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Dr. Amul H. Singh was happily ensconced at the University of
Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) School of Dentistry when he
encountered an all-too-familiar problem for academics: his wife was
admitted to a postgraduate program at Indiana University. What to
Enter Dr. Cynthia C. Gadbury-Amyot, Director of Distance
Education and Faculty Development at UMKC. She suggested a way for
Dr. Singh to continue teaching his class in histopathology. Dr.
Singh had already begun archiving his lectures using a webcam and
making his PowerPoint presentations available to students on
Blackboard. He could use these as stepping stones to make the leap
to teaching his course online, and with some administrative help
from Dr. Pamela R. Overman, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs,
that is just what he did.
"The topic was near to my heart," says Dr. Singh, "and I was
curious to see how it would work out."
From his new home in Indiana, he began offering online lectures
and PowerPoint presentations, and he introduced several synchronous
components to the course: a live, online orientation that reaches
his 130 students at the beginning of the course, and weekly, online
office hours. The response has been overwhelmingly positive.
"One evening I had more than 50 people logged on at once,"
marveled Dr. Singh. "I never had that number of students coming to
see me on campus. Office hours have become a forum for group
discussion, and the exchange of ideas is phenomenal, so much more
than occurred in the face-to-face class."
The students appear to be as impressed with the new approach as
their professor. They are far more likely to attend office hours
online than they were in person and to schedule one-on-one sessions
when they need help. Their course reviews have been stronger than
ever, and their average exam scores have risen. They express
special appreciation for being able to download lectures to their
portable devices so they can study anywhere, even while
If it all sounds too good to be true, Dr. Singh admits that
there were a few bumps in the road. The first year, students asked
for more interaction with him and with each other. He responded by
introducing group projects using Wiki sites, which allows students
to feel connected as well as engaged.
Testing has also been a concern. To date, Dr. Singh has had
others at UMKC administer his final exam in person, but this year
he began trying an online browser designed to handle assessments.
He has been working out the kinks through a series of small quizzes
and hopes to move his final exam online next spring with the help
of the university's IT staff.
This coming year, Dr. Singh will apply some online technologies
in two face-to-face courses that he will teach at Indiana
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By Ted Warnock and Julia Kayser
January 23, 2014—The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has a population estimated at nearly 70 million people. Multiple languages are spoken, and it can take days to travel from one village to another. Thousands of children under age five die every year from preventable diseases such as malaria, pneumonia, and diarrhea.
Because of the huge need for healthcare leadership, this past year, the United Methodist Church moved from one joint health board in the DRC to four. Each of these new episcopal health boards: North Katanga, South Congo, Central Congo, and East Congo (the newest), is receiving training and education support as they develop their own strategies and plans to cope with the near overwhelming healthcare challenges in their regions.
Ted Warnock, a General Board of Global Ministries missionary working with the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR), specializes in training health boards. He traveled to the DRC in 2013, and, while in Katanga for a training event, he visited a rural United Methodist Hospital called Samuteb. This hospital was celebrating its hundred-year anniversary.
"We listened as the medical doctor guiding us showed us wards filled with children suffering from malaria and broken bones," Warnock says, "and women who had just delivered their children. We met a premature baby so small that a shoe box-size container lined with old bottles filled with hot water served as her incubator." The hospital struggles daily to get enough electricity, water, and medical supplies. A single pressure cooker was used to sterilize surgical instruments. Laboratory technicians carefully sanitized and re-used slides for detecting malaria and other diseases.
"One might wonder what this all has to do with health boards and capacity- and leadership-development training," Warnock says. "As we exited one hospital room, we saw a child at the end of the hall. There she was—just watching us… what were we going to do to help? Clearly, I have no idea what she was thinking, but her silence and watchfulness as we prepared ourselves to offer assistance remains a vivid reminder of what we have to do. We must be open to understanding the needs presented to us and assist in any way possible."
Four episcopal health boards in the DRC means four strategic plans, four organizational charts, four sets of by-laws, four sets of needs analysis, four sets of facility-analysis documents, and nearly 60 health board members now sharing the collective responsibility to lead. The planning and training has been a huge task. One of UMCOR's new roles will be to create opportunities for the different health boards to share ideas.
One of the first things that each episcopal area's health board has done is to request medical supplies to meet the needs that they have prioritized. UMCOR partners with International Aid to provide these supplies. Fulfilling the first requests will require two containers being shipped to the Congo—one to Lubumbashi to cover the North Katanga and South Congo needs, and one to Kinshasa to cover the Central and East Congo needs. "Even then, it will not be enough," Warnock indicates. "There will be additional needs, and we will all be asked to do more."
In the face of near overwhelming challenges, four episcopal health boards are now guiding UMCOR and its partners in healthcare aid. They seek your support. Donate to UMCOR Global Health, Advance #3021770, to make a difference in the lives of children and families seeking healthcare from United Methodist facilities in the Congo.
* Ted Warnock is a General Board of Global Ministries missionary who works UMCOR's Global Health unit. Julia Kayser is a writer and a regular contributor to www.umcor.org.

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Apoptosis and Response to Radiation: Implications for Radiation Therapy
Apoptosis and Response to Radiation: Implications for Radiation Therapy
Tumor growth is the result of two opposing processes--cell division and cell loss. As long as division outpaces loss, tumors will continue to grow. The form of "active" cell death called apoptosis is now known to be controlled by specific genes, and it is hoped that manipulating the expression of these genes could shift the balance in favor of cell loss.
The review by Dr. Meyn covers promising early results using gene therapy techniques to administer p53 (a tumor-suppressor protein involved in apoptosis and growth regulation) or bcl-2Xs (an inhibitor of bcl-2 that, itself, inhibits apoptosis). These results support the idea that promoting apoptosis may be a viable way of controlling tumor growth.
Dr. Meyn was actively involved in apoptosis research as it relates to radiation damage before it became fashionable. He points out that almost 40 years ago, radiobiologists labeled this form of cell death as "interphase cell death" to distinguish it from the mitotic cell death that occurred as radiation damaged cells attempted to divide. What was not appreciated until relatively recently is that rapid interphase death may be prevented by a simple gene mutation or by overexpression of certain other gene products. Such genetic changes are often present in solid tumors.
An important, valid point made in Dr. Meyn's review is that "time" is the critical element needed to define the significance of apoptosis in radiotherapy. He makes the distinction between apoptosis as a primary mode of cell death occurring within a few hours of irradiation and "secondary" apoptosis observed at much longer times (24 to 96 hours) after irradiation. Clearly, damaged cells that fail to undergo apoptosis within the first few hours after irradiation can still undergo reproductive cell death. However, Dr. Meyn argues (and is probably right) that the manner in which those cells die--whether by secondary apoptosis, necrosis, or simple senescence--is largely immaterial for practical purposes.
Radiosensitivity of Cells Capable of Primary Apoptosis
Dr. Meyn's second point is that cells capable of undergoing primary apoptosis are more radiosensitive. Again, results from a number of studies using cells in culture support this position. He could probably go further and add that while it is possible to reduce radiation cell killing by preventing primary apoptosis, it may be impossible to prevent secondary apoptosis. Secondary apoptosis seems to be a response to lethal (irreparable) damage. Since most cells capable of primary apoptosis are of hematologic or lymphoid origin, the relevance of apoptosis to the response of most solid tumors has been questioned.
Dr. Meyn approaches this question by summarizing a great deal of work carried out in over a dozen solid murine tumors. Squamous cell carcinomas, hepatocarcinomas, and fibrosarcomas did not undergo apoptosis in response to radiation. However, the apoptotic response of adenocarcinomas and lymphomas peaked at about 4 hours after irradiation, suggesting that this was primary apoptosis by his definition. In these studies, Dr. Meyn found that less radiation was required to control tumors with significant amounts of radiation-induced apoptosis--the expected result if cells capable of under going primary apoptosis are more radiosensitive.
Perhaps more interesting, the spontaneous apoptotic index correlated with tumor curability in the same series of murine tumours. Dr. Meyn argues that if tumors contain more apoptotic cells, there must be fewer clonogens to kill, and the tumor should be controlled with lower radiation doses. This observation has important implications, since it suggests that the ability to undergo apoptosis could have a greater influence on outcome than other properties of solid tumors known to affect response to radiotherapy, such as hypoxia and tumor growth kinetics.
Clinical Results Less Clear-Cut
However, results from the clinic are not as clear-cut. Dr. Meyn reports that some studies show a correlation between high pretreatment apoptotic index and survival/response, while others do not. Gordon Steel's "bucket and tap" analogy is useful in thinking about this situation.[1] Steel illustrates the relationships among cell production by mitosis (the tap dripping tumor cells into a bucket), cell loss by apoptosis or necrosis (holes in the bucket that release the cells), and tumor growth (the accumulation of cells in the bucket). Influencing the speed of the dripping tap, or the size of the holes in the bucket, will alter tumor volume. However, if there are more holes in the bucket (ie, a higher apoptotic fraction), mitosis will have to increase to maintain tumor growth. This could result in a higher growth fraction and, perhaps, a lower likelihood of curing some tumors with radiation.
Alternatively, tumor cell types with a high incidence of spontaneous apoptosis could be dying because they do not tolerate a nutrient-poor (hypoxic?) tumor microenvironment. Such tumors should be more radiocurable.
Unfortunately, resolving these issues is not easy because measurements of apoptotic index in vivo are difficult to perform and interpret. Apoptotic index varies with time, radiation dose, and fractionation schedule. As pointed out in an article by Potten[2] in reference to apoptosis in the gut and by Dewey et al[3] in relation to solid tumors, the apoptotic yield measured in vivo rarely relates to the yield of reproductively sterilized cells. This is perhaps not surprising considering that the duration of the apoptotic process (ie, how rapidly apoptotic cells develop, how long they survive in vivo) is largely unknown, as is the contribution of other cell types within the tumor.
The inability to directly correlate reproductive cell death with apoptotic fraction is clearly a limitation in defining the kinetics and significance of the process in vivo. However, this should not be a detriment to designing effective strategies to promote apoptosis in tumors that have lost this capacity.
2. Potten CS: What is an apoptotic index measuring? A commentary. Br J Cancer 74:1743-1748, 1996.
3. Dewey WC, Ling CC, Meyn RE: Radiation-induced apoptosis: Relevance to radiotherapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 33:781-796, 1995.


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St George's Hydrotherapy pool campaigners seek closure delay
Campaigners fighting to save a hydrotherapy pool, set to close in March over council cuts, have asked for a delay so they can look for funding.
Peterborough City Council decided to withdraw its £45,000 subsidy to the St George's facility in Dogsthorpe as part of a bid to save £19m in 2014/15.
Pool supporters have asked for it to remain open for "one or two years" while they look to gain charity status.
A council spokesman said it was "exploring other options".
The pool provides rehabilitation for people with both physical and mental injuries and disabilities, who are unable to exercise or perform physiotherapy in a normal swimming pool or on dry land.
Since its opening in March 2011, it is estimated to have helped nearly 2,000 people from schools, day centres and care homes, or individuals who have hydrotherapy treatment in their care plans.
'Almost bed-bound'
Campaigner Trayce Smeeton, who started using the facility two years ago as relief from pain after spinal surgery, has so far collected more than 1,600 signatures in an online petition.
She said a reprieve would allow them to try and gain charity status or become a Community Interest Organisation (CIO) and apply for funding that way.
"An awful lot of people will become more disabled [if it closes] so [keeping it open] will save money in the long run because more carers and operations will be needed", she added.
"Using the pool has stopped me having further surgery and without it I would be almost bed-bound."
The council said the facility had previously been funded through department underspends but unless an alternative source of money could be found, it was "no longer in a position to support" it.
Councillor Nigel North added it was "unusual for a council to be running this type of facility".
"We are faced with making some very difficult decisions as we try to close a £19m gap in our budget," he said.
"We have tried to make it self-funding for some time, but so far this has proved unsuccessful, however a group of councillors and officers continue to explore other options to fund the pool."
Extensive repairs were also needed, he added.
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Parasite Eve
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There is no question as to who my favorite game developers of all time are. SquareSoft has constantly innovated with cool new games, including Secret of Mana, Xenogears, and Chrono Trigger. While most of the Playstation RPGs have not lived up to my expectations (Brave Fencer, Saga Frontier come to mind), Parasite Eve is awesome. Featuring awesome FMV scenes, there is no false advertising when SquareSoft calls this ''The Cinematic RPG''. Unfortunately for all of its many fans, maybe Parasite Eve was worked on too much as a cinematic rpg, as it seems that the FMV scenes are very cool, but the character development and game length aren't up to par. You see, Parasite Eve has got to be the shortest RPG I've ever played. Read on for the complete review to Parasite Eve.
The regular graphics during gameplay are average, as Aya Brea and the other characters appear blocky and pixelly. The pixellation gets particuarly noticable when viewed up close. The backgrounds are pretty cool looking, though, and the world map looks pretty tight as well. Now onto the FMVs. Talk about INCREDIBLE!! The FMV scenes look realistic and lifelike, and the attention to detail in the FMVs are outstanding and are the best FMV scenes are the best I have evr seen in a game (yes, even better than Final Fantasy 7!!) Yes, the graphics are good but they could have been better. It is clear after seeing the game that the Playstation has limited graphical power, but the full motion video can be supported by the Playstation much better than the Nintendo 64. Overall, the graphics are great, and I think it would have really been cool had the graphics looked as good as the Full Motion video scenes in the game. Oh well, maybe on Playstation 2...
SquareSoft has always been known to have great music and sound effects in their role playing games, and Parasite Eve is not the exception to this rule, because the music and sound effects in Parasite Eve for the Playstion are great! First, the music. The music in Parasite Eve is incredible, and SquareSoft really did a great job in the music and really did the capablities of the Playstation justice. I especially enjoyed the battle theme and boss theme in the gam, they were very well done. Also, the music that plays when you are in the map screen is also great. I would pay good money if I had a chance to buy a Parasite Eve soundtrack. Sound effect wise, Parasite Eve for the Playstation is great as well, and features a variety of great sound effects. For instance, when you're fighting the spider boss on top of the buildings at the end of the 3rd day I believe, the sound effects vary from the sound of Aya Brea's gun hitting the boss, to the sound of the spider boss shooting off its webs. Great sound effects. Overall, the music and sound effects in Parasite Eve for the Playstation are great and does the music capablities of the Playstation justice!
Can't really complain about the control in the game. Thankfully, the control from Resident Evil 2 (which I hate), is not implemented into the game. It is far easier to walk, for one thing, than Resident Evil 2, where you had to turn
sideways then walk. The game also implements analog control (usage with the dual shock controller will enable you to use
analog) which is really cool but Ive noticed an annoying problem: see, the game starts you off automatically on analog control. So once you get into the main game, you cannot use the regular control pad. It kinda gets frustrating, especially when you forget the analog control is on. Still, even with that little annoying problem, the control in Parasite Eve is great and is what is expected from SquareSoft.
Parasite Eve is a mixture of Final Fantasy and Resident Evil (but you already knew that right?) You start off as a girl and her date at an opera. An evil thing takes over the opera, and the adventure begins. Over the course of the adventure, you only get one playable charcater, who is a cop from New York City Police Department named Aya Brea. There are plenty of NPCs, but the lack of playable characaters will be disapointing to those who like multi-playable character games. Anyways, the weapon and armor system is very.. weird. You just kind of find everything, since you can't buy anything (becuase, just like Quest, you don't build money during this game) After finding a new weapon or piece of armor, you can upgrade it at the New York Police Department at the weapons room. You need either a weapons permit or a trading card to upgrade your weapon. Despite the fact that there are few random battles throughout the game, you build up levels fairly quickly. After each level up, you get bonus points. You can distribute a mininum of 100 points towards two categories: Active Time (increases the activer time speed, which basically mean the time it takes to recharge between attacks) and Item Capacity (increases the amount of items you can hold, usually by one.) Just like in Resident Evil 2, you can only hold a certain amounts of items. As your level increases (and you distribute bonus points towards item cpacity) you can hold more items. The only ways to discard
unwanted items is to place it an empty chest, discard it from the menu, or by leaving it with Wayne (head weapons guy at
New York Police Department). Wayne also collects junk. If you give him 300 pieces of junk, you can get a special weapon. Aya also learns a wide variety of magic spells (called Parasite Energy) which ranges from healing to attack magic. Unlike most RPGs where you have a set limit of magic points, Aya has a Parasite Energy bar. Every time she uses a particular spell, her PE bar decreases by a set amount. As your levels increase, this set amount decreases. Anyways, it fills up slowly during battle. This is a very cool and original idea, although it does make an easy game a little easier. All you have to do is run around during battle, waiting for your PE bar to fill up. Also, the final Parasite Energy you learn (Liberate) is far too strong. So, basically, it would have been cooler had their been more variety in the strength of the parasite energies. The game does deliver in the battle system and storyline departments, but could have used a bit more length and variety. Overall, the gameplay in Parasite Eve for the Playstation is great, albeit a little short.
REPLAY VALUE (High)
Parasite Eve for Playstation is a bit short, which does hurt the replay value a bit, but there are a lot of secrets in the game, and the added EX mode (once you beat the game you get a new EX mode) helps the replay value a lot also. Overall, the replay value in Parasite Eve for the Playstation is pretty high.
CHALLENGE (Medium)
Parasite Eve may not be the most challenging role playing game of all time, and the length is a bit short, but it is still a decent challenge for the newbies.
Parasite Eve seems to favor style over substance, but still manages to be a great game in the process. Well worth a purchase.
Reviewer's Rating: 4.5 - Outstanding
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For 200 years, Massachusetts courts followed the doctrine of caveat emptor in cases involving the sale of real estate and structures built upon the real estate. Thirty years ago, in McMahon v. M&D Builders, Inc., 360 Mass. 54, 62 (1971), the Supreme Judicial Court noted the trend in other jurisdictions to impose on the builder-vendor of a dwelling house an implied warranty to the initial purchaser (a) that the house was built in a good and workmanlike manner, (b) that it is suitable for habitation, and (c) that it was built in compliance with applicable building laws, ordinances, regulations or codes. The court concluded, however, that the issue had not been raised properly in that case and did not need to be reached. Finally, 30 years later, in a period of a little over one month, the court issued rulings in three different cases abandoning the doctrine of caveat emptor, and significantly expanding the rights of purchasers of new homes and condominiums. See Berish v. Bornstein, 437 Mass. 252, 264-265 (2002); Albrecht v. Clifford, 436 Mass. 706, 708, 710 (2002); and Aldrich v. Add Inc., 437 Mass. 213, 222-223 (2002). This article notes the more significant elements of these rulings and some of the many unanswered questions that now must be addressed as to the scope of the rights that have now been granted to home and condominium owners.
The doctrine of caveat emptor was first stated in the 16th century, but began being applied regularly in early 19th century England consistent with prevalent laissez fair theories of economics. See Mcdonald v. Mianecki, 398 A.2d 1283 (N.J. 1979) and Hamilton, "The Ancient Maxim Caveat Emptor," 40 Yale L.J. 1133, 1187 (1931) for an extensive history of the doctrine of caveat emptor. In the 1800s, homes were built considerably differently than they are today. Typically, a homeowner would first buy land, then hire an architect, a contractor and pay for the house as each stage of construction was completed. There were unlikely to be latent defects of which the homeowner was unaware. After Word War II, developers began buying tracts of land, and the mass production of homes, and later condominiums, began. As a number of courts from other states had noted in the past 30 years, "[e]ven if a buyer is sufficiently knowledgeable to evaluate a home's condition, he rarely has access to make any inspection of the underlying structural work, as distinguished from the merely cosmetic features." See Cosmopolitan Homes Inc. v. Weller, 663 P.2d 1041, 1045 (Colo. 1983).
Since 1971, 40 states plus the District of Columbia have abandoned the doctrine of caveat emptor and have found that implied warranties of habitability, fitness of purpose or intended use, or good quality and workmanship existed in the sale of a new home. Only three states have outright rejected the claim that a builder/developer owes a purchaser an implied warranty of habitability. Massachusetts was one of only six states that had apparently not ruled on this issue.
In Albrecht v. Clifford, 436 Mass. 706, 708, 710 (2002), the court abandoned the doctrine of caveat emptor and adopted an implied warranty of habitability that attaches to the sale of new homes by builder-vendors in the commonwealth. While the court noted that the scope of this warranty must be left largely to case-by-case determination, it declared that "a home that is unsafe because it deviates from fundamental aspects of the applicable building codes, or is structurally unsound, or fails to keep out the elements because of defects of construction, would breach the implied warranty we adopt today." Id. at 711. Specifically, the court found that "[t]o establish a breach of the implied warranty of habitability a plaintiff will have to demonstrate that (1) he purchased a new house from the defendant-builder-vendor; (2) the house contained a latent defect; (3) the defect manifested itself only after its purchase; (4) the defect was caused by the builder's improper design, material, or workmanship; and (5) the defect created a substantial question of safety or made the house unfit for human habitation." Id. at 711-712.
In Berish v. Bornstein, 437 Mass. 252, 264-265 (2002), the court extended the implied warranty of habitability to an individual unit owner of a condominium as well as to a condominium association bringing a claim for breach of the implied warranty of habitability "when there are latent defects in the common areas that implicate the habitability of individual units." The court required the organization of unit owners "to demonstrate that (1) it is an organization of unit owners as defined by G. L. c. 183A, ß 1; (2) the common area of the condominium development contains a latent defect; (3) the latent defect manifested itself after construction of the common areas was substantially completed; (4) the defect was caused by the builder's improper design, material, or workmanship; and (5) the defect created a substantial question of safety as to one or more individual units, or made such units unfit for human habitation." Id.
It is not surprising that the court extended the implied warranty of habitability to condominium owners and, in particular, to claims involving the common areas of condominiums. The dependence of multiple unit owners on a developer closely resembles the dependence of multiple tenants on their landlord. In Boston Hous. Auth. v. Hemingway, 363 Mass. 184, 191-198 (1973), the court had inferred from a landlord's statutory duty to comply with the commonwealth's Sanitary Code a legislative intention that tenants should only pay rent for habitable premises. Moreover, the purchaser of a condominium unit frequently purchases the unit "on spec," under reservation, or based upon the sale of a model unit only; this prevents the purchaser from inspecting his unit prior to purchase. Finally, it is the condominium association that is empowered to conduct litigation as to any course of action involving the common areas of condominiums. M.G.L. c. 183A, ß10(b)(4); Cigal v. Leader Development Corporation, 408 Mass. 212, 217-218 (1990). However, the condominium association never contracts with the developer and has no opportunity to negotiate any express warranties relating to the common areas. A condominium unit owner may seek express warranties relating to the condition of his or her own unit or fixtures, but is not going to seek to negotiate separate terms from the other unit owners relating to the common areas.
In Berish v. Bornstein, 437 Mass. at 268, as well as in the case of Aldrich v. Add Inc., 437 Mass. 213, 222-223 (2002), the court further held that condominiums, and presumably home owners, can state a claim, despite the "economic loss" rule, by alleging property damage that occurred because of construction defects, including water damage to the units. Lower court judges in Aldrich and Berish had held that such claims were barred by the economic loss rule, following the logic of such cases as Sebago, Inc. v. Beazer East, Inc.,18 F. Supp. 2d 70, 93 (1998), in which federal District Court Judge Wolf had held (and incorrectly predicted that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court would hold) that the "economic loss" rule, aimed at limiting parties to contractual remedies for simple economic loss, barred tort claims for damages to any part of a construction project, whether or not the damage occurred solely to the area defectively constructed. Thus, to the extent that a homeowner's claim may not raise questions of safety or habitability, a claim may still exist if the defective construction causes consequential damage to an area of the house or condominium other than that which was defectively constructed.
In Berish, the court, by declaring the existence of an implied warranty of habitability and declaring that the economic loss rule does not necessarily bar negligence claims involving construction projects, has left far more questions unresolved than resolved. First and foremost, only time will create sufficient case law to make clear what type of defects create "a substantial question of safety" or make a house or condominium "unfit for human habitation".
Moreover, in Albrecht, the court specifically declined to decide "whether a second or subsequent purchaser may state a claim for breach of this implied warranty against the builder within the applicable statute of limitations." 436 Mass. at 711, n. 9. Since Indiana in 1976 became the first court to extend the theory of implied warranty of habitability to subsequent purchasers of homes, Barnes v. Mac Brown & Co., 342 N.E.2d 619 (Ind. 1996), at least 15 states have extended the implied warranty of habitability to subsequent purchasers. Reasons for extending the warranty to subsequent purchasers include the following arguments: (1) the essence of implied warranty, which is to protect innocent buyers, is equally applicable to subsequent purchasers; (2) common experience teaches that latent defects in a house will not manifest themselves for a considerable period of time; (3) we are an increasingly mobile people and a builder-vendor should know that a house he builds might be resold within a relatively short period of time; and (4) the logic which compelled the abandonment of privity in the UCC for personal property is equally persuasive for real property. See Nichols v. R.R. Beaufort & Associates, Inc., 727 A.2d 174, 179, n. 4 (R.I. 1999) and Sean M. O'Brien, Caveat Venditor: A Case for Granting Subsequent Purchasers a Cause of Action Against Builder-Vendors for Latent Defects in the Home, 20 J. Corp. L. 525, 534 (1995). Moreover, denying an implied warranty to "supposed" subsequent purchasers makes little sense in claims involving common areas of a condominium, where the plaintiff is the condominium association, which is neither an original purchaser or subsequent purchaser. See Council of Unit Owners of Sea Colony East v. Freeman Associates, 1989 Del. Super. LEXIS 183, at *10-*11 (As each individual unit owner has an undivided ownership in the common area, as long as there is one original unit owner still living in the condominium, he is entitled to full recovery of damages to the common areas).
Moreover, in Berish, the court has left open at least two issues relating to claims revolving around defective construction of the common areas of condominiums. First, the court made clear that there is an implied warranty of habitability when there are latent defects in the common areas that implicate the habitability of individual units. It failed to answer whether there may also be an implied warranty of habitability or an implied warranty that the condominium was built in a good and workmanlike manner, when there are defects in the common areas that do not affect the habitability of individual units. For example, there appears to be little reason that a contractor should be held liable for a latent defect in the heating system, which affects the habitability of an individual unit, but not be held liable for a latent defect in the heating system, which affects the habitability of the unit owners when they are sitting in a common area. Similarly, there appears to be little reason to protect homeowner's safety while in their units but to ignore construction defects, such as latent defects in stairs, which affect the unit owner's safety while in the common areas.
Finally, the court in Berish did not address the question of whether the adverse domination doctrine would toll the statute of limitations for claims involving a condominium's common area until such time as the unit owners gained control over the condominium association from the developer. The court in Berish did find that a claim involving the common areas must be brought within the three-year statute of limitation and the six-year statute of repose set forth in G. L. c. 260, ß 2B, which begins to run at "the earlier of the dates of: (1) the opening of the improvement to use; or (2) substantial completion of the improvement and the taking of possession for occupancy by the owner." 437 Mass. at 266. However, in Demoulas v. Demoulas Super Mkts., 424 Mass. 501, 524 (1997), the court applied the "adverse domination" rule to toll the statute of limitations "while a corporate plaintiff continues under the domination of the wrongdoers." The "adverse domination" doctrine should be equally applicable to a trust, such as a condominium association, as it is to a corporation. See Alleyne v. McCusker, 1983 U.S. Dist. Lexis 11070, * 11 (C.D. CA) (statute of limitations does not run as long as wrongdoers controlled the defendant trust).
The lower court in Berish in essence found that the condominiums built and sold by the defendant were shoddily constructed in flagrant disregard of numerous building code provisions.
Yet, because of its understanding of limitations on the legal rights of homeowners, the lower court after 13 years of litigation also determined that the plaintiffs were only entitled to recover $100,000 of the $300,000 in damages that it was found that they suffered as the result of this shoddy construction. Specifically, the plaintiffs were limited to recovering damages for defects that the defendant willfully declined to fix for reasons of personal financial gain, in breach of fiduciary duties owed to the plaintiff. After 15 years of litigation, including the appeal to the Supreme Judicial Court, the plaintiffs' odyssey through the court system is closer to an end, but plaintiffs still must prove on remand that they brought their action within the statute of limitations and that defendant's actions were either negligent and caused consequential property damage, or that the defects fall within the definition of the implied warranty of habitability as defined by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to date or as likely to be further defined in the future.


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Spinach and strawberries what an odd combination for a recipe. That is what I thought before trying this the first time. Now I get many requests to bring this for dinner parties. The raspberry wine vinegar adds a marvelous taste, and compliments the first two ingredients. This salad is very eye pleasing in crystal.
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This is another one of those favorite recipes that was lost. Thank you so much posting. I just love the taste of the strawberries mixed with the taste of the spinach. I much prefer this recipe to those that add mandarin oranges to the spinach salad. Everyone should try this at least once.
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- 1 lb spinach (I pinch off the larger stems)
- 1 pint strawberry, sliced set a few aside (egg slicer works wonders)
- 1⁄2 cup pecans, toasted
- 1⁄3 cup roland raspberry red wine vinegar
- 1⁄2 cup sugar or 1⁄2 cup sugar substitute
- 1 teaspoon dry mustard
- 3⁄4 cup vegetable oil
- 2 teaspoons poppy seeds
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- Toast pecans over low heat, set aside to cool.
- Combine dressing ingredients and shake well.
- Toss and garnish with a few sliced strawberries.
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Visiting Freddie's Place is as comfortable as hanging out in a friend's backyard. Set beneath a grove of oak trees, the outdoor seating area runs along Bouldin Creek and features a stage for live bands that play music five days a week. No one is turned away here: kids and dogs; diners and drinkers; music fans and sports fans all gather to chow down. Inside, a cozy dining room outfitted with a fireplace provides reprieve from inclement weather.
No matter where they choose to set up camp, though, guests can rest assured they'll be leaving with a full belly. Servers dole out hearty pub fare creations such as the Frederonie–a half-pound burger-pizza hybrid stuffed with pepperoni, mozzarella, and pizza sauce or the Fredelvis– a burger served with peanut butter, bacon, bananas and a side of honey. Dessert carries a similar tune, specifically the fried PB&J sandwiches.
To complement the quirky dishes, the bartenders mix an array of equally off-the-wall cocktails, including Freddie's Honeybadger—honey whisky and hot coffee—and the Dirty Shirley—Austin-based Tito's vodka, Sprite, and grenadine—which was named after the gal who always stole Shirley Temple's lunch money. Guests can also revel in happy hour drink and food specials throughout the week such as half-priced appetizers, any-day any-time tall boys, frozen margarita, and Jack Daniel's drink discounts. Freddie's Place is open seven days a week for breakfast, lunch, and dinner served with a large side of fun.


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A blaze that destroyed a La Jolla home today, displacing a family and slightly injuring three firefighters, was traced to an electrical problem in the heating system, fire officials said.
The blaze in the 1000 block of Newkirk Drive was reported at 4:39 a.m., a San Diego fire dispatcher said.
The fire caused $500,000 in damage to the structure and $150,000 to contents, the dispatcher said.
Two firefighters who suffered muscle strain when the home's roof collapsed were treated at a hospital, SDFD information officer Maurice Luque said. One of them subsequently returned to work and the other went home to rest for a few days, he said.
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The opening block of text claims that the article lists special vehicles from all GTA 3 series games, but that's obvious bullshit, because it only lists Grand Theft Auto III vehicles and not even all the special GTA 3 vehicles are on the list. GMRE (talk) 20:03, May 22, 2015 (UTC)
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The protesters later said that their anger was directed at the Opposition Leader; muscular, all-surfing, all-bicycling, former Catholic seminarian (like me) neo-con (unlike me)
Though debate still rages over the benefits and failures of the (Northern Territory) intervention, it is argued even by many Aboriginal leaders that the Tent Embassy is an anachronism, a structure bespeaking division rather than reconciliation. Many of the Ngunnawal people on whose land it stands want it removed.
So nothing will finally allay hostility until Aboriginal equality is achieved by white goodwill and, above all, by indigenous education, political skill, and leadership. Until then, the mourning and the howling continues.
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BRUSSELS (Oct. 2)
The European Economic Community (EEC) today vigorously condemned Israel's air raid on Palestine Liberation Organization headquarters in Tunisia yesterday and expressed hope that "this new escalation of violence will not jeopardize the current effort aimed at finding a peaceful solution to the Israeli-Arab conflict."
The statement was issued by the Foreign Ministers of the 10 EEC member-states and those of Spain and Portugal which will be joining the Common Market next year. The ministers are attending a one-day meeting in Luxembourg. Diplomatic sources there said Foreign Minister Roland Dumas of France initiated the condemnatory statement. France was the first European country to denounce the raid.
It deplored the Israeli attack as "a new element in the chain of violence and counter-violence in the Middle East." While also condemning the murder of three Israelis by Palestinian terrorists in Larnaca, Cyprus September 25, the EEC ministers maintained that that crime did not justify the "pointless" Israeli raid in Tunisia," a violation of the sovereignty of a friendly, peaceful and moderate country."
In another development, the Ministers decided to authorize the current President of the EEC, Foreign Minister Jacques Poos of Luxembourg, to receive a Jordanian-Palestinian delegation for talks on the future of the peace process in the Middle East. The delegation is scheduled to visit London first at the invitation of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Earlier this year it visited France and Italy.
Thatcher's invitation drew a sharp protest from Israel because the delegation includes two senior officials of the PLO. Thatcher will be the first Western Prime Minister to receive members of the PLO.


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Souths 24, Brisbane 25
Brisbane hold on to win, but Souths will well and truly feel like they lost that game. After battling back into the contest, it was see-sawing until the very end but Anthony Milford's clutch field goal was enough to win it. There were gigantic question marks over both the final try of the game and the field goal, which, on replay, looks like it was clearly knocked on by Milford before he slotted it through. I'm sure we'll hear more from Michael Maguire after the game - thanks for following along, we'll see you next time.
Souths spread it left and Jennings goes into touch!
Game over. Not sure why they didn't attempt a field goal from right in front with a chance to tie the game.
Gillett of all people drills it into touch and Souths will have to go 80 metres.
Brilliant from Milford!
He picks it up off the bootlaces, spins away from Farah and snaps it with his left foot!
Tom Burgess loses it! Big error. Brisbane will definitely have another shot to win it...Back to top
Now Milford misses from 20 out!
Another shocker. He slices it wide and Souths will get a seven tackle set.
Walker misses the field goal!
How has he missed that? 20 out, right in front and no pressure on him..but he slices it wide!
Sutton splits the line but is held up!
So close for the Bunnies. Still their ball though...
McCullough called for a flop and Souths will attack! Six minutes to go.
Milford has to kick from inside his own 40 and Johnston gets to it on the full. Surely both teams are thinking field goal very soon?Back to top
Brisbane kick long, then Souths do the same. A bad bomb from Walker is batted back and a second kick pins Boyd just in front of his own line.
Milford ties us up! 24-24.
Milford goes within centimetres but is held up! But then Moga scores!
I don't know how to explain this but I'll do my best. He got beyond Talakai and looked certain to score but Crichton, and then later Johnston and Hunt, have done fantastically well to hold him up...after that, the ball comes out the back and Moga scores. It looked a completed tackle to me but it's green lights!
A drilled grubber is spilled by Johnston and the Broncos will get a full set 10m out.
Another disaster from Mead but again the Rabbitohs have cost themselves!
The replacement winger is having a shocker tonight - he spills the grubber, Goodwin picks up the crumbs and scores but it's ruled he shoved James Roberts out of the way to get the ball.Back to top
McCullough is over but he's lost the ball!
The hooker goes himself from dummy half but he's lost the ball before grounding it! Huge let-off for Souths.
Souths again defending well but George Burgess hits Roberts high. Brisbane will come again!
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Souths hold firm but George Burgess smashes Milford late with a blatant shoulder charge. Idiotic from the prop.
Farah drills a low kick into space and Boyd takes it up to the 20. Finally, Brisbane have a chance to answer back after what seems like an age without the ball.Back to top
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The rumored lovers are followed by paparazzi on their way to the parking lot after watching Natalie Portman-starring film 'No Strings Attached'.
Like other lovebirds, Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber enjoy a movie date during their outing. The alleged lovers were caught on camera after watching R-rated romantic comedy "No Strings Attached" starring Natalie Portman at a Burbank movie theater on Thursday night, January 27, TMZ said.
They were followed by paparazzi during their way to the parking lot and when asked to address the nature of their relationship, Justin shouted "Never Say Never", which also refers to his upcoming movie. Selena kept walking with her head down as she looked slightly embarrassed by all the attention.
Escorted by a bodyguard, Justin stopped for a while to pose together with one girl fan. And when they reached the car, the 16-year-old Canadian singer acted like a gentleman by opening the door for his rumored girlfriend.
Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber have been reported dating since late 2010 but they remained mum about their alleged romance. As of late, the "Baby" hitmaker was said sending his sexy, shirtless pictures to the Disney cutie.


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In an attempt to support his upcoming 'Evolver' LP, John Legend embarks on a world tour with special guest appearance from Raphael Saadiq.
John Legend is eager to promote his upcoming third major studio album entitled "Evolver" by hitting the road with Raphael Saadiq for a world tour. Kicking off on November 19 in Minneapolis, the roadshow will include at least thirteen fixed dates before wrapped up on December 13 in North Carolina.
Meanwhile, speaking of his upcoming effort, Legend says that the album is different from the ones that he previously recorded. "It's a lot of love and relationship songs, as people probably would expect from me," he explains about the album theme.
Furthermore, expected to hit the market on October 28, his record will be released under the courtesy of GOOD Music and Columbia Records. Guest artists on the album include Kanye West, Brandy, Estelle, and Andre Benjamin aka Andre 3000 from OutKast who has helped Legend in his lead single, "Green Light".
John Legend's confirmed tour dates:
- November 19 - Northrop Auditorium in Minneapolis
- November 20 - Chicago Theatre in Chicago
- November 24 - Wharton Center For Performing Arts in E. Lansing, Michigan
- November 26 - Masonic Temple Theatre in Detroit
- November 28 - Roy Thompson Hall in Toronto
- November 29 & December 1 - Wellmont Theatre in Montclair, New Jersey
- December 2 - Orpheum Theatre in Boston
- December 5 - Tower Theater in Philadelphia
- December 8 - Lyric Theatre in Baltimore
- December 9 - Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.
- December 10 - Peace Center in Greenville, South California
- December 12 - Ovens Auditorium in Charlotte, North California
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Did the Romney campaign charge reporters $812 for lunch?
One reason I'm glad the presidential campaign is over is that I don't have to go through the tedious process of covering presidential candidate visits, which typically involve spending three to five hours to cover a standard 20-minute stump speech with no news.
Worse than that is having to follow a candidate for a long stretch, which involves an exhausting travel routine and far more wasted time covering the same 20-minute speech again and again.
Still worse is doing that and being ripped off by the candidate you're covering.
According to the website Buzzfeed, nine news organizations, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post have written the Mitt Romney campaign complaining about excessive charges for meals and travel during the campaign.
The letter cites $812 charged for a meal and a "holding space" for the media to wait for the next event on October 18th. And it says the organizations were charged $745 per reporter for a lavish vice-presidential debate watching party that nobody asked for. There are other examples.
The organizations said it was "clear to all present that the campaign's paid staff frequently consumed the food and drinks ostensibly produced for the media."
Buzzfeed quotes one unnamed campaign source as saying the bills were not artificially inflated, but rather the product of a generally mismanaged campaign.
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Chief Rabbi as mythical hero
It was the celebrated historian A. J. P. Taylor who taught me a fundamental truth about my profession. Commenting more or less positively on a research seminar presentation I'd given, he remarked: "Remember, Geoffrey, that the historian's job is to destroy myth. Of course, it is far better to prevent myth in the first place."
It is in this spirit - prevention being better than cure - that I offer some thoughts triggered by the encomia that greeted the announcement that Lord Sacks is to retire as Chief Rabbi at his contractual retirement age in 2013.
No sooner had this news been broadcast than the accolades began their predictable fall from the predictable composers of shmaltz-laden, myth-ridden nonsense. But the top myth-making prize must go to the London Jewish News.
In its editorial of December 16, the JN made a number of astounding comments on Rabbi Sacks's career, as follows:
1) "He has called for a Judaism that unites everyone from Stamford Hill chasids to twice-a-year shulgoers."
Jewish News's editorial insulted its readers' intelligence
It is certainly true that he began that way. In 1993, he published a book - One People? - which even I was constrained to describe as "a brilliantly written exposition" of the fault-lines separating Jew from Jew in the post-Holocaust world. To heal these divisions, Sacks urged the promotion of a Judaism that was inclusive rather than exclusive, and which spoke of other Jews in no language except "the language of love and respect."
What actually happened was that the retiring Chief Rabbi used the columns of the sectarian Jewish Tribune to launch a spite-laden attack on adherents of the Masorti movement, whom he publicly condemned for having "severed their links with the faith of their ancestors".
2) "He will surely be remembered as the Chief Rabbi who tackled religious diversity within our community more dynamically than any before him."
It is certainly true that he began that way. In January 1993, a fanfare of publicity attended the launch of Jewish Continuity, which even I was constrained to describe as "the most ambitious educational project ever undertaken by Anglo-Jewry."
What actually happened was that, two years later, Jewish Continuity was as dead as the dodo, its demise assured by its rabbinical chief's hasty retreat from the promise to fund projects irrespective of their precise denominational origins.
As soon as Jewish Continuity's "allocations board" began to approve non-Orthodox applications, there was uproar from the religious right. But instead of preaching "love and respect", Rabbi Sacks withdrew from the initiative, thus permitting his unfortunate brainchild to be swallowed up within the UJIA in 1997, specially created for the purpose of concealing a palpable defeat within a wholly spurious victory. Indeed it is difficult to disagree with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach who, last month in the Jerusalem Post, argued that, "with the notable exception of Limmud, which started as an independent, grassroots initiative, not a single new idea for Jewry has come out of Britain in the 20-plus years that Sacks has presided over it."
3) "He has striven to re-package Judaism as a faith that both embraces change and adapts to it, without ever compromising its fundamental truths."
It is certainly true that he began that way. As Chief Rabbi, he entered upon his ministry as a modernist, intent on promoting an Orthodoxy that embraced modernity as a divine gift. He even went so far as to publish a volume, The Dignity of Difference, in which he argued that Judaism - his Orthodox Judaism - did not have a monopoly of truth and could learn from other faiths. What actually happened was that, in order to placate the ultras, he rewrote the book and in so doing consigned as heresy dogma that he had previously promoted as orthodoxy.
4) "Lord Sacks has used his privileged position to unite the many flavours of our faith."
Really? The JN should try telling that to the family of Hugo Gryn, whom Sacks praised in public but delighted in excoriating in private. The JN should try telling that to the Sagal and Lightman families, whose children Sacks did his best to exclude from schools under his religious authority.
Every news outlet has a bias. But what the Jewish News has done is to voice a series of wild opinions that have no factual basis. Its December 16 editorial was not merely an insult to the intelligence of its readers. It was an affront to the media profession, a disservice to British Jewry and a piece of self-serving fiction that bears comparison with the preposterous narratives that emanate daily from the cheer-leading automatons of Pyongyang.
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State of Vermont Only Allows 1,000 Patients to Use Medical Marijuana Dispensaries
State of Vermont pits medical marijuana patients
against the federal government because the
state dispensary law only allows 1,000 patients
to participate ,and that is a violation of the
federal ADA, but the state believes the federal ADA
does not apply to medical marijuana patients.
Is the State of Vermont unlawfully bullying
medical marijuana patients
by only allowing 1,000 of them
to participate in using the
new medical marijuana dispensaries in Vermont?
Isn't it a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act
to only allow 1,000 severely ill people
to participate in a state authorized facility?
Just because the state authorized facilities
are medical marijuana dispensaries, does that
negate the patients' protection under the ADA?
No severly disabled person would even consider having to bribe
State Police employees acting on behalf of
the State of Vermont (the ones who make the decision
to issue medical marijuana cards even though they aren't doctors
and the doctor has "prescribed" it), but for the fact that the new law of the
State of Vermont only allows 1,000 persons to use a medical
marijuana dispensary at any one time.
No. 65. An act relating to registering four nonprofit organizations to dispense
marijuana for symptom relief. (S.17)
It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Vermont:
Sec. 1. 18 V.S.A. chapter 86, subchapter 2 is amended to read:
Subchapter 2. Marijuana for Medical Symptom Use by Persons with Severe Illness
Section 4472. Definitions.....
Section 4474f. Dispensary Application, Approval, and Registration(a)(1)
(page 25 of 39) (H) (2) (b) The total statewide number of registered patients who have designated a
dispensary shall not exceed 1,000 at any one time.
The Americans with Disabilities Act, Title III Technical Assistance Manual
Covering Public Accomodations and Commercial Facilities
November 1993
U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section
III-2.1000 General. Title III of the ADA prohibits discrimination against any
"qualified individual with a disability."
If there become 1001 cancer patients in Vermont, then you cannot
discriminate against the most recent one (1) because the State of Vermont
decided to allow only 1000 patients to have medical marijuana cards.
III-3.6000 Retaliation or coercion. Individuals who exercise their rights under
the ADA, or assist others in exercising their rights, are protected from retaliation.
III-8.1000 General. The ADA establishes two avenues for enforcement of the
requirements of title III:
(1) Private suits by individuals who are being subjected to discrimination or who have
reasonable grounds for believing that they are about to be subjected to discrimination.;
(2) Suits by the Department of Justice, whenever it has reasonable cause to believe
that there is a pattern or practice of discrimination, or discrimination that raises an
issue of general public importance. The Department will investigate complaints and
conduct compliance reviews of covered entitites.
Therefore, not only do the medical marijuana dispensaries violate federal
marijuana laws,
but they violate the ADA if only 1,000 persons in Vermont are allowed
to have medical marijuana cards.
The Department of Justice can intervene in any civil action under the ADA that any disabled
person files if the State of Vermont denies them a medical marijuana card on the
basis of discrimination that they will only allow 1,000 people to have
a medical marijuana card,
which discriminates against all other disabled persons
who would otherwise qualify for a medical marijuana card in Vermont.
The Americans with Disabilities Act, Title II Technical Assistance Manual
Covering State and Local Government Programs and Services
November 1993, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section
II-3.7100 Contracting. A public entity may not discriminate on the basis of disability in
contracting for the purchase of goods and services.
(the "goods" being marijuana, and the "services" being the cultivation and growing
of marijuana in the medical marijuana dispensary business licensed by the State of Vermont.)
Again, you can't limit the number of otherwise qualified disabled persons to receive
a medical marijuana card in Vermont.
II-2.1000 General. Title II of the ADA prohibits discrimination against any "qualified
individual with a disability."
etc., I could go on all day browsing these two technical assistance manuals and
picking out sections that would be violated
if the State of Vermont discriminates
agains qualified individuals who would otherwise be eligible
for a medical marijuana card
if the State of Vermont did not put a "cap" on the limit of patients to only
allowing 1,000 persons medical marijuana cards.
: All Vermont State Marijuana
Laws and Medical Marijuana Laws should be REPEALED.
Repeal, repeal, repeal.
Because there are so many Federal marijuana laws that it is a fraudulent
"double billing" against taxpayers to waste Vermont State tax dollars hounding
and stalking people for marijuana when you could simply leave it all up to the
Search for marijuana laws, spell it two ways, marijuana with a j and marijuana with an h.
The federal government has cleverly concealed how many federal marijuana laws there
actually are by publishing some laws under one spelling and some under another.
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Thursday Feb 2nd, 2012 3:58 PM
The new medical marijuana law only allows four
non-profits to operate at any time growing and
dispensing medical marijuana in Vermont. They
are required to pay the State of Vermont $30,000. a year for the
privilege of running a non-profit medical marijuana business.
Excuse me, but I'm a little leery of this. It runs against
the grain of how I think of a non-profit.
Is a $30,000.00 annual fee charged to a non-profit agency
just for the privilege of running their non-profit business,
an act of embezzlement by the State of Vermont?
No. 65. An Act relating to registering four nonprofit organizations to
dispense marijuana for symptom relief.
pg. 26 of 29, Section 4484f.
Dispensary Application, Approval, and Registration
(c) Each application for a dispensary registration certificate shall include all
of the following:
(1) A nonrefundable application fee in the amount of
$2,500. paid to the department of public safety...
pg. 28 of 29
(g) After a dispensary is approved
but before it begins operations,
it shall submit the following to the department of public safety:...
(4) A registration fee of $20,000.00 for the first year of operation,
and an
annual fee of $30,000.00 in subsequent years.
Pg. 38 of 39, Sec. 3a. Appropriation.
The amount of $108,500.00
is appropriated from the registry fee fund in fiscal year 2012
to the department of public safety for the performance of the
department's responsibilities under this act.
This doesn't even add up. If four Non-Profit agencies pay the State of Vermont $20,000.00 each the first year, then that equal $80,000.00
They also already paid $2,500. each application fee for a total of $10,000.00
for the four of them; and that adds up to $90,000.00
So, the State of Vermont seems to be planning on accepting enough application fees, and not making any decisions on the applications, until
they get up to a total of $108,500.00 with all the $2,500. application fees.
In other words, it looks like the State of Vermont is seriously and willfully and intentionally baiting the hook for suckers.


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Remembering Nancy Lanza, The Sandy Hook Shooter's Mother
The first person that Adam Lanza, the 20-year-old who murdered 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary, killed on December 14, 2012, was his own mother. She was murdered in her pajamas, lying her in bed, with four bullets to the head. The New Yorker has a profile of Adam's father, Peter Lanza, in their most recent issue. Written by Andrew Solomon, it is the first time that Peter Lanza has ever spoken to the press about his son's crimes. However, what stuck out to me most was not Peter unfathomable trauma or even Adam's cornucopia of possible illnesses — depression? OCD? schizophrenia? insanity? — but instead Adam's mother and Peter's ex-wife, Nancy Lanza.
In the mid-2000s, a Yale psychiatry nurse specialist named Kathleen Koenig met with Adam after a time period in which he had started and then abruptly stopped using the antidepressant Lexapro, due to negative side effects. Throughout his teens, The New Yorker describes, Adam would frequently have "meltdowns" and cry alone, sometimes for hours at a time, behind a locked door. Nurse Koenig wrote that she implored Adam to take medication: "I told him he's living in a box right now, and the box will only get smaller over time if he doesn't get some treatment."
Reading that, it seems to me that Nancy Lanza was also living in a box that was only getting smaller if Adam didn't get treatment.
Peter Lanza described Adam as a child who was first "weird," then diagnosed with sensory-integration disorder as a kid and then Aspgerger's (on the autism spectrum) at age 13, and then veering off someplace deeper and darker through the next seven years. He had his parents' concern and support throughout his entire life, but Peter himself admitted he spent the majority of his time working at his job as a successful vice president for a subsidiary of General Electric. Both before the divorce and after, it was Nancy Lanza who primarily cared for Adam.
This was not necessarily by her choice. In the years before Sandy Hook, Adam Lanza cut himself off from Peter, apparently because he was angry at his dad for discouraging him to go to community college. Eventually, Adam distanced himself from his older brother, Ryan, as well, despite the fact that Ryan tried to reach out to Adam repeatedly. Peter Lanza also tried to reach out to his son about spending time together, although Adam's condition was so fragile that both Peter and Nancy were concerned about rocking the boat. Almost by default, the only family member Adam communicated with was his mother. Peter's explanation for this dynamic is telling: "I think he saw that he could control her more than he could control me." Writes Solomon, "Peter and [his new wife Shelley] now suspect that Adam deliberately shut them out to hide his psychological decay."
Here is how The New Yorker described Nancy and Adam's life together:
[Psychiatrist Dr. Robert] King noted evidence of obsessive-compulsive disorder, which often accompanies autism. Adam refused to touch metal objects such as doorknobs and didn't like his mother to touch them, either, because he feared contamination. "Adam imposes many strictures, which are increasingly onerous for mother," King wrote. "He disapproves if mother leans on anything in the house because it is 'improper.' … He is also intolerant if mother brushes by his chair and objected to her new high heel boots, because they were 'too loud.' … If mother walks in front of him in the kitchen, he would insist she redo it." King was concerned that Adam's parents seemed to worry primarily about his schooling, and said that it was more urgent to address "how to accommodate Adam's severe social disabilities in a way that would permit him to be around peers." King saw "significant risk to Adam in creating, even with the best of intentions, a prosthetic environment which spares him having to encounter other students or to work to overcome his social difficulties." And he concluded that Nancy was "almost becoming a prisoner in her own house."
Elsewhere in the piece, Andrew Solomon writes even more evocatively that Nancy Lanza appeared to have walled herself in with a mentally ill child and very little outside support:
All parenting involves choosing between the day (why have another argument at dinner?) and the years (the child must learn to eat vegetables). Nancy's error seems to have been that she always focused on the day, in a ceaseless quest to keep peace in the home she shared with the hypersensitive, controlling, increasingly hostile stranger who was her son. She thought that she could keep the years at bay by making each day as good as possible, but her willingness to indulge his isolation may well have exacerbated the problems it was intended to ameliorate.
It saddens me that the entire Lanza family dealt with such serious mental illness their whole lives. It saddens me that Nancy Lanza shouldered most of the burden for caring for her mentally ill son, only to be murdered by him in her own home. And it saddens me in particular that so many people direct blame at Nancy for Adam's murder spree, as if she, herself, were responsible for it. On the contrary, her life sounds as if it became very, very small because of her son. It seems less like a "life" and more like a profound state of being stuck.
I am not trying to defend the Lanza family's treatment or lack thereof towards their son; I am, though, defending Nancy Lanza against the charge that she did "nothing." It may feel rational to blame her, because she gave her son access to so many guns. But as The New Yorker article explains, shooting at the gun range was an activity that Adam, who was largely uninterested in socializing, was willing to do with his family. Adam's interest in killing and mass murders was a "private obsession … there were still no outward signs of violent tendencies." Nancy Lanza slept with her bedroom (where she was eventually murdered by her son) unlocked, Peter said; she also never told her friends or family members that she was physically afraid of Adam. Though they owned guns and went to the shooting range, it does not sound to me like either Adam or Nancy were "gun nuts," as I've read both of them described.
Fundamentally, it seems that Nancy Lanza felt profound shame and denial about the reality of her life. Peter Lanza told The New Yorker that his ex-wife probably didn't seek more help for Adam and for herself as a matter of pride. "She wanted everyone to think everything was okay," he told the magazine.
Of course as parents, both the Lanzas had a responsibility to their child and society at large that they should have prioritized over their own feelings of shame. But I don't think their failing in this regard is too extraordinary. As someone whose family is veritably pickled with mental illness and addiction, it is difficult for me to condemn another person for being in denial. Life amongst the mentally ill is being presented by a variety of shitty choices and having to figure out which one is the least shitty. So, to me, the ultimate responsibility for how Adam Lanza turned into a person who murders 1st graders is not either parent. The ultimate responsibility falls on our society, which sees mental illness as so shameful that it can make it difficult for kids like Adam and their parents, particularly Nancy, to get the help they need.
Twenty-seven people died by Adam Lanza's hands that day. I wish more people didn't ignore that his long-suffering mother was one of them.
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