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California, Oregon, Politics
Marijuana Lobby Plays Retribution and Slander to the Max
The Power and Deception of the Marijuana Lobby
Since the marijuana industry bought off ALL of the companies authorized to collect petition signatures in Colorado, it's not surprising how deep corruption runs through that industry. Some dirty tactics have been going on for years. (Please read Part 1 and Part 2 of exposing the deceptive tactics of the marijuana industry.)
In 2012, Oregon Attorney General candidate Dwight Holton was defeated in the Democratic primary, because he had inspired the wrath of the marijuana industry. Only 25% of Oregon's Democrats voted, but that success gave marijuana lobby the boost it needed to threaten anyone who would dare go against them.
Pro-pot groups also claimed that they defeated California Attorney General candidate Steve Cooley in 2010. Cooley was no friend to medical marijuana violators in southern California. He lost in a very close race that took weeks to count.
2012: "The Wrath of the Weed Vote"
The Oregon Attorney General's race shows how vindictive the marijuana lobbyists really are. Dwight Holton, former acting US Attorney for Oregon, was highly regarded as a prosecutor (pictured below). But he also prosecuted marijuana violations, while opponent Ellen Rosenblum promised to go lightly on "medical" marijuana, and even courted the marijuana businesses. She won. The biggest contributors to her campaign were Drug Policy Action and John Sperling, founder of University of Phoenix and a billionaire marijuana contributor. Citizens for Sensible Law Enforcement, a marijuana legalization group, spent more $53,000 in radio ads against Holton. The political reason to oppose Holton was that he was a relative newcomer to the state of Oregon, but the true reason he lost was that the marijuana forces came out to defeat him.
Dwight Holton ran for Attorney General in Oregon, but lost because he faced "the wrath of the weed vote.:" He is now CEO of Lines of Life, a non-profit committed to the prevention of suicide.
In fact, a headline earlier this year reminded politicians of Dwight Holton's fate and warned that lists will be kept of those who support local marijuana bans in Oregon. There's much written about the corruption in the state's marijuana businesses, both in the past and in the present.
Carmen Trutanich also "was one of a number of politicians to suffer the wrath of the weed vote" in the California primary on June 5, 2012. In California, Los Angeles City Attorney Trutanich lost his bid for District Attorney because of his stance towards marijuana businesses, according to one of the marijuana blogs.
Since 2012, the marijuana lobby has promised backlash against politicians who aren't with them. By 2012, financiers such as Peter Lewis and George Soros were giving big donations to the legalization campaigns in Colorado and Washington. This year Sean Parker has already given more than $2 million to the legalization effort in California.
Politicians who don't support the marijuana industry's agenda — using "medical" marijuana as a backdoor to full legalization — are accused of wanting people to die or wanting to send innocent people to jail. Those who are skeptical of the efficacy of "medical" marijuana are painted as individuals lacking compassion in well- orchestrated smear campaigns. In 2014, some politicians felt the backlash through dishonest television ads. Using the word "compassion" helps initiatives pass, although in reality it's about corruption and full of entirely different motives.
Will politicians stop calling out graft and corruption in the marijuana industry because they face slander and revenge from the pot lobby?
The Television Ads
In 2014, Americans for Safe Access, a "medical" marijuana lobbying group (funded by Soros?), ran television advertisements on MSNBC in Maryland and South Florida. They targeted two members of Congress who voted "no" to the Rohrabacher-Farr Amendment in their districts, Republican Andy Harris of MD and Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz of FL. The Rohrabacher-Farr Amendment was the first major victory for the heavily-funded marijuana lobby.*
The ad that ran against Rep. Wasserman Schultz alleged that the Congresswomen thinks it's ok for medical marijuana users to go to federal prison. It flashed an image across the screen of an elderly man and his wife, who has Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, a fatal neurological disease. It is well understood in legal circles that "patients" who use "medical" marijuana for their own illnesses have never gone to jail.
Has anyone ever investigated how much the marijuana lobby pays "patients" to advertise and go on TV on behalf of medical marijuana?
The ad in Maryland claimed that Rep. Harris' vote would result in sending Maryland's patients to prison. A voice said: "Congressman Andy Harris thinks it's OK for medical marijuana patients to go to federal prison." The ad was juxtaposed with the image of a 4-year-old boy who suffers from epilepsy and his mother.
Since that time, both Harris and Wasserman Schultz have made made some concessions in how they vote for medical marijuana. The industry must be congratulating itself.
We need more politicians who are brave and who stand up to this political corruption to protect the children. The bravery of Steve Cooley, Dwight Holton, Carmen Trutanich, Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Andy Harris, and Linda Newell in Colorado, is much appreciated.
*The Rohrabacher-Farr Amendment prohibits funds to the Drug Enforcement Agency (FDA) to be used for "medical" marijuana in states that have authorized state "medical" marijuana programs.
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Child Endangerment, Featured, Violence
Violence, Anger, Explosions: Children in Danger
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(Part two of Marijuana and Child Neglect/Abuse. Last week we published an article about neglect; this week we cover violence, anger and explosions.) A 15-year old boy living in fear of his violent father was afraid to go home and confided in a friend's family. The friend's mom told police, who went to investigate the child abuse. They found out more, accidentally discovering an illegal, indoor marijuana grow. Yet marijuana activists tell us they are calm and non-violent.
Butane hash oil explosions are another way children surrounded by marijuana face grave danger. In Medford, Oregon, a 12-year old girl suffered many broken bones when she had to jump from the 2nd floor of the apartment building to escape the flames.
After three children died in Colorado because of parental neglect while parents smoked pot followed by a string of hash oil explosions with children at home, it should have been easy to pass child protection laws in Colorado. On April 27, 2014, an 8-month old baby had be rescued from the 2nd floor of a burning townhouse in Littleton, after a father and his girlfriend sparked a fire by burning hash oil. The neighbor whose adjoining townhouse was damaged rescued their 4-year old. Just 10 days earlier, on the 17th of April, a couple in Colorado Springs endangered their 3 children, the oldest a 7-year old, using fire to make dabs from hash oil.
Since the Alliance for Drug Endangered Children began in the 1990s, there are fewer meth lab explosions. Instead, the promotion and legalization of marijuana has created one of its most dangerous by-products: hash oil explosions fueled by butane gas. In short, it's called BHO.
Hash Oil Explosions
As of early May, Colorado had experienced 31 hash oil explosions in 2014, 10 of them involving serious burns. The Colorado Alliance for Drug Endangered Children (CoDEC) has been taking steps protect children from the drug-using parents, but two child-protection bills failed to pass.
On April 1, 2014, state Senators Linda Newell and Andy Kerr introduced two Senate bills to strengthen protections for children whose parents' drug usage, manufacture or cultivation put them in danger. Unfortunately, an associate of the Drug Policy Alliance had written a letter to the Denver Post implying it was unfair to marijuana users.
The bills HB 177 and 178 were voted down at the beginning of May. The outcome was undermined by interests of the marijuana industry, marijuana users and politics. When the city of Denver met September 16 to restrict unqualified individuals from making hash oil — the marijuana activists again objected.
After Failure to Pass Child Protection Bills
In mid-May, a Manitou Springs, Colorado, couple cooled the hash oil in the refrigerator. The refrigerator door blew off and landed on the woman's three-year old child. Multiple charges of arson and child endangerment have been leveled against each of the parents in Colorado who put the lives of their children in danger. They are indeed lucky that none of the children burned or died in the fires.
Making hash oil at home is perfectly legal in Colorado. However, the state of Colorado should be blamed for putting the marijuana users' freedom and the "good name" or reputation of marijuana ahead of the children. The evidence is that the legalization of marijuana has put more children in harm's way.
Huge Problem in Other States, in West
Hash oil explosions are frequent in other states, too, particularly on the west coast. On August 25, a man living in Santa Rosa, California, had an explosion and burned badly. While he did not have children, the family next door with 5 children were put in the line of danger. Today, the LA Times reports of 20 hash oil explosions within the last year in San Diego County, California. One of the 4 groups currently under investigation involved a child put in danger, and the offending party has been charged with child endangerment.
A recent hash oil explosion in San Diego
In May, the Oregonian reported that nine major hash oil blasts had occurred in Oregon since 2011, four of them in homes or hotel rooms where children, including a newborn, were present. In one case, a 12-year-old girl suffered multiple broken bones after leaping from the second floor of an apartment building rocked by a butane hash oil (BHO) explosion.
Last year a 10-day old and one-year old baby and two women suffered injuries from a hash oil explosion in Forest Grove, Oregon, the site of another extensive fire from making hash oil in January, 2014. Two months ago, on July 22, it was announced that the District Attorney in Seattle filed charges against seven who caused explosions in the state of Washington.
Marijuana users like to claim they don't get mad and violent, like the cocaine addicts and some alcoholics routinely do. If their marijuana usage leads to explosions, selfishness, abandonment, or narcissistic rage and anger, they fall into the same violent category as other substance abusers.
A case of violent child abuse erupted in Tampa, Florida in June. Christopher Finlayson, who babysat an 11-month old girl, tried to amuse her by tossing the child into the air. He tripped and dropped the child face-first onto the floor. When the child continued to cry, Finlayson went into a moment of rage and he "lost it." The baby was totally unresponsive when the mother returned home. She took her to the hospital and authorities were called. The man admitted he had smoked a "blunt and a half" of marijuana the previous day and was unable to sleep the night before the incident.
Just a few days ago when police in Nevada went to investigate a case a suspected child abuse, they discovered a fetus in the freezer, with a gun and marijuana in the bassinet. This year authorities in Utah discovered that Megan Huntsman, heavy marijuana user, had buried 6 of her children over several years.
In July, four adults in south Modesto, California, pleaded no contest to severely beating a 7-week old girl. The child had several broken ribs, a lacerated liver and spleen and swelling on her brain. When authorities investigated the home 3 were used for growing marijuana for sale. They parents were charged with two counts of child cruelty, illegally growing with intent for sale, stealing electricity and damaging power lines.
According to a recent article "chronic [marijuana] users exhibit blunted emotional reaction to threat stimuli, which may also decrease the likelihood of aggressive behavior." This study is one of many articles or studies using data while trying to promote marijuana usage. The study didn't show what happens when one partner does marijuana while the other does not, sometimes a problem in abusive marriages. It also did not track child abuse.
From the website, Marijuana Makes You Violent
Why is marijuana likely to make some people violent, if using can cause a "blunted emotional reaction to threat?" The nature of a psychologically addictive substance is that a person needs it to feel ok and to feel normal. Take it away and there can be panic which results in anger. Leah Allen tells the story of how her cool, chronically high father abused her mother. Furthermore, disagreeing with the marijuana bloggers gets them so riled and angry.
What About DEA mistakes?
The tragedies of children lost to parents' marijuana usage, and other drug usage, are larger than the widely-publicized mistakes made by the Drug Enforcement Agency, DEA. No teacher, parent, police agency, politician or worker of any sort is free from making mistakes. This summer a story spread about a failed raid which resulted in a grenade hitting a 20-month old child. It's regretful that there was an injustice suffered by this child for that mistake. However, this baby and his parents will have their justice with law. There will be no justice for the marijuana – endangered children, as long as the marijuana community holds all the cards.
It's a tragedy that because "Drug Wars Don't Work," Americans have legitimized a very dangerous drug. It's a tragedy that the current anti-government trend spreading in American political circles also leads to more chaos and more abused children.
Based on the fire, anger, rage and explosions, we cannot continue this marijuana experiment if we are to have a saner, safer society.
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Child Endangerment, Featured
Negligent Parents Let Three Children Die in Colorado
(Part one of two articles on Marijuana and Child Abuse/Neglect)
On November 27, 2012, three weeks after Coloradans voted to legalize marijuana, Heather Jensen, 24, kept her two-year old and four-year old sons in the car seats of an SUV, while she smoked marijuana and had sex in her boyfriend's truck. She left the ignition on and turned the heater up so the boys wouldn't freeze. When she returned 90 minutes later, the younger boy wasn't breathing. The older boy died in the hospital a week later. Jensen had lost her husband, Eric, in a car accident six weeks earlier. She has been sentenced to serve 10 years in prison.
Another Child Dies from Neglect
On January 13, 2014, two-year old Levi Welton died in a fire. He and his four-year old brother had been left in a room alone, where the fire started. Little Levi went into the closet to escape the flames. The parents, aged 27 and 33, were smoking pot in another room with friends. They survived, along with the older son. Julia and Christopher Welton have been charged with negligent child abuse causing death. Logan County officials had investigated the parents previously for neglect. Both boys had tested positive for THC, although the mother insisted she did not smoke pot around her sons. A family friend who took custody of the surviving boy told a reporter that the county should have done more to take the children out of the home prior to the fire.
Two-year old Levi Welton hid from the fire in a closet, while his parents smoked pot, in Sterling, CO. His four-year old brother survived.
Three children died in Colorado within 14 months, while the parents' indulged in a marijuana. The Colorado Alliance for Drug-Endangered Children (CoDEC, affiliated with national DEC) has been working for stronger child protection laws. On April 1, 2014, Senators Linda Newell and Andy Kerr introduced two Senate bills to strengthen protections for children whose parents' drug usage, manufacture or cultivation put them in danger.
The bills didn't pass. Newell believes the bills were misconstrued by critics and that the outcome was undermined by interests of the pot industry and politics. Drug Policy Alliance had written a letter to the Denver Post suggesting it was unfair to marijuana users.
Marijuana and Child Neglect
"Don't blame marijuana, blame the state." some marijuana activists exclaim. Others say, "Bad parents will be bad parents, and marijuana has nothing to do with it."
Parents Opposed to Pot blames the aggressive advocacy to legitimize marijuana for killing these three children. Those who praise cannabis refuse to see the irresponsible behaviors and outright neglect could have anything to do with marijuana. No one defends alcohol in the same way. These parents loved their children. With addiction, the object of addiction becomes more important than loved ones. We need to stop minimizing these incidents, because they're also happening in states without legalized marijuana.
On May 22, in Lakeland, Florida, an abandoned three-year old knocked on the door of his mother's house for an hour, crying, before the neighbors discovered him. The mother and her boyfriend had been smoking pot and doing whip-its all morning and then went into the bedroom to nap. Neither one of them had been supervising the boy who had gotten outside other times, even though they lived on a busy street. They told deputies that "marijuana should be legal anyways" and gave that as the reason they smoke pot all the time.
Tyler and William Jensen were happy-go-lucky boys before their death at ages 2 and 4. Negligence and impaired judgment from marijuana is to blame. Photo original from Facebook.
At least one of the children who died in a hot car this summer was a victim of a marijuana. On July 24, Seth Jackson, the foster father, went to see his marijuana dealer in Wichita and left the 10-month girl in the sweltering heat while he got high. He came out two hours later, and she was dead. He and his partner had been foster parents previously, without known issues.
Why Marijuana and Parenting Don't Mix
Each situation outlined above — including the ones which resulted in the three Colorado children who died — demonstrate how it's typical for pot smokers to not realize the lapse of time. Marijuana smoking distorts the sense of time and space, and harms short-term memory. Ideally, parents would never leave an infant or toddler for any period of time. Sober parents, with normal functioning, would rush back to their children before the heat or cold could do harm.
It's possible to sympathize with Heather Jensen for losing her husband, but her coping mechanisms are unacceptable. The three parents living in Colorado – a state with medical marijuana since 2000 – may have been using marijuana as their crutch to escape the challenges and pains of life. If a recreational user also starts using pot for anxiety, the anxiety is likely to become worse than it ever may have been had the user not started. Lady Gaga explains the vicious cycle in her video.
Furthermore, those who begin using any addictive substance before age 21 are more likely to become addicted. These people may have grown up to be decent parents had they not begun using marijuana. Though many people begin drugs because they come from tough or abusive situations, it's not necessarily the case. Where marijuana is legal or when people learn to use pot (or alcohol or prescription drugs) to medicate problems, they don't learn healthy ways to get through the troubled times.
Another factor that could play into the impaired judgment of Seth Jackson, Heather Jensen, Julia Welton and Christopher Welton was the length of time they had been using marijuana. They ranged in age from 24 to 33. If they had begun smoking marijuana as teens, the part of the brain that deals with executive function could have become very impaired. The bad judgment, escapism and laziness could continue even when they aren't smoking pot. Consistent pot smoking from teenage years into adulthood can prevent the normal process of growing into maturity. Recent studies give evidence to these changes in the brain structure.
Last year a 24-year old mother in Centralia, WA, let her toddler son smoke from a bong, as friends laughed and encouraged it. A cell phone photo surfaced and she was arrested.
Pregnancy, Breast Feeding and Daycare
The use of marijuana is inappropriate because of the constant alertness needed for child care. Plus, it messes with short-term memory. Users don't always realize they're impaired.
Tobacco smoking leads to health concerns and addiction, but it doesn't impair the mind. Second hand smoke is bad for children, and many smoking parents make an effort not to do it with children around. Many women quit when they become pregnant. Today there are moms who insist on smoking marijuana while pregnant, and even when they're breast feeding.
The neighbor of a home daycare provider in Oregon reported she had seen the owner's daughter outside smoking with a bong in front of the children. Both the owner and her daughter were medical marijuana cardholders. The state investigated. In August, a state board told owners of four Oregon home-based day care centers will have to give up their medical marijuana cards or lose their licenses to care for children.
We know marijuana often brings about impaired judgment, forgetfulness and carelessness. One 19-year old Arizona mother, who had smoked marijuana, drove off with her infant in a car seat, on the roof of the car. Casey Anthony was a big party girl, but according to one of her friends, marijuana was her drug of choice. Without casting guilt on Amanda Knox, certainly heavy use of marijuana as a teen stunted her maturity and ability to function as a rational 19-year old in Italy.
It is estimated that 80% of all child abuse, neglect and endangerment is caused by by marijuana, alcohol or drugs. The problems of marijuana have specific relevance to judgment of time, memory and alertness. They are not quite the same as with other substances. Many tragedies can be avoided IF WE DON'T NORMALIZE MARIJUANA and make it legitimate for adults.
Marijuana Moms of Beverly Hills made big news last year when they declared that cannabis made them better moms, because it cut down on their anxiety. It's a publicity stunt set up to promote the industry and bring Cheryl Shuman, the founder, fame. If you have children and love them, or if you care for children, please don't indulge and don't spread the baloney that marijuana is safer than alcohol. (Part two of this series is here.)
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TN - SB2100 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, increases annual compensation for the board of directors of the Reelfoot Lake Regional Utility & Planning District from $1,000 to $1,800. - Amends Chapter 159 of the Public Acts of 1987, as amended.
TN - SB2118 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, redefines "industrial machinery" to exempt from sales and use tax machinery utilized in the design and manufacture of firearms equipped with integral devices that permit a user to program the firearm to operate only for specified person designated by the user through computerized locking devices or other means integral and permanently part of the firearm, when the machinery is utilized by a person whose principle business is fabricating or processing tangible personal property for resale. - Amends TCA Title 67.
TN - SB809 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, authorizes comptroller of the treasury, the secretary of state and the state treasurer to appoint designees to serve in their place on the commission. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB296 Paternity - As introduced, extends the deadline for putative fathers to give notice of an address or telephone number change from 10 days to 15 days. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 68.
TN - SB814 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, requires the executive director of the alcoholic beverage commission to report the manner and time frame of communications between the commission and the local beer boards under the pilot project established in certain counties. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4, Part 1; Title 57, Chapter 4, Part 2 and Title 57, Chapter 4, Part 3.
TN - SB90 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, creates a nuisance cause of action where a limited service restaurant or a restaurant operates below the establishment's food percentage requirements. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 57 and Title 67.
TN - SB92 Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As introduced, authorizes the alcoholic beverage commission in consultation with the department of revenue to verify compliance with the food percentage requirements for limited service restaurants and restaurants. - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 29; Title 57 and Title 67.
TN - SB816 Election Laws - As introduced, requires state election commission to create a Tennessee voter bill of rights in consultation with the coordinator of elections and county election commissions. - Amends TCA Title 2.
TN - SB807 Education - As introduced, repeals the Virtual Public Schools Act. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 16, Part 2.
TN - SB819 Child Abuse - As introduced, mandates that the commissioner of children's services report to legislative committees concerning child abuse investigations made by child protective services investigators pursuant to TCA § 37-1-406(n). - Amends TCA Title 37.
TN - SB812 Contractors - As introduced, subjects certain contractors submitting bids on certain public projects to penalties for failing to register with the department of revenue and intentionally misclassifying individuals as independent contractors to avoid financial implications under other laws; authorizes the department of revenue, the chief procurement officer and the department of labor and workforce development to coordinate enforcement of such provisions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12; Title 50 and Title 62.
TN - SB1923 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires an annual charter school report to be posted on the web site of the department. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB1078 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, requires THEC to report on scholarships for specific groups of students, such as Tennessee HOPE scholarships for nontraditional students and Tennessee HOPE foster care grants; requires THEC to make recommendations on improving receipt and retention of such scholarships and grants. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.
TN - SJR583 Memorials, Recognition - Hal Crocker, Jackson Man of the Year.
TN - SB97 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, establishes procedures for verifying food percentage requirements and for notifying other authorities of certain alcohol and beer law violations. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 29; Title 57 and Title 67.
TN - SB1980 Mining and Quarrying - As introduced, enacts the "Tennessee Scenic Vistas Protection Act" to prohibit the issuance of water quality permits for surface mining activities along ridgelines, subject to certain exceptions. - Amends TCA Title 59 and Title 69, Chapter 3, Part 1.
TN - SJR801 Memorials, Recognition - Emilia Marie Dunlap.
TN - SB467 Education - As introduced, permits the commissioner of education to place any virtual school that fails to meet the performance standards set by the state board of education in the achievement school district. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB2387 Evidence - As introduced, revises requirements for identifying medical bills in civil actions to allow patients and their caretakers to prove up such documents. - Amends TCA Title 24; Title 63, Chapter 2 and Title 68, Chapter 11.
TN - SB95 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, exempts equipment repair services provided to restaurants from sales and use tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.
TN - SJR800 Memorials, Recognition - Greyson Kash King.
TN - SB1079 Veterans - As introduced, redefines veterans for purposes of the Tennessee Minority-Owned, Woman-Owned and Small Business Procurement and Contracting Act to include all veterans that served honorably on active duty in the armed forces of the United States; removes the requirement for a certain percentage of disability from the definition. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 11; Title 12; Title 50; Title 55; Title 58; Title 62 and Title 67.
TN - SJR117 Memorials, Death - Albert Benton Merkel, Sr.
TN - SB810 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, gives nontraditional students who receive a Wilder-Naifeh technical skills grant and obtain a diploma from a Tennessee technology center a pathway to qualify for a Tennessee HOPE scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.
TN - SB817 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, directs the commissioner to develop a plan for ensuring that 90 percent of pregnant women in this state have access to prenatal care and to report findings to the health committee of the house of representatives and the health and welfare committee of the senate by February 1, 2014. - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.
TN - SB98 Senior Citizens - As introduced, requires certain reports concerning the Long-Term Care Community Choices Act of 2008 to be made available on the bureau of TennCare's web site and requires cooperation with the commission on aging and disability regarding such Act. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.
TN - SB2101 Education, State Board of - As enacted, requires the state board of education to establish guidelines whereby the department must prepare a fiscal analysis of any policy, rule or regulation proposed to the state board by the department if such proposal will financially impact an LEA. - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 49.
TN - SB815 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, allows holders of a wholesale liquor license to sell on credit for not more than 10 business days, rather than 10 calendar days. - Amends TCA Title 57.
TN - SB818 Powers of Attorney - As introduced, includes "medical directive" as alternative term for an "advance directive." - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 34; Title 63 and Title 68.
TN - SB820 Children - As introduced, states that an adoptive parent of a biological parent is eligible to file a petition for grandparent's visitation. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.
TN - SB2386 Financial Responsibility Law - As introduced, increases the minimum standards required for proof of financial responsibility after a certain date. - Amends TCA Section 55-12-102.
TN - SB1190 Teachers, Principals and School Personnel - As introduced, specifies that licensed teachers are still considered professional employees when performing ancillary duties and assignments. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 6.
TN - SB465 Railroads - As introduced, requires persons who do not pay a railroad fare to be let off at a train station; authorizes attorney fees and costs for prevailing party in a suit to collect damages to livestock from unfenced railroad tracks in fields or enclosures; creates task force to study passenger rail service. - Amends TCA Title 65.
TN - SB1843 Law Enforcement - As enacted, requires any law enforcement agency providing a school resource officer, school security officer or other law enforcement officer providing security at a school to have a policy regulating the use of electronic control devices, which addresses training in the proper use of such devices, as well as investigation, documentation and review of such use, to include final approval of any report documenting such use by the agency's chief executive officer or sheriff. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 42.
TN - SJR625 Memorials, Death - Honors the memory of Shelby Jean Scott of Pleasant Hill.
TN - SB2590 Newbern - As introduced, subject to local approval, allows treasurer, recorder and chief of police to be appointed by majority vote of the aldermen and mayor; permits individuals who live in or within 15 miles of the city limits, rather than just town residents, to serve as corporate officers. - Amends Chapter 450 of the Acts of 1901; as amended.
TN - SB811 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, allows a student receiving college credit for dual enrollment or dual credit courses to include, at the student's discretion, the grades from such courses in the student's lottery grade point average. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.
TN - SB607 Education - As introduced, adds to the definition of conduct unbecoming a teacher, for which a teacher may be dismissed, deliberately making false statements about competency and qualifications on application to teach and misrepresenting professional qualifications. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - SB808 Sentencing - As introduced, increases from 10 to 15 the number of days prior to a sentencing hearing that a presentence report shall be filed. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
TN - SB87 Election Laws - As introduced, permits any registered Tennessee voter to vote absentee; requires the county election commission to establish a permanent absentee voting register. - Amends TCA Title 2.
TN - HB2345 Financial Responsibility Law - As introduced, increases the minimum standards required for proof of financial responsibility after a certain date. - Amends TCA Section 55-12-102.
TN - HB393 Education - As introduced, adds to the definition of conduct unbecoming a teacher, for which a teacher may be dismissed, deliberately making false statements about competency and qualifications on application to teach and misrepresenting professional qualifications. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - HB1013 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, requires the executive director of the alcoholic beverage commission to report the manner and time frame of communications between the commission and the local beer boards under the pilot project established in certain counties. - Amends TCA Title 57, Chapter 4, Part 1; Title 57, Chapter 4, Part 2 and Title 57, Chapter 4, Part 3.
TN - HB725 Health, Dept. of - As introduced, directs the commissioner to develop a plan for ensuring that 90 percent of pregnant women in this state have access to prenatal care and to report findings to the health committee of the house of representatives and the health and welfare committee of the senate by February 1, 2014. - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.
TN - HB1009 Contractors - As introduced, subjects certain contractors submitting bids on certain public projects to penalties for failing to register with the department of revenue and intentionally misclassifying individuals as independent contractors to avoid financial implications under other laws; authorizes the department of revenue, the chief procurement officer and the department of labor and workforce development to coordinate enforcement of such provisions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 12; Title 50 and Title 62.
TN - HB2019 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As enacted, redefines "industrial machinery" to exempt from sales and use tax machinery utilized in the design and manufacture of firearms equipped with integral devices that permit a user to program the firearm to operate only for specified person designated by the user through computerized locking devices or other means integral and permanently part of the firearm, when the machinery is utilized by a person whose principle business is fabricating or processing tangible personal property for resale. - Amends TCA Title 67.
TN - HB27 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, establishes procedures for verifying food percentage requirements and for notifying other authorities of certain alcohol and beer law violations. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 29; Title 57 and Title 67.
TN - HB421 Education - As introduced, permits the commissioner of education to place any virtual school that fails to meet the performance standards set by the state board of education in the achievement school district. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - HB2212 Law Enforcement - As enacted, requires any law enforcement agency providing a school resource officer, school security officer or other law enforcement officer providing security at a school to have a policy regulating the use of electronic control devices, which addresses training in the proper use of such devices, as well as investigation, documentation and review of such use, to include final approval of any report documenting such use by the agency's chief executive officer or sheriff. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 42.
TN - HB727 Paternity - As introduced, extends the deadline for putative fathers to give notice of an address or telephone number change from 10 days to 15 days. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 68.
TN - HB728 Education - As introduced, repeals the Virtual Public Schools Act. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 16, Part 2.
TN - HB2124 Gas, Petroleum Products, Volatile Oils - As introduced, prohibits fracturing in Tennessee, effective January 1, 2016. - Amends TCA Title 59; Title 60; Title 68 and Title 69.
TN - HB1685 Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As introduced, increases annual compensation for the board of directors of the Reelfoot Lake Regional Utility & Planning District from $1,000 to $1,800. - Amends Chapter 159 of the Public Acts of 1987, as amended.
TN - HB96 Taxes, Exemption and Credits - As introduced, exempts equipment repair services provided to restaurants from sales and use tax. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 6.
TN - HB935 Alcoholic Beverage Commission - As introduced, authorizes the alcoholic beverage commission in consultation with the department of revenue to verify compliance with the food percentage requirements for limited service restaurants and restaurants. - Amends TCA Title 6; Title 29; Title 57 and Title 67.
TN - HB470 Senior Citizens - As introduced, requires certain reports concerning the Long-Term Care Community Choices Act of 2008 to be made available on the bureau of TennCare's web site and requires cooperation with the commission on aging and disability regarding such Act. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71.
TN - HB1014 Alcoholic Beverages - As introduced, allows holders of a wholesale liquor license to sell on credit for not more than 10 business days, rather than 10 calendar days. - Amends TCA Title 57.
TN - HB882 Veterans - As introduced, redefines veterans for purposes of the Tennessee Minority-Owned, Woman-Owned and Small Business Procurement and Contracting Act to include all veterans that served honorably on active duty in the armed forces of the United States; removes the requirement for a certain percentage of disability from the definition. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 8; Title 11; Title 12; Title 50; Title 55; Title 58; Title 62 and Title 67.
TN - HB1845 Education, Dept. of - As introduced, requires an annual charter school report to be posted on the web site of the department. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - HB2283 Evidence - As introduced, revises requirements for identifying medical bills in civil actions to allow patients and their caretakers to prove up such documents. - Amends TCA Title 24; Title 63, Chapter 2 and Title 68, Chapter 11.
TN - HB2442 Newbern - As introduced, subject to local approval, allows treasurer, recorder and chief of police to be appointed by majority vote of the aldermen and mayor; permits individuals who live in or within 15 miles of the city limits, rather than just town residents, to serve as corporate officers. - Amends Chapter 450 of the Acts of 1901; as amended.
TN - HB624 Children - As introduced, states that an adoptive parent of a biological parent is eligible to file a petition for grandparent's visitation. - Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 37.
TN - HB731 Tennessee Higher Education Commission - As introduced, authorizes comptroller of the treasury, the secretary of state and the state treasurer to appoint designees to serve in their place on the commission. - Amends TCA Title 49.
TN - HB686 Powers of Attorney - As introduced, includes "medical directive" as alternative term for an "advance directive." - Amends TCA Title 33; Title 34; Title 63 and Title 68.
TN - HB623 Child Abuse - As introduced, mandates that the commissioner of children's services report to legislative committees concerning child abuse investigations made by child protective services investigators pursuant to TCA § 37-1-406(n). - Amends TCA Title 37.
TN - HB1978 Education, State Board of - As enacted, requires the state board of education to establish guidelines whereby the department must prepare a fiscal analysis of any policy, rule or regulation proposed to the state board by the department if such proposal will financially impact an LEA. - Amends TCA Title 3 and Title 49.
TN - HB726 Election Laws - As introduced, requires state election commission to create a Tennessee voter bill of rights in consultation with the coordinator of elections and county election commissions. - Amends TCA Title 2.
TN - HB683 Railroads - As introduced, requires persons who do not pay a railroad fare to be let off at a train station; authorizes attorney fees and costs for prevailing party in a suit to collect damages to livestock from unfenced railroad tracks in fields or enclosures; creates task force to study passenger rail service. - Amends TCA Title 65.
TN - HB735 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, requires THEC to report on scholarships for specific groups of students, such as Tennessee HOPE scholarships for nontraditional students and Tennessee HOPE foster care grants; requires THEC to make recommendations on improving receipt and retention of such scholarships and grants. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.
TN - HB1017 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, allows a student receiving college credit for dual enrollment or dual credit courses to include, at the student's discretion, the grades from such courses in the student's lottery grade point average. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.
TN - HB1016 Lottery, Scholarships and Programs - As introduced, gives nontraditional students who receive a Wilder-Naifeh technical skills grant and obtain a diploma from a Tennessee technology center a pathway to qualify for a Tennessee HOPE scholarship. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 4, Part 9.
TN - HB1010 Election Laws - As introduced, permits any registered Tennessee voter to vote absentee; requires the county election commission to establish a permanent absentee voting register. - Amends TCA Title 2.
TN - HB729 Sentencing - As introduced, increases from 10 to 15 the number of days prior to a sentencing hearing that a presentence report shall be filed. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 40.
TN - SJR82 General Assembly, Confirmation of Appointment - Jeffrey H. Griggs, Tennessee fish and wildlife commission.


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GIANNI PISANI
(Italian, born 1935)
ABSTRACT IN CHESTNUT AND CORAL
Oil on Canvas Relined to Masonite
58½ x 55¼ Inches
Signed Lower Right "G. Pisani"
Titled Verso, "Paesaggio con Valigia" and Dated 1963
Exhibited: Galleria El Centro, Naples, Italy, 1963 (on original label, copied verso)
Exhibited: F.P. Michetti Premier Painting Prize, 1963 (label verso)
A large, mid-century abstracted oil landscape showing a view of an assembled group of Fendi shopping bags, colored in the fashion designer's signature shades of cream, bistre and scarlet, and contrasted against a lyrical, sunset-coral background. A powerful and dramatic work filled with compressed tension, this painting was the winner of the 1963 Michetti Painting Prize.
Gianni Pisani studied at the Accademia de Bella Arti in Naples under Emilio Notte. Much of his career in the 1960s and 70s involved reinvigorating the Neapolitan art scene with assemblages, 'object art' and performance art, an approach that was critically described and acclaimed by poet and writer, Edoardo Sanguineti.
The recipient of numerous medals, prizes and juried awards, including the Prize City Cesenatico (1955). Pisani exhibited widely and with success from the early 1950's including at the 8th Biennale of San Benedetto del Tronto (1969), Palazzo Dugnani (1983) and at the Non-Existent Gallery. Other solo and group exhibitions include a three-time participation in the National Quadrennial Art Shows (VIII, Rome, 1960; IX, Palazzo dei Esposizione, 1965/66; XI, Palazzo dei Congressi, 1986) and the 1995 Venice Biennale.
Both an influential exponent and a teacher of Modernism, Pisani taught at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan and, subsequently, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, of which he was later appointed director. Gianni Pisani's works are held in the permanent collections of numerous museums including the Museum of Capodimonte, the Museum of Contemporary Art Donna Regina (MADRE), Museum of Contemporary Religious Art (ARCA) and the Palazzo Reale of Caserta.
The Michetti National Painting Prize was endowed in 1947 to honor the memory of the artist, Francesco Michetti. For 65 years, the prize has been awarded annually to an outstanding Modernist work. Winners have included Lucio Fontana, Cy Twombly, Mario Schifano and Arnaldo Pomodoro, as well as the author of this work. The Michetti Prize awards committee is chaired by academic and art-world luminaries that have included Achille Bonito Oliva, Angela Vettese, Luca Beatrice and Luciano Carmel, among others.
Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs, Vol 11 p. 23; Davenport's Art Reference Guide, 2009/10 Edition, p. 2027; Dictionnaire de l'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Hazan, Paris, 1992 et al.
Partial List of Exhibitions:
1953-1963 Italian Group Exhibitions
1958 Galatea Gallery Turin (Solo)
1961 Gallery The Ferry Venice (Solo)
1961 Alexandria, Egypt (Group)
1962 Gallery, The Obelisk, Rome (Solo)
1962 Gallery, The Center, Ischia (Solo)
1962 Minneapolis, New Orleans, Denver and Philadelphia, USA (Group)
1964 Wirth Berlin Gallery, Germany (Group)
1964 Galleria ,The Center, Naples (Solo)
1995 46th Venice Biennale (Solo)
1999 Scuderia of the Royal Palace Naples (Solo)
2003 Castel dell'Ovo Naples. (Solo)

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Q: Java compilation failure when using generics parameter in inner class Please take a look at the code snippet below:
interface IFoo<E>{
    void doFoo(E env);
}

class A<E>{
    public void doA(E env){}
}

public class Foo<E> implements IFoo<E>{
    public A<E> a;

    @Override
    public void doFoo(E env) {
        a.doA(env);
    }

    private class FooInner<E> implements IFoo<E>{

        @Override
        public void doFoo(E env) {
            a.doA(env);
        }
    }
}

Eclipse complains inside of private inner class a.doA(env) with the following message.
The method doA(E) in the type A<E> is not applicable for the arguments (E)

It doesn't seem like accessibility issue because non-static inner class have an access to all instance variables of the outter class. It looks like I defined my generics wrong somewhere. Can anyone explain me what I am doing wrong here?

A: You've used the same generic parameter name for the inner class, so the type E of the inner class is shadowing the E of the outer class.
Remove generic parameter from the inner class, like this:
public class Foo<E> implements IFoo<E>{

    ...

    private class FooInner implements IFoo<E>{ // "E" here is the same "E" from Foo

        @Override
        public void doFoo(E env) {
            a.doA(env);
        }
    }
}

A: The type of the enclosing class is part of the type of the inner class. FooInner is already parameterized by E, because it's part of the outer class; the explicit parameterization is redundant and incorrect, because it's actually trying to introduce a new type parameter using the same name as the existing one. Just remove the <E> in private class FooInner<E>, and you're golden.

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I wholeheartedly support Kitty Karle for Ontario County judge. She has been a forceful prosecutor and a highly successful defense attorney. If anyone in my family were a crime victim, I would want her on my side. Knowing her respect for the law and her values, I believe that she is the kind of person we need as our next Ontario County judge.
That said, I am also turned off by Russ Kenyon's campaign. As one of many examples, Mr. Kenyon states that Ms. Karle's campaign, "attempted to have my name removed from the ballot." Mr. Kenyon is playing loose with the facts. Under election law, any member of the public has the right to examine the petitions that put a candidate on the ballot. This is common, and is a healthy check and balance for our elections. What is also troubling about Mr. Kenyon's accusation is that some of his petitions had dozens of unqualified voters on them. I have circulated these petitions many times. I can tell you that a few unqualified voters is an honest mistake; dozens is not. I find it ironic that Mr. Kenyon, a candidate for Ontario County judge and a sitting town justice, would call someone's legal right to examine petitions and to question its irregularities "despicable."
Frankly, I am tired of campaigning that actively tries to destroy another's credibility through distortions and misrepresentations. This is especially true for judicial races. I want judges to act like judges, not politicians.


The United States is a nation in decline. Last year the land of the free and the home of the brave came in 10th place in the annual rankings of World's Happiest Countries. This year the U.S.A. has slipped to 12th.
This marks the first time in the six-year history of the Legatum Institute's Prosperity Index that America has not placed in the top 10.
The U.S. has slipped in the areas of Governance, Personal Freedom, and most troubling, in Entrepreneurship & Opportunity. The slide in that final category, according to the report, "is due to a decline in citizens' perception that working hard gets you ahead."
The Legatum Prosperity Index is based on a study of 142 countries comprising 96% of global population. Nations are analyzed and ranked on 89 indicators in 8 categories such as education, government and economics. Per capita GDP -- basically how rich a nation is -- is a factor in the index, but the whole point of the Legatum study is to look beyond such a simple measure at all the myriad issues that make up wellbeing and prosperity.
In general, the most prosperous (thus "happiest" in my book) countries enjoy stable political institutions, a strong civil society with freedom of expression, good education and healthcare, personal freedom and a feeling of being safe and secure.
Under those measures the U.S. is getting less happy.
"Even within the realm of economic health, broader measures can illuminate the drivers of change and serve as leading indicators. Take, for example, citizens' perceptions of job markets. In India and China, the percentages of citizens who think that it is a good time to find a job is 40% and 36%, respectively. In the U.S. and U.K., those percentages are, respectively, 26% and 12%."
So who are the happiest people in the world, as measured by Legatum? Norway takes the crown, followed by Denmark and Sweden (which leapfrogged Australia and New Zealand this year). Rounding out the Scandinavians is Finland, just a few steps behind in the seventh spot.
Luxembourg is the healthiest nation on Earth. Iceland is the safest. Switzerland has the world's best economy and governance, according to Legatum.
What's Norway got that the rest of the world doesn't? For one thing, a stunning per capita GDP of $57,000 a year. Norwegians have the second-highest level of satisfaction with their standards of living: 95% say they are satisfied with the freedom to choose the direction of their lives; an unparalleled 74% say other people can be trusted. It sure doesn't hurt that the massive Norwegian welfare state is bankrolled by high taxes and big reserves of offshore oil and gas.
On the other side of the spectrum, the lowest ranking, or saddest country on the Prosperity Index, is the Central African Republic. There the per capita GDP is $790 per year, life expectancy is 48, and just 2% of people have internet access at home. Right behind the CAR at the bottom are Congo, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe and Haiti.
Though the good people at the Legatum Group (founded by New Zealand billionaire Christopher Chandler) are certainly making a good faith effort toward figuring out the key traits of successful societies, there are some areas where their data is unreliable.
Many of the inputs for the Index come from surveys of citizens in the countries. This is problematic because opinion polls are inherently subjective, and because of cultural and educational differences people in different countries may have starkly varying takes on the same circumstance.
The measurement of "social capital" is problematic as well, as one of the inputs reflects the percentage of citizens who "attended a place of worship" in the past week. I agree that many people glean a lot of social cohesion by going to church, temple or mosque, but there's also plenty of folks who get the same sense of peace from going to yoga class on the beach or a walk in the woods.
That said, the Legatum survey does a better job of measuring true "happiness" than some of the similar surveys out there.
"Did you feel well-rested yesterday? Were you treated with respect all day yesterday? Did you smile or laugh a lot yesterday? Did you learn or do something interesting yesterday?"
I don't know about you, but that kind of data gathering is way too subjective for me.
According to Gallup's findings, the happiest people in the world live in Panama and Paraguay, followed by El Salvador and Venezuela, then Trinidad and Tobago, Thailand, Guatemala, the Philippines, Ecuador and Costa Rica.
Of course there's a lot of cultural bias represented in Gallup's study. As Thailand is known as "The Land of A Thousand Smiles," is it really any surprise that the Thais would say they had smiled a lot yesterday?
Among the saddest, according to Gallup's survey, are the citizens of war-torn regions like Iraq and Afghanistan and Yemen as well as the likes of Lithuania, Belarus, Serbia, Georgia and Armenia.
Could it be that some people are just more prone to be dour? "Feeling unhappy is part of the national mentality here," said Agaron Adibekian, an Armenian sociologist interviewed recently by the Associated Press. "Armenians like being mournful; there have been so many upheavals in the nation's history. The Americans keep their smiles on and avoid sharing their problems with others. And the Armenians feel ashamed about being successful."
But the most unhappy people according to Gallup's questionnaire, are the citizens of Singapore.
This is kind of shocking, considering that Singapore ranked 19th overall on Legatum's index, and 3rd highest on worldwide economic measures. If anyone should be happy it's Singapore.
And yet Richard Low, a 33-year-old Singaporean businessman told the AP: "We work like dogs and get paid peanuts. There's hardly any time for holidays or just to relax in general because you're always thinking ahead: when the next deadline or meeting is. There is hardly a fair sense of work-life balance here."
So Singaporeans are prosperous but unhappy? Overworked, but comfortable? What would you rather be?
It all makes me think of British philosopher John Stuart Mill, who described the social theory of utilitarianism, which holds that one must always act so as to produce the greatest aggregate happiness for the greatest number of people. Mill recognized however that what constitutes happiness (and its lesser cousin contentment) is completely subjective, and depends on who you ask.
Said Mill: "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question."
Do you have any thoughts on the best way to measure "happiness"? Would you rather be a pig satisfied than a human dissatisfied? Leave a comment below. And follow me on Twitter @chrishelman.


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Mobile network Cell C has launched Hangman, a new online reality show
Reality mission: To find South Africa's next great innovator. Michael Bratt went along to the launch to find out more.
With R1 million in prize money up for grabs, Hangman follows on from Cell C's first online Break the Net reality talent show, which streamed on the service provider's Cell C Reality App last year. This year's show is based on the cellular provider's positioning. Cell C CEO Jose Dos Santos explains: "Our strategic focus is around bringing relevance to the South African market through service offerings. A key focus is providing value added services and segmented content that is being consumed daily online. Customers are hungry for new, unique, fresh and entertaining content."
The company describes the initiative as "a show unlike anything on any screen anywhere" and "a global first in interactive, immersive entertainment that puts viewers in the driver's seat".
The format and the 'Backers'
Hangman consists of two content streams, namely the actual online show itself and the audience participation side of it. During the show, contestants will have to prove their mettle in a series of gruelling challenges. The twist is that their fate is not just determined by their performance alone. They will have to win the approval of 'Backers', captains of industry and investment with keen business acumen and ruthless standards. They include businesswoman Phuti Mahanyele, celebrity economist Iraj Abedian, self-made billionaire Quinton van der Burgh and Bonang Mohale, chairman of Shell South Africa Energy Limited.
Speaking at the launch, Mohale shared his thoughts on business. "Being an entrepreneur means succeeding against all odds. It's not about resources… most successful people didn't start with a loan". He added, "Real entrepreneurs believe in themselves and their ideas… We've confused entrepreneurship with educated… What you need to be an entrepreneur is just an idea and failures where you keep going and pick yourself up".
Van der Burgh touched on why he decided to sign up to be part of the show. "I probably don't have the time, but we're making it work. And that's what I'm looking for in individuals on the show".
Audience interaction
The second content stream for the show is a virtual Stock Exchange called 'The Exchange' and a hub, which gives viewers the chance to truly immerse themselves in the programme. On the hub, viewers can meet the Backers, be inspired by successful innovators and get expert business insights. It will be constantly updated with "hot off the press" content straight from the Hangman set and also contains The Exchange interactive game, where viewers become stock exchange brokers. By participating in The Exchange, viewers will also help determine the outcome of the show and stand a chance to win great prizes and rewards, including smartphones, data, cash, vouchers and a car.
Rewarded for downloading and utilising the app
Hangman is open to anyone residing or working in South Africa who wants to participate in the competition or just view the series. This can be done by downloading the Cell C Reality App on Android or iOS to access the shows and to register for the competition. The app's access will be zero rated for Cell C customers and any breakout from the App will be charged as per current data depletion.
Not only does The Exchange have a rewards programme, but the app does as well. It has a built-in points programme where points are awarded when customers download and interact within the app. Points are awarded for every week customers are active in the app, every time a video is viewed, when they create a profile, and more. All customers that download the Cell C Reality App automatically receive 100 000 points which they can use to participate in the The Exchange.
"It's breakneck entertainment that sees contestants put their bodies on the line in the pressure cooker of innovation and turns viewers into real-time investors," says Bl!nk Pictures director Odette Schwegler who was commissioned by Cell C to produce Hangman, a Cell C original.
The contestants
The reality show gives wings to the aspirations of entrepreneurs who have identified a gap in the market and have come up with an innovation that fills that space and want to bring it to the market. "We are not seeking out a great businessman looking for an investment for a daily run-of-the-mill business or the sharp up-and-coming exec looking for a six-figure salary. It's all about the innovators," Schwegler adds. For the winner, R1 million; for the losers, the hangman's noose!
Dos Santos concludes, "Cell C is delighted to present this fully interactive and unscripted format with Hangman. It offers the opportunity for viewers to track innovator performance and invest 'real time' via a Cell C Stock Exchange App. They can also get involved ‒ up close and personal – by helping contestants win their tasks. We are delighted that as an innovator, Cell C is continuing with the delivery of incredible content."
Entries open from June 21 to July 21 with the show streaming online from October 9 to December 11. Contestants and viewers do not need to be a Cell C customer to play or download the app but Cell C customers will receive bonuses for participation and viewing the show.
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First of all, what is burnishing? Well, all it really means is covering the paper with pencil until no more paper shows through, it leaves a nice, subtle sheen to the work that makes it look beautifully finished.
The next thing to note is to try NOT to burnish until your last layers. Once your work is burnished you will have flattened out, or filled, all the tooth of the paper with color. It is hard to apply more color over the top of burnished work. You can apply a spray that makes the surface workable again. I have not tried these. I do know that you need to try them out on a test piece first as they can alter colours already put down.
There are several techniques that you can use to burnish and some people make it sound like some technique that is really difficult to master, but actually I have found that burnishing happens quite naturally as you build up your layers. In fact, I found out about burnishing completely by accident on my first piece of work. I was happily layering color when all of a sudden I noticed that there was a point when everything magically seemed to blend together and a gorgeous sheen appeared on my work. That prompted me to Google what was happening and I found out it was burnishing. That is still all that I do, but you can do other things.
You can use blending tools such as stumps and tortillons to burnish. These simply flatten and smooth out the pencil by the application of pressure. They will not change the colors of your work, you will just add sheen.
You can use colorless blenders in the same way, but be aware that they may brighten or darken your colors.
You can also simply use pencil pressure to burnish. Applying heavy pressure to the pencil pushes the color deep into the tooth of the paper. I rarely do this because it is very hard on your arm and wrist over time. It works well though, as long as you are certain that you are on your last layers.
Don't ever think that there is anything complicated about using colored pencil, you will get beautiful, professional results without worrying about burnishing or blending if you just keep adding light layers of neat strokes.


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Gluten-free prescribing
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Decision of the Governing Body
Chase Farm Urgent Care Centre
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PPG representative election
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We would like to thank everyone for their contributions to this consultation. Every individual contribution was analysed and the collective feedback was themed and used to compile a consultation report. Following a review of all the information gathered during the consultation period, a recommendation was made to the CCG's Governing Body meeting on 15 March 2017. The decision that the Governing Body made is explained below.
Following a thorough review of clinical data and feedback gathered during the consultation period, the recommended action to the Governing Body was that the Chase Farm PAU should be redesigned from its current form. Enfield CCG's Governing Body agreed this decision at their meeting on 15 March 2017, giving the instruction that the PAU at Chase Farm should be redesigned from its current form and a new model of care implemented. Enfield CCG is working closely with the provider of the Chase Farm PAU, the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, to implement the new model of care. The current Chase Farm PAU will close on 19th June 2017, and from this date children and young people triaged in the Urgent Care Centre who require to be seen by a paediatrician will i) if urgent be transferred the same day to the PAU at Barnet Hospital or North Middlesex University Hospital, ii) if less urgent will be given a rapid access outpatient appointment within two weeks, and iii) all other children who require an outpatient appointment will go through the normal route via their GP.
About this closed consultation (17 October 2016-15 January 2017)
We want to hear your views about our proposed changes to the Paediatric Assessment Unit at Chase Farm Hospital
The Paediatric Assessment Unit (PAU) at Chase Farm Hospital is open from 9am-9pm, every day. The service is led by a Paediatric Consultant supported by nurses and is co-located with the Urgent Care Centre. It sees and treats children between 0-18 years old who have minor illnesses, injuries or a worsening long-term condition like asthma.
The PAU is not a self-referral unit. Ninety-four per cent of children attending the Urgent Care Centre are managed within the Urgent Care Centre, with very few children referred into the PAU. Access to the PAU is usually through a patient's GP who requests a referral to the service or via a clinician at another service, such as the Urgent Care Centre. The PAU also provides telephone advice to local GPs.
Enfield CCG is proposing changes to the way that the care for children is currently delivered at the Chase Farm Hospital site. We are proposing to close the PAU at the Chase Farm site and introduce a different model of care which will deliver better care for children.
We would like to hear your views on our proposal to decommission (close) the current PAU service.
Children with urgent care needs would still be seen and managed within the Urgent Care Centre;
Some children may require a transfer to Barnet Hospital or North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust for more specific paediatric care and those transfers will continue as they do now;
However there will be some children who would benefit from seeing a paediatrician but will not have immediate needs. Those children will therefore be given access to an urgent outpatient appointment within two weeks.
We would particularly like to hear from those affected by the proposals, but everyone's views are welcome as this consultation affects the way the CCG spends public money on healthcare.
The consultation commences on Monday 17 October 2016 and closes on Sunday 15 January 2017.
For more details please download the consultation document and the frequently asked questions document.
You can give us your views by:
completing our online questionnaire - NOW CLOSED
attending one of our public events on:
Wednesday 9 November at the Dugdale Centre, Enfield from 6pm-8pm, or (agenda)
Thursday 8 December at Community House, Edmonton from 2pm-4pm (agenda)
Wednesday 11 January 2017 at Eldon Children's Centre, Eldon Primary School, Ground Floor Hall, Edmonton, N9 8LG from 9am-11am
To book a place at one of our engagement events please either register online, email enfccg.communications@nhs.net or call 020 3688 2814.
If you would like a copy of the consultation document and the questionnaire in another format please contact enfccg.communications@nhs.net or call 0203 688 2822
PAU engagement report (0.65 MB)
Paediatric Assessment Unit consultation document (0.31 MB)
Chase Farm Paediatric Assessment Unit - FAQ17.10.16 (0.14 MB)
Paediatric Assessment Unit consultation questionnaire (0.03 MB)
Paediatric assessment unit consultation event 9.11.16 - agenda (0.03 MB)
PAU public meeting 11.01.17 advert (0.21 MB)


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5 women die in Bay Area limo fire
By Los Angeles Times Staff
May 5, 2013 12 AM PT
Authorities are trying to determine the cause of a fire that killed five women in a limousine late Saturday as it crossed the San Mateo Bridge in the Bay Area.
The fire appeared to have started in the back of the limo, officials told the San Jose Mercury News. A total of 10 people were inside the vehicle when the fire started, and five — including the driver — were able to escape.
Witnesses told the California Highway Patrol of a horrific scene of people inside the limo not able to get out as the flames advanced, according to KGO-TV.
KTVU-TV obtained a dramatic photo from a viewer that shows flames coming from the back of the white Lincoln Town Car.
"We have no idea right now where they were going or where they were coming from," CHP officer Amelia Jack told the TV station.
According to the Associated Press:
The blaze occurred around 10 p.m. on westbound lanes of the bridge, which connects San Mateo and Alameda counties, about 20 miles southeast of San Francisco.
The Highway Patrol said smoke started coming out of the rear of the limo and the driver pulled over as the vehicle quickly became engulfed in flames. Officers were trying to determine the cause of the blaze, which wasn't the result of an accident.
Two of the women who escaped were taken to Stanford Hospital and the two others were taken to Valley Medical Center in San Jose. All four are being treated for smoke inhalation and burns.
Some Springs fire crews being sent home
Wallet found after 66 years holds family treasure
One killed, another injured as car hits power pole in Lancaster


Who knows what haunts the night at the dark point of the year? This collection of seasonal chillers looks beneath Christmas cheer to a world of ghosts and horrors, mixing terrifying modern fiction with classic stories by masters of the macabre. From Neil Gaiman and M. R. James to Muriel Spark and E. Nesbit, there are stories here to make the hardiest soul quail – so find a comfy chair, lock the door, ignore the cold breath on your neck and get ready to welcome in the real spirits of Christmas.
Taking the time to get to know your body, treating it with respect and nourishing it with real fresh food is the single most important thing you can do for yourself. Eating mindfully, cutting out processed foods and embracing the foods that fuel you and leave you feeling energised are all part of the journey to finding happiness with food.


Made the trip down the Skyline Dr and the Blue Ridge Parkway,... WOW, 12 years ago already.
Taking a full week is doable, any less and you might as well take the X-way.
I ordered the America Rides Maps several years ago. A very good set of maps. I use them whenever I Ride in that part of the country.
Meeting up with Al (MiWinger51) at Burger King for the Ride down. Looking forward to meeting up with others on the way down.
Sorry some had to cancel for reasons beyond their control. That hurricane had me second guessing too.
Hey James, Does this ol' Ford Graveyard look familiar to ya? It's SW of Tallahassee on a N-S Hwy.
I forget exactly where. We were at the Sheriff's Boys Ranch near Live Oak on a mission project. While there I took some time for Riding.
I hate to tell ya, this camera is JUNK! I didn't know it was still available.
I had one 2-3 years ago. It never did work right.


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The critical firmament is in near total agreement on John Huston's paean to the destructive power of greed; ergo, it is precisely in the face of such allegedly inarguable greatness that the determinedly independent thinker often expects to find a wild, streaking emperor. Look elsewhere. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) is the goods, a model of clean narrative invention, unimpeachably great acting, and unfussy direction so devoid of ostentation, the viewer is immersed in the story without ever feeling the need to utter "great shot." This is not to say the film isn't shot through with visual genius — it is, but its money-shots are economical transitions or subtle framing best appreciated on repeat viewings. Until that level of familiarity is reached, it's merely one of the bleakest assessments of human nature to ever escape Hollywood's conforming grasp. While critical enthusiasm has not dimmed in the decades since the film's release, there's still a sense that Sierra Madre is beloved more by the buffs than the casual fan. This is likely attributable to the quick deterioration of its ostensible protagonist, Fred C. Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart), a descent made all the more jarring by the intensity of Bogart's fearless performance, the uniqueness of which is the real reason the film sticks in memory. Bogart's portrayal of Dobbs is perhaps the finest example of a movie star fearlessly going against type in the history of film. Nearing his level of brilliance is Walter Huston, the director's father, as Howard, the grizzled old prospector who leads Dobbs and another fortune hunter named Curtin (Tim Holt) into the baking Mexican back-country searching for that most corrupting of all treasures: gold. Along the way, they encounter a nosy, calculating plunderer, Cody (Bruce Bennett), and a murderous swarm of banditos led by the smiling Gold Hat (Alfonso Bedoya), who gets the film's famous (and famously misquoted) line about not needing to show any "stinking badges." The film is a smart, nearly uncompromising depiction of human avarice, and it's never less than wildly entertaining thanks to Huston's sure hand. Warner's special edition DVD of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre offers a full-screen transfer (1.33:1) that looks positively stunning. Audio comes in monaural Dolby Digital 2.0, and it is similarly impressive. The extras on this two-disc set are mouth watering, and it's a pleasure to report that they're immensely satisfying and entertaining from top to bottom. Disc One offers up a commentary from Bogart biographer Eric Lax, a "Warner Night at the Movies, 1948" option (25 min.), which allows the viewer to experience the film as it would've been viewed a half-century ago by watching a theatrical trailer, a newsreel, a comedy short subject and a Merrie Melodies cartoon. Also on Disc One is a Humphrey Bogart trailer gallery. Disc Two features the exhaustive documentary "John Huston: The Man, The Movies, The Maverick" (128 min.), and the shorter "Discovering Treasure: The Story of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (50 min.) There's also the classic Looney Tunes short "8 Ball Bunny," in which Fred C. Dobbs is used as a running joke, and the Lux Radio Theater 1949 broadcast of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, to which Bogart and Huston lend their voices. Rounding out the disc are several galleries. Dual-DVD digipak with paperboard slipcase.


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Veterans Memorial; it is a peaceful venue and a unique place to see a historic monument.
Lynwood Park Zoo; it is a zoo that is a hit with most kids.
Jacksonville Mall; this is a great place for shopping, especially for youngsters.
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Writer Pearl Buck once called New York City "a place apart," and this giant urban center remains unlike any other in the world.
Get a sense of the local culture at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Statue of Liberty National Monument. 9/11 Memorial and Trinity Church will appeal to history buffs. Venture out of the city with trips to Benmarl Vineyards and Winery (in Marlboro), Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum (in Hyde Park) and Bronx Zoo (in Bronx). And it doesn't end there: take in the pleasant sights at Central Park, explore the world behind art at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), take a stroll through Times Square, and admire the landmark architecture of Empire State Building.
To find more things to do, photos, traveler tips, and other tourist information, read our New York City day trip planner .
If you are flying in from United Kingdom, the closest major airports are La Guardia Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport and John F Kennedy International Airport. In June, daytime highs in New York City are 31°C, while nighttime lows are 21°C. Finish your sightseeing early on the 29th (Sat) to allow enough time to travel back home.
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Whether Olson or the pope has any insight of American history or economics, it appears questionable. Capitalism is the engine that propelled America to the highest level of prosperity in the world and allowed individuals the opportunity to achieve their highest potential.
Other economic systems, like socialism (Venezuela, Cuba, etc.) and communism, have failed again and again. It is not capitalism that is evil, but the greed of individuals that is evil, and greed exists absolutely in socialism and other so-called social economic systems.


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Change is hard. I have been posting for years to HHSW here on WordPress and on Tumblr. Over 134k followers combined. I am using WordPress more and more. I find change has been challenging for me. Diet, exercise, expenses, and mindset.
So what next? I am doing the EOFire challenge of 100 days. I enjoy it. I do not see any change except I am doing his book every day. I like that and it picks me up.
What's next? The usual. Exercise. Diet. Staying in my budget. Keeping my positive mindset. It is not easy. I have chosen this course and it is unfortunately a marathon. I want everything right now like a spoiled child. One day at a time. 2 years from my goal.
My main goal is the change. I know where I want to be and should be there in 2 years. 24 months. Over 700 days. I want everything. No idea why. So I have to remind myself of the ultimate goal.


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Donald Trump prepared to apologise for UK far-right video retweets
US president tells ITV he did not know of Britain First and only wanted to oppose Islamic terror
'I would certainly apologise': Trump on Britain First retweets – video
Graham Ruddick and Peter Walker
Fri 26 Jan 2018 05.40 EST
First published on Fri 26 Jan 2018 02.03 EST
Donald Trump has said he is prepared to apologise for retweeting inflammatory videos by the far-right group Britain First, as he seeks to prepare the ground for a visit to the UK this year.
In an interview with ITV's Good Morning Britain, the US president said he had known nothing about Britain First when he shared the posts by the group's deputy leader, Jayda Fransen, late last year, prompting a rebuke from Theresa May.
"If you are telling me they're horrible people – horrible, racist people – I would certainly apologise if you'd like me to do that," he told the presenter, Piers Morgan.
Who are Britain First?
Britain First is an Islamophobic group run by convicted racists. It was founded in 2011 by former members of the far-right British National Party (BNP) and loyalist extremists in Northern Ireland.
It organises mosque invasions where followers, often dressed in paramilitary uniforms, raid multicultural areas in the UK.
The group has an influential presence on Facebook and actively uses social media to publicise anti-Islamic material.
Its leader, Paul Golding, a former BNP councillor, and his deputy Jayda Fransen have been arrested several times.
Fransen was found guilty in November 2016 of religiously aggravated harassment after she hurled abuse at a Muslim woman wearing a hijab. A month later Golding was jailed for eight weeks for breaching a court order banning him from entering a mosque.
Rightwing terrorist Thomas Mair shouted "Britain first" before killing the MP Jo Cox during the EU referendum campaign in 2016.
Trump said he retweeted the posts because of his opposition to Islamist terrorism. The tweets featured videos including one supposedly showing a Muslim immigrant hitting a Dutch boy on crutches. Dutch authorities later said the perpetrator was born and raised in the Netherlands.
Of Britain First, which has an estimated 1,000 followers, Trump said: "I know nothing about them, and I know nothing about them today, other than I read a little bit."
"Perhaps it was a big story in Britain, perhaps it was a big story in the UK, but in the United States it wasn't a big story.
"They had a couple of depictions of radical Islamic terror. It was done because I am a big believer in fighting radical Islamic terror. This was a depiction of radical Islamic terror."
Trump's offer of an apology came after Downing Street said plans were being made for him to visit the UK in the second half of this year, a trip previously postponed because of the threat of mass protests.
May invited Trump for a full state visit when she went to Washington shortly after his inauguration last year, but no date has been set amid reports Trump is wary of receiving a hostile reception.
Retweeting from Britain First was the wrong thing to do, says May – video
Last month he also called off a trip to open the new US embassy in London, again reportedly because of concern about protests.
The newly planned visit, which was agreed by Trump and May at the end of talks on Thursday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, is expected to be a working visit, though there are reports he could meet the Queen.
Morgan interviewed Trump at the Swiss resort, where the US president is gave a speech on Friday.
The full interview will air on Sunday at 10pm on ITV. Clips were shown on Friday's edition of Good Morning Britain. In the interview Trump said he was a tremendous supporter of the UK and that May was doing a "very good job".
During the meeting with May in Davos, Trump promised the US would always "be there" for Britain, assured the PM "we love your country", and said the two leaders "like each other a lot".
Trump, having put May at the top of the list for his bilateral talks in Davos, rejected the idea that Washington-London relations had soured.
Trump said his talks with May at the World Economic Forum had been great. Photograph: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images
Sitting next to the prime minister, Trump said reports of tension were "a false rumour". He added: "We're on the same wavelength in, I think, every respect," he said. It is understood May did not raise the issue of Trump's Britain First retweets. After the meeting, Trump tweeted that the talks had been "great".
Detailed planning that must now get under way for Trump's visit will include calculating the scale of the security operation. There has been speculation that his arrival will trigger the biggest protests since the anti-Iraq war demonstration in 2003.
Morgan, the former editor of the Daily Mirror and News of the World, got to know Trump in 2008 when he won Celebrity Apprentice in the US, which was hosted by the billionaire. Morgan's Twitter account is one of just 45 the president follows.
Morgan interviewed Trump for Good Morning Britain in May 2016 during the US election campaign and has previously said he has interviewed him more than 30 times through his various on-screen roles. In the 2016 interview Trump accused Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, of being rude and ignorant. The pair have clashed online over terrorism in the capital.
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Modernist Japanese photography has been among the focus of several of Kicken Berlin's exhibitions in recent years, including the 2013-2014 study of the international movement of subjektive fotografie (subjective photography) and its iterations in the Far East, South America, and elsewhere. German photographer and teacher Otto Steinert originally brought the movement to Japan in the mid-nineteen-fifties, where it fell on fertile ground. The photographers assembled here are largely not those included in typical Western compendia of Japanese photography. They constitute but a tiny fraction of a rich, creative photographic scene that was inspired and able to convey fresh and unseen imagery. Deeply rooted in the visible, the works transform the world at hand into an extraordinary aesthetic experience.