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Officials have also issued show-cause notices to the drug wholesaler and retailer for suspension of their licences.
Cough syrup containing codeine is not banned in Maharashtra, but there are stringent norms for its sale and purchase so that the drug cannot be abused. Codeine, known as the poor man's morphine, is a highly popular drug among the youth as its consumption gives a high.
"We received a tip-off that cough syrup containing codeine phosphate was being sold illegally in Pune.
When we started investigating, we found that a drug wholesaler, medical store owner and medical representative were involved in the illegal sale for quick money. We filed an FIR against the erring individuals with the Vishrambaug police station on Friday for violations of various norms of the Drug and Cosmetics Act, 1940. We have also issued notices to the wholesaler and retailer for suspension of their licences," said Suhas Mohite, assistant commissioner (drug), FDA, Pune. There are seven licensed wholesalers in Pune who supply cough syrup containing codeine phosphate to retail drug stores.
"We found that one of the wholesalers in Sadashiv Peth had been selling a sizable quantity of cough syrup Ascoril-C, which contains codeine phosphate. This made us suspicious. When we investigated the matter, we found that the wholesaler sold 360 bottles of the syrup on the same day to three medical stores, each receiving 120 bottles. When we approached these stores, we found that they had not received the consignment nor had they ordered the cough syrup from the wholesaler," Mohite said.
When officials investigated the matter further, they found that the wholesaler had dispensed the drug consignment to a medical representative, who in turn sold the consignment to a medical store in Kondhwa. When questioned, the medical representative produced sale bills that had been tampe red, officials said.
The investigating FDA officials then grilled the medical store owner, who revealed that the attendant at his shop had purchased the consignment from the medical representative.
"However, the store owner could not show the purchase or sale bills for the consignment of 360 bottles.
That shows that the drug was sold illegally," Mohite said.
Further investigation revealed that the wholesaler had also sold two consignments of 180 bottles each to the same medical store on August 20. "However, the medical store owner denied the purchase on that date.
This means that the wholesaler prepared a fake bill and sold the bottles illegally.
There was some other clandestine purchase and sale," Mohite said.
In the last week of October, the state FDA officials busted a huge racket of codeine cough syrup being sold illegally in Maharashtra. FDA officials had reco vered 15,000 bottles of codeine that were illegally stored in a godown in Mira-Bhayandar and were meant to be sold in the black market.
Two persons from Thane were found violating the provisions of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, and one of them have been arrested jointly by state FDA officials and Thane police.
"There is a strong doubt of a big network involved in this clandestine sale of codeine-containing cough syrups. All this clandestine activity is based on illegal purchases. The illegal stock is sold to drugcodeine phosphate addicts at a very high price," said state FDA commissioner Harshadeep Kamble.
The FDA was able to bust that racket working on a tipoff that there was a group supplying cough syrups to schoolchildren.
A team of inspectors from the drug regulator's intelligence unit had kept watch on the suspect, who was tricked into supplying a few bottles to FDA officials who posed as customers.
The suspect was later caught with eight boxes of leading cough syrup brands.
At the time, Kamble had said that the stock was likely to be sold in Mumbai and other regions of the country.
"As per the information we have gathered, the stock was meant to be supplied to northeastern states and West Bengal, where it could be sold at three times the price," he said.


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Since being introduced many decades ago, the creatures have bred in huge numbers without fear of natural predators. Yet many have developed odd conditions, such as blindness and deformed or missing limbs. Scientists are now trying to solve the slippery case, as this article explains.

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Artists and Poets Friday
|Ms. Sandpiper ~ watercolor and brush pen
Friday Post ~ Means Artists and Poets. This week has flown by and the most art work I have done is photography, haiku and trying to complete my sketchbook for the Sketchbook Project 2013. So here is a painting above that I did today with watercolors and brush pen on hot press watercolor paper. I used a photo in Golden Guide to Birds. Living near the seashore I love the shore birds. As you can tell from previous posts this week, ArtMuse Dog and I have spent lots of time walking and visiting the beach that is nearby. So good for the creative spirit.
transition season
another so quickly gone
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leaves green, colors next
amazing rapidity now
days warm, nights cooler.
ah, New England time
reds, golds, oranges, shine
delighting the eyes.
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Moses was 120 years old when he died. According to Deuteronomy 34:7, he lost neither his eyesight nor his strength before and was not diminished in body or mind by old age.
Moses' life is divided into three equal periods. He spent 40 years in the court of the Egyptian Pharaoh, 40 years in Midian after he fled Egypt and 40 years leading the Israelites in the wilderness.
According to the Bible, Moses was a prophet of God and was commanded to face Pharaoh and demand that he free the people of Israel. Pharaoh finally did release the Israelites, but only after God released the Ten Plagues on Egypt. Moses led the Israelites toward the Promised Land, but died before they reached it.


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Last week, we pointed you to Anthony Gary Lopedota's new blog. And we told you to add it to your reading list.
Well, if you haven't, you're falling behind. Way behind.
A link is right here. He's gotten eight posts up — that's more than we've done, although we did ratchet the postings back (a while back) because people we knew in LA said they couldn't keep up — since midweek. Still, impressive output.
Here is just a part of his answer about full vinyasa practice:
As far as the ashtanga yoga of KPJ, full vinyasa is traditional and all other forms of this practice are abbreviated. The longest living profession in the western world is orchestra leaders with their constant arm and shoulder movement. This is the most important part of vinyasa. When this movement of the arms is accompanied with deep consistent breathing the lymphatic system is supported to do the job of cleaning and removing toxins and debris from the body. This cleansing of the body is the most important part of health and longevity. Asana practice is mostly important to gain health and longevity which will help with spiritual development. It is difficult to focus on the latter limbs of Raja Yoga if one is sick and uncomfortable. It also, not always but often, takes time to awaken, so more time will give us a better chance at the part of the evolutionary process that takes place while in this body, on this earth.
Full vinyasa is not always the best method depending on the person's state of health and depending on how fast they breathe and move.
Go to the link to find out who he thinks are the strongest examples of Ashtanga practice.
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Last night I listened to Marc Maron's podcast interview with Donald Glover. The two spent over an hour discussing a range of things — Glover's three years as a writer on 30 Rock, his standup career, getting cast on Community, his whole Childish Gambino thing — and though it was interesting and enjoyable I kind of came away hating myself for not being near as talented and accomplished as Donald Glover is.
With that said, there were a few laugh out loud moments in the podcast, but none more LOL-y than when Glover was discussing the sexual confusion he experienced in his early teen years, specifically how many people assumed he was gay because he was into the arts.
"There was a point where I thought I was gay. Only because people kept saying I was. Like, I always, I always liked girls…Oh man I jerked off so much to, what was it, 'White Palace,' that movie with Susan Sarandon, like, ah man that was like, my thing. And Toni Braxton videos…I'd still do Susan Sarandon. She's so gorgeous."
After this somewhat unorthodox revelation (seriously, she's not unattractive but who faps to Susan Sarandon?!) Maron then reminded Glover that Sarandon is recently divorced from Tim Robbins: "I think you might have a shot…reach out." Frankly, I would kind of love to see a Glover/Sarandon coupling. Make it happen, Internet!
And I suppose this explains the following tweet from a few weeks ago…
Meanwhile, who hasn't jerked off to a Toni Braxton video before?
(Ed. Note: If anyone affiliated from the Marc Maron WTF happens to read this, it would be a big help to people like me if you offered transcripts of your shows online. The interviews are often interesting and filled with great quotes but transcribing sh*t is the worst. It's just a massive time suck and I can honestly say I'd write about the show more often if at least a partial transcript was made available to me. Seriously, hire an intern to do it and then blast out emails to bloggers with highlights from each show — it'd go a long way in spreading the word about the podcast. You can thank me later.)


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Home > HISTORY > CONSTRUCTING > Vol. 15 (2014) > Iss. 1
Constructing the Past
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The Politics of Opposition: China's Moderates at the Political Consultative Conference of 1946
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When analyzed in the context of the first Political Consultative Conference (PCC), a series of multiparty negotiations held in January of 1946, the theory of third party incompetence begins to break down. A more in-depth analysis of the Chinese third force reveals that their liberal philosophies were backed up with practical plans, and primary source documents from the PCC reveal that Chinese liberals in fact possessed a detailed and comprehensive strategy for China's future.
Recommended Citation
Winter, Ryan M.
"The Politics of Opposition: China's Moderates at the Political Consultative Conference of 1946,"
Constructing the Past: Vol. 15
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Available at: https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/constructing/vol15/iss1/12


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text: Share ICBE brings together researchers who are using quantitative approaches to advance the understanding and application of molecular biology. These scientists, engineers, and professionals are contributing to the development of analytical, molecular, high-throughput, and therapeutic strategies that are directly relevant to public health and energy related issues. The conference will stimulate efforts to integrate these approaches across the scales of biological complexity in a single-track Gordon-style conference format. See Preliminary Technical Program Here Chairs: Pete Tessier, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Katy Kao, Texas A&M University Keynote Speakers: Sangeeta N. Bhatia, MIT Angela Belcher, MIT Dennis Burton, The Scripps Research Institute Bernhard Palsson, University of California, San Diego Invited Speakers: Ming Hammond, University of California, Berkeley Mikhail Shapiro, Caltech Scott Manalis, MIT Kris Prather, MIT Mattheos Koffas, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Sharon Gerecht, Johns Hopkins University Jennifer Maynard, University of Texas at Austin Timothy Lu, MIT Joel Collier, Duke University Fuzhong Zhang, Washington University Michelle O'Malley, University of California, Santa Barbara Carol Hall, North Carolina State University Douglas Fowler, University of Washington Brendan Harley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Adam Engler, University of California, San Diego Sessions and Session Chairs: Novel Synthetic Biology Tools and Applications Tae Seok Moon, Washington University Wenjun Zhang, University of California, Berkeley Metabolic Engineering for Fuels, Chemicals, and Pharmaceuticals Kevin Solomon, Purdue University Nanette Boyle, Colorado School of Mines Experimental and Computational Tools for Designing and Engineering Biomolecules and Biosystems Srivatsan Raman, University of Wisconsin-Madison Danielle Tullman-Ercek, Northwestern University Biomolecular Engineering Applications: Therapeutics, Diagnostics and Imaging Agents Sai Reddy, ETH Yvonne Chen, UCLA Cellular and Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials Samira Azarin, University of Minnesota Ethan Lippmann, Vanderbilt University Biophysical and Microscale Analyses of Molecular and Cellular Function Lydia Contreras, University of Texas, Austin Benjamin Hackel, University of Minnesota Biosensors, Bionanotechnology and Bioelectronics Pamela Peralta-Yahya, Georgia Tech Charles Schroeder, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Featured Speakers Angela Belcher Prof. Belcher attended the University of California – Santa Barbara for her undergraduate and graduate degrees. She obtained her B.S. in Creative Studies in 1991 and her PhD in Chemistry in 1997, unraveling the ways in which proteins can direct the material properties of minerals. Belcher joined the MIT faculty in 2001 as Professor in the Departments of Biological Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering. The Belcher lab seeks to understand and harness nature's own processes in order to design technologically important materials and devices for energy, the...Read more Sangeeta Bhatia Sangeeta Bhatia is a cancer researcher, MIT professor, and biotech entrepreneur who works to adapt technologies developed in the computer industry for medical innovation. Trained as both a physician and engineer at Harvard, MIT, and Brown University, Bhatia's laboratory leverages 'tiny technologies' of miniaturization to yield inventions with new applications in tissue regeneration, stem cell differentiation, medical diagnostics, predictive toxicology, and drug delivery. She and her trainees have launched more than 10 biotechnology companies to improve human health....Read more Dennis Burton Dennis Burton is the Chairman, and Professor in the Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA. He was recently awarded the James and Jessie Minor Chair in Immunology. He received his B.A. in Chemistry from Oxford University and his Ph.D from Lund University, Sweden in physical biochemistry. He is the Scientific Director of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) Neutralizing Antibody Consortium and Neutralizing Antibody Center, Director of The Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology and Immunogen...Read more Bernhard Palsson Bernhard Palsson is the Galletti Professor of Bioengineering, the Principal Investigator of the Systems Biology Research Group in the Department of Bioengineering, and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego. He is also the CEO of the Novo Nordisk Center for Biosustainability in Denmark, working in this capacity since 2011. His research includes the development of methods to analyze metabolic dynamics (flux-balance analysis, and modal analysis), and the formulation of complete models of selected cells (the red blood cell, E. coli, CHO cells, and several human pathogens).Read more


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Christopher L. DelGuercio is a Resident of upstate New York, where he enjoys spending time with his son, reading, attending film festivals, disc golfing, listening to music, and laughing with friends and family.
He is a graduate of The State University of New York at Oswego and current faculty member at The Downtown Writers Center of Syracuse as a fiction instructor.
Other publications include Blood, Blade & Thruster; Chaos Theory: Tales Askew; Fried Fiction;Parade of Phantoms; Quantum Muse; Space Westerns; Kaleidotrope; OG's Speculative Fiction; Forbidden Speculation; and Tabloid Purposes IV.
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Hands On with the Nikon D3S
I was invited to join Nikon to shoot with a production-model D3S at the Big Apple Circus, which opens to the public tomorrow evening. I've spent time with other professional Nikon SLR cameras over the years, including the D3 and every other Nikon D-SLR, and the D3S's interface felt incredibly familiar and just as intuitive as that of the D3.
This latest Nikon offers new marquee features, however, such as 720p HD video capture and an incredible top ISO setting of 102,400 (see sample image above, captured at ISO 102,400 with a 1/30-second exposure, including a 100-percent pixel view), which enables photographers to capture (somewhat) usable images in near-total darkness. More sample images are included in our post on Gearlog.


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Crystal structures of cyanide- and triiodide-bound forms of Arthromyces ramosus peroxidase at different pH values. Perturbations of active site residues and their implication in enzyme catalysis.Fukuyama, K., Kunishima, N., Amada, F., Kubota, T., Matsubara, H.
(1995) J.Biol.Chem. 270: 21884-21892
- PubMed: 7665612
- DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.37.21884
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:
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- Crystallization and Preliminary X-Ray Diffraction Studies of Peroxidase from a Fungus Arthromyces Ramosus
Kunishima, N.,Fukuyama, K.,Wakabayashi, S.,Sumida, M.,Takaya, M.,Shibano, Y.,Amachi, T.,Matsubara, H.
(1993) Proteins 15: 216
- Crystal Structure of the Fungal Peroxidase from Arthromyces Ramosus at 1.9 Angstroms Resolution: Structural Comparisons with the Lignin and Cytochrome C Peroxidases
Kunishima, N.,Fukuyama, K.,Matsubara, H.,Hatanaka, H.,Shibano, Y.,Amachi, T.
(1994) J.Mol.Biol. 235: 331
The structures of the cyanide and triiodide complexes of Arthromyces ramosus peroxidase (ARP) at different pH values were investigated by x-ray crystallography in order to examine the behavior of the invariant residues of arginine (Arg-52) and distal ...
The structures of the cyanide and triiodide complexes of Arthromyces ramosus peroxidase (ARP) at different pH values were investigated by x-ray crystallography in order to examine the behavior of the invariant residues of arginine (Arg-52) and distal histidine (His-56) during the enzyme reaction as well as to provide the structural basis of the active site of peroxidase. The models of the cyanide complexes at pH 7.5, 5.0, and 4.0, respectively, were refined to the R-factors of 17.8, 17.8, and 18.5% using 7.0-1.6-A resolution data, and those of the triiodide complexes at pH 6.5 and 5.0 refined to 16.9 and 16.8% using 7.0-1.9-A resolution data. The structures of the cyanide complexes at pH 7.5, 5.0, and 4.0 are identical within experimental error. Cyanide ion bound to the heme in the bent conformation rather than in the tilt conformation. Upon cyanide ion binding, the N epsilon atom of His-56 moved toward the ion by rotation of the imidazole ring around the C beta-C gamma bond, but there was little conformational change in the remaining residues. The distance between the N epsilon atom of His-56 and the nitrogen atom of the cyanide suggests the presence of a hydrogen bond between them in the pH range investigated. In the triiodide complexes, one of the two triiodides bound to ARP was located at the distal side of the heme. When triiodide bound to ARP, unlike the rearrangement of the distal arginine of cytochrome c peroxidase that occurs on formation of the fluoride complex or compound I, the side chain of Arg-52 moved little. The conformation of the side chain of His-56, however, changed markedly. Conformational flexibility of His-56 appears to be a requisite for proton translocation from one oxygen atom to the other of HOO- by acid-base catalysis to produce compound I. The iron atom in each cyanide complex (low-spin ferric) is located in the heme plane, whereas in each triiodide complex (high-spin ferric) the iron atom is displaced from the plane about 0.2 A toward the proximal side.
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Born: September 8, 1937 Died: May 26, 2014
GEORGE Devlin, who has died aged 76, was a Glasgow artist who earned an international reputation as a landscape and still life painter and also as a portrait painter, with his portraits of Sir Alexander Cairncross and Sir James Black being commissioned by Glasgow University and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
He was born in Springburn, Glasgow, the second youngest of four boys and two girls. His father became a committed Marxist after serving in Flanders during the First World War where he lost seven brothers and he did not take kindly to George's insistence, from his early teens, that he was going to Glasgow School of Art to train as a painter. Neither did his headmaster, who prevented him becoming Dux at Albert Senior Secondary as retaliation for losing his star Latin pupil to the art department.
At Glasgow School of Art, he found himself among many young people from similar working class backgrounds where "no idea was too bizarre and where having fun was not necessarily considered frivolous". He followed a traditional course as a painter, much inspired by David Donaldson, whose own background was not dissimilar to Mr Devlin's, and who passed on to him a lifelong passion for painting in oils.
In 1960, he left the School of Art with a Haldane Travelling Scholarship. His plan for his trip had to be approved by the director, Douglas Percy Bliss, who considered his project over-ambitious and listened to the proposals of travelling with a tent and rucksack, hitch-hiking across Europe, with mounting unease.
But he gave his approval and the young artist set off for France and Italy, the beginning of what he later called his bigamous love affair with the two countries. He worked his way across Europe, sleeping on buses, occasionally in a cave, but usually wild-camping in his tiny tent. Eventually he arrived in Greece where, after pitching his tent in a farmer's field, he was summoned to the farmhouse but instead of being evicted he was given a bed and board for some weeks.
He returned to Glasgow determined, like many of his generation, not to teach but to earn his living as a painter. It worked, somewhat precariously, for a while until in 1961 he won a Carnegie Travelling Scholarship at the Royal Scottish Academy.
With a group of Glasgow friends, with whom he had spent years walking and climbing in the highlands, he set off in a Bedford Dormobile for Nigeria, via the Sahara. After many adventures in the war zone that covered much of North Africa he arrived in Kano, Nigeria.
There he found a job as a commercial artist, producing lettering and posters, but after some months he was offered a post in the college at Zaria where he taught until he returned to Scotland on leave in the summer of 1962.
The prime reason for his return to Glasgow was to see his girlfriend Margaret Ogden, whom he married in 1964. But a chance meeting with Donaldson brought the offer of a job in the painting department at the Art School. Mr Devlin, only a few years older than his students, became a popular tutor, particularly for his arrangement of a summer school at Easdale.
Although his fellow tutors did not approve of this venture, he persisted and mounted a memorable exhibition of the student work produced that summer. Some years later he re-established his Easdale summer school as an independent project and in the 1990s relocated it to Vétheuil in France.
He was not happy with the politics at Glasgow School of Art and resigned in 1964, the year he was elected RSW and moved to Edinburgh where his wife was working. He described the next few years as his nomadic years taking odd jobs as a driver - lorries, buses and ambulances - barman or bouncer - the latter very shortlived.
Financial and marital pressures turned him to teaching and he embarked on a new career, eventually becoming head of art at Hermitage Academy in Helensburgh and then head of art in the Design Department of Glasgow College of Building and Printing, where he worked until 1990. He and Margaret eventually divorced in 1968.
During the 1970s his career blossomed with solo exhibitions in Edinburgh at the Scottish Gallery and with Ricky Demarco. Scottish Television commissioned a series on art and Scottish Ballet asked for costumes and sets for The Embers of Glencoe, produced by Peter Darrell with music by Thomas Wilson.
His major achievement of the 1970s and 80s, alongside a growing reputation as a painter exhibiting widely in Scotland and Europe, was his association with the Glasgow League of Artists. Despite its name, GLA was not just for Glasgow painters and included artists from around Scotland. In the days before WASPS and the appearance of several private galleries in the city, the GLA provided gallery and studio space and, as chairman from 1977-79, Mr Devlin organised exhibitions around Scotland and England and then in Ireland, France, Canada and Holland.
In 1990 he gave up his teaching post to concentrate full-time on his painting and it is from this date that his work developed into the mature style that brought him an international following. Freed from the time restraints of teaching he was able to spend weeks, and sometime months painting in France and Italy and, later, India.
His love of the outdoor life, and an ability to withstand the rigours of cold and wind, as well as sun and rain, meant that he always painted en plein air. Whether in his favourite Vétheuil on the Seine, in Venice, in Udaipur, or nearer home at Corrie, he became a fixture seated on his artists' donkey working on a full-size canvas. Periods as artists in residence in Dinan and Collioure were translated into colourful exhibitions back home in Scotland, London and also Capetown, Johannesburg, New York and Venice, Hong Kong and Tokyo and many others.
In recognition of his love for the Val d'Oise, the French Post Office commissioned five images for promotional use on the mail in the region and his biography, A Brush with Life, was written and published by Thierry Gardie of Vétheuil.
Mr Devlin's sensitive portraits are not so well known but they ranged from paintings of Marie, whom he married in 1979, and their daughter Nuala, to more elaborate and formal portraits. Among his public commissions were Archbishop Conti, Nobel prize-winner James Black, and Alexander Cairncross, economist and Chancellor of Glasgow University. More informal studies included good friends such as Joe and Annie Thomson and Jack McLean, a tireless supporter and publicist of Mr Devlin's work.
In 2002 he was diagnosed with colon cancer. Surgery and chemotherapy took its toll for a year, and again in 2004 with further treatment for lung cancer. In 2009 he described the following years as 'post cancer euphoria…and five years down the line that early joie de vivre has moved up a few notches'. He seemed to find new energy as a painter, his winning exhibitions being accompanied by professional recognition in Scotland and England. He also made passionate and regular appearances on the letter pages of The Herald.
Despite unease about his health, he completed one of his most popular and successful exhibitions for the Roger Billcliffe Gallery, which opened at the end of April. At the opening he seemed his usual irrepressible self but his illness was only too apparent. Last week he started chemotherapy for the return of his cancer but suffered a cardiac arrest and died a few days later at the Beatson.
He was devoted to his family and is survived by his wife Marie and daughter Nuala.


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As a small business owner, I see hundreds of emails, blog posts, and ads with the promise of helping me go from 1 to 1,000,000 followers or to $15K in revenue virtually overnight. If you're a small business owner on social media, you probably see them too.
It's so very tempting to click on those links because who doesn't want all the success that those claims promise? But, if it sounds too good to be true, it is. I hate seeing all that click-bait because it diminishes the work that real marketers do and it gives us a bad rap. Frankly, a real marketer would have more dignity than to market themselves that way.
So, to set the record straight, I wanted to share my 3 ingredients to running any successful marketing campaign and it has nothing to do with generating followers, getting clicks to convert, or increasing your page likes. In fact, it has very little to do with marketing and a lot more to do with good old-fashioned hard work.
Without further adieu, here's what really matters when it comes to your marketing.
When it comes to fast, good, and cheap, three's a crowd.
Are you familiar with this triangle? It often applies to project management but in all the years I've worked in marketing, I've never seen it more true in the marketing world whether you're a company just starting out or you're an established company.
Essentially, the idea is that you can accomplish two out of the three options, but never all three. For example:
- To produce something fast and cheap, you are going to have to give up on quality.
- To develop something fast and good, you are going to have to seek outside help and that's going to cost you.
- And, to create something cheap and good, it's going to take time.
It makes sense, doesn't it? But, why does it make sense when it comes to marketing? Because marketing involves A LOT of brainpower and creativity. The kind of brain power that requires you to sit in silence for a few hours and just think, or to go to a whiteboard and just scribble nonsense until it finally makes sense, or to talk out loud to yourself over and over again. It's the kind of brainpower that wipes you out so much that you can barely process the latest US magazine.
And, that's the biggest misconception about marketing. People think it's just about creating "stuff", but there's real strategy that's involved to create the "stuff" and make sure that it's going to meet objectives, drive action, and be on brand. If I had a penny for every time someone told me they just want "stuff," "more stuff," or "stuff out there," we all know that I'd be sipping pina coladas in Turks and Caicos instead of working a full time job and running Keyword Marketing. And, the tradeoff of just getting something to market without going through the thought process means that you're sacrificing not only quality, but results.
Slow and steady wins the race.
Ok, if you weren't familiar with the good, fast, easy triangle, I'm sure you're familiar with the tale of the tortoise and the hare. To recap, the moral of the story is that the tortoise wins the race against the hare because he did things slow and steady while the hare acted quickly and carelessly. And, when it comes to marketing, we've found that slow and steady is the key to success.
In our fast-paced world, being slow is often associated with negativity, but sometimes it's ok to be slow because it's worth taking the time out to try new things to see what is really going to resonate with your audience instead of just pushing a bunch of things out there that may or may not work. And, it's just as important, if not more, to take the time to do the analysis to understand what is working so you can spend your time doing more of that and less of the stuff that isn't working.
So slow is okay as long as you're steady. Whatever platform you choose, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, blogs, Instagram, it's so important to stick to it and be consistent about how often you're posting whether it's three social media posts a week or two blog posts a month. If you can't keep up with the goal that you set for yourself, then it's time to scale back. And, if you can't manage more than one social media platform consistently that's okay too. Just focus on building momentum with whichever one you decide is the priority.
Our slow and steady approach has paid off really well for one of our clients, Vitality Women's Physical Therapy and Wellness. Over the last several months, we have consistently posted at least four times per week on their Facebook page and we are starting to see our efforts pay off in terms of engagement and new customers.
But, our approach meant that we only focused on Facebook, tried many different types of social media posts to understand what was resonating most with their audience, replied to comments, participated in other Facebook groups, and committed to four posts a week. And, tracked results the entire time.
Now, not only do we have a better sense of what their audience wants to read about, but we're seeing a ton of engagement. For example:
- The average number of shares and post reactions has more than tripled
- Our average organic reach has gone from single to triple digits, and
- Page likes have almost doubled
Patience is a virtue.
Ok, when it comes to anything good in life, things take time and that's no different when it comes to seeing success from your marketing efforts. This is a tough one, because people want to see immediate results and expect something to happen after one blog post, a few social media posts, or one big ad - they don't want to take the time, energy, or resources to stick with it for the long run.
And, while social media is a great tool, it tends to convey this idea that you can achieve overnight success and hides all that energy and work that actually went into that success. The truth is that it takes just as long to grow an online business as it does a brick-and-mortar business.
And, this concept is even harder for all of us to grasp because we've gotten so used to immediate and instant gratification in all areas of our lives. I mean, I can't be the only one that blows a gasket when my internet connection is running a little slow, right?
You've got to believe me when I say, it's going to take some time to gain traction, build a following, and create awareness. It's going to take time for people to notice you and you have to get in front of them on a regular basis for them to even start recognizing you. In fact, the advertising world lives by the "rule of 7" in which someone needs to see an ad 7 times before it's effective. And, what does effective even mean in this case? It doesn't mean that they're going to run right out and buy what you're selling, but the mere idea that they might associate your brand with your product and your message.
As I mentioned above, we've starting to see a lot happen with Vitality's Facebook page, but that's after five months of working on it. And, I think that's pretty fast. I've worked with larger companies where it's taken years to start seeing results.
So, what does this all mean? In short, next time you're feeling frustrated that your marketing's not delivering, remember that it's going to take some thoughtfulness, consistency, and patience.
And, now for my shameless plug . . .if these ideas resonate with you, but you aren't sure what to do next or where to go with your marketing, we've got a great little workshop called, "Let's Get Down to Business" where we'll help you brainstorm solutions to your biggest business challenges.
Check it out if you're ready to stop spinning your wheels and say goodbye to your so-so marketing efforts.
Keyword Marketing inspires creators, builders, and self-starters to bring their company to life. We help businesses develop their identity, share their personality with the world, and connect with their customers through education, coaching and workshops, and personalized consulting.
This article was originally posted on The Huffington Post.


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MSPs are divided on the subject of alcohol pricing and have asked the Scottish government for further detail on the minimum price they would set.
The health committee agreed that urgent action is needed to address Scotland's alcohol problem, but failed to reach a consensus on the proposed policy of a minimum price per unit of alcohol.
In its latest report, the committee said that it 'understands the Scottish government's public health purpose in proposing this legislation'.
However, it reported that there was a 'division of opinion' among committee members, with some not convinced by the policy's effectiveness and others concerned that drinkers in higher income brackets would not be deterred.
'Some members do believe that it would be effective in bringing about a significant change in the population's drinking habits, subject to knowing what the minimum price would be,' the report revealed.
'The committee recommends that the Scottish government seek to amend the bill ... to specify the minimum price per unit.'
Committee convener Christine Grahame revealed that, while MSPs were unable to reach a consensus on the proposal for minimum unit pricing, 'all members agreed that the scale of the alcohol problem in Scotland is such that it must be addressed'.


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is a serious problem for our feline friends. Many serious health
problems can result from obesity, such as arthritis, liver disease,
heart failure, and renal disease.
Prevention is key here: don't allow your cat to become overweight in
the first place. Pay attention to your kitten's growth to make sure he
does not fill out "too much." The average weight gain for a kitten is
approximately one pound per month up to 8-10 pounds.
How can you tell if your cat's too fat? You should be able to feel the
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between the hind legs, but this should not be excessive. From above,
there should be a bit of a waist, rather than a bulge, between ribs and
While nutritionists simplify
obesity as a matter of "too many calories in and too few calories
expended," it is obviously not that simple. Obesity is a symptom of a
systemic imbalance, basically a disease state. Dieting (starving) a cat
down to his "ideal" weight does not address the cause of the problem.
Common contributors to obesity include:
1. In
a multi-cat household, when one cat goes to the food bowl, curiosity or
the competitive instinct may cause another cat to investigate and,
while she's there, take a few nibbles. Enough nibbles over time can
create a big problem!
2. Boredom also plays a
role. Cats who are home alone all day may eat just for something
pleasurable to do. Spending quality time with your cat, particularly
using play therapy sessions, will be a crucial part of a weight loss
3. Former stray cats who have had to
struggle to survive on the streets may have significant "food issues,"
and will often become overweight if food is constantly available.
I don't like to put cats on a "diet". Diets must often be severe in
order to comply with current calorie theories, and this may cause even
worse problems, such as life-threatening liver disease. Skipping a
single meal can throw a sensitive cat into a serious problem.
Free-choice feeding diet foods usually results in weight gain rather
than loss.
Animals may consume excessive
amounts of a food because they can't digest it properly, there aren't
enough of certain nutrients, or some nutrients are not in a
"bioavailable" form--that is, they can't be assimilated properly. This
is a concern with some of the most inexpensive and generic foods, as
well as with some "diet" foods that contain excessive levels of fiber.
Dry food is actually where the most dangerous calories are. The feline
is uniquely adapted to get energy from protein and fat; the cat's
natural prey contains very little carbohydrate. For most cats,
carbohydrates are converted to fat, rather than be burned for energy.
Clearly, this is the opposite of where we want to go!
There are two major strategies for helping a fat cat lose weight.
Feed in timed meals.
For most cats, it's best to feed them on a timed-meal schedule. That
is, don't leave the food out all the time, but rather put the food out
for 30-45 minutes, two or three times a day. Cats figure out this
schedule quickly. Not all cats will lose weight with this change alone,
but usually you can keep them from continuing to gain. (Caution: some
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veterinarian before making any changes.)
Feed wet food. In general, cats
should receive at least 50 percent of their diet as wet food, either
good-quality canned foods or homemade diets. For significant, healthy
weight loss (and many other health benefits), feed 100% canned food and
get rid of the dry altogether.
Always make sure kitty is eating;
some cats are so addicted to their dry food that they will go on a
hunger strike without it. This can lead to serious health
complications. Be sure you work closely with your veterinarian when
changing diets to minimize the risk to your cat.
high-protein, high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet (think "Atkins") is truly
ideal for the cat. Most canned cat and kitten foods meet these
standards, but try to choose those with the least carbohydrate. You can
get a fair idea of carbohydrate content by simply subtracting all the
listed percentages on the label from 100%. About 8% carbohydrate (or
less) is best.
To minimize the stress associated with the new schedule and new food (cats hate change!), flower essences such as Stress Stopper can be very helpful. It is important that these changes be made as
stress-free as possible to prevent other health problems from occurring.
Throughout the weight management process, whatever
the results, give your cat plenty of love and attention. Play therapy
is good exercise, builds her confidence, and strengthens the bond
between the two of you. Lots of affection will help her equate love and
comfort with you--and not her food bowl.


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baby aubergines
there are some things which i buy purely on the basis of how they look, these baby aubergines (or egg plant, or brinjal, if you prefer) being a case in point. thankfully though, the baby version is just as delicious as the full size one and my visual choice wasn't a duff one. unlike many bottles of wine which, despite a pretty label, were not so pretty on the taste buds!
having said all that, the nigel slater spiced aubergine stew which they ended up in was cooked so long and slow that they did lose their shape and no-one knew just how pretty they were to begin with. apart from me of course which is what really matters!
as with many spicy dishes, this stew is all the better for a day in the fridge, during which time the flavours seem to mellow.
nigel slater's spiced aubergine (serves 6)
1kg aubergines
2 tablespoons coriander seed
8 green cardamom pods
2 level teaspoons black peppercorns
3 medium onions
2 tablespoons groundnut oil
6 cloves of garlic
a thumb sized piece of fresh ginger
10 medium sized tomatoes
500ml vegetable stock
2 rounded teaspoons ground turmeric
4 small, hot red chillies
800ml coconut milk
2 small bunches of fresh coriander
1 small bunch mint
wipe the aubergines, cut the stalks from them and cut them into fat chunks. the dish is more interesting to eat if you don't cut them too small. tip them into a colander, put them in the sink and sprinkle salt over them. leave them for a good half hour, longer if you can. peel and roughly chop the onions, then cook them with the oil in a large, heavy-based pan over a moderate heat until they are soft, translucent and sweet.
while the onions are cooking, crush the cardamom pods with the flat blade of a knife or a rolling pin and shake out the little black seeds into a mortar or spice grinder (or clean coffee grinder). add the coriander seed and the peppercorns and grind them to a coarse powder. the smell as you grind will convince you that there is much to be missed in buying ready ground spices. peel the ginger and cut it into thin, matchstick-like shards. stir it into the onion along with the sliced garlic, turmeric and spices. peel and seed the tomatoes and add them to the pan. rinse the aubergines of their salt and pat dry. without oiling them, grill them on a ridged cast-iron grill pan till they are starting to soften and have dark grill lines across them. turn them as you go, so that they are cooked on both sides, removing them as they are ready and replacing them with another batch. add them to the onions, then pour in the stock, bring it to boil, then add the coconut milk, chilli, a little salt and continue cooking for about 45 minutes at a simmer. the aubergines should be very soft and silky but not actually falling apart.
lift out the aubergine, tomato and some of the onion with a draining spoon. reduce rest of the sauce by boiling hard for 5 minutes or so. now ladle most, but not all of the sauce into a blender and blitz till smooth and thick. (take care to cover the top with a cloth before you turn it on, the sauce is very hot.) return the aubergines and the sauce to the pot then chop the mint and coriander leaves and stir them in together with a final seasoning of salt and black pepper. serve with rice.


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{week 17} This week has been so great! Finally the second trimester! I mean, I know I was already in the second trimester, but it certainly didn't feel like it.
I no longer have to power nap in the afternoon to make it thru the day which is glorious because it means I can actually get things done during Eloise's naptime. This isn't to say I have bounds of energy, but I am feeling pretty good.
Also, my headaches have been less severe after two acupuncture appointments. It wasn't looking good since Eloise brought home a cold last week, but I powered thru it much more quickly than I expected. Though I know it won't be the last cold she brings home…
Clothes, okay pants, are getting trickier these days, but I can still make a few pairs (four) work. As you can see from the picture above, my jeans stretch out in the knees so ideally I should dry them between wearings, but they are stretchy enough that I can wear them almost all day without being too uncomfortable. In my non-stretchy jeans (think of them like girlfriend jeans, a slim-cut but not super skinny) I am better off with a rubber band around the button. I pulled out an old pair of maternity leggings to try on & I am not even close to fitting into them yet, so here's to hoping for a belly soon!
I have been feeling Baby Foot move around quite a bit which is pretty amazing. I didn't feel Eloise move until my nineteenth week, so it's been fun to feel this baby a few weeks earlier. It makes me want to get thru the next two-&-a-half weeks quickly so we can see Baby Foot at our 20 week ultrasound!
And lastly, all of the initial bloodwork that we had done for early neural tube defect & down syndrome screening came back negative so we are feeling really happy about that.
Happy 17 weeks!


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Any questions about the legality of the City of Jackson about $9 million to a developer of a downtown Westin Hotel won't be answered anytime soon, if ever. Hinds Senior Circuit Judge Tomie Green late Tuesday dismissed Jackson lawyer Herb Irvin's request for a declaratory judgment on whether Jackson would violate the Mississippi Constitution by putting up general fund money ...Read More »
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Weill joins MVT
Terry P. Weill has joined Mississippi Valley Title as vice president, state manager-Mississippi and associate title council. Weill is licensed to practice law in Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas and has over 19 years of legal experience. Of these 19 years, Weill served for 10 years as in-house counsel for two large corporations, including as a vice president, general counsel for ...Read More »
Evans Trial: Clear & convincing evidence of fraud?
By Amy McCullough MVT attorney Bill Brabec made an unspecified motion on which Judge Olack declined to render judgment until the end of the trial. Brabec said the Bank of Forest had failed to present clear and convincing evidence regarding the claims of fraud and negligent misrepresentation. Evidence shows that "the title companies, when they issued a commitment, did not ...Read More »
Evans trial: He worked for us, but he didn't really
By Amy McCullough Attorneys for Mississippi Valley Title, the Bank of Forest and Heritage Bank gave opening statements yesterday for the long-awaited Evans trial in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. Judge Neil Olack will rule on the case. There is no jury, and proceedings will continue through Friday (March 4). The $40 million commercial rest estate ...Read More »
Charles Evans Jr. to Remain in Jail
JACKSON–A federal district court judge ruled Tuesday (June 1) that Charles Evans Jr. would stay in jail until his next hearing on felony charges. Evans has been accused of resisting arrest by U.S. Marshals when he was taken in to custody last Wednesday. He was also in possession of a firearm. Evans, along with his brother Chris Evans were sued ...Read More »
Judge: Land will be sold despite objections
Trial is set for Oct. 25 At a bankruptcy hearing Feb. 19 in Jackson regarding the Evans commercial real estate fraud case, Judge Neil Olack ruled that land would be sold to generate money and federal proceedings would continue despite Mississippi Valley Title's request to hold off until its chancery court suit could be transferred to Olack's court. Olack also ...Read More »
Banks fight for title company inside info
Institutions entitled to 'historical relationship' between Charles Evans Jr. and MVT In federal bankruptcy court in Jackson Dec. 30, state banks fought with Mississippi Valley Title Insurance Company (MVT) for the release of the title company's internal audit procedures. Banks want the knowledge of how and when MVT discovered that one of its approved attorneys, Jackson area resident Charles Evans ...Read More »


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And now, I see that Ernest is hardly alone in that assessment.
Today, attorney J. D. Obenberger, who specializes in defending adult businesses and adult content and who operates an excellent legal blog (XXXLaw.com) on adult entertainment issues, posted an article over at XBiz.com providing his own assessment on Baylson's ruling last week. It's detailed and a long read, but it cuts to the heart of the major issues involved in the 2257 case.
Obenberger's main thesis parallels Ernest's comment in that he is respectfully critical of the approach of the lawyers representing the Free Speech Coalition, who was the main plantiffs in the legal action. Their main impetus was to attack the 2257/2257A regulations as an excessive burden for adult commerce due to the paperwork and legal hoops of obtaining the required records, and to emphasize the burden of having legal performers over the age of 18 being required to maintain for open access to legal authorities detailed and intimate information that could be used against them.
Obenberger sees this approach as counterproductive, because it allowed Judge Baylson to defend the regs using the time honored "Those damn pornographers just don't want to work hard enough to protect children from kiddie porn!!!" card.
I don't think that's an honest appraisal of what happened – and if the real issues were really set out, Americans would be outraged. None of the huffing and puffing of the commercial producers of porn about how much time and money Section 2257 compliance costs them – or its comparison with the amount of child pornography that exists – will ever carry the day in any courtroom to invalidate Section 2257, because to the courts of law (and in the values of the American people) the burdens imposed on commercial pornographers, even enormous burdens, are appropriate and constitutionally permissible if they will deter or prevent even a few children from performing in sexually explicit works.In other words, having your personal, private sex business exposed to trolls and stalkers is the worthy price of "protecting" even one underage child from getting caught up in porn. Even if child porn is already illegal. Even if it's the underaged preadult who initiates the act against the will of the industry (see Traci Lords). The only reason, this logic goes, that the "pornographers" even complain is because they are simply lazy greedheads at best....and active sex-trafficking pedophiles at worse. They should be lucky to even be allowed to even exist, since at least 2257 gives them that right...we could just banish them outright. Think of the children, damn it!!
Where this goes off the rails, Obenberger says, is that there is an alternate approach that could have been taken by attorneys opposed to the regs, which could be far more effective in winning over both the legal and moral high ground. And, it might even have the support of the very appelate court that kicked the regs back to Baylson to begin with. (Italicized emphasis in original quote; bolded emphasis added by moi)
In Philadelphia, in the cradle of our constitutional liberty, three judges of the Third Circuit laid out a path for the total demolition of Section 2257 on another ground, far more important to Americans, when they reversed Judge Balyson and remanded the case to him on April 16, 2012. They telegraphed a message that a statute that invaded the important privacy rights of ordinary Americans in their own homes went far too far and could not stand.Now, you would think that 2257/2257A only dealt with age verification, and that only records showing proof of legal age and identity were required for adequate approval. However, even exposing the real identities and locations/addresses of performers, directors, and producers of sexual content can carry a real risk of inadvertent exposure of personal, private information that could be used in an inappropriate, or even physically damaging, fashion. What is to say that it wasn't 2257 documents that allowed for the original Porn Wikileaks (before it was transformed by Sean Tompkins into the safer and "kinder" adult portal as we know it today) to gay bait and smear performers?
Section 2257 is important to ordinary Americans because it assaults the most private intimacies of human beings and the records of those intimacies in the most protected of places, inside shoeboxes and on cameras in closets of American bedrooms throughout the country. It forces Americans to show recordings of those intimate moments to men with badges, on demand, under penalty of five years imprisonment, as if the Bill of Rights did not exist. In the era of Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning and Julian Assange, and after disclosures about the regularity with which our license plates are tracked wherever we drive and about the interception and retention of our email and phone calls by the NSA and CIA and agencies we've never heard about, the intrusion authorized to the government under Section 2257 just might be the kind of straw that breaks the camel's back to precipitate a broad rethinking of the government's wholesale invasion of the most personal privacies, just as Watergate and the burglary of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office was in the early 1970s. The government's claim of right to view the private sex videos of ordinary Americans is the personal and emotional kind of issue that can jump-start participatory democracy and spark strong and effective popular demands for broad social change.
Obenberger also goes deep into Judge Baylson's decision, pointing out how he attempts to parse the original Third Appellate Court decision in such a way to defend the regulations, in spite of the directions given him by the higher court. Essentially, Baylson takes all of the Department of Justice's arguments to his heart, and simply dismisses out of sight and out of mind the objections and concerns of the defendants...mostly by downplaying the potential impact of the regulations on non-commercial sexual speech.
To this end, Obenberger offers a detailed, five-part breakdown of Baylson's ruling, and then thusly summarizes:
This five-level attack is engineered to evade and escape the conclusion of his reviewing court that finds this statute to apply to private, noncommercial persons, leaving open only the question of whether its application is "substantial," that is numerically frequent enough in comparison with legitimate applications of the statute. Judge Baylson [first] tells the Third Circuit that they are wrong on the law, and then articulating that he is following their determination of law, he applies an unusually high barrier of proof in consideration of the issue at hand - he finds an inadequacy of proof, and he then asserts three further lines of defense that appear to this observer to be variously disconnected from the actual issues at bar, a misstatement of constitutional law, and a repackaging of the Government's argument that because it does not intend to apply the law, its constitutionality cannot be reviewed by a court.If the line of argument by Baylson sounds familiar to BPPA readers, it's because it sounds like the exact same arguments put forth by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation in regards to the condom mandate for porn performers as opposed to mandating condoms for the general population. Maybe the industry should be lucky Baylson presides in Philadelphia and not Los Angeles or San Francisco.
By these means, he assassinates the most vital danger to Section 2257, as I see it, its effect on ordinary Americans. With their constitutional corpses disposed of as unimportant matters in the determination of this cause, he then treats the statute as though it were largely just any other scheme of regulation for an industry traditionally subject to close regulation. The absurdity of that proposition is beyond the scope of this article. In the end, he dismisses almost every argument that the industry could make for itself - and hoisting a flag up the pole that in this kind of case, dealing with real people and the protection of real children, the court will take off its glasses and not look very closely at how many constitutional protections are grievously offended. After all, it's just pornographers that he's dealing with now, after the deft application of his scalpel, and their rights appear minimal to him.
But, to say that these regs don't have the possibility of a huge impact on non-commercial sexual speech is a major reach...and the recent controversies over social media throttling of adult sexual speech and commerce over the Internet should cast a real light over the potential firestorms that could develop. Baylson may have the liberty or the naivete to say that since the government hasn't applied 2257 in 5 years, people have nothing to worry about it being revived tomorrow...but that doesn't mean that there aren't active antiporn agents out there just waiting for the government to fire that weapon in the future.
The most hilarious and head-shaking irony of Baylson's "limited" ruling is that none other than Gail Dines was one of the principal witnesses for the defense of 2257....although even that didn't stop her and her antiporn associates from numerous violations of that reg in the production of their epic documentary The Price of Pleasure. (Though, I'm guessing that Dines would simply cite "Fair Use" and the notion that her theft of porn content for the purpose of condemning its producers and user iwas justified under "educating the masses" about the alleged "harms" of porn and BDSM. Riiiiiight.) The point is, though, Dines would probably have no problem with the government reviving 2257 as a joint effort to not only bust the primary producers of commercial porn, but also the "secondary producers" who repost their content on their own private blogs or websites.
And that's where the virtual F5 tornado hits the pig farm... because if you think that the recent actions of Yahoo!/tumblr, Blogger, and WordPress cracking down on adult blogs for their affiliate linkage and explicit pics is intrusive and invasive enough, then what would you say about Yahoo! and Google reacting to getting bombed by government agencies propelled by antiporn/anti-"sex trafficking"/child protection groups calling for more direct censorship of sexual content on the Internet? Imagine the firestorm that would ensue if, say, Tumblr was to announce that they would be requiring all their adult blogs to provide official 2257 information for all the naughty stolen....errrrrrr, shared pics deposited there? Or, if tube site uploaders were required to have 2257 info at the ready before they uploaded their vids to xHamster or Xvideos or Pornhub or whatever tube site service they used? Get the picture??
Since "opt-in" type ISP censorship like what's being proposed in Great Britain probably isn't going to fly too well here, and more direct "obscenity" prosecution (save for any jurisdiction within Polk County, Florida) is probably not going to happen for at least the next 2, if not 10 years, it may be that drowning adult content providers to death via excessive paperwork and verification would be the default means for the censors to meet their goals here in the US. All it would take is one state Attorney General to do what they successfully did against Backpage and Craigslist ads by shaking down Internet providers like Yahoo! and Google to impose the same 2257 verification requirements on all bloggers/website owners who produce or share sexually explicit content, under threat of prosecution under "child porn" or even "child exploitation" laws. Between that and Apple's exploitation of its monopoly status in mobile apps to freeze out adult sexual content, you can literally wipe out sexual content overnight.
This is why Obenberger's article is more than worth the time to read...and to react.


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Nina always does stellar work. I never can choose my favorites among the photos she takes of me, they are all so great!Meri
I had such an amazing experience doing a photo shoot with Nina Reed! She made me feel very comfortable, was a pleasure to work with, and produced beautiful photos!!Wren
I recently had a photo shoot with Nina at her Boulder studio while I was visiting the area. She is kind, encouraging, and has a great eye for capturing poses at the right moment! Since she is experienced with pole and aerial, she is very helpful when it comes to making pretty shapes, adjusting where necessary, and assisting any way she can (including but not limited to having a variety of grip aids if you're like me and didn't have the right kind!). I am so happy with all my finished photos and she was a pleasure to work with! Can't wait to go back the next time I'm in CO!
Oh. My. God. Nina Reed has outdone herself. Just received my photos from Pole Theatre USA, and I seriously cannot stop smiling – these make me SO HAPPY. My performance may have been far from perfect, but these photos are absolute perfection.Liz
Had a wonderful experience with Nina! She made me feel very comfortable and easy when taking my photos. The edits came out wonderful and in great time. Will be booking again!Knockerly
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I had the best time with Nina. A friend and I shared a shoot (both of our first ever), and Nina was super easy to work with. Being as experienced as she is with pole, she understood what we meant when we described the shots we hoped to get, and helped us with figuring out exactly how to achieve them. She was also extremely accommodating with regards to scheduling. The whole process was simply a ton of fun. I just got my edited photos back and I am absolutely in love with the magic she created. If I get the chance to do this again, I definitely will!Renee
Nina has been wonderful to work with, both for event photography and personal shoots. As a performer, I have come to trust her to capture me in my element, despite how quickly I know I flow from move to move. For pole and yoga photoshoots, Nina was consistently an excellent source of information – with her own dance experience, her perspective on how moves and holds could be tweaked to look even better was super helpful. The lighting in her new studio is beautiful, and Nina worked to make sure I was comfortable doing what I wanted to do. Thanks, Nina! I have loved all the photos I've received from you over the past year or so, and I look forward to working with you more.
Never have I been so at ease on a photoshoot. Nina really does amaaazing things with all things aerial art, boudoir, and does GORGEOUS natural light portraits!Ranee
I did an outdoor pole photoshoot with Nina and it was a blast! She worked fantastically with less-than-ideal lighting (random stormy afternoon in Colorado–though you can't tell by her pictures!) to produce beautiful pictures! She made me feel very comfortable and was a lot of fun to work with! She does great work in many different styles of photoshoots I can't wait for my next shoot with her!Alaina
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I can't say enough good things about Nina. I was afraid I wasn't going to get pictures I loved, but she caught so many beautiful poses. This was my first photoshoot and I definitely went in nervous but Nina calmed my nerves quickly and we were chatting away in no time. I love this as a way to document my aerial journey and I will definitely be coming back for more sessions!Alyx
You are an amazing photographer, Nina! I'm very pleased with my photos from Pole Theatre Scandinavia and from the photoshoot I had the day before, extremely professional work. Really hope I get the opportunity to shoot with you again soon.Angelica


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Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui: Reves de Babel (Dreams of Babel)
Kent, Don - Television Director
Narrator: Cherkaoui, Sidi Larbi
Playing Time: 00:59:07
Catalogue Number: BAC064
World-famous choreographer and dancer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui uses the body - movement - as the principal vehicle for is ideas. The result is there in performances, intimist or otherwise, in which the body is displayed to an audience. Here, in four different settings - Belgium, China, Corsica, India - we make the acquaintance of one of the most prolific and likeable figures on today's dance scene. In the course of interviews and excerpts from his performances Cherkaoui reveals his passion for the dance, spirituality, his childhood and his family
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Genesis 12 Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC)
12 Now [in Haran] the Lord said to Abram, Go for yourself [for your own advantage] away from your country, from your relatives and your father's house, to the land that I will show you.
2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you [with abundant increase of favors] and make your name famous and distinguished, and you will be a blessing [dispensing good to others].
3 And I will bless those who bless you [who confer prosperity or happiness upon you] and [a]curse him who curses or uses insolent language toward you; in you will all the families and kindred of the earth be blessed [and by you they will bless themselves].
4 So Abram departed, as the Lord had directed him; and Lot [his nephew] went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
5 Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the persons [servants] that they had acquired in Haran, and they went forth to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,
6 Abram passed through the land to the locality of Shechem, to the oak or terebinth tree of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.
7 Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, I will give this land to your posterity. So Abram built an altar there to the Lord, Who had appeared to him.
8 From there he pulled up [his tent pegs] and departed to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord.
9 Abram journeyed on, still going toward the South (the Negeb).
10 Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram [b]went down into Egypt to live temporarily, for the famine in the land was oppressive (intense and grievous).
11 And when he was about to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, I know that you are beautiful to behold.
12 So when the Egyptians see you, they will say, This is his wife; and they will kill me, but they will let you live.
13 Say, I beg of you, that you are [c]my sister, so that it may go well with me for your sake and my life will be spared because of you.
14 And when Abram came into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
15 The princes of Pharaoh also saw her and commended her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into Pharaoh's house [harem].
16 And he treated Abram well for her sake; he acquired sheep, oxen, he-donkeys, menservants, maidservants, she-donkeys, and [d]camels.
17 But the Lord scourged Pharaoh and his household with serious plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.
18 And Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?
19 Why did you say, She is my sister, so that I took her to be my wife? Now then, here is your wife; take her and get away [from here]!
20 And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him, and they brought him on his way with his wife and all that he had.
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Rheumatiod Arthritis. Hashimoto Thyroiditis. Temporomandibular Joint Dysorder
Nightstand Contents
1. Nightstand- I should start with the nightstand itself, rescued from a garage sale. And I suppose this is how I have gotten through chronic illness, with my garage-sale skill of making do and making things stretch, with the lucky accident.
2. Soapdish- Another fancy Restoration Hardware garage sale win
3. Handful of earplugs- Rated to block noise up to 35 decibels. The earplugs first arrived in my life to mark the pursuit of sleep after I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and Hashimoto's thyroiditis. I was always such a good sleeper, pulled down into blissful forgetfulness when I was young and not feeling well. But this pain wrecked my sleep, thinned sleep out into a thin page often shattered. Earplug help, and then I discovered that the help during the day too. My entire body and nervous system has changed with pain. My huge reserves of concentration have ebbed; earplugs during the day and in the evenings at home protect me from a world that seems grating and sharp. Pain has overrevved my nervous system somehow; sounds irritate me to a degree I never thought possible before. My hearing has also been altered; my first skeletal problem was TMJ, the clenching in my jaw, and when that gets bad, it often impacts hearing, which started happening to me over a decade ago. Anyway—I love earplugs.
4. 1 container of Cool Rub- Usually next to the soap dish is a container of Cool Rub, a concoction of camphor and eucalyptus and other botanicals. I put this on my neck at night before I go to bed, after lying on a contraption to unkink the muscles in my neck. My poor neck: arthritic, and no matter how often I get it adjusted by my kind chiropractor, it always returns to out-of-whack. It's pulled out of alignment by a string of car accidents, by scar tissue from a long-ago surgery on my shoulder… the tension of my entire body goes into my neck, including the tension of being in pain. If I don't watch how my neck is doing, it flares up and ignites the wick of a nerve that runs up to the top of my skull, creating occipital neuralgia that results in numb patches on my face and a shooting pain in my head.
5. 1 Pen
6. 5 Books- Two small books at the top of the stack are daily readers from a 12-step group I've been in for 20 years, for families and friends of addicts and alcoholics. My rheumatoid disease exploded in my body in the year after I got a divorce from a man who struggled with addiction, and I've often wondered whether the stress of leaving was what allowed the disease to become activated. Or maybe it was the stress and tension over the last 20 years and more. Next to that, a pocket Spanish-English Dictionary, for reasons I don't really understand. I don't speak Spanish. Why is this here? More to the point—why haven't I put it away? Chalk it up to the inertia of autoimmune disease, a marker of all the tasks undone.
Below that, thicker books on Buddhism; the Tibetan book of the living and the dead. I've been a practicing Buddhist for 14 years, and meditation does something helpful. It doesn't make the pain go away; it's not an eraser. It makes me less afraid of the body I'm in and more willing to look without judgment at the sensory experiences that often overwhelm me. The book about death in particular has honestly been a comfort at times when pain seems to tell me that at least death will be a relief. As a Buddhist I am supposed to get comfortable with the idea of death, and I think that being in daily pain provides an impetus for understanding the downsides to this physical existence.
7. 1 Lamp
8. 1 Chapstick


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Lettuce is a New York-based funk band whose members have become individually successful as well. The collective's driving, goodtime party music and magnetic live performances have been witnessed on recordings and radio programs, in clubs and concert halls, and on festival stages all over the globe. Its founding members include guitarists Eric Krasno and Adam "Shmeeans" Smirnof, keyboardist Neal Evans, drummer Adam Deitch, saxophonists Ryan Zoidis and Sam Kininger, and bassist Erick "E.D." Coomes.
Lettuce got together in 1992 while still in their teens. They were attending a summer program at Boston's Berklee College of Music and were drawn together by a mutual love of Earth Wind & Fire,Tower of Power, and jazz funk acts like Headhunters. Staying in touch and informally jamming together over the next year, they reassembled formally in 1994 upon returning to Berklee as undergrads. A live set was put together and members went door to door at jazz clubs asking owners to "let us play." Their name derives from those origins.
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Minecraft passerar 100 miljoner sålda licenser
We'd like to offer our heartfelt thanks to every one of you who's bought Minecraft over the past few years, no matter which platform you play on. We're constantly in awe of our community and the amazing things you achieve together. You really are the best.
Mojang, och numera deras ägare Microsoft, säljer i genomsnitt 53000 licenser av Minecraft varje dag.


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Arizona Cancer Center researchers now can answer one important question for millions of men in America who have been taking or thinking of taking the mineral Selenium and Vitamin E supplements to try to prevent prostate cancer.
As a result of the largest-ever trial on prostate cancer prevention, researchers have found that Selenium and Vitamin E do not aid in preventing prostate cancer. The Arizona Cancer Center was part of a network of research sites that collectively recruited men to take part in the SELECT (the Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial) study sponsored by the National Cancer Institute.
Millions of Americans use dietary supplements, vitamins and minerals to try to protect their health and prevent disease without concrete scientific evidence of the benefits or dangers of doing so.
"A large trial like SELECT is the only way to determine for certain the real value of supplements," said Fredrick Ahmann, MD, professor of medicine and director of the Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Program at the Arizona Cancer Center. "Using science to study and determine whether there is value to taking a specific substance for health or disease prevention is vital, telling us what is helpful, what is harmful and what is not useful to take."
The genesis for SELECT was based in previous research studies of Selenium and Vitamin E for other cancers. These studies suggested that the nutrients might reduce the risk of developing prostate cancer. Healthy men 55 or older (50 or older for African Americans) were recruited to participate in a 15-year study to see whether Selenium and Vitamin E would protect against prostate cancer, the leading cause of cancer death in men after skin cancer. Some 35,000 men were enrolled nationally; in Tucson, about 240 men were enrolled at the Arizona Cancer Center and 70 at the Southern Arizona VA Health Care System.
During a clinical trial, an independent Data and Safety Monitoring Committee "un-blinds" the study yearly to do a statistical evaluation, and five years into this study its analysis determined there is no evidence to justify having men continue to take the supplements.
SELECT is continuing to evaluate the effects of the supplements, but participants no longer are taking study supplements. The independent Data and Safety Monitoring Committee for the trial found that Selenium and Vitamin E taken alone or together for an average of five years did not prevent prostate cancer. SELECT participants are being informed about the initial findings and told to stop taking their study supplements. Men in the study will continue to have their health monitored by study staff, continue to respond to the study questionnaires and will provide a blood sample at their five-year anniversary of joining the trial (if they have not already done so). The information from the questionnaires and the blood samples will allow a complete analysis of the study, including important molecular-level research on the role of antioxidants in cancer prevention and the natural history of prostate cancer, other cancers and diseases of male aging.
The SELECT data showed two concerning, but not statistically significant, trends: there were slightly more cases of prostate cancer in men taking only Vitamin E and slightly more cases of diabetes in men taking only Selenium. Neither of these findings proves an increased risk from the supplements and may be due to chance.
The Arizona Cancer Center is the state's premier National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center. With primary locations at The University of Arizona in Tucson and in Scottsdale, the Center has more than a dozen research and education offices throughout the state and 300 physician and scientist members working to prevent and cure cancer. For more information, please go to www.azcc.arizona.edu.
'To Selenium, or not to Selenium' - that was Part of the 'Question'
Arizona Cancer Center researchers now can answer one important question for millions of men in America who have been taking or thinking of taking the mineral Selenium and Vitamin E supplements to try to prevent prostate cancer.