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The Oregon State Supreme Court recently issued a decision in Emerald Steel Fabricators v. Bureau of Labor and Industrial Relations (Oregon, April 15, 2010), which addressed whether employers could terminate an employee for using medical marijuana.
The court’s decision? Yes!
Oregon has joined California and Washington in ruling that employers can terminate employees for using medical marijuana. The rationale is that while statutes decriminalizing the use of marijuana for medical purposes protects employees from criminal prosecution, the same laws do not prevent employers from terminating an employee for violating a company’s anti-drug policy.
In addition, the employee in question was also found using medical marijuana in an illegal manner anyway.
The fact that I write a blog does not mean that I am a particularly “tech savvy” person. I actually am being pushed into this new world kicking and screaming. It’s mainly my dear husband Steve that pushes me to explore all things tech, especially if it has an “i” in front of it. His latest gift to me: the ipad.
For the last few weeks my ipad has been sitting on my desk. Every once in a while I would press that little button and look at my email or go on the internet to visit a blog. But this weekend something changed. Steve showed me the Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles Magazine App.
This app displays past issues on shelves and allows you to purchase past issues for $.99 each.
I can bookmark articles that I love, and I can take pictures of the images that will then be saved in my iphoto. All I have to do is press the power button and the home button to take a screen shot, and it saves the image in my iphoto library.
I took pictures of these images of Architect Keith Summerour’s own home from the August 2009 issue.
I also bookmarked the article in my favorites.
The image quality on the ipad is amazing. It’s so much easier to carry around my ipad than all of my past Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles Magazine issues!
To learn more about their app, check out this post on the Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles blog.
Do you have an ipad? If so, I’d love to hear about your favorite design apps!
By Tom CollinsSpecial to ARMCHAIR GOLF
DUE TO THE LAYOUT of the course—which is a nice way of saying it’s a long walk to get to 89 percent of the holes here—I wanted to follow a group teeing off of the first hole and simply walk with that group for the duration. When I reviewed the tee sheet and the clock on the wall, the decision was relatively simple.
I didn’t want to deal with the crowds following Phil [Mickelson] and I didn’t want to watch the ridiculously slow pre-shot routine of Michael Allen, so that meant following the group in the middle of these two opposing forces: Will MacKenzie, Chez Reavie, and Ben Curtis. Although I’m familiar with Curtis after his stellar play last week at Bay Hill and his 2003 Open Championship win, I didn’t know anything about MacKenzie or Reavie—and that’s just the way I like it.
Later …
Ben Curtis has a half-moon cookie swing. That’s the best way to describe it. The backswing and follow through are two different colors of the same baked good. Whereas his backswing is crisp and his wrists set themselves quickly to bring the club back to parallel, his follow through is more of a lazy, sweeping motion. His swing almost slows down as it progresses, and he finishes high, almost to help the ball into the air. Obviously, when his timing is on, he’s REALLY ON. You can’t win an Open Championship, besting the greatest players in the world, without a good swing.
Later …
Watching each player warm up to tee off of the 8th, I couldn’t help but wonder about the look that’s always plastered on Curtis’ face. As a professional golfer, his eyes and facial expressions make him look like a super-nice guy, perhaps even a bit of a push-over. He always looks like he’s just waking up or squinting like the Godfather. If he were a hitman making contract kills, the look he has on his face right now would be the scariest thing I have ever seen in my life.
And later still …
Ben Curtis made a par, but I almost fell asleep when I tried to watch him. He takes as much time over his putts as Jeff Maggert does for every shot. Come on Ben, there’s no coffee around here for 1,000 yards.
A team of researchers from the Palo Alto Research Center have been hard at work on a new thermoacoustic cooling technology that could reduce air conditioning power usage by 50%. With a prototype currently in production and plans to have the technology ready for the market within the next few years, the researchers hope to eliminate upwards of 10% of the United States’ energy usage.
Air conditioning maintenance account for approximately 25% of home energy usage, a figure that’s made up primarily of air conditioning systems in the ultra-hot Southern states. South-western states such as California, Nevada, and Arizona are known for their extreme temperatures, with daytime heat regularly exceeding 110 degrees Fahrenheit.
With standard air conditioning systems only approaching 12% total efficiency, the new technology could be a much-needed boost to systems’ value. With the recession still affecting employment and income for many families, a large amount of people are cutting down on air conditioning usage to escape a high power bill.
However, while air conditioning is often seen as a major expense, it’s rare to find inefficient modern units. The majority of air conditioning complaints come from those with ageing air conditioning installations, or households that operate their systems inefficiently.
Even so, any developments towards greater energy efficiency are great progress. The United States currently generates upwards of 600 million tons of carbon dioxide. The Palo Alto Research Center aim to use their technology for reducing carbon usage, with targets of under 300 million tons per year.
The work world is certainly competitive at the moment; people are getting laid off from positions they have held for years and the job market is flooded not only with people who have just graduated but also those who have been in their careers for some time and are suddenly finding themselves out of work. I graduated in May with a degree in elementary education and like the rest of my fellow graduates found myself facing a tough economy and cold job market. I was not able to find a position. There were many teachers who may have at one time considered retiring at the end of the year but, nervous about economic conditions, decided to hang in there for awhile in their job. So there were fewer positions that were open for new teachers.
I’m not sitting around though. I am all registered to substitute teach throughout the year which will be great and give me a chance to get to know several districts nearby me. I have also decided to take the time to go after my Masters in Education. Getting my masters was always something that I intended to do and this seemed like a better time than any so I decided to seize the opportunity. But I didn’t want to go back to the classroom and commit my days to traveling to campus when I could conceivably be called in to substitute. The answer was to enroll in an online Masters in Education program that would allow me to complete all my work and studying at my home computer where I was comfortable and during the times that were convenient for me.
The online Masters in Education program is the very best use of my time this coming school year as I get my foot in the door and round out my resume.
