Conventional medicines could possibly get really costly and for it to be ideal to look for the plants employed for medicine so that you can come with an alternative. Plant medicines vary – you should use the extracts, leaves, stems, roots, along with other parts for the treatment of common illnesses. The plants are ideal for treating depression, flu, and lots of other illnesses. You should know that some prescription medications originate from plants like morphine and aspirin the second originates from willow bark and also the former cones from poppy plant.
Exactly why lots of people are actually choosing plants employed for prescription medication is because the majority of the conventional medicines are treating just the signs and symptoms. To inspire healing, the guarana plant medicines are wonderful since these are chemically balanced. With regards to safety, plants don't have negative effects but to make sure effectiveness, you have to make use of the appropriate plant formulations. Stick to the dosage to be able to guarantee effectiveness.
Avoid self medication and malpractice even though the risks are low. Doctors are actually available to using plant medicines which means you can consult them about this. Locate a local herbalist to be able to be led accordingly. The plants employed for medicine vary and with the aid of experts, you are able to cure your wellbeing condition at a less expensive cost.
The American Indians, Europeans, Chinese, and also the Egyptians used plant medicines for hundreds of years. So far, these cultures use their understanding about plants and herbs for stopping common illnesses. One of the most used plant medicines are lemon balm, Hawthorne, valerian, saw palmetto extract, cranberry juice, feverfew, ginkgo, garlic clove, and many more. You can too use passion flower, catnip, pokeweed, comfrey, sweet sagewort, cannabis sativa, Echinacea, crimson coneflower, dill, St. John's Wort, yarrow, and milk thistle.
If you're ready, now you can use the plants employed for medicine. While you get older, your utmost concerns is the cholesterol level. You are able to reduce cholesterol by utilizing garlic clove which plant medicine is ideal for lowering the platelet adhesiveness. Fragile capillaries may be treatable with ginkgo. For migraines, you'll find relief in making use of feverfew.
Indians like to use crimson coneflower for the treatment of microbial and viral illnesses. It is because the guarana plant enhances producing properdin and also the interferon. Phagocytosis can also be stimulated applying this plant. If you're vulnerable to utis, you should use cranberry juice. Plants employed for medicine for the treatment of prostatic hypertrophy include saw palmetto extract and stinging nettle.
To avoid heart failure, you should use Hawthorne and when you usually be depressed, St. John's Wort is a superb option to anti-depressants. Stomach aches and digestion can be handled by utilizing dill oil. You may still find many plant medicines which you can use and along with some research online, you can study a lot of things. Talk to your physician about this so that you can select the perfect alternative treatment which will meet your requirements.
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Hello Misfits. It is time for this weeks Smackdown Live review. Its the fallout from Money in the Bank and new number one contender for AJ Styles WWE Championship will be named. It will be determined in a five man gauntlet match between Big E, Rusev, The Miz, Samoa Joe and Daniel Bryan. It was also announced that Sanity will be facing off against the Usos. Also what is next for Shinsuke Nakamura? How does Asuka react after being tricked by Carmella and the returning James Ellsworth? What is next for Becky Lynch as she was so close to becoming Ms Money in the Bank? Lets find out.
Smackdown comes to us live from the Huntington Center in Toledo, OH.
– Paige opens the show to tell us that MITB was great but now it the past. It's time to focus on the next show, Extreme Rules. Tonight there will be a gauntlet match to determine the number one contender for the WWE Championship. That match will feature The Miz, Big E, Daniel Bryan, Samoa Joe, and Rusev.
Carmella says when she was younger she delt with self-confidence issue. Carmella says she just wants every young girl and boy out there who think they are not good enough to take a look in the mirror and repeat these words: "'Mella is Money!" Carmella says she has been moonwalking and trash talking since she was in diapers. The real lesson is everyone needs to just give up. No matter what you do, you will never be better than Carmella is. Carmella beat Charlotte Flair twice and on Sunday she beat Asuka. The best part is Carmella did it all by herself.
Carmella says she made the Empress bow down to the Princess of Staten Island. Asuka comes to the ring… but it's not Asuka, its James Elsworth dressed as Asuka. Elsworth says nobody was ready for Elsworth, especially Asuka. Elsworth says he is bac. Elsworth is back to serve the greatest women in WWE history. Elsworth says Carmella is better than everyone. Lita, Trish Stratus, Mother Teresa, and Beyoncé. Asuka's music hits again and the real Asuka power walks to the ring. Elsworth gets in Asuka's face. Asuka kicks Elsworth in the gut. Carmella kicks Asuka in the head.
MELLA IS MONEY. I think its still very weird for everyone see Asuka be on the same level as the other women on the roster and not as dominant as she was on NXT. Carmella continues to progress as a character which makes up for what she lacks in ring as a competitor. I still think this would have been cooler with her aligning with the IIconics but Ellsworth is doing just fine in the role he's in.
– Shot of Becky Lynch backstage preparing for her match.
Before the match, the IIconics cut the promo making fun of everyone in the crowd by saying that they are all animals cause Toledo has a Zoo. That explains the smell. Kay and Royce make fun of Lynch for the promo she cut last week about being tired of saying she "was". Royce says Lynch is never going to be anything. Lynch is better off being Charlotte's troll of a sidekick.
In a quality match for television, Becky Lynch defeated Billie Kay after knocking Peyton Royce with a splash off the apron and making Billy Kay tap out with a disARMher.
The IIconics continue to entertain me with their silly promos. However, this was a much needed victory for Becky Lynch and hopefully this means she'll continue to climb back up the ladder. I would rather have Becky beat Carmella for the title over Charlotte or Asuka.
– The shadows of Sanity appear as they finally arrive to Smackdown Live.
– They hype the Australia event where Undertaker faces off against Triple H.
– Backstage, Renee Young interviews Daniel Bryan about tonights match. Renee lets us know that Bryan is going to be the first compeitor in the match and asks how he's going to survive. Bryan says he's not going to survive but he's going to win and that he proved on Sunday that size doesn't matter. Bryan says he's going to face three of the best superstar and purposely leaves out The Miz from his list. Bryan said he got here today by legs, lungs and heart and that he's going to win tonight. Bryan turns it around to ask Renee a question and asks her if she think he's ready to face the biggest and baddest superstars in WWE. He waits for her to say "yes" so he can start a yes chant.
The Usos come out and cut a promo about making a name for themselves they had to show their heart and sAnity talks about chaos but tonight they're going to be in the Uso Penitentiary. Young, Dain and Wolfe make their way out. Wolfe gets a little too close to Jimmy Uso. Jimmy punches Wolfe. Dain, Wolfe, and Young beat down both Usos. Dain hits a Vader Bomb. Young and Wolfe blast Jey with their back suplex/second rope neck breaker. The match never starts and sAnity stands tall.
This was perfectly fine for what it was. sAnity had to come in making a bang and this was a way to do it. I kind of wish it wasn't at the expense of The Usos because we've seen that happen before with them when it came to the Bludgeon Brothers. Although if it leads into a feud between the two teams, I'm okay with it. The fact that we dont have separate PPVS for the brands make me wonder if it'll be important enough to make the card though.
– Backstage, Anderson and Gallows cut a promo about their upcoming match by showing off their abs. Gallows calls Anderson Doube A for "Abs Anderson" which I got a kick out of. They show the Bludgeon Brothers as well.
– Backstage,Backstage, Renee says Nakamura requested this time explain his loss to AJ Styles this past Sunday night. Nakamura says the only reason Styles is still WWE Champion is because the referee counted very fast and didn't count in Japanese. It's all very unfair. Renee asks what's Nakamura's response to Jeff Hardy's comments from earlier tonight. Nakamura says, "who"? Renee yells "Jeff Hardy!" Nakamura tells Renee she doesn't have to yell. Hardy said his eyes were open now. If Hardy crosses Nakamura, Nakamura will close them for him. Heel Nakamura is still great.
In a solid match The Bludgeon Brothers defeated The Club after a double sit-down power bomb on Anderson.
I like that they are giving Anderson and Gallows a ton of offence and not making these total squash matches. It makes them look like viable opponents for the Bludgeon Brothers and keeps them as a strong tag team. There is a part of me that is already over the Bludgeon Brothers being tag champs as there are so many good tag teams on Smackdown Live. I could see the Bludgeon Brothers being involved in rivalries that dont involve the strap.
– Daniel Bryan makes his way out as the Bludgeon Brothers are heading to the back. They have a moment where they all stare each other down. It was interesting. It was a throwback to when Bryan had his feud with the Wyatt Family but it also made me wonder if there was some foreshadowing there.
– They show all the other participants in the gauntlet match backstage preparing.
In a competitive first round of the gauntlet, Daniel Bryan defeats Big E after he escapes a Big Ending and hits the running knee to get the pin fall victory to survive for the next round.
In yet another competitive battle between two guys I'd love to see have a lengthier feud, Daniel Bryan defeated Samoa Joe by count out, when he makes it back into the ring before Samoa Joe to beat the ten count.
Daniel Bryan is eliminated by The Miz after the Bludgeon Brothers return to hit the upside down on Bryan, allowing Miz to come out and just hit the skull crushing finale to put him away and eliminate him from the gauntlet.
In a back and fourth battle between the final two members of the gauntlet, Rusev defeated The Miz by making him tap out to the accolade receiving his first ever WWE Championship title shot.
This was basically the last 45 minutes of the show and it was fun. Big E and Bryan had a good sprint which I enjoyed. It felt like we were stealing money from the WWE, by getting Bryan vs Joe on free TV even if it was just a teaser. I'd love to see them have a longer rivalry in the future. It was also the smart and safe choice to have their round end with a count-out. They really made it seem like Bryan was gonna go all the way at this point, so the Bludgeon Brothers returning to attack him was shocking and really got a reaction from the pro-Bryan crowd. The Miz was the right choice to steal that victory from Bryan as they have that never ending rivalry right thats being put on the back burner for the time being. It was also a smart way to eliminate Bryan while giving Miz some of his heat back. I actually was expecting The Miz to win from the point forward but marked out when Rusev did because he deserves it. It was definitely Rusev Day today. The match was filled with twists and turns and I enjoyed it.
– AJ Styles come out after the match and has a stand off with Rusev with the title placed between them. They shake hands and then Aiden English comes in for a handshake, but punks Styles on hand shake, leading to him getting punched in the face as Smackdown goes off the air. This was funny. I concur.
This episode of Smackdown was action packed and fun. There were still stars missing as per usual such as Lana, Charlotte, Almas, Orton and etc. However they did a great job with what they showcased tonight. There were new angles born and old ones revisited. It was another fun episode of Smackdown Live that flew by because I was entertained throughout the entire thing. They did a great job starting to build up towards Extreme Rules and making me anticipate next weeks episode. I want to know what the Bludgeon Brothers motive was to attack Bryan? Whats next for the Miz and was he involved with that happening? Will Nakamura and Styles cross paths? Will Becky Lynch continue her road to redemption when Charlotte is back around? Will Asuka get her revenge on Carmella and Ellsworth? Whats next with sAnity and will the Usos come back at them? Whats next for Almas? Smackdown's doing a good job right now.


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Samsung Galaxy Core Plus - Android смартфон, разработанный Samsung Electronics. Он был выпущен в октябре 2013 года и работал на Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean) и имел 4,3-дюймовый дисплей..

История
Samsung Galaxy Core Plus был анонсирован и выпущен в октябре 2013 года. Эта модель стала доступна всего через несколько месяцев после выхода оригинального Galaxy Core в мае 2013 года.  Этот выпуск рассматривался как часть стратегии по выпуску новых телефонов для поддержания интереса потребителей..

Технические характеристики
Samsung Galaxy Core Plus имел 4 Гб внутренней памяти с возможностью расширения через microSD до 64 Гб, а также 512 Мб RAM. Он имел аккумулятор емкостью 1800 mAh и 4,3-дюймовый дисплей. Он был оснащен 5 МП камерой на задней панели и 0,3 МП камерой на передней панели..

Есть и другие варианты, представленные на других рынках, которые отличаются техническими характеристиками. Например, Galaxy Core Plus, выпущенный на Тайване и в Европе, поставлялся с 768 МБ оперативной памяти.
 Это было отмечено за то, что он уступает оригинальной модели Core, которая имела 1 ГБ оперативной памяти и 8 ГБ внутреннего хранилища..

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It's All About Character and Greatness!
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AN EXTRAORDINARY UNION by Alyssa Cole (9781410497901).
The first in a new trilogy, The Loyal League, this Civil War era historical romance has received four starred reviews and is on many "Must Read" lists. "No one suspects that a mute slave girl on a Southern estate is really a spy working for the Loyalty League, a secret society of freed blacks and slaves funneling information to the Union. Her disguise was working perfectly until a handsome Confederate soldier with a Scottish brogue nearly ruins everything," says a starred, Booklist review. A starred Library Journal proclaims: "Courageous, passionate protagonists fight for justice, freedom, and the right to love in an exceptional story that both educates and entertains and beautifully launches a unique series." For readers who like Jennifer Chiaverini. (African-American — 5/17/2017)
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Slowly modulated oscillations in nonlinear diffusion processes
Cohen, Donald S. and Hoppensteadt, Frank C. and Miura, Robert M. (1977) Slowly modulated oscillations in nonlinear diffusion processes. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 33 (2). pp. 217-229. ISSN 0036-1399. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:COHsiamjam77
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It is shown here that certain systems of nonlinear (parabolic) reaction-diffusion equations have solutions which are approximated by oscillatory functions in the form R(ξ - cτ)P(t^*) where P(t^*) represents a sinusoidal oscillation on a fast time scale t* and R(ξ - cτ) represents a slowly-varying modulating amplitude on slow space (ξ) and slow time (τ) scales. Such solutions describe phenomena in chemical reactors, chemical and biological reactions, and in other media where a stable oscillation at each point (or site) undergoes a slow amplitude change due to diffusion.
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© 1977 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Received by the editors February 11, 1976, and in revised form November 17, 1976. This work was performed at a workshop on Mathematical Problems in Ecology, August, 1975, organized by Professor Donald L. Ludwig, University of British Columbia, and supported by the National Research Council of Canada. [D.S.C. was] [s]upported in part by the U.S. Army Research Office under Contract DAHC-04-68-006 and the National Science Foundation under Grant GP32157X2. [F.C.H. was] [s]upported in part by the U.S. Air Force Scientific Research Office under Grant AFOSR-71-2107 and by the U.S. Army Research Office under Grant DAAG29-74-G-0219. [R.M.M. was] [s]upported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant GP-34319. The authors gratefully acknowledge the hospitality of Professor Donald L. Ludwig, University of British Columbia, and that of the University of British Columbia.
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Tutbury Castle in Staffordshire was built on the site of the original settlement which dates back to 1071, totally destroyed in the rebellion against King Henry II it was rebuilt in 1270 by the first Earl of Lancaster. One of its most famous guests held in the high tower was Mary Queen of Scots at the beginning of her incarceration. She was held at Tutbury on four separate occasions and it is at Tutbury that she became involved in the plot that led to her execution!
The Castle was visited by many English Kings over the years it became one of the great centres of power in Medieval England. It also witnessed its fair share of bloodshed and destruction having been besieged, destroyed and re-built several times! Its last destruction came courtesy of the act of parliament during the English Civil War which gives us the ruined parts of the Castle we see today.
So what of the Castles un-earthly spirits who are said to haunt the Castle ?
Perhaps Mary Queen Of Scots will make her presence known, once reported by forty soldiers who saw her stood at the top of the tower in a white gown and more recently by a Royal Marine as she moved rapidly across the grass towards him! She has been sighted frequently most recently between 10:15pm and 11pm at the great hall window dressed in black as cars leave the Castle!


As a founding member of the Grateful Dead, ethnomusicologist, sound archivist and preservationist, and seeker after billions of years old vibrations from the deep recesses of space, Mickey Hart has done more during his years on earth than many of us could imagine undertaking over several lifetimes. At 69 years of age, the California native has energy to burn. He credits his good health and curiosity to an ability to distinguish between the good and bad rhythms the world offers and to play through them. I've had the chance to interview Hart a number of times over the years and he's never sounded as excited as he does about his new 'Mysterium Tremendum' album and tour. I reached Mickey on a tour stop in Oregon the day before he was scheduled to perform in Vancouver.
Mickey: Hey! Thanks for finding me. Where are you calling from?
DR: I'm in Vancouver where you're going to be playing tomorrow night. I know you've just had a week off. Looking back, how do you feel about how things are going so far with a new tour, new band and new CD?
Mickey: Things are going extraordinarily. Over the top good. We're having a blast and the band is playing in top form every night. The people are loving it and the CD is a beautiful representation of the band and it is doing very well on the charts. So, life is good.
DR: I've been watching some video of the current band's performances. What elements of this band are you enjoying the most or happiest with?
Mickey: Well, they're becoming larger than the parts. They're creating group mind and becoming magical in their performance and that's what I go for.
DR: And they're a group of players that aren't really associated with the Grateful Dead or jam band music in any way.
Mickey: Other than Dave Schools. He's the bass mountain. He's a jam master, but the rest of them are kind of feeling their way – except for Sikiru.
DR: He's a veteran of many tours and bands with you.
Mickey: He and I have been down the rhythm trail a long time.
DR: So, for those who are newer to this trail, how is it working out? For those testing the waters - I'm fascinated by your bravery or if not your bravery, your conscious decision to seek out different kinds of players. Musicians who aren't necessarily working within your comfort zone.
Mickey: Let me qualify that. We're all testing the waters. These are high level professionals who have been playing their whole lives. All of these guys – they're life long players. Crystal Monee Hall, one of the singers in the band won a Tony award for singing in the musical, RENT.
DR: What an amazing voice.
Mickey: Yes, amazing. I picked her and all of them for their sensibilities, their desire to go different places in the music. In this particular case, we're going to the cosmos. We're playing with light waves, sound waves from the infinite universe. It's not for everybody.
DR: So, I'm imagining you sitting down with your musicians and telling them 'you're going to be playing light waves from the infinite universe.' What kind of reaction did they have?
Mickey: Well, I played it for them first and told them this is where I'm going. By the time we got to work, they knew what I was up to and that's why I chose them. I knew that they had that sensibility. They were all interested in going to a wonderful new place and they play beautifully. Sometimes, they don't show too much of their surprise to me, but at the same time they're doing things they've never done before. Nobody has. I haven't.
DR: I want to talk about that wonderful new place a bit and I wonder how conscious it was that you chose musicians who had never been there before – who weren't part of psychedelic music. If you'd simply wanted to recreate your trademark sound, there are lots of musicians in Grateful Dead cover bands waiting in the wings.
Mickey: No, no, no, no. You don't need me for a band like that. I've already covered that ground in the real sense, I don't need to do it again. But, you know, we play Grateful Dead songs.
DR: Did you ever consider not playing any of that music?
Mickey: NO! It's a part of me. I helped birth these songs and I helped write a lot of them. So, I can't run from it, nor would I want to. It's something that I embrace, but only partially.
Mickey: Well, the idea is that I'm playing new compositions as well. It's more like I'm offering a complete music diet – to my audiences and to myself. I look at music as nourishment. I mean, I love some of those Grateful Dead songs. We revisit them and play them beautifully with great respect. But, we're a new band and we don't try to be Jerry or Phil or Bob. That's not the way I want to spend my life.
DR: With good new material like you've written, it would be a shame in my opinion not to focus on it in the live show.
Mickey: Well, I've been pleased with the reception. The sales are fine and the crowds have been ecstatic. It's an ecstatic band! They go into zones of trance very easily. We lose our minds collectively - which is really the object of music!
DR: Yes, I agree. How did you become fascinated with the sonic nature of the cosmos, specifically the sound and radiation waves you're manipulating in your new music?
Mickey: That's a good question. If I can go back a little bit, in the early nineties I wrote two books, 'Drumming at the edge of Magic' and 'Planet Drum.' In those books, I investigated where these vibrations came from, where the grooves came from and why we are so fascinated with rhythm. I kept moving back through the Neolithic and Paleolithic periods and eventually I went back 13.7 billion years to the Big Bang. That's where it all started, where the vibrations and grooves that move the universe and the creation of what we now know as life began. There were no instruments to measure what we now call background radiation. That was the seed sound. Now, as the result of the work of people like George Smoot who received the Nobel Prize for his work discovering the Big Bang, there are instruments for measuring and capturing this radiation. Whooh! That got me thinking, so now that we know where 'the beat' came from, we can also hear what it sounded like! Wow! So, that's where it started and I started sampling bits of the universe and then during the Dead 09 tour, each night I started playing a very primitive version of what I'm doing now. I started introducing different parts of the universe into the performance during the drums and space section of the show. That was a seminal tour in that respect because it spawned this – what I'm doing now. Besides me doing all that drums and space stuff over the years, you know that and building the instrument that I have now, it all went back to the early Grateful Dead experiments in the seventies and eighties. When I started messing around with these types of technology what was available was very primitive. So, that's the geneology of my interest in deep space and these deep mysteries. The mysteries are starting to unravel now about where we came from and why we are here.
DR: When did you first become aware that there was a spiritual dimension to all of this? In other words, when did you realize that percussion could help a person release into something bigger?
Mickey: I realized it when I was a baby, I think. I can remember being three or four years old sitting for endless hours watching things move and listening to different noises. I must have been an unsettling child. (big laugh) My mother must have wondered why I was watching or destroying various things or standing out listening in the rain. I was very interested in noise and the movement of things, so that was the beginning of working in time. Watching time pass was fascinating to me and I liked hitting things. I had a drum pad when I was four years old. I played with it endlessly, and this was obviously a tell-tale hint of things to come. My mother encouraged it and – here we are!
DR: So, what do you think is triggered in us when we surrender to a groove or a rhythm?
Mickey: It's all about vibration! The universe is made up of vibration. It allows us to sense the matter that passes through us and around us. My field is rhythm and time and music is made up of vibrations. That's why music is so powerful – it's made up of the elements of the universe. Music is a kind of all in one thing – we get pleasure from it and it's also a great support system, but most importantly it's a tuning system that tunes the mind and body and allows us to be human. It's one of the main forces or energies that created the species. It's allowed the species to prosper and it brings us together. Music is a miniature version of what's going in the cosmos. It's something that emulates or tunes us into the most powerful rhythms in the universe that came originally from the singularity – the Big Bang. The creation of the planets created a timeline – and I love timelines – and I happened to have been dropped on the earth playing an instrument that is very good at laying down rhythm. I wouldn't be doing this if I was a banker or anyone else like that. This is my job, my profession. It's what I do!
DR: But, have you ever seen a banker dance?
Mickey: (laughs) Everybody who's alive has rhythm. When you're born, the rhythm begins and when you die, the rhythm ends.
Mickey: The rhythm changes during life and if you don't change you'll lose it. There are a lot of bad rhythms out there. Things happen to you in life to knock you off your feet. Some rhythms are happy. Some like hate, war and greed aren't. They're bad rhythms. You're being affected by life. Health is a good rhythm. Disease is a bad rhythm. And, when you get a disease, it means your rhythm isn't working right. These are the things that affect life. There are lots of arrhythmic events that you have to be prepared to deal with.
DR: Does your profession allow you to stay healthy?
Mickey: Oh absolutely! I look at things in rhythmic terms, so if something isn't right in my family or my daughter or whatever, I think 'we're out of rhythm and we've got to get back.' I take a deep breath and try and get back into the rhythm. I see things like that. Walk too close to the edge and you'll fall off. I try to rhythmically not violate the way things move in life. When things go well and flow the way they're supposed to, we call that rhythmic entrainment. It puts us in synch with the world around us. It makes us feel happy and think about good things. It gives you personal power.
Mickey: I really appreciate your questions and look forward to you hearing my new band play, so we can dance the night away. Take care and see you soon!


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Film Review: I, Daniel Blake
Posted on: November 6th, 2016 byEd Whitfield
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I, Daniel Blake is director Ken Loach's inevitable reaction to six years of Conservative benefit reform; changes that have legitimised much of the electorate's prejudices regarding claimants, and the obnoxious assumptions of those with Victorian attitudes to the poor, including the once archaic concept of the deserving and undeserving, as spearheaded by former Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith.
Smith, the worst Conservative leader in living memory, became obsessed with reforming the system after he was deposed, spending time on council estates in search of a legacy order to understand the reasons some chose not to work (quelle surprise, because virtue isn't always enough, ideally it has to pay). His research, refracted through the prism of Tory ideological thinking, lead to a pragmatic solution, universal credit – a simplification of the benefits regime that would taper off your dole money as your wages increased. But it also opened the door to a punitive and outsourced reassessment of the benefits given to disabled people or those with a medical condition that made them unable to work, and here the reforms revealed their true nature; that Smith and the government's conscience only sparked up for those willing and able to work for peanuts.
The rest were economically inactive, potential dossers, and, because the medical profession could potentially be manipulated into signing off the able, as shirkers will do anything for a handout rather than hand up, their status would need to be vouchsafed by private assessors on government contracts, who just so happened to be financially incentivised to reduce the claimant count. In other words, the more people they denied benefit, the more profit they made.
This is the system that I, Daniel Blake attacks, and the telling has drawn scorn from wealthy commentators like Toby Young and Camilla Long, who've noted the margarine-thick didacticism, seen the word "polemic" printed on each frame, like a seaside town's name through a stick of rock, and cried foul at the relentless ticking of Loach's brain, audible on the soundtrack and tinnitus to the right wing commentariat.
The odd thing about the argument around the film, namely that it takes no risks with its presumably middle class metropolitan intended audience, whom it aims to educate and reduce to awful tears, and that the story can ultimately be reduced to its message, which threatens its dramatic integrity, is that it has currency, while missing the real problem.
Young and Long, who sound like top keywords on a google porn search, erred when they attacked Loach for playing fast and loose with the facts. They didn't believe the film, they said (Loach stands by the casefiles under glass), because the titular Blake and the single Mum, Katie, who populate it, are too virtuous, too intellectually curious. They're a sop to middle class sympathies, with their ear for Radio 4 and love for lifelong learning with the OU. The charge, was that said protagonists had been calibrated to stoke maximum empathy; they were caricatures of the poor, as imagined in Islington coffee shops, not the base, lazy working class Young and Long knew from documentaries like EastEnders and soaps like Benefits Street.
But Daniel Blake and Katy undoubtedly exist, amongst thousands of claimants, a small minority of whom may indeed be taking the piss. Loach's error wasn't in dramatising their situations, rather not being brave enough to include any characters who might represent a challenge to middle class conceptions of the deserving poor. For if the system's wrong, and there's plenty of evidence to suggest it is, for all the reasons Loach details, then why not make the case that it dehumanises everyone, including people we may not like, but common decency demands we give a basic standard of living?
By virtue signalling as Loach does, mechanically adding one sympathetic Job Centre worker to pre-empt the charge he's attacking the technocratic, robot-like arseholes that job seekers endure every week, he makes the mistake of naturalising the prejudices of the electorate, rather than giving them the more challenging, but riskier "fuck you", they deserve.
Loach is at his best when been wholly truthful, that is, engaged with characters who are flawed but doing their best with what circumstance gave them. With I, Daniel Blake, he seems to have forgotten the lesson that acknowledging the enemy gives them authority; a nod they'll always interpret as weakness, hence the disdain of the right wing hack.
A theme works best when both sides of an argument are explored. In the case of the benefits regime, an equally valid line of enquiry would be to dramatise attitudes and patterns of behaviour created by the system, an idea writer Paul Laverty flirts with ever so briefly, when noting the black market economy created by low wages, in the form of Blake's industrious neighbour. People who resent being processed like cattle, and outsourced to companies who they know care nothing for them, may be incentivised to cheat the system, and such a person would be as useful a symbol of the system's flaws as a model claimant let down by mean spirited, ideology driven means testing.
Fight Club's Tyler Durden was a terrorist who nevertheless made good points about the vacuity and emptiness of consumer culture. Trainspotting's Renton was a smack head, whose friends were thieves and psychos; a character who fucked a 14-year-old girl and stole prescriptions from his GP, but we liked him and we wanted him to "choose life" and beat his addiction.
Characters don't have to be saints to have valid points of view or legitimate aspirations, and often, when they're not, we look past their flaws and to their motives, because we recognise them as fundamentally, intelligibly sound. The content of Ken Loach's movie is fine, it's worthy, it's fact-checkable, and it's important, with a timely quality that cannot be denied. But the form he adopts – using actors that give somewhat stilted, workshopped performances, giving each and every scene a weight that is felt as far back as Row K; an approach no more nuanced or layered than that adopted for Cathy Come Home, fifty years ago; ironically adds a layer of artifice that blunts the cutting observations being made.
I, Daniel Blake feels like a film that doesn't trust its audience to intuit the truth or reject the state's orthodoxy, so stripped out any ambiguity. That's good politics but bad drama, and just possibly counterproductive.
Directed by: Ken Loach
Certificate: 15 for in-pub escort recruitment, pulling punches, and the London audience member who asked her boyfriend to repeat something someone said in a Newcastle accent.
Tags: Daniel Blake, Dave Johns, Film, Film Review, I, Ken Loach, Palme d'Or
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So, Ed, you would have liked the film's protagonists to be poor arseholes, or ratbags, rather than poor, decent, well meaning people? Then I think you are missing the point. The former would be guilty of stereo-typing and the 'nasty system' would be an excuse for their characters. In this it would have been predictable. Loach's character's, as they are, show the better, and truer side of human nature. The stronger side that retains its dignity in the face of every force working to outstrip this dignity and humanity. In this Loach has nailed the heart of the dilemma facing the world right now. There will always be people born into tough situations who tough it out on struggle street and there has always been a level of clinical automation to the system they depend on for support. But this isn't what this film is about. It is rather showing how Capitalism has changed the game for so called 'normal' people who have had a trade or an education, who have worked hard all their lives and paid their taxes. While the former angle might have made the film more 'entertaining' in the superficial 'sensationaist' way (e.g. Trainspotting and Fight Club) the latter is a much greater, more honest and therefore more courageous accomplishment. Dan and Katy depict real people in the real world, and therefore all the more worrying as situations such as they are in become more and more common. I, Daniel Blake is a refreshing and outstanding achievement in a sea of otherwise blah blah blah contemporary cinema.
Ed Whitfield says:
Your opening sentence demonstrates that you didn't understand the argument. People can be inherently good without being perfect or virtuous. The system needn't be an excuse, rather an explanation for a morally relativist outlook. It's not predictable if you take the trouble to understand their point of view. It's honest. Trainspotting is the key movie to illustrate this. Do you dislike Renton? Do you hate Spud? No. Why not, they're junkies – they could go out and lead law abiding, materialist lives, couldn't they? But the movie understands that for them, escape from their miserable lives is much more attractive. It doesn't judge them, it just understands them.
Why do people play the benefits system? I'd say it's because most of the work available to them is low paid junk and there's sod all in the way of opportunties for these people. Show what the system does to people's attitudes; then you've moved beyond the prejudice, rather than pandering to it, as Loach does. There's nothing superficial about such a treatment. The people who adminster the benefits system at government level wouldn't function under their system either. They have the luxury of applying Victorian judgements about the working poor to people they don't understand, whose lives they'll never inhabit.
You're right that Dan and Katy exist, and that the film illustrates how the system can catch people who genuinely want to work, etc- but why not show both camps, why only concentrate on the side that flatters middle class conceptions of the "honest" working class? The point, surely, is that Dan and Katy are punished because of the punitive measures aimed at presumed benefit dependents. If you unpick the prejudice from the perspective of the people at the bottom, you can understand why those who want to buy into the government's worldwide and so-called values, are vulnerable. As I said, all Loach has done, however well intentioned, is make a film that Tories can dismiss as naive.
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On behalf of Spragins, Barnett & Cobb, PLC posted in Employment Law on Tuesday, May 16, 2017.
In today's post, we'll conclude our ongoing discussion of the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, the groundbreaking federal law that provides re-employment rights to all workers who temporarily leave their positions to perform some manner of military service.
Having already examined USERRA's coverage and escalator provisions, today's post will naturally focus on two issues of importance to any employer: notice and grace period.
Are employees who report back after completion of the military service entitled to any sort of grace period under USERRA?
USERRA dictates that for military service of 181 days of more, a returning employee/servicemember cannot be terminated, except for cause, for one year. For military service of 31 to 180 days, a returning employee/servicemember cannot be terminated, except for cause, for 180 days.
Does USERRA only cover employee-issued written orders?
USERRA makes no distinction between written and verbal orders. Both are considered valid when issued by a competent military authority, and both must be followed by the employee/servicemember.
An example of a scenario in which written orders might not be issued would include the ongoing requirement to perform inactive duty training (i.e., drills).
Employers are granted the right to request documentation to establish an employee/servicemember's USERRA eligibility after a military leave of over 30 days. Indeed, National Guard and reserve personnel are encouraged to share annual drill schedules, copies of orders and other documentation with employers as soon as possible.
It's important to note, however, that an employer cannot demand documentation for notification prior to any military leave.
Can an employer ever request that an employee/servicemember's military leave be rescheduled?
If the commander determines this is not possible, the employer must allow the employee/servicemember to proceed and abide by USERRA.
Here's hoping the foregoing discussion has proven helpful.
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Book I. The prevalence of ingratitude—How a benefit ought to be bestowed—The three Graces—Benefits are the chief bond of human society—What we owe in return for a benefit received—A benefit consists not of a thing but of the wish to do good—Socrates and Aeschines—What kinds of benefits should be bestowed, and in what manner—Alexander and the franchise of Corinth.
Book V. Of being worsted in a contest of benefits—Socrates and Archelaus—Whether a man can be grateful to himself, or can bestow a benefit upon himself—Examples of ingratitude—Dialogue on ingratitude—Whether one should remind one's friends of what one has done for them—Caesar and the soldier—Tiberius.
Book VI. Whether a benefit can be taken from one by force—Benefits depend upon thought—We are not grateful for the advantages which we receive from inanimate Nature, or from dumb animals—In order to lay me under an obligation you must benefit me intentionally—Cleanthes's story of the two slaves—Of benefits given in a mercenary spirit—Physicians and teachers bestow enormous benefits, yet are sufficiently paid by a moderate fee—Plato and the ferryman—Are we under an obligation to the sun and moon?—Ought we to wish that evil may befall our benefactors, in order that we may show our gratitude by helping them?
Book VII. The cynic Demetrius—his rules of conduct—Of the truly wise man—Whether one who has done everything in his power to return a benefit has returned it—Ought one to return a benefit to a bad man?—The Pythagorean, and the shoemaker—How one ought to bear with the ungrateful.


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CIA, FBI, Director of National Intelligence working with Attorney General Barr to review Russia probe origins
community » Discussions » Category » News & Politics » Discussion » CIA, FBI, Director of National Intelligence working with Attorney General Barr to review Russia probe origins
Via: cms5 •et; 2 months ago •et; 61 comments
"Many people seem to assume that the only intelligence collection that occurred was a single confidential informant and a FISA warrant," Barr said, testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this month. "I'd like to find out whether that is, in fact, true. It strikes me as a fairly anemic effort if that was the counterintelligence effort designed to stop the threat as it's being represented."
Washington (CNN)Attorney General William Barr is working closely with the CIA to review the origins of the Russia investigation and surveillance issues surrounding Donald Trump's presidential campaign, according to a source familiar with the matter, broadening an effort that the President has long demanded to involve all major national security agencies.
Barr is working in close collaboration with CIA Director Gina Haspel, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and FBI Director Christopher Wray, the source said.
There had been speculation as to why Haspel had been spotted at the Justice Department in recent weeks. Wray testified last week he was assisting Barr.
Trump often called for the Justice Department and others to review how the FBI began investigating the connection between his campaign and Russian meddling in the 2016 election. He told reporters Tuesday he did not direct Barr to call on intelligence agencies to join his review of the Russia probe.
"I didn't ask him to do that," Trump said at the White House ahead of his departure to Louisiana. "I didn't know it."
"But I think it's a great thing that he did it. I saw it last night, and they want to look at how that whole hoax got started," he continued. "You know what? I am so proud of our attorney general, that he is looking into it. I think it's great."
As CNN previously reported, US attorney John Durham in Connecticut is heading up the effort with Barr. The source said Durham and Barr are doing a comprehensive review, and Durham is with working with the Justice Department's Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, as well.
At a hearing last month, Barr said, "I think spying did occur" on the Trump campaign, but declined to elaborate on his concerns.
"I think spying on a political campaign is a big deal," Barr told Congress then.
He later defended the term, saying at a separate hearing that he used it because "it is the broadest word incorporating really all forms of covert intelligence collection."
US Attorney John Huber in Utah is no longer involved on Russia issues. Huber had originally been tasked with looking at allegations of surveillance abuse by former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, but has been in a holding pattern as the inspector general completes his review of the surveillance warrant the FBI obtained on Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page.
Huber's review of other issues related to Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation is nearing completion, the source said.
The DNI and CIA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump and his GOP allies on Capitol Hill repeatedly claimed -- without evidence -- that a warrant obtained in 2016 to allow the FBI to monitor Page was evidence of surveillance abuse by the Justice Department and FBI.
Conservative critics of special counsel Robert Mueller have argued that his work sprang from the fruit of a poisonous tree, suggesting that the FISA warrant application was tainted because it included some of the dossier compiled by retired British spy Christopher Steele that was paid for by Democrats. They also point to the FBI's use of an informant to meet with former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos.
Democrats, however, say the FISA warrant on Page was justified because of his contacts with Russia and that the FBI and Justice Department followed proper protocols in successfully getting the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to approve the warrant and subsequent renewals.
CNN's Veronica Stracqualursi contributed to this report.
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1 seeder cms5 2 months ago
More step into investigating the investigation.
1.1 It Is ME replied to cms5 @1 2 months ago
This could Hurt !
Time for more Dem. Subpoenas to keep their constituents focus elsewhere !
1.1.1 Ozzwald replied to It Is ME @1.1 2 months ago
Like Trump Jr's subpoena! Oh wait, that's Senate....
1.1.2 It Is ME replied to Ozzwald @1.1.1 2 months ago
It's already been negotiated for time....unlike Democrats in the house that Ignore any negotiations.... and then claim "Foul" !
by the way…..have the democrats looked at the unredacted FULL Mueller report in the uber secret room yet ?
1.1.3 Ozzwald replied to It Is ME @1.1.2 2 months ago
It's already been negotiated for time....unlike Democrats in the house that Ignore any negotiations
Why should they negotiate with a hostile witness? Have you forgotten that they have been told to NOT cooperate with House Committees investigating Trump?
Trump Vows Stonewall of 'All' House Subpoenas, Setting Up Fight Over Powers
Why should they negotiate with a hostile witness?
So just throw out the word "Contempt" and be done with it ?
Barr doesn't seem to be "Hostile" ! He's giving them pretty much everything he can with in the law.
A Contemptuous thing to do huh !
Someone steals something, it's called theft.
Someone kills someone, it's called murder.
Someone refuses to honor a legal subpoena, it's called contempt.
You have a problem with legal definitions?
That's a lie. Barr can release to Congress EVERYTHING, even Grand Jury info has been released to Congress before.
Lying to Congress? Refusing to honor a legal subpoena? YES IT IS!!!
I feel that I should also point out that we're talking about Junior, not Barr.
Barr can release to Congress EVERYTHING, even Grand Jury info has been released to Congress before.
"Business as usual" is not a good thing. That's why the Dems are sooooo pissed off right now. They can't control a President, and this President hasn't hurt this country one bit !
"We the people", is makin' us some money now. Luv it !
Oh, and in case you wanna bring up the China Crap, Even "Crying Chucky Schumer' is on board with what Trump is doing with China.
1.2 Vic Eldred replied to cms5 @1 2 months ago
Voted up! We need answers!
2 JohnRussell 2 months ago
Is there some reason we are having 4 or 5 seeds about the same story? Did Trump just resign or something?
2.1 Texan1211 replied to JohnRussell @2 2 months ago
Never seems to bother you when 4 or 5 "Hate Trump" seeds are here, so why whine now?
2.2 Vic Eldred replied to JohnRussell @2 2 months ago
Ya, it's a big story!
2.2.1 Tessylo replied to Vic Eldred @2.2 2 months ago
Nah, it's the usual nothingberder
2.2.2 Ronin2 replied to Tessylo @2.2.1 2 months ago
You mean like the Mueller report, and the Dems in the House subpoenas of everyone associated with Trump?
2.2.3 Tessylo replied to Ronin2 @2.2.2 2 months ago
What the huh?
2.3 seeder cms5 replied to JohnRussell @2 2 months ago
This article adds the CIA and the FBI to what has already been posted regarding Durham being appointed. So, although it runs along the same lines...it is indeed additional information for many to review.
He (Trump) told reporters Tuesday he did not direct Barr to call on intelligence agencies to join his review of the Russia probe.
There isn't a person on this earth that would bet anything significant that Trump is telling the truth. That is what happens when you lie all the time. You have no credibility.
I would say the odds are much better that Trump is lying, about not having spoke to Barr about this, than the odds he is telling the truth.
Actually, Trump has been saying that the investigators need to be investigated very publicly for quite some time...even before Barr was appointed AG.
Barr strikes me as the type of AG that will move in the direction the law takes him.
3.1.1 Sunshine replied to cms5 @3.1 2 months ago
The request for an investigation into the FBI and DOJ's handling of spying on Trump came from Congress many months ago, but Sessions sat on it and now there is an AG who has a backbone and will proceed.
3.1.2 seeder cms5 replied to Sunshine @3.1.1 2 months ago
now there is an AG who has a backbone and will proceed.
Agreed! I never thought of Sessions as anything other than 'dopey' from the seven dwarfs.
3.1.3 Dulay replied to Sunshine @3.1.1 2 months ago
So is it your posit that the seeded article is lying about Sessions' assigning US Attorney John Huber a YEAR AGO to investigate those exact issues?
3.2 Sunshine replied to JohnRussell @3 2 months ago
OMG....are you going to claim Trump said 10,000 lies again?
Congress requested the DOJ to look into this matter many months ago.
3.3 Ozzwald replied to JohnRussell @3 2 months ago
There isn't a person on this earth that would bet anything significant that Trump is telling the truth.
Including his own Attorney General.
4 †hε pε⊕pレε'š ƒïšh 2 months ago
Large probe will occur after the indictments. The uni-bomber is extremely horny and awaiting shower friends.
4.1 luther28 replied to †hε pε⊕pレε'š ƒïšh @4 2 months ago
Large probe
Let us hope it is jumbo sized.
5 luther28 2 months ago
What the hell is wrong with our Country, now we investigate the investigators, who will investigate them when one side or the other does not get the answer they desire.
This is not a Government it has devolved into a f@#kfest.
5.1 Dean Moriarty replied to luther28 @5 2 months ago
If nobody investigated J. Edgar Hoover's abuse of investigative power we would not have the knowledge we now have regarding his abuse of power. How do you prevent government abuse if one is not even willing to admit it exists or are willing to investigate it?
5.1.1 Dulay replied to Dean Moriarty @5.1 2 months ago
The Agency didn't investigate J. Edgar Hoover Dean, the Congress did. The seed is about the Agencies investigating themselves and Trump is obstructing any and all attempts by Congress to investigate.
5.1.2 Ronin2 replied to Dulay @5.1.1 2 months ago
Trump learned from the best- Barack Obama- on obstruction.
He gave them Barr, what more do they want? Oh, that is right the Dems aren't interested in finding out if the whole collusion investigation was based on fraudulent FISA's. Nor are they interested in investigating why the Obama state department was outing Trump campaign officials as fast they could. Nor are they interested in why the Steele report, that was paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign, and was never verified was used as a part of the FISA warrants. Nor are they interested in justice for Carter Page, who was never questioned by Comey or Mueller- much the less charged; but was deemed a master spy that had to everyone remotely associated with him on the FISA warrants. They just want Trump, however they can get him. Using any methods, legal or not, to do so.
Maybe you should research how much Obama obstructed all of the congressional investigations. Nah, that would requiring taking off the leftist blinders. See how far the Democratic House gets when they get the same steaming pile of obstruction that the Obama administration gave the Republicans.
5.1.3 Dulay replied to Ronin2 @5.1.2 2 months ago
Oh please do tell me when Obama denied all Committee requests for documents. I'll wait...
Maybe you should research how much Obama obstructed all of the congressional investigations.
Maybe you should prove that with links.
5.2 seeder cms5 replied to luther28 @5 2 months ago
It isn't so much that there is a 'desired' answer as there is a need to make certain that laws cannot be manipulated based on falsified or unverified documents. Namely the Steele Dossier.
If answers are not reached, then it may very well be possible for administrations to 'spy' on the campaigns of the opposition without proper predication. The bar must be set higher for citizens of this Nation.
5.2.1 luther28 replied to cms5 @5.2 2 months ago
The bar must be set higher for citizens of this Nation.
It once was, like a limbo stick we collectively lowered it somewhere along the way. Probably post Watergate when we saw first hand that our politicians were as flawed as the rest of us.
5.2.2 seeder cms5 replied to luther28 @5.2.1 2 months ago
Probably post Watergate when we saw first hand that our politicians were as flawed as the rest of us.
I would venture to say that our Politicians have more flaws than most Americans who vote for them.
We know that there have been instances of investigators who abuse their powers...and we, as a Nation, should make certain that the LEGAL bar is never lowered.
5.2.3 luther28 replied to cms5 @5.2.2 2 months ago
I must agree, with both points.
6 Sunshine 2 months ago
when one side or the other does not get the answer they desire.
I believe Trump did get the desired answer. After two years of investigation and absolutely no evidence of collusion is found, would you not agree that we should be looking seriously into the reason for spending $35 million?
6.1 †hε pε⊕pレε'š ƒïšh replied to Sunshine @6 2 months ago
El Chapo is requesting a step stool. Evidently James Comey at 6ft 8 is still too tall bent over.
6.2 Split Personality replied to Sunshine @6 2 months ago
After two years of investigation and absolutely no evidence of collusion is found, would you not agree that we should be looking seriously into the reason for spending $35 million?
What do you suggest? Obviously what comes around goes around and around and around for those who choose to remember all of the partisan BS investigations all the way back to Joe McCarthy.
The FBI, CIA and other Law enforcement agencies will say they had/have a duty to investigate, which they did, now we investigate that? Where does it stop?
Hence Benghazi, reportedly 22 million dollars that would have been better used for survivors benefits for the fallen.
Who knows what we could have done with the 82 million wasted on Whitewater and 3 other Clinton investigations by Ken Starr which ended thusly,
The GOP spent over $82 million tax payer dollars on four Clinton related scandals pushed by the Republicans lawmakers leading up to a much anticipated report from Star the Independent Council. Finally the findings of the Star report were released in September 2000, with the following conclusion. "This office determined that the evidence was insufficient to prove to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that either President or Mrs. Clinton knowingly participated in any criminal conduct."
Sounds like a lot of Southern Border dollars pissed away,
and here we are with 3 concurrent investigations in to the investigations.....
Our enemies are laughing as they become more capitalistic and less communist, while we are leaning further and further towards the political purges of Mao & Stalin.
6.2.1 Sunshine replied to Split Personality @6.2 2 months ago
I suggest we need to know how a two year $30 million investigation resulting in no evidence got started? Was there any probable cause?
Benghazi investigation found several felony crimes. Obama's DOJ refused to prosecute Hillary and instead sent out their lackey Comey to say a complete dolt has been running our state department.
6.2.2 Vic Eldred replied to Sunshine @6.2.1 2 months ago
You bet we do
6.2.3 Dismayed Patriot replied to Sunshine @6.2.1 2 months ago
Benghazi investigation found several felony crimes.
Really? Then why didn't the eight partisan Republican investigations tell the public about them?
"The Select Committee on Benghazi initially released its findings in June but remained in place for months afterward trying to declassify supporting documents like emails and interview transcripts for public release.
The final report, not including dissenting views from committee Democrats, clocks in at more than 322,000 words. It was added to the official House record without fanfare on Dec. 7 by Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., the panel's chairman.
The panel, which spent more than $7.8 million over two and a half years, disbanded at the end of the 114th Congress, before a new Congress begins in January."
"The report did not single out wrongdoing by then-secretary of State Hillary Clinton, although some Republicans on the panel alleged that overall concern for her political future influenced and hampered some of the decision-making surrounding policy in Libya."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/12/12/house-benghazi-committee-files-final-report-and-shuts-down/95336692/
And of course Republicans were definitely NOT using the investigations in an attempt to sabotage Hillary's future political prospects...
"House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., told Fox News that because of the committee, "her numbers are dropping."
Oh, that's right, they literally admitted as much on air. Dishonesty, hypocrisy, double standards, just your every day conservative republican political playbook being followed to the letter. When people convince themselves it's the will of some unseen almighty God, the ends always justify the means.
It did? Who was charged and prosecuted? Link?
6.3 Ozzwald replied to Sunshine @6 2 months ago
After two years of investigation and absolutely no evidence of collusion is found
Another person who did not read the report. Next you'll be saying the report exonerated Trump of obstruction...
6.3.1 Sunshine replied to Ozzwald @6.3 2 months ago
no evidence of collusion is found
What evidence do you have? Please share.
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/24/706385781/mueller-report-finds-evidence-of-russian-collusion T
he Mueller Report did not find any evidence of collusion, but did find two main efforts by the Russians to interfere in the 2016 presidential campaign.
6.3.2 Ozzwald replied to Sunshine @6.3.1 2 months ago
I have Mueller's report. You should read it some time.
I. Summary of Major Findings
The redacted Mueller Report documents a series of activities that show strong evidence of collusion. Or, more precisely, it provides significant evidence that Trump Campaign associates coordinated with, cooperated with, encouraged, or gave support to the Russia/WikiLeaks election interference activities. The Report documents the following actions (each of which is analyzed in detail in Part II):
1. Trump was receptive to a Campaign national security adviser's (George Papadopoulos) pursuit of a back channel to Putin.
2. Kremlin operatives provided the Campaign a preview of the Russian plan to distribute stolen emails.
3. The Trump Campaign chairman and deputy chairman (Paul Manafort and Rick Gates) knowingly shared internal polling data and information on battleground states with a Russian spy; and the Campaign chairman worked with the Russian spy on a pro-Russia "peace" plan for Ukraine.
4. The Trump Campaign chairman periodically shared internal polling data with the Russian spy with the expectation it would be shared with Putin-linked oligarch, Oleg Deripaska.
5. Trump Campaign chairman Manafort expected Trump's winning the presidency would mean Deripaska would want to use Manafort to advance Deripaska's interests in the United States and elsewhere.
6. Trump Tower meeting: (1) On receiving an email offering derogatory information on Clinton coming from a Russian government official, Donald Trump Jr. "appears to have accepted that offer;" (2) members of the Campaign discussed the Trump Tower meeting beforehand; (3) Donald Trump Jr. told the Russians during the meeting that Trump could revisit the issue of the Magnitsky Act if elected.
7. A Trump Campaign official told the Special Counsel he "felt obliged to object" to a GOP Platform change on Ukraine because it contradicted Trump's wishes; however, the investigation did not establish that Gordon was directed by Trump.
8. Russian military hackers may have followed Trump's July 27, 2016 public statement "Russia if you're listening …" within hours by targeting Clinton's personal office for the first time.
9. Trump requested campaign affiliates to get Clinton's emails, which resulted in an individual apparently acting in coordination with the Campaign claiming to have successfully contacted Russian hackers.
10. The Trump Campaign—and Trump personally—appeared to have advanced knowledge of future WikiLeaks releases.
11. The Trump Campaign coordinated campaign-related public communications based on future WikiLeaks releases.
12. Michael Cohen, on behalf of the Trump Organization, brokered a secret deal for a Trump Tower Moscow project directly involving Putin's inner circle, at least until June 2016.
13. During the presidential transition, Jared Kushner and Eric Prince engaged in secret back channel communications with Russian agents. (1) Kushner suggested to the Russian Ambassador that they use a secure communication line from within the Russian Embassy to speak with Russian Generals; and (2) Prince and Kushner's friend Rick Gerson conducted secret back channel meetings with a Putin agent to develop a plan for U.S.-Russian relations.
14. During the presidential transition, in coordination with other members of the Transition Team, Michael Flynn spoke with the Russian Ambassador to prevent a tit for tat Russian response to the Obama administration's imposition of sanctions for election interference; the Russians agreed not to retaliate saying they wanted a good relationship with the incoming administration.
6.3.3 Sunshine replied to Ozzwald @6.3.2 2 months ago
Great...do you have a link for all of this?
Sure, here you go. Everything you want is at this link.
You got it from somewhere....it isn't that difficult. Just provide a link to your source.
Just provide a link to your source.
That was my source. Try it, it isn't hard, you can do it.
Can you be more specific than the Google page? Why are you so reluctant to link your quotes?
Can you not back up and cite your own quotes?
Why are you so reluctant to link your quotes?
Why are you so reluctant to look for yourself? What are you afraid of? Go to the link I gave you and type in "Mueller Report", the fact that it is so extremely easy to view, yet you refuse to do so speaks volumes.
If I'd referenced a specific news article, or opinion I would happily provide a direct link (and have many many times), however you want a link to a source.
If you truly wanted to see it you would have, in this there are hundreds of links that take you to the same specific document, yet you refuse to look for yourself. This indicates to me you are not looking for info, you are looking for something (anything) to argue about rather than address what is in the report.
Oh good grief....you made the statement, if you don't want to back it up, fine.
Will just file it under BS.
6.3.10 Ozzwald replied to Sunshine @6.3.9 2 months ago
Oh good grief....you made the statement
Yes, and you are trying to dispute it while refusing to look into first.
7 Sean Treacy 2 months ago
I see that Try Gowdy, who's as straight a shooter as there was in Congress, told the investigators yesterday that they need to look specifically at emails between Brennan and Comey in December 2016. Be interesting to see what he's referring to
"How did the FBI assess Christopher Steele? They have their own internal documents. Part of what Lindsey [Graham] wants to make public are their own FBI documents where they did their own assessment and I think you'll be surprised as to whether or not they viewed Steele as being credible…They're [Graham and Ratcliffe] talking about 302's where an FBI informant [Christopher Steele] said he'd do anything in the world to make sure Donald Trump lost. That wasn't a DNC employee. That was an FBI informant....
It is what you described in addition to the withholding of exculpatory information which is what has Johnny Ratcliffe so exercised. And they made no effort to corroborate the dossier until after it had been used for the application and a renewal. No effort. It's not that they failed. They made no effort to do it. So whoever is investigating this, tell them to look for emails between Brennan and Comey in December 2016."
7.1 Split Personality replied to Sean Treacy @7 2 months ago
I see that Try Gowdy, who's as straight a shooter as there was
I see that as an almost clever Freudian slip. Yes Trey, tried for 2 years and 7.8 million dollars to nail Hillary Clinton for any crime, only to come away empty handed as well.
It seems to be the American way, although he did successfully embarrass Ben Carson about the whole Dining Room table fiasco and saved us taxpayers $31,000.00.
Yay, Trey ( Harold Watson Gowdy III )
7.1.1 Sean Treacy replied to Split Personality @7.1 2 months ago
es Trey, tried for 2 years and 7.8 million dollars to nail Hillary Clinton for any crime, only to come away empty handed as well.
I don' think you understand Congressional oversight in general or the purpose of the Select committee in particular.
Here's a hint. As the head of the Committee, he was not a prosecutor out to nail Hillary Clinton for a crime. In our system of government, the Executive Branch attempts to prosecute criminal activity, not Congress.
Attacking Gowdy for not prosecuting someone as a Congressman is like complaining about the President not passing a law.
7.1.2 Dismayed Patriot replied to Sean Treacy @7.1.1 2 months ago
In our system of government, the Executive Branch attempts to prosecute criminal activity, not Congress.
Congressional oversight refers to oversight by the United States Congress of the Executive Branch, including the numerous U.S. federal agencies. Congressional oversight refers to the review, monitoring, and supervision of federal agencies, programs, activities, and policy implementation.
Congress's oversight authority derives from its implied powers in the Constitution, public laws, and House and Senate rules. It is an integral part of the American system of checks and balances.
Congress could not reasonably or responsibly exercise these powers without knowing what the executive was doing; how programs were being administered, by whom, and at what cost; and whether officials were obeying the law and complying with legislative intent.
Oversight also is derived from the many and varied express powers of the Congress in the Constitution. Congress could not reasonably exercise its powers without knowing what the executive was doing; how programs were being administered, by whom, and at what cost.
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-politicalscience/chapter/the-oversight-function-of-congress/
So no, the intent shouldn't be to "nail" anyone, but Congress does have oversight responsibilities to make sure the executive is obeying the law. In the case of Trey, he was without a doubt, simply trying to nail Hillary as were all the dishonest Republicans who decides the ends justified the means.
"Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping." - Republican Kevin McCarthy admitting Republicans used the investigation to politically injure Hillary's chances in an election.
Today, the congressional oversight isn't about trying to harm Trump in 2020, it's about the numerous counts of obstruction, the clear call from the Mueller report for Congress to decide how to reenable congressional oversight responsibilities that Republicans had chosen to abandon two years ago. And the administrations blatant refusal to comply is further reason for a full accounting of their activities and a public airing of their dirtiest of laundry, and there is no doubt Trumps camp is chock full of the dirtiest, stinkiest laundry America has ever seen. Nixon's dirty laundry will look like it was dry cleaned when compared to Trumps filthy over-stretched skid-marked tighty whiteys.
7.1.3 Dulay replied to Sean Treacy @7.1.1 2 months ago
I don't think you do.
Here's a hint. As the head of the Committee, he was not a prosecutor out to nail Hillary Clinton for a crime.
You obviously didn't watch Trey Gowdy's questioning of Hillary Clinton. They didn't CARE if they could nail Clinton for a crime, they just wanted to muddy the waters until after the election.
The Congress can refer prosecution to the DOJ. They did quite a bit of that in the last 2 years.
7.1.4 Sean Treacy replied to Dismayed Patriot @7.1.2 2 months ago
. In the case of Trey, he was without a doubt, simply trying to nail Hillary as were all the dishonest Republicans who decides the ends justified the means.
It's amazing to me that simply explaining how an almost unguarded ambassador came to be killed in the middle of a warzone and why the administration falsely claimed he was killed after a demonstration over a movie got out of control is somehow a bad thing.
Today, the congressional oversight isn't about trying to harm Trump in 2020,
I hope you didn't type that with a straight face. C'mon. That doesn't even come close to passing the laugh test.
7.1.5 Sean Treacy replied to Dulay @7.1.3 2 months ago
ou obviously didn't watch Trey Gowdy's questioning of Hillary Clinton.
They didn't CARE if they could nail Clinton for a crime,
Well no. The goal of an oversight committee is to find out what happened. You still seem confused. He, and the Committee as a whole, were not prosecutors trying to indict anyone.
It's not his fault if the facts showed her to be dishonest and incompetent.
Well no. The goal of an oversight committee is to find out what happened.
That's not what Kevin McCarthy said.
You still seem confused.
Nope, just citing the facts.
He, and the Committee as a whole, were not prosecutors trying to indict anyone.
That's good because if they were they would have been utter failures.
The FACT is that the Select Committee didn't contribute to the facts of the Benghazi attack.
Dishonest? In what way Sean? If Clinton was dishonest, why didn't Trey refer her to the DOJ? After all, you said he was a straight shooter right Sean? Oh and BTFW, which page of Gowdy's report states that Clinton was dishonest and incompetent?
It's simply amazing to me that there are some dumb fucks out there who thought it made any difference between saying it was a pre-planned terrorist attack or an impromptu riot started by an anti-Muslim YouTube video. Only someone severely brain damaged would think that was some huge difference that mattered to anyone, as if because they died from an impromptu riot it was somehow better than dying from a pre-planned terror attack. And if President Obama was actually trying to obfuscate the truth that it was a terror attack, then why the fuck did Obama say the day after the attack "No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for. Today we mourn four more Americans who represent the very best of the United States of America. We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act. And make no mistake, justice will be done".
The bullshit narrative from some really stupid right wing pundits cost us millions of dollars and wasted years of congresses time with at least eight partisan investigation that still concluded Hillary could not have prevented the attack and faulted the military for its slow response in sending resources to Benghazi during the deadly 2012 attacks on a US outpost, despite clear orders from Barack Obama and the then US defense secretary Leon Panetta. There was no conspiracy, there was no intentional misleading of anyone. We did have multiple riots inspired by the anti-Muslim video that day at multiple embassies throughout the region and Susan Rice was the only one who suggested they were related which didn't make a bit of difference to anyone. As if there were any actual voters who were thinking "Oh, well I'll vote for Obama as long as there aren't any terror attacks close the the election. Oh, what's this? Soldiers and an ambassador die in an Embassy attack? Well that sounds like terrorism, I guess I won't be voting for Obama... what? It was just a riot inspired by an anti-Islamic video? Oh, well that's different, at least it wasn't terrorism..." How fucking stupid do you have to be to believe that shit?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/28/house-benghazi-report-clinton-attack-military
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How to totally nail your reception party!
It's finally your turn. You get to host the party of a lifetime, but how do you make it stand out from all the other weddings in your social and family circuit? What will make your wedding awesome?!
We're all for a bit of downtime at a wedding, but don't leave your guests with nothing to do. After the ceremony when photos are being taken is often a pretty dull time for guests, especially for those who don't know many people.
Create a space where the party atmosphere you want to achieve can be built. What about creating your own little vintage fairground, with attractions such as hook-a-duck, a coconut shy, and budget-permitting, a carousel. Or bring in a catering team who use an open air wood-fired kitchen, where guests can watch chefs creating their canapes over an open fire.
After your wedding meal, give everyone a metaphorical shot of coffee and get them back in the party mood. Hire in an awesome mobile drinks bar like this super cute Prosecco bar from Fabulously Fizzy. These guys are based in the South East but are willing to travel. Guests will love snapping away shots of the van for their Instagram stories and who doesn't love Prosecco?!
Chances are you're going to be having a seated reception, and if you're going with tradition, you'll have a table plan. It's an epic task deciding who sits with whom, making sure everyone gets someone they know to talk to or will find entertaining. To get the conversation started, use resources like Pintrest to find little icebreakers for each table. One of our favs are little 'Who's Who' booklets for every guest to read and keep. The idea is the couple write quirky snippets about every guest and how they know them. Grouped by table, the guests can very quickly get a picture of the people around them and creates plenty of laughs.
It can be tricky deciding between live music and a DJ. Our advice, go for a wedding band that offers DJ sets during the breaks so the party keeps on rocking. Live band Over the Threshold, who cover the UK, work with you to create your perfect set list for the evening do, and also offer a DJ playlist service at no extra cost, based around songs of your choice. They'll even perform an acoustic set for your reception drinks or meal.
For couples who really love a particular style of music to dance to, really go for it and bring in a dance instructor! Get guests onto the floor for an hour trying out some Latin or Lindyhop. Trust us, it will make your wedding one everyone remembers!


Rare original Script Logo MXR Phase 45 Pedal dating from 1974/75 for sale in good condition and perfect working order.
These early production pedals are highly-prized by collectors for their rarity, and by players for their sound.
As is often the case with these old pedals, the original foam that protected the circuit board has long since perished.
It is fitted with a 9v battery and ready to play.
Built like a tank – made in the USA.
This is in good condition for a vintage foot pedal that's nearly 40 years old with scuff and dings to the finish as you'd expect – see the detailed photos.
Jimmy Page, Eddie Van Halen – many guitarists and keyboard players have sculpted their signature sounds with early MXR pedals.
Guitars, bass, Rhodes, synths – all can sound great through this pedal – it instantly transports you back in time (sonically rather than literally of course) and works its analogue magic on digital sources breathing warmth and life into soft synths and samples. It is a great studio mix tool – perfect for adding a thick velvety analogue swirl to whatever you care to put through it.
These very pedals have been reissued by Dunlop, but the originals just have that sound – and mojo – that new units lack. We've tried many reissue pedals against vintage originals and while some do a passable job, most fall short when compared to the real thing. In addition, original pedals should hold their value or offer a good return as an investment.
We have other vintage MXR units available – please get in touch if interested.


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The Nature and Prevalance Of Injury During Crossfit Training
Posted by Matt Shaffer BSN, RN, PHN | May 12, 2014 | Fitness
With the rise of Crossfit affiliates across the world so comes the increase of injuries related to Crossfit. Does Crossfit really increase the risk for injuries? We'll take a look at what one study shows.
Brief History Of Crossfit
By now most people are familiar with what Crossfit is and what they're workouts are like. Crossfit is a strength and conditioning program. Many of its participants are firefighters, military, police, or other professional athletes. Of course, there's also the every day Joe and Mary Jane as well.
Crossfits are known for their "Workout Of The Day" which features a specific workout (or series of exercises) which push the limits of a person's strength AND endurance by encompassing both types of physical activity. Often, Crossfit is slammed by those who don't partake in such types of exercises that Crossfit is risky business due to its nature to push heavy weights for high reps. They criticize that because of that nature, people are at a high risk to injury when moving heavy weights under fatigue.
To those who surround themselves within the Crossfit community we probably all know someone who has injured themselves doing a Crossfit WOD. To those who don't surround themselves within the Crossfit community (and some other type of active community) we also probably also know someone who has suffered an injury from some sort of other active exercise. So what's the nature and prevalance of injury during Crossfit training?
Injury Frequency From Crossfit
A study out of the UK came out recently analyzing just that: the nature and prevalance of injury during Crossfit training. Their goal was to determine the risk of injury during Crossfit workout participation and to also look at the pattern of sustained injuries. The study was designed using a cross sectional observational experimental format (if that matters to you at all).
By using an online questionnaire data was collected from Crossfit participants of all athletic levels. Questions included patient and health demographics including age, sex, smoking status, alcohol consumption, and performance enhancing drug use. Training information included total time period spent training as well as weekly training participation. Participants were then asked if they had an injury occur during Crossfit training and to list tye type and number of all of their injuries from the time they started Crossfit training.
Study Limitations:
Recall of the respondents as well as no documentation from actual medical personnel of injuries occurred. Due to the self-selection, respondent bias may have been introduced as well with athletes being injured being more likely to respond than those who haven't.
Number Of People Who Sustained Injuries From Crossfit
Overall, out of 132 people, 97 of them suffered an injury from Crossfit. That comes out to be 73.5% of participants (almost three out of four people). A total of 186 injuries were reported (more than one per person) with nine participants having injuries so severe it required surgical intervention.
The Most Common Injury Locations: Shoulder and spinal injuries. Next up were arm and elbow injuries.
The good news – no reported rhabdomyolosis (an injury where muscle proteins are so badly damaged that it leads to acute kidney failure).
The average participant spent training in Crossfit per week was about 5.3 hours with an average time doing Crossfit being a little over a year and a half (18.6 months).
Are There A Lot Of Injuries Caused By Crossfit?
By looking at the data that this study suggests (almost three out of four people) that Crossfit has a high risk of injuries. But when taking a look at the injury rates for every 1000 hours trained, the figure holds up to other sports related injuries in other areas of fitness (3.1 injuries for every 1000 hours).
Things To Take Into Consideration:
-The sample size is relatively small. Crossfit has thousands of gyms worldwide. A large sample may show either increased rate of injuries per 1000 hours trained or show less.
-It's possible that people who suffered a Crossfit injury were more likely to respond.
-The nature of the lifestyle that Crossfit attracts (police, firefighters, military, sports professionals etc..). These individuals tend to be active as it is and may already have underlying muscle/skeletal issues that get exacerbated by Crossfit type workouts.
The Moral Of The Story:
Only take what you can handle. You wouldn't go and run a marathon the first time you go running. You need to be aware of your body. You also need to be honest with yourself – don't feel pressured into performing exercises which you know will hurt you. The same goes with lifting weights heavier than you can handle as well.
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Hak, P., Hickey, B., Hodzovic, E. "The Nature and Prevalence Of Injury During Crossfit Training." Journal Of Strength Conditioning And Research. 22 Nov. 2013. Web. 1 May 2014.
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Artistic Upholstery was founded in 1952 by Jim Mitchell, an accomplished furniture designer who was born and worked in the Scottish furniture town of Beith in Ayrshire.
Jim was trained under the critical eye of his father, a respected designer and master craftsmen with Matthew Pollock and Son, makers of some of the finest furniture in Scotland, who are accredited to making some of the luxury furniture and fittings on both RMS Queen Mary and RMS Queen Elizabeth.
Jim moved south in the mid 1930's and settled in Nottingham, where he found work designing both cabinets and upholstery as a freelance, and on commenced working in the thriving town of Long Eaton.
He always wanted to be in control of design and manufacture, so on the 13th October 1952, he commenced making bespoke upholstery on the third floor of a magnificent lace mill in Derbyshire, later moving to a 4000 square feet factory in the heart of Long Eaton. Over the years we have expanded to some 30,000 square feet to include showrooms, upholstery workshop, and polishing shop and design studio.
These mills have more than played their part in the growth and history of the town, built to hold hundreds of Lace Machines, where the thrum of looms filled the air making the highest of quality of 'Nottingham Lace' which was shipped to every corner of the globe.
It is impossible not to feel inspired by such a legacy, indeed, Long Eaton is known throughout the world as the centre of quality upholstery within the United Kingdom.
Original Factory
Prestigious Excellence
Jim's vision of producing the very best of furniture still exists here at Artistic, where our sofas and chairs can be found in some of the most exclusive stores in the world, together with fine country houses, embassies, hotels, and of course, those who appreciate the finer things in life.
Artistic is still privately owned and managed by the founding family, now in its third generation and still very much 'hands on' by family members. We are one of the oldest furniture companies in the area in terms of family ownership.
In 1989, Artistic Cabinets was born, changing its name to Iain James Furniture to reflect Jim's two grandsons Iain and James, where Iain is Managing Director. The two companies work in close harmony and share the same premises and showrooms whilst keeping their individual identities.
In 1998, the company was awarded the coveted Manufacturing Guild Mark by the Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers in the City of London, in recognition of High Quality production and manufacturer. Limited to just 50 companies in the UK.


A good marketing message is the one your prospect has a reason to notice.
It's the one that gets attention at the right time.
Millions of email subject lines to compete with, tweets to scan, direct mail you throw in the garbage and banner ads that are mostly ignored. Tough job the marketer has.
The competition is tough. Or is it?
Marketing strategy doesn't need to be complicated, but it does need to be structured.
Quick question: Is your marketing message competing with other firms in your industry? Before you answer, let me ask you another question.
If I asked you to scroll through your inbox; which email would spur you to open it?
What would be printed on the front of an envelope that would make it end up on your kitchen table as opposed to the shredder? Most entrepreneurs have hundreds of emails each day that call out for attention.
Which ones have the marketing message that gets the click through?
Stop reading and really think about it. The discovery of this answer is a chance for you the entrepreneur to become the hero of your business. What would get your attention?
The solution is deceptively simple. Chet Holmes wrote a wonderful book a few years back called the Ultimate Sales Machine; he made a strong case that only 3% of those who hear your message are ready to buy today.
Here is the problem for you the entrepreneur. You need to make sales to pay the bills but 97% of the people who see your marketing message aren't interested in hearing it today. What do you do?
As my former business partner Erik Solomon would say; "the pipeline is building and ready to burst." Erik's pipeline was a progression of marketing messages to get attention at each stage of the buying cycle.
We knew some people were just getting interested for the first time, some were gathering information and learning more, some were comparing and some were ready to buy.
He created simple marketing messages for each stage of prospect motivation. The goal of our pipeline was to help prospects and customers get to the point where they were an educated and motivated buyer. Today the number may be 3% but the purpose of the pipeline was to deliver a marketing message that was an offer to the right people.
Our business at that time was stock trading education and the pipeline took on average, ten weeks to complete. So from curiosity to making a decision we had messages to answer questions, motivate and inform potential students of the many benefits of enrolling in one of our courses.
The pipeline helped make an informed decision and positioned our education as the best choice. We were their guide, mentor and librarian. We became a trusted advisor, a much different position to be in than hard selling phone jockey. As new leads filled out an opt-in box each day we developed a critical mass of qualified prospects.
Your initial pipeline may be short but the point is; once you get started and the first leads go through the cycle you will have a constant stream of people ready to hear your message at the end. Don't make the mistake of crating marketing messages for the start and the end only.
Put some meat on the sandwich. Search acquisition strategy is focusing on what people type to find you. Craft a message for each of those possible journeys.
#1: Decide on the Emotion that will spur Action: Problems or Desires?
Fixing a tooth ache or wanting whiter teeth. Which would get you to take action faster? Which has more urgency? Map out your pipeline from start to finish and think of the emotions that would stimulate action to the next stage.
Smart marketing along these lines usually have "so that" implied in the message.
A confused mind makes no decision. Decide on the one concept, belief or action you are trying to motivate or inspire. Too many ideas in one message gets action but it's not the action you want. It get you deleted or shredded.
"Just do it," has been effective for 30 years.
Think about getting attention, not competing with other firms.
Strive to be unique with something valuable to say.
Think about the different stages of your pipeline. Actually map them out.
Say something to get attention for each stage.
Purposefully guide your prospect to the next stage.


Definition. Bromine is a toxic mineral that damages the body in many ways. In particular, it displaces iodine. By so doing, it causes thyroid damag, a pervasive problem in America and around the world. A major symptom of bromine toxicity is fatigue and hypothyroidism. Displacing iodine may also contribute to cancer and dozens of other disease.
Permitted in foods and water. While there has been progress to remove toxic minerals from the food and water supplies of the world, bromine is still added to soft drinks, bread, and packaged juices. It is also used as a sanitizer for hot tubs and swimming pools.
Commercial bread often contains bromine used as a yeast food. This is another common source of this toxic substance. It is just one reason to avoid eating bread, especially commercially-manufactured breads and mass-produced baked goods of all kinds.
One of the main sources of exposure to bromine and bromides is in pools and hot tubs. Bromine is used, at times, in conjunction with chlorine or instead of chlorine as a sanitizer in pools and hot tubs. For this reason, among others, I would avoid swimming pools and hot tubs. If you must use one, be sure to shower afterwards to reduce the amount of bromine that remains on your skin.
The other important reason to avoid pools and hot tubs is the presence of pathogenic germs that are very difficult to kill, even with the use of sanitizers. These are in most pools and hot tubs, unless you are the only person who uses it. The worst, by far, are public pools and hot tubs that are used by many people. However, even private pools and hot tubs are breeding grounds for viruses, bacteria and even some parasites.