Dighton adopts regulation to put electronic cigarettes under umbrella of tobacco products

Tom Kiklas, a spokesperson for the Alpharetta, Ga.,-based Tobacco Vapor Electronic Cigarette Association, acknowledges that there have been some companies that "are not doing the research" when they are telling people in their advertisements they can smoke the e-cigarettes anywhere. Kiklas said,MOST Cable for OPS/OPPS on the contrary, the leaders of his association fought against classifying e-cigarettes as separate from tobacco products during the Smoking Everywhere v. the Food and Drug Administration case played out over 2009 and 2010."It's our position that it is a tobacco product and should be regulated as such," Kiklas said. "Our position is this is a tobacco product and we should adhere to all local and federal regulations."

On the other hand, Kiklas said, he hopes that the society's understanding of e-cigarettes will "evolve," to realize that it is harmless to use e-cigarettes in public places. Kiklas said that compared to litany of harmful ingredients in tobacco, there are only five ingredients in e-cigarettes which have individually been approved for public use by the FDA, while the product on a whole has not been approved by the FDA. Kiklas also scoffed at a Mayo Clinic report released recently that said, "very little is known about the health effects of electronic cigarettes," while Mayo promoted so-called nicotine inhalers as a proven safe way to help people stop smoking."We just ask for logic when it comes to this debate," Kiklas said.According to the Tobacco Vapor Electronic Cigarette Association, 4 million Americans use e-cigarettes, with a billion dollars in sales projected by the end of the year.

While Dighton has decided to provide a license for selling tobacco and e-cigarettes under the title of "tobacco and nicotine product sales," Taunton requires a permit for each.Marilyn Edge, director of the Western Bristol County and Foxboro Tobacco and Alcohol Prevention,BMW Carsoft 6.5 said that Taunton has maintained its own policy that addresses e-cigarettes for two or three years.        "Before it was passed you could use them in public places," said Edge, who added that Taunton-area businesses have been provided with signage alerting customers that using e-cigarettes is not allowed.Edge said e-cigarettes still remain relatively new territory for many vendors.

Mouser Electronics Named Distributor of the Year by Honeywell Sensing and Control

Stressing on the need to educate and train more engineers on operating electronic warfare systems, he said the academia and industry should take advantage of the policy change to involve the private sector in developing the technology and products to gather information and use it for national security.This is the third time for Mouser to receive this top award by achieving excellence in several key areas: Having the fastest and most effective new product launches; the biggest increase in number of new Honeywell customers; maintaining the largest breadth of Honeywell products in stock; and the greatest percentage of sales increase. Mouser, a subsidiary of TTI, Inc., is part of the esteemed Berkshire Hathaway family of companies.

"It is a tremendous honor to be recognized by Honeywell, a recognized leader in the industry and one of our most valued supplier partners," said Barry McConnell, Mouser Senior Vice President of Interconnect and Electromechanical Products. "Our business relationship has been mutually beneficial and this award is a great tribute to our hard work and continued success.""We are very pleased to present our 2013 Catalog Distributor of the Year Award to Mouser Electronics," said Mike West, Director-Global Distribution Sales for Honeywell Sensing and Control. "Mouser's focus on new customers and service excellence, as well as the rapid introduction and promotion of new Honeywell products has helped them achieve this high honor."

In 2011, Mouser received Honeywell's Innovative Marketing Communications Gold Award for excellence in key areas: Support and promotion of NPI products; growth in customer acquisition and development; overall alignment, relative to focus products; ability to provide analytics; and innovative marketing activities. In 2010 and 2012, Mouser also won Honeywell's Americas' Catalog Distributor of the Year.With its broad product line and unsurpassed customer service, Mouser caters to design engineers and buyers by delivering What's Next in advanced technologies. Mouser offers customers 20 global support locations and stocks the world's widest selection of the latest semiconductors and electronic components for the newest design projects.

Future of Queensland crime fighting is Zebedee Scanner

"This technology can get to areas where conventional aircraft can't, because it is either too dangerous or too costly," he said.Police departments the world over are experimenting with new technologies and devices.In the US, several jurisdictions are considering whether to equip their officers with Google Glass.In Sydney, high incidences of alcohol-fuelled violence have prompted police to issue a tender for an ID scanning system to be installed in pubs and clubs in the neighbourhood of Kings Cross. Details such as name, date of birth and address captured from patrons' identity documents will be stored in the system so that police and venues can identify underage patrons and those subject to temporary or long-term banning orders.

Launching "the future of crime fighting" in Queensland – a device known as the Zebedee scanner LAUNCH X-431 Heavy-Duty– Police Minister Jack Dempsey and Science Ian Walker declined to hold the odd-looking object.It was left to CSIRO scientist Dr Jonathan Roberts to display the Zebedee, so named because of its likeness to the spring-legged character in children's TV show The Magic Roundabout."We decided we don't want to hold it," chuckled a blushing Mr Walker, as the Zebedee bobbed cheekily in Dr Roberts' hand.Costing around $37,000 plus GST, the laser scanner allows police to map a crime scene in three-dimensional form in about 20-minutes.Police Commissioner Ian Stewart said as well as saving time, the scanner would reduce interference in a scene and allow access to previously hard-to-reach areas such as steep declines and bush land.

"The Daniel Mo'be case is probably a classic example of where this type of technology would've been very helpful at the time," said Mr Stewart."What would normally take a day can now be done in the time it takes for an officer to simply walk around the perimeter and in and out of the various areas."The QPS currently only had one Zebedee,MOTO-BMW Motorcycle-specific Diagnostic Scanner but Mr Stewart said he hoped to purchase at least four more so they could be distributed among the five police regions."We look forward to continuing our working relationship with CSIRO to explore new technology that will benefit our officers in their duties," he said.An aerial version of the Zebedee was now being developed, Dr Roberts said.The Zebedee Scanner promises to improve the efficiency of police crime scene examination and provide detailed records for court cases.