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"It's better to do one thing well than ten things poorly" – Heather Hart
At any given time, I have a hundred thoughts running through my mind. I mean, right this very second I've got 47 tabs open across three different windows. Cringe.
It was the same when I was in high school.
I took art as a subject and I simply loved it. Not the actual drawing aspect, I was mediocre at best, but I loved learning about the artists and the inspiration behind their artwork. More than anything I liked understanding the experiences, thoughts and emotions that inspired them. People are fascinating and complex creatures. I could always make sense of human behaviour, their thought processes, motivations and emotions; I strived to understand these factors. What I struggled with was the creative process.
Whenever I received an assignment, I immediately had a million (obviously amazing) ideas and I wanted to make sure that all of them got their share of the spotlight. What I actually ended up creating was a bunch of half thought out ideas crammed together on a canvas imitating "art".
I remember distinctly the lightbulb moment I had and laughing at the obvious conclusion that I needed to pick just one idea, the best one, and stick with it. The next assignment I received an A, just sayin' 💁Pick just one idea, the best one, and stick with it! Click To Tweet
Making Sense of The Nonsensical
I have always wanted to create a blog, and after being inspired to revamp my career direction, I decided to start The Nonsensical. So I set out to create my digital brand – but what the hell did that even mean?! I could be an Instagram-driven fashion blogger, a design creative who posted inspirational quotes, a Brisbane breakfast food fiend or even a sport fanatic. The opportunities were endless!
I wanted my digital brand to reflect who I was as a person but like I said earlier, people are complex creatures and I am no different. I'm a series of complexities so to incorporate all of my interests would result in a very non-strategic, hot mess, and I'd once again be creating a failed "art" piece.
I had created The Nonsensical but I had no idea it's purpose and that made me anxious.
Business + Sport + Psychology = The Nonsensical
Anybody who knows me, knows that I've always loved sport, and more specifically football. The fact that 1.013 billion people watched, and 672 million people tweeted about, the 2014 World Cup is something truly special.
In undergrad, I was set on being a sport psychologist but the more I learnt about the occupation, and idea that most teams will use the same psych, the faster I lost interest. I'm so thankful that I chose to complete my postgraduate degree in organisational psychology because the comparisons between business and sport are significant. Both rely on a healthy culture to succeed, where team work is critical and transformational leadership is essential.The comparisons between business and sport are significant... Click To Tweet
On The Nonsensical, you'll note that I refer a lot to the human experience as opposed to customer experience or fan experience, and that's due to the fact I believe there should be equal significance placed on internal and external stakeholders. The external is where the majority of businesses will place their energy: the user, the customer, and the fan. But success relies on the concept that just as much emphasis is placed on the internal experience: the employee, the stakeholder, the player/coach.
I knew here was where I could add value.
My organisational psychology background affords me knowledge about human behaviour, leadership, business processes, and organisational and team culture. My passion for sport allows me empathy to recognise opportunities for improvement, particularly where digital technology could impact the overall fan experience.
Find Your Passion
We've all heard that passion drives success. In fact, research has shown that good leadership requires passion, vision, focus, and the ability to inspire others. When you see people who are passionate about something speak about that passion, it's electrifying. You feel motivated, enthusiastic, engaged.
It took me hours of self-reflection, and multiple conversations with a like-minded friend, for me to realise my passion and what I wanted career-wise. After much thesaurus.com research, I finally put together a career objective that summarised who I was and what I stood for:
I am passionate about facilitating positive human experiences through best practice research and innovative digital technologies. The Nonsensical uses creativity to bridge between sport, psychology, and business to disrupt the existing landscape within the sport industry.
Finding the thing that drives you, that thing that you're truly and whole-heartedly passionate about, is just the first step. Being able to explain that to someone in a few sentences is key.
So start thinking about where you can add value with the skills and knowledge you possess, what makes you truly happy, and make that your career.
What knowledge/skills do you bring to the table? What are you passionate about and what do you love doing? What's your career objective?


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As the co-founder of the Hudsucker Posse hoop dance troupe and executive director of FlowMotion Events, Paula Chambers knows a thing or two about the circus arts. When she decided to hold a flow arts event in Bloomington, Chambers' vision started on a festival-style path, but over time it's changed to reflect an emphasis on teaching, technique, and community-building. The latest iteration of that vision, FlowMotion Symposium 2017, will take place at multiple venues November 10–12.
The first FlowMotion event was held in 2014, and included 300 flow artists celebrating hula-hooping, juggling, poi-spinning, and prop manipulation. From that starting point, Chambers says, the organizers made some adjustments.
"We wanted the emphasis on classes, learning, and performances, and less on music and festival," Chambers says.
"We worked on our infrastructure and what our mission was really about, and then we started to focus on providing opportunities for performers to find stages and connect with audiences," she says.
In 2015, Chambers added Arts and Outreach Director Corey Hollinger, 24, whose creative vision, she says, developed the concept of combining drama and flow arts into fundraising shows, like an Alice in Wonderland–themed variety show and a murder-mystery where the audience had to guess the murderer and weapon.
"We wanted to stretch the creative diversity of opportunities we were giving these performers to explore a character, explore a story, and use their art to make people think or feel something," Hollinger says, adding that not only were performers wanting more shows, but audiences were also having a good time. "The audience feels like they've been taken along on that journey of growth and exploration through movement."
Chambers received an Individual Artist Program grant to partially fund this year's symposium at Banneker Center, the I Fell Building, Artisan Alley, the Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center, Wild Orchid, and SpringHill Suites by Marriott Bloomington.
With longer lunch and dinner breaks allowing participants to visit restaurants, bars, and attractions downtown, Chambers expects a tourism boost to the city. She encourages people who don't perform, but are curious, to attend the showcases. "You'll see something you've never seen before—I guarantee it," she says.
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From hoopsters to belly dancers to aerial artists, the FlowMotion Symposium finishes with a showcase of local and national talent. Take a look at these colorful shots by Bloom Associate Editor Rodney Margison from their 2016 performances:


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French aerospace supplier Safran SA on Wednesday said it cut its bid price for Zodiac Aerospace SA about 15% to EUR7.3 billion ($8.2 billion) after renewed profit headwinds came to light at the beleaguered plane cabin-interior specialist.
Safran in January announced a plan to buy Zodiac Aerospace to become the world's No. 3 aerospace supplier to Boeing Co. and Airbus SE behind United Technologies Corp. and General Electric Co.
The deal quickly drew fire from hedge fund TCI Fund Management, which said Safran was overpaying. TCI urged Safran to abandon the deal and attacked the complicated transaction that it said gave preferential treatment to the Zodiac's family shareholders and two institutional investors in the company.
Safran said in March that it was reviewing its offer after Zodiac issued a profit warning amid new problems in its seat-building business. The company already had been struggling to produce business class seats for Boeing and Airbus and other cabin interior items, such as toilet doors.
Safran on Wednesday said it would pay EUR25 a share for 100% of Zodiac shares. Safran originally had said it would pay EUR29.47 a share for Zodiac in a tender offer.
It also adjusted other elements of the complex deal.
The new structure offers an alternative to the cash offer for some Zodiac shares. Safran is offering preferred shares in exchange for Zodiac stock in a structure with an implied value of around EUR24 for each Zodiac share. This component is capped at 31.4% of Zodiac's total outstanding the stock. The preferred shares carry the same rights as ordinary shares but have to be held for at least three years after the completion of the tender offer.
The deal's completion is in part contingent on 50% of Zodiac shares with voting rights being tendered.
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Morin Père & Fils Chardonnay 2016
Pays d'Oc IGP, France
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Ernst Lubitsch's romantic story of mistaken identities has been remade several times, but none match the sweetness and charm of the original. Pour a glass of this crisp and traditionally made French Chardonnay and enjoy the ups and downs of Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullavan's loveable couple.
Here's a ripe, citrus-packed Chardonnay from the House of Morin Père et Fils, who have been making fine, highly sought-after Burgundy since 1822. For this specialrelease white, the family headed south to the famed Hérault district near France's Mediterranean coast. One taste and you'll be glad they did. Crafted in the traditional Burgundian method, this is a real treat in the glass, delivering melon, peaches, and crisp apple flavor, along with delicate vanilla notes.
Chardonnay performs most majestically (and expensively) in the vineyards of Burgundy's Chablis and Côte d'Or – but it also thrives in southern France. Depending on the site (and the ambitions of the winemaker), it can be rich and buttery or refreshing and citrusy. In addition to being a multifaceted grape, it also has many regional French synonyms like Aubaine, Beaunois, and Chaudenay. Dinner party fact: Melon à Queue Rouge is a rare mutation of the grape that has a red stem.
The Languedoc, the 120-mile vineyard swath along the Mediterranean just over the Pyrénées from Spain, is a land of extremes. Punctuating the rugged, windswept landscape are ancient, low-yielding vines that produce intensely concentrated flavors, and the brushy garrigue (wild herb) topography imparts trademark notes of rosemary, thyme, lavender, and more to the wines.
Chardonnay crafted in this lightly oaked style always makes for a great aperitif – hand guests a glass as they arrive for dinner. Wondering what to serve? Try a fresh salad of grilled veggies and Israeli couscous, topped with crumbled goat cheese, fresh herbs, and the best olive oil you can find. Chill the dish for 40 minutes to an hour in the fridge, then serve.


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In the future, you will be asked what you did in the years 2009-2012 to regain our freedom and liberties. Maybe your grandchildren will ask you what you did for their freedom.
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America is in the midst of a political revolution of the sort the country has not experienced since 1776. From the growing Tea Party taking root in every corner of the nation to the demands for states' rights and calls for nullification and even secession, a large number of Americans are now demanding a return the constitutional republic established by the founders.
Don't Tread On Me: Rise of the Republic, the latest documentary by William Lewis and Gary Franchi, is a primer and refresher course on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It details the Commerce Clause, defines our once cherished sovereignty, explains the purpose of the constitutional militias, and much more. The film offers solutions on how the people can best take back rights hijacked and nullified by the federal government.
Our rulers in the district of bankster criminals in Washington will declare Don't Tread On Me: Rise of the Republic the work of traitors the same way agents of the crown declared revolutionary pamphleteers and town criers traitors in the 1770s.
The time is rapidly approaching when the question must be asked: What side of the line will you stand?
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Five-minute trailer for the "Soldiers Speak Out" documentary. A powerful first-hand testament to the reality of the military experience, told in the words of American veterans who have been to war and now oppose it. An important counterpoint to the "stay the course" rhetoric of the Bush administration.
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The feature-length documentary The End of Poverty? won critical acclaim at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and is narrated by actor Martin Sheen. It is a daring, thought-provoking and very timely documentary by filmmaker Philippe Diaz. The film takes a hard look at world poverty and challenges capitalism and the American way. In a world of plenty, why are so many families around the planet still living in abject poverty? Looking beyond the popular "solutions" for poverty, The End of Poverty? asks if the true causes of poverty today stem from a deliberate orchestration of resource misallocation started in colonial times.


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But with growth comes change. And like any other method of marketing, influencer marketing is constantly evolving. In this post, you'll find out more about how this marketing channel is changing. You'll also learn how to get the most out of your influencer marketing campaigns this year.
1. Work With Micro-Influencers For Authenticity
Micro-influencers are influential people who don't have as many followers as mid-level and top influencers. But what's unique about them is that they are often more authentic and engaging than "bigger" influencers.
Their followers trust them to provide their genuine and honest opinions about brands and products because micro-influencers are themselves everyday consumers. So their recommendations seem like recommendations from a friend, colleague, or family member.
Having a micro-influencer vouch for your brand can be an excellent way to win the trust of an audience. And because of their trustworthiness and authenticity, micro-influencers are often able to generate higher engagement rates than other influencers.
We are Social Media reported that Instagram influencers who have less than 1,000 followers have an average engagement rate of about 15.1%. But those who have 100,000 followers or more have an average engagement rate of only 2.4%. In other words, the average engagement rate rises as the number of followers decreases.
Grubhub worked with micro-influencers, such as Kim Watson, to promote its service. Watson has just over 20,000 followers on Instagram. For the campaign, she posted a photo of her kids enjoying brunch from Grubhub. The photo was accompanied by a funny caption in which Watson mentioned that she's enjoying the service because she doesn't have to do the dishes. The post resonated with her followers, many of whom are also moms.
To work with micro-influencers, try sending them some free samples of your products, and ask them for their honest opinions. If they really love your products, many micro-influencers will be more than happy to promote them to their followers. You may not even have to pay them.
2. Switch To Stories For Higher Engagement
Snapchat has long been one of the most popular platforms for influencer marketing. And with the introduction of Stories by Instagram, this type of limited-time content is only becoming more popular with influencers.
But among the two, Instagram Stories seem to be a better fit for promoting products and brands for a few reasons.
First of all, Instagram Stories show up in the Explore page of users. So even if people aren't already following the influencer, they could still see their Stories. This can help get more views for your branded story and help the influencer grow his or her reach. Which means that Instagram Stories can help you reach an audience beyond the existing followers of an influencer.
The ability to add username mentions in Instagram Stories is another big plus. When an influencer helps promote your brand through Instagram Stories, the person can mention you and refer followers to your account. When a user is interested in learning more about the product an influencer promotes, the person can easily click on the username mentioned and access the brand's account.
Besides having an influencer create a story about your product, you could also launch an influencer takeover campaign using Instagram Stories. Invite a relevant influencer to take over your Instagram account for a day, and have the person post Stories to engage your audience. Make sure the influencer invites his or her own followers to your account so they can watch the Stories as well.
Buffer, for example, invited iSocialFanz CEO Brian Fanzo to take over its Instagram Stories for a day. Fanzo posted a photo to announce the takeover to his followers and to invite them to ask him questions for the event.
You can also have an influencer promote your brand through a live feed. This option is great for when you invite influencers to an event or anything that involves an experience. By going live, influencers can engage their followers in real time, allowing them to be a part of the experience.
3. Work With Niche Experts For Effectiveness
If you wanted to buy a new phone, whom would you trust more—a celebrity endorsing the phone or a tech expert reviewing the features of the phone? Naturally, you'd trust the opinions of the expert more.
To get the most out of your influencer marketing campaigns, try working with influential experts in a relevant niche. These types of influencers are subject matter experts, so they have knowledge and expertise about the subjects they specialize in.
Their followers look to them for advice and recommendations regarding products and services in their niche. And consumers make purchase decisions based on that advice.
Working with niche experts is particularly important if you're introducing a new product to the market. Most new products haven't yet won the trust of consumers when they are first launched. But when a niche expert reviews a new product and vouches for it, it can help convince consumers to try the product.
Lewis Hilsenteger is an influential YouTuber who runs the Unbox Therapy channel. He has more than 7.5 million subscribers and regularly unboxes tech products on camera. During these videos, Lewis unboxes the products for the first time, tries them out, and gives viewers his feedback.
Recently, he unboxed the new Nintendo Switch and showcased the product's features to his viewers. In just two weeks, the video has already gotten nearly 2.5 million views.
Many influencers are also great at explaining things to their followers in easy-to-understand ways. A study funded by Experticity found that consumers consider influencers to be better than ordinary people at explaining how a product works.
So if you want to create a better understanding of how your product or service works, a niche expert could be your best bet. This is especially important for tech products, which often need some sort of guidance or explanation.
In many of his videos, Hilsenteger demonstrates how the product works and explains the various features to viewers. In his unboxing video of the Olixar Executive Emergency Pen, he demonstrated how the pen can be used to break glass in case of emergencies. In just two months, the video has received more than 3.7 million views.
These two options mainly focus on consumer goods. But working with influential experts is also ideal if you wish to promote your services.
For example, the Fairmont Grand Del Mar worked with luxury travel adviser and travel influencer Chelsea Martin to promote its resort. The influencer talked about how the resort was just rated the number one luxury hotel in the U.S. on TripAdvisor. She provided her followers with a deal in which they could get a third night free, upgrades, and several other deals at no extra cost.
Working with influential experts is especially helpful if you run a B2B enterprise. It's much more difficult to win over working professionals as opposed to everyday consumers. Having an expert in the field vouch for your product or service can help.
GetResponse uses this tactic well by showcasing some of the influencers who have used its service. Experts including Neil Patel of Quick Sprout and Marcus Taylor of Venture Harbour are among the influencers who vouch for it. To further strengthen this tactic, GetResponse created video testimonials from these influencers. When you click on the image of an influencer, you get a video in which the influencer talks about how GetResponse has worked for the person. It is much more powerful and authentic when potential users can see influential experts talk about how the service has helped them.
4. Hand The Reins Of Content Creation Over To Influencers
Influencers have achieved their influential status for a reason. They regularly create unique and engaging content in their own voices. And their audiences love them because of this. One of the main benefits of working with influencers is the opportunity to use their unique voices to promote your product.
But many brands make the mistake of trying to control what an influencer says in their sponsored posts. In fact, a TapInfluence and Altimeter study found that influencers consider restrictive content guidelines to be the second-biggest mistake brands make when working with them.
Overly restrictive content guidelines can negatively impact your influencer marketing campaigns in a few ways.
First of all, the influencer will no longer be able to deliver your message in the person's own voice. This can cause the message to seem unauthentic and forced. And their audience may find it untrustworthy. It likely won't engage the influencer's followers as well as the usual content does. Which means your influencer marketing efforts will go to waste.
Additionally, controlling the influencer's voice can also harm your relationship with the person. The influencer may lose interest in working with you and not want to do so a second time.
Providing influencers with creative freedom is one of the most important tips you should follow for influencer marketing in 2017.
What you need to do is provide the influencer with as much creative freedom as you possibly can. This doesn't mean you should just let the influencer create whatever the person wants without any involvement from your end.
Of course you'll have some expectations and requirements, and you should inform the influencer of them. Provide basic guidelines and what you expect out of the campaign. And then give influencers the freedom to create what they want based on those guidelines.
An excellent example is how DIY blogger Ashley Thurman of Cherished Bliss helped promote Paper Mart. Instead of simply promoting the products from Paper Mart, she used some of its products in one of her DIY projects. She then provided her readers with tips on how to create the floral candles she used metal tins from Paper Mart to make.
Thurman took care to mention that although the post was sponsored by Paper Mart, all opinions are her own. In this example, the influencer created sponsored content that blended in well with her usual content. Instead of being overly promotional, she merely used the products in the content. The influencer maintained her unique voice and provided her readers with useful DIY tips.
Another example of this technique is how food blogger Pamela of Brooklyn Farm Girl helped promote products from Idaho Spuds. Pamela created a unique recipe using one of Idaho Spuds' mashed potato flavors. She took her readers through the process of creating a delicious bread stuffing that used the product and other ingredients.
Both of these examples show the importance of trusting influencers to create unique content using your products. At the same time, your choice of influencers will have a huge impact on the quality of content they produce. Carefully research influencers to see how creative they are with their content creation before you decide to partner with them.
Engage Your Audience
You now have a better understanding of how to get the most out of your influencer marketing campaigns in 2017. Based on the examples above, you've seen how micro-influencers can help you engage your audience and win their trust. And you know how switching to limited-time content, like Instagram Stories, can be highly effective for engaging an audience.
You've also seen how niche experts or influential experts can boost the effectiveness of your campaign by vouching for you. And you understand the importance of trusting influencers to create original content in their own unique voices.
Which of these tips will you try first?
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Murs, Tabi Bonney and Ski Beatz dropped into Fitzgerald's Sunday for an intimate show in the Heights, Murs and Bonney's second time at Fitz this year. Bonney entered the stage at 10 p.m., wearing white skinny jeans and a red polo shirt, accompanied by live band The Senseis and his music videos playing on a projector screen behind him.
The crowd was filled with folks who seemed too cool to cheer but calmly bobbed their heads to each song. Bonney's stage presence with the band was gracefully effortless, as the Washington, D.C. resident danced as if he were at home in a go-go club. Bonney directs most of his music videos himself, so he took pride in announcing which videos can be caught on MTV Jams.
"If you don't have MTV Jams make sure you go to a friend's house that has cable to check this song out," said Bonney.
Murs has also directed some music videos for fellow DC rapper Wale. "I just want to shout out my city DC and a big shout out to Africa - I was born there in Togo," added Bonney, whose latest album The Summer Years dropped September 27.
In his 45-minute set, Bonney (right) performed songs from The Summer Years as well as "Nuthin But a Hero" and his hit "The Pocket" from his first album A Fly Guy's Theme.
Around 11:30, Murs went onstage with producer Ski Beatz and the Senseis. The crowd surrounded the stage, still coolly bobbing their heads, but a few hands went up in the air from time to time. We missed Ski Beatz set but the man responsible for producer Jay-Z classics like "Dead Presidents" and "Feelin It" came back on stage to DJ Murs' set.
"This song was never for sale so if you know it, I hope you stole it from somewhere, I don't care I just want you to hear it" Murs said before performing "Better than the Best." Aftermath ran into H-town's own Fat Tony in the crowd, who said, "Murs is a good friend of mine so I came out to support." (Murs is also featured on Fat Tony's song "Luv It Mayne.")
In between songs Murs stopped to check on the audience. "How do you guys like my haircut - my dreads are gone," he said, and the crowd woke up to cheer.
"I know a few angry black women that hate me for cutting my hair but I think I look fly," joked Murs. The crowd participated a bit more with a few "Yes, Yes Yalls" during Murs' 9th Wonder remix of Common's "I Used to Love Her." The audience also sang along as Murs belted out the chorus to Biz Markie's "Just a Friend."
He stopped in between songs once more to speak to Ski Beatz: "Ski, I love you man, I know I may not be as cool as Curren$y but I'm a little bit taller than him," he joked.
The 60-minute set ends with Bonney joining Murs on stage for their song "Hip-Hop and Love." The keyboardist of The Senseis, Harold, dressed in a red Adidas, hopped off the stage for an impromptu break-dance session and the crowd went wild.
"It feels amazing to be on tour with a legend like Ski Beatz," Harold said afterward. "The first night I met Murs and Tabi we made the beat to 'Hip-Hop and Love' in five minutes. These guys are fun to work with"
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(Reuters) - A strong bounce on Wall Street helped Britain's stock markets recover from early losses on Thursday, as shocking economic data from across the world due to the coronavirus pandemic fed into expectations of more stimulus actions.
After falling as much as 3% during the midday, the blue-chip FTSE 100 .FTSE closed 2.2% higher, recording its first three-day gain since the coronavirus crisis started hitting equity markets in February. Midcap stocks .FTMC rose 3.8%, gaining for the fifth straight session.
Data showed a staggering 3.3 million people filed for U.S. unemployment benefits last week as lockdown brought economic activity to a sudden halt, while British retail sales stagnated in February, even before shops shuttered.
The rest of Europe also saw weak numbers, hit by the pandemic.
However, Wall Street rallied more than 4% as investors hoped for further aid from the U.S. government, including a $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief bill that lawmakers are expected to pass on Friday.
"With the U.S. markets in high spirits, Europe was able to edge into the green," said Connor Campbell, financial analyst at SpreadEx in London.
The Bank of England said on Thursday it was ready to ramp up its bond-buying programme further if needed. Separately, finance minister Rishi Sunak said that self-employed people will receive a taxable grant of 80% of their average monthly profits as part of coronavirus support package.
However, analysts are skeptical about the strength of the stock markets' recovery, with the main FTSE 100 still down about 25% from its January peak.
"Investors should plan for headlines describing large declines in GDP, stark rises in unemployment, and waning confidence numbers," Peter Essele, head of portfolio management for Commonwealth Financial Network, wrote in a client note.
"It's quite possible that this week will be seen as the calm before the storm."
Mall operator Intu Plc (INTUP.L) declined 6.4% after saying it would seek debt waivers from its lenders and aid from the government's coronavirus support schemes as the health crisis hit rents.
Fellow real estate firm British Land (BLND.L) dropped 3.8% forecasting March rent deferrals of around 40 million pounds.
Britain's financial regulators have already announced measures to give companies more time to publish results and banks more leeway for handling troubled loans.
Lender Non-Standard Finance (NSF.L) slid 3.2% after saying it had reduced lending volumes across its divisions to preserve cash.
Electricals retailer Dixons Carphone (DC.L) jumped 12.5% and aerospace engineer Senior Plc (SNR.L) gained 1.2% even as they warned of a hit to earnings due to the pandemic.
Reporting by Sruthi Shankar and Devik Jain in Bengaluru; Editing by Bernard Orr and Arun Koyyur, William Maclean


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Intersectionality 'Round the Interwebs, No. 10: Feminist Dilemmas, Light Switches & Veg/an VampiresNovember 4th, 2009 7:15 pm by mad mags
I know y'all hear this entirely too often, but it's been a long time since I last posted an intersectionality link roundup. Too long! What can I say? VeganMoFo monopolized my October. (But seriously, we have to stop intersecting like this.)
Alas, many of these links are a little older, but still worth a look.
Jennie @ That Vegan Girl: Vegans and vampires and
Breeze Harper @ Vegans of Color: Twilight and Vegetarian Vampires? New Philosophy book…
Though I've shied away from the Twilight series due to its not-so-subtle misogyny, I may have to reconsider, given the books' allusions to vegetarianism. Nor is vegetarianism an uncommon theme in vampire fiction. In the first link, Jennie explores vegetarianism and veganism in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight, as well as the HBO TV series True Blood (which is based on another series of books, Charlaine Harris's The Southern Vampire Mysteries). In the second, Breeze Harper of VOC points to a new anthology on the subject, Twilight and Philosophy: Vampires, Vegetarians, and the Pursuit of Immortality, which has since been added to my wishlist animierte weihnachtsgrüße kostenlos downloaden.
Ari Solomon @ The Huffington Post: The Feminist's Dilemma
Vegan entrepreneur and dudely feminist (or pro-feminist/ally, if you prefer) Ari Soloman argues that the plight of nonhuman animals is indeed a feminist issue. Using the lives and deaths of "dairy" cows as an example, he posits that the human exploitation of nonhuman animals is oftentimes gendered, with the females of the species suffering especially brutal and prolonged abuses – all because they're capable of perpetuating the species/industry. Naturally, I agree.
Stephanie @ Animal Rights: Columbus Day and Oppression — Against Humans, Against Animals, Against Nature
Like Stephanie, I am not a fan of Columbus Day. Never have been. Even before I knew the meaning of words such as "colonialism," "genocide," "imperialism," "revisionist," – or even "speciesism" – I knew I disliked the holiday and all it stood for. A murderous, thieving, bumbling explorer lands on an already-occupied land, claims it for the despots who financed the expedition, and commences to slaughter, enslave and infect the native inhabitants. Happy "Invade, Conquer, Enslave, Exploit, Infect, and Kill Day," indeed.
Here, Stephanie links the oppression of human animals – and our celebration of these wrongdoings – to the oppression of non human animals:
the way we claim ownership and exert control over our fellow animals is related to the way we have, for centuries, done this to our fellow humans and to nature, in that the instincts come from the same place oude windows movie maker gratis downloaden. The arrogant, oppressive, selfish, and imperialistic ways of thinking and living — that many don't consciously recognize as driving the way we humans have moved, and continue to move, through the world — are the basis as much for the way we think of and treat our fellow animals as they are for the way we think of and treat forests and oceans and the way we have, for so many years, thought of and treated our fellow humans.
Anyone and anything that is "other" is here for us to conquer, control, and find a way to use for our own benefit. Nothing and no one exists for its or his or her own purposes. What we see ("discover") and want, we take. As a general rule, we humans see ourselves not as a part of this world but as the rulers of it, as the rulers of all that and who supposedly need conquered, controlled, and tamed.
To me, Columbus Day is just the first in a trifecta of perverse autumnal/winter holidays that glorify the worst that humanity has to offer: racism, xenophobia, misogyny, colonialism, genocide, ecocide, rampant consumerism, classism, anthropocentrism, speciesism – you name it. Thanksgiving honors the goodwill of the pioneers' Native American hosts by obscuring all that came next – and by serving up the carcasses of 45 million members of a single species, in a scant 24 hours. Likewise, Christmas purports to celebrate "peace on earth" with the slaughter of millions of turkeys, pigs, chickens and cows.
Whereas Columbus Day is most certainly a cause worth losing, methinks Thanksliving and the ambiguous winter holiday formerly know as Christmas can might still be saved herunterladen.
Bust covers the "bacon craze" (chocolate-covered bacon, bacon clubs, bacon brittle, bacon bookmarks; say what now?) – which seems to have culminated (degraded?) in the cult popularity of the "bacon bra" – in a disturbingly flip manner. While the speciesism is to be expected (someone send them a copy of The Sexual Politics of Meat, stat), the sexism is disconcerting to say the least (even coming from a fluffyfunfeminist rag like Bust). Cupcakes are too "girly"? Men can't enjoy food that looks good? WTF, Bust?
Also, newsflash: the price of "meat" is artificially deflated. Factor in animal ag's hidden costs (air and water pollution, deforestation, habitat loss, climate change, obesity, heart disease, cholesterol, antibiotic resistance, etc., etc., etc.) and a plant-based diet is clearly a more economical choice.
ADME.RU: "Goodman" dressed people in the meat
Taking the "bacon bra" to its logical extreme: via The Frisky – who titles the post in a predictable condescending manner ("A Fashion Show Not For The Vegetarians" – Oh, so clever and funny! Not.) – via Copyranter comes word of a Russian "fashion show" (read: a promotional stunt for – what else? – a steakhouse) wherein the clothing is made of "food" (read: "meat") telegram mac.
The writeup is in Russian; whereas Babblefish gives a comically awful page translation, Google's is much more understandable, if not wholly accurate.
Here's a snippet, sans photos. (Major trigger warning for those who find the sight of dead and dismembered animals troubling.)
The owner of the network steakhouse Goodman decided to promote the meat not only in the restaurant, but also on the podium. He arranged a promotional campaign "Eat your steak. Be a man."
October 15 in a shopping center on Novinsky Boulevard steakhouse Goodman spent a strange campaign – "Eat your steak. Be a man." They promised to "feast of steak" and "brutal fashion shows, imbued with the spirit of primitive society." But the steaks for some reason was not.
Goodman repeat customers and partners of the company that owns the steak house "Arpikom" on business. Tusovka periodically interrupted by a voice from the speakers, who summoned the spirit of Big Brother: "Eat your steak. Be a man. Be natural in their desires, be consistent in their desires, be independent in their desires."
While the campaign's stated rationale seems to be riddled with primitive, "Man the Hunter" tripe, the actual outfits are only partially reminiscent of the "caveman" archetype kann nichtsen. For example, the first photo featured in the article – an advertisement for the "fashion show" (?) – depicts a fierce-looking woman flanked by two equally fierce-looking men, all of whom are decked out in Flinstone-esque frocks. But scroll down, and it becomes apparent that the bulk of the "outfits" are quite contemporary in nature: '80s "meat" leggings, gold-chained "meat" purses, biker "meat" vests, etc. I'm pretty sure Neaderthals didn't wear wallet chains, y'all!
So which is it: are we primitive, carnivorous cannibals or snooty, refined socialites? Is "meat" the natural state of things – or are we social creatures, adaptable and open to change and evolution? You can't wear your "meat" and eat it too, people.
Vegan Feminist Agitator: The switch inside… and
Jennie @ That Vegan Girl: Three years in
On her three-year veganversary, Jennie reflects upon her transition – from an omnivorous diet to a plant-based one and, eventually, to a vegan mindset. In so doing, she points to an illuminating (pun so intended) metaphor drawn by Marla at Vegan Feminist Agitator, wherein Marla likens veganism to a light switch:
Imagine the switch as the mechanism that turns on a light free e-mail. Either it's the kind of switch that turns on a blast of light at once (the equivalent of a mental epiphany) or it's a dimmer switch, slowly illuminating a room over time (the equivalent of a slow dawning). This light switch reveals the arbitrariness, brutality and injustice of our dominion over non-humans. Occasionally people have the light switch engaged but then decide that they no longer want to see all that it exposes, or that they still do see but it doesn't affect them the same way any longer. (They can see but have turned off the corresponding feeling switch.) For most of the vegans I know, though, I would say that once that light switch turned on – either as an epiphany or a slow dawning or somewhere in between – it is stuck on. From that point on (the point being where recognition leads to an inner- and outer-transformation) our new perspective has fundamentally altered us. The veil has been removed and we can clearly see.
Marla also expresses the universal frustration that (surely) all vegans feel when friends, family and acquaintances – especially otherwise progressive friends, family and acquaintances – refuse to see that which is plainly evident (clear as day!) to the rest of us: namely, that nonhuman animals are sentient, living, breathing, feeling beings, with friends, families, acquaintances, thoughts and desires of their own. They are not property, nor objects, nor tools, but people – not humans, but people, at least in every way that matters herunterladen.
I can't help but wonder if this process – this light switch – is at play in other types of isms: sexism, racism, ableism, etc. While nonhuman animals have surely been subjected to the most extensive, brutal and merciless forms of abuse, exploitation, and dehumanization/objectification, members of various marginalized groups have similarly been devalued and oppressed throughout human history. Did forward-thinking activists of (not-always-so) bygone eras feel the sense of hopeless frustration during the early days of their respective movements? Will we ever reach a point in time when the rights of nonhuman animals are as self-evident as those of humans?
"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men." (Alice Walker)
I hope so; I fear not.
The Curvature: The Problem with Hoping Rapists Will Be Raped
Cara at The Curvature deconstructs a sentiment often expressed about rapists, namely, a hope that someone (usually a fellow inmate) will similarly rape them in the future, so that they can experience the horror they once inflicted upon another do not whatsapp video. Creating categories of "rape-able" people, Cara argues, is self-defeating (as well as misogynistic and homophobic); as long as it's acceptable to inflict violence upon another human being, we have not succeeded in our anti-rape activism. Additionally, denying even the "least" of us the right to his or her bodily integrity is wrong, and cracks the door for our acceptance of further violations in the future.
This idea can also be extended to other violations, such as murder; no one has a right to take the life of another, unless it's in self-defense (i.e., a matter of immediate survival; a death penalty imposed by the state does not qualify as such). Nor does it end with crimes committed against humans. Just as the wish for like vengeance is common in discussions of rape, so too is it found in cases of animal abuse and exploitation. While I understand the urge – have felt it myself, on not a few occasions – I do not accept it. Neither should you.
The Wall Street Journal: Police to Search for Bodies in Walls of Cleveland Home
Convicted rapist and "alleged" serial rapist/murderer Anthony Sowell killed at least eleven women (though the victims' sexes have yet to be determined, odds are 100:1 on XX) and stashed their corpses around his property – including in his home, where he lived alongside his victims as their bodies decomposed. Thus far,
Investigators […] found two bodies in the third-floor living room, two in an upstairs crawl space and one in the basement. Another was found in a shallow grave in the backyard.
On Tuesday, police found four more bodies in Mr. Sowell's backyard, as well as a skull wrapped in paper inside a bucket in his basement.
Reportedly, neighbors have been aware of – and complaining about – the odor emanating from Sowell's property for at least several years.
Neighbors had long complained of a foul odor coming from the beige and red vinyl-sided home with a small, but well-kept front yard in a run-down neighborhood. One nearby home has a for-sale sign out front, with an asking price of $15,000.
Starlena Hood, 28, moved three doors down from the home four years ago when she was pregnant. She said the smell was so bad the first time she walked past the house that she went home and vomited.
City Councilman Zack Reed said his office received a complaint about the odor in 2007. It was described as smelling like a rotting body, "not meat but a body," he said. But right next door is Ray's Sausage, and Mr. Reed said everyone assumed the smell came from there.
Mr. Reed said the owner of the sausage shop told him he had spent $10,000 replacing the plumbing in the shop to address the stink.
"Clearly, the ball was dropped," Mr. Reed said, of the long delay in discovering the bodies, despite all the complaints of odor. Still, he said, "everybody's mindset was there was a sausage factory next door—it has to be meat."
Does anyone else find it disturbing – not that it's the only disturbing facet of this case, mind you – that authorities could blame the smell of rotting corpses on an adjacent sausage factory, and do so credibly? If sausage can be confused with decomposing human bodies, is it really the sort of "sustenance" one should use to fuel one's body? And is there really all that much difference between the dead flesh of pigs and the dead flesh of humans, anyhow?
So much suffering and death crammed into one city block.
(This isn't to suggest, by the way, that the police would have caught and stopped Sowell earlier, if not for that pesky sausage factory! Clearly, this is yet another example – in a long line of them – of public authorities not affording women the consideration and protection due them. E.g., in recent memory, see: Phillip Garrido, who kidnapped, raped and imprisoned Jaycee Dugard, holding her captive in his backyard for 18 years – despite a decade of supervision by state parole officials; the Richmond High School gang rape, in which a young girl was beaten and raped over the course of two hours and by 7 to 20 men, on school grounds and during a school event; or any of the many women murdered after obtaining restraining orders against their attackers.)
Photo via Flickr user enslavedbyfaeries, who may or may not be a vegetarian vampire, enslavement by faeries aside.
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According to US News and World Report, between 2009 and 2010, motorcycle accident-related fatalities declined by about two percent in the United States. It is the second year in a row that deaths have declined, following a 16 percent decline in 2009 after 11 years of increasing motorcycle accident-related fatalities.
The study was conducted by the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) and is based on preliminary data from the first nine months of 2010 from all 50 states, including the District of Columbia. The study found that 4,376 people were killed in motorcycle accidents during 2010, compared to 4,465 during 2009. There were significant decreases in several states, including a decline of 27 percent in Oregon, a decline of 30 percent in Oklahoma, and a decline of 16 percent in Texas.
However, the report notes there are some areas for concern. The decline in the number of motorcycle accident-related deaths was mainly during the earlier months of 2010, with fatalities increasing by approximately three percent during the last quarter of the year when compared to 2009. Additionally, helmet use among motorcyclists declined, from 67 percent during 2009 to 54 percent during 2010.
The report calls for states to focus their efforts on increasing motorcycle safety, including helmet use, reducing speeding, reducing drunk driving, and offering motorcycle training courses to anyone who needs or wants it.
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46 mm of rain in half an hour floods Montreal
MONTREAL - Schools, offices, and homes in and around Montreal were damaged Tuesday after torrential rain hit the city.
On Wednesday morning several school boards on the South Shore announced multiple schools would be closed due to flooding or other rain-caused damage.
The Marie-Victorin School Board has closed: Marie-Victorin (Pavilion L'Herbier), Helene-de-Champlain, Bel-Essor, Lajeunesse, St-Jean-Baptiste, De Normandie, Armand-Racicot, and Hubert-Perron schools.
The Riverside School Board has closed: Alternate School, St. Lambert Elementary, Chambly Academy High School.
An intense storm battered Montreal around 5 p.m. Tuesday, forcing drains to back up and roads to become unnavigable and leading to significant property damage.
Power failures, highway closed
About 28,000 homes lost electricity as a result of the dramatic storm, although most had power restored a few hours later.
The Ville Marie Expressway eastbound was flooded so badly that it had to be closed around 5:30 p.m.
A famous Olympic athlete was caught up in the mess.
"Yup," figure skater Joanie Rochette tweeted, "I've just taken a boat tour of the Ville-Marie tunnel!"
Driving throughout the downtown core mean navigating through 30 cm of water and enduring violent splashes on car windows while watching out for pedestrians hurriedly dashing through red lights in an attempt to escape the storm as soon as possible.
In other neighbourhoods, particularly those in low-lying areas, water rose high enough for people to swim in the street.
The orange metro line was forced to close temporarily and many of the city's downtown malls were closed early, including the Place Montreal Trust, which was hit by some serious flooding (see photo).
The rain slowed down just before 6 p.m. in much of the city but deep puddles remained in countless corners of the island.
Many institutions were hit by the floods, including Dawson College where the Tony Proudfoot Gym was seriously damaged by water.
"There's hardwood that extends for three gymnasiums, so the potential for costly repair is definitely there," said Geoff Kloos.
"The cleanup is going to take over the next couple of days. We're not sure about opening the college [Wednesday]. That's being looked at on an hour to hour basis."
A basement hallway at Concordia was also flooded.
Many CTV Montreal viewers sent in scenes from the flood, click here to see more.
Environment Canada said 46 millimetres of rain fell on the city in 30 minutes, and some areas received 80 mm by the end of the day.
"If we're thinking about one specific point it is very rare that we will have that type of amount more than once every 5 or ten years," said federal meteorologist Andre Cantin.
Other places had it worse.
"Some other places over the island got between 50 and 70 mm and maybe higher amount in very few minutes," said Cantin.
At the Place d'Armes metro stop near Old Montreal, the water was ankle-deep at the ground-floor turnstile -- which is well above the lower-level tracks.
Would-be commuters said they had arrived there to an improbable sight: a sheet of water spilling onto the turnstile area from the windows above.
"It was raining from the ceiling," said Allyson Haring after she navigated the ankle-deep water around the ticket booth.
Her friend said she had never seen anything like it.
"Up here if it's flooded, I wonder what is going on down there (on the tracks)," said Brenna Maciw, who was scrambling to find another way home to the city's outer suburbs.
"I feel like this is something that's going to go down in the books."
Business people hoping to take the subway skipped, hopped and sloshed through the massive puddles -- some while wearing high heels. Upon arriving, they were turned away.
Transit workers, meanwhile, tried to sop up the water with mops and vacuums.
As has happened before, Wolfe St. in Montreal's Latin Quarter produced a sewer geyser.


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15 Hilariously True Insights on Dating From Aziz Ansari
Aziz Ansari has given us a lot of laughs -- as Tom Haverford in Parks and Recreation, as his hip-hop-loving self in various stand-up specials, and as a key member of the criminally underappreciated sketch show, Human Giant. Not satisfied being everyone's favorite goofball, he just wrote a book, Modern Romance: An Investigation, exploring the trends, frustrations, and utter ridiculousness of dating in the digital era.
It might seem like an odd move for a man whose previous social critiques didn't go much further than declaring Cold Stone Creamery the epicenter of American greed. But turns out Aziz has some surprisingly poignant, and unsurprisingly hilarious, things to say on the subject of love.
"If you've held someone you love and watched three to ten hours of a critically acclaimed drama, you've experienced the peak of human happiness."
-- Modern Romance stand-up tour
"The whole idea of love is scary -- so is being with someone for the rest of your life and being happy with them for the rest of your life. There's lots of research to suggest that, actually, love's not really that simple."
-- Time Out: London 6/4/2013
"We want something that's very passionate, or boiling, from the get-go. In the past, people weren't looking for something boiling; they just needed some water. Once they found it and committed to a life together, they did their best to heat things up. Now, if things aren't boiling, committing to marriage seems premature. But searching for a soul mate takes a long time and requires enormous emotional investment. The problem is that this search for the perfect person can generate a lot of stress. Younger generations face immense pressure to find the 'perfect person' that simply didn't exist in the past when 'good enough' was good enough."
-- Modern Romance
"I was in a relationship for a few years and I think in the time I was in the relationship all dating communication went exclusively to text. You can't call anybody anymore, if you call people: 'What are you on fire? Quit wasting my time, text me that shit!' "
-- Aziz Ansari: Dangerously Delicious
"Today, if you own a smartphone, you're carrying a 24-7 singles bar in your pocket."
-- Time 6/4/2015
"Asking a new person to go on a romantic outing has never been easy. It means declaring your attraction to someone and putting yourself out there in a huge way, while risking the brutal possibility of rejection -- or, in the modern era, even an unexplained, icy-cold silence."
-- Modern Romance
"If you were in a bar, would you ever go up to a guy or girl and repeat the word 'hey' ten times in a row without getting a response? Would you ever go up to a woman you met two minutes ago and beg her to show you one of her boobs? Even if you are just looking for a casual hookup, do you really think this will work? And if so, do you really want to bone someone who responds to this? Yet people send these kinds of text messages all the time. I can only conclude that it's because it's so easy to forget that you're talking to another human being and not a bubble."
-- Modern Romance
"Now if someone likes you and you don't like them back, you just pretend to be busy forever. That's what people do now, they pretend to be busy forever, then they conduct this strange psychological experiment, where it's like, 'How much hope does this person have?' "
-Aziz Ansari: Live at Madison Square Garden
"One girl raved about a nice voicemail a guy had recently left her. I kindly requested she play it and heard this gem: 'Hey, Lydia. It's Sam. Just calling to say what's up. Gimme a ring when you get a chance.' That was it. I pleaded to know what was so great about this. She sweetly recalled that 'He remembered my name, he said hi, and he told me to call him back.' Never mind the fact that what she described was the content of literally every voicemail in history. Name, hello, please call back. Not really a boatload of charm on display. To fail this test, a guy would have to leave a message that said: 'No greeting. This is man. I don't remember you. End communication.' "
-- Modern Romance
"If passionate love is the coke of love, companionate love is like having a glass of wine or smoking a few hits of some mild weed."
-- Modern Romance
"I see people my age getting married to people they've known for like a year and a half. A year and a half? Is that enough time to get to know someone to know you want to spend the rest of your life with them? I've had sweaters for a year and a half and I was like 'What the fuck was I doing with this sweater?' "
-Aziz Ansari: Buried Alive
"Hey, so we've been hanging out together all the time, spending a lot of time together and everything... I wanna keep doing that 'til you're dead. I wanna keep hanging out with you 'til one of us dies. Put this ring on your finger so people know we have an arrangement."
-- Aziz Ansari: Buried Alive (on why marriage is a ridiculous concept)
"Online dating is like a second job that requires knowledge and skills that very few of us have. In fact, most of us have no clue what we're doing. One reason is that people don't always know what they're looking for in a soul mate, unlike when they're picking something easier, like laundry detergent (big ups to Tide Mountain Spring — who doesn't want to their clothes to smell like a fresh mountain spring?!)."
-- Modern Romance
"Often, when you're out in the single world meeting people, you meet someone you like, get their number, and put it right in your phone, transforming them into an 'option' that lives in your device. Sometimes you and that option engage in some phone-based interaction and you meet up in person. But sometimes that exchange never happens. That potentially cool, exciting person dies there, buried in your phone."
-- Modern Romance
"There's something uniquely valuable in everyone, and we'll be much happier and better off if we invest the time and energy it takes to find it. But seriously, if the person doesn't clip their toenails or wear clean socks, look elsewhere. There are plenty of options."
-- Modern Romance
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Insurance companies are confronted with a growing number of complex and always-changing regulations established by federal agencies or an individual state's Department of Insurance; many of these rules relate to the monitoring, tracking and reporting of policyholder information on a timely basis. Most legacy systems were not built to adapt to these types of frequent changes, but the costs of failure to comply are real: Billions of dollars in fines have been levied against insurers in recent years.
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When you automate the acquisition, enhancement and delivery of required data from internal and external sources, you save your organization time and money by avoiding tedious and repetitive tracking and reporting activities.


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noun self–med·i·ca·tion \-ˌmed-ə-ˈkā-shən\
"Medication of oneself especially without the advice of a physician"In stressful occasions do you turn to alcohol or drugs? "Drowning in your troubles" by turning to a case of beer or bottle of wine on a rare occasion may be innocent. When it becomes a habit is when it's turned into self-medicating. When an individual realizes that these substances create even a modicum of relief, they turn to them more and more and become dependent. The self-medicating theory claims that the person becomes drawn to drugs and or alcohol depending on the symptoms. For example, an individual experiencing anxiety is much more attracted to sedative type of drug. Or a stimulant can be much more attractive to those suffering from depression.
Risks associated with self-medicating include
- Inaccurate diagnosis
- Using inappropriate medications causing dangerous side effects
- Masking the symptoms of a mental illness and/or serious medical condition
- Delaying medical advice
- Inaccurate dosage that leads to accidental overdose
- Substance abuse can lead to suicide
- Addiction
What to do if you or someone you know is self-medicating and or struggling from addiction?
Hypnotherapy can train a person to access their thoughts and target those which foster the need for substances. This change can make all the difference as hypnosis is an exercise bringing about deep relaxation and an altered state of consciousness. The University of Maryland explains that contrary to popular belief, hypnosis does not allow the hypnotist to control a person's mind. Instead, the hypnotized individual may learn to control their own state of being through conditioned efforts led by the hypnotherapist. Hypnotherapy can be an effective source of treatment. It can be used to reinforce or create positive habits and thoughts to break the addiction. Dr Biodun Ogunyemi states that the unconscious mind controls not just our habits but also holds all the information that makes us behave the way we do, think the way we think, and feel the way we feel. The most difficult part in the recovery process is refraining from and or not relapsing. Hypnotherapy is useful in numerous ways, such as aiding in withdrawal symptoms or creating visual images of oneself. Results can be very positive; however, these characteristics must be present for the best outcome:
- Addict must be motivated to change
- Drugs and or alcohol must be completely removed
- Extensive hypnotherapy must be done
- Addict must be seen regularly


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African Flour Millers Assess U.S. Wheat Quality and Trade Opportunities
Posted June 17, 2016
Reliable ingredient sourcing and supply are key to any market functioning successfully. For 15 years, Nigerian millers have traveled to the United States to take stock of their primary supply of HRW wheat. This year, two milling executives from South Africa and Ghana joined three Nigerians on a team that traveled to Kansas June 15-19, 2016, to assess trade opportunities and U.S. wheat quality. The team also visited Texas, North Dakota and Minnesota.
"The milling industries in these countries rely on an uninterrupted supply of quality wheat," said Gerald Theus, USW regional assistant director for Sub-Saharan Africa in the regional Cape Town, South Africa office. "In competitive markets where we face new challenges, there is nothing more valuable than connecting these participants directly with the farmers and other members of the supply chain."
In marketing year 2015/16 (June to May), Nigeria was once again one of the largest buyers of all U.S. wheat classes and is the dominant buyer in USW's Sub-Saharan Africa region having imported more than 1 million metric tons (MMT) of hard red winter (HRW). The market development activities in Nigeria provide a foundation for other nearby countries including Ghana. South Africa is a steady importer with good potential.
"This team represents major milling groups in each of their respective countries," said Theus. "Mills throughout Africa appreciate the high milling quality characteristics of U.S. wheat and its superior baking aspects."
Bringing these buyers to see Kansas wheat quality and to discuss ways to keep their importing costs down is a very important activity during a time of very aggressive competition. While in Manhattan, Kansas, the team learned about wheat research at the Kansas Wheat Innovation Center, toured the Center for Grain and Animal Health Research, IGP Institute and Hal Ross flour mill, and heard from Jay O'Neal on global supply and demand and transportation outlook. The team then traveled to central Kansas to visit the Bartlett Grain Company Train Loading Facility and witness Kansas wheat harvest at the farm of Doug Keesling.
Nigeria is a success story for the U.S. wheat industry. After a six-year wheat ban ended in 1992, Nigeria imported nearly 350,000 MT (12.86 million bushels) of U.S. wheat. Since then, the United States has re-established itself as the major supplier of wheat to the Nigerian milling industry.
Nigerian wheat consumption continues to rise rapidly. More and more Nigerians are looking for a nutritious, convenient food and they are finding it in the fastest growing product segment — instant noodles made primarily from HRW. Today, Nigeria is behind only countries in Southeast Asia in per capita consumption and nearly every milling company is manufacturing instant noodles, even though they first appeared on the market less than a decade ago.
The United States dominates Nigeria's wheat import market, despite a decrease in market share and increased price competition from other suppliers, including Canada, Australia and the Black Sea region. USW's in-country service office in Lagos and a commitment to technical training and exchanges have combined to build strong Nigerian loyalty to U.S.-origin wheat. Yet, Nigeria continues to have tremendous untapped potential for increased milling capacity, including for Nigerian flour exports to other West African markets like Ghana.


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MEPs reject plans for fossil fuel subsidies
MEPs sitting on the regional development committee have rejected a proposal that would have allowed public subsidies to be spent on fossil fuel infrastructure projects under the European Regional and Development Fund.
The rejection came as part of the Regional Development Committee of the European Parliament's vote yesterday on the proposed Cohesion Package. The report will decide on how to divide up a budget of €336 billion intended to develop regions, provide transport solutions, renewable energy and structural reform.
Markus Trilling from the CEE Bankwatch Network said: "we applaud members of the regional development committee for today's clear signal that fossil fuel subsidies have no place in the EU's regional development funding."
"MEPs have made their pro-climate intentions for the forthcoming EU budget negotiations clear, and they must insist that member states drop any plans to lump fossil fuels back into EU funding pots destined for energy efficiency and renewable energy," he added.
Meanwhile, the Committee also strengthened European Commission proposals by supporting an increase from 6% to 12% of regional development funds to cater for 'low-carbon' development in less developed regions and from the original 20% in developed and tranistion regions to 22%.
Sébastian Godinot, chief economist at WWF, said he was pleased with the committee's conclusions which were "clearly more ambitious" than the European Commission and Council of Ministers. The Cohesion Policy Package must now be negotiated between the Parliament, Commission and Council before agreement is reached.
This is just a small step in the right direction against channeling more public money into fossil fuels. Some 80% of the total energy subsidies in the EU-15 are paid to fossil fuels and nuclear energy according to the European Environment Agency, while just 19% cost to renewables.
For every $1 of government support given to renewable energy around the world, at least $5 are given to fossil fuels, according to the International Energy Agency.
This post was amended on 16/07/2012 to more correctly state figures and percentages. EWEA strives for the utmost accuracy in all its publications.


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This book is a continuation of 'Acoustic and Elastic Wave Fields in Geophysics, Part I' published in 2000. The second volume is dedicated to propagation of linear plane, spherical and cylindrical acoustic waves in different media. Chapter 1 is devoted to principles of geometric acoustic in plane wave approximation. The eikonal and transport equations are derived. Ray tracing and wavefront construction techniques are explained. Chapter 2 deals with dynamic properties of wave fields. The behavior of pressure and displacements amplitudes in zero approximation is analysed in two ways: using Poynting vector and solving the transport equation. This chapter contains several examples related to shadow zones and caustics. In Chapter 3 using the results of analysis of high-frequency wave kinematics and dynamics some fundamental aspects of Kirchhoff migration are described. Chapters 4 and 5 are devoted to propagation of plane waves in media with flat boundaries in the case of normal and oblique incidence. Special attention is paid to the case when an incident angle exceeds the critical angles. Formation of normal modes in the waveguide is discussed. Chapter 6 deals with a spherical wave reflection and refraction. The steepest descent method is introduced to describe the behavior of reflected, transmitted, head and evanescent waves. In Chapter 7 propagation of stationary and transient waves in a waveguide formed by a flat layer with low velocity are investigated. Normal modes and waves related to the branch points of integrands under consideration are studied. Dispersive properties of normal modes are discussed. Chapter 8 describes wave propagation inside cylinder in acoustic media. Several appendices are added to help the reader understand different aspects of mathematics used in the book.
Please Note: This is an On Demand product, delivery may take up to 11 working days after payment has been received.
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Q&A – Ian Tracey (Bolan)
Ian Tracey, who plays The Swede's henchman Bolan on AMC's Hell on Wheels, talks to AMCtv.com in this interview about falling horse stunts and actorly advice.
Q: Bolan suffers a lot of physical abuse in Hell on Wheels. Do you do your own stunts?
A: I did some of the fighting and riding and shooting, but there's a great Calgary stunt man… I had a "horse fall" [stunt], and with those you never know if you're going to be the one getting up or not, so [he] took care of that.
Q: So everything went well with the stunts you did handle?
A: It did. Sometimes the horses were finicky because it was muddy a lot of the time and they don't like standing in a bog hole. As long as you can say the dialogue, though, that's okay. It adds a little tension to the scene with the horses moving around agitated.
Q: Did you have to learn how to ride a horse for Hell on Wheels?
A: I grew up on a small farm in British Columbia, and we all had horses of our own. I love horses, and I love being around them, so if I get a chance to work on a western, particularly a period piece like Hell on Wheels, I'm in heaven. Gettin' up early. Smelling horse dung at your feet. Riding and shooting. It's a kid's dream come true.
Q: Bolan is so vulnerable as he dies. Was that an acting choice or was that all in the script?
A: The dialogue was there, but interpretation is in the actor's hands a lot. I felt like this character is a hired gun. He doesn't have too much in the brains department — maybe he's been kicked in the head by a mule a few times — and he'll do what you tell him without much conscience. At the same time, he's innocent developmentally, maybe like the 12-year-old follower of a bully, who just does what the bully tells him to do. But faced with meeting his maker, Bolan reverts back to being a child.
VIDEO: Inside Episode 7, "Revelations"
Q: Was Bolan the role you auditioned for?
A: It was. I went in and read one scene, and it turned out that was all they had for Bolan at that point. Pretty straightforward: Hired gun playing a henchman to this Swede. Because it was a potentially recurring role, and loving horses and period pieces, I was all over it and got the part. It would have been nice not to die and to keep riding with the Swede, but somebody's got to go down.
Q: Were you sad to have the role end?
A: Well, maybe that [showing Bolan's vulnerability] was just my way of injecting a reason to not let him die and to keep the part going. [Laughs] Maybe they would take pity and let him live. But the Irish guy [Toole] lived, and they couldn't have everybody miraculously crawling back out of the woods.
Q: You started directing about a decade ago. Did it impact your acting?
A: What was difficult was acting while I was directing. Being an actor is like being a musician in that you do all your work ahead of time. While you're performing, thinking about it is the last thing you want to be doing, but if you're directing a show, you're thinking about every minute detail.
Q: You have a son who's also an actor. What advice did you give him about the business?
A: I tried to keep him out of the industry for as long as I could… I told him that if he was interested in acting, he should study it. I wanted to make sure he liked it and had an aptitude for it and didn't expect that because his old man was an actor that he'd just walk through the door and get an agent and an audition. So he started doing some plays at school and he studied with different acting coaches. Now he's showing his colors, getting some good gigs.
Click here to read an interview with Christopher Heyerdahl, who plays The Swede on AMC's Hell on Wheels.Read More


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Companies of any size are actually applying lean manufacturing. Companies no more than a dental professional office are blogging about using lean manufacturing strategies to enhance the process minimizing costs.
If your clients are contemplating getting a lean manufacturing consultant, they most likely need one. When the expertise doesn't exist inside the corporation, energy is going to be lost and cash spent unnecessarily before the lean manufacturing consultant is hired.
If the organization has lean manufacturing knowledge of-house, the issue then becomes certainly one of execution and implementation. Can the in-house expert execute the lean implementation plan inside the needed time period and budget? Furthermore, will the expert get the needed management dedication to implement lean manufacturing?
It's quite common to determine organizations employ a consultant and commit the sources that otherwise 't be committed. Is the fact that fair towards the in-house consultant? No, but as the saying goes, "it's what it's". Whether it takes an outdoors lean manufacturing consultant to produce a method of massive waste elimination and cost creation, will it really matter over time?
From the corporate view, the only goal would be that the waste elimination occurs and cost is produced.
Lean manufacturing consultants are frequently proficient at motivating the business into action. Sure, one good reason may be the corporation is having to pay for services so it's more compelled to take full advantage of it. Also, unless of course the lean manufacturing consultant will probably be compensated to wander around, the organization will most likely create a concerted effort to implementation.
When the organization comes with an in-house lean manufacturing expert and top management commitment, the only real need to hire an outdoors lean manufacturing consultant could be for further sources or ideas. A great outdoors consultant has witnessed many enhancements in various organizations with various products. The consultant has unquestionably observed or been associated with a couple of failures, and therefore has got the experience and understanding to avoid or minimize it.
The initial step in figuring out the requirement for a lean manufacturing consultant is definitely an operational analysis. Every area from the organization ought to be assessed, including manufacturing, maintenance, engineering, shipping, purchasing, administration, and purchasers. The magnitude from the waste ought to be quantified.
When completed from the assessment, the requirement for a lean manufacturing consultant will end up transparent.
It is important for that organization and managers to help keep a balanced view. This can't be mandated, but encouraged through written examples, benchmarking visits back and forth from others with effective lean manufacturing implementations.
It's not uncommon for any good lean manufacturing consultant to lessen price of good offered by 10%. This very high number shouldn't be proven towards the entire organization in advance. It should not be hidden, but any high number would initially bring fear in to the organization.
All lean manufacturing implementations ought to be preceded having a commitment of no job loss consequently. The organization ought to be in advance and hones about waste elimination, job combinations, and position elimination, but also needs to invest in keeping all employees with the process.
Clearly, potential outdoors conditions wouldn't permit an assurance, but when an organization wants total participation and maximum success, they're not going to put people unemployed because of a lean manufacturing initiative.
When positions are eliminated through lean manufacturing tools, individuals employees should end up part of the 5S or kaizen teams. This only boosts the sources and concentrate enabling more waste elimination.


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By Betty
It was a beautiful day – a blue sky, white floating clouds, no promise of rain – and HOT.
My 17 year old dog went out for her morning business. I made a breakfast for both of us, made my bed, combed my hair, about ready for the day.
I opened the door to let my dog in. She's very old, a bit fragile, and hates being outdoors. No dog was waiting at the door. No dog came when I clapped my hands. Not today. No dog hurried to the door when I called "Treats." Whatever happened? Where was she?
I walked over to to back kitchen door and then I knew. The back gate to the front was open and no dog was in sight.
I panicked; almost had a heart attack. I stood there dumb-founded. How could this be? I limped over to check the neighbor's yard. No dog in sight. I stumbled across the street to the doctor's house. Maybe my dog had gone there to visit the black cat who visited our house last week. No cat to be seen.
Breathless, unsteady, I tried walking down the street. Maybe my dog was visiting all the many dogs living on our street. Not to be.
Giving up the search and losing all hope, afraid I'd fall as I had not taken walker or cane. I had just panicked and took off. Here I was, alone, helpless, scared, and in the middle of the street. I made it home, hot, stumped and ready to collapse. Standing in my driveway, I stopped to take one last look.
There sat the car I no longer drive – haven't driven for over a year – no license, no gas, four flat tires – useless. I gave up. My life was over.
I turned slowly, carefully, to go in. And there sitting at my side was my dog! Her eyes asked, "Where have you been?"
Where she'd been I'll never know. How it happened I'll never learn. We both limped inside, had a cold drink and fell asleep, almost recovered.
What a nightmare! Except it was not a nightmare. It was real!
September 2014


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BBC 2 Jungle Documentary
November 26, 2009
Is it me or is UK Apache actually Peter Andre? Big up harry2damax for posting this documentary from 1994. A history lesson…..
J-Rocc v J-Man
November 22, 2009
I think I would be one of the few people that still buy mix CD's and thats because J.Rocc is still putting them out 😉 This time round he has done a special label mix for the London based reissue champions Jazzman Records. One word …. D O P E
Porcelain Remix
November 18, 2009
I heard this remix played a few months back and I was overjoyed as its one of them tunes that I had always wished got a DNB remix. I asked the producer if it was gonna come out and the answer was "no!!" ….Anyway he is now giving it away for free. Thank you Atlantic Connection.
4 Hero Presents: Extensions
November 13, 2009
4 hero have invited a hand picked selection of European artists/producers that you would associate with the Nu Jazz genre to cover some of their music for this Extensions LP. This is hardly a remix album but a personal collection of beautifully crafted compositions, arrangements and orchestrations. The highlights are the reinterpretations from Robert Mitchell Trio, Sonar Kollektiv Orchester and Vince Vella's Cuban Collective. An album not just for 4 Hero fans, but also lovers of contemporary jazz. Brilliant!!
Gary Pacific Orchestra – Soft Wind 45
November 12, 2009
German reissue label Sonorama digs even deeper to release this psychedelic funk nugget. The 3 library tracks on this 45 were originally pressed up by the chemical company BASF in the 70's for advertising purposes. The Gary Pacific Orchestra bring the heavy psych funk, soul breaks and deep flute lines on this rare groove 7″.
PBW – 45 Live Box Set
November 8, 2009
PBW has dropped this brilliant 10 x 7″ box set of classic 80's hip hop joints. Apparently some of the tracks were never available before on 7″ (due to their length) so PBW has edited them especially for the project. The slices come in a super duty tuff biscuit tin with a free sticker and label artwork that is identical to the original releases. 5 Day Weekend have not cut any corners in making this dream come true for lovers of old school hip hop.
"This project is such a great honor for me to be involved with. This is one of the crowning moments of my music career, seriously. As a kid growing up in San Jose, CA when all this stuff was coming out, I was hooked and half a lifetime later I still am. I can only imagine what these songs sound like to a teenager today hearing them for the first time, just as they probably wonder what it was like for someone like me to have heard them for the first time back when it was all happening. I've also always wondered what it was like to grow up in one of the five boroughs in Hip Hop's infancy in the 80s. These songs were the closest I got to knowing." — Peanut Butter Wolf
Lucien's Luck – You Should Know!
November 6, 2009
"Trust in us, and thus you trust in your life. Lucien, Lucien, Lucien, Lucien. You should know! " …. Killer Funk are back with their 8th cheeky release with a brass heavy re-edit of Billy Brooks' Forty Days – essential.
RF – Thnx 4 Dilla! / Love Theme
November 4, 2009
There isn't much info to be found on the Japanese new jazz collective RF. On this their debut release is their own interpretation of Stan Getz's Saudade Vem Correndo on the a side. The flip has a cover of Yusef Lateef's Love Theme From Spartacus. Only 300 of these smooth 7″s have been presssed so you better start runnin' to your local vinyl spot asap.
Atom – Night Flight
November 4, 2009
I first heard Atom's music when Intalex played Dolly on his Soulution Radio show a year or 2 ago. Since then the hobby producer has finished a few more tunes and finally made his well deserved debut on wax with this 12″. Nightflight raised the hairs on my head when I 1st heard it. It is a stripped down minimal groover which is warm and somehow reminds me of the music Omni Trio were making about 10 years ago. The flip is also a deep, techy & minimal number with plenty of soul………