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How to Become a Global Elite Rank in CS:GO
Tonhy Johns December 13, 2019
A rank in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is the best indicator of the player's level of play. Every day thousands of players compete to and try to raise their in-game rank. While it may be easy to raise up the rank from Silver to Gold Nova, it's much harder to increase from Supreme Master First Class to Global Elite.
There are 18 ranks in CS:GO and only 0.3% of players reach the Global Elite. Find out more information about ranks explanation and experience distribution in our article CS:GO Ranks - All You Should Know in 2020.
To get the first rank and raise it by several levels, the player does not need to put a lot of effort and time into the game. The first silver ranks will appear in your profile after you've learned the basics and practiced a little. But how to join the highest CS:GO ranks and become part of the best players? In this article, we've prepared simple but powerful tips to rise up to the highest CS:GO rank - Global Elite.
10 Advanced Tips to Get to Global Elite
Every Second Is Important
It's enough to know a lot of CS:GO maps callouts if you want to get a low or middle rank. That will give you the knowledge for good and profitable communications with your teammates. But if you want to get the highest rank you need to know all the timing of movements across the map.
Knowledge of time will help predict the appearance of enemies. You'll be hard to deceive with a fake rush and you'll be ahead of your enemies. Learn and practice with all the timing of movements on the maps where you play.
Repeat and Improve Yourself
That tip works not only with CS:GO but with everything in life. Do something, look at your mistakes, fix it and repeat. Do it again and again to become a real pro. That's the big difference between a good player and the best player. The good player just wants to learn how to play well but the pro player wants to play excellent without any mistakes. For unmistakable playing, you need to fix all the situations where you feel insecure.
The best practice in CS:GO is to download the replay of your match and find the moments with mistakes. Look what you did at these moments and think about how you can avoid it in the future.
Low Ranks Movements
Yes, that's the correct name of the tip: low ranks movements. One of the differences between low-rank players and high-rank is the enemies. A lot of the enemies in the high-rank competitive matches are the over skilled person. They have good in-game knowledge and are thinking as highly skilled players.
All players make quick decisions based on their experience, so when you play against a high-level player you think they will act like a real professional. Fast and reckless actions can take your professional enemies by surprise, especially if these actions are supported by your high gaming skills.
Your fast rush or peak without flashbangs can surprise your enemies. Sometimes the movements as a low-rank player can give you a higher profit than any pro tactics.
We have collected the full information about all CS:GO weapon spray patterns. Find out where to shoot with each weapon in our article CS:GO Spray Patterns.
Choose Your Devices
Without practice, you won't achieve great results, and no gaming mouse will kill enemies for you. But well-picked devices will help you to rise up to a Global Elite faster and easier.
We have prepared two big articles with The Best Gaming Mouse and Top Gaming Keyboards where you can find a lot of popular gaming devices with different categories of prices and technical features.
Make a Force-Buy Like a Real Man
I'm sure a lot of people who read this article doesn't need to be told what is eco and force-buy. The tip is that you need to surprise your enemy with a force-buy when he does not expect it. In situations when your enemies are sure that you'll have an eco, drop all of your money to the force-buy instead.
This way is perhaps not for every round, but you can use it several times per game and be sure it's gonna work out for you.
CS:GO console will help you to customize everything in the game. We've prepared the biggest CS:GO Console Commands Guide to complete your in-game settings.
Run Boost Tactics
The higher the rank of the players, the more popular the boost tactics become. Boost works not only to get to Global Elite but for each rank from silver to pro players.
Once at high ranks, it's important to always remember that your enemies will abuse a boost all the time. Learn and check all positions where boosters can be found and don't forget about it. Even professional players forget to do it sometimes.
Pro Players Are Higher than Global Elite
Keeping track of the esports scene is a good hobby that will give you many different tips and solutions from the best CS:GO worldwide players. Cybersportsmen spend thousands of hours in the game to find new features and game tricks. Those who follow the pro players take the best tactics from them to use.
I'm sure that pro player is the last rank in CS:GO after Global Elite. They are the ones who set the trends and show how to play most effectively in different game situations. Those guys are really insane, just look at this.
In addition to the fact that you can follow the games about pro players, you can use their presets and configurations. Find out Configs of the most popular CS:GO Pro Players in our article.
Abuse the Wall and Smoke Shots
There are several different ways to deal with damage to your enemy in CS:GO. Many people who read this article know that some of the walls, drawers, and doors in the game can be shot with a weapon. But few players abuse these in damage-dealing ways.
Learn the place on the maps where you can shoot to damage your enemies and abuse your competitive matches. In time, this will bring you some important kills.
You can shoot not only walls or doors, but also through the smoke grenade. High-ranking enemies will be waiting for shots in the smoke, but they don't know when or where you'll shoot.
With smoke grenades, you can do other interesting things. In some positions, you can see the enemy through smoke while he is not seeing you. It depends on the kind of map you are playing, and there aren't many such positions in the game where you can do it but they are there. Learn them and use them in your favor.
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Give Up
Of course it's a joke, but as tired as I am of this cliché, it really helps. Never Give Up!!! It's very difficult to find the strength to continue playing when you've lost all faith and hope. But you'll need to find it. As for me this video helps me to understand that there's no such thing as a desperate situation.
Try to do your best in each in-game moment especially if we are talking about competitive matches. The victory of your team is created from the moments where you and your teammates are beyond your capabilities.
Hey, Boy. Would You Like Some Sleep?
In order to reach the highest rank in the game you will have to spend a lot of time and effort. Than higher you are in the ranking system, the more energy you will lose after each game (no matter if you win or lose). So you will need a good rest even more than before.
Don't ever lost your rest. And it's not your mom or your dad telling you this, it's advice from the same player as you. Breathe fresh air, and rest our eyes after each match. This will add strength and energy to your future victories, believe me.
That was our tips on how to become the Highest CS:GO Rank. I hope that some of this advice will help you to get to Global Elite, but even if this doesn't happen don't get upset and remember it is just a game.
If you don't have enough of these tips and want more, here are our 33 tips on how to raise your rank in Counter Strike: Global Offensive. To develop your CS:GO settings with different binds read our CS:GO Binds Guide.
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Coronation Street Spoilers: Harry Visinoni Reveals If Seb And Alina Are Over For Good
By Nics Abasta
Coronation Street spoilers and updates tease that cast member Harry Visinoni, who plays Seb Franklin, has spoken to the media that his character can finally move on from Alina Pop (Ruxandra Porojnicu) following her new relationship with one of the characters, Tyrone Dobbs (Alan Halsall).
"What she's doing with Tyrone, that behavior would just put Seb off. It's something that he really doesn't like. I think he's had quite a long time to get over her, and that was essentially the nail in the coffin," Harry revealed.
Coronation Steet Spoilers – It's Complicated
The character, Seb Franklin, was still holding on to his hope for his ex Alina, as both shared romance in 2019. Alina's abrupt exit from Weatherfield jarred Seb's heart. But their chemistry was sparked last year following Alina's return however the former lovers agreed to be just friends in respect to Sebs's then-girlfriend Emma Brooker's (Alexandra Mardell).
However, Alina has bound herself with trouble with his latest relationship with Tyrone. Their attraction to each other made Tyrone leave his fiancée Fiz Stape's (Jennie McAlpine) heart in tatters.
The actor recalled when Seb confronted Alina about the thought of having a future with him since "Alina has always been a bit of an enigma for Seb as well," the actor said.
When Seb saw a glimmer of hope after a long time, he went on giving his final stab but it got thrown back in his face, "so at that point he figured out that he needed to cut his losses," he explained.
"I don't think he's sad and hurt over Tyrone and Alina as much as he is confused, and angry maybe. He feels like he doesn't really know her anymore."
Coronation Street Spoilers: Asha Turns To Drugs, Self-Destructs After Nina Ends Romance
Coronation Street Updates – Pursuing New Relationships
Now that Seb's former love story is evidently over for good, he is now free to pursue his blooming relationship with Nina (Mollie Gallagher). With the latest episodes, fans observed the two smitten with each other. Recently, the actor spilled the bean that Seb is "over the heels" for her.
"Immediately, it feels right, when you meet someone and you just absolutely click on every level," Harry told Metro.co.uk.
Having to work more with different co-stars, Harry said that it's one of the most exciting things when an actor is told that his character is going to have a new love interest or friend. That's because it's an opportunity to work with more people and explore and discover different dynamics.
"You learn more, get more experience," he added. "It feels like you're on a rotation and you meet more and more people. From every single person I work with, I seem to learn something new and figure out new approaches."
Nics Abasta
Nics Abasta has a degree in Development Communication. Nics enjoys writing about entertainment, as well as tech and business news. During her spare time, she likes to read youth fiction books, study photography or go out with her husband and kids.
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As usual, we are on a quest to visit as many theme parks during December as possible. At the risk of not decorating our house … uh, wait, Tony put it on our calendar for the morning of 12/12. Our neighbors put up outside lights the day after Thanksgiving, and I noticed Tony digging stuff out of the attic late one night this past week and the next morning, there was a small showing of Christmas decorations outside our house. Likely related, yes?
Now there's an invention for someone to make… a hanger for blow-up decorations! I envision it being something like a foldaway shepherd's hook with arms or something. I don't know, I'm not an inventor, YOU ARE!
ANYWAY, theme parks. Yes, back to that. This past weekend, we went to Sea World and celebrated my mom's birthday there with her. Their Santa was actually decent this year and we were able to get some good pictures! We love their Pets Rule show, and particularly the cat portion of the show (I know, big surprise there!). I wish we could train our cats to do some of those tricks, seems the only trick we can get them to do consistently is to actually poop in their litter box. If only we could teach them to barf in their litter box or even on the tile entryway would be OK, instead of on the rug (soft surface and all that).
We intended to stay for the tree lighting ceremony, which is the BEST tree lighting ceremony I've ever seen. Just the right amount of time and lots of audience participation. Then, in a feat of Tony's stubbornness persistence we decided to wait the two hours to see Santa again (we had seen him at breakfast, but this time it was in his cottage), because they had pagers instead of a long line. Santa visits have gone high tech! While we waited, we could go visit the reindeer (caribou) and William wanted to serenade them in a failed attempt to have them come over so he could pet them. But he had a great time singing them Christmas carols! And, we were allowed to sit in Santa's sleigh for a photo op.
It was an all-around good day!
Yes, we had a great day. And we got to see Santa so William could get his candy cane from him which made for a very happy boy. I am glad the pictures did finally show up.


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Q: PHP define array with sub arrays as an index I am using a PHP file to define some data to be used in another app.
I thought this was a valid way to declare my arrays.. with sub-arrays as indexes.
But apparently not..
//question 1
$quiz['question'][0] = "xxx";
$quiz['question'][0]['answer'][0] = "xxx";
$quiz['question'][0]['answer'][1] = "xxx";
$quiz['question'][0]['answer'][2] = "xxx";
$quiz['question'][0]['answer'][3] = "xxx";
$quiz['question'][0]['answer'][4] = "xxx";

How do I correctly define these are easily/legible arrays?
I am currently getting this error/warning:
Warning: Illegal string offset 'answer'

A: You are explicitly saying in the first line that $quiz['question'][0] is a string, and afterwards you try to act as if its an array, thats why you are getting this error

A: How to define, well one way
$quiz['question'][0]['question'] = "How to define an array";
$quiz['question'][0]['answer'][0] = "Like this";
$quiz['question'][0]['answer'][1] = "or like that";
$quiz['question'][0]['answer'][2] = "or maybe like the other";
print_r($quiz);

RESULT
Array
(
    [question] => Array
        (
            [0] => Array
                (
                    [question] => How to define an array
                    [answer] => Array
                        (
                            [0] => Is it like this
                            [1] => Or isit like that
                            [2] => Or is it like the other
                        )

                )

        )

)

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I have been away, doing all those thing you must do in the first life, to keep the second one going. It was just a short amount of time, but I couldn't keep away from the blog much longer. I do enjoy it, it keeps all of the "mes" sane, when work gets too much, or the kids for that matter.
I ventured out into the sun the past weekend. I was fully covered, so the sun didn't eat me. I wonder if being photosensitive is like the mild irritations older vampires get when they walk in the sun during the day. We got the last bit of sunday afternoon, I think. The warm is well on it's way now.
Just a modge podge outfit, of randomness. The only thing new is the dress, which you will find at [EvelineInTheBox]. They price their releases 25% off until the next new release, so if you like it, stop by and get a deal as well! There are 6 different huds, with various colours and patterns.
My amazing lipstick started the whole look and you will find the appliers for various lips, plus the inhouse mesh lips, at Soul.
This week on Monday Eyeful, I take you on an epic adventure through the cosmos. Well, not really, but you will find these eyes at Multiverse, a Sci-Fi event that is going on right now, until March 15th. These eyes really do give you a sense of otherness, when you put them on.
These are called called Cypher, and have a good mix of colours to choose from.
They are priced L$199 per colour. System, Mesh, and Applier versions are included in the pack. The Appliers work with and Omega Support Eye mesh, like the Logo Heads, and they have Genesis Eye appliers as well.
Soul made Skins and Makeups for Multiverse as well, for the Men and Ladies of the galaxy. They are easy to mix and match, to create a unique futuristic look.
I threw on a necklace from Plastik, which is new as well, and comes with all the normal Gem Changing Hud features.
My Head is from Genesis Lab, which is the only mesh head I currently support right now, fully. I know the others are more end user friendly, but I find that it is much easier to stay looking unique with the Genesis heads. They have elements which are very similar to my Default face I have had for years, and maybe that is why I am the most drawn to them. This is Melissa, which was out for the February round of Collabor88. They are doing event switchover, so I am sure the head will be back in the mainstore shortly.


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A Comprehensive Study Dealing With Music Of North-Eastern India With Special Emphasis On Musical Instruments Of Assam. Has Over 75 Colour Illustrations Which Add To The Usefulness Of The Book.
This book is compiled with the goal of explaining the hidden history, significance, and meaning of the mantras used in common Hindu puja rituals performed by the Bengalis to the Bengali immigrants.


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Ángel Fernández (golfer) (1956), een Chileens golfer
 Ángel Fernández (schermer) (1961), een Spaans schermer
 Ángel Fernández (voetballer) (1971), een Ecuadoraans voetballer
 Ángel Fernández Pérez (1988), een Spaans handballer

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Змагання з тріатлону на літніх Олімпійських іграх 2008 у Пекіні проходили два дні на трасі Водосховища гробниці Мін. 18 серпня змагалися жінки, а 19 — чоловіки. Дистанція складалася з 1,5 км плавання, 40 км велосипедних перегонів і біг на 10 км. Велосипедний етап складався з шести кіл по 6, 66 кожний, а біг — з чотирьох кіл по 2,5 км кожне.

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Спортивні змагання відбувалися за офіційним часом у Китайській Народній Республіці (UTC+8).

Учасники
В олімпійському турнірі з тріатлону взяли участь 110 спортсменів (55 жінок і 55 чоловіків). Жінки представляли 30 держав, а чоловіки — 31.

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Десять найкращих результатів жіночого турніру:

Десять найкращих результатів чоловічого турніру:

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З моменту включення тріатлону до програми літніх Олімпійських ігор:

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  China achieved qualification for the women's event through the ITU Olympic Qualification Ranking, therefore the host nation's Olympic place was given to another best placed athlete in the ITU Olympic Qualification Rankings;
  Oceanian NOCs did not qualify any eligible male and female competitors through the Continental Olympic Ranking; the same situation was verified with African NOCs for the women's event. Thus, each of these qualification places were given to the next best placed athletes in the ITU Olympic Qualification Rankings;
  Flora Duffy would qualify through her place in the ITU Olympic Qualification Ranking. Since she received an invitation from the tripartite commission, her slot was given to the next best placed athlete in the ITU Olympic Qualification Rankings.

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Змагання на літніх Олімпійських іграх 2008
Олімпіада
Тріатлон на літніх Олімпійських іграх
Змагання з тріатлону в Китаї


"The Uncharted Seas is a fast paced, action packed game of naval tactical combat set in a world of high fantasy. Using superb resin and white metal miniatures, and controlled by fast and easy to learn rules, the game allows you to wage war with fantastical squadrons of mighty warships.
Choose from one of several races, including the Iron Dwarfs with their steam powered ironclads, Orc Raiders with their grotesque machines of war, the ever powerful Dragon Lords, an ancient race of magical seafarers, Imperial Humans hell bent on grabbing as much land as they can and the Thaniras Elves with their sleek ships of war."


MLS® 19005620 is located at 125 1/2 Queen Street in Downtown Charleston, SC. This house offers 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, and is 1200 square feet.
This meticulously designed lock and leave cottage was the headmaster's house for the Charleston Free School, circa 1890. Upon entering through the gate you'll feel like you've arrived at your very own secret garden right in the heart of downtown. The cozy first floor features an inviting living room, elegant dining space, powder room and modern kitchen complete with custom cabinetry, quartz countertops, and Bosch appliances. The second story, boasting metal vaulted ceilings with vintage reclaimed wooden beams, houses the master suite and guest quarters, each with an en-suite bath. The master has custom closets, a pop-up TV that emerges from the bed's footboard and a fabulous bath. The piazza overlooking the garden is perfect for morning coffee or winding down at day's end. The exterior isthe responsibility of the homeowner's association, making this property ideal for the discerning buyer who appreciates low-maintenance living. Walk to Charleston's best events, restaurants and shopping. This location can't be beat! Two off street parking spaces convey and guest spaces available. Dining room chandelier does not convey.
What specific questions do you have about 125 1/2 Queen Street, Charleston, SC, 29401 (MLS® #19005620)? What date and time would you like to see this property? Please keep in mind that it usually takes 24hrs to make appointments with the sellers.


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In My Mind is a movie starring Chris Rodley, Patrick McGoohan, and Catherine McGoohan. 'In My Mind', is a feature documentary made to celebrate the 50th anniversary of 'The Prisoner' written and directed by award-winning documentary...
Lew Grade, Patrick McGoohan, Chris Rodley, Catherine McGoohan
Chris Rodley
Comments about documentary «In My Mind» (33)
Biography Moderator• Sunday, 29 Jan 2023 13:53
'In My Mind', is a feature documentary made to celebrate the 50th anniversary of 'The Prisoner' written and directed by award-winning documentary filmmaker Chris Rodley. The film recounts one of Chris' early filmmaking experiences: an attempt to interview Patrick McGoohan - something McGoohan had resisted previously - about his enigmatic series for a Channel 4 commissioned documentary. A documentary that didn't quite go to plan. In a series of frank interviews conducted by Chris, most of which ultimately remained unused in the 1983 documentary 'Six Into One-The Prisoner File', McGoohan slowly reveals his innermost thoughts about his concept. Featuring new interviews with his daughter Catherine McGoohan, who offers insightful and informed views on her father's inner emotional and psychological state of mind and featuring never-before-seen archive footage, this is the definitive story of 'The Prisoner' as told by its creator. Disowned by McGoohan at the time, 'Six Into One' is now locked away forever, paving the way for this new film which sets out to put the record straight some thirty-five years later.
Linda Dixon
Short Moderator• Saturday, 28 Jan 2023 21:03
First off I just want to stress that this is absolutely the kind of film you want to see on the big screen; don't wait for it to come out on DVD! Needless to say, the cast was phenomenal: Catherine McGoohan, Patrick McGoohan! They are born for these roles
I hope that this film stands the test of time because it is "classic" material.
Mildred P.
Chris Rodley is such a genius in story-telling. Greatest movie.
Not expecting it to be this thoughtful, seriously story buildup, terrific i really enjoyed it thoroughly, way better than any others movies!!!
Denise Andrews
Chris Rodley, you deserve a standing ovation. From an unbiased, stand-alone movie point of view, this film does an incredible job of being exciting from beginning to end
Rebecca W.
Great movie! Cinematography was excellent and scenes were superb.
Brian Crawford
Biography Moderator• Thursday, 19 Jan 2023 08:23
Without giving away too much, Lew Grade just kills it. He is one class actor. The impressions his portrayal gives us is that he was born to play this role!
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In the early 90s, not long after The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying was published, a young man called Greg from the United States, wrote to Rinpoche from his prison cell, where he was preparing to be executed. He wrote: "I am not writing this for any benefit to myself, other than the possibility that if what I have to say will help just one person find the path as I have, then my past suffering will have been of some benefit to someone other than myself.
"I have been a truly miserable example of a human being; all through this lifetime I have only cared for one person and that person is myself. I've used people with no concern for their feelings; I've stolen just for the thrill of stealing; I've developed relationships with many women to satisfy my lusts and then thrown them away with no more of a thought than I'd give a piece of garbage—and I treated them as such.
"My ego was so inflated and fragile that with the slightest of slights I had to hurt others. I enjoyed it, but I was a coward. I would hurt the weak and the innocent. I always took the easy way out with everything I did, and if there was any possibility I would fail I would not even attempt it. I only loved myself—but then I didn't really even care about myself deep down.
"Because of my inflated ego, my pride, my self-importance, and my pent-up anger, I am now an inmate incarcerated on death row awaiting execution. When I arrived here I even blamed others for the actions that put me here. A year after I arrived, I was put in an isolation cell for an infraction of the rules. Two days after being put in this cell I met and became friends with a man in another cell in the isolation unit. You are not allowed anything to read in this unit other than law and religious material. At that time I wasn't in a very religious mood, but this new friend offered me the opportunity to read The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.
"I knew absolutely nothing about Buddhist teaching, other than it was an eastern religion, but I was kind of curious. I started to read the book with no preconceived ideas or prejudices. I expected nothing from that book, it was just something to read. Little did I know then that the book would be the greatest gift I would ever receive. As I read the book, the door to my heart was opened, filling my inner being with compassion and the wisdom to see the truth in the Buddhist teachings.
"Although I am only an infant in my knowledge of the Buddhist teachings, I've taken my first step on the path. I tell you that this first step onto the path is the most important step any of us can ever take. My thoughts, emotions, and attitudes have completely turned around. I am still ruled by them but now I see the ignorance in them. I've realised so much about myself since learning of the teachings. I truly believe that everything I've done in my lifetime led me to that isolation cell for only one reason, and that reason was to find the Buddhist teachings waiting for me in that cell.
"I've realised the love I've denied myself—to express to others, and the love I've denied—the love that others have offered. I realised that when I allowed myself to be hurt and had to hurt others, I was only hurting myself again with this attitude. Buddhism for me is the key that unlocks and opens the door to my inner being and allows me a glimpse of a person I'd long ago forgotten had existed.
"The one thing I've found about Buddhism that's different from other religions is that it actually teaches you while the other religions only tell you just as parents tell their child, not teaching them. Other religions tell you to look outward to find happiness in some thing, whereas Buddhism teaches that the only way to find anything is to look inward because all the answers are there, waiting to be found.
My son is once again in prison. I have sent him this book along with others to help him realize that his biggest demon is himself. I love my son and I have to continue to believe he will be ok. Thanks for the post.
And was he executed? This is a moving testimony.


In 2016, opportunities currently exist for eco-friendly, economic innovation to benefit historically disadvantaged citizens in the changing Canadian medical marihuana industry.
Various scholars and commentators in business, public policy, and the media have discussed how the Trudeau government's marijuana legislation might look. This paper highlights the role of Indigenous communities, civil society, the business community and interested citizens in a process that includes co-developing medicinal marihuana dispensaries. The practical knowledge of dispensary owners and workers can help co-create an innovative, regulated and safe medicinal marihuana industry. An effectively regulated dispensary distribution model can positively impact provincial economies and local communities.
Advancing a regulated, controlled, dispensary-based model provides opportunities for economic innovation and competition in the medicinal marihuana market in regions other than Ontario and British Columbia. Moreover, providing opportunities for regionalization in the legal growing and distribution of medicinal marijuana can provide opportunities for economically disadvantaged groups, such as Indigenous peoples, people with disabilities and women.
Ultimately, fostering provincial entrepreneurism in the medicinal marihuana market could provide a net benefit to provincial economies and foster the creation of thousands of local, stable jobs while simultaneously reducing black market and organized crime involvement in marihuana sales. And, according to a recent paper by Meyer, Caspi, et al, community-based and evidenced-based harm reduction information and training on the evidenced based risks associated with heavy marihuana use as well as the dangers of drugged driving must be essential components of an effectively regulated and controlled, community-based medical marihuana distribution system.
The newly-elected Federal Government has a mandate to better regulate and control the growth and sale of medicinal marihuana in Canada. In February 2016, a Federal Court Ruling [T-2010-13] suspended the existing regulations on accessing medical marijuana, the Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations (MMPR). The MMPR, created in 2012 by the previous Federal Government, regulated access to marihuana for the estimated 42,000 Canadians authorized to legally possess marihuana. Access to medical marihuana under the MMPR was limited to on-line purchases from Licensed Producers (LPs).
The Federal Court ruled in the recent Allard case that the MMPR violated the liberty and security rights of medicinal marihuana patients under The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Single source LP system did not provide a guarantee of quality or price availability for patients and the access restrictions represented an overly broad and grossly disproportionate attempt to protect public safety. The MMPR also failed to restrict the distribution of marihuana to LPs, considering an estimated 90% of medical marijuana patients are accessing marihuana from sources other than LPs. In essence, the court ruled that the distribution inadequacy of the MMPR undermined the health and safety of patients who risked criminal sanctions for obtaining legally prescribed marihuana. The Federal Court ruling thus provides opportunities to improve the health and safety of Canadians through the creation of a solidly regulated and controlled medical marihuana distribution model that includes community-based dispensaries.
Many Canadian medicinal marihuana users prefer to purchase medical marihuana through local or on-line dispensaries, despite the risk of criminal sanctions. A certified dispensary is a store-front location that distributes marihuana in a controlled, informed environment to people with medical marihuana prescriptions. Presently, the Canadian Association of Medical Cannabis Dispensaries (CAMCD), a non-profit society that certifies medical cannabis dispensaries in Canada, evaluates applicants on over 50 standards, providing consistency, accountability, transparency, and superior quality of patient care across the country.
An estimated 100 illegal dispensaries operate across Canada with the majority in British Columbia and Ontario. Yet, the Federal Court ruling described dispensaries as "the heart of cannabis access" in Canada (T-2010-13, p. 58, paragraph 616).
The recent Federal Court ruling mandates the Federal Government to fix the access problems with the medical marihuana distribution system in Canada. Supporting existing, certified dispensaries and encouraging an innovative, competitive distribution system could potentially provide Canadians with adequate access to a controlled, safe supply of medical marihuana while also fostering local economies through job creation and taxation. Most significantly, people who are licensed to use medical marijuana could have access to a local, safe, reliable supply of medicinal marijuana.
Low income people suffered the most under the MMPR. People with disabilities, indigenous peoples, and women are groups who experience a high rate of poverty in Canada. The MMPR forced patients to order medical marihuana on-line from an LP. Low income people might not own or have access to a computer. On-line banking and access to credit cards, necessary for on-line purchasing, are not realities for many low income Canadians.
In short, unparalleled opportunities exist to foster economic innovation and diversity in Canadian communities by collaboratively regulating the existing, certified dispensary distribution model. Other local distribution models proposed recently involve selling marijuana through liquor stores or pharmacies. Both concepts are ethically and practically problematic. Moreover, available evidence indicates that consumers of medical marihuana prefer locally-based customer service, which involves talking to a knowledgeable person about safe marihuana use.
A realistic approach for responding to the needs of Canadians who seek access to medical marijuana involves working with the existing medical marijuana community, and that includes dispensaries. The new regulatory medical marihuana model should acknowledge the realities facing the most vulnerable Canadians, persons with disabilities, Indigenous peoples and people on fixed incomes. The Federal Court ruling [T-2010-13] highlighted that community-based access to medicinal marijuana is an evidenced-based need of Canadians.
Marihuana is legalized, decriminalized or available medicinally in many countries around the world and this has engendered opportunities to advance social justice and redress historical inequities. For example, the US-based, non-profit organization, Women Grow, serves as a catalyst for women to influence and success in the cannabis industry. It connects, educates, inspires and empowers the next generation of cannabis leaders through creating programs and community events for aspiring business executives.
As well, Indigenous communities have higher than average rates of a number of health conditions and diseases that respond positively to medical marihuana, including diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and chronic pain. Meaningful economic development of First Nations and other Indigenous peoples and communities is an expressed priority of all levels of governments in Canada. Thus, it is important to ensure that First Nations and Indigenous entrepreneurs have an opportunity to innovate to respond to the needs of local community members who benefit from medicinal marihuana by operating regulated dispensaries in local communities.
A regulated, controlled dispensary model in Canada also has the potential to promote regional economic development. Economic regionalization and disparity has characterized Canada's past. The current regional disparity of the LP model, with half of LPs based in Ontario, could be perceived to represent another form of regional disparity disadvantaging the Territories, the prairies and Eastern Canada. Fostering innovation and economic growth is needed since resource-based economies are struggling with low oil prices and isolated communities struggle economically.
In an era of low oil prices and turbulent global economies, the economic growth opportunities of the medicinal marihuana market are significant. An evolving, evidenced-based industry offering eco-friendly options for stable job growth and provincial / territorial tax revenues could assist regional economies and communities across Canada. Interesting and perhaps ironically, collaborative marihuana policy development – which means fostering diversity in dispensary leadership and management – provides an avenue for addressing some of the historical inequities that exist within Canada.
Kathleen Thompson's SSHRC-funded PhD is from the University of Calgary, Faculty of Social Work. She is the Director of the Indigenous Research Unit with the International Human Rights Association for American Minorities.
Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau, "Government of Canada Accomplishments – First 100 Days" (Ottawa: Prime Minister of Canada News, Feb 12, 2016).
Office of the High Commissioner, "International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 114 Session" (Geneva: United Nations Human Rights, 2015).
United Nations Development Report, "Human Development Report 2015: Work for Human Development" (Geneva: UNDP, 2015).
Mail order to remote, rural areas is FAR more accessible and functional than 'dispensaries' which are only clustered in rich, predominately white cities like Vancouver. Dispensaries have a place, but let's not pretend they are all serving the marginalized in society. Where are the dispensaries giving away from or discounted medication like the LP's?
here is one example of free or discounted medication. I know of another dispensary in Saskatchewan that has donated over 100,000 so far, and continues to support community. As time goes on, I think we will see more dispensaries in smaller centers. I think the smart thing would be for the LP's and dispensaries to get on the same page. Someone has to supply the wholesale market, however production practices would have to change at LP's. I for one am not interested in consuming irradiated cannabis.


Brabham Dynasty :: David Brabham Blog: What's The Trouble With F1?
David Brabham Blog: What's The Trouble With F1?
When I arrived in the UK from Australia to start my professional motorsports career in 1988/9, there seemed to be a fairly healthy appetite from corporates to sponsor motorsport. I was in a team sponsored by Camel cigarettes racing in Vauxhall Lotus, which was a free drive in Europe. Then, in F3 the following year, I was driving for Bowman Racing which was sponsored by Jewson and so also a free drive, racing against teams sponsored by Marlboro, Cellnet, Uniden and we had live primetime TV on the BBC. After F3 I went straight to F1 with Brabham and I was paid to drive. There were sponsors throughout F3, F3000, Sportscars and F1.
Now if you look at the same categories across Europe, those kind of sponsors are no longer around and the junior categories are littered with wealthy parents all helping their sons and daughters become F1 drivers of the future with not many sponsor logos on the cars. When I did F3 in 1989 the budget was £200k, now it is £650k a year. In F1, $30 million was considered a good budget in those days. Not anymore.
The world has changed a lot since then and there are far more sports all trying to go after the same companies for sponsorship and they are far more perceptive about where they spend their money. TV coverage has also changed a lot too, which has been one of the many reasons sponsors are harder to find in the lower categories, and so the only championships that have enjoyed big TV and sponsor support for many years have been F1, NASCAR and possibly IndyCar. TV coverage in the lower categories is there, but not enough to bring in the big sponsors to a series outside of F1. Just look at the state of rallying these days too, it is nowhere near where it was when Colin McRae was raising dust around the world.
The problem now for F1 is that the costs of running a team have sky rocketed to insane levels of over £300 million a year to be competitive but corporate money has declined, which puts massive pressure on teams. No longer do you see the big money sponsor deals all the way down the grid, just look at McLaren this year. Who would have thought a top team like that would be pretty bare of logos on their cars? For a talented driver looking to get to F1, you can't open the doors of an F1 factory to even have a proper conversation unless you have ten million in the back pocket and this is for a team that has no hope of winning a race...! Am I missing something here?
The interesting thing about F1 is that it is a huge business with billions of dollars from TV money and racetracks paying huge sums to stage a GP. But if that is the case, why have two F1 teams just gone into administration? Why do we hear many other teams like Sauber and Lotus struggling to balance their books?
If you are Ferrari you enjoy more of the financial pie for just being Ferrari, if you are Mercedes or Red Bull you have good backing. Toro Rosso are ok, but they don't enjoy the money Red Bull does, McLaren and Williams are hanging in there just, maybe Force India, but they don't have the money to race against the top teams and win a World Championship.
You hear that CVC Capital, the company that owns F1, has enjoyed record profits from their involvement. Bernie isn't poor either, so is it not time to have a look at how money can be poured back into the sport instead of taking it away? Motorsport is one of the few sports that doesn't reinvest in grassroots yet it is one of the wealthiest, is that good for the sport? I don't think so.
F1 has enjoyed a good run for many years and Bernie has done a great job in turning it into one of the top sports in the world and so deserves respect. But is this a sustainable model moving forward? Well I guess the answer lies in the financial state of the F1 teams right now, so change is needed, but will it happen too late? I hope not.
When I looked at how the Brabham name would return to racing as a team I looked at the current situation, one which I have lived in for over 30 years and it just wasn't attractive to me because I could see the problems teams have surviving.
Plus I stood back and asked the questions, why do we do this? What is it we are trying to achieve? Have we all got lost in this illusion that we have to prove to be the best to satisfy our needs? Don't get me wrong, I love competition, I love winning and I am still a fan of F1, but have we taken this too far now where we have to look at things and take a different direction?
I guess I have and that is why I started Project Brabham. I saw an opportunity to bring the iconic Brabham name back to racing but in a different way. One that challenges our thinking on how to go racing, and one that I believe is more engaging, interactive and inspirational through our Brabham-Digital platform. It is going racing for a higher purpose than just showing who is the best on the track and spending huge sums of money trying to do so.
I look down the road and I struggle to see how F1 in particular will sustain the amount of spend and what's taken out of the sport, so through Brabham-Digital I see a solution to a sustainable way for a team to survive. Our digital package cuts through the monopolised networks, and people will get direct access through their own eyes and pockets, but in a manner in which they are happy to contribute because they are being rewarded by an enhanced experience.
Ok, this is only the beginning of a new journey for Brabham Racing, but it's why I believe we will have a stronger financial footing.


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The former leader of a US church that was widely known for its inflammatory anti-gay protests has died, his family has said.
It claimed their deaths were punishment for America's tolerance of gay people.
Their signs read "Thank God for dead soldiers" and "Thank God for 9/11" and the like, and bore messages offensive to gay and lesbian people.
Born in Mississippi in 1929, Mr Phelps was raised a Methodist and was selected to attend the US Military Academy.
He was ordained a Baptist minister, though Westboro was not attached to any mainstream denomination.
Mr Phelps earned a law degree from Washburn University in 1964, but was stripped of his licence to practise in Kansas in 1979.
The Kansas Supreme Court said Mr Phelps made false statements in documents and "showed little regard" for professional ethics.
Later, he and his small congregation - founded in 1955 and later dubbed "the most hated family in America" by the BBC's Louis Theroux - aimed their vitriol at many groups, including immigrants and Jews. But their signature slogan was "God hates fags".
"You're not going to get nowhere with that slop that 'God loves you,'" Mr Phelps once told the Religion News Service. "That's a diabolical lie from hell without biblical warrant."
In 2009, Mr Phelps and his daughter were barred from entering the United Kingdom due to their anti-gay preaching.
The church's actions inspired a federal law and numerous state laws limiting picketing at funerals.


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Palm Beach received its name due to its abundance of coconut palm trees, but the coconut palm didn't originate from Florida or the United States. In 1878, the Spanish ship Providencia was traveling from Havana to Spain when it was wrecked off of the coast. This ship was transporting 20,000 coconuts, so the residents took the coconuts to salvage them and shortly after there were groves of Palm Trees.
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'American Prison,' by Shane Bauer
Gabriel Thompson	September 15, 2018Updated: September 17, 2018, 4:06 pm
"American Prison" Photo: Penguin Press
At age 63, Dave Bacle was making $9 an hour as a guard at the Winn Correctional Center, a prison in Louisiana run by the Corrections Corporation of America. A Coast Guard retiree with a portly build and salty vocabulary, Bacle wasn't a particularly easy person to shock. But this private prison was something else. Cell doors could be popped open with ease, mental health services were practically nonexistent, and inmates frequently bloodied each other with homemade shanks. What the place needed, he told his partner, was an investigative journalist to poke around and check things out.
Bacle's partner at the prison was Shane Bauer, a slim white guy in his 30s from California. Bauer was also a reporter for Mother Jones. In his pocket was a pen that featured a hidden recording device; his watch could secretly take pictures and video. Bauer had already spent three months at the prison, returning home to his apartment each evening to download the recordings, write up his notes, and deal with waves of anger, frustration, fear and guilt. (About one-third of prison guards suffer post-traumatic stress disorder, a higher rate than soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.)
In 2016, Mother Jones published the result of Bauer's undercover investigation, a 35,000-word expose that ricocheted across the Internet and put CCA, since renamed CoreCivic, on the defensive. (The company called the article, which won the National Magazine Award last year, a "rehashed and predetermined premise instead of a factual and informed story.") Now comes "American Prison," in which Bauer weaves his guard experiences into a history of private prisons in America. It is a relentless and uncompromising book, one that takes a crowbar to the private prison industry and yanks hard, letting just enough daylight slip inside to illuminate the contours of the beast.
This beast is hungry, and it must be fed. Shortly after the formal end of slavery, private prisons extracted profits by working inmates — mostly African Americans — so hard that they died by the thousands each year, likely exceeding the death rates in Soviet gulags. (In 1898, nearly 1 in 5 convict laborers in Alabama perished.) After convict leasing was phased out, prisons turned profits by cutting back on even the most basic of services. At Bauer's prison, the guard towers are empty and security checkpoints often unstaffed. The facility of more than 1,500 inmates doesn't have a single full-time psychiatrist; one mentally ill inmate shrivels to 71 pounds before committing suicide.
Bauer's training consists of little more than being doused with tear gas by a supervisor. At $9 an hour, the guards are also disposable, a business plan that can be fairly described as the CCA way. The company's co-founder, Terrell Don Hutto, got his start managing a prison plantation in Texas in the 1960s. To save money, he enlisted especially brutal inmates to maintain order. Hutto then ran the prisons of Arkansas, whose plantations had started to lose money after a reformer introduced new protections for inmate laborers. Hutto gutted those protections. One inmate testified that he was stripped and left in a cell for 28 days for refusing to work in the fields. If inmates didn't pick their cotton quota, they were subjected to various forms of torture. It was ugly, but the prisons became profitable again.
Shane Bauer Photo: Ted Ely
Bauer's consuming interest in prisons can be traced to a hike he took in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2009. On the hike, Bauer, along with his partner and a friend, were arrested by the Iranian government and accused of being U.S. spies. Bauer spent more than two years in prison, including four months in solitary confinement. Back home, he struggled with PTSD and began to correspond with, and write about, inmates in the U.S. But prison is a brutal place, and as a CCA employee, it doesn't take long for his empathy to wear thin and sometimes snap.
"The boundary between pleasure and anger is blurring," he writes. "To shout makes me feel alive. I take pleasure in saying no to prisoners." He finds joy in confiscating the clothing of inmates and imagines an entire unit being tear-gassed. "Inside me there is a prison guard and a former prisoner and they are fighting with each other, and I want them to stop."
Bauer credits Ted Conover's 2001 book "Newjack" for inspiration, which chronicled a year that Conover spent in the late 1990s as a guard at New York's Sing Sing prison. Read together — and if you haven't read "Newjack," you most certainly should — the books highlight the degradation of what was already a dangerous and chaotic job. "They got to raise the pay for y'all," one inmate tells Bauer. "If they don't do that, this bitch ain't never gonna change."
There was a moment when change seemed to be on the horizon. In 2016, the Justice Department announced that it planned to phase out the use of private prisons for federal inmates. After being pressured from the left, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said that she wanted to end the use of private prisons at the state level, too. As the company's stock nose-dived, Corrections Corporation of America rebranded itself CoreCivic, a move, according to a spokesperson, that spoke "to the deep sense of service that we feel every day to help people."
Then Donald Trump won, and CoreCivic's stock soared. Last year, Attorney General Jeff Sessions reversed the decision to phase out private prisons. The crackdown on undocumented immigrants requires the construction and maintenance of ever more detention centers. The private prison industry is booming once again. To find out what that means for real people — both those who guard and those who are guarded — "American Prison" is the place to begin.
American Prison
A Reporter's Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment
By Shane Bauer
(Penguin Press; 351 pages; $28)
Gabriel Thompson
Gabriel Thompson	Gabriel Thompson is the author of "America's Social Arsonist: Fred Ross and Grassroots Organizing in the Twentieth Century" and "Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs (Most) Americans Won't Do." Email: books@sfchronicle.com
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Mat Kavanagh and the History of Anarchism
Thoughts on Mat Kavanagh's writing, what he's trying to do with it and what it means for anarchist history
The historian G. M. Young reflected that no historian should begin writing until they heard the voices of the people they were researching. No problem with that rule here. Sometimes you can't hear yourself with all the nattering going on in the boxes and on the shelves. It's time then, I guess, to begin writing.
Idly browsing in the archive the other day (an activity much to be encouraged) I picked up a two-volume edition of John M. Robertson's A Short History of Free Thought Ancient and Modern (London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co. Ltd., 1899). On the FFEP was the signature of Mat Kavanagh and on each fly-leaf were meticulous notes on Robertson's text in Kavanagh's copperplate handwriting. Kavanagh is a subject of one of Nick Heath's excellent biographical sketches on libcom and I would urge you to read it, but I want to talk about Mat Kavanagh in terms of what we mean when we write, or talk, about the history of anarchism.
John Hewetson wrote a warm and appreciative obituary of Mat in the "Freedom" of March 20, 1954 (Mat died on Friday, March 12th, 1954). In it Hewetson said "very few comrades have been so widely known in the anarchist movement in this country for he addressed audiences in many towns." In his The Anarchists in London, 1935–1955, (Sanday: Cienfuegos Press, 1976), Albert Meltzer writes of Kavanagh that "It was mainly due to his efforts that the Anarchist movement was kept alive during the difficult period between 1914 and 1934 when he still had much to give the movement." Kavanagh then played an important role in British anarchism. Interestingly, though, you don't find him in either George Woodcock's Anarchism (London: Penguin) or Peter Marshall's Demanding the Impossible (Oakland: PM Press, 2010) – not even a footnote.
So, apart from some aficionados Mat Kavanagh, it would be fair to say, is not well known now. Never mind that he tried to a hold a movement together by passing on its traditions and histories. Never mind he was a prolific and popular speaker – to some the public persona of anarchism and anarchy – and, I think, a clarifier of anarchist ideas. The problem we have is that he did not write all that much and what he did write, that wasn't about figures from the anarchist past, was often in the moment, and not written with an eye to posterity which appears to count in some peoples eyes more than anything.
Throughout the nineteen thirties and beyond Mat wrote clear, lucid and straightforward sketches of anarchists who often had played a similar role to himself in the development of British anarchist organization and practice. Now, these were, as I said, written with at least a glance towards posterity. He was shrewd enough to realize that something was being lost and needed to be given whatever permanence he could provide. These biographical sketches became, in retrospect, pathways illustrating his own journeys in anarchism. His other writings though were different. They, too, were straightforward and lucid, but very much concerned with now. How to organize, the chances for anarchy after the war's end etc etc In some of them we can certainly see progressions in his thinking. In the May 1935 issue of Freedom he appeals to Communist Party members over the heads of their leaders to join anarchists in common struggle. By the September 1944 of War Commentary he blanket criticizes the Independent Labour Party and its members for opportunistically adopting anarchist positions. All sense and possibility of collaboration between anarchists and other groups on the left does appear to have disappeared, in his mind, anyway.
Those of us interested in anarchist history are faced with something of a challenge here. We can certainly, if sketchily, find some traces of Kavanagh's anarchism, but we need to put in some real work to be able to place his non-biographical writings in the social context they were written in. They are not candidates for subjects in a Ph.D. in political theory. Other writers will have to suffice for that. What interests me about his writings is Kavanagh's sense of audience. Who did Mat write for? Now we know Mat worked for long periods of his life on building sites and, later, as a barber (there is a rumor that he cut George Orwell's hair) and it struck me that we can see Mat's articles as the written evidence of lots of conversations and discussions he must have had every day; if we go back to Robertson's book and look again at Mat's notes on the fly leafs, two things strike me. One, here is a working class scholar at work, making sense of a huge amount of information and following his own autonomous, intellectual trails. The second point is here is Kavanagh actually working out what knowledge he can take from this book that will be useful in his discussion on anarchism and anarchy with his work mates. It's evidence, if you like, of a search for that really useful knowledge that will help inform his chats with people over lunch breaks, in the pub, and at various types of meetings.
Now, I wouldn't dream of suggesting that working class people are incapable of understanding complex intellectual ideas, although I would suggest that complex intellectual ideas are very rarely capable of understanding working class people, but I'll leave that for another time. I would argue, though, that some conversation (or discourse) may well be different from accepted "intellectual" discourse and, at least, just as important. In Kavanagh's world you choose your words carefully, listen a lot, try and create a logic in the face of illogic, take the piss, have it taken out of you, argue, swear, and use examples and similes that reflect the common culture of work and social experience. Always you are prepared for unexpected challenges, agreements, and plain mockeries. This is not a place where you are talking to the converted and you can vent your spleen against all sorts of impure and hopeless paths to anarchy every other anarchist has taken apart from you and your mates – and you are not sure about one or two of them either. This is a different world that needs different writing. Put simply it is where the language of anarchism meets the language of everyday life. All this I think helps us understand Mat's articles a little better. They are written appeals to people's common sense, often taking them on apparently uncomplicated journeys from beginning to end, yet dealing beneath the surface with rather complex ideas and feelings. Now no one is saying that one method of writing is better than another. What I would say is that we need to be aware that writing like Kavanagh's was an integral part of anarchist history and we should respect and perhaps look at it more closely than we have done.
Two final thoughts. I am, of course, struck by Mat Kavanagh's desire to inform his contemporaries about their movement's past. As I have grown older I can appreciate the critical role he played. For a movement that is often predicated on youth and excited and intrigued by the new Kavanagh played a critical role in maintaining continuity, memory, and culture. It's easy to disparage the past, and the old ways as circumstantialism runs rampant (you know "circumstances have changed, things are not the same"). Of course adapting to circumstances can be good and, sometimes, not so good! Whatever the results of that discussion I am still struck by how many unwritten and unsung anarchists must have played a similar role to Kavanagh in other countries.
The second thought that struck me was prompted by a line or two in John Hewetson's obituary. He wrote that Kavanagh's "experience taught him to adhere to the traditional ideas of the movement." Mm… I'm not quite sure what that means. I'd guess it's a coded reference to the centrality of class struggle. It's an interesting point though. When you are talking on the job, at lunch breaks or in the pub you chat about a common culture – the foreman is useless, we don't need him. Look at how crap these tools are. No warning about overtime again. Those carpenters did a crap job (Of course sometimes you just get drunk and have a laugh and forget all about it!!) Whatever the topic you probably don't begin to talk about any overarching new theories of social change. You start from where you are and what you see and feel. It's hard enough to deal with the "old" never mind the "new". That said – when Kavanagh spoke at all those meetings, or when Chaim Weinberg did the same in the USA, we do probably need to ask that, if they were recognized by their contemporaries as important to the spread and proliferation of anarchists ideas, what, then, was the anarchism they spoke about and what was it's relation to the books, pamphlets and newspapers produced by the more well-known anarchists? Above all we might ask where are they in the histories of anarchism and anarchist thought and practice, and what anarchism have we all been building on and reacting to?
Originally posted at http://kslnotes.wordpress.com/2010/09/06/mat-kavanagh-and-the-history-of-anarchism/.
Reposted at http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/vdnf0f and published in KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 63-64, October 2010 [Double issue]
Kate Sharpley
Barry Pateman
Kate Sharpley Library
Mat Kavanagh
In Kavanagh's world you choose your words carefully, listen a lot, try and create a logic in the face of illogic, take the piss, have it taken out of you, argue, swear, and use examples and similes that reflect the common culture of work and social experience.


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Wikipedia states that King David, Ruth's descendant, was born and died on Shavuos. The source they brought was a Yerushalmi in Chagigah (2:3). I looked in the Yerushalmi and found nothing.
כתוב במגילת רות "וישי הוליד את דוד"
וישי הוליד את דוד = 796 . בחג השבעות = 796.
ודוד המלך נולד ונפטר בחג-השבועות .
It's written in Megillat Ruth (4:22), "and Yishai gave birth to David."
and Yishai gave birth to David has a gematria of 796. On the festival of Shavuot also has a gematria of 796.
What is the connection here, that this last posuk of Megillat Ruth which we read on the festival of Shavuot?
King David was born and died on the festival of Shavuot.
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At the end of the 19th century, his cognacs were shipped all over the world, Award winner at the Universal Exhibitions of 1878 and 1900. And when J. Eymard married Croizet's daughter Léonie, he brought with him an enormous inventory of the finest cognacs as his dowry. A not insignificant fact is that referred stock was meticulously administered conforming the then-current rules, hence when from 1962 till 1987 there was a ban on selling vintages cognacs, Croizet as one of three cognac houses - the other two being Delamain and Hine - was exonerated from this veto.
The family owned a vast estate in St-Même-les Carrières with over 370 acres of vineyards in the grande champagne, borderies and fins bois areas and several distilleries. Croizet was a celebrated name and it featured on the wine-cards of world famous restaurants like Paul Bocuse, Trois Grois and La Tour d'Argent.
After the turn of the century, the company encountered insurmountable problems caused by a loss of focus. Too much was withdrawn for private use and to keep the company afloat they were producing cognacs under many different brand names. The following collapse of the Asian market and some internal quarrels steered the company to bankruptcy. At that point, foreign investors saw an opportunity to take control. In 2007 the Russian Wine Trust bought the brand, stocks, and vineyards inclusive.
Grand Champagne Cognacs
They saw three significant strengths: the name, the orchards and the vast and ancient inventory. Furthermore, they appointed Tim Banks as director, who only wanted to produce grand champagne cognacs. As the yields from his vineyards are not enough for the planned expansion, he also acquires Eaux-de-vie from neighboring farmers. His goal is to become the fifth most important cognac brand. Earlier the Russian Wine Trust has already bought the Lajasson property in the fins bois district with 56 acres vineyard.
After an initial optimism regarding the future of the Croizet brand, today things are not quite clear. Management has changed hands twice, from Tim Banks to Jean-Emmanuel Roy, former cellar master at Rémy Martin and in 2013 to Marina Sélivanova, the wife of Vadim Varshavsky who owns the Russian Wine Trust. Vadim Varshavsky has made his fortune in the steel business, but now he seems to have run in financial difficulties in several countries and in 2016 the French court posed a temporary seizure of the local assets of mr. Vadim Varshavsky.
Vintage Cognac
Although there may be some troubles, there are also some positive sounds. A recent success of the Croizet brand is the launch of the Cuvée Léonie in 2011, a vintage cognac of 1858 that cost over £100.000,-. The cognac is named after Croizet's daughter Léonie who married J. Eymard, and it has been undeniably the most expensive cognac in the world. In the cellar of Croizet, there are even a few bottles from 1811 left.