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Although slow at first, the movie definitely picks up the suspense later on…
The 1996 thriller film Ransom centers on every parent's worst nightmare: learning that one's own child has been kidnapped, and only a hefty payment could (supposedly) return the child. It doesn't matter how much money the crooks demand. It can never exceed the value of the child's life, and to lose that child's life is to lose one's own as well. Director Ron Howard was certainly brave to tackle on such a sensitive topic, and he certainly does a fine job leading the filming process. Mel Gibson and Rene Russo as Tom and Kate Mullen, respectively, are pretty good as the grief-stricken parents in this story.
I will admit right now that the first half of the movie was just OK for me. The first several minutes are definitely predictable and standard. There's a cheerful scene in the opening credits, interspersed with close-up shots related to the villains of the story. Then there's an outdoor scene where another festive event, a school science fair, takes place. There are shots of Sean Mullen, Tom and Kate's son, as a mysterious man approaches. Then the man and the boy vanish from sight. Tom and Kate's reaction to this is genuine, though also expected in a story like this.
Even as FBI agents enter the story, including Delroy Lindo as Agent Lonnie Hawkins, watching the movie was a matter of going through fairly familiar motions. There's the series of phone calls from the kidnappers, the preparation of the money in suitcases, arrangements for the drop-off, and additional phone calls as Tom follows the instructions he is given. Even with some degree of excitement, the overall pacing here was somewhat slow.
Thankfully, the rest of the movie made up for this pace. Tom Mullen decides to turn the tables on the kidnappers. He attempts an interesting but very foolish and risky method to get his son back. I won't say what it is, but it was something I didn't expect. How the kidnappers react to this may also surprise you. And just when you think it's over, there's more. The finale is an intense sequence that is no doubt the payoff for sitting through a somewhat slow plot.
I would have given Ransom a 6/10 rating, but with a change of heart near the end, I decided a 7/10 would be more appropriate. Obviously, getting the full experience of the movie requires some patience. Otherwise, you wouldn't bother waiting to see how it ends. Overall, I thank Ron Howard for directing a nice picture, Mel Gibson and Rene Russo for their performances as two distraught parents, and, before I forget to mention, Gary Sinise as the sinister kidnapping mastermind. The movie Ransom was certainly worth the price of admission.
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The heliocentric model, the development of inductive reasoning, and the work of Descartes are all associated with which revolution?
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"With sincere heart and unpretended faith I reject . . . , and detest the aforesaid errors and heresies of Copernicus and also every other error . . . contrary to the Holy Church, and I swear that in the future I will never again say or assert . . .
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c) had lost faith in the teachings of science
d) wanted to advance his ideas through the Church
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One of the points where mathematics and day-to-day intuitions jar is in estimating numbers of combinations and similar combinatorial problems. I've just made a booking on Eurostar, and my confirmation code is a 6-letter code. Surely, my intuitive brain says, this isn't enough; all of those people going on all of those journeys on those really long trains, day-in, day-out. Yet there are a vast number of possibilities; with one letter of the 26 letter alphabet for each of the 6 letters in the code, there are 26^6=308,915,776 possible combinations. Given that there are 10 million Eurostar passengers each year, this is enough to allocate unique codes for passengers for around thirty years. It then makes you wonder why some codes are so long, like the 90-digit MATLAB registration code that I had to type in by hand a couple of years ago.
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I really really really wish we hadn't settled on the term "statistically significant". There's just too much temptation to elide from "these results show that situation X is statistically significantly different to situation Y" to "the difference between X and Y is significant" to "the difference between X and Y is important".
Statistical significance is about deciding whether it is reasonable to say that the difference between two things is not due to sampling error. Two things can be statistically significantly different and the magnitude of the difference of no "significance" (in the day-to-day sense) to the situation at hand.
We really should have gone for a term like "robustly distinguishable" or something that doesn't convey the idea that the difference is important or large in magnitude.
Sub-disciplines (1)Friday, October 11th, 2013
When I first started to meet humanities academics, it surprised me how many defined their interests in terms of nations: they were "Scottish historians", their subject was "British cinema", etc. There were even things like "American philosophy"—the idea that something as abstract as this can be influenced by something as concrete as nationhood still discombobulates me.
This struck me as rather odd. I'd assumed that this sort of characterisation would be super-naive. I would not have dreamed of asking a historian which country they specialised in: I assumed this would be like asking a mathematician which of the four basic arithmetic operations they specialised in, or (more controversial, this) a computer scientist which programming language they use.
I suppose I thought that at the research level, humanities would be characterised by larger, more abstract problems: the relationship between expressiveness and language, the common features of political systems throughout world history, the interplay between economic forces and art produced, etc., etc.
Of course, the humanities do deal with questions at this level of abstraction; but, largely through the lens of a particular example. There is a similarity here with biology. Biologists will characterise themselves as being experts in fruitflies or large primates or whatever; I have just about gotten over a sense of mild amusement at seeing signs on campuses for things like the "British Yeast Symposium". Of course, they are using these as a means of investigating deeper issues about gene expression, development, virus transmission, or whatever. It is easier to focus on one organism, as the techniques vary so much for different organism types. Similar with history, but perhaps the issue is less one of techniques than one of accumulated knowledge.
Why did I make this assumption that this characterisation was naive? I suppose I am used to this from studying mathematics, where we leave behind concreteness at a dizzying rate. But, then, it is possible to study mathematics in abstraction; once you have defined a mathematical concept formally, you can deal with it as a formal object, rather than through concrete examples. This isn't so possible in the humanities; theoretical points are usually argued via the concrete examples. Perhaps there is scope, in some areas, for "big data" methods to change this—for example, having tools that allow historians to take a concept and a database of its realisations in different historical periods and ask questions about that mass of realisations, rather than give a couple of examples and a vague hint that this is a large scale phenomenon.
In maths, this sort of thing is normal (1)Thursday, September 26th, 2013
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Multiscale Modelling (1)Monday, December 31st, 2012
Multiscale modelling is a really interesting scientific challenge that is important in a number of areas. Basically, the issue is how to create models of systems where activities and interactions at a large number of different (temporal and/or spatial) activities happen at the same time. Due to computational costs and complexity constraints we cannot just model everything at the smallest level; yet, sometimes, small details matter.
I wonder if there is a role for some kind of machine learning here? This is a very vague thought, but I wonder if somehow we can use learning to abstract simple models from more detailed models, and use those simple models as proxies for the more detailed model, with the option to drop back into the detailed model when and only when it is specifically needed?
Modulo Arithmetic FailWednesday, October 20th, 2010
The Two Cultures (1)Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
In a recent Guardian article, Bonnie Greer suggests that Kurt Gödel "had shown the world years before that nothing can be 100% proven" ("Me and Sister Carmela", 20th September). In fact, what he showed was the subtly different notion that not 100% of true statements (of a particular, broad class of mathematical statements) can be proven.
This is not just a pedantic factual correction. Frequently, mathematicians (and practitioners of other rigorous reasoning systems) are attacked in the media for their arrogance. This is often characterised as an assumption that "everything" can be shown to be true or false with 100% certainty. By contrast, only specific types of statements are amenable to mathematical methods; furthermore, even within that domain, not everything will be provable!
In particular, the elision of words used in some specific technical way ("proven", "statement") to imply that these narrow technical results magically mean something about the day-to-day meaning of these words is ubiquitous. It is not the mathematicians who are at fault in such situations, as they are precise about the narrowness of the applicability of their results.
It could be argued that it is the practitioners of the literary arts that are guilty of the arrogant over-reach that mathematicians are frequently blamed for: consider the slapdash use of metaphor to extend the reach of statements, overinterpretation of the meaning of technical notions based on mere co-incidence of words, and drawn out discussions that amount to little more than extended puns. This is ultimately destructive to both the understanding of science and literature and to attempts to create a meaningful dialogue between the disciplines.
It Could Be YouTuesday, September 21st, 2010
Lotteries are often described as "a tax on people who are innumerate". The idea is that any rationalist would not play a lottery, because the return on investment is shoddy—negative, indeeed, stunningly so. Back to the post office savings account then.
But hang on there! Is this really why people play lotteries? Often the driving force is the remote chance of a truly life-transforming event, which is not adequately measured by the ROI.
The interesting observation is that this argument also works for events with negative consequences. Indeed, we are accustomed to this kind of reasoning about negative events. For example, people will readily argue that, whilst they know that the chances of a plane crash are minuscule, nonetheless they aren't going anywhere a damn plane—because the consequences of being in a plane crash, however remote, are horrifying. Again, a life-transforming event, but one with bad rather than good consequences. The behaviour seems to be controlled by the same mechanism—I wonder if a carefully controlled experiment would show that the underlying structure of thought is basically the same?


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Colorado's recently reconstituted craft-brewing trade group has reached outside of both the state and the industry to find its new executive director.
Andres Gil Zaldana will be the new executive director of the Colorado Brewers Guild, whose members went through a public split centered on previous executive director John Carlson in June before reforming in October after Carlson had left the organization. The guild handles lobbying, marketing and event organization for craft breweries in Colorado, which have grown more than three-fold to nearly 350 locations over the past six years.
Zaldana comes to the guild from Washington D.C., where he worked previously with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and as a private-practice attorney. He has focused much of his career on helping trade associations and private clients with finance, tax and regulatory relief.
"Andres' history of advocating for small businesses will be an immediate benefit to us, especially as the guild works to ensure a business and regulatory climate that benefits all of our members," said Eric Wallace, co-founder of Longmont's Left Hand Brewing and chairman of the guild board.
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U.S. stock-index futures dropped as Germany and France differed on when to introduce a banking union for the euro-area and a report showed optimism among Chinese manufacturers fell, adding to concern of an economic slowdown.
Let me guess — beyond the problem that transparent balance sheets would cause for certain financial institutions in Germany (and elsewhere) riots are good for Chinese confidence, yes?
I always find it amusing when people talk about "resolving" a debt crisis while continuing to run leverage ratios at ridiculous levels and using central banks to try to play "inflate it away" (which, incidentally, cannot work.)
Speaking of which, I wish to dispell one of the common lies told about the paths available when one is overwhelmed with debt. It is often said that Europe (and the US) can "inflate away" debt with central-bank policy.
This is a lie.
It is mathematically impossible for that to work because all money is debt in a fiat currency system. Therefore, attempting to inflate away the debt is in fact counter-productive and doomed to failure, as the credit in the system, growing faster than output does, must always destroy more purchasing power than it diminishes debt in current-unit amounts.
The reason is that economics has slippage, and thus behaves much like a system subject to the laws of thermodynamics. That is, all economic actions have loss in some form or fashion; they are less than 100% efficient. To no small degree this is because government is always involved somewhere in the economy, but that is not the only reason — private parties always have some waste in their economic processes as well, as we all interact with the material world and that interaction is always less than 100% efficient.
This, in the end, leads one to the inexorable conclusion that there are in fact only two ways out of having too much debt — one can either cut the spending and raise the taxes required to stop increasing deficits at a government level, and stop the unsustainable spending in the private economy, or bankruptcy is inevitable.
The United States has a different set of problems that Europe to a large degree mostly because our deficits come from two places — defense and health care. As I have previously expounded upon the health care spending issues are not about Medicare and Medicaid per-se; they are instead about the health system itself and the unjust and unsustainable monopoly-style practices that health providers of all sorts have managed to carve out in the law over the previous 50 years. Likewise, our defense posture and spending, which is also grossly unsustainable, is nearly all about our energy policy — or rather the lack of one.
Neither of these issues can be resolved by simply "fixing the budget"; one must remove the special protections in the health care system and allow competition to come back into the fore, which will inevitably result in a short-term contraction in GDP (and a large one at that) as realignment occurs. Likewise, we must also solve our energy dependence, which will in turn make our military protectionism unnecessary and allow for contraction of our defense spending.
But neither of these are likely on a voluntary basis; both are political hot potatoes and none of the candidates for high office are even talking about these facts.
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Activists hope ballot questions signal support for marijuana bills
By Steve Leblanc, Associated Press, 12/5/2000 17:05
BOSTON (AP) When researchers launched the nation's most ambitious heart study 50 years ago, they chose Framingham, a middle-class town west of Boston and cross-section of America.
Now supporters of liberalized marijuana laws are hoping voters in this Massachusetts heartland are signaling a fundamental shift in public attitudes about the state's war on drugs.
On Election Day, Framingham voters overwhelmingly approved a nonbinding question calling for a law that would make possession of less than one ounce of marijuana a civil violation with a fine of no more than $100.
They weren't alone.
Voters in Ipswich, Winchester and Harwich also backed nonbinding questions calling for easing of marijuana laws. In March, Amherst voters called for the repeal of laws prohibiting the possession and use of marijuana.
Approval of the measures comes as the U.S. Supreme Court indicated it will hear the federal government's efforts to block state laws allowing ill patients to use marijuana for pain relief.
Sponsors of the questions say they prove support for weakening of marijuana laws extends beyond traditional liberal enclaves like Cambridge and Amherst.
"There is a terrific, discernible disconnect between the public and our elected officials on the issue of the war on drugs," said Allen St. Pierre of the National Organization for the Repeal of Marijuana Laws.
Armed with those votes of confidence, pro-marijuana activists are taking their message to a much tougher crowd: Beacon Hill lawmakers.
One proposal would decriminalize possession of an ounce or less of pot by making it a civil infraction punishable by a fine. Another would give a boost to the state's 1996 medical marijuana law by allowing people to grow their own.
The 1996 law, which allows people with certain illnesses to use marijuana, is on hold because people would have to register with a state Department of Health research project. Federal law currently prohibits such projects.
If they are unsuccessful in the Legislature, activists are preparing to take their proposal to the ballot box in 2002, St. Pierre said.
Both bills face an uphill fight.
Voters in Rep. Bradford Hill's traditionally conservative Ipswich district soundly approved a nonbinding referendum calling on Hill to support legislation making possession of marijuana a civil violation like a traffic ticket.
Hill, a Republican, isn't ready to take that step. He said he was baffled by the vote and will hold hearings in his district to gauge public opinion.
"Philosophically, I don't agree. I have had three friends from high school pass away because of drug abuse," he said. "But clearly a message was sent through that vote."
Hill said he wants to see what effect the decriminalization of marijuana has had in other states.
Voters in eight state have approved medical marijuana ballot questions, including Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado and Maine, according to St. Pierre. Lawmakers in Hawaii approved a similar measure.
During the 1970s, lawmakers in 11 states approved laws decriminalizing marijuana, he said. In 1998, Oregon legislators repealed a marijuana decriminalization law, but voters quickly rejected the repeal and reinstated the law, St. Pierre said.
More recent efforts to ease Massachusetts' drug laws have met with less success.
A statewide ballot question which would have diverted money seized in drug raids to drug treatment failed.
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A proposed ballot initiative would fund drug-treatment programs with assets seized from offenders
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MICHAEL CUTLER: "If people really want to do something about drug abuse — and not just say they do — this proposition is a step in the right direction."
Even in an era of unparalleled skepticism about America's war on drugs, the Massachusetts drug-policy-reform movement is used to being ignored. For years, activists pushing to improve what are seen as "useless" and "unfair" drug policies have found themselves up against the same impenetrable barrier: the law-and-order lobby. Police, in general, liken change to a public-safety threat, while politicians shy away from any stance that could be perceived as soft on crime.
Rather than clamor for legislators' attention, reformers, under the banner of the Coalition for Fair Treatment, are now taking their movement to the electorate. As one member explains, "We believe the public is more ready to change injustices of the drug war than legislators acknowledge." Since last summer, the statewide coalition, a broad and rather unlikely group of educators, attorneys, and civil-rights advocates, has launched an aggressive campaign, collecting more than 75,500 signatures in an attempt to put an initiative on the ballot this November. Petition P, as it's known, focuses on two basics in drug policy: substance-abuse treatment and the state's civil-asset-forfeiture law, which allows the government to take ownership of all property that "facilitated" a drug crime — even before any conviction occurs. The ballot initiative, if approved by voters, would use the forfeited assets to fund treatment for drug users. And it would make it harder for authorities to seize property from suspected drug offenders.
Petition P has drawn fire from anti-crime activists and law-enforcement officials, who call it a "ruse" that would force cutbacks in drug enforcement and allow dealers to escape prosecution. Their resistance was on display at an April 25 legislative hearing, during which all 11 of the state's district attorneys voiced opposition to the initiative. They even put forth an unexpected alternative — funding drug-treatment programs through fines imposed on dealers — that, in effect, jeopardizes the ballot initiative's future. But although the alternative proposed by the DAs would help fund treatment, it overlooks a crucial component of Petition P — namely, state forfeiture funds. So it's questionable whether it is, in fact, an acceptable legal substitute.
The signatures collected have brought the initiative before state legislators, who now have until May 3 to either pass it, offer options, or take no action and thereby send it to the voters. And now that an alternative backed by the powerful police unions exists, legislators could easily give the thumbs-up to its language instead.
Yet Petition P remains the first substantial chance to reform the drug war's woeful effects in Massachusetts. The ballot initiative would funnel millions of much-needed dollars into drug-treatment programs for low-level offenders, a tactic that has proven effective at combating drug-related crime, and it would get that money from state forfeiture funds, which currently amount to a slush fund for law enforcement. In other words, it would eliminate what's described as the current law's most pernicious aspect: giving forfeited assets to the very agencies seizing them. And by so doing, Petition P would make Massachusetts the first state to correct the conflict of interest inherent in the forfeiture law.
"This gives voters a chance to say `Enough' to tired rhetoric," says Richard Evans, a Northampton civil lawyer and the force behind the initiative, "and [instead] make Massachusetts a leader in drug-policy reform."
Despite what the state's DAs would have the public believe, Petition P is not an outrageous proposal. It would, after all, increase funds for drug-treatment programs with money and assets taken from the very people feeding addiction: the dealers.
Expanded treatment, for sure, is a good thing. Study after study has shown that treatment can be more effective than jail time at combating drug use and drug-related crime. In 1994, the state of California surveyed 150,000 participants in substance-abuse programs and discovered that their criminal activity had dropped by 60 percent.
Treatment also costs less than incarceration. In 1997, the Rand Corporation, a relatively conservative think tank, determined that annual prison expenses are approximately $30,000 per inmate, and that treatment ranges from $2000 to $16,000 per person.
"We're concerned about effective, just, and humane policy," says Stephen Saloom, a Petition P proponent and director of the Criminal Justice Policy Coalition, a statewide advocacy organization. "Incarcerating addicts does not address addiction."
To boost resources available for treatment, Petition P authors have focused on the problematic civil-asset-forfeiture law — and, specifically, on what are seen as "troublesome" and "unfair" loopholes. Right now, Massachusetts legislation allows police to seize everything from cars to houses to bank accounts before people are convicted of crimes — a practice that, in effect, presumes guilt. It's then up to property owners to prove that their belongings aren't the product of drug sales.
" `Forfeiture' is a nice word," says Michael Cutler, a former criminal-defense lawyer who advocates drug-policy reform. "But the real word is `confiscation.' Current law goes way too far."
In 1992, for instance, state troopers grabbed $38,000 from the briefcase of Tom Russo (not his real name) after stopping him and then charging him with drunk driving, among other violations. Although a state judge ordered the cash returned because of an illegal search, police had already transferred it to the federal government, essentially leaving the money — profits, it turned out, from a family-owned gas station — lost forever. A jury later acquitted Russo of all charges.
Petition P aims to correct such injustices. First, the proposed law would raise the standard for confiscating property, forcing police to provide clear evidence that forfeited assets relate to drug crimes and shifting the onus back onto the government.
More important, though, Petition P would eliminate a potential motive for abuse — namely, that law-enforcement agencies benefit financially from seized cash. By redirecting such revenue into a drug-treatment trust fund, the ballot initiative would make court-sanctioned treatment available to first- and second-time drug offenders whom judges see fit to sentence to rehabilitation instead of prison.
To supporters, using forfeiture funds this way is reasonable. "Drug proceeds would get people off drugs," says Rob Stewart, communications director for the Coalition for Fair Treatment. "It makes perfect sense to me."
Opponents of Petition P charge that the coalition has "duped" Massachusetts residents, and that the ballot initiative is little more than "a wolf in sheep's clothes." Worcester activist Billy Breault, who's crisscrossed the state to fight medical-marijuana and needle-exchange efforts, sums up the sentiment best: "They delivered us an initiative under the guise of treatment, but this will devastate our drug laws."
Opponents claim that Petition P would permit not only those charged with buying drugs, but also those charged with selling up to 28 grams of a drug, to claim themselves at risk of dependency. That means that dealers, as well as addicts, could request treatment in lieu of prosecution. (It should be noted that the initiative would merely give judges the discretion to decide which offenders would benefit from treatment instead of jail.)
Plymouth County district attorney Michael Sullivan, who describes the ballot initiative as "ill-conceived at best," insists that the current system is a success. Violent crime continues to decline, he says, partly because of all the dealers in jail today. "Mandatory minimums are important public-safety tools, especially in urban neighborhoods," he says.
Another vital public-safety device, opponents say, is the forfeited money that's funneled back to police departments and district attorneys' offices for sting operations, drug busts, and equipment. Undercover operations, in particular, carry hefty price tags, quickly exhausting the normal budgets of local police departments. Police have come to count on state forfeiture funds, which, it's estimated, range from $1 million to $3 million each year. Taking away the entire pool, initiative opponents assert, would hamper the ability of police to defend neighborhoods from drug activity.
Perhaps what irritates opponents more, though, is the money behind Petition P. Three rich out-of-state philanthropists have contributed nearly $400,000 to jump-start the campaign. The trio includes John Sperling of Phoenix and Peter Clark of Cleveland, but the most famous, or infamous, is New York billionaire George Soros, who helped finance medical-marijuana propositions in California and Arizona. Soros also funds the Lindesmith Center in New York, a drug-policy think tank viewed as the leading voice among those who want to legalize drugs.
That Soros would be connected to a ballot question here is enough to spark suspicion among opponents. Some, in fact, are convinced that Petition P is designed to be the first step in a long, carefully plotted crusade to decriminalize drugs.
"Soros is king of kings in the legalization movement," Breault warns, "and this petition is his Trojan horse."
There's no doubt that Petition P proponents fundamentally disagree with America's relentless, ever-intensifying drug war. Many are tied to progressive national institutions pushing for drug reform, including the Drug Policy Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Voluntary Committee of Lawyers.
But challenging the country's drug policy isn't necessarily the same as championing legalization. And because Petition P boasts such mainstream backers as former attorneys general Scott Harshbarger, James Shannon, and Frank Bellotti, Coalition for Fair Treatment members cannot easily be dismissed as people on the fringe.
This isn't to say that the more conservative types will make the coalition's task any easier. Now that the state's 11 district attorneys have submitted their own legislative alternative — which, however sudden, looks to be a legitimate attempt to fund drug treatment — coalition members expect state legislators to look favorably on that language instead, especially since it affords them the chance to bow out of a politically risky debate.
"DAs and police hold a lot of sway on Beacon Hill," Saloom says, "and they'll try to make the lives of allies miserable. It's easier for politicians not to act on our petition."
But even if legislators flat-out reject Petition P, the coalition plans to press forward. Members will crisscross the state, collecting another 9500 signatures to secure a ballot slot. (The added signatures must be supplied if legislators fail to take action on the proposal.) And if their "hunch" about Massachusetts public opinion turns out to be incorrect, and voters reject the proposal, members have already pledged to try again next year.
Until then, though, they find promise in the fact that, at the federal level, civil-asset-forfeiture reform has enjoyed rare, far-reaching support — so much so that fiercely conservative, tough-on-crime politicians such as Henry Hyde, Jesse Helms, and Bob Barr favor it. A bill that tightens federal law in ways similar to Petition P has passed Congress, and Bill Clinton has vowed to sign it.
"Forfeiture reform is one of the few issues where liberals and conservatives actually agree," notes Ron Madnick, who heads the ACLU office in Worcester and backs Petition P. "I don't know how Massachusetts could buck the trend."
Whether the state becomes a national leader in drug-policy reform remains to be seen, of course. But the ballot initiative, if anything, is sure to prompt people to rethink conventional thought about America's ongoing drug war. And those seeking a rational, effective approach may find Petition P to be the long-sought solution.
As veteran reformer Cutler puts it, "If people really want to do something about drug abuse — and not just say they do — this proposition is a step in the right direction."
Hubbardston Police plan to use Imager to Trap Pot Growers in Home.
(Story by Ernie King of the Gardner News)
June 2. Hubbardston. A new high tech device that is going to be used primarily for search and rescue is also going to be a thorn in the side for local clandestine marijuana farmers.
Office Chris Giglio and Officer Paul Swartz have recently returned from Phoenix, AZ, where they completed four days of extensive training in the use of a thermal imaging device. The course was offered by the Law Enforcement Demographic Association (LEDA).
The Hubbardston and Templeton police departments received grants which included the cost of the units and the related travel and training expenses.
"The primary use of the thermal imaging device will be for search and rescue operations at night," Gigilio said. "The device has an effective range of a mile and half in total darkness."
Giglio said the device cannot read a reflective surface such as glass or water because they reflect rather than emit heat."
Giglio said the thermal imaging device can also be used against marijuana farmers. "They can't grow outdoors because we'll catch them," he said. "Now they can't grow indoors, because they device will pick up any unusual heat." Giglio said that people growing marijuana indoors need intense lights that give off heat which has to be vented. He said the thermal imager is able to see that escaping heat. He said the device would be used as a last resort to catch anyone growing the illegal weed.
Gigilio said the device can also be used to find things that are buried in the ground. The thermal imager can see the chnages in soil temperature if the soil has been disturbed. "It can detect changes in the temperature of the soil for up to 60 days," he said.
One of the things Giglio said you don't do with a thermal imaging device is drop it. "It cost approximately $50,000," Giglio said.
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"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace,
good will toward men." Luke 2:14
Our family here in Virginia had a lovely Christmas season, enjoying a nice warm weather and wonderful time with family and friends. What a blessing it is to be able to celebrate the true reason for the season – Jesus Christ born as a humble baby to bring the peace to this world and demonstrate God's good will toward men!
However, as we enjoyed the festive Christmas service, the holiday meal, and the warmth of fire in the wood stove, we couldn't help but think and pray of Christians in the Middle East, in North Korea, in Africa who face persecution and death daily, of all the countries torn by unrest and war, of our motherland Ukraine under attack, of our wonderful new homeland America scarred by unrest in Ferguson. Our world is drowning in violence and pain, and peace seems to be a mirage. Our thoughts and feelings are nothing new. Over a hundred years ago Henry Wadsworth Longfellow expressed pretty much the same but more poetically in his 'Christmas Bells':
I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
And in despair I bowed my head;
'There is no peace on earth,' I said;
'For hate is strong,
And mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!'
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
'God is not dead; nor doth he sleep!
The Wrong shall fail,
The Right prevail,
With peace on earth, good-will to men!'
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Today, just like ever before, this world needs peace; today this world still desperately needs a Savior. This world needs Jesus. We as His people, His followers, are given the mission to carry on the song sang by angels so many years ago: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men". Our God is not dead, and He is coming back for His Church! While there is still time, we will shine His light and carry His Word to the world in need.
May this new year be a year when we re-commit to our Lord and Savior, draw closer to Him, and spread the good news of His salvation to all the nations! And may God's peace rule in our hearts and minds!


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- August 27, 2012 at 9:12 pm
Hi! I'm a born again Christian (a Messianic Jew, really), and am an artist, myself. I am inviting other artists whose work I admire to contribute high resolution photos of their realistic or modern paintings to appear in this new book I'm writing, "The Holy Spirit in the New Testament." The contributions by selected artists will illustrate or reflect over 100 scriptures in the New Testament about the Holy Spirit which I've selected and organized into 16 chapters, with a foreword introducing the Holy Spirit to the reader, or your painting(s) may be used as a chapter heading. The names of artists, their bios and contact info will appear at the back of the book and artists' names will be listed on the back cover.
You are a great artist, and they so personify the nature and power of Holy Spirit for me, and I so admire your work, I hesitate to ask if I may get your permission to include several of your paintings since I cannot pay up front. However, I'd be happy, once artwork and text is organized and my calligrapher has completed all the scriptures, to get a lawyer and prepare contracts, percentages of book profits, or small flat fees, and get artists' consents only this time in writing BEFORE publication. ANYTHING, if I can only use your beautiful paintings! It isn't in my heart to make $ but to glorify the Holy Spirit, but I know artists want to be paid and acknowledged, so I'll do whatever I can.
All I need now are photos of the paintings below to put in a folder until everything's assembled that are bigger than a thumbnail so they're easier to view. This way I can organize them, if you agree to my including them, and begin attaching the scriptures to the paintings and also promoting the book will be possible then because I can show I actually have real artwork to accompany my manuscript! I'll need high resolution photos eventually before publication.
These are the paintings I'm VERY interested in:
The Lamb of God
Light of the World
Silent Night
Withut Purse or Script
She shall Bring Forth a Son
Drink and Never Thirst
I'd like to email you photos of some pastel paintings of mine which I'll be using in the book. I have about 100 scriptures in all, and am working with an excellent calligrapher who is also an artist who will be doing the whole thing in calligraphy, so it won't be finished for several months. So far, I have 26 artists, many of them Christian. Some, I'm proud to say, are allowing me to use the images free. I will be happy to send you links to 3 of my Christian picture books for older children and adults if you care to peruse THEM, as well. This will hopefully convince you of my talent, sincerity, ability to produce excellent product and to complete projects!
Your paintings are REALLY perfect for my book and I am SO looking forward to hearing from you! I hope we can work something out!
Marcie Shepard
847 508 8327
- August 28, 2012 at 10:46 pm
On a humanitarian trip to our school in Madagascar this summer we met a family and recognized your art in their home. I hope you know how far your art has reached and how many it has touched! I took a picture of a young woman and her mother holding it but could not attach it. I would love to send it to you if you have a regular email address I could use.
Thank you for sharing your wonderful talents with us all.
- September 18, 2012 at 2:34 am
I would love to have Liz speak at our Salt Lake Canyon Trails Company of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers. Please contact me by email and let me know is this would be possible. Thank you.
- September 22, 2012 at 3:56 am
Liz I have been working at Repartee for a couple of weeks now and am so grateful to be working with your beautiful Art of the Savior. It is so inspiring. I love the videos and blogs…and have learned so much. Thank you for sharing your amazing talent with so many. Linda
- October 15, 2012 at 6:12 am
I heard you speak last month in Rifle CO. I truly enjoyed listening to your story and I absolutely LOVE your work! At the end of your talk you showed a beautiful video, I believe for Christmas this year. I'm just wondering if it is available for purchase. I would love to give it to friends and neighbors along with your picture of the Savior. I have ordered 100 prints to give away. Thanks so very much for sharing your gifts & talents with the world!!!
Rebecca Burt
- October 27, 2012 at 12:52 am
My name is Tawnya McGraw; I am the mother of 6 ages 20-7 and the Stake Primary Presidnet. I love to paint and have enjoyed painting and drawing for many many years. Recently the prophet announced that our Son would be able to get out into the mission field a year earlier than we had planned. After praying and searching for an answer of how I could help him financially without leaving home I was told that I should paint. But it is a struggle for me to take an artform that has mostly been a release from life and apply it to the world. Do you have any suggestions or advice for me? T~
- November 12, 2012 at 11:05 pm
My friend Grace Moore is taking lessons from you. Les Moore (her grandfather is my friend and said that you are her art teacher). I am interested in having my son take classes from you. He is the most amazing artist. My friend Rhonna Farrer who is an artist, went to school to study children art protege's and said that my son is more amazing than any child she has seen. I need to find someone to teach him and further his techniques. Can you please contact me and let me know if he can come to your class?
Thank you so much!
Jamie Soucy
- November 13, 2012 at 11:13 am
Hi Liz,
I am a member of the Church from New Zealand and I am organizing a Woman at the Well fireside with our Relief Society. I was just wondering if I could use some of your beautiful images for a slideshow during the fireside?
Thank you,
- November 14, 2012 at 12:23 am
Santa Rosa CA stake is presenting a Choral Christmas program as our missionary outreach to our community.
I have been asked to provide the multimedia visuals. May we please use your images of the life of Christ as part of this event? Dec 1st and 2nd.
Kenna McOmber
SR Stake Creche Festival Committee
- November 14, 2012 at 12:24 am
I am mesmerized by the moments of humanity, spirituality and beauty that hold me in stillness and feed my soul.
Thank you!
- November 14, 2012 at 3:03 am
I recently bought 3 prints of your art called "The Restoration". It's the print of Peter, James, and John with their hands on Joseph Smith's head confering the Priesthood on him. I took it and put it together with me, my brother and father's line of authority. I transposed it against your print but in a watermark. I now want to print them up and frame them for Christmas. I wanted to get a copyright release from you in order to do this. I've already bought your prints and if you would like I can shred them after I print these up. Can you help me with this?
- November 17, 2012 at 2:57 pm
I have bought pictures form this collection from Deseret Book. I put them in a little quiet book for my children to keep them quiet in sacrament. It works great. They love to look at all the amazing pictures. I would like to sell the books that I make. So I am trying to see if I can get permission from the artist to use their aret in my book. Every picture would give the credit to the artist. I would greatly apreciate your help. Thank you for your time.
Randee Logan
- December 3, 2012 at 4:52 am
11 years or so ago Jim Sherman had me fill in as Mary for you in a photo shoot. You were doing it so you could paint Jesus at the temple at age 12. I've been waiting these many years to see how it turned out & would love todisplay it in my home. Please let me know if you did paint it & if so where I could buy a copy. It was a wondeful experience I'll always remember.
Jennifer Eagar
- December 6, 2012 at 2:33 am
Hi, Liz! First of all, I stumbled upon your site while looking for images of Mary with an infant Jesus and I'm blown away. Your work is utterly amazing.
I know it's really last minute but I begin a series on my blog tomorrow about the human side of Mary as a mother. If I credited you and linked back to this site, may I use the image "She Shall Bring Forth A Son"?
I will go ahead and put it up if I don't hear back from you before tomorrow and if this is not OK, I will take it down immediately.
Thank you for your beautiful work!
- December 6, 2012 at 5:17 pm
I truly love your paintings and I have recently been selected to be a director for a religious retreat. I would like to see if I could have your permission to use your artwork to have a picture to put on our name tags and banner for the retreat.
- December 15, 2012 at 3:22 am
I'm looking through "Jesus Christ – Son of Man," a book by Susan Easton Black with art by you. It's a beautiful book that I've had many years. There is a black and white drawing on page 38 of Jesus holding a lamb. I don't see a name for it. Also, I've looked at the Greenwich website and that isn't one of the pieces they offer for sale. Can you please give me the name of the piece and any help as to how I might obtain a copy. It's dated 3/26/01.
I just love it.
Thank you so much
- January 9, 2013 at 11:18 pm
Thank you for your exhibit at the Mormon Battalion in San Diego! Our ward's YW are going to the Mormon Battalion Historic Site tonight just to see your paintings. Do you have any small thing you could say to them about how you felt while you worked on these paintings?
Thank you again for sharing your talents!
Patty Katashima
- January 15, 2013 at 11:46 pm
Hi Liz. I'm working on the posters and invites for the Women's Conference you and Susan will be speaking at next month (Cedar Hills West Stake). I'm trying to find some high res images of your artwork for the background on both. The posters will be 16 x 20 and the invites 4 x 6. Thanks.
- January 18, 2013 at 1:20 am
I have always been a fan of paintings of the Savior but the one that appeared in the December 2012 Ensign magazine, Seeking the One, has touched me as no other painting has ever done. I have returned time and again to the photo of your beautiful painting and each time I am brought to tears by its beauty. I haven't quite figured out just why, but the broken thong on His sandal has really reached into my heart and soul.
I decided today, that I needed this picture in my home and was so pleased to be able to find a site where I could order it.
Thank you so much for sharing your talent with the world.
- February 22, 2013 at 7:27 pm
Hi Liz. Your work is amazing! I have "Worth of a Soul" displayed in our Library. I have two adopted bi-racial children and I appreciate your work so much. I recently joined the board of a non-profit organization call The Voice of the Children. They are developing a ten acre agricultural community as well as supplying a medical clinic and orphanage in Haiti. I just finished serving for three years as primary president and have a great love of teaching children the gospel. I have a bachelors in English Creative Writing, and I'm well acquainted with Children's books. My neighbor is Haitian and he is a lawyer and poet. We're nearby in Draper. We would like to write a children's book in French and Creole to teach the gospel to Haitian children and help them feel the Spirit. One of my earliest memories of feeling the Spirit as a child was while reading a book on prayer and I've witnessed the power of picture books in teaching the gospel to my own children. I spoke with a bishop in Port-au-Prince yesterday and he was very touched by the idea. Another member of our board can self-publish it. The missing piece is art work. I would love for children and families in Haiti to feel the powerful Spirit that emanates from your artwork. They will feel their Savior's love when they look at your work and read the words of truth accompanying it. Would you be interested?
- March 2, 2013 at 1:31 am
I would love to buy a large print of The Road To Emmaus, but can't find one for sale. Is there a location that sells large prints of this piece?
Thank you for sharing your gift – you are immensely gifted.
- March 10, 2013 at 8:10 pm
Mrs. Liz
Olivato my name is John, I am writing from La Spezia (Italy). Thank you for the emotions that it gives me every time I see one of his paintings. The passages of the Bible that she has been brought to life, the 'facial expressions and the color of his paintings leave you breathless. I would like to share with others these emotions, I ask permission to use some images of his paintings for the website I made for the Mission Center of the City I work with my free to know our missionaries who are scattered around the world. Whatever your decision, thank you very much of what gives us. The Lord has given you a great gift.
Forgive me for the mistakes made in this my email but I unfortunately do not speak English
- March 12, 2013 at 3:22 am
where can i purchase a print or reproduction of Joseph Smith at Christ's feet? i LOVE that painting!
- March 18, 2013 at 3:32 am
Dear Liz, Like all the other people who have commented, I think you are a wonderful artist. I have a special request for you. I have used your paintings on my first two Jesus My Son novels. I have received so many positive comments! Now, I have finished my third book, Jesus My Son: Mary's Journal of Jesus' Death and Ascension and I need a cover. I have serached your website, but cannot find a painting suitable for this cover. Do you have anything hidden in your private gallery that would show Jesus looking up toward his heavenly Father and down at his earthly mother with a title Jesus My Son? I really would appreciate any help you could offer. Thanks so much.
- March 20, 2013 at 9:45 pm
Hey, Sister Swindle!
My name is Rebecca Johnston, and I'm a student at BYU-Idaho. I'm taking a class called Business for the Professional Artist, and I was wondering if I could have a phone interview with you and ask you a couple of questions? The interview wouldn't be longer than a half an hour, and I wouldn't be publishing it. It'd be for my own personal use. I'd like to ask you particularly about being a mother and an artist since that is what I would like to do. I'm available pretty much any time except between 9-10 A.M on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I hope to hear from you soon! Thank you for the beautiful work you share!
Rebecca Johnston
- March 22, 2013 at 1:50 am
You are an extremely talented artist and I really love your work. For a Relief Society activity we are doing we would like to make a slideshow of pictures of the Savior and we're hoping to get permission to include some of your beautiful paintings. Please let me know if this would be a possibility. I really appreciate your consideration and thanks for sharing your wonderful talent!
- March 28, 2013 at 10:07 pm
I would like to know what email address to use to ask for permission to use an electronic copy of the image "Hold On Tight", on our Powerpoint display, for a meeting that we are having at our church. It is a wonderful image and would fit just perfectly with our subject.
thank you in advance,
- March 29, 2013 at 3:23 pm
Hello Liz
My name is Javier Cabot. I am web editor of Pictures of Jesus (www.christpictures.org). We store Jesus Pictures of different authors. I have permission to publish it (with a link to original picture website) of several author.
I want your permission to publish your art on my web.
If you want you can visit it on http://www.christpictures.org. If you give me permission, please can you contact with me at firstname.lastname@example.com?
- April 4, 2013 at 4:37 am
Hello! You may not remember me, but I attended a fireside you spoke at some time ago in Hemet, and I just wanted to say thank you for sharing your talents with so many people and bringing the Spirit into their lives. And I wanted to share something about how your art has influenced my life.
I recently had a high school assignment for my AP English 11 class where we were required to analyze a painting poetically. I thought about it and decided to try and make more out of the assignment than just a normal assignment and looked through some of your artwork, remembering your fireside.
As I looked through and contemplated about which painting to select, my mind kept coming back to your painting, "Forgiven". As required by the assignment, I wrote down how it made me feel and how I would feel if I were in the painting. After deeply considering these things, I really wanted to start work on the poem. I had an impression to say a prayer before I started because I felt like I could make more out of this than just another grade to help pass my class. As I started to write the poem, I thought about things that she might be feeling at the time as well as your remarks on the story of the painting. Though it started out thinking about this, it began to flow more out onto paper because I could relate to her situation from a somewhat similar past experience with repentance. As it continued, it became more about what I had felt during that process of repentance, but when it finished, I found that it could go either way; not just for me, or for the woman in the story, but anyone who has been lifted by the Savior from a dark state of sin to be clean, pure, and filled with the reassurance of His love.
This is the poem I wrote:
I knew it was wrong, I felt it inside,
And now I felt broken, wanting only to hide.
The guilt grew inside me; the crowd knew it well;
But still as I lay there it fervently swelled.
Heavily I cried, knowing my tears
Were not out of sorrow, but moved more by fears.
The guilt, it consumed me, till soon even though
The crowd was still round me, I felt all alone.
My world, it grew darkened; my hope, it grew faint;
I could see but nothing more than the taint.
The darkness, it deepened, till I came to be blind,
Knowing only the pain, and no brighter side.
Then out of the darkness approached a pure light,
I tried to look toward it; but the light seemed too bright.
Suddenly, I knew it, and looked down in shame;
A friend whom had trusted me with His own name.
Why had He come here, I questioned myself;
Surely more goodness could be found somewhere else.
Perhaps he'd reject me for the deeds I had done;
I was simply convinced that the darkness had won.
But there was no rejection, no hateful remark,
I saw only a hand offer freedom from dark.
I looked up with tears, in wonder and awe,
As I felt my guilt lighten, and in moments, 'twas gone.
I looked at the eyes that looked warmly at me,
And suddenly realized that I was now free.
The joy swelled inside me, filled every dark place;
His arms closed round 'bout me in loving embrace.
My child, He said; How I've missed you so,
And now that I've found you, I will carry you home.
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The Reserve Bank board cut the official interest rates from 3.25% to 3.0% at their meeting this month. This means the cash rate has dropped to the same level as April 2009. Most lenders have passed on some of the rate cut however only a few lender have passed on the total cut. There has…Read More→
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WRA challenges Initiative 1433 in court
By Jan Teague, President/CEO
WRA has gone to court to challenge the constitutionality of Initiative 1433 that voters approved last fall to raise the state minimum wage and institute paid sick leave statewide.
Our argument is limited to the faulty form of the initiative.
It asked voters two things that are unrelated and therein lies the problem. Just last year, the state Supreme Court threw out a tax-cutting measure on the grounds that the state constitution limits initiatives to a single subject.
Initiative 1433 asked voters to decide between two unrelated policy matters. Because of that, there's no way to know whether most of them wanted higher wages or paid sick leave. In fact, the measure failed in every county east of the Cascades.
Left unchallenged, both policies go into effect with paid sick leave starting in 2018. The statewide minimum wage rose to $11 an hour on January 1 and would climb to $13.50 by 2020.
We're not alone in challenging I-1433. We're members of a coalition including the National Federation of Independent Business, the Northwest Food Processors Association, the Washington Food Industry Association and individual farmers in central Washington.
Our court argument is about the faulty, unfair and illegal execution by proponents of I-1433.
We in the coalition believe I-1433 is unconstitutional because it forced thousands of voters to make two decisions that thereby nullified true voter support for either one.
We have a court date in Kittitas County Superior Court in April when arguments will be heard. I will be sure to keep you abreast of the developments.
Senator introduces two nexus sales tax bills
By Mark Johnson, Senior Vice President of Government Affairs
Two bills have been introduced in the Senate that would allow Washington State to collect sales taxes from retailers without a physical presence here.
Senator Steve Hobbs is the prime sponsor of Senate Bills 5855 and 5856. Similar bills have been passed elsewhere including South Dakota. They challenge the U.S. Supreme Court's Quill Decision that says a state cannot collect tax from a business located outside – or without a physical presence, or nexus – within that state.
The latest estimates I have seen are that Washington loses somewhere in the $600 million to $700 million range in uncollected sales tax. We will have to wait to see what the official fiscal note on the bills says. In any estimation, it will be a significant amount of income that could help Washington fulfill the state Supreme Court's mandate to fully fund state schools.
The hope by the proponents of these Washington bills and similar bills elsewhere is that Congress and the President will feel the need to pass federal legislation. This would level the national playing field on which brick and mortar and online retailers compete for business.
This matter has been debated without final action in Washington, D.C. for several years. It is far past time that Congress and the President enact the proposed "Marketplace Equity Act" that would address these complications across the nation.
State posts upcoming tax rate changes
The Department of Revenue has reported upcoming second quarter tax rate changes throughout the state.
The changes are effective April 1 of this year.
The database of changes can be found here. A breakdown of the changes by location is here. Click here to look up tax rates by location.
If you have any questions or comments regarding Revenue's website, send an e-mail to email@example.com or call 1-877-345-3353.
WRA meets regarding restrictive scheduling rules
By Tammie Hetrick, Senior VP of Retail Services
I have been working with members and their attorneys this week reviewing draft language from the City of Seattle. This is in preparation for another meeting in a series of rulemaking meetings tomorrow regarding Seattle's new restrictive scheduling law.
The WRA team including our Seattle contract lobbyist John Engber will come with concerns regarding how city officials are drawing plans for the way the law will work. It goes into effect on July 1.
Based on a draft of rules already circulated, we're developing concerns about how many retailers will be affected by the costs of this law and the complications it will cause in scheduling. For larger retailers, it requires that work schedules be posted two weeks in advance or retailers will face minimum $500 fines. It also discourages hiring by requiring that available extra work hours first be offered to existing employees.
In particular, some of our members are concerned about whether they would be penalized for on-call assignments.
We've already begun hearing from some companies that the proposed work rules are causing them to consider closing their Seattle store locations.
We will continue to update you in this newsletter and on our website as the scheduling rules develop. In the meantime, click here to read an overview of what may be included in the pending rules that will be used to determine how the city enforces the ordinance.
We are urging retailers who have concerns about some of the details outlined to comment or ask questions about the rules by contacting Karina Bull, OLS Senior Policy Analyst, at 206-684-4536 or by e-mailing firstname.lastname@example.com. More background information is available on the OLS website.
You also are welcome to contact me with concerns or questions at 360-943-9198, ext. 13 or email@example.com. We expect to see final draft rules shortly and receiving feedback now will allow the City an opportunity to address the concerns before the draft is complete.
WRA meets about new Retro rules
By Tammie Hetrick, Senior VP of Retail Services
I continue meeting with an advisory group on possible new rules Labor & Industries is drawing up for the Retrospective Rating program.
My concern is that changing how the program works could affect the size of workers' compensation insurance premium refunds companies are awarded for maintaining safe workplaces.
The rules affect how refunds are distributed.
I have been meeting with L&I about this since late last year. I expect the department will settle on how to change rules by this summer before putting them into effect in July.
Look for updates from me as these talks get closer to making any changes. Please contact me with questions or concerns at 360-943-9198, Ext. 13 or email@example.com.
Another Legislature deadline comes in a week
As the 2017 legislative session reaches its halfway mark, lawmakers find themselves a week away from the full House and Senate needing to share their approved bills with one another.
The March 8 House of Origin deadline follows similar deadlines for action by the committees of each house.
WRA continues tracking hundreds of bills in the midst of lawmakers passing their various milestones during the session.
Here is a sample of the more significant bills WRA is tracking:
- WRA supports workers compensation reform bills including HB 1755, SB 5670 and SB 5822. The first two would require that state fund employers be notified of settlement negotiations involving employees in accidents with non-employees while on the job. Earlier this week, the bills were in the Rules Committees of either house.
- HB 1047 is in the House Rules Committee awaiting further action. It would allow voluntary drug takeback programs at pharmacies. WRA is neutral on the bill.
- Two of four equal pay bills have survived during the session. They are HB 1447 and 1506. WRA supports 1447 but opposes 1506.
- WRA supports SB 5286 that would prohibit regulating rent levels for commercial properties. The bill was in the Senate Rules committee earlier this week.
- WRA opposes two bills, SB 5025 and HB 1054, that would raise the legal drinking age in the state from 18 to 21. This would lower sales tax revenue to the state and drive customers to tribal smoke shops or out of state.
WRA opposes HB 1376 to establish a statewide paint recycling program. It would create a $9 million tax increase in the form of higher paint prices to finance the program.
Research Council sorts through education funding plans
Fully funding state schools is this legislative session's overriding agenda item to comply with a state Supreme Court mandate by the end of the year.
As a result, the Governor, state Senate and House each has put forward specific proposals to address the mandate.
The Senate and House already have passed separate spending proposals. What results by the end of the session will be the result of compromise by both houses of the Legislature and the Governor.
The Washington Research Council has been tracking each proposal and has composed policy briefs to analyze the differences between the proposals. Click here to read an analysis of the Legislature's work to date.
Source: Washington Research Council
State economic forecast improves
A new state economic forecast released this week calls for an uptick in hiring, higher personal income and lower unemployment rates.
The March forecast is a follow-up to one released in November, before Presidential votes were tallied, by the Economic Revenue Forecast Council. The later forecast includes some policies proposed by the Trump administration including lower personal and corporate federal tax rates, a federal hiring freeze and $250 billion in additional infrastructure spending over the next decade.
- Total non-farm employment since November rose by 13,600, about 1,500 more than in the November forecast.
- Employment is expected to grow 2.2 percent this year, up from the November outlook of 1.9 percent job growth.
- Personal income for this year now is forecast to grow 4.9 percent, up from the November forecast of 4.5 percent.
- Unemployment is forecast to be 4.9 percent in the third quarter, down from 5.1 percent forecast in November.
- Contrary to a November forecast for rising oil prices, the latest forecast is that oil prices are expected to decline slightly in the coming months.
Click here to review tables with further comparisons between late last year and the new state forecast.
Source: ERFC
Washington rates low on tax appeals
Washington State scored a C-minus in a Council on State Taxation special report for its tax appeals process. The grade ranks the state among the five lowest in the nation.
The council and American Bar Association consider whether taxpayers must pay a disputed amount before an appeals hearing; whether those hearing an appeal know state tax laws; and whether the appeals forum is truly independent.
The council found fault with Washington because:
- Taxpayers must appeal within 30 days
- They must wait too long for a decision
- They must pay a disputed tax before a hearing
- The state board of tax appeals lacks excise tax expertise
- The Legislature passes retroactive tax laws
The full report is here.
Safety tip of the week:
Computer screen adjustments for older workers
Mature workers wishing to remain on the job rather than retire are gravitating to retail for employment opportunities. As workers age, they can maintain productivity by considering minor adjustments to office equipment.
Adjustments to computer screens, for example, might make good sense.
Over time, vision may weaken. Here are a few ideas that might be appropriate.
- Change the computer screen to a larger flat screen. This will eliminate the flicker (screen refresh rate) of the tube style monitors. This gives the user a larger 'surface' to view.
- There are 'ease of access features' built right into the existing software you already have. For Windows, it can be found in the Control Panel and will give you the ability to change contrast, brightness, text size, color temperature and more. A browser's font size is easy to adjust as well.
- Reduce screen glare by adjusting screen or area lighting. Consider installing an anti-glare filter on your monitor.
- Use the 20-20-20 rule. After 20 minutes of computer use, look at something 20 feet away for at least 20 seconds.
Each person is different so you will need to evaluate both the person and the work they perform. Actually, this kind of evaluation could help all of your employees regardless of their age.
These are just a few tips. The RASI Safety Library for WRA members has additional information on this topic.
WRA employs Rick Means as a Safety Specialist. He's available to members to help draw up safety plans and suggest topics for safety meetings. Contact him at 360-943-9198, Ext. 18 or email@example.com
Renton schools seek interviewing help
Renton School District is a strong supporter of WRA's Safe ME project, which helps entry-level workers with basic safety training and awards certificates that can be included on resumes and mentioned on job applications.
The goal of Safe ME is to provide safety training before applicants seek their first jobs.
The Renton school district plans a Trades Fair at Lindbergh HS on March 7th and is looking for business owners to help with mock job interviews to prepare students for entering the workforce. If you would like to help please contact Susan Huynh at email@example.com.
Follow our tweets this session
Twitter can be a useful tool in helping WRA's followers and others to keep up with developments regarding bills under consideration in the 2017 session.
Many followers of the Legislature don't have the time to attend hearings or have to wait until the next day for the newspaper to arrive. But by following WRA @waretail on Twitter, we alert you ahead of time to key testimony offered by our lobbyists and then follow with live tweets during key hearings and selected voting. We also link you to the full text of bills.
So far this year, we've live tweeted Senior Vice President Mark Johnson's testimony regarding WRA's concerns about Gov. Inslee's proposed state budget and support for bills to curb retail theft. We've also covered contract lobbyist Carolyn Logue's testimony regarding WRA's opposition to HB 1493 regarding the uses of technologies to determine personal identification.
Please follow us on Twitter for retail-related developments throughout the year.
Save money with WRA's discount shipping partner
FedEx and UPS have higher shipping rates this year.
WRA extends an offer to save money on shipping small packages by singing up with Partnership, WRA's discount shipping partner.
To enroll and receive exclusive discounts on select FedEx® services, visit PartnerShip.com/99WRA. For more information, email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 800-599-2902.
Learn more about how the 2017 rate increases will affect your shipping costs by downloading a free research paper at PartnerShip.com/RateIncrease.
Source: Partnership
WRA diversity statement
It's essential to have a holistic strategic plan for diversity and inclusion. We encourage everyone to consider having a plan that connects with diverse people, creates a diverse workforce, fosters an inclusive work environment where different perspectives are valued, partners to share time, talent, and resources with our staff and with communities, and communicates these values with others.
In principle and in practice, we value access to leadership opportunity regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, appearance, geographic location, or professional level. The association strives to accomplish this by serving as a model where we are working to help our staff, our volunteer leaders, our members, and our community embrace these principles.


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The Truth Behind The Propaganda To Destroy President Duterte
We don't need to convince the Filipinos that Duterte's "War on Drugs" will be for the good of our country. Proof of this is the 91% who believes in the administration. But the problem now is that Duterte's enemies are doing it again. Hitting below the belt, the same thing they did when they released the anti-Duterte campaign ads just before election day.
They know they can not win because of the people's support and Duterte has the numbers in the Senate and Congress. The only chance they have now is to bring their fight in the international arena.
Let us work together to destroy their agenda. If possible, let us put english subtitles in the videos we are creating. Much better if we make videos in english rather than in Filipino. As I've said, the priority now is to convince the international community that our president is not a mad man.
Why are they doing this? This is because there's a lot at stake for them. Drug business, Tax evaders, Mining closures, Illegal businesses, etc. Mostly controlled by the oligarchs. There is a concerted effort to discredit this administration. Let us not allow them to succeed. Please share this.
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Newcastle United and Sunderland will face each other in the Premier League today.
Former Sunderland star Micky Gray outlined on the Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast show on talkSPORT on Friday morning (broadcast from 6am, March 18) what he is worried about Newcastle United.
Newcastle will take on Sunderland at St. James' Park in the Premier League later today.
With both teams fighting for survival in the English top flight, today's Tyne-Wear derby is one of the biggest and most important in history.
Gray suggested that the managerial change at Newcastle could give the home side a lift.
"The thing that worries me is Benitez has gone to Newcastle," said the former England international on the Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast show on talkSPORT on Friday morning (broadcast from 6am, March 18).
"The three seasons before we (Sunderland) have changed our manager, we have got the right result. We have won six in a row now, looking obviously for the seventh one.
"I think this is going to be hardest of the lot. Rafa has got them organised, it's going to be a really difficult game."
When asked for his prediction of the final result, Gray said: "2-2."
Rafael Benitez replaced Steve McClaren as the Newcastle boss earlier this month, and the Spaniard will be determined to pick up all three points today.
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