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KEY advocates of the decriminalisation of ganja are getting ready to launch a cannabis growers' association here as momentum builds towards establishment of a formal ganja industry in Jamaica. |
Encouraged by legalisation of ganja in Colorado and Washington in the United States, and Uruguay in South America, the Jamaicans foresee the development of a local, regional and international cannabis industry, led by a Cannabis Future Growers and Producers Association, that will eventually generate billions of dollars... |
The growers' and producers' association will be launched on January 18, 2014 as one outcome of a major stakeholders forum titled 'Going Forward -- Legalise it', that organisers hope will bring together the disparate entities planning a future in ganja at the University of the West Indies in Mona, St Andrew. |
"We have invited representatives of the various organisations to come together at the forum to take their ideas forward," Paul Burke, a spokesman for the forum organisers confirmed yesterday. "The launch of the Cannabis Future Growers and Producers Association is expected to be one of the outcomes of the forum." |
The stakeholders forum is being organised by the tripartite Ganja Law Reform Coalition, the Cannabis Commercial and Medicinal Research Task Force, and the National Alliance for the Legalisation of Ganja. Among the invitees are the Jamaica Agricultural Society; the State-run Scientific Research Council (SRC); the Univer... |
licensed cannabis industry establishments and invest-ments. They are also advocating stricter enforce-ment and penalties for the illegal exportation of ganja. |
Formation of a ganja planters grouping anticipates the decriminalisation of ganja, which is now being widely taken as a done deal, with both sides of the parliamentary fence sharing rare agreement on a major issue. |
It would be a historic landmark on a long and tortuous road that led to adoption of a much-debated report by the Government-sanctioned National Commission on Ganja in August 2001. |
In brief, the commission, headed by the late Barry Chevannes, recommended: "...the decriminalisation of ganja for personal, private use by adults, and for use as a sacrament for religious purposes..." |
The commission also said that, after reviewing the most up-to-date body of medical and scientific research, it is "of the view that whatever health hazards the substance poses to the individual — and there is no doubt that ganja can have harmful effects — these do not warrant the criminalisation of thousands of Jamaica... |
Phillip Paulwell, the minister of science, technology, energy, and mining and the most high-profile personality in the Portia Simpson Miller Administration to publicly endorse the ganja thrust, said recently that "Jamaica will not be left behind" as interest and movements in ganja law reform, research and development g... |
jointly authored by Dr Henry Lowe and Dr Errol Morrison, outlining the attributes and potential of ganja. Lowe is somewhat ahead of the game, having recently established Jamaica's first medical ganja company called Medicanja. |
A position paper developed by the Cannabis Commercial and Medicinal Research Task Force, led by Delano Seiveright, outlined the many products and business opportunities that could be developed from a cannabis industry, including food; personal care; wellness; beauty; clothing; travel and leisure; spirituality; construc... |
The forum, which runs from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, will examine a range of issues touching on legalisation of ganja and will weigh the options in light of global developments. Its decisions will be published in a communiqué and position paper. |
A few commenters have suggested, in response to my post on the utter failure of the claim that budget deficits would drive up interest rates even in a liquidity trap, that things might look different if we looked at real rather than nominal rates. |
There was a bump in real rates in the months following Lehman’s failure — that was caused by a flight to liquidity, which meant that only plain-vanilla Treasuries were wanted. But since then real rates have dropped to extraordinarily low levels: less than 1 percent on 10-years, negative on 5-years. |
A corporation would see borrowing costs this low as a strong incentive to borrow more and invest. In Washington, however, all you hear is fear of deficits. |
besides from asus what is the best brand you know? |
Acer is another brand I know that looks nice and I know that some of the problems with some of the Acer laptops I've worked on are just from wear and tear(laptop screen has colored bars and getting warm after a year and half[replaced screen and applied new thermal paste] and another Acer netbook screen was cracked from... |
The only time I had to work on a ASUS is when the desktop computer got infected by viruses and trashed the OS(no really the guy came by to have his computer repaired several times). |
I seem to agree. Also it seems a lot of people laptop wise buy cheap Acer units and expect them to last forever. Also don't treat them with respect. With motherboards and the like you get what you pay for more often then not. But you can't go wrong with Asus! |
Emergency services will gather at the River Tay for a training exercise today to test their response to a major incident. |
Members of the public are being urged not to panic if they spot what looks like a body in the river from 6pm. |
Two boats will be in the water near Perth to simulate a crash. |
Dummies will also be in the water between Moncreiffe Island and Newburgh and actors will be on the shore. |
Locals have been told to expect to see emergency workers from nearly all services, along with Dundee Airport Fire Service and NHS Tayside staff. |
FAIRFIELD, Conn. -- Gail Strumpf scored 14 points and had 10 rebounds as Fairfield downed Loyola, 49-41, yesterday in a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference women's game. |
Strumpf was the only player to score in double figures for the Stags (5-4, 1-0), who held the Greyhounds (7-2, 0-1) to 25 percent shooting (7-for-28) in the second half. |
Loyola also missed 12 of 14 three-point attempts in failing to hold a three-point lead at halftime. Loyola led 21-18 at intermission, but Fairfield took control by shooting 59 percent (10-for-17) in the second half. |
Corey Hewitt's 14 points led the Greyhounds. Mary Anne Kirsch added 11 points, and Erica Rath, 10. |
LOYOLA -- Mosley 1-10 0-4 2, Rath 4-11 2-2 10, Kirsch 4-12 3-4 11, Hewitt 4-12 4-4 14, Cooney 0-2 0-0 0, Cohen 0-1 0-0 0, Slater 0-1 0-0 0, Bongard 0-4 0-0 0, Peterkin 2-5 0-0 4. Totals 15-58 9-14 41. |
FAIRFIELD -- Ranaldo 3-4 0-0 6, Strumpf 5-12 4-6 14, Tapley 1-4 2-2 4, Schiano 2-5 0-2 4, Natale 1-2 2-2 5, Nicholas 2-8 4-7 8, Light 2-3 1-2 6, Friel 1-2 0-0 2, Lemon 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 17-43 13-21 49. |
Halftime--Loyola 21-18. 3-point goals--L 2-14 (Hewitt 2-9, Cohen 0-1, Bongard 0-3, Peterkin 0-1). F 2-3 (Tapley 0-1, Natale 1-1, Light 1-1). Rebounds--L 35 (Kirsch 11), F 42 (Strumpf, Nicholas 10). Assists--L 10 (Mosley 4), F 11 (Tapley, Nicholas 3). Total fouls--L 20, F 14. A--747. |
According to a previous IDC report, the worldwide smartphone shipments declined 2.9% year-on-year in Quarter 1 of 2018. The report stated that smartphone vendors shipped as many as 334.3 million units in Q1 2018. But this smartphone sold most in the first quarter of this year. |
The report stated that smartphone vendors shipped as many as 334.3 million units in Q1 2018. |
The apple of every tech enthusiasts eye – the Apple iPhone X is touching new highs even after nine months of its announcement. Earlier, an IDC report stated that Apple iPhone sales in Q1 touched 52.2 million shipments representing a modest 2.8% year-over-year increase from the 50.8 million units shipped last year. Howe... |
According to a previous IDC report, the worldwide smartphone shipments declined 2.9% year-on-year in Quarter 1 of 2018. The report stated that smartphone vendors shipped as many as 334.3 million units in Q1 2018. This happens to be a sharp decline when we look at the figures of 344.4 million units shipped in the Q1 201... |
As per the IDC report, the survey said that in spite of having flagships smartphones from top players like Samsung, Huawei, and the Apple, there are many users are not willing to pay huge money on new flagship smartphones. |
A man said 'wakey, wakey, rise and shine' as he ploughed a six-tonne dump truck into a Clanfield home, an eyewitness has said. |
The incident at Whiteland Way is said to have happened at 6.46am this morning and has led to the home sustaining 'structural damage' as a result. |
Nobody was injured in the collision with the driver of the truck fleeing on foot following the incident. |
He told The News: 'I was asleep downstairs when I was woken by this huge crash next door. It sounded like two cars had collided head-on. |
'I jumped to the window and could see a man driving this dump truck into the house repeatedly. He did it several times. |
'He was saying "wakey, wakey, rise and shine" as he was doing it. He must have been doing it for at least 30 seconds. |
'I pulled the blinds and then he jumped out of the truck and ran off. I could not really see what he looked like as he was wearing a balaclava. |
Mr McCarthy went out in the street and called into the house to check that all the occupants were safe before calling the police. |
He said that officers were on the scene within ten minutes. |
A spokesman for Hampshire Police said: 'We were called at 6.46am to reports of a vehicle colliding with a house on Whiteland Way in Clanfield. |
'Vehicle reported to be a dump truck. There were no reported injuries but the property has suffered some structural damage. |
A nearby resident, who did not wish to be named, said: 'I looked out my window at 6.30am this morning and was shocked to see a dump truck wedged into the front door of somebody's home. |
Police are currently at the scene and the truck was removed from the property at around 10am this morning. |
The new launch trailer for Electronic Arts (EA) and BioWare’s upcoming video game Anthem has been released, telling players to unleash your power as you suit up in one of four javelins and take on a world of danger. Check out the trailer below and grab your copy of the highly anticipated action-RPG on February 22, 2019... |
Anthem is a new shared-world action-RPG from EA’s BioWare studio where players can team up with friends as Freelancers — the bold few with the courage to leave civilization behind and explore a landscape of primeval beauty, confront the dangers you find and grow in power with every step. |
Up to four players band together to take on whatever perils you discover as a heroic team. As your friends support you in your journey, so do your victories and rewards benefit your friends. Players will wield an arsenal of Javelin exosuits, each equipped with unique weapons and abilities. You can customize them with t... |
Q: Tell me about your life growing up in Rochester, N.Y. |
A: I’m the youngest of three, and I think I was really lucky with my childhood. I had parents who put a lot of time into my education and really was a very fortunate person in that way. When I think about it, what I do now relates to my childhood because the arts were always important in my family. Neither of my parent... |
I can remember going to museums with them, going to hear Shakespeare with a local company. It was just assumed that I was not too young to do those things. We were also lucky because Rochester has, associated with the University of Rochester, the Eastman School of Music. So the musical offerings in that city were amazi... |
Q: What did your parents do for a living? |
A: My father, professor of pathology at the University of Rochester, and then my mother taught nursing at a local college there, Roberts Wesleyan. ... We were not from Rochester. We moved there for my father to take that job. |
Q: Where is your family from originally? |
A: My father is from Germany, and he and his family moved to the United States in August of 1939, after having spent four years in Switzerland, trying to get out. They were refugees, and then moved to Illinois. Then my mother grew up in Arkansas, so they couldn’t have been more different in terms of their background. |
Q: Was your father from a Jewish family? |
A: They were Protestant, but he had Jewish ancestry, so that was part of it. Also, my grandfather had been involved in the Weimar Republic before Hitler, so that didn’t help either. ... They needed to leave, and so the U.S. welcomed them. |
Q: Who were your role models growing up? |
A: Probably, overall, I’d say my mother. |
A: She was somebody who was curious about almost everything. She was patient with people. She was just a person who people liked to be around. She was smart, she was wise, she just was a great mom. ... She also was good about things like wanting me to get out and play, helping me get better at sports, things like that ... |
Q: What did you aspire to be when you grew up? |
A: Well, I don’t know that I really ever had a big plan. I would have a lot of ideas. I can remember thinking maybe I wanted to be a writer. Sometimes I’d want to be an actress — that didn’t last long. I did sometimes think whether I wanted to get into art. I always wished I had a really nice singing voice, which I did... |
Q: It sounds like you were pretty well-rounded growing up. |
A: I think that my family did a pretty good job with that, yes. |
Q: I was going to ask you how your love for art and museums developed, but it seems like that just came naturally out of the lifestyle. |
A: It did, except ... I’m the only person in the family who’s really focused on the visual arts. ... The emphasis was on music. I played violin growing up, but for some reason, when I think back... my memories are very visual, more than conversations. I can kind of remember how things looked when I was very small, and ... |
I’d say somewhere in about seventh or eighth grade, I started becoming interested in reading more about artists. ... There was a particular book, I don’t remember the name of it anymore, but it was sort of an encyclopedic history of Western art. This was long enough ago that people hadn’t evolved to realize how many di... |
A: I do not. I took a couple classes when I was in college for my major, but I really, personally, never had the desire to make art for myself. |
Q: Tell me how you got to Columbus. |
A: I got to Columbus through the search for this position. The Columbus Museum Search Committee worked with a headhunter, Marilyn Hoffman, who’s based in New Hampshire. She brought me down, among other semi-finalists, for one day of interviews that took, basically, just over an hour for the first round. Then, I was one... |
Q: What did you think about Columbus when you first visited? |
A: I really liked it. The first time I came, I had enough time after the interview, before I had to go back to Atlanta for my flight, to look around. I went down to Uptown, and I looked at the river, and then I walked around on Broadway, and just was checking things out, and thought that it really felt like something w... |
Then, when I came back the second time, I had a little more time to see neighborhoods. ... One of the things that I noticed was that there are not that many houses in Columbus that are cookie-cutter looking. There’s a lot more individuality here, and that appealed to me, that it just had a little bit more of a distinct... |
Q: How did the museum here compare to the museum you were coming from in Indiana? |
A: This is a larger museum. So for me, this is like a dream job. ... More full-time staff. The collections, however, aren’t that dissimilar. This museum has the history component; my last museum did not. But all my career I’ve focused on American art. My last museum was a museum of American art. That was really no diff... |
Q: What is this museum known for in terms of the type of art? |
A: I think for being pretty comprehensive in its collection, Colonial to present. The Chihuly (glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly) definitely stands out. I think (the Deborah Butterfield sculpture in front of the building) stands out. We have some really wonderful 19th century landscapes. I think some of the Robert Henri ... |
Q: Has the museum been receiving the level of support that you would like from the community? |
A: I think that the community is remarkably supportive of all of the arts. Having been most recently in a community that was less so, I’m really impressed with this community. It wasn’t that long ago that there was the Columbus Challenge that raised something like $100 million for the arts. There are not many cities of... |
Q: The museum here is free, correct? |
Q: So how are you able to afford to maintain such a nice museum? |
A: We are in an unusual position, and I would say enviable position, because we are also partners with the school district. That relates to the foundations of the museum. It was, by legislation, to be part of the school district. The school district actually owns our property, and supports us with a good portion of our... |
Q: How much traffic would you say that you get in a year? |
A: I think, right now, our attendance is about 50,000 people, and we would love to increase that. We offer a variety of programs, really, to target people of all kinds of backgrounds and interests. I think we, at this point, are doing a really good job of having a little something for everyone. We’re partnering with a ... |
Q: Do you think that museums have lost their appeal over the years? |
A: I think that is the growing challenge for museums. I belong to the Association of Art Museum Directors, and that comes up a fair amount. I’ve been to a couple of meetings now, about how to keep younger people interested. The balance that we have is that in some ways technology could be helpful. But the balance is no... |
We also, for getting teenagers, created a teen advisory committee, and it’s comprised of students from the Muscogee County School District, and other schools in the area. We’ve basically had them work on the kinds of programs that they think that their fellow teens would like to see. ... We had a glass-blowing workshop... |
Q: How do you go about selecting art for the museum? |
A: We have endowment funds for that, first of all, through the generosity of numerous people in the community through the years. We have a collection plan that is reviewed every year by our collections committee, and it will include in that the overall scope of what our collections are now, areas that we think we could... |
... Now, there’s a whole world of people of different races, ethnicities, females, men — but also different parts of the country were ignored, too. Now, people are getting interested in what’s happening, and what happened in the Southeast. Even when I (moved to Chicago in the mid-’90s) that history was still sort of se... |
Q: Tell me about some of the exhibits that you’ve had, or have, that tell a little bit about the history of this area. |
A: Last year we had an exhibition called “Once Collected, Always Cherished.” It was selections from Judge (George) Greene’s collection, and also from the archives at Columbus State University. ... It had maps, but the part that was from our collection included artifacts pertaining to Blind Tom Wiggins, who was from Col... |
Then nationally right now at the Studio Museum of Harlem is an exhibition of the work of Alma Thomas. She’s a Columbus native, so that’s great. We have a lot of her archival material. We do plan to do more with that in the future. The White House, recently, in its dining room... there’s a painting by Alma Thomas there.... |
Q: I was going to bring up Najee because I remember when his (“Leaving Mississippi”) exhibit opened a couple of years ago. It seemed like the museum was attempting to broaden the type of art that it offered to reach a wider audience. Is that something that you’re intentionally doing? |
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