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When you buy a new plant, you find her the perfect place in your décor and she looks stunning. But time flies and soon she has lost some of her original stamina, for mysterious reasons. Too much water? Too little light? All we want is for our plants to keep looking fresh in the long run, but that’s not always easy. That's why I collected the best plant wisdom into this list. Regardless of your experience with plants, from beginner to advanced, keep these capital rules of indoor gardening in mind for the sake of your green babies. But don't be too harsh on yourself, as we all kill plants.
1. Know your plant's water preferences.
Indoor plants can be divided into two major groups according to their preferences in terms of moisture: the Dry Type (a.k.a. Desert type) prefers dry soil and the Moist Type (a.k.a. Tropical type) prefers moist soil. Easy so far.
2. Cacti and succulents are from the Dry Type, they prefer dry and well-drained soil. Leafy green indoor plants can be from either type, depending on the species, but most of them are from the Moist Type.
3. Most tropical plants will flourish in indirect sunlight, and some can even live in a darker corner. Indirect sunlight is key because direct sunlight can be too harsh and scorch the leaves.
4. Moist Type: on average, water once per week (rule of thumb).
5. Holiday watering tricks: to increase moisture around your plant when you're away, fill a pebble tray or bucket with water and place it near your plant before you go on holidays. You can also use the garden-twine technique or other self-watering tricks. Also, think of using self-watering pots, there are plenty and they saved my life (okay, my plant's life) a few times!
6. Cacti and succulents require plenty of light, preferably direct sunlight. Perfect for a windowsill.
7. Stay on the under-watering side, for root rot caused by over-watering is the no #1 plant killer.
8. Cacti require a little water once per month, succulents twice per month (rule of thumb).
9. Cacti and succulents require a special potting mix with high drainage properties. Don't mix with common houseplant soil.
10. Water more (or more often) during the warm months of the year (summer in the northern hemisphere).
11. Neem oil or peppermint oil are natural insect repellents and can help keep your plant free of pests.
12. Always check the soil before watering, assessing the soil under the surface with your finger. If there are visible cracks in the soil or a gap between the soil and the pot, the soil is dry and the plant has absorbed all the water out.
13. Always drain out all the excess water after you water your plant. Don't let the plant's roots sit in still water, that's the #1 plant killer.
14. Check the roots regularly, fertilize at the beginning of the growth season (spring in the northern hemisphere), and re-pot when roots are outgrowing the pot.
15. Prune unwanted growth and cut dead leaves to refocus the energy towards young leaves. Rotate the plant so that it's not always the same side facing the light.
16. Top up with fresh soil, at least every year, because the plant eats it out in order to grow.
17. Clean dusty leaves with a cloth, it will help your plant restore natural breathing.
If you're keeping those rules in mind, your plants should be thriving most of the time. Remember not to be too harsh on yourself, we all kill plants at times, and even the most experienced gardeners do. It's just learning through experience.
Want more tips for your plants and indoor jungle? Check out my blog dedicated to houseplant care or follow me on social media. Planti-fully yours!
I question African Violets. I have one in a bottom water absorbing pot for African Violets, and growing well in an Eastern, sun filled half bath. It is growing out above the pot now. When is best to re-pot and what soil type? Also what food is best? Thank you.

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Mtatsminda is the hill topped by the 210 m high TV mast looming over central Tbilisi from the west. The best method to reach Mount Mtatsminda is the funicular railway, which allows you to get off at midpoint to visit St. David's Church and the Pantheon of Writers and Public Figures of Georgia. The Mtatsminda Pantheon of Writers and Public Figures is a necropolis in Tbilisi, Georgia, where some of the most prominent writers, artists, scholars, and national heroes of Georgia are buried. It is located in the churchyard around St. David’s Church "Mamadaviti" on the slope of Mount Mtatsminda. The first celebrities to be buried at this place were the Russian writer Alexander Griboyedov (1795–1829) and his Georgian wife Nino Chavchavadze (1812–1857). The Pantheon was officially opened in 1929 to celebrate a 100-year anniversary of Griboyedov’s death in Iran. Since then, several illustrious Georgians have been buried or reburied there. The Pantheon is administered by the Government of Tbilisi and is frequented by locals as well as the city’s visitors.
Mtatsminda Park is the most popular theme park in Tbilisi. It is the best choice for fun and relaxation. You can find various Cafes, Souvenirs shops, child entertainment center, wedding house, picnic zones, a big Ferris Wheel at the edge of the mountain, offering a splendid view over the city, funicular tram and other fun attractions on the venue.

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HomeUncategorized Debate Ended: Why Cats are better than Dogs!
The great cat versus dog debate seems never-ending, as almost every individual on this planet has an opinionated stance. In fact, even statistics on cat and dog owners don’t offer a clear end to the debate–according to the American Veterinary Medical Foundation, 36.5% of U.S. households own a dog and 30.4% own a cat. Nevertheless, here is irrefutable, scientific evidence that shows why cats are better than dogs!
1. Cats have a smaller carbon footprint than dogs.
In October 2009, The New Scientist commented on a book by Robert and Brenda Vale, “Time to Eat the Dog: the Real Guide to Sustainable living,” which estimated the carbon footprints of a variety of household pets. The authors estimated that a medium-sized dog has a carbon footprint equaling that of two standard SUVs, while an average-sized cat has a carbon footprint equaling one small Volkswagen. In fact, a dog’s carbon footprint is so much larger due to increased food consumption.
2. Cats don’t splash water everywhere when drinking from their bowls.
In November 2014, physicists at Princeton University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reported that cats are more efficient than dogs at drinking water. To drink, cats dip their tongues into the water with a force of two times that of gravity, while dogs strike the water’s surface with a force of eight times that of gravity. Thus, dogs create a huge puddle that you, the owner, must clean up.
3. Cat lovers are more intelligent than dog lovers.
According to a 2014 study completed by Denise Guastello, an associate professor of psychology at Carroll University, cat people scored higher on intelligence than dog people. Additionally, the study found that cat lovers are more introverted, open-minded, and sensitive.
4. Cats have better senses than dogs.
Cats can detect sound frequencies from 55 to 79 Hz, while dogs only can between 44 to 67 Hz. Cats can see in light six times lower than humans can, and dogs can only see in light five times as dim. Additionally, cats have a heightened sense of smell–the average cat has approximately 200 million olfactory receptors, while the average dog has many less.
5. Owning a cat reduces your risk of dying from a heart attack.
In 2008, researchers from the University of Minnesota released a study that found individuals who owned cats were almost 40% less likely to die of a heart attack than individuals who had never owned a cat. Interestingly, dog owners did not seem to enjoy this benefit.
Important to note, though, is that additional research has shown that both cats and dogs–not just cats–can lower blood pressure.
6. Cats are less expensive than dogs.
According to American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, owning a cat instead of a dog could save you $300 to $800 annually. This price differential is due to food costs (dogs are bigger, thus eating more), toy and supply costs (dogs are more likely to play with toys, require leashes and collars, and need training classes), and routine veterinary expenses (dogs’ expenses are typically higher than cats’).
7. Cats are more agile than dogs.
According to a Live Science article, cats have streamlined musculature, a very flexible backbone, and more vertebrae, which grants them the ability to walk along fences, maneuver into tiny spaces, and always land on their feet!


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Tom Becker is the Software Architect at BD Biosciences, which develops lab instruments, reagents and software for scientific research and clinical diagnosis. His background is in scientific programming for biotech and aerospace projects, and also multimedia, developer tools and application frameworks.
Yes it's possible to write fast, efficient code in C#. This session will take you deep into the language, the runtime, and the radical techniques that you can use to get maximum performance. Also, it will show you how to think about your code runs, so you can avoid performance problems and write code that is efficient even before you optimize it.

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In Silicon Valley it’s not just who you invest in that matters– it’s also when you invest in them. The earlier the investment, the riskier the bet. But the more jawdropping the returns if the company hits it big. It’s so lopsided, that typically just 5% of those unsure, early bets create some 95% of the entire venture industry’s returns. Miss one of them, and it haunts you for years. Snag it, and you can brag for even longer. This simple reality is precisely what makes the venture business hard, and the justification for why partners make such huge fees.
So what’s up with the surge of the strongest early stage firms jumping so heavily into late stage mega-deal fray? Have the Valley’s superstars lost sight of these rules or are the rules changing?
Earlier this year, we wrote a lot about the shift in power at the early stages with the rise of super angels, but you could argue there are far greater ripple effects to this new late stage frenzy. That’s not only true for the Valley, it’s true for Wall Street. And you could argue, those ripple effects are less well-understood.
Super angels move small chunks of money, hedged across thousands of startups. Worst case, they all go belly up. More likely, the bulk of them barely return capital and a few do really well. Either way, plenty of angels will make bad bets and stop being angels, but the financial damage is otherwise pretty limited. There are plenty of jobs awaiting even the most outrageously failed entrepreneurs.
But the billions of dollars in late stage deals being invested by the top firms in Silicon Valley are another matter. First of all, we’re talking about far bigger chunks of cash, mostly from pension funds and endowments. And these firms are making investments in the handful of sure $1 billion-plus winners that Wall Street and the Valley have spent more than a decade of sub-market returns waiting on to mature. Each deal represents dozens or even hundreds of people cashing out, while others take on a greater risk. And each deal represents another delay in companies like Facebook or Zynga going public.
And quietly there’s plenty of grousing going on about the trend. Some of it is pure player-hating, and some of it raises good points.
For example, the vast majority of VC firms who can’t raise a $1 billion expansion fund cry that these new mega-funds aren’t real venture capital investing, they are firms acting like hedge funds. Some allege they are even abusing their positions as the current darlings of the venture world to make huge trades in well-baked companies without any board obligations, but still get paid like VCs with huge management fees on these mega funds.
Within the elite Sand Hill Road club, VCs snipe about who is still adding value and draw distinctions between a negotiated late-stage deal and a pure secondary stock purchase. And, those who were smart enough to get in early on a giant like Zynga, Twitter or Facebook, chafe when a VC that’s thrown money at a rich secondary valuation now proudly lists those companies as core companies in their portfolios.
And then there are early stage companies hoping to disrupt giants like Zynga and Groupon and wonder if they should take money from a firm who is placing a much bigger bet on the well-funded giant. You could argue a firm staying out of the late-stage fray entirely may have a marketing advantage with them. And, as always, in the press there’s the page-view grabbing panic over whether the multi-billion dollar valuations are a sign of another bubble.
There’s even plenty of moaning about the deals on the east coast: At the Securities & Exchange Commission alarm bells are going off about whether these massive trades are just clever routes to skirt disclosure of a public stock. New York investment banks are furious that these deals allow anticipated IPOs in companies like Facebook to be put off as long as the company wants– robbing them of those lucrative banking fees. If they want a piece of the pie, they’re relegated to selling limited shares under huge restrictions, ala Goldman Sachs, or cozying up to an industry insider like JP Morgan did with Chris Sacca.
It seems the only ones who unabashedly love the trend are the handful of companies who now have free money whenever they want it at seemingly any price, without any of the downsides of going public.
Over the next few weeks, we’re going to do a couple articles digging deeper into this trend, the most important players and what it represents for the startup world and the tech markets at large. First, we wanted to pierce the marketing spin and shine a light on who has done what– and when they did it.
What’s unique about this trend is how huge the amounts of cash and valuations are, yet how small the number of players are. Only a small portion of firms can raise this kind of money and have the right connections to get into the best deals. Likewise as the Valley has become more polarized between huge winners– who raise hundreds of millions of dollars and employ thousands of people– and the small lean startups– who are built to flip– there are only so many deals that can justify these sums of cash and these valuations. But that doesn’t mean companies that probably shouldn’t get funded at these prices won’t. The several-billion-dollar-question worrying many limited partners is how speculative this trend will get.
While most of these deals and prices had been reported before, a few things jumped out at me once I collected the data in one place. It’s clear the quality of deals is slipping. When DST pioneered this category, the firm was adroitly responding to a gaping market need. These companies needed huge amounts of cash to scale to the unprecedented 1 billion person online market potential, but the IPO market was closed. That’s no longer the case. “Oh, how it’s no longer the case! Please, dear God, call me!” some poor banker is no-doubt lamenting, reading this post.
Today, the best companies of the last ten years have all raised late stage money, and the prices are no longer a bargain. There’s only so fast that pipeline can fill back up. While I could argue $50 billion is a fair market price for Facebook, I find it hard to argue that Twitter is worthy the same or more than cash-generating Groupon or Zynga, given Twitter has gone through three CEOs in its young life, has no clear product visionary, and still isn’t making much revenue. Far more egregious: The idea that Spotify, which hasn’t been able to launch in the US despite more than a year of trying, is valued at the same price as soon-to-be-public Pandora. We’re seeing a clear move away from no-brainer bets towards more late-stage speculation. History has never shown that strategy to produce venture-style returns, said several top limited partners on the condition of anonymity.
But more remarkable is what this chart tells us about the fortunes of Silicon Valley’s top venture firms. For all the headlines that late stage is simply something “everyone is doing,” this chart shows a dramatically different story. Behind these red and green boxes lurks the same kind entrepreneurial drama that usually goes on in the companies VCs back. While dozens of venture firms are quietly going out of business for the first time in more than a decade, this chart represents the haves. And yet, there’s still plenty of drama as they grapple for position in this new venture reality.
This chart shows dramatic comebacks. In the wake of the dot com crash, limited partners privately told me that Accel Partners was one of two major firms that would never raise a fund again. When I mentioned this to Jim Breyer in 2006, he didn’t deny it. But he almost single handedly pulled the firm back from the brink. Accel missed Twitter and Zynga and others, but who cares? If you do the math, Accel is all but certain to have the best returns of the lot based on that $100 million bet on Facebook alone that seemed crazy at the time. The price the firm payed for Groupon is the icing on a massive Web 2.0 cake.
Similarly, Greylock had virtually no presence on the West Coast and no brand in consumer Internet. An early investment in LinkedIn and comparatively early investment in Facebook catapulted the firm into being one of the top names. And aside from Groupon, Greylock’s late stage bets haven’t been as valuation-aggressive as those done by other firms. If Pandora’s IPO prices where analysts expect, that $150 million valuation will look like a bargain.
On the other side of the chart– literally and figuratively– are Kleiner Perkins and Andreessen Horowitz, the two most aggressive at the late stage game, but utterly different stories are behind the common strategy. Andreessen Horowitz was formed after most of these companies, so getting in early stage rounds was impossible. But that doesn’t mean the firm’s partners were late to the Web 2.0 movement. The graph doesn’t include Marc Andreessen’s personal angel investments in Twitter and LinkedIn, nor does it include his position as one of Facebook’s few board members, because it happened well before he invested. For Andreessen Horowitz, the emphasis on late stage deals doesn’t represent any sort of shift. The firm was founded explicitly to invest in the best companies whenever the partners could get in. This was clearly telegraphed by the firm’s first deal: A beyond-late-stage investment in the already-acquired Skype.
Kleiner Perkins has been a different story. This is a firm that largely missed the early days of the Web 2.0 movement and has jumped back into it aggressively in the last year. The centerpiece of the strategy was a relatively early investment in Zynga. To be fair, this chart doesn’t show the early stage bets they’ve also been making in companies like Shopkick, Path and Klout. The success Kleiner has had reclaiming Web relevancy has been a testament to the lasting power of brand in the startup world. Few firms could have pulled it off. But plenty of people have questioned the prices they’ve paid to get back in the game– especially at the later stages. In both the cases of Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins there’s plenty of industry eye-rolling when the firms rattle off investments in these very late stage deals as sample portfolio deals. Give them credit for getting shares in these scorchingly hot companies even at these prices, but its important for entrepreneurs and the press to realize when they invested.
That leads us to Sequoia and Benchmark– the two firms that are the most absent when it comes to these companies. Not reflected in this chart are Benchmark general partner Matt Cohler’s personal stakes as one of the earliest employees of LinkedIn and Facebook. Indeed, while Benchmark has resisted buying Facebook shares, Cohler has funded some of the most exciting companies to spin out of the Facebook mafia including Asana and Quora. The real surprise is Sequoia — a firm that was known in the 1990s for flawlessly picking nearly every consumer Web giant. While this chart doesn’t count the stellar return from YouTube or promising recent investments like Square, LinkedIn is the only sure-winner it has a large stake in.
I wanted to keep this graphic focused on the top traditional Valley firms, but there are two obvious omissions. One is DST, which started this trend with its aggressive investments in Facebook that now seem boringly reasonable by comparison to recent deals. We’ll have more on DST’s impact in a future post. In nearly 15 years reporting in Silicon Valley, I can’t think of another outsider who has so dramatically beat the Sand Hill Road establishment at its own game– not to mention redefining that game for them. No easy feat in a Valley awash in too much cash to begin with.
The other omission is a Valley outsider too: Union Square Ventures, the earliest investor in Zynga and Twitter. There are no signs of Union Square getting into the $1 billion fund game although it has raised a later stage fund called The Opportunity Fund. But at just $165 million, it’s not nearly as large or aggressive. It’s mandate is selectively investing in companies with a valuation north of $100 million– that’s still pretty early compared to what’s going on in the Valley these days. And Opportunity Fund usually invests in companies already in Union Square’s portfolio, says general partner Fred Wilson. In terms of returns, we hear that Union Square has sold enough of its Zynga and Twitter stakes to repay both funds and still leave it with plenty of upside. In terms of bragging rights, Union Square has bested these Valley insiders at the early stage game with at least two of our billion-dollar winners.

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Stuart Galbraith IV has written yet another excellent review of a Kurosawa DVD for DVD Talk, this time for the to-be-released Drunken Angel by Criterion. His assessment of Criterion’s latest venture into the Akira Kurosawa catalogue is positive, although he does not delve into much detail regarding the technical aspects that the readers of akirakurosawa.info are perhaps most interested in, considering that we have probably all seen and own the film already in a few different formats.
the film looks better than this writer’s ever seen it, and it is about on par with other early postwar films, all of which were shot on nitrate stock and stored in less than ideal conditions. A master positive was used and both it and the mono soundtrack have been substantially scrubbed digitally. Viewers with widescreen TVs will be disappointed that the entire film is slightly windowboxed, but this seems less extreme than earlier Criterion releases. The Dolby Digital 1.0 mono has been directed to the center channel.
See Kurosawa DVDs and Kurosawa Blu-rays for more information about Kurosawa’s films on home video.
DVDbeaver just put a decent write up regarding the technical side of things, with bit rate and screen comparisons and a whole lot more.
Hey no problem, buddy. Always glad to contribute!

industry_corpus2: Film & Entertainment


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Individual investors are plowing money back into the U.S. stock market just as professional strategists say gains for this year are over.
Investors have put 10 times more into stock funds in the past year as they did in the previous year, Bloomberg found.
Main Street and Wall Street are moving in opposite directions.
U.S. stocks slid from record highs last week, sending the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to the biggest drop since April, amid concern over financial stress in Europe and the timing of higher U.S. interest rates. The Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index jumped 17% from a seven-year low.
The S&P 500 is still up 6.5% for 2014, compared with a 3.5% advance in the Bloomberg Commodity Index of 22 raw materials and 3.3% gain for the Bloomberg U.S. Treasury Bond Index. S&P 500 futures gained 0.4% at 9:30 a.m. in London today.
For Laszlo Birinyi of Birinyi Associates Inc., stocks have entered what he calls the exuberance phase, the last of four stages usually seen in bull markets. He still sees more gains to come, citing the skepticism on Wall Street as a sign that plenty of investors haven’t bought shares yet. The track record of equity strategists as a whole shows the difficulty in predicting stock prices. About half of the time, the S&P 500 ended the year more than 10% away from the average level predicted by strategists in January, according to data compiled by Bloomberg since 1999.
Birinyi expects the S&P 500 to keep advancing as bears capitulate and pick up stocks.
Birinyi, one of the first analysts to advise clients to buy when stocks were bottoming after the 2008 financial crisis, predicts the S&P 500 will rise 6.7% to 2,100 by December.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. raised its S&P 500 forecast today to 2,050 from 1,900. Rising earnings and faster economic growth will push equities higher and stocks are still attractive to bonds, according to a research report from David Kostin, chief equity U.S strategist at the bank.
Wall Street strategists are more cautious with forecasts implying the S&P 500 will rise 0.5% by year-end to 1,978, the average from a Bloomberg survey of 19 investment firms.
The end of economic stimulus from the Federal Reserve will lead to more stock-market volatility and lower returns, according to Julian Emanuel, a U.S. equity and derivatives strategist with UBS in New York. Minutes released last week from the Fed meeting in June showed officials agreed they’ll end their asset-purchase program in October if the economy holds up.
Relatively expensive valuations will also limit future gains, according to Garry Evans, HSBC’s global head of equity strategy in Hong Kong. He said in a report last week that the S&P 500 will finish the year at 2,000, a 1.6% gain from last week’s close. The index trades at 16.6 times projected earnings, near the highest level in four years, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
Investors will get more clues about the health of the economy during the next two weeks with more than 200 companies in the S&P 500 releasing quarterly results. Profit probably rose 4.5% in the three months through June, analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg show.
The bull market, which has almost tripled the S&P 500’s value since 2009, is closer to the end than the beginning, said Walter Todd, who oversees about $980 million as chief investment officer at Greenwood Capital Associates LLC. The rally has lasted 64 months, about a year longer than average, according to data since 1962 compiled by Birinyi and Bloomberg.


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Welcome to the Dyer Elementary Learning Commons!
January is 3D Design Month at Dyer!
Each grade will have a chance to do some 3D Design work using both digital and analog technologies. We have some exciting plans for STEAM buddies and a design challenge for 3rd through 5th graders.
Lesson plans and more for successful teaching in the Fab Lab or with Fab Lab resources.

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The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against the state of California, charging that its newly enacted net neutrality law places “unlawful burdens” on the federal government's efforts to deregulate the internet.
The suit was filed within hours of California Gov. Jerry Brown signing the net neutrality bill into law.
California’s net neutrality law cleared both houses of the legislature by wide margins. The law reimposes the standard enacted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) under the Obama administration in 2015. It requires all internet service providers to treat all internet traffic the same.
For example, under the previous national policy, overturned by the Trump administration last December, networks could not charge more to companies offering video streaming services. They also could not slow down a service like Netflix while providing faster speeds to their own streaming services.
California State Senator Scott Wiener spearheaded the drive to reimpose net neutrality in the state and said the final product constituted “the strongest net neutrality standards in the nation."
The Justice Department suit takes a different view, saying the California law attempts to regulate the internet, which is now contrary to federal law.
Pai makes the claim that net neutrality, as envisioned by the California law, hurts consumers. He says that under the law, large ISPs like Verizon and AT&T would be prohibited from offering some free data plans he says allow consumers to stream video and music, exempt from any data limits.
But supporters of net neutrality argue they are the ones defending a free and open internet. Without it, they say corporations will decide what you can see online and how fast you can see it.
The argument probably won't be settled anytime soon, and when it is it will probably be the Supreme Court that settles it.

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Morgantina has not produced a large number of statues to date – but what has been recovered bespeaks the importance, connections, and wealth of the site.
In addition, a fragmentary limestone statue of a draped female was recovered from the Agora and is being studied by Malcolm Bell.
Morgantina produced innumerable terracotta figures of all sizes, including fragments over-life sized from the same sanctuary in San Franceso that produced the acroliths. Though unpublished, some of these are on display in the Aidone Museum.
The terracottas were published by Malcolm Bell in Morgantina Studies I: The Terracottas (Princeton 1980). Some of the most remarkable are currently at the Getty Museum in Malibu, until Jan. 2013.


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Oxycodone is a semisynthetic opioid that doctors prescribe for patients in need of relief from moderate to severe pain. As an opioid analgesic, oxycodone works by changing the way that the nervous system and brain in an individual respond to pain. One brand of oxycodone is OxyContin, which has a timed release. In Florida, a conviction of oxycodone trafficking is punished harshly. The penalty depends on the aggregate weight of oxycodone or any mixture that includes it. At Hanlon Law, Tampa oxycodone trafficking lawyer Will Hanlon provides knowledgeable and aggressive representation for drug trafficking charges related to this substance or others.
In Florida, you can be charged with oxycodone trafficking regardless of the amount of oxycodone in a mixture. The aggregate weight of a mixture, including inactive materials, matters, not just how much the oxycodone weighs as an active ingredient.
Why does this matter? Unlike some other drug charges, there are harsh mandatory minimums associated with oxycodone trafficking. You can be convicted of oxycodone trafficking if the prosecution is able to show beyond a reasonable doubt that you knowingly sold, bought, manufactured, delivered, or brought into Florida, or are knowingly in actual or constructive possession of, seven grams or more of oxycodone or any salt of oxycodone, or of a mixture containing oxycodone or any salt of oxycodone. Oxycodone trafficking is a felony in the first degree.
In addition, if you have a professional license issued by the State of Florida, your professional license is subject to an emergency suspension.
It is important to call an oxycodone trafficking attorney in the Tampa area as soon as you realize that you are being investigated for oxycodone trafficking. If you can call an attorney even before you have been arrested, that can give you a greater likelihood of obtaining a dismissal or having a good outcome at trial. Some common defenses include constitutional protections.
For example, law enforcement officers may have violated your Fourth Amendment rights by not having a warrant, failing to execute the warrant properly, not having probable cause to obtain the warrant, exceeding the scope of the search permitted by the warrant, using stale information to get the warrant, an absence of exigent circumstances for a search without a warrant, or a warrantless search within the curtilage of a residence. Other defenses may arise in connection with your Fifth or Sixth Amendment rights under the Constitution.
The prosecution must prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt. This is a very high burden of proof, and sometimes it is possible to defend an oxycodone case by raising reasonable doubt about one or more elements of the charge. When the requisite amount of oxycodone is found in your pocket, actual possession may be straightforward to establish. However, in many cases, oxycodone is located in a place where more than one person has access or control. In those cases, the prosecution must prove constructive possession, which is harder to prove. To show constructive possession of the amount of oxycodone necessary to establish trafficking, the prosecution will need to show that you knew that the substance was present, you knew that the substance contained oxycodone, and you had dominion and control over it.
Sometimes people are arrested and charged with oxycodone trafficking even when they have a valid prescription for it. We may be able to get your charges dismissed if you have a valid prescription.
You should take oxycodone trafficking charges brought in Florida very seriously. Our founder, Will Hanlon, is a drug crime lawyer who has provided aggressive criminal defense counsel and representation since 1994. We are committed to protecting the rights of the accused and provide personalized attention to each of our clients' cases. You can call Hanlon Law at 813-228-7095 or use our online form to arrange an appointment with a Tampa oxycodone trafficking attorney.


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A map projection is a way how to transform points on a Earth to points on a map. This map of Bruñí uses Plate Carree projection. The Plate Carree projection is a simple cylindrical projection originated in the ancient times. It has straight and equally spaced meridians and parallels that meet at right angles.
All projections from a sphere to a plane are distorted. The drawback of the Plate Carree projection is that it doesn't make an attempt to compensate for these distortions. For the general view of Bruñí, this is not a significant problem. The detailed maps use the Mercator projection which preserves the shape of small areas better.
Destinations close to Bruñí sorted by distance.
Do you think the maps are too beautiful not to be painted? No, this is not art. All 2D maps of Bruñí are created based on real Earth data. This is how the world looks like.
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text: Melyssa Defelice and her daughter, Hayleigh, left, close their eyes as they make a friendly splash in the Jambalaya Park swimming pool Thursday afternoon. The two were visiting the pool with family and friends to escape the summer heat. Recent high temperatures nearing 100 degrees have sent parish residents in search of ways to keep cool.


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Mitochondrial deoxyribonucleic acid (mtDNA) has been important in understanding the evolutionary histories of both modern humans and archaic hominins, especially the Neanderthals. mtDNA to date (2012) has been successfully extracted from 13 specimens recovered from the geographical range of the Neanderthals. Primer extension capture along with next generation sequencing has been used along with standard shotgun sequencing to determine the entire mtDNA genome of six specimens: two from Kleine Feldhofer Grotte in Germany, one from El Sidron cave in Spain, two from Vindija Cave in Croatia and one from Mezmaiskaya Cave in Russia. New mtDNA sequences have enhanced the data available from earlier studies that analysed the hypervariable regions of several specimens. The Neanderthal mtDNA pool is distinct from modern human mtDNA and forms a separate phylogenetic clade; genetic diversity of Neanderthals is estimated to be approximately one‐third of extant modern human populations. In addition to analysis of the mtDNA, next generation sequencing has allowed the first insights into the Neanderthal nuclear genome.
The mtDNA genomes of six Neanderthals from four countries have been fully sequenced. The hypervariable regions of several other specimens have also been analysed.
The Neanderthals form a distinct genetic clade from modern humans; the two lineages diverged approximately 500 000 years before the present.
Genetic diversity in the Neanderthal population appears to be considerably reduced in comparison to the modern human populations.
Based on the mtDNA analysis, the Eurasian Neanderthal population appeared to be fragmented into subpopulations with separate demographic histories.
The likelihood of admixture between Neanderthals and modern humans is so low that either behavioural or biological barriers to interbreeding may have existed.
(a) DNA sequences of the PCR fragments obtained by direct sequencing (Direct 1 and 2) and cloned PCR products derived from the Neanderthal from Mezmaiskaya Cave. The sequence that could be duplicated in a second laboratory is shown in bold within the compiled Mezmaiskaya sequence. (b) A region of sequenced PCR product (577.2) is shown along with the rCRS, showing the inserted A at position 16 263.1 (between 16 263 and 16 264) and the C to T substitution at position 16 262.
A schematic phylogenetic tree showing the Neanderthals as a distinct clade from modern humans. Within the Neanderthals there is some evidence that there may be substructure with older and eastern specimens forming one group and more recent western individuals forming a second group (Dalén et al., ).
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industry_corpus2: Biopharmaceuticals


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CBS vs. Time Warner… the insanity | 3A Media, Inc.
So, it’s been going on. At first Time Warner recommended that we check out CBS programming online. Now it looks like TWC has also blocked CBS.com sites. Still it has been pointed out, CBS broadcast is still available on-air via antennae, just that we don’t think there’s anyone out there we know that owns a television set with one built in.
In the end, who will cave?


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Big whinge time!!! This is a Health Cabin rant about their lousy and dishonest service and lack of integrity and just playing 'dumb'!
I bought SLYDR coils from this mob x 6 packs of five coils each, L8 x 3 & 3 of L10 on clearance. On their site it states that they are compatible with SLYDR tanks.
They are not. Not all SLYDR tanks, I have the 'M' tank, great tank, but that's another story. 'L' coils just don't fit.
So after 'to & fro' sending them a ticket or two they won't refund the bucks I spent, they claim "I ordered them and received what I ordered".
Then, I got an RMA after 3 attempts at getting the RMA number & address, trying to send them back. They didn't know what their own 'RMA' policy is either. I sent them to the address they finally gave. Now, with that, they refused to accept the items I sent back as an "Attempted delivery" since 16/5/18 going by the tracking and Ozpost enquiry lodged. 23 responses later, still no refund. Just don't bother with this lot. I bought the things, did the right thing sending them back unopened and paid for that return postage, now after all the bs I'm still out of my $! The paypal issues are another story as well. HC lied to them too!!!!
You sound extremely like someone else Emu.
You forgot the ....rofl & pmsl bits.
If I thought it was funny I would have added a gif mate, mind you I do reckon buying anything starting with SLY is very humorous...!
Good thing the tank was a PIF then huh? I just feed it coils and juice.
Throw it in the cupboard and get yourself a M tank doc, VV has em and they seem to be a much better tank with good coil availability and bigger capacity. I always thought you were a coil builder tho.
As stated above, M is what I have.......no rba deck available for it either.
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Sorry to hear about the shoddy service you got from Health Cabin Doc - I will avoid them now having heard how they operate. pretty disappointing for you though - but there are other good Chinese vendors out there.. when things go wrong Fastech will do the right thing as will HeavenGifts, and 3Fvape and efun.top - hell even 2fvape, while slower that 4 wet weeks actually did replace faulty goods. so I guess chose who you buy from with care in the future !
are these the right ones ?
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You are a treasure 1ynne and soooo observant to boot! That's thems. Thank you for the care shown.
wait... there is more !

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DAILY WINE DISPATCH | On the Road | APRIL 2009 - Sunday Sipping Around L.A.
So I was supposed to go to Santa Barbara – had even mapped out a walking tour of the "urban wineries" so I could park and taste without worry – when I discovered the Vintner's Festival was the same weekend. Since one of the main reason I leave Los Angeles is to escape the crowds, I needed a new plan. I still wanted to taste new wines, I just didn't want to battle my way to the bar. Thankfully, I found two tasting "events" locally – a relative term when one lives in LA – that fit the bill. Even the scorching temp of 94 degrees in mid-April couldn't dampen my spirits and made me glad our adventure was going to be indoors.
The first place we visited was the Colorado Wine Company in Eagle Rock for their Lazy Sundays. I had been to this tiny shop before and was impressed with their helpful, smart staff and interesting, worldly selection considering their relatively small space. They have a few tables in the front, but the action is in the lounge in the back of the store. It would be at capacity with more than 15 people, yet it was cozy and comfortable with a pleasant vibe that encourages whiling away a few hours. The tasting included 4 wines with a variety of fresh cheeses for $12. It's a bit steep, but the pours were generous and they'll also let you try other wines that were left over from earlier tastings. I was driving so I stuck with the official four. Loved the fruity and elegant 08 Laxas Albarino ($18) and the 05 Les Hauts Lastour Coteaux du Quercy, a little spicey/earthy $10 number from Cahors. If all French Cab Francs tasted like this, they'd be much more popular. Am looking forward to their Rose tasting next month, as they seem to find really flavorful, unique wines in the under $20 range, which is what I love in a wine shop. Anyone can sell Opus and Silver Oak. It's the quality of their everyday wines that shows a store's true colors.
Our second stop was at Silverlake Wine for their weekly Sunday food and wine pairing. It begins at 3pm and features 4 wines plus one aperitif. Each wine is paired with an hors d'oeuvre that will complement the wine or represents the region that is featured. This is a fairly structured tasting with brief explanations about the winery and what makes the wines being tasted special. Due to the small space – it takes place in their store among the bottles – and the events' obvious popularity – there had to be 50+ people – reservations are required. While knowledge was imparted, the staff was loose and informal, keeping the atmosphere light and fun. The food was lovely and flavorful and truly complemented the wines they were pouring. Granted they were small bites, but we didn't leave hungry. For $20 this has to be one of the best weekly wine events in the city.
If you don't like drinking in the afternoon, they are also pouring at The Standard in Downtown L.A. on Wednesday nights, along the same vein – a three glass flight plus snacks for $20. If I lived closer to either location I would be there every week. As it stands, I will have to be a bit more selective, but I will definitely be going back. The shop has a wide selection at good prices and their staff made it fun to be in there. They usually release their Sunday lineup on the Wednesday before. If you like what they're pouring, I'd call right away as they book up quick. Why, oh why, can't someone open a place like this in my neighborhood? Of course, if they did, I'd be broke.
Colorado Wine Company – 2114 Colorado Boulevard Eagle Rock, CA 90041 – 323-478-1985 – Wine bar open Tues-Sun. See site for hours.


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This has to be one of the most interesting plants in our garden. The small, but profuse, orange blossoms coat the stems that emanate from the base of the plant and stick around for months on end. The leaves are an eye-catching bright green. Plant this and you will be able to enjoy the quintessential hum of summer as bumblebees and hummingbirds will flock to your yard. When the sun shines on it just right, the flowers seem to glow like magical little lights.
Also known as Desert Mallow or Desert Hollyhock, its scientific name is Sphaeralcea ambigua. It is native to the deserts from southern California and throughout the south west. It is a very drought tolerant perennial, but the more water it gets the taller it grows. In our yard with some irrigation it has grown 5-6 feet, but it is known to stay as small as 1-2 feet in some desert areas with little annual rainfall. (Find other drought tolerant and ornamental plants here).
In my yard it gets full sun and sprinkler water a few times a week during the hot, dry season, keeping the soil moist but not wet. It is growing in clay soil that is slightly alkaline with no problems. It grows with stems that fan out from the base. Mine started to flop, so I cut them back to allow the plant to grow more bushy and it recovered very quickly.
It’s spread is dependent on the length the stems get. If they are very long they will flop over and therefore take more space. It seems to respond very well to trimming back to keep it a little more tidy and upright. I knocked ours back to 3 foot stems and within a month it grew back in to what you see in the picture above.
It takes the heat very well (we get up to 110+), and is supposed to be very cold tolerant, as well, rated to USDA zone 4. It is a major attractant for all sorts of bees, including big bumblebees. They absolutely mob ours.
As of now, we have had no issues with this plant. It does attract some aphids, but the plant seems to be able to take it in stride. We have snails but they don’t bother this one. I don’t have deer or other nibblers to contend with, so I couldn’t say whether they are resistant or not. Otherwise, just a beautiful plant that will be a stunner in your garden for months at a time.


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tins ::: Rick Klau's weblog: BlogPress Lite is live!
Use an iPhone and have a blog on Blogger? Head on over to the app store and get InfoThinker's free "blogpress lite", built by them to celebrate Blogger's 10th birthday. Thanks, guys!
You're not going to make me use a non-Google search on iTunes are ya?
Thank you. You are an officer and gentleman.
1, were you able to do the link from within the iPhone app? and 2, are there any good Blogger apps for Android?
For Android, it's been a while since I looked. Will report back. If you have a connection, you can try using the Blogger gadget on iGoogle Mobile - that works very well (but is admittedly not an app).
How do you make links in the editor?

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I’m an unattached male, 61, although friends say I look 50. I have post-graduate degrees, no dependents. My wife’s long gone.
When I was in a community theatre production last year, I took an immediate interest in a female volunteer.
I didn’t mention my attraction then, but later contacted her.
She responded through Facebook. We’ve stayed in touch. She’s 40ish, has one teenage child, and I don’t detect any ongoing relationships.
Recently, we discovered we’re working together again and are getting along very well.
I want to “make a move,” but typically, my fear of rejection is present. I don’t share my affections casually.
Also, I’m not focused upon physical intimacy.
Am I being a hopeful/hopeless romantic, or a chicken? Is the age difference irreconcilable? Should I wait until we’re not working together in a production?
Enjoy whatever friendship develops while working together, but don’t talk about your attraction during this time.
(There’s enough intensity in theatre work without complicating it, and the wait won’t be that long).
When it’s over, suggest doing something together such as seeing some other show, listening to music, etc.
If she accepts, you’ll be relating in a new setting, as individuals rather than cast members.
That’s when you have to draw on the confidence that you bring to a stage, and state your interest in dating her.
The age difference isn’t what matters. It’s whether she has a similar attraction to you, and whether she’s interested in having a romantic relationship.
You’ll find out most comfortably by taking it slow, getting to know her beyond this limited exposure surrounded by other cast members, then finding an appropriate time to speak up.
My mom and step-dad aren't officially together anymore; she hangs out with this other guy.
He's pretty cool but I'm not looking forward to having ANOTHER stepdad. She’s now saying that everything's perfect because of this guy.
I don't want HIM to ruin my family, future, and life!!
But everyone in the family likes him. Worse, things aren't going too well for me in school.
I never really knew my father, and met my step-dad when I was two-years-old. I’d gotten so attached to him, and she's probably going to take that away from me.
I’ve talked to my mom but she just says I'm being silly.
Tell your mom that you’re not a “silly” child, but you are a scared daughter.
That’s something she can understand and help you get over.
But first you must resist accusing her of ruining your life, because that only pushes you both apart.
She’s apparently chosen a man who’s decent and even “cool” in your eyes, so he’s not going to ruin your life either.
You’ll even understand your mom better if you talk to him, and see what it is she likes so much.
Since your step-dad and you had a good relationship, you’ll likely be able to stay connected, unless your mother has very good reasons otherwise. (If so, ask her to please explain to you what she can).
School is a major part of your life, too – your center of friendships, adult guidance, the path to your future.
Talk to your mom about having difficulties there that may be due to the changes at home.
You’d benefit from seeing the guidance counselor, or an outside counselor, to help you get back to focusing on school and making whatever adjustments you need at home.
Reader – “Men needing to be stronger than women is a stereotype too often perpetuated.
“One shouldn’t hide or sugar-coat their abilities, especially those they’ve worked for, to make someone else feel better about themselves.
“For too long, girls have been taught that they don't need to be physically strong because “that's the men's job.” This message is especially harmful for teens such as myself.
“The woman didn’t initiate the situation. If her husband can't be proud of his wife, it’s an issue with him not her.
Ellie – Your strong, confident opinion’s accurate and admirable. I agree that they can encourage his fitness together, since she asked for advice how to ease his embarrassment. As I wrote, natural competition between them is fine.
No matter your age, an “attraction” is like a crush until you get to know someone better.


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Check live previews of themes to see if it does what you want.
Check other sites which have used the theme – if none shown, then could be pointer to a problem.
Check theme support / reviews etc.
Check any comments on the theme – there could be widespread praise for the theme – or perhaps, widespread criticism.
Check the theme documentation – are you technically capable of using it? Do you have enough time to spare to do this?
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I remember conversing with my mom about Christmas sometime back when I was a newly minted parent. She was imparting to me that holiday's dark secret, kept by all parents alike: Christmas is hard work for parents. This should have been obvious, of course. Though we all talk about the magic of the season like it's a seasonal trait, the way snow belongs to winter and rain belongs to April, in reality it's more like Santa Claus—something that must be made, or at least brought out. The lights don't string themselves, the cookies don't bake themselves, the gifts don't suddenly appear, perfectly thought out and wrapped, ready for Christmas morning.
My parents have always made the magic of Christmas something vibrant and tangible. Traditional foods, decorations, songs, and activities elicit an almost Pavlovian response of Christmas cheer. But making all of that happen is truly hard work, and now that I'm one of them, a parent, that is, I'm fully aware of just how much work. How much back-breaking, spirit crushing work it sometimes is to make getting a tree in cold slushy weather fun, or to find joy in wrapping gifts for the child throwing an unrelated tantrum upstairs, or to go to the store yet again for even more lights because yes, that string you just bought last year is already broken. But the best of times are just an attitude adjustment away, and cold slush can be fun if you decide that it is, so the most important job is to decree the magic in everything that you do. Because no, it's not like snow in winter, it's more like radishes in spring: plant it, nurture it, and watch it grow. (And you can't actually count on snow in winter anymore, either).
We spent this past weekend, or week, really, Christmasing (for the amount of work it takes, it ought to be a verb). We strung lights, inside and out, we swapped normal dishes for santa ones, we stuck a tree in the corner and covered it in trinkets collected from all over the world. We listened to carols, we played carols. We made ornaments to gift to others. Boxes were carted up and down the basement stairs so many times the cat lost count. The dog is over this santa fad, why is her dinner late? And, finally, I sewed new socks and we hung them by the chimney with all the care our tired limbs could muster. We worked, but we also worked at having a good time, because sometimes your best times are just an attitude adjustment away. That's where the music, and the wine, comes in.


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Kate graduated from the Mercy program in 2007. She came to Mercy Ministries struggling with an eating disorder, self-harm, depression and rejection issues. For the past year and a half, Kate has been on an amazing journey of continued restoration and truly living out the freedom she gained while in the program.
When she moved back to Kennesaw, Kate also got immediately involved in North Star Church as part of the leadership team over the young singles ministry. As part of their outreach, the young singles ministry reaches out to widows in the community. Kate volunteers her time twice a month to serve local widows through yard work and any other odd jobs that these women cannot do on their own.
Between being a full-time student, working with FCA, and being very involved in her church, Kate is a very busy girl! She is so grateful for all that God has done in her life and she is eager to give back in any way that she can through sharing her story and touching the lives of others. We are so proud of Kate and all that she has accomplished since graduating the Mercy Ministries program!!
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See links below for more about this event.
You can listen to this episode above and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes. You can also listen to this episode on Stitcher, Cyber Ears or download it on Archive.org (60mins, 46MB).
We are joined by activist-scholars Jess Ison and Adam Cardilini who discuss what The Institute for Critical Animal Studies (Oceania) is all about, the importance of community in activist movements, call in versus call out culture and the upcoming workshop-based discussion forum in Melbourne: Community as Activism – Building Community within the Animal Liberation Movement and Beyond.
Saturday 4 August, 1-5pm at Library at the Dock (107 Victoria Harbour Promenade, Docklands).
The event is free but registration through this link is essential to ensure your spot. For more information about this event, see the Facebook event page.
Viewing anything as THE real issue is an issue. All forms of oppression are connected and important in their own right.
We also discuss subjectivity and objectivity in academic writing, science and animals, links between community and avoiding activist burnout, the Melbourne Anarchist Bookfair, and the femme panel from the most recent ICAS conference.
This episode is replayed from Freedom of Species, an animal advocacy show on 3CR community radio, which Nick now regularly hosts. This show is broadcast live on 855AM in Melbourne 1-2pm every Sunday and if you’re outside of Melbourne you can listen in live 1-2 Melbourne time/AEST on 3cr.org.au – the show is also on iTunes. You can listen to all of the episodes that Nick has been on here.
Hayley Kiyoko ‘Girls Like Girls’, Petrol Girls ‘Treading Water’, David Rovicks ‘I’m a Better Anarchist Than You’, The Tuts ‘What’s on the Radio?’.
You can listen to this episode above and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes. You can also listen to this episode on Stitcher, Cyber Ears or download it on Archive.org (55mins, 45MB).
On this episode we look into skepticism and rationality, with the help of scientist Dr Adam Cardilini, host of VeganSci podcast. We particularly focus on how skepticism and rationality relate to radical, anarchist, environment, veganism, Left etc politics.
More specifically, we cover: “drop babies”, ghosts and “the Ghostbusters ruling”, GMOs, Derren Brown, alternative medicine, veganism and medication/vaccinations, atheist critiques of “new atheists”, and fresh versus frozen/tinned food.
We also return to the topic we covered last episode #203 and look into the (lack of) evidence supporting the arguments behind trickle-down economics.
If you enjoyed this episode, you may want to check out our episodes on atheism (#87 and #88) and fake news (#180 and #181). We also recommend the skeptic podcasts The Infinite Monkey Cage and Token Skeptic.
Trick or Treatment by Professor Edzard Ernst and Simon Singh.
Dead Prez ‘Psychology’, Cursive ‘Big Bang’.
You can listen to this episode above and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes. You can also listen to this episode on Stitcher, Cyber Ears or download it on Archive.org (51mins, 39MB).
This episode features Adam Cardilini asking Nick questions about anarchism. These questions come out of the anarchism and animal liberation panel discussion from ICAS 2016, which we played on episodes 152 and 153. You can listen to the Q and A session following this panel discussion here. We also discuss direct democracy, consensus decision making and the Occupy movement.
For more information on anarchism, check out: Nick’s talk veganarchism (which we played on episode 134), Which Side podcast with Vegan Warrior Princesses, Anarchist FAQ, David Graeber’s book Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology and pamphlet ‘Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You!’, the documentary The Take and the TV show Mr Robot.
Leftover Crack ‘Corrupt Vision’, meerkatmedia ‘Consensus (Direct Democracy @ Occupy Wall Street)’, Propagandhi ‘The State Lottery’.
You can listen to a short (7 minute) version of this episode, which features a shortened version of Nick and Adam’s discussion on anarchism, here: Questioning Anarchism. You can subscribe to these short versions of our episodes through Omny.
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Nick is joined by Adam Cardilini to give a recap of the 2016 Institute for Critical Animal Studies (Oceania) conference. We play some of the panel discussion on anarchism and animal liberation from the conference, featuring Jess Ison, Lara Drew and Nick. You can listen to all of the talks from this conference here and each talk is also listed individually below (at the bottom of the show notes for this episode).
Also covered on the episode is: the activism we did as part of the conference, Living Green Festival, The Beet Retreat, Dr Sy Woon and Sentient: The Veterinary Institute for Animal Ethics, and the book Anarchism and Animal Liberation: Essays on Complementary Elements of Total Liberation which Lara mentioned during the panel (it has a chapter she co-wrote).
You can view photos from the conference by Jyoti Dambiec and photos and tweets from @veganarchyy – contact us at progressivepodcast@gmail.com if you have photos you’d like us to link to. In order to be notified about future conferences, like/follow ICAS Oceania on Facebook and Twitter and subscribe for email updates from ICAS Oceania. You can also listen to a recap of last year’s ICAS Oceania conference, as well as see links to all of the talks from this conference, on episode 108 of our podcast.
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Camp Cope ‘West Side Story’; Jess Ison, Nick Pendergrast and Lara Drew ‘Anarchism and Animal Liberation‘; Gilmore Girls ‘A Year in the Life’ – episode 2; Propagandhi ‘A People’s History of the World’.
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Adam Cardilini: Diversity in animal activism: Preparing for impact opportunities for the next 10 years – played on episode 156.
Adam Cardilini, Emma Hurst and Kirstin Leiminger: Animal Activism Q And A.
Alex Vince: Challenging The Pest Epithet.
Bede Carmody: Sustainable activism: How to avoid becoming burnt out as an activist – played over episodes 177 and 178.
Carol Drew: Mind over Matter.
Cassie Giudice: Transgender Awareness And The Law – played on episode 170.
Colin Salter: Normativity, Intersectionality & States Of Exception – played on episode 174.
Eliza Littleton: The Inhumane Economy: How capitalism hinders real transformation in the lives of animals.
Eliza Waters: “Live The Good Life”: Discourses of development and modernisation and the export of Australian meat to Asia and the Middle East.
Emma Hurst: Why would somebody continue to eat animals once they become aware of the cruelty?
Emma Wannell: The ideology of efficiency and the human-nature relationship: Exploring the implications of the pursuit of efficiency in the animal agriculture industry.
Jackson Walkden-Brown: Power, Knowledge and Welfare in Australian Intensive Farm Animal Production.
Jeanette Carroll: Animal Activism of the Poor in Australia—Is anyone paying attention?
Jess Ison: Skeleton And Cow: The Body Constructed As Diseased.
Jess Ison, Nick Pendergrast and Lara Drew: Anarchism and Animal Liberation – played on this episode (#152) and episode 153.
Jess Ison, Nick Pendergrast and Lara Drew: Anarchism and Animal Liberation Q and A.
Kirsten Leiminger: Bridging the gap: From theory to practice in abolitionism.
Leigh-Chantelle: Ethics Beyond the Plate – video, audio.
Mike Rosalky: Animals and Law—An Overview.
Nick Pendergrast: Cowspiracies about Meat Eating Environmentalists: A Critical Examination of the Environmental Vegan Movement – PowerPoint, audio – played on episode 172.
Nicole Godwin: Animals and Art.
Richard Iveson: In the Belly of the Beast. On the Force-Feeding of Servitude in Plato’s Republic.
Shan Crosbie: Animals and art: understanding the exploitation of animals through art history.
Stuart White: Eating the earth: Food, diet and sustainability.
Sy Woon: Speciesism – and Inherent Barriers to Ethical Changes and Animal Advocacy – in the Veterinary Industry – played on episode 192.
Tamasin Ramsay: Brahma Kumaris And Veganism.
Teja Brooks: In The Prison House Of Reason: From Pain Management To Total Liberation.
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What are the mysterious qualities that make French style so very covetable? Words like "effortless" and "undone" come to mind, but we suspect it's partly the things French women don't do that make them so fashionable.
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To find out what these no-nos are, we went straight to the source and asked our favourite French style bloggers for the fashion faux pas they would never make. From the footwear style they avoid (and what they wear instead) to their philosophy when it comes to accessorising, these tips are timeless, simple and relevant to every age group. You know what else will help? Seeing our definitive list of the French fashion brands every girl should know.
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Online Learning — I must be able to complete either all (or a significant portion of the program) without setting foot on campus. I have a job and I need to keep it.
Conservative — I'm not going to a liberal heretical seminary. That means they must teach the truth starting with the fact that the Bible is the Word of God. God inspired men to write what He wanted on paper. It has no error in it.
Cyndi and I visted Salem Baptist Church Sunday. The people were very nice and friendly. They are a smaller congregation (200ish people). They have a small building and are in the process of moving to a new location with more room. They are a growing congregation.
It is interesting how we got hooked up with them. My parents were at the convention in Nashville. Messengers from Salem were at the Convention in Nashville. They ended up in line next to each other at a barbecue joint. They got to talking and we ended up being invited.
I was doing some research (and yak shaving today) and came across this online Bible Study site. It looks like it will track progess and everything. Looks really kind of neat.
Remember the liberals whining about the Supreme Court being conservative when Pres. Bush was elected? This recent decision proves that we defiantly do NOT have a conservative court. Read more about the decision here. It is now legal for a city to take my property and give it to someone else.
Alan recently finished assembling his paper clock. For pictures and videos, go here.
Ok…what do you call that sweet brown (or other color) carbonated beverage? I call it pop. Other people call it soda. Yet others call it all coke.
Sorry for getting lax in my blogging lately. Cyndi and I just moved, and I've been busy with that and a few other things. Hopefully, over the next few weeks it will get better. I know it's no fun reading a blog that never changes.
I came across this today as well: http://pspruett.blogspot.com/2005/06/911-memorial-perversion.html. I had heard rumours about some wacos wanting to build an anti-America memorial at the World Trade Center, but didn't know what to think. Looks like it is true. What will people think of next? A memorial to Hitler at a death camp? A memorial for Gen. Grant in Richmond?


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The SD Optimus Prime seems to be transformable into truck mode and comes with a trailer. Not sure if the trailer is made out of paper or something, looks weird in the photo. The overall articulation should be great and allows the Autobots leader to come out with lots of great post.
I just did a search and it seems like this is a garage kit and it’s a WonderFest exclusive item. We can only get it at WF or Macau, according to the people on forums and web.
Hi Jacques, Thanks for the update.
Too bad it is WonderFes limited and it is a resin kit. It has the potential to reach greater market by making it as a figure.
I just saw e2046 carrying it in their inventory. It’s selling at around 44bucks, exclusive of shipping charge. The stock status is currently “pre-order”. The only question in mind is whether it is an original item from the recent Wonderfest or a recast model.
As I know it suppose to be event exclusive… the manufacturer said it is limited because of copyright issue. Hopefully they sort it out and we can buy 1 at cheaper price.

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I mention it any time I give a talk about the benefits of viral marketing…the absolute need to understand that viral marketing campaigns can quickly get out of control. No company should ever launch a viral campaign without some plan of action for how to scale if the response is larger than you’d imagined. Apparently the team at Starbucks missed that segment of Viral Marketing 101.
What happened? Well, according to DM News, Starbucks sent out an email to Atlanta area employees featuring a printable coupon for a free Grande beverage. The email asked the recipients to forward it to friends and family members.
However, the e-mail spread faster than Starbucks predicted, landing in e-mail boxes coast to coast, as well as being sold on auction sites like eBay.
Rather than honoring the coupon and counting the email as a success, Starbucks has claimed that the email went beyond the scope of their original intent and is therefore no longer valid. The move is not only an example of extreme failure to plan, but also marks the early makings of an online reputation management nightmare. Chances are high that allowing for the redemption of the coupons would have cost far less than the long-term negative publicity that could come from Starbucks refusal to honor the coupons.
That said, not all coffee companies are missing the boat when it comes to viral marketing. Starbucks competitor Caribou Coffee announced via the Denver Post that they would happily honor the now void Starbucks coupons at their own stores this Friday, September 8th.
Customers who bring in the now void Starbucks coupon will receive a free medium Cold Press iced coffee, Iced Americano or Iced Tea.
“We want to introduce gourmet coffee lovers to a great new product, Cold Press iced coffee,” said Michael Coles, chief executive of Minneapolis-based Caribou.
Sounds like a company that’s smart enough to manage not only their own online reputations, but to keep an eye on that of their competitors as well. Small business owners would be wise to take note of how both Starbucks and Caribou Coffee are handling this situation. Key take away points?
1.) Never ever EVER launch a viral marketing campaign if you aren’t willing and able to scale to the level required by a successful campaign.
2.) Just slightly behind the importance of tracking your own reputation online is the idea of tracking your competitors.
3.) A great viral campaign doesn’t have to be one that you come up with on your own. Sometimes it simply means stepping in and taking over when someone else does it poorly.
I think it would have beneficial for them if they added a geo-targeted component to their strategy. i.e. They could have made the coupon available for a specific state or region.
You’ve got to hand it to Caribou Coffee… for every bad move, there is someone willing to jump on the opportunity and make it better.

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If you’re planning on visiting South America, and Bolivia in particular, I implore you to visit the Salar de Uyuni. It is a photographers playground.
The Salar de Uyuni consists of over 4,000 square miles of salt flat, which started forming around 40,000 years ago when climate change dried up a prehistoric lake. The water from the lake eventually evaporated, leaving salt and minerals behind as a solid layer of white Blockbuster-style white hexagons.
This crystal white surface, and the juxtaposed bright blue sky make the Salar de Uyuni incredibly amazing to view. When you consider the fact there are miles upon miles of flat white salt flat, it presents a very unique perspective.
If you’re travelling from North to South, it is likely you will pass through the little town of Uyuni. Aside from a gated football pitch, a few shops and a narrow gauge train track, this town has a very wild west-style feel. Dusty, dry and fairly empty.
The town has a small population, and that is usually tripled on a daily basis by tours and 4×4’s, making their final stop and fuel fill ups before heading out into the salt desert.
For those who have travelled through Bolivia and Uyuni, you will no doubt have stopped at the infamous ‘train graveyard’, or the ‘Cementerio de trenes‘.
Located less than 3 miles outside Uyuni, the train cemetery was created in the 1940’s after the mining industry collapsed due to mineral depletion. The train cars are now rusted, but with sand, blue sky and rail tracks heading into the horizon, my eyes widened at some of the shots I was about to capture. I used an iPhone for my photography, and when I saw the photos on the big screen, my eyes were given a treat.
Yes, I gave up fashion for travel comfort.
Taking pictures of the old trains, and knowing the contrast of the yellow sand and blue sky would bring out some amazing pictures meant I had a constant smile on my face!
Driving to the salt flats takes around 2/3 hours from Uyuni, depending on how many stops the 4x4s take. This allowed me to take some more amazing pictures of our transport a long the way.
It’s difficult to explain the feelings you have when you drive across the salt flat. Miles and miles of white salt floor meets the sheer blue sky at the horizon in every direction you look.
If I had fun taking pictures at the train cemetery, then the pictures at the Salar de Uyuni were on another level. Any accessory, shape, object or piece of fruit was used in our 2 hour group photography production. They are some of the best photos I’ve ever taken with the iPhone, and certainly the most fun I’ve had with travel photography.
Right at the centre of the Salar de Uyuni lies ‘Isla Incahuasi‘, or Incahuasi Island. This small rocky outcrop is the remains of an ancient volcano, which was submerged when the area was part of the giant prehistoric lake.
Standing on the top of the island provides a unique perspective of just how vast the Salar de Uyuni is. The island is covered by cacti, so provided more moments for photography fun.
In true Inca tradition, a llama is still sacrificed each year, at the top of the small island.
If you plan on visiting the Salar de Uyuni soon, post your pictures in the comments box below – I’d love to see your creativity in the salt flats!
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The online history degree provides an education that builds on the development of critical-thinking skills inherent in a liberal arts education. The program offers a comprehensive look at history and gives you the ability to select from a broad range of electives, tailoring your course of study to fit your interests.
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The second half of the United States history survey course covers the period following the Civil War. The economic, political and ideological developments that allowed the United States to attain a position of the world leadership are closely examined. Required for majors in History and Social Studies Education with a concentration in History.
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What’s Diabetes? There are two kinds of diabetes and they’re merely referred to as Sort 1 and Kind 2. With Sort 1 diabetes, your most important drawback is your physique’s incapability to supply insulin – the all-essential hormone that converts blood sugar into energy.
Without insulin, glucose will only constantly build up in your system. Kind 1 can be called insulin-dependent or juvenile diabetes. There is no such thing as a recognized treatment for this type.
With Type 2 diabetes, your body is able to produce insulin however only in inadequate amounts. And whether it is inadequate, your physique is unable to utilize it utterly and effectively.
There are different instances in life, like pregnancy for example, that would trigger you to undergo from diabetes.
When you suspect yourself of affected by Type 1 diabetes, listed below are a number of symptoms to additional affirm your suspicions.
Hunger: You’re consuming sufficient or much more than what you want, but you still find yourself feeling hungry. It’s because the glucose coming from the food you eat is not being transformed to energy. As such, your system will nonetheless really feel starved even for those who’ve eaten enough for an army.
Thirst and Urination: Excessive glucose ranges in your blood reduces fluid volume, which consequently make you feel thirstier extra often. And of course, elevated thirst will usually lead to increased frequency in urination.
Weight Loss: Going again to the unsuccessful conversion of blood sugar into power, muscle tissues and fats won’t be capable to bulk up. The longer they’re disadvantaged of vitality, the extra they will shrink in size. It is not stunning for diabetics suffering from insulin deficiency to abruptly expertise speedy and extreme weight loss.
Fatigue: Naturally, lack of vitality distributed to your system will find yourself causing you to expertise fatigue.
Blurry Vision: Despite its widespread occurrence, blurry imaginative and prescient is one of the least identified signs of diabetes. Reducing fluid ranges in your blood will eventually affect fluid levels in the rest of your body, comparable to your eyes. Diabetes could trigger you to have poorer focus because of lowered fluid levels.
And now, we get to crucial question: how do we get diabetes? Sadly, while we do know what happens inside our physique to make us endure from diabetes, no scientist has but found what causes the desired sequence of events to occur? Nobody knows why a person’s immune system would abruptly destroy cells answerable for producing hormones and therefore leading to the increase of glucose content in his blood.
Scientists, however, have certain theories about attainable causes of Sort 1 diabetes. For one, genetics have been pinpointed to doubtlessly cause diabetes. Household historical past as well as exposure to sure micro organism and viruses have also been cited as attainable contributing factors.
Even without determining the cause, the record of symptoms provided will still allow you to find out whether or not you might be suffering from Sort 1 diabetes of not. If your suspicions have been confirmed, the following step for validation is to seek the advice of your doctor.
The type of take a look at or procedure you’ll be subjected to will rely in your doctor. Normally, nevertheless, blood assessments could be sufficient to verify your condition.
If not treated correctly and immediately, Type 1 diabetes can result in various problems from short-term ones like extraordinarily excessive or low blood sugar content material and diabetic ketoacidosis to long-term ones like having neuropathy, nephropathy, and osteoporosis in addition to different severe problems with your coronary heart, eyes, foot, skin and mouth.
The vital truth is important to understand about treating diabetes is that it’s a commitment which might final a lifetime for you and your cherished ones. Emotional help is just as important so that you can cope along with your condition.
The components making up therapy plans for diabetes will probably be determined by your doctor and your preferences. It can generally embrace dietary restrictions, train requirements, lifestyle modifications, and use of medicines and presumably therapies as well.

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Broccoli – It keeps mouth inflammation to a minimum and helps to scrub and polish your teeth when you eat it. But skip the cooking! For broccoli to effectively clean your teeth, it should be eaten raw. Try putting small pieces in your salads, shredding it and adding it to wraps, or garnishing your stir fry with it.
Apples – They're high in malic acid, which increases the amount of saliva you helps keep your teeth clean by fighting off plaque. The malic acid is also effective when it comes to removing stains. Eat apple slices with peanut butter, add them to your smoothies, or enjoy them as-is.
Cheese – Enjoying cheese on a regular basis is an excellent way to ensure that your teeth are getting the vitamins and minerals they need to stay strong and healthy as time goes on. You'll optimize your intake of calcium and protein, both of which will help protect your tooth enamel so stains can't easily form. Put cheese on your sandwiches, enjoy it with fresh fruit as a snack, or top your pasta with it.
Rosemary Oil – Not only does it help prevent bad breath and remove bacteria, but it's also effective in fighting off plaque buildup.
Tea Tree Oil – It's anti-fungal, antibacterial, and a natural anti-inflammatory. It also features astringent properties that help prevent the development of plaque while stopping bacteria buildup in its tracks.
Cinnamon Oil – It works as an antiseptic and helps improve blood flow to the gums. You may even find that it promotes the accelerated regeneration of your gums.
Add a drop of essential oil to your toothpaste before you brush, or make your own mouthwash to rinse with by mixing a few drops of your chosen oils into a reusable bottle filled with water. Then rinse after your brush your teeth each day.
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This course began with an introduction to waveform sampling and transmission and storage issues, followed by an introduction to psycho-acoustics that covered the unique acuities and limits of the human auditory system. Waveform compression, model-based speech compression, and psychoacoustically based frequency domain compression algorithms were covered. MIDI and other music representation schemes were introduced, in the context of existing music storage and manipulation systems as well as potential future compression schemes. Emphasis was on the tradeoffs of quality, compressed data size, and flexible data manipulation. C code examples were made available for various compression algorithms.
Familiarity with the concepts of sampling and aliasing. Specific knowledge of Fourier or wavelet transforms not required, but familiarity with the time and frequency domain representations of data helpful.
Statistically based compression of audio waveform data is basically useless, and loss-less compression of audio is generally impossible above the very lowest compression ratios. Incorporation of psycho-acoustic principles in a perceptually loss-less system makes higher compression ratios possible. Sound examples were played to demonstrate the tradeoffs of different algorithms and compression ratios.


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Elizabeth Marchwood was the daughter of Lord Marchwood. Her brother, Joseph Marchwood, and she went looking for Erasmus Darkening. He banished them for eternity.
In the early 21st century her "ghost" and her brother's "ghost" tried to warn Sarah Jane Smith about Erasmus. After Sarah Jane and their father defeated Darkening, Elizabeth and her brother were reunited with their father as "ghosts".