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HANK SCHOUTEN Last updated 05:00 19/03/2011
Tsunami generated by an earthquake in Cook Strait could sweep kilometres inland within three or four minutes, putting the lives of up to 170,000 Wellington residents at risk.
There would be no time for any warnings and people need to think now about how they can get to higher ground immediately after a strong quake, says Wellington Region Emergency Management officer Rian van Schalkwyk.
"The magnitude of that quake and tsunami in Japan is the sort of thing we can expect here. The moment there is a big local quake that is so strong that you can't stand upright, you need to get to higher ground or up in a building as quickly as possible. There is no time to hop in a car to drive away – just go up as quickly as possible.
"In Japan the quake was 200 kilometres offshore, but for us it could be 15km to 20km ..."
A tsunami caused by a quake that close "could be 15 metres high and it will come into the harbour and destroy everything in its path", he said.
The biggest threats were faults through Cook Strait and the Wairarapa coast and the possibility of huge landslides in the Cook Strait trench.
Mr van Schalkwyk said the tsunami triggered by the 8.2 magnitude quake on the Wairarapa Fault in 1855 was up to five metres high when it swept over Lyall Bay and Kilbirnie into Evans Bay.
A 10-metre wave struck Palliser Bay on the south Wairarapa coast. The tsunami also flooded Porirua Harbour, and hit Titahi Bay and the Kapiti Coast.
Mr van Schalkwyk said Greater Wellington regional council had drawn up maps showing evacuation zones for the most vulnerable areas. In the red, orange and yellow zones people need to be prepared to evacuate if there is a tsunami. The red zone is mainly for beach areas that could be hit by a one-metre tsunami generated thousands of kilometres away and during which people are advised to stay off the beaches.
The orange zone is based on a tsunami similar to that which happened in 1855, and the yellow zone is based on how far the devastation might extend if a 10-metre wave struck.
A tsunami of that size would threaten Wellington's commercial heart – the waterfront, the central business district and all the flat land as far south as the Basin Reserve, the suburbs of Island Bay, Lyall Bay, Kilbirnie, Miramar, Seatoun, Eastbourne, much of Lower Hutt, Titahi Bay, Porirua, Plimmerton, Paekakariki, Paraparaumu, Waikanae and Otaki.
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When you play ADC vs a team with tons of CC you can go cleanse,
When you play ADC vs a team with low CC but non-skillshot ones you can go Barrier.
When you play ADC vs another ADC that will get cleanse you can go HEAL.
Clairvoyance / Revive are at this state because that type of spells are hard to balance.
I see Heals, Cleanse and CV all the time. I also see Barrier often enough that I don't think it needs tweaking. Revive is highly specialized. Smite is nearly as important as Flash.
Really, Clarity is the only terrible summoner. But that is because good mana management is easy, and mana hungry champs get blue, or pick up a chalice.
Clairvoyance and Cleanse is used a lot too... For sure the most common is flash, ghost, ignite, exhaust but it is like that for a reason. The summoner spell choices depends on what kind of team comp you got and what kind of play style the team is going for.
You're trying to change too much. Revive is too OP in your version. Also, you say Cleanse won't save an ADC when he is being focused by CC. It does. I take cleanse on Vayne about 80% of the time and it always ends up saving my life. That coupled with QSS/GA and it's not even worth focusing Vayne aka it's GG for them.
Nope revive is not too OP at all in my version. You would only be alive for 20 seconds without taking any damage. and 30 seconds with the enhanced version. Revive as it is now is too UP. To the point where if you pick it, your getting reported.
Heals are mediocre, barrier is mediocre cleanse needs to be reworked before i even consider it over exhaust on my support. Considering the introduction of sight stones makes warding properly alot easier on supports.
Also, if you are the ADC that took Cleanse and you get focused with some more CC after you use it; you need better positioning instead of asking for a buff on cleanse. Barrier is also taken a lot nowadays too; not as often but it's still taken. And you know what? It definitely gives a surprise edge during lane fight initiations. I would say it's not as useful in team fights but in lane fights when you are trading and it's just you and the enemy, you are about to die; that Barrier will just have saved your life as well as gotten you a kill. Coupled that with a sustain support for ADC, barrier becomes a much more powerful spell to have which increases your survivability by a TON.
Heal is still useful spell to take. It's not taken as often as it used to but it's still useful and even good players may get baited with heal. It also provides good sustain for laning phase (which is its primary use during laning phase) so that you can stay in lane if you are about to be pushed out and lose a lot of xp/cs.
I like what you'er trying to do; really. Trying to change from the meta but the summoner spells at least are the way they should be for a reason. You're trying to make summoner spells useful in all areas of the game. Some of these spells with different utilities are only powerful in certain parts of the game like laning phase, mid game, late game. They are the way they are for a reason. And the spells you are saying is UP is not UP. You just need to learn how to use it and how to not keep getting caught/poked.
What about the enemy Adc using the current revive along with teleport to teleport back into the fight via a ward and they come in with revive speed boost and home guard boost + bonus health. What do you say to that? That also sounds pretty op. Also your forgetting revive has a 9 minute cooldown. Your not going to use it every team fight and when you do use it you better make sure its worth it.
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Hey guys and gals, I am busting with joy! After checking my figs for moisture, I noticed my 2 year old container Brooklyn White fig has one fig that has turned white! I have been chasing mocking birds and squirrels away for days. Can someone tell me how to tell when to pick this fig? Will it droop? Will it ooze honey from the eye?
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Hi Dennis you might want to protect those few precious first figs until the season really kicks in, similar to what Gene did I know with so many trees it is hard other than netting and then we can share with the birds and such. Looking forward to seeing pics and for your descriptive taste test that sure looks like a productive variety nice pic Bass
Great! Here is a picture of my Brooklyn White. Can you see the one that's almost ripe?
Here is another picture of it:
I checked it again this morning. It's soft but I'm going to wait 2 more days before I pic it. The birds know something is up and are staying away. Cheers! Dennis
Hey Dennis,
Nice plant. I see you also use that ant stuff.
Not trying to change the subject but works well for me.
I would guard that fig with a full auto machine gun, canon and a flame thrower!
First bird that's stupid enough to get near it will be made an example to the others!
Thanks guys! I chickened out and placed the tree inside my greenhouse. Those squirrely squirrels were just too close today. Now I'm glad I did place it inside my greenhouse because its been raining every day now since last week! I don't want that fig to split on me. My wife keeps telling me to pick it but I'm going to hold out a few more days. This will be my fig of the year! I am so excited! My Black Spanish is usually the first to ripen but not this year.
How about those figs!!!!
cheers, Dennis
Hello Vivian,
I can't think of the brand or name and I'm away from home right now but if you at Dennis's picture and on the pot you will see a small flat plastic thing inserted in the soil at the top of the rim.
These things are designed for outdoor use. Just take them out of the package and insert them where ever you like.
You can find them at Lowes or Home Depot or any place that has a garden center.
Sorry Dennis,
Anymore questions on this product and I will post a thread on it. I will not Hijack your thread. ( If I haven't already )
That's Ok Rafed. They are called Andro ant baits. You get about 8 in a pack. Walmat cares them for around 4 bucks. They last around 3 or 4 months. The ants take the bait back to their mound and kills the whole mound. Last year I used these and did not have an ant problem. Ants travel in search for food at dusk. I would recommend placing these baits on your in-ground trees too. I have to buy some more and recommend using 2 for larger containers.
Sorry about your fig, It's every figsters nightmare!
What a heartbreaker.
Lets just consider this one bad one to one hundred good ones you will get to enjoy.
Vivian, No harm done.
Sometimes when we post a thread about a subject we get side tracked on other issues and forget about the first topic. Confused? LOL
Nontheless, I wrote that out of respect to Dennis.
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WILMINGTON, Del. — Authorities have confirmed that the gunman in a Delaware courthouse shooting that left three dead was the former father-in-law of one of the victims.
Delaware State Police on Tuesday identified the gunman in Monday's shooting as 68-year-old Thomas S. Matusiewicz of Edcouch, Texas.
Matusiewicz was the former father-in-law of Christine Belford, 39, who was fatally shot along with her 47-year-old friend Laura Mulford.
Matusiewicz, armed with a .45-caliber semiautomatic handgun, died after exchanging gunfire with police.
Authorities were awaiting the autopsy results to determine whether Matusiewicz was killed by police or shot himself.
State police said Belford and Mulford were at the courthouse for a child support arrears hearing for Belford's ex-husband, David Matusiewicz. He was being questioned and was in custody on a federal probation technicality.
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We did the escrow inspections at a beautiful house we are to close escrow on in 20 days on Saturday. Upon walking to the rear of the house with our contractor and electrician we all started smelling mold. We all know the smell. The whole house inspection man had indicated mildew on the ceiling of one bathroom and showed that it could be determined where the mildew came from. There was nothing on the ceiling, it had probably been cleaned by the sellers. Still, there was quite a smell, mild in the bathroom but very strong in the bedroom across the hall.
I went outside, around the side of the house to see what I could see. The dirt in the side area was quite damp and I noted that the area was very shady. I saw the outside door to the hot water heater closet and opened it. The drywall inside had not been primed or painted and showed signs of mold splotches. MOLD! Yikes, was my first reaction. I went into the bedroom to tell the electrician and contractor and they said, look what we found. They had removed the cushion from the charming window seat cabinet and opened the lid and there was a dry, sandy set of sand like black or dark spores scattered around the semi gloss painted interior.
The sellers are now out of state and don't want to do anything but close the sale. We will be bringing a new born baby to the house. HELP if you know a lot about mold.
I am not afraid of mold. I know it is all around. As a biology major in college I recognize that most mold is not something that would make someone ill but I discovered that it can cost $50 to $800 to get someone out to test air and the swab from the mold present to determine what type it is and the air quality.
Then we might want to start tearing out drywall and the wooden interior, etc. I want to avoid that in the house but I will have the contractor drain the water heater, drain the water and remove the heater to rip out the dry wall and will have him seal it in plastic bags and then use green board to line the area and then prime and paint and replace the heater.
But most mold simply needs you to wear a mask and gloves and wash with water and detergent and dry well quickly....I will drill a few holes in the top of the cabinet and put a nice piece of brass screening on the inside so that the box can breath and I will leave the cushion off on the first of each month. We want to put a small skylite in the room since it will be my husband's office and it is dark. I might even put 4 oz of bleach into 1/2 gallon of water and use gloves to wipe down the cleaned internal surfaces.
As for the bathroom, I will remove the ceiling exhaust and put in a new more powerful one and wash around the area on the ceiling with detergent before completing that task.
Is this a good plan or am I just wanting to move into this well maintained, beautiful house because I am having my baby any time now and I'm being naive and stupid? Please help.
Nothing to be worried about according to Centers for Disease Control, National Institutes for Health and all other national health agencies:
Mold is mold with no 'mold' any more harmful than any other.
Clean with soap and water in most cases...
Personally I'd buy this house for the 'deal' it is and clean it and move on.
Surface cleaning probably isn't going to do it. If it's in the wall, the drywall will need removed and replaced or it'll just keep coming back. Your original plan to rip it out and replace is a good one. I'd ask for compensation from the seller for the non-disclosed problem in the closing process. They had to know, and it's illegal not to disclose it.
"They had to know, and it's illegal not to disclose it."
Depending on what state (and even county/city) is involved there may be no recourse for failing to disclose except a lawsuit.
Many of the disclosure laws are toothless.
Did you fail to look in the area (or your inspector failed)?
You have to determine the extent of the mold spread before you know how to fix it and how much it will cost. Unfortunately that usually involves destructive sampling. If the sellers will not agree to this, I am afraid that your only choices are to cancel the sale or buy a house with potentially huge repair bills ahead. Since the sellers seemed to be covering stuff up, they are not likely to agree. On the other hand. Maybe they hired hack painters to repaint the house and they just painted over stuff that they should have told the sellers about.
You also have to eliminate the causes. Likely the water heater closet was not constructed properly. Moist air is probably being drawn in from ground level.
mold needs two things
and a food source.
the paper on the sheetrock is the
food source
where is the moisture comming from.
to me..finding the moisture source
is the first thing.
fixing it so there is no longer moisture
entering or being created.
then remediation.
to replace sheetrock without addressing
the moisture source is just delaying
re-generation of mold.
in most cases it isn't as bad as
you'd thing. in rare cases it is worse.
don't freak out, or let folks use scare tatics
on you.
determine source of moisuture
stop moisture
then remediate.
best of luck.
You might want to post this on the Buying and Selling Homes forum for advice on how to deal with the sellers. Mold inside the house and wet soil outside tells me the issue may be more complex than you think.
I'm not a mold expert, but I would be more interested in what caused the mold rather than the type of mold it is.
To answer your question, your plan should include knowing the extent of the problem and the cost of fixing it before going to escrow.
Not to sound an alarm, but in California mold remediation requires a certification from a specialist and is a disclosure issue. After our slab leak , the dry wall wicked up moisture; two days later the insurance company commenced mold remediation. $30K later (and 12 weeks), we were able to replace the dry wall, install new cabinets, etc. Point is: that damage happened in two days of a slab leak that lasted hours. No telling how much mold you are dealing with as ours was not visible.
I am a microbiologist by training and I had a similar experience when I was buying my house. I found mold in the hall & master baths (adjacent to each other) as well as in the laundry room at the other end of the house. My realtor recommended getting remediation estimates - I ended up having an industrial hygienist assess the amount of involvement and do spore counts, and then got estimates on remediation. Ended up buying the house and then had the bathrooms and laundry gutted to the studs, cleaned up the mold, fixed the plumbing and roof leaks that were the original sources of problems, rebuilt the laundry and one bath (master is still gutted). I did get the price of the house down by $20K but in retrospect that didn't come close to covering all the costs.
Energy_rater is correct - cleaning up the mold is useless if you don't figure out where the water is coming from. I would be very cautious about buying this house until you figure out the water source.


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As political support becomes more vocal, so does the support of outside groups, many of which have moved to Texas with one goal in mind — legalization.
One of the most prominent forces in the legalization movement, the Marijuana Policy Project, set up shop in Austin earlier this year. The group, which was the reigning force in Colorado's legalization push, has also been an essential player in the legalization of medical pot in 18 states. It has set its sights on legalization for the Lone Star State.
MPP is backing that campaign up with some serious resources, too. The group has pledged to spend $200,000 a year on the legalization movement in Texas over the next five years, and has hired lobbyist Randal Kuykendall to help lead the way. MPP's main goal, three "perfect bills" — one addressing decrim, one "medi-pot" and one legalization — is slated to be presented to lawmakers by 2015.
A monumental task, yes, but the group has quite a bit of help coming its way. Republicans Against Marijuana Prohibition, or RAMP, held its inaugural meeting in Houston in March, and is exploring initiatives on issues such as medical marijuana and decriminalization, while also taking on related issues such as industrial hemp and the taxing structure of legalization.
RAMP has as good a chance to succeed as anybody else, with founder and director Ann Lee at the helm. Lee, a founder of Oaksterdam University in Oakland, California, is a lifelong Republican whose attitude toward medi-pot changed after her son's workplace accident left him a paraplegic with chronic nerve pain. Lee has made it RAMP's mission to educate conservative lawmakers on the criminalization of cannabis by talking about traditionally conservative principles — limited government, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty — in a unique approach to the barriers conservatives pose to the legalization movement.
Lee has managed to bring other strong forces on board, too. Terry Nelson, a member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition and a former U.S. Border Patrol agent, U.S. Customs agent and Department of Homeland Security agent, spoke in support of the group at the inaugural meeting. John Delaney, a senior district judge who handles child abuse and neglect cases, and Richard A. Evans, M.D., founder of the Texas Cancer Center, spoke as well.
Branches of NORML, a nationwide nonprofit whose mission is to "move public opinion sufficiently to achieve the repeal of marijuana prohibition so that the responsible use of cannabis by adults is no longer subject to penalty," are popping up at a rapid pace across Texas. The group has always been a constant on the legalization forefront, but has managed to make waves recently with the establishment of a branch in a very unlikely place: El Paso. Thanks in part to NORML, El Paso has become an ally in the legalization movement, with a number of legalization supporters emerging from the border city.
Progress Texas, a group of progressive activists, has also set its sights on Texas. The organization's main goal — supporting the legalization movement — has it trudging away, launching surveys, spreading information and promoting conversation in any way possible.
Although Tim seems to have perfected the art of growing marijuana in his hidden hydroponic growing system, he and the other medical marijuana users in Texas are still incredibly paranoid about getting caught. The stiff fines and harsh penalties for pot possession make possession a risky proposition, even if it's desperately needed to soothe the ache of old bones.
The amount of cannabis in Tim's hidden indoor "garden" is hardly enough to ease all the pain from the arthritis in his bones, but it's certainly enough to earn him some serious jail time. The state of Texas is serious when it comes to pot possession, and there's already one man, Jason Lavoro, facing a life sentence for possessing pot brownies.
Lavoro was running a small-time edibles operation in Round Rock, Texas, where he would bake and sell small batches of cookies and brownies infused with hash oil, a form of cannabis created by dissolving marijuana or hashish in a solvent such as petroleum ether. Possessing any amount of marijuana will result in a misdemeanor, but being found in possession of any amount of hash oil — even an ounce — is a state felony. Lavoro was in possession of much, much more. At least by law enforcement standards.
In cases like Lavoro's, where a person is in possession of an oil or extract rather than the plant itself, it is perfectly legal for law enforcement to calculate the amount of hash oil by weighing the product in which it is used. In this case, the weight of those hash cookies and brownies, not the oil itself, resulted in Lavoro's being charge with a first-degree felony. And now the penalty Lavoro faces is the same as a murder charge would bring in Texas — five to life — for pot brownies.
Cannabis is still federally listed as a Schedule 1 drug, despite numerous recommendations by researchers and scientists to change that status. That means it comes with some serious penalties if you're unlucky enough to possess it outside of a more liberal state.
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Texas is hellbent on running a lawless society by committing perjury testifying that marijuana has no medical use under Schedule 1. It's a shame how many lives are being damaged by the "Mess with me state."
Legal or NOT, people smoke it. Moneymakers are the dealers. Fine by me. Have never had a dry spell. Always good quality. Fair pricing. Live about a 2-3 hour drive to Co. state line, 5-6 to major Co. city. NO worries here. Sure it would be nice to not have to buy in alleyways, darkened rooms, or looking over my shoulder, BUT, once I get my hands on it IT's MINE.....LOL.
I will sign any petition sent to politicians to legalize in Texas, I will go vote IF and WHEN on the ballot. As will the millions of chronic pain patients who've just had the carpet pulled out from under them by the DEA, HHS, FDA by rescheduling hydrocodone containing products. Doctors have QUIT prescribing HCPs even to patients that have been on them for years. NO MORE! Pain management doctors shocked the hell out of me when they said no more as well. Pharmacies around this area refuse to fill legitimate HCP prescriptions, so even if you get a legal script there's no guarantee it'll be filled. Sucks I know.
In the meantime I'm sparking it up anyway. Happy Tokin' Yawl.
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Smoking cigs is worse health wise, but it's legal, being drunk is just as bad as being stone and alcohol is legal, so why legalizing weed is a bad thing in comparison. I also feel that the crime rate will reduce if this would happen in Texas.
Alcohol is AS BAD as marijuana? Or a thousand times worse. When have you heard of a stoned driving death that killed an entire family? Or a subculture of weedo's passed out in the alley? Where are the dangerous consequences of marijuana? Answer: NOWHERE.
I find that this whole matter of the legalization of marijuana funny as hell, and I am also confused by some of the comments from people who think legal weed would destroy this state. I can tell you from personal experience that anyone I have ever met who is against the use of marijuana is someone who has never tried it, does not associate with anyone who does use marijuana, and only has comments based on all the political and false commercials of what marijuana does to a person. I have been in a room full of people who are stoned or high if you will, on marijuana and I have been in a room full of drunk people and I much prefer to party with stone people than drunks. Alcohol destroys more lives in so many ways each year than marijuana ever has, we know this by the fact that there are no documented cases in where marijuana was the cause. I have never seen someone stone start a fight, I have never seen someone stone puke all over the place, I have never seen a stone person have an accident driving, ( this may be because most of the time someone who is stone does not want to go drive a car). Marijuana has a relaxing effect not only on the brain but also on the body, and once you reach that good comfortable feeling, driving is just not one of the things you want to do. But if you do find that you have to drive. I have also been witness to being in the car with many stone people and nearly every time we were always in the slow lane going maybe 45 to 47 miles an hour. So you fools who have come on here and thought legalization of marijuana is wrong for Texas, then I have only one thing to say to you, you are idiots. You might take the time to read and consider history, long before we invaded this land we now call America, Indians were here and smoked marijuana in their peace pipes every day. I ask you, how many really old Indians have you seen walking with a cane, or slumped over unable to stand because of back problems. How many of them have you seen with any of all the other diseases whites, black, and all other nationalities suffer from. I have an Indian friend who lives on a reservation in Oklahoma and they allow the smoking and growing of marijuana, Some of the old people on this reservation are 95 to 104 and act and move around as if they were only sixty or sixty five. and you idiots also have to consider all the research that has been done over the past twenty years that support the fact that marijuana is a pain reliever, and even a cure for some ailments. So if you don't want Texas to legalize marijuana, then when they do you can move to a state where it is still illegal. But be warned, eventually every state will legalize marijuana because of its ability to stimulate the economy, think about that.
The worst thing that Texas could ever do is legalize that evil weed! Isn't driving in our state dangerous enough without having to worry if the person, driving in front of you is stoned and with his reactions slowed down to begin with he stops suddenly and causes an accident? Do we want Texas to become a hippie wasteland like Colorado?
@rowantom88 Alcohol is legal. I guarantee alcohol is worse on a person that marijuana. Alcohol intoxication is wayyyyy worse that being high. Especially when you are talking about someone being stoned behind the wheel. I would rather be by someone driving stoned than drunk any day!
@rowantom88 I seriously hope you're being sarcastic, because otherwise I feel really, really sorry for you and I'm very surprised you've survived long enough to figure out how to use a computer.
@rowantom88 Perhaps Texas should pass a law criminalizing driving under the influence of drugs. Oh, wait.....they already did. Legalizing pot would be akin to the legal ownership of a crow bar. Yes, bad people can use a crowbar to pry your door open and rob you, but owning and using a crowbar for uses other than committing a crime is legal. Your argument is the same one used by people afraid of guns.....they want government to take everyone's guns, so they can feel safer.
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@darrynlyon @rowantom88 Go **** yourself!
@Bill @rowantom88 Hate the 2 G's------Guns & Grass!
@rowantom88 Hell Yes!!!!
@rowantom88 Hell Yes!!!! God Bless the Hippies!!!
@rowantom88 Q: Do you know what the similarity is between eating pussy & driving in the fog ? A: You can't see the asshole (or rowantom88) in front of you ! Better a happy hippie wasteland than a bigoted redneck wasteland like Texas !! And quit picking your nose when I'm talking to you !!! LMFAO !!!!
Take a listen to Afroman's "Because I got High" then tell me if legalization of pot is a good thing?
@TexasForever And you think drinking is better? I'd rather see a bunch of stoners than a bunch of drunks any day!
@TexasForever Legalizing that evil weed would be a very bad thing!
@TexasForever Really? It's called a song. LOL
You sir, or madame are a complete moron. How old are you, 90? Have you the experience to even speak on this particular topic? If you have never smoked marijuana, then why the hell does your opinion matter to anyone other than your cronies at the rest home. Uneducated opinions should be keptin private.
@normlguy420 Of course all of these prohibitionists are complete morons,how do you think Perry,Cruz & Gohmert were elected,by geniuses ? These are the same gullible self-righteous simpletons that dismiss global warming because they believe in a "god" & think they're going to a "heaven". Anyone that stupid or naïve should have their voting privileges permanently revoked & be banned from ever seeking elective office. Just another example of the wealthy,the conservatives & the divinely delusional deity devotees duping the ignorant,the poorly educated & the uninformed who constitute their electorate. It's actually quite hard to find anybody that has had first-hand experience using marijuana who is now opposed to it's complete legalization & those opposed on the other hand have never tried it even once. It's like gay sex,they've never had it,don't plan on ever having it,don't want anybody else to have it & get livid at just the thought of others having it ! Well they can assume the position of doggie submission because marijuana will be legal in Texas sooner than they think & they're "knot" going to enjoy it !
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@jesusworks2003 Keep your farfetched faith fomented foppery to yourself you fool !
texans aren't fat and lazy enough already, legalizing mj is a good idea.
@midnightfapper69 There's a simple answer to your issue.....stop paying people NOT to work. Stop rewarding deadbeats for having kids they know up front they cannot pay for. Then all those fat and lazy Texans will have to get a job and pay their own way in life.
The entire state is controlled by corrupt lawyers and corrupt politicians ... Lawyers make millions defending average citizens POM charges each year, millions and millions. Most cases never see the inside of a court room. They are plea bargained out with cash payments to the courts and to the lawyers. It is a HUGE racket of asset forfeiture the crooked courts and crooked judges and crooked DA's and crooked lawyers CA$H cow. All these brand new privately owned jails and detention centers depend on this corrupt crooked despicable situation of marijuana probation to keep the jails full and the CA$H cow of asset forfeiture flowing.
The only way we will see legalized hemp and marijuana in Texas is the day when all these corrupt politicians, lawyers, judges and the powerful people who secretly run this state somehow find a way to CASH in a vastly greater way and amount than they are doing by keep hemp and marijuana illegal. They will never ever do it for the good of the people, or because it is the RIGHT thing to do.
Isn't Texas the state that is threatening to send a teen to prison for life for making pot brownies?
@DonkeyHotay Sounds like you do not understand prohibition. You either pay the black market tax or the government gets their but.
You have no citizen initiative process in Texas. Therefore, all of this is up to politicians. Good luck expecting them to behave like real human beings.
Tax and regulate it like alcohol...
@stevennolin ... only an IDIOT would beg the Government to TAX and REGULATE anything they actually cared about.
Only a bong-sucking imbecile would deliberately conflate "harmless marijuana" with deadly alcohol that harms, maims and kills 100s of THOUSANDS of people every year.
@DonkeyHotay @stevennolin Sounds like you do not understand prohibition. You either pay the black market tax or the government gets their cut.
@stevennolin utter nonsense.
What is the blackmarket / government tax on Oregano ? ... or Tomatoes ?
If the morons would actually LEGALIZE it -- LIKE TOMATOES -- there would be no black market at all.
The current quagmire in Colorado, Washington and elsewhere with their Massive Government Regulation and Taxation schemes is that BOTH markets now pressure those "licensed" producers -- the blackmarket which can ALWAYS produce a better and cheaper crop, and the greedy insatiable bloodsuckers at the Dept. of Revenue who have saddled marijuana with upwards of 30% in taxes.
"Could" Legalization of Marijuana Be in Texas's Future? Clearly a rhetorical question, to which the only reasonable answer - unless you are on Big Pharma produced legal, potentially fatal, prescription meds - is Yes! In spite of 70 years of a war on a plant, and $1 TRILLION dollars in taxpayer spending, people have figured out that a plant that has a lower lethal dose than water should not be illegal. With Texas surrounded by states that will legalize in a few years if they haven't already, and Mexico as a source of low grade but cheap weed, they will have no choice.
My question is, since TX seems to be so big on individual rights and doing what you want as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else, what is the problem? People are going to smoke the ganja, just like they drank during Prohibition, so why waste police time and taxpayer money fighting the inevitable? On top of that, the Feds are agin it, so shouldn't they be for it just in principle?
In Kalifornia, the Bill of Rights are numbered, 1,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10. In Texass, the Bil of Rights are numbered 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2.
The real gateway drug is alcohol with tobacco second...they used all the negative evidence found with these two drugs and applied their attributes to pot to further their evil cause...reefer madness...
It is time to ship these robber politicians and their minions back to the robber baron police states whence they came from. No more property taxes, no more $500 traffic tickets, no more murder by cops, no more theft of land from families, and no more drug war bs! We had no real problems before these monkeys took over and their anti pot and anti hippie Illuminati has to go now! Vote out incumbents, religious nuts, and people on agendas that do not put Texas first! Thieves are stealing the state blind while these buffoons chase kids down for smoking a joint behind the barn! Send them all back to Washington and leave us alone. We do not need them anymore!
trust this hippie idea will be crushed by Texans - thin edge of the wedge here lads - need to start gaoling users - we have the technology - we need more money and prisons to teach these scofflaws the true value of freedom and liberty. There is no other solution - look at the places where pot is legal - Holland - Kanada and North Korea - countries of crime and filth with no hope. Let us increase enforcement to rid the state of this deadly scourge! Amerika MUST remain free of these fatal fantasies - we already have some problems with the bevy of legal drugs including the more benign ones like alcohol and tobacco - do we need more? I think the consensus is no and can be seen from the majority of informed commenters .
No kidding man. That's what I was thinking. This poor fool must have had a serious mind screwing in his upbringing.
@normlguy420 This is why these bastards cling to their guns,it's the only thing that keeps their better educated & more intelligent neighbors from wringing their scrawny necks !
Great article btw..don't let that fool get on your nerves. Texas is too conservative to legalize this harmless plant. Proof of this is how one Texas resident is facing 5 years to life for hash brownies, only in Texas would this happen. I have been a TDCJ officer for over ten years and you never hear about the people who are sentenced to 10 or more years for cannabis. Ill never forget this one 19 year old inmate who is serving a 30 year sentence for marijuana. I read their travel cards every time they move between units or are released and what almost made me quit is when a two time child molester in the same cell block as that 19 year old was released time served on a 12 year stint. I cant even describe how i felt that day...it is so messed up, only if the public knew.
@dissturbbed Someone in the legislature has got it in for pot users and has made astounding changes to pot laws with little or no review. This idea that pot is a different drug than the crystals washed off of pot makes it into a different substance is just cruel. And the fact that cities are making big bank running (clogging) courts with pot users and running up the tab on them to $10,000 for possession of a small amount of pot is evil! There are even two laws on the books! They can choose to write then a traffic ticket or use the court system. They choose the court system. I say get rid of the two choices and bring it to one choice. And Texas needs to have a petition rule also. Not being allowed to submit a petition for a vote is Nazi politics!
I'll know I live in a truly free country when I can legally ride from one coast to the other with a pistol in one pocket and a bag of marijuana in the other.
meanwhile, somewhere else in texas: Teen Faces Life Sentence for Baking Pot Brownies http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/teen-faces-life-sentence-pot-brownies-23808314
As a person living with chronic pain from spinal arthritis and systemic lupus, an autoimmune disorder, I would love the option to try cannabinoids as an alternative or adjunct to opioid medications. Decriminalization is not good enough. Why should a person be fined for possession of a legitimately prescribed medicine for a documented condition? Why should we not welcome a relatively safe alternative to opiates which produce tolerance and require escalating doses? For that matter, there is no legitimate reason to consider possession or use of marijuana illegal while permitting alcohol and tobacco.
@Pat149 You hit the nail on the head


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£60k twin-turbo 431bhp drop-top gets turbo straight-six engine and an 'air collar'
The first of which entails that new top. The M4 Convertible gets a three-part metal roof some 2dB quieter than that of the outgoing M3 Convertible, one that can be raised or lowered at speeds of up to 8mph in 20 seconds.
Then there's BMW's take on the Mercedes 'air scarf', here labelled 'Air Collar'. It's a fan mounted between the head-rest and upper seat bolster to keep your neck warm when the roof's down.
The whole car is 60kg lighter than the outgoing, V8-engined BMW M3 Convertible, though still clocks the scale at a not-inconsiderable 1,750kg - the standard M4 Coupe weighs 1500kg - despite the liberal use of aluminium (the bonnet, front wings and some chassis components), along with carbon-fibre reinforced plastic for the propeller shaft and strut brace.
There's nothing liberal about the engine, mind. It's the same twin-turbocharged, 3.0-litre straight-six as the new M4 Coupe and M3 Saloon, producing the same 431bhp and 406lb ft of torque.
Obviously that weight penalty means there's a mild performance deficit: 0-62mph in this Convertible M4 takes 4.6 seconds with the standard-fit manual gearbox (4.3s for the Coupe), or 4.4s with the optional, £2,645 dual-clutch auto transmission (4.1s for the Coupe). Should you care about such things, BMW claims 32.5mpg and 203g/km of CO2 for this auto box. The manual gearbox fares a little worse.
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The health club chain finds social referrals via Twitter and Facebook more cost-effective than traditional member acquisition programs.
24 Hour Fitness, a California-based chain with more than 400 clubs and about 4 million members across the U.S., has turned to social media to help it win new members — and says it is reaping the financial results.
In January 2014, for example, the company says it registered more than 8,400 new direct referrals via online sharing, which generated revenues of more than $600,000.
A little more than a year ago, the fitness chain decided to start emphasizing social media referrals rather than relying on traditional recruiting methods, such as direct mail campaigns, giving financial incentives to existing members, and using in-store signage and brochures to alert members to the promotion.
"Traditional brick-and-mortar referral methods can be quite expensive," Joe Beruta, head of marketing and communications at 24 Hour Fitness, tells ClickZ. "We saw so much communication going on via social platforms and we wanted to capitalize on the natural, word-of-mouth referrals that happen there."
Although individual clubs had been encouraging online referrals, 24 Hour Fitness wanted to make social referrals a company-wide effort over numerous platforms. To do so, it installed social log-in tools from Gigya designed to ease user sharing over social media.
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Although there is no financial reward for the referring member, Beruta says the company emphasizes the motivating power of working out with a friend or family member. "This is also a way to help people succeed with their fitness goals," he says.
Beruta says the company has seen a "significant" rise in the volume of new membership referrals since the program was started. Although 24 Hour Fitness is not releasing complete data, a case study it conducted shows that it received 331,500 online referrals in the first three months of the campaign. Getting that many people to click on an ad and shop on the site would normally have cost the company some $3 million in digital display ads, according to Beruta.
The Gigya software also enables 24 Hour Fitness to track the number of referees who actually redeemed the offer, as well as who the top referring members are. It can then send new prospects special promotions or pricing information deemed relevant to them, and reward its top referrers with promotional gear such as a package including a workout bag, T-shirt, water bottle, and blanket.
Linking the referral data to its member database also lets it send out targeted offers such as group training sessions to current, potential, and, or past members. "We can be more relevant in our communications and not only drive engagement with current members but win back lapsed ones," Beruta says.
The platform also helps the company keep a pulse on which social networks are more important to its members. Whereas initially, Facebook and Twitter were the dominant sharing platforms, with around 77 percent of referral shares on Facebook and 22 percent over Twitter, Pinterest has moved up in importance over a period of nine months. Pinterest shares over the platform rose to around 11 percent in that time period, while Facebook shares dipped to around 59 percent.
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Me-TV is apparently the first subchannel to be regarded as a national network by Nielsen Media. They'll begin national TV audience measurement of Me-TV starting this spring. In just two years Me now reaches 87 percent of households nationwide through 141 affiliates, and 28 of those are in the top 30 markets, which is enough to meet Nielsen's policies for reporting it as a national TV network. So far ratings have exceeded corporate expectations which doesn't surprise me in the least. I like this channel and I watch it a lot.
This recognition will mean a lot since it will allow them to seek larger advertisers, hence, higher revenues. The best part of this channel IMO? There's no paid programming! No holy rollers, no infomercials, just classic TV 24 hours a day and some entertaining promos. Good luck Me-TV. Keep up the great work!
Broadcast TV has come a long way since converting to digital. Went through some rough spots but now ironed out for the most part and gaining ground. Cable and satellite? No thanks. Plain old broadcast and the internet serve me just fine. Keep the options coming.
Glad to hear that Me-TV got good recognition. Wouldn't that tell other TV networks something? Seemed to me that TV viewers simply enjoy programs that the whole family can watch and that's what Me-TV and Antenna-TV provide. I am sicken of programs that promote too much sex & violence.
I have both and love both. They keep me entertain 24/7. My only blame is that they bring too much entertainment and have kept me up until wee-wee hours in the morning, LOL.
A few of my favorites are: The Burns & Allen Show (hillariuos), Leave it to Beaver, Jack Benny Program, Bewitched, The Odd Couple, The Phil Silvers Show, Dick Van Dyke Show, MASH, Hogan's Heroes, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Perry Mason, Get Smart, Honey West, Make Room For Daddy.... Oh goodness, too many to list them all out :o)
You know, I have not seen many of these shows because of my age. So, it's like watching them for the first time.
With these channels and the basic locals, why should I pay more for cable or satellite networks? With my roof antenna, I get plenty of entertainment and global news.
I hope these channels never die and continue to be available via OTA.
They'll be around as long as they're profitable. I watch MeTV, AntennaTV, the PBS channels and a couple of the local duopoly channels. About the only things I watch on the major networks regularly are Big Bang Theory, Shark Tank and occasionally Supernatural. I made it through the election putting up with very few campaign ads! It was fantastic.
Cozi hasn't been picked up around here. Not sure what to expect from the Movies! channel when they start.
I enjoy the MeTV channel also. Digital is not the be-all, end-all for us though. Some days the signal quality is great, some days there is no signal at all.
I will unabashedly say we enjoy TV. We don't watch it all the time, but there is certainly more viewing in the winter when we have more down time. We have a big package with the movie channels on our satellite. Love it! We work hard, with long hours and this is one of the things we will spend money on for enjoyment. It is so nice to DVR movies and TV shows and watch them when we have time.


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