Patriot One Technologies, listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, has raised $87 million Canadian ($65 million U.S.). The recent rise of A.I.-based security systems is tied to improvements in image recognition, a technology that tries to identify what’s in photographs or video stills. In this case, the goal is to zero in on what’s often easily overlooked—deadly weapons and suspicious behavior that signal an impending violent act. Athena’s technology works by analyzing as little as three seconds of surveillance footage, or 90 individual frames of video. Its algorithms are trained to look for both dangerous objects and the menacing movements of individuals—say, a person brandishing a Glock pistol while approaching a school. Critics worry about the privacy implications of monitoring for firearms anyone and everyone who happens to be walking by.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The tech will lock in on that scene, pulling in more frames to analyze before notifying the on-duty Athena technician or a security officer on-site to verify the threat. If the danger is real, the security staff can sound the alarm, locking down the school, office complex, or place of worship and preventing an armed attacker from entering. Earlier this year, the company found just one weak spot: Its algorithms failed to spot the handgun or assault rifle being carried by a person 30 feet away and pointing straight at the camera. In every other scenario tested—the gun angled to the right or left, the gunman in motion with the gun, the weapon held at any angle within 25 feet of the camera—the detection rate was 100%. Spotting guns is the feature that clients are most interested in, explains Chris Ciabarra, Athena’s cofounder and chief technology officer. But they also ask for harder-to-spot threats, which is why in September the company introduced updated software that’s supposed to home in on knives (over six inches) and fights (punching, kicking, pushing). The technology costs $100 monthly per camera. What Athena tries to avoid is making its system so overzealous that it mistakes any shiny black object—an iPhone, say—for a handgun. Ciabarra says that newly installed technology may flag two or three false positives per camera per day that on-duty security staff must vet. “The alert pops up on a screen, and they click yes or no,” Ciabarra says. “The last thing we want is for police to be called to a scene when they’re not supposed to be.” Patriot One, the Canadian company, uses a combination of machine learning and microwave-radar technology to spot hidden threats. Its sensors act as a kind of long-range metal detector that identifies concealed weapons, including guns, knives, and bombs. With the help of microwave radar—the hardware for which can be hidden, as in these planters—and machine learning, this Canadian firm’s tech can spot and identify visible or hidden threats like guns, knives, and bombs.Courtesy of Patriot OneSignals that bounce off solid objects are instantly analyzed for a match in the company’s weapons database. The system’s machine learning distinguishes between the highly suspect (say, an assault rifle smuggled in a suitcase) and the benign (a mobile phone in a jacket pocket), and then, if necessary, alerts security personnel. “It’s all about smart, distributed, low-cost networked security,” says Martin Cronin, the company’s CEO. Patriot One’s hardware is installed in schools, offices, and public venues including the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino and the University of North Dakota at Grand Forks. It costs just under $50,000 per installation, plus an annual $10,000 fee. Cronin, a former diplomat for the British Foreign Office, says interest in his company’s technology picked up significantly after the 2017 Mandalay Bay shooting in Las Vegas in which a lone gunman killed 58 and wounded 422. Cronin won’t get drawn into hypotheticals about whether Patriot One’s system, called PatScan, could have prevented it. But, he says, that type of incident—weapons in bags brought into a hotel—is precisely what the technology is designed to prevent. “Yes, in principle, we will detect those and generate an alert so that security could respond before an incident could happen,” Cronin says.
Keeping Watch
A growing number of companies are selling A.I.-powered security systems that detect guns and other weapons.
Athena Security
Using image-recognition technology, this Austin firm’s security system analyzes surveillance video for firearms and knives.
Patriot One Technologies
With the help of microwave radar and machine learning, this Canadian firm’s tech can spot and identify visible or hidden threats like guns, knives, and bombs.
AnyVision
This Israeli firm has developed a “computer vision” platform that works with most networked security cameras to recognize faces and body types along with objects that resemble a security threat. Using A.I. for security is fast becoming a hot-button issue. Digital-rights advocacy groups and politicians, from San Francisco’s board of supervisors to Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, have called for banning facial-recognition algorithms for policing. In March, the Commercial Facial Recognition Privacy Act was introduced in the U.S. Senate, a bipartisan bill that could codify privacy rights, potentially limiting what A.I.-powered security systems can do. “We need guardrails to ensure that as this technology continues to develop, it is implemented responsibly,” says Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), who cosponsored the bill with Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii). Patriot One and Athena Security say that one of the biggest misconceptions about the use of their security systems is a subsequent loss of privacy. Both companies say their technologies don’t record, store, or share an individual’s biometric data. But Cronin acknowledges that he gets a lot of questions about how Patriot One’s technology differs—if at all—from how, say, China uses facial-recognition technologies to track political foes. “To that I say, ‘This isn’t what this technology is about. It’s to keep people safe, in a public or a private environment,’ ” Cronin contends. In Christchurch, Khan has other concerns. In the aftermath of the massacre, his job as one of the congregation’s administrative leaders has morphed into caretaker, counselor, and security chief. He’s just trying to restore a bit of normalcy. Even with the new security system and a beefed-up police presence, some congregants are too scared to return. Khan doesn’t know if they’ll come back, but he’s beginning to feel better about the safety and well-being of those who have remained. No technology is foolproof, he says: “But at least we have these technologies in place that can help prevent this kind of thing happening.” A version of this article appears in the October 2019 issue of Fortune with the headline “High Tech Takes On Mass Shooters.”### More must-read stories from Fortune: —The cheapest mobile plans for your iPhone 11 —What is quantum supremacy, and why is it such a computing milestone? —Beyoncé was sued for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act. And you could be, too —Meet the women leading Netflix into [the streaming wars ](https://fortune.com/longform/women-netflix-streaming-wars/)—Why Discord is one of tech’s hottest startups__Catch up withData Sheet, Fortune’s daily digest on the business of tech. * More Details Here
On October 27, 2007, 38-year-old Joel Lovelien and his fiance donned costumes to attend a Halloween party at the Broken Drum lounge and casino in Grand Forks, North Dakota. At 11:30 PM, Joel went out into the parking lot to take a call on his cell phone. Shortly afterward, he was severely beaten and choked to death on his own blood. A bloody piece of a yellow Halloween costume was found next to his body. The investigation led to 24-year-old nursing student Travis Stay, who wore a yellow lion costume at the bar that night but became so intoxicated that he had no memory of what happened. Travis had bruises on his face and vaguely remembered getting into a fight with someone dressed like a hunter. When DNA testing confirmed traces of Joel’s blood on Travis’s costume, he was charged with murder. However, since Travis was much smaller than Joel, there was doubt about whether he could have beaten him so severely. Travis’s defense team directed suspicion toward a charter bus transporting 40–50 costumed partiers through Grand Forks on the night of Joel’s murder. This party bus made a stop at the Broken Drum, and eyewitnesses reported seeing someone in a hunter costume attacking Travis. The defense’s theory was that people from the bus beat up Travis in the parking lot and killed Joel when he tried to intervene. This would explain why Joel’s blood was found on Travis’s costume. At trial, the jury ultimately believed this scenario and acquitted Travis. Even though some individuals from the party bus were identified and questioned, there is still no definitive evidence to tie anyone to Joel Lovelien’s murder. Websleuths Discussion Part 1 of the Dateline episode News Article
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