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I will advocate for a variety of different housing in our community to match our residents' needs. Affordable housing and smart growth can be said in the same sentence. The City of San Luis Obispo has a plan to grow no more than 1% a year and no more than 57,000 citizens by 2035, so we need to include our residents of all financial levels in the planning process.
Housing for rent and for sale is limited. Everyone should have the opportunity to live in the community where they work, which includes young professionals, families, students, teachers, nurses, firefighters, and business owners, who contribute directly to the quality of life of SLO. As you may know, the County of San Luis Obispo is one of the least affordable cities in which to live in the United States. The median income is not enough to afford a home, and rents are increasingly unaffordable.
As your representative, I will vote for sustainable, affordable housing opportunities.
Reliable and accessible public transportation is vital to a thriving community. Increased opportunities for mobility enhances everyone's quality of life and provides more options for our residents to work, go to school, and enjoy the community in which we live.
One of our major goals for the city is 20% multi-modal transportation. And to reach that vision, we need more walkable locations, more access for bikes, and more busses or increased frequency of bus routes in order to maximize accessibility to all residents. I will advocate for greater incentives, education, and awareness around the many rideshare options in SLO as well. And I will advocate for electric-vehicle charging stations, bike-share programs, and other traffic-congestion options.
We need safe, clean, and thriving neighborhoods for families, working professionals, retirees, and students. I will work to increase communication methods and opportunities for our residents to help shape city policies. In addition, I plan to endorse involving the community at an earlier stage for feedback in projects with developers as well as Cal Poly projects. Authentic participation and increased community engagement in impacted neighborhoods will allow us to move forward together.
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I am not in support of fracking and will be voting Yes on Measure G.
Increased diversity leads to better ideas, discussions, and decisions. It's also been shown that there is a direct correlation between increased diversity and economic growth.
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Charlaine Harris, best known for her series of Sookie Stackhouse supernatural mysteries – the basis for the hit HBO series "True Blood" — will be the headliner for the annual West Virginia Book Festival, scheduled for Oct. 13 and 14 at the Charleston Civic Center.
Harris is the first presenter announced for the event, and continues the festival's recent tradition of getting a major author to headline the event. Nicholas Sparks was the featured author in 2010, and Lee Child headlined the festival last year.
"We have a meeting each December and we look at some of the more well-known authors who we think would draw a big crowd," said Pam May, the Book Festival's chairwoman. "She was high on our list, and she was available, and we're very excited about that."
Harris, a native of the Mississippi River delta, has been writing for more than 30 years. Her early work consisted largely of poems about ghosts and teenage angst, but she began writing plays when she attended Rhodes College in Memphis. She then switched to novels, with "Sweet and Deadly" published in 1981.
In 1990, Harris published "Real Murders," the first in her lighthearted eight-book series starring Georgia librarian Aurora Teagarden. In 1996, she began her Shakespeare mystery series, featuring amateur sleuth Lily Bard, a karate student who cleans houses. That series ran for five books, ending in 2001.
That same year, Harris began her Sookie Stackhouse series with "Dead Until Dark," which won the Anthony Award, a prestigious mystery award, for Best Paperback Novel. The series, set in the fictional northern Louisiana town of Bon Temps, follows Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress, in her adventures with vampires, werewolves and other supernatural creatures. The 12th book in the series, "Deadlocked," will be released next month.
The award-winning "True Blood" television series, based on the Sookie Stackhouse novels, is in its fifth season and counts Charleston native Sam Trammell among its stars.
May said the connection with the TV series was one of the factors in bringing Harris to the Book Festival. "We're excited because of the connection with 'True Blood,'" she said. "We know that's crazy popular, and we believe that may bring in some people who wouldn't normally come to the Book Festival."
Harris has written four mysteries about another protagonist with strange powers. Harper Connelly, who can tell the cause of death of any body, debuted in 2005 in "Grave Sight."
Harris' appearance at the West Virginia Book Festival is set for 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 13, in the coliseum at the Civic Center. May said announcements about other authors at this fall's festival should be coming soon.
"We don't have any contracts signed yet [other than Harris], but the schedule is pretty much in place, she said.
The festival, which attracted about 7,000 attendees in 2011, is presented annually by the Kanawha County Public Library, West Virginia Humanities Council, The Library Foundation of Kanawha County, The Charleston Gazette and the Charleston Daily Mail.


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Face recognition. Geo-tagging. Blemish removal tool. Panorama stitcher. Easy interface.
Can't adjust camera raw files.
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Now with face recognition and retouching, Windows Live Photo Gallery can stand proud against iPhoto and Picasa.
Jazzing Up Photos
Gallery doesn't offer frivolous frames, doodads, or wild effects to embellish your pictures the way some tools like Roxio do. Instead, it gives you a few tools for tasteful effects: Sepia, cyan, and black and white. The app's panorama-stitching feature has long been impressive for a free tool; iPhoto or Picasa still don't offer an equivalent ability.
An innovative new Photo Fuse option lets you get everyone's best look in group photo composited from multiple shots. It's sort of a companion to the application's panoramic stitch tool, and comparable to what you find in Adobe Photoshop Elements. My results were intriguing but not perfectsome people ended up with big hair, or worse, two ears on one side of the head.
Photo Gallery now joins Elements, iPhoto, and Picasa in offering a retouching tool for blemishes. It worked beautifully at correcting skin discolorations in my tests, and more simply than Picasa's, which requires you to select a source and target area.
Face Tagging and Geo-Tagging
Face recognition takes an important role in Photo Gallery. The ribbon bar has a prominent People tag button, and your friends' faces stare up at you from the bar's Quick find area, offering to show all photos featuring them. As with Windows Live Gallery Wave 3, you get a dropdown showing your contacts (any of which you can assign to the face) when you select an image and choose "Tag as." The face-recognition software becomes increasingly accurate as you identify more people's faces. A "Batch people tag" option opens its own tab and proposes faces of folks you've already tagged. A simple Confirm or Ignore button completes the action, and if there are more pictures the program thinks are of that person, it will keep displaying them till there aren't any more. It's very similar to the way Picasa's face recognition works.
Geotagging works with cameras' built in GPS (such as the iPhone 4), or you can manually enter locations. You can sort all geotagged photos grouped by location, but, unfortunately, there's no map mashup yet like that in Picasa and iPhoto, so you can't see a map with links to your photo sessions.
Sharing and Slideshows
Starting a Windows Live Photo Gallery slideshow is as simple as clicking the screen icon at the bottom of the program's windows. You can choose from six themes, including pan and zoom, contemporary, sepia, and cinematic. You can also click Create Movie to jump to Movie Maker with the content in place. Unlike iPhoto, however, Windows Live Photo Gallery offers no canned music to play along with your show, nor can you add your own the way Picasa allows.
You can share a slideshow that you're viewing in the app, or head to the Create tab for more sharing options, at which Gallery excels. Photo e-mail will use your default mail client to create a message that doesn't attach the photos, but instead links to an online gallery hosted on Window Live SkyDrive, which is great for saving your recipient's inbox from large attachment clutter. Plain old attachments are still an option, too, though, and the choice between this and photo mail is clearly labeled.
The Create tab prominently offers to upload your albums and slideshows to Facebook, Flickr, SkyDrive, YouTube, and Windows Live groups, and a plug-in API means any service can add this type of uploader. In my test uploads from Windows Live Photo Gallery to Flickr, neither people tags or geotags were retained. And to my shock, they weren't retained in Windows Live SkyDrive, either, but that could be a beta issue. Microsoft's preview site mentions a book-creation feature, but I didn't find any book-creation features in the beta.
Should You Hang Your Work In This Gallery?
Windows Live Photo Gallery no longer feels like a free afterthought, but rather a richthough still consumer levelphoto-editing application. Its straightforward import, organization, and adjustments bring it in line with previously more-capable competitors, Apple iPhoto and Google Picasa. Its new face recognition, blemish fixing, sharing capabilities, innovative photo, and plug-in extensibility make Photo Gallery all the more appealing. Performance, too, aside from when working with RAW camera files, was snappy. Plus, its innovative Photo Fuse, excellent Panorama Stitcher, and plugin API go beyond what those other consumer photo programs offer. So for all shutterbugs, aside from those veering toward the professional end of the spectrum, the new beta of Windows Live Photo Gallery is well worth considering as your daily photo application. We'll review and score the product when it comes out of beta; check back then.
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MONTREAL — U.S. negotiators have held firm in their demands for a wide-ranging overhaul of NAFTA, three sources close to the talks said on Thursday, raising questions about whether any real movement is happening at the latest round of negotiations on the treaty.
Officials from Canada, Mexico and the United States are in Montreal for the sixth and penultimate set of talks on the North American Free Trade Agreement. Major differences remain to be settled ahead of the end-March deadline.
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You strive to be honorable and fair in every aspect of your life. You value the integrity of the law and are committed to leading by example. With a criminal justice degree from Post University, you can be prepared for criminal justice jobs in the Federal Marshals Office; FBI; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms; Department of Homeland Security; or IRS. You may also seek employment or career advancement as a U.S. Postal Police officer, courtroom security officer, corporate security officer, or state/federal corrections employee. Many of our graduates go on to pursue their master's or law degree at Post University to advance their criminal justice career.
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As a student in this program, you will develop skills in report writing, finger-printing, and crime scene documentation. You will gain wellounded knowledge in the areas of law enforcement, forensic science, corporate security, criminal investigation, and corrections, including probation, parole, and imprisonment. Through in-class discussions and off-site learning opportunities, you will:
- Examine the structure of the American criminal justice system and branches of government, their functions and how they interrelate with juvenile and adult proceedings
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Though not required, we encourage and aid you in your search for internships that will grant you hands-on access to work in the field. Our students have found opportunities with the FBI, local and municipal police departments, forensic labs, courthouses, and nonprofits that serve as diversionary programs through court support services.
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Episode 24: Can Democrats win in the South? With Pollster John Anzalone
Hi House Talkers,
Joining us all the way from Alabama in our latest episode is Democratic pollster, John Anzalone. We talk about everything from how politics in the South has changed over time to the benefits of working in politics outside of DC.
We also talk about the "old" vs "new" Souths, and the differences between Democrats who won in the South as recently as 2008 and the ones who are running now, in 2018.


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Energy Conservation Program
October is here and with fall comes cool weather, fun, and the start of the holiday season. Follow this link to check out some fall safety tips to keep you, your students, and families safe this season. Safety is a priority! Enjoy the beautiful weather!
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Follow us on Twitter @HPCSD_Energy and Instagram and Pinterest for more tips and the latest updates on the Energy Program!
Why Do We Have a Program For This?
Energy is a huge cost for the district. Last year the district spent over $800,000 on energy and it is one of the highest cost budget line items each year. At the same time, the economy has been low and has started to come back, but it has made everyone very aware of budget dollars and how they are spent. If budgets are not passed, the District will lose programs and money for projects and basic maintenance. Buildings and programs are in need across the country and this district is no different. By closely managing how we use our energy, identifying problems and areas that utility dollars can be saved, we can save money instead of spending it paying for unnecessary energy. This money can then be used directly for our buildings and programs.
We launched our Energy Conservation Program in July of 2013 with the hire of our Energy Education Specialist, Jill Parisella, and our partnership with Cenergistic, Inc. Cenergistic is an award winning energy conservation company whose programs involve a cultural shift in energy utilization for the entire district along with intensive, regular review and auditing of the district's energy management systems and have saved more than $3.2 billion for educational, healthcare, and ministerial organizations across the nation.
Isn't saving energy common sense stuff though?
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Energy Savings (through June 2016):
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Environmental Benefits
We have saved over:
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37,750 CCFs of Natural Gas
123,032 gallons of Fuel Oil
2,072 gallons of Water
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Removing 378 automobiles for an entire year
Planting 46,467 tree seedlings and growing for 10 years
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Oatmeal Runner Reviews... Brooks Ghost 10/
I've told you why I love the Brooks Ghost 9s and I started running in the updated Ghost 10s a couple of months ago. After almost 200 miles of running in the Ghost 10s, I'm happy to report I love them!
Personally, I don't feel a difference between the Ghost 9 and 10s. I did have a unused pair of Ghost 9s that I added into my shoe rotation about a month after the 10s and didn't feel any different running in those. Both are very comfortable and felt great on my feet while I finished up marathon training. I didn't feel any difference running in the two pairs or noticed I felt extra sore when I started out in the 10s.
There wasn't a lot of changes that Brooks made from the 9s to the 10s which is why I can't feel any big differences running in them. One of the big things that probably made them even more comfortable is that there's two layers of of foam instead of one for the cushioning system. The first time I put on the 10s, I could tell there was more cushioning versus my old 9s but I thought it might have just been the fact that they were brand new shoes.
The 10s are still awesome for running in all sorts of weather, although I haven't done too much running in the rain yet. But they felt great in the snow (no slipping!) and my feet don't feel like they are getting super sweaty in the summer weather we are getting now.
Do you run in Brooks Ghosts? If not, what's your go-to running shoes?


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Dear Jesus Lover,
The Lord's time in Rome is coming to a close. He has another 2 icons to visit – The Patheon and The Colosseum. Today, he picks the Patheon, one of ancient Rome's most well preserved buildings. Well preserved, just like The Messiah.
Time to visit royalty and the artistic, unlike me they cannot resurrect!
Asian tourist – cheapies who visit the "free entry" sites.
After a quick wave to Rapheal's grave, The Messiah hit the streets of Rome for a quick check on one of his lesser known house.
No one there – he will smite those who pissed on the steps and left Him an empty bottle!
Spanish steps in Italy?
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The Rise of Racial Diversity in Hollywood: Here to stay or fad?
In 2016, the #OscarsSoWhite campaign highlighted the lack of racial diversity in Hollywood by pointing out that for the second year in a row, all 20 actors nominated in the leading and supporting categories were white. Thus far in 2018, movies featuring racially-diverse casts such as Black Panther, Hidden Figures and Get Out are dominating the box office and awards shows and are at the forefront of cultural conversations.
What changed in two years? Changing racial norms, potentially. Market forces, such as a growing awareness of non-white movie goers and an increase of movies produced in independent studios, are also responsible for this shift. Moreover, racially diverse films perform better at the box office. The free market economy can be a powerful force for social change, as movies both reflect and influence cultural norms. However, statistics show that popular racially-diverse films are still outnumbered by films with less diverse casts, and that sustained progress for all of Hollywood will continue to be slow.
The #OscarsSoWhite campaign, spearheaded by activist April Reign, led to criticism of the 94 percent white membership of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who vote on the Oscars slate. In June 2017, the Academy responded by inviting 774 new voting members, 39 percent female and 39 percent non-white. However, racial homogeneity in Hollywood exists beyond the mainly-white voters who recognize mainly-white films.
Racial diversity among filmmakers is low. Ethnic and racial minorities make up nearly 40 percent of the US population, but 18 percent of directors, 12 percent of film writers, 6 percent of studio CEOs and chairmen, according to a study by the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. From 2016 to 2017, the Bunche Center found that the percentage of minorities receiving film writing and directing credits decreased by 2.7 percent and 2.8 percent, respectively. Furthermore, talent agents, who negotiate contracts for actors, writers, directors, and producers, are 91 percent white. These positions held by majority white males in turn facilitate the promotion of other white men. This dynamic works to maintain the existing power structure.
Director of the Bunche Center Darnell Hunt told NPR that since movies are so expensive to create and distribute, executives are risk averse. "Gatekeepers and decision-makers, who are typically white men, want to keep their jobs," said Hunt. "They want to succeed. And they feel that their best chance for success is by surrounding themselves with other white males."
The racial homogeneity of those in power behind-the-scenes results in a dearth of stories primarily about non-white characters being told on the big screen. "There just aren't enough Latino executives," Mary Beltrán, film and television professor at the University of Texas at Austin, tells The Verge. "While it doesn't always take a Latino writer to create these characters, I think Latinx writers care more about it and want to change the depictions we constantly see."
In accordance with this stagnation of diversity in behind-the-scenes roles, the proportion of minorities in leading roles in major Hollywood films has remained flat since 2013, measuring 13.6 percent in 2015, the latest year examined by the "2017 Hollywood Diversity Report" by UCLA. In 2015, just 28.3 percent of speaking characters were non-white, according to a USC Annenberg study (NPR).
Although it is too soon to look at data for 2017 and 2018, the success of recent films about the African-American experience have seemed to indicate that major film studios are increasingly willing to produce films highlighting the stories of non-white characters in ways that were previously rare. Hidden Figures, Get Out, and Black Panther are all notable for portraying African-Americans as powerful, heroic, autonomous figures. These stories contrast with the six most recent Best Picture nominated films that were produced and directed by black people. Three of these films were about slavery (The Color Purple, Django Unchained, and 12 Years a Slave), two about violence against black women (Selma and Precious), and one about a white woman who "rescues" an African American teenager and turns him into a football star (The Blind Side).
Hidden Figures, Get Out, and Black Panther all transcend such stereotypes. Hidden Figures tells the story of black female mathematicians working at NASA during the space race. While there have been other movies starring black superheroes, Black Panther is unique for portraying its heroes not as monsters or outsiders, but as complex, multi-faceted characters who derive power from their racial and national identity. Jamil Smith in TIME argues that the film "may be the first mega-budget movie — not just about superheroes, but about anyone—to have an African-American director and a predominantly black cast." Get Out used the genre of horror — known for often having black characters die first — to comment on today's fraught race relations.
These films have received a high degree of success. Hidden Figures grossed $236 million worldwide and was nominated for three Academy awards. Black Panther's opening weekend was the second-highest of all time, and set the record for largest debut by an African-American director. The film's first month mirrored its opening weekend success; after just 26 days, "Black Panther" passed the $1 billion mark at global box offices. Get Out grossed $255 million worldwide against a $4.5 million production budget, and director Jordan Peele became the fifth black director ever nominated for an Oscar, the first to win three nominations (for original screenplay, best director, and best picture), and the first African-American to win the Oscar for best original screenplay.
How have these films been able to achieve such great success despite the glaring lack of racial diversity in film production? Two emerging developments in the film business are responsible. First, minorities are becoming an increasingly larger presence in America, with minorities predicted to comprise a majority of the population by 2043. Although minorities account for almost 40 percent of the population, they buy movie tickets at a higher rate than white people, with people of color purchasing 45 percent of all movie tickets sold in the US in 2015, according to the 2017 Hollywood Diversity Report. A study by the Creative Artists Agency found that there are financial benefits to increasing diversity in film. For the top 10 grossing movies in 2016, 47% of the opening weekend audience was non-white. At every level of budget, films with a diverse cast (at least 30 percent nonwhite) outperform films without diverse casts, grossing almost three times as much as films that don't. Studio executives have clearly seen the writing on the wall: that racially-diverse films appeal to a large and powerful market.
The rise of independent film and smaller studios has also led to more diverse stories being told through film, in all senses of the word. Smaller studios are more willing to take risks on films, as they have less to lose, and pride themselves on innovation and pushing boundaries. Get Out was produced by Blumhouse Productions, which describes itself as "pioneering a new model of studio filmmaking by producing high-quality micro-budget films." A USC analysis of independent films found that these films are more likely than major studio films to feature underrepresented minorities in charge.
Large American film studios also have international audiences to please. Large studios are dependent on international revenue, which is twice as large as domestic revenue, and international audiences do not respond well to racial diversity. In an analysis of over 800 films from between 2005 and 2012, The Conversation found that adding one non-white lead actor led to a 40 percent decrease in international revenue, but had no effect on domestic revenue. The studio concern over diversity was highlighted in a leaked email from the 2014 Sony email hacks, in which a producer wrote that, "I believe that the international motion-picture audience is racist – in general, pictures with an African-American lead don't play well overseas… But Sony sometimes seems to disregard that a picture must work well internationally to both maximize returns and reduce risk, especially pictures with decent-size budgets."
To continue, increased racial diversity in Hollywood must be prompted by financial incentives that can overcome these barriers to production. "Money follows money," notes Princeton University professor Diana Fuss, whose teaching and research interests include film studies and who teaches a popular course on America Cinema. "Hollywood will certainly try to replicate its success with the terrific Black Panther, as well they should. Disney deserves credit for embracing a vibrant diversity more often associated with independent films. But if diversity really is here to stay then I think the big Hollywood studios need to resist welcoming indie creativity into the corporate fold only in order to implant their own brands and their own biases. Let's hope that the brainwashing plot of Get Out does not prove in the end to be an allegory for what happens to diversity in Hollywood."


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I've always wondered what distinguishes a hot dog from a sausage. Both refer to ground (often, scrap) meat, fat and seasonings encased in animal intestine. Technically, a hot dog is just a variety of sausage. But why is the term "hot dog" more popular in modern times that it is often used a generic term to refer to any and all kinds of sausages?
I suppose it's a culture thing. An American culture thing, actually, that we Filipinos have assimilated after half a century of American colonization. It's as American as canned Vienna sausage which is really nothing like real Viennese sausage.
(For the record, a sausage is not limited to something that comes out of a can. There are so many varieties of sausages — cured, smoked or dried — and canned sausage is not even a real sausage. Sausage is known by different names in different cultures — from the Mexican chorizo to the Spanish longaniza to the Italian pepperoni and salami to the German bratwurst to the Chinese lap cheong or lap chong. Our native longganisa is a sausage.)
Hot dog, then, is an American synonym for sausage. Along with the burger, hot dogs are iconic of the cuisine of Northern America. It's funny to use "hot dog", "burger" and "cuisine" in one sentence, I feel like singing "Which does not belong?" but that's that. Quite a contrast to the cuisines of southern United States with their Cajun and Creole roots. I certainly have no problem using the word "cuisine" when talking about the cooking in southern United States.
Interestingly enough, there seems to be some debate as to whether the term hot dog refers to American-style sausage (which is pre-cooked unlike its European counterparts) or to the sandwich that consists of a bun, sausage filling and a variety of toppings. Personally, I think that a hot dog is still a hot dog even without the bun.
Which now brings me to the chili dog. What is a chili dog?
A chili dog is a hot dog in a bun smothered with (usually, beanless) chili con carne. Obviously, a strange (though wildly popular) marriage between American and Mexican culinary traditions. Grated cheese and chopped onions are the most popular toppings.
Undeniably, the chili dog is an American invention. But if, instead of "American hot dog", some other kind of sausage is used (say, a veal bratwurst), is the sandwich still a chili dog? I don't know. I do know, however, that I can't eat my hot dog sandwich (with or without chili) with soggy steamed bread. I prefer my bread grilled or toasted, or toasted on a grill.


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Earlier this week, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries announced it would cut production by 900,000 barrels per day, a move that sent crude-oil prices upward. Why can't the United States do an end-run around those price increases by simply importing more oil from non-OPEC nations like Canada, Mexico, and Russia?
Actually, non-OPEC oil—sold at OPEC-influenced prices—doesn't come particularly cheap, and the United States is already importing plenty of it. According to the latest American Petroleum Institute figures, Canada and Mexico ranked second and third, respectively, in terms of U.S. oil imports for June 2003; only Saudi Arabia (2 million barrels per day) was a bigger supplier, beating Canada by just 66,000 barrels per day. Overall, 42.5 percent of U.S. oil imports come from OPEC producers—members Venezuela, Nigeria, and Algeria round out the top six exporters to the United States—so cutting them out of our energy diet would require Canada and Mexico to ramp up production to unattainable levels. Of course, these non-OPEC nations could theoretically divert more oil to the United States by turning off the spigot for other customers. But it's highly unlikely that suppliers would shun other longtime clients like, say, Japan or Germany for the sake of cutting the United States a break.
Russia is frequently cited as the most obvious future rival to OPEC, since it is believed to have a tremendous capacity to increase production. A big problem has been transportation, because funneling oil out of the vast Siberian fields has proved expensive. Russia is contemplating the construction of two multibillion-dollar pipelines to facilitate the transport of oil to the United States and Japan. Saudi Arabia, by contrast, continues to enjoy the world's lowest production costs; some estimates place the nation's per-barrel outlay at a mere 25 cents. And because it can easily adjust its output, Saudi Arabia is considered the world's "swing producer," able to stabilize prices by tweaking its production upward or downward when it pleases. Russia, meanwhile, claims it cannot easily adjust its machinery to increase or decrease production in the Siberian fields, since the drilling there is much more difficult. As a result, it currently exerts considerably less influence on global prices.
There has been a diversification of suppliers over the past several years, as countries like Russia and Angola have become bigger players on the world market. But America still relies heavily on OPEC, and on Saudi Arabia in particular. In 1979, when the United States was importing more than 5.1 million barrels of crude per day from OPEC suppliers, there was a general outcry to lessen the nation's dependence on the cartel. Subsequently, from 1979 through 1985, imports decreased steadily, bottoming out at a mere 1.3 million per day. In 1986, however, fuel efficiency standards were rolled back, and crude imports now average between 4 million and 5 million barrels per day.
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Still thinking about your New Year's resolutions. Well, here are some words to consider and live by in 2019. If you want to be a successful entrepreneur, the time is now to do some house cleaning with the people in your life. Two categories of people that you need to get rid off from your life are negative Nancy's and those that are not true friends.
You may have people in your life that are only there because it is convenient.
Some people don't come into your life to love you, they come into your life to use you.
They don't come to bring to your life, they come to take from it.
They don't see you as a person, they see you as an opportunity.
They are only in your life because they want something from you. They are using you.
These types of people are not loyal to you. They are loyal only to themselves. You know who they are. Those are the friends that come to you for help and you help them. But when you need the help, they are nowhere to be found.
If you want to be a successful entrepreneur in life, Get rid of them! Refuse to be used. #BeYou
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There are quite a number of people in the world today that love different kinds of paintings and art and this is because, it gives them different kinds of benefits as you shall be able to see. When it comes to paintings, there are a number of different materials that are used on different paintings and these are the things that makes these paintings very different from each other.One of the best kinds of paintings that you can be interested in is the oil paintings and this is because, they offer different kinds of qualities and benefits to people. By reading this article you will be able to understand the different kinds of benefits that you get from having oil paintings your house. There are a number of artists in the world today that concentrate on oil painting and that's the reason why, they are always available in different art shops and art exhibit shows all over the world. For the people that love painting also, oil paints always give them an opportunity to get a number of benefits that are very unique to oil paintings.
One of the reasons why you should be buying oil paintings is the details that is found within the oil paintings, most of them usually portray very deep messages. All paintings always dry very slowly and therefore, it always gives the artists time to continue working on different images on the painting and that's the reason why, they are always very perfect and very many people love them. Oil paintings dry very slowly as explained and that's the reason why, many people are always attracted to these kinds of paintings.Another benefit of oil paintings is that they are more durable because of the nature of materials that are used during the painting itself. Some of the families in the world have always continued to use these kinds of paintings are symbols in the family for different generations.
The shiny nature of oil also makes the oil paintings very attractive to look at and that's another reason why, they can be very good for you. Another great design idea that many people are not aware of is that the oil paintings can be used as decor for your homes and since they are shiny, they make the home very important and beautiful. Oil paintings are also very valuable meaning that, they will be able to get you a very high amount of money if you decided to do them as an investment, this is something that you should always consider.
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Can We Afford Another Crooked President?
In today's New York Times the following scandal has been revealed.
"Late on Sept. 6, 2005, a private MD-87 jet plane carrying the Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra touched down in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Several hundred miles to the west a fortune awaited: highly coveted deposits of uranium that could fuel nuclear reactors around the world. And Mr. Giustra was in hot pursuit of an exclusive deal to tap them. Kazakhstan has 1/5 th of the Worlds Uranium deposits and it is mined by Kazatomprom.
Unlike more established competitors, Mr. Giustra was a newcomer to uranium mining in Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic, with a horrible human rights record. But what his fledgling company lacked in experience, it made up for in connections. Accompanying Mr. Giustra on his luxuriously MD-87 jet that day was a former president of the United States, Bill Clinton. It is also worth mention that he also is a board member of "international Crisis Group" that has George Soros and Wesley Clark as members.
Within two days, corporate records show that Mr. Giustra also came up a winner when his company signed preliminary agreements giving it the right to buy into three uranium projects controlled by Kazakhstan's state-owned uranium agency, Kazatomprom. Mr.Giustra's Canadian Mining Company UrAsia produces about 1,8-million pounds of uranium a year and plans to accelerate the development of two other uranium mines in Kazakhstan. It didn't hurt his cause that the night they arrived they had dinner at the palatial home of the President of Kazakhstan!
Just months after the Kazakh pact was finalized, Mr. Clinton's charitable foundation received its own windfall: a $31.3 million donation from Mr. Giustra that had remained a secret until he acknowledged it last month. The gift, combined with Mr. Giustra's more recent and public pledge to give the William J. Clinton Foundation an additional $100 million, secured Mr. Giustra a place in Mr. Clinton's inner circle, an exclusive club of wealthy entrepreneurs in which friendship with the former president has its privileges".
This is just one more financial deal that the Clinton's are or were involved in that smell to high heaven of corruption and quasi-legal kick backs.
If Senator Clinton is running on her experience in the White House when husband Bill was President. She also must be culpable for the shady deals they have been involved in. She can hide behind the abused wife mantle when the Lewinski issue is discussed, but the "shady" financial deals and renting out the Lincoln bedroom are fair game for criticism.
First there was White Water where Hillary Clinton's relationship with her employer, the Rose Law, firm suddenly became the legal representative for James McDougal's Savings and Loan Company Madison Guaranty.When it declared bankruptcy it cost the U.S. taxpayers over 68 million dollars.
The secretive campaign money, allegedly given in a Chinese restaurant in Los Angeles, from the Chinese Communists, involving convicted felon Charlie Trie, during Clinton's second Presidential campaign.
And then Janet Reno, Attorney General, had to investigate claims that Clinton allowed "soft money", raised to promote the Democratic Party and its positions on issues of policy, to be diverted into the effort to elect Clinton and Vice- President Gore. If that happened, and the President knew it, a crime was committed.
There was the claim that he and Gore authorised White House staff to use telephones in the White House to solicit campaign funds. A clear violation of the law!
Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich, a big contributor to Clinton Campaigns, just before he left office is very suspect. U.S. pardon attorney Roger Adams says "when the White House sent over Rich's name for pardon consideration — only a few hours before the President was due to leave office — there was never any mention of Rich being a fugitive". There is also suspicion that donations made to Clinton campaigns and to the Clinton presidential library by Rich's ex-wife, Denise, could be a quid pro quo for the pardon. Source: Time Magazine
Add to this the Peter Paul lawsuit against the Clintons that claims malfeasance was involved in fund raising for a Clinton Gala ,using White House personel ( Kelly Crawford)to solicit contributors to the event being arranged by Paul. The Federal Elections Committee eventually fined the Senatorial Campaign Committee $35,00 and Indicted Senator Clinton's financial campaign director. John Armor, an Election Law Expert, was quoted as saying Hillary Clinton was "involved in the largest election law fraud in U.S. history. Source: Doug Ross Journal
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The colourful tiles bear the words "Gartside's Famous Ales & Stouts". The question is - where is this to be found? Answer tomorrow!
Wednesday, 16 April 2008
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- Anonymous16 April 2008 at 07:12
Is it the Robin Hood pub ?ReplyDelete
- anonymous two16 April 2008 at 08:46
They done changed the name now.
But will have to change it again if the council let the empty theatre and concert venue "next door" fall into ruin like they did wit the old baths.
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"Our life is shaped by our mind, for we become what we think." Dhammapada as translated by Eknath Easwaran.
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Grace Paley: "An Interest in Life," "Goodbye and Good Luck," and "A Conversation with My Father"
If, as Amy Bloom says in her introduction to Grace Paley, "There is poetry and character, melody and dialogue in Grace Paley's work; there's not much plot," then how do we think more about structure's role? What is the mechanism by which Paley's stories hold together? What the hinges? What the structural planes?
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Wednesday, October 22, 2014
George Saunders and the Absurdly Human
If I were to describe the plot of one of George Saunders' stories to someone who'd never heard of him before, such as: When a family purchases a quartet of Semplica Girls (four young women from disadvantaged situations attached by wire through the brain as a lawn display) to please their eldest daughter for her birthday, things go wrong when one morning the family awakes to find the SGs stolen, and their financial situation in dire straits—I would get very strange looks. How can such an absurd story be meaningful? In an interview with Heather Sappenfield, Saunders said "The idea that absurdism and humanity might not, or should not, exist in the same story—I don't feel that way. They're not different. When Hamlet's father comes back as a ghost, it's totally perfect and necessary—the best possible way of objectifying the actual psychological reality of the moment. Plus it kicks ass." Saunders claims that absurdism in a story not only doesn't diminish its attempt at meaning, but enhances it. Do you agree with Saunders on this? Is there a place for absurdism in a story trying to grasp at humanity? Do you find that his stories, as bizarre as the situations are, touch at something innately human that we can all relate to?
Aimee Bender in her introduction to Saunders in 3x33 says, "…he does not spare his characters, and his dialogue is heart-sinking and embarrassingly familiar. I talk like that. I know a million people who talk like that. I watch those shows. We are these people. And in the reflection, ugly as it may be, inside the wince, is a clarity. How does he do it?" Saunders somehow manages to make us relate to the weird worlds he creates, despite the fact that the places and the situations seem so entirely fictional. Do you find Saunders' stories believable? And if so, how is he able to make them so believable in the midst of such strangeness?
Saunders goes on to say "I put a so called 'absurd element' in because I think it is the best way of describing the way life really is, and really feels, when we can momentarily shuck off our habituation. Or to be more honest, I put it in there because it seems enlivening at the moment. I am trying to kick ass. It shakes things up, or raises the stakes." Could you see yourself using 'absurd elements' as Saunders does to raise the stakes and 'kick ass' in your own stories?
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Monday, October 20, 2014
Jacob White and Our Obsessions
Don't just look at what he's writing about. Look at your own work. Push yourself to look for similarities in plot, character, meaning, etc. in the stories you've written. Are you able to find any? If so, are you surprised by what you found? What do you think it means when writers tend to write about similar things? What does this say about them as a writer or just as a person in general? When a writer doesn't deal with their obsessions in their work, does that still make them a good writer? Are we meant to write about our obsessions? Discuss, too, how different White's stories still are even when they share some aspects. Think about how perhaps these particular obsessions or similarities may be what is linking all of the stories together as a collection.
Note: Mention stories from the first half of the book, if they support this idea, but try to focus on the second half of the book. Besides this, feel free to choose which stories you mention. We are not forcing you to focus on any one in particular.
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Wednesday, October 8, 2014
"The Indweller's Aversion" and other selections from WONDERFUL INVESTIGATIONS by Dan Beachy-Quick
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This sometimes stark, sometimes lush natural beauty is like water for the soul. Necessary element without which the soul dries up, becomes brittle, unseeing, dead. The vital connection is gone. I am so lucky to be here." I also copied quotes in my journal such as: "Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains," and "I went to the woods there to learn what it had to teach." In my youthful enthusiasm, I knew I didn't understand much of what Thoreau was writing, but I loved much of the book, almost as if it gave me language with which to see my life.
When I taught the book to high school students several years later, I had the sense that I understood less about Thoreau's project than I'd believed. I was decent at living, but bad at reading. I had no idea how to question thinking itself. To date, I have not returned to the book.
Now through Dan Beachy-Quick's eyes, I see: borrow, buy, begin. I want to read Walden again. "The Indweller's Aversion" sparks an exhilaration that I had when I was a young adult. Yet now it feels centered on an achievable goal: to make of the Old Parsonnage in Freeburg (the home where Silas and I live) my own wonderful investigation. To make it the center of the world. To do the morning work, the work of song.
In "Meditation in the Hut," Beachy-Quick investigates reading and says, poignantly, that "to read threatens the identity of the reader as directly as reading informs it." Are you open to being double, being multiplied, to be the horde of eyes looking through your eyes?
Our final selection, the prose story of "The Children, The Woods," shakes me up. This story of two children feels memorable although it is not my preferred style of short fiction. It is about being the song, about becoming through your life many things: a boy, an outcast, a prey, a grandson, a wolf, a brother. Note its heavy relationship to the essays. E pluribus unum, people.
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Everything you will buy, install and apply to your home, it should be well considered both the pros and cons. It is because by understanding the pros and cons you can get the right review and consideration. So, the final decision will not disappoint you and that is the character of smart buyers that should be performed by many buyers both online and offline buyers. It is like the ideas and designs of sliding patio door that has pros and cons. The sliding patio door review can give you better information.
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This sliding patio door is designed with more modern pattern and detail. This door is much better than with usual door design where you need to push and pull to open and close. This sliding door has a more modern concept because it will be just shifted to open and close. It has a better quality of material design. So, the patio with this door will look perfect too.
For the cons of sliding patio door may be just about the price. The price here is not only the sliding patio door price but also the price to decorate and design the other elements to improve the accents and high meaning of it. For example, is to treat this door, you will consider about the curtains and blinds where both of them are specially designed to sliding door and has more budget to spend.


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Sunday, June 30, 2013
Anomaly by Krista McGee
Anomaly is a sci-fi story set in the future. The world has been destroyed by a nuclear war and the only survivors are a group of scientists who had been developing and creating an underground facility to sustain life. The scientists have created a new society in which humans are genetically designed to be devoid of emotion and each have certain skills to be used to benefit the community. They decided that taking out emotions would be the best way to prevent people from hurting each other and destroying the small remnant that remained. So the question is raised...what would a society like that look like? A society without anger, without jealousy, without lust, yet without love and without faith.
The main character, Thalli, is an anomaly...she can feel...and she has questions. The problem is that humans who get sick or have emotions are considered dangerous to the society and are annihilated. This story is about her adventure in discovering who she is and who her real Designer is, while keeping her quest hidden from those who would consider her curiosity a threat.
I really enjoyed this book. It was a stretch from reality, yet it raises some interesting questions. The suspense and a few twists and turns keeps the story moving. There is also an element of romance, which is presented in a pure and tasteful manner.
This book is the first in a triology. The only bad part about reading it now is that I have to wait until July 2014 for the next book, Luminary, to come out!
*I received a complimentary copy of this book from BookSneeze in exchange for an honest review.
1 comment:
- Krista McGee said...
Thanks for the great review. And good news - that was a misprint on LUMINARY's page - it comes out in January :)
- July 1, 2013 at 9:14 AM
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Welcome to this week's edition of Monday Must-Reads. Back to the usual length but still packed with amazingly helpful tips. Hope you enjoy and share!
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PTSD Evaluation for Canna Card NM
PTSD Diagnosis Evaluation Office Visit: $140
Only $79*
*When combing Canna Card Office Visit for $115 and PTSD Diagnosis Visit $79 on the same day.**)
**Separate CANNA CARD VISIT STILL REQUIRED to apply for the Medical Cannabis Card.
PTSD Diagnosis evaluation is only to obtain the diagnosis of PTSD (for those that qualify). Call office for details
Because PTSD is such a prevalent condition in our area, and the fact that Medical Cannabis has been found to assist those individuals that have tried traditional treatment modalities with little effect or relief from their symptoms, Sage AW is now offering PTSD assessments/evaluations. If you have suffered from a traumatic event, have symptoms which are described below, then schedule an appointment with us as our provider can provide a PTSD Diagnosis evaluation to see if you meet the PTSD criteria for the Medical Cannabis Program. You do not need to have prior records to be diagnosed for PTSD, but additional records will help. Please read below for more information on PTSD and Medical Cannabis.
What Is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a severe anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to any event(s), which results in psychological trauma. Some people develop PTSD after they experience a dangerous event, have a scary experience or suffer a shock. An event can be non-traumatic for one person and yet very traumatic for others. When a person has PTSD, they feel apprehensive, under threat or at risk, even when there is no obvious danger. Some people may develop PTSD right after a trauma, while in others it can take months to even years later for it to develop. The symptoms of the condition are usually grouped into several categories. To be diagnosed with PTSD, you need to experience at least one of each type of symptom and need to have those symptoms for at least a month.
Symptoms of PTSD
The four categories of PTSD symptoms include:
- Re-experiencing/intrusive memories such as:
– Experiencing flashbacks to the triggering event
– Nightmares or recurring dreams about the trauma
– Uncontrollable thoughts about the trauma
- Avoidance behaviors:
– Steering clear of locations, people or thoughts that are connected to the trauma or that can trigger memories or feelings
- Mood or thought changes:
– PTSD can change the way you think or feel about the world
– Struggling to remember the event
– Feeling negative about yourself or the world around you
– Losing interest in activities or things you used to enjoy
– Blackouts
- Physical or emotional reactions (also known as arousal symptoms) can lead to changes in your physical or emotional reactions.
– Trouble focusing/poor concentration
– Irritability
– Difficulty sleeping
– Startling easily
– Taking on self-destructive behaviors, such as reckless driving or drinking too much alcohol
– Outbursts or are uncharacteristically aggressive
The symptoms of PTSD are ongoing and can be long-lasting. It is fairly common for people to experience one or more symptoms after a trauma. But if those symptoms fade or resolve after a few weeks, a person is likely to have had acute stress disorder. Symptoms that last for more than a month usually signal PTSD.
There are certian risk factors that can increase the likelihood of a person to develop PTSD. They include but are not limited to:- a family history of depression or anxiety
– Increased/sustained life stress or trauma
– Brain chemistry
– A person's natural temperament
– An increased number of traumatic events a person experiences
– Trauma such as experiencing abuse during childhood, or witnessing combat
– Being a victim of sexual assault or other violence
– Experiencing a natural or human-made disaster
Current Treatments for PTSD
Standard treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder are psychotherapy (which can include cognitive behavior therapy, exposure therapy, or cognitive restructuring), and prescription medication. There are four main types of medications used to treat PTSD — see below.
- Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs): commonly prescribed antidepressants which are designed to relieve moderate depression symptoms. They work by increasing serotonin (a brain chemical that helps balance mood) levels in the brain. Side effects can include: dizziness, drowsiness, nausea, headaches and sexual problems.
- Serotonin-Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitors (SNRIs): these antidepressant drugs can treat major depressive disorder, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, chronic neuropathic pain, fibromyalgia syndrome, and menopausal symptoms. They work by increasing serotonin and norepinephine (brain chemicals that helps balance mood) levels in the brain. Side effects can include excessive sweating, appetite loss, insomnia, constipation and others.
- Prazosin. Prazosin is a drug that is designed to help improve sleep and reduce nightmares in patients suffering from PTSD. While there are some minor side effects associated with the medication, such as lightheadedness or dizziness, there are several major ones as well. They can include chest pain, difficulty breathing, loss of bladder control and more.
- Anti-anxiety medicines. Anti-anxiety drugs help to improve relaxation and can help people with PTSD feel more at ease. A major drawback of anti-anxiety medications is they have the potential to become habit-forming or addictive. The longer a person takes medicine, the more of the drug they need to get the same results. They can also make the person feel tired or sleepy and it may interfere with activities of daily living.
Many people benefit from combining treatments such as therapy and medications, while others might see the greatest benefit from therapy or medicine(s) alone. It's also occasionally the case that standard treatments aren't sufficient enough to help a patient even after continued attempts to modify/combine standard therapies.
Medical Marijuana for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Although PTSD can be alleviated or eliminated with psychotherapy and/or medications, it is not always successful. For example, prolonged exposure, one form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, often has a 20 percent drop-out rate at Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals.
Medications, which can be used to treat the anxiety, sleep disturbances and depression that accompany PTSD, are not always successful at relieving the symptoms of PTSD. Additionally, many people experience side effects with most of the medicines commonly prescribed.
Medical Cannabis is now available as an alternative or adjunct therapy to current standard treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder, which have been found to be less effective in some people. Studies have shown that medical marijuana can help treat PTSD symptoms, even in treatment-resistant cases. More and more research is being conducted as the anecdotal positive outcomes keep coming in. The FDA most recently approved a study on the effects of medical marijuana on veterans with PTSD in 2017. Depending on the results of the study, a cannabis-based treatment specifically for post-traumatic stress disorder might be available on the market as soon as 2023. The product would be based on the strains of cannabis the researchers include in their study and wouldn't necessarily impact the type of cannabis sold at dispensaries or change the federal government's classification of marijuana.
Endocannabinoid receptors are located in various places throughout the body and brain, so both mental and physical symptoms can be altered, alleviated, or lessened with medical marijuana therapy. One study showed that when patients were using cannabis, the majority had more than 75 percent reduction in symptoms compared to when they were not using cannabis. When cannabinoid receptors are activated, they work to help suppress or impair memory and also work to help lower anxiety. In other words, those receptors are there to help you forget the bad and scary things in your life. When they aren't functioning correctly, your bad, fearful memories linger, and you end up with higher levels of anxiety. Some of the compounds in cannabis can activate the same receptors such as anandamide, acting as a sort of replacement for the neurotransmitter.
So far, some studies have examined how effective cannabidiol (CBD) and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) are at activating the cannabinoid receptors in the brain. One study found that CBD given to rats at the same time as a painful sensation caused the rats to forget the source of the pain. Strains of marijuana that contain both THC and CBD seem particularly helpful in quelling memories and reducing anxiety, while THC on its own, can contribute to increased feelings of anxiety in people, whether they have PTSD or not. There have also been recent findings of people experiencing Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome (CHS), due to increased potency from crossbreeding and genetic modification techniques of the plant. CHS is a cannabis-related adverse effect that can affect those with long-term regular use of cannabis and presents with cycles of severe nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain. CHS affected patients report prolonged repeated bathing or showering in very HOT water relieves the symptoms. It is believed elevated or chronic levels of cannabinoids activate a receptor in the brain that causes autonomic instability and results in physical manifestations. Recent studies have also found decreased intestinal motility after smoking cannabis, which can make gastrointestinal symptoms worse. The current resolution to this newly diagnosed condition is cessation of cannabis use. The symptoms can dissipate within 12 hours of discontinuation, but can take as long as 3 weeks, and symptoms will return as soon as the person renews cannabis consumption.
Please remember that since cannabis is not currently regulated, you must be very careful to obtain it from legal dispensaries in New Mexico, how much you take (start at very low doses), and what type is right for you. Remember that cannabis is still illegal under federal law. Visit the additional resources available at the bottom of our Canna Card page for more info.


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'Sounds of Americana' is what you will hear at The Hamo on this night. Two bands, one from south of the border down Melbourne way (THE RECHORDS) and the other from the local state hailing from Sydney (CRUISIN' DEUCES) joining forces for one hell of a roots explosion. Both acts may have the feel and perhaps the look of that cross between Western Swing, Hillbilly and Rockin' acts of the 40's / 50's but don't let looks fool you, you'll hear more than just 12 bar twang all night.
Never judge a band by it's name, cause the Cruisin' Deuces will be packing an almighty punch from a stripped back version of their normal lineup. This night will see trio versus trio, the Deuces will be in the form of Guitar, Double Bass and Pedal Steel kickin' off the Americana vibe earlier on and continuing to enthral theaudience as they have been doing consistently since forming in Sydney's inner west.
There will be 'No Drums Required' on this night……but rest assured there will be plenty of rhythm without a doubt.
Doors open from 9pm, just $10 at the door.


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Did you know that EU consumes 36.5 billion plastic drinking straws annually*?
Faroe Islands International Minority Film Festival (FIMFF) takes ecological aspects into account, both thematically and through implementation. During our first festival in 2017, we took the time to address the audience in attendance and announced that our event would be 100% plastic-straw free, both in our activities and the endorsed activities with our partners. We will continue implementing this vision for all our future events, and briefly outline the reasons for this decision, and its impact on the oceans, and how our events are proud to be excluded from such a harmful activity.


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