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May 20, 2017, was the 125th birthday of one Harry J. Anslinger, the Godfather of Reefer Madness. You may know him as the man behind such classic quotes as:
The primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races.
Marihuana is the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind.
Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice.
Anslinger was the first head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, the agency in charge of our nation's drug enforcement from the beginning of cannabis prohibition in 1937 (its ignominious 80th anniversary approaches on August 2).
Anslinger held that post until 1962, by which time he had secured his crowning achievement, the adoption by most of the United Nations of the 1961 Single Convention Treaty on Narcotic Drugs – which included the worldwide adoption of America's prohibition of cannabis.
Think of it. From FDR to JFK, racist cannabiphobe Harry J. Anslinger molded our nation's view on drugs for a quarter century.
In remembrance of the man who popularized reefer madness, I created a Twitter account called @AnslingersGhost. I was inspired by the modern-day equivalent to Anslinger, a group calling itself Parents Opposed to Pot, at poppot.org*.
You really have to read through a few of their pages to become convinced it's not some satirical exercise by The Onion. Nope, this is the real deal, an anti-marijuana legalization advocacy group, backed by such anti-pot stalwarts as millionaire Julie Schauer, who was second only to billionaire Sheldon Adelson in funding anti-legalization campaigns in 2016.
Anslinger must be proud to know his legacy of ludicrous fear mongering over cannabis continues long after his death in PopPot quotes like:
Reefer Madness is not an invention. A subset of the population develops psychosis and schizophrenia from using marijuana. No one has figured out who it is and or what the genetic markers might be. Estimates vary, but those susceptible to pot psychosis range from 3% (with the marijuana of the 70's) to 25% of the population (with the marijuana of today). With dabbing, edibles and other forms used today that rate may go up to 50%. How do we know who can go "mad" from using marijuana? The truth is we don't know until it happens.
Although Anslinger's version was a bit more florid:
Marihuana is a short cut to the insane asylum. Smoke marihuana cigarettes for a month and what was once your brain will be nothing but a storehouse of horrid specters. Hasheesh makes a murderer who kills for the love of killing out of the mildest mannered man who ever laughed at the idea that any habit could ever get him.
PopPot is also having none of your "marijuana doesn't kill anybody" talk, having documented all the people whose pot use led them to suicide:
According to a program of Dr. Drew Pinsky back in 2003, there is "an extraordinarily high incident [sic] of suicide in the first six months of marijuana abstinence."
These youths [sic] banish the claim that mental health problems always come before the marijuana use. (A strong misconception is that mental illness after using pot only affects those with previous mental health issues.) The deaths described here include active psychotic reactions at the time of marijuana use, as well as depression from long-term use.
Anslinger warned us this was going to happen:
Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death.
PopPot also tells us that sometimes those psychotic dopers turn the guns on others:
What triggers school violence? … To seek revenge and kill oneself after a disappointment is not normal. These youth came from the states that had legalized marijuana. Marijuana needs to be added to our discussion of what causes mass violence, along with violence in the media, access to guns, violent video games, etc.
Mass shooters James Holmes and Jared Loughner were known to be marijuana users — and not moderate in their use. Marijuana averages 13% THC today, opposed to 1-3% in the 1970s and 80s. Did marijuana feed their psychosis and the psychopathology of Fryberg, Pierson, Columbine killers and others?
Just as Anslinger prophesied four score years ago:
How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year, especially among the young, can only be conjectured…No one knows, when he places a marijuana cigarette to his lips, whether he will become a joyous reveller in a musical heaven, a mad insensate, a calm philosopher, or a murderer…
PopPot warns that marijuana may not kill the parents that smoke it, but they in turn will kill their children!
Yes, marijuana does cause death. Not necessarily of the pot smoker, but of the tender little people in the home.
Use of pot creates victims, including children who die from neglect or violence when parents, mothers' boyfriends or caregivers use pot.
We have been tracking news reports of child deaths linked to marijuana since November 2012. The columns show official causes of death related to the caregivers' marijuana use. We found news reports of 80 such deaths in 28 states; actual number could be much higher. Violent neglect includes marijuana DUI (6), guns (4) and pit bulls. The last column includes infants (5) who died shortly after birth.
Of course, we all know who these "pit bull" owners and "mothers' boyfriends" are, as Anslinger warned:
Colored students at the University of Minnesota partying with (white) female students, smoking [marijuana] and getting their sympathy with stories of racial persecution. Result: pregnancy.
There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.
But PopPot is ready to trump your playing of the "race card":
Marijuana was not banned because of racism. Massachusetts banned it in 1911, long before Harvey [sic] Anslinger worked to ban marijuana around 1930. Anslinger is the pot industry's excuse to accuse those who are opposed to legalization with racism. It is an accusation that doesn't hold up to scrutiny. California banned in 1913 and New York in 1914.
Funny thing about California in 1913, according to California NORML, is that they had a huge influx of marijuana-using Sikh laborers, who the media mistakenly identified as Hindu, leading the California State Board of Pharmacy member, Henry J. Finger, to write to Anslinger's predecessor, Hamilton Wright, the following warning:
Within the last year we in California have been getting a large influx of Hindoos and they have in turn started quite a demand for cannabis indica; they are a very undesirable lot and the habit is growing in California very fast…the fear is now that they are initiating our whites into this habit…
Naw, not racist at all…
Happy birthday to Harry J. Anslinger, who I imagine as currently suffering repeated sodomizations with red hot titanium dab nails by dreadlocked dab demons who are hot-boxing his cubicle in the Nixon wing of Hell, comforted only by the knowledge that his ideological spawn lives on in Parents Opposed to Pot Pot.
* Wouldn't "POPPOT" be "Parents Opposed to Pot Pot?" Or maybe it stands for "Parents Opposed to Pot, Parents Opposed to Truth."


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|Line-up & Performance Information | Lute Player
|Line-up: Ian is a solo performer that performs on Lute, Renaissance Guitar and Cittern.
|Performance Timings: Every event has different requirements with regards to timing and Ian will create a performance specifically tailored for your event.
|Arrival/Setup: Allow 60 minutes for setup
|PA/Lighting: Neither PA or lighting is required for this artist.
|Requirements: 6 x 6ft space / rider / parking / secure changing room
|Sound Limiters? Not applicable as acoustic performance.
|Additional Booking Options | Lute Player
|Earlier Arrival/Setup?: Setup is usually 1 hour before performance but if you require a much earlier setup (ie due to room 'turnaround' for example, please ask for a quote.
|Larger Band?: Yes, Ian can supply a larger band:
DUO: As an early music duo, playing Medieval and Renaissance music on the following instruments:
TRIO: As an early music trio: add extra Crumhorn, extra Recorder and Hurdy Gurdy.
|Clothing/Costumes?: Ian dresses in either Renaissance costume or smart suit as required.
|Daytime Performances?: Ian provides Medieval music for all different types of events including Church/Civil Ceremony Weddings, Drinks Receptions, Wedding Breakfasts, Dinners, Charity/Gala events and can be booked both in the daytime and evening.
Lute Player Ian the Luthier can perform on many different Medieval instruments including the Renaissance Guitar. Ian will help you arrange the perfect setlist for your Wedding or Event.
Songs Played on the Lute:
- Thomas Morley, 1599 – 'O Mistress Mine'
- John Dowland, c. 1620 – 'Mr. Dowland's Midnight'
- John Dowland, c. 1615 – 'Fortune'
- John Dowland, c. 1590 – 'Tarlton's Resurrection'
- John Dowland, c. 1590 – 'Mrs. Winter's Jump'
- John Dowland, c. 1590 – 'Robin is to the Green Wood Gone'
- Robert Johnson, 1610 – 'Where the Bee Sucks'
- Cesare Negri, 1602 – 'Il Bianco Fiore'
- Francis Cutting, c. 1595 – 'Francis Cutting's Toy'
- Francis Cutting, c. 1595 – 'The Squirrel's Toy'
- Francesco Canova da Milano, 1536 – 'Fantasia 7'
- Christopher Marlowe, c. 1590 – 'Come Live With Me and Be My Love'
- John Sturt, 1620 – 'The Lady Banning, Her Almand'
- Thomas Robinson, c.1600 – 'Robinsons May'
- The Lute Player | Ian Luthist (Original), 2001 – 'Lady Poplar's Gift'
- The Lute Player | Ian Luthist (Original), 2004 – 'The Twin Binding Fancy'
- The Lute Player | Ian Luthist (Original), 2006 – 'Fantasia Margherita Maria'
- Anon., England, 1610 – 'Gray's Inn Mask'
- Anon., England, 1600 – 'Prince's Mask'
- Anon., England, 1616 – 'Draw Near Me and Love Me'
- Anon., England, 1590 – 'Folger Dowland f.87r'
- Trad. England, c. 1601 – 'When That I Was'
- Trad., England, c. 1620 – 'Home Again, Market is Done'
- Trad., England, c. 1560 – 'Heart's Ease'
- Trad., England, 1584 – 'Calen O Custure Me'
- Trad., England, 1580 – 'Greensleeves'
- Trad., England, c. 1600 – 'How Should I Your True Love Know'
- Trad., England, 1583 – 'Rogero'
- Trad., England, 1590 – 'Kemps Jigge'
- Anon., Scotland, c. 1605-20 – 'Rowallan Untitled'
- Anon., Scotland, c. 1605-20 – 'Gypsies Lilt'
- Anon., Scotland, c. 1627 – 'The Canaries'
- Anon., Scotland, 1620 – 'Mure of Rowallan, f.5'
- Trad., France, 1589 – 'Belle Qui Tiens Ma Vie'
- Trad., France, 1603 – 'Branle et Branle Gay'
- Anon. Italy, c. 1502-1512 – 'Calata'
Songs Played on Renaissance Guitar:
- Anthony Holborne, 1599 – 'The Night Watch'
- Trad., England, 1620 and Germany, 1612 – 'La Volta'
- Trad., England, 1651 – Broom : 'The Bonny Bonny Broom'
- Trad., England, 1651 – 'Chestnut (or Dove's Figary)'
- Trad., England, 1651 – 'Jenny Pluck Pears'
- Trad., France, 1589 – 'Pinagay'
- Trad., France, 1589 – 'Branle des Lavandieres'
- Trad., France, 1589 – 'Branle d'Escosse'
Songs Played on Cittern:
- Trad., England, 1590 – 'Sellenger's Round'
- Trad., England, 1651 – 'Millison's Jig'
- Trad., England, 1590 – 'All in a Garden Green'
- Trad., England, 1590 – 'Gathering Peascods'
- Trad., England, 1587 – 'Go From My Window'
- Trad., England, 1618 – 'The little Barly-Corne'
- Trad., England, 1637 – 'Cuckolds All A Row'
- Trad., England, c. 1610 – 'Goddesses'
- Trad., France, 1589 – 'Branle Cassandre'
- Trad., France, 1589 – 'Branle des Hermites'
- Trad., France, 1589 – 'Branle des Chevaulx'
- Trad., France, 1589 – 'Branle de L'Official'
- Trad., Scotland, c. 1650 – 'Sweet Smiling Katie Loves Me'
- Thomas D'Urfey, 1706 – 'In the Fields in Frost and Snow'
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"… Absolutely fantastic … spectacular …"
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"… Exactly what I always hope I'm going to get … we sometimes forget what a fine guitarist he is, partly because his gentle but solid vocals and purity of tone are what tend to stick in the memory."
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"When you're as talented an instrumentalist as Ian, you have to be careful not to let the accompaniment dominate the song. Ian gets it absolutely right … a mature talent well in command of the material."
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"Dear Paula, thank you. We are extremely happy with Ian and Andy, and all the guests were too. They were the soul of the party. My only regret is that I should have gone for an even longer afternoon session! Kind regards, Davide"
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A prospective caterer must be finding out as much as they can about you in your first couple of discussions with them, so you ought to anticipate them to be talking and asking concerns about 20% of the time and you providing responses and outlining your needs about 80% of the time.
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Almost every catering service has a standard menu or menus to choose from, and many do provide some level of built-in flexibility to adapt these menus to your particular requirements by replacing particular items and/or customizing others.
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How will you ever understand exactly what a catering service can do unless you sample their goods? And more particularly, how will you know exactly what the menu items you are thinking about will taste like unless you particularly attempt them?
Some people avoid asking to sample the particular items they want for their event since it seems like a hassle for the catering service, but it is standard to request a sampling of exactly what you are planning to order before you sign on the dotted line.
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Are you an event supervisor who has to handle catering information, spending plans and projects?
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The catering service's agreement must plainly spell out exactly what food, drinks and services the caterer will be providing on the designated day( s). Furthermore, it should safeguard you from non-performance as much as it secures the catering service from non-payment/default, so you may wish to consider having a lawyer} take a look at it prior to you sign it.
Every detail needs to be consisted of in the contract, included chosen menus, variety of servings and/or people to be served, beverage/bar service details (if applicable) and all pricing and additional services.
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You don't want to be left without recourse with only days or hours prior to your event, so just make sure cancellation procedures and penalties are in place so you do have a backup plan.
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Absolute threshold of sensation
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- [Voiceover] The absolute threshold of sensation is the minimum intensity of a stimulus that is needed to detect a particular stimulus 50% of the time. So it is the lowest level of any stimulus that we can generally detect. And the 50% of the time clause here is actually really important. And this is for a number of reasons. One is individual differences. Simply put, at really low levels of a stimulus, some subjects can detect it while others cannot. There also might be differences within an individual. Think about maybe a time when your friend asks if you heard a sound, and you think maybe you did, but you're not entirely sure. Well that's what this 50% helps us take into account. So rather than asking, "What is the absolute "lowest sound a person is ever capable of hearing?" We want to know what is the lowest level of sound or light that a person can reliably hear or see. And let me try to graph this to make it look a little clearer. 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Another thing that might influence whether or not I hear the text message is alertness, meaning that I'm much more likely to notice it when I'm awake, as opposed to when I'm drowsy and half asleep on the couch. And before we move on, I also want to take a moment to talk about a term that's used to describe stimuli that we cannot detect 50% of the time, and that's subliminal. And maybe you've heard about subliminal messages before, and that's what this is referring to. It's referring to stimuli that is below our absolute threshold of sensation.


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We mentioned that Flirt used to be the only game in town when it came to hookup sites. While it certainly can't claim that title anymore, it still holds a permanent place in the online dating landscape. There's so much to like about MeetLocals, and it has an extremely loyal base of users to show for it.
This dating and hookup site features many ways to find potential partners. There's a great matching algorithm, as well as advanced search capabilities. You can also use the site's "hot or not" feature to playfully interact with other members. There's even a great geo-location feature, so you can see who's online in your immediate area.
No other dating platform can boast so many successful relationships, from hookups to marriages.
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Even if you don't find a match, you can entertain yourself all day on FriendFinder-X. There's all kinds of adult content for paid users, including XXX videos, live model webcams and erotic chat rooms. So, if you don't find the right casual encounter in the early stages, there's plenty to keep you occupied.
You can also search members by their individual kinks, or sexual interests if you're looking for something specific. Check out FriendFinder-X , it lets you fulfill your fantasies, regardless of sexual interest.


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20 Hilarious Camping Photos That Prove People Get Pretty Wild In The Great Outdoors
Five-star hotels make for nice, but pretty boring, vacations. For a trip full of surprises and unforgettable moments, you can't beat camping. You might wind up with a few more mosquito bites, sure, but the great outdoors will provide you with the best stories.
These twenty moments gave families and friends tales that they could share around the campfire for many years to come. Even your most bizarre camping memories can't compare to these far-out photos!
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An all-star jury composed of Arduino inventor Massimo Canzi, Arthur C Clarke Center director Sheldon Brown, tech artist Motor Comino, activist Jasmina Tesanovic and OG Cyberpunk Bruce Sterling are judging the Artmaker prize for the tenth annual Share Festival: this year's theme is "Sincerity" and the prize goes to "art works with the virtues of lucidity, honesty and clarity. Our theme for 2017 asks for self-evident truth and heartfelt emotion, and scorns all slyness, demagoguery and deceit."
You've got one week left to enter!
Our electronic network society has many virtues, but opacity, deceit and obscurantism are among its vices. For 2017, Share Festival raises its lantern of Diogenes to search for technical artworks that are honest.
How can a work be technically accomplished, yet also lucid, clear and trustworthy? How can art works gracefully remove the smoke-and-mirrors of mystification and make an art of explaining themselves? How can technology art treat the audience with justice, fairness and respect for their civilized intelligence? Who has the emotional courage to privilege the heartfelt confession over the domination of digital craft?
We sincerely invite you to enter your art work for this year's theme of 'Sincerity'.
Our stellar jury of international experts is searching for art works with the virtues of lucidity, honesty and clarity. Our theme for 2017 asks for self-evident truth and heartfelt emotion, and scorns all slyness, demagoguery and deceit.
On March 31, we will put our imaginary ideas to a pragmatic test with the new Share 'Artmaker' portable tool kit. This event will be a seminar in which some of Italy's best-known technology artists gather at the Torino Fab Lab to get hands-on with our new creative toolbox.
Why the 'Artmaker' tool set? Because standard, everyday art-supply stores never have the proper tools that the contemporary creative needs for creating machine art, kinetic art, device art, media installations and net.art. The modern tech-artist is a mobile person, and therefore needs lightweight, agile, durable road-equipment, so as to maintain or repair art-devices created in the heavy machine-shop, fab-lab or tech atelier.
Share Festival has therefore assembled the portable 'Artmaker' set, the first toolkit ever specifically curated for the pressing needs of today's technology-artists. These chosen hand-tools are beautiful, elegant, and well-designed, because most of them are manufactured in Italy. The entire set is so portable and lightweight that even a humanities graduate can lift it, and yet it is so intrinsically meaningful, so endowed with creative purpose that you, the artist, will immediately feel the urge to build something complicated with it. We sincerely promise that these tools will efficiently and usefully perform artistic functions!
The Artmaker toolkit is also supposed to be (a) affordable and (b) safe, and here we should frankly admit that our Share Festival Artmaker has some issues. These tools are gorgeous, but they cost a fortune and could easily kill you. So we will be publicly gathering our well-chosen Italian experts to confront the Artmaker set, to figure out whether its artist-users might be wounded or perhaps arrested in airports.
To accomplish this end, our brave volunteers will rehearse making some prototype art objects with the Artmaker's various blades, pliers, wires, vices, hammer, LED lights, Arduino board and its many other elegant yet ominous components. This March 31event will be the first time that the Share 'Artmaker' set has ever been used by people who know what they are doing. The audience will not participate in this seminar (because we lack the legal safety clearances), but it will probably be a lot of fun to watch.


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Chips talk to you as you walk around Ginza
This fascinating experiment is indicative of the real networked future, when buildings and companies will talk to you as you walk by. This is makes VRM the more essential, because I don't want to be bothered by every building as I walk by.
TOKYO – Downtown strollers looking for directions, store guides or historical tidbits will be able to get an earful without talking to anyone – thanks to 1,200 computer chips embedded around Tokyo's Ginza shopping district.
The information can be heard through earphones that pick up signals from chips stuck in cement, lampposts and subway-station ceilings. The 1 billion yen ($8.7 million) government-backed Tokyo Ubiquitous Technology Project spans several blocks.
University of Tokyo professor Ken Sakamura says the effort gives a glimpse into the future, when such chips will become so widespread that government offices and private businesses will use them to zap information to passers-by.
Source: Chattering chips enliven Tokyo stroll – Yahoo! News


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Hurrah — the "week of culture" is here!
From now until April 17, Italy's state-run museums and sites are free. (Yay!) In Rome, that includes the Colosseum, Forum, Palazzo Massimo, Galleria Borghese (where you can find Raphael's beautiful "Entombment," above) and Baths of Caracalla… to name a few. Take advantage!
Here's a complete list of sites with free entrances this week, from Pierreci (click on the drop-down beneath the map on the right to choose your region — Rome, of course, is Lazio).


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Laurent Koscielny's agent reveals why he wanted to quit Arsenal
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Arsenal captain Laurent Koscielny was considering leaving the club in the last transfer window before sustaining his achilles injury, according to his agent.
The France international was mulling over offers to move to China or return to his homeland until he suffered the nasty injury in the Europa League semi-final defeat to Atletico Madrid.
Koscielny, aged 32, was subsequently ruled out of the World Cup and has only recently returned to the Gunners' London Colney training ground to start his rehabilitation.
Prior to picking up the injury, he had been ready to call time on his Arsenal career at the same time as manager Arsene Wenger.
Koscielny's agent Stephane Courbis said: "At that time, Laurent was playing what might have been his final matches with Arsenal.
"Laurent started to consider a possible move away from Arsenal at the same time as Arsene. The moment was right, leaving as [a] new coach arrived. I had already anticipated this and two or three offers were making us think hard."
He added: "We were open to a number of options. China was one, as much as a return to France.
"Laurent could not see himself playing for another English team outside of Arsenal. Since Marseille's approach last season, the idea of a Ligue 1 return got him thinking – it was a real possibility."
With the injury likely to keep Koscielny sidelined until at least December, it now looks increasingly likely that he will see out his contract at the Emirates Stadium.
He is tied to the Gunners until June 2020, and had previously intimated that he would leave on a free transfer at that stage.


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Hyatt Award Nights Will Soon Count Toward Elite Status
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World of Hyatt is changing for the better come January 1, 2018, bringing one component of the chain's loyalty program in line with the competition and improving a second as well.
Two changes go into effect on New Year's Day:
- All free night awards will count toward elite status
- Free nights issued after achieving status levels will expire after 180 days, up from 120
That first bullet was a Hyatt loyalist pain point for many years. It's better late than never, I guess, but Starwood Preferred Guest has counted award stays toward status since 2011, for example — and six years is a lifetime when it comes to loyalty programs matching competitor benefits.
The second adjustment is a welcome change for sure, but Hyatt was already ahead of the curve with its new elite free night certificates — you get one valid at Category 1-4 properties after reaching the Explorist level, which requires 30 nights or 50,000 base points in a calendar year, plus a second valid at Category 1-7 properties after reaching the Globalist level, which requires 60 nights or 100,000 base points. Free night certificates earned in 2018 will expire after 180 days, instead of 120.
World of Hyatt's new management has confirmed that moving forward the chain's goal is to improve the program with positive enhancements — as of now, there aren't any devaluations on the horizon, and there's no question that today's announcement represents a change for the better.
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