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One Moonlit Night by T. Llew JonesAn English adaptation of Lleuad yn Olau, published as a splendid hardback volume to celebrate the centenary of the birth of T. Llew Jones.
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I got to see an old friend this past weekend and she is the perfect reminder of a truly wonderful person, one with the biggest heart. She is genuine and sincere and someone I admire greatly. I am so thankful that we have kept in touch over the years. I am so happy for her and the way her life has unfolded! This past weekend was a celebration for the baby to come. She is an incredible daughter, friend, sister and wife so I know she'll knock being a mommy out of the park! Being around her makes me smile and want to shine, inside and out.
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The energy security of Southeast Europe (SEE) is since mid twentieth century based on local deposits of coal and significant hydro potential, with some nuclear, gas and oil. The coal, mainly lignite, is important employer which sustains whole communities. In the same time, the region is in the process of integration with the European Union and the energy policy is under pressure to realign with EU energy-climate objectives, including opening energy markets, removing subsidies from fossil fuels, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, increasing energy efficiency and increasing the share of renewable energy. Countries which are already EU members (Bulgaria, Greece, Slovenia, Romania) or will soon be (Croatia) have clear and mandated goals to reach by 2020, others are in the process of negotiating, but all will be influenced by the regional energy market gradually being introduced. Most SEE countries maintain low regulated tariffs and while incumbent utilities generally cover their low (historic) costs, they do not support new investment. Higher cost electricity produced from thermal power plants is partially cross-subsidized by hydropower, whose investment was long paid off. Europe-wide market liberalization and build-up of wind energy in the SEE region will bring overproduction of electricity during nights as repetition to what happened in the other markets. Flexible thermal power plants will be in great demand by 2020, while base load blocks of today will be gradually phased out. Seeking techno-economic optimum, the region will be under pressure between following EU's example of importing gas or continuing with exploiting its coal in a much more efficient and flexible way with revitalization of the existing and introduction of new combustion technologies. The coal communities will need significant investments in order to allow for the transition to new types of jobs. Significant investment in new energy technologies, like energy efficiency and renewables would be beneficial for this process, but region has other priorities for scarce funds. The panel will discuss all these issues trying to put some more light into decisions to be made.
The academia - industry collaboration has been widely recognized as a cornerstone of innovation, and as such, among the best means of achieving economic growth and successfully tackling major societal challenges and problems as for example sustainable development, de-coupling of growth from resources and decarbonisation of economies. On the other side, there has been a gap between academia and industry that is largely a result of a difference in objectives: academia seeks to create new knowledge and disseminate it broadly, while business needs to maximize profit and protect R&D results. The differences that impede the application of academic research capabilities are most strongly noted in matters relating to intellectual property, project management and technology integration.
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Oil prices firm ahead of NFP data
Yesterday was all about the announcement of the details of the new bond buying program by ECB President Draghi. So far the market has viewed the new program as mostly bullish for risk asset markets especially the global equity markets. The reaction on the commodity side was much more muted than on the equity front. In fact oil prices surged higher only to closes in negative territory and at its lows. It was a technical reversal day to the downside for oil and one that is biased to the bearish side. The spot Nymex WTI contract is currently down by about $0.30/bbl for the week as of this writing.
The new program in the EU will target government notes with maturities of 1 to 3 years. Purchases will be fully sterilized to ensure a neutral impact on money supply, there will be no cap and the ECB will not have seniority. All in all a program that should provide a secure backstop to those member countries that has been fighting the sovereign debt issue for over three years. It should keep bond rates at reasonable levels for those countries that apply to the ECB for this program. The program comes with strict conditions in the area of austerity.
With the markets still in the process of digesting the new program out of Europe all eyes now turn to the US jobs picture this morning and how the new data point might impact next week's US Central Bank FOMC meeting. The lead up to this morning's nonfarm payroll report has been somewhat positive as both the ADP private sector jobs report on Wednesday and the jobless claims report yesterday both came in better than expectations. This is leading the market to believe that today's Labor Department report could also come in better than the expectations. At the moment the consensus estimate is for a net jobs gain of around 130,000 with the unemployment rate holding steady at 8.3%. The data will be analyzed more from the perspective of what it may mean to the US Fed at their next meeting insofar as deciding on a new round of quantitative easing.
Today's report could turn out to be a positive for the equity markets and possibly even the oil and commodity complex irrespective of what the number is. If it comes in below expectation or even at the consensus level the market will likely view that as a sign that the Fed will probably lean toward a new QE program possibly as early as next week's FOMC meeting. If so I would then expect to see gold, oil equities and most other risk assets to continue yesterday's rally. On the other hand if the number comes in much better than expected the market will view that event as the US economy possibly starting to come out of its malaise and could also result in a rally in risk assets.
That all said today with be a volatile trading session with the potential for intraday reversals like we saw yesterday in the oil complex. There are many other overhanging issues that are creating uncertainty over the risk asset markets like the US election, the fiscal cliff, the slowing of China and many others.
Global equities were the major recipient of the Draghi announcement yesterday as shown in the EMI Global Equity Index table below. The Index has reversed from being lower on the week to now showing a 1.2% gain for the week with a full day of trading still left in the US. The year to date gain has widened to 5,2% with only China still in negative territory. But as shown in the table China had a huge 3.7% rally on the European news. Europe is China's number one export market. Germany is now solidly over the 20% gain level for the year and holding the top spot in the index... as it has for all of 2012. Paris has joined Germany and is also showing double digit gains for the year with the US Dow holding the third spot in the Index. Global equities have now switched to being a positive price driver for oil and the broader commodity complex.
On the storm front there are no new tropical storms in the Atlantic that could impact the oil and Nat Gas region in the US Gulf at the moment. However, part of Isaac regenerated itself in the Gulf and if it continues to develop it could slow the recovery process already in place in the Gulf. Right now the NHC only places a 30% chance of this weather pattern continuing to develop... but it is something to keep on the radar. The energy industry remains in restart mode with about 593,000 bpd or 42.9% of GOM crude oil production still shut in and 957 mmcf/d or 21.2% of GOM Nat Gas production still shut as of yesterday afternoon. This is an ongoing process and I am still expecting producing operations to return to normal within the next week. Refineries are restarting and logistics are also close to normal with LOOP back to normal operations as of September 1. The big impact from the storm will begin to show up in this week's inventory reports and to a lesser extent in next week's reports.
Wednesday's EIA inventory report was bullish for crude oil and gasoline and neutral to bearish for distillate. Total commercial stocks decreased strongly as did crude oil inventories all related to the preemptive shut-ins from Hurricane Isaac. Refinery utilization rates declined strongly on the week down to 86.1 of capacity. The data is summarized in the following table along with a comparison to last year and the five year average for the same week.
Total commercial stocks of crude oil and refined products decreased by 9.6 million barrels after increasing the week before. The year over year surplus narrowed to 3.8 million barrels while the surplus versus the five year average for the same week narrowed to 23.8 million barrels. By all measurements total oil supply in the US is still well balanced to comfortable irrespective of the evolving geopolitical risk in the Middle East.
Crude oil inventories decreased (by 7.4 million barrels) and within the expectation range. Crude oil inventories have been increasing steadily for most of this year and are still well above the levels they were at during the height of the recession as well as being at the highest level since 1990. Even with a decrease in stocks this week the crude oil inventory status versus last year is still showing a surplus of around 4 million barrels while the surplus versus the five year average for the same week came in around 20.3 million barrels. Crude oil imports increased strongly on the week.
PADD 2 crude oil inventories decreased marginally by about 0.3 million barrels while Cushing, Ok crude oil inventories were about unchanged on the week. Crude oil inventories in the mid-west region of the US are off of their record high levels as the Seaway pipeline is now pumping oil out of the region as well as refineries running at over 90% of capacity. The decline in crude oil inventory in the region is marginally bearish for the Brent/WTI spread. The spread traded has widened over the last twenty four hours as the market seems to be pricing in a SPR release. The Oct spread is once again approaching the $18/bbl level.
Distillate stocks surprisingly increased even after a 5.1% decline in refinery run rates. Heating oil/diesel stocks increased by 1 million barrels. The year over year deficit came in around 29.7million barrels while the five year average remained in a deficit of about 25.1 million barrels. The lost distillate production was offset by a likely reduction in exports.
Gasoline inventories decreased more than the expectations again all related to Isaac. Total gasoline stocks decreased by about 2.3 million barrels on the week versus an expectation for a smaller draw. The deficit versus last year came in at 9.9 million barrels while the deficit versus the five year average for the same week was about 6.4 million barrels.
The following table details the week to week changes for each of the major oil commodities at every level of the supply chain. As shown I have presented a mixed categorization on the week as inventories for gasoline and crude oil were bullish while distillate and Jet Fuel were neutral to bearish. Overall this week's report was marginally biased to the bullish side.
I still think the oil price is overvalued and toppy at current levels as it approaches a key technical resistance area. WTI is still currently in a $90 to $100/bbl trading range while Brent is in a $110 to $120 trading range. That said prices are being impacted by a combination of yesterday's the weekly inventory report as well as by the outcome of the ECB meeting and the growing view that more stimulus from both China and the US is on the way.
I am keeping my view at neutral as the industry is already almost back to normal operations after Isaac. Once the industry has fully recovered (in about a week or so) the industry will be entering the shoulder season... where the only atypical pull on Nat Gas will be demand from coal to Nat Gas switching. At current prices the economics still favor Nat Gas but if prices do work their way to the upper end of the trading range utilities could begin to move back to coal.
Markets are mostly higher as shown in the following table.
Best regards,
Dominick A. Chirichella
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11. Iron Man (2008)
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12. Whiplash (2014)
R | 107 min | Drama, Music
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14. Suite Française (2014)
107 min | Drama, Romance, War
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Votes: 14,158
15. Jack Reacher (2012)
PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
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Director: Christopher McQuarrie | Stars: Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins, Werner Herzog
Votes: 252,446 | Gross: $58.68M
16. Straight Outta Compton (2015)
R | 147 min | Biography, Drama, History
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Director: F. Gary Gray | Stars: O'Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Neil Brown Jr.
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17. Nerve (2016)
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18. Watchmen (2009)
R | 162 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
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19. Sully (2016)
PG-13 | 96 min | Biography, Drama
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Votes: 142,063 | Gross: $125.07M
20. Tropic Thunder (2008)
R | 107 min | Action, Comedy
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Votes: 24,403
22. The Outsiders (1983)
PG | 91 min | Crime, Drama
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24. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
R | 136 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
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Votes: 602,673
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27. Gran Torino (2008)
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28. American History X (1998)
R | 119 min | Crime, Drama
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29. Elysium (I) (2013)
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30. Fury (2014)
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31. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
R | 99 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
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32. Kick-Ass (2010)
R | 117 min | Action, Comedy
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Director: Matthew Vaughn | Stars: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Nicolas Cage, Chloë Grace Moretz, Garrett M. Brown
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33. The Great Gatsby (2013)
PG-13 | 143 min | Drama, Romance
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Director: Baz Luhrmann | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Tobey Maguire
Votes: 388,033 | Gross: $144.81M
34. Almost Famous (2000)
R | 122 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
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Votes: 217,257 | Gross: $32.52M
35. Notorious (2009)
R | 122 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The life and death story of Notorious B.I.G. (a.k.a. Christopher Wallace), who came straight out of Brooklyn to take the world of rap music by storm.
Director: George Tillman Jr. | Stars: Jamal Woolard, Anthony Mackie, Derek Luke, Momo Dione
Votes: 33,443 | Gross: $36.84M
36. Chappie (2015)
R | 120 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In the near future, crime is patrolled by a mechanized police force. When one police droid, Chappie, is stolen and given new programming, he becomes the first robot with the ability to think and feel for himself.
Director: Neill Blomkamp | Stars: Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Hugh Jackman, Sigourney Weaver
Votes: 190,242 | Gross: $31.57M
37. Loving (2016)
PG-13 | 123 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a couple whose arrest for interracial marriage in 1960s Virginia began a legal battle that would end with the Supreme Court's historic 1967 decision.
Director: Jeff Nichols | Stars: Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Will Dalton, Dean Mumford
Votes: 18,112 | Gross: $7.70M
38. Paterson (2016)
R | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A quiet observation of the triumphs and defeats of daily life, along with the poetry evident in its smallest details.
Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani, Nellie, Rizwan Manji
Votes: 28,528 | Gross: $2.14M
39. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
R | 119 min | Comedy, Drama
Illustrated upon the progress of his latest Broadway play, a former popular actor's struggle to cope with his current life as a wasted actor is shown.
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu | Stars: Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough
Votes: 443,704 | Gross: $42.34M
40. Sherlock Holmes (2009)
PG-13 | 128 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England.
Director: Guy Ritchie | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Mark Strong
Votes: 503,879 | Gross: $209.02M
41. The Island (2005)
PG-13 | 136 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
A man living in a futuristic sterile colony begins to question his circumscribed existence when his friend is chosen to go to the Island, the last uncontaminated place on earth.
Director: Michael Bay | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Ewan McGregor, Djimon Hounsou, Steve Buscemi
Votes: 273,065 | Gross: $35.80M
42. Tomorrowland (2015)
PG | 130 min | Action, Adventure, Family
Bound by a shared destiny, a teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor embark on a mission to unearth the secrets of a place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory.
Director: Brad Bird | Stars: George Clooney, Britt Robertson, Hugh Laurie, Raffey Cassidy
Votes: 144,139 | Gross: $93.42M
43. Casino (1995)
R | 178 min | Crime, Drama
Greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two best friends: a mafia underboss and a casino owner, for a trophy wife over a gambling empire.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods
Votes: 360,118 | Gross: $42.44M
44. Stargate (1994)
PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra.
Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Kurt Russell, James Spader, Jaye Davidson, Viveca Lindfors
Votes: 154,786 | Gross: $71.57M
45. District 9 (2009)
R | 112 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
An extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth suddenly finds a kindred spirit in a government agent who is exposed to their biotechnology.
Director: Neill Blomkamp | Stars: Sharlto Copley, David James, Jason Cope, Nathalie Boltt
Votes: 559,107 | Gross: $115.65M
46. Source Code (2011)
PG-13 | 93 min | Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
A soldier wakes up in someone else's body and discovers he's part of an experimental government program to find the bomber of a commuter train. A mission he has only 8 minutes to complete.
Director: Duncan Jones | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright
Votes: 407,026 | Gross: $54.70M
47. Moon (2009)
R | 97 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems.
Director: Duncan Jones | Stars: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominique McElligott, Rosie Shaw
Votes: 278,590 | Gross: $5.01M
48. Constantine (2005)
R | 121 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Supernatural detective John Constantine helps a policewoman prove her sister's death was not a suicide, but something more.
Director: Francis Lawrence | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Djimon Hounsou, Shia LaBeouf
Votes: 249,686 | Gross: $75.50M
49. Argo (2012)
R | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History
Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1980.
Director: Ben Affleck | Stars: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Alan Arkin
Votes: 483,600 | Gross: $136.02M
50. Super 8 (2011)
PG-13 | 112 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
During the summer of 1979, a group of friends witness a train crash and investigate subsequent unexplained events in their small town.
Director: J.J. Abrams | Stars: Elle Fanning, AJ Michalka, Kyle Chandler, Joel Courtney
Votes: 299,896 | Gross: $126.98M


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I think excuses are crap, valid or not.*
Over the next few weeks as I recovered from the marathon and Plague 3.0, run after run felt very slow and sluggish. I felt like my legs had forgotten how to go fast.
At the beginning of last week, I told myself that if I was able to run some 10k PR pace miles on Monday or Wednesday, then I'd sign up to run the Carytown 10k and try to redeem myself. To me, there was no point in running another 10k right now unless I was going to set the personal record that I had wanted to achieve at Monument Avenue. My standing PR was set last May at Stratford Hills, with a pace of 7:11/mile, so I was targeting 7:05/mile as the goal for Carytown.
Then, I didn't manage to run a single mile at PR pace during any of my workouts. But at the end of Wednesday morning's run, I decided to go ahead and do Carytown anyway. Even if it wasn't going to be a PR effort, I knew that it would be more enjoyable than Monument Avenue and I wanted that bad experience to be erased.
The morning of the race, my stomach was giving me some trouble so when I arrived early to pick up my bib and to meet Kit for a little shake out, I wasn't feeling very hopeful. GB was also running the race and we connected while milling around waiting for Kit to arrive, so he joined us on a little half mile warm up. BFF Steve has been having me do butt-kickers to try to get me further up into a mid foot strike, so I did some of that to loosen up as we slowly ran our warm up. It also makes me feel lighter on my feet, even though I look like a doofus.
For those who don't know what butt kickers are...
Our warm up route took us to the starting area, where the three of us lined up together near the front of the pack. Carytown 10k is not a huge race - this year there were 785 finishers - but it does tend to attract a decently fast crowd, as most races organized by Richmond Road Runners Club do. Therefore, starting up front can be very dangerous. I did that at the Moonlight 4 Miler last August and ended up running a 6:30 first mile or something, trying to keep up with the lead pack (not a good idea, by the way). It's easy to get swept up, but it's also nice because you can just take off and run your pace immediately without tripping over the people in front of you and dodging/weaving until you find a comfortable spot and get into the groove.
Anyway, with the usual "Runners Set... and GO!" commands, we took off. Kit and I ran together for all of 2 blocks before he said, "Alright, see you at the end!" and then I found myself side by side with GB for pretty much the rest of the race. As Mile 1 ticked off, I noted that I felt about 1,000 times better than I had at the end of Mile 1 at Monument Ave.
Greg and I traded "leads" through 2, 3, and 4 with one or the other being just a few steps ahead at various points. I was pleasantly surprised at my performance thus far, which was on pace for a PR. We've never said it out loud, but GB and I definitely have a bit of a friendly rivalry going on at the 10k distance (admit it, GB). I know he was thinking, "I'm not letting her get ahead of me," while I was thinking, "I'm not letting Barch get this one." It actually serves us well and because of it, we push each other when we may have otherwise let up. This is exactly what happened during the second half of this race, where we were often running elbow to elbow, neither one of us giving in.
Then, in the last mile, we hit the tiny incline of Nansemond Street and per usual, GB got ahead of me going up the hill and I never caught him again. Not surprising; Barch is a hill beast and I don't think I have ever beaten him up one, big or small. He also has a great end-of-race kick that I can't match, so double whammy.
Excuses, excuses, Kathryn.
There is a happy ending though: I managed to pull out that personal record with a 43:30 race. Greg beat me by 15 seconds with his 43:15, also a PR. Kit rounded out the trifecta with his own super speedy PR of 41:59.
Making the morning even sweeter, Kit got 3rd in his age group and I got 2nd in my age group - a field of 72 women - and 7th woman overall.
|We even got ribbons!
My improvement was 1 minute, 14 seconds or around 10 seconds per mile. That doesn't sound like much, but for a 10k, it is actually not too shabby. Interestingly, that's nearly identical to the margin of improvement from my Erie Marathon pace (8:10/mile) to Wrightsville pace (8:01/mile).
It's also 6 whole minutes ahead of my disaster Monument Avenue time from 2 weeks ago.
That's almost a minute a mile.
WHOA. I just now did that math.
I feel quite redeemed now.
*Only when it comes to running; not when it comes to procrastinating on house cleaning or other responsible grown up stuff.


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Two Major Victories For Student Rights In Federal CourtsJune 20, 2017
Federal courts have recently rejected the actions of university and college administrators who sought to inflict suspicionless drug tests on students at a public college and to restrict the First Amendment rights of marijuana law reformers at a public university. Both decisions have important national implications.
Linn Tech Student Drug Testing Case
In 2011, Linn State Technical College administrators declared that they intended to drug test every student who applied for admission to the small, state-funded college located in Osage County, Missouri, a short distance east of Jefferson City. No other public college or university in America had pursued such a program. It seemed clear to those who follow such matters that college and university students have the same rights as other adults to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. While private institutions are not bound by the restraints of the Fourth Amendment, public tax-supported institutions are. Nonetheless, Linn Tech seemed determined to pursue inflicting random, suspicionless drug testing on their students.
Tony Rothert, the Legal Director of the ACLU of Missouri, filed suit against Linn Tech. I filed a "friend of the court" brief on behalf of Students for Sensible Drug Policy, working with Alex Kreit, a law professor from San Diego.
U.S. District Court Judge Nanette Laughrey, sitting in Jefferson City, subsequently issued a decision prohibiting such testing, with a few narrowly-drawn exceptions for those participating in training programs involving heavy machinery or high-voltage electricity.
Linn Tech appealed that decision to the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis. Legal scholars were shocked when a three-judge panel of that Court later sided with Linn Tech. In a decision which many believed ignored legal precedent and logic, two of three judges on the panel which initially heard the case sided with Linn Tech.
Mr. Rothert then filed for a rehearing of the case by the full 11-judge Court. Such hearings are rarely granted, but in this case, the Motion was granted. Following that rehearing, all but two of the judges on the full Court sided with the students and the ACLU, overturning the decision of the three-judge panel.
Still not satisfied, Linn Tech squandered more public tax money pursuing a Petition for Certiorari with the United States Supreme Court. Civil libertarians were concerned that the current high Court might indeed overturn the Eighth Circuit if it had accepted that Petition for review. However, on June 5, 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court denied further review in this matter. Therefore, the decision of the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court is now the final decision in this matter. Linn Tech administrators have reluctantly acknowledged that they must now follow the Constitution and abandon their effort to impose suspicionless drug testing on their students.
Iowa State University NORML Censorship Case
In another important case closely watched by many across the nation, members of the NORML Chapter at Iowa State University in 2012 applied for approval to print t-shirts which contained the name of the university-recognized organization and included an image of the school's mascot, "Cy, the Cyclone". University administrators first approved those t-shirts, but when the ISU NORML Chapter asked to reprint them, the university caved in to pressure from legislative staff people who had complained that it appeared the university was supporting marijuana legalization.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) filed suit on behalf of the officers of the Iowa State University NORML Chapter, alleging content and viewpoint discrimination. The lawsuit sought to prevent university administrators from treating the NORML Chapter differently from other university-recognized student organizations. The federal district court in Iowa sided with the students and against the university. The university appealed to the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis, which issued a decision in February of this year upholding the federal district judge's ruling.
Iowa State University administrators then asked the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court to reconsider its decision. The Court did so, which caused many to fear that they might change their minds.
However, on June 13, 2017, the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court reaffirmed its earlier decision and went even further, holding that university administrators who prevented the ISU NORML Chapter from using the university's trademarked images were individually liable for their actions and could, therefore, be ordered to pay damages from their own pockets!
Administrators at the University of Missouri in Columbia have taken similar actions in regard to the MU NORML Chapter. It is hoped that the decision of the Eighth U.S. Circuit will encourage MU administrators to reconsider their position.
The federal appellate court sent a loud and clear message to university administrators that they are required to respect the Constitutional rights of students, including those who advocate for reform of the marijuana laws.
While Iowa State could do as Linn Tech administrators did and continue to squander more public tax money pursuing an ill-considered position, it is not at all likely the U.S. Supreme Court would grant further review in this matter.
Administrators at the University of Missouri in Columbia have taken similar actions in regard to the MU NORML Chapter. It is hoped that the decision of the Eighth U.S. Circuit will encourage MU administrators to reconsider their position.
These two decisions have reaffirmed the rights of college and university students to be free from random, suspicionless drug testing and to speak out for drug law reform without censorship by administrators..
Empire State NORML in Albany with the Start SMART CampaignJune 15, 2017
Lobby Day
The Drug Policy Alliance, along with other campaign pillar groups Empire State NORML, VOCAL-NY, Cannabis Cultural Association, LatinoJustice and the Immigrant Defense Project, held a press conference and lobby day to announce the Start Sensible Marijuana Access through Regulated Trade (Start SMART) campaign to advocate for the substantially amended version of the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act (MRTA) this past Monday, June 12th.
Dozens of activists from all around the state took buses, drove cars and rode trains to Albany to join the campaign in launching and lobbying for the legalization bill. After the excellent citizen lobby day training provided by the Drug Policy Alliance, the group split up to divide and conquer before the press conference hitting as many offices as they could as well as attending scheduled meetings.
In the afternoon the press conference was held in front of the Senate Chambers. Joining advocates at the press conference were the MRTA's prime sponsors in both houses, Senator Liz Krueger (D-New York) and Assemblymember Crystal Peoples-Stokes (D-Buffalo), as well as key MRTA sponsors including: Assemblymember Dick Gottfried (D-New York), Senator Jamaal Bailey (D-Bronx), Senator Jesse Hamilton (IDC-Brooklyn), Senator Gustavo Rivera (D-Bronx), Assemblymember Walter Mosley (D-Brooklyn) and Assemblymember Michael Blake (D-Bronx). We also heard from representatives of Start SMART pillar groups, Drug Policy Alliance (Kassandra Frederique), Empire State NORML (Doug Greene), LatinoJustice (Juan Cartagena), VOCAL-NY (Nick Malinowski), Immigrant Defense Project (Mizue Aizeki) and Cannabis Cultural Association (Nelson Guerrero and Jacob Plowden).
Afterwards the group of dedicated activists went back to work. Some went to the Senate and Assembly chambers to pull their members off the floor to seek their support of the new bill, while others continued dropping off materials at the offices of legislators who have voted for further decriminalization but haven't supported taxation and regulation of marijuana.
The Start SMART campaign
The substantially amended MRTA would reestablish a legal market for marijuana in New York and create a system to tax and regulate marijuana in a manner similar to alcohol and the craft brewery industry, for adults over the age of 21. Over the past twenty years, nearly 800,000 people have been negatively affected by the harms of prohibition. With people of color accounting for nearly 85% of those arrested annually for possession, the collateral consequences are felt most in these communities. Because of the racial injustice caused by prohibition, the bill is not only an end to prohibition in New York, but also a win in the ongoing fight for racial equality. Significant steps are taken to ensure that those most negatively affected by prohibition will benefit from its repeal.
The reworked Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act (MRTA) includes substantial racial justice and small business-friendly amendments, including:
- Creating a micro-license structure, similar to New York's rapidly growing craft wine and beer industry, that allows small-scale production and sale plus delivery to reduce barriers to entry for people with less access to capital and traditional avenues of financing.
- Establishing the Community Grants Reinvestment Fund, which will invest in communities that have been disproportionately impacted by the drug war through job training, economic empowerment, and youth development programming.
- Ensuring diversity in New York's marijuana industry by removing barriers to access like capital requirements and building inclusivity by allowing licensing to people with prior drug convictions. Only people with business-related convictions (such as fraud or tax evasion) will be explicitly barred from receiving licenses
Start SMART NY is a campaign to end marijuana prohibition and repair the harms to communities convened by the Drug Policy Alliance in partnership with groups dedicated to ending marijuana prohibition, including Empire State NORML.
NY resident? Click here to send a message to your lawmakers in support of the bill.
Make sure to visit Empire State NORML's website by clicking here and follow them on Facebook and Twitter.
Click here to see the press release from earlier in the week. and click here to go to the Start SMART NY website
Deputy AG: Marijuana is federally illegal and has no medical useJune 13, 2017
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was questioned about federal marijuana policy during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today and his responses were disconcerting to say the least.
Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) asked Rosenstein about the current tension between state and federal marijuana laws.
"We do have a conflict between federal law and the law in some states. It's a difficult issue for parents like me, who have to provide guidance to our kids… I've talked to Chuck Rosenberg, the administrator of the DEA and we follow the law and the science," said Rosenstein, "And from a legal and scientific perspective, marijuana is an unlawful drug. It's properly scheduled under Schedule I. And therefore we have this conflict."
He further elaborated on the Trump Administration's view of the Cole Memo, which was issued by President Obama's Deputy Attorney General James Cole, which lays out guidelines for marijuana businesses operating in medical and legal states if they wish to avoid federal interference.
"Jim Cole tried to deal with it in that memorandum and at the moment that memorandum is still in effect. Maybe there will be changes to it in the future but we're still operating under that policy which is an effort to balance the conflicting interests with regard to marijuana," stated Rosenstein, "So I can assure you that is going to be a high priority for me as the U.S. Attorneys come on board to talk about how to deal with that challenge in the states that have legalized or decriminalized marijuana, whether it be for recreational or medical use…"
He also said that the Department of Justice is "responsible for enforcing the law. It's illegal, and that is the federal policy with regards to marijuana."
After testifying in front of the Senate Appropriations Committee, he also appeared before its House counterpart.
Representative Kilmer (D-WA) further questioned the Deputy Attorney General on the Cole Memo and the Department of Justice's pending review of it, asking for an update on Attorney General Jeff Sessions view on it.
Rosenstein responded: "I do not have an update. I can tell you, it's a very complicated issue for us. Under federal law as passed by the Congress, and given the science concerning marijuana, it's a Schedule I controlled substance. That's a decision I've talked with (DEA) Administrator Rosenberg about. Some states have taken a different approach and legalized or decriminalized marijuana for medical use and in some cases recreational use…The question of whether it's legal under federal law is resolved because Congress has passed a law — it's illegal. Scientists have found that there's no accepted medical use for it. Cole made an effort to examine the issue and find a way forward for the department where we could continue with our obligation to enforce federal law and minimize the intrusion on states that were attempting to follow a different path."
Despite these critiques, Rosenstein stated any revisions are likely to happen further down the road.
"For the moment the Cole memo remains our policy. There may be an opportunity to review it in the future, but at the moment I'm not aware of any proposal to change it. But I think we're all going to have to deal with it in the future."
You can watch the exchange on CSPAN by clicking HERE
Send a message to your member of Congress to support legislation to end federal marijuana prohibition by clicking HERE.
Weekly Legislative Update 6/10/17June 10, 2017
Welcome to this week's edition of the NORML legislative roundup!
First off, apologies to weekly readers for skipping last week's update. We held a NORML Legal Committee seminar in Colorado about tactics to continue the fight against prohibition and protect those facing jail and other adverse ramifications of prohibition. You can watch NORML's Executive Director give the opening welcome HERE and click here to read a write up on it in The Denver Post's Cannabist HERE.
In the last two weeks, four pieces of legislation that we are supportive of went into law:
Senate Bill 17 adds "stress disorders" (PTSD) to the list of debilitating conditions for which a physician may recommend cannabis.
House Bill 379 / Senate Bill 949 went into effect May 27 to permit those who received a criminal marijuana possession conviction prior to October 1, 2014, to seek expungement of their records.
Often minor marijuana possession offenders, many of them young people, face the lifelong penalties and stigma associated with having a record, even when the state no longer considers simple possession to be a crime.
Assembly Bill 135 eliminates statutes criminalizing the operation of a motor vehicle if a driver has detectable levels of carboxy THC in his/her urine. Carboxy-THC is an non-psychoactive waste product of THC that may be present for days or even weeks post-abstinence. It's presence in urine is not correlated with psychomotor impairment.
While passage of AB 135 is a step in the right direction, further legislation will continue to be necessary in order to amend Nevada's traffic safety laws in a manner that no longer inadvertently criminalize responsible adult marijuana consumers in regards to blood testing.
SB 16 permits physicians for the first time to recommend medical marijuana to patients with post-traumatic stress, Crohn's disease, or Parkinson's disease. The measure also allows physicians to immediately issue medical cannabis recommendations for patients suffering from cancer, a terminal illness, or under hospice care supervision.
Unfortunately, in Montana, SB 333, was signed into law to amend the state's medical cannabis program, I-182, which voters passed in November.
The measure establishes various rules and regulations regarding the operation of cannabis dispensaries, production facilities, and testing labs. It does not amend the expanded list of qualifying conditions enacted by I-182. However, SB 333 does impose new taxes on medical marijuana gross sales. NORML opposes taxes of medical cannabis. It also reduces the number of seedlings qualified patients are permitted to possess at home from 12 to no more than four. It also imposes limits regarding the total harvest of cannabis permitted per patient.
Following are the bills from around the country that we've tracked this week and as always, check http://norml.org/act for legislation pending in your state.
Don't forget to sign up for our email list and we will keep you posted as these bills and more move through your home state legislature and at the federal level.
Thanks for all you do and keep fighting,
Priority Alerts
Join The Caucus: With public support for reforming marijuana laws at an all time high, Reps. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), Jared Polis (D-CO), and Don Young (R-AK) earlier this year formed the Congressional Cannabis Caucus to develop and promote sensible cannabis policy reform and work to ease the tension between federal and state cannabis laws.
Click here to email your Member of Congress to urge them to join the Congressional Cannabis Caucus
Legislation is pending, Assembly Bill 1578, to try and limit potential federal interference in the state's marijuana regulatory laws.
The bill states, "This bill would prohibit a state or local agency, as defined, from taking certain actions without a court order signed by a judge, including using agency money, facilities, property, equipment, or personnel to assist a federal agency to investigate, detain, detect, report, or arrest a person for commercial or noncommercial marijuana or medical cannabis activity that is authorized by law in the State of California and transferring an individual to federal law enforcement authorities for purposes of marijuana enforcement."
The majority of Californians desire a legally regulated marijuana market. Passage of this act will limit state or local agencies from working with the federal government to undermine these regulations.
Update: AB 1578 passed the Assembly on June 1 and now moves to the Senate for consideration.
CA resident? Click here to send a message to your state Senator in support of this effort.
SB 35 provides explicit exemptions from arrest and prosecution for persons lawfully in possession of medical marijuana.
Presently, state regulators are finalizing rules and regulations governing its nascent medical cannabis program, which seeks to permit the production, dispensing, and use of non-herbal preparations of cannabis for qualified patients. Passage of SB 36 amends various criminal statutes to assure that those involved in the program are not inadvertently subject to criminal liability.
Specifically, it provides immunity from arrest for those enrolled in the program who engage in activities related to the purchase or transportation of medical marijuana related products or paraphernalia. It provides further legal protections for pharmacies, producers, and testing laboratories engaged in medical cannabis related activities.
Update: House members amended and passed SB 35 by a vote of 74 to 21 on June 5. Senate members approved the House changes on June 6. The reconciled bill was transmitted to the Governor.
LA resident? Click here to send a message to the Governor in support of SB 35.
New Hampshire
After nearly a decade of frustration, 2017 is finally the year that New Hampshire voters successfully see marijuana possession decriminalized.
HB 640, will amend criminal penalties for marijuana possession is pending in the House, where lawmakers have overwhelmingly supported such efforts for eight years in a row. However, legislators this year are hopeful that, for the first time, they also have sufficient votes to also clear the Senate.
Update: The House concurred with the amended Senate bill on June 1 and the bill will soon be transmitted to the Governor.
NH resident? Click here to send a message to the Governor thanking him for his support of decriminalization.
Rhode Island
Sponsors have announced plans to amend their legislation in a manner that would legalize the possession of up to one ounce of cannabis, effective July 1, 2018. The amended legislation would also establish an advisory committee to issue a report to the General Assembly by January 1, 2018 with recommendations regarding how best to establish a system for taxing and regulating marijuana in Rhode Island. Sen. Miller said, "We are prepared to compromise in a significant way, but there must be progress on the issue this year. Our proposal balances the will of the majority of voters who want marijuana to be legal for adults while respecting colleagues who want to slow things down and get the regulations right."
RI resident? Click here to send a message to your elected officials in support of this effort.
Other Actions to Take
Legislation is pending before the House, H 113, to prohibit employers from discriminating against patients who legally consume marijuana during non-work hours. Additional legislation, H 2385, would expand protections for medical marijuana patients so that they may not be discriminated against with regard to housing, higher education, and child custody issues.
Changes in the legal status of marijuana has not been associated with any adverse changes in workplace safety. In fact, a pair of studies from 2016 find that legalization is associated with greater workforce participation and with fewer workplace absences. Most recently, the National Academies of Sciences just-released marijuana and health report found "insufficient evidence" to support an association between cannabis use and occupational accidents or injuries.
MA resident? Click here to send a message to your elected officials in support of this effort.
New Hampshire
Legislation is pending in the New Hampshire House, HB 215, to establish a commission to study the legalization, regulation, and taxation of marijuana.
Police in New Hampshire arrest some 2,900 individuals annually for simple marijuana possession offenses. The continued criminalization of adult marijuana use is out-of-step with the views of New Hampshire adults, 62 percent of whom now endorse legalizing and regulating cannabis, according to a 2016 WMUR Granite State Poll.
Update: The House has adopted the Senate changes. The bill is expected to be transmitted to the Governor imminently.
NH resident? Click here to send a message to the Governor urging him to sign HB 215
Additionally, multiple bills are pending to expand the pool of patients eligible to qualify for medical marijuana therapy.
In particular, these measures would permit patients with conditions like chronic pain and post-traumatic stress to obtain legal access to marijuana.
NH resident? Click here to contact your elected officials to support patients.
New York
A pair of bills are pending in the Senate to expand patients' access to medical cannabis.
Senate Bill 6092 expands the pool of patients eligible for medical cannabis access to include those with Alzheimer's disease, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and a number of other debilitating diseases. It also removes arbitrary caps imposed on the amount of THC permitted in oral products.
Senate Bill 6308 allows for additional cannabis providers to operate in the state in order to improve patients' access.
NY resident? Click here to send a message to your lawmakers in support of these bills.
Rhode Island
SB 176 is currently pending in the Rhode Island Senate. It amends the state's Medical Marijuana Act, which currently only permits three medical marijuana dispensaries to operate in the entire state, to permit regulators to license up to six total dispensaries.
In recent years, the total number of registered medical cannabis patients in Rhode Island has nearly doubled to more than 17,000 people. It is necessary for regulators to license additional dispensaries in order to keep up with this increased demand.
RI resident? Click here to send a message to your lawmakers in support of this effort.
Safe Streets Alliance et al. v. John Hickenlooper, et al. – Good News, Bad NewsJune 8, 2017
A ruling issued on June 7th by the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, in response to a series of legal challenges to Colorado's adult cannabis use regulations, includes both good news and bad news.
The Good News
Most importantly for the legalization movement nationwide, the appeals court rejected the argument raised by the states of Nebraska and Oklahoma that Amendment 64 in Colorado, the voter initiative that legalized and regulated the adult use of marijuana, was preempted by the federal Controlled Substances Act. That argument, made by these neighboring states, if accepted by the court, would have voided Amendment 64.
It should be noted that this was not a definitive ruling on the federal preemption argument. Rather, it was a procedural ruling, finding that only the US Supreme Court has jurisdiction to hear disputes between the states. (The Supreme Court declined to consider a similar challenge in 2016.)
In fact, it was only after the Supreme Court had rejected their motion that the two states elected to raise these same issues with the 10th Circuit, by filing a motion to intervene in the Safe Streets case.
Also a big win, the Circuit Court rejected a similar attempt by a group of sheriffs and prosecutors from Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska to use the US Controlled Substances Act and the Supremacy Clause of the US Constitution to enjoin the enforcement of Amendment 64. The court found that the Supremacy Clause "does not give rise to a private right of action."
Hopefully this will give pause to other anti-marijuana zealots out there who might wish to use the federal preemption argument to undermine the various state legalization laws.
The Bad News
The bad news is that the 10th Circuit did reinstate a civil RICO complaint filed by private landowners in Colorado against a state-licensed indoor cultivation center, alleging it had caused a noxious odor that damaged their property value. The appellate court remanded the case back to the US District Court for further proceedings to allow the plaintiffs to attempt to prove their RICO claims.
While this is necessarily concerning to those in the state-legal cultivation industry, since the problems presented by the odors emanating from large grow operations is a theme which has been raised in several Colorado communities, it likely does not open the floodgates for every neighbor to bring a RICO suit against any cultivation center. Rather it likely will accelerate the adoption of the most effective technology by cultivation centers to minimize the odor of marijuana.
In the court's own words, "We are not suggesting that every private citizen purportedly aggrieved by another person, a group, or an enterprise that is manufacturing, distributing, selling, or using marijuana may pursue a claim under RICO. Nor are we implying that every person tangentially injured in his business or property by such activities has a viable RICO claim. Rather, we hold only that the Reillys alleged sufficient facts to plausibly establish the requisite elements of their claims against the Marijuana Growers here."


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