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Skip to comments.Detroit water dept pays $56,245 every year for a horseshoer, even though it doesnt own any horses
Posted on 08/20/2012 8:31:16 AM PDT by grundle
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Despite having no horses, the water and sewerage department for the city of Detroit employs a horseshoer.
Yet even with a department so bloated that it has a horseshoer and no horses, the local union president said it is not possible to eliminate positions.
The city pays $29,245 in salary and about $27,000 in benefits for the horseshoer position.
This is why some people are always saying that we need to raise taxes, and why they also want the federal government to give more funding to the cities. Instead of getting rid of government waste such as this, they would rather raise taxes, and use the federal government to force the more responsible cities to bail out Detroits irresponsible behavior.
Personally, I would rather cut government waste.
Ridiculous....no work...no pay. The union can go to hell.
Gotta justify the city buggywhip manufacturer somehow.
But when they get a horse they're ready!!
Btw, it's also a position reserved for the mayors cousin.
good example of how unions are killing this country
Even if they did have a few horses it would be far more cost effective to contract a farrier to come in and do the job as needed.
Makes you wonder if they have a livery stable with a blacksmith shop too?
What I would do is the same thing that the emergency manager did with Detroit school employees and make them physically come and pick up their check. That's how they found that some 200 school employees that didn't exist.
Where do I apply?
... the local union president said it is not possible to eliminate positions.
BS! This is modern day "featherbedding!"
The lawn jockey union is VERY powerful in Detroit, it seems.
The position also includes welding, so the "horseshoer" likely works on pipes untl a horse comes his way.
I hear they are turning parts of the city back to farmland, maybe they think they'll need horses to pull those plows. :)
Whattya mean no need for a horseshoer? Isn't the entire Detroit government filled with horses' asses?
Yes, but there are a lot of "horses asses" in government and you can never tell when one of them might need "shoes".
I just know there`s gotta be a pony somewhere in this pile of manure!
Well, I guess they won't be needing those milking machines, either.
Balderdash! This position certainly behoofs someone.
I believe the city still has a mounted division...the horses are part of the city government....Police department...
Little spare time perk there for administrators as in so many other local governments. Further into the economic collapse, they'll be dining on their horses.
So, whose nephew has the horseshoer job? Is it forever, or does another connected nephew get it next year?
That Detroit has or at least had in the 1960s mounted police force is true. Does the police department have their own horseshoer or do they use the one from the water dept? If the later is the case, why is this part of the water department budget and not the police budget?
I will be truthful. I went to college, lived and worked in Detroit from 1956-1962. I was in Detroit in 2000 at a spot 2 blocks from where I worked and if it wasn't for the statue of Prometeus on Woodward Ave., I would have had no idea where I was! Pictures that I've seen of Detroit since then are even worse than what I saw in person.
Horses require a lot of tack work...(I think thats the right work.)
Unions suck!
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I think I prefer the "good old days" before instantly being able to argue about stuff we know little or nothing about. Time has a miraculous way of sorting out the BS from the buckwheat. 450+ comments with absolutely zero facts is a waste of time. Guess I'll go over to Fox News to see what's new. Oh crap, more bad news........... Time for bed.
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Don't come down on the kid too hard. Urban himself has said Bama is the best, the target, and will be till someone consistently knocks them of their perch. 4 out of 7 National Championships is proof.
He must have been watching Jason Dufner.
Can I play this on my flip phone?
I come to 11W to read about my beloved Buckeyes and get away from the crap that is the regular news and find this. I give up.........
I'm old too, but it sounds like a 21st century snipe hunt to me.
I watched some of the series with OKC. OKC seemed to have the better all around team, but GS had a couple guys that could shoot the ball from 30 feet. It was about as interesting as watching a long drive contest and being told the guy that won was the best golfer.
Well, this certainly isn't the first time I've been out of step with what has been considered today as progress. That's why my tv has a channel changer and off button. I do wish someone would figure out a way to work that thing with out getting out of my chair and walking across the room. One of the few advantages of getting old is having seen lot of things and being able to decide for myself what I think is progress and what isn't.
I agree with Evan. I think the three point shot has ruined basketball. Defense and rebounding and offensive team play has taken back seat to a bunch of guys that can chuck it from the cheap seats. Why should a lucky heave from 30 feet be worth more than a lay up that's the result of a well executed team play?
Yea, but I always feel like Captain Kirk when I whip it out. And the looks I get are priceless.
Hey, what's wrong with flip phones? Mine works just fine. Not everyone needs more computing power in their pocket than the astronauts took to the moon. And get off my lawn whippersnapper.
Jorts. The ultimate in recycling. They are back n style here in Florida.
I'm guessing they would be warm enough if they came north in September, even to Wisconsin.
You, sir are a genius. Of course, I thought this was a great idea when I thought of it years ago.
My memory must really be going. I can't remember reading that Game Day in 2014. It was priceless. Thanks for the link.
Phi: Buckeye enclave in FLA? Where? I'm in Clearwater.
I lived in the Milwaukee area for 30 years, and all we ever heard about was how great a city Chicago was. If that was true, why was every other license plate on weekends in southeastern Wisconsin a F.I.B. The best part of moving from Wisconsin was never having to drive through Chicago again. If you love bread pizzas, sitting in traffic, and obnoxious Cub and Da Bears fans, Chicago is your mecca.
I think Green Bay would be a great place for Cardale. No pressure because Rogers has several good years left, and Green Bay is the closest thing to a college atmosphere in the NFL. I think he'd flourish in a small town environment. No place loves and respects and protects their players like Green Bay fans.
Urban Meyer's program seems to be a great segue into real life for these kids. Honest self evaluation, honest feedback, success based on performance, and aggressive competition all are prescriptions for success in the real world. Based on recent observations, it's too bad the rest of the kids in college don't appear to be getting this kind of preparation for life.
Great comment. No sense having all these great players and not playing them.
Every group always thinks they have things worse than everyone else, irrespective of their situation. It's human nature. Of course the NCAA and the schools profit off he athletes, and the athletes trade their services for a period off time for a valuable education and a foot in the door for much greater things in the NFL. It's the way the real world works. The system has it's faults but seems fairly stable. We are the beneficiaries because we have the greatest two spectator sports in the world to enjoy, College and Pro football. I don't lose any sleep over which one happens to be complaining at the moment. Both come out in the end with pretty sweet deals.
_ichigans best players have more than not, always come from Ohio. A bunch of good, pissed off football players with a chip on their shoulders because OSU didn't offer, or because they weren't recruited by OSU as vigorously as they though they should have been, is how scum is going to get back in the game. Harbaugh is bat_hit crazy, but he is not stupid. A bunch of misguided OSU fans want TTUN competitive again. Be careful what you ask for.
Ol' dude?? Depends on your perspective. That guy can't be much over 30. And shitting yourself in meetings happen all the time. Lots of times, it's the best thing that happens in meetings.


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Nine of the world's leading primatologists come together in this engaging volume to discuss many of the evolutionary forces that have created Homo sapiens. Edited by the eminent de Waal (The Ape and the Sushi Master, Forecasts, Feb. 19) of Emory University, all nine essays find an appropriate middle ground neither too technical nor too simplistic. Each also summarizes the current state of research into some aspect of primate behavior and what we can learn from it about the evolution of human life and culture. The acquisition, distribution and preparation of food is central to the contributions by Craig Stanford and Richard Wrangham. Stanford argues that collaborative hunting may be responsible for the development of social intelligence, while Wrangham cogently links the discovery of cooking to the creation of the human mating system. Richard Byrne's contribution discusses the evolution of human intelligence by examining patterns of tool use and food manipulation in living primates. Charles Snowdon explores the twin concepts of communication and language by looking broadly across the animal kingdom and wrestling with the question of whether or not there is such a thing as a language instinct. William McGrew does much the same for culture, effectively demonstrating that humans can no longer be considered the sole purveyors of culture. With nine separate essays, it is not surprising that a fair amount of repetition occurs, but the strengths clearly outweigh the shortcomings in this provocative book.
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Here, noted primatologist de Waal (Chimpanzee Politics) invited scientists who participated in a 1997 symposium on primate behavior and human social behavior to shed new light on the origins of human evolution. The authors draw on their collective years of research observing nonhuman primates to find comparisons between primates and man in such areas as ecology, sex and reproduction, social organization, culture, cognition, language, and hominization. Since the great apes are the nonhuman primates most closely related to humans genetically, they are the primary subject of the studies in this volume. Dr. Karen Strier broadens the horizon with her study of the muriqui, a South American monkey. While each primatologist competently addresses the subject of human origins, their theories vary and sometimes even clash. The individual pieces are intriguingly interesting, but the whole complex puzzle remains unsolved. The text is supplemented with research notes from each author. For academic and larger science collections. Raymond Hamel, Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Ctr. Lib., Madison
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This collection brings to view much of that research, a compendium long overdue in de Waal's estimation. His team provides new insights into primate behaviour. They combine the research finding with speculations on how modern monkeys and apes reflect the evolutionary roots of our own relations with each other. The topics covered show the impact of environment, the patterns of sex and reproduction, social organization and cognition. The collection addresses the "process of hominization" leading from ape-like ancestors to modern humans. If all this sounds like a series of lofty scientific pedantry, fear not. All the authors present their information in open, conversational style. Although the result of a scholarly seminar, the writing throughout is clear and unpretentious. Anyone interested in their evolutionary roots or in the status of the research will find this collection rewarding.
The quality of this compilation makes choice of place difficult, if not impossible. Each author presents new information and delightful analyses of the importance of the findings. Craig Stanford discusses the role of meat eating [not hunting] in building social relationships. Studied closely in the field in both ape and human societies, meat distribution and sex have a clear evolutionary role. Richard Wrangham carries this theme a step further in his analysis of the social role of food preparation - cooking. He stresses how early cooking must have emerged in hominid evolution and what its likely social impact was in our development. Richard Byrne extends this analysis to describe several forms of food acquisition and processing among various primate species.
If any issue transcends the others in the role of humanity, it is that of human cognition. To those contending only human cognitive abilities are worth studying, several authors respond that "evolution does not proceed by inspired jumps . . . but by accretion of beneficial variants" over time. In order to comprehend the evolutionary path of cognition, definitions are of primary importance. Cognition is here defined as "a species' package of information-processing capabilities" encompassing individual, social, technical and other skills. Robin Dunbar shows how these skills were likely reinforced through selectively chosen group size. He examines variations in primate group size and how these impact social behavior. Charles Snowdon addresses the mainstay of human "uniqueness" in an outline of language
development. In the final essay, William McGrew considers the question of "culture." What is it and how was it derived? McGrew refers to eight criteria, developed many years ago by Alfred Koeber, and applies them in a historical context. McGrew emphasizes that humans are not the only social species. Language enhanced abilities inherited from our predecessors.
This book addresses older ideas and breaks new ground. With a strong foundation in the intensive primate studies achieved during the past three decades, the collection calls for further studies in the field. What these will bring to light will increase our knowledge of where we fit in Nature. There are assuredly many surprises remaining to be revealed. Will you help search for answers to some of these questions?
Each chapter got my synapses firing with interesting information about how the evolution of human culture might be inferred from primate behaviors and primate and human physiology. I scribbled numerous notes that started with "I wonder if ... " or "Is it possible that ...", using the data from the authors as jumping-off points.
For example, before I read the book, I'd been wondering if it'd be possible to identify and track back as far as possible in time a collection of aphorisms that all cultures shared, such as "the way to a man's heart is through his stomach," to see what might be learned about our cultural evolution - and how closely our "culture" was actually tied to our physiological hard-wiring. Lo and behold, one of the articles in Tree of Origin appears to offer a heart-through-stomach theory for how humans came to pair off as couples.
The discussion about the size of our neocortex (neocortices?) and its relationship to the size of social groups we can "manage" expanded another line of thinking on my part about what might really be at the roots of what we call racism and of our propensity toward bloody conflict. It's possible that one core cause is our brains' maximum capacity for social complexity, rather than "just" a learned behavior that one can discard through an intellectual process.
The book reminded me of Desmond Morris' books, The Human Ape and The Human Zoo, both of which I also found fascinating.
Now that I own this book, I can re-read it and mark it up as I wish!
If I were teaching a class about humans, I would include this as a text, and I am thinking of encouraging my (older) children to read it over the summer as an adjunct to their studies in Biology.
The study of hominid evolution is remarkably speculative, even given de Waal's direction to the authors. There is of course evidence to draw on. Fossil evidence (fossilized remains of human ancestors, tooth marks or cut marks on fossilized bones of other animals, remains of tools, etc.) can vary from conclusive to suggestive. We never know, when the evidence is scant, whether we are looking at outliers or norms.
Evidence drawn from observations of our closest relatives — great apes, especially chimpanzees and bonobos — can be incredibly suggestive. But it is not always easy to distinguish traits and behaviors that are distinctive to those species' own evolutionary track rather than shared with our own.
The speculative nature of the study invites, as here, researchers to take up a variety of perspectives from which to offer hypotheses to answer such questions as why human-sized brains evolved, how early bipedal apes or pre-humans survived, what social groupings emerged among australopithecines and others of our ancestors, . . . Researchers look at what these hominids ate, what foods their teeth were optimized for, what their skeletal features can tell us about how fast or far they could travel, etc., all as clues to answering those critical evolutionary questions.
One very interesting perspective is that of cooking. When cooking emerged among our ancestors isn't known, but it appears to be relatively recent, maybe 250,000 years ago (for which we have evidence of earthen ovens in use). Cooking could have changed almost everything. Diets at the time were primarily vegetarian, and, for that matter, meat still comprises a small part of apes' diets. A diet of raw plants required large jaws, teeth, and a large gut for digestion. Post-Australopithecines, our most direct ancestors, by contrast, have remarkably small guts, teeth, and jaws.
A higher ratio of energy taken in from food relative to the energy spent to digest it could have freed energy for other uses — foraging over larger areas, or cognitive activity.
Cooking also could have introduced important social changes. Food gathering, along with mating, is a strong component of social life for apes and human ancestors. Cooking would have introduced a new element — a time delay between finding and consuming food. Raw foods would be gathered for cooking, maybe in another place and at a later time. It would need to be protected from theft from other animals, and a more explicit distribution would need to be devised at the cooking site.
You can see how this one change — cooking food — could enable or set in motion many other changes, either direct changes in behaviors or more long term opportunities for adaptive, evolutionary changes.
And cooking is just one perspective the authors take up. Other discussions address the evolution of "culture" in chimpanzees and other species besides our own, the role of hunting and meat-eating, the effect of group size on intelligence and behavior, and the evolution of brain size.
Conclusions are tentative. Conclusions may always have significant uncertainties. Researchers just can't directly access enough evidence. We don't, for example, have a definitive fossil example of the hypothesized common ancestor to chimpanzees and humans.
But understanding where we came from and looking in the mirror at our current close relatives are both instructive about ourselves and just plain entertaining. Having read several of de Waal's works, especially the classic Chimpanzee Politics, has given me a new eye for watching and enjoying humans like myself.
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US AR: First Medical 'Pot' Proposal Cleared
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Chronicle AM: AR MedMJ Makes Ballot, Roadside Drug Tests Send Innocent to Jail, More... (7/7/16)
Arkansas will join Florida in voting on medical marijuana in November, California's Prop 64 legalization initiative just got another $1.25 million from Sean Parker, a major investigative report finds that police field drug tests are shoddy, unreliable, and are sending innocent people to jail and prison, and more.
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Alaska Governor Signs Bill for National Criminal Background Checks on People Seeking Marijuana Business Licenses. Gov. Bill Walker (R) has signed into law Senate Bill 165, which will allow state regulators to send fingerprints acquired as part of the application process for marijuana business licenses to the state Department of Public Safety and FBI. Until now, regulators have been issuing licenses based on the applicant's sworn certification he does not hae a disqualifying criminal history.
Sean Parker Kicks in Another $1.25 Million for California Prop 64 Legalization Initiative. Former Facebook president and tech sector billionaire Sean Parker has just doubled his contribution to the Prop 64 campaign. Parker donated $1.25 million, bringing his total contributions so far to $2.5 million.
Medical Marijuana
Arkansas Medical Cannabis Act Qualifies for November Ballot. Arkansans for Compassionate Care (ACC) has collected enough valid voter signatures to qualify its medical marijuana initiative for the November ballot, Secretary of State Mack Martin confirmed Tuesday. A second initiative, the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment, has yet to qualify for the ballot, and ACC is calling on its organizers to end their campaign and join forces.
California: San Bernardino Initiative to Allow Dispensaries Will Go to Voters. The city council voted Tuesday night to put a dispensary regulatory system before the voters in November, even though a majority disapproves of it. Their hand was forced by a petition campaign that gathered more than 6,000 voter signatures. A second, competing proposal may also make the ballot.
California: Long Beach to Vote on Allowing Dispensaries. City Clerk Maria de la Luz Garcia announced Tuesday that an initiative to allow dispensaries has qualified for the November ballot. A city council member may try to add another ballot measure that would allow dispensaries, but with more restrictions.
Drug Testing
Roadside Drug Tests Are Sending Innocent People to Jail. In a major investigative piece, Pro Publica and the New York Times Magazine have collaborated to examine the pervasive use of cheap drug field tests by law enforcement and have found that the test generate huge numbers of false positives, resulting in innocent people being jailed and wrongfully convicted of drug charges. Faced with possible prison sentences, many pleaded guilty to lesser charges despite being innocent of any crime.
Uruguay Marijuana Consumer Licensing System About to Get Underway. This month, Uruguay will begin signing up pot smokers to buy marijuana from state-licensed pharmacies in the world's first scheme for state-licensed production and sale of the herb. The first crop is being harvested and should be available for sale by mid-August.
Mendocino County Could Adopt Wine Industry-Style Marijuana Appellations [FEATURE]
This article was produced in collaboration with AlterNet and first appeared here.
Before too long, when you sit down to enjoy your 2014 vintage Caymus Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon, you'll be able to pair your wine with a nice South Mendocino County Sour Diesel or maybe a Mendocino Covelo/Dos Rios OG Kush for a sip and smoke that hits all the high notes.
[image:1 align:right]That's right, pot farmers in one of California's Emerald Triangle marijuana-growing counties are about to follow their brethren in the wine industry by seeking to capitalize on its reputation as a pioneer and still cutting-edge presence in American cannabis cultivation. As with Bordeaux in France or the Napa Valley nearby, the Mendocino Appellations Project wants the county's marijuana brand protected and promoted by designating denominations of origin that reflect both the county provenance and the distinct pot-growing microclimates that Mendo offers.
The first-of-its-kind project is riding a tide of local optimism not only about the future -- legalization is set to be on the ballot in California this year -- but also the present, now that the state legislature has belatedly passed the Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act (MMRSA). Twenty years after voters first approved medical marijuana, the act will finally bring some clarity to an endeavor that has operated with many grey areas. It defines marijuana cultivation as an agricultural activity, creates state licensing requirements, and also makes it a crime to label or sell medical marijuana as grown in a county if it actually isn't.
These rules are similar to the ones that protect the state's wine regions, whose global reputations for fine wines are jealously guarded. But unlike wine, which is regulated by the federal government, California's pot's regulation defaults to the state under federal marijuana prohibition.
"You have a product coming out of prohibition, essentially. Marijuana growers are caught in a very difficult situation. It's a bit of a 'catch-22'. Even though it's legal at the state level, it's not legal at the federal level. They can't operate in the normal way by creating bank accounts and the like. Appellations will help show the legitimacy of what they are doing," wine legal expert Richard Mendelson told The North Bay Business Journal
Mendelson has played a key role in the development of Napa County's wine appellations for more than 30 years, and he's now lending his expertise to the Mendocino Appellation Project.
"Appellations can be really powerful because they can be a means to protect everything from the intellectual property, to the labor force, to the culture and history. They can be very rich vehicles for promotion, protection, and rural development," he added.
"Mendocino is the Napa Valley of cannabis. It is by far the most conducive place for outdoor cultivation," said project founder Justin Calvino. "Mendocino is a growing culture you won't find anywhere else."
Calvino began the project last year with a topographical map of the county, then proceeded to listen to growers and others in the industry. After surveying local farmers last fall, he created the appellation map, with 11 different micro-regions based on ecological factors, such as watershed and microclimate.
The proposed appellations are: Spyrock-Bell Springs, Covelo-Dos Rios, Long Valley-Branscomb-Leggett, Willits, Comptche, Ukiah Valley, North Mendocino Coast, South Mendocino Coast, Anderson Valley South Mendocino, Potter Valley, and Mountainhouse South Mendocino County.
[image:2 align:left]"I like the way he's gone about it, because he's factored in not just the natural elements, he's gone out and spoken to growers, asking the old-timers what they think, and is making revisions. He's being true to the history. This is a template for the future, creating a dossier of physical and human, historical factors -- I applaud him for that," Mendelson said.
There are issues yet to be resolved, including whether to brand the name "Mendocino" or focus on smaller areas, the setting of environmental standards, and the thorny philosophical question of whether marijuana grown indoors can lay claim to terroir, a wine term that means the specific environmental conditions, especially soil and climate, that give a wine its unique characteristics. Can a crop grown with hydroponics in a controlled indoor environment have a terroir?
In any case, the adoption of appellations should be good for consumers and good for the industry.
"This is what makes wine so much fun for consumers, to experiment and to be able to go from the larger country and regional levels all the way down to the specific vineyard designation, and see, as a consumer if you can spot those differences and understand the effect of terroir on the final product," Mendelson said.
"Tourism is big. We want people to come out and visit our tasting rooms. We want the debate and the talk about our appellations, and which one does it better than another," he said.
Calvino also sits on the board of the California Growers' Association and has been asked to lead a group working on developing appellations statewide. He said he is looking a neighboring Humboldt County next.
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Democratic Marijuana Reform Platform Plank Stops Just Short of Legalization
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For the first time, a major US political party has embraced a strongly reformist platform plank on marijuana. Members of a panel of the Democratic National Committee Platform Drafting Committee approved the language last weekend.
[image:1 align:left]It's not as forthright as the position sought by committee members appointed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, who wanted language calling for the complete removal of marijuana from the federal Controlled Substances Act, but it is still a major step forward for a major political party.
Sanders supporters, led by environmentalist Bill McKibben, proposed a plank that read: "We will refocus our drug policy by removing marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act and allowing states to set their own policies."
But that language was quickly tabled, and after discussion among panel members, the panel unanimously adopted the following language:
"We believe that the states should be laboratories of democracy on the issue of marijuana, and those states that want to decriminalize marijuana should be able to do so. We support policies that will allow more research to be done on marijuana, as well as reforming our laws to allow legal marijuana businesses to exist without uncertainty. And we recognize our current marijuana laws have had an unacceptable disparate impact, with arrest rates for African-Americans far outstripping arrest rates among whites despite similar usage rates."
The language is not yet set in stone -- it still has to be approved by the full Platform Drafting Committee later this week and by the Democratic convention, set for July 25-28 -- but given that it reflects the stance of presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton, it's unlikely to change much between now and then.
The national Democratic Party is reflecting broader pot-reform currents in the party. According to an analysis by Marijuana.com, 12 state Democratic Party platforms, including California's, are now calling for marijuana law reform, and Democratic lawmakers in the Congress are beginning to step up and support similar moves in Congress.
The Greens and the Libertarians have had good marijuana and drug policy platforms for years, but now, finally, a party that can actually win national elections is stepping up to the plate, if it a bit timidly.
Medical Marijuana Update
This was a quiet week on the medical marijuana front, but a couple of important changes happened on July 1.
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On Tuesday, a new report said dispensaries will generate millions for the state. The Aloha State finally got around to allowing dispensaries to operate this year, and now a report from the Hawaii Dispensary Alliance says they could generate between $12 million and $38 million in revenues in their first year in operation. That figure could grow to as much as $80 million by 2018, the group said, citing an anticipated increase in patient numbers.
As of last Friday, chronic pain patients qualify for medical marijuana. As of July 1, intractable chronic pain that can't be controlled with existing treatments is approved for medical marijuana use. The state Department of Health added intractable pain to the list of qualifying conditions effective today, the one-year anniversary of the beginning of medical marijuana availability in the state.
As of last Fiday, the medical marijuana system has been folded into the state's adult sales system. As of July 1, medical marijuana and recreational marijuana sales are combined, and only shops that have sought a special license can advise patients on medical marijuana. All medical marijuana dispensaries that are not licensed under the new scheme were to shut down by midnight June 30. Only patients registered with the state will be able to avoid paying sales tax on their weed purchases.
[For extensive information about the medical marijuana debate, presented in a neutral format, visit MedicalMarijuana.ProCon.org.]
Chronicle AM: MA Init Passes Two Hurdles, Feds Ease Docs' Buprenorphine Limits, More... (7/6/16)
It's a two-fer for Bay State legalizers today, the feds move to ease the opioid problem, Italy's top anti-Mafia and anti-terrorism prosecutor comes out for marijuana legalization, and more.
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Massachusetts Legalization Initiative Turns in Final Batch of Signatures. The Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Tuesday handed in some 25,000 signatures to comply with a final signature gathering requirement before its legalization initiative can appear on the November ballot. Proponents only need 10,971 valid voter signatures for the measure to qualify for the ballot. The campaign already successfully completed a larger signature gathering campaign in the spring, but had to do a second round under state law after the legislature refused to act on the initiative petition.
Massachusetts Supreme Court Okays Legalization Initiative for Ballot… With Changes. The state's Supreme Judicial Court Wednesday ruled that the legalization initiative from the Massachusetts Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol can appear on the November ballot. But the court also massaged the language of the title -- changing it from "Marijuana Legalization" to "Legalization, Regulation, and Taxation of Marijuana" -- and the summary language that will appear on the ballot. The new summary reads as follows: "A YES VOTE would allow persons 21 and older to possess, use, and transfer marijuana and products containing marijuana concentrate (including edible products) and to cultivate marijuana, all in limited amounts, and would provide for the regulation and taxation of commercial sale of marijuana and marijuana products." (Changes highlighted in bold).
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Feds Raise Patient Limits for Buprenorphine Docs. The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has nearly tripled the number of opioid-addicted patients who can be prescribed buprenorphine by a single doctor. Under old rules, doctors were limited to treating 100 patients; now, the cap has been set at 275. The drug is used to help wean people off heroin and prescription opioids.
Italy's Anti-Mafia Prosecutor Says Legalize "Soft Drugs." As the Italian parliament prepares to take up marijuana legalization later this month, the country's top anti-Mafia and anti-terrorism prosecutor, Franco Roberti, has endorsed the proposal, calling for the legalization of "soft drugs" as a means of redirecting police resources and weakening the finances of terrorist groups. Under prohibition, he said, "cannabis production is one of the main financing sources of terrorists. If we want to give a blow to the Mafia and the Taliban, we must remove this extraordinary financing channel from illegality."
Bolivia's Coca Crop is Under Control, UN Says. Bolivia has brought the number of acres under coca cultivation down to 50,500, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime reported Tuesday. Since farmers are allowed to plant 50,000 acres to supply the country's traditional and industrial coca market, that means that only 1% of production is destined for the illicit market. Cocaine continues to be exported through Bolivia, the agency said, but it coming from Peru.
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Chronicle AM: CA Init Officially Prop 64, NJ Gov Vetoes Needle Exchange Expansion, More... (7/5/16)
The California marijuana legalization initiative now has an official ballot number, the Arizona marijuana legalization initiative has lots of money, Chris Christie vetoes funding for needle exchange expansion in New Jersey, and more.
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Arizona Legalization Campaign Flush With Cash. The Arizona Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol handed in 100,000 more signatures than needed to qualify its initiative for the ballot last week, and it looks to have the money to campaign for it through November. Campaign finance reports filed last Friday show that the campaign has raised more than $2.2 million, with most of it coming from the Marijuana Policy Project. Anti-legalization forces operating as Arizonans for Responsible Drug Policy, have raised about $690,000, less than a third as much as the legalization forces.
California's Legalization Initiative Will be Proposition 64 on the November Ballot. After some weekend confusion thanks to conflicting reports from the Secretary of State's office, the matter is settled: The Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) initiative will appear on the ballot as Proposition 64.
Even in Conservative San Diego County, Legalization Has Majority Support. A new San Diego Union-Tribune poll has support for marijuana legalization at 56% in the county, home to military bases and retirees. Two-thirds (67%) of Democrats supported legalization, but only 38% of Republicans did.
Medical Marijuana
Dispensaries Will Generate Millions for Hawaii, New Report Says. The Aloha State finally got around to allowing dispensaries to operate this year, and now a report from the Hawaii Dispensary Alliance says they could generate between $12 million and $38 million in revenues in their first year in operation. That figure could grow to as much as $80 million by 2018, the group said, citing an anticipated increase in patient numbers.
Harm Reduction
New Jersey Governor Uses Line Item Veto to Kill Needle Exchange Expansion. Gov. Chris Christie (R) resorted to the line item veto to eliminate funding for the expansion of needle exchange programs. Lawmakers in both houses had approved the expansion, but Christie cut the funding for it that was contained in the budget bill sent to him last week. Advocates still hope Christie will sign the needle exchange expansion bill, but how it would be funded remains an open question.


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Róza Csillag (also Rosa Herrmann-Csillag; 23 October 1832 – 20 February 1892), was an Austro-Hungarian mezzo-soprano opera singer.
She was born in the Jewish community of Irsa, now in Hungary, and her father was Moritz Goldstein, a hazzan of Irsa. She attracted much attention in the chorus of the Hungarian National Theatre at Budapest.
Trained by Professor Proch, she made her first appearance in 1858 as Fidès in Meyerbeer's Le prophète, in the court opera-house of Vienna, where she delighted her audiences with her beautiful mezzo-soprano voice.
Until 1873, Csillag belonged to the cast of the Vienna Royal Opera House, and was a general favorite. On her tours also she met with much success.
She married the celebrated prestidigitator and magician Carl "Compars" Hermann in 1852. The opera singer and actress Blanche Correlli was their daughter.
When her voice was beginning to deteriorate, she became a singing teacher at the Vienna Conservatoire. She died in Vienna.
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>> Evergreen Soil Conditioner
That sounds different from the Lowes "Fine Bark Nuggets" I like best. My "Fine Bark Nuggets" have SO LITTLE bark dust and powder that I do add some "peaty mix". I use a local blend that's a lot like Pro-Mix High Porosity (HP). That is much more "open" than peat moss that I've seen. The fibers seem coarser and less fragile.
A few years ago I bought some relatively clean bark-mulch-product from Lowes, and it was very powdery. Even after screening, it still had so much powder mixed with the grit-sized grains that I had no desire to add any peat!
I tried to "loosen it up" by adding chunks that were coarser than ideal - like 1/4" and larger. Really there is no shortcut that works as well as removing the excessive dusty stuff.
The nice thing about starting with screened bark plus A LITTLE fine fibers and dust is that I don't need much "peaty mix" added, so I can afford to add high quality stuff like ProMix.
P.S. One thing I learned is to avoid "soil conditioners" with much wood. That makes a nasty, fungusy mess for a year, until the wood breaks down. Something called "Soil Pep" taught me that.
P.P.S. Where I live, Home Depot "mulch" is often soggy, fermenting logyard trash while Lowes bags have been cleaner and drier for me.
But I recently bought some "premium grind" bark product at HD that was only a little soggy. At least it had no stones or twigs, and if there was dirt mixed with the bark fines, it was hard to see.
Thanks, Rick. A couple of years ago, when I made my first batch of gritty mix, Lowes carried Sunshine Soil Conditioner. It had grit sized bark and required very little screening. It was nearly perfect for the mix. That was before they started carrying the Evergreen brand.
>> It had grit sized bark and required very little screening.
I didn't know I could drool about bark. That would be nice!
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Absolutely not. There is no such thing as "vitamin O." Bogus products by that name have been heavily promoted by marketers who have made unsubstantiated and untrue claims for them. The sales pitches I've seen on-line these days generally suggest that vitamin O can boost energy and often include testimonials from customers who laud the products. These are pretty tame claims compared to earlier ones that shamelessly peddled vitamin O as a remedy for cancer, high blood pressure, lung disease, headaches, colds, flu and other illnesses. In 1999, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigated two companies, Rose Creek Health Products, Inc., and The Staff of Life, Inc., of Kettle Falls, WA, and found that the vitamin O they were selling was actually bottled salt water priced at $10 an ounce.
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The promotion of vitamin O also demonstrates the challenges we face in the absence of a regulatory agency devoted to ousting companies that falsely advertise these ridiculous products. It makes it difficult to identify good vitamins and supplements that have been properly made and have good research to back them up, and makes it necessary to rely on a trusted advisor, preferably a physician trained in integrative medicine, to help you navigate the confusing claims.
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PC Interfacing, Communications and Windows Programming / Edition 1by William Buchanan
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