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Last Chance U's Brittany Wagner to launch academic counseling service for athletes
Updated Jan 13, 12:09 PM;Posted Jun 12, 6:52 PM
By Creg Stephenson | cstephenson@al.com
Wagner will soon launch 10 Thousand Pencils, LLC, a company that will specialize in academic counseling and life skills coaching for at-risk athletes. It's similar to what Wagner did for eight years at East Mississippi Community College, the setting for Last Chance U, Netflix's wildly successful documentary series that debuted last July.
The company's name is a play on Wagner's "Do you have a pencil?" catchphrase from Last Chance U, which turned the small town single mother into a household name nearly overnight last summer. Wagner said her goal with the company is to contract her services to different school athletic programs, where, for a fee, she will develop plans and monitor progress of athletes whose academic backgrounds might not be all that strong.
"I'm really excited about it," Wagner said in an interview with AL.com. "I've got some really good people helping me, and some good clients in the works. I'm excited about being able to open the door for more athletes to benefit, for more athletes to have that help. A lot of these kids, they're thrown in, there's all this pressure, and they just don't have enough people helping them. They need (more) than what a school district is able to provide.
"I'm trying to really be affordable, not to over-price myself, so that I can reach more athletes. Hopefully, this gets going where I can do some pro bono stuff, and really work with some underprivileged kids, really be able to help the most people that I can."
Excited to announce my return to athletics! Coming soon: my new company providing academic counseling/life coaching to athletes everywhere! pic.twitter.com/4phhj2eIBY
— Brittany Wagner (@Brittany_MSgirl) June 10, 2017
Wagner said her goal is not to take the place of traditional school counselors and advisors, but to enhance what they are already doing. In the same way a private quarterback coach can help a high school player develop into a college prospect, Wagner hopes her service can take an athlete on the verge of failing many of his classes and help him gain academic eligibility for college.
Wagner said she won't necessarily be on-site full-time with the athletes she's assisting. Part of her duties will be evaluating transcripts and developing academic plans, and much of the counseling can take place via modern technology.
"Obviously, they're going to have advisors and counselors at their school, and I don't want overstep my boundaries in that area," Wagner said. "But to help him evaluate the plan that's in place, and do weekly meetings over Skype or Facetime for an hour. Asking 'what have you got this week, how can we manage your time, what's going on with you?' Basically, be a resource where that kid has access to me, where they need to talk or they don't know how to do something.
"You don't always have to be right in front of that person's face to provide those same services. A lot of it is going to that mentoring, that mothering. But we've also got it set up with some programs where I'll be on their campus once a month, and for three days I'll be there. The rest of the time, it will be phone calls, texts, Skype, and me just helping them navigate through their academic plan and what's going on in their life."
Wagner said she will be a one-person operation in the beginning, but hopes to expand the company in the future. She said that she has already begun reaching out to coaches and athletes she knew from her time at East Mississippi, with hopes to be working with athletes by the time Last Chance U Season 2 debuts on July 21.
The show's first season launched last July 28, and quickly became a sensation. The kind-hearted Wagner was the show's breakout star, adding thousands of Twitter followers overnight and receiving hundreds of emails a day.
Wagner is currently splitting time between Birmingham and Meridian, Miss., where she still owns a home. She said she hopes 10 Thousand Pencils will allow her to parlay her fame from Last Chance U into helping create similar success stories to those she fostered at the junior-college level.
"For a show to be successful, that's great for Netflix, but I wasn't doing it to be famous or to have more Twitter followers," Wagner said. "For me, the special part was that it really inspired people. I get emails from Germany, from Norway, from Switzerland, and to hear those stories from people that I have inspired. I've had teachers tell me 'I was walking away from education after this year, but you've inspired me to be better, and to continue to change the way I teach and to really get to know my students.' I've had people with diseases who said they had pretty much given up the fight, and they've emailed me and said I inspired them to fight for their life. Athletes have emailed me and said 'you inspired me to value my opportunity to get an education. You've inspired me to do better, to work harder, to become better than what I came from.'
"That part to me has been really awesome. All of that inspired me to start this company, to go out on my own. You don't know if it's going to succeed and you'll be able to support yourself. It's a scary thing. But to hear from all those people who were inspired by the show helped me have the courage to go out on a limb and do this. Hopefully, Season 2 will be just as inspirational as Season 1, and it will all continue."
Wagner left East Mississippi in February to take a marketing job in Birmingham with Newk's Eatery, a Mississippi-based food chain. She said she discovered quickly that her passion was still in helping athletes, and has since parted ways with Newk's.
In the meantime, she's been supplementing her income with public speaking engagements. She said will continue to get her message out in various ways while launching 10 Thousand Pencils.
"There were some ideas that were talked about, for me to be a brand ambassador for (Newk's), for our two brands to merge and take them more into the sports sponsorship realm, but that just didn't pan out," Wagner said. "When I got over there, it just wasn't happening that way. I don't know that either one of us thought it was going to be a long-term thing anyway. Newk's is a great company, it's just not were I need to be. ... And my heart is with college athletes. That's my passion and what I'm good at. I needed a break to get re-inspired. So I think it all worked out exactly the way it was supposed to.
"Hopefully, it's a huge success and we can really change some people's lives."
Wagner said her website, brittanywagner.com, will launch soon. Until then, she can be reached either on Twitter (@Brittany_MSGirl) or via email at 10thousandpencils@gmail.com.
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Whoever came up with the idiotic phrase, "The longest journey begins with a single step" obviously never tried to leave Greece.
Saturday, 3:00 AM Greece time: the alarm goes off. I'm pretty sure I said a very bad word in my heart.
4:45 AM: endure a 90 minute ride to the airport on the front seat of a bus with an IMAX-sized windshield, which thankfully drew attention away from our driver who was falling asleep and trying to careen off of bridges.
6:30 AM: first sign something is wrong…as the rest of the team is checking in at the airport, my dear sweet mother-in-law (Ginger) who was on the trip with us, is told that she's been bumped from the London-Boston flight due to a computer glitch on the very first leg of the trip.
8:00 – 11:00 AM: Spend the entire Athens-London flight strategizing with the whole team on how we're going to get Ginger's luggage off the belts, get her on another flight, get through security, and pee all in the 1:15 layover we have in a major international airport.
11:01 AM: sprint to the front of the plane as soon as the "fasten seat belts" sign goes off, only to realize that my passport is at the back of the plane. Not good.
11:15 AM: send Merriem and the rest of the team through security, promise I'll see them in just a few minutes.
11:16 AM: realize that Merriem has my clothes, laptop, books, sermon notes, and Bible.
11:17 AM: realize that I'll never see my team, Merriem, my clothes, or my sermon again.
11:40 AM: convince the British Airways ticketing agent to let me stay off the Boston-London flight by telling him that my mother-in-law doesn't speak British.
12:00 PM: receive standby status for a 4:30 flight.
12:45 PM: find donuts. Jesus still loves me.
12:55 – 3:30 PM: talk to approximately 612 different British Airways agents, walk the length of Heathrow Terminal approximately 87 times. Pick up London tabloids to see quotes from Michael Jackson's third grade teacher's nephew. Stand in line four different times to find out about flights out of Boston. Call the U.S. six different times using a credit card. Contemplate how many flights I could have booked for what I probably just paid to call the U.S. on a credit card. Say another bad word in my heart for not getting the international data plan on the iPhone. Find a secret passageway to a standby room in Heathrow where I can find out if I'm on the flight. Realize that the person who pointed me to the secret passageway thought Ginger and I were British Airways employees. Wonder when British Airways implemented the Redneck Exchange Program. Ate most of Ginger's snacks. Talked to an older British lady named Bea. Secretly wondered if Bea would let us come live with her since it was obvious we'd never escape London.
4:00 PM: get tossed off the 4:30 flight.
4:15 PM: are told that there's a possibility we'll be on the 7:30 flight.
7:25 PM: are told that we're definitely on the flight but have to run like the wind to catch it.
7:29 PM: are told that our paperwork isn't right and we can't get on the flight.
7:29:10 PM: gate agent sees the maniacal, nothing-to-lose gleam in my eye and lets us on the flight.
7:32 PM: realize that I have no idea where my luggage is.
11:00 PM (Boston time): land, go through customs, make several panicked phone calls to tell Summit staffers that I won't be preaching, find out that my wife has already taken care of things. Thank God for a great woman.
11:15 PM: realize that I'll be spending the night in Boston with my mother-in-law. Ponder that if it were any other day, this would be very odd.
12:30 PM: arrive at our hotel. Two king rooms, smoking. Doesn't matter at this point because I'm seriously considering taking it up.
1:00 AM: walk down dark Boston street to a CVS pharmacy, where I buy a three dollar shirt, toothpaste, deodorant, and an A & W Root Beer.
1:15 AM: realize I never told anyone that I was going to CVS, so if I'm killed no one will know where to start looking.
1:30 – 2:30 AM: on the phone trying to get a flight out the next morning.
The next morning: misjudge the time it will take for the hotel shuttle to get us back to the airport, check in at two different airlines, and get Ginger delivered to her gate, so running like crazy at the end, just to find out my flight is delayed. Fitting. Make it back to RDU and to the Brier Creek Campus just in time to see my 13 year old board a bus for camp.
The next afternoon: eat Cook Out and slip into a coma.


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Q: AngularJS: Custom directive is not correctly computing data requirements I am building a custom directive to allow for a glyphicon to serve as an indicator (color), a notice (tooltip), a simple action (single click) and an ability for customized action in a modal (double click).
Here is a plunker of my progress.
On first load the colors are correct -- gray if value = 0, green for value of 1 and red for value of 2. The click also is correct -- a 0 clicked becomes 1, a 1 clicked becomes 2 and a 2 clicked becomes 1.
However, the colors are not responding correctly to the clicks. The first click seems to be ignored because the color stays the same and the second click does trigger a color change but now 1 = red and 2 = green (backwards).
Can anyone see what I am doing wrong that would make the color scheme fail?
Here is the code from the plunker --
app.js
(function() {
  angular.module('app', ['ui.bootstrap'])
    .directive('sglclick', SingleClickDirective)
    .directive('loanProgressIcon', LoanProgressIconDirective)
    .controller('MainController', MainController);

  function SingleClickDirective($parse) {
    return {
      restrict: 'A',
      link: function(scope, element, attr) {
        var fn = $parse(attr['sglclick']);
        var delay = 300,
          clicks = 0,
          timer = null;
        element.on('click', function(event) {
          clicks++; //count clicks
          if (clicks === 1) {
            timer = setTimeout(function() {
              fn(scope, {
                $event: event
              });
            clicks = 0; //after action performed, reset counter
            }, delay);
          } else {
            clearTimeout(timer); //prevent single-click action
            clicks = 0; //after action performed, reset counter
          }
        });
      }
    };
  }

  function LoanProgressIconDirective($compile) {
    var progressMarkers = [{
      'id': 1,
      'cat': 'its_list',
      'glyph': 'list-alt',
      'tip': 'ITS List Verfified'
    }, {
      'id': 2,
      'cat': 'fsa_compliant',
      'glyph': 'home',
      'tip': 'FSA Eligibility'

    }, {
      'id': 3,
      'cat': 'has_liens',
      'glyph': 'star',
      'tip': 'Prior Lien Verfied'
    }, {
      'id': 4,
      'cat': 'valid_leases',
      'glyph': 'leaf',
      'tip': 'Leases Valid'
    }];

    var statusColors = [
      { val: 0, color: '#CCC', class: 'pending'},
      { val: 1, color: '#006837', class: 'completed'},
      { val: 2, color: '#900', class: 'overdue'}
    ];

    return {
      restrict: 'A',
      require : 'ngModel',
      link: linker,
      templateUrl: 'loanProgress.html',
      scope: {
        cat: '@',
        ngModel: '='
      }
    };

    function linker(scope, element, attrs, ctrl) {
      scope.loan = {
        id: progressMarkers[scope.cat]['id'],
        glyphicon: progressMarkers[scope.cat]['glyph'],
        tooltip: progressMarkers[scope.cat]['tip']
      };

      var styleChange = function () {
        scope.loan.style = statusColors[scope.ngModel]['color'];
      };

      styleChange();

      var setter = ctrl.$setViewValue;

      ctrl.$setViewValue = function() {
          setter.apply(this, arguments);
          styleChange();
      };

      scope.progClicked = function() {

        if(parseInt(scope.ngModel) === 0){
          ctrl.$setViewValue(1);
        } else if(parseInt(scope.ngModel) === 1){
          ctrl.$setViewValue(2);
        } else if(parseInt(scope.ngModel) === 2){
          ctrl.$setViewValue(1);
        }
      };

      scope.progDblClicked = function() {
        alert('Icon ' + scope.ngModel + ' was double clicked.');
      };
    }
  }

  function MainController($scope) {
    $scope.loan = {
      its_list: 1,
      fsa_compliant: 2,
      has_liens: 1,
      valid_leases: 0
    };
  }
})();

index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>

    <link data-require="bootstrap-css@3.0.2" data-semver="3.0.2" rel="stylesheet" href="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.0.2/css/bootstrap.min.css" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="app.css" />

                LOAN PROGRESS ICONS

                ITS
                FSA
                LIEN
                LEASES

{{loan | json}}

Directive Template:

and app.css
th, td{
  text-align:center;
}

.row{
  margin: 15px 0;
}

.completed{
  color: #006837;
}
.pending{
  color: #CCCCCC;
}
.overdue{
  color: #990000;
}

Thanks in advance!

A: The first problem is due to the fact that on is a jqLite/jQuery method and does not trigger the digest loop for you. This means that the UI will not be updated to reflect the changes to the model.
You either need to wrap the code that affects the model in a call to $apply or use $timeout instead of setTimeout.
With $apply:
timer = setTimeout(function() {
  scope.$apply(fn(scope, {
    $event: event
  }));
  clicks = 0;
}, delay);

With $timeout:
element.on('click', function(event) {
  clicks++; //count clicks
  if (clicks === 1) {
    timer = $timeout(function() {
      fn(scope, {
        $event: event
      });
      clicks = 0;
    }, delay);
  } else {
    $timeout.cancel(timer); //prevent single-click action
    clicks = 0; //after action performed, reset counter
  }
});

The second issue is the following code:
var setter = ctrl.$setViewValue;

ctrl.$setViewValue = function() {
    setter.apply(this, arguments);
    styleChange();
};

After calling $setViewValue the internal ngModelWatch will not detect the change and update the ngModel in your directive until later when the digest loop runs. Currently styleChange runs before this happens.
To run styleChange after the digest loop has finished you can use $timeout:
ctrl.$setViewValue = function() {
  setter.apply(this, arguments);
  $timeout(styleChange);
};

Demo: http://plnkr.co/edit/5MfQk49NKWFiEOqS2r5V?p=preview

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Q: Where to use the SSL certification files for your server domain? I was learning to create a Telegram bot and I had to get a server with HTTPS prefix in order to use my bot on Telegram.
I used free host, and a free domain, and a free net2FTP. So I can control nothing but my domain directories.
Right now, I'm on the last step to get a free SSL certification on my domain using SSLForFree and ZeroSSL. The problem is that they gave me an SSL certification files saying that all I need is to install them on my server, but all I did was just installing certificate.crt and ca_bundle.crt into my local machine. When I go to check the installation, it throws this error:
ZeroSSL install error
[Note: my server name is not available in the list of ZeroSSL servers]
Server Name: aba.ae | Domain name: telebot0001.aba.vg
Also, there is a file called private.key, I'm not sure what all of these things mean, but any idea how to fix that error?
I just need a server to upload my bot on it.

A: most likely it is little difficult to suggest anything without knowing the OS and the providers of the certificate. in genric manar it can be suggested thet you need to change in the apache configuration file SSLCertificateFile      /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key in a file located somewhere /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl.conf
for windows 10 you need to check it from  SSLCertificateKeyFile "conf/ssl.key/server.key" and SSLCertificateFile "conf/ssl.crt/server.crt" if you are not using any other virtual host then you may consider updating httpd-ssl.conf from xampp Xammp Panel
EDIT
cs_bundle file used to be required in prior versions of apache but now it is not required anymore. Most likely you only need origin and private key.it is optional for a later apache version.
EDIT (after comment 1)
open your xamp panel -> config (click on ) from the dropdown you will find  httpd-ssl.conf alternatively you need to create a virtual-host within your xamp apache folder in windows. if you are using everything in a free manner, most likely within softoculus panel(which is your Cpanel) you may find to generate an SSL certificate using one click and it will set up everything for you.
NOTE 1
please note the free SSL will not provide any DV, OV, EV wildcard certificate but it will help you to test your app.
NOTE 2
there is another option to do your development and testing work using Cloudflare SSL Cloudflare. the Cloudflare SSL provides quite a few more options to protect your website using their SSL (which is based on letsencrypt based. and their proxy works perfectly for testing purposes. within your softoculus panel, you may have options to integrate with Cloudflare SSL and proxy.
NOTE 3
Cloudflare manages their own CA and CAA record within their DNS so you can not update CAA or CA record on your own. For such reason, Cloudflare-generated SSL can be used within AWS Certificate manager but AWS-generated Certificate can not be used in Cloudflare.
Edited With A note
YOu will get some options to upload certificate somewhere with in your just like I am getting an option here within OCI's layer 7 proxybased loadbalancer
NOTE 4
ref: cloufflare SSL Doc
ref: check some blog and howtos for ssl for local pc
ref: setting apache in ubuntu like system
ref: setting apache from digital ocean blog
ref: SSL Self signed
ref : SSL Configuration in OEL RHEL CentOS like operating system


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Q: Conditional updating: Update only if value is None or 'null' or key doesn't exist I'm trying to figure out if there is a way to use conditionals such as $set to do more advanced updating. This is what I'm trying to do in pseudo code:
# new data to use in a possible update
newData = { 'emailAddress' : $usersEmailAddress,
            'keyA' : 'valueA',
            'keyB' : None,
            'keyC' : '<null>' }

self.request.root.db.users.update(
                { 'emailAddress' : newData['emailAddress'] },
                { '$set': {
                          "Here, loop through all newData keys/values and if
                          notNull(newData[key]) == True and is different than the
                          corresponding key/value in the user
                          document (or if user document doesn't have that key)
                          than update with newData key/value"
                          } }, upsert = False, safe = True )

# The result should be that if the value of keyA (and ONLY key A because the
#  others are null) is different in the user document
#  than in newData, than the user document should be updated with the new value.

# function to catch any possible None value or equivalent string
def notNull(valueToCheck):
    if thingToCheck and thingToCheck != "null" and thingToCheck != 'nil' and thingToCheck != '<null>' and thingToCheck != '' and thingToCheck != ' ':
        return True
    else:
        return False

What's the most efficient way of doing this? Because currently I'm having to pull the entire document with find_one and, I'm told, thats rather expensive. Is there a way to do this with just $set?

A: No, MongoDB does not support this feature. You can either, as you say, retrieve the document, analyze it in your client-side code, and issue an update based on its contents, or you could issue a series of updates like:
db.users.update({
    'emailAddress': newData['emailAddress'],
    '$or': [
        { 'keyA': { '$exists': false } },
        { 'keyA': None } ] }
    ]
}, {
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George Hughes Revercomb (June 3, 1929 – August 1, 1993) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Education and career

Born in Charleston, West Virginia, Revercomb received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Princeton University in 1950. He was in the United States Air Force from 1951 to 1953, and received a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1955. Revercomb was a legal assistant for the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, D.C. from 1958 to 1959. He was in private practice in Norfolk, Virginia from 1961 to 1962. He was in private practice in Roanoke, Virginia from 1955 to 1956, then in Charleston, West Virginia from 1956 to 1961, and in Washington, D.C. from 1962 to 1969. Revercomb was an associate deputy United States Attorney General of the United States Department of Justice from 1969 to 1970. He was an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia from 1970 to 1985. He received a Master of Laws from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1982, at age 53.

Federal judicial service

On November 7, 1985, Revercomb was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia vacated by Judge Thomas Aquinas Flannery. Revercomb was confirmed by the United States Senate on December 16, 1985, and received his commission on December 17, 1985. Revercomb served in that capacity until his death of cancer, in Washington, D.C., on August 1, 1993, at the age of 64.

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Генера́льний архі́в Араго́нської Коро́ни (; ; ) — історичний архів в Іспанії, в місті Барселона. Сформований на основі архіву
Арагонської Корони. Перебуває під керівництвом Міністерства культури і спорту Іспанії. Культурна пам'ятка Європи (з 2007). Також — Барсело́нський королі́вський архі́в ().

Історія

Архів заснований 1318 року в Барселоні королем Хайме II як єдиний архів всіх територій Арагонської Корони. Це був єдиний центральний архів Корони у 1318-1348 роках, в якому суди Сарагоси створили Арагонський королівський архів. 1419 року також був створений Валенсійський королівський архів, де були депоновані фонди судів економічного контролю адміністрації королівства і раціонального головного архіву Королівства Валенсія.

Після війни за іспанську спадщину (1701-1714) головою архіву став (1740-1783) Хав'єр Гарма (Javier Garma), який намагався створити справжній Архів Корони Арагона, що збирає в Королівських архівах Барселони всі фонди з територій королівської адміністрації колишньої Корони Арагону. Проект Гарма надихнув політику Проспера Бофарулла і Маскара, начальника архіву між 1814 і 1 849 роками, і творця нинішнього Генерального архіву корони Арагона.

З 1318 по 1993 роки архів мав управління в Палау дель Ллоктинент, частини Палау Reial Major (Королівський палац у Барселоні), і з цього моменту архіву було частково передана будівля на вулиці Almogàvers, так що тепер є два місця: історичний палац для протокольних заходів, виставок і курсів, і новий для досліджень і зберігання.

20 січня 2007 року було створено Опікунську раду. (), () в палаці лейтенанта в Барселоні президентами Каталонії Хосе Монтілья, Арагону Марселіно Іглесіасом, Валенсії Франсиско Камсом і Балеарських островів Хауме Матаса і міністром культури Кармен Кальво Пойято.

Перші документи

Першими документами архіву є колекції сувоїв з канцелярії перших графів Барселони і королів Арагона. Вперше згадується королівський архів 25 жовтня 1180 року. У 1194 році король Альфонсо II Арагонський замовив збірник документів з королівського архіву, які мали законну силу і могли бути корисні для прав Корони, Рамону де Кальдес (юристу), декану кафедрального собору Барселони. Результатом став Liber feudorum maior. Сам Рамон де Кальдес сказав, що збірник був вельми нескладним. Завдяки цьому зібранню ми знаємо більше тисячі документів, найстаріші з яких відносяться до IX століття.

Ці ранні згадки не означають, що вже був відсортований архів, тим не менш, були каталогізовані кілька списків, які могли бути географічно розподілені, і зазвичай ці твердження не вважаються прецедентом для поточного архіву. Перша згадка про реальний сховище документів відноситься до 1255 року. Це сховище було розташоване в монастирі Санта-Марія-де-Сіхена, а потім розташовувалося в географічному центрі Корони.

При Хайме I Арагонському збільшилося використання паперу, завдяки цьому зросла швидкість виробництва документів, що стало початком записів королівської канцелярії.

Примітки

Джерела
 Arxiu de la Corona d'Aragó. Madrid: Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte, 1999.
 Udina Martorell, Federico. Guía del Archivo de la Corona de Aragón. Madrid, 1986.

Посилання

 Офіційна сторінка  // Ministerio de Cultura de España
 Arxiu de la Corona d'Aragó  // l'Enciclopèdia. Barcelona.

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When the coming week we are touring halls the huge CES in Las Vegas, in the area of secure Intel that draw the attention the baptised as Spider Dress, a printed dress in 3D which is the technological version of what colloquially is known as "the cobra".
The Defense of personal space who carries it is the main task that has this project which, after a first version of a few years ago, it becomes still more advanced with the heart Intel Edison that has been included, as well as 3D printing has been used for parts that comprise it.
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Centruroides pococki est une espèce de scorpions de la famille des Buthidae.

Distribution
Cette espèce est endémique des Petites Antilles. Elle se rencontre en Guadeloupe, à Montserrat, à Niévès, à Saint-Christophe et à la Dominique.

Description
Le mâle holotype mesure  et la femelle paratype .

Étymologie
Cette espèce est nommée en l'honneur de Reginald Innes Pocock.

Publication originale
 Sissom & Francke, 1983 : « Redescription of Centruroides testaceus (Degeer) and description of a new species from the Lesser Antilles (Scorpiones: Buthidae). » Occasional Papers Museum of Texas Tech University, ,  (texte intégral).

Liens externes
 The Scorpion Files : Jan Ove Rein, Trondheim, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Notes et références

Buthidae
Espèce de scorpions (nom scientifique)


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I have to confess to being a collector of useless information. I once spent a long flight home from Los Angeles memorising all of the state capitals of the USA. I think the obsession goes back the days of memorising lists of cases when I was a law student. I am also a fan of the TV show Pointless which probably says something. All of which brings me to the Great North West Virtual Legal Quiz.
But first why are we are we doing this? In normal circumstances we would be planning the Liverpool Legal Walk. This time last year, I was getting ready for the humiliation of a 5k walk in a Liverpool football shirt! That walk raised about £6k to support agencies which provide free legal advice to those in need.
At a time when the need for this advice has never been greater, we are unable to go ahead with the walk before the Autumn. According to the Access to Justice Foundation there as many as 14m people who are living in poverty and unable to obtain legal assistance. Advice is needed across whole areas of law including Welfare Benefits, Employment, Housing and Family Law. Access to legal aid remains limited - https://atjf.org.uk/
In the momentous case of Unison v The Lord Chancellor [2017] UKSC 51 (the tribunal fees case) Lord Reed explained why this is so important "Courts exist in order to ensure that the laws made by Parliament, and the common law created by the courts themselves, are applied and enforced. That role includes ensuring that the executive branch of government carries out its functions in accordance with the law. In order for the courts to perform that role, people must in principle have unimpeded access to them. Without such access, laws are liable to become a dead letter, the work done by Parliament may be rendered nugatory, and the democratic election of Members of Parliament may become a meaningless charade"
I will never cease to argue that full access to justice is achieved by a fully funded legal aid system. But there is little sign of that being a reality any time soon. In the meantime, the need doesn't go away. So we need to do all we can to support the law centres, advice agencies and other charities who will provide this essential service without charge.
So back to the Great Virtual Legal quiz! Without having to leave to comfort of our laptops we can raise important funds for the Community Justice Fund. This is a joint initiative of a number of agencies including the Access to Justice Foundation, The Legal Education Foundation and others.
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Hey! Nice Avatar! I think it looks familiar though.
The board is acting up.
I noticed yesterday I had responded to the thread about a drive over voltage issue, and my contribution was not showing up on the main page as the latest response. So, what's next? BobO as Bernie?
It was actually yours and, and, and... I forget's avatar I first noticed switched a week or two ago, but it cleared itself up later on.


Seven years ago, on a sultry Sunday afternoon in Guangzhou, China, I was handed a beautiful baby girl named Yang Guo Dan.
She was nine months old, to the day. She was slick with sweat and covered in spots (scabies, which she promptly shared with Steve). She weighed all of 15 pounds. She was gorgeous. And she looked up at us and smiled.
And, just like that, we were a family. There were seven other families in our group receiving babies that day. I didn't see any of the other first meetings, because our DanDan was the first baby and after she was in our arms we never looked up. But those other families were a part of the whole experience and somehow, they all became a part of our family that day, too.
The emotions in that room were so intense that I can never begin to describe them. All I can say is after that moment, none of us would ever be the same again.
I remember leaving that building, with Katherine Guo Dan in my arms. It felt so surreal. We had waited so long and been through so much that it was hard to wrap my brain around the physical real-ness of her. I kept thinking, "I can't believe that they just gave us this baby, that she is really ours!" Sometimes I look at her and I still think that, the incredible miracle of it all.
I'm bug lady, I think the others are self explanatory. A great afternoon trick or treating and evening partying. Some awesome costumes to admire, my favourite was Edward Scissor Hands and a pretty amazing Corpse Bride. Think I'll pass on that smooch evil clown.
i've wanted to make this for a long time and finally found all my supplies for it.
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As a full-time SAHM of a active, curious, adventurous little guy, I am always scouring the net to find ideas to keep my little guy entertained.
His Dad and I are both creatives by nature - he's in film and I'm a former art instructor and summer camp coordinator - so naturally we want to foster our little guy's inate creativity. Being that I'm the one who's home with Aiden the most it's up to me to plan as many creative adventures and provide as many different types of activities as possible to give Aiden the opportunity explore his own creative side.
At 16 months he is quite the curious little fella. He's really into music - guitars, pianos and percussion instruments are his faves, he loves a good book now and then, he enjoys the outdoors - digging in the rocks and his sandbox, and he's just started to develop his imaginitive side, using pieces of his floor puzzle as a phone for example. He's also a good creative problem solver and tries to figure things out for himself. And I have to say, it is an absolute honor and privilege to watch him learn and grow into the amazingly, brilliant creative toddler that he is.
So this blog is going to be a collection of sorts of all of the activities that I have done and will do with Aiden. I'll give you the instructions on how to do whatever it is we do, my tips for doing the project, and a review of how I think Aiden felt about the project. From time to time I'll also write about creative solutions to common toddler "issues" like feeding your uber-active-can't-sit-down-in-a-high-chair-for-more-than-10-minutes toddler. I'll try to post every day but if I miss a day please forgive me and remember that I have a 16 month old boy!
I hope you enjoy our adventures in creativity. And feel free to comment and email me with your ideas or feedback on a particular activity.
We started the Halloween celebrations this evening.
Rachel wanted to be a pink butterfly this year.
The "pink" part was very important. And she is VERY proud of her wings.
Katherine decided months ago that she wanted to be a colonial girl. She picked out the fabric for her costume and helped Granny sew it.
I'm pretty sure she'll be the only 2nd grader around in period costume.
But she is perfectly happy with that.
Our church hosted a Trunk or Treat party this evening. The girls have been SO excited about it - far more so than for the usual Halloween trick-or-treating. There were lots of cars decorated and people in costume passing out candy.
There were s'mores and games and a cupcake walk. The girls liked the old fashioned fishing game and managed to go through more than once.
Then they discovered the face painting.
Rachel was thrilled with hers, and it did add to her whole costume.
The girls ran around and talked to people and ate as much candy as they thought they could get away with. We stayed until it was almost dark.
Tomorrow we'll have school parties and trick-or-treating and more candy. But my little pink butterfly and my colonial girl think that THIS was the best part of the holiday. And I have to agree.
To celebrate Halloween I made these easy biscuits with royal icing. Once you've baked your biscuits, mix up some royal icing and pipe an outline around your design as in the picture... it doesn't look pretty at this stage but the final product is a really great looking biscuit, or cookie if you will! Once you've edged your biscuits cou can then make your icing slightly runnier by adding a bit more water and then flood fill the biscuit using a piping bag with the end snipped off. You can use this to push the icing right up to the edging. If you want to make your biscuits even more special you can pipe contrasting colours on to the base layer icing and they blend in to each other like the eyes on the ghost!
Why not try some spooky cupcakes too! There are loads of great cupcake toppers available if you want some quick and easy decorations... team them with bright orange and green icing! These are some mini cupcakes from Lola's which a friend had for her Halloween party.
Little T and Little O had a lot of fun going around the neighbourhood to see our friends and begging asking for treats.
We even had company and expert carving skills were displayed by the Bad Kamas from no 8 !


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Fiction Book Review for 'Disconnected' by Nick Lloyd
What if you found a way to compel someone to support your own ambitions?
But, all the while, this newly devoted follower continued to believe their own free will was intact?
Political advisor, Asha Kharjal, has mastered the mysterious science of directly manipulating the subconscious.
He can literally rewire us.
And for the good of mankind, he's going to. Whether we like it or not.
MY REVIEW: Maddy
3 stars. This is a really interesting book. It's very technical and because of that it is somewhat dry unless you have a deep love of the genre and can fathom half of what the author is talking about. Not much of the terms are explained and the reader is supposed to keep reading to make sense of whatever is confusing to you in the greater scheme of things. New characters are treated much the same. It's not really a bad thing, don't get me wrong, but it makes it difficult to stay engaged. The plot of the story's very interesting and on some level enjoyable; I kind of wish one plot line had been picked over the other instead of tossing the reader back and forth. I felt they warred with each other a bit, but I think it's a common practice with the genre type and since I don't read these types of books that much, it could just be me.
Rating: 2/5 Stars - Jessica
I really wanted to like this book. The synopsis drew me into reading the novel, but unfortunately I couldn't stay hooked. I got about a third of the way through and couldn't continue (and it's rare for me to give up on a book, especially when doing a review of one). I didn't understand the plot fully or how Asha could manipulate one's subconscious. I didn't grasp all the rules or techniques Asha used in his manipulation and training of others to aid him.
There were two separate plotlines occurring throughout the book that I assume would intertwine at some point, but I never made it there. Also, there were a decent amount of characters that I couldn't keep straight because of the lack of traits unique to them. It was hard to connect to any of the characters because I didn't feel I knew enough about them to establish a connection to root for one over the other.
I think this book has a lot of potential and will be the right fit for certain audiences. Unfortunately, I didn't connect with the writing style and therefore wasn't engaged enough with the plot or characters to continue reading. Perhaps one day, with a different mindset, I will return to Disconnected and form a different opinion!
Review, Rating 4/5 - Corinthia
"Disconnected" was a fascinating read that I couldn't put down. Balancing between a Sci-Fi adventure with a dash of the fantastic the story delves deep into human connection and moral obligations. The story is told through two main protagonists, Asha and Sarah, who have very different lives. Asha is the leader of a group like cult who are manipulating the thoughts and emotions of politicians around them to create an utopianesque world, while Sarah is trapped in an underground medical experimentation group that's trying to discover the cure for dementia. As the plot thickens these two character's story ultimately end up overlapping and becoming interwoven with each other's.
I mostly enjoyed "Disconnected" and its two main storylines, but I did find myself more inclined to take the time and invest myself into the lives of Asha and his acolytes. A majority of the characters in that setting seemed more fleshed out and their moral compasses were tested more often. It was fascinating to read and be a part of their lives as I saw some characters push the boundaries of their morals until they caved while others overcame their challenges, no matter how difficult, to stay true to what they believed. In contrast this made Sarah's conflicts and storyline seem dull and underwhelming to read. However, this could be due to the fact that the amount of world building and explanation for the mind manipulation for Asha's storyline was more refined than Sarah's moral struggles and the Bio-medical portions.
Overall, I would recommend this book to those who love long stories that are mainly character centric with a great sense of world building. Nick Lloyd will deliver a writing style that is smooth and an experience that will rewire how you feel about the bio-thriller genre!
Review: 3 Stars - Larissa
Disconnected has an incredibly interesting premise which I had never come across before, which is why I took it on for review even though it is a departure from the kinds of things I usually read. I was intrigued, not only by the idea of humans having these subconscious connections with one another, but also how that idea would work in a thriller. Seeing the moral implications of being able to manipulate these connections playing out on a global political and corporate scale was fascinating. I also thought that Nick M. Lloyd did a great job interweaving the various storylines. They were all intricately connected (which I guess is appropriate given the premise) and tied up really well at the end. I thought the characters were also really strong and well-crafted. All of them exist within a sort of grey area morally, even - and especially, often - the idealistic ones. At times I'd find myself rooting for a character even though they had done awful things previously because all of them are multifaceted and live complicated lives.
Despite there being so much about this book I enjoyed, it took me a while to get into it. It wasn't that it was slow paced, but for some reason it took me longer than usual to get pulled into the story and the characters. It might have had something to do with much of the story being told through Asha's point of view, especially at the beginning. It made sense to have it be like that since he is the leader of those able to manipulate the subconscious and gives us a lot of the exposition. But I definitely got more into the story as I spent more time with the other characters. Also, even though the idea of the subconscious is explained really well for the most part, it still felt a little bit confusing at times. This could partially be because it is so well though out and elaborate, but I wonder if there could have been another way the anatomy and rules of the subconscious connections could have been explained that would have made it clearer.
Fans of science fiction should definitely check Disconnected out, but is crosses genres so well that readers of contemporary political and medical thrillers should enjoy it too.


You may have read that strong EMF is created by your refrigerator, hair dryer, etcetera. This is true, but the electronics in your house are really quite a small part of the picture as electricity is already extremely RF-polluted when it enters your home, from everybody "upstream." It is not commonly known even by those who write on this subject, nor by many who do professional remediation, that the RF is the main culprit.
My own story illustrates both the effects of RF exposure and the challenges of dealing with them We live in a Wisconsin Winnie-the-Pooh three-acre beech and maple woods surrounded by farms and woodland. Not a place where you'd expect to find dangerous environmental pollution, so that was not suspected when I began to have "spells." Although I previously had low blood pressure, I began experiencing spells of a sudden, sharp rise in blood pressure with skyrocketing pulse rate and wild cardiac arrhythmia. I was taken to the ER by ambulance twice, but by the time I got there pronounced normal. $18,000 worth of medical tests, including a MRI of my brain, as finally a tumor was suspected, found nothing to account for these and other bizarre, frightening symptoms,. Bewildered doctors finally pronounced that I was "just having panic attacks." They prescribed beta blockers, which block normal stimulation of many bodily systems including the heart, but these rendered me so zombielike that I refused them. Insomnia increased to the point where I was sleeping, in broken bits, from 3-5 hours a night. I felt as if I was made out of paper. Just breathing and walking felt taxing. My anxiety level was extreme, my adrenals were exhausted and my thyroid needed help from hormone replacement. Already slender, I became a shadow. My husband had to care for me, and I wasn't sure I was going to survive.
At least now I had a clue. Fortunately, I was put in touch with a power quality engineer who graciously taught me about power quality and how to clean up my immediate environment and save my life. We did experiments and took readings with a variety of meters, indoors and out. We put in shielded phone lines, moved water pipes, made the first few feet of incoming water pipe nonconductive (Some RF still jumps onto the pipes from house wiring.). We gutted old electric baseboards that though disconnected were broadcasting RF over large areas including our bedroom, and got all metal out of and away from the bed. We installed RF filters, removed dimmer switches and fluorescent lights, sold the aquarium, got me a speaker phone and a laptop computer I use on battery only, and I avoid the high-field parts of the yard.
With each of these steps results were immediate and dramatic. The cardiac symptoms ceased. I was able to sleep. My anxiety level dropped. My recovery has been steady and I am much better. Only, however, to the extent to which I am able to avoid RF. I was exposed to extreme levels of electrical pollution for many months, and remain electrically sensitive to date, with quite-circumscribed activities. Even at home, RF is not totally unavoidable when the power is on. I am markedly better on days spent away from the house in areas free of ground current, and in warm weather when the main can be off at night.
Though our local power quality was shown by independent test to be poorer than most, toxic electricity is a chronic, severe stress affecting virtually everyone, that only increases as the pollution proliferates. Individuals who have cleaned up their immediate environments universally notice dramatic improvement in a wide range of conditions and symptoms, usually of conditions that they had never thought of as related to electrical pollution.
- If you have clients who, in spite of doing "all the right things" still do not flourish, consider what RF they are living in.
- I gave several Polarity sessions to a woman whose apartment was by a hefty electric cable, with EMF levels high enough to cause childhood leukemia. The usual techniques simply did not work there. How does EMF affect Polarity sessions?
- Dr. Robert Becker theorizes that healers sense a disease site in a patient through radiating an EMF from their hands which induces EM resonance in the patient, the return signal then being felt by the healer. A resonant action occurs between the fields given off by the healer and the intrinsic electrical-control systems within the patient's body. "While these currents have a vanishingly small flow, they would nonetheless produce local DC magnetic fields within the tissues. These fields, in combination with a frequency given off by the healer, could result in resonance with other charged particles." As the theory rests on complex resonance, the Earth's magnetic field must be involved. Dr. Becker therefore reasons that healers have greater diagnostic and healing ability during times of quiet geomagnetic field conditions and that their abilities are adversely affected by magnetic storms and locations in which man-made magnetic fields or extra low frequency (ELF) fields are present. (Becker, Cross Currents, 240-241) An important issue for Polarity therapists to consider and research.
- The current induced in the body is a product of field strength and frequency. A field oscillating at 180 Hz induces three times the current in you as a 60-cycle field does. In such a field, every cell in the body will experience a shift in polarity 180 times a second.
- Our natural body currents are DC. Earth itself has a very strong DC field with which we evolved. AC is damaging to living systems, inducing currents within them which DC does not.
- Dr. Becker believes "That humans interact so fundamentally with the earth's magnetic fields...may be the most important biological discovery of the 20th century." It may also be a hidden variable in all research.
- The belief that only ionizing (heating) radiation can harm living organisms has been absolutely disproven, yet persists as the basis for "official" exposure guidelines.
- We are particularly sensitive to EMF during sleep, the time when various healing activities take place in the body. (It is interesting that the front-to-back polarity of our brains reverses during this time. Levitt, ibid.133) The effects of spending eight hours asleep in a toxic electrical field are severe.
- Resonance occurs when an aspect of a force, such its wave length, matches a characteristic of an object receiving the force. This allows the power inherent in the force to be maximally transferred to the object, causing it to vibrate. (The crystal goblet when the opera singer hits high C, for instance.) Within the object, the resonance is self-perpetuating. You and I are objects being thus affected.
We need to learn as much as possible about how our highly sensitive electromagnetic energy systems are affected by external electric fields entering the body. Presently, both military and utility establishments exercise undemocratic freedom in ways very harmful to the citizenry and no one is looking out for individuals regarding EMF. We must educate ourselves and take protective measures on our own.
The literal future of humanity depends on our ability to live with increasing amounts of high-frequency radiation. Polarity practitioners have the perfect background to do further research on the effects of EMF and come up with health-saving remedial measures. Please get in touch with the author if this interests you, and also for much more information than could be included here, including numerous household remediation techniques.
RESOURCES: Good introduction, info. on RF filters at www.electricalpollution.com See also http://emfacts.com/, http://www.ortho.lsumc.edu/Faculty/Marino/EMF.html and www.emfguru.org. B. Blake Levitt's book, ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS includes much not elsewhere readily available re. the effects of EMF on animals and plant life. Dr. Robert O. Becker's book, CROSS CURRENTS, is a "must read." Call C.U.R.E at 715-564-3362 for an information-dense booklet with 200 references. ( I suggest a $5 donation.) Out of print but still available is Lucinda Grant's HANDBOOK OF ELECTRICAL SENSITIVITY.


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Supporters Mark Third Anniversary of Lao Activist's Disappearance
A 2005 photo of Sombath Somphone in the Philippines.
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Friends and supporters of missing Lao civil society activist Sombath Somphone marked the third anniversary of his disappearance on Tuesday with celebrations of his life and work and renewed calls for an investigation into his fate.
Sombath's Dec. 15, 2012 abduction at a police checkpoint in the capital Vientiane is widely believed to have been carried out by police or some other government-linked group, though authorities in the one-party communist state have consistently denied playing a role in his disappearance.
On Dec. 11, a Vientiane-based civil society group founded by Sombath, PADETC (the Participatory Development Education Training Center), marked the anniversary with an event remembering his achievements.
The event was attended by over 100 people and included colleagues and friends, foreign diplomats, and representatives from other development agencies, sources said.
Speaking to RFA's Lao Service on the day before the event, a PADETC official said that Sombath "worked only for the betterment of society, and never for himself."
"I am happy that I once had the opportunity to work with him and to witness his dedication to development," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. "Even though he is not here with us now, PADETC will definitely continue his work for [Lao] society."
'Inadequate, dismissive' response
Claims by Lao authorities that they are conducting an investigation into Sombath's disappearance are "barely credible," rights group Amnesty International (AI) said in a Dec. 10 letter signed by the directors of almost 50 AI national offices and addressed to Lao prime minister Thongsing Thammavong.
"Responsible government ministries have revealed no information that transparently and concretely demonstrates that an in-depth and thorough police investigation is taking place," AI said.
Government officials have instead given "inadequate and dismissive" responses to requests for information, and have sought to silence expressions of concern voiced by civil society groups in Laos and across the region, the rights group said.
Noting that Laos will host meetings of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) next year as chair of the regional grouping, AI vowed to press for renewed international attention to Sombath's case.
Laos should now shift to "a different narrative," Anne-Sophie Gindroz, a Swiss development worker expelled from Laos three years ago, noted with evident irony.
"Even for its most fervent supporters, it is embarrassing to admit that three years of 'investigation' have brought nothing," she said, adding that Laos should now accept offers of international assistance to help solve the case.
"Unless they have good reason not to do so," she said.
'I still hope'
In a Dec. 15 entry on a supporter's blog, Sombath's wife Shui Meng adressed her missing husband directly.
"The past three years have been one long struggle for the search for truth as to what happened to you ... But I still hold on to the hope that you are still alive and will come back to me one day."
Sombath in his work had wanted only "to change things for the better for the [country's] rural poor," Shui Meng told RFA separately in an interview.
"Over the years, he worked hard and made many sacrifices," Shui Meng said.
"Maybe his disappearance is the price he has paid for his belief in building a more socially and economically just world for Laos."
Reported by RFA's Lao Service. Translated by Ounkeo Souksavanh. Written in English by Richard Finney.
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Massachusetts extreme metal outfit Revocation has revealed that the new record they finished recording earlier this spring will arrive early this fall. Specifically, the as-yet untitled album will be released on September 28 through Metal Blade Records.
For now, the band has shared 23 seconds of a new song. You can have a listen below.


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VILMOS LÁZÁR
Five times individual and six times team world champion, holder of sixteen world championship medals, President of the Hungarian Equestrian Sport Association, President and co-owner and of the National Gallop. How can you cope with so many tasks successfully? "With teamwork. I believe I have a knack for choosing the right colleagues and associates. Carriage driving is teamwork, too – all the way from selecting and training the horses to the organisation of the competition and eventually, racing." However, he is alone sitting on the box seat in the thick of the competition, with all the decisions to be made alone. He has been the world's highest- performing carriage driver for years. His fellow competitors consider him as a cool headed, bal- anced driver with nerves of steel. He is capable of a world-class performance in all the three phases. At the world championships, he has already won the driven dressage, marathon and obstacle cone driving phases several times. He has no "weaker" event. Vilmos' driving style is characterized by a masterfully simple handling of the reins as well as dominance over the chance circumstances. The world's most successful horse in carriage driving is his Lipica mare, Mythos.
ZOLTÁN LÁZÁR
Five times two-in-hand and two times four- in-hand World Champion, holder of fourteen World Championship and three European Championship medals. László Kádár and Imre Abonyi were two artists of the Hungarian car- riage driving sport, each with a different style. The styles of these two geniuses were combined by Zoltán Lázár, who never refrains from tak- ing sensible risks, a daredevil in the positive sense. Zoltán is a six times World Champion. He is capable of a world-class performance in all the three phases of combined carriage driving. Out of the three, he feels best when driving the marathon. His driving style is characterized by an overwhelming dynamism. In obstacle cone driving, he is one of the best - if not the best – drivers of the world. He did not hit any balls in this struggle of nerves in four consecutive World Championships. Just imagine, there were 160 cones on the course, with just as many balls on top of each. They all remained in place. Are there downs in their careers? Of course there are, for both Zoli and Vili. At such times, they get over the hard hours and days with the help of the cheerfulness and kind, encouraging words from the family and friends, the natural wonders of the magnificent Domonyvölgy, the dawn of a new working day and, most of all, the clattering of horseshoes.
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As a Canadian residing in Mexico, it's frustrating having to deal with the sufficiently vague laws that do not address the realities surrounding the administrative/legal inability for a Canadian citizen, with a medical marijuana license/prescription, to obtain a Mexican medical marijuana license.
In my last article I described in detail the issues surrounding availability, so please refer to it, as I'm now focusing on the current status of laws in Mexico regarding medical and personal CBD and marijuana use.
On October 31, 2018, the Supreme Court ruled that the law prohibiting recreational use of cannabis in Mexico was unconstitutional. As this was the fifth time that the court had ruled in such a way, it set a binding precedent across the country's court system.
The effect of the ruling was that the law prohibiting cannabis still remained in effect, but it was basically made unenforceable due to the fact that anyone could cite the ruling and demand that their charges be thrown out.
The ruling mandated that the government of Mexico move to formally legalize cannabis within the next 90 days.
However, the Mexican Supreme Court Ruling order excludes the issues surrounding medical marijuana law as it has stated that there currently is a law in place governing the use for Mexican citizens…but not for foreigners with four-year resident visas and medical marijuana prescriptions from their home land.
So, just to be clear, the new laws will only pertain to personal use marijuana and NOT medical marijuana, as there are laws on the books regarding medical marijuana, which is an injustice to itself. I appreciate and understand the fact that Mexico has to look after their citizens first.
However, there's been a significant growth in the number of Canadians with medical marijuana licenses living in Mexico (either on a six-month visitors' or four-year residential visas, or have become Mexican citizens). Many of these people deserve and require medical marijuana to help manage their medical issues.
A Mexican friend suggested to me that one reason for the tight control over medical marijuana was partly due to the issues regarding supply, and that the supply chain had to be negotiated to ensure quality, quantities and consistent wholesale pricing. My question to him was, from who? The cartels? He just smiled. – more on that later.
The recently negotiated NAFTA agreement (USMCA) is conspicuously absent of any mention regarding the legality and/or methods to accommodate a Canadian citizen with a medical marijuana license to cross-border order, and receive medical marijuana products in Canada and Mexico, which is an embarrassment to both nations' governments and elected officials! WHY?
Please see the below synopsis.
The first real change came in 2015, when eight-year-old Graciela Elizalde, who suffers from a severe form of epilepsy known as Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, brought medical cannabis to the public's attention in Mexico. CBD oil helped to drastically reduce her seizures, improve her quality of life, and she's become the first Mexican medical marijuana patient after a Supreme Court ruling in her favor.
Since the ruling, a medical cannabis bill was passed through both the Mexican Senate and the Lower House of Congress with an overwhelming majority, which was signed into law by then soon to be outgoing President Enrique Peña Nieto on June 19th, 2017.
Mexico's Ministry of Health had until mid-December 2017 to write regulations for medical marijuana and products derived from cannabis. As of early 2018 the products are available in Mexican pharmacies to help treat diseases like epilepsy, Parkinson's, and cancer, but only to Mexican citizens and only from pharmacies within Mexico City!
The current Mexican law governing medical marijuana excludes Canadians with a medical marijuana license from legally obtaining medical marijuana products/services or CBD products. Even though I've a license from a NAFTA (USMCA) based country, I don't qualify for a license in Mexico, and there's no process in place to accommodate a non-Mexican citizen to obtain a license.
Therefore, possessing CBD products without a Mexican medical marijuana license means, if I were stopped by a customs agent on my way to/from Mexico, I could be charged with the importation/exportation of a controlled substance, aka drug trafficking. I could face permanent deportation and/or jail time, as everyone knows that there are trace amounts of THC in 'CBD only' products; it's just basic botanical chemistry.
Back to a previous point made by my Mexican friend when he stated that the tight control over the people that can obtain a medical marijuana license or prescription could be predicated on the available supply, and a method for the government to negotiate the future supply of marijuana. The current Mexican government has the mandate to introduce legislation regarding personal use and not to revisit or revamp medical marijuana use.
Historically the growth and supply of marijuana in Mexico has been concentrated in the Sinola region, which is controlled by cartels as their growing fields are in close proximity to the U. S. border.
Corruption seeped into the municipal police and the military, despite efforts to fire corrupt individuals, making militarization dangerous. A 2009 study by the Justice in Mexico organization found that 93.6 percent of municipal police in Mexico depend on corruption to make a living wage. Considering 61 percent of officers made 4,000 pesos or less per month in 2009 (the equivalent of about $300 in 2009), it's not surprising.
Since Mexico's war on drugs began in 2006, it's been estimated around 200,000 people have been killed, and that's a hard number to estimate in a country where 30,000 people have been reported missing, as mass-graves of unidentified people are frequently found in the countryside.
But many believe this violence is a reason to end marijuana prohibition, as when people have legal, regulated places to buy marijuana, it takes the wholesale business and distribution out of the hands of organized crime.
Marijuana is a huge chunk of 'cartel' income, and without that income there is an automatic reduction in their capacity to buy weapons, recruit teens, and bribe politicians.
As prohibition is 'dialed back' the cartels are forced, like any business, to downsize and negotiate with the federal government on quality and quantities for personal marijuana; they lose market, lose demand, and lose power to the supply chain and pricing.
But now the market will focus on personal use laws, and unless the new laws make parallel changes to the existing medical marijuana laws, the medical marijuana client community will still be stuck commuting to Mexico City to visit a doctor and pharmacy….unless the cartels get their dirty hands on product and distribution!
In the end, the scenario for Canadian medical marijuana users will not have changed; it'll be the same old, same old, UNLESS there are changes to the USMCA (which is highly unlikely), or there's a separate side agreement negotiated between Canada and Mexico regarding the LEGALIZATION of procurement, shipment, and delivery of medical marijuana and CBD products into Mexico.
I look forward to your comments, tweets, and emails.