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Theatre Reviews – Horsedreams

“Getting high looks like a lot of fun in Horsedreams. Until it doesn’t. And then it looks really, really ugly.

The drug use starts off casually enough.

The important part is the fun they have getting blasted together…and soon enough (or perhaps, too soon) Desiree and Loman are married and raising a baby in Westchester.

But Desiree, who couldn’t make it through her wedding or her pregnancy entirely sober, can’t quite leave the good times behind as a suburban mom. She starts sneaking a line of coke on the weekends, then more during the week, before she graduates to speedballs—mixing her coke with heroin. By the time her son Luka is three, she is a junkie shooting up horse, until she overdoses, needle in her arm on the floor of the bathroom, while her husband sleeps in the next room.

Left to raise a son on his own, Loman moves back to the city and hires a nanny to watch Luka. Mira, a 40-something black woman living in the projects in Harlem, first sees Loman as a rich white guy—an Upper East Side lawyer taking limos around town while someone else raises his kid.

But she quickly realizes what they have in common: Addiction has ruined both their lives. He’s been left widowed and lonely; she’s lost her father and brother to drugs, and has to work at a job that makes poor use of her obvious intellect to support herself and her alcoholic mother. Mira knows the horrors of addiction.

In the end, addiction is addiction—consuming, relentless, devastating. Heroin destroys a rich white man’s life just as surely as it destroyed a poor black man’s life.”

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/culture/2011/11/4201563/joy-and-destruction-drug-abuse-both-sides-tracks

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U.S. firms throw away cardboard in seperate containers. Maybe, that helped make this woman rich:

China’s ‘Queen of Trash’ finds riches in waste paper
New York Times
January 15, 2007

Just five years ago, Zhang Yin and her husband were driving around the United States in a used Dodge Caravan minivan, begging garbage dumps to give them their scrap paper.

“I remember what a man in the business told me back then,” Zhang Yin said. “He said, ‘Waste paper is like a forest. Paper recycles itself, generation after generation.’”

Her companies take heaps of waste paper from the United States and Europe, ship it to China and recycle it into corrugated cardboard, which is then used for boxes that are packed with toys, electronics and furniture that are stamped “Made in China” and then often shipped right back across the ocean to Western consumers.

After the boxes are thrown away, the cycle starts all over again.

Late last year, Forbes magazine named Zhang the wealthiest woman in China.

My comment: From other articles: Chinese shipping containers were full of Chinese goods on the way to the U.S. and empty on the way back to China, making it cheaper to ship cardboard to China. Also, a huge increase in demand for cardboard and paper in China with massive deforestation created a shortage.

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PeakTrader:

It’s time again for some to blame politicians, police, and public safety officials for any possible rights taken away by rampant drug felons:

The bill, sponsored by Senator Jim Hughes (R, Columbus – District 16) was initially summarized as follows:

“To prohibit designing, building, constructing, fabricating, modifying, or altering a vehicle to create or add a hidden compartment, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe the vehicle will be used to facilitate a crime, and to prohibit operating, possessing, or using a vehicle with a hidden compartment, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the vehicle has been or will be used to facilitate a crime.”

“Summary of the version of the bill which passed out of the senate (with no floor debate) by a 30-2 margin.”

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State of Ohio

“The Revised Code to prohibit designing, building, constructing, fabricating, modifying, or altering a vehicle to create or add a hidden compartment with the intent to facilitate the unlawful concealment or transportation of a controlled substance, prohibit operating, possessing, or using a vehicle with a hidden compartment with knowledge that the hidden compartment is used or intended to be used to facilitate the unlawful concealment or transportation of a controlled substance, and prohibit a person who has committed a first or second degree felony violation of aggravated trafficking in drugs from operating, possessing, or using a vehicle with a hidden compartment.”

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