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Thomas Ramsey, who founded a military reenactment group for youth, told The Cullman Times he was headed home from a weekend event at Spring Hill, Tennessee, when he stopped with a friend at the restaurant in Cullman on Jan. 31. He left Peep, a rooster that participates in simulated battles, tied to his truck in the parking lot.
“I went back into the Cracker Barrel and it was very hard for me to say this with a straight face, even though I was panicking: ‘Do you have cameras in the parking lot? I think someone stole my chicken,’” said Ramsey, of Copiah County south of Jackson.
Ramsey said Civil War soldiers sometimes had animals with them on the battlefield, so he takes Peep to reenactments. During the first one Peep attended, he said, the bird got out of a bag and wandered around during simulated battle.
“There’s about 10 cannons just blazing and all the rifle fire and he’s not going crazy. He’s pretty chill,” Ramsey said.
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300-Year-Old Pirate Skeletons From Fabled ‘Black Sam’ Crew Found Off Cape Cod
The remains may include those of the legendary pirate himself, Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy, a.k.a. "The Robin Hood of the Sea."
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some people are just freakin' idots...............
Must have been sniffing the chloroform...
pressherald.com/2021/02/12/new-hampshire-professor-quits-after-posing-as-female-immigrant-on-twitter/
By MICHAEL CASEYFebruary 12, 2021
A white, male University of New Hampshire chemistry professor has resigned after being accused of posing as a female immigrant of color on Twitter to make racist and sexist comments.
The university, which has not named the professor and described the person only as a faculty member, confirmed the resignation Friday after a four-month investigation.
University President James Dean Jr. sent a letter to the community Wednesday announcing the person had resigned, a spokesperson said. The letter did not release details of the investigation.
“While we are limited in what we can say in order to protect the privacy of all involved, we can share that the faculty member chose to resign when the university concluded that the conduct exhibited was not consistent with the university’s values and our expectation that every faculty member contribute to a professional academic environment free of intimidation and harassment,” Dean wrote.
The chair of the university’s chemistry department, Glen Miller, did not respond to a request for comment Friday.
But in an October email previously obtained by the Associated Press, Miller used the white, male professor’s first name and acknowledged the professor had set up a Twitter account as an impostor with tweets that ranged from “unfortunate to hurtful to deeply offensive.”
Emails seeking comment that were sent to the university email account believed to be the professor’s were not returned but did not bounce back, and a phone number for him could not be found.
Several people who reviewed the account before it was taken down late last year said it routinely contained racist, sexist and transphobic comments and images.
The person behind the account also detailed fighting efforts from an unnamed police department to speak out on racial injustice following the police killing of George Floyd. The person also routinely mentioned a fake background to criticize users who were pushing for greater diversity in science, mathematics, engineering and technology.
Several people also accused the user of attacking mostly women of color who disagreed and encouraging his followers to do the same.
New Hampshire professor quits after posing as female immigrant on Twitter
By MICHAEL CASEYFebruary 12, 2021
A white, male University of New Hampshire chemistry professor has resigned after being accused of posing as a female immigrant of color on Twitter to make racist and sexist comments.
The university, which has not named the professor and described the person only as a faculty member, confirmed the resignation Friday after a four-month investigation.
University President James Dean Jr. sent a letter to the community Wednesday announcing the person had resigned, a spokesperson said. The letter did not release details of the investigation.
“While we are limited in what we can say in order to protect the privacy of all involved, we can share that the faculty member chose to resign when the university concluded that the conduct exhibited was not consistent with the university’s values and our expectation that every faculty member contribute to a professional academic environment free of intimidation and harassment,” Dean wrote.
The chair of the university’s chemistry department, Glen Miller, did not respond to a request for comment Friday.
But in an October email previously obtained by the Associated Press, Miller used the white, male professor’s first name and acknowledged the professor had set up a Twitter account as an impostor with tweets that ranged from “unfortunate to hurtful to deeply offensive.”
Emails seeking comment that were sent to the university email account believed to be the professor’s were not returned but did not bounce back, and a phone number for him could not be found.
Several people who reviewed the account before it was taken down late last year said it routinely contained racist, sexist and transphobic comments and images.
The person behind the account also detailed fighting efforts from an unnamed police department to speak out on racial injustice following the police killing of George Floyd. The person also routinely mentioned a fake background to criticize users who were pushing for greater diversity in science, mathematics, engineering and technology.
Several people also accused the user of attacking mostly women of color who disagreed and encouraging his followers to do the same.
One hell of a mobile chapel!!
Was Stonehenge a ‘Secondhand’ Monument?
The Neolithic site appears to have begun as a monument in Wales that was dismantled and carried 175 miles east as part of a larger migration, a new study suggests.
Stonehenge, the still-mysterious circle of stones and burial mounds just outside Salisbury, England. Credit...Andrew Testa for The New York Times
Fans of the 1984 heavy metal mockumentary “This Is Spinal Tap” will remember the scene in which the band commissions a stage set that’s a replica of Stonehenge, the Neolithic ruin in Wiltshire, England. Alas, a careless set of measurements results in the musicians playing alongside a model that stands an underwhelming 18 inches high rather than 18 feet tall, a failure showcased on tour and, wincingly, accentuated by the dancing dwarves enlisted to make the prop appear larger.
Thirty-seven years later it turns out that the film’s boulder gag contains a pebble of historical truth. On Friday a team of archaeologists reported in the journal Antiquity that they had unearthed a stone circle in Pembrokeshire, Wales, part of which they believe was dismantled, hauled 175 miles to Salisbury Plain and reassembled as Stonehenge.
Mike Parker Pearson, a professor at University College London who led the study, said the stones could have been transported as part of a larger movement of people to the area. “Stonehenge is a secondhand monument,” he said sardonically. The study will be featured in a BBC documentary, “Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed,” to be broadcast in Britain on Friday evening.
Stonehenge was built in phases from around 3,000 to 1,500 B.C., starting with a circular ditch and bank together with 56 Aubrey holes, a ring of chalk pits that surrounded a stone circle. An excavation in 2008 of one pit, led by Dr. Parker Pearson, revealed that it had held an upright of bluestone, so named because of its bluish-gray hue. The outlying ring of these igneous standing stones, each about nine feet tall, was erected centuries before larger sandstone slabs, known as sarsens, are believed to have originated from West Woods, 15 miles away on the southern edge of the Marlborough Downs.
A stone hole uncovered at Waun Mawn, with the stone packing used to secure the missing monolith still present. Credit...M. Parker Pearson
The geologist Herbert Thomas established in 1923 that the dolerite used to build Stonehenge came from an outcrop in the Preseli Hills of western Wales. In 2011, Dr. Parker Pearson’s team discovered two megalithic quarries in that region and began to search nearby for ritual structures that might have supplied the bluestones and blueprint. Although several circular monuments were surveyed and excavated, none was found to be Neolithic. In an interview, Dr. Parker Pearson said his investigators had a “terrible time” trying to find evidence of a proto-Stonehenge.
The researchers were about to give up when they returned to a site named Waun Mawn, where a handful of toppled bluestones were seemingly placed in an arc. “The arrangement was first recorded a century ago,” Dr. Parker Pearson said. “The theory by early archaeologists that it might be a circle was largely dismissed or simply ignored.”
In 2011, his own magnetometer and earth-resistance surveys had failed to locate any geophysical anomalies that might yield evidence of a circle or monument. “We concluded that since the instruments didn’t show us anything, there couldn’t be anything there,” Dr. Parker Pearson recalled. “A serious mistake.”
During the summer of 2017, the archaeologists dug trenches at both ends of the arc of serving stones and discovered two holes that each had once held stones. When further surveys using earth resistance, ground-penetrating radar and electromagnetic induction came to naught, the team made what was literally a last-ditch effort beyond the arc and uncovered four distinctive socket-shaped pits from which standing monoliths had been removed.
Extrapolating from the positions of the empty sockets and the fallen bluestones, the researchers sketched out a circle some 360 feet across — the same diameter as the earthen ditch that originally enclosed Stonehenge. Dr. Parker Pearson, alight with boyish glee, noted that Waun Mawn and Stonehenge are the only two Neolithic monuments in Britain that conform to those specifications. To his further delight, the entrance to both circles were aligned toward the midsummer solstice sunrise.
The team was able to determine when the sediment inside the socket holes was last exposed to light. The study suggested that Waun Mawn is the oldest-known stone circle in Britain, dating from about 3,400 B.C., and that the circle was dismantled shortly before the construction of Stonehenge in 3,000 B.C.
Excavation of the stone holes at Waun Mawn, revealing the scale of the monument. Credit...A. Stanford
Dr. Parker Pearson theorized that the six ghost holes and four surviving standing stones were part of a wider circle of 30 to 50 pillars, albeit spread out more haphazardly than the initial bluestone grouping at Stonehenge. Those four stones are about the same size and dimensions as the 43 bluestones that remain at Stonehenge, and are the exact same rock type as three of them. One of the Stonehenge bluestones has an unusual cross-section whose pentagonal shape matches one of the gaps at Waun Mawn.
“It could have been in that hole,” Dr. Parker Pearson said. “The proof is not categorical, but it is really quite suggestive.”
Asked why the Waun Mawn stones were moved to Salisbury, he deferred to his colleague, an archaeologist from Madagascar named Ramilisonina, who developed a new interpretation of the ritual landscape around Stonehenge: The megaliths were used to represent the ancestors and more or less keep their memories alive for eternity.
“The dismantling of Waun Mawn and the rise of Stonehenge could have been part of a larger migration to an axis mundi where the earth and the heavens are in harmony,” Dr. Parker Pearson said. These ancient people, he speculated, “may have taken their monuments with them as a sign of their ancestral identity, which they required to root themselves in a New Jerusalem.”
How were the megaliths transported from South Wales to Salisbury? Dr. Parker Pearson doubts the once popular theory that they came by sea. “Our work has really put a bit of a spoke in that,” he said. “The dominant sources of the bluestones are the quarries on the northern slopes of the mountains, and it seems unlikely that they would have been brought up the steep northern edge before being carried down the southern slopes to the valley.”
He favors a land route, over which the massive stones, each weighing up to four tons, could be hauled on rows of poles and wooden sledges by as many as 400 people. “This would have been like going to the moon,” he said, “but the Neolithic equivalent.”
Maybe some oil companies can train the whales to do their seismic surveying?
A fin whale in waters off Pico Island, in the Azores, Atlantic Ocean.Credit...Blue Planet Archive, via Alamy
In 2019, Václav Kuna, a seismologist, was perusing recordings from dozens of seismometers at the bottom of the northeast Pacific Ocean, when he kept finding strange noises: one-second chirps, repeating every 30 seconds or so.
This staccato symphony turned out to be the songs of fin whales.
“Because I’m a seismologist, I wasn’t just like, oh, fin whales, that’s cute,” said Dr. Kuna, then a doctoral student at Oregon State University.
He dove deeper into the data and found that these booming cetacean calls were impacting the seafloor. As they did, some of their energy transmitted through the ground as seismic waves, which bounced around the buried rocky expanse before being picked up by those ocean-bottom seismometers.
What Dr. Kuna, now at the Institute of Geophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and John Nabelek of Oregon State would soon discover is that fin whale song can be used to peer into the oceanic crust. Using this biological source of seismicity, they found they could see 8,200 feet below the seafloor, through sediments and the underlying volcanic rock. There would be less need to wait for a tectonic source of seismic waves, or sending a fully crewed, air gun-armed ship into the middle of the ocean to create artificial seismicity and visualize the layer-cake nature of the planet’s underworlds.
“It’s a nice example of how we make use of the data the planet provides for us,” said Jackie Caplan-Auerbach, a seismologist and volcanologist at Western Washington University not involved with the work, which was published Thursday in Science.
Fin whales — 60-ton, 80-foot long, graceful beasts — get their name from the prominent fin on their backs. They are fast swimmers that love to eat krill, schools of tiny fish and squid. And as they swim in groups, they gossip with one another by making booming 189-decibel chirps.
“They’re really loud,” said William Wilcock, a marine geophysicist at the University of Washington who wasn’t involved with the work. “They’re nearly as loud as a big container ship.”
Usually, whale song inconveniences seismologists. Like static on a telephone line, it creates interference that can obfuscate earthquake seismicity, requiring scientists to filter it out.
“For some of us, it’s just been, ‘ugh, these dang whales are in my data,’” Dr. Caplan-Auerbach said. Humpback whales have interrupted her research in the past on Lō‘ihi Seamount, an underwater Hawaiian volcano. “We had tons and tons of whale song, and to me it was just total noise in my data.”
But as this new study shows, this noise can be used to study the planet’s interior. “And that’s awesome,” she said.
“It’s never going to replace air guns,” Dr. Kuna said. Fin whale seismic waves are somewhat weak, which means their imaging of the subsurface is of relatively low resolution. “But it is a complement. And it’s free.”
Although seismologists are careful to avoid marine life, a recent report detailed just how noisy the oceans have become in recent years as a result of human activity. Finding more ways to use fin whale seismology could mean adding less to the cacophony. “It’s win-win,” Dr. Kuna said.
For this study, the researchers had to determine the location of the fin whales, a bit like searching for the epicenter of an earthquake. They looked at the arrival times of both the whale chirps’ sound waves heading directly to the seismometer and the sound waves ricocheting between the sea surface and the seafloor. The time difference revealed the whale’s distance. Making some reasonable assumptions about the fin whale’s typical swimming depth, they could trace their journeys through the ocean.
This paper may be about the seismological benefits of fin whales, but this method may prove useful to marine ecologists, Dr. Wilcock said. In recent years, seismometers on land have been trying to track elephants and estimate their populations. The same principle could apply to fin whales, animals endangered by climate change, habitat loss and the grim legacy of commercial whaling. And like those elephant-eavesdropping seismometers, machine learning may one day listen for signature fin whale songs and autonomously detect different pods of fin whales, or individuals within those groups.
“We can use the tools of biology to study seismology,” Dr. Caplan-Auerbach said. “And we can use the tools of seismology to study biology.”
Whale Songs Could Reveal Deep Secrets Beneath the Oceans
The aquatic mammals’ sound waves penetrate into the rocks under the waves, which could assist seismologists’ surveys.
A fin whale in waters off Pico Island, in the Azores, Atlantic Ocean.Credit...Blue Planet Archive, via Alamy
In 2019, Václav Kuna, a seismologist, was perusing recordings from dozens of seismometers at the bottom of the northeast Pacific Ocean, when he kept finding strange noises: one-second chirps, repeating every 30 seconds or so.
This staccato symphony turned out to be the songs of fin whales.
“Because I’m a seismologist, I wasn’t just like, oh, fin whales, that’s cute,” said Dr. Kuna, then a doctoral student at Oregon State University.
He dove deeper into the data and found that these booming cetacean calls were impacting the seafloor. As they did, some of their energy transmitted through the ground as seismic waves, which bounced around the buried rocky expanse before being picked up by those ocean-bottom seismometers.
What Dr. Kuna, now at the Institute of Geophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and John Nabelek of Oregon State would soon discover is that fin whale song can be used to peer into the oceanic crust. Using this biological source of seismicity, they found they could see 8,200 feet below the seafloor, through sediments and the underlying volcanic rock. There would be less need to wait for a tectonic source of seismic waves, or sending a fully crewed, air gun-armed ship into the middle of the ocean to create artificial seismicity and visualize the layer-cake nature of the planet’s underworlds.
“It’s a nice example of how we make use of the data the planet provides for us,” said Jackie Caplan-Auerbach, a seismologist and volcanologist at Western Washington University not involved with the work, which was published Thursday in Science.
Fin whales — 60-ton, 80-foot long, graceful beasts — get their name from the prominent fin on their backs. They are fast swimmers that love to eat krill, schools of tiny fish and squid. And as they swim in groups, they gossip with one another by making booming 189-decibel chirps.
“They’re really loud,” said William Wilcock, a marine geophysicist at the University of Washington who wasn’t involved with the work. “They’re nearly as loud as a big container ship.”
Usually, whale song inconveniences seismologists. Like static on a telephone line, it creates interference that can obfuscate earthquake seismicity, requiring scientists to filter it out.
“For some of us, it’s just been, ‘ugh, these dang whales are in my data,’” Dr. Caplan-Auerbach said. Humpback whales have interrupted her research in the past on Lō‘ihi Seamount, an underwater Hawaiian volcano. “We had tons and tons of whale song, and to me it was just total noise in my data.”
But as this new study shows, this noise can be used to study the planet’s interior. “And that’s awesome,” she said.
“It’s never going to replace air guns,” Dr. Kuna said. Fin whale seismic waves are somewhat weak, which means their imaging of the subsurface is of relatively low resolution. “But it is a complement. And it’s free.”
Although seismologists are careful to avoid marine life, a recent report detailed just how noisy the oceans have become in recent years as a result of human activity. Finding more ways to use fin whale seismology could mean adding less to the cacophony. “It’s win-win,” Dr. Kuna said.
For this study, the researchers had to determine the location of the fin whales, a bit like searching for the epicenter of an earthquake. They looked at the arrival times of both the whale chirps’ sound waves heading directly to the seismometer and the sound waves ricocheting between the sea surface and the seafloor. The time difference revealed the whale’s distance. Making some reasonable assumptions about the fin whale’s typical swimming depth, they could trace their journeys through the ocean.
This paper may be about the seismological benefits of fin whales, but this method may prove useful to marine ecologists, Dr. Wilcock said. In recent years, seismometers on land have been trying to track elephants and estimate their populations. The same principle could apply to fin whales, animals endangered by climate change, habitat loss and the grim legacy of commercial whaling. And like those elephant-eavesdropping seismometers, machine learning may one day listen for signature fin whale songs and autonomously detect different pods of fin whales, or individuals within those groups.
“We can use the tools of biology to study seismology,” Dr. Caplan-Auerbach said. “And we can use the tools of seismology to study biology.”
Federal and State laws collide. Wonder what my former employer does with their Maine state facilities?
pressherald.com/2021/02/14/maine-employers-ease-off-testing-as-cannabis-sales-soar/
By Hannah LaClaire February 14, 2021
Large employers such as Bath Iron Works and MaineHealth no longer test workers for the active ingredient in marijuana unless safety needs or federal rules require it.
An image of the Bath Iron Works Shipyard in December. The company, owned by defense contractor General Dynamics, does screen potential hires for a panel of substances including opiates, barbiturates, cannabinoids and cocaine. But following Maine's push to legalize recreational cannabis, "positive results on your cannabis testing will not be the basis for denial of a position at BIW." Kathleen O'Brien/The Times Record
For Maine’s recreational marijuana users, getting high after work or on the weekend may no longer be a barrier to gaining employment at some of the state’s larger companies.
Many employers say they no longer test job applicants for marijuana use, or if they do, a positive result doesn’t preclude a qualified candidate from getting the job.
Maine is among the states with legalized cannabis that do not have legal protections in place for recreational users, such as barring employers from testing them for THC, the active ingredient in marijuana. Meanwhile, the state’s recreational cannabis market has grown rapidly, more than doubling its monthly sales since the market first opened in October.
Bath Iron Works has “ambitious hiring goals,” spokesman David Hench said, with plans to bring more than 2,700 people on board just this year. Precluding what could be a significant segment of the applicant pool was “not prudent,” he said.
The company, owned by defense contractor General Dynamics, does screen potential hires for a panel of substances including opiates, barbiturates, cannabinoids and cocaine. But following Maine’s vote to legalize recreational cannabis in 2016 and an expected adult-use market opening in 2018, which ultimately was delayed until fall 2020, “positive results on your cannabis testing will not be the basis for denial of a position at BIW,” according to the policy.
Safety-sensitive positions including security officers, fire or medical personnel, crane operators, or those requiring a security clearance are exempt from that policy, however. Positions requiring Department of Transportation or U.S. Coast Guard certification also are subject to random and post-incident testing.
MaineHealth, the state’s largest private employer with about 22,000 employees, conducts pre-employment drug screening, but as of November 2019, the panel no longer includes a test for THC.
The change was made “in light of evolving state law,” spokesman John Porter said.
Such policy changes are becoming more common among business clients, said Kristin Collins, an attorney with Portland law firm Preti Flaherty.
“The trend has been to take it out of their testing policies because (marijuana) use is so widespread and the testing doesn’t even come close to pinpointing whether the person is using on the job or not,” Collins said.
Following the October launch of Maine’s recreational marijuana market, it’s now easier than ever for someone above the age of 21 to partake of cannabis in their spare time, similar to the level of access for someone who might drink alcohol at the end of the day.
“The simple fact that someone uses marijuana does not mean they’re going to be an unsafe employee,” Collins said.
Given Maine’s typically tight job market, most employers in the state are averse to hiring policies that could scare away qualified, law-abiding applicants.
“It’s hard enough to find people to work in a lot of blue-collar jobs in the state, and what I’ve noticed is that not testing for marijuana gives you a larger applicant pool,” Collins said. “Whether testing for marijuana has a chilling effect on people (applying) or not, I’m not sure, but it would take a lot of otherwise qualified people out of an applicant pool or otherwise narrow one that was too narrow in the first place.”
‘A PERSONAL CHOICE’
Mary Allen Lindemann, co-founder of Portland’s Coffee By Design, said the company does not test applicants for drug use but noted that lenient hiring processes are even more important during the COVID-19 pandemic when so many people are looking for work.
“What someone does outside of work is a personal choice as long as it’s legal,” Lindemann said. “Whatever they do at home is not an issue, but they’re not permitted to be under the influence” while at work.
Some larger companies and organizations including Hannaford Supermarkets and the University of Maine System have similar policies, which, like Coffee By Design’s, have not changed since recreational cannabis was legalized. They don’t require applicants to be tested, but they still prohibit drugs and alcohol in the workplace.
Instead, many employers are now focusing on making sure employees are not high while on the job, something that isn’t always easy.
“There’s still not any definitive way to test whether someone is impaired from marijuana like they can test for alcohol,” Collins said. “(There is) no way to test on the spot.”
Different methods such as saliva testing may detect more recent marijuana use than testing urine or hair follicles, but the results are not conclusive.
Other ways to test whether a person is impaired, such as an app that tests the subject’s reaction time, decision-making ability and hand-eye coordination, are on the market or are in development, but Collins said such apps have not been sufficiently vetted to be used as evidence in court.
Still, the ability to test on the spot may give some employers comfort, she said, rather than including THC as part of a standard testing panel.
There are some situations in which employers have to test for marijuana use.
An employee holding a commercial driver’s license, for example, must be tested for drugs and alcohol per federal guidelines. Jobs requiring the use of a firearm or other weapons, as well as certain educational programs, also require such testing, Collins said.
The issue is further convoluted by medical marijuana protections, which place an “extremely difficult overlay” on any policy, she said.
“There are a lot of people who use medical marijuana for medical conditions that very well may be disabilities,” she said. “(Employers are) not allowed to discriminate against anyone to medicate, but it doesn’t mean they can behave inappropriately. It has to be nuanced.”
Lindemann is familiar with keeping that balance.
She has had employees who have been prescribed medical marijuana to manage their health, and the company has had to make exceptions while making sure it will not impair job performance, especially for those working with equipment, she said.
TESTING STILL LEGAL
While the decision to drug-test is typically left up to the employer, the state of Maine currently requires that medical marijuana dispensaries administer a drug test to all applicants, though according to Maine Office of Marijuana Policy spokesman David Heidrich, that is likely to change.
Last month, the office released a list of proposed changes to the medical cannabis program rules that would eliminate the testing requirement, Heidrich said.
At Wellness Connection of Maine, the state’s largest cannabis provider, a positive cannabis test would not preclude a potential applicant from being hired, Managing Director Charlie Langston said. Use of an illegal drug, however, could be a disqualifier.
Despite the company’s focus on selling cannabis, Wellness Connection does not allow consumption on the property, Langston said, and employees are not allowed to be impaired.
“People may be surprised, but we take a very serious approach to this,” he said. “This is a highly regulated industry and details matter.”
That said, the company does not perform routine drug tests on existing employees but reserves the right to initiate a test if there is probable cause to believe that an employee’s substance use, of any kind, is hindering their ability to do the job.
“You can’t just light up a joint or eat edibles while at work, but I’m sure there are people coming in who have medicated at home,” Langston said. “We do have quite a few employees who have medical cards, but they can’t be impaired at work.”
Langston believes companies that disqualify a potential applicant based on legal marijuana use are likely missing out on good candidates.
“With the incredibly diverse populations that are using, … these are people you’d be excited to have work for you,” he said.
Amanda O’Leary, planning and research associate for the Maine Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Standards, helps businesses navigate the state’s drug testing laws as they draft policies.
“The bottom line is that employers can still test for marijuana, and the majority that have tested continue,” she said. “We are seeing in some industries – and they are widely varied – they are removing marijuana from their panels, (and) those that are still testing for it might be a little bit more lenient nowadays if they test positive.”
She recommends that employers look at their business and determine if drug testing is relevant to them.
Any company “that really wants to ensure they have a really good healthy workplace might want to consider they have a testing program,” she said, adding that employers should consult their own legal counsel when creating a policy.
Each employer with a drug testing policy approved by the Maine Department of Labor is required to report its testing activities annually.
POSITIVE TESTS INCREASE
According to a 2019 report on substance use testing by Maine employers conducted by the Maine Department of Labor, only 540 Maine businesses have state-approved substance use testing policies.
In 2019, 26,173 drug tests were performed with a 7 percent positivity rate, the highest percentage since the program was created in 1989. Cannabinoids accounted for roughly 92 percent of the positive tests.
The vast majority, 25,048, were applicant tests. Just 24 were conducted with “probable cause,” and 1,101 were done as part of a random or arbitrary practice.
The percentage of positive tests has been steadily increasing since marijuana legalization, with 4.8 percent in 2016, 5.7 percent in 2017 and 5.8 percent in 2018. It is unknown how October’s launch of the recreational cannabis market might affect data for 2020 and 2021, but O’Leary said she is confident marijuana will continue to account for the highest positivity rate of any drug.
Maine’s Medical Use of Marijuana Act prohibits schools, employers and landlords from discriminating against anyone 21 or older “solely for that person’s status as a qualifying patient or a primary caregiver unless failing to do so would put the school, employer or landlord in violation of federal law or cause it to lose a federal contract or funding.”
When the laws governing recreational marijuana went into effect in 2018, a similar provision was put in place for users, prohibiting discrimination in hiring, housing or education solely for “that person’s consuming marijuana” outside of the school, housing or workplace.
Then, that summer, the law was changed, and that section of the statute was removed. Now, employers may “enact and enforce workplace policies restricting the use of marijuana and marijuana products by employees in the workplace or while otherwise engaged in activities within the course and scope of employment.”
Like Maine, Massachusetts and Colorado also don’t protect recreational cannabis users from employer-mandated drug tests, but last year, Nevada became the first state to ban employers from drug-testing applicants for THC. New York City followed suit later that year.
In both Nevada and New York City, there are restrictions in place for safety-sensitive positions or those in which federal law would require the employee to submit to drug screening tests.
Maine employers ease off testing as cannabis sales soar
By Hannah LaClaire February 14, 2021
Large employers such as Bath Iron Works and MaineHealth no longer test workers for the active ingredient in marijuana unless safety needs or federal rules require it.
An image of the Bath Iron Works Shipyard in December. The company, owned by defense contractor General Dynamics, does screen potential hires for a panel of substances including opiates, barbiturates, cannabinoids and cocaine. But following Maine's push to legalize recreational cannabis, "positive results on your cannabis testing will not be the basis for denial of a position at BIW." Kathleen O'Brien/The Times Record
For Maine’s recreational marijuana users, getting high after work or on the weekend may no longer be a barrier to gaining employment at some of the state’s larger companies.
Many employers say they no longer test job applicants for marijuana use, or if they do, a positive result doesn’t preclude a qualified candidate from getting the job.
Maine is among the states with legalized cannabis that do not have legal protections in place for recreational users, such as barring employers from testing them for THC, the active ingredient in marijuana. Meanwhile, the state’s recreational cannabis market has grown rapidly, more than doubling its monthly sales since the market first opened in October.
Bath Iron Works has “ambitious hiring goals,” spokesman David Hench said, with plans to bring more than 2,700 people on board just this year. Precluding what could be a significant segment of the applicant pool was “not prudent,” he said.
The company, owned by defense contractor General Dynamics, does screen potential hires for a panel of substances including opiates, barbiturates, cannabinoids and cocaine. But following Maine’s vote to legalize recreational cannabis in 2016 and an expected adult-use market opening in 2018, which ultimately was delayed until fall 2020, “positive results on your cannabis testing will not be the basis for denial of a position at BIW,” according to the policy.
Safety-sensitive positions including security officers, fire or medical personnel, crane operators, or those requiring a security clearance are exempt from that policy, however. Positions requiring Department of Transportation or U.S. Coast Guard certification also are subject to random and post-incident testing.
MaineHealth, the state’s largest private employer with about 22,000 employees, conducts pre-employment drug screening, but as of November 2019, the panel no longer includes a test for THC.
The change was made “in light of evolving state law,” spokesman John Porter said.
Such policy changes are becoming more common among business clients, said Kristin Collins, an attorney with Portland law firm Preti Flaherty.
“The trend has been to take it out of their testing policies because (marijuana) use is so widespread and the testing doesn’t even come close to pinpointing whether the person is using on the job or not,” Collins said.
Following the October launch of Maine’s recreational marijuana market, it’s now easier than ever for someone above the age of 21 to partake of cannabis in their spare time, similar to the level of access for someone who might drink alcohol at the end of the day.
“The simple fact that someone uses marijuana does not mean they’re going to be an unsafe employee,” Collins said.
Given Maine’s typically tight job market, most employers in the state are averse to hiring policies that could scare away qualified, law-abiding applicants.
“It’s hard enough to find people to work in a lot of blue-collar jobs in the state, and what I’ve noticed is that not testing for marijuana gives you a larger applicant pool,” Collins said. “Whether testing for marijuana has a chilling effect on people (applying) or not, I’m not sure, but it would take a lot of otherwise qualified people out of an applicant pool or otherwise narrow one that was too narrow in the first place.”
‘A PERSONAL CHOICE’
Mary Allen Lindemann, co-founder of Portland’s Coffee By Design, said the company does not test applicants for drug use but noted that lenient hiring processes are even more important during the COVID-19 pandemic when so many people are looking for work.
“What someone does outside of work is a personal choice as long as it’s legal,” Lindemann said. “Whatever they do at home is not an issue, but they’re not permitted to be under the influence” while at work.
Some larger companies and organizations including Hannaford Supermarkets and the University of Maine System have similar policies, which, like Coffee By Design’s, have not changed since recreational cannabis was legalized. They don’t require applicants to be tested, but they still prohibit drugs and alcohol in the workplace.
Instead, many employers are now focusing on making sure employees are not high while on the job, something that isn’t always easy.
“There’s still not any definitive way to test whether someone is impaired from marijuana like they can test for alcohol,” Collins said. “(There is) no way to test on the spot.”
Different methods such as saliva testing may detect more recent marijuana use than testing urine or hair follicles, but the results are not conclusive.
Other ways to test whether a person is impaired, such as an app that tests the subject’s reaction time, decision-making ability and hand-eye coordination, are on the market or are in development, but Collins said such apps have not been sufficiently vetted to be used as evidence in court.
Still, the ability to test on the spot may give some employers comfort, she said, rather than including THC as part of a standard testing panel.
There are some situations in which employers have to test for marijuana use.
An employee holding a commercial driver’s license, for example, must be tested for drugs and alcohol per federal guidelines. Jobs requiring the use of a firearm or other weapons, as well as certain educational programs, also require such testing, Collins said.
The issue is further convoluted by medical marijuana protections, which place an “extremely difficult overlay” on any policy, she said.
“There are a lot of people who use medical marijuana for medical conditions that very well may be disabilities,” she said. “(Employers are) not allowed to discriminate against anyone to medicate, but it doesn’t mean they can behave inappropriately. It has to be nuanced.”
Lindemann is familiar with keeping that balance.
She has had employees who have been prescribed medical marijuana to manage their health, and the company has had to make exceptions while making sure it will not impair job performance, especially for those working with equipment, she said.
TESTING STILL LEGAL
While the decision to drug-test is typically left up to the employer, the state of Maine currently requires that medical marijuana dispensaries administer a drug test to all applicants, though according to Maine Office of Marijuana Policy spokesman David Heidrich, that is likely to change.
Last month, the office released a list of proposed changes to the medical cannabis program rules that would eliminate the testing requirement, Heidrich said.
At Wellness Connection of Maine, the state’s largest cannabis provider, a positive cannabis test would not preclude a potential applicant from being hired, Managing Director Charlie Langston said. Use of an illegal drug, however, could be a disqualifier.
Despite the company’s focus on selling cannabis, Wellness Connection does not allow consumption on the property, Langston said, and employees are not allowed to be impaired.
“People may be surprised, but we take a very serious approach to this,” he said. “This is a highly regulated industry and details matter.”
That said, the company does not perform routine drug tests on existing employees but reserves the right to initiate a test if there is probable cause to believe that an employee’s substance use, of any kind, is hindering their ability to do the job.
“You can’t just light up a joint or eat edibles while at work, but I’m sure there are people coming in who have medicated at home,” Langston said. “We do have quite a few employees who have medical cards, but they can’t be impaired at work.”
Langston believes companies that disqualify a potential applicant based on legal marijuana use are likely missing out on good candidates.
“With the incredibly diverse populations that are using, … these are people you’d be excited to have work for you,” he said.
Amanda O’Leary, planning and research associate for the Maine Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Standards, helps businesses navigate the state’s drug testing laws as they draft policies.
“The bottom line is that employers can still test for marijuana, and the majority that have tested continue,” she said. “We are seeing in some industries – and they are widely varied – they are removing marijuana from their panels, (and) those that are still testing for it might be a little bit more lenient nowadays if they test positive.”
She recommends that employers look at their business and determine if drug testing is relevant to them.
Any company “that really wants to ensure they have a really good healthy workplace might want to consider they have a testing program,” she said, adding that employers should consult their own legal counsel when creating a policy.
Each employer with a drug testing policy approved by the Maine Department of Labor is required to report its testing activities annually.
POSITIVE TESTS INCREASE
According to a 2019 report on substance use testing by Maine employers conducted by the Maine Department of Labor, only 540 Maine businesses have state-approved substance use testing policies.
In 2019, 26,173 drug tests were performed with a 7 percent positivity rate, the highest percentage since the program was created in 1989. Cannabinoids accounted for roughly 92 percent of the positive tests.
The vast majority, 25,048, were applicant tests. Just 24 were conducted with “probable cause,” and 1,101 were done as part of a random or arbitrary practice.
The percentage of positive tests has been steadily increasing since marijuana legalization, with 4.8 percent in 2016, 5.7 percent in 2017 and 5.8 percent in 2018. It is unknown how October’s launch of the recreational cannabis market might affect data for 2020 and 2021, but O’Leary said she is confident marijuana will continue to account for the highest positivity rate of any drug.
Maine’s Medical Use of Marijuana Act prohibits schools, employers and landlords from discriminating against anyone 21 or older “solely for that person’s status as a qualifying patient or a primary caregiver unless failing to do so would put the school, employer or landlord in violation of federal law or cause it to lose a federal contract or funding.”
When the laws governing recreational marijuana went into effect in 2018, a similar provision was put in place for users, prohibiting discrimination in hiring, housing or education solely for “that person’s consuming marijuana” outside of the school, housing or workplace.
Then, that summer, the law was changed, and that section of the statute was removed. Now, employers may “enact and enforce workplace policies restricting the use of marijuana and marijuana products by employees in the workplace or while otherwise engaged in activities within the course and scope of employment.”
Like Maine, Massachusetts and Colorado also don’t protect recreational cannabis users from employer-mandated drug tests, but last year, Nevada became the first state to ban employers from drug-testing applicants for THC. New York City followed suit later that year.
In both Nevada and New York City, there are restrictions in place for safety-sensitive positions or those in which federal law would require the employee to submit to drug screening tests.
Old Mud
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About the Pearl Milling company. We're through !! I got about 70 good years from them but no more. Mostly because i dislike company's or people who over react about being afraid of offending anyone. Seems now we want to change life as many of us has known for a very long time. A logo or a saying seems to offend some. SO WHAT !! live with it just as some of us have to live with some of those things years ago.
Whatever happened with "Sticks and stones can break my bones but words will never hurt me" ?? That makes one a stronger person IMHO. Pearl milling Co., removing the Indian maiden from the Land O Lakes butter. Changing the names of many sport groups and mascots. I guess i don't see it all because im not prejudice. I no longer support or buy any of these products for those reasons. I wouldn't be offended but proud if someone named a sport group or mascot after me. "the Portuguese, or portageez."
Whatever happened with "Sticks and stones can break my bones but words will never hurt me" ?? That makes one a stronger person IMHO. Pearl milling Co., removing the Indian maiden from the Land O Lakes butter. Changing the names of many sport groups and mascots. I guess i don't see it all because im not prejudice. I no longer support or buy any of these products for those reasons. I wouldn't be offended but proud if someone named a sport group or mascot after me. "the Portuguese, or portageez."
We gonna put a bow pulpit on F/V Old Mud??I like the one about the whales better. I want to be part of the roundup when our Government starts corralling them for Navy experiments.
Old Mud
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"Were going to need a bigger boat"
chevy thats more racist,,"PEARL",, what a crock of chit!!!
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Nefertiti Pilsner
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Scratch Guinea off your travel lists...
pressherald.com/2021/02/14/guinea-confirms-3-dead-from-ebola-first-cases-since-2016/
By BOUBACAR DIALLO February 14, 2021
CONAKRY, Guinea — Health officials in Guinea on Sunday confirmed that at least three people have died from Ebola there, the first cases declared since it was one of three West African nations to fight the world’s deadliest Ebola epidemic that ended five years ago.
An additional four people are confirmed with Ebola, according to a statement from the ministry of health. All seven positive cases attended the funeral of a nurse in Goueke on Feb. 1 and later showed Ebola symptoms including a fever, diarrhea, vomiting, said the ministry statement.
The government has declared an Ebola epidemic and started contact tracing and isolating suspected cases. It’s also sent an emergency team to support local teams in Goueke and has accelerated the procurement of Ebola vaccines from the World Health Organization.
“I confirm it’s Ebola. The results prove it,” Minister of Health Remy Lamah told The Associated Press by phone.
The patients were tested for Ebola after showing symptoms of hemorrhagic fever and those who came in contact with the sick are already in isolation, said officials.
Guinea’s announcement comes one week after eastern Congo confirmed it also had cases. The cases are not linked.
Health experts in Guinea say these latest cases could be a major setback for the impoverished nation, already battling COVID-19 and which is still recovering from the previous Ebola outbreak, which killed 2,500 in Guinea where it began. More than 11,300 people died in that outbreak which also hit the neighboring countries of Liberia and Sierra Leone between 2014 and 2016.
“The resurgence of Ebola is very concerning for what it could do for the people, the economy, the health infrastructure,” said Dr. Krutika Kuppalli, assistant professor of medicine for infectious diseases at the Medical University of South Carolina, who was the medical director of an Ebola treatment unit in Sierra Leone during the previous outbreak.
“We’re still understanding the repercussions of the (last) outbreak on the population,” she said.
To contain the spread, the government and international health organizations must respond quickly and educate communities about what’s going on, said Kuppalli.
One reason the previous outbreak was so deadly was because the virus wasn’t detected quickly and local authorities and the international community were slow to act when cases first popped up in a rural part of Guinea.
The epidemic’s initial patient, an 18-month-old boy from a small village, was believed to have been infected by bats, but after the case was reported in December 2013, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it was weeks before a medical alert was issued and by then the virus had already spread and it took years to end it.
The new cases announced Sunday are in the Nzerekore region, the same place where the previous one started.
After hearing the news, locals in the capital, said they worried the country wouldn’t be able to cope with another outbreak.
“The news about the Ebola outbreak in Guinea is worrying. We already have difficulties dealing with the coronavirus, now, the health system will be overwhelmed by two pandemics,” said Mamadou Kone, a Conakry resident.
“I don’t know what this curse is hitting the Guineans, all the pandemics are falling on us,” said Mariam Konate, a nurse. “It’s like the country has been hit by a curse,” she said.
The origin of the infections is still unknown.
Health experts hope that the availability of an Ebola vaccine will help to quickly control this outbreak. Ebola is transmitted through direct contact with bodily fluids from someone showing Ebola symptoms, or from corpses who were positive.
Last month the World Health Organization said it is creating a global emergency stockpile of about 500,000 doses of the Ebola vaccine to help stamp out future outbreaks, but only 7,000 were available at the time of the statement. The Ebola vaccine being stockpiled is made by Merck.
“There are tools and systems that can be mobilized quickly to address these cases. The key will be speed, ensuring appropriate people and materials are where they need to be,” said Donald Brooks, chief executive officer of Initiative: Eau, a U.S. aid group focused on water and sanitation, who has worked on establishing public health emergency response systems in West Africa.
“If not and it spreads to urban centers, it could result in disastrous loss of life,” he warned.
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Guinea confirms 3 dead from Ebola, first cases since 2016
By BOUBACAR DIALLO February 14, 2021
CONAKRY, Guinea — Health officials in Guinea on Sunday confirmed that at least three people have died from Ebola there, the first cases declared since it was one of three West African nations to fight the world’s deadliest Ebola epidemic that ended five years ago.
An additional four people are confirmed with Ebola, according to a statement from the ministry of health. All seven positive cases attended the funeral of a nurse in Goueke on Feb. 1 and later showed Ebola symptoms including a fever, diarrhea, vomiting, said the ministry statement.
The government has declared an Ebola epidemic and started contact tracing and isolating suspected cases. It’s also sent an emergency team to support local teams in Goueke and has accelerated the procurement of Ebola vaccines from the World Health Organization.
“I confirm it’s Ebola. The results prove it,” Minister of Health Remy Lamah told The Associated Press by phone.
The patients were tested for Ebola after showing symptoms of hemorrhagic fever and those who came in contact with the sick are already in isolation, said officials.
Guinea’s announcement comes one week after eastern Congo confirmed it also had cases. The cases are not linked.
Health experts in Guinea say these latest cases could be a major setback for the impoverished nation, already battling COVID-19 and which is still recovering from the previous Ebola outbreak, which killed 2,500 in Guinea where it began. More than 11,300 people died in that outbreak which also hit the neighboring countries of Liberia and Sierra Leone between 2014 and 2016.
“The resurgence of Ebola is very concerning for what it could do for the people, the economy, the health infrastructure,” said Dr. Krutika Kuppalli, assistant professor of medicine for infectious diseases at the Medical University of South Carolina, who was the medical director of an Ebola treatment unit in Sierra Leone during the previous outbreak.
“We’re still understanding the repercussions of the (last) outbreak on the population,” she said.
To contain the spread, the government and international health organizations must respond quickly and educate communities about what’s going on, said Kuppalli.
One reason the previous outbreak was so deadly was because the virus wasn’t detected quickly and local authorities and the international community were slow to act when cases first popped up in a rural part of Guinea.
The epidemic’s initial patient, an 18-month-old boy from a small village, was believed to have been infected by bats, but after the case was reported in December 2013, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it was weeks before a medical alert was issued and by then the virus had already spread and it took years to end it.
The new cases announced Sunday are in the Nzerekore region, the same place where the previous one started.
After hearing the news, locals in the capital, said they worried the country wouldn’t be able to cope with another outbreak.
“The news about the Ebola outbreak in Guinea is worrying. We already have difficulties dealing with the coronavirus, now, the health system will be overwhelmed by two pandemics,” said Mamadou Kone, a Conakry resident.
“I don’t know what this curse is hitting the Guineans, all the pandemics are falling on us,” said Mariam Konate, a nurse. “It’s like the country has been hit by a curse,” she said.
The origin of the infections is still unknown.
Health experts hope that the availability of an Ebola vaccine will help to quickly control this outbreak. Ebola is transmitted through direct contact with bodily fluids from someone showing Ebola symptoms, or from corpses who were positive.
Last month the World Health Organization said it is creating a global emergency stockpile of about 500,000 doses of the Ebola vaccine to help stamp out future outbreaks, but only 7,000 were available at the time of the statement. The Ebola vaccine being stockpiled is made by Merck.
“There are tools and systems that can be mobilized quickly to address these cases. The key will be speed, ensuring appropriate people and materials are where they need to be,” said Donald Brooks, chief executive officer of Initiative: Eau, a U.S. aid group focused on water and sanitation, who has worked on establishing public health emergency response systems in West Africa.
“If not and it spreads to urban centers, it could result in disastrous loss of life,” he warned.
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BennyV
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Not again.Scratch Guinea off your travel lists...
Guinea confirms 3 dead from Ebola, first cases since 2016
By BOUBACAR DIALLO February 14, 2021
CONAKRY, Guinea — Health officials in Guinea on Sunday confirmed that at least three people have died from Ebola there, the first cases declared since it was one of three West African nations to fight the world’s deadliest Ebola epidemic that ended five years ago.
An additional four people are confirmed with Ebola, according to a statement from the ministry of health. All seven positive cases attended the funeral of a nurse in Goueke on Feb. 1 and later showed Ebola symptoms including a fever, diarrhea, vomiting, said the ministry statement.
The government has declared an Ebola epidemic and started contact tracing and isolating suspected cases. It’s also sent an emergency team to support local teams in Goueke and has accelerated the procurement of Ebola vaccines from the World Health Organization.
“I confirm it’s Ebola. The results prove it,” Minister of Health Remy Lamah told The Associated Press by phone.
The patients were tested for Ebola after showing symptoms of hemorrhagic fever and those who came in contact with the sick are already in isolation, said officials.
Guinea’s announcement comes one week after eastern Congo confirmed it also had cases. The cases are not linked.
Health experts in Guinea say these latest cases could be a major setback for the impoverished nation, already battling COVID-19 and which is still recovering from the previous Ebola outbreak, which killed 2,500 in Guinea where it began. More than 11,300 people died in that outbreak which also hit the neighboring countries of Liberia and Sierra Leone between 2014 and 2016.
“The resurgence of Ebola is very concerning for what it could do for the people, the economy, the health infrastructure,” said Dr. Krutika Kuppalli, assistant professor of medicine for infectious diseases at the Medical University of South Carolina, who was the medical director of an Ebola treatment unit in Sierra Leone during the previous outbreak.
“We’re still understanding the repercussions of the (last) outbreak on the population,” she said.
To contain the spread, the government and international health organizations must respond quickly and educate communities about what’s going on, said Kuppalli.
One reason the previous outbreak was so deadly was because the virus wasn’t detected quickly and local authorities and the international community were slow to act when cases first popped up in a rural part of Guinea.
The epidemic’s initial patient, an 18-month-old boy from a small village, was believed to have been infected by bats, but after the case was reported in December 2013, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it was weeks before a medical alert was issued and by then the virus had already spread and it took years to end it.
The new cases announced Sunday are in the Nzerekore region, the same place where the previous one started.
After hearing the news, locals in the capital, said they worried the country wouldn’t be able to cope with another outbreak.
“The news about the Ebola outbreak in Guinea is worrying. We already have difficulties dealing with the coronavirus, now, the health system will be overwhelmed by two pandemics,” said Mamadou Kone, a Conakry resident.
“I don’t know what this curse is hitting the Guineans, all the pandemics are falling on us,” said Mariam Konate, a nurse. “It’s like the country has been hit by a curse,” she said.
The origin of the infections is still unknown.
Health experts hope that the availability of an Ebola vaccine will help to quickly control this outbreak. Ebola is transmitted through direct contact with bodily fluids from someone showing Ebola symptoms, or from corpses who were positive.
Last month the World Health Organization said it is creating a global emergency stockpile of about 500,000 doses of the Ebola vaccine to help stamp out future outbreaks, but only 7,000 were available at the time of the statement. The Ebola vaccine being stockpiled is made by Merck.
“There are tools and systems that can be mobilized quickly to address these cases. The key will be speed, ensuring appropriate people and materials are where they need to be,” said Donald Brooks, chief executive officer of Initiative: Eau, a U.S. aid group focused on water and sanitation, who has worked on establishing public health emergency response systems in West Africa.
“If not and it spreads to urban centers, it could result in disastrous loss of life,” he warned.
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