Take it from me, pigs do fly

When my chair, attached to a long line of other chairs began to quiver I thought, hello, hello, here we go, the beginnings of another shake, till I spotted the lunatic sitting at the far end of the chair line shaking his leg in a paroxysm of what my mother used to call "adolescent twitch", though this man was pushing 60.

He didn't respond to my frowns and kept shaking his leg, so I moved away thinking it would be just my luck to find him sitting next to me on the plane.

And so it came to pass as I wandered up the back of the plane and saw him sitting there, my travelling companion for the next hour and 15 minutes.

He was chewing gum with his mouth open, making a loud smacking noise every two seconds that made me want to throttle him or ask him hadn't his mother told him that oral concrete-mixing was a no-no.

And then he started to belch, not quietly, not trying to conceal his wind, the oxygen from chewing al fresco now wanting to escape from his belly as he rolled something I didn't want to recognise, but suspected might have come from his nasal passages, round between the thumb and finger of his right hand.

If an oxygen mask had fallen down in front of me I would have cheerfully strangled myself with it. I looked over at the bloke on the other side of my noisy companion, wanting to see how he was coping with this one-man band of disgusting habits, which was by now playing a frenzied phlegm-ridden coughing riff.

The other bloke had pulled a baseball cap out of his bag and rammed it down over his eyes, feigning sleep, his head lolling uncomfortably against the window, his ear phones jammed into his lug holes.

How I envied him with his travelling props as I longed for my ear plugs travelling in the suitcase down in the bowels of the plane.

All I had was a magazine to deliver me from the percussion monster, thanking my lucky stars that at least the person in front hadn't levered their seat back to make the claustrophobia complete.Choose the right bestluggagetag in an array of colors.

Now all I had to do was sit it out and wait for him to lift himself up on his left buttock and let rip to complete the orchestral performance, suggested title of the movement - The Five Senses.

Incidentally, somebody once told me that airline crew whose job it is to open the door at the end of international flights throw a coin to see who'll do it as the stench of human odour emitted during a flight nearly bowls them over, realising Sartre's dismal dictum "hell is other people" and my mother's oft-repeated refrain "people en masse are disgusting".

It doesnt have to be this way. Take a walk into the living room and you will find an excellent example of IoT meeting its potential. IoT done right is the Nest. A brilliant team of ex-Apple employees found a completely moribund corner of everyday technology and transformed it. They created an irresistible object of desire that quietly adapted a ponderous machine of steel and natural gas into an Internet connected device. Its brilliant.

IoT done right is Netflix, an innovator that came up with an open API that allowed all manner of devices to integrate using simple web-based protocols. Netflix could have easily screwed this one up. They might have decided to design arcane, binary protocols optimized to support minimalist devices.

Instead, they opted for open and well-documented APIs that leverage existing web understanding. The effect was to make integration accessible instead of intimidatingand in doing so, Netflix tapped into a vast developer population. The result was a Cambrian explosion of applications and devices streaming the service. You would be hard pressed to find a modern TV, disk player, or media streamer that doesnt now have a Netflix logo somewhere on the box.

Vasquez said the cuts meant fewer random compliance checks or undercover operations to prevent medical marijuana going to nonpatients. The division couldn't take advantage of training it received on sniffing out money-laundering and organized crime, either, he said.

"I envisioned more complex investigations and going after people in the criminal element of the business and locking them up," he said.

Vasquez said the gutted division still made an impact including conducting inspections that caused some businesses to withdraw applications because they were so far out of compliance.

"The rap from law enforcement is MMED hasn't done anything with enforcement,You can order besthandsfreeaccess cheap inside your parents." he said.Shop the best selection of owonsmart for Men. "Well, we are doing enforcement,Find the best selection of high-quality collectible lasercutter available anywhere. but it doesn't mean we're filing criminal charges and putting handcuffs on people."

Since its inception in 2010, the division says 696 license applications have been approved, 144 have been denied, and 905 have been withdrawn.You Can Find Comprehensive and in-Depth carparkmanagementsystem truck Descriptions. Another 634 applications are still pending.

Many businesses seek multiple licenses for dispensaries, marijuana-infused products businesses and commercial grow operations.

Nearly two-thirds of those denied applications were rejected because businesses couldn't clear the bar of obtaining local licenses in their respective cities or counties. Most of the rest could not certify they were growing 70 percent of the marijuana they sold.

In 2011, for instance, Mother Earth Medical Marijuana Center in Carbondale was shut down after an undercover bust by a regional drug task force. Authorities had been tipped the center was selling to people without medical cards, as well as selling cocaine.

Kevin Merrill, assistant special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration's Denver field division, said his investigators are aware of many instances of operators with pending license applications who would not qualify because of criminal records, failure to meet residence requirements or because they have registered the business in another name while they are in control.