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Hillcrest got its Babycakes back
Cupcake maker returns to the neighborhood
Ian Anderson 2:58 p.m., Jan. 20
Sitting on a park bench at Prescott Promenade on a hot July afternoon, John stares at a brawny tattooed man in his 50s smoking a cigarette under a "No Smoking" sign.
"Who knows what this guy would do if I went up to him and told him to put that cigarette out," says John, as he waves a copy of El Cajon's no-smoking ordinance in the air. "People don't respect the law anymore. They've never respected this one."
For some residents, the law that prohibits smoking in public — in parks, restaurants, bars, places of employment, and common areas of hotels and apartment buildings — is ineffective and unenforceable, and it serves no purpose other than as bragging rights for local politicians.
"I've seen people light up right in front of cops, and the cops don't even ask them to put it out. Look at this guy," says John, a 15-year resident of El Cajon who doesn't want to give his real name. "He doesn't care because no one is going to enforce it."
Since March 2008, when the law's grace period ended, not one citation has been issued for smoking in public.
The reason isn't that the law has stopped everyone from lighting up — far from it — but that the law is "self-enforcing," meaning it is up to employers, property owners, and other citizens to ask smokers to extinguish cigarettes if they pose a "positive danger to health and a cause of material annoyance, inconvenience, discomfort, and a health hazard."
If the smoker refuses to put out the cigarette, the complainant can either find a police officer or file a civil action against the smoker.
For John, asking people to put out their cigarettes is as good as telling them to slow down and drive the speed limit. And filing a civil action is even more outlandish.
"Usually when I approach someone smoking, they tell me that they have a right to smoke where they want and there is nothing I can do about it. Their response is always some type of 'I don't give a damn' attitude. If it's a law, it needs to be enforced by the police and the City, not the people it's supposed to protect."
Second-term councilmember Gary Kendrick, the man behind the ordinance, is sitting in a shaded area outside a sandwich shop at the corner of Main Street and Magnolia. He says the law isn't about enforcement or the number of citations issued; it's about public health, social trends, and turning El Cajon into a "family-friendly" city.
"I believe everyone has the right to bear arms, but I don't think they have the right to fire into a crowd," Kendrick says. "The right to breathe clean air trumps the right to smoke."
Kendrick started thinking about a public ban on smoking back in 2003, when his council office received complaints about secondhand smoke at car shows and outside retail centers.
Around the same time, Kendrick had an altercation with a smoker at a playground where he took his son to play. "This guy lit up a cigarette, and his smoke was blowing over to my kid. So I asked him to put it out, and he said no. I started thinking more about the dangers of secondhand smoke and the need to protect our citizens, most important, our children."
Within four years, the City had enacted the toughest antismoking regulations in the county. The first, a 2004 law, aims to end underage smoking. Tobacco merchants pay a fee, currently $675 per year, to fund compliance checks and administrative hearings, held when alleged violators challenge fines. The second law, the smoking ban, went into effect in September 2007.
"Society's norms are changing," says Kendrick. "We're going from a smoking society to a nonsmoking society. So we're just legislating the direction that society is already headed. I think this will be a legacy for this city council for years and years. We're saving lives."
Regarding complaints about the lack of enforcement, he says, "There's never 100 percent compliance with any law. But it puts an added pressure on the other smokers because they don't want to break the law."
As if on cue, a man carrying a large duffel bag walks past the table holding an unlit cigarette. He stops five feet away and lights up.
"Most people are responsible smokers, and they won't smoke around other people," says Kendrick in a slightly louder voice, trying to get the man's attention. Seconds later, a thin plume of smoke reaches the table.
"Most people obey the law, but as you can see, there are always some that don't."
To encourage more residents to obey the law, the City asks businesses to set aside designated areas for their clientele and employees to smoke. According to the ordinance, "smoking outposts" should be at least 20 feet from a doorway or access point to a parking structure or retail area. The City has set up two outposts on public property.
One of them — a shadeless, five-by-ten-foot patch of dirt with a cement receptacle for cigarette butts — is located behind the Downtown Cafe, near the corner of East Main Street and Sulzfeld.
Less than 20 feet away, 30-year-old El Cajon resident Kevin Robinson stands in the shade, taking a drag from his cigarette.
Robinson says he heard about the City's ban on the news but hasn't given it much attention. "It's a joke," he says. "I can see if it was at a playground or at a parade, but out in the open? You can't tell a grown man he can't smoke. If the City's going to start banning stuff, is alcohol next? I would say that's a bigger issue."
Asked why he isn't smoking at the outpost, Robinson says he has no idea what that is. He walks over to see what one looks like and laughs.
"Look at this," he says, pointing to the patch of dirt. "Is this a joke? This is all done to appease the councilmembers so they can feel good about themselves."
But for Dr. John Pierce, head of the Cancer Prevention and Control research program at the UCSD Moores Cancer Center and chair of the World Health Organization's research arm on tobacco-related cancer, the policies are a breath of fresh air. Pierce has coauthored a review for WHO on the effectiveness of nonsmoking policies, to be published this month. Writing on the subject in a July 2008 Lancet article, he and coauthors concluded that "smoke-free policies substantially decrease second-hand smoke exposure." The article recommends "that governments enact and implement smoke-free policies."
"Implementation of such policies can have a broader population effect of increasing smoke-free environments," reads the article. "Not only do these policies achieve their aim of protecting the health of non-smokers by decreasing exposure to second-hand smoke, they also have many effects on smoking behavior, which compound the expected health benefits."
Adds Pierce in a July 29 email: "The issue is protection of non-smokers in particular. [Some people] are particularly vulnerable [to secondhand smoke] and small exposures can create significant problems."
As for ordinances such as the one in El Cajon infringing on the rights of smokers, Pierce writes, "There is no 'right' to expose others to harmful substances, and scientists have been unable to identify a safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke."
But expanding or strengthening antismoking regulations would require a lot more work and public support, says Councilmember Kendrick. He's thought about pursuing an initiative to prohibit smoking inside apartment buildings, but he won't be doing that anytime soon. "I'm going to stay away from that for now. I don't think El Cajon is ready for that. Those are issues for another day."
I don't smoke and I don't like being around smokers. I don't agree with the law, but I respect the city's right to legislate whatever they want.
All that said, any unenforceable law is a stupid idea.
This is the only issue on the planet about which PP and I are in accord. The resolution is simple:
Smokers need to be polite. Don't smoke in crowds, just outside the doors of any establishment, or on playgrounds or near children. Use your common sense, and don't irritate others. It may be largely junk science when it comes to second-hand smoke outdoors, but the average nonsmoking citizen either doesn't know this, and/or is just looking for an excuse to vent suppressed rage over childhood issues or everyday disappointment with life. If someone starts doing that fake little "cough" or glares, or makes a comment, extinguish your smoke or walk away.
Smokers need to stop littering--especially on beaches and in parks! All smokers need to purchase a portable ashtray. My new one is a small, square, stainless steel thing with a cool flip- out cig holder. When closed, butts are stored in an odor-free, airtight receptacle until a trashcan can be located.
Nonsmokers need to respond in kind, reasonably and politely. Do not expect that smokers are not going to smoke outdoors anywhere. If you are near a smoker and don't like it, move away. The breeze carrying the smoke is NOT going to follow you wherever you go. If a smoker is violating the rules above, be polite and give him or her an option to put it out in the nonsmoking zone, or to take it elsewhere. Be understanding, and do not confront. You'd be amazed how far a non-confrontational attitude will take you, and hey, you might even make a new acquaintance of your neighbor.
4.Politicians: Enough with the red herring and smokescreens, and get to work on the real issues taxpayers are paying you to resolve!
"There is no 'right' to expose others to harmful substances"
I wonder if Pierce drives a car? Cars emit toxins into the air and environment. Hmmm I guess he wouldn't like it if we took away his car.
I am sick of all these stupid laws banning activities/behaviors because it bothers someone else. Why can't people just mind their own business. If you don't like smokey bars, don't go to smokey bars. I thinks its time that smokers fight back and stop getting kicked in the gut. Tell me to put out my smoke and I say a big F--You!!
In case you didn't know, Idiot, There are 0 emission cars out there.
You wonder if he even drives a car, but you want to take a car away that he doesn't even have??! O.o
Obviously, if it were up to you, everybody would be driving high-pollutant vehicles. Thank GOD you don't rule the world!!!! lmfao
We DO mind our own business. The problem is ass holes like you, who come to OUR business and blow smoke in our faces, and our kids faces. We don't go to smokey bars, retard! Fight back??! They started the war with their offensive, deplorable rude behavior!!! Just like you are displaying right now... What a sad, lonely, pathetic individual you must be :(
Maybe next time you could say ThankYou instead!! (And then move away from where the people who want to LIVE are.)
I agree with ya Pete. Although, aside from the second-hand smoke statistics I've heard (which I can tell are bogus, just because the numbers they claim of people that die each year from it, can't be proved and sound bogus). Although, something else to keep in mind, is that even if it doesn't give you lung cancer, if you're around a smoker for a while, you go home and your entire wardrobe smells like a cigarette.
But if everyone was polite, I think it would all work out.
I was at Pat & Oscars in Mission Valley the other night. This young girl working there came over to us. She asked if we minded if she smoked at the far table of the patio. We said we didn't mind.
The table she sat at was so far away from us, or anyone else, that you couldn't smell the smoke. And even if once in a while I would've gotten a wiff of it...no biggie (to me). But if someone is eating outside, they might not want their entire meal ruined by someone chain smoking right next to them.
It sucks that laws and rules keep making it harder for smokers, but you have to keep in mind, you're participating in a habit that can bother other folks. Whether they "think" it's because they'll get lung cancer from your smoke, or they just don't like the smell...well, it seems to be getting to a point where you can smoke in your car and your house (with all the windows closed, of course).
Smokers don't be polite. Let me remind you how this started the anti's, who are funded by Big Pharma, started with the airlines. No smoking under flights of two hours, then four hours and now none, not even in the airports.
Then they moved to the restaurants asking could we have a nonsmoking section, please? So we then had smoking and nonsmoking sections. Once they got that it still wasn't enough, next it was banned in public buildings, then workplaces, then restaurants "for the workers." Implying, of course, that people are too stupid to be able to choose to enter or work in a smoking establishment.
In many places you can't smoke inside or outside. Does that satisfy the bullies - no! Now there is a movement to ban smoking in your own private car and single family house! When will it stop - when tobacco is taken off the shelves and is no longer legal to purchase or produced!
The goal by the World Health Organization is just that and they expect to accomplish it by 2020.
The formula for banning tobacco is now in place for obesity and alcohol.
As long as Big Pharma (who has deep pockets) produce drugs to make you stop smoking, lose weight and stop drinking it will continue, unless you find your backbone and start saying enough is enough!
Do we want a government that is free from tyranny or a nanny state that will control your behavior because it is profitable for Big Pharma, the state, and the federal coffers?
If you keep putting your head in the sand and believe everything that is printed or said by the media and do not follow the money trail this country will no longer be free!
If it is legal there should not be any prohibition. And if someone tells you to stop smoking, or stuffing your face because you are fat, or put down that beer because it isn't healthy tell them to mind their own business and get a life that doesn't impinge on yours.
Hi, I am gonna smoke anywhere I want- But-Children should NOT be involved with my smoke or even see me or my smoke- I don't want to get them started to do whats is wrong -- BUT this smoking LAW is wrong IF I am outside smoking -ya okay I'm outside- but if my smoke goes near someone - that does not like it I will try to move or _? these non smokers are making this law worse- it should be if I'm down at the beach smoking in the sand - no kids are around -good to smoke - but If I drop my butt IN the sand or anywhere GIVE me a big ticket fine this law has gone bad for us smokers -- UNFAIR ! ...
Go ahead and smoke yourself to death rude people! Yet you fail to 'think' about the facts: some of us are very allergic to tobacco smoke and breathing it could put someone in a hospital ER. Particularly a child with asthma. The anti-smoking wave would probably not have happened if smokers would be willing to show courtesy instead of ignorance! The more smokers stand up for their 'right' to blow their smoke in the face of non-smokers then get ugly about it when someone asks them to smoke elsewhere, the more negative reaction they will receive in return. Try being polite from the start and you will be shown respect in return. I have politely asked smokers to not puff their tobacco inside buildings and near me outside and by my home because of the stinky smell and usually they get defensive and want to argue about it which leads to hostility towards one another. Please be considerate of others. I'm sure everyone who reads this has a gripe about something which affects their life or personal space and is quite adamant about enforcing that which annoys them. And don't forget how tobacco smoke affects the lungs of children! Think about it...
Hi.. I am not a smoker, but have been around them for, well all my life. Outside bans are so stupid, I have to agree with everyone else, be polite and considerate to others, say clear of children. It is legal if they don't want people to smoke in areas then, make tobacco illegal. Airplanes, I can understand the ban, as it is close quarters, dining inside yes, but outside make it a designated area. Stay out of the casinos if you don't like it, but don't expect a smoker to not smoke or move because you don't like it. Tough S**T! live with it. Next to Pot and prostitution smoking has been around for centuries and it is not going anywhere.
tokapanative - What makes you superior and your "rights" trump others. Okay, some people may have self induced alergy to cigarette smoke but oh well deal with it. I'm alergic to bees, should I wear a bee keeper suit when I go outside? No, I stay away from bees.
So, the stinky smell is what bothers you. Do you ask bums to walk on the other side of the street because their BO is strong? What about sweaty stinky obese person, would you ask them to move from the table they are seated at?
Everybody needs to just mind their own F-----G business.
Bees are from nature, idiot.
Why should something that's unnatural, and is DEADLY have a higher importance to be free to practice rather than someone who is just minding their own business trying to LIVE life?!?
Yes, if there was a law that said people have to take a shower, and they reeked, then sat down next to me at a restaurant where I was trying to enjoy my dinner, I would ask them to comply with the law! But have you ever heard of that law? (And would that affect MY health??) What stupid people smokers are... Sheesh...
Tell everyone you are just exercising your 'right' to smoke when you or a loved one is dying a slow painful death due to emphysema or a heart attack! Then, imagine if a smoker who has chosen to inhale carcinogens (and innocent victims) for years has no insurance? Well then the taxpayer must pay the hospital bills to prolong said persons suffering. I have personally witnessed the abuse of our medical system and then watched people get out of the hospital only to continue smoking themselves to death! This is so much more than an ignorant person exercising their 'right' to smoke. My grandmother and aunt were lifelong smokers and died fairly young. One may choose to disregard the 'facts' garnered by the Lung Assoc. and others, yet the 'fact' remains: a smoker WILL DIE an early death and experience many sick days before the ugly end arrives. Go have a chat with a coroner if you dare. In closing; the thing all of us must remember is: BE POLITE to one another and show the same respect toward others you wish to have returned to you.
tokapanative - You didn't answer my questions. Smoking isn't the only thing running up medical bills insurance costs and taxpayer funds. Check out obesity. The are far more obese americans than there are smokers. What about the people who have a quad bypass surgery and a few months later they're back at in-n-out with a double double, shake, and fries. Like I said, every one mind there own business. Your tragic yet PERSONAL experience should and shall not dictate the way I live my life.
There's no talking to people like tokapanative,jmtrudeau. I'm not sure which are the worse hypocrites....Non-smokers or ex-smokers? And tokapanative? Not everyone that smokes dies a horrible death. I know a few people who died past age 100 who smoked,swore and drank till the day they died. They died of old age,not smoking or drinking. It's all about your genes. Good genes=a long life. That's why I advocate not having children. Too many people are breeding that shouldn't be. Knowing what I know about my family genes,I'll include myself in that list. I love my son and he was an accident but knowing what I know now,I wouldn't have had sex that night OR at least wouldn't have gotten so drunk that I would've wrapped my rascal.
The bee analogy is a perfect one. What if the person does their best to stay away from bees, and a neighbor buys a bunch of flowers and hedges that have flowers in them, and now bees are all over the place. The person might get mad, but what can ya do? You don't start passing a bunch of laws.
I also like the attitude of the other non-smoker, realizing how insane it is for smokers to not have ANYWHERE to go.
I have this theory. People are such jerks and selfish, that it amazes me. They think THEIR things are important, but not other peoples. Or that THEY are right, but if the roles were reversed, they wouldn't.
I go to a park where me and other dog owners let our dogs off the leash. But legally, we aren't supposed to. So, when kids ride by on skateboards and my dog runs after them (even though he's tiny), he goes back on his leash and I hold him. Other dog owners don't do this, and they start complaing about the kids. Yes, they actually have the nerve to do that, saying 'Where are their parents?" I always say "Uh...you know that we are wrong, by having our dogs off the leash, not the kids for playing and skating around in a park." These same people would complain if the kids were skating around their house and NOT at the park.
My friend just sat next to someone on an airplane that was so fat, he took up two seats. He had to be uncomfortable sitting next to this guy....yet, this guy probably complains about smokers "bother him."
It's amazing that people can't see this.
I only respect the feeling of non-smokers when I'm somewhere that my smoking might bother them. Outdoor seating at restaurants,casinos,bars,etc,etc don't count. If I'm at the bus stop,I'll smoke. If I'm at the bus stop and there is a non-smoker there,I'll walk away. If the wind carries my cigarette smoke 50 feet away to her,I'll move 50 feet in the other direction. I don't like smoking bans but I do respect the need for them. Non-smokers have gotten too catered to. Smokers will ALWAYS be around. A few times I've encountered pot smokers who tell me I'm killing myself. My brain always farts during those moments. I don't know how to respond to that.
How about "And what you're smokin' there is health food?"
PistolPete, as you posted in #16, that is mainly how I smoke as well. Its the rude non smokers (prime example) On my lunch I get in my car drive a shaded section of the parking lot, and have a couple of smokes before heading back into the office. People can walk around my car, they can see my hand out the window with the cigarette, but they have to walk right next to me and make the cute little cough sounds and give dirty looks. When did it become okay in our society to treat people as second class citizens simply because they smoke. I've even heard radio commericals telling people to go over to smokers and tell them to put their cigarette out. Maybe we should say put that cheese burger down, but I don't because like I've said a hundred times, I mind my own damn business.
Last night I was at the soft opening of the new Station Tavern in South Park and its mainly an outside venue and they had a single ash tray way in the back corner so myself and a few others walked over to the ash tray and lit up a smoke. You should have seen the "oh my gosh" look on several parents' faces when they saw us, yes I said parents because these parents brought their kids to a bar (I don't agree with kids in a bar, but again I mind my own busiess)
Someone's cheeseburger doesn't get in my eyes or make my nose wrinkle up. At least not from 30 feet away!
Please, go to school, and learn. There's something to be said about a High School education...
I've thought about that russl :-D I'm a very infrequent toker myself so you never know when the guy you insult will be your dealer.
Well, then I guess you just need to shut up.
That's another thing that pi$$es me off. If you're bringing kids to a bar,then their in for a rude awakening. I refuse to not say f**k or put out my cigarettes at the bar. A bar is the one place left that's a safe haven to let your hair down. I'll be damned if the families are going to take that away. I should start confronting people when they look at me like I'm diseased.
I usually ignore them. I blame it on too many damaged brain cells :-D
jm...as a non-smoker, I will say this. I think non-smokers are so much ruder than smokers are. That being said, you are wrong on two counts in your last post.
First, the cheeseburger thing doesn't work, because they may be doing damage to their health by consuming it, but it hardly bothers people around them (unless they eat it all messy, the way they do in the Carl's Jr. commercials). With smoking, they aren't telling you to stop out of concern for your health. It's because the smoke bothers them.
Second, when you're in your car smoking, obviously the window is open because it's hot out. But, when you drive...my pet peeve is you smokers that have your windows open, because you want to knock the ashes out onto the street. And that's almost always followed by, flicking the cigarette butt out the window. USE YOUR DAMN ASH TRAYS!!!! This is a fire hazard (especially with this weather). That's how a fire started near one of the casinos a few years back. Not to mention, it's littering.
No s***, Josh. They do nothing for the landscape, plus that's just about the easiest way to start a fire there is. It amazes me how much brain power it takes to figure that out and put the butt in the ashtray. Unbelievable.
It offends me to see fatf**ks eating cheeseburgers(even though I am one). I LOVE non-smokers who bring up the fact that they're paying higher insurance premiums because of us smokers. Those are the people I just want to go up to and kick their infant down the block.
Instead of kicking their infant down the block, why not tell them you pay taxes for their kid to go to school, among other things. Also tell them they're going to be bringing their kid into restaurants, annoying the crap out of you as you try to eat and they can't keep their kid quiet. You can't have a cigarette in the diner to ease the stress, either!
re:#7: kstwk, I do not agree that we smokers should be impolite--if all parties are polite and accommodating, the issue gets resolved and we live in peace. I have found that non-smokers are surprised and very appreciative when they see that I do not litter cigarette butts, and if smoking near them, I ask if my smoke bothers them, so I can put it out or move away. You'd be amazed at how many people wave me away, thanking me for my consideration. The "cough," the glare, and the rude comments melt away, and I generally enjoy a big smile from such nonsmokers.
re: #9: tokapanative, let's stick to the facts we can substantiate. As our environment erodes, there are more children than ever with asthmatic conditions from birth. If we were smoking indoors with these children, or right next to them, yes, that would be a problem. We are not discussing this kind of situation; even the few irate smokers writing in here, such as the "free hugs" guy, are admitting that they will certainly move away from children outdoors. Thank you for your concern over our health issues, too, but you have no right to regulate them at this time.
As a smoker, butts on the ground do bother me. I found a simple solution. Pinch the cigarette filter between your index finger and thumb (like the OK sign) and use your middle finger to flick the cherry on to the ground. You can now throw the cigarette into any trashcan without the risk of a fire.
If your car does not have an ashtray (my girls Volvo doesn't have an ash tray, which I found odd for a eurpean car) I bring an empty soda can with me. Which reminds me of cars from the 50's-60's that had ashtrays for every seat in the car and now your lucky to even have an ashtray in your car.
What America is rapidly forgetting is that this country was built by tobacco. No tobacco,no country. The amount of history this country"forgets"is amazing to me. We've made it affordable to have all volumes of an encyclopedia at our fingertips but all people want to do all day is send Twits and make gay videos on YouTube. And for those offended by my use of the word gay,F*** OFF AND GET A LIFE!
As a nation, we have seemed to adopt a "It's All About ME!" attitude towards our neighbors. In doing so, civility and respect have been chucked off the Coronado Bridge, in favor of tactics that utilize the cheesed-off Chimpanzee part of our intellect.
Having read the commentary following the story, I'm surprised that both sides haven't gone full-tilt boogie to Fist City over this issue. Having said this, may I make a few suggestions to both sides?
Leave the red herrings about obesity out of your replies. If you are talking about tobacco use...stay with the subjects-at-hand. Tangental screeds weaken your point.
When I used to smoke cigars, I always asked before I lit up. Most of the time, it was either "yea" or "nay" that I got for an answer...and I acted accordingly.
If you ask somebody to put out their smoke, do it politely. And spare them the "health ed" lecture on "The Evils Of Demon Smoke," will ya?
As for you smokers...you need to remember that being polite and showing respect is a two-way street, not a one-way alley. This means you have no call to rip the guts out of anybody who politely asks you to not smoke around them. The more you "assert" your "rights" by anti-social behavior? The more ammo you give the radical non-smokers to have your pleasure restricted even more. Definitely bogus!
My final point: Smoke 'em if you have 'em--it's later than you think!
Kudos to the 70% or so of well educated smokers that do not littler and that respect others' right to breathe clean air, especially, children and old folks! Come on guys a little of common sense here!
I just can't believe the huge ignorance of smokers that complain about their right s to screwed everyone around them; since when is ok. to have 230,000 + cig butts in our beautiful West Coastal Beaches? (Coastal clean up 2005) There are more groups all around the County proving that there is real need for these kind of rules since there are hundred of thousands of cigarette butts tossed everywhere.
Why don't we recognized that and start telling our fellas smokers not to litter?
LaPlacaRifa48619 (lol! Chilo el nombre) for reminding everyone that respect is a two way street. Thank You! No one wins by getting upset and confrontational, what are we chimps?
The good news is that as long as you keep disrespecting yourselves, the environment and the community, smoke free laws will be coming our way and there is nothing we can do about since non-smokers up numbered smokers by far, plus about 30% + of smokers will vote yes if they see that there is a need to protect the environment and what comes with it (see our council member Fry in SD)
Start by buying your butt holder and by smoking away from people. Who cares if you are in a good area away from others to enjoy your smoke and someone gives you the dirty looks.
Bottom line… the solution is on someone's hands, and that my fried is on smokers hands so please hold on to your butt and enjoyed yourself away from kids, people and dirty looks.
It will be all right! I promise.
And might I recommend...if you see a smoker with a cancer stick danglin' out the window...honk at them when they chuck the thing into the street (they always will). It lets them know you saw their littering (and potential fire hazard).
What's with all the repetition? These points have been made in abundance--by smokers and non- above. Take some time to read back over the thread, #29 and #30, and save your 'breath' :)
Oops, meant #29.
Geez, it's a long day. Meant #30 was the repeater. It would be great if someone would summarize the arguments but also come to some useful conclusions. I would do it but am wayyyy too busy today.
I wonder if all threads would be easier to follow the Don Bauder way.
Response to 11: Yes, smokers are annoying.
Response to 12: Yes, non-smokers talking about fast food are annoying.
Respone to 13. I agree.
Respone to 16: I haven't heard of that, but I'll look into it.
Respone to 17: No.
Response to 22: Litter and fire...we both agree on that. Best, Josh.
It would be great if someone would summarize the arguments but also come to some useful conclusions.
Smoking = bad.
Smoking and annoying others with smoke = real bad.
Smoking and starting fire from being careless = real, real bad.
OK, that's it in a nutshell. Hope that helped. We can now move on.
"Thank you for ___." Let's hear it for the Don Bauderettes! :)
Hey Daniels, where is your annoying little side kick at today?
You mean my incredibly witty knockout of a counterpart? I do not know; perhaps she is as busy studying as I am grading :)
Busy, busy, busy. :)
My ears were burning, but it might be because I had TWO cigarettes today! One for each ear! YAY for cigarettes!!!
Suck on my butts, California!
I have no idea how many cigarettes I've smoked today, I never count. But, thankfully, I live in a country where it is both legal to smoke and where smoking is legal. :)
Damn, now I want some brown moo-juice.
Oh Rufus, why do you have to be gay?
Daniels lamented:
"Oh Rufus, why do you have to be gay?"
I knoooooooooooowww!!! Cutest boy in the world. (So of COURSE he's gay, like nearly every other really cute guy on the planet.)
Just one more of God's little jokes on women. Totally unfair.
More fun with "logic:"
my students make a lot of errors with apostrophes. I have to smoke a cigarette for every corrected apostrophe. Therefore, it is my students' fault if I get cancer.
"I have to smoke a cigarette for every corrected apostrophe. Therefore, it is my students' fault if I get cancer."
I think your probly write, but your still going to get cancer if u do'nt stop smoking cigarette's.
(Just WAITING for some a$$hat to pull this out of context now and call me an "idiot.")
Damn it, it's two cigs for that spelling error, and one more for the texting shortcut.
If they paid me in Percocet, now, I wouldn't mind.
If they paid me in cigarettes, then I'd be a Kafka protagonist.
I must be tired. Two spelling errors :)
If they paid me in Ambien, I'd be a Longfellow character.
Maybe you'd better hit the NoDoz instead. There are 7 errors in that sentence.
Wakey, wakey. :)
If they paid me in Ambien, I'd be a Longfellow character.
What character would you be if they paid you in vicodine or oxy?
I said two SPELLING errors, AG. Wake up yo'self! :)
You too, SurfP: I already said I "wouldn't mind" if they paid me in Percocet. How about: I'd be a Proustian character.
Vicodine is kind of nauseating, so I would not accept that as a form of payment. Girl's gotta take some kind of pride :)
Vicodine and oxy are opiates, so they should not be nausiating at all.
I don't use them, so I unfortunately cannot give first hand knowledge.
Uh, you are pretty much dead wrong on that one SP619. I took too Vicodin after a hernia repair earlier this year. Nothing has ever hurt me like throwing up after abdominal surgery.
Every time I take that stuff I turn green.
er... Too much Vicoden..
Yikes, Joe--that sucks. Hernias are bad enough without that kind of reaction. You probably needed some food in your stomach first. I've had a lot of experience with opiates and opioids, unfortunately due to a lifelong illness. Opiates and synthetic opiates can indeed cause quite a bit of nausea for many folk; it just depends on the mode of delivery (intravenous or oral) and the individual--weight, past history of drug use, current drug use, and the mysterious question of allergy and tolerance. I do well with one, and Joe another--who can say why. Doctors don't always remember how unique people are when it comes to reactions and levels of tolerance to any drug.
I was doing the "stay ahead of the pain" thing... don't recommend it.
Ah, I think I know what you're saying. You took too much. The "stay ahead of the pain" thing really means taking your med before it gets bad, and staying exactly on schedule--with the dose prescribed :)
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 British Medical Journal & WHO conclude secondhand smoke "health hazard" claims are greatly exaggerated
The BMJ published report can be found here: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7398/1057
And concludes:
The results do not support a causal relation between environmental tobacco smoke and tobacco related mortality. The association between exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and coronary heart disease and lung cancer may be considerably weaker than generally believed.
What makes this study more significant than any other is that it took place over a 39 year period, and studied the results of non-smokers who lived with smokers..... meaning these non-smokers were exposed to secondhand smoke up to 24 hours per day; 365 days per year for 39 years. And there was still no relation between environmental tobacco smoke and tobacco related mortality.
This report was of course silenced in the media; however in light of the damage to business, jobs, and the economy from smoking bans the BMJ report should be revisited by lawmakers as a reference tool and justification to repeal the now unnecessary and very damaging smoking ban laws.
Also significant is the World Health Organization (WHO) study which concluded "..secondhand smoking doesn't cause cancer..." found online here.
Passive smoking doesn't cause cancer-official By Victoria Macdonald, Health Correspondent
The results are consistent with their being no additional risk for a person living or working with a smoker and could be consistent with passive smoke having a protective effect against lung cancer. The summary, seen by The Telegraph, also states: "There was no association between lung cancer risk and ETS exposure during childhood."
And if lawmakers need additional real world data to further highlight the need to eliminate these onerous and arbitrary laws, air quality testing by Johns Hopkins University, the American Cancer Society, a Minnesota Environmental Health Department, and various researchers whose testing and report was also peer reviewed and published in the esteemed British Medical Journal......prove that secondhand smoke is 2.6 - 25,000 times SAFER than occupational (OSHA) workplace regulations.
As for secondhand smoke in the air, OSHA has stated outright that:
"Field studies of environmental tobacco smoke indicate that under normal conditions, the components in tobacco smoke are diluted below existing Permissible Exposure Levels (PELS.) as referenced in the Air Contaminant Standard (29 CFR 1910.1000)...It would be very rare to find a workplace with so much smoking that any individual PEL would be exceeded." -Letter From Greg Watchman, Acting Sec'y, OSHA, To Leroy J Pletten, PHD, July 8, 1997
Yep, no one pays any attention to the no smoking signs in the park that's on my block (here in L.A.). Pluuuueeeeease!! The cops have had a hard enough time putting a stop to all of the gang shootings that (up until recently) were a regular occurrence on my block. Nobody gives a hoot about stupid laws like this, well, with the exception of a few busy body hypochondriacs that everyone else (ironically) finds annoying. Maybe in this particular town, they have nothing better to do?
Oh, and BTW....
Passive smoking doesn't cause cancer - official By Victoria Macdonald, Health Correspondent
THE world's leading health organization has withheld from publication a study which shows that not only might there be no link between passive smoking and lung cancer but that it could even have a protective effect.
The astounding results are set to throw wide open the debate on passive smoking health risks. The World Health Organization, which commissioned the 12-centre, seven-country European study has failed to make the findings public, and has instead produced only a summary of the results in an internal report.
Despite repeated approaches, nobody at the WHO headquarters in Geneva would comment on the findings last week. At its International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon , France , which coordinated the study, a spokesman would say only that the full report had been submitted to a science journal and no publication date had been set.
The findings are certain to be an embarrassment to the WHO, which has spent years and vast sums on anti-smoking and anti-tobacco campaigns. The study is one of the largest ever to look at the link between passive smoking - or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) - and lung cancer, and had been eagerly awaited by medical experts and campaigning groups.
Yet the scientists have found that there was no statistical evidence that passive smoking caused lung cancer. The research compared 650 lung cancer patients with 1,542 healthy people. It looked at people who were married to smokers, worked with smokers, both worked and were married to smokers, and those who grew up with smokers.
The results are consistent with their being no additional risk for a person living or working with a smoker and could be consistent with passive smoke having a protective effect against lung cancer. The summary, seen by The Telegraph, also states: "There was no association between lung cancer risk and ETS exposure during childhood."
A spokesman for Action on Smoking and Health said the findings "seem rather surprising given the evidence from other major reviews on the subject which have shown a clear association between passive smoking and a number of diseases." Roy Castle, the jazz musician and television presenter who died from lung cancer in 1994, claimed that he contracted the disease from years of inhaling smoke while performing in pubs and clubs.
Oh dear! Oh dear!
Seems to me a child with Asthma needs to avoid all airborne contaminants, even those which are persistently present, like your car exhausts, your perfumes, blowing dusts and sands, fumes, etc. Let's look at Wikipedia and get some facts, I hope. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asthma#Environmental Environmental
Environmental tobacco smoke, especially maternal cigarette smoking, is associated with high risk of asthma prevalence and asthma morbidity, wheeze, and respiratory infections.[13] Low air quality, from traffic pollution or high ozone levels, has been repeatedly associated with increased asthma morbidity and has a suggested association with asthma development that needs further research.[13][14] Recent studies show a relationship between exposure to air pollutants (e.g. from traffic) and childhood asthma.[15] This research finds that both the occurrence of the disease and exacerbation of childhood asthma are affected by outdoor air pollutants.
Exercise in cool clear air outdoors can also trigger asthma, or is that uremia on renal insufficiency? In 1985 I suffered a heart attack caused by an ulcerative collapse with renal failure. I had to quit smoking, and coffee, and tea, and colas containing phosphoric acid for 4 years. I had no insurance and no doctor. I could not breath in and I could not breath out, and it was a living Hell until in desperation I tried gagging myself to throw up. The vomit was maroon-colored, then bloody red like port wine, but this technique of lavage with warm water (to remove crystals of phosphorus and uric compounds which otherwise remain solid and unremovable in cool/cold water) pulled me out of my heart attacks. What worked: Warm Water Lavage. Detox the stomach/liver/kidneys and loose the excess accumulation of Histamines and possible Uric Acid which recycle through the liver back to the stomach. Distilled Water-avoid tap water containing chlorine/chloro-nitrates. Electrolyte replacement Calcium Pantothenate and Biotin, and look at Co-Enzyme A (an essential respiratory enzyme) Magnesium Oxide (Phillips as a low-cost supplement), Not Magnesium Sulfate Avoid products containing phosphoric acid and phosphates. Avoid products like Gatorade. Magnesium Phosphates (and Magnesium Sulfate) will not work. Even though Magnesium Sulfate does recycle CO2 as O2, the sulfur is objectionable.
It often smells like toasted coconut to me. Do you hate the smell of toasted coconut?
I should know. My old man smoked and I was a child myself at the time.
Well I hope not, but I don't believe you anymore. You rattle off your most compelling arguments lastly and in all of your arguments as a careless handful of talking points. Look, if the asthma has a greater impact on the right-side lung and right-side chambers of the heart, then that is stomach and liver related, not lung-specific. Why don't you heal these people by treating the cause of their illness instead? Histamines, phosphorus compounds, and uric acid all recycle through the liver and concentrate in the stomach where they rob the diet and may be inducing starvation with shock. I can't say. I'm not the doctor attacking the innocent for a buck.
"I can't say."
Yet you've been saying SO much!!! lmfao
I would like to add that I drew my conclusions based on the entire Wikipedia article and that there is some improvement in the asthmatic patient undergoing Vitamin C and Magnesium therapy. This indicates the Vitamin C is used to replace lost citrate electrolytes while magnesium is used to correct for a magnesium deficiency due to biochemical stress which depletes necessary magnesium and other electrolyte levels.
Also, magnesium is required by the body to metabolize smoke. It does so in warm fluids by converting smoke back to starch carbohydrates. I know this by personal experience.
Me thinks that all you naysayers need to get a life - what this issue boils down to is: RESPECT THOSE AROUND YOU - courtesy goes a very long way people!!! One's 'rights' should not infringe upon innocent citizens. Furthermore; I don't need to back up what I know and have seen with 'facts'. Common sense dictates that inhaling smoke into one's lungs cannot be healthy. Enough said. BYE BYE
Great point!!! :)


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WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday that Israeli and Palestinian negotiators would convene again in the Middle East within two weeks and that their goal would be to work out a comprehensive peace agreement within nine months that would lead to an independent Palestinian state.
"The parties have agreed to remain engaged in sustained, continuous and substantive negotiations on the core issues," Mr. Kerry said at the State Department, flanked by Tzipi Livni, Israel's justice minister, and Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator.
"Our objective will be to achieve a final status agreement over the course of the next nine months," Mr. Kerry said. "We all understand the goal that we're working towards: two states living side by side in peace and security."
As they resume peace talks that have been moribund since 2010, Mr. Kerry and other Obama administration officials are seeking to counter the widely held perception in the Middle East that President Obama has been detached from the peacemaking effort and that this recent initiative is largely due to the efforts of his secretary of state.
Mr. Kerry and the Israeli and Palestinian negotiators met with Mr. Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. at the White House for almost 30 minutes on Tuesday morning. "The president used this opportunity to convey his appreciation to both sides for the leadership and courage they have shown in coming to the table, and to directly express his personal support for final status talks," Jay Carney, the White House spokesman, said later.
But many experts say that Mr. Obama will need to become much more involved if the talks are to succeed.
Mr. Kerry was also at pains to battle skeptics who have all but written off the prospects for a breakthrough. "I know the path is difficult," he said. "There is no shortage of passionate skeptics."
But Mr. Kerry said that a peace agreement was possible, and that both sides owed it to future generations to try. "While I understand the skepticism, I don't share it, and I don't think we have time for it," he said.
The talks here on Monday and Tuesday — which involved three-way meetings that included the United States as well as direct discussions between the Israelis and the Palestinians — were largely procedural and did not grapple directly with the difficult "final-status" issues like borders, the status of Jerusalem and the Palestinians' right to return to what is now Israeli territory.
But all of those vexing issues are to be taken up now.
"The parties have agreed here today that all of the final-status issues, all of the core issues, and all other issues are all on the table for negotiation," Mr. Kerry said in his remarks, which were made in the State Department's Benjamin Franklin Room.
"They are on the table with one single goal: a view to ending the conflict, ending the claims," he added.
American officials said they expected Israel to take steps soon to improve the atmosphere for negotiations by relaxing controls and regulations that have hampered private-sector investment in the West Bank. A centerpiece of Mr. Kerry's initiative is a plan to attract as much as $4 billion in job-creating investment in the West Bank, though most of it would depend on the successful resolution of the conflict.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel also cleared the way for the resumption of talks on the politically contentious decision, approved by his cabinet, for the phased release of 104 Palestinian prisoners, most of whom have served 20 years or more for attacks on Israelis.
Mr. Kerry did not press for an Israeli commitment to freeze settlement construction as a condition for resuming talks. American officials made clear they were hoping for, but not counting on, Israeli restraint.
A senior State Department official told reporters that the United States was hoping that each side would "take steps to create a positive atmosphere," but added, "It is fair to say that you are likely to see Israeli settlement activity continue."
The next round of negotiations is to be held in Israel or the West Bank. Martin S. Indyk, Mr. Kerry's newly announced envoy to the talks, is expected to be present.
"Palestinians have suffered enough, and no one benefits more from the success of this endeavor," Mr. Erekat said. "I am delighted that all final status issues are on the table and will be resolved without any exceptions, and it's time for the Palestinian people to have an independent, sovereign state of their own."
Ms. Livni, addressing Mr. Erekat, said the two sides needed to look beyond the problems that had frustrated talks in the past.
"You know, Saeb, we all spent some time in the negotiations room," she said. "We didn't reach dead end in the past, but we didn't complete our mission. A new opportunity is being created for us, for all of us, and we cannot afford to waste it."


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I never seem to run out of genealogical research tasks, but as I pointed out in the first post in this series, there are practical and real limits to extending research indefinitely. OK, now I want all you genealogists out there to fess up. How many of you show a line back to Charlemagne? Does your family group record for him list his wives and concubines and all twenty of his children? Now, back to the discussion. Since there are no European records in Arizona prior to about 1700 or so, we can safely conclude that to extend the line of anyone in Arizona, we would have to look elsewhere once we reached 1700. In fact, that conclusion would be mostly false. There are likely very few ancestral lines that can even be traced back to the 1700s, so the main question is whether or not your ancestors spoke Spanish. To illustrate that fact, I looked at the Family History Library catalog for Arizona. In going through the entries, I find almost no records dating back into the early 1800s, much less back into the 1700s. There are notable exceptions, such as Vigil's Index, 1681-1846, a general index of all the documents from the time of the Spanish and Mexican governments until the year 1846.
But what are your chances of finding an ancestor in the Spanish/Mexican land records? Could you go back further than that? Here is another source of information, Archivo General de Indias. Índice de documentos de Nueva España existentes en el Archivo de Indias de Sevilla. México: [Imprenta de la Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores], 1928. http://books.google.com
So what is in the Archivo General de Indias in Seville, Spain? Estimates range from 32,000,000 to 64,000,000 documents for an aggregate range of 80,000,000 pages of manuscript. Even if you had access to these records, they date back only to the 1500s. So you would run out of the records for Mexico in the 1500s. Why do I give Mexico and Spain as examples? Because the records in those countries pre-date most of those elsewhere in Europe and all of those available in the U.S. and Canada. Remember the first European settlements in North America date from the Columbus expedition in 1492. Those are some of the absolute limits of European records in North or South America. You could, of course, claim the Norse settlements in Greenland and Newfoundland in the 11th Century. But there appear to be no verifiable genealogical records from the settlements in Newfoundland. Otherwise, the oldest European inhabited spot in the Americas is Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, established in 1498.
The point is this, as you go back in time, the number of useful genealogical records begins to diminish. I realize that is a far less than surprising conclusion, but one that seems to escape a great many genealogists. Please remember, I am definitely not talking about trying to find your great-grandfather in the Midwest in the 1800s. I am talking about absolute limits to the information available. 80,000,000 pages may seem a very large limit, but it is a limit none-the-less. I am not ignoring the Indians who lived in North America. Actually, the Spanish Records are very helpful in doing research for Indians in the Spanish speaking world, but there are virtually no records helpful to genealogy before the Spanish conquest.
Back to the United States. The first settlements of what is now the U.S. were in Florida in the 16th Century, Pensacola was founded in 1559 but shortly destroyed and not re-established until 1698, meanwhile Saint Augustine was founded in 1565. St. John's, Newfoundland was established in 1583. So once again, even if you were able to trace one or more of your ancestral lines back to an original immigrant from Europe, that immigrant could not have arrived before 1492.
What about records in Europe? Once again I will go to Spain. Why? Because Spanish historical documents contain a wealth of genealogical information. So how far back do the records go in Spain? Some of the earliest records we have date to the early 16th Century. Church records of individuals go back to approximately 1500. There are records from Switzerland from the late 1300s. English records go back to the 1400s is some limited areas.
Reality check. How many of you who have a line going back to the 1500s have done the original research in the old records? Or did you just copy the line from someone else? Have you ever tried to read a Church record from the 1400s? Here is an example of the England, Norfolk Parish Register from 1589:
So, why do people claim lines further back? That is the question of the next post in this series.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
The limits of genealogical research -- Part Two
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- AnonymousApril 5, 2011 at 9:52 AM
I don't see why claims further back than parish registers exist are implausible. There are plenty of other records available, most of which amateur genealogists know nothing about. Anybody educated person in medieval genealogy knows that lines back to Charlemagne and beyond have already been established. See: http://sbaldw.home.mindspring.com/hproject/prov/at.htm for a well written, scholarly account of the ancestry of Henry II (which includes Charlemagne). Henry II is the ancestor of many immigrant colonists and lines connecting the two can be found in Douglas Richardson's Plantagenet Ancestry book, which has just been updated for 2011 and re-released.ReplyDelete
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I'm wagering some of those hinges hide "missle" pods or something JACK. There's stuff not shown there that appears to "flip out" or something. I'm betting it's a Cloud Car type of deal.
Quote from: Jesse James on August 16, 2010, 02:44 AMI'm wagering some of those hinges hide "missle" pods or something JACK. There's stuff not shown there that appears to "flip out" or something. I'm betting it's a Cloud Car type of deal.According to EE it's a hidden gunner platform.
FYI, this is In Stock now at BBTS, but only as part of the larger case assortment. For some reason you can't order the thing by itself. I will probably have to order this the online route because the previous TCW vehicle wave (Tri-Fighter and HMP) has not even hit retail yet so this is probably at least another month or two out. Dammit.
I agree you'd get raped on buying a case of these things, but you could come out alright picking up 1-2 at a time courtesy of HTS. I got both the Tri-Fighter and HMP for less than what they would have cost at retail.I'm just tired of waiting for new stuff...if I can get it early and save time and hassles driving around looking for stuff in vain, that's the way to go, IMO.
But why not just be patient, instead? You said yourself you got a couple new vehicles from HTS cheaper than retail. I, myself, got the Droid Gunship and Xanadu Blood for like $18 each in early December. What you were proposing paying BBTS was pushing $30 a vehicle, taking into account half of the case has been out forever. So, when you think about it, you're paying an even-higher premium for the new vehicles. By paying it, you also support that ridiculous pricing. Relax, monitor the reports around your area and, when they get close, then search more intensely.
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I love a mojito any time of year, but summertime is especially perfect for this refreshing, sweet-n-tart, minty cocktail. You don't even need to buy a muddler to make a good mojito. And, because I figured I couldn't just show you a drink and call it a day, I also have recipes for fresh serrano salsa and tortilla chips.
Fair warning: the tortilla chips are a bit chewy, not nearly as crisp as store-bought ones, but that's what I like about them. And, um, a word of advice: don't indulge in a mojito until after you've made the salsa, because there's a lot of dicing involved. Let's keep those fingertips intact.
Watch the three-act video below or here on vimeo. (Music: Molino Molero by Susana Baca.)
Mojitos (serves 2)
adapted from Brandy
20 fresh mint leaves
1 lime, cut into 8 wedges
2 tablespoons sugar
2 cups ice cubes
6 tbsp white rum
1 cup club soda
Place 10 mint leaves and 1 lime wedge into each glass. Use a muddler (or the handle of a wooden spoon) to crush the mint and lime. Divide the remaining lime wedges and sugar between the two glasses, and muddle again. Fill each glass with 1 cup ice. Divide the rum between the two glasses. Add 1/2 cup club soda to each glass. Stir well and enjoy.
Tortilla Chips (serves 2)
6 small corn tortillas (I used 5 1/2" ones)
1 tbsp olive oil
Stack tortillas and slice into quarters. Place in a bowl, add olive oil, and toss to coat. Cook over medium heat in a non-stick frying pan until they begin to brown, about three minutes per side. Remove from heat and, if necessary, blot with a paper towel to remove any excess oil.
Serrano Salsa (serves 2)
adapted from Rick Bayless
6 ounces cherry tomatoes (approx 17 tomatoes)
1 serrano chile
a small handful of cilantro
1 garlic clove
1/3 cup white onion
fresh lime juice to taste (I used 1/2 lime)
salt to taste (I used 1/4 tsp)
Finely dice the tomatoes. Scoop into a bowl. Cut the chile in half lengthwise and scrape out the seeds if you want (I did). Chop the chile as finely as you can, then add it to the bowl. Carefully bunch up the cilantro sprigs, and chop into small pieces, stems and all. Add to the bowl. Mince the garlic and add to the bowl. Next, finely dice the onion and add to the bowl. Mix well. Taste and season with lime juice and salt, mix again, and let stand if you have a little time, for the flavors to meld before eating.


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Taking Steps toward Marine and Coastal Ecosystem-Based Management: An Introductory Guide
Healthy marine and coastal ecosystems provide valuable services - from food security, resources for economic growth and recreation alongside tourism and coastline protection. Among the most productive ecosystems on the planet, oceans and coasts ensure the well-being for a growing global population, which is likely to rise to over nine billion by 2050. They regulate global climate and offer essential adaptation capacity.
The future role of ecosystems for human well-being depends increasingly on developing the capacity of countries to manage human uses and impacts in order to ensure their health and self-repairing capacity is not undermined. Central to a transformational response to decades of overfishing, pollution and unplanned urban development will be moving from sectoral marine and coastal management, to a joined approach that marries the seemingly competing interests for ocean and coastal resources and space, such as environment, tourism, fisheries and energy generation, within a robust framework and a spatial planning perspective. This is central to ensuring equitable access among diverse interests and users.
The ecosystem approach lays out a series of principles to guide management towards long-term sustainability of marine and coastal ecosystems. With this new guide on Marine and Coastal Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM), UNEP seeks to assist countries and communities to take steps towards making marine and coastal ecosystem-based management operational - from strategic planning to on-site implementation. It has three main sections:
- Making the case for EBM - Why and how is change necessary?
- Examining the core elements of EBM
- Moving towards EBM: Visioning - Planning - Implementation
The Guide outlines operational considerations in an accessible language, drawing upon practical experiences and lessons across the globe - from tropical coastlines to temperate estuaries and polar ocean ecosystems. An important message is that this is an incremental process and there are different paths toward EBM. Cross boundary considerations and working with neighbours and even countries far away will be an essential component.
The target audience of the Guide includes planners and decision-makers in local, national and regional governments and communities across a broad spectrum of interests and uses. The Guide is not a technical manual or textbook, rather it is an introduction to EBM principles and 'thinking', and provides an overview of core elements and pathways to getting started.
This guide is intended to complement UNEP's work, such as the Green Economy providing guidance on making changes in the way we interact with ecosystems, as well as the Blue Carbon Initiative, which explores the potential for mitigating climate change by investing and re-investing in healthy coastal ecosystems that capture and store carbon. Moreover, good EBM offers a valuable solution for harnessing marine and coastal ecosystems in adapting to climate change and other potential disasters.


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Major changes in the replication environment and in the behavior of applications can result from using row-based logging (RBL) or row-based replication (RBR) rather than statement-based logging or replication. This section describes a number of issues known to exist when using row-based logging or replication, and discusses some best practices for taking advantage of row-based logging and replication.
For additional information, see Section 17.1.2, "Replication Formats", and Section 184.108.40.206, "Advantages and Disadvantages of Statement-Based and Row-Based Replication".
For information about issues specific to NDB Cluster Replication (which depends on row-based replication), see Section 18.6.3, "Known Issues in NDB Cluster Replication".
RBL, RBR, and temporary tables. As noted in Section 184.108.40.206, "Replication and Temporary Tables", temporary tables are not replicated when using row-based format. When mixed format is in effect, "safe" statements involving temporary tables are logged using statement-based format. For more information, see Section 188.8.131.52, "Advantages and Disadvantages of Statement-Based and Row-Based Replication".
Temporary tables are not replicated when using row-based format because there is no need. In addition, because temporary tables can be read only from the thread which created them, there is seldom if ever any benefit obtained from replicating them, even when using statement-based format.
Beginning with MySQL 5.5.5, you can switch from statement-based to row-based binary logging mode even when temporary tables have been created. However, while using the row-based format, the MySQL server cannot determine the logging mode that was in effect when a given temporary table was created. For this reason, the server in such cases logs a
DROP TEMPORARY TABLE IF EXISTSstatement for each temporary table that still exists for a given client session when that session ends. (Bug #11760229, Bug #11762267) While this means that it is possible that an unnecessary
DROP TEMPORARY TABLEstatement might be logged in some cases, the statement is harmless, and does not cause an error even if the table does not exist, due to the presence of the
IF EXISTSoption.
RBL and synchronization of nontransactional tables. When many rows are affected, the set of changes is split into several events; when the statement commits, all of these events are written to the binary log. When executing on the slave, a table lock is taken on all tables involved, and then the rows are applied in batch mode. (This may or may not be effective, depending on the engine used for the slave's copy of the table.)
Latency and binary log size. Because RBL writes changes for each row to the binary log, its size can increase quite rapidly. In a replication environment, this can significantly increase the time required to make changes on the slave that match those on the master. You should be aware of the potential for this delay in your applications.
Reading the binary log. mysqlbinlog displays row-based events in the binary log using the
BINLOGstatement (see Section 22.214.171.124, "BINLOG Statement"). This statement displays an event in printable form, but as a base 64-encoded string the meaning of which is not evident. When invoked with the
--verboseoptions, mysqlbinlog formats the contents of the binary log in a manner that is easily human readable. This is helpful when binary log events were written in row-based format if you want to read or recover from a replication or database failure using the contents of the binary log. For more information, see Section 220.127.116.11, "mysqlbinlog Row Event Display".
Binary log execution errors and slave_exec_mode. If
IDEMPOTENT, a failure to apply changes from RBL because the original row cannot be found does not trigger an error or cause replication to fail. This means that it is possible that updates are not applied on the slave, so that the master and slave are no longer synchronized. Latency issues and use of nontransactional tables with RBR when
IDEMPOTENTcan cause the master and slave to diverge even further. For more information about
slave_exec_mode, see Section 5.1.7, "Server System Variables".Note
slave_exec_mode=IDEMPOTENTis generally useful only for circular replication or multi-master replication with NDB Cluster, for which
IDEMPOTENTis the default value (see Section 18.6, "NDB Cluster Replication").
For other scenarios, setting
STRICTis normally sufficient; this is the default value for storage engines other than
Lack of binary log checksums. RBL uses no checksums. This means that network, disk, and other errors may not be identified when processing the binary log. To ensure that data is transmitted without network corruption, you may want to consider using SSL, which adds another layer of checksumming, for replication connections. The
CHANGE MASTER TOstatement has options to enable replication over SSL. See also Section 126.96.36.199, "CHANGE MASTER TO Statement", for general information about setting up MySQL with SSL.
This is not an issue in MySQL 5.6 and later, which support checksums for the binary log; see Checksum options.
Filtering based on server ID not supported. A common practice is to filter out changes on some slaves by using a
WHEREclause that includes the relation
@@server_id <>clause with
DELETEstatements, a simple example of such a clause being
WHERE @@server_id <> 1. However, this does not work correctly with row-based logging. If you must use the
server_idsystem variable for statement filtering, you must also use
In MySQL 5.5, you can do filtering based on server ID by using the
IGNORE_SERVER_IDSoption for the
CHANGE MASTER TOstatement. This option works with the statement-based and row-based logging formats.
Database-level replication options. The effects of the
--replicate-ignore-db, and
--replicate-rewrite-dboptions differ considerably depending on whether row-based or statement-based logging is used. Because of this, it is recommended to avoid database-level options and instead use table-level options such as
--replicate-ignore-table. For more information about these options and the impact that your choice of replication format has on how they operate, see Section 17.1.3, "Replication and Binary Logging Options and Variables".
RBL, nontransactional tables, and stopped slaves. When using row-based logging, if the slave server is stopped while a slave thread is updating a nontransactional table, the slave database may reaches an inconsistent state. For this reason, it is recommended that you use a transactional storage engine such as
InnoDBfor all tables replicated using the row-based format.
Use of
STOP SLAVE(or
STOP SLAVE SQL_THREADin MySQL 5.5.9 and later) prior to shutting down the slave MySQL server helps prevent such issues from occurring, and is always recommended regardless of the logging format or storage engines employed.


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Fort Bend publisher dies of cancer at 72
Beverly "Bev" Carter, a longtime newspaper publisher and community leader in Fort Bend County, died Saturday of cancer. She was 72.
Carter founded The Fort Bend Star in 1978 and also penned "Bev's Burner," a column that mixed homey personal anecdotes with sometimes biting political observations.
"She was one of a kind," said her son, Michael Fredrickson, who has taken over the reins as publisher of the family-owned newspaper.
Carter liked nothing better than taking on what she saw as an unaccountable "Old Boys Network" in Fort Bend County.
She would regularly lambast political figures from former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, giving him the nickname 'Congressvarmit' to Gov. Rick Perry, whom she called a buffoon.
"I have an obligation to my readers and I have a reputation for telling it like it is," Carter once told a reporter.
Carter was born in 1941 into a West Texas ranching family in Ballinger, about 70 miles south of Abilene.
She studied English at Texas Tech University and after a short stint teaching in Lubbock, Carter moved to the Houston area.
She spent about 10 years teaching high school English in the Alief Independent School District.
She was an adviser for the high school newspaper and also wrote for a community paper during the summer.
"After 10 years of teaching in Alief, she decided she could run a newspaper," Fredrickson said.
She decided to stake her claim as a journalist in Fort Bend County.
"It was nothing back then," Fredrickson said. "She could foresee the growth. She nailed it."
Carter would eventually compile an extensive list of local contacts who would pass information to her.
"My mom did very few 'freedom of information' requests. She didn't have to," Fredrickson said.
She "would spend hours on the phone talking to people."
Carter also founded the Fort Bend Business Journal and the Fort Bend Community TV channel.
Survivors include her son, Michael, his wife and her three grandchildren.
A memorial service will be 10:30 a.m. July 20 at Stafford Civic Center, 1415 Constitution in Stafford.


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Sienna poses hard in green
Check out this photo of Sienna Miller and Tom Sturridge at the British Fashion Awards last night. It's cracking me up. She's dropping some mega Ebola Hilton and he looks totally stunned. I'm sure the cameras just caught an awkward moment but the reason it's so funny is because that's just not Sienna's usual vibe. She also doesn't usually look so sh-tty in Burberry.
I hate this dress. It's messy. It's cheap. (Even though it's not cheap.) It's only redeeming quality is that it's green. But when green is done badly it can be embarrassing. Here's a dress that actually belongs on Ebola Hilton. On the plus side, you'll note, Sienna's hair is now streaked pink. We've seen several celebrities try the pink. And to me, she's done it best. Sometimes it just looks like it's catching the light.
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Last night, on the night of Monday's livestream, I sparked an idea that would probably grab the attention of all you anime addicts. You know how anime girls are dressed as a Neko girl or a fox girl? Well, I thought that there aren't enough anime girls in the theme of a wolf, everyone's favorite animal. Wolves have so much vibrance and courage, so I wanted to impliment that type of attitude into this sexified chick. Get yourself a few drawing utensils, preferably varied graphite pencils to get a little more depth in the drawing. It's best that you start with light varied sketching pencils before you use the dark, soft ones for shading. I'd advise you to use the soft dark ones on the most darkest of spots. If you feel the incline of a challenge, go ahead and try to render the entire drawing in graphite, that way, you'll emphasize your skills appropiately. Anyways, I must be flaunting with my other tuts. I hope you folks will have supreme fun with this tutorial, I had intensive fun with it. Thanks for viewing and good luck!
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Hawaiian Style Cafe, WaimeaMonday, February 18th, 2008
Visiting this place today brought back my passion in food blogging, something I've missed for a long time. In fact, I was so excited to share with you guys about this place I couldn't wait (even though I still have a backlist of places I still need to write about). Hawaiian Style Cafe is my new favorite place for SERIOUS GRINDZ.
Brah!!! Just look at my breakfast, "Da Tita Mok" ($8.25):
Huge thick flame-broiled hamburger patty, 2 thick slices of spam, moist and crunchy chicken cutlet, 1 egg, grilled onions, fried rice, and rich tasty brown gravy over everything.
It tasted just as good as it looked. The hamburger patty was great quality local beef and fresh. It was actually on the leaner side but still very moist and meaty. Kind of like Ken's burger but thicker and more moist. The chicken cutlet was my favorite. So moist and crispy on the outside and perfect with the gravy, which was very rich and homemade-tasting. Fried rice was really good too… not too salty and it didn't overpower the rest of the dish. Grilled onions was a good touch and the spam was cooked just right. My only complaint was that the egg was a little overcooked on the bottom, but it was still nice and yolky. Wow. Quantity and quality.
Bev ordered two pancakes ($2.25/each pancake) but we actually shared everything.
HUGE HUGE HUGE. I liked these. Soft. Spongy. Moist. I do wish they had a bit more cake-like texture because it was a little too spongy/bouncy. I also wish that it was more crisp on the edges. I still would order these again. They were so soft and tasty.
Here's the specials menu that was up (they even have "Stew Luau"! aka Beef Luau):
Here's the Breakfast & Lunch Menu:
How was the service? Friendly, local-style, like walking into your favorite Aunty's kitchen… but very slow and sometimes forgetful (they were really busy). If you are in a rush to go somewhere, don't come here. This is somewhere to go when you have all morning to eat and digest and all afternoon to sleep. One thing we missed was that you need to sign-in to the right of the door then wait until there are free seats.
The food made it all worth it though. I can't wait to go back! I wish they were in Hilo!
Hawaiian Style Cafe
65-1290 Kawaihae Rd, Kamuela, HI 96743 (map)
(808) 885-4295


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New lifejacket rule aims to save lives
A new boating rule aimed at saving lives on Waikato waterways has been endorsed by Waikato Regional Council, making it compulsory to wear lifejackets.
A new boating rule aimed at saving lives on Waikato waterways has been endorsed by Waikato Regional Council, making it compulsory to wear lifejackets.
Waikato Regional Council is involved in a leading edge new project which will analyse the potential economic and environmental trade-offs involved in managing water quality.
A ban on the use of new domestic open fireplaces installed after May next year and new rules for industrial discharges to air are now in force in Hamilton city.
Issued at 1330 hours: Coastal communities around the Firth of Thames are being warned of the risk of coastal flooding tomorrow morning.
Waikato Regional Council today signed off on its 2013/14 Annual Plan featuring further reductions in rates increases while maintaining a range of service improvements.
A fresh suite of "menus" of farming practices to help protect water quality are the focus of Waikato Regional Council's site PF19 in the main pavilion at Fieldays next month.
A former part-time postie and supermarket seafood assistant has won a prestigious Roger Harris engineering scholarship from Waikato Regional Council.
Farmers are being urged to stand stock off green feed before they're transported to help keep Waikato's roads clear of effluent and safe for users.
Waikato Regional Council has today confirmed that two barges that arrived in Coromandel Harbour infested with Mediterranean fanworm have now been cleared up.
Auckland's traffic congestion has an impact on Waikato business costs and efficiencies, Waikato Regional Council's policy committee has heard.
A company that owns a number of farms in South Waikato has been fined more than $30,000 for illegally discharging dairy effluent into the environment.
Trial mangrove clearance at Whangamata is proving promising, says the Waikato Regional Council.
Waikato Regional Council's web team has won the country's top local government website award.
All road users are being urged to increase their visibility on Waikato's roads to help reduce the risk of crashes over the coming winter months.
A high level action plan to reduce the region's road-related fatalities and serious injury crashes has today been approved by the regional transport committee.
From Waikato Mayoral Forum
A group of Waikato MPs and iwi representatives have today been briefed by the Waikato Mayoral Forum on proposals for a work programme over three years to help boost the regional economy and deliver multi-million dollar cost savings for ratepayers.
The latest stage of possum control in the Paeroa Ranges and surrounding farmland near Reporoa has again proved highly successful.
Waikato Regional Council is working with the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) and local marine farmers to manage an infestation of Mediterranean fanworm at Te Kouma in Coromandel harbour.
The successful conclusion of the complex project to remediate the abandoned Tui Mine on Mt Te Aroha is being celebrated today.


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TFerlaak needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 61 designs submitted by 35 freelance designers.
Enbryten is looking for a new Logo for our new website. The Website is using Green tones to signify the enviornmental benefits of using LEDs to replace lightbulbs to save energy and reduce the carbon footprint.
Enbryten is an LED Lighting company that manufactures LED Fixtures for homes and businesses. These lighting systems have a zero carbon footprint and use no mercury. They are used in homes and businesses around the world to replace the lightbulb and use much less energy and uses no mercury but produces the same if not more light then the normal lightbulb.
We are looking for a new logo for the company that will be used on our website. Our new website is under construction and can be seen here, http://www.daksol.net/~perm/ it says Permlight will be replaced with the new logo you design.
We are looking for a sleek design that will go well with out new site.
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