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Kelly Herzog has converted a 54-room hotel in Eagle into a micro-apartment building, with large communal gathering areas. The model could help ease the affordable housing crunch in Colorado's resort communities. (Jason Blevins, The Colorado Sun)
A roadside hotel in Eagle is being transformed into affordable homes — and other housing-strapped resort communities are watching
"This is what development should look like. This is the way to do it," says Kelly Herzog, the Eagle Valley developer behind the AmericInn project
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EAGLE — Hammocks stretch over the former poolroom turned yoga studio. A dog and bike wash station fills what was once a sauna. An amply couched nook, lined with old skis, has replaced the check-in desk.
"A lot of what we are selling is the experience of living here," says Kelly Herzog, the Eagle Valley developer who converted a 54-room hotel in Eagle into a grown-up dormitory opening Dec. 1. "We are going for that community atmosphere."
Herzog's hotel-to-homes project could resonate among resort communities grappling with a housing crisis. Houses that once rented to working locals are shifting to the lucrative short-term rental market. Land and home prices are soaring alongside construction costs.
Options for housing the thousands of workers who keep resort economies humming are limited. Developers mine the high-dollar resort market, eschewing the regulatory and financial challenges of building affordable units.
It's a housing storm threatening resort towns across the West. And those winds are what prodded Herzog, her husband, Grant, and his brother, Jason, to forge a new concept from the AmericInn hotel, just off Interstate 70 in Eagle.
The Herzogs run a development, construction and property management firm and, in a unique reversal of high-country trends, they are taking short-term rentals and converting them to apartments leased for the long-haul.
Developers Jason, Kelly and Grant Herzog spent four months renovating a former hotel in Eagle into micro-apartments with large communal rooms and shared spaces. (Jason Blevins, The Colorado Sun)
Kelly secured the Town of Eagle's permission to rezone an existing building to meet the overflowing demand for affordable housing in the high country.
She's chasing millennials who value experiences over stuff, providing small rooms with large communal spaces as one of many possible solutions to the housing plight menacing resort economies across the West.
"I think there is great potential there actually," says Willa Williford, a Crested Butte-based housing consultant who has helped seed workforce housing programs in mountain and urban communities in California, Montana and Colorado.
Williford has seen small projects convert a commercial property to residential in some towns, and those required extensive renovation. There are opportunities for similar conversions in many mountain towns, she says, noting how locations like Boulder, Estes Park, Steamboat Springs, Gunnison, Fraser and Granby have under-used hotels that could work as micro-apartments for workers.
"It's definitely attractive from the perspective of a renovation not costing as much as new construction and these are nice locations," Williford says.
Some developers have poked around at the possibility, she says. But nothing like Herzog's project — called, simply, The House — has come to fruition. Yet.
It's not uncommon for large employers to house seasonal workers in hotels. City Market leases hotel suites for workers in Gypsum. Vail and Beaver Creek resort workers often occupy hotels in Eagle. Crested Butte Mountain Resort houses some of its temporary workers in a hotel in Gunnison.
The City of Steamboat Springs once bought a defunct hotel to house city employees but sold it to a group that is developing a mixed-use project.
Kim Williams, the executive director of the Eagle County Housing and Development Authority, left, and developer Kelly Herzog check out the new communal room at The House, a former Eagle hotel converted to micro-apartments. (Jason Blevins, The Colorado Sun)
But those hotels do not involve a private developer rezoning a commercial property to residential with only a slight remodel, like The House. Herzog spent most of 2018 working with Eagle's planning and zoning board and board of trustees to win approval for the project. It wasn't easy, she says, heaping praise on town planners who worked with her unique project.
Her proposal — taking a commercial property offline — meant less immediate revenue for Eagle, with a decline in both property and lodging taxes. But she was replacing a short-term visitor with a year-round resident who would be buying food at the grocery, dining in local restaurants and supporting other local businesses.
There were four hotels in Eagle. Now there are three. Town planners and trustees noted that the loss of the AmericInn would mean about 19,000 fewer hotel room-nights available in the town.
But the vacancy rate for the town's hotels was around 47 percent, so the remaining three hotels could easily absorb the loss.
"It all kind of netted out, in a sense that that where we saw a decrease in lodging revenue collection, that was offset by absorption of lodging room nights by other hotels and it was also offset by having those long term residents here shopping in our stores and building that community and creating that critical mass for a more vibrant economy," Eagle Town Manager Brandy Reitter says.
Still, Herzog had to secure variances in the zoning as she converted the hotel into a high-density apartment building. The Town of Eagle is in the middle of a revamp of its comprehensive plan and land-use codes, which will codify the vision for Eagle's future.
"A lot of change is happening. We want to stay ahead of the game and we want to be malleable to what the town's residents want," Eagle Trustee Matt Solomon says. "This is definitely a unique and creative project. I give them props. I'm excited to see it unfold."
Leaders in mountain towns like Eagle are laboring within the confines of land regulations created decades ago as economies evolve.
Recreation amenities, like nearby ski areas, whitewater parks and mountain bike trails, are luring new residents who can work from their homes. Small, work-anywhere businesses are setting up bases in towns that once served as quiet bedroom communities for commuters supporting resorts up the valley.
Housing prices are climbing, and the lack of affordable homes has trickled downvalley from ski towns to those former bedroom communities, such as Eagle, Montrose, Gunnison, Carbondale, Silverthorne and Granby. Housing for year-round residents — not just seasonal workers — has reached the top of many municipal priority lists.
In the Lake Tahoe region of California, populations are growing and many layers of regulation protect the critical watershed. Zoning changes have allowed developers to convert the region's ample supply of hotels and motels to housing, but few have taken the opportunity, said Tom Lotshaw with the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, which helps lead the cooperative work to protect Lake Tahoe while addressing growth.
"One of the big issues that has come up is the cost involved in bringing those housing units up to modern fire, public health and public safety requirements. The cost of doing that can be prohibitive," Lotshaw says. "We have a whole bunch of folks here working on affordable housing issues, but we have not seen a lot of these kinds of projects here."
Resort communities have spent decades cajoling developers to build affordable housing. In places like Aspen and Vail, developers must provide worker housing for every high-dollar condo or home they build. Other rules give tax breaks to builders who deliver mid-priced homes so locals can live and raise families in playgrounds where average home prices reach well beyond $1 million.
"There's always a private-sector model out there, you just have to work with the developer to make it work. It doesn't always have to be subsidized by the government," says Aaron Blair, the town manager of Granby, which has almost 500 affordable units approved for construction by private developers in the next two years.
One developer in Granby is studying the conversion of an office building into affordable workforce housing. The town has been adjusting its zoning to allow for more accessory dwelling units above garages and in basements and backyards.
Another developer will soon close on one of Granby's motels — a tired remnant of an era when station wagons loaded with families traversed Highway 40. But that builder is scraping and starting fresh with a mixed-use project that will increase the density of the building exponentially, Blair says.
"We are focusing on in-fill," he says. "We are changing our zoning code, taking away some regulations. We are making pretty big headway on affordable housing here."
Even with a raft of incentives, the high cost of land and construction can make it difficult to persuade developers to build high-density workforce housing near ski resorts. But further downvalley, it gets easier for a developer to pencil a project. Especially if the building is already built.
At The House, Herzog is trying to reach younger residents with a cooperative housing feel. Her daughter lives at Denver's Turntable Apartments, a former hotel near Mile High Stadium that recently converted to micro-apartments.
Studio apartments at The House are targeted toward younger renters who are less interested in personal space than in places designed to encourage community, like the lobby of what was once the AmericInn in Eagle. (Jason Blevins, The Colorado Sun)
The Herzogs' visits to the Turntable sparked the idea for the AmericInn conversion. Residents can sign up to use the restaurant-style communal kitchen — occupied by a catering company that will offer breakfast and take-away lunches. The former hotel lobby is lined with couches and televisions, so residents can gather. The rec room includes tools and a workbench for tuning skis and tinkering with bikes.
A board of new residents will help guide group outings and events. The three-story, pet-friendly building has 40 studio apartments — each around 300 square feet — with refrigerators, microwaves, hotplates, furniture and a bed, renting for $1,360 a month, including utilities and a dedicated high-speed Wi-Fi connection for each apartment.
Larger studios — up to 445 square feet — rent for up to $1,600. The House is on the valley's bus route and residents can walk to just about everything in town. While each unit has one parking spot, the idea is that residents don't need a car to live there.
"This is really designed to accommodate the millennials who don't have a lot of stuff and don't need space, but they want big spaces to hang out," says Herzog, a longtime Vail-area commercial real estate broker. The Herzogs built the 76-unit Red Table Apartments in Gypsum last summer — reviving a pre-recession project that aimed to build and sell 18 condos — and quickly rented every unit.
"I think these millennials are on to something," she says. "There is so much to love about this concept. I think it lends itself to a lot of different markets, and I think this is the future. I don't know if people will want to go back to wanting lots of space for lots of stuff and rooms full of furniture."
Apartments at The House in Eagle are 300-450 square-feet, with rents starting at $1,360, with utilities included. (Jason Blevins, The Colorado Sun)
Eagle County's housing shortage mirrors those found in Summit and Pitkin counties.
The Eagle River Valley's latest housing-demand analysis — compiled in part by Williford — shows the need for 2,780 new housing units right now to catch up with unfilled jobs, overcrowding in existing units and workers commuting into the valley from another county. The report shows a need for more than 4,000 new units by 2020, nearly 6,000 units by 2025 and 7,800 units by 2030.
One of the issues many high-country housing advocates are grappling with is the explosion of short-term rentals. Homeowners across the country — in big cities and tiny towns — are taking their second homes off the long-term rental market and renting to vacationers. One solution to the deluge of short-term rentals is to build more hotels, so those vacationers have options and their homes could house locals.
Hotel construction stalled during the recession and only now is trickling back, but not nearly fast enough to meet the demand of record-setting numbers of tourists flocking to mountain destinations.
That's what makes Herzog's project so interesting. She's taking hotel rooms and renting them for a year.
"What I've been seeing doing workforce housing consulting, so many communities are seeing housing for employees as the barrier for economic growth right now and they are setting housing goals for seasonal residents," Williford says. "This looks like a less resource-intensive way of accomplishing some of those goals. It's always a multi-faceted strategy and it's not going to be one single thing that solves the housing problem. But this is a step."
It took about four months to renovate The House, and tenants are lining up to move in.
If it works as she hopes, she envisions sharing the model in other communities — repurposing existing buildings instead of building new. Encouraging high density in downtown areas. Putting new residents near bus routes, parks, shops and restaurants.
"That's green development," Herzog says. "This is what development should look like. This is the way to do it."
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The Incredible Career of Alexis Nicole Whitney, Drag Performer and Blind Trans Woman
Written by Matt Baume on June 15, 2021
Alexis Nicole Whitney's life was singular from the moment she was born. "I was my grandmother's Mother's Day gift," she reflected during a recent interview. Born to a lesbian mother disinterested in childbearing, Alexis was adopted by her grandparents when she was two days old. Little did her mother know that this little two-day-old child would grow up to be queer herself, to be a drag performer, and for her on-stage career to flourish even after losing her sight to meningitis.
Alexis was my guest on a recent episode of The Sewers of Paris, a podcast where queer people share the story of the culture that changed their lives. For Alexis, Jerry Springer was life-changing. "They had transsexuals — men who live as women — on there," she said. "I would watch and be inspired by them. I wanted to be like them. Ever since I was little I knew I was a little girl trapped in a boy's body."
She waited until her grandparents passed away to begin her transition. "Sally Jessy Raphael had a transsexual by the name of Tammy Andrews," Alexis recalled. Andrews happened to live in San Antonio, just like Alexis and showed that life after the transition was possible. "At first I was kind of scared," she said, but: "I don't regret it one bit. Now I feel like the person I always was."
She was also inspired by the movie To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar. The 90's film follows three drag performers on a road trip across the country, including a prolonged stop in a tiny western town where even small-town folks welcome them. "If you want to be a woman, carry yourself with a woman," she said.
As soon as she was able, Alexis Nicole Whitney began to sneak into LGBTQ-inclusive clubs with a fake ID. A fresh face, she was welcomed by the community. "I realized there's a whole different community that I didn't know there was."
Going to shows at local venues like the Paper Moon and The Saint educated her about the support that was available to her through people whose lives were similar. Drag performers were particularly inspiring and educational and helped her delineate the difference between male queens who put on a costume and women who transition. Alexis knew that a life on stage was for her, and began performing in the drag shows.
That world of queer performance was everything to her. "I felt like I'm in Oz. This is where I belong," she said. But trouble loomed on the horizon: several years ago, she began to feel a headache that worsened over a few days. She had just gone to the hospital when she lost consciousness and slipped into a coma for weeks. When she awoke, she'd lost her vision. Doctors weren't sure if she would walk again. Meningitis had nearly killed her — in fact, her heart stopped multiple times. One more and she would not have been resuscitated.
Despite her alarming condition, Alexis Nicole Whitney was back on stage within days. She was in a wheelchair with her eyes bandaged, but she still performed "No More I Love Yous" by Annie Lennox. Her life would never be the same — but she found that there was no need to leave her drag career behind. Alexis went on to win awards for her drag and continues to be nationally recognized within the pageant system.
For Alexis, being blind is simply a part of her life — something she won't allow to stand in her way. "I don't know what I look like," she said. "But I know that I'm not ugly."
This article was originally published on September 28, 2020. It has since been updated.
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Where is the heritability of intelligence hidden in our genes?
I'm quite sure that the title of this post may have upset some people already. The reason is that both heritability and intelligence can be regarded as problematic concepts by even researchers. Still, bear with me, because this new study is quite intriguing.
Until 2017, genome-wide polygenic scores derived from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of intelligence were able to predict only 1% of the variance in intelligence in independent samples.
Polygenic scores derived from GWAS of intelligence can now predict 4% of the variance in intelligence.
More than 10% of the variance in intelligence can be predicted by multipolygenic scores derived from GWAS of both intelligence and years of education. This accounts for more than 20% of the 50% heritability of intelligence.
Polygenic scores are unique predictors in two ways. First, they predict psychological and behavioural outcomes just as well from birth as later in life. Second, polygenic scores are causal predictors in the sense that nothing in our brains, behaviour or environment can change the differences in DNA sequence that we inherited from our parents.
Polygenic scores for intelligence can bring the powerful construct of intelligence to any research in the life sciences without having to assess intelligence through the use of tests.
The key element in this paper is the concept of polygenic scores. What are they?
My attempt to say it as easy as possible: intelligence isn't located on one gene, but is due to the combination of a lot of genes.
Now the good thing and the thing that even frightened me. First the good thing: Plomin and von Stumm don't say everything is down to our genes. That would be downright stupid, btw. That is why the last key point frightens me as it makes everything much too deterministic and limits intelligence to something purely native. Also, if I read the article correctly, there is still a long way to go.
Although the authors do go into the ethical side of their work, this element is not really discussed. Did I mention I think this paper is intriguing?
Intelligence — the ability to learn, reason and solve problems — is at the forefront of behavioural genetic research. Intelligence is highly heritable and predicts important educational, occupational and health outcomes better than any other trait. Recent genome-wide association studies have successfully identified inherited genome sequence differences that account for 20% of the 50% heritability of intelligence. These findings open new avenues for research into the causes and consequences of intelligence using genome-wide polygenic scores that aggregate the effects of thousands of genetic variants.
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10 Italian Cars That Are Stunningly Gorgeous… But Notoriously Unreliable
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Arguably the go-to destination for the most beautiful cars ever produced, Italy is home to the most famous sports car manufacturers the world over, but all this style and beauty does come at a price.
Aside from the associated high-maintenance costs, these beautiful automotive works of art have a few hidden quirks that can test even the most patient of owners. In short, the common rust issues, poor electrics, weak mechanicals, and generally shoddy build quality are all part of owning one of these beautiful Italian cars.
10 Alfa Romeo GTV6 – Beautiful Coupe With Bank Account Draining Ability
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Irresistible for the way it looks and goes, the Alfa Romeo GTV6 has been praised by journalists since the day it was launched, but as most owners will confess they are a bit of a money pit.
Ignoring for a moment the fact most Alfa's left the factory with a healthy dose of rust completely free of charge, a sort of thank you gift. On paper, this fastback coupe has a lot of positive points, such as one of the finest V6 engines ever built. However, appalling reliability means the chances of finding a well-sorted one are slim, you would be better off buying a few extra lottery tickets.
9 De Tomaso Pantera – Beautifully Designed With Development Flaws
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A genuine Ferrari alternative, if only in appearance, the De Tomaso Pantera is one of the most underrated sports cars of the 1970s, and for good reason too. Despite Ford's heavy involvement on the mechanical side, the Pantera had more than its share of quality and reliability issues.
In fact, Ford's Cleveland V8 is one of the car's best features, it's just a shame typical 70s Italian build, and corrosion protection let the Pantera down, added to which notoriously unreliable electrics often left drivers stranded. If that doesn't put you off then factor in woefully inadequate cooling could spell disaster, necessitating an expensive engine rebuild.
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8 Maserati Shamal – New Mechanicals, Same Reliability Problems.
Lacking sufficient finances to build a new car, Maserati reworked the unloved Bi-turbo to produce a much more accomplished sports coupe. The Shamal arrived in 1990 and featured a new, more aggressive look, and more importantly, a new turbocharged V8 engine.
No matter how well the Shamal performed, the same production issues blighted Maserati's coupe. Poor quality control showing its face again, with a list of reliability concerns that were carried over from the Bi-Turbo.
7 Lamborghini Jalpa – Frail Entry Level Supercar
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How times have changed! In a complete u-turn, entry-level Lamborghinis are now the brand's best-selling models, unlike the rare 1980s Jalpa that managed to shift just 410 cars.
Anything wearing the famous raging bull badge must be a great car right? Well not quite. The Jalpa, as beautiful as it is, had its fair share of problems, mainly due to Lamborghini's lack of development. First the good news, a powerful 3.5-liter V8 engine provides enough grunt to see a top speed approaching 160mph, not bad for a budget Lamborghini. Now the bad bit; weak engine mounts are known to give way without warning, and more worryingly, soaring brake temperatures resulting in complete failure.
6 Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio – Ferrari Power Delivers Huge performance
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There was a time when Alfa ownership was guaranteed to drain your bank account faster than a supermodel with a taste for expensive clothes, not so much due to the initial cost, but rather the ongoing maintenance. Without question, they are some of the most desirable cars on the planet, the latest Giulia Quadrifoglio looks stunning and has the punch to back up its looks.
Under that gorgeous body beats a 2.9-liter turbocharged Ferrari V6, punching out 505 HP in Quadrifoglio guise, more than enough power to distract owners from what remains the Alfa's biggest issues. Like all Italian works of art, the Quadrifoglio has a few gremlins from iffy air-con to dodgy interior electrics, but worst of all the fuel system without warning just stops working completely.
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5 Lamborgini Miura – Unashamedly Beautiful With A Hint Of Danger
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For many Lamborghini's Miura is the best supercar ever built with an intoxicating blend of downright gorgeous bodywork and a potent V12 engine. At its debut in 1966, the Miura featured a unique mid-engine layout that allowed a much lower front end, and also provided sharper handling.
All that power and performance comes at a price, leaking vital fluids is a common trait among early models, the complex V12 engine has more than a few weak seals that can cause real headaches for owners, added to which, under load, fuel lines can rupture, turning the Miura into a potential fireball.
4 Lancia Fulvia Coupe HF – Cool Until The Engine Overheats
Lancia's reputation in rallying is unrivaled dominating the WRC with icons such as the Delta Integrale and Stratos, but before these greats, the Italian carmaker's success started much earlier with the Fulvia Coupe.
Essentially a shortened and lightened version of the sedan, Lancia engineers having chopped 15cms from its chassis and replaced non-structural panels with aluminum items created one of the earliest lightweight specials in history. Stripped of weight and size proved to be a masterstroke, if only Lancia had beefed up the V4 engine's cooling system, water pumps are notoriously weak leading to engine failures.
3 Ferrari California – "Cheaper" Supercar
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Luxury carmaker Ferrari doesn't use "budget" or "entry-level" to describe their lesser models, but essentially the 2008 California was an attempt to attract new customers with a cheaper model.
Like all Ferraris, the California is a work of art, the graceful flowing Pininfarina bodywork screams style and performance, the gamble had at first paid off. Over the next three years, several high-profile engine failures forced the Italian carmaker to recall California with reports of defective crankshafts causing engine seizures.
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2 Fiat Barchetta – Handicapped Layout And Weak Ancillaries
Fiat has long been associated with small cars, the Italian carmaker's most successful models being designed for small families in rural Italy, which made the 1995 launch of the Barchetta a surprising move.
Arriving at a time when Mazda pretty much dominated the small sports car market, Fiat didn't help sales with the Barchetta only produced in left-hand drive form. Despite its factory imposed handicap, the Barchetta with a 1.8-liter engine was a potential rival for the MX-5. This being Fiat, the same poor quality build and corrosion protection are to be expected, however, it would be the engines weak ancillaries that caused most failures.
1 Maserati 3200GT – A New Beginning… With A Few Flaws
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Maserati had struggled through two decades of financial issues that left the once-famous Italian carmaker with a range of dated and unreliable boxy coupes. However, everything was about to change with the arrival of a new coupe.
In 1998, Maserati produced their first all-new car for decades. The 3200GT with its Giugiaro-styled body seemed to be the model gearheads had been waiting for. A sleek long-distance GT backed up by a potent 3.2-liter V8. Arguably a fine car that had a few flaws, weak electrical systems, poor brakes and transmission, and failing drive-by-wire throttles are common.
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Police warn of phone scam involving a police department impersonator
Tuesday, December 17, 2019Manchester NH Police DepartmentPolice & Fire0
MANCHESTER, NH — Police are warning the public about a phone scam based on the following narrative:
On December 15, 2019 Manchester Police received a report about someone impersonating a police officer. The victim said he had met a woman on a dating site and had agreed to meet her for a first date. The woman never showed up at their predetermined location. The next day the victim said he received a text from someone claiming to be the woman's father who said his daughter was a minor and she had gotten into a car accident heading to the date. The person alleging to be the woman's father then sent a text message threatened to call police.
Shortly after the victim said that he received a text message from someone purporting to be a Manchester Police Detective who said they investigate sexual crimes. The victim was informed that a complaint had been filed against him and he needed to call police. The victim did not return any calls, but rather reported the incident to police.
That was the correct course of action.
No one from the Manchester Police Department is making calls of this nature. This is a scam, likely to extort money from unknowing victims. In November, there were multiple reports of someone also claiming to be a Manchester detective. In those cases, the victims were told they did not show up for jury duty and if they didn't pay a fee they would be arrested.
We advise the public to never wire or send money to unknown people.
If you have received a call of this nature, do not engage. Please call Manchester Police at 603-668-8711.
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LEAMINGTON, Ont.—Licensed producer Aphria Inc. has applied to list its common shares on the New York Stock Exchange.
The Leamington, Ont.-based cannabis company submitted its registration statement to U.S. securities regulators today.
An Aphria spokeswoman says the company will provide details such as its anticipated trading date and ticker symbol when available and after it receives the required approvals.
Aphria is already listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
The cannabis grower's U.S.-listing application comes as its Edmonton-based competitor Aurora Cannabis Inc. announced it would begin trading on the NYSE on Oct. 23.
Several other Canadian licensed producers have listed their shares south of the border this year, including Canopy Growth Inc., Cronos Group Inc. and Tilray Inc.


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Emma Louise Backeon October 29, 2018 /3 comments
How does the genre of weird fiction provide the destabilizing framework for the future of HAUtalk?
The HAU controversy is a dense teratoma,[1] a complicated intermingling of issues and tissues that appear at once monstrous and baffling. The dreadful synergy of its cellular structure is comprised of ethnographic genes warped and misshapen—it is at once a debate over open access, publishing, and the hidden architectures that comprise academia's skeletal structure; a realization of harassment and abuse, the way power has metastatized amongst an intellectual elite; and a reminder of anthropology's ugly history with colonialism, racism, sexism, tribalism, a genetic predisposition we thought had been eliminated decades ago. This horrific fusion has resulted in a dense contamination of causes and consequences, rendered all the more gruesome by the fact that this teratoma came from our body, growing within us all this time. In the many delicate excisions and autopsies of the tumor, we've been able to bring to bear a number of diagnostic tools to historicize #HAUtalk and #MeTooAnthro, enumerate the institutional culture and protocols that led to such a debilitating condition, and envision a reckoning. The question is what to do now that the malignancy has been laid bare, particularly among those who still qualify the teratoma as benign, dismissing those willing to speak as part of the destabilizing efforts. How do we begin to disentangle such a malformed tumor, particularly when both its origins and its after-effects strain imagination?
Those conversant with the genre of weird fiction will be familiar with the shared sense of dread, dismay and disorientation that has pervaded HAUtalk. A cross-section of speculative fiction, fantasy, horror and slipsteam, weird fiction is characterized by "the ever-present sense of mounting and inescapable dread. Of forces outside both the power and understanding of man. According to Lovecraft, the weird is a malign suspension of the laws of nature, of the very things that we rely on to safeguard our fragile lives and psyches against the chaos and malignancy lurking just beyond the world we know" (Rice 2017). H.P. Lovecraft of Cthulhu fame is often credited as one of the early progenitors of weird fiction, although many trace the genre back to writers such as Edgar Allen Poe, Franz Kafka and Jorge Luis Borges, through to the contemporaries of new weird like Jeff VanderMeer and China Mieville. As VanderMeer writes, "There's a power and weight to this type of fiction, which fascinates by presenting a dark mystery beyond our ken and engaging the subconscious. Just as in real life, things don't always quite add up, the narrative isn't quite what we expected, and in that space we discover some of the most powerful evocations of what it means to be human or inhuman" (2014). In weird fiction, we are confronted with problems of scale that force us to face our normative understandings of the world, working with an insouciant body of evidence that seems to deny our traditional logics. We can think of the Yellow King in the first season of HBO's True Detective, Rust's visions that seem prognosticatory in nature, or the horrifying admixture of human and mammal in VanderMeer's Annihilation, a new kind of creature whose plaintive cries only reinforce how far off the basecamp we've stumbled.
Annihilation, directed by Alex Garland
One of the many indignities of HAUtalk is the extent to which senior scholars have encountered accounts of exploitation, assault and violence (whether symbolic, psychological or physical) with disbelief. It's as if ongoing critiques of imperfect power structures, dimensions of experience that may go unseen, represent a cognitive apogee—deniers and skeptics have not the imagination to go further. They encounter the mythic Cthulhu of Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness—a creature that disrupts not only their sense of human identity, but radically ruptures the orienting structures of the universe with its many tendrils and limbs. This creature rises from the depths eliciting more questions, a "state of confusion, without any real progress, absent answers and understanding" (Pryka 2017, 202). Like the narrator in Mark Danielewski's House of Leaves (2000), the further into the Byzantine maze you are drawn, the more disoriented you become—the classrooms that seemed so familiar suddenly full of corridors and doors you'd never seen before, extradimensional spaces where the laws of gravity have shifted slightly. The fear, suspicion and anger of those railing against HAU is one where the world they took for granted is no longer tenable. We must instead face these monsters that have always haunted the domain of academia.
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Haunting's history in anthropology is often credited to Jacques Derrida, who's hauntology in Spectres of Marx (1993) traces the intrusion of history into the living present, the interruption of secrets and trauma in the contemporary realm. Anthropology is riddled with ghosts, the presence of non-presence—the discipline's problematic alignment with the colonial empire and the ascendency of races. The numerous cultures, indigenous populations, and marginalized communities that suffered at the hands of ethnographic study—whether by grave-robbing or surrender of stories and authorial ability—continue to haunt the discipline, their imprints left on the post-modern, postcolonial turn that keeps turning. Ideally, contemporary anthropology is a reckoning with these spirits, one that ought to allow the sub-altern to speak and be conducted by the cadre of the "anthropologist as other." We can consider the process of "rememory" in Toni Morrison's Beloved—sinking into the river of memory again and again until the violences of recounting make the body new and provide a different kind of resurrection. Some of us are more intimately familiar with ghosts than others.
Derrida's hauntology reinfused ghosts with academic social capital, but that doesn't mean it overcame the gaslighting that often accompanies ghost stories. Ghosts are the stuff of credulity and ignorance, often the first signs of madness or subterfuge. We may treat ghosts as fascinating epistemic, metaphorical traces of harm, but this recognition is often glossed with a fine veneer of dismissal that the supernatural was never actually there in any tangible way. As Jess Zimmerman writes,
When someone tells me about a malign presence in their basement or Bloody Mary appearing in their bathroom mirror, I generally don't think I'm being lied to. I understand that the teller is sharing something they find deeply distressing and viscerally real. But I also think I know better. Their explanation goes against everything I know about the world. I've never experienced anything like it, so I have no reason to take their word over my own intuition. This is the same rationale that fuels widespread dismissal of harassment, pressure, threat, abuse, and assault. They believe that you think you experienced harassment, just like I believe that you think you saw a ghost. (2017)
Assault and abuse rarely leave traces which might serve as evidence of violence. There is the visual imagery of bruises, cuts and scrapes which evoke the brutality of physical domination—it discloses a tableau of suffering that survivors are infrequently able to document in real time. But for harassment, psychological manipulation, and gaslighting, these poltergeists often manifest in small, seemingly ephemeral ways that bedevil objects of proof. A slip of the eye and it's gone. Sure you saw a ghost, they might say, sure he did those things to do—but how am I supposed to believe you? Especially if I've already cast you as an unreliable narrator? These are the ways that instances of harassment get recast as ghost stories. Yet these ghost stories unsettle, a prickle running up the back of our spines. Perhaps the house has been haunted all along.
So we return to the site of apprehension, the intellectual and imaginative vertigo of the weird, one in which the veracity of claims of harm abut with our genealogical legacy. If H.P. Lovecraft's work, like that of anthropology's own academic canon, was foundational to the creation of weird fiction, and remains the touchstone for the new weird, how do we confront an equally eminent, if not onerous heritage of his racism, sexism and xenophobia? As Ruthanna Emrys (2018) writes, "Perhaps Lovecraft's own metaphors are best: Can this ancestral taint be denied, or does it warp its descendants even today? Could we destroy it, even if we wanted to? If we did, what would remain of our modern branches? Could we instead transform it? Can we work such metamorphoses with our own foundations?" In the process of unsettling, of exposing the toxic roots nestled so deeply into anthropology's body politic, we need to remind ourselves, yet again, of all the things we don't know, of all the worlds that cohabitate the ones we occupy. The weird forces us into spaces of epistemic vulnerability, where plurality, heterogeneity, and turbulence provoke and perturb and push us forward. We can no longer look away or excuse the substratum of monstrous knowledge and means of ethnographic execution. But we can also use the genre to attune ourselves to the possibilities of metamorphosis, and attend to what other authors of the weird, like Victor LaValle's The Ballad of Black Tom and Matt Ruff's Lovecraft Country, have done to transform the racist roots of the Chthulu mythos.
In advice on how to write weird fiction, VanderMeer discusses bridging the gaps between the strange and the familiar, nature and culture, classificatory divides anthropologists will likely recognize. The act of writing, VanderMeet counsels, must be one of simultaneous disruption and contamination, values that "acknowledge a world that is much more invisibly volatile and teeming with life than most fiction is able to portray" (2018). This disruption makes room for multiplicity, an "embrace of heterogeneity" and plurality Carlos Mondragón takes up in reflecting on the worlds of anthropology. The most recent statement of HAU's Board of Trustees instead clings to a singular story, one in which "gossip and innuendos" are taken as their own form of symbolic violence. The statement stipulates the "impossibility" to "fix clear terms of reference." We remain stuck, yet again, in the discourse of impossibility, the desire for stasis, even if the terms for such fixity depend on a singular vision of harm, and therefore harm reduction. Instead, I would posit that we are all unreliable narrators, seeking to make sense of the texts and terms of engagement laid before us. If we are truly committed to an anthropology of open access, we need to necessarily open ourselves to the unknown, even if it terrifies us. We need to be open to alternative ethnographic horizons (Mondragón 2018), tentacular thinking (Haraway 2016) and paradoxical presents (Lempert 2018), a questing in multiple realities which recognizes that the desire to stabilize is one that excises other ways of living and seeing the world. The only way to "fix" this problem is to lean into the process of destabilization and complication, weirding a world that refuses to abide by a singular etiology or epistemology.
[1] The word teratoma means a type of germ cell tumor that may contain several different types of tissue, such as hair, muscle, and bone. The term was introduced by physicist and anthropology Rudolf Virchow in in his 1863 collection "Die krankhaften Geschwülste," originating from the Greek word "teras" for monster.
[2] This post is indebted to numerous authors and anthropologists who have contributed to the debates surrounding #HAUtalk. Even though I wasn't able to cite every article, I am immensely grateful for the destabilizing efforts of blogs like Footnotes, Anthrodendum, Allegra Lab, Cultural Anthropology and Focaal to name a few.
Danielewski, Mark. House of Leaves. New York: Pantheon Books, 2000.
Derrida, Jacques. Spectres of Marx: The State of the Debt, The Work of Mourning & the New International. New York: Routledge, 1993.
Emrys, Ruthanna (2018). "H.P. Lovecraft and the Shadow Over Horror." NPR. https://www.npr.org/2018/08/16/638635379/h-p-lovecraft-and-the-shadow-over-horror?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social
Garland, Alex, dir. (2018). Annihilation. Film. Paramount Pictures.
Haraway, Donna (2016). "Tentacular Thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene." e-flux. https://www.e-flux.com/journal/75/67125/tentacular-thinking-anthropocene-capitalocene-chthulucene/
Mondragón, Carlos (2018). "Whose Worlds? Whose Anthropologies?" Cultural Anthropology. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1535-whose-worlds-whose-anthropologies
Mathur, Nayanika (2018). "Shocked, Not Surprised." Allegra Lab. http://allegralaboratory.net/shocked-not-surprised-hautalk/
Morrison, Toni. Beloved. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.
LaValle, Victor. The Ballad of Black Tom. New York: Tor Books, 2016.
Lempert, William (2018). "Generative Hope in the Postapocalyptic Present." Cultural Anthropology. https://culanth.org/articles/951-generative-hope-in-the-postapocalyptic-present
Lovecraft, H.P. (1936) "At the Mountains of Madness." Astounding Stories.
Pandian, Anand (2018). "Open Access, Open Minds." Cultural Anthropology. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1455-open-access-open-minds
Pyrka, Pawel (2017). "Haunting Poe's Maze: Investigative Obsessions in the Weird Fictions of Stefan Grabiński and H. P. Lovecraft." AVANT Vol. VIII (2): 201-210.
Rice, Keith (2017). "So You Want to Read Weird Fiction: Here's Where to Start." Unbound Worlds. https://www.unboundworlds.com/2017/01/want-read-weird-fiction-heres-start/
Ruff, Matt. Lovecraft Country. New York: Harper Perennial, 2017.
Todd, Zoe (2018). "The Decolonial Turn 2.0: The Reckoning." Anthrodendum. https://anthrodendum.org/2018/06/15/the-decolonial-turn-2-0-the-reckoning/
VanderMeer, Jeff (2014). "The Uncanny Power of Weird Fiction." The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/10/uncanny-fiction-beautiful-and-bizarre/381794/
VanderMeer, Jeff. Annihilation. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
VanderMeer, Jeff (2018). "Jeff VanderMeer Explains How to Write a Haunted Book." Electric Lit. https://electricliterature.com/jeff-vandermeer-explains-how-to-write-a-haunted-book-4873785502c
Zimmerman, Jess (2017). "When Men Treat Assault Stories Like Ghost Stories." The Cut. https://www.thecut.com/2017/10/when-men-treat-assault-stories-like-ghost-stories.html
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PhD student in Medical Anthropology at the George Washington University and independent consultant, focusing on the intersections of international development, global health, reproductive health justice, gender-based violence, and the politics of care. Social justice sailor scout working on behalf of survivors of sexual violence, gender equity, and comprehensive sexual and reproductive health among vulnerable populations.	View all posts by Emma Louise Backe →
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In 2010 Stockholm was selected as the first European Green Capital.
Ambitious mitigation goals include cutting CO2 emissions by 44% by next year and being 100% powered by renewables by 2050.
The Action Program on Climate Change includes a number of measures, from a Clean Vehicle target to the phasing-out of all fossil fuels by 2050.
Stockholm is built on 14 islands and is characterized by many waterways and parks. Due to its focus on environmental sustainability, in 2010 Stockholm was selected as the first European Green Capital. 85% of Stockholm's inhabitants are employed in the service industry and there is almost no heavy industry, which helps to maintain the city very clean. One of the five fastest growing cities in Europe, with currently around 900.000 inhabitants, Stockholm is Sweden's capital, biggest city and its cultural, political and economic center.
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