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A wake-up call for the cannabis industry
- 1.1. Collapse while working
- 1.2. Why didn't we hear about his death sooner? Why is this important?
- 1.3. Little awareness of risk in a new industry
- 1.4. Massachusetts Regulators: Silent on the Issue
- 1.5. OSHA found past issues at Trulieve and Curaleaf plants
- 1.6. Cannabis flower can trigger a serious and severe reaction
- 2. Byssinosis (brown lung disease): A potential long-term risk?
- 3. The standards are too vague
A wake-up call for the cannabis industry
When an asthma attack killed Lorna McMurrey, it should have set off alarm bells throughout the industry. But his death was not made public until eight months later, when thousands of cannabis workers were and continue to be exposed to similar risks every day. In this article, we'll focus on the potential health risks that thousands of cannabis workers face when creating the products that fuel America's fastest growing industry.
The first part chronicles the life of Lorna McMurrey, her tragic death and the aftermath of the incident. The second part examines the emerging risks of cannabis work and the urgent need for safety measures in an industry that is still in its infancy.
The death of Lorna McMurrey, an employee of Trulieve in Holyoke, Massachusetts, on January 7, 2022, was one of the first work-related fatalities in the legal cannabis industry. Leafly marks the one-year anniversary of his death with "Death of a Trimmer," a series of investigations that raise troubling questions about worker safety in the legal marijuana industry.
When Lorna McMurrey took a job at a marijuana production facility in Holyoke, Massachusetts, it was a central part of her plan to improve her life. Legal cannabis was not a profession chosen lightly: Ms. McMurrey was a proud consumer and had a genuine interest in the process of growing, processing and selling marijuana, says her father-in-law, Dave Bruneau.
She hoped her job at Trulieve, the nation's largest cannabis company, would help her take the next steps towards a fully independent life. The regular salary would allow him to buy a car, move out of his parents' house and move into an apartment with friends.
“I work with kilos of grass every day. And when I do pre-rolls, all the weed and ground kief in the air triggers the asthma I didn't know I had. But hopefully it will heal itself or something. »
At the end of December 2021, she texted her stepfather asking him to bring home one of the N95 masks he wore at his job as a welder, so she could use it at work. But even while wearing a mask, Ms McMurrey's problems with airborne kief (cannabis dust) increased, causing her difficulty in breathing.
Collapse while working
On January 7, 2022, during labour, Lorna McMurrey suddenly collapsed. Three Trulieve employees gave him CPR. She was then taken to Baystate Medical Center, located in Springfield, seven miles from her job. But when Lorna's mother arrives at the hospital, the doctors inform her that her daughter is brain dead. Lorna McMurrey dies that night.
Lorna's death is one of the first workplace fatalities in the legal cannabis industry, and this incident in Holyoke should serve as a wake-up call for the entire cannabis industry.
In the decade since the first legalization laws were passed in Colorado and Washington, businesses and state regulators have focused on consumer product safety, track-and-trace systems for cannabis, the prevention of consumption by minors and the eradication of the illicit market. But little thought has been given to the health and safety of the workers who power this $25 billion engine.
This is partly because the industry is so new that many are unaware of the risks that exist in the field, in the grow room, in the pruning station, in the product line and in the sales room. Some long-time cannabis growers are aware that cannabis dust can be harmful to the lungs. But this potential risk in the workplace is largely unknown to most newcomers to the industry.
Regulators in some older legal states are aware of the risk, but this information is not passed on enough to states that have legalized more recently. Workers, managers and owners are uninformed and untrained in safety protocols, if any such protocols exist.
Beyond the profound loss suffered by Ms. McMurrey, her family, friends and colleagues, the incident raises critical questions for the entire industry. What are the health risks of handling cannabis? Are the measures taken to protect the safety of cannabis workers sufficient?
And why did eight months pass before someone issued a public alert about Lorna McMurrey's death?
Was his asthma triggered by cannabis dust?
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts death certificate lists Lorna McMurrey's cause of death as cardiac and respiratory arrest and a "suspected severe asthma attack".
Federal Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) officials initially said Lorna McMurrey's cause of death was "occupational asthma due to exposure to cannabis dust" . This conclusion, however, was revised months later. The OSHA report now states that “an employee who was packaging ground cannabis into rolls at a commercial cannabis processing facility had an asthma attack and died in hospital.”
This change, which replaces causality with correlation, underlines the difficulty of the matter. Asthma killed Lorna McMurrey. Whether this asthma was triggered by cannabis dust, caused by cannabis dust, or triggered by some other unknown factor remains medically unproven.
McMurrey's own Facebook posts indicate she thought there was a connection. And that exposure to cannabis dust causes lung problems. “She didn't smoke cigarettes,” says Dave Bruneau, her father-in-law, “and as far as I know, this child didn't have asthma. I lived with this person, okay? I mean, I'm sitting next to his fucking room. »
If occupational asthma played a role in McMurrey's death, it raises a question for many cannabis workers: What is it?
Little awareness of risk in a new industry
Occupational asthma, also known as workplace-induced asthma, is a common risk in many industries. Airborne particles can exacerbate an existing asthmatic condition or cause asthma in someone who has never had it before.
Occupational asthma is not exactly a recently discovered danger. Lung injury from flour dust has been a recognized health hazard in the baking industry since the 1700s. Wood dust is a known lung hazard in the woodworking industry. Cotton dust is known to cause long-term lung damage in textile factory workers.
But Lorna McMurrey, like most cannabis workers, didn't know that inhaling cannabis dust could lead to lung problems.
Why didn't we hear about his death sooner? Why is this important?
The death of a worker at a facility producing cannabis products appears to be big news especially for other workers who spend their days in an environment similar to the one that triggered Ms McMurrey's asthma attack.
Federal law requires all employers to report a work-related hospitalization or death to the federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) within 24 hours. Trulieve correctly notified OSHA, who sent an inspection team to Holyoke. The company has also duly notified the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission (CCC). OSHA inspectors issue a fine, but make no public announcement.
Four days after McMurrey's death, federal OSHA investigators reviewed the Holyoke facility. But their report on the incident was not released for almost six months. On June 30, 2022, OSHA Regional Director Mary E. Hoye served Trulieve with a $35 fine for, among other things, failing to provide its employees with effective information and training on the hazards of cannabis dust, how to prevent exposure and what early warning signs to look for (including coughing and shortness of breath).
Despite the severity of the danger following Lorna's death, OSHA officials declined to release the press release of their findings.
It was unusual. It is normal for the OSHA National Media Office to issue a press release on notable cases. In fact, the agency publishes 15 to 30 press releases each month. In June and July 2022, she informed the public of cases involving the death of a roofing contractor in Houston; a fatal fall at a frozen food plant in New Jersey; finger amputations at a pillow factory in Georgia; and one drowning death in a Florida golf course pond.
But there was no press release regarding the death of a worker due to cannabis dust inhalation at the Trulieve plant in Massachusetts.
Massachusetts Regulators: Silent on the Issue
The Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission, the state agency responsible for regulating the industry, was already investigating the Trulieve facility for worker safety issues (following previous complaints from workers) when McMurrey is deceased.
But after Trulieve informed the CCC of her death, the commission issued no public statement regarding the incident, its cause, or why the state's thousands of cannabis workers should be aware of the potential risks to health related to cannabis dust.
A commission spokesperson later explained that this was because the matter was still under investigation. But the months passed. And by its silence, the CCC has neglected its duty to inform workers about a major health and safety problem. Lorna McMurrey's untimely death might have remained largely unknown, in fact, had it not been for Danny Carson, a podcaster, one of her former co-workers at the Holyoke plant.
Several months after Ms McMurrey's death, Danny Carson spoke about the incident on his personal Facebook page. Kim Napoli, an attorney who sits on the state's Cannabis Advisory Board, saw this post by chance. (The 25-member Advisory Board is a sort of advisory body to the five-member Cannabis Control Board, which sets policy and makes rules.) Mr. Napoli mentioned the incident to Mike Crawford, who hosts a podcast on Massachusetts politics and local affairs called The Young Jurks.
Mike Crawford tracked down the OSHA report and invited Carson, Bruneau and others to his show to talk about what happened. These podcast episodes, which debuted on September 25, garnered follow-up articles in cannabis industry and mainstream media.
Suddenly, articles about McMurrey's death were popping up all over the place. In October, the company addressed the incident more fully. Trulieve officials released a statement in which they railed against what they called "false information" about the incident:
Trulieve said it maintains air quality at its Holyoke facility by deploying "appropriate industrial air handling systems designed to exchange and filter indoor air frequently" and has an "industrial system air filtration system that exchanges the air in the grinding room and has been certified by an independent engineer”. The company said it was providing N95 masks to all 175 employees at the Holyoke site. Trulieve said Lorna McMurrey wore an N95 mask for at least part of her job on January 4. The company also claimed that when Lorna McMurrey told her supervisor she was not feeling well, she was given the option of taking a paid day off, but she refused and continued working. Trulieve followed "proper protocols", company officials said, when Ms McMurrey "appeared to be in distress".
"Our hearts go out to the McMurrey family for their loss," the statement added. “Trulieve will continue to operate its facilities in a manner that fully protects the health and safety of all employees. We are confident that we did this in January  and will continue to do so in the future. »
Ms. McMurrey's survivors don't all agree with these claims. Her father-in-law finds the claim that the company supplied N95 masks implausible. “I mean, if she had access to these masks, why would she ask me [to provide them]? As for the suggestion that her daughter-in-law turned down an offer to take the rest of the day off? "I kind of believe it," says Dave Bruneau. "I really believe that, because she was a tough kid…she wasn't a fucking quitter." You know, I'll get through this. »
OSHA found past issues at Trulieve and Curaleaf plants
This wasn't Trulieve's first experience with OSHA rules regarding worker safety. In 2020, the federal agency cited Trulieve for violating respiratory protection and hazard communication regulations at its grow facility in Quincy, Florida.
The following year, a worker at the Trulieve grow facility in Reading, Pennsylvania, was electrocuted and hospitalized after inadvertently touching an exposed live wire. The worker survived, and OSHA fined Trulieve $10360 (later reduced to $7770) for the incident.
Trulieve isn't the only cannabis company to cross paths with OSHA inspectors. In early 2020, OSHA fined Curaleaf $40 (later reduced to $482) for seven workplace violations, such as the lack of an eyewash station. and the lack of machine guards at its Bellmawr, New Jersey plant. (Curaleaf has since partnered with OSHA to improve worker safety standards, including at its Nevada subsidiary, Acres Cultivation, which is one of the only cannabis facilities to earn OSHA's SHARP designation. ).
OSHA Investigated Complaints About Cresco Labs, But Issued No Penalties or Reports
A search of OSHA's database of interactions with the 10 largest US cannabis companies over the past decade yielded no further results.
Trulieve and OSHA reached an agreement last month. Following OSHA's notification letter to Trulieve on June 30, the company spent months challenging the findings and negotiating with OSHA officials.
In an announcement released Dec. 22, Trulieve officials said they had reached a voluntary settlement with OSHA regarding McMurrey's death. The agreement, according to the company, will result in “additional health and safety protections for Trulieve workers at its cannabis manufacturing facilities.”
As part of this settlement, OSHA reduced the original fine from $35219 to $14502. Trulieve agreed to conduct a study to "determine whether ground cannabis dust should be classified as a 'hazardous chemical' in the workplace, per OSHA regulations." The study must be completed by May 29, 2023.
It must be said that Leafly and other cannabis media platforms haven't really stepped up either. A cannabis worker died on the job and we didn't know until Mike Crawford started talking about it eight months later on his podcast. The death of Lorna McMurrey raises the question: What are the dangers facing cannabis workers, and who looks after their health?
For a few in the cannabis industry, Lorna McMurrey's fatal asthma attack at a cannabis processing facility in January 2022 was not shocking at all. Little did they know she would hit Lorna McMurrey, an otherwise healthy 27-year-old who suffered a severe asthma attack at a cannabis processing facility in Holyoke, Massachusetts. This asthma attack led to his hospitalization and ultimately to his death.
But a handful of growers of cannabis industry's most experienced knew that inhaling cannabis dust was unhealthy – and they knew it had the potential to shut down a person's airways. They tried to share this information, but few were interested in hearing it or acting on it.
Cannabis flower can trigger a serious and severe reaction
Theo Lewis is one of those people. He is the founder and CEO of Teds Budz, one of Southern California's leading indoor flower distributors. It's old school, having earned its stripes in the traditional marketplace before moving into today's state-licensed industry.
Some cannabis growers have experienced plant-triggered occupational asthma. It can be so bad that they can't even get to the cultivation sites anymore.
When Lewis started growing cannabis years ago, he worked without gloves and interacted closely with the flower, putting his face directly into the plant, breathing it in. Then something happened. About four months into the grow cycle, Lewis developed a "serious, severe" allergic reaction that initially took the form of hives that covered his body.
“After a while, he told me, I couldn't even stay in the house with the plants anymore. It blocked my lungs and throat, and I couldn't really breathe. I had to go to the hospital. »
Lewis was cautious with doctors about the origins of his medical problem - it was before legalization - but they recognized it was an allergic reaction and gave him steroids and inhalers. He says he was already prone to seasonal allergies, so he suspects his reaction was stronger.
Over the years, the situation evolved to the point that Lewis could no longer go to the grow sites - "just because I know that after a while it's going to affect me", he said. he declares.
"Dust Goes Everywhere"
Tom Lauerman knows a lot about cannabis and employee safety. “Farmer Tom,” as he is known in the industry, has been running a cannabis business for nearly 50 years, dating back decades before legalization. For the past seven years, he has worked on cannabis-related workplace safety issues with officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Washington State, and other government agencies.
“We've started to see the effects of these large processing operations on a commercial scale,” says Lauerman. I've been to a lot of pre-roll production sites, the fact that they use grinders that are like little whisks. They deposit the material in the tubes, which causes the dust to spread all over the room, and this, for hours a day, inevitably leads to big problems”.
Lauerman, who is based near the Washington-Oregon border, has hosted a number of scientists and federal officials over the years, allowing them to "learn, touch and study" plants. In 2015, he invited a team from the National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health (NIOSH) to use his cannabis farm as a testing lab. For three days, they worked out safety protocols for harvesting, slicing, trimming and preparing the flowers. This information is published on Mr. Lauerman's website, farmertomorganics.
Byssinosis (brown lung disease): A potential long-term risk?
Lorna McMurrey's death made it clear that occupational asthma, caused by airborne cannabis particles, is a risk potentially facing thousands of workers like her. But there is another, more insidious and long-lasting, potential risk that is more often associated with workers of a bygone era.
Brown lung disease affected many garment workers in the American South before health protocols were put in place.
In a study published in January 2022 in the medical journal Allergy, British allergology and immunology researchers noted that “prolonged occupational exposure to hemp dust leads to respiratory irritation, airflow obstruction and inflammation called "byssinosis".
Byssinosis is an occupational lung disease caused by inhaling dust from cotton, hemp or other plant fibers. It is better known as brown lung disease, a condition that many cotton textile workers in the Southern United States once suffered from.
Byssinosis is a narrowing of the airways believed to be triggered by a bacterial toxin present in inhaled raw plant material in the form of dust. Victims may experience wheezing or difficulty breathing, and prolonged exposure over months or years may lead to permanent lung damage.
This disease is one of the ways in which workers in many sectors can become afflicted with work-related asthma. Airborne particles in the workplace can exacerbate an existing asthmatic condition or cause asthma in someone who has never had it before.
This video, produced by NIOSH, explains how cotton dust and lack of sanitation protocols led to brown lung disease among North Carolina textile factory workers in the 1970s:
A 1968 study found lung problems in hemp factory workers. Since cannabis has been illegal for so long, little research has been done on the health effects of commercial-scale marijuana production.
In 1968, however, Yugoslav scientists studied 106 workers in a hemp processing plant – the same cannabis sativa plant that today's marijuana workers handle every day. In one department, 41% of workers suffered from byssinosis and 15% from chronic bronchitis.
“There is no doubt that hemp dust Cannabis sativa can cause byssinosis and at least temporary impairment of ventilatory function,” the researchers wrote.
A second study, which focused on the health of long-time Spanish workers in the hemp sector, was published in 1969. This report found "an extremely high prevalence of chronic cough and phlegm, dyspnea and irreversible loss of lung function , compared to controls in the same age group” among older workers (50 to 69 years old).
"The chronic and disabling respiratory disease of hemp workers cannot be explained by smoking habits and is attributed to heavy and prolonged exposure to hemp dust," concluded the authors of the 1969 study, published in the American Journal of Medicine.
There is little current research linking byssinosis to today's legal cannabis workers, in part because large-scale cannabis production is still very recent. But some state regulators are aware of the anecdotal evidence.
Washington state regulators have noted a link “between inhaling plant dust and a risk of work-related respiratory problems. »
In 2017, the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries released a cautionary guide for cannabis workers, noting that industrial-scale cultivation "has highlighted a link between inhalation of plant dust and a risk of work-related respiratory problems. »
In 2020 and 2021, the same agency also conducted studies that found cannabis employees experienced asthma attacks and related symptoms while performing various workplace tasks, including measuring, packaging, the weight and size of the flower.
Research has identified these potential causes of asthma in cannabis treatment centers:
- plant exposure
- inhalation of dust caused by cutting or chopping flowers
- exposure to mold spores on plants or containers
- exposure to various chemicals related to the cultivation, processing, manufacturing and testing of cannabis or a combination of these factors.
The information was not widely known
This information has rarely traveled from Washington to the 20 other states that have legalized marijuana — perhaps due to the extremely siled nature of cannabis, which by law cannot cross state lines. Julia Agron, a cannabis educator and former program coordinator for the Cannabis Education Center at Holyoke Community College in Massachusetts, compares the situation to the beginnings of other industries.
Take the birth of the railway industry between 1870 and 1890, Ms. Agron said: “The history books tell me there were a lot of accidents in those days. Workplace safety laws and expectations have come a long way since then, "but we're still establishing something new," she added. "And so, we're seeing some of those hiccups as we're developing it."
A Federal Agency That Really Helps: NIOSH
In the world of worker safety, NIOSH and OSHA are kind of playing good cop and bad cop. OSHA, the Occupational Health and Safety Administration, is the agency of the Department of Labor that performs inspections and issues fines. NIOSH, which is part of the Centers for Disease Control, acts as a kind of agricultural extension office, offering guidance to companies on how to keep their workers safe and avoid any issues with OSHA.
In a pre-roll processing room, “dust gets everywhere. And if you're stuck in there for eight hours a day, bad things are going to happen."
The preliminary standards set in Farmer Tom's culture were published in a 2017 report. NIOSH forwards the report to new states when they legalize — but only if states request it, Lauerman told me. “They use my standard operating procedures as the basis for occupational health and safety standards,” he said. "The work is at the Library of Congress because it was a federally sponsored study."
The first concerns were about consumers, not workers
Originally, people seemed to be mostly concerned with product safety for consumers, not worker safety in the workplace. The welfare of the people who create the product was hardly taken into account. Although some states have been working on a set of protocols — including Colorado and Washington — new states are legalizing cannabis in one form or another nearly every year, and most are largely starting from scratch. .
It turns out that this frustrating cycle of reinventing the wheel isn't necessary. Information on cannabis worker safety practices and protocols is available – if you know where to look.
Cannabis remains illegal at the federal level. So it may come as a surprise to find that a federal agency has worked with legal marijuana companies to establish protocols to reduce the health and safety risks to cannabis workers.
Once these assessments are completed, NIOSH publishes a report of its findings and recommendations (without naming the company or giving identifying details). Over the past five years, the agency has released three reports (in 2017, 2018, and 2022) identifying the dangers of growing, harvesting, and processing cannabis, as well as protocols to protect worker health. .
Great reports never got the attention they deserved
Frustratingly, hardly anyone in the cannabis industry knows these reports exist. I only found them, after months of research on cannabis worker safety, because James Couch of NIOSH mentioned them in an offhand comment during our interview.
One of the challenges of regulating employee safety in a fledgling industry is the fundamental lack of knowledge about working conditions. Because the research doesn't yet exist, many regulators in the 21 states that have legalized adult cannabis use simply don't know what health risks they should look out for.
This startling finding came back to Bill and Jeff Levers four years ago. The Levers brothers run Beard Bros Pharms, a California-based cannabis cultivation and media company they co-founded in 2013. They also publish a website and a weekly industry newsletter, and boast a total of more than 30 years of experience in cultivation.
In 2018, after California voted for full legalization, the brothers were granted a state license for distribution and manufacturing as social equity seekers.
They still vividly remember what happened when government inspection teams arrived on day one at their Los Angeles facility. None of the inspectors seemed to have a clue what to look for in terms of security at the marijuana-specific site.
"The fire department and the cannabis inspector showed up and asked us questions because they didn't know anything," Jeff Levers told Leafly. “And there were no regulations written specifically for the fire code, or where the machinery goes, or the ventilation. There was none of this written down anywhere”.
Worker safety regulations usually start with the federal government. The U.S. Department of Labor's OSHA can investigate any workplace under its General Duty Clause, which requires an employer to provide its workers with "a workplace that [is] free of hazards. known to cause or are likely to cause death or serious bodily harm to its employees”.
But because the federal government still considers marijuana a Schedule I drug, OSHA has never set specific standards for licensed cannabis facilities. The only federal standards exist in the NIOSH recommendations that Lauerman helped create. But NIOSH protocols are voluntary, and the agency has no enforcement powers.
States and municipalities therefore find themselves with a patchwork of regulations generated by building, health, fire or environmental protection agencies. Some of these rules were created by people who work in food safety, alcohol or other parallel but distinct fields. Others, according to Bill Levers, are written by “a group of politicians who are told by paid lobbyists how they should write the regulations”.
The standards are too vague
Julia Agron told Leafly that the Massachusetts guidelines remain far too vague. State CCC regulations require companies to meet basic worker safety standards, but they are often not explicit about how to achieve this. “There aren't many details that say, 'This is how you create worker safety, or this is how you have to manage X, Y or Z,'” she says.
When businesses apply for state cannabis licenses, they must submit standard operating procedures, including security provisions. But each company sets its own practices, and neither state regulators nor OSHA are there around the clock to make sure everything is done right.
“State regulators really need to step in and lay the groundwork,” Lauerman said, “to keep workers safe. All the young people in the world want to work in the industry, and they are willing to work for next to nothing to get a place in the industry. And [corporations] profit from all of these things… Every state really has to care about workers, because corporations don't care. »
Clear employee safety regulations are obviously crucial, but beyond that, the cannabis industry may not have enough compliance structures in place. Regulations are only useful if someone enforces them.
Some believe that state agencies like the Massachusetts CCC are too few and ill-equipped to keep up with a dynamic and growing new industry.
Aidan Coffey, organizing director of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1445, told Leafly that the state cannabis commission is "full of big-hearted, hard-working people who want to do their best for cannabis workers. But I don't think they have the budget to actually do the enforcement work that the legislation intended for them. The CCC therefore needs more resources to protect the safety of cannabis workers.”
For Coffey, if state regulators can't protect cannabis workers, maybe unions can. The UFCW is currently pushing to organize Trulieve workers in Holyoke and at the company's three other Massachusetts locations in Framingham, Northampton and Worcester.
Worker safety is an industry-wide issue
According to Coffey, the McMurrey incident clearly motivated Trulieve employees. "You can draw a direct link in this campaign between when workers started talking about organizing and what happened in the west," he said, referring to the death from McMurrey to Holyoke.
Large-scale security issues go far beyond a single company, Coffey added. “The problems at the Holyoke plant are by no means unique to Trulieve, Massachusetts,” he told Leafly. "Worker safety, especially in crops, is an industry-wide issue."
Coffey said he thinks the industry needs to take three actions in the wake of McMurrey's death. Workers must be free to organize, more safety regulations must be put in place, and the CCC and other similar agencies at the state level must be created.
Coffey said he thinks the industry needs to take three actions in the wake of McMurrey's death. Workers must be free to organize, more safety regulations must be put in place, and the CCC and similar statewide agencies must be strengthened. “There is work to be done on cannabis worker safety across the country,” he said.
What is a company's responsibility?
Karima Rizk thinks it's a question of willpower. Karima Rizk has held numerous positions in the cannabis industry since 2016, the most recent being Senior Vice President, Compliance at Green Meadows Farm in Massachusetts. She said worker safety is ultimately a matter of every company that digs deep enough and spends enough resources.
She has designed training and incident management systems focused on preventing workplace accidents in the cannabis industry. Frontline supervisors, she says, need to know how to recognize signs of health problems in workers, including allergies to ground cannabis dust and cleaning solutions, which can lead to headaches and difficulty breathing.
Workers and supervisors need to know the specific actions to take if things go wrong. At her former company, any employee who complained of not feeling well, she said, was immediately sent for consultation with a health and safety engineer.
Security requires investments: Time, energy and money
Rizk believes the industry can do more to prevent workplace injuries, and that starts with cannabis companies taking worker safety seriously and investing in it.
She called Lorna McMurrey's death "a case study that shows why compliance and environmental health and safety are key to running a legal cannabis business."
“It is a significant oversight for well-capitalized multi-state operators to not have the dedicated resources, knowledge, training and proper systems in place to monitor and take appropriate action,” she added.
Cannabis companies need to do better for their employees. Perhaps the too short life and tragic death of Lorna McMurrey will contribute to this. The government wants to make a lot of money,” Tom Lauerman told me. “And they really don't care about the people doing the work. These are the people who are being unfairly harmed due to the general negligence of these corporations and the states – the commissions – that [supervise] these operations. I think the responsibility lies with both parties. »


What is obscene cussing and should the government regulate it?
The U.S. Supreme Court thought they answered that in 1978 with the ruling on George Carlin's infamous "Seven Dirty Words" act. It gave the Federal Communication Commission the ability to regulate broadcast indecency between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. That's when kids are supposedly most likely watching TV.
The nine anointed keepers of social mores as far as what the government can regulate when it comes to speech on the air waves will get another crack at obscene words. This time it is a case that has been in the gestation period for nine years. Cher - who seems like a prude by today's anything goes standards - uttered a swear word during the live broadcast of the 2002 Billboard Music Awards.
It's a case of broadcasters' right to free speech and due process versus the FCC's ability to restrict what they decide are dirty words and images.
What makes this case before the high court quaint is the fact there are no such regulations on cable TV, Internet video, and other entertainment that Uncle Sam's decency police at the FCC can't touch under existing law. Even if the high court upholds the right of the FCC to police such matters on the airwaves, the chances are a typical kid will be exposed to plenty of verbal and visual filth by the click of a mouse or scanning through cable TV channels.
What makes the case almost irrelevant is how what passes as obscene in the American culture - if you call it that - is changing at the speed of Internet surfing as opposed to the deliberate and painfully small pace of the judicial system.
The definition of obscenity is in flux. What is considered acceptable today would have been obscene just a few years ago.
The question, though, needs to be framed with the realities of 2012. Why should broadcast TV be singled out in the government's march to protect "innocent ears" when those same "innocent ears" are more likely to come across George Carlin's seven dirty words by accessing Internet videos or even cable TV between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. And let's not forget some "rap" music aired on public airwaves.
It's a double standard that also fails to take into account the new reality that the Internet in many cases more invasive in a young person's life than broadcast TV.
As things stand now, the networks and TV stations can use all the obscenities their hearts desire after 10 p.m. but refrain from doing so in most cases. The reason is simple. They don't want to offend the majority of viewers and advertisers.
And if the real objective if the government is to prevent the exposure of young minds to raunch and filthy material, whether it is through a movie rating system or broadcast standards, they are certainly doing a poor job.
The bottom line is that whatever the court rules it will be about 20 light years behind the times by the time the decision is committed to paper.
The real issue should be whether government - acting in the role of guardians of common decency - should have the right to regulate speech that is commercially produced and whether it can be allowed to flow freely to those under 18 years of age.
Broadcast TV is far from dead. But it is also far from being the dominate place where those under 18 turn for entertainment.
Of course that ruling can never happen until Congress takes on the real issue of just how far publically accessed entertainment of all forms can go when it comes to spewing the seven dirty words or uttering and displaying filth when it can be viewed by those under 18. And until they do, no one can challenge the government's authority in a bid to come up with uniform rules to play by nor can the court rule absolutely on the real role of government in playing gatekeeper for impressionable non-adult minds.


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─── THE NEXT DAY, Regulus found himself at the Slytherin table, surrounded by the obligatory company of any other obedient, pureblood child. Perhaps the only person Regulus genuinely befriended amongst the group of pompous Slytherins his parents forced him to hang around with was Nolan, his best friend. As for the likes of the other arrogant, spoilt rich kids alike, Regulus would've rather opted to diverting to the company of a gaggle of Gryffindors, following in the tarnished footsteps of his disgraced and disowned brother, Sirius. But now, Regulus had been marked: burning on his forearm like a dark, deathly omen, the Dark Mark penetrated his pale skin and branded him for life. There was no escape out of the Death Eaters other than death, and Regulus didn't know which one he was most afraid of: a life condemned to obeying orders from a malicious man with the malevolent likes of Voldemort, or Death itself. But as he sat in his seat, elbow propped up and his chin buried into to the palm of his hand for support, he was beginning to wallow in his thoughts, wondering if there was any difference between the cold hands of Death and the Dark Lord he had been condemned to serve.
He figured he'd eventually drown in his own thoughts until the gaze of clear, blue eyes averted his stony flowed away from his empty breakfast plate and up toward her. Holly Flemming flashed him a flattering smile as soon as they made eye-contact, the curvature of her lips engraving pretty dimples into her pale skin. Holly was amongst the group of presumptuous, sophisticated Slytherins, a sixth year with a sharp wit and a colossal wardrobe. She was light and pretty and dainty, she was the palpable sweetness of sugar remaining at the bottom of an antique, cerulean teacup. But, in spite of tiny, graceful exterior she emanated with her coy smiles and her sparkling, periwinkle eyes, Holly Flemming has the sly, cold heart of any other deep-rooted Slytherin. Regulus truly believed that if she wanted to, Holly had the capability to murder everyone in the Great Hall right then and there, and play off the innocent, last remaining victim with the acting skills of an ominous Shakespearean actress, cowering, screaming and manipulating.
"You alright, Reg?" she asked him, her voice as soft and smooth as velvet. She battered her eyelashes flatteringly, her head tilting to the side curiously.
Regulus strained a tight smile. "M'fine, thanks, Holly," he said with an assuring nod.
Either Regulus' lie was exceptionally on-point, or Holly simply didn't care enough to prod him any further, since she swerved back around the plunge back into animated, comical gossip with Helena Rigby, allowing Regulus to submerge back into his spiralling thoughts. They swerved around the prompting, patronising thought of all the homework he failed to complete over the summer and before he could avoid so much as pondering on it for a minuscule, vulnerable second, his mind fell into the deep void had been attempting to keep at bay: his task.

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Prof Kampmann is the PI for the MRC site in The Gambia and the work package leader for the Capacity Development Task. In addition, she has a key interest in the host immunity studies and aims to interact closely with the laboratory-and field based scientists and clinicians.
Prof Kampmann holds a Chair in Paediatric Infection & Immunity at Imperial College, London, UK and was appointed as the Theme Lead for Vaccines & Immunity research at the MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM in July 2010. She has set up an “Open Lab” approach between Imperial and The Gambia, where science and personnel can freely interact and projects can take advantage of available resources on either end.
Originally trained as a Paediatric Infectious Diseases clinician in Germany, France, UK and the U.S., she directs a comprehensive tuberculosis and vaccine research program both in the UK and sub-saharan Africa, where she holds an MRC program grant for childhood TB studies. During her Wellcome Trust-funded PhD, she developed a novel model to measure host-pathogen interactions using reporter-gene tagged mycobacteria, applicable to field evaluations of TB vaccines and immunopathogenesis studies in children. She has extensive practical and research experience in childhood infection and immunity for >15 years and brings an established funding track record as PI and co-applicant from major international funders for the conduct of laboratory-based and programmatic research in tuberculosis research in both resource-poor and -rich settings. In 2009, she set up the ptbnet, a European network of clinicians and scientists working together in childhood TB in now 21 countries on Europe. In 2015, she set up the Centre for International Child Health @ Imperial.
Her work interacts closely with the National TB programs in The Gambia and the UK and agencies interested in the development and subsequent delivery of novel diagnostics for TB such as FIND and PATH. She acts as an advisor on childhood TB and immunity to the NIH, the WHO, the European Respiratory Society and the British Paediatric Allergy, Infection & Immunity Group and chairs the scientific advisory committees of the German Centre for Translational Medicine (DZIF).
She has published over 150 peer reviewed papers and several book chapters in childhood infection &immunity, including TB and vaccines and holds a patent for a specific biosignature for the diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis.
To develop the next generation of young investigators is very important to her, and she currently supervises 6 PhD students, with 4 being from West Africa.

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Life-size Doris Day sculpture on display in Carmel
A life-size sculpture of Doris Day in her Calamity Jane role is on display at Devendorf Park for the Carmel Art in the Park event.
Local artist Steven Whyte sculpted the piece for the 2017 Art in the Park event in honor of his mother's favorite movie.
"We got a positive but humble response from her that she was flattered and honored, so that was nice," said Whyte about Day's response to his work.
Whyte brought the clay piece back again this year in honor of the legendary actress' death on Monday. Day passed at her home in Carmel Valley after a bad bout with pneumonia, she was 97 years old.
The Calamity Jane sculpture was made as a spec piece. Whyte sculpted her over the festival weekend in 2017, part of a tradition he does, wherein attendees have to guess who he is sculpting and wait for the final results on Sunday.
The sculpture has yet to sell, if it does Day will be cast in bronze for her buyer, if it doesn’t she’ll be turned back into balls of clay.
White was in talks with a perspective buyer who saw Day at Carmel Art in the Park on Friday. He said his life-size bronze works usually sell for around $75,000 but because Day is already sculpted he may be willing to sell her for around $50,000.
The sculpture will be on display all weekend at Art in the Park.

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Metabolism is a term that describes
A) all work done by a living organism.
B) all chemical reactions that take place within an organism.
C) only chemical reactions that release ATP from living cells.
D) the energy released from chemical bonds in living cells.
E) the extraction of nutrients from biomolecules.
12) Anabolism is a term that describes
A) reactions that release energy.
B) reactions that require a net input of energy.
C) reactions that result in the synthesis of large biomolecules.
D) reactions that release energy and reactions that result in the synthesis of large biomolecules.
E) reactions that require a net input of energy and reactions that result in the synthesis of large biomolecules.
13) The brain relies solely on ________ as its energy source. If it is deprived of this substrate, the cells soon die.
A) fatty acids
C) amino acids
14) Gluconeogenesis refers to
A) converting glucose to glycogen storage.
B) removing glucose from storage as glycogen.
C) creating glucose from glycerol, amino acids, or lactate.
D) converting glucose to storage as adipose tissue.
E) removing fatty acids from adipose storage.
15) An enzyme that digests fats is
16) The liver and skeletal muscles store glucose as ________ for a ready energy source.
E) ketone bodies
17) Which is NOT produced in the body for the purpose of storing extra calories?
D) All of these are produced in the body for that purpose.
18) The nutrients that yield the most energy per gram when metabolized are
D) nucleic acids.
19) Diet-induced thermogenesis is highest after ingestion of
A) spicy foods, like jalapeno peppers.
20) The synthesis of glucose from a noncarbohydrate precursor is referred to as
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The New Zealand Automobile Association has acquired in-car navigation and mapping technology provider GeoSmart.
“The AA represents mobility, and this partnership with GeoSmart will benefit every motorist in the country,” says Pete Blackwell, general manager of AA Tourism.
“You can’t separate the AA and maps — they are intrinsically linked. However, we have come a long way since the days of the basic tourist map. The advent of the web and portable technology devices in recent years literally means we are moving with the times, this type of technology is the way of the future."
GeoSmart drives virtually every public road in New Zealand to map them — over 94,000 km — to create a full turn restriction database, says Phil Allen, general manager of GeoSmart.
“The integrity of that data can now be even better maintained on an ongoing basis with the help of the AA Roadservice fleet and local staff [that] drive our roads,” he says.
The AA has acquired eleven staff from GeoSmart, which increases AA’s original mapping capability. The combined teams will be relocating to new premises on the North Shore next month.
GeoSmart and the AA jointly developed the AA SmartMap in 2005.

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Thalassemia is a one of blood disorder inherited from the parents marked by a deficiency of hemoglobin and red blood cells in the body. This disease is inherited when one or both the parents are carriers or thalassemia. This disorder runs in families from generation to generation. Its symptoms include jaundice, dark urine, fatigue, slow growth delayed puberty and many more. It may need lifelong blood transfusion and iron control medicines. Bone marrow transplantation can be a boon for such condition as it seems to be only treatment of the disease.1
Can Bone Marrow Transplant Cure Thalassemia?
There is only one cure for thalassemia which is bone marrow or stem cell transplantation. But it is not done very often because it possesses many health risks. Bone marrow transplant is done in the severe form of thalassemia for long-term benefits.2 Stem cells are spongy tissue formed in the bone marrow. These cells can regenerate different types of cells in the blood. These cells are specialized cells which are produced in the center of some bones like long bones.3
In bone marrow transplant technique, stem cells are taken from a healthy donor who is usually a close relative of the patient. It is transferred through a drip into the patient’s vein. These cells regenerate healthy red blood cells in the blood replacing the damaged cells formed by thalassemia.4
Bone marrow transplantation brings serious side effects that can threaten life. The person who has undergone bone marrow transplantation may develop graft versus host disease. It is a life threatening disease in which these transplanted cells can attack the other healthy cells of the body.5
Other Treatments for Thalassemia
Blood Transfusion. regular blood transfusion can cover up the hemoglobin and red blood cell requirements. It is done frequently for every few weeks.
Folic Acids. folic acids support the body to produce more and more healthy blood cells.6
Chelation Therapy. regular blood transfusion may lead to building up of iron in the body. Excess iron can damage heart, liver and other vital organs. Chelation therapy is beneficial in the removal of extra iron from the body. It is recommended to avoid iron supplements and iron rich food when blood transfusion is done.7
Hormonal Medicines. it is used in children who have delayed puberty to normalize the hormone levels and bring puberty.
Vaccinations. various vaccinations are recommended to the patient with thalassemia to prevent infections as infections can complicate the condition.
Thyroid Medicines. if thyroid hormone levels are disturbed, then thyroid medicines are given to manage problems related to thyroid.
Medicines For Osteoporosis. reduced red blood cells and hemoglobin can weaken the bones and make them fragile, and then your physician may recommend bisphosphonates to strengthen the bones.8
Thalassemia is a genetic disease characterized by low production of hemoglobin and red blood cells in the body. This disease leads to the destruction of red blood cells resulting in anemia. Hemoglobin is needed to carry oxygen to different cells of our body. This disease is of two types, one is thalassemia minor and other is thalassemia major. It occurs due to an inheritance of defective genes from one or both parents or by mutation of genes.
Thalassemia is caused by the passing on of the mutated genes from parents to their children. The parents are either patients or carriers of thalassemia. These genes are responsible for coding instructions for the production of red blood cells. It is represented by symptoms such as extreme tiredness, fatigue, dark urine, delayed puberty, slow growth, and paleness in the skin, jaundice, weakness in the muscles and swelling in the abdomen.
Thalassemia is a blood disorder that is represented by the low production of red blood cells and hemoglobin. Thalassemia requires lifelong blood transfusion and chelation therapy in severe cases. Bone marrow transplantation is only one cure for the disease as it has lots of benefits over blood transfusion.


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Promising USD Price Action Despite Weak Personal Income
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The US personal spending and personal income numbers were released a while ago. This report is not the biggest market mover out there. But it’s importance has increased in the recently since the importance of wages and salaries has increased. That’s because wages are the last nail in the coffin for the FED. All sector of the US economy are running pretty hot.
Even inflation is picking up considerably from what we saw last week. Only wages are lagging. If the wages stat picking up with the same pace as the rest of the US economy, then the FED will increase the pace of rate hikes. Higher wages push the inflation higher, as well as the retail sales.
There is another report which highlights wages and salaries, but today’s personal income and personal spending report also gives us an insight of what’s going on with earnings. The core price index came as expected at 0.2% for the month and at 1.9% for the year.
Personal spending increased by 0.4% as expected. But, last month’s number was revised lower from 0.2% to 0.0%. Personal income which is the most important part of this report was the one to miss expectations. It posted a 0.3% increase this month against 0.4% expected and last month was revised lower too, from 0.4% to 0.3%.
Despite the miss in personal income, the USD continues to climb higher. The Buck is making new highs against all major currencies and our forex signal in AUD/USD is approaching the take profit level. This sort of price action is great for USD bulls. Throughout the last 15 months, the US Dollar got battered even on positive numbers.
It couldn’t raise its head above water, but now the market has reversed totally. It seems like nothing can stop the USD. That’s a sign for us to consider opening one or two long term signals in USD pairs, of course, on the long side.


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On July 14, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published Notice 2015-51, which postpones the effective date of safety and performance standards mandated by Notice 2015-4. The standards in Notice 2015-4 originally applied to small wind turbines acquired or placed in service after January 26, 2015. Notice 2015-51 postpones the effective date to December 31, 2015. The first notice is discussed in the blog post of January 15, which can be viewed here. A small wind turbine is defined as one with a nameplate capacity of 100 KW or less.
The extension of the grace period from January 26 to December 31 was apparently triggered by certain small wind manufacturers communicating to the IRS that it was more time-consuming and costly to obtain the required certifications than the IRS had anticipated. Such manufacturers found themselves shut out of the U.S. market, since purchasers were reluctant after January 26, 2015, to buy turbines that did not currently have the necessary certification. Owners of such turbines would not be eligible to claim the 30 percent investment tax credits available for the turbines if the documentation of the required certification did not appear on the manufacturer’s website prior to the due date for the owner’s tax return on which it claimed the investment tax credit.
The first notice was reportedly triggered by certain industry participants highlighting that the engineering standards among small wind turbine manufacturers varied noticeably. The first notice provides small wind turbine manufacturers with a choice to comply with either an American Wind Energy Association standard or an International Electro Technical Commission standard, and that is unchanged in the second notice.
Code Section 48(a)(3)(D) authorizes the IRS to prescribe safety and performance standards for any investment tax credit eligible technology (e.g., solar). It is not clear whether the IRS is just warming up with small wind and plans to publish standards in the future for other renewable energy technologies or whether the IRS, in fact, observed a performance or safety issue in the small wind industry that merited the publication of the first notice.
The investment tax credit for small wind expires for turbines placed in service after 2016. Unlike solar, it is a complete expiration and not merely ratcheting down to a 10 percent investment tax credit. The small wind industry is optimistic that the expiry date for its tax credit will be extended by Congress. However, since the credit does not expire until next year, it is not garnering the attention of legislators at the moment.

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The recent article in AutoCarIndia suggests that Volkswagen India plans to launch more powerful diesel variant of the Polo, the Polo 1.6 GTD. This variant provides a winning combination of performance and fuel economy, and will win the hearts of many performance junkies with the launch of India’s first diesel hot hatch by plonking the Vento’s 1.6-litre diesel motor under the hood.
The performance is likely to be better than the current Vento saloon as the Polo weighs 90kg less. The Polo 1.6 GTD is expected to have a lot more attitude with a body kit, low-profile tyres and other sporty bits as part of the package, spicing the hatch-up. The GTD is the diesel counterpart of GTI, representing VW’s sporty variant.
Volkswagen India plans to launch Polo 1.6 GTD sometime in the first half of 2013 and would command a premium of over Rs. 1 lakh over equally loaded Polo 1.2 TDi variants. As of now, the only diesel hot hatch on-sale in India is the Fiat Punto 90hp.
The images shown here are of Volkswagen Polo R hot-hatchback. Checkout more pictures below the jump.
Source – AutoCarIndia


The MS425B NMEA Activation Unit is an extra input device for the BNWAS. This device can be implied when there is no “auto pilot engaged” hard output available on the auto pilot.
To prevent expensive modifications to the auto pilot to create a hard output for the BNWAS, connect the MS425B NMEA Activation Unit to your autopilot and this will provide an “auto pilot engaged” output for your BNWAS.
The MS425B NMEA Activation Unit will read out the NMEA data and a relay contact will be activated when the selected feature is active.
These features are:
Auto pilot engaged
Speed higher than 3 knots
Speed higher than 0,5 knots.
These features can be selected by a dipswitch mounted inside the MS425B NMEA Activation Unit.


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Louisiana Is Co-state Of The Year
12 Aug, 2009
Yesterday, while Gov. Bobby Jindal was conducting his Louisiana Working Tour, Southern Business & Development magazine named Louisiana as its Co-state of the Year along with Tennessee. Louisiana and Tennessee beat out 15 other states in the South in the annual SB&D 100 rankings.
Gov. Jindal said "No plan to move our economy forward during these leaner times is realistic without targeting business growth and greater job creation for our people. We don't want our kids to have to leave the state to pursue their dreams; we want them to be able to find a great paying job right here at home because Louisiana is the best place in the world for businesses to expand and succeed. Southern Business & Development ranking us in the top slot in the country is further proof that our efforts to grow our economy are working, and we are only getting started."
In addition to Louisiana being named Co-state of the Year, the state's two most populous areas, New Orleans and Baton Rouge also received recognition in the SB&D 100. New Orleans was named Major Market of the Year after receiving Honorable Mention in 2007 and 2008. The publication named Baton Rouge Mid-market of the Year for 2009, following its Honorable Mention ranking in 2008. Terrebonne Parish also received recognition for landing projects that will have a positive impact on the local economy.
"By any reasonable measure, Louisiana's economy has outperformed the South and the U.S. since the beginning of the national recession early last year," said Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Stephen Moret. "We are delighted to receive this recognition, yet we know we have a lot of work left to do to position Louisiana to outperform the South on a regular basis."
According to Lee Burlett of Southern Business & Development, "over the last three years no state in the South has performed better than Louisiana."
For these rankings, Southern Business & Development counts the number of companies making public commitments of 200 jobs or more or $30 million in investment or more. The SB&D 100 consists of the 100-largest job and investment deals announced, based on calendar year.
To read the full article, visit www.SB-D.com.


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Only people who knew this before seeing this post understands how irritating it can be when we hear "It's the same thing" it's not the same thing. They are different ethnic, countries, cultures and language.<<<I'm Korean and this is so true ㅡ ㅡ
one of the many thing that i love about kpop is how hard the artists work. i swear, they have one of the hardest jobs in the world! yet, people dismiss kpop as being a weird group of untalented asians trying to copy other singers.

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Videogame trailers are usually a predictable affair. The announcement trailer, the gameplay trailer, the story trailer, the multiplayer trailer etc. And they’re all aping movie trailers with cuts of gameplay and big flashy words. However, video game marketing are evolving beyond movie trailer and into something smarter. Below are why videogame marketing are becoming narratives in their own right.
Further enrich the setting of the Videogame
One of the difficulties of making a good videogame video games is adding context to the game. Too often, any narrative context is left lacking in a game. For example Rage and Far Cry 2 while technically amazing lacked an engaging story. Videogame trailers offer an opportunity to add setting and layered characters for a videogame. Resident Evil: Operation Racoon City was a lousy game but it’s Triple Impact Trailer, introduced it’s various factions and the different characters in a stunning zombie-splattering way. A much better zombie-killing experience, the L4D Trailer, does a stellar job of not just introducing the multiplayer characters as people, it also introduced the various special monsters and their strengths and weaknesses in the game.
They can add a Narrative to a traditionally non-narrative videogame
In multiplayer games, it’s often just shoot the guy who’s shooting back and there’s your entertainment. With a repetitive game revolving around traditional game modes i.e. capture the flag, often narratives in multiplayer are shunted to the side. Narrative-Focused trailers and other content are an opportunity for narrative.
Team Fortress 2 was introduced in 2007 and is still one of the most popular multi-player shooters today because of the continuous release of trailers and content on the TF2 website. New updates are introduced with hilarious comics. Each character from the Spy to the Heavy are some of the most developed characters in videogame history. Now TF2 has more story and narrative elements than most single-player videogames.
They Make Videogames Exciting
Narrative-focused trailers can do so much but what truly makes them so popular is that they are exciting. They get a lot of shares and views. Valve’s (yeah Valve is the king of Narrative-focused trailers) Portal 2 trailers were exciting with videogame websites sharing them without being paid to. More importantly Portal 2 was a commercial success and publishers noticed.
The the Far Cry Experience a series of live-action videos starring Christopher Mintze-Passe and Michael Mann were amazing and certainly hyped up Far Cry 3’s release. Call of Duty has always created great cinematic live-action trailers again and again, starring A-list actors like Taylor Kitsch, Robert Downey Jr, Russia FPS. Because they work.
The Dead Island Official Announcement Trailer, was an emotional roller-coaster that hyped up the videogame beyond what it could deliver. And while it’s a shame that it was more middling action game than what people expected, it is still remembered. They’res even a movie based on the trailer, not the videogame the TRAILER in development.
With the upcoming release of Fallout 4, Bethesda released a new trailer promotion. Instead of just being another gameplay trailer it’s a Youtube series with a cutesy 50s era Educational Videos on the Seven Special Attributes of the game. The first, Strength, is below.
Fallout 4 is going to be a success, and while it’s solely because of a safety ad it is going to certainly help. Is there a great videogame trailer that you like? Share in the comments below!

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April 21, 2017
LIVINGSTON COUNTY, NY – The Livingston County Sheriff’s Office reports that a drunk driver from the Ontario County Town of Victor, took a deputy on a high speed chase from Groveland to Geneseo. At times, going 95 miles an hour. Sheriff Tom Dougherty says that the drunk driver took off in Groveland, slamming the deputy’s arm in the door of the truck that he, the suspect, was driving. Officials were able to catch the suspect in the Geneseo area, and the drunk driver is facing numerous charges.
From the statement given by Sheriff Tom Dougherty:
(Robert) Flynn was charged by Deputies with the following in the Town of Groveland where the initial stop took place: Fail to Keep Right, Harassment, Reckless Endangerment in the 2nd Degree, Speeding, Aggravated Unlicensed Operation of a Motor Vehicle in the 2nd Degree, Open container and Unlawful Fleeing a Police Vehicle.
Flynn was charged by Deputies with the following in the Village of Geneseo where the stop concluded: Felony Driving While Intoxicated, Felony Aggravated Unlicensed Operation of a Motor Vehicle in the 1st Degree, Unlawful Fleeing a Police Vehicle, Resisting Arrest, Speeding, Ignition Interlock Violation and Refusing a Breath Test.
Flynn’s driver’s license was revoked for three prior DWI Convictions and he was operating outside of an ignition interlock device.


Angela, my soulmate and wife, was a second wave feminist who died this month, aged 82. She remained radical to the end.
In 1971, a few months after the birth of her second son, Angela joined the Women’s Liberation Movement, and started writing. Her work appeared in Shrew, the Women’s Liberation Review, Spare Rib, and Everywoman, as well as in the Guardian, the Sunday Times, and other mainstream outlets. For her, as with many other second wave feminists, women’s liberation was not a single issue, to be tacked on to others - it was the central issue of our time, and she believed that achieving its full potential would change everything.
“It is imperative that we struggle to find new values and philosophies which enhance the ‘humanness’ of human beings in place of the dehumanising patriarchal philosophies which are slowly killing us all. This is why the Feminist Revolution will succeed, because its evolutionary time has come,”
(Angela Hamblin, Ultimate Goals, Women’s Liberation Review no 1, Oct 1972)
Angela also contributed chapters and poems to these feminist anthologies:
Conditions of Illusion (Feminist Books, 1974)
Hard Feelings (The Women’s Press, 1979)
One Foot on the Mountain (Onlywomen Press, 1979)
On the Problem of Men (The Women’s Press, 1982)
Sex and Love (The Women’s Press, 1983)
Women against violence against Women (Onlywomen Press, 1985)
Women’s Health (Pandora, 1987)
A thriving spiritual healing practice and work on a major book project were brought to an abrupt halt by the onset in 1994 of the severe ME that disabled Angela for the rest of her life. A short-lived easing of its severity in the late 2010s was not sufficient to enable a return to writing, but it did allow her to develop a rich jazz singing voice. At the age of 78 she recorded an acclaimed CD of jazz standards, ‘Round Midnight. She gave the proceeds to her favourite charity, Life for African Mothers.
Finding her voice
Angela disliked lazy beliefs that social change just happens, erasing the people who make it happen. She was particularly critical of how, within her lifetime, changes fought for by second wave feminists became unrecognised, taken for granted, or undermined. She was, though, reticent about publicly acknowledging her own role in helping to bring about those changes.
This reticence was challenged by the publication of Not Dead Yet, the inspirational collection of reflections by older feminists (Spinifex Press, 2021). Angela loved the editors’ rejection of the way “older women’s achievements are either totally ignored, misrepresented, or belittled.” And she responded to their appeal for older readers to contribute to a Not Dead Yet blog.
Typically, what Angela chose to focus on was an issue with which she was involved both personally and politically - how the legal system protects rapists, and attacks rape survivors. She had kept the text of a 1977 speech she had delivered in Trafalgar Square, London. This was part of a protest demanding the sacking of three High Court judges who had given a rapist a conditional discharge - because they thought saving his army career was more important than justice for the young woman he had violently raped.
Angela made her Trafalgar Square speech the centre of her piece, and she was able to dictate the rest, explaining both the context and what it meant for her personally. She called her contribution Finding My Voice. This was the last thing Angela wrote. It’s an account of how, silenced by rape at the age of 14, she found her voice speaking out against rape at the age of 37.
Soon after taking part in this and other demonstrations against rape and male violence, Angela worked as a counsellor in a rape crisis centre. Together with a colleague, she wrote one of the first articles in this country to highlight the extent and impact of men’s sexual abuse of children.
Angela, a survivor of child sexual abuse, died on the day that the final report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse was published. She would almost certainly have been incensed that the media that day cared much more about the chaos in the Tory party than about the testimonies of 6,200 survivors of child sexual abuse and safeguarding failure.
Against Forced Adoption
After Finding My Voice appeared online, Angela asked if, after she died, I would consider writing something to record another time she found her voice - her involvement in the 1975 campaign to remove legal obstacles to adult adoptees reuniting with their mothers.
As with rape and the law in 1977, the personal and the political had come together in a big way for Angela in 1975, when the UK parliament debated adoption law reform. Adoption might seem an unlikely issue for a radical feminist to get involved in. But Angela was desperate to be reunited with her first son, who had been taken from her in 1955, and she knew that the existing system was designed to prevent contact between adoptees and their mothers. She knew, too, that hardly any of the estimated 185,000 single mothers in England and Wales whose babies had been taken from them since 1949 had spoken in public about it. She realised that, if they remained silent, their reality would be denied, and the injustice would remain.
Angela’s decision to speak out as a mother whose child was taken from her initiated a campaign to add mothers’ voices to adoptees’ demands for a change in the law. TV appearances and radio and newspaper interviews soon led to the reunion she had yearned for. But she continued to campaign for the right for adult adoptees to access their birth records, to make it easier for adoptees to trace their mothers and heal some of the pain created by the ‘clean break’ that was required by adoption agencies at the time.
Reuniting adoptees with their first mothers, Angela felt, could be an initial step in a long process of social change. It could expose the double standard that allowed men to make women pregnant and then abandon them, yet punished the women. It could question the rosy (and overwhelmingly false) perception of adoption as providing homes for orphans, and the heartless framing of adoption as a cure for infertility or as an alternative to abortion. Above all, it could reveal the brutality of a system that forced single mothers to relinquish their children, rather than give them the support they needed to raise their children. And that, perhaps, could help those mothers to understand that they were not to blame.
“Unmarried mothers are punished and part of that punishment is to withhold from them the material necessities they need in order to care for their babies. But this withholding is never openly acknowledged. Instead the blame for her situation is placed squarely on the shoulders of the mother herself. She is made to feel that it is her personal responsibility that she has no home, no income, no prospects, and no-one to help her.”
(Angela Hamblin, Parting Sorrows, Guardian 16 June 1976)
My next posts will record the 1975 debate around adoptees’ right to access their birth records, highlighting the significance of Angela’s speaking out as a mother in support of that right, and the role of Jigsaw, the organisation she founded, in achieving it.
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So sorry for you loss. Angela sounds like an incredible woman!
This is a wonderful tribute and memorial and I hope that writing it helps you deal with what must be the most terrible grief and loss. ❤


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text: This book is a re-edit of the previously published novel Captive Irish Moon. When the new novel was offered as an ARC, I jumped at the chance.Eire's Captive Moon tells the story of Charis, a healer, and her struggles after being captured by marauding Vikings and taken by Agnarr as his leman/slave.The book starts out with Charis' father running from someone and having to abandon her near an Irish village for her safety. Charis grows up and learns the healing craft, though this part is skipped over and insinuated.When we meet her again, she's married to Devin and Devlin, twin warriors, and living in a small village near a monastery. From the start, it's clear that the author has done her homework, as life in the 9th century in Ireland is described in accurate detail, including the distrust of a monk who calls her a witch.When Vikings land on the shores to invade the monastery and steal its riches, they also happen upon Charis' village. The ensuing fight is well described, and Charis is forced to leave with the Vikings. One of her captors, Agnarr, is impressed with her healing skills and decides to keep her for himself. Charis vows revenge since he's also the one who has killed both of her husbands. She knows she has to bide her time but killing Agnarr is never far from her mind.Sandi Layne describes in rich detail the life and customs of the people of Nordweg (Norway); her beautiful prose only serves to draw the reader more into the story.Her cast of characters is captivating: Charis with her moonbeam hair, Cowan the Kingson, who is also taken as a slave, Agnarr, who despite his pillaging and raping is likable and relatable, and Tuirgeis with his shrewd thoughts and observations. They become alive in the pages of this book and it is to the author's credit that she's able to create such a rich cast. Even the not so likable characters, such as Magda and her slave, enrich the plot immensely.And throughout, the author returns to specific themes: perseverance, forgiveness and determination. I was on occasion torn between admiring Charis' for her unforgiving stance and wanting to rattle her for being so single-minded that she didn't see the forest for the trees. And I want to commend the author for the extensive research that went into this book, not only the historical facts but also herbology, mythology and excellent character development.If you like historically sound novels with a little romance, this book is for you. Give it a try.I received a free ARC directly from the publisher. A positive review was not promised in return.


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