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Jeffrey A. Nirenstein is a founding partner and vice president of the law firm of Nirenstein, Horowitz & Associates, P.C. He received his bachelor of arts degree in government from Clark University and his law degree from New York Law School.
Mr. Nirenstein is licensed to practice before the courts of the State of Connecticut and the United States District Court. He is a member of the Connecticut and Hartford County Bar Associations, and the Estate and Probate, Elder Law, Business Law and Real Estate Sections of the Connecticut Bar Association. In addition, he is a member of the American Academy of Estate Planning Attorneys and the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and Planned Lifetime Assistance Network of Connecticut.
Mr. Nirenstein provides to his clients, trust and estate planning, trust and probate administration and elder and disability care planning services. Formerly an adjunct professor of business law at Central Connecticut State University and Teikyo Post University, he continues to educate members of the public as a contributing author to "A Will is Not Enough in Connecticut," and "Estate Planning for What Matters Most: Pass on Your Wisdom and Priceless Moments."
Mr. Nirenstein lives with his wife, Ellen, in West Hartford where they have been lifelong residents and active participants in community activities. They have two children, Joy and Ross, who are starting careers of their own.

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In the beginning of September we visited some islands in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Portugal, called the Azores. We were impressed by the natural beauty, volcanic terrain and abundance of thermal pools. We soaked up the sun all but one day and swam in the ocean, lagoons and thermal pools as … Continue reading Our Azores Adventure
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The adventure continues as we have moved to Santa Barbara, California. We decided to drive down and would highly recommend the scenic drive to anyone from the Pacific Northwest. Our stops included Crescent City to see the Redwood Forest, San Francisco to eat seafood on the wharf and explore the city, Monterey and Carmel for … Continue reading 1000 Miles South on Highway 101
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Tropical North Queensland January 24th: Where the Rainforest Meets the Reef As soon as we landed in North Queensland we instantly noticed the change of terrain and climate. We saw lush rainforest covered hills descend into the teal blue ocean littered with dark patches of reef and a small, yet robust city and port. Cairns was originally a sugar mill town overrun with … Continue reading Oz VII: The Great Barrier Reef & Daintree Rainforest
Oz VI: House Sittings in Sydney
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Oz V: A week in Brisbane
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Oz IV: Roadtrip Melbourne to Sydney
Coastal road trip to Sydney The morning of December 15th we packed our red Hyundai in Melbourne and headed towards our first stop, Metung. It was nice to be out of the city among countryside fields and small towns. When we arrived in Metung we found a walking path along the waterfront where we watched … Continue reading Oz IV: Roadtrip Melbourne to Sydney
Oz III: Melbourne: Portland's Sister City
Day 1: Meet Melbourne (aka. SE Portland) We flew from Tasmania on December 12th into Melbourne (pronounced 'mell-ben'), a city we discovered that is similar to Portland. We stayed at an Airbnb apartment in the popular Fitzroy/Collingwood neighborhood that, to us, mirrored SE Portland -- hipsters rocking the 'old is the new cool' style, funky street art, small local … Continue reading Oz III: Melbourne: Portland's Sister City


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Fabrication is the process of cutting, drilling or otherwise modifying structural timbers for the purpose of construction. This is not to be confused with manufacturing (the actual bonding together of laminations). For fabrication services, see our list of certified glulam manufacturers (qualified licensees).
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Why muscle loss ends up as fat gain
We see many clients at Bodyscan who lose a lot of fat but who also lose a great deal of muscle too.
Sometimes so much that their body fat percentage actually goes up.
Look at the Bodyscan reports of these two clients who both did 'biggest loser'-style diets with severely restricted calories: Nikhil, whose results are above, lost 4.7kg of muscle to his 4.9kg of fat, while Robert lost a whopping 10.8kg of muscle for 25.2kg of fat. Those big muscle losses do not bode well for keeping the fat off.
Indeed, loss of muscle is the reason why so many people who shed a lot of weight (see this article about DEXA and Oprah Winfrey) yo-yo back up again, and it highlights the importance of retaining your muscle mass when you embark on a fat loss regime.
Many people assume that when in a calorie deficit your body will turn first to its fat stores to make up the gap. But your body's survival instinct takes an opposite view. Carrying muscle mass is calorie inefficient; big muscles burn a lot of calories even at rest. That's why gaining muscle mass takes a lot of time, effort, heavy weights and loads of food.
Fat, on the other hand, is a great store of energy and helped ensure our ancestors' survival when food was sparse and before there was convenience food within arm's reach.
The need to survive and the expensive energy requirement of lean body mass is why your body quickly depletes your muscles - rather than your fat - when you reduce your calorie intake. The double whammy is that with lower muscle mass your body then burns fewer calories when at rest, so if you break your diet and simply go back to what you were eating before there's now a bigger gap than there used to be between the calories you're taking in and the calories you're burning. Result - ballooning fat.
The statistics vary but a quick flick through a number of articles puts the number of people returning to their starting weight or above after a diet anywhere between two-thirds and 97%.
To retain your calorie-burning muscle, therefore, it's a very good idea to add weight training to your programme. Unlike our big muscle-losers above, these two Bodyscan clients made resistance work a core part of their programmes: You can see from their Bodyscan reports that Katy reversed a fat gain/muscle loss to put on 3.2kg of muscle while losing 2.7kg of fat, and Rupert lost an incredible 14.3kg of fat while still building 2.2kg of muscle. The results speak for themselves.
In my experience as a personal trainer, success is wholly dependent on consistency. There is no point in any diet or exercise programme if you're not going to stick to it, which is another reason why slashing calories and manic fitness schedules don't work. In a couple of weeks you'll be fed up and succumb to temptation. It's better to plan for slower, more gradual fat loss by restricting calories just 10% or 20% below maintenance levels and an achievable exercise and gym schedule. (Note: if you're gaining fat, you're already eating above your maintenance calories. Check out our body composition calculator for an idea of your calorie requirement.)
If your programme has derailed, it's probably time to get a new Bodyscan baseline. We'll give you achievable targets and then measure your progress in 3-4 months' time.
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This month (September 2016) we released the latest updated Bodyscan percentile tables, with data from over 2000 client scans - 1400 men and 650 women.
The new tables now includes regional fat mass, so you can see how typical your fat distribution is. You've been able to assess your muscle distribution with the previous tables, as described in this blog post about skipping leg day.
A 'typical' fat distribution would expect to see fat mass for arms, legs and trunk in a straight horizontal line across the last three columns of the Regional Fat Percentiles table. The table is shown below.
The woman whose scan image appears at the top of this post might look to be carrying all the fat in her legs and trunk but when we plot her fat mass in the tables (shown in the report excerpt next to the image to be about 1.8kg in the arms, 10kg in the trunk and 5.9kg in the legs), we see that she actually carries proportionately most in the arms and least in the trunk.
Of course, you can't spot-lose fat, but a change in the shape or angle of your plotted line through arms, trunk and leg fat mass will clearly show you how and where fat is shifting.
The data has changed little since March but the big sample size now gives us a very solid, reliable base against which to compare your individual results.
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The IV Link Staff Website is the information portal for South Island IV Link staff who currently require Intravenous Therapy as an endorsement for staff.
IV Link staff are supported by the Regional IV Advisory Group, which includes representatives from many health care providers around the South Island.
The aim of this website is to
Provide an interface for allied healthcare providers in the South Island region who currently certify intravenous therapy as an endorsement for staff, to work more closely together, sharing resources and ideas
Assist the Health Care Providers to work together to standardise intravenous therapy processes and practices
The site is maintained by the Regional IV Advisory Group whose aim is;
"To improve patient safety by providing leadership on intravenous therapy".
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You can familiarise yourself with the tool, policies, procedures and checking procedure before attempting an audit.
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It's a concept grasped by anyone who has stood on top of a mountain and understood what it means to be filled with wonder and inspired by the wild. It's a perspective that comes from getting outside, where towering peaks and real air and fresh snow have a way of stripping off the stuff that gets in the way of what's important. It's a vantage point from which our number one rankings, legendary terrain, reliably deep snow, and world record-breaking gondola take a back seat to how it actually feels to be here.
And that feeling comes from our slope-side mountain town with an undisputed vibe. From our outdoor adventures that range from just-enough to over-the-top. From our world-famous apres, five-star dining, spas, shopping, and legendary nightlife. And from of course being the largest, #1 ranked resort in North America. But the big picture isn't about those things. It's about the perspective you gain from having it all.
Resorts of the Canadian Rockies
Fernie Alpine Resort, Kicking Horse Mountain Resort, Kimberley Alpine Resort, Nakiska Ski Area, Mont-Sainte-Anne and Stoneham Mountain Resort make up the Resorts of the Canadian Rockies portfolio.
Perhaps best known among the RCR family are Kicking Horse and Fernie, located in the southeast corner of British Columbia on the legendary "Powder Highway". Both Kicking Horse and Fernie are consistently ranked among the top 10 Canadian resorts as ultimate playgrounds that cater to powder hounds with their abundant annual snowfalls and big mountain skiing. Kicking Horse, also known as "The Champagne Powder Capital of Canada", is situated just outside the charming, historic logging town of Golden, BC, and boasts a diverse mix of extreme terrain with one of the longest vertical drops – 4,133 feet – in North America. A 2018 Freeride World Tour venue, Kicking Horse is known for its four large alpine bowls, 85 long steep chutes and short lift lines. Fernie features over 2,500 acres of skiable terrain and 3,550 vertical feet, including 142 trails and five alpine bowls. With a reputation for the best powder in the Rockies, Fernie is a true winter playground for skiers and riders of all levels. Want to ski RCR resorts? The Epic Pass, Epic 4-Day, Epic 5-Day, Epic 6-Day and Epic 7-Day pass holders will receive access to ski or snowboard with no blackout dates at these resorts. Head to each pass' page to learn access details.


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Huawei p8max review (video).
Huawei P8max Review
It is sure that the matter about the smart phone screen size is pretty challenging and dilemmatic for many people. People surely love to get much better experience when using their phone by having the smart phone with much bigger screen size. Nevertheless, we can make sure that there are some people who think that smart phone with bigger screen size are not practical to bring along. Many companies try to offer the smart phone with larger size but it looks too big. This can be what people will think when they see Huawei p8max user. The very first thing which will come in people's mind is about the screen size which is very big for smart phone. However, before they decide to look for other smart phones with smaller screen size in the market, they should check further about Huawei p8max user manual and review to get complete review of this smart phone.
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The smart phone with large size like this phone from Huawei should be phablet if it has the concept of phablet but it cannot be found a lot in this phone concept. It still remains the phone concept after all without any indication that it can be called a phablet or tablet. This smart phone comes with 6.8 inches display size which can represent the large size of the smart phone. The screen display has full HD resolution. The chipset of this huge smart phone is octa core processor from Huawei which is combined with 3GB of RAM. People are able to choose the model with 32GB storage version offered in champagne or black color and 64GB storage version offered in grey or gold color. With its large screen size, people will find the price which is very affordable surprisingly.
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Hey friends!
I have wonderful news about my latest release SISTERLY! It was awarded as a finalist in the American Fiction Awards in the psychological thriller category!https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074S63RLJ
I can't express how special this is for me. You see, before my Momma passed away in February she was in the hospital. I would go see her during the day and we would eat lunch together. She was giving the nurses a run for their money and it was pure joy the spunk she still had in her. When I think about it, I can't help but smile. That being said, during those lunches we talked a lot about me, still writing, and at the time my oldest sister had read Sisterly to her. Of course Momma would critic it back to me. One of those lunches Momma said "You are going to do something with your writings, just keep at it." Momma was my biggest fan, that is for sure. That is why I can't help but to think Momma made this award happen for me. I was feeling pretty defeated that day about my writings but Momma always encouraged me. It's special to have that encouragement and makes me smile, just as Momma did when she believed in me more than I did in myself.
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Back to school, back to reality: a mom's honest & hilarious back-to-school guide
Got the school supply list yesterday and my inner-80s child was disappointed to see that there is no Trapper Keeper required.
The list is an unwelcome wake-up call that summer is indeed over, and that now I have to start bathing the girls instead of relying on "they swam today." Better find a shampoo to get the chlorine green out of their hair too, lest they go to school looking like offspring of the Incredible Hulk.
The bug spray and pool noodle aisle at Target has transformed into the school supply section, with its waxy crayon smells and complete lack of Big Chief tablets (seriously, when did those go away?). Those swimsuits and dive sticks have been demoted to end-cap clearance items, a reminder that my Pinterest-y mom aspirations will go unfulfilled this summer—as not only did we not check off everything on our summer bucket list, but we actually failed to even make a summer bucket list.
Sure, we did plenty, but does any of it count if I can't artfully mark it off on a vintage distressed chalkboard? (Hint: It does.)
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I was on the ball a little this year though. I even ordered my oldest daughter Lydia's backpack way back in JULY, though truth be told, that was only because Pottery Barn sent me 77 catalogs full of reminders and canopy beds that cost more than my first car. I even bit my tongue when my daughter chose glittery purple zebra print instead of cute pastel unicorns. (I'm pretty sure my real baby was switched with RuPaul's at the hospital.)
My Lydia is type-A, an organizer of the highest order, and she has set that flashy backpack stiffly there beside her supplies—all 24 pencils counted out and pre-sharpened, their shiny black "#2s" all facing up, pink ends perfectly aligned side by side, smelling all rubber-eraser-y (they should make that for a Scentsy diffuser). A teensy bottle of hand sanitizer (or "hanitizer" as my youngest calls it) is tucked behind the bright stripes in the bag's front pocket, along with a pair of headphones (carefully Sharpied with her name) and a new water bottle (still fresh and un-mildewed, just like we like it). A stack of plastic folders sits next to the markers and crayons, and there is also a bottle of glue, with its pointy orange cap still free of that funky crusted build-up.
That's how we start every school year, though—free of funk, all sharp and shiny and new. Routines are in place, goals are set, and schedules are dry-erase markered on the fridge.
But we gradually settle in and start to hit snooze.
And so, I've come to accept a few truths about the coming school year that poor Lydia, my sweet meticulous planner, will soon also have to accept as well. Lydia, know this:
We will very likely (and very quickly) be giving up on the days-of-the-week underwear policy. Monday's blue dogs will disgracefully end up being worn to school on Wednesday.
We will forget to check the calendar, and in gym class you'll curse the day you were born to me, because you'll be wearing sandals (seriously cute leather wedges, but whatev) instead of "RUBBER-SOLED tennis shoes, mom!!"
Your fruit and protein-packed organic yogurt breakfast will be replaced with Pop-Tarts wrapped in a Halloween napkin (and it will be eaten in the back of the car, which, let's face it, doubles as a dining room table in our family).
As soon as class lists come out, I'll Facebook stalk your teacher. Yes, I'm aware I can't tell how well she'll teach you subject-verb agreement by her Good Times at the Lake 2014 photo album, but I never once claimed to be rational.
And while we're on the subject of teachers, it should be noted that I can't trust a teacher who sends home notes with misplaced apostrophes or your/you're issues. Even if she never throws away handmade cards and wears the teacher-y sweaters with little crocheted schoolhouses and wood pencils for buttons.
You're not going to win "top seller" of trash bags, wrapping paper, or popcorn tubs. Of course we will financially support the school, and we will honor the oath we took outside the hospital nursery to always purchase the obligatory two fundraising items. But no, sweetheart, we will not be guilting any co-workers into overpriced peanut brittle tins, no matter how awesome the hype guy made the top-prize cotton candy maker sound during the fundraising kick-off assembly.
We will perform random lice inspections like your head is a bunk in prison and a nit is a homemade shank. If I see you scratch your head, I will go full-on Orange is the New Black. (As a kid I looked just like Carol Anne from Poltergeist, with long locks that were like a luxury condo to head lice, and it skeeves me out and makes me itch just thinking about it.)
There's a good chance we'll forget some kind of spirit day. You'll glide unwittingly to your faux-wood desk only to be horrified by the realization that you have on plain, white cotton ankle socks and not bright-neon-glittery-tie-dyed-monkey-covered-overpriced-Justice knee socks for crazy sock day! Better just keep zany shirts, hats and socks in the ol' zebra backpack for such spirit week-related emergencies.
You can pretty much expect that I'll drive to work with Taylor Swift's "Never Grow Up" on repeat the whole way that first day. My playlist, my business.
And I'm going to cry. Try not to be weirded out. It's just nostalgia and how small you seem in this sea of kids I don't know. That, and the fact that it was seriously like last Tuesday that I was staring at a stick that said a thousand things with just two pink lines.
You held my hand last week, walking in to back-to-school night, and the fact that your grip has gotten softer was not lost on me. But still you grasped it, and I felt like I wanted to pull a Rose from Titanic—"I'll never let go, Lyd. I'll never let go." But with less icy death.
Just one more hard family truth you should know, my girl: we are raising you the best way we know how, doing what fits our family, our beliefs, our humor, our interests, our passions. Other families will do it differently, more consistently, and sometimes better. Other kids will have fewer rules and cooler parents. The truth is, there are a gazillion ways we could guide you, and no matter which way we choose, we will always worry and wonder if we're doing it right.
But even if we're not, from now until forever you're stuck with us—your goofy, lucky, forgetful, loving, second-guessing, making-it-up-as-we-go parents.
Hallmark writer Amy Trowbridge-Yates and her wild and wonderful family
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Fred Galloway's research interests are higher education policy, the economics of education, and econometrics. He teaches graduate courses in several related areas: quantitative research methods; advanced quantitative research methods; the policymaking process; higher education policy, the economics of education, evaluation theory and practice; survey research methods; and the dissertation seminar. In addition to his work as a faculty member, Dr. Galloway has also served as Associate Dean and Director of Strategic Programs in the School of Leadership and Education Sciences. Before joining the university faculty full time in 1999, Dr. Galloway taught part-time in the School of Business at USD beginning in the mid-late 1980s. His experience includes, among other things, direction of a federal policy analysis at the American Council on Education in Washington, D.C., Project Director for the National Postsecondary Direct Loan Evaluation at Macro International, and testifier before the US House of Representatives.
Scholarly Work
Select Recent Publications:
Galloway, F. (In press). The policy history of student loans in the United States. In P. Quirk and W. Cunion (Eds.), Governing America: Major policies and decisions of federal, state, and local government. Facts on File Publishing.
Galloway, F. (In press). The importance of business and economic models in understanding the historical provision of student aid. In J. Knapp and D. Siegal (Eds.), The Business of Higher Education. Praegar Publishing.
Galloway, F., and Shea, M. (In press). Does your organization welcome participants with disabilities?: A new assessment tool. Afterschool Matters.
Jenkins, J., and Galloway, F. (2009). The adjustment problems faced by international students and overseas Chinese students studying in Taiwan universities: A comparison of student and faculty/staff perceptions. Asia Pacific Education Review, 10(2).
Kemerer, F., Galloway, F., and Hubbard, L. (2009). San Diego Unified School District Profile Study. University of San Diego: Center for Educational Policy and Law.


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As anyone who has worked in probability knows, a random variable can sometimes behave in rather "unreasonable" ways. It may be never close to its expectation. It might exceed its expectation almost always, or almost never. It might have finite $1$st, $2$nd, and $3$rd moments, but an infinite $4$th moment. All of this poor behaviour can cause a lot of trouble — wouldn't it be nice to have a class of "reasonable" random variables?
A very simple condition on a random variable that guarantees some good behaviour is that its $4$th moment is not too large compared to its $2$nd moment.
Definition 1 For a real number $B \geq 1$, we say that the real random variable $\boldsymbol{X}$ is $B$-reasonable if $\mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{X}^4] \leq B\mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{X}^2]^2$. (Equivalently, if $\|\boldsymbol{X}\|_4 \leq B^{1/4} \|\boldsymbol{X}\|_2$.)
The smaller $B$ is, the more "reasonable" $\boldsymbol{X}$ is. This definition is scale-invariant (i.e., $c \boldsymbol{X}$ is $B$-reasonable if and only if $\boldsymbol{X}$ is, for $c \neq 0$) but not translation-invariant ($c + \boldsymbol{X}$ and $\boldsymbol{X}$ may not be equally reasonable). The latter fact can sometimes be awkward, a point we'll address further in Section 3. Indeed, we'll later encounter a few alternative conditions that also capture "reasonableness". For example, in Chapter 12 we'll consider the analogous $3$rd moment condition, $\mathop{\bf E}[|\boldsymbol{X}|^3] \leq \beta \mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{X}^2]^{3/2}$. Strictly speaking, the $4$th moment condition is stronger: if $\boldsymbol{X}$ is $B$-reasonable then \[ \mathop{\bf E}[|\boldsymbol{X}|^3] = \mathop{\bf E}[|\boldsymbol{X}| \cdot \boldsymbol{X}^2] \leq \sqrt{\mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{X}^2]}\sqrt{\mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{X}^4]} \leq \sqrt{B}\mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{X}^2]^{3/2}; \] on the other hand, there exist random variables with finite $3$rd moment and infinite $4$th moment. However such unusual random variables almost never arise for us, and morally speaking the $4$th and $3$rd moment conditions are about equally good proxies for reasonableness.
Examples 2 If ${\boldsymbol{x}} \sim \{-1,1\}$ is uniformly random then ${\boldsymbol{x}}$ is $1$-reasonable. If $\boldsymbol{g} \sim \mathrm{N}(0,1)$ is a standard Gaussian then $\mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{g}^4] = 3$, so $\boldsymbol{g}$ is $3$-reasonable. If $\boldsymbol{u} \sim [-1,1]$ is uniform then you can calculate that it is $\frac95$-reasonable. In all of these examples $B$ is a "small" constant, and we think of these random variables simply as "reasonable". An example of an "unreasonable" random variable would be highly biased Bernoulli random variable; say, $\mathop{\bf Pr}[\boldsymbol{y} = 1] = 2^{-n}$, $\mathop{\bf Pr}[\boldsymbol{y} = 0] = 1-2^{-n}$, where $n$ is large. This $\boldsymbol{y}$ is not $B$-reasonable unless $B \geq 2^n$.
Let's give a few illustrations of why reasonable random variables are nice to work with. First, they have slightly better tail bounds than what you would get out of the Chebyshev inequality:
Proposition 3 Let $\boldsymbol{X} \not \equiv 0$ be $B$-reasonable. Then $\mathop{\bf Pr}[|\boldsymbol{X}| \geq t \|\boldsymbol{X}\|_2] \leq B/t^4$ for all $t > 0$.
Proof: This is immediate from Markov's inequality: \[ \mathop{\bf Pr}[|\boldsymbol{X}| \geq t\|\boldsymbol{X}\|_2] = \mathop{\bf Pr}[\boldsymbol{X}^4 \geq t^4\|\boldsymbol{X}\|_2^4] \leq \frac{\mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{X}^4]}{t^4 \mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{X}^2]^2} \leq \frac{B}{t^4}. \qquad \Box \]
More interestingly, they also satisfy anticoncentration bounds; e.g., you can upper-bound the probability that they are near $0$.
Proposition 4 Let $\boldsymbol{X} \not \equiv 0$ be $B$-reasonable. Then $\mathop{\bf Pr}[|\boldsymbol{X}| > t \|\boldsymbol{X}\|_2] \geq (1-t^2)^2/B$ for all $t \in [0,1]$.
Proof: Applying the Paley–Zygmund inequality (also called the "second moment method") to $\boldsymbol{X}^2$, we get \[ \mathop{\bf Pr}[|\boldsymbol{X}| \geq t \|\boldsymbol{X}\|_2] = \mathop{\bf Pr}[\boldsymbol{X}^2 \geq t^2 \mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{X}^2]] \geq (1-t^2)^2\frac{\mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{X}^2]^2}{\mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{X}^4]} \geq \frac{(1-t^2)^2}{B}. \qquad \Box \]
For a generalization of this proposition, see the exercises.
For a discrete random variable $\boldsymbol{X}$, a simple condition which guarantees reasonableness is that $\boldsymbol{X}$ takes on each of its values with nonnegligible probability:
Proposition 5 Let $\boldsymbol{X}$ be a discrete random variable with probability mass function $\pi$. Write \[ \lambda = \min(\pi) = \min_{x \in \mathrm{range}(\boldsymbol{X})}\{\mathop{\bf Pr}[\boldsymbol{X} = x]\}. \] Then $\boldsymbol{X}$ is $(1/\lambda)$-reasonable.
Proof: Let $M = \|\boldsymbol{X}\|_\infty$. Since $\mathop{\bf Pr}[|\boldsymbol{X}| = M] \geq \lambda$ we get \[ \mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{X}^2] \geq \lambda M^2 \quad\Rightarrow\quad M^2 \leq \mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{X}^2]/\lambda. \] On the other hand, \[ \mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{X}^4] = \mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{X}^2 \cdot \boldsymbol{X}^2] \leq M^2 \cdot \mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{X}^2], \] and thus $\mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{X}^4] \leq (1/\lambda)\mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{X}^2]^2$ as required. $\Box$
The converse to Proposition 5 is certainly not true. For example, if $\boldsymbol{X} = \frac{1}{\sqrt{n}} {\boldsymbol{x}}_1 + \cdots + \frac{1}{\sqrt{n}} {\boldsymbol{x}}_n$ where ${\boldsymbol{x}} \sim \{-1,1\}^n$, then $\boldsymbol{X}$ is very close to a standard Gaussian random variable (for $n$ large) and is, unsurprisingly, $3$-reasonable. On the other hand, the "$\lambda$" for this $\boldsymbol{X}$ is tiny, $2^{-n}$.
This discussion raises the issue of how you might try to construct an unreasonable random variable out of independent uniform $\pm 1$ bits. By Proposition 5, at the very least you must use a lot of them. Furthermore, it also seems that they must be combined in a high-degree way. For example, to construct the unreasonable random variable $\boldsymbol{y}$ from Examples 2 requires degree $n$: $\boldsymbol{y} = (1+{\boldsymbol{x}}_1)(1+{\boldsymbol{x}}_2)\cdots(1+{\boldsymbol{x}}_n)/2^n$.
Indeed, the idea that high degree is required for unreasonableness is correct, as the following crucial result shows:
The Bonami Lemma For each $k$, if $f : \{-1,1\}^n \to {\mathbb R}$ has degree at most $k$ and ${\boldsymbol{x}}_1, \dots, {\boldsymbol{x}}_n$ are independent, uniformly random $\pm 1$ bits, then the random variable $f({\boldsymbol{x}})$ is $9^k$-reasonable. I.e., \[ \mathop{\bf E}[f^4] \leq 9^k \mathop{\bf E}[f^2]^2 \quad\Leftrightarrow\quad \|f\|_4 \leq \sqrt{3}^k \|f\|_2. \]
In other words, low-degree polynomials of independent uniform $\pm 1$ bits are reasonable. As we will explain later, the Bonami Lemma is a special case of more general results in the theory of "hypercontractivity". However, many key theorems using hypercontractivity — e.g., the KKL Theorem, the Invariance Principle — really only need the simple Bonami Lemma. (We should also note that the name "Bonami Lemma" is not standard; however, the result was first proved by Bonami and it's often used as a lemma, so the name fits. See the discussion at the end of this chapter.)
One pleasant thing about the Bonami Lemma is that once you decide to prove it by induction on $n$, the proof practically writes itself. The only "non-automatic" step is an application of Cauchy–Schwarz.
Proof of the Bonami Lemma: We assume $k \geq 1$ as otherwise $f$ must be constant and the claim is trivial. The proof is by induction on $n$. Again, if $n = 0$ then $f$ must be constant and the claim is trivial. For $n \geq 1$ we can use the decomposition $f(x) = x_n \mathrm{D}_n f(x) + \mathrm{E}_n f(x)$ (Proposition 2.23), where $\deg(\mathrm{D}_n f) \leq k-1$, $\deg(\mathrm{E}_n f) \leq k$, and the polynomials $\mathrm{D}_n f(x)$ and $\mathrm{E}_n f(x)$ don't depend on $x_n$. For brevity we write $\boldsymbol{f} = f({\boldsymbol{x}})$, $\boldsymbol{d} = \mathrm{D}_nf({\boldsymbol{x}})$, and $\boldsymbol{e} = \mathrm{E}_n f({\boldsymbol{x}})$. Now \begin{align*} \mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{f}^4] &= \mathop{\bf E}[({\boldsymbol{x}}_n \boldsymbol{d} + \boldsymbol{e})^4] \\ &= \mathop{\bf E}[{\boldsymbol{x}}_n^4 \boldsymbol{d}^4] + 4 \mathop{\bf E}[{\boldsymbol{x}}_n^3 \boldsymbol{d}^3 \boldsymbol{e}] + 6 \mathop{\bf E}[{\boldsymbol{x}}_n^2 \boldsymbol{d}^2 \boldsymbol{e}^2] + 4 \mathop{\bf E}[{\boldsymbol{x}}_n \boldsymbol{d} \boldsymbol{e}^3] + \mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{e}^4] \\ &= \mathop{\bf E}[{\boldsymbol{x}}_n^4] \mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{d}^4] + 4 \mathop{\bf E}[{\boldsymbol{x}}_n^3] \mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{d}^3 \boldsymbol{e}] + 6 \mathop{\bf E}[{\boldsymbol{x}}_n^2] \mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{d}^2 \boldsymbol{e}^2] + 4 \mathop{\bf E}[{\boldsymbol{x}}_n]\mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{d} \boldsymbol{e}^3] + \mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{e}^4]. \end{align*} In the last step we used the fact that ${\boldsymbol{x}}_n$ is independent of $\boldsymbol{d}$ and $\boldsymbol{e}$, since $\mathrm{D}_nf$ and $\mathrm{E}_n f$ do not depend on $x_n$. We now use $\mathop{\bf E}[{\boldsymbol{x}}_n] = \mathop{\bf E}[{\boldsymbol{x}}_n^3] = 0$ and $\mathop{\bf E}[{\boldsymbol{x}}_n^2] = \mathop{\bf E}[{\boldsymbol{x}}_n^4] = 1$ to deduce \begin{equation} \label{eqn:bonami-induct} \mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{f}^4] = \mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{d}^4] + 6 \mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{d}^2 \boldsymbol{e}^2] + \mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{e}^4]. \end{equation} A similar (and simpler) sequence of steps shows that \begin{equation} \label{eqn:bonami-last} \mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{f}^2] = \mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{d}^2] + \mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{e}^2]. \end{equation} To upper-bound \eqref{eqn:bonami-induct}, recall that $\boldsymbol{d} = \mathrm{D}_nf({\boldsymbol{x}})$ where $\mathrm{D}_n f$ is a multilinear polynomial of degree at most $k-1$ depending on $n-1$ variables. Thus we can apply the induction hypothesis to deduce $\mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{d}^4] \leq 9^{k-1} \mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{d}^2]^2$. Similarly, $\mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{e}^4] \leq 9^{k} \mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{e}^2]^2$ since $\deg(\mathrm{E}_nf) \leq k$. To bound $\mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{d}^2 \boldsymbol{e}^2]$ we apply Cauchy–Schwarz, getting $\sqrt{\mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{d}^4]}\sqrt{\mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{e}^4]}$ and letting us use induction again. Thus we have \begin{align*} \mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{f}^4] &\leq 9^{k-1} \mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{d}^2]^2 + 6 \sqrt{9^{k-1}\mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{d}^2]^2} \sqrt{9^{k}\mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{e}^2]^2} + 9^{k} \mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{e}^2]^2 \\ &\leq 9^k \Bigl(\mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{d}^2]^2 + 2 \mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{d}^2]\mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{e}^2] + \mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{e}^2]^2\Bigr) = 9^k \Bigl(\mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{d}^2] + \mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{e}^2]\Bigr)^2, \end{align*} where we used $9^{k-1} \mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{d}^2]^2 \leq 9^k \mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{d}^2]^2$. In light of \eqref{eqn:bonami-last}, this completes the proof. $\Box$
Some aspects of the sharpness of the Bonami Lemma are explored in the exercises. Here we make one more observation. At the end of the proof we used the wasteful-looking inequality $9^{k-1} \mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{d}^2]^2 \leq 9^k \mathop{\bf E}[\boldsymbol{d}^2]^2$. Tracing back through the proof, it's easy to see that it would still be valid even if we just had $\mathop{\bf E}[{\boldsymbol{x}}_i^4] \leq 9$ rather than $\mathop{\bf E}[{\boldsymbol{x}}_i^4] = 1$. For example, the Bonami Lemma holds not just if the ${\boldsymbol{x}}_i$'s are random bits, but if they are standard Gaussians, or are uniform on $[-1,1]$, or there are some of each. We leave the following as an exercise.
Corollary 6 Let ${\boldsymbol{x}}_1, \dots, {\boldsymbol{x}}_n$ be independent, not necessarily identically distributed, random variables satisfying $\mathop{\bf E}[{\boldsymbol{x}}_i] = \mathop{\bf E}[{\boldsymbol{x}}_i^3] = 0$. (This holds if, e.g., each $-{\boldsymbol{x}}_i$ has the same distribution as ${\boldsymbol{x}}_i$.) Assume also that each ${\boldsymbol{x}}_i$ is $B$-reasonable. Let $\boldsymbol{f} = F({\boldsymbol{x}}_1, \dots, {\boldsymbol{x}}_n)$, where $F$ is a multilinear polynomial of degree at most $k$. Then $\boldsymbol{f}$ is $\max(B,9)^k$-reasonable.
As a first application of the Bonami Lemma, let us combine it with Proposition 4 to show that a low-degree function is not too concentrated around its mean:
Theorem 7 Let $f : \{-1,1\}^n \to {\mathbb R}$ be a nonconstant function of degree at most $k$; write $\mu = \mathop{\bf E}[f]$ and $\sigma = \sqrt{\mathop{\bf Var}[f]}$. Then \[ \mathop{\bf Pr}_{{\boldsymbol{x}} \sim \{-1,1\}}[|f({\boldsymbol{x}}) - \mu| > \tfrac{1}{2} \sigma] \geq \tfrac{1}{16} 9^{1-k}. \]
Proof: Let $g = \frac{1}{\sigma}(f – \mu)$, a function of degree at most $k$ satisfying $\|g\|_2 = 1$. By the Bonami Lemma, $g$ is $9^k$-reasonable. The result now follows by applying Proposition 4 to $g$ with $t = \tfrac{1}{2}$. $\Box$
Using this theorem, we can give a short proof of the FKN Theorem from Chapter 2.5: if $f : \{-1,1\}^n \to \{-1,1\}$ has $\mathbf{W}^{1}[f] = 1-\delta$ then $f$ is $O(\delta)$-close to $\pm \chi_i$ for some $i \in [n]$.
Proof of the FKN Theorem: Write $\ell = f^{=1}$, so $\mathop{\bf E}[\ell^2] = 1-\delta$ by assumption. We may assume without loss of generality that $\delta \leq \frac{1}{1600}$. The goal of the proof is to show that $\mathop{\bf Var}[\ell^2]$ is small; specifically we'll show that $\mathop{\bf Var}[\ell^2] \leq 6400\delta$. This will complete the proof because \[ \tfrac{1}{2}\mathop{\bf Var}[\ell^2] = \sum_{i \neq j} \widehat{f}(i)^2\widehat{f}(j)^2 = \Bigl(\mathop{{\textstyle \sum}}_{i=1}^n \widehat{f}(i)^2\Bigr)^2 – \mathop{{\textstyle \sum}}_{i=1}^n \widehat{f}(i)^4 = (1-\delta)^2 – \mathop{{\textstyle \sum}}_{i=1}^n \widehat{f}(i)^4 \geq (1-2\delta) – \mathop{{\textstyle \sum}}_{i=1}^n \widehat{f}(i)^4 \] (the first equality above is an exercise) and hence $\mathop{\bf Var}[\ell^2] \leq 6400\delta$ implies \[ 1 - 3202\delta \leq \mathop{{\textstyle \sum}}_{i=1}^n \widehat{f}(i)^4 \leq \max_i\{\widehat{f}(i)^2\} \mathop{{\textstyle \sum}}_{i=1}^n \widehat{f}(i)^2 \leq \max_i\{\widehat{f}(i)^2\} \leq \max_i\{|\widehat{f}(i)|\}, \] as required.
To bound $\mathop{\bf Var}[\ell^2]$ we first apply Theorem 7 to the degree-$2$ function $\ell^2$; this yields \[ \mathop{\bf Pr}\Bigl[\bigl|\ell^2 - (1-\delta)\bigr| \geq \tfrac{1}{2} \sqrt{\mathop{\bf Var}[\ell^2]}\Bigr] \geq \tfrac{1}{16} 9^{1-2} = \tfrac{1}{144}. \] Now suppose by way of contradiction that $\mathop{\bf Var}[\ell^2] > 6400\delta$; then the above implies \begin{equation} \label{eqn:fkn1} \tfrac{1}{144} \leq \mathop{\bf Pr}\Bigl[\bigl|\ell^2 - (1-\delta)\bigr| > 40\sqrt{\delta}\Bigr] \leq \mathop{\bf Pr}\Bigl[\bigl|\ell^2 - 1\bigr| > 39\sqrt{\delta}\Bigr]. \end{equation} This says that $|\ell|$ is frequently far from $1$. Since $|f| = 1$ always, we can deduce that $|f – \ell|^2$ is frequently large. More precisely, a short calculation (exercise) shows that $(f-\ell)^2 \geq 169\delta$ whenever $|\ell^2 – 1| > 39\sqrt{\delta}$. But now \eqref{eqn:fkn1} implies $\mathop{\bf E}[(f-\ell)^2] \geq \frac{1}{144} \cdot 169 \delta > \delta$, a contradiction since $\mathop{\bf E}[(f-\ell)^2] = 1- \mathbf{W}^{1}[f] = \delta$ by assumption. $\Box$


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The Cleveland Indians will try to continue climbing the ladder in the American League wild-card race when they meet the visiting Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday night in the second game of their three-game series.
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Vargas started 14 games against the Indians from 2014-17, when he played in the same division with the Kansas City Royals. He went 7-3 in that span, throwing one of his eight career shutouts against the Indians on June 2, 2017.
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- Season breasts with a mixture of 1/4 tsp thyme, salt and pepper.
- Heat skillet over med heat.
- Add 1 Tbs of Virgin Olive's Traditional Olive Oil and 1 Tbs butter; saute onions until soft or caramelized (sauté mushrooms as desired). You may need to turn the heat down so the onions do not brown too quickly.
- Add the Virgin Olive's Raspberry or Cherry Balsamic Vinegar and 1/4 tsp of thyme, salt and pepper.
- Raise heat and reduce until sightly thickened.
- Saute Chicken breasts in equal amounts of 1 tbsp olive oil and 2 tbsp butter until brown about 4 to 5 minutes per side.
- Divide onions on plates, slice breasts and fan over onions. Sprinkle a little parsley over the chicken if you like.
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Vinified is Singapore's pre-eminent supplier of American wines. Our mission is to connect you with selections found on the wine lists of America's best restaurants. These wines are exceptionally well-made, produced in small-lots and are from some of America's most notable and progressive artisanal wineries. With our headquarters in America and a full cold-chain logistic in Singapore, we operate a winery-to-consumer business model, ensuring that you get these remarkable wines direct from the winery to your glass.
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While $300 is a new high for Nintendo, the price is reasonable from a consumer's standpoint, with Microsoft initially launching their Xbox 360 at a price point of no less than $300 and Sony's PlayStation 3 launching around $500. Taking into account that the original Wii's initial price was $250, the jump isn't necessarily a huge one, especially given that the new controller fills in the gap with its development cost, on top of the Wii U's higher specifications and capabilities.
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Alicia Torello is the queen of graphic impact and also the careful perfectionist that stars like Anne Hathaway and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen trust with their nail-art needs (we loved the 3-D pearls she created for Hathaway for the Globes). Another favorite from this N.Y.C. pro? Her intricately detailed "lunar phases" mani—see her "My Work" board on Pinterest (and follow her on Instagram, @aliciatnails). Watch the above video to learn how to create Torello's midi nail ring manicure, and get the step-by-step instructions below!
Midi Nail Ring Difficulty Level: 2 (out of 4) Drying Time: 30 minutes
1. Paint a horizontal line across the center of the nail with nude polish (Estée Lauder Pure Color Nail Lacquer in Nudité, $21; esteelauder.com); brush up to the tip. Follow with a second coat. Let dry for 10 minutes.
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"The school will first upskill Transnet National Ports Authority's (TNPA's) own dredging personnel. In future, the vision is to use this formal education route to train dredging personnel from other companies in South Africa and other African countries and in so doing, to become the leading dredging education institute south of the Sahara," says Transnet chief human resources officer Nonkululeko Sishi.
Based at the Transnet MSoE, the school is equipped with a high-tech trailing suction hopper dredging simulator to help train dredging personnel in this highly specialised field.
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For the organisation and the operational personnel, the logbook is the central document. Used during the formal educational route for new and existing personnel and during employment, it monitors the progress made by each individual pipe operator or dredge master over a period of years.
The logbook is designed to support the structured on-the-job training received by new employees entering the company or existing personnel receiving training at the dredging school, who receive on-the-job training for an extensive period.
While the execution of the on-the-job training is the responsibility of the company, a special department at the MSoE helps manage this aspect, which is done with the cooperation of TNPA Dredging Services, TNPA, MSoE and the Training Institute for Dredging.
Before Hopper DOCS is used, a baseline assessment will be carried out. Every individual pipe operator in a group will be assessed, and individual and group scores will be recorded. Based on these scores, competence gaps and training goals will be set for a specific group of operators so special attention can be given during the simulator training at the dredging school and during the subsequent on-the-job training. This will also be used to monitor the progress of both the individual operators and the group.
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Project engineers and maritime crew will be trained on the operational aspects of hopper dredging. During periods when the simulator is not used for the educational route, there will be opportunities to train other functions in pipe operations. A special condensed programme will be offered, where the theoretical hydraulic transport modules will be executed in ten training days and the simulator topics in five training days.
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In May 2015 a Santa Ana, California police SWAT team raided Sky High Holistic a patient collective operating a storefront dispensary. While serving the search warrant the SWAT police began to destroy all visible security cameras, however they missed a hidden camera attached to a separate security system. The secondary camera system worked exactly as it was intended as it documented the destruction by Santa Ana police and much more. The video which was released in an edited form by the attorneys of Sky High Holistic two weeks after the raid appeared to show police dressed in military clothing smashing the main security cameras. Also in the originally released video you could hear officers joking about patients present at the dispensary at the time of the raid including a female officer boasting of her urge to physically assault an amputee in a wheelchair. The bombshell of the hidden camera footage lies not in the violent nature of the SWAT team assaulting and insulting Sky High Holistic and its patients or that they took the time to play a game of darts. The astonishing security footage shows police officers allegedly eating cannabis infused candies shortly after disabling the main security camera system in the store. The release of this edited video created a stir nationwide as the actions of the police were called into question by many. Within a few weeks the buzz surrounding the raid and the alleged misconduct by the SWAT team conducting it had died down but the story was far from over. A handful of intertwined lawsuits, legal actions and corruption allegations have turned Santa Ana into a hotbed of cannabis activism.
On May 26, 2015 a Santa Ana Police Department SWAT team executed a search warrant at Sky High Holistic, a patient operated collective in the city. During the ensuing action police were caught on a video physically destroying the location that Sky High operated. The video also shows police allegedly consuming cannabis infused edibles while playing darts. Within hours of the raid the video was posted and went viral causing cannabis advocates and many others to cry out against the action. Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido went on record saying he was, "Very unhappy with what I saw." Dispensary raids were not uncommon in Santa Ana in the year running up to the Sky High Holistic action. Though California law allows for patients to create collective groups the city of Santa Ana requires those collectives to be licensed locally. During the 2014 election Santa Ana residents voted to enact Measure BB which was a system to select and license dispensaries in the city. It called for a lottery system to select applicants at random to receive one of 20 licenses the city would grant. 630 entries to the lottery were bought making the city in excess of $1 million of application fee revenue, the lottery was held in February of 2015. Sky High Holistic was not among the twenty chosen licenses however they continued to operate as did many of the dispensaries not selected. There was a lawsuit filed to block Measure BB on the grounds that it was too restrictive to where these shops could be located which caused the state to place a hold on the licensing process creating a grey area that holdover shops were operating under. Another lawsuit simultaneously claimed that the lottery process itself was unfair and poorly operated creating delays in the licensing process. This suit claims that some applicants were "stacking the deck" by purchasing multiple lottery entries. It also goes on to decry the process by which applications for the lottery were vetted. Many of the winners were unprepared to fulfill the licensing obligations which created further delay to the process. Nearly seven months after the lottery only two licenses have been finalized by the City.
In June Sky High Holistic joined in with a lawsuit of their own against the city, this one much more direct and personal than either of the actions attempting to reverse Measure BB. The lawsuit filed by Sky High was directed at not only the individual police that caused over $100,000 in damages at their location, but at the mayor of Santa Ana as well. In the suit they claim that the order for the raid came directly from Mayor Miguel Pulido after he accepted a bribe from a competing cannabis collective. The attorney for Sky High, Matthew Pappas, held a press conference after the lawsuit had been filed with the court claiming he has, "paper evidence" and "witness proof" to support all the claims. Pulido went on record with the Orange County Register saying the claims were "preposterous" and "unequivocally false. Both sides will be argued in front of a judge at a later date but for now Sky High Holistic is still operating and Pulido is a year into his 11th term as Mayor of Santa Ana.
Shortly after the lawsuit was filed in federal court by Pappas on behalf of Sky High, the unedited video of the raid was released as a part of the investigation started by the city into the claims of destruction and corruption. Days after the unedited video was released showing that police were likely eating cannabis infused products Sky High Holistic was raided again, this time much more quietly, and for the most part it was unknown to the cannabis community outside of Santa Ana. The Sky High Holistic legal team is adamant that this second raid conducted in July was a targeted operation not a broad attempt to close unregulated collectives in the city. "This is retaliation," said Matthew Papas in an interview with the Orange County Register, claiming the action was targeted in response to the lawsuit against the mayor and the release of the full video incriminating police in the original raid. Santa Ana Police spokesperson Cpl. Anthony Bertagna refuted that claim stating that other warrants had been served throughout the city and saying, "It's illegal to operate a dispensary in Sanata Ana. If you operate a dispensary, you are subject to the law."
While that may have been the end of the raids the legal battle did not end at the July closure. In August the Santa Ana Police Officers Association filed for a restraining order on behalf of three officers suspended for misconduct. The SAPOA restraining order would seek to prevent the Internal Affairs investigators from using the video released after the May raid at Sky High Holistic as evidence in the misconduct investigation. The officers claimed that footage was a violation of their privacy as they had disabled the surveillance system and moved all customers outside they had a "reasonable expectation of privacy". However Orange County Superior Court Judge Ronald L. Bauer released a three-page ruling against the officers stating that they did not have reasonable expectation to privacy as they were on duty as public servants at the time.
Santa Ana, California is in for a long battle between the city which seeks to regulate the medical cannabis market and the patients and collective managers who wish to maintain it the way it is. The collectives are following state law however state law says that cities and towns that have ordinances regulating cannabis production and distribution in place by March 1, 2016 can regulate the market locally as well. The fate of the collective system in Santa Ana hangs in the balance while the lawsuits are argued against Measure BB, the city, and the mayor. The survival of Measure BB would spell the end of many of the organizations who have operated efficiently for years, while its defeat would mean that state law is the only guideline to follow. Sky High Holistic is not the only collective in Santa Ana at risk of being shut down for good but due to a well placed backup security system they have helped to expose the corruption and thuggery of elected and public official in the city and have taken the lead in the fight for patient access. The results of their fight could set precedent for other groups facing similar actions in the future.


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The first 5 things to do in a babysitting emergency
It's not only a parents fear but a caretakers fear, something happens to the child and it's an emergency. The best way to handle an emergency is to be always prepared and remain calm and follow these directions:
Take a Deep Breath
The one thing that can really hurt you and the child in the emergency is if you panic. If you panic you will not be able to think or act clearly. Take a deep breath and remain calm. The child will pick up on your nervousness and fear and that can cause them more harm or stress. Breathe slowly and proceed.
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The emergency has happened and the first thing you need to do is quickly look. Whether the child is hurt or a situation has risen, look at the child closely and inspect your surroundings. Remove any harmful objects and make way for a safe environment. Do this quickly. It could be as simple as moving a sharp object away from the fallen child.
Listen and Remain Calm
Ask the child questions that will help you fix the emergency. Good questions like, "Where does it hurt" or "How did this happen" can help you determine the severity of the incident. Avoid questions like "Why", that will only fluster the child. Remain calm and positive, the child will feed off your attitude. Soothe them and assure them they will be fine.
Assess and Call for Help
Figure out what you need: first aid kit, a doctor or police officer. If in doubt always call. If it is an extreme emergency call the police before the parents. You want to get help as soon as possible and calling a parent beforehand can prevent the immediate attention. Once you have done so, call the parent. Remember to stay calm.
Follow Instructions and Comfort
Once you have called the parents, doctor or police. Listen and follow their instructions word from word. They may instruct you to do something you are not sure how to do, don't be afraid to ask for further directions. Listen to the professional over the parent's advice. The first reaction for most nannies is to grab and hold the child, but if they have fallen and hurt themselves, the police may instruct not to move the child in fear of hurting something more. You can still comfort, use light touches and kind, reassuring words.
Unfortunately, you never know when or how an emergency can arise. But the best thing to do is to always be prepared and remain calm. Be mindful of your surroundings and aware of all things at all times. Be safe!← The First Nine Sounds Your Baby Recognizes | 10 Signs a Parent is Upset with You →
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