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This blog post originally appeared on our sister site, Redwood City Patch.
Doubtless you've read that the legislature adopted a state budget.
And, to comply with the law (and so they can get paid), the solons got it out on time and balanced, but negotiations continue via 'trailer bills.' (No, not like in a trailer park but bills that 'trail' a major piece of legislation and contain funding components to make it work.)
Ah, but what's balanced on paper in reality hangs by a single horsehair, as did the Sword of Damocles.
BTW: The Damocles thing is often referenced improperly with the sword of Damocles representing great peril – which it does – but it actually illustrates that anybody who has immense wealth, luxury, power and the feeling of security that engenders also is not paying attention to the proverbial other side of the coin (don't you just love mixed metaphors?) and is living under an equally dangerous threat.
O.K, here are the basics: the state needs the Governor's November Income Tax/Sales Tax Initiative to pass. The balancing of the budget is predicated on its passage. So, one would think the Legislature and the Governor would do nothing to upset what appears to be a slight favoring of the proposal.
Recent Field Poll results show the Governor's measure is sampling at 54 percent 'yes' and 38 percent 'nada.' Meanwhile, the "Our Children, Our Future" (AKA the Millionaire Tax) Initiative is at a dead heat, 46%-46%.
And here is where the Legislature is rollin' the bones, big-time - it's the number of "yes" voters for JB's tax measure who say they were less likely to support his plan IF the Legislature approved funds for high-speed rail (AKA the Bullet Train).
It's a whopping 21 percent of voters... and guess what the Legislature did last Friday? Yep, $69 billion for a train that will initially take people from Merced to Bakersfield. So for grins, let's say 50 percent of those voters polled about the Bullet Train/Tax Measure were bluffing.
That still basically flips the percentages and the Governor's measure rolls snake eyes.
So, here are your budget scenarios: If the Governor's measure fails… if the "Our Children, Our Future" measure passes by more than the Governor's proposal (thus taking precedent)… or if they both fail: The budget goes down in flames.
Now comes the fun. Put all the money in and let's roll 'em again: That same polling data noted a mongo 72 percent of all voters already disapprove of the trigger cuts that will befall education if the Governor's tax measure fails.
I've commented about this previously… there are a series of budget cuts which automatically kick in if the state doesn't achieve the anticipated revenue it needs to make the budget work… which includes approval of the Governor's tax initiative.
The bulk of these cuts will be to education, with the more drastic tier of cuts aimed at nothing but education. And this is beyond what has already taken place. Believe me, the folks at the K-12, community college and UC/CA state college system levels are sweaty of palm.
But don't worry… if the tax measure is not approved, you can count on an instantaneous bipartisan juggernaut to undo the trigger cuts to K-12 as the prospects of shortened school years materialize (down to 160 days) and the cuts will be shifted to non-K-12 programs. WARNING - Massive understatement to follow: While a certain amount of rollover deficit to FY2013-14 is possible, the state is likely to have a major cash problem if the tax measure fails. Ya think? Come on 7's!
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For many residents of southern California--even people who have lived here for many years--their first trip to the desert comes when they hear there's a spectacular spring bloom. Think the media coverage of the bloom is just journalistic hype? It isn't! The flower display in a good year (with plenty of winter rain) can be spectacular. So is the number of people going to see it. Here are some tips for avoiding the crush.
Tip One: Go on a weekday, or as early as you can get there in the morning. If your desert trip will include several stops (which we strongly recommend!), do the most publicized area first, before the tour buses get there.
Tip Two: Take a lunch and plenty of water; you can lose a lot of your desert time trying to fight the crowds in restaurants.
Tip Three: Although the DiGiorgio Road and Henderson Canyon areas of Borrego Springs get a lot of publicity, they're not the only places worth seeing in the Borrego Valley. Drive along other roads and keep your eye open for the purple Sand Verbena that marks the spots where you'll find a variety of flowers that thrive in deep sand. Stop often to walk around and look for the small flowers that can't be seen from the road.
Tip Four: While the Valley is a must-see experience every spring, other areas of the desert are worth seeing, too. You'll find that the southern portion of the desert--lower in elevation, and warmer--gets a head start, and flowers like Desert Lilies may be in bloom earlier than in the more northern desert areas (see the photo on this page, taken near Calexico). Canyons, washes, and rocky slopes are filled with their own special assortment of species different from the sand-lovers seen in the Valley.
Tip Five: Don't drive yourself to exhaustion! Instead, plan another trip in a week or two, perhaps to a different area. There will be flowers to discover from January or February through the beginning of hot weather in April. Go early and go often!
And above all, relax and enjoy an experience you won't be able to repeat soon.
Most years, Desert Lilies are scattered and about knee-high. In the El Niño year 1998, there were fields of lilies a meter or more tall.
Text and photo by Judy Gibson, 1998/2001.
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Junior Season (2008):
Appeared in 49 games with 44 starts at third ... Recorded 22 hits, of which one was a double and one a home run ... Drove in 13 runs and scored eight times ... Had three multi-RBI games and four with two or more hits ... Was hit by a pitch once and drew just seven walks on the season ... Committed 13 errors in 134 chances ... Had two hits in Florida State's final game of the NCAA Tuscaloosa Regional against Jacksonville State.
Sophomore Season (2007):
Started in 68 of 69 games at third base ... Ranked fourth on the team with 28 runs scored ... Career-high 10 doubles was third on the team ... Second on the team with 141 assists ... Led the team in HBP with five ... Hit a solo home run to tie the game with No. 21 Nebraska at the NFCA Leadoff Classic ... Went 2-for-4, including a home run and double, with four RBIs and two runs scored against Syracuse during the FSU Invitational ... Drew a pair of walks that led to two runs during the ACC Tournament ... Went 1-for-3 with an RBI single against Tennessee Tech at the NFCA Leadoff Classic ... Started both games at third base in the Tuscaloosa Regional.
Freshman Season (2006):
One of three freshmen to earn a starting position ... Only freshman to play in all 74 games - making every start at third base ... Had three game-winning RBI and scored the game-winning run twice ... Collected 11 multi-hit games and three multi-RBI games ... Fifth on the team with 20 RBI and three home runs ... Ranked second on the team with 142 assists ... Named to the Early Bird All-Tournament Team after picking up five hits in her first three collegiate games ... Hit home runs in ACC games against Georgia Tech (4/2) and Virginia (4/9) ... Picked up career-best three hits in second game of doubleheaders at Jacksonville (4/22) and versus Florida International (3/23) ... Collected a hit in her collegiate debut, roping an RBI double against Louisville (2/10) ... Went 2-for-3 - including her first career home run - against Nicholls State (2/11) with four RBIs, making her the first Seminole in 2006 to drive in four runs ... Had a pair of hits in game one versus Connecticut (3/7), including her first collegiate triple ... Started all four games at third base during the Athens Regional ... Drew a walk while starting at third base in both contests during the Tempe Super Regional.
High School:
Capped prep career with Second Team All-State honors at shortstop her senior year ... Four-year All-Big 9 Conference selection, including First Team shortstop honors her junior and senior years ... Named Big 9 Conference Defensive Player of the Year as a sophomore after earning Second Team accolades at second base as a rookie ... Served as captain her senior year while twice being named Team MVP for Gary Lewallen's Wildcat squad ... Other team awards included Offensive Player of the Year (junior) and Outstanding Defense Award (sophomore) ... Led the Wildcats in batting her freshmen and junior seasons ... Also played soccer in high school, earning honorable mention All-Big 9 Conference honors as a sophomore ... Excelled in the classroom as a member of the National Honor Society and Eastmont Honor Roll.
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Played for Kelly Richards on the Washington Spirit Gold team that advanced to the ASA Gold national tournament.
Born April 4, 1987 ... Majoring in sport management ... Daughter of Brian Snyder and Beverly Abraham.
Career Highs
At-bats: 5 vs. Maryland (March 31, 2007)
Hits: 3 (twice)
Runs: 2 (five times)
RBI: 4 vs. Nicholls State (February 11, 2006)
Doubles: 1 (11 times)
Triples: 1 (twice)
Home Runs: 1 (four times)
Stolen Bases: 1 (three times)
Total Bases: 6 vs. Syracuse (March 9, 2007)
Walks: 2 (twice)
Strikeouts: 3 (twice)
Sac Hits: 2 vs. Iowa (March 2, 2008)
Putouts: 4 vs. UNC (March 14, 2006)
Assists: 7 vs. UCF (March 28, 2007)
Errors: 2 (five times)


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Holiday Tips for Pets from 'Ask Sydney"
Sydney is a rescue dog adopted by trainers, Suzanne & Trevor Mackay. Together they help other dogs and their owners achieve a more balanced and enjoyable relationship.
Dear Sydney,
Once again my owners' extended family is coming over for Christmas. We have a lot to be grateful for, a family who really loves us, plays with us and takes us to Sunny Dog Place!
However, the guests that visit us sometimes create a problem. Last year Uncle Earl fed me so much turkey and gravy that I had a really bad tummy ache. Then Toby the Terrorist—OK, he's a terrier but he acts like a terrorist, invaded our guests' suitcases. He dove into Aunt Betty's stuff; many of her toiletries and lingerie were no match for his K-9 assault tactics. Boy, my owners and Aunt Edna were mad at us for days (I'm guilty by association).
I consulted with trainer Suzanne and with the holidays around the corner, and I'd like to share some tips to manage pets and people a little better this year.
Darla the Dachshund
Dear Darla:
All of us at Sunny Dog Place want you all to have a great holiday and a lot less stress. Consider these tips to help manage pets around your guests.
- Food: Let's face it, pets like to beg. Since you can't help it, I recommend that your owner make a house rule that anyone that wants to feed the table scraps save them in a bowl. Then when you get fed your regular pet food your mom or dad can take a small amount of the safe scraps—like little pieces of meat, rice or veggies (no bones or sugary foods) and place it in your bowl. You won't feel deprived and your folks will feel like they are still 'spoiling' you.
- Keep cookies, candies and other yummies up high, in the frig or somewhere where you and your other conspirators won't get to them. Veterinarians are full this time of year with pets with obstructed stomachs, diarrhea and other unpleasant ailments.
- Parties: I like parties, too, but if everyone is going to feed you things they shouldn't, let you drink beer (naughty!) or leave doors open, Sunny Dog Place is a great place for the dogs to have their own party!
- New Stuff: To keep your guests' stuff safe from Toby's search and destroy missions, put your guests' things in a closed room or closet and make sure the door stays closed. Also, since people may forget to put their stuff away, you and Toby should stay in the yard, on a tie down in the house (when people are home), or in a crate for a few hours at a time and be given some extra walks and playtime. When your owners have time, they can let you in the room with everyone when someone can watch you both.
- Trees and Other Holiday Things: It's perfectly logical that dogs and cats want to pee, claw, tip over trees and play with all the ornaments, knock over candles, open gifts before Christmas and generally play with all this cool stuff. The sound of ripping paper is music to their ears. Trainer Zan recommends:
- Candles that are battery operated (they look real).
- Artificial trees (they look real) with potpourri so they look and smell good (and don't dry out and catch fire).
- No tinsel or glass ornaments - use plastic or paper ornaments or just enjoy the beauty of a lighted tree.
- Presents come out on the holiday so little paws and claws do not open them.
I also know from my other doggie friends owners can get really busy around the holidays and distracted by their guests, so if that's the case, have them bring you to a doggie daycare or boarding facility for some fun of your own. You can have a good time playing with your doggie pals and no one will get into trouble this year. Have a safe and fun holiday and New Years!


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My brother Devin (above left) looks a lot like Robert Downey Jr. I know this because every single time we go out in public at least one person will come up to him and tell him he looks like Robert Downey Jr. It's gotten to the point where people will say, "I don't know if anyone's told you, but…" and Devin just goes, "…that I look like Robert Downey Jr? A few people have." The day someone is actually trying to inform him that he has toilet paper stuck to his shoe will be quite entertaining.
A few months ago, I was walking through Pike Place Market in Seattle and this girl glanced at me and did a double take. My first reaction was, "Oh god is there bird poop in my hair?" But then she grabbed my arm and said, "I thought you were Billie Piper!" I'll be cruising on that compliment for the next few years. So how about you? Do you ever get compared to a certain celebrity? Who would play you in the movie version of your life?
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This weekend, I finished Mockingjay, the third and final book in The Hunger Games trilogy. I had to put the book down multiple times so I could cry and then, at the end, I cried again because it was all over and I couldn't go back in time to when I hadn't read them yet and start all over. What a great series. Seriously, if you haven't read them, DO, and before the movie version of the first book comes out.
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Move over Zack Galifianakis, there's a new bikini-clad beauty in town! "Vintage pinups are the pinnacle of art. Robert Downey Jr. is the pinnacle of sexy. It's not rocket science," says the internet meme genius/photoshop whiz who made this pic possible. Oh RDJ, we love it when you play coy! For more pics of Downey doing his retro thang and sexually confusing us, check out the dedicated Tumblr blog of Lisa René, aka Dangerous Minds] Keep reading »
"I think we should probably try to have a girl, because I don't want another male entity to have to compete; I don't want [my 17-year-old son] Indio to feel there's another boy in my life. But I don't know what we'd have to do [to have a girl]. Do we have to put it in a spoon and hang it upside-down?"
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"When the door clicks shut, then you are safe. There is nothing aside from a rogue correctional officer that can do you harm if you have the right cellie. You are actually in the safest place on Earth. Safe from the intruders."
—"Ironman" Robert Downey Jr. tells Rolling Stone about the stints he spent in prison in 1997 and 1999 for drug possession and violating the terms of his parole. Maybe I watched too many episodes of "Oz," but I'm just not buying it. [NY Daily News]
"I couldn't get her off of me. It was embarrassing … She said to me that I didn't know what I was doing, like it didn't feel good. 'I'm like, you know what? First of all, we're all friends, so what would be creepy would be if I was coming off all sexy to you—which by the way, I've done that in movies and it creeps them out. So what am I going to creep you out for?' Despite what she said on set, she still thinks about it."
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A special plenary session was held, to introduce the Leaders for Nature – India, at the CII's 8th Sustainability Solutions Summit this evening in New Delhi.
With attendance of Chief Executive Officers, Chief Sustainability Officers, Senior Environment and Sustainability officials from a number of leading national and multi-national companies with operations in India, the session saw unveiling of the programme's strategy, followed by discussions to get inputs from the business community.
The Indian complement of a global initiative by International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Leaders for Nature – India, is a joint initiative of IUCN, Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), Hivos and Wildlife Trust of India (WTI). Leaders for Nature India envisions to inspire, guide, facilitate and support companies in incorporating natural capital into their business strategy and thereby drives the transformation towards an Indian economy that values and conserves nature.
Mr. Daan Wensing, Managing Director, Leaders for Nature said, "Industries, businesses and economy depend on services provided by nature and likewise they have an impact on it. By incorporating natural capital into your core businesses, companies not just helps promote overall green economy but also enhance profits and in fact their very existence over long-term". Mr. Wensing continued "We're all looking for that next step and going beyond the examples to get into the strategic area".
Presenting the Vision and Mission of the Leaders for Nature – India, Mr. PR Sinha, Country Representative, IUCN India said, "We are not very far from the time when all services of nature will be charged, and its time that we start taking nature into account into our thinking processes and our functioning."
Mr. Hem Pande, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India encouraged the business participants to become 'biodiversity champions' and indicated that initiatives such as Leaders for Nature – India can efficiently drive this agenda forward.
The panel also included Mr. Chanakya Chaudhary, Chief Resident Executive, Tata Steel, Mr. Nazeeb Arif, Vice President, ITC Limited, Mr. Neil Marshman, Chief Advisor, Rio Tinto and Joe Phelan, Director, WBCSD India, who shared their respective experiences with managing natural capital linked to their businesses and overall benefits they generated.
The event ended with Ms. Seema Arora, Executive Director, CII-ITC Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development calling upon the participants to become Leaders for Nature.
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Chutkow revising his objection. No objection to authenticity of the documents. Looks like Bobby did purchased some trucks. This all tr5anspired in September 2007 but check is for April 2008. Not sure what the correlation is.
Judge says it sounds like good cross examination to her. So it looks like we are going ahead with Rataj's exhibits.
10:29AM Jury coming back in. Bobby just left the courtroom as the jury comes back in.
Judge tells jury that the objection has been overruled and Rataj will go ahead with some of the exhibits.
Looking at check for $25,000. Memo line reads "graphics."
Looking at document from September 17th 2007 from Eastern Michigan Kenworth on Wyoming for $352,203 for 3 trucks. Looks like an order form. Balance due is $317,203.
Looking at promissory note for First Source Bank from October 27th 2007 for $317,403. Signed by Bobby. Loaning funding date is September 27th 2007. Right around the date of the Kenworth document.
Looking at title application. Plate # AB42023. Application for Kenworth tractor. First secured interest, First Source Bank.
Picture of a red truck with yellow and black checkers on the front. Witness says that the plate matches the document and it looks like a newer model truck.
Each truck was $117,000.
Now talking about the graphics on two- trucks. A plainer white truck and the red truck with the black and yellow checkers. Rataj says this is after purchase costs. Witness says she has no idea.
Several weeks after truck purchases, a check made out for "graphics."
Now looking at check from April 30th 2008. Made out for "new truck parts".
Side note: after this trial started, an attempt was made to repossess the three trucks. To this day, the repo man has been unable to find them.
Rataj says that the Ferguson Enterprises logo was an after market purchase. Witness agrees. Not sure about the other graphics. "Wouldn't know one way or another," says witness.
Rataj done. No redirect. Witness excused.
10:45AM Chutkow formally rests the government's case.
Taking a 20 minute break.
READ: 75-page document of the government's proposed jury instructions.
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Phillip Ray Daniels, 54, of McAlester, died Monday, Dec. 24, 2012, at Mercy Hospital in Fort Smith, Ark.
Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Blue Cemetery with the Rev. Steve Smith officiating. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Bishop Funeral Service of McAlester.
Born Aug. 1, 1958, in McAlester, he was the son of Edgar and Winnie Daniels. He was a long haul trucker for different companies and drove trucks for Big V Feeds for several years.
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Survivors include two daughters and sons-in-law, Leslie Nail and Marc McMurtrey, Fort Smith, and Audra and Beau Jordan, of Henryetta; his mother, Winnie Sue Daniels, of McAlester; five grandchildren, Allison Nail, Brighton McMurtrey, Natalie Jordan, Alisha Jordan and Chloe Jordan; one sister, Davina Sue Daniels, of Sallisaw, and two brothers and a sister-in-law, Jerry Don and Deanna Daniels, of McAlester, and David Daniels, of McAlester.
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This boy had a tough life prior to being rescued by Angels Among Us from a heart-sick facility in Georgia. He grew up outdoors and wasn't taught anything about how to behave and how to be a good boy. The irony is that Floyd really is a good boy!
He is loving, very playful, extremely hungry for love and attention, needs someone to play with and is looking for a family and home to call his very own. Floyd has so much love to give a family who will take the time to teach him, work with him, love and support him through the training he so desperately wants.
This pup needs an active owner or family who appreciates a sweet dog who will provide the exercise a young lab needs to work off his energy. He needs a fenced-in yard and a place that has room for him to run, chase, play, do tricks and just share everything with his family.
More than anything, Floyd is a dog who wants to share time, space and the touch that a human provides – he loves them all: adults, kids - old and young. He also loves other dogs and is patient – even when they don't readily accept another pup in their space. He is a sweetheart who wants to be in your lap all the time – he is just an absolute love bug.
He sweetly greets everyone he meets, rides well in a car (when he's not wanting to be in your lap), loves his baths, isn't much of a barker or chewer, and would be an ideal dog for any family or owner. He walks well on his leash, and is a wonderful, loving dog to be around.
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Journal of the New Zealand Medical Association, 21-January-2011, Vol 124 No 1328
Nicotine e-cigarette cartridges can be sold as tobacco products
End Smoking NZ, a charitable trust focussed on tobacco policy, has identified the sale of safer, satisfying nicotine products as a top priority for greatly reducing smoking.1 Tobacco smoke includes thousands of compounds, including carcinogens, and lung and cardiovascular toxicants. In contrast, pure nicotine carries far less risk, and can provide a safer alternative for those too addicted to yet quit smoking.
Medsafe's interpretation of the Medicines Act is that nicotine electronic (e-)cigarettes (which vapourise nicotine into a mist for inhalation) are medicines "even if they are not represented as aids to smoking cessation",2 and cannot be sold unless medicinally licensed. As no such licensing is imminent, a virtual ban is in place.
Instead, we argue that nicotine e-cigarettes are primarily recreational nicotine alternatives to smoking, though some brands may obtain licensing as medicines at some future date. We argue they already qualify as tobacco products under the Smoke-free Environments (SFE) Act, which has regulated all tobacco products for (recreational) human consumption since 1990. For example, at Section 30, the Act bans their sale to those under 18 years of age, while at Section 31 it has powers to reduce or remove any substances deemed hazardous. All that e-cigarette distributors would have to do, is strictly refrain from making therapeutic claims, and abide by current or future regulations of the SFE Act. We now examine how the SFE Act can accommodate nicotine electronic cigarettes.
The SFE Act's interpretation section defines a tobacco product as:
..."any product manufactured from tobacco and intended for use by smoking, inhalation, or mastication and includes nasal and oral snuff, but does not include any medicine (being a medicine in respect of which there is in force a consent or provisional consent under section 20 or section 23 of the Medicines Act 1981) that is sold or supplied wholly or principally for use as an aid in giving up smoking."
Thus the nicotine e-cigarette can be classified as a tobacco product, if its nicotine is manufactured from tobacco (it is) and it is not supplied wholly or principally as an aid in giving up smoking.3
Nicotine e-cigarettes, unlike medicinal nicotine patches or gum, are shaped and designed to provide nicotine-based and smoking-ritual-based pleasure by inhalation, and so can be regarded as tobacco products provided no medicinal claims are made. A recent United States district court decision,4 upheld on appeal in December 2010, supports the classification of e-cigarettes as inhaled tobacco products, and recognises that almost all nicotine is consumed for recreational, not medicinal purposes.
According to the definition above, tobacco products can be used for smoking, inhalation or mastication. Of these three, the SFE Act permits sale for smoking, but not for oral use, and does not mention sale for inhalation:
..."No person shall import for sale, sell, pack, or distribute any tobacco product labelled or otherwise described as suitable for chewing, or for any other oral use (other than smoking)".5
Sale of nasal tobacco snuff for inhalation remains legal. Sale of nicotine electronic cigarettes for inhalation is not mentioned; and their import, distribution and sale can we believe, be allowed under the SFE Act. This is reinforced by observations on how e-cigarettes are used—for inhalation, not oral use.
As with cigarettes the e-cigarette mist is inhaled, but more negative pressure is needed,6 requiring inhalation directly to the lungs. Smokers switching to e-cigarettes, instead of holding smoke in the mouth before inhalation as many smokers do, learn to inhale mist into the lungs in a one-stage manoeuvre.
The mouth has a separate secondary role as part of the respiratory tract, and the inhaled mist transits the mouth in seconds, whereas oral products (snuff or nicotine gum) are normally held in the mouth for half an hour. For the above reasons, we believe the sale of electronic cigarettes is not caught by the Act's ban on sale of oral tobacco products.
As nicotine e-cigarettes contain no tobacco, they attract no tobacco excise. Nicotine-free electronic cigarettes are widely advertised and sold, but most users want nicotine cartridges – which, being tobacco products, cannot be advertised (Section 22, SFE Act). Every nicotine cartridge sold means a pack of cigarettes not sold. UK surveys have shown 52% of smokers have heard of e-cigarettes but never tried them, 6% of smokers have tried them but no longer use them, and 3% currently use them.7
The Maori Affairs Select Committee Tobacco Inquiry recommended further research into the benefits and risks of alternative products.8
A recent review backs e-cigarettes as much safer than cigarettes, although absolute safety is yet to be proven.9 Further reliance, however, on regulation solely under the Medicines Act, as at present, would deny satisfaction to the thousands of smokers who have already bought e-cigarettes without nicotine, as currently advertised. No hospitalisations or deaths have been reported globally so far from over 3 years of nicotine e-cigarette sales. Smokers merely want the choice now, without having to order the nicotine cartridges from China.
Conclusion—The Smoke-free Environments Act provides a comprehensive framework for governing recreational tobacco and nicotine, and already permits the import, distribution, and sale of nicotine electronic cigarettes as tobacco products.
Murray Laugesen, Marewa Glover, Trish Fraser, Ross McCormick, John Scott
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Farrar, fair-haired and a lanky six feet one, moves with a slowness that's both lazy and deliberate, and says he joined the Army to get money for college. "I never thought there was going to be a war," he says. "There were guys at Fort Campbell who squirmed out before we deployed — like a kid who developed 'dizzy spells.' I thought of doing that, but fuck it." Farrar holds an unusual position in the platoon. His superiors consider him one of the platoon's best soldiers, but he is also the lowest-ranked. About a week after he arrived, he was busted down two ranks to buck private when an infraction he'd committed back at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, caught up with him. Farrar is sketchy about the details but allows it had something to do with a urine test. (Bad luck seems to dog Farrar. On a recent mail call, while his buddies opened letters and boxes of cookies from home, Farrar received a parking ticket. "This girl didn't write me for three weeks," he says. "I told her to pack her shit and get the fuck out of my house. Now she's got my car.")
At about 0600, the platoon strap on about sixty pounds of protective gear and equipment apiece and climb into three Humvees. They drive out the front gate of the American camp and go less than a mile, to a former Taliban command post surrounded by fourteen-foot-high mud-brick walls, that belongs to America's ally in Kandahar, an army called the Anti-Taliban Forces.
The Fifth Platoon stay here for days at a time while running patrols, sleeping in beat-up Marine Corps pup tents set up in a dusty field opposite the ATF command post. Pulling into the fort, the men scramble out of the Humvees and make for the tents, each racing to find one that has the fewest rips and, ideally, zippers that work. You would think staying in the fort would be a hardship duty, but spirits are high. Spc. Arman-do Ramos, a twenty-year-old from Bakersfield, California, who has a three-year-old daughter back home, says, "Dude, this is the only place where we have the privacy to jack off." Farrar groans, "I am so sick of beating off." Ramos adds, "I see a stick figure of a naked chick someone drew in the latrines, and I'm ready to go."
Before the first patrol, D'Angelo assembles the men for a briefing held beneath a parachute strung up in a corner of the walled fortress for shade. Once they sit down, D'Angelo turns to the new guy, Pvt. Jason Swinehart, a nineteen-year-old former high school football player from Ohio who arrived in Afghanistan only five days ago, his bag packed with George Strait and Kenny Chesney CDs.
"Private Swinehart, where are we?"
Swinehart looks around, grins, turns red. "I don't know, sir."
"We are outside the wire," D'Angelo says in his most patient, speaking-to-a-dumb-fuck voice. The Kandahar desert is basically one vast, unmarked minefield. Three ATF soldiers were killed several weeks earlier when their Toyota pickup hit a mine less than a mile from the ATF fort. Two more died in a mine blast just beyond the perimeter of the air base. The American and coalition soldiers have been luckier. In April, a Canadian patrol hit a mine, but they were in an armored vehicle and no one was hurt. D'Angelo turns to Swinehart again. "What do the occupants of the lead vehicle do if they hit a mine?"
Swinehart sweats it a moment, squeezing his eyes shut in deep thought, then answers: "Everyone exits through the hatch, sir?"
"Very good, Swinehart," D'Angelo says. Swinehart's ability to quickly adapt to conditions in Afghanistan proves one of D'Angelo's pet theories about young soldiers: It's easier to train the ones who don't have a lot of education. "See," D'Angelo explains as the men start getting into the trucks, "if you took a nineteen-year-old philosophy major in college and gave him Swinehart's job, that guy wouldn't know what to do. We put Swinehart on top of the truck with a machine gun in his hands and drive him into a village where people have their own personal weapons — shotguns, AKs — and they start waving them around." D'Angelo spits a long stream of black Copenhagen juice into the dust. "What do you do if you're Swinehart? We have very simple rules: You don't shoot unless he aims a weapon at you. I trust a guy like Swinehart to follow the rules. If you put that machine gun in the hands of a nineteen-year-old philosophy major, he might think too much. We don't want that. In the Army, everything is decided for you. Just follow the rules."
SGT. Quast, The Thirty-Four-year-old platoon staff sergeant, leads the initial patrol of the day from the first Humvee. A second Humvee follows about seventy-five yards behind. The basic crew of each consists of the driver, the turret gunner and the TC (truck commander), who also operates the radio. The patrols also include an ATF translator and a medic. For several days the soldiers have been excited about the prospect of driving new "up-armored" Humvees recently shipped in from the States. Up to now, patrols were conducted in conventional thin-skin vehicles providing little protection against land mines. The new Humvees are fitted with 3,500 pounds of armor protection. But it's not the safety features that have the men talking; it's the fact that these new vehicles are rumored to have air conditioning. All morning, Ramos has been repeating, "Dude, we're gonna be cruising in the up-armors with the AC on full, windows all up and shit."
The AC unit blasts with the noise and ferocity of a leaf blower, but hot air and dust pour in as usual through the open roof hatch where the gunner stands. The added armor interferes with the global-positioning-navigation unit, called a Plugger. The TCs now have to hold the Plugger about two feet out the window for it to operate.
There are other problems. The secure radios mounted in the Humvees cease to work once they get a few miles into the desert. So in order to communicate with one another, the soldiers ask friends and relatives to send seventy-dollar Motorola walkie-talkies you can buy at any Wal-Mart in the States. "The Army issues us its own walkabouts," says Quast. "But they don't work worth shit."
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Visitation for Chick Rankin, of Knoxville, was held on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013, at the Bybee & Davis Funeral Home.
William Dwayne "Chick" Rankin was born Feb. 15, 1932, in Knoxville, the son of Lloyd and Maude (Carter) Rankin.
Chick graduated from Knoxville High School with the Class of 1951. Following graduation, he worked for Gambles and then for Western Electric. On Sept. 8, 1963, he was united in marriage to Linda Van Hemert. Chick and Linda started a family and purchased the Coast to Coast Hardware Store. They eventually sold out of the hardware business and founded Rankin Furniture, which they operated until the mid-1990s. Chick continued to work managing Rankin Properties and building and remodeling homes. He didn't retire until his health failed, beginning on Nov. 12, 2012.
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A Slippery Rock man with a New Castle optometry practice has been charged with receiving and possessing child pornography.
According to court records, Mark Beres, 53, of 445 Center St., also admitted to engaging in sexual contact with three boys.
The U.S. Attorney's office believes there may be more victims and seeks the public's help to identify them.
According to court records, in October 2010, U.S. postal inspectors began an investigation of a foreign movie production company that operated a website selling DVDs and films marked as "naturist films."
The investigation determined that between January 2006 and April 2011, Beres allegedly had ordered $2,716 worth of child pornography from the company's website shipped to his home from a North Tonawanda, N.Y.-based firm called the International Co.
That company is being prosecuted outside the United States for child exploitation offenses, including producing and distributing child pornography.
A search of Beres' house and computer led investigators to find 500,000 images and 550 videos of naked children, including some of children involved in sex acts.
According to court records, Beres — who worked as an optometrist at the New Castle Sears — provided a written statement to investigators. In it, Beres admitted more than 10,000 images of child pornography could be found on his computer, the court documents noted. He also admitted to having sex with three boys — ages 3, 7 and 13 — on at least 30 occasions, the records note, and to photographing them "naked, for his own sexual gratification."
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The Herald Bulletin
---- — We live in a class society. More and more, class status is fixed by the circumstances of birth. If you are born rich, it is likely you will stay rich. If you are born into the middle class or in poverty, that is likely where you will die, and sooner rather than later. The evidence suggests that's the way things are.
Many prefer to apply the salve of popular myth to the open wounds of gross income inequality in this land. The wounds, by the way, are not just to the poor, but to all of us — the entire economy. I suppose there are at least three main reasons we reach for salve instead of economic salvation. First, issues of income inequality and class are complex, murky, and difficult to talk about.
Second, the complexity lies in the fact that most Americans see themselves as middle class, even though they have no working definition of the term. In general, I think being in the middle class means you have a family income of anywhere between $30,000 and $100,000. Then variables of family size, debt, spending habits, and so forth kick in.
That's part of what makes it murky. Income and solid middle-class status are not necessarily related except, perhaps, in the imagination of wage earners. It is possible, for example, for a family earning over $100,000 to technically be broke. Many with earnings in that range are one or two paychecks away from financial ruin.
Third, the chief difficulty in bringing the subject into the public forum is the deeply embedded idea of America as a meritocracy — it's called the American Dream. Any talk about income inequality or re-distribution of private wealth (higher taxes) is considered anti-capitalist and, hence, anti-American. That is partially why ill-informed citizens routinely vote against their own interests. Remember Joe The Plumber?
In spite of the complexity of the subject, however, I argue that it is worth it to explore the class issue if for no reason other than to better understand what we can do as citizens to address the problem of income inequality. Since these inequalities are driven by government tax and other policies, exploring class issues might inspire voters to think "trickle up" instead of trickle down.
We are a class society. At the very, very top, there are roughly 400 families whose combined income is well over two trillion dollars. That's more than Russia's entire economy. The few in this group are on a different planet. Their children might pay Justin Bieber a million bucks to appear at a birthday party and, after he performs, he must leave. The Beebs is not one of them.
Just underneath this wealthy group are the super-rich. To understand both groups, here is what comedian Chris Rock had to say: "If Bill Gates (worth $72 billion, I think) woke up with Oprah's money, he would jump out of a (high-rise) window." Billion-dollar O is merely super rich. Gulp. Got it?
Then you have the class of garden variety millionaires. These poor rich folk have to work. If they are not careful with their bucks, they can go broke in a heartbeat. I'm sure many of you have heard stories about multi-million dollar lottery winners — millionaires — who went from sugar to shaft a few years after winning big.
Underneath millionaires there are upperclass, upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class citizens. People in this group are usually very well educated. They live well. They vote. They have to work. Unlike the myth that the wealthy are the job creators, the upperclass and the middle class in general are more key to job creation and economic growth than any other class.
Then you have the working poor, the poor, and what sociologists are calling a "permanent underclass." This latter group is disproportionately black and Hispanic and, because of their extreme poverty and associated problems, the ladders to upward mobility do not exist. People born into this group are likely to remain there.
lthough I have only been able to scratch the surface here, again, more and more, upward mobility from one class group to another is becoming difficult and, in some cases, next to impossible. Anyway, I said the subject was complex, murky, and difficult. It is. A final thought, though: no matter what class you're in, the truest wealth is health, common sense and good character or, well, class.
Have a nice day.
Anderson resident Primus Mootry is a retired school teacher. His column appears Wednesdays in The Herald Bulletin.


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Through a gift from Marshall and Shirley Reynolds and the Marshall University Foundation, an award was established to recognize superior teaching at Marshall University and to provide encouragement and incentive for teaching achievement. The award for 2013-14, including a cash award of $3,000, will be presented at the spring General Faculty meeting.
All faculty members engaged in teaching on a full-time, tenured or tenure track appointment at or above the rank of Assistant Professor and who have completed at least six years of service at Marshall University are eligible; i.e., a person is first eligible for nomination in the fall of the 7th year.
Please Note: In any given year a faculty member can be considered for only one teaching award (e.g. Hedrick, Pickens Queen, Reynolds). If nominated and eligible for more than one award, the nominee will be asked to choose one teaching award for consideration.
In addition, a faculty member can win any given teaching award only once in his or her service at Marshall University.
Self-nominations will not be accepted. Faculty, staff or students may make a nomination by submitting the online form below.
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