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Columbus sisters get marijuana dispensary
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$40k in fees, land surveyors, and a lot of research: How Columbus sisters finally got their cannabis dispensary approved
by Sara DiNatale, Mississippi Today
COLUMBUS – Denisha and Amber Glenn saw a whole future inside an abandoned Tuesday Morning.
The shuttered retail store was the perfect home for the sisters' business venture: Holistika. In their vision, Holistika would be one of Mississippi's first medical marijuana dispensaries.
The sisters already had success as founders of their own small human resources company. With cannabis, they did their homework.
"We started the planning process back in 2020," said Amber Glenn. "We were looking at properties, putting together a business plan. With us being Black women, we knew there'd be challenges… so we have – since day one – done everything correctly and by the books."
They visited out-of-state expos, toured leading dispensaries, and studied the state's Medical Cannabis Act, which outlined the burgeoning program. They met early with a city inspector, ensuring their shop's architect plan accounted for every plumbing and electrical requirement.
They were two self-made business women, regular Mississippians, navigating an industry largely dominated by white men and deep-pocket partnerships. A 2017 survey from Marijuana Business Daily found that less than 20% of marijuana business owners are minorities.
"We'd want to meet with companies – white men – and they would talk to us on the phone, but when they saw us in person, they'd totally disappear," Denisha Glenn said.
The snags kept coming.
When they couldn't find a local land surveyor to take them as a client, they tracked down one willing to travel from two hours away. They were meticulous, desiring a bullet-proof application ready to upload the moment the state opened the online portal.
None of it was enough. A competitor down the street uploaded their application materials faster. And in the battle for dispensary licenses across Mississippi, speed took precedence.
The first wave of licenses went to some of the budding market's biggest spenders – an attorney who teamed up with an industry insider from leading cannabis state Colorado; a man who owns a private plane charter company; people who have invested millions already on cultivation sites and to launch their own empires, applying for several dispensaries at once.
The Glenn sisters said they were only aware of one other Black woman in Mississippi working to get a dispensary license. There's likely a small number overall, but the state's public list of licensed dispensaries doesn't specify an owner's race.
Losing out on the license stung. But it was the months of application limbo and unanswered questions that really hurt, the sisters said. They expected a swift rejection so they could move on and apply for another location. Instead, they say, it took months for Holistika to get a formal rejection and its $40,000 in fees returned so they could try for a new location.
"No matter the position in life, the public will like you more if they have access to you," said Denisha Glenn, reflecting on more than two months it took to get Holistika's first application rejected so she and her sister could apply for another store. "But it just seems like it's a lack of personnel and a lack of training."
In a statement to Mississippi Today, the Mississippi Department of Revenue said it responds "timely to all inquiries, including those from the personal and legal representatives" – including Holistika – "usually within one business day."
The Mississippi Department of Revenue has issued 139 dispensary licenses since it began accepting applications at the beginning of July. The department says it processes the applications in the order they were received.
"The application portal licensing software time stamped the receipt of each application out to the 100th millisecond," MDOR spokespersonwoman Lexus Burns said in a statement.
Milliseconds counted when applications first flooded into MDOR's portal. With Mississippi's law dictating no dispensary could be within 1,500 feet of each other, staking territory was vital.
Using the first-come-first serve system is normal within the industry, said Jackson-based cannabis attorney Slates Veazey.
"I struggle to figure out a more fair way," he said.
But the law also says applicants should be issued licenses within 30 days of receiving an application. The same, in theory, goes for those being rejected.
"That's important information to have," Veazey said. "If you are getting rejected you need to look for other properties. You know you can move on. And the law gives applicants a short time period to challenge a license determination."
Denisha and Amber Glenn said they lost valuable time that could have meant the difference between nailing down another property before a dispensary competitor edged them out for a second time.
Tucked next to her existing bakery, Nicole Huff has a roughly 1,200-square-foot space she's working to open as Wildflower dispensary. It's about 1,300 feet down the street from where the Glenn sisters hoped to open inside the old Tuesday Morning space.
"July 5, 8 o'clock, I was here," Huff said from the desk in her bakery's office, "dragging and dropping everything into (the portal)."
Thirteen days later, Huff was told her application was approved. But first there was a formatting issue with her land survey; she had 24 hours to have it redone. She wound up among the first people in the state to be issued a dispensary license.
"I'm so proud of the State Department of Revenue," Huff said. "They're crossing every 't' and dotting every 'i.'"
She said she cashed out her 401(k) and sold her stocks to fund her dispensary business. While her contractor filed construction permits, Amber and Denisha Glenn scoured Columbus for an alternative location.
"We wanted a back-up for the back-up," Denisha Glenn said.
They spent $8,500 on land surveys to determine that any hopeful locations were the right distances from churches, schools, daycares and Wildflower.
But landing on the right new spot still didn't solve their problems. Their first application was still at a standstill.
Denisha Glenn said it was an October call to the media spokesperson at the state Department of Health – which handles the licenses for cultivation, doctors, and patients – that finally got her in touch with the right people, including Cannabis Program Director Kris Jones Adcock.
"Once we got connected to the right people who could make those decisions, they were very kind and very helpful," she said.
If an applicant's bid for a license is denied because another dispensary was approved for license in their zone in the period after they applied, they are able to get the $40,000 in application fees returned.
"The Mississippi State Department of Health understands the complexities and challenges of starting this type of program," said spokesperson Liz Sharlot, who assisted the Glenn sisters. "We are gratified for all of the support and cooperation of the Department of Revenue. The Agency is happy to assist applicants of all types to ensure a smooth process for everyone."
With their fees returned, on Oct. 14, the sisters applied for a new license. It also meant letting go of the Tuesday Morning spot. They ended their lease.
The new spot is closer to where they grew up in Columbus.
"I think our new location is a godsend," Denisha Glenn said. "It puts us closer to our community."
In late October, the sisters got the news: Their new location was approved.
Medical marijuana grower ordered to destroy plants
Mississippi marijuana grower ordered to destroy plants, make improvements
The largest medical marijuana grower licensed so far in Mississippi's fledgling program had to destroy about $1 million worth of plants, halt some operations and make structural improvements at one of its sites, state Health Department officials said Thursday.
But largely, the department said it is working with new marijuana businesses — all of which have some "compliance" issues — as the program gets going and not dropping the regulatory hammer laid out in state rules or calling law enforcement on them.
A Mississippi Today article and photos in early October showed that Mockingbird Cannabis LLC did not follow state growing and security regulations. The department's response at that time — to write Mockingbird a letter listing "corrective actions" and to not answer any questions — had competitor growers crying foul. They said Mockingbird was allowed to grow and harvest a crop improperly and on the cheap in plastic- and cloth-covered greenhouses with lax security that would allow them to beat others to market as the program gets rolling.
Mockingbird had been growing plants without listing them in the state's "seed to sale" tracking system, at a secondary site 12 miles from its main operations on Springridge Road near Raymond. Other cultivators said they were told they had to limit cultivation to one site and that they were not allowed to use greenhouses.
But at a Thursday online press conference, Kris Jones Adcock, Mississippi Medical Cannabis Program director for the Health Department, said Mockingbird has since faced more repercussions.
"There is an order in place where they have some halt on operations and some impact on their operations and some capital improvements they have to do to satisfy that corrective action," Adcock said. "They also had to destroy a number of plants in their inventory … I don't know the exact number, there was upwards of $1 million of inventory destroyed — right at about 5,000 plants."
READ MORE: Weed war: Medical marijuana competitors cry foul over Health Department's response to company breaking rules
A Mockingbird official had said earlier this month there were about 20,000 plants growing at the site.
Mockingbird co-founder Marcy Croft declined to answer questions about the department's actions on Thursday, but sent a written statement that it pledges to "continue to fully cooperate with the Mississippi Department of Health, our fellow growers, dispensaries owners and healthcare providers to ensure a robust and effective market in our state."
READ MORE: Mississippi medical marijuana regulation 'stuck in constipation mode'
Despite having 47 cultivators licensed and already growing tens of thousands of plants, the Health Department has reported it has only three staffers and no investigators and that the program is in a "provisional" phase. Nevertheless, State Health Officer Dr. Dan Edney on Thursday said he's reasonably sure little marijuana is being diverted to the black market from the state medical program and that preventing diversion is a top priority.
"We are doing that to the best of our ability," Edney said. "We are not going to be able to get that to zero, but we are doing as best we can under the regulatory authority given to us … and as we are bringing on more staff next month it will be easier."
In this photo submitted to Mississippi Today, taken outside a Mockingbird Cannabis site near Raymond, marijuana plants are seen growing in a plastic-covered 'hoop house.'
The department, which didn't want the task of overseeing the state's medical marijuana program to start with, has struggled with hiring cannabis program workers, Edney reported to the Board of Health recently. On Thursday, officials said they expect to have nine more staffers hired by the end of November and to be contracting private companies to help with compliance. The state Legislature, when it created the medical marijuana program, put the Health Department and Department of Revenue on a tight, 120-day schedule to get the program up and running. DOR is licensing and regulating dispensaries and sales.
Adcock estimated marijuana products could be for sale to patients by early in the new year.
Adcock said that as of Thursday the department had "provisionally" licensed:
47 cultivators
138 dispensaries
8 processors
2 testing facilities
117 practitioners (prescribing doctors and nurses)
491 cannabis industry workers
406 patients
Edney said the Health Department has done "yeoman's work" in standing up a new program in such a short amount of time. He said the "key tenets" of the program will be ensuring the safety of the public and "that we reduce any opportunity of diversion that we possibly can."
"Make no mistake the agency has been regulating this industry from day one and will continue to do so as we go forward," Edney said.
Mississippi medical marijuana regulation 'stuck in constipation mode'
Dozens of licensed cultivators have about 80,000 marijuana plants growing. Around 1,100 patients have signed up for medical marijuana, and 96 doctors or nurse practitioners are working to certify them. Small growers are complaining a large one has been allowed to skirt the rules.
But the Mississippi State Department of Health has zero investigators — and only three staffers — overseeing Mississippi's new medical marijuana program.
So far only one testing facility has been licensed and is only partially ready to test products. Plus, the health department's program director still has another job — running the department's Office Against Interpersonal Violence.
Health Department officials told the Board of Health on Wednesday that the agency is in a four-month "provisional" period with licensed marijuana businesses. As it finds problems or violations, it's typically just issuing "corrective actions," giving marijuana businesses a chance to straighten up without hitting them with fines or sanctions or calling in law enforcement.
The Health Department in a meeting with its board Wednesday pledged transparency in its oversight of medical marijuana, shortly before going into a closed door session to brief the board on specific active marijuana program investigations. During its public meeting, some board members' questions were deferred to the upcoming executive session.
Some of the Board of Health questions Wednesday for the Health Department on marijuana were prompted by a Mississippi Today article last week about Mockingbird Cannabis LLC, the largest marijuana grower licensed so far in Mississippi. Health Department documents and photos obtained by Mississippi Today showed the company did not follow state growing regulations.
And the department's response so far — to write Mockingbird Cannabis LLC a letter listing "corrective actions" and not answer questions — has competitors crying foul. They said Mockingbird was allowed to grow and harvest a crop improperly and on the cheap in plastic- and cloth-covered greenhouses that will allow them to beat others growing in buildings to market as the state's medical marijuana program gets rolling.
During board questions Wednesday, Mockingbird was not mentioned by name, but Health Board member Jim Perry said, "There has to be consequences for not following the law … If we send signals you are going to be economically rewarded by trying to jump over the line, that will provide incentive for others to do the same … If there's an active investigation we can't talk about it specifically yet.
" … But if actors are doing things clearly not allowed — outdoor growing is clearly not allowed, you're not supposed to see it growing from a public area, and you're supposed to have security, locks, solid doors and walls — that is flaunting and it will create a culture for others, if somebody's able, to economically benefit from that. If we're not ready to enforce, then we shouldn't have let them start growing."
State Health Officer Daniel Edney, head of the Health Department, responded to Perry, "I wholly disagree we are allowing anybody to get away with breaking the law."
"If you know what I know, they are not going to economically benefit," Edney said.
"My attitude is to be very strong as a regulator, but we are not ready — we do not even have investigators," Edney said. "Right now, if we investigated everybody the majority would fail, primarily the smaller growers … The provisional work is predicated on if there is no evidence of diversion or harm to the public. If there is, there will be forceful action. In the interim, if there is an opportunity to bring people into compliance, we will work with them."
The Health Department is trying to fill 25 positions for its medical marijuana program, and has three investigators scheduled to start by Nov. 1. But Edney said the agency, along with others in state government, is facing a long lag time of several months in getting new hires "onboarded," officially hired and on payroll. This is a problem for all positions, including nurses, and not just for medical marijuana, Health Department officials said. Edney said the agency is operating with a 47% job vacancy rate.
Perry earlier in the board meeting said the state Personnel Board is "constipated" in getting new hires in. Later, Edney said of the marijuana program, "I am struggling with a very immature program. It is now stuck in that constipation mode."
Other cultivators had complained that Mockingbird Cannabis was being allowed to grow, in greenhouses and a plastic covered "hoop house" at a secondary site, 12 miles from its main operations on Springridge Road near Raymond. Other cultivators said they were told they had to limit their cultivation to one site, and that they were not allowed to grow in greenhouses.
On Wednesday, Cannabis Program Director Kris Adcock told board members that Mockingbird has a "tier VI" cultivation license that provides for unlimited growing, or canopy, space. She said this means the company can grow at multiple locations, unlike those with smaller more limited licenses.
Health Department inspectors on Sept. 14, after receiving complaints likely from competitors, found that a Mockingbird grow site was out of compliance with several state growing regulations. Among the department's findings at the site: Mockingbird was growing plants in greenhouses with tarp or clear plastic walls (some rolled up and some with large holes in them) and lax security that included a loosely chained back fence gate with a padlock.
State regulations say "all cultivation activities must take place in indoor, enclosed, locked and secure facilities" that have a "complete roof enclosure supported by connecting permanent walls, constructed of solid materials extending from the ground to the roof." The regulations also specify a long list of stringent security requirements including "commercial grade locks on all external doors."
Health Department inspectors, records show, also found that Mockingbird was growing plants without the required state "seed-to-sale" tracking tags attached.
Mockingbird representatives did not immediately respond to requests for comments after the Wednesday board meeting. But in a lengthy interview last week, the company's CEO said it had corrected problems the Health Department pointed out and it plans to have marijuana product available soon — likely the first for the new program.
But Adcock told board members Wednesday that numerous recent reports about marijuana being available to patients soon is probably overly optimistic, in part because there will be a "bottleneck" from lack of testing companies and state investigators.
Adcock was asked by the board about the state's "seed-to-sale" tracking system, whether it truly tracks every plant grown.
"If they tagged it and put it in the system," Adcock said.
Medical marijuana companies say Mockingbird broke rules
Published on October 6, 2022 October 6, 2022 140 views
Weed war: Medical marijuana competitors cry foul over Health Department's response to company breaking rules
One of the largest operators in Mississippi's fledgling medical marijuana industry did not follow state regulations, according to Department of Health documents obtained by Mississippi Today.
But the department's response so far — to write Mockingbird Cannabis LLC a letter listing "corrective actions" — has competitors crying foul. They say Mockingbird was allowed to grow and harvest a crop improperly and on the cheap in plastic- and cloth-covered greenhouses that will allow them to beat others growing in buildings to market as the state's medical marijuana program gets rolling.
They also say the department appears to be giving big-money Mockingbird special treatment that will shut out others, particularly smaller home-grown Mississippi companies.
"(Mockingbird) has come in and thrown a lot of money around and they are expecting to be pandered to," said Zack Wilson, chief operating officer of Good Flower Farms, a smaller grower in Potts Camp. "Pictures don't lie. They have broken the damned law. What is the state going to do to them? That's what everybody wants to know."
Others in the industry shared similar sentiments but would not comment publicly. Mississippi Today was supplied photos taken from outside one of Mockingbird's growing sites that show what appear to be violations of state regulations. One regulation is that "cultivation activities are not visible or accessible to the public." Through a records request, Mississippi Today obtained Health Department photos and correspondence documenting other problems.
Mockingbird's CEO, in a lengthy interview with Mississippi Today, said the company has corrected minor issues and that the complaints are sour grapes from competitors because the company took a "calculated risk" investing millions before a state program was approved, giving it an edge on competition. It plans to have marijuana product ready soon, likely the first major batch for the program lawmakers approved this year after years of debate and stalls.
"I will tell you we haven't done anything we didn't disclose to the Department of Health and in our application," said Mockingbird CEO Clint Patterson, a former prosecutor from Oklahoma. "We feel like we have gone above and beyond to be good citizens, compliant with law enforcement and compliant with the Department of Health."
Patterson said that of the 15,000 or so plants Mockingbird was growing at its secondary facility, only 30-50 did not have tags. He said the company had tags for the plants, but just hadn't attached them and quickly rectified that.
Law enforcement also received calls about Mockingbird, and state Public Safety Commissioner Sean Tindell said Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics officers went out to the site and looked into it. But he said once they learned Mockingbird was a licensed grower, they backed off. He said the way state medical marijuana laws are written, the Department of Public Safety cannot participate in regulating the industry, and it would be up to the Health Department to call them in "if they felt something was egregious enough."
Health Department officials refused to answer Mississippi Today's questions about the company.
The greenhouse effect
It's unclear whether Mockingbird's cultivation license covers the former plant nursery where inspectors found issues. The site, at a property called Standing Pine, is about 12 miles away from Mockingbird's licensed indoor growing facility outside Raymond, which is listed as its "physical address" on the state's registry of medical marijuana cultivator licenses.
Cultivators are allowed only one growing license. Mockingbird says its license covers the Standing Pine site on Parsons Road as well as its main indoor growing facility on Springridge Road. Patterson said Mockingbird clearly stated in its application that it planned to use the Standing Pine location and supplied multiple photos, including pictures of the greenhouses it planned to use, and other information in its roughly 700-page application.
Competitors say this is bunk, that cultivation licenses are supposed to be for one location, and that they were told they couldn't grow in greenhouses.
Wilson said he had bought 15 greenhouses before the medical marijuana program was up and running, but was later told by the Health Department he couldn't use them, so he built a structure with 7-foot tall steel walls. He said another grower he knows was also not allowed to use greenhouses he had.
Growing in greenhouses allows faster, cheaper growth of a type of marijuana plant that can be used for processing into edibles and other products. In legislative debate and hearings on medical marijuana, proponents assured reluctant lawmakers that the state's program would be secure and strictly regulated and growing would be "indoors" to provide more security, prevent contamination and make regulation easier. At the time, farmers in the Delta complained that they were being shut out of the program in part because of the high cost of constructing such facilities.
"I have five different places I would love to grow at right now, but they wouldn't let me grow at five different addresses," Wilson said. "We were told it all has to be at the same location … If somebody puts in a 770-page application, that's not an application, that's trying to blanket them with paperwork … What if I put something in my (application) that I wanted to use butt-naked school children for cultivation and they didn't catch it? Just because you put something in there and the department overlooked it doesn't mean it's right."
Mockingbird facility photos from the Mississippi Department of Health.
The department's public registry of licensed cultivators lists Mockingbird's cultivation facility for its license as "physical address" 1577 Springridge Road. State regulations say, "A license shall be issued for the specific location identified on the application, and is valid only for the owner, premises and name designated on the application and Department issued license and the location for which it is issued." Patterson points to this regulation as allowing the Standing Pine cultivation on Parsons Road. Others point to it as clearly not allowing it.
State Rep. Lee Yancey, one of the lead drafters of the state's Medical Marijuana Act, declined to answer most questions about the issues with Mockingbird. He said for now the Health Department is in charge of interpreting what the rules are and that, "If the statute is not clear enough, we will address it (in the Legislature)."
As for growing facilities, Yancey said, "My understanding was that it was to be an enclosed, locked facility, but how you define that — I guess that's the issue. Right now, the Health Department will interpret what that means … I think the legislative intent was walls and a ceiling and a floor … We will be looking at tweaks to things in January."
Sen. Kevin Blackwell, the lead drafter of the legislation, could not be reached for comment and did not respond to a message seeking an interview.
'Hoop houses' and 'Dutch sunhouses'
Patterson, in a lengthy telephone interview with Mississippi Today with a Mockingbird lobbyist listening in, said he believes his company has been compliant with all regulations and "they had some corrective action for us and we complied … very, very quickly."
"They made it very clear they weren't issuing violations, they were issuing a corrective action," Patterson said. "… When we applied, we were very upfront about what we were going to do and where we were cultivating. We spent $30 million in the state of Mississippi, and we hired Mississippi people and we bought our supplies in Mississippi and we did this before there was a program, because we believed in the voice of the people in wanting this law passed — they voted resoundingly on Initiative 65, a mandate … This is typical in this industry that when a program starts, whoever has taken that calculated risk, the competitors will typically complain."
During the lengthy interview, Patterson explained that "our main structure (at Standing Pine) is a Dutch-style sunhouse, that has a permanent foundation, like a foundation you would see in a house — concrete, plumbed, has drainage in it and permanent structured walls, has retractable function."
"When they approved our application, we assumed we were good," Patterson said. "But when they came back out, they want hard plastic on the walls."
Patterson said he was unfamiliar with details of Health Department photos showing walls with no covering or with thin, clear, plastic or torn cloth tarp covering. But he said all the buildings are being secured per Health Department requests and follow-up, including a teleconference between the department and Mockingbird officials.
Patterson denied that Mockingbird had been growing marijuana in "hoop houses," which are half-circle shaped greenhouses made of curved tubing and covered in plastic sheeting.
"Greenhouses are fundamentally different than hoop houses," Patterson said. "… We are only growing in greenhouses that have concrete foundations with draining and plumbing."
But when sent a copy of a photo of a hoop house with open walls with marijuana plants growing at Standing Pine that was supplied to Mississippi Today, Patterson corrected his earlier statements.
"As to the picture, I've asked internally and it appears that was a staging area staff set up this summer to apply (plant tracking) tags," Patterson wrote in a text message after the interview. "We spotted that with our own internal controls. Management at the facility identified that was not an appropriate building, and all plants were moved. Again, we found that ourselves. Those plants weren't there when Dept of Health inspected us and they aren't there today. We never flowered plants in that building."
Also during the interview, Patterson said the medical marijuana law passed by the Legislature refers to greenhouses and 3-foot tall walls with retractable tops in the definition of acceptable growing facilities. But later, he messaged: "I checked with our legal folks and the words greenhouse and three-foot high walls was in earlier drafts, but was not in the final bill.
"However, to be clear, the definitions do allow for a permanent grow house that we operate, and as I mentioned previously, we did show the department exactly where and how we intended to grow."
During his interview, Patterson repeatedly referred to Mockingbird's 163,000 square-foot facility that once housed the state Department of Revenue on Springridge Road as "our indoor facility," and said no plants were ever transferred from Standing Pine to the Springridge Road building.
"The idea that we would do that and expose plants to spiders, mites and pests and then move them to our indoor facility where it's completely pristine … the idea that we would do that and expose our indoor to all those pollutants is ridiculous," Patterson said.
But when asked if that meant he considered Standing Pine to be outdoor growing, Patterson said, "I've never called Standing Pine outdoor. A greenhouse is considered indoor in the industry. Outdoor is in a field, row cropping."
Corrective actions, plants harvested
It's unclear what, if anything, the Health Department — which didn't want the task of regulating medical marijuana in the first place — will do, beyond sending Mockingbird Cannabis LLC the Sept. 21 letter telling it to take "corrective actions."
Health Department spokeswoman Liz Sharlot, when Mississippi Today asked to interview someone at the department, initially said, "I am always happy to answer any written questions." But after being provided written questions, she said, "I am unable to answer your questions at this time as this is an ongoing investigation."
But the Health Department's letter to Mockingbird didn't indicate any ongoing investigation and said, "Please notify our office, in writing, of completion of Mockingbird's corrective actions and provide documentation and timelines of actions taken."
Mockingbird responded in writing to the Sept. 21 letter on Oct. 3, noting that, "While I understand that our inspection was instigated by false, anonymous accusations submitted to your department, we are nevertheless pleased that you were able to tour and inspect both of our cultivation facilities and welcome any suggestions for improvement."
The company said it had immediately tagged the untagged plants inspectors found and "processes have been updated to ensure no future delays in applying tags."
The company also said it has hired a new security company — prior to the inspection — and is beefing up security at Standing Pine, including "increased internet capacity, installed additional camera systems, and ordered updated siding and doors for certain greenhouses" and that it will not add new plants there until everything is updated.
"Per our discussion, Mockingbird will harvest the majority of plants at the greenhouse facility today, emptying the largest greenhouse and preparing it for security updates," the letter said. "We have also worked to update security at the three smaller greenhouses on the property to hold any remaining plants that could not yet be harvested."
'This will put other people out of business'
The regulations the Health Department helped promulgate and is supposed to enforce have a "Schedule of Disciplinary Actions" including large fines, suspension or revocation of licenses for a variety of first, second and third violations. Its rule says, "In addition to any applicable criminal actions, the following schedule shall be used when administratively disciplining medical cannabis establishments for violating statutory and/or regulatory requirements." It says the department has the right to increase the penalties based on aggravating circumstances but does not address waiving the penalties that "shall be used."
Those penalties include a fine of $5,000 for first offense "Failure to comply with security requirements," a fine of $5,000 for "Failure to accurately track inventory," and a $10,000 fine and one week suspension for "Willful failure to accurately track inventory."
Activities outside of the rules, state regulations say, "may be considered suspected illegal activities and reported to proper authorities as such."
Wilson said Mockingbird being allowed to harvest the greenhouse plants means, "They were given a head start, a huge advantage over everyone else in the state."
"They grew enough marijuana in that one grow to fully stock every dispensary — millions of dollars worth," Wilson said. "… It's funny, they were the ones that lobbied to get all these rules into place to make it harder for a small guy like me to get a license. Everything has to be indoor with solid walls … But then they just drown the state with paperwork and call their greenhouses indoors. No, hell, it's not … If that place is legal, how come it's not finished out yet?
"Yes, this will put other people out of business," Wilson said. "What they have done is crush the small Mississippians in this business."
Medical marijuana could be available in October
Published on August 29, 2022 August 29, 2022 134 views
Podcast: Medical marijuana could hit the shelves in October
by Adam Ganucheau and Geoff Pender, Mississippi Today
Melvin Robinson, the executive director of the Mississippi Cannabis Trade Association, joins Mississippi Today's Adam Ganucheau and Geoff Pender to discuss updates on the state's rollout of its medical marijuana program.
Health Department: Mississippi medical marijuana months away
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — It could be the end of the year before medical marijuana is available in Mississippi because businesses need time to receive licenses and to grow, test and prepare to sell the products, state Health Department officials said Monday.
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Medical marijuana application signups at over 1,800
Mississippi's medical marijuana application portal already has more than 1,800 users
Mississippi's medical marijuana license portal is shy of a week old but more than 1,800 people have already registered for online accounts to apply for licenses, the state Department of Health announced Monday.
"If you can shop on Amazon you can probably work through the portal," said Kris Jones, the director of Mississippi's new medical marijuana program.
The program is still in its early stages and leaders don't expect medical marijuana to be available to purchase for another six months.
"I know everyone would love for it to be up in running," said Jim Craig, the director of the Office of Health Protection. "It looks like it will be the end of the year that we see products."
About 85% of those who have made accounts on the new portal are patients seeking cannabis treatment. But 15 businesses and nine medical practitioners have completed their applications, Jones said during a Monday press conference. A dozen people have also submitted applications for work permits, which are required for marijuana-related jobs.
The new portal is the first step for patients to eventually receive a medical marijuana card; for doctors, optometrists and nurse practitioners to become certified providers; for facilities to receive licensing to grow, process and test marijuana; and for businesses and their workers to become certified to transport cannabis and dispose of its waste.
The portal does not handle applications for those hoping to open dispensaries. Those applications will be processed by the Mississippi Department of Revenue. The department is scheduled to begin accepting those applications on July 1.
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Jones said all applications that have come through the portal are still under review and the number of applications is growing daily.
While hopeful medical marijuana patients can make accounts and begin the application process through the new portal, none of them can receive their license to buy medical cannabis until they've met with a certified doctor or practitioner.
No one is certified yet to offer that care but doctors' applications will be processed within 30 days, according to the program's rules. Jones said approved providers and dispensaries will eventually be listed on the health department website to assist patients.
Craig touted the regulation requirements deployed to manage the state's processing labs, which are among the businesses that can now apply to be licensed. These labs will test THC levels – the chemical in marijuana that produces the feeling of being high – as well as for possible contaminants in products.
Craig called this one of the key pieces to product safety in the state. Another safety measure is limiting advertising and marketing options so medical marijuana "isn't something very attractive to kids," Craig said.
Medical marjinaua businesses cannot be on social media, for example. Businesses are limited to creating just a website and logo.
More than two dozen Mississippi cities opted out of the medical marijuana program. Although that limits where medical marijuana businesses can open and operate, it does not prevent licensed patients in those areas from using and buying medical marijuana.
Podcast: When can Mississippians get medical marijuana?
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Ken Newburger, executive director and founder of the Mississippi Medical Marijuana Association, gives an update on Mississippi's fledgling medical cannabis program, which was passed into law by the state Legislature in February. Newburger said it will probably be late this year or early next year before patients can receive medical marijuana.
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Inside a $30 million bet on Mississippi's medical marijuana industry
by Will Stribling, Mississippi Today
In an unincorporated area outside Raymond stands what its chief executive claims will be the largest medical marijuana growing and manufacturing operation in Mississippi, if not the southeastern United States.
The 163,000-square-foot behemoth once housed the state's Department of Revenue but is now the home of Mockingbird Cannabis, a $30 million bet on the state's medical marijuana industry.
The facility includes 16 growing rooms, each capable of producing 250 to 300 pounds of marijuana every eight weeks. It will be operated by more than 200 employees, with the lowest paid workers making $17 per hour.
Clint Patterson, chief executive officer of Mockingbird Cannabis, said he expects that they'll see the demand for that volume of product since 74% of voters approved the medical marijuana program.
"I think that if we were really being transparent and honest, there's probably a billion dollar industry in cannabis right now in Mississippi," Patterson said. "It's just not legal."
Patterson, a former prosecutor and the son of a nondenominational pastor, is an unlikely marijuana kingpin.
Even though cannabis was illegal in Oklahoma, Patterson's home state, he claims he never thought of the drug as bad or dangerous.
"I was definitely for regulating and legalizing," Patterson said. "So when that happened, I jumped in."
Patterson's marijuana business in Oklahoma started small, with just a 1,200-square-foot lab that manufactured vape cartridges. That then grew into six different growing and manufacturing locations.
"Oklahoma is the hardest place to compete in the country, and we do what we do pretty well here," Patterson said. "That gave us the confidence to go to other states that had better situations, business-wise, than Oklahoma."
A look inside the 163,000 square-foot Mockingbird Cannabis facility, currently under construction in Raymond, Tuesday, May 10, 2022.
Slates Veazey, a Jackson attorney who advises cannabis businesses, said that it's impossible to predict how big medical marijuana is going to be in Mississippi, but that it will undoubtedly be a large economic engine in the state.
"There's a lot of interest in this new industry … in every state that has legalized medical marijuana you've seen big businesses and smaller mom-and-pop types pop up, compete and be successful," Veazey said.
Patterson said that Mockingbird is the culmination of everything they learned from operating in Oklahoma. Putting all parts of the operation under one roof will reduce overhead costs.
The science around marijuana production is also constantly changing, Patterson said. Everything from how the plants are lit and fed has evolved since they started building Mockingbird. For the former, they've switched from incandescent light bulbs to more energy-efficient LEDs that can be raised and lowered. They also partnered with Upchurch Plumbing to develop a computerized fertigation system, which combines the agricultural fertilization and irrigation processes to deliver nutritional cocktails tailored for the plant's stage of development.
"What we thought we were on the cutting edge of two years ago, nobody even does anymore," Patterson said " … This really is the most evolved, state-of-the-art facility that we could even design."
Patterson said that when medical marijuana was legalized in Oklahoma, large out-of-state companies came in and took most of the market share. As a result, the profits left the state.
Knowing that Mississippi, like Oklahoma, is one of the poorest states in the nation, Patterson said he and his team decided they would work to prevent that if they were going to become one of the major players in Mississippi's medical marijuana industry.
"We took a lot of time, met a lot of people here and raised most of our money from Mississippians … We're going to make a lot of money here, and we wanted it to make sure it'd have the desired effect," Patterson said.
Mockingbird's in-state investors didn't back out after the Mississippi Supreme Court overturned the medical marijuana program voters approved in 2020 on a constitutional technicality.
"We got everybody together and said: 'Hey, 74% of the state voted for this. There's going to be a program, it just might not happen right now,'" Patterson said.
One of those investors is Leah Vincent of Pickens. Vincent pooled money with her husband in late 2019 to invest in Mockingbird.
After the state Supreme Court overturned Initiative 65, Vincent saw the move as just delaying the inevitable.
"It's f—ing Mississippi," Vincent said. "They just have to drag things out. And it's all about saving political face. I've lived here in Mississippi my whole life, so it was expected but still frustrating."
Vincent and her husband see their investment as a retirement plan and are confident that recreational marijuana will be legalized in Mississippi eventually.
"We knew that Mississippi is going to be different (than other legal states)," Vincent said. "But down the road it's going to be bigger everywhere. I mean, it's coming."
A plumber works on the watering system in a growing room at the Mockingbird Cannabis facility, currently under construction in Raymond, Tuesday, May 10, 2022.
Even though it took longer than they anticipated for the Legislature to pass a medical marijuana bill, Mockingbird never stopped building. Patterson said he thinks other up and coming marijuana businesses did the exact opposite.
"They're going to be a little slower to start," Patterson said. "We took a risk and bet on the state doing what we felt was the right thing to do, and they did it. So we're ready and primed, and we'll take advantage."
Patterson estimates that Mississippi will collect between $150 to 200 million in tax revenue and another $50 to 100 million in business fees over the first full year of the medical marijuana program.
He didn't provide a source for those estimates when asked by Mississippi Today.
That eye-popping figure would make medical marijuana a larger source of tax revenue than the state's casino industry, which put $153,724,705 into the state's coffers during the 2021 fiscal year. That would also rival the state's alcohol, beer and tobacco sales, which generated a combined $283,667,815 in tax revenue over the same period.
That would also be more tax revenue than has been generated by Oklahoma's medical marijuana industry, which is widely seen as a de facto recreational program due to the lax requirements for getting a medical marijuana card.
"Ten percent of our population currently has a medical marijuana card … and two to three people are using each one of those cards … I had no idea there were so many ill people in Oklahoma," Oklahoma state Rep. Scott Fetgatter told Mississippi's Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee during a June 2021 hearing.
Between Oklahoma's legalization of medical marijuana in 2018 and May 2020, the state collected just $110 million from the state's 7% marijuana tax and another $138 million from state and local sales taxes, according to the Oklahoman.
The Mississippi Department of Health plans to start accepting online license applications for medical marijuana patients and businesses next month.
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28 cities opted out of medical marijuana
At least 28 cities have opted out of medical marijuana, but the state is not keeping track
Editor's note: A full list of cities and counties that opted out are included at the bottom of this story.
At least 28 cities and a dozen counties completely opted out of Mississippi's medical marijuana program by the May 3 deadline, but the state's health department isn't keeping an official list of all the municipalities restricting cannabis businesses.
It is also unclear if the Department of Revenue, the other state agency charged with running and overseeing the program, has any sort of official list of local governments who don't want to participate. The agency didn't respond to a request for comment by the time of publishing.
Both agencies will soon be accepting applications to administer licenses for the state's long-awaited medical marijuana program.
The Mississippi State Department of Health does have an optional verification form for municipalities on its website, but in a statement MSDH said "there is no mandate for local governments to report to us that they are opting out." The department also said it does not have a comprehensive list.
As a result, the most complete list showing which areas have opted out of the program was put together by the Mississippi Cannabis Trade Association, a business and advocate group. Their list shows cities around Jackson and counties in the Delta choosing not to allow dispensaries, cultivation and production facilities to open in their areas.
Ken Newburger, the director of the Mississippi Medical Marijuana Association, said the law itself didn't include a directive for municipalities to report. At the same time, the lack of an official list at this point shouldn't embolden anyone to attempt to get around the system when it's time to put in applications, he said.
"If you try to open a dispensary in a city that has opted out, the local officials have every power to 1. Stop you and 2. Report you to the state," Newburger said.
There has been some confusion in the week after the opt-out deadline. Flowood, for example, voted to opt out of all three categories the law allows cities to have a say in: distribution, cultivation, and processing products. Yet, some thought the city must have opted in because it will have a testing facility.
But testing facilities aren't one of the categories municipalities can control – so the city's medical marijuana status won't affect the testing facility slated to open there.
READ MORE: As Mississippi cities opt out of medical marijuana, business hopefuls shut out
Each county's decision to opt out only covers its unincorporated areas, meaning some cities within opt-out counties are still able to have businesses in the program. Patients who live in opt-out areas can still possess and take medical marijuana.
The trade association is working with advocates and entrepreneurs in opt-out areas to sign petitions that would trigger a special election over the matter. Local governments that opted out also have the choice to opt back in at any time.
Those that didn't opt out by the May 3 deadline, however, don't have any flexibility.
Beginning in June, the health department says it plans to begin accepting online applications for licenses for patients, medical practitioners, cultivation facilities, processing facilities, testing facilities, waste disposal businesses and transportation businesses.
The Department of Revenue is responsible for licensing dispensaries and will start accepting applications in July. The agency now has waiver forms available that allow potential businesses to get permission from schools or churches to operate if they're less than 1,000 feet away but no closer than 500 feet.
Without a waiver, dispensaries must be at least 1,000 feet away. The law also doesn't allow dispensaries to be within 1,500 feet of each other.
READ MORE: New medical marijuana law draws millions in Mississippi investment
Melvin Robinson III, the spokesman for the trade association, said so far the early stages of the program and its rules are rolling out as expected.
"Everyone is excited as it gets closer to the date," Robinson said.
Given the interest, Robinson said he won't be surprised if the agencies handling licensing wind up hitting a backlog in applications. He expects their websites to be swamped once they start accepting online applications this summer.
Newberger said the health department is using a portal for applications that has been used and tested in other states. He, too, expected an application rush.
"Not everyone who applies is going to get one," he said.
The Department of Health has said it plans on a 30-day approval period for its business and physician related licenses and a five-day period for patients.
Cities that opted out of dispensaries and cultivation/processing
Amory
Gluckstad
Noxapater
Pass Christian
Sumrall
Vaiden
Cities that don't allow dispensaries but do allow cultivation and processing
North Carrollton
Counties that opted out of dispensaries and cultivation/processing (only applies to unincorporated areas)
Neshoba County
Pearl River County
Tippah County
Counties that don't allow dispensaries but do allow cultivation/processing (only applies to unincorporated areas)
Clarification 5/11/22: This story has been updated to show Madison County has opted out of dispensaries but does allow cultivation.
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by Curtis Rockwell, Our Mississippi Home There have been numerous postponements in both prep basketball ad prep soccer for Tuesday's


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US Sues Penguin Random House Over Plans to Acquire Simon & Schuster
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The U.S. Justice Department is seeking to block Penguin Random House, the world's largest publisher, from acquiring rival publisher Simon & Schuster, the fourth largest in the United States.
An antitrust lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court warns that such an acquisition would hurt competition for top-selling manuscripts. A slimmer, more tightly controlled publishing industry would leave authors with fewer options and allow a newly consolidated Penguin Random House to get away with offering writers less for their work, according to the Justice Department.
"Authors are the lifeblood of book publishing. Without authors, there would be no stories; no poetry; no biographies; no written discourse on history, arts, culture, society, or politics," the department's complaint reads. "Penguin Random House's proposed acquisition of Simon & Schuster would result in substantial harm to authors, particularly authors of anticipated top-selling books."
The pending acquisition is valued at nearly $2.2 billion.
Five publishers, known as the "Big Five," dominate the publishing industry. They offer high advances and attractive marketing for highly anticipated manuscripts, and compete with one another for the next biggest deal.
The antitrust suit marks an unusually bold move in a highly consolidated industry. Publishing companies Penguin Group and Random House merged without problems in 2013.
"If the world's largest book publisher is permitted to acquire one of its biggest rivals, it will have unprecedented control over this important industry," U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a department statement.
"American authors and consumers will pay the price of this anticompetitive merger – lower advances for authors and ultimately fewer books and less variety for consumers."
Jonathan Karp, Simon & Schuster's president and chief executive officer, disagrees with the department's complaint. In an internal memo sent to Simon & Schuster employees Tuesday, Karp wrote that his company and Penguin Random House see no basis for the lawsuit and that they plan to fight it.
The New York Times reports that Penguin Random House has hired lawyer Daniel Petrocelli, who helped AT&T and Time Warner fight a Justice Department antitrust lawsuit.
Penguin Random House did not respond to VOA's request for comment.
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OSHA's Newest Inspection Strategies – Will They Back-fire?
As is the case with most other government agencies, people like to complain about the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Employers grumble about new or revised OSHA standards that are not clear and concise, "sneaky" inspectors, and undeserved citations. Workers sometimes gripe about having to follow strict safety procedures required by OSHA that they feel slows them down or makes their jobs more difficult. And safety professionals often protest when OSHA "changes the rules" by issuing a directive or letter of interpretation that seems to change (or greatly expand) their previous position on a topic.
But lately what I hear complaints about most often are OSHA's efforts to implement new and unconventional approaches to getting into the door of businesses and organizations to inspect . . .


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Meet Jacob Flach, one of TempleStrength's awesome members. Here he is foam rolling like a champ.
Meet Kate Flach, Jacob's daughter. Here she is foam rolling like a BOSS.
It is very refreshing to see our athletes teaching the next generation how to stay healthy.
Even though little Kate has no idea what her IT Band, hip flexors, or Quad Head are right now.
Here's to you Jacob and Kate!
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When is the last time you showed up to something COMPLETELY UNPREPARED?
For me, it was a military board last winter.
I was told the night before drill that I was to appear before the Audie Murphy Board, a very prestigious award given to a non commissioned officer in the Army. This award is not something they hand out every day, and many candidates spend weeks studying for this board.
I completely bombed the board and I believe answered 3 out of the 50 questions correctly.
Questions like, "What Army Regulation would you find information on vehicle maintenance?" and "What does MOPP stand for?" were among many that only a prepared soldier would have known.
I got one answer down pat.
I said it like 47 times.
It was an embarrassment to me, my NCO, and my Sergeant Major. And probably my parents.
Needless to say, when I was done I walked into my office along with my superiors and couldn't help but cry. I was a grown man, very prepared in so many other areas of my life but not this one. My military preparation was glaringly lacking and this board exposed it completely.
This utter disaster cut deep into my pride and I will never forget that morning.
Preparation is key to success in all aspects of your life. As a matter of fact, it's huge.
What would happen if you showed up to a Drivers test never having sat in a drivers seat?
What if you were give a presentation on quantum physics in 30 minutes?
I think I'll eat these bananas to prepare.
What if you haven't worked out in 2 years along with drinking and smoking daily and asked to run a marathon?
Well, what is the first step to preparing for good health? Diet? Exercise? Sleep?
So, in today's culture of "You can do anything you set your mind to…" And "I believe I can fly, I believe I can touch the sky…" we are told time and time again to do things OUR WAY (Thank you, Mr. Sinatra).
Gods ways are not the worlds ways. Often times, he runs opposite of what the rest of the world says.
So our verse of the week is from Proverbs and it gives us all the key to health and it has nothing to do with food intake or CrossFit.
I encourage you all to follow Gods commands and to think how He thinks. This will serve as the foundation of a good health plan. After all, God health is Good health!
"So, how do I start this?", you ask.
Pray to God and ask him for the desire to follow his will.
Read the bible daily and write down your thoughts.
Join a church and get involved in a small group study.
Surround yourself with people who are further along in their faith than you.
As you go deeper in your faith, you will start to see where God does so much of the work! It is encouraging and you will learn to depend on him more and more, especially during trials.
And if you are going before an Audie Murphy board soon, I will pray for you.
Hostess Shuts Down- A Win for USA.
Hostess, maker of various tasty diabetes treats is shutting down due to their workers going on strike.
Maybe the health insurance got too expensive.
This is just awesome. A small win for our nations health and future healthcare!
On a more somber note, the diabetes rates have skyrocketed in the US.


Different forms of the abbreviations for "identification"?
And what are the correct pluralized versions?
Both the NOAD and the OED report that ID is an abbreviation for identity, identification.
They weren't carrying any ID.
I lost my ID card.
The term id is used in psychoanalysis, and Id is a variant spelling of Eid.
In some contexts, id could be understood as ID, for example in the phrase the user id used when talking of a CMS.
My gut says "ID", but luckily, so does empirical evidence: Google NGrams Viewer overwhelmingly employs "ID", and Canada's Termium terminological database accepts "ID" as correct (scroll down).
Funny that you don't have the one that I think would make the most sense.
Since it is one word, having a period after the first letter doesn't make any sense.
It is not an acronym, so I would rule out ID.
"id" is actually a completely different word that refers to a part of a psyche and "Id" is how you would write it at the beginning of the sentence.
That rules out all for your suggestions. "Id." is what I prefer. "Id.s" being its plural.
None are intrinsically "incorrect" (whatever that really means), but the most common in everyday writing would be "ID" or "I.D.". Especially in the UK, it's really not common to put full stops in this kind of word/abbreviation in real-life usage-- I almost think this seems to be something of a primary-school-teacherism.
I can't recall seeing "i.d." or "I.d.".
But obviously these are quite domain-specific uses.
ID is by far the most common abbreviation.
However, you could argue that Id. is more syntactically correct - a period is often used in abbreviations, particularly when the abbreviation can be confused, as ID could be with Id, the psychoanalytical term.
Nevertheless, I would stick with ID - It's certainly the overwhelming preference in software development, and I think the understanding would be largely ubiquitous.
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En-Route (Advice for EU visitors to CampKDE)
Jan 12, 2009 • adridg
Honduras is a long way from Jamaica. As the crow flies not so bad, but by plane it will be back to Miami, then on to Jamaica. It means I'm flying over Cuba four times for CampKDE. This week I'm visiting my brother in Tegu and the calendar is full of touristy activities like hiking in a cloud forest and swimming in the Pacific.
To some extent I'm an advance man, although Jos will beat me to the actual conference location. Assuming that most EU visitors to CampKDE (there's about eight of them, I think) are flying through Miami, I have the following bits of advice:
Miami Int'l Airport is kind of boring; moreso than, say, Heathrow terminal 3.
The best food seems to be at Versailles Cafe, around gate D42; the empanadas and the Cuban pastries are nice, at any rate. Get the guava and cheese one for $1.15 (plus tax).
Sales tax is added to the list price; this confuses me every time I leave the EU where all the taxes are already in the price on the shelf.
There's a cash machine if you walk towards the North terminal, that's away from D46 towards D20 or so. It might spit out some green with your EU cash card.
There's also one possibly very important thing for travelers from the EU: the US Visa Waiver programme (that green card they staple in to your passport) is being extended with something called ESTA. There's a decent explanation up on the British Airways website, which links to the ESTA servers. Basically the ESTA means you fill in the information you would have filled out on the green card again, but now in advance and it spits out a number for your authorization. I did it and it's about a 15-minute annoyance; I didn't check if it worked in Konqueror, but fonts and layout were kind of buggered in Firefox.
Anyway, I still write "possibly" in the previous paragraph because noone I spoke to en-route could actually tell me when the deadlines for ESTA registrations for new travelers were, when it was going to come into effect and how strict it would be. The BA counter in Amsterdam said "December 30th," but the other lady present said "not until the 16th" and regardless they had no information on how it was going to be handled anyway (I had a lousy printout with my 30-digit number on it). In London they said it "wasn't in operation yet" and in New York (wait, did I mention I had a horrifically convoluted flight schedule to get to Honduras?) the DHS lady at the border said "I think from the 23rd, but we haven't had any instructions on it yet."
So there you have it: some kind of additional administrative burden is being placed on travelers from the EU, right across the CampKDE timeframe, but noone can say just how it's going to work. It must be said that the DHS lady I spoke with was as kind as possible and that the 10-minutes-per-passenger processing time was largely because of computer slowness, but it strikes me as another way to introduce arbitrariness and annoyance into an already unpleasant means to travel.
One last thing: when flying out, check with the airline desk to have the green stapled card removed – or not. My agent said that if I was out of the US for less than seven days, they'd leave it in. I don't know what that means on return to the US, though; I doubt it will get you anywhere faster.
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Changes to the school immunization requirements.
The New York Court of Appeals has upheld the New York City (NYC) Health Code flu vaccine requirement for children attending childcare and preschool. All children 6 months through 59 months of age enrolled in NYC-regulated childcare programs, including Head Start, Nursery, and public or non-public Pre-K and 3-K, must receive at least one dose of influenza vaccine between July 1st and December 31st of each year. Although some children may need a second flu vaccine dose in accordance with Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommendations, the second dose is not required for childcare or pre-school attendance. Please take the childcare flu vaccine mandate into consideration when ordering your Vaccines for Children (VFC) and privately purchased flu vaccines.
The 2018-19 school year medical and immunization requirements have been posted at https://www.schools.nyc.gov/school-life/health-and-wellness/immunizations.We would like to remind you of the following changes for the upcoming year: students entering 7th, 8th, and 9th grades will need to have had one dose of meningococcal quadrivalent conjugate vaccine (MenACWY), while students entering 12th grade will continue to need two doses, unless their first dose was at 16 years of age or older. The final dose of MenACWY must have been given on or after the 16th birthday. If two doses of MenACWY were given prior to age 16, a third dose will be required. Students entering grades K-4 and 6-10 will be required to have had 2 doses of varicella vaccine and 4 doses of polio vaccine, unless the 3rd dose of polio vaccine was received at 4 years of age or older, in which case only 3 doses are required.
For questions on the flu vaccine mandate, other vaccine requirements for childcare or school, flu vaccine ordering, or any other vaccine-related issue, please contact us at (347) 396-2400 or email us at nycimmunize@health.nyc.gov. We thank you for helping to keep NYC children protected from vaccine-preventable diseases.


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News Surrey student-approved summer reading ideas for all ages
Surrey student-approved summer reading ideas for all ages
by Sheila Reynolds on 7/10/2019 10:54 AM
With school out and summer break officially launched, there's often more time to read – not to study and not because the teacher said to – but for pure enjoyment.
If you're looking for some fresh ideas, we have some winning youth and children's titles that have been endorsed by Surrey students.
Each year Surrey School District teacher-librarians support three readers' choice award programs in which Surrey students have an opportunity to participate. The Surrey Teens Read program is available to secondary students, while the Surrey Picture Book of the Year and Surrey School's Book of the Year programs are for elementary students. Students vote on nominated titles throughout the year and the books with the most votes in each category
The winning novel in this year's Surrey Teens Read contest was One of Us is Lying, by Karen M. McManus. The book, chosen from a list of 10 nominated titles intended for young adults, Follows the lives of four different students who are in detention and become suspects in another student's death. You can also view the winning youth novels and nominees from the past five years (under 'Results' tab) and check out the new list of nominees for 2019-20.
The Surrey Schools Book of the Year for 2019, geared toward elementary school students in intermediate grades, was Mighty Jack, by Ben Hatke. The graphic novel follows a boy tasked with watching his autistic sister over the summer, and their adventures after a mysterious box of seeds they plant grows a magical garden behind their house. View past winners in this category, and see the list of 10 intermediate reader nominees for 2019-20.
The Surrey Picture Book of the Year, aimed at primary-level readers, was The Bad Seed. Written by Jory John and illustrated by Pete Oswald, the book as about a mischievous seed who's been bad for as long as he can remember, but one day decides he might want to be happy. See all the other primary reader nominees and past winners.
Surrey Libraries also has a free Summer Reading Club for kids of all ages, as does the White Rock branch of Fraser Valley Regional Library.
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The most publicised and well known of the lake monsters, Nessie has captured the popular imagination. There are hundreds of sightings on record, which describe a roughly similar creature in and out of the water over a period of 200 years. However, the nature of these sightings has not been adequately resolved, and there are numerous theories to explain and explain away the evidence. The most popular of these being the survival of an aquatic dinosaur, which like most theories has many problems. To other people the answer is more metaphysical or psychological in origin, and to the more sceptical the answer lies in misinterpretation. But, after nearly 70 years of continuous sightings since the road around the loch was built, we are still no nearer an all-encompassing explanation.
Physically the loch is well suited to hiding a large creature, it is the largest fresh water loch in Britain at 22 1/2 miles long and 1/2 a mile broad at its widest. The loch has steep banks, which plunge to a depth of over eight hundred feet. Loch Ness is the largest in a string of lochs along the Great Glen Fault. The others being Loch Linnhe, Lock Oich and Loch Lochy. The Great Glen Fault separates Scotland in to two halves, millions of years ago they were two separate countries. The temperature of the loch stays at a constant value throughout the year, and its oligtrophic waters support a proportion of Salmon, plankton and other fish.
One of the first recorded references to the monster harks back to 565 AD, when St Columba is said to have summoned a water monster in the River Ness, and banished it with the word of God. The Celtic Saints, especially in Cornwall, seemed quite fond of banishing and destroying water monsters and dragons, and the imagery may be symbolic of the early struggle between Christianity and Paganism.
During the seventeenth and 18th centuries folklore suggests that a Kelpie, the fearsome water horse of Scottish folklore, haunted the Loch. These were thought to haunt many bodies of water in the Highlands especially in the form of the Each Uisge . The Kelpie was seen in 1771 and 1889, but the well-known description of the monster does not appear until much later.
The first real modern sightings, the ones that started the public interest ball rolling were in 1933. At this time the road around the Loch was constructed, allowing wider public access and views from the roadside over the dull waters.
On April 14th 1933, Mr and Mrs Mackay, who owned an Inn at Drumnadriot, were driving home from Inverness when they spotted a creature in the water near Abriachan. It was about 12 to 15 feet in length, and seemed to roll and plunge in the water; the sighting lasted over a minute.
The man who responsible for bringing the Mackay sighting to general public attention, was Alex Campbell, who was the water bailiff working for the Loch Ness Fisheries Board. He passed on the account, and details of his own sightings to the Inverness Courier in May 1933. In his own observations he had described the creature with "..a long tapering neck, about 6 feet long, and a smallish head with a serpentine look about it, and a huge hump behind which I reckoned was about 30 feet long. It was turning its head constantly." He claimed to have seen the monster many more times. There has been some speculation that this sighting was to boost the publicity of the area, and in the months following the paper report, there were many more witnesses of the monster.
A depiction of the Loch Ness MonsterOne of the most famous sightings produced a photograph that was perceived as evidence of the monster, the so called 'surgeons photo' taken by R. K. Wilson a London surgeon in 1934. The photo has recently been revealed as fake.
In one of the first sighting of the creature out of the water, Arthur Grant was riding his motorbike back to his house in 1934, when he nearly ran into a creature crossing the road. In the light of the moon he could see a long necked animal with a small head, thick body and a long tapering tail. The creature seemed to be moving by the aid of flippers protruding from its body. The creature went back down to the loch, and disappeared into the water and out of his sight.
In April 1960 Tim Dinsdale filmed an object moving in the water, leaving behind it an obvious wake. The object was moving at around 10mph, examination of the film has been inconclusive.
The first real scientific investigation took place in June and July of 1960, and involved students from Oxford and Cambridge Universities. The loch was examined with echo sounding equipment and cameras attached to boats. There were a few minor sightings of 'something', and some of the return data from the echo sounder was ambiguous, but the project did not do anything to solve the mystery.
In 1972 Robert H Rines, from the Academy of Applied Science in Boston, teamed up with the Loch Ness Investigations Bureau in an underwater survey using sonar and an underwater camera. On the 8th of August the camera captured an image of a paddle like object, which looked like a giant flipper from some unknown animal. The monster was given the name of Nessiteras Rhombopteryx, which, some people have pointed out, fits the words monster hoax within it quite easily. The sonar work also suggested that a large object was moving within the water.
In 1975 another deep water photo was taken, showing what is thought to be the head of a creature with two protrusions like horns coming from its head. The pictures were subsequently computer enhanced and it is difficult to say that they show anything animate.
1978 saw a joint project between the New York Times and the Academy of Applied Science. The loch was scanned thoroughly with sonar equipment but nothing significant was found.
In 1987 the Loch was the scene of a project named Operation Deepscan. More than 20 boats took part in surveying the loch with sonar equipment, and some ambiguous results were forthcoming. But again nothing definite was produced from the survey.
In more recent years there have been a number of sonar contacts with an object in the loch, and the sightings continue to the present day. There is not room in this brief history to include all sightings, but the web site linked at the bottom of this page is well worth visiting for those who wish to research further.
The most popular theory is that there is a small population of Plesiosaurs, (fish eating dinosaurs thought to have died out in the wave of extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period.) which have somehow managed to survive in the isolated loch when it became separated from the sea millions of years ago. That animals thought extinct can survive is proved by the re-discovery of the Coelacanth off the shores of Africa. But only a dead or live specimen of a plesiosaur will be able to justify this theory. It has been suggested that even a surviving population of stranded plesiosaurs would have become extinct due to inbreeding in such a small-enclosed environment as the loch. And then there is the question of the Ice Ages, when the loch would have under a mass of ice.
To counter this people have suggested an underwater cavern linking the Loch with the sea, and there is some evidence to suggest the existence of such caverns.
The creature may be a more mundane out of place animal such as a giant catfish or a sturgeon, some researchers have suggested a type of long necked seal, and even a giant eel. Other suggestions include a giant sea slug, a whale or a Manatee, although the latter two would have to surface much more than sightings suggest.
Some researchers think that the phenomenon has more to do with other paranormal sightings, and the theory that certain locations can have an effect upon human consciousness. The most recent theorising has linked the phenomena with earthlights and fault lines, and the effect of geophysical locations on the human mind. It is interesting to note that the Great Glen is one gigantic fault line, and the other three lochs along it are also reputed to house monsters.
There is always thought to have been something uncanny about the loch, and it has been suggested that the area is a 'window area' for strange phenomena, with its precident in folklore and legend. There is no doubt that many of the sightings seem to be something other than a physical creature, more akin to a phantom. What this suggests is anyone's guess and to explain a mystery with a mystery is a little too vague.
The more sceptical viewpoint is that all of the sightings, photographs and other evidence are the result of misidentification of natural objects; hoaxing and publicity generation; and modern folklore and rumour. Many of the photos have been examined by experts, and have been denounced as fakes, speedboats, dogs or deer in the water, and other more mundane objects such as floating tree trunks. That many fakes have been perpetrated is not in question, even the surgeon's photo, which was put forward as one of the best images of the creature has recently been exposed as a hoax.
The sighting at Loch Ness will no doubt continue and without any hard evidence the subject will continue to be debated by experts and laymen alike. Perhaps the real answer lies somewhere buried in the many facets of human nature.
For further research, consider the website Legend of Nessie.
According to up-to-date paleontology plesiosaurs are technically not dinosaurs.
A main factor which has been downplayed in monster folklore is the proven fact that seals have been proven to enter the loch from time to time. Both the Gray seal and the Harp seal have been filmed and positevely identified by experts in the past ten years. A seal popping up its head in the middle of a loch may be an highly unusual experience even to trained biologists.
I've family which live on the River Ness which flows out of the loch and into the Moray Firth and they often see seals in the river chasing salmon. It's a lot more frequent occurence than people realise.
i live in inverness and have driven along side loch ness throw the day time and night time and have yet still to see anything that even looks like the loch ness monster but that does not mean it does not exist i do belive there must be something there will we ever find out that is the question ????


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Philippe Franck : Can you take us back through your collaboration with Thomas Israël?
Jacques Urbanska : Like myself, Thomas started out in the performing arts [Conservatoire Royal de Liège/INSAS] and that is how we met. He was one of the performers in my project Les Lectures intimes. He even used this project to create his first multimedia performance: Horizon TröM. That was in 2005, and I helped direct the actors and in the production of a sound installation/performance. It was not an easy experience for Thomas: the project had begun one year earlier, in the form of a play (TröM), but the theatre's management had withdrawn it from the programme two weeks before its scheduled première (for quite obscure reasons regarding differences of opinion about directing). Thomas was deeply affected by this. I was working at the time on walk-about shows/performances, so I offered to help and we had a few meetings. I quickly understood that he didn't really need any help, just time and above all support. The work on TröM had in fact already generated a great deal of material: sound installations and videos, a corpus of texts, a visual universe and scenographic elements, etc., along with several ideas for interactive installations.
After only a few days of floating and hesitation, Thomas quite naturally identified the major outline of Horizon TröM. Although this experience was at first sight "negative", it was in my view a turning point in Thomas's artistic career. He broke away and distanced himself, to emerge not so much from the performing arts, but from a certain theatrical world in which he was beginning to feel constrained. This break made way for the exploration of other media, considered this time on their own merits rather than in terms of the requirements of the stage (as had been the case with TröM), including video art, sound art, real-time programming of processes and interactive processes, which redefine the notion of the spectator, etc. This enabled Thomas to redefine the possibilities offered to him and experience a true artistic renaissance.
Given that these projects were more lightweight, collaboration also became easier and faster, as they required less implementation. Thomas always needed to "collaborate", to surround himself with other people to create, but he is also someone who needs a wide berth of solitude. He draws his inspiration from a quite hermetic creative process: most multimedia projects—especially video—can adapt very easily to this tension between collaboration and solitude.
P. F.: What types of artistic exchanges did your work with Thomas generate?
J.U.: Percept was a research project exploring spectators' perception, the body and digital movement. The digital, digitised, pixelised, reworked, corrected, perfected, deformed, adjustable, endlessly malleable body: an interfaced body that fades away in favour of the image that one wants to present of it.
We created short, choreographic sequences that were performed on the stage. These were filmed and then reworked digitally and interactively in real time. They were presented either via individual projection in an immersive box (the box in which the spectator was lying down; the lid being a screen on which the reworked result of what had happened on the stage was projected), or projections on several screens placed in the room that offered a different rendition from that seen in the box. The show was therefore individual and collective, resulting both from the performing arts (two body/movement performers), interactive, multimedia arts (two visual performers, and a sound performer).
This twofold affirmation of the body and its actions was deliberate on our part: that of the naked, revealed performer/dancer executing a choreographic trajectory, and its digital parallels: the body and its filtered actions, decontextualised and instantly recontextualised in the video and sound projections.
P. F.: What is your perception of Thomas's œuvre and its development?


One of my driving ambitions is to strengthen community and encourage collaboration everywhere. Every society is a complicated network, like an ecosystem. The system has inertia – it's hard to make changes in the way it functions. A whole constellation of technologies and institutions is necessary to make a sustained change.
I have begun building a blueprint for stronger community. Anyone should be able to take the blueprint and use it to strengthen their community – it is supposed to be a ready-made package. I'll need anyone reading this to add their own thoughts to the list. As the blueprint shapes up, I'll also need other types of help. Website design, for example, will be necessary for some of the community resources.
Most areas have a number of groups that already work to strengthen community. Working with these groups takes a lot off your shoulders. These are groups like the rotary club, business associations, and churches.
A community is itself a platform – it provides a communication infrastructure, trust between people, and a number of other resources that are necessary conditions for further efforts. A website that serves a community won't serve it properly unless it also acts as a platform. Like this blueprint, the website should have a constellation of capabilities, each of which can be used in many ways. This way the website creators won't have to envision everything beforehand; users can create new functions out of the website.
You, Jody Q. Public, decide to create an arm of this website for your community. The website already exists, so you just create a new profile for your community. You name it Mill Valley, the name of the cute little town you call home.
The first thing you do is create a profile page for yourself. You notice that when you follow the link to create a profile, you have several options – you can create a profile for yourself (an individual), your neighborhood, or even the city itself. At the bottom of this list of options is a "Create new category" link. Hmm, that's interesting, you think. You'll have to come back to that later, and use it to create a profile just for your own block, since you know most of the people on it.
After creating your profile, you head to the wiki portion of the website. You've always thought that it would be nice to have some restaurant reviews up, so you create pages for a few of your favorite restaurants, and review them favorably. Because it's a wiki, other people can add their own reviews later, and review some restaurants you haven't tried out yet.
All this thinking about food has made you hungry, so you grab a snack as you continue to familiarize yourself with the website. You notice that it has a Rating feature. Ratings for what?, you wonder. As you read the explanation, you realize that the rating system can be applied in many different ways. You can choose what is to be rated, who has permission to rate, and how the ratings will be displayed. You set up a rating system for restaurants. You rate the restaurants for which you created pages, and find that you can attach those ratings to their pages. You also rate a few more restaurants you don't like as much. When someone creates pages for them later, the ratings can be connected to the pages; until then, someone can see the ratings for these restaurants by visiting the Ratings part of the site.
You guess (correctly) that the map function works similarly – it is flexible, and can be applied to different parts of the site in different ways. You attach the map to the restaurant profile pages you created, and notice that the community map now shows these restaurants as thumbtacks. You attach the map to your own profile, as well.
Soon you find that the website functions can interact in other interesting ways, as well. You can make your own profile a member of other, higher-level profiles, such as a city block or neighborhood profile. Your city block profile can also be made a member of your neighborhood's profile. You can create groups that contain different types of profiles. You can create events. You can even create and add widgets from other sites. This website has everything you need, and you already feel as if the world is a better place.
Okay, maybe that last sentence is wishful thinking, but the website as outlined would be a powerful tool for the would-be community activist.


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Austa Clausen January 28, 2019
Pizzeria Paradiso
Ruth Gresser opened Pizzeria Paradiso in Dupont Circle in November, 1991 so that she could make the kind of pizza she longed for but couldn't find. What she ended up creating was a deliciously cheesy pizza empire, with locations all over the DMV area. Known for their crust-forward approach for pizza and award-winning beer program, Pizzeria Paradiso is arguably one of the most beloved restaurants in the city.
At Pizzeria Paradiso's Georgetown location, you can sit down for a delicious meal and then head down to their game room, featured in this episode of At the Table. There, Gresser has created a space that feels relaxed, yet intentional, with arcade games and plenty of beer to go around. Executive Beverage Director Drew McCormick knows a thing or two about beer—she's the first woman to take on the prestigious role at the restaurant chain. Though for her, it's less about being known as a female in the industry, and more about being known for her craft.
See more from Pizzeria Paradiso here:
https://www.eatyourpizza.com/
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Austa Clausen
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I am designing a site (1st one) and using frontpage (yes i know, im new to HTML.) What i want to know is how do i insert a video into HTML, so that a new window opens and the movie plays within the window? Basically a blank page with the move inserted and playing in the middle (like apple.com with movie trailers) any ideas? I can make the page, but the movie inserted is what i don't know how to do.
Most of the time, they use producers to generate the code. You could check out the vendor for the movie you wish to embed to get the producer for doing it.
Probably not the best site but 1st I found and I'm lazy as it's like 2am .. anyways you wanna embed the video like this.
To get the video to play within your new window, i suggest you read about the embed tag.
This should get you started. I know your new, and thats fine... everyone needs to start somewhere, but I suggest using a better tool, such as Dreamweaver.
should be target="_blank", not _new. Also, in the html file where you want the image embedded, use this code (works in both IE and Mozilla).
just replace video.wmv with the path and filename to your video.