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NM state regulators hear from public on proposed cannabis courier, manufacturing, retail rules – Capitol Hill Pulse
NM state regulators hear from public on proposed cannabis courier, manufacturing, retail rules
November 1, 2021 0 By Andy Lyman
The New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Department and its Cannabis Control Division heard from the public on Thursday during a public rulemaking hearing regarding cannabis couriers, retail establishments and manufacturing facilities.
The comments during the meeting varied from proposed regulations for packaging requirements, general business practices to cannabis deliveries to both businesses and residences. Albuquerque-based cannabis attorney Katy Duhigg brought up a series of issues she said she would like to see changed and offered specific suggestions. Duhigg also serves as a New Mexico state Senator, but said she was not speaking in her capacity as a lawmaker.
Duhigg took issue with a proposed requirement that cannabis manufactures prove they have access to water rights because manufacturing doesn't necessarily use water the same way cultivation does.
"Requiring all manufacturers to prove water rights for their application, I think, is unreasonably burdensome, because it's just not going to be a factor for a number of them," Duhigg said.
During the special legislative session surrounding the Cannabis Regulation Act, lawmakers added a provision that cannabis cultivation companies, which are often referred to as producers, have to show that they have legal access to water after many members of the public raised concerns about New Mexico's scarce water supply.
Duhigg also said she was concerned with a provision that would limit cannabis retail businesses from giving away free products to anyone but medical cannabis patients.
"I think that businesses should be allowed to make the business decision to give free products if they so choose, Duhigg said. "It should be tracked and accounted for, but I don't think there's a compelling governmental interest in restricting who businesses can give their products away to for free."
Duhigg also suggested the department revisit a proposed rule that would limit cannabis deliveries to residential addresses. She said it would put an "unreasonable burden" on couriers to decide what is considered a residence.
"It will reduce cannabis tourism in New Mexico, and there's no compelling governmental interest in doing that," Duhigg said. "Businesses can set their own policies regarding cannabis. This is an unreasonable restriction."
Tony Martinez of cannabis business Lava Leaf Organics raised his concerns with a proposed rule that would require cannabis delivery vehicles to be equipped with an extra lock box or cage in addition to the vehicle's standard locks. Martinez said drivers who currently deliver medical cannabis to retail locations depend on being quick and unnoticeable for security and that securing and unsecuring locks will add time to deliveries and put drivers in a vulnerable spot.
"I would like it to be recognized how dangerous it can be if we have to fiddle with a second set of locks that are inside of the trunk, back of the vehicle, etc.," Martinez said. "What seems like it's creating extra security is actually just creating extra risk."
In addition to the public comments made during the hearing, a handful of people submitted their comments online.
Kristina Caffrey, a lawyer for the prominent New Mexico medical cannabis producer Ultra Health submitted comments on behalf of the company.
Among the list of Ultra Health's concerns, was one about requirements for what is known in the industry as closed loop extractions. A common process for manufacturing cannabis extracts is to use a volatile solvent like butane to strip elements from cannabis plant material. A closed loop extraction process includes a separate and sealed chamber where solvents can be eliminated from the cannabis concentrate.
Caffrey wrote that a requirement that manufacturers use a "commercially manufactured" closed loop system is ambiguous.
"It is not sufficiently clear what 'commercially manufactured' means," Caffrey wrote. "Must a manufacturer buy a completely-assembled system from a commercial supplier? Or can the licensee buy parts and assemble them itself? Can the licensee buy a used system? And what supplier qualifies as a commercial manufacturer?"
Maggie's Farm, a Colorado cannabis company, suggested a number of changes including one to allow drive through dispensaries. There is currently at least one medical cannabis dispensary in New Mexico with a drive through, but New Mexico did away with drive through liquor stores years ago in order to curb intoxicated driving.
One person who submitted their comments online said RLD should change their proposed requirements to allow concentrates to have more than 30 percent THC by weight.
Melinda Pineda, a policy manager for the state's Human Services Division, submitted a comment online suggesting that cannabis business licenses be revoked if the proprietor violates a child support order.
"It is the position of the Human Services Department Child Support Enforcement Division that the Cannabis Regulation Act does not conflict with the Parental Responsibility Act, and it is expected that the Regulation and Licensing Department will deny or suspend cannabis establishment licenses and producer licenses for persons who are not in compliance with child support orders and/or proceedings," Pineda wrote.
A common sentiment during the beginning of the hearing was that the department could have done a better job with the technology that allows virtual public comment.
The hearing was held virtually out of caution for COVID-19, but for roughly the first hour of the meeting, all but two people had difficulty getting through the meeting application.
While Wendy Robbins, a producer for the The Marijuana Show, provideddid have substantive comments on the proposed rules and regulations, by the time she was able to get through, she also had some pointed comments about RLD using WebEx instead of the now popular Zoom for the hearing.
"I'd like to be on the record that you change from WebEx, which was popular back in the '70s or '80s, to Zoom, where even my grandma could get on," Robbins said.
Gama Mendez, who operates a delivery application, raised concerns about proposed requirements for locking cannabis in a delivery vehicle, but first raised his concerns about the rough start of the meeting.
"It's pretty sad that we all are invested in this," Mendez said. "I'm really disappointed that you guys had so much time, and we can't get an 'unmuted' button."
Another commenter, Miguel De Santigo, said he needed to be reminded what the meeting was about since there was such a delay in getting people on the record.
"I don't remember what exactly we're supposed to be making public comment on because of everything that we've been trying to figure out," De Santiago said.
But after the technical difficulties, comments were more focused on the proposed rules themselves.
RLD and the Cannabis Control Division could make changes based on the submitted comments, but are not required to do so.
Assuming any changes RLD and the Cannabis Control Division decide to make are in line with the original goal of the proposed rules, the department will not need to hold an additional hearing before promulgating them.
Once the rules are finalized and RLD Superintendent Linda Trujillo approves them, they will go into effect and the state can start accepting licenses for manufacturers, couriers and retail locations.
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History, Politics & Current Affairs
Image November 22, 2015 Laura Grey
African-AmericansBigotryBlack Lives MatterDonald TrumpFDRFearFranklin Delano RooseveltJapanese-AmericansRacismRefugeesSyriaTerrorismThe DepressionWorld War IIXenophobia
Einstein Was a Refugee
When Albert Einstein came to the U.S. to escape persecution by the Nazis, prominent Americans like Charles Lindbergh were warning the nation of the dangers of letting outsiders into the country. He and many popular politicians, religious leaders and businessmen (like Henry Ford) got on the radio, lobbied politicians, published antisemitic books and pamphlets and joined with white supremacist organizations to spread fear and hatred toward Jews. Many said that Jews were communist agitators without morals who would infiltrate the American way of life, degrade American culture and destroy Christian values. So this supposedly Christian nation turned away Jewish refugees out of irrational fear based on a lack of understanding of others' religious and cultural beliefs. And it's happening again. One state government after another is shutting its doors to Syrian refugees, describing them as dangerous jihadists and assuming that Muslims are all wild desert people without morals. ISIS/ISIL/Daesh wants a religious war, and we're playing right into their hands. Don't let us harden our hearts against refugees based on irrational fear. Don't let the terrorists win.
Albert EinsteinAntisemitismBigotryCharles LindberghChristianityDaeshDiasporaHenry FordISILISISIslamJudaismMuslimsRefugeesSyriaTerrorism
Film & Television, Music
Dangerous Gems: The Subversive Music of Thomas Newman
Video November 16, 2015 Laura Grey
Some film score composers have styles so distinctive that one can tell from hearing just a few measures of one of their compositions exactly who wrote it. Danny Elfman's bold, busy, occasionally bombastic scores for Tim Burton's movies have a particular power and energy, and it's hard to imagine Alfred Hitchcock's films without Bernard Herrman's sweeping, urgent orchestral pieces. Randy Newman's scores usually have a bit of his trademark ragtime shuffle somewhere, and sometimes a touch of Aaron Copland to them, and Randy's cousin, the fellow film-score-composer Thomas Newman, has his own compositional quirks that often make his work especially compelling and recognizable. His penchant for odd instruments, time signatures and percussion make his compositions unlike anyone else's.
The scores of Thomas Newman are distinctive in their use of unusual time signatures, heavily percussive instrumentation and unrecognizable sounds created by his collection of rare instruments, all layered together in rich and unexpected ways. His scores have included the sounds of the zither, hurdy-gurdy, psaltery and hammered dulcimer, aboriginal chants, and even the chirping of cicadas. He weaves synthesizers and lush string arrangements in among the more organic sounds, and alters his sonic findings to create aural oddities that nobody has heard before.
Newman's theme to the groundbreaking HBO television series Six Feet Under was created primarily with recognizable instruments—strings and reeds, for example—that are overlaid with washes of dissonant, shimmering, zithery sounds that remind one of harp glissandi but aren't. They are then warmed by melodic oboe lines and set off by strange background sounds similar to the low squeaks one accidentally makes when rubbing wet wine glasses in a tub of suds. For the film WALL•E, Newman collaborated with Peter Gabriel to create the Oscar-nominated song "Down to Earth," a perfect melding of synthesized, metallic, otherworldly sounds and rich, earthy, very human voices. The song sounds at once very much like Newman while being perfectly in sync with Gabriel's body of work, and is a delicious auditory morsel that's quite an appropriate accompaniment to the story of the film.
Newman has worked extensively with the innovative director Sam Mendes, and his haunting and anxiety-provoking scores provide powerful backdrops for all but one of Mendes's angst-filled films. These include Spectre, American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Revolutionary Road, Skyfall and Jarhead. It is also hard to imagine the moody and intense Frank Darabont films The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile without the oppressive sonic blankets that Newman created to press down on us and make us feel the fear and claustrophobia inherent to prison life.
Often Newman draws out discordant musical phrases and refuses to resolve them, leaving us feeling perplexed, nervous and worried. His theme to Revolutionary Road is a simple, repetitive piano tune layered with cymbals and repeating string lines that serves to build a deep reservoir of pain that cannot be released, just as the film does. Hopeful woodwinds peek up among the swirling strings at times, like a drowning swimmer trying to rise up for air before sinking below the surface one last time. The piece "Road to Chicago" from the intense and underrated Sam Mendes film Road to Perdition also begins with a simple piano motif, but then it hums with danger as washes of strings begin to press down on the piano tune. We wait for the chords to resolve but they only recede, pulling us far down a lonesome road, fading like the lights on a car driving into a dark, cold night.
The score for Jarhead brims with the intensity and violence of war, jolting the audience to attention with discordant Middle Eastern-sounding motifs played on stringed instruments mingled with synthesizers and insistent percussion, the unrecognizably altered sounds stirring fear in our hearts and melting our brains like waves of heat in the deserts of the Persian Gulf.
Born in 1955, Newman is the son of legendary composer and conductor Alfred Newman, who was the composer of scores for over 200 films and the winner of nine Oscars, an achievement that no other film composer has ever matched. Thomas has himself been nominated for (but not won) twelve Oscars and has won two BAFTAs, six Grammys and an Emmy. While he is best known for his film work, he was first interested in musical theater, just as his father had been, and while he was at Yale young Thomas was mentored by Stephen Sondheim. He then moved to Hollywood to follow in the footsteps of his father and his celebrated uncle Lionel Newman, another major player in Hollywood history who himself composed scores for over 200 films as well as a number of classic TV show theme songs. Another uncle, Emil Newman, was also an accomplished Hollywood conductor of long standing.
Newman's work, like that of his frequent collaborator Sam Mendes, is as unsettling as it is beautiful. Both are intended to push us out of our comfort zones, nudging us to see something stylish and beautiful among the shadows and ruins. Mendes's work uncovers the sinister forces lurking near us and sometimes within us, and his films ask us to stare uncomfortably at the black cracks in our own psyches. Newman's music is like the dark music that rises from those cracks—haunting, frightening, altogether new yet somehow familiar. His music and Mendes's films also present to us a painful yearning and loneliness that can seemingly never be filled. That hollow, empty quality is what makes their darkest works so frightening yet so brilliant, so recognizable and unfathomable all at once. They are dark masters and their creations are dangerous gems.
American BeautyComposersFilm ScoresJarheadPeter GabrielRevolutionary RoadRoad to PerditionSam MendesSix Feet UnderThe Green MileThe Shawshank RedemptionThomas Newman
Art, Articles, History
November 9, 2015 Laura Grey
Photo of a Tupperware party by Bill Owens from his book Suburbia
When I was a child growing up in the San Francisco suburb of Livermore, the publication of photographer Bill Owens's exploration of Bay Area suburban life, Suburbia, was a big deal in my home town. His book of photojournalism, published in 1973, garnered significant media attention; it was even written up in Time magazine. The book was of particular interest in Livermore because its stars were our town's own citizens. The Tupperware ladies, toy-gun-toting little boys, Barbie-collecting girls and block party barbecuers whose black-and-white portraits filled the book lived in the Livermore-Amador Valley. Several of my mother's friends and our own family doctor appeared in its pages.
Even now, historians, postcard manufacturers and bloggers republish photos from the book. Art galleries, major museums and other institutions around the world include Owens's photos in exhibitions. Gallerists and pop culture historians point to his work when they want to expose the supposedly tacky superficiality of American suburban life during that awkward period between the clean-cut, rule-following fifties and the shaggy, sexy, if-it-feels-good-do-it seventies.
Photo of six-year-old Richie Ferguson by Bill Owens from Suburbia
Bill Owens took these now-iconic photos when he was a staff photographer at the Livermore Independent News starting in 1968. My mother's boyfriend at the time was himself a reporter at the Independent who worked alongside Owens, so I met the photographer at a party shortly after the publication of his book. He had the no-nonsense confidence of a man who is used to sizing up a situation quickly, figuring out the most visually compelling elements, and getting in and out of an event in a hurry, before his subjects have a chance to become too self-conscious or studied in their poses. News photography has always required such skills, but in the days of film photography, there was a pressing need to be able to edit one's work on the fly and be quick about it. Film was costly, and all photos needed to be developed and cropped by the photographer on short deadlines if they were to make it into the next day's paper. Taking too many shots or too much time was a luxury that local papers and their staff photographers could ill afford.
In the seventies, there were few television channels or news radio stations, and of course there was no Internet with which individuals could share news directly, so the local newspaper was the primary source of in-depth information on all things regional. Newspapers had to report on crime, business, sports, laws, fashion, civic and social events, so photographers like Bill Owens had to get in and out of multiple places and events daily. But while Owens came from that journalistic tradition, in his photoessays he took the time to focus not only on what people did, but also on how they felt about their lives and suburban surroundings. He let his subjects express their pride, ambivalence and concerns about living in a growing, post-war, middle-class community. It was a time of prosperity and expanding social and sexual openness, but also a time of war, increasing crime and political unrest. Our town was largely insulated from the drama and violence that was shaking bigger cities at the time, but middle-class angst and drama were plentiful.
In his photographs and in the commentary his subjects provided, Owens caught suburbanites in private moments. They questioned whether they were capable parents, or took pride in living what they considered to be the good life. Some admitted that while they'd found the money to buy a house, they couldn't afford to furnish it. People opened up to him, agonized over whether they were setting good examples for their kids, beamed as they showed off their prosperity, or sat half-naked on the edge of a bed daring the world to judge them for being comfortable with themselves.
Photo of Livermore's Ozzie Davis Toyota dealership by Bill Owens from his book Suburbia
The world was used to urban photographers like Diane Arbus or Gordon Parks taking awkwardly intimate photos of people looking embarrassingly real in big, gritty cities like New York. Time and Life magazines brought images of war and rioting into our homes each week in full-color photo spreads. In comparison to large-scale photojournalistic works about the Great Events of Our Time, a photoessay treating the inhabitants of a middle-class enclave near San Francisco as if they were significant enough to be worthy of their own project was a fresh and intriguing idea. It was exciting to be in the spotlight after always feeling like we had been on the edges of things.
Livermore is less than an hour from San Francisco, which was the hippie movement's Ground Zero during the 1960s. Though only a half-hour from Berkeley, scene of some of the nation's most bitter and frequent anti-war protests during the years when these photos were taken, Livermore had for many years been a bastion of traditional conservative values.
A wine-growing community dotted with ranches, Livermore was known as little more than a cow town until the early 1950s. My high school's mascot was a cowboy, and the street behind the main school building is still called Cowboy Alley. But while the community had long been based on rancho culture, by the 1960s and 1970s Livermore's biggest employer was what was known as the "Rad Lab," rad being short for radiation: Livermore was and is the site of one of the nation's largest national nuclear weapons laboratories. What is now known as the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory opened its doors in 1952, and by the time Bill Owens's book was published two decades later, the laboratory directly employed about 10% of the city's population.
For six decades, Livermore has had one of the largest concentrations of top nuclear physicists in the world, meaning that my town was home to a huge number of highly educated, fact-loving scientists, their well-educated spouses, and their smart and skeptical kids. Most of those who worked at the lab were strong believers in the theory that the specter of "mutually assured destruction" by the Soviet and U.S. superpowers in case of a nuclear war would keep either side from initiating war as long as both sides kept designing, building and stockpiling more and more threatening, long-range and expensive weaponry.
The Cold War-era belief that spending billions on the development and creation of weapons of mass destruction was necessary to keep us safe from communists (who were building their own gigantic nuclear arsenal on the other side of the world) sounds like a conservative stance to us today, but there were plenty of political moderates and even liberals working at the lab. Democrats like Presidents Kennedy and Johnson were staunch anticommunists who had instigated and escalated our involvement in wars meant to stop the spread of communism. Fear of communist expansion and take-over was by no means a solely Republican fear. Engineers and physicists who prized rational thinking above all were often open-minded and modern in their thinking in many fields and they came in many political flavors, not just conservative ones.
By the time that Bill Owens set about photographing our city's denizens, formerly rural Livermore's population included many erudite, cultured people of all political persuasions who were curious about the world in general. Many of the problem-solvers who had descended on Livermore from around the globe brought with them great worldliness and interest in culture and erudition. Though Livermore had once been thought of as a quiet farming community out in the boonies, by the 1960s it was surprisingly full of eclectic amateur theatrical events, excellent public schools with award-winning musical ensembles and a community symphony. An ambitious annual cultural arts festival takes over much of the downtown corridor during early October every year to this day.
However, because of the popularity of Bill Owens's book, the place where I grew up became famous for people who represented everything superficial and embarrassing about suburban American culture. The real Livermore was a lively mixture of experts in fields from agriculture and livestock to nuclear weaponry to the arts. The book that both celebrated and embarrassed us was on the coffee table of every hip and educated family in town, and we felt both pride and chagrin over the images shown within its pages. There was delight over the fame the book brought us, and recognition of ourselves in the photographs and stories told in the book, but also a bit of shame over the parts of the book that made us look like overconsuming, self-absorbed buffoons.
Another understandable but misleading aspect of the book was the fact that the long agricultural history and natural beauty of the place got lost in the focus on the tract housing developments and accoutrements of post-war Northern Californian living, so the richness of the culture and the long history of people living close to the land in Livermore and the surrounding valley all but disappeared.
Big cities like New York can handle having people think a large proportion of their citizenry is odd or tacky, but Livermore has suffered unfairly over the years by having people choose the least flattering photos and stories from our signature photoessay to represent our whole populace. Although those of us who lived in the Bay Area in the early seventies grew used to hearing that our region was rife with proto-New Age philosophies, encounter groups, redwood hot tubs, free love experimentation and all varieties of omphaloskeptic behavior, for many people (like my self-righteous hippie father) Bay Area suburbs like Livermore came to represent not the cool, sexy, mind-expanding elements of the Age of Aquarius but the shallow, consumerist, un-self-aware aspects of modern living.
In the decades since I left Livermore, the city has nearly doubled in size thanks to its proximity to the tech boom in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. My home town has long been one of the more affordable corners of an outrageously overpriced region. It is still home to one of the nation's top nuclear weapons laboratories, as well as to Sandia National Laboratories, which develops, engineers and tests the non-nuclear components of nuclear weapons. But its economy and culture are no longer quite so closely tied to the nuclear research culture as they were when I lived there. Yet echoes of that culture reverberate in modern literature and film: the writer of the popular science fiction novel The Martian, Andy Weir, grew up in Livermore. He went to my high school, worked at Livermore's Sandia Labs, and he is himself the son of a particle physicist who worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. It's likely he had a literature or composition class with my mother at some point; I like to fantasize that she may have encouraged his considerable writing talent in some small way. Though Weir wasn't even born when the first of the photos in Suburbia was taken, the influence of Livermore's science-friendly, intellectual, problem-solving culture helped to nurture his curiosity and imagination, just as it did my own.
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Home Expert Views united states gas meter market
United States Gas Meter Market is Projected to Reach US$ 930 Mn by 2023
Author: QYResearch | Published Date: 2018-08-22 | Views: 143
United States Gas Meter Market: Market Driver and Restraint
The main application of Gas Meter is residential. Gas Meters are widely used by many apartments, houses, flats, etc. Residential dominates the market and counts for 90% of the market. Commercial is second application of Gas Meters and they are needed by some commercial places like restaurants. Industrial application is much smaller than Residential and Commercial.
United States Gas Meter Market by Type
This segment includes Diaphragm/Bellows Meters, Rotary Meter, Turbine Meters, Ultrasonic Flow Meters and other. Diaphragm/Bellows Meters is the main type of Gas Meter.
Diaphragm/Bellows Meters are the most common type of gas meter, seen in almost all residential and small commercial installations. Within the meter there are two or more chambers formed by movable diaphragms. With the gas flow directed by internal valves, the chambers alternately fill and expel gas, producing a near continuous flow through the meter. As the diaphragms expand and contract, levers connected to cranks convert the linear motion of the diaphragms into rotary motion of a crank shaft which serves as the primary flow element. This shaft can drive an odometer-like counter mechanism or it can produce electrical pulses for a flow computer.
Rotary meters are highly machined precision instruments capable of handling higher volumes and pressures than diaphragm meters. Within the meter, two figure "8" shaped lobes, the rotors (also known as impellers or pistons), spin in precise alignment. With each turn, they move a specific quantity of gas through the meter. The operating principle is similar to that of a Roots blower. The rotational movement of the crank shaft serves as a primary flow element and may produce electrical pulses for a flow computer or may drive an odometer-like counter.
Turbine gas meters infer gas volume by determining the speed of the gas moving through the meter. Because the volume of gas is inferred by the flow, it is important that flow conditions are good. A small internal turbine measures the speed of the gas, which is transmitted mechanically to a mechanical or electronic counter. These meters do not impede the flow of gas, but are limited at measuring lower flow rates.
Ultrasonic flow meters are more complex than meters that are purely mechanical, as they require significant signal processing and computation capabilities. Ultrasonic meters measure the speed of gas movement by measuring the speed at which sound travels in the gaseous medium within the pipe. American Gas Association Report No. 9 covers the proper usage and installation of these meters, and it specifies a standardized speed-of-sound calculation which predicts the speed of sound in a gas with a known pressure, temperature and gas composition.
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    location / {
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How do I reconfigure a nginx-ingress like that? I've tried to do the following.
kind: Ingress
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
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calling against the ingress I get
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Quick Hits – November 20, 2017
Show me the money?
I understand the rabble readily embraces conspiracy theories in an effort to absolve themselves of any personal responsibility for their own plight, but it's kinda disheartening when our elected officials and county department heads do the same damn thing.
Aren't our esteemed local public servants supposed to be a cut above? Apparently not, because the BS surrounding the release of the Kane County efficiency report (we discussed it on Friday) has me reaching for the Xanax – again.
According to some, the surest signs of Chairman Chris Lauzen's latest nefarious scheme are:
The report was only released to certain people
It wasn't marked "draft" even though it was a draft
It's "riddled" with inaccuracies
The conspiracy theorists eminently logical conclusion was that those inaccuracies doomed the entire report and the Chairman must be squirreling county money away in offshore bank accounts so he can punish any county official who displeases him.
First, the report was released to all the applicable folks, including the entire county board, by email. It's just that some of 'em didn't bother to read it, and whose fault is that?
Was it mistake to omit the word "draft?" Yep! But that error is making the consultants', the finance department's, and the Chairman's lives much more difficult. So if this was some sort of conspiratorial plot to quash dissent, it's a really bad one!
Third, did the consultant make a mistake by getting their information solely through independent sources? Yep! The ensuing inaccuracies led to a mini rebellion in which a number of electeds and department heads now trust neither the document, the finance department, nor the Chairman.
And that makes their lives more difficult, too!
C'mon! Do you really think it's the dream of every county board and chairman to have to ask surly and recalcitrant public officials to voluntarily reduce office expenditures to cover a deficit?
I'd rather run barefoot over a mile of broken glass.
I'll say it again! That efficiency report had no impact on the requested 3.6 percent across-the-board 2018 county budget cuts. It was solely intended to be used as a yardstick against which the board could measure further potential 2019 cuts should revenues continue to decline.
Since it is a draft, and the 2019 budgeting process is a year away, rather than running around in circles screaming the sky is falling, perhaps those officials could work with the finance department, board and chairman to correct those errors instead of endlessly bitching about it.
Because the vast irony is, that report clearly indicated that three of the four offices shrieking the loudest should actually get more money! Call me crazy, but if I was one of those folks, I'd go with the report even if my name was spelled wrong and it questioned my lineage.
But instead of pulling together as a team for the common taxpayer good, they'd rather be right. Can the chairman be difficult? You bet! But some of y'all are startin' to make him look like Mother Theresa, and that's no easy feat!
To our four most outspoken dissidents, I would offer this advice:
1. Sheriff Don Kramer
Dude! In a Trump-esque effort to erase all memory of former Sheriff Pat Perez, you blew out your budget just two short weeks in office by sending those U. S. Marshall's inmates packing. If you had retained that $2.4 million annual contract, you'd be sittin' pretty.
So, if you have any issues with your bottom line, I' d be glad to direct you to the nearest bathroom mirror.
Furthermore, that report said the Sheriff's office needs more money, but since you've completely dismissed it, what do you think will come of that now?
2. Coroner Rob Russell
Though you didn't blow your budget, my advice to the Sheriff also applies to you. Did you note the efficiency report stipulated you could use more cash, too? I think you need a new office as well.
The sad thing is, I've seen you and the Chairman work cooperatively firsthand, and prior to this kerfuffle, you seemed to have reached some sort of détente. But because you listen to the wrong people, you're right back to square one.
3. Chief Judge Clancy Boles and Court Services Director Lisa Aust
Considering the report says your office is as bloated as I've proven it to be, wouldn't a better long-term strategy be to pay heed to former Chief Judge Judith Brawka's example? She worked cooperatively with the Chairman and board to give taxpayers the best bang for their buck.
And she tended to get what she wanted as a result.
You could start that process by making your judges – the highest paid elected and appointed officials in Kane County – actually work a full day like the rest of us.
4. Public Defender Kelli Childress
You may be one of the best litigators I've ever watched work, but that report explicitly declared that your office desperately needs more money, too. So what was the point of excoriating the board over its inaccuracies and firing up the rest of the malcontents? Sometimes it pays to leave the lawyer shit behind.
Meanwhile, this Thursday, I'm going to be thankful for having the kind of basic wisdom and intelligence to scratch running for public office off my bucket list. I clearly lack the capacity to be that self-centered and utterly illogical.
You may have noticed I've been doing my damndest to right the Kane County Justice system ship, especially in regards to those 16th Circuit men and women in black. The fact that so many of the folks sworn to uphold the law seem to think they're above it really frosts my cookies.
But as I consistently like to point out, that overarching theme doesn't mean we aren't blessed with some exemplary judges. It's the whole baby and bathwater thing.
Judge Clint Hull
The reason I don't point that out nearly as much as I should is, as county board member and soon-to-be-former friend, Kurt Kojzarek likes to say, "Jeff, your endorsement just cost me 10 points in the next election."
While it's certainly fun to make Kurt squirm (he loves strippers), I generally don't want the good guys to have to suffer on the double-edged sword of a Jeff Ward compliment. But in light of the impending holiday, I'm going to make an exception!
Thus, I am grateful for the efforts of the following Kane County Judges in no particular order:
Clint Hull
Rene Cruz
Betsy Flood
Keith Johnson
William Parkhurst
John Barsanti
Mark Pheanis
Robert Villa
Christine Downs
Joe Grady was a great judge, but a number of sources have said the death of his wife and age are catching up with him. Though I sometimes question D. J. Tegeler's judgment, he probably puts in more hours than any of the others. And David Akemann does have a great legal mind, but that legendary ego overshadows it.
To be fair, I haven't heard much about some of our judges, so any omission does not necessarily mean they're on the naughty list.
Meanwhile, to all the men and women on the nice list, if I just ended your legal career, I apologize!
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U.S. Marshal's prisoners are subject to certain Federal regulations that are costly. both in money and deputies' time, such as medical care by personal physicians and transportation to and from it.
When this subject came up months ago, Sheriff Kramer informed me that the cost of compliance with Federal regulations for these prisoners, both in money, aggravation, and deputy work time, cost more than the contract was worth.
Maybe you should discuss it with him.
Actually I discussed the subject at length with Pat Perez and that $2.4 million only cost the County $600 – $800,000. And the county had to fill in that $1.5 million-ish gap.
Don is not being forthcoming because he wants to save his own ass. He actually did not understand that his budget had an asset side.
Not only that, but things were going so well with the Marshalls that the revenue was going up every year!
John Horan
How about if the juvenile and adult drug courts were managed by an experienced, independent arbiter? Like a licensed psychologist, someone actually trained to help those with a dependency? Right now, you have 2 judges @ 400k/yr. plus staff. Pretty expensive babysitters. And those judges cherry-pick the lucky few getting into the program, while the unwashed masses, the one's needing the most help but having the least money, lose out. I have never seen any mention of recidivism in the program, other than the judges spouting some national averages about cost savings and relapse, which is just more BS. And these same judges work a few hours at night, while traveling the country on the taxpayers dime to attend "training" classes. Start with these two and keep cutting.
John, I hate to harsh your buzz, and we both know there are judiciary cuts to be made, but the state pays the judges' salaries so we can't make that argument.
And county governments pay part of the cost of financing circuit court operations. Counties provide office and courtroom space, maintenance, and support staff to assist the circuit court judges. Get rid of it, and maybe staff can be reduced, too.
I don't disagree, but the number of judges in any circuit is determined by the Illinois Supreme Court so cutting those positions would be tough – but not impossible.
Linda Tesch Mitchell
Jeff, this has to be one of the best of your blogs in recent times. While my admittedly limited knowledge/experience, my not yet totaling failing memory, as well as the much more vast experience and leadership skill-set of that guy who occupies the other side of the dinner table from me probably don't qualify for a gold star, the first part is exactly on point. In regard to the second part on the judiciary folks, I do know some of those names. In particular both Joe Grady and Judy Brawka are folks I had been on the campaign trail with and witnessed their professionalism with great respect for both. Oh, and it was nice to see your smiling face at the grocery store the other day. Happy Thanksgiving.
That's high praise coming from a former Kane County Director of Elections. As I like to say in regards to the first story, I have a keen perception of the obvious!
And I really miss Judge Brawka.
It was fun seeing you and Jim at the store as well!
Beatrice McGuire
Jeff you always mention your campaign manager skills. i've read your column over the years but have never found a need to comment until now. I'm considering an independent run for a county board seat and am looking for a qualified manager. Other than Tao Martinez, who's campaign have you worked on? It's always interesting to see who supports who and why and that person's qualifications
Beatrice,
That's a great question and I'd love to answer it. Here's my campaign managing/consulting history:
1. Chris Lauzen vs. Kevin Burns for Kane County Chairman in 2012
I was tasked with keeping the Chairman from blowing up and getting bogged down in petty battles. This was one of my toughest challenges as Chris has a well known propensity to strike back. But my strategy worked and Chris beat Burns by 40 points.
2. Greg Marston for Mayor of Pingree Grove
I did this one for free. Greg managed to get on the wrong side of a number of local folks who had some political pull. So I shifted the messaging and honed the voter data set down to exactly the right folks. But at the last minute Greg decided not to send out the second mailer I'd designed for him and he lost by two votes. The folks who opposed him were shocked he came that close.
3. Tao Martinez for Kane County Coroner
You know about that one. The problem with that campaign was that Tao's brother was murdered in Mexico and I lost him to depression for four months, so he never knocked on any doors.
But despite that lapse and a shocking Trump victory, the Hispanic Democratic candidate managed to pull within 5.2 points of the white Republican incumbent when people were saying we'd lose by 20 points! This was a case where an accurate voter data analysis made a huge difference. Had Tao been in a position to knock on doors he would've won.
4. Richard Irvin for Mayor of Aurora
I was Richard's messaging and strategy consultant and the key here was to shift his message from the angry black man to, as I put it, the preacher.
Then my strategy was to get Mike Saville to endorse Richard, to let Linda Chapa LaVia continue to message poorly without interference and to target older white conservatives and it worked.
5. Corey Dixon for Elgin City Council
I simply provided Corey with the only statistical path to victory and he followed the plan perfectly. Considering how hard it is to unseat city council incumbents, this is one of my favorite victories. Numbers matter and they work.
6. Rich Marks Geneva alderman
This was a really tough one. With Tom Simonian running the kind of campaign that alienated voters at every turn, we had to stick to a basic ground game strategy that generally tended to work.
In the end, Rich was the only incumbent that survived that bloodbath. I'm still trying to convince him run for mayor in 2121.
7. Taylor Egan for D304 (Geneva) School Board
This was my favorite campaign. I really like Taylor, and after running a disastrous first school board campaign she listened and did everything right. The result was she was the top vote getter in a field that included four incumbents. That doesn't happen very often.
I'm running a countywide sheriff campaign right now.
As far as a county board race, a lot of it depend on whom you're running against. Some of them cannot be beaten.


Meet Johan Bollen: Associate professor of informatics and computing at Indiana University, and the man who claims that Twitter can help predict the stock market.
Dubbed by the media as "The Twitter Predictor," Bollen's method for predicting economic trends is based on a formula that evaluates society's overall mood on the social media site.
Millions of tweets from millions of users are selected and analyzed based on a series of key words related to how one might be feeling. These words are then used to measure the overall mood of the public along six different "mood states": calmness, alertness, sureness, vitality, kindness and happiness.
Bollen and his collegues found that the correlation between this national mood and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was actually quite strong. In fact, adding the mood factor to a trained machine-learning algorithm to predict the stock market increased the accuracy from 73% to 86%.
In response to this unique discovery, Indiana University's Research and Technology Corporation recently received U.S. Patent No. 8,380,607 – "Predicting Economic Trends via Network Communication Mood Tracking." Bollen's startup company, Guidewave Consulting, will also collect royalties.
It may be an interesting, and now protected, idea but not everyone is buying into the new system. Until a wider range of tweets over a larger span of time are found to have a consistent tie to the stock market's rise and fall, some feel that Bollen's discovery could just be coincidence.
Twitter users hail from all over the world, and it's unrealistic to think that even the large majority have their hand in stocks, and Bollen agrees. Until more research is done and the system is tested with real money in real time, it's hard to know just how much potential there really is here.


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Our last post tried to touch upon the seynsgechichtlich meaning of a statement that Heidegger first makes in his well-known 1929 address Was ist Metaphysik?. Roughly, the statement runs as follows: Being and Nothing are indeed not identical, yet they are the same. In the immediate context of this assertion as it is found in Was ist Metaphysik? there is passing reference made to that thinker with whom Heidegger seems, from his dissertation of 1915 to his last public lecture of 1962, to find the most vigorous point of contention, namely Hegel. And this is no accident. It hardly seems an exaggeration to say there are, at bottom, two ways of hearing this statement, and depending on this alone you are either Hegelian or Heideggerian.
Being and Nothing are indeed not identical, yet they are the same.
Everything is concentrated in what is meant by the negativity of this "not" --it is the fulcrum on which the meaning of the sentence swings. What possibility is harbored in this non-identity, such that it can allow Heidegger to speak in accord with Hegel against Hegel? In what follows I will permit myself some rough notes seeking to indicate an answer.
The non-identity of Being and Nothing could, for Hegel, be explained as the dialectical necessity that Being and Nothing, as prior moments of the Concept of Becoming, remain distinct moments. This distinction of identity must be maintained because otherwise Being and Nothing would, as it were, already be becoming; they would negate the very need for a development, they would negate the possibility of the Concept of Becoming --and along with this negation also the very possibility of their ever being the same in and as this Concept. Conversely, the sameness of Being and Nothing consists in that sublation which alone would preserve and ensure with unshakable necessity their non-identity. As it resounds in Hegel's ear, then, the statement "Being and Nothing are indeed not identical, yet they are the same" is a statement stressing the tension between the non-identity of what is dialectically undeveloped with the sublative, reconciliatory sameness in which dialectical development results. The savory paradox of this statement that can only be lost sight of at the expense of its entire meaning is that the union of the sameness of which it speaks not only reconciles but necessitates the (previous) non-identity of Being and Nothing. In short, "the same" names an "identity-in-difference" which justifies the difference between Being and Nothing just as it is presupposed (in kernel form, as it were) by this difference.
But if this statement about Being and Nothing can be made to speak the language of dialectic, how can it speak differently? How does it resound in the famous "ear of Heidegger"?
For Heidegger the negativity of this non-identity must be understood in light of two extreme possibilities. The first of these, the first negativity, is that of Das Nichts. As I tried to emphasize in the last post, we are not 'done' thinking this Nothing when we think it as that which, though a constant companion of beings as a whole as such, rarely discloses itself in the welling up of anxiety. Not only through the various stimmungen of Dasein's Befindlichkeit but far more primordially through the historical grantings of Being does the Nothing nichtet: the Nothing is the epocally destined granting of refusal which enables Being as Gestell. Thus we may say that Nothing, thought Beyng-historically, is the consummate withdrawal of Being (Sein). Because it is consummate, this withdrawal (which is in truth the source of history's epochality) itself withdraws into complete concealment; the ages come to an end. It is this negativity of the ending of the epochs of Being, which Heidegger elsewhere calls simply "oblivion", which marks the essence of the Nothing, In interpretting our statement then, the question of Heideggerian non-identity is a question of how this negativity differs from Being (Seyn) itself. But this question also contains another, namely, what negativity is at work in this difference.
If the Nothing is to be thought of in terms of a consummate withdrawal of Being, then a fortiori Being must be thought of in terms of a withdrawal, namely, its own (eigen). The first negativity has its secret wellspring in an other negativity. Being is that which is not, nor could ever be, a being, it is that which differentiates itself from all beings, it is that which withdraws from beings --indeed, withdraws from them so that they can be beings for a while (jeweilen). This means that neither Being nor Nothing is to be thought save in this withdrawal. Nothing must be thought in the withdrawal of Being; Being must be thought in the withdrawal of It Itself, i.e. Ereignis. Only according to this withdrawal of Being itself (Seyn) is it possible and necessary that the non-identity of Being and Nothing be maintained --a terrible and overburdening task of maintenance to which our essence has been fatefully assigned, as is revealed in the present age of technology.
Interpreting the statement now, the non-identity of Being and Nothing belongs to the non-identity of Being itself. This non-identity proves to be too excessive to offer the stability of a stage upon which to prop the sublation of dialectic. If for Hegel, the sameness of Being and Nothing is in dialectical tension with their non-identity, things are even more paradoxical for Heidegger: the non-identity of Being itself, a negativity which we now understand as withdrawal, marks that separation between Being as such and Being itself whereby the negativity of the Nothing is made possible. The non-identity of Being is the source of its sameness with Nothing.
That will take some living with to integrate. I have assumed "as such" and "itself" were synonyms. Your formulation is another "one hand clapping." I cannot begin to guess where it might lead.
I see where it might unfortunately come off as a daunting as an impenetrable adage, but I think it is a distinction that ultimately is both intelligible and truly crucial to any understanding of what the later Heidegger means by Being as Ereignis and Das Selbe. But here's the key: you're right! Being as such and Being itself ARE synonymous, if the condition for being synonymous is that your are speaking about THE SAME. But the reason why we nevertheless maintain a non-identity is this: Being SENDS itself (a feat quite impossible for a being). Because it sends itself, it opens a difference in it itself. Thus Heidegger is very 'technical' about his use of "as such" and "itself". The former refers to Being insofar as it has come to light (i.e.has been sent and has therefore constituted an age). However, the latter (Being itself) does not refer to Being as it has been epochally sent but to what is proper or ownmost to Being, namely, and that is the manner in which it withholds (epoche) itself in constituting an epoch, or in other words the "it" that gives in "es gibt Sein". Both terms (Being as such and Being itself), however, refer to the Same, even though not the identical.
Again, seems coherent to me and offers the best terms I have yet heard for the Ur picture. My congratulations.


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Back to back looses versus the Queens and the Flippers yikes.
Just terrible basketball honestly. Repeated bad ISO plays from numerous players. Stupid turnovers. [expletive]ty defending.
We should appreciate LeBron more. Were nothing but a lottery team without him.
4 players are out. Ugh. I want a win on Sunday.
Well aside from the part where the team was built around having LeBron, you could literally apply this statement to majority of teams and their best player.
I don't know what you guys expect. They are injured and on a back to back. I gave them 10 percent chance to win the game and that is being generous.
The encouraging signs are they have been in these games. Lonzo and Kuz. That's it.
Who's idea was it to draft BI?
It was my idea! Now what? These are very young players not going to be superstars on call! Y'all need to stop complaining and get behind the team!! It's a new year soon change your style!


We didn't have long in Milan. Manuel and myself arrived on Tuesday 12 April in the evening and flew back on Saturday 16 April. We are always struggling with time as our list of what we would like to see never works within the limited time available.
This year we were pleased that 4 of the designers that are selling on the Hidden Art E-Shop were exhibiting in different places across Milan. We have written about their shows alongside other designers whose shows we really liked. They are Bright Potato, Curvalinea, Kukka and SO KLARA.
The centre piece was a long communal table which encouraged to talk to the designers present whilst tasting an organic and locally-sourced cuisine. The designers work was experienced first hand whether as a bread knife or carafe.
This included designs from Dossofiorito such as the Balena carafe, a bottle cuckoo and the Epiphytes installation. I had seen Dossofiorito's work at the Salone Satelite in past years and has been one of my favourite designers.
This is such a lovely place and we don't always have the time to visit it. But as this was next to the Airbnb show this year we had the opportunity to visit it. Maarten Baas and Piet Hein Eek two of my other Dutch favourites. I also liked very much the chair with the plant growing out of it which is from Marcantonio Raimondi Malerba.
Piet Hein Eek showed a range of new furniture and accessories. This included the one-mould desk lamp a simple table lamp made from one mould.