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You can rent the east wing of Meikleour House http://www.meikleourhouse.co.uk/
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It was a fantastic day with a great turnout supporting the charity. Lots of teams including a record breaking number of lady guns shooting this year in the sunshine at Auchterhouse. The shooting finished on a 100 bird flush then we headed to the clubhouse where the Angelia ( The Pear tree tearoom and larder) and her team served up a delicious meal of steak pie ( locally produced meat) or fish, followed by cheese and biscuits.
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Love at first site?
By Linda Mellor
By the end of 2014 the number of websites is expected to top a billion. Global Internet usage is continuing to grow as technology allows us to connect via our phones, tablets and laptops in almost any location. More than 71% of Britons say they are always looking at screens. The importance of a professional website has never been greater.
First impressions count as it only takes a matter of seconds for website users to make up their mind about your site and whether they should stay or go. The increased numbers of smartphone users has encouraged more immediacy and spontaneity in communication and the consumption of information. The instant someone lands on your page the visual appeal of your website needs to instantly engage users so they spend time and want to know more. Even before visitors look at your products and services they will be swayed by the look and feel of your website.
A professional looking site should have a clean design, good quality photographs, readable content and allow for easy navigation. You may have superior products and services but an initial negative impression, whether generated from a poor design or an unappealing colour scheme, can send potential customers away.
"There are a number of common mistakes people make when building a site" says Ian Paltiel, Commercial Director of Internet Creation. "To avoid the pitfalls it is important to do your homework when choosing a web designer, find out about their company history look through their portfolio and read recommendations from previous clients."
It is important to use appropriate colour schemes to promote and sell your products and services. Colours should be complimentary to the page design and be pleasing to the eye and not be overpowering. Many Countryside based sites use a lot of green, if the site designer has been somewhat heavy-handedly with green it can look intense and off putting especially for those affected by colour blindness as they will struggle to view the site. In the UK, colour blindness affects approximately 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women.
Ian continues: "It is very easy for the inexperienced eye or someone too close to the business to add lots of content and photographs without really considering what their customers are interested in." Photographs should showcase your business; they should be eye-catching, professionally taken and relevant. Appealing images can attract customers and make them stay.
You may think you have captured a great photograph for your website on your mobile phone camera or pocket camera but it will never replace an image taken by the trained eye of a photographer with professional camera equipment. Professional images instantly offer credibility and give potential customers confidence in your company. Employing a photographer connects you to your products and services by sending out a visual message that you care about your business and professionalism is important to you.
Stock photos may be an instant and cheap solution to your site although using them may suggest you do not care enough about your customers. Impersonal to your business and generic, stock photographs are available to everyone. If you use stock images consider the possibility they may also appear on your competitors' sites.
Keeping up to date with mobile technology developments and using a responsive design are also imperative for site visitors. Responsive sites recognise which application you are using to view and resize accordingly. Ian says: "People expect to see a responsive design, so you do not have to pinch or scroll to read the content. Navigation is easier and download times are faster. Customers have high expectations; they have visited other responsive sites and expect to see it everywhere."
Ian's good advice:
Don't settle for good when it comes to your website—be great. Visible 24/7 to people all over the globe, your website is you're most powerful marketing strategy. No printed brochure or magazine advertisement reaches more potential clients or offers the flexibility to easily update content as your business grows.
Don't take shortcuts no other marketing tool offers a better opportunity to grow your business and see real results.
Creating and maintaining a great website is a huge responsibility. It must be updated often, be usable and informative, and also visually appealing, fast loading, and functional. So treat it with the due attention that it deserves.
Ask yourself:
Where does your company website stack up in the mix of bad to great business websites?
Is your company professional, knowledgeable, reliable, error-free, and better than the competition? Yes? Then make sure your website communicates this.
Contact Ian Paltiel Commercial Director, Internet Creation Ltd. 07988 899521 W: www.internetcreation.net
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I am also related to William Adam Kinslow. He was my g grandfater(I have a picture of him). His son, Clarence born 1886 was my grandfather, His daughter ,my mother, was christian Kinslow
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Of the inorganic specialities produced at Sachtleben, titanium dioxide is particularly useful in catalysis. It is possible on the basis of the sulfate process to systematically produce high-purity rutile and anatase bases.The chemical properties of these bases can be individually adjusted within broad ranges. Among such properties are, in ...
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|Wed, 04-25-2012 - 3:50pm
we are NC but i can't help but cyberstalk. it isn't that i can't stop, i just won't stop. it is obviously a choice but it is a compulsion! i am looking to find some reference to him online that i haven't seen before ... he is a physician in the area so every now and then i discover a new review of his practice... i keep hoping one day a photo will turn up on his website - or news that he is speaking or something somewhere - i don't even know what it is i am lookng for! what's wrong with me?
i zilow his house sometimes to see if it is for any reason up for sale
i check a local community message board that i know he used to post on, just to see if he has written anything
i even look his name up on wedding registries because i wonder if he ever got engaged to the new girlfriend he was seeing when we had our A
what the heck am i doing and why won't i stop:(
|Wed, 04-25-2012 - 5:49pm
You'll get there!!!
|Wed, 04-25-2012 - 5:56pm
I have cut down and before I do it I ask myself "do I really want to see? Do I want that pain?" And that has helped a bit
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I know that routine well, though in my case I did it toward the end of the (LD) A fafter he moved, and we were losing communication. Now Day 4 NC and I have so far been able to stay away. But here's how low one can go when Zillow and wedding registries aren't enough:
Sign up for Match.Com as the ideal mate
Sign up for Match .Com as a competing man with the same type profile and see if women answer
Read his kids' school newsletter and hometown newspaper
Read his whole family's FB pages, even though you've never met any of them.
I stopped short of Google Earth.
You said it already, you are desperate for some connection to him. But maybe it's a connection to the feeling he gave you in the beginning, and like junkies, as it ebbs, we work harder to recover it however we can.
When I was fighting it I used the clock - no more checking until the next hour, etc. When i was tempted to do it anyway, I pretended that if I touched the mouse pad on that link, something really heavy and painful would fall on my other hand. Nothing sensible worked! Of course you would be upset if you found something like he was married, but even so, you'd get a tiny jolt of that good old feeling, that you were connected, that you mattered. It's a hard habit to break! Oh, one other thing that helped, I made myself use my laptop in full view of other people.
Still, the BEST fix has been NC! You'll get past this part too, since you're already on the right road.
|Wed, 04-25-2012 - 10:12pm
i will try and put a stop to this. i never find anything anyway. 48 hr rule.will be applied to the Google urge. oh and i have "street viewed" his house online as well as found his medical school graduation composite from 15 years ago. so I've stooped pretty low myself...
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Close to station. Clean. Near tourist trail. Nice folk to desk with. Quite at night.
Upstairs double bed and steep stairs wouldn't be good for oldies. Especially if bathroom call needed. Low ceiling upstairs also a bit tough on older folk.
Great apartment for family with 2 x children. Quiet location only 10mins walk to city centre. Excellent friendly staff.
well equiped, easy to reach the downtown, helpful staff
Special thanks to Lorenzo who made our stay in Florence so very pleasant. The apartment is very comfortable with a nice inner garden, well located for visits to Florence historical center.
Lorenzo es muy amable. Lorenza is very good man. We liked him. Price is wonderful. Another apartments are double price. Santa Maria Novella Train Station only five minutes on foot. Kichenette is enough for everything. Lorenza gives information about Floransa. He gives maps and another documents. We liked a casa di olga
Friendly welcome and clear directions. Close to station and walking distance to tourist attractions. Welcome pack much appreciated. Very well equipped kitchen if you want to cook in. Very clean and plenty information.
Steep stairs to bedroom with low ceiling....need to be vey careful. Not good sound proofing. Small shower cubicle.
everything was perfect- location 15 min to historical city center but in quite surrounding , safe car parking on street, well equipped apartment, spacious rooms and kitchen,even we have got nice balcony with garden view, fast WI-Fi ,polite and helpful owner Mr Lorenzo
Lorenzo and his team are excellent host. The apartment is spacious and clean. Good value to money for a long stay.
No elevator. We travelled with luggage on our long trip and all of the apartments are on 2nd floor. We got by with the help from staff. The location is a mere 1.5 km from the city which is a long walk after a long day. Bus is convenient for city in bound but too complicated for returning to the apartment. We used taxi which cost 5-6 euro. No decent restaurants and supermarket in the walking distance.
Lorenzo and his sister were wonderful - friendly and super helpful. Nothing too much trouble.
Very cozy and clean apartment, and very helpful owners! The kitchenette is very handy if you stay quite a few days in Florence. The beds are very comfortable and bathroom is very very clean! Is a bit of the walk from the historical center, but is very convenient for the train station Santa Maria Novella, for us it was more important as we had to catch the train in the early morning.
is more like a suggestion: a bit of salt and sugar could be provided, it doesn't cost a lot, but would make a big difference to your guests, we had to buy a whole kilo of salt and sugar because we needed just a pinch of salt for cooking and a few spoons of sugar for morning coffee, and the supermarket is not exactly round the corner. Otherwise very nice stay!
the best place that i've gone since I started to go to Florence. The price, the location and the staff, all was very well
If you are staying for long I definitely recommend the place though I didn´t find any supermarket around it other then a small one very close to the station, but it is not a huge problem if you plan it well.
When we arrived the room had an odd smell like it had been cleaned with a dirty cloth, luckly they had some scented candles that helped disguising the smell.
Location not too far from the main railway station. The apartment is clean and quite spacious for 4 people. Free Wi-fi is a plus.
The bathroom(s), one is extremely small, the main bathroom is slightly better but the shower cubicle really is small. Tv did not work, but this did not bother us.
The split-level apartment , The staffs was nice
the staff was not available all the time, if you wanted to check in in the afternoon you should contact them first, but that didn't bother me much
Great location, a few minutes walk from Santa Maria Novella station. Extremely spacious and great value for money. Thank you Benedetta & Lorenzo for being such gracious hosts.
everything is just perfect!
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btw, I oppose this bill because it does nothing to reduce the hoards of lawyers on both sides for this to work. Lawrence Lessig's 14 year opt out, $1 opt in thereafter is much more reasonable, and allows human beings to understand and comply with the law without an entire law firm at bay.
Ok, I just need to know; Question to all the great artists out there all anti-creative commons: Are Public Libraries just the greatest abomination that ever took place, and offense to your rights? Are used book stores and every consumer protection law that recognizes first sale doctrine taking food out of your child's mouth (or great great grand-child's)? Do you ACTUALLY believe this? If so, look forward to a trespassing lawsuit the next time I catch you painting a sunset overlooking my house you self important [artist wanna-be].
Geez, my parents and grandparents hard work only left me with a work ethic and moral code that insisted I become a science teacher in a public school. Poor me. Hopefully one day the law will recognize how I inspired these kids and garnish their wages for the royalty I deserve on their success.
It is also sad that you have a valuable copyright in your possession and you don't know one bit about copyright law, obviously, based on your interpretation of this bill. Btw, have you honored the work of your grandfather, or do you just collect a check every so often?
Really? You just noticed? Were you asleep for the the NET Act, DMCA, CTEA or these other abominations of the law that were BOUGHT by the content industry's Lawyers. I mean really, who paid you to post here? If you don't want people STEALING your precious "art", keep it in your sock drawer. All art builds on prior art, and if you didn't know that, your art likely sucks. But if you like I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you are just a hypocrite.
You said "I have photographs that I HOPE will fade away with age. My neglect of those pictures is my right. Nobody has the right to steal it for their own purposes."
You are obviously not familiar with something called the public domain. The PRESENT LAW say that if you let those photographs fade away with history, YOU ARE A THIEF! You can not make something, call it culture and then claim that you own it. YOU DO NOT OWN your creative works, you are granted a limited monopoly over the work for a limited period of time. If you disagree, go lobby for some change, otherwise get a little more familiar with copyright law, actually read the Constitution before you start spouting off property rights that don't exist.
This is a bad Bill for reasons of fact that have nothing to do with your lies, and just because this will will be shot down doesn't mean for a second that you were right.
I was going to comment on exactly the same article. The work in saving Orphaned works is a nightmare and the damage caused by this nightmare is PERMANENT! In his Last lecture at Stanford University on Free Culture – http://www.opensourcecinema.org/lessigfinal (must see for all that care about history, culture, or copyright, worth every minute, set aside some time) a major chunk of film history has been lost. Film is a new medium for expression, and in High School film class we were taught it was the only artistic medium for which we have the complete history, since it is only 130 years old. Problem is this isn't true, not for lack of technology, but a copyright law that failed. Older films were produced on a Nitrate-Resin with a short shelf life before the acidic nature of the film eats itself away. Copyright holders had no motivation to save their worthless films, and historians were barred from saving them due to copyright law. well, copyright is 120+ years, and Nitrate-Resin film lasts 30-50 years. You do the math. I think for each work that should have fallen into public domain should be punished at least as harshly as someone could be for infringement, as it is equal to destroying government property, but that is personal. More real is that 50% of all works from 1935 – 1950 have been LOST FOREVER, while >90% of film from ~1880-1935 has been destroyed NEVER TO BE RECOVERED! The films are literally dust! We likely had the last chance to have the entire history of an artistic medium, and we lost it, not to war like the Library of Alexandria, but to our own, selfish bureaucratic mess. How sick is that? If the law that was in place when these works were created still applied to those works, this never would have happened. This bill has good intentions, but would only make the law more complicated than it already is. PLEASE LISTEN TO LESSIG! He is brilliant. If you oppose him, all the more reason as he is a big time Lawyer for the EFF and CC, and IS leading the big copyright cases soon to reach our supreme court.
Needed legislation. Banks are preying on well-intentioned, poorly informed American Consumers. We should see credit as an opportunity for consumers to amortize necessary expenses, not a lottery ticket for a bank to get rich.
Please support this bill.
I am sorry to see so may votes and no comments, but it happens.
I initially disagreed wit this resolution because there are other more pressing issues in light of the time and expense necessary to follow through on a censure. Especially with the presidential term being so close to being over, what would be the point…
Well, that is what I had to think about. What would be the point of spending so much time and money to label the president and attorney general as having made "unpopular decisions", "unrepresentative" of the desire of the American public… AT LEAST!
Well, i think it would show that the government can be held responsible as necessary by itself through the balance of powers established by the US Constitution, that the constitution and the law is meaningful, and that "justice for all" are not "just words".
If we want people of this country to respect and believe in the rule of law, everybody must be accountable, especially the President and Attorney General.
If laws are just excuses for tyrants to justify their crimes, this would explain the political apathy of most Americans. This must change!
I am sorry to see so may votes and no comments, but it happens.
I initially disagreed wit this resolution because there are other more pressing issues in light of the time and expense necessary to follow through on a censure. Especially with the presidential term being so close to being over, what would be the point…
Well, that is what I had to think about. What would be the point of spending so much time and money to label the president and attorney general as having made "unpopular decisions", "unrepresentative" of the desire of the American public… AT LEAST!
Well, i think it would show that the government can be held responsible as necessary by itself through the balance of powers established by the US Constitution, that the constitution and the law is meaningful, and that "justice for all" are not "just words".
If we want people of this country to respect and believe in the rule of law, everybody must be accountable, especially the President and Attorney General.
If laws are just excuses for tyrants to justify their crimes, this would explain the political apathy of most Americans. This must change!
It is stuff like this that relly makes my head hurt. It makes me want to scream "This isn't already the law?!? WTF?!?".
Sorry I can't come up with a more intelligible argument than that, but I don't see how anyone can look at a gold tax and not immediately think corruption.
Thank you Ron Paul for pointing out the obvious.
In the last few decades, the world, and particularly the United States have become members of a world economy where businesses have subsidiaries anywhere they like. Despite the criticism, taxing income made sense 50+ years ago where depending on what you do, and how you make money, it can be taxed. This has worked its way to a tax code that is 3.4 million words, the longest US code title.
As businesses try to save money for consumers, our tax system effectively tells these businesses, in a very complicated way, to move all the labor and profits to other countries. We can't blame corporations for being drivin by the forces of supply and demand, only ourselves for creating a tax system that is contributing to rising foreign investment, unemployment, and ultimately a recession in the US economy.
Take that power and burden away from corporations and tax at the level that will give businesses to bring jobs to the United States, and make profits that will encourage domestic business investment. No More nightmare trying to figure things out before each April 15th, and encourage businesses to spend their money on innovation, not tax lawyers (How long would it take you to read 3.4 million words?)
I think with 63 co-sponsors on H.R.25, the senate really needs to take a look at this. This is obviously something that would help a lot of people and stimulate the economy. Even if you liked the old (present) tax system, it no longer works in a global economy. We can either try to stretch our jurisdiction around the world, or tax "business" in a way that raises money for the business they do in the marketplace, not punish them for making money or giving people jobs.
Business will do their best to serve the consumer by finding the best legal way to reduce their costs. Our current tax system has instructed our corporations to outsource their labor, manufacturing, and even their profits.
This is not a fix that has been long awaited, this is a necessary to address a world dominated by a global economy. It just happens to be a fantastic coincidence (to me) that it would also save hundreds of millions of dollars by doing away with a system that is already greatly criticized.
This is not a proposal that would have made sense 50 years go, this is a proposal that address issues created by 21 century technology related to communication and distribution.
Look at the list and CALL YOUR SENATOR! Vote YES for S.1025
I think with 63 co-sponsors on H.R.25, the senate really needs to take a look at this. This is obviously something that would help a lot of people and stimulate the economy. Even if you liked the old (present) tax system, it no longer works in a global economy. We can either try to stretch our jurisdiction around the world, or tax "business" in a way that raises money for the business they do in the marketplace, not punish them for making money or giving people jobs.
According to CNET:
"Democratic Representative Bill Foster won a special election [March 8th 2008] in the 14th Congressional District of Illinois. This was the district that former Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert held from 1986-2007. Hastert stepped down in November of 2007."
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Where is data on Bill Foster?!
I think this bill is not appropriately named, because it is a study, not a change in legislation, but a study that should be done. Some positive changes have come with regard to helping unwanted children, and it is time for congress to take a good look at what has been going on for the last decade regarding those changes, and see what we can do to keep us progressive on this issue.
The president does have to make decisions, but they are more in the realm of leadership and being a role-model. Congress has our policy-makers, and the president has the power to veto policies when congress fails to have fully considered the issue.
The executive branch is in charge of enforcing policy, not making it. As can be seen Bush didn't make bad policy, he allowed bad policy, and a good speaker will encourage and inspire congress members to look at sites like this one, and inspire Americans to use sites like this to express his opinions enabling him to approve and allow good policy.
With respects to weasel's comments, I might agree he is not the kind of person we want as a senator when his qualities are much more suited for president (or technically Speaker of the House / Vice President, just on the basis of that particular argument).
While it appears there are a lot of abstains on his record, you must look at it relatively to others in congress. It is usually no secret which direction votes will go causing a lot of people to not show up when enough people will be there to get the right outcome. While it looks bad with respect to encouraging Americans to vote, he puts his time where he feels it will make the most important difference.
And it appears to be the record of nearly all other members of congress, so far as the ones I have checked.
That article was such a fantastic record. It is kinda funny that this was (likely) inspired by all of Hillary's talk about "look at my record". Guess she never thought someone would ACTUALLY do the research. Oops!
This was the site that wit the kind of information that led me to give Obama my full support.
He is very opinionated. :)
An excellent site on exactly where he chooses to stand on issues.
If you think Obama hasn't taken some strong stances on exactly what he wants to see change and how, you haven't been paying attention. His speeches were inspiring and motivational rather than dreary lectures about legislation. Some of the most important change he wants to see not mentioned in the above article that his 'speeches' have created is youth voter turnout. Young people have intelligently ignoring politics because of all the BS. Obama is getting people to listen and pay attention to government and care about what happens in this country. His 'words' have already changed this country in positive ways as the people this democratic process is for is now actually involved.
In addition to having the effect a good speaker can have, his stance on issues is revealed in his voting record and the bills he has sponsored and co-sponsored.
The Big media obviously likes him and kisses his butt while ridiculing Clinton in many unfair ways. They focus on his pretty speeches about hope and change while ignoring the vast amount of seriously hard work that he has put into government in his short period of time as senator.
He has continuously stood up for American beliefs even when it has been politically unpopular.
The president has very limited power and more importantly serves as a figurehead for the country with influence. We need a figurehead that encourages transparent government and and can speak in a way that makes people want to listen.
Behind the scenes and in analysis of their records, Obama and Clinton have voted the same, sponsored the same bills, and have expressed similar views on 'issue resolution'. The difference is his honesty, range of experience, and ability to capture the attention of an audience.
Obama is exactly the kind of opinionated and decisive leader we want.
I would MUCH rather see a bill that would increase funding to 911 call centers, or change the system to take advantage of technology available in modern phone systems. While the information contained in the bill is interesting, it is best left to a kindergarten classroom where a program on emergency service education is already strong.
Though judging from its support and sponsors, I don't think this was a serious bill meant to be passed, just one that makes great PR when you talk about having drafted it. (Apologies for the obvious bias, but i'll admit it.)
Impressive legislation that is the type of thing the founding fathers would have wanted beyond the wildest dreams. Such transparency in the way government has till now been limited by technology. Fortunately we have the tools today to enforce such legislation without a burdensome cost.
This bill is VERY long and quite the read, so I may have not over-looked something, but as I can see this bill is great if not going in the right direction. It is likely this bill will be amended further given all the ways this bill could improve what democracy really means to Americans.
I look forward to seeing even more support for this bill!
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There are so many great programs out there. In my state we have 'First Five of California' that assist, encourages, and educates parents about the most important development years of a child's life. Both organizations and the families I know that have been involved have had great success, and the real winers are the kids :)
Lets take what has been a proven success and set a standard for development and education younger, and part of that is to give preschool opportunities the same way we have given kindergarten opportunities for a very long time.
The 'Return on Investment' is too high to be ignored. Please support this bill.
If we can at least pay for people to go to school to become teachers then there is greater justification for their poor wages. People don't become teachers because of the great pay. We understand. There is great intrinsic value. If we can at least cover a good portion of he tuitions for people to become teachers, at least they can enjoy the low pay, stable income teachers enjoy. But the expense of a masters degree (the kind of teachers we want), versus the income is wretched, particularly for those with masters in math and science fields, a place where it is getting harder and harder to find teachers.
This is much needed and long awaited legislation. Vote Yes!
US Tax code looks BAD on paper, and is. Who can be expected to read and understand a text that at present is 3.4 million words! Thomas Jefferson said (and this could apply to a great many other bills as well,
"Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure."
Or more simply for any nerds out there, don't you hate that guy that pulls out that D&D rule book to draw on some ancient rule nobody has ever heard of cause the books are too long for anyone to actually read and still have time let alone desire to play the game?
A law that can only be understood by an elite few is no law at all. Lets get this tax thing everybody has to do simple in a way everyone can understand and does not need to work so hard to get right. Lets give businesses, particularly global ones, in this country a reason to make profit here instead somewhere else where there are fewer taxes.
We are punishing businesses for making money. As if this ever made sense, it makes less sense in a recession. Let people work, let businesses make money, get rid of so much excess paperwork, and collect the money at the end (the consumption level) where taxes are difficult to evade.
Reduce corporate fraud while welcoming businesses, innovation, and labor. Vote YES, and get your representative to cosponsor this bill so it can make its way to the floor for a fair fight!
Yummm… National health care, good. Crunchy Bacon Coleslaw better! Looks delicious!
Wish I could find some information that shows long term effects / benefits of this bill. National Health Care that works sounds fantastic and is necessary, but without a plan that is supported by evidence is going to make things MUCH worse before they get better.
I think this is a great example of the dissonance between the government and democracy. I would bet anyone checking out this site knows the issues, but the most important I think people need to think about are that prohibition = black market. Further, there are people that use illicit drugs to self medicate, and we make criminals out of people that want help and can not afford it. And yes, this goes beyond 'Marijuana'. The video below is an interview with a teacher / psychologist that advocates for the safe ingestion of marijuana for the treatment of ADD versus the more dangerous and addictive drug Ritalin.
This video doesn't have anything I feel is very new, b ut combines some important points I believe most people could agree with to come to this conclusion: If the drug is safe, which all the evidence points to, it should be legalized. If it is dangerous, it MUST be legalized so we can have some control over what is obviously completly out of control.
With respect to the other illicit drugs mentioned, legalization would get rid of 'dirty' drugs (people would at least get the drug they think they are getting), and it would destroy an entire black market for these drugs, not to mention the violence and abuse that it is associated with. In the UK and other countries, special clinics give away clean, high quality drugs to addicts under the supervision of a doctor to keep them off the street, kill the black market, ensure proper / safe® dosages, and have available to the addict the resources to change their habits in their own time; none of the things these people would have available in a crack house / heroin den.
If people will do drugs despite legal or health consequences, do you want them in the streets around your children, or in a hospital where they can get help? Further, where would you like your tax money to go? A prison or a hospital? We can inexpensivly give help, or waste all our time and money continuing to call these people criminals.
VOTE NO! And please try to encourage the drafting of the RIGHT legislation that will take care of our nations drug problem. Too many other countries have proven it can work, and now we just need to catch up.
This is exactly the kind of legislation that makes democracy look bad, 2 wolves and a sheep analogy. Tobacco is harmful, and we know it. It has been attempted to tax tobacco out of existence, but has failed. If you don't believe so, keep in mind that a pack of cigarettes only costs a few cents to make and in places without tobacco tax, such as reservations, packs are frequently 25-50 cents each. 'Rollies' are a bit of the 'loop-hole' in that it is only taxed as tobacco and not cigarettes. No offense intended, but only the poorest people, in general, smoke 'rollies'. Tobacco taxes move easily because the number of non-smokers outnumber smokers, so they are an easy target. Most people prefer cigarettes, and we already got an insane tax that people are willing to tolerate without restricting the freedom for poor to smoke. An unnecessarily harsher enforcement won't make more people quit, but imho between all the different things they want to add, this will push things to a prohibition level that will create a strong ground for black market tobacco, which is what they are trying to get rid of in the first place.
We know smoking is bad, kinds know it is bad, it is heavily regulated, and taxed like CRAZY. We're done, everything is fine, go home. Its already been dealt with.
Vote NO!
I have seen schools already take steps to heavily filter content like the above mentioned bill. Blocking sites with user generated content, or other services that allow people to communicate with each other. This is the internet today. It is not just a place to buy stuff and read government approved books. People sharing information is the way we teach and learn, and this should be ENCOURAGED. Blocking social networking / web 2.0 sites is ignoring the future of learning, and alienates students. When students feel they are being blocked from learning, they either stop paying attention, or rebel. Neither of these situations are good for schools. Teachers and administrators NEED to embrace this way our kids are learning on their own, and understand the good with the bad. Also, mind you that based on the proposed rules, this very site would be considered objectionable and suitable for adults only. Is that really the message we want to send out children? Please vote NO, and Arkansas, PLEASE stop reelecting this idiot.
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|H.R.2060 Internet Radio Equality Act (110th congress)
|Jul 10, 2007
|H.R.3015 To delay the applicability to webcasters of rates and terms determined by the Copyright Royalty Judges for certain statutory licenses under title 17, United States Code. (110th congress)
|Aug 10, 2007
|S.548 Artist-Museum Partnership Act (110th congress)
|Feb 12, 2007
|H.Res.414 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that foreign governments should work diligently to legalize all computer software used by such foreign governments, and for other purposes. (110th congress)
|May 17, 2007
|S.760 Four Corners Television Access Act of 2007 (110th congress)
|Mar 05, 2007
|S.1744 Global Democracy Promotion Act (110th congress)
|Jun 28, 2007
|H.R.5351 Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008 (110th congress)
|House Passed
|Feb 28, 2008
|H.R.1201 Freedom and Innovation Revitalizing U.S. Entrepreneurship Act of 2007 (110th congress)
|Mar 19, 2007
|H.R.1524 Artist-Museum Partnership Act (110th congress)
|Mar 14, 2007
|H.R.25 Fair Tax Act of 2007 (110th congress)
|Jan 04, 2007
|H.R.54 Teacher Recruitment Act of 2007 (110th congress)
|May 09, 2007
|H.R.4060 Universal Prekindergarten Act (110th congress)
|Jan 15, 2008
|H.R.1964 Freedom of Choice Act (110th congress)
|May 04, 2007
|S.1 Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 (110th congress)
|Bill Is Law
|Sep 14, 2007
|H.R.259 Baby Abandonment Prevention Act of 2007 (110th congress)
|May 09, 2007
|S.1025 Fair Tax Act of 2007 (110th congress)
|Mar 29, 2007
|H.R.5427 Tax-Free Gold Act of 2008 (110th congress)
|Mar 17, 2008
|S.Res.302 A resolution censuring the President and Vice President. (110th congress)
|Aug 03, 2007
|S.Res.303 A resolution censuring the President and the Attorney General. (110th congress)
|Aug 03, 2007
|H.Res.626 Censuring the President and Attorney General. (110th congress)
|Sep 10, 2007
adelie's Opposed Bills
|Last Action
|S.2248 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2008 (110th congress)
|Senate Passed
|Feb 12, 2008
|S.522 Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Act (110th congress)
|Nov 07, 2007
|S.1640 Vessel Hull Design Protection Amendments of 2007 (110th congress)
|Senate Passed
|Oct 05, 2007
|S.1957 Design Piracy Prohibition Act (110th congress)
|Aug 02, 2007
|H.R.1689 Curb Illegal Downloading on College Campuses Act of 2007 (110th congress)
|Jun 27, 2007
|H.R.2597 Sanctity of Life Act of 2007 (110th congress)
|Jul 16, 2007
|H.R.1424 Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (110th congress)
|Bill Is Law
|Oct 03, 2008
|H.R.2033 Design Piracy Prohibition Act (110th congress)
|May 04, 2007
|H.R.1531 Video Game Decency Act of 2007 (110th congress)
|Mar 16, 2007
|S.49 Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act (110th congress)
|Jan 04, 2007
|S.1027 PACT Act (110th congress)
|Sep 11, 2007
|S.1965 Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act (110th congress)
|Senate Passed
|Jun 03, 2008
|H.R.1118 Drug Trafficking Elimination Act of 2007 (110th congress)
|Mar 19, 2007
|S.Res.468 A resolution designating April 2008 as "National 9-1-1 Education Month". (110th congress)
|Senate Passed
|Apr 09, 2008
|H.R.300 We the People Act (110th congress)
|Jan 05, 2007
|H.R.5889 Orphan Works Act of 2008 (110th congress)
|May 07, 2008
|S.2913 Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act of 2008 (110th congress)
|Senate Passed
|Sep 27, 2008
|S.3325 The Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act of 2008 (110th congress)
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Charles Arlinghaus: Politicans ignore own mortality at great risk
In Ancient Rome, a commander celebrating a formal triumph was always reminded of his own mortality by a servant in his chariot whispering "memento mori" - remember that you must die. Politicians past and present would do well to remember their own political mortality. What the voters have given, the voters will soon take away, or so our recent political history suggests.
New Hampshire has become a swing state. There are wild fluctuations back and forth, a landslide every two years in a different direction. At this time two years ago, I reminded the beneficiaries of the election that the people had not converted to their cause as much as they had merely hired them on a temporary basis and given them a chance to clean up the mess.
Clean up they did, but there is a temptation after a landslide election to believe that power has shifted and that people who made a decision on the margins have not chosen you as the better of two competing options but have bought into you and everything you stand for.
The recent election results would suggest that voters are not sure they like anyone. In 2006, Democrats won a historic landslide, taking control of both Houses of the Legislature for the first time in almost 100 years. Then just four years later that same majority was ousted by a swing of more than 100 House seats.
Two years ago, I suggested that voters had not converted but merely given someone else a try. Voters "were unhappy with the way the previous management was performing in the same way you might be unhappy with your plumber. So they fired the old plumber and hired a new one."
I cautioned the new majority that the voters weren't in love with them, but were merely giving them a test drive with the understanding that "we can always switch again."
And switch we did, with a vengeance. Republicans after two short years lost more than 100 seats and their majority. The House and Senate each saw Republicans lose 25 percent of all seats.
Some Republicans had made the mistake of assuming a small 25 percent Democratic minority was the new normal, as if we were Rhode Island in reverse (the Ocean State has not a viable legislative minority for many decades). Without the servant whispering "memento mori" in their ears, they forgot the metronome of New Hampshire politics pinging back and forth.
The new majority also needs a voice in its ears. Presidentially based landslides tell us little about what the people expect of us at the state and local levels. In almost every district in the state, people voted for a presidential candidate and merely followed suit down the column on the ballot.
Candidates downstream from President Obama received roughly the same percentage he did. Gov.-elect Hassan did two points better than the President, the two congresswomen did just two points worse combined. If you were a Democratic House candidate and President Obama carried your district by 1,000 votes, you probably won by 1,000 votes. Republicans managed to hang on to a small majority of the 80 county offices, but only because half of those they won were uncontested this year.
The two parties will fight with each other over policy. We expect that. We want them to be civil, but confrontation over policy is the point of representative government. My sense is that voters understood the need for significant budget cuts last year even if they found some of the individual cuts to be disappointing.
The difficulty right now is that many politicians have promised to spend more money and to not raise taxes. Current taxes will support current spending. If you want to spend more money in some area, you have to cut some other existing program, raise taxes or resort to the sort of borrowing gimmicks that caused the crisis in the first place.
Each politician will think his or her particular program is the one that voters really support. But we're all subject to confirmation bias: "I believe the anecdotes and data points that support what I already thought. Contrary opinions are suspect, overstated or of minimal importance."
It's very easy for me to think that compromise is important, but you want me to give up my favorite idea, one that everyone loves, in favor of your idea which must be stupid because I don't support it? That's not the compromise I was looking for.
The new leaders should appoint someone to whisper words of mortality in their ears. Governors and speakers need a contrary voice or a devil's advocate. Politics in New Hampshire has become quite volatile, and that's good for those of us more than willing to throw out one lot after another.
Charles M. Arlinghaus is president of the Josiah Bartlett Center, a free-market think tank in Concord. His email address is email@example.com.
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Swine flu patient .
(photo credit:Ariel Jerzolomiski)
Just as almond trees blossom in February and the beaches begin to fill up in
June, the chaotic scene in the country's hospitals every winter returns with
predictable regularity.The emergency rooms and pediatric and internal
medicine departments are packed; helpless patients cry out for nurses who say
they are close to collapsing; and Health Ministry officials open their wallets
for emergency measures.But the health authorities never seem to do
anything serious to prevent people of all ages from developing influenza
complications such as pneumonia and other infections that – in those with weak
immune systems and chronic diseases – can kill them.Flu vaccinations
were not always free. At first, only those regarded as being at high risk of
complications – the elderly, people of all ages living or working in
institutions and individuals suffering from heart disease, diabetes and other
chronic illnesses – were eligible for free shots. Then it became free for
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the age of six months should get a flu shot at their health fund
clinic.But administrators of the four public health funds have never
bought enough vaccine to cover the whole population; they do not want their
money to go down the drain.They know only a small minority will actually
be vaccinated.The little vials usually cannot be used the following year
because the flu virus strains change; a new formula of vaccine strains is
produced based on those identified in the Far East, where they first
strike.ACCORDING TO the latest ministry figures, only 16 percent of the
population – 1,126,000 out of eight million – were vaccinated this winter, and
only 57.6% of high-risk populations including those over age 65 have gone for
the shot.Even a few years ago when the public panicked over the lack of
vaccine against the H1N1 strain of flu, the vast majority of the public have not
gone for vaccination. Now, some of the health funds' supplies have already run
out.So by late January (or even earlier, depending on the weather), weak
patients enter crowded hospitals – lying in hospital corridors where they have
no privacy and can't sleep, and even in cafeterias serving meals. They also tend
to pick up nosocomial diseases – infections they did not bring with them but
that were spread in the hospitals themselves – that combined with flu
complications can make them even sicker.People must go early –
preferably right after the High Holy Days in October – to get their shots, as it
takes weeks for the vaccine to produce protective antibodies. Flu vaccinations
do not completely prevent all people from getting infected, but if they do
develop the flu, it is inevitably a milder case than it would be without the
shot. Yet most people are reluctant to roll up their sleeves. They have heard of
people who got the shot and immediately "got sick." They don't like needles. Or
they just don't want to "waste time." Even if the nasal spray vaccine were more
effective, most probably would still decline to be vaccinated.All this
sickness costs lives – and a lot of money. Occupancy in the general hospitals'
key departments range from 120% to 180%.Patients have been advised to
prefer their health fund clinic doctors rather than to go to hospital emergency
rooms if they are not "too sick," but some patients who were sicker than they
appeared to be and whose hospitalization was delayed have died as a
result.All the ministry said last week was that due to the overcrowding
in hospitals, an arrangement had been made in coordination with the Finance
Ministry and the Israel Nurses' Union that additional funds would be allocated
for extra shifts in emergency rooms during the crisis. This was decided
according to the previous model of increases given to nurses in internal
medicine departments during the previous flu crisis.BUT THERE is a
simpler and cheaper way to cope with these annual medical crises: prevention.
After Yom Kippur, the health funds mail reminders to high-risk members to come
in for their shot, but at least half of them are ignored, and there is no active
effort by either the ministry or the insurers to implement the ministry's
recommendation for all over the age of six months to get
vaccinated.Although the ministry runs a short media campaign on condom
use for World AIDS Day on December 1, it sponsors only a few public service ad
campaigns on other health causes through the year, saying it lacks the funds.
Orchestrating and coordinating a public information campaign on flu shots would
certainly help. But many Israelis don't trust what the government and the Health
Ministry recommends.Unable to think out of the box – with a mind-set of
"putting out fires" rather than preventing them from being set in the first
place – ministry public health officials have not found a way to encourage the
majority of the public to get vaccinated.Last week, I suggested an idea,
but 24 hours after the query was dispatched, no response at all was received
from either ministry spokeswoman Einav Shimron-Greenboim or director-general
Prof. Ronni Gamzu and public health chief Prof. Itamar Grotto, all of whom dealt
with it.THE IDEA: Every family whose members get flu shots could be
offered a health-oriented gift, paid for by the ministry, that would encourage
widespread vaccination and reduce the number needed to be hospitalized. It could
be a digital blood-pressure measuring machine, digital scale, blood-glucose
monitor, body-building weights set, a professional first-aid kit or similar
gifts that would promote health. The ministry could issue a public tender
inviting companies to offer their products at the lowest price for inclusion in
a list of gifts, which would be presented to families by their health funds when
all members complete their shots. The savings in hospitalization costs would
undoubtedly cover the expense.Although ministry officials were not
interested, the new head of Hadassah University Medical Center's emergency
department, Dr. Aziz Darawsha – who is chairman of the National Council for
Emergency Medicine – was very excited about the idea. "Yes, it's excellent," he
told me. "I am for any creative idea that will increase the number of those
vaccinated against the flu. It will certainly be cost effective. Israelis like
gifts. I can't say how much higher vaccination rates will reduce the number of
patients with flu complications and deaths in the hospital, but I have no doubt
it will be significant. There will be less disease, lessserious disease and
fewer deaths."The emergency medicine specialist added that the lack of
public information campaigns on the urgency of flu vaccination and "the Israeli
mentality – that nothing will happen to them so they don't need to be
vaccinated, that they should avoid needles, that the vaccine will make them sick
and that the shot really hurts – all of them incorrect – are responsible for the
very low compliance figures."If the ministry continues to ignore the
preventive approach and no progress is made to prevent the annual winter chaos,
next January the scene will return: beds lining hospital corridors, nurses and
doctors complaining about being overworked, a high toll of dying patients and
banner headlines in the papers bemoaning the situation.It doesn't have
to be.
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