Faderman (Speaking for Ourselves) offers a perspective on immigration to this country that artfully combines the personal and the universal. By linking together 35 narratives from Hmong immigrants displaced from their native Laos by the war in Vietnam, she uncovers their common concerns, such as gender relations, parental control and assimilation to technology. Many first-generation Hmong came to the U.S. from relocation camps in Thailand, after escaping the Communists, and those experiences have shaped their interaction within the technology-based American culture. However, second-generation Hmong straddle the demands of their birthplace with the expectations of their parents. The differences between these generations offer a clear picture of what the Hmong and other immigrant groups face when confronted by societal change. Faderman's inclusion of the Hmong's history in Laos and China provides a context for the first-person accounts and deepens our awareness of the obstacles they've overcome in adjusting to their new country. This enriching book fulfills the author's aim "to capture [the Hmongs'] living voices, and to make those voices resound in the reader's ears." Photos.


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Addends Towers In Full Motion.
You have seen pictures and descriptions of addends towers and other games at Crewton Ramone's House of Math since pretty much day one, but here it is on video for the first time. This is a staple of Mortensen Math. You HAVE to set the rules for the lesson: they have to build the levels with addends not just four 7's or whatever.
These two little girls are a ton of fun and a bit of a challenge when it comes to behavior management. This was part of a lesson that engaged them the whole hour. At the end of it we did algebra but we barely got started and it was time to go...it felt like they were there for 5 or 10 minutes. Thus proving my own axiom to myself: "make it fun."
With these two I just have to get a little more creative and keep things moving so te have little or no time to quarrel with each other...and certainly no time to get bored. I fully understand in a classroom situation you can't make it exciting every single minute, that would be exhausting for everybody; however, on the other hand some classrooms are so boring the kids get diagnosed with ADD or ADHD, they're not attention deficient, they bored to tears. Solution: drugs.
I have a different solution. Engage the student with MRE's. Math Rich Environments. Make sure those MRE's are activity rich too. Book work is boring. Necessary, but boring for little kids. As they get older you will be moving to symbols anyway but at the younger ages they need hands on activities. Think of it the same way you think of teaching reading. In the beginning the books have a lot more pictures than words and gradually move to words, but by 7 there is still lots more page devoted to pictures than to words.
And as always don't just use these powerful tools to teach addition and place value. You can use them to teach counting through calculus...and one day you will see that as I use algebra to teach counting you can use calculus to teach counting and multiplication too...so literally teach counting through calculus.
The best way to start any lesson on Math Symbols is with a three period lesson. You may need to repeat it once or twice...it's important that they hear you read the symbols and that you add meaning as you go.
Here is a synopsis of about 30 minutes of a lesson on some math symbols. We had also done this several times before. This student is Autistic which doesn't mean can't learn, it means takes more time and impressions to get info into the part of the brain where it can be recalled. This one is often missed by students who have made the rule hard and fast in their heads two negatives equal a positive: -|-3| because they don't understand the concept of absolute value and fail to read the math symbols correctly.
When doing absolute value I often just talk about the block itself doesn't matter what side it's on a four block is "four" long. In her case though this explanation didn't sit as well because she wanted to be sure the block was on the positive side since all absolute values are positive. Other students seem to get the idea of "it's four from here to here" no matter which way you go. This also explains why the difference of two negative numbers is still positive.
Bright young students might inquire why it is that -22 - -28 = 6 where all the numbers are negative and we're even subtracting! The answer somehow ends up positive.
The difference can be explained in terms of direction on a number line, but as far as I have seen number lines and direction help confuse things, not clarify them. It's not about direction, it's about distance. The amount of "space" between the numbers, delineated by numbers themselves. Most kids don't ask. Might be wise not to bring it up especially with students who have poor self confidence in math. For the inquisitive ones and older students it can quickly devolve into a discussion on philosophy. How do you know the distance from here to here is four...? Keep it simple instead.
Explain what the math symbols mean and use blocks to bring the points home. Integers are no problem if presented properly. Look for more lessons on integers here on this blog and at the house of math where Sarah has her own page. The way I see it if you can explain it to Autistic students or little kids in a way they can understand then adults and older students as well as "gifted" students should be duck soup. Most of the time this is true. Often you have to get through math anxiety and other problems first with the older students.
Bottom line keep it simple.
I have made 100's of dollars re-explaining integers and reading symbols to all manner of students and have almost universally heard that using blocks makes it easier. Of late I have run into a lot of students who just want something to memorize rather than wanting to understand...understanding concepts is better.
I used to keep a overhead slide of a Far Side Cartoon By Gary Larsen with me as I introduced my two hour lecture on Problem Solving. It showed a picture of the devil and a bunch of books; on closer inspection all the books were story problems and the caption read "Libraries in Hell".
Of course the vid gets cut off at the very end. If you watch it we will see that Spaceman Spiff catches him after 3 minutes. How far away from the moon base are they when he does? An astounding 90+% of students can NOT do two stage problems, that is solve a problem to get the answer to another problem. Once I find X, I can evaluate the equations and see if they are same. In mathematics once we find one variable we can usually find other variables easily. If we understand the concepts.
In calculus we study one and several variables. I used to start my pre-calc lecture where we just did linear algebra by asking the people in the room especially college graduates and teachers to give me a short definition of calculus anybody could understand. 99.99999% of the time none of them could. They might come up with some convoluted definition that even they were somewhat unsure of or come up with a very complex definition that they understood but when asked the rest of the room was not able to make sense of it...and I we would all laugh. This happened in cities from Maine to Maui and everywhere in between. The stress test was always could a little kid "get it." I have a simple definition. Look for it in an upcoming blog post meantime think of one for yourself if you've studied calculus.
So we start off with X.
Lets take this problem for example. 3x + 4 = 2x + 9 we can tell a story about Spaceman Spiff, or snowball fights, or we can just play with the blocks and add more meaning later. The idea is not to just give them a set of rules. Give them concepts and algorithms that make sense and that they can see in action.
The basic concepts in use here are Hero Zero, No Fun Get Back To One and of course the rectangle.
They can then use those concepts and algorithms to DO math, rather than just memorizing rules and process...which we have seen DOES NOT WORK. But who is in charge of math education? The 5% who easily memorized rules and process...see the problem? Good, because they don't.
The problem solving page is starting to grow. There is also a Password Protected Problem Solving Page now with more stuff on it. There are tons of common, perennial classic, story problems that students get exposed to during their journey through mathematics. Rate and Distance, Boat and Stream, Percents, Mixture and Solution, (I have some 5% solution and some 12% solution, how much 12% solution do I have to mix with 5% solution to get 8% solution)...there also some like in the case of ordered pairs that they don't get exposed to and never get to understand. I know a ton of students that could not tell you that an ordered pair could be a story about a water tank or a doughnut factory and the resulting equation could be a graph of the production or amount of water as it fills the tank. All they "know" is slope intercept form, y = mx + b, and points on a graph. Half the time they can't remember which is the x and y axis. How this relates to a story about a tank of water or factory or anything else.
I have a doughnut factory. After 3 hours, there were 16 cases of doughnuts, and after 8 hours, there were 31 cases of doughnuts how many cases where there to begin with and how many cases do they make per hour? That's the most basic story. You can do the same with a tank of water, after 3 hours 16 feet of water after 8 hours, 31 feet of water in the tank. How fast is the tank filling up and and how much water must have been in there to start?
Then you can throw extra bells and whistles like the tank holds 40 feet of water how long does it take to fill? Go negative and drain the tank...use 39 and make them do fractions...but make sure the concepts are understood before you do any of that.
You can find many amazing and easy ways to explain these in the Series A Manuals from Mortensen Math. Eventually, I will make videos of all of these kinds of problems but it takes time because I take the many steps in the degrees of difficulty...and don't just dive in and do the problems. Parents and Home schoolers seem to appreciate this, but it's driving some of the math teachers crazy.
This method is slower at first but pretty soon it goes faster and faster until it surpasses traditional methods by far and you see little ten year old kids that seem like geniuses...it all starts with a game for 4 year olds called "what's under the cup?"
There is also some problem solving going up on Sarah's Page.
Nines seem to pose a bit of a problem for a lot of students but actually it's one of the easiest times tables because there are so many "tricks" you can use to count and multiply by nines.
Here is another video showing yet another way to do it...there are more ways. Here is counting by nines with younger students.
There is a way to use your fingers too. I have to make a short vid on that one too...meantime here is a short post on a simple way to count rapidly by nines.
Basically, we are playing advanced "what's under the cup?" but the name of this game is "finding stuff that's same on both sides."
It's fun and even easier than "what's under the cup?" if you do it right. Start off easy and all positive and no fractional answers.
The answers to problems like these are visually obvious. Once you remove the stuff that's same on both sides, this is a slightly more advanced problem because it involves hero zero AND no fun get back to one. The boys can see the answers and what to do. It's FUN when you get it right. Some observant people have noted there are 5x worth of manipulatives on the one side instead of 4, don't worry we sort it out in the longer video.
Here is the short version where all they do is set up this problem, in the full video we solve this one and several more. The boys say they are easy-peezy. I know several high school students who would beg to differ...as well as a few home school moms.
Bob and Jay are out of town. Bob is trying to catch Jay. Bob is on his skate board going 4 miles an hour, Jay is walking along at 2 miles an hour. Bob is one mile out of town and Jay is 9 miles out of town. How long does it take Bob to catch Jay and how far out of town are they when he does?
Or you could make it a little more difficult: Jay is walking at 2 miles an hour and is 9 miles out of town. Bob is only 1 mile out of town but is walking twice as fast. How long does it take Bob to catch Jay and how far out of town are they when he does?
Bob and Jay are going to have a snow ball fight. Bob has 1 snow ball and Jay has 9, which isn't fair. So they each build more snowballs. Jay works for 2 minutes and Bob works for 4 minutes, they build the same amount of snowballs per minute and when they are done they each have the same amount of snow balls. How many snow balls do they have and how many did they make each minute?
Be sure to check out the previous blog post on problem solving for more. And if you want to see the entire video get yourself a password and go here.
Math is more fun if you make a game of it. But eventually games are no fun if they are too easy and present no challenge. They are also no fun if they are too hard. There is a game called "what's under the cup?" that many think is just for little kids.
The idea is to start easy then advance by degrees. You will find that pretty soon your students are doing some pretty "serious" algebra. The idea is to understand the concepts and the way you do that is obviously not to memorize a lot of rules and formula. In fact, you will see students begin to make up their own rules as they get better at playing "what's under the cup?"
At first problems like these pose a challenge as the students are learning to count, and can pose a problem for some students when these are first introduced in 5th or 6th grade. They get confused with "inverse addends" and "inverse functions", as well as rules about walking across the equals sign...just tell me what has to be under the cup.
Once this game becomes easy, you can move on to more advanced what's under the cup. Problem Solving is easy and you will see their thinking skills improve as they use their computation skills to start doing math via algebra. I thought this lesson was about 10 minutes long, turns out it's 25 minutes long. Times flies when your having math.
The video above will be added to the Problem Solving page. Which is about to undergo a revamp...or I may have to add a another page or two. Meantime you can search "Crewton Ramone Problem Solving" in your favorite search engine or on Youtube.
Look us up on Facebook and Twitter...you might consider a password as a donation. This project is pretty much 100% powered by passwords and some larger donations I have received. People are quick to send me emails asking questions, advice, and for videos on specific topics but pretty slow to send even three bucks. Those who buy combo kits or take lessons get free passwords and those who donate 25 bucks or more have found they get vids made for them pretty quickly and everybody gets a response to email eventually...some quicker than others, but I generally answer them all. If you already have base ten blocks or know somebody who does, make sure you let them know about this site and encourage them to get a password.
Algebra is just generic math. We count stuff. That stuff has names. We can use it for lots of things. Problem solving. Honing our critical thinking skills. Learning to count. Simple stuff like that.
This nine year old can already count, so all I'm doing is giving him new stuff to count. That stuff has names, like "x to the third" and "x squared" and "x", you can also teach kids who are just learning the names of numbers these too: it's just more vocabulary. Mostly I find that the teachers themselves are the ones who have a bias against counting "x to the thirds" due to their own ill experiences with math, but really, to little kids it's just counting.
Little kids actually enjoy algebra because it's like learning with puzzles...the teacher can add more or less meaning as needed, depending on age and skill level.
This little snippet may look impressive but if you watch the whole thing which is on the "advanced" algebra page you can see it was easy and fun and it was a natural progression. The child even made up the problem himself.
I watched the long version of the video with a certain pair of students who were four and six and they made me stop the video so they could answer before the child in the video did. You can also do this with your students. I know three bucks is a lot to pay for a home made 22 minute video but you also get pdf's and access to literally 50+ more videos. Go crazy and spend 12 bucks and you get that access for a year and you'll see how much stuff I add weekly is worth a buck a month.
It will be a while before we move into negative expressions and we still have to play around quite a bit before we start setting these equal to zero and solving them and then move on to graphing them. One step at a time.
Also for homework you could take that last problem we did and draw it so that one side is x2 + 2x + 1 and the other is 3x + 2. You'll get the same thing just in a different shaped rectangle. There's often more than one way to factor third and fourth degree problems.
Addition, Multiplication, Fractions and Algebra, Oh My!
This is a short snippet from a video that's 26 minutes long which you can find on the sample lessons page.
This is short and simple, all the lessons in this class were too. Math is always easy when you can see it and the concepts are "visually obvious".
We started reducing fractions and SEEING the common factor, he was getting them all correct but then got snagged on this one. He only saw the symbols not the blocks as soon as they can see the blocks it's easy, and only requires the most basic counting skills. 14/35 without the blocks requires some multiplication and/or division skills in order to discover the common factor.
Then we moved on to other basic operations like addition and subtraction, and of course we played around a little in algebra, factoring polynomials. The whole video requires a password...although some people got a link to it free on Facebook.
As you watch the longer video you should be able to see the five concepts in action and why I stress multiplication facts mastery. You need to be able to count quickly, and being able to do so will allow you to see patterns and relationships easily. For example 14/35 is the same as 2/5. Further, it's easy to see (2/5)(7/7) = 14/35 and of course (14/35)/(7/7) = 2/5. Later when the numbers are more complex, the basic concepts will remain the same. Also 2/5 = x/35 will also be easy.
Anyhow, the 26 minute video is full of math; short lessons that should be easy for you to duplicate. They all blend together into what we call basic operations. For more go to the House Of Math. If you are new to all of this you can watch a short vid that shows what happens to little kids when they are taught this way, watch an overview of the Mortensen Math method and peruse a ton of videos on various topics.
Crewton Ramone Math is Counting With Savmack.
The twins who have both now figured out first had that having fun with math and fooling around are not exactly the same thing, and they both have the time outs to prove it had a great fast fun lesson with math. We learned a few concepts and mostly practiced what we already knew. We practiced addends, algebra and factoring also spent time seeing that multiplication and division "go together".
The idea is to introduce simple concepts one or two at a time. that way it's never scary or overwhelming. Traditional approaches seem to confuse introducing concepts into bite size pieces with segmentation to the point where the whole is lost. You want to trickle feed the information but the feed has to be continuous and cohesive. What often ends up happening is reduction to the ridiculous where students get lost in computation without seeing the whole picture. They get confused and think computation IS math, instead of understanding that computation is part of doing math.
Anyhow, the idea is to keep it simple and keep it at or below the child's level and add "challenges" as they are ready. The worst thing you can do is put a child in a position where they can't succeed. Note who they tell me how easy it is and this is the cue to make it a little harder using two red squares...they get it after a little work, and it's self correcting. Keep the basic concepts in mind as you introduce more math concepts.
See what happens when this approach is used early on...here.
This shot is from the end of the lesson where we squeeze in a couple of problems in Algebra, he factors a couple of polynomials. It's fun and easy and a nice break from "all the fractions stuff."
This lesson brought home the point that multiplication makes ALL the other math easier because it allows you to count very quickly. You can do these problems without having multiplication facts down but it sure takes longer. Little kids who only have the ability to count should still be exposed to these concepts but the problems should be smaller and easier to count.
The concept of one, common factors, and equivalent fractions and multiplication and division are all bundled up into one here and should be deconstructed for the student so they can see each part and how it goes together.
This video covers the hour lesson from start to finish. We start with all 45 addends, move to multiplication mostly just to see his progress, and we do a little subtraction, he asks for help with fractions and so we do some and then end with algebra again the hour flies by. This vid is packed with concept rich content.
You may notice that we discuss the basic concepts in passing as we go along. This is a longer video and I've found many people won't watch it as soon as they see the time. If you have children who are learning fractions concepts you may want to take the time at some point to show them this video as they will SEE the common factor and why it is that "as we do above so we do below." Rather than just giving the rule of dividing both the numerator and denominator by the same number. We we move on to more complex algebraic fractions the concept remains the same.
My fractions page is still in disarray but you can find links and more vids there too, plus some PDF's, people seem to want fractions worksheets and I need to get more made, but there are a few there right now.
Find me on Facebook, and Twitter and you might want to subscribe to my Youtube channel as many videos go there that don't make it here. You can find sessions that I document for parents and such. On the entire internet there is only one Crewton Ramone. Also now you can usually easily find follow up vids if you notice the P1 in front of the tittle...just go to the password pages and look for P2 and P3 with identical titles.


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Q: Posting form data with .serialize() PHP error I'm posting form data that includes some checkboxes and other input to a PHP script with jQuery's .serialize().
post.js:
$(function(){
$("#button").click(function(){
    $.ajax({
        type: "POST",
            url: "post.php",
            data: $("form#input").serialize(),

    success: function(data){
        $.getJSON('post.php', function(data) {
                        $.each(data, function(key, val) {

                        })
        })
    }
    })
    })
})

post.php:
$tags = array();
foreach($_POST['checkboxes'] as $key => $value){
  $tags[] = "$value";
}
$json = array(
  array(
    "tags" => $tags,
  ),
);
echo json_encode($json);

If I point the getJSON to post.php I get a PHP warning in my error log that says "PHP Warning:  Invalid argument supplied for foreach()" and this causes the data from the input form to not be properly passed (i.e. a fwrite after the foreach doesn't write anything). If I reference another file for the getJSON, say data.php, or if I don't include it at all, the post works fine. Why is this happening? I could just store the data and make a second script to return the JSON data but it would be easier to do it all in one script.

A: Here's the deal:
success: function(data){

In the above piece, the data you are recieving is the returned json_encoded string containing key:value pairs of $tags, as you defined.
$.getJSON('post.php', function(data) {

Now, in your getJSON request you are passing over no values, and your foreach statement expects you to post the values of checkboxes so they can be parsed, and the tags be made. I'm not really sure I understand why you would want to do this, as the success: function(data) will natively parse the JSON being returned from the server and will be ready for you.
$.each(data, function(key, val) {

If you just simply lose the $.getJSON request, and use the each function, you will be iterating over the tags that you return from the server. I believe this is the intended functionality you want.

A: your code is breaking when checkboxes are not posted
$tags = array();
if( array_key_exists('checkboxes', $_POST) && is_array($_POST['checkboxes']) ) {
    $tags = array_values($_POST['checkboxes']);
}

$json = array(
  array(
    "tags" => $tags,
  ),
);
echo json_encode($json);

A: You're getting Invalid argument supplied for foreach because it expects a value in $_POST['checkboxes'] which you're not sending in your $.getJSON call.
$.getJSON sends another AJAX call, a GET request to get a JSON file.  You already sent a POST request to post.php, you don't need to send another call.
Add dataType: 'json' to your 1st call, and the JSON response will be parsed for you.
$.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    url: "post.php",
    data: $("form#input").serialize(),
    dataType: 'json',
    success: function (data) {
        $.each(data, function (key, val) {
            // code here
        });
    }
});

A: you don't have to invoke "getJSON" because you already have what you want. Everything you need is in data. So your "success" callback should look something like this:
function(data){
    var jsonData = $.parseJSON(data);
    $.each(jsonData, function(key, val) {

    })
}

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Beauty lies in the eyes of a beholder. But, pretty amazing things also lie in the eyes. Here are some of the amazing facts about it. A blink of an eye lasts for about 1/10th of a second. And, you blink about 12 times every minute. Similarly, your eyes can distinguish 10 million colours. However, new born babies cry but their eyes can not produce tears until they are a month old. Also, almost 200 million people have some defect with their eyes. And, the condition of having two different coloured eyes is called heterochromia. So, these facts about the eyes make it to our list of fun facts about humans.
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Going forward, almost every electronic device in your house, or in your work environment, is going to be connected to the network or internet and sending data of one kind or another back to its manufacturer. For example, if you walk into a conference room, the light switch could be wireless. The HVAC is probably wireless, which is the far more cost-effective option these days. The ROI for the company is immediately obvious. You can completely reconfigure an environment at minimal cost because now everything is wireless.
Most of the growth in the devices market comes from headless devices. Combine these headless devices with BYOD, and organizations are dealing with a massive influx of devices coming into the network that IT teams simply do not have the same control over that they traditionally had.
Part of the problem is that people, both at home and in the workplace, might not grasp the risk to their information if they keep these "headless" devices connected yet unsecured. There has been a massive spike in the amount of malware targeting unprotected IoT devices. However, protecting these IoT devices by cutting them off from the wider network and the cloud can seriously impact their value to the organization. The back-end data that these devices stream online may be why they were chosen in the first place, which means they're not much use if a firewall is blocking them.
Even just four or five years ago, almost anything that was on your network was locked down. You knew exactly what it was, and you had full control over it. It may have also been possible to make the argument that it wasn't totally necessary to have security fully integrated, from your policies in the middle all the way out to your edge – where the endpoints connect to the network. That's because you owned and controlled the edge. Today that is no longer the case.
Cybercriminals have not overlooked this significant opportunity. The lack of control you have over your "edge" network makes your entire network vulnerable. This is why an integrated and cohesive approach to cybersecurity is critical to defend these new headless and BYOD device environments. And the reality is that if you really want security at the wireless access portion of your network, you need a topology that extends network security all the way to the endpoint device.
This requires two things. First, WLAN security needs to be tied to the larger security framework, allowing security policies and protocols to be applied to all data wherever it travels to or resides. Second, organizations need to implement a reliable and secure BYOD and IoT onboarding process that includes identification, authentication and tracking all connected systems in a dynamic and centralized inventory system where they can be monitored, cross-checked against known vulnerabilities and exploits, and be subject to policy orchestration. The reality is that far too many organizations have no idea what is on their networks at any given moment, and if they remain unchecked, they represent a huge liability to the organization.
What these environments call for is network segmentation. The concept of internal segmentation essentially means deploying network-based security enforcement technology throughout the extended network, even into the cloud, and not just at the traditional edge and chokepoints between places in the network.
The standard deployment method for firewalls is to place them at the outer edge of the network, and often about as far away from valuable data as they can possibly be. Because a firewall generally only inspects the traffic that passes through it, this distance between security and the valuable data you need to protect can lead to vulnerabilities caused by malware that has managed to breach your external defenses and now lives inside your network. Traditional firewalls aren't any help because they do not provide any security beyond the point on the perimeter where they have been deployed. And this problem is compounded by WLAN and BYOD.
For example, headless devices are often "unmanaged," making it very difficult to determine if they've been compromised. Consider a device like an IoT thermostat. If it continued to pass temperature data regularly to other devices, as was expected, how would your firewall know if it was also busy accessing your financial records and sending that data to an outside server through that same port?
To address this challenge, BYOD, guest networks, IoT and other such solutions need to be considered, by definition, to be inside your perimeter. You can accomplish this through the implementation of internal segmentation firewalls (ISFWs). ISFWs are an integrated system of defenses placed at critical points across the network to monitor and inspect laterally moving data. These firewalls can also be positioned to protect servers that host valuable data or even a set of devices or cloud-located web applications.
Additionally, ISFWs segment the network with the goal of separating traffic, protecting network resources, and controlling malware propagation. When an outbreak or a breach occurs, ISFWs are then able to immediately restrict attacks to an isolated location or network segment, thereby minimizing their ability to spread to the rest of the network.
Protection: Network security is in place to thwart attacks. Without an ISFW, the security team may spend weeks or months sorting through data, log files and alerts to find and respond to attacks. An ISFW eliminates that overhead by proactively implementing segmentation and protection in order to defend against attacks and malware in real time by leveraging the latest security updates to see threats wherever they occur across the network.
Flexibility: One of the primary benefits of ISFWs is the ability to place them anywhere across the network. This flexibility not only expands security touch points but also allows the internal network to be integrated with other parts of the enterprise security system into one unified view. Further, ISFWs allow the organization to quickly insert security into the network where it's needed most with minimal impact to critical business processes.
Visibility: When an ISFW is deployed, CISOs and their network security teams gain immediate visibility into the traffic that's moving in and out of and between specific network assets. With this deeper visibility into the network, they can quickly identify abnormal traffic and behaviors and make actionable decisions in real time, without needing days or weeks of advanced preparation.
Digital transformation creates an opportunity for organizations to take advantage of connected technologies like cloud, mobility, analytics, IoT, and BYOD. It also creates huge cybersecurity headaches, as the perimeter begins to vanish and enterprises no longer own their network's edge.
This is why securing IoT, and BYOD Wi-Fi environments is no longer a "nice to have" but a mission-critical objective. Having good segmentation that extends all the way down to the access layer is key. That's because while an uncompromised thermostat will never attempt to move into areas of the network it shouldn't, a compromised one certainly might.
Using a variety of isolated security solutions leaves seams between areas of security coverage, creating or exposing vulnerabilities. This is why a holistic, integrated and overarching security layer is essential. With proper segmentation, you can create checkpoints to ensure that the policies you set up are being applied everywhere across the network. As digitization continues its inexorable march through the business world, organizations must take advantage of new technologies and strategies to secure their networks and digital assets in new and stronger ways.
Chris Hinsz is currently a Director of Product Marketing for Wireless at Fortinet. Chris has been in the wireless LAN space for 18+ years, designing, managing and marketing wireless products. In that time, he has attended IEEE802.11 meetings as well as the Wi-Fi Alliance, including acting as Chair of its Enterprise Task Group.


Khord Kitty. Art by Dazreiello.
Khord Kitty, also known as Gabe (born July 23, 1986), is a fursuiter who lives in Oakdale, California, USA.
Born in Rochester, New York, Khord moved to the Bay Area at age of 9 and staying in California until he was 24. He moved to Illinois, New York City, and then Rio Vista, CA. He started playing piano at the age of 4, drawing at 6, acting, dancing and singing at 9, songwriting at 12, filmmaking at 13, and animation at 14. Khord received his Bachelor of Music in Music Composition from San Jose State University in 2010.
Khord also has interests in psychology, tetris, politics, and music theory. He spends most of his time on the computer or taking care of his son Damian, born December 30th 2016.
Khord Kitty. Art by Thalion.
Khord's professional career is being a background actor. He has been seen in various TV shows, feature films, short films, student films, and commercials.
His secondary career is playing piano. He has played piano for graduations, parties, in bands, orchestras, in musical pits, and studio recordings. He also sang professionally from 2007-2011.
Growing interested in furry culture in high school. Khord started browsing VCL in 2001 and made his first interaction with a furry on FurryNation in 2007. Khord was introduced to conventions and furmeets in 2008 by the first furry he met; Emerald Sage, at San Jose State University. He attended Crack Chicken frequently from 2008-2010.
Khord started actively instant-messaging furries in April 2009, after being invited to Skype by Iaran Frye-Carter, a furry he met through Yahoo! Answers. After that started adding thousands of furries from the Fur_Affinity member list and various other furry skype groups. In 2016 he started frequenting Telegram and Facebook messenger more because recent Skype updates slowed the program down significantly.
Khord Kitty was on the registration staff for Further Confusion 2010 and staff hospitality staff for BABScon 2016. He attended furmeets in Champaign, Illinois in the summer of 2011, and several in New York City from 2011-2015. He also attended the infamous New Jersey FurBQ in 2011.
On independence day in 2014 he received, Khord Kitty, commissioned from Locado. The body of the suit was stolen on his trip home from AnthroCon_2017 on the Greyhound bus home. He has participated in 25 fursuit dance competitions and placed in 12. He also founded the dance competition at Pacific Anthropomorphics Weekend.
Khord holds the unofficial record for fursuiting at the most conventions in a year. He attended 22 in 2015. At Furlandia 2016 he proposed to Bun Bun and married her at Pacific Anthropomorphics Weekend 2016. They had this first child, Damian, on December 30th 2016.
Khord's fursona is a female, feral white Shorthair werecat created on June 20, 2009. The name "Khord" originates from the term "Chord", a musical term for pitches being played simultaneously.
She has a black vertical stripe on her back, and heterochromic with a blue left eye and green right eye. Unlike most weres, she can never turn back to her human form and takes an appearance contrasting traditional portrayals of weres. The stripe is both symbolic of a black note on a piano, as well as a tire mark referencing Khords backstory.
Khord Kitty was originally a male human named Chris. Chris was cursed when he ran over a cat during a drunken after-party drive. That unnamed cat had a karma spell which cursed Chris. The spell made Chris have to become Khord Kitty. With no memory of her previous human form, Khord's personality is playful, curious, cheeky, and sly.
2018 2017-2018 The Dragon Within Comedy, classical, rock, electronica, Free Download The first musical to feature an all-fursuiter cast. Musical written 2017-2018. Performed May 13th 2018 in Reno, Nevada at the Biggest Little Fur Con. The vocalists in the soundtrack are Autumn Otter, Beeton Nukicoon, Luxeon Jade, Malcolm Bear, and Anonymous. Pommy provided dialogue for the staged production.
2011 2005-2011 Pawsed [Explicit Content] Comedy, classical, rock, electronica, Free Download Novelty songs and instrumental works.
2010 2005-2010 Besides B-Sides Comedy, jazz, experimental, electronica, showtunes Free Download Novelty songs, covers, and instrumental works.
2010 2005-2010 Besides B-Sides Monster 2.0 [Explicit Content] Showtunes, Classical, Jazz Free Download Novelty songs, covers, skits, and instrumental works.
2010 2006-2010 Neo-Everything Classical Free Download Classical style instrumental and vocal works made as a part of the Music Composition program at SJSU.
2010 2008-2009 Arise Zombie Jesus [Explicit Content] Comedy, holiday Free Download Novelty works and Christmas parodies.
2010 2005-2010 Cluster-Falsetto and the Emos A Cappella, chamber pop Free Download Choral covers and originals with several chamber pop works.
2010 2005-2009 Cover(s For) Your Ears [Explicit Content] Comedy, pop Free Download Vocal covers and parodies of pop tunes. Tracks 6,11,13,17 sung by DJ Jake and edited by Khord.
2010 2005-2009 InstruMental Disorder Electronica, classical, pop, jazz Free Download Instrumental works and skits.
2010 2004-2009 M.A.P. - Major Abortion Promotion [Explicit Content] Comedy Free Download Novelty Original Songs.
2010 2001-2009 MiVox Live Showtunes, Classical, Jazz Free Download Covers recorded live in front of an audience.
↑ Khord Kitty's profile on the Nystatefurs.proboards.com. Retrieved March 7, 2013.
↑ Khord Kitty's profile on MyFur Network. Retrieved March 7, 2013.


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Vaccination to achieve herd immunity, rigorous controls helpful for countering Delta variant
Chen Qingqing
Chen Qingqing co-leads the Global Times China desk. She covers diplomacy, Hong Kong affairs and Chinese tech firms.
A medical worker prepares a dose of COVID-19 vaccine at the Universal Studios Hollywood in Los Angeles, California, the United States, June 18, 2021.(Photo: Xinhua)
China is not the only country fighting against the mutated variant of the SARS-CoV-2, which emerged late last year and began to rampage in recent days as more countries like the US and Singapore revised their public health guidelines amid a surge in Delta variant cases. Cities in Australia and Cambodia are being placed under lockdown again to curb the highly contagious variant.
"Acknowledge the war has changed," read a recent internal memo of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), underscoring how serious Delta variant infections could be. The variant is described as being as contagious as chickenpox, and the US reported another huge single-day increase in new cases - over 100,000 on July 31, local media reports said.
Hospitals across the US are bracing for an increase in cases as the Delta variant spreads among people who are not vaccinated. Multiple southern US states are reporting record numbers.
Countries such as Australia and Cambodia have already imposed lockdowns in an attempt to curb the Delta variant -- for example, the army has been deployed to enforce quarantine orders in Australian cities like Brisbane and Sydney.
More European nations like Italy and France, which have already re-introduced isolation measures, faced backlash as dozens of protesters appeared to be angry about going back to the lockdown lifestyle, showing their eagerness to return to a pre-pandemic lifestyle.
Both Chinese and foreign epidemiologists said it's highly likely that the public will have to live with the virus for a while. While it's necessary to adopt strict epidemic prevention and control measures, it's more important to accelerate mass vaccinations, which could still protect people from the Delta variant.
Fresh COVID-19 outbreaks mostly triggered by the Delta variant in China also challenged the country's hard-won anti-epidemic victory, as 55 new local cases were reported on Sunday.
The latest outbreaks have caused more than 300 infections in at least 27 cities in 18 provinces across the country. All the provinces and regions have issued notices urging local residents to avoid travel unless it's necessary, and a number of public places including parks, performances and museums in cities such as Beijing and Xi'an of Southwest China's Shaanxi lowered their capacity or closed down.
At the same time, millions of people are under lockdowns in China in places such as the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing, and Zhangjiajie and Changde in Central China's Hunan, sparking discussions about how dangerous the Delta variant could be, and whether the world has to fight the same war all over again.
Evidence suggests that some newly identified variants of concern may have increased transmissibility as compared to previously circulating variants. It is likely that there will continue to be elevated risks of the export and import of cases between countries via international travel, including cases of the new variants, Tarik Jašarević, a WHO spokesperson, told the Global Times via an e-mail on Monday, when he was asked whether the organization would issue new guidelines on the Delta variant.
"The impact on countries will depend on multiple factors including whether there is ongoing community transmission, and whether health systems are operating at capacity," he said, noting that despite the elevated risks, WHO's guidance on international travel still holds.
In China, the Delta variant was first identified in southern Guangdong in June, and also in Southwest China's Yunnan; however, the experiences of dealing with the local outbreaks showed that vaccinated individuals will show comparatively milder symptoms and have a lower chance of deterioration.
"Considering the characteristics of the mutated variant, the virus can survive in hot summer weather. With a shorter incubation period, it can transmit much faster," Yang Zhanqiu, deputy director of the pathogen biology department at Wuhan University, told the Global Times on Monday.
The Delta variant could be more than twice as transmissible as the original strain of SARS-CoV-2, according to an article in science journal Nature on July 21, citing research by epidemiologist Jing Lu at the Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Guangzhou.
The researchers reported that the virus was first detectable in people with the Delta variant four days after exposure, compared with an average of six days among people with the original strain, suggesting that Delta replicates much faster. Individuals infected with Delta also had viral loads up to 1,260 times higher than those in people infected with the original strain.
In addition to strict epidemic control measures, faster mass vaccination is another promising move, not only in China but also in the US.
In predicting the epidemic situation in the US amid a surge of Delta variant cases, US epidemiologist Eric Feigl-Ding, who is also a senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists, told the Global Times on Monday that "it will get very bad in conservative US states with low vaccinations."
"I think we have to realize this is a new phase of the pandemic, or a Pandemic 2.0 version radically different from before," he said.
In the US, growing numbers of people are getting vaccinated in areas hit hard by the Delta variant, offering a glimmer of hope but still falling far short of what is needed to fight COVID-19, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing public health officials.
Advancing mass vaccinations to reach herd immunity is also a promising method in China as Delta variant cases surge, given the vaccination rate is still not enough high.
"Achieving herd immunity will eventually be helpful to counter the mutated variant," Yang said.
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Research Paper On Architecture
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Semel 1
Ben Semel
AP Language Period 3
How the Industrial Revolution Changed Architectural Practices With the onset of the nineteenth century, the world was thrust into a new era of industrial productivity. The industrial revolution brought an influx of innovation that rapidly and forever changed the industrial landscape of the world. From the advanced cultures of western civilization to regions of instability and poverty, new technologies that spawned from the industrial revolution had everlasting impacts. The industrial revolution had a vast array of effects on architectural practices, ranging from architectural style to construction materials, which benefited society as a whole.
Never before seen construction materials were what highlighted the architectural revolutions during the industrial revolution. Before the nineteenth century, primitive building materials such as brick, wood, and stone were all that were used to create any sort of shelter. As the industrial realm began to expand, metals such as iron were then able to be mined in vast quantities "and replace wood, brick, and stone as primary materials for large buildings." ("Building Design/Architecture" 1). Charles Bage, a mill owner from Britain, was a pioneer in the use of iron as a replacement for such primitive materials. His original architectural design, which he created in 1796 and was known as the "fireproof design", made use of cast iron, brick, and flagstone to greatly increase the strength of his mill, which allowed for the accommodation of larger and heavier machinery. Although his design proved unreliable, due to the collapse of several mills in Great Britain, "it was not until the early 1830s that Eaton Hodgekinson
Semel 2 introduced the section beam, did the use of iron in industrial architecture become widespread." ("Structures and Technology" 1)
As architects began to perfect preserving the structural integrity of their designs, doors to new opportunities of design began to open. With materials such as iron and glass already in mass circulation and use, around halfway through the nineteenth century, a material so critical and influential drastically changed the process of industrialization: steel. "Before the industrial revolution, buildings with multiple stories were supported solely by their walls." ("Modern Architecture" 1) With a much more urban society beginning to form, a need for bigger and taller buildings developed. Because of this, a phenomenon known as vertical urbanization began to take hold of cities worldwide. Vertical urbanization literally means building upward, as in making buildings taller rather than making a larger quantity of smaller buildings. The use of vertical urbanization saves vast amounts of land, and is much more economically beneficial than traditional horizontal urbanization. Vertical urbanization rendered the practice of resting all the weight of a building on its walls completely obsolete, and made steel arguably the single most important product to be bought and sold on a worldwide scale. "The mass production of steel was the main driving force behind the ability to build skyscrapers during the mid 1880s." (Building Design/Architecture" 1). "A combination of
Semel 3 steel and reinforced concrete allowed for the building of skyscrapers." (Sreekanth 1). The steel frame provides stability throughout the skyscraper while evenly distributing the weight of the building. William Le Baron Jenney is credited with building the first skyscraper in America, in 1884. Soon after, skyscrapers would begin to take over downtown and commercial areas of most major cities worldwide. Thanks to the industrial revolution, steel was made readily available, and allowed for the incorporation of skyscrapers into the urban landscape. From the beginning of civilization to right before the nineteenth century, architecture was just as much of a form of art as painting a picture is. For every building
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NBA Rumors: Here Are The Players Philadelphia 76ers Might Target In Free Agency, Per Keith Pompey
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Following a season where they finished third in the Eastern Conference and made it to the conference semifinals, the Philadelphia 76ers are entering the 2019 offseason with hopes of bringing back all their starters — All-Stars Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons, as well as forwards Jimmy Butler and Tobias Harris and shooting guard J.J. Redick. But with Butler and Harris expected to be among the more sought-after players in this summer's crop of free agents, the Sixers might consider signing a few players from their top Eastern Conference rivals, as suggested in a new report.
In a report published Monday, Keith Pompey of the Philadelphia Inquirer cited Sixers general manager Elton Brand, who said that some of his team's players and officials have "tough decisions to make" in the days leading up to the start of free agency on Sunday night. Pompey noted that the Sixers need backups for Embiid and Simmons at the center and point guard positions respectively, but further quoted Brand, who offered a more general answer when asked about Philadelphia's needs in free agency.
"We definitely need hard-nose [sic] players, shooting," Brand said. "We want to add shooting. If you watch the playoffs, these are playoff-tested players … I don't want to say names … but [the Sixers want] veteran-tested players, playoff-tested players that can take us over the edge with our talent."
Although Brand declined to go into specifics, Pompey wrote that it won't be surprising if the Sixers target players such as Boston Celtics big man Al Horford, Milwaukee Bucks point guard Malcolm Brogdon, and Toronto Raptors wingman Danny Green — assuming they aren't able to re-sign their unrestricted free agents. He added that the Sixers have "some level of interest" in the three aforementioned players, all of whom played meaningful minutes for their respective teams in this year's NBA playoffs.
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Nov. 24, 2009 6:04 a.m.
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Although Jean-Sebastien Giguere's career has changed drastically since he lost his starting job in Anaheim, the veteran goalie is eager to remind the Ducks — or any potential suitors — that he can still make stops when they matter.
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Giguere had turned away 17 shots in a busy third period until Iginla and Olli Jokinen teamed up on a long rush in the waning seconds. Anaheim's poor defensive coverage left Iginla to skate in alone, and the Calgary captain buried a quick shot for his 16th goal of the season, and his 12th in 10 games.
The shootout began inauspiciously for Anaheim when Perry fumbled the puck at mid-ice and had to go back for it before Miikka Kiprusoff stopped his weak shot. Getzlaf also failed, but Nigel Dawes and Jokinen couldn't score for Calgary before Selanne connected with a stutter-step move against his fellow Finnish star.
The Ducks' win gave them 19 points, pushing them one ahead of Minnesota at the bottom of the conference standings after reaching the conference playoff semifinals last spring.
Glencross scored in the first period for the Flames, who were 5-0-1 on the road since mid-October.
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1. Chapter One - Today Is The Day 2. Chapter Two - Ashlyn finds her bite 3. Chapter Three - When I think about you 4. Chapter Four - When it all came crashing down 5. Back to Square One 6. Chapter 6 - Seeds are planted
Fitting In With The Freaks (12000 words) by Rockabillymama
Chapters: 6/?
Fandom: American Horror Story: Freak Show
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Jimmy Darling/Original Female Character(s)
Characters: Jimmy Darling, Elsa Mars, Ma Petite (American Horror Story), Amazon Eve
Additional Tags: Romance, Drama & Romance, Family Drama, Eventual Romance, Eventual Smut, Eventual Sex, Eventual Happy Ending, Eventual Relationships, Animal Death
Summary:
Ashlyn has struggled her whole life to find acceptance for who she is. To her surprise, she finds an odd sense of peace with a band of freaks. Will this be the family she has been looking for, or another bitter disappointment waiting to overwhelm her?

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Jimmy Darling
Elsa Mars
Ma Petite (American Horror Story)
Amazon Eve
Eventual Romance
Eventual Sex
Eventual Relationships
Animal Death
Fitting In With The Freaks
Rockabillymama
Ashlyn has struggled her whole life to find acceptance for who she is. To her surprise, she finds an odd sense of peace with a band of freaks. Will this be the family she has been looking for, or another bitter disappointment waiting to overwhelm her?
Chapter 1: Chapter One - Today Is The Day
Chapter One - Today Is The Day
The sound of the clock ticking with every passing, wasted second was putting Ashlyn McKeown to sleep. She sat at her desk, looking at the worn notepad in front of her with a checklist that consisted of watering the plants, making coffee, and waiting to go home.
"How did I end up here?" she thought to herself, slumping in her chair.
She knew exactly how she had ended up here, and what made it worse was that it had taken a long time of blood, sweat and tears to do it. Ashlyn was a lawyer. Well, technically she had a law degree, which she had worked extremely hard for. Like it was in most fields, being a lawyer was to be a mans job and was no place for a woman. When she had landed this job after years of struggling, she had been so happy. Finally, she had made it. Yet here she sat, watching the seconds tick by as she did every day, waiting for her boss to throw her that bone he had promised.
She had been nineteen when she walked onto that campus, clutching her textbooks to her chest, a blue ribbon in her hair and wearing a matching blue sweetheart dress that had been carefully ironed. With straight glossy auburn that reached her shoulder blades, and creamy pale skin, she was the picture of innocence. She wasn't a tall woman, standing at just over 5'2", with curves in the right place that she kept purposely hidden underneath full skirts and cardigans.
People asked her if she was lost and tried to redirect her to the beauty school down the road. Some of the men made crude jokes about her being there as motivation to study. She did her best to ignore them, but understandably, there were many days in those four years that it would overwhelm her. Now, whenever she felt as if she would give up, she thought back to her first class at the very beginning of her journey.
The lecture hall had smelled of dust and damp, and the carpet was in desperate need of replacing. As she walked up the steps to find a inconspicuous seat at the back, she ignored the room full of eyes on her. She had placed her books on the battered desk in front of her and smoothed her dress down behind her as she took a seat with her eyes towards the front of the class.
The professor had obviously been made aware of her enrolment in his class as he did not seem surprised of her presence, but he had still watched her curiously as she made her way to her seat. Deciding that they were ready to begin their class, he cleared his throat and the room of eyes finally found their proper place at the front of the room.
The man was short, balding, and his outfit looked as though it had seen better days, she noticed, but what did she actually expect from this college? She had to pay for her tuition by working three jobs, so she had to settle with the cheapest school that would accept her application.
"Welcome to Criminology 101," he said plainly, as though it were a part of a speech he had prepared. "Before we begin, I want to see how much of you have read the recommended reading before you came here," he said with a smirk, as the male dominated room scurried to open their books for a last second cram, in vain of course.
"Who can tell me," he said, reading from a page on his desk, after noticing that Ashlyn had been the only one who had not moved to open her books, "who developed the theory of differential association?"
The frantic flurry of students trying to flick through their books to find the answer was complemented by Ashlyn's steady hand, which was raised immediately.
"Yes, Miss...McKeown, I assume?" Professor Hartby said, with a raised eyebrow. "Edwin Sutherland," she said with a nervous smile. The room turned, their mouths agape. Not a single student said a word. "Very good," he nodded approvingly, before peering over his glasses at the page again.
"Wow, call the papers, she can read," a blonde young man sniggered quietly from the centre of the room, which was follow by a low chuckle from his peers. Ashlyn ignored it, and stayed focused on the front of the room. Hartby ignored the comment, and instead of reading from the page, he sat on the edge of his desk with his arms folded, and took a second to consider his class.
"Since we know now that Miss McKeown has beaten you to the answer, perhaps I should give you another chance." he said, winking at Ashlyn. She tried her best not to smile, but couldn't help it. "What does differential association predict?" he asked, his eyes scanning the room while waiting for a student to raise their hand. Yet again, they all had their noses in their books.
He waited a few moments before looking up towards Ashlyn. "Miss McKeown, the answer is..." he raised his hands as she replied in a clear voice, "Differential association predicts that an individual will choose the criminal path when the balance of definitions for law-breaking exceeds those for law-abiding." The blonde young man clapped his hands, and didn't bother with subtlety this time, "Bravo Miss, Im sure you're very proud of your reading skills," which was followed by another round of chuckles.
Ashlyn didn't even have a chance to bite her tongue before the words fell out of her mouth, "I am. If you ask nicely, I may even consider teaching you how, since you apparently need the help." The room roared with laughter, the Professor included. The young man went bright red before slouching into his chair with a scowl. The Professor nodded to Ashlyn, as if to tell her she had done well. That day, she learned that she could do this. It would be hard, but she had what it takes.
Her parents weren't happy with her life choices. No, thats a nice way of saying it. Her mother had been so furious that she had spent hours screeching at her about how much of an embarrassment she was. Why couldn't she be like all the other girls her age. Why couldn't she find a nice man, get married and settle down? "Im not like the other girls my age!" she would scream back. "Why cant you just be happy for me?!" Her mother would clutch her heart dramatically, and look to her husband for support."Well?" she snapped, "Tell her what a stupid girl she is being!" He shrugged his shoulders and looked helplessly from his wife, to his only daughter. "Oh for goodness sake George," his wife slammed her hand on the table."Well listen here young lady, as long as you live under my roof, you will live by my rules. That means no more of this law business!"
Ashlyn was sick and tired of the fighting and finally made a decision. "You're right," she said to her mother, standing up and pushing in her chair. Her mother smiled smugly, thinking she had finally gotten through to her. "Good girl, now be a dear and..." Ashlyn cut her off. "While I'm under your roof I'll never get what I want out of life. Im leaving." With that, she had walked calmly to her room and began to pack, leaving her howling banshee of a mother behind her.
Before she knew it, she was on the doorstep, a little suitcase of everything she owned in this world, looking out into the darkness of their street. "You will never get anywhere without the support of a man, Ashlyn, you hear me? You do this, do not bother coming back," her mother hissed at her, keeping her voice down to avoid bringing attention to themselves from the neighbours. "Goodbye mother," she said simply, trying her best not to let her firm voice waiver. Her mother responded by slamming the door in her face. She sighed, and started walking down the little path to the street, the suitcase dragging behind her.
She heard the door open and someone followed. She turned back and saw her father, standing with an apologetic smile on his face. "Goodbye buttercup," he said softly, placing a thick envelope in her hand before kissing her on the cheek. "Do me proud," he whispered, before smiling sadly. She smiled back and on tippy toes, kissed him on the cheek. "Bye Daddy."That was the last time she saw her parents. Two years later, she was told her father had passed away from a heartattack. She didn't attend his funeral.
She had refused to use the money her father had given her, she didn't want to prove her mother right. She didn't need a man to support her, she was fully capable of making her own way in the world. Today, she had a degree, a job, and an apartment (albeit an extremely small one). She paid her own bills with her own money and while she was nothing more than a receptionist who made coffee in this firm, she was employed in a legal office never the less. She just considered it another step in the right direction.
"Ashlyn, where's my damn coffee!" her boss barked from his office, more of a demand than a question. She sighed, and walked to the kitchen to make his coffee, making sure she did it exactly right or she would be sent back to do it again. Which happened often.
She walked into his office, and he was sitting in his brand new black leather office chair, hunched over the stacks of paper and files in front of him. He was in his late forties and his firm was the only one in town, This meant that they were doing pretty well because, well, there was no other option for their clients. His hair had started to grey, but you could still see that it once must have been black and glorious back in the day. He was still proud of it, acting as though he hadn't aged a day. The man spent a fortune on creams to try and look young, not that he would ever admit it. All the cream in the world wouldn't hide his growing beer belly, which was starting to strain the expensive suits he had been trying to stretch over it.
"Here you go, Mr Jackson," she said as she placed the coffee cup in what seemed like the safest place, the only space that wasn't covered in paper work on his desk. She bit her lip, and added hopefully, "Got a case for me?" Without looking up at her, he gestured to a file that sat on its own on top of the filing cabinet and replied dismissively, "Yeah sure, why not, help yourself to that one. Im sure you will do great."
She almost tripped over herself to grab the file, but straightened, not wanting not wanting to seem too over eager. "This is it! My big break!" she thought to herself, barely able to contain her excitement as she clutched the file to her chest. She mumbled her thanks as she quickly made her way to her desk to pour over every detail in the file.
As she left, one of the hot shot lawyers, a well groomed pig by the name of Alan Pierce, knocked on Jackson's open door. "What is she looking so pleased about," he asked, flicking his cigarette ash into one of the many trays littered around the office. Jackson looked up and leaned back into his chair, shaking his head.
"I told her she could take a case" he said with a smirk, and Pierce matched his smirk with amusement. "Its that Freak Show case. Once she sees who it is for, she will be back to her usual, dull self," He pulled a hip flask from his bottom drawer, and took a swig, offering it to Pierce who took it gladly. "As if I would give her a case," he sniggered, completely oblivious to the fact that Ashlyn had already left the office with the file. "Theres just as much chance of that happening as us actually taking the case for those freaks."
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For Medical Cannabis Patients, the Situation is Dire
By Jo Anne Zito | May 20, 2021, 11:01 am | in Edward Edwards
As a New Jerseyan seriously harmed by cannabis prohibition, I'm concerned with the fact that even though we legalized it, people in the state can still go to jail for growing it.
I'm also concerned that people who've been disadvantaged by prohibition may have a hard time affording legal or medicinal cannabis and feel that home grow is an equity provision that's an integral part of legalization for social justice.
In an interview regarding home grow legislation, Sen. Nicholas Scutari suggested legislators wait and possibly make a post-pandemic trip to Colorado to learn from their experience with home grow.
He also noted that home grow was left out of our legalization because limits on the number of plants are unenforceable and because he feared it would enable the illicit market in New Jersey and outlying states.
I feel there's no need to wait or to take another trip.
Colorado's most recent report on the issue shows an increase in cannabis cultivation arrests but states the increase may be in part because of the law on indoor plant count changing from 99 plants to 12. This change happened after legislators' legalization fact-finding trip there.
Further, law enforcement officials testified that the large allowable amount is what made it hard to eliminate illegal growers and that reducing the grow limit helps agencies more effectively identify and stifle illegal operations.
They don't deny legal home grow and even with it Colorado seems to be doing well selling more than $2 billion in legal marijuana in 2020.
As far as Scutari's concern for home grown cannabis going out of state, since NJ legalized cannabis, four more states legalized with home grow, making NJ the only state out of eighteen legalized states plus Washington DC that doesn't allow it.
New York legalized marijuana with home grow for adults in March, but the law stipulates a waiting period of 18 months after the first adult-use retail sales before they can start growing.
Thankfully, Sen. Vin Gopal introduced bill, S3582, allowing adults to grow for medical and personal use saying, "We shouldn't be criminalizing growing a plant if voters already made it legal."
LD 11 colleagues followed with a companion bill, A5552, with Assemblywoman Joann Downey saying home grow would tremendously help those who need to fill their prescription but may struggle financially. Assemblyman Houghtaling believes there's an issue when we legalize marijuana, but still punish people for growing it at home.
Since one of Sen. Scutari's reasons for leaving home grow out is so industry can flourish, I've suggested to him and other legislators to amend S3582 to have a waiting period like NY. This is a fair compromise.
For medical cannabis patients the situation is dire. Not only do they still not have delivery, but some still have trouble getting appointments, needed products and we still have some of the highest priced cannabis in the country.
Despite prices, quality remains an issue as there is a recall of two batches of cannabis from the state's largest grower due to mold contamination. The first batch was from the end of December and wasn't recalled until mid-March, doing little to protect the many that had already consumed it.
Home grow helps give better control and access to needed cultivars and is therapeutic in itself. Personal gardens can help reduce stress, anxiety, and depression.
Sen. Singleton introduced, S3420, allowing patients to grow, because he understands the issue of people needing this medicine in many cases to replace opioids but not being able to use it or sustain using it because of price.
Singleton also supports S3582 because he believes more support for this option is a good thing.
Before his death, Sen. Gerald Cardinale introduced a bill allowing adults to grow, because he believed it was part of ending prohibition and the intent of the voters.
This aligns with the 2018 Rutgers Eagleton poll results on marijuana legalization which shows that residents believe they should be able to cultivate marijuana for personal use with 60% opposed to banning it opposed to 33% for such a ban.
What sets NJ's legalization apart from almost every other legalized state is that our legalization was spearheaded by industry lobbyists rather than a typical ballot written by the cannabis consuming community like in other states.
Founder of the New Jersey Cannabis Industry Association, Pete Cammarano, was appointed Gov. Murphy's Chief of Staff and his former business partner, Kevin Hagan, founder of the New Jersey Marijuana Retailers Association formerly served as Senate President Steve Sweeney's Chief of Staff and the CEO of the NJ Democratic State Committee among other government roles.
Hagan is one of the top paid lobbyists in NJ along with Phil Norcross, who was hired by Acreage Holdings, one of the nation's largest cannabis companies, when it partnered with Compassionate Care Foundation here.
In a recent Princeton Public Affairs Group discussion on the future of cannabis in NJ, Hagan advises against the home grow bills, even for patients and cites the same outdated Colorado issue that Sen. Scutari does.
If he's saying this now, what do we think he's advised his former boss, Sen. Sweeney, since forming NJMRA in late 2017?
During NY's quest for legalization, it was discovered that the NY Medical Cannabis Industry Association composed of multi-state operators (MSOs) some of which operate in NJ, lobbied against home grow in their policy statement to Governor Cuomo.
In the memo lies, 'The Fallacy of Home Grow' listing five reasons why home grow shouldn't be allowed. These are the same reasons given by Scutari and Hagan, yet are deemed disingenuous by advocates.
While industry lobbying is standard practice, lobbying against the people in this way in a law created to repair the harms of prohibition, seems wrong.
It undermines the social justice intent of the law and the intent of the voters. Friends have died waiting for better access.
Governor Murphy recently gave a nod to home grow in a WHYY interview, saying he knows home growing arguments are compelling so that's something he thinks deserves a reasonable discussion.
NJ allows for beer and wine production at home by adults and I think voters rightfully expect the same with cannabis.
I'm extremely thankful to the legislators supporting these bills, especially Senator Cardinale and I ask legislative leadership to do right by the people and patients by sponsoring/co-sponsoring S3582 and having a hearing on it.
Supporters please contact your legislators and tell them to sponsor and have hearings for these bills!'
Jo Anne Zito heads the Coalition for Medical Marijuana New Jersey.
Gerald Cardinale
Jo Anne Zito
Medical Marijuana New Jersey
Nick Scutari
Rutgers Eagleton
Vin Gopal
7 responses to "For Medical Cannabis Patients, the Situation is Dire"
Mickey Dumont says:
It is still a couple years before it will be implemented. Isn't it odd that two of the most "liberal" states in the country still can't let people grow and use a plant at their discretion? Also have the most covid nursing home deaths. Also are more or less bankrupt without massive fed bailout. Etc Etc
CORRUPTION CITY
Storm Crow says:
You may find it interesting that THC and CBD both help your body to quell the "cytokine storm" that Covid causes!
"LikeΔ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ9-THC), the most well-studied cannabinoid, CBD decreased lung inflammation in a murine model of acute lung injury potentially through the inhibition of proinflammatory cytokine production by immune cells and suppressing exuberant immune responses. CBD can inhibit the production of proinflammatory cytokines like interleukin (IL)-2, IL-6, IL-1α and β, interferon gamma, inducible protein-10, monocyte chemoattractant protein-1,
macrophage inflammatory protein-1α, and tumor necrosis factor-α that have been associated with SARS-CoV2 induced multi-organ pathology and mortality." From "SARS-CoV2 induced respiratory distress: Can cannabinoids be added to anti-viral therapies to reduce lung inflammation?" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0889159120307
Moe Howard says:
Good article, I learned a lot from it. Thank you, Ms. Zito, for painting such a clear picture.
As I see it, it's always been about the money. All the great new tax money that will come rolling in. Dem governor, Dem legislature, why did legalization as long as it did? My guess is they couldn't agree on how to divvy up the pie. Maybe the only thing that got them as far as they did was fear of voter backlash in the upcoming election. Or maybe it was the whole George Floyd thing, where the call for "social justice" grew louder. Who knows. In Jersey, anything can easily get effed up. So here it is, 4 years after Murphy's lame promises were made, we still can't legally purchase. Clowns.
As far as the grow your own goes…God gave us this plant. Like so many other plants, it can be consumed without further processing, unlike something like poppies. What gives NJ, or ANY other government the right to take away something that was given to us by God? Of course these Marxists don't believe in God, but we'll save that for another day.
What they're doing to medical pot patients is criminal. Why the gradual sliding back of the sales tax? Why didn't they just get rid of it altogether? They had the power to do that. The "compassionate" party of the people.
In Jersey, nothing big like this happens without the chosen few at the top making big coin on it. This paragraph said it all…"What sets NJ's legalization apart from almost every other legalized state is that our legalization was spearheaded by industry lobbyists…"
Vote them all out.
JAZ says:
Thank you, Moe Howard. Hopefully they will remedy this situation and have a hearing in the fall and pass before the general election.
William Sullivan says:
It is sad that some are still struggling to have a medical marijuana. They have to deal with a heartache every now and then.
Wilbur Underhill says:
Moe Howard is correct. It's all about the money. I have a family member who is permanently disabled and financially it's an extreme hardship. Also, isn't it interesting that most if not all dispensaries are owned by someone that's politically connected. Charging sales tax is also another issue that needs to be addressed.
It's time to ignore the lobbyists and do what's best for the patient. Disgusting !
Robert Mallonee says:
Please pass home grown bill it's about time and proven to help people medically


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