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All You Need To Know About Home On Wheels

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California is the only state with an elected tax commission, and this year 11 candidates are vying for positions on the panel.

The obscure yet powerful Board of Equalization is responsible for administering tax policies and ruling on appeals from businesses and residents.

Four members are elected to represent vast districts, each with roughly 9.5 million residents. A fifth seat on the board is filled by the state controller.

"Our job is to minimize the frustration of taxation," said Jerome Horton, a Democrat and the board's chairman. A former legislator, he is running unopposed for reelection to his second full term, representing the Los Angeles area.

The competition is particularly heated for a seat in the southern district that includes Republican strongholds of San Diego and Orange counties.

Assemblywoman Diane Harkey (R Dana Point) is facing off against Republicans Van Tran and Shirley Horton, who each served several years in the state Legislature.

Other candidates include Republicans Lewis Da Silva and John F. Kelly, as well as Democrat Nader Shahatit.

The seat is being vacated by Republican Michelle Steel, who served two terms and is now running for Orange County supervisor.

It's a position that allows you to burnish your tax fighting credentials. That's what makes it such a valuable seat for Republicans. Reed Galen, a Republican consultant

Candidates said they want to make the Board of Equalization more business friendly.

Harkey, who was elected to the Assembly in 2008, is concerned the state is wasting too much money going after small businesses for small amounts of unpaid taxes.

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District lines have been redrawn since the last board election. Parker hopes the new boundaries, which gave Democrats an edge over Republicans in voter registration, work in his favor.

Runner brushed off Parker's concerns about expertise. He pledged to continue helping businesses avoid getting tangled in complicated tax laws.

"Most people get into trouble not because they don't want to comply, but because they get caught up in some very strange tax laws," he said.

Former Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, a Democrat from San Francisco, is running to represent the Board of Equalization district that includes coastal areas from the Oregon border south to Santa Barbara.

Her only opponent is Republican James Theis of Hollister, a manager at an organic foods company.

Theis said he'd like to waive penalties on overdue tax bills of less than $10,000, encouraging businesses to pay up. He said that would save resources needed to track down much larger sums.
Jun 2 '17 · 0 comments
A preschool with a difference

At first glance the Kids to Five Kindy in Hamilton appears to be like any other preschool.Inside there are seashell motifs, cute finger paintings of happy families hanging on the walls and a shelf of books with favourites such as Dr Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham.But it's what is happening around the kindergarten that sets this place apart from others. "We came up with a few ideas about trying to utilise what we have here to lessen our environmental imprint,van cleef arpels fake bracelet," said teacher,van cleef & arpels alhambra fake bracelet, Jill Van Amsterdam.These ideas,van cleef & arpels alhambra replica bracelet, Ms Van Amsterdam says, are giving children an insight into sustainability and "environmental responsibility".Virtually nothing at the kindergarten goes unused with all food scraps either used as compost or sorted for their three rabbits and turtle or the birds that gather outside at lunchtime each day.The waste from the children's thriving worm farm is collected as liquid fertiliser for the number of fruit trees and vegetable gardens at the kindergarten from which they harvest and eat celery,van cleef and arpels bracelet knock off alhambra, corn, tomatoes, peas and strawberries when in season."Children need to learn that food just doesn't come from the supermarket so we thought there was no better way to learn about it than by doing it themselves," said Ms Van Amsterdam.Used paper is shredded for animals' bedding and even lunch wrappings aren't spared. "We unwrap their lunch and send the wrapping back to their parents in their lunch boxes," said Ms Van Amsterdam.The back to nature approach has won the preschool a Healthy Eating Healthy Action award from the Ministry of Health.More gardens and trees are planned to utilise every inch of free space at the kindergarten while Ms Van Amsterdam says children making their own paper remained "a possibility".Our Features Top StoriesDrivenWhat's it like driving James Bond's Lotus Espirit? Never meet your heroes? Well, it's not always the case.
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Advice on reducing the cost of your commercial fleet

But those who take the time and effort to remove unnecessary cargo, before carefully considering what to pack for the tasks at hand ahead of hitting the road again, will be quids in.

Common sense tells you it pays off not to haul around what you don't need and statistics back it up. In 2015 a Direct Line survey discovered that an incredible 44 per cent of the 3.47 million van drivers in the UK admitted that half of their cargo was unnecessary, with more than a quarter (27 per cent) stating that at least 70 per cent of their payload was not essential.

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Direct Line calculated that if the 1.53m van drivers with their unnecessarily heavy loads were to discard their weight, it would make a fuel saving of almost 58 per year, on average that's a colossal 88.7m in total.

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"As van drivers jump from job to job it's almost impossible for them to know how much of their cargo is essential, but every kilo they can leave behind will provide real cash savings," says Jazz Gakhal, head of Direct Line for Business.

"It's important to note, however, that it's not just money at stake. Weight limits vary between different van models and carrying too much, or not distributing the weight evenly between axles, can be a safety hazard for both drivers and pedestrians."

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"Transport and logistics are vital to any business, but SMEs often place less emphasis on this, instead focusing on boosting sales," he says. "However, by investing in their fleet, businesses can increase efficiency resulting in gains across overall targets.

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"Within the UK SME marketplace, employees are not professional drivers and vehicles are a means to deliver a service. By ensuring a fleet is managed effectively is of great importance as it allows staff to focus on getting the job done as opposed to spending time on vehicle maintenance and driver issues."

Mr Thomas recommends that companies with larger numbers of vans consider a dedicated fleet manager, but concedes: "As the number of vehicles in a fleet increases, so does the level of investment required for staff training. Creating an efficient process is key to achieving excellence. Consolidating fleet services to one provider allows staff to focus on their specialist tasks at hand."

Finally, Mr Thomas suggests that by employing telemetry an automated communications process by which measurements and other data are collected at remote or inaccessible points and transmitted to receiving equipment for monitoring SMEs have been "proven" to improve efficiency.

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Jun 2 '17 · 0 comments
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We were not being dramatic in the intro (okay, we were being dramatic about our dead Tamagotchi, but not about the headache thing). Tons of people who have super impressive initials next to their names insist that cluster headaches are the worst possible pain a human can experience. According to Brown University, it feels like having a tiny demon poke you in the eye. That's not a weirdo throwaway description we made up. There are illustrations.

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This can't be said enough: Despite what the name suggests, these are not "headaches" as you think of them. Everyone has had headaches, and around a quarter of you have suffered from a migraine. We don't want to downplay those we refer to migraines as "prom headaches" because all we can do when they hit is sit at home and cry. But just as a migraine is not the same as a headache, clusters are not the same as migraines. "I've had migraines," Jeff says. "Those are very painful, but nothing like this."

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Clusters rarely last more than an hour, which you might think is a mercy at least they're relatively short. But that also means there's no effective legal medication for them; by the time that stuff hits your bloodstream, it's already useless. The upside is that clusters come at about the same time, for the same length of time, every time, so you'll at least know in advance when your hour in Hell is coming up. Sheena says that stubbing their toes and getting hot oil splattered in their eye barely even registers on the pain scale anymore. Nickolus says, "I'm typing this with a broken knuckle and finger bone on my right hand that I've been able to completely ignore, due to the fact that I'm so used to pain being the norm. I didn't even get my hand looked at for days after it happened. The only, only thing that's been able to put me down pain wise has been severe migraines and cluster migraines. No other pain seems . important.""Compared to that fucking eye demon, this is downright relaxing."

Tyler shares Nickolus' nonchalant attitude toward shattered body parts, having taken a moving vehicle to the face and walked it off like a goddamn Terminator. "I didn't have insurance at the time and I didn't want to be stuck with a bill, so I stuck it out on the couch. I had some broken ribs and a concussion. That's the second time we've emphasized that fact, and here's why: "I use psychedelics to kill the episode," Tyler says. Yes, the same kind you'd take to communicate with the Earth Mother, or maybe make you think you're a Gummi Bear for an afternoon.

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"Take two tabs and come down in the morning."

Of course, you can't simply pop a tab of acid whenever the need arises and trip balls through the pain circus, because that would make it difficult to function (and psychedelics take a while to kick in anyway). It's more of a prevention strategy. "I just use them when they start, and I'm good for nine months to a year. Unfortunately, you can't get a prescription for mushrooms or LSD."

So there's only one trip, and you choose the time and place, then you've got a whole season free of the devil ineptly trying to take your contacts out. On the slightly more functional end of the scale, John believes that marijuana not only helps to alleviate the pain of a cluster attack, but also eases the anxiety of the impending head stab as well. Nickolus agrees: "There's too large a list of medicines that have been shown to work to ignore just because the government wouldn't like it if I decided to use them instead of the insane painkiller regimen they stick me with.""This one is for the pain, and this one is for the side effects to the one for the pain,van cleef and arpels alhambra knock off bracelet,

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Nearly everyone we spoke to sang the praises of one medication, though: oxygen tanks. Well hell, that seems easy enough, right? Why is this even a problem anymore if we've got such an accessible and simple form of treatment? Because, unfortunately, "it's really hard to get a prescription for that," Tyler says. "It's one of the most successful methods out there, but it isn't understood as useful for this treatment,van cleef fake alhambra bracelet, so not a lot of people get to use it."

Word gets around about where to find illicit air, though. The solution: welding supply shops. But that means you can't use health insurance to pay for it, and since the oxygen tank and regulator can cost upwards of $400, some thrifty cluster sufferers have resorted to building their own makeshift rigs that involve huffing oxygen out of plastic bags, like the shameful air fiends they are.
Jun 2 '17 · 0 comments
8 Amazing Video Game Moments That Happened

EVE Online, the massively multiplayer online 401(k) simulator set in outer space, is going to be a TV show soon. Video game adaptations are nothing new, but the twist here is that the show is based on players' stories: their anecdotes, wars, alliances, and dramas that popped up organically wholly independent of any kind of pre existing plot. Every bone in my comedian body wants to mock Online Role Playing Game: The Show, but the gamer in me knows that I can't. It's a brilliant idea.

That's the best part of gaming, after all: those unscripted, unplanned moments that stick with you, even when the story is lost to a hazy blur. So I asked the question in this thread, and I'm asking you folks now: What's your most memorable unscripted video game moment? Here are just a few of my favorite responses, as well as my own loosely related experiences in similar situations because I'm an uncompromising narcissist, and of course I found a way for this to be all about me, me, me. Anybody who called for their horse in Red Dead Redemption, only to find a confused Swedish immigrant responding in its stead still totally ready and willing to be mounted up and ridden about understands this to be true. Possibly my best gaming moment ever was brought to me by a broken product, even though the game itself worked fine. It was a magnificent, epic hardware failure that I will never forget:

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My TV, an old CRT model, had exploded right at the climax of the zeppelin crash. I had to drop $500 on an entirely new television that day, all because of one use of one super move in a single video game and I wasn't even mad about it. The timing was just too perfect. That appliance could've gone out while watching Judge Judy disapprove of somebody's baby daddy, but no: It was the Viking funeral of televisions it died showing me a flaming, screaming blimp explosion while electric guitars wailed on a mountain top. I hope I die half as metal.

If we're honest, most of us spend our gaming time hopping in a corner until we're unceremoniously butchered by a mutant bunny. But every once in a while the stars align, and you come kicking in the door like a digital Bruce Willis, ready, willing, and surprisingly able to save the day.

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So while playing DayZ with the Skype group, Reverend and I were the only ones on at the time and decided to fly around in the helicopter and shoot shit up with the big guns. Shooting zombies or hopefully some other players. While flying around, though, we ran into a group of survivors being mauled by zombies from a nearby town. They had a car and must have stopped it near the town to try and loot it but attracted all the zombies. Now, we had set out to kill people, but we knew this group of people and that they were friendly, we had given them guns and stuff before. So here we are, swooping in with a helicopter, guns blazing and killing zombies left and right before landing. I jumped out of the pilot's seat to bandage one of them who was telling us they didn't have any medical supplies and that one of their friends had passed out and was being eaten. After bandaging him I ran over to about four or five zombies that were chewing on some corpse and sprayed them till they dropped. The guy was still alive somehow and I managed to save him with blood bags and bandages. They didn't want to leave their car behind so they instead jumped in that and drove off while Rev and I flew off into the sunset, having just saved the day.

I was playing co op mode of Medal of Honor: Rising Sun with a friend of mine and there was this mission where we had to infiltrate some city without being detected. You started out the mission with these bitchin' silenced pistols that were essentially one shot kills but only had a one bullet capacity and took about 10 to 15 seconds to reload, I guess to encourage you to be stealthy.

So we started off the mission perfectly, making our way into the city without raising any alarms until (since we were 15) this started to bore us and we just started running around pistol whipping dudes. When the alarm went off, me and my friend got separated because the level was essentially all narrow, twisting alleyways.

Anyway, all the enemy soldiers had followed me and I was being overwhelmed. All the while, my friend was running around in circles, looking for me. I ran into a dead end and two soldiers chased after me. I shot one with the aforementioned bitchin' pistol, but the other one stepped up to me while I was struggling to reload, raised his rifle, and was just about to shoot me . when my friend stepped out of a nearby alley, put his gun to the soldier's temple, and blew his head off.

It all looked so cinematic. Me helpless, struggling to load my gun as the enemy raised his barrel to blow me away, my mate stepping out of the darkness, right beside him, at the very last moment, and blowing his head off.

In reality, my mate hadn't meant to do it at all. He was still running around in circles and only ran out of that alley by chance. When he ran into the soldier, he panicked and pressed the "fire" button instinctively.

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I was playing Team Fortress 2 on the Xbox 360 (boooooo, I know, I know but in my defense, the video card for my PC had just fried from playing too much TF2). My team was, as usual, appreciably terrible (myself included). See, most multiplayer matches are made up of two teams: one elite,submariner rolex replica, experienced, uniquely themed fighting force . and a bunch of random schmoes still trying to figure out which button jumps. You know that feeling when the lobby loads and the opposing team is:

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Good Grief,fake rolex watches submariner, Charley BronYou're fucking doomed,rolex submariner 2014 fake, and the game hasn't even started! They're so organized that their team has a cutesy theme, and you've got a stoner, somebody's dad, a 10 year old kid, and a Dicknob. But what can you do about it? You have to try .

And trying we were. But as expected, we were getting butchered. Their armed sentries were tearing us up, and we were all so terrible that nobody wanted to play as the spy the one class that excels at taking out sentries. I'm bad at all games, in general, but I'm particularly awful at shooters, and even worse at shooters that involve a lot of complicated gadgets and subterfuge. But there was nothing to be done for it: I could try to do my best as the class we needed, or we could just sit there and die with our thumbs up each other's asses in a giant conga line of incompetence.
Jun 2 '17 · 0 comments
78 lane open after fatal tractor

TEWKSBURY TWP. Eastbound Interstate 78 was closed for six hours Thursday after an accident involving a tractor trailer happened west of exit 24 (Route 523/Oldwick Road), according to the state Department of Transportation.

State Police Lt. Brian Polite confirmed that one person died in the accident,rolex submariner women fake. No other information was available because the crash is still under investigation. Delays of up to 6 miles were reported in the area.

All lanes on the westbound side of Interstate 78 have reopened,rolex womens submariner fake. Westbound traffic remained slow heading into the scene of the crash. Earlier delays on eastbound Route 22 have cleared up.

The Interstate 78 accident involved a tractor trailer, State Police confirmed. It appears the tractor trailer also struck a bridge abutment. Firefighters on the scene battled a blaze that started after the accident.

The 42 accidents on this stretch of Interstate 78

"Three lanes of 78 are shut down and will be for some time," Sgt. Griffiths of the State Police barracks in Perryville said this morning. "The right shoulder has been opened off exit 18 to access Route 22.

"The scene is under investigation while the Department of Transportation checks if the structure is secure and safe,rolex submariner price replica. There have been a couple of other accidents as we expect when the traffic gets this backed up."

Tim Darragh, a reporter for NJ Advance Media, said shortly before noon that he had been stuck in traffic for four hours, describing it as the "worst traffic jam I have ever been in."

Darragh said for a while people got out of the vehicles and chatted. "One guy was handing out bottles of water to people," he said. "People were out walking their dogs.

"People were very calm and understanding there was nothing they could do about it,fake rolex submariner. They were just happy it wasn't raining."

Darragh confirmed the crash happened where Taylors Mill Road crosses under Interstate 78, just west of exit 24. He said vehicles are being allowed to travel on the right shoulder while the three travel lanes remain closed.

"There are a bunch of police cars and (New Jersey) State Troopers," Darragh said. "I see now that collapsed trailer that is lying on the side of the guardrail in the left hand lane. It is obvious there was a big fire. The guardrail is charred. It really is a wreck here.

"The State Police are looking for people who are taking pictures and telling them not to. The truck itself looked pretty mangled and it's obvious there was a major fire."

Thursday's accident was the 42nd to happen on a stretch of Interstate 78 from the Pennsylvania border to the Interstate 287 interchange in Somerset County this year. On Wednesday, an overturned tractor trailer caused delays during the morning commute in the westbound side of Interstate 78 in Bethlehem Township, and firefighters battled a car fire near the same location Wednesday afternoon.

This morning's accident was at the same place as an incident in March when a tractor trailer hauling a bulldozer crashed. The driver was critically injured and the expressway was closed for several hours.
Jun 2 '17 · 0 comments
6 Disturbing Trends That Might Ruin the Internet Forever

There was a time when no one took the Internet seriously. Gangs of anonymous hooligans could crash websites and swarm online games to their hearts' content. The FBI barely had a website, let alone the ability to arrest 4channers. Cracked was still a print magazine, and America's insatiable desire for dick jokes was met by a vast array of crude Angelfire websites dense with hit counters and various browser sodomizing embedded GIFs.

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The Internet is taking its first baby steps toward respectability, it's true, but it still has a lot of growing up to do before it graduates from "insufferable little shit" to "joyless productive adult."

(When the Internet dies, you'll need published evidence of the truths your teachers failed to mention. Get The De Textbook and laugh your way through a post online world.)

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Have you ever stopped to think about how weird it is that a single click can deliver you to Facebook or Jim Bob's Erotic Taxidermy Homepage with equal ease? Facebook spends millions of dollars a year to keep their servers up, while Jim Bob pays his host about $20 a month. Despite a vast disparity in the bribe budgets of these two media titans, Verizon is forced to treat them like equals. This is what people are talking about when they mention "Net neutrality."

It's often seen as an absolute. The Way Things Are. But the FCC's first attempt at enforcing Internet neutrality didn't come until 2008. And it was a "success" in the same way our occupation of Afghanistan was a success. In other words,fake rolex oyster perpetual submariner date, the FCC is still fighting, and absolutely nothing has been decided. Verizon's arguing right now for the freedom to add tollbooths and fast lanes to the Internet.

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The end of Net neutrality is the tech industry's equivalent of erectile dysfunction. It's going to happen one day, and all the Viagra Google can buy won't stop the inevitable. There's money to be made in treating the Internet the way we treat physical property. The moneyed among us should be able to pay (and charge) for a better Internet experience.

That's the basic argument House Republicans made when they added an end to Net neutrality as part of their list of crazy demands for raising the debt ceiling. They lost this year,ladies rolex submariner watch replica, and perhaps Verizon will as well. But neither group will ever stop fighting this battle. And Comcast, lead wallet in the money fight against Net neutrality, now spends more money bribing Democrats than Republicans.

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It's cool, though corporations like Comcast are people. Really impossibly loud people.

Even Google, patron saint of Net neutrality, recently told the FCC that they should have the right to limit how subscribers use their bandwidth. We saw Jean Luc Picard balding about with this fancy number .

. and the first company to actually offer a tablet computer that tiny and convenient wound up making approximately every dollar in the country. This goes back further than The Next Generation; Star Trek has inspired inventions ranging from the mobile phone to NASA's new ion propulsion system. Much of this has to do with the series' long running trend of seeing technology as a good thing, rather than the inevitable precursor to Skynet. Normal sci fi looks at the concept of a humanoid robot and gives us the T 1000 arm knifing people. Star Trek takes that same concept and responds with Brent Spiner.

Outside of the whole "zipping around the galaxy in giant space ships" thing, there's only one major Star Trek innovation without a real world counterpart: the ship's computer. Captain Picard doesn't hop onto Google when he has a question. He just says, "Computer, what kind of alien venereal disease is Riker covering up with that beard?"

Siri made a valiant effort at this,rolex submariner womens replica, but she's less a robot you "converse" with than a robot you shout sexual propositions/movie lines at just to see what she'll say. Google's "conversational search," released earlier this year, allows you to search like a Starfleet officer. Finally, you can pace around your living room demanding answers from a robot who sounds a little like Majel Roddenberry. I had some research to do for an abduction article I planned to commit write, so I decided to give this bold new innovation a try.

"What is Vanilla Ice's real name?" I asked, using my actual voice and everything.

As if I didn't know. As if I'd ever not known.

A robot ladyvoice boomed from my speakers, "Vanilla Ice's real name is Robert Matthew Van Winkle."

That checked out with the official fan guide, so I asked, "Who is his spouse?" hoping against hope that the answer would be "no one." Alas, my computer replied:

"WHO DOES THAT WHORE THINK SHE IS?!"

My next question seemed to confuse Computer. She understood my shouting,rolex womens submariner fake, but she said nothing in reply this time. Instead, she almost sheepishly slid me a link to Vanilla Ice's Wikipedia page.

Fortunately, Computer was out of date. A little digging informed me that they split up in 2011. So it isn't perfect yet, but Google's trying. And conversational search, combined with a Parrot AR drone and this smartphone controlled laser gun, allows any nerd with roughly 500 bucks to make his own personal Enterprise for, like . 10 minutes at a time.
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