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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas' events take place in 1992, in the State of San Andreas (modeled after the states of California and Nevada in the U.S.) and it's inspired from the 1992 Los Angeles riots, ghetto-based films suck as "Boyz N The Hood" and "Menace To Society" and gangsta rap groups like N.W.A.
Prior Events
The protagonist of the game, Carl Johnson was born and raised in Grove Street, Ganton, Los Santos, living in their house with his mother, his brothers Sean "Sweet" and Brian Johnson and his sister Kendl. Sweet and CJ joined the Grove Street Families gang as kids, and Sweet became the leader of the gang. The Grove Street Families gained power in Los Santos, although their enemies, the Ballas and Vagos continued to cause damage to them.
In 1987, CJ's brother Brian died (the cause of the death was never revealed), and CJ was forced to leave his hometown Los Santos and move to Liberty City, where he started working as a car thief for Joey Leone. At this time, the Grove Street Families began losing power, eventually losing turf to Ballas and the Los Santos Vagos, and they split up to three sets, the original Grove Street Families (ruling Ganton), the Seville Boulevard Families (having control of Playa del Seville) and the Temple Drive Families (mainly establishing themselves in Temple and Santa Maria Beach). All the other territories were being controlled by Ballas and Vagos, who were interested in drug trade, instead of the GSF (who never sold drugs due to Sweet's ban on narcotics).
Return of CJ
In early 1992, the Ballas plotted the death of Sweet, and then the eventual capture of Ganton and the ultimate fall of the GSF. They decided to do a drive-by shooting on The Johnson House, and they used a green Sabre car for the getaway. However, Sweet survived, with Sweet and CJ's mom caught in the cross fire. This forced CJ to return from Liberty City to Los Santos for the funeral.
When CJ arrives at the airport, a taxi transports him back to his old hood, although, one block away from Grove Street, a police car arrives and arrests Carl. The three cops that took CJ were officers Frank Tenpenny, Eddie Pulaski and Jimmy Hernandez of the C.R.A.S.H. police unit, a corrupt team of cops. They blame CJ for the death of Officer Pendelbury, who they killed instead, and take most of Carl's money, leaving him to Ballas territory. Carl finds the way to his old hood, where he enters his mom's house, and meets Big Smoke, one of the leading members of the gang and Sweet's friend. They head to the funeral, where they meet the rest of the gang, Sweet, Ryder and Kendl. Sweet don't seems to be happy with his brother's arrival, because he thinks CJ "ran away". After the funeral, they are planning to enter Big Smoke's car, although the Ballas blow it up with a drive-by. The gang then leaves with bikes, with the Ballas car chasing CJ. When they arrive at Grove Street, Carl decides to stay in Los Santos, seeing things are "fucked up".
CJ co-operates with Sweet, Smoke and Ryder to strengthen the gang again, by eliminating crack dealers who sell cocaine to GSF members, and buying weapons from Emmet, spraying enemy gang tags with the Grove sign, and doing drive-bys in Ballas territory. After this, CJ is introduced to Cesar, Kendl's boyfriend, and leader of the Hispanic gang Varrios Los Aztecas (enemies of the Vagos), with whom become good friends. Also, Carl does missions with Ryder, stealing guns for the gang by any means necessary, Big Smoke, attacking enemy gangs, and OG Loc helping him start his career and establish himself as a rapper. Then, Officer Frank Tenpenny re-appears, having CJ kill some Vagos and torch a house, where he finds his first girlfriend, Denise Robinson, after rescuing her from the burning house. Tenpenny also has CJ interrupt a meeting between Ballas and Russians, and kill them.
After the Ballas attack Ganton and Grove Street and CJ kills them and keeps the area for the GSF, Sweet has more trust to him, and has him buy guns and attack and take over a Ballas territory, Glen Park. The gang also hits the Ballas by killing their Temple set leader Kane in the cemetery, along with other Balla members. CJ takes over more territory for the Grove, weakening their enemies, and also tries with Sweet, Smoke and Ryder to reunite the three sets of the Families, although they are attacked by the police and they escape after a long chase.
CJ's respect is upgraded, and Sweet decides to hit the Ballas hard. He makes an army of GSF members and make a deadly shootout with the Ballas in the parking lot under the Mulholland Intersection. Cesar phones CJ and informs him to meet him quickly, because he saw something weird. After CJ comes there, he realizes that his friends, Big Smoke and Ryder, are working with the Ballas, are fiercely loyal to Tenpenny, and were also involved in his mother's shooting. He realizes that Sweet is walking into a trap, and quickly goes to the parking lot under the Mulholland Intersection to save his brother. When he arrives there, he finds out Sweet is heavily injured, and more Ballas are coming. After CJ kills them all, the police arrives and arrests Sweet and CJ. Sweet is being held in a prison hospital awaiting trial, while CJ finds himself in a car with Tenpenny and Pulaski, miles away from Los Santos, in a place with countryside and a massive mountain.
Whetstone, Flint County, & Red County
They order CJ not to return to Los Santos and try to kill Smoke, otherwise Sweet will be put in a Ballas cell-block in jail. They also have him kill an agent threatening to reveal their secrets to the authorities. Carl also meets Cesar's cousin Catalina, and they perform robberies together, and an aging hippie called The Truth, who is high on drugs and also provides Tenpenny with weed and stuff like that. He has CJ steal a Combine Harvester from a farm and deliver it back to him, and says he will call when the weed is ready. CJ insists Cesar to leave Los Santos with Kendl, as the Grove Street Families and Varrios Los Aztecas are both disbanded and their territories taken over by the Ballas and Vagos, and he rents them a trailer home in Angel Pine, a small town in the countryside. After beating Wu Zi Mu, the leader of the Chinese San Fierro Triads in a car race, and Catalina and her new boyfriend Claude in a same race, he gains a deed to a garage in San Fierro. Then, The Truth calls informing CJ to come and collect his money, although the cops find out about the weed farm, and CJ and The Truth torch it to the ground and also blow a police helicopter up with a Rocket Launcher, and leave with the marijuana to San Fierro.
San FierroEdit
There, CJ finds that the garage is defunct, but his sister calms him down and tells him that they can make it into a succesful chop shop. Also, CJ plants the drugs that he and The Truth took to a D.A's car, thus having the D.A arrested by the police.
Cesar calls CJ and informs him of a Ballas car seen leaving the Mulholland Intersection and heading towards the countryside. They follow it and it leads them to Angel Pine, where they take photos of Ryder and some other guys. The other three guys are the heads of the Loco Syndicate, an organization providing Big Smoke, Ryder and the Ballas and Vagos gangs with drugs. CJ decides to kill the heads of the Loco Syndicate, Jizzy B, T-Bone Mendez and Mike Toreno. Before doing that, he gains their trust by doing missions with drugs for them. After CJ kills Jizzy, he and Cesar with the help of Wu Zi Mu interrupt a meeting between the Ballas and T-Bone Mendez's gang, the San Fierro Rifa, and kill T-Bone Mendez and Ryder. To destroy the syndicate ultimately, Carl blows up a helicopter presumably with Toreno inside, and destroys a crack factory in Doherty using a car bomb. He also works for Woozie's Triads, helping him defeat the rival Vietnamese gang called the Da Nang Boys, and making a friendship with him. Carl and Cesar then turn the garage into a successful business by stealing fast cars and delivering them to the place.
Tierra Robada & Bone County
An unknown caller tells CJ to come to his ranch in Tierra Robada and that he has information about his brother Sweet. After CJ arrives there, the unknown man is revealed to be Toreno, who was not killed. Toreno reveals CJ that Sweet is in a cell between two psychopaths, and that Tenpenny and Pulaski killed Pendelbury and then blamed Carl for the murder. Toreno, then, has him perform tasks for him, most importantly learning to fly planes and helicopters, in order to get his brother Sweet out of jail, as Toreno promised.
Las Venturas
Woozie now is a succesful businessman with a casino in Las Venturas, and tells CJ to come and visit him. As CJ arrives there, Woozie informs him of a big plan: robbing the rival Caligula's Casino which is ran by the Italian Mob. Carl firstly gains the trust of the mob boss Salvatore Leone by carrying hits on rival mob families, and then he and the Triads rob the casino after a well-thought and done plan, firstly stealing some dynamite, then stealing the plans for the casino, stealing the swipe card for the casino from a croupier that becames CJ's girlfriend, cutting off the electricity in the Sherman Dam, stealing some HPV1000 police bikes for the getaway, highjacking an armored van using a Leviathan helicopter and respraying it with the Caligula's Casino logo, and finally robbing the casino with huge profits for Carl and Woozie. Carl also buys a luxurious house in Prickle Pine, where Tenpenny confronts him and orders him kill an FBI agent and get a dossier. At this time, Officer Hernandez is not with the team, and is revealed that he talked to the authorities about Tenpenny and Pulaski's corrupt operations. When Tenpenny finds out that, he calls CJ and orders him to meet him in a ghost town in the desert, in a totally abandoned place. There, Carl hands the dossier to Tenpenny, who then hits Hernandez with a shovel and leaves him for dead. Tenpenny also orders Pulaski to kill Carl, but Hernandez suddenly gets up, Pulaski shoots and kills him, but CJ takes his weapon and starts chasing Pulaski in the desert. When Pulaski is nearly dead, he disrespects CJ wanting to "fuck his sister". Carl, infuriated, brutally kicks him in the head and kills him. Also, CJ is introduced to rapper Madd Dogg, who he rescues from suicide, then helping him take his mansion in Los Santos back from the Vagos.
Return to Los SantosEdit
Toreno re-appears, and he orders CJ to steal a military aircraft from a naval station, and use it to destroy spy planes and ships. After CJ does that, he threatens to kill Toreno, although Toreno reveals that he has fulfilled his promise and Sweet is now free. Carl meets his brother, who is not happy with CJ's new lifestyle. To prove his loyalty, Carl takes back Ganton and Grove Street from the Ballas, re-establishing the old gang. The Johnson brothers begin an open war on the Ballas and Vagos, taking almost all of Los Santos from them. Also, Carl retrieves Madd Dogg's rhymebook from OG Loc.
Tenpenny is put in court for several charges, but is acquitted due to lack of evidence. After hearing this, the whole city of Los Santos erupts in riots, reminiscent of the LA riots of 1992. Carl, firstly, helps Cesar take his hood back from the Vagos, and finally, goes with Sweet to confront and kill Big Smoke in his crack palace. CJ enters the building, fighting his way through Ballas, Vagos, Rifas and Russians, and finally confronts Big Smoke, and kills him after a gunfight in his room. CJ afterwards sits near a dying Big Smoke, asking him why he gave up the gang life, and Big Smoke explains that he was too interested in the money, and with his dying breath proclaims,"Everybody will remeber my name! Big Smoke!". CJ dosen't have time to mourn his friend's death as Tenpenny timely arrives with a combat shotgun, and orders CJ to load up Big Smoke's drug fortune in a briefcase, which he intends to bring with him along with a new band of lackeys on an airplane and flee San Andreas. Tenpenny remarks "You're gonna thank me when you open your eyes… But OH! I almost forgot!(pumps shotgun) its time for you to die." However, CJ distracts Tenpenny by pretending to call out to Sweet, giving him time to dodge as Tenpenny turns to see if Sweet is behind him. Tenpenny, quickly flees the crack place, then sets the building on fire by destroying the generator and leaves. CJ is again forced to fight his way out, and finally escapes when the building explodes. Tenpenny tries to leave with a firetruck, but Sweet hangs on the back and CJ follows him. As Sweet loses his grip, Carl rescues him by putting his car right behind the firetruck, so he falls inside the car. Sweet takes the wheel, and CJ acts as the shooter, eliminating countless enemies who try to destroy their car, while Sweet chases Tenpenny's firetruck. Finally, Tenpenny loses control, the firetruck falls down and he dies in the heart of Grove Street. The riots pause, and all go inside CJ's house to celebrate their final win, and Madd Dogg's new record. As Carl goes out, Kendl asks him where he is going, in which CJ responds: "Fittin' to hit the block, see what's happening". Then, the credits roll and the game is ended.
Five years ago Carl Johnson escaped from the pressures of life in Los Santos, San Andreas… a city tearing itself apart with gang trouble, drugs and corruption. Where filmstars and millionaires do their best to avoid the dealers and gangbangers.
Now, it's the early 90s. Carl's got to go home. His mother has been murdered, his family has fallen apart and his childhood friends are all heading towards disaster.
On his return to the neighborhood, a couple of corrupt cops frame him for homicide. CJ is forced on a journey that takes him across the entire state of San Andreas, to save his family and to take control of the streets.


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Designed by the Austrian architect Krischanitz the 'Temporäre Kunsthalle' (temporary art hall), one of Berlin's major venues for contemporary art, is situated on one of the most prominent sites at the heart of Berlin, the Schlossplatz. The hall is conceived as a wooden construction with open-web girders. The surrounding strip foundations form a stable basis for the wooden elements that emerge from them. The surfaces of the exterior skin and the inner walls in the three main rooms (foyer, exhibition space, café) are made of fibre-cement panels.
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"The Lord has established His throne in heaven,and His kingdom rules over all"– Psalms 103:19
All honest Bible believers will agree that God is in charge. No matter what it may look like today, things are working right along with God's plan. We certainly do not mean to imply that God is pleased with all that is going on in our sinful world. He most certainly is not. However, He is ultimately in charge. No believer in God's Word could ever doubt that.
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[♪music♪] [ADOBE TV Presents Colin Smith in...] [No Stupid Questions] You know, one job that retouchers get asked to do all the time is make someone smile more, whether it's a family portrait shot or it's a product shot where someone's just not happy enough that they received their latest thong. So what we're going to do is use Puppet Warp and show you how we can make people smile more and even open their eyes. Photoshop CS5 Puppet Warp--let's go have a look. All right. In this image, we have a very unhappy guy. We need to make him smile a bit more, and we're going to use Puppet Warp, but if you apply Puppet Warp to the face as it is, it's going to move the whole head around. So a quick operation is to grab the Lasso tool and we're feathering this 11 pixels and it really has to do with the resolution of the image, but 11 is very good. I'm going to make a selection around his mouth down to the bottom here, and then I'm going to make a new Layer via Copy. And if we look over here on the right--I'll turn this layer off-- you can see it's just the floating mouth. You have to do this with a soft edge because we're going to bend and distort what this face looks like. If you do it with a hard edge without any of that feathering, then you're going to get telltale signs--really amateur work where you'll see something lining up. We don't want to have that happen. All right. So we now have the mouth floating on its own layer. In the Edit menu--Puppet Warp. And by default, the mesh turns on, and you can see it draws this mesh. I actually want more points inside here, because I want to be able to put more points and distort this a little easier. When I start to click, it's going to add these mesh points, and I'm just going to turn that mesh off, just for us right now. The first points I'm going to add on the top lip and on the bottom--I'm not going to move these. Think of these as being an anchor; that they're going to stay right there. Same thing over here--put these in, and these are the 2 that I'm goIng to move. If I hold the Shift key, I can select multiple pins at the same time and I have the precision of working with the arrow keys on my keyboard-- look at this. Move that up, and you see a bit of an artifacting going on there, and that really is just the temporary display as it's trying to show that to you. If you hold the Shift key down, then we can make him smile quite a bit or make him frown. The other thing I want to do at this point is that I want to make sure that he's opening his mouth, too. Because when we smile, the corners actually move up and away. All right. We have to commit to this. This is the one thing we have to understand about the Puppet tool is you create a distortion, and then we have to either hit the Enter key or up at the top of the screen, there's a little check mark up there. Boom. And remember, we did this to a floating layer, so I can turn this layer on and I can turn this layer off. I have to stop and tell you how amazing this is, because 10 years ago, I had to do this without the Puppet Warp tool, and I would give myself a whole morning of cloning and painting and copying and rotating--there was no stretching or liquify tools at all. We used to walk up--oh, you know--you get the idea. Anyway, what about the eyes? That's another one. People need to get their eyes open. There's a limit to what we can do here-- we can't completely open closed eyes, but we can definitely give the impression that they're opening a bit more. I'm just going to do the exact same thing. Over here, we're 11 pixels. I'm back on the main layer and I'm going to select his eyebrows, also, because when we smile, we move our eyebrows up, too. Okay. So there's a large selection, Layer, New, via Copy. And again, I'll turn off the lower layer and see--there we have it. So now we have the eyes on Layer 2, Edit, Puppet Warp, and again, I'll make sure that I've got more points in there, because I'm really going to add a lot of distortion to this. Okay, let's zoom in, and I'm going to anchor the corner points to the eyes, and there's really no hard and fast rule of how you place these. You might want to place more than just one up in the top. If you don't place enough of these, then you'll tend to bend the eye and it will look very fake. I'll lock these down here at the bottom, and then we can put a couple up here. It looks like he's got quite an elaborate piercing going on. Now, the next step is a little bit laborious-- we just Shift-select each one of these. That way, we can move them all at the same time, so selecting, selecting--hold the Shift key down, add to them, remembering not to select the ones we don't want to move, arrow key up. There we go. Maybe that's a bit much. Click the check mark--there we go-- there we go. The last thing--just to make this a little bit easier to handle--we now have 2 layers, Layer 1 and Layer 2. I'll select both of these, and I'm just going to group these, so Command-G/Control-G groups it in, and now they're on their own layer, so there's our before, there's our after. I guarantee you that he wouldn't even know that we've edited his face, not to make it look better, so remember to keep this natural. Keep it live and don't go too far, and your Puppet tool is going to make everybody happy with their new thong. [♪music♪] [ADOBE TV Productions]
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This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm David Greene.
And I'm Renee Montagne.
Foreign ministers of the Arab League are meeting in Baghdad today. It's something of a return to the world stage for the Iraqi capital, marking the first time in two decades Baghdad has hosted this summit of Arab leaders. NPR's Kelly McEvers is there to cover the event and joins us now.
Good morning, Kelly.
KELLY MCEVERS, BYLINE: Good morning.
MONTAGNE: Baghdad has been the scene of so much warfare, sectarian violence and other kinds of violence for so long, it seems surprising in a way that it is hosting this Arab League summit, something it hasn't done since 1990. So what kind of landscape, I mean physical and political, is this summit going into?
MCEVERS: It is pretty astounding to see something of this magnitude being held in a place that for so long has been associated with violence. How did they do it? They spent a lot of money basically. You know, Iraq is thought to have the second largest oil reserve in the world. And that oil industry is coming online and they've got money to spend.
So they spent about $500 million contracting Turkish companies to renovate hotels, renovate roads, kind of work the infrastructure - at least from the airport into some of the main parts of town - plant flowers, plant grass, really spruce up the city.
And not just the cosmetic stuff, but also have brought in what's thought to be about 100,000 extra troops to secure the place. There still is violence here in Baghdad, and so that was a major concern. And so in some ways it's a pretty astounding thing to see Baghdad hosting such a major event.
But in order to do it, they really had to lock down the city. Most of our Iraqi colleagues, today, had to walk to work because there are so many checkpoints. Bridges are closed. And what it also means for everyday Iraqis, is that life is actually difficult. They gave everybody the week off, but food prices are going up because traffic can't move around. I mean, people are actually kind of frustrated with the whole thing, honestly.
MONTAGNE: Well, the summit itself is it expected to make any major decisions?
MCEVERS: Well, let's be honest. No. Arab summits by and large don't really make any major decisions. The last really interesting Arab summit was in 1978, actually here in Baghdad. And that was when the Arab League expelled - very dramatically expelled Egypt, you know, for making peace with Israel. And that was a moment when Iraq was really asserting its role in the Arab world.
The '70s and '80s, Baghdad was a major center for the Arab world. Then, you know, Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990. And ever since then, Iraq was isolated. So Iraqi officials really see this summit as a way for Iraq to kind of reassert itself, reestablish itself in the Arab world.
It wasn't just the invasion of Kuwait, but of course it was the U.S. invasion of Iraq that kept Iraq isolated from its Arab neighbors. And frankly, it feels like it's been played by its neighbors - its non Arab neighbors - Iran, Turkey. You know, this is a way for Iraq to say, hang on, back off, look, we're Arab. We have Arab friends and we're not afraid to use our Arab alliances to get what we want. So the money they spent, the efforts they underwent to make this thing happen, they feel like it's going to be a payoff.
MONTAGNE: And of course the major issue in the region now, the spotlight, is on Syria. And a U.N.-brokered peace agreement calling for a transition to new government appears to have been accepted by Syria's leadership, but the violence continues. What do you think will come out of this Arab League summit regarding Syria?
MCEVERS: There are some leaders in the Arab League who support, you know, resolutions, basically calling for Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to step down. But there is definitely not unanimity on this issue within the Arab League, so we're probably going to see something a little more watered down than that, coming out of the summit this week.
Iraqi officials say that they support a political transition in Syria, possibly a transition from power, but that that transition has to be Syrian-led. It has to be inside Syria and it has to be led by the Syrian people, sort of maintaining the sovereignty of the country is of utmost importance they say.
MONTAGNE: NPR's Kelly McEvers speaking to us from Baghdad, where the Arab League is meeting.
Thanks very much.
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I was once again doing some research, trying to find a better way to get notifications, and I just realized this (if you want to know how I got to this, follow this steps: 1 2 3).
So, the first question came in and started receiving votes. Then someone had the same question, exact duplicate, and tried asking it. But it was closed and pointed to the older question, who then receive more votes from two different places. Then a third person came in and asked yet again the same question. Now the first question have 3 links to it, and more places to receive votes from.
Sure, people could just vote in the other questions as well, but that doesn't actually happen. In our example the first one is better linked already, and just like we would expect, it did receive the most votes. And it will continue to. And that's what happen in most cases.
What's wrong with that? To me, it makes whoever ask first or answer first gain better reputation and thus the society become more and more "elitelized" (if that's a word). Newcomers won't stand much of a chance to get reputation, there will be less and less space for new questions as they will all be duplicated somehow to older questions. As far as I can tell, that's already happening.
And what's the problem with people not being able to gain reputation as easily as in the beginning, anyway? It's a good thing to have the moderators and people willing to help already when you join in. Maybe there's no problem here, that's why I'm asking. Is there a flaw there? It feels to me there is, but I'm not sure.


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Vote 'NO' to SB 649 and to Sacramento 5G Test Pilot Program!
Greetings Californians and Residents of the Greater Sacramento Area (and all US Citizens):
What is 5G? Here in California we are gathering forces to fight against the biggest threat facing the health and well being of all humanity and living beings. 5G rollout was announced last summer 2016 by FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler during his fatal speech allowing new release of infinite numbers microwave radiation frequencies onto the public. He claims 5G 'will be the final frontier' and become 'a national priority'. This entire spectrum of frequencies within the microwave spectrum will also include the never released millimeter wave frequencies (MMW). The numbers of frequencies allowed is INSANE not to mention the SYNERGISTIC biological effects these MMW will have in combination with all the other current levels of emissions our bodies and all life on earth are dealing with.
What are millimeter waves? MMW are specialized frequencies currently used in medicine to treat certain cancers. They are also used in the airport body scanners, not mentioning high incidence of cancers found in TSA workers who operate them. In addition, scientific research performed both past to present show biological harm from both current wireless exposures as well as the new MMW exposures. Yet, none of these findings affected the policy making decisions nor directly safety tested by the FCC and industry before the 5G rollout. The FCC has made clear they have no desire to fulfill their obligations as a regulatory agency. So what business does the FCC serve when you hear Chairman Tom Wheeler announce in his speech to regulators that they 'get out of the way' for 5G? Are we going to allow the FCC to bully our local cities and counties and public due process? No!
Why is this our last fight? 5G is an ecocide in the making. They have no plans to reduce current microwave emissions and will keep 3G and 4G infrastructure while adding to it 5G unlimited new bands of frequencies including those in the millimeter wave lengths. FCC have not reviewed nor revised their emissions levels since 1996 nor do they have any funding to monitor radiation emissions levels. With Wheeler's speech, they have also made clear they have no desire to check the levels from any newly added radiation levels from 5G because he told the regulators to 'get out of the way'. The bees are already impacted from current levels of ambient microwave radiation levels in our environment - introducing 5G will decimate the remaining pollinators. In addition, it will impact foliage and tree's ability to photosynthesize thereby reducing oxygen production. The impacts are endless on both health and the environment.
How will they achieve this 5G infrastructure? They plan on building dense placements of these small cell Distributed Antenna System (DAS) on every light or electric poles in every neighborhood and public rights of way. They will be placed right outside our homes and businesses. Even rural areas will be targeted and private property will be fair game. No place will be safe.
Is 5G coming to Sacramento? Yes. In the US, last November 2016, Verizon chose eleven cities to pilot this 5G network. Sacramento is one of the eleven.
The DAS along with surveillance cameras on every pole is necessary to facilitate this mass connection and collection of data. All devices will be connected to become part of the proposed Internet of Things (IoT), information on everything from driverless cars to cell phones, all home appliances, smart meters and RFID chips placed into or onto every product sold, and eventually, everyone.
Where do we stand? We do not agree to the infinite amounts of unlimited toxic microwave radiation being unleashed into our neighborhoods and cities. This insanity must be stopped! We are telling the state of California and the City of Sacramento we will not stand for being manipulated into accepting 5G infrastructure that will destroy the health of the people in this city and state.
Call/Write CA Senators Vote 'No' to SB 649:
Who Opposes this bill (so far, the list growing):
- League of California Cities
- City of San Francisco
- Marin County Council of Mayors & Councilmembers
SB649 will streamline placement of small cell Distributed Antenna System (DAS) on electric and light poles in front of businesses and residences without any local government input. This bill eliminates the power of local control and jurisdiction on and gives it to the federal government to take over control of all small cell distributed antenna systems (DAS) throughout the state of California. This bill eliminates local input, control and jurisdiction for the placement of these systems.
California Bill SB 649 is at the Governance and Finance Committee right now. Please write or call the senators and tell them to vote 'NO' to CA Bill SB 649. In addition to writing and/or calling, please write on their twitter account, your comments will be perpetually in cyberspace and everyone will see it. And we need as many people to show up at the hearing on April 26, 9:30am, Room 112 at the Sacramento Capitol.
Senator Mike McGuire (Chair) 2nd Senate Dist — North Coast/North Bay, State Capitol Rm. 5061, email: firstname.lastname@example.com.
gov, Phone: 916-651-4002
Senator Janet Nguyen (Vice Chair) 34th Senate Dist — NW Orange County, State Capitol Rm. 3048, email via website portal, Phone: (916) 651-4034
Senator Jim Beall 15th Senate Dist — Including cities of San Jose, Campbell, Cupertino, State Capitol Rm. 2082, email via website portal, Phone: (916) 651-4015
Senator Ed Hernandez 22nd Senate Dist — San Gabriel Valley communities, State Capitol Rm. 2080, email via website portal,Phone: (916) 651-4022
Senator Robert M. Hertzberg 18th Senate Dist — San Fernando Valley, State Capitol Rm. 4038, email via website portal, Phone: (916) 651-4018
Senator Ricardo Lara 33rd Senate Dist — LA & LA County-various cities, State Capitol Rm. 5050, email via website portal, Phone: (916) 651-4033
Senator John M. W. Moorlach 37th Senate Dist — Much of Orange County, State Capitol Rm. 2048, email via website portal, Phone: (916) 651-4037
To help with your letters, calls and/or public comments, here are some sound bites to give to the Governance & Finance Committee:
- Taking away property rights will result in lowered property value
- Lowered property value will then lead to lowered property tax revenues
- Increase in health care costs due to growing health problems amongst the population
- Lowered productivity at work due to negative health impacts from the increased wireless radiation exposures
- Lloyd's of London and Swiss Re, two major insurance companies of the world, will not cover medical expenses incurred due to exposure to electromagnetic radio frequency radiation (EMR) (i.e. cellphones, wifi, cell tower, antennas, DAS, IoT devices, smart meters, etc.)
- Environmental devastation from loss of oxygen producing foliage due to damage of trees and vegetation from EMR exposures
- Environmental devastation from astronomical increases of approximately 124,416 lbs. of CO2 per city every day, or 1.6 trillion lbs. of carbon per year nationwide emissions from powering up the 5G DAS infrastructure 24/7 (and this does not include the carbon footprint created from all the other IoT network and clouds)
- Fiber optics is the best and only solution, they are energy efficient, not prone to hacking, and does not create hazardous EMR emissions that causes damage to health and the environment
Tell City of Sacramento 'No' to 5G pilot program:
Please send letters of opposition to the proposed rollout of 5G pilot program in the City of Sacramento by writing to:
- Darrell Steinberg Mayor, City of Sacramento
- Maria MacGunigal Chief Information Officer, City of Sacramento
- Head of Planning Department, City of Sacramento
- Joyce Terhaar is Executive editor and Senior Vice President, Sacramento Bee
Thank you so much for your care and involvement! We need to band together and not let our homes, city, state and country be bullied into relinquishing our constitutional rights to health and safety and well being!


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It is once again the time of year when people tend to think more of giving than at any other—when "it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor," as Dickens put it in A Christmas Carol. And in the midst of an economy that makes every charitable cause determined to wring the most benefit from every dollar, you and your clients also may be brainstorming about how to get the most bang for their charitable bucks.
Fidelity Charitable has offered some suggestions on how to do just that, and we will look at them in this two-part series that can help you to help your clients contribute the most to the causes dearest to their hearts. Amy Danforth, senior vice president of Fidelity Charitable, points out that advisors can benefit, too, by making their clients' charitable and philanthropic plans as much a part of their practices as growing and preserving their wealth. Indeed, she says it is the first thing many advisors overlook.
Nearly 75% of high-net-worth clients responding to a Fidelity Charitable survey said they plan to increase their giving in 2011, according to Danforth. "A large number [of advisors] in last year's survey knew their clients were giving and don't bring it up," she says, but "it should be the first thing advisors incorporate into their practice."
There are excellent reasons for doing so, she adds; it "deepens relationships with that client, because it's something that's very personal to them, and also reveals their levels of interest and areas of interest." Danforth adds that charitable giving "often includes family. Advisors who include philanthropy in their practices are more likely to keep the next generation [as clients]."
Say you've already had the discussion. Your next objective is, of course, to make sure that your client's giving is as far-reaching as possible, and there are four ways to do that.
First is choosing the assets that will deliver as much return for the charity as possible. These can include cash, of course; appreciated securities; and complex assets such as stock in nonpublicly traded companies, real estate, and other things like artwork or other relatively illiquid items.
While cash can be the first line of giving, Fidelity Charitable suggests that, instead of simply selling assets and donating the proceeds, advisors should consider the client's direct contribution of securities instead. This strategy, says Fidelity, can up the gift ante by providing your client with a double tax advantage, perhaps allowing them to give more. By donating long-term appreciated securities, donors may be able to take a tax deduction for their fair market value; they can also eliminate capital gains tax on the donated securities' appreciation in value.
Donate complex assets that can provide their own tax efficiencies can also allow gifts to stretch farther. These can include nonpublicly traded securities (such as private company stock, restricted stock, LLC and limited partnership interests and pre-IPO shares), real estate or other assets, which can also be donated without a need to sell first.
The second way to maximize gifts is through choice of vehicle, and sometimes the best choice is multiple choice. Vehicles can include everything from checkbooks to donor-advised funds to private foundations, and each offers different advantages.
Most vehicles do offer the opportunity for certain tax benefits; however, the amount of the deduction can vary, based not just on the vehicle, but also on the asset being contributed. Another consideration in choosing a vehicle is how much time the donor wants to expend on managing gifts.
Donors need not rely on a single choice, though that has often been the strategy in the past. Sometimes using a combination of giving strategies is best, and many donors now opt for a national donor-advised fund as one way to provide philanthropic funds, while using a private foundation or the donor-advised fund of a local community as a means of offering additional charitable support.
Such a multiple-venue approach is becoming more popular, as it can assist donors in using complementary vehicles that provide not only the opportunity to carry out separate philanthropic purposes but also to maximize tax incentives. While the standard tax deduction for cash donations to a private foundation is 30% of a donor's adjusted gross income, those who would find it useful to take a tax deduction beyond 30% of AGI can leverage a donor-advised fund to make additional cash donations up to 50% of AGI.
Complex assets given directly to a donor-advised fund can also give the donor other tax advantages, as assets are liquidated with the donor bearing little or no cost for the transactions. A donation to a donor-advised fund also provides donors with the opportunity to contribute complex assets in a single transaction, while remaining able to recommend multiple grants to different charities over time.
Other advantages over the use of a private foundation are donor anonymity and fewer administrative burdens, a central location with better accessibility for charitable records, and the fact that they allow immediate credit for donations while buying the donor time to decide where to direct grants.
In Part 2, we will look at the third and fourth ways to boost the horsepower of charitable contributions: growing assets and optimizing granting.


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Parenting with Love and Logic™
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Medical Editor: William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR
There are many effective parentingstyles. Training children to develop responsibility while putting the fun back into parenting are the goals of a parenting method known as Love and Logic™ parenting. The Love and Logic™ system has been described and advanced by Jim Fay, a former school principal and renowned educational consultant, Charles Fay, PhD, a child psychologist, and child psychiatristFoster Cline, MD.
The idea behind the Love and Logic™ theory is this: Parents should provide an atmosphere of love, acceptance, and empathy while allowing the natural consequences of a child's behavior and actions to do the teaching. This should happen in the early years, when the consequences of the inevitable less-than-perfect choices are not too severe or damaging. By the time the child reaches adulthood, he or she is equipped with the decision-making skills needed for adult life. The method also teaches insight into parenting styles and how our own parenting styles can, inadvertently, sometimes rob a child of the ability to grow up making good decisions for him- or herself. It's applicable to all children from toddlers to teens.
The Love and Logic™ method advocates offering choices that are acceptable to the parent, so it isn't about letting 3-year-olds choose whether they want to play in the street or the fenced yard and letting them suffer the dire consequences of a poor decision. Instead, the parent is encouraged to offer children a range of age-appropriate and acceptable choices in order to experience the teaching value of their decisions.


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To the Victor goes the spoils…
Congratulations to the Boston Red Sox…
I know, I never expected to see the words appear on my blog. But you have to give credit where credit is due and the 2013 Boston Red Sox proved that they were the best team in baseball. This is a team that hit the bottom with the 2011 collapse in September that cost beloved manager Terry Francona his job, followed up by a year of Bobby Valentine that ranks as one of the worst teams in recent memory.
Proving that he is nobody's fool, GM Ben Cherington deserves much of the credit. I am not sure how much the decisions can be attributed to Cherington or to Larry Lucchino, but the deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers last year to unload salary-draining dead wood was genius. The malcontents were shipped to the West Coast, while the recaptured dollars were re-invested to good clubhouse types like Mike Napoli, Jonny Gomes, Shane Victorino and Koji Uehara among others. The pieces made for good chemistry and the team, beards and all, became a very cohesive unit.
This may have been the first time that I ever pulled for the Red Sox in the post-season but they gained my respect and I thought they were the team to beat.
Naturally, I hope this is the end of the Sox championship run that started in 2004, but for this off-season, they are the champions of Baseball. Again, congratulations to the Red Sox, the city of Boston, and the Red Sox Nation.
Turns up like a bad penny…
I am so tired of Alex Rodriguez and anything A-Rod. His battle against the MLB is extending the inevitable suspension and is likely throwing a monkey wrench into the Yankees off-season plans. For a team that appears bent on getting under the $189 million salary cap, A-Rod's salary is substantial. Will they be freed of it, for a season, or will they be responsible for some portion thereof, or does A-Rod win to bring his salary back in full? I think the latter is very remote if impossible. I, for one, would accept a year of no A-Rod even if it means the entire salary counts against the cap. The guy is poison and I don't think the team will win again with him on the roster. Yes, they won in 2009, but teams generally do not win with such narcissistic players.
Rest assured that no decision Alex Rodriguez makes will be in the best interests of the Yankees and Major League Baseball. MLB needs the authority to end this foolish A-Rod farce and banish him for his sustained PEDS use and lies. I'd love a lifetime ban but I doubt that happens so I want nothing less than the original 214 game suspension.
Introducing the 2014 Yankees…
Check back with me in a few months.
There will be changes, but I am not sure that they will be the moves necessary to return the Yankees to AL East and American League prominence. I saw one New York paper running an article this morning that indicated the Yankees may go after the Detroit Tigers' Omar Infante should free agent Robinson Cano. No offense to Infante, but what a drop off. I don't think it is smart to pay Cano $300 million, but hopefully the Yankees and Cano can find common ground that is mutually rewarding for both.
I have seen the Yankees linked to free agents Brian McCann, Carlos Beltran, Ervin Santana, and A.J. Pierzynski. Yes, Beltran is a good post-season performer but you need to get there first. As a McCann fantasy owner this past season, I was frustrated with how much time he spent on the DL. I've always thought Santana was a decent pitcher, but he's not a frontliner. Then again, when you've lost Andy Pettitte, Phil Hughes and possibly Hiroki Kuroda, you just need arms. The Yankees will most likely lose Curtis Granderson so the Yankees will spend most of the winter just trying to fill holes rather than being able to focus on adding significant upgrades.
It would be nice if some members of the farm system were ready to take the major league stage but that does not appear to be the case. We may see Dellin Betances in the bullpen as the Yankees look to find a quality setup specialist for new closer David Robertson.
I do not want to lose Robinson Cano but then again, I do not want the Yankees to give him an A-Rod like contract that will become a financial albatross in future years. I may be the only one who feels this way, but I am not excited about a 40 year old Derek Jeter at shortstop with bad ankles. The Yankees really need to find a younger shortstop who can spell Jeter and perhaps push #2 to DH more times than not.
Mark Teixeira, cold starts and a bad wrist. Second base…currently there are nothing but crickets. Shortstop…see aforementioned comment about DJ. Third base is really anybody's guess. Catcher needs more than a backup catcher who can't hit and a proven PEDS user. Right field is even older than shortstop. Left field, at the moment, only shows the largely unreliable Vernon Wells. Centerfield is truly the only position that I feel comfortable with, and even that carries some injury risk. On the pitching staff, CC Sabathia is starting to show that he's on the downward slide, and Hiroki Kuroda could very well be pitching in Japan next season. The enigma, more commonly referred to as Ivan Nova, will be in the rotation but who really knows what we'll get. Adam Warren, David Phelps, Manny Banuelos (if he can make it back), Michael Pineda and others form the pool that Joe Girardi will be picking from.
In the bullpen, it is no sure thing that David Robertson will succeed as a closer. In 2011, when the great Mariano Rivera went down for the season, Robertson had first crack at the job and failed. He gave way to Rafael Soriano who proved very capable in the role. Going into 2014, at the moment, there is no safety net for Robertson. This is truly an off-season of uncertainty and it doesn't help that A-Rod is doing his part to ensure greater uncertainty.
The Red Sox, the Rays, the Jays, and the O's must be loving this. I can only hope that GM Brian Cashman and the Steinbrenner Boys prove that they can check Ben Cherington's move and bring championship baseball back to the Bronx where it belongs.


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Bat Conservation International's vision for Latin America is to continue supporting the development of local capacity and partnership networks through the implementation of sustainable conservation initiatives that address the region's highest bat conservation priorities. We will work collaboratively, utilizing the strong foundation for local bat conservation leadership that already exists in Latin America, to achieve lasting conservation outcomes that prevent extinctions, identify and protect Significant Bat Areas, and develop proactive solutions to serious threats.
Latin America, including the Caribbean, is home to at least 345 of the world's 1,300+ species of bats. Unfortunately, 15 of these species are currently listed by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature as either Endangered or Critically Endangered, and another 25 are considered Vulnerable.
BCI has more than 20 years of experience working collaboratively to combat the many threats facing bats in Latin America. Yet deforestation, roost disturbance, and reckless eradication efforts by misinformed decision-makers continue to place Latin American bats in extreme peril despite the invaluable ecosystem services they provide. Bats eat enormous amounts of harmful insects, reducing crop damage and limiting pesticide use. By dispersing seeds, bats play a key role in rainforest recovery after slash-and-burn destruction. And they are nighttime pollinators with symbiotic relationships with hundreds of native plants that would otherwise fail to reproduce.
Video of a Pallas's long-tongued bat (Glossophaga soricina) pollinating a columnar cactus. © Olvin W. Oyuela/PCMH
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The ASUS Power LED helps remind you to shut down the system and unplug the power cable before removing or plugging in any motherboard component. ASUS Overclocking Tools AI NOS™ Boost performance when you need it the most! Applications such as 3D games and video editing demand a huge chunk of system resource. Inject "nitrous oxide" into your CPU! The patented AI NOS™ (Non-delay Overclocking System) technology intelligently detects system load and automatically boosts performance for the most demanding tasks. Unlike other dynamic overclocking techniques, AI NOS™ reacts much faster to satisfy your unending need for speeds . Precision TweakerAchieve system maximum performance! It offers ways to raise system performance inch-by-inch and step-by-step to achieve maximum performance! This is about getting the most out of your machine and taking pride in your customized computer. vDIMM - Take control of how much power is going into the memory modules. 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Array Mic Eliminate interferences in the reception cone Enhance speech-centric applications The bundled Superbeam Array Microphone receives only the sound coming from the reception cone and ignores the sound coming from other directions. This mechanism eliminates a large number of interferences including neighboring speakers and reverberations. It also uses advanced de-reverberation techniques to reduce echo and minimize its effect on the speech engine. This feature can enhance speech-centric application like Skype, online game, video conference and recording. Other Innovative Features MyLogo2 Personalize your system with customizable boot logo You can convert your favorite photo into a 256-color boot logo for a more colorful and vivid image on your screen. Multi-language BIOSHelp you configure system easier and faster The multi-language BIOS allows you to select the language of your choice from the available options. The localized BIOS setup menu helps you configure your system easier and faster. Interface Features SATA on the Go The P5B supports the next-generation hard drives based on the Serial ATA (SATA) 3Gb/s storage specification, delivering enhanced scalability and doubling the bus bandwidth for high-speed data retrieval and saves. The external SATA port located at the back I/O provides smart setup and hot-plug functions. Easily backup photos, videos and other entertainment contents on external devices. Dual RAIDThe Intel P965 chipsets incorporate six Serial ATA connectors with high performance RAID functions in RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10. The JMicron controller provides another two Serial ATA connectors for RAID 0, 1, and JBOD functions. This motherboard is the ideal solution to enhance hard disk performance and data back up protection without the cost of add-on cards. 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Dozens of women in downtown Salt Lake City were given an uplifting surprise on Monday, Feb. 17, by two young boys with a stockpile of homemade, inspirational notes.
Dozens of women were given an uplifting surprise on Monday, Feb. 17, (Presidents Day) by two young boys with a stockpile of homemade, inspirational notes. Austin and Ethan Archer, ages 9 and 7, performed a simple but effective act of kindness by liberally handing out these notes to the women they passed in downtown Salt Lake City. The boys were accompanied by their parents. Their mother, Cindy Archer, said that their family likes to do what she calls "Random Service Projects." She had asked her boys to come up with something "nice" they could do. She said, "They got the idea of writing some nice notes to people to make them feel better." The Sunday before the family put together about 180 notes, written on small squares of patterned paper. They used a combination of sayings made up by the boys, some of them based on encouraging advice their mother gives them to help them through trials, and favorite quotes that the family has read in the past. Examples of messages that the family wrote on the squares include, "You make the world a better place," "Remember to smile," "Your smile is beautiful," and "Just keep smiling, it will all work out." In response to being asked how he came up with the messages to write on the cards, Austin said, "I just thought of nice words, like how I would say stuff to my friends and girls usually." The next day, for nearly 4 1/2 hours, the two boys passed out these notes in multiple areas along Main Street. More specifically, the boys gave the notes away exclusively to women. A few ladies rejected the offer, thinking that the boys were handing out advertisements. Most of the time, however, the women would read the note, smile, and then wave a "thank you" to the boys. Upon receiving her note, one woman took a picture of it with her camera. A few sought out the boys to thank them, explaining that the notes they received had made a difference in their day. Two of the ladies expressed that the notes had made them so happy that they planned to pass them on to others in the future. The boys, who had started this process nervously and first approached the women shyly, eventually got the hang of it. It was very sweet to watch the two as they excitedly ran from one lady to another, hoping to give them one of their quotes. Their mother reported that the last half of their quotes went much faster than the first half. The boys started asking her for stacks of notes to find recipients for at a time. In the end, all 180 notes were given away. Ann Salviazul was one of the women who received a note from these boys. Salviazul was out shopping with family when one of the Archer boys ran up to them. He handed Salviazul's daughter a piece of paper and then ran straight back to his mother. The two women then read the note, "You are worth it." Like many others, they had wondered if the boys were handing out advertisements of some kind. After reading the note, they realized that it was a sweet gesture. Later, the boy showed up again, this time handing Salviazul one of his squares of paper. Her note read, "Love more." Salviazul described it, "Again, I didn't see him. He just suddenly was there, handing me this little note. . . He didn't have any comments, he just handed them out and scurried away." Another one of Salviazul's daughters received a note as well, giving three women in one family these special, simple gifts. "At first I thought maybe it was some kind of solicitation, which is what happens in a lot of public places. So, it was a really sweet surprise to realize that it was just an honest gift without expectations of any sort or trying to mold my opinions about someone else's," Salviazul said. "So, that was the really sweet part. And then the notes are just very simple, but caused me to wonder what inspired this young boy to want to hand out notes in a public area?" When asked why the boys were only passing the notes out to women, their mother said, "That was one of the things that they wanted to do." She went on to say, "We always talk about respect and women and making them feel good." Her boys told her that, "It would make them feel good if they handed out to the girls." In Ethan's words, the boys did the service to "Make girls happy." As someone who received one of these notes, I can attest to what a kind surprise these boys gave to me. I was sitting at a table, completely wrapped up in writing, when a young, happy face appeared in front of me. Without a word, he handed me a note and then ran off, directly to another lady. I have to admit that, when I saw him run off to someone else and hand them a similar looking piece of paper, I figured that I had just been given an ad of some kind. I was pleasantly surprised to find that I was wrong, and that these boys were taking time out of their day to lift the spirits of those around them. Once I realized what they were doing, it was a very touching experience to watch them seek out other women to uplift. I'm not sure which was the greater gift: uplifting thoughts given to the ladies or the lessons that these boys have gotten the chance to learn. More specifically, the almost forgotten values of respect and caring toward women.%3Cimg%20src%3D%22http%3A//beacon.deseretconnect.com/beacon.gif%3Fcid%3D149561%26pid%3D46%22%20/%3E


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The Central Connecticut volleyball team opened preseason on Friday with a conditioning test in Detrick Gym. Head coach Linda Sagnelli enters the 2012 season with a talented group of returning players led by senior Emily Cochran who earned second team All-Northeast Conference honors last season.
In 2011, the Blue Devils finished with a 20-11 record and reached the NEC Tournament for the ninth consecutive season. The Blue Devils also earned their sixth consecutive AVCA Team Academic Award.
The competition season will begin on August 24, when the Blue Devils travel to West Virginia for the Mountaineer Invitational. The following week the Blue Devils will host the CCSU Invitational, a two-day tournament at Detrick Gym.


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Kayaks Industry for Global and Chinese Markets Forecast to 2021
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The Global Kayaks Industry 2016 Market Research Report is a professional and in-depth study on the current state of the Kayaks industry. Firstly, the report provides a basic overview of the industry including definitions, classifications, applications and industry chain structure. The Kayaks market analysis is provided for the international market including development history, competitive landscape analysis, and major regions' development status. Secondly, this report states import/export, supply and consumption figures as well as cost, price, revenue and gross margin by regions (United States, EU, China and Japan), and other regions can be added. Then, the report focuses on global major leading industry players with information such as company profiles, product picture and specification, capacity, production, price, cost, revenue and contact information. Upstream raw materials, equipment and downstream consumers analysis is also carried out. What's more, the Kayaks industry development trends and marketing channels are analyzed. Finally, the feasibility of new investment projects is assessed, and overall research conclusions are offered. In a word, the report provides major statistics on the state of the industry and is a valuable source of guidance and direction for companies and individuals interested in the market.
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6.2016-2021 Market Forecast of Global and Chinese Kayaks Industry
7.Analysis of Kayaks Industry Chain
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10.Proposals for New Project
11.Research Conclusions of Global and Chinese Kayaks Industry
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Figure Kayaks Product Picture
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Figure Downstream Analysis of Kayaks
Table Economic Effects to Kayaks Industry
Table Kayaks Industry Development Challenges
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Exemption To ACA Could Leave Many Native Americans Uninsured
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In June, Deleana Other Bull was laid off. She lost her insurance, and turned to the Indian Health Service for her needs.
"I recently had a miscarriage, and it was very devastating for me," said Other Bull. "Going and following up and making sure that everything is okay. It was really scary because I didn't have insurance."
Indian Health Service (IHS) regulations essentially require tribal members to get medical help in their own home state. Other Bull's problem is she's Crow and Northern Cheyenne from Montana getting a graduate degree from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
"I also had to get some testing done, and they said that I would actually have to go to my reservation in Montana to get seen," said Other Bull.
As for her prescriptions, Albuquerque IHS told her they wouldn't cover those either. She eventually put them on her credit card.
"Even just paying $40, $60 for medications was a really big decision I had to make," said Other Bull. "That money I could have used for food, or something like school related expenses."
Beginning January first, most Americans will be required to have health insurance or pay penalties under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). But Native Americans are one of just a few groups that won't be fined if they don't buy insurance. That exemption could mean status quo for a big part of Indian Country: high health disparities, and no access to care.
Since 1955, IHS has been the primary source of healthcare to many Native Americans, living near their reservations, free of charge. However, statistics show that since the 1970s, Native Americans have been migrating from reservations to urban areas of the country. The 2010 Census puts the urban Indian population at over 70 percent, and those cities usually don't have IHS to serve that population.
"There's certainly a sub-set of the urban Indian community that has historically been uninsured for a variety of different reasons," said Ralph Forquera, Executive Director for the Seattle Indian Health Board. "A big part of that is due to the high poverty experienced by the Native community in most large metropolitan areas, and the fact that that precludes them, to some degree, from getting access to the insurance marketplace."
Under the ACA, tribal members have a choice: If they live in areas not served by IHS, or don't have insurance through work, they can get covered through the ACA. But with no penalty for not signing up, Native Americans can forego coverage and take their chances. This makes some health professionals nervous.
"It is a very worrisome area," said Maria Clark, director of the Jemez Pueblo Health and Human Services Department in New Mexico. "And there's a lot of urban areas."
Jemez Pueblo is one of 22 Pueblos and tribes in New Mexico. The Pueblo has a modern clinic for tribal members, but if one of their citizens leaves the area — perhaps to Los Angeles, or New York — it's likely they'll no longer have access to IHS.
"So in the marketplace or the exchange, it would be up to them if they wanted to sign up for insurance on their own because they would be no longer covered by health services here at the Pueblo," said Clark. "Then their decision would be left entirely up to them if they wanted to pay those premiums."
And if they decide not to?
"They might find themselves uninsured and in trouble health-wise and facing a large bill," said Clark.
"Right now I don't have health insurance. It's crappy," said Other Bull, in Albuquerque. "My credit cards are maxed out, I'm barely making it by, but it's a struggle that I'm choosing."
Other Bull said it's her goal in the next four to six months to get insurance through a job, or the ACA. But, she adds that she may be in the minority when it comes to urban Natives making health coverage a priority.
"Just because I'm struggling now doesn't mean I'm going to struggle forever," said Other Bull. "It's just a temporary transition for me."


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