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What Psychologists Need to Know about ∆9-THC in Recreational Cannabis: Deciphering Science from Spin
By Susan D. Writer, Ph.D.
Recently, before I began a presentation about the science and clinical implications of today's cannabis, I asked my audience of mental health professionals about their perceptions of recreational cannabis. Some examples of the responses I received included, "I work with a lot of people who say that it helps their migraines, appetite, or insomnia, etc."; "I don't see what the big fuss is about; I mean, we've had medical marijuana for over a decade"; "It's no different from alcohol or cigarettes, so if those are legal, why shouldn't pot be legal too?"; "It's natural and organic, so it can't be all that bad for you"; "Marijuana is not as much of a problem as other drugs of abuse because it isn't as addictive or potent"; "I wouldn't want my kids using it, but it's fine for adults who just want to have a good time." In the group of over 100 clinicians, only a few articulated specific concerns: One addiction treatment provider expressed the concern about increased cannabis addiction (across all ages); another psychologist shared concerns about the adverse effects that marijuana has on symptoms such as rebound anxiety and increased flashbacks in people suffering from anxiety disorders or PTSD, which comprise the majority of his practice; another therapist who works at an inpatient psychiatric hospital expressed concern about the increases in cannabis-induced psychosis that they are seeing at the hospital. What was perhaps most interesting is that the no one in the audience delineated between different types of cannabis or different types of cannabinoid compounds and their differential effects.
I have found through my outreach, educational, and advocacy work in the community, and in concert with other clinicians, academicians, law enforcement professionals, advocacy groups, and judges from across the state of California that the group of clinicians from that presentation, albeit not randomly sampled for a research study, is actually a pretty decent representation of the average Californian's views and understanding of cannabis and recreational use. This understanding has informed voting, policy, and behavior in recent years. Where do we derive our views, beliefs, and opinions about cannabis use? Is our understanding of cannabis rooted in scientific facts, or is it rooted in "facts" that are delivered to us through savvy marketing campaigns, biased consumers, or industry propaganda?
Let's start by focusing on some of the specific "facts" which are often debated on social media, in journalism, "fake news," and across households, as well as some of the aforementioned comments made by colleagues. An internet search on facts about marijuana versus alcohol will yield dozens of hits including images such as the one below.
The websites from which such "facts" are derived will often be well designed and feature testimonials and "science" to support and substantiate their findings.
Before addressing these specific claims, it is important to clarify some of the terminology used in reference to marijuana. The industry has moved toward the use of the term "cannabis" instead of "marijuana". This, in part, is to help consumers make the association with active cannabinoid compounds that contribute to marijuana's effects. The flowers, leaves, stems, seeds, and extracts are derived from two plants, Cannabis sativa (plant strains with delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (∆9-THC) dominance) and Cannabis indica (plant strains with cannabidiol (CBD) dominance), which contain over 500 chemicals, and over 80 phytocannabinoids that interact with the human endocannabinoid system. . ∆9-THC and CBD are the most widely researched compounds in the cannabis plant; they have similar effects on the body in some areas and opposing effects in others. ∆9-THC has psychoactive properties that cause the "high" experienced by users that increases with potency (CBD does not have these psychoactive characteristics). The increased availability of and risk of psychoactive effects of ∆9-THC is the primary focus of concern among health care professionals. Ultimately, of all of the cannabinoids, ∆9-THC is the compound most associated with addiction, risk, and negative social, psychological, and/or health.
There has been a considerable shift in potency of ∆9-THC available to consumers over the last several decades. The amount of bioavailable ∆9-THC grown in C. sativa plants has increased from 3-5% in the 1960s and 1970s, to 10-12% ∆9-THC by the late 1990s. This statistic applied to both smoked cannabis and cannabis that is used to make baked goods like cookies and brownies. Today, the average amount of ∆9-THC in smoked products is 18-35% (available at any dispensary for both "medicinal" and recreational use), with ∆9-THC levels up to 90%+ in extracts. These extracts are consumed through vaporizers, injections, free-basing, snorting, used in edible baked goods such as gummy bears, brownies, and cookies, or infused in teas, sodas, and alcohol. Even "CBD products" contain as much as 6-12% ∆9-THC to provide a psychoactive effect in addition to whatever effects are experienced from the CBD alone.
It is these implications and ramifications of higher potency that we need to understand as clinicians, consumers, and competent conveyors of information in our community, especially when it comes to intelligently accessing and using cannabis, addressing myths or half-truths, and making comparisons across situations and circumstances.
With regard to comparative research, current NIDA and NIH-funded research on cannabis is strictly controlled with limitations on the amount of ∆9-THC in both cigarettes and bulk cannabis for use with human subjects. Until 2016, the highest available percentage of ∆9-THC available in cigarettes was <8% and the highest available ∆9-THC in bulk cannabis was <10%. In early 2018, NIDA began to release bulk ∆9-THC at 12-14% levels for the use of research in human subjects. The majority of cannabis research conducted prior to 2012 was with a ∆9-THC level of 5% or less, and research findings up until 2016, could only investigate the effect cannabis with 10% ∆9-THC or less. Hence, when marketing representatives and cannabis industry leaders point to the "evidence" from previous research studies that "proves" that cannabis has no deleterious effects on the brain or body, they are citing research that does not evaluate the ∆9-THC levels of the products that they grow, manufacture, or sell. Indeed, there are NO DATA on the effects of the higher, ∆9-THC potency cannabis (in part, because NIDA and NIH have not deemed the higher potency cannabis to be safe to test on human subjects).
Epidemiological data from the California Hospital Association, and San Diego Department of Emergency Management, and San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency's Medical Examiners' Office reveal that there has been an increase of 830% in ∆9-THC cannabis-related emergency department admissions in San Diego County between 2006 and 2014 (from 1,108 to 10,302 admissions). In 2016, the San Diego Medical Examiners' Office reported 462 deaths related to ∆9-THC cannabis. Individuals seek emergency medical attention for cannabis hyperemesis syndrome and cyclical vomiting syndrome (also called scromiting), chest pain, acute cannabis-induced psychosis, panic attacks, tachycardia, respiratory failure, and stroke-like symptoms. Cannabis and cannabis-drug interactions have also been implicated in motor vehicle accidents, suicides, and homicides. These data do not include those seeking treatment for cannabis withdrawal or cannabis addiction.
Referring back to the "fact sheet" in the figure above, it is important to look at the history of two high profile substances that have run the course from panacea to highly problematic. (1) Tobacco cigarettes were initially marketed using physician 'recommendations' and testimonials from consumers. Today, the dangerous effects of cigarette smoke are unequivocal. It took 50 years and over 7,000 scientific publications before the Surgeon General put warning labels on tobacco products. (2) When opiates were first introduced into the medical marketplace, they were touted as 'miracle drugs' that had little potential for addiction and a low threshold for problematic use or negative consequences; today we have an Opiate Epidemic because of our willingness to blindly trust what an industry was telling us over what our objective eyes were seeing. When individuals began dying from prescription opiate overdoses, those deaths were often as attributed to "respiratory failure" or "heart attack" without any mention of the medication or substance that the deceased had taken The medical community and the public simply did not believe that the average individual could die from prescription opiates and therefore, there was no further inquiry or investigation into cause. The (false) assumption was that an individual who died and happened to have opiates in their system, must have had some underlying health condition which made them vulnerable. Deaths related to prescription opiates continued to be under-reported or unreported for years, not because of an industry cover-up, but because of ignorance and an assumption of "lack of harm."
There is a sense of déjà vu when it comes to our recent attitude toward cannabis. Can history teach us to be more vigilant? Let's revisit our chart with some evidence-based edits:
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In conclusion, today's cannabis isn't your grandmothers' marijuana! Cannabis products that are available in the marketplace at dispensaries are far more potent than before and individuals who are using these products are often unaware of what they are purchasing or consuming. The purpose of this article is to give the reader a glimpse of some of the issues that we see in the areas of prevention, intervention, and treatment with cannabis, and what emergency medical providers are experiencing daily in their emergency rooms. Please join us at the SDPA Fall Conference to learn more about the biochemical composition of cannabis and to examine specific clinical ramifications of cannabis intake so that we can competently assess, evaluate, diagnose, and treat, in the context of widespread recreational cannabis use post-legalization in California.
Dr, Writer is the Clinical Education and Public Affairs Officer at Aurora Behavioral Health Care is a clinician, speaker, trainer, and advocate in the areas of mental health and substance use.
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by karisawilson
Cool Jobs: Karisa Wilson, musician
STEPHANIE DOUBLESTEIN | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2014
It's November, the month of thanksgiving, but Karisa Wilson says she counts her blessings all year 'round.
"I'm extremely fortunate to be able to do this for a living," she says. And by 'this,' she means make her living as a musician, both teaching music and performing as a singer-songwriter in Grand Rapids and beyond.Have tea with Wilson (first name pronounced "ka-ree-sa," please and thank you) in her home, and you get the sense that she brings an attitude of gratitude – plus a lot of good, old-fashioned hard work – to her musical endeavors as well as her personal life. In person, she's warm, generous, and projects a calm assurance. She offers me multiple varieties of tea as the kettle sings, and we settle down in her living room chairs as her son, John Paul, plays happily at our feet. Before I leave, she shows me the spare room where much of her practice takes place. It's small and modest, filled with all the accoutrements of a musician (guitars, keyboard, some art on the cheerful yellow walls), and it has a view of the back yard.
It's safe to say this isn't necessarily the life Wilson has always imagined. The daughter of missionaries, Wilson grew up in West Michigan, graduated from Calvin College, and taught Spanish and special education for four years before going all in as a musician.
She backed into performing via her cousin's band. Though she had studied the violin classically since the age of ten, it was later in life that Wilson realized she had a wider skill set. "I had dabbled with guitar in college, started writing songs, and about a year after that I was out playing for money," she says.
Since then, Wilson has earned a dedicated following both locally and nationally. Along the way, she's had a few defining moments, including working on her first album, buying a PA system, and winning a Jammie Award in 2008. "It kind of blew my mind because I didn't think I was on that level," she says of the award. "I know it's just a local thing but for me it was having that recognition that made me feel like I was doing a good job."
It's not all awards and on-stage glory, though — and Wilson is the first to tell you that.
"The umbrella is musician," Wilson says, of her day-to-day work. "But underneath that, it changes constantly. I actually have to practice these instruments and try to find time to write. I play shows but I also do other stuff like weddings, weird things like recording for other people, playing violin or doing backup vocals on someone else's project."
And there's more behind-the-scenes stuff, too. "I spend a lot of time doing what you're doing right now (typing and) scheduling things. There's a lot of clerical stuff. I do all my own promotion. I don't have an agent or manager, checking my email and getting back to people."
Wilson gives this definition of self-employed: "For anything to get done, I have to do it." So one of the biggest challenges, as she's grown in popularity, has been learning how to say no, which is a skill the gorgeous six-month-old boy playing happily at my feet had something to do with.
"That's one thing that I love about having a child," she says. "Part of it is he's an amazing child who I get to watch grow up, but what I love, too, is my priorities are very clear to me."
These days, those priorities are largely family, music, and teaching. Wilson teaches music about 20 hours per week at Triumph Music Academy, which she says allows her to be just a musician, and not a musician who works at "X business" during the day. It's a combination that works well for her, along with her husband's flexible schedule (his family owns The Bitter End coffee shop on the West Side, and Wilson pitches in on the business side there as well).
So does she listen to music in her home for inspiration? Surprisingly, no. "I don't really listen to music," she admits. "I don't have this vast music library or a vast knowledge. I just really love what I love. I don't seek out listening to something specific. I might realize after the fact that some songs I wrote remind me of someone."
Wilson's style is hard to pin down, and that's okay with her. "If I had aspirations of being a national radio artist, I would have to pick a direction and stick with it. But for what I'm doing I think it's good. It's my style and it always sounds like my style," she says, though when pressed, she calls herself "kind of an indie singer-songwriter," a folk singer whose style encompasses Americana.
"I don't want to be put in a category. I play the guitar and sing," she says, and the local music scene doesn't argue with that.
Another thing the local community doesn't easily do, though, is value performance art like Wilson's. "People don't want to pay to come see you and they don't want to spend money on merchandise or a CD," she says. "It's a community that's learning how to really value music and art in general. That's a discussion we have every year now with ArtPrize so I think a lot of that is cultural. And that's where learning how to navigate the music world is an important skill and one I've had to learn over the years."
Wilson says the local music community can be very supportive, and that Grand Rapids does a few things especially well from a musical perspective. "I think things like WYCE are incredible and I know our community is unique in having it," she says.
And, on the music culture in West Michigan, she says, "I actually think a lot of musicians here are pretty decent people, which I think can be not the case. People are generally supportive and great to each other and speak well of each other. I know in other places it can be cutthroat and nasty, and I don't feel like it is here."
Does she occasionally pinch herself when she realizes that years of hustle and practice allow her to make a living teaching and performing music? Well, yes.
"I opened for Ziggy Marley this summer. I've opened for Pat Benetar. Billy Bob Thorton and I hung out for a while," she says with a smile. "I just feel like I have sort of a crazy life where I get these opportunities to do this crazy stuff."
And though clearly these moments don't happen every day, it's the magic of live performance, of sharing her music with the world, that makes all the juggling and behind-the-scenes work worthwhile. "That's what we're chasing – that's the dragon, the moment up on stage when you feel really lucky and awesome, when I feel like I'm jamming and I feel grateful to be there."
It seems safe to say that Grand Rapids is grateful to have her here, too.
Stephanie Doublestein is the managing editor of Rapid Growth Media.
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Young Thug unleashes new single "Tick Tock"
"Tick Tock" is the first single released for Young Thug's sophomore studio album P*NK.
By Regina Cho
Young Thug's next studio album P*NK is set to arrive on Oct 15, but so far we've gotten a few peeks into what's to come. A snippet of his single "Tick Tock" was first showcased on July 24 during Young Thug's set at Rolling Loud. Thugger then performed the song again two days later during his Tiny Desk concert before it premiered on Gray Rizzy's SiriusXM show on Aug 19. Today (Aug 20), it is officially available in full on all DSPs for fans to enjoy as we wait for the new album. On the track, he shows off his signature cadence with ease:
Okay, shit, I just woke up in a Animal, I just woke up in a Lambo'/ Flawless baguettes and the orange Richard, I just had bust down a cantaloupe/ N***as want beef and I'm tryna be vegan, but fuck it, they bringing can of smoke/ I can't see n***as in the glasses store (Swear)
Slidin' in the coupe in the back, smoke out the bag, too big for a sack/ Do you see her baby hair going down her back? Shawty look just like a two-year-old brat (God damn)/ Just like a record, get scratched/
In terms of other recent collabs from Young Thug, he joined Lil Gotit for his music video for "Playa Chanel" and can also be heard on recent albums like Mariah The Scientist's RY RY WORLD and IDK's USEE4YOURSELF. In June, Thugger and his Young Stoner Life collective liberated the second installment of their Slime Language series, which sees 23 tracks and a wealth of assists from Travis Scott, Drake, Rowdy Rebel, Lil Uzi Vert, Coi Leray, Big Sean, Skepta, Future, Yung Bleu, Kid Cudi, Meek Mill, and loads more.
Be sure to press play on Young Thug's brand new single "Tick Tock."
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By Peter A. Berry


SF Taxi Media: Cab Stories.
One radio call I got was at about 4:25 AM one moist Sunday morning. From deep in the Sunset, a house off Noriaga street, possibly 43rd Ave, it did not state a destination. At that time of the morning virtually nothing is open in the Sunset. Only the bakers, at work on the Sunday's donuts cakes breads and delectables. They say a few other types of delectables are available at some therapeutic establishments. Some were busted recently by our well paid police with nothing better to do.
The dispatcher had a hard time convincing anyone to ride all the way out to the end of the Sunset to take it. I was driving back from the airport on 19th Ave so what the hell. Out came the caller without delay. He presented extremely upset. He looked about 25. That's when that's when humans are supposed to have fully formed brains. Matured, is the word. This kid appeared to be almost in tears.
Thoroughly upset. Distraught. Turns out he was almost had in a fight, with his brother; his brother told him to leave and not come back without money. So the fare told me to go to the ATM, which was two blocks away. "Great!" I thought, "All the way out here for a $4.90." "Don't worry," he said, reading my mind, "I'll make it up to you." Although I have heard that one before he sounded sincere. Anyway, you take the good with the bad in taxi driving; it has been mostly good to me. He asked me how long I had been driving, blah blah and etc. This was to see if I was an old and driving a cab because I was wise or because I was a fool. It seems I established to his satisfaction that I was the former.
He asked the question he really wanted an answer to, which was, "will I ever get along with my brother? I just had another fight with my brother. It always seems to end up this way. I don't want to fight with him. It just always turns into one. We both want to get along.
Will I ever be able to get along with him" I answered him. "No," I told him. He sank into his seat. Not from sadness but relief. He just needed an answer. An honest and accurate one. He did give me a good tip; $10.00. So I told him the epilogue; "You'll never get along with your brother but you will always love him, and he will always love you. And, if you go into business together, it will be very successful. I have never known of a business run by brothers that has not been successful. But forget about him being your 'friend'" It was true. And he knew it. And it was worth the ten dollar tip. I dropped him back at his brother's house.
A friend suggested I write a word or two about the dangers of taxi driving, like robberies, since there was a piece in a Big Paper about it recently. Big Paper speculated that taxi driving was getting more dangerous.
The answer can be summed up as follows: the level of taxi driving danger is the same as other times, that is, the worse the economy, the more desperate people become; taxi robberies go up (and not just by men, by the way; a few years ago there was a female duo who robbed taxi drivers by one of them grabbing the driver around the neck with the other held a knife to him while getting his or her money).
In San Francisco there has been no significant increase in taxi hold-ups lately despite the economy. My data are that there is a robbery about once every couple of months of a taxi driver in San Francisco for the last few years. Sometimes the driver is seriously injured. One taxi driver robbed last year is still in the hospital from multiple stabs and slashes he received (he was in a coma but I heard he may be recovering). A San Francisco taxi driver has not been killed in hold-up in several years. The biggest danger taxi drivers' face is the stress of driving. We also get injured, but rarely, in car accidents.
People ask why we don't have shields or dividers between the driver and passengers, like in the East. That was debated by our taxi regulators some years ago. Being objected to by a majority of drivers, the idea was shelved. We like to think we are a cut above other cities' taxis; we believe San Franciscans are a cut-above citizenry too, such that we did not need dividers.
I hate to say it but I guess "enlightening" would be appropriate. Perhaps like bungee jumping. I don't know. And I'm not brave enough to find out.


We often see renovating as a huge undertaking, that we have to coordinate new furniture with new accent pieces, floors, and wall decorating, be it wallpaper or painting. But our homes often don't need entire makeovers. In fact, most of the work we need to do if we want a little facelift for any room in our homes is actually little more than that, a little facelift. But you can change the entire look and feel of a room for relatively cheap and completely change the feel of your entire home with a relatively simple change: paint.
Painting walls has never been easier or cheaper than it is right now. Paint is widely available in a number of colours, tints, textures, and styles to fit any number of decor ideas. So whether it's some special waterproof vinyl paint for a bathroom that's looking a little old fashioned or a dining room that needs some sprucing up for guests, you can start your renovation with a bucket of paint and a few paint supplies.
But let's start with materials. If you're lucky, you often have everything we need to paint already lying around the house. If you kept good care of old brushes and rollers, cleaning them after your last painting project, then you really only need some painter's tape (which you probably have in spades as well) and the paint itself. If you happen to be short, painting supplies are available in abundance.
And unlike other renovation projects, like installing new plumbing or rearranging walls, you can sometimes do the painting yourself. It can be time consuming and technical, but if you want to renovate on a budget, there's no one cheaper than yourself. The quality of work will undoubtedly not be the same, but your own work is highly-affordable compared to the cheapest professional painter.
There are a few handy tricks you can use to paint something that will look great with the furniture and pieces you already have. Most pieces may seem like they fit a particular style, but many trends are emphasizing the decorating equivalent of a mash-up: taking two things that don't seem to go together and boldly striking out a new design. This can be classic colours with modern and sleek furniture or a striking colour scheme with older-style furniture.
Just because you have a rustic-looking wooden dining table doesn't mean everything has to have a similar rustic look. Wood in particular can look great with many different colours, each emphasizing a particular colour in the grain. So strike out and see what works with some swatches from your local paint store and see where it takes you. You'll probably be pleasantly surprised.
Painting is easily one of the cheapest and most effective ways to get a new look for any room in your home. It can spruce up a space while still matching your old furniture, saving you money on a complete overhaul without breaking the bank. And you can save even more money by doing the work yourself (however, for ideal results we do recommend you hire a professional). You'll be surprised what a simple paint job can do for your home, and add years to your favourite furniture and accent pieces.


Expressing satisfaction at the arrest of Fahmi Salim Musa Ben Khalifa on changes of fuel and other smuggling, the National Oil Corporation (NOC) has called for more fuel smugglers to be caught.
"The smuggling of subsidised hydrocarbons is a major economic crime against the Libyan people," it said. "It has a significant impact on the country's stability and the security of the Libyan people, and is a drain on the country's resources".
Khalifa was arrested by Zuwaran security officials and handed over to Rada, the special deterrence force in Tripoli, two days ago for safe keeping, ostensibly on the grounds that keeping him in Zuwara might be politically difficult.
An announcement by Rada yesterday that it had arrested him, however, has caused some ill-feeling in Zuwara. It has put out a statement that it, not Rada, took him into custody.
The move is nonetheless seen as a major blow to Libya's vast smuggling and trafficking networks. Khalifa is alleged to be one of the biggest smugglers of fuel in the country as well as being involved in the trafficking of migrants from Libya to Europe. He is currently being described as the "king of smugglers" in Libya although this may be something of an exaggeration. Nonetheless, the NOC has called him "an important link in the chain of those criminals".
Previously viewed as one of Libya's top smuggling centres, Zuwara has been moving to clean up its act. It has already clamped down on human trafficking although one of its continuing problems is that bodies of migrants who drowned as a result of accidents further east along the coast are swept towards it by the currents. It is Zuwara that has to deal with them.
Calling for more arrests, the NOC notes that it has been leading a campaign against the smugglers, with its own committee gathering intelligence on smuggling activities throughout the country. Names of inividuals involved, of tankers are their locations, it notes, are being forwarded to the attorney general as well as to UNSMIL officials.


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End Taxation without Representation: D.C, Puerto Rico and the 51st State
Sam Nugent
The United States of America has stood as the beacon of democracy and freedom in the world for a long time now, yet for 4.4 million Americans this is but a façade in their lives. These people are all resident to the various territories, possessions and districts that make up the United States. It stretches from Guam in the far eastern Pacific, to Samoa in the south to Puerto Rico in the Caribbean.
The two major regions whose territorial status has been questioned in recent years are that of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and Washington D.C. The former being a territory (a sub-national division under the jurisdiction of the federal government) of the U.S and the latter the only district (an administrative division under the direct control of the federal government) of the nation and capital city of the vast federation.
Both area's residents have strongly and repeatedly voiced their desire to become states with Puerto Rico voting six times on the issue since 1967 with the most recent two referenda holding majorities in favour of statehood. The very fact that the citizens of the island territory and world's oldest colony voted six times on their territorial status in the last fifty years certainly highlights some questionable democratic practices in place there.
This can be seen with respect to the disastrous hurricane Maria, where a centralised state-sponsored response could have drastically prevented the damage and death toll for the islands. There is also no direct representation for Puerto Ricans in the Senate or Congress (save the incumbent Governor Pedro Pierluisi who runs day to day affairs on the island but holds no political power in the U.S government) and consequently most referenda are non-binding and are merely a political statement. However, on the other hand, Puerto Ricans do not pay federal income tax: a privilege many working Americans of all classes would envy.
Yet is not paying income tax any compensation for a lack of political power to direct the course of the people and island at large? Over half of the islanders disagree, with the latest referendum held during the U.S elections last year showing around fifty two percent of Puerto Ricans supporting statehood.
There are a multitude of reasons why statehood is desirable for the average Puerto Rican. Effective damage control for the notorious hurricanes which ravage the island seem to be the most pressing issue, alongside this would be political equality with the fifty other states and the right to nearly $20 billion more in federal funds a year- money which Puerto Ricans know how to allocate more than an often distant federal government do.
The question over the status of Puerto Rico is primarily divided between the New Progressive Party (NPP), which supports statehood, the Popular Democratic Party (PDP), which supports the status quo, and the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP), which naturally supports an independent Puerto Rican state. With such a divide amongst the population, the issue may not be resolved anytime soon which is detrimental to the wider Puerto Rican society especially considering their geographical problems and the recent unreliability from Washington.
There is another factor at play with the Puerto Rican Question and that is the theory of statehood in the U.S. It is generally customary to admit two states simultaneously to the Union with the idea being that one would be a Republican leaning state and the other Democratic. The only other currently viable candidate for statehood is D.C. which is an overwhelmingly Democratic city.
The issue of party politics in Puerto Rico is not established in the typical battle between the GOP and the Democrats but in the issue of nationhood, which makes it difficult to ascertain its prevailing allegiance should it be admitted as the 51st state. Therefore, both regions status' on statehood are unusually linked by the rule of statehood admittance.
D.C's woes have never been more prevalent than today, as residents have been subjected to arguably the city's worst year since 1814: A global viral pandemic preyed upon the citizens, the politically, socially and economically embittered Black Lives Matter supporters protested with an untold vigour after the ripple-effect murder of George Floyd by a police officer in May, and most recently, thousands of highly disillusioned pro-Trump supporters stormed Capitol Hill, disrupted Congress and ransacked federal property in the crudest personification of "draining the swamp" yet seen.
In a region of the U.S that has no representation in Congress but who are resident to the capital of the largest democracy in the world, it must seem incomprehensible that they have less political privileges than their counterparts in the freezing streets of Anchorage or on the sandy beaches of Honolulu: regions of the two youngest U.S states. Coupled with this is the recent political violence and unrest that has washed over the streets of Washington in recent months.
Curfews, the National Guard (over which the districts leadership has no authority unlike elsewhere in the U.S) and extremist groups are no strangers to the residents of D.C who must be entirely sick of their home being the crucible of American dissatisfactions. D.C residents drive around with the ironic words: "End taxation without representation", on their licence plates, harkening back to the fabled slogan of the American Revolution whereby colonial settlers were becoming increasingly dissatisfied by the mounting taxes of the British government but had no parliamentary representation in London.
Residents may vote in both the presidential primaries and general election but like other territories, have no representation in Congress but for a non-voting delegate to the House of Representatives. Unlike in Puerto Rico where the divide between territorial status isn't unanimous, in D.C citizens voted over eighty five percent in the 2016 statehood referendum, a clear indicator of their dissatisfaction at the status quo and of how times have irrevocably changed since the time of the district's creation.
In one of the birthplaces of modern democracy it may seem paradoxical to some that this is the status quo in the United States, but no democracy is perfect and being a democracy means being ever open to change for the betterment of the people. It is unlikely we will see any change soon as there has not been a state admitted to the Union in over sixty years.
However, with a promising, stable administration under the helm of Joe Biden soon to come into the White House and proof of the woes of unrepresented Americans visible to all, change may come sooner than expected. And in these harrowing and uncertain times, it may be time for the millions of these Americans to take a firm stand as citizens of the worlds most famed and revered democracy and make their future better for themselves and for the generations to follow.
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Imperfect features: The iPhone X's expected flaws
By The Macalope, Macworld OCT 13, 2017 9:00 pm PDT
Shocking news as the iPhone X turns out to be not some perfect celestial representation of our ideal device, but just an actual thing made on Earth.
Writing for the Forbes contributor network and monkey massage spa (it is unclear whether the monkeys are giving or receiving the massages), Ewan Spence says "New iPhone X Surprises Reveal Apple's Flawed Vision." (Tip o' the antlers to Philip Speicher.)
What is the biggest surprise? That this is constrained by the technology of our time and does not feature future technologies.
What the heck, Apple?
Let's start with the all-glass design. While the materials may be all-glass…
The all-glass design is all glass? OK, you win this round, Apple. But we have our eye on you.
…Apple has worked to minimize the three distinct elements (front panel, back panel and chassis) into a single item. The presumably new construction methods in the iPhone X are a step forward, but it's a tough ask to make 'we built it slightly differently' to be a key selling point.
A whole new construction method is reduced to just "slightly different". Has a similar sentence ever been written about another smartphone vendor? Do other smartphone vendors even talk about their construction methods?
For consumers, a phrase like 'bezel-less' creates an assumption that the screen will be all-encompassing when you look at the smartphone.
Please point to even one survey that backs up this unsupported claim. The Macalope doubts many consumers even know what the word "bezel" means. This is probably why Apple doesn't use the word "bezel" anywhere on the iPhone X webpage. Instead they say "It's all screen."
Is it all screen? No, it is not. But it's pretty close and it's clear what they're talking about: a bigger screen on a smaller device. Spence thinks average customers are going to complain about the tiny amount of bezel that's left, as if what they care about is Apple's marketing terms instead of what they're going to walk out the door with.
"Hmm, I could have and enjoy this smartphone with more screen than I probably deserve, or I could obsess and get angry about marketing terms I most likely never even read and storm outta here."
The characters in Spence's fictional accounts really lack believable motivation. How many people walk into an Apple Store to buy an iPhone and have read the marketing copy but haven't seen the device?
Then there is the inclusion of facial recognition. What problem does this solve that wasn't already solved by Touch ID?
It certainly solves one of Apple's problems with phone design.
Yeah, how to get more screen on the front of the phone without increasing the size. That's kind of the whole idea behind the iPhone X.
Pundits seem to think Apple should have done this without removing Touch ID. But the technology to have an under-screen fingerprint reader simply wasn't there yet and a lot of people really hate having the fingerprint reader on the back of the phone. Apple is faulted for not having future technology and not providing pundits something else to complain about.
While Face ID solves the problem of the recognising a user, don't forget this problem was already solved with Touch ID.
Except Face ID is even more specific and, therefore, more secure.
Certainly the lack of Touch ID means unlocking a phone in your pocket, subtly under a table, or while being jostled in a busy commenting environment is now going to be a lot harder.
Every pundit who's all upset about Face ID uses this example and they never explain the point of having your phone unlocked while it's still in your pants.
And, OK, maybe not explaining the point is a good thing. Maybe there's some whole weird subculture of pocket Snapchatting the Macalope isn't aware of. He'd like to keep it that way. The rest of us, however, simply want our phones unlocked when we look at them. You know, when it's actually useful.
It remains to be seen if Face ID will unlock the iPhone X fast enough for this to be a non-issue. But the Macalope is old enough to remember when people were complaining because the Touch ID sensor on the iPhone 6s was unlocking the phone too fast, by which he means he's older than two freakin' years old.
Environmental factors are going to come into play with lighting, clothing, eyewear and more all impacting on the efficiency.
2013: ARRGH I CAN'T UNLOCK MY PHONE WITH GLOVES ON OR WHEN MY FINGERS ARE WET.
2017: ARRGH I CAN'T UNLOCK MY PHONE WHEN I'M ROBBING A BANK AND WEARING MY NIXON MASK.
Spence, like the Macalope, isn't a fan of the notch. But, then, the Macalope has never been a fan of larger phones and those seem to be the standard now. Sometimes history moves on without you.
[Hugs iPhone SE.]
Apple has come a long way from 'it just works.'
You don't even have this phone. You have no idea how well it works.
Here's the lifecycle of Apple feature releases:
Before it's released: It'll never work! While it's out: It works, but not as well as it should. When the replacement comes out: WHY IS APPLE REMOVING THIS MUCH-BELOVED TECHNOLOGY?!


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Fantasmas en Buenos Aires es una película argentina en blanco y negro dirigida por Enrique Santos Discépolo según el guion de Nicolás Proserpio sobre una idea de Manuel Meaños, Marcelo Menasché y Enrique Santos Discépolo que se estrenó el 8 de julio de 1942 y que tuvo como protagonistas a Pepe Arias y Zully Moreno.

Sinopsis
Una banda de estafadores le hace creer a un hombre que la mujer que conoció es un fantasma.

Reparto
 Pepe Arias ... Antonio Marotta
 Zully Moreno ... Martha Almanzor
 Carlos Lagrotta ... Medina
 Enrique García Satur ... "El Chiquito" (falsificador)
 Julio Renato ... Urelio J. Menchaca "Chucho"
 Ramón J. Garay ... Maestro Odóñez (médium)
 María Esther Buschiazzo ... Tía de Martha
 José A. Paonessa ... Peñálvez
 Casimiro Ros ... Galindo
 Chela Cordero ... Esposa de Menchaca
 Tito Rufa
 Américo Marbel

Comentarios
Manrupe y Portela escriben que se trata de un asunto interesante que pudo ganar más de explotar el patetismo de Pepe Arias ante un (falso) hecho paranormal y por su parte Calki opinó en El Mundo:

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Información sobre Fantasmas en Buenos Aires en el sitio del cine nacional
 Información sobre Fantasmas en Buenos Aires en Internet Movie Data Base

Películas en blanco y negro de Argentina
Películas rodadas en Buenos Aires
Películas cómicas de Argentina

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Wang Guangle: Yellow – Pace Gallery, London
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This post is also published on the online Lifestyle Magazine CELLOPHANELAND* (link here)
"The sensation of the passage of time always inspires me. Time changes everything, and when I can detect the pure movement of time, nothing else seems to matter. In these moments, there is very little else I would want to do." Wang Guangle
Pace gallery is one of the world's leading commercial art galleries. Their artists include modernist icons like Josef Albers and Robert Rauschenberg plus the likes of James Turrell (see our exhibition review here), John Hoyland (see review here) and David Hockney (see review here and 'On the trail of…' here).
Anyone remotely interested in the ebbs and flows of the contemporary art market would indeed therefore be very wise to keep a close eye on their latest activity. A recent example would be the February 2016 opening of their new gallery space in the cultural desert that is Palo Alto in silicon valley. The 'out-there' decision to add Menlo Park to their big city portfolio of London, New York, Beijing, Hong Kong and Paris caught many in the industry by surprise but it is certain that there will be many carefully monitoring its success – or otherwise.
Wang Guangle is a younger artist who was born 1971, trained at the Beijing Academy and graduating in 2000. His name will not be familiar to many outside China, indeed Yellow will be his first solo exhibition in Europe, but this is a name that we will probably hear more often. His style of abstraction is easy on the western eye with its superficial similarity to modernists like Albers and Rothko perhaps, although it is an abstraction that actually comes from a more distinct and recent Chinese angle.
Wang is best known for his memento mori style abstraction—inspired by the traditional burial practices of southern China, his tactile works are produced in a process of repetitive layering of different colors of acrylic, his works united by experiments in depth and space. One of the preeminent abstract painters of his generation in Beijing, Wang's work is rooted in questions of painting's temporality and the canvas as a vessel of labour and marker of time.
The exhibition includes a selection of recent paintings that evince the spirit and style of his work from the past decade, which in this case perhaps unsurprisingly includes an unprecedented use of yellow. Although he has no prescribed meaning for the colour, he apparently embraces its various associations, from timidity and carefulness to a more Chinese connotation of the erotic.
A series entitled Coffin paintings, shows thin strips of acrylic paint lining the canvas and wrapping around the frontal surface, leaving the drips along the sides. Multiple layers of paint added over periods of several weeks provide a characteristic striped effect and both illusionistic and real physicality. This layering process has its origins in his home region of Fujian, where elder men annually add a fresh layer of lacquer to their coffins in anticipation of their death.
The Untitled paintings mirror this process of scaling and accumulation in the Coffin works while placing a greater emphasis on geometry. Wang paints rectangular fields, each layer progressing farther from the edge and closer to the centre, creating a subtle gradation of colour and the effect of an illuminated rectangle or void. In these works, the question of abstraction arises; for Wang, abstraction is less a means of non-figuration and more of record that most abstract of phenomena: time.
Wang Guangle: Yellow is at Pace London until 16 April 2016
For more information visit www.pacegallery.com
Hiroshi Sugimoto – Still Life at Pace London
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At first glance, the latest exhibition at Pace London appears to be the work of a formidably talented wildlife photographer. A pack of hunting wolves gaze across a frozen landscape as they hunt out their next meal, whilst a timid deer peers from within a dark forest landscape. A group of condors watch from a cliff top, a pair of ostrich protect their clutch of eggs.
Television documentaries in mind, one pictures a patient photographer trekking for days, before holing out in an expertly camouflaged hide for days upon end. He awaits the perfect shot, an image of nature's ultimate perfection, and wildlife at its most liberated.
We soon discover that the truth actually illustrates quite the reverse. These images are simply capturing large-scale dioramas set inside natural history museums. The photographer is in a warm room. Everything is dead. We long to see nature's grandeur and majesty, but all we get is a hollow reproduction inside a glazed box.
Hiroshi Sugimoto's latest exhibition is of large format works from his ongoing Diorama series. Composed in crisp black and white and sharp tones, the pristine quality and stillness of these large-scale pieces reveal the inherent artificiality of the constructed worlds contained within their frames.
Sugimoto dwells in the artifice of the images "The only thing absent is life itself. Time comes to a halt and never-ending stillness reigns." "All over the planet, nature is being transformed into un-nature at breakneck speed. My life is part of natural history. I long to know where that history came from and where it is going."
The exhibition highlights recurring themes and images that have sustained Sugimoto's interest and work for almost four decades. Essential are the concepts of memory and preservation, evident here in his exploration of nature as mediated through the museum. Since beginning this series, the notion of fossilization has become an important concept for him and this permeates his work.
Exploring it as a historical fact and photographic conceit, the fossil serves as a living record and point of departure into history, crystalizing a moment in time into a singular object. Sugimoto's process echoes this notion, capturing these frozen scenes on his large-format camera with specific lighting and extended exposures, lasting as long as twenty minutes.
Ironically, the very absence – of natural habitats, unspoilt landscapes and animal species – that these images highlight at the same time, serves to inspires our determination to preserve them. After all we do not want to find the human race represented as exhibits in a Natural History Museum.
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Still Life, is on until 24 January 2015. For further information visit www.pacegallery.com
Adrian Ghenie – Golems at Pace London
Adrian Ghenie is one of the chief figures of The Romanian 'Cluj School' – comprising artists like Victor Man, Mircea Cantor and Ciprian Muresan – a painter who's star has been rising exponentially since his relatively recent arrival on the art scene. His latest exhibition, Golems at Pace London, provides ample evidence of why he is so highly regarded.
The golem is an animated anthropomorphic creature from Jewish folklore, created entirely from inanimate material; a doer of terrible deeds. Ghenie's reference here is the creation of a radical idea in society – in this case Darwin's – let loose to change the socio-cultural environment. Darwin's personal story holds a special fascination for Ghenie; the skin condition and vomiting that afflicted him, his luxuriant beard and Victorian attire all afford a rich source of textural possibilities that reveal themselves in this series of portraits.
The exhibition consists of a collection of new figurative works of Charles Darwin shown alongside the 'Darwin Room', an installation that consists of an assemblage of meticulously sourced 19th century furniture, wooden floor boards and wall panels. Taking the room's composition from Rembrandt's Philosopher in Meditation Ghenie has created a three-dimensional environment that perhaps at first glance resembles a two-dimensional painting. Led in by an assistant with torch one reaches a dark and gloomy and life-sized room that evokes an intriguing physiological atmosphere of anxiety and comfort. The only light is that of the 'light of reason' which shines brightly through a small, solitary window – the room therefore a prototypical site for visionary thought within European history.
The installation itself devoid of figures. These are supplied by the impressive artworks in the adjacent room. Portraits of 20th century figures whose actions indelibly changed the course of history are a recurring theme in Ghenie's work and to him the publication of The Origin of Species represents such an inflection point – his ideas stolen by despots and dictators and misappropriated.
Ghenie presents himself in Self portrait as Charles Darwin, 2014 and he himself becomes the arbiter of scientific change, the cliché of the tortured intellectual, and the anamorphic threat of the Golem; the idea let loose to reek havoc. All of these elements are present in Ghenie's Bacon-esque brush strokes. He highlights an era that questioned man's significance, the existence of God, and the question of Creationism —through a use of paint that suggests the anamorphic nature of identity through the evolution of scientific understanding.
These works however are not just introverted intellectual exercise or conceptual navel-gazing, they are visually stunning and beautifully executed. The merging of impressive technique with rigorous artistic thought process provides the viewer with a rich and stimulating experience that will enhance Ghenie's reputation not only critically but in the auction houses of the future.
Adrian Ghenie – Golems is at Pace London until 25 July 2014
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The Dexter Headboard portrays historic look of simplicity from a bygone era. The geometry of the bed relies exclusively on right angles to create a handsome bed with pared down fussiness. The clean intersections of the vertical and horizontal elements reveal a decidedly masculine profile. The headboard displays 8 solid castings, and the footboard a whopping 13. This element gives the overall construction a hearty and sturdy nature not found in other beds at this price point. The headboard stretches to 54" tall and the footboard stands in at 38". This bed's finish is Hammered Brown.


You have so many interesting articles on your site! I always thought the Penny Dreadfuls were just trashy newspapers - those which reported Jack the Rupper in graphic detail, etc - and never knew that the were actually stories, too. How interesting!
Oh...with regard to your article on wet nurses...You might be aware that Queen Victoria had such a horror of breast-feeding that when her daughter, Alice, chose to nurse her own baby, Queen Victoria was so disgusted that she named a cow in the royal dairy, Alice :-).
hello, i was wondering how i could get the full piece on pennydreadfuls. you said that this article was extracted from a larger one. I would have contacted you directly but i was not able to find your e-mail address anywhere.
Carla, I can't respond directly since you did not include an email address or way of making contact.
Is there possibly an chance tehre's an archive of the penny dreadfuls online somewhere? (direct link please) I ahve been trying to find varney the vampire & a couple other stories to read.


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I am Retired Army/Airforce and am originally from Buffalo, New York. I have five children, all are grown and gone except for the youngest who is a junior at Lugoff-Elgin High School.


Join Operation Green Team and the Monte Sano Civic Association at Monte Sano Elementary School to participate in the semi-annual mountain clean up on Saturday, March 30 from 9am – Noon.
If you can, please bring hand pruners, loppers and work gloves. Trash bags, litter sticks, and safety vests will be provided. We will be picking up litter and trimming brush along roadways.
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Residents and business owners received the rare opportunity to quiz the executive officers of Norfolk County Council.
More than 50 people packed into the historic Corn Hall in Diss to put their questions to the county council leader Cliff Jordan, the managing director Wendy Thompson and their colleagues.
The main topic of concern was the infrastructure around south Norfolk and the apparent increase in traffic.
Executive director of community and environmental services Tom McCabe handled a number of questions about the county's roads including Victoria Road in Diss and the long-awaited Long Stratton bypass.
He said: "Norfolk is a county of market towns and most of our roads have not been designed in the past thirty of forty years with the villages and towns building up along them.
However Mr McCabe went on to say that a bypass for Diss is not on the county council's agenda, nor will it be any time soon.
Resident of Victoria Road, John Capon, lobbied the officer to employ vehicle restrictions on Victoria Road that would limit the size and amount of heavy goods vehicles coming along the road.
Mr McCabe highlighted a similar situation in East Harling where a temporary traffic regulation order was put in place to restrict larger vehicles cutting through the village from the A1066 to the A11.
However he added this was placed on a B-road and as Victoria Road is an A-road it would be more difficult to achieve.
Other items on the agenda were the proposed loss of 50 per cent of the county's mobile library service and the rising population in Norfolk.
Leader Cliff Jordan closed the meeting with an open invitation for people to continue the conversation.


OAuth is an open standard for authorization that is used with many of the popular APIs such as Twitter and Facebook. It provides a means for applications (and in the case of Kapow Katalyst: Robots) to access data or perform actions on a user's behalf without having direct access to the user's login credentials. For instance, a robot can use Twitter's API to extract the most recent mentions of a user, e.g. @KapowSoftware, using access tokens provided by that user but without having explicit access to @KapowSoftware's Twitter password.
The Management Console is used to generate access tokens, which are stored securely in a key store. The access tokens can be passed on as input to robots in a schedule. As always, the robots that perform the actual API calls and handle the returned data are created in Design Studio. Both steps will be demonstrated in an example in the following.


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Indonesian Court Condemns 8 Taiwanese to Death for Drug Smuggling
Arie Firdaus
Five of eight Taiwanese drug suspects – Juang Jin Sheng, Sun Kuo Tai, Sun Chih Feng, Kuo Chun Yuan and Tsai Chih Hung (left to right, in red tops) – listen to the verdict in their trial at the South Jakarta Court, April 26, 2018.
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A Jakarta court sentenced eight Taiwanese to death Thursday on charges of trying to smuggle in about 1,000 kilograms (2,200 pounds) of crystal methamphetamine last year, the latest foreigners to face a prospective firing squad over Indonesia's strict anti-narcotics laws.
The eight defendants, all men, were considering whether to appeal the verdict handed down at the South Jakarta Court, their lawyer said. They were found guilty of conspiring to bring in a shipment valued at U.S. $144 million (2 trillion rupiah), officials said.
"The defendants knew what they brought was shabu [methamphetamine] and were aware that they could face severe punishment, but were still doing it," Chief Judge Effendi Mukhtar said in reading the verdict.
"So the element of evil conspiracy against the law in the form of facilitating the distribution of drugs is fulfilled validly," he added.
The stash was brought in aboard a Sierra Leone-flagged ship, the "Wanderlust," when it docked at the port of Anyer, near Jakarta, in July 2017, authorities said.
Three of the defendants – Liao Guan Yu (22), Chen Wei Cyuan (22), and Hsu Yung Li (37) – were arrested during a raid by police at a hotel in Anyer on July 13, 2017.
The three men and another Taiwanese national, Lin Ming Hui, were allegedly picking up the meth, packed in 51 sacks, when the raid occurred. Police shot and killed Lin Ming Hui.
The five other defendants – Juang Jin Sheng (42), Sun Kuo Tai (37), Sun Chih Feng (40), Kuo Chun Yuan (44), and Tsai Chih Hung (56) – were arrested aboard the "Wanderlust" three days later in Batam, Sumatra province as it was sailing to Taiwan, police said.
The decision to send the eight men to death row was weighted on consideration that the defendants were involved in an international crime syndicate whose drug trafficking could "damage the young generation of Indonesia," Judge Effendi said.
After the verdict, their lawyer, Juan Hutabarat, said his clients would take some time to ponder whether to appeal it.
"What is certain is that we will include what have been put in the memorandum of defense. Later, we will re-enter [this] together with other considerations that we get from the judge's decision," Juan said.
Indonesian law stipulates that inmates on death row must exhaust all legal avenues, such as appeals and judicial reviews, before they can be executed.
Three of the Taiwanese defendants – Liao Guan Yu, Chen Wei Cyuan, and Hsu Yung Li (left to right), are pictured at the South Jakarta Court, April 26, 2018. [Arie Firdaus/BenarNews]
'Be merciless': Jokowi
Thursday's death sentences were the first in Indonesia since a court in Sumatra province handed capital sentences to four Indonesians who were convicted of possessing 134 kg (295 pounds) of marijuana.
Three months earlier, a Pekanbaru District Court in Sumatra handed down the same verdict to three Indonesians who have been involved in drug trafficking, for the possession of five kg (11 pounds) of shabu and 1,599 ecstasy pills.
Global rights watchdog Amnesty International said at least 262 people were on death row in Indonesia last year for drug and other offenses, but the country did not carry out any executions in 2017. Still, 33 people were sentenced to death over drug charges that year.
Since President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo took office nearly four years ago, 18 drug convicts have been executed by Indonesia, including foreigners.
In April 2015, Jokowi's government caused an international furor when it put to death eight drug convicts, including seven foreigners. Two of them were Australian citizens Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, whose executions strained bilateral relations. Canberra condemned Jakarta's decision to go through with the deaths by firing squad and, at the time, recalled its ambassador to Indonesia in protest.
Jokowi has since hardened his stance on being tough on drug dealers as a way to combat his country's crisis with drug addiction.
Last year, echoing a hardline anti-drug policy taken by his Philippine counterpart, Rodrigo Duterte, the Indonesian president said publically it was OK for police to shoot at drug suspects.
"Be firm, especially to foreign drug dealers who enter the country and resist arrest. Enough, just shoot them. Be merciless," Jokowi said in a speech in Jakarta in July 2017.
Data released in October 2017 by the National Narcotics Agency (BNN), showed about 6 million Indonesians were drug users.
Up to that point in 2017, Indonesian authorities had shot and killed 79 alleged drug dealers and arrested 58,365 suspects linked to drug abuse, the agency reported.
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Bangladesh: 15 Sentenced to Death for Roles in 2 Massacres
Philippine Police Chief Resigns amid Allegations of Drug-Scandal Links
UN Report: Organized Crime Has Grown Dramatically in Southeast Asia
Philippines: Police Seize Methamphetamine Valued at $19.1 Million
Philippines: 2 Chinese Suspects Killed in Drug-Raid Shootout
Malaysian Airline Staff among 8 Arrested in Australia on Drug Charges
Malaysia: Authorities Seize 1,187 Kilos of Methamphetamine Disguised as Food
Bangladesh's Escalated Anti-Drug Campaign Draws Fire from Rights Activists, Opposition
Thai Authorities Seize $68 Million Worth of Meth Near Border Regions
Philippine Volcano Eruption Forces Schools, Public Offices in Manila to Close
Watch Out: Bangladeshi Minister Comments on His Published Photos with Fancy-looking Timepieces
China, US among Countries Offering to Help Indonesia Build New Capital
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Organizations are redesigning education, advancing economic opportunity and engaging thousands of residents across metro Atlanta.
Goodie Nation, for efforts to address the school-to-prison pipeline, including engaging 200 community members in an introductory workshop to the issue and hosting an innovation weekend through which twenty teams produce digital movement campaigns to bring awareness to specific parts of the school-to-prison pipeline.
N3XTCON, partnering with local startup, Blossom Network, to produce a three-part series to educate its audience (women of color) about the educational opportunities in Atlanta.
TeachX, to host professional development workshops for 50 teachers from Benjamin E. Mays and multiple Carver high schools. Programming will help teachers design and implement innovative classroom units that engage community experts and bring real-world learning experiences into the classroom.
Sconiers Homeless Preventive Organization, to help 200 long-term renters make the step to home ownership through five housing workshops led in partnership with Atlanta-Fulton County Libraries.
Fulton Atlanta Community Action Authority, to launch a new community advocacy coalition of 200 Atlanta senior citizens seeking to engage on community and education-related issues.
Center for Social Work, Clark Atlanta University, to conduct a comprehensive study on the effects of social work in turnaround schools and host two workshops to discuss findings with 200 community members.
Paradise Community Development Corporation, to inspire healthy community living in South Atlanta by engaging 350 residents in workshops, trainings and meals with fitness instructors and chefs.
Fathers Incorporated, to empower fathers to become more engaged in their children's personal development and connecting local barbershops to schools.
Next Generation Men & Women, to engage corporate and community partners and Atlanta education leaders in conversations around local education.
Playworks Education Energized, to scale its Junior Coach Leadership Program in Atlanta Public Schools.
Second-round Ambitious Ideas Challenge grantee TeachX is building a mobile app to streamline partnerships with teachers and professionals—bringing subject-matter experts into classrooms and exposing students to meaningful and relevant real-world learning experiences. In addition to creating the connecting technology, TeachX is also cultivating a community of local professionals who will use the app to bring diverse experiences into the classrooms of nearby teachers.
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Michel Cabanac est un chercheur et professeur français naturalisé canadien né en 1934.

Biographie
Il a œuvré dans le domaine des études comportementales, physiologiques et psychologiques. On lui doit notamment les concepts d'alliesthésie, de pondérostat et d'anapyrexie.  Michel Cabanac est professeur émérite de l'Université Laval.

Publications

 Place du comportement dans la physiologie. Michel Cabanac. Paris : Publibook, 2010.
 Le bonheur et les morales des grandes religions : regards de scientifiques. Sous la direction de Michel Cabanac et Marie-Claude Bonniot-Cabanac. [Québec] : Presses de l'Université Laval, 2007.
 La cinquième influence, ou, La dialectique du plaisir. Michel Cabanac. [Québec] : Presses de l'Université Laval, 2003.
 Human selective brain cooling. Michel Cabanac. New York : Springer-Verlag, 1995.
 La quête du plaisir : étude sur le conflit des motivations. Michel Cabanac. Montréal : Liber, 1995.
 Régulation et contrôle en biologie. Michel Cabanac et Mauricio Russek. Québec : Presses de l'Université Laval, 1982.

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Professeur à l'Université Laval
Naissance en août 1934


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Anoop Kakkad
Art Director/Production Design
Primary Cinema: Hindi
First film: Majboori (1954)
Born in Bhopal, Anoop Kakkad (also known as A R Kakkad) lost his parents when he was only a year old. He was brought up by his sister who lived in Jabalpur. He went to Bombay in 1939 to study architecture in the J J School of arts. Unfortunately, due to financial constraints, he had to give up the course before its completion. He joined Bombay Talkies as a clerk in their art department. The art director L H Chirodia took him under his wing and had him promoted to art director.
His first independent assignment was in Majboori (1954). He soon left Bombay Talkies for Modern Studios where he subsequently worked for ten years. He struck up a partnership with Amiya Chakravarty and worked with him for four years. He designed the sets of Seema (1955) and Kathputli (1957). Both films were successful, while Kathputli ended up beingAmiya Chakravarty's last film. He formed the Art Director's Association with other art directors in 1964. In 1959 he formed a partnership with fellow art director Baburao Poddar after working together on Nartakee (1963). Together they worked on Tamanna (1969) which earned them a Filmfare Award for Best Art Direction. They also worked together on Mohan Bijlani's Upaasna (1971). He also worked on films like First Love (1961), Bezuban (1962), Ek Dil Sau Afsane (1963), Teesra Kaun (1965), Biradari (1966), Kismat (1969), Apradh (1972) and Raampur Ka Lakshman (1972). He was also in charge of the set design of Saeed Akhtar Mirza's first film Arvind Desai ki Ajeeb Dastaan (1978).
A R Kakkad was married and had a son and daughter. He also presided on many important decisions in the Art Director's Association, one of them being limiting art directors in picking up only four films a year.
All Art Director/Production Design
Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Daastaan 1978
Kashmakash 1973
Apradh 1972
Biradari 1966
Teesra Kaun 1965
Ek Dil Sau Afsane 1963
Bezuban 1962
First Love 1961
Manzil 1960
Dekh Kabira Roya 1957
Kathputli 1957
Seema 1955
Lalita Pawar
Balraj Sahni
Jawahar Kaul
C S Dubey


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Calls for Investigation Over Alleged Profiling of Chinese-American Scientists Grow
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has now joined the chorus asking for an investigation on the alleged profiling of Asian Americans.
Sherry Chen (L), a US federal government worker, and Xiaoxing Xi, chair of the Physics Department at Temple University, speak about the dropped charges against them of spying for China, during a press conference in Washington, DC, September 15, 2015. Prosecutors dropped charges of spying for China against Xi last week and against Chen earlier this year.Saul Loebsaul/AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 24, 2015, 1:22 PM UTC / Updated Nov. 24, 2015, 1:22 PM UTC
By Emil Guillermo
"We urge you to investigate whether federal investigators and prosecutors improperly over-relied on race in recent prosecutions, and to increase training and oversight over ongoing and future investigations and prosecutions against Chinese Americans for spying and espionage," a letter, dated Nov. 18, to the attorney general from members of the commission stated.
The two most recent examples cited in the letter involved the cases of hydrologist Sherry Chen and Temple University's Xiaoxing Xi. Both were suspected and accused of obtaining sensitive information and giving it to China, only to have charges dropped for lack of evidence.
RELATED: Despite Dropped Charges, Chinese American Scientists' Fight Not Over
"We are concerned these and other examples may show a pattern of overzealous targeting of Asian Americans," the commission's letter reads. "Members of Congress and national Asian and Chinese American organizations have raised similar concerns with you, but the Department of Justice's response has been to dismiss these concerns without addressing the underlying policies and practices that led to mistakes which precipitated these wrongful prosecutions of American citizens."
Sherry Chen (L), a US federal government worker, and Xiaoxing Xi, chair of the Physics Department at Temple University, speak about the dropped charges against them of spying for China, during a press conference in Washington, DC, September 15, 2015. Prosecutors dropped charges of spying for China against Xi last week and against Chen earlier this year.Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is an independent, bipartisan agency charged with advising the president and Congress on civil rights matters and issuing a federal civil rights enforcement report.
The letter was seen as a boost to the efforts of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC), which met last week with the attorney general seeking an independent investigation in Chen's and Xi's cases.
"The attorney general did commit to a working group going forward, but not to an investigation," Rep. Ted Lieu told NBC News.
Lieu was among the CAPAC members to attend the meeting with Lynch last week, and was encouraged by the commission's letter. "It's extremely helpful that the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights just sent her a letter saying: you need to look at this issue of Chinese Americans being wrongfully arrested."
RELATED: Was Race A Factor in Sherry Chen's Espionage Case?
But another CAPAC leader, Chairman Emeritus Rep. Mike Honda said he was "disappointed" by the meeting with Lynch last Wednesday. "We got zilch," Honda told NBC News. He said he was looking not just for an investigation, but also for reinstatements of the scientists and an apology. "An apology has to come from someplace," Honda said.
Rep. Mike Honda speaks at a press conference on Tuesday, Nov. 17, about the need for further investigation into the now-dropped espionage charges against two Chinese-American scientists.via Twitter/@RepMikeHonda
Honda was also concerned that government employees have been encouraged to report on their co-workers if they see something considered suspicious.
"All the people reported were Asians and they were all speaking Mandarin, so two things are going on," said Honda, who said an investigation may show why prosecutors initially felt they had a strong case against Chen and Xi. "If it's not racial profiling, then it's profiling based on the ignorance of the language. And because it's Chinese, I've come to the conclusion it's racial profiling," Honda said.
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Best Travel Time: Best from middle April to early October. p.s. From middle October to early April the next year, water of Namtso Lake will freeze due to the weather condition.
As Tibet's ancient city with the history more than 1,300 years, Lhasa has a lot to offer: its long history, brilliant culture, unique folk and enchanting highland view. And Nagqu, a broad and mysterious place is waiting for your exploration. TopChinaTravel invites you to explore the city's original look and the people still live the traditional lifestyle by visiting the magnificent Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple, Tibet Museum and so on.
Arrive in Lhasa, you will be met and transferred to your hotel. Free at leisure for the rest of the day to get used to the high altitude.
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After breakfast, enjoy your sightseeing tour today that starts with a visit to Drepung Monastery, which is considered one of the three great monasteries in Tibet. And then continue your tour to Norbulingka and Sera Monastery. Norbulingka served as a traditional summer palace and residence starting with the 7th Dalai Lama, and now it is the largest garden in Tibet. The Sera Monastery is the last of the three principal Yellow Sect monasteries built in Lhasa.
After breakfast, you will start your driving to Namtso Lake in Nagqu area, the second largest salt lake in China. On the way, you can have a chance to take a glimpse of North Tibet Grassland. But please kindly note that, the accommodation in Namtso Lake is a little bit crude, only the simple houses and tents are available. Hope you do not mind.
Tip: From every November to next March, Namtso Lake site will be closed and do not receive guests due to the weather condition. If you wanna take the tour, we recommend you make your journey in some other time.
Today, you will back to Lhasa. On the way, how about take a visit to Yangpachen, where famous for its geothermal resources. After the tour, be transferred back to Lhasa.
Say goodbye to Lhasa and continue your tour to the next stop.


Mother Jones had a little fun with cocaine in March. Or, what I meant to say was, Mother Jones had a little fun reporting on cocaine in our March/April issue. Jokes aside, we contended that the ambitious and expensive plan enacted in 2000 to eradicate Colombian coca by aerially spraying crops has not significantly reduced cocaine production or the availability of the drug in the United States. In fact, we indicated that as much as 40 percent of the sprayed crops are not coca at all, but rather rainforest or food crops.
Today's American Prospect online augments MoJo's admittedly jaunty foray into the white stuff. Based on the personal stories of peasants in Colombia's cocafied southern districts (well worth a read) and a report released—albeit belatedly—by the State Department itself, the article reveals that even the government's own numbers demonstrate that Plan Colombia hasn't made a dent in the drug trade. And that peasants will continue growing coca—planes be damned—until they are provided with another way to earn money. And they need more, rather than less, money every time their food crops are destroyed.
Also funded by cocaine and considered terrorists by the State Department, paramilitary forces have fast become some of the country's largest drug traffickers. In other words, U.S. taxpayer money meant to fight the drug trade is funding allies who are, in part, fueling it.
But because the rest of Latin America can't stand Bush, he's stuck with Colombia's corrupt, right-wing, human-rights abusing government. Wow, it feels like déjà-vu all over again! Get ready: We may have to attack Colombia 20 years from now.


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How Do We Treat Tinnitus?
Tinnitus is an unwanted sound often described as ringing, clicking, or chirping in the ears. It is your hearing nerve telling your brain that there is a sound even though there is no "actual" sound. There are many possible causes for the unwanted stimulus: prolonged exposure to loud noise, hearing loss, medications, diet and even stress. To effectively treat tinnitus we need deal with how the brain is dealing with this annoying sound.
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The National Football League Alumni, Inc. and its affiliate the Northern California Chapter, is a non-profit service organization of former professional football players who work voluntarily on behalf of youth and charity. It was formed as an outgrowth of philanthropic and civic-minded impulses of men who performed at the highest level of the nation's most popular spectator sport and used that experience as a springboard to success in later life. In their voluntary undertakings, members of the NFL Alumni are guided philosophically by the fundamental ideals expressed in their motto: "Caring for Kids."
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