Note: This set includes 2 canvas halves only. No rope, no poles and no stakes.
These were the staple shelter for U.S. troops, each G.I. would carry one half and 2 halves would make a complete shelter good for 2 soldiers.
Condition: Used, may have repairs, discoloration, or small holes.


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SOS: Ga. elections officials overwhelmed by 3 parallel elections
No-excuse absentee ballot voting was passed by the Georgia legislature in 2005. Lee County voting machines (Source: WALB)
By Dave Miller | December 23, 2020 at 1:22 PM EST - Updated December 23 at 2:50 PM
ATLANTA, Ga. (WALB) - For the upcoming General Assembly, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and County Election Officials are calling for reform of the 'no excuse' absentee ballot request rule to allow Georgia's officials to effectively run elections.
Georgia currently requires strained county elections officials to hold three weeks of early, in-person voting, election day voting, and unfettered, no-excuse absentee ballot voting, which strains county resources and budgets, the secretary said.
"In light of the past few months and the overwhelming amount of paper absentee ballots that have been requested, processed and counted, the Georgia Association of Voter Registration and Election Officials would support legislation that would require all applicants to provide a reason to receive an absentee ballot by mail," said Paulding County Elections and Registration Supervisor Deidre Holden. "It would also help with the expense on a county budget due to the extreme cost incurred in the processing of a ballot from beginning to end."
"Reforming Georgia's absentee ballot request process to only those who have a specific need would take a large burden off of the overwhelmed elections officials here in Lowndes County and across the state," said Lowndes County Elections Director Deb Cox.
Lowndes County Supervisor of Elections, Deb Cox (Source: WALB)
"Asking county elections officials to hold no-excuse absentee ballot voting in addition to three weeks of early, in-person voting, and election day voting is too much to manage," said Secretary Raffensperger. "The way Georgia's election system is set up under the law, county elections officials are essentially required to run three elections simultaneously, one each for a population that wants to vote a different way. Until COVID-19, absentee ballot voters were mostly those who needed to cast absentee ballots. For the sake of our resource stretched and overwhelmed elections officials, we need to reform our absentee ballot system."
No-excuse absentee ballot voting was passed by the Georgia legislature in 2005 and signed into law by then-Governor Sonny Perdue. For years, the provision was used by between 5% and 7% of Georgia voters, with maximum absentee ballot turnout lower than 300,000 total ballots cast. Such a small percentage of absentee ballots was difficult but manageable for county officials.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger
As COVID-19 hit Georgia and the country, county elections officials had to deal with an overwhelming surge in absentee ballot voting. The problems caused by the surge in absentee ballots contributed to the long lines seen during the June primaries. Voters who were able to vote in person but requested absentee ballots anyway showed up at the polls to vote in person but still had to cancel their requested ballots. This further slowed down voting lines.
Under current law, Georgia's county elections officials are effectively tasked with running three parallel elections: early, in-person voting; no-excuse absentee by mail voting; and election day voting. The set up requires elections officials to split their focus, energy, and resources between the three different populations who cast ballots in different ways.
Before COVID-19 hit, many of those who took advantage of no-excuse absentee ballot voting did in fact have a good reason to cast a ballot absentee by mail. As COVID-19 hit, individuals who were able to cast ballots in person nonetheless opted to cast a ballot by mail instead. This dramatically increased the burden on county elections officials who now have to process more than one million absentee ballots.
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Dave Miller is a digital content executive producer for WALB.
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Finding Cannabis at 40: Professional Writer on Getting Stoned
by Travis Crane | Apr 30, 2020 | 420, cannabis culture, Season 4, The Real Dirt Podcast Episodes, Weed talk
Johnny B. Truant is co-founder and storyteller of nearly 100 novels, mainly fiction, in the Sterling & Stone Story Studio. The rights to his horror-satire series "Big Vampire" have recently been sold for production as a television show to NBC Universal.
Johnny is highly interested in marijuana and would like to speed the hell up by repealing the federal ban.
In this episode, he shares his thoughts on why he kept away from cannabis in his early life and how weed improved his writing. For Johnny, it's not about trying it out early; it's the great benefits he discovered lately. Don't miss out on this cool episode!
I feel like it opened me up for want of a better term, like I'm just more introspective, and I noticed things a little bit more since I've been smoking. – Johnny B. Truant
Some Topics We Discussed Include
1:49 – Sterling and Stone, changing the world with stories
3:08 – Smoking in TV shows and movies
6:53 – Professional joint roller
10:19 – Cannabis at forty
18:51 – Ganja food
31:52 – Weed and writing
35:55 – Smoke for the first time
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Connect with Johnny B Truant
Sterling and Stone
Chip Baker: Hey, this is Chip of The Real Dirt. In today's dirt, I've got my good buddy Johnny B. Truant. Say, hey, Johnny.
Johnny Truant: Hey, what's up Chip?
Chip Baker: Well, I don't have too many non-cannabis industry people or guests on my show and you'll hear quite a few more of this next year. But a Johnny is a writer, which in my mind is synonymous with lots of weed. Is that right Johnny?
Johnny Truant: You know, it didn't. It wasn't for the longest time, but then Sean corrupted me, that's my partner and co-author and eventually, I got into weed and I really enjoy it now but at the beginning it was all stoned sober.
Chip Baker: I remember Johnny, I remember Sean was like, Oh, Johnny didn't smoke so much weed. I'm the real puffer. Oh, Johnny's just starting to smoke weed. Oh, Johnny likes sweet. Johnny's become a weed head.
Johnny Truant: Well, Johnny became interested in weed. I feel– I still think that Sean goes through way more than I do. But I'm, like, interested in the science of it and all the detail and nuance and Sean's like, is it green? Okay, I'll smoke it. Yeah.
Chip Baker: He didn't ask him. It's green.
Johnny Truant: No. Is it black?
Chip Baker: Yeah, right. How much more do you got? right. So, hey, Johnny, and my buddy Sean. They were founders of Sterling and Stone, which is a publishing company, and you guys publish primarily ebooks, right?
Sterling and Stone, Changing the World with Stories
Johnny Truant: Primarily ebooks right now for sure. And almost exclusively fiction.
Chip Baker: And almost exclusively with fiction. They have produced and published hundreds and hundreds of books. Johnny has pinned nearly 100 books under this publication. And these guys are changing the world with a story. I love that tagline, man.
Johnny Truant: That's the idea anyway, change the world with story.
Chip Baker: Yeah. Tell me, I gave you the briefer but tell everybody what you guys actually do?
Johnny Truant: In terms of changing the world with a story? or the– alright. Yeah, okay so well I mean we're a publisher, but we're not a traditional publisher, we're not like HarperCollins or Simon and Schuster or something where we work with outside authors who come in and submit stuff to us. It's more like we're a little family. We call ourselves a story studio. And, and so when we say we're changing the world with a story that's pretty audacious for right now, but think about the ways that culture has changed. You know, it's changed through stories trying to like bad people over the head and be like, Hey, man, be more tolerant. Like, that doesn't work. You can't legislate tolerance for that example, but you can in a story–
Smoking in TV shows and Movies
Chip Baker: Well, for instance, smoking cigarettes stopped in many, many movies. Right? I mean, it's just started to kind of to come back again. But I don't know if that was mandated. Or if it was just a social norm that began to happen and fewer people smoke cigarettes today than I believe anyway, that's my perception.
Johnny Truant: Yeah, no, I think that's all right. I think there was some sort of legislation, but I do know that smoking came to prominence to some degree because people were smoking in popular culture you know, they're doing it–
Chip Baker: And you know, used to be that weed, you could show weed a little bit, but it had to be fake and then it started to be jointed. And then like, all of a sudden, you know, man, people are smoking joints on television and significant movies.
Johnny Truant: Yeah, I mean, what was that movie that just came out with Matthew McConaughey? Was it Matthew McConaughey? And it was he was like, Jimmy Buffett's style boat guy or something. I don't remember. Snoop Dogg was in it, and I'm like, there's no way that wasn't all real weed.
Chip Baker: Oh, yeah. No doubt. You know, Snoop Dogg is going to be like, Oh, man, I got to get into character.
Johnny Truant: Do you ever hear that Mitch Hedberg joke about Peter Frampton in movie pot?
Chip Baker: No–
Johnny Truant: Yeah, because I was in the movie. And I had a scene with Peter Frampton, and we had to smoke pot in the scene, but we couldn't use real pot, so we had to use fake pot. And he said, so I smoked fake pot with Peter Frampton. That's pretty cool. Not as cool as smoking real pot with a guy who looks like Peter Frampton, which I've done away more.
Chip Baker: Sure. So it stories and entertainment they do change our culture, and you know we were involved in, you know, a mastermind group baby bathwater, right? That's how we know each other. And you know you gravitated to the sideshow at one of the events what I mean by sideshows we were smoking [inaudible] shell ganja right the brew for the van or behind the shed or whatever show and that's kind of how we met. Right?
Johnny Truant: Yeah, totally, and have you told people this story about how to– well it's not a story it's more like a truism on how the problem people have rolling joints because that's one of my earliest Chip memories.
Chip Baker: Oh, you know, I don't think I've spoken to this audience on exactly that. You're right, and you know, sometimes a more eloquent on the subject, but rolling a joint is much like any relationship in life. Is this what you're talking about?
Johnny Truant: No, it was very simple this advice, but I want to hear this one too.
Chip Baker: I don't know if I want to mess it up, man. Why don't you give me advice about rolling a joint?
Johnny Truant: Oh, it's real simple, so Chips and I in a circle, and it was in Denver. It was at that the outside the patio there, and somebody was asking Okay, Chip shows me how to roll a joint, show me that the trick of rolling the joint and Chip goes sits down he goes, all right– The problem most people have rolling a good joint is they don't use enough weed right? Like, you were dead fucking serious about using maximal weed just to create a good joint need to like roll this giant Chip joint after that. Full on.
Professional Joint Roller
Chip Baker: Yep, that actually is rule one is you– as most people don't use enough weed, right. You have to stuff the joint full of weed. Number two is while you're rolling, you have to commit. Right? You have to commit to that roll, especially on the finger switch. Right when you're switching from right here to right here, you got just to commit and just go for.
Johnny Truant: You know, I wasn't totally– so we, the last time we saw each other I was into weed, but that was just a different sort of a situation. But like, we haven't spent a whole lot of time together since I, you know, really got into it. And so now I feel like I want that lesson again. I should have asked you when we saw you recently. Like I want that lesson now.
Chip Baker: Online. Well, we'll do an online joint rolling, for sure. I'll put that in my podcast schedule for all you Real Dirt listeners. Join us here in the future. I Chip Baker, a professional joint roller. Be it of ganja or hemp will instruct all on how to roll. The most fantastic joint you possibly can. So join us for a later date of The Real Dirt. We roll joints.
Johnny Truant: Speaking of professional joint rollers, you've ever seen those ones where people make these like super elaborate smokeable joints?
Chip Baker: Oh, yeah like the Star Trek Enterprise or AK 47–
Johnny Truant: That's what I saw was the AK 47
Chip Baker: Yeah, totally. Oh, the first one I saw– I think was an AK 47. There are many others out there. Something I've never really like, you know, hopped into, but maybe, I don't know, man. Maybe I should think about it. You know, the three-prong joint or the dove the sunflower. All types of things.
So the point of this conversation here is– Johnny, you are part of the new wave of cannabis enthusiasts that are growing on day by day. Right? You didn't use cannabis so much before until it became legal. And you know, the medical cannabis became legal. And then you know, you started to like realizing how like good it was for you. Right? And you began to self medicate, maybe. And later on in life, you came to cannabis. What was it that kept you away from it?
Johnny Truant: Well, okay, before I go into the [inaudible]. Speaking of joints, why haven't you rolled a joint yet? Because I feel like I was just telling my wife. I said–
Chip Baker: We're only three minutes, and I got a schedule. I'm not– I don't smoke–
Johnny Truant: You have a smoking schedule?
Chip Baker: I just asked you my first real question. And so now is when I roll the joint.
Johnny Truant: I got you, I just fucked it up.
Chip Baker: And it's okay. But it's cool. I got my bathtub full of weed here.
Johnny Truant: Oh, it's a great use.
Chip Baker: And I'm just going to sit here and roll it up while you tell me the story of like [inaudible]. Why did it take you such a long time to get involved with weed?
Cannabis at Forty
Johnny Truant: It just wasn't in my circles. I was like, I mean, I was a smart kid in school, like one of those guys who just demonstrated like by the rules, academic smart. So I was first in my class, that sort of thing. And the crew that I ran with just, they just weren't into weed. It wasn't anything that came up. But then another thing that happened was I didn't drink until I was I don't know, like, well past drinking age to like, I didn't drink as a kid. And it's—
Chip Baker: A late bloomer, you're a late bloomer.
Johnny Truant: Well, it's more like I'm stubborn, right. So this, I remember I had this class with a bunch of the real jock types. Every Monday they'd come in and talk about how drunk and fucked up they were at some party, and I just found it so annoying. No, this was high school. Okay, I just didn't want to be like them. And I think that that stuck, you know?
Chip Baker: Well, you know, I didn't start drinking until I was my late 30's. 36 I think I started it. And I'd had like, you know, some good times along the way, don't get me wrong. But alcohol wasn't something that I was really drawn to, and I also discovered that every time I drank, my ears would itch crazy itch. And so I'm like, I'm allergic to alcohol. Right? And so I just didn't drink but what I discovered when I was about 36, is I was allergic to fermented alcohols like beer and wine and I can actually–
Johnny Truant: Gluten sort of thing maybe, almost? Yes, no?
Chip Baker: I think it might have been the yeast, I'm not sure but I can drink liquor and wine man I drink a glass of wine and I'm super buzz, but I can like have a couple of drinks of bourbon and not be like terribly like buzz. I mean I'll just like two glasses of wine I'm wasted slurring my words. So I'm dead there's something there with the fermented stuff but the hard liquor, thanks to my Scottish dramatic genes. You know, I can digest it. So I was a late bloomer on weed, but I mean on alcohol, but I started weed when I was like, 13 and also felt like the alcohol ruined my weed buzz. And then for a long time, I was like, Oh, no, strictly just vegetarian living in weed so yeah it took me to hard on alcohol too.
Johnny Truant: Yeah I mean I think when it was prohibition too like when it was illegal that was a much much harder thing for– Not from an illegality standpoint but just the hassle like where am I gonna go find some dealer out there and you know that was sketchy to me the idea of–
Chip Baker: The streets–
Johnny Truant: Right who was doing it. What was in it? That's another thing too. I like that there's some control now even if it may be annoying for people because there's some degree of oversight at least you know,
Chip Baker: Yeah, oversize good man. I've seen people do all kinds of awful things from literally spray raid and, you know, bug killer for spider mites and whatnot. I've seen people do some awful stuff, but mostly people are really conscious about it. And as soon as they learn the right way, they're generally drawn towards the right way. So you just didn't have access to it, that's all.
Johnny Truant: Access or interest, I mean, those two together were a deadly combination for my early weed life.
Chip Baker: So you met Sean. And Sean I know he was immediate like Oh, you smoke weed, man? Because you're a writer and I'm sure all writers smoke weed, right?
Johnny Truant: Right. Yeah, he said that well, and you know, he was telling me about– I don't know that I should say this. Well, this is some other stuff and I was like I don't know that's you, that's me. And the more we work together, and I don't know i just got curious because I'm a curious guy too. Like you introduce a new topic to me and my mind will start working on it. I just want to figure it out. And then I was like, you know what, I should just try it and see what all the fuss is and totally dug at once I did, which was awesome. I wish I could be smoking right now. Chip. I was just–
Chip Baker: I did that for you.
Johnny Truant: Yeah, man, I can't do it inside the house. I just can't because my wife doesn't smoke and my kids aren't into it. Or I don't know about it–
Chip Baker: You should be glad your kids aren't into it or you'll see they'll be pinching out of your sack, right?
Johnny Truant: Yeah, no shit.
Chip Baker: So as you as you began to like, use more cannabis, so it occurred the way that most people do it, I'm sure is you– people would pass it to you and you would occasionally hit it, right?
Johnny Truant: Well, no, it was real dedicated the first time. Like the first time I wasn't around, we'd basically at all except in college. There were some people I knew. But then I just wasn't around anyone. And so when I decided I wanted to try it, I'd be like, I was like, hey, Sean, smoke me out. You know and we try it, we just tried it then. And then came baby bathwater in the passing the joints and the slow [inaudible] all that's–
Chip Baker: Oh, wow. So I was there in the early days.
Johnny Truant: Yeah. Really, really early. That was probably like the third or fourth time I smoked weed.
Chip Baker: This is only a couple of years ago now, right?
Johnny Truant: Yeah. I mean, I was 40
Chip Baker: Johnny is new to smoking weed. Hey, Johnny, how old are you? What are you 35?
Johnny Truant: I just turned 44, Oh, thank you. Yes 35.
Chip Baker: Johnny just turned 44 and it was after. I mean, you might have been 41 or two by this when this happened. Right?
Johnny Truant: Yeah, it was definitely over 40.
Chip Baker: Wow. One of the largest demographics people come into cannabis for the first time are 55 and over. Many of them and those they're used to taking pharmaceuticals and it is causing them problems. There's causing them digestive problems, it's causing them sleep problems. And cannabis is a great way to reduce lots of medications that people take, of course, you have to consult your doctor. I'm no doctor, don't take my word for it, but there's lots of evidence out there of people reducing their intake of pharmaceutical drugs. And increasing completely harmless cannabis ie. ganja.
Johnny Truant: I think I had two main things because I actually didn't even think about that medical but one of my earliest things was I always slept like shit. And it was like, What can I do to sleep better? And, you know, I tried melatonin and I tried all the sleep hygiene things they say like no light in the bedroom. You know, no TV. I even got those blue light glasses or amber glasses. I guess you seen those?
Chip Baker: Yeah, absolutely.
Johnny Truant: Nothing worked. But weed knocked me right out. And I think the other thing was curiosity. Like I already mentioned that but when there's– So like, I'm into wine a little bit, because there's so much nuance to wine, right, like the different the different varietals and some of them are real tannic and some of them are real smooth and big fruit. And it has this depth to it you know, like you can be a sommelier which there's only a handful of the like top tier ones. And weeds the same way like all these different cultivars that do different things and why what you know, what is the entourage on this one different from the from on this one and just all the different ways that can be consumed, like the idea of– Because I have a science background, so when I hear Oh, you gotta decarboxylate your weed before infusing it with an oil turk assumption because it's like– I speak that language and it's like getting to do some chemistry, you know?
Chip Baker: Right. Well, did you, I noticed you've been making ganja food, right?
Johnny Truant: I've made some ganja food for sure.
Chip Baker: All right, tell me about that.
Johnny Truant: Well, I mean, I have a real once I discover that something's possible. I just wanted to try that if I'm interested in it, and then I just want to explore as deep as I can. So like, first time I made butter like I literally made butter. And you gave us a butter recipe, but I don't know if you remember, but I think you were a little baked at the time and the recipes–
Chip Baker: It just seems unreal, my recipe that's all [inaudible] A half a pound of weed into a pound of butter, add some water.
Johnny Truant: Well, but I think you also knew a lot of steps that Sean and I didn't. So you just wrote the highlights. And we were like, oh, what do we do? So I mean, I don't know if this is like a thing for new people come into weed, but it's not that there's not enough information out there in the world, there's too much. And I was like, well, so which butter recipe do I follow? Or for that matter, like, what's my opinion on this grow style versus that grow style? And how is this weed making its way to me and so I just kind of found a recipe and tried it. It was okay. It was all right.
Chip Baker: Okay, okay. Yeah, it was all right.
Johnny Truant: I think next time I'm going to go through like the kief step, you know and make it from kief right from kief. Because it feels like you could dose it better that way it feels a little bit more like an easier infusion maybe–
Chip Baker: Yeah. There is an easier infusion. I however, like ganja butter for the full-body effect that when you put the extract in it, it's way easier to mags raise your dose. But if you take like a half a pound of good quality [inaudible] mixed in with just a pound of melted or add enough water to float it. And then cook that at like 135 or on low on a crockpot for at least 30 minutes straight and squeeze all the butter out and then pop it in the fridge the water in the butter separate you end up with about a half a pound of butter right? And then you can take each sliver and start dosing it how strong you want it to be, right. Technically you know a tablespoon or so it shouldn't be like a dose for 10 people. But I mean making ganja butter with leave isn't the math, isn't quite quite there.
Johnny Truant: You said extracts. Do you say making butter with extracts?
Chip Baker: Yeah, well you know like with bubble hash or with kief or with hash or with you know any type of solvent or solvent list extraction product. So if you took a gram say of shatter right and dissolve that into– You know, a fatty product. You would have 25 to 100 doses of product. [inaudible] how strong you wanted to make it.
Johnny Truant: Shatter is an extract, right? Like [inaudible] not just a like a concentrate.
Chip Baker: So it's all the same. It's it's one of the same word concentrate, extract. It's the same thing.
Johnny Truant: See, I learned some different stuff as a chemist. I'm curious if it translates with weed–
Chip Baker: It's cultural for sure. But yeah, maybe you can educate me on it. But generally, in the legal regulated market, the government's just referred to it as concentrates.
Johnny Truant: Gotcha. So it's almost like a legal designation.
Chip Baker: It is. So that's what what people have used. But yeah like an extract you would think you were using a solvent or solvent list process you know to extract a really high quality of THC, CBD cannabinoids you know, what have you–
Johnny Truant: Yeah that was the understanding I was working on–
Chip Baker: Right and then what would you consider concentrate then?
Johnny Truant: Well I mean, I'm again I'm speaking my ass as a cannabis guy–
Chip Baker: As a chemist background–
Johnny Truant: Right, because I actually have a degree in genetics. So but yeah, so for me it would be like concentrate I was taking to mean anything that was surprise surprise concentrated right like, kief for hash would be concentrated. But then I would have said extract is something where you were moving the molecule out of one medium and into another and also concentrating it so like, you know, BHO or [inaudible] or anything like that.
Chip Baker: Yeah, that's exactly the way it works. That's exactly the way it works. Just legal definition of concentrate is broader, I think and that's why they use it.
Johnny Truant: I was fascinated when you had your lawyer on, and he was talking about like his around, gummy. That's colored orange. Is that an orange? Is that a fruit shape? Because you can't do fruit shapes. That sort of thing. Oh, man that was–
Chip Baker: Yeah, there's so much– People have the best intentions when they're making the regulated the laws for regulating cannabis, but it's just it's so hard to anticipate the actuality or the reality of the laws when they get into place of commerce. Right. And yeah, hey, that law still exists in throughout the country is you can't make edibles attractive to children. They can't be animals or humans or you know, so now people use like stars or marijuana leaves even, squares. I shouldn't say it's on artistic it actually means that people have to break out of the traditional gummy molds and make your own gummy balls bro.
Johnny Truant: Have you ever made gummies? Because I want to try–
Chip Baker: I make gummies; yeah, totally there are some great gummies recipes out there. We make vegan gummies. We just made some, and we have a processing license, so we made some like, you know while back and several took us a minute to get a good recipe going, but we got a pretty good recipe. We got a solid product [inaudible] sharp brand product.
Johnny Truant: Do you start from tincture, or you start from–
Chip Baker: With our gummies with the kief in it. We kind of prefer the kief free. You dissolve the kief and the corn syrup as you're heating it up, and that's how you decarboxylated.
Johnny Truant: Oh, wow.
Chip Baker: Right and then just follow your traditional gummy recipe. Pretty easy, yeah. Fruit leather, any of that stuff works with it too. Wow, fascinating. It's so fascinating, but you know what, it's time to take a small break. So hey man, we've rolled up a portion of the joint. I'm going to see what kind of weed I got here, and maybe we'll get a little canna olympics going on during the break. So we'll be right back folks, Real Dirt with Chip Baker and Johnny B. Truant.
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Johnny Truant: Chip you're in an essential business right during the whole Coronavirus stuff?
Chip Baker: Yeah, we've been deemed an essential business and we're an agricultural business, man. You know, medical cannabis has also been deemed as important as pharmaceuticals. It is considered a medicine. And yeah, we're going through the motions, man. We shut the doors to the store, you have to call in all your orders, there's curbside service, we do delivery, we put stuff in the mail still.
So we're really trying to work with everybody to get all their products out. But you know, at the same time, we have a responsibility to our customers and all the people we work for to be as safe as possible. So, we're going through extreme measures, keep everything clean, keep in our social interaction appropriate. And you know, just kind of like eliminate any cross contamination or chains of contamination. But yeah, man, people need medical cannabis in times like these, more than anything else, that's for sure.
Johnny Truant: I was– this is gonna sound like a joke, but I feel like recreational cannabis should be an essential service. Like that's actually not a joke.
Chip Baker: No, it's not a joke. And just yesterday in Denver, they passed a ruling that said that they were gonna, you know, or said on air that they were going to shut down liquor stores and recreational dispensaries. Immediately that changed and they're like, No, no, no, actually, we're gonna let you still go to your recreational dispensaries and the liquor stores. You know, it's and so yeah, it was about two hours for people like what? Oh, you know?
Johnny Truant: Yeah, I feel like there are two major dangers here, and only one is the actual contagion, the other is panic, way of hoarding everything and freaking out, and just general social unrest. Like weed helps you chill out.
Chip Baker: Weed helps you chill out. When you're freaking out sit back and smoke some, just a little bit of sedating relaxing weed. Just a little bit. Don't go overboard, because when you go overboard and times like this and it might kick in you know I'm saying Johnny–
When you're freaking out, sit back and smoke some, just a little bit of sedating relaxing weed. – Chip Baker
Johnny Truant: You want to see how I'm relaxing over here?
Chip Baker: Yeah, let's see it
Johnny Truant: So, like I said I can't smoke inside because even if I– I do have a spliff right, but you know you get that sidestream smoke and sounds like I want to go sit on the porch during the interview, so I feel like this might get me kicked off The Real Dirt but I got my vaporizer here.
Chip Baker: No one's been kicked off The Real Dirt yet.
Johnny Truant: Nobody? What if it takes– you're supposed to the firefly two and you're supposed to draw on it like for 20 seconds or something. So it probably make for a really good interview.
Chip Baker: You look like a douche or doing this.
Johnny Truant: Oh, totally. Like I totally agree. That's why I don't do it in public.
Weed and Writing
Chip Baker: Right. So Johnny, tell me about weed and writing. This is why I wanted to talk to you because I wanted, to hear about your perspective of if your writing has changed, writing style has changed since you started using cannabis more frequently.
Johnny Truant: I think I can brainstorm on it. So first of all I have– there's a whole lot of stories here. So I think this is kind of fun. I did– Sean was like, Oh, writing on weed is really cool. I can't edit on weed, but I can write when I'm high. And so I was like, alright, I've never tried that. I'm gonna give it a shot. And I'm a real analytical sort of writer like, not in a sterile way. But I do, I'm very precise and very articulate. Like, I want to make sure that every loose end is handled and stuff.
And so when I tried writing, I just I picked a project that was if it got fucked up that it was okay. It was just a little short story that's totally isolated. And I got blitz and I wrote it. And it was not the right experience for me. I am not somebody who should actually write on it. But as far as brainstorming and stuff as far as coming up with ideas, and my dad said once, my dad's a big fan of my work on surprisingly, but he's also a fan of weed. And he said, we have– Sean and I have a story called Unicorn Western. And it's exactly what it sounds like.
Like not all of our work is that zany but that is and it's about a talking unicorn who's an asshole and his marshall who rides him who's you know, named Clint in a very Western fashion. And there's this whole scene where or sequence where they keep hearing about chili in a town that's coming up like it's just all about chili. There's signs about like the chili. It's like chili is a huge part of this culture is weird town. And we just did that because, I don't know it seemed amusing, but my dad's like, I need you to ask Sean if when he came up with that he was smoking because what the fuck, chili? And he answer, those ideas come up for sure man.
Chip Baker: Right. The little points of the universe they get connected is one of the major things I see that cannabis does. Does it allows you to see this inter-connectivity and just the smallest things.
Johnny Truant: And actually that is probably a way I think it has affected my writing is because I have no evidence for this. I have no idea. But I feel like it's opened me up for want of a better term. I feel like I'm just a little bit more introspective. And I noticed things a little bit more since I've been smoking. I don't mean like well, I'm actually smoking I mean just in life. And I think my writing has deepened in that way. Like I'm not actually writing high, but it's getting a benefit from all the other times around. If that makes sense.
Chip Baker: Yeah, no, absolutely. It's a cumulative effort. It's not necessarily about writing while you're stoned. It's about the inspiration, muses that come to you little funny things and the inter-connectivity you see to the world and cannabis, truly great, great plant with that. Hey, Johnny, we're getting short on time. I feel like we could have had a, you know, talk two three more hours here. But I gotta ask you, man, if you've got some advice for people who are just getting into cannabis that are kind of in our middle age that don't necessarily know a lot about it because we're about the same age. I've been involved with all my life. You just got involved. You got some suggestions for people that are interested in smoking cannabis, just or you haven't tried it or want to?–
Weed at First Time
Johnny Truant: I would just say that– I think that I was a little weirded out by what was gonna happen. You know, like I'm a person who likes control. I think that is people get older if they haven't smoked before, or imbibed in any way that might be the intimidating thing. Like, you know, I'm used to control and so now suddenly I'm gonna relinquish it. And I think that understanding getting past that and like, yeah, it's you may be a little floaty, especially the first few times but whatever. There's a lot of benefit to be had from that, like, the fact that I could sleep better.
Chip Baker: Loading is good.
Johnny Truant: But yeah, I mean now I'm like, kind of trying to chase that. Like, where is that now? But it'll help get my mind off things, like that's what I keep trying to say, like, my wife isn't interested, but I keep trying to kind of nudge her because if I'm writing I need a clear head, like to start writing.
Chip Baker: Right? Absolutely. Okay.
Johnny Truant: And if my mind is cycling on something, like I had an argument with somebody and I can't let it go, but I need to stop and get to work. Then if I'll just take like, just like one hit from a vaporizer or joint or some just one hit. It's enough to not make me like, so I can't write, but it'll take me out of that loop. And I think just understanding that it's a versatile tool that you can be consumed in many different ways and you can suit your style and your preferences to your consumption. You know, you can control it more than you think in that way. Don't be afraid.
Chip Baker: Don't be afraid. I love it. Well, hey, Johnny, thank you for joining me today. I appreciate this conversation, man. You know, I think we're going to have to have you back, because I got several other questions, specifically about writing and cannabis and your newfound great hobby.
Johnny Truant: Love of the plant. Yeah. Thanks for having me on, man. I'm a fan.
Chip Baker: Yeah. Thanks again for joining us. Hey, Give us your connections, man you are Sterling and Stone pretty can we find you on Instagram or on Facebook? Or how does it work?
Johnny Truant: Well, I'm kind of a curmudgeon on the social media thing so sterlingandstone.net. I actually don't even know, we do have some social but it's kind of just beginning.
Chip Baker: Right, tell me what's the name of the story time travel with ayahuasca? Maybe it was not time travel it was apocalyptic ayahuasca.
Johnny Truant: That was Invasion, involved ayahuasca. He saw the aliens coming through ayahuasca visions.
Chip Baker: What was the name of that book again?
Johnny Truant: Invasion, by me and Sean Platt
Chip Baker: Invasion.
Johnny Truant: Johnny B Truant and Sean Platt.
Chip Baker: Great book, check it out. You guys are sitting back and such a you know relaxed environment this but an alien invasion science fiction book involving ayahuasca and travel throughout the US is a perfect thing getting a read right now.
Johnny Truant: There you go. Absolutely!
Chip Baker: Thanks again, Johnny.
Johnny Truant: Thanks, Chip!


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Angkor 'Jigsaw Puzzle' Solved and Open to the Public
April 21, 2011 by Khiri Travel | Filed Under: Cambodia, Ecotourism
The temple of Baphuon, part of the Angkor complex, is now re-opened after many years of painstaking reconstruction. The restoration has been called 'the world's largest jigsaw puzzle'. The work was carried out by the Ecole Francaise d'Extreme Orient (The EFEO Centre) in Siem Reap. The EFEO has, for over a century, restored Angkor monuments and promoted Angkor studies.
In 1992 the EFEO reopened restoration sites such as the Royal Terraces of Angkor Thom, including the Terrace of the Leper King and the so-called Terrace of the Elephants that had closed in 1975 under Khmer Rouge occupation. In 1995 the EFEO also resumed work on the Baphuon temple mountain, the largest restoration site in Angkor.
The Baphuon, one of the largest and oldest temples in the Angkor complex, had been in hundreds of thousands of pieces for decades. Built in the 11th century, it was a three-tiered temple mountain built as the official place of worship of Udayadityavarman II and dedicated to the Hindu God Shiva.
Strangely, the base of the Baphuon temple was made of sand which caused instability. By the 20th century, much of the temple had collapsed. Restoration efforts were problematic. The first effort begun in 1960 was interrupted by the coming to power of the Khmer Rouge. The situation was exacerbated when records of the positions of the stones were lost. A second attempt was started in 1995 by a team of French team-led archaeologists under guidance of the EFEO Centre. The Baphuon was rebuilt by using a very specific technique that consists of rebuilding with every stone found on the location, one by one.
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445 F. 2d 806 - Odsen v. J Moore
445 F2d 806 Odsen v. J Moore
Arthur T. ODSEN, Petitioner,
Robert J. MOORE, Superintendent, Respondent.
United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.
Arthur T. Odsen on memorandum, pro se.
Before ALDRICH, Chief Judge, McENTEE and COFFIN, Circuit Judges.
Petitioner was convicted of a felony in Massachusetts Superior Court on May 17, 1966. On the day of sentencing and again within the month by mail, petitioner allegedly asked his counsel to appeal the conviction, which he did not do. In August of 1968, after writing without success to various legal aid organizations, petitioner filed pro se a writ of error with a single justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. The Massachusetts Defenders Committee was appointed by the court to represent petitioner, but has not, almost three years later, presented the matter as required to the single justice. Petitioner alleges that considerable correspondence with both the Committee and the courts has been of no avail. Understandably chafing at the delay, he sought federal habeas relief in April, 1970, on the ground that he has been denied a review of his case in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. The federal magistrate, while able to conceive no justification for the dilatoriness of counsel, dismissed the petition because of failure to exhaust available state remedies. The district court affirmed the dismissal and denied petitioner's application for a certificate of probable cause for appeal, a request which petitioner renews before this court.
Generally it would be a sufficient barrier to petitioner that his case had not yet run its course through the state courts. Needel v. Scafati, 412 F.2d 761 (1st Cir. 1969), cert. denied, 396 U.S. 861, 90 S.Ct. 133, 24 L.Ed.2d 113 (1969). Nevertheless, taking all the allegations of the petition at face value, we confess to a sense of the absurd in saying to one who without success has for nearly three years tried to spur both his court-appointed counsel and, apparently, the courts to action, that he must persevere in perpetuity before he can complain of failure to a federal court.
This case seems to be very close on its alleged facts to Jones v. Crouse, 360 F. 2d 157 (10th Cir. 1966), where eighteen months had expired from the time the prisoner's notice of appeal was filed, the record being silent as to any further action. In that case the court said, at 158:
"But an inordinate, excessive and inexcusable delay may very well amount to a denial of due process cognizable in federal court. Smith v. State of Kansas, 10th Cir., 356 F.2d 654; Kelly v. Crouse, Warden, 10th Cir., 352 F.2d 506. Without knowing the facts and circumstances giving rise to the delay, the trial court certainly could not properly conclude that the petitioner's state remedies are adequate and effective."
Petitioner here alleges that he repeatedly attempted by letter to seek action from the state court but was consistently informed by the clerk that all complaints of inaction must be directed to counsel of record. From petitioner's point of view, the impasse is as complete as when a case is held under advisement for an unconscionable period, as in Dixon v. Florida, 388 F.2d 424 (5th Cir. 1968) and Morgan v. State of Tennessee, 298 F.Supp. 581 (E.D.Tenn.1969). We remind ourselves that exhaustion refers to remedies, not petitioners. If the facts are as petitioner alleges, requiring him to further seek state relief in some unguided, open-ended way, thereby countenancing further delay, would deprive him of due process of law.
The district court on remand will therefore hold an evidentiary hearing to determine the substance of petitioner's allegations. If the allegations as to counsel's unjustified inaction are not substantiated, this would of course end the matter. Even if those allegations are substantiated but it is found that petitioner did not call the state court's attention to his problem, the district court should not take any positive action. If, however, petitioner's present allegations are substantiated as to both the state court and counsel, the court then faces the question of appropriate relief. In the meantime we would hope that the state court and/or counsel would have taken effective action. But if, by that time, there has still been no action to move petitioner's state proceedings effectively forward, we would feel that the court should no longer stay its hand in the interests of comity.
To say, however, that the court should not stay its hand is easier than to prescribe relief. The fact that petitioner's case and counsel are subject to the supervisory power of a parallel court system deprives a federal court of the wider range of options open to it. On the other hand, precipitately to issue the writ, or even to condition its non-issuance on prompt prosecution of the state appeal by counsel would be to assign a premium to sloth and to reward foot-dragging counsel. It may be that the district court will have no choice but to issue the writ. We do not decide that issue now, but leave it to the district court to fashion a remedy according to the circumstances then existent. We also leave it to the district court to decide whether and at what stage counsel should be appointed in further proceedings.
The certificate of probable cause is granted and, in the light of our opinion, the judgment is vacated and the cause remanded to the District Court for further proceedings.


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New album: The Fehlfarben sing Tacheles again
The wrong colors sing Tacheles again
The band Fehlfarben with singer Peter Hein (in front) presents a new album. photo
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40 years ago, the Fehlfarben sang Tacheles on the legendary debut "Monarchy and Everyday Life". With their new album, the band from Düsseldorf and Wuppertal is also targeting a gloomy present.
It's probably just a coincidence that the new album of post-punk icons Fehlfarben is being released almost simultaneously with a masterpiece by rock trio Dienerve, who is 30 years his junior (and that both sing a somber song on "Europa").
But it fits into this time that two fabulous bands – one founded in 1979, the other in 2010 – are currently causing left-wing uneasiness and pain about Germany, Europe and express the world clearly. And their resistance.
the Dusseldorf/Wuppertaler Fehlfarben around singer Peter Hein (65) already achieved legendary status with their debut "Monarchy and Everyday Life" (1980). The record with punk rock songs like "Grauschleier", "Ein Jahr (Es geht vor)" or "Paul ist tot" is considered by many music critics to be one of the best German-language albums today.
A strong late work
After separations and new formations, the band has been regularly active on concert stages and in the recording studio again since the comeback "Knietief im Dispo" (2002). The current album "?0???" (the enigmatic title stands for the uncertainty in 2022 that evokes many question marks) seamlessly ties into the strong late work releases of Fehlfarben on the Hamburg indie pop label tapete.
"Go on the path/the path that no one else goes/don't go it alone/you won't come home alone" – the very first lines of the album's opener "Into the World Placed" are typically false colors: a call to action and at the same time an appeal to join hands. In addition, the familiar mix of punk, rock, new German wave, funk and dub-reggae sounds, to which Hein chants his slogans and grumbles.
It doesn't get any more comfortable afterwards – the wrong colors were and are a bulky bunch. There is scolding and cursing ("Go shit with your pride…"), a lot can be interpreted in several directions. "There is nothing more embarrassing than the obvious," quotes Wallpaper Peter Hein, who announces "new poems in old sound tubes."
The Corona pandemic was also a challenge for the false colors, but eventually "?0???" but done. Singer Hein again in the usual ironic tone: "They created pieces without end, which despite all the "measures" and pestilence developed on site and during a last gasp despite 70% case numbers could, yes had to, be finished." Thanks for that.
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In more than fifteen years of service abroad as a psychotherapist, trainer and supervisor, Adrienne Carter witnessed the devastating effects of displacement and trauma on the human spirit. Upon return to her Victoria home, Carter was determined to create a safe haven for those immigrants and refugees on Vancouver Island who had lived similar experiences in their countries of origin and were suffering the impact of trauma. To that end, and in the Spring 2015, she and colleague Linda McLagan found support to shape a modest program of counselling to immigrants and refugees, a program to be operated under the umbrella of a settlement agency.
Carter and McLagan's plans were altered by the Fall 2015 announcement of the arrival of a wave of Syrian refugees to communities in Victoria, the Saanich Peninsula and north to Nanaimo. There was little doubt that the modest program lacked capacity to provide adequate services to an increased population of children, women and men devastated by unimaginable horrors, including torture.
This was the genesis of VICCIR, and the reason why counselling services are central to our activities. Over the course of our short history, the influence of the world's refugee crisis and increased anti-immigrant sentiment has underscored our longer-term vision. It is for all citizens to contribute to communities that thrive on diversity of origin, culture, religion and interests, and are strengthened by shared common values.
In the Fall 2015 and with surprisingly little recruitment, counsellors and translators came forward to offer their services pro bono to the immigrant/refugee population. Each counsellor has a graduate degree in psychology, social work, counselling, adult education, or child studies; most have specialized training in a model or technique of psychotherapy and are registered with professional bodies, and all received training in trauma counselling. The translators received training as well in the art of working with counsellors. VICCIR has access to a physician and a psychiatrist as well. Until funding is assured and robust, all are working pro bono.
find within themselves an eagerness to participate in the communities that welcome each of them.
Concomitantly, our work in the community is focused on how to welcome "the other", to discover values that we share and to struggle with how we manage our differences. Our work in the community stretches from a telephone conversation with a frustrated teacher about a new student who is exhibiting aggressive behaviour, presenting a regional daylong workshop to mental health and public health workers about trauma, providing consultation to a settlement agency, collaborating with police and community services concerned with domestic violence, meeting with academics to share our interests in participating in research projects. We imagine these pursuits and others will evolve with time, as long as they move us closer to our vision.
VICCIR's capacity has grown immeasurably since our founding in the Spring of 2015. Over 40 professional counsellors and skilled translators have answered the humanitarian call of those fortunate enough to have found shelter here on Vancouver Island from some of the world's current disasters. We have found two physical sites to call home, and established a presence and identity in our region.
As yet, we continue to work with a startup mentality and philosophy; we work doggedly long hours without remuneration, driven by a commitment to making a positive difference for the people we serve directly and the communities that are our home. As yet, all revenue, received from speaking and consulting engagements, pays for our office space and other essentials. That, we trust, will shift in time as we prove our value and earn the right to donor support and charitable funding.
As far as we know, we are the sole service provider on the Island for immigrants and refugees who seek help for relief from the symptoms of trauma, the only Centre that trains translators to work with informed counsellors. We are ambitious, believing we have a contribution to make to our local communities, and perhaps beyond.
Please feel free to contact us, we are here to help. We maintain offices in Victoria and in Duncan.
We welcome your contribution to our family of volunteers, and to our team of counsellors and translators.
Your contribution will help us enrich Vancouver Island's integrated communities and strengthen those who live in them.
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Tim Cook says diversity is key to Apple's 'magical' products
By Buster Hein • 4:51 pm, April 6, 2017
Cook received a warm welcome from students at Auburn University.
Photo: Tim Cook/Twitter
Apple CEO Tim Cook made a visit to his old stomping grounds at Auburn University today to talk to students about life after after graduation.
During his morning speech at the Telfair Peet Theatre, the Auburn alum told students of all backgrounds to get ready to embrace diversity once they enter the workforce.
What Tim Cook really said about Apple's commitment to people with disabilities
By Nicole Martinelli • 12:39 pm, July 9, 2014
Tim Cook onstage at the 2014 WWDC. Photo: Roberto Baldwin/The Next Web
The devil is in the details: Tim Cook said that Apple's commitment to accessibility is so complete that the Cupertino company never looks at the return on investment but considers it "just and right."
That's a pretty different picture than the one venerable news org Reuters painted by giving a quick chop to his comments in a piece about blind app users seeking more accessibility from Apple.
Tim Cook: How The Klan, MLK and Bobby Kennedy Shaped Me
By Leander Kahney • 11:03 am, December 14, 2013
While accepting a lifetime achievement award from Auburn University, his alma mater, Apple CEO Tim Cook told of how The Ku Klux Klan, Martin Luther King and Senator Robert Kennedy shaped his passion for human rights and equality. "Growing up in Alabama in the 1960s, I saw the devastating impacts of discrimination," Cook said in New York on December 10th. "Remarkable people were denied opportunities and treated without basic human dignity solely because of the color of their skin."
He recalled childhood memories of watching crosses burn on neighbors' lawns in Alabama. "This image was permanently imprinted in my brain and it would change my life forever," Cook said. "For me the cross burning was a symbol of ignorance, of hatred, and a fear of anyone different than the majority. I could never understand it, and I knew then that America's and Alabama's history would always be scarred by the hatred that it represented."
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Posted by Marcos at 7:50 PM
While Grimm still has to work out some of its issues, and I definitely have ideas about where I'd like the show to go, I was pleased to see that it took the step in the right direction with "Bad Moon Rising."
One of the major hindrances that the show faced was Nick keeping his secret from those closest to him. While I understand that this trick is inherent to the type of story that Grimm's telling, it can drag everything around it down because there's only so many times we can watch Nick lie to Hank and/or Juliette. The writers figured out a way to keep the latter in the dark (more on that later), but it was only a matter of time until Nick let Hank in on his life as a Grimm, and thankfully they got it out of the way instead of letting the wheels spin.
I still think that the police aspect of the show is its weakest, but now that Hank knows about Nick's double life, I'm hoping that it will become more interesting and I'm sure it will once they figure out that Captain Renard's somehow connected. Plus, it's going to be a trip watching Hank and Monroe meet for the first time sans secrets. Is a jealous tiff about which one's a better partner in our future? Man, I hope so. Regardless, having Hank in on the action can only help Grimm.
On the flipside, I'm still not 100% on board with Juliette's storyline up to date because amnesia's such a worn out gimmick that it's already feeling rote and unimaginative. Yet, I have to admit that her memory loss has made Juliette a more interesting character whereas last season she came off more as a wet blanket. I'm by no means excited to see where this one's heading, but at least I don't hate it right off the bat.
Another minor annoyance with "Bad Moon Rising" had to do with this week's creatures. While I thought having coyote/wolf like baddies had some potential, making them country hicks also felt like a tired trope that we've seen a million times before. Also, I don't know how to feel about the fact that they're from Texas, but that's just a personal aside. Thankfully, the performances by LOST/Supernatural/Being Human/every other genre show's Mark Pellegrino and The Finder's Maddie Hasson picked up the slack.
And how good is this show when it goes extremely dark?
I know I'm starting to sound like a broken record, but Grimm's still a very entertaining show in spite of its shortcomings, and if "Bad Moon Rising" is any indication, it could also become a good show once it figures everything out.
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I can stand having things around my wrist, and I wash my hands too much to wear rings without ruining them.
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The "MIROPLAST" company invests more than 60 mln UAH into production modernization
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The "MIROPLAST" company which is a member of the "Alef" corporation invests more than 60 mln UAH into production development before the end of 2020. The funds will be channeled for modernization and extension of the production equipment stock, as well as the warehouse infrastructure.
It is worth reminding that the "MIROPLAST" company produces the profile systems for windows and doors under the trademark WDS.
Vadym Iermolaiev, the chairman of the "Alef" corporation council, wrote on his Facebook page about the purchase of the high-tech machining technique, in particular, high-speed extruding lines for PVC-profile and window sills production.
"The plant "MIROPLAST" invests more than 60 mln UAH into production modernization. The capacities upgrade will be carried out before the end of 2020. As a result, the number of the extruders will run up to 31, the monthly productive capacity will be equal to 5870 tons of PVC-profile, and the maximum annual output will increase to the level of 70 440 tons, which is greater by 30% in contrast with 2019. Some part of investments will be channeled to the modernization of the warehouse equipment and the improvement of the warehouse logistics in general. The abovementioned investments form a part of the strategic plan of the enterprise development. As a matter of fact, the continuous improvement of all processes and growth is a strategy of all business member of the "Alef" corporation", he wrote.
The executives of the "MIROPLAST" company say that the investments into the company amendment are also stipulated by the growth in demand for the Ukrainian products among the national and foreign consumers. The windows and doors by TM WDS occupy the advanced positions on the market and their share increases constantly over a number of years in a row.
"Increase in capacity of the company even in the period being crisis for the country is an evidence of the operational stability of the enterprise and the correct policy of the management team of "MIROPLAST", – the executives of the company say.
It is worth reminding that "MIROPLAST" company started its activity in 2006 and it increases the volume of output and improves the plant's infrastructure with each new window season.Currently MIROPLAST is a leader in the market of PVC-profile systems in Ukraine. The energy-efficient 6- and 5-chambered profile systems are produced under leading TM WDS. The windows from the system WDS 7S passed a test at the window institute ift Rosenheim successfully. The company also produces the window under the trade mark WDS since 2013. The products by TM WDS is presented at more than 500 sales points all over Ukraine, in particular, at the chain of the brand showrooms and authorized partners. MIROPLAST also develops the export sales: into CIS countries, Balkan countries, as well as Spain, Portugal, Peru and South Korea.
Reference: "Alef" corporation incorporates cross-sectional businesses operating in the sector of development, manufacturing of construction materials and the agrarian field. Vadym Iermolaiev is a chairman of "Alef"; corporation council. Stanislav Vilenskyi is a deputy chairman of the corporation council.


Lung Neaw Visits His Neighbours from estudio de producción on Vimeo.
"Lung Neaw Visits His Neighbors" is a film by celebrated Argentine-born, New York based Thai artist, Rikrit Tiravanija with his colleague Cristian Manzutto. The subject of his film is a retired 60-year-old rice padi farmer living in a rural village in Chiang Mai province of northern Thailand. As Tiravanija described to The New York Times last year, "the film is not a documentary nor it is a narrative, it is more of a portraiture." The story has no story line to it and no screenplay. It basically takes the audience and places them into the given context, encouraging them to adjust to its glacial pace and minimalist aesthetic.
It is a character study at its simplest form, following the humble, well-mannered and likable man as he goes about with his daily life and activities. He is far from idle, that is one thing for sure. It is shot with a 16-mm camera and is visually stimulating and it gives a different perspective on what it is like to live a rural life--blissful, simple and serene.
According to Thai Artist Alliance, the film will be screening tomorrow (Friday, November 16th) at 6:30pm at Columbia University's Miller Theater. RSVP needed. It is not everyday you get this opportunity, so get to it!


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Glenn Kaufhold
Glenn Kaufhold has been a successful nonprofit leader for 30 years, bringing to his work a unique blend of experiences in development, communications, marketing, administration, and organizational governance. He created GKollaborative in 2010 to provide strategic advising to small-and-mid-size organizations in a variety sectors within the nonprofit community. Glenn has served in senior leadership positions at Miami Dade College, City University of New York School of Law, Miami Jewish Health, Florida International University, Boston University, and Fenway Health. Throughout his career, Glenn has been involved in the start-up of for a number of new initiatives, including the Sorensen Center for International Peace and Justice (CUNY School of Law); the Court Square Law Project (a partnership between the CUNY School of Law and the New York City Bar Association), and the Miami Culinary Institute at Miami Dade College. His very first start-up venture was the successful Special Athletes/Special Smiles oral health initiative, created in partnership with Boston University and Special Olympics International. In addition to teaching and advising, Glenn is co-chair and chief curator of Philanthropy Miami, the convening organization for the nonprofit sector in Miami. He holds a BA in English from Montclair State University.


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The Left and Ralph Northam
Tuesday's election in Virginia will determine who controls the 2021 redistricting process—and whether more progressives will go to Congress and the state legislature.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Lieutenant Governor Ralph Northam, left, waves to the crowd as Governor Terry McAuliffe applauds during a rally in Richmond
Virginia's gubernatorial race is tightening. According to a Washington Post poll the lead Democrat Ralph Northam holds over Republican Ed Gillespie has narrowed from 13 points earlier this month to just five points. The poll makes clear that Gillespie has consolidated support among the Old Dominion's Trump supporters: 95 percent of those voters favor Gillespie. Northam though has failed to reel in a comparable share of voters who disapprove of Trump: 81 percent of the anti-Trump electorate back him.
The numbers suggest that some Republicans who dislike Trump are nonetheless voting for Gillespie—a more conventional Republican and seemingly more normal human being than the president (admittedly, a low bar to clear) Gillespie's challenge has been to win over the party's Trumpian base. To that end, his demagogic ads—linking, however improbably, the mild-mannered pediatrician Northam to the MS-13 gang, and affirming Gillespie's intention to keep Confederate statues in the state's courthouse squares—have apparently secured the support of the nativists and racists who flocked to Trump but refused to believe that Gillespie was really on their side.
It's not clear if Northam has done as good a job in consolidating the Democratic base. Minority and youth turnout always drops in non-presidential elections, and Northam's low-voltage, relatively centrist campaign hasn't dramatized the difference between the two candidates nearly as starkly as those Gillespie TV spots do. One takeaway from the polling is that the Democratic left has failed to rally to Northam's banner in numbers comparable to the Republican right's belated embrace of Gillespie.
Precisely because Virginia is still a purple state, however—with Republican control of the state legislature offset by term-limited Democrat Terry McAuliffe's control of the governor's office—the strategic case for reluctant leftists to bestir themselves to vote for Northam is strong.
Should the GOP come out of the election with a gubernatorial pickup and continued majorities in the legislature, Virginia would surely enact draconian measures against the state's sizable immigrant population, and come up with a host of other repressive statutes.
More narrowly, in the redistricting following the 2020 census, a unified Republican state government would draw, unchallenged, the state's congressional and legislative districts. In 2011, the GOP majority in the state Assembly created a marvel of gerrymandering that ensured heavy Republican Assembly majorities, even though the state overall has steadily become more Democratic. Needless to say, Bob McDonnell, the Republican governor at that time, signed the plan into law.
Should Gillespie win next Tuesday, the prospects for electing Democrats, much less Democrats on the left, to congressional or legislative seats, grow dimmer, as do the prospects for enacting genuinely progressive legislation or repealing reactionary laws. That would still be the case even if a Democrat is elected governor in 2021, 2025 and 2029. Northam is nobody's leftist, but his victory would create more districts in which Democrats could send more of their own to legislate in both Richmond and Washington, just as his defeat would ensure that there would be fewer progressives in either capital. Such is the logic of elections in a two-party system with partisan control of redistricting—the system in which all of us, left, right, and center, have been compelled to operate.
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Nikki Haley Blasts Pelosi's 'Trump Virus' Remark: It's 'A New Low'
On Wednesday morning, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley ripped House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for referring to COVID-19 as the "Trump virus." Haley tweeted, "It is a new low for Pelosi to refer to the Trump Virus. She didn't require masks in her committees until mid June & opposed the China travel ban. The only one to blame for this virus is China. Many have died. We should be unified on that front not playing political games with it."
It is a new low for Pelosi to refer to the Trump Virus.She didn't require masks in her committees until mid June & opposed the China travel ban.The only one to blame for this virus is China. Many have died. We should be unified on that front not playing political games with it.
— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) July 22, 2020
This is not the first time Haley has dunked on Pelosi; in February 2019 Pelosi tweeted, "We have a moral responsibility to protect God's creation for generations to come. That is why today, we named members to the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis. #ActOnClimate."
Referencing Pelosi's staunch support of abortion, Haley blasted, "Does God's creation not include protecting babies as well Madame Speaker? A committee on that issue would be welcome."
Does God's creation not include protecting babies as well Madame Speaker? A committee on that issue would be welcome. https://t.co/gV54ROiYfn
— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) February 8, 2019
You could tell how staunchly pro-life Haley was by looking at the reaction Planned Parenthood, the nation's leading abortion provider, had when President Trump announced he would select her as the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Planned Parenthood cried:
As a leading women's health care provider and advocate in the United States and globally, Planned Parenthood is deeply troubled by the nomination of Governor Nikki Haley as Ambassador to the United Nations. Ambassador to the United Nations plays a critical role representing the United States on the global stage and advocating for the interests of women and girls worldwide, among other marginalized communities. It is very concerning to see a candidate with a notable lack of international experience coupled with a long track record of attacking women's health in South Carolina, including having recently signed an extreme anti-abortion law opposed by the medical community. …
As The Daily Wire reported, in the CNN interview on Tuesday that host Wolf Blitzer conducted with Pelosi that prompted the "Trump virus" remark, Blitzer prompted Pelosi's remark by saying,
We have lots to discuss. But let me start with the president's news conference he just had on the pandemic. He encouraged people to go ahead and wear a mask. He admitted things will get worse before they get better. He said, eventually, it's going to disappear. How far do you think all that goes in addressing this crisis that's still killing hundreds of Americans every single day?"
"Well, I think with the president's comments today, he recognized the mistakes that he has made by now embracing mask-wearing and the recognition this is not a hoax," Pelosi replied. "It is a pandemic that has gotten worse before it will get better because of his inaction, and, in fact, clearly, it is the Trump virus."
"Well, what do you mean when you say 'the Trump virus?'" Blitzer pressed.
"The Trump virus," said Pelosi. "If they — if he had said months ago, let's wear masks, let's not — let's socially distance, instead of having rallies and political, whatever they were, then more people would have followed his lead. He's the president of the United States. Instead of being a bad example, making it like a manhood thing, not to wear a mask. So, in any event, it was weird because a briefing on the coronavirus should be about science and that is something the president has ignored. It should be about governance, and now, he's finally embracing and saying, 'OK, it's OK to wear a mask.' So, I think a good deal of what we have suffered is clearly the Trump virus."
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I grew up in a small American town in the Pacific Northwest on the Canadian border. My dad was a pastor, and my mom's job was raising me and my seven siblings. We were part of a tight Dutch sub-culture dedicated to their beliefs and community. While I rebelled, like many kid, against my parents and their version of Christianity, my rebellion took me deeper into the roots of a faith that I knew instinctively had serious merit.
A big question in my search was this: What good is a God who is only transcendent but not also an intimate part of all he's created?
People ask what I write about. Like most writers, I write about what I experience that grabs my curiosity and heart – from the most mundane to the most supernatural event, from a bus stop to floating in a kayak in the middle of pristine gulf waters. It all qualifies as subject for writing.
There is a daily, ongoing story, a drama between God, us and our world. What I write about are small vignettes of this story that I'm privileged to be a part of. My satisfaction as a writer is measured by the degree to which I can communicate these moments and stories so that my readers are able to share in it also.


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Davenescourt (picardisch: Davnécourt) ist eine nordfranzösische Gemeinde mit  Einwohnern (Stand ) im Département Somme in der Region Hauts-de-France. Die Gemeinde liegt im Arrondissement Montdidier und gehört zum Kanton Roye.

Geographie
Die Gemeinde liegt in der Landschaft Santerre größtenteils am rechten (nördlichen) Ufer der Avre und an der Kreuzung der Départementsstraßen D41 und D160 rund 9,5 km nördlich von Montdidier.

Geschichte
Die Gemeinde erhielt als Auszeichnung das Croix de guerre 1914–1918.

Einwohner

Verwaltung
Bürgermeister (maire) ist seit 1995 Jean-Claude Pradeilhes.

Sehenswürdigkeiten
Das im letzten Viertel des 18. Jahrhunderts erbaute Schloss, seit 1977 teilweise als Monument historique klassifiziert (Base Mérimée PA00116129).
Die Kirche Saint-Martin, als Monument historique seit 1920 klassifiziert, Base Mérimée PA00116130.

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Ort in Hauts-de-France
Träger des Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (Ort in Frankreich)

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Iclirérico Narbal Pamplona ComNSC (Aracati, 14 de outubro de 1830 — Rio de Janeiro, 29 de outubro de 1896) foi servidor público e político brasileiro.

Biografia
Era o primogênito dos vinte filhos do tenente-coronel José Cândido Pamplona e de Maria Palácio Pamplona, sobrinha de Pedro José da Costa Barros.

Foi, em Fortaleza, ajudante de escrivão no Cartório do Primeiro Tabelião do Crime e Civil e interinamente escrivão privativo do Júri; secretário da Câmara Municipal da cidade de Bananal, em São Paulo. Em junho de 1852, foi nomeado ajudante do escrivão do Juízo dos Feitos da Fazenda Nacional. Em 17 de outubro seguinte, em casa do senador José Martiniano de Alencar, casou-se com sua prima germana Erifila Rosa Pamplona, filha de seu tio paterno Frederico Augusto Pamplona e de Cândida Rosa Pamplona. O casal teve onze filhos, dos quais o primogênito foi o poeta Zoroastro Augusto Pamplona.

De volta ao Ceará, foi eleito deputado provincial para o biênio de 1864-1865. Em maio de 1866, foi nomeado escrivão interino do Juízo dos Feitos da Fazenda e, em 12 de janeiro de 1867, escrivão vitalício, passando o cargo a ser exercido no Juízo Seccional. Era Moço Fidalgo da Casa Real e Comendador da Ordem de Nossa Senhora da Conceição de Vila Viçosa por título de 23 de abril de 1885.

Aposentou-se por decreto de 10 de julho de 1890, vindo a falecer seis anos depois, vitimado por uma síncope cardíaca. Seu corpo foi sepultado no Cemitério do Caju.

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Mortos em 1896
Deputados provinciais do Ceará
Comendadores da Ordem de Nossa Senhora da Conceição de Vila Viçosa
Naturais do Aracati
Fidalgos da Casa Real


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Q: Select custom attribute to set style Select  data-ctrtid custom attribute to set style
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This is dynamically created code and I capture the id correctly like this.
$('.expandListDetail').on('click', '.expandListHeader', function(){
   var argument = $(this).closest('.expandListHeader').find('div').data('ctryid');
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But after I refresh the list, I want to expand the list to the place where it was before. (this is a dynamic multi expandable/Collapsible list)
data('ctryid').css('display': 'block') or somthing like this.
But how do you search for the specific ID of the custom attribute to target the element for CSS change?

A: If you want to search for an id by string variable value, convert it to a jQuery ID selector (i.e. prefix with #):
$('#' + data('ctryid'))

so your example becomes:
$('#' + data('ctryid')).css('display': 'block')

This of course assumes you have elements like this somewhere in the page:

A: If I understand correctly, you have the id, and you need to find the element.  If so, this will work:
$('[data-ctryid="' + capturedId + '"]')

See http://api.jquery.com/attribute-equals-selector/

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Deposed president's brother and two former spy chiefs arrested in Algeria
May 6, 2019 by Joseph Fitsanakis Leave a comment
The younger brother of Algeria's deposed president Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been arrested along with two former directors of the country's spy services. All three men are known as some of the North African country's most powerful figures. Saïd Bouteflika, 61, served as senior advisor to his brother for over a decade. In 2013, when President Bouteflika suffered a debilitating stroke, Saïd became what many see as Algeria's de facto leader and its primary decision-maker. He had not been seen in public since February 22, when mass demonstrations broke out across the country just hours after President Bouteflika, 82, announced that he would run for the highest office in the land for a record fifth time. The massive protests forced Bouteflika, who had held the presidency for two decades, to resign on April 2.
But the demonstrators have continued to protest weekly. They demand that Bouteflika's inner circle be removed from power. Saïd, who was widely believed to be his brother's most likely successor to the presidency, topped the protesters' list. He was reportedly arrested on Saturday afternoon by officers of the Intelligence and Security Department, known as DRS. Another group of DRS officers reportedly arrested General Mohamed "Toufik" Mediène (pictured above, in brown suit), who served as director of the DRS form 1990 until his firing in 2015. His successor, DRS Director General Athmane Tartag, was also arrested by a third team of DRS officers on Saturday, according to reports from Algiers. All three men were delivered to the armed forces and have remained in custody since.
Saturday's arrests were significant, given the influence of these once all-powerful men. At the moment of his arrest, General Tartag was the head of the country's feared spy agency, while General Mediène was once known as the world's longest-serving intelligence director. All three are accused of conspiracy against the popular movement that prompted the end of the Bouteflika regime last month. Their accusers are the leaders of the country's military, and are led by Lieutenant General Ahmed Gaed Salah, the Army's chief of staff. General Salah has vowed to launch an anti-graft campaign and rid the country of corruption before surrendering power back to civilian rule. A nationwide election has been scheduled for July 4 of this year.
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'End of an era' as feared Algerian spy chief is removed from office
September 16, 2015 by Joseph Fitsanakis 1 Comment
In an unprecedented development described by local media as the "end of an era", the longtime director of Algeria's main intelligence agency, and one of the country's most powerful figures, has been removed from office. Until last Sunday, General Mohamed Mediène was described as the world's longest-serving intelligence chief, having led Algeria's Department of Intelligence and Security since 1990. Known by its initials, DRS, the organization grew rapidly in size and power during the Algerian Civil War of the 1990s. After an electoral victory by the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) was quashed in a military-led coup, General Mediène took advantage of the country's fragile security situation to strengthen the DRS and his own political influence. He became a staunch ally of Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and created what some have called "a state within a state".
The general cultivated an aura of mystique, going to great pains to avoid publicity. His name did not appear in print until 2014, while a photograph of him was published for the first time in an Algerian paper on Sunday. According to The New York Times, Mediène's many critics claim that he was able to hang on to power for so long by systematically "blackmailing politicians and other public figures" throughout his tenure. But the General's removal from DRS was announced unexpectedly on Sunday, ostensibly in fulfilment of President Bouteflika's stated goal of imposing more civilian control of the Algerian military. Mediène's sudden removal follows the arrest in August of a number of other senior intelligence figures, including General Abdelkader Ait-Ouarabi, who served as DRS's senior counterterrorism official for two decades under Mediène.
Many believe that the removal of DRS' senior leadership was sparked by a widening rift between Bouteflika and Mediène. Last year, when Bouteflika announced that he would run for a fourth term, Mediène let it be known that he did not approve of the president's decision. The ailing leader, who is 78, suffered a severe stroke in 2013, and has avoided public appearances since that time, giving rise to constant rumors about possible successors, or even machinations for coups by members of the armed forces. The Reuters news agency reported on Sunday that General Mediène has been replaced by General Athmane Tartag, who has served as President Bouteflika's security advisor for several years.
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The Argument Against Idiots: Social Security
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How to win the argument de jour with logic and facts
The issue:
'Social Security'
What the liberal whiners say:
'John McCain, like all Republicans, just couldn't care less about this nation's senior citizens!'
'He's trying to PRIVATIZE senior's SS benefits! He's GAMBLING with their ability to even survive!'
'Exactly! If John McCain had his way, most seniors would have the Social Security benefits in this crashing, disastrous stock market right now! Elderly women would be cast into poverty, and families would be scrambling to support their grandmothers and grandfathers!'
'Tell the truth for once! This plan would cut senior SS benefits in HALF!!!!! They wouldn't be able to live on that!'
Your winning, logical, reasoned arguments
1. That's ridiculous...John McCain IS a senior citizen.
2.All McCain supports is creating government-managed accounts that would allow individuals to invest some portion of their Social Security payroll taxes in widely diversified stock or bond funds.
3. Actually, that's what America USED to be all about...FAMILIES taking care of their family members. But you can relax, because only those who WANT to invest would be subjected to this RADICAL plan. All seniors who want to keep what they have now, would still be allowed to do that.
4. You've been listening to too many Barack Obama ads. That's simply a lie. Benefits wouldn't be cut at all. McCain's proposal would just hold down the growth of future benefits. The figure Barack Obama uses of "cutting benefits by half" is for people who haven't even been BORN yet. Even then, Obama's own economic advisors said the cut would actually be only 28% by 2075!
PROOF the World Economic Forum wants you eating... BUGS!
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As the World Economic Forum continues to meet in Davos about building a more "sustainable" future, Glenn's warning on a seemingly outlandish sustainability goal is becoming reality: eating bugs!
In its 2023 Global Risks Report, the World Economic Forum called for the "transition to net-zero, nature-positive food" to fight "food insecurity." In other words, the WEF imagines a future with minimal meat and maximum "zero-emissions food"—like bugs—as consumers' main source of protein. This is a part of "the Great Reset," the agenda proposed by the World Economic Forum in 2020, urging leaders to take advantage of the COVID-19 crisis to restructure the "world order" to bring about a leftist Utopia.
SHOP: Trigger leftists and amuse your friends with 'Eat Ze Bugs' socks (while supplies last)
Major news outlets like the BBC have promoted insect farms as a sustainable food source to "reduce the reliance on everyday meat eating."
Courtesy of the BBC
So what's the big concern about eating bugs? As the video points out, many cultures throughout the world have been eating insects for centuries—many consider them a delicacy! The issue with the WEF's push for insects isn't merely the option to eat bugs. If someone wants to munch on some grasshoppers, nothing is stopping them! The major concern is the way in which the WEF wants to mandate insect consumption, and, consequentially, destroy the beef industry.
According to the same 2023 Risk Report, the WEF calls for "radical policy measures" to bring about the food transition to zero-net-emissions food, like insects. This means imposing such a burden on the dairy and cattle industries that it renders them impossible to function, paving the way for a new insect industry.
In the Netherlands, the EU's largest food exporter, the government is forcing the farmers to sell their land to the state unless they reduce the amount of nitrogen fertilizer used. However, without nitrogen fertilizer, it is nearly impossible for the farmers to produce enough food to feed the nation, not to mention turn a profit. Moreover, without nitrogen fertilizer, it will be impossible for cattle farmers to produce enough food to feed their cows. This is an impossible burden for farmers to bear, and they often capitulate and sell their land to the government, paving the way for a burgeoning insect industry. Is it any coincidence the EU is pushing for insects as a means of "food sufficiency" and combatting climate change?
If you think eating insects is a novel issue from across the pond, think again. There is a growing push for a "beef tax" in the U.S. to disincentivize beef consumption and incentivize alternative "sustainable" protein sources...like bugs. According to 2021, data, U.S. beef is a 79-billion-dollar-per-year industry, employing million across the U.S.'s 700,000 cattle farms. These stats don't even include the U.S.'s dairy industry. If the global environmentalists have their way, this major U.S. industry will be wiped out, wreaking havoc on our economy. Yet this government control over the "everyday person's" consumption is all too tantalizing.
As the World Economic Forum convenes in Davos to discuss how to achieve their "sustainable utopia," Glenn continues to advocate for the free market and the ability to choose our own consumer goods, rather than giving global elites the power to consolidate and mandate their "approved goods" for widespread consumption. Though consuming insects may seem like an outlandish idea that has no impact on our daily lives, it is a part of a larger movement to control our way of life to achieve a more sustainable future, threatening both our economy and our basic freedoms.