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Add to Queue Easy Search. Quality Finds. Your partner and digital portal for the cannabis community. Pretty much every concern that prompts towns to deny dispensaries is either unfounded or the opposite of what’s true. dispensaries.com Licensing dispensaries requires approval by local officials, and the debate over whether to grant a license often revolves around fears about what how the business might impact the neighborhood.Those fears typically revolve around higher crime, lower property values and more kids having access to pot. That’s led to fewer dispensaries getting licensed in some states, and some towns and cities simply outlawing the idea altogether.However, a new study has found that the fears associated with dispensaries are built on a weak foundation. Conducted by the Humboldt Institute for Interdisciplinary Marijuana Research and the website Leafly, the study finds that myths are fueling these fears.Related: You Can Land a Better Job in Cannabis Than the Job You Have NowLet’s look at the statistics.The study involved a review of previously published studies that had not been considered as a whole before. Researchers looked at more than 100 studies before finally settling on in-depth analysis of 42 that had looked in detail at the impact of dispensaries on surrounding neighborhoods. The 42 studies were then reviewed by a team of data analysts, researchers and editors.What they found directly contradicted the established, conventional wisdom in some places that have been fueled by fears about cannabis dispensaries. In looking at the data from the previous studies, the new study found the following happened in neighborhoods where a dispensary had opened.Crime rates stayed the same or droppedProperty values increasedTeen marijuana use stayed flat or decreasedThe researchers have put together their findings in a report called Debunking Marijuana Myths. They plan to send the report to “elected officials, legislative aides, activists, industry groups and researchers nationwide.”Related: Listen: MedMen’s Adam Bierman on Building the Apple Store of WeedDishonesty and hyperboleAccording to the report, fears about dispensaries impacting property values and the crime rate have led to 75 percent of jurisdictions banning marijuana in California. In Nevada, 75 percent of counties and 42 percent of cities ban marijuana stores. The researchers argue that this has led to the black market continuing to thrive in many states, even after cannabis has been made legal. The report notes that most bans happen in suburban and rural areas.The debate over whether to license dispensaries is “often rife with misinformation based on 80 years of government dishonesty and drug war hyperbole,” the researchers wrote.Leafly editor David Downs told Rolling Stone that he knows many will feel the research is biased, since Leafly is involved in the cannabis business. But he encouraged people to read the actual report and look at the data, adding that implementation of marijuana legalization is as important as all the votes that made marijuana legal across the country.He said, ”If we fail at local implementation, then legalization won’t really happen. These  myths have been the biggest barrier to succeeding at local implementation, and I hope we can get over this barrier and, as citizens and local taxpayers, have smart, incisive discussions about the best path forward.”Follow dispensaries.com on Twitter to stay up to date on the latest cannabis news. Keep up with the latest trends and news in the cannabis industry with our free articles and videos, plus subscribe to the digital edition of Green Entrepreneur magazine. Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. 3 min read Study Finds Cannabis Dispensaries Don’t Cause High Crime or Low Property Values May 30, 2019 –shares Free Green Entrepreneur App dispensary Next Article Guest Writer Image credit: MCCAIG | Getty Images Download Our iOS App read more

If you’re itching to start a company out of a garage, then you shouldn’t pick up and move to Silicon Valley, according to Google cofounder Sergey Brin. It’s easier to start a company outside the Valley than in it, he said onstage at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit.”I know that sort of contradicts what everyone here has been saying,” he said with a laugh.Google got started at Stanford University, where the conference is taking place. But he argues that the Valley can be very expensive.”During the boom cycles, the expectations around the costs — real estate, salaries — the expectations people and employees have … it can be hard to make a scrappy initial business that’s self-sustaining,” he said. “Whereas in other parts of the world you might have an easier time for that.”What Silicon Valley is better for, he says, is that second step, once you’ve already started to gain some traction.Silicon Valley “is good for scaling that opportunity,” he said. “It’s good for providing more capital and allowing more risk.” 2019 Entrepreneur 360 List The only list that measures privately-held company performance across multiple dimensions—not just revenue. Jillian D’Onfro June 29, 2016 Silicon Valley Add to Queue Image credit: Bloomberg | Getty Images Sergey Brin: Don’t Come to Silicon Valley to Start a Business –shares Apply Now » 1 min read This story originally appeared on Business Insider Sergey Brin, president of Alphabet and co-founder of Google Inc. Next Article read more

–shares Fireside Chat | July 25: Three Surprising Ways to Build Your Brand David Murphy Next Article Add to Queue 3 min read Image credit: Olivier Le Queinec | Shutterstock This story originally appeared on PCMag Enroll Now for $5 Have some extra cash burning a hole in your pocket? Worried about the state of the electric car market and what technological improvements you might miss out on if you buy a car right now? If you’ve been eyeing a Tesla Model S or Model X, but didn’t want to plunk down a ton of cash to buy a car outright, Tesla lets potential purchasers lease the car instead. However, Tesla’s typical lease was a three-year commitment that required a smaller down payment and monthly payments starting at just around $600 for the barebones Tesla Model S 60 kWh car.If three years is too much time to be on the hook for your lease, however, Tesla is now offering potential purchasers a two-year agreement instead. The trade-off? You’ll be plunking down a little more for your down payment as a result of the shorter lease period. You’ll also have to make up your mind about a new Tesla rather quickly, as the two-year lease isn’t a permanent addition (just yet).”A 2-year lease option is one of our most popular requests. We listened and are launching a limited time test of a 2-year lease on Model S and Model X. Starting at only $593/month (details here), our new 2-year lease program was designed just for you to drive electric today, and is available on all Model S and X orders placed by September 12th,” reads a statement from Tesla, as reported by InsideEVs.According to Tesla’s website, a two-year lease for Tesla’s entry-level Model S (for 10,000 miles per year) will cost a normal person a down payment of $7,288 (and around $593 each month in payments). A three-year lease drops the down payment to $3,862. And it’s worth noting that these figures are meant to be general: your exact situation will vary depending on the various incentives your state offers for electric car purchases. (If you’re serious about a Tesla purchase, it’s worth spending some time playing with Tesla’s leasing calculator.)As for why Tesla might be testing a two-year lease plan right now, InsideEV notes that the timing of the new leasing plan — assuming it takes Tesla around three weeks to build and deliver a vehicle — means that two-year leases should be able to count toward Tesla’s delivery count before its third fiscal quarter closes.That, or it’s possible that Tesla might have some big September announcement lined up and it wants to get as much inventory out as it can before it talks about a newer feature (or car, in the case of the rumored P100D). Tesla Tesla Launches Limited 2-Year Lease Program Learn from renowned serial entrepreneur David Meltzer how to find your frequency in order to stand out from your competitors and build a brand that is authentic, lasting and impactful. August 22, 2016 read more

Source:https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm622715.htm Reviewed by James Ives, M.Psych. (Editor)Oct 6 2018The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved a supplemental application for Gardasil 9 (Human Papillomavirus (HPV) 9-valent Vaccine, Recombinant) expanding the approved use of the vaccine to include women and men aged 27 through 45 years. Gardasil 9 prevents certain cancers and diseases caused by the nine HPV types covered by the vaccine.”Today’s approval represents an important opportunity to help prevent HPV-related diseases and cancers in a broader age range,” said Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D., director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stated that HPV vaccination prior to becoming infected with the HPV types covered by the vaccine has the potential to prevent more than 90 percent of these cancers, or 31,200 cases every year, from ever developing.”Related StoriesLiving with advanced breast cancerHow cell-free DNA can be targeted to prevent spread of tumorsTrends in colonoscopy rates not aligned with increase in early onset colorectal cancerAccording to the CDC, every year about 14 million Americans become infected with HPV; about 12,000 women are diagnosed with and about 4,000 women die from cervical cancer caused by certain HPV viruses. Additionally, HPV viruses are associated with several other forms of cancer affecting men and women.Gardasil, a vaccine approved by the FDA in 2006 to prevent certain cancers and diseases caused by four HPV types, is no longer distributed in the U.S. In 2014, the FDA approved Gardasil 9, which covers the same four HPV types as Gardasil, as well as an additional five HPV types. Gardasil 9 was approved for use in males and females aged 9 through 26 years.The effectiveness of Gardasil is relevant to Gardasil 9 since the vaccines are manufactured similarly and cover four of the same HPV types. In a study in approximately 3,200 women 27 through 45 years of age, followed for an average of 3.5 years, Gardasil was 88 percent effective in the prevention of a combined endpoint of persistent infection, genital warts, vulvar and vaginal precancerous lesions, cervical precancerous lesions, and cervical cancer related to HPV types covered by the vaccine. The FDA’s approval of Gardasil 9 in women 27 through 45 years of age is based on these results and new data on long term follow-up from this study.Effectiveness of Gardasil 9 in men 27 through 45 years of age is inferred from the data described above in women 27 through 45 years of age, as well as efficacy data from Gardasil in younger men (16 through 26 years of age) and immunogenicity data from a clinical trial in which 150 men, 27 through 45 years of age, received a 3-dose regimen of Gardasil over 6 months.The safety of Gardasil 9 was evaluated in about a total of 13,000 males and females. The most commonly reported adverse reactions were injection site pain, swelling, redness and headaches.The FDA granted the Gardasil 9 application priority review status. This program facilitates and expedites the review of medical products that address a serious or life-threatening condition.The FDA granted approval of this supplement to the Gardasil 9 Biologics License Application to Merck, Sharp & Dohme Corp. a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc. read more

©2018 Bloomberg News Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC. The millions of merchants who sell products on Amazon.com Inc. have long craved more leverage over their powerful benefactor. Now some are creating a trade association in the hopes that a unified voice will force Amazon to take them more seriously. “We have large teams dedicated to helping sellers, many of them small businesses,” Amazon said in an emailed statement. “We interact with sellers thousands of times a day through a variety of channels and will continue to make sure we maintain that open dialogue.”Even with an organized group, merchants could find it difficult to negotiate with Amazon, which typically resists collective bargaining. The e-commerce giant has had long-running disputes with the Author’s Guild and the Association of American Publishers over online book sales. And the company has managed to keep unions out of its U.S. warehouses.Merchants are also contending with Amazon’s growing political influence. The company has a big lobbying presence in Washington and relationships with state lawmakers who doled out tax breaks in exchange for building new warehouses that create jobs. Amazon’s proposed second headquarters, which the company says will generate 50,000 new jobs over 15 years, has given politicians yet another reason to make nice with the online retailer.Amazon merchants fear their voices are drowned out by the company when policy decisions are made that affect their livelihoods and the future of e-commerce. They think an association will help them lobby more effectively. In addition to sales taxes, the merchants want to advocate for better protections against counterfeit goods that run rampant on online marketplaces, as well as trade issues like international postal rates that make it cheap for Chinese merchants to ship goods directly to U.S. shoppers. Merchants fear lawmakers don’t understand their business and the complexities of how Amazon operates.”When we speak to lawmakers about how Amazon works, their eyes glaze over,” says Jamin Arvig, a guild member and organizer who has been selling water filters on Amazon for more than a decade. “Our fear is policy makers will come up with solutions that are terrible because they don’t understand this business.”Beyond e-commerce policy, merchants hope an association will help them negotiate better terms with Amazon. Common complaints among Amazon merchants are that the retailer lacks adequate staff to handle their questions and concerns, which are routed to departments that often email irrelevant responses. Sellers also fear having their accounts suspended due to unverified complaints from Amazon shoppers or erroneous complaints lobbed by marketplace rivals bent on sabotage. Amazon’s focus on customers means merchants are guilty until proven innocent when a customer complains, cutting off sales for weeks while they navigate Amazon’s account reinstatement process, sellers say.Hundreds of trade associations form every decade, often in response to new threats such as technological innovation or an industry partner growing too powerful, says Lynette Spillman, a sociology professor at the University of Notre Dame who has studied trade associations. Mulch and soil producers have an association to help them negotiate with big retail partners like Home Depot Inc., as do food-equipment manufacturers that sell products to large companies like McDonald’s Corp.”The sales tax issue, and more particularly how to handle it considering Amazon’s power as a distributor, fits this sort of origin story well,” she says. Amazon recalls portable chargers on reports of fires, burns Citation: Amazon sellers seek more clout with new ‘merchants guild’ (2018, March 20) retrieved 18 July 2019 from https://phys.org/news/2018-03-amazon-sellers-clout-merchants-guild.html Organizers began pitching fellow merchants on the Online Merchants Guild last week at the Prosper Show, an annual Las Vegas conference that drew 1,900 Amazon sellers. The group is only just getting started but has big ambitions, which include negotiating better terms with Amazon, pushing the company to respond more effectively to sellers’ complaints and lobbying government officials to make sure merchants’ viewpoints are being heard.Chris McCabe, a former Amazon employee and owner of the consulting firm Ecommercechris.com is organizing the guild with Paul Rafelson, a Pace University law professor. They plan to promote the group at Amazon merchant events in New York and Seattle next month. It’s early days, and only about 100 merchants have expressed interest in joining the association, which levies an annual fee of between $100 and $25,000, depending on the size of the business.Merchants have mulled such a group for years but now have an issue to rally around. In recent months, states have been warning that they plan to levy back taxes on years worth of past sales. Merchants fear they’ll be easier targets than Amazon and hope a guild will give them lobbying clout.”There has not been one single issue to galvanize Amazon sellers like the sales tax issue,” McCabe says.Merchants’ complaints about Amazon are numerous and long-standing. With 300 million customers around the globe, including its big-spending Prime subscribers, the world’s biggest online retailer wields tremendous leverage over the people who keep its web store stocked with an abundance of goods.Amazon can dictate terms and fees with minimal input from sellers, who have to accept the take-it-or-leave-it approach because there are millions of merchants and only one Amazon. Merchants love it when the orders are rolling in. They hate it when there’s a problem and Amazon doesn’t seem to care nearly as much as they do because it has plenty of other merchants selling the same things.Still, Amazon offers small businesses an easy way to access customers through its web store and vast distribution network. Amazon added more than 300,000 new small businesses as merchant partners in 2017 and over 140,000 of its merchants have annual sales exceeding $100,000. Explore further This document is subject to copyright. 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Steel production. Credit: SIJ Metal Ravne, Slovenia New, greener prospects for steel waste gases This document is subject to copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study or research, no part may be reproduced without the written permission. The content is provided for information purposes only. Explore further Kristijan Plesnik, energy manager at the steel production SIJ Metal Ravne in Slovenia, talks to ESCI about economic threats to steel production and how these may affect EU climate targets. Kristijan is also involved in the EU-funded ETEKINA project, which looks at new innovative ways to recover waste heat in energy-intensive industries using heat pipes. During the project, SIJ Metal Ravne will adapt a new heat pipe heat exchanger (HPHE) in one of their plants in order to verify and demonstrate its impact in reducing the plant’s overall energy consumption. Provided by European Science Communication Institute Citation: Heat recovery in steel plants to boost competitiveness (2018, September 6) retrieved 17 July 2019 from https://phys.org/news/2018-09-recovery-steel-boost-competitiveness.html ESCI: Are you already reusing waste energy within your plant?Kristijan Plesnik: Indeed, we are already using some of the waste energy from our electric arc furnaces, so called UHPs, Ultra High Power furnaces. We have had very good experiences with that. ETEKINA draws on this but takes it further. The project has a new approach, as it gives us the opportunity to use waste energy from most other gas furnaces. We can benefit from this project as we know that our company is a rather big consumer of energy. For us, this is a big plus as we can reduce this consumption.ESCI: I can imagine that the steel industry is facing quite a lot of challenges: for example, the tariffs the US are imposing on steel while you are exporting quite a bit of your steel. How important is energy or its costs for you in this context?Kristijan Plesnik: I would say our main market is the European Union. This means Germany and other countries in the vicinity. Of course, we also export to America, about 15 %. But our production is foremost vulnerable when it comes to energy product prices, which represent 15% of all annual production costs. With or without Trump, we expect a rise in prices of electricity and natural gas in the future.ESCI: Where does the energy you are using come from?Kristijan Plesnik: Electricity and natural gas are for us the main energy sources in the production and processing of our steel. Of course, the electricity is partly provided by Slovenian companies under contract, whereas natural gas is imported. Today we have contracts with Slovenian companies, which receive their gas supplies from Russia. This means our gas comes mainly from Russia, and some from North Africa.ESCI: What kind of impact do you expect from the heat recovery technology in the future?Kristijan Plesnik: With over 60 furnaces fuelled by natural gas we are one of the bigger producers of tool steel in Europe. This means that there is a great potential to use this system on the remaining material heating furnaces as well and thus increase our overall competitiveness.ESCI: The EU is very concerned about energy efficiency and CO2 reduction. How could ETEKINA contribute to EU goals?Kristijan Plesnik: The steel industry is one of the biggest consumers of energy in Slovenia as well as in Europe. We are therefore one of the biggest producers of CO2 emissions, too. We release about 800 kilograms of CO2 per ton of steel produced. Considering this, the ETEKINA project is an important asset for us, as we expect to reduce our CO2 emissions by about 4 %. Of course, this reduction can only be achieved at the facility where we will implement the heat pipe technology, not across the whole company. read more

Mumbai’s Tulsi lake overflows due to heavy rainsTulsi is the smallest lake which has a share of 1 per cent in the total water supply. The other one is Vihar Lake.advertisement Vidya MumbaiJuly 13, 2019UPDATED: July 13, 2019 00:15 IST Mumbai’s Tulsi lake overflowed at 7 pm on Friday. (Photo: ANI)Mumbai’s Tulsi lake overflowed at 7 pm on Friday due to incessant rains. Last year, the monsoon arrived late and the lake filled to its capacity on July 9.This year, the rainfall in the catchment areas was higher and the lake overflowed.Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO) said, “One of Mumbai’s sources of water supply, lake Tulsi started overflowing, today.”Tulsi is the smallest lake which has a share of 1 per cent in the total water supply. The other one is Vihar Lake. Both of the lakes are located in Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP).Meanwhile, water quantum in lakes supplying to Mumbai’s needs rose further touching almost as much as last year’s water stocks the same day.The total water stocks on Friday was 6.35 lakh million litre or 43.92% of the required stocks.Last year on July 12, the total water stocks stood at 6.36 lakh million litre or 44 per cent of the required quantum, according to Times of India.There was a significant rise in water stocks as compared to a day earlier as well. On Thursday, the total water quantum stood at 5.47 lakh million litre or 37.83 per cent.The total required water stocks in all the seven lakes is 14.47 lakh million litres.Also Read | Mumbai rains: Flight operations briefly suspended at Chhatrapati Shivaji airport due to low visibilityAlso Watch | Mumbai rains: Is City of Dreams now Ram bharose?For the latest World Cup news, live scores and fixtures for World Cup 2019, log on to indiatoday.in/sports. Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter for World Cup news, scores and updates.Get real-time alerts and all the news on your phone with the all-new India Today app. Download from Post your comment Do You Like This Story? Awesome! Now share the story Too bad. Tell us what you didn’t like in the comments Posted byShifa Naseer Tags :Follow Mumbai rainsFollow Tulsi lake Next read more

Asian News International JammuJuly 12, 2019UPDATED: July 12, 2019 20:42 IST The Jammu Tourism Department along with a private partner started an open bus service ‘Jammu Darshan’. (Represntative image/ANI)The Jammu Tourism Department along with a private partner started an open bus service ‘Jammu Darshan’ to ferry tourists across various destinations in Jammu.OP Bhagat, Director of Tourism, said, “Because of Amarnath Yatra, people are coming in good numbers this year, therefore, the tourism department is taking this opportunity to promote tourists places in Jammu.””There is a good response to this service and most of the pilgrims who have come for Amarnath Yatra are enjoying this bus service ‘Jammu Darshan’,” said a pilgrim.The first batch of pilgrims left for Amarnath cave shrine from Baltal base camp on July 1, kicking off the annual pilgrimage to the 46-day-long yatra.Situated at an altitude of 3,888 m, the Amarnath cave is considered as one of the holiest shrines for Hindus.The Amarnath Yatra is conducted every year during Shravani Mela, which starts from July and continues till August. The Yatra takes place from the traditional 36-km Pahalgam track in Anantnag district and 14-km Baltal route in Ganderbal district.The holy cave remains open during this period and it attracts lakhs of pilgrims.ALSO READ | Over 1.44 lakh pilgrims perform Amarnath Yatra in 11 days TALSO READ | Another batch of over 5,000 pilgrims start Amarnath Yatra from JammuALSO WATCH | Day before Amarnath Yatra begins, Modi govt tightens security arrangementsFor the latest World Cup news, live scores and fixtures for World Cup 2019, log on to indiatoday.in/sports. Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter for World Cup news, scores and updates.Get real-time alerts and all the news on your phone with the all-new India Today app. Download from Post your comment Do You Like This Story? Awesome! Now share the story Too bad. Tell us what you didn’t like in the comments Posted byShahrukh Tags :Follow PilgrimFollow bus serviceFollow Amarnath YatraFollow Jammu tourismFollow Jammu Jammu Darshan bus service launched in J&K to promote tourismThe Jammu Tourism Department along with a private partner started an open bus service ‘Jammu Darshan’ to ferry tourists across various destinations in Jammu.advertisement Next read more