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This Product can be traded "Over The Counter" (OTC).
This Key Information Document was updated on 03.01.2022.
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This Product is a financial instrument of the following category: CFD on currency pairs.
This Product creates a leveraged exposure to the movement of the value of the underlying asset (i.e. GBPUSD. currency pairs).
Its return is mainly affected by the price and volatility of the underlying asset, the extent of leverage used by the investor and the associated costs of the trade. The price of the underlying asset is driven by demand and supply which is greatly affected by various factors such as important political events (e.g. elections, referendums, etc), central bank announcements, economic and geopolitical developments and investors' behaviour.
Positions on this Product can be opened and closed 24 hours a day from Sunday 22:05 GMT to Friday 21:50 GMT.
It is noted that this Product does NOT have a minimum holding period.
CFDs are speculative products which are traded with leverage and are not appropriate for all investors. Positions may be closed due to margin calls/stop outs. Elaborating further, margin trading requires extra caution, because whilst you can realize large profits if the price moves in your favour, you risk extensive losses if the price moves against you. Failure to deposit additional funds in order to meet the maintenance margin requirement as a result of a negative price movement may result in the CFD being auto-closed. This will occur when your remaining account equity falls below the maintenance margin requirement.
Trading in CFDs carries high level of risk and thus can generate great profits as well as great losses. Investors should never invest more than that they are willing to lose, as it is possible to lose their initial investment. Unless a Client knows and fully understands the risks involved in CFD trading, they should not engage in any trading activity.
The Company acts as the sole execution venue for the execution of the Clients' orders. The transactions entered in financial instruments with the Company are not executed on a Trading Venue, rather they are executed by the Company, through its Electronic Trading Platform and as such may expose the Client to greater risks than those of a Trading Venue. Therefore, the Company may not execute an order or may change the opening (closing) price of an order in case of a technical failure of the Trading Platform or of quote feeds. Furthermore, it is stressed that under certain market conditions, it may be difficult or impossible to execute your order.
The prices on which you trade with us are the prices shown on our Electronic Trading Platform and they are calculated by reference to the price of the respective financial instrument which the Company obtains from its third-party liquidity providers. The price of the financial instruments being traded is determined by fluctuations in markets outside our control. In setting our prices, spreads and the sizes in which we deal, we take into account the market or markets for the relevant underlying instruments.
Trading online does not necessarily reduce risks associated with trading. By trading online you are subject to risks related to slow or no internet connectivity, hardware or software failures, communication failures and delays. Please refer to the Company's Risk Disclosure Policy for further information on the associated risks.
Trading in this product will not be appropriate for everyone. This product would commonly be used by persons who want to generally gain short term exposures to financial instruments/markets; are using (trading with) money which they can afford to lose; have a diversified investment and savings portfolio; have a high risk tolerance; and understand the impact of and risks associated with margin trading.
This product does not have any maturity or termination date.
The SRI is a guide to the level of risk of this Product compared to other products. It shows how likely it is that the Product will incur losses because of movements in the markets. We have classified this Product as 7 out of 7, which is the highest risk class.
It is possible to lose all of your investment, unless you set a limit to the financial loss resulting ('Stop Loss') from your investment. In addition, the investment may be lost if the Company is unable to pay out. However, you may benefit from a consumer protection scheme (see the section "what happens if we are unable to pay you"). It is possible that additional investment payments to your initial investment may be required in order to avoid your open positions being stopped out.
In some circumstances you may need to make additional payments to compensate for losses (i.e. margin payments). The total loss you may incur will never exceed your invested amount. The Company offers Negative Balance Protection to its Clients, meaning that they will never be in a position to lose more funds than the amounts invested with the Company. In case the account balance of a Client enters in the negative territory for example due to a gap in the market, this amount will not be requested by the Company, and the Client's account will be brought back to zero (0).
For retail clients, a mandatory margin close-out rule is applied on an account level basis. This means that when the value of your account (i.e. net profit and loss, and any deposited margin and any other funds) falls below 50% of the initial margin requirement (that was paid to enter into all of the open CFD positions at any point in time), one or more of your CFD positions will be closed out.
This product is highly liquid and the Company does not prescribe a holding period for any position, whether this is a buy or a sell position. Clients are free to open/close a trade whenever they believe that it best suits them, given that the markets are open.
Market developments in the future cannot be accurately predicted. The scenarios shown in table 2 are only an indication of some of the possible outcome based on recent returns. Actual returns may be lower.
Performance may vary depending on how the market performs and how long you hold the CFD. The stress scenario illustrates an extreme unfavourable scenario based on historical data. Maximum loss would be the loss of the entire investment. Performance results are net of all product costs, yet they do not account for personal taxation costs.
The assumptions used in the performance analysis are described below:
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All client money held by the Company are held in segregated bank accounts, separately from the Company's own funds, and safeguarded with highly-rated credit institutions in Europe. The Company performs, on a daily basis, internal and external reconciliations as required by the CySEC and prescribed by the rules of MiFID II for the Company to ensure that it maintains adequate amounts in its client money accounts to cover all client funds.
In the unlikely event that the Company will be unable to pay you out, the client can contact the Investor Compensation Fund (the "ICF"). The ICF is the Cyprus' statutory fund of last resort for customers of Cyprus Investment Firms ("CIFs"). This means that the ICF can pay compensation up to €20,000 per eligible client, if the Company is unable to fulfil its financial obligations. The actual level of compensation that will be paid out by the ICF will be based on your claim. The ICF is an independent body, set up under the Investment Services and Activities and Regulated Markets Law of 2007, which the Company is part of, as it is authorised and regulated by the CySEC (License Number: 120/10).
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Trading in CFD Products involves significant risk with frequent market movements and price changes. Clients are free to open/close a trade whenever they believe that it best fits, given that the markets are open. The Company does not prescribe a holding period for any position whether this is a buy or sell position. The client may choose to set a 'Stop Loss' or 'Take Profit' on his/her trade to minimise the risk of large unexpected movements.
Clients can withdraw their total balance whenever they choose to do so, if there are no open positions on their trading account. In case there are open positions, the client can withdraw any amount in excess of the margin required for that particular trade, i.e. their 'free margin'. All withdrawal requests can be made from the 'Members' Area' section on the Company's website.
The complaint form can be found in the "Members' Area" section on the Company's website.
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Editor's note: This article is part of "The Ten Today," a series that examines the Ten Commandments in modern society. This story explores the fourth commandment: "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy."
Caitlin Rother had finally had enough. The 20-year veteran newspaper reporter got a call on election night in 2002 at 11:30 p.m. Her editor demanded she call a source, regardless of the late hour.
So Rother left the security of a full-time job and a paycheck to become a freelance writer working at her own pace and on her own time. It was then, she later recalled, that things got really hectic.
"I thought this would be less stressful. I was wrong. Now, I'm never off deadline," she said via phone from a San Diego-area coffee shop. "I have a book deadline. (I'm working on) two or three projects at a time. … It's actually very difficult for me to take time off and relax because I have a million things I think I should be doing or could be doing. It's just a different treadmill than before. It's like playing poker with my life."
Rother's experience may be extreme, but it points to a trend. According to the Center for American Progress, the typical American middle-income family worked an average of 11 more hours per week in 2006 than in 1979. Such extended working hours can take their toll. And with the increasing ubiquity of devices such as smartphones and laptops, Americans may be connected to their jobs and work lives more than ever before; "tethered" is the word often used to describe the 24/7 circumstances in which we find ourselves.
For Rother, "playing poker" came up short, and her workaholic lifestyle as a freelancer took its toll on her health: "I gave myself what I call 'laptop whiplash,' the result of a marathon interview session with the heroine of my book, 'Twisted Triangle,' during which I typed for 18 hours over a couple of days while sitting on the couch in my living room. It didn't heal properly because I had a deadline to meet and had to keep working," she wrote in an email.
"I spent 18 months in pain and I had to go through all kinds of treatments to deal with that," she said. "I had to change my lifestyle, my attitude, my diet — when I came out of that, I learned it the hard way, you can't put pressure on yourself."
Now, Rother diligently strives to take one day off each week, creating for herself a "Sabbath," a day of rest to recharge and refresh. For her, it's not religiously based, nor is it perfectly observed, but the author, who specializes in true crime books, knows that if she doesn't take a break, it truly can be hazardous to her health.
'You need to rest'
"You need to rest," Rother said. "You can't be efficient and get things done if you don't take time to rest."
Sometimes, overwork makes global headlines, as it did in August 2013 when Moritz Erhardt, a 21-year-old intern at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in London, collapsed and died after working for 72 hours straight. Although a coroner later ruled Erhardt's death was caused by an epileptic seizure, the investment firm — and others — have now revised work rules to give such workers enough time to rest.
The concept of a Sabbath, indeed of a seven-day weekly cycle itself, traces back to the second chapter of the Old Testament book of Genesis, which describes what God did after a week of creating the world. "And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made." (Genesis 2:1-2, King James Version)
While Christianity inherited a day of rest from Judaism, other major world religions do not have a similar Sabbath imperative. Friday is a day of worship in the Islamic world, but that does not require a cessation from worldly activity, but rather attendance at worship. In Hinduism and Buddhism, adherents are said to continually practice their religion, so no specific day of rest or worship is appointed.
Setting apart — which Merriam-Webster says is the definition of "sanctify," from the Latin sanctus, or sacred — a day of rest is a "connective tissue across the ages," argues Dr. Sigve K. Tonstad, a physician and theologian who teaches at Loma Linda University in California. A Seventh-day Adventist, Tonstad, whose medical specialty includes diabetes treatment, believes there's a strong link between rest and health.
Statistical evidence for such a claim tends to focus on the number of hours rather than days worked. One study published in 1999 in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health showed "an increased risk of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus for those who worked more than 50 hours of overtime a month."
Dutch researcher Monique van der Hulst of the Department of Work and Organizational Psychology at the University of Nijmegen noted the study, and in 2003 wrote that her canvass of 27 studies "showed that long work hours are associated with adverse health as measured by several indicators," including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, disability retirement, and self-reported physical health and fatigue.
A 2008 study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology revealed that longer workweeks led to at least a temporary decline in mental skills: "Compared with working 40 hours per week at most, working more than 55 hours per week was associated with lower scores in the vocabulary test at both baseline and follow-up. Long working hours also predicted decline in performance on the reasoning test."
No rest for disadvantaged
"There are some people who have to work 24/7 because they belong to the economically underprivileged, and there is a significant correlation between economics and health," Tonstad said. "The unhealthiest in terms of diabetes are the poor. They are also to some extent the population that is least in control of their work hours."
Tonstad, whose 2009 book "The Lost Meaning of the Seventh Day" won wide praise for its scholarship, looks at the Fourth Commandment of the Ten Commandments God gave to Moses on Mount Sinai as a radical example of social justice for its time. The Israelites had just emerged from centuries of Egyptian servitude, with no "weekend" as modern workers understand it. Recalling God's rest in Genesis, Tonstad views this new commandment as a weekly return to a near-Edenic state.
"From a biblical point of view, the Sabbath rest is in some ways defined for the people and even for non-human beings that have least control of their life situation," Tonstad said. "Now, God intervenes on behalf of slaves, and offers them the privilege of rest. There's no more Pharaoh; now God is intervening. Employers are under (a biblical) obligation to let workers rest."
And despite periodic efforts to redesign the calendar — such as France's post-revolutionary effort to introduce a 10-day "week" — Tonstad said societies return to a seven-day cycle, and the wise ones include a day of rest.
"The Romans could not understand the Jewish concept of resting on the seventh day," he noted. But having a day off is "enduring," he said, adding, "Many people are saying that society needs a cooling off period; the world needs a 'time out.' We're burning the candle at both ends in so many ways — maybe society benefits, too."
One societal benefit is in having a happier workplace, according to Joyce Dubensky, CEO of Tanenbaum, a New York-based nonprofit dedicated to combating religious prejudice in the workplace.
"One of the key (concerns) among Christians was they were often required to work on (Sunday)," Dubensky said, reflecting on a workplace survey Tanenbaum conducted. "When you have a company that provides flexibility in work hours for religious observance … you are far less likely to have employees looking for another job, and you increase job satisfaction. In this context, atheists may need days off. Flexible days off benefit everyone."
Families find benefit
Not only societies, but also families benefit from intentional rest, said MaryAnn McKibben Dana, the bivocational pastor of Idylwood Presbyterian Church in Falls Church, Va., who is also a writer and speaker. Two years ago, Dana published "Sabbath in the Suburbs" about her pursuit of a weekly day off in which all family members participated.
The impetus to find a day of rest, Dana said, "came from both directions. There was a personal need, since I was working full time and raising two little kids, and having little time for rest and renewal. Also, at the time, I was serving a church as an associate pastor of a large congregation," where the demands were plentiful.
Because Dana and her colleagues wanted to offer as many spiritual growth activities as possible, the church calendar quickly filled. "There was fatigue on the part of (church) families, but also everyone — (our) lives were overwhelmed with activity," she recalled.
When Dana and her family read about the Fourth Commandment, she said, "the answer had been staring at us all along."
Dana said she and her husband, who works in information technology, decided to "take Sabbath seriously (and) set aside time to be present to one another, slow down, recharge." However, she added, "it's more than all of that; it's a spiritual practice."
Sabbath unplugged
A key to her Sabbath practice, Dana said, is to unplug from the Internet, even though Facebook can be a community-affirming tool that builds relationships.
"I think there's a real sense of fatigue people have, this sense of always being accessible, expectations that bosses and workplaces have, I think that, you know, cable news and the Internet … they just call to us, and there's a certain irresistible nature to the constant flow of information and entertainment," she said.
Turning off that spigot, one theologian argues, would allow people the chance to reconnect with what is most important.
"The church has to recover a sense of what it means to be involved in repair, restoration, renewal, human flourishing — all of this comes together in the Sabbath," said Rodney L. Petersen, a Boston University theology professor who is also president of the Lord's Day Alliance, a Protestant group that promotes Sabbath-keeping.
"What is so central about the importance of Sunday for Christian community is that grounded in the resurrection of Christ, that newness of life should be brought into all relationships on a Sunday," Petersen said. "Martin Luther argued for the ending of all of the saints' days and for there simply to be one celebration every seven days, and that's Sunday."
Petersen echoed the thoughts of others when he said a weekly Sabbath observance is not just a coming trend in society, but it's also a way to rage against the machine-oriented culture.
"Intentional faith communities, whether Jewish or Christian or others, will increasingly be islands of countercultural practice in what I fear is an increasingly commercialized society," Petersen said. "There, they will experience more freedom."
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- How do you get a delay of game penalty when you're in the hurry up offense?
- What genius at Fox thought it was a good idea to put a microphone in front of the grammatically challenged Tim Couch?
- How badly is Cam Newton going to carve up this defense running the ball?
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This article expands on the information given about Global Configuration in the Joomla online Help, and also to provide hints and tips about use of the settings found in this part of the administrative interface. The Global Configuration area is part of the administrative interface (also referred to as the "backend"), accessed via
This area is accessible only if you are logged-in as a member of a group having the attribute of being Super Administrators (by default the Super Users group only). Once logged in, to access the page go to System → Global Configuration or click the Global Configuration icon from the main control panel.
As the name implies, Global Configuration is the area of the Joomla administrative interface where a user with Super Administrator attributes is able to make changes that globally affect the behaviour of the web site and also alter some default settings for the presentation of, and access to site content.
All the parameters under the Site, System and Server tabs in the Global Configuration are stored as values in the file configuration.php, which you will find in the root folder of Joomla installation. This file is set up automatically by the software installation process and thus many of the parameters appearing in the Global Configuration screens are best left as their initial settings. Should Joomla be unable to update configration.php a message such as "Could not save data. Error: Could not write to the configuration file." will be displayed, rather than the usual "Configuration successfully saved.". There are a number of ways of overcoming this problem, please refer to Cannot save Global Configuration changes for further information.
The parameters controlled by a third tab, Permissions, (present only with Joomla v1.6.x and later) differ from those controlled via the other tabs in that they are stored within the web site's database.
The Global Configuration toolbar consists of four buttons to enable the user to save changes, move away from the Global Configuration page and call up online Help pages. Toolbars differ between Joomla v1.5.x and the later versions., in respect of naming and order of buttons.
Note: the order in which these items appear on the screen vary slightly between the different versions of Joomla.
This group of options control a miscellaneous collection of parameters that broadly control the behaviour of the public web pages of the Joomla site.
This group of options control the presence or content of several of the metadata entries (i.e. code like <meta name = …. \>) in the header of each page of the web site. Although not visible to the site user, metadata entries may be used in various ways by web search engines and their appropriate use can significantly aid the search rankings and visibility of a web site. Note that several of the following metadata parameters my be overridden for the content categories and individual content items.
SEO is an abbreviation of Search Engine Optimization. Settings in this group alter the format of URLs for pages in the web site, and this may have a significant effect of the search rankings of individual pages, as well as making URLs more human-friendly.
Tip: after making any changes to the settings in this group, refresh any of the web site's pages already open in your web browser (usually Ctrl+R will do this). Failure to so this will likely mean that the format of web links internal to the site no longer match that which Joomla is expecting and thus give the appearance of broken links.
Tip: Avoid if at all possible altering the SEO Settings once a web site is established. Changing any of the first three items below will mean that nearly all of a site's URLs will also change and result in broken links from other sites and perhaps a temporary drop in search engine rankings.
Only present in Joomla v1.6.x and later, these settings allow the site cookies to be modified to suit certain circumstances. For the majority of web sites these entries may be left blank.
The "session" is the data that identifies and relates to a specific web site user, and which persists as that user moves from page to page.
A significant problem with running scripted programs – such as Joomla – on Linux and similar servers is that the files and folders making up the program are not owned by the same identity as the one used to execute the web server code. The files and folders making up the web site will usually be put in place on the server by means of FTP, and thus will be owned by the personal log-in identity used for FTP access. In contrast, the web server code will be executed by a generic identity used for automatic processes within the server.
Because the of this difference between the FTP upload and web server identities, automatic updates of the web site code (e.g. installing or updating extensions) will be blocked by the security features that prevent one user's files being altered by another user.
One solution to this problem is for Joomla to use FTP when installing or deleting files, and if this is used it is essential that the FTP log-on credentials are the same as those used when installing the Joomla web site.
The FTP option is generally only needed on shared servers using Linux and Unix-like operating systems. The problem does not arise with other operating systems, and on dedicated servers there is the alternative option of changing the ownership and/or permissions of the web site files so that they may be modified by the web server processes.
FTP is also not necessary when the Joomla site has been set up to operate under CGI or FastCGI as the web server process then generally operates under the same identity as the one used for FTP access.
These parameters identify the database location, the database and tables within that database that hold configuration and content information for your web site. It also includes the username required for accessing the database contents, but not the password associated with that username. Should you need to change the database password, edit the line defining the value of $password in the file configuration.php, which you will find in the Joomla installation folder.
This group is used to set up the sending of automatically generated emails from the Joomla web site.
The remaining Mail Settings parameters need to be set up only if Mailer is set to "SMTP".
This tab is only present in Joomla v1.6.x and later as it reflects the enhanced flexibility of access control introduced with V1.6. It provides the means to set up the default permissions for all of the groups of users in terms their ability to edit site content and other settings of the site, and to access administrative functions.
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I always liked the combination of peas and mint, and I make THIS green peas and mint soup often. So I thought that the same combination could work with chicken and rice as well. While I kept the mint as the dominant herb, I also added scallions, celery, cilantro and basil to the pot. I was very pleased with the results; the chicken was juicy and flavorful and the rice absorbed the flavors of the herbs and peas.
This easy and tasty one-pot dish will fill your kitchen with wonderful aromas of fresh herbs. Its' green color will make you feel like it's a spring day in the middle of winter. Try it and enjoy.
* Make sure to use medium/small size thighs. The cooking time will not be sufficient for larger ones.
Makes: 4
Prep time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 35 minutes
4 medium chicken thighs, bone in, skin on (see notes)
1 tsp salt
½ tsp freshly ground black pepper
1 Tbs olive oil
½ cup chopped scallions
1 cup frozen petite peas, thawed
¼ cup chopped celery
½ cup chopped mint
¼ cup chopped basil
¼ cup chopped cilantro
1 cup Basmati rice
2 cups chicken stock, preferably homemade
1. Season the chicken thighs with salt and pepper. Place a wide shallow pot over medium-high heat. Once the pot is hot, add the chicken thighs, skin side down, and cook for 5 minutes, until the fat renders and the skin is golden brown. Turn over and fry on the other side for 5 minutes. Remove the chicken thighs and keep in a warm place.
2. Add the olive oil and scallions to the pot. Mix and fry for 1 minute. Add the rice, mix and fry for 1 minute, until the rice is coated with the fat and changes color to white.
3. Add the celery, peas, stock and herbs. Mix and bring to the boil. Taste and adjust seasoning. Add the chicken, cover the pot and lower the heat to low. Cook for 20 minutes. Turn off the heat and keep uncovered for 10 minutes.
4. Remove the chicken from the pot and gently fluff the rice with a fork, to mix with the herbs and peas that have accumulated on top.
For crispy skin, place the chicken thighs under the broiler for 2 minutes.


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Kopelman reaches milestone
ROCKFORD - Thomas Kopelman scored his 2,000 career point in a 75-42 win over Mendota in Big Northern West Conference action Tuesday. The senior dropped a game-high 26 points and he was one of nine players to score for Lutheran.
"It was just a great night," said Kopelman, a Minnesota State University recruit. "It was senior night and our team won conference. I am really happy."
Kopelman needed just 13 points for his milestone. A standout around the arc, he reached the mark on a 3-pointer in the third period.
"That was memorable for me to get it on a 3-pointer," he said.
Freeport Aquin 78, Orangeville 41: Aquin had a balanced attack with 11 players scoring en route to the win in NUIC East action. Aquin jumped out fast behind three 3-point shots from Aiden Chang in the first quarter to take a 23-5 lead at the end of first quarter. Aquin never looked back from there.
Chang and Anthony Townsend each had 15 points. Orangeville's Bryce Brown scored 14 points and had eight rebounds.
Scales Mound 54, Galena 31: Stephen Korte had 17 points and 10 assists to lead Scales Mound in the win. Alex Peeples had 14 points for Galena.
Winnebago 69, Stillman Valley 50: The Indians capitalized on the Cardinals slow start en route to the win. Brandon Suggs and Ryan Swigart each scored 18 points for Winnebago. Trevor Gerig had 25 points for Stillman Valley.
Christian Life 76, North Boone 61: Led by Eli Sanchez and Isaiah Jones, who each scored 14 points, the Eagles clipped the Vikings. Michael Gilmore had 13 points for North Boone.
AFC 60, Dakota 39: Bret Gittleson had a game-high 20 points for the Raiders, who led 38-12 at halftime.
With Dakota standout Brett Benning not playing in the game, Daniel Van Fleet had a team-high 14 points.
Polo 101, South Beloit 61: AJ Dollmeyer had 25 points and Brian Cavanaugh added 20 to lead the Marcos big win. Thirteen people scored for Polo in the game. Tommy Honaker had 17 points for South Beloit.
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Huntley 56, East 31: Coriesha Bailey scored 17 points in the E-Rabs' semifinal loss.
Belvidere North 54, DeKalb 43: Keri Dodson hit 8-of-9 free throws and finished with 26 points in North's semifinal win.


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A few months ago, I received a phone call from a cyclist with an incredible story about an incident in Lawrence County, Ohio. Because the cyclist-a guy named Tony Patrick-was in need of an attorney, I hooked him up with Steve Magas, a contributing author to Bicycling & the Law, and a well-known bicycling attorney in Ohio. After hearing Tony's story, Steve took his case. More about that later; first, let me tell you about Tony.
Weekdays, Tony runs his small construction company in Huntington, West Virginia. Weeknights, and weekends, Tony, a Cat 2 racer, can often be found hanging out at Jeff's Bike Shop-that is, when he's not out on a training ride, or racing. And that's not unusual; Jeff's Bike Shop is the center of a vibrant racing scene in Huntington, the second-largest city in West Virginia, and the home of Marshall University.
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That racing scene means regular training rides, all of which start out and end up at Jeff's. There's a ride every other day, each geared to a different set of riders, but the real hammerfest is the Tuesday night ride. That's the ride where the locals try, as Tony puts it, to hurt each other over the course of a 23-34 mile route that takes them across the Ohio River, into the back roads of southern Ohio, before looping back across the river into Huntington.
And that's how Tony found himself just outside of Chesapeake, Ohio, one Tuesday night in August of 2008, heading into town to take the bridge back across to Huntington. Tony was riding with "Ryan," a then-16 year old nationally-ranked racer with a 4.2 GPA. ["Ryan" is a pseudonym; I've concealed his identity because he's a minor.]
That night, Tony and Ryan were a little tired from a hard training ride the night before, so they decided to take the shorter route. Thus, as they headed into Chesapeake, they were separated from the peloton. Just outside the town limits, they passed the library. Exactly what happened from this point forward is the subject of dispute. Both Tony and Ryan say they were the only two people on the road. But they weren't alone-in the library parking lot was a Lawrence County Sheriff's Deputy. Over the course of several interviews for this story, Tony and Ryan told their side of what happened. The Deputy's account of what happened is contained in his written report of his encounter with the two cyclists, and in his later testimony at a hearing before a judge, nearly five months after the events that occurred on that August evening.
Tony and Ryan both say that they saw a Sheriff's car in the parking lot, but did not see anybody in the parking lot. The Deputy had a different story to tell; in both his written report, and his later testimony before a judge, he said that when he first encountered Tony and Ryan, he was approaching them while traveling in the same direction; they were riding two abreast. He noticed that there were two or more vehicles following behind him. He reported following the two cyclists at a speed of about 5-10 miles per hour for about three-fourths of a mile before it was safe to pass them. He later testified that as he passed the cyclists, Tony smiled at him; he testified that he shook his head "no" at Tony, and then, after he had passed the two cyclists, watched in his rearview mirror to see whether the two cyclists went single file, or if the other cars were able to pass despite their riding two abreast. Seeing that neither was the case, he pulled ahead, into the library parking lot, intending to speak to the cyclists because they were "impeding traffic."
The Deputy reported that he got out of his vehicle, and as the cyclists approached, he told Tony to pull over, and that Tony replied "I have got as much right to the road as anyone else," and continued riding towards town. The Deputy reported that he then got back in his cruiser, hit the lights and sirens, and continued to follow the two cyclists, giving commands over his public address system, and "at times out the window."
Tony and Ryan both recall it differently; Ryan recalls that they were riding two abreast, at about 18 - 20 MPH, and had entered the city limits, where the speed limit is 25 MPH. They heard a car approaching; Tony called "car back," and they singled up. As Tony tells it:
"We were riding along, and about 300-400 meters beyond the library, this Sheriff's car suddenly pulled up alongside me and the Deputy rolled down his window and said 'You guys shouldn't be riding in the road.' I responded 'We have as much right to be in the road as you do.'"
Now, this is where it gets a little complicated. In West Virginia, as in many states, the law unequivocally states that, "Every person riding a bicycle upon a roadway shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle...." But in Ohio, there is no similar declaration of a cyclist's rights. Ohio law does define a bicycle as a vehicle, however, and so a cyclist has all the rights applicable to other vehicle operators, even if the law doesn't specifically say so. In other words, Tony and Ryan DID have as much right to be in the road as the Deputy, even if it's not explicitly spelled out in the law.
Now, this is where it gets a little complicated. In West Virginia, as in many states, the law unequivocally states that, "Every person riding a bicycle upon a roadway shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle...." But in Ohio, there is no similar declaration of a cyclist's rights. Ohio law does define a bicycle as a vehicle, however, and so a cyclist has all the rights applicable to other vehicle operators, even if the law doesn't specifically say so. In other words, Tony and Ryan DID have as much right to be in the road as the Deputy, even if it's not explicitly spelled out in the law.
Nevertheless, despite the fact that under Ohio law the two cyclists had a legal right to the road, Tony and Ryan both claim that the Deputy responded to Tony's assertion of that right by yelling "'Get off the f-king road' several times." Months later, at the hearing, when asked whether he had used profanity during his encounter with the cyclists, the Deputy replied "possibly."
Both Tony and Ryan claim that the Deputy then attempted to force them off the road with his cruiser; As Ryan recalls:
"He was trying to force us off the road with his car, but there was nowhere for us to go. The shoulder was just gravel, and dropped off into a ditch."
Both Tony and Ryan say that to keep from being run off the road, Tony quickly pulled ahead while Ryan braked and fell in behind the cruiser. Ryan says that once he was behind the cruiser, the Deputy slammed on his brakes, but Ryan evaded the imminent crash by riding around the cruiser. As Ryan cleared the cruiser, he says the Deputy opened his door and attempted to body-check him, but missed. Ryan caught up with Tony but, significantly, Tony says that Ryan didn't tell him what had just happened; unaware of what had just transpired, Tony continued riding, with Ryan following behind him. Having failed to run the two cyclists off the road, the Deputy got back in his car, and raced ahead.
Although he never reported or testified that he attempted to run them off the road, the Deputy did testify that:
"At one point, I get in front of them, I tried to put my car up in park to jump out of my car at one of them or something, then they both go around. One goes on this side, the other goes on this side of me. And they continue on up through there."
In his written report, the Deputy stated that he pursued the cyclists for almost a mile, and that:
"On several occasions the subjects stood up and shaked their butts at me taunting me."
Asked about this, Tony confirms that on occasion, they were standing on their pedals, and that the Deputy misinterpreted this as taunting. That misunderstanding aside, the Deputy's observation that the cyclists were standing on their pedals brings into doubt his observation that they were traveling at 5-10 MPH. And in fact, as will be seen, the Deputy's own later testimony would contradict his reported estimation of the cyclists' speed.
According to Tony, after the Deputy failed to force them off the road, he raced ahead to the cyclists, and as he caught up with them, hit his lights; he pulled to their right, in the parking lane, and with a profanity-laced tirade, yelled that the two cyclists were under arrest. Tony asked incredulously "What? What are you talking about?" Despite what he felt was a baffling outburst from the Deputy, Tony says that he wanted to pull over, but the Sheriff's cruiser was between him and the shoulder of the road.
At this point, according to Ryan, the Deputy raced ahead 300 meters, swung his cruiser around sideways across the lane, partway into an auto sales lot, got out, and assumed a firing stance. Ryan claims that as the two cyclists approached, the Deputy yelled out, "Stop, or I'll shoot."
With the Deputy in a shooting stance, the situation was getting dangerously out of control, so Tony says that he and Ryan rode up to the Deputy, intending to stop as he had ordered, "like 'you got me,'" Tony says. They rolled to a stop. At that moment, Tony says, the Deputy fired.
Fortunately for Tony, the officer was holding a taser, and not a gun, as Tony at first believed. Only one of the taser's electrodes hit Tony in the side; he was jolted, but not incapacitated, and he grabbed at it, yanking it out. Ryan was behind Tony now, out of taser range, watching in mounting terror as the incident unfolded. With an air of disbelief at what had just happened, Tony nevertheless maintained his composure, saying:
"Dude, you just shot me with a taser! That was totally uncalled for!"
The deputy had a somewhat different story to tell; he testified that:
"I go around them again, get my car stopped, pull over, get out, pull my Taser out of the car, tell them...to stop or I was going to tase them, and then Mr. Patrick tries to cut through the auto parts or auto sales lot."
According to the Deputy's testimony, he believed that the two cyclists were attempting to cut through the auto lot to get to the bridge and escape to West Virginia.
By now, Tony says he was doing his best to defuse a situation that was rapidly spiraling out of control, but as he explains, the Deputy just kept making the situation worse. Tony says that after the taser had failed to have its desired effect, the Deputy pulled out his telescoping baton, and began swinging at Tony. However, he wasn't having any more luck with his baton than he did with the taser; Tony says the baton failed to open fully, so the Deputy kept flailing away at Tony while trying to grab him and simultaneously attempting to hold up his pants-which were threatening to drop to the ground with each swing. The scene was both comical and deadly serious.
At this point, Tony says that he told the Deputy that he was out of control, and behaving unprofessionally, and that Tony was going to sue. According to Tony, the Deputy, "should have said 'get on the ground,' but he never gave me a chance," so Tony did the only thing he could to protect himself-he raised his bike to block the Deputy's blows, while telling him "You need to calm down." As Tony explains, he wanted to get down on the ground to defuse the situation, but doing so, "would have meant getting the hell beat out of me." Faced with a choice of defending himself or taking a beating, Tony says "the situation didn't call for me to get down."
Again, the Deputy has a somewhat different account of what happened, in his report, he wrote:
"I deployed my Tazer on Anthony Patrick and it had little effect. Both subjects stopped at this point and I gave commands for them to get on the ground. Both subjects did not. I attempted to grab Patrick and he pulled away. He then moved away from me and picked up his bike to try and throw at me or hit me. I pulled my Asp baton and ordered him to put the bike down. At this time he did."
And then things went from bad to worse. Sometime during the altercation the Chesapeake, Ohio police showed up, and as Tony and the Deputy struggled, Tony was tased again, this time, by the Chesapeake police. According to the Deputy's report, the tasing occurred as "Patrick lunged at me," while according to Tony and Ryan, the second tasing occurred as Tony was resisting the Deputy's attempts to beat him. Unlike the first tasing, however, this time, the taser connected; as Tony tells it, "I shoot up on my toes like a ballerina, then fall over like a log." He landed on his right elbow, and hit his head hard enough to crack his helmet. "If I hadn't been wearing my helmet," Tony notes, "I would have cracked my head open."
Ryan says that at this point, with Tony now laying on the ground, the officer tased Tony a third time. In notes he made shortly after the incident, Ryan says that Tony was tased a total of five times by Chesapeake Police officers; Tony says we was tased "repeatedly." The Deputy's report states that:
"He went to the ground and we kept giving him commands to stay down and he tried to get up and he was Tazed for the second time. He finally became compliant and he was handcuffed."
Meanwhile, Ryan had been waiting quietly nearby, watching the entire surreal scene play out before him; now, as the officers were tasing and cuffing Tony, Ryan tried to call his mother to let her know what was going on. As he was making the call, somebody shouted "Watch out for the other guy!" Taking heed of that warning, one officer kicked the phone out of Ryan's hand, just as he connected with his mother; the phone went flying, and shattered when it hit the pavement. The officer then slammed Ryan face-first to the ground and handcuffed him.
At the other end of the connection, Ryan's mother heard him say, "Mom!...Mom!..." and the sound of sirens in the background, and then the impact of the phone hitting the pavement, before it shattered and the connection went dead. Not knowing what had happened, Ryan says she was absolutely terrified by the call.
Meanwhile, back at the arrest scene, Ryan complained that his handcuffs were too tight; he says that one of the officers remarked, "You should have thought of that before being a smart ass." That seemed to be a common theme with the officers. As Tony recalls, the law enforcement officers were "extremely unprofessional," making repeated remarks about "smart asses." Tony says that he informed them that he would be suing, and one of the officers responded, "We'll see who gets sued."
Tony was then taken to the Lawrence County Sheriff's Office for processing, but when Ryan informed the officers that he was 16, they took him to the Chesapeake Police Department, and removed the handcuffs once he was there. It is still unclear why they didn't book him in Lawrence County's office.
According to both Tony and Ryan, their bikes--Tony rides a $7,500 Specialized Tarmac SL, Ryan rides a $6,000 AeroCat--were left behind on the pavement by the departing officers. Despite these allegations of a total lack of care taken by the law enforcement officers involved, the bikes weren't stolen; a bystander who recognized Tony called a mutual friend, and the friend came and got the bikes, and then went to the police station where Ryan was being held. Ryan's parents showed up soon after.
Needless to say, they were furious about what had happened to their son, so, according to Tony, the Deputy took it upon himself to lecture Ryan's parents about their son:
"Let me tell you what your son is about. I'm on my way to a burglary, and these guys were impeding me from getting there."
Let that sink in for a moment. The Deputy was on his way to a burglary, but he had time to tase and beat a cyclist because he was "impeding" the Deputy by riding on the road? That lecture didn't make sense to Ryan's parents, but the Deputy clarified his statement, explaining that he was on his way to investigate a burglary that had been called in hours before, when he was impeded by Tony and Ryan. There were still a few problems with that story, however.
First, regardless of whether one believes the Deputy's report and testimony, or Tony's and Ryan's accounts, both sides agree that the Deputy pulled up alongside them to express his opinion that they should not be riding in the road. If they were impeding him, how was he able to pull up alongside them? And if he passed them, as he claims, in what way were they impeding him from getting to the burglary investigation?
Second, in Ohio, cyclists cannot be in violation of the impeding traffic statute if they are traveling as fast as they reasonably can. This principle was first established in a 2001 Ohio case called Trotwood v. Selz, and was subsequently codified into Ohio law in 2006, with the addition of a provision that:
"The [judge or jury], in determining whether the vehicle was being operated at an unreasonably slow speed, shall consider the capabilities of the vehicle and its operator."
Thus, by the time the Deputy decided to stop Tony and Ryan for impeding traffic, it had been well-established in Ohio that cyclists who are traveling at a reasonable speed cannot be cited for impeding traffic. Although the Deputy would later refer to Trotwood v. Selz during his testimony, indicating that he had finally been brought up to speed on Ohio law-by a prosecutor, in all likelihood-it was apparent on the day of the arrests that the Deputy was completely unfamiliar with the law as it applies to bicycles, and in fact, he admitted this in his later testimony:
"Before this case I was not very familiar with bicycles and just the controversy between the bicycle situation and the thing and I've researched it and stuff and, you know, from what I can gather, as long as they are traveling the speed limit and they're not impeding traffic, there's not traffic behind them, then they wouldn't be impeding traffic or if the cars can safely pass them, then they wouldn't be impeding traffic, and in the case of up north of Troutwood [sic] it actually goes to the point that the judge is the one to determine who was-whether or not a bicycle was impeding traffic. So I guess it's a-you would normally just write a ticket and the judge would decide if they was impeding traffic. I don't know."
It's important at this point to note that even at the hearing, after he had done his legal research, the Deputy STILL had the law wrong. In Ohio, it doesn't matter if cyclists "are traveling the speed limit," or "if they're not impeding traffic," or "if the cars can safely pass them." Not one of those conditions the Deputy addressed is the law in Ohio-in fact, the entire point of the Trotwood v. Selz case, and subsequent changes to the Ohio code, is that the conditions the Deputy cites have no bearing in any case of a cyclist or cyclists impeding traffic. The only legal metric is whether the rider(s) is/are traveling at a reasonable speed for a cyclist.
Back on the night of Ryan's booking, Tony says that the Deputy informed Ryan's parents that he didn't know what he was going to charge Ryan with, but he had to charge him with something, so he sat down with a copy of the code book and looked for the appropriate statute. For the next 30 minutes, the Deputy searched for something to charge Ryan with, but couldn't find anything.
Eventually, he settled on a pair of charges. First, he charged Ryan with "Operating a bike on the roadway." He also charged Ryan with "Failure to comply with an order." As the Deputy later explained in his testimony, the problem was that he wanted to charge the two riders with impeding traffic, but couldn't find the appropriate law for a bike. This was because he didn't understand that cyclists are subject to the same laws as other vehicle operators, and therefore, if they were impeding traffic, they should have been charged with impeding traffic. Instead, the Deputy believed that the law required cyclists to obey all traffic rules applicable to vehicles, and that busting Ryan for "Operating a bike on the roadway" covered violations of other laws, like impeding traffic. Ryan says that two weeks later, the prosecutor added an "impeding traffic" charge to cover the violation that the Deputy thought Ryan had committed.
Meanwhile, at the Lawrence County Sheriff's Office, Tony was also charged with "Operating a bike on the roadway"; he says that later, as the prosecutor did with Ryan, an additional charge of "impeding traffic" was added. Due to the circumstances surrounding the arrest Tony was also charged with failure to comply with an order, resisting arrest, attempted assault on an officer and obstructing official business.
Ryan says that as his trial date approached, the prosecutor offered him a deal--testify against Tony, and the charges against Ryan would be dropped. Ryan says that he refused to save himself by "throwing Tony under the bus," as he puts it. So, with the case against Ryan scheduled to go to trial, Ryan's attorney filed a motion to dismiss the charges. Tony's attorney did the same.
In its decision following the hearing on the motion to dismiss Tony's charges, the Court began by noting that the state had the burden of proving that the arrest was consistent with the 4th Amendment, but that the state must only meet that burden by a "preponderance of the evidence," rather than the higher "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard. This means that the state would simply have to prove that it was more likely than not that the arrest was consistent with the 4th Amendment; this is the easiest burden of proof.
The central question was whether Tony had been impeding traffic. If the state proved that it was more likely than not that Tony had been impeding traffic, then the order to pull over was lawful, and the arrest for failure to comply with that order was also lawful; if that was the case, the charges would not be dismissed. On the other hand, if the state failed to prove that Tony had been impeding traffic, then the order to pull over was not lawful, and the subsequent arrest for failure to comply was also not lawful, and the charges would be dismissed.
This meant that the prosecution had to show that Tony was riding at a speed that was unreasonably slow for a cyclist--a task that proved impossible, once the Deputy testified that he estimated the cyclists' speed at 15-20 MPH, but didn't really know how fast they were going, and admitted that he didn't know what the speed limit on that road is, within the city limits. There was simply no evidence that the cyclists had ever impeded traffic, and thus, the Deputy had no reason to stop the cyclists, and they could not be charged with failure to comply with his orders. The charges were dismissed.
Later, at the hearing on the motion to dismiss the charges against Ryan, the prosecutor was once again unable to prove the impeding traffic charge, and the Court reached the same decision that it reached following Tony's hearing, dismissing the charges against Ryan.
Now, although these issues are behind Tony and Ryan, for the rest of us, two issues arising from this incident still remain. First, there's a widely-held perception that if a law enforcement officer tells you to pull over, you are required by law to comply with that order, even if the order itself is unlawful. Second, what should cyclists who find themselves in similar situations do?
The first issue--whether cyclists must obey the orders of law enforcement officers--was central to the "motion to dismiss" hearings for Tony and Ryan. As the Court held, if the cyclist hasn't broken a traffic law, then the cyclist can't be lawfully arrested, and the order to pull over is itself unlawful. Therefore, if the order is unlawful, the cyclist is not required to obey the order, and can't be arrested for failure to comply. Now, this is the law in Ohio, but it is based on 4th Amendment jurisprudence, so the jurisprudence in other states should be similar. If somebody knows of contradictory 4th Amendment jurisprudence in another state, please let me know.
Those legal points aside, there's another point to consider here: Were Tony and Ryan ever actually ordered to pull over? The Deputy has testified that he ordered them to pull over, but Tony and Ryan tell a different story; according to Tony and Ryan, the Deputy told them (1) "You guys shouldn't be riding in the road; (2) "Get off the f-cking road"; (3) "You're under arrest"; and (4) "Stop or I'll shoot." If no order was given, at what point should they have pulled over? When they were told they shouldn't be riding in the road? When they were told to get off the road? If they did get off the road, as ordered, what does that say about their right to the road? Certainly, one could make the argument that, as a practical matter and all legalities aside, they should have pulled over when they were told they were under arrest, but as Tony explains, at that point, they weren't given a chance to pull over.
And that brings us to our second issue-what should cyclists who find themselves in similar situations do? That's not an easy question to answer. In Bicycling & the Law, I wrote that:
"Gaining the right to the road was the cycling cause of the late nineteenth century; securing that right will be the cycling cause of the early twenty-first century."
What happened to Tony and Ryan from the moment the Deputy first decided to say something to them is a real-world example of the challenge cyclists face in securing their right to the road. For most of us, I suspect it's easier to just quietly comply with a law enforcement officer's misguided attempts to enforce laws that don't exist. Sure, we know the officer is wrong, but do we really want to go to jail to make that point, instead of wherever it is we happen to be going at that moment?
The problem is, if everybody acquiesces to a violation of our rights, do we still have the right? I would argue that unless the right is exercised, it doesn't exist. Therefore, when a law enforcement officer is enforcing laws that don't exist, it is incumbent upon us to stand up for our rights.
But how do we do that without triggering a beatdown and a trip to jail? I think it will depend upon finding a middle way between disobeying an officer's order and acquiescing to a violation of your rights. On the one hand, cyclists shouldn't think that the lesson from Tony and Ryan's experience is that cyclists can make an on-the-spot decision as to whether an order is lawful or not, and thus, whether or not an order should be obeyed. As we saw with Tony and Ryan, if an officer believes that you are not complying with his orders, that can have potentially deadly results, even though the officer is wrong. On the other hand, cyclists shouldn't have to quietly acquiesce to violations of their rights by law enforcement. Hopefully, law enforcement officers will familiarize themselves with the laws they are enforcing, and if they are unsure of the law, have the humility to simply accept that they don't know what the law is-and then educate themselves on what the law actually is, before attempting to enforce something that may not, in fact, be the law. Likewise, cyclists can choose that middle way between acquiescence and disobeying an order, by stopping when asked, but standing up for their rights, respectfully but firmly, and accepting that the price of defending our right to the road may mean accepting a citation now and beating it in court later.
Now, as I said at the beginning of this story, Tony called me because he was looking for a lawyer; true to his word, he intended to sue the arresting officers. And as I said, I hooked him up with Steve Magas, a well-known Ohio bicycle attorney. Among Steve's many accomplishments in the practice of law, he was the attorney representing cyclist Steve Selz, in the Trotwood v. Selz case that established that Ohio cyclists cannot be in violation of the impeding traffic statute if they are traveling at a reasonable speed for a cyclist. He was also instrumental in getting Ohio's "Better Bicycling Bill" passed; this was the bill that, among other things, codified the Trotwood v. Selz ruling into the "impeding traffic" statute. Steve has agreed to take Tony's case, and is currently awaiting a response while investigating a civil action in the case. With Steve's background in establishing cyclists' right to the road in Ohio, the case promises to be "arresting."
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Research and drafting provided by Rick Bernardi, J.D.
Bob Mionske is a nationally known cycling lawyer with a practice exclusively focused on representing cyclists. An advocate for the rights of cyclists, Bob is the author of Bicycling & the Law, the first book written for cyclists on their legal rights and responsibilities since 1895. Bob is also a former U.S. Olympic and pro cyclist; Bob represented the United States in the 1988 and 1992 Olympic games, and was the National Road Race Champion in 1990, amassing a record of over 100 wins during his racing career.
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Marijuana, the cash crop that may be headed for your state
Should marijuana-laced gummy worms candy be sold in states where recreational pot use is legal? They are in Colorado.
Should women in bikinis be allowed to parade down city streets wearing sandwich boards that say "Joints $5?" They do in Colorado.
And if marijuana is advertised like alcohol or tobacco, could a cute cartoon figure like Pete the Pothead become the new Joe Camel?
Marketing and the millions in taxes so far in Colorado are just a few of the questions and considerations that the first states in the country to legalize marijuana for recreational use – Colorado and Washington – are grappling with. And these are among the questions your state – or a state near you – may soon have to answer, as the legalization of medical and recreational marijuana attains what NBC News recently called "an aura of inevitability."
Twenty states and the District of Columbia already have legalized medical or recreational marijuana. Several states – including Alaska (recreational), Florida (medicinal), New York (medicinal) and California (recreational) – are considering some form of legalization. Poll after poll reveal a march toward legalization, with a recent CNN national survey showing 55 percent of all Americans now favor it, compared to just 16 percent some 25 years ago.
The federal government, which still considers marijuana illegal, is essentially allowing it in states that have legalized it. Marijuana has become so mainstream, figures as diverse as former U.S. Rep. Ron Paul and advice columnist Ann Landers say what only reefer rabble rousers like Rasta Man Bob Marley once said: Legalize it.
And if polls, public figures and politicians don't convince you that the green weed is headed toward legalization, consider this green game changer: The Almighty Dollar.
In January, the first month of legalization of recreational marijuana, sales in Colorado of both recreational and medicinal pot have delivered about $3.5 million in taxes to the state. As more shops open, the state estimates it could rake in $134 million in taxes for the fiscal year from sales of recreational and medicinal marijuana.
Marijuana stocks with names like Hemp Inc. and Medical Marijuana Inc. are "on fire" this year, according to a report in the U-T San Diego newspaper, which, like many publications, quotes an estimate from ArcView Market Research that says legal marijuana sales could total $2.3 billion in 2014.
"And it's going to get bigger," says Kevin Wolfe, president of Cowen Capital of Jersey City, N.J.
His company offers loans of $5,000 to $250,000 to start-up marijuana businesses that Wolfe likens to "Main Street, mom and pop businesses like day spas, car washes and barber shops" that may have trouble getting conventional loans from banks.
Add it all up and one of the world's leading experts on the economy of marijuana, Harvard economics professor Jeffrey Miron, estimates that the legalization of medicinal and recreational marijuana across the country could mean $15 billion to $20 billion per year in tax revenue and law enforcement savings.
But this dawn of a new day of drug use for medicinal and recreational purposes means there's a lot more to the new pot industry than growing it, packing it, selling it and rolling it.
"Legalization has raised more questions than it has answered," says Beau Kilmer, co-Director of the Rand Drug Policy Research Center and a co-author of Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know."
Kilmer isn't the only expert who sees the logistical challenges. One of the authors of the Colorado marijuana legalization law agrees.
"There are a lot more moving parts than anyone has foreseen," said University of Denver law professor Sam Kamin.
One of those moving parts, Kamin pointed out in an interview and wrote in Slate online magazine, is the question of those gummy worms.
"How do you keep them out of the hands of kids?" he asks.
And how do you package them or advertise them? How much pot – and at what strength – do you put into each bit of candy? These are some of the same questions authorities are asking about medicinal marijuana cookies or brownies.
But perhaps the first question anyone thinking of legalizing marijuana must ask is a simple one: How do you do it?
The most likely way is to implement an alcohol and tobacco-based system of private stores with government oversight, as Colorado and Washington did.
That means competition between shops, which in Colorado already have evocative names like Mile High and Cut Above. A free marijuana market could mean lower prices and higher potency for the weed that today in California shops selling medicinal pot has an average content of the ingredient that gets you high – THC – of about 10 to 25 percent, compared to less than 5 percent in the early 1970s, according to Kilmer.
Lower prices for stronger stuff would inevitably lead to more use, says Kilmer.
Which means you have to figure out a way to pay for education and prevention. Washington has addressed this need with high taxes, said one of the authors of the legislation in that state, Roger Roffman, professor emeritus at University of Washington and a longtime marijuana expert. Just how high are the taxes? Twenty-five percent for the processor who buys it from the grower, another 25 percent for the retailer who buys it from the processor and another 25 percent tax for the consumer.
Much of that money is earmarked for prevention and treatment, says Roffman, who calls the legalization system in Washington "a public health alternative."
But just how will your state tax marijuana? By price? Weight? Potency?
Can it be banned in one town or county and be allowed in another?
If the restrictions – and taxes – are too confining, there might be pushback, especially if high-priced lobbyists are doing the pushing. This pushback could occur if a state opts for government-run marijuana distribution, similar to state-run liquor stores in Pennsylvania, says Roffman.
And if you seek to limit advertising, as lawmakers in Colorado did by confining marijuana ads to publications where "no more than 30 percent of a publication's readership is reasonably expected to be under the age of 21," you could be sued. That's exactly what happened when High Times magazine in February filed a lawsuit challenging that regulation.
All of which is why Cort says that before the march to legalization becomes a full-on frontal assault, we must remember this: "People need to know they're not voting for simple legalization. They're voting for commercialization, industrialization, for an industry."
An industry that wants to sell as much marijuana to as many people as possible – whether it's in those gummy worms, with those sandwich boards or with cute advertising slogans.
Bottom line as marijuana moves into Main Street USA?
"Whether it's good for society, or bad for society," says the Rand Corporation's Kilmer, "decisions have to be made."
Steve Israel is a reporter for the Middletown (N.Y.) Times Record-Herald. He researched and wrote this story for GateHouse Media.
- Check out this interactive map of the legal status of marijuana for each state: http://www.mpp.org/states/
- What you should know about marijuana: http://learnaboutmarijuanawa.org/factsheets/factsheets.htm


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The Bechdel Test, the brainchild of cartoonist Alison Bechdel, bubbled out of a 1985 comic strip called "Dykes to Watch Out For." It was Bechdel's modest proposal for assessing how well a given film represented its female characters and it went like so: Do you, movie, feature two or more named women? Do they talk to each other? About something besides a guy? If so, then congratulations! You have passed the Bechdel Test.
The tongue-in-cheek standard caught fire, first on the Internet and then offline. It paved the way for countless blog posts, visualizations and spin-off projects. It was applied to Oscar nominations and pop music. In November of 2013, Swedish theaters even announced that they would begin factoring compliance with Bechdel's three-pronged standard into their film ratings. Yet Bechdel herself expressed ambivalence about the yardstick's viral spread. "I just can't seem to rise to the occasion of talking about this fundamental principle over and over again, as if it's somehow new, or open to debate," she wrote last fall, noting that calls for subtler artistic portrayals of women dated back at least to Virginia Woolf in 1926. Not that her hesitation mattered - the BT had taken on a life of its own.


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U.P. KIDS offers training and support to adoptive, foster, and kinship families
U.P. KIDS announces that the Parenting/Kinship/Diversity Group meets the first Thursday of every month from 6 to 8 p.m. at Central United Methodist Church in Sault Ste. Marie for a potluck dinner followed by simultaneous adult support group and supervised youth activities. This is a support group for adoptive, foster, kinship, and any family with children with special needs. New attendees are most welcome; please call or email if you are planning on attending for the first time.
The first ongoing support group meeting for adoptive, foster, and kinship parents in Newberry will be Thursday, January 17, from 6-8 p.m. at the Luce County Resource & Recreation Center, 111 W. Helen, Newberry. There will be refreshments available, and child care on site, if requested beforehand. Current participants are planning on these meetings occurring bimonthly.
Eastern UP training sites rotate among Chippewa, Luce, and Mackinac counties. Adoptive, foster, and kinship parents as well as anyone working with these families are welcome to these free trainings simply by registering.
The next training for adoptive, foster and kinship parents will be held Thursday, January 24 from 6-8 p.m. at the St. Ignace Public Library. "Caring for Children Who Have Experienced Trauma, Module 4: Building a Safe Place" is the third in monthly training provided in the EUP by U.P. KIDS (formerly Good Will Farm).
This trauma training is one of many in a workshop series for resource parents. With a combination of information and exercises, the training can help resource parents understand the link between trauma and their children's often baffling behavior, feelings, and attitudes. It gives resource parents practical tools to help their children move forward from their traumatic pasts, to recognize and reduce the impact of their children's traumas on themselves, and to seek useful support from others. Past attendees in the EUP have expressed the benefits of simply being with and sharing information, ideas, and stories among other resource parents.
Trainer is once again Linda Sanchez, U.P. KIDS Program Director for the Post Adoption Resource Center that services Region 1 (the U.P.). Sanchez has over 10 years of experience in Foster Care, Foster Home Licensing, Family Support Services, and Post Adoption programs. She had been director of a licensed preschool and childcare center in Texas for over 20 years. She has also taught Early Childhood Education as an adjunct professor for Gogebic Community College. She is a licensed foster parent for the Department of Human Services in Houghton County, a mother, and a grandmother. Sanchez was trained as a facilitator for resource parents by Dr. Jim Henry, the co-founder and project director of the Children's Trauma Assessment Center at Western Michigan University.
Certificates of hours will be provided to those who register and attend. On-site childcare will be provided if requested when registering prior to January 21. For more info on any of the above, call Geraldine Stelmaszek at (906) 281-3276 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com


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Today's News: Our Take - VIDEO: The Cast of Parenthood Reveals What Movies Make Them Cry
For those embarrassed about shedding a few tears - or in some cases, crying buckets - each week during Parenthood: Don't worry. You are not alone.
"I have to be honest - this show does always make me cry," Erika Christensen tells TVGuide.com. "It gets me even though I know it's coming."
Season 4 in particular, which ends on Tuesday at 10/9c on NBC, has tugged at viewers' heartstrings week in and week out thanks to emotional story lines such as Amber's boyfriend's struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder, Drew's girlfriend's abortion, and most notably, Kristina's season-long battle with breast cancer. "It's a show that I think helps sensitize the viewing audience rather than desensitize," Peter Krause says.
Parenthood boss Jason Katims: "I'm hopeful that we'll get a Season 5"
But the big question is, what else makes the cast of TV's most emotional drama grab for the Kleenex? While on the set earlier this season, TVGuide.com asked the entire cast that very question, and they were happy to reveal what movies get the waterworks going just like Parenthood does.
So which member of the cast had to leave the theater during Cast Away? Who won't ever be able to watch Million Dollar Baby again? And who is "about 20 years overdue" for a good cry? Watch our video from the set of Parenthood:
Parenthood's Season 4 finale airs Tuesday at 10/9c on NBC. What movie always makes you cry?
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I'm sure you've all seen the "ghetto toffee" recipe floating around food-bloggerland for the holiday season. But my question to you is, have you seen it this way?
Yep, I totally went there--I used the ever-so-tasty Cheez-It crackers. Trust me on this one. It is WAY better than saltines. The sweet buttery toffee mixed with the salty taste of Cheez-It's. Oh yeah! Now we're talking tasty toffee.
cheez it bark
from vanillasugarblog.com
print recipe
1 cup unsalted butter (2 sticks)
1 cup, packed light brown sugar
2 bags of 11.05 ounces of milk chocolate chips
½ box of the Big-size Cheez-It's (use the big ones, as they cover more room)
1 cup of crushed toasted pecans (or walnuts or whatever you crave)
Preheat oven to 400ºF.
Line jelly roll pan or cookie sheet with foil and spray with non-stick spray. Or just use a non-stick jelly roll pan.
Lay a flat layer of Cheez-It crackers out on the foil. I did a layer and a half, making sure to cover up any gaps with Cheez-It's.
In a saucepan, melt the sugar and butter until a boil is reached. Reduce the heat and simmer, uncovered, for 3-4 minutes or until mixture is thickened and sugar is completely dissolved. Pour this mixture over the crackers and spread to coat evenly. Do not mix! Just pour, and fill in any gaps with a spatula.
Bake in pre-heated oven for 5-8 minutes, or until the toffee becomes bubbly. Turn off oven, then take out of oven and let it sit for a couple of minutes. Then sprinkle on the chocolate chips. But tray back in oven to help the chips melt a bit. When chips are melted a bit, spread them into an even layer like you would frosting a cake. After done spreading the chocolate this is the time to sprinkle on the chopped nuts or whatever else you want to add.
Let cool and/or refrigerate until hardened. Once firmly cooled then break into pieces.
So good. Trust me the Cheez-It's make all the difference!


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Anti-austerity protests, strikes spread across Europe
BARCELONA — Flights and trains were canceled across Europe on Wednesday as thousands of workers took to the streets to protest austerity measures aimed at reducing massive government deficits and boosting shaky economies.
"We all know that reforms, layoffs and cuts will continue but maybe we manage to get them cut (more slowly)," said Francisco Vallejo, 41, an administrative assistant in Madrid. "The only strike that is useless is the one we don't follow."
Unions had called for strikes across Europe to protest the trimming of government-funded salaries and pension benefits, which had risen dramatically over the years and led to significant debt problems in some countries.
The call to strike was heeded by many in Italy and Spain; but union workers in Britain, Germany and Denmark held rallies instead of walking off the job. Transport hubs were at standstill across southern Europe and in Brussels as airports and train stations shut down.
In Portugal, all trains and subways shut down and about 200 flights to and from the country were canceled. Hospitals operated on a skeleton staff while thousands of government workers including most in the justice system and trash collectors failed to go to work.
In Spain, some television channels went off the air and assembly lines at the big union-dominated factories shut down. Spanish unions claimed that 9 million Spaniards stayed at home, or 77% of the workforce.
Much of Spain's school system was closed and more than half of its hospital employees went on strike.
In Barcelona, high-end stores such as Gucci and Chanel on the Paseo de Gracia closed for the day. In the neighborhoods, only a few bakeries and grocery shores dared to open, intermittently closing when they saw trouble.
In Greece, the strike shut down the subway system for part of the day. About 5,000 Greeks protested in Athens. Port workers blocked the entrance to the Ministry of Defense demanding back wages, they said.
In Italy, about 60,000 turned out in Rome. The president of Rome province, Nicola Zingaretti, condemned "groups of rioters" among peaceful protesters. Zingaretti said a climate of "aggressiveness and intolerance" risked sullying Rome's image abroad following reports of protesters yelling anti-Semitic slogans outside a Rome synagogue.
The so-called austerity measures comprise spending cuts, tax hikes and changes to labor laws to allow businesses to better adjust to shaky economies. But several governments and many workers worry that the measures may worsen economies by driving down individual incomes.
The protests Wednesday brought out people who blame the economic system as a whole.
"They've only just started cuts but they are pretty draconian already," said Andrew Burgin, European officer for the Coalition of Resistance in London, which organized a rally outside the European Commission offices there. "I think this is the beginning of a new movement. It will be a day remembers in history as the beginning of a pan-European movement, possibly an international movement, against capitalism."
But European leaders, such as Angela Merkel of Germany, says the problem is the massive debts piled up by individual nations, many of which like Greece and Portugal spent beyond revenues on public projects, expanding welfare and government jobs, and generous public benefits.
Greece and Spain, which have been hit hardest by an economic slowdown and debt crisis that has swept up several nations across the continent, are experiencing unemployment rates of more than 25%. Both countries passed measures recently to change labor laws that protected employees from layoffs and that businesses say prevented them from hiring or innovating.
The austerity measures are supposed to improve the economy over time but in the short-term people in Greece and Spain especially are experiencing curtailment of government health care, reductions in their pensions and salaries and higher taxes.
The strikes were called by the European Trade Union Confederation, which represents almost 90 different groups across Europe.
"The people of Europe will not stand for fiscal fundamentalism and will fight for an alternative based on social and economic justice," said the confederation's General Secretary Designate Frances O'Grady. "'Those in the corridors of power in Brussels and Frankfurt need to understand this – that if ordinary European workers feel that the EU is about little more than cuts, open markets and privatization, then the European project will collapse just as surely as night follows day."
Analysts were skeptical about the effectiveness of the strikes.
"I think we have already seen turn in the European crisis management toward a more social management, meaning, like in the case of Greece and Spain, that more time is given for the reforms to be implemented due to the social impact, not to somehow totally overburden the countries with the implementation of the measures," said Carsten Brzeski, senior economist at ING in Brussels.
"This is already some kind of acknowledgement and change, but I don't think we should suddenly expect the kind of change where governments all of a sudden start to spend or cancel the reforms -- in the end the reforms are required to restart growth in the countries," he said. "You can argue about the pace in which they are implemented, but I don't think you can argue about the necessity to do them."
Some people felt the strikes may do harm.
"In Madrid, we've been having plenty of them in the last few months and I think given the situation of the country, now it is time to work instead of stopping," said Estefania Martin, 38, who works for an technology company in Madrid.
There as a clear divide in Europe, where wealthier states like the Netherlands and the Nordic nations in the north saw few protests. Much of the demonstrating was in the south.
Belgium saw some strikes. Both the Thalys and Eurostar high-speed rail services that connect Brussels with London and Paris were severely disrupted. Protesters said taking to the streets is the best way to confront political leaders.
"Protests and mass mobilization is the only way (forward) for those of us who have seen our rights shrink every day," said Evangelina Tsomaka, 28, a lawyer in Athens. "Protests are your last hope to have your voice heard."
The chief of the European Union employers' federation took a different view.
"If you start striking at national level and in companies you only will harm the economy," said Eurobussiness leader Philippe de Buck in an interview. "It costs billions" of euros, he said, adding that Europe's reputation as a hotbed of trade union action would not attract global investors.
On an avenue in Lisbon, Portugal, unemployed teacher Ligia Carvalho said she was protesting for the future of herself and her two children
"I hope that everybody finally figures out that the future depends on us and if we won't ask for our rights, nobody will," said Carvalho, 33, who said she has been unemployed for five years. "I have two little children and I have no expectations (for the future)."
Contributing: Nikolia Apostolou in Athens, Michael Levitin in Berlin, Mariana Barbosa in Lisbon; The Associated Press


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ERIE — An amendment to one of four gun bills being debated by the Colorado legislature isn't enough to keep a maker of firearms accessories in the state, top management told U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner during a tour Thursday.
Gardner, R-Yuma, and state Sen. Vicki Marble, R-Fort Collins, toured Magpul Industries Corp., watching as workers prepared and assembled ammunition magazines, firearms accessories and other products ranging from dog leashes to smartphone cases.
Magpul has threatened to leave Colorado if the legislature passes and Gov. John Hickenlooper signs gun bills that include one that would limit the capacity of ammunition magazines that can be sold and possessed in the state.
An amendment attached to that bill before it cleared the House in a floor vote this week would allow manufacturers of magazines that hold more than 15 rounds to make them in Colorado and sell them elsewhere.
But Magpul officials told Gardner, Marble and state Rep. Lori Saine — a Dacono Republican who joined the others after they had completed the Magpul plant tour — that the amendment wouldn't be enough to prompt the company to stay in this state if the bill becomes law.
Read more of the article Magpul standing firm on threat to leave Colorado if gun bill passes at TimesCall.com.


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SEATTLE – UFC on FOX 5 fighter weigh-ins take place today, and you can catch a live video stream of the proceedings here on MMAjunkie.com.
The weigh-ins take place at Seattle's KeyArena, and the first fighter is on the scale at 7 p.m. ET (4 p.m. PT local time).
In addition to the video stream, you can get text-only results for the weigh-ins on the MMAjunkie.com homepage.
For more on UFC on FOX 5, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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Here's a complete list of the finalists for the 2009 Delete Key Awards, which recognize authors who don't use their delete keys enough. Click on this link to read passages that earned these books a place on shortlist, posted on Feb. 26 in ten separate posts. More comments on these awards appear at www.twitter.com/janiceharayda.
1. Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid (Viking), by Denis Leary.
2. Death Benefits: How Losing a Parent Can Change an Adult's Life — For the Better (Basic Books), by Jeanne Safer.
3. The Underneath (Atheneum, ages 8 and up), by Kathi Appelt with drawings by David Small
4. Wolf Totem (Penguin), by Jiang Rong, translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt:
5. Change of Heart (Simon & Schuster/Atria), by Jodi Picoult.
6. Leisureville: Adventures in America's Retirement Utopias (Atlantic Monthly Press), by Andrew Blechman.
7. Read All About It! (HarperCollins, ages 4–6), a picture book by Laura Bush and Jenna Bush, illustrated by Denise Brunkus.
8. The Host (Little, Brown) by Stephenie Meyer.
9. Bright Shiny Morning (Harper), by James Frey.
10. Audition: A Memoir (Knopf), by Barbara Walters.
Randy Pausch has posthumously received the first Delete Key Awards Lifetime Achievement Award for The Last Lecture (Hyperion), in part for his unabashed acknowledgment of his love of football cliches. As long as there was still time left on the clock, he kept the drive alive.
The winners of the 2009 Delete Key Awards will be announced March 16 on the One-Minute Book Reviews blog.
Thanks for visiting One-Minute Book Reviews, a site for people who like to read but dislike hype and review inflation.
(c) 2009 Janice Harayda.