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In terms of licensing, the most recent update investors received is that 825,000 square feet out of close to 1.03 million square feet that'll be devoted to growing have been licensed by Health Canada. It's now just a matter of probably two months or less before Emerald Health and Village Farms are fully licen...
Moving forward with Pure Sunfarms' licensing is important, because the joint venture announced on Feb. 8 that it had entered into a supply agreement with the Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS). OCS represents Emerald Health's and Village Farms' first provincial distribution agreement, albeit Pure Sunfarms must...
We're also seeing much-improved breadth of production. Last week, Emerald Health entered into a licensing agreement with privately held Italian company Indena to utilize its cannabidiol (CBD) extraction technology and contract manufacturing services for CBD extraction. CBD is the nonpsychoactive cannabinoid best k...
Speaking of alternative products, Emerald Health also has approximately 1,000 acres of hemp to harvest each year between 2019 and 2022. Hemp is rich with CBD and contains very little tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the cannabinoid that gets a user high. Utilizing Indena's extraction technology should expedite Emerald ...
The puzzle pieces are finally beginning to come together for Emerald Health. The big question is, does that merit a higher valuation? As you might expect, this isn't an easy question to answer.
Presumably, if Emerald Health can take advantage of its hemp crops and partnership with Indena to substantially increase the percentage of total sales deriving from CBD oils, it should be able to generate a gross margin that's on par with or above that of most of its peers. Ultimately, it's profits that matte...
Arguably my biggest concern with the company is its yield. Keeping in mind that there's only so much Emerald Health can do with retrofitting an existing greenhouse, it just seems disappointing that 1.03 million square feet of growing space will yield around 75,000 kilograms at peak production. The average producti...
Ultimately, I still believe Emerald Health is best observed from the safety of the sidelines, although I no longer believe it carries an extraordinary amount of risk relative to reward among marijuana growers.
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COLUMBUS: The state of Ohio is cutting the length of time that jobless workers can get benefits.
Starting in September, the maximum weeks of unemployment compensation will drop to 63. Currently, jobless workers can get up to 73 weeks of benefits. Before April, they could get up to 99 weeks.
The Columbus Dispatch reports that falling unemployment has triggered the reduction.
With Ohio�s unemployment rate at 7.2? percent in July, the state no longer qualifies for as many weeks of emergency unemployment benefits.
According to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, about 138,000 workers are collecting unemployment benefits. They receive an average of $300 a week.
TAIPEI, Taiwan – Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng will visit Taiwan next year and address the legislature, the democratic island's government-owned news agency reported Sunday.
The Central News Agency quoted opposition lawmaker Lin Chia-lung of the Democratic Progressive Party, who was visiting Chen in New York, as saying the blind activist would visit.
Chen escaped house arrest in his Chinese village in April and fled to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, provoking a diplomatic crisis between the two countries. He was allowed to go to New York in May after negotiations between China and the United States.
Chen's prospective Taiwan visit offers a challenge to Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou, who has built his administration around better relations with China, from which Taiwan split amid civil war in 1949.
China claims Taiwan as its territory and resents any Taiwanese activity that embarrasses Beijing.
Chen's good friend and a prominent rights lawyer in Beijing, Jiang Tianyong, said he welcomed the news that Chen would visit Taiwan next year, saying China has much to learn from the island in terms of lessons in democracy and rule of law.
"We are in general interested in its legal system and democracy of course is something that every Chinese citizen wants. Taiwan may not be exactly the path China will follow in the future but it has areas that we especially could learn from," Jiang said by phone.
"It would also be good for our Taiwanese compatriots to better understand mainland China's human rights situation. I think it will have very significant benefits for both sides of the straits," Jiang said.
The Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to a faxed request for comment while calls to the Taiwan Affairs Office rang unanswered Sunday.
This spring, the San Francisco Department of the Environment (SFE) launched an in-city media ad campaign, created by San Francisco-based agency School of Thought, to encourage residents to be more environmentally conscious to reach the city's goal of "Zero Waste" by 2020.
Most recently, the campaign aimed to get commuters not to import more garbage — paper cups, or worse, Styrofoam — into the city.
The initiative partnered with recyclable manufacturer Cuppow to introduce a temporary streetside coffee stand, constructed wholly of repurposed cardboard boxes, tubing and packing straps, across from a ferry terminal. This temporary stand was covered with anti-waste messaging, including infographics that emphasize how ...
For three days (July 20-22), those carrying their own reusable cups were offered free coffee. Those without -- limited to the first 200 each day -- were able to receive a free reusable travel mug, if they’d post an event photo or message to #SFThingToDo.
The event was supported by paid Facebook and Twitter advertising and by “borrowed” social via those posting to the #SFThingToDo hashtag to get their free cups.
San Francisco Environment also promoted the event on its owned Facebook and Twitter channels. The project also attracted a corporate partner — Marley Coffee — which supplied coffee. There was “incredible synergy between their goals [Marley’s] and ours," says Joe Newfield, cofounder/creative director, School of Thought.
Looking forward, the initiative will expand to two other San Francisco locations, although exact details are still being finalized.
While dance and music are celebrated and preserved, poetry is the kingdom’s most prized form of artistic expression.
Inscription on rose-coloured sandstone in the Nabataean archaeological site of al-Hijr near the northwestern town of al-Ula, Saudi Arabia.
TUNIS - From archaeological treasures to historic cities, to traditional markets and ancient villages, Saudi Arabia has a lot to offer visitors. The kingdom boasts architectural treasures that are a lifeline to the past and a beautiful natural heritage, including virgin sands and clear blue water, that is largely untap...
Four Saudi archaeological sites are featured on UNESCO’s World Heritage List: Al Hijr (Madain Saleh), Al Dir’iya, the Rock Art of the Hail region and the Jeddah historic area.
Al Hijr, an ancient pre-Islamic archaeological site, contains numerous Maenean and Lihyanite inscriptions referencing Al Ula, Khoraiba and Hiania, towns that date to around 1700BC.
Al Dir’iya, historically viewed as an important national symbol in Saudi Arabia, emerged in the mid-18th century as the capital of the First Saudi State, the establishment of which constituted a turning point in the history of the Arabian Peninsula. Al Dir’iya was the capital of the first Saudi state until Imam Turki b...
The Rock Art of the Hail region includes Jabal Umm Sinman at Jubbah and the Jabal al-Manjor and Raat at Shuwaymis, the largest and most significant archaeological sites in the country. They show numerous representations of human and animal figures over 10,000 years.
The Jeddah historical area, which dates to pre-Islamic times, is regarded as an important site across different civilisations. At the beginning of the Islamic era, in 647AD, the area was taken by Caliph Uthman bin Affan and used as the port of Mecca. Jeddah gained a reputation as one of the most important cities along ...
The four sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List are only the tip of the iceberg, however. The veil has yet to be lifted on many of the kingdom’s archaeological gems and there are numerous exploration projects under way.
In February, the kingdom announced that exploration teams were searching for ancient artefacts around the country.
The latest discovery was a series of life-sized camel sculptures in the desert of the northern province of Al Jawf. Researchers estimated that the sculptures date back 2,000 years.
Saudi Arabia has rich traditions that are rooted in Islamic teachings and Arab customs, which Saudi people begin learning at an early age from relatives and in schools.
Saudi arts, including music and dance, bear the hallmarks of Bedouins, nomadic Arab people who historically inhabited desert regions of the Arabian Peninsula. Saudi music varies from one region to another. In the Hijaz region, for instance, al-sihba folk music combines Arab poetry and Andalusian tunes. Folk music in Me...
While music draws on elements of various cultures, the national dance in Saudi Arabia, Ardha, is typically Saudi. It is an ancient tradition, originating in the central area known as Najd, performed as a dance with swords ahead of battle.
The dance is a central part of Saudi Arabia’s most famous cultural event, the annual Al-Jenadriyah heritage and cultural festival. Organised by the National Guard, the 2-week-long event highlights the kingdom’s commitment to preserving and displaying its rich, traditional culture and crafts.
While dance and music are celebrated and preserved, poetry is the kingdom’s most prized form of artistic expression. First passed down as an oral tradition by Bedouins, poetry evolved into a written literary form used to preserve people’s history, collective memory and social values. For ages, people gathered around po...
The kingdom boasts a variety of popular heritage sports and activities that are centuries old, such as horse/camel racing and falconry. Beyond recreational, these activities are essential aspects of Saudi heritage and Bedouin culture and are passed on from generation to generation.
Among the 48 pictures that illustrate Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death, the short, truly extraordinary book that won the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate prize last week, is a photograph of the author visiting Auschwitz in 1978. In fact, he is hardly visible: he is off at the far left of the picture, with only half his fa...
For all the driver's amateurism, it is an apt image: as Kulka, who will soon turn 81, tells me within a minute of our meeting: "I lived a double life." He is referring to the fact that for decades he was known as a historian of the Holocaust, specialising in the close study of German documents, writing cool, scholarly ...
For many years this experience remained locked away. He gave lectures on the Holocaust without mentioning his own connection; he attended a conference in Poland where a fellow scholar gave him advice as to which part of the camp he should visit to be sure to see "the real Auschwitz". He nodded and said nothing.
Yet in his diaries, thousands of pages of them, scribbled in cafes or, since 1991, recorded on tape at night in his office at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, he would give voice to his earlier self. He would recall and probe moments, images and fragments of childhood memory. Two decades passed before the British hi...
In person, Kulka is courteous, warm and gently amazed by the sudden interest in him and his work. He is also impeccably well dressed, complete with natty cravat – and short. Those last two attributes are relevant. So many of the world's remaining Holocaust survivors are small: the grim truth is that starvation stunted ...
Not that Kulka's experience had much in common with most of those who somehow survived Auschwitz. Moved there from Theresienstadt, Kulka and his mother were kept in a place that defied all the usual Auschwitz rules. They were untouched by the initial selection that doomed most new arrivals; they were allowed to stay to...
The answer to the riddle only came decades later, revealed in the early 1980s to Kulka the historian (who then wrote an academic paper on the topic, reproduced as an appendix in the book, a text pointedly written in the detached third person, with no hint that this was something the author had experienced first-hand). ...
The plan was hatched in the office of Adolf Eichmann, but was to prove unnecessary. The men from the Red Cross were so impressed by what they had seen at Theresienstadt, they declared there was no need to probe further or see for themselves this place - Auschwitz – in the east to which the Jews were being deported. The...
All this makes his memories singular indeed. While others endured Auschwitz as a place of either immediate murder or slave labour, Kulka remembers classes, drama rehearsals and music, activities organised by the Jewish inmates of the Familienlager. Looking back, the very existence of such activities intrigues and baffl...
The classes took place a matter of yards away from the crematoria, which burned day and night, their chimneys turning Jews into ash. Each day a pile of skeletons was deposited outside the barracks where he and his mother lived. Yet still young Otto listened and learned of the great events and achievements of European h...
In an episode that haunts him still, Kulka recalls performing Schiller's "Ode to Joy", "a song of praise to joy and the brotherhood of man", directly opposite the crematoria, "a few hundred metres from the place of execution". He wonders now what Imre the choirmaster, "a large, awkward figure in the blue-grey prisoner'...
Kulka does not have a single answer. He tells me that as a university teacher he favoured the first, humanistic reading. "But when thinking and talking to myself, it's more and more this sarcasm and the situation of despair and no way out" that he believes was at work. Once again, there are two Kulkas, the public schol...
Is one version more reliable than the other? When writing history, Kulka would prefer documents over memory every time. "But there are matters of meaning that go beyond that." In trying to reach the deeper truth of the Shoah, his book suggests, somehow a single image, poem or dream can get closer.
A persistent theme is the uniqueness, the particularity, of memory, which Kulka seems to feel especially keenly. Perhaps it is because his own Auschwitz experience was so exceptional, but he resists any attempt to generalise what happened there. He does not read many Holocaust memoirs; he has not seen the epic document...
It is in these that the book's power lies. Some of them are fleeting – the black stains on the snow as he leaves Auschwitz on what became known as the death march, stains that he only later realises are corpses. Some are enduring – what he describes as the immutable law of the great death, the permanent, non-negotiable...
Some of those memories are surprising. Of course, there is hideous brutality, a prisoner whipped to death, a transport of orphans that ends in the gas chambers. But unexpected are the rare fond memories – chief among them a brief moment of pause, when Kulka gazed upward one day in 1944 and caught the blue of a summer s...
And that, incredibly, is not the only happy memory. He loved the classes in ancient history and literature. And his eyes sparkle as he tells me of an experience not included in the book: "Something like first love. In the afternoon, after the work, women and men were walking on the main street, the only street [the pat...
That recollection captures the surreality of Kulka's past. A childhood romance, set against the backdrop of genocide. Yet this was the morbid reality of the family camp and, as the author explains, like it or not, this was where his childhood happened. As he writes: "This was the first world and the first order I had e...
Tellingly, his book does not use the word "Holocaust". Like other scholars, he rejects it because its original Greek root implies that the Jewish victims of the Nazis were some kind of religious sacrifice. Less commonly, Kulka also rejects the word "Shoah" for being "amorphous" and vague. He speaks instead of "the fina...
Mostly, Kulka's preferred language is abstract: the metropolis of death is the place he is describing, the inner landscape of his memory. I ask what we should read into the fact that he took so long to make these recollections public. He moved to Israel in 1949, aged 15, taking the new name Dov (though keeping Otto too...
Kulka has some time for that explanation but prefers another. He joined a kibbutz with some 40 other young people. "Each and every one of us had his or her own story of survival. Either in the camps or in hiding or in the mountains. But we never talked about it. It was immaterial. Because we were participating in this ...
One of those recollections describes a conversation among inmates engaged in some gallows humour, fantasising about what revenge they would one day inflict on their tormentors: "The solution to the German question." Does he ever dream of revenge against those who killed his sister, mother and father?
No, he says. His interest is in understanding: "I wish to enter the mind of Eichmann so that I can understand." He believes that the key element at work among the Nazis was not rampant hatred but a totalitarian ideology that convinced its adherents that they were doing good. "They believed that they wished to save huma...
Once the ideological tide went out, Germans and others "went back to being normal human beings, liberal citizens". Ideology was the key – and it still is. He sees no reason why such an ideological turn could not come again. "It is part of our history. It has its precedent … It's not only possible, it was possible."
That is Kulka the scholar talking, but Otto the child of Auschwitz is never far away, his voice no longer confined to private moments with a tape recorder. I ask him about the recurring dreams he sets down in the book, including one in which he is summoned to Prague town hall to face the punishment he somehow eluded se...
He tells me he had the dream again just a few nights ago. "I was there once more. I have to go to the town hall, where it is my duty to go. I was wondering whether it's to the gas chamber or if I will be hanged. But that was my duty, that was my fate. I have to go and fulfil it."
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This latest round of investment brings Getaround’s total funding to over $40 million. With this strategic investment, Getaround will expand its on-demand carsharing service into major U.S. markets, starting with Oakland, Portland, and launching on the East Coast with Washington D.C.
A real estate agent is driving down a country road when she spots a hand-lettered “for sale” sign outside a charming little farmhouse.
She pulls over and, in the hope of getting the seller’s business, briskly introduces herself and proceeds to cruise from room to room, opening cupboards, testing taps and pointing out where a “new light fixture here and a little paint there” would help secure a better selling price.
After she’d gone through the whole house the owner turns to her and says,“Ma’am, I appreciate your home-improvement tips but I think you read my sign wrong.
Bruno Mars said Saturday he is donating $1 million from his Michigan concert to aid those affected by the Flint water crisis.
In 2014, Flint switched water sources and failed to add corrosion-reducing phosphates, allowing lead from old pipes to leach into the water. Elevated levels of lead, a neurotoxin, were detected in children, and 12 people died in a Legionnaires' disease outbreak that experts suspect was linked to the improperly treated ...
"I'm very thankful to the Michigan audience for joining me in supporting this cause," Mars said in a statement. "Ongoing challenges remain years later for Flint residents, and it's important that we don't forget our brothers and sisters affected by this disaster."
Mars, who was born and raised in Hawaii, performed at the Palace of Auburn Hills during his sold-out 24K Magic World Tour. His latest album, "24K Magic," recently achieved double platinum status.
ROCHESTER — The manager at Rochester Walmart may be new to the store and new to the Rochester area, but Gerry Roy is already making a big impact on the community. In response to a request for assistance from the Rochester Rotary Club, the Rochester Walmart recently donated over $1,000 worth of new clothing to the Rotar...
Mr. Roy, a former Rotarian from Sturbridge, Mass., began querying his team when he arrived in Rochester about ways to reach out to the local community. When the request from the Rotary Club came to his desk, he was only too happy to help with the project. In addition to donating $1,000 worth of new clothing, the store ...
The Rochester Rotary Club is conducting its clothing drive ongoing through mid-August and several drop-off locations are available throughout the city for residents wishing to donate "gently" used clothing. The Club only requests that the clothing be appropriate for school-aged children. For a complete listing of the d...
That’s almost literally the least offensive atheist ad ever. It says the word… and little else.
Justin appealed the decision with the help of American Atheists, but the COLTS leaders didn’t change their minds.
“We will not allow our transit vehicles or property to become a public forum for the debate and discussion of public issues, and since passing this policy in June, we have been very consistent in not allowing any ads that violate the policy. That’s why we didn’t permit Mr. Vacula’s ad promoting atheism,” said COLTS sol...
So Justin tried again the following year. He submitted a similar ad without mentioning American Atheists.
The amended policy, which the COLTS board approved without discussion by a 4-0 vote, clarifies and lays out in more detail the types of advertising the agency will not accept, including ads that promote the existence or nonexistence of a supreme being or deity or other religious beliefs.
“It’s our aim to be completely neutral on religious issues,” solicitor Timothy Hinton said.
He said the revised policy had been in the works “for quite some time” and was not prompted by the NEPA Freethought Society’s latest attempt to advertise on COLTS buses.
To be sure, you could argue that an ad simply reading “Atheists” is religiously neutral… but hey, they passed a policy that now prohibits religious and non-religious advertising. Equality for all, right?
So this raises an interesting question: Was COLTS discriminating against atheists?
g. Old Forge Times, an online blog that contained links to anti-Semitic websites, holocaust denial websites, and white supremacist websites.
So religion is clearly not a problem for them.
… all restrictions on advertising and any concerns regarding religious advertisements were ignored until NEPA Freethought Society sought to advertise, and the ad space on COLTS had been historically available to all speakers. Indeed, for at least a decade before January 2012, COLTS had never rejected any advertisement.
This was all part of a lawsuit filed last April by the NEPA Freethought Society against COLTS, with the help of the ACLU of Pennsylvania.
In June, COLTS filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, saying they didn’t do anything wrong.
[ACLU attorney Monica Clarke] Platt contends COLTS has not met the legal standard to qualify as a limited public forum. Even if it did, the society has evidence that COLTS accepted ads from several churches, which clearly shows its policy is not viewpoint neutral, she said.

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