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Mike Schmidt on deck, but here are a dozen more ideas for Phillies' next bobblehead
Mike Schmidt's 500th home run is coming to Citizens Bank Park this summer in bobblehead form. Surely we can think up some other memorable Phillies' moments that should receive the same treatment.
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Bobbleheads are arguably the most popular giveaway item at baseball games, particularly in the last 15 years or so, when the old-school toy became popularized again at ballparks across the country. The Dodgers may be baseball's most bobble-friendly team: they have 10 different Bobblehead Giveaway Nights planned for the 2017 season, honoring everyone from current manager Dave Roberts, left-hander Clayton Kershaw, and long-time Brooklyn Dodgers star Gil Hodges, among others. (No, there's no Chase Utley Bobblehead night scheduled … yet. The Dodgers have an "Unknown" bobble in late September).
The Dodgers have fun with it, too, producing what was arguably the most popular and unique bobblehead in the last five years when the memorialized the night in April of 1976 when Cubs outfielder Rick Monday saved an American flag from being burned by two idiots who ran onto the field at Dodger Stadium.
Rick Monday Bobblehead. pic.twitter.com/sVEmF95oBg
— Jarrid Smith (@jarridsumner) August 28, 2013
Just look at that. It's a beautiful thing.
Not every bobblehead is a success, though.
Nationals pitcher Max Scherzer, who famously has heterochromia iridum, had his condition turned into a bobble while with the Detroit Tigers… and it scared some folks (probably because it looks more like a cartoon than Scherzer). Scherzer's current teammate and former Phillies outfielder Jayson Werth saw a bobblehead of his taken off the market before it was released because it was so … odd.
In the last decade or so, the Phillies have traditionally had a couple of Bobblehead Nights each season. They could probably stand to have more. It's a popular collector's item that should bring more people through the turnstiles, right?
Growing up a baseball fan from the mid-80s through the late-90s in Philadelphia, there wasn't much memorable baseball but I definitely remember waiting in the line outside Veterans Stadium with hundreds of folks waiting to get the Harry and Whitey Bobblehead figurine, commemorating the popular broadcast duo of Hall of Famers Harry Kalas and Richie Ashburn.
The Phillies will have another popular bobblehead for fans on July 8: Mike Schmidt breaking into his 500th home run dance. The 2017 season marks 30 years since Schmidt's memorable blast in Pittsburgh.
Why stop here, Phillies?
Inspired by Schmidt, the Dodgers and Rick Monday, and many other great ones minor league teams have produced in recent seasons, we came up with a list of a dozen more Bobblehead Nights for the Phillies. Here they are, in no particular order:
John Kruk "I'm Not an Athlete, Lady" Bobblehead
The popular first baseman of the '93 NL Pennant-winning Phillies is back with the club as one of Comcast SportsNet's analysts for television broadcasts this season. So why not honor him with a Bobblehead Night, using his infamous words from his time as a professional... baseball player?
Picture this: Krukker in his prime, slumped over a chair by his Veterans Stadium locker stall, his jersey top untucked and his cap off, revealing his early 90s mullet in all its glory, with an aluminum can in his hand. No, that's not a beer! It's just a generic aluminum can, you know, like those generic hats and jerseys athletes sometimes wear in advertisements. That beverage could be anything you want it to be.
Bob Boone and Pete Rose Bobblegloves
Among individual plays in Phillies history, while putting aside the World Series clinching strikeouts in 1980 and 2008, does it get more iconic that the penultimate out of the '80 Series?
This was teamwork at its finest, and it epitomized how Pete Rose played the game, always physically and mentally prepared for every play. To put a nice bow on the play, Rose playfully bounces the ball off the infield turf to celebrate the out.
The bobblehead version is pretty simple: Rose swooping in underneath Boone, with both of their gloves in motion. You're welcome.
Cliff Lee Don't Care Bobblehead
Other than his laser-like precision throughout a large portion of his stay in Philadelphia, most notably in those three months in 2009 during his first tenure with the team, Cliff Lee was known for his nonchalance. He often didn't look like he had a care in the world. I mean, the man was very good at throwing a baseball and he was well-compensated for it, so, sure, why worry?
For as many great games as Lee hurled in a Phillies uniform, there's one play that is far more memorable: when he was in the middle of hurling a shutout in Game 1 of the '09 World Series at Yankee Stadium and barely moved off the mound to catch an infield fly off the bat of Johnny Damon. Things you didn't notice at the time: Ryan Howard goes through the signs of the cross immediately after the catch.
Jimmy "We're the Team to Beat" Rollins Bobblehead
We can play around a little bit with the facts here. Jimmy Rollins never held up a newspaper with the headline "We're the Team to Beat" emblazoned on the top fold, but wouldn't that mental picture (with J-Roll's trademark smile) make for a perfect bobblehead?
Rollins' famous words came during the winter of 2006-07, when general manager Pat Gillick saw a lineup of All-Star hitters in their prime and complemented it by adding two proven veteran pitchers to go with Cole Hamels, Brett Myers, and Jamie Moyer. Nevermind that those two veteran pitchers were Freddy Garcia and Adam Eaton. Rollins liked what he saw from the front office and declared the Phillies the team to beat in the NL East, and sure enough, they overtook the New York Mets in the final month of the season to end a 13-year playoff drought.
Tomas Perez Pie-In-Your-Face Bobblehead
Look, we can't just concentrate on the winning Phillies teams. The Phillies have a long history and a lot of it didn't involve winning teams. So let's invite lovable utility man Tomas Perez back to town, have him throw out the first pitch … and then, without him knowing, have someone like Freddy Galvis run onto the field and slam him with a pie in the face.
Perez played for parts of five seasons (2000-05) with the Phillies, just before the team's memorable run. Let's include an all-time great Phillie in the pie-in-your-face bobble: Perez can nail his fellow Venezuelan Bobby Abreu with a face-full of shaving cream in this bobble figurine.
Aaron Rowand's Poor Face Bobblehead
If you're noticing that most of these bobbleheads recognize players from the last 40 years, well, you guessed my age right. We'll have an old school one coming up on this list in a bit, I promise. But as for iconic moments at Citizens Bank Park, Rowand sacrificing his face (and his head, really) to make a catch in the first inning of an early May game in 2006 against the Mets.
There are two options with the bobble: one of Rowand's head bobbing into the wall (this feels too graphic) and the other of his Rocky Balboa-looking face at the press conference a few days later when he memorably answered the Ricky Watters' "For Who? For What?" question wit this gem: "For who? My teammates. For what? To win. That's what it's all about." I'm going with the latter.
Curt Schilling Towel Over His Bobblehead
When creating this list, this was an easy one to consider cutting since Schilling was never really a likable player among many of his teammates (and this moment surely didn't help) and he hasn't really become much of a likable person in recent years either, getting fired from ESPN for his, at best, politically-incorrect outspokenness on social media.
But it's just a great bobblehead so we couldn't let this opportunity pass. Schilling told me a few years ago this whole thing was overblown (I can't find the link to that story, sadly) and, to be fair, he apparently made the towel over the head a regular thing in his other big league stops, too, according to a quick search of the Associated Press photo wire. But this moment commemorated on a bobblehead coming to CBP sometime soon was when Schilling, removed from the game, had to watch the erratic Mitch Williams pitch in the postseason.
It was like someone watching a horror movie, afraid to watch so much that all they could do is peer through their fingers. It's a perfect bobblehead.
Utley Parade Celebration Bobblehead
There are three letters you could more accurately use to describe this bobblehead. We all know what happened, what he said. And there's nothing more to be said here, other than that this (with Utley grinning wearing that beanie) would be arguably the most popular bobblehead in the history of Philadelphia.
Steve Carlton Eats Soup With a Fork Bobblehead
When you earn the nickname "Lefty," you've done something right. Steve Carlton isn't just the best Phillies pitcher in the franchise's long history, but one of the best left-handers in baseball history, too. Carlton's fastball-curveball-slider repertoire helped him strike out 4,136 batters, fourth in MLB history.
And it was that same repertoire that led to this famously terrific quote from Pittsburgh's Willie Stargell in 1972: "Hitting against Steve Carlton is like eating soup with a fork." Perfect: Steve Carlton, in full powder blue and maroon uniform, sitting down, smiling, with a bowl of soup in one hand and a fork in the other. In Bobblehead form.
Tug McGraw Bobblehead
Sometimes the most obvious ideas are the best because they're obvious for good reason. The Phillies had gone nearly an entire century of existence (from 1883 through 1979) without ever being crowned baseball's champion until Tug McGraw struck out Willie Wilson to end Game 6 of the 1980 World Series.
The Brad Lidge-Carlos Ruiz hug should have probably been on a bobblehead already, too. But McGraw came first. Let's make it happen. His son, Tim, can throw out the first pitch.
Cole Hamels Cincinnati Fist Pump Bobblehead
Full disclosure: nearly knocked this off the list at the last minute in favor of a 2008 Game 5 of the World Series bobblehead, of a drenched Cole Hamels delivering to the plate (with a detachable umbrella you can prop over his head). Of course that was a memorable game, as was his last in a Phillies uniform at Wrigley Field two summers ago.
But has Hamels ever looked more dominant than on that Sunday night in Cincinnati in Game 3 of the 2010 NLDS? It's easy to forget that game since it was just two games after Roy Halladay's postseason no-hitter and only 13 days before the Phillies were eliminated by the Giants.
But to clinch a series sweep over the Reds, Hamels held the home team to five hits in a shutout, striking out nine of the 31 batters he faced, including some guy named Scott Rolen to end the game. Hamels celebrated with a fist pump that became an endless meme, thanks to the folks at zoowithroy.com.
Even Hamels got in on the photoshop fun a couple of years later.
Eddie Waitkus Shot In a Hotel Room Bobblehead
OK, OK. I hear you. This got awful dark all of a sudden. I apologize. I'm not trying to make light of a man getting shot by a madwoman in Chicago in 1949. Since Waitkus survived – and was back in the Phillies lineup on Opening Day the next year, even – it's perfectly OK to use a bobblehead to teach kids some history. Because I bet very few of those kids know that a Philadelphia Phillie inspired Bernard Malamud's 'The Natural.' Also: guns are not toys nor are they safe, kids!
Special Bonus: Three more!
I hate to end on a guy getting shot, so let's throw three more Phillies bobblehead ideas out there quickly:
• No one can forget Matt Stairs iconic home run at Dodger Stadium in the 2008 NLCS. You know what was even better? When he said how there was no better feeling than "getting his (butt) hammered by guys" upon returning to the dugout. So, that: a bobble of Stairs getting congratulated by, say, Pat Burrell and Ryan Howard, at the top of the visiting dugout at Dodger Stadium.
• The aforementioned Harry Kalas-Richie Ashburn Bobble is the best in Phillies bobblehead history, although Charlie Manuel Celebrating the World Series Bobblehead is right there, too. Since Kalas is so popular, let's roll out one of him calling the final out in 2008 with another long-time broadcaster by his side in Chris Wheeler. Yes, it'll be Wheels' arms doing the bobbing here.
• Robin Roberts. The Phillies have not had a Robin Roberts bobblehead yet as far as I know. (If you know differently, please tell me). This has to be corrected. The late Roberts wasn't just one of the nicest people you felt lucky enough to have met, but a Hall of Fame pitcher who pitched three times in a five-day span (including 10 innings in the third of those games, to collect his 20th win) to help the Phillies clinch the pennant in 1950. Give the man a bobbing head.
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Peoples Budget
The People's Budget: MTBPS 2019
20 Nov 2019 (2 years, 1 month ago)
"As things stand in this country, there's 10% of the population that currently gets 90% of the money in this country. That means that 90% of the population are living in poverty" - Noxolo of Amandla.mobi*
A brief look into some of the sentiments around the MTBPS. Listen below or read the transcript** below.
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On the 30th of October 2019 Minister of Finance, Tito Mboweni delivered the Mid-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) which outlines the country's economic priorities over the next three years as prepared by the National Treasury.
The first mid-term budget policy statement was published on the 2nd of December 1997. Under Section 28 of the Public Finance Management Act 1999, the Minister of Finance is obliged to table multi-year budget projections for revenue, expenditure and key macro-economic projections on an annual basis.
The MTBPS presentation is considered to be one of the most formative events in Parliament's calendar as it provides a summary of government's economic policy (fiscal) goals and objectives, as well as projections for the country's economy and public finances.
In a nutshell, this year's MTBPS highlighted some of the key challenges faced by the economy, which include stagnant growth, escalating debt, the large public sector wage bill, and the fiscal risk posed by the state-owned entities.
Various groupings and stakeholders such as trade unions, farmers, pensioners and economists have criticised the MTBPS for proposing public expenditure cuts across the board as they believe that will stifle the country's economic growth prospects in the short to medium-term.
During the MTBPS public hearings, the Budget Justice Coalition (BJC) denounced the MTBPS saying that the proposed move to effect austerity measures will have adverse outcomes on economic growth, employment and service delivery, and called for a budget that prioritizes intersectional feminist budgeting.
In their submission, BJC highlighted that in a number of countries austerity has resulted in higher levels of unemployment and inequality. This is alarming because as it stands South Africa is considered to be one of the most unequal societies in the world and a push to full-blown austerity will only widen the gap between the rich and the poor.
Here's what Busi Sibeko of the BJC had to say:
"Hi my name is Busi Sibeko, and I'm here from the Institute for Economic Justice, but I'm here representing the Budget Justice Coalition. Which is a coalition of organizations. So we are here today for a submission which is based on the idea of feminism, and the reason why wave specifically chosen feminist is because we consider ourselves to be looking at the budget through a non-binary ad intersectional lens which considers the lived experience of many.
South Africa was one of first countries to introduce Gender-Responsive Budgeting. Yet we have failed to deliver on this commitment since 1995 essentially. So this is why we are calling for feminist budgeting. Also, evidence has shown that austerity budgets, which is what South Africa has been implementing since 2014/15, expenditure cuts have shown to have negative impacts on women and children and other vulnerable groups. So we are calling for fiscal stimulus, we are calling for the revision of the public sector wage bill and saying that they need to look at the equity of it as opposed to the size of it. We are also looking at proposing that other revenue measures be considered; such as taxing more of the capital gains of the wealthy and so forth and other innovative ways of raising revenue. We are also calling for a real debt-management plan for the state owned enterprises and that a feminist budgeting lens needs to really be applied such that we can ensure that women, children, and people of different genders are really considered into the budget and that the budget serves the majority as opposed to a few. "
In October last year the Centre for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) urged the government to put an end to its austerity measures as the results will have a direct impact on the citizens' human rights. This was later supported by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which called for "more inclusive economic policies and a review of fiscal policy to enable the government to meet its constitutional and international human rights obligations", which South Africa agreed to be bound by in 2015.
International experience reveals that it is the most poor and marginalized that suffer the brunt of austerity. In the case of South Africa this will be most felt by Black and coloured women, unemployed youth and pensioners.
Representing one of the most marginalized groups in society at the MTBPS, the Pietermaritzburg Pensioners Forum made their fourth appearance in Parliament requesting an increase in their grant in the form of a 13th cheque. Their campaign on Amandla.mobi remains one of the most signed petitions on the site.
This is what they had to say:
"It's not our first time coming here. It's actually our fourth and we are still asking for the same thing and that is for the government to increase our pension. Initially we has requested that our pension be increased every year. As we head into the festive season, once again our plea is that at the minimum they give us an increase for December.
We hope that one day our government will remember that we voted for them to occupy those seats and will look back. If government doesn't know where to get the money they should take it from the Ministers and give to the pensioners. So that pensioners can also live. We also want to live and raise our kids.
We are here to ask that our pension be increased. We were really happy when heard that our grant had been increased by R100 when Malusi Gigaba was Minister of Finance. Then Tito Mboweni increased it by R80. This amount already does not make much of a difference because we have children that we feed. When the children go to school we are left with nothing. When you go buy with that R1700 you leave it all at the store."
On the bright side, it is worth taking note of the fact that the MTBPS does not reflect the government's final budget. Instead, it is meant to "open up the debate before the actual Budget is finalised" . The mini-budget is currently being processed by Parliament in a prescribed manner as outlined in the Money Bills Act. Members of the public still have a chance to submit their comments on the MTBPS until the 22nd of November 2019.
Read our mini-budget process timeline to get a picture of what is to come here.
A note of correction from Amandla.Mobi
The first sentence in the quote mentions a statistic which is based on a href="https://www.sahrc.org.za/home/21/files/SAHRC%20Equality%20Report%202017_18.pdf"> South African Human Rights Commission Report Equality Report 2017/2018
However, the word 'money' was used instead of the word 'wealth' for which we apologise. Furthermore, a recent Stats SA report states the top 10% have 67% of the wealth.
The second sentence in the quote is completely incorrect. 90% of the population are not living in poverty. As per this href="https://africacheck.org/factsheets/factsheet-south-africas-official-poverty-numbers/">Africa Check articlepoverty is measured in different ways
We would like to apologise for this incorrect statement. amandla.mobi takes accuracy very seriously and has worked to put in place training and internal processes to make sure we use reliable sources of information.
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Personnalités
 René Strehler, coureur cycliste professionnel.
 Walter Grab (1927-1989), peintre surréaliste suisse.

Notes et références

Liens externes

Ville en Suisse
Commune du canton de Zurich

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Schloss Drasing steht auf einer bewaldeten Anhöhe nördlich von Krumpendorf. 1284 und 1362 wurde Schloss Drasing erstmals urkundlich erwähnt. Vermutlich bestand es schon in karolingischer Zeit als Vorburg der Pfalz Moosburg. 1379 gelangte die Burg an die Familie Färber, deren Mitglieder damals Dienstleute des Stiftes Gurk waren. 1492 verlieh Kaiser Friedrich III. das heimgefallene Drasing dem Sebald Feulner. Die Burg blieb bis 1640 im Besitz der Feulner, als die Feulner Kärnten verlassen mussten. Johann Christof Deutenhofer kaufte Drasing. Hohe Schulden zwangen schließlich Maria Eleonora Freiin von Deutenhofer 1730 Drasing an Matthias Karl Freiherr von Rechbach zu verkaufen. 1777 erwarb es Josef von Reindlingen, der es nach dem Tod seiner Gattin 1797 seinem Verwalter, Josef Edler von Hueber, überließ. Im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert fanden häufige Eigentümerwechsel statt. 1810 Maria Genoveva von Strohlendorf, 1840 der Viktringer Textilfabrikant Thomas Ritter von Moro. 1842/1843 ließ Thaddäus Lanner das Schloss instand setzen und den Turm an der Südostecke erhöhen. 1906 erfolgten neuerlich Sanierungsmaßnahmen. Weitere Renovierungsarbeiten fanden 1973 durch die Familie Kos statt. Auch der Wiener Kabarettist Hans Peter Heinzl reiht sich in die Liste der ehemaligen Schlossbesitzer ein. 1994 erwarb der österreichische Verleger Christian W. Mucha das Anwesen und unterzog es umfangreichen Renovierungsmaßnahmen. Seither dient Drasing als Ausstellungsort für dessen Kunstsammlung.

Beschreibung
Das Schloss ist ein dreigeschoßiger, burghafter Renaissancebau des 16. Jahrhunderts mit einem Turm an der Südostecke und Zinnenbekrönung im Mittelteil der Nord- und Südfront. Über dem nördlichen Eingangsportal ist das neu angefertigte Wappen der Feulner zu sehen. Der quadratische Laubenhof besitzt Pfeiler und Säulenarkaden. An einem Steinportal des ersten Stockwerkes sind ein leerer Wappenschild und Steinmetzzeichen zu sehen. Im Rittersaal im zweiten Obergeschoß des Osttraktes befindet sich ein grün glasierter Kachelofen in Renaissanceformen. Die 1660 erstmals genannte Kapelle im Erdgeschoß des Westtraktes birgt ein Gemälde von 1698 mit Christus am Kreuz.

Siehe auch
 Liste von Burgen und Schlössern in Österreich

Literatur
 Dehio-Handbuch. Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs. Kärnten. Anton Schroll, Wien 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X, S. 432.

Weblinks

Drasing
Baudenkmal (Kärnten)


Hindustan Surkhiyan Desk:New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern admitted her South Pacific nation was "undeniably" racist but said she is proud of efforts to stamp out the problem.
The centre-left leader was responding to comments from Kiwi film-maker Taika Waititi.
"It's racist as ***k. I mean, I think New Zealand is the best place on the planet, but it's a racist place," he said.
"I think probably you'd be hard-pressed to find a country that didn't have racism in it," she told TV3 on Tuesday.
"Is New Zealand one of them? Undeniably. Is there racism in most countries? Undeniably. Can we do better? Yes.


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The Difference Between Trump and Brexit
Joanna Williams,
Brexit and Trump's election were both ways of "sticking the finger up to the establishment," says the UK's Dr. Joanna Williams — but the two votes were very different.
Making Sense Of "Trumpism" (video): Steve Davies argues that there is a connection between the rise of Donald Trump and European populist movements, including Brexit.
Brexit Illustrates Why Voting Is One of the Worst Ways to Make Decisions (blog post): Professor Michael Munger argues that, for a number of reasons, voting is a terrible way to make decisions.
Populism is not an ideology (blog post): Joseph Salerno explains what populism is.
Dr. J. Williams: I think there's lots of very interesting parallels that we can draw and I think the main parallel is that it's essentially sticking the finger up to the establishment in both UK and the US. We've had enough of being told what to do. We've had enough of being told how to think and we, in the privacy of the voting booth, we will assert our right not to be told what to do, but I think it gives Trump too much credit and it degrades the concept of Brexit.
The vote for Brexit, I think, was a vote for independence, a vote for freedom, and the most important point about the Brexit vote was it was not for any one particular candidate. So, now you see Nigel Farage coming and having his photo taken next to Donal Trump, kind of chummying up and everything, and he's trying to claim ownership of Brexit as if this was all his doing and as if it was a vote for him. It absolutely wasn't.
Dave Rubin: Right. He was a piece of it, but he didn't get power because of it.
Dr. J. Williams: Exactly. Exactly. So, lots of people, myself included, voted Leave to vote to leave the EU without for one second endorsing Nigel Farage. We did not think Nigel Farage represented us. We did not want Nigel Farage to represent us. We hate an awful lot of the things that he stood for and yet still felt able to vote Leave because to vote Leave was a vote for independence, a vote for freedom. For me, it was about saying I want to be able to vote out the people who make laws that have an impact upon my life. I think that's a really basic fundamental right of a democracy. If you live in a democratic society if laws are made that affect your life, you should have the right to vote out the people who are making those laws. Under the EU we don't.
But that said nothing about what laws you do want to have or who you want to be governing you or what kind of system you do want to live for. It was a reaction against. We want that freedom. Whereas the vote for Trump is a vote for something. It is a vote that's going to give power to one individual. It might stem from the same root cause. There might be that same desire to tell the establishment we've had enough, but they're very, very different.
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Sean Johnson made a diving save of a sliding half-volley by Ola Kamara in the 27th and Villa made it 2-0 in the 33rd. Medina, on a counter-attack breakaway, touched it around a defender and then fed a left-footed cross to Ben Sweatt, whose shot from near the spot was stopped by a charging David Bingham. Villa tapped the rebound into the open net.
Jonathan dos Santos, from point-blank range, re-directed a cross from Emmanuel Boateng past Johnson to cap the scoring in the 60th.


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Please share this announcement with other devotees so everyone can have immediate access to information and updates about the most important spiritual project in this material universe.


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Q: To show a set is a set of positive Lebesgue measure in $ \mathbb{R}$ Let $E\subset \mathbb{R}$ be a set of positive Lebesgue measure. Can we find $l>0$ such that $$\bigcap_{-l\leq t \leq l}t+E$$ is a set of positive Lebesgue measure?
Notation: $t+E=\{t+e|e\in E\}$

A: No. Every set $E$ without interior points (e.g. the complements of the rationals) has the property that $$\bigcap_{|t|<\varepsilon}(t+E)=\emptyset$$ for every $\varepsilon>0$. Indeed, for every $x\in E$, there is $t$ with $|t|<\varepsilon$ and $x-t\notin E$, hence $x\notin\bigcap_{|t|<\varepsilon}(t+E)$.


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While in law school, Daniela served as an extern at the General Division of the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, in the chambers of Judge Stuart A. Friedman.
Represented executor, as part of litigation team, and prevailed at the Ohio Supreme Court in precedent setting matter regarding the requirements for the presentation of a claim against a decedent's estate.
Defended major financial institutions in customer disputes in arbitration before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and in state court, including defending against claims under state and federal securities and consumer protection laws, common law fraud, and similar allegations.
Successfully represented a client at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement bond hearing after the client had been detained due to the expiration of her F-1 Student Visa.
Assisted international students with applications for work authorization through F-1 Optional Practical Training and the H-1B process on behalf of numerous corporations in Silicon Valley.
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Autism (say: AW-tiz-um) is a difference in the way a kid's brain develops. Kids with autism may have trouble understanding the world around them.
What if My Friend Has Autism?
It can be hard for kids with autism to make friends. Because they seem different, kids with autism may be teased, bullied, or left out.
If you see someone teasing or bullying a friend with autism, stand up for your friend and tell an adult.
Even though kids with autism see the world in a different way, try to find the things you have in common — like school or special hobbies. Ask your friend to join in when you are playing. He or she may need a little extra help, but remember to be patient and kind.


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Illinois Cannabis Regulation & Tax Act
ARTICLE 20. ADULT USE CULTIVATION CENTERS
Section 20-1. Definition.
Section 20-5. Issuance of licenses.
Section 20-10. Early Approval of Adult Use Cultivation Center License.
Section 20-15. Conditional Adult Use Cultivation Center application.
Section 20-20. Conditional Adult Use License scoring applications.
Section 20-21. Adult Use Cultivation Center License.
Section 20-25. Denial of application.
Section 20-30. Cultivation center requirements; prohibitions.
Section 20-35. Cultivation center agent identification card.
Section 20-40. Cultivation center background checks.
Section 20-45. Renewal of cultivation center licenses and agent identification cards.
Section 20-50. Cultivator taxes; returns.
In this Article, "Department" means the Department of Agriculture.
On or after July 1, 2021, the Department of Agriculture by rule may:
(1) Modify or change the number of cultivation center licenses available, which shall at no time exceed 30 cultivation center licenses. In determining whether to exercise the authority granted by this subsection, the Department of Agriculture must consider the following factors:
(A) The percentage of cannabis sales occurring in Illinois not in the regulated market using data from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, Illinois Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, and tourism data from the Illinois Office of Tourism to ascertain total cannabis consumption in Illinois compared to the amount of sales in licensed dispensing organizations;
(B) Whether there is an adequate supply of cannabis and cannabis-infused products to serve registered medical cannabis patients;
(C) Whether there is an adequate supply of cannabis and cannabis-infused products to serve purchasers;
(D) Whether there is an oversupply of cannabis in Illinois leading to trafficking of cannabis to any other state;
(E) Population increases or shifts;
(F) Changes to federal law;
(G) Perceived security risks of increasing the number or location of cultivation centers;
(H) The past security records of cultivation centers;
(I) The Department of Agriculture's capacity to appropriately regulate additional licensees;
(J) The findings and recommendations from the disparity and availability study commissioned by the Illinois Cannabis Regulation Oversight Officer referenced in subsection (e) of Section 5-45 to reduce or eliminate any identified barriers to entry in the cannabis industry; and
(K) Any other criteria the Department of Agriculture deems relevant.
(2) Modify or change the licensing application process to reduce or eliminate the barriers identified in the disparity and availability study commission by the Illinois Cannabis Regulation Oversight Officer and shall make modifications to remedy evidence of discrimination.
(a) Any medical cannabis cultivation center registered and in good standing under the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act as of the effective date of this Act may, within 60 days of the effective date of this Act but no later than 180 days from the effective date of this Act, apply to the Department of Agriculture for an Early Approval Adult Use Cultivation Center License to produce cannabis and cannabis-infused products at its existing facilities as of the effective date of this Act.
(b) A medical cannabis cultivation center seeking issuance of an Early Approval Adult Use Cultivation Center License shall submit an application on forms provided by the Department of Agriculture. The application must meet or include the following qualifications:
(1) Payment of a nonrefundable application fee of $100,000 to be deposited into the Cannabis Regulation Fund;
(2) Proof of registration as a medical cannabis cultivation center that is in good standing;
(3) Submission of the application by the same person or entity that holds the medical cannabis cultivation center registration;
(4) Certification that the applicant will comply with the requirements of Section 20-30;
(5) The legal name of the cultivation center;
(6) The physical address of the cultivation center;
(7) The name, address, social security number, and date of birth of each principal officer and board member of the cultivation center; each of those individuals shall be at least 21 years of age;
(8) A nonrefundable Cannabis Business Development Fee equal to 5% of the cultivation center's total sales between June 1, 2018 to June 1, 2019 or $750,000, whichever is less, but at not less than $250,000, to be deposited into the Cannabis Business Development Fund; and
(9) A commitment to completing one of the following Social Equity Inclusion Plans provided for in this subsection (b) before the expiration of the Early Approval Adult Use Cultivation Center License:
(A) A contribution of 5% of the cultivation center's total sales from June 1, 2018 to June 1, 2019, or $100,000, whichever is less, to one of the following:
(i) the Cannabis Business Development Fund. This is in addition to the fee required by item (8) of this subsection (b);
(ii) a cannabis industry training or education program at an Illinois community college as defined in the Public Community College Act;
(iii) a program that provides job training services to persons recently incarcerated or that operates in a Disproportionately Impacted Area.
(B) Participate as a host in a cannabis business incubator program for at least one year approved by the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, and in which an Early Approval Adult Use Cultivation Center License holder agrees to provide a loan of at least $100,000 and mentorship to incubate a licensee that qualifies as a Social Equity Applicant. As used in this Section, "incubate" means providing direct financial assistance and training necessary to engage in licensed cannabis industry activity similar to that of the host licensee. The Early Approval Adult Use Cultivation Center License holder or the same entity holding any other licenses issued pursuant to this Act shall not take an ownership stake of greater than 10% in any business receiving incubation services to comply with this subsection. If an Early Approval Adult Use Cultivation Center License holder fails to find a business to incubate to comply with this subsection before its Early Approval Adult Use Cultivation Center License expires, it may opt to meet the requirement of this subsection by completing another item from this subsection prior to the expiration of its Early Approval Adult Use Cultivation Center License to avoid a penalty.
(c) An Early Approval Adult Use Cultivation Center License is valid until March 31, 2021. A cultivation center that obtains an Early Approval Adult Use Cultivation Center License shall receive written or electronic notice 90 days before the expiration of the license that the license will expire, and inform the license holder that it may renew its Early Approval Adult Use Cultivation Center License. The Department of Agriculture shall grant a renewal of an Early Approval Adult Use Cultivation Center License within 60 days of submission of an application if:
(1) the cultivation center submits an application and the required renewal fee of $100,000 for an Early Approval Adult Use Cultivation Center License;
(2) the Department of Agriculture has not suspended the license of the cultivation center or suspended or revoked the license for violating this Act or rules adopted under this Act; and
(3) the cultivation center has completed a Social Equity Inclusion Plan as required by item (9) of subsection (b) of this Section.
(c-5) The Early Approval Adult Use Cultivation Center License renewed pursuant to subsection (c) of this Section shall expire March 31, 2022. The Early Approval Adult Use Cultivation Center Licensee shall receive written or electronic notice 90 days before the expiration of the license that the license will expire, and inform the license holder that it may apply for an Adult Use Cultivation Center License. The Department of Agriculture shall grant an Adult Use Dispensing Organization License within 60 days of an application being deemed complete if the applicant meets all of the criteria in Section 20-21.
(d) The license fee required by paragraph (1) of subsection (c) of this Section shall be in addition to any license fee required for the renewal of a registered medical cannabis cultivation center license that expires during the effective period of the Early Approval Adult Use Cultivation Center License.
(e) Applicants must submit all required information, including the requirements in subsection (b) of this Section, to the Department of Agriculture. Failure by an applicant to submit all required information may result in the application being disqualified.
(f) If the Department of Agriculture receives an application with missing information, the Department may issue a deficiency notice to the applicant. The applicant shall have 10 calendar days from the date of the deficiency notice to submit complete information. Applications that are still incomplete after this opportunity to cure may be disqualified.
(g) If an applicant meets all the requirements of subsection (b) of this Section, the Department of Agriculture shall issue the Early Approval Adult Use Cultivation Center License within 14 days of receiving the application unless:
(1) The licensee; principal officer, board member, or person having a financial or voting interest of 5% or greater in the licensee; or agent is delinquent in filing any required tax returns or paying any amounts owed to the State of Illinois;
(2) The Director of Agriculture determines there is reason, based on an inordinate number of documented compliance violations, the licensee is not entitled to an Early Approval Adult Use Cultivation Center License; or
(3) The licensee fails to commit to the Social Equity Inclusion Plan.
(h) A cultivation center may begin producing cannabis and cannabis-infused products once the Early Approval Adult Use Cultivation Center License is approved. A cultivation center that obtains an Early Approval Adult Use Cultivation Center License may begin selling cannabis and cannabis-infused products on December 1, 2019.
(i) An Early Approval Adult Use Cultivation Center License holder must continue to produce and provide an adequate supply of cannabis and cannabis-infused products for purchase by qualifying patients and caregivers. For the purposes of this subsection, "adequate supply" means a monthly production level that is comparable in type and quantity to those medical cannabis products produced for patients and caregivers on an average monthly basis for the 6 months before the effective date of this Act.
(j) If there is a shortage of cannabis or cannabis-infused products, a license holder shall prioritize patients registered under the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act over adult use purchasers.
(k) If an Early Approval Adult Use Cultivation Center licensee fails to submit an application for an Adult Use Cultivation Center License before the expiration of the Early Approval Adult Use Cultivation Center License pursuant to subsection (c-5) of this Section, the cultivation center shall cease adult use cultivation until it receives an Adult Use Cultivation Center License.
(l) A cultivation center agent who holds a valid cultivation center agent identification card issued under the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act and is an officer, director, manager, or employee of the cultivation center licensed under this Section may engage in all activities authorized by this Article to be performed by a cultivation center agent.
(m) If the Department of Agriculture suspends or revokes the Early Approval Adult Use Cultivation Center License of a cultivation center that also holds a medical cannabis cultivation center license issued under the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act, the Department of Agriculture may suspend or revoke the medical cannabis cultivation center license concurrently with the Early Approval Adult Use Cultivation Center License.
(n) All fees or fines collected from an Early Approval Adult Use Cultivation Center License holder as a result of a disciplinary action in the enforcement of this Act shall be deposited into the Cannabis Regulation Fund.
(a) If the Department of Agriculture makes available additional cultivation center licenses pursuant to Section 20-5, applicants for a Conditional Adult Use Cultivation Center License shall electronically submit the following in such form as the Department of Agriculture may direct:
(1) the nonrefundable application fee set by rule by the Department of Agriculture, to be deposited into the Cannabis Regulation Fund;
(3) the proposed physical address of the cultivation center;
(4) the name, address, social security number, and date of birth of each principal officer and board member of the cultivation center; each principal officer and board member shall be at least 21 years of age;
(5) the details of any administrative or judicial proceeding in which any of the principal officers or board members of the cultivation center (i) pled guilty, were convicted, fined, or had a registration or license suspended or revoked, or (ii) managed or served on the board of a business or non-profit organization that pled guilty, was convicted, fined, or had a registration or license suspended or revoked;
(6) proposed operating bylaws that include procedures for the oversight of the cultivation center, including the development and implementation of a plant monitoring system, accurate recordkeeping, staffing plan, and security plan approved by the Department of State Police that are in accordance with the rules issued by the Department of Agriculture under this Act. A physical inventory shall be performed of all plants and cannabis on a weekly basis by the cultivation center;
(7) verification from the Department of State Police that all background checks of the prospective principal officers, board members, and agents of the cannabis business establishment have been conducted;
(8) a copy of the current local zoning ordinance or permit and verification that the proposed cultivation center is in compliance with the local zoning rules and distance limitations established by the local jurisdiction;
(9) proposed employment practices, in which the applicant must demonstrate a plan of action to inform, hire, and educate minorities, women, veterans, and persons with disabilities, engage in fair labor practices, and provide worker protections;
(10) whether an applicant can demonstrate experience in or business practices that promote economic empowerment in Disproportionately Impacted Areas;
(11) experience with the cultivation of agricultural or horticultural products, operating an agriculturally related business, or operating a horticultural business;
(12) a description of the enclosed, locked facility where cannabis will be grown, harvested, manufactured, processed, packaged, or otherwise prepared for distribution to a dispensing organization;
(13) a survey of the enclosed, locked facility, including the space used for cultivation;
(14) cultivation, processing, inventory, and packaging plans;
(15) a description of the applicant's experience with agricultural cultivation techniques and industry standards;
(16) a list of any academic degrees, certifications, or relevant experience of all prospective principal officers, board members, and agents of the related business;
(17) the identity of every person having a financial or voting interest of 5% or greater in the cultivation center operation with respect to which the license is sought, whether a trust, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or sole proprietorship, including the name and address of each person;
(18) a plan describing how the cultivation center will address each of the following:
(i) energy needs, including estimates of monthly electricity and gas usage, to what extent it will procure energy from a local utility or from on-site generation, and if it has or will adopt a sustainable energy use and energy conservation policy;
(ii) water needs, including estimated water draw and if it has or will adopt a sustainable water use and water conservation policy; and
(iii) waste management, including if it has or will adopt a waste reduction policy;
(19) a diversity plan that includes a narrative of not more than 2,500 words that establishes a goal of diversity in ownership, management, employment, and contracting to ensure that diverse participants and groups are afforded equality of opportunity;
(20) any other information required by rule;
(21) a recycling plan:
(A) Purchaser packaging, including cartridges, shall be accepted by the applicant and recycled.
(B) Any recyclable waste generated by the cannabis cultivation facility shall be recycled per applicable State and local laws, ordinances, and rules.
(C) Any cannabis waste, liquid waste, or hazardous waste shall be disposed of in accordance with 8 Ill. Adm. Code 1000.460, except, to the greatest extent feasible, all cannabis plant waste will be rendered unusable by grinding and incorporating the cannabis plant waste with compostable mixed waste to be disposed of in accordance with 8 Ill Adm. Code 1000.460(g)(1);
(22) commitment to comply with local waste provisions: a cultivation facility must remain in compliance with applicable State and federal environmental requirements, including, but not limited to:
(A) storing, securing, and managing all recyclables and waste, including organic waste composed of or containing finished cannabis and cannabis products, in accordance with applicable State and local laws, ordinances, and rules; and
(B) Disposing liquid waste containing cannabis or byproducts of cannabis processing in compliance with all applicable State and federal requirements, including, but not limited to, the cannabis cultivation facility's permits under Title X of the Environmental Protection Act; and
(23) a commitment to a technology standard for resource efficiency of the cultivation center facility.
(A) A cannabis cultivation facility commits to use resources efficiently, including energy and water. For the following, a cannabis cultivation facility commits to meet or exceed the technology standard identified in items (i), (ii), (iii), and (iv), which may be modified by rule:
(i) lighting systems, including light bulbs;
(ii) HVAC system;
(iii) water application system to the crop; and
(iv) filtration system for removing contaminants from wastewater.
(B) Lighting. The Lighting Power Densities (LPD) for cultivation space commits to not exceed an average of 36 watts per gross square foot of active and growing space canopy, or all installed lighting technology shall meet a photosynthetic photon efficacy (PPE) of no less than 2.2 micromoles per joule fixture and shall be featured on the DesignLights Consortium (DLC) Horticultural Specification Qualified Products List (QPL). In the event that DLC requirement for minimum efficacy exceeds 2.2 micromoles per joule fixture, that PPE shall become the new standard.
(C) HVAC.
(i) For cannabis grow operations with less than 6,000 square feet of canopy, the licensee commits that all HVAC units will be high-efficiency ductless split HVAC units, or other more energy efficient equipment.
(ii) For cannabis grow operations with 6,000 square feet of canopy or more, the licensee commits that all HVAC units will be variable refrigerant flow HVAC units, or other more energy efficient equipment.
(D) Water application.
(i) The cannabis cultivation facility commits to use automated watering systems, including, but not limited to, drip irrigation and flood tables, to irrigate cannabis crop.
(ii) The cannabis cultivation facility commits to measure runoff from watering events and report this volume in its water usage plan, and that on average, watering events shall have no more than 20% of runoff of water.
(E) Filtration. The cultivator commits that HVAC condensate, dehumidification water, excess runoff, and other wastewater produced by the cannabis cultivation facility shall be captured and filtered to the best of the facility's ability to achieve the quality needed to be reused in subsequent watering rounds.
(F) Reporting energy use and efficiency as required by rule.
(b) Applicants must submit all required information, including the information required in Section 20-10, to the Department of Agriculture. Failure by an applicant to submit all required information may result in the application being disqualified.
(c) If the Department of Agriculture receives an application with missing information, the Department of Agriculture may issue a deficiency notice to the applicant. The applicant shall have 10 calendar days from the date of the deficiency notice to resubmit the incomplete information. Applications that are still incomplete after this opportunity to cure will not be scored and will be disqualified.
(e) A cultivation center that is awarded a Conditional Adult Use Cultivation Center License pursuant to the criteria in Section 20-20 shall not grow, purchase, possess, or sell cannabis or cannabis-infused products until the person has received an Adult Use Cultivation Center License issued by the Department of Agriculture pursuant to Section 20-21 of this Act.
(a) The Department of Agriculture shall by rule develop a system to score cultivation center applications to administratively rank applications based on the clarity, organization, and quality of the applicant's responses to required information. Applicants shall be awarded points based on the following categories:
(1) Suitability of the proposed facility;
(2) Suitability of employee training plan;
(3) Security and recordkeeping;
(4) Cultivation plan;
(5) Product safety and labeling plan;
(6) Business plan;
(7) The applicant's status as a Social Equity Applicant, which shall constitute no less than 20% of total available points;
(8) Labor and employment practices, which shall constitute no less than 2% of total available points;
(9) Environmental plan as described in paragraphs (18), (21), (22), and (23) of subsection (a) of Section 20-15;
(10) The applicant is 51% or more owned and controlled by an individual or individuals who have been an Illinois resident for the past 5 years as proved by tax records;
(11) The applicant is 51% or more controlled and owned by an individual or individuals who meet the qualifications of a veteran as defined by Section 45-57 of the Illinois Procurement Code;
(12) a diversity plan that includes a narrative of not more than 2,500 words that establishes a goal of diversity in ownership, management, employment, and contracting to ensure that diverse participants and groups are afforded equality of opportunity; and
(13) Any other criteria the Department of Agriculture may set by rule for points.
(b) The Department may also award bonus points for the applicant's plan to engage with the community. Bonus points will only be awarded if the Department receives applications that receive an equal score for a particular region.
(c) Should the applicant be awarded a cultivation center license, the information and plans that an applicant provided in its application, including any plans submitted for the acquiring of bonus points, becomes a mandatory condition of the permit. Any variation from or failure to perform such plans may result in discipline, including the revocation or nonrenewal of a license.
(d) Should the applicant be awarded a cultivation center license, it shall pay a fee of $100,000 prior to receiving the license, to be deposited into the Cannabis Regulation Fund. The Department of Agriculture may by rule adjust the fee in this Section after January 1, 2021.
(a) A person or entity is only eligible to receive an Adult Use Cultivation Center License if the person or entity has first been awarded a Conditional Adult Use Cultivation Center License pursuant to this Act or the person or entity has renewed its Early Approval Cultivation Center License pursuant to subsection (c) of Section 20-10.
(b) The Department of Agriculture shall not issue an Adult Use Cultivation Center License until:
(1) the Department of Agriculture has inspected the cultivation center site and proposed operations and verified that they are in compliance with this Act and local zoning laws;
(2) the Conditional Adult Use Cultivation Center License holder has paid a registration fee of $100,000 or a prorated amount accounting for the difference of time between when the Adult Use Cultivation Center License is issued and March 31 of the next even-numbered year; and
(3) The Conditional Adult Use Cultivation Center License holder has met all the requirements in the Act and rules.
An application for a cultivation center license must be denied if any of the following conditions are met:
(1) the applicant failed to submit the materials required by this Article;
(2) the applicant would not be in compliance with local zoning rules;
(3) one or more of the prospective principal officers or board members causes a violation of Section 20-30;
(4) one or more of the principal officers or board members is under 21 years of age;
(5) the person has submitted an application for a permit under this Act that contains false information; or
(6) the licensee, principal officer, board member, or person having a financial or voting interest of 5% or greater in the licensee, or the agent is delinquent in filing any required tax returns or paying any amounts owed to the State of Illinois.
(a) The operating documents of a cultivation center shall include procedures for the oversight of the cultivation center a cannabis plant monitoring system including a physical inventory recorded weekly, accurate recordkeeping, and a staffing plan.
(b) A cultivation center shall implement a security plan reviewed by the Department of State Police that includes, but is not limited to: facility access controls, perimeter intrusion detection systems, personnel identification systems, 24-hour surveillance system to monitor the interior and exterior of the cultivation center facility and accessibility to authorized law enforcement, the Department of Public Health where processing takes place, and the Department of Agriculture in real time.
(c) All cultivation of cannabis by a cultivation center must take place in an enclosed, locked facility at the physical address provided to the Department of Agriculture during the licensing process. The cultivation center location shall only be accessed by the agents working for the cultivation center, the Department of Agriculture staff performing inspections, the Department of Public Health staff performing inspections, local and State law enforcement or other emergency personnel, contractors working on jobs unrelated to cannabis, such as installing or maintaining security devices or performing electrical wiring, transporting organization agents as provided in this Act, individuals in a mentoring or educational program approved by the State, or other individuals as provided by rule.
(d) A cultivation center may not sell or distribute any cannabis or cannabis-infused products to any person other than a dispensing organization, craft grower, infusing organization, transporter, or as otherwise authorized by rule.
(e) A cultivation center may not either directly or indirectly discriminate in price between different dispensing organizations, craft growers, or infuser organizations that are purchasing a like grade, strain, brand, and quality of cannabis or cannabis-infused product. Nothing in this subsection (e) prevents a cultivation centers from pricing cannabis differently based on differences in the cost of manufacturing or processing, the quantities sold, such as volume discounts, or the way the products are delivered.
(f) All cannabis harvested by a cultivation center and intended for distribution to a dispensing organization must be entered into a data collection system, packaged and labeled under Section 55-21, and placed into a cannabis container for transport. All cannabis harvested by a cultivation center and intended for distribution to a craft grower or infuser organization must be packaged in a labeled cannabis container and entered into a data collection system before transport.
(g) Cultivation centers are subject to random inspections by the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Public Health, local safety or health inspectors, and the Department of State Police.
(h) A cultivation center agent shall notify local law enforcement, the Department of State Police, and the Department of Agriculture within 24 hours of the discovery of any loss or theft. Notification shall be made by phone or in person, or by written or electronic communication.
(i) A cultivation center shall comply with all State and any applicable federal rules and regulations regarding the use of pesticides on cannabis plants.
(j) No person or entity shall hold any legal, equitable, ownership, or beneficial interest, directly or indirectly, of more than 3 cultivation centers licensed under this Article. Further, no person or entity that is employed by, an agent of, has a contract to receive payment in any form from a cultivation center, is a principal officer of a cultivation center, or entity controlled by or affiliated with a principal officer of a cultivation shall hold any legal, equitable, ownership, or beneficial interest, directly or indirectly, in a cultivation that would result in the person or entity owning or controlling in combination with any cultivation center, principal officer of a cultivation center, or entity controlled or affiliated with a principal officer of a cultivation center by which he, she, or it is employed, is an agent of, or participates in the management of, more than 3 cultivation center licenses.
(k) A cultivation center may not contain more than 210,000 square feet of canopy space for plants in the flowering stage for cultivation of adult use cannabis as provided in this Act.
(l) A cultivation center may process cannabis, cannabis concentrates, and cannabis-infused products.
(m) Beginning July 1, 2020, a cultivation center shall not transport cannabis to a craft grower, dispensing organization, infuser organization, or laboratory licensed under this Act, unless it has obtained a transporting organization license.
(n) It is unlawful for any person having a cultivation center license or any officer, associate, member, representative, or agent of such licensee to offer or deliver money, or anything else of value, directly or indirectly to any person having an Early Approval Adult Use Dispensing Organization License, a Conditional Adult Use Dispensing Organization License, an Adult Use Dispensing Organization License, or a medical cannabis dispensing organization license issued under the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act, or to any person connected with or in any way representing, or to any member of the family of, such person holding an Early Approval Adult Use Dispensing Organization License, a Conditional Adult Use Dispensing Organization License, an Adult Use Dispensing Organization License, or a medical cannabis dispensing organization license issued under the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act, or to any stockholders in any corporation engaged in the retail sale of cannabis, or to any officer, manager, agent, or representative of the Early Approval Adult Use Dispensing Organization License, a Conditional Adult Use Dispensing Organization License, an Adult Use Dispensing Organization License, or a medical cannabis dispensing organization license issued under the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act to obtain preferential placement within the dispensing organization, including, without limitation, on shelves and in display cases where purchasers can view products, or on the dispensing organization's website.
(o) A cultivation center must comply with any other requirements or prohibitions set by administrative rule of the Department of Agriculture.
(a) The Department of Agriculture shall:
(1) establish by rule the information required in an initial application or renewal application for an agent identification card submitted under this Act and the nonrefundable fee to accompany the initial application or renewal application;
(2) verify the information contained in an initial application or renewal application for an agent identification card submitted under this Act, and approve or deny an application within 30 days of receiving a completed initial application or renewal application and all supporting documentation required by rule;
(3) issue an agent identification card to a qualifying agent within 15 business days of approving the initial application or renewal application;
(4) enter the license number of the cultivation center where the agent works; and
(5) allow for an electronic initial application and renewal application process, and provide a confirmation by electronic or other methods that an application has been submitted. The Department of Agriculture may by rule require prospective agents to file their applications by electronic means and provide notices to the agents by electronic means.
(b) An agent must keep his or her identification card visible at all times when on the property of the cultivation center at which the agent is employed.
(c) The agent identification cards shall contain the following:
(1) the name of the cardholder;
(2) the date of issuance and expiration date of the identification card;
(3) a random 10-digit alphanumeric identification number containing at least 4 numbers and at least 4 letters that is unique to the holder;
(4) a photograph of the cardholder; and
(5) the legal name of the cultivation center employing the agent.
(d) An agent identification card shall be immediately returned to the cultivation center of the agent upon termination of his or her employment.
(e) Any agent identification card lost by a cultivation center agent shall be reported to the Department of State Police and the Department of Agriculture immediately upon discovery of the loss.
(f) The Department of Agriculture shall not issue an agent identification card if the applicant is delinquent in filing any required tax returns or paying any amounts owed to the State of Illinois.
(a) Through the Department of State Police, the Department of Agriculture shall conduct a background check of the prospective principal officers, board members, and agents of a cultivation center applying for a license or identification card under this Act. The Department of State Police shall charge a fee set by rule for conducting the criminal history record check, which shall be deposited into the State Police Services Fund and shall not exceed the actual cost of the record check. In order to carry out this provision, each cultivation center prospective principal officer, board member, or agent shall submit a full set of fingerprints to the Department of State Police for the purpose of obtaining a State and federal criminal records check. These fingerprints shall be checked against the fingerprint records now and hereafter, to the extent allowed by law, filed in the Department of State Police and Federal Bureau of Investigation criminal history records databases. The Department of State Police shall furnish, following positive identification, all conviction information to the Department of Agriculture.
(b) When applying for the initial license or identification card, the background checks for all prospective principal officers, board members, and agents shall be completed before submitting the application to the licensing or issuing agency.
(a) Licenses and identification cards issued under this Act shall be renewed annually. A cultivation center shall receive written or electronic notice 90 days before the expiration of its current license that the license will expire. The Department of Agriculture shall grant a renewal within 45 days of submission of a renewal application if:
(1) the cultivation center submits a renewal application and the required nonrefundable renewal fee of $100,000, or another amount as the Department of Agriculture may set by rule after January 1, 2021, to be deposited into the Cannabis Regulation Fund.
(2) the Department of Agriculture has not suspended the license of the cultivation center or suspended or revoked the license for violating this Act or rules adopted under this Act;
(3) the cultivation center has continued to operate in accordance with all plans submitted as part of its application and approved by the Department of Agriculture or any amendments thereto that have been approved by the Department of Agriculture;
(4) the cultivation center has submitted an agent, employee, contracting, and subcontracting diversity report as required by the Department; and
(5) the cultivation center has submitted an environmental impact report.
(b) If a cultivation center fails to renew its license before expiration, it shall cease operations until its license is renewed.
(c) If a cultivation center agent fails to renew his or her identification card before its expiration, he or she shall cease to work as an agent of the cultivation center until his or her identification card is renewed.
(d) Any cultivation center that continues to operate, or any cultivation center agent who continues to work as an agent, after the applicable license or identification card has expired without renewal is subject to the penalties provided under Section 45-5.
(a) A tax is imposed upon the privilege of cultivating and processing adult use cannabis at the rate of 7% of the gross receipts from the sale of cannabis by a cultivator to a dispensing organization. The sale of any adult use product that contains any amount of cannabis or any derivative thereof is subject to the tax under this Section on the full selling price of the product. The proceeds from this tax shall be deposited into the Cannabis Regulation Fund. This tax shall be paid by the cultivator who makes the first sale and is not the responsibility of a dispensing organization, qualifying patient, or purchaser.
(b)In the administration of and compliance with this Section, the Department of Revenue and persons who are subject to this Section: (i) have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers, and duties, (ii) are subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties, and definitions of terms, and (iii) shall employ the same modes of procedure as are set forth in the Cannabis Cultivation Privilege Tax Law and the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act as if those provisions were set forth in this Section.
(c)The tax imposed under this Act shall be in addition to all other occupation or privilege taxes imposed by the State of Illinois or by any municipal corporation or political subdivision thereof.
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Revati Sharma belongs to a small village of Alwar District called Palhal Mundawar and was born to P.L. Sharma.
In her infant and innocent age she had noticed the ignorance of her grand mother in her very own family by her parents. The attitude of her father and mother was not good with her grand mother whom she loved dearly. Her Grand Father was also not happy with her parents and used to stay with his daughter in Delhi in the last days of his life and after his demise her grand mother was not able to give much time to her grand mother and the attitude of her mother was not good towards her mother in law.
Grand Ma and Revati used to sit on the terrace of their house in the evenings where she used to cry and share her pain with her grand ma and used to think thatwhy they have been so cruel with her grand ma when she is at such a old age and has no body around to take care. "Are all the sons and daughters-in-law that cruel to their elderly ones in this world?" Is it possible for some one else to share their pain and look after them at this final stage of life? Where they should be taken care of without hurting their respect and dignity. "When I will grow up Dadi Ma I will not let this happen." Where used to be words to her grand mother.
The wheel of time rolled on and Revati grew up and while doing her II nd Year B.A. she was married to a scientist who used to do research for the geological survey of India and his name was Jitendra sharma she was very with her loving husband and was lost in joy of her life where her dream of saving the old aged people was also lost.
After one year of her marriage she gave birth to a baby boy after which she was busy with her child. When ever she used to go to her father's place after marriage grand Maa used to share her pain which verse Ned after she was married. She used to feel bad for her but was not able to help her in any sense as she was tied in social bonds of marriage her kid and all other things the only thing she could do for her grand Maa was consolence.
Three year passed and the time flied without any disturbance but one day Jitender had a heart stroke shattering all her dreams and vision into pieces. He remained in coma for 11 days and finally lost the battle of his life leaving her all alone with her small kid who was three and a half years old. She went to her parents and stayed for a few days there. Again she started witnessing the pain of her grand mother who has been a prey to the misbehavior of her parents since long. One day she decided to move away from her parents with her grand mother and her kid to protect the rights and dignity of her grand mother and took this as a mission of her life. Her husband Jitendra had a dream to stay in Ajmer after retirement so she come to Ajmer with her mission and her little family of 3 her grand Maa, her son of 3 and half years and Revati herself.
To earn was a challenge before her so that she could support her grand Maa and to bring up her child. She started earning as a beautician and opened up a beauty parlour. God blessed her all things started to move in a right direction. After 5 years grand Maa expired and blessed her for the pain she shared with her till the last day of her life. Now Revati was left with her son only. She used to work had to bring up his son but at the end of the day she used to think there is still some move she has to do for this world but what? She used to ask herself.
One day she met ob accident and was badly injured and was admitted in the hospital where there was no one to take care of her. The whole day long on the bed in that ward she used to lay and see people coming to visit their relatives and used to think that "How lonely I am" there is no body for me.
After 3 days on the bed next to hers she noticed a old lady was admitted who had 3 sons and 2 daughter and all of them were married and happy with there families, The lady was also a prey to ignorance of her children who never used to take care of her and left her in the hospital and went away leaving her on the mercy of her fate.
The doctor came and told her "Ammaji ! You need to be operated and send your children to me for the formalities." Her children came she told them what the doctor said. They started scolding her and started blaming her for mess shamelessly saying "If you would not left the house without permission this would have not happened. They started discussing the expenses of the operation and expressed their inability to bare the expenses and left. No one used to stay at night with her in the hospital nor they used to bring lunch nothing they left her to die in the hospital served in the Govt. Hospital to be alive.


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Went to Sekinchan a month ago for a photography outing, it was far but it was worthy to go. A total getaway from the normal city lifestyle, I don't mind going there again for a few nights if I have to. The paddy fields were so green and nicely grown, it was my first time going so near to the paddy fields. lol.
Blue sky.. Using a CPL was a plus point.
I will show you the ultimate blue blue blue sky in the next post!
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Dr. Mario Sifuentez is an Associate Professor of History at UC Merced who's done a lot of thinking about the past and future of California's Central Valley. He's been involved with Cal Ag Roots since the very start of this project, both as an advisor and as an interviewee. (You can hear his voice on our third podcast, where he gives us real insight into the Bracero Program.) Mario has deep knowledge about the history of food production, and his current research digs up some interesting new stories about an activist group featured our Can Land Belong to Those Who Work It? podcast, which is why I wanted talk with him for this Digging Deep episode.
You'll hear that Mario is also a delight to talk with-- he's real and genuine and doesn't pull any punches. The Cal Ag Roots story we discuss is, admittedly, kind of obscure, and deals with some complicated federal laws about water subsidies and disputes over who should own farm land . But Mario is really clear on why people should know this story. He told me, "For corporations [farming Central Valley land] is part of their portfolio, right? They are not stewards of the land. And there's no interest in protecting the land if it's not profitable. They can let 20 thousand acres fallow, not because they think its good for the soil, but because of the market. When you have people who are stewards of the land, they are looking at it generationally. Thinking about it 100 years from now. Corporations just don't have that kind of foresight."
This is the second episode in our new Cal Ag Roots podcast series--Digging Deep: Conversations with Food Movement Leaders about the History of Farming-- which will be released every other month. I'm talking with people who are working to shift farming right now, bringing California farming into the future. And we're talking about how their understanding of the past, and how what they learn from Cal Ag Roots stories, has shifted their thinking about their work. Each of the conversations will draw on Cal Ag Roots stories, so if you haven't heard them all yet, take a listen on our Story Hub (or subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher) !
Particularly relevant to today's podcast is the last one we released—#2, Can Land Belong to Those Who Work it. We'll keep on producing that style of podcasts and releasing them here—there are so, so many more histories to unearth. The two different kinds of podcasts are going to be in constant conversation with each other, so we're hoping that you'll tune into both and that each episode will be more meaningful that way.
Big THANK YOU goes out to Dr. Mario Sifuentez, of course, for the wonderful interview, to Nangdo for the use of all the music in today's episode, and to Cal Ag Roots Funders including the 11th Hour Project and the Food and Farming Communications Fund.


I am experiencing something very strange with the Aerosoft Airbus A319 in Prepar3d v2.5 (I don't know if with the A318 is the same but it isn't with the A320 and A321). The terrain does not load when I am en route to my destination. If it is night and I change to a exterior view the lights in the cockpit would turn of for a while and then on again (as if the textures wouldn't be there but then appear). The main problem is the terrain textures not loading when I fly out of my departure airport. For example in flights from LOWW to EDDT or EDDF the terrain near the destination cities and in the whole route in between doesn't load. This ONLY happens with this very particular airplane. Even with other very heavy airplanes in 13 hour flights it doesn't happen. Just with the Aerosoft A319 in Prepar3d.
Is this issue already known? And if yes, is the an answer to it? I searched but didn't find anything related.
This is definitely not a wide spread problem. I for myself don't have it.
I had a similar problem last year where P3D didn't loaded any more scenery textures from a certain amount point and the world around me got more and more blur. I solved that one with a complete re-installation of P3D and my Nvidia drivers. I don't know what in detail caused that problem, but every since then it's gone.
I'm having the same problem, but with the A320. My terrain turns into a blurry mess (like yours). I also am experiencing the delayed cockpit lighting.
Yep, going to delete .cfg and also Shaders today.
This ended up fixing my blurry texture problem.
I have the exact same problem with the blurries that started suddenly about 2 weeks ago. After trying every known cure imaginable, I noticed a screen shot on a P3D Facebook group with a person flying the Airbus with similar blurries. I had only been flying the A 320 and 321 for the last few months, so I tried another aircraft, the Majestic Q400, and the blurries instantly disappeared. I have done about 10 flights since then and no more blurries. I am going to wait until P3D V3.0 is released, and then give the Airbus another try.
Have you tried using a new CFG file and deleting the shaders folder as successfully suggested above?
Yes, did both and no improvement. Will keep you informed if I find a solution , still working on it.
Used to have the same problem and happened with all my aircraft e.g. Aerosoft 320 and PMDG. I created a new CFG and used this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBkZIbI737I Instead of TextureMaxLoad=6 I used 30 and solved my problem. The only problem now that I have is that on the ground (any airport) usually getting 30-40fps and then 10mins later its drops to 15-20 and after departure it changes to 30-60fps then stutters, same thing happens while approaching. I have no idea what is causing this problem.
Thought I had the problem solved today, but still had the blurries on a short 1 hour test flight on approach while descending at around 7,000 feet. The scenery got blurry and stayed that way for the entire approach. I'm done trying to fix this issue.
Did you add texturemaxload=30? Also does this happen only when your flying Aerosoft A320?
I also saw an average FPS increase on the two identical flights, recorded by Acars with my VA, of around 6 FPS, with affinity mask deleted. I am going to do some more test flights this weekend, but it looks like this may have solved the problem with the Airbus, for me.
I found today how this affinity mask= 14 was added to my Prepar3D.cfg a couple of weeks ago that started all my problems with blurries in the Airbus.
. I have GSX and an update for the add on manager on Spet 8, 2015 apparently changed a couple of settings in my Prepar3d.cfg file and one of those changes was "affinitymask=14" This change is what caused the sudden blurries on the date plus a loss of about 6 FPS, especially on descent with the Aerosoft Airbus. If you have a similar problem, look for that entry in the cfg file under [Job scheduler], and delete it. This will immediately get rid of the blurries on approach if you have had them in the last couple of weeks after a similar update from FSTD.
Thanks bob for that. Was flying yesterday from YPAD-WADD had same issues. Will delete the affinity mask tweak.
There's no need for any AffinityMask settings on P3D. P3D is not FSX anymore.
Exactly. and that is the one of the default settings in the FSDT Here is the menu selection in the launcher for GSX. If you ever hit "Save to Prepared3d on the lower right, it will over write you P3D Cfg file and add all these 12 tweaks and you may wind up with blurries and a drop in FPS. The reason I pressed the save to P3D button, is because after the update GSX or Couatl would not start, until I did. .
I am having the same issue. So do I get rid of the Affinity Mask and set the texture load to 30?
Best would be to edit your cfg file manually and maybe you should update your version of the Addon Manager.
Hi, I'm playing a bit of catch up here-- I had installed Aerosoft Airbus and GSX in the same day, and am now getting hit with blurries. I see what everyone is saying about deleting affinity mask, how do I edit the config file? do I need a program to edit and save it? Also, do I delete the whole affinity mask line or just a certain part of it?


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