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Jahan Marcu discusses lab testing, safety protocols, adverse events reporting, and regulatory standards for the cannabis industry.
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By Cannabis Conversations on March 16, 2016
In this video Jahan Marcu, lead auditor for ASA's Patient-Focused Certification program, discusses lab testing, safety protocols, adverse events reporting, and regulatory standards for the cannabis industry. Thank you to Care By Design for helping to sponsor this video series.
Project CBD: We're speaking with Jahan Marcu. Jahan is the scientific advisor to Project CBD. He's received his PhD from Temple University where he did his dissertation on the structure and activity of cannabinoid receptors. He's also been involved in some very important scientific papers documenting the anti-cancer activity of compounds in cannabis. He is currently the chief scientist for Americans for Safe Access and the chief auditor for the Patient Focused Certification program of Americans for Safe Access. We'll be talking about that in a little bit. He's also served on various committees of trade associations and science organizations, including the American Chemical Society, the International Association for Cannabis as Medicine, and the American Herbal Products Association. Thank you for being with us, Jahan.
I wanted to ask you initially about cannabis and safety protocols. I mean, for those who aren't wearing "reefer madness" blinders, I think there's a wide recognition that cannabis is a safe substance. Frances Young, a former DEA administrative chief law officer actually referred to it in a legal document as cannabis being safer than many foods, many common foods that we eat. If it's so safe, why is it important that in the industry today here should be regulations and standards for safety?
Jahan Marcu: It's a good question. I think the most basic answer is that those are the rules. In this country, if you sell products that people are going to consume they need to be tested for safety. Those are the simple rules of what it boils down to.
Project CBD: So what does that mean in terms of setting standards of safety protocols? What is a "standard" in this case?
Marcu: Standards usually begin as a best practice. A group such as the American Herbal Products Association (or AHPA) several years ago started these working committees where members of industry, various stakeholders, laboratory operators, patient advocates got together and discussed standards. What makes a good manufacturer? What makes a good cultivator? What makes a good dispensary? What makes a good laboratory (probably the most important aspect of medical cannabis standards)?
And so these best practices get adopted. And as we've seen with the AHPA standards, they have been adopted by 11 states, along with the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia standards. And so, would you call the same legislation being adopted over and over again, those are standards. And, they set standards such as how much metal and lead you're allowed to have in your products. Or, how much fungus or pesticide you're allowed. Similar standards that what you'd expect when you buy a salad at a grocery store or you buy a pack of vitamin C or some sort of plant extract from anywhere – you'd expect a certain level of safety – and that it was intended for human consumption. It wasn't intended to feed animals. It wasn't intended to make a shirt out of it or put some sort of oil in your car. It was intended for human consumption.
I think, also there's a confusion, too, in what "quality" means to some people. Quality – it refers to purity. And we have to remember that quality is also a term that's used to describe things like motor oil and poison. And there are high quality of everything. But we have to understand what we mean when we say purity consistency. And, as medical cannabis products are rolling out and people are using them, a lot of medical cannabis users are looking for something that's going to repeat, it's going to be consistent. And that's where we will see the new studies coming through.
You know, there are 6,000-plus rare diseases that exist, where there's no treatment for them. And if we ever hope to develop treatments for them, we better have standardized medicine that can be used for long-term investigations. And those only come from having standards. That's just one avenue of what standards can do for an industry, is to help create long-term clinical trials such as the ones that aren't currently available.
Project CBD: So with cannabis though we're dealing with a substance, an herb, that is federally illegal. So how do you establish standards that are going to be applicable nationally when it's only in certain states that cannabis is legal as a medicine and just a few states where it's legal for adult use. What are the challenges in terms of developing standards and implementing them in this context?
Marcu: That's a great question. So the reason the American Herbal Products Association and other standards groups have gotten involved, is because they are not controlled by the DEA. You're allowed to create – it's not the first time ever that a substance from a plant has been discovered and made into a legal medicine. It's happened, for instance you might remember there's a plant called the Poppy plant, and opium and morphine and these things and we discovered another endogenous system by investigating that plant. And there have been rules and standards for that. But there's really, what's interesting is that some organizations are prevented from issuing standards. So the USP (United States Pharmacopeia) is not a government organization, but when it issues monographs it gives pharmacists certain abilities. For instance, it allows them to compound with a substance. Well, the USP may not be able to release a formal monograph until cannabis is rescheduled because they would be out of compliance with their DEA standards. However, a group like the American Herbal Pharmacopeia doesn't have to worry about DEA compliance. A group like AOAC (Official Methods of Analysis) or other groups that are developing analytical standards do not have to work directly with the DEA. They might come to them for help with forensic testing and other issues, but we're going to see standards – we would hope that the USP would come up with a standard to be adopted by all states and everything would be great and solved over night. But the reality is, it's going to be a slow process. The monograph and AHPA standards provide a foundation for the industry for consistency.
Project CBD: By AHPA, you're referring to American Herbal Products Association. Maybe tell us a little bit about the monograph that you were actually involved, with others, in composing.
Marcu: The American Herbal Pharmacopeia has put out about 28 monographs, I believe, on various plants. This is standards for identifying it, and cultivating it, and producing it to meet botanical medicine standards, as well as guides on dosing and administration. And the reason, you know most people can readily identify cannabis, but there are a lot of plants that look like it, like the Japanese Maple for instance and several other members of the Cannabaceae family, all have a very similar leaf structure. So, just a conceptual example: you need a standard method for how you identify it, both by looking at it and by doing chemical analysis. And that's in the monograph. The monograph has testing standards, testing limits such as residual solvents, identified methods for identifying pesticides, fungal, bacteria limits, and these – while some people criticize any regulatory document – I think you have to remember that there was probably close to 100 people involved in writing this, and there's an old saying that if 100 people say that this is the way to do it, they might be on to something. Especially since the people that worked on it came from all different disciplines and they were all experts. For instance, this monograph was undertaken by Ethan Russo, Mahmoud ElSohly, Raphael Mechoulam, Appendino, and the list gets a little more esoteric, but we're talking about people who have worked with the FDA, people who have worked with the USDA, reviewing, editing, all contributing to the creation of this document.
Project CBD: You're talking about some of the leading lights in the scientific community.
Marcu: Yeah, including one of the final reviewers of the monograph which contains information about individual cannabinoids and their effects, is currently the most published pharmacologist in the world – Vincenzo Di Marzo. He has over 500 publications on endocannabinoids and cannabinoids alone.
Project CBD: Let's talk a little about "testing." It's going to come down to the reliability of the lab that's doing the testing. And you, through your work with the Patient Focused Certification program of Americans for Safe Access, you've been involved in auditing these labs and so forth. What do you see out there in terms of the labs that are servicing the cannabis community in terms of consistency? Is there a long way to go? Are we doing a good job in that respect? What do you find in your work when you are auditing these labs?
Marcu: Some of the labs are absolutely ready to be regulated. Some of the labs also have inspections from state agencies. Like Washington state, they already have some inspectors coming in, the Fire Department, and such. However, I think the biggest challenge for some operators in general is just getting their staff ready for a regulatory inspection. It's different than interacting with law enforcement. It's different than interacting perhaps with other municipalities. So I think being ready for an auditor to show up at your place and go through your books, I think it's a new concept for some people.
Project CBD: Well it implies a certain level of professionalism that may not have been there at the beginning of the whole experience with labs servicing the cannabis industry.
Marcu: I think what first has to happen is the labs need to get on board with "best practices." Some labs have done a great job in observing this. Other labs, for instance, want to create their own standards and they don't realize that – you know the monograph was a 19-year project, it involved several phases. Standards aren't going to be created overnight. I mean, it's going to take a long time, five to10 years for any organization to even release method 1 right now. And so, I think in order for things to be scientifically valid, things to be consistent, laboratories have to get on board with agreeing on some set of standards. You know, it's a historical moment. Once – you know this is a scientific problem right now that is in the process of being solved by medical cannabis laboratories, but it represents policy, regulation, breakthroughs in analytical chemistry, and it's even anthropological. And this is a historic moment right now. We're going to look back on this later and be really surprised with how far our labs have gone with testing cannabis and what they can do.
Project CBD: There's an ISO-certified lab. What does ISO stand for? And is that a kind of a certification that should – it's kind of top of the line? Or is that sort of your base level that has to be there for a lab to be operating well? How does that criteria fit in, because that's an international thing?
Marcu: Yeah, ISO is an international standards. The ATOA is an organization that trains a lot of those assessors who go in and look at ISO to see if a place is ISO compliant. And they have different regulations. There's ISO17025, is for analytical laboratories. But they have also general management systems. Like ISO9000, which a hotel can be or a police station, you know, for managing their paperwork a certain way. And it's important. It includes, for instance, ISO requires there to be for a lab, to be validated methods being used, that staff – but, however, it doesn't necessarily cover training or tell you whether or not your operation is legally operating within its jurisdiction for cannabis. So, there are a lot of standards out there. Some are better than others. Some address more than others. And some have a different scope. For instance, for Patient Focused Certification we also look at method validation. Having an ISO compliance or being accredited will definitely help you pass a PFC audit, because it will make the review of the data methodology much easier. You'll have updated Standard Operating Procedures. But I also look at training records, look at licensing, look at zoning, look at how you dispose of your waste. We look at methods that aren't validated but you're also using on site. We kind of look at everything. We also look at batch tracking and adverse events reporting, making sure that you know who extracted what and what did it go into and where did it go, so that if there's an issue, the product can be tracked or recalled.
Project CBD: You mention issues. Let's talk about some of the issues, because one of the jobs of a lab, you would think, would be to report adverse findings, adverse events, when they come upon them. Project CBD has caught a lot of flack when we reported that in certain CBD-rich products there were solvent residues that shouldn't have been there. How do you relate to this adverse event reporting? Is that something the industry should be embracing? Should we be shunning that? I mean, it doesn't necessarily cast an industry in the best light, and yet…
Marcu: I would gently disagree. I think that any operation that engages in a recall plan is engaging in product safety. Any company that is following up on adverse events claim and making a determination about whether or not that product should be recalled or an advisory should be issued, or perhaps labeling should be changed. These are public health issues. And I think it's important that we not chastise companies for engaging in this recall. Let me give you – and also labs are not the gatekeepers of adverse events. It is the producers of these products, the distributors of these products, are the ones who should be having an adverse events program. And we have to keep – we should praise those companies that engage in this. Because they're not always wrong. Their products are not always tainted. While there are recalls happening, it seems like every week we hear about them in Colorado.
What's not publicized very heavily or discussed are the products that are released after they're deemed clear, because the lab wasn't using a validated method and condemned these products when they were safe. But it's best to see this program working. It brings a lot more legitimacy, a lot more of a scientific foundation to what we're doing when – you know, adverse events should not be shied away from. There should be an open discussion about them. There should be a national repository where operators in this industry can review them and look into them. The community needs to be its own FDA, in this regard, and for many other things. For the most part, states right now do not have the capacity to act like an FDA for the industry. OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) has enough issues, work safety inspections – but they will get around to the cannabis industry sooner or later. And I think we have to be prepared. We have to be our own FDA. We have to be vigilant. And we've seen a lot of other products come off the market due to a lack of pharmaco-vigilance, keeping track of adverse events and addressing them. And a lot of times people will say, well you know it's adverse events. We can't really prove that cannabis caused it, just that the products were there at the scene. And I think that that's even something that needs to be reviewed and tracked as well.
Project CBD: You mention the FDA. I remember Dr. Tod Mikuriya referred to the FDA as the "Fully Discredited Administration." What role, if any, should the FDA be playing in this situation? Because they've recently issued letters, pretty much a slap-down of CBD hemp oil companies for mislabeling or making false claims and so forth. Does the Food and Drug Administration, the federal Food and Drug Administration, have a role to play that's valid in this context?
Marcu: They are playing a role. Right now. As you said, with these FDA letters. They're looking at labeling of products. They are not the DEA, though. They don't have officers that come and arrest you, per se, but they do have officers or representatives who will show up to your laboratory and manufacturing site and fine you for every little thing: lack of approved standard operating procedures, a lack of secure hardware and software, uncalibrated equipment. There are 483 Violations. So right now we're just hearing about labeling violations, and I think that soon they might actually show up to facilities – in our lifetime definitely – and issue citations. And I think this is what they do if sometimes they're laboratories they'll show up with a van and fine you per day until you fix the corrective actions or go out of business.
Project CBD: There's another kind of adverse event at play here, and that, irrespective of the quality of the product that a person might consume, there are a certain percentage of people that may have a bad experience and that perhaps shouldn't be exposing themselves to cannabis. I think the number that's typically bandied about by federal agencies is like 9 percent will develop cannabis abuse. I think that's way high in terms of the number. But what about that very small percentage of people who are being exposed to something that might prove difficult to them? How does that play out in terms of the concerns that you address?
Marcu: So the research that that is based upon is very difficult, because it contains no standardized products. These are interviews with people where they derive this information. And that 9 percent figure of the number of people who develop cannabis use disorder or dependence, more than half of those, more than 50 percent of that number is generated from court-ordered drug treatment due to possession or something like that. So the number may be around 5 percent or less. We may eventually find out. But studies with cannabis medicine, such as FDA-approved Marinol, which is an oral THC dissolved in sesame oil, and Sativex, the hash oil extract that's dissolved in ethanol – those have been studied very intensively and they both have extremely low abuse potential. They have virtually no black market value. And these are standardized preparations. If you were to measure, let's say let's talk about pain, and you were to measure say every patient in a study and say, if you had a 12-week study involving five patients, that would be 60 weeks, if you added up all the patient years you'd have about 6,000 patient years of data from patients using Sativex and Marinol, and other standardized preparations of cannabis to look at pain. And they have looked at adverse event profiling. They've looked at withdrawal. They've looked at abuse potential. And it's very low with standardized preparations. When you don't know what you're getting, when the dose can be high, low, medium, the active constituents can vary from day-to-day, I think that that is the biggest issue right now when it comes to adverse events, is that the predictability and guidance on how to use these products.
Project CBD: Well Marinol and Sativex you mention. Marinol is actually an approved pharmaceutical one can access – it's a pure THC product – with a doctor's prescription. Sativex is actually in Phase 3 clinical trials now for cancer pain in the United States. It's an approved medication in many different countries. Essentially it's a 1:1 CBD:THC tincture. Well, the obvious benefits for standardizing these medicines are significant, that one can take something that they know what it is, and be assured that they can repeat that if it's helping them. But I think there's another edge to these kinds of medications that are approved on a federal level, it raises the question what will happen to the medical experiment that's been unfolding at the grassroots in California and other states that have medical marijuana laws. What will the fate of the medical marijuana – the great laboratory experiment in democracy that's been unfolding in medical marijuana states? In light of the move toward legalizing for adult use recreationally, if you can gaze into the crystal ball and see what do you think is going to happen in the future with respect to medical marijuana, as opposed to big pharma utilizing individual cannabinoids as medicine?
Marcu: I think the first thing that has to happen is rescheduling. And rescheduling of cannabis, even to Schedule 2, will not give the pharmaceutical companies a big incentive to get involved. I think we're really far away from the total pharmaceuticalization of cannabis. But what perhaps rescheduling would do to cannabis is allow laboratories to access the standards they need. Allow groups like the AOAC, and other analytical standards groups, to develop certified reference standards for inter-laboratory tests across state lines. Schedule 2 DEA licenses are much easier to get then Schedule 1 licenses. I think we would only strengthen the industry. We'd only strengthen the safety of cannabis patients if cannabis was Schedule 2, and laboratories, manufacturers, were actually able to engage in more thorough quality control without being unfairly handicapped by Schedule 1 status.
Project CBD: Do you think Schedule 2 goes far enough in the end?
Marcu: It's a good step. I think it's far enough to make waves internationally. And I think what we will experience is not that a single country will change the law, but that it will happen at the international level. I think we're on the precipice of having some really interesting discussions around the UNODC table or around the various United Nations groups that discuss drugs and psychoactive substances.
Project CBD I think this has been an interesting discussion. I thank you for your participation, Jahan Marcu. Good luck.
Marcu: Thank you.
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While being in the right seat at the right game might create short-term reassurance, I can't get over the idea that really what people feel is that their club is being run by a group of guys who know the history, study the heritage and view Villa as a proud Victorian club in its third century.
We want to build the club on our attendances. We don't want to pay all our TV money straight out in transfer fees and wages. We have to invest in developing Villa Park, allowing us to generate our own revenue streams.
We have to invest in developing Villa Park, allowing us to generate our own revenue streams. At the same time, of course, there's a balance between growing long-term and getting the instant results we all crave as fans.
Winning supporters over can only really be achieved by what you do, not what you say. It's no use just smiling and shaking hands and getting quoted with witty one-liners.
Winning our fans' approval will come from all of us doing the right things for the right reasons, me included.
If you're going to give people authority and hold them responsible and ultimately accountable for their performance, you've got to get out of the way.
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PFC Ixer [Ret.]
Mica Levi - "Lee Harvey Oswald" (Jackie OST)
PFC Harding [Ret.]
4/10 Alright but not a lot really happens, probably better as an entire piece.
Smut Peddlers - Medicated Minutes
PFC Pedersen
Alright, I've said many times that hip-hop is not my thing, but this is actually pretty decent! Great beat, great flow! Besides, I'm a sucker for half-step movement chord progressions, meaning in this case it moves chromatically from Bb to B to C, back to B and so forth. This pattern is very similar to the James Bond main theme. The main difference is they added more accents on the third beat.
Overall score: 7/10
Now for one of my all-time favorite songs. This is so beautiful! Especially the piano solo from 3:17. Never fails to give me goosebumps!
Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Tuesday's Gone"
SSgt. Butler [Ret.]
The Stone Roses - Fools Gold
Cpl. Pepper
3/10 - Not my thing
James Gang - Walk Away
5/10 Pretty alright, not sure about all the little drum breaks. But yeah, listenable.
RHCP - Minor Thing
It's less funky and more straightforward than what I'm used to hear from Red Hot Chili Peppers, but still a decent song. I do prefer the funkier stuff overall like "Can't Stop", "Aeroplane", "Dark Necessities", etc.
The Romantics - "Rock You Up"
6.5/10 - Not my sort of thing really, so it wont find its way into my playlist - but a nice tune nonetheless. Seems like something I'd find on a GTA V radio in Blaine County. But that's just an idea that came into my head.
Phil Collins + Philip Bailey - Easy Lover
10/10 Probably the best track from Bailey, and one of the best from Collins, one of my all time favourite tracks from the genre.
25,000 Kittens - 25,000 Kittens (Put the whole EP as it kinda is one long track, split into 2, and it wouldn't do it justice if I posted the one track)
Private Hortan H. Hilton
7/10 - Weirdly, as far as songs from you go, it was very nice
David Byrne (of Talking Heads fame) - I Dance Like This
I don't know how to feel about this. I am not fond of the tone of his voice here, that I know. The transitions between the different parts could have been smoother maybe.
Btw PFC Ixer, "Easy Lover" is an excellent song! I planned on suggesting it, but you beat me to it.
Talk Talk - "It's My Life"
(You may recognize the chorus. No Doubt made a popular cover version, but this is the original.)
PFC Verbruggen [Ret.]
5/10 Meh, the video is ok.
2Pac - Never had a friend like me
The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio
Kasabian - Comeback Kid
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Skepta - No Security
LAVA - "The Rhythm of Love"
(A Norwegian band playing American West Coast music. The influence from Toto is clear.)
7/10 Pretty decent but nothing special really, quite generic.
Limp Bizkit - Pollution (Not sure if I posted this before)
I know he's supposed to sound angry, but I am not a fan of these vocals. The only thing I like is the instrumentation.
Now it's finally appropriate to post this:
Earth, Wind & Fire - "September"
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Der Kommissar
(Falco's rendition, the original, is a tad better but I can't take the music video seriously.)
Here's a festive one for ya's
The Cure - Disintegration
T5 Brown [Ret.]
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£50 if you know the show and can name me the State which Dawn and Lee moved to before the Christmas Special.
Such a cliché kind of ballad, but the way he sings it cracks me up! I can't tell if that's a good or bad thing.
LAVA - "The Ratter"
Thom Yorke - Ingenue
Beautiful piano playing, however his tone of voice doesn't sound right to me in this musical context.
Kenny Loggins - "I'm Free (Heaven Helps the Man)"
2/10 Can't help but find it very cheesy and silly.
Lightnin' Hopkins - Woke up this morning
6/10, a little too slow to listen to alone, I'd have to be doing something to make the track itself more enjoyable.
Tool - Intolerance
Super-talented band, but metal (even prog-metal) has never been my preferred type of music to listen to on a regular basis. With that being said, I still recognize that Tool makes good music.
Paul McCartney - "Maybe I'm Amazed"
(Fun-fact: Paul plays every instrument on this track. His wife Linda is credited with backing vocals.)
U2 - All I Want Is You
2Lt. Nelson
Solid 8/10 - I love the way it ebbs and flows, building from little into a soundscape reminiscent of Wilco. I can see where they got that vibe now. ~5:40 (+/-2min) really reminds me of something off Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.
So.. Before Yellowcard became an emo band, they were str8 nardcore skate-punk. This album (Where We Stand) was one of my favorite back in high school. I got so, so mad when they got that new singer. If you are into this era (mid-late 90's melodic/skate punk), check out the album "Midget Tossing" as well - it's basically their "Cheshire Cat".
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Giants outlast Vikings 31-24 for 1st playoff win in 11 years
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Daniel Jones passed for 301 yards and two touchdowns and ran 15 times for 79 yards in his first career playoff game for the New York Giants, a 31-24 victory over Minnesota in the wild-card round that gave the Vikings their first loss in 12 one-score games this season.
Saquon Barkley rushed for two scores, including the tiebreaker midway through the fourth quarter. The Giants' defense finished off the franchise's first playoff win since the Super Bowl 11 years ago by swarming tight end T.J. Hockenson after a 3-yard catch on a pass from Kirk Cousins at midfield on fourth-and-8, and the Vikings turned the ball over on downs with 1:44 to go and no timeouts left.
Isaiah Hodgins and Daniel Bellinger had touchdown receptions for the Giants, who advanced to play No. 1 seed and division rival Philadelphia in the divisional round next weekend.
Cousins went 31 for 39 for 273 yards and two scores, plus a rushing touchdown to cap the game's opening possession, the too-short throw to Hockenson at the end his only mistake. Justin Jefferson, the NFL's leading receiver, had only one catch after halftime and finished with 47 yards.
New York Giants head coach Brian Daboll reacts after an NFL wild card football game against the Minnesota Vikings Sunday, Jan. 15, 2023, in Minneapolis. The Giants won 31-24. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)


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Antonio Tajani is in search of a second mandate as president of the European Parliament, and announced to be candidate to succeed himself. After months of speculations, the vice-president of Forza Italia has finally clarified his intentions. "Yes, I am a candidate", he revealed on Wednesday (23 January) speaking to the Italian press in Brussels.
"I decided to run precisely because we need a more balanced Europe, with a strong Italian presence, and we need to create a climate of greater cooperation that can bring benefit to the entire Europe, including sixty million Italian citizens".
The current president of the European Parliament has a good CV for the top job at the directly-elected EU institution. He has a long European career. Tajani has served as MEP between 1994 and 2008, before moving to the European Commission first as vice president and commissioner for Transport and then as vice president with the Industry portfolio. Then he returned to Parliament. There was first vice-president and then, as a result of the political agreement between the EPP and the S&D groups, was elected at the head of the institution.
The Italian is also vice-president of the European Popular Party, and as in his EPP capacity was member of the European Convention that drafted the European Constitution project in the early 2000s. His pro-European commitment is beyond any doubt, and at EU level his work has been appreciated and recognised by many. Tajani speaks fluently three foreign languages (English, French and Spanish), and makes good use of his linguistic skills.
Since top jobs are essentially political, any eventual second term for Tajani would be result of a political agreement. Moreover, it would not be a precedent if he would have a second mandate, since his predecessor, the German social-democrat Martin Schulz, led the European Parliament twice in row. But that was possible because of an EPP-S&D pact, resulting from the results of the previous European elections.
The new circumstances could be different. With the anti-European forces on the rise, one way is to imagine a pro-European alliance, and Tajani in theory could be a consensus candidate. But the consensus will be more difficult this time. According to opinion polls, an EPP-S&D grand coalition could be no longer able to secure a majority against the anti-European forces. A wider coalition with Liberals (ALDE) on board, and possibly the Greens, would mean that these forces have become kingmakers. Why would they elect as king Tajani?
Mario Draghi's top job at the European Central Bank can play a role in this political puzzle. Late this year Draghi will end his mandate as president of the ECB, paving the way for an Italian at head of another European institution. This plays in Tajani's favour.
The main question mark is linked to Tajani's national party, Forza Italia. The support for Berlusconi's force, of which Tajani was co-founder, is at its all-times low. The party still is in the position of electing MEPs at the next May elections, but they will be much less than the current 10. The political weight of Forza Italia will be reduced, as likely its influence.
Tajani claimed to have "that vision of European politics that Italy should have". His personal idea, he stressed, "do not coincide with the European policy of this government and is not even the politics of a radical-chic resemblance having appeal to certain circles of the Democratic Party".
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(Right: The little-known "seventh" Marx Brother, Photo, prepares to shoot the day's festivities.) It all began when parade founders, Clint Campbell and Mark Soifer, took a trip to nearby Pitman, New Jersey, to have a look at their DooDah. Campbell and Soifer wanted a DooDah of their own, but were hesitant, fearing they would appear to be coveting their neighbor's DooDah. But as luck would have it, the event was canceled in Pitman after the appearance of a semi-pornographic float, opening the door for Campbell and Soifer to lift the parade for Ocean City's use. But while the Ocean City parade shares its name with it's predecessor in Pitman (as well as the original DooDah Parade in Pasadena, CA), most of the events surrounding the Ocean City parade are entirely original.
(Left: Groucho and Harpo beat a hasty retreat from the parade route as Laurel and Hardy approach in the background.) When Soifer first approached him with the idea, Campbell wanted to hold his DooDah on New Year's Day. This was impractical for obvious reasons, so it was suggested that the parade be held on the first Saturday after the income tax deadline, on which day it has been run ever since.
(Right: A couple of guys dressed up as Laurel and Hardy, earning them the honor of riding in the parade.) The parade's concept is a fairly simple one: Get a whole bunch of people together, dressed in outlandish costume and doing really weird things, and march them down the boardwalk. This fact was painfully obvious to me as I made my first visit to the parade this year. Parked near the reviewing stand, I saw all manner of celebrity impersonators, including W.C. Fields, Charlie McCarthy, Mae West, Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy, Al Jolson, and even Sophie Tucker, pass by. And several local groups of performers also got into the spirit of the event, many donning "Groucho Glasses" for the occasion.
(Left: Miriam Marx Allen accepts a lifetime achievement award for her famous father (Groucho) and uncles from Ocean City DooDah co-founder, Mark Soifer.) But while weirdness has always been the order of the day for this event, it wasn't until 1993 that someone came up with the brilliant idea of using the parade to honor classic comedians. The Marx Brothers are the sixth to receive such an honor. Spike Jones, who was the first in 1993, was followed by Ernie Kovacs in 1994, The Honeymooners in 1995, Abbott and Costello in 1996, W.C. Fields in 1997, and finally the Marxes in 1998. This year, Groucho's daughter, Miriam Marx Allen, was flown in from California to accept a lifetime achievement award for the team.
(Right: W.C. Fields chats with Mae West as Charlie McCarthy sits on his lap.) And though classic comics are on everyone's mind during the weekend's festivities, many others are represented as well. This year's parade featured a local Elvis Presley impersonator (who was eerily good at his job) and Suzanne Muldowney, a notorious local "performer" who, dressed as Supergirl, received the cherished "Piece of the Walk" award for having the pluck and "sticking it out" for 10 years in Ocean City.
(Left: Two classic, silent comedians have a few words with each other on the reviewing stand after the parade.) The parade may seem to many to be a cheap, thinly-disguised attempt to promote off-season tourism in a Jersey Shore resort community, but it's obvious to all attending the weekend-long shindig that the parade's founders and all its participants are in this thing for the joy of it, not for what little money is involved. Local businesses help to foot the $8,000 bill by sponsoring the parade. And each registered marcher receives a free hotdog lunch and commemorative t-shirt from Dietz and Watson. At the end of the parade, representatives of various fan clubs set up on the Music Pier to hawk their wares. Paul Wesolowski was there this year, still dressed as Harpo, selling copies of The Freedonia Gazette and other merchandise, while Miriam Marx Allen was signing copies of her book, "Love, Groucho." W.C. Fields, Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, and others were also represented.
(Right: Abbott and Costello give the parade crowd a teaser for the afternoon's comedy show by performing a short excerpt from the classic bit, "Who's on First?") This year's festivities concluded with a comedy show on the Music Pier, featuring many of the celebrity impersonators who had appeared in the parade. The show was emceed by George Benson as W.C. Fields, and featured Bud Palmer and Lou Sciara as Abbott and Costello, Holly Ferris as Mae West and Carmen Miranda, and Ron MacCloskey filling in for Groucho. And while these impersonators were much more convincing to the eyes than the ears, the show was still entertaining (on several levels). The highlight of the show was Palmer and Sciara doing several classic Abbott and Costello routines; of all the acts, this was by far the most convincing.
The day ended for many of us at the Port-O-Call Hotel restaurant, where several of the parade's participants and a few of us onlookers gathered for a "postmortem" dinner. The food wasn't great, but the entertainment was top-notch, as Paul Wesolowski showed us several unairable outtakes from Groucho's television quiz show, You Bet Your Life.
To use a tired old phrase, a good time was had by all! With only a few noticeable exceptions, this proved to be a wonderfully entertaining weekend. And while Sunday was a washout due to inclement weather, we still had time to enjoy several boardwalk attractions after the parade was finished and went home content and happy and wishing for more. This may have been my first DooDah Parade, but it certainly won't be my last!


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30 Years of Pride
Posted by Bob Laycock on June 1, 2019 in Gay History Snapshots, Gay Video of the Week, Selected Highlights	|2 Comments
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Today is Pride in the CLE, Cleveland's annual LGBT Pride Day. The day will start with a march stepping off 11 a.m. from West 9th Street and Front Avenue, then traveling to Public Square where a festival will be held from Noon till 6 p.m.
Pride '89 Program Cover
It all began 30 years ago when a small band of very brave people dared to reserve a small block tucked away on West 29th Street and declare their pride as gay people. They called it "Pride '89: An Out of the Closet Experience." And it was! TV cameras, newspaper and all.
I was among those brave souls. Today we enjoy so much progress and including even legal marriage. But back then, what we did took guts, frankly. But that's not how I remember the experience, though. I knew we were at the cutting edge and I knew we even faced a certain degree of physical danger or backlash. But mostly I had fun. It was hard work — lots of hard work — but it was also thoroughly rewarding and exhilarating. It was truly one of the high points of my life.
Everyone involved played an indispensable role, but two people stand out: Martha Pontoni and Drew Cari. As co-instigators, and later co-chairpeople, they made it happen. Period. There would have no Pride '89 without them.
"We have to do this!"
In his book, Remembering Pride '89, Drew described about how things came together. He wrote that after reading an article in The Washington Blade, it came to him that Cleveland needed to celebrate Gay Pride as other cities were doing. He spoke of this to several friends and co-activists, Brian DeWitt and Martha Pontoni. He continued,
"A while later the phone rang. It was Martha. Not even taking a moment to say hello, she blurted out 'We have to do this.' A few days later we sat down in my kitchen on Coltman Road in Little Italy where we became a committee of two and worked out a tentative action plan. We set a date for the first meeting and the place, The Lesbian/Gay Community Service Center" on West 29th."
A few days later a meeting was convened at the Center. I was there. To Drew's surprise, and "with abdominal cramps due to anxiety," he and Martha were elected co-chairs. The rest is history. Drew goes into more detail in the videos that follow below.
The Story of Pride '89
Martha and Drew were interviewed for the 25th anniversary five years ago. The interview follows in two parts.
Susan Schnur, an old friend from my days with the Kent Gay Liberation Front (KGLF) at KSU, was a member of the Pride '89 Committee. She was also interviewed on Pride's 25th anniversary. At 12:20 into the interview, Sue talks about the first march in Pride's second year, 1990.
At Pride's 25th anniversary, Martha and Drew spoke from the stage to tell today's crowd what it was like organizing in 1989 — and what we need to do going forward, because the struggle isn't over. In speaking of our progress, Drew said "We cannot become complacent. There's still a big fight coming, and it might even be a bigger fight than we've had in the past."
Cleveland Pride came to life on Sunday, June 18, 1989. The Gay People's Chronicle reported that more than 1,000 attended. Pride was held on West 29th Street because that was home of the Lesbian/Gay Community Service Center of Greater Cleveland (the "Center"), the heart of the organized LGBT community, at 1418 West 29th. The Center today is the LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland which is just now finishing construction of a brand new building near Detroit and West 65th in the Detroit Shoreway neighborhood. The ribbon-cutting ceremony is scheduled for Friday, June 14th.
The Pride '89 Committee was comprised of around 20 people in addition to the co-chairs Martha and Drew, plus many people volunteered. Work was divided up by task and subcommittees were headed by the people listed below.
From the Pride '89 Program
On June 18th we were out at the crack of dawn. My job was coordinating volunteers and setting up tables we needed to run the operation and for the many organizations that ran booths that day. I've forgotten how many tables — I want to say about 70 — but we spent the day before driving around in a U-Haul picking up tables from NOCI (the Northern Ohio Coalition, Inc.) and just about every rental company in the western suburbs of Cleveland! Picking them up was work enough. Keeping it all straight and getting the rights tables back to the right places was challenge.
The day officially began at 11:00 a.m. with the North Coast Freedom Band performing "I Am What I Am." A full day of stage events followed with emcees Judith Sloan, Rita Del Rey and Scott Bibbs officiating. Jerry Szoka was D.J. and kept the music going until we wrapped at 8:00 p.m.
We were delightfully exhausted!
The day also included a Commitment Ceremony. In those days legal same-sex marriage was inconceivable. It was just three years earlier that the Supreme Court had ruled in Bowers v. Hardwick that same-sex relationships between consenting adults in private were not protected by the Constitution. The Court ruled that states could outlaw our relationships and jail us.
You can download the complete Pride '89 Program book and Schedule of Events here (3MB) (7MB).
Pride March (or Parade)
There was no march in Pride's first year, but we were determined to change that going forward — and as mentioned above, we did so in 1990. Ken Schneck described it this way in his book LGBTQ Cleveland,
"While the message for Pride 89 was centered on "Out of the Closet,' the following year took this one step further by adding 'Into the Streets.' Officially, the theme was 'Look to the Future,' but clearly, the way to get there was through movement. Cleveland Pride 1990 aided a march or parade (the correct word really does depend on who you ask) to the festival, walking from Public Square in downtown Cleveland, over the Detroit-Superior Bridge, to the site of the festival, which was situated again outside of the Lesbian/Gay Community Service Center on West Twenty-Ninth Street. Estimates of attendance vary, hut most agree that the crowd was at least double the size of the year before."
There's a video on YouTube covering Pride '90. It begins with footage of the march and again there's footage at 30:36. This ending clip includes the irrepressible Aubrey Wertheim, Director of Services at the Center, speaking to WEWS Channel 5 as he marched along Superior Avenue.
Aubrey Wertheim being interviewed by WEWS Channel 5 in 1990.
Aubrey isn't listed in the Pride '89 program as a committee head, but like Martha and Drew, it's hard to imagine any of this could have happened without him. How do I describe him? Aubrey was a literal beacon of gay pride in a era when most of the community was deep in the closet. He began working at the Center in 1987 and transformed it with his sharp wit, humor and seemingly boundless energy. He was an award-winning playwright and had worked previously at the National Gay Task Force (NGTF) in New York City. He brought all his many skills to bear in building the Cleveland LGBT community we know today. Aubrey passed away from cancer in2003. You can learn more about this exceptional soul at the Purple Armadillos blog.
Personal Remembrances of Pride '89
I've invited friends to contribute their thoughts and remembrances of Pride '89 for this post. A few have, and I still welcome others despite the fact this post is now online. This is part of my Snapshots of Gay History as Told Thru Video series so it will be indexed and accessible for a long time to come.
Submit your contribution to me at justsayin2@icloud.com and I'll create a page linked to your name below. Or, if you have just a few short thoughts you'd like to share, by all means add a Comment below. It'll be great hearing from you.
To date, these people have contributed:
Scott Bibbs
David Lansaw
Published Histories of Pride '89
There are at least two published histories of Pride '89 that I know of. The first is by "co-instigator" and co-chairperson, Drew Cari.
Drew Cari has written the definitive history of Pride '89.
Drew has written the definitive history of Pride '89. He tells the backstory story of how it began and our adventures pulling off this feat.
Drew includes newspaper clippings and a priceless collection of photographs. You'll get an intimate feel for the event, the camaraderie and joy we experienced working together to make it happen.
You can buy a copy at Amazon. This one belongs in your library or on your coffee table for all to see!
The history of Pride '89 is also presented by Ken Schneck in his expansive book, LGBTQ Cleveland. He places Pride '89 in context with Cleveland's overall gay history — where we came from, where we were then and where we've come to now.
You can buy this book also on Amazon. Check it out!
For really great photographs check out the books above, especially Drew's.
I don't have a lot of pictures in my personal collection. This was before the days of iPhones and omnipresent cameras. One I have, though, is this picture of Scott Bibbs and me. Scott and I had worked together for years previously doing the GayWaves show on WRUW-FM.
Scott Bibbs (left) and Bob Laycock. (Photographer unknown.)
Bob Downing sent the following photos from his collection. I've named people where I can but I'm missing some. Please write me with names I've missed and I'll update the captions.
The Pride '89 Committee and volunteers on stage. Drew Cari is speaking.
Rita Del Rey (left) on stage with unknown.
North Coast Freedom Band on stage.
R to L: Bob Laycock, David Volk, Martha Pontoni.
Doug Braun (left) and Brian DeWitt.
Christine Hahn staffing the Gay People's Chronicle booth.
Martha Pontoni (right) with unknown.
The Gay Fathers booth, person unknown.
Rich Kuehn.
Rich Kuehn (right) with unknown.
We were definitely out and visible at Pride '89!
One of the many booths.
Bob Downing also sent me pictures from that time period that weren't specifically Pride '89. The two below are really good.
Drew Cari (left) and Martha Pontoni.
Bob Downing & Martha Pontoni.
What else can I say about Pride '89? Certainly a good time was had by all! But it was so much deeper and more profound than that. We changed Cleveland history. And with it, we changed the lives of LBGT people in Cleveland, even up to this day.
Friendships forged through Pride last to this day. But they didn't all start there. I knew Susan Schnur and others from Kent State. I knew Brian DeWitt, Scott Bibs and Drew Cari from GayWaves at WRUW. I don't remember when I met Martha Pontoni. It just feels like we've known each other since before time.
I also had the delightful experience of running into some old, old friends. Have you ever known people that keep showing up in your life in different times and contexts?
Darrel Cook was a Pride '89 Committee member. I had known Darrell some 15 years earlier out in Chesterland in my former life, way deep in the closet. We were neighbors in apartments at a delightful spot near County Line Road and Wilson Mills. It was so gratifying to reconnect years later in our authentic lives. He's passed away now but was a wonderful soul. I love this picture. It captures the Pride '89 experience perfectly.
Darrell Cook as he appears in Drew Cari's book, Remembering Pride '89.
So this was Pride '89. As David Volk wrote in the Forward to Drew's book, "We were committed to making a political statement for the Gay & Lesbian Community in Cleveland. That was 'We are your co-worker, your neighbor, your relatives and you can't sweep us under the carpet like we don't exist!'"
And we succeeded! We're not under the carpet any longer.
Special thanks and appreciation to Scott Bibbs, Bob Downing, David Lansaw and Nick Palumbo for their suggestions and contributions.
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Wonderful viewing the pictures and this information is priceless ! Thanks Bob !


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Meet SAMA' – Ramallah's world-class techno export
Get to know a key figure of the Palestinian underground scene who's fast becoming one of the freshest and most exciting DJs in the world.
A key player in the Palestinian underground scene, DJ SAMA' cuts an impressive figure against the backdrop of a subculture that has – against the odds – grown into one of the freshest and most exciting in the world.
From playing parties in and around the city of Ramallah to stages across the world, SAMA"s sound has developed into a unifying, essentially optimistic and honest strain of techno that transcends borders and boundaries, and proves the oft-quoted adage that music has the power to bring people together.
You started DJing as a kid…
I started DJing when I was 13 – my dad says nine. I used to play whatever came on the radio. Arabic music, pop music, whatever people want to listen to at a birthday… whatever was known. Back then we didn't have many DJs. We had wedding DJs, which were really expensive, but for a birthday or whatever we didn't have DJs – so we used to either play the radio, or fight over whose CDs we'd put on.
In the beginning it was always the radio, but the problem was that there was the Intafada then, so the tracks would always be cut by the news, "BREAKING NEWS: GOD KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED!"
So we'd start burning CDs and taking them to the party, and then fighting over who gets to play their track. At one point I was like, "I'm gonna choose the music." My dad has an event management company, he has speaker and players. So I'd borrow them from him, set them up, and play music for my friends.
So you were EQing and mixing back then?
Oh I learned that when I was 19. Back then it was about having actual speakers and music. That was the part that was important for us. It wasn't about really DJing or making music or anything like that, we just needed a music player.
I would even be dancing in the crowd, and reach over the booth to press play and switch the faders, and then go dance again.
I began to learn when I first went clubbing. We had no clubs in Palestine, but I studied in Beirut and started going to clubs and was like "Oh I'm not a DJ, I don't know what he's doing! I'm pressing play and switching faders."
So you picked up clubbing in Beirut, and then came back to Palestine. What did you play? How were the first nights?
Haha, very bad! The first visit, I brought back some music, and nobody understood what I was playing, and nobody liked it. After I started studying Audio Engineering and Music Production, I really wanted to start sharing that more because I was already playing in Jordan, but not in Palestine.
After trying a while, losing money, and getting mad I met a woman in Ramallah, and she'd just moved there from Haifa and took over a bar and made it happen. She said, "Come play, I'll make it work." She went to Haifa, got a huge crowd and DJs from there, and made it work in Ramallah. There were like 80 people dancing, and that made it happen, and it also created this connection between Haifa and Ramallah.
It was initially bringing people from Haifa to Ramallah that kickstarted everything?
In a way. In Haifa, people know electronic music more – they go to Europe and travel around more than us. For us, we'd never heard of it. The first time I heard techno was 2008, which is insane. When I met her, she was like "I know the crowd that listens to this" and she got a bus from Haifa to Ramallah.
So the Ramallah people came to that party, and when they were in the vibe of a techno party, they kind of understood it. So after that she made another party, then another party, then all-day festivals. And it started growing from there, and other organisers began popping up, and now we have a scene! I can just go party now!
Where do you get your music?
I was always an online person. In Beirut, I also became friends with a lot of the DJs who are there. So that gave me access to music, and everybody was sharing it, and my teacher in Jordan was giving me music, and I was buying music from Beatport.
In the beginning it was always trading, exchanging, ripping CDs off each other's computers. Because in Beirut, yeah you could go and find Michael Jackson CDs, but you couldn't go and find techno music.
It wasn't that long ago that I realised there's Berlin techno and Detroit techno. People would say to me, "You play cool Berlin techno," and I'd be like, "Oh, cool, I didn't know!" Because on Beatport I'd listen to everything, and what I liked, I'd buy.
But after I heard that, I decided I need to go see what Berlin is. So my first gig in Europe, before playing – it was in France – I went to Berlin. I was like, "Before I play in Europe, I need to know what the hell I'm playing." Because apparently I play Berlin techno, but I'd never been to Berlin.
I still have a problem with differences between genres, I don't like to brag about knowing the difference, because it's very mixed you know.
Speaking of genres, has Ramallah developed its own sound by now?
We have a lot of really good producers that have been taking from different parts and making their own thing. For example you have Muquata'a, who creates his own noise and glitch sound. He started as a rapper when we were in high school, and now he makes incredible glitch, recording sounds from the streets and making them into something else. Then there's Bruno Cruz, who did the dub-key music, and at the same time they're dancing on stage with this folkloric dance. And there's Zenobia, who make Shaabi music, like the popular music, but crazy electronic. So it's this mix between your own heritage and what you've heard elsewhere.
For me, personally, I grew up learning western music – classical piano – so I never got into Arabic music or Arabic instruments. So I never added these. It might have a bit of that percussion, because I'm into it…
It's nice when you can break the stereotypes, not [for your music] to be characterized as Arab. People don't want to leave that behind and go fully-western, but to find somewhere between the two.
How much do you think the scene is defined as being specifically "Palestinian" as opposed to being just another scene?
It's like any other scene – a community of people who want to connect and enjoy. But it's also people uniting over something they're trying to escape. You know Palestine, it's a bit of a mess living there, so we try to normalize it in a way, stay alive and sane, and not go crazy. Dancing has always been a part of that, and Palestinians dance a lot in general – and have for a long time. So it's always been related to that, and something new with every war.
I hope we're resisting with our music…
Yeah, there's always connection between underground culture and wider political or social events – Berlin and the Wall, Euromaidan in Ukraine…
Music kind of grew with wars. Vinyl through WWI, jazz started in a conflict period, genres changed with wars. Techno grew out of Berlin.
I always make this joke that we're heading toward WWIII, and that the music booms afterwards – so I'm excited for that… everything goes to shit but art flourishes!
It's true, with every war art flourishes and everything else is destroyed. Whenever there's oppression, people tend towards alternative modes of expression. At some point you have to find anything, and art is a healthy way of expressing issues, otherwise the whole world would be killing each other. It's the sad truth!
How do you perceive your role now within the scene?
Actually yesterday I was answering an email interview, and they asked, "How does it feel to be the first female DJ in Palestine?" And the thing is, it wasn't intentional, it just happened. The scene and the people there gave me so much – you have no idea.
It just kind of made a whole new community, and I try to give back to it.
I see my role as somebody who can help back there, which I try to do – by playing parties, going to workshops, whatever. I'm there when I can be. People send me sets all the time for feedback.. Sometimes it takes me a month to reply, but I reply! If I have the time why not?
What are you looking out for when you're giving feedback?
It depends. There's a new kid who sends me stuff, and I give him mixing tips, and I always watch them play. One person, I told him to forget all the effects, and just to focus on the EQ and really get to know it… to know what something's going to sound like before you do it. I give them different tools – one site for ear training… a perfect set with just the EQ, then with the filter and so on.
The thing is, I love to party. I love to DJ, but I love to party! The thing is, in Palestine, I would play for eight hours, or I'd be the full party. And everybody would be dancing and I'm working (in a way) and dancing my ass off, but I'd still have to be focussed.
But now, I can just go and party in Palestine! Now, man… New Year's we had the whole crew playing, and the techno stage – 12 hours of perfection.
It sounds like you have a pretty high attention to detail – do you plan your sets?
I kind of plan, especially if it's between people, or an opening. I'll imagine what I want to do, and how to reach to where they're going to start, or pick up from where they finish, or make a transition between two people.
I'll make a playlist, buy music every week, and choose the tracks for the night, but take everything else with me too. The crowd really has a lot to do with it, sometimes you'll realise it's not working and you have to take things somewhere else. So I have an outline, but you never know what happens. I like to have at least my first two tracks, because I'm in panic mode, getting everything working, thinking "I'm gonna play." And I like to have at least five different options.
Also closing tracks is something I think about a lot – I like storytelling in music. So I concentrate a lot on what DJs do in regard to that. But yeah, I'm so into details.
You're using the TRAKTOR KONTROL F1 – are you using samples as well?
Yeah, samples from my new album. It's been "the new album" for the last year and a half! Hopefully it'll come out soon. But yeah it has a lot of acoustic sounds in a way… some instruments, vocals, ambient sounds, effects like a car or plane. The ones I play the most are the car, plane, and bird. Wherever you hear a car passing by… it's in the set. It's all because of the sound design background, from doing movies. The sound effects are the most fun ones.
How often do you use them?
Shitloads! All the time! Especially the bird – sometimes I'll play melodies with it. The car and the plane sound like noise… I can use them for transitions… open up the filter….
You're always using four decks then?
Yeah, three definitely. And then the fourth is on and off, depending on what's happenin or how many elements I need. Or how bad the second track was – if I need to fill it up with elements really fast haha!
You use a couple of effects too…
I mostly use delays and gaters, I'm still learning them. It's useful in industrial techno, but with melodic techno, the producer already added loads.
Maybe if something's missing you can fill it out, but if you bought it, it must be good already – you paid money for it, why mess it up? There's a guy who spent a couple of months creating that, let it play!
I don't fuck with the production – if I'm gonna skip a part, I'll skip the whole track because it's somebody's track, come on!
Let's finish with a classic – what does DJing mean to you?
Ooh, free party! Nah – sharing with people, creating a connection… it's freeing, playing music, letting out what I have.
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Here comes China's new web giants
Monday, 01 Aug 2016
Jia says Chinas tech giants Baidu, Ali Baba, Tencent have peaked — EPA.
CHINA'S new breed of web giants are starting to make a mark overseas. LeEco is paying US$2bil to buy US TV-maker Vizio, a company that sells its products in Costco and Wal-Mart stores.
Little known outside China, LeEco is part of a tech group led by Jia Yueting who is looking to take on Netflix, Apple and Tesla all at once.
The 43-year-old's sprawling group includes the Shenzhen-listed Leshi Internet Information & Technology, a US$14bil TV and smartphone-maker that also operates a Netflix-like video streaming platform. Leshi sells TVs and set-top boxes to viewers and then charges them to access premium content.
Jia is betting Vizio will give him a foothold in the US where he can replicate the same strategy.
Jia's ambitions extend further. He has been pushing into movie production as well as sports media. And in April, LeEco unveiled an electric concept super car, a rival to Tesla's Model S.
"People questioned our idea, a small IT company building a car to compete with the BMWs and Teslas of the world, and laughed at us," Jia said in an interview at the time, "It wasn't easy, but here we are."
The dominance of domestic rivals back home may have forced LeEco to venture overseas. Jia has spoken out against the country's tech giants — Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent — comparing them to mountains that overshadow the country's startups.
The entrepreneur has even suggested that the BAT trio have peaked, according to local media.
LeEco's cross-border ambitions make it stand apart from better-known Chinese tech groups. Another example of this new emerging breed that have their sights set on expanding abroad is Qihoo 360, the antivirus and software maker.
It was part of a consortium that recently failed to buy the Norwegian company behind the Opera browser, a competitor to Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome browsers. Success for these companies is uncertain but expect to hear more from China's web giants in waiting. — Reuters
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... and I'm not talking about my own this time.
I just sat down with Juliette to play a two-player game of Sacred, a game that I got a little while back, but never found the time to finish.
Sacred looks lovely and is a fun game, when it's not crashing out. It's one of the least stable games I've laid eyes upon (even with the latest patches) since I had the misfortune to install the first Star Trek: Armada game.


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Q: is releasing objects acceptable on :completion blocks? I have an animation block where I move the UIView away from the screen.
In the completion block I am releasing objects that held that UIView and it's subviews.
Is this acceptable to do?

A: As a general rule: If you're careful, this won't have unexpected complications; it's a perfectly understandable thing to do in a completion block.
In your situation: Make sure you're not going to overrelease things. Without being able to see the code, I'm not sure when you're doing this in relation to a view's lifecycle. Make sure you understand the processes undertaken when a UIView is destroyed. It would certainly be worth reading: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#featuredarticles/ViewControllerPGforiPhoneOS/ViewLoadingandUnloading/ViewLoadingandUnloading.html

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Juno MacGuff is a single mom with a one year-old, completing her undergraduate degree at StFX. She comes from a low-income family that cannot provide her any support. She is not receiving any child support payments or other assistance from the father of her child.
Debt Relief Loan remission program worth as much as $3,000 per year. Debt Cap and Repayment Assistance Plan linked to income and repayment time (max 15 years). Repayment Assistance Plan linked to income and repayment time (max 15 years).
Given that there is no guarantee that Juno will be able to find work in the summer, these costs potentially pose a significant additional burden to attending post-secondary education. Juno could perceive significant risk to pursuing a degree when she is not assured of money to support herself and her child for fully one-third of the year.
Juno does not receive enough support to cover her costs in either of the 2004 or 2014-15 scenarios, leaving very significant unmet need. It is basically impossible to envision Juno being able to afford attending this program without additional support outside the model.
Juno's debt total has been reduced significantly over the course of the indicated years as a result of the debt cap, which forgives all her provincial loans. She graduates with only federal loans.
Juno's tuition fell since 2004, but student fees increased as a result of ancillary fee growth.


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Tale of two cities living side by side
The Grenfell inferno is emblematic of the social division between west London's 'haves' and 'have nots', writes Julia Molony
People look at tributes outside Notting Hill Methodist Church, close to Grenfell Tower in west London after a fire engulfed the 24-storey building on Wednesday morning. Picture: PA
Julia Molony
June 18 2017 2:30 AM
First came the emergency services. Then came the politicians. Finally, it was the celebrities who showed up at Grenfell Tower, as it continued to pour smoke over the London skyline.
https://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/britain/tale-of-two-cities-living-side-by-side-35837716.html
https://www.independent.ie/world-news/and-finally/ea7be/35837831.ece/AUTOCROP/h342/ipanews_9279ed75-f903-47c0-a6be-934ff41252fb_embedded1292759351
Adele was there, hugging survivors at a vigil held less than 24 hours after the building lit up like a Roman candle. Then Rita Ora, who grew up nearby and played in the tower as a child, was helping to sort through bin bags of clothing. Brooklyn Beckham brought his siblings with him. Jeremy Clarkson donated "everything that was clean in his wardrobe". Jamie Oliver opened the doors of his nearby restaurant to those affected. Lily Allen was on the scene, being interviewed for TV.
They came because, though they are famous, they are as susceptible to the feelings of horror and helplessness that come with bearing witness to tragedy of this scale as the rest of us. But they came too because this calamity is particularly close to them. Many of them are near neighbours of the Grenfell Tower residents. They might occupy a different world entirely, but they all share the same patch of west London.
It's hard to imagine there's a more eclectic melting pot anywhere in the world than Ladbroke Grove, where the tower is situated. Every nation of the world is represented, and every social demographic, from the ultra-rich, who occupy the mansions in Kensington, to London's forgotten residents, the low-income families, the ethnic minorities, the single mothers and the unemployed.
A few roads away from the sprawling Lancaster West Estate, which houses many of the borough's poorest occupants, are exclusive streets clogged with Chelsea tractors, where construction workers are a constant presence, digging up pavements to furnish the wealthy owners with super-basements. These stately Victorian terraces back onto leafy, wrought-iron-enclosed private gardens and the houses are worth several million each.
For those who love the area - and I count myself among them, I lived there for the best part of a decade - its diversity is part of its charm. On weekend mornings, A-list actors mingle with troupes of hoodie-wearing teenagers on their bikes.
But as the Grenfell Tower disaster has illustrated starkly, there is a darker story behind the colourful street life and vibrancy. Kensington and Chelsea is the UK's richest borough. Property there was valued last year as being worth £11,321 per square metre. The land that Grenfell Tower stands on is the sort of potted gold that developers claw to get their hands on. But anyone trying to access public services in the area tells stories of agencies that are massively overstretched.
It's no surprise that Grenfell Tower has quickly become an emblem of modern Britain's most pressing political issue - the growing division between rich and poor, and the whole swathes of the population left floundering in the wake of austerity measures. It stands now as a charred symbol of the establishment's callous indifference to the plight of the working class.
As each heartbreaking story emerges of the victims, it's a glimpse inside a world populated by people never usually represented in the mainstream media: the Syrian asylum seekers, the Ethiopian taxi driver, the ordinary hard-working Muslim families who were awake when the blaze broke out as it was Ramadan and they were breaking their fast.
And the narrative we are now seeing couldn't be farther from the 'benefits scrounger' cliche often trotted out about council-estate dwellers. Grenfell Tower, it turns out, was a hive of human striving.
We've heard about Ines Alves, the GCSE student who went in to sit an exam the day after the fire, still wearing the clothes she'd put on to escape the blaze; Khadija Saye, a black female artist whose work was due to be shown at the Venice Biennale; and Mohammed Alhajali, the refugee who had fled Assad's regime and was studying for a degree in civil engineering.
While the celebrities and financiers of Kensington and Chelsea - the 'haves' of the area - are well used to having their voices heard, now, for the first time, this awful event has turned the spotlight on the 'have nots'. It's about time they were listened to.
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Michael Ondaatje's novel is a love story and a mystery set in the turbulent new world of Toronto in the 1920s and 30s.
In the Skin of a Lion is a love story and an irresistible mystery set in the turbulent, muscular new world of Toronto in the 20s and 30s. Michael Ondaatje entwines adventure, romance and history, real and invented, enmeshing us in the lives of the immigrants who built the city and those who dreamed it into being: the politically powerful, the anarchists, bridge builders and tunnellers, a vanished millionaire and his mistress, a rescued nun and a thief who leads a charmed life. This is a haunting tale of passion, privilege and biting physical labour, of men and women moved by compassion and driven by the power of dreams — sometimes even to murder.
In the Skin of a Lion won the first Canada Reads competition in 2002, when it was defended by Steven Page. It was also a finalist for the 1987 Governor General's Literary Award for fiction.
From In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje ©1987. Published by Vintage Canada.


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4. Hina Rabbani Khar is a hybrid of an ostrich and a kangaroo. Refuses to face the reality and carries a bag where ever she goes.
5. Thought Her To Be of Penguin Mother & Sea Horse Father.
6. Hina Rabbani Khar is having a relationship with Bilawal Bhutto? Man, she's going from Hermes to Herpes pretty fast.
7. Hina Rabbani Khar is allowed to act all arrogant and ignorant, guys. After all, she is HRK.
8. Hina Rabbani Khar. So pretty. So shrewd. What a character she'd make in a book or a movie.
9. Quit making fun of Hina Rabbani Khar for her big, expensive bags. She needs them to carry a lot of hate and stupidity.
10. Hina Rabbani Khar says India is war-mongering ! Go back to your birkin, love!
11. Meanwhile, darling of India's SECULAR tribe Hina Rabbani Khar says, "Outrage in India not worthy of any response"!!!
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14. Hina Rabbani Khar for Jism 4 or 5 ?
15. Dear Hina Rabbani Khar, we shall accept all what you said, provided you appear on Arnab Goswami's show and win the argument!


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Tülay Çimen, who has been living in Siirt for five years, has a child living in Siirt.
Tülay Çimen, who lived for five years in Siirt for having a child, was shocked by his life when he learned that he had an uterine disease at the hospital where he was under treatment. Cimont, who was diagnosed with a cancerous disease when he was expecting children, was named Assoc. Dr. Hakan Coxüer's treatment of both pregnant and surviving the uterus cancer.
Tülay and Mehmet Cimen, who lived in Siirt and married five years ago, have decided to receive IVF treatment if they can not normally have a baby. The patient, who went to many childcare centers, had a shock of their lives when they learned that Tülay Çimen had cervical cancer at the hospital for the last treatment. Couple of cancerous cats waiting for a child, on request, Diyarbakir, Obstetrics and IVF Specialist Assoc. Dr. Hakan Coxer came to the clinic. Tülay Çimen, Assoc. Dr. Coksüer applied acupuncture and egg detox treatment to get pregnant and get rid of the uterine cancer.
"They said I should be pregnant to beat cancer."
Tülay Çimen, who was said to have received many treatments for children and most recently cancer in the hospital, said, "I must be pregnant to beat the uterus cancer, first I wanted to imagine, the doctor first suggested vaccination, did not respond well I suddenly realized that I was pregnant and learned that I was pregnant and I'm pregnant and can not describe my pleasure, my child has saved cancer and is a joy to our home, "I said.
"We've seen the progression of the disease"
Women's Birth and IVF Specialist Assoc. Dr. Dr. Hakan Çoksüer, at the cancer diagnostic clinic, who expresses the "patients who have been treated in many places but the treatment failed and more and more progress has been made with the disease." Of course, for us, the primary role of the treatment of uterus is that pregnancy is fast, It has been said that the uterus should be removed with the progression of the disease and the patient was told that the uterus is needed when it is accepted and it would make it impossible to the child should have a serious psychological burden. We got fast post pregnancy without getting uterus and using both eggs for detox treatment and acupuncture treatment. The patient was a serious psychological burden. Beat. Secondly, the quality of the egg has improved. Third, in uterine patients, when looking at these ultrasound patients, the uterus is irregular. The acupuncture treatment of the uterus membrane and ultimately the immune system strengthens the uterus wall to preserve the embryo we tried to provide. We tried to provide these four effects with acupuncture. Antioxidant treatments were also provided. This success was achieved by the patient's specific treatment. The patient is now very psychologically happy. It was very happy for the patient to get pregnant quickly without taking Rahmi. I suggest that couples do not postpone their children. Sometimes health conditions prevent children's lives, "he said.
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Q: request failed with server response DUPLICATE_REQUEST_ID Required Information

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*Mode (Sandbox):

*PayPal Android SDK Version ( paypal-android-sdk:2.14.4)

*Android Version and Device (Samsung J2)

*PayPal-Debug-ID(s) ( e0dd5a1e352af [sandbox, 2.14.4;release] )

Issue Description

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*while calling paypal sandbox i am facing this error .. i tried to
find way to regenerate or reset request id but there is no method to
reset it . please guide what to do . here is error log

*request failed with server
response:{"name":"DUPLICATE_REQUEST_ID","message":"PayPal-Request-Id
header was already
used.","information_link":"https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/docs/api/#DUPLICATE_REQUEST_ID","debug_id":"e0dd5a1e352af"}

*DUPLICATE_REQUEST_ID

A: Problem has been resolved .. it was due to credit/debitcard paypment not possible in india via paypal mobile sdk . also indian paypal acc to india paypal acc transfer not possible via paypal .. may be paypal should improve error messages.


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Q: JSON Object not printing to screen My included code is of my Asynctask of getting the JSON from URL and attempting to parse it and output the information to TextViews on the screen. I'm under the assumption that the issue lies in the onPostExecute block of actually passing the JSON info to strings and outputting it but I cannot figure out what I'm doing wrong. I had it partially working last night, but it was only printing 0's and null. I have since made some changes and here I am.
class GetStats extends AsyncTask<String, String, JSONObject> {

    private String api_key="d96236d2-6ee3-4cfd-afa7-f41bdbc11128";
    String region = MainActivity.region.toLowerCase();
    String name = MainActivity.name;
    String url = null;
    String encodedName = null;
    String encodedKey = null;
    String encodedRegion = null;

    // JSON Node Names
    String TAG_ID = "id";
    String TAG_NAME = "name";
    String TAG_PROFILEICONID = "profileIconId";
    String TAG_REVISIONDATE = "revisionDate";
    String TAG_SUMMONERLEVEL = "summonerLevel";

    @Override
    protected void onPreExecute() {
        super.onPreExecute();
        try {
            textId = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.id);
            textName = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.name);
            textProfileIconId = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.profileIconId);
            textRevisionDate = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.revisionDate);
            textSummonerLevel = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.summonerLevel);
            encodedName = URLEncoder.encode(name, "UTF-8");
            encodedKey = URLEncoder.encode(api_key, "UTF-8");
            encodedRegion = URLEncoder.encode(region, "UTF-8");
            url = "https://prod.api.pvp.net/api/lol/" + encodedRegion + "/v1.4/summoner/by-name/" + encodedName + "?api_key=" + encodedKey;

        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    }

    @Override
    protected JSONObject doInBackground(String... arg0) {
        JSONParser jParser = new JSONParser();

        // Get JSON from URL
        JSONObject json = jParser.getJSONFromUrl(url);
        JSONObject jb = null;

        try {
            jb = json.getJSONObject(encodedName);
        } catch (JSONException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return jb;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(JSONObject json) {
        try {
            // Storing JSON item to String
            String id = json.getString(TAG_ID);
            String name = json.getString(TAG_NAME);
            String icon = json.getString(TAG_PROFILEICONID);
            String revDate = json.getString(TAG_REVISIONDATE);
            String sumLevel = json.getString(TAG_SUMMONERLEVEL);

            // Putting JSON data in TextViews
            textId.setText(id);
            textName.setText(name);
            textProfileIconId.setText(icon);
            textRevisionDate.setText(revDate);
            textSummonerLevel.setText(sumLevel);

        } catch (JSONException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

JSON Expected result example:
 {"nv43":{"id":23591778,"name":"NV43","profileIconId":22,"summonerLevel":30,"revisionDate":1396737099000}}

The error:
04-07 13:32:18.359  22875-22875/? E/AndroidRuntime﹕ FATAL EXCEPTION: main
    Process: edu.appdesign.leaguestats, PID: 22875
    java.lang.NullPointerException
            at edu.appdesign.leaguestats.StatsActivity$GetStats.onPostExecute(StatsActivity.java:110)
            at edu.appdesign.leaguestats.StatsActivity$GetStats.onPostExecute(StatsActivity.java:53)
            at android.os.AsyncTask.finish(AsyncTask.java)
            at android.os.AsyncTask.access$600(AsyncTask.java)
            at android.os.AsyncTask$InternalHandler.handleMessage(AsyncTask.java)
            at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java)
            at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java)
            at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java)
            at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
            at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
            at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java)
            at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java)
            at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

A: { // json object node
    "nv43": {  // jsonobject nv43
        "id": 23591778,
        "name": "NV43",
        "profileIconId": 22,
        "summonerLevel": 30,
        "revisionDate": 1396737099000
    }
}

You missed parsing JSONObject nv43.
In doInBackground
JSONObject json = jParser.getJSONFromUrl(url);
JSONObject jb = json.getJSONObject("nv43");
return jb;

A: Change the onPostExecute() method like below
@Override
    protected void onPostExecute(JSONObject json) {
        try {
            JSONObject result = json.getJSONObject("nv43"); // First Create an Object of "nv43"
            // Storing JSON item to String
            String id = result.getString(TAG_ID);
            String name = result.getString(TAG_NAME);
            // Rest code