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A Florida Cannabis Business Wants to Eliminate the State's Cap on Medical Marijuana Licenses
After a judge ruled in Florigrown's favor, the state appealed. What's next?
Eric Sandy
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A broad legal battle has marinated in a Florida courthouse for nearly a year, and now the state's House of Representatives is inserting itself into the proceedings. The House's recent filing seeks to defend lawmakers' interpretation of the constitutional amendment that paved the way for Florida's nascent medical marijuana market.
Read the House motion below.
The issue at hand: Florigrown, a Tampa-based cannabis business, insists that the bill passed by Florida legislators contradicts the language approved by voters in 2016. Florigrown's tentpole assertions involve the state's cap on medical marijuana businesses licenses and the state's vertical integration requirement. Both are inconsistent with voters' will, the company has argued.
Leon County Circuit Judge Charles Dodson agreed with Florigrown in an Aug. 2 order that urged the state's Department of Health to remedy this conflict. Dodson wrote that the constitutional amendment—with language that 71 percent of Florida voters approved—places no specific limits or caps on the number of medical marijuana business licenses. The law that state representatives drafted and passed in 2017, however, does.
According to the state law, the Department of Health was allowed to issue licenses to cannabis business that had previously been licensed under an earlier, low-THC version of the Florida medical marijuana market. The department was also allowed to issue up to 10 licenses to businesses that hadn't been part of that earlier program or that had tried to obtain one of those earlier licenses and failed. (In Florida, licensed businesses are called "Medical Marijuana Treatment Centers," or MMTCs.) For each additional 100,000 medical marijuana patients that are registered in Florida, the state will be allowed to issue four additional business licenses. That threshold was passed in April, and the state undertook the process of licensing four more MMTCs.
"Such limits directly undermine the clear intent of the amendment, which by its language seeks to prevent arbitrary restriction on the number of [medical marijuana businesses] authorized to conduct business in the state," Dodson wrote. "The amendment mandates the availability and safe use of medical marijuana by qualifying patients."
In an Oct. 5 order, Dodson pointed out that the department had not amended its licensing procedure in the previous two months. He issued an injunction and demanded that the state begin approving licenses for Florigrown and others.
Gov. Rick Scott appealed Dodson's decision, leading to the House intervention via an Oct. 25 motion. Currently, the state licensing process has been halted while this case progresses.
The House, in its filing, argues that it was "duty bound to follow both federal law and state law" and that its interpretation of the amendment was its attempt to "address such a conflict and effectuate the voters' will to the extent federal law will allow."
At its core, the line that Florida lawmakers are walking between federal and state law is but one thread in this litigation.
Depending on the outcome of this case—and if Dodson's order prevails—Florida may be backed into a position where the Department of Health would need to toss the cap on medical marijuana business licenses and the vertical integration mandate. It's the tension between licensed businesses that have capitalized on Florida market share and businesses seeking to enter the state's medical marijuana market: That's where industry observers have honed their attention.
"That is the main sticking point that is somewhat alarming," Vijay Choksi, an attorney at Florida law firm Kelley Kronenberg's Regulated Substances Practice Group, told Cannabis Business Times. "The last [major market move] was MedMen [acquiring Treadwell Nursey's dispensary and cultivation assets] for $53 million. They just entered the market for $53 million—based upon the vertically integrated regime. When they go out to their investors and they pitch their business claims and listing statement, that's the main sticking point. You're in a vertically integrated state. And for that to potentially crumble down, that would throw the entire industry upside-down, thereby letting more players enter."
The judge set a Nov. 19 hearing to address the state's appeal and the House's motion.
Then, on Oct. 31, a company called Steel Dog Concepts filed a motion to intervene, as well. The company sided with Florigrown and insisted that its interest in applying for and receiving a license had gone ignored by the state Department of Health. "[Due] to the nature of the issues before the Court, Florigrown and Steel Dog's legal right to become a registered MMTC pursuant to the Florida Constitution will rise and fall together," the company wrote in its motion.
The civil case, coming up on its one-year mark in Leon County Circuit Court, is far from over.
"Here in Florida, the constitutional amendment was voted on by the people," Seth Hyman, also with Florida law firm Kelley Kronenberg's Regulated Substances Practice Group, said. "But the implementation bill, which was Senate Bill 8A, was crafted, drafted and implemented by the Florida legislature. So, you have … a constitutional amendment and then you have legislation that was drafted to implement the constitutional amendment. Florida is in a very unique situation.
"How is the amendment interpreted?" Hyman asks. "That's what this really comes down to: interpretation."
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Medical Marijuana Law Moves Slowly in Big Sky Country
Montana passed its first medical marijuana law in 2004 and has spent the last 15 years implementing a workable program for providers and patients.
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Montana's medical marijuana program has faced it all in its nearly 15 years of existence—two successful voter initiatives, rising and falling patient numbers, federal raids, legislation meant to render it unworkable and plenty of confusion.
The state passed its first medical marijuana law in 2004, which was "a very thin statute," according to Kate Cholewa, a lobbyist for the Montana Cannabis Industry Association (MTCIA).
"It was really more designed to support that good-Samaritan model of medical-marijuana provision, where there's a humble caregiver providing for a cancer patient," she says.
During that time, it was unclear if states could be involved in the regulatory process without violating federal laws, so the state legislature had little interest in fine-tuning the program, according to Chris Lindsey, senior legislative counsel with the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), which helped pass the original initiative.
From 2004 to 2009, the program grew to support about 5,000 patients, but as political tides began to shift in 2009, the industry exploded in Montana. The 2009 Ogden Memo stated that the federal government would not interfere in states with regulated medical marijuana, which created a greater sense of safety for Montana's cannabis businesses. Organized clinics began popping up in the state, and by the fall of 2011, the program had grown to roughly 30,000 patients and more than 4,000 providers, Cholewa says.
"It was an explosion, and meanwhile, you have this very thin law, really not designed to support the level of activity that was going on," she says. "There were no inspections. There was no oversight. There was no licensing. So, you had inadequate law and a lot of activity. Not only that, you had people looking at the law and trying to construct their businesses with a law that really wasn't comprehensive enough to support conducting business."
Something had to give. While some thought only adequate regulation was needed, others decided the program should be repealed entirely.
Meanwhile, the federal government came down on Montana in 2011 with raids.
"Montana was hit very hard with federal raids, and then the legislature used the raids as rationale to pass legislation that was really to take down the program, without officially repealing it, in 2011," Cholewa says.
"What they really wanted to do is make it so people couldn't operate and patients just had to grow their own," Lindsey adds. "That's a terrible solution if you're one of those patients because growing medical-grade cannabis is not an easy thing to do, and very few patients were able to actually do that."
Patient numbers crashed, stabilizing around 12,000, Cholewa says.
The MTCIA became a vehicle to file a lawsuit against the law, which led to the courts enjoining several provisions that were not able to go into effect. For the next five years, until 2016, MTCIA continued to support the lawsuit and ensure patients could continue to access their medication.
In 2016, the Montana Supreme Court ruled in favor of the state, allowing the full law to take effect. MTCIA was prepared for this blow, and had launched efforts for a ballot initiative to essentially pass a medical marijuana law again. In November 2016, voters passed Montana's second medical marijuana initiative to reboot the program.
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"It's been a very rough ride here for people," Cholewa says. "In 2016, we passed our second medical marijuana initiative with good numbers and we passed a good law."
"Now businesses could be licensed as businesses," Lindsey adds. "There's a system now in place. It's not very robust. If you compare what Montana ended up with [to] some place like Colorado or California or these emerging regulatory systems, they don't look very much like one another. But there are testing requirements. You have to label your products. There are familiar features."
The law essentially removed some of the dysfunctional elements of the 2011 statute, Cholewa says, and added licensing and inspection requirements for businesses.
"Since 2004, we've had a medical marijuana program and no one's ever walked into any of these businesses from the state," she says. "No one's licensed—they just register with the state. So, for the first time, we want to get somebody in these places and make sure there are basic health and safety standards that are met, make sure people are licensed [and] see who owns these places."
Additional tracking and testing regulations were passed during the 2017 legislative session, and the plan was to conduct the first phase of inspections and licensing in the summer of 2017, then add tracking and testing requirements in the spring of 2018.
This plan quickly deteriorated, Cholewa says.
"The bureaucracy—the state agency assigned to regulate it—they didn't do it," she says. "And we kept saying, 'Where are these inspections? Where are these licenses? Nothing's happening.'"
The state ultimately removed a regulator and appointed a new one, who then started work on implementing a tracking system before inspecting and licensing the state's businesses, Cholewa says.
"We laid out a really good plan—our law is good, our taxes are low [and] it was supposed to be strategically implemented to work well for the state agency to give them time to learn how to get things up and running, give the people who are in the program time to gear up," she says. "But then we had our state agency drop and fumble the ball."
Overall, though, Cholewa stands behind the state's current medical marijuana law.
"The law was designed—how it was implemented is something else—but it was designed to give everybody time to figure out how to survive," she says. "First, inspections and licensing, so before you need to learn about a tracking system and prepare for testing, you have time to get the proper locks on your doors. There was time to gear up. And by creating licenses, you had time to consolidate—join together with other small people to create a business."
And although some businesses have consolidated and others have scaled up to survive, others still have dropped out of the race entirely. The trouble with Montana's regulatory landscape, Cholewa says, lies in not only a messy implementation process, but also trying to impose any regulated system on businesses that have been operating without regulations for nearly 15 years, since Montana's first medical marijuana law passed in 2004.
"Some people who might've really enjoyed growing cannabis and having people come over and providing it to their patients, they don't want to do … a tracking system," Cholewa says. "They don't want to do that other stuff. This is not how they want to live their lives, and so they leave the system."
Montana once had more than 600 medical marijuana providers, but the count has dropped to 300 to 400 since the current law passed, she says.
Businesses are required to be vertically integrated, and there is no licensing cap. However, when patients are approved for medical marijuana, they must register to purchase product from a single provider, Cholewa says.
"They can change, but they can't just go here and go there, looking for the right products," she says.
In addition, the number of patients a provider has dictates how much cannabis they can produce.
"It treats people like commodities in a very bad way, and it makes people compete to own customers," Cholewa says.
MTCIA attempted to separate licensing from patient numbers in 2017, instead opting for licensing based on cultivation area, but the state agency did not implement this change into the final law that passed.
"Montana is still a little bit of a muddle," Lindsey says. "And it's partly because it's such a small state that it doesn't really come into the conversation very often, but it has been so convoluted that it's difficult to really parse out what happened."
While some may equate lax regulations with more freedom, most businesses crave the structure and guidance of more traditional rules, he adds. "You'd like to have lots of regulations because now you know exactly where you stand," he says. "And getting back to the federal raids and all the messiness that happened around 2011 and 2012 and into '13, it was the lack of careful regulatory oversight that was the biggest problem."
And although Montana's medical cannabis industry continues to struggle with implementation, Cholewa says the program has come a long way.
"We had raids in 2011, and then we had the bureaucracy really fumble the ball, but we have a really good law—we just need it properly implemented," she says. "We just need to go in there and get that done."
The businesses that have bested the hurdles thrown their way for the past 15 years have built quality operations that could generate investor and acquisition interest from other states, once the regulations are ironed out, Cholewa adds.
"The people who are still standing—and as you hear this story, you can imagine—they've been through a lot," she says. "These are businesspeople who know how to deal with things changing and changing very quickly and needing to adapt and creating a wide variety of products. So, for all the wildness that Montana's been through, I think it has created at least a set of very quality businesspeople."
Montana can also be a lesson in the importance of creating industry standards, Cholewa adds.
"The development of these standards is critical," she says. "It's an issue at the national level. State bureaucrats don't have answers and they don't know good information from bad information. As a result, the standards conversation has a tendency to be about money. Cannabis testing labs testing too much to make a buck. Cannabis producers fighting testing to save a buck. Cannabis producers supporting too much testing because it's expensive and will drive their competitors out of business. All these things come into play. None of them have anything to do with what testing is necessary and how it should be done. Independent standards organization ASTM International is focusing on creating standards and best practices for the emerging global cannabis markets. This is important and much-needed work."
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7 Questions Cannabis Cultivators and Processors Should Ask When Implementing CRM Software
Finding the right technology can help build relationships with retailers and boost sales.
Business and finance Grower/Agriculture
To sell product to retailers, cannabis cultivators and processors must first initiate and develop relationships with dispensaries, which can be a daunting task. Luckily, technology is available to help.
Customer-relationship management (CRM) software can help producers and processors manage retail relationships and the overall sales process, which can in turn help operators grow their businesses.
PipelineDeals, a CRM software provider serving companies across many verticals, launched a cannabis-specific CRM solution in Washington to help cultivators and processors in the state's cannabis market manage and grow their business-to-business relationships. Here, CEO JP Werlin outlines the essential questions that businesses should ask both themselves and tech companies before purchasing and implementing a CRM solution in their operation.
1. Do you understand your sales process?
Before bringing in CRM software to streamline the sales process, a business should first have a baseline, fundamental understanding of its current sales process, Werlin says.
"If you choose software of any type [but] don't know the process that the software is enabling, then … the software's just going to be a mirror to your broken process," he says.
If a leader in the company cannot outline the sales process with the sales team and clearly identify the stages for a deal to progress with a retailer, then the business is likely not ready to purchase software, Werlin says.
2. Will your sales staff adopt the software?
Before a business commits to purchasing CRM software, it should ensure that the sales staff will actually adopt the solution chosen, Werlin says.
"I look at our software a lot like a gym membership," he says. "You buy a gym membership. That's great. You're paying the $100 a month to go to the gym. If you don't use the gym, you're not going to get in shape. And the same is true for sales software. Just because you buy the software, if you don't have your people trained and your process defined, you're not going to get value."
Again, it's a matter of understanding the company's sales process and ensuring that the sales reps are on board with using software to aid the process.
"Make sure it's something your reps will use to give the leaders of the company the visibility they need to make sure, A) they're growing, and B) nothing's falling through the cracks, and those two things are related."
3. Is the CRM provider approachable?
Once a business understands its sales process and gets the sales staff on board with implementing CRM software, the next step is ensuring that the CRM provider is easy to work with, Werlin says.
"I think too many companies, especially in the technology sector, don't want to talk to customers," he says. "And if you don't have that level of approachability or support behind the software to answer questions that inevitably come up, then your sales team is not going to be successful."
4. Is it the right-sized solution for your business?
Next, a company should make sure the technology is affordable and the right solution for its business model, Werlin says. Businesses may not want to work with a huge software company that offers more tech than they really need, but they should also avoid startups that can't offer proven technology.
"[Make] sure you have the right size at the right cost for your business and that it's software that will grow with you as you grow," he says.
5. Is it customizable?
While the cannabis industry can leverage the basic sales knowledge and processes from other industries, producers and processors should be able to tailor CRM software to their specific business model, Werlin says. One of the ways to do this is through customizable fields that allow businesses to track specific information about their retail prospects and customers.
"Examples of custom fields could be: What size is their retail outlet? What product did they order last time?" Werlin says. "You could track any number of things with a custom field."
Some CRM platforms may also have the option to come pre-loaded with data that can help growers and processors find their target market. For example, PipelineDeals' software can be loaded with Washington's i502 Marijuana Sales Data, which would populate the platform with all the publicly available information on each of the state's licensed retailers.
"Imagine you're a producer/processor, either a brand-new one, or you're just moving off a spreadsheet to manage your sales and getting something just a little bit more sophisticated," Werlin says. "From the day you start, imagine a world where all your potential customers are there with all their contact info."
6. Does it track everything in one place?
Not only can CRM software track retailers' locations and contact information, but some platforms can also store details about which products they buy, what products they are interested in, which companies are competing for sales into the dispensary and more.
Cultivators and processors should also look for a CRM platform that keeps track of people, Werlin adds, including key decision makers in a dispensary and whether that decision maker has delegated purchasing authority to a buyer.
Housing all of this critical information in one system ensures that a producer or processor never loses sales leads, even if a sales rep leaves the company.
"If sales reps turn over or move from one producer/processor to another, or to a different business entirely, the producer/processor doesn't lose those contacts if they're in the CRM because then it's all tracked, managed and organized in one central location," Werlin says. "Then the sales rep isn't walking with their book of business—with their retailer relationships—to the next competitor."
7. Will it streamline communication?
All relationships are built on communication, Werlin says—even those in the business world.
"If you think about how relationships are built in business, it's not too different from how relationships are built outside of business," he says. "Being consistent, reliable and timely are super important for building relationships in businesses, so that's a common challenge across the industry is to help keep those relationships alive and healthy."
Growers and processors should ensure that email can be integrated into the CRM software solution they choose for their business, Werlin says. This allows users to keep track of all their communications with retailers in one place.
In addition, some CRM platforms allow businesses to upload documents, such as marketing collateral or price lists.
"If you're a producer/processor, there's no wondering, 'What did we say last time to such and such retailer?'" Werlin says. "It's all there inside of your system. You can also keep track of your calendar [and] keep track of things you need to do in order to close a sale or open a new retailer."
Action items can also be assigned in some CRM platforms to outline the next steps in the sales process. In addition, some platforms also have templates that outline sales best practices that reps can follow, Werlin adds, so all the sales staff are following standard procedures. "It helps you scale your business in a repeatable way."
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Jury Finds in Favor of Colorado Marijuana Grow in Closely Watched Federal Lawsuit
A southern Colorado marijuana grow facility did not hurt the property values of a neighboring couple, a jury in Denver decided.
Grower/Agriculture News State by State: Colorado
A southern Colorado marijuana grow facility did not hurt the property values of a neighboring couple, a jury in Denver decided Wednesday, ending a closely watched lawsuit that had hung like a dark cloud over the state's cannabis industry.
If the lawsuit had been successful, it could have created a blueprint for opponents of marijuana legalization to dismantle the industry through civil cases brought under federal anti-racketeering laws. The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, better known as the RICO act, allows plaintiffs to collect three times the amount of damages that jurors find plus attorneys' fees, meaning that marijuana businesses — which are illegal under federal law and, thus, in violation of RICO — could be on the hook for million-dollar payouts over simple property disputes.
Instead, jurors deliberated for about half a day before reaching a verdict in favor of the facility, which sits about 2 miles east of Interstate 25 near the town of Colorado City.
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Hydrofarm Completes $55 Million Equity Financing
The financing positions the company for continued growth both organically and through acquisitions.
PETALUMA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PRESS RELEASE--Hydrofarm Holdings Group, Inc. an independent wholesaler and manufacturer of hydroponics equipment and horticultural products, has announced the completion of a $55 million equity financing. This financing included new strategic and institutional investors, as well as follow on participation from Serruya Private Equity (SPE), one of the largest investors in the cannabis industry, Hawthorn Equity Partners, and affiliates of Broadband Capital.
"We are very pleased to complete this equity financing, which provides Hydrofarm with the financial flexibility to continue to grow the business both organically and through acquisitions," said Peter Wardenburg, chief executive officer of Hydrofarm. "The hydroponics market is rapidly evolving and this capital raise allows us to fund and pursue strategic growth opportunities, including expanding our distribution capabilities, and enhancing our product offerings and service capabilities to satisfy the needs of our growing customer base."
Hydrofarm has a 40-year operating history as a supplier to the hydroponics and specialty indoor gardening market. The company has one of the largest product offerings in the industry with over 5,000 SKUs from lighting solutions to nutrients to grow mediums, providing growers with a wide range of product choice to ensure their operations are maximizing efficiency, output and quality. Hydrofarm is both a manufacturer and distributor of hydroponic equipment and supplies and sells primarily through 1,500-plus hydroponic and lawn and garden retailers across North America.
"We are very excited about the significant growth opportunity in the broader global cannabis end market. Hydrofarm represents a unique opportunity to help the industry grow by creating a one-stop shop for all market participants to purchase hydroponics equipment and horticultural products, through its network of authorized resellers, for high quality, efficient cultivation," said Michael Serruya, managing director, SPE.
"We believe the supply chain in this rapidly growing industry represents a large opportunity for an at-scale wholesaler and manufacturer. We are looking forward to working with the company to grow the business and its distribution and service capabilities," said Michael Rapp, Broadband Capital.
"The strong investor response to this financing is a testament to Hydrofarm's business strategy and position as one of the dominant players in the industry, as well as demand to participate in the growth of the global cannabis industry though an established, U.S. domiciled and federally-legal company," said Adam Stern, CEO of SternAegis Ventures and Head of Private Equity Banking of Aegis Capital.
A.G.P./Alliance Global Partners and SternAegis Ventures acted as placement agents and financial advisors on the transaction.


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Disagreement is good, it is powerful, and in many ways it is a vital tool in helping to unlearn our unquestioned positions on things. In disagreement with a friend this week I realised that it had been a long time since someone close to me had seriously asked me to reconsider some of my standard assumptions. I realised that the comfort and safety that I have found in the past year – in finding people who agree with and empathise with me in most ways – has also caused me to reach a sort of stale and uncritical approach to some things. In disagreeing and negotiating though, I realised that I had forgotten to question or consider why I felt some things to be true.
The role of women supporting women was one of these.
For the most part, my view of women supporting women has been an assumption rather than a thought-out or articulated reasoning. In this assumption I felt that women should support women, but that often they don't and that I personally did not want or look for the support of women who did not look for my liberation. I had reached an inwards conclusion, I suppose, that there were many and simultaneous battles to be fought by and for women, but that not all women could or should fight all those battles.
In this way then I was slightly taken-aback when my friend voiced that it made them sad to feel they could not or should not support the uplifting of other women. To hear that from someone I am close to and someone I believe genuinely desires women's liberation; the very premise of my assumption became fragile.
I suppose, for a long time, my view that different fights should be fought by different women, has stemmed from my own experience of people trying to fight my fight for me. From my experience of non-Muslim women assuming they knew better than me what my liberation looked like. From my experience of the white-narrative of "supporting" brown women, being a narrative which made us subservient and painted us passive. My instinct in the face of help from other women, women who did not share my struggles, has therefore often been one of wariness. I fear the white-savior complex, I fear being accused of false-consciousness, I fear my liberation being co-opted for somebody else's ego.
This fear has consciously shaped the way I engage with other liberation movements too. I am deeply conscious of speaking over the voices of those whose lives are in question. Conscious that I come to their plight without experience of it. That whilst it is easy for me to use the rainbow LGBT+ filter on my profile picture, share some stats about the life-expectancy of trans women or a photo for Black Lives Matter, those things don't actually affect me at all. I can share, promote, condemn; but all from a safe distance. And the privilege of that distance makes it easy for me, but it also makes me question how useful I am. How useful is it for someone who has no experience of a certain oppression to talk about liberation from it?
More than this, from my own perspective, when others talk about my liberation, I feel resentful. Perhaps I should feel happy, perhaps I should feel cared for; but often I feel resentful. Resentful that their anger is met with regard, that their concerns are considered. When for so long your own anger has been denied, for others to be angry on your behalf can be irritating. It can make you feel excluded from your own liberation.
These qualms, fears and experiences were what I brought to the table then when my friend voiced how sad it was that I suggested that people be left to fight their own oppression. When they put it like that though, when they suggested that there was and is genuine support and love out there, love that could be directed to helping others. I was taken aback. I suppose I had been too wary and afraid to consider – despite the multitudes of excellent women and men that I know – that others could help in struggles not their own. That they could want to, genuinely and lovingly.
In many ways, my fear of co-option, of being drowned out, of being denied anger, has toughened me. Has often made me afraid to trust others, afraid to let them relay my stories. The very fact I write this blog is part of the desire to use my own words and to support myself. But in the course of the conversation with my friend, I realized that my fear and disbelief in the role of other women had left some of those who could truly help me, helpless. I hope they can understand. I hope those who have wanted to help but don't know how or feel they shouldn't, hear my fears. I too harbour those fears, I too feel unsure of how to help others; but you're right, we do need to support one another. We have to.
Perhaps re-framing "support" and defining "help" in new ways will create a less wary and disparate set of movements. Perhaps allowing for allies in the ways we need them, rather than the ways they consider best; is best. Whilst I continue to think that those best placed to seek their own liberation are those who have experienced that oppression; in a kind conversation of disagreement I have realised that there are also those that want to help. And there is space for them. When it is wanted and when it is needed, there must be space for them. Space for solidarity, for unlearning fear, for regaining trust. Space to use the privilege of those not-oppressed to aid the liberation of those they ally to. Space for walls built to protect us to shift a little.
Without realising it, fear and anger had turned me away from those reaching out to help me. Fear made me distrustful and anger made me resentful. But now, to know and to realise that there are those who would help me on my own terms, those who would help others on their own terms, I feel fear fade away. Both, fear of those who genuinely offer me support and love; but also my own fear of helping others. My own fear of co-opting or silencing others. Instead, I ask us to trust each other a little bit more and to begin to believe again. To believe in solidarity with those we can trust, and to believe in trust after centuries of continued betrayal and denial. There is love out there, and a love between us that has the potential to be more radical than anything we could do alone; but first we must salvage trust and re-negotiate the terms of support.


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So, any comments from our US members here about the mid-term results and a lame duck president...?
It was a great day for my country. If we can just hold on 2 more years until fuckstick Obama is gone.
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Hi, Guys, why are you so obsessed with this thread? Why want it locked? Don't like it, just don't bloody read it. Sanuk!
Why do you need elections when you have the media?
Been a long time. Not surprised to see US politics as the main topic. Trump - Being President was never Trump's ideas as his goal originally. Trump entered the race for two things. 1. For his br
U.S. is now fucked worse than it already was. I'm moving to the moon.
Please take asshole Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi with you.
Well I really have a huge distaste for Obama Reid etc
but the notion that the Republican are less corrupt or less in bed with Wall Street and the corrupt
Fed is fantasy-
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The right wingnuts that listen to the likes of Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh, and Fox News live in a slanted, biased, racist, fantasy world.
Facts sometimes get in the way of their opinions.
By David Payne
"Healthy third-quarter growth of 3.5% plus an upward revision of second-quarter growth confirm that economic momentum is back on track. In the fourth quarter and into 2015, growth should continue at a 3% rate. Consumer confidence has been gaining strongly. Hiring is on the rise, job openings are at a near record level, and layoffs are scarce (indicated by a very low rate of initial unemployment claims since May). Motor vehicle sales are still on an upward trend, though the really strong gains are probably over. Spending on consumer services, such as recreation, is likely to strengthen as incomes rise. Odds are health care spending will pick up as consumers and providers get used to the new rules. And spending on utilities will stabilize once energy prices stop falling.
And there's more potential for an upside surprise than a downside slide. As job growth returns and consumers feel more secure, more-robust income and spending increases may well be triggered, pushing growth over the 3% mark. Even if the momentum isn't great enough for that to happen in 2015, it's a good bet that it will be by 2016. At the same time, there's a smaller risk that rising interest rates next year will have a mild depressive effect, knocking a half a percentage point or so off annual 2015 growth. If that did happen, growth would slip from the expected above-average pace of better than 3% to a simply average rate of 2.5%. For now, however, we expect that the likely increase of a half percentage point in rates won't have much impact on GDP growth. The other downside risk -- a lengthy slowdown in Europe's growth -- would hurt U.S. exports. But again, the impact on the broader economy would probably be minimal."
Source: Kiplinger's
Flashermac
Americans believe things
And those things aren't true, according to an Ipsos-Mori poll that put the USA second-from-the-top in the race to see who's the most ignorant, preceded only by Italians.
What untrue things do Americans believe? Basically, that their country is overrun by teenaged mothers (perceived: 24%, actual: 3.1%), murderers (perceived by 70% as rising, in reality down by more than 50% since 1992), unemployed people (perceived: 32%, actual: 6%), and Muslims (perceived: 15%, actual: 1%).
Of course, Brits are also incredibly ignorant. As Kottke notes, the fact that the press in both countries is obsessed with welfare, teenaged pregnancies, murders and Muslims, this is probably not that surprising.
http://boingboing.net/2014/11/13/americans-believe-things.html
Perceptions are not reality: Things the world gets wrong
In Great Britain we get a lot of things very wrong…
1. Teenage pregnancy: the British think one in six (16%) of all teenage girls aged 15-19 give birth each year, when the actual figure is only 3%.
2. Muslims: we hugely over-estimate the proportion of Muslims in Britain – we think one in five British people are Muslims (21%) when the actual figure is 5% (one in twenty).
3. Christians: in contrast, we underestimate the proportion of Christians - we think 39% of the country identify themselves as Christian compared with the actual figure of 59%.
4. Immigration: we think 24% of the population are immigrants – which is nearly twice the real figure of 13%.
5. Ageing population: we think the British population is much older than it actually is – the average estimate is that 37% of the population are 65+, when it is in fact only 17%.
6. Voting: we underestimate the proportion of the electorate that voted in the last general election - the average guess is 49% when the official turnout was much higher at 66%.
7. Unemployment: we think nearly 24% of the working age population are unemployed when the actual figure is much lower at 7%.
8. Life expectancy: we overestimate our life expectancy by three years, thinking the average for a child born in 2014 will be 83 years, when the actual estimate is 80 years.
9. Murder rates: we are however one of the best informed countries on the murder rate: 49% saying it is falling (which is correct), and only 25% think it is rising
But the rest of the world is just as wrong…
1. Teenage birth rates: on average, people across the 14 countries think that 15% of teenagers aged 15-19 give birth each year. This is 12 times higher than the average official estimate of 1.2% across these countries. People in the US guess at a particularly high rate of teenage births, estimating it at 24% of all girls aged 15-19 when it's actually 3%. But other countries with very low rates of teenage births are further out proportionally: for example, Germans think that 14% of teenage girls give birth each year when it's actually only 0.4% (35x the actual figure).
2. Muslims: people across just about all countries hugely overestimate the proportion of their population that are Muslim: the average guess across the countries is 16% when the actual proportion is 3%. For example, on average people in France think 31% of the population are Muslim, when the actual figure is only 8%. In Australia the average guess is nine times the actual proportion: people estimate it at 18%, when the actual proportion is only 2%.
3. Christians: in contrast, majority-Christian countries tend to underestimate how many people count themselves as Christian. In the 12 majority-Christian countries in the survey, the average guess is 51%, when the actual proportion counting themselves as Christians is 61%. This includes countries like the US where people think 56% are Christian when official data shows it is 78%.
4. Immigration: across the 14 countries, the public think immigration is over twice the actual level – the average guess is that 24% of the population was born abroad, when the actual figure is 11%. This includes some massive overestimates: the US public think 32% of the population are immigrants when the actual is 13%; in Italy the public think 30% are immigrants when it's actually 7%; and in Belgium the public think it's 29% when it's actually 10%.
5. Ageing population: we think the population is much older than it actually is – the average estimate is that 39% of the population are 65+, when only 18% are. Italians are particularly wrong on this – on average, they think nearly half the population (48%) are 65+, when it is actually 21%.
6. Voting: every country in the study underestimates the proportion of the electorate who voted in their last major election. The average guess is that 58% voted, when in fact 72% did. The French in particular are too pessimistic about the extent of democratic engagement: estimating that only 57% of the electorate voted in the Presidential election, when in fact 80% did.
7. Unemployment: people tend to greatly overestimate the extent of unemployment in their countries. The average guess is 30%, when the actual figure is 9%. This includes some huge overestimates, for example in Italy, where the average guess is that 49% are unemployed, compared with an actual rate of 12%.
8. Life expectancy: this is one area where on average we have a much better grasp of reality. Across the 14 countries, the average life expectancy for a child born this year is estimated to be 80 years, when across these countries as a whole it's actually 81 years.
However, there is still a wide range between countries: people in South Korea are too optimistic, expecting the average life expectancy to be 89 years, compared with an actual of 80 years; but Hungarians are too pessimistic, only expecting 68 years, when the average is predicted to be 75 years.
9. Murder rates: 49% of people across the countries think that the murder rate is rising and only 27% think it is falling - when in fact in all countries in the study, the murder rate is actually falling. The British are the most likely to have an accurate view of murder rate trends: 49% think it's falling and only 25% think it's rising.
https://www.ipsos-mo...gets-wrong.aspx
Legal Pot in the US Is Crippling Mexican Cartels
Marijuana has accounted for nearly half of all total drug arrests in the US for the past 20 years, according to the FBI's crime statistics. And according to the Department of Justice (DOJ), a large portion of the US illegal drug market is controlled directly by Mexican cartels. The DOJ's National Drug Intelligence Center, which has since been shut down, found in 2011 that the top cartels controlled the majority of drug trade in marijuana, heroin, and methamphetamine in over 1,000 US cities.
Now, those cartels and their farmers complain that marijuana legalization is hurting their business. And some reports could suggest that the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is more interested in helping to protect the Mexican cartels' hold on the pot trade than in letting it dissipate.
Seven Mexican cartels have long battled for dominance of the US illegal drug market: Sinaloa, Los Zetas, Gulf, Juarez, Knights Templar, La Familia, and Tijuana. While some smaller cartels operate only along border regions in the Southwest and Southeast, giant cartels like Sinaloa have a presence on the streets of every single region.
The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that pot farmers in the Sinaloa region have stopped planting due to a massive drop in wholesale prices, from $100 per kilo down to only $25. One farmer is quoted as saying: "It's not worth it anymore. I wish the Americans would stop with this legalization.â€
VICE News talked to retired federal agent Terry Nelson, a former field level commander who worked to prevent drugs from crossing the southern border. Nelson said that before medical marijuana and state legalization in Washington and Colorado, about 10 million pounds of pot were grown in the US every year. But 40 million pounds came from Mexico.
Exact numbers on illegal drug trafficking are always hard to pin down, due to the black market nature of distribution and sales.
"Is it hurting the cartels? Yes. The cartels are criminal organizations that were making as much as 35-40 percent of their income from marijuana,†Nelson said, "They aren't able to move as much cannabis inside the US now.â€
In 2012, a study by the Mexican Competitiveness Institute found that US state legalization would cut into cartel business and take over about 30 percent of their market.
Former DEA senior intelligence specialist Sean Dunagan told VICE News that, although it's too early to verify the numbers: "Anything to establish a regulated legal market will necessarily cut into those profits. And it won't be a viable business for the Mexican cartels — the same way bootleggers disappeared after prohibition fell.â€
DEA chief of operations James Capra told senators this January that legalization "scares us" and is "reckless and irresponsible." And the agency is continuing to crack down on marijuana.
Given the DEA's historic relationship with the Sinaloa cartel, and the agency's fury over legalized marijuana, it almost seems like the DEA wants to crush the legal weed market in order to protect the interests of their cartel friends. Almost.
"The DEA doesn't want the drug war to end,†said Nelson, when asked about a possible connection between the agency's hatred of legal pot and its buddies in Sinaloa. "If it ends, they don't get their toys and their budgets. Once it ends, they aren't going to have the kind of influence in foreign government. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but where there's smoke there's probably fire.â€
The Sinaloa cartel came to prominence in January when the "Fast and Furious†scandal surfaced, in which it was revealed that DEA agents ignored Sinaloa drug shipments and essentially granted immunity to cartel criminals in exchange for information.
The decade long relationship between Sinaloa and the DEA was detailed in the court testimony of Jesus Vicente Zambada-Niebla, also known as "El Mayito.†El Mayito, son of Sinaloa leader Ismael "El Mayo†Zambada, told a Chicago court that DEA agents offered him deals in exchange for ratting on rival cartels and Colombian drug lords.
In addition, the lawyer for Sinaloa cartel, Humberto Loya-Castro, told El Universal that DEA agents promised not to prosecute Joaquin "El Chapo†Guzman Loera, whose high-profile arrest earlier this year by Mexican authorities came as a shock to many.
A 2011 letter from DEA head Michele Leonhart in response to an investigation by the federal oversight committee severely downplayed the agency's connection to Fast and Furious, stating that it was mainly an operation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) that the Phoenix DEA office assisted. El Mayito's testimony tells a far different story.
Dunagan was stationed in Mexico for two years working on DEA operations. He didn't see an obvious connection between the Fast and Furious and the DEA's US pot crackdown, but he did say that handling informants is "a really messy business.â€
"There is a temptation sometimes to prioritize a certain cartel or informant,†Dunagan said. "And cartels know that. They exploit the relationship to provide information on their competitors. It creates these perverse incentives — you are investigating what your informant is telling you, not what they are doing.â€
https://news.vice.com/article/legal-pot-in-the-us-is-crippling-mexican-cartels?utm_source=vicenewsfb
I was against it before I was for it. Rabid flip flopper on this issue.
I don't use it.
I do have peers that use it. And I don't like to be around them when they do. Too goofy behavior.
I'm against alcohol too. Too many lives close to ruin with this drug. But that battle has already been fought in the US of A.
It's legal. It's taxed both federal and state. And with sales taxes - local in some places.
I'm against tobacco too. But legal and taxed.
I don't see news stories of cartels selling illegal alcohol or tobacco. Yes, some local bootleggers and some street sellers of cigarettes purchased from other states and sold on streets of states with higher state taxes. But few and far between.
I'm against casino gambling. Here is an addiction that can wipe out one's financial reserves. I've seen casinos from Wisconsin to Louisiana to Arizona.
So way not in every state. Take the tax money.
So why not copy the Colorado model. License it, monitor it, and take the tax money.
On another economic topic.
My peers in Florida.
Housing.
Seems like there is a housing boom going on presently.
Home prices have risen dramatically and some are selling for higher then asking price.
So where is the bad economic news there?
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My wages, the cost of a gallon of milk, the cost to put my kids through college, the cost of the mortgage to pay for those homes that are selling for more than they're worth, the loss of my insurance benefits while the monthly cost goes up, the loss of jobs of my co-workers while the employer rakes in more profits, etc. I could go on and on........

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Most beginners just start playing randomly and don't bother studying the theoretical aspects of poker. Those are the people who are not very likely to ever get very far. On the other end of the spectrum you have those who read tons of books and barely play a hand. That isn't good either.
If you do not work on improving your game and getting the casino sign up deals, you'll always stay a losing player or a player who is unable to go beyond the micro stakes. If you study too much without putting it into practice you will absorb too much info to be able to know which theory to use in which situation.
It is best to find a healthy balance. You could for example go through the basic articles, which are quite short and explain easy to understand concepts, and then play a few thousand hands, posting problematic hands to the hand judges at the end of the day. You can then move on to the first 3-5 bronze articles after which you play another few thousand hands etc. Make sure to mix in the Crushing NL50 series by Hasenbraten quite early as that series is an excellent series for beginners.
Do not educate and/or scare away the bad players!
This has been said a few times already, but it is imperative to keep your cool when a bad opponent gets lucky in a hand against you. Keep an eye on your opponents.
While you might have lost money that one hand you will want to keep playing against that opponent in the long run.
Bad players (commonly referred to as fish) will leave the game if they are constantly yelled at. They might get better if you explain to them why they won money due to luck and not due to skill. This is called "feeding the fish" and should be avoided at all costs. Be friendly to the fish and compliment them when they win every once in a while. You want to be the friendly guy they want to play against.
Master the basics of casino sign up deals but do not turn into a robot!
Earlier on this page the importance of sticking to the standard way of playing as a beginner was explained. You should always remember why you do what you do though. That way you can start recognising situations where shifting from the standard way of playing can be profitable.


Discussion in 'iMac' started by Harpy007, Nov 18, 2009.
I just received my new iMac yesterday and I'm having what many users from the Apple Discussion Forums are reporting: when my computer is at full brightness, I can hear a high pitch noise. It is not that loud but when I lower the brightness, the noise goes down considerably.
The problem is, I have a BTO iMac i7 and I'm wondering if my problem is isolated for the newest batch and if I should get a replacement. So, do any of you with a i7 getting the high pitch noise?
My iMac does not emit a high pitched sound at any brightness. I just positioned my ears at different places around my iMac and changed the brightness to listen. My room is totally silent right now and I have good hearing.
This morning when I turned on the computer, there was no noise whatsoever and it's only then that I realised that the noise only starts when the computer is on for more than 30 minutes. So that means when the computer gets hot, the noise starts and it keeps doing it until I shutdown the system.
Yeah I think I'm going to ring Apple Care tonight... the more I hear it, the more I think this isn't normal. I'll keep you guys posted in case someone else have the same issue.
Maybe the fan's making a strange noise when it's set to run at a low speed, such as might be the case after the computer's been running for 30 minutes or so.
Called Apple and they told me this is nowhere near normal and I should bring it to an Apple tech. I have an appointment this week-end at my Apple Store, let's hope for the best.
It's the power supply electronics. A lot of plasma TV's do it too.


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Jose Quinonez in the ring with his son.
There are countless excuses one can come up with to not get punched in the face. Jose Quinonez, an amateur mixed martial artist, says a list of troublesome outcomes runs through his head every time he steps into the cage to compete.
"When you sign up to fight, especially in MMA, you're going to experience, if not all of your list, most of your list," he says.
This did not cause him to dissuade his son Luciano from taking up the sport; Luciano has been interested in it since around the time he was 3.
Quinonez is not too worried about his son getting hurt in competitive fighting. He could get injured doing anything, he says. As long as his son is happy, he will support him.
As long as his son is happy, he will support him.
Fighting has become something for them to bond over, he says. Now training partners, Quinonez is preparing his 10-year-old son for his first muay thai competition Aug. 25 at Fury Kickboxing in Fort Worth.
Training for a fight involves a rigorous schedule. Quinonez and his son take only two days off a week from their regimen at Aftermath MMA, a martial arts gym in Royse City. On Mondays and Wednesdays, they work cardio for an hour before turning to their coaches to run drills. Tuesdays and Thursdays his son participates in a kids' MMA class. Saturday is fighters day. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., anyone who is getting ready to compete shows up to spar.
While they spend much time together in the gym, he says his son still looks at him as his father when they train. Recently, he has had to let the coaches take over most of their sessions, because his son listens to them more and does not take their criticisms as personally.
Quinonez has been the catalyst for his son's increasing interest in competitive fighting. His son, meanwhile, inspired him to make a comeback after a couple years of not competing.
In 2016, Jose was trying to obtain full custody of his son. Child Protective Services was doing everything they could to only allow him visitation rights, he says. They made him decide what he wanted more: his son or his career.
He was scheduled for his main event debut with Xtreme Knockout, a fight promotion company based in Arlington, on April 2, 2016. Stress from the custody battle made it harder to cut weight. He was 152 pounds and had to drop at least 7 pounds by the day of the weigh-in. He had a complete breakdown and was forced to pull out of the fight.
Though he is not in fighting shape, he hopes with his son by his side he will be back in the cage in November. He wants to be the first from his hometown El Toboso, Mexico, to be a professional athlete. If given the opportunity, he would love to fight on an XKO bout to make up for dropping out of the main event two years ago.
In the meantime, he will continue to help his son prepare for his first competition. His son also hopes to compete in wrestling in October and MMA in the not-so-distant future.


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Nathan Colenso kicks goals and joins Brisbane Lions
Nathan Colenso used to kick goals for the Park Ridge Pirates. Now he's kicking his goal of playing professional football, being the newest recruit for the Brisbane Lions Football Club.
The 20 year old attended Park Ridge State High and played for the Pirates from the age of nine before moving clubs in 2019 to the Morningside Panthers who are the top of the league in Queensland.
Nathan says he only found out he was selected for the Lions a couple weeks ago and it still feels incredibly surreal.
"I'm pretty stoked and still coming to terms with it all," Nathan said.
"I found out a couple weeks ago from one of the blokes in a developmental role at the Brisbane Lions.
"He asked if I wanted to come in for an interview, then one thing led to another."
After spending more than half his life playing AFL he says it feels great to have an opportunity to turn the sport he loves into a career and he can't wait to give it all he's got.
"I'm pretty proud of myself but I also know that the hard work starts right now and I've got to make the most of the opportunity," Nathan said.
"It brings out the competitive edge in me, I'm a pretty competitive person and I love winning."
Nathan says he couldn't have done it without the support of his team, club and family and friends.
"My parents have been a massive part of my footy life, getting me to games and stuff like that but also encouraging me and always supporting me," Nathan said.
Andy Colenso pictured middle with son Nathan to his right
Nathan's Father who also happens to be the President of the Park Ridge Pirates, Andy Colenso, says he is extremely proud of his son's accomplishment and has full confidence he will succeed.
"As a father you are always proud of your kids no matter what they achieve and no doubt we are excited as parents at the opportunity he has been given, but at the same time he has worked extremely hard to get to where he is and deserves all the credit," Andy said.
"I am grateful he has been given an opportunity to play at VFL Level with a great club and in his home state, and now he has to put his head down and try and make the next step to making his AFL dream a reality.
"The thing with Nathan though is that every level or step he has taken with his footy he has met the challenge head on and succeeded, so I am excited to see if he can continue that development at this level."
Andy says as president of a footy club he is always trying to help the kids play at the highest level they can, so it's great to see one of their former players realise their potential.
"The Club is all behind Nathan and he still has heaps of mates at the club he played with both at junior and senior level," Andy said.
"He always gets back to the club when he can as this will always be his home.
"Because of his attitude towards his old club he is well respected by everyone here, because he still cares about what is going on."
Andy says he has fond memories from coaching Nathan at the Pirates that they will treasure as father and son, and recalls his son always having high ambitions.
"I still remember when he first started and he hated losing as he was very competitive," Andy said.
"But he has made some great friends from playing AFL here and these people will be involved in his life for many years to come," Andy said.
Nathan is set to start training with the Lions by the new year and we look forward to seeing him smash it on the field. Go get 'em Tiger! (Or should I say Lion).
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// Copyright (c) ppy Pty Ltd <contact@ppy.sh>. Licensed under the MIT Licence.
// See the LICENCE file in the repository root for full licence text.

using osuTK;
using osu.Framework.Graphics;
using osu.Framework.Graphics.Containers;
using osu.Framework.Utils;
using System;
using System.Linq;
using osu.Framework.Graphics.Sprites;

namespace osu.Game.Graphics.UserInterface
{
    public class StarCounter : Container
    {
        private readonly FillFlowContainer<Star> stars;

        /// <summary>
        /// Maximum amount of stars displayed.
        /// </summary>
        /// <remarks>
        /// This does not limit the counter value, but the amount of stars displayed.
        /// </remarks>
        public int StarCount { get; }

        /// <summary>
        /// The added delay for each subsequent star to be animated.
        /// </summary>
        protected virtual double AnimationDelay => 80;

        private const float star_spacing = 4;

        private float current;

        /// <summary>
        /// Amount of stars represented.
        /// </summary>
        public float Current
        {
            get => current;

            set
            {
                if (current == value) return;

                if (IsLoaded)
                    animate(value);
                current = value;
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Shows a float count as stars. Used as star difficulty display.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="starCount">Maximum amount of stars to display.</param>
        public StarCounter(int starCount = 10)
        {
            StarCount = Math.Max(starCount, 0);

            AutoSizeAxes = Axes.Both;

            Children = new Drawable[]
            {
                stars = new FillFlowContainer<Star>
                {
                    AutoSizeAxes = Axes.Both,
                    Direction = FillDirection.Horizontal,
                    Spacing = new Vector2(star_spacing),
                    ChildrenEnumerable = Enumerable.Range(0, StarCount).Select(i => CreateStar())
                }
            };
        }

        public virtual Star CreateStar() => new DefaultStar();

        protected override void LoadComplete()
        {
            base.LoadComplete();

            // Animate initial state from zero.
            ReplayAnimation();
        }

        public void ResetCount()
        {
            current = 0;
            StopAnimation();
        }

        public void ReplayAnimation()
        {
            var t = current;
            ResetCount();
            Current = t;
        }

        public void StopAnimation()
        {
            animate(current);
            foreach (var star in stars.Children)
                star.FinishTransforms(true);
        }

        private float getStarScale(int i, float value) => i + 1 <= value ? 1.0f : Interpolation.ValueAt(value, 0, 1.0f, i, i + 1);

        private void animate(float newValue)
        {
            for (var i = 0; i < stars.Children.Count; i++)
            {
                var star = stars.Children[i];

                star.ClearTransforms(true);

                double delay = (current <= newValue ? Math.Max(i - current, 0) : Math.Max(current - 1 - i, 0)) * AnimationDelay;

                using (star.BeginDelayedSequence(delay))
                    star.DisplayAt(getStarScale(i, newValue));
            }
        }

        public class DefaultStar : Star
        {
            private const double scaling_duration = 1000;

            private const double fading_duration = 100;

            private const Easing scaling_easing = Easing.OutElasticHalf;

            private const float min_star_scale = 0.4f;

            private const float star_size = 20;

            public readonly SpriteIcon Icon;

            public DefaultStar()
            {
                Size = new Vector2(star_size);

                InternalChild = Icon = new SpriteIcon
                {
                    Size = new Vector2(star_size),
                    Icon = FontAwesome.Solid.Star,
                    Anchor = Anchor.Centre,
                    Origin = Anchor.Centre,
                };
            }

            public override void DisplayAt(float scale)
            {
                scale = (float)Interpolation.Lerp(min_star_scale, 1, Math.Clamp(scale, 0, 1));

                this.FadeTo(scale, fading_duration);
                Icon.ScaleTo(scale, scaling_duration, scaling_easing);
            }
        }

        public abstract class Star : CompositeDrawable
        {
            public abstract void DisplayAt(float scale);
        }
    }
}

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