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Casey Affleck to Document Joaquin Phoenix's Music Career
Posted: January 16th, 2009 by
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Casey Affleck (Gone Baby Gone) will track the musical career of his brother-in-law, Joaquin Phoenix (Gladiator), behind the lens of a camera.
is directing a documentary feature on
, who last spring decided to swap the thespian business for a musical one.
Phoenix is embarking on a new path as a rapper, with an album to be produced by Sean Combs. He is scheduled to make his first public performance Friday at a Las Vegas club, which will officially kick off Affleck's shoot.
Affleck is known for his work in front of the camera with such movies as "Gone Baby Gone" and the "Ocean's Eleven" series. He directed a series of shorts for Sundance Channel in the late 1990s.
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on January 16th, 2009 at 6:54:04 PM
Rapper? Seriously?
on January 16th, 2009 at 7:46:55 PM
This is some kind of sick joke,have you seen or heard him rap he sucks big time. Check TMZ.com
on January 16th, 2009 at 9:37:09 PM
That will be a short film.
on January 17th, 2009 at 9:55:47 AM
Rapper? wtf??!?!?!? wow, so can you say: f*cking idiot! he just screwed whatever chance of a career he had left with that. Casey Affleck is a boy toy bitch also, terrible actor.
on January 17th, 2009 at 12:03:42 PM
He's apparently a decent, nay, good, singer, so why the f*ck would he waste his time and reputation rapping?
on January 17th, 2009 at 9:30:19 PM
I actually like Casey. He was pretty good in the Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward robert ford.
on January 18th, 2009 at 4:38:37 AM
I mean, how can this NOT fail? I mean, Phoenix gave up his moribund acting career, a career that peaked with his role in Gladiator (IMO) as an incestuous psycho emperor, to pursue. . .rapping. Wait. RAPPING???? WTF is the matter with THIS white boy?
on January 18th, 2009 at 4:44:20 AM
Oh yeah, he was in walk the Line. A cliched, preposterous boring drivel. Crook becomes cop. Bluestreak without the humor and warmth. So yeah, he peaked with Gladiator.
on January 20th, 2009 at 2:32:20 PM
you are the one who f*cking sucks minkowski leave joaquin phoenix alone. u hear me?!
on February 16th, 2009 at 12:01:37 AM
Let him do his thing for f*cks sake. If he wants to go into music, let him, its his life and he can do what he wants with it. Regardless of what we think, he's still doing what he loves and if you don't like it, don't follow the guy around like a f*cking puppy. I don't like rap music, so you know what? I don't listen to it. Grow a brain and man-up. And if you still don't get it, look at it this way, you may think he sucks, as it seems most people do, but he still has more money than any of us, thus making him more successful at anything we have done in our lives.
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Quick Smoke: Intemperance BA XXI A.W.S. IV
27 Feb 2016
Each Saturday and Sunday we'll post a Quick Smoke: not quite a full review, just our brief verdict on a single cigar of "buy," "hold," or "sell."
While the small Fabrica de Tabacos Nica Sueño in Estelí makes many excellent cigars, the Intemperance BA XXI A.W.S. IV is my absolute favorite. This Arapiraca-wrapped lonsdale (6.5 x 44) is the perfect format to enjoy the outstanding Intemperance blend, which also includes an Indonesian binder and filler tobaccos from Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. For the very fair price of $7.50, you get a well-balanced profile of red and black pepper along with notes of cocoa, sweet cream, roasted nut, and dry wood. Construction is always impeccable. Consider this Quick Smoke an affirmation of my review two years ago that awarded this cigar our top rating.
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After successfully completing studies in Australia (graduation) students have several options available to them if they want to work and live in Australia. Most students who complete Bachelor's degree or higher are eligible to undertake post study work and put their newly gained knowledge to use and gain work experience in Australia.
Post Study work
- Graduates who have completed a Bachelor degree or Masters by coursework degree in Australia will be eligible to apply for a two year (24 month) post-study work visa.
- Graduates who have completed a Masters by research degree or a Doctoral degree in Australia will be eligible to apply for a post-study work visa for three or four years respectively.
- Other students who have completed a course which is related to the occupation listed in the skill shortage may be eligible to apply for the Temporary Skilled Graduate [subclass 485] visa. The subclass 485 visa is a temporary visa that allows an 18 month stay to work in Australia.
Apply for permanent residency
Australia is always in need of skilled people and Australia has been building its population through immigration from the past 200 years. Australia welcomes international students and will continue to provide an opportunity for those who have the necessary qualifications and skills to find an Australian employer willing to sponsor them for a permanent visa.
There are also several other visa categories open to international students and Australia has a very straightforward path to permanent residency under the skilled migration program. Most International students studying in Australia who hold a vocational, higher education or postgraduate student visa will still be able to apply for permanent residence if their occupation is on the new Skilled Occupation List (SOL) and they meet other requirements.
However students should be aware that merely by studying in Australia does not guarantee permanent residence or full time jobs.
The Australian Government skilled migration program targets young people who have skills, an education and outstanding abilities that will contribute to the Australian economy. International students with Australian qualifications account for about half the people assessed under the skilled migrant program.


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IzPack is an installer generator for the Java platform. It produces lightweight installers that can be run on any operating system where a Java virtual machine is available. Depending on the operating system, it can be launched by a double-click or a simple java -jar installer.jar from a shell. The most common use is to distribute applications for the Java platform, but you can also use it for other kinds of projects. The main benefit of IzPack is that it provides a clean and unique way of distributing a project to users using different operating systems. IzPack is reported to run on:
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On January 20, Turkey invaded the Kurdish region of northwestern Syria to destroy what it calls a terrorist army. No, it is not fighting ISIS. It is, quite the contrary, fighting the American-backed militia that effectively destroyed ISIS and helped liberate the city of Raqqa last October.
According to Turkey's increasingly authoritarian President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) are a terrorist organization backed by the United States. That sentence right there ought to be enough to make you doubt what Erdogan is selling right now, but perhaps you aren't sure. Few in the West know much about the YPG. Most Americans have not even heard of it. And if all a person knows about it is that it's an armed group in Syria, of all places, that a NATO ally calls a terrorist organization, well…Syria is full of terrorists, isn't it?
Syria is indeed full of terrorists, but the YPG is one of the few armed factions in the war that adheres to moral Western warfighting norms. It's also one of the precious few factions that's genuinely pro-Western.
The YPG is backed by the Pentagon and 2,000 American soldiers as part of Washington's plan to effectively control 28 percent of Syrian territory so that ISIS cannot come back. It's mostly made up of ethnic Kurds, although there are Arab, Assyrian Christian and foreign fighters mixed into the ranks, including women in the Women's Protection Units. They are the armed wing of the Democratic Union Party, founded in 2003.
Their ideology isn't Islamist. It's leftist. They champion, in their own words, "social equality, justice and the freedom of belief" along with "pluralism and the freedom of political parties." They hope to implement "a democratic solution that includes the recognition of cultural, national and political rights, and develops and enhances their peaceful struggle to be able to govern themselves in a multicultural, democratic society." They describe themselves as libertarian socialists, a minority faction within the worldwide socialist movement that rejects one-party rule and authoritarian state control of the economy.
They also ascribe to what they call Communalism, a set of ideas put forth by Abdullah Ocalan, founder of Turkey's Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK). It is here that the YPG gets itself into trouble with Turkey.
Ocalan founded the PKK in 1978 as a Kurdish nationalist separatist movement and a Marxist-Leninist insurgency. Like nearly all communist guerrilla armies—from Peru's Shining Path to the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia—it was inherently prone to terrorism. While primarily striking Turkish soldiers and police officers, the group has also committed a number of attacks against civilian targets, including a car bomb in Ankara last March that killed dozens and wounded more than 100 and a suicide attack in Istanbul's Taksim Square in 2010.
The so-called Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK) take credit for some of the worst attacks against Turkey. Experts disagree about whether or not the TAK is linked to the PKK, but at the very least it's a breakaway faction and is far more linked to the PKK than the YPG in Syria is.
In 1999, Ocalan was arrested in Kenya by Turkish intelligence officers, swiftly dispatched to Turkey and sentenced to death. He's still alive, though, because Turkey abolished the death penalty, hoping that would boost its chances of being admitted to the European Union. Today Ocalan languishes on Imrali, a penal island in the Sea of Marmara.
While in prison, Ocalan watered down his communist ideology into the so-called libertarian socialism that it is now. And it is this ideology, not the old school quasi-Stalinist one of the PKK's past, that the YPG adheres to today.
The PKK still behaves as a terrorist organization. Old habits from the 1970s don't go down easily. The YPG, though, didn't even exist until 2003. It never went through a communist or a terrorist phase, and it takes its inspiration from the milder version Ocalan promoted after he mellowed in prison.
The YPG is asking for trouble by borrowing anything at all from Abdullah Ocalan, but it has never committed an act of terrorism in Syria or anywhere else, not even at a time when terrorist attacks are as routine as weather in Syria. So while, yes, the YPG and the PKK are ideologically linked, the Turkish government has never been able to identify a single act of terrorism the YPG has ever committed, not in Turkey, not in Syria, nor anywhere else.
One can understand why the YPG gets Erdogan's hackles up, but gunning for these people makes no more sense than bombing South Africa in the early 1990s because then-President Nelson Mandela used to be a communist, neverminding that his party, the African National Congress, did not even attempt to build a communist state after winning elections.
Whatever you think of the "libertarian socialism" of Syrian Kurdistan, it's not even in the same time zone as the medieval totalitarianism of ISIS, the secular nationalist tyranny of Assad's Arab Socialist Baath Party regime in Damascus or the Putin-esque rule of the neo-Ottoman Erdogan.
Turkey can call the Kurds terrorists all they want, but that will not make them so.


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The artist is Lars Wilks and this is a conseptual work of art, placed in a naturereserve.
It is made by driftwood and consists of sparsely nailed together planks and tree branches forming passageways, rooms and towers. Construction of Nimis began in July 1980 and it was Vilks revenge on the sea after he almost had drowned, but also as a reaction to the trend prevailing in the arts, "nothing was resistant".
It also became the start of a long legal process, it was considered by the authorities as an illegal construction.
This legal process was also considered by the artist as a part of the work of art.
Nimis was sold to the german artist Joseph Boyes, and when he passed away, Jeanne Claude and Christo became owner.
Close to Nimis, Lthe artist has built , the book Arx, in concrete and stone. He also proclamed the area with Nimis and Arx , as the land Landonia.
It its difficult to visit Nimis, it is not a safe tour and several people have been injured, on the way down.
There has also been a lot of protest against this building in a naturereserve.
At the moment the artist is living under protection of the police after a work of art that is considered as blasphemy by muslim groups
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题 目:中国和欧洲的人权
China's and European Human Right——From the perspective of the European Convention on Human Rights and of my personal experience as an international judge at the European Court of Human Rights
时 间:12月10日(周一) 15:00-17:00
地 点:明德法学楼601国际会议报告厅
演 讲 人:Elisabeth STEINER (欧洲人权法院法官)
主 持 人:朱 岩(中国人民大学法学院教授)
嘉 宾: 韩大元(中国人民大学法学院院长、教授)
Alonzo Emery(中国人民大学法学院助理教授)
Charles Wharton(中国人民大学法学院助理教授)
Professor Elisabeth STEINER was born in Vienna, Austria. She is now an international judge and the vice president of First section at the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg (France); member of the Committee of the Rules of the European Court of Human Rights; member of the Status Committee of the European Court of Human Rights and member of the Judicial Studies Programme Committee of the European Court of Human Rights; appointed member of the Expert Committee on Labour Law of the Chamber of Attorneys, Vienna; member of various international lawyers' associations and of a European lawyers' network in Vienna.
Professor Steiner got her bachelor degree in Cultural Management in University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, and got her master and doctor degree of law and business administration in University of Vienna and University of Economics respectively.
Professor Steiner established legal practice in Vienna, January 1988 and practiced as a solicitor and barrister independently since then until she was elected as a judge. She was actively involved in human rights and civil liberties issues, such as the law applying to aliens, women's issues, and for almost 20 years, she conducted daily forensic experience in pursuit of fundamental civil and human rights in all types of legal action, in all the courts and before all types of administrative authorities in Austria, in the context of her labour law activities, including both individual and collective labour law, legal activities in relation to cases involving practices repugnant to human dignity.
Professor Steiner was elected and re-elected to the European Court of Human Rights as a judge in 2001 and 2007. In 2012, she was elected as the vice president of First Section of the Court. She has been a judge in various leading Grand Chamber cases of the Court such as A. and Others v. the United Kingdom; AL-JEDDA v. the United;AL-SKEINI and Others v. the United Kingdom; ALVAREZ LECEGUI v. Spain; ANHEUSER-BUSCH INC. v. Portugal; ASSOCIATION SOS ATTENTATS and DE BOERY v. France; BURDEN and BURDEN v. the United Kingdom; BYKOV v. Russia; D.H. AND OTHERS v. the Czech Republic; E.B. v. France; EL MAJJAOUI & STICHTING TOUBA MOSKEE v. the Netherlands; FERNANDEZ OLMO v. Spain; FINCI v. Bosnia and Herzegovina; FOLGERO and Others v. Norway, etc.
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Trustee Brooke Ashjian, "I've finished the task"
During Wednesday's press conference, FUSD Trustee Ashjian listed his accomplishments and discussed the culture change he led.
Trustee Brooke Ashjian, Fresno Unified School District Trustee for Area 7 will not seek re-election. During the press conference on Wednesday morning in front of the FUSD headquarters, Trustee Ashjian listed his accomplishments and said he "never backed down from a fight" and always sought to do what was best for the children. Trustee Ashjian said,
"I announce that I wont be running for school board in the coming election. I feel that I have ran the course, I've finished the task, and set the place for success."
During the brief press conference Trustee Ashjian said he ran to clear the cloud of corruption at FUSD, restore accountability, and bring back truth and transparency to Fresno. During his service, Ashjian said he changed the competitive bidding process, revamped the truancy system, conducted an audit of the special education department to ensure special needs children would not be forgotten, and ensured shot spotter technology was installed near schools. Trustee Ashjian was also instrumental in the culture change and said,
"There is absolute transparency in the numbers, no longer will we fudge numbers at Fresno Unified. You'd say what are you saying? I'm saying to you the numbers that you've seen coming out of Fresno Unified prior to me getting to this board were inaccurate. Our African American education gap, achievement gap, was one of the worst in the nation and it was hidden from public, and it was a travesty that we did that."
Trustee Ashjian did not endorse another candidate for the FUSD Area 7 seat at this time. Trustee Ashjian expressed his passion as a concerned parent and not politician.
Sad day for Fresno Unified School District.
Many on the progressive left will hail this as a victory, but many parents who have students in Fresno Unified are losing a passionate advocate. Some political advocates will no doubt celebrate tonight without actually realizing what will be lost.
Many know that Brooke and I disagreed on many issues facing students. I appreciate his willingness and accessibility to discuss any issue unlike the majority of the trustees. Brooke said that he did not back down from a fight during the press conference, and that is true.
I remember one specific conversation about "safe spaces" as I tried to change his mind, but I truly witnessed someone who cared about students and not political fame and he said, "Guillermo, it ain't about that, its about the kids. Always."
Brooke, you will be missed.
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I certainly won't miss him. He cost the district millions of dollars due to his numerous conflicts of interest. I won't miss a man who's under investigation by the FBI and the Fair Political Practices Commission. The truth is he's getting while the getting is good. I hope to see a federal grand jury indictment in his near future.


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By NICOLETTE TOUSSAINT
Special to the Herald Times
RBC | Our handyman, Tim, warned us we'd have to pay a fee when he took our defunct microwave away.
That worried me, because environmentally, there's no such place as "away". The earth is a closed loop system, so mankind's junk isn't leaving. Ever. Check out www.stuffin.space and you can see more than 100,000 manmade objects, many defunct, orbiting the earth in real time.
Manmade junk amounts to a huge problem: Mount Everest is littered with thawing fecal matter and discarded climbing gear. The Great Lakes are awash in microfibers from fleece. The Pacific Ocean's garbage vortex is now twice the size of Texas.
The U.S. exports 80 percent of its old electronics to developing countries. In Agbogbloshie, Ghana, barefoot children mine tons of e-waste at a gargantuan dump looking for computers and cellphones so that their parents can burn the plastic and drench the circuit boards in cyanide to extract gold. Their efforts can lead to asthma, pneumonitis, tremors, neuropsychiatric problems, convulsions, coma, even death. Still, at least 15 million people worldwide survive by recycling dangerous e-waste. As a recent World Bank Group white paper noted, "many poor people, faced with a choice between starving or waste-picking, choose the latter."
But it's not just the poor who prowl e-dumps. It's also thieves. Smart devices that have been sent "away" can come back to haunt us via identity theft. That's why there's an old computer lying in the crawl space under my house. It's nearly impossible to truly scrub personal data off of e-devices.
For personal, health and environmental reasons, I don't want my discarded devices added to some malignant midden in Asia or Africa. Plus, it's becoming increasingly difficult to send junk away to places like Ghana, India and China.
This January, China enacted a new law barring the import of plastic, mixed paper, old clothing and other materials from American recycling programs. The problem isn't just that badly-sorted recycling often contains toxic waste. It's also that China, which imported $5.6 billion in U.S. scrap in 2016, is now producing its own electronic products—and its own electronic waste.
The best choices for dealing with worlds' trash problem involve local efforts. A good example comes from Mumbai, where about 80 baby Olive Ridley turtles recently scuttled across a beach into the Arabian Sea. Five years ago, they wouldn't have made it one foot. With garbage piled five feet deep in places, Versova Beach ranked as one the world's most polluted oceanfronts.
Then, in 2015, Mumbai lawyer Afroz Shah launched recruited volunteers who worked every weekend for two years removing a staggering 5,000 tons of litter in what the U.N. termed the world's largest beach clean-up.
There might be some good tidings for the Pacific garbage patch. In 2016, Japanese researchers discovered a bacteria that can eat non-biodegradable plastic. This spring, an international research team led by the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory – yes, the folks in Boulder—discovered an Ideonella sakaiensis variant that can break down those ubiquitous polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic water bottles. That moves scientists closer to solving the titanic problem of discarded plastics that take centuries to biodegrade.
There might even be hope for e-waste. Manufacturers in China, India and other developing countries are starting to view e-scrap as a valuable commodity. In recent years, the rising demand for, and value of, the "rare earth" elements used in laptops and cellphones has risen, placing the cost of recycling closer to mining. Policies encouraging sustainable "harvesting" of rare and valuable raw materials have already been adopted in Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea.
There's also some good news about local recycling. It's growing.
Seven years ago, a recycling professional I met at networking event in Carbondale, where I live, told me that virtually nothing got recycled on the Western Slope. Because we didn't have local recycling facilities, everything had to be trucked over the passes to Denver. For most of our junk, that's just too far away to be economical.
Hence my nagging concern about trashing that microwave.
When I asked Tim whether the microwave wound up in what's euphemistically called a "landfill," he said, "No." He took it to Trinity Recycling, which serves the Roaring Fork and Vail Valleys from Gypsum and Glenwood Springs. Trinity disassembles appliances, metal sheds and filing cabinets, copper pipes and wires, cars, trucks and even old radiators and recycles the metals locally.
Today, several "material recovery centers"—factories that sort and resell recycled materials—operate on Colorado's Western Slope: Pitkin County runs one. So does Eagle County. So does the City of Grand Junction.
That's better news than I was expecting when I trashed the microwave. So I think I will just save my rant about why a three-year-old microwave couldn't be fixed away for another column, another day.
There is no 'away,' but there is Western Slope recycling (OPED)
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Hip Hop Vibe Staff Writer
Behind bars, Remy Ma had been forgotten by most of the fans in the hip hop community. In the middle of Lil' Kim and Nicki Minaj trading insults, many forgot about the woman who kept a female voice in the game in between Kim and Nicki. But, Remy Ma has made news as she fights to get out of prison.
Juelz Santana gave her props for doing what most men cannot even do, serve hard time in prison. Santana says there are many rappers who claim to be tough. While they claim to be tough, very few of them have served time like Remy Ma has. Lil Wayne and T.I. had high profile sentences, but they were out within a year.
Lady Luck is the latest person to discuss Remy Ma's prison sentence and she is also supporting her. She knows Remy Ma is a very strong woman because of her own experiences. By no means is Lady Luck weak, but when she served 110 days in prison, she felt as if she was going to die. Remy Ma has been in prison for over three years and she is still fighting and still in her right mind.


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Building and Using A Scalable Display Wall System
Kai Li, Han Chen, Yuqun Chen,
Princeton's Scalable Display Wall project explores building and using a large-format display with multiple commodity components. The prototype system has been operational since March 1998. Our goal is to construct a collaborative space that fully exploits a large-format display system with immersive sound and natural user interfaces. Here we discuss our early experiences in building and using the Scalable Display Wall, including for classroom use.
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Kai Li, Han Chen, Yuqun Chen, Douglas W. Clark, Perry Cook, Stefanos Damianakis, Georg Essl, Adam Finkelstein, Thomas Funkhouser, Timothy Housel, Allison Klein, Zhiyan Liu, Emil Praun, Rudrajit Samanta, Ben Shedd, Jaswinder Pal Singh, George Tzanetakis, and Jiannan Zheng. Building and Using A Scalable Display Wall System. Computer Graphics and Applications 20(4):29-37, December 2000.


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The Super Bowl halftime show was full of statements but none seemed to get people upset more than Beyonce's performance of her new song "Formation."
"Formation" is a pro-black song with a music video that highlights Hurricane Katrina, afros and police brutality against Aftrican Americans.
During the show Beyonce took the Levi's Stadium by storm dressed in black and gold as a tribute to Michael Jackson while her backup dancers dressed in black with berets as a tribute to the 50-year anniversary of the Black Panther Party, a group of black nationalist and socialist from 1966 until 1982 in the United States.
"She used it as a platform to attack police officers who are the people that protect us and keep us alive," said Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York City, in a Fox News interview.
Nowhere in Beyonce's performance did she attack police.
It's Black History Month, a month for America to remember African American side of history textbooks forgot.
Beyonce is a star who used this platform of the Super Bowl to pay respect to Michael Jackson, Malcolm X and the Black Panther Party and all of them have done a lot for black people in a America.
Of course not everyone considered the performance an attack.
"It's an attack on cops who attack our people," said Rapper T.I. in an airport with TMZ.
Not all police officers are bad.
But the attack on black and brown people by police has gotten way out of hand.
Why else would it constantly come up if it wasn't an issue?
There is now a boycott Beyonce hashtag and there will even be a protest rally happening on Feb. 16 at the NFL headquarters in New York City
That's ridiculous and obviously others felt the same because the turn out was so poor people now believe it was a prank.
Saturday Night Live recently did a skit on white peoples' reaction to the song. It was over dramatic but the message was clear in the skit the white people didn't understand her song at all.
But how can a song geared toward black people be anything else?
People are really upset at Beyonce for loving the fact that she's a black woman who uses her voice to promote her people who for a long time were and still are to others as "black sheep." She's giving a voice to the voiceless relaying a message that has been on Black people's mind since the beginning – stop killing us.
Through all this controversy Beyonce has remained on top.
With the announcement of her "Formation" tour.
She has even added more dates from her original schedule due to the high demand.
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A thought on punishment
Thought for the day….
Can dog training be done with out punishment, and what is the definition of punishment…. In behaviorism, punishment refers to the consequence for undesired behavior. Punishment can be either negative or positive, depending on the nature of the consequence. The confusion comes from humans adding a negative connotation to the word. Punishment does not have to be a leash jerk, collar shock or anything else aversive. Punishment is not a dirty word it is just a word! Now it is our job to use it correctly.
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Can anyone help me track down the mod that these parts go with? I swear I still have all my same mods installed but some of my crafts will not be loaded in because of missing parts. I believe one or more of the mods were updated by ckan and some parts must have been removed or names were changed. If anyone can help me so I can continue this save, it would be greatly appreciated.
If anyone wants me to attach my .craft files or save, I can upload it to google drive or mediafire for sharing purposes. Thanks so much.
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Yodi Mac is a product of the Northwest, Sasquatch country, or as many have come to call Seattle, WA, the Emerald City. While in his music he voices perspectives regarding various social issues ranging from race and class to struggles with self-identification, he also presents himself as a soft spoken Chief-tain who chills tough and prefers the solitude of playing the background.
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Are you taking lots of vitamins and still not feeling well? Are you not taking vitamins and think you should? When you take oral vitamins do you get indigestion?
It is extremely important that you take good quality oral vitamins. Indigestion is rare with excellent quality vitamins. Contaminants are found 40-50% in over the counter and in internet vitamins. They also do not contain what the label says 40-50% of the time.
If a patient has indigestion or another gastrointestinal disorder the vitamin and mineral supplements may not be absorbed.
Helpful as an immune system support and used to treat conditions ranging from sinusitis to scleroderma, IV therapies contain vitamins, minerals, amino acids, antioxidants and trace minerals. While these nutrients can certainly be taken orally, as many people do, when delivered intravenously, the nutrients bypass the digestive tract and go directly to the cells that need them. Plus, IV treatment works faster and delivers concentrations that would be impossible with oral doses.
Health care practitioners trained in nutritional medicine know the many benefits of using IV drips to quickly and efficiently deliver nutrients directly to where they are needed — the cells. IV therapy may help those who are unable or unwilling to swallow vitamin pills, who have a history of digestive problems and who want to improve their overall health. Bypassing the digestive system and its potential barriers to the absorption of nutrients (deficient hydrochloric acid is at the top of the list, followed by deficient digestive enzymes and a lack of beneficial friendly gut bacteria that aid digestion), IVs go right to the source to work on any problems quickly. The IV therapies represent by far the most streamlined method for treating nutritional shortcomings. Nutritional IV therapies hydrate the body and detoxify the liver and lymphatic system, thereby causing you to feel better faster while helping the body to work more efficiently.
IV nutrients are given in therapeutic, pharmacological doses far above the minimal requirements of the Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA), which are intended to avoid deficiency states and have little to do with promoting optimal health. If you have 100 percent of your RDA nutrient requirements each day, you will not get beriberi, rickets or scurvy.
The body's familiarity with natural nutrients (as contrasted with "unnatural" drugs) accounts for the high safety profile of IV nutrient administration and their effectiveness.
Some of the conditions for which IV therapies have been found useful include:
• Flues/Colds
• Chronic allergies and sinusitis
• Chronic fatigue
• Epstein-Barr
• Immune system support
• Multiple sclerosis
• Neurological Disorders
• Endocrine dysfunction
• Fibromyalgia
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• Migraine or severe headaches
• Liver detoxification
• Revitalization after chemotherapy
• Scleroderma
• Shingles
• Wound healing
• Post-operative care
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Nutrient depletion is common, especially in patients requiring surgery who may not have been able to tolerate eating prior to surgery, or who suffer from a poor diet. IV administration of nutrients before surgery can have a positive impact on the post-surgical course, including less pain and faster healing.
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Recent studies at the NIH (National Institutes of Health) conducted by Harvard Medical School researcher, Mark Levin, MD, have demonstrated the anti-tumor effect of high dosage IV vitamin C. This same effect does not occur with oral vitamin C. This therapy was originally developed by Nobel Prize Winner, Dr. Linus Pauling, expanded upon by Drs. Klenner and Cathcart and, more recently, Hugh Rirodan. While IV therapies are not suggested as a primary cancer therapy, they do help enhance the immune system which can help the body fight disease.
Intensive antioxidant therapy can be delivered using IV glutathione or alpha-lipoic acid. These nutrients have special use in modulating peripheral neuropathy of diabetes, liver disease, asthma and virtually any chronic disease in which oxidation plays a role.
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Glutathione is known to be an important antioxidant throughout the body and in the brain. Glutathione and enzymes related to its metabolism have been reported to be depleted in the substantia nigra of brains of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). The primary role of glutathione is to protect cells from free radicals, those destructive chemicals formed by normal metabolism and by exposure to various environmental toxins. Glutathione also enhances the function of other antioxidant compounds by keeping them in a form suitable for capture of free radicals.
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Although there is limited clinical research on the effectiveness of this protocol because its nutrients are generic, the University of Miami received a grant to study glutathione and the study is now underway. This study was obtained with the help of Dr. Perlmutter.
Phosphatidylcholine (PC)
PC can also be given in an IV. PC makes up about 60-80% of our cell membranes. That with glutathione has a powerful healing aspect to many chronic illnesses.
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A Winter Union - St. John On Bethnal Green, London (14/12/17)
- Line-up: A Winter Union (Katriona Gilmore, Jade Rhiannon, Jamie Roberts, Hannah Sanders and Ben Savage
- Location: St. John On Bethnal Green, London
- Date: 14th December, 2017
- Review By: Gary Smith (LCM)
- Live photos and video: Keith Bache
One of the musical highlights of the pre-Christmas period is the annual UK mini tour from folk super-group 'A Winter Union'. It brings together five of the leading lights of the current British roots scene, who have joined forces to create a festive folk band like no other. Their repertoire includes brand new, specially written songs, fresh arrangements of traditional carols both well-loved and little-known and seasonal classics from both sides of the Atlantic. High class musicianship and songwriting plus wonderful close soaring harmonies are the hallmarks of the night. This gig was made extra special as it was hosted at St. John's, a grand but rather cold early 19th-century 'Sir John Sloane' designed church, just a stone's throw from Bethnal Green Station.
'A Winter Union' was originally formed in 2015 for a one-off Yuletide concert. They returned in 2016 for more shows including one of the home's of UK folk music Cecil Sharp House in London and a live session on BBC Radio 3. This year brings the band's first line-up change with BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winning Kat Gilmore & Jaime Roberts replacing another multi award winning duo Stu and Debbie Hanna from Megson.
The evening started in true seasonal fashion with the traditional and popular carol 'Ding Song Merrily on High' with Hannah and Jade sharing the lead vocal. This was followed by an original song called 'Every Midnight Mile', a tender and thoughtful charity single released in 2015 to raise money for 'Shelter' as part of the Song Ark project. This Americana Folk flavoured song reflected on 'being grateful for what we have' and was written by Kat. The original recording also included UK folk favourites Lucy Ward and Sam Kelly.
Secrets were revealed next as Ben confessed that his hobby away from music is cider making. The rowdy and rousing song 'Our Wassail' followed with Ben taking the lead vocals and featured very strong and lively fiddle playing from Kat. Wassailing refers to a traditional ceremony that involves singing and drinking to the health of trees on Twelfth Night in the hopes that they might better thrive. The purpose of wassailing is to awaken the cider apple trees and to scare away evil spirits to ensure a good harvest of fruit in the Autumn.
'Elizabeth' is a homage to Elizabeth Woodcock from Cambridge who after visiting a local inn and getting quite merry fell off her horse in the wintertime and was allegedly entombed in an ice cave in a snow drift for 8 days. She survived so the story goes on nuts and brandy. I loved the acoustic guitar solo from Jamie in this one.
It's always great to have a traditional song about yuletide kindness to peasants and 'Good King Wenceslas' fitted the bill perfectly. This popular Christmas carol that tells a story of a Bohemian king going on a journey and braving harsh winter weather to give alms to a poor peasant on the Feast of Stephen. The song featured Kat on tambourine (borrowed from Jade's daughter), Ben on Dobro and some fantastic three part harmonies from the group.
We were treated to an 'almost' world exclusive live premiere (2nd play) of an excellent new song written by Kat called 'Fox In The Wintertime' which geatured Kat on lead vocals and Jade on BV's. To close out the first half 'The King' featured 'the king of birds' the wren. The ancient annual hunting and killing of the little wren symbolized of the death of winter. The song is also a new charity single to support missing people. This segued nicely into a few choruses of 'Good Rest You Merry Gentleman' with it's heartly 'good tiding of comfort and joy' refrain
The second half opened with the group singing unaccompanied the rousing ancient and traditional carol 'The Boar's Head' (first published in 1521). Starting at the back of the church, they walked down the aisle through an enthralled audience, finishing the song the front of the stage. The church acoustics working marvelously. I also loved the instrumental version that followed of another traditional carol 'In The Bleak Midwinter'. The song is based on a poem by the English poet Christina Rossetti written in 1872 and was first set to music in The English Hymnal in 1906 by Gustav Holst. This version saw Hannah on dulcimer, Kat on fiddle, Ben on Dobro, and Jamie on acoustic guitar. A third very popular traditional carol followed with a wonderful version of the 'The Holly & The Ivy' featuring Jade on lead vocals.
The 'Mistletoe Bough' is based on a horror story, which has been associated with many mansions and stately homes in England. Surprising it was a very popular Christmas song in the mid 1800's, even forming the basis of a later Alfred Hitchcock movie. It features a new bride, playing a game of hide-and-seek during her wedding breakfast, who hides in a chest in an attic and is unable to escape. She is not discovered by her family and friends and unfortunately dies. The body is found many years later in the locked chest, as a skeleton in a wedding dress.
The 'First Light Of Day' is a song written by Jade's husband Cliff who was on baby sitting duty on the night. Ben joking said that for a few years they never took much notice of what the song was called, they just nicknamed it 'Cliff's Christmas'. Jamie took the lead standing in for the absent Cliff.
It was very fitting that for the very famous carol 'We Three Kings', that they were joined on stage by one of the resident church statue 'Melchior'. When I say resident, the statue has been taken on a bit of a journey recently including the Parliament buildings, The National Theater and various London Football Clubs. The history of the statue and its journey was then told by Father Allen. Interestingly and quite uncannily the statue bore a striking resemblance to Richard Thompson, unfortunately this time without his trademark guitar. After the end of the song Father Allen come back to retrieve the statue.......so in true Elvis Presley tradition..........'The King has left the building!'
Christmas hat time followed with the group donning various Christmas novelty hats for a cover of a Christmas Country number one from The Band called 'Christmas Must Be Tonight'. Ben joked that because it was a Country song and the first one the band had written, they included a lot of Country song references including trucks.
For the well deserved encore the group returned to the front of the stage. A sang around a retro bi-directional condensor mic that Hannah and Ben often use in their duo set. 'Raise A Candle' was a tender and heartfelt post Christmas song reflecting about the New Year.
To end a wonderful evening of music they chose a rousing and uplifting American-American spiritual counting song called 'Children Go Where I Send Thee'.
It was an excellent concert from a group of very talented folk musicians and friends. I hope that the 'A Winter Union' tour becomes a permanent and regular fixture for many years to come. It's a early Christmas treat and a perfect seasonal musical present.
Jade Rhiannon (The Willows) – Vocals
Katriona Gilmore (Gilmore & Roberts, The Willows) – Vocals, Mandolin, Fiddle
Jamie Roberts (Gilmore & Roberts, The Dovetail Trio) – Vocals, Guitar
Hannah Sanders (Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage) – Vocals, Guitar, Dulcimer, Autoharp
Ben Savage (Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage, The Willows) – Vocals, Dobro, Guitar


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Tribute paid to supporters' group member Pat Abel for helping hand in getting Coventry City back at the Ricoh Arena
Coventry City director Tim Fisher today paid tribute to a leading member of a club's supporters group who 'set the ball rolling' on the road to reconciliation.
The Coventry City Supporters' Consultative Group - made up of fans' groups and other supporters' representatives – has continued to meet while the club has been playing games outside the city.
Fisher has been a guest at most meetings to keep supporters informed of club plans and today praised the work of the group for helping to bring about the agreement to return to the Ricoh.
And he has picked out one particular member ahead of the first game back at the Ricoh against Gillingham next Friday.
He said: "At one of the SCG's last meetings at the Ricoh just as the issues were coming to the fore, Pat Abel, who is a long-standing member of the group and a great supporter of the club, suggested contacting the Cathedral to see it if could play a part in reaching an agreement.
"Pat is not a lady to be thwarted. The Archbishop of Canterbury was at the Cathedral when they met and they mentioned in passing.
"He suggested she contacted the Bishop, as peace and reconciliation is a community as well as an international issue, and that's just what she did.
"Eventually the chair of the SCG Jonathan Strange approached owner Joy Seppala and the Dean of the Cathedral, the Very Reverend John Witcombe and a meeting was arranged.
"That led – many hours and meetings later – to where we are today. It is typical that Pat does not want to take any credit but her idea and the work of the SCG has played a key part.
"The members of the SCG have not always agreed with club policy and there have, at times, been some very strained meetings, but they have never wavered in their determination to help us return to the city and I thank them for that."
SCG chair Jonathan Strange said: "The SCG was established to ensure two way communication between the club and its supporters and we have continued to meet during the recent troubled times.
"Obviously recent times have not been easy but Tim has continued to attend our meetings and has never shirked any of the issues.
"Pat raised the potential of church representatives playing a part as mediators, as she is a regular member of the Cathedral congregation, and I was happy to make the approaches. What really matters is that we will see the club playing back in the city.
"It's great that we can now get back to the real reason the SCG was originally set-up – to encourage dialogue between the club and the supporters to help improve the experience for fans on matchdays and, indeed, non-matchdays."
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I stumbled upon probably the best piece of software I've seen for MT4 in a very, very long time today.
Sometimes when markets are moving fast you need to act quickly and either close orders or hedge a position so you can evaluate your options. The problem with hedging is you pay two times the commissions. However, MT4 has a function that doesn't get used all that much and it is ordercloseby.
I've copied and pasted the author's words below. You can view the original thread at FF here.
Let's say you have 20 open positions and you want to close them down instantly. How do you do it?
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York College looks to draw in prospective students and connect the expanding community with their annual #SpartaNation tour January 4th, 2017. Hosted by the Office of Alumni Relations, the #SpartaNation tour serves as an outreach program that aims to connect the expanding York College community.
"This tour presents a unique opportunity for us to connect alumni, students, and parents of the college," said Kristin Schab, Director of Alumni Relations and 2004 York college alum. "Our hope is to convince potential students to attend York by demonstrating the vast outreach and employment of our alumni."
Each year, the Office of Alumni Relations selects 10-12 YCP students to serve on the #YCPRoadCrew during the tour. The #YCPRoadCrew serve as Ambassadors for the college, attend receptions, and spearhead the tour's social media campaign.
"Serving on the #YCPRoadCrew has given me a very unique opportunity to network with alumni, current students, and prospective students," said Student Senate President and #YCPRoadCrew member Abhi Kudaravalli. "My favorite part is talking to alumni, and hearing their stories about their time at York College and how York has prepared them for success in the real world."
"It's an honor to be able to represent the student body and share all the benefits York College affords to the student body," said Chantel Vereen, member of the 2017 #YCPRoadCrew. "Personally, I look forward to engaging with the many different comminutes and companies during the journey. I encourage any student, parent, or alumni to attend an event if they can."
The #SpartaNation 2017 tour is set to include seven stops in areas with the highest concertation of YCP alumni. Beginning with the first stop at the Melville Marriott in Long Island, New York, the tour will also host evens in New York City, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., and Baltimore. The tour will conclude with a celebratory event at Marketview Arts in downtown York.
At the various stops, #SpartaNation will host receptions featuring numerous YCP deans as guest speakers. This year's tour is set to feature Dean of the Center of Community Engagement Dr. Dominic Dellicarpini, Dean of Student Affairs Joseph Merkle, Associate Dean of the Graham School of Business Dr. James Norrie, Provost and Dean of Academic Affairs Dr. Laura Niesen de Abruna, and York College President Dr. Pamela Gunter-Smith.
"In addition to the receptions, the #SpartaNation tour crew members participate in site visits to venues currently employing YCP alums. In previous years, we've gotten the opportunity to get a behind-the-scenes look at many interesting venues, such as M&T Bank Stadium, Wyndham Worldwide, and FBI Headquarters. Last year, we connected with an alum working on the set of Rachel Ray's TV show." Said Schab. "For 2017, we plan to take a behind-the-scenes tour of the Under Amour facility in Baltimore."
After experiencing a five-year hiatus following the inaugural 2009 tour, #SpartaNation was relaunched with the support of Dr. Gunter-Smith in 2014. Gunter-Smith journeyed across the east coast with the #YCPRoadCrew, attending every #SpartaNation event along the way.


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This week's 5 Minute Workout was inspired by a friend's question:
Hey miss fitness…I need some advice. What do you do to tone/firm the back of your legs. Mine look like they have encountered a major hail storm since I had the baby…any advice? (besides get liposuction :))
Wow! That's a challenge. First off, it'd be Mrs. Fitness as I'm a married woman…ha, ha! Second, after this, I will no longer be doing this blog because I will make millions by sharing the winning formula to eliminating cottage cheese thighs! Ok, not really. Sorry to say but every woman will…hold on, let me rephrase that. Every woman who cannot routinely get liposuction will get cellulite. This is simply down to women's chemistry. Around the middle to late twenties and especially after childbirth, a hailstorm beats down on women's thighs and even arms and stomach. Although there isn't a magic formula for getting rid of it, (besides extreme measures) you can diminish the appearance by toning the lower body.
I am really going to stress the toning bit. Cardio will help immensely if you need to lose weight in general but resistance training and toning is really the key to reducing the look of it! Plyometrics are fantastic to incorporate as well as barbell squats, lunges…any weighted exercise that's really taxing all those little muscle fibers.
I don't have any of that equipment, not even heavy dumbbells. So I've made it that these 4 exercises can be done at home, the park or anywhere that has a sturdy bench/chair. The whole leg is being taxed but there's greater concentration on the back of the legs. The next day, I felt this in my butt…right where your swimsuit bottom would hit!
1. Alternating jump lunges -10 per leg
2. Step-ups – 10 per leg
3. Rear leg raised lunge – 10-15 per leg
4. Bridge side kicks – 10-20 per leg
5. Repeat 1-4.
Do these exercises one after another with no rest. This gets the heart pounding and you should be able to complete 2 cycles of this in 5 to 6 minutes!
I like to start in the lunge position and then, pushing off the front heel, jump as high as I can (which is probably 2 centimeters off the ground) and land back in the lunge position but with the other leg forward. Continue "jumps" until you hit 20 (10 per leg).
Easy right!? Find bench, or chair. Start with one leg up. The leg that is up, push through the heel to hoist your other leg up. Don't use momentum at this part! Return to start position. I like to do all reps on one side first before switching to the other. It's an easy classic that works every time!
Rest one foot on a bench, chair, or bosu (either side works). Keep your knee in line with the toes on the other foot, lower yourself down, keeping your back straight. Push through heel to come back up. Again, I complete one side first before switching to the other!
LOVE this exercise. I had no idea what to call it though. I think I learned it about 10 years ago from an old school Billy Banks Tae Bo video (VHS of course). This raises the butt and works the obliques! It's one of my hidden gems (not so hidden anymore). If you have extra time to kill during a TV commercial break or something, do 25-50 of these per side throughout the break.
Get into a bridge position. Raise one of the bent knees out to the side. Extend out into a kick. Bring back to starting position but don't let knee touch the ground.
Repeat all exercises again and you should be slightly over 5 minutes. I love this workout and would recommend doing an extra round, completing 3 sets of each exercise!
Little bug's point of view! She was in the baby carrier while hubby snapped the pics! Did you notice her extra warm winter hat? It was freezing up there!!!! Brrr. I had many layers on from what you all saw. All pics were taken in Mijas which is a lovely village up the mountain just a few minutes from where we live.
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Sometimes it's great just to escape from the real world, forget all your problems, indulge yourself in all the little things that make you feel like you are in your own little word... music, art, movies, books, cooking. I love weekends. Liz xo
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hooray for the weekend! i was literally counting down for it this week
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The presence of armed police at Aintree for the Grand National 2017 festival this weekend is NOT in response to a direct threat police have said.
In a statement released this morning, police said their armed presence is to give Aintree Racecourse's thousands of guests "visible reassurance".
Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Claire Richards, said: "Merseyside Police constantly review its staffing levels for any large-scale public events and as per normal race goers can expect to see high visibility policing across the three days of the event.
"They may also see an armed presence but I want to reassure them that this is not in response to any direct threat aimed at the festival but just as a visible reassurance for the thousands of people who will come through the gates over the three days."
Today is the first day of the Grand National weekend, one of the biggest events in the sporting calendar and consistently attracts more than 150,000 people during the three-day festival.
Despite the attendance figures, the festival has an excellent record of deterring crime and anti-social behaviour and Merseyside Police has been working with the racecourse and the Jockey Club, local councils, Mersey Travel and other partners to plan the event with public safety as a priority.
Chief Supt Richards added: ""We want people to have a safe and enjoyable time and make sure their day at the races is memorable for all the right reasons.
"Race goers should expect to undergo the normal security checks, including bag and transport searches and badge checks.
"Only pre-booked vehicles will be allowed onto the Aintree site and there are restrictions on parking around the course which will be rigorously enforced.
"I would also like to take this opportunity to ask race goers to spare a thought for residents, who accept the huge numbers of people visiting the area with very good grace every year.
"We'd ask visitors to show local people the same courtesy and to treat the area with respect.
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Ben & Jerry?s currently operates 26 stores across the nation, and is placing the ban on same-flavored scoops as a statement of opposition to the country?s stance on same-sex marriage, were it is currently illegal for two men or two women to wed. The ?ban? is part of the company?s push for global LGBTQ rights.
Currently 70 percent of Australians support same-sex marriage, and the push for its legalization is an ongoing conversation in the country.
?We are proud to be standing alongside The Equality Campaign to continue the fight for marriage equality in Australia,? Imogen Rugg, Ben & Jerry?s Australia spokesperson, said in a statement to HuffPost. ?Ben & Jerry?s has a long and proud history of commitment to social justice, including LGBTQI rights and marriage equality. This commitment is grounded in our company?s core values and an unshakable belief that everyone deserves full and equal civil rights.?
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For marketers, finding the balance between lead quality and lead quantity is one of the biggest challenges they face.
Ask yourself this: should you spend the majority of your marketing budget on larger markets with less chance of conversion? Or, should you focus smaller markets with high conversion rates?
Are 100 cheaply gained unqualified leads worth more than 10 much more costly qualified leads? Or is the opposite true?
For Brize, a growth hacking consulting company based in the Netherlands, the answer is to turn quantity into quality.
By focusing on one cheap and scalable market and using a few ingenious hacks (which we'll explain below), they grew one of their client's (MisterGreen, a Tesla leasing company) incoming leads by 800% in less than a year.
But this huge increase in leads were' admittedly' less qualified than they'd prefer.
Instead of backing off the market, they transformed MisterGreen's sales funnel to optimize conversions. They used automation-driven methods to convert those not-so-qualified leads into paying customers.
All without hiring a building full of new salespeople to convert all the leads they were creating.
We talked to Jesse van Doren, founder and lead hacker at Brize, about how they did it.
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Facebook: a cheap, scalable market
That cheap, large market?
Jesse explained that in Europe, fewer marketers are promoting on Facebook, which means it's a cheap market with little competition.
Much cheaper, in fact, than other channels, according to Brize's research. They calculated that leads from Facebook cost them up to 90% less than leads through Google AdWords.
Sounds great right?
After working with Brize, Facebook ads became the primary marketing channel by percentage of leads acquired for MisterGreen' generating thousands of new leads in a matter of months and amounting to over 60% of the company's leads. It's important to note, that after taking over the account, Brize raised the number of leads in all channels' not just Facebook.
Just one problem…
…lead quality.
When people search "Model S lease" in Google, they're much more likely to actually lease a Tesla than curious people clicking on a random ad they saw on Facebook.
In other words, Facebook leads were cheaper, but they converted at a much lower rate than AdWords leads.
Here, we arrive back at our initial question.
How should you balance quantity versus quality with sales leads? When is it acceptable to expand on leads of lower quality?
Even though each lead from AdWords is more expensive, AdWords leads are more likely to lead to a sale. Doesn't that make them worth the extra cost?
Not if you can significantly improve the much, much cheaper lead. If you can keep the quantity high, while finding ways to continuously improve quality, you will have the best of both worlds — the holy grail of lead generation.
This is exactly what Brize achieved…
How Brize Improved Conversions for Leads That Were Cheaper to Acquire
Brize did two things to improve the conversion rate for leads from Facebook:
1. They optimized ads to target those most likely to actually convert
Who leases Teslas in Europe?
Lots of people. And especially small business owners.
On its own, the ad's verbiage provided a strong incentive to click through: "If you drive a Tesla, you can save up to 10,000 euros within five years by saving on fuel costs."
And who doesn't want to save 10,000 euros? But Brize didn't want just anybody to click through.
First, they filtered the ads to only display to those who list themselves as small business owners. But they quickly figured out that led to another problem.
Many freelancers list themselves as business owners on Facebook.
Brize discovered that freelancers who clicked on the ads and filled in the contact form were less likely to follow through and lease a Tesla than other types of business owners. There was no way to filter out freelancers, so Brize implemented a simple hack.
They added a question to the Facebook post: "Do you have a small business?"
Freelancers, even though they technically own a small business, were much less likely to click on this ad.
"One small sentence changed everything from the leads we were getting," Jesse explained.
From here, they integrated their customer data from their CRM into Facebook. This lets them take advantage of Facebook's lookalike audiences feature, ensuring their ads were being seen by the right people.
As Jesse explained, "You are optimizing your Facebook ads for people who are more likely to spend a lot of money."
Brize was attracting MisterGreen's ideal target customers to the lead capture on their landing page. But even with these improvements, they were still having challenges converting Facebook leads into sales.
"We noticed that it took the sales team 90 percent longer to close Facebook leads than Google AdWords leads," Jesse said. "A lot of people don't measure that kind of data. The thing is, it's really important because man hours cost a lot of money."
"We displayed the monthly fee that we charge for a Tesla Model S on the landing page," Jesse said. "But even still, many people filled out the lead form without seeing the price."
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2. They reduced the need for salesperson interaction through automation
Jesse explained, "It's about quality in the end. How can we close deals for as little money possible? It's not just about the cost of ads, but your employees' time, etc. All those things are costs you have to consider."
Before automating the sales funnel, it might have taken the team a few days to get back to someone who filled out a contact form.
By setting up automated emails, following up on leads was instantaneous and cut down on staff costs.
Brize helped MisterGreen set up a series of automated emails based on the lead capture form.
The sequence potential customers through the process of leasing a car through MisterGreen. If they're not interested and don't respond, the system sends them a follow-up email two weeks later.
The follow-up sequence for MisterGreen
"We discovered that emails convert really well. Maybe the Facebook leads weren't converting directly. But, in the long term, they will convert if we send the right content to the right potential customer," Jesse explained.
Of course, setting up an automated email was just the beginning.
When you increase inbound leads by 800%, new bottlenecks are bound to happen.
Brize helped MisterGreen set up a series of automated responses and actions that worked from a lead's first visit to a landing page all the way to the lease offer page.
They now use over 30 marketing automations that they have turned into a fully scalable IT marketing platform.
"We now have the whole sales process online and can measure things from the 'proposal request' to the actual contract signing," Jesse said.
3 Takeaways for Marketers
If you're hoping to drive more leads and close more deals, here are some specific lessons from Brize's story to try in your business:
1. Cheap, scalable channels can be worthwhile if you're able to target your ideal customer
Facebook worked well for MisterGreen because of their location. In the U.S., Facebook has more competition, but it's still one of the best places to get a large number of eyes on your ad. The testing process is what matters. Try several platforms and see what leads you can drive for what cost.
2. If you're working to drive more leads, be prepared for them
Growth hacking is rarely a linear process. Usually, you try a variety of tactics until you find one that hits, sometimes big. As you work to increase leads, don't neglect what will happen once you generate those leads.
3. Automation Can Make Any Lead Cheaper
Once you find a method that drives leads consistently, work to automate the process to close these leads as cheaply as possible, staff hours included.
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Ok, so I have had ladies ask about the preparations of the SAT's and ACT's and the nervous jitters. Honestly, I have yet to face that battle. But I found it interesting that I recieved this email in my inbox from the TOS newsletter team. What a blessing and the timing could not be more perfect... So please enjoy this email repost as I hope it will encourage you as it has me. Please head over to the TOS site and subscribe to their newsletter if you have not already. To sign up head over by clicking on this link http://thehomeschoolmagazine.com/ . Please note this post is Part 1 of 2.
Preparing Your Child for the ACT/SAT
Are you worried about how well your children will do in high school? What about those foreign words called the SAT or ACT? One thing you can do during your children's high school years is prepare them for the SAT or ACT test, especially if they are geared toward attending a college or university. Scholarships are often given to homeschool children with good SAT or ACT test scores. Some of the resources below are as easy as one math problem a day or one new vocabulary word a day. So, start researching these websites now and your children will be well ahead of the game!
The Bible talks about testing, too:
1) God tests our hearts for obedience.
"And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove (test) thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no." Deuteronomy 8:2
2) If it passes the test of goodness, hang on to it!
"Prove (test) all things; hold fast that which is good."
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She had many connections to St. Patrick's Day while growing up in Hicksville.
Carol Silva is no stranger to parades.
The longtime News 12 Long Island anchor used to stand along Fifth Avenue in Manhattan with her Irish mother for many St. Patrick's Day parades while growing up in Hicksville. As a mother she's participated as a Girl Scout leader and soccer coach. She even took part in a homecoming parade for gold medal figure skater Sarah Hughes in Great Neck after her 2002 Winter Olympics win.
But never was she more honored than when she marched down Main Street in Farmingdale as the grand marshal of the village's St. Patrick's Day parade on Sunday.
"We've got Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Irish dancers, and we have families here, it makes everyone feel good, and it also marks the beginning of spring," Silva said about her experience leading the procession. "Also, you see some of the town's old buildings that speak to the community's longevity, and at the same time this is one of the Long Island downtowns that they're revitalizing. It was fabulous."
Silva attended Holy Family Elementary School in Hicksville, where she and her classmates had off each St. Patrick's Day. She thought it was a national holiday.
She joined News 12 Long Island as a field reporter in 1986 and soon after was promoted to anchor. Parade organizer Joe Fortuna, who owns Farmingdale's Nutty Irishman pub, watches News 12 regularly and got the idea to invite Silva to serve as grand marshal.
"We wanted to pick someone from Long Island who is known to many Long Islanders, and someone who is an inspiration to young people and professionals," Fortuna said. "How many people wake up to News 12 and Carol each morning? She's a Long Island fixture."
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