By Daniel C. Vock
Updated April 12, 2021*
The heart of Denver's legal-cannabis production is in dozens of unmarked warehouses, ringed with barbed wire and security cameras, and located amid factories, railyards, construction rental lots, and other industrial buildings. Sometimes these pot-producing facilities sit quite near, and in some cases across the street from, rows of modest single-family houses in predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods.
The reason? Denver recreational cannabis regulations limit cultivation facilities to areas that are already zoned for industrial use. That essentially pushes all the growing activity into a few areas of town — and neighborhoods. One of the highest concentrations of cannabis growing locations in Denver, for example, is in the predominantly Hispanic neighborhood of Elyria-Swansea on the north side of the city. Its streets are choked with semi-trucks making their way to and from a hulking viaduct carrying Interstate 70, a highway the state is now expanding.
"We basically let marijuana come into Denver without really having a good plan of how to regulate it," said Candi CdeBaca, a city council member from Elyria-Swansea who can see four cannabis growing facilities from her house. There are 31 cultivation facilities in that neighborhood; 32 in neighboring Northeast Park Hill, a majority Black neighborhood; and 33 in nearby Montbello, a primarily Hispanic neighborhood.
The city's approach to regulating land use for cannabis operations has led to many hard-to-solve problems for neighborhoods like Elyria-Swansea — and could serve as a cautionary tale for planners in other states that could soon legalize the recreational use of cannabis.
Nationwide, momentum for legalization is growing. In 2014, Colorado was one of the first two states to start allowing pot sales, but just last November, five states passed ballot measures to legalize recreational cannabis, including Montana and South Dakota — two largely rural states on a list otherwise dominated by states with large urban centers. In early 2021, New Jersey, Virgina, New York, and New Mexico joined the list when their respective state legislative bodies voted to approve bills legalizing adult recreational cannabis use.
All told, as of this writing, 17 states and the District of Columbia have now approved legalizing recreational cannabis, while many others have decriminalized the drug or authorized its use for medical purposes. Democratic governors in places like Connecticut, Kansas, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin are pushing for legalization in their states, too.
Meanwhile, in December — for the first time ever — the U.S. House of Representatives passed a cannabis legalization bill. Now that Democrats control both chambers of Congress and the White House, the prospects of similar proposals becoming law has increased, but is by no means certain.
With that kind of trajectory, policy experts say communities everywhere should be thinking about and planning for the eventuality of legalized recreational cannabis. Fortunately, they can look to local jurisdictions in states that have gone before them for lessons on what works — and what doesn't.
From the land-use side, each state has handled the transition differently, giving municipalities different powers to control the placement of the new facilities. Some, like California, allow cities to ban the facilities outright. Others have curbed the powers of local governments, to make sure the new industry is allowed to thrive.
Alan Weinstein, a law professor at Cleveland State University who specializes in land use, says cannabis facilities raise some of the same land-use questions as drug stores or liquor stores.
But there are unique aspects to the cannabis industry as well. One of the biggest is that nobody worries about the crops — like grains or potatoes — that produce alcoholic beverages, but people do have concerns about how and where cannabis plants are cultivated. The fact that cannabis is still illegal at the federal level also means that retail facilities that sell cannabis products by and large cannot use credit cards or anything tied with traditional banks, so they operate almost entirely in cash. While there is little evidence that pot dispensaries have higher crime rates than other types of retail establishments, many localities have required them to install more security features, such as fences and cameras, to prevent crime in the area.
Overall, though, Weinstein says the owners of cannabis businesses are willing to agree to many conditions about where they can locate and what features their facilities must have. That's because many are trying to get a toehold in places where the industry is not already established. They will compete for the ability to set up a medical dispensary knowing that companies that have licenses for medical cannabis are often first in line when a state expands to allow recreational use.
"They're willing to go along with pretty much anything, as long as it isn't going to sort of drive them totally out of business or make it unreasonably impractical to operate," Weinstein says.
At the ready
On the other hand, local planners in places where recreational cannabis is coming need to prepare for a big surge in applications. Planning departments need to be ready to accept, review, and process applications. They need to develop a way to renew and transfer licenses. They need to write their requirements for the building, set up inspection teams, prepare for hearings, and consider what local fees and taxes they can implement.
"The local government has to be prepared to take on a whole new regulatory regime," Weinstein warns. "And yes, you can use the new [tax and fee] dollars to help offset the costs of the administration, but the costs are going to lead the revenue."
Corinne Celko, a land-use attorney for Emerge Law Group in Portland, Oregon, says the spread of the cannabis industry presents a unique challenge for planners and localities.
"If I went on Shark Tank today because I had invented a gadget and it was successful, and I wanted to go ahead and sell the gadget and make more of the gadget, it would just fit within local jurisdictions' existing development codes and their use categories," she says. "This is the first time in my career where many local jurisdictions treated cannabis as a completely, totally new use."
Not every jurisdiction has taken that approach, but those that do want to create whole new use categories need to understand how the cannabis industry actually works.
For example, if a local government wanted to zone an area for agricultural use to grow cannabis, officials and planners should anticipate warehouses and greenhouses, not fields of row crops. That might make it a better fit for industrial zones in addition to farming areas. One locality where Celko was working wanted to allow the manufacture of cannabis edibles and topicals, but it wanted to prohibit extract processing. Celko had to explain to the planning director that banning extract processing would effectively ban companies from making edibles. "Nobody wants to pick out pieces of grass from their teeth," she says.
But — apart from use designation — planners do have plenty of tools to ensure a smooth rollout, Celko notes. For example, they can work on restrictions on how and when properties are used, such as "dark sky" rules to reduce light pollution in rural areas or odor control regulations that require filtering systems.
Local officials should also be willing to revise policies that aren't working how they intended. One Oregon county, for example, wanted to block cannabis farms from being located near "youth activity centers." But the county did not define what that meant and did not amend the code to provide more clarity. Instead, the Deschutes County Board of Commissioners fought the applicant — one of Celko's clients, a grower — and lost at the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals and at the Oregon Court of Appeals.
In California, attorney Joanna Hossack says, the rollout of recreational cannabis has been slowed by municipalities that chose not to allow cannabis businesses within their borders. Meanwhile, many business licenses have stalled in cities with long approval processes, especially ones that involve public hearings rather than just administrative decisions, she says. And state environmental reviews have taken longer than expected.
There have been bright spots in the rollout, Hossack notes. San Francisco has done a good job helping stores open quickly, and, across the bay, Oakland has helped businesses get licensed quickly, even as it dedicates half of its licenses for equity applicants who have either lived in certain parts of the city or been convicted of a cannabis-related crime in Oakland.
But across the state, 70 percent of municipalities have opted not to license cannabis businesses, creating large "dry pockets" outside of urban areas like Los Angeles County and the Bay Area, she says. That means even patients who use medical cannabis in those areas now have to drive long stretches to find cannabis products. "That is a shame," Hossack says. "Given that California is a leader, you would think we would have more cities that are online.... Prohibiting it isn't reaching the goals people want, and prohibition doesn't work."
One key for successfully introducing a recreational cannabis facility in Evanston, Illinois, says Johanna Nyden, the city's community development director, was educating the general public about the changes that were afoot. Residents had many worries about the implications of legalizing recreational cannabis, such as whether it would lead to an increase in crime or long lines outside the downtown dispensary that would go from selling medical cannabis to selling recreational cannabis. (Neither of those things happened.) City officials tried to share information before rumors could take hold, Nyden says, and many of the state lawmakers from the area who authored Illinois's recreational cannabis law appeared at community events to answer questions.
"As planners, we are often focused on the zoning and entitlement process, but we often miss the parts that result in the knee-jerk reactions," Nyden says.
Evanston, a Chicago suburb that is home to the main campus of Northwestern University, has only one dispensary, and it's on city property. The store sits across from an art supply store and a movie theater, and is so "innocuous" that you might not even notice it, she says.
But Evanston did attract national attention for how it plans to use its tax revenues on cannabis sales — by using up to $10 million as reparations for the Black community that had been disproportionately harmed by the war on drugs. City officials have not yet decided how to use the money, but possibilities include grants to help Black residents who lived in Evanston between 1919 and 1969 (or descendants of those residents) buy homes or building a new school in the historically Black area of town.
While the reparations proposal came after the land-use changes, Nyden says it has been a good way to acknowledge some of the "inherent hypocrisy" in allowing cannabis use now after decades of punishing people, especially Black residents, for possessing small amounts of the drug.
Back in Denver, city council member CdeBaca says many of the current problems with industrial cannabis sites were the result of poor planning early on. The city has put restrictions on where facilities can be located, but many of the sites in Elyria-Swansea don't conform to those rules because the structures predate them. What's more, the licenses of nonconforming sites can be transferred to new owners and continue to operate, so there's no easy way to reduce the number of facilities in the area.
The saturation of sites did eventually lead the city to stop issuing new licenses in 2016. Before it starts giving out new ones, CdeBaca hopes to pass legislation that will encourage more Black and Hispanic people to get those licenses, because the current owners are overwhelmingly white.
In fact, Denver's excise and license department is preparing the biggest update to its cannabis licensing regulation since Colorado's first cannabis retailers opened in 2014. The "Marijuana 2.0" revisions are expected to come before the council in March. They include new regulations to allow delivery services and hospitality sales (where customers can use cannabis on their premises), says department spokesperson Eric Escudero. Those regulations will also try to address equity concerns, he says. "People who were most disproportionately negatively impacted by marijuana prohibition should benefit from legalization," he says. "That means creating a market where more people get benefit, whether through ownership or management or employment opportunities."
The rules would also try to prevent further saturation of neighborhoods with cannabis businesses by not allowing any more licenses in the five most saturated areas of the city.
But the issue of concentration of existing facilities is complicated by Denver's approach to treat cannabis as just another industry in terms of zoning. From a land-use perspective, you can currently grow cannabis plants anywhere in the city where you can grow tomato plants. Any special requirements regarding signage or security are part of the city's cannabis licensing process, not its zoning process.
"In terms of control and management, there's a lot of upside to regulating the business, as opposed to the land use," says Tina Axelrad, the zoning administrator for the City and County of Denver. She called the approach "brilliant," because it helps government agencies keep track of who owns the businesses and whether they are fit for that role. It also easier to make sure that businesses comply with regulations the city wants to impose, because business owners tend to react more quickly when their annual license is at stake than when they have been cited for zoning violations.
"Zoning is just a tool to implement policy," Axelrad says, "and if policy changes regarding where marijuana growers should be located or should not be located in the city, the zoning will be adjusted." But she says that the problems with the cannabis facilities are located are just part of a bigger problem of how industrial activities affect some residential neighborhoods much more than others.
"Industrial zones, just like anywhere else in the U.S., tend to be a dumping ground for a lot of things that we don't want in our commercial corridors," she says.
Escudero, from the licensing agency, says Denver's regulatory scheme focused primarily on public safety, whether that was ensuring that youth weren't exposed to cannabis or making sure that the possibility of fires from manufacturing cannabis products was limited to industrial areas. "We're proud of our success in doing that," he says, "because if Denver would have screwed this up, you would not have seen legalization spreading to other communities across the U.S."
In the meantime, CdeBaca says the concentration of industry sites in her neighborhood is causing all sorts of issues. The warehouses themselves "look like jails." With all the security features, residents rarely interact with the people who work in the grow houses, and the owners of the facilities are rarely around.
"It's a little dystopian in some sense, because it's this neighbor that we never meet," she said. "It's like a fortress, but an ugly one."
As unsightly as the warehouses are, they are also driving up the price of the land that they sit on, because there are limited areas within the city where those types of facilities can be located. The more expensive land makes it harder to attract other kinds of businesses to the area and leads to higher property taxes for nearby residents, which fuels displacement, CdeBaca says.
"Our property values are being driven up very high very fast, without the typical, visible gentrification improvements," she says. "It looks exactly the same."
She says it's unfair to burden Black and Brown neighborhoods with the costs of hosting the industry for the whole city or region. "Whiter, wealthier people want to buy their edibles, but they just don't want the grows in their neighborhood," CdeBaca says.
She believes Denver should assess impact fees on the industry to improve the neighborhoods its facilities are located in. "We're carrying this industry on our back, and it's creating such a revenue stream, but we don't [get funds for the neighborhood]. It goes to the whole city to use how they want, when only a small slice of the city is carrying the burden," she says.
That, she stressed, is an important factor for planners to keep that in mind as they decide where facilities ought to be located as the cannabis industry expands.
"Don't layer on to the legacies of redlining," she says.
Daniel C. Vock is a public policy reporter based in Washington, D.C.
*Updated April 12, 2021
Story updated to reflect legalization of adult-use recreational cannabis in New York and New Mexico.
*Updated March 23, 2021
This story has been updated to reflect the city of Denver's most recent cultivation facilities data and the legalization of recreational cannabis in New Jersey and Virginia.


DEVELOPING STORY: As many as 63,000 mail-in ballots were delivered to the wrong voters in Pinal County, Arizona.The Republican National Committee and the Republican Party of Arizona released a statement calling for the immediate resignation of the county’s election director.
“During Arizona’s primary elections the RNC and Republican Party of Arizona’s poll observer program documented and reported multiple failures by Pinal County’s Election Administrator, including 63,000 mail-in ballots delivered to the wrong voters and multiple Republican-heavy precinct locations running out of ballots,” read a statement released by the parties.
Radio station KTAR reports the shortages were the result of “unprecedented demand for in-person ballots.”“This is a comprehensive failure that disenfranchises Arizonans and exemplifies why Republican-led efforts for transparency at the ballot box are so important,” the statement continued. “Pinal County Elections Director David Frisk should resign immediately.”
After all the chaos in 2020 how in the world are there problems this significant in a single county? And how is it possible that the ballot shortages happened in Republican-heavy precincts?


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What’s Behind Them? Magic Beans Productions launches ‘The Panto Course’
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These students from Sierra Leone are studying at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Opened in 1929, this institution continues to contribute to improving international public health. The original London School of Tropical Medicine was founded in 1899 at the London Docks. Sailors arriving from Africa, India and the Far East often suffered from illnesses not previously seen in Britain's colder climate. The study of tropical diseases like malaria and sleeping sickness also promoted better medical care for inhabitants of British colonies overseas.
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Ever since the first Edison phonographs, record players, and radios became available to the general public, consumers have wanted to have access to the best sound quality possible through their devices and speakers. Technology has advanced at a record pace over the past hundred years, and we now have access to a sound quality from our stereo equipment that would have been unimaginable to those early listeners. One of the most significant advancements has been the use of multiple sizes and styles of speakers that work together to produce a perfect sound quality that can’t be provided by just a single speaker or multiple speakers of the same size and design. So how can various styles and sizes of speakers work together to provide you with the best possible quality sound? The answer is a speaker crossover.
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Anyone who enjoys listening to music knows that the quality of the sound coming out of a stereo system’s speakers will play a significant role in if the music honestly sounds good or not. A stereo system that is not set up correctly can make the best music sound terrible, and no one wants to hear a low-quality version of their favorite song. Every stereo system, whether inside a building or installed on a vehicle, really needs a speaker crossover to allow you to achieve the best results. People have different preferences when it comes to listening to music. Some prefer an emphasis on the high notes, others love hearing the low notes and want the bass to be heard above all else, while many prefer a perfect blend of highs, mediums, and lows. Any speaker can produce sound, but if you want the highest quality sound possible, then multiple speakers with a speaker crossover will need to be used. For instance, a cell phones speaker might sound ok, and compared to a speaker from a hundred years ago, probably sounds pretty good, but if you stream that music to a sound system made up of multiple speakers, each operating within the frequency parameters they were intended to use, it will sound like the band is right in front of you!
A speaker crossover is essential because it will allow you to build your stereo system the way you want it, with an emphasis on the sounds you like the most. Almost any system using more than one speaker will use some form of crossover to improve the quality of sound. Realizing how a crossover works gives you the knowledge to make your existing speakers, and any more that you might add, work perfectly in unison with one another and allows the sound system to cancel out unwanted noise.
2 Types of Speaker Crossovers
When it comes to speaker crossovers there are two main types to consider, an electronic crossover and a passive crossover. An electronic (sometimes referred to as “active”) crossover operates exactly as the name implies, it uses a power and a ground signal in order to operate. It is wired in between the amplifier and receiver and cancels out any unneeded frequencies and allows the amplifier to focus only on the frequencies that are needed for each speaker. Electronic crossovers often will have volume controls and other features that will enable you to fine tune your system to get the results you desire. The only real disadvantage of using an electronic crossover is that it will need to be wired to a 12v power source, a good ground, and might require other connections and some fine tuning which could make an electronic speaker crossover harder to install than a passive version. While the installation might be slightly more difficult, many find that an electric speaker crossover gives you greater tuning ability due to the fact that they often offer more sound processing features than a passive crossover.
A passive speaker crossover accomplishes the same general goals as an electric version, but does not have to be hooked up to a direct power source to work. Passive crossovers are usually easy to install and can further be split into two groups, inline crossovers and component crossovers. An inline crossover connects in between the amplifier and the receiver. They are usually set to a specific frequency and are not adjustable. A component crossover fits in between the amp and speakers and splits the signal into two parts for highs and lows. Most component crossovers have some adjustment, but none of the passive speaker crossovers offer as much adjustment and tuning ability as an electronic crossover, which makes the electric crossover the favorite for use in competition level stereo systems.
3 Ways to Crossover Frequencies
There are three main ways to crossover frequencies when it comes to dealing with most sound systems. Band-pass, low-pass, and-high pass are your three options, and each accomplishes a particular goal. Low-pass and high-pass filters focus on opposite ends of the frequency spectrum, but can be combined to form a band-pass filter. Below are some of the specific details about each way to crossover a frequency.
-Low-pass filters will pass signals through with a lower frequency than what is selected as its cut-off point and cancels out frequencies that are higher than the cut-off point from the audio signal. These work best for speakers that focus on low frequencies and bass friendly music
-High-pass filters will pass through frequencies that are higher than the selected cut-off frequency and removes frequencies below the cut-off point from the audio signal. These work great for speakers that focus on higher sounds, such as tweeters and other small speakers.
-Band-pass filters are generally used over the frequency ranges of 300 MHz to 100 GHz. They will cancel out frequencies that are outside of their specified range, whether they are too high or too low, so they act as a combination of low and high pass filters.
All of these types of speaker crossovers will accomplish the same goal of letting you customize your sound system by allowing each speaker to operate closer to its full potential and focusing on the frequencies they were designed to work with. Which type of crossover filter you use will depend on things as varied as the location of your sound system, what kind of music you enjoy listening to, and what you are trying to get out our your stereo system (do you want to listen to some music on a leisurely drive or are you trying to win a speaker completion?). Some crossovers are easier to install and set up than others, but all will instantly whelp with the quality of sound that is coming out of your speakers, tweeters, and subwoofers.
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At Garage Bagger Stereo, we focus on the best stereo equipment on the market and are ready to help with any question you might have. We are just a call or email away and have years of combined knowledge when it comes to sound systems. If you have a question about one specific piece of equipment or if you are trying to build a custom system from the ground up, we are here to help point you in the right direction. Free shipping and payment plans are available on certain items to help get you the parts you need as quickly as possible. So check out our selection, ask any questions you might have, order and install the best stereo equipment on the market, and enjoy listening to your favorite music in the highest quality possible!


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Sena notes that the stock offers an "attractive entry' point, trading for about 10x his 2013 EBITDA estimates, about half the multiple Google was offering when it tried to buy the company in December 2010.
On the lock-up expiration issue, he says that the five holders account for 50% of the stock, and that under 10% of the stock is held by mid-level employees, a group he thinks are the most likely sellers. The public float should increase to 20% of the shares from 6% on June 1 when the lock-up expires.
Meanwhile, he says that talk about international writedowns are "unfounded" given the strong revenue growth and improving margins in the international segment of the company's business.
Not least, Sena says that current revenue guidance suggests 79% year-over-year growth at the mid-point of the range, "which remains impressive."
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The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.
- Proverbs 22:3
Remember your Creator
in the days of your youth,
before the days of trouble come
and the years approach when you will say,
“I find no pleasure in them”—
before the sun and the light
and the moon and the stars grow dark,
and the clouds return after the rain;
when the keepers of the house tremble,
and the strong men stoop,
when the grinders cease because they are few,
and those looking through the windows grow dim;
when the doors to the street are closed
and the sound of grinding fades;
when people rise up at the sound of birds,
but all their songs grow faint;
when people are afraid of heights
and of dangers in the streets;
when the almond tree blossoms
and the grasshopper drags itself along
and desire no longer is stirred.
Then people go to their eternal home
and mourners go about the streets.
- Ecclesiastes 12:1-5
“Arise and attack a nation at ease,
which lives in confidence,”
declares the Lord,
“a nation that has neither gates nor bars;
its people live far from danger.
Their camels will become plunder,
and their large herds will be spoils of war.
I will scatter to the winds those who are in distant places
and will bring disaster on them from every side,”
declares the Lord.
“Hazor will become a haunt of jackals,
a desolate place forever.
No one will live there;
no people will dwell in it.”
- Jeremiah 49:31-33
“Extremely flammable gas.
May form explosive mixtures with air.
Contains gas under pressure; may explode if heated.
May cause frostbite
May displace oxygen and cause rapid suffocation.
May cause cancer.
May cause damage to organs through prolonged or repeated exposure. (liver)”
- Hazard Statements for Vinyl Chloride from the AirGas Safety Data Sheet
There was a massive train derailment on 3 February about an hour’s drive from our home. The rail company assessed the hazard and although the reports are highly conflicting, it seems a controlled burn was made to mitigate the hazard. The primary hazardous material was vinyl chloride monomer.
Vinyl Chloride, HHC=CHCl (pardon the simplified chemical expression), is used in monomer form to create PVC, poly vinyl chloride, a very stable chemical compound. You probably have it in your home, the white water or drainage pipes. When in college, I visited a PVC chemical plant. They had an accident there, but in the vessel where the monomer was polymerized, chained together to form the plastic. A relief valve and opened and tiny pellets, about the size of B-Bs were thrown everywhere. It looked like a winter scene, but the “snow” was plastic. But before that reaction, vinyl chloride is a colorless gas that is unstable – basically wanting to form the plastic in the right conditions. It is also called chloroethylene and other names. From the hazard statements quoted above, it is highly flammable and explosive. It is a suspected class 1 carcinogen, so prolonged exposure might lead to cancer. Prolonged exposure might also lead to liver disease. The suffocation hazard is when it collects in an area to replace the air there. And the frostbite is due to the cold nature of gases released from high pressure.
But, elsewhere in the Safety Data Sheet, or SDS, it says that if the vinyl chloride burns, it forms carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, water, and “halogenated compounds.” The hydrogen (H) in the chemical expression will form water, for the most part. The carbon (C) in the chemical expression will form carbon dioxide for the most part, but since they cannot control the combustion perfectly, some carbon monoxide (CO) will form. There will be so little CO at a safe distance that it should be undetectable, similar to automobile exhaust, but on a larger scale. The halogenated compounds are the unknown. Does the chlorine attach to hydrogen and form a little acid rain? Even in undetectable amounts? Maybe, but maybe not in a hazardous quantity. “Halogenated compounds” in this case are anything containing chlorine (Cl), the only thing left in the equation, and reacted with oxygen and/or carbon and hydrogen, the other ingredients in the flame. Chlorinated simple carbon compounds might have a variety of hazards, but once they have dispersed from the fire and mixed with the air of the wind, there is probably no detectable amount to harm anyone outside the burn site. And chlorine (at least some of those halogenated compounds) is often used in water purification to kill things like algae and molds in the water system’s pipes. While some of these chlorine compounds may be considered hazardous, if there was enough of it, most would not be. But characterizing the plume from the fire as being vinyl chloride is false. The fire removed that particular carcinogen. Reports of impending deaths in the media is false and only feeding the fear – totally irresponsible.
There were a few “probably” and “for the most part” statements in that last paragraph. The wind was not blowing in our direction, for the most part, that day, and I am not worried at all. Then again, I lived in the golden triangle of Texas for three years, and those types of chemicals were commonly shipped out of that area. I worked with many that were far worse than vinyl chloride. You learned to respect the hazard, but fear was something you did not have. You were used to the situation, and I trusted the safeguards that were in place.
An informed public can be a safer public, but why did I not know about the train derailment or the fire until my son in Tennessee started asking us ten days later if we had been evacuated and should we simply abandon our home and move in with them.
A misinformed public panics. I know. The media’s best trick panics the public. They grab information that they do not understand. They rush to be the first to report without understanding what they are saying or checking the facts. And the more frightening, the better for them. It sells advertisements.
God tells us not to fear, but those that are aware of dangers and are cautious usually live longer. As the Proverbs quote says, those who are not aware pay the penalty.
I will let others write about why people were not informed, misinformed, etc. I cannot report on what really happened since the reports contradict each other. Having a call to totally shut down all plastic operations over misinformation is beyond irresponsible into the conspiracy theory category, but I have read that report also. Why the media did not cover it at first, but now cover it with conflicting information, especially spreading fear by talking about the fire releasing carcinogens that have polluted large areas. I will let someone else worry about that. The fire, for the most part, eliminated the carcinogens, and spread what little there was that remained to an undetectable level. So many commercials talk of various diseases being “undetectable” as a good thing, but in this case, people fear the unknown.
The Ecclesiastes quote talks about dangers in the streets. Those dangers will always be there and when we are young, we think we are immune to them. And the Jeremiah quote warns the people of Hazor that they will be destroyed when they least expect it. We should not fear that or worry about it. But we should live an upright life, in case we are in the next target zone for a disaster.
I thought of this post, maybe as a preamble to a course someone wants me to write regarding Hazard Communications, 29 CFR 1910.1200. CFR – Code of Federal Regulations, and Hazard Communications is a course required of anyone exposed as part of their job to anything hazardous and just about everything related to chemicals is hazardous. Sure, we worry about those things that will cause cancer down the road, but something can be hazardous due to causing eye irritation when you get it in your eyes, like the liquid soap in the company restroom. You ask, “Why would anyone put hand soap in their eyes?” But they may not have rinsed their hands properly and then they rubbed their eyes. Things like that happen. But since so few wash their hands …
So, while I was thinking about what had recently happened, I started studying the Safety Data Sheet for vinyl chloride, and it helps understand the hazards, but then the accidental release portion of a few of these SDS from various companies was less than helpful. Do you let the material that is a carcinogen leak and contaminate an entire town, maybe immediately killing many people from suffocation and the rest get cancer? Or do you let it accidentally burn which might lead to an explosion, killing people in the process? Or do you burn it off in a slightly safer manner after evacuating the town?
You will be crucified by the media, regardless of what you do. My question is how did the train derail? What could have prevented that? And the rail company may have done everything in this rotten situation using the best method available.
But if you are concerned, search for vinyl chloride safety data sheet. Each company that makes the stuff produces the SDS and has it available on the public domain. But remember that once it burns, it becomes a lot of other compounds, and those chemicals may have their own SDS.
And what God wants you to know is that we should not live in fear, but trust in the Lord. People on the other hand … they make mistakes. And that includes us.
Soli Deo Gloria. Only to God be the Glory.
Thanks, Mark, for sharing your knowledge with us. We never hear the whole story, when it comes to the news, so your thoughts really shed light on this tragedy.
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Thanks. I felt someone had to dispel at least some of the misinformation.
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Halve the mozzarella and tomatoes and combine in bowl with scallions and herbs. Dress salad with vinegar, olive oil and season with salt and pepper, to taste.
Recipe courtesy of Rachael Ray, 2008
Claire puts her own spin on a bacon, egg and cheese breakfast sandwich.
The best comfort food is comforting both to cook and to eat, like Ree's pork chops.
50 States of Desserts

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Plants are an essential element in any home or office space, and with the trend of indoor gardening on the rise, plant walls have become a popular design option. Plant walls not only add a touch of nature to your spaces but also offer a host of benefits such as purifying the air, reducing stress levels, and enhancing mental clarity.
1. Vertical Herb Garden
A vertical herb garden is a great way to add a touch of greenery to your kitchen spaces. You can make use of a wooden pallet, pocket planters, or even mason jars to create a functional and stylish herb garden.
2. Succulent Wall Art
Succulent wall art is a creative way to add some texture and color to your indoor spaces. You can create a living wall art piece by arranging different succulent varieties on a wooden frame or use a pre-made succulent wall planter.
3. Moss Wall
A moss wall is a unique and eco-friendly way to add some greenery to your indoor spaces. Moss walls require minimal maintenance and add a calming and natural element to any room.
4. Fern Wall
A fern wall is a great way to add some lush greenery to your indoor spaces. Ferns are low maintenance and add a tropical feel to any space.
5. Air Plants Wall
Air plants are trendy and easy to care for. You can create a stunning wall display by using a combination of air plant varieties in a variety of planters such as glass globes, wooden frames, or hanging baskets.
6. Living Wall
A living wall or a green wall is a wall covered with live plants. Living walls are not only visually appealing but also offer a host of benefits such as air purification, noise reduction, and insulation.
7. Flower Wall
A flower wall is a great way to add some color and fragrance to your indoor spaces. You can create a flower wall by using a variety of flowers such as roses, hydrangeas, and peonies, either as a permanent or temporary installation.
8. Cactus Wall
Cacti are low maintenance and add a desert vibe to any indoor space. You can create a cactus wall by using a variety of cactus species and arranging them in a unique pattern.
9. Vertical Garden Wall
A vertical garden wall is a great way to create a lush and vibrant living wall. You can use a variety of plants such as ferns, succulents, and herbs to create a unique and personalized vertical garden.
10. Hanging Plant Wall
A hanging plant wall is a great way to add some greenery to your indoor spaces without taking up floor space. You can use a variety of planters such as macrame hangers, wire baskets, or glass globes to create a hanging plant wall.
Plant walls are a great way to add some greenery to your indoor spaces and offer a host of benefits such as air purification, stress reduction, and mental clarity. With a little creativity and some plant knowledge, you can create a personalized and stunning plant wall for your home or office space.


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Received for publication July 15, 1981. Approved fo. publication as Journal article No. 133-80 of the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Wooster, OH 44691.
Former Graduate Research Assistant and Assistant Professor, respectively. Mailing address: Dept. of Horticulture, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210.
Professor, Dept. of Horticulture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061.
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Gabala: It was another successful day for Indian shooters at the ongoing ISSF Junior World Cup, as they won three gold medals and added five medals in total here on Wednesday. The Indian tally now stands at 23 medals at the end of the fourth day of the competition.
India won two team gold medals in the men’s and women’s 25m pistol events respectively, while the third gold of the day came through Ahnad Jawanda in the individual men’s 25m pistol competition.
India has won a total of nine gold medals in the competition, and is ranked second in the medals tally behind Russia.
The day’s only silver came through Gurmeet who made it an Indian 1-2 in the men's 25m pistol. Ahnad and Gurmeet had teamed up with Arjun Das for the team gold in the same category.
In the women's 25m pistol, Chinki Yadav, Gauri Sheoran and Sanjana Sehrawat won the gold with a combined score of 1701. Chinki and Gauri also reached the individual competition finals along with Muskan.
Chinki qualified for the bronze medal match but eventually lost out to Anna Dedova 3-7. India’s only bronze of the day came in the women’s trap competition through the team comprising Pragati Gupta, Soumya Gupta and Manisha Keer.
In the junior men's 50m rifle 3 positions event, Subhankar Pramanick, who had earlier won the 50M rifle prone gold, reached the finals with a qualifying score of 1139 but had to be content with eighth position in the final standings....


This is a terrific intermediate ukulele tutorial by ukuelenny of Into the Mystic by Van Morrison. You’ll find instructions for the ukulele chords and strumming patterns of this fun song to play. Happy strumming!
Time to learn Kokomo by the “Beach Boys,” on the Ukulele. This chord progression has a lot of really cool things going on. The I chord (C) goes to a Imaj7 (Cmaj7) to get a really nice island breeze type of vibe and the IV chord (F) moves to a iv (Fm) which was a classic trick of guys at the time, something you will see the Beatles and David Bowie do a lot of us well. They also have a vm7 (Gm7) and a V7 (G7) in the same song! Crazy! Making it a lot of fun to play and a lot of fun to sing on Ukulele. This is just a great Ukulele song, and we are going to teach you how to play Kokomo on the Ukulele in under 10 minutes! Have fun and keep on learning on playing Ukulele.
Here’s a tutorial of one of my favorite song from The Fault In Our Stars soundtrack, All I Want. It’s very powerful, emotional, and beautiful played on the ukulele. ukuSean does a great job of walking us through the ukulele strumming patterns and ukulele chords. Happy strumming!
The World War l Ukulele Songbook offers “Grand Old Flag” and other ukulele songs from the World War I time period. Each of the ukulele songs in this ukulele song book have a chord chart for the first note of singing along with the ukulele chord chart for each of the chords in the song. The songs included are:
- This Land is Your Land Ukulele Chords
- Grand Old Flag Ukulele Chords
- K-K-K Katy Ukulele Chords
- It’s a long way to Tipperary Ukulele Chords
- Whispering Ukulele Chords
- How You Gonna Keep ‘Em Down On the Farm Ukulele Chords
- Over There Ukulele Chords
- Take Me Out to the Ballgame Ukulele Chords
- Mademoiselle from Armentieres Ukulele Chords
- By the light of the Silvery Moon Ukulele Chords
- Yankee Doodle Boy Ukulele Chords
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This is an excellent ukulele tutorial by TenThumbs Productions walking you through either the Roberta Flack version or the Fugees version of Killing Me Softly ukulele chords. From the tutorial’s description…
Alright, Maybe you like the Roberta Flack version, maybe it was the Fugees, maybe it was Nancy Sintra, Alicia Keys, a lot of people have done this great tune. But no matter who it was, we are going to teach you how to play it today. It is a relatively simple song. The E major, B7 and Fmaj7 might be a little tricky when learning how to play Ukulele, but the strum pattern is basic and there are no crazy changes, making it a fairly easy song to learn how to play on the Ukulele. What we are going to do is break down the two parts, chorus and verse, and than do a play-a-long, and than after that we are even going to look at some ideas you can do to finger pick it out. We are going to break down how to play Killing Me Softly (with his song) on Ukulele so that no matter what your level you can learn how to play!


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SEATTLE - Visio, a Seattle-based business software developer, said it has acquired InfoModelers, a privately held database-design company based in Bellevue.
The deal gives Visio nearly all of InfoModelers' assets in exchange for an undisclosed number of unregistered shares of Visio stock. Visio said it will take a one-time charge during the second quarter to account for the sale.
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One of the undeniable virtues of Veterans Day is that it has not been subjected to the modern American craze for three-day weekends, regardless of historical significance. Veterans Day is rooted in Armistice Day, which is rooted in concrete history. On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, representatives of Allied and German forces met to formalize an end to World War I, then popularly known as the Great War.
Sadly, that did not turn out to be the “war to end all wars,” and the holiday was expanded to become Veterans Day, a day to honor all American military veterans, especially those who have served in wars overseas. It is appropriate to honor those who have been willing to put their lives on the line in defense of their country and the principles of freedom and liberty for which she stands.
It is also appropriate to honor veterans by assuring that they are not asked to be willing to make the ultimate sacrifice except in causes and conflicts that are worthy of their heroism, conflicts in which a clear set of criteria for victory and success are laid out, and a practical and comprehensible strategy for achieving those objectives are in place. That is especially important in the context of the war in Afghanistan, a commitment now in its 10th year and that is only escalating.
It is also noteworthy, as the Drug Policy Alliance documented in a 2009 report, that veterans with substance-abuse problems, which tend to increase during periods of active conflict, are not being treated intelligently. Some 30 percent of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans show symptoms of post-traumatic stress, and many “self-medicate” with alcohol or opiod drugs. Instead of treating such problems with substitute drugs like methadone (not covered under the military’s Tricare health benefits program), all too often we put such veterans in jail.
However wise or foolish the policies of civilian governments, however, the bravery and dignity of veterans, especially in an era of a volunteer military, are worthy of honor and respect. Those who serve do so of their own choice. Today we honor that choice.
This editorial first ran Nov. 11, 2009.
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2] peak = Indirect maximal oxygen in the incremental shuttle Walk Test
86 m/s) speed) Note: UL, upper limb; LL, lower limb; NC, not completed; 6MWT, six minute walk test; ISWT, incremental shuttle walk test
The minimal important difference of the endurance shuttle walk test has not yet been published.
The standardised response mean (SRM) was used to assess responsiveness of the endurance shuttle walk test using data from all participants.
Six participants in the walk group and three participants in the cycle group reached the 20-minute completion time of the endurance shuttle walk test following training.
In terms of the responsiveness of the endurance shuttle walk test, the SRM of the endurance walk time was 0.
Although the improvement in endurance walking time was 279 seconds (68%) greater with walk training than with cycle training, the true effect of walk training was probably underestimated as six participants in the walk group following training reached the completion time of 20 minutes for the endurance shuttle walk test with a potential to continue whereas only three participants in the cycle group following training reached the completion time.
The Shuttle Walk Test (SWT) may better correlate to a standard cardiopulmonary symptom-limited incremental exercise test than the 6MWT, as the 6MWT is distance-limited, self-paced, less strenuous, and therefore more suggestive of submaximal functional capacity.
A shuttle walk test for assessment of functional capacity in chronic heart failure.
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Just wanted to thank you for the great package you set up for us. The golfing was unbelievable and the weather fantastic! We’re already planning our trip back there in 2016.
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ELSTEIN – FIS Ceramic Focus Infrared Radiator
Elstein focus infrared radiators FIS are ceramic IR-dark radiators with reflector made of aluminium and E27 screw caps.The aluminium reflector focuses the infrared radiation being generated by a ceramic rod radiator so that the FIS radiator transmits a high radiation power to a small area.
This concentration of radiation power is especially suited for solving tasks dealing with the heating of selective or small areas.
The standardised E27 thread allows easy and safe installation, as the radiators can be screwed in like bulbs into porcelain or metal sockets with porcelain insert.
The standard power of Elstein focus infrared radiators FIS is 250 W.


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Get your cash back send in those Valuable Rebates now I know sometimes it seems like a lot of work to send din a copy of your receipt and clip out that UPC code , but when you receive that rebate check in the mail it will all be worth it.
Rebates are easy to find. Every store has them available your first stop will be the coupon counter or bulletin board of your store most rebates are posted there. You can also find them on your favorite products and in your weekly circulars. Some of the most useful rebates for advertisers are the “Try me Free” these are attached to new items on the market the manufacture offers a rebate for the full amount of purchase. You send in the rebate and you receive the amount back in a check and basically the manufacture is paying you to use their product in hopes you will want to buy it again.
Take a good look at your rebate offer and examine the expiration date and make sure that the rebate does not exclude the use of a coupon.
Now not all rebates require postage so make sure you read the form carefully. There are also ways to file your rebate on line in stores like Staples, Rite Aid, and Walgreens they have monthly rebate offers that can be redeemed online by entering the same information you would on a mail in rebate you’ll still receive your rebate by mail but it cuts down on time and money because you don’t have to pay for postage.
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Goldie Hawn Says She Considers Herself 'More a Dancer Than Anything Else'
Goldie Hawn may be one of Hollywood’s most recognizable actresses, but her roots belong in the dance world.
Hawn started dancing at a young age thanks to her mother, and she was discovered when she was dancing in Los Angeles.
“I consider myself more a dancer than anything else,” Hawn, 74, said. “When I talk about dancing through life, it really is how we move. It’s how we face today, how we walk into a room, how we pull ourselves up and feel that what we have inside of us is valuable and important.”
Dancing, she added, gives her the feeling of “abandonment, and also fearlessness. If you can express yourself without being afraid of looking silly – dance like nobody’s watching, right? – I think that is a beautiful thing.”
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Hawn launched Mind Up in 2003 to promote daily 5-minute breaks for school-age students, aimed at helping them stay centered throughout the day.
The actress is a strong proponent of meditation after discovering it in 1972 when she was just 26.
“Meditation is just the way you train your brain to quiet down and so forth,” Hawn said. “My experience was visceral, it was amazing. I rediscovered something in that one sitting. I can’t explain the joy that was brought back to me. It was a transformational ‘Aha!’ moment for me. It stabilised my mind and gave me a piece of my interior that was all mine. No one could touch it. It was my internal universe and it’s something I’ve been doing ever since.”


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Although sucked into the town of Burning Lake and its ability to accommodate both Wicca and Christian inhabitants, the need for the first two books didn't manifest.
from description: Welcome to Burning Lake, a small, isolated town with a dark history of witches and false accusations. Now, a modern-day witch has been murdered, and Detective Natalie Lockhart is reluctantly drawn deep into the case, in this atmospheric mystery from Alice Blanchard, The Witching Tree.
When the leader of the town's oldest coven is brutally murdered, detectives Natalie Lockhart and Luke Pittman are stunned, not only at the loss of a beloved member of the community, but by the terrible circumstances.
There are plenty of interesting elements, and I was happily disregarding a few things that bothered me. One major cavil was with Natalie's love triangle, living with one man and hankering for another. She is still reeling from events in the previous books, so it is easy to feel some compassion for her situation, but it bothered me for several reasons.
At any rate, I was willing to ignore several things until it ended in a cliff hanger! No conclusion, no resolution. It is one thing to leave a few threads dangling, but that was not the case. Nothing is resolved.
As I was reading, I was thinking this would make a good R.I.P book, but ending a mystery without a conclusion in and attempt to make the reader eager for the next book is inexcusable. The Witching Tree was by no means great literature, but it was entertaining, and to have the book end abruptly with everything still in the air is unfair manipulation. I won't be looking for the next book--I no longer care what happens to any of the inhabitants of Burning Lake.
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Mystery. Dec. 7, 2021. Print length: 336 pages.
Although I haven't taken part in the R.I.P. challenge in several years, I'm always on the lookout for books that fit the tenor of the challenge because I especially enjoy spooky, eerie, witchy books in the fall.
I'm looking forward to trying The Manningtree Witches at some point: "Wolf Hall meets The Favourite in this beguiling debut novel that brilliantly brings to life the residents of a small English town in the grip of the seventeenth-century witch trials and the young woman tasked with saving them all from themselves."
Has anyone seen anything about the challenge this year? I participated from 2006 -2016, after that I continued to read along with everyone else but without adding my name to the challenge posts.
Do you have some R.I.P. books in mind? Have you heard if anyone is sponsoring the challenge this year?

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Things have gotten so grim in the defense world that advocates of maintaining current levels of military spending have started rolling out the heavy artillery. “Do we want to reinstitute the draft?” Rep. Howard McKeon, R-Calif., chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, asked Wednesday on Fox News. “Some of the cuts we’re talking about would take over 200,000 [service members] out.”
One might think that mustering out so many troops would reduce — not increase — the need for conscription. But McKeon’s taking a double-bank shot here: deep spending cuts could translate into poor pay and benefits for the troops. That might make the draft — which McKeon opposes — the only option left to defend the nation. Sure, it’s tactical-nuclear rhetoric, but it’s good to see the real cost of sustaining a large standing army at least mentioned.


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Have you ever watched an ASMR video where the ASMRist speaks into the ear microphones? You get sound in both audio channels as if someone is whispering directly into your ears. That’s called spatial audio and Adobe researchers are using these types of videos to teach machines to match sound locations in them.
Because we, as humans, have the ability to establish spatial correspondences between our visual and auditory senses, we can immediately notice that the visual and audio streams are consistent in the first video and flipped in the second video. Our ability to link the location of what we see with what we hear enables us to interpret and navigate the world more effectively (e.g., a loud clatter draws our visual attention telling us where to look; when interacting with a group of people, we leverage spatial cues to help us disambiguate different speakers). In turn, understanding audio-visual spatial correspondence could enable machines to interact more seamlessly with the real world, improving performance on audio-visual tasks such as video understanding and robot navigation.
In our work, “Telling left from right: Learning spatial correspondence between sight and sound” (authors Karren Yang, Bryan Russell and Justin Salamon)–which is being presented this week as an oral presentation at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2020, and as an invited talk at the CVPR 2020 Sight and Sound workshop–we present a novel approach for teaching computers spatial correspondence of sight and sound.
In order to teach our system, we train it to tell whether the spatial audio (i.e., left and right audio channels) have been flipped or not. This surprisingly simple task results in a strong audiovisual representation that can be used in a variety of downstream applications. Our approach is “self supervised,” which means that it does not rely on manual annotations. Instead, the structure of the data itself provides supervision to the algorithm, meaning that all we need to train it is a large dataset of videos with spatial audio. Our approach goes beyond previous approaches as it learns cues directly from stereo audio in order to match the perceived localization of a sound with its position in the video.
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More details emerge surrounding Impact World champion Tessa Blanchard's firing
More details have emerged following the announcement that Impact Wrestling World Champion Tessa Blanchard had been stripped of her title and released earlier this week. Blanchard had been scheduled to defend her belt at the upcoming Slammiversary pay-per-view until the company released a statement on Thursday revealing that her contract had been "terminated".
A report from the Wrestling Observer Newsletter claims that Blanchard missed a pair of Impact Wrestling tapings as she was reluctant to leave Mexico where she is currently self-isolating with her partner, AAA star Daga. The report also suggests that she was unwilling to leave the country until after the pair's wedding this summer due to worries that she would be unable to return amidst the current global situation.
Additional reports state that Blanchard had refused to send in promo and interview videos when asked, forcing Impact to drastically change its entire June 1 episode.
Blanchard made history earlier this year when she defeated Sami Callihan at Hard To Kill to become the first-ever female Impact World Champion. However, where the third-generation star goes next is hard to say, particularly after several wrestlers accused her of racist abuse earlier this year.
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I didn’t watch the Oscars on television this year. Apparently, a lot of people didn’t.
As the nation’s scrutiny focuses ever more sharply on racial exclusion in Hollywood, Sunday’s television broadcast of the Academy Awards suffered its lowest rating in eight years. The Academy needs to take this drop very seriously.
#OscarsSoWhite is quickly becoming more than just a public relations headache for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which rakes in a reported $70 million a year from the domestic and international television rights to the ceremony. Without eyeballs to sell to advertisers, the networks won’t be so quick to pony up such huge sums in the future. The loss of revenue represents a dire threat to the Academy’s very existence, much less its annual awards ceremony.
As we have repeatedly warned over the last two years, unless the Academy takes affirmative steps to address racial exclusion not only in its awards nominations, but in the motion picture industry as a whole, the Academy Awards will become irrelevant. So far, we haven’t seen a much effort. In a letter to Academy leaders earlier this year, we offered to help develop a comprehensive diversity plan but so far, they have not responded.
This year’s boycott of the Oscars broadcast was more than a symbolic gesture. African-Americans represent a disproportionately high share of box-office revenue, spending more than $1.1 billion a year on movie tickets. If Hollywood wants people of color to tune in – to its movies or to its awards broadcast – then Hollywood must tune in to the legitimate concerns of its consumers.

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Maccarone was born in Pulheim as the daughter of an Italian gardener and a working German mother. Like her siblings and half-siblings, she did not grow up bilingual.
Maccarone originally wanted a career in music. She started writing lyrics at the age of 14. After finishing school, she wrote various texts that she sold to Udo Lindenberg and the now defunct Hamburg band Roh . In 1985 she moved to Hamburg and studied German and American studies with a focus on media. Her master's thesis in German under the title “A mainstream lesbian comedy and its cultural and film-historical prerequisites” deals with the success of her first own film, made in 1995, does Mausi rausi come out ?! . She has been writing screenplays since 1992. As part of a training initiative for young talents supported by the MEDIA program of the European Union, she took part in the development and script program of the Greek Mediterranean Film Institute (MFI) in 2003.
In connection with the crime scene Whose Honor was written and staged by her, there were violent protests by the Alevi community in Germany in December 2007 ; On December 30th, more than 20,000 Alevis demonstrated in Cologne against the broadcast of the film. Most of the protesters hadn't even seen the movie, rather heard that their community was being attacked. In addition to the taboo subject of child abuse in the family, the background was a historical tradition of defamation of the Alevi minority by the Sunni majority in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey. The director, completely surprised by the angry reactions, apologized to those affected for the misunderstanding and pointed out that their extensive research before the project had suggested nothing of the kind. She wanted to address a case of child abuse within the family and its late effects, as unfortunately occurs in all cultures, European and Middle Eastern, Christian and Muslim. It was new to her that such slander, “accusations and prejudices among fanatical Sunnis” against the liberal-Islamic religious community of the Alevis are common up to the present day.
In February 2017 she received the German Screenplay Award 2017 from the Minister of State for Culture for her screenplay with the working title Klandestin , the most important German award for outstanding, as yet unfilmed scripts. The film plot consistently tells a story of uprooting and loneliness, people in a globalized world, from the perspectives of four people who meet in Brussels.
Angelina Maccarone has directed film dramas and crime novels as well as an elaborate portrait documentary about Charlotte Rampling , often with her own script. She often tells the stories of “marginalized characters, marginalized people, underdogs”. “The dynamics between them and the apparent norm are Maccarone's topic and women are usually the focus.” Judith Kaufmann often works as the camerawoman for her films ; Jakob Hansonis , who comes from Pulheim like her, mostly composes the music for her films .
- 1995: Is Mausi coming out ?! (TV film): screenplay and assistant director; Director: Alexander Scherer
- 1996: Willi and the Windzors (TV film): screenwriting supervisor; Directed by Hape Kerkeling
- 1996: Blackjack (TV film): Screenplay with Peter Zingler ; Director: Ulli Baumann
- 1997: Everything will be fine (TV film, ARD): Screenplay and direction
- 1998: An Angel Strikes Back (international title: Helgoland Babylon ; TV film): Screenplay and direction
- 2001: You can't rewind your life (commercial): Director
- 2003: Experience smoke-free (commercial): Director
- 2005: Unveiled : Director, screenplay together with Judith Kaufmann
- 2006: Everything about Robert de Niro (TV film, ARD): screenplay; Director: Helmut Förnbacher
- 2006: Pursued : Director; Script: Susanne Billig
- 2007: Vivere ( Roadmovie ): screenplay and direction
- 2007: A Man, a Fjord (audio book comedy, CD): Text, together with Angelo Colagrossi ; Speaker: Hape Kerkeling
- 2007: Tatort: Whom Honor is Due (TV series): Screenplay and direction
- 2008: Tatort: Erntedank eV (TV series): Screenplay and direction
- 2009: one man, one fjord! (TV film): Screenplay, together with Angelo Colagrossi and Hape Kerkeling
- 2009: Tatort: Borowski and the Stars (TV series): Screenplay and direction
- 2011: The Look - Charlotte Rampling - A self portrait through others. (Documentary): script and direction; Germany, France, 94 min., Production: Prounenfilm, Tag / Traum, Les films d'ici, ZDF , 3sat , first broadcast: November 25, 2012 on 3Sat.
- 2014: Tolerant? We are ourselves. Three video clips : Coming out , parents , masquerade : director; Book: together with Carolin Emcke , editor: Bettina Böhler , in cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Yorck Kinogruppe
- 2014: Polizeiruf 110: Hexenjagd (TV series): Screenplay (together with Kristin Derfler) and direction.
- Is Mausi coming out ?! : The treatment (short script) for the film received the 1992 award from the Hamburg cultural authority . The television film was nominated for the Telestar in 1995 .
- An angel strikes back : 1998 “Best Fiction Program” of the Cologne Conference , shown at several film festivals (including the London Film Festival )
- Everything is going to be fine : shown at 30 national and international festivals so far, with awards including audience awards in New York, Paris, at the “LA Outfest” in Los Angeles and at the “Toronto Inside Out Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival”.
- Unfamiliar Skin : Hessian Film Award , 2005; Best Narrative Feature at the Seattle International Film Festival 2005; Grand jury award of the Image Nation Film Festival Montreal 2005. At the Cyprus International Film Festival 2006 he received the Golden Aphrodite for “Best Film” , Angelina Maccarone the “Best Director” award and the leading actress Jasmin Tabatabai the award “Best Fiction Actress”. In 2006 Jasmin Tabatabai was nominated for the German Film Prize in the actor category for her role . The film was also nominated for the "Crystal Globe" at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2005.
- Persecuted : Main Prize Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival in the newly created section “Cinema du présent” / “Cineasti del Presente” (contemporary cinema). Participation in other film festivals (including Filmfest Hof )
- Vivere : "Artistic Achievement Award", Los Angeles; shown at several film festivals (including Tribeca Film Festival New York, Festival of German Films Ludwigshafen, opening film for the Cologne Film Congress , Karlovy Vary International Film Festival )
- Golden Lola for the best unfilmed script 2017 for her script Klandestin
- Fatima El-Tayeb , Angelina Maccarone: Everything will be fine - the film script . Orlanda Frauenverlag , 1999, ISBN 3-929823-58-6 .
- “Beyond Boundaries II. Dagmar Brunow in conversation with Angelina Maccarone.” In: Queer Cinema. Edited by Dagmar Brunow / Simon Dickel. Mainz: Ventil Verlag 2018, s. 189-197.
- Literature by and about Angelina Maccarone in the catalog of the German National Library
- Angelina Maccarone in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Angelina Maccarone at filmportal.de
- Angelina Maccarone at Crew United
- Vogue - Interview with Angelina Maccarone on April 26, 2012
- Scriptwriter Angelina Maccarone - Surprisingly other women , long interview / portrait of the filmmaker on Deutschlandradio Kultur on March 15, 2017
- Peitz, Christiane: Die Taktgeberin - Portrait of Bettina Böhler at tagesspiegel.de, March 6, 2012 (accessed on March 23, 2012).
- Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf | Director MA. In: www.filmuniversitaet.de. Retrieved April 20, 2016 .
- Official statement of the Alevi Congregation Germany eV
- "Alevis protest against" incest "-Tatort" , Spiegel Online , December 27th 2007
- charges against NDR: Muslims protest against crime scene crime , FAZ from December 27, 2007, accessed March 15, 2017
- "Director defends incest crime thriller" , Spiegel Online, December 27, 2007
- German Script Award 2017: Most important award for outstanding scripts , press release of the Federal Government of February 10, 2017, accessed March 15, 2017
- The Secret of a Good Film , Federal Government February 10, 2017, accessed March 15, 2017
- Moderation: Britta Bürger: Screenwriter Angelina Maccarone - Strong women in focus. In: deutschlandradiokultur.de. March 15, 2017. Retrieved March 15, 2017 .
- Website of the film distributor on Unfamiliar Skin , with trailers, accessed March 15, 2017
- Link list for information and reviews about persecuted , www.filmz.de, accessed March 15, 2017
- Link list for information and reviews about Vivere , www.filmz.de, accessed March 15, 2017
- Message from the Heinrich Böll Foundation on the video clips Tolerant? We are ourselves , accessed on October 25, 2014.
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