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Paula has been training Poodles to alert as diabetic alert dogs since she was in the third grade. (Her dad trained police dogs.) Below is a photo of Paula and Fifi taken in 1967.
Fifi, a black miniature female Poodle, was the first Sugar Dog. Paula was in the 5th grade in this photo. Angel, another black miniature female Poodle was the second Sugar Dog. Angel was followed by her daughter, Lady and later by 'Rhett Butler of Charleston,' another black miniature Poodle, male. Rhett was followed by Peaches who was joined about a year later by Sugar Boy. (see photos below.)
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How to Paint NMM Gold
By Matt 'Ragnar' Susalka
Matt is an award winning painter know all over the net for his great communication skills and very high quality of painting. Below he presents a quick and easy tutorial on how to paint award winning nonmetallic metallic.
I'm speed painting a Rune Priest up for a competition and I figured I may as well snap some pics and put out another tutorial for you guys.
First, your palette: Khemri Brown (foundation paint henceforth known as KB)
Snakebite Leather (Snakebite)
Bubonic Brown (Bubonic)
Bleached Bone (Bleached)
Skull White (Skull)
Dark Flesh (Dark)
Devlan Mud (Devlan)
Copious amounts of water to keep your paints thinned down to facilitate blending (feathering and glazing are best to use here, but simple layering can work in a pinch also)
Step 1: Over an undercoat (I used white, but it honestly doesn't matter *that* much for gold and silver; you'll be darkening shadows and lightening highlights enough to get a damn near identical result either way) paint a 1-1 mix of KB to snakebite in a couple of thin coats, keeping an even coverage and not letting the paint pool.
Step 2: Now, mix up a 1-1-1 mix of KB to snakebite to bubonic and apply this *away* from the place where light will directly fall upon the metal. Basically, for NMM (the vast majority of them, anyway), you'll want to basically reverse the direction and placement of highlights on areas. In this way, the highest points are darkest (with a white dot at the top, to be shown later) and the lowest points highlighted to near white. Keeping this in mind, feather a couple of thin coats from this step in such a way, followed by a further coat of 2-3-3-1 KB to snakebite to bubonic to bleached to achieve this look:
Step 3: For this mix, use 1-2-2-2 KB to snakebite to bubonic to bleached, making sure to blend your layers, followed by 1-1-1 snakebite to bubonic to bleached. At this last layer, you should be within the bottom quarter of the space you're painting. Also, in this stage, you'll want to *thinly* glaze dark flesh over the whole surface, making very sure none of it pools anywhere; simply rub off the excess liquid on a towel and brush the rest onto the surface. Also, glaze some devlan onto the darkest point (closest to the light source) to add to contrast.
Step 4: Mix up 1-1-4 snakebite to bubonic to bleached, followed by pure bleached, and followed by a final edge highlight of sorts of 1-1 bleached to skull. It should look something like this:
Step 5: For this final stage, you may want to add one more glaze of dark flesh and also darken the upper most parts further with devlan, but that is to personal taste. Add a *small* dot of pure white at the very tips closest to the light source in the darkest part of the gold to represent the reflection of the light source itself. It will look like this when you're finished:
If you have any questions or comments, please let me know, as usual. I'll write up one for silver at some point, when I can. It's pretty much the same, but with greys and possibly even reddish browns if you like. Good luck, happy painting fellas.

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Ali, Parkinson,
Dr. Betty Martini,D.Hum
Today Parkinson is back in the news with the death of Muhammad Ali. I thought about him fondly remembering some of his calls years ago. I suspect his Parkinson developed due to head trauma because of his boxing career. He found me on the net because of his concern about aspartame's interaction with Parkinson drugs like L-dopa.
I remember Ali's kindly manner. This was in the 1990's and interesting to learn he actually helped Senator Orrin Hatch win re-election in 1988 never knowing it was Hatch who kept aspartame congressional hearings from happening until 1985, and Hatch accepted money from the aspartame's manufacturer, at that time Monsanto. President Reagan was doing a favor for Donald Rumsfeld when he worked for G. D. Searle, original manufacturer, by writing an executive order preventing FDA Commissioner Dr. Jeri Goyan from signing the revoked petition for aspartame into law. Dr. M. Alemany did the Trocho Study which showed the formaldehyde converted from the free methyl alcohol embalms living tissue and damages DNA. He told me in Barcelona aspartame would kill 200 million people which it probably has and all this could have been prevented if Rumsfeld had not been hired to get this deadly chemical poison marketed. Be sure to see the whole story in the documentary, "Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World", www.sweetremedyradio.com
Ali was very grateful for all the information. I'm sure this education to avoid aspartame allowed him to survive with Parkinson Disease so many decades. I always enjoyed his conversations. Unfortunately, today aspartame is in many things unlabeled which is against the law. The dairy and jam people petitioned the FDA to allow it unlabeled. Dr. Ralph Walton told me its in all gums no matter the label. The Just Like Sugar Company, www.justlikesugarinc.com is in the process to making a gum aspartame free.
How bad is the situation? Aspartame interacts with L-dopa and to make matters worse drugs like Parcopa and its generic actually contain aspartame: http://www.rxlist.com/drug-interactions/carbidopa-levodopa-entacapone-oral-and-cholestyramine-aspartame-oral-interaction.htm So many notified Schwarz Pharma including myself: http://www.wnho.net/schwarz_pharma_letter.htm, and they refused to remove aspartame with full knowledge of the deadly interaction and indisputable facts sent. To Big Pharma its just more deadly drugs to sell with an amoral attitude to the loss of life.
Recap of the Aspartame Parkinson Issue:
I learned about aspartame almost a quarter of a century ago when a friend was diagnosed with Parkinson. My husband asked me to find out why after just being diagnosed he appeared to be dying. With my medical background I knew something had to be triggering these reactions of his arms and legs flinging out.
As It happened a doctor was visiting us who asked me to check if Dick Wallace was using NutraSweet. I called Dr. H. J. Roberts, world expert, (Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, www.amazon.com) and he said he was probably using L-dopa with his Diet Coke. Indeed he was and in eliminating aspartame his reactions stopped. . Dick's case is in this medical text.
Aspartame is a deadly addictive excitoneurotoxic, carcinogenic, genetically engineered, adjuvant, drug and teratogen, a literal chemical poison that can easily take your life. It goes by many names, NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, Canderel, Benevia, Neotame, Advantame, AminoSweet, E-951, etc. Required by law but often missing is the PKU warning in products with unlabeled aspartame. In reality Dr. James Bowen says aspartame can actually trigger PKU.
Most remember when Michael Fox developed Parkinson, a Diet Pepsi spokesman, and highly addicted to the aspartame in this product. Pepsi recently removed this poison from Diet Pepsi but substituted sucralose. Splenda is chlorinated sugar and who wants to consume bleach? Years ago Dr. James Bowen wrote the article "Save The Fox". I even called his physicians but his doctors were ignorant of how aspartame precipitates Parkinson's disease, and its interaction with monamine oxidase inhibitors, alpha-methyl-dopa and L-dihydrophenylalanine. Some wanted to help Michael including physicians but he was not willing to accept the facts.
Dr. Russell Blaylock, Neurosurgeon, lost both his parents to Parkinsonism and he wrote the book "Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills", www.russellblaylockmd.com He says excitotoxins can produce Parkinsonism by overexciting the cortical glutamate cells that connect to the nigrostriatal neurons lying deep in the brain. He explains it like lightning hitting the power line outside your house and burning up all of the appliances connected to that line. The powerline represents the cortical glutamate neurons and the appliances, the nigrostriatal system.
It was the late Dr. John Olney who founded the field of science known as excitotoxicity. Dr. Russell Blaylock wrote the book on it. The aspartic acid in aspartame is an excitotoxin.
In 1985 the late Senator Howard Metzenbaum had congressional hearings on aspartame and wrote a bill requiring NIH to do independent studies on what they were seeing in the population as listed below. Notice even then they were seeing this interaction with L-Dopa. This was 31 years ago!
1. The effect of the consumption of aspartame on brain chemistry.
2. The health effects of the consumption of aspartame on pregnant women and fetuses.
3. Behavioral and neurological effects experienced by individuals who have consumed aspartame, especially children who have consumed aspartame.
4. The interaction of aspartame with drugs including MONAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITORS, ALPHA-METHYL-DOPA AND L-DIHYDROPHENYLALANINE and
5. The effect of the consumption of aspartame in increasing the probability of seizures.
Why would anyone in Congress not want to have these studies done as thousands complained of using aspartame and suffering the problems listed in this bill? The FDA themselves listed 92 documented symptoms from 4 types of seizures to coma and death. Read the report on www.mpwhi.com Senators like Orrin Hatch were given money by Monsanto. The bill never got out of committee and no moratorium was put on aspartame. Who knows how many millions have had Parkinson's precipitated by this excitoneurotoxin, and then how many died from the interaction with L-Dopa. Whose fault is it - the aspartame industry, the do nothing for the people Congress, the FDA who now admit they are broken and controlled by Big Pharma who fund them or industry using aspartame and know its an addictive chemical poison and care more for money than people? The pop companies can never say they didn't know this was poison as the National Soft Drink Assn (now American Beverage) wrote a 33 page protest which is in the congressional record on my web site. Then they turned around and lobbied for NutraSweet. The public had no knowledge of what went on and the cemeteries flourished.
The last honest FDA scientists and toxicologists did testify before Congress as well. FDA scientist and toxicologist Dr. Adrian Gross on 8/1/85 said aspartame violated the Delaney Amendment which forbids putting a carcinogen on the market. He said because of the brain tumors and brain cancer the FDA should not have been able set an allowable daily intake. In 1987 FDA toxicologist, Dr. Jacqueline Verrett, told the Senate all studies were built on a foundation of sand and should be thrown out. Consider it was approved in 1981 and Dr. Verrett was testifying in 1987 so you have to consider aspartame is on the market without ever being proven safe. Never forget Dr. Gross' last words to Congress: "And if the FDA violates its own laws who is left to protect the public." This is why Mission Possible World Health Intl exists - simply to educate the public on this deadly chemical poison. Dr. Blaylock said at a lecture: " Understand the reactions to aspartame are not allergic but toxic like arsenic and cyanide."
New Aspartame Resources:
Dr. Blaylock has many great books that discuss Parkinson Disease. He has just released a new one called "Dr. Blaylock's Prescriptions for Natural Health". Look under Resources on my web site, www.mpwhi.com or you can get it on www.amazon.com He explains: "Few people are aware of excitotoxins, yet these play a significant role in many of today's disease. Excitotoxins are chemical substances that overstimulate certain types of cells in the brain, all of the nervous system, and many other organs, to such a degree that such cells become damaged or die. Dangerous amount of these substances are found in common food additives, such as MSG, the artificial sweetener aspartame and others.
"The mechanism of excitotoxicity underlie many neurological conditions such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis, strokes, brain trauma, autism ....."
The book is life-saving, even tells how to get rid of hepatitis. I'm particularly indebted to Dr. Blaylock for going into hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) for stroke. He says "A number of animal and human studies have looked at the effect of HBOT on stroke damage in the brain. Most demonstrate better long-term improvement with HBOT treatments." I was horrified when my son had a stroke and two TIA's (transient ischemic attacks) and was taken to Grady Hospital's Stroke Center in Atlanta where physicians knew nothing about HBOT and strokes.
Back in the 1990's the late Dr. Ron Lapin who founded the Institute of Bloodless Surgery, developed the cautery scapel and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in bloodless surgery discussed HBOT with me in great detail. He told me that if you could get a stroke victim in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber within 12 hours it could reverse a stroke. The Grady doctor said HBOT was used for things like burns or cosmetic uses and had no knowledge of its necessity in strokes.
No doubt a book needs to be written for medical students who are not taught about such things as HBOT, nutrition and aspartame which damages the mitochondria and interacts with drugs and vaccines. Big Pharma is more interested in them being taught to use dangerous drugs. I educated physicians in three hospitals here and yet I was prescribed drugs with aspartame which listed on my chart as forbidden. It is especially in generic drugs and I was told by one physician aspartame is in every single gastrointestinal genetic drug. I stopped breathing on 3 occasions. Aspartame triggers gastrointestinal problems, and then the drugs used to treat them have it in it. Dr. H. J. Roberts said for years this is outrageous.
Another new book is called "Aspartame: The King of Toxins", www.amazon.com by Reigh Parker Burch. She is an aspartame victim and now warns the world as Mission Possible Minnesota.. This has a lot of articles I've written including what goes on in hospitals. She is an incredible and courageous lady. She has a background in journalism and nutrition.
Here is the Aspartame Resource Guide http://www.mpwhi.com/aspartame_resource_guide.pdf It gives you lists of other books on the subject like Dr. Woodrow Monte's book on the methanol in aspartame, "While Science Sleeps: A Sweetener Kills", www.whilesciencesleeps.com
Every physician and victim, and the public at large should have Dr. H. J. Roberts' medical text, "Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic", over 1000 pages, www.amazon.com
The reason the experts have written these books is to alert the public before aspartame can disable or take their life. So when you have to give a gift give a book of life. The recipient will carry the message on to others and save more lives.
Dr. James Bowen on Aspartame and Parkinson:
As to aspartame nobody has ever said it as well as Dr. James Bowen who told the FDA that it's mass poisoning of the US and more than 70+ countries of the world, now over 100.
He said on the subject of Parkinson's: "Many NutraSweet victims report Parkinsonian symptoms. This should be no surprise because every biochemical component of the aspartame molecule is implicated in producing Parkinsonian structural damage and creating a biochemical basis for Parkinsonian symptoms. Aspartame is a source of methyl alcohol. Experts in neurodegenerative disease from alcoholism recognize that methyl alcohol is the component of beverage alcohol that causes neurodegenerative disease in Parkinson's Disease in alcoholics. Beverage alcohol is grain alcohol. .. However, methyl alcohol is also present in very small amounts. ... It is the factor that produces the neurodegeneration. Methyl alcohol accomplishes this even though the ethyl alcohol serves as a protective factor. Aspartame on the other hand affords no such protection and the structural components of the molecule are so arranged that the methyl alcohol from aspartame is probably 500 to 5000 times more active in producing toxicity than it would be alone.
"The structural damage in the basal areas of the brain where Parkinson Disease structural damage occurs from the dicarboxylic amino acid neuroexcitotoxins is a problem long recognized. So aspartic acid even in and by itself is a recognized source of the damage to the basal ganglia where Parkinson Disease degeneration occurs. As in the case with methyl alcohol the molecular structure of the aspartame molecule probably makes the aspartic acid damage from aspartame 5000 time more potent than from free aspartic acid on a mg. per mg. basis. The brain with loss of neural tissue to produce the dopamine, a neurotransmitter necessary to let the brain circuitry function normally, is no longer producing dopamine in sufficient amounts in these structures. The metabolic impact of the phenylalanine isolate from aspartame is to remarkably decrease dopamine production thus making Parkinson symptoms much worse.
"The phenylalanine isolate out competes all other amino acids at enzyme sites in the brain. This includes the decarboxylase enzyme sites. Therefore, the amino acid tyrosine is not decarboxylated to tramine which is the first step in producing dopamine in the brain. Therefore, the brain dopamine levels plummet remarkably."
When Dr. Bowen wrote this it was about Michael Fox and added he reportedly used L-Dopa to try and increase his dopamine levels. "The use of aspartame completely defeats this therapeutic endeavor. Not to mention the fact it caused the degenerative disease called Parkinson's Disease in the first place. The destructive process will continue as long as he uses it".
Years of questions and concerns:
Many years ago someone posed the question about the level of dopamine affecting food additives and drugs can a population consume including children in school before compulsive problems develop. His question about the population being at risk from anything that affects dopamine levels in an unnatural way is answered in Dr. H. J. Roberts medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic over and over again. Today our children are medicated instead of educated. Dr. Roberts always said when you see children killing children you have to consider aspartame. He has a whole chapter on aspartame and psychiatric and behavioral problems. The writer was interested in addiction and the methyl ester which immediately becomes free methyl alcohol is classified as a narcotic. This causes chronic methanol poisoning which affects the dopamine system of the brain and causes the addiction. Dr. Roberts gives case after case showing compulsions that bring up the question of crime. It triggers bipolar, paranoia, schizophrenia, panic attacks, suicidal tendencies.
Farewell to Muhammad Ali:
I feel privileged to have had a few conversations with Muhammad Ali and his passing is very sad. We live in a savage time when violence and brutality are acceptable entertainment. Yes, how said it is that such a fine man who exhibited high principles should be taken from us. Pity the insanity that athletics should mangle each other in the "sport" called boxing. I would rather he were alive in full health.
Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum, Founder
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Genetic protection against arsenic
Evolution has not only controlled human development over millions of years, it also has an impact on modern man. This is one of the conclusions of a study of Argentinian villagers in the Andes, where the water contains high levels of arsenic. A gene variant that produces efficient and less toxic metabolism of arsenic in the body was much more common among the villagers than among other indigenous groups in South or Central America. The study was a collaborative effort by Karin Broberg from Lund University and Carina Schlebusch and Mattias Jakobsson from Uppsala University in Sweden.
"We know that many bacteria and plants have genes that increase resistance to arsenic, a highly toxic substance that is found in soil and water in many parts of the world. There has been no previous research on whether the people in these regions also have protective genes against arsenic", says Karin Broberg.
High levels of arsenic in drinking water are linked to a range of health problems. Increased child morbidity and an increased risk of cancer, heart disease and diabetes are some examples.
In many places this is a relatively new problem, for example in Bangladesh, where it arose in connection with new drilled wells. In the Andes, however, people have lived with drinking water containing arsenic for thousands of years, owing partly to high levels of the toxic substance in the bedrock and partly to consequences of mining since the pre-colonial era. Even 7 000-year-old mummies from northern Chile have been found to have high levels of arsenic in their hair and internal organs. Occupational and environmental medicine researcher Karin Broberg has been studying the health impact of metals in the Andes for a long time.
"We found that the people up in the mountains in Argentina had unusually efficient metabolism of arsenic. This meant that the toxin left the body rapidly and less toxically instead of accumulating in tissue", she explains.
In the newly published study, the researchers have studied the genes of Atacameno Indian villagers in San Antonio de los Cobres in Argentina, who have lived in the area for multiple generations. Their genes were compared with those of various indigenous and Mestizo groups from Peru and indigenous groups from Colombia and Mexico. Over two thirds of the Argentinian villagers were found to carry a gene variant that accelerates the metabolism of arsenic, compared with half of the Peruvian villagers and only 14 per cent of the other indigenous groups.
There has been very little previous research on human evolutionary adaptation to environmental toxins. However, it is known that many of the genes that control the metabolism of poisons in the body have a large number of variants that occur with varying prevalence around the world. There may therefore be different adaptations among different populations, depending on what toxins they are exposed to in the local environment, according to Karin Broberg.
The study is a collaboration between researchers in Sweden, the US and Peru. They now hope to continue mapping genes that increase human tolerance of toxic substances.
Source: Swedish Research Council


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Mrs Caroline Welby and her small team from Lambeth Palace in the United Kingdom, England were in Honiara last week.
The purpose of their one-week visit was to conduct training called "Women on the Front Line" for ACoM Bishops' wives and other women in the Anglican Church of Melanesia (ACOM) as well as joining with them in prayer, sharing and to encourage each other.
Mrs Welby was accompanied by Jane Namureye, Keren Lewis and Canon Rev. Sarah Snyder.
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The Strait Times newspaper reported last Wednesday that five Japanese anime studios are suing four allegedly unauthorized "heavy downloaders" of the studios' copyrighted material in Singapore. The local law firm Rajah & Tann filed the writs of summons on behalf of Japan's Showgate, Geneon Entertainment, TV Tokyo, GDH, and Sunrise at the beginning of this month. According to the newspaper, the four indviduals had rejected a previous offer to settle out of court.
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However, District Judge Ernest Lau had also ruled last year that the original copyright holders themselves — and not Odex by itself — must take direct legal action, and Singapore's High Court upheld that ruling in January. Showgate, TV Tokyo Medianet, GDH, Sunrise, Kadokawa Pictures, and Yomiuri TV had announced their support for Odex after Judge Lau's ruling last year, but Odex director Stephen Sing told The Electric New Paper in August that Odex was not involved with Raja & Tann's more recent warning letters.


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…of Nelson Navarro
8:00 Wake up
8:10 Wake up
8:30 Breakfast (toast, avocados, cheese, jam, espresso…)
8:45 Finish reading glossaries, articles, chapters in preparation for Ksenia's speech on stem cell research
9:30 Shower
9:45 Bike to class
10:00 Two-hour timed translation (English into Russian) on Mexican hurricanes
12:00 Swing by Trader Joe's. Salad for lunch.
12:30 Read more on adult stem cells (stvolovyt kletki vzroslykh), in vitro fertilization (ekstrakorporalnoe oplodotvoreniye), umbilical cord blood (pupovinnaya krov'), induced pluripotent stem cells (indutsírovannye plyuripotentnye stvolovye kletki) red bone marrow (krasnyy kostnyy mozg)…
14:00 Interpret on stem cell research for two hours.
16:00 Farmer's market for 15 minutes
16:15 Simultaneous interpreting practice in the booths for two hours
18:00 Stop by Trader Joe's. Bread, bananas, avocados, milk…
18:30 Dinner at Masha's.
19:30 Study session at Anya's (aka Hanna): Prepare speech for Friday's interpreting session (La deforestación en Latinoamérica).
20:30 Read on Kazakhstan's former soviet biological weapons facilities in preparation for tomorrow's two-hour timed translation (RU>EN)
22:00 Prepare for my presentation on 3D printing
23:00 Kazakhstani bioweapon facilities
00:00 Go home
00:15 stretch
00:30 zzzzzzzzz
Most of my time is spent with the Russian T&I group. On any given day we speak more Russian than we do English. What is the Russian T&I group like, you ask? It's me and six women, whose native language is Russian (they're not all from Russia; we have a Belarusian and a Ukrainian in our midst). When a group of mostly female, Slavic twentysomethings (and one thirtysomething) spends a lot of time together, whether it be in class, at practice sessions, studying, eating together, at parties (yes, contrary to popular belief, we sometimes find time to have fun), things can get intense, especially in a group as diverse and eccentric as our own. Just like any group of friends, we have our ups and downs (our weeks are filled with them), several nervous breakdowns, heated squabbles, tight embraces, messed up declensions (mostly on my part), missing definite and/or indefinite articles (mostly on their part), intense discussions on ethics, gender roles, Russian-American relations, amongst other things…
So there you have it, my life revolves around translation and interpreting (surprise, surprise!). I've gotten used to being constantly surrounded by a cloud of (lovely, refined, intelligent, etc.) Slavic women, and although it can get quite hectic at times, I wouldn't have it any other way.


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Blog describing the work of Freedom to Choose (Scotland). Educating the general public, and particularly the general public in Scotland, on matters where freedom of choice is under threat.... "When health is equated with freedom, liberty as a political concept vanishes." (Dr. Thomas Szasz, The Therapeutic State).... INTOLERANCE IS THE MOST PREVENTABLE CAUSE OF INEQUALITIES!
Sunday, 2 September 2012
2032 could see end of UK smoking
Adding, 'Andrew Lansley could make himself a legacy greater than almost any other Health Secretary in history', Britton opines that in spite of growing austerity and increasing strains on the NHS, the British public will laud Lansley for a prediction to eradicate smoking, even though he will not be Health Secretary
for nearly long enough to see this prediction out.
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This will rank alongside the achievements of eradicating heroin use, abolishing opioid dependency and freeing the world from the tyranny of alcohol.
In other words in a world where there are at least 1.2 billion tobacco users this is a fantasy.
oh and do something about your verification. I have had to try about five times before I could read what the characters were. You don't need to be a robot to not be able to make them out, they are awful.
- 2 September 2012 at 13:52
- Belinda said...
sorry, Marie, I don't understand what you mean by verification.
- 2 September 2012 at 14:02
- Beleaguered Consumer said...
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- 2 September 2012 at 14:31
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Hi Belinda - I think your title should read "smokers to be criminalised in 20 years". That after all is the real aim because they know, like drugs, that smoking will continue but they get their final wish. To see the people they despise locked up, fined, and denigrated into the lowest social class possible.
The plan is to punish the smoker adults that they haven't been able to save as kids and nothing more. That then takes the onus from them having failed and puts it onto the "stupid selfish smoker who just doesn't know what's good for 'em" while giving bigots like Briton jobs for life as criminal enforcers.
If Lansley wants to go down in history as the biggest prejudicial and hate mongering bigot in British history who attacked one consumer group just because he could, then citizens will recall when the UK had its own Hitler in high office.
If he goes ahead, we should be thinking of starting a fund to have him arrested for hate crime because this move is not about health and will do nothing to improve it. It is based purely on spite.
In fact, we have no choice now but to take legal action against our Govt and I am working on that.
Everyone must fight this whether they smoke or not. What next - criminalisation of fatties over a certain weight by the year 2042? Criminalisation of alcoholics by 2035?
The road we are on is madness and frankly Lansley is too thick to see it because he's a smoker hating snob.
BTW I know what Marie means about word verification but I expect blogger chooses and not you. They are just difficult to read and distinguish
- 2 September 2012 at 14:35
- Belinda said...
Yes the penny dropped later about verification but being the site owner I am not required to see it! Certainly I can't manage it or change it.
- 2 September 2012 at 16:52
- Zaph said...
Hopefully we will instead see the eradication of irritant busybodys like "Professor" Britton by 2032. And I say this as a lifelong non-smoker.
- 2 September 2012 at 21:49
- timbone said...
Was it not in 1975 that a meeting chaired by Godber predicted that they could eradicate smoking by the year 2000?
- 2 September 2012 at 23:32


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JASPER, Ala. — Tough lakes tend to favor local experts, and Lewis Smith Lake is fishing tough this week for the season finale of the Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Southern Opens. For Cullman, Ala., pro Craig Daniel, tough is good. Tough favors intimate knowledge of the lake. Tough has helped put him in first place.
In seventh place at the end of the first day with a limit catch weighing 13 pounds, 11 ounces, Daniel was the lone angler among the leaders who was able to duplicate his first-day catch. On Day 2 he produced another 5 bass limit, and this one weighed 13-7 for a two-day total of 27-2, just four ounces better than North Carolina's Hank Cherry, who has 26-14.
Kevin Hawk, who led after the first day, struggled in the second round. His best 5 bass weighed just 10-5, good enough for a two-day total of 26-12 and third place.
"I didn't catch any big ones on top today," Hawk confessed. "I just didn't make the right stops at the right time. I'm excited to be fishing tomorrow, though, and I hope to run into the fish I need."
Brent Crow is fourth with 25-15, followed by Bassmaster Elite Series pro and Alabama native Gerald Swindle who has 25-12. Swindle is chasing the lake's bigger largemouth bass rather than the more plentiful spotted bass. He's fishing jigs in man-made brush piles that are 8-15 feet deep and hitting as many locations as possible throughout the day.
"Today I started about 40 miles from where I fished yesterday," Swindle said, "and I struggled in the afternoon. I had to overlap some of my areas from the first day, but I plan to fish new water in the finals. The fish I'm catching are 'resident' bass that don't seem to replenish very quickly after you catch one from a brush pile."
Only the top 12 professionals and top 12 co-anglers will advance to fish in the final round. On the pro side, the field is star-studded, with six Bassmaster Elite pros: Swindle (5th), 2012 Bassmaster Classic champ Chris Lane (7th), Andy Montgomery (9th), Greg Vinson (10th), David Walker (11th) and Jason Williamson (12th). Half of the 6 are Alabama residents.
The Carhartt Big Bass for Day 2 belonged to Paul Ham of West Columbia, S.C., who caught a 5-1 lunker.
On the co-angler side, Teb Jones of Hattiesburg, Miss., had his second strong day in a row with a 3-bass limit weighing 5-13. It gives him a two-day total of 13-6 and the lead going into the finals. Yesterday's leader, Travis Dehart of South Carolina, slipped to third with 12-6.
Even though he's thousands of miles from Smith Lake this week, California Elite pro Jared Lintner is one of the big winners here. Because defending Bassmaster Classic champion Chris Lane has now triple-qualified for the 2013 Classic [(1) reigning champion, (2) 14th in Toyota Tundra Bassmaster Angler of the Year points, and (3) Southern Open winner who fished all three events in the division], Lintner moves from "the bubble" into the Classic field. It will be his fourth Classic appearance and second in a row.
"You never want to be the guy on the bubble," Lintner said, talking about the pressures of relying on circumstances that are out of your control. "A couple of years ago, I was on the bubble and didn't make; this year I did. I'm grateful to my friend Chris Lane for finishing out the Opens season. He's a class act, and I hope to be able to repay this for Chris or another angler on the bubble one day."


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Day 7: Who do you look up to?
For most of my life, I looked up to my Dad. He was my role model and hero in a lot of ways. He was patient, kind, friendly, cheerful most of the time, and tried to hold to what he believed was his moral code. Since transitioning, a lot of my views have changed and in some ways, my Dad holding to those same views and beliefs that I looked up to him for, now disappoint me. Yet I can still find positive things in some of the qualities I am frustrated with as well.
For example, my brother and I agree that Dad lets Mom get her way and/or push him around too much. Of course there are compromises to be made in any relationship but we think he may compromise his own happiness a little too much. That being said, it's this type of behavior that reminds me of his general loving approach to others. He always approached us children in a loving way, even when disciplining. He did have a temper and when he lost it with us, he always apologized later. When I had girlfriends in the past, even when nobody else in the family liked or approved of them, he still approached them in a loving way. He was also never too man enough to stop giving us hugs. I miss him a lot.
In my first job out of college, I met a man who I took a liking to. He approached situations much differently than my other coworkers. He was an atheist and even though he knew I had very fundamental christian beliefs, he respected them and we often argued different points. At one point he changed my belief forever that atheists have no morals. I tell people now, one of the most moral men I've known is an atheist. Now that my own beliefs are not quite where they used to be, I can appreciate him even more.
My brother is an actor, an artist really. He lives for new chances to play characters in productions that allow him to express himself in ways he could not otherwise do. It's very obvious to me that acting is his passion and though he works a thankless job, in his free time, he's constantly looking for his next chance to follow his passion. He's lived this passion since he was very young. I remember in middle school, he and his friends would make videos that often would get played for the whole school. This type of activity continued through high school and after graduation as well.
Sadly, my family did not really understand what it meant to be an artist. My parents constantly pushed him to move towards college graduation and a 9-5 job of some sort, knowing it would provide the same stability they experience in their own lives. In some ways, their intentions were good; they merely wanted a good life for him in the only way they knew possible. On the other hand, I grew up following in their footsteps, going to college, getting a good job, getting married, and buying a house. I look back on how much he must have been compared to me in a negative light and I feel guilty. I'm sure they said things like 'why can't you be more like your older brother?' in their heads if not aloud.
This caused my brother to struggle over the years. I never understood it until I came out and found myself in the same light (or dimmer) as he was all of those years. I have to admire his strength for being able to continue in an environment where everything he did was always wrong. Mind you, I'm not saying he never did anything wrong, we all make mistakes, but he was overly criticized. And now he's still following his dreams. He's accomplished so much in the last couple years and I've been so very proud to be a part of his life and to call him brother.
Finally, I wanted to talk about one more person I look up to, my adopted mother. She turns 60 this month and has had quite the life. She grew up in a time period where being gay was more frowned upon than not and being transsexual was completely ghastly. She did all of the things she was expected to do as a 'boy' and then a 'man' by getting married and having children and providing for them. There were times growing up where she considered transition and decided against it because the world was not ready for it and neither were her children. She struggled with people who took advantage of her and didn't allow her to even consider what her true passions were, let alone strive for them.
When she finally came out and transitioned in her late 50s, her wife divorced her and her biological children pushed her away. Because of her age and health issues, her transition has had to be one accomplished without the power of estrogen and up until recently she has only been able to consider minimal surgical corrections as well. In a lot of ways because of the way 50 years of her life were led, she has to go through a lot of emotional growth. She has also had issues financially for the past few years. Yet even with all of these things going against her, she has still been able to stand up and say "I am a woman" everyday. I've always looked up to her for that because I know that if I had been able to wait and transitioned at a much later time in my life, it would have been so much more difficult. So I'm definitely proud of her.


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I am a political theorist based at Harvard University. In addition to my appointment as Lecturer at the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, I am also a local affiliate and co-chair of the European Union Study Group at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. In January 2017 I will be moving to England to take up an permanent position as Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Politics/International Relations at the University of Sheffield.
My work focuses on how socially mediated collective memories serve as resources for political innovation in the aftermath of broad historical ruptures. My book manuscript, "The European Rupture: A Critical Theory of Memory and Integration in the Wake of Total War," examines how the memories of two World Wars and the economic, social and political upheavals of the interwar years functioned as cognitive, motivational and justificatory resources for European integration after 1945. My research and teaching interests also include twentieth century continental political thought, especially the work of Hannah Arendt and the Frankfurt School, the origins and development of the European Union (EU), the role of public intellectuals in modern democracies, global governance and transitional justice.
I studied Government (high honors) and German at Dartmouth College (AB 2006, summa cum laude) and conducted research on the continuing importance of memory in the former Yugoslavia as a Fulbright Scholar (2006-07), before receiving my MA (2008), MPhil (2010) and PhD (2013) in Political Science from Yale University. I have also held appointments as a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities in Bad Homburg, Germany, and at the Jean Monnet Foundation in Lausanne, Switzerland. I spent a year at the Normative Orders Cluster of Excellence at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main on a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).


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As the holiday season approaches, one of the top things on employees' minds is - will there be a holiday party?
According to a new survey from OfficeTeam, 93% of senior managers polled said their company will be hosting year-end festivities. These activities range from on-site and off-site parties (48%) to office decorations (45%).
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When it comes to the holiday season, apart from the parties and office decorations, there is the question of to give or not to give?
The findings revealed 58% of workers hand out year-end presents in the office. Half of those employees provide gifts to their colleagues, while 35% give one to their boss. Interestingly, a majority (84%) reported they are not giving out presents because they want to, but because they feel obligated to.
Stephanie Naznitsky, executive director of OfficeTeam, said: "Hosting holiday parties is a great way to recognize employees for their hard work throughout the year. Celebrations don't have to be elaborate to be enjoyable. Companies that go the extra mile to plan meaningful events that bring teams together will be rewarded with higher engagement."
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A day in the life of the woman who helped grow Vermont's biggest marijuana business
4 a.m.
Bridget Conry, 48, wakes at her Burlington home to savor the quiet productivity of early-morning hours.
Just a few years ago, when Conry was helping a University of Vermont classmate launch the medical marijuana operation Champlain Valley Dispensary Inc., she'd often be woken in the middle of the night with security alarms. She'd wake up and check the video monitors from home, usually finding a false alarm.
Now the business has grown to 70 employees, with seven locations across Vermont, and she no longer gets those emergency calls.
Of Vermont's 5,300 registered medical marijuana patients, about 4,000 are associated with Champlain Valley Dispensary or its Brattleboro location, Southern Vermont Wellness.
Conry typically spends some time before 6 a.m. working on strategy and answering emails for CVD Inc., where she is the director of sales and product development.
Then the morning routine begins in earnest, and Conry gets her two children, aged 13 and 16, off to school. She drives to the company's production facility and headquarters in a Milton industrial park.
8:30 a.m.
Conry enters the Milton production facility, wipes her shoes on a rubber mat in a foot bath in the entryway, and signs in at the front desk.
Conry greets me in the lobby. I immediately notice two things: the overpowering, unmistakable smell of marijuana, and the seriousness of the place where it's made. It's an office; professional, clean and secure.
There are no cannabis puns. And here, it's cannabis, by the way. Not pot, weed or ganja. People in the building rarely use the word "marijuana," if ever.
The building, in Milton's industrial park area on U.S. 7, was the former home of Omni Medical Systems, which makes suits that allow pilots to urinate during flight. CVD Inc. moved in about two years ago, making good use of the keypads and access control doors installed by the previous tenants.
At 28,000 square feet, it's more building than they need, but they're growing – and there's the hope of a retail cannabis market in Vermont. (Conry talks about a regulated public cannabis market as not "if," but "when.")
Company leaders say they needed permission from their regulators at Vermont Department of Public Safety to let me visit. There's one condition: An employee with a badge must accompany me at all times.
9:17 a.m.
Conry sits down with other marketing staff to plan their email newsletter for the month of April, which will be sent to patients and other interested members of the public.
Marketing a marijuana business in Vermont is tricky business. Aside from the fact that marijuana remains federally illegal, state regulators have placed tight restrictions on dispensary advertising. Their only customers are patients with a marijuana registry card; no one else is even allowed to step foot in the dispensaries.
April 20, the unofficial marijuana holiday, is fast approaching. Should they mention it in the newsletter?
"For me, 420's always been a tricky thing," Conry tells the team. "Optics has always been a big concern of ours."
CVD Inc. wants to be seen as a medical venture. (Though the company regularly refers to cannabis products as "medicine" and "remedies," staff tell patients to ask their doctors any medical questions.)
In the first few years, Champlain Valley Dispensary ignored 420 altogether, Conry explains. Two years ago, the dispensaries started doing some 420 promotions but cautiously. Last year's April newsletter focused on maple season and a new maple walnut fudge product.
The discussion moves on to other parts of the newsletter and upcoming events that need to be marketed. Conry talks quickly, spilling idea after idea when she's excited.
The conference table offers a variety of glossy magazines including "CannabisNow," "Terpenes & Testing" and "High Times."
I realize, after being in the building for an hour, that the cloud of cannabis odor that envelops the building doesn't seem so overpowering anymore. A public relations spokesman for the company had warned me that my clothes would smell of cannabis when I left that evening.
Three clocks in the office tell the time in Humboldt County, California; Burlington; and Amsterdam.
9:54 a.m.
You can tell just by looking around Conry's office that she took an unusual path into this work.
She met Shayne Lynn, who is now the executive director of CVD Inc., when they were both freshmen at the University of Vermont in 1989. Conry was on the basketball team; Lynn was on the ski team.
Conry's UVM basketball career was cut short by injuries, so she transferred to Williams College and finished a degree in international relations.
She took a modeling contract in New York City, then started various jobs running restaurants. And after the births of her two children, Conry became deeply interested in herbal medicine.
Books with titles such as "The Wild Medicine Solution," "The Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants" and "Planetary Herbology" fill a bookshelf behind her desk at the Milton facility.
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Cannabis was never part of that herbal training, she says, and it wasn't until Lynn told asked her to run the infusion kitchen at his medical marijuana venture that she began researching how to use cannabis.
Conry's own family was skeptical. Neither of her parents had ever used cannabis, and they were nervous about her new career path.
Lynn won the state license in 2012. Conry, who was running a restaurant in Lenox, Massachusetts, and had been volunteering behind the scenes to develop the infusion kitchen, officially became an employee when the dispensary opened the following year.
Conry held on to her herbal medicine consulting business and the restaurant in the Berkshires. For more than a year, Conry drove back and forth to Burlington, spending a few days a week in the dispensary kitchen. She finally moved to Vermont full time in 2014.
Conry took pains to insist that everything was done professionally, every label on every bottle perfectly straight. She says she didn't want people who saw it to be able to dismiss them as stoners.
She says the infusion kitchen follows all appropriate health and safety procedures, even though they can't persuade the state Department of Health to inspect it. The state Department of Public Safety is the only regulator of marijuana in Vermont.
10:03 a.m.
Conry stops by a company conference room to listen in on an employee safety meeting.
After discussing common emergencies — fires, evacuations and injuries — the human resources director leading the meeting tells employees what to do if there's a law enforcement raid. They're growing and selling a plant that remains illegal under federal law.
CVD Inc.'s crisis management policy tells employees not to consent to police searches. They should say only these words: "I choose to remain silent and I want to see my lawyer."
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10:34 a.m.
Conry walks to the cafeteria, where other marketing staff are practicing setting up a trade show booth for Ceres Natural Remedies, the company's CBD brand. This morning is a trial run for an upcoming cannabis convention in Boston.
The booth is cleanly designed, with a variety of CBD products for sale and signs that declare "healing without the high" and "it's not pot." At the convention, the booth will feature samples of CBD-infused sparkling beverages by Tretap, a Vermont company recently acquired by Ceres.
11:05 a.m.
A handful of new employees have gathered in the lobby for Conry's building tour, which is part of staff orientation. Conry allows Burlington Free Press photographer Ryan Mercer and me to come along. It's the first time the media have been allowed into the belly of the building for a full tour.
We don huge button-up shirt-dresses that cover most of our clothes, to cut down on the risk of cross-contamination. The employees wear baseball hats; they hand me a green hair net.
Unlike their counterparts in some other states, Vermont's medical marijuana businesses are vertically integrated: They grow their own cannabis, select their own strains, formulate new products, bake edibles and mix salves and ointments all under the same roof. (Hemp is an exception to this vertical integration rule: CVD Inc. buys hemp from Vermont farmers to create CBD products.)
We walk past a room filled with plants, through another foot bath and into the main cultivation and production area.
Most plants here are grown indoors, but the dispensary also has a fenced-in outdoor area where they plan to produce a fully organic harvest this year.
We walk up to a grow pod — a shipping container turned clean room that has everything necessary for flowering plants. Two grow pods sit side-by-side, with another two sitting on top that are accessible via a ladder. It's technology adapted from the black market, Conry says.
Steve Sprague, a cultivation supervisor, steps out from the bright lights of the grow pod with shears in one hand and a handful of plant cuttings in the other. We're not allowed inside to see the flowers close up, for fear of contamination.
Sprague walks us through the process: Every strain of cannabis here was donated by a patient on the Vermont medical marijuana registry. Once the cultivators have chosen a female plant with the attributes they're looking for, it becomes a "mother." Cultivators take cuttings from the plant, known as clones, and it takes about three weeks for them to take root as a new plant. The plants spend about four to six weeks growing in a vegetative state, then another nine weeks in the grow pod to produce the flowers that are dried, cured and turned into usable marijuana.
We move on to the extraction area, which is the first step in turning the plants into an extract that can eventually be used in edibles, vape pens and other products. Many of the dispensary's customers prefer not to smoke.
One extractor, which uses carbon dioxide as a solvent, cost $135,000 and can handle about 2 pounds of plant material at a time. The cannabis comes out as concentrate, some of it thick and gooey.
"We're basically taking the plant apart and putting it back together," says Austin Sachs, running the machine.
The concentrates end up in the refining room. It's the most scientific-looking room yet, with equipment bubbling and materials dripping out of a machine into spherical beakers.
Sachs shows us a table of jars that hold various types of cannabis oil. One is full plant oil, sometimes known as Rick Simpson oil, which is used by some cancer patients. Another jar holds activated oil that will be used in edible food products. Using oil allows for more precise dosing, and more homogeneous distribution, than would be possible with the home cook's method of infusing butter with plant material.
There's also shatter, a highly potent product that sells for $50 per half gram. Translucent and golden, it resembles sugar on snow. Shatter sells for a much lower price on the black market, Conry tells me later, but it's sometimes made by butane extraction, a dangerous process that can leave traces of butane in the finished product.
Next we walk through the packaging area and into the commercial infusion kitchen, where processing manager Amy Bacon meets us.
There's a photo of Christopher Walken taped to the door of the giant fridge. Conry has to explain to me, later, that it's a play on "walk-in" fridge.
It's a far cry from the makeshift kitchen that Conry ran in the early days of the business: "I had a toaster oven and a crock pot," she tells me. She used the toaster oven for baking cookies and for treating the cannabis with heat to draw out THC, a process known as decarboxylation.
One employee is slicing cheese nibs made with Jasper Hill Cabot Clothbound Cheddar. Another slices CBD gummies and weighs balls of CBD-infused ginger molasses cookie dough on a scale. Most ingredients are organic, and many come from local Vermont farms.
Cannabis is weighed at every step along the way; CVD Inc. needs to account for every gram. Each time cannabis moves from one department to another, it must be weighed and an employee from each department must sign a verification form. This is to prevent diversion and theft as well as to ensure accuracy in products.
Every recipe is carefully developed and tested at multiple stages; nothing can be thrown together. The kitchen staff need to ensure that each product can be made with a consistent amount of cannabinoid content. And even when the product is perfect, it's impossible to know how patients will react when they eat it. Every body processes cannabis differently.
That's why Bacon is skeptical of cannabis dinner events in other states, where chefs infuse cannabis into a gourmet meal. She'll stick to precise measurements and a whole lot of repetition.
We step back into the office area, Bacon passes out a tray of peanut butter truffles. They're unmedicated, she quickly adds: No employees are allowed to consume cannabis on the job.
12:33 p.m.
We stop by the sample preparation room, where quality control manager Jon Pinault is playing smooth jazz over a speaker connected to his phone.
Pinault explains that there's no roadmap for what he does, like most aspects of the cannabis industry. There's no universally agreed-upon standard for how to prepare cannabis samples. Even established laboratories in the western U.S. consider their laboratory methodology to be intellectual property.
The process they've developed in Milton uses various solutions to test for nine cannabinoids in edibles, flowers and other finished products. Each one is a little different.
"Every time you have a new product, you might have to create a new method to sample it," Conry says.
We walk down the hall, where Bacon is standing by a machine that makes transdermal patches. The patches, usually applied to the wrist or ankle, operate similarly to a nicotine patch. It's the quickest way to get cannabinoids into the blood stream.
CVD Inc. staff are formulating a custom patch for a child, one of about 10 pediatric patients who rely on the dispensary for a variety of medical conditions.
We watch as a laser machine slices a sheet into small patches. Any patches that come out with dust or other imperfections, and any scraps, will be carefully measured and discarded.
"We have to account for all of our waste, and we have to make all of our waste non-fit for human consumption," Conry says. They mix the waste with other products so that no one can go through the garbage to pick out the cannabis products.
1:09 p.m.
The tour ends, but Conry is still on the go, running over to check in with Bacon about products. She says she finds ways to eat lunch during the day, but I never witness it.
1:35 p.m.
Conry meets Bacon in the kitchen. They've worked together for five years, and it shows in their easy collaboration as they calculate a recipe for a shea butter CBD body scrub. It's a recipe under development, and today is the first time the women have made it with CBD.
With the ingredients arrayed on the table before them, the two women scale the recipe and convert the weight-based measurements into a cups and tablespoons recipe that patients will be able to follow at home.
While Conry runs a bright pink calculator, Bacon pulls a jar of hemp oil from the safe. Dark and viscous, it runs like molasses as she pours it into a bowl and mixes it with apricot oil and avocado oil.
Bacon spoons shea butter into a food processor, then adds the oil mixture as the machine runs. Next come lavender flowers and two types of salt.
2:21 p.m.
We stop by the marketing team table, where other staff are preparing goody bags for patients who will visit this afternoon for an event.
The patient list is constantly changing. In the early years, it was mostly men, and mostly people who had used cannabis before.
Now 52 percent of the patients at Champlain Valley Dispensary and Southern Vermont Wellness are women, and many of them have never tried cannabis before and are not interested in getting high.
Their average age is 55 years old; that means many are retired, living on disability income or Social Security.
Health insurance doesn't pay for cannabis; patients must pay out of pocket. An ounce of cannabis flower costs $325.
If patients receive state assistance to buy food through 3Squares Vermont, they can qualify for a discount. About eight percent of patients at Champlain Valley Dispensary and Southern Vermont Wellness are on financial assistance.
The number of registered patients in Vermont has dropped significantly since last summer, when it became legal for adults over 21 to grow and possess marijuana. CBD products, which don't require a medical marijuana card to purchase, are growing in popularity. And patients aren't visiting the dispensaries as often. When they do, they're buying less.
All of this means that for the first time in its history, CVD Inc. is not breaking even this year, Conry says.
2:59 p.m.
About 15 women take seats in the conference room for an event called Meet Your Medicine Maker, an educational series designed to build a stronger relationship with the dispensary's customers. This event is women-only.
Women buy a majority of the salves, cannabis-infused fats, transdermal patches and confections such as maple lozenges. Baked goods are split evenly between women and men.
Vape products are the top sellers across the board. Women buy a majority of the lowest potency formula, while men gravitate toward the higher potency liquids.
Conry returns to a quiet office; most people have already gone home, but she has one final stop.
6:01 p.m.
On the way back to her Burlington home, Conry drops by the Ceres Natural Remedies store on College Street to deliver a box of products.
The store enjoys a location near Church Street and its many ambling tourists. Ceres staff spend a lot of time answering questions about CBD and advising people about the medical marijuana program.
Dan Rotondi, the store supervisor, estimates that he gives out a couple of medical marijuana patient registration packets every week.
This space used to be a frozen yogurt shop, and Ceres is only using half of the floor plan. The empty half features an ATM and a table with pamphlets and brochures about CBD and cannabis.
I ask the obvious question: Could that extra space turn into a marijuana shop, if the Vermont Legislature approves retail sales?
Not under current law, Conry says: The shop is within 1,000 feet of a child care facility, which rules out the possibility of selling cannabis there.
If the Legislature changed the rule, Conry says, they would consider selling marijuana here.
Conry's clothes have absorbed the aromas of cannabis after a full day at the production facility. When she arrives home, she cooks a meal with her daughters, check emails, and falls asleep by 10 p.m. First, though, she changes her clothes.
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In case the gutters on your home fail to work; they are going to need a device that will keep them from getting clogged. A clogged gutter system including the downspouts can be very damaging to the rest of the home if not taken care. Gutter protection is a device that goes over the downspout and prevents foreign objects from getting into them. The use of a guard like this will efficiently prevent dirt and debris from falling into the gutter.
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Donations still sought to help local food pantry
SOUTHBRIDGE — Helping neighbors put food on the table is a tradition each spring for local Foodshare volunteers.
The 39th Annual Foodshare Radiothon was held on Thursday, raising $29,800 for the Southbridge Foodshare pantry. Countless donations of canned goods and non-perishable foods were also turned in as part of the radiothon.
This year's event was broadcast on Emmanuel Radio stations WESO in Southbridge and WNEB in Worcester. as well as the Southbridge and Charlton public cable access television stations. The all-day event was held at the Southbridge Hotel and Conference Center. The radiothon is the main annual fund-raiser for the non-profit food pantry, which serves the needy in Southbridge, Sturbridge, Charlton and the Brimfield area.
Foodshare Radiothon volunteer and co-host John Ryan said while the annual event is now off the air until next spring, the need is ever-present. "Your donations are still needed," Mr. Ryan said. "You can help the poor by calling (774) 318-8928."


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