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A Middle East Peace That Could Happen (But Won't)
6th Annual Israeli Apartheid Week Observed This Week
A Tale of Two Apartheids
Chomsky Denied Entry into Israel
Video Footage of Attack on Gaza Flotilla and Additional Coverage from Various Progressive News Sources
Israeli's in Denial about Israel Being an Apartheid State
New Power Brokers in the Middle East
Interview with Hamas
After the Massacre: The Global Impact of the Gaza Flotilla Crisis
Veteran White House Correspondent Retires after Controversial Israel Comment
The Demobilisation of the Israeli Left
In this, part two of an interview, Paul Jay of the Real News Network, reports from Jerusalem, Israel.
Jay interviews Israeli journalist and peace activist, Michel Warschawski, a critic of the Israeli government's Zionist policies.
Warschawski is the founder of the Alternative Information Center in Jersalem and author of the book 'On the Border'. Jay speaks with him about the demobilization of the Israeli peace movement.
Warschawski contends that the Israeli peace movement vanished within a week after the Camp David summit of 2000 when Ehud Barak returned from talks with Yasser Arafat and issued the dishonest statement that the Palestinian leader had had rejected his generous offers. Moreover, Barak returned to the discourse of the 1960's and 70's stating that the ultimate goal of the Palestinians was to destroy the state of Israel and eject the Jews.
According to Warschawski, the Israeli peace movement bought into Barak's statements, which caused it to dissolve within a week. And even though Barak's statements were eventually exposed as lies, this was simply not enough to re-invigorate the peace movement, as shortly thereafter, the 9/11 attacks took place, which proved 'post factum' that Barak was, to some degree, right.
In other word, perhaps Barak had lied about Arafat turning his back on negotiations, but broadly speaking, as a result of the 9/11 attack, Israelis felt exposed to a threat that was bigger than the Palestinians and Arafat. That threat was Islam itself.
This, says Warschawski, led to a clash of civilizations discourse that has been deeply internalized by the Israeli public and has neutralized the Israeli peace movement.
Thus, with the exception of a handful of committed peace activists, most mainstream moderate Israelis simply close their eyes to the atrocities committed against the Palestinians in their name, says Warschawski.
For part one of the interview, please click here.
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George Clemenceau (1841-1929) is credited in French and world history with bringing France from the brink of defeat to victory in the Great War. As a part of doing so, he convinced the Allies to unify their efforts through the leadership of a supreme commander, previously unheard of among nations of the day.
That said, for many other reasons Clemenceau had already earned a secure, recognized place among the great political leaders of the 20th Century. His efforts during the years of the Great War, notably from 1917 through the 1918-19 Peace of Versailles deliberations, earned him the name, "Le Pere La Victorie," the Father of Victory. Before that, he was known simply as "The Tiger," a name very indicative of his political style and long record of public service. Like his father, Clemenceau was a staunch republican and anti-monarchist during a period when both were unpopular views. Although trained as a doctor, he was a political writer by inclination.
He was also a masterful, charismatic debater and orator.
The Tiger was a politician who stood above politics. Repeatedly throughout his career he turned down appointed office, his broader interest, that of France, the great nation, over-riding individual political ambitions. Because of this attitude, even within his own Party he was much feared, if not hated. A biographer, Lewis Douglas, defined Clemenceau's maverick political approach when he wrote, "(Clemenceau) destroyed where he disbelieved; created where he believed." And, with regard to both, he always had strong views.
Abuse of power was, for Clemenceau, a bete noir. Early on in his career he warned of the potential danger of this in social legislation. Not that he wasn't in favor of some social legislation; only that he had a cautious view of power. Organized labor was a case in point to him. He proved to be justified in his concern. For a time he was forced out of public life, but it took the energy and resources of the Opposition in concert with his own Party to defeat him in a local election.
As for abuse of power, the issue would surface time and again for him over the years. Out of elected office, he returned to writing, successfully championing with Emile Zola the cause of Alfred Dreyfus. The infamous Dreyfus Affair was to have repercussions throughout France's military and judicial establishments for many years. The high profile nature of the issue also shored up Clemenceau's popularity and he was subsequently re-elected to public office, more powerful and influential than previously.
During this tenure he again roused the wrath of his fellow politicians when he managed to legislate the removal of parliamentary immunity for criminal acts committed by elected representatives.
The beginning of the Great War found the Tiger sitting in the French Senate. For at least five years he had been questioning France's preparedness for war with Germany, an unheeded voice in the wilderness. The German military quickly proved the accuracy of his pronouncements.
Finally, in late 1917, with defeat looming, Clemenceau was asked to form a government, almost as if French politicians were challenging him to put his money where his mouth was. He did so, taking a non-conciliatory position that France would settle only for the unconditional surrender of Germany. Before April, 1918, he had convinced the Allies of the need for unity of command. By November, Germany had signed an armistice.
Clemenceau, along with Woodrow Wilson of the United States and Lloyd George of Britain, shaped the terms of the Peace of Versailles. There were problems, however.
Woodrow Wilson wanted a League of Nations, an idealistic manifestation that "the war to end all wars" would be just that. Clemenceau, the realist, wanted protections for France. He did not trust the Germans and he was already drawing lessons from the Russian Revolution. He believed nationalistic feelings and aspirations of empire were too strong to make a League of Nations workable. Wilson's ideal prevailed, though, of course, so too did Clemenceau's reality.
The Tiger's sharp tongue and uncannily accurate analysis did not make him a friend of Lloyd George either, a man the Tiger regarded as a pompous political opportunist. The biographer, Stephen Bonsal, reports an incident when the two leaders almost came to blows.
Petulant in losing an argument, Lloyd George's final comment in the exchange was, "Well, I shall expect an apology for these outrageous words."
Clemenceau's reply: "You shall wait for it as long as you wait for the pacification of Ireland." For that the world still waits.
In early 1920 Clemenceau's stubbornness on an issue of principle resulted in the downfall of his government. Like Churchill after him, Clemenceau brought his country to an historic victory, only to be defeated himself.
During his remaining years he continued to write. He was working on his memoirs when he died in Paris in 1929.
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BAKU, Azerbaijan, Dec. 2
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has signed an order establishing Victory Day in Azerbaijan.
Under the presidential order, Victory Day will be marked on November 10 every year.
"In response to Armenia's latest provocations and military aggression, the Azerbaijani people waged a Patriotic War in order to put an end to the occupation of our lands, force Armenia to peace, implement the requirements of the relevant UN Security Council resolutions, return IDPs to their native lands and restore justice," the order says.
"All the Azerbaijani people were mobilized and united for this sacred cause," the order says. "After 44 days of military operations, the victorious Azerbaijani Army liberated from occupation the cities of Jabrayil, Fuzuli, Zangilan, Gubadli, Shusha - the crown of Karabakh, Minjivan, Aghband, Bartaz settlements of Zangilan district, Hadrut settlement and many villages of Khojavand district, including Sugovushan village of Tartar district, several villages of Khojaly and Lachin districts, as well as important strategic hills in the direction of Aghdara, Murovdagh and Zangilan."
"We have liberated our lands at the expense of the lives and blood of the Azerbaijani people, our hero martyrs, soldiers and officers," the order says.


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Every minute, the equivalent of one full garbage truck of plastic trash is dumped into our oceans. This equals 1,440 trucks per day and in total 8 billion kilos each year. With 80% of those plastics coming directly from land.
Impact on wildlife
Birds, sea turtles and other animals ingest plastic or get entangled by it, often leading to death.
Healthy society
Microplastics pose significant health risks from the smallest to the largest living organism.
SHIPPING TRANSPORT
Plastics cause damage to freight and passenger ships.
More and more plastic is floating in our oceans and seas. It comes from rubbish that we throw away on the street, fishnets that are discarded, and from washing synthetic clothing and brushing our teeth. All these different types of plastic together form the plastic soup in the seas and oceans.
Weathering, sunlight and wave action break down large pieces of plastic into small pieces. This causes serious pollution. In 1997, Captain Charles Moore sailed from Hawaii to southern California, taking an unusual route that took him through the North Pacific Gyre. There, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, he saw pieces of plastic floating by every day. He later returned to the area to carry out research. There seemed to be a significantly higher concentration of plastic there than elsewhere in the ocean. The plastic appeared not only to float, but also to be carried by the water column. Moore called this phenomenon the 'plastic soup', a term which is now used around the world.
The oceans constitute 72% of the earth's surface and are our primary oxygen suppliers. They are the primary source of food for more than half the world's population. But because plastic is not biodegradable, the plastic soup is lethal for many marine animals..
When plastic degrades and fragments into small pieces, it can release toxic substances. All sorts of animals that live in or from the sea, even minute zooplankton, mistake plastic and microplastics for food. These toxic substances then enter our food chain. On top of this, en route to the sea, plastic fragments absorb all kinds of toxic substances from the sewers and polluted areas that they pass through. They become toxic bombs. These substances are released in the bodies of the organisms that eat the plastic.
The plastic pollution of the seawater can also seriously damage our health. Most of the pollution by far comes from land.
At least 80% of the plastic rubbish in the oceans are dumped by industry and by people on land. It is carried to sea by rivers, canals, harbours and the wind. On top of this, shipping, fisheries and the off-shore industry are important contributors to pollution, though compared to the land sources, this is 'only' 20%.
Part of the plastic that we use ends up in the oceans. What happens to it and where does it go? Plastic can be found on every beach in the world. Microplastics are found at 5,000 metres depth, and plastic bottles have been found at depths of 3,500 metres. It's actually 'raining' plastic in the ocean. Scientists are still far from mapping all the plastic pollution in the oceans.
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Ugly Chief review at Battersea Arts Centre, London – 'funny and fascinating'
Mike Melody and Victoria Melody in Ugly Chief at Battersea Arts Centre, London. Photo: Hugo Glendinning
by Anna Winter - Nov 3, 2017
Victoria Melody's father is the TV antiques dealer Mike Melody, ousted from ITV for the grave misdemeanour of "yawning at David Dickinson and refusing to apologise."
In 2013, he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease and given five years to live. Then it was discovered he'd been misdiagnosed and wasn't terminally ill at all. Having been put in charge of funeral arrangements, Victoria Melody decided to go ahead with it anyway, training as a funeral director in Port Talbot and turning the ceremony into a piece of live performance in collaboration with her dad, complete with tangerine Blackpool football strips, a barbecue and a New Orleans jazz band to add "emotional depth."
What follows is an extremely funny and wonderfully strange exhumation of family grievances, the partial unpicking of a relationship freighted with resentment, disappointment, frailty and familiarity. Melody (Gaelic for 'ugly chief', according to her father) is a charming performer, known for immersing herself in the peculiarities and particularities of other people's professions – for past shows, she's become a pigeon fancier, dog trainer and beauty pageant contestant.
This time, she's gripped by the funeral industry and the minutiae of mortality, all the euphemistic and ritualised ways that the living deal with death. But her anthropological instincts are upended by Mike Melody's shambling onstage energy and interruptions.
The question of what's real and what's rehearsed provides an intriguing tension to the awkwardness of their personality clash. Her exasperated eye-rolling tolerance of his eccentricities skilfully develops into the exposure of sublimated anger and a kind of reconciliation.
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Fascinating and very funny show about the formalities of funerals, provenance and paternity
Christmas Eve review at Ustinov Studio, Bath – 'a finely judged performance'
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People have more knowledge and therefore power, so brands are facing more challenges. This trend has created a term. A theory that has always been important, but today is one of the most powerful competitive edges; customer experience (CX).
Companies like Netflix, Spotify and Apple have mastered data management to personalise communication. More advanced data management systems enable customer mapping in great detail, so organisations can treat their customers in a more individual way.
Spotify launched Daily Mix, a series of playlists refreshed every day that offers you a selection of your favourite music.
Beyond traditional marketing and advertising, navigating through the digital universe is a prerequisite for professionals connected to CX, however knowing the details of the tech isn't essential (but desirable).
Marketers can be CX champions; Marketers are best placed to drive a company to focus on customers by bringing the concept to life through branding and communications. Gain valuable insights through customer surveys and drive customer obsession through the company and get support at the executive level.
Map the journey; Look at your customer's digital experience and use digital technologies and customer personas to humanize the audience, even name them, to better understand their needs. Review behavioural data to ensure customers aren't getting stuck somewhere on the journey and create customised experiences for different audience segments.
Live the customer experience; Study the customer's day-to-day challenges so you can come to the rescue. Use your ideas to develop solutions for products, processes, policies and people, all targeted on improving the customer's life. And let your brand shine through on why you do what you do so your customers can feel good about your brand.
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Open Call: Emerge In The North 2019 Art Exhibition
APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED.
The Emerge in the North Art Exhibition is a continuing partnership of Multicultural Arts Victoria and the Brotherhood of St Laurence, welcoming new supporters, the City of Hume, in 2019.
The 2019 exhibition develops the past two years' programs to bring a new career opportunity to the many exceptional visual artists from new, emerging, Indigenous and refugee communities who live, work or study in Melbourne's outer northern suburbs. Artists shortlisted will have the opportunity to create new work to exhibit at the gallery space in the Hume Global Learning Centre in a professional setting.
APPLICATION AND SELECTION CRITERIA
Please apply using the form below. Please ensure to include the following:
Short biography about yourself and your artistic practice
Sample of 5-8 recent artworks
Please provide hi-res images of works at least 200 dpi
Brief explanation about each artwork
Details of artworks (title, medium, year, size)
Artists must be living, working or studying in the outer northern suburbs of Melbourne; and identify as part of a new, emerging, Indigenous or refugee community.
All artforms are invited.
Application deadline extended: 11.59 PM, Friday, 3 May 2019
SELECTION PROCESS2 weeks after the closing date, 5 applicants will be shortlisted to be included in a group exhibition curated by Santy Saptari at Broadmeadows Global Learning Centre from 29 Aug – 8 Oct 2019.
The 5 applicants are expected to create a new body of works in discussion with the curator. Each artist will receive a materials budget to create the body of work, provided by Multicultural Arts Victoria. Each artist will be given one-on-one sessions with the curator in preparation for the exhibition.
These sessions are provided to support artists in developing ideas for the exhibition, discussing challenges and issues related to the exhibition.
PRIZEThe Best in Show, judged by a panel of three highly regarded practising artists and art professionals will have a curated exhibition at Gee Lee-Wik Doleen Gallery, Craigieburn for 2 months in December 2019-January 2020.
Tobias Hengeveld is a practicing musician and artist. He has been Curator at Hume's principal exhibition space Gee Lee-Wik Doleen Gallery for the past 7 years, during which time he has developed a strong knowledge of Arts and Cultural practice in the region and connection to Hume's diverse community.
Bushra Hasan is a practising artist, graphic designer, creator of a Melbourne Art Tram in 2017 and the founder of Indybindi Designs. Bushra has exhibited globally and was part of Emerge in the North Art Exhibition in 2018.
Kay Abude is an artist living and working in Melbourne whose creative practice engages many different forms of making. Kay is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne and has received numerous awards and grants. She is currently a Gertrude Studio Artist at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne.
TIMELINEOpen Call opens: 5 April
Open Call closes: 26 April 2019 5pm
Shortlist announcement: 2 weeks after Deadline
Shortlist Exhibition Dates: 29 Aug – 8 Oct 2019
Photo: Emerge in the North 2018. Artwork: Sneha Varma. Photo by Mahla Karimian.
Produced by Multicultural Arts Victoria as part of the Emerge program, in partnership with the Brotherhood of St Laurence and the City of Hume.


We are thrilled to have nine of South Africa's most talented photographers and curators presenting at the second edition of DocuFest Africa at the Hilton Arts Festival from September 15-17, 2017. DocuFest Africa is a visual storytelling festival presenting to the public important African documentary projects and the curation of significant African archives. It is being run as a companion to the World Press Photo Exhibition 2017 which is also going to be on display at the Hilton Arts Festival.
Veteran South African documentary photographer, Paul Weinberg, presenting a personal project at DocuFest Africa 2013 held at Michaelhouse in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands.
The line-up includes both veteran photographers and young talent, curators of important historic visual collections and the creators of new documentary work.
Jodi Bieber presenting at the World Press Photo Award Days in Amsterdam, Netherlands. She presented two bodies of work, Challenging Stereotypes and Soweto and also spoke about photographing Bibi Aisha, a young Afghan woman who had her nose and ears cut off by her husband's family.
In 2013 we ran the first edition of DocuFest Africa. In that event we also had a wonderful line-up of presentations and all who participated thoroughly enjoyed it. It provided an excellent platform for interaction between visual storytellers and the public. Right from the start the concept was to not only to provide a platform for leading African visual storytellers and curators to present their work and their collections to a wider audience, but we also wanted to connect that with global best practice. In that regard we invited Michiel Munekke the then Managing Director of World Press Photo to present on "Africa and Africans in World Press Photo" building on a relationship we had developed with World Press Photo during the Twenty Ten project in which we worked together with other partners to train over 100 journalists ahead of the 2010 FIFA World Cup here in South Africa. He understood the vision we had to build an event that can marry the inspiration of global best practice with the promotion of local practitioners.
World Press Photo Managing Director, Michiel Munekke, presenting at DocuFest Africa 2013. World Press Photo wanted to support an initiative that showcased the best of African visual storytelling.
While DocuFest Africa 2013 was well received by the participants and those members of the public who came, what we lacked was the crowds. We held it at Michaelhouse in conjunction with Africa Media Online's Heritage Digital Campus. While the Digital Campus was well attended, we found it challenging to pull the crowds to the Festival. Ever since then I had been dreaming about doing it again, once again in collaboration with World Press Photo and particularly with the World Press Photo Exhibition, and this time in a venue where the crowds were already gathered. In our part of the World, the most obvious place to do this is at the Hilton Arts Festival.
I made two trips to Amsterdam earlier this year in which I reconnected with World Press Photo after a break of some years and got to meet Lars Boering, the new Director. Both of us were looking for ways in which we could continue our collaboration. Even before I went to Amsterdam in January, I had made contact with the Hilton Arts Festival to flight the idea. They loved it and so I went to Amsterdam with some assurance that we had a good venue and a gathered crowd already lined up. The idea, then, of our hosting the World Press Photo Exhibition at the Hilton Arts Festival as an anchor around which to build other events seemed the obvious place to start, and the obvious first event to connect to it was DocuFest Africa. And so DocuFest Africa 2017 was born!


A ball of clay falls to the ground from a height of 15 meters. It is in contact with the ground for 0.020 seconds before coming to rest. What is the average acceleration of the clay during the time it is in contact with the ground? The correct answer to this problem is 858 meters/second^2. Could someone please provide me with a step-by-step demonstration as to how this answer was arrived at? Thank you.
using $g = 9.81 \, m/s^2$ yields the average acceleration given.


Not everybody can be a marketer. There are many jobs in this sector but to find marketing employment, you need to have some specific qualities.
1.	The very first quality of a marketer is that he should be able to communicate efficiently. He should be well versed in English and should be good in both written and verbal communication. His ideas, thoughts and information should be communicated effectively to the person in front.
2.	The second most important quality for a marketing job is to recognize problems, even if they are in the dormant stage and have not yet surfaced. That's right. Do you have the magical gift of overlooking the present and viewing problems that may crop in the future?
If yes, then marketing jobs will be at your feet. This is one of the major qualities required to be a successful marketer and if you have it, no one will be able to stop you.
3.	Marketing information is usually in the form of complex data, so if you know how to interpret complex market information, then you can easily get jobs in marketing.
4.	Are you an innovator? New ideas are always welcome in the world marketing. So if you have a good imagination and can generate, organize and communicate these ideas effectively, then marketing careers is your forte.
These are the four essential qualities every marketing aspirant should have. There are many career opportunities offered by the marketing career. You can choose one according to your values, style and interest.
There are many ways in which you can gain experience for your marketing career. Usually people go for internships as they give on-the-job training and experience which is vital for future growth in the field. You can also volunteer for community projects and service learning. The various experiences which will help you are as follows.
•	Engaging in Market Research for some Fortune 500 Company.
•	Developing displays of Point-of-Purchase to promote products.
•	Reviewing service programs and estimating their market research and potential price and cost.
•	The using of available data to research the "customer base potential".
•	Designing of a promotional campaign (like an advertisement) for the promotion of new products or services.
It is not absolutely essential for you have a degree in marketing to enter into the career. All you need is persistence and determination and you can achieve your dreams. Mostly it has been seen that students with a graduate degree in Business Studies have been successful. But if you have a knack for the job, it is better to enroll in some graduate trainee program or join a company at the base position of a general management trainee, print buyer or market research assistant.
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The Honorable Judge James Campanella Monday entered an order in Perry County Circuit Court Monday delaying the sentencing for Sidnee Stephens murder case defendant Dakota Wall until Wednesday, May 28 at 10 a.m. The sentence was to originally have been handed down on Wednesday, May 21.
A former Harrisburg man Tuesday was sentenced to life in prison without parole for murder plus 20 years for kidnapping in North Dakota Tuesday.
Dakota Wall, 20, and Chad Bennett, 22, both of Pinckneyville were arrested Friday afternoon on multiple charges stemming from the 2010 murder of Wall's half-sister, Sidnee Stephens.Both were charged with accountability on the following charges: first degree murder, aggravated kidnapping, home invasion (two counts), residential burglary, and kidnapping. Bennett also faces an additional accountability charge of concealment of a homicide death.Sheriff Keith Kellerman said accountability means the suspects aided, agreed with or attempted to aid in Stephens' murder. Both are incarcerated in Perry County Jail. Bond is $500,000 for each of them.Stephens' body was found in the Beaucoup Creek in July 2010. Shortly after, Carl Dane, James Glazier and Robbie Mueller were arrested and charged with her murder.Dane pleaded guilty in 2011 then committed suicide in jail. Glazier and Mueller were both found guilty in stipulated bench trials. Glazier was sentenced to 60 years in jail. Mueller's sentencing is set for Oct. 25.Sheriff Kellerman said he did not expect any other arrests in the Stephens murder.
Defendants in Sidnee Stephens' 2010 murder in court this week.
Robbie Mueller to face bench trial Sept. 13 in Sidnee Stephens murder case. Judge denies motion to suppress evidence from initial interview.
Robbie Mueller's attorney asks court to suppress evidence from initial interviews in Sidnee Stephens murder case.
John Clark Bridges, 42, Missoula, Mont., and formerly of Harrisburg, pleaded guilty to murder and kidnapping Thursday in Burleigh County Courthouse in Bismarck, N.D., following a preliminary hearing, according to the Bismarck Tribune newspaper.


Citation: Bull, C.T. 2005. Biological control of lettuce drop caused by Sclerotinia minor by Myxobacteria. Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on the Biology of the Myxobacteria, July 2005, Harrison Hot Spring, British Columbia, Canada. p. 5.
Technical Abstract: Myxobacteria are the third most prodigious producers of antibiotics and biocides but they have been virtually ignored by soil microbiologists and plant pathologists due to difficulty in handling non-laboratory adapted strains. Myxobacteria are ecologically very interesting because they lyse other microorganisms through the production of lytic enzymes. The myxobacteria then scavenge macromolecules that are released into the environment. We previously demonstrated that myxobacteria inhibit fungal plant pathogens including Pythium ultimum, Sclerotinia minor and Verticillium dahliae in vitro (Bull et al., 2002). These pathogens cause economically devastating disease of vegetable and strawberries. We additionally demonstrated that damping-off of cucumber caused by P. ultimum is reduced by over 30% when myxobacteria are applied to the soil 24 hours prior to planting. Myxobacteria used in these experiments include Myxococcus xanthus DK1622 and mutants derived from this strain as well as M. xanthus DZ2 and myxobacteria isolated from agricultural fields. We first screened myxobacteria for inhibition of S. minor using our previously published in vitro assay. Most of the developmental mutants tested did not differ for their ability to inhibit S. minor in culture. However, inhibition by two mutants were significantly altered. One is a mutation in a putative antibiotic gene, grenB, and the other is a mutation in relA. We altered a bioassay for evaluating resistance to this pathogen (Grube and Ryder, 2004) in order to test biological control of drop on lettuce. In short, lettuce plants (cultivar Batavia Reine de Glace) were grown for five weeks in 3 square pots in the greenhouse. Myxobacteria were grown in CTT broth for 2-4 days at 33 degrees C with shaking. Myxobacteria were concentrated and adjusted to approximately 1 x 109 CFU/ml with water spectrophotometrically. Approximately 100 ml of the solution was applied to the soil until run-off. A rye seed infested with the pathogen, S. minor, was placed 2 cm from the base of the lettuce seedling. Plants were incubated at 20 degrees C set for an 18/6 light to dark cycle in a growth chamber. At 7, 14, and 21 days after inoculation, plants were evaluated and disease incidence was recorded. Drop caused by S. minor has been consistently controlled by Myococcus xanthus DK1622 in these experiments reducing disease by >50 percent in most experiments. In all experiments to date, the grnB mutant was significantly impaired for the ability to control the disease. For example, disease incidence for the non-treated pathogen infested control and the plants grown pathogen infested soil treated with the grnB mutant, was approximately 80 percent in one experiment. Because strains that do not inhibit S. minor in vitro also do not control the disease caused by this pathogen, the in vitro assay appears to be a useful tool for screening for more aggressive strains of myxobacteria for disease control and to evaluate the role of particular genes in disease control. Using the in vitro assay to determine what strains to test in assays with lettuce plants will reduce the number of strains that are evaluated in the more labor intensive growth chamber bioassay. Additionally, these data indicate the potential for economically significant control of a major pathogen of lettuce.


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Town Business: The Successes & Shortcomings of Oakland's Equity Program
What Oakland, California's cannabis equity program can teach the nation.
Julia Clark-Riddell
Within shouting distance of the Oakland A's Coliseum and the newly vacant home of the Golden State Warriors sits a row of small greenhouses in a parking lot. The greenhouses were built to grow cannabis, set up with fully automated cultivation systems in the 1,200 square foot space. But when Charles Byrd, a semi-retired San Francisco local with salt-and-pepper hair, shows me the small greenhouse that his family will soon start growing in, there's no cannabis to be found.
This particular row of greenhouses is owned by NUG, an Oakland-based cannabis company that has been around since 2014. Under Oakland's cannabis equity program — the first program of its kind in the world — NUG is an "incubator," agreeing to give rent-free space and security to people who qualify as equity applicants. Byrd and his nephew Jahful Price, together with Byrd's sister, hold an equity permit for their cannabis cultivation and delivery company Cannabis On Fire and they've chosen NUG to be their incubator.
As Cannabis On Fire waits for regulatory approval from the City of Oakland to start growing,
Jahful Price is working as a cannabis cultivator for NUG.
As Byrd and Price walk me through their small and humid greenhouse scattered with construction equipment, the uncle and nephew duo explain how challenging it has been to participate in the equity program.
"It's been a long road," says Byrd. "When we first started, we thought we'd be growing by January 2018. Here we are, a year and three months later, and we're still another three or four months away from growing."
The space itself is shouting with symbolism about the consequences of racism and an equity program that has been slow to get off the ground. In its Oakland complex, NUG has about 30,000 square feet of its own cultivation space, spread across a few buildings. Its rooms are filled with state-of-the-art equipment and rows of frosty cannabis plants. Out in the parking lot, the greenhouses NUG has built for its equity partners are empty.
A Piece of the American Pie
After two years, the world's first cannabis equity program is doing… fine. Since the spring of 2017, the City of Oakland, California has been trying to reverse the centuries of racism that have corrupted — as indefatigable original sins tend to do — the newly regulated cannabis industry. It has been slow work, like sweeping back crashing waves.
In two turbulent years, the City of Oakland has approved 572 temporary licenses and 24 permanent licenses to people who qualify for Oakland's "Cannabis Equity Program," according to the city's most recent data from March 2019. In order to qualify for the equity program, applicants must be residents that earn less than 80% of the city's median income. They also must have lived for 10 of the last 20 years in one of the city's neighborhoods that police have disproportionately targeted or been convicted for a cannabis crime in Oakland after 1996.
In a promising turnout, the number of applications for the equity program has steadily climbed since 2017. The number of applications for program incubators has also increased, up to 343.
About 70 companies have applied to be equity incubators for indoor cultivators, according to March data from the City of Oakland.
But Oakland's cannabis equity program has also been plagued by delays: delays with fire department inspections, delays with issuing licenses, delays with the loan program that provides zero-interest loans to equity permit holders. And these delays have been costly, as they have only made it more difficult for equity applicants to compete in the developing legal cannabis market.
"You have to be patient. We're going to be okay, we have strong partners," Byrd says. "In our family, we don't own any real estate, so we don't have many assets to pass along. In order to get our piece of the American pie, this is our family's once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be poor and to make it."
The City of Oakland doesn't keep data on how the equity applicants are faring compared to the general applicants, so it's hard to tell exactly how large the racial disparity currently is in the city's cannabis industry.
Greg Minor, the city administrator who oversees the cannabis equity program, says that he believes the cannabis companies that are doing well in Oakland today are the ones who got set up before adult-use legalization passed (under medical marijuana laws that had no equity considerations) and the ones who have institutional capital (which is fraught with racist ramifications).
"Nothing happens in a vacuum," says Minor. "There are a multitude of forces of change operating in Oakland in the moment," he says, citing the rising income inequality and gentrification booming in the city. "This is influencing who is succeeding today in the cannabis industry."
Yes, Oakland today is certainly not a vacuum. In the stark contrast between NUG's crowded grow rooms and Cannabis On Fire's still-empty little greenhouse, there is a harsh reminder of how elusive true equity remains, and why it is so important to continue its pursuit.
The Town Model
Oakland is a small city, nicknamed "The Town" in opposition to San Francisco's "The City." Just about half a million residents live tucked between the city's marshland and hillside. Thanks to activists — from the Black Panthers to resident Alicia Garza's co-founding of the Black Lives Matter movement — the city's population has routinely punched above its weight when it comes to leading the fight for racial justice. The city government has often followed its populace's progressive vision.
In anticipation of California's vote to legalize adult-use marijuana in 2016, Oakland city officials commissioned a study on race and cannabis in 2015, laying the groundwork for building racial justice measures — such as the first-of-its-kind equity program — into the cannabis legalization project.
Since Oakland began building its equity program, the conversation around cannabis legalization has increasingly become focused on the intersection between race and policy; on reparations, on expungements, on the role governments can play in giving a leg up to those it has historically pushed down. In Oakland, for example, an analysis from the city found that, from 1995 to 2015, 80% of cannabis arrests were of black people, who make up only 30% of the city's population.
Since 2017, cities such as San Francisco, Los Angeles and Sacramento built their own cannabis equity programs. The entire state of California passed a law to create a state-wide cannabis equity program, with input from Oakland officials. So did Massachusetts. Lawmakers and activists pushing for legalization in states such as New York and New Jersey have made equity a key point of consideration. In June 2019, the Illinois legislature voted to legalize cannabis with a law that included a state-wide cannabis equity program, making it the first state to create such a program from the outset.
NUG grows about eight different strains at a given time.
So, what can other jurisdictions learn from Oakland?
"Organizations move in the direction of the questions they ask," says Minor. "When other states are considering cannabis legalization, they should be asking questions about who is going to benefit from legalization, about who has suffered from prohibition, and about what the city can do."
The biggest win, in Byrd's opinion, is Oakland's equity loan program. Despite the fact it has been slow in the roll out, the program is now giving out zero-interest loans to equity permit holders, up to $100,000. As of March 2019, 15 of the 44 of the submitted loan applications have been funded and five have been approved.
"Where else can you qualify for a $100,000 loan where there isn't a credit check? I think the city got that right," Byrd says. "If they'd done a background check, we wouldn't have qualified for the loan. Everyone who qualifies for the equity program is going to have bad credit."
But in terms of where the city can improve, Minor is quick to admit that there are tweaks that need to happen.
NUG is making co-packaging deals with its equity partners, giving them bud to sell while they wait for city approval to start growing.
For one, the city's incentives to support equity applicants have not been effective across the board. For example, Oakland's plan for equity cultivators is to match them with incubators that provide 1,000 square feet of space, rent-free for at least three years. However, as California's market matures and cannabis grows move onto massive scale operations in the Central Valley, that is nowhere near enough space to build a profitable company.
"From the point of view of the cost of operations and the taxes, 1,000 square feet is just not big enough to justify the amount of money you're putting in to make it operational," Byrd says. Given this reality, Cannabis On Fire is working on building out their delivery business, which requires far less upfront investment money.
This choice reflects a trend playing out across the city. In a report sent to the city's finance committee in April, Minor wrote: "Delivery and distribution operations have been the most common cannabis business types, particularly among equity applicants. This is not surprising considering these are the least capital-intensive operations and they generally require far less to comply with building and fire codes than cultivation and manufacturing operations. This trend is significant, as this signals that there is a need to provide additional assistance to equity applicants interested in producing products so that they can create brands and develop more substantial wealth-building opportunities."
But when it comes to creating brands, there's been another significant hurdle for equity cannabis brands: getting Oakland customers to buy their product.
"We've really struggled conveying to consumers what sets the equity partners apart," says Ted Whitney, director of sales for NUG. "You have maybe 10 seconds to get someone's attention in a dispensary, and it's just not proving to be enough time. We're trying to find a more concise way to get the info out there about letting people know what they're supporting when they're buying from an equity partner."
Jahful Price is a graduate of Oaksterdam. He was born in San Francisco and raised in Oakland. "I got my game from Oakland," he says.
Some dispensaries in San Francisco have set aside shelves just for equity products and products from women-owned companies, but there are no regulations in Oakland that require shelf space be set aside for equity products.
Oakland's equity program is also structured differently for dispensaries. The city has awarded 16 dispensary permits, eight to dispensaries that have been grandfathered in and eight to new establishments. Of those eight new permits, the city set aside four permits for equity applicants, which were chosen through a lottery system in February 2018. They also then awarded four other permits through a ranked application system, whereby equity applicants earned more points. Ultimately, six of the city's eight new dispensary permits went to equity applicants.
Only one of the equity applicants has opened their dispensary so far: Alphonso T. Blunt, Jr. His dispensary, Blunts + Moore, opened in November.
Exporting Equity
Dr. John Oram, NUG's CEO, came along with Byrd, Price and I to tour Cannabis On Fire's new greenhouse and brought his playful young dog along. While his dog bounded and barked with joy, Oram had the wan look of a man who wanted more to celebrate.
"Working with Charles [Byrd] and Jahful [Price] has been great, but, overall, the equity program and the cannabis business in California has been extremely challenging since regulations came on in 2018," Oram told me.
NUG has 30,000 square feet of cultivation space in its East Oakland complex.
In Oram's view, understanding the shortcomings of the Oakland equity program requires understanding how difficult it has been for California to regulate its massive, legacy cannabis industry after the state voted to legalize adult-use cannabis in 2016.
"I don't want to say no one predicted this, but no one admitted that California's market was going to constrict the way it has," he says. "The market from 2017 to 2018 restricted to a tenth of what it was, and then taxes went up to nearly 40%, and the illicit market has been reinvigorated. It's a perfect storm for making the cannabis industry very, very tough. It's been very tough for us to do the things we want to do as a company, like fund the equity program and get it going quickly."
Oram says NUG is doing what it can to go above the letter of Oakland's laws to provide more to its equity partners and wants to go even further. While the company is only required to provide 1,000 square feet of rent-free cultivation space and security to each of its equity partners, NUG has dedicated 9,000 square feet for a handful of equity greenhouses, which are set up as turn-key operations with a value of over $100,000, Oram and Byrd say.
They also provided trailers for separate office spaces and added trimming areas for the equity applicants. As Cannabis On Fire waits for its own cultivation set-up to get rolling, NUG has given them product to start packaging and selling under their own label. Cannabis On Fire will also send its own sales rep along with NUG's team to pitch to dispensaries, Byrd says.
NUG has been in Oakland since 2014, and has been struggling to adjust to the thin margins of California's adult-use industry.
The good news, Oram adds, is that other states should be able to set up cannabis equity programs without as many challenges as Oakland or other cities in California.
"California is the largest cannabis market in the entire world, and it was even before legalization hit," he says. "How do you regulate something this big? Other states don't have this problem. They can start from the ground up and they can start the permitting and they don't have to worry about bringing existing people into compliance. They can just start the market. They can say, 'Here are the licenses and let's start the market.'"
Byrd says his advice to other cities and companies approaching equity is to be patient: "We learned that lesson the hard way."
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Originally published in Issue 38 of Cannabis Now. LEARN MORE
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We've known for awhile that Hitoshi Sakimoto has been actively seeking out projects in the West. A couple years ago he joined Bob Rice's artist representation firm, FBI, although we've yet to see him score a Western game. But wait 'till you hear what he's done with Valkyria Chronicles 2… you'll think you're hearing music for one of those World War II games, but that's not to say it's unoriginal.
I suppose you could say it's similar in style to his original Valkyria Chronicles soundtrack, which we loved immensely, so much so that we asked Sakimoto to provide us with exclusive liner notes. This time it's more military goodness, but with a much larger and refined sound. It's still classic Sakimoto, but taken to an all new level.
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Every once in awhile, game companies surprise us by giving us exactly what we want in terms of game music. While I admit that doesn't occur often, Capcom is generally one of the companies that show game music fans some love, and I'm sure their in-house record label Suleputer has something to do with it. You guys know I am a huge fan of the Breath of Fire series, as Breath of Fire III served as our soundtrack of the month back in September, so you can imagine that I was pretty excited when Capcom released the Breath of Fire Original Soundtrack Special Box back in 2006.
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GDC is one of the best times of year for people like us. The industry-only event is the premiere gathering of game audio professionals from around the world, and it looks as though the conference's streak of bringing in speakers from abroad will continue this year with two guests from Japan.
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Last month we highlighted the music of Yoko Kanno, a composer famous for her work on various anime series. This month, we take a step in the opposite direction with Hitoshi Sakimoto's score for the anime Romeo x Juliet. Sakimoto is known for his contributions to Final Fantasy XII, Odin Sphere, the recently released Valkyria Chronicles, as well as the upcoming action RPG Muramasa: The Demon Blade, and he's often praised for his lush orchestrations and impeccable attention to detail. Does this trademark sound translate over into the world of anime? Well, there's a reason it's the soundtrack of the month.
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A lot of people have been talking about Valkyria Chronicles, a visually-pleasing strategy title that SEGA is releasing in North America this month. Despite the game's stunning visuals and engaging gameplay, the main draw for me was a soundtrack by Hitoshi Sakimoto, performed in part by the Eminence Symphony Orchestra.
Rather than hit you with a traditional review of the game's score, we thought it would be a lot of fun to pick some of our favorite tracks and have Sakimoto himself pick some of his own favorites, then have him provide something similar to liner notes to give some insight into a few of the many amazing pieces featured on the game's soundtrack. It's always a lot of fun to get a dialogue going between composers and their fans, so we hope you enjoy this approach.
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