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Topic: The War on Drugs (Read 188648 times)
Power User
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Re: The War on Drugs
Reply #200 on:
June 03, 2011, 09:56:40 AM »
The war on cancer is not kicking in people's doors.
Power User
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Re: The War on Drugs
Reply #201 on:
June 03, 2011, 09:57:40 AM »
Quote from: Crafty_Dog on June 03, 2011, 09:56:40 AM
The war on cancer is not kicking in people's doors.
Search warrants are served on more than just drug crimes.
Power User
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Re: The War on Drugs
Reply #202 on:
June 03, 2011, 10:22:31 AM »
So? What's your point?
You used the War on Cancer, and I distinguished its applicability to the question presented here. Your answer is a non-sequitor.
Power User
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Re: The War on Drugs
Reply #203 on:
June 03, 2011, 10:27:04 AM »
If you are opposed to search warrants, they happen for all sorts of investigations, not just drugs.
Power User
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Re: The War on Drugs
Reply #204 on:
June 03, 2011, 11:00:14 AM »
C'mon GM, don't be silly. We both know I am not opposed to all search warrants. I am noting though that a cost of the WOD is a lot of doors getting kicked in, exigently or otherwise
. This something all good Americans believe should be minimized, yes?
Re: The War on Drugs
Reply #205 on:
June 03, 2011, 11:16:25 AM »
Again, I'm trying to get your criteria you'd use to judge any law enforcement policy's effectiveness.
If you deem the WOD a failure, please explain how the other "wars" are or are not a failure. Didn't Nixon also declare a war on cancer? We still have cancer, right?
Hmm, I think I understand. You are conceding the point that the WOD has failed by any rational standard, but it's a double secret concession, and now want to move on to a thesis that you won't state aloud 'cause it's silly, namely that a failed policy can't be abandoned despite it's failure unless it's failure is fully defined, not counting the trillion dollars, half million incarcerated, millions arrested, enriched enemies, damage done to our founding values, families ripped apart, law enforcement bribed and subverted and on and on and on.
You are sounding like others I won't bother naming; the contortions you have embraced to avoid speaking to the thesis under discussion speaks for itself.
BTW, there has been progress made in the war on cancer. Has there been progress made in the WOD, or does using the term "war" requires us to keep fighting wars we've lost by any rational standard?
Power User
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Re: The War on Drugs
Reply #206 on:
June 03, 2011, 02:04:37 PM »
If someone wants to give meth to a young child, should society attempt to prevent/stigmatize/punish such conduct?
Should we just shrug our shoulders and say it's none of our business?
Power User
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Re: The War on Drugs
Reply #207 on:
June 03, 2011, 07:52:44 PM »
What is the point of speaking to us as if we agree with something which we don't?
Oy vey.
Power User
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Re: The War on Drugs
Reply #208 on:
June 03, 2011, 08:02:11 PM »
Just trying to clarify the jello-like positions here. Simple questions.
Power User
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Re: The War on Drugs
Reply #209 on:
June 03, 2011, 08:08:11 PM »
What does the end of the "war on drugs" look like? Everything uncontrolled? Oxycontin machines next to gumball machines? Cocaine back in coke?
Power User
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Re: The War on Drugs
Reply #210 on:
June 04, 2011, 05:57:06 AM »
The first step is to agree to go in that direction and as a society work out a consensus.
I'm guessing that it would look something like this:
Pot: Legal, but regulated. Home use OK, OK at clubs. bars-- just like alchohol. Just like alcohol, no puffing in public places. No access for children. I'd be perfectly comfortable with no mass advertising, Home grown OK. Stores like the clinics here in LA? Psylocybin, peyote, and other psychedlics: Home grown OK, available at clinics. Addictive substances (e.g. heroin and other substances which by-pass free will) Decriminalized, but available through clinics administered by some sort of nurse practitioner or some sort of trained, certified person on site?
Just some initial thoughts.
Power User
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Re: The War on Drugs
Reply #211 on:
June 05, 2011, 05:15:41 PM »
"Pot: Legal, but regulated."
Regulated by whom?
"Psylocybin, peyote, and other psychedlics: Home grown OK, available at clinics."
How does one get a prescription or refferal to grow or purchase such things at clincs?
"Addictive substances (e.g. heroin and other substances which by-pass free will) Decriminalized, but available through clinics administered by some sort of nurse practitioner or some sort of trained, certified person on site?"
Given the litigation case law related to cigarettes and the potential for malpractice accusations, can you see many medical professionals willing to prescribe crack or meth?
Power User
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Re: The War on Drugs
Reply #212 on:
June 05, 2011, 06:49:24 PM »
Regulated by whom? State? County? City?
How to get a prescription/referral? Liability? Law defines standards (e.g age, no liability for provider, etc)
Really, this is a matter for discussion by our elected officials, so I'm not going to get into all the details. I've given a rough outline of what occurs to me off the top of my head to refute your imputations of meth to children and other childish arguments.
Power User
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Re: The War on Drugs
Reply #213 on:
June 05, 2011, 06:51:52 PM »
"Really, this is a matter for discussion by our elected officials, so I'm not going to get into all the details. I've given a rough outline of what occurs to me off the top of my head to refute your imputations of meth to children and other childish arguments."
So, even under your plan, someone who sold meth to children would face having law enforcement serve a search warrant on his home and arrest him for dealing drugs?
Power User
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A win for legalization?
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June 05, 2011, 07:07:05 PM »
A Colorado doctor under fire for recommending marijuana to a pregnant woman says he provided the patient with appropriate care and disputes that pregnancy and medical marijuana don't mix.
Dr. Manuel Aquino, who could lose his medical license over the recommendation in January, also says the woman's behavior was "intentional, reckless or grossly negligent" in not telling him during the exam that she was pregnant. He also accuses the Colorado Medical Board of taking too long to bring a case against him and says new laws requiring a fuller relationship between doctors recommending marijuana and patients seeking it were not in place when he made the recommendation.
"The charges herein do not allege conduct below the standard of care," Aquino states in his defense.
Aquino's response comes in a document filed late Wednesday in the administrative case against him. In that case, the Colorado Medical Board is seeking to strip his license, which would make him the first doctor punished for substandard care in making a marijuana recommendation.
The medical board accuses Aquino of writing the recommendation for the woman, who was six months pregnant, after a 3-minute visit in which he didn't perform a physical exam, didn't review her medical history and didn't ask whether she was pregnant.
Aquino, though, says new regulations requiring him to have a "bona-fide" relationship with marijuana-seeking patients weren't in place in January. He also denied a statement contained in the medical board's complaint that "pregnancy is a contraindication for the use of medical marijuana."
Aquino's attorney, Sheila Meer, has declined to comment. The case is scheduled for a hearing in March.
News of Aquino's prosecution has spurred comments on online cannabis message boards debating whether marijuana use during pregnancy is harmful. Medical research hasn't been unanimously conclusive on the subject, though several studies suggest prenatal marijuana exposure can have negative consequences for children.
A 2009 article in the European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience noted that numerous studies have shown marijuana use during pregnancy can result in low birth weight and children with hyperactivity, and short-term memory and impulse-control problems.
"Recent evidence suggests that perinatal (marijuana) exposure alters fundamental developmental processes," the study's authors wrote.
Read more: Colorado doctor defends recommending marijuana to a pregnant patient - The Denver Post
Power User
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Re: The War on Drugs
Reply #215 on:
June 05, 2011, 09:25:04 PM »
"So, even under your plan, someone who sold meth to children would face having law enforcement serve a search warrant on his home and arrest him for dealing drugs?"
Give this man a cigar for reading comprehension!
Power User
Posts: 15533
Re: The War on Drugs
Reply #216 on:
June 05, 2011, 09:30:44 PM »
So, the war on drugs continues?
Power User
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Re: The War on Drugs
Reply #217 on:
June 05, 2011, 10:54:35 PM »
""Pot: Legal, but regulated." Regulated by whom?"
Decriminalization would offer more freedom than a complete, legal government takeover.
"Recent evidence suggests that perinatal (marijuana) exposure alters fundamental developmental processes,"
GM, There isn't a human being developing inside a pregnant woman. This is settled law. Saying otherwise is 'crazy talk'.
If there was, and we systematically killed 40 million of them, it would be like a ... modern day holocaust. And we know it isn't.
Power User
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Re: The War on Drugs
Reply #218 on:
June 05, 2011, 11:40:11 PM »
But funny enough Doug, it would be unethical and possibly criminal to run a study on pregnant mothers, exposing some to THC in a double blind study to determine exactly the damage done to a developing fetus. However, aborting those fetuses is like some sort of holy sacriment that cannot be questioned. Weird how that works.
Power User
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Re: The War on Drugs
Reply #219 on:
June 06, 2011, 09:32:21 AM »
Yes, like terrorists. You can shoot them but not question them for long periods.
Fetal alcohol syndrome and damage from cigarette smoke are other areas of impossibility because they falsely assume there is a human being growing and developing inside the mother.
'Holy sacrament' is the truth. It is the one area where we accept putting a religion (atheism) ahead of the discoveries of science and ultrasound photography. If we admitted that one of God's creatures was in there we could at least weight the merits of affording it reasonable protection from alcohol and drugs.
Power User
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WSJ: Schutz and Volcker
Reply #220 on:
June 12, 2011, 06:41:35 AM »
By GEORGE P. SHULTZ And PAUL A. VOLCKER
"The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world."
That is the opening sentence of a report issued last week by the Global Commission on Drug Policy. Both of us have signed on to this report. Why?
(Drug use in the U.S. is no lower than in countries with different approaches.)
We believe that drug addiction is harmful to individuals, impairs health and has adverse societal effects. So we want an effective program to deal with this problem.
The question is: What is the best way to go about it? For 40 years now, our nation's approach has been to criminalize the entire process of producing, transporting, selling and using drugs, with the exception of tobacco and alcohol. Our judgment, shared by other members of the commission, is that this approach has not worked, just as our national experiment with the prohibition of alcohol failed. Drugs are still readily available, and crime rates remain high. But drug use in the U.S. is no lower than, and sometimes surpasses, drug use in countries with very different approaches to the problem.
At the same time, the costs of the drug war have become astronomical. Inmates arrested for consuming drugs and for possessing small quantities of them now crowd our prisons, where too often they learn how to become real criminals. The dollar costs are huge, but they pale in comparison to the lives being lost in our neighborhoods and throughout the world. The number of drug-related casualties in Mexico is on the same order as the number of U.S. lives lost in the Vietnam and Korean wars.
Throughout our hemisphere, governance and economic development have suffered because of drugs. It is no accident that the initiative for this global commission came from former presidents of Latin American nations. These countries, sometimes with American support, have made strong efforts to reduce drug supplies. But they have increasingly concluded that drug policies in the U.S. are making it more difficult for their people to enjoy security and prosperity.
The problem starts with the demand for drugs. As Milton Friedman put it forcibly over 20 years ago in the pages of this paper: "It is demand that must operate through repressed and illegal channels. Illegality creates obscene profits that finance the murderous tactics of the drug lords; illegality leads to the corruption of law enforcement officials."
We do not support the simple legalization of all drugs. What we do advocate is an open and honest debate on the subject. We want to find our way to a less costly and more effective method of discouraging drug use, cutting down the power of organized crime, providing better treatment and minimizing negative societal effects.
Other countries that have tried different approaches include Britain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Portugal and Australia. What can we learn from these varied experiences, some more successful than others? What can we learn from our own experience in reducing sharply the smoking of cigarettes or in the handling of alcohol after the end of Prohibition?
Simple legalization is by no means the only or safest approach. One possibility is to decriminalize the individual use of drugs while maintaining laws against supplying them, thus allowing law-enforcement efforts to focus on the drug peddlers. Some of the money that is saved can be spent on treatment centers, which drug users are more likely to seek out if doing so does not expose them to the risk of arrest.
The situation that confronts us today is dangerous. After 40 years of concentrating on one approach that has been unsuccessful, we should be willing to take a look at other ways of working to solve this pressing problem. As the global commission concludes: "Break the taboo on debate and reform. The time for action is now."
Mr. Shultz, former U.S. secretary of state under President Reagan, is a distinguished fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Mr. Volcker, former chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, is professor emeritus of international economic policy at Princeton University.
The Most Patriotic Thing He Can Do
Reply #221 on:
June 15, 2011, 02:27:31 PM »
Well said:
Last Edit: June 17, 2011, 07:00:31 AM by Body-by-Guinness
Power User
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Good news! Medical marijuana serves as front for organized crime
Reply #222 on:
June 19, 2011, 07:04:56 PM »
Officials Say Drug Raids Found Clubs Were a Front
By DEAN E. MURPHY
Published: June 24, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO, June 23 - Federal authorities said Thursday that they had cracked the biggest case ever involving the use of medical marijuana dispensaries in California as a cover for international drug dealing and money laundering, which they said extended to Canada and countries in Asia.
"This organization had been operating for over four years," Javier F. Peña, the special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration in San Francisco, said at a news conference. "It is now dismantled."
In court documents unsealed here, the federal authorities accused a 33-year-old San Francisco man, Vince Ming Wan, of leading a multimillion-dollar operation in the trafficking of marijuana and Ecstasy that used three medical marijuana clubs in the city as a front.
Federally Mandated Weakness Leaving the Body
Reply #223 on:
June 20, 2011, 12:03:37 PM »
Back in my telephone hotline days there were several pharmacologists who worked the phones, too. Use to have interesting conversations with them about the subjective nature or many prescription drugs, with one man's analgesic being another's psychoactive experience. Because these men of science couldn't get inside a patient's head they had little they could measure to determine if a given substance was being used prescriptively on recreationally. Well good news, not the government is gonna try to work it out for us:
The Government's Top Minds Are Working Hard to Make Painkillers 'Tightly Regulated Yet Easily Available'
Jacob Sullum | June 15, 2011
Yesterday I noted a New York Times profile of Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, focusing on her simplistic, reductionist view of addiction. I should have mentioned that she and her amanuensis at the Times, Abigail Zuger, also had some woefully misguided things to say about the conflict between drug control and pain control:
Prescription drugs, she continued, have a double life: They are lifesaving yet every bit as dangerous as banned substances. "The challenges we face are much more complex," Dr. Volkow said, "because we need to address the needs of patients in pain, while protecting those at risk for substance use disorders."
In other words, these drugs must be somehow legal and illegal, encouraged yet discouraged, tightly regulated yet easily available.
How is that possible? It isn't. Because pain cannot be objectively verified, there is an unavoidable tradeoff between providing adequate treatment and preventing people from getting high. Even if you think the latter goal is a legitimate function of government, protecting one group of people from their own bad choices simply cannot justify forcing another group of people to live (or die) with horrible pain. Morally, this is a no-brainer: It is better to let 10 addicts trick doctors into prescribing them narcotics than to let one legitimate patient suffer needlessly.
That is not how the government, as channeled by Zuger, sees it:
Treating people with the prescription drug problems is particularly challenging, because, of course, for these particular drugs, physicians are the nation's pushers.
The number of prescriptions written for potentially addictive pain medications has soared in the last decade, reaching more than 200 million in 2010, Dr. Volkow said. Surveys asking teenagers where they get pills find that relatively few buy from strangers. Many have their own prescriptions, often from dental work. Even more are given pills by friends and relatives, presumably out of other legitimate prescriptions.
Doctors may be flooding the country with narcotics, but most have never learned much about pain control. Dr. Volkow said that some data suggests that medical schools devote considerably less time to the subject than veterinary schools do. The Obama administration addressed exactly this deficiency in April with a call for doctors to undergo special training before being allowed to prescribe some of the most addictive painkillers.
"Students and residents have gotten the message that pain is undertreated," said Dr. Mitchell H. Katz, an internist who directs the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. "So they just prescribe higher and higher doses."
The official narrative that emerges from the Times article goes like this: Doctors used to be unnecessarily reluctant to prescribe opioids, but now they are erring in the other direction. Therefore we need to crack down on prescriptions, because too many people are using these drugs for nonmedical reasons. But such a crackdown inevitably hurts people in pain, because it encourages doctors to distrust their patients.
In an April column, I argued that the Obama administration's anti-diversion recommendations would limit access to pain treatment. More on pain treatment here.
Power User
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Re: The War on Drugs
Reply #224 on:
June 20, 2011, 12:08:51 PM »
What I don't understand is the restriction on narcs for terminal patients. It's one thing to closely monitor potentially addictive meds for someone recovering from knee surgery, something else for someone in end stage cancer.
Power User
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Re: The War on Drugs
Reply #225 on:
June 20, 2011, 03:23:44 PM »
Amen to that. The arrogance of hubris is mind-boggling.
Re: The War on Drugs
Reply #226 on:
June 21, 2011, 11:10:16 AM »
Nanny state/Puritanism run amok at its finest.
Power User
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The Meth Epidemic
Reply #227 on:
June 22, 2011, 11:00:08 PM »
Very compelling TV. Watch it all.
Power User
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Reply #228 on:
July 01, 2011, 11:37:55 AM »
Obama Administration Overrides 2009 Ogden Memo, Declares Open Season on Pot Shops in States Where Medical Marijuana Is Legal
Weird timing. Med marijuana users are most likely Obama voters, so why turn on them now?
Power User
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Mexico's Vicente Fox
Reply #229 on:
July 29, 2011, 07:55:49 AM »
I saw Vicente Fox, former president of Mexico (and first non PRI president ever IIRC!) on Piers Morgan last night. He is completely for ending the War on Drugs and near complete legalization.
Power User
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Re: Mexico's Vicente Fox
Reply #230 on:
July 29, 2011, 08:04:48 AM »
Quote from: Crafty_Dog on July 29, 2011, 07:55:49 AM
I saw Vicente Fox, former president of Mexico (and first non PRI president ever IIRC!) on Piers Morgan last night. He is completely for ending the War on Drugs and near complete legalization.
I bet he's for the end of the war on illegal immigration too.
Power User
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Ron Paul on WoD
Reply #231 on:
August 29, 2011, 08:36:09 PM »
Power User
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Re: The War on Drugs
Reply #232 on:
August 29, 2011, 10:34:55 PM »
Quote from: Crafty_Dog on July 29, 2011, 07:55:49 AM
I saw Vicente Fox, former president of Mexico (and first non PRI president ever IIRC!) on Piers Morgan last night. He is completely for ending the War on Drugs and near complete legalization.
Picking up on my risk/benefit analysis from Homeland Security, I understand President Vicente Fox. Mexico is spending billions of dollars to fight drugs. Worse, thousands of innocent citizens are dying. And why? Because America seems to have an insatiable appetite for drugs. Mexico doesn't have a "drug problem"; America does. So why is Mexico fighting and funding "our" war on drugs is the question I'm sure they are asking themselves.
From Mexico's perspective, why not simply end the war on drugs in Mexico; it will save pesos and more important, Mexican lives. Imagine Mexico without nearly as much drug violence and the money and police/army used to combat it saved, instead being used for productive purposes. Mexico is definitely better off. Not much down side if you think about it. I'ld be curious to see what America's response would be.
Power User
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The Power of Persuasion
Reply #233 on:
September 21, 2011, 04:09:33 PM »
instead of the persuasion of power:
Power User
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Marijuana Raises Risk of Fatal Car Crash
Reply #234 on:
September 27, 2011, 07:34:59 AM »
Marijuana Raises Risk of Fatal Car Crash
French Study Shows Pot Smokers More Likely to Be Responsible for Deadly Accident
WebMD Health News
Dec. 1, 2005 - People who drive after using marijuana are nearly twice as likely to be involved in a fatal car crash.
French researchers studied all drivers involved in fatal car crashes over a two-year period and found 7% tested positive for marijuana, including nearly 3% who tested positive for a combination of marijuana and alcohol.
Although marijuana's share of fatal crashes is much lower than those attributed to alcohol, researchers say the results show that marijuana use, even in low doses, significantly increases the risk of fatal car accidents.
More Pot, More Deaths
In the study, published in the medical journal BMJ, researchers reviewed information on 10,748 drivers who were involved in fatal car crashes and took required tests for drugs and alcohol.
Twice as many drivers involved in fatal car accidents tested positive for marijuana compared with a group of other drivers.
Researchers say about 2.5% of the fatal crashes were attributable to marijuana compared with nearly 29% attributable to alcohol.
The study also showed that drivers who tested positive for marijuana were more than three times as likely to be responsible for the fatal car crash. Researchers say the likelihood of being at fault increased as the blood concentration of marijuana increased.
Power User
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Re: The War on Drugs
Reply #235 on:
September 27, 2011, 09:09:27 AM »
Therefor if people smoke marijuana instead of drinking alchohol, there would be less car crashes, yes?
Power User
Posts: 9483
97.5% of fatal crash drivers had no trace of the most commonly used illegal drug
Reply #236 on:
September 27, 2011, 11:23:00 AM »
"Researchers say about 2.5% of the fatal crashes were attributable to marijuana compared with nearly 29% attributable to alcohol."
Less than 1/10th the effect of alcohol is implied, even the low number of 2.5% involves only crashes in question enough to order the test; the total may be lower yet. They mix results of trace levels with intoxicating levels. They mix correlation with causation. No mention that I saw of testing for and removing other factors, for example the drivers in fatal crashes who test positive for marijuana may have been more likely to have taken something else as well. No mention of testing for control the drivers who didn't cause fatal crashes.
Power User
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Re: The War on Drugs
Reply #237 on:
September 27, 2011, 11:44:37 AM »
I've had a number of marijuana smokers insist that driving while high is safer than driving drunk. Also, for the "medical marijuana" user, how does one measure impairment?
Power User
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Re: The War on Drugs
Reply #238 on:
September 27, 2011, 11:48:49 AM »
Well, based upon your data, it is
BTW, as we all know, measurable traces of pot linger in the system for a very long time after the buzz itself (weeks? months?)
Power User
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Re: The War on Drugs
Reply #239 on:
September 27, 2011, 11:53:37 AM »
Yes, unlike alcohol, THC is fat soluble and is present in various degrees for a lengthy period. A "medical marijuana" patient who smokes daily will have THC present in their system in elevated levels at all times. Should that person be driving?
Power User
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Re: The War on Drugs
Reply #240 on:
September 27, 2011, 12:27:28 PM »
The disagreement over what to do about the rising number of people in Colorado caught driving after using marijuana took center stage Wednesday, when members of a group charged with studying the issue presented three proposals.
The presentations at a meeting of the drug-policy subcommittee of the Colorado Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice were the first step in a process that could lead to a new law during next year's legislative session. But the meeting mostly underscored how little consensus there is around the issue of driving stoned, which law enforcement officials fear is on the rise with the expansion of the state's medical-marijuana system.
"This issue is not about a person's right to use medical marijuana," Christine Flavia of the state health department's Division of Behavioral Health said at the meeting. "It's about public safety."
The debate centers on whether the state should adopt a law establishing a measurement of THC the psychoactive component of marijuana in the blood at which a driver automatically would be considered too stoned to drive.
But the study group examining the issue deadlocked on how to handle it, leading to Wednesday's multipronged presentation.
One group proposed reintroducing the THC limit known, legally, as a "per se" standard arguing that it is backed by research and would be a strong deterrent.
"We want people to be accountable, and we are concerned about the message we would be sending if we do not pass a per-se law," said Laura Spicer, a drug-addiction counselor.
Another group, though, said that the science on THC impairment is not settled and that the limits proposed were too low and would lead to the conviction of nonimpaired drivers.
Read more: Colorado panel debates stoned-driving threshold - The Denver Post
Power User
Posts: 9483
Re: The War on Drugs
Reply #241 on:
September 27, 2011, 01:16:00 PM »
The Colorado law is a farce in terms of doctor involvement, ailments and prescriptions. Actually setting a limit fro drivers and administering a test *when justified* makes some sense, but the data and studies on the effect will not be as predictable and consistent as it is with alcohol. The effect varies more person to person. Some in moderate usage drive safer with lower speeds and greater following distances.
Strange to test for the least dangerous drug unless you also test for prescription drugs, amphetimine, coke, opiates, etc.
Power User
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Re: The War on Drugs
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September 27, 2011, 01:21:23 PM »
There are alcoholics that could pound down a 6 pack and show no visible signs of intoxication outside of HGN. They are still guilty of DUI despite their tolerance for alcohol.
Power User
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Re: The War on Drugs
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September 27, 2011, 02:04:34 PM »
GM, Agree. I'm not against putting a measurable limit on driving in law if it is backed up in science. What I'm saying is that the tie between blood content and delayed reactions / loss of concentration will be more difficult to establish for THC than it was for alcohol. Before texting while driving bans were codified, distracted driving was already illegal. I hope that being totally incoherent while driving is already prohibited, no matter the drug or mental defect.
Power User
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Re: The War on Drugs
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September 27, 2011, 03:34:50 PM »
The problem being that really impaired persons on THC are much harder to detect than imparied persons that have consumed alcohol.
Power User
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Re: The War on Drugs made easy
Reply #245 on:
October 07, 2011, 01:13:21 PM »
Not finding a stupid criminal category I will stick this here:
Man Busted for Marijuana After Petting K-9
Friday, Oct 7, 2011 | Updated 8:35 AM EDT
Man Busted for Marijuana After Petting K-9
Good advice: If you have marijuana in your pocket, it's not a good idea to pet a patrolling police dog.
The Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin reports that 48-year-old Kelly Simpson was busted Wednesday after he stopped to pet K-9 Tarah, who was on foot patrol with her handler in Endicott.
Police say Tarah smelled marijuana and alerted the officer.
(via Drudge!)
Power User
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Med Marijuana and Public Safety Personnel
Reply #246 on:
October 26, 2011, 09:56:04 AM »
A new article appears in the AELE Monthly Law Journal.
* Medical Marijuana and Public Safety Personnel
Marijuana is a controlled substance whose use, sale, and possession are federal crimes, regardless of any state laws to the contrary. As a result, issues have arisen as to the right of employers, including public safety employers, to discipline and terminate employees for the use of medical marijuana when it is allowed by state law.
The article discusses what some courts have said regarding the right of management to terminate employees for the use of medical marijuana.
Dreaded Equasty & Déjà Vu All Over Again
Reply #247 on:
December 21, 2011, 11:17:18 AM »
A book review:
Reason Magazine
Modern-Day Prohibition
The eternal temptation to ban things that give people pleasure
Jeff Stier from the January 2012 issue
The Art of Suppression: Pleasure, Panic and Prohibition Since 1800, by Christopher Snowdon, Little Dice, 246 pages, $19.99
The new Ken Burns and Lynn Novick documentary Prohibition is a five-and-a-half-hour missed opportunity to demonstrate why bans on substances are doomed from the start. Fortunately, for those who want to understand the irresistible lure of all types of prohibitions, there is Christopher Snowdons The Art of Suppression: Pleasure, Panic and Prohibition Since 1800. Although Snowdons comprehensive history will never reach as many people as the PBS series, The Art of Suppression makes the case that Burns seems to go out of his way to avoid: that prohibition of products that people desire, whether alcohol a century ago or Ecstasy today, is bound to fail miserably.
Deploying a colorful cast of characters, Snowdon, a British journalist whose first book, Velvet Glove, Iron Fist (2009), documented the history of anti-tobacco campaigns, tells the story of prohibitions broader context. He brings to the task the stinging humor reminiscent of H.L. Mencken, whom he quotes in describing one of the books central villains, the Anti-Saloon League lawyer Wayne Bidwell Wheeler: He was born with a roaring voice, and it had the trick of inflaming half-wits. Wheeler was a prototypical activist, Snowdon says, the undisputed master of pressure politics no one was more skillful or less scrupulous in applying pressure to wavering politicians.
Just as it is today, Ohio was a battleground state in the early 1900s, when Wheeler targeted popular Republican Gov. Myron T. Herrick, who had the audacity to challenge provisions of a prohibitionist Anti-Saloon League bill. Wheeler, Snowdon writes, held hundreds of dry rallies in favor of Herricks opponent and scurrilously accused Herrick of being in the pocket of the drinks industry. Seeking to make an example of the governor, Wheeler marshaled tens of thousands of churchgoers, who flooded into the polls and bounced Herrick out of office.
The result? Practical political hypocrisy on the issue of alcohol. Wheelers effort, Snowdon explains, was a bleak warning to wet politicians that it was safest to drink in private and support prohibition in public. Politicians knew that they could placate their tormentors by supporting dry laws, but they also knew they could placate drinkers by failing to enforce them.
The wet/dry debate was a key issue in American politics for the quarter centuries before and after 1900. Issues as varied as womens suffrage, race relations, urban vs. rural life, and religious tensions all played out in the context of alcohol prohibition.
Wheelers mad female counterpart was known as Christs bulldog, the hatchet-wielding vigilante Carrie Amelia Moore, whose 1877 marriage of convenience to David Nation gave her a striking name that she viewed as a sign of providence. Arriving in officially dry Wichita, Kansas, on January 21, 1901, Carrie A. Nation assumed leadership of the militant wing of the so-called temperance movement, declaring loudly, Men of Wichita, this is the right arm of God and I am destined to wreck every saloon in your city! Together with three Womans Christian Temperance Union colleagues, Snowdon writes, she set to work on two murder shops with rocks, iron rods and hatchets, only stopping when the owner of the second saloon put a revolver to her head. Vandalizing illegal saloons didnt get Nation arrested, but attacking a policeman in a hotel lobby eventually did. Showing considerable leniency, the chief of police released the teetotal delinquent on bail on the condition that she smash no more saloons until noon the following day. Nations first act as a free woman was to stand on the steps of the police station and inform the waiting crowd that she would recommence her reign of terror as soon as the clock struck twelve. As it turned out, she could not wait even that long.
Nation, who was widely believed to suffer from mental illness, may not have been a typical prohibitionist, but her antics made her one of the more conspicuous ones. Her visibility allowed outlets such as The New York Times to position themselves as moderate by condemning her tactics but not her underlying stance.
Todays prohibitionists are less colorful but no less determined. Consider the sad story of psychopharmacologist David Nutts brief term as chairman of the British Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. Shortly after he was appointed to the position in May 2008, the Sun reported that Nutt thought Ecstasy and LSD should be removed from the legal category ostensibly reserved for the most dangerous drugs, kicking off a Fleet Street frenzy.
Instead of backing down, Nutt doubled down. In a satirical article published by the Journal of Psychopharmacology in January 2009, he analyzed an addiction called Equasy that kills ten people a year, causes brain damage and has been linked to the early onset of Parkinsons disease. Nut added that Equasy releases endorphins, can create dependence and is responsible for over 100 road traffic accidents every year.
Had Nutt not revealed that Equasy was simply the time-honored sport of horseback riding, activists certainly would have rushed to introduce a ban. Nutt pointed out that since Equasy causes acute harm to one out of 350 riders, it is far riskier than Ecstasy, for which the fraction is one out of 10,000. His point, of course, was that prohibition has less to do with risk than with the importance society attaches to a risky activity. As Snowdon puts it, If the cultural baggage is put to one side, and activities are assessed on the basis of mortality rather than morality, there are glaring inconsistencies in the way laws deal with different hazards. In October 2009, British Home Secretary Alan Johnson fired Nutt for failing to recognize that his role is to advise rather than criticise.
While The Art of Suppression does not include a chapter on marijuana legalization, Snowdon leaves no doubt about his position on the issue. Legal highs may not be as good as the real thing, he writes, and they are often more dangerous, but at least users dont have to worry about being arrested.
Snowdon describes a cycle in which so-called killer drugs receive an inordinate amount of tabloid media attention, driving up consumer interest until the substance is finally banned based on sensationalistic claims about its dangers. Yet as soon as one chemical is banned, a newer oneoften more dangerousis created to elude the ban. In the restless pursuit of hedonistic diversions, Snowdon writes, human beings will try almost any substance if more appealing avenues of pleasure are closed off.
In addition to sardonic humor, Snowdon offers new reporting on how distorted science and unfounded health claims are driving lesser-known prohibitions in the modern world, such as the 1986 European ban on all oral tobacco products, including Swedish snus. Snowdon documents in detail how a 2003 scientific report funded by the European Commission and the Swedish National Institute of Public Health, intended to provide legal and scientific justification for the ban, was altered after leaving the hands of the scientists who wrote it. Among the many questionable editorial changes in the report was one that glossed over the fact that snus, unlike less refined oral tobacco products, does not cause oral cancer. While the original version said there can be no doubt that the current ban on oral tobacco is highly arbitrary, that phrase was missing from the published report.
In response to accumulating evidence supporting the use of snus as a harm-reducing alternative to cigarettes, supporters of the E.U. ban have become more brazen. Based on information from Asa Lundquist, the tobacco control manager for the Swedish National Institute of Public Health, the Swedish press reported that snus (which remains legal in Sweden) causes impotence and infertility. Luckily, Swedes, who have suffered through decades of similar scares, insisted on seeing the study behind the allegations. As it turns out, the scare itself was impotent. The supposed source, the Karolinska Institute, admitted there is no such study. Rather, we have a hypothesis and plan to conduct a study among snus users after the new year.
Here in the U.S., the Food and Drug Administration is considering whether to exercise its authority to ban menthol cigarettes, even though studies repeatedly have found that they are no more harmful than non- mentholated cigarettes. Drunk with power, regulators and those encouraging them are using catchy slogans such as Menthol: it helps the poison go down easier.
Prohibitionists ignore or belittle concerns that a ban on menthol cigarettes would turn citizens into criminals, increase unregulated youth access to cigarettes, and even encourage people to make their own mentholated cigarettes (all it takes is a regular cigarette, a cough drop, and a ziplock bag).
It is hard to miss the similarities between current prohibition campaigns and their historical predecessors. The Womans Christian Temperance Unions stated desire was to reform, so far as possible, by religious, ethical, and scientific means the drinking classes. Likewise today, says Snowdon, self-righteous activists and their allies in government do not seek to improve public health by following the dictates of science but rather use pseudoscientific arguments and subtle deceit to advance laws that dictate how we live.
It is easy now, as Ken Burns has masterfully done, to ridicule the prohibition of alcohol. But Snowdon does the heavy lifting of catching modern-day Carrie Nations in the act. Despite a long history of failure, the public always seems ready to enlist in prohibitionist campaigns, perhaps believing, as Snowdon puts it, that utopia is only ever one ban away.
Jeff Stier is a senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C.
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Times Topic: Mexican Drug Trafficking
The police force in the port city of Veracruz was dissolved on Wednesday, and Mexican officials sent the navy in to patrol. The Veracruz State government said the decision was part of an effort to root out police corruption and start over in the states largest city. A state spokeswoman, Gina Dominguez, said 800 police officers and 300 administrative employees were laid off. She told reporters that the former officers could apply for jobs in a state police force but would have to meet stricter standards. Thirty-five bodies were dumped in Veracruz in one of the worst gang attacks of Mexicos drug war. The Mexican Army has taken over police operations several times, notably in the border city of Ciudad Juárez. But Veracruz is the first state to disband a large police department and use marines for law enforcement.
A version of this brief appeared in print on December 22, 2011, on page A15 of the New York edition with the headline: Mexico: City Police Force Disbanded.
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BBG: Snowdon's book looks to be very interesting. Thank you for sharing the review. Had I written his first book, though, it would have been titled "Velvet Glove, Iron Lung."
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Register NOW for the Orthodox Christian Fellowship (OCF) College Conference!
Each year during Christmas Break OCF College Conferences host hundreds of college students from across North America for four days of fellowship, prayer, and some of the best Orthodox speakers around! Be sure to register early to get the early bird discount!
Here are the 2 locations for College Conference 2012:
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In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, One God. Amen.
Let us pray to the Lord. Lord have mercy.
Our Lord, Jesus Christ, Who went about doing good and healing all our infirmities, I ask you to bless all the people who have suffered the devastating effects of Hurricane Sandy.
Strengthen those who are injured, gather those who are lost and give courage to all to rebuild their lives once again.
O Lord, You suffered and died for me and you understand suffering.
Give them the strength in body, courage in spirit and patience in pain.
Calm their fears and increase their trust in You and hasten to their aid.
I also pray for the safe keeping of our nation from famine, earthquakes, floods, fire and civil war.
I entreat You, O Lord our God, to hear my prayer.
Bless me to help those in need and give me courage to be Your face to all those suffering.
Through the prayers of the Holy Father Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and save us.
Supplication to the Mother of God
(taken from the Small Paraklesis)
For those in great sorrow you are joy, and for the oppressed, a protection, and for the hungry, their food, comfort unto those estranged; You are a staff to the blind, visitation of all those sick, and to those held by pain shelter and a comforting, and to the orphaned, an aid; Mother, of our God in the highest, You who are the Spotless One, hasten, save your servants from their sin, we ask of you.
Contributed by Fr. George Shalhoub, Basilica of St. Mary, Livonia, Michigan
With an infant in arms, two East Coast residents slowly wade through knee-high flood waters brought on by Hurricane Sandy: IOCC Frontliners are responding to the disaster with trauma counseling for storm survivors, and assessing the emerging needs of families impacted by this expansive disaster. REUTERS/Adam HungerOctober 31, 2012
Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — At the request of the Maryland Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD), International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC) has deployed members of its Emergency Response Network "Frontliners" to a Disaster Recovery Center in Princess Anne, Maryland to provide trauma counseling to survivors of Hurricane Sandy and to assess the emerging needs of families returning to storm-ravaged homes and coastal communities.
As the storm moves further inland, emergency response crews are starting to assess the damage and restore critical services while people try to return to their normal daily lives. IOCC is in contact with the Orthodox Dioceses and disaster response networks throughout the East Coast to assess the damage in local communities. IOCC emergency response personnel will continue to monitor the situation and respond with emergency relief to storm survivors in need.
IOCC has already received initial requests for anticipated shipments of emergency relief items from its ecumenical partners for communities recovering from Hurricane Sandy. IOCC is urging Orthodox Christian parishes to assist by assembling emergency relief items and by making financial donations.
The Department of Stewardship's Parish Council Symposium, originally scheduled for November 1-4 at Antiochian Village, has been cancelled due to a lack of advance registrations.
The Archdiocese headquarters in Englewood, NJ, weathered Hurricane Sandy without significant damage. Please continue to pray for all those suffering throughout the region in the wake of the storm.
Displaced Syrian youth fill their days volunteering for IOCC and relief partner GOPA (Photo: GOPA)Baltimore, MD (IOCC) Recently, His Beatitude Ignatius IV, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, issued an appeal for humanitarian assistance to all Syrians who have been victims of violence in their country. "Syrians, in spite of their religious backgrounds, have the right to live in their country with pride and dignity. It is important for us as Orthodox Christians to help whoever extends their hand to ask for assistance regardless of their background."
In that spirit, the International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC), a member of the ACT Alliance, is working in partnership with the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East (GOPA), to respond to the urgent needs of thousands of internally displaced Syrian families. Katia, age 20, is one such person. Her days as a kindergarten teacher in Sabil, Syria, are a distant memory, since eight months ago, she and her family fled their home to escape fighting in the neighborhood, and have been displaced ever since. Left with no job and nothing to do, Katia turned to a local church for guidance, and is now helping assist other Syrians who were driven from their homes by the conflict that has engulfed Syria.
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Please join me in praying a rope for the repose of the soul of Khouria Shirley Schneirla, who fell asleep in Christ on Thursday, October 4, 2012, at age 89. She was the wife of the highly esteemed Fr. Paul Schneirla, to whom condolences may be sent via firstname.lastname@example.com
The daughter of Dorothy Downing Dillon Page and Donald Ormsby Page, Kh. Shirley was born on June 27, 1923 in New York City. A longtime resident of Far Hills and New York, she was the great-granddaughter of John Forrest Dillon, one time chief justice of the New York Supreme Court, and the granddaughter of William H. Page, attorney and a former president of the New York Athletic Club. She received her early education in France and England, attended the Hewitt School in New York, and was graduated in 1941 from the Wickham Rise School in Washington, Connecticut.
Khouria Shirley married William Sutfin Schneirla in June, 1942. Converts to the Orthodox Church, her husband was ordained into the priesthood of the Church and was both pastor for 50 years at St. Mary's in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and a professor of Old Testament at St. Vladimir's Seminary. She served on various church, inter-Orthodox, and ecumenical committees and initiatives. She was the mother of Dorothy Downie Orrill (email@example.com) and Peter Christian Schneirla, and the late William Sutfin Schneirla, Jr., and the sister of the late Donald Ormsby Page, Jr. May Kh. Shirley be granted Paradise, and may you be granted long life.
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Have you considered supporting the Order of St. Ignatius of Antioch? The "philanthropic arm" of the Archdiocese is an organization of men and women who maintain on an annual basis proper spiritual credentials and financial commitment. It was created to establish an organization of Antiochian laity who would function at the highest level of ministry for Christ and the Church. It is a spiritual movement manifested through financial giving.
Watch the Order's Membership Video for an introduction.
Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church's basement venue in SwedenOn October 9, 2012, His Grace Bishop Thomas of the Diocese of Charleston received a missions report from the Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church of Göteborg, Sweden. Last summer two Swedish Orthodox Christians, Herman Fields and Mikael Fälthammar, had participated in a two-week residency at the Antiochian Village in Pennsylvania as part of the St. Stephen's Course, in the Antiochian House of Studies School of Orthodox Theology. "We were immensely blessed," wrote Mr. Fields and Mr. Fälthammar, "by meeting many Orthodox brothers and sisters in the United States.
"We want to express a special thank you to Fr. Joseph (Allen), Adn. Peter (Boulukos), Cheri Mullins and all the faculty of the House of Studies," they continued, "as well as to our hosts His Grace Bishop Thomas, and Paul Finley, for all your help and hospitality. We felt rejuvenated and encouraged by two intense weeks of spiritual fellowship and learning."
The rest of the newsletter reported on the work of the Swedish mission. "In the heart of Göteborg, we are very blessed to be able to borrow a basement venue, under a large church.
Lamar University OCF, Beaumont, TXFr. Anthony Yazge, Director of the Antiochian Archdiocese's Department of College Ministry, has asked all Orthodox Christians in parishes, and parents of college students, to submit names of current college students to the Orthodox Christian Fellowship (OCF) database. "OCF, the college ministry of the Orthodox Churches in the United States, is developing and maintaining a database of all Orthodox college students," he noted. "The purpose of this database is to assist the church in keeping our students connected to Christ and His Church.
"Students that are listed in the database will receive regular communication from OCF regarding programs and ministries such as annual College Conferences and Real Break. Their contact information will be shared with the OCF chapters of the schools they are attending and/or the closest Orthodox Church as a means of offering support and encouragement to students while they are attending school. We ask that you visit the OCF webpage to submit your college student's information. Let's keep our young people connected to Christ and His Church!"
On October 20, 2012, the Orthodox Christian Network (OCN) is teaming up with Illumination Learning to host a meeting of Orthodox Christians, via a virtual conference center. The speakers presenting at this webinar come from varying backgrounds, and include:
•Dr. Albert Rossi, who teaches pastoral theology at Saint Vladimir's Seminary in New York, and will be presenting on "You are the Light of the World";
•Fr. Stephen Powley, the Assistant Director of the Orthodox Christian Prison Ministry, who will be presenting on "Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone: One of the keys to a purposeful Orthodox life";
His Eminence, Metropolitan Gerasimos, His Eminence, Archbishop Joseph, His Eminence, Archbishop Kyrill, His Eminence, Archbishop Benjamin and His Grace, Bishop Maxim, invite all clergy in the West to the Fourth Annual Pan-Orthodox Clergy Advent Retreat
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What is "Village at Home"? Antiochian Village's website explains, "In an effort to stay connected to our campers and introduce young people to the camp experience, we have established our Village at Home program. In short, we visit a parish, at the invitation of their pastor, and run a modified day of camp at the parish. We ask the host parish to extend invitations to neighboring churches with hope of exposing as many young people to the Antiochian Village camping program. We recruit former staff members to join us for the day to assist with the program. The day somewhat mimics a day of camp."
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The third Sunday of October, October 21, 2012 is Special Olympics Awareness Day (SOAD) across the Antiochian Archdiocese. On Sunday, October 21st, your local teen group will seek financial help from Antiochian parishioners in funding the 2013 Special Olympics Sports Camp to be held at the Antiochian Village August 9-17, 2013. Next summer we will be celebrating our 32nd Annual Special Olympics Sports Camp. This ministry is sponsored by the North American Council of Teen SOYO. Our teens work very hard for this ministry and rely on the generosity and support of the faithful of our Archdiocese and the Order of St. Ignatius.
We Need YOUR HELP!
Please publicize this day. Special Olympics Awareness Day bulletin inserts are attached below, one set for October 14th and the other for October 21st. Please include these inserts in your bulletin. Also attached are a letter to Antiochian clergy and an address to be delivered in church by teens on Special Olympics Awareness day. Your enthusiastic promotion of such a worthwhile ministry will go a long way in producing fruitful results from our faithful.
On October 9, 2012, Ancient Faith Radio (AFR) posted an interview with Carole Buleza, the Antiochian Archdiocese's director of the Department of Christian Education. In the interview, Mrs. Buleza and AFR Operations Manager Bobby Maddex discussed the 2012 Orthodox Institute, the pan-Othodox conference for educators and parish leaders, scheduled for November 1–4th at Antiochian Village in Ligonier, Pennsylvania.
"Why did you choose this theme?" asked Mr. Maddex, referring to the Institute's title: "Culture. Morality. Spirituality. A conference to survey current cultural views, beliefs of the Church, and the challenges facing young people."
"We've had requests to have an entire conference dedicated to understanding moral issues, since the issues pervading our culture are seemingly not in keeping with the Orthodox faith," responded Mrs. Buleza. "We have to understand this culture we live in, and also, we can't appreciate the Orthodox stand on these issues without a real grasp and adherence to our spirituality. These moral challenges are facing our teens, but are also impacting all of us."
Carole explained why each speaker is uniquely qualified to address the issues faced by educators and families today, not the least of which is that each of the featured presenters are parents of teens, and thus are currently dealing in a very practical way with the issues that will be discussed at the Institute. She noted that topics such as social media, transgender issues and homosexuality, substance abuse, and effective communication with youth, will be addressed by the Institute's instructors.
Listen to the interview
Margaret Abraham, age 83, passed away peacefully on Friday, October 5th 2012. Margaret was born on December 4th, 1928, in Grand Rapids, MI. She was preceded in death by her parents, Nicholas and Rose Howard and her sister, Laurece Kaleel. Margaret will be deeply missed by her husband Wade, an honorary member of the Antiochian Archdiocese Board of Trustees; her children Dan (Kathy) Abraham, former Chair of the Order of St. Ignatius; Marilyn (David) Vaillancourt, Diane (Patrick) Coleman, Linda Abraham, Janet (Mark) Ansara, and her grandchildren, Andrew, Lindsey (Patrick), Maggie, Joseph, Benjamin, George and Rosie. She will also be fondly remembered by her sisters, Mary Howard, Gladys Howard and her brother Dr. George Howard from Charleston, West Virginia, and a large extended family of cousins, nieces and nephews.
Margaret dedicated her life to being a proud and loving wife and mother. She was a life-time member of St. Nicholas Orthodox Church where she served in many capacities. As a devoted and loyal friend to many, she touched the hearts of all who knew her. Margaret brought love and laughter to her church family as well as friends in the community and always reached out to those less fortunate.
Funeral Services will be held 11:00 A.M. Monday, October 8, 2012 at St. Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Church, 2250 E. Paris SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546. Interment is in Woodlawn Cemetery. The family will greet relatives and friends Sunday at the funeral home from 2-4 & 7-9 pm with a Trisagion Service at 8pm; and also from 10-10:45 am in the chapel at St. Nicholas on Monday. The family wishes that in lieu of flowers, please make donations to St. Nicholas Orthodox Church.
May her memory be eternal!
"Oh your mark, get set, go!" Antiochian Village's annual 5K Trail Run will benefit the Special Olympics of Pennsylvania, and many runners have registered to participate in the event, slated for Saturday, October 6, 2012. Special Olympics PA provides year-round training and competition in 23 Olympic-type sports, to more than 20,000 children and adults with intellectual disabilities. One hundred percent of the AV5K Trail Run registration fee goes to Special Olympics.
Antiochian Village is an ideal setting for this event. At this time of year, spectacular fall color will welcome runners and walkers of all ages on a moderately challenging wooded course. Prizes and refreshments will be awarded at the finish line.
The run comes just two weeks before Special Olympics Awareness Day, which is sponsored by SOYO and aimed at raising funds to underwrite the Village's summer Special Olympics program.
Registration will be open the day of the Run at 9 a.m. in the Village Conference Center.
YONKERS, NY [SVOTS Communications] Enter the worlds of Narnia, Middle Earth, and Panem on Saturday, October 6, 2012 on the campus of St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, as the school celebrates its annual open house and fall festival, "Orthodox Education Day." This year's theme—"Inklings of Glory: Godward Journeys with Lewis and Tolkien"—opens doors to literary treasures with Judeo-Christian themes, including the works of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, and the blockbuster movie and phenomenal book, The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins.
What can crowds expect? Expert presentations about British authors Lewis and Tolkien; an icon exhibit of saints of the British Isles, with a special print display of icons by Sr. Joanna [Reitlinger], instructor of famed iconographers Fr. Gregory Krug and Leonid Ouspensky; Irish dancers from the Inishfree School of Irish Dance; book discussion groups for teens and young adults on The Hunger Games, and for older adults on The Abolition of Man; a concert of sacred music; and a children's activity tent, with games and handicrafts—plus fabulous international foods!
Services for the day will include Divine Liturgy, an Akathist dedicated to St. Anna (served in front of the weeping icon of St. Anna from St. Tikhon's Monastery, South Canaan, PA), a Panikhida (memorial service) for departed loved ones, and Vespers. His Eminence The Most Rev. Tikhon, archbishop of Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania, will preside at the liturgical services. As usual, the chapel and campus bookstore will be open to the public throughout the day.
Admission to the grounds is free; directions and a full program schedule may be viewed here.
St. Athanasius Orthodox Church in Santa Barbara, California, is hosting their second annual Liturgical Arts Festival on Friday, October 19, and Saturday, October 20, 2012.
The Presenters Scott Cairns—Poet, Author, 2006 Guggenheim Fellow, and Professor; and the Rev. Fr. Andrew Cuneo—C.S. Lewis Scholar (D.Phil, Oxford University), and Professor of English Literature at St. Katherine College, will speak both Friday and Saturday.
The parish will also host an icon exhibit and tours of the church, and both evenings will end with a reception and book-signing offered by the featured speakers.
The festival is produced with the blessing of His Eminence, Archbishop Joseph of the Diocese of Los Angeles and the West.
Details are available here.
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His Eminence Metropolitan Philip has bestowed the Antonian Gold Medal upon renowned journalist Helen Thomas. For the occasion, a banquet will be held in her honor at Ss. Peter and Paul Antiochian Orthodox Church Hall in Potomac, Maryland on Friday, October 12, 2012. The event will commence with cocktails at 6:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 7:30.
The evening will feature an invocation by Very Rev. Fr. George Rados of Ss. Peter and Paul, an introduction by Economos Antony Gabriel of St. George, Montreal; remarks by friends of Helen Thomas; the presentation of the Award; and a benediction by Very Rev. Fr. Joseph Rahal of St. George, Washington D.C. Other special guests will include Ambassador Ted Kattouf, Ambassador Clovis Maksoud, Hon. George Salem, Warren David (President of ADC), and former White House Interpreter Camille Nowfel.
Proceeds from the dinner will go to the Antiochian Heritage Foundation in Helen Thomas' honor. For reservations please contact either the Law Offices of Albert Mokhiber at 703-391-9898; or Mona at Ss. Peter and Paul Church at 301-765-9188.
St. Thekla Pilgrimage, 2012Pilgrims gathered for the annual St. Thekla Pilgrimage at the Antiochian Village from September 21-23, 2012, joined by presiding hierarch His Grace Bishop Thomas, and the Abbess of the Convent of St. Thekla, Mother Alexandra. The Pilgrimage began on Friday evening with Great Vespers, followed by dinner, a showing of the Oscar nominated movie "The Help," and a discussion led by Fr. Anthony Yazge, Antiochian chair of the Department of Camping.
On Saturday, the Pilgrimage continued with a Hierarchical Liturgy at St. Ignatius Chapel at the Camp, followed by fellowship at brunch and an afternoon of activities which included workshops and discussion on "The Family and the Media" and "The Sacraments." Pilgrims also attended the Supplication Service to St. Thekla with anointing with oil from the Shrine in Maíaloula, Syria, and enjoyed a Chapel tour with Village Director Paul Finley. Afterwards, there was time for prayer, rest and reflection, and an opportunity to tour the Antiochian Heritage Museum.
St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church of Boston is seeking a full-time Youth Director, who will be responsible for the overall development and implementation of a comprehensive program designed to meet the needs of the children and young adults of the parish. The goal is to offer a sound religious foundation for youth which promotes Orthodox Christian values of worship, fellowship, service and witness.
The Youth Director will work under supervision of the pastor. He or she must be a committed Orthodox Christian, a highly motivated self-starter who understands contemporary youth culture and who will serve as a good role model for the youth. He or she will be interacting with parents, keeping them informed, and encouraging their support and active participation.
The Youth Director will also work closely with the Parents' Guild and volunteer staff, to design strategies which will improve and expand the parish youth ministry, including the recruitment and training of volunteers to assist in coordinating and staffing. The Director will set and oversee a youth ministry budget, as part of the general parish budget.
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These young Syrian sisters and their mother sought refuge at a camp located far from the intensifying violence in Syria. More than half of Syria's refugees are children, and in great need of basic care items. (Photo: UNHCR/F. Juez)September 24, 2012
Baltimore, MD (IOCC) Hiba, 5, clings fearfully to her mother's dress round the clock, and wakes up screaming in the middle of the night. Ever since Sami, 4, and his brother Rana, 2, fled Homs with their mother, loud sounds elicit screams and send them diving for cover under tables and beds. The violence that has engulfed Syria is taking a heavy toll on its children. They make up more than half of the 260,000 Syrian refugees pouring into neighboring countries such as Jordan and Lebanon, according to United Nations estimates. Many arrive with nothing, not even the most basic belongings. International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC) is attending to the immediate needs of these young refugees and their families with the distribution of emergency relief items such as health kits, infant supplies and bedding.
IOCC Jordan is working with local churches and relief partners to provide basic necessities like diapers, baby blankets and infant clothing to Syrian mothers seeking shelter at Za'atri refugee camp, where 60 percent of the 28,000 refugees are small children and infants.
Conciliar Press' 2013 icon calendar features icons depicting the work of Christ—seen, unseen, and foreshadowed—throughout the Old Testament.
The 11" X 12" full-color calendar, the latest in a popular series of calendars, features large calendar boxes (1-3/8" X 1-3/4") for recording important date reminders. Major saint and feast days traditionally celebrated in Orthodox countries around the world are listed, according to the New Calendar. The monthly themes are:
Your prayers are requested for the repose of the soul of our brother and concelebrant Fr. Justin Pierce, 84, retired at St. Luke Church in Erie, CO, who fell asleep in Christ in hospice care on Saturday, September 22nd, 2012. Condolences may be sent to Khouriya Patricia and the Pierces' two daughters c/o Hierodeacon Mark Berge of St. Luke/Erie at email@example.com.
Divine services for Fr. Justin will be served according to the Western Rite at St. Luke/Erie by Fr. John Connely of St. Mark Church in Denver, CO: Tuesday at 6:00PM Vespers for the Dead; Wednesday at 11:00AM Matins for the Dead followed by the Requiem Mass. God being my Helper, I will be present on Wednesday morning to serve a Trisagion before Matins for the repose of Father Justin's soul. After the Mass, a Meal of Mercy will be served by the Ladies of St. Luke at their parish fellowship hall. Interment is scheduled for 2:30PM.
May God grant our brother Paradise. May He grant Khouriya Patricia and the Pierce family consolation. And may He grant you long life.


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Alp Altiner is a featured author in Ballistic Publishing's latest tutorial book title d'artiste: Matte Painting. d'artiste: Matte Painting is the authoritative book dedicated to showcasing and teaching the skills behind the art of digital matte painting. Leading Hollywood matte painters Alp Altiner, Dylan Cole and Chris Stoski bring readers through the matte painting techniques used to create breathtaking, photo-realistic sets and backdrops for film, television and video games. d'artiste: Matte Painting is now available from Ballistic Publishing or its resellers worldwide. More>
We speak to Alp Altiner about his career as a matte painter, and what it takes to be a digital matte painter today.
Alp Altiner started drawing at a very early age. Having both parents as working artists, bought various art, and 'how-to-draw' type books while growing up. "My dad got me an issue of 'Spiderman' when I was around eleven," remarks Altiner. "That's when things really changed and I knew I wanted to make a living as an artist some day. Their support helped me tremendously, and I've never stopped drawing or painting ever since."
Altiner studied print design, and multimedia at the Art Institute for a short time back home in Seattle where he grew up, and his first professional assignment was in print design for a local newspaper. As a freelancer, designing the cover, and various interior illustrations.
After multimedia studies he started using computers for all his projects, and also learnt certain programming languages such as DHTML, Java, ASP, and JSP while working for a web design firm as their lead web design artist.
Altiner learned a tremendous amount of traditional skills while working in comics from some of the best artists, such as Todd Mc Farlane, Marc Silvestri, Jim Valentino, and various others, which today is helping him with his daily work in conceptual design, not only environments, but characters, general drawing and sketching skills. Besides penciling, and inking, Alp's first digital work also was done while working in comics, which was the coloring of comic book pages using Photoshop. "After comics, going back into the digital field," says Alp, "and being introduced to the Wacom tablet was the time I knew what I wanted to do for the rest of my life—draw and paint for a living! I started getting heavy work in the video game field as a concept artist, and started digitally painting on a daily basis. After learning more and more about matte paintings through the Internet, books, and movies, I decided to quit my day job and take some time off to put a portfolio together."
Altiner sacrificed many months to stay at home to work on his demo reel. After gathering together some new paintings, he began sending his reel to various studios, and very shortly after was offered a matte painting job at Digital Domain!
Earlier on, Altiner used programs such as Photoshop, After Effects, Illustrator, Flash, Director, and others while working as a multimedia artist but never had any 3D software training/experience. Starting work in film, he was surrounded by unbelievably talented 3D artists, and he started showing more interest in CG, and eventually got into it. Altiner's very first CG work was building 3D models, and creating textures for the film 'Van Helsing'. Not bad at all.
"I currently use Photoshop, Painter, Maya, ZBrush, Shake, and After Effects for my visual effects work," says Alp. "I mostly use Photoshop and Painter for conceptual design work/2D matte paintings, and Maya for all my modeling, texturing, and lighting related CG work. I'm also getting into ZBrush for various projects."
While working at Illusion Arts, Syd Dutton taught Alp the thinking process behind painting photo-realistically, and how to create the illusion of reality both digitally as well as in traditional oil paintings. He also shared many traditional painting techniques with Alp, and how to capture things in the world with a matte painter's eye. "I soon after started painting in oils on my lunch breaks," he says, "and my passion for matte paintings grew limitless, and I was hungry to learn more, and more."
"The painting skill certainly grows with how hard you work," Alp admits, "and how much time you invest in practicing and studying in your free time. Eventually I got more involved in CG in general, and started doing various 3D matte paintings, which required me to build various 3D models, and create projections myself to be mapped onto 3D for complicated camera moves. With 2D projections in 3D I've learned many shortcuts and great techniques while working in film productions."
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We live in a magical place in a not-so-magical time. Those who are born and live their lives under western skies accept the wide open expanses of land as the norm. Those who travel here from eastern states or other parts of the world marvel at the public lands. "You mean no one owns this?" I've been asked. "You do," I reply. A challenging concept, these public lands, for those whose lives center on ownership and taming of a piece of property. A challenging concept, too, for those who think that it stays pristine without some help.
So while we, the citizens of the United States, own the public lands, the federal government is charged with its preservation and maintenance. They do a pretty good job of it, too. Let's take our own Canyons of the Ancients National Monument (CANM). Some folks in our community are unaware that just west of Cortez we have close to 180,000 acres that are part of the National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS). This system was created in 2000 "to conserve, protect, and restore nationally significant landscapes with outstanding cultural, ecological, and scientific values for the benefit of current and future generations." This sounds pretty impressive because it is. When people travel to New York, they expect to see the Statue of Liberty. When people travel to Paris, it's the Eiffel Tower. When people from around the world visit our little corner of Colorado, they are here to see the natural and cultural wonders that we have to offer. We live in a geographically stunning area that can also boast the highest density of prehistoric archaeological sites in all of North America.
So back to its maintenance . . . National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS) land receives funding from the federal government (yes, your tax dollars). Its federal funding pales in comparison to other public lands: the National Wildlife Refuge System receives twice as much and the National Park System receives thirteen times as much as NLCS land.
This is where you and I, as owners of the land, come in. The federal government (in this case the Bureau of Land Management that manages CANM through its headquarters at the Anasazi Heritage Center (AHC)) can NOT seek additional funding to provide services on public lands. They MUST partner with non-profit organizations to do so. A small group of us has stepped forward to create a partner group dedicated to these two remarkable entities. The Southwest Colorado Canyons Foundation will support the missions of CANM and AHC through both volunteer participation and funding efforts. We need your help to do this.
Why do we now feel the need for an additional partner group? CANM and AHC have long partnered with several outstanding groups, including San Juan Mountains Association, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, and McElmo Canyon Research Institute to acquire funding for a variety of projects, and these partnerships will continue. These fine organizations, however, have missions that differ in significant ways and do not maintain a focus solely on CANM and AHC. Additionally, because CANM is a part of NLCS its significance and needs have been raised a notch. We NEED a group dedicated to it and its headquarters. It is time for us to stop thinking that public lands will always be there for us without our work to care for and maintain it.
Diane McBride is the steering chair of the new grassroots organization, Southwest Colorado Canyons Foundation. She lives in Montezuma County with her husband Bob and two dogs.


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Believe or not, some cats just aren't drawn to catnip. Here's why.
Before adding a touch of nature to your home with houseplants, it's important to know what types of plants may be harmful to your cat and which are safe.
Before adding a touch of nature to your home with houseplants, it's important to know what types of plants may be harmful to your cat and which are safe. In fact, some plants are extremely poisonous to cats, and others can cause them to become very ill.
As a veterinary technician, Nancy Peterson has seen her share of hard-luck cases. But one cat in particular got to her.
"Some students found a cat that was hit by a car," says Peterson. "He had a broken jaw, cuts all over his body and no owner that we knew of. It was so sad. He may have been euthanized had he been brought to another clinic. But we did surgery on him and brought him back to good health." Peterson decided to adopt him, naming him Stu -- short for students' cat. Outdoor Cat vs. Indoor CatStu's lucky tale isn't just a lesson about making your cat wear identification. Peterson, who is now the cat programs manager at the Humane Society of the United States, believes it's a cautionary story for the 66 percent of cat owners (according to a University of Michigan report) who say they let their cats go outside.
"It really is a myth that cats have to go out to be happy," says Peterson. "And unfortunately, the belief that cats can fend for themselves really harms cats. People just let them roam and think they will take care of themselves, when they can't. They depend on people."
Don't Compromise the Safety of Your Cat
You may enjoy the idea that your cat goes out to fulfill an innate hunting desire. But Peterson says that outdoor roaming simply puts your cat in danger. "Cats that live outdoors will typically have a shorter life," he explains. "We've domesticated cats: They can't fend for themselves. They're no match for a speeding car."
Outside, cats are also pitted against toxins. "It doesn't take too many drops of antifreeze licked off their paws to cause permanent kidney damage or death," cautions Peterson. Dogs and even cruel people can also harm your outdoor cat. Roaming felines are additionally exposed to other cats, and therefore cat health problems. Diseases like feline leukemia virus, feline immunodeficiency virus, and rabies can easily spread.
Since cats are predatory by nature, they themselves are a danger to other wildlife. After a four-year study of cat predation, a University of Wisconsin report estimated that rural cats kill 39 million birds annually.
Tips for a Happy Indoor CatPeterson admits that having cats confined indoors does put the onus on you to keep them entertained. "It requires more work to provide the stimulation that the cat needs so he doesn't get bored and start making up his own activities, which you may not appreciate," she says.
She recommends these simple items, which you may already have in place:
Additional Indoor Cat Safety TipEven if you never let your cat out, Peterson suggests that you still make sure your cat always wears a collar. Cats are sneaky and will try to escape. A collar gives you a better chance of being reunited, but it can't fully protect your cat.
"Let's say you let him out every day at 3 o'clock, and he always comes home at 5 o'clock," she says. "The one day he doesn't come home at 5, chances are he's injured or trapped somewhere. You don't want that to happen to you."
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Brad Kloza is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine and Discover.


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In December 2011, President Barack Obama signed the fiscal year 2012 US National Defense Authorization Act. The budget bill also encourages the implementation of procedures to mitigate the possibility of obtaining counterfeit components by making members of all tiers of the defense supply chain accountable. The meaning of the term counterfeit in this context includes fake, substandard, damaged, or mismarked components.
In the fall of 2011, for the first time in history, U.S. Federal Courts prosecuted an individual for trafficking in counterfeit integrated circuits, many of which were targeted for the U.S. military. Others were to be used in brake systems in high-speed trains and instruments used by firefighters to detect nuclear radiation. The administrator of the company that sold the components was sentenced to 38 months in prison and assessed fines of $166,141 for selling almost $16 million worth of semiconductors falsely marked as military, commercial or industrial grade.
As progressive as all of this news seems to be in the fight against counterfeit semiconductors making their way into the US supply chain, it is just the beginning. In fact, it is estimated that 2 percent of all the semiconductors sold last year were counterfeit. That doesnt sound too threatening until we do the math: the estimated value of counterfeit parts that made their way into the U.S. supply chain in 2011 is over $5 billion.
Not only do counterfeit components threaten lives, they impose a vast negative financial impact to semiconductor manufacturers, distributors, electronics equipment manufacturers and end users. It is estimated that the actual cost of a failed semiconductor that makes its way into production in any industry can be more than 100 times the cost of the original component. That makes the bargain price often 70 percent less than the real thing look less and less attractive. No matter how hard the industry tries, it cant get around that old adage: you get what you pay for.
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When Grinnell College framed its charter in the Iowa Territory of the United States in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for the different professions and for the honorable discharge of the duties of life." The College pursues that mission by providing an education in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas. As a teaching and learning community, the College holds that knowledge is a good to be pursued both for its own sake and for the intellectual, moral, and physical well-being of individuals and of society at large. The College exists to provide a lively academic community of students and teachers of high scholarly qualifications from diverse social and cultural circumstances. The College aims to graduate individuals who can think clearly, who can speak and write persuasively and even eloquently, who can evaluate critically both their own and others' ideas, who can acquire new knowledge, and who are prepared in life and work to use their knowledge and their abilities to serve the common good.
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Excellence in Education for Students in the Liberal Arts
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- Learning from and communicating with the world beyond the campus.
- Life-long connections that support friendship, work, and learning.
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