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The human side of debate over medical pot
Published 5:34 pm, Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Gloria Blick, who just turned 90, is a grandmother and great-grandmother who still works as a billing specialist for her son's medical and research clinic.
She is on the board of directors at Stamford's Smith House, a nursing and rehabilitation center, and on the board of the Southwest Connecticut Agency on Aging. An active senior, Blick enjoys going out with friends and spending time at the local senior center.
She's also a pot smoker.
Blick, who has glaucoma, is one of a growing number of people who have opted to use marijuana for medical reasons. She is awaiting passage of a bill that would legalize pot for medical uses.
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Medical marijuana legal in: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington. States with laws pending: Alabama, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Wisconsin Penalty for growing marijuana in Connecticut: Cultivation, delivery or sale of marijuana is punishable by up to seven years in prison and a fine of up to $25,000. Sale to a minor adds a two-year mandatory minimum sentence to run consecutively with any other sentence. Sale within 1,500 feet of a school, public housing complex or day-care center adds a three-year mandatory minimum sentence to run consecutively with any other sentence. Information from NORML (National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws) Who could qualify for medical marijuana: Those with a "debilitating medical condition," such as cancer, glaucoma, positive status for human immunodeficiency virus or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, damage to the nervous tissue of the spinal cord with objective neurological indication of intractable spasticity, epilepsy, cachexia, wasting syndrome, Crohn's disease, post traumatic stress disorder or any other medical condition, medical treatment or disease approved by the Department of Consumer Protection pursuant to regulations adopted under Section 14 of the act. Information from HB 5389, An Act Concerning the Palliative Use of Marijuana
She's not the only one waiting. Also lining up are growers who are anxious to be able to supply the medical marijuana in a variety of forms and some specialty companies.
Under the bill, which is coming up for a vote in the General Assembly's Judiciary Committee and is gaining support, marijuana would be available to people diagnosed with specific debilitating conditions. Those conditions include glaucoma, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, damage to the nervous tissue of the spinal cord and positive status for HIV or AIDS.
If Connecticut passes the legislation, it would become the 17th state along with the District of Columbia to legalize medical marijuana.
A bill last year cleared several committees, but didn't come to a vote. In 2007, a bill legalizing marijuana use for medical ailments passed the House and Senate, but was vetoed by then-Gov. M. Jodi Rell.
Supporters say resistance stems from the impression that only potheads smoke marijuana, that it's a gateway drug to cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin, and that marijuana has no redeeming value. Some doctors say it is not the best way to relieve some medical symptoms. But supporters say there are benefits for those with certain medical conditions and they should be able to obtain marijuana in a controlled setting without risking arrest.
Blick wasn't always in favor of the drug. But that all changed last year when she found the eye drops to treat her glaucoma weren't working any longer. She could have had laser surgery, but that scared her.
So instead, she took her son -- Gary Blick, a general internist and HIV/AIDS specialist -- up on the idea of trying marijuana. Her son, who runs the Circle Care Center in Norwalk, was one of a number of people, including his mother, who testified in Hartford in support of the legislation. Blick gave examples of his personal experience with patients who benefited from using the drug for a variety of medical conditions including cancer, glaucoma and HIV/AIDS.
Gloria Blick said she was initially embarrassed to tell anyone what she was doing, but has since been praising the merits of marijuana to anyone who will listen, particularly those at the senior center, she said.
"So many in my age bracket take drugs with side effects," she said. "This is so much better, and natural. It's just a plant."
For many years, it was a crime to be in possession of even a small amount of marijuana, but the state recently decriminalized possession of it to some degree, making it a non-criminal infraction with a fine of up to $150 if someone is caught with less than half an ounce in their possession.
Possession of larger amounts or selling or growing marijuana still carries harsh penalties. If someone is caught cultivating any amount of marijuana, they face a felony charge that carries up to seven years in prison and can be fined as much as $25,000.
No doubt, many of those growing marijuana are doing it solely for the purpose of getting high or making a profit. But there are others who are growing the plant for medicinal purposes, according to Erik Williams, director of the state chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.
"Right now, I know at least 30 people in this state growing it for that reason," he said.
Laurie Roberts, 53, of Lisbon, is one of those growers. She uses pot to manage chronic pain. Roberts, who suffers from chronic inflammatory arthritis, grows her own plants, usually up to three at a time. Since she prefers to ingest the drug, she makes a gylcerine-based tincture with extracts from the plants that she mixes into foods, like yogurt. "The mixture already has a sweet taste," she said. She also puts dry marijuana into capsules.
Roberts began using marijuana for pain management about two years ago, she said, after synthetic pills she was prescribed made her nauseous, dizzy and gave her mood swings.
"This has worked for me and that's why I support the legislation," she said. "This could be beneficial for so many people."
Williams said one group of pot growers he knows gives some of its crop away to breast cancer patients.
He said they are activists with a "deep sense of passion" for what they are doing, but said they prefer to remain anonymous because what they're doing is illegal.
Williams said the recent decriminalization of small amounts of pot was a good first step, but he said the state should be compassionate and legalize it for medical uses.
Williams said there is increasing support for the passage of the legislation.
A Quinnipiac University poll last March found that 79 percent of those surveyed approved of allowing adults to use marijuana if prescribed by a doctor.
To date, 16 states have legalized medical marijuana.
Rhode Island passed legislation that formed its Medical Marijuana Program in 2006, said Sophie O'Connell, spokeswoman for the state's Health Department, which oversees the program. It currently has 4,442 registered patients and 2,826 caregivers. The caregivers are people designated by the patient to grow a limited amount of marijuana -- up to 12 plants or 2.5 ounces of cultivated marijuana -- for the patient's use. Patients must have a recommendation from a doctor indicating the marijuana is needed for a debilitating medical condition. There are no distribution centers in the state and there is no medical oversight of the drug once the doctor's approval is obtained, she said.
Maine passed legislation in 2009 that established the Maine Medical Marijuana Program -- part of the state's Department of Health and Human Services-- which has about 2,700 registered patients. A physician certification, signed by a medical or osteopathic doctor, is needed to obtain the marijuana, according to John Thiele, program manager.
Thiele said it has been somewhat difficult getting the state's dispensaries up and running.
"That had affected access to the medical marijuana patient," he said. "The last one is due to open in 60 days."
While Connecticut is considering having a registered pharmacist at dispensaries, Maine does not require one. Patients in Maine initially had to register, but that requirement has since been rescinded because of privacy issues.
In California, where the Department of Public Health oversees the program, there were initially no set guidelines regarding the amount of marijuana patients could possess or cultivate, but that changed in 2003 when the law was amended. It now allows patients to possess no more than eight ounces of dried marijuana and/or six mature plants.
Patients in that state can become part of the medical marijuana program by getting a written or oral recommendation from their physician stating they have any debilitating illness where the medical use of marijuana has been "deemed appropriate." These include arthritis, cancer, chronic pain, HIV or AIDS and migraine.
In Connecticut, the Department of Consumer Protection would oversee the distribution system and proper registration of patients and physicians, as well as provide for the necessary enforcement provisions of the proposal. Proponents of Connecticut's bill say it would be very different from the "wild west" attitude prevailing in states such as California because it would put growers under state supervision and dispensation of the drug into the hands of licensed pharmacists.
Marghie Giuliano, executive vice president of the Connecticut Pharmacists Association, said her group "cautiously supports" the legislation, as long as some of their recommendations are followed.
This includes using the same type of oversight used for any controlled substance. Since marijuana is a schedule 2 drug, it would fall into the same category as oxycodone, she said. Controls are already in place for these types of drugs that have a higher potential for abuse, including monitoring and tracking systems, she said.
Her group also advocates for pharmacist-owned dispensaries.
Ken Lee, a pharmacist at Norwalk Pharmacy said he is keeping an eye on the legislation. "It's too soon to say if it will be good or bad for our business," he said.
Joan Radin, a pharmacist and owner of Lear's Pharmacy in Ansonia, said she wants no part of it.
"It's just the wrong way to go," she said. "I personally won't get involved. No way. I won't do it."
Radin, a pharmacist for more than 50 years, said she's seen her fair share of problems with the misuse of pain medications and sees the same potential if marijuana use is approved for some medical conditions.
Ansonia has also seen its share of arrests of pot growers, including one back in 2008 when a former Ansonia alderman and two other men were arrested for growing hundreds of pot plants inside homes on Root Avenue.
There are number of people anxiously awaiting the bill's passage, including David Kimmel, president of Vintage Foods Ltd., based in Ledyard.
His company is ready to manufacture a product the patient can ingest, either in solid or liquid form.
Kimmel's company will not be dispersing bags of marijuana to smoke. Instead, it will be manufacturing marijuana-infused products made from cannabinoids, the active ingredient in the plant that provides the most medicinal benefits, Kimmel said.
The products are aimed at getting the medicinal properties into the patient's system, he said.
"This is not about getting high," he said.
Richard Lise, Vintage Foods vice president, said the company's products would be rich in antioxidants to boost the immune system, support cardiovascular health and build overall wellness.
He said each dose will be standardized and labeled to identify its active ingredient potency, which would allow doctors to help the patient in selecting the right dosage of medicine. He said the company's in house management team includes those with expertise in organic farming, food production and a variety of management skills including retailing and pharmacology.
John Watkins also hopes the bill passes so he can expand his business, GroundClouds, which manufactures aromatherapy vaporizers. The devices can be used as an alternative to smoking marijuana. Cannabis "vaporization" suppresses irritating respiratory toxins by heating cannabis to a temperature where active cannabinoid vapors form, but below the point of combustion where smoke and associated toxins are produced, Watkins said.
Watkins, who had been selling another brand of vaporizer, started his own business at the end of 2010. Watkins and his partner began producing the vaporizers last year and so far have sold about 200 units. The vaporizers are sold by three vendors in the state, he said.
"There is a small market for them right now, but it will surely pick up if the legislation goes through," he said. "That would definitely change our market position."
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• The financial crisis has resulted in significant consolidation of the UK retail market. Well known firms such as HBOS, Alliance & Leicester and Bradford and Bingley have either exited the market or merged with rival firms. A large number of building societies have merged, undermining the diversity of provision in the sector. Whilst these 'rescues' were necessary in order to preserve financial stability, the consequence has been to reduce competition and choice in the market.
• There has been a clear increase in concentration levels in parts of the retail market. Indeed, concentration in many sectors of the market is now higher than when Sir Donald Cruickshank examined competition in retail banking, particularly in the personal current account and SME markets. The five large banks—Lloyds Banking Group, RBS, Barclays, HSBC and Santander—have an overwhelming 85pc share of the personal current account market. In 2008 the market for SME liquidity services was dominated by just four firms who shared 80% of the market. Other parts of the retail market such as those for savings products and loans, where the number of participants is larger, are less concentrated.
• Whilst the level of concentration is just one measure of competition in a market, it is important. Concentrated markets also make it easier for firms to collude by making it easier for competitors to monitor each other. If banks imitate the products and services of their competitors the intensity of competition is reduced and this can lead to a consumer perception that there is no real difference in the products and services of the major banks.
• Lloyds Banking Group said utilities, grocery retail and mobile telecommunications are more concentrated than the retail banking sector. However, we note that all the industries highlighted for comparison are either directly regulated (such as utilities) or have themselves been subject to multiple competition inquiries and regulatory interventions (grocery retail, mobile telecommunications, retail broadband and Pay TV).
• We disagree strongly with the assertion that the UK retail banking market is contestable. A market is contestable if entry and exit barriers are low and whilst this may be the case in certain parts of the retail market, it does not appear to be the case in parts of the personal current account and SME markets. Furthermore, the financial crisis has demonstrated that exit barriers in the UK banking market are anything but low.
• We note the argument of the large banks that there is no necessary link between concentration levels and the degree of effective competition. Indeed, we agree that certain markets are highly competitive whilst on some measures also being highly concentrated. Nevertheless, the bulk of our evidence argued that the banking market was not competitive. Like the Independent Commission on Banking we consider there is "a tendency, all else equal, for markets to be less competitive when more concentrated"; it is legitimate to be concerned about the state of competition in the retail banking sector.
• Competition policy should maximise the benefit to the consumer. Our evidence suggests that this is not happening. The large banks perform poorly on many consumer satisfaction surveys relative to other providers. Survey evidence consistently shows customers are dissatisfied by service quality and the lack of real choice on offer in the marketplace. In a genuinely competitive market we would expect firms which provide superior service, choice or prices to gain significant market share from rival firms, but we see little evidence that this is happening.
• The large banks have told us that ultimately consumers will benefit from lower prices resulting from the economies of scale and synergies provided by larger more diversified banks. We agree that there are economies of scale/minimum efficient scale in retail banking which will ultimately limit the total number of firms in the market. However, we question whether the need for economies of scale justifies banks having a 30pc share of the market or whether such benefits, if they exist, will be passed onto consumers in a market where competition is deficient. Indeed, such economies of scale benefits are likely to be outweighed by the negative impact on competition by those providers who are perceived to be 'too big to fail'.
• We are concerned by the significant increase in concentration in the personal current account market in particular and the dominance of a handful of large banks. Despite the larger banks' protestations, we consider the current account remains a "gateway" product which means dominance in this market by the large banks has competition implications elsewhere in the sector. This means that barriers to competition in the personal current account market need to be scrutinised particularly carefully.
• The distinguished list of financial services experts unable to tell us the cost to them of their current account indicates a serious problem. If they cannot estimate the cost of their accounts, we hold little hope that members of the public are able to do so. Greater disclosure of information on cost is a pre-condition to greater competition in this market.
• So-called free banking is not free. The term free–in–credit banking is a misnomer, given that consumers with positive balances pay through interest foregone. It misleads the consumer. It is also clear that so–called free banking has important distributional consequences. A minority of consumers, often those on lower incomes, pay explicit charges associated with overdrafts. This results in high prices and poor outcomes for a sub-set of consumers. Meanwhile, other consumers, often on higher–incomes do not pay explicitly for their current account provision, in spite of the fact that their PCA provision clearly does incur a cost to the provider. Whilst it is undesirable from the perspective of 'fairness', cross-subsidy is not always wrong. For example, cross–subsidy exists in the airline industry where customers who book early are cross–subsidised by those who book later. However, pricing is far more transparent and customers can easily switch airline provider. These conditions are not currently present in the personal current account where cross–subsidy is opaque and switching costs are high.
• Sir Donald Cruickshank identified problems with price transparency and the difficulty of comparing products in his 2000 report on competition in the banking sector. Over a decade on those problems remain acute. The OFT is working with the banks to try to ensure greater transparency. It is vitally important to ensure information is provided in a way which enables meaningful comparability. We believe that, as a matter of priority, the OFT and the banks must examine how best to present information to consumers on net interest foregone. 'Information overload'— the tendency to simply 'flood' consumers with information, acting to increase consumer inertia must be avoided.
• The predominance of so–called free banking in the UK appears to suggest a clear consumer preference for this particular model. However, consumers are not provided with sufficient information about charges to make an informed choice. The predominance of this model prejudices competition in the personal current account market by obscuring those costs, and probably also by increasing the advantages enjoyed by existing banks. Greater transparency will alter consumer behaviour not least by revealing the hidden charges inherent in the free-in-credit model. Complex regulatory interventions in the market to constrain free banking could well be counterproductive to competition and are likely to increase costs to business and the consumer. However measures to increase transparency do not carry these disadvantages. We strongly support the OFT's efforts to improve the information that banks give on costs and charges. We recommend that the Independent Commission on Banking should examine the impact of free-in-credit banking on competition in the personal current account market, and, in particular, what is appropriate action to ensure the provision of adequate information to consumers to enable them to make meaningful choices.
• Given that a much greater share of the market is likely to be taken in by the internet in later years it is surprising how little work has been done to improve security, and the lack of detail apparently available to the police concerned us. We recommend that the regulatory and competition authorities return to this.
• Competition can only be effective if consumers feel confident in switching to new providers. Although there is evidence that the system has improved, the perception remains that there are still risks involved in switching, and levels of switching remain low. We believe it should be possible to find technical ways of making switching easier without excessive cost – one such suggestion has already been submitted by Cut Loose. We recommend an independent technical study should be done into how account portability could operate. There are also ways in which switching can be made easier without new technical infrastructure. These need to be explored more urgently by the regulator. This should include provisions that the provider,not the customer, should be penalised if things go wrong.
• The Merlin Agreement is welcome. We hope that it does deliver the amount of SME lending that it promises, and given that there remains scepticism about this we shall examine the Bank of England's reports carefully. We are also concerned that the FSA's requirements on capital may inhibit the lending that is needed.
• The debate on SME banking has often only been focused on the availability and cost of credit. Good customer service for SMEs can be as, or even more, important to SMEs. Competition and the ability to switch, is the most important spur to better service.
• There are still very high levels of market concentration for SME banking even though the sale of some of the RBS branches to Santander means the 'Big 4' in the SME sector could in future become the 'Big 5'. Two 'challenger' banks which were cited in 2007 as a sign of improving competition have since been subsumed into larger banks.
• The importance of branches to many SME customers presents a significant barrier to new entrants and therefore to competition. We recommend that the Independent Commission on Banking considers solutions such as an improved Inter Bank Agency Agreement and neutral shared branches as part of its remit to promote competition in banking.
• Potential entrants to the SME market are faced with the same problems of customer inertia and fear of the switching process as face those entering the personal current account market. SMEs need access to a branch network and staff who understand their circumstances. It is unsurprising that the growth of new entrants in this market is slow. It is all the more important that Government policies positively encourage them and are designed in ways that recognise the challenges they face.
• While we welcome the Government initiatives to increase equity investments, they are very small in comparison to the £10bn extra lending pledged from large banks as part of the 'Merlin' agreement. Non-bank funding such as equity or web based lending may increase the competitive pressures on banks but there may be limits to their attractiveness. SME owners may not wish to dilute their equity or may find debt financing more tax effective; lenders may consider direct lending to small businesses unduly risky. We recommend that the Independent Commission on Banking consider the extent to which non-bank lending can offer competition for banks and whether there are ways to increase the attractiveness of other sources of financing. In particular they should consider the effects of the regulatory and fiscal framework—such as the different tax treatment for debt and equity.
• Some new entrants, for entirely sound commercial reasons, initially plan to restrict their branches to certain geographical locations. This means that competition and choice may improve in certain areas whilst other areas will benefit much less from new entry into the market. This is an issue of particular importance given evidence we have received that concentration levels and so–called 'regional monopolies' are higher in areas like Scotland and Northern Ireland or certain English regions than in other parts of the country.
• Given the continuing importance many consumers attach to a branch network especially for current account services, new entrants without access to an extensive branch network will be at a considerable disadvantage to established banks for the foreseeable future.
• The sale of the RBS divestments to Santander was a missed opportunity to inject more competition into UK retail banking. Whilst Santander may have met the EU state aid criteria and enjoyed only a small share in the SME market, it was already a leading player in other areas.
• The RBS divestment goes to the heart of the trade off between maximising revenue and increasing competition. If the divestments had been sold to some of the other potential bidders it might (in the words of RBS) have represented "a straight giveaway from the taxpayer." However, whilst acceptance of an alternative bid may not have maximised short–term revenue for RBS and the taxpayer as the majority shareholder, it might have provided a greater impetus to competition in the sector.
• The RBS divestment to Santander illustrates the importance of giving greater consideration to competition when considering divestment policy. There may be a trade off between maximising revenue from the divestments by the part–state owned banks, and maximising the increase in competition through the divestments. The creation of a more competitive retail market is essential to secure lasting benefits for consumers. Maximising competition through the divestments will ultimately bring greater longer–term economic benefits to the UK through a higher overall GDP and subsequent higher tax yield.
• Whilst none of the large five banks will be able to bid for the Lloyds divestments, we still believe a public interest test based on competition considerations should apply both to the Lloyds divestments and the sale of Northern Rock. A failure to introduce such a test would be tantamount to admission that the Government has no real interest in promoting competition and is concerned solely with revenue maximisation.
• Lloyds Banking Group is currently the market leader in most parts of the retail market. In some segments, Lloyds market share is almost double that of its nearest competitor. As yet, there has been no assessment to see what impact Lloyd's strong position has had on competition in the retail market. We are concerned by the emergence of such a powerful player in the retail market and the potential competition implications. The divestments required by the EU will go some way towards addressing this concern as well as (in conjunction with the RBS divestments) reducing concentration levels in the sector. That said, Lloyds Banking Group will retain a leading position in many market segments even post–divestment.
• Government credibility would be undermined if a merger arrangement approved by one administration was unpicked by another. This would risk politicising competition policy, create incentives for political lobbying and create considerable uncertainty for business. However, we do not believe that the need to respect the merger should inhibit the Independent Commission on Banking from proposing radical changes to the market as a whole, if it thinks this is necessary to promote competition and choice.
• We welcome the Government's intention to foster diversity and promote mutuals. This will only be possible if both Government and regulators take the sector into account from the very beginning of the policy making process. The evidence we received from the sector confirms our concern that this is not the case. In the Plan for Growth the Government has said it will "assess whether changes are required to update building societies legislation." We will study that assessment carefully. All market participants should be consulted at all stages on the basis that a level playing field exists for mutuals compared to companies based on the PLC model. To clarify matters and allay the concerns of the mutual sector the Treasury, working with the regulator, should set out the terms of the Government commitment to bring forward "detailed policies to foster diversity in Financial Services and promote mutuals."
• The Committee also took evidence regarding the arguments over whether mutuals are treated fairly by the FSCS, where the arguments are finely balanced. We recommend the FSCS levy should be reviewed as a matter of priority.
• There are attractions to the mutual model. A remutualisation would certainly lend credibility to the Government's desire to foster diversity and promote mutuals. We would urge UKFI, notwithstanding the timescales for a return on its investment to the taxpayer, to honour that commitment by giving due consideration to a mutual option when considering the disposal of Northern Rock. This should be facilitated by taking expert advice on re-mutualising Northern Rock, placed at the appropriate time in the public domain.
• The Financial Services Authority has made changes to the bank authorisation process which appear to have improved the process for firms seeking authorisation, though it remains difficult for applicants to be certain of the rules on suitability. We welcome these changes and will monitor their effectiveness.
• We have been told that the Basel II capital requirements currently disadvantage small banks. The move to Basel III may remove some of the disadvantages smaller banks face compared to their larger competitors. However smaller banks may suffer higher fixed costs of compliance which will disproportionately affect them. The Government and regulators should ensure that any competitive advantage accruing to incumbents is not unfairly reinforced through regulation.
• We have heard evidence that suggests smaller banks are denied access to information about consumers that the large banks share with one another. We urge the OFT keep a close watch on the extent to which differential access to information disadvantages smaller banks.
• We are disappointed that the Government has not gone further in making competition at least one of the operational objectives of the FCA. We repeat our earlier recommendation that the FCA should have competition as a primary objective. This will benefit consumers directly and indirectly. Not only will there be a greater choice available for consumers, but the transparency which effective competition brings should reduce the need for heavy-handed regulation. We do not understand how the FCA will be able to facilitate efficiency and choice in the market while treating competition as a secondary consideration.
• Banks which are seen as too important to fail are also too big for fair competition. They receive an implicit subsidy to their funding costs placing them at an unfair competitive advantage to other smaller and less systemically important banks. It also means that providers who offer poorer quality or over–priced products face little threat of being forced out of the market, as they would do in any other industry. Solving the too big to fail problem is critically important from a competition as well as a financial stability perspective. The Independent Commission on Banking must address this problem which is crucial to achieving the objectives outlined in its terms of reference. We are encouraged by signs that it is already considering ring fencing as a possible solution which would provide a more level playing field to all market participants. Furthermore, we expect the Government to respond to our predecessor Committee's Report on this issue when it responds to the ICB.
• Our inquiry has led us to conclude that further measures are required to promote competition in the retail banking sector and ensure improved outcomes for consumers. Poor consumer outcomes can be addressed by reducing barriers to entry and expansion – in order to promote greater competition between existing players and to encourage new entry. A focus on tackling concentration without tackling these issues would do little to promote a more competitive market. New and expanding entrants will only succeed in growing in key markets, such as the current account and SME markets, if impediments to their expansion – primarily problems with switching and the lack of transparency and comparability – are tackled.
• New entry and reductions in barriers to entry and expansion may alone prove insufficient to tackle the problem of ineffective competition. As a result, we would urge the Independent Commission on Banking to also seriously examine whether there is a case for further structural reforms, over and above the RBS and Lloyds Banking Group divestments, to reduce concentration and promote competition. In particular, we call on the Commission to ensure that the Government's need to maximise revenue from the sale of the wholly or partly state-owned banks does not trump the creation of a more competitive environment or a more resilient banking sector. Indeed we believe that such a trade off does not exist in the long run – maximising competition through the divestments will ultimately bring longer-term economic benefits to the UK through a higher overall GDP and subsequent higher tax yield.
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text: Hi DM. Am 05.04.2010 um 13:21 schrieb DM Smith: > Regarding using a "real" parser, it is a good idea. But we don't want SWORD to be dependant on an external parser. What's the reason for that? I could understand if it would mean for the user to install certain libraries manually but when the sources can be integrated into the project and has the appropriate licence then why not? Manfred > > On 02/04/2010 05:31 AM, John Zaitseff wrote: >> Dear SWORD developers, >> >> Firstly, thanks for developing the SWORD library! I have been using >> this library, in conjunction with the BibleTime front-end, for many >> years. >> >> I have recently started to develop some OSIS documents of my own. >> In doing so, I found that the XML parser in osis2mod is somewhat >> fragile---something that you are, no doubt, aware of. >> >> In particular, osis2mod does not handle XML comments at all, nor >> does it correctly parse the <header> element. Being able to handle >> XML comments is, I think, quite important---I like to document the >> SVN revision ID, for example, in an XML comment. >> >> Furthermore, the osis2mod XML parser looks for the first <div> in >> the document, no matter where that occurs. In particular, if the >> OSIS document includes a <revisionDesc> tag in the header, it will >> have <p> tags as well---which will be translated by transformBSP() >> into <div> tags---and get used as the starting point for the >> document! >> >> For this reason, I have generated a quick patch that will solve >> these particular problems. Could you please apply it to the SVN >> head for utilities/osis2mod.cpp. Comments are handled similar to >> spaces: they are skipped. And handleToken() now looks for the first >> <div> after the </revision> end tag. >> >> In general, I think that (perhaps eventually) the proper way to >> parse XML is to use a library like libxml---which is designed >> specifically for this purpose. >> >> Yours truly, >> >> John Zaitseff >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sword-devel mailing list: >> sword-devel at crosswire.org >> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel >> >> Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page >> > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel at crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page


text: On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 03:03:29PM +0000, Steven Whitehouse wrote:> > - With "journaled data" files> - Do a log flush conditional upon the inode's glock> - The core code then writes back any dirty pagesAny data writeback is done before calling ->fsync.> - With regular files/directories> - If datasync is not set, we need to write back the metadata including> timestamp updates, so that is done via ->write_inode. Note that an extra> complication here is that we need to get the glock on the inode if we> don't already have it in order to check and conditionally update the> atime.The call to ->write_inode includes an implicit (conditional) log> flush.> - If datasync is set, we assume that only the data pages need to be> written out. My understanding of datasync was that it was only supposed> to write out data and never any of the metadata. The reason for the call> to flush the log for "stuffed" files is that the data shares a disk> block with the inode metadata, so we cannot avoid the log flush in this> case, since we must unpin the block to write it back.What happens to indirect blocks, inode size updates, etc? In generalthe only correct form to use the datasync argument is along the linesof: if ((inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_DATASYNC) || ((inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_SYNC) && !datasync)) { /* write out the inode */ } else { /* * VFS inode not dirty, no need to write it out. * * If the filesystem support asynchronous inode writes, * we may have to wait for them here. */ }or rather mostly correct, as pointed out by Nick in this series, that'swhy the above gets replaced with an equivalent check that alsoparticipates in the writeback locking protocol in this series.For gfs2 on current mainline an fsync respecting that would look like:static int gfs2_fsync(struct file *file, int datasync){ struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host; struct gfs2_inode *ip = GFS2_I(inode); int ret = 0; if (gfs2_is_jdata(ip) { gfs2_log_flush(GFS2_SB(inode), ip); return 0; } if ((inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_DATASYNC) || ((inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_SYNC) && !datasync)) sync_inode_metadata(inode, 1); else if (gfs2_is_stuffed(ip)) gfs2_log_flush(GFS2_SB(inode), ip->i_gl);}Note that the asynchronous write_inode_now is replaced with async_inode_metadata, which doesn't incorrectly write data again, andmakes sure we do a synchronous write.I'm still not quite sure how the gfs2_log_flush are supposed to work.What's the reason we don't need the ->write_inode call for journaleddata mode? Also is it guaranteed that we might not have an asynchronoustransaction that update the inode in the log, e.g. why doesn't gfs2need some sort of log flush even if the VFS inode is not dirty, unlikemost other journaled filesystems.


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This beach has cleaner water and better waves than on the other side of the stream. The bottom is also nicer with finer sand. Great for body surfing!
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This beach has cleaner water and better waves than on the other side of the stream. The bottom is also nicer with finer sand. Great for body surfing!
A little walk to get there from the quadrado but worth it on a dirt road (may be usable by cars too) but you would not see the monkeys! beach is very long and flat.
It's our favorite beach (and we have tried all of them). It goes on forever, never has many people and if you walk to the Rio Barro which goes into the sea across Nativos. The bad news is that unless you camp out at the...More
We visited this beach around sunset, the entrance to the beach requires some long walk on a wooden bridge, the entrance to the bridge was flooded so not too pleasant. Once you are on the beach, head to UXUA bar, it has nice sun beds...More
Our encounter with Nativos beach was only for a few hours in the afternoon so we didn't have too much time to venture far and wide. With the short amount of time we opted to sit at a table literally at the edge of the...More
Nativo's Beach has the best beach service in Trancoso: FlyClub. Firstly, The Beach: Located few blocks down from Quadrado (Center of Trancoso's small fairy tale town), you will find Nativas Beach, a two level bahia beach, open to left and right with beautiful turquoise sea...More
My favorite in the area - quiet and picturesque, at least during the off season. Villa Trancoso beach bar located there is a good choice for a refreshing cocktail.
Great to wander along and safe swimming. Good beach bar at Villas Trancoso with excellent food and good wines.
This beach is in walkable distance from center ( if you like walking) love this place, we spent entire day there. its very clean not many people it was perfect.
Great for the young, but not what we were after. crowded plastic tables and chairs on the beach from the various restaurants blaring out competing music!


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An eclectic club with a miscellaneous crowd, the Alpheus has four big halls for live gigs, music festivals, theatre and cabaret, all followed by a disco. The music changes every night and varies depending on the room you're in: rock, chart R&B, Latin, world music, retro and happy trash. Alpheus also hosts Tocodance (www.tocodance.it), an irregular word-of-mouth dance-event frequented by a creative, international crowd of thirty- and forty-somethings.
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Tough break (sorry for the pun) for Indiana, but this really could help Michigan. With two games against IU out of the first five, we really need wins in both to have a shot.
You don't hear of many broken knees. Usually ligaments or at least a mention of the knee cap. I hope he is able to recover fully for next season. Like it or not, the Big 10 needs Indiana to right itself sooner, rather than later.


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And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which Jehovah putteth in my mouth?
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And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD hath put in my mouth?
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And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which Jehovah puts in my mouth?
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He answered and said, "Must I not take heed to speak that which Yahweh puts in my mouth?"
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and he answereth and saith, 'That which Jehovah doth put in my mouth -- it do I not take heed to speak?'
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And thou shalt speak unto him, and put the words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.
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And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men are come to call thee, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak unto thee, that shalt thou do.
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Saturday, January 30, 2016
Don't say Posterior? Does silence serve?
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- Jo said...
I took advice to heart about sleeping on my left, not doing the TV slump, and trying to adopt forward/hands and knees postures when I could. I had two easy presentations, and my labour pain as compared to those I know with OPs was fine. Manageable, is the word I'd use. None of the language around agony and horror that I hear others using.
It might be ok to take positioning out of the pregnancy dialogue if everyone had beautiful homebirths with supportive midwives and doulas who know all about taking time. But the truth is, the majority of women are in hospital without enough calm, knowledgeable support, and under massive time pressure. Surely in that situation, OP means induction and section in many cases? I'd rather do soemthing about it during pregnancy than during labour.
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Of course, no one's polled the pets to see what they think about having to listen to you talk, but … according to an Associated Press-Petside.com poll, 33 percent of pet-owning married women said they pets are better listeners than their husbands. Eighteen percent of married men said their pets are better listeners than their wives.
[Christina Holmdahl] thinks everyone should have a pet to talk to like her horse, Whistle, who's been with her since she was 19.
"We all say things we don't mean when we are upset about stuff," she said. "When we have time to talk it out and rationalize it, we can think about it better and we can calm down and see both sides better."
It would be a toss-up whether Bill Rothschild would take a problem to his wife of 19 years or the animal he considers a pet — a palm-sized crayfish named Cray Aiken. His daughter brought it home four years ago at the end of a second grade science project.
Rothschild, 44, of Granite Springs, N.Y., considers Cray a better listener than his wife, "absolutely. She doesn't listen worth anything." He doesn't get much feedback from the crustacean, but it's been a different story over the years with family dogs and cats.
"You definitely feel much more comfortable sharing your problems with them," he said. "A little lick from a big dog can go a long way."
More results:
- 10 percent of owners said they would talk their troubles over with their pets
- 5 percent said they had taken their pet to the vet or a psychologist because it seemed depressed; fewer had given their pet antidepressants
- 18 percent said they were at least somewhat likely to do so if their pet seemed down in the dumps
- 14 percent of cat owners said their pets were better listeners than their spouce
Obviously, pets don't understand what the heck we're talking about. But most do sense when something's wrong and are perfectly willing to stay and not talk, or criticize, or analyze, which is really all that a lot of people want when they're upset.
I haven't had to do that with Bandit, but I did go through a stretch this winter where I was pretty sick for a week — he could tell, and he was more subdued, keeping the demands to a minimum. He's good for sitting on the couch and watching TV with, because he doesn't talk over the sound (unlike some people I know).
How much do you talk to your dog? Does he or she "listen" better than your significant other?


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Today, IOM's own Holly Otterbein reports that the School District's top budget official owed back property taxes for two years, until Monday, when Otterbein contacted him. Michael Masch settled the $8,347.93 debt right away.
This is not the first time Holly has helped collect money from officials or politicians. Last month, she wrote about nineteen candidates from this year's primary election who owed a total of $17,500 in unpaid campaign finance violations. $3,400 was coughed up immediately.
This brings Holly's collection total thus far to $11,747. We might have to make an actual graphic for this.
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Members of the Long/Liberty County EMS recently held a bake sale to raise money for the Long County Relay for Life. The fundraiser, held at Liberty Regional Medical Center, raised approximately $400 for cancer research.
Those who participated were paramedic Patrick Daniels, EMT Marta Cuevas, paramedic Pat Kelly and paramedic/supervisor Gary Morrison. EMS Director Robyn Todd said that her staff has established a team for the Long County Relay for Life, and several more fundraisers are planned.
The Long County RFL is May 17-18 at Veterans Field. Last year's RFL raised more than $35,000. This year's goal is $37,000.
For more information on Long County Relay for Life, go to www.relayforlife.org/longcounty.


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Daniele De Rossi admits he "considered offers" to leave Roma this summer. Not being wanted was "a pretty crushing blow for me."
The 'Future Captain' has spent his entire career at his hometown club, but over the summer considered his options with interest from Chelsea, Real Madrid and Manchester United.
"There was a lot of talk about me leaving this summer," he told Sky Sport Italia.
"When I spoke to the Coach and the club, seeing as I like to always be clear, for the first time ever I said I'd be willing to listen to any offers. I'd see them, evaluate them, whereas in previous years I had always turned down any proposal without even hearing who it was from.
"This year I felt that it could be the right year to change or at least listen to what was out there. As you know, last season things didn't go well for me and I wanted the best both for me and above all – and I say above all – for Roma.
"Being a Roma player and not making the fans happy, not having everyone agree you should be there, is a pretty crushing blow for me," said the lifelong Giallorossi supporter.
"There were many things that weren't going well at Roma, but for me there was something even more important. I couldn't bear to think that my last game in a Roma jersey would be that Coppa Italia Final lost to Lazio.
"I could imagine myself in any team in the world, lifting any trophy, but to think my last match for Roma was a lost Final Derby was the wrong ending for one of the greatest love stories between a club and a player. I couldn't do it."
Another reason De Rossi stayed was his conversation with new Coach Rudi Garcia.
"I believed and felt that he saw me as one of his players, while the entire world was saying the opposite. If you read the newspapers and the websites at that time, people assumed it was a fact I'd be in some distant city signing a huge contract.
"I liked him giving me that sense of 'belonging,' straight away talking about work and having a great year together."
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Being out in the field, talking to teachers and librarians about the Common Core (CC), I've learned as much as I've taught. My world is often centered in my study (where I research and write), or in the graduate classes that I teach, or in the K–12 classrooms that I visit. In those spaces, I've learned, secondhand, about students being told they can only read an "L" or an "R" book—and how parents have demanded that libraries rearrange their collections from A to Z, according to carefully determined reading levels, so their kids can read totally non-frustrating texts. But it took being at a workshop out on Long Island, NY, for me to really understand the fundamental clash between guided reading and Common Core—something that many of you doubtless experience daily.
At the workshop, librarians spoke of their schools being, in effect, taken over by guided reading crews with their alphabet soup of labels and rigid instructions. That type of approach made absolutely no sense to me, so I did my homework. I learned that guided reading began as a good idea: breaking classrooms into groups by reading levels didn't work since poor readers didn't improve when they were clumped together, so teachers needed a new way to match individual readers, reading levels, and texts. So far, so good. Indeed, as one reading expert told me, providing a space, say 20 to 30 minutes daily, where, as part of the reading diet, a learner experiences clear sailing seems at worst harmless and at best a step toward success.
But this relatively benign approach has turned into an expensive program complete with minatory reading coaches who run around mandating to librarians what kids should be allowed to read. The second problem is that the steroidal guided reading monster is directly at odds with the Common Core.
As literacy expert Timothy Shanahan pointed out in "The Common Core Ate My Baby and Other Urban Legends," a recent article in Educational Leadership, limiting students to below-frustration texts doesn't necessarily help them (see, especially, "Legend 4: Teachers Must Teach Students at Frustration Levels") nor does CC require all kids to tackle weighty tomes far beyond their previous reading ranges. In the early grades, where students are working to become fluent readers, CC doesn't demand that they read more complex texts. And it's precisely in that preK-to-2 band that learners may need some reading time where they don't have to struggle. And that brings us to content.
The key clash between guided reading and CC is that those A-to-Z labels have nothing to do with content—they are about the ease of decoding. Starting in earnest in second grade, CC stresses that knowledge is a key part of literacy. This cuts two ways. Every elementary school librarian knows that a student who's passionate about a subject isn't daunted by the text's difficulty—the multi-syllabic names of dinosaurs being a prime example. Curiosity drives readers on from one record, one wacky fact, one sports stat, one set of rules on how to care for pets, to another—and the text's length or structure isn't a formidable barrier. In turn, the Common Core standards emphasize that in order to read a student must identify details that add up to evidence and tap into modes of thinking that add up to argument and point of view. You can't build those muscles without what librarians used to call "stretch," or challenging, books.
Whether young people are on a sports team or practice an instrument, whether they play Minecraft or chess, they realize that to be good at something you have to work at it; you have to test your limits. Reading works the same way: you build muscles through confronting and overcoming a challenge, and you're drawn to that challenge because you have a specific goal. We in library land know of many reading goals that appeal to students—books they want to tackle because they find them engaging, interesting, and exciting. Common Core adds the goal of preparing students for a successful life after school. That is the sort of guided reading that makes sense to me.
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People with allergies use decongestants such as pseudoephedrine (Sudafed, Actifed, others) or phenylephrine (Sudafed PE) to constrict the small blood vessels in the nose.
These decongestants do offer relief, but don't stop at constricting only nasal blood vessels. They constrict all blood vessels throughout the body, thereby making the heart work harder to pump blood, thereby increasing blood pressure.
If you're taking an over-the-counter decongestant, choose one that doesn't contain pseudoephedrine or phenylephrine, such as cetirizine (Zyrtec), chlorpheniramine, (Chlor-Trimeton), loratadine (Claritin) and dephenhydramine (Benadryl). All can help relieve congestion and are safer for the heart.
Another option is to use a nasal spray, which acts directly on nasal blood vessels and has less impact on other blood vessels in the body.
If your allergies promote nasal congestion at night, they might be interfering with your breathing while you sleep. This interference can lead to or worsen the type of fighting for breath known as sleep apnea, which in itself can cause high blood pressure.
Should your sleeping partner tell you that you snore and sound as though you're choking or gasping for breath at times, ask your doctor to check you for sleep apnea.
from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) Healthbeat, May 4, 2012


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'Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' International Trailer is Shorter, Not Sweeter
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As fans of Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo already know, this story – about murder, abuse, deception, and a most unlikely team of investigators – is anything but "sweet."
On the other hand, when comparing today's international trailer for director David Fincher's Dragon Tattoo adaptation to the four-minute extended trailer that debuted a few weeks back, the phrase "short and sweet" is certainly applicable.
For those who haven't read the novels, or spent four minutes watching and learning what this film is all about, here's an official synopsis for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo:
The film is based on Stieg Larsson's internationally best-selling novel centering on a murder mystery looking as far back as 40 years at the disappearance of Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families. All these years later, her aged uncle (Christopher Plummer) continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig), a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara). Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.
Now, watch the international trailer, which is pretty much a truncated version of the full-length trailer:
Fincher and Co. are in fact delivering their own adaptation of the book, and are NOT remaking the Swedish films – a continuing misconception amongst some movie fans. From what we've seen so far, Fincher's version:
- Is a more polished and pristine in its darkly beautiful visual composition – as opposed to the low-budget cable movie look of the Swedish version.
- Has Mara, who is (visually speaking) closer to Larsson's description of Goth Hacker Lisbeth Salander then Swedish actress Noomi Rapace was.
- Is sticking closer to plot and character arcs of Larsson's novel than the Swedish version did (Robin Wright's Erika Berger being the biggest difference).
- Will have a slamming soundtrack by Oscar-winning Social Network composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
For those reasons alone, I for one am looking forward to this new interpretation of Larsson's work. How about you?
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo will be in theaters on December 21, 2011.
Source: Sony Pictures
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Vintage and Winemaker's Notes: This wine has an intense, deep, dark ruby color. The aroma is forward with a rich black cherry with some berry, plum and dark chocolate. There is a touch of oak and bay laurel, with intriguing cinnamon/nutmeg spiciness. This wine is full flavored with lots of depth and well integrated tannins. Growing Season Notes: Heaviest winter rains finished by mid-February. A sudden warming trend at the end of February started bud growth. Set began in mid-May with weather generally cool. By June temperatures had warmed and weather was largely moderate and even, with morning cloud cover or cool evening breezes. Harvest timing was normal. Statistics: # Varietal Composition: 79% Merlot, 12% Cabernet Sauvignon, 6% Cabernet Franc, 3% Petit Verdot # Vineyards: 37% Carpy Ranch (Rutherford), 36% Red Barn Ranch (Rutherford), 9% Round Pond Vineyard (Rutherford), 6% Zinfandel Lane Vineyard (Rutherford), 4% Freemark Vineyard (St. Helena), 4% Watson Vineyard (Rutherford), 3% Wood Ranch (Rutherford), 1% Berggruen Vineyard (St. Helena) # Fermentation: Open-top stainless steel fermenters # Aging: 12 months in 60 gallon French and American Oak barrels # Alcohol: 14.1% # pH: 3.63 # Acid: 0.65 g/100 mL # Number of Cases Produced: 5968 cases
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Behind the Curtain: Hansel and Gretel by Christian Thee
Forestwife and Midwife's Apprentice both have the waif child and the old forest-dweller characters with some reluctance for a relationship but different endings. I just saw the musical Into the Woods for another play on some of these elements.
Hansel and Gretel, the Little Brother and the Little Sister by Max Bush
Hansel and Gretel/the Witch's Story by Sheila Black Arlene Klemushin (Illustrator)
Hansel and Gretel: German Shepherd Dogs as Hansel and Gretel by G. A. Bradley
Hanzel and Pretzel (Happily Ever Laughter) by Mike Thaler, Jared Lee (Illustrator)
Little Critter's Hansel and Gretel: A Chunky Flap Book by J. Dwyer (Editor) Mercer Mayer (Illustrator)
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James Drake Mixtape – Bombé & Mr. Caribbean by Bombé
So far and by that I mean I'm only 4 minutes in, this sounds like Bombé & Mr. Caribbean have had a lot of time on their hands and want to ride off the wave last years biggest hip hop act and one of the most exciting talents to come out of South London since David Haye?!?! Eitherway I fucking hate mash ups, but sensibly this isnt soley based and comprised of tunes from both camps albums. After the initial bile of the "limit to your love- find you loving" this shit gets good. Trust, then again I like the sound of my own voice. If you dont like it? buy loads of Ketamine, put this on, then get into an alice in wonderland K-hole then you might just come round. That is if you come round at all and don't get molested by you're dealer. Maybe remember to let your dealer leave first.
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Our nation is ill and must work fast to reduce the out of control CEO pay. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act requires companies to report their CEO-to-worker pay ratio to investors. With more transparency, the salaries and perks will be scrutinized and will be reduced to less extravagant, glutinous, greedy, and truthfully undeserved amounts. The SEC has yet to adopt this provision of the Dodd-Frank law. It needs to be done immediately. Act to save our nation and fix some of what is ailing the hearts of minds of CEOs a power and wealth that is unhealthy, that corrupts the spirit of humanity, and blinds one's existence at the expense of families, working people and the middle class, dedicated, charitable, good people. The common people want balance, reasonable laws, opportunity, education, the wonderful services that our country has, and controls on the debilities of the human being who is drunk with wealth and power.I urge the SEC to propose rules requiring companies to publicly disclose their CEO-to-worker pay ratio, so investors and the public can judge for themselves whether they wish to support these companies and their damaging perks, bonuses, and salary structures.
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Compositionfor Honours Class,Howard University,2001-2002
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Faces & Voices
Asha Holder
Trinidad & Tobago - Accounting
She studied the contents of the small closet. Really, there was not much
from which to choose. She owned only one dress, which would be
appropriate for her appointment; the short-sleeved, navy blue Harlena
item with white trim around the collar and hemline. She clearly
remembered the day she bought it; a whole paycheck blown. Sixty-five
That was two years ago and she had
not dared repeat the extravagance; in fact, it was the last dress she
had bought in over two years. The garment was now a little frayed, but
last night she had done a nice touch up job with needle and thread. She
slipped it over her head and stood before the cracked mirror, critically
surveying herself. A strand of fake pearls, a long ago birthday gift
from a former admirer encircled her long neck.
"Well, Nita," she said to her
reflection. This is about the best you can do, so, girl-child, go out
there and knock 'em dead… It was now about four months since Nita had
cleaned herself up; she no longer took drugs and had cut down her
alcohol intake to one glass per day, which was a major accomplishment.
She also had a new job and a modest apartment. Today was a rather
important day in Nita's life as it was the day that she would stand in
front of judge Thurman and prove to him that she had reorganized her
life and was ready to regain custody of her children.
Approximately one year ago, Nita had
reached the pits of her life, poverty got the best of her and her
involvement in drugs did not help the situation. She would do anything
to get her fix, from offering to wash people's cars to providing sexual
favors to men. Prior to becoming a slave to cocaine however, Nita held
two jobs; one as a waitress: in a bar and the other, cleaning offices
after hours. She was a single mother, a victim of society who had fallen
prey to the vices of unscrupulous men, while on a mere quest to find
love. Two such encounters resulted in the birth of her children, one
born to a preacher who had gained her respect and trust and the other to
a civil rights leader whom she thought made her feel empowered and
self-worthy… until he found out that she was pregnant and turned his
back on his responsibility. Despite her misfortune, Nita worked hard and
persevered so that she could do the best possible to support her
children in her tiny, scantily furnished apartment in what people so
readily deemed 'the ghetto".
Her final decent came one day in the
form of a tall bronze-skinned, able-bodied figure with hazel eyes that
bore into the very depths of Nita. When he first entered her life he
would purchase small gifts for the children and never visited the
apartment without two bags full of groceries; he was her knight in
shining amour. It did not take long before Tony moved into the apartment
with Nita and her life appeared to be brighter than it had ever been;
this bliss however would soon dissipate. The first time Tony introduced
Nita to cocaine, she refused, but he assured her that it would only make
her feel better; after all, her prince would never lead her astray. The
first time he hit her, he apologized and told her how much he loved her,
so Nita forgave him and allowed him a second chance. The abuse only got
worse and Nita turned to drinking. She lost both her jobs and her
children were no longer a priority. She was a full-fledged drug addict
and social services had taken her children away. One day, Tony had
beaten Nita almost to death and it was after this attack she decided
that she had enough and escaped. Tony swore that he would kill her if he
ever found her but Nita found refuge in a neighboring State at the home
of a kind woman who assisted with her rehabilitation.
Months had passed and she had
forgotten about Tony. She was now drug free and once again employed, she
felt totally confident of her preparedness to mother her children. Nita
got on the bus and headed to the courtroom. Her new appearance certainly
impressed the judge and even though no judgment was passed at the end of
those proceedings, things looked positively for Nita and she left the
courthouse feeling a sense of jubilation. As she walked back to the bus
station with a cheerful smile on her face, she was confronted by a
figure from her past. He looked worse than she had ever seen him before,
those hazel eyes were barely noticeable in his deeply sunken and
hardened face, she pretended not to notice him and attempted to walk
past but he grabbed her fiercely and commanded her to return to him, she
pulled herself free and continued walking but he called her name sharply
"Nita!" and when she turned around there was a gun pointed toward her
face. Before she even had time to blink, two shots rang through the air
and Nita slumped to the floor. The air around the scene stood still and
silent as passers by scampered for safety. Tony stood above Nita's body
and released a prolonged sinister laugh of a crazy, irrational drug
addict. It was mere seconds before police arrived on the scene, but they
were too late, Tony had turned the gun on himself and in a moment, he
too, was gone.


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April 13, 2013
Urban Meyer, head coach
On playing in Cincinnati
"This was a great day for Ohio State football. To come back to Cincinnati, I consider this partly my hometown and we have a lot of guys on this staff who do as well: Kerry Coombs, Tim Hinton, Mickey Marotti, then Adolphus Washington and Andrew Norwell."
On the team's visit in the Queen City
"To have almost 40,000 people show up for a scrimmage, to have the Reds Museum treat us the way they did, there are so many things I wish we could do here. Coach Hayes started the tradition years ago when they would go visit a place, he'd take them around and educate the players. We just don't have time to do that this year. I think that's a great concept. It's been a great trip. We're going to take them to Montgomery Inn, the boathouse and get a little taste of Cincinnati and some Skyline Chili and Graeter's ... it's going to be a great trip."
On the game overall
"It was a pass-heavy game, an area that we weren't very good at last year, an area that we have to get better in. I thought at times that Braxton Miller and a couple of the wideouts, Philly Brown in particular, did very well. It's been a continuation of what started all spring and Philly Brown is turning into a legitimate All-Big Ten candidate at wide receiver for us, which we need."
On the performance of the tight ends
"Our tight ends are doing a lot of really good things. Jeff Heuerman and Nick Vannett who had a concussion this week so he didn't play. Our two tight ends, I feel very good about."
On the up and coming offense
"I would be disappointed if we're not the best offense in the Big Ten. The one glaring weakness is that fifth player of the offensive line. We have a legitimate concern about who that player is. I feel good about four of the five starters and unless we get that fixed, there goes the best offense in the Big Ten. One of those young players has got to step up and they haven't this spring."
On the strong defensive players in today's game
"On defense, a couple names that Coach Fickell and Coach Withers gave me that I noticed as well. Adolphus Washington has really raised his level of play. He's a legitimate player as a starter at Ohio State. We saw him today just have his way with the offensive line. He could be a very good player. C.J. Barnett is a guy that had an up-and-down season last year. He's a very good leader."
Braxton Miller, junior quarterback
On his performance today
"(It was) Pretty good. I still have some things to work on and I made some mistakes."
On being limited in the running game
"I just did what I had to in the passing game and got the ball in the hands of playmakers."
On biggest improvement this spring
"Placing the ball where it needed to be placed, especially hitting receivers in stride and back-shoulder throws."
On play of defensive line and right tackle
"Noah Spence and Adolphus [Washington] work hard, they have to fill big shoes from the guys who left last year and they proved we have to keep working at the right tackle position."
On the touchdown to Philly Brown
"The play depends on how the corner defends it. If he's over the top, it's a back-shoulder throw. We work on that all the time, it worked out pretty well."
On confidence as a passer
"I know the plays better, how they'll develop and where the guys are going to be. It allows me to move around the pocket more confidently."
Chris Fields, junior wide receiver
On what today was like
"We just all came out there to perform today and it was a lot of fun."
What he developed through 15 practices
"The big thing was being more consistent...being more consistent on the field. And I also changed my routines off the field. I took the off-season serious and I worked very hard on the mechanics of my game."
On being named a starter
"It feels good to be one of the starters on the team. I worked hard, like I said, in the off season and we all worked hard as a unit and it seems it will pay off as we now head into summer."
On building off this successful spring
"I want to take advantage of every opportunity that I get. I want to just get on the field and practice during the off season and, again, just take advantage of every opportunity."
On the difference between this year and last year
"I'm just having fun out there this year. I feel like I was thinking too much last year and this year I'm not thinking too much. I'm just having fun."
Adolphus Washington, sophomore defensive lineman
On getting four sacks
"I just went out there and played football. I did what my coaches told me to do and it just happened that I got four sacks today."
On post-sack celebration
"Raising one hand is just a thing the linemen do, we call it ringing the bell."
On knowledge gained since freshman year
"I learned that in college, everybody plays hard every play. That surprised me a little."
C. J. Barnett, senior safety
On taking advantage of scoring opportunities
"I think we made great strides this spring. There were a lot of questions coming into this season, especially on the defense with guys like John Simon graduating. It was important to see guys like Adolphus Washington step up and make some plays."
On take away from spring practices
"The most important thing for this team is to keep going. Heading into the summer we have to get ready before the fall camp begins."
On defensive line play
When the line is playing well, it makes my job easier. The defensive line is the most important part of the defense and we're going to go as far as they're going to go. When they get pressure and do what they have to do, it helps everyone on the backend."
Kenny Guiton, senior quarterback
On takeaways from the game
"We improved as a team. Offensively we have a lot of weapons and I think you saw that today. Everyone was having fun and trying to show what they could do."
On his performance in the game
"I thought I played pretty well. I have the offense down, and now it's just about keeping everyone moving forward. I'm happy with what I did."
On the key to team improvement in the summer
"Our leaders have to step up and take over the team when we aren't around our coaches. We need to build camaraderie."
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WASHINGTON — Now that the "realists" have ridden into town gleefully consigning the Bush doctrine to the ash heap of history, everyone has discovered the notion of interests, as if it were some new idea thought up by James Baker and the Iraq Study Group.
What do people think we've been doing for the last five years? True, the president's rhetoric has a tendency to go soaringly Wilsonian, e.g. the banishing tyranny stuff in his second inaugural address. But our policies of democratization in Iraq and Afghanistan and Lebanon have been deeply rooted in the most concrete of American interests.


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An Army Special Forces soldier from Skagit County was killed in Afghanistan on Wednesday when insurgents attacked his unit using small-arms fire.
Chief Warrant Officer Douglas M. Vose III of Concrete was serving in Kabul province with 1st Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group. He is the 316th service member with Washington ties – either stationed in the state, a resident or a native – to die in war since the 2001, and the eighth this year.
The 38-year-old Roseburg, Ore., native served in the Army since April 1989. He is survived by his wife, two sons and two daughters.