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I'm a bit cranky today, owing to the fact that I am suffering from a wicked head cold thanks to the filthy, germ-ridden little creatures who live here with me. Kindergarten plague. Ugh. Even so, this tumblr has pissed me off royally. It's called Men Taking Up Too Much Space on the Train.
Having spent a good deal of time on public transportation in Shanghai, Melbourne, Manchester, Toronto, Athens and Seattle, I know a bit about how to travel with a few manners. I also know how to travel with a modicum of sense when it comes to protecting personal belongings. And when I looked at these pictures, for the most part, I saw people taking reasonable precautions not to get their bags stolen, and not to trip people moving past them.
Almost all the men taking up too much space have large bags or backpacks between their feet, meaning that A) they aren't taking up the seat next to them, and B) they can smush the bags against the lower portion of the seat so that people walking by don't get tangled up in the straps.
Why is this even an issue? Well, duh, it's because people men who sit with their legs apart and bags between them are trying to send a message to fellow travellers that they have really big dicks and that the entire world needs to stop spinning on its axis and accommodate said ginormous dicks.
Maybe these fucking idiots think we women are impressed when they act like their penis is so fucking big that they can't even try to make room for you next to them on the bench. Because if there's one thing we ladies like, it's a monster dick the size of yule log (Happy Holidays!) and a man who won't offer us a seat because it makes him slightly uncomfortable.
Anyway, these dudes aren't going anywhere. They've been around forever (your pilgrim dick is not that big) and they'll stay around forever (your cyborg dick doubles as a gun), so all we — women, children, the vast majority of men who understand the basic concepts of space and sitting down — can do is quietly rage and occasionally work up the courage to ask you to move your fucking legs. But that doesn't mean we're not glaring at you with the power of a thousand fuck yous when we see you treat the service that we all pay the equal amount to use like it's your own fucking castle. Trust us, the major dick here is not in your pants — it's you. You're the fucking dick, so close your legs or go fuck yourself.
That little screed was part of the delightful Fuck You Week at Jezebel, and demonstrates the usual level of vitriol, bitterness, stupidity and hate we have come to expect from the ladies at good ole Jez.
Because you KNOW it's only ever men who sit with their legs apart on the tube, right?
And women never, ever keep their bags between their feet.
And they certainly never collapse over into someone else's seat.
Nor do they ever take up an inordinate amount of space giving each other pedicures on the fucking train.
They never fall alseep with their legs splayed.
And they never, ever sport asses so huge they have little choice but to take up two seats.
They don't take up the seat next to them with their bags.
Women never carry giant bags you just know are gonna end up shoved in someone's crotch.
They don't spread out their legs at the bus stop, cramming Doritos (or whatever healthy snack that is) into their fat maws while airing out the lady cave for passerbys. Nope. That neeeeeeeever happens.
This kind of idiocy and first world problem bullshit makes me so angry because it seems deliberately designed to encourage women to get on trains or other forms of public transportation, ignore all the women doing the EXACT SAME FUCKING THINGS, and just spend the journey "leaning in" to perfect their hatred of men.
It irritates me because there is no reason for it. Everyone can be as asshole on the train or bus, and sometimes the things that we consider "asshole" behaviour actually have a pretty good reason behind them. One of my pet peeves is parents with monster strollers on public transportation. Or anywhere for that matter. Strollers are not required. The number of times I took a stroller on public transportation and forced other people to trip and squish themselves against an ugly, wheeled monstrosity: ZERO!
Hello, baby sling.
Strollers are not required equipment, and taking them on public transportation makes most of the stroller brigade assholes.
Now, having said that, I travelled with Pixie on public transportation with 5 year old LittleBear in one of those gigantic jogging strollers that everyone had to contort themselves to get around. LittleBear has had his abdominal muscles cut through 63 TIMES, and he isn't very good at standing up on the subway, so fuck all the haters – he was in a super comfy stroller that maximized his comfort and forced everyone else into some momentary discomfort.
So sad, too bad. LittleBear had a good reason to be in stroller. Most kids have no reason. Their parents are just dicks.
It happens. People are assholes. They act as though the whole damn world belongs to them, and everyone else should just put up and shut up. What this tumblr blog is claiming is that MEN, and ONLY MEN are assholes on public transportation, and that really, really annoys me.
I don't know if it's just because I'm in a really foul mood today owing to the fact that I despise being colonized by the snot virus, but it seems to me that the level of hate has been ratcheted up a notch lately. Hannah Roisin, in a recent Slate column, proclaimed that the patriarchy is dead, and that it serves little purpose for women to continue to blame their problems on a nebulous at best entity that hasn't been in evidence in North America for at least the last 70 years.
Critics responded by creating a list of 39 things the "patriarchy" is responsible for, including vajazzling, juice cleanses, cardio pole-dancing, peak fertility and the fact that women can't seem to nail down those pesky Nobel Prizes in any meaningful category.
Yeah, peak fertility is totally the fault of patriarchy. And so are cupcake shaped vibrators. Totally rapey patriarchy.
Really? That's your fucking argument? You're oppressed by vibrators shaped like cupcakes?
Meanwhile, in the real news, boys continue to slide behind girls in academic achievements, which has profound consequences for our whole society and economy because boys are the ones who grow up to actually MAKE SHIT THAT WE USE. You know, when they're not cooling off their gonads on the train.
The achievement gap has life and death consequences for working class men, and men of color, in particular.
"Nearly half of young men of color age 15 to 24 who graduate from high school will end up unemployed, incarcerated or dead."
Nearly half! We are throwing away nearly half of our young men of color and the shape of your vibrator is the key issue feminists want addressed?
It's not like the problem is even difficult to remedy. Bring back vocational and technical training at the high school level – areas of education traditionally dominated by boys, who have this weird little quirk that makes them want to DO USEFUL SHIT.
The American system for preparing young people to lead productive and prosperous lives as adults is clearly badly broken.
Failure to aggressively overcome this challenge will surely erode the fabric of our society. The American Dream rests on the promise of economic opportunity, with a middle class lifestyle for those willing to work for it. Yet for the millions of young Americans entering adulthood lacking access to marketable skills, the American Dream may be just an illusion, unlikely ever to come within their grasp. If we fail to better prepare current and future teens and young adults, their frustration over scarce and inferior opportunities is likely to grow, along with economic inequality. The quality of their lives will be lower, the costs that they impose on society will be higher, and many of their potential contributions to society will go unrealized. This is a troubling prospect for any society and almost certainly a recipe for national decline.
For all the impressive gains women have made in education and labor force participation, they are incapable of preventing national decline, and indeed, may even be hastening it.
Girls don't typically grow up to do useful shit that we NEED as an economy and society to survive. Boys are the ones who grow into the men who do the hard, dirty, difficult, challenging work of creating our machines and keeping them running. Work that typically doesn't take place in an air-conditioned office, and tends to be hell on manicures.
The skilled trades sector is in precipitous decline, with few workers in the pipeline to replace the aging workforce.
The majority of those workers are men, and no doubt, will continue to be men, who express more interest in the skilled trades than women.
We're throwing away half of our young men of color, denying all young men the opportunity to learn the skills they need to contribute to society in the way they WANT TO which happens to coincide with the way we NEED them to, and the problem we're gonna talk about is that they take up too much space on the trains?
The trains that men designed?
Most engineers are men.
That men built?
Most manufacturing, especially heavy manufacturing jobs are held by men.
That men drive?
Most train conductors are men. In fact, the 2010 census shows 0% of women working as locomotive engineers, which means there are a few, but not enough to reach 1% of the total workforce.
That men maintain?
Another 0% of women work as railroad brake, signal, and switch operators, while a whopping 6% of conductors and yardmasters are women.
I have an idea. How about until we have a rail line with trains that were designed by women, built by women, maintained by women, driven by women – how about women shut the fuck up about how much space men take up on the train?
And try taking up a little less space yourself.
And perhaps, just perhaps, we should start talking about just who is going to continue to run our national transportation network when we throw all our public resources into educating more baristas of arts and ignore the boys who will grow up to design, build, operate and maintain our basic infrastructure?
The patriarchy may be dead, but the matriarchy certainly isn't, and it looks poised to bring the whole world to a standstill.
Force boys into smaller and smaller spaces, and you destroy us all.
How very clever.
Lots of love,


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In the 1930s, Jane Templeton and partner created a company called DON RUSEAU, selling French antiques and antique reproductions in New York. At the same time, MANHEIM became a company importing English antiques in New Orleans. Over the years, both companies developed reputations as the preeminent producers of antique reproductions and custom-made furniture. The companies' artisan and design traditions have been handed down for three generations; crafting pieces from the finest materials — from rich hardwoods and exotic veneers to premium finishes — and with the most time-honored techniques.
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When this recent snow storm hit in the beginning of 2016, things became very chaotic. The grocery stores were empty, and the roads were unplowed with over two feet of snow in the ground. While people came outside after the fact to clean up the damage, there were situations that just were impossible to have immediate resolution. That is where Youthire.com shines brightly. After joining Youthire team, I applied for a snow shovel job in Glen Cove. The home owner was moving in from Brooklyn that Sunday and needed the driveway to be shoveled for the movers and for unpacking purposes. With the driveway covered in two feet of snow, this would of been a really strenuous and difficult process. Through Youthire, the homeowner was able to hire workers to get the work done with the very easy process of posting a job through the site. Myself and another Youthire employee (Logan) were able to make the experience a lot less painful for this new home owner in moving into her new house.
I applied for another snow shovel job through Youthire a few days later. In this situation, the homeowner was on a business trip when the snow hit. Through Youthire, he was able to have his driveway fully cleared and a peace of mind for his trip back home.. I highly encourage anyone who needs work done to post a job through Youthire.com. It brings the community closer, and it creats opportunities for the young people in our community to potentially learn new skills and learn about themselves. It is a great source, and not hard at all to navigate. Thank you Youthire!!
I had the opportunity to post a job thru youthire.com over the 24 inch storm just come thru. I am very please to say i got a very quick responce.
I was able to succeed in finding a HS student to shovel my husband and I out of these blizzard snow conditions this weekend.
Not only that but this person is now connected to me and has offered (w/pay) to be someone I can count on to continually shoveling us out (on an as needed basis) even when we are down in Florida on vacation. I no longer have any concern that our house will not be looked after. In the spring I know that I will be able to count on this same person to help collect leaves off my property and help with other tasks as needed.
My congratulations to youthire.com for the (free) background check that they offer with each job posting. I never had to worry that the person on the other end of the phone is not truly who they say they were.
With the way payment is set up I have no concerns as to how this person gets paid; even if I'm not in town.
Thank you youthire.com.
Signed; from a very happy client!
My experience with Youthire has been positive from the start. I can pick whatever odd-job I want and get paid right away for my services, and the pay is generally acceptable. In fact, I recently started a fulfilling part-time job thanks to Youthire, which can lead to full-time. It was an opportunity that I couldn't find anywhere else, and it landed right in my lap thanks to Tom and the Youthire team. If you are young like me and hungry for some extra work, Youthire is a no-brainer. Thanks for everything!
Alfredo was amazing! He is a hard worker and super dedicated. I wish I could keep him around full time! He helped me clean my garage and organize everything. He was polite and responsibile; a great repesentation of your site. This site is a great idea! I am so pleased that I found it. When I was in college I was working three jobs and was always looking for odd job work to pay my tuition. This site would have been perfect. I hope it has great success!
I would like to give Monica a rating of 5 out of 5. She is a wonderful person and was a pleasure to work with.
I love youthire!
I was super skeptical at first, but it was super easy to post a job, review applicants and make payments. The youthire showed up on time, and was hardworking. He completed the task plus so much more. I have already posted other odd jobs, and reccommened this site to so many friends.
I love the fact that young students can make decent wages helping homeowners rather than making minimum wage. Awesome website!
I performed a job assisting a homeowner in a move. The job took five hours to complete and I made $100! I look forward to performing more jobs from the site. It's a great way for me to get some extra money every now and then.
Earlier this month I posted a job on YoutHire.com for someone to help me clean out my garage. Within a couple of days, two people had applied. It was reassuring I that I was able to read about the background and experience of both applicants on the website. They both seemed suitable. Andrew H. arrived at the agreed date and time and was helpful and personable.
I liked the fact that I was able to post the job at an hourly rate without having to specify the exact number of hours needed, since I wasn't sure how much time would be required. For other types of jobs there is the option to post a lump sum rate. Once the work was finished, it was easy to arrange the payment on YoutHire.com for the exact number of hours worked.
The entire process worked out well for me. It's simple to post any kind of job, big or small, which is a plus. I'm sure I'll use YoutHire again in the future and I encourage others to give it a try. It would be great for our community if this service can continue to grow.
We were scheduled to cover one of our ice cream trucks with a motorhome cover for the winter months. At the last minute the fellow who was to help us couldn't make it on Sunday. I remembered Youthire. On Saturday, I registered a job opening for a helper. I called Tom at Youthire support who tied to line up a couple helpers but the times just didn't work for us. Sunday morning I received a call from James who is a youthire worker. James could not make it to us by the start time of 12 noon, however, he put us in touch with Dan. Dan, #DT3259,called and said he could make it to us in Oakdale by 12 noon. Wonderful, I gave him the address, etc. Dan lives in the Bayport/Blue Point area. About 11:45 Dan arrives and is a tremendous help. We couldn't ask for more. When he was about to leave, I asked him were he parked his car. It turned out he didn't come by car. He rode his bike to the bus and then rode his bike to our location. What a great young fellow. We had a very last minute need and found everyone concerned to be very helpful. Thank You Youthire!!!
My Son, Robert, was working for a local store.They treated him very well, but paid just above minimum wage.He was looking for better pay and some flexibility.Robert found YoutHire.com and went to work right away.His salary about doubled and he liked the diverse job situations.I had some questions, contacted YoutHire, and spoke to the founder, Tom Cerna.Tom explained the workings of his company and put me at ease.Robert is very happy with the jobs he is getting, can work around his college schedule & the pay is great.Thanks Tom Cerna & Co!
I saw an article in news day about the website and thought it was the perfect way to tackle my gardening needs. I was maintaining the garden myself but became overwhelmed with overgrown vines and bushes. I signed up and am very happy to say Robert L. Came to my rescue. He worked very hard all day and managed to trim, chop down, uproot and manicure the whole property in no time. My yard looks so beautiful now! I will definitely use the site again whenever I need assistance with maintaining my home or other jobs that may come up. Thank you again Robert L. And Tom Cerna for making this possible.
I just wanted to say what a great idea it was to start Youthire.com! My youngest child is graduating North Shore High School this year and she, just like my other children, have always worked at some sort of job while they were attending either Middle School or High School. I think my children are better off and more well-rounded as a result of these experiences. My husband and I were not the type of parents who would just "hand-out" to them whenever they asked. We felt it was more important that they learn the value of earning money and that they would appreciate being able to have that money when they needed it. I am a big supporter of Youthire.com because they offer these opportunities to young adults and I would suggest that more parents encourage their kids to take advantage of this site. I for one, will definitely be encouraging my child to register with this site and will be posting jobs when in need of a Youthire!
The entire interface of the website is incredible! Never seen anything like it. Signing up was very simple and did not take long at all. The whole look and feel of it is super awesome!!
Thank you so much for getting both Alex W. & Theo to clear out the snow from my SC driveway. They were quick and courteous, as well as very fair. I'm so glad you posted on the Sea Cliff Facebook page, otherwise I'd have to shovel the whole space myself. Youthire.com is a great service you are offering - will contact you again when something comes up in the future.
I hear more snow is in the forecast, my fingertips will be ready for the next need.
Wishing you & your crew all the best,
Just wanted you to know that Jordan G. was wonderful yesterday. He was respectful, eager to help, listened carefully and took directions well, and worked nonstop for 3 hours hauling furniture with my son, clearing the garage and patio, hanging storm windows, carrying various items down to the basement, and even helping to dissemble large pieces that wouldn't fit down the basement stairs. I was so pleased!
Thank you so much for making this possible.
I will be happy to relate my good experience with others. It's not easy to find good help for small jobs, and I was delighted with my contact with youthire.com.
Best of luck to you, and you can be sure I'll call you again.
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New Website Helps L.I. Youths Find Summer Jobs North Shore businessman Thomas Cerna came up with the idea for Youthire.com last summer when he needed someone to water his plants ...
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A naturally occurring soft metal that is reddish brown in color, Copper actually oxidizes to a light blue-green known as verdigris. Copper is the first metal utilized by humans because of several factors. First, it is one of the most common metals there is. Second, it is easily extracted from the earth because it can be found on or near the surface. Third, as it is such a soft metal, it is easily formed into whatever the artisan wishes; first by hammering, later by heating and hammering, and finally, melting and pouring .
History of Copper
The Ancient Romans used the soft metal to form pipes to carry water from the aquaducts that they had created. They noticed that the water that traveled through these pipes (or that were stored in copper urns), did not result in illness the way other piping or storage tanks sometimes did. They also noted that people that had copper utensils and cookware did not have as many food ailments as those that did not.
Ancient Uses of Copper
Copper was used to fight epilepsy, cure headaches, and help speed the healing of wounds in ancient civilizations. Copper was used as an effective antibacterial agent (as they did not know about the existence of bacteria, it was believed to absorb 'bad humors'). Copper compounds were also used for a variety of neurological, dermatological and inflammatory disorders. In addition, Copper was used to sanitize water for drinking and cooking purposes.
Modern Uses of Copper
Copper is the third most utilized mineral by volume in the human body. Low copper levels can lead to stunted growth, anemia; brittle bones or osteoporosis; lowered blood cell count, body temperature, pigmentation and resistance to infection; increased cholesterol and possible auto-immune disorders; birth defects; thyroid disorders; dilated veins; edema; hair loss; diarrhea; dermatitis, bruising and bleeding under the skin.
It helps the body absorb and store iron and sugar (and then releases it to be utilized); it is a necessary component for at least 50 different enzyme interactions in the body. Copper is a strong anti-oxidant that reduces inflammation of arthritic joints; and is also the primary agent in the formation of melanin. Copper is also used for pigmentation in eyes, hair and skin (as well as your 'tan'). Copper is also necessary for proper functioning of the brain and is essential to the production of red blood cells, nerves and bone. It is also necessary for the formation of myelin, the coating that protects nerves throughout the human body.
Side Effects of Copper
As with most metals, it is possible to absorb too much and suffer the effects of metal poisoning. Acute poisoning will usually present with bloody vomit and black or tarry feces (also blood), jaundice (liver damage), or possibly coma.
Food sources of Copper
The single highest source of copper is oysters, followed by liver, then other meats and seafood. Other sources include avocados, nuts, whole grains (such as barley, wheat and oats), beets, lentils, soybeans and Garlic Bulbs. Be aware that prolonged storage in tin cans or other storage materials high in acid content reduces the available copper content.
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Raiders quarterback Derek Carr wanted to get his contract extension done before training camp next month.
He got his wish.
Carr and the team have reached what is reported to be a five-year, $125 million deal, according to a story by Ian Rapoport of NFL.com Thursday morning.
An excited Carr confirmed that report on social media.
"Now it's done!" he wrote on Twitter. "From the jump I've wanted to be a Raider 4 life. One step closer to that! Blessed!!! Business done! Let's just play now!!!"
The deal is expected to pay Carr about $25 million per season, which will make him the NFL's highest-paid quarterback. He's heading into the final year of his first deal, signed after he was taken in the second round of the 2014 draft. That deal will pay him about $5.4 million this season, with the new terms kicking in starting in 2018.
The Raiders have been built with salary-cap flexibility under general manager Reggie McKenzie and are a reported $31 million under the salary cap.
Earlier this offseason, the Raiders signed defensive end-linebacker Khalil Mack to a long-term extension. Still to be done is a deal for starting guard Gabe Jackson.


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Brendan Kennedy had done his homework and knew it was a financially smart decision. That wasn't the issue.
What caused him to reach out to family and friends, though, had to do with a question centering on his moral compass.
Was entering the controversial medical cannabis industry the right thing to do?
That was a little over a year ago. Listen to Kennedy now, and it's clear he knows he made the right choice.
"It's almost a sense of disbelief, like how could I have asked myself that question?" he said, reflecting back on the career-changing move. "Now, I feel like I have a moral imperative for this to succeed and a moral imperative to help those patients."
Kennedy is the president and co-founder of Leafly, a unique review-site for medical marijuana patients to find the right strains and dispensaries to suit their medical and financial needs. Think Yelp with a little bit of Rotten Tomatoes, but all about marijuana. It's a Seattle-based startup attempting to professionalize a booming yet controversial industry with laws on the November ballot in several states that could change things dramatically. More on that later.
It all started when Kennedy worked at Silicon Valley Bank and spent five years hearing thousands of venture capital pitches. One of those pitches was about medical marijuana and he became fascinated with the industry.
Kennedy recruited two of his buddies — Michael Blue and Christian Groh — raised capital and met with over 300 people in the business. Finally, the three came upon Leafly.
The company was actually started in June 2010 by three engineers that are still employees — Kennedy calls them "rock stars" — who were tired of the cliches and wanted to raise the level of conversation about medical marijuana. But they had no sales team, no advertising effort, no way to make money.
Kennedy and his team saw the opportunity and ran with it.
"We knew immediately that this was the perfect first acquisition," he said.
However, the process of raising capital wasn't simple because there are no venture capitalist investments within the medical marijuana industry. Given the nature of limited partnership agreements, it's too complex for a venture capitalist make an investment, as it would take only one limited partner — like an endowment or retirement fund — to object.
So the founders created a private equity holding company called Privateer Holdings to make acquisitions in the legal segment of this industry. The company wholly owns Leafly and is funded by their personal investment, high net worth individuals and family offices.
"Our investors are spread across the country," Kennedy said. "They tend to be very educated, wealthy professionals who happen to believe that cannabis should be legal, cannabis will be legal and that reputable companies need to be built to help patients and to accelerate the end of prohibition."
Once the money was secured, it took six weeks to sign the first client and business has taken off ever since. Leafly makes money through advertising packages to dispensaries and other companies that run anywhere from $195 per month to over $3,000 per month.
In less than a year, the company of nine employees has grown tremendously from the site's interface to the user engagement to the business model. Traffic is growing 10 percent each month and now sits at about 1.5 million visits per month split between three channels: the website, the iPhone app and the Android app.
And frankly, it's not all that surprising considering the lack of superior competition and Leafly's overall user experience. The site lets you easily explore over 500 strains that differ in their abilities to treat symptoms like anxiety and pain while providing effects like euphoria and creativity. People can filter out unwanted strains based on medical use and effect to the body on a neat interface that mimics a periodic table.
"It's no diferent from Consumer Reports or Amazon when comparing the same product or similar products," Kennedy said.
Each strain has an overall rating based on user reviews — there are over 50,000 of them — that people can read. Photos are also available with a clever "safe-for-work," default option set up.
Essentially, Leafly is an information resource to help medical marijuana patients find the right strain. Kennedy said most people don't realize that doctors will recommend medical marijuana treatment but don't specify which strain.
"It's like a doctor telling you that you have an infection and you should try taking an antibiotic without actually directing you to a specific one," Kennedy explained. "Medical marijuana patients have a right to information about this medicine and that's what we provide."
You're also able to find out which dispensaries are currently in stock with the specific strain, which is the other part of Leafly. There are 2,600 searchable dispensaries across the 17 states where it's legal to buy medical marijuana. Users can enter in a city, state or zip and add filters like "credit card," or "online menu." There are over 10,000 dispensary reviews — in this aspect, it's very similar to Yelp.
Overall, the site is organized, has nice aesthetics and is easy to use, something that's not common in this relatively new industry. Ean Seeb, co-owner of Denver Relief, has tried similar sites to help promote his dispensary. But they don't compare to his 11 months using Leafly.
"They are not as developed and far along as Leafly," said Seeb, who added that 25 percent of new traffic to his website is a direct result of Leafly. "They're not as clean and professional."
Clean and professional are exactly what Kennedy and his team are going for. They're sick of the negative stigmas all over various medical marijuana websites out there today — the bikini-clad girls, the pot leaves, the headlines of "budding business," and "high hopes."
"Those are just insults to the true patients we talk to every day," Kennedy said.
"They are not a stoner website," added Seeb. "There are no pics of ladies, no videos of people taking mad hits of mad nuggets — that kind of stuff is not even mentioned. It's all very professional."
Leafly seems to be in good shape. It is entering a medical marijuana industry that could grow from around $1.7 billion today to $8.9 billion by 2016 and society's acceptance of the drug, which was federally prohibited in 1937, is increasing. Three states — Washington, Oregon and Colorado — are voting next month to legalize marijuana for the public, while Montana, Massachusetts and Arkansas have medical marijuana-related initiatives on the November ballot.
"We've reached the tipping point," Kennedy said. "People are demanding this and it's highly likely that medical cannabis will be legal in a majority of the states in just a matter of time."
But while Leafly has a profitable business model, its dabbling in a controversial industry. Though state laws may change, there are still federal laws and regulations in place that prohibit marijuana use.
So to ensure that the company is following local, state and federal laws, Leafly has a "top-notch" legal consulting including former U.S and D.E.A. attorney's to help the company navigate the legal implications. Kennedy says he hasn't seen a legal consulting team like this in the business.
But is Kennedy worried that his site can be used by people who don't need the drug for medicinal purposes or are not using it legally?
"We know we have a lot of traffic from places like New York City, Texas and Illinois where there is no legal medical cannabis," he said. "But we believe patients in those states have a right to this information and we beleive we're helping them by providing this information.
"And we have a sense that non-patients are just looking for informaiton on what it is that they have or what a partiuclar strain is all about … and I know that they are better off by not flying blind."
All in all, the Leafly team has certainly studied up on everything surrounding medical marijuana and the results thus far have been optimistic. Seeb, the Denver dispensary owner, sees a bright future.
"I think they have huge potential," Seeb said of Leafly. "They have positioned themselves as the first provider in this fashion. There are a few minor competitors, but nothing like the development Leafly has put in."
The business opportunities to grow are obvious, and Kennedy plans to continue building up Leafly and create other companies in the industry. But perhaps most importantly, he's found a new passion and says this is the most fun he's ever had. For him, it's not just about the money.
"We believe we have put together a good investment opportunity, but also an investment that can do good," Kennedy said. "Far beyond its offering of significant financial returns, Privateer Holdings is an investment in health, decency, liberty, and human rights. Our investors will look back not only on the money they made, but on the difference they made as well."
Check out the 60 Minutes feature below that details the business potential of the industry. Denver Relief is featured.


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Consider, in a suitably flat region, two straight lines which don't necessarily intersect. Let vector $\mathbf{x}$ point along one line, and vector $\mathbf{y}$ point along the other. Let $X$ and $Y$ be the two points closest to each other on these two lines, or otherwise let $P$ be their intersection point.
The real number $\phi := \text{ArcCos}\bigl( \frac{\mathbf{x} \, \cdot \, \mathbf{y}}{|\mathbf{x}| \, |\mathbf{y}|}\bigr)$ is supposed to be known as part of the description of how the two lines are related to each other.
Now consider a stroboscope "$B_x$" moving uniformely along one of these lines (in direction of vector $\mathbf{x}$, passing point $X$), and a telegraph "$A_y$" moving uniformely along one of these lines (in direction of vector $\mathbf{y}$, passing point $Y$). The case of intersecting lines may be dealt with later on.
Stroboscope $B_x$ is supposed to blink ceaselessly (therefore its name: "$B_x$") with equal durations $\tau_B$ from any one "blink" ($b_j$) to the next one ($b_{j+1}$); and telegraph $A_y$ is supposed to re-shuffle its "arms" all the time (... cmp. "$A_y$") with equal durations $\tau_A$ from settling into any one signal state ($a_k$) to settling to the next ($a_{k+1}$). The real "ratio" number $r := \tau_B / \tau_A$ is supposed to be known, too.
Let $a_0$ be the state of telegraph $A_y$ while passing point $Y$, and $b_0$ be the state of stroboscope $B_x$ while passing point $X$. Let integer $p_{BA}$ be given as the number of "blinks" stated by stroboscope $B_x$ after having passed point $X$ (i.e. after having been in state $b_0$) and before observing telegraph $A_y$ passing point $Y$ (i.e. before observing that telegraph $A_y$ had been in state $a_0$). If the described order of observations is inverted (i.e. if stroboscope $B_x$ first observed that telegraph $A_y$ had passed point $Y$ and only later passed point $X$) then integer $p_{BA}$ is obtained as negative value (or as value $0$).
Finally suppose that stroboscope $B_x$ is (partially) surrounded by a shiny case such that telegraph $A_y$ can see its (own) reflection and recognize its states in the mirror image; and suppose that telegraph $A_y$ is (perhaps rather diffusely) reflective as well such that stroboscope $B_x$ would be able to see reflections of its " blinks".
Now: For any particular signal state $a_k$ telegraph $A_y$ can count how many subsequent times it went on to re-shuffle its arms before recognizing the reflection (from $B_x$) corresponding to state $a_k$; lets call this number $\alpha_{Ak}$.
Along with that, again for any particular signal state $a_k$, telegraph $A_y$ can count how many subsequent times it saw stroboscope $B_x$ blink subsequently before recognizing the reflection (from $B_x$) corresponding to state $a_k$; lets call this number $\alpha_{Bk}$.
Correspondingly, stroboscope $B_x$ may determine the numbers $\beta_{Bj}$ and $\beta_{Aj}$ ...
(No!, too bad: stroboscope $B_x$ may not readily determine these numbers because it cannot easily tell the reflection of any one blink from that of any other. But this may lead to yet another question ... In order to fix the narrative let's here just assume that "stroboscope $B_x$" is in fact a "telegraph" as well, with distinct states $b_j$ whose reflections from $A_y$ can be individually recognized, too.)
Question (1):
Do the numbers $\alpha_{Ak}$ have a minimum, $\alpha_{\text{min}}$ ?,
in particular, if the two lines don't intersect.
(And similarly: Do the numbers $\beta_{Bj}$ have a minimum, $\beta_{\text{min}}$ ?)
And if so:
Question (2):
Can the "ratio" number $r$ be calculated from the (given) numbers $\phi$, $p$, $\alpha_{Ak}$, $\alpha_{Bk} $, $\beta_{Bj}$ and $\beta_{Aj}$ ?, or perhaps at least approximated for sufficiently large numbers $\alpha_{\text{min}}$ and/or $\beta_{\text{min}}$ ?


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An important glassmaker of the early twentieth century, Almeric Walter initially worked for Daum from 1906 to 1914 before setting up his own shop in 1919 in the same city of Nancy, France. Walter was a master of the pâte-de-verre technique, and this became the specialization of his production. Pâte-de-verre is literally glass paste—glass ground to a powder with a flux medium added to assist in the melting. After the addition of colour, the mixture is placed into a mold and fixed through firing. Walter's works are noted for their post-firing carving, as well as the manipulation and integration of multiple colours. This skill is noted in the strong naturalism evident in the two WAG pieces, which feature insects among foliage, one of Walter's favourite subjects.
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Analysts and diplomats last week were hinting at a possible attitudinal shift in Beijing on the North Korea issue after China, Pyongyang's longtime ally, voted for UN Security Council Resolution 2094, which imposes additional sanctions on North Korea to punish it for conducting its third nuclear test on Feb. 12. However, despite signaling displeasure with Pyongyang's brinkmanship, Beijing does not yet seem willing to do what is required to stop its neighbor from flirting with weapons of Armageddon.
The signs on Thursday last week were promising: Beijing had signed on to the latest round of sanctions, while some influential figures, such as retired People's Liberation Army major general Luo Yuan (羅援), a prominent foreign policy hawk, were warning North Korea that although both nations had been "comrade[s] and brothers-in-arms in the past," if Pyongyang harmed China's national interests, "we'll get even with you."
However, if the reports that emerged on Monday are any indication, the optimism may have been a little premature. Beijing's apparent change of heart might be nothing more than cosmetic.
After years of investigation, US and South Korean authorities have uncovered what are said to be dozens of accounts at several banks in Shanghai and elsewhere in China belonging to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The South Korean government believes that the freezing of these slush funds, which reportedly contain hundreds of millions of US dollars, could put a serious dent in Pyongyang's efforts to develop weapons of mass destruction.
Unfortunately, Seoul's urgings that the China-based banks be included in the latest round of sanctions against Pyongyang were reportedly ignored, a shortcoming that puts the effectiveness of the sanctions regime into question.
Once again, despite universal condemnation of a regime that consistently defies international law, threatens regional security and has reduced its population to starvation, Beijing is failing to do what is necessary to put an end to the problem. Its inaction ensures that North Korea will continue to destabilize the region and threaten war in this increasingly important part of the world.
That is not to say that Pyongyang's intransigence has not forced some Chinese to re-evaluate their assumptions about their neighbor. However, while some tactical adjustments may be seen on China's part to deal with this growing malaise, the likelihood that major policy changes will occur at the strategic level is very slim.
Beijing wants to have it both ways: It wants to see North Korea abandon its nuclear ambitions, but not at the cost of undermining the regime and destabilizing the country.
This dual approach is at the heart of China's North Korea policy and ensures that a resolution will remain nowhere in sight, a "status quo" that serves the additional purpose of keeping US and Japanese forces focused on Pyongyang, rather than on its own military expansion and territorial ambitions.
As long as the North continues to be run by an unpredictable regime — which the young Kim, like his father, former North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, appears prepared to do — South Korean, Japanese and US forces will remain tied up in North Korea and will be unable to allocate additional manpower to areas of less immediate concern, such as the East and South China seas, as well as the Taiwan Strait.


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First post in this section.
I got me this...
Unfortunately it came with a few additional features, like this...
I bought a new piston and ring, liner, con-rod, gudgeon pin, bearings, and an ignition system, but removing the piston was a nightmare! You have to remove a blanking plug from the engine casing, remove a gudgeon pin retaining circlip through the hole and try to pull the gudgeon pin out... but the gudgeon pin was seized solid, so I had to cut the con-rod in half with a Dremel.
But it's finally together, and ready for transplant.
I think I'll be putting it in this frame. Just needs a few modifications to the fan shroud.
Looking forward to cheap flying and long flight times.


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If, as Joan Didion famously put it, "we tell ourselves stories in order to live," why do we tell stories to our children? In my experience, mostly it is to get them to shut up. A book read to a toddler who, after running around the house all day, has had to be stuffed, quite literally, into his pajamas, may traffic in imaginative freedom and wonder, but it is still an instrument of control. I will read this to you, and then you will go to sleep. End of story.
The tension, or, if you prefer, bad faith implicit in this arrangement is itself one of the great themes of bedtime literature, and many of the tales now regarded as classics celebrate children as artists (and artists as children), only, in the end, to sell them both out. Harold decides one night to use his crayon to escape his room. He summons up a frightening dragon, nine kinds of pie, and a hot-air balloon that will carry him to a strange city, before drawing himself a bed and climbing into it. Max sails "in and out of weeks and almost over a year" to a kingdom where his wildness can be appreciated. After just one rumpus, loneliness sets in, and he goes sailing home. The same story keeps getting told over and over, much as the same struggle gets played out night after night. Madeline taunts the tiger at the zoo, teeters on a railing over the Seine, and goes under the knife for an emergency appendectomy. Then, abruptly, Miss Clavel turns off the light and closes the door: "That's all there is—there isn't any more." Frances keeps putting off sleep with one tactic—call it imaginative, call it neurotic—after another. Eventually, convinced that something ferocious is lurking behind the curtains, she slips quietly into her parents' room—so quietly that her father wakes up with a start. A discussion ensues:
**{: .break one} ** "Listen, Frances, do you want to know why the curtains are moving?" "Why?" said Frances. "That is the wind's job," said Father. "Every night the wind has to go around and blow all the curtains. . . "Everybody has a job," said Father. "I have to go to my office every morning at nine o'clock. That is my job. You have to go to sleep so you can be wide awake for school tomorrow. That is your job." Frances said, "I know, but . . ." Father said, "I have not finished. If the wind does not blow the curtains, he will be out of a job. If I do not go to the office, I will be out of a job. And if you do not go to sleep now, do you know what will happen to you?" "I will be out of a job?" said Frances. "No," said Father. "I will get a spanking?" said Frances. "Right!" said Father. **
"Bedtime for Frances" was published in 1960. As a child born the following year, I identified with its heroine, both because of her insomnia and because of her domestic situation. (Waking my father in the middle of the night was not considered a bright idea.) My own children have a much harder time relating to Frances, but they love versions of the story that reflect their own experience. In "Max's Bedtime," first published in 1985, the authority figure is a figure with almost no authority. Ruby wears herself out trying to get her little brother to go down for the night, until, finally, she collapses, while Max, wide awake, plays with his red rubber elephant. The eponymous gorilla of "Good Night, Gorilla" (1994) releases himself from the zoo, gets locked up again, then escapes for a second time, along with his banana-toting sidekick. On the last page, the animals are uncaged and—I assume—like more and more kids across America, still fooling around after the adults have conked out. These stories for the post-spanking set aren't just funnier; they allow for the possibility that bedtime could be genuinely comedic, that the old order could be uprooted and the fool become the king, which, if my house is any indication, nowadays happens all the time.
Thousands of new picture books will be published this year, and, just as with adult fiction, some of these will be remarkable, some dreadful, and the vast majority will fall into the murky region in between. "Olivia Forms a Band" (Atheneum; $17.95) is the latest installment in Ian Falconer's wildly successful series. In previous adventures, the precocious piglet has painted, danced, and tamed lions. This time, she expresses herself musically, and, as usual, her family suffers for her art; at one point her father finds himself standing with his trousers around his ankles because Olivia has requisitioned his suspenders. Olivia is uncowed till the end; as she drifts off to sleep, dreaming of becoming a Supreme Court Justice, her mother stumbles over the cymbals she has left scattered on the floor. This, I guess, is supposed to represent progress.
"Olivia" is drawn with high, manic energy and is hiply multimedia. (Her dream consists of a drawing inside a photo inside a drawing.) "Art," by Patrick McDonnell (Little, Brown; $14.99), tells the same basic story, all in primary colors. Its protagonist—a boy named Art—draws all of "Art" 's pictures, a play on words that is pushed to punishing extremes: "Art and his art/Can you tell them apart?" One minute, Art is zigzagging exuberantly across the page, the next he has fallen asleep.
A third retelling, Peter McCarty's "Moon Plane" (Henry Holt; $16.95), is soothingly traditional, both in style and in subject. The drawings are done in pencil on watercolor stock, which gives the impression of a world seen through waxed paper. The book's hero is a boy, circa 1950, who sees a plane and wonders at the novelty. What would it be like to fly? The imaginative experience takes him all the way to the moon, where, weightlessly, he leaps into the heavens. Then, it's time for the journey to run in reverse, and for this small boy, too, to make his way to bed, where he can continue to dream of planes soaring "high into the sky."
Retro is always big in children's books, which probably shouldn't be a surprise, given who's buying them. Currently on the shelves are fiftieth-anniversary editions of "Harry the Dirty Dog," "Eloise," and "Harold and the Purple Crayon," as well as a sixtieth-anniversary edition of "Stuart Little" and a sixty-fifth-anniversary edition of "Little House on the Prairie." Among this year's reissues are Richard Wilbur's "Opposites, More Opposites, and a Few Differences" (Harcourt; $10.95), first published in 1973, and Munro Leaf's "Noodle," illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans (Scholastic; $15.99), which came out in 1937.
For "Probuditi" (Houghton Mifflin; $18.95), Chris Van Allsburg reaches back to the days of Erector sets, fedoras, and Mary Janes. Allsburg uses this supposedly simpler time to tell a supposedly simple tale of a boy who builds a hypnosis machine. But, as is the case with other Van Allsburg books—"Jumanji," "The Mysteries of Harris Burdick," even "The Polar Express"—there's something sinister and adult about the whole uncanny apparatus. In Van Allsburg's masterly sepia-toned drawings, the action always seems to be observed from the wrong angle. That the boy, Calvin, is black, has no particular significance as far as the plot is concerned, but it still feels awkwardly relevant, especially when Calvin gets his little sister to act like a dog, leading to disagreement about whether she should be called a "mutt."
David Wiesner's "Flotsam" (Clarion Books; $17) is explicitly fantastical, and, like the artist's earlier books—"Tuesday" and "Sector 7"—is told without words. True to its title, the book gathers conceits washed overboard from half a dozen genres: octopuses sit on underwater sofas, aliens visit from Mars, and giant starfish wade through the waves. Holding things together—I use this phrase loosely—is a tale about a boy who happens upon a barnacle-encrusted box camera and develops the film inside. One photo shows a child holding a photo of a child holding a photo of a child, and so on. He puts the photo under a microscope and, by enlarging it seventy times, finally arrives at an image of a boy standing around unhappily at some Mitteleuropäisch beach resort of the late nineteenth century. (Kafka on the Shore?) The implication—I think—is that the readers of "Flotsam" are part of this same ongoing journey.
Buying a picture book is a bit like buying Parisian lingerie, or pet food: you can't (or at least shouldn't) use the product all on your own. Do parents choose the books their children will actually like, or the ones it pleases them to think they will? Recently, one of my sons brought home from second grade a story that he'd written at school. It told about a trip through the Drake Passage by a crew of six friends. Before breakfast, the first one has fallen overboard.
"Gosh Juans dead all ready its only been an hour," a character named Kan declares. Another crew member is soon lost to a huge fish. "Uh oh thats not good." Finally, when there's not enough food for dinner, one of the remaining friends gets eaten. "Now lets go to bed," says someone, maybe the laconic Kan, or maybe one of the other fine young cannibals.
The question of propriety—whether children's books should be as disgusting and violent as children—is a genuinely vexing one. On one side are what might be called the protectionists, who argue, in effect, that what children really like doesn't much matter. After all, if you let kids do what they want, they wouldn't read a book in the first place. To this group what's important is childhood, a hypothetical state of innocence and fancy.
"Museum Trip" (Houghton Mifflin; $15), by Barbara Lehman, is a good example of a work aimed at the protectionist market. Like "Flotsam," it is wordless. A boy gets separated from his class at an art museum and finds himself in a room devoted to images of labyrinths. Soon he is transported inside the labyrinths, where he is awarded a medal for solving them. His reverie ends, and things return to normal, except that as he leaves the museum with the rest of the class he's wearing the medal around his neck. Part Magritte, part Crockett Johnson, Antoinette Portis's "Not a Box" (HarperCollins; $12.99) similarly explores the border between the real and the imagined. A young rabbit finds an empty cardboard box, which becomes, in his mind, a burning skyscraper, a robot, a crow's nest on a pirate ship, and the gondola of a hot-air balloon. The simple line drawings are all done in red and black—black being an adult's sense of the world, red being the rabbit's. In a refreshing twist, there's no twist at the end. The book finishes with the bunny still defiant: "It's my Not-a-Box!"
"Luck," by Jean Craighead George (Laura Geringer Books; $16.99), is a protectionist tale that finds its subject—a young sandhill crane—in the natural world. The crane is rescued from a plastic six-pack holder by a girl in Texas and then joins his parents for their flight to Asia. When he finds a mate—Wise—they return to Texas, where they meet the girl again. The paintings, by Wendell Minor, sometimes depict the cranes as seen by an earthbound observer, sometimes the earth as seen by an airborne crane. Dianna Aston's "An Egg Is Quiet" (Chronicle Books; $16.95) is also about birds, not to mention dogfish and ladybugs and sea turtles and leopard frogs. The charm of this nonfiction work lies in its vaguely Victorian illustrations, by Sylvia Long, and in the fact that eggs are fascinating. Inverting the usual formula, the story ends not with animals going to sleep but awakening to life: "An egg is quiet. Then, suddenly . . . an egg is noisy!"
"Walter the Farting Dog Goes on a Cruise" (Dutton; $16.99), it seems safe to say, is destined not for the protectionist bookshelf but, rather, for the ever-growing permissive market, where anything goes—and nothing goes over better than flatulence. (The original "Walter the Farting Dog," published in 2001, has sold more than a million copies.) In his latest adventure—a work that, amazingly enough, demanded the collaboration of three writers and an illustrator—Walter takes a trip aboard an ocean liner called the Sea Wind. He farts and farts. Do you need to know more?
Protectionists may also turn up their noses at "Gee Whiz! It's All About Pee," written by Susan E. Goodman and illustrated by Elwood H. Smith (Viking; $15.99). But they'd be wrong to. "Gee Whiz!" is well researched, informative, and only moderately gross. (The volume is a follow-up to "The Truth About Poop," by the same pair.) Were you aware, for example, that there are clouds of frozen astronaut piss orbiting the earth? Or that the Pilgrims used a substance known as "chamber lye"—urine mixed with ashes—to wash their clothes? I wasn't, and I'm glad (sort of) that I am now.
Do children love scatology for its own sake, or for an even more fundamental reason—because it irritates adults? Lane Smith, who illustrated the by now canonical "The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales," caters to kids' desire to make fun of everything, including, naturally enough, stories for kids. His latest work, "John, Paul, George & Ben" (Hyperion; $16.99), a freewheeling parody of the patriotic children's books that once made America great, is a portrait of the Founding Fathers as young brats. To create its faux-antiquarian effect, Smith makes use of parchment paper, Colonial typefaces, and portraits by John Singleton Copley and Gilbert Stuart. Ben is Benjamin Franklin, who even as a child "considered it his duty to provide frequent, free advice." Smith includes some genuine Franklinian aphorisms—"Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead"—then allows the lad's neighbors to deliver a saying especially for Ben: "Please shut your big yap!"
Picture-book sentimentality provides the barn-size target for "Love You When You Whine" (Frances Foster Books; $15), by Emily Jenkins, illustrated by Sergio Ruzzier. The main characters are a mother cat and her thoroughly unbearable, totally ordinary daughter. Page after page recounts the daughter's misdeeds, from whining and mess-making through hair-pulling and tantrum-throwing, as the same formula is repeated: "Love you when you pour cereal on the floor. . . . Love you when you spread jam on my computer." It's all very ironic, until the final page, when the little cat goes to bed and the mother cat smiles for the first time.
On the cover of Terry Pratchett's "Where's My Cow?" (HarperCollins; $16.95) is an anatomically correct Holstein, seen from behind. Inside, a father reads to his son from a cutesy, pastel-colored picture book called "Where's My Cow?," by an author named Terry Pratchett. As this arrangement suggests, Pratchett's story is a postmodern fable all about the protectionist/permissive conflict. Halfway through, the father has an epiphany. Why is his son learning about "moo-cows and baa-lambs?" he wonders. "He is growing up in a city. He will only see them on a plate! They go sizzle!" At this point, the fluffy farm animals are replaced by hardened criminals, tubercular beggars, and peddlers pushing adulterated meats. Even so, the book ends with the boy sleeping soundly in his little blue crib.
The mother of all bedtime stories, "Goodnight Moon," by Margaret Wise Brown, will turn sixty next year, but the official anniversary edition is already out (HarperTrophy; $6.99). To return to it after reading six or seven dozen of the latest picture books is a bit of a shock. As you might expect, "Goodnight Moon" is more restrained, more exacting, and more lyrical than anything written for children today. In its own quiet way, it is also more brutal.
At the time that it appeared, Brown was thirty-seven and a well-established children's writer; among her many acclaimed picture books were "The Runaway Bunny" and "Little Fur Family." Still, she didn't quite fit, or want to fit, the role of beloved children's author; her real ambition was to write for grownups. Brown never married—her affairs were conducted with members of both sexes—and had no children. When she wasn't making up tales about soft little bunnies, she liked to watch them get ripped to pieces; a fan of running to hounds, Brown was a charter member of an exclusive Long Island hunting club known as the Buckram Beagles. (Asked about this apparent conflict in an interview with Life, Brown replied, "Well, I don't especially like children, either. At least not as a group. I won't let anybody get away with anything just because he is little.") Reportedly, Brown wrote "Goodnight Moon" in a single morning.
The struggle between parent and child that is the explicit subject of so many bedtime stories is, in "Goodnight Moon," only implicit. Indeed, there's no parent on the scene. The story begins with the little rabbit, drawn with wonderful flatness by Clement Hurd, already in bed. It is seven o'clock. A few pages later, according to the blue clock on the mantelpiece and the yellow clock on the bed table, it is seven-twenty. Then it is seven-thirty, then seven-forty. When the "good-nighting" begins, it is not clear who is doing the speaking. The moon is rising, yet the light grows dimmer. The clocks tick on—seven-fifty, eight o'clock.
A parent is bigger than a child, but still a person. He or she can be appealed to, as in "Bedtime for Frances," or even tricked, as in "Good Night, Gorilla." The arrangement in "Goodnight Moon" is completely uneven. Time moves forward, and the little bunny doesn't stand a chance. Parent and child are, in this way, brought together, on tragic terms. You don't want to go to sleep. I don't want to die. But we both have to. ♦


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A health organization that fights AIDS has targeted a South Florida-based company it charges with making an adult video without protecting the performers from sexually transmitted diseases via the use of condoms.
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation filed a complaint last month with the Florida Department of Health, asking for an investigation into D&E Productions, which is based in Pembroke Park and North Miami Beach.
D&E Productions is an affiliate of a California-based company, San Diego Boy Productions, which the health group said is trying to evade a condom-use law in that state by filming in Florida.
"We are not going to allow the (adult film) industry to play a shell game in order to evade the laws that we now have in the city and county of Los Angeles and state of California," said AIDS Healthcare Foundation president Michael Weinstein. "It's not going to work."
The foundation is known for backing a Los Angeles County law mandating condom use in the adult film industry, which a federal judge recently found to be constitutional.
The health group first filed a workplace safety complaint about San Diego Boy Productions for unsafe sex practices with the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health. The video company responded that the activities referenced in the complaint were part of material produced in Florida, not California.
That prompted the foundation to file a new complaint under Floridas sanitary-nuisance laws, saying the videos in question clearly demonstrate the unprotected exchange of bodily fluids.
"Now we have a much cleaner case where this is a film that we absolutely know was made (in Florida)," Weinstein said. "So now we are asking the authorities to investigate and to issue citations based on the sanitary-nuisance laws that exist in the state of Florida and at the county level."
A man who answered the phone at D&E Productions Wednesday said he was unaware of the matter. San Diego Boy Productions did not respond to requests for comment.
Rather than require condoms in its sex scenes, the adult-video industry relies on testing. But that doesn't always work. Last year a syphilis outbreak shut down production industry-wide. And there was another shut-down last month after performer Cameron Bay said she'd tested positive for HIV; her last clean test had been on July 27.
According to the Performer Availability Screening Services, which tests porn performers for sexually transmitted diseases, its panel of three doctors tested all the performers who had worked with Bay and confirmed they were not infected. "It is safe to lift the moratorium," said the organization on its Web site. "Any performer who tests clean after Aug. 19 is safe and available to work."
Then on Tuesday, Bay's boyfriend, Joshua Rodgers, announced that he had recently been infected with HIV.
Weinstein said that before those announcements, adult video performers hadn't felt they could publicly support laws requiring condom use.
"I think previously that they felt that they would be punished for saying that they wanted to use condoms," he said. "But under the circumstances now, I think many more people are stepping forward and saying that they want to be protected."
Weinstein said his group filed a sanitary-nuisance complaint because they're trying to protect the health and safety of performers, not to ban pornography.
The Florida Department of Health confirmed that it had received the complaint but said it could not respond without additional information from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation.


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Corn overcame its losses from yesterday to close at new settlement highs. December corn finished up 28 ¼ cents at $7.32 ¼, November soybeans 6 ½ cents higher at $15.29, and December wheat up 21 ½ cents at $8.59 ¾.
The past two trading sessions have really shaken the market, especially for corn. The December corn contract had a 62 ¾ cent range yesterday and another 34 cent range today! Why did we see the price fall yesterday only to see another sharp rally today? For one the weather forecast was a bit drier on the midday models this morning. If weather continues to be a problem we can obviously see more upward pressure on the market. The past few Commitment of Traders reports have revealed that much of this rally has been due to short covering. The managed money and the non-reportable traders have liquidated a very large portion of their short positions. Will investment and end-user hedging continue to push the market above the all-time highs of $8? Time will tell, but until we know more about the crop size we don't want to make any "sudden changes" to our marketing plans. The past few times corn has been able to make it above $7 it hasn't stayed for very long. This may be the year to change this but we know that demand is being rationed at these levels already. The USDA has already cut its corn demand estimates by 650 million bushels for feed, 100 million for ethanol, and 300 million in exports due to the recent spike in prices. They have also dropped the demand for US beans by 150 million bushels. The point is the market is trying to ration the demand and a lot of speculation goes into this until we know the actual crop size. At this point we know it will be lower but extremely difficult to peg just "how low". We want to remain in sustainable hedges until more is known about the final crop size.
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Outsiders Poised to Buy Car Dealerships
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By Phil Villegas
This is an attractive time to be a car dealer. Dealership profitability is up across the board, automaker are producing great vehicles and the upswing looks like it will last for the next few years.
Accordingly, we're once again seeing activity brewing from outside speculators looking to enter and redefine the dealership arena. It's similar to 2004 through 2007 when individuals and entities new to the industry vied to buy dealerships.
With interest rates low, banks eager to lend and a shortage of deals in the dealership buy-sell market, we are very much in a seller's market.
I anticipate double-digit blue-sky multiples in the coming year, and not just in situations where the dealership being acquired is significantly underperforming, but also in cases of healthy and operationally effective dealerships.
These high multiples will not be paid by the public chains, private megadealers or even traditional dealers in acquisition mode. Rather these high prices likely will be paid by industry outsiders and private-equity firms trying to get a foothold in the industry, and in the process driving up blue-sky levels.
Because most sellers want an expedient buy-sell transaction, many will shy away from selling to those who may not easily gain automaker approval.
However, many dealers still will be enticed by the higher prices these outside speculators often are willing to pay, and may take their chances with the manufacturers.
The auto-retail sector is attractive due to exclusiveness and high yields. We find most traditional dealership acquisitions target a 20% return on investment, a rate that's higher than other speculative investments.
These returns can be even greater if the transactions are leveraged to the manufacturer-allowed limits. Most outsiders trying to break into auto retailing typically will leverage as high as possible to maximize their return.
The largest obstacle industry outsiders and private-equity firms faced in the past, and will likely continue to face, is in obtaining automaker approval of their prospective dealership purchase.
With few exceptions, automakers are predisposed to approve franchises only for experienced dealer operators. Industry outsiders and private equity firms are problematic for a manufacturer because they're often wanting on key operational matters.
Simply put, auto makers want the ability to deal with a dealer operator who can make a relatively fast decision on an issue at hand. They do not want a board or committee slowly and deliberately deciding a matter.
Nevertheless, outsiders inevitably will find their way to the closing table, often through a minority operating partner who on the surface appears to have full operational autonomy. In truth, operating partners have that as long as they deliver profitability that satisfies the investors' ROI model.
Times are so good now the auto-retailing business appears easy to outside speculators, even though they may lack experience and operational resources.
Many of them see traditional dealerships as failing to operate at full potential. They think they can come in and immediately crank up revenues, cut expenses and boost profitability beyond conventional benchmarks.
While such a quick and dramatic turnaround can happen, it's hardly the norm. Inflated confidence based on internal-model assumptions can lead many outsiders to pay above market prices for dealerships.
While some stores do better than others because of their prime locations or the popularity of the brand they represent, success with most stores rests with upper management, primarily the skills of the dealer operator.
In dealership acquisitions, many outsiders fail to give the appropriate amount of credit to the long-term impact that key managers can have on the investment. When the industry is benefitting from improved consumer confidence and sales, many outsiders take these sales for granted, failing to understand the cyclical nature of the car business.
In good times like these, many marginal operators appear better than they are. Outsiders often fail to identify true talent in a timely manner. Truth is, a lot of hacks and retreads can talk a good game yet always seem to come up short in delivering results. It may take an outsider six months to a year (or longer) to realize a dealer-operator partner is merely a faster talker in a nice suit.
Nonetheless, industry outsiders and private equity firms who understand the risks are not easily deterred from attractive high-yielding investment opportunities like auto dealerships offer.
But interest rates won't stay low forever. And while we have seen strong sales in recent years, this trend probably will start to level off in the next couple of years as pent-up demand eases.
My guess is many outsider deals that close at irrationally high multiples ultimately will result in affected dealerships finding their way back on the market within a few years, with rational prices and shiny new facilities that automakers required the original investor to build.
Phil Villegas is a principal at Axiom Advisors, a boutique automotive dealership consulting firm specializing in Mergers & Acquisitions, Enterprise Management and Litigation Support. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or 786-472-2800.


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Well, it's not the games themselves I'm that interested in--but the NES-style GBA:SP itself. It looks swell. I've already got a black GBA:SP that I imported from Japan last year, and now I'm trying to justify buying this new one--and of course, I only play my black SP once in a blue moon, anyway.I'm a sucker.As for the games, eh. Twenty bucks each? For games that I already have two or three versions of elsewhere? Probably pass on (most of) those. . .But I like that system. . .
I'm thinking hard about picking one up...damn
So yeah. Went and picked up our Family pictures after work today which just so happened to be next to Curcuit City. Hmmm...walked in, saw the GB and bought it
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Talk about preparing for the future. A Chinese woman reportedly bought a $6.5 million Manhattan condo for her daughter – who is now 2 years old – according to China's state TV, CCTV.
The lucky toddler's new condo is in the Park Hyatt-managed One57 tower, currently under construction. The building, at 157 W. 57th Street, will be one of New York's tallest skyscrapers when finished in 2013 at a height of 1,004 feet. The residences will sit atop the Park Hyatt hotel with floor-to-ceiling windows, high-end appliances and hotel amenities. One57 made headlines last October when Hurricane Sandy caused damage to a construction crane on the building, blocking access to the street for several days.
Kevin Brown, a senior vice president at Sotheby's International Realty, told CCTV that he helped the woman look at various apartments in the city and asked why she was buying. "And she said, well, her daughter was going to go to Columbia, or NYU, or maybe Harvard so she needed to be in the center of the city and that was why she was picking this one particular apartment," Brown told CCTV. When she said her daughter was only two years old, Brown was shocked, he told CCTV. Both Sotheby's and Brown declined to comment about the sale.
The mother's identity is unknown, but The Telegraph writes that many on the Chinese social network Weibo are speculating that she must be the wife of or related to a corrupt government official.
Needless to say, the daughter's all set for housing for around 2029 when she'll likely start freshman classes. (And no sharing a bathroom for her!) Although, if she ends up going to Harvard, that's going to be a long commute—at least a 4-hour bus ride from Manhattan each way.
The residents will have access to VIP concierge and doorman services, fantastic views of the city, a performance room, an indoor pool and much more.
Surely, parents financing their children's New York lifestyle isn't a new phenomenon, but this case is no doubt an outlier. The U.S. real estate market has been attracting foreign investors, particularly Asian buyers, for years, especially since the housing crisis.
Residential international sales in the U.S. totaled $82.5 billion in the year ending in March 2012, according to the National Association of Realtors' latest data available. That figure was up about 24% from $66.4 billion in 2011. Specifically, 4% of total international sales are in New York, and Florida has the highest number with 26% of sales.
Global commercial real estate investors also named New York as the top city to invest in, according to an annual survey by the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate. For the first time in 12 years, four of the top five cities were in the U.S., indicating a better view of the U.S. economy and real estate compared to prior years.
Foreign buyers come from everywhere, but China, Canada, Mexico, India and the UK account for 55% of all international transactions. In 2012, Canada accounted for 24% of the sales, and China accounted for 11%. Real-estate agencies have been appealing to the Chinese market by hiring Mandarin-speaking agents, and some developers are placing their top units on "lucky" floors, such as Apartment 88 at One57, according to a WSJ report. (The number 8 is considered lucky in Chinese culture.)
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- What Is Native American Traditional Healing?
- Who Would Benefit From Traditional Healing?
- How Does Traditional Healing Interact With Western Medicine?
- The Bottom Line
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What Is Native American Traditional Healing?
Most Native American tribes have traditions about health and illness. In this fact sheet the term "Native American" is meant to include Native Americans and Alaska Natives. These traditions are not based on western science. Instead, they come from the tribe's beliefs about how individuals fit in the web of life. This web includes the tribe, all humanity, the earth, and the universe. Many healing traditions focus on harmony. Healing occurs when someone is restored to harmony and connected to universal powers.
Traditional healing is "holistic." It does not focus on symptoms or diseases. Instead, it deals with the total individual. Different people with HIV disease may get different treatments. Healing focuses on the person and their environment, not only the illness.
Certain people in each tribe are recognized as healers. They receive special teachings. Healing traditions are passed from one generation to the next through visions, stories, and dreams. People usually receive traditional healing through community or family referrals.
Healing does not follow written guidelines. Healers work differently with each person they help. They use their herbs, ceremony and power in the best way for each individual. Healers may be used for certain conditions. They might refer people to other healers, if appropriate.
Healing might involve sweat lodges, talking circles, drumming, ceremonial smoking of tobacco, potlatch ceremonies, herbalism, animal spirits, or "vision quests," to name a few practices. Each tribe uses its own techniques. They are only steps towards becoming whole, balanced and connected.
Who Would Benefit From Traditional Healing?
Traditional healing can be very powerful for Native Americans dealing with HIV. It can restore a sense of connection to their tribe and culture. This promotes spiritual, psychological, emotional, and physical healing.
Some traditional healers only work with members of their own tribe, while some healers will work with others. Some people who are not Native American believe that working with a traditional healer has helped them.
Many people use the techniques of traditional healing. However, there is a big difference between traditional healing and using traditional techniques. Participating in a sweat lodge might help someone for a particular health problem but not for another. Also, the experience could be very different depending on who runs the sweat lodge.
Traditional ceremonies usually involve much more than outsiders are aware of. When you attend a ceremony, show respect by asking about guidelines for observing or participating.
How Does Traditional Healing Interact With Western Medicine?
Healers have different views about combining their methods with western medicine. Some do not see any value in medical science or treatments. Others believe that the systems deal with different aspects of an individual so there is no problem using both.
Most western physicians do not understand the value or importance of traditional healing to their Native American patients. A few, especially in areas with large Native American populations, are more open to traditional healing.
If you combine western medicine and traditional healing, let your physician know about any treatments you are using. There might be interactions. For example, a traditional healer might use an herbal preparation to help you sleep. In that case, your physician would probably not want you to take sleeping pills. Your healer might want you to use herbs to cleanse your system. These might interact with western medications that you are taking. Your physician might help you avoid negative interactions.
The Bottom Line
Native American traditional healing is a holistic approach to health. Each tribe has its own healing traditions.
Traditional healers do not follow a standard procedure. Instead, they apply their skills to each person individually.
By themselves, techniques such as sweat lodges or vision quests are not "traditional healing." They have the most meaning as part of an overall healing tradition.
It is best if your care providers all know about everything you are doing for your health. There may be interactions among different techniques that you want to avoid. Inform the healers working with you, both western and traditional, what medications, treatments and dietary patterns you follow on a daily basis, whether they are prescribed or not.
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Contact the National Native American AIDS Prevention Center, Denver, Colorado for more information. Their web site is www.nnaapc.org. Their telephone number is (720) 382-2244.


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Robert B. Reich, "Critical Care," NYT, 1 September, reviews The Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office by David Blumenthal and James A. Morone.
Ross Douthat, "Another One for the Gipper," NYT, 1 September, reviews Steven F. Hayward's The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution, 1980-1989.
Thomas Lipscomb, "A Declaration of Inconclusiveness," WSJ, 28 August, reviews William G. Hyland Jr.'s In Defense of Thomas Jefferson.
Gerard DeGroot, "When the Iron Curtain Unraveled," Washington Post, 6 September, reviews Michael Meyer's The Year That Changed the World: The Untold Story Behind The Fall of the Berlin Wall.
Winston Groom, "The Torching of Atlanta," WSJ, 28 August, reviews Marc Wortman's The Bonfire and Russell S. Bonds's War Like the Thunderbolt.
Jay Mathews, "I Pledge Allegiance to Core Knowledge," Washington Post, 30 August, reviews E. D. Hirsch's The Making of Americans: Democracy and Our Schools.
In David T. Beito and Linda Royster Beito, "T.R.M. Howard, an unlikely civil rights hero," LA Times, 28 August, Howard's biographers identify his ties to the movement.
Ralph regularly covers more newspaper reviews than I do, and he can be found every day at Cliopatria.