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UPDATE: In a January 24 blog post, United For Care campaign manager Ben Pollara announced Florida's Supervisors of Elections had validated more than enough signatures needed to include the medical marijuana initiative on November's general election ballot. In another blog post on the group's website on January 28, Pollara announced the Florida Supreme Court had approved the proposed ballot language with a favorable 4-3 ruling. In November, Florida voters will get to decide whether medical marijuana becomes a legal, prescribable treatment option for those with serious diseases or conditions.
It's a plant that grows in our environment put here by God, not man. It works. It helps people.
With the help of United for Care, attorney John Morgan has become the face of a statewide, grass-roots initiative to get the vote to legalize medical marijuana added to Florida's 2014 general election ballot. If statistics are an accurate indicator, Florida may be the next state in line to legalize and regulate medical marijuana, following in the footsteps of 19 other states that have allowed patients suffering from serious medical conditions to benefit from the plant's pain relieving powers.
What started out as an issue that practically divided the state's voters down the middle has now blossomed into a bonafide movement. Conducted in early 2013 by People United for Medical Marijuana (PUFMM), the most recent poll of Florida's voters indicates that seven out of 10—or roughly 73 percent— support the legalization of medical marijuana.
With the newest petition to legalize medical marijuana making its rounds online and on the ground among voters, Mr. Morgan has made it clear that he intends to throw the entirety of his political and financial weight behind the cause. In addition to raising funds and awareness, Mr. Morgan plans to enlist an "Army of Angels" that will go door-to-door with the hopes of getting more voters to sign United for Care's petition.
It's not so much a law but an act of compassion.
Aside from benefitting Florida's thousands of seriously ill residents, the motivation for Mr. Morgan's outgoing support of the campaign to legalize medical marijuana is rooted his personal experiences.
Mr. Morgan's father, who, as he describes it, was "the most anti-drug guy in the world," found relief from the symptoms of cancer and emphysema in the last days of his life thanks to medical cannabis. John's father found that medicinal marijuana greatly helped keep the chronic nausea caused by his illnesses at bay, allowing him simple pleasures often taken for granted, such as sharing a meal and a conversation with family.
In addition to John's father, his brother, paralyzed since the age of 18 from a traumatic lifeguarding accident, has also found relief from marijuana.
"This would be what I would call the opposite of California."
While John has hit the pro-medical marijuana campaign circuit, he has not ignored the cries of those who fear Florida will turn into California, a state whose marijuana laws are frequently criticized by legislators and abused and exploited by opportunistic residents.
"This is not a wink and a smile and psychologists prescribing marijuana," Morgan said to members of the Capital Tiger Bay Club, a prominent political organization in Tallahassee, in early August. "It's much more regulated and it's really for the terminally ill and chronically ill, not for somebody that's having a bad hair day."
The Controlled Substance Act of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse and Prevention and Control Act was passed by Congress in 1970, making possession of marijuana illegal under federal law. If medical marijuana becomes legal and consequently regulated in 2014, Florida would join New Jersey, Washington D.C., Massachusetts and 16 other states that have enacted legal medical cannabis laws.
Florida lawmakers have done their best to make it clear that adding an amendment to the state's constitution to legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes is not something they firmly support.
On June 5, 2013, Governor Rick Scott signed House Bill 49, also known as the Bong Ban Bill, prohibiting the sale, possession, delivering, advertising or transportation of water, chamber, electric, ice, and air-driven pipes typically used to inhale tobacco and marijuana vapor in Florida.
Before that, in 2012, almost 800 marijuana-growing operations—harboring more than 37,000 plants, according to authorities' counts—were raided and shuttered by the state's Department of Agriculture, leading to more than 700 arrests across Florida in the process. Earlier in the year, pending resolutions in both Florida's House of Representatives and Senate (Bill 1250) quietly fizzled out in committee, temporarily silencing growing voter and party-crossing political sentiment throughout the state in support of medical marijuana legalization and regulation.
In between, anti-medical marijuana lobbyists have done their part to prevent the legalization of medical marijuana in Florida, claiming the passing of House Bill 1139 would "turn Florida into California," with unregulated cannabis readily available to anyone willing to fake a condition in front of a doctor. In addition to sounding the threat alarm, old arguments have found new uses, such as those saying the legalization of medical marijuana would cause abuse, addiction, and crime to skyrocket while sending the morals and futures of today's youth in freefall.
Fortunately, for those who support medical cannabis, John's voice has become front and center—and louder than the rest.
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The latest Quinnipiac University polling numbers show what some have already known for months: Florida voters overwhelmingly support the legalization of medical marijuana. Detailed online by the Orlando Sentinel, the numbers reveal that Florida voters across all ages and demographics
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With Florida's November general election a little less than six months over the horizon, the people have spoken—and their voices appear to getting louder, the latest poll numbers show. The recent spike in support, United For Care campaign manager Ben Pollara said in an email, has made it
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Not only will medical marijuana be legalized once Florida voters head to the polls this November, the initiative, firm founder John Morgan says, will pass with little resistance from its outspoken opponents. "It's going to pass in a landslide," Morgan told the
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Once it was announced that Florida voters would get to decide whether medical marijuana would become legalized, United For Care and supporters of the initiative could barely reflect on what had just been accomplished before it was time to move on. Now that more than the required number of
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After a state Supreme Court approved Monday on the legality of the proposed ballot language, and with Friday's official validation of more than the required 683,971 signatures, Florida residents will get to vote on medical marijuana in November's general election. United For Care campaign manager
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Contrary to reports published in mid-December claiming the campaign to legalize medical marijuana in Florida was dangerously close to failure, it now appears the initiative has gathered enough steam in the form of voter signatures to appear on next November's general election ballot. "We
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The Florida Supreme Court focused its attention Thursday on the clarity of the 74 words voters could be reading next November should the initiative to legalize medical marijuana make it onto the state's 2014 general election ballot. According to a Reuters report on the hour-long
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According to a Quinnipiac University poll released last week, 82 percent of Florida voters say they support the initiative to legalize medical marijuana in the state, with many (48 percent) saying they would favor the outright legalization of the plant as well. If the initiative is approved by the
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In a letter published on the organization's website last week, United For Care campaign manager Ben Pollara had some good news to share with supporters of the drive to legalize medical marijuana in Florida. "We have now collected over 200,000 petitions," Pollara said. "This, combined with
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Organizers for the campaign to legalize medical marijuana in Florida have hundreds of volunteers and paid workers blanketing the state to collect the roughly 700,000 verified signatures needed to land the initiative on the state's 2014 general election ballot. The number is rather large,
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The latest polling numbers in Florida indicate that 62 percent of voters support the legalization of medical marijuana for use by seriously ill patients in the Sunshine State. Conducted by Public Policy Polling (PPP) between September 27 and 29, the poll found that
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Tuesday night, firm founder John Morgan appeared on WUSF radio show "Florida Matters" to discuss the campaign to legalize medical marijuana in Florida. In addition to Morgan, the panel of guests included medical marijuana opponent Dr. Kevin Sabet of the Drug Policy Institute at the
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In a speech to the Tiger Bay Club of Central Florida last week, the founder of Morgan & Morgan had some strong words for go-to prescription pain killers like OxyContin, calling the drugs "poison" and suggesting their effects benefit the pharmaceutical industry's bottom line more than
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Radio listeners throughout Florida will soon hear a new advertisement featuring attorney John Morgan in which he urges voters to support the campaign to legalize medical marijuana in the sunshine state. Detailed in a blog post on United For Care's official website, the 58-second clip,
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People United for Medical Marijuana (PUFMM) has announced that its United For Care Campaign has succeeded in collecting more than enough signatures to send the petition to legalize medical marijuana in Florida to the state's Supreme Court for a review of the initiative's
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Letters to Insight, Sunday, June 30
A writer seconds the notion that John Diaz expressed in his column last week: A fancy new stadium has nothing to do with the success of a sports team and everything to do with making the owners rich. Speaking of Bryan Stow, the Giants fan severely beaten outside Dodger Stadium, a reader wishes the Stow family […] [Read More]
Letters to the Editor, Saturday, June 29
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court's decisions on same-sex marriage, the letters are pouring in:. Be vigilant, warns one writer: Gay rights are still under siege. Ben Shapiro's opinion piece characterizing the rulings as an attack on religious groups produced the biggest response — more than 100 clergy members celebrated at Grace Cathedral on […] [Read More]
Letters to the Editor, Friday, June 28
Noting the Supreme Court's ruling this week on voting rights, a writer argues that Republicans always seem to get what they want from this court. Responding to Caille Millner's column last week about unpaid interns, a reader in Connecticut suggests that without unpaid internships, there would be fewer internships for students who need them. And […] [Read More]
Bringing back condoms to the streets
Condoms are the first and most-effective line of defense against the transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases but sex workers, transgender women and others have stopped carrying them. Why? Because police were using condoms as indirect evidence of prostitution. Theresa Sparks, a member of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, and Megan McLemore, […] [Read More]
Roots of Prop. 8 ruling can be traced to November 2010
The fate of Prop. 8 was really sealed in November 2010, when Democrat Kamala Harris defeated Republican Steve Cooley in a race that was so close it took three weeks to determine a winner. Harris had made it abundantly clear during the campaign that she would not waste state resources defending an initiative she regarded […] [Read More]
Letters to the Editor, Thursday, June 27
The only story of the day, the same-sex marriage decisions, generated quite a few letters. The decisions are a major step forward for equality, writes one reader. But the message is that elected officials don't have to uphold the constitution, as when California officials decided not to defend Prop. 8, writes another. The decision furthers […] [Read More]
A new day in America: Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage redefines culture
The long-awaited rulings on California's Prop. 8, voters' ban on same-sex marriage, and the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which denies marriage benefits to same-sex couples, finally came June 26. The Supreme Court's decisions remade the law of the land in a large yet very personal way. Proponents of marriage equality, including the newly won-over […] [Read More]
Letters to the Editor, Wednesday, June 26
Carl Nolte's column about the architect of the new Bay Bridge span prompted the opinion that officials had better forget about a Labor Day opening and focus on making the bridge safe. Also came a comment on the architect's unfortunate choice of words. Meanwhile, a veteran of anti-draft protests during the Vietnam War opines that […] [Read More]
Pro athletes gaming the workers' comp system
Professional athletes are paid for the work they do entertaining us but do they deserve to make workers' compensation claims in California even if they don't play for a California team and played but a few games here? Assemblyman Henry T. Perea, D-Fresno, says in Wednesday's Open Forum that all workers deserve benefits, but professional […] [Read More]
Letters to the Editor, Tuesday, June 25
An editorial and stories about secrecy and leaks launched an outpouring of letters. Readers applaud our editorial defending Edward Snowdon and call on government officials to uphold the Fourth Amendment, not circumvent it. And stories about a crackdown on leaks and the charging of Snowden with espionage prompt suggestions that we're starting to look like a police state. […] [Read More]
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Voices, January 20, 2010
The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), the main trade association for the securities industry, is wasting no time getting back on its feet after a dust-up with the American Securitization Forum (ASF) that led to the termination of their eight-year-old affiliation earlier this month.
SIFMA says it is starting up its own unit, the SIFMA Securitization Group, to work on improving asset securitizations. "With the SSG, we have an opportunity to achieve vital coordination and syndication of views, goals and activities related to securitization for all of our members at a time when broad representation and coordination are integral to effectiveness," SIFMA chief executive Tim Ryan said in a January 14 letter to members.
As to why the ASF chose to go its own way and split up with SIFMA, the two groups have different stories.
Launched in 2002, the ASF a professional forum for advocating for the U.S. securitization market. Its membership includes issuers, institutional investors, financial intermediaries, financial guarantors, and legal and accounting firms.
In his letter to members, Ryan said that "The SIFMA board of directors has determined that it is in the best interest of our membership to maintain an integrated advocacy platform for financial markets, including securitized products, which are critically important to our industry…SIFMA members have indicated a strongly felt desire that SIFMA continue to provide advocacy for securitized products, and that SIFMA should develop a cohesive, integrated, and effective advocacy platform that will immediately serve their important needs."
According to a source who spoke on background, SIFMA was looking to more fully integrate the ASF into SIFMA. "They refused, and decided to set up a stand-alone organization," the source said.
In an interview with Securities Industry News, Tom Deutsch, ASF's new executive director, said that "ASF has matured to where we can handle back office and administrative functions. An extreme focus on securitization is critical right now."
Over the last year, Deutsch said, SIFMA has not held any securitization functions internally, nor have they had any full-time securitization staff. Furthermore, he said, the membership of ASF is different from SIFMA's, despite some overlap. ASF members are institutions with fiduciary duties to individual investors, he said whereas SIFMA's core membership consists of financial intermediaries, which Deutsch called "just one piece of the securities industry."
He said ASF members include firms like Ford, Honda and Sallie Mae, "Main Street firms that are not securities firms. Securitization is about Main Street lending to Main Street." According to a release from the ASF, the group's board voted to "end ASF's administrative affiliation with SIFMA." It went on to say that "The primary goal [of the ASF] is to represent and achieve consensus among the various segments of the securities markets to determine the best approaches to the important legal, regulatory and market practice issues facing the markets."
However, separating from SIFMA may be a bit more complicated than the ASF envisions. One thorny issue, according to a SIFMA source, is that SIFMA still owns the ASF brand -- so it is unclear how far the ASF can actually go in its bid for complete independence Deutsch disputes that. "ASF is an independent affiliate [of SIFMA]," he said. "I am confident all ASF property will flow over to the new ASF. There are obviously mechanisms to resolve any legal issues."
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- Bold Patterns. This year's dizzying ethnic-themed prints and bold jungle patterns may be on the daring side, but they have their benefits. "Patterns can be a wonderful way to camouflage bumps and bulges on the body," Saboura says. The key is to choose patterns that are in proportion to the size of your body. Taller women can get away with larger patterns. Shorter women should stick to small or medium-sized patterns. While runway models sport bold prints from head-to-toe, full-figured women should pair a busy print with a solid. Another option is to wear monochromatic clothing and bring in the ethnic theme with a handbag, shoe, or chunky bracelet.
- Chiffon and Sheers. Light and airy fabrics can be flattering when combined with solid foundation pieces. Saboura recommends wearing sheers over heavier fabrics that "hold the body in and give it shape." For example, try a thick, stretchy tank top under a gauzy overlay. "Structure is always a great thing for a full-figured woman. It gives her smoothness."
- Tankinis. "The tankini is a great way of having the freedom of movement of a two-piece with the coverage of a one-piece," Saboura says. But like all swimwear, the right cut is essential. "Full-figured women with a big bust should wear a V-neck," which minimizes the top half of the body by drawing the eye down. Choose a bottom that is cut straight across and tie a sash around the waist for some camouflage. If you prefer more coverage for the butt and thighs, go for a "skirtini." "This is not your grandma's skirted bathing suit," Saboura says. Today's skirted swimsuits are sportier and sexier.
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Investing in your wardrobe is about more than keeping up with the times. "The better a woman feels she looks, the more self-esteem she has," psychologist Dee Shepherd-Look, PhD, tells WebMD. She adds that wearing attire you're comfortable with is more important than being trendy.
Saboura agrees. He says assembling a thoughtful wardrobe based on your body type can improve your figure without plastic surgery. "Clothing can be corrective if you choose correctly." But don't get hung up on the rules. If you love the way you look in a cropped jacket, never mind that it's on the "Don't" list. According to Saboura, "The most important thing is to wear what you love."
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I am a grandmother. Waited a long time for this. Practiced a lot. It is a good kind of person to be. Eli's grandmother. He is so beautiful. Rosy, sweet, soft, present. A rumble of physicalness in flow. He's so overtaken by a sneeze, a sound, a fart, and nursing - godsmacked by nursing.
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A Haughton woman is thankful that she no longer has to rely on blind faith to accomplish even the simplest of tasks.
Losing your eyesight brings on anxiety and uncertainty, and after years of battling corneal disease, Peggy James was afraid to simply drive at night.
March is National Eye Donation month. According to the National Eye Institute, worldwide corneal infectious diseases have affected the vision of more than 250 million people and have blinded over 6 million of them.
James said she is thankful for donors who gave her back her sense of security, by giving her gift of sight. For a while she could only thread the needle on her sewing machine by feeling for the eye on the needle. After a while that got to be an impossible task, forcing her to stop doing one of her favorite hobbies.
For eight years, corneal disease slowly robbed James of her eyesight. Driving became increasingly difficult and she was afraid to drive at night, especially after she hit a deer. She feared the next time it could be a person.
During those eight years, James' sight worsened. It was during a regular checkup with her ophthalmologist that she was diagnosed with Fuchs Dystrophy. Dr. Bryan Lusk of Lusk Eye Specialists in Shreveport explains that Fuchs Dystrophy is a condition where cells line the inside of the cornea and degenerate at a more rapid rate. which leads to swelling of the cornea.That leads to corneal swelling. As it progresses, patients will start to see only a haze of shadows.
In 2011 and 2012 Lusk replaced James' left and right corneas. She could see almost immediately after the surgery, and is thankful to the two people who decided to donate their corneas after death.
The Louisiana Lions Eye Bank in Shreveport is making a huge difference for people with impaired vision. The local eye bank services 33 parishes and in some cases sends corneas to doctors around the world. Corneas are stored in a temperature controlled refrigerator, and are extracted within the first 12 hours after a donor dies.
Eye bank executive director Denise Odom said when the corneas first come in they go into quarantine until the bank gets lab work completed and makes sure all medical information is correct. Doctors like to transplant corneas within three to five days of donation. Surgery takes anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour.
As for James, she said her heart aches for the donor families' loss, adding that what was meant for her good was going to be somebody else's great loss. She said she started to pray for those families as well, as the donors gave her back her life.
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Festivus: Rand Paul tweets 'Airing of Grievances'
Dec. 23 is Festivus, and though Sen. Rand Paul is a devout Christian, he is getting into the holiday spirit with the "Airing of Grievances" on his Twitter feed. Paul warned his followers Sunday night that he would be celebrating the holiday.
He followed the tweet with a quote from "Seinfeld's" Frank Costanza: "I've got a lot of problems with you people, and now you're going to hear about it!"
In honor of Festivus, tomorrow I will be airing my grievances, mostly against Washington. Check back here in the morning.
— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) December 23, 2013
Paul aired grievances against the bipartisan budget deal, the Senate, the Federal Reserve, the Senate cafeteria, his staffers who don't like his turtlenecks, Obamacare, the NSA and even his dad, Ron Paul, for auctioning off his vintage car instead of giving it to him.
The recent "bipartisan deal" will add 7 trillion more debt. And was hailed as an example of Washington "getting something done."
— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) December 23, 2013
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— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) December 23, 2013
Paul mixed it up with some serious tweets bemoaning a lack of cooperation from within the Senate along with lighthearted rib against Cory Booker for not retweeting him enough and the Senate cafeteria for not serving burgoo. All in all, Paul posted dozens of grievances, both "minor" and major.
No word on if Paul put up a Festivus pole in his office today.
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Inn camere e cottage includono bagni privati, più la nostra colazione a buffet Lovers ogni mattina con bird watching e molto altro ancora. A soli 3 km a Kailua Kona e anche la comunità artistica di Holualoa, con facile accesso all'Aeroporto Internazionale di Kona, KOA. Godetevi un tocco molto semplice e delicato di aloha dal vecchio Hawai'i sulla strada meno percorsa. Hale Maluhia è veramente un Kona Coffee Country Inn con le nostre uova marroni per la colazione e conigli per i bambini a pet. Visita il nostro Virtual Tour sul nostro sito web, hawaii-BNB i migliori saluti, proprietario Ken
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4,0 su gennaio 24, 2012
Real Hospitality: Having read the most recent review before this one, I wonder if we stayed at the same place! We found it to be very relaxing, comfortable and clean. As far as insects, there were ants but it's a tropical island and that is to be expected. Our hosts were very outgoing and friendly and made our stay very enjoyable. The breakfasts were incredible. We would definitly recommend this place to everyone and stay here again should our travels take us back.
5 su agosto 15, 2011
We highly recommend this place if you are looking for a beautiful, quiet, traditional inn. They were very accomodating to every request and looked after our every need, their motto was, "Hey, you're on vacation, relax!" The breakfasts were wonderful with a wide variety of fresh fruits, homemade breads, and make your own omelet bar. This place is surrounded by a wide variety of exotic plants, birds, and flowering trees, very lovely. We enjoyed sitting in the jacuzzi at night and listening to the sounds of the tree frogs chirping. If you are used to a modern resort atmosphere, this place may not be for you, but if you want a slice a paradise, this is the place!
5 su giugno 21, 2011
As we entered our bungalow we were enveloped by the peaceful comfort of serenity the suite offered. The song birds, the view, the service and food far exceeded our expectations. The serenade of frogs were a beautiful lullaby to the end of our day. Skip the boxy rooms of the busy hotels for a truly peaceful retreat experience.
3,8 su gennaio 15, 2011
We stayed in this B&B for 3 nights on our honeymoon. The B&B served our purposes very well, being close to Kona in a lovely peaceful area in the coffee country. The service was friendly and the breakfast and room had everything we wished for and more. The B&B had good facilities for everyone to use. Special thanks to Monica for superb coffee and the delicious surprice elements at breakfast!
5 su ottobre 13, 2010
Friendly hosts, nice rooms and houses, quite and peaceful environment...we love it and would like to recommend it to everybody who does not want to stay in a big anonymous hotel...this place is heaven! Thank you for the nice time although we could not really appreciate everything because of our limited time. Thanks from Germany Bille and Roman
4,8 su aprile 28, 2010
My wife and I spent our first wedding anniversary on the Big Island and stayed at this most delightful B & B which was truly a "House of Peace" for us. Owners Ken & Sue Smith were most accommodating extending a discount for our longer stay. Inn Keepers, Adam & Pam Mather (along with precious little 5 yr old Jade) went above and beyond to make our stay most enjoyable. From providing us with home made cracked wheat bread along with their breakfast self-serve buffet to supplying us with water & beach equipment, they served us royally. We will not forget them! This well-equipped B & B is nestled up on the mountain side in the midst of a lush green landscape. It has the feel of being built in the old-style Hawaiian fashion almost like the "Swiss-Family Robinson" home. Although it has a sense of being secluded, it is in fact very accessible to all points of interest. With all of the amenities you could ask for including a covered hot tub, internet access and large screen TV's with movies, we could not have asked for more. This will certainly be our point of destination and stay the next time we return to the Big Island! It is well-worth your stay! Don & Bonnie
5 su aprile 11, 2010
I stayed at the House of Peace for one night and part of the following day. The property is a wonderful place to find oneself. The owners, Ken and Sue Smith touched my life in a way I will never forget. I would love to be there now. Steven Hill
4,8 su marzo 28, 2010
We booked at Hale Maluhia going on their web info. it was as advertised and more. We updated to the Banyan Cottage - very private for a couple, unique design, cheaper than a deluxe room at a resort, luxurious accommodations. Hosts Adam and Pam provided insight to local spots, great breakfasts, met all needs, answered all questions. We stayed 7 nights, went to another B&B, found it lacking and went back to Hale Maluhia and were lucky enough to get booked for our final 3 nights. The inn is just up the plateau from Kona, close enough to all the best beaches and within driving distace of all the Big Island sights. Best beaches- Mahai'ula Bay- Makalawena, Hapuna, Waipi'o valley black sand beach. Best adventure- waipi'o valley. best pizza and beer- Kona Brewing Co.
4,2 su marzo 12, 2010
We spent four nights at this wonderful bed and breakfast. The owers, Ken and Sue, and managers, Adam and Pam (and their wonderful little girl Jade) were the perfect hosts. We felt more like old friends during our stay. The accomodations were very nice and we really liked the layout, which provided a feeling of privacy, while at the same time were easy to get around. The breakfasts included a wide array of fresh fruits, breads, and excellent omelet bar. We truly enjoyed our stay and would recommend this bed and breakfast to anyone looking for a relaxing and peaceful place to stay. Mahalo, Don & Betsy.
5 su febbraio 22, 2010
If you want a holiday away from the hustle and bustle of the big hotels, this is the place to stay. After attending a time share presentation at one of the big hotel chains, we were glad to get back to our quiet room. Hosts Pamela and Adam made us feel like one of the family. The breakfast each morning was awesome. Fresh eggs from their own chickens, freshly baked bread, fresh fruit, juice, coffee etc. Included were free internet, phone, TV, DVD, hot tub, library with books, DVDs, CDs. Beautiful grounds with Koi ponds and lots of shade trees. Away from it all but only minutes from shopping and beaches. We made new friends each morning at breakfast on the lanai. If you want a true Hawai'ian holiday, this is probably the place for you. We hope to come back again. David and Katherina, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
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Dal Ke-ahole (Kona, KAO) Aeroporto andare al segnale di # 19 e # 11 per 10,5 miglia attraverso altre 5 segnali stradali, su una piccola collina e prendere la prossima a sinistra su Hualalai Rd (cercate il segno verde. Holualoa Rd 3 miglia) (orologio per X blu su palo e due segni curva 10 mph a destra). Prossimo passo carraio fare una forte destra al Hale Maluhia Bed & Breakfast segno / lampione e andare alla fine del vialetto di cemento. Salite la collina sulla Hualalai Rd (# 182) per 1 1/2 miglia (guardare per X blu sul palo del telefono e le due segni curva 10 mph a destra). Avanti vialetto di cemento fare una forte destra al Hale Maluhia Bed & Breakfast segno / lampione e andare alla fine del vialetto di cemento. Da Hilo, autostrada # 11 nord, dal vulcano, passare attraverso due segnali stradali Kona, prendere la prossima svolta a destra sulla strada Hualalai in cima alla collina. (Poi come sopra).
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BBQ , Giochi da tavolo, Sale Conferenze, Fotocopiatrici, Dispositivo Fax, Biblioteche, Pianoforte, Servizi segreteria, Lavatrice/Asciugatrice, Attrezzature matrimoni , Kona Coffee Country Inn. Davvero! ma 3 km.
Aria condizionata, Sveglia , CD player, Ventilatori, Attrezzature per Caffè/Tè, Computer, DVD Player, Data port, Scrivania, Frigorifero, Asciugacapelli, Jacuzzi, Accesso a internet , Ferro da stiro, Microonde, Ingresso privato, Radio, TV via cavo/satellite, TV, Telefono, VCR, Video, Wi-Fi
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Debt, managerial compensation and learning
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This is how you don't spend too much to accomplish great things! Thanks Merismo
In following along the lines of those who take it on their shoulder to find ways to overcome those who feel something is too large is to challenge the common sense values and find a way to solve that problem.
Currently working on a validation Proof of Concept experiment. Once completed this will be an end to the frustrating sometime insults I have received over the past 8 years.
Throughout the history of civilization, the world has been blessed with a few individuals who were predisposed to focus on how something could be done, rather than why it could not. These are the people who say there is always a solution bigger than the problem. They ask questions. This is the foundation of Western Civilization born from the Ancient Greeks.
Because of these, we have:
Built the Parthenon.
Did not sail off the end of the Earth.
Discovered the earth goes around the sun.
Built the Panama Canal.
Cured polio.
Harnessed electricity.
Went to the Moon.
Went to Mars.
Sent Voyager 1 beyond our solar system.
…and so much more.
I am proud to be a member of a group that believes in the possible.
Author Tom Alston
Long Term visions on how to change our emissions platform has the world looking at Carbon Sequestration. Instead of burying the dirty air we should find ways to convert the air we emit from burning fuels to generate our electricity into useful products. Hence a focus on emission re-utilization.
As a scientist who focuses on Carbon Dioxide re-metablization into useful materials. I find that the idea that our government wants to send our emissions underground a horrible idea. Some one did not look at the math this incorporated correctly, who did the math any way Pinocchio? That is right I am pissed to hear they want to force the air I breath underground. (Almost sounds like the Movie Matrix with the city of Zion) People do not live underground in this day and age, nor do we inhabit the underworld becaue we want too! I like the sunshine but if you bury my air just what will result is worse then most people can imagine.
Air we breath on the surface of the planet consists of nearly 80% Nitrogen, an inert gas that displaces the oxygen of when dinosaurs roamed the planet. Back then oxygen was nearly 100% of the air those creatures breathed. Today we settle for just 18% Oxygen, with the remaining 2% of gases in the realm of the pollutants and other gases we ignore. Since Carbon Dioxide is considered the worst in the #EPA 's agenda they focus on changing its level even though its below 1 % of the total amount of gas in our air. Yet that approach also reduces the growth of Agriculture's crop yields as well as takes away our Oxygen converted by photosynthesis in plants and oceans. Right now at our Nations observatory the CO2 level is just .04% of the total air we breath yet we are going to tax businesses who produce emissions of high amounts of CO2 emissions to reduce just a smidgen of the percentage of what all humans on this planet need to breath. If your going to bury our oxygen along with your carbon your approaching the subject of reduction completely wrong. Why remove the oxygen in the air that is attached to the carbon molecule with no chance of recovering this oxygen particle ever again once its underground.
I have relatives suffering from COPD a common breathing frustration that also hinders those allergy sufferers, and asthma suffers too, As the reduction of oxygen becomes more and more apparent with more and more people suffering choking and weezing for that last breath you will find runners of great distances getting slower and slower. All this because our government sees placing the oxygen that we breath underground.
Just who do you see about stopping such a catastrophe?
The answer is Algae and growing the algae at the polluter, no greenhouses allowed. Just very productive PBR's churning out fresh oxygen converting dirty CO2 pollutants and other gases ( yes other gases [Carbon Monoxide/Methane, hydrogen sulfide etc.] have been confirmed at being converted by Algae not just CO2). The idea is to push #algae directly into the needs of industry for food , fuel, and pharmaceuticals.
For years I have been a student learning all I can about the physics of how everything works. Today I must confess that I am no longer looking very much at all these days, but instead teaching others all the nuances I have found.
I have a diverse background and many different realms of science interest me. One of the main culprits of my interest in the last 3 or so years is the realm of Chemistry. Yes in high school I received I believe a A- in that class. But I had a teacher who had a unique balance between his realm of the way chemistry was taught and my world of understanding.
I see the world through a different perspective; Let me rephrase and repeat that statement. I need to see a different approach to how a problem is solved. It gives me the jeepers when someone is trying to explain how they see a problem and how the solution is not that difficult to understand after I interject my viewpoint.
I am not Microsoft but, I too believe the best way to find a solution is in having multiple ways to solve the same problem. It is not about the program or software it is in the delivery of that solution that needs fixing. Jeopardy the TV Show gives a round about reversal in the way you deliver the response to short phrases meant to stimulate the answer. Microsoft's solution deals with the OS's having three different ways to do the same operation in the hardware, sounds like a tough system. What it does instead it creates openings of opportunities to exploit if you were a hacker.
In the Realm of Physics and Chemistry I need more details about the Chemical Elements. Everywhere on the web I found not enough information in one location to satisfy my curiosity. Where is the openness I hear about on the web, why am I not able to find the mysteries I have bound in my mindset and can not unlock? Chemistry is a fascinating realm of science but it is also a true engineering frustration, just ask my chemical engineering friends. Those valance electrons are rascals, determining their existence and their ability to course the quantum realm of physics by joining or removing themselves from a mixed concoction, interests me! Yet no where on the web do you find this realm of existence that can be easily explained with simple equations or a chart with visually capturing the imagination. I want to be easily afforded the comfort that I have started a revolution in the Open Source code of developing a solution to this mesmerizing frustration. Imagine the new young herd of problem solvers who will need a resource and be able to reach this truly amazing educational tool and solve the problems!
Developing the Tool - Humans like visual stimulation when learning, sitting in a library and reading a book is just all right. But if everything you need is in just that book then there would be no need to find stimulation to course a new path for self discovery. Cross referencing between different books tends to complicate problems sometimes giving more then one solution to the same problem. I think Television and Movies are great tools to invigorate the mind by allowing us to visualize the possibilities of science evolving. Great Movie writers of science fiction titled stories have been complimented for devising ways to see the future and enhance the minds of observers conquer difficult problems. I for one like to watch movies that give us insight into possibilities of what could actually occur if, and that is a serious if of hurdles to compile into a solution to educate the concerned.
The Movie Iron man II has a moment when Tony Stark the character is analyzing his fathers display leaning up against a wall in the CEO's Office. As soon as he throws the Strawberries in the trash can something sparks his imagination. Taking off the sheet to reveal more of the display he stands back and looks at the display with a visual cued stance as if peering through a peep hole. What he envisions is a secret message his father was trying to tell his son with this display in designing a new element. We all know you can not make an element with hardware as is mentioned in the movie (That's movies for ya, giving you insight and then going farce on the topic sometimes in the same sentence - I stand corrected you can make elements today in the laboratory). But the movie idea of scanning the display and then allowing Tony to develop a holographic 3D image that he can manipulate with hand gestures would be awesome. In one day I saw several realms of this idea of mine to devise a way to show case the chemical elements in a whole different manner. Hardware would be to use something I found a TED called an ORB developed by a father and son team of James N Sears. A Link to this unique device is listed here: http://www.jamesnsears.com/2009/04/orb_photos.php This device displaying the geographic display could provide just the same amount of visual stimulation to answer those many questions of how an element exists. We would fill in the gaps like the Iron Man II movie with visually displaying the valance electrons around the globe. peering inside the sphere you would be able to see the Protons, electrons, and all the other information that could be displayed with colors as depicted on this web site: http://chemicalelements.com/elements/h.html as I place Hydrogen as the element in question. While this web site is accurate and presents the information correctly it does nothing to conjure up future scientific minds with inquisitive questions formed by the abilities of potentially describing the mixing of two elements with visually stunning results.
I am going to work on this development, if anyone in cyber world would like to aid in developing such a tool for educating those interested in science then please feel free to contact me!
Quoted from a LinkedIn post I made in the Group => Algae: about "Developing Biological Process Technology". My comment is mentioned below
The Problem and how to approach it is the root cause I see. First you need to find a true Innovator, this is a person with an unusual gift to solve problems. Those problems don't have to be in the same or a singular science realm, this places PhD recipients out of the Innovator selection. You need to find a person with a diverse aptitude with all sciences to the point that they know and understand areas which translate to combining usefulness to form a solution.
There is a process which everyone of these Innovators use including myself in which we will question everything about the problem with hundreds to thousands of questions. Each question will break a piece of the problem into understandable broken solutions. You will get many different solution pieces and each one will combine with the single focus to which they have been tasked. Usually the problem is a packaging situation in which the end package does not exist, or stands firm and the problem does not fit the equation. Twisting the equation to fit the package means assimilating the existing situation if there is one to be observable to the Innovator. Observation is the second piece in the Innovators Mindset, you have to see something visually to fit the package, even if the package is not in real life form and able to be touched you can still draw or sketch an object and devise a solution for this package.
A Innovator does not know it all as you can see they just don't come up with the result in a matter of minutes it make take some time and determination. You have been introduced to the first Two of a four step process Innovators take in solving the problem at hand. The next or third step is the Networking step as the Innovator does not know everything handed to him and looks to reach his team of specialists to which he or she will entertain with the problem and their ideas on solutions. Sometimes more observation needs to take place and sometimes returning to the pestering of more questions to the person who summoned the Innovator with the start-up of the problem in the first place will be needed.
Last but not least after the problem has been thoroughly hashed around and a solution looks imminent the Innovator will find a way to experiment to show the solution works.
There you have the four steps an innovator takes to solve most problems. I have been doing this for many people since the mid eighties but, only in the summer of 2012 did I found out I was an Innovator. I knew I had a crazy way of solving things and people knew I had this gift, I just never knew it was classified as something so useful.
Soon after posting this comment the other participants re-named my intentions as a Generalist. I for one can't see an innovator being described as a Generalist. Innovators should not be renamed, we are what we are a uniquely gifted problem solver.
End of Rant
Many times I have seen myself attack a problem and find myself dividing each nuance of that problem into more smaller problems. This is routine for myself in determining how something works. But in the past 7 to 10 years I started breaking down the barriers with defining the smallest of nuances by learning about physical properties of the materials used to make these small and sometimes significant improvements. these improvements came from learning about quantum physics, metallurgy, molecular biology, physiology (plants to humans), and advanced mathematics.
Saturdays are my days to get together with like minded scientists. Yes over the course of the last ten years I found a niche location where these fascinating men come together and speak about the problems they are dealing with in scientific terms. There are no boundaries here our discussions come forward with perplexing contemplations. To this day I know of several lingering unanswerable qualms, and to this day no answer has been discovered. Yet we all know that working through these interesting problems together we get to each place our values and concerns on the table. Sometimes these conversations lead to complete solutions, and we celebrate! We celebrate not only our discovery but we also celebrate our time together. We are all getting older and I am the youngest to be accepted into this realm of scientific pioneers. Our time may be shortened as our eldest member is nearing total retirement, but not with out his vigor for life. His brain is still active and nourished with answerable suggestions its his body that has developed flaws of extremities with pain and anguish equals arthritis.
Science is amazing in many ways, not only do the elder citizens involved in science evolve but we encourage the young to follow us in our teaching ways. Just how much can you impress the young adults with going on to college and studying this cornucopia of intermingling diversities? It depends on the mindset that our youngsters are encouraged to imagine when we are young. As a self absorbed youngster I found not being able to get to an answer via our encyclopedias at home, very troubling. I had questions but when I could not resolve the answer asking my engineer father only resulted in me distancing myself from furthering my education. No parent uses a guidebook to teach their children on the dos and don'ts of life but it would be handy wouldn't it?
While this blog is all about a High Production Algae Project in order to develop that singular product I have had to ask a lot of questions in my life time. Since 1994 when I was first shown the internet, I have been hooked in getting all those pent up questions answered. And sitting here additional questions arise and I can get them answered quickly and efficiently. After searching the internet for hours on many days and not finding the answer that best served the problem or equation that was pestering me, I went elsewhere. I went to my local college, or I went the the state university and found a willing professor who could help me by guiding me to find the right people to answer the perplexing questions I had. I am still asking those questions, and I am still investigating answers to the qualms my friends on my Saturday afternoon gatherings devise. You can only accomplish these hurdles with solid results, and together with my scientist friends we will solve these hurdles and make life better here on earth.
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"There was this additional, fraught context that someone didn't take into consideration and probably couldn't take into consideration because they are oblivious. They are oblivious to the context because they've never been around people who are familiar with it, because they've never been held accountable. People often fail to understand the importance of diversity. They assume it's all about quotas and political correction but it is about so much more. Diversity (and we're talking race, class, gender, sexuality, political affiliation, religion, all of it) is about putting multiple points of view into a conversation. It's about ensuring that no one is operating in the kind of cultural vacuum where they don't stop to consider context. It's why certain people and shows and publications keep running into the same brick wall of public outcry about diversity—because these people consistently demonstrate a callous and willful ignorance of context. They see these lines that shouldn't be crossed and cross them anyway because they are blissfully unencumbered by context.