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So why is Obama's DOJ spending over $300M on agressive medical marijuana enfarcement?
Just a reminder Mr. President. You said "It would not make sense for us to see a top priority as going after recreational users in states that have determined that it's legal."
"We've got bigger fish to fry," Obama said of marijuana smokers in Colorado and Washington, the two states where recreational use is now legal.
So why is Obama's DOJ spending over $300M on agressive medical marijuana enfarcement?
Posted on May 30, 2013 at 9:56 pm
Susan Soares
A new advocacy group called SAM (Smarter Approach to Marijuana), co-founded by Patrick J. Kennedy, a former congressman and self-admitted alcohol and oxycodone addict, proposes treating marijuana use in the following manner: "Possession or use of a small amount of marijuana should be a civil offense subject to a mandatory health screening and marijuana-education program. Referrals to treatment and/or social-support services should be made if needed. The individual could even be monitored for 6-12 months in a probation program designed to prevent further drug use." But is this forced treatment for marijuana warranted?
In Psychology Today's "Is Marijuana Addictive?," the authors compared marijuana to other substances and found that it does not pose the same risks of dependence. It is estimated that 32% of tobacco users will become addicted, 23% of heroin users, 17% of cocaine users, and 15% of alcohol users. Yet only 9-10% of regular marijuana users will ever fit the definition of dependent . Moreover, the other substances are objectively more harmful than marijuana. So what is the incentive for this push for treatment centers for marijuana use when Mr. Kennedy knows from available evidence and personal experience that alcohol and pharmaceutical drugs are far more harmful? Based on my own personal experience, I think I have at least part of the answer.
About a year ago, I was put through some marijuana re-education of my own when I had to attend court-ordered Deferred Entry of Judgment classes. Every Wednesday night for 18 weeks, I met with a health department leader and other unfortunate drug war casualties. The class would start off with roll call and paying a weekly fee. We would watch a video on addiction or the teacher would read some course work to us. Then he would give us some questions that we were required to answer. Most of them were things like, "How does your addiction affect your daily life"?
At first I quietly just didn't answer most of the questions or I just wrote in, "I'm not addicted. I use cannabis as a medicine. It helps me control my migraines." The teacher started singling me out by reading my answers, thinking that I would buckle from public shame.
It's important to realize that the attendees in the Deferred Entry of Judgment classes were given a free pass from the court and they are scared of going to jail. Defendants who are offered a DEJ have no prior record or they have stayed out of trouble for over 5 years and have no violent crime history. A DEJ means that after you complete the program, you can say that you were never arrested. It's a way to run a LOT of drug related cases quickly through the judicial system using fear. If you don't make it through the program the court will order you to jail for what ever the sentence was without any hearing because you have already plead guilty. Typically the DA overcharges a defendant in order to entice a plea deal so that is a scary prospect.
But I didn't buckle when I was presented with quiz after quiz that asked me to admit to addiction. I stood up for myself. Without cannabis, my life would again center around debilitating migraines, which honestly were driving me toward suicide.
After I started speaking up, I was approached by almost everyone in the class. They all had heartbreaking stories and also felt like they were being herded through a BS program, but you do what you have to do and so they answered the questions as if they believed they were addicted.
In the end, the instructor graduated me early to get rid of me and didn't even pee test me because he knew it would come up positive for THC. He was aware of my court documents stating that I could not only smoke cannabis but grow it.
Under the guise of "treatment," what they were doing was working on creating statistics that would support a HUGE money grab for more services and create a story of crisis that doesn't really exist!
Published in CNN Money's Private equity's rehab roll-up In February 2006, Bain Capital (yes, the company that clean-livingMitt Romney used to run) purchased an outfit called CRC Health Group for $723 million and proceeded to go on a shopping spree, snapping up nearly 20 new treatment facilities over the next two years. The company took a breather during the financial crisis, but in 2011 resumed its buying binge with the purchase of some smaller treatment centers.
Rehab, it turns out, is a pretty good business. Is rehab roll-up-able? In the most basic sense, the answer is yes. But are these treatment centers working to end addiction or is it all about the profit margin?
All treatment programs are not created the same. "CRC uses a cookie-cutter approach," says Dr. Howard C. Samuels, an addiction specialist and licensed practitioner based in Hollywood. "It's the assembly line of recovery." Samuels, who runs his own 14-bed facility, the Hills Treatment Center, says that he used to refer patients to CRC, but ceased doing so when he felt that bureaucracy and the bottom line had overwhelmed concern for individual treatment.
One word I hear over and over again when cannabis activists get together is "WHY?" As in, "Why on earth do we continue to punish adults who simply choose to relax with marijuana instead of the more harmful substance, alcohol?" I think the answer is clear. Follow the money!!!!
by Susan Soares ~ Coalition for Cannabis Policy Reform Fundraising Chair
Colorado's task force has come out with their recommendations and they are not anywhere close to what I thought they might be.
The recommendations include:
The sales taxes were expected but 15% is a bit high especially when you are double dipping by asking the establishment AND the customer to pay it. Also, limiting the amount sold to a customer in a single purchase is one of those laws set up to fail. There are so many ways around it and no real way to enforce it. STUPID! I have no clue what they mean by "Emphasize that it's illegal for marijuana to be given away in exchange for a donation." Huh? But two of the recommendations are so bad, it's hard to imagine how they even got from pen to paper. #1 By allowing employers to prohibit off the job marijuana use by employees, you are letting them invade your personal life. What I do on the weekend should be no business of my employer! And last but not least, making it illegal to grow marijuana outdoors is irresponsible. One of the big problems with the prohibition of marijuana was the huge carbon footprint that it made because of the need to hide your grow. Free sunlight is a good thing for everyone. Why do they want it to stay indoors? Is the sight of it so tempting that people would be helpless to resist it's powers? Ridiculous! It's time for regulators to grow up and let us grow out...side. If you think about it for two seconds, it's the only thing that makes sense. What do you think?
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By Peter Hecht
Published: Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013 - 12:00 am | Page 3A
Last Modified: Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013 - 7:46 am
California voters favor legalizing pot for recreational use, strongly support the existence of medical marijuana dispensaries and want the feds to butt out of the California cannabis business.
In a California Field Poll released today, voters – by a 54 to 43 percent margin – say they want California to legalize marijuana beyond medical use with regulations similar to alcohol.
In the state with America's largest medical marijuana industry, the poll found that 67 percent of voters oppose an ongoing crackdown by the state's four U.S. attorneys on businesses selling pot for medicinal use.
The statewide poll was conducted little more than three months after voters in Washington and Colorado each passed measures to legalize marijuana as a mere pleasurable pursuit – upping the stakes in America's marijuana debate.
The poll results indicate continued strong support for medical marijuana as the stateSupreme Court is deliberating on whether scores of California cities and counties can ban marijuana dispensaries.
Meanwhile, California voters across party lines seem to be taking issue with federal threats, raids and prosecutions involving medical marijuana businesses.
The state's four U.S. attorneys have brought criminal cases against some medical marijuana providers and growers and sent letters threatening seizures of properties of others.
While all marijuana use is illegal under federal law, U.S. prosecutors assert California's medicinal cannabis industries have been "hijacked by profiteers" violating both state and federal laws.
In the poll of registered voters in early February, 68 percent of Democrats, 55 percent of Republicans and 78 percent of independents said they oppose the federal crackdown.
"It's certainly not winning over the hearts and minds of Californians," state Field Poll Director Mark DiCamillo said of voters' reactions to federal enforcement efforts. "The getting tough policy by the feds is not impacting public opinion in a positive way."
Poll respondent Stewart Hintz, 47, a Republican from Rocklin who doesn't smoke marijuana, said the federal crackdown was inevitable because dispensaries appear to be drawing numerous people with little or no medical need. But Hintz said, it's time for pot to be legal – and for the government to back off.
"Once (alcohol) prohibition was repealed, the feds pretty much took their hands off – and I think that's the best model," he said.
Some 58 percent of Field Poll respondents also said they favor allowing medical dispensaries in their cities or towns, with the stores strongly supported by voters in Northern California, the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles County and modestly supported elsewhere in Southern California.
"I haven't seen any substantive negatives" about dispensaries, said Patrick Cole, an independent voter in Butte County who last tried marijuana in college nearly four decades ago. "The executive branch gets on its high horse about how insidious this is and how it's corrupting our neighborhoods. Yet there is a liquor store on every corner."
The poll results drew a spirited response from the director of California's largest medical marijuana dispensary.
"This poll … heartens me and makes me feel validated," said Steve DeAngelo, whose Harborside Health Center dispensary in Oakland is being targeted by federal prosecutors who have sued to seize the property.
He said the poll results also suggest that California politicians opposing medical marijuana and its distribution "are going to see serious consequences" at election time.
Richard Lee, who led Proposition 19, the failed ballot measure that would have legalized recreational marijuana in California in 2010, said poll results give momentum to advocates backing an initiative to legalize nonmedical use in 2016.
"I think it shows that it's going to win in 2016, and it's just a matter of writing the best law that we can."
Bishop Ron Allen of Sacramento's International Faith Based Coalition, a member of Californians Against Legalizing Marijuana, said the poll results show that "we have to do a better job of educating the community about the harms of marijuana."
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2013/02/27/5220454/field-poll-california-voters-favor.html#storylink=cpy
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KCRA) —A new bill is aimed at cracking down on people driving under the influence of drugs.
Under SB 289, introduced by state Sen. Lou Correa, it is illegal for a person to have in his or her blood any detectable amount of drugs while driving, unless it was taken in accordance with a valid prescription from a doctor.
The drugs are from those classified in Schedules I, II, III, or IV of the California Uniform Controlled Substance Act.
Former Sacramento Sheriff John McGinness, who represents the California Peace Officers Association, supports the bill.
"You're talking about something that's per se unlawful, prohibited -- so therefore, its mere presence, coupled with the operation of the motor vehicle, is a threat to the safety of the public," McGinness told KCRA 3, adding that he is waiting for details on how the bill would be enforced.
The most current draft of SB 289 does not make an exception for marijuana, for which patients receive a doctor's recommendation, rather than a prescription.
"It would impact thousands and thousands of patients across the state who are not impaired," said Lanette Davies, a spokesperson for Crusaders for Patients Rights. "There's nothing in their system that's impairing them, but they would be driving illegally if this bill is passed."
Davies said a better way to ensure safe driving would focus on the nature of impairment, rather than the medication in the driver's system.
However, supporters believe SB 289 is a good start in getting drugged drivers off the roads.
"The goal is to minimize the likelihood of anybody operating a motor vehicle on the highways in California when there's evidence to show they have some level of impairment that will compromise your safety and mine," McGinness said.
According to a recent study released by the Office of Traffic Safety, more California drivers tested positive for drugs that may impair driving at 14 percent, than they did for alcohol at 7.3 percent.
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The Emerging Pro-Weed Majority
Marijuana could be the next gay marriage -- a contentious social issue that suddenly picks up broad, bipartisan support for change. On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell came out in favor of legalizing hemp, joining Oregon Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley and fellow Kentucky Republican Rand Paul to cosponsor a bill that would allow Americans to grow it, NBC News' Kasie Hunt reports. Of course, hemp is not the same as regular marijuana. Industrial hemp has much less THC, the chemical that gets people high. But right now, hemp is classified in the same category as drugs like heroin and LSD. On Thursday, the Kentucky state senate voted to legalize hemp if the federal government legalizes it too. Oregon has legalized hemp cultivation, but farmers risk federal prosecution.
Again, hemp is not the same thing as marijuana, "but some law enforcement groups say it is a step that could lead to the legalization of marijuana," Hunt writes. Other lawmakers -- yes, even conservative Republicans! -- have addressed legalizing the drug itself. The most fascinating example was last week, when Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli said twice he was "evolving" on the issue of marijuana legalization when political science students at the University of Virginia asked him about voters legalizing weed in Colorado and Washington last fall. "I'm not sure about Virginia's future [in terms of marijuana legalization]," Cuccinelli said. "But I and a lot of people are watching Colorado and Washington to see how it plays out." He explained it as a federalism thing: "I don't have a problem with states experimenting with this sort of thing. I think that's the role of states."
Cuccinelli is expected to be the next Republican nominee for Virginia governor. He's a very conservative dude. He led the states' rebellion against Obamacare. He's said conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia isn't conservative enough. In the same UVA appearance, he said he didn't support public pools because they distort the free market.
More remarkable is that Cuccinelli later clarified his comments -- but not in the traditional political definition of the word, which is "retract all previous statements." Instead, he questioned the war on drugs:
"What I expressed to [the students] was an openness to observe how things work there, both in terms of the drug side and the economics. One issue that is often discussed is how the war on drugs itself has played out. Have we done this the right way? It's been phenomenally expensive...
[If the government] going to put people in jail and spend $25,000 [to] $30,000 a year for a prison bed, do we want it to be for someone who's pushing marijuana or pushing meth? I'll tell you what, that $30,000 for the meth pusher is well worth the deal."
Rand Paul has gone further in talking about marijuana legalization than his pro-him pal McConnell. In November, like Cuccinelli, Paul said, "States should be allowed to make a lot of these decisions... I think, for example, we should tell young people, 'I'm not in favor of you smoking pot, but if you get caught smoking pot, I don't want to put you in jail for 20 years...'"
It's important to explain what's radical and what isn't in this position. Few people who get caught with marijuana go to jail for 20 years, so opposing that isn't a big deal. It's the boring part of Paul's comment -- let states make the call on weed -- that actually is radical. As Reason's Jacob Sullumexplained, a Republican senator supporting "devolving drug policy decisions to the states is pretty bold in the current political context." He writes:
It is the policy embodied in the Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2011, which was co-sponsored by Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Paul's father, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas). How many of their fellow congressmen joined them? Nineteen, all but one (Dana Rohrabacher of California) a Democrat.
So, how are the states doing? On Thursday, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced people arrested on minor pot possession charges won't be booked and held for arraignment anymore, The Wall Street Journal reports. Instead, they'll be released with appearance tickets, which means the person is free until his or her court date. But the issue is being addressed outside liberalism's East Coast capital. In state legislatures like Rhode Island, Maine, and Pennsylvania, the push for legalization in 2013 has, so far, been dominated by Democrats. But there are signs Republicans might ease their opposition, too. This week, Pennsylvania state Sen. Daylin Leach toldRaw Story that if her marijuana legalization bill was voted on by "secret ballot," it would pass. Privately, Leach said, some of the "most conservative" lawmakers agree on legalization, because it's "just another government program" that doesn't work.
In New Hampshire, some Republican lawmakers are willing to go on the record. "Marijuana can let them die in peace, and if this helps them, so be it," Republican state Rep. Will Infantine said after hearing testimony from people with debilitating illnesses, The Dartmouth reports Friday. A bill to legalize medical marijuana is expected to pass by mid-March and make New Hampshire the last New England state to allow it. Last year, the Democratic governor vetoed two medical marijuana bills, but current Gov. Maggie Hassan has said she won't veto the current bill.
One of the most fascinating marijuana moments this year was when conservative former Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo announced he would smoke pot to make good on his bet with Adam Hartle, a stand-up comic, over whether Colorado would legalize weed. "Look, I made a bet with the producer of the film that if Amendment 64 passed ( I did not think it would) that I would smoke pot," Tancredo said. "I will therefore smoke pot under circumstances we both agree are legal under Colorado law." His family eventually peer pressured him out of it.
Bloomberg: Marijuana Arrests In NYC Will Mean A Desk Appearance Ticket, Not A Night In Jail
Posted: 02/14/2013 1:58 pm EST | Updated: 02/14/2013 1:59 pm EST
Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Thursday that those arrested in New York City for possessing small amounts of marijuana will no longer have to spend a night in jail.
The new measure, set to take effect next month, was announced during Bloomberg's State of the City speech. From the speech:
"But we know that there's more we can do to keep New Yorkers, particularly young men, from ending up with a criminal record. Commissioner Kelly and I support Governor Cuomo's proposal to make possession of small amounts of marijuana a violation, rather than a misdemeanor and we'll work to help him pass it this year. But we won't wait for that to happen."Right now, those arrested for possessing small amounts of marijuana are often held in custody overnight. We're changing that. Effective next month, anyone presenting an ID and clearing a warrant check will be released directly from the precinct with a desk appearance ticket to return to court. It's consistent with the law, it's the right thing to do and it will allow us to target police resources where they're needed most."
Last month, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo proposed decriminalizing the possession of under 15 grams of marijuana.
New York City is one of the highest rates of marijuana arrests in the world. From a report by the Drug Policy Alliance:
In the last decade since Michael Bloomberg became mayor, the NYPD has made 400,038 lowest level marijuana possession arrests at a cost of $600 million dollars. Nearly 350,000 of the marijuana possession arrests made under Bloomberg are of overwhelmingly young Black and Latino men, despite the fact that young whites use marijuana at higher rates than young Blacks and Latinos.In the last five years, the NYPD under Bloomberg has made more marijuana arrests (2007 to 2011 = 227,093) than in the 24 years from 1978 through 2001 under Mayor Giuliani, Mayor Dinkins, and Mayor Koch combined (1978 to 2001 = 226,861).
Say It, Mr. President
Ethan Nadelmann Executive Director, Drug Policy Alliance
Posted: 02/12/2013 11:04 am
I firmly believe that at some point during his second administration President Obama is going to address the issue of mass incarceration in America. What I fear is that he is going to wait so long, and ultimately do so with such caution, as to minimize his potential impact.
I'll be listening to his State of the Union tonight, hoping against hope that he says something, and says something bold. He's made clear he has other priorities -- the economy, immigration, climate change and now gun violence -- but what a difference it would make for him to speak to this issue when he addresses the nation.
There's no question he gets it. Barack Obama was a strong proponent of criminal justice reform as a state legislator. He spoke about it when he ran for president the first time. His administration worked hard during his first years in office to eliminate the racially disproportionate disparity in federal sanctions for crack and powder cocaine, winning a bipartisan compromise to at least reduce the disparity from 100:1 to 18:1. And he made clear in a Time magazine interview just two months ago that he views over-incarceration for non-violent offenses as a real problem:
Well, I don't think it's any secret that we have one of the two or three highest incarceration rates in the world, per capita. I tend to be pretty conservative, pretty law and order, when it comes to violent crime. My attitude is, is that when you rape, murder, assault somebody, that you've made a choice; the society has every right to not only make sure you pay for that crime, but in some cases to disable you from continuing to engage in violent behavior.
But there's a big chunk of that prison population, a great huge chunk of our criminal justice system that is involved in nonviolent crimes. And it is having a disabling effect on communities. Obviously, inner city communities are most obvious, but when you go into rural communities, you see a similar impact. You have entire populations that are rendered incapable of getting a legitimate job because of a prison record. And it gobbles up a huge amount of resources. If you look at state budgets, part of the reason that tuition has been rising in public universities across the country is because more and more resources were going into paying for prisons, and that left less money to provide to colleges and universities.
But this is a complicated problem. One of the incredible transformations in this society that precedes me, but has continued through my presidency, even continued through the biggest economic downturn since the Great Depression, is this decline in violent crime. And that's something that we want to continue. And so I think we have to figure out what are we doing right to make sure that that downward trend in violence continues, but also are there millions of lives out there that are being destroyed or distorted because we haven't fully thought through our process.
Read that last line, that last clause, again: "but also are there millions of lives out there that are being destroyed or distorted because we haven't fully thought through our process." He didn't say a few; he didn't say thousands; he said millions. And the fact is that the president's not exaggerating -- not when this country has less than 5 percent of the world's population but almost 25 percent of the world's incarcerated population; not when our rate of incarceration is roughly five times that of most other nations; not when we rely on incarceration to an extent unparalleled in the history of democratic societies; not when almost six million Americans can't vote because they were convicted of a felony; not when one of every 32 adult Americans are under the supervision of the criminal justice system, with all the indignities, discriminations and disadvantages that that entails; and not when the tens of billions of dollars spent each year incarcerating fellow citizens displaces expenditures on education, research and non-incarcerative infrastructure.
James Webb, who represented Virginia in the U.S. Senate for the past six years, said it well: "There are only two possibilities here: either we have the most evil people on earth living in the United States; or we are doing something dramatically wrong in terms of how we approach the issue of criminal justice."
During President Obama's first term, I occasionally had opportunity to ask senior White House aides why the president was so silent on this issue. Some simply said he had to focus on other priorities. Others suggested that his being the first black president made him particularly wary of taking the issue on given the extraordinary extent to which over-incarceration in this country is about race and the mass incarceration of black men. But wasn't that precisely the reason, or at least a key reason, I asked, why President Obama needed to address the issue, and needed to provide the leadership that only he could provide. Maybe in a second term, they replied.
Well, that second term is now -- and what the president says tonight is going to frame his proactive agenda for the next four years. "Millions of lives," he said; millions of American lives "being destroyed or distorted because we haven't fully thought through our process." If ever there was a time and an issue for President Obama to assert his moral leadership, this is it.
Say it, Mr. President, please say it now.
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February 10, 2013 9:30 am • BY ELLEN KOMP California NORML
In Hillary Clinton's farewell speech as secretary of state, she said, "We need a new architecture for this new world, more Frank Gehry than formal Greek."
Clinton was referring to Venice, Calif.-based architect Frank Gehry, who molded a unique style of laid-back architecture and is the world-class architect of the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles and the forthcoming Dwight D. Eisenhower memorial.
Someone who worked with Gehry in the 1980s reported him "coming out of rooms with clouds of [marijuana] smoke behind him." It wouldn't be too surprising. Even Meghan McCain says pot smoking is everywhere in LA.
I raise this in answer to the op-ed you printed recently from an employee of a drug testing company touting her company's services as the means of achieving a safe and productive workforce, even in the wake of marijuana smokers winning their rights back in Colorado and Washington.
I beg to differ.
First of all, drug testing has never been scientifically shown to be effective at improving workplace safety or productivity, and studies indicate that the great majority of drug-positive workers are just as reliable as others. Medically, the consensus of expert opinion is that drug tests are an inherently unreliable indicator of drug impairment. Dr. George Lundberg of the American Medical Association has called them "Chemical McCarthyism."
Second, by screening out marijuana smokers, we're weeding out (so to speak) some of our most creative and, I would argue, productive employees. If you doubt that marijuana smokers have contributed to our society, see veryimportantpotheads.com. In the case of someone using marijuana for medical purposes, it's downright discrimination to deny them employment for using what a doctor has legally recommended under state law.
Silicon Valley, the brainchild of entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates (who both admittedly smoked pot in their youth), notoriously does not drug test its employees, knowing they'd lose much of their talent that way. Yet the region is responsible for much of California's economic productivity, in one of the few nonmilitary industries the U.S. has.
Henry Ford's method of sending investigators into his workers' homes to observe their drinking habits seems outrageous today, yet employers are basically doing the same thing by demanding its workers pee in a cup on Monday to find out what they did on Friday night. Is it really their business?
There is an alternative called impairment testing that has been shown to be more effective than drug testing at assuring workers' safety. But chemical tests are entrenched in our political process and with businesses and insurance companies, and the more forward-thinking ideas are, so far, crushed under the Greek architecture of the old days.
Carl Sagan, one of the many productive members of society who enjoyed marijuana, said, "The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world."
It won't do us much good to end the injustice of marijuana prohibition if only the unemployed can exercise their right to use it. And those companies that exercise drug testing will have only a piss-poor workforce.
Ellen Komp is the deputy director of the California chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. Her column is a response to an opinion piece supporting workplace drug testing that appeared in the Star-Tribune on Feb. 3.
New Push to Mellow on Hemp
State, Federal Efforts Back Farmers in Calling for Excluding Crop From Drug Laws
By ARIAN CAMPO-FLORES
Like many farmers in Kentucky, Brian Furnish has for years struggled to find crops to replace tobacco.
He thinks he has one candidate: industrial hemp, the cousin of marijuana used to make everything from cosmetics to car parts. It grows well in small plots, and demand for some hemp-based products is on the rise. The problem is that federal law makes it virtually impossible to grow the crop in the U.S.
David Kasnic for The Wall Street JournalBrian Furnish, a farmer in Cynthiana, Ky., grows tobacco, corn, wheat and hay, and says he would further diversify into hemp if it were legalized.
"We grew it here for years until the '50s," when it was still permitted, said Mr. Furnish, 37 years old. "I don't see any reason why we couldn't again."
He can take heart from efforts gathering steam from a wide political spectrum in Congress to again authorize hemp production. U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie (R., Ky.) introduced a bill in the House on Wednesday that would exclude hemp from the federal drug law that now lumps it together with marijuana. U.S. Sens. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) and Ron Wyden (D., Ore.) say they plan to file similar legislation in the Senate, where Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) last week said for the first time that he supported growing the crop.
Meanwhile, pro-hemp legislative measures have been introduced or carried over this year in seven states. Several states have already removed barriers to hemp production. "We've never had a better situation than we do right now," said Eric Steenstra, president of Vote Hemp, a not-for-profit advocacy group.
Significant obstacles remain. Previous pro-hemp bills in Congress went nowhere. And the White House has taken a dim view of the crop. "Hemp and marijuana are part of the same species of cannabis plant," wrote Gil Kerlikowske, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, last year. He added that hemp contains tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the psychoactive compound in marijuana.
Yet proponents point out the amount of THC in hemp is minimal—usually less than 1%, which is considered the threshold for potentially generating a high, according to researchers. By comparison, THC levels in marijuana average 10% and can reach 30% or more. Hemp legislation in the U.S., as well as in European countries where growing it is legal, usually sets the ceiling for THC content at 0.3%.
Farmers cultivated hemp legally throughout much of America's history. By the late 1950s, production ceased, partly as a result of high taxes imposed by the federal government.
The 1970 Controlled Substances Act made no distinction between varieties of cannabis. So while it isn't illegal to grow hemp, a farmer must register with the Drug Enforcement Administration, which Mr. Steenstra said means prohibitively expensive security requirements.
Still, it is legal to import hemp-based products—such as shirts and carpeting—and components of the plant, like hemp oil, used to make beauty products. Industry groups estimate that retail sales of hemp-based products in the U.S. exceed $300 million a year.
The size of that market has enticed advocates in Kentucky, which was a leading hemp producer in the 1800s. Agriculture Commissioner James Comer is championing a bill that would set up a regulatory framework for hemp if the federal government eliminates barriers to production. It is similar to the laws in the eight states that have authorized hemp growing, though all these measures still face the prohibitions under federal law.
"We could be the Silicon Valley for industrial hemp manufacturing," he said. Several makers of hemp-based products have expressed interest in buying from Kentucky farmers, he said.
Among them is Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps, an Escondido, Calif., company that imports about 20 tons of hemp oil a year from Canada. "We want to buy from American farmers," said President David Bronner.
The Kentucky effort has drawn support from both tea-party groups and liberals, the latter because the crop is considered sustainable. "People on the right like it because it's a liberty issue," said Mr. Comer, a Republican. And "people on the left like it because it's a green crop."
But some law-enforcement groups argue hemp looks similar to marijuana, which would make it a challenge to conduct aerial surveillance aimed at eradicating pot. "Hemp farming would greatly complicate drug law enforcement activities," the Kentucky Narcotic Officers' Association wrote last November.
Analysts say the measure has a decent chance of passage in the state Senate but faces a steeper climb in Kentucky's House, where Speaker Greg Stumbo, a Democrat, has expressed reservations.
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HL7 has announced the release of a new version of FHIR designed to link it with real-world concepts and players in healthcare, marking the third of five planned updates. It's also issuing the first release of the US Core Implementation Guide.
FHIR release 3 was produced with the cooperation of hundreds of contributors, and the final product incorporates the input of more than 2,400 suggested changes, according to project director Grahame Grieve. The release is known as STU3 (Standard for Trial Use, release 3).
Key changes to the standard include additional support for clinical quality measures and clinical decision support, as well as broader functionality to cover key clinical workflows.
In addition, the new FHIR version includes incremental improvements and increased maturity of the RESTful API, further development of terminology services and new support for financial management. It also defined an RDF format, as well as how FHIR relates to linked data.
HL7 is already gearing up for the release of FHIR's next version. It plans to publish the first draft of version 4 for comment in December 2017 and review comments on the draft. It will then have a ballot on the version, in April 2018, and publish the new standard by October 2018.
Among those contributing to the development of FHIR is the Argonaut project, which brings together major US EHR vendors to drive industry adoption of FHIR forward. Grieve calls the project a "particularly important" part of the FHIR community, though it's hard to tell how far along its vendor members have come with the standard so far.
To date, few EHR vendors have offered concrete support for FHIR, but that's changing gradually. For example, in early 2016 Cerner released an online sandbox for developers designed to help them interact with its platform. And earlier this month, Epic announced the launch of a new program, helping physician practices to build customized apps using FHIR.
In addition to the vendors, which include athenahealth, Cerner, Epic, MEDITECH and McKesson, several large providers are participating. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Intermountain Healthcare, the Mayo Clinic and Partners HealthCare System are on board, as well as the SMART team at the Boston Children's Hospital Informatics Program.
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Jon Corzine, former chief of MF Global, sharply criticized a House Subcommittee report that claims he is to blame for MF Global's collapse.
In response to excerpts of the report, "The Collapse of MF Global," which were released Wednesday by the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Steven Goldberg, a partner at RLM Finsbury who is a spokesman for Corzine, told AdvisorOne in an email message that "while we have not been able to review the whole report," Corzine "disagrees strongly with several of the assertions that apparently are part of the Subcommittee's report."
The full report was released Thursday.
Goldberg first highlights the fact that "consistent with Mr. Corzine's Congressional testimony, the House Subcommittee apparently did not find any evidence that Mr. Corzine acted in bad faith or engaged in any intentional wrongdoing."
Second, Goldberg notes that while the subcommittee claims that "customers may never get back" the more than $1 billion of money lost, the House Republicans "fail to note that more than 80% of customer money has been returned to date." Furthermore, he says, Corzine "continues to feel great sadness about what happened at MF Global and the impact it had on customers, employees and shareholders," and that "he is hopeful that Trustee Freeh is correct in his estimation that customers ultimately will receive a full recovery."
Corzine also takes issue with the subcommittee report's assertion that MF Global's "belated disclosure in October 2011 of its extensive European RTM portfolio–which amounted to 14% of MF Global's total assets–combined with poor earnings news prompted credit rating agencies to downgrade the company's credit rating to junk status."
Says Goldberg: "The Subcommittee fails to recognize that the RTM investments were in fact fully disclosed prior to October 2011. MF Global made full disclosure of the RTM positions in its 2011 10-K, which was publicly filed in May 2011, and in its 2012 first quarter 10-Q, which was publicly filed in August 2011, and the market did not react at those times."
Furthermore, Goldberg says, the suggestion by the Subcommittee that Corzine created an "authoritarian" atmosphere "is wrong." All of the MF Global's significant business decisions, he says, "including the change in business strategy and the RTM investments, were subject to review, debate and approval by the MF Global Board of Directors. In fact, the RTM investments were heavily debated and ultimately approved by the Board, which placed limits on the level of those investments."
Finally, Goldberg addressed the number of assertions the Subcommittee makes as to Corzine's "failures" in managing MF Global. Said Goldberg: "When Mr. Corzine joined MF Global he was tasked with quickly turning around a failing business, shoring up internal processes and controls, and, most importantly, immediately returning MF Global to profitability. He set a new strategy for the firm after extensive discussions with the Board, the senior management team and well respected outside consultants. At all times Mr. Corzine acted in good faith and did what he believed was necessary to turn around MF Global."


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MONTREAL - This week's report of a surprising April surge in home construction, particularly in Toronto's hot condo market, has put analysts on alert for signs of dangerous overheating in the housing market.
But even with housing starts hitting a seven-year high in both Quebec and Ontario, driven largely by condominium projects, "I don't think there is a bubble now," says Carlos Leitao, chief economist at the Laurentian Bank. "There is a market for those units."
Leitao isn't unduly worried because he expects a pullback in the pace of construction. But he does think its current rate is unsustainable.
So does Benjamin Tal, a senior economist at CIBC World Markets.
Tal issued a report yesterday noting that Canadians have reined in a propensity to run up bigger household debts, a welcome development. Part of this picture is that we are finally easing back on running up new mortgage debt.
He still thinks that this trend will continue, but acknowledged that if the building boom continues unabated, "I would be very concerned," because the purchasers of all those homes would have to pile up new mortgage obligations.
The problem with the spurt in housing construction is that with the long-term pace of household formation in Canada running at about 180,000 per year, it's risky for builders to produce a lot more homes than this for very long.
At some point, the market becomes saturated, creating the risk of a crash.
But recently, the pace of housing construction, fuelled largely by condo developers, has jumped from a reasonable annual rate of 190,200 a year ago to an eye-watering 244,900 last month.
"I guess the risk is that if we start getting building that's well above the rate of household formation, this indicates that quite a lot of it is purely for investment purposes," points out Douglas Porter, deputy chief economist at BMO Capital Markets.
"To me, that's a real warning sign that does raise the risk of a hard landing; maybe not tomorrow or even next year, but eventually."
Right now, the only market that seems to be significantly at risk is Toronto, where in March, home prices jumped 10.5 per cent from a year earlier, making it Canada's only major city with a double-digit gain.
But both Montreal and Calgary have seen home sales zoom ahead in April, and if this should continue, it could be an early sign that prices might follow, warns Porter.
So far, though, prices are well-behaved in both cities.
Montreal, with sales up 16 per cent in April, had an average price gain of less than three per cent.
Calgary, with a sales spurt of 30 per cent, saw prices inch up by less than two per cent.
Strangely enough, sales also skyrocketed in Toronto last month, up 17.9 per cent from a year ago, but the city's price gain edged down to 8.5 per cent. So far, there's no clear national pattern of overheating.
One outcome that analysts fear if prices and sales both accelerated is that Canada's already heavily indebted consumers will wind up with an even heavier debt burden, causing more of them to get into trouble when interest rates inevitably begin to rise.
While it's not easy to get a clear picture of how overdone the condo-building surge has become, the fact is that the number of unoccupied new condos has been rising, notes economist Dina Cover at the TD Bank.
This looks like a sign that many investors who bought with the expectation of renting out their units are having trouble finding tenants.
If this trend should continue, "that's where the risk is," Leitao says.
Owners who live in their condos are unlikely to dump them at a loss, but an investor might be tempted to do so in the hope of avoiding a still bigger loss if prices should start falling.
If this phenomenon takes hold in a big way, "that's when it becomes a downward spiral" that could drag down prices in the whole housing market. This is particularly true because Tal, among many others, believes the housing market is already overvalued by about 10 per cent. Such over-valuation isn't particularly serious, since it can be undone by a few years' price stability. But if the market soars much higher, and then part of it craters, there is much more danger of a sharp drop.
Happily, that's not the future that most observers expect. Leitao, for example, notes that the spike in April's housing construction isn't necessarily meaningful, saying: "This huge number could easily drop over the next few months."
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This week, students and professors from 30 European universities converged on ESA's Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, for the Vega maiden flight CubeSat workshop - the first dedicated CubeSat workshop to be held at European level.
The workshop followed an initial announcement of opportunity in October 2007, for student teams from across Europe to prepare CubeSats that may be flown on the maiden flight of ESA's Vega launcher
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The programme also included a series of talks during plenary morning sessions on ESA educational activities and various aspects of CubeSats. Among the guest speakers was Prof. Robert Twiggs from Stanford University, who developed the original concept of CubeSats - picosatellites measuring 10x10x10 cm.
"The response from the European student community has been very encouraging and we are looking forward to a keen competition for places on the Vega flight," said Helen Page of ESA's Education Office. "The Vega maiden flight is a great opportunity for students to gain experience of end-to-end development of a space project within a limited period of time."
The official call for proposals for European CubeSats on the Vega maiden flight will be issued in the next few days on the ESA Education website. The deadline for the submission of proposals will be 29 February 2008. The selection of the six CubeSats (plus two backups) to fly on the Vega will be made shortly thereafter.
On 28 May 2007, Antonio Fabrizi, ESA's Director of Launchers, and René Oosterlinck, the Agency's Director of Legal Affairs and External Relations, signed an agreement to include an educational payload on the maiden flight of the Vega launch vehicle from Kourou, French Guiana, currently planned for December 2008.
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Cosmologists recently unveiled the best image yet of the cosmic microwave background – the 'afterglow' of the Big Bang – by ESA's Planck space telescope.
The background is the oldest light in our Universe, imprinted on the sky when it was just 380 000 years old. It shows tiny temperature fluctuations that correspond to regions of slightly different densities at very early times, representing the seeds of all future structure: the stars and galaxies of today.
This animation illustrates the painstaking detective work performed by cosmologists to extract the cosmic microwave background from 15.5 months of data collected by Planck.
The first image in the sequence shows the sources of emission detected on the whole sky at the microwave and submillimetre wavelengths probed by Planck, which range from 11.1 mm to 0.3 mm, corresponding to frequencies between 27 GHz and 1 THz.
The different sources include discrete emission from individual galactic and extragalactic sources, and diffuse radio and thermal emission from interstellar material in the Milky Way.
The cosmologists had to remove all possible contamination due to emission by foreground sources before they could fully explore the cosmic microwave background, which is unveiled in the final slide of the animation.
Using the new map, cosmologists can find clues to the formation and evolution of our Universe since the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago, and trace the history of star and galaxy formation to the present day.
This week, cosmologists are meeting at a dedicated Planck symposium hosted by ESA's space research and technology centre, ESTEC, in the Netherlands, to discuss the results and implications of the new cosmology results.
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Envision a brick wall charging at you at 100 miles per hour. Premonitions Of War is so much more than a band. They are a force. They are the ominous black cloud sitting above your head. With their take on metallic hardcore - more merciless, unbridled and infuriated than anything else in the genre, they are a humbling beast, battering you with a mess of low-end-heavy hardcore, grind and utter dirge that blasts right through you, caves in your face and stomps your remains to bits. Premonitions of War has a thunderous sound that brings to mind bands like Unsane, Soilent Green, Neurosis and Superjoint Ritual mixed with hardcore breakdowns and Allman-esque southern rock. They are a sonic paroxysm comprised of an unadulterated vocal uproar and a colossal wall of sound. Not since the demise of Carcass has the heavy music world seen a band as forceful in its ability to translate hostility and aggression into musical compositions - you are not prepared for this.
Formed in September of 2000, Premonitions Of War was manifested by three close friends, M. Gaytan (guitar), P. Meyers (guitar) and D. Schoenhofer (drums) who had been playing in bands together for close to four years. Their overall dissatisfaction with the hardcore scene and the world in general inspired them to create music that would incorporate all of their influences - from metal to rock to electronic and more- while keeping their feet planted firmly in hardcore. "We're not a metal band - we don't have long hair and we don't wear bullet belts. We want to make music that will combine different types of heavy music without expressing the shortcomings of any of them. We like to keep people on their toes and bring in elements from music scenes generally geared towards older audiences while still keeping it interesting to us," said Gaytan. Premonitions oO War added two more members, T. Amstutz on vocals and A. Amstutz on bass to solidify their assemblage and started writing music. They released a self-titled EP in 2000 and started playing shows throughout the U.S. Next, they wrote and recorded the notable 'The True Face of Panic' released by Goodfellow Records in November of 2002, touring in support of it with bands like The Red Chord, Between the Buried and Me and The Black Dahlia Murder.
In 2003 Premonitions Of War would see a lineup change that added B. Wharton on vocals and N. Hale on bass and the band now had a solid touring arrangement. They began garnering interest from various record labels and were approached by Victory Records in February of 2003, signing a deal with the label shortly thereafter. Premonitions Of War had already received outstanding press from the likes of Metal Maniacs, Terrorizer, MTV News and Outburn. The buzz on this band was building with unrelenting force.
Premonitions Of War headed south to Tampa, FL to record their Victory Records premiere, "Left In Kowloon", in October of 2003 at Mana Recording Studios with Shawn Ohtani and Erik Rutan of Morbid Angel and Hate Eternal fame. M. Gaytan said, "Recording 'Kowloon' included a lot of late nights fueled by coffee and Cuban guava pastries. We worked through evenings and mornings for 3 weeks straight, which definitely added to the genuine bitterness and the emphatic bleakness of the recording. It was amazing to record with [Erik] Rutan as we've all looked up to the bands he's been in and the recordings that were done in this studio like Hate Eternal and Krisiun".
Unsurpassingly volatile and irascible, Premonitions of War is a monstrosity that is ready to storm the front lines of the heavy music scene and "Left In Kowloon" is a paradigm that will go unmatched by today's standards of angst-ridden hardcore. Premonitions Of War truly captures vehemence and catharsis and are the burgeoning band in extreme music for 2004. Look for Premonitions Of War on the road to support "Left In Kowloon" throughout the year and beyond.
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Respecting the Righteous Companions
The Shia devote a great respect for some of the companions of the Prophet (PBUH&HF) who closely followed Prophet and the Ahlul-Bayt before and after death of Prophet (PBUH&HF). Among these great companions, are the following individuals:
Abu Dhar al-Ghifari
The Holy Prophet said concerning Abu Dhar al-Ghifari that "Heaven has not shaded, nor has the earth carried a person more straight forward than Abu Dhar. He walks on earth with the immaterialistic attitude of Jesus, the son of Mary."
Sunni references:
- Sahih al-Tirmidhi, v5, p334, Tradition #3889
- Tahdhib al-Athar, v4, pp 158-161
- Musnad Ahmad Hanbal, #6519, #6630, #7078
- al-Mustadrak, by al-Hakim, v3, p342
- al-Tabaqat, by Ibn Sa'd, v4, part 1, pp 167-168
- Majma' al-Zawa'id, by al-Haythami, v9, pp 329-330
Ammar Ibn Yasir
The Holy Prophet had told Ammar Ibn Yasir along with his parents that:
"Family of Yasir, be patient, for your destination is paradise," Sunni Reference: Sahih al-Tirmidhi, v5, p233,
The Holy Prophet also told him that "Ammar be cheerful, the aggressor party shall kill you."
Sunni references:
- al-Mustadrak, by al-Hakim, v3, p383
- Sahih Muslim, English version, v4, chapter MCCV, Traditions #6968& #6970
The English translator of Sahih Muslim (Abdul Hamid Siddiqui) has written in the footnote of the above traditions that:
This narration is clearly indicative of the fact that in the conflict between Hadrat Ali and his opponents, Hadrat Ali was on the right as Ammar Ibn Yasir was killed in the Battle of Siffin fighting in the camp of Hadrat Ali. (Footnote of Sahih Muslim, English version, v4, p1508).
al-Miqdad Ibn al-Aswad
He is among the four men whom the Prophet (PBUH&HF) was commanded to love, as the Prophet said:
"God commanded me to love four, and He informed me that he loves them. People asked him: Messenger of God who are they? He said: Ali is from them ( repeating that three times ). And Abu Tharr and Salman and al- Miqdad."
Sunni reference: Sunan ibn Majah, v1 p53 Hadith 149
The Messenger of Allah also said:
"Every prophet was given by God seven righteous companions. I was given fourteen righteous companions". He included in them Ali, al- Hasan, al-Husain, Hamza, Ja'far, Ammar Ibn Yasir, Abu Dhar, Miqdad, and Salman.
Sunni references:
- Fada'il al-Sahaba, by Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, v2, Traditions #109, #277
- Sahih al-Tirmidhi, v5, p329, p662
- Musnad Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, v1, pp88,148,149 from several chain of narrators
- al-Kabir, by al-Tabarani, v6, p264, p265
- Hilyatul Awliya', by Abu Nu'aym, v1, p128
Salman al-Farsi
Concerning him, the Messenger of Allah (PBUH&HF) said that "Paradise longs for three men, Ali, Ammar and Salman."
Sunni reference: Sahih al-Tirmidhi, v5, p332, Tradition #3884
Ibn Abbas
He was the person about whom the Prophet (PBUH&HF) said:
"God I ask Thee to teach him the interpretation and make him knowledgeable in religion and make him from the people of belief."
Sunni reference: al-Mustadrak, by al-Hakim, v3, p536


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Yadier's knee better, should be OK for ASG
CHICAGO -- Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina said the troublesome right knee that kept him out of a game a week ago is improving steadily and he'll probably make the start for the National League in Tuesday's All-Star Game (6:30 p.m. CT on FOX).
Molina, who was voted by fans to be the NL's starting catcher, left a game on July 6 at Busch Stadium to get an MRI on his sore right knee -- which was surgically repaired in September 2007. The results showed nothing structurally wrong, but the Cardinals will continue to monitor their star backstop on a daily basis. After starting on Friday afternoon at Wrigley Field against the Cubs, Molina has played in 85 of the Cardinals' 90 games and was second in the Majors in innings caught (698) coming into the game.
"Every day it's getting better," Molina said. "Being a catcher is a tough position. You won't be 100 percent every day, and right now my knee is getting better every day that goes by."
Asked about the knee possibly affecting his thinking in regard to the All-Star Game, Molina hinted that he'd probably make the start.
"I care more about my team here, about the season and [wins and losses]," he said. "I'm in the [NL] lineup right now, so I'm good to go."
If anybody understands the rigors of catching on the knees, it's Cardinals manager Mike Matheny -- who caught 10,052 2/3 innings in his 13-year Major League career.
"Any catcher that catches a lot of innings through a career, you're going to have things pop up," Matheny said. "[Molina's] already had that [knee] repaired once and that's part of what's going on here, but the new pictures and everything they took, everything's pointing in the direction of … we've just got to listen to his body. When it feels good, we're going to roll with it, and when it doesn't, we're going to have to take some time."


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Officially, Home Depot's "Special Buy Deal of the Day" deals end at 4am ET, according to all the countdown and expiration notices that are posted on their site.
Sometime during the 2016 holiday season – yes, 2016 – I noticed that the promo prices seem to have expired after 3am ET, even though the countdown timer still hadn't reached zero yet.
Last night, I was up working on some things and also debating what to do about the disappointing "free tools, gimme" type giveaway entries we've been receiving. (Saying "yes" or "who doesn't like free tools," or "want moar toooools" doesn't answer the "why do you want to win this particular prize package" part of the giveaway entry conditions.)
I noticed that it was after 3am ET, and I thought it was a good time to recheck Home Depot's deal of the day countdown timer.
Well, there were 44 minutes left on the countdown timer, but all of the deals I checked had been bumped up in price, back to their previous promo or regular pricing levels.
So, observationally, Home Depot's Deal of the Day Special Buy pricing looks to expire at 3am ET. Maybe earlier? Certainly not 4am ET.
Some of you are up late, or really early, and do your online shopping at those times. At least one reader complained to me about this promo timing discrepancy in the past year. Maybe you noticed it too, but shrugged it off.
As far as problems with the world or retailers go, this is a pretty small one. Still, maybe someone at Home Depot will read this post and fix whatever issue is going on. Either the deals are set to expire at the wrong time, or the timer is set to count down to the wrong time. I should also point out that the promos cycle over at 4am ET every day.
The point of this post is to 1) reach someone at Home Depot's online team that can put a fix into motion, and 2) bring it to your attention, because. I can't be the only one who has taken advantage of tool deals less than an hour before they are set to end.


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The Texas Theatre in Seguin was opened on March 9, 1931. This stylish brick-and-mortar building is a remarkable combination of styles: part Neo-Vintage, part Art Moderne, part Aztec, and part Western Town style, with a distinctive vintage marquee neon tower which flashed 'Texas Theatre' with a big star for Texas. The auditorium was in an Atmospheric style.
The building has never been remodeled and still looks exactly as it did in the 1930's. The front facade is covered by a roof overhang supported by four square brick pillars and the entry doors and ticket booth are flanked by movie poster display cases.
This theatre was a popular showcase for Western movies from the 1930's to the 1960's, and often ran B-Western double features of Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and John Wayne.
Now only open for special events and film programs a few times a year, the theatre is being gradually restored, and is on the town register of historic sites, so there is no danger of its being demolished.
It is a perfect venue for a Western movie film festival, and I can almost picture a horse hitchin' post out front before the street was paved, although I know it isn't that old, and the street was already paved and lined with cars when it was built.
This theatre may have been part of the same chain that owned the Texas Theaters in both San Antonio and Dallas, Texas, because their marquee towers are identical in style. This theatre is a fine part of the cultural heritage of the grand state of Texas.
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Here's a news story posted 10/1/08 on My San Antonio News.
Old Seguin theater to be new again
Roger Croteau – Express-News
After 10 years of raising money, the Seguin Conservation Society officially broke ground Tuesday on a $2.5 million restoration of the historic Texas Theatre.
"It's exciting for Seguin,†said Steve Tschoepe, chairman of the task force organizing the project. "Every time we open the doors, someone wanders in and tells us stories of when they were kids and they came here.â€
Harold Brodt, 88, said he remembers when the Texas opened in 1931 because the owner, Alvin Mueller, was a neighbor of his and had him dress as a cowboy and ride to the town square as part of his grand opening promotion.
"Mr. Mueller said, 'You never have to pay a nickel,'†Brodt said. "So I lived at the picture shows.â€
The Depression-era movie house sports a Spanish colonial motif and was noted for its star-studded ceiling, which will be part of the restoration.
The Texas is a star in its own right. A replica of the theater's sign is displayed at the Bob Bullock Texas History Museum in Austin and the theater has appeared in several films, including "The Great Waldo Pepper†and "Raggedy Man.â€
"It was never modernized,†said task force member Nancy Masterson. "These mica lamps are original. It was repainted from time to time, but always in the original colors.â€
Dan Daniels said his family purchased the theater around 1934 and ran it until it closed in the mid-90s. He sold it to the conservation society in 1996.
"I'm excited to see it being restored,†he said. "It's a shame there's no way to make any money with a single-screen house anymore.â€
As a result, plans call for the stage to be expanded and the theater to be used for plays, lectures and musical performances as well as movies.
But more money is needed to finish the project, said task force member Stan Ledbetter.
"It took us 10 years to raise $2 million and the budgeted amount is $2.5 million,†he said. "Construction is expected to take a year or less, so that gives us a year or less to raise $500,000.â€
Slide show of ongoing restoration of the theater:
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The theater re-opened for events in March, 2011. On September 22, 2011 they had a "Marquee Partee" open house to celebrate the completion of newly installed neon lighting on the theater canopy and turned on the exterior lights for the first time. Photos of the exterior and interior from the event, as well as earlier (pre-restoration) photos can be seen here:
According to the Seguin Convention & Visitors Bureau, the Texas Theatre opened March 9, 1931, and has the original marquee and "Texas" sign with a star on top. Two movies, "The Great Waldo Pepper," 1973 (probably the date of filming, as the film was released in 1975), and "Raggedy Man," 1980, have scenes filmed in the Texas Theatre. Several "shorts" and advertisements have also been filmed at the theater.
In "The Great Waldo Pepper" (1975) the Robert Redford character (Pepper) meets Mary Beth (Susan Sarandon) while watching Rudolph Valentino in "Son Of The Sheik" (1926) in the Texas Theatre. In the final cut we see the INTERIOR only. According to the December 6, 1973 edition of the Seguin Gazette, this scene was filmed on Monday December 3, 1973, while other filming was delayed due to inclement weather.
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The architect of the Texas Theatre was Marvin Eickenroht (1898-1969), He was born in Seguin, graduated the Univ of Texas, went to M.I.T. for postgraduate study in architecture. A newspaper clipping reporting the opening of the Texas proudly referred to "the home town boy" as the architect.
Eickenroht's papers in a San Antonio library list this theater as one of the many buildings he designed for his home town, including what was then the Seguin High School, the Central Fire Station, the First Presbyterian Church, The Guadalupe County Agricultural Building, and a number of residences.
During the Great Depression, Marvin Eickenroht joined one of the agencies derided as "make work", heading up the Historical American Buildings Survey, first for Texas, then for a half dozen other Southern States.
His distinguished career also included work for the San Antonio Conservation Society in two major restorations of historic properties, and as President of the West Texas Chapter of the A.I.A.
I've seen the Texas Theatre attributed to W. Scott Dunne in secondary sources. Having greatest respect for Scott Dunne, I'd be proud to claim an association between him and the Texas Theatre in Seguin; perhaps he was a collaborator or consulting architect. But I have never seen any ORIGINAL document linking Dunne to this building. If anyone knows where Dunne's papers are held I'd be glad to pursue this possible connection.
This theater was never part of any chain. It was built by an oil patch lawyer during Seguin's oil boom in the early 1930s. According to the lore, the father built the Texas for his spoiled son, whose exploits in his airplane (like flying under the highway bridge and crashing his plane on the local race track) were distressing his mother. The hoped-for distractions of Hollywood glamor didn't do it. It took World War II to change all that.
Enrolling in the Army Air Corps after war broke out in Europe, Alvin Mueller, Jr, became one of the first heroes of World War II in air battles over the Philippines, Java, and Australia. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Purple Heart, and the Silver Star.
By that time the theater had been sold to H.A. "Windy" Daniels, whose heirs sold it to the Seguin Conservation Society.
The Texas Theatre is operating successfully as a venue for musical shows, theatrical events, business meetings, even parties.
There do remain several gifting opportunities to complete and enrich the building, if anyone desires to contribute.
Does anyone have an original source for the claim that W. Scott Dunne was the architect of this theater? Does anyone know a library where Dunne's papers are kept? I can't find much of anything about him with a Google search.
Meanwhile the only primary source we have is the clipping from the Seguin Enterprise
Eickenroht's papers are held in the library of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas:
The summary of the papers at that site includes this paragraph:
"Eickenroht returned to Texas and began practicing architecture in San Antonio in 1925. He worked for several firms, including that of Ralph H. Cameron, before opening his own office in the Maverick Building in 1927. From 1927 to 1934, he completed commissions for schools, theaters, libraries, and churches in Seguin and San Antonio. In 1929, Eickenroht became an elected member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA)."
I hope to see the papers myself one day, but until then, the evidence is that Eickenroht designed the Texas Theatre.
The W. Scott Dunne candidacy seems conjecture — 'since he designed four or five other theaters named the Texas he must have designed this one too.' It ain't necessarily so.
From that site: "This stylish brick-and-mortar building is a remarkable combination of styles: part neo-Vintage, part Art Moderne, part Aztec, and part Western Town style, with a distinctive vintage marquee neon tower which flashed 'Texas Theatre' with a big star for Texas."
From this site, above: "This stylish brick-and-mortar building is a remarkable combination of styles: part Neo-Vintage, part Art Moderne, part Aztec, and part Western Town style, with a distinctive vintage marquee neon tower which flashed 'Texas Theatre' with a big star for Texas."
Nevermind the petty plagiarism, your newly reported site does not advance the cause with a single word of new information. Please try harder.
My challenge is to find a primary source — a document, a news report of the time — anything to prove that Dunne's name got in the story other by a wrong guess.
Perhaps 'plagiarism' was a little rough. It looks like the site you refer us to, arti-fact.com, is not American, probably English as a second language. So they 'borrowed' a few sentences from Donald John Long's original pwrite-up on this site, above. And that site links to this site, fair enough.
It's hard for me (lacking techie skills) to put a date on the entry on that arti-fact.com site. The Google photo apparently is from 2013. Meanwhile this site has comments dating back to 2005.
Seems clear that http://cinematreasures.org/ has the original material, while arti-fact.com simply 'copied' words from here. And contributed not a single word of new information.
So let's not think that citing other sites which repeat an error somehow proves it is not an error.
My late grandmother Mabel Rutherford used to take tickets there back in the day! I went when i was younger and even though the theater was rundown it was still very glamorous to me! yea to all who brought the Texas back! Cassandra Rutherford
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It's such a hot topic among parents with older children. Should allowance be given for completing household chores? Should it be given only as a reward for completing extra jobs around the house, or perhaps for not asking anything in return? Should an allowance be given to children at all?
I do believe that children should be taught how to manage money at an early age, but our children do not receive an allowance for doing their regular daily chores. They do, however, earn money in a variety of ways, not only from us, but also from various family members. Babysitting (a Mother's Helper, really), washing Dad's car, organizing cabinets and the pantry, helping with trips to the dump; these are all ways they may make some cash. It's hard earned and well appreciated.
Here's what my older kiddos had to say about allowance and earning money for completing extra jobs::
"Why would I get paid to help around the house? I should just do it to help the family." -Ethan, age 11
"I think we should do our chores and not get an allowance. You pay for our food and clothes, and stuff. We should be able to make money in other ways so we can buy the stuff we want, though." -Zach, age 11
"I like to do extra things to help you and make money for the stuff you don't buy me." -Julia, age 9
Do you give your children an allowance? How is it set up for your family? I'd love to hear about it!
Kidworth is a free online tool designed to teach kids financial goal setting. Wether you give your children an allowance or simply reward them for completing extra tasks, it's a great idea to set up a Kidworth account. You would set up the account and together you and your kids could enter some goals. Whether they'd like to save up for guitar lessons or a donation to the local animal shelter, Kidworth can help them achieve their dreams.
This post was sponsored by Kidworth. All thoughts and opinions are my own.