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There are rumors that ISAF has received 65 or more submissions for the events of the 2016 Olympic Games. The battle is expected to be in two areas - the keelboat lobby against the dinghy lobby, and the question what happens with the two board sports that foolishly have been pitched against each other in the provisional November slate.
Having available only 10 events for a minimum of 15 rivaling classes means that some creative thinking is necessary to resolve the problem. So lets have a look on what a mixed event in a single handed class could look like...
The first option is a team event - e.g. a male and a female competitor of each country competing for a nations medal. Racing could take place on standard courses, be it windward/leeward courses, with men and women starting together or in separate starts. In other words, something that we are doing everyday already on the water with the only difference, that the results of the mens and womens races are added up and combined into one nations ranking. Other racing formats like slalom could be implemented in the same way, and only the scoring makes these two events into one combined medal.
The second, probably even more attractive option, would be a "mixed relay" - something really new and innovative that could please media and IOC very much. Lets think a bit outside the box - relay events are being done in many other Olympic sports, and several of them are mixed (the latest addition will be mixed biathlon relay in the next winter Olympics). Why not have something similar in Sailing ?
The main issue could be the "tagging" zone, but even this "problem" can easily be turned into a strength, which could become a crowd and media pleaser, e.g. having the transition area on the beach, directly in front of the "beach stadium". Or, having the transition zone on the water close to the beach, so that the spectators can breath the action.
Surely a "team event" could be an issue regarding the athlete quota - but again, the Olympic Games are the FINAL, and the qualification is taking place in the Sailing World Cup and the Sailing World Championships. Reducing the fleet to the e.g. worlds top 16 teams means strengthening the importance of the Q-events, something that perfectly fits into ISAFs agenda and therefore would have a very desirable result.
A team event - be it in the format of traditional team racing and combining results, or in the format of a relay race - would surely add another piece of diversity to the Olympic Sailing Competition. Don't miss this chance to allow both board disciplines, kiteboarding and windsurfing, to be presented at the Olympic Games.


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Laws, Regulations & Annotations
Business Taxes Law Guide – Revision 2019
Cigarette and Tobacco Products Tax Law
Article 1. Tax on Distributors
Section 30103.5
30103.5. Sale or transfer to law enforcement. (a) The tax and surcharge imposed by this part shall not apply to the sale or transfer of untaxed cigarettes or tobacco products to a law enforcement agency for use in a criminal investigation when that sale or transfer is authorized by the board.
(b) A law enforcement agency authorized by the board to receive or purchase cigarettes or tobacco products as provided in subdivision (a) shall not be required to apply for, or obtain, a license as a distributor pursuant to Section 30140.
(c) A law enforcement agency making distributions of cigarettes and tobacco products received or purchased under subdivision (a) is not required to collect or remit the tax or surcharge imposed by this part with respect to those authorized distributions.
History.—Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 555, in effect January 1, 1996. Stats. 1999, Ch. 941 (SB 1231), in effect January 1, 2000, added "or tobacco products" after "of untaxed cigarettes" in subdivision (a), added "or tobacco products" after "or purchase cigarettes" in subdivision (b), and added "and tobacco products" after "distribution of cigarettes" in subdivision (c).

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While health professionals encourage people to get from seven to eight hours of sleep nightly, millions of Americans are falling well short of that mark. Many are getting just five to six hours and recent studies have shown that more than 20 percent of the population may be suffering from some type of sleep disorder.
St. Agnes Hospital now has a renovated and expanded facility dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders.
The St. Agnes Sleep Center is open to adults and children as young as 3 years old. The patients are usually referred to the facility by their primary care doctor or cardiologist.
Dr. Kala Davis-McDonald, chief of pulmonary medicine at the hospital on Wilkens Avenue, said many sleep centers will see increased traffic for sleep disorders, due to several factors.
"The greater awareness of sleep disorders is the first part, and then comes the understanding," Davis-McDonald said. "As a result, people will be diagnosed more often. But the third part is due to our increasing obesity rates."
Among the more common problems that can be diagnosed and treated are sleep apnea, insomnia, narcolepsy, restless leg syndrome and periodic limb movement.
"Sleep medicine itself is still a relatively young field," Davis-McDonald said. "The understanding of sleep medicine is continuing to evolve."
Many of the beds at the local center are filled with those suffering from obstructive sleep apnea, during which breathing can become labored or stop completely. The lack of oxygen can lead to other health problems, such as chronic fatigue, memory loss, and heart disease.
"It's absolutely painful to watch a patient with severe sleep apnea," said Paul Shearin, a respiratory therapist who serves as the center's administrative director. "They're breathing, and then they stop. You're waiting for them to take their next breath, and then they don't. When air gets in, they finally take a gasping breath."
Children are not immune to the dangers of sleep disorders, particularly apnea and sleepwalking. Many children who suffer from sleep apnea eventually undergo surgery to remove their tonsils and adenoids.
"We're realizing that sleep apnea can impact children," Davis-McDonald said. "The consequences include developmental delays, delays in growth, and behavioral problems. With treatment, we're actually seeing some of those problems rectified."
The sleep center offers a peaceful environment for its patients. Its five rooms feature standard queen-size beds and a shower. One room is reserved for a pediatric patient, and includes a sleeper chair for parents who wish to stay overnight with their child.
"We've tried to create a very comfortable environment," Shearin said. "We didn't want it to be sterile and technical."
Typically, patients arrive at 8:30 p.m. and leave the next day between 6 and 7 a.m.
Patients with symptoms of sleep apnea are initially tested for brain-wave patterns, eye movements, and oxygen levels. Continuous cardiac monitoring is also a part of the testing. A microphone is attached to the patients, for staff to hear snoring and sleep-talking patterns.
"We collect a lot of information during the course of one night," said Davis-McDonald, a graduate of Stanford University Medical School who has been at St. Agnes for five years. "If you need treatment for sleep apnea, you will come back on another night and do the same study. But this time, we will put you on the CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) machine."
The machine transmits compressed air through a mask into the nose. Once the airways are opened, patients can breathe regularly throughout the night.
"If they respond well to the CPAP study, within seven to 10 days they should be able to have a machine at home," Davis-McDonald said. "They can use it every night when they're sleeping, but that's just the beginning. For the majority of patients, it's usually a four to six-week transition period. I consider a patient fully treated when they can sleep an entire night without any discomfort."
Once that happens, patients have a good chance of complete freedom from sleep apnea.
"To actually treat (sleep apnea) is relatively simple," Shearin said. "But we need to have people who are willing to recognize that they need some help and are willing to accept it.
"This is a condition that is relatively easy to manage and take care of," he said. "And the treatment can make a dynamic change in a person's life."
For more information on the St. Agnes Hospital Sleep Center, call 410-368-3245 or go to http://www.stagnes.org.


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Getting ready to have a baby? Congratulations! If you're planning to give birth at a hospital or birthing center, it's time to start thinking about what you will need to bring with you in your hospital bag for both you and your baby. Not sure what you need and what to leave at home? Here's a list of items you definitely want to have in your pregnancy go-bag:
1. Paperwork: Make a copy of your insurance cards and birth plan now and put them in your bag. The last thing you want to do when your water breaks is try to rummage around looking for these documents.
2. Clothes for you: It goes without saying that you will want only the most ridiculously comfortable clothes you can find. Most women go with the hospital gown for the birth and change into pajamas until they are ready to go home. Make sure your go home outfit is comfy too. This is not the time to try to squeeze into those pre-pregnancy jeans!
3. Clothes for baby: You probably won't need much while you're at the hospital — they generally have onesies available for babies during their stay, but you will need an comfy outfit for your baby to ride home in. Most hospitals do provide disposable diapers for use while you're admitted, but if you want your baby to use cloth diapers, you'll need to bring those — and a bag for soiled diapers as well.
4. Toiletries: Brush, toothbrush, toothpaste, deodorant, soap, shampoo, conditioner, lotion, contact lens case and solution.
5. Cellphone and charger: You're going to want to send that mass-text and/or Facebook message pretty soon after your new baby arrives, so make sure you bring your phone and keep it fully charged.
6. Labor aides: Music, massage oil, sugar-free lozenges, a birthing ball — whatever you think might help you manage the labor and get you to the delivery.
7. Nursing gear: A nursing bra and breastfeeding pillow will be a big help, particularly if you are healing from stitches after giving birth. And if this will be your first time breastfeeding, you and your baby may need all of the help you can get to find a good position.
8. Fun stuff: Believe it or not, you may experience some down town while you're at the hospital. Bring along a few magazines and/or your iPod to distract you during labor or help you get back to sleep after a late-night feeding.
One more thing: you don't need to bring this into the hospital, but you do need to have your new baby's car seat installed in your car before you bring her home. Most hospitals won't let you leave until they know you have one.
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In May of 2012, The Town of Normal Facilities Management Department decided that it was time to review training procedures for custodial staff.
After a critical review it became clear that the existing program, although reasonably comprehensive, was a bit out of date and insufficiently executed.
We felt that the best way to start rebuilding was to first determine our goals for the outcome and then identify the essential components.
We set out to establish a benchmark for performance, provide our staff with the fundamental and advanced knowledge required to succeed as professionals, make it meaningful beyond our department, and reach into the community.
The program core of absolutes included current best practices, relevant information, progressive educational models, industry recognized merit, academic components that incorporated hands-on learning, and it could not be affiliated with any specific product or vendor.
With this list of criteria to guide the search, we set out to find a program that would meet our expectations.
Heartland Community College
I contacted the Customized Training Department at Heartland Community College to enlist their help.
I chose Heartland Community College because it is a highly respected institution with resources specialized in helping organizations develop training of this type.
Upon initial contact I shared our list of goals and absolutes.
Over the course of several months we worked through the challenges of creating a program that met all of our expectations.
In October of 2012, the Customized Training Department recommended the Cleaning Management Institute (CMI) program and had located a highly capable trainer through a neighboring community college.
As I researched their recommendation, I found that the CMI program did in fact meet all of our criteria and included the added benefit of in-house Trainer development.
They described the program to me and suggested that if properly set up they may be able to offer college level vocational credit to participating students in addition to the nationally recognized CMI credential.
This piece of the program would more than satisfy the goal of making the effort meaningful beyond the Facilities Management Department as it would truly become an investment in the future of our employees.
The Basic Custodial Technician and Advanced Floor Care programs were set up as separate and progressive classes.
Cleaning Challenges
The Town of Normal has many of the same challenges one would expect to find at any organization when it comes to custodial operations, but we have a few facilities that introduce some unique operational challenges.
A multimodal transportation center, children's museum and a historic theater represent a few of our more challenging facilities.
We also serve Police, Fire and Public Works among other facilities.
All of our facilities have unique operational conditions which press our staff to be efficient and effective in their duties.
Facilities Management at the Town of Normal is a 24/7 department that relies on professionalism, communication and cooperation to deliver our "Commitment to Service Excellence."
The training program has helped us to recognize inefficiencies and streamline our operational practices.
We have implemented the corporate custodial closet ideology and modified many of our cleaning methods to align with best practices for healthy environments utilizing environmentally-friendly products.
One of the primary benefits is that our staff can now take comfort in knowing that each member of the team, regardless of experience, has the same fundamental knowledge and the tools they need to do their work.
Greatest Benefits
Beyond increasing our efficiency, one of the greatest benefits I have witnessed is that our staff has taken ownership of the fact that they are professionals performing essential duties.
I have seen a shift in conversation among staff.
Surface level topics evolved into in-depth and thought provoking discussions which led us to implement new products and equipment.
I am approached regularly by staff with suggestions for ways to improve our department.
We encourage our staff to take ownership of their facilities and bring recommendations to the group at regularly scheduled department meetings.
We place equal weight on Supervisors to listen and implement viable suggestions.
I believe knowledgeable, confident and supported front-line staff have the ability to take the organization to the next level of excellence.
This program has validated that belief.
Special Recognition
The training program was implemented in January of 2013.
We had 100 percent participation within our department.
We met once a week for four hours over the course of about six weeks.
The curriculum was rigorous and meaningful enough to warrant time between sessions to digest information.
In between sessions we applied what we had learned and formulated questions to bring back to the classroom.
Upon completion of the program Town Administration felt that the accomplishment was worthy of public recognition.
The entire Facility Management Department was invited to a Town Council meeting.
Staff were asked to stand and be recognized as they received their credentials from Mayor Chris Koos.
On April 15, 2013, the Town of Normal Facilities Management Department was publicly recognized for their effort, commitment to service excellence and success.
It was a good day!
New Hires
All new hires will receive the Basic Custodial Technician training within six months of initial employment.
It is important that each new employee has a solid foundation to build their custodial career on.
It is also essential to maintain the comfort that exists within the department knowing that there is a core knowledge that we all can lean on individually and when in need of help.
In terms of performance, this training will serve as a benchmark to ensure staff is meeting baseline expectations and help us to recognize others that are exceptional performers.
The occupation requires a variety of skills that go far beyond the technical nature of the job.
We believe that individuals well suited to these occupations that are armed with the tools they need to be high performers can have very successful and rewarding careers.
A skilled and efficient workforce provides a great service at a great value to the community we serve.
Training In The Community
As a result of our decision to have the program reside with Heartland Community College and not with the Town of Normal, it became available to everyone that can access the local community college system.
If there is a need or desire for formalized professional custodial training anyone can contact the Customized Training Department at Heartland Community College and set up a course.
Students that successfully complete the course will receive college-level vocational credit and nationally-recognized credentials.
I believe that this program has the potential to give individuals in the community a leg up in competing for future employment opportunities and gives organizations easy access to a quality training resource.


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Proof the Fed is Juicing the Markets
Charles Brady, senior editor of the FOX Business Network, has put together a remarkable chart that clearly shows the Federal Reserve's monetary easing policies are not going into the U.S. economy, but instead into the stock market.
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The chart here compares the Dow Jones Industrial Average with the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank's adjusted monetary base. It shows the effect of Fed purchases of mortgage-backed and Treasury securities from Fed dealers, whereby the Federal Reserve buys $85 billion total every month from the big banks, hastening the growth in the Fed's balance sheet to more than $3 trillion.
The central bank has been creating bank reserves out of thin air since September 2008, making it an official enabler to the federal government's massive fiscal expenditures that now has the federal deficit at more than $16 trillion, with about $6 trillion added since the president took office, more than any other U.S. president combined.
The adjusted monetary base is the sum of currency (including coins) in circulation outside Federal Reserve banks and the U.S. Treasury, plus deposits held by depository institutions at Federal Reserve banks.
You can see how hooked the market is to the central bank's money printing — the correlation in fact is rather astonishing. It shows the government and the central bank's power to create money, manipulate market prices, and transfer wealth. The market is powered ahead by a growing strength in corporate profits, too.
Despite the fifth consecutive year of U.S. budget deficits surpassing $1 trillion, the U.S. economy is still growing at just 1.5% annually, and three million more people are out of work since the president took office. Why?
A speech by Richard Fisher. president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs on February 27 gives answers.
The backdrop here: the Federal Reserve has long been running on the racetrack of politics, a world where the closest the government will come to fiscal responsibility is former vice president Al Gore talking about a lockbox -- showing the real crisis is how the U.S. governs itself, and the U.S. economy:
"Employers large and small, privately owned or publicly traded, will tell you that despite access to cheap and abundant capital, they are hesitant to make long-term commitments, including hiring significant numbers of permanent workers.
"They cite uncertain growth prospects for the goods and services they sell at home, where consumption is retarded by slow growth in employment and, lately, by the increase in payroll taxes.
"And abroad, these employers point to the dampened consumption stemming from the economic debacle in Europe and its knock-on effects on China and the export-led emerging economies.
"They are uncertain about fiscal policy, not knowing what their taxes will be and what will happen to all-important federal spending that directly impacts them or their customers.
"They are uncertain as to the ultimate effect on their cost structures of the seemingly endless expansion of health care and other mandates and regulations…
"And, for some, there is a deeply imbedded worry that the Fed's contortion of the yield curve and cost of money cannot last forever, or, if it lasts too long, will eventually result in financial bubbles and/or uncontrollable inflation, adding another uncertainty to the plethora of uncertain factors that already plague them.
"Credit is super-abundant and stock market behavior is conditioned not so much by the fundamental performance of its underlying companies but by increasing doses of monetary Ritalin.
"Against this backdrop, I am not surprised by the reaction of businesses. Operating in a highly uncertain environment, it is eminently sensible for them to defensively use their newly strengthened balance sheets to buy back shares and pay out dividends or employ them offensively in ways—say, in making acquisitions—that often lead to employee rationalization, not payroll expansion for U.S. workers. This is how businesses really think; this is the way people really are."


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THE father of the hoax collar-bomb victim Madeline Pulver has criticised attempts by his daughter's attacker to distance himself from the crime, describing Paul Peters as a ''pretty flawed individual'' who did an ''unbelievably callous thing to our daughter''.
Bill Pulver and his wife Belinda sat through a sentencing hearing on Wednesday, in which a psychiatrist said Peters was in a ''psychotic state'' when he attached a fake collar bomb to Ms Pulver's neck on August 3 last year.
The court had also previously heard that Peters could not recall the actual crime, and only remembers walking up the steps of the Pulvers' Mosman home. He says his memory returned about 2 hours later, when he had returned to the central coast.
Speaking after the day's hearing, Mr Pulver said he did not believe Peters's claim of temporary amnesia, saying his family believed the attack had been an ''extraordinarily well-planned event''.
''He has very conveniently managed to forget the hour and a half when all of this nasty stuff took place, but then when he got to Avoca he logged on to three separate computers to check whether we had responded to his note,'' Mr Pulver said.
''It's very clear this is simply an extortion case and while I don't really question that there are some mental health issues, I think ultimately it's an extortion.''
He simply didn't buy the idea being proffered that it was just a ''clumsy'' crime and Peters had wanted to get caught so he could be properly treated for a worsening psychiatric condition.
''No – he very nearly got away with it. The only reason he got caught [was because] Maddie rang me, and I immediately called the police,'' he said.
''She didn't know at the time that this extortion letter was there. If I had known there was an extortion letter I ask myself the question many times – would I have actually rung the police? I'm really not sure what I would have done. He was unlucky not to get away with this.''
Clutching his wife's hand, Mr Pulver said at times he felt fury at the evidence being presented.
''To be honest I look over at what I think is a pretty flawed individual, who did an unbelievably callous thing to our daughter and it's just not normal behaviour, so it's challenging at times to restrain the anger.
''I think it's ruined his life, his family know what it's done … he'll still live with this for the rest of his life.''
He said Maddie was unlikely to ever come to court, because ''she doesn't want to front him''.
The consultant psychiatrist Dr Jonathan Phillips had earlier told the District Court that his diagnosis of a ''psychosis'' did not mean Peters's actions were not well thought out.
Dr Phillips said that assessing Peters was as complex as any case he had tackled and there were times he struggled to understand what the former businessman was talking about.
The court heard that electronic evidence showed Peters had edited two ransom documents contained on a USB stick attached to the fake bomb for a total of 503 minutes.
Judge Peter Zahra will sentence Peters later this month.
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Hi Dad! And Good Luck Robert Pattinson
My dad reads the open of my site every day. And usually he'll see the top few articles. What does my dad have to do with Robert Pattinson?
The red symbol on Pattinson's jacket - in Cantonese it's pronounced "FOK", in Mandarin "FU", and that's dad's name. Means Good Luck. That's why you see the character so much on Chinese calendars.
I apologise in advance if I offend you if this applies to you but, um, generally...I'm not really down with people who get Chinese letter tattoos. Chinese people of my mother's generation look down on tattoos socially as they've been associated so much with triads. But, you know, beyond that, think of the people you see most often with Chinese letter tattoos. RIGHT?
Not sure if Robert Pattinson is one of those. My sense is he isn't, though I'm not sure why he's walking around wearing a jacket with Chinese lettering and dragons that also appears to an English language ode to those who served in the Vietnam War. That's a lot of, um, mixed messaging; that's a very Chinese symbol. China and Vietnam aren't exactly best friends right now. And I don't even know what's up with the writing.
When I die I'll go to heaven because I've spent my time in hell
First time I saw this it was a Zippo lighter. It's becoming a collector item now, the engraved Zippos soldiers used to carry with them in war (click here to see a few), artifacts of a cruel time that often represented the resentment and confusion of the era in a dozen words or less on a small piece of metal.
But I do hope he's not the kind of person who buys sh-t he doesn't understand just because it looks cool. I'd like to think he puts more thought into these matters than the young fools who walk around with Che Guevara on their chests because it looks good on a t-shirt.
Pattinson is at the Berlinale promoting his new film Bel Ami with Christina Ricci.
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Caught in the wind from the Sun
Venus Express has exposed the true extent to which the Sun strips away the atmosphere of Venus. This process could be an important contribution to the way the planet has evolved to become so different from the Earth.
The Sun has probably been stripping away the Venus' atmosphere throughout the planet's four-thousand million-year history. Unlike Earth, Venus does not possess an intrinsic magnetic field to protect its atmosphere from the solar wind, a constant stream of electrically charged particles emitted by the Sun. Instead, the solar wind interacts directly with the upper atmosphere of Venus.
"The solar wind interaction is important because it defines the conditions at the boundary of the atmosphere with space and it is a very active boundary," says Stanislav Barabash at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Kiruna, Sweden.
In particular, the interaction causes Venus's atmosphere to lose its gases in the form of ionized particles. The Analyzer of Space Plasmas and Energetic Atoms (ASPERA) on Venus Express has been studying this interaction and has revealed, for the first time, the composition of the escaping particles. They are predominantly hydrogen, oxygen and helium ions.
The first two components of the escaping ions are highly important because they are the chemical constituents of water. Water molecules are thought to be the principal contributors of hydrogen in the upper atmosphere of Venus. The solar ultraviolet radiation breaks water into electrically charged 'atoms', turning it into what scientists call a plasma, and this plasma is then accelerated into space. Thus, two hydrogen atoms should be escaping for every one of oxygen.
The highly elliptical polar orbit of Venus Express, with its closest approach to the planet of 250–350 km and its furthest reach of 66,000 km, is perfect for studying the escaping planetary ions. This is because it covers the region of the solar wind interaction near the planet and the region directly downstream of the planet, as well as for reference the unperturbed solar wind far away from the planet.
Prior to Venus Express, scientists knew that particles were probably escaping from Venus's atmosphere but they could only guess the composition of those particles.
ASPERA finally established the composition of the escaping plasma and measured that the escape of hydrogen to oxygen is, indeed, in the same ratio as water: two hydrogens for every oxygen.
This may be the critical observation in understanding why Venus is so dry today. Perhaps the solar wind has gradually stripped the planet of water. The way to estimate this is to observe the process for as long as possible, watching for changes in the escape rate, brought about by different amounts of solar activity.
Solar activity controls almost every aspect of the Venus plasma environment. Although Venus has no intrinsic magnetic field, the interplanetary magnetic field carried by the solar wind piles up above the planet's upper atmosphere, creating a weak magnetic envelop around Venus. This prevents the solar wind from entering the atmosphere.
The magnetometer instrument (MAG) on Venus Express has shown that this field is wrapped around the day-side of the planet and continues to hug the shape of the planet on the night-side. The configuration of the night-time magnetic field seems likely to promote the acceleration of plasma, resulting in further loss of the atmosphere.
"For the first time, we could perform the in-situ observations of the near-Venus plasma environment at solar minimum. We see a very different picture of solar wind interaction with Venus than the well-known observations at solar maximum." says Tielong Zhang, Space Research Institute of Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria.
Notes for editors:
The findings appear in the 29 November issue of the scientific journal Nature, in the papers: 'Venus loses its water through the plasma wake', by S.Barabash et al., and 'Little or no solar wind enters Venus' atmosphere at solar minimum', by T.Zang et al.
For more information:
Stanislav Barabash, ASPERA Principal Investigator, Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Kiruna, Sweden
Email: stas @ irf.se
Tielong Zhang, MAG Principal Investigator, Space Research Institute of Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
Email: Tielong.Zhang @ oeaw.ac.at
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Editor's note: Dr. Stuart Gitlow is the president of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and chairman of the scientific advisory board of Smart Approaches to Marijuana. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.
(CNN) -- Back in the 1980s, while attending medical school in New York City, I watched patients remove their oxygen masks so they could smoke cigarettes while in their hospital beds. I watched the chairman of the board of the hospital smoke during board meetings. And I recall people smoking in airline terminals, in their offices, on trains and in restaurants.
Although tobacco smoking rates have dropped significantly in the decades since -- thanks in part to legislation and shifting public sentiment -- there are still many people who seek the "benefit" of being allowed to smoke, the "benefit" of the feeling they get from smoking, no matter the personal risk or the societal cost of their eventual illness and early death. And almost always, they started smoking well before they hit the age at which they could legally buy cigarettes.
Many people know one or more people whose lives were cut short by smoking cigarettes. It's a tragedy that could be prevented.
Federal marijuana bill would legalize some cannabis strains
And yet, our country stands ready to once again head down the path of accepting another addictive drug, marijuana, as legal. It is almost as if we have to burn our fingers again to be convinced that the stove is still hot.
As with tobacco, a significant number of people who try marijuana will become addicted. Research says that 1 in 6 teens who start using marijuana will become addicted.
But with marijuana, people can also experience long-term psychiatric disease, and those who use it heavily prior to age 25 are more likely than nonusers to experience a drop in IQ. Let me repeat that for emphasis: If you use marijuana heavily prior to age 25, your brain won't work anymore -- not as it did originally. Will you die young, as with tobacco? We'll have to wait a generation to find out, just as we did with tobacco. Our children will be the guinea pigs.
Why would we as a society choose to do this? If I told you I'm selling a lottery ticket where you have a chance of winning and must accept 1) a benefit that will last a few hours, 2) a permanently malfunctioning brain, 3) lifelong addiction or 4) -- the PowerBall -- psychosis, would you play? The New York Times editorial board think that risk is worth taking, as it promotes legalization of marijuana sales and use. Why would it and other marijuana proponents put the public in harm's way?
As a society, we will not make money -- we will likely lose money, just as we do with tobacco and alcohol. Taxpayers will need to pay more in order to make up for the productivity and illness-related losses that marijuana taxes won't come close to covering.
And since only a small percentage of state prisoners are there for marijuana offenses, how much would we be saving in criminal justice costs? Especially since there are more alcohol-related arrests (e.g. drunkenness, driving under the influence, violation of liquor laws) than all illegal drug arrests combined.
Some would have us believe the benefit of a brief high is worth all the known risks, including the eventual addiction of about 17% of young people who decide to try marijuana. And let's face it, how many people start using marijuana after age 25? Some would have us believe the benefit of a high is worth it despite the driving accidents that have already been shown to be related to marijuana use.
Is a momentary high so important that people are willing to take on such risks? The stakes, in this case, are our children. Let's not turn them into guinea pigs.
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Super Tuesday May Not Be Decisive for Romney
Ten states will participate in the March 6 Super Tuesday contests for the Republican nomination. With victories this week in Arizona, Michigan and Wyoming, Mitt Romney would seem to be on pace to clinch the nomination. Super Tuesday's contests, though, will likely reveal some of Romney's weaknesses and keep the contest going.
While Romney is pulling away from the rest of the field in the delegate count, he seems unable to pull together a string of consecutive victories. He lost Iowa, then won New Hampshire. Then he lost South Carolina followed by wins in Florida in Nevada. That was followed by Rick Santorum's trifecta of victories in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri. Romney followed that up with wins in Maine, Arizona and Michigan.
Romney tends to do better in primary states than caucus states and in the Northeast or West, but not in the South. In the Super Tuesday states, there are two northeastern states, Massachusetts (Romney's home state) and Vermont. There are three caucus states, Alaska, Idaho and North Dakota, and four Southern states, Georgia, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Virginia. Romney has an advantage in Virginia, though, because he and Ron Paul are the only candidates on the ballot. The last state on the list, Ohio, is expected to be the closest contest that day.
According to an analysis by AP, the best that Romney could hope for on Super Tuesday is to win in seven states and take 60 percent of the 419 delegates up for grabs that day. He would expand his lead in that scenario, but he would not be on pace to win enough delegates to secure the nomination until late in the primary season. Perhaps as late at the last primary, which is June 26 in Utah.
If Romney is unable to get a majority of the 2,286 total delegates, then the delegates will head to the Aug. 27 convention in Tampa, Fla., and decide on who their nominee will be with a series of votes. On the first vote, they are obligated to vote for the candidate they were selected to represent. If no candidate wins a majority of delegates on the first vote, they will be free to vote for whomever they want on subsequent votes.
The potential of this scenario has led some pundits to discuss the possibility of the delegates choosing someone who is not even a candidate. The names most often talked about are former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and House Budget Chair Paul Ryan.
This scenario is unlikely, however. As Professor Marjorie Hershey, a political scientist at Indiana University, explained in a Dec. 22 interview with CP, a brokered convention would make the party appear like it is controlled by elites, and no party wants that image in the mind of the electorate.
Romney holds double-digit leads in two new national polls. Rasmussen shows Romney with 40 percent, followed by Santorum (24 percent), Newt Gingrich (16 percent) and Ron Paul (12 percent).
Gallup's five-day rolling average poll shows Romney at 35 percent, followed by Santorum (24 percent), Gingrich (15 percent) and Paul (11 percent).


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 42 diseños de 14 diseñadores freelance.
Sonoma Wine Accessories was founded by the owners of Le Cache Premium Wine Cabinets and CellarPro Cooling Systems to provide an assortment of high quality wine accessories. We are based in Sonoma County, California, in the heart of wine country, which keeps us focused and energized.
Our products include tabletop wine accessories such as corkscrews and aerators; stemware; wine cellar racking, cooling systems coolers and cabinets.
Our mission is to offer a good assortment of common as well as hard-to-find, high-quality products. We aren't trying to offer everything under the sun - there are other retailers that have a much broader selection than us, especially in the tabletop/accessories categories.
Our site provides a TON of detailed product information, buying guides, competitive charts and performance/test data. Our prices are competitive, and we take pride in providing super-fast fulfillment and excellent customer service.
All of our customers are wine enthusiasts, most of whom are affluent and very passionate about wine. Most customers are individuals, though an increasing percentage are entities like restaurants, wine retailers, hotels, etc. In some categories (like wine racks and cooling systems), our customers primarily are male, but our customers are split more evenly when it comes to wine accessories and stemware.
We want to design a postcard that we will mail to our database of customers and leads,with the following goals:
- to introduce the new website
- create brand awareness
- entice a trial transaction(s) via promo code
- encourage switching from our competitors: http://www.wineenthusiast.com, http://www.iwawine.com and http://www.amazon.com
- generate word of mouth
Our points of differentiation are as follows:
- breadth of product information, guides and comparisons;
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- competitive pricing;
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The design elements for the postcard should draw heavily from our website, and should include the following elements:
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- Our address and phone number: 531 Mercantile Drive, Cotati, California 94931 1-877-888-9137
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Tech firms occupy approximately 12.28 million sq. ft. of office space in St. Louis. Tech subsectors represented in the St. Louis market continue to be diverse. Hardware and information technology firms, the two subsectors with the largest footprint, make up a combined 35% of all tech occupancy, or 4.2 million sq. ft. Telecommunications and biotech occupiers, with the 3rd and 4th largest subsector footprints respectively, make up a combined 28% of the tech occupancy, or 3.4 million sq. ft.
With 572 unique tech occupiers, St. Louis has a strnog tech footprint scattered across the metro area. However, nearly 47% of all tech occupiers are located within four predominant geographic clusters - Creve Coeur, Clayton, Cortex and the Central Business District. All four of these clusters are geographically small areas with high concentrations of of tech office users. The agglomeration benefits that come with this type of synergistic clustering have helped push St. Louis into the national tech conversation. Building on these strengths will help St. Louis further enhance its tech presence and solidify its seat as a top market in the technology world.
This report contains insights related to tech users' office footprint in the market, a look at how tech users have impacted office market fundamentals, a snapshot of tech talent in St. Louis, an examination of tech industry indicators and a review of some notable office developments that will further enhance St. Louis' tech presence.
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December 7, 2012, Kent, WA – – Five different Seattle Thunderbirds scored Friday night at Comcast Arena to help the T-Birds to a 5-1 victory over the Everett Silvertips. The T-Birds have now won four consecutive games. They face the Portland Winterhawks Saturday night at ShoWare Center at 7:05pm.
Seattle (16-13-1-0) took a 1-0 lead at 4:12 of the first period. Connor Honey got the puck from Jerret Smith behind the Everett net. Honey fed the puck to Roberts Lipsbergs in the slot. Lipsbergs beat Everett goalie Daniel Cotton with a wrist shot over the glove to extend his goal streak to six games and his point streak to 11 games. Lipsbergs has 13 goals and five assists in the point streak.
Everett (11-20-0-2) outshot Seattle 9-8 in the first period.
The T-Birds went in front 2-0 at 10:39 of the second period. Evan Wardley had the puck at the right point. He sent the puck down the boards to Seth Swenson. Swenson skated across the top of the left circle, made a spin move and put a wrist shot on goal. Swenson's shot beat Cotton low.
Mitch Elliot extended the lead to 3-0 12 seconds after Swenson's goal. Brendan Rouse had the puck along the left boards. Rouse centered the puck to Luke Lockhart in the high slot. Lockhart one-timed Rouse's pass with Elliot in front of the Everett goalie. Cotton made the save but Elliot banged in the rebound for his first goal of the season.
The Silvertips outshot the T-Birds 18-10 in the second period and led 27-18 in shots after two periods.
Riley Sheen scored at 6:52 of the third period to give the T-Birds a 4-0 lead. Honey sent the puck from the left board to Shea Theodore inside the blue line. Theodore put a slap shot on goal that Cotton stopped. Sheen was on the doorstep to bang home the radio for his eight goal of the season.
Brendan Rouse tipped a Griffin Foulk point shot past Cotton at 18:21 of the third for the T-Birds fifth goal of the game. Swenson got the puck to Foulk at the left point. The assist was Foulk's first point of the season and came against his former team.
Seattle goalie Brandon Glover lost the shutout with seven seconds left in the game when Tyler Sandhu scored a power-play goal. Sandhu sent the puck towards the Seattle net from the left goal line. The puck deflected off a T-Birds defenseman and past Glover. Josh Winquist and Manraj Hayer were credited with the assists.
Both teams had seven shots on goal in the third period but Everett outshot Seattle 34-25 in the game.
Glover ended up making 33 saves on 34 shots to get the win and improve his record to 15-10-1-0.
Cotton stopped 20 of 25 shots and his record is now 8-8-0-0.
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First period – 1, Seattle, Lipsbergs 15, (Honey, Smith), 4:12. Penalties – Petryk, Evt (roughing), 10:06. Honey, Sea (roughing), 10:06. Honey, Sea (roughing), 12:18. Petryk, Evt (roughing), 12:18. Betker, Evt (cross checking), 12:18.
Second period – 2, Seattle, Swenson 11 (Wardley), 10:39. 3, Seattle, Elliot 1 (Lockhart, Forsberg), 10:51. Penalties – Soumelidis, Evt (interference), 7:03. Foulk, Sea (roughing), 13:53. Cox, Evt (roughing), 13:53. Smith, Sea (roughing), 14:10. Stadnyk, Evt (charging, game misconduct), 17:20. Glover. Sea (delay of game-served by Honey), 17:34. Honey, Sea (slashing), 19:54.
Third period – 4, Seattle, Sheen 8 (Theodore, Honey), 6:52. 5, Seattle, Rouse 6 (Foulk, Swenson), 18:21. 6, Everett, Sandhu 10 (Winquist, Hayer), 19:53 (pp). Penalties – Betker, Evt (roughing), 2:40. Betker, Evt (elbowing), 4:50. Elliot, Sea (unsportsmanlike conduct), 7:32. Wardley, Sea (cross checking), 8:57. Holub, Sea (roughing), 17:25. Elliot, Sea (roughing), 17:25. Betker, Evt (roughing), 17:25. Low, Evt (roughing), 17:25. Wardley, Sea (delay of game), 19:
Shots on goal – Seattle 8-10-7 25, Everett 9-18-7 34. Goalies – Seattle, Glover 34 shots-33 saves (15-10-1-0); Everett, Cotton 25-24 (8-8-0-0). Power plays – Seattle 1-5; Everett 1-5. A – 5,068. Referee – Tyler Adair, Ryan Benbow. Linesmen – Ron Dietterle, Nathan Van Oosten.


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INDEFINITE, NUMBER. A number which may be increased or diminished at
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NUMBER. A collection of units.
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3. And sometimes, when the subject to be described is supposed to comprehend a multiplicity of particulars, a general description is sufficient. A declaration in trover alleging the conversion of "a library of books"' without stating their number, titles, or quality, was held 'to be sufficiently certain; 3 Bulst. 31; Carth. 110; Bac. Ab. Trover, F 1; and in an action for the loss of goods, by burning the plaintiff's house, the articles may be described by the simple denomination of "goods" or "divers goods." 1 Keb. 825; Plowd. 85, 118, 123; Cro. Eliz. 837; 1 H. Bl. 284.


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The Stanford football team has ditched its paper playbooks -- thousands of pages of Xs, Os, and the lines that connect them -- for iPads, according to the San Jose Mercury news.
School officials say that the Cardinal is the first team to make the transition from paper playbooks to digital. The 100 iPads, purchased through a Denver-based sports company, will allow for less paper, less cost -- as there is no need to print new plays -- and can be erased remotely, to keep football secrets secret, the newspaper reported.
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Mainstream News Article Talks Up The Importance Of Fair Use
from the you-don't-see-that-every-day deptjupiterkansas was the first of a few of you to send over this article about a Kansas City Star article praising fair use and talking up how important it is to culture.
Watch tonight's "Daily Show" and count the number of TV, movie and music clips you see or hear during the episode. Ten? Twenty?The article is pretty long and detailed (and quotes some of my favorite experts, including Nancy Baym and Patricia Aufderheide -- whose new book, written with Peter Jaszi, called Reclaiming Fair Use is sitting on my desk -- though I haven't had a chance to read it yet). It does note that fair use is still sometimes a bit hit or miss in the courts, but overall this is a really comprehensive article on the subject. It's just kind of surprising to see it in a big newspaper. Even though fair use is increasingly important to people, it's just not the sort of thing most in the media seemed interested in writing about -- even if they're covering copyright related stories.
While you're doing that, note how often Stewart makes fun of the subject of the clip. (If he's talking about CNN or Fox News Channel, this part will be easy.) Do the same for companion show "The Colbert Report."
Now, guess how often Stewart and Colbert ask their attorneys to clear the rights to all those copyrighted clips.
America's most acclaimed satirists turn out to also be our most powerful exploiters of "fair use," the legal loophole that permits use of copyrighted works without the onerous and often expensive process of rights clearance.


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Barts necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 26 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
Boodschappennieuws.nl ("grocery news")
Boodschappennieuws.nl is a community for supermarket consumers. The members of the community are invited to try – for free - the latest products of manufacturers. So a member gets free new products in exchange for his or her opinion.
We ask you to visualise 2 templates for our website (see the attached file "Templates Home and Dashboard.pdf"):
1) the homepage when a community member logs in, and
2) the dashboard page in which fmcg company-clients can monitor the results.
We have 7 more content page templates (so 9 in total. We will offer the contest winner to quote for designing the other 7 (slightly different) templates as well.
During the contest we will very actively provide you with feedback. So we're looking forward to have contact with you, see your ideas and ultimately your visualized templates!
With kindest regards,
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We are focussing on two target groups:
1) Consumers
Consumers like housewives who do their shopping at supermarkets.
We are primarily aiming at having an online dialogue with the innovators and early adopters among them.
2) Fmcg brands
Our fmcg clients who would like to know how consumers (innovators and early adopters) evaluate their new products.
We ask you to visualise 2 templates for our website:
1) Our homepage after consumers have logged in.
2) The dashboard page on which fmcg clients can see the results of the evaluation from our community members.
We provide you with the detailed templates from our Interaction Design (see 'Templates Home and Dashboard.pdf').
You are free to do whatever you feel is right to get a state-of-the-art and fun & personal design with an astonishingly Look & Feel (but please do use 'rights-free' images / visuals and websafe fonts)!
We would like these two page designs to include the design of;
• Final lay-out the two page templates
• Design of the displayed functionalities
• Design of the navigation menu (top), including how to visually distinguish the active level
• Definition of the preferred text fonts, sizes & colors for the different text types (header (h1), subheader (h2), normal text, bullets, links, …)
• A clear idea of how to handle images
For a more detailed description on who we are and our own ideas, see the 3 page document "Visual design desires Boodschappennieuws.doc".
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Stars, surreal moments at Elton John's Oscar bash
LOS ANGELES – The Academy Awards were on at Elton John AIDS Foundation's viewing dinner party, but the real entertainment came from the performances, celeb watching, and the surreal moments of the evening.
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Lady Gaga, members of the Kardashian clan (including new mom Kim), Steven Tyler, Britney Spears, Heidi Klum, Quincy Jones, Whoopi Goldberg and more were among the celebrities taking part in the 22nd annual event, which raises funds for those afflicted with HIV and AIDS.
The event was held in a cavernous tent a few miles away from where the actual awards were taking place. Huge screens adorned the venue as party-goers watched the Oscar action.
"If Pharrell Williams doesn't win best song, then I'm (expletive) going home early," John bellowed to the crowd after Williams performed his nominated song "Happy" (Williams didn't win, but thankfully for the crowd, the award was handed out late in the ceremony, making John's threat moot).
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The crowd laughed with host DeGeneres and whooped when various winners took the stage (and let out a loud moan when a brief technical glitch knocked out the telecast for a few minutes).
But the night got more interesting when the broadcast ended and the party got into full swing. First there was an auction of key items; Neil Patrick Harris jokingly offered to make out with the top bidder (and go a bit further than that) for an item featuring tickets to his upcoming Broadway show, Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
Not to be outdone, Steven Tyler told a few bawdy jokes of his own as he helped to auction off five nights in his Hawaiian getaway, which raised $100,000.
Elton John also got in on the auction act, taking crowd requests and playing a few of his hits on a piano that was auctioned off for $220,000.
It seemed as if that brief instrumental performance would be the only one from John on the night. But late, he joined the night's performer, Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran, for a rendition of John's classic "Candle in the Wind"
The party didn't end there. Dinner was followed by dancing, as more celebrities came: Among those who were on hand included Olympic ice dancing gold medallists Meryl Davis and Charlie White, along with bronze bobsledder Aja Evans, all with their medals, holding up for medals for admirers to see — and take selfies as well.
The evening raised $5.1 million for the foundation, according to organizers.
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Remember the folding car? If you're of a certain age — or just watch a lot of Hulu or Nick at Nite — you probably have the folding (and flying) space car from the Jetsons emblazoned in your mind. If not, here it is on video:
It's easy to draw a cartoon of a car that folds into a suitcase, but harder when having to conform to the actual laws of physics. I've seen some novel but wholly impractical concepts, such as the fabric-bodied car, powered by flashlight batteries, in this video. But now a practical folding car appears to be on its way from the Hiriko group and the MIT Media Labs. First shown at a European Commission meeting in Brussels earlier this year, it's a Ford Explorer-sized glass-topped electric city car that, when shrunk, takes up about a third of a parking space. What basically happens is the front passenger section tips forward so the rear trunk section can slide underneath.
To make this work, regular controls had to be replaced with drive-by-wire, and the accelerator, steering wheel and brake are gone in favor of an aerospace-type yoke that (as in a Segway), is moved forward to move the vehicle forward, and back for reversing. Left and right are for steering. Here's a closer look on video:
Just like in the Jetsons' car (and the 1950s BMW Isetta, for that matter), the driver climbs out through the glass canopy. It's strictly for an urban driver, with top speed of only about 31 mph, and range of 75 miles on quick-recharge (15 minutes) lithium-ion batteries. Electric motors are located at the car's four wheels. It can be registered as a quadricycle or motorcycle in some markets.
I love the idea of the folding car, because it answers a question that's been dogging me: Sure, electric cars are "urban vehicles," with their short range are well-suited for city driving cycles. But cities don't feature split-level homes with garages — people live in tight quarters in apartments. So where's the charging going to happen? Parking garages and, to a lesser extent, pay lots, offer some kind of solution, but not everybody can afford those choices.
If you could get cars more tightly packed — three to a space, for instance — then city charge farms could work better. I've seen the concept of autonomous-driving cars dropping off their passengers, then boarding an elevator to be put away in a high rise until needed again. That works — but only if the tech does. Having the cars fold up for storage makes it work better. "A systematic solution to major societal changes," said Jose Manual Barroso, the president of the European Commission, at the time of the unveiling. You couldn't say as much for the fascinating concept at right, a folding car that looks cool but would never make it on the road.
The Fold, as it's known, has its genesis in a MIT Media Lab project sponsored by GM. Writes Steve Ashley for the BBC, "The discussion led to the concept of a small EV that could be folded and stacked in line, and shared by multiple users in urban environments in Asia, North America and Europe."
The Hiriko Driving Mobility Group, based in the Basque region of Spain, visited the MIT lab in 2009, and leveraged some Spanish government funding to produce what became the Hiriko Fold. According to Kent Larson, director of the Media Lab's Changing Places Group, everything is a tight fit. "It's designed more like an iPhone than a tower computer," he told Ashley.
The cool thing is that the Fold is actually going into production in Europe next year, priced at around $16,400. Trucks and convertibles are envisioned.
For the concept to work optimally, there has to be a Fold system. Charging garages have to be set up around them, optimized to plug in three of these babies in a confined space. What, you want to talk about safety? C'mon, this is a blog post, that's in part two.


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|This book tells the tale of Star Trek's turbulent story, from the people that were there. It is a great read, and some say that it's better than William Shatner's book, Star Trek Memories. This book provides so much information, it has just about everything you ever needed or wanted to know about TOS. Good reading!
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It's Thursday, and as our usual meme-wrangle Ben Davis is off on a well-deserved break this week, it falls to me, dear reader, to take you by the hand and hurl you into the whirling vortex of fun-ness that we call t'interweb.
Here's a whole buncha stuff that made us shoot milk out of our noses, including tweetfails, the internet of things and the long awaited return of Batman…
Are you down with the kids?
Oh sure, we marketers like to pretend we're all hip don't we? With our skinny jeans and our asymetrical hair, but does your marketing department really know what the youth are banging on about or is their shade just jank?
Here's a handy quiz to make you feel old.
Slideshare of the week: Death to bullshit
Some excellent stuff on content from Brad Frost:
For more on creative and content, come along to Punch in October!
Wine society copywriting of the week
The Wine society regularly bakes our grape with their effervescent prose, but as I'm in charge this week I thought I'd mix my drinks. You decide: Fine wine or a shot of something green from Hackney's Dolphin pub?
Read more on optimising your tweets.
Interesting internet idea of the week
Adopting a bill of rights for the internet of things
The New York Times regularly turns up useful stuff via it's 'Room for Debate' feature, and this time out they've been looking at minimising privacy risks. Limor Fried has plenty to say about inalienable rights online. Read the whole thing here.
More on the Internet of Things.
Andrew Warren-Payne quote of the week
Usually we take a look at the uniquely crafted utterances of our most English of analysts. This week I thought I'd add a touch of competition to spice things up: Who said the following?
Andrew Warren-Payne:
or Skeletor?
Choose or perish.
In a similar vein…
Best 'Who said that?' of the week
Taylor swift…or Hitler? Pinterest user Emily Pattison has handily jumbled up phrases spoken by those two doyens of pure evil. Can you guess who is responsible for the deaths of millions, and who looks good in cowboy boots?
Read more awfulness, courtesy of Smosh
Anti-user experience booking process of the week
We dare you to book a ticket before your mind breaks…
(props to r/crappydesign for the pointer)
Amazon product/Latex investment opportunity of the week
Violent tank-engine compilation of the week
Who doesn't need some blood-curdling, white-knuckle violent action from Thomas and friends in their lives?
Econsultancy one year ago today
Social media measurement: Are you looking in the wrong place?
Twitter reference of the week
BBC NewsNight's Ian Katz accidentally called Labour shadow minister Rachel Reeves 'boring' on Twitter, Newsnight fesses up in its credits:
Spam comment of the week
From our forums, a humble shoe salesman writes:
Charlotte kissed him, and Tim slipped his hands round her back and held her close. Need to dance? she said. I believed you'd never ask. For the dance floor , Tim curled Charlotte into him and peered into her eyes because singer crooned in regards to the house that built me.
What went down within? Nothing. Charlotte swayed lateral, round and round with him. Ladies' room privilege. But you're upset . There is nothing that sacred. Tim craned his neck in a obvious effort to view who exited the restroom alcove. It absolutely was Katherine. You should've warned me she was a dog.


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Offense, Pen Falter
The mountain to the wildcard got steeper.
After dropping the first game in Minute Maid Park, the Phillies are faced with must wins in the next three games against the Astros. Then again, nearly every game is a must win.
Aumont gets tagged with his first loss on Thursday night. He has a terrific arm, nasty stuff but is still mastering location. When he's throwing strikes, its lights out. Pitching in his third straight game, he threw 17 pitches, five for strikes.
The young arms have stabilized the pen as witnessed by a consecutive innings streak of 21 ended last night in the eighth inning. If only the Phillies didn't have a play the eighth inning, this season would have been different. Think baseball will allow us to go from the seventh to the ninth inning?
While Aumont as an L behind his name, the offense should have a 0. Nine hits, of which eight were singles, and seven walks produced four runs, nothing after the third inning. Two of the singles came from pinch hitters. Inconsistent offense has also been a drawback during the season.
Roster Limit?
Every September Larry Andersen complains about the MLB rule in which the 25-man roster can be expanded after September 1. For five months, teams battle with 25 players and that goes out the window during the last month when pennant races are being decided.
Perhaps he's on to something. The Astros used 21 players last night. Tampa, which lost to Baltimore, used a club-record 26 players on Thursday. So, there's proof it doesn't necessarily win or lose games.
LA doesn't have a problem with extra players but feels there should be a daily roster limit of say, 27 players. Sort of like having a taxi squad. Only 27 players can dress for a game. Not a bad idea.
TV Ratings Update
Wednesday's late afternoon game on CSN drew a 13 household rating. That's the highest for CSN since a 13 on July 6.
Manual Time
No, not Charlie but MLB's postseason manual.
Every team with postseason potential receives a manual from Major League Baseball. It contains guidelines on hotel requirements, facility/security, finance, ticketing, publications, media accommodations, broadcasting needs, hospitality, MLB Properties sales, pre-game festivities, transportation/parking, sponsorship/scoreboard, food/retail and community affairs.
While the postseason remains a long shot for the Phillies, it is only a little more than two weeks away if they make it.
So, the office staff met Thursday for the first time to go over the manual. Fortunately, the staff has been through enough postseasons to know what to expect. No one is panicking over the details and everyone is gearing up to work endless hours if need be. Let's hope to comes to that.
Alumni News, Notes, Photos
Visit www.phillies.com/alumni.


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Port Townsend Sunrise Rotary is part of Rotary District 5020 which is one of the largest in the world. It is part of an international district which extends from the top of Vancouver Island, BC, Canada across the border south to Woodland, Washington.
Meeting Information:
Wednesday at 7:15 AM
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Five people were hurt in a five-vehicle that temporarily closed Interstate 57 near south suburban Posen early Sunday.
The crash in the northbound lanes near 147th Street prompted Illinois Department of Transportation Crews to temporarily shut down all lanes, Illinois State Police Trooper Ivan Bukaczyk said.
Five vehicles collided, Bukaczyk said, but details on how the crash happened were not yet clear.
As of about 3:30 a.m., the center and right northbound lanes remain blocked, he said.
Paramedics took a total of five people hurt in the crash to area hospitals, Bukaczyk said. None of their injuries were life-threatening.


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Home grown peachesMonday, August 31st, 2009
I have a baby in the garden, that is if you could call a peach tree a baby. I have never cared so much for a tree or a plant before as for my beloved peach tree. Peaches you think, in Sweden? The secret is a Lattvian variety called Riga that was planted early spring this year in a big pot on my terrace facing south. It starts flowering early in the season before the bees are awake which means you need to hand pollinate the pretty pink flowers with a brush. You need to cover and protect the tree from frost and cold nights during blossom so it won't freeze and drop all flowers. And you need to uncover it so it won't get too warm during warmer days. So that is why I call it a baby, it needs a lot of care. But the reward is so worth it. Succulent, sweet and wonderful peaches far away from store bought. Too tasty to use in baking so we just ate them directly from the tree. This first year we only got 15 peaches, but hopefully there will be more next year. Below are some photos from April when the tree flowered til early August when the peaches were ripe.
Peach tree flowering in April.
Early June.
Early June.
Late July.
Early August. Time to indulge!


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Much fuss has been stirred over President Obama's open-mic remark to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he'll have more "space" and "flexibility" to negotiate the dispute over missile defense after he's reelected.
Several Republicans have charged that his remark reflects a secret plan to "sell out" the U.S. missile-defense program and thus "capitulate" to the Russians (who, Mitt Romney seems to believe, are still "our No. 1 geopolitical foe").
Obama has since explained that he merely meant that the issue's "technical aspects" are too "complicated" to resolve in the heat of an election year—as this trumped-up controversy shows.
What to make of this kerfuffle? Obama's explanation, while clearly true, seems a little bit disingenuous. But the Republicans' accusations, while theoretical, are totally out of whack with reality on several levels.
It's obvious that presidents have more flexibility when they're no longer facing another election. The question is, what are they likely to do with it? Newt Gingrich has thundered that Obama will make war on the Catholic Church from the first day of his second term. This, of course, is sheer lunacy. But is there anything to the prediction that Obama will set out to destroy missile defense?
If there is, he has a funny way of going about it. The military budget he submitted to Congress last month cuts the allotment for a lot of high-profile weapons projects—but it requests $9.7 billion for missile defense (with forecasts of $47.4 billion over the next five years). In other words, no cut at all.
And it's not just the money. One item on the agenda at the NATO summit in Chicago this May is the announcement that the missile-defense system will have achieved "interim capability"—which is to say that, to a limited extent, it's right on schedule. The USS Monterrey, the first Aegis-class cruiser designed to carry a ballistic-missile-defense system, will in fact be carrying SM-3 interceptor missiles in the Mediterranean. At the same time, as agreed late last year, an early-warning radar system will be switched on at the Kurecik base in Turkey. Meanwhile, Spain has agreed to serve as the home port for four Aegis cruisers. Agreements have also been signed with Romania and Poland to serve as sites for land-based SM-3s in 2015; already, Polish and Romanian officers have been rotating in and out of a training base for operating the sites.
Now it's true, Obama could junk all these accords after swearing the oath for his second term. They are executive actions, requiring no congressional approval. But why would he have gone to the trouble of spending all this money, redesigning all these ships, and arranging all these NATO agreements, if he was just going to scuttle them? It's a lot to scuttle. If his real agenda all along were simply to cuddle up with the Russians, it would have made more sense not to build these projects and make these commitments in the first place; the cuddling wouldn't seem such a conspicuous reversal.
Obama entered the White House a skeptic on missile defense, but after his first few months in office, for better or worse, he came around. First, the program in development was no longer Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" fantasy of a space-based missile shield; it had been whittled down to a more reality-based defense against limited nuclear attacks launched by rogue regimes or terrorists—a much more plausible mission scientifically. Second, tests of the SM-3, which is designed to shoot down short- to medium-range missiles, have been more successful than earlier generations of interceptors (though there's still controversy over just how successful the tests have been).
In September 2009, Obama did abandon George W. Bush's plan to deploy interceptors inside the Czech Republic and Poland, deciding instead to go with a "phased adaptive approach" to install the interceptors on ships at sea, with the possible option of putting some a few years later in Poland and Romania. This decision stemmed, in part, from Obama's broader desire to "reset" U.S.-Russian relations, which Bush had left in deep disrepair. But it also stemmed from the Pentagon's analysis that a sea-based system would be better; the interceptors would be less vulnerable to a preemptive strike, and, because ships are mobile, they could deal with attacks from a broader range of foes.
So what did Obama mean when he said he'd have more "flexibility" in his second term? Flexibility to do what? To get at this requires, first, an understanding of why the Russians are so nervous about the prospect of a U.S. (or NATO) missile-defense program so close to their border, in the heart of their former empire.
That second question almost answers itself. No weapon is purely defensive, not even one that's designed to shoot down an offensive missile. Back in the darkest days of the Cold War, the superpowers maintained a durable peace because of nuclear deterrence: If one side launched a nuclear attack, the other would retaliate in kind. Victory in any meaningful sense was impossible. But if one side developed an effective ballistic-missile-defense system, it could launch a first strike and, when the other side retaliated with whatever weapons survived the attack, it could shoot most of them down. Victory was possible, at least on paper.
This scenario, of course, was loony. Even in the most optimistic scenarios, the "winning" side would lose at least 10 million people, and suffer hundreds of billions of dollars in damages, as a result of the retaliation. (As Gen. Buck Turgidson, the George C. Scott character, in Dr. Strangelove put it, "I'm not saying we won't get our hair mussed up …") But really (readers under the age of 30 or so will have to trust me on this), educated scholars and statesmen actually held forth on such scenarios, with straight faces and furrowed brows, not just in the depths of the Cold War but well into the 1990s.
It is definitely bizarre that the Russians seem to be obsessing over this scenario so many years later. After all, even George W. Bush's plan envisioned a couple dozen interceptors in Eastern Europe. No way they could have neutralized the Russians' arsenal of well over 1,000 ballistic-missile warheads.
This is all true, for now. But a Russian might wonder about the future. NATO's plan calls for these interceptors to grow in number, and to expand in range and power. By 2020, an upgraded version of the SM-3 will have, at least on paper, the ability to shoot down not just short-range missiles but intercontinental-range models as well. And the interceptors in Poland and Romania, as well as the radar in Turkey, may be well-situated to deal with missiles launched from Iran. But if you twist the compass a little, they could also deal with some launched from Russia.
Again, for now, this is irrelevant, given the size of Russia's arsenal. But if future U.S.-Russian arms-reduction treaties slash both sides' arsenals down much further, the defensive interceptors start to take on a larger potential role in a nuclear strike / counter-strike scenario. To illustrate in extreme terms: A few dozen interceptors would make no difference if each side had 1,000 offensive warheads; but they might make some difference if each side had 500 or 200 or 100 warheads … pick your number.
And that's the point—what is that number? How far can the two sides reduce their offensive arsenals before NATO's missile defenses start to make the Russians very nervous about whether their arsenal can deter a nuclear strike in a crisis?
This is not a new issue. In a "unilateral statement" tacked on to the New START treaty, which Obama and Medvedev signed in April 2010, the Russians declared that there was a relationship between offensive and defensive weapons and that they reserved the right to withdraw from the treaty if the U.S. built up its defenses to the point where they "give rise to a threat" to Russia's offensive "nuclear force potential."
Some Republicans at the time screamed that the Russians were boxing us in and strapping us with limits on our missile-defense program. So, in reaction, the Obama administration tacked on its own unilateral statement, taking note of the Russians' concern but adding that the U.S. missile defenses "are not intended to affect the strategic balance with Russia" but are rather aimed to defend against "limited missile launched" by "regional threats," and, to that end, the U.S. will "continue improving and deploying" such systems. (Obama spokesmen also noted that unilateral statements in a treaty have no binding effect.)
Still, there is indisputably a relationship between offensive and defensive arms. That is Arms Control 101. Anyone who says otherwise is lying or doesn't understand the most basic principles of deterrence.
And so, this may be what Obama meant by "flexibility." If the missile-defense program is the main obstacle to further reductions in offensive nuclear weapons, then maybe he can be flexible in some ways that require no congressional approval. He could, for example, stretch out the program. That intercontinental-range feature could come on line in 2025 instead of 2020 (that's likely to happen, for technical reasons, anyway). Or those sites in Poland and Romania could be moved to make them seem less threatening to Russia. Or the Russians could send personnel to man the systems jointly. (Bush made this suggestion.)
If the defenses might still repel a small-scale attack by Iran or some other foe, and if the adjustment in the program would bring about a dramatic reduction in the offensive nuclear arsenals (but still leaving enough weapons to deter a first strike), what's wrong with that?
Anyone who thinks there is something wrong with that must also believe that the defense system is—or ought to be—aimed at Russia. It's worth remembering that even George W. Bush disputed that idea.
Mitt Romney, the leading Republican presidential candidate, appears to disagree with George W. Bush. In an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN, Romney not only suggested that a second-term Obama would scuttle missile defense, he also attacked the notion of being flexible with Russia about anything. Russia, he said, "is without question our No. 1 geopolitical foe, they fight for every cause for the world's worst actors. The idea that [Obama] has more flexibility in mind for Russia is very, very troubling indeed."
When Blitzer asked whether Iran, China, or North Korea might be more dangerous than Russia, Romney replied that Russia always "lines up with the world's worst actors," whether at the U.N. Security Council, in dealing with a nuclear Iran or North Korea, or any other situation.
Think whatever you want of missile defense. This is nonsense. Since Obama's "reset" policy, Russia has supported the U.S. position on U.N. sanctions against Iran and North Korea. It reversed its decision to sell advanced air-defense radar to Iran, which would have made an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities (should someone launch one) far more difficult. It allowed transit of NATO troops and equipment to Afghanistan, which has allowed us to reduce our reliance on supply routes through Pakistan. And just this week, the Russian energy minister said it would make up oil shortfalls to Europe that might result from the sanctions on Iran.
Russia isn't entirely in sync with U.S. interests: It opposed the resolution against Syria, for instance, and it would be a stretch to call it a full-fledged ally. But the Cold War is long over. The vast majority of both sides' nuclear weapons, as well as a good part of the missile-defense plan, has nothing to do with maintaining a "balance of power" in any meaningful sense of the phrase. And it would be good for real national security if the Republicans stopped pretending otherwise.


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Laws, Regulations & Annotations
Business Taxes Law Guide – Revision 2019
Cigarette and Tobacco Products Tax Law
Section 30462
30462. Disposition of fund. (a) All money deposited in the Cigarette Tax Fund under this part is hereby appropriated, subject to the provisions of any budget bill heretofore or hereafter enacted, and shall, upon order of the State Controller, be drawn therefrom and allocated for the following purposes:
(1) To pay the refunds authorized by this part.
(2) The balance remaining in the fund shall be transferred to the General Fund of this state on or before the last calendar day of each month.
(b) It is the intent of the Legislature that Section 30111 continues to prohibit the imposition of local taxes by any city, charter city, town, county, charter county, city and county, charter cities and counties, or other political subdivision or agency of this state, on the sale, use, ownership, holding, or other distribution of cigarettes and tobacco products except as provided by Section 30111. The Legislature finds and declares that the need for uniform statewide regulation and collection of cigarette taxes is a matter of statewide concern, and it is the Legislature's intent to regulate the subject matter of cigarette taxes comprehensively and to occupy the field to the exclusion of local action except as specifically provided by Section 30111.
History.—Stats. 1967, p. 2525, operative August 1, 1967, completely revised this section. Stats. 1968, p. 1202, in effect July 11, 1968, operative July 1, 1968, revised this section, deleting former (b), (c), and related provisions; substituted the allocation formula contained in (c) for the former method which was based solely on local sales tax revenues; and relettered the remaining provisions. Stats. 1969, p. 275, in effect May 27, 1969, revised (c) and added the third paragraph under (d). Stats. 1969, p. 1871, in effect November 10, 1969, applicable to taxes imposed on and after January 1, 1970, added "less 30 percent of the cost of administering this part" to (c). Stats. 1971, p. 2791, operative July 1, 1972, added language as second sentence of (c) (1) limiting consideration by Controller in making determinations to revenues derived from taxes imposed by county at a rate not in excess of 1 percent. Stats. 1973, Ch. 806, effective January 1, 1974, deleted "by the Controller" from the last sentence of (c) (3) (B). Stats. 1977, Ch. 309, effective July 8, 1977, deleted in (b) " … not to exceed one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) in each fiscal year." and in (c) "For transfer to the credit of a special account in the General Fund, an amount …", combined the former (c) into (b); changed (d) to (c). Stats. 1991, Ch. 331, in effect August 5, 1991, added "city and" before "city" in subdivision (b); added "one for the state" after "accounts", and "cities and" before "cities", and deleted "and one for the cities of this state" after "state", in the first sentence of paragraph (1) of subdivision (b); deleted "county" after "due each", substituted "and" for a comma after "city", added "county" after "city and county", substituted "respectively" for "in the unincorporated territory of a county" before "bear", substituted "that" for "such" after "total of", in the second sentence of paragraph (1) of subdivision (b); substituted "these" for "such" after "In making" in the third sentence of paragraph (1) of subdivision (b); substituted "(3)" for "(2)" after "to paragraph", and substituted "(4)" for "(3)" after "or paragraph" in the fourth sentence of paragraph (1) of subdivision (b); added the fifth sentence to paragraph (1) of subdivision (b); added paragraph (2) and renumbered paragraphs (2) and (3) as paragraphs (3) and (4); substituted "(4)" for "(3)" before "of this subdivision" and "until such time" in the sixth sentence of the new paragraph (3) of subdivision (b); substituted "(3)" for "(4)" after "paragraph" in the first sentence of the new paragraph (4) of subdivision (b). Stats. 1992, Ch. 699, in effect September 14, 1992, added "(a)" to the first paragraph, substituted "(1)" for "(a)" before "To pay the refunds", substituted "(b) To the Controller …" to the end of the section, which provided for allocation of revenues to cities and counties, with "(2) The balance remaining … provided by Section 30111." Stats. 2004, Ch. 227 (SB 1102), in effect August 16, 2004, deleted "and Section 11006 of the Government Code" after "heretofore or hereafter enacted".
Note.—Stats. 1971, p. 420 amending section 30108, provides under section 3, notwithstanding section 30462 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, no funds shall be appropriated from revenue generated by this act nor shall such funds be used for purposes of computations under such section, but shall be transferred to the State General Fund.