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Definitions for earmarkˈɪərˌmɑrk
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word earmark
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
any identifying or distinguishing mark or characteristic:
all the earmarks of a conspiracy.
a mark of identification made on the ear of an animal to show ownership.
(v.t.)to set aside for a specific purpose, use, or recipient:
to earmark goods for export.
to mark with an earmark.
Origin of earmark:
Princeton's WordNet
identification mark on the ear of a domestic animal
hallmark, trademark, earmark, stylemark(verb)
a distinctive characteristic or attribute
allow, appropriate, earmark, set aside, reserve(verb)
give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause
"I will earmark this money for your research"; "She sets aside time for meditation every day"
A mark or deformation of the ear of an animal intended to indicate ownership.
The designation of specific projects in appropriations of funding for general programs.
To mark (as of sheep) by slitting the ear.
To specify or set aside for a particular purpose.
You can donate to the organization as a whole, or you can earmark your contribution for a particular project.
Webster Dictionary
a mark on the ear of sheep, oxen, dogs, etc., as by cropping or slitting
a mark for identification; a distinguishing mark
to mark, as sheep, by cropping or slitting the ear
An earmark is a legislative provision that directs approved funds to be spent on specific projects, or that directs specific exemptions from taxes or mandated fees. The term "earmark" is used in this sense in several countries, such as the United States and South Africa. Earmarks come in two varieties: Hard earmarks, or "hardmarks", found in legislation, and soft earmarks, or "softmarks", found in the text of congressional committee reports. Hard earmarks are legally binding, whereas soft earmarks are not but customarily are acted upon as if they were binding. Typically, a legislator seeks to insert earmarks that direct a specified amount of money to a particular organization or project in their home state or district.
Earmark, Inc. designs and manufactures wireless communication systems for use by teams operating in difficult and hazardous and high noise environments. Its primary products and systems consist of radio headsets, belt worn radios, repeating base station radios, belt-worn voice amplifiers, and microphones. The company offers portable radios, including headsets, belt and flex-pak body radios, and headset radios; base stations, including compact, multi-man TRBS, base master VIII, mini base, and Valcom 900 base stations; accessories, including headphones, rechargeable power systems, and hard hat mountings; and con-bases and communication-kit bases, loudmouth products, and loudmouth speaker microphones. In addition, it provides wLINK, a wireless interface for hard wired intercoms and mobile radios; and customized wireless radio systems. The company's products have applications for various uses, such as two workers putting precision and productivity into crane lifts; large teams operating loud and heavy machinery with high background noise; and HAZMAT teams and nuclear technicians working inside protective clothing. It sells its products through sales representatives in the United States. Earmark, Inc. was founded in 1973 and is based in Hamden, Connecticut.
Translations for earmark
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary
to set aside (for a particular purpose)
This money is earmarked for our holiday.
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- عَلامـه مُميزهArabic
- запазенBulgarian
- destinarPortuguese (BR)
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- หมายไว้, ทำรอยไว้, ทำตำหนิไว้Thai
- ayırmak, bir kenara koymakTurkish
- 指定(供作特定用途)Chinese (Trad.)
- призначатиUkrainian
- کسی مقصد کے لۓ رقم وغیرہ مخصوص کرناUrdu
- đánh dấu riêngVietnamese
- 指定…作为特定用途Chinese (Simp.)
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Joan M O'Brien, M.D.
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Scheie Eye Institute
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Zheng Y, VanderBeek B, Xiao R, Daniel E, Stambolian D, Maguire M, O'Brien J, Gee J: Retrospective illumination correction of retinal fundus images from gradient distribution sparsity. Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2012 9th IEEE International Symposium on IEEE. Page: 972-975, May 2012.
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|Thu, 08-02-2012 - 2:56pm
Also, I guess I'm here to reach out because my partner and I haven't told anyone we're close to that we're ttc. I would love some support, but we feel that reaching out to people we know before we are pregnant could possibly bring about some negativity and we don't want to deal with that. We are happy in our choice and feel that we have a great environment to bring a new child into, so we aren't saying anything to our families until there is no basis for discouragement.
That being said, I am not one to keep things quiet, I need much more encouragement than my partner seems to need, do here I am reaching out to people I don't know!
|Thu, 08-02-2012 - 3:47pm
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|Mon, 08-13-2012 - 2:09pm
I think the answer you will get will vary greatly person to person.....unfortunately a lot of the "early pregnancy" symptoms can also be similar to AF symptoms - so it's really hard to KNOW If you want to test early and don't mind the possible BFN or even false positive I say go for it....but i tend to wait until AF is a no-show (or I have very clear signs on my chart - like an implantation dip)....but even the dip I had on Saturday is returning BFN results at this point (AF due today) so who knows......
|Mon, 08-13-2012 - 3:18pm
Yes, BFN = Big Fat Negative....sorry - it takes time to get the lingo. BFP = Big Fat Positive
Hmmmm...well totally up to you then. Maybe you could test after SO gets home from work? i know they say FMU (first morning urine) is the best, but when I got my positive with DD (darling daughter) I got a BFP in the morning with FMU and then at 2pm when I tested again just to see another positive. If you're pregnant, you're pregnant....no matter when you test. Again, the further you are away from your AF starting, the more necessary it is to use FMU (since your urine will be more concentrated).
Maybe ask what SO prefers? DH and I just talked about this this morning and he said he'd rather me "surprise him" with the result then watching the stick turn positive or negative. So he knows that we should find out this week, but he doesn't know if/when I test....I'll tell him when there's a clear answer. Everyone is different
|Tue, 08-14-2012 - 7:56am
As long as your urine is concentrated that's the important part....that's why FMU is important. So if you can go 3-4 hours without drinking much and not peeing then you could test any time of the day. They say to make sure your urine is dark in color - that's how you know it's not watered down too much.
Again, to be safe I like to test with FMU until i get a positive - then I begin testing whenever just to see the result is still positive. But if you're PG it shouldn't really matter when you test.
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Interesting Day
Oct 21, 2012
General Nonsense
Yesterday was a fascinating day for me. I wrote a little blog post earlier in the week in which I said President Obama should be fired for putting resources behind medical marijuana prosecutions in California. And then the Internet puked on my shoes. (See my post below for all of the fun.)
It seems some clarifications are in order.
Sorry I Confused Some of You
You can see from the many comments on this blog, and on the other Internet sites that linked to it, that people had very different interpretations of what I wrote. The people with good reading comprehension correctly understood my point: Jailing an American citizen for no reason other than political gain is a firing offense.
The people with bad reading comprehension, and the people who saw nothing but the confused summaries and tweets from those people, interpreted my argument as saying Romney is likely to be softer on drugs than Obama. And based on that misunderstanding, people concluded that my endorsement of Romney was the stupidest opinion in the galaxy. They'd be right if that had been my reasoning.
The fascinating thing here is that I believe the source of confusion is that people literally don't recognize objectivity when they see it. I got a lot of comments along the lines of "You say X is true and then in the same paragraph you say Y." What I actually said is "X is likely to be true, but here's an argument for Y." That's how objective people talk. They make a prediction and then explain why it might be wrong. That's the only way you know all sides have been considered. Partisans and non-thinkers say, "My prediction is 100% certain."
If I were to say the weather in California is good, but today it is cold and foggy, about 20% of readers would say, "Make up your mind! First you say the weather is good and then you say it is cold and foggy! You make no sense!"
Bad Analogy People
The people who aren't good with analogies waded in next, pointing out that President Obama killed U.S. citizens abroad because those citizens were part of a terrorist organization bent on the destruction of the United States. While that situation is worthy of discussion, it misses the central point of my post. There's a big difference between protecting the country and expecting some political gain from doing so versus jailing a small businessman in California for political gain while not even pretending it benefits the country. I expect my president to do some nasty stuff in my best interest. I don't expect him to do nasty stuff to citizens for no reason other than his own reelection interests. The latter is a firing offense.
The Law is the Law
The next thing that fascinated me is the number of people who said President Obama is obligated to pursue legal action against medical marijuana dispensaries in California because the law is the law and we can't have our leaders picking and choosing which ones they support.
To the people who hold that view, I wonder what country you have been living in. In the real world, legal resources are always limited, and leaders at every level of the legal system make choices every day about what is important enough to pursue and what is not.
As I write this, every police chief in every district is looking at his resources, looking at all the work his office is charged with doing, and deciding that something on the order of 50% of what the legal code asks him to do is simply impractical. So he focuses his resources on the 50% that are his highest priorities.
While the law is the law, the more important fact is that the budget is the budget. We elect our leaders to set priorities and act accordingly. The point of my post is that President Obama is using the country's limited resources to shut California dispensaries - possibly the country's lowest priority - for no reason other than political gain. In the process, he's putting a small businessman in jail for 10 years to life. That's a firing offense.
On my side of this debate is a Harvard-trained lawyer by the name of President Obama. During his first campaign for president he promised he wouldn't waste limited government resources pursuing medical marijuana cases. I'm not a Harvard-trained lawyer so I will take his word for it that a president can choose to ignore low-priority prosecutions without violating his oath.
The President Doesn't Personally Put People in Jail
Some commenters mocked me by arguing that the President doesn't control federal law enforcement at the granular level. You can't blame him for every decision made in the field. He's not personally slapping handcuffs on perps. True enough. But in the case of California dispensaries, he authorized the flip-flop in policy from ignoring the situation to going after them. Holding him innocent from the logical repercussions of his policy is like saying history should cut some slack for Pol Pot because he didn't personally kill anyone.
The Lesser Evil Argument
Supporters of President Obama argue that firing the President
means accepting a devastating alternative in a Romney presidency. While I applaud the complete dismissal of morality in the interest of practicality, let's take a minute to see if the practicality argument is so cut and dried.
My observation is that voters often - perhaps usually - don't get what they think they voted for. Nixon surprised everyone by getting cuddly with China. Bush Junior turned from isolationist to military adventurer. Obama went from weed-friendly to badass destroyer of state-approved dispensaries. Some fiscal conservatives have blown up the budget while some free-spending Democrats balanced it. If you think you can predict how a candidate will act in office, you might need a history lesson, or perhaps a booster shot of humility.
Now consider Mitt Romney, the most famous chameleon of all time. I submit that a hypothetical Romney presidency would be nearly impossible to predict with any accuracy. In each of his past leadership roles he has morphed into whatever the job required. During the primaries, his job required him to be far right. In the general election we see him drift toward the center, or as his advisor famously said, "Shake the Etch-a-Sketch." It would be naïve to assume Romney wouldn't shake it again once elected, given that even non-chameleon presidents do so.
Romney knows that the electorate is full of idiots and he needs to be a gigantic liar to win their votes. I totally get that. The funniest part is his budget plan that he promises to describe in detail after he gets elected. Dumb people see this as "He has an awesome fiscal plan!" Democrats see it as "He's a liar with no plan!" I see it as "You know I'm a brilliant and experienced turnaround guy. I know how to do this sort of thing. And if I give details now it just paints a target on my back. So chill."
In any event, Congress will be the ones who decide on the next budget. It will probably look similar no matter who gets elected. I don't believe, for example, that a Romney budget would overfund the military. Congress would moderate that, and Romney probably doesn't mean it anyway. Remember, his job today is to lie to get elected. His job once elected is quite different.
I also have no faith in my ability - or yours - to compare Obamacare (essentially a Romney plan) to how healthcare might change under a Romney administration. If you think you know the answer to that question, you're kidding yourself.
Some Democrats say the biggest risk in a Romney presidency involves Supreme Court nominees. But I think we saw after the unexpected opinion from Justice Roberts on the Obamacare ruling that the court has a built-in safety net against being too blatantly partisan and destroying its own credibility in the process. I think the risk of a conservative-heavy Supreme Court ruining the country by adhering too slavishly (irony!) to the Constitution is low. You might not like some of their rulings, but they probably won't kill you. And if we are being objective, a court with too many lefties would have its own risks.
You're Endorsing Romney to Cut Your Rich Guy Taxes, Bastard!
Some folks suspect that I'm a weasel-bastard who is using the California dispensary issue as a smokescreen for bobbing to the right so I can save on taxes under a Romney administration. There's no defense against an accusation that I have secret motives, but let me describe the economics as I see them.
Over my career, my net worth has moved in lockstep with the overall economy. So whatever plan is good for the entire country is probably the one that helps me most, no matter what my tax rate is. And realistically, given a choice between taxing the rich, including myself, versus taxing people with no money, I don't see a choice. Even Romney knows we can't grow our way out of the problem. He's not an idiot; he's just a guy who needs idiots to vote for him.
So no, I don't see a scenario in which someday I am flying my diamond-encrusted helicopter over the rioting masses of starvation-crazed ex-middle-classers and thinking to myself that things worked out well for me. I don't see the option of living the good life at the expense of the 99%. That's not even a thing. I stopped working to satisfy my personal cravings years ago. Everything I produce and everything I earn these days is for the benefit of others. So I don't mind higher taxes on the rich if it makes sense for the country. With the exception of M.C. Hammer, the rich get richer no matter what the tax rates are. I'm afraid that won't change regardless of who gets elected.
Where's your evidence that President Obama is enforcing drug laws in California for political reasons alone?
What other reason is there? And remember that your answer has to account for the fact that President Obama has never bothered to explain his unexpected change of policy. Nor has anyone in his administration explained it.
I think it is fair to say President Obama didn't learn anything new about the dangers of medical marijuana in California that he didn't know before he got elected. If he did receive new information, he could simply point it out to defend his change of policy.
Californians voted to legalize medical marijuana dispensaries after considering all factors from freedom to health and safety to economics. Our prior governor, Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger, signed a law decriminalizing possession of small quantities of marijuana with a classic summary: "No one cares if you smoke a joint." (It's funnier when you imagine it in Arnold's accent.)
The medical marijuana dispensaries have now operated long enough that we can see their impact. So far, it seems that dispensaries raise tax revenues, reduce crime in their neighborhoods, and help a lot of patients find relief. Dispensaries also keep their customers away from shady dealers who might offer more harmful drugs. The dispensaries probably have no appreciable impact on supply. Illegal marijuana is easy to obtain just about anywhere.
The trend toward full legalization of medical marijuana is accelerating all over the country for the same reasons that swayed Californians. I see no reason the trend will reverse. Does it make sense to send someone to jail for a crime that will likely become a non-crime during the jail term? What kind of leader devotes resources to that?
Have you ever met someone who smoked a lot of marijuana, as President Obama did when living in Hawaii, while simultaneously holding the view that the people who sold it to him should go to jail? I don't know the exact answer to my own question, but I'm guessing the number is near zero.
Now let me confuse the readers coming over from Daily Kos, Huffington Post, Gawker, Mediaite.com, and some of the other Low Information Voter sites. I'm going to display something called "objectivity." It involves discussing the odds that I might be wrong. It does not mean I just changed my mind. It means I'm attempting to consider all sides. Here goes. . .
There is some chance - I think a very small one - that President Obama has a non-political reason for cracking down on California's medical marijuana dispensaries, although I can't even imagine what reason a liberal ex-stoner with a budget problem might offer. If he chooses to tell the public his reasons, I will happily reassess my opinion. But keep in mind that one of my neighbors down south is about to go to jail for ten years to life because of President Obama's decision to devote limited Federal resources to prosecuting dispensaries. When a president doesn't offer reasons for jailing Americans, you have to call that a firing offense. (Saying he is following the law isn't a reason. Federal resources are limited and citizens expect their leaders to ignore low priorities.)
In summary, if President Obama is devoting limited federal resources to go after marijuana dispensaries for no reasons other than political gain, including, for example, attracting campaign funding, he should be fired. If he has a reason for jailing a small businessman, and he chooses not to share it, that too is a firing offense.
Why do you keep ignoring third-party candidates?
The best way to fire an incumbent president who is running for reelection is to vote for the only candidate with a realistic chance of beating him. If a voter switches from Obama to Romney it causes a two vote difference: one less vote to Obama and one more for Romney. Moving one vote from President Obama to a third party candidate is a one vote difference in the competition between President Obama and Romney.
And frankly it makes a stronger statement to endorse Romney since I disagree with most of his stated policies. It underlines the difference in importance between a true firing offense and policies you believe would be less desirable than the alternatives.
If my endorsement carried any weight whatsoever, I'd consider backing a third-party candidate. But no one will change opinions based on what I blog about. So I have the freedom to write whatever has the most entertainment value for me, with the hope you'll enjoy the show too.
You're crazy when you say a good reason to believe Romney won't be a disaster as president is that he's lying about what he would do in office.
I'm betting that a chameleon will stay a chameleon. That's his history. He adapts to whatever situation he's in. The alternative is to believe a candidate for President will do all the things he promises during the campaign. How has that worked out for you?
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I agree. One must always look at the big picture. That's why I'm glad O.J. Simpson got acquitted of criminal charges for allegedly murdering his ex-wife. He only had
bad day. You also have to consider his football records.
When Bill Clinton said, "It's the economy, stupid," I took that to mean the economy is just one issue among many. I don't know how else to interpret that.
I also think Nixon got a bum deal with that Watergate thing. That was just one mistake.
If President Obama decides to give our nuclear codes to Iran, let's agree to count that as one mistake that should be weighed against all of his good work. For example, there's the time he recycled, and the time he could have lied but didn't. So that's two good things versus one bad thing.
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I think we're all on the same page now. So let's focus on whether the one issue I raised in my offending blog post - that President Obama is effectively sending a guy to prison for no reason other than political gain - and see if that crosses the line for you. Do you want to live in a world where your President can incarcerate citizens for no reason beyond political gain?
Now you might say President Obama is just doing what the law requires when he puts resources behind closing marijuana dispensaries. I dismissed that argument above. (Summary: We expect our leaders to focus their limited resources on high priorities. To willfully do otherwise for political gain, and put people in jail in the process, has to be a firing offense in a free country.)
If you think the one issue I'm talking about is drug policies, and you believe both candidates will have similar policies, then of course that one issue should not sway your decision. But that isn't the one issue I'm focusing on.
My one issue involves President Obama jailing a citizen for naked political gain. You can argue whether my facts and assumptions are correct, but I don't think you can dismiss it as just one issue among many. Jailing a citizen for no reason other than political gain has to be a firing offense. I'd like to believe every citizen agrees on that point.
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Oct 24, 2012
>I think my problem with your argument Scott is the assumption that President Obama specifically told someone in his administration to actively go out and begin prosecuting California marijuana offenders, and that he did so for political gain. There's no evidence that such an event occurred.
He never assumed any such thing. The fact of the matter is that Obama is in charge of the war on drugs, and he specifically hand picked the drug czar. He is responsible for this action even if he wasn't the prime mover, and he has EVERY opportunity to stop it, especially considering his pardon power over federal prison.
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Oct 24, 2012
>Yes, it would have been nice for the government to have settled all of this from the beginning. Unfortunately we are dealing with more than one 'government' here with somewhat conflicting interests. If I understand correctly the California state government issued the license, the county government decided it was a bad idea and got the federal government to help them out in the matter. Life in the Dilbert zone!
But that's just it. Obama said that he wouldn't bother dispensaries if they were complying with state law. This is just a nonsensical justification.
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Oct 24, 2012
Not that I agree with Scott but I believe he made that clear enough in his post, even though Im one of those poor reading comprehension folks who thought at first that he was saying Romney would be softer on drugs than Obama. Scott didn't see an explanation from the administration on the matter so concluded that back room maneuvering must have been what happened. A number of flaws in Scotts overall argument have since been pointed out in the comments, among them my own statement that what likely happened was the county governments were having problems with the dispensaries, asked the feds to come in and enforce federal law and the feds looked at Obamas stated policy on the matter and concluded they could go in and crack down. This would explain why the administration has so far been silent. For a more detailed explanation of this and the other arguments read through the comments.
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Oct 24, 2012
I usually find Scott's blogs interesting and thought-provoking. After reading the original entry, I was on Scott's side and agreed with his conclusion. However, I have been looking for evidence to back up his claim that Obama has changed his policy for political gain only. All the news reports on the subject show what a muddle the laws are, and there is evidence that this muddle is leading to an increase in illegal use of a dangerous substance. From what I can see, it looks as though the Obama administration acted on this evidence.
Sorry to 'puke on your shoes', Scott, but what is your reason for stating that your President acted purely for his own political gain?
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Oct 23, 2012
[But no one will change opinions based on what I blog about. ]
Do you really believe that Scott? I recall one commenter stating they changed their mind because of you and another saying they were considering it. Id bet money you changed at least three folks minds and if I had to guess Id say around a dozen. But you're closer to this than I am so I would be willing to believe you if you disagreed with that assessment. If you say over a hundred, though, Id like to know how figure that.
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Oct 23, 2012
[You researched the matter. What, exactly, happened?]
Snort. You over-estimate me.
[If I understand correctly the California state government issued the license, the county government decided it was a bad idea and got the federal government to help them out in the matter.]
Yeah - that's pretty much how I understand it as well.
[Life in the Dilbert zone!]
My point exactly.
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Oct 23, 2012
[The second question is: Is it justifiable to send a citizen to jail for operating a business in the midst of unsettled law -when he had good reason to believe he was operating legally. In that case, the answer is clearly no. I don't think it matters that he knew he was taking a risk. The government has no business issuing "risky" business licenses. If they do - they need to work it out amongst themselves rather than nailing the business owner for bad judgment in trusting them. ]
Were the feds not clear enough with him on this point? Did they not tell him what he was doing was illegal and give him the opportunity to stop? That is not a rhetorical question. You researched the matter. What, exactly, happened?
Yes, it would have been nice for the government to have settled all of this from the beginning. Unfortunately we are dealing with more than one 'government' here with somewhat conflicting interests. If I understand correctly the California state government issued the license, the county government decided it was a bad idea and got the federal government to help them out in the matter. Life in the Dilbert zone!
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Oct 23, 2012
[The guy knew he was breaking a federal law, was given a chance to stop and, when he was arrested, was given a chance to cut his losses. And, I might add, the crackdown that got him has the support of millions of Americans and the county government where he lived. Taking all that into consideration I do not consider what happened to him a big enough reason by itself to demand the President lose his job.]
I agree with you on the "not a big enough reason...to demand the President lose his job" part.
However, there are two separate issues. One is - are we looking at a "firing offense on the assumption the President violated his own beliefs in authorizing a legal attack on a citizen solely for political gain. In my opinion -no. You can be pro-medical marijuana - and pro-decriminalization in general - and still be justified in responding to a plea for help from county officials to deal with problems created by a poorly enacted law/policy.
The second question is: Is it justifiable to send a citizen to jail for operating a business in the midst of unsettled law -when he had good reason to believe he was operating legally. In that case, the answer is clearly no. I don't think it matters that he knew he was taking a risk. The government has no business issuing "risky" business licenses. If they do - they need to work it out amongst themselves rather than nailing the business owner for bad judgment in trusting them.
If it turns out the case is murkier with that and the individual was clearly violating other laws it's a different question. But if that is the case, I assume he will charged/convicted on the basis of those other, clear violations.
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Oct 23, 2012
[So it's okay as long as the victim knew there was some risk involved? -- Scott]
Getting jailed for breaking the law after being given a chance to rectify the problem, and then still failing to do so, and rejecting a plea bargain as well?
Yes, I'd say its ok.
What it would take for it not to be okay is if they didn't give him a chance to rectify the problem, given that state and federal law isn't consistent on this matter. Or if he only had the legal dispensary in California and they still went after him (because I believe its the other two dispensaries that caused the federal authorities to take action). If we have cases like that, then my argument won't hold up.
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Oct 23, 2012
[So it's okay as long as the victim knew there was some risk involved? -- Scott]
You're taking it out of context Scott. The guy knew he was breaking a federal law, was given a chance to stop and, when he was arrested, was given a chance to cut his losses. And, I might add, the crackdown that got him has the support of millions of Americans and the county government where he lived. Taking all that into consideration I do not consider what happened to him a big enough reason by itself to demand the President lose his job.
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Oct 23, 2012
A lot are raising the issue of individual choice/stewardship, since Obama didn't do the police or prosecuting attorney work to convict this guy.
I would argue that people in the executive branch are not independent actors. They all serve at the leisure of the single person head of the branch.
Additionally, if its a case of a rogue agent, a good leader would fix what bad underlings broke as much as possible, and punish them. He didn't stop the prosecution nor did he pardon the "victim". Those who put him in jail were not fired.
This is why I think a "rogue agent" defense is futile. Those in power get what they want. Look what happened to the guy who gave up Osama. He is in prison in Pakistan. Leaders punish ppl who do stuff they dont like. The Obama admin punished the marijuana guy and rewarded his prosecuters.
If what Obama truly wants doesnt happen in agencies that answer DIRECTLY to him, he is a terrible leader. Either he betrayed his own public dogma, or he sucks at getting his servants to obey.
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Oct 23, 2012
If there is only one example of Obama sending someone to prison for political reasons then I'd say he's ahead of 99% of all rulers that have ever lived. Historically, throwing those that oppose you in prison is straight out of the play book for world leaders since the dawn of time. Ooops, I somehow forgot that we live in the most civilized society the world has ever known.
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Oct 23, 2012
I think the most interesting question is: how have you people managed to go an entire thread without calling him out on his central claim that Obama personally gave the order to crack down on marijuana dispensaries?
If you ever need a proof of the credulity of the masses, look no further than this present thread. To convince you that X is a true statement, all Scott Adams had to do was act as if it's common knowledge.
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Oct 23, 2012
I am not american and don't care who wins, both candidates seem quite capable (although in different ways).
However I find this post interesting not so much about what it says about the candidates but about what it says about Scott: It seems you decided to support Romney first, and only then look for a justification. It's almost as if you didn't have any free will!
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Oct 23, 2012
"I hope everyone agrees that no American citizen should go to jail for engaging in behavior he had every reason to believe was legal. This is not an "ignorance of the law is no excuse" issue. The State government said it was legal. The fact that the State, Federal and Local governments have not worked this out is no excuse for sending someone to jail unjustly."
Federal authorities ordered him to shutdown all three of his medicinal marijuana dispensaries. He only shutdown two of them. The third was left open since it was in California.
No one can know exactly how the interaction between him and the authorities played out, but he did break the law and defied the authorities orders on the third dispensary.
He was also offered a plea deal which he rejected.
My guess is that they decided to slam him for his defiance, not because this was a clear cut case of him doing something illegal (even though two of the dispensaries were in fact illegal).
Either way, the question of whether or not he should be jailed seems to be fuzzy at best. Still, I have to assume he knew what the risks were.
[So it's okay as long as the victim knew there was some risk involved? -- Scott]
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Oct 23, 2012
You can repeat your mantra of the firing offence as much as you want, the hard of thinking are going to pick up on your sarcasm and take it literally.
So what does it feel like to be an apologist for OJ?
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Oct 23, 2012
[Jailing a citizen over nothing important doesn't seem outrageous to you? Whatever meds you're on are working great. -- Scott]
It is outrageous. It is absolutely outrageous. Whatever else we may agree or disagree on - I hope everyone agrees that no American citizen should go to jail for engaging in behavior he had every reason to believe was legal. This is not an "ignorance of the law is no excuse" issue. The State government said it was legal. The fact that the State, Federal and Local governments have not worked this out is no excuse for sending someone to jail unjustly.
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Oct 23, 2012
Close but not quite. Based on what we now know the likeliest scenario is as follows:
Some California counties are having problems with marijuana dispensaries and ask the feds to enforce federal law. Perhaps the feds interpret Obamas statement saying he cant ask them not to enforce the law as meaning they can use their own discretion. Perhaps Obamas statement that they should go after folks that are doing harm combined with the counties assurance that they are doing harm, makes them conclude they can go ahead and crack down. Whatever the reason, they act without bothering our very busy president for permission.
Anyone see a hole in this scenario?
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Oct 23, 2012
I think my problem with your argument Scott is the assumption that President Obama specifically told someone in his administration to actively go out and begin prosecuting California marijuana offenders, and that he did so for political gain. There's no evidence that such an event occurred.
Also, it's unclear how doing so would strengthen his political future, as a democrat (aka liberal socialist commie atheist) he'd be alienating his own political base (albeit primarily in a state that he's likely to carry).
A more reasonable explanation is that someone in government (possibly a Republican, possibly to make the president look bad, possibly for their own political gain) made a decision to waste government resources prosecuting marijuana offenders, knowing that the president is in the midst of a tight campaign and unlikely to have the time to deal with anything that doesn't involve another potential war in the Middle East.
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Oct 23, 2012
Scott: "Even Romney knows we can't grow our way out of the problem."
Perhaps we can't grow our way out of the problem, but part of the problem is that the system is set up to be very anti-growth, and that's when you analyze it from both ideologies.
To a conservative/libertarian, there is an unsustainable welfare state; the analogue in business is a defined benefit pension plan. These are both examples of unproductive legacy costs; the government DOES NOT create growth. It creates activity, but that is not the same thing as growth, which is why Obama spent a trillion dollars and accomplished next to nothing, economically speaking. Government spending is not an "infusion" of cash, because it either involves higher taxation (lowering other spending), or inflation (which also lowers spending), especially commodity inflation, which is strangling the economy right now (admittedly, the speculators aren't helping matters any, but that's a problem with global markets that requires a global solution). Their mistake is thinking that people will take this problem seriously when they've come to enjoy, and depend upon, getting their government goodie bag -- which, to be fair, many of them did pay into, but to continue being fair... that money went to their parents (and to cook the government's books), not to the people who paid.
To a liberal/progressive, there's a problem with where the money is, or rather, isn't, going. It is sitting on corporate balance sheets, not really doing anything risky (except for a bunch of crazy derivative bets) or productive. Compounding the problem is that in all of these companies, the CEOs are on each others' boards of directors, pumping up their own salaries, and only hiring their cronies for top positions (although, to be fair, the liberals have the government to hire their own cronies and hacks). There's something useful there, but their error is thinking that they can MAKE them do something useful, in any manner that people will stand for. That is also unlikely.
The system is horribly broken, and it will definitely require a pro-growth agenda AND serious structural reform, as well as addressing inherent imbalances in the global economy, before anything will get fixed. That requires a practical and flexible thinker who is willing to evaluate the problems honestly, and Obama's obsession with increasing the top marginal tax rate (despite its being meaningless without capital gains tax reform, except for hurting sole proprietorships) is the emotional appeal of a raging ideologue who complained that health care costs were killing the economy and then rammed through a plan making them WAY MORE EXPENSIVE (for more abundant, but lower-quality, care!), not the kind of practical thinking we need. Mitt's flexibility is actually his biggest asset -- and the best chance this country has of getting anything useful done in the next 2 to 4 years.
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DETROIT — A company that has provided jobs, education and training (JET) to Detroiters for over 20 years has been put out of a job.
On Aug. 31, TWW Employment Solutions' JET contract — worth over $1 million annually — with Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation (DESC) was terminated.
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Terrie Henderson, president and CEO of TWW, called it "one of the biggest cases of discrimination" she's ever seen. She and her fellow staffers have filed grievances with the City of Detroit claiming they were wrongfully terminated.
The city contract was TWW's only current agreement, meaning the agency — whose six case managers have a combined 20-plus years of experience — will be out of work.
DESC gave the Black, female-owned firm, a dissatisfactory site report, which resulted in the contract termination. TWW objected to the findings. According to Daniel Aldridge, a TWW senior case manager, the site report was not thorough and a corrective action plan was never given to the organization.
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Walker said the current approach is different from when he served as director. When problems occurred, he said, he didn't terminate contracts; he'd sit down with people to see what could be done better.
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"We treat the whole person," Clay said. Many customers who come to TWW are high school dropouts, substance abusers or victims of domestic violence. Clay says getting and holding a job is difficult for those who have problems at home, therefore those issues must be addressed first.
TWW, presently located at 645 Griswold St., in the Penobscot Building, has served the city for 25 years. On site, TWW has classrooms, a computer lab and small offices where case managers work one-on-one with customers.
Henderson, who's provided job-training assistance in the city of Detroit for 34 years, once received an award from President George H.W. Bush for getting all then-existing clients to zero percent, meaning they were self-sufficient and no longer in need of government assistance.
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Value for money and the location is great. If you are looking for travelling along the mtr in hong kong.
Executive Rooms are smaller than other hotels with lower price. But all others are fine.
Clean rooms and good hotel. Lobby very busy but without any confusion. The check in and out were quick. Recommended.
Good Location , - 10 Min form MTR stations .
Some shopping facilities just in the same building .
variety of choose of food , especially you can taste the loco food in the near-by area
I think this hotel would be best for business people or convention delegates. Its nearer to the AsiaWorld Expo than if you stay in Monkok area or Hong Kong Island. The rooms are small and not a lot of space to move around although you also get a working area (work desk) and a lounge seat to relax. Executive lounge is roomy although the food choices remains almost the same everyday. No one help me with my luggage when I checked in at the Lounge. About 15mins walk to subway station. Not much to do around the area for tourist but near Disneyland and Citygate outlet mall. About 20mins subway for both places. Staff very friendly and answers any question that you may have, even writing in Chinese the destination you want to go to so that you can show it to the taxi driver who may speak little English.
Very clean, the room is very big. reasonable price with high level of service.
will come back again. near MTR station. 10min walking distance. near airport. perfect!!!
we stayed on the executive floor. The service was great. The location was 5 min. from the metro station on line 1 direct (20 min) to the city center. i would certainly go back.
Great pool, gym and sauna. Good variety of food/restaurant and grocery stores nearby. Hotel is on top of small shopping center, nothing spectacular, but does have a good games arcade for the kids/teenagers. Approximately a 30min train ride to Hong Kong's busy city area. The train station is only a 10 minute walk away. Rooms are a decent size for Hong Kong rooms, and were clean. Issues I had were: the room service ladies serviced the rooms very early and knocked on the door even when the do not disturb sign was on the door knob, and the front desk will not let you into the rooms before the 2pm check in time. Overall, worth the price and very happy with the experience.
I have chosen to stay at Panda Hotel Hong Kong hust because of its location. It is strategically located near Tsuen Wan MRT station which is just 10-min walk from the hotel. It is convenient to travel from Tsuen Wan station to HK Disneyland as it is just less than 10 stations. Panda Hotel is beautifully decorated for the Chinese New Year season. Hotel staff are well trained and all of them speak good English. The hotel attendants are polite and efficient as well. I booked two rooms for the family with a middle door in between them. When the middle door is open, the room is spacious and the bathrooms are well maintained with the necessary facilities. Overall, I have a pleasant experience staying at Panda Hotel in Hong Kong. Nice!
This hotel is nice, clean, very good leisure centre although the pool is closed for winter. The location is right in the middle of Tsuen Wan and within an easy walk to the MTR. I would be happy to stay there again and probably will.
the hotel about 10 min walk to the train station, use the bridge from the lobby that next to the Japanese restaurant,or 15 min walk to TSui Wan shopping .So it location ok,plus the hotel has shuttle bus to Kowloon and return ,but my family waited for the return bus never come about 30 min .The taxi fare in Hong Kong cheap and reliable and easy to get taxi even at 5 am in order to go to HKIA.My family have 2 bedrooms and a lounge room with a microwave , a fridge,dinning table and 3 LCD tivi but no free wifi,room clean good but the toilet when you flush it,you must pump like pumping a sun screen bottle.I wil go back this hotel if return to Hong Kong.
I booked the Executive floor and found the service reasonable.
The check-in staff was very friendly and helpful.
Just a couple of issues
1) the choice of breakfast is adequate but can be improved, ie should have a bit more variety of pastries and cearals, for example.
2) The hotel advertise free internet at the executive floor. To a certain it's true because you can get onto the Internet at the loung only. But if you want to use own laptop and connect to your own VPN to work on emails etc, the Hotel charges you the same rates as other rooms. So, a bit of false advertising there.
Very good al round hotel, stayed here several times and would do so again, advise that rooms are booked early as it's popular.
Roms a bit small but confortable. Location is convenient with good access to airport by rail or bus.
Very convenient location with lot of small restaurant with reasonable price. Near MTR station and shopping mall around. Will stay in this hotel again. Housekeeping staffs very helpful and friendly.
The room had an adjoining door to another room. We could hear our next door neighbors even when they spoke at a normal level. The bottom of the door did not seem to have a gap.
The executive service was nice. Free use of their computers (I brought my own)
Front office staff need to brush up! We cudnt understand why we were not allowed to check in 2 rooms booked under 1 person's name. 2 different names/passports were needed for the 2 rooms, and we were asked to produce 4 passports for 2 person/room. What a hassle! My aunt who checked in 1st was not allowed to check in 2 rooms under her name, but was asked to pay deposit for both. Huh??! Then when we arrived to check in for the other room, they insisted my aunt needed to be present to confirm the room was to be given to us. When she did come down, they never even asked her for any docs/ID! In the end, the whole check in process took us 1/2hr or so. The check out was ridiculous too. At 8am, queueing for check out took us 1 whole wasted hour! Panda Hotel, you need to re-look into your system!
Other than the above, we were happy with room, location and free shuttle to TST. Compliments to the tour desk staff who was extremely helpful and cheerful.
Regarding the helpfulness & cleanliness, we never experienced consistency for our 5 night duration @ Hotel Panda. Yet, certain staff members were more than great & others well (I really could rant here)..... But, at the same time you get what you pay for.
The facilities are exceptional with the gym, outdoor swimming pool etc... free to use. However, don't the internet and nor obvious extras eg mini bar etc...
And the location, well, don't expect to use English right outside the hotel. Tsuen Wan is clearly where a lot of locals live which makes it an interesting stay. There are loads of bus stops outside the hotel & 2 MTR stations within 300-400 meters.
room is big and comfortable better then the city hotels. Location is a good 10 to 15mins walk from Tsuen Wan MTR, can get lost if you do not know the way. Price is much cheaper but it seems to have become more expensive in 2010. Hotel lobby is very nice and welcoming and service is acceptable. No smiles but they get answer your questions.
This is a value for money hotel, which I will return for my next visit to Hong Kong.
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When we go deep within, into the deepest recesses of our hearts, we commune with God through meditation. It is through meditation that we can know that God is both with form and without form, with attributes and without attributesSri Chinmoy
Why do we meditate? We meditate precisely because this world of ours has disappointed us and because failure looms large in our day-to-day life. We want fulfilment. We want joy, peace, bliss and perfection within and without. Meditation is the answer, the only answerSri Chinmoy
When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into the deeper part of our being. At that time, we are able to bring to the fore the wealth that we have deep within usSri Chinmoy
I meditate So that I can inundate My entire being With the omnipotent Power of peaceSri Chinmoy
My meditation Is my soul's Soundless sound-conversation With my Inner PilotSri Chinmoy
In your outer life If you can feel Consciously and soulfully happy Even while doing Ordinary, mundane things, God will consider this Your real meditationSri Chinmoy
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You must direct your full, intense concentration on the heart. You must feel that you are not the mind. You have to feel that you are growing into the heart. You are only the heart and nothing elseSri Chinmoy
During meditation if you can really make yourself feel that you have only the heart, or if you can feel that you do not even have the heart, but that your whole existence from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head is the soul, then you will see that the mind does not exist. But if you cannot feel the presence of your soul, you can easily feel your heart's presence and your heart's glow. When you see light glowing in the heart or in the soul, you can rest assured that you have already transcended the intellectual mind. At this stage you have entered into the illumined mind, which is very different from the reasoning, intellectual mindSri Chinmoy
Meditation upon the unknown Thought He thought was real meditation. No, meditation is not and cannot be On any thought. Meditation is a conscious withdrawal From the thought-world. Meditation is the place Where Reality, Divinity and Immortality Can each claim their own Perennial existence-light.Sri Chinmoy
My meditation Is my mind's Instant ignorance-illumination And Bondage-liberation.Sri Chinmoy
My meditation Is my life's Intensity-profundity- Experience-delightSri Chinmoy
Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.Bhagavad Gita
Every moment there is a possibility to be total. Whatsoever you are doing, be absorbed in it so utterly that the mind thinks nothing, is just there, is just a presence. And more and more totality will be coming. And the taste of totality will make you more and more capable of being total. And try to see when you are not total. Those are the moments which have to be dropped slowly, slowly. When you are not total, whenever you are in the head--thinking, brooding, calculating, cunning, clever--you are not total. Slowly, slowly slip out of those moments. It is just an old habit. Habits die hard. But they die certainly--if one persists, they die.Osho
First meditate, be blissful, then much love will happen of its own accord. Then being with others is beautiful and being alone is also beautiful. Then it is simple, too. You dont depend on others and you dont make others dependent on you. Then it is always a friendship, a friendliness. It never becomes a relationship, it is always a relatedness. You relate, but you dont create a marriage. Marriage is out of fear, relatedness is out of love. You relate; as long as things are moving beautifully, you share. And if you see that the moment has come to depart because your paths separate at this crossroad, you say good-bye with great gratitude for all that the other has been to you, for all the joys and all the pleasures and all the beautiful moments that you have shared with the other. With no misery, with no pain, you simply separate.Osho
If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements. And finally, there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.Dalai Lama
If you can become a mirror you have become a meditator. Meditation is nothing but skill in mirroring. And now, no word moves inside you so there is no distraction.Osho
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Tye's Kung Fu was located at 2603 Rountree (in Bryan, TX), but we are looking into setting up our new head school in Northern Virginia. We offer instruction in Northern Shaolin / Northern Praying Mantis Kung Fu.
The style we teach, Northern Shaolin / Northern Praying Mantis, was developed a century ago primarily as a composite of two major styles. The Northern Shaolin side of our kungfu curriculum contains such influences as Tan Tui, Duan Da Chuan, Chin Kang Chuan (jingangquan), Black Tiger (He Hu), and more. The Northern Praying Mantis Kung Fu side of the equation comes from Mimen Tanglang (closed door praying mantis), which itself is an offshoot of Mei Hua Tanglang (plum flower praying mantis).
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The Head Instructor is Sifu Dr. Tye W. Botting, who has over 33 years experience in the Chinese Martial Arts and continues to be an active student himself, concentrating on kung fu and modern arnis. The school grew out of the Texas A&M Kung Fu Club (which he founded in 1989), with public classes starting in 1996 at a local karate dojo, Montoya's Shorin Kempo, at 2603 Rountree in Bryan, TX.
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Dr. Ben Wedro practices emergency medicine at Gundersen Clinic, a regional trauma center in La Crosse, Wisconsin. His background includes undergraduate and medical studies at the University of Alberta, a Family Practice internship at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and residency training in Emergency Medicine at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
Mary D. Nettleman, MD, MS, MACP
Mary D. Nettleman, MD, MS, MACP is the Chair of the Department of Medicine at Michigan State University. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt Medical School, and completed her residency in Internal Medicine and a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Indiana University.
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How is a hematoma diagnosed?
Hematomas of the skin and soft tissues, such as muscle and joints, are often diagnosed by physical examination alone.
For patients exhibiting signs of internal bleeding, the health care practitioner will decide what imaging modality is best to evaluate the situation. Plain X-rays may be needed to assess for bone fracture. Patients with significant head injury often require CT scanning. Ultrasound is the testing modality of choice for pregnant patients.
What is the treatment for a hematoma?
Hematomas of the skin and soft tissues are often treated with RICE (rest, ice, compression, elevation). Some health care practitioners may advocate heat as another treatment alternative. The pain of a hematoma is usually due to the inflammation surrounding the blood and may be treated with over-the-counter pain medications. The choice of medication depends upon the underlying health of the patient. For those patients who are taking anticoagulation medications, ibuprofen is relatively contraindicated (not recommended) because of the risk of gastrointestinal bleeding. Patients with liver disease should not take over-the-counter acetaminophen. When in doubt, it is wise to ask the health care practitioner or pharmacist for a recommendation.
Treatment for hematomas involving other organs in the body depends upon what organ system is involved. In these cases, treatment will be tailored to the specific situation.
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