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Hi guys im doing a moustache for movember and would love if every one could sponsor me and donate a bit of money for a good cause Here is my mo so far Here is the link to my movember page http://au.movember.com/mospace/4924313

Yeah just a plain old scop IMO, juvenilles often exhibit different to traits to there adult form, think of young lophs with spines. I'm sure with age it will lose its spikieness. Time will tell. I still wonder where hamilton gets their seed... Nice score BTW

Evolution can occur quite quickly, over just a few generations it seems some species quickly gain and lose certain abilities, I heard of a recent study on Chrysanthemums which saw an isolated group lose the ability to deal with certain pests over 8 generations, this apparently occurred at the genetic level, which is surprisingly fast. However, one would also expect such species to have a similar ability to change back (or switch the genes back on?) were they in different conditions, otherwise species would quickly be wiped out when climate or environmental conditions change. Only the more robust (genetically variable) species tend to survive, and over time they change and develop with the changing climate, environment, and other species around them. While humans have developed an ability to adjust the environment around them as another ability to help them survive within that environment, it doesn't preclude genetic change as well. It is very possible that humans have lost and gained some abilities over their more recent time on this planet. The ability to digest certain foods, for example. The ability to readily use tryptamines and other substances to gain insight into other realms may be another. It's an interesting concept, but the body's ability to convert all sorts of different foods into what it requires is pretty extraordinary as it is, so without reading the paper I do have a few doubts about the finer details. As others have pointed out, the main drawback to the theory is that there are monkeys and other animals that survive on a diet much more rich in fruit than ours, and yet they don't appear to show the same signs of intellectual development that we do. While I agree that we also live in a collective insanity, I think that's a cultural / learned response. I eat hardly any fruit (except tomatoes), yet I have the ability to stand outside our society and see it for how it appears from a different perspective, this inability to see what is happening from a different perspective is exactly the problem all modern cultures suffer from, whether their diets are low in fruit or not. Being born into what essentially amounted to a cult, I quickly learned new perspectives when exposed to the rest of society, and use of certain psychedelics expanded on that considerably, as well as reading massive amounts of imaginative material, which all fueled my imagination and gave me new perspectives. Sadly, fruit had very little to do with this as I ate almost none until quite recently. I am reminded of all those books my partner reads regarding diet and health, and the vast quantities of minerals and vitamins and other extraordinary amino acids and proteins that make up the "perfect diet", and yet my health is generally much better than hers, despite my refusal to eat anything but basic undercooked veggies, nuts, and a bit of chicken and fish because I like to and because I get hungry if I don't! (I don't eat wheat and have no added salt and no sugar although I will eat honey, yes. In fact, when I do take (under duress) Vitamin pills or any other additives, most of them seem to upset the happy balance I have in my diet rather than provide any useful boost to my health. My body converts the things I eat into the things I need, and I am sure that the human body quite readily coped, over so many generations, with the adjustments in diet it needed to make when it moved away from the fruit-rich rainforests to the varied environments spread across the planet.

check this out, its got crazy dropped ribs all over the show, almost in a spiral pattern Aerial shot of some of my babies

So did they take out facebook?

Loving your work Amazonian. Just stumbled across this thread and I think it's time to work on those pieces I was discussing with you.

i know but if you could tunnel under facebook like he did with parliament

Mindperformer, I'm just editing my book at the moment, and it will likely by published next year by a well known publishing house.

Speaking of environmental conditions. I was reading an article about scientists wanting to increase the alkaloid content of Madagascar Periwinkle. Because it's full of valuable anti cancer compounds. Through the use of trace amounts of heavy metals they were able to increase the alkaloid content of the stems 4 fold and the alkaloid content of the roots 5 fold. Moral of the story for me. Better make sure I include all the minerals and elements in the potting mix.

the blue pots from hamiltons, are the packaging for master hardware chain, as requested by them...bunnings have black pots i think from hamiltons. EDIT: BUnnings also order through(and at my local store prefer) Paradisia Cacti as well

Hey carl I have a few crosses with SS02, the SS02(bridgesii) x bridgesii are definitely the fastest growing out of the bunch, SS02 x pach are second.

I always thought scops when young had fairly large spines

Hmm looks just like a pure scop to me

^ fairly normal for scop, especially if you change it's nutrition or sunlight. Today I picked up my T.fuckingmassiveterscheckii thing that fell over on Friday. And I extended the boxing/floor where my existing (falling to pieces) plastic greenhouse is, in preparation for installation of my NEW (secondhand) polycarb one.

$48 (awaiting 5 watchers)

used a new tooth brush and scrubbed each cacti from head to toe. water + fert. im sure they loved it, looking sharp

I've eaten heaps of shit that looked dodgy and the most i got was an interesting flavour. I reckon mold makes some things taste better. If ya ate dirt as a kid your immune system should be good, just give it the occasional booster shot (moldy bread under the couch, rotten apple) and you're sweet.

what a champ! they'll write books about you one day mate.

You should trade loph beads for lophs of the same size

1. Using the word (God) openly 2. Eating an apple at Thy house 3. Making a feather while on Thy day 4. Denying that I made it. 5. Making a mousetrap on Thy day 6. Contriving of the chimes on Thy day 7. Squirting water on Thy day 8. Making pies on Sunday night 9. Swimming in a kimnel on Thy day 10. Putting a pin in John Keys hat on Thy day to pick him. 11. Carelessly hearing and committing many sermons. 12. Refusing to go to the close at my mothers command. 13. Threatning my father and mother Smith to burne them and the house over them 14. Wishing death and hoping it to some 15. Striking many 16. Having uncleane thoughts words and actions and dreamese. 17. Stealing cherry cobs from Eduard Storer 18. Denying that I did so 19. Denying a crossbow to my mother and grandmother though I knew of it 20. Setting my heart on money learning pleasure more than Thee 21. A relapse 22. A relapse 23. A breaking again of my covenant renued in the Lords Supper. 24. Punching my sister 25. Robbing my mothers box of plums and sugar 26. Calling Dorothy Rose a jade 27. Glutiny in my sickness. 28. Peevishness with my mother. 29. With my sister. 30. Falling out with the servants 31. Divers commissions of alle my duties 32. Idle discourse on Thy day and at other times 33. Not turning nearer to Thee for my affections 34. Not living according to my belief 35. Not loving Thee for Thy self. 36. Not loving Thee for Thy goodness to us 37. Not desiring Thy ordinances 38. Not long [longing] for Thee in [illegible] 39. Fearing man above Thee 40. Using unlawful means to bring us out of distresses 41. Caring for worldly things more than God 42. Not craving a blessing from God on our honest endeavors. 43. Missing chapel. 44. Beating Arthur Storer. 45. Peevishness at Master Clarks for a piece of bread and butter. 46. Striving to cheat with a brass halfe crowne. 47. Twisting a cord on Sunday morning 48. Reading the history of the Christian champions on Sunday isaac newton's confessions (age 19)

Simo Häyhä In temperatures between −40 and −20 degrees Celsius, dressed completely in white camouflage, Häyhä was credited with 505 confirmed kills of Soviet soldiers.[3][5] A daily account of the kills at Kollaa was conducted for the Finnish snipers. Besides his sniper kills, Häyhä was also credited with over 200 kills with a Suomi KP/-31 submachine gun.[5] Remarkably, all of Häyhä's kills were accomplished in fewer than 100 days at a time of year with very short hours of daylight.[6][7][8] Häyhä used a Finnish militia variant, White Guard M/28 "Pystykorva" or "Spitz", of the Russian Mosin-Nagant rifle, because it suited his small frame (5 ft 3 in/1.60 m). He preferred to use iron sights rather than telescopic sights to present a smaller target (the sniper must raise his head higher when using a telescopic sight), for more reliable visibility (a telescopic sight's glass can fog up easily in cold weather), and aid concealment (sunlight glare in telescopic sight lenses can reveal a sniper's position). Another tactic used by Häyhä was to compact the snow in front of him so that the shot would not disturb the snow and reveal his position.[citation needed] He also kept snow in his mouth, so that the vapor of his breath would not give him away ... On March 6, 1940, Häyhä was shot in the lower left jaw by a Russian soldier during combat. The bullet tumbled upon impact and exited his head. He was picked up by fellow soldiers who said "half his head was missing", but he was not dead: he regained consciousness on March 13, the day peace was declared. the things that this man's eyes have seen

this thread is gonna be messy bluntmuffin you should try to make it obsolete. although it's reasonably rare that you will be able to pluck an E out of the air unless you develope "absolute pitch" which isn't that common, but with that externally provided E you will be crackers unless you are pretty much "tone deaf" adjustments are smoother when increasing pitch. so have each string lower than the sought after pitch, then pluck them and start tightening the string until it's just right. the different string gauges have different sound quality which makes it a bit hard but you can learn to ignore that and just focus on getting the same pitch. also once you've gone through them all once, or at least done a few of the thicker strings (which put a lot more tension on the instrument) you need to start the process again because tuning one string will put other strings out of tune.

Thanks Planthelper In 10yrs haunting this forum I cant remember seeing Caapi flower. If all goes well I should have a fair few seeds. I am a firm believer that Caapi has an adgenda to make itself unextinctable. All mankind must always have the Aya resource. My plant is very special, and we have that symbiotic relationship. So I am sure it wants to prove that theory true. Maybe offering Caapi seed will be a good way of getting people to show up at our Central Coast meets....LOL