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Have a wicked good time exploring the capital city of Massachusetts and the surrounding towns, all overflowing with American history and character. Visit the places where the American Revolution took root, and view must-see sites like the Old South Meeting House, Boston Common, and Beacon Hill. Venture out to Lexington & Concord, where the "shot heard 'round the world" was fired and the fight for liberty began. Walk the grounds of Harvard University, guided by a student. Visit the presidential library of John F. Kennedy and learn about his illustrious career or take a photo adventure through picturesque neighborhoods. Boston is ready to charm you with cobblestone streets, historic brick buildings, thriving historic neighborhoods, art museums, shopping, and more.
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Day 1 Boston Get ready for a wicked good time in Boston, a city steeped in history and bursting with character. Incredibly charming and walkable, Boston is ready to greet you with cobblestone streets, stately brownstone buildings, distinct neighborhoods, art museums, shopping, and more. This is the Cradle of the Revolution, and you'll feel that energy is as strong now as it was in 1773.
Day 2 Boston Take in Boston this morning on a panoramic city tour. You'll see historic sites like the Old South Meeting House, Boston Common, and the quaint cobblestone streets and Federal-style rowhouses of Beacon Hill. Your tour ends in Faneuil Hall, where you'll have free time to explore and try a local lunch favorite, like clam chowdah. The true heart of Boston, Faneuil Hall has been a marketplace and meeting hall since 1743. After that, it's your time to discover Boston on your own. Perhaps you'll follow the Freedom Trail from Faneuil Hall to "Old Ironsides" herself, the legendary USS Constitution. Or, you could use your included Uber voucher to head to Fenway Park for a tour, or the Museum of Fine Arts for some culture. Tonight, sit down to dinner at a local restaurant with your fellow travelers and toast to new friends met in the old city of Boston.
Day 3 Boston This morning, leave the bustle of Boston behind for the quiet of Lexington and Concord. These two towns were key in the start of the American Revolution, and your first stop will be Minute Man National Historic Park. Named for the militiamen who could be "ready in a minute's notice," the park will show an in-depth multi-media presentation on the spark of liberty that was struck here, setting the whole nation aflame. Afterwards, head to the exact spot where the "shot heard 'round the world" was fired, the Old North Bridge. Then, you're off for nearby Lexington to visit Buckman's Tavern and the Lexington Battle Green. See the place where colonial militiamen readied themselves to fight against the "redcoats," and learn what life was like in the early days of America. Enjoy free time for lunch in the timeless atmosphere of downtown Lexington, before departing to Cambridge. Arrive in Harvard Square for a tour of one of the most storied institutions of learning in the world - Harvard University. Get an insider's perspective of the campus straight from a student as they lead you on a tour of the university, highlighting the history, culture, and famous figures of the school. After the tour, head back into Boston for an evening at leisure, or add-on a Boston Harbor sunset cruise to end your day watching the sun set behind the Boston skyline.
Day 4 Boston Start the day your way with it's your choice! Choose to visit the Presidential Library & Museum of John F. Kennedy, built by legendary architect I.M. Pei, with exhibits dedicated to Kennedy's illustrious career -OR- discover the highlights and hidden gems of Boston with a photo walking tour that will take you through Copley Square, the Public Garden, Beacon Hill, and some off-the-beaten-path stops too. This afternoon, you'll have free reign to explore Boston on your own. Perhaps you'll visit the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, a mansion-turned-museum with a lush inner courtyard, infamous for a legendary art heist. Or, maybe you'll wander up and down the best shopping blocks in the city on Newbury Street. Afterwards, gather for a dinner in Boston's famed North End with your fellow travelers to laugh, dine, and bid farewell to the city of Boston.
Day 5 Boston Say goodbye to the history, the culture, and the new friends you found in Boston.
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Legacy Media and the 2022 Freedom Convoy Featuring Kelly Lamb
Depending on who you follow on Social Media and what channels you tune into you might be hearing two completely different tales of what happened leading up to the Ottawa protest and what has been happening. Is it by design? Kelly Lamb, a Journalist with Rebel News, a former Political candidate, goat enthusiast and a friend sits down with me to discuss.
CBC Power & Politics footage from January 28th, 2022 is played under the Fair Use Copyright of Canada. All other media referenced was obtained from the public domain on Twitter.
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Hey everyone. Quick note here before I start the show, this is the 40th episode. So I really appreciate everyone that's tuned in since the beginning since the early days of the show a couple of years ago, just before the pandemic started. I really appreciate it. Every single view is appreciated. I look at the stats I look at where people are viewing from, I got people viewing from Saskatchewan, I got people viewing from all over Canada, Toronto, people viewing from the States. I even had people viewing from Europe as well. I've made lots and lots of awesome contacts through podcasting, it really has been an amazing experience so far, and only 40 episodes in with plenty more energy for more. So very appreciated. Thank you very much. If you enjoy the content, all I ask is that you go to Apple or Spotify put a rating on the show, the more ratings my show has, means the further it goes up in the food chain more that the algorithm gets nudged, which means the more people might view the show. That's all I ask. I am working with a group and I might have an announcement by the next episode for a potential sponsor. Without further ado, let's get started.
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Alright, everyone, well, welcome back to coffee breath Conversations. I'm your host Russell and today, I have Kelly lamb on the show. Kelly lamb is a friend of mine. She is a journalist. She is a former political candidate, and she is also a goat lover. So welcome to the show. Kelly. Thank you for having me. The goat lover parts very important vital information. So yeah, thanks for having me on the show. It's nice to be here. I still haven't seen you in a while. So yeah, it's it's been quite a quite a while the Saskatchewan weather is treating us quite well. As always, as always, it's been just extreme cold warning on the phone every day for the last two months. It feels like I'm exaggerating, of course, as we like to do here. So today we are going to talk about fake news. We talked about this previously. Let's talk about fake news. Where did we end up with this whole freedom convoy and all the news that's kind of surrounding it. Wow, what a whopper. We've got as far as the quote, dirty, dirty smear merchants in this country right now. Wow. Everything started to pick up pace around the time that Trudeau did his interview where he spoken French and he indicated that there was a small fringe minority of Canadians that were not willing to take the vaccine, called them racists massage Enos a couple of different things. Do you think that was his kind of basket of deplorables moment is Hillary Clinton moment, he's had a few he hasn't been particularly, I guess you could say kind or respectful of people who disagree with him over the years. But that was definitely a big one. And I think that was one of the most shocking and the most sort of troublesome and very creepy moments, just to hear someone that has that much power, feel that way know that he feels that way about such a substantial portion of the population and generally law abiding, regular taxpaying citizens who don't pose a threat to anyone. So when he starts degrading a whole group of citizens more than he would terrorists, or other people that have done despicable things, it's a little bit concerning or highly concerning. So I would say yeah, that's definitely a basket of deplorables moment for him. Although I think it takes on a more even more sinister under taking just because of everything we're seeing going on with mandates and the heavy handedness in Canada, when people started announcing the that they intended to go to Ottawa, I noticed that on social media was instantly downplayed by legacy media. They were saying, this is the next yellow vest movement. That never really panned out as much in Canada, I think, as it did in France and other countries, the United We roll convoy from before, as things started to pick up, I noticed that the media attention shifted and it went from this isn't going to happen to well, it's just it's just five or 10 trucks. You know, it's it's nobody. And to the point where we're at now where there is a large blockade in Ottawa, there is a border blockade. I believe in Alberta. There's more trucks on the way right now, and it seems to have spurred a worldwide movement. I've seen videos from the states from Germany. Do you think they lost control the narrative along the way somewhere? Oh, they definitely did because you've seen it change and shift drastically. And obviously it's it's almost been amusing if it wasn't so disturbing, you know, like you said, they said there's gonna be a blood test. Trucks? Well, there was more than that by, you know, 100 times when it comes to just the people across Saskatchewan. And you know, Calgary had 4000 people that showed up to their protest the numbers of people that are coming out across the country. And then the main event itself and the main convoy. It's just massive. And as you said, it's bringing that you know, worldwide attention. It's being followed up in places like Australia, Germany, etc. So it's really something else and to have them say at the beginning, well, this is no big deal. It felt a little more desperate to me, you know, I hope this isn't a big deal is more what they were saying to me, making it more of a discouragement thing. And then as soon as they realize that, that that couldn't be, that wouldn't fly. There's too many citizens journalist, there's too many tick tock videos, even for the quote, normies that aren't into politics, people are seeing what's happening on the ground. And so it's really hard to say, Well, this was only 10 trucks. This was a nothing burger. So then suddenly, it switches to well, actually, not only is it not a minor threat, it is the biggest threat that Canada has ever faced. And the threat of our democracy is so real. And then, of course, using the states and the January 6 stuff, which is just a whole other discussion. But it's amazing how they did. And then they started to ramp up the fear. And that's I think, when the turning point, it's like they were testing the waters. And then once they realized, Oh, this is the route, we're going to go this route. Yeah, it's big, and it's bad. And it's really scary. That seems to be a more effective propaganda route that they're going or it seems like it's effective. But I don't know how Canadians feel. There's been a couple of polls, I always questioned polls. It's hard to say, but it seems like there's more support for the convoy, then the MSM is letting on for sure. You have the early days, when people started arriving in Ottawa, the big question that I kept hearing was, is this Canada's January six? Yeah, that's the question that seems to be on everyone's mind, except for the protesters, and all of the people that are organizing this, who didn't consider it that way at all. And all of us are thinking, What do you mean, January 6, this is a group of truckers trying to get rid of a policy and speak for freedom, it's so obvious to the people that are involved in that are on the ground. So I'm not on the ground, but I'm following along and doing compilations of all the incredible rebel journalist work that's been done. And you know, that's when you see that kind of coverage. And then you you, it's so different. It's so opposite from what you're seeing in the mainstream media. So, you know, we're trying to capture that the best that we can. But it's been really interesting to watch the progression of all of it. It's quite astounding if you can't keep up either, right. That's the other thing is they're just throwing the headlines out. And the experts are saying all kinds of things. So it's hard to keep up with who are these experts. So what we keep hearing experts say experts say, Who are these experts? That's a great question. All I know is when I first started leaving the left, so to speak, and I started questioning the media, because once you start questioning the media, then it all will fall apart. Because once you know you've been lied to about one thing, you have to wonder what else have I been lied to about? Right? So when I started to recognize these these lies, is propaganda. You see the experts, the experts, and I looked into a few of them towards the beginning of this few years ago. And I think the first one I saw was some kind of psychology expert. Well, it turns out it was a 21 year old, fresh out of university. That's not a psychology expert. Meanwhile, they call people like Dr. Jordan Peterson fringe extremist, the guy has, what 20 years of clinical experience plus education to boot. So it's really quite interesting, the word choice and you can tell that's just just just psychology marketing. Well, this really smart person that's way smarter than you are tells you to do this, so just do it. and Canada has become more it's become more and more obvious. We'll put it this way that we have more propaganda than most people would care to admit. And this use of experts is just there, I guess, attempt at making that more effective. Yeah, I noticed that the language in last few years is certainly changed. It's become much more Americanized where we're hearing the American Left wing media talking points echoed by our own media experts say and then it's kind of left vague fact checkers have checked this. And then you find out that the fact checking organizations are major donors to Democrat or liberal causes along the way. Yes. And then of course, in Canada, you go one step further, or several steps further, since we have a whole different system. And we have the state broadcaster as well. And you look at the the subsidies, and you look at all the programs and you look at the media bailout and all of that. So it's, it's really just, it's actually not surprising. I often feel disappointed in Canadians for not being very, we're very meek. And it can be good to be meek in the sense of the Christian side where you're, you know, humble and gracious. But when it comes to just letting people walk all over and not protecting anything that we fought for freedoms for our family, good quality of life, rising costs that are making it unlivable. Canadians are very meek, but I'm not surprised because it's it's a lot of brainwashing and it's 24/7. So it's being infiltrated into our media. And then for those who maybe aren't into politics, or they don't watch the news, because especially a lot of women I noticed they stressful they don't like it, they're not interested, but they're getting it as well because the messages are infiltrated through the other types of media music and the Kardashians and all of these sorts of things. Maybe that's a bad example, because she's all conservative now, but there's a lot of sort of left wing narrative. They're pushing a lot of very specific racial narratives. And now, of course, the COVID narrative. So it seems like no matter what you do, it's gonna get you and unless you're aware of it, people are just getting, they're getting brainwashed, and they don't even know what they it's like they recognize propaganda exists. People recognize brainwashing exists, but it's not happening to me, right. So that's what I see as a big problem in Canada. We seem to think we're immune to all of this, and I'm not sure what makes our time in history. Are our people immune to things that other countries and dictatorships have been doing since forever? I don't know why we think we're immune to propaganda. But we're not just newsflash for everyone that thinks we are. We're not Scott Adams often says that politics is like two separate television shows where you can both watch the same show, but come away with two completely different conclusions. Yes. And I think that we're all motivated in some way shape or form by some of our biases. We want our side to be right. Conservatives want conservatives to be right. Liberals want the Liberals to be right. So of course, we're going to seek out sources that help confirm what we think should be right. And that's understandable. But if you look at it here, for example, Canada support of Ukraine in this current crisis with Russia. I don't know if it's far fetched to ask but but there is concern that Russian actors could be continuing to fuel things as this as this protest grows, but perhaps even instigating it from from the outset. So now we're on a Russian narrative. That's kind of where CBC is gone. Like, does Russia even care about us? I don't think so. Other than to comment on how woke we've become in disappointment, I guess, I have to laugh at that one. Because it's so overused, and it's so 2016 and not our country. But I'll comment first, and then I'll dive into that. You mentioned the the idea of bias and of course, confirmation bias. That's definitely real. And of course, I'm a rebel journalist. So I have to recognize that I openly work for a conservative right wing outlet, we have commentary, we accept that we admit that we don't hide that. I think that's the difference with a lot of media right now. It's not that there, there's a bias. But the key is when you say that you're neutral, and you so clearly aren't, that's the part that gets me and I think that's a big one in Canada. So then when you take that into a clip like this about Russia, it's so obviously a narrative that was driven by left wing media in the States. And now it's coming here. And with that straight face, she says, you know, it might be a bit of a stretch, you think, hey, it's just desperate. That's the most desperate propaganda clip I've seen in a while. And with COVID, there have been some doozies of desperate, just insane propaganda tool. So yeah, that that's one of my favorite of the convoys so far, just because it's so outrageous, and especially when you know, you're looking at the coverage and the people involved. This is so obviously not some crazy, big operative, I have no idea what's going on in the background. I of course, can't say for sure that there's no skeevy business dealings, or donations or whatever. I can't say that. But what I can say is that it's very obvious that for 1000s, and really, you know, when it comes to the Canadiens and others across the world, millions of supporters, what they're getting out of this is it has nothing to do with whatever those intentions might even be if they were to exist at all, which I don't think they do. So the point is that people are unifying. The point is that people are saying enough is enough and calling for accountability. And no matter what that is real, that is happening. That is a huge Freedom Cry in this country. And so they can try to explain it away whoever they want, but they're desperate. That's what it sounds like to me. Well, the the media certainly sounds desperate. And their their use, for example, there was a protester that was seen on Parliament Hill that had a confederate flag, the media, like instantly zoomed in on that, like they were all snapping pictures, but that's the only time that that confederate flag was seen. And there's video out there of several people confronting that person, the only person wearing a mask, of course, amongst the whole crowd like a full balaclava to hide their identity, and then we haven't seen them since. So, do you think that it would be possible that these people are plants of some sort, like just rabble rousers, or or some type of people that were sent there to make the movement look bad to stir people up? So we do have like our January six type of moment? Well, that to me, sounds a lot less out there, then the Russia theory. Absolutely. I think that's possible. Again, I don't know that that is what has happened. I hope someone's looking into it. I know that true north and other organizations have been trying to find the identity of the people carrying both the Confederate flag as well as the swastika and a couple of other ones, it seems like they were there for a couple of pictures. There's sort of images of a photographer taking pictures of them, like you said, there's the video of the guy that was kind of pushed out of the crowd. And that's really it. And nobody can seem to find these guys. Nobody can find other incidences or other photographs. So to me, it looks like again, you've got an event, let's say, let's say again, let's give the media the benefit of the doubt. Let's say these weren't plants, let's say they're, they're just, you know, people that are out there kind of throwing a dim light on what is otherwise a very positive movement. I've got no room for for like, full blown actual anti semitism and all that I have no tolerance for it. And I would argue that most people in this movement have no tolerance for that kind of hatred, either. This is an extremely diverse protest. Across the nation. There's footage of, of First Nation drumming circles going on, you've got people of every single race and religion, it's really quite lovely. It's such a beautiful testament to how Canada is not how the media portrays us, right. So is it possible that these are actors? Absolutely. I wouldn't put it past our government at all. Politics is dirty. And I always thought, because I'm nice and honest, you know, those things that you see in the big American movies couldn't happen here. They are happening here. We just have this really nice facade. It's like a placid looking lake. And underneath, there's a whole bunch of alligators, it's, it's a facade. It's a lot of wolves in sheep's clothing. So I could definitely see this being one big attempt just because the media and political narrative has been so negative. It wouldn't surprise me if this was an attempt to say, Okay, this, these people are way too peaceful. We can't work with this, we've got to do something to darken it up. It's definitely questionable. Some of the motives I mean, Canada's no stranger to us style influencing me, we kind of perfected the Mr. Big operation, or the RCMP would officer would pretend to be a prisoner, go into a prison cell with the other prisoner and then say, Oh, what are you in here for and get them basically to confess and then try to get that admissible in court. So I don't think it's beyond the realm of possibility of people operating, maybe not even on the government's behalf, but just in their own self interest, inserting themselves into places to try to get their own political narratives move forward? Well, there's definitely a goal and a narrative. And they're so clear about that. And so it's, it's not a logical stretch. And it's not putting, you know, it's so interesting, when you look at, quote, conspiracy theories, it's always about what links people are putting together. And the craziest ones are the ones where people just are picking links from all over the place and trying to stick them together and they don't fit. This is not one of those things. This is a very logical, understandable sort of thing that could be happening because of that push for policy. And there's such an obvious desire to shut people up, it's so clear. And so it wouldn't surprise me if they had taken that extra step. That is interesting, of course, though, to note that it's so easy for them to smear 1000s and 1000s of peaceful people with literally less than what I've counted, I think that the longest list I've seen assuming they're all real, again, which they're probably not maybe 10, maybe 10 Things incidents across the board. And we're talking over days, days, and 1000s and 1000s of people and kilometers upon kilometers. So interesting that you can do that you can smear the whole group based on a bad egg. But you can't do that with any of the other protests that occurred, especially in the States prior to all of this. So there's a double standard, an obvious hypocritical, double double standard in the media. And that's the same whether it's in America or Canada, and also in the western world as well, the left had to see this common, right, like there's, it's it's a pendulum, it's swung very far left for a very long time. And they've gotten away with a lot of things, you know, fiery, but mostly peaceful protests, the whole written host trial, where they smeared so many people, and they're probably going to get sued. I mean, it goes all the way back to kind of Nick Sandmann suing CNN, for their slanderous coverage. And it all seems to have come to Canada now where we're we're seeing just this, you know, people can just say anything, and it's taken almost at face value, especially when it's targeting a right leaning protest or right leaning organization. But we're supposed to have to read between the lines for things on the left, right, you know, it's it's more nuanced than that. Kind of reminds me like, if you look at a leftist meme, it's a whole block of text, a meme from the conservative side, it's generally six or seven words. It portrays what they're trying to say so much simpler. It's true. I try to not categorize left and right especially nowadays, because with with COVID, and the freedom convoy and everything else, it seems less about left and right and more about just people who want the government to leave them alone and people who want more and more and more of it, but there is Still that left versus kind of right mindset and I have to say that people on the political left cannot mean to save their lives. It's very sad that you know, sometimes you can get a really good meme out there. I'm not a good meme maker, but I'm a meme appreciator. And the leftist ones are pretty, they're pretty lame. Sorry, guys. You have to try a little harder. Let's look at a couple of tweets here. Let's see Ottawa Mayor halls Conservative MP supportive protests an absolute disgrace. Disgrace. Wow. Okay, strong word he. Yeah, he doesn't seem too happy. It's interesting, because the police up till now anyways have been fairly good, although I know they're talking of maybe bringing in the military and all that. But the mayor, he's not happy at all. Sounds like he's, I'm assuming he's getting tremendous amounts of phone calls from angry constituents about the incessant honking, I can appreciate why people are frustrated. I do get it that said, you know, two years of people's lives being ruined, what's a few days of honking, so I can appreciate that he's probably just getting nailed constantly. He's probably stretched to the nines, but doesn't use such gross language. None of these people will talk with truckers, that's the gross part, they won't come out and have a discussion with the regular people and see what their their tax paying citizens. These are not. They're not people that are just showing up in the middle of nowhere. So you know, it's terrible language to hear the mayor talk about potentially bringing in the military. I mean, the military is not supposed to operate domestically, unless it's an absolute emergency. This doesn't constitute as an emergency and people complaining about there being protests. Ottawa is a hotbed of protests for both for all sorts of different organizations. Yes. And it always will be if you're going to choose to live in the downtown Ottawa area, you're choosing to be at the heart of politics, the heart of democracy in this country. Yes, absolutely. And it's just something I know, I live where I live, because that will never happen here. And so you know, if you're in the middle of an urban center in the nation's capital, like you said, where all of the policies are decided and argued, there's going to be people protesting, and this does not, in my opinion, qualify as an emergency all the footage that I'm seeing that's alive, that isn't MSM, you know, you're hearing all these reports from them about people getting beat up and homeless people being assaulted these horrible things that I really don't, there's no proof, there's just this a lot of hearsay, right? It's interesting, because the scene on the ground is so different, they have painted it to be something if you were just just reading CBC global, etc. And you were from another country, you would really think this is just something absolutely terrifying. But there's no actual threat. And it's scary to see when you go on Twitter and whatnot, which isn't real life, but there are people that are, they're really, really wanting more military. And I'm not talking about the bots, I'm talking about the accounts that seem like actual real people, they're excited, bring those military and get them out of here. I don't think they know what they're asking for. I'm not sure they understand that, regardless of whether they like us freedom lovers and protesters and or are US covering it or not. We're doing it for everybody, even those who hate us, even those who don't understand what's at stake. So, and not only that, a lot of these leftists are the people that turn around and they quite often say, a cab, all cops are bastards. And my response to that is, quite often all cops are bastards until you need them to do your dirty work for you. You need them to go after some conservative or something you don't like and then it's quite hypocritical. That's right, there's there's a lot of the lack of consistency. And that's again with whether it's the media or whether it's the people buying into this and perpetrating all of it and pushing it all forward. There's just such a lack of consistency. It's it's startling, and I think it comes from just that demonization when you truly turn the other into the monsters it's easy to say well I want the bad guys to take down the monsters they when you've actually decided that people like yourself or myself or art Nazis are akin to that then how on earth do you you know how do you get someone's mindset out of that in their mind it's all justified that all this is justified because they've created a war in their mind if anything, I feel bad for the people that believe this is warranting military intervention because I can't imagine what it's like to live in their in their head people that are saying they're afraid to go outside flags, the Canadian flags terrifying you I mean, honking is loud, but it's not a physical assault. Right. So it's, it's a, it's a shame to see how many people in our country are. They're terrified and they're not terrified of the right things. They're not terrified of the government. They're terrified of their fellow citizens, their neighbors, their unvaccinated friends, you know, that kind of thing. So I think that's what's happened here is there's so much othering that anything is justified. Let's take a look here. CBC News, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is giving no sign he's willing to negotiate with the protesters occupying Ottawa, were demanding either an end to all vaccine mandates or a change in government. I have not heard of any one talking about change in government personally. Nora, in general, yeah, people have said, Oh, good, you know, we've This is a win that we got rid of a tool. But that doesn't seem to be what they're including in there like manifesto or whatever the word is. I'm not sure if that's the right word. No, it seems to be very specifically about mandates and about freedoms across the board and encouraging some unity and some common sense because other countries are opening up and other than maybe Saskatchewan. And I say maybe because there's still some stuff up in the air on that. We're just doubling tripling down. And I think that's what people are standing against. And I don't think that I know that that's why that's why they're there. Let's look at this banger of a tweet right here from the the woken mail or sorry, the Globe and Mail. What's happening in Ottawa is an assault on democracy. And the images from the Capitol will be hard to forget, but they do not represent Canada. Yet those scary images of all those flags and people singing We are the world we are the people those are just so scary. And they just really you know, cause some PTSD in me. I don't know about you, but you know, I guess if I was on the left I maybe I prefer if they were singing imagine that's true. That's true. They just picked the wrong song. That's that's surely would have switched. Yeah. CTV News, Ottawa residents fed up with protests as city braces for more convoy demonstrators this weekend. i Yes, fed up. We're fed up. We're done. You see that one a lot. lately. We've lost patience with blank Group. We are sick and tired of blank group. Again, I'm sure there are people that are mad and frustrated. That said, They're blaming the wrong people. Blame your government guys. They did this to you. They've done this. They've pushed people so far. And now it's the people's fault, who are trying to stand against it and remove it. That's something that's again, Canadian, very uniquely Canadian. We just love and trust our government so much more than our neighbors. So bizarre. Western standard, saying that no officers have been assaulted by block caterers. Yeah, wasn't that one. Now that one's quite a story. And it's hard to keep up. But wasn't that one. I believe Kenney lied about that. Not just the media claiming there was a big standoff and there was an assault. And then it turns out no, that that didn't happen. So that's interesting as well, that that there's often just straight up lies or people putting stuff out there as a rumor before it's confirmed is another big one. CBC coming through with a little bit more fear. Intensive Care Unit staff are working on the brink of collapse, and it's forcing hospitals to take a hard look on how to cope with the Omicron wave and any others yet to come. Well, my first question is that a dummy in the bed that she's standing by? Because we know that they've used that which has been great propaganda? Well, I'm just surprised she's not dancing. Yeah, you haven't seen a lot of those or maybe I'm just not on Tik Tok. So I thankfully don't see it. But that's a very recycled headline. We're on the verge of collapse. We're on the verge of collapse, we're all gonna die. Very, very common. Doesn't matter what stage of the pandemic it's been. They have just reused those fear. Again, desperate, desperate articles. So I commented on here that has been like this since I was a kid. I remember my mom and a gurney in the hallway since they had no rooms available hallway health care and action. Hospital sure had fun with budget cuts and top heavy leadership with fancy golden parachutes before 2019. And this is from the star in 2017. Ontario hospitals on the brink province warned so there's the there's the fear mongering headline right there on the brink. Yep. And we're there again, and it's all the unvaccinated folds too. That's the other thing is we've never we've often talked about our issues with health care. We don't blame one specific group we're not blaming you know, we're not looking at here's the cause of all the mortality and we better shame those people or maybe even suggest because there's been articles out especially with the star as you mentioned them just a moment ago about you know, do these people deserve care should they be paying for their care people are the hardest most fast fighting people for universal health care or essentially are promoting private health care so that's an interesting discussion as well although they wouldn't admit same thing they want it for them but not for the bad guys right? So fascinating to see this happen. Well, what's amazing to me is in 2022, I never thought it would be the left advocating for for private health care. I never I never rate fascinating. They've really done a number on turning around as to who's the freedom loving people I've never thought I'd see so many people trust Big Pharma and push for Big Pharma. It blows my mind. Um, CTV News, asking finally, the important questions. Do vaccine mandates violate Canadians Charter rights? Well, of course they do. Experts say no. It's funny because the experts will turn around say it doesn't because of whatever law while the the charter overrides any of those laws, and it all has to be balanced on reasonableness. And that hasn't actually had And yet, that's the part that people will say, Well, you haven't read the charter, you don't understand the, you know, the there's a provision to go above and beyond it when it's necessary emergency etc, I get that. But I don't believe any of this has passed the Oakes test at all. And I don't think it's been taken to a level where it's been analyzed enough to say whether it is or is bad or good. So I agree, it hasn't been proven at all, that this was necessary enough to take away the basic and most important civic rights or civil rights of our country. Andy Lee has been following up a lot with this scheppers of Good Hope. And I'll tell you the it's interesting, this charity that helps homeless people has collected quite a bit of money from the federal government overall. And then there keeps saying the food was stolen and people were assaulted. But there's no police reports. And everything is on camera these days, everything. Yes, you're telling me that no one caught this on camera. It just so happened that no one had a cell phone, you know, someone could beat up an old lady. And people won't go and help her. Oh, they're just going to open up their phones and start filming. Yeah, it's 2022. That is the standard thing for people to do. And even in a homeless shelter where you might maybe not have as many smartphones out and about, there's still staff, there's still other people around, I would be very surprised. You really need when you make a claim that big of something that disgusting and vile, you need to have something to back it up. Same with assault. Same with any of that stuff. Personally, they didn't get there January sixth, they were I think they were salivating at the at the idea that, you know, here we go, this is our chance. I was worried I won't lie, I was worried because I thought to myself, If this happens, and it does get violent, the laws that they are going to pass will make the writers the patriotic Patriot Act blush. That's it. And that still concerns me actually wrestle is is where this will go from here because it's largely been peaceful. But now you have the stuff and the tension going on in Coots, Alberta at this sweet grass border. And then you also have more and more groups coming in, you know, for the protest this weekend. And there are certain groups that are a little more kind of out there than others, not everybody's on the exact same page on this. So you know, you've kind of always wait in anticipation for someone's gonna doing something totally stupid, that will, you know, make the movement look bad. And then the media will of course, be right there to film it and they'll never be there to film any of the heartwarming moments are anything nicer, unifying. So there's that there's that trepidation. And Ezra, my boss has said that a lot, too. You know, there's a lot of bad actors, there's a lot of people wanting to disrupt this. And it wouldn't be surprising if people were to, you know, whether it's people or whether it's the media, they're trying to make this into seemingly a justification to crack the whip. And we already have censorship laws coming in Canada, and they use the they use the pandemic to push that through stuff they were going to push through anyway, well, look at all this terrible misinformation, it's harming people, it's for your health, we have to cut all this information, violence and racism, same thing, we've got to cut it away, because it's going to harm the health and social health of society. They'll use anything as an excuse. It's worrying to me and move on to the next weekend of protests I am, I'm concerned. I'm excited that everybody's out there. And I think for the most part, people are really great. So I'm not as worried about it becoming violent. What I'm worried about is more than the response the tactical response on the other side of that that's terrifying to me, because Trudeau is really, he speaks so nice and fluffy, but he is a little dictator want to be and he is not letting go. You want to talk about a going against democracy or the risk of democracy. Look at what happened to Parliament and and discussion over the course of the last two years. I mean, he ran it from a cottage it was just ridiculous. They shut things down. There's no democracy in any of these mandates. There's no democracy in any of this. So it's interesting that people want to speak and that's apparently the threat to democracy, but not the man who's trying to pull it away from everybody all the time. You know, the virtual sort of meetings that they had. That certainly backfired for the Liberals didn't they have that one MP that had a bit of a bit of a voyeur problem or something like that was knee like naked on camera, right? Oh, I'm blanking on his name. And how could I be that was such a fun story. Will something anyways I want to say will Amis does that sound right? Or is that a famous I think so that's the name that's coming to my head. But yes, there's been some interesting things that have come up from the Liberal caucus. And of course, then there's Trudeau himself in blackface and all of those lovely hypocritical things that people bring up because it's important when you're calling everybody else names to recognize when you're exactly the thing that you're claiming other people's are. Other people are. Kelly, why do you think the media is kinda like cp 24, CBC CTV all of their reporters have been complaining. They're they're saying that they've been subjected to harassment they've been subjected to threats. One of them claim someone threw a full beer can and there was like a crush beer can on the ground. Why do they say I'm so surprised that people don't like them. I'm trying to be kind about this because I don't wish I'm a generally genteel person, I don't harass people. I'm pretty nice on Twitter, and I'm certainly nice in person. But it's hard to not chuckle at the fact that they are kind of getting what's coming to them. This does seem to be sort of karma. When you demonize people now, when I ran for the PPC, I was the topic of smear campaigns at various levels of MSM propaganda, and it doesn't feel very good. And it has the potential to really ruin people's lives. And after a while, people just get sick of it, when you continually tell them that they're stupid, and that, you know, they don't deserve health care, and that they're racist, and they're misogynist, and they're extremists. And they're just horrible. And they're, they don't have a place in our, in our country. When you take law abiding normal people and you demonize them and throw them in a corner long enough, anybody that's even remotely lacking stability, or maybe they're going through a hard time, you just put people in a in a position to snap and to crack. And I think that's that's honestly, what's happening right now. And I don't love some of the images. Of course, again, the media will pick the most dumb acting person in the background and be like, look at these idiots at this protest. I remember seeing one kind of Joker in the background, he looked like an idiot, you've probably drunk. Is he a great representation of the cause? No. But does that is that what how most people are treating journalists? Probably not. And what they consider mean and scary is often just people saying, You know what, fake news, fake news, you're a liar do better shame on you. And that's the part that they seem to be upset about? Well, what do you think is gonna happen, you've literally destroyed people's lives, and then the mob and created fear, and created distrust, and destroyed families, all for a paycheck. And to chase a story, I always go back to, you know, growing up watching movies about journalists, and they would show these journalists running after a recent widow to get a story. And she has to hide herself in the house. And they're just like vultures, they just want that story. And they were always seen in a negative light to be I was always interested in journalism, but I never want to be that person. And I think that's essentially, all it is. It's the same view that we got, except for what's happening. And this is what it looks like, in real time. So I don't just want to talk about the bad stuff here. Because, you know, we could go on and on and on. There's tons more examples, like I have a whole other list of examples. But I do want to focus on one thing before we wrap up here. And that is, how do we fix this? How to how do we regain trust in the media? How do we get some of that unbiased reporting back or at least you know, nothing, I don't think it ever truly be unbiased, but the least amount of bias possible so that people regain their trust in our media? Well, there's only so much we can do as far as other people's actions. I'd like to see the media doing less click Beatty headlines, I'd like to see them bringing in actual experts or being able to back up what they say his expertise, I'd like to see that but it's probably not going to happen. So ultimately, it comes down to people to be the counter narrative. And I'm not sure if you've seen or if anyone watching has seen Ezras speech in Toronto when they asked him to speak. And he's basically telling everybody that they need to bear witness, they have phones, they need to bear witness and bear testimony to what they see. Because it's not going to be covered, it's not going to be fair expect the attack when it's essentially an information war. And we have to expect and anticipate the other side's moves. So that's the first thing is to be prepared, be vigilant and never assume that people are as honest or as ethical as you are. Because it just isn't that that's my big lesson is not everybody's super honest. That just isn't the way it is. I wish that it were, but it's not true. And then the other is making sure that everybody out there is doing their own little bit of citizen journalism, whether it's sharing whether it's capturing the footage, whether it's encouraging or promoting or donating to outlets and independent media that you respect so that they can get the job done, whatever it is supported how you can and use your gifts. So if you're a singer or a writer, use it, you know, get those messages out there, talk to normal people have conversations that you're afraid of, it seems like the only way to really counter this is to just go up against it with the opposite. It's like being an antidote to poison. And I don't know how else to do it. But ultimately, I think a lot of these institutions have to be kind of renewed from the ground up. And we might be seeing that now. Depending on if Canadians wake up or not. If they do, the media is eventually going to have to come to terms with the fact that people have figured it out. But I think they'll always be a large enough group of sheep, so to speak, that will just latch on to whatever they say and not do any thinking for themselves. So you're not going to get everyone but the key is to find some balance between both sides. It's what I like about the work I'm doing now is we genuinely try to find the other side of the story so that someone at least can watch both and then decide instead of just being told how to think quite often the media will turn around and they'll say, Well, it's just opinion. We brought in an opinion piece to talk about things and they they kind of hide on the fact that they've made it very difficult to distinguish between the public in one piece, and the supposedly unbiased, or at least the least biased pieces out there, this is from Jodi Wilson Raybould. This was her testimony that she gave, she was like, and that and that's her referring to, I believe Kim Telford. If God is nervous, we would, of course, lineup all kinds of people to write op eds, saying that what she's doing is proper. That's her testimony, she gave that toast testimony live. So what does that say about the media? That's just it. They're not hiding it. It's it's also like that article that came out that basically told us that they were using fear propaganda tactics on us for COVID-19. It's not it's not a conspiracy theory. It's not hidden. That's right in our face, whether it's Canadian, or whether it's bigger, like the World Economic Forum, they're not hiding it, it's right there. But people are so naive. And again, I think it just comes down to this, we're so comfortable here and we don't think it can happen. So everything must be fine. And we couldn't it couldn't possibly be that all those people are against us. I just couldn't see it happening. Therefore, we're a nice place. Canada's nice, nice people don't do that. Right. Therefore, it's not happening. Even though it's it's it's right in their faces. And the only I don't have the answers, I'm not a psychologist or a sociologist. But I can say in my own experience from being on the left and being more prone to propaganda, is, it's scary to admit that you've been lied to, because once you open that door, oh, the stuff that follows it's, it's hard, it's hard to accept that you've been wrong on a lot of things, it hits the ego hard. And for people who aren't maybe as as humble in that sense that it can be like, Okay, I'm doubling down, because I don't want to admit that I was wrong. And when it comes to stuff like that, with, it's hard to even remember, that's such a big story. But so much has happened, it almost feels like it's old news. I mean, this is big, big stuff. And it's important, but it just gets buried behind all the other headlines and opinion pieces. And then it just becomes sort of just another story. And just another theory of the right wingers that think that they're against us. And, and it's it's it's sad to see, but it just there's so much overwhelm and information overload, and so much ego that people won't admit it, it has to be staring them in the face, it has to be very, very obvious. And they have to be emotionally ready to take responsibility to say, oops, I screwed up. And whether it's politics, or relationships or anything, people aren't very prone to saying, oops, I screwed up, I wish more humans were it's not a common trait. So you're not going to get it in the media, you're not going to get it with people that are that bought in unfortunately, in the book 1984 George Orwell wrote that the final lie of the party was that they were able to get people to not believe what was going on right in front of their eyes, to get people to deny reality as it was occurring. And I'm worried with the media, with the way that they try to craft the cultural narrative and drive the cultural narrative that there is definitely going to be more battles along the way. And I don't know when more people are going to wake up to it. Yeah, that's the big question, right? People say, oh, people are waking up in Canada, it's happening, people are waking up, and maybe some are, especially with COVID. And when it comes to people have said, well, if you just keep giving in and doing whatever they ask, they're just gonna keep asking for more. And this is happening with, say, the third booster and so on. It's definitely it's hard to kind of know what to do with all of this. But I think that we can just we just have to be vigilant, stay positive, be vigilant prayer. I mean, for me, as a Christian, I want to pray the people have changed hearts and minds. But it's it's worrisome to me that Canada's not maybe going to wake up until something really, really terrible happens. And what scares me about Canada is that it's going to have to be such a destitute, horrible situation. So if you know whether it comes to people when I was in the PPC, and I was arguing our policies, and I would try to explain to people why they were important, and how we're yes, we're comfortable here. And yes, things are okay. But that's because people are vigilant. It's not because it just happened and stayed that way. And people don't seem to see it, they get their food, they go home, and they watch Netflix, they have their job, they have their warm house, they have a social life, all they did until COVID. And you know, they just assume that it's, it's all fine. So I don't have high hopes of Canadians waking up. But if it's a terrorism complaint, I feel like it's going to take a terrible attack for people to really like have a big one for people to wake up. If it's COVID, it's going to take the 15th shot to have your vaccine passport, if it's, you know, so on and so forth. I don't know what it's going to take for Canadians. But What scares me is it's going to take something way too big. That's going to be hard to come back from I feel like we're on a high speed chain train into a very bad direction. And I hope I'm wrong. And I hope we can turn it around and I'm trying, you know, in my little ways to as as are you but it's it's tricky. So you can only try to change yourself and try to change one person at a time. Otherwise it just gets overwhelming. Kelly, I really want to thank you for being on the show today. If people want to reach you, where can they reach you at few places now. So I'm on Twitter, that's kind of my sole social media source. That's it. At little goat CR that stands for little goat creations, people always wonder, you can I do have my channel on YouTube, but I haven't made content since I've been with rebel but that you can just look up under Kelly lamb and my rebel page, if you go to the journalist page on rebel, you go down to the bottom and that'll bring up my page, my bio and any of the stories and stuff that I've done. So if you want to keep up with what I'm covering, that's probably the best place to do it. And if you follow along with ripple on Twitter, etc at Facebook, if you have it, they keep up with putting all of the content out. So even if I'm not on those platforms, they will share my stuff on Facebook, etc. So just take a look out for my name and I'm covering most of the Saskatchewan stuff for as much as I can with limited time. Alright, Thanks, Kelly. Take care and hopefully we'll talk soon maybe we'll talk about Scott Moe next time. Let's hope it's good news. How does that
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TACLOBAN CITY- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is set to conduct the second round on the enumeration of households in the whole region. This was disclosed by Yvonne Abonales, chief of the policy and plans division of the DSWD-8, who said that the enumeration is slated to be held before the end of the year. The National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) is in accordance with the Executive Order 867 which aims to identify who and where the poor are in the Philippines.
"The households that will be listed in this database will be our target for program implementation. All beneficiaries of social protection programs of the government should come from the NHTS-PR list," Abonales said in an interview. As of the August of this year monitoring of the DSWD, there are 269, 167 registered/ active households in the whole region.
Once the enumeration starts in October or November, the encoding should be done by December, Abonales informed. Meanwhile, with regard to the 4Ps student beneficiaries' issue, Abonales has clarified that beneficiaries who turns 18 are only delisted from the 4Ps (Pamilyang Pantawid Pilipino Program) but not on the database.
"If a student beneficiary turns 18, he or she can still avail of other programs offered by the DSWD as long as he or she coordinate first with their respective local government units," Abonales said. The DSWD has more than 1,000 scholars and has already produced four graduates from Leyte Normal University (LNU) and Eastern Visayas State University (EVSU) in the past two years. At present, the DSWD has expanded the choice of universities for convenience and practical reasons especially to those scholars coming from other provinces.
The scholarship programs of the DSWD are in coordination with the Department of Education and the Commission on Higher Education.
(ROSE ANGELIE S. CASTILLANO, LNU Intern)
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If you've ever heard the catchy Beatles tune, Help!, it might have caused you to reflect on times you've sought help in your personal or professional life. Here at the Center, we offer RISK HELP and risk management guidance to our valued Affiliate Members and consulting clients. In today's RISK eNews, the Center's staff members wanted to spread risk awareness by sharing our personal favorite RISK HELP tips that we recently offered to our clients and Affiliates.
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RISK HELP Question #1: Does our nonprofit really need a CEO succession or transition plan?
An explanation of when and how key stakeholder groups will be notified–for example, will the board chair call large institutional donors? Will another staff person contact key vendors?
RISK HELP Question #2: We are looking for a new office manager. We have had a string of office managers leave after a short time on the job. How can we find someone who fits?
Great question. There are costs associated with hiring a new employee including investment in time and resources, and the mental drain of the interview process on your employees. A poor hiring decision can set your organization on end and affect the momentum of your nonprofit. It is important to make a good investment upfront. Here are several tips you can take to make this experience positive for all involved.
Be reflective. Do you still need someone to fill that role? Can those duties be shared among others? Confer with others in your organization who will interface with that employee. Those responsibilities may be able to be shared with several others, freeing payroll funds for other mission critical work.
Do the legwork up front. Brainstorm about all you expect of this employee and write it down. Be honest and make sure you include all skills and tasks. Gather feedback from others in the organization.
Use external resources. Review job descriptions listed by other nonprofits. Read our book, "Staff Screening Notebook" for a 10-step screening process.
Be patient. It is possible it will take time to find someone who is the right fit. Rushing to a decision will only put you back to square one with fewer resources, time, and patience.
RISK HELP Question #3: My boss just added 'Risk Manager' to my job description. But I don't know where to start! How can the Center help?
If you've suddenly been asked to wear the risk manager hat at your nonprofit, never fear–the Center is here! To get started, we often recommend conducting an informal internal risk assessment to start identifying and understanding the risks that your organization faces. With that information, you can start developing and implementing strategies to better manage some of your risks.
To get an internal risk assessment off the ground, start by inviting diverse colleagues to the conversation table. Recognize that everyone in your organization possesses a different vantage point from which to assess risks. As the new Risk Manager, it's your job to help people candidly share their unique perspectives on risk, and to synthesize the distinct perspectives into a 'big picture' of your organization's risk landscape.
RISK HELP Question #4: How important is it to check references when screening potential employees? Can I skip reference checks?
Reference checking is easy to skip, but I believe it is the most important element of a comprehensive screening process. Reference checking is the only chance you have to glean insight from third parties–whereas other screening mechanisms can only gather information that the applicant wants to provide. It's critical to validate what an applicant is telling you by speaking with references.
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Spring is here and it's time to get moving. If you want to lose some weight and lower your cholesterol, then step this way to better health and wellbeing.
Whether you're on a get-fit mission or just wanting to maintain good health through regular exercise, walking is a great option that couldn't be easier to embrace. More than a dawdle but not quite a jog, a good brisk walk can do wonders for our mental and physical health, as exercise physiologist Sonia Glanville explains.
Walking is great for circulation as it helps to oxygenate our blood and boosts blood flow by enlarging blood vessels. It also helps prevent deep vein thrombosis by using the deeper calf muscle, which assists blood flow back to the heart.
Walking increases your breathing rate and strengthens your respiratory muscles. "Walking is beneficial for those with asthma and COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) as long as you walk indoors on high pollution days," says Sonia.
Walking is one of the easiest ways to protect your heart. Studies have found that brisk walking is as good as running for lowering cholesterol, blood pressure and diabetes risk – the three key factors in the development of heart disease.
There's a reason some companies hold walk 'n' talk meetings. US researchers examined the creativity levels of people while they walked versus while they sat and found the walkers increased creative output by 60 per cent. The results were the same whether the participants walked indoors on a treadmill or outdoors in nature.
Try walking daily for 30 minutes in a 'green' environment such as a park for eight weeks. Research shows you'll sleep better and lower high blood pressure and stress levels. "Walking helps decrease the levels of the stress hormone cortisol," says Sonia.
Just 20 to 30 minutes of walking each day makes you 30 per cent less likely to pick up respiratory infections such as the common cold, say UK researchers. It's thought that walking helps the body flush bacteria out of the lungs and airways, which reduces the chance of getting airborne illnesses. Walking also causes white blood cells (the body's disease fighters) to circulate more rapidly and detect illness earlier.
How fast do I need to walk to reap the benefits?
Walking briskly is a wellbeing staple, but there can be some confusion around what qualifies as 'brisk'. Previous guidelines have said a brisk walk should increase our heart rate to around 70 per cent of its maximum, or a pace at which you can talk but not sing – though both definitions are hard to measure.
Thankfully a review of 38 recent, high quality studies has a new definition: A brisk walk requires around 100 steps per minute. Study author Catherine Tudor-Locke from the University of Massachusetts says this is a pace that "will probably not feel strenuous to most healthy people". Simply count how many steps you take in 10 seconds and multiply by six, or count how many steps you take in a single minute and skip the maths altogether.
Posture: Stand up straight, pelvis slightly tilted forward, knees soft, shoulders relaxed and eyes and chin forward. Bend your elbows to 90 degrees and keep them close to the body. Keep hands relaxed.
Take a step: Strike the ground first with your heel. Roll through the step from heel to toe. Push off with your toe.
Striding out: Avoid taking big strides, which can place too much load on your back. Instead, take comfortable, smaller steps. With each step, the arm opposite your forward foot comes straight forward and then back.
Stretch: After walking, stretch your lower back and legs, focusing on quads and calves, to avoid tight muscles.
M any people believe a good stroll still falls short of being a weight-loss tool, but with the right approach it can be. If you get serious about your stride and add on a few extra moves, you can turn it into a fat-burning exercise too. The secret, says strength and conditioning coach Travis Ronaldson, is to "look for ways to increase the difficulty of your walk and crank up your metabolism".
One way to do this is interval training, which research shows can produce bigger weight-loss results than the same amount of training at a steady pace. "As you're walking, stop and do a bodyweight exercise every five to 10 minutes – for example, 10 squats," says Travis."This will keep your heart rate elevated throughout your walk, increasing the overall kilojoules burned."
Sixty minutes of walking a day is the magic number if you're looking to slim down. "Remember, you don't have to do your walking all at once," explains Travis.
"If you're pressed for time, walking for 10 minutes, six times a day, is just as good as going for a 60-minute walk. If an hour isn't possible, 30 minutes every day has also been shown to benefit general health, weight loss, heart health and mental wellbeing."
If you haven't exercised regularly, then go slow. "Start off by walking three times a week, and increase from there, aiming to walk daily," tells Travis. "The more days you walk, the more activity you're completing, which in turn will assist with further weight loss."
If all of your walking happens on a treadmill, you'll need to make some adjustments. "Walking on the treadmill can be just as effective for weight loss as going for a walk outdoors – but you need to use the functions such as incline and speed," explains Travis.
"The trap people fall into on the treadmill is walking so slowly that they're not challenging their body at all. Up your pace and walk faster than you would on the pavement and set your incline to at least one per cent, throwing in 'hills' regularly."
Naturally, the faster you walk, the more kilojoules you'll burn. "If you can still talk, but are a little out of breath, you are walking at a great speed to maximise weight-loss potential," reveals Travis.
"Other cardio activities like running, swimming and fitness classes take all the glory for weight loss, but don't forget that vigorous walking for 30 minutes can burn upwards of 500kJ," he says. "Brisk walking also puts many people in the target fat-burning zone – when you are at 60 to 70 per cent of your maximum heart rate – making it an integral part of all weight-loss programs."
Walking uphill increases the amount of kilojoules you burn by up to 60 per cent, compared to walking on flat ground. "Changing your regular walking route to include hills immediately boosts the intensity of your walk," says Travis.
"Go off-road and hike a steeper incline or take the stairs at work." Invest in a heart-rate monitor to check you're not in cruise mode.
"Getting your heart rate up above 120bpm (beats per minute) will stimulate rapid kilojoule burning. You could also switch the surface to challenge your muscles – try sand, dirt tracks or grass."


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Brooklyn Book Launch: Humans of New York by Brandon Stanton
Tuesday Oct 22, 2013
Brandon will only sign copies of HUMANS OF NEW YORK purchased at our store – please save your receipt.
A photographic census of New York City and a beautiful, funny, and inspiring collection of images based on the blog with nearly a million loyal fans.
About HUMANS OF NEW YORK:
In the summer of 2010, photographer Brandon Stanton set out on an ambitious project: to single-handedly create a photographic census of New York City. Armed with his camera, he began crisscrossing the city, covering thousands of miles on foot, all in his attempt to capture ordinary New Yorkers in the most extraordinary of moments. The result of these efforts was "Humans of New York," a vibrant blog in which he featured his photos alongside quotes and anecdotes. The blog has steadily grown, now boasting nearly a million devoted followers. Impressively, Brandon has been photographing for only 3-and-a-half years.
HUMANS OF NEW YORK is the book inspired by the blog. With four hundred color photos, including exclusive portraits and all-new stories, and a distinctive vellum jacket, this book is a stunning collection of photography that will appeal not just to those who have been drawn in by the outsized personalities of New York, but to anyone interested in the breathtaking scope of humanity it honors.
Soulful and moving, HUMANS OF NEW YORK is a celebration of individuality and an ode to the spirit of a city.
BRANDON STANTON studied at the University of Georgia and worked as a bond trader in Chicago before founding "Humans of New York." He has appeared on the Today Show and in Vogue, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and the BBC. David Karp, the founder of Tumblr, called Humans of New York his favorite Tumblr blog. Brandon is also actively involved in fundraising and philanthropy. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit him at www.humansofnewyork.com.


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Aussie Broadband prepares for ASX listing
Expects to improve strategic, financial and management competencies
Samira Sarraf (Computerworld) 24 October, 2019 09:44
Brian Maher, Aussie Broadband
Credit: Aussie Broadband
Telecommunications provider Aussie Broadband has appointed Brian Maher as its new CFO as the company prepares to go public next year.
Maher joins from online real estate agent comparison service Local Agent Finder where he was chief financial officer and company secretary for the past three years. He has almost 30 years' experience across different industries having also worked for Suncorp Group, Health.com.au, KPMG and others.
Aussie Broadband managing director Phil Britt, who has been acting as CFO for the company, said Maher will bring strategic, financial and management competencies to Aussie Broadband.
"Brian is a great addition to our leadership team. He has a strong financial background, with extensive exposure to all business types including ASX, private equity, private company, professional services, high growth start-ups and not-for-profit," Britt said. "This appointment is crucial at a time of rapid growth and ahead of our IPO listing."
Maher said he looks forward to playing a role in the company's future development.
On 30 September the Australian Financial Review published news of the telco's intention to list in 2020.
The company soon confirmed its plans on its blog saying it is in the midst of a pre-IPO capital raising as it prepares for listing on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX).
"We're disappointed to see it [news of IPO] leaked, as that's not the way we do business – we prefer to be open and transparent once the deal is done," Britt said at the time.
"However, we're happy to confirm that this is the path Aussie Broadband is taking."
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The pre-IPO phase gives the company the capital to continue its strategy and bring more products and services to the market.
"To date, we have invested heavily from our own pockets and with a small amount of debt. We've built the business from 18,300 to 163,000 customers in under three years and I'm incredibly proud of what we have achieved," Britt said at the time.
"We've shown we can manage rapid growth and still maintain our service and experience. It's a model we intend to continue.
"Having access to $25 million in the bank certainly opens up possibilities for us to grow and expand. We have a comprehensive strategy that will be revealed over the coming months; this is just the first step," he added.
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BBI.B = multi-bagger in the making IMO
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Analyst estimates are for EPS +.19/share for 2009, and +.21 EPS for 2010 for a very tiny PE. Book value .463/share. A PE of even 10 should put the stock at $2.00.
Why I think the street has BBI.B all wrong and why I think it will be a multi-bagger (#s 1-7 taken from Q1 CC):
(1) Weak title lineup industry-wide hurt Q1. This has all drastically changed since May 2009. There is a false belief that competitive pressures from Netflix & Redbox is hurting blockbuster's results, but, for example, in Canada they have no significant by-mail nor vendor competitor (i.e. -- no Netflix nor Redbox) yet same-store sales were down roughly the same there as the USA. Biggest competitor was actually theatre itself in Q1 which saw all time record attendance up 14%, which is 3 million more people every week this year, with 7 films grossing $100 million+ a piece vs. just 2 films last year combined with weak rental titles in the quarter. Those blockbuster titles began to hit the rental stores in May and will continue throughout the rest of the year giving blockbuster a strong title lineup Q2 onward.
(2) Beginning in Q2, new "choose your own pricing" plans in the stores after testing for 12-18 months various pricing models has resulted in greater traffic in all markets.
(3) $200 mil reduction in SG&A expected in 2009 which includes renegotiated lower rents on real estate.
(4) Management expects the recession to positively impact sales as people based on historical recessions as new customers tend to "rediscover" the value of renting over time.
(5) 3,000 Blockbuster kiosks to be launched by end of 2009 that would have double the unit capacity of Redbox and may offer games.
(6) Weak dollar Q2 will help foreign operations. Q1 was hurt by the strong dollar.
(7) Q3 will have no olympics viewership to compete against this year.
(8) The BBI.B shares are much more attractively priced than the BBI shares which are identical in every which way and are entitled to the same exact earnings per share, potential dividends, and potential buyout premium. From Blockbuster's own website:
http://www.b2i.us/profiles/investor/QAForumView.asp?QAID=11204&GoTopage=1&BzID=553&sm_quote_field=BBI&Category=1398
What is the difference between BBI and BBI.B?
Blockbuster has two classes of common stock, both of which have voting rights: Class A, which is entitled to one vote per share, and Class B, which is entitled to two votes per share. Blockbuster's Class A common stock began trading on August 11, 1999, following Blockbuster's initial public offering. Blockbuster's Class B common stock began trading on October 14, 2004 in conjunction with Blockbuster's divestiture from Viacom. There is no difference between the two classes except for voting rights; they generally trade within a close price range of each other. There are, however, far more shares of Class A common stock outstanding, so most of the trading occurs in that class.
(9) Carl Icahn is on the board of directors and owns a big chunk of both classes of shares. A potential wild card is if he decides to try to wrestle for control of the company like he's done with so many other companies, the first thing he would likely buy are the BBI.B shares since they get double the votes yet are priced cheaper.
Conclusion -- IMO, BBI.B is going to smash analyst estimates over the next 1-3 quarters and explode.


Learn how to remove a part of your picture to make a transparent background in PowerPoint 2010.
Among PowerPoint 2010's newest and most magical abilities is the Remove Background option that lets you remove the background from an inserted picture. This can be a great feature if you want to remove a sky, a wall, any backdrop, or something else in a photograph so that the slide background shows through within the removed parts of the picture.
Before you start, we assume you already have a picture on your slide. It helps if the parts of the picture you want to remove are fairly different in color than the rest of the picture, although as you get more proficient with PowerPoint's Remove Background option, you will be able to work with more complicated compositions. Look at our sample picture, as shown in Figure 1 -- you will notice that the color of the sky is distinctly different than the rest of the picture.
Select the picture to display the Picture Tools Format tab (highlighted in red in Figure 2) of the Ribbon. Activate this tab by clicking on it -- locate the Adjust group which includes different options to remove the background from a selected picture. Now click the Remove Background button (highlighted in blue in Figure 2).
Note: The Picture Tools Format tab is a contextual tab. Contextual tabs are special tabs in the Ribbon that are not visible all the time -- they only make an appearance when you are working with a particular slide object which can be edited using special options.
You will see a selection box, indicated by the eight handles shown in Figure 3. Four of the eight handles in the selection box are corner handles. The other four are side handles. You use these handles to resize the selection box.
You have the new Background Removal tab on the Ribbon, highlighted in green in Figure 3 -- we will explain the options in this tab later within this tutorial.
The active slide within the Slides Pane will show a preview of the picture with the background areas removed, as shown highlighted in blue in Figure 3. Don't worry -- nothing is removed as yet -- this is just a preview.
Figure 4 shows a zoomed in part of the picture -- you can see that a major portion of the picture has been covered with a magenta overlay. This magenta overlay indicates the background areas to be removed. Only those areas that still show the original colors of the picture will be retained. Unfortunately, in this example you see that the man loses his head and both his palms as a part of the background removal.
You remove more areas by resizing the selection box smaller. Click on any of the handles and drag inside the picture area -- wait for a while for PowerPoint to add more magenta areas to your picture.
You retain areas by making the selection box larger. Click and drag any of the handles outwards – you can press the Ctrl key and drag any one of the four corner handles outwards to select all areas of the picture as shown in Figure 5, below. Notice that the selection indicated by the non-magenta areas is abysmal at this point of time, and that's OK since we will modify this further.
For simple pictures, this is all you need to do – and everything will be automatically selected. If you are happy with the results, go ahead and click the Keep Changes button within the Background Removal tab of the Ribbon. Alternatively, you can click anywhere on the slide outside the picture area to remove all magenta overlaid background areas of the selected picture. In our case, this approach does not work – and we explain how to fine-tune your selection next.
The second, and more involved option is to manually fine-tune the selection using the options within the Refine group of the Background Removal tab that you can see in Figure 6.
Mark Areas to Keep: Click this button and draw lines by dragging within the areas that you want retained in the picture. For some reason, diagonal, longer lines work better than horizontal or vertical lines. Lines you draw will be indicated with a plus label (see Figure 7). You can always undo your last few markings by pressing the Ctrl+Z keyboard shortcut.
Mark Areas to Remove: Click this button and draw lines by dragging to mark the areas you want to remove from the picture. Lines you draw will be indicated with a minus label (see Figure 7) -- again diagonal lines work better than horizontal or vertical lines. You can always undo your last few markings by pressing the Ctrl+Z keyboard shortcut.
Delete Mark: If you need to remove any of the plus or minus lines, click the Delete Mark button, and click on the line to remove it completely.
You will see how the Refine options influence the selection -- all areas to be removed have a magenta overlay that is updated dynamically, as shown in Figure 8, below.
If you want to start all over again or abandon the Background Removal process, click the Discard Changes button within the Close group in the Background Removal tab.
In the example on the left in Figure 9, you can see the picture with only the sky area removed, and towards the right, you can see the same picture with everything removed except the man. Compare it with Figure 1 above and see the difference.
Tip: The Remove Background works with pictures, as explained in this tutorial. In addition, this feature also works with any picture that is a fill for a shape.


It is no secret that art education in America is woefully underfunded. Students are no longer getting classroom time dedicated to learning and practicing art in its diverse forms, despite the fact it is extensively documented to improve the well-being of students in a wide variety of ways. We here at PhotoWings are troubled by the erosion of arts in the classroom, and believe photography is a great avenue to reintroduce this important component to a well-rounded education.
Unlike painting or sculpting or other artistic mediums, photography has a low threshold to entry, both in terms of material cost and familiarity. Most high school students have smartphones, and that percentage is getting closer to one hundred all the time — from 2011 to 2012 the number of students using them increased a whopping 60%. And with smartphones comes built-in cameras of acceptable, if not "top-of-the-line," quality. Students may not be carrying around canvases and paintbrushes and paints in their backpacks everyday, but they do have cameras in their pockets. And they are using them. A lot. As of 2 years ago, more than half of teenagers used some type of social networking platform (a number which has surely increased markedly since), with Facebook, Tumblr, and Instagram clocking in first, second, and third. It goes without saying that social networks in general, and these in particular, are built around the sharing of images. Which is all to say that it would be relatively low cost and pedagogically "easy" (aside: teaching is difficult, period, and teachers deserve utmost respect for the work they do) to create arts curriculum around an activity most students already have the hardware for and the inclination to do.
Take, for example, the above video from Cooperative of Photography on image composition using the photographs of Steve McCurry. In three minutes, the video covers a great deal of ground, exposing its audience to a variety of concepts fundamental to competent visual literacy, an aptitude which becomes more and more important every day. Further, our PhotoWings interview with renowned photo-documentarian Jason Eskanzi delves into these same issues of visual literacy in a more advanced way, using his photographs to talk about how images convey complex stories.
Photography is a powerful tool for education in a variety of ways for a variety of reasons. How might you utilize photography in the context of creating an arts curriculum?


Urban oasis at its best! The Capri Oasis Pasig is simply amazing! This medium-rise condominium development project, named after an island, Capri, off Italy's Gulf of Naples which is known for its rugged terrain and beautifully landscaped and high-end beach-resort. Just like its namesake, the Capri Oasis Pasig is a fertile community and Italian-themed architecture that seems to grow and nurture itself into a more productive and enjoyable enclave. Though with upscale amenities, the project is very affordable and not difficult to possess. The medium-rise, resort inspired condo community is located along Dr. Sixto Antonio Ave., Pasig City. This area is one of Pasig's most important economic and residential zones primarily contributing much to the local economy. Its proximity to the cities of Makati, San Juan and Taguig and the town of Cainta in Rizal is a great opportunity for a growing family where work, school and other point of interest are confined. If you live at the Capri Oasis, you are probably here by now!
The residential community development is composed of 6 towers in clusters creating an image of a fortified stronghold, with each building having 5 residential floors while total units is approximately 693. The elegant units have sizes ranging from 22 to 57sqm of floor area. Residential units have 4 classifications, namely, the Studio, 1-BR, 2-BR and 3-BR residential units that come with living, dining and kitchen areas while ach unit has 1 T&B. The units have finished and painted walls and ceilings and selected units have balconies with an awesome view of the horizon therein. The amenities are stunning, such as the Clubhouse with function area, swimming pool, kiddie pool, fitness gym, wellness hub, basketball court, children's playground, play area, landscaped gardens and parks. The project is enclosed by a perimeter fence that secures well the occupants and their precious belongings, the entrance gate is truly enthralling with round-the-clock security.
Schools surround the area, the likes of St. Paul College Pasig, La Immaculada Concepcion School, Poveda School, Ateneo de Manila Pasig and Miriam College, La Salle Greenhills, APEC School Pateros, and St. Gabriel International School, PSBA and UP- Diliman, among others. The site is also close to these hospitals, namely, Pasig General Hospital, the Alfonso Specialist Hospital, Sabater General Hospital, SAA Health Care, Mary Infant General Hospital, Pasig City Children's Hospital, Mary Immaculate Hospital and Tricity Medical Center, to name a few.
Discover that you don't have to go far to have your leisure, entertainment and shopping is not too far as there are several of these near the Capri Oasis Pasig, which include the Wack Wack Golf and Country Club, the Valley Golf Club, Frontera Verde, Sta. Lucia East Grand Mall, Robinson's Galeria, the Ortigas Business Center, St. Francis Square, Tiendesitas, Greenhills Shopping Center, SM Megamall and Ever Gotesco Mall.
Filinvest Capri Oasis in Pasig City, Philippines is a premier Condo project available for sale. If you're looking to rent or purchase Capri Oasis, then check here first. We have full details of Capri Oasis updated regularly as well as everything you need to know about the availing and booking process, broken down into stages that includes selecting a unit, choosing a payment plan and buying your dream home at the right price. For price list, free site tripping or showroom visit, personalized service, model house, unit plans, floor plans, payment terms, CHAT LIVE with an agent 24x7. We are Remax Perfect Homes. Always only buy from PRC licensed Real Estate Brokers and Agents.


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Norman Krasna (Queens, 7 de novembro de 1909 - Los Angeles, 1 de novembro de 1984) foi roteirista, dramaturgo, produtor e cineasta estadunidense. Ele ganhou um Oscar de melhor roteiro original pelo filme Sua Alteza Quer Casar (1943). Krasna recebeu indicações ao Oscar por três outros roteiros - A Pequena Mais Rica do Mundo em 1934, Fúria de Fritz Lang em 1936 e O Diabo É a Mulher em 1941.

Ligações externas
Norman Krasna (em inglês) no IMDb

Nascidos em 1909
Mortos em 1984
Naturais do Queens
Roteiristas dos Estados Unidos
Cineastas dos Estados Unidos
Produtores de cinema dos Estados Unidos
Premiados com o Oscar de melhor roteiro original

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Alan Robertovich Khugayev (; born 31 August 1991) is a Russian football player who plays for FC Ufa.

Club career
He made his debut in the Russian Football National League for FC Alania Vladikavkaz on 1 August 2020 in a game against FC SKA-Khabarovsk, as a starter.

International career
He represented Abkhazia national football team in several CONIFA competitions.

References

External links

 Profile by Russian Football National League

1991 births
Sportspeople from Vladikavkaz
Living people
Russian footballers
Association football midfielders
FC Dynamo Stavropol players
FC Spartak Vladikavkaz players
FC Mashuk-KMV Pyatigorsk players
FC Ufa players
Russian First League players
Russian Second League players