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Vernon Reid @ wall to wall guitar festival, Sunday
WALL TO WALL GUITAR FESTIVAL ®
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts,
Champaign-Urbana, IL
Sunday, Oct 2, 2005,
Info and ticket link
Vernon Reid and Corey Glover + @ SummerStage TONIGHT
Soul to Soul: A Central Park SummerStage Benefit for Hurricane Katrina on September 28, 2005
The 20th anniversary season wraps with a Benefit Concert FROM the Heart of New York City TO the Heart of New Orleans on September 28, 2005. Admission is free with a Suggested Donation of $25.00 - all net proceeds will donated to the New Orleans Musicians' Clinic. Doors open at 4:00, Show starts at 5:30pm. New Orleans Cuisine provided by Blue Ribbon and Jacques Imo's.
Featured Artists include: Cassandra Wilson, Allen Toussaint, Ivan Neville, Dr. John, Angelique Kidjo, Lou Reed with Mike Rathke, Lori Anderson, Corey Glover, Vernon Reid, Hubert Sumlin, DJ Logic, Soulive, Dar Williams, Drive By Truckers, J Mascis, Bettye Lavette, Charlie Hunter, Christian McBride, Rock'n Dopsie, Rob Wasserman and Tony Thunder Smith (list in formation)
Living Colour flyers
Sat 12/03/05 Ohio, @ Beachland Ballroom - TicketWeb
Thu 12/08/05 Indianapolis, IN @ The Music Mill- TicketMaster
Sat 12/10/05 Atlanta, GA The Masquerade
Sat 12/17/05 New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
DrummerFest 2005
Cascio Interstate Music Presents...
Featuring: Will Calhoun, Peter Erskine, Keith Carlock, Robby Ameen
11:30am - 6:30pm (Perfromances, Q&A, Sales , Giveaways)
Admission is Free
Location: Cascio Interstate Music Retail Store
13819 W. National Avenue
For information: 1-877-213-2580
Vernon Reid and Corey Glover + @ SummerStage
Featured Artists include: Cassandra Wilson, Allen Toussaint, Ivan Neville, Dr. John, Angelique Kidjo, Lou Reed, Cory Glover, Vernon Reid, Hubert Sumlin, DJ Logic, Soulive, Dar Williams, Drive By Truckers, J Mascis, Bettye Lavette, Carrie Hunter, Christian McBride, Rock'n Dopsie, Rob Wasserman (list in formation)
Doug @ the Chance w/ Living Colour - May 30, 2003
Vernon Reid signed guitar pick contest
this post was taken from the yahoo group SACRED GROUND; basically, if you or anyone that you know bought a numbered/signed Vernon Reid pick from the Collideoscope tour please read cafefully!!!.
I've just gotten off the phone with Vernon. We had a conversation regarding the signed picks that were sold in 2003 and that we never had a contest because of the illegibility of the list.
Well, that's all about to change!
If you (or someone that you know) has purchased the pick AND can send me (off-list) a (clear, meaning signature and number MUST be legible; no exceptions! This is how we'll verify ownership.) JPEG of the pick with your name, email and shipping information, Vernon will randomly pick three entries.
The first place will receive one of Vernon's personal effects pedals (autographed), in working condition. The second and third place will receive an autographed promo CD.
Note: The pedal and CD choice will be made by Vernon.
As we plan on doing this again in the near future (with a better registration method), we are going to set the deadline for this contest for Sept.30, 2005 at 11:00 PM Eastern Time. Any submissions after that will not be accepted. The winners will be notified via email within the following week.
SO... Go dig out those picks and make it happen!!!
Best of luck to ya!!!
Peace, Diamond
*The deadline is being extended until Monday, October 10 @ Midnight
Eastern Time (Sunday night, to be specific...)
lc blog note, if you do not wish to join the sacred ground group to contact Dennis, i can forward any jpeg to Dennis himself and cc you as well
Living Colour 2005 Winter Tour
Fri 12/02/05 Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom
dates were found via ticketmaster and pollstar.com, please confirm w/ venue and keep checking the official site for details too
Vernon Reid live dates
RAWA BLUES FESTIVAL
Spodek Hall, KATOWICE , POLAND
w/ James Blood Ulmer
Living Colour @ Independent, SF - setlist
Here's the 9/14/05 setlist:
Memories Can't Wait
Funny Vibe
In Your Name
Sacred Ground
No, No, No (Dawn Penn cover)
Bless Those
Ignorance is Bliss
Love Rears It's Ugly Head
This Is The Life/Tomorrow Never Knows
thanks Mark and Dennis
thanks for the pics brian!
Wednesday, September 28th : woodstock film festival
Bernie Worrell and the Strangers will perform at the Bearsville Theatre at 8:00 PM for the opening night concert. Special guest appearances include Danny Louis of Gov't Mule and Doug Wimbish and Will Calhoun of Living Colour.
BERNIE WORRELL & THE STRANGERS
featuring Will Calhoun and Doug Wimbish
Bernie Worrell & the Strangers with special guest appearances by Gov't Mule's Danny Louis and Uncle Funk featuring: Joe Beesmer, Jesse Gress, Pete Levin, and Jerry Marotta.
Living Parliament? Funkadelic Colour? We're not sure what it is, but it rocks. With a backbeat provided by resident stampede impersonator, Will Calhoun, and a groove from Doug Wimbish that is deeper than the needle's made on your Physical Graffitti vinyl, Bernie Worrell flies anywhere and everywhere on his magic carpet woven together from waveforms of all creeds and colors. Is it possible that three people are responsible for all of these sounds? Yep, they're guilty.
It wouldn't be too farfetched to call Bernie Worrell the Zelig of funk. Back in the day, he was alongside Clinton, Bootsy and everybody else who was in the deep funk of things as the musical director of Parliament Funkadelic. Throughout the years, he's popped up time and again--like an ivory-tickling, versatile Waldo--in the most intriguing places: performing with musical outfits like Bootsy's Rubber Band and Mos Def's rap-rock supergroup Black Jack Johnson; collaborating with the Talking Heads and eventually ending up in their magnificent concert film Stop Making Sense; and backing up every rapper to come out of the West Coast (in sampled form, of course). Now that he's on tour with his own backup crew, the Strangers featuring Will Calhoun and Doug Wimbish of Living Color, folks can rest assured that, in these less-than-funky times, there is still one man out there who is willing to deliver the funk--by any means necessary. (C.D.L.)
Living Colour Setlist from 9-13-05 WOW Hall
1. Memories Can't Wait
2. Type
3. Middle Man
4. Funny Vibe
5. In Your Name
6. Sacred Ground
7. Open Letter (To A Landlord)
8. Glamour Boys
9. No, No, No (dawn penn cover)
10. Go Away
11. Bless Those
12. Flying
13. Will & Vernon Jam
14. Ignorance Is Bliss
15. Love Rears It's Ugly Head
16. Drums
17. Times Up
18. Cult Of Personality
Living Colour @ CBGB's - reviews
Will Calhoun will perform at DOWN FOR THE CAUSE
Will Calhoun will perform at DOWN FOR THE CAUSE - A Harlem Relief Response to Hurricane Katrina.
Burnt Sugar, Craig Harris Group (with Special Guests Carla Cook and Graham Haynes), Queen Esther and Her Band, Sekou Sundiata and His Band (with Special Guests Will Calhoun and Ronald K. Brown), Sing Sing Percussion Ensemble, Rha Goddess, Elizabeth Alexander, Daniel Bernard Roumain, Billy Bang, Reverand Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou, and more...
AARON DAVIS HALL
W. 135th St. & Convent Ave., New York, NY 10031
Show time is 3:00pm
Tickets: $20, $40, $60, $80, $100, $250, $500, $1000
Proceeds go to Gulf area hurricane relief efforts.
more info @ WillCalhoun.com
Living Colour - Knitting Factory, LA (pics)
thanks djd
LC in San Luis Obispo setlist
thanks dognameddrew
sound check:
In your name...maybe more this is what i caught
Open Letter to a landlord
Glamour boys / no, no, no
new song (maybe called "I The Way"??)
Times up
Living Colour Winter 2005 Tour (so far)
Mon 12/05/05 Chicago, IL @ House Of Blues
Thu 12/08/05 Indianapolis, IN @ The Music Mill
dont forget :
Wed 09/07/05 - Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues - TicketMaster
Thur 09/08/05 - San Luis Obispo, CA @ SloBrew Brewpub
Fri 09/09/05 - Hollywood, CA @ Knitting Factory - TicketWeb
Sun 09/11/05 Portland, OR @ Roseland Grille - TicketsWest
Mon 09/12/05 - Seattle, WA @ El Corazon - TicketsWest
Tue 09/13/05 - Eugene, OR @ W.O.W. Hall
Wed 09/14/05 - San Francisco, CA @ Independent - TicketWeb
Future Vernon Reid 2005 tour dates (repost)
GUITAR FESTIVAL ®
Yohimbe Bros.
Nov. 4, Tampere Finland, (but I can't find it on their website, supposedly the date is confirmed.) *will keep you posted
thank you roger
Living Colour WEST COAST TOUR 2005
Tue 09/06/05 - San Diego, CA @ House of Blues - TicketMaster


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Boys' basketball: Greely wins third straight Class A title, 62-45
Rangers grab early lead and control things the rest of the way against Lawrence.
By Steve CraigStaff Writer
Greely players celebrate after defeating Lawrence 62-45 Friday night for their third straight state Class A boys' basketball title. Staff photo by Derek Davis
AUGUSTA — With a chance to join a historically short list of Maine boys' basketball teams to win three straight state championships, Greely High was looking for a spark.
Andrew Storey provided it.
As a low-scoring first quarter was winding down, Storey anticipated a pass near midcourt. The 6-foot-6 senior made the steal, raced to the basket and finished with a two-handed reverse dunk.
It was only two points, but it seemed to shake all the nerves away, and the veteran Rangers went on to a 62-45 win Friday over Lawrence in the Class A state final at the Augusta Civic Center.
"He's electric. We just get him the ball and tell him to go bang out," said senior point guard Mikey Coppersmith. "He just gets us all going, and then we take that momentum and ride it for as long as we can."
Greely (19-3) became the seventh school in Maine boys' basketball history to win three consecutive state championships, and joined Winslow (1937-39) and Morse (1987-89) as the only teams to do it in Class A.
Lawrence, which won a total of 10 games the previous two seasons, finished 13-9.
"Most kids dream of winning one, (but three championships), it just gives me the chills to just go out winning three in a row," said Greely senior captain Zach Brown, a three-year starter.
For the second straight season, the Greely boys followed a state title victory by the Greely girls.
With both the Rangers and Bulldogs off to a slow start, it was Greely's defense that changed the tempo. Logan Bagshaw intercepted a pass and fed Zach Brown for a layup, and on the next possession, Storey produced his dunk.
"I think it pushed them back on their heels a little bit, but we just had to keep going , offensively and defensively, until we got it done," Storey said.
The Rangers' big three of Storey (11 points), junior guard Bagshaw (21 points) and Brown (14 points) each came through.
"They've been our leaders for a couple of years," said Greely Coach Travis Seaver. "At the end of the day, they're three of the best players in the state, and we're going to ride them and they're going to make great decisions, and they did."
Bagshaw scored 14 points in the second quarter. Two 3-pointers pushed the lead to 16-2.
At that point, Lawrence had made 1 of 15 shots.
"We were getting stops, we just weren't getting buckets at the other end," said Lawrence Coach Jason Pellerin.
Bagshaw finished the half with four straight fast-break layups.
Brown had an efficient night, making 6 of 11 shots. He was also the key defender against Lawrence's leading scorer, Kobe Nadeau, who was held to nine points.
Lawrence did cut an 18-point deficit early in the third quarter to nine with 6:55 remaining when Gavin Herrin converted a three-point play.
Then Greely's stars rose to the occasion again, combining for an 8-0 run. Storey scored twice inside – his first hoops since his dunk. Brown made two free throws, and Bagshaw scored after a steal by Jakob Bernheisel, pushing the lead to 48-31.
Lawrence couldn't get closer than 13 the rest of the way.
Nick Robertson led Lawrence with 16 points – 12 in the fourth quarter. Dylan Martin-Hachey added nine.
From beginning to end, Greely's length and tenacity on defense was a constant challenge for Lawrence.
"All year, the harder we work, the better we play, and tonight it really paid off. Everything we worked for came down to tonight," Bagshaw said.
Steve Craig can be reached at 791-6413 or:
Twitter: SteveCCraig
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Legal or not, the marijuana business is still wacky
Updated: 2:52 PM PDT Sep 4, 2014
KSBW
Marijuana leaves
SOURCE: KSBW
Legal or not, the business of selling weed in the U.S. is as wacky as ever.The tangle of rules and regulations that govern whether and how it can be grown, bought and sold create complexity and ambiguity that cause major headaches for marijuana businesses - and enticing opportunities for those who want to exploit it."It's a gray market industry, that's just how it is," says Kayvan Khalatbari, who owns a marijuana dispensary and a chain of pizza restaurants in Denver.The big issue: the nation hasn't decided whether marijuana is a dangerous illegal drug or not much worse than tobacco or alcohol. According to federal law, it is an illegal narcotic like heroin, with "no currently accepted medical use." But recent legalization pushes have made it legal - for medical use - in 23 states and Washington D.C. In Colorado and Washington State, it can be bought just for fun.Entrepreneurs and investors have to navigate laws that are different from state to state and sometimes from county to county. That has given rise to a bumper crop of consultants promising to show the way to success, while shady public companies spin visions of fat profits. Consumers now have an array of new pot-related products to choose from, many of far higher quality than what's offered on the corner. But they must also discern truth from hope in the many claims about all the supposedly wonderful things pot can do.ENTREPRENEURSKhalatbari started his first pizza restaurant with a small business loan from a bank. To raise money to build a marijuana-growing facility, a bank loan wasn't an option.Almost all banks avoid working with pot businesses because pot is illegal federally, and banks want to avoid running afoul of anti-trafficking laws. Also, residency restrictions in Colorado prevent raising money from out-of-state investors in exchange for a share of the company, which is exactly what most investors want.So, to build a 40,000 square-foot growing facility, Khalatbari teamed with an out-of-state investor who paid for construction while trying to establish residency in Colorado. When that comes through, the investor could get an ownership stake in the facility.Khalatbari says there's plenty of investor money sloshing around, looking to fund marijuana businesses, but the terms are expensive because of the risk and the restrictions."It's almost impossible not to get funding," he says, "but it's not going to be on the terms you want."Once up and running, entrepreneurs face more twists. Khalatbari kept his bank account in the name of a management company instead of his marijuana dispensary, called Denver Relief. He was careful not to pay pot-related vendors out of the account, instead using cash, which is common in the pot business. And he didn't make cash deposits over $10,000 in order to avoid triggering suspicious activity inquiries. Still, three successive banks dropped him after learning the management company had ties to pot."We can't be honest and open about where we can put our legal money," he says. "They are pushing us underground."He has recently found an unidentified bank that will work with him and a few other pot businesses.Khalatbari can't write off certain expenses the way most businesses can. The Internal Revenue Service prohibits deductions for expenses incurred while selling what the federal government considers to be an illegal drug. That makes his profit lower than it otherwise would be. It also encourages him and other sellers to designate, for tax purposes, only a small portion of their stores as having anything to do with selling pot.These conditions can help a business flourish once it's open, however. Would-be competitors face the same hurdles to getting started - local zoning rules, state regulations, financing complexity or a slow bureaucracy - so it can often be some time before the established business faces a real challenge.California rules are relatively lax, and there are believed to be at least 500 dispensaries just in Los Angeles. But Connecticut has approved only six dispensaries. The first opened last month - without pot - two years after getting approval. Illinois growing facilities must put up a $2 million surety bond to get approval. Washington has awarded 43 licenses to sell marijuana for recreational use - and just one in Seattle, called Cannabis City.Khalatbari has plenty of competition, but the profit margin at his marijuana dispensary is 60 percent higher than at the pizza restaurants. Even after the legal headaches, it's easier to make a profit selling the bud of a plant for $200 an ounce than it is selling a meat lover's pizza (pepperoni, spicy sausage, Canadian bacon and mozzarella) for $19.99."It's much higher-risk," he says of the marijuana business. "But the reward is much greater."CONSULTANTS"Everyone wants to be in the weed business," says Adam Bierman, managing partner at a marijuana consulting company based in Culver City, California, called the Med Men.That suits Bierman just fine. Dozens if not hundreds of consultants like Bierman have popped up, feeding off the complexity of the marijuana business and the desire of so many to make it big in pot. Some act as matchmakers, promising to connect investors with entrepreneurs looking for money. Others sell help navigating the licensing process, tips on how best to grow marijuana, or advice about how to manage a startup that must operate outside of the banking system.But many of these "consultants" have little or no experience in the business. Bierman acknowledges he didn't when he started six years ago. "We got our teeth kicked in," he says.Now his firm knows the ropes, he says, but the industry is crawling with people who don't."There are a lot of opportunistic people coming into this industry from every angle," he says. "And unfortunately we are part of that. We are one of the companies I'm blasting, and I hate that."In February, PetroTech Oil and Gas - a drilling services company - announced it was establishing a management company in Colorado and Washington to help pot growers. Trading volume in the tiny company's stock rose 13-fold and the penny stock rose to 7 cents per share over three weeks. The Securities and Exchange Commission suspended trading in the stock in March over questions about the accuracy of the information about the company's operations.INVESTORSInvesting in the pot business seems like it should be as easy as printing money. The product's millions of users are so dedicated that they've been willing to risk arrest to get it. To reach them, all businesses have to do is grow a weed and sell the flowers.Pot investing is treacherous, though, even for professionals."There are a lot of large egos and puffery in this industry," says Brendan Kennedy, a former Silicon Valley banker who helped found Privateer Holdings, a marijuana-focused private equity firm. "It takes a lot of time and energy to sort through the hyperbole and find the right, legitimate opportunities."Every new pot company thinks it has the best growing technique or marijuana strain, Kennedy says, but few have worked out a long-term business plan that coldly assesses the market and the risks. Growing plants for profit isn't quite so simple."Ultimately it's a crop, it's a commodity, not very different from a lot of agricultural products that are out there," Kennedy says. "Would you invest in a winery? Or a strawberry grower?"Investing in pot stocks is even scarier, because nearly all of them are so-called penny stocks, like PetroTech, that trade outside of major exchanges. There are now a couple dozen of these companies, often with names that play on marijuana's scientific name, cannabis sativa, such as Advanced Cannabis Solutions or Cannabusiness Group. But many have tenuous ties to the marijuana industry, regulators say.Canadian regulators issued a warning about marijuana-related stocks in June, following similar alerts from the U.S. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority last year and one from the SEC in May. Five times this year the SEC has suspended trading in shares of companies claiming to be in the marijuana business.Kennedy says the penny stock companies "are full of charlatans and hucksters," who are "purely playing on the desire of Main Street investors to get into the industry."One of the companies targeted by the SEC, called GrowLife, makes urban gardening equipment and trades under the ticker symbol PHOT. An October report designed to look like it was issued by a Wall Street firm suggested the company's stock was poised to rise nearly 300 percent. But that "research" was actually paid for by GrowLife - a detail found only in the report's fine print.GrowLife's shares soared 900 percent, to 60 cents from 6 cents, between October and early April, when trading was halted by the SEC. In June the company revealed that the $37 million loss it reported for the first quarter was actually double that, $74 million. GrowLife shares have since fallen back to 7 cents.GrowLife CEO Marco Hegyi says the report "was never intended to boost the stock" and that legalization efforts boosted shares of GrowLife and other marijuana companies. Hegyi, who became CEO in March, says the company is working to improve its financial reporting. "We're more on top of our business," he says.CONSUMERSA decade ago, pot consumers risked jail time by buying pot of uncertain origin and quality in back-alley deals. Now, in many states, they can shop openly for a wide variety of strains with different levels of potency. Pot can be bought in lotions, foods and drinks with precise doses.But buyers still need to beware. Companies are using pot's new legitimacy to try to equate getting high with taking care of your body or curing any number of ailments, making extraordinary health claims about pot to push their products."Because it's a drug that makes people feel good, marketers want to put medical claims on it," says Bill London, a professor of public health at California State University in Los Angeles and a health claim watchdog. London has no problem with legalization, but says many medical claims for marijuana "are false or exaggerated" and "should not be tolerated."The website Cannabis.org, which is owned by GrowLife and carries the tagline "Cannabis is Medicine," lists 17 major diseases that cannabis can treat, including Alzheimer's, cancer, and diabetes.Some of the chemicals in marijuana have been tested thoroughly and found to effectively treat some conditions, such as reducing nausea and stimulating appetite in patients undergoing chemotherapy. These or other chemicals in pot may someday be found to be effective in treating other diseases - or they could be found to be dangerous in ways not yet understood. Scientists simply don't know yet.A Colorado company called Dixie Elixirs sells pot in pill form called "scrips" - short for "prescription." These pills allow users to manage both their ups and downs, despite the same amount of pot in each pill, with additives like ashwagandha root. "Awakening Scrips" are said to provide a "stimulating sensation," while "Relaxing Scrips" are said to "reduce mental and physical stress and promote relaxation."Joe Hodas, chief marketing officer at Dixie Elixirs, says the company is careful to not make specific medical claims about its products. "It's the regulatory framework that forces businesses to sell (marijuana) as medicine because that's the only way it's legal (in most states)," he says.
Legal or not, the business of selling weed in the U.S. is as wacky as ever.
The tangle of rules and regulations that govern whether and how it can be grown, bought and sold create complexity and ambiguity that cause major headaches for marijuana businesses - and enticing opportunities for those who want to exploit it.
"It's a gray market industry, that's just how it is," says Kayvan Khalatbari, who owns a marijuana dispensary and a chain of pizza restaurants in Denver.
The big issue: the nation hasn't decided whether marijuana is a dangerous illegal drug or not much worse than tobacco or alcohol. According to federal law, it is an illegal narcotic like heroin, with "no currently accepted medical use." But recent legalization pushes have made it legal - for medical use - in 23 states and Washington D.C. In Colorado and Washington State, it can be bought just for fun.
Entrepreneurs and investors have to navigate laws that are different from state to state and sometimes from county to county. That has given rise to a bumper crop of consultants promising to show the way to success, while shady public companies spin visions of fat profits. Consumers now have an array of new pot-related products to choose from, many of far higher quality than what's offered on the corner. But they must also discern truth from hope in the many claims about all the supposedly wonderful things pot can do.
Khalatbari started his first pizza restaurant with a small business loan from a bank. To raise money to build a marijuana-growing facility, a bank loan wasn't an option.
Almost all banks avoid working with pot businesses because pot is illegal federally, and banks want to avoid running afoul of anti-trafficking laws. Also, residency restrictions in Colorado prevent raising money from out-of-state investors in exchange for a share of the company, which is exactly what most investors want.
So, to build a 40,000 square-foot growing facility, Khalatbari teamed with an out-of-state investor who paid for construction while trying to establish residency in Colorado. When that comes through, the investor could get an ownership stake in the facility.
Khalatbari says there's plenty of investor money sloshing around, looking to fund marijuana businesses, but the terms are expensive because of the risk and the restrictions.
"It's almost impossible not to get funding," he says, "but it's not going to be on the terms you want."
Once up and running, entrepreneurs face more twists. Khalatbari kept his bank account in the name of a management company instead of his marijuana dispensary, called Denver Relief. He was careful not to pay pot-related vendors out of the account, instead using cash, which is common in the pot business. And he didn't make cash deposits over $10,000 in order to avoid triggering suspicious activity inquiries. Still, three successive banks dropped him after learning the management company had ties to pot.
"We can't be honest and open about where we can put our legal money," he says. "They are pushing us underground."
He has recently found an unidentified bank that will work with him and a few other pot businesses.
Khalatbari can't write off certain expenses the way most businesses can. The Internal Revenue Service prohibits deductions for expenses incurred while selling what the federal government considers to be an illegal drug. That makes his profit lower than it otherwise would be. It also encourages him and other sellers to designate, for tax purposes, only a small portion of their stores as having anything to do with selling pot.
These conditions can help a business flourish once it's open, however. Would-be competitors face the same hurdles to getting started - local zoning rules, state regulations, financing complexity or a slow bureaucracy - so it can often be some time before the established business faces a real challenge.
California rules are relatively lax, and there are believed to be at least 500 dispensaries just in Los Angeles. But Connecticut has approved only six dispensaries. The first opened last month - without pot - two years after getting approval. Illinois growing facilities must put up a $2 million surety bond to get approval. Washington has awarded 43 licenses to sell marijuana for recreational use - and just one in Seattle, called Cannabis City.
Khalatbari has plenty of competition, but the profit margin at his marijuana dispensary is 60 percent higher than at the pizza restaurants. Even after the legal headaches, it's easier to make a profit selling the bud of a plant for $200 an ounce than it is selling a meat lover's pizza (pepperoni, spicy sausage, Canadian bacon and mozzarella) for $19.99.
"It's much higher-risk," he says of the marijuana business. "But the reward is much greater."
"Everyone wants to be in the weed business," says Adam Bierman, managing partner at a marijuana consulting company based in Culver City, California, called the Med Men.
That suits Bierman just fine. Dozens if not hundreds of consultants like Bierman have popped up, feeding off the complexity of the marijuana business and the desire of so many to make it big in pot. Some act as matchmakers, promising to connect investors with entrepreneurs looking for money. Others sell help navigating the licensing process, tips on how best to grow marijuana, or advice about how to manage a startup that must operate outside of the banking system.
But many of these "consultants" have little or no experience in the business. Bierman acknowledges he didn't when he started six years ago. "We got our teeth kicked in," he says.
Now his firm knows the ropes, he says, but the industry is crawling with people who don't.
"There are a lot of opportunistic people coming into this industry from every angle," he says. "And unfortunately we are part of that. We are one of the companies I'm blasting, and I hate that."
In February, PetroTech Oil and Gas - a drilling services company - announced it was establishing a management company in Colorado and Washington to help pot growers. Trading volume in the tiny company's stock rose 13-fold and the penny stock rose to 7 cents per share over three weeks. The Securities and Exchange Commission suspended trading in the stock in March over questions about the accuracy of the information about the company's operations.
Investing in the pot business seems like it should be as easy as printing money. The product's millions of users are so dedicated that they've been willing to risk arrest to get it. To reach them, all businesses have to do is grow a weed and sell the flowers.
Pot investing is treacherous, though, even for professionals.
"There are a lot of large egos and puffery in this industry," says Brendan Kennedy, a former Silicon Valley banker who helped found Privateer Holdings, a marijuana-focused private equity firm. "It takes a lot of time and energy to sort through the hyperbole and find the right, legitimate opportunities."
Every new pot company thinks it has the best growing technique or marijuana strain, Kennedy says, but few have worked out a long-term business plan that coldly assesses the market and the risks. Growing plants for profit isn't quite so simple.
"Ultimately it's a crop, it's a commodity, not very different from a lot of agricultural products that are out there," Kennedy says. "Would you invest in a winery? Or a strawberry grower?"
Investing in pot stocks is even scarier, because nearly all of them are so-called penny stocks, like PetroTech, that trade outside of major exchanges. There are now a couple dozen of these companies, often with names that play on marijuana's scientific name, cannabis sativa, such as Advanced Cannabis Solutions or Cannabusiness Group. But many have tenuous ties to the marijuana industry, regulators say.
Canadian regulators issued a warning about marijuana-related stocks in June, following similar alerts from the U.S. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority last year and one from the SEC in May. Five times this year the SEC has suspended trading in shares of companies claiming to be in the marijuana business.
Kennedy says the penny stock companies "are full of charlatans and hucksters," who are "purely playing on the desire of Main Street investors to get into the industry."
One of the companies targeted by the SEC, called GrowLife, makes urban gardening equipment and trades under the ticker symbol PHOT. An October report designed to look like it was issued by a Wall Street firm suggested the company's stock was poised to rise nearly 300 percent. But that "research" was actually paid for by GrowLife - a detail found only in the report's fine print.
GrowLife's shares soared 900 percent, to 60 cents from 6 cents, between October and early April, when trading was halted by the SEC. In June the company revealed that the $37 million loss it reported for the first quarter was actually double that, $74 million. GrowLife shares have since fallen back to 7 cents.
GrowLife CEO Marco Hegyi says the report "was never intended to boost the stock" and that legalization efforts boosted shares of GrowLife and other marijuana companies. Hegyi, who became CEO in March, says the company is working to improve its financial reporting. "We're more on top of our business," he says.
A decade ago, pot consumers risked jail time by buying pot of uncertain origin and quality in back-alley deals. Now, in many states, they can shop openly for a wide variety of strains with different levels of potency. Pot can be bought in lotions, foods and drinks with precise doses.
But buyers still need to beware. Companies are using pot's new legitimacy to try to equate getting high with taking care of your body or curing any number of ailments, making extraordinary health claims about pot to push their products.
"Because it's a drug that makes people feel good, marketers want to put medical claims on it," says Bill London, a professor of public health at California State University in Los Angeles and a health claim watchdog. London has no problem with legalization, but says many medical claims for marijuana "are false or exaggerated" and "should not be tolerated."
The website Cannabis.org, which is owned by GrowLife and carries the tagline "Cannabis is Medicine," lists 17 major diseases that cannabis can treat, including Alzheimer's, cancer, and diabetes.
Some of the chemicals in marijuana have been tested thoroughly and found to effectively treat some conditions, such as reducing nausea and stimulating appetite in patients undergoing chemotherapy. These or other chemicals in pot may someday be found to be effective in treating other diseases - or they could be found to be dangerous in ways not yet understood. Scientists simply don't know yet.
A Colorado company called Dixie Elixirs sells pot in pill form called "scrips" - short for "prescription." These pills allow users to manage both their ups and downs, despite the same amount of pot in each pill, with additives like ashwagandha root. "Awakening Scrips" are said to provide a "stimulating sensation," while "Relaxing Scrips" are said to "reduce mental and physical stress and promote relaxation."
Joe Hodas, chief marketing officer at Dixie Elixirs, says the company is careful to not make specific medical claims about its products. "It's the regulatory framework that forces businesses to sell (marijuana) as medicine because that's the only way it's legal (in most states)," he says.
'Operation Clean Forest' finds $70 million of marijuana in Los Padres National Forest


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Violence against Women and Girls; financial and economic inclusion of women among key outcomes of AU Ministerial meeting
African Press Organization
December 01, 2020, 18:27 GMT
The development of the African Union Campaign and negotiation of an AU Convention on Ending Violence against Women and Girls; the full implementation of the African Union guidelines on the Gender Responsive Responses to COVID-19; the universal ratification, domestication and implementation of the Maputo Protocol on Women's Rights; the approval to disseminate the AU Strategy on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment and the development of a 10 year continental AU Strategy and Action Plan on Women's Financial and Economic Inclusion of the African Women's Decade 2020-2030, are among the key outcomes of the Ministerial segment of the 5th Ordinary Session of the African Union Specialised Technical Committee on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (STC on GEWE).
Convened on 27 November 2020 during the 16 Days of Activism Campaign Against Gender-Based Violence under the facilitation of the African Union Commission's Women, Gender and Development Directorate (AUC-WGDD), AU the Ministers in charge of Gender and Women's Affairs considered and adopted far-reaching decisions that will protect and promote women's rights on the continent including the approval to disseminate the revised AU Strategy on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment, which was adopted by the AU Assembly in its mid-term Summit in Nouakchott in 2018.
The urgency to address the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its twin-pandemic on Violence Against Women and Girls were among the key issues addressed. With the implementation of measures to control the pandemic such as lockdowns, border closures and movement restrictions, deeply concerning reports have emerged on its effect on women such as the collapse of the informal daily wage economy largely predominated by women; the closure of small and medium enterprises and loss of means of sustenance for women; school closures that has seen an increase in teenage pregnancy, domestic violence, among others. The pandemic has deepened the pre-existing gender inequalities and exposed the deep-seated vulnerabilities of government systems. The STC on GEWE was therefore key to push on the need to implement the African Union guidelines on the Gender Responsive Responses to COVID-19 as tailor made preventive measures that mainstream gender equality and ensure women participate fully and effectively in COVID-19 responses and recovery plans in Africa.
Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) remains one of the critical impediments to women's realization of their fundamental rights including the rights to life, human dignity, peace, justice, socio- economic and political development. To secure political commitment and amplify renewed state accountability to protect, promote and fulfil women and girls' rights to be free from violence, the STC on GEWE considered in favour of the AU to kick-starting the process of negotiating an African Union Convention on Ending Violence Against Women and Girls. The Convention will complement existing binding and non-binding legal instruments on VAWG such as the Maputo Protocol on Women's Rights and the Solemn Declaration on Gender Equality in Africa (SDGEA).
Reflecting on the Women, Peace and Security Agenda of the AU, the Ministers took note of the outcomes of the first Africa Forum on Women, Peace and Security and supported the convening of a Peace Forum for Africa, led by Women and supported and attended by Africa Heads of State and Government to explore peaceful avenues for conflict resolution and enhance the role of women in advancing the achievement of sustainable peace in Africa.
Following the adoption of the Declaration in February 2020 on 2020-2030 as the Decade of African Women's Financial and Economic Inclusion, the AU-WGDD has since embarked on actualizing the realization of the goals for the decade and will develop a 10-year continental AU Strategy and Action Plan that identifies innovative and concrete actions for the AU to close the gender gap in financial inclusion and provide evidence-based solutions for women to control their own economic resources. Correlated, the AU Fund for African Women (FAW) is being converted into a Trust Fund for African Women (TFAW) and it will be part of the concrete solutions that will be made available for women to realize economic justice and financial inclusion. The new Decade follows the just concluded African Women's Decade (2010-2020), which focused on Grassroots Approach to Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment.
African Union Member States have made collective and individual commitments to the advancement of the rights of women and girls in Africa. While celebrating the gains made over the decade, the STC-GEWE deliberated on the status of ratification and implementation of the Maputo Protocol. The African Union member states committed to 2020 as the year for the Universal ratification, domestication and implementation of the Protocol. However, only 42 of the 55 Member States have since ratified the Protocol. Further, AU States are also obligated to report on the implementation progress of the Protocol, yet majority hardly report. As such the Ministers committed to rally more action at the national level to address the challenges of accountability and tracking of implementation of these commitments. They also adopted the Maputo Protocol Scorecard and Index (MPSI) as a monitoring and evaluation tool for the assessment of the implementation of the Maputo Protocol.
Among other key issues that were considered during the STC on GEWE were the establishment of 25 National Chapters of the African Women Leaders' Network (AWLN) to mark the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.
The meeting was opened by H.E Dr. Mèdessè Véronique Tognifodé Mewanou, Minister of Social Affairs and Microfinance of the Republic of Benin and Chairperson of the STC on GEWE who in her statement called for African governments to take measures to limit the traumatic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on women by, among other initiatives, extending income support to vulnerable people, improving access to health care, establishing and improving prevention services to respond to violence against women but also supporting the participation of women in leadership and decision-making processes in COVID-19 responses. Read the full statement here.
On her part, H.E Mrs. Filsan Abdi, Minister of Women, Children and Youth in the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia underscored the critical importance of coming up with new and improved approaches to achieve Gender equality and empower all women and girls but also ensuring that adequate financing is available for the strategies and initiatives that are developed. Read the full statement here.
The President of Pan-African Women's Organisation (PAWO), H.E Ms.Eunice Iipinge, noted that the key resolutions and a declaration adopted during the PAWO 10th Congress and its participation to the STC on GEWE demonstrates the commitment of the organization to continue leading the continental agenda for women and participating in all AU decision making platforms and events of AUC on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment. She however noted that still more efforts need to be done including in terms of capacity building and resources allocation. Read the full statement here.
As 2020 marks the end of the African Women Decade, the Chairperson of the AU Commission, H.E Mr. Moussa Faki Mahamat observed that the new African Women's Decade on Financial and Economic Inclusion reflects the continent's determination to strengthen efforts and promote the full emancipation of women. He also emphasized the commitment of AU to continue developing and implementing innovative tools, AU instruments and strategies to strengthen gender equality and empower women and girls in Africa. He also encouraged the 13 remaining AU Member States to ratify the Maputo Protocol. Read the full statement here.
The ministerial meeting was preceded by a two-day Experts meeting. Find details of the upcoming 5th Specialised Technical Committee on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment here.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of African Union (AU).
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The Division-Deciding Match-Ups
by Miles Wray
If you look at the MLB's gigantic 162-game gauntlet from a certain perspective, the landscape of every division is dictated by intra-divisional match-ups. For instance, in the spread-out NL Central, the Chicago Cubs (47-40 and eight games back of the St. Louis Cardinals) are serious contenders for a playoff spot, while the Cincinnati Reds (39-47, 15.5 games back) have been presumed for the whole season to be trade deadline sellers, with a close-to-hopeless chance of making the playoffs.
The shape of the NL Central looks very different if the season series between the Cubs and the Reds wasn't played. The Cubs lead 7-2, with ten more games scheduled after the All-Star Break. Take this one match-up out of the two teams' records and the Cubs are 40-38, and the Reds are 37-40, suddenly a weekend series away from matching each other in the standings.
Of course, the Cubs and the Reds aren't very close in the standings — and a huge reason why is that the Cubs have been dominant against the Reds. So, which match-up in each division has been the most one-sided and decisive in putting the current playoff picture into focus?
AL West / Angels 7, Rangers 2 / Angels +33 Runs
This was a relatively even season series that got out of hand earlier this month, when the Angels responded to the awkward resignation of Jerry Dipoto plus the awkward re-introduction to Josh Hamilton with a three-game sweep of the Rangers, in Arlington, by a combined score of 33-8. The Angels, suddenly division leaders, have a six-game lead over the sub-.500 Rangers that would sink down to a thin one-game lead without this total ownership.
As one could probably guess, the Angels could not have dropped such significant numbers on a team without contributions from players other than the ones named Mike Trout and Albert Pujols. Against the Rangers this year, Erick Aybar and Collin Cowgill both have an OPS approaching 1.000; Kole Calhoun is hitting .500/.516/.786, with 11 of his season's 47 RBIs; and C.J. Cron has gone similarly bananas, hitting .529/.514/.735 with 11 of his season's 18 RBIs.
The teams meet again in Anaheim from July 24-26, again from September 4-6, and in Arlington to close the regular season from October 1-4.
Other Decisively Won Match-ups:
-Astros 9, Mariners 4
-A's 9, Rangers 4
-Mariners 5, Rangers 1
AL Central / Royals 8, Twins 5 / Royals +15 Runs
The Royals' 4.5-game advantage over the second-place Twins (!) dwindles down significantly if the Royals did not manage a 3-game sweep in Minnesota in early June, limiting the Twins to three runs total over the series. The Twins have managed to score only 2.8 runs per game against the Royals, compared to 4.25 runs per game so far against all other teams. Supposed end-of-rotation starters Edinson Volquez (2.08 ERA in 21.2 innings) and Chris Young (1.62 ERA in 16.2 innings) have helped reduce the Twins' unpredictable lineup to rubble. Torii Hunter (.208/.273/.250), Brian Dozier (.191/.291/.277), Oswaldo Arcia (.125/.176/.313), and Kurt Suzuki (.119/.119/.214) have all been might ineffective against Kansas City.
These two won't see each other again until September 7-9 in Kansas City, and then will close the regular season in Minnesota from October 2-4.
-Twins 9, White Sox 4
-Tigers 8, Twins 5
-Tigers 9, Indians 3
AL East / Rays 7, Blue Jays 3 / Rays +11 Runs
There's hardly any separation in any match-up in baseball's tightest division. And even Tampa Bay's upper hand over the Blue Jays is something of a happy scheduling accident: Toronto is the only team that Chris Archer has faced three times, with Jake Odorizzi (13 starts on the season) and Drew Smyly (three starts) also starting one team each against the Blue Jays. One could put together a compelling case for Archer's Cy Young candidacy based just on his performance against the MLB's roughest and toughest offense: in those 22 innings, the Blue Jays have struck out 25 times and scored just one run.
These two teams get at it right after the All-Star Break, playing in Toronto from July 17-19. Then they'll finish the season with six games in the last week-and-a-half of the season, in Toronto from September 25-27 and in Tampa Bay to close the season from October 2-4. It's hard to imagine those games not having gigantic playoff implications.
-Orioles 9, Red Sox 4
NL West / Giants 9, Dodgers 3 / Giants +8 Runs
If you're wondering why the Dodgers have league-leading odds to win the World Series while hardly running away from their struggling division, look no further than this quixotic match-up against their ol' rivals. It seems nigh impossible for the Giants to have a six-game advantage over the Dodgers while holding just an eight-run advantage — each Dodger victory in this series has been a blowout (7-3, 8-3, 10-2), and three of the Giants' victories have been by one run, including two walk-offs.
While getting three starts from Madison Bumgarner in the series certainly doesn't hurt, the San Francisco bullpen mutates into something fierce against Los Angeles. Hunter Strickland (1.2 innings), Jeremy Affeldt (4.1), Javier Lopez (4.1), Sergio Romo (5.0), and Santiago Casilla (5.2) have allowed zero runs between them against the Dodgers. Also definitely not in the Dodgers' favor: while Zack Greinke has not missed a start on the season, he's only gone up against the Giants once (he's faced the Miami Marlins twice).
The teams meet in Los Angeles from August 31-September 2, and then in San Francisco from September 28-October 1.
-Dodgers 9, Diamondbacks 3
-Dodgers 9, Rockies 4
-Dodgers 8, Padres 4
-Diamondbacks 7, Giants 3
-Diamondbacks 8, Rockies 4
NL Central / Cardinals 9, Cubs 4 / Cardinals +21 Runs
Unlike all of these other match-ups, it doesn't appear that it's outstanding individual performances by St. Louis that are deciding the series — more like melty-downy performances from the Chicago pitching staff. Jason Hammel's probably-career-best season stalled against the Cardinals, as he went only five innings total across two starts. Kyle Hendricks also lasted only five innings in his one start against St. Louis. Emergency starters Donn Roach and Dallas Beeler each appeared against the Cardinals in their only starts of the season. Relief work by Pedro Strop, Edwin Jackson, and Clayton Richard has yielded ERAs in the double digits for all three pitchers.
The teams play in St. Louis from September 7-9 and in Chicago from September 18-20.
-Reds 7, Pirates 2
-Cubs 7, Reds 2
NL East / Nationals 9, Braves 3 / Nationals +27 Runs
Impressively for the Nationals, they've only received one start from Max Scherzer in their twelve games against the Braves — and they lost it. (The Nationals did win, however, a game in which A.J. Cole gave up nine runs in the first two innings.) Instead, both Jordan Zimmerman and Doug Fister have gone up against Atlanta four times apiece, with a very unsurprising 6-2 result. Throw in another sharp start by Gio Gonzalez and a scoreless outing by Stephen Strasburg and, yup, that's nine National wins. Bryce Harper's team-carrying 1.170 OPS against the Braves looks perhaps even nuttier after considering that his OPS against all teams this season is a virtually identical 1.168.
These two play in Washington from September 3-6 and in Atlanta from September 29-October 1.
-Mets 8, Phillies 1
-Braves 7, Marlins 2
Individual opponent splits via the Baseball-Reference Play Index.
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Funniest part of the Nationals killing the Braves was that they've been the only team in the division we've struggled with recently. 16-4 against the Mets last year is an encouraging record against a team that is suppoably competing is a good outlook.
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First, the word is "supposedly", not "suppoably" ("supposably"? Not a word). Second, as one sees from this season's 6-6 head-to-head record between the Mets and the braves, with the Mets outscoring the braves 49-44, last season's record has little or nothing to do with this season's record between the two. Third, there's nothing "supposed" about the Mets' competing. They're only two games out of the division lead, and one game out of the Wild Card.
The Braves outlook will be rosier when they finally reach .500. At that point, one can dream on the postseason, but Atlanta needs a pretty great week or two before that can begin.


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The Socrates Sculpture Park was founded in 1986 by a group of community members and artists. With a mission "based on the belief that reclamation, revitalization and creative expression are essential to the survival, humanity and improvement of our urban environment," they broke ground and created a home for artists, both emerging and veteran, to create and showcase unique, large scale, and sometimes interactive, visions in the New York Metropolitan area.
What was once an abandoned riverside landfill and illegal dumpsite, is now home to an open studio and exhibition space- providing art and amazing views of the Hudson River. A pathway runs the outer perimeter of the park, passing through many of the exhibitions, leading to a farmers market selling seasonal wares. Guests are free to walk among the exhibits, and interact when able. Socrates Sculpture Park encourages strong interaction between the artists, artworks and the public. Current featured artists include Kenseth Armstead, José Carlos Casado, Torkwase Dyson, Carla Edwards, Davey Hawkins, Lena Henke, David Horvitz, Charlotte Hyzy, Melanie McLain, Kirsten Nelson, Freya Powell, Leah Raintree, Charlotte Becket Roger Sayre, Aaron Suggs, Noa Younse, and David Riley.
We were lucky enough to catch the farmer's market on the last day of the season and after a refreshing snack of crisp apples, we rode back to Prospect Park in Brooklyn to end the day.
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BBC News Online charts the success of the blockbuster movie.
It was startlingly obvious to everyone that Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone would be the first true blockbuster of the millennium, and Lord of the Rings is predicted to equal - or even surpass - its popularity .
Online booking and advanced sales have spelled the end of the long-snaking queue out of the cinema and along the street.
But strange as it may seem, the notion of the blockbuster film - made famous by Jaws, Ghostbusters and Jurassic Park - is not that old.
The word itself dates back to World War II and to references to bombs which could level entire streets, or blocks.
The word then was used to define hit plays and musicals on Broadway but it was not until the 1970s when a young film-maker called Stephen Spielberg came along did the word take on its true filmic sense.
In the summer of 1975 a great white shark called Jaws rose out of the water and terrified an entire nation.
In the US, beach attendances fell, cinema audiences grew and everyone was gripped by Jaws fever.
Jaws was not only popular, it was an event, and its success changed forever the way Hollywood marketed films.
Until then, summer was considered a graveyard for cinema, a time when distributors would release films they considered poor.
The big change for Jaws was the decision by Universal to give the film a wide release.
Most films at that time were "platformed" - opening in key cities first and then spread out across the country to what were adjudged to be secondary markets.
Jaws opened nationwide in 465 screens, small compared to today's big releases in 3,000 to 4,000 screens - backed by $700,000 worth of TV time on national networks, reaching 211m homes.
It was the first time a film had been trailed on network television and the combination of hype and hyperbole proved irresistible.
Merchandising and the soundtrack also played a huge part in the success of the film.
John Williams' soundtrack, with the famous Jaws theme music, was for sale along with stuffed sharks, beach towels, T-shirts, caps and action figures.
Two years later and another film given little chance to succeed imitated the formula.
Star Wars made as much money from merchandising as it took in at the box office.
The key aspect to Jaws' success, and one that holds true for Harry Potter, was the fact it was based on a best-selling book.
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Other key aspects to a successful film include trailers.
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace showed people were desperate to see any kind of footage before a hyped movie was released.
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38 women have come forward to accuse director James Toback of sexual harassment
Oct 23, 2017 / Media Coverage / Los Angeles Times — Glenn Whipp
He prowled the streets of Manhattan looking for attractive young women, usually in their early 20s, sometimes college students, on occasion a high schooler. He approached them in Central Park, standing in line at a bank or drug store or at a copy center while they worked on their resumes.
His opening line had a few variations. One went: "My name's James Toback. I'm a movie director. Have you ever seen 'Black and White' or 'Two Girls and a Guy'?"
Probably not. So he'd start to drop names. He had an Oscar nomination for writing the Warren Beatty movie "Bugsy." He directed Robert Downey Jr., in three movies. The actor, Toback claimed, was a close friend; he had "invented him." If you didn't believe him, he would pull out a business card or an article that had been written about him to prove he had some juice in Hollywood. That he could make you a star.
But first, he'd need to get to know you. Intimately. Trust him, he'd say. It's all part of his process.
Then, in a hotel room, a movie trailer, a public park, meetings framed as interviews or auditions quickly turned sexual, according to 38 women who, in separate interviews told the Los Angeles Times of similar encounters they had with Toback.
I felt like a prostitute, an utter disappointment to myself, my parents, my friends. And I deserved not to tell anyone. — Adrienne LaValley, actress
During these meetings, many of the women said, Toback boasted of sexual conquests with the famous and then asked humiliating personal questions. How often do you masturbate? How much pubic hair do you have? He'd tell them, they said, that he couldn't properly function unless he "jerked off" several times a day. And then he'd dry-hump them or masturbate in front of them, ejaculating into his pants or onto their bodies and then walk away. Meeting over.
The women's accounts portray James Toback as a man who, for decades, sexually harassed women he hired, women looking for work and women he just saw on the street. The vast majority of these women — 31 of the 38 interviewed — spoke on the record. The Times also interviewed people that the women informed of the incidents when they occurred.
As is often the case, none of them contacted the police at the time. When contacted by The Times, Toback denied the allegations, saying that he had never met any of these women or, if he did, it "was for five minutes and have no recollection." He also repeatedly claimed that for the last 22 years, it had been "biologically impossible" for him to engage in the behavior described by the women in this story, saying he had diabetes and a heart condition that required medication. Toback declined to offer further details.
The women interviewed during The Times' investigation offered accounts that differed from Toback's recollections.
"The way he presented it, it was like, 'This is how things are done,'" actress Adrienne LaValley said of a 2008 hotel room encounter that ended with Toback trying to rub his crotch against her leg. When she recoiled, he stood up and ejaculated in his pants. "I felt like a prostitute, an utter disappointment to myself, my parents, my friends. And I deserved not to tell anyone."
"In a weird sense, I thought, 'This is a test of whether I'm a real artist and serious about acting,'" remembered Starr Rinaldi, who was an aspiring actress when Toback approached her in Central Park about 15 years ago. "He always wanted me to read for him in a hotel or come back to his apartment, like, 'How serious are you about your craft?'"
He told me he'd love nothing more than to masturbate while looking into my eyes. — Louise Post, guitarist and vocalist for Veruca Salt.
"And the horrible thing is, whichever road you choose, whether you sleep with him or walk away, you're still broken," Rinaldi continued. "You have been violated."
Like Harvey Weinstein, Toback, now 72, was a big, hulking man with a reputation, so much so that he titled his 1987 semi-autobiographical movie "The Pick-up Artist." He has been a writer/director since 1974; his most recent film, "The Private Life of a Modern Woman" starring Sienna Miller, premiered at this year's Venice Film Festival. Media profiles often referred to him as a womanizer. Lurking underneath were darker rumors of creepy behavior, reported in 1989 by Spy magazine and, more recently, by Gawker.
According to the 38 women who spoke to The Times, the scope of Toback's behavior was far more serious.
"He told me he'd love nothing more than to masturbate while looking into my eyes," said Louise Post, who met Toback in 1987 while attending Barnard College. Post, now a guitarist and vocalist for the indie rock band Veruca Salt, added: "Going to his apartment has been the source of shame for the past 30 years, that I allowed myself to be so gullible."
In the wake of Oscar-winning producer Harvey Weinstein being fired after reports revealed decades of sexual misconduct, many women have been coming forward with tales of harassment, abuse and assault. On the Twitter hashtag campaign #MeToo, Toback has his own special universe. The Veruca Salt account tweeted on Monday: "Us too: by bosses, boyfriends, male babysitters, taxi drivers, strangers and movie director/pig #jamestoback #metoo."
"It's a common thread among many women I know … after someone mentions they were sexually abused by a creepy writer-director, the response is, 'Oh, no. You got Toback-ed,'" said Karen Sklaire, a New York drama teacher, actor and playwright who said a 1997 meeting with Toback in an office ended with him grinding against her leg. "The numbers are staggering."
Toback always kept his credentials handy when he introduced himself to women. He had amassed a solid body of work over four decades: His 1974 debut, "The Gambler" starring James Caan, the three movies with Downey Jr., a sympathetic documentary about boxer Mike Tyson and, of course, that Oscar-nominated screenplay for "Bugsy," the 1991 portrait of gangster Bugsy Siegel, directed by Barry Levinson and starring Beatty and Annette Bening.
Toback's movies often examine extremes — gambling, drinking, womanizing — that he says overlap with his own demons. "The idea is not to have a separation between my life and my movies," Toback said in a 2002 Salon interview. His characters are often on edge — Harvey Keitel's pianist in "Fingers," the teenagers infatuated with hip-hop culture in "Black and White."
I was shocked and frozen and didn't know what to do. I thought if I resisted, it could get worse. He could overpower me. — Terri Conn, actress
As a writer/director, Toback liked to push the envelope sexually. The widely panned 2004 drama "When Will I Be Loved" opened with a five-minute shot of Neve Campbell masturbating with a shower nozzle.
Off-screen he constantly brought up those provocative scenes, say the majority of the women interviewed by The Times, to see how far they were willing to go, both during the audition process and, should they be cast, in his movies.
"The more time you spend with him, the weirder it gets until it's like just like one giant red flag," said Los Angeles radio reporter Anna Scott.
Scott was an 18-year-old senior at Manhattan's Hunter College High School when Toback approached her at a deli across the street from her campus. He told her he was working on a movie called "Black and White," that it starred boxer Tyson and he was casting complete unknowns. He asked if Scott was interested in acting. She was about to attend USC to study screenwriting. She thought she had made a fortuitous connection.
Toback invited Scott to a taping of the "Charlie Rose" show, where he was part of a panel. After the taping, he told her, they could talk more about the movie. But as they walked the streets of Midtown, the conversation quickly veered into sexual territory, including queries about masturbation and pubic hair.
"It was disgusting and embarrassing," Scott said. "I tried to extricate myself from it without causing a scene."
Instead, Toback steered her into a restaurant where, she said he told her, "You have to be ready to turn yourself completely over to me." Finally, she abruptly stood up and fled.
In his trailer on the set of "Black and White," Toback knelt in front of actress Echo Danon and, she says, put his hands on her thighs, telling her, "If you look into my eyes and pinch my nipples, I'm going to come in my pants right now." She resisted. She felt helpless. Eventually he backed down.
"Everyone wants to work, so they put up with it," Danon said. "That's why I put up with it. Because I was hoping to get another job."
Toback approached Sari Kamin at a Kinko's in Manhattan's Upper West Side in 2003. He pulled out a DVD copy of "Two Girls and a Guy" and told her he'd like to cast her in his next movie. He said he felt an instant connection to her.
After several dinners over the course of a few months, Kamin says, Toback convinced her to accompany him to a hotel room, telling her that he needed to experience a "real connection" with her. Alarms went off, she says. She knew she wouldn't sleep with him, but she felt like if she could make it through the evening, maybe she'd finally land a part.
Once in the suite, Kamin says, Toback asked her to take off her clothes. She protested. Toback berated her, saying that if she couldn't reveal herself to him in the hotel room, how would she be able to act in a provocative sex scene in front of a movie crew? She gave in, removed her clothes. After commenting on her body, he knelt down before her and began to vigorously rub his groin against her.
"I felt really paralyzed," Kamin recalled. "And I asked him, 'Are you trying to get yourself off?' And he said, 'Absolutely.'" She jumped out of her chair, grabbed her clothes and ran.
Not all of the incidents in the women's accounts occurred in private. Terri Conn was 23 and acting on the soap opera "As the World Turns" when, she says, Toback approached her on the street. She was intrigued by his credentials and dreamed of being in an edgy independent film. Toback asked her to meet him in Central Park to discuss his process. He took her to a somewhat secluded area — there were people yards away — and told her the best way to get to know someone is to see their soul. And the way you can see someone's soul is to look into their eyes when they're experiencing orgasm. And he knelt before her and began humping her leg, telling Conn to look into his eyes.
"I was shocked and frozen and didn't know what to do," Conn said. "I thought if I resisted, it could get worse. He could overpower me." He quickly ejaculated into his khakis, got up and asked her to meet for dinner later to continue the process. Conn ignored his subsequent phone calls and never saw him again.
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TEL AVIV – A former Iranian diplomat claimed that Israel with responsible for Thursday's attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, an Iranian media outlet reported.
Without offering any evidence, Hamid Reza Asefi, who served as Iran's ambassador to France and Foreign Ministry spokesman, claimed the motive behind the attack was "clear."
"I think the directing of such incidents in the region are done by the Zionist regime and this has no hidden dimensions," Asefi told Iran Online in an interview cited by the Tehran Times.
Israel benefits the most from accusations against Iran, Asefi theorized, and therefore "logically the Zionist regime is the agent of this incident."
He added that Israel seeks to drag the Islamic Republic into turmoil with the rest of the world.
Iran denies any involvement in the twin attacks. The country's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, implied Israeli involvement when on Friday he accused the U.S., Israel and Saudi Arabia of engaging in a plot to "sabotage diplomacy."
Meanwhile Israeli intelligence has joined the U.S. in blaming Iran for the incidents.
Over the weekend, an Israeli TV report cited senior intelligence officials as saying that the Iranians used mines and a torpedo in the attack.
Limpet mines were spotted on one of the ships, leading the U.S. to conclude that Iran was behind the attack. The U.S. military released footage apparently showing Iran's Revolutionary Guard removing one of the unexploded mines. A U.S. official also told CNN that Iranian forces in the Gulf of Oman spotted a U.S. drone hours before the attack and fired a surface-to-air missile at it.
According to the official, the missile missed the drone and fell into the water.
President Donald Trump on Friday called Iran "a nation of terror." He said the attack had "Iran written all over it" and the Islamic Republic "did do it."
"You know they did it because you saw the boat," Trump said. "I guess one of the mines didn't explode and it's probably got essentially Iran written all over it."
"You saw the boat at night, successfully trying to take the mine off — and that was exposed," he said.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday that the "unprovoked attacks present a clear threat to international peace and security, a blatant assault on the freedom of navigation and an unacceptable campaign of escalating tension by Iran."
The UK also said it had concluded that Iran was responsible for the attacks.
"Our own assessment leads us to conclude that responsibility for the attacks almost certainly lies with Iran. These latest attacks build on a pattern of destabilizing Iranian behavior and pose a serious danger to the region," British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said Friday.
In response, Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned the British ambassador for a dressing down.
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Saturday night also accused Iran of carrying out the attacks.
"We won't hesitate to deal with any threat to our people, our sovereignty, our territorial integrity and our vital interests," he said in an interview with Arabic daily Asharq al-Awsat.
Iran's mission to the UN issued a statement saying: "The US economic war and terrorism against the Iranian people as well as its massive military presence in the region have been and continue to be the main sources of insecurity and instability in the wider Persian Gulf region and the most significant threat to its peace and security."
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