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List of Organic Ingredients
Kenrico Sap Sheet has consecutively achieved the position of 'Number One Seller' 21 times in Japan since 1990. Invented after years of medical research by the inventor Suzuki, M.D (Pharmacologist, Kenrico) and Nurman S (Biophysical Scientist, Kenrico), our Sap Sheet is developed and manufactured based on the patented toxins cleansing technology (patent 8,317,762 - Sap Sheet or Detox Pads) with the finest, top grade ingredients available.
Organic ingredients are processed and manufactured by Kenrico utilizing patented extraction method of sporopollenin (exine and shell extraction derived from patent 7182965, 4485940, 03720506.09). The patented extraction method is the first and the only manufacturing method in this century that transforms the organic ingredients into active ingredients with potent toxin binding and curing properties in Sap Sheet.
The following is the complete list of first grade ingredients that undergoes processing with the patented extraction method. A varied combination of these active ingredients with toxin binding and curing properties is used to make our 18 different types of Kenrico Sap Sheet.
Ubame Oak from Kyushu Island, Japan. The only oak that yields first grade vinegars.
Source: Ubame Oak (Quercus Phillyraeoides)
Ubame Oak, Quercus phillyraeoides, is placed in the furnace and heated up to 250 degrees Celsius. The smoke is then condensed into the vinegar. The next step is to filter the vinegar at least 5 times, to obtain maximum purity. It is then stored for 6 months to mature. The middle layer of the vinegar is then filtered off and used in the finished product.
To obtain the powder, the vinegar is then again heated, condensed, and then dried with a special drying machine before our quality inspection is performed. This process yields a very high concentrate extract with an extremely high level of purity.
Wood vinegar is known to be able to improve our blood circulation. This improved circulation can lead to relief from fatigue, headache, double vision, blood pressure, arthritis, and many other similar symptoms.
Pseudosasa Japonica, native arrow bamboo from Shikoku Island, Japan.
Source: Arrow Bamboo (Pseudosasa Japonica)
Arrow bamboo, Pseudosasa Japonica, is placed into the furnace and is heated up to 250 degrees Celsius. The smoke is then condensed into the vinegar. The next step is to filter the vinegar at least 5 times, to obtain purity. As with the wood vinegar it is then stored for 6 months to reach maturity. The middle layer of this vinegar is again used in the finished product.
To obtain the powder, the vinegar is then again heated, condensed, and then dried with a special drying machine before our quality inspection is performed. This process yields a very high concentrate extract with an extremely high level of purity.
Bamboo vinegar is said to have double the effect of the wood vinegar. This is due to its rarity. Bamboo vinegar costs almost twice as much as wood vinegar to manufacture.
Processed mushroom chitosan from Kikugawa, Shizuoka in Japan.
Source: Mushroom (From March 1st, 2009)
Chitosan is the result of the biomass research; in the old days it was extracted from the shell of a 'crab shrimp'. Kenrico Sap Sheet utilizes chitosan processed from organic mushroom in accordance to its organic standard. Chitosan products have been used now for over 30 years by water companies to trap toxins, grease, heavy metals, and oils. It is the second most plentiful fibre, after cellulose. Chitosan products are also used extensively by the medical profession due to their remarkable ability to promote wound healing to injuries such as burns and skin inflammation.
Extensive studies have also been carried out to determine its fat binding properties. The results found it to lower LDL, bad cholesterol by 6%, and enhance the HDL, good cholesterol by 10%. Mushroom chitosan has also been successfully marketed as a weight loss supplement.
Dokudami leaves from the herbal garden in Kanaya, Shizuoka
Source: Houttuynia cordata
This plant is native to Japan, Java and Nepal, and is found at altitudes of over 6200 feet. It has been proved to contain a variety of flavoids, flavonoid glycosides (afzerin, quercitrin, isoquercitrin) and pyridine alkaloids. Its essential oil was found to consist mainly of decanal (capry aldehyd), dodecanal (lauryl aldehyd) and 2-hendecanon (methyl nonyl ketone). It has been recognized for generations for its strong absorption properties.
Eriobotrya Japonica, selected from a local farm in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka.
Source: Loquat leaf (Eriobotrya Japonica)
re is over 3000 years of history behind 'muxibustion therapies' and this leaf has been used extensively in Buddhist medicine for centuries. In India, it is widely used to treat many conditions, resulting in it being crowned the king of all herbal medicines.
The Loquat leaf contains malic acid, tartaric acid, citric acid, tannate, carotene, vitamins A, B and C. Its leaves and kernel contain amygdalin, otherwise known as vitamin B17, or laetrile. It is known because of its ability to promote the secretion of body fluids and it also has antitussive, expectorant, antiemetic properties.
Fresh oranges from orange & grapefruit farm in Mikkabi, here in Shizuoka.
Source: Orange
It has long been known that human beings do not produce ascorbic acid (vitamin C). Therefore, we need to have a regular intake of this vitamin to maintain optimum health.
- Below is the action of Vitamin C:
- Increases HDL (high density lipoprotein) production. (HDL is able to help absorb fat located in plaque. In the process it changes from a disc shape to a globular form of HDL, and takes this fat to the liver to be burned.)
- Decreases the production of lipoprotein (a). Our liver knows that when there is plenty of ascorbate on board, there is no need for high levels of lipoprotein (a) which is, after all, a repair factor for the cracks in blood vessel walls which come up in the absence of sufficient ascorbate.)
- Down-regulates cholesterol and triglyceride production in the liver.
- Lowers blood sugar and insulin requirements.
- By relaxing the blood vessel walls, lowers blood pressure when hypertension is present.
- Inhibits inappropriate intravascular clot formation (the final and sometimes deadly event in cases of heart attacks and strokes).
Corn fiber from domestic corn.
Source: Corn (corn fiber)
Vegetable fibre is used to prolong the lifetime of the sap sheet. Its fibre prevents ingredients from hardening due to factors such as humidity.
Tourmaline sourced from Hokkaido Island, Japan.
Source: Tourmaline (semi-precious stone)
Tourmaline is a very popular gemstone and collectors mineral. It exists in all colours, and the multicoloured stones are unsurpassed in splendour. Tourmaline is both pyroelectric and piezoelectric. If a specimen is put under pressure, or a temperature change, it will generate an electrical charge.
Tourmaline comes from the Sinhalese word Turamali, which was given to mixtures of unidentified gem gravels in Ceylon, now known Sri Lanka. Tourmaline exerts a cleansing and liberating energy upon our entire nervous system, promoting a clearing and stabilizing effect. Tourmaline is best known as one of the only minerals to emit far infrared heat and negative ions. For further reading on far infrared and negative ions, please visit here.
Amethyst sourced from Hokkaido Island, Japan.
Source: Amethyst stone
Cool and relaxing, amethyst is a stone of psychic power. It helps promote meditation, peace, tranquillity and a oneness with your spirituality. It enhances and strengthens the powers of the bearer and helps to attune with the higher self, dispelling fears, heightening intuition and helping to embrace your own intuitive wisdom.
In ancient times it was said to be protection against poison. Amethyst, similar to Tourmaline, is a negative ion, which exerts a cleansing and liberating energy upon our entire nervous system, promoting a clearing and stabilizing effect. Amethyst is also said to be a stone of sobriety, and can help the user become free of addictive tendencies.
Our Zeolite is sourced from Hokkaido island, Japan.
Source: Processed Zeolite stone (patent 36508)
Processed Zeolite, ZEO, (patent 36508) is invented by Dr. Sato from Kenrico LTD in 2005 that has been proven to detoxify toxins (heavy metals) from human body. The processed Zeolite also has been tested in a laboratory environment to effectively reduced the speed of the oxidation on human cells and may offer some effectiveness for the anti-aging treatment.
Our Diatomaceous Earth is sourced from Okinawa island, Japan.
Source: Diatomaceous Earth
Diatomaceous Earth is a powerful and natural absorbing agent. Diatomaceous earth can generally absorb up to 100% of its own weight in liquid and still exhibit the properties of dry powder. In fact, it's absorbent qualities make it useful for spill cleanup (the U.S. Center for Disease Control actually recommends it to clean up toxic liquid spills). Diatomaceous earth is a natural occurring siliceous sedimentary mineral compound, and has a soft, chalk-like feel to it.
Agaricus mushroom sourced from mountainous farm near the Oigawa river in Shizuoka, Japan.
Source: Agaricus mushroom (Hime Matsutake)
Agaricus Blazei Murrill (Hime-matsutake) is a newly discovered species of mushroom that is attracting the attention of many scientists around the world. Artificial cultivation of this mushroom was achieved for the first time by the Iwaide Fungology Institute, by Dr. Inosuke Iwaide, a professor at Tokyo and Mie Universities, after much trial and error.
This mushroom was presented by professors Hitoshi Ito, Keishiro Shimura and Sensuke Naruse, of the mushroom research group at Mie University medical school, as the highlight at the " 39th General Meeting of Japanese Cancer Academy" in 1980, and is still attracting scientific attention today. Agaricus Blazei Murrill is known to have an anticancer effect and promotes homeostasis. It is also known to be able to relieve diabetes and allergic diseases.
Fresh grapefruit from orange & grapefruit farm in Mikkabi, Shizuoka.
Source: Grapefruit extract
Grapefruit contains pectin, a soluble fibre, which reduces the rate of entry of carbohydrates into your bloodstream, thereby, lowering insulin secretion. Grapefruit and other citrus fruits also protect against cancer. In Japanese studies, grapefruit extract stopped tumour growth after it was injected under the skin of mice. The researchers concluded that the humble grapefruit is a 'remarkable anti-mutagen', a substance that reverses cellular changes that eventually lead to the division and growth of cancer cells.
Grapefruit used in the sap sheet can also be used for aromatherapy. Aromatherapy is the use of scent items for the harmony and well-being of the body, mind, and spirit. It has both physical and psychological benefits and is used as a holistic treatment. The scent of grapefruit promotes feminine properties; soothes, cleanses and tones; benefits nervous system; uplifts the spirit and helps maintain self-confidence.
Fresh cut raspberries.
Source: Raspberry extract
The raspberry extract soothes, restores and uplifts human spirit; excellent for refreshing tired head and feet.
High grade Lavender from our local herb garden.
Source: Lavender extract
The Lavender extract relaxes, soothes, restores and balances the nervous system; excellent for refreshing tired muscles, feet and head and useful during the cold season.
Fresh cut and ground Cayenne. We use cayenne native to Shizuoka, here in Japan.
Source: Chili peppers
Cayenne pepper, also called Capsicum frutescens, is a stimulating herb made from the dried pods of the chilli pepper and is well known for its pungent taste and smell. Cayenne is a popular spice used in many different regional styles of cooking, but it has also been used medicinally for thousands of years. Cayenne is often referred to as chilli, which is the Aztec name for cayenne pepper.
The main medicinal properties of cayenne are derived from a chemical called capsaicin. Capsaicin is the ingredient which gives peppers their HEAT. A pepper's capsaicin content ranges from 0-1.5%. Peppers are measured according to heat units. The degree of heat determines the peppers' usage and value. Generally, the hotter the pepper, the more capsaicin it contains. In addition to adding heat to the pepper, capsaicin acts to reduce platelet stickiness and relieve pain. Other constituents of cayenne are vitamins E, vitamin C and carotenoids.
Today, cayenne is used worldwide to treat a variety of health conditions, including poor circulation, weak digestion, heart disease, chronic pain, sore throats, headaches and toothache.
Milk Thistle sourced from the herb garden in Yaizu, in the Shizuoka province.
Source: Milk Thistle (Silybum Marianum)
Milk thistle (Silybum Marianum) has been used as a tonic herb for the liver for over 2000 years. The plant itself can be found in Northern Japan, Europe and Northern Africa. Milk thistle is best known as a producer of liver protector known as silymarin; a group of milk thistle flavonoids - silybinin, silychristin, silydianin and isosilybinin.
Silymarin may prevent liver infection and dysfunction suitable for recovering alcoholics. It also reduces damage to liver cells caused by chronic use of certain prescription drugs. The silybin component of sillymarin has been related to cholesterol-lowering effects.
Sylimarin may also help prevent or alleviate gallstones and inflammatory conditions (psoriasis). German Commission E approved the use of milk thistle for liver damage, inflammatory liver disease, and cirrhosis.
Our high quality organic green tea from the Shizuoka green tea farm.
Source: Japanese Green Tea (Gyokuro)
Our organic Japanese green tea is directly harvested from the organic green tea farm here in the Shizuoka province.
The best, highest grade and most expensive of Japanese green tea, Gyokuro, is made only with the earliest leaf buds of the spring harvest. The tea is grown under shade cover (using reed or straw screens) for 20 days before harvesting begins. The tea was first discovered by Yamamotoyama's sixth owner, Yamamoto Kahei, in 1835 in Japan.
Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), found in the special edition patches (CCi), is at least 100 more times more effective than vitamin C, and 25 times more effective than vitamin E at protecting cells and DNA from damage believed to be linked to cancer, heart disease and other serious illnesses. This antioxidant has twice the benefits of resveratrol, which can be found in red wine.
Recent studies also suggest that the green tea catechins are also directly related to reductions in body fat. Weight is gained as excessive sugars and fats are stored in the body as 'fat' cells. Green tea catechins can help prevent obesity by inhibiting the movement of glucose within the fat cells. The Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), contained in the green tea, has been found to be especially effective in fighting this increasingly alarming battle against excessive weight gain.
Freshest and highest grade cinnamon from herb graden in Shizuoka, Japan.
Source: Cinnamon
Cinnamon, found in the hot pink edition WRX-2i, can improve glucose and cholesterol levels in the blood. The effect is highly beneficial for people with type 2 diabetes, and those fighting high cholesterol.
Researchers have shown that cinnamon extracts can improve both cholesterol and glucose, and in fact, further confirmed by the clinical studies. Clinical study conducted on 60 man and woman found that ALL the patients had better triglyceride levels in their 40-day tests -- between 23% to 30% reductions. Blood cholesterol levels also went down, ranging from 13% to 26% reductions. Whether we have diabetes or not, cinnamon should be part of our daily use.
- Further studies confirmed the positive effect of Cinnamon towards human health:
- Blood sugar reduction 1
- Blood sugar reduction 2
- Cure hypertension
- Tumor care
- Clinical study on WRX-2 patches (lifestyle & blood analysis)
Japanese Ginseng is sourced from the herb garden in Yaizu, in the Shizuoka province, Japan.
Source: Japanese Ginseng (Panax Japonicum)
anax japonicus are used as a folk medicine for treatment of life-style related diseases such as arteriosclerosis, hyperlipidemia, hypertension and non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus as a substitute for ginseng roots in Japan.
The present study clearly indicated that the saponin fractions of P. japonicus rhizomes had a significant anti-obesity action and supports the traditional usage as a substitute drug for ginseng roots.
Japanese Seaweed from Okinawa island, Japan.
Source: Japanese Seaweed (Laminaria digitata and Undaria pinnatifida)
This may seem surprising - that such a humble and common class of plants could offer us very much in terms of health. A team at Saga University in Japan found that a chemical in seaweed was three times more effective than a conventional flu remedy. Japanese seaweed can lower cholesterol and improve blood flow and are showing very promising results in modern science. The people of Okinawa Island in Japan regularly live to 100 and are renowned for their healthy hearts and low cholesterol. Ever-popular in health spas, Japanese seaweed baths' therapeutic value in easing weary bodies has been acknowledged for hundreds of years.
Japanese Konjac from the herbal garden in Kanaya, Shizuoka.
Source: Japanese Konjac (Konjac-Mannan Glucomannan)
Glucomannan offers benefits for those seeking to lose weight. Studies show that Glucomannan enhances the weight-loss effects of a calorie-restricted diet. Glucomannan may promote weight loss in obese adults, even in the absence of a calorie-restricted diet. Glucomannan also reduces blood fats, discourages weight gain, helps to keep blood sugar levels normal, and relieves constipation.
Clinical studies confirm that glucomannan lowers cholesterol-both total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol-without affecting diastolic blood pressure. In one double-blind trial, ten days of treatment with Glucomannan returned the bowel habits of patients with chronic constipation to normal. Another study showed that patients given either 3 or 4 grams daily noted an average increase of three and six more bowel movements per week, respectively, without additional diarrhea or flatulence.
Sourced from the herbal garden in Kanaya, Shizuoka.
Source: Peppermint (Mentha Piperita)
Peppermint is sometimes regarded as 'the world's oldest medicine', with archaeological evidence placing its use at least as far back as ten thousand years ago. Peppermint seems to be fairly effective at relieving irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a collection of symptoms that includes abdominal cramping and pain, bloating, constipation, and diarrhea. Topical application of peppermint helps relieve tension headaches and can help with recurrent indigestion.
Fresh organic Dandelion ready for harvest. Planted in the herbal garden in Kanaya, Shizuoka.
Source: Dandelion (Taraxacum officinalis)
The medicinal and nutritional uses for the dandelion are the main reasons why there are so many dandelions today. Dandelions have been purposely cultivated and widely used throughout history. The Celts introduced it to the Roman legions when Caesar invaded the north. The Anglo-Saxons and the Normans used it to prevent scurvy (vitamin C deficiency) and monastery gardens used it for both food and medicine in the Middle Ages.
Dandelions are also thought to be effective in helping to ease the ailments of many other conditions including herpes, genital warts, and even obesity. Studies on both rats and humans that involved injecting them with dandelion have resulted in them losing up to 30% of their body weight.
Organic Black Haw sourced from Okinawa island, Japan.
Source: Black haw (Viburnum prunifolium)
As an herbal remedy, the strong astringent and anti-spasmodic effects of the black haw are used specifically in the treatment of pain associated with the menstrual cycle in affected women. It has a long history of use by Native and pioneer women to prevent threaten miscarriage, relieve uterine cramps, painful periods or menstrual discomfort, ease symptoms of menopause. In addition, it has been used to lower blood pressure in hypertension and as an anti-spasmodic the treatment of asthma.
Superb quality of organic Fennel harvested from the herbal garden in Kanaya, Shizuoka.
Source: Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare)
Fennel's medicinal uses include reducing gas discomfort, cramps, bloating and more -- and it can be a useful addition to the diet of those sufferings from stomach problems. It is recommended for numerous complaints related to excessive gas in the stomach and intestines, including indigestion, cramps, and bloating, as well as for colic in infants.
The most popular herb, organic Licorice is grown in the herbal garden in Kanaya, Shizuoka.
Source: Licorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra)
Licorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra) is a flavorful herb that has been used in food and medicinal remedies for thousands of years. Licorice root has been used in both Eastern and Western medicine to treat a variety of illnesses ranging from the common cold to liver disease. This herb has long been valued as a demulcent (soothing, coating agent) and expectorant (rids phlegm and mucous from the respiratory tract) and continues to be used by health care professionals today to relieve respiratory ailments (such as allergies, bronchitis, colds, sore throats, and tuberculosis), stomach problems (including heartburn from reflux), inflammatory disorders, skin diseases, stress relief, and liver problems.
Medicinal Aloe from Okinawa island, Japan during extraction process.
Source: Aloe Vera
Aloe Vera, also known as Medicinal Aloe is frequently used in herbal medicine due to its rejuvenating, healing and soothing properties. Aloe Vera is reputed to be effective in the treatment of wounds and has antibacterial and antifungal activities.
Freshly cut ginger from our herbal garden in Kanaya, Shizuoka.
Source: Ginger (Zingiber officinale)
Health care professionals commonly recommend ginger to help prevent or treat nausea and vomiting associated with motion sickness, pregnancy, and cancer chemotherapy. Ginger is also used as a digestive aid for mild stomach upset, as support in inflammatory conditions such as arthritis, and may even be used in heart disease or cancer.
Our Arnica is sourced from the herb garden in Yaizu, in the Shizuoka province.
Source: Arnica
Arnica has been used medicinally for centuries. Arnica is used topically for a wide range of conditions, including bruises, sprains, muscle aches, wound healing, superficial phlebitis, rheumatic pain, inflammation from insect bites, and swelling due to fractures. Homeopathic preparations are also used to treat sore muscles, bruises, and other conditions caused by overexertion or trauma.
Domestic corn and corn flour before undergoing further processing.
Source: Corn flour
Dextrin is a product of starch hydrolysis, a carbohydrate having the same general molecular structure as starch but with a smaller and less complex molecule with adhesive properties. Its presence is necessary in our Sap Sheets as a filler, and also to bind other ingredients together. Beware of claims for Sap Sheet made without dextrin, as this is misleading. Without dextrin, Sap Sheets will not work, like a car running without tyres. However, keeping the amount of dextrin low in the Sap Sheet is the best way to achieve optimum results.
Sap sheets with high amounts of dextrin, and with low amounts of vinegar, gives less benefit and poor results, although the smell of the vinegar is less pungent.


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Local Asshole Now Local Asshole With Blog: The Twisted Brain Wrong of a One-Off Man-Mental
Sunday, July 22, 2012
In Bohumil Hrabal's Too Loud a Solitude
a man holds a knife to the narrator's neck
and launches into a poetry reading, then
apologises, explaining it's the only way
he can make people listen to his work.
Listening to your work, by contrast, I feel
I've got the village flasher instead, who,
having opened a raincoat on his baby-bird-
on-a-nest of a little pink winky, proceeds
to wave it in my face for a good half an hour.
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Regardless, it's remarkable for a veteran of the oil patch to echo the Left's assertion that "America is addicted to oil." It could be said, instead, that American consumers are inclined to use the lowest cost source of energy to meet their energy needs. Not to put too fine a point on it, but it's ridiculous to call that sensible inclination an "addiction."
The president is of course right to point out that a lot of oil comes from unstable parts of the world. Producer instability, however, is not necessarily a good reason to abandon oil. We can either have low-cost energy that occasionally spikes in price because of producer instability, or persistently high-cost energy that is less subject to disruption. It is not altogether obvious that the latter is economically preferable to the former.
President Bush began his energy riff by noting that since 2001, the federal government has spent nearly $10 billion on "cleaner, cheaper, more reliable alternative energy sources." Perhaps, but what do we have to show for it? Nothing. The market share for non-hydro renewable energy (presumably what the president is referring to when he talks about "reliable alternative energy sources") has languished between 1 and 3 percent for decades, depending upon how you define your terms.
Still, past spending was offered as a rationale for a 22-percent increase in funding for "zero-emission" coal-fired plants, solar and wind technologies, and nuclear energy. Fuel from corn, weeds, grass, mulch, trees, and whatever else the combines can harvest were also given a tip of the president's budgetary hat. For the most part, everybody who's already getting a federal energy handout will get a little larger sack of taxpayer loot if the president has his way.
Most annoying was the president's contention that "we must also change how we power our automobiles." Who exactly is "we"? Automobile engineers employed by automobile companies - not politicians employed by government - are the parties responsible for designing automobiles, and it should stay that way. Government funded R&D projects to redesign the power train are nothing new. Success in any one of them, however, would be.
The worst aspect of those programs isn't just that they waste taxpayer dollars or that they subsidize research that should be paid for by auto companies themselves. Rather, it's that they divert investment from more productive paths. For instance, while the Clinton administration was engaged in a similar undertaking called "The Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles" and producing nothing of consequence, Japanese auto companies - without significant government help - were busy designing the hybrid powered engines that are now all the rage within the auto industry. Had Detroit not gone down the road paved by a government subsidy, it might be in a better position today to produce the kind of cars the president now hopes to subsidize.
According to the president, the ultimate objective of these subsidies is to "replace more than 75 percent of our oil imports from the Middle East by 2025." But such a goal would be economically meaningless unless we completely isolated ourselves from world markets: no imports and no exports.
One might conclude that the president felt politically compelled to offer a lot of rhetorical nonsense about energy but is not inclined to back it up with any meaningful (read, "ruinous") government action. Alternatively, one might conclude that President Bush embraces some very wrongheaded ideas about energy and is seriously deluded about what it might take to translate those ideas into reality. Neither conclusion, however, will give comfort to those who wish that some politician somewhere would make the case for allowing capitalism to govern energy markets.


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TNA, the New World Order and the Internet of ThingsTo countless historical researchers, many of them family historians and genealogists, to suggest a connection between the UK's National Archives and the New World Order (NWO) would seem far-fetched, even outlandish, always assuming they had even heard of the NWO. However, such a connection does exist and the disbelievers can now be challenged and informed.
Global warming hits the British Isles (2 Dec 2010)
The connection has been appearing over several years and SQA has blogged it at intervals. We have observed the influence of the EU's Malvine Project, TNA's dabblings in Iraq, opaque organisational changes at TNA including a reduction in opening hours and TNA's advocacy of fewer record offices and their replacement by regional offices. More recently TNA has associated itself with the NWO's global warmism ideology, although this has been debunked by the revelations of Climategate.
Add to this the dumbing-down of history and teaching noted by Professor Frank Furedi, sustained and condescending attacks on Britain's achievements, illustrated most recently by Prime Minister David Cameron's apparently deliberate comment that Britain was a junior partner to the USA in 1940 despite the fact the USA only joined the Second World War in December 1941, we have a combination of propaganda, disinformation, lies, manipulation and deception on the one hand and cultural vandalism on the other.
An important part of the complex NWO strategy requires the EU (a regional part of the NWO), the puppet UK government and all NWO national agencies including TNA, to undermine national identity and people's ability to analyse and critique historical and cultural evidence (and therefore understand their identity), through dumbing-down. The outcome of this is that the general public can be socially engineered to accept the NWO. It is very sad that as a promoter of Who Do You Think You Are, TNA is simultaneously working against national identity.
The latest cause for concern is the involvement of TNA in plans for governments throughout the world to turn the World Wide Web into a global database delving into all of our electronic transactions and each and every use of equipment, machinery and "objects" or "things" generally, hence the "Internet of Things", whether these "things" are vacuum cleaners, cars, computers or trees, linked to the Internet. TNA is given as the UK representative organisation on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), acting through the Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI).
OPSI states "we want all data in one place, but we also want it to be decentralised" i.e. they aim that data should be controlled centrally by NWO but in such a way it can be drawn-down from the NWO Internet of Things for intrusive and monitoring use. Thus TNA is fully participating in the creation of a global database and Internet of Things which will enable monitoring of all human activities and active, interventionist control of all aspects of human activity.
It is sad and alarming that archives preservation, even digital preservation, now amounts to an active intervention in the dismantling of accountable government and parliamentary government. What would Sir Hilary Jenkinson make of this?
Further reading
MLA web site on Fewer, Bigger, Better: the government's consultation on future archives provision
Linking data using Semantic Web technology, John Sheridan, OPSI, March 2009 click here
Internet of Things — An action plan for Europe (Access to European Law) 2009 click here
Internet of Things, Europa Summaries of EU Legislation click here
Explanation of Climategate for Dummies by Alex Jones click here
The Internet of Things courtesy PrisonPlanet and YouTube and here
Dr. Tim Ball on the hacked CRU emails courtesy of YouTube click here
UN security staff suppress debate on Climategate courtesy of YouTube see here
Lord Monckton's blog in full, Science and Public Policy Institute web site click here
The objective is greatly to empower and still more greatly to enrich the international classe politique at the expense of the peoples of the West, using the climate as a pretext, so as to copy the European Union by installing in perpetuity what some delegates here are calling "transnational perma-Socialism" beyond the reach or recall of any electorate.
Lord Monckton of UKIP, Cancun Conference, 2010
Labels: Scam NWO Climategate Global Warming The National Archives Alex Jones Lord Monckton Cancun Conference Internet of Things


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In addition to the St. Louis Zoo, the park supports a number of open spaces. Take a walk around the Emerson Grand Basin and head up the hill to the Saint Louis Art Museum.
The art museum sits atop Art Hill, and is worth walking by, even if you don't have time to stop inside.
A large, bronze statue of Saint Louis adorns the patio and looks over a collection of lakes and several fanciful bridges.
The art museum itself contains more than 33,000 objects from ancient Egypt to the present. If you are short on time, find a map and hit the highlights.
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My hands were shaking uncontrollably, but it wasn't from the fear. I knew that below me was an almost 1km drop down to the bottom of the fjord. But the swirling mists hid the valley floor from view. Turns out it's hard to imagine plummeting to your death if you can't actually see the point of impact.
Yet my hands shook anyway. They shook from the bone-deep cold that had mastered my body. They were so numb that it was a strain to pull off each glove. But the gloves had to go.
I had flown halfway around the world and trekked several hours to reach this point. And it hadn't been a pleasant hike either, oh no.
But if I wanted to climb onto Kjeragbolten – the famous little boulder suspended midair – to grab the glory shot everyone comes here for, I needed to get a grip.
I needed to get the blood back into my palms, the strength into my fingertips and the fear out of my head to make that final leap of faith onto a precarious rock dangling over a seemingly bottomless abyss…
Kjeragbolten. It's a 5 cubic metre boulder wedged in a crevasse in the mountain Kjerag in a quiet corner of Norway. Alone, it's hardly exceptional. But place yourself on top, with a view of the steep drop below, and you look pretty bad-arse.
Even if you're not a bad-arse and you'd rather not risk your life for a photo, the views of Lysefjord from here are pretty damn stunning.
A guided hiking tour to Kjerag
Kjerag isn't an easy hike. Nor is it close to town (it's a 2-3 hour drive from Stavanger). For these two reasons, I opted to go there with an awesome tour company, Outdoorlife Norway, which runs regular hiking trips out to Kjerag.
I was there in July – peak season – yet we had just a small group of hikers: a Russian couple with virtually no hiking experience, a solo female Dutch traveller, and myself. Perfect.
After our pick up in Stavanger, we drove out through beautiful countryside – steep, round hills and gentle lakes. The shrubbery gradually disappeared, leaving nothing but terrestrials and moss. Then came the patches of snow and a thick mist that clung to the landscape.
The Kjerag car park seemed a bleak place, abandoned by hikers who had the sense to wait it out till the weather looked a little more optimistic. An American-Norwegian park official laughed at our chances of clear views and assured us that our clothes and boots were appropriate.
"You'll be drenched through, no matter what," he said.
The Kjerag hike is an 11-kilometre return trip over three progressively higher hills, with a total ascent of 800 metres. The first hill begins immediately, as if the mountainside has prepped its defences.
Our guide handed out walking sticks and encouraged their use wherever possible. But personally, I was pretty keen on using the guiding chains hammered into the steepest parts of the mountain. Don't they just seem so much more adventurous and far less wanky than walking sticks?
Once we surmounted the first hill, a valley opened up before us, complete with a charming rocky path hand built by Nepalese sherpas. Rain spattered lightly, soaking our pants and shoes, but it passed quickly and we dried off.
And then we summitted the third hill, faced with a barren landscape and a bracing wind we had to lean into to keep moving.
New rains came down hard, slanting sideways as the strong wind whipped it across the plateau. There was no escaping it. Every drop stung my skin. We were all drenched to the core, the water dripping into our shoes to complete the job.
It meant that when we reached Kjeragbolten, hopping over thin patches of ice to get there, we were almost hypothermic with cold. Even the act of removing my lens cap and pressing the camera shutter button required intense concentration and effort – not that there was anything to photograph.
We stood there on the edge of the cliff, soaked through, and stared into a white abyss. Beyond, we were assured, was the steep drop down into the fjord. But while the rain had passed, a blank canvas of fog remained to fill the void.
The boulder too was surrounded by a haze that obscured everything but the faintest outline of its shape. Still, we had made it.
Conquering Kjeragbolten
The Kjerag boulder is positioned at a rather awkward angle. To get to it, you have to manoeuvre yourself around another boulder, and all that's offered for grip is one tiny metal ring.
I pumped my arms up and down to bring the blood flow back into my fingers; the sensation felt like little shocks of electricity.
I pulled my gloves off, fumbling with clumsiness. But I needed to get enough power over them to be able to cling to that tiny ring in the rock face. I put all my weight on those fingers and swung my body around to step, gingerly at first, onto the Kjeragbolten…
OK, the pictures are a little bit deceptive. In reality, there's a sizeable space to get comfortable on the boulder.
But when my knees started to give out with the cold, when they began to shake uncontrollably with exhaustion, when I felt that slightest loss of control over them … well, then I got off the boulder bloody fast.
We lunched, trying to act unperturbed by the coldness that seemed to settle in our blood, there for the long haul. The mists cleared just a little and for a fraction of a second. We edged our toes to the edge of the cliff and saw traces of landscape. A tiny river snaking out into a fjord. An inconceivable drop.
And I thanked the weather gods for hiding that view from me until then.
Since sitting on wet rocks munching on food with stiff fingertips and a bucket of water in each shoes wasn't the most enjoyable activity, we got moving again pretty quickly.
And you know what happened?
The rain stopped. Our clothes began to dry (the shoes would stay sodden for another night as they air dried beside a radiator).
Hell, the mists evaporated, replacing an indiscriminate white fuzz with the most marvellous views of rocky slopes, sharp cliffs, and dark blue water in fjords far below.
And while it wasn't the "perfect tourist shot" everybody goes to Kjeragbolten for, we got our own little slice of heaven into the bargain too.
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How to get to Kjerag
So I did a heck of a lot of research about Norway – and Kjerag in particular – before my trip. And it turns out Kjerag is one of the hardest mainstream hikes you can get to in Norway.
For a start, the mountain road is closed throughout winter, so Kjerag is basically inaccessible. It usually closes in October and reopens around late May.
If you're travelling in a group, car hire is your best bet. Kjerag is a 2-3 hour drive from Stavanger, the closest big town to the hike.
Now this probably comes as no surprise, but car hire ain't cheap in Scandinavia. If you're a solo traveller, a better bet might be to catch public transport – in this case, Tide runs a bus service from Stavanger to the start of the hike for the summer months only. Of course, the service is severely limited, with one service running each way daily.
If you are hiking solo, there are good markers throughout the hike. That being said, on a crazy weather day like ours, visibility can get really low in the mists. I'm super happy I had a tour guide to follow through the storm.
I highly recommend a tour. Sure, you're probably going to blow your daily budget (why you even bother with one in Norway is a mystery to me!). But trust me, it's worth it.
What should I wear?
If you're anything like me, your mind will easily find something to worry about. And my biggest concern on this trip once I'd booked the tour was that I didn't have the right equipment.
Layers are the way to go on this hike and though it's a cliche, make note: dress for all weather! Throw some gloves and a beanie in your backpack. On the nice days, the waits to get onto Kjeragbolten can be insane (up to an hour), so you'll want to be cosy.
Bring a rain coat. If you suffer through any kind of crazy weather like we did, it's going to do zip-all for you, but hey, it's the thing to do.
My biggest worry was my shoes – all I own are lightweight Merrell trail runners. Given Norway's inclination towards wet weather, I was paranoid my shoes just wouldn't meet the challenge. They're not the solid-looking, waterproof beasts every traveller seems to own.
My tour company, Outdoorlife Norway, does rent out the full getup. But to be honest, as long as your shoes have quality grip, you're good. Like the park officer said, nothing will stop water getting into your shoes. But I saw plenty of people slipping and sliding on the slick rocky surface (I was not one of them, boo-ya Merrell!). So grip is what it's all about.
That's about all there is to it! The funny thing is that in some ways, the moment of wild weather turned out to be the highlight of the day. Sure we all hope and prey that we're going to get those postcard perfect experiences.
But travel forces you out of your comfort zone – and right into the path of Mother Nature. At home, many of us live pretty cosy lives, far removed from nature's temperament. But it felt oddly nice to be at one with everything the wilds has to offer, even if that means snaking trails of water running down your back and into your boots.
If you loved this story – or are looking for more inspiration to get you out there in the big wide world, be sure to check out some of my other travel adventures on the blog.


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BRUTUS.Alas, good Cassius, do not think of him:If he love Caesar, all that he can doIs to himself, — take thought and die for Caesar.And that were much he should; for he is givenTo sports, to wildness, and much company.
TREBONIUS.There is no fear in him; let him not die;For he will live, and laugh at this hereafter.
[Clock strikes.]
BRUTUS.Peace! count the clock.
CASSIUS.The clock hath stricken three.
TREBONIUS.'Tis time to part.
CASSIUS.But it is doubtful yetWhether Caesar will come forth today or no;For he is superstitious grown of late,Quite from the main opinion he held onceOf fantasy, of dreams, and ceremonies.It may be these apparent prodigies,The unaccustom'd terror of this night,And the persuasion of his augurersMay hold him from the Capitol to-day.
DECIUS.Never fear that: if he be so resolved,I can o'ersway him, for he loves to hearThat unicorns may be betray'd with trees,And bears with glasses, elephants with holes,Lions with toils, and men with flatterers:But when I tell him he hates flatterers,He says he does, being then most flattered.Let me work;For I can give his humor the true bent,And I will bring him to the Capitol.
CASSIUS.Nay, we will all of us be there to fetch him.
BRUTUS.By the eighth hour: is that the uttermost?
CINNA.Be that the uttermost; and fail not then.
METELLUS.Caius Ligarius doth bear Caesar hard,Who rated him for speaking well of Pompey:I wonder none of you have thought of him.
BRUTUS.Now, good Metellus, go along by him:He loves me well, and I have given him reason;Send him but hither, and I'll fashion him.
CASSIUS.The morning comes upon 's. We'll leave you, Brutus; — And, friends, disperse yourselves, but all rememberWhat you have said, and show yourselves true Romans.
BRUTUS.Good gentlemen, look fresh and merrily;Let not our looks put on our purposes,But bear it as our Roman actors do,With untired spirits and formal constancy:And so, good morrow to you every one. —
[Exeunt all but Brutus.]
Boy! Lucius! — Fast asleep? It is no matter;Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber:Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies,Which busy care draws in the brains of men;Therefore thou sleep'st so sound.
[Enter Portia.]
PORTIA.Brutus, my lord!
BRUTUS.Portia, what mean you? wherefore rise you now?It is not for your health thus to commitYour weak condition to the raw-cold morning.
PORTIA.Nor for yours neither. You've ungently, Brutus,Stole from my bed: and yesternight, at supper,You suddenly arose, and walk'd about,Musing and sighing, with your arms across;And, when I ask'd you what the matter was,You stared upon me with ungentle looks:I urged you further; then you scratch'd your head,And too impatiently stamp'd with your foot:Yet I insisted, yet you answer'd not;But, with an angry wafture of your hand,Gave sign for me to leave you. So I did;Fearing to strengthen that impatienceWhich seem'd too much enkindled; and withalHoping it was but an effect of humour,Which sometime hath his hour with every man.It will not let you eat, nor talk, nor sleep;And, could it work so much upon your shapeAs it hath much prevail'd on your condition,I should not know you, Brutus. Dear my lord,Make me acquainted with your cause of grief.
BRUTUS.I am not well in health, and that is all.
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Despite not having the blood work that backs up my gluten intolerance or my hypothyroid condition, I do have both and being on Armour Thyroid as well as a gluten free (soy free and refined sugar free) diet has kept my body in tip-top shape. In fact, I started intermediate training for a 5K in December last Monday and couldn't have felt better. But I didn't realize just how gluten intolerant I was until Monday around noon, and now because of that incident I've been bedridden, unable to go to class or run.
I'm curious how others, gluten intolerant and those with full-blown celiac, are affected when it gets into their system. It took less than an hour before I started to feel the effects. Just above the naval I started to feel something along the lines of needles poking my stomach and intestines. It then progressed to a severe headache, something I felt from the frontal lobe that ended up going all the way down to the spine. All of this was happening right when my first class of the day started, and I was able to leave after the quiz.
Truthfully, I was surprised I was able to drive those fourteen miles home. I felt, for lack of a better word, intoxicated, but the kind no one enjoys. I was nauseous, with blurred vision and the sharp pain spreading throughout my lower torso. The bloating was beyond painful, and the image of sausage casing bursting in the skillet was the image I visualized. My intestines felt inflamed, enlarged, and tight. When I attempted to sleep, I kept waking up only to roll on my stomach to lessen the pain. And despite this, there was a pressure on my lower back as well, like someone was applying a consistent force with their fists on my kidneys and adrenals. I kept getting up at three in the morning, only because I was hungry and queasy at the same time. Tea was essential, with milk and lots of honey.
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Throughout this ordeal my voice was totally gone, so I am taking my compromised immune system into account. I kept dragging myself to bed and have been sleeping the majority of the late morning to the early afternoon, doing my best to sleep the worst of it away. In these situations, I refer to it as "the hangover without the fun."
How did I get this way, you may ask, at a health store? Well, consider Snow White and the Apple. She was told not to accept anything from anyone who wasn't one of the seven dwarves. And then this [supposedly] harmless old lady offers her a delicious apple. She knows she shouldn't, but she figures the dwarves couldn't possibly mean sweet old ladies in the middle of the forest who offers pretty girls delicious apples for no apparent reason, so to be polite and respectful she takes a bite.
And if you've read the Brothers Grimm or seen Disney's movie version, we all know what happens to her.
In a way, the same thing happened to me, although I highly doubt it was malicious or done on purpose. After working for nearly six hours with over forty kids, I thought it would be a good idea to get a bottle of G.T. Kombucha and a snack before class. As I was browsing the gluten free isle, one of the employees approaches me with a small paper sample cup, slightly bigger than a thimble, halfway filled with a green drink of some sort. She compliments me on my hair (think Hermione Granger with thickness and curls), and asks me if I'd like to try it.
Me: What is it?
Her: Oh, it's just apple juice with green powder. It's just fabulous. I love it.
Me (throat raw, parched and hungry): Does it have added sugar in it?
Her: Nope. Just organic, freshly pressed, unrefined apple juice with the powder.
Me: Well… (Sniffs the drink and it smells like apples and spirulina) okay.
Takes the drink like a shot.
Me: Ummm… do you know if this is gluten free?
Her: Huh, I don't know. I'll read the ingredients.
Guy behind the counter: (Dismissively) The gluten protein is only found in the berries, and only a handful of people with celiac are affected by the grass.
Me: (Silently panicking) Oh.
Regardless if I am miraculously healed by tomorrow, I still have to go to school. If I want to graduate, I need to put my big girl pants on and deal with being in the classroom for three hours. All I need to do is put one foot in front of the other, slowly and carefully.
Now, in order to speed the healing process, I figured going grain-free would be a good idea until I felt better. But oddly enough, my body wanted rice in a love-hate sort of way. Meaning, I wanted to eat it and my stomach wanted to eat it, but I was also nauseous and didn't want to eat it. It was like that for everything actually. I had rice and potatoes and, I think though I may be mistaken, rolled oats (as always, the CGF kind). I ate apples and peanut butter, and craved fruits more than I have in a while. My body couldn't get enough tea, milk, honey, or raw veggies either. Eggs were also in demand. I wanted to give my body what it asked for, and I also wanted to be smart about it. With an inflamed digestive tract, I wanted something simple, hot, and good for an unhappy and sour gut.
This is where congee comes in.
Congee is a kind of porridge made with rice, though it can also be made with other grains. In the future I'm thinking of making a multigrain congee with rice, quinoa (red for texture and white for creaminess), buckwheat, CGF oats (steel-cut for texture and rolled for creaminess). The beauty of congee is how adaptable it can be based on what your body wants and needs. It can be sweet or savory. It can be thick or thin. It can be traditional or contemporary. And it keeps in the fridge for days, a great thing for the flu season (or when you're glutened).
The ratio of water to rice for congee differs on the desired thickness: for thick, 8:1; for medium, 10:1; and for thin, 12:1. One source says to use less water when using the rice cooker as opposed to a slow cooker or via stovetop. And remember, you can always add more but you can't take away.
Four Rice* Congee
45 g Jasmine rice
45 g Sprouted brown rice
45 g Sweet brown rice
45 g Medium grain brown rice
64 oz Water (or more, for a runnier consistency)
1/4 tsp. Sea salt
1 tsp. Unrefined apple cider vinegar
Combine the rice, salt, and vinegar to 8 oz of the water to soak for up to an hour (overnight is preferred).
Place the rice-water mixture and the remaining water in the rice cooker (or slow cooker, pressure cooker, etc) and cook at the lowest and longest setting.
When the grains of rice begin to break up, the congee is done but you can cook it for longer or slower amounts of time depending on your personal preference.
*A cup of rice equals 180 g (or 6.35 oz). You can choose whichever rice or grain you have on hand and mix and match to your favorite grains.
Serves 2 – 4.
With 1 serving, I mixed in peas, additional sea salt, cracked pepper and garlic and topped it with one fried egg, sunny-side up, as well as black sesame seeds, sesame seed oil, and chipotle powder.


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Where are the leaders of Marion County: political,s, and economic? Come out, come out wherever you are!
Do these leaders have any allegiance, concern, or loyalty to Marion County, any interest in seeing Marion County prosper? Why must any community sit like fledglings in a nest waiting to be fed by others?
What did the founders do? There was no one to help them. They did it themselves. Are we any less capable?
Isn't there enough brain power, brawn power, and money (we may need to raise a little investment capital) to rescue this county on our own? Or, do we continue to wait for the business fairy to show up?
Why do we sit with our "Woe is me" attitude? There are so many overpriced, faulty (really bad), poorly designed, inferior quality products on the market. Surely, we can find something to make cheaper, and of a better quality than we currently import. This is how we fight back.
When America exported goods, they were of a superior quality. We strove for quality. That ethic no longer exists among the exporters of today. We import high priced junk. This is fiscal rape.
May I suggest a product? For 50 years I have driven a top of the line luxury car, and never had to have a gasket replaced. Within the past year, three small gaskets needed to be replaced, to the tune of $3,000. Surely, we can once again make a quality gasket.
The list of products could go on ad infinitum until it reached book length.
Today's export countries want to get rich quick, and we are their patsy.
Our do it yourself America, or, Marion County attitude: What ever happened to that? The gauntlet is thrown, who will pick it up?
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In this bout, our contenders bob and weave around the ever-present question of whether research or creativity is more important. Chemistry Interaction director Joseph Silk takes on Y&R planner Craig McLeod.
Nay: Joseph Silk
Now, don't get me wrong. I love a good bit of craft. Some finely kerned kerning, beautifully leaded leading, an exquisitely shot shot and a beautifully retouched… well everything really.
But seeing the numbers that mean we've achieved good results for the client – those cold, hard, unemotional numbers – is what really gets me going.
And the way to achieve those numbers is through using the other numbers available to us: yes, I'm talking about good old-fashioned targeting.
Every day, we are assaulted by more than 3,000 commercial messages, not to mention our Facebook feeds, Snapchat snaps, Twitter tweets, Instagram pics and every other bloody thing.
For even one of these to get through, it has to be relevant. To be relevant it has to be targeted. To be targeted it has to have had a considerable amount of thought behind it.
Is it the right list? The right time? The right website? As marketing practitioners, we have to cut through the noise and the media wastage to get to the precise target when they're receptive. How? By running the numbers. By using the data available to us.
Segueway alert – one of the smartest new pieces of media tech I've seen in the digital space recently is Quantcast (www.quantcast.com). If you don't know about this I suggest you have a look, it just might be worth adding to your media schedule.
Right, now, where was I, oh yes – numbers. Even as a somewhat greying (read: experienced) marketer, it is easy to be overwhelmed by the number of new channels to which our creative product must contort and adapt.
No longer is it a DM pack to a targeted list or a well-placed press ad with a strong call to action. No, no. Now it's all about integration, multi-channel, omni-channel no less.
But no matter what you call it, it's still all about knowing the persona you're targeting, understanding the insight that will help sell the product, finding where your audience consumes their media and being in the right place at the right time. In short, running the numbers.
Then, once you have the numbers right, it's bloody helpful if you can serve up a beautifully crafted and elegantly written ad that's impossible to say no to.
Yea: Craig McLeod
As a planner I love numbers. Love. Em. But part of loving numbers is realising their limitations.
1. Numbers can only explain
In 2007, the Cadbury Gorilla campaign launched. In the years afterward, numerically-minded theorists would forensically prove just how that campaign worked, referencing memory encoding, distinctive assets and neuro-psychology. Now they may be right. But those analytical models were wholly useless during the campaign's conception. The Gorilla campaign ignored commonly accepted 'rules' about consumer research, product-consumption-moments, or even commercial length. The campaign didn't just ignore the 'numerical' approaches; it forced its proponents to reinvent them.
Rather than look backwards, the artistic approach understands that every brief is unique; and that deliberate originality is the best way to cut-through a collective unconsciousness that is continually rearranging itself to ignore us. In this sense, the role of the creative industry is not always to give their client what they want (or what numerical systems demand) – but to, as the architect Mark Wrigley puts it, "change the idea of what one can ask for".
2. Numbers can only play fair
In 2009, the IPA released a report titled: 'The Link Between Creativity and Effectiveness.' It analysed 123 FMCG brands across 30 categories, and concluded: 'for an average campaign for an average brand expect market share growth of 0.5 percent points of share growth per 10 percent points of Excess Share of Voice (ESOV).'
This is the closest thing advertising has to Newtonian
law. In essence, market growth
can be bought. Easy. A proven strategy for well-pocketed clients. However, the primary goal of the creative industry should be to provide our clients with disproportionate market share. Exorbitant attention. Dramatic behaviour change. This requires going beyond what merely works, and creating a new, and unfair business advantage.
That ain't easy. The decision to use a subservient chicken to sell burgers ain't easy. Nor using hatred to sell diesel cars. Van Damme doing the splits to sell trucks. These ideas owe far more to immeasurable and inspired serendipity than numerical logic. In short, creativity gets you what money can't buy.
3. Numbers can only tell the truth
Jay Z once rapped: "Men lie, women lie, numbers don't."
Although this was a brag about his record sales, he makes a poignant observation: numbers don't lie. But men and women do it all the time.
We are continually post-rationalising, over generalising, under-estimating and misunderstanding the world and our place within it. Perhaps the strangest lies are not necessarily lies at all, but elaborate contortions our minds make to reconcile our untraceable 'preferences'. In his recent book, You May Also Like, Tom Vanderbilt writes: "We often do not seem to know what we like or why we like what we do. Our preferences are riddled with unconscious biases, easily swayed by contextual and social influences."
While the murky depths of the mind have always baffled the efforts of science to force-fit human decision making into algebraic equations, the artistic approach thrives within a system that is closer to Chaos Theory. Internal deception, contortions, and contradiction – these are fertile conditions for creativity. Or as Alan Moore delicately states it: "Artists use lies to tell the truth."
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Rockefeller to introduce antitrust regulation against rails
This could be bad news for the rail giants like Union-Pacific (UNP) and Burlington Northern (BNI), which are only just beginning to recover from the nation's deeprecession.
For those of you who find it ironic that a Senator named Rockefeller plans to push antitrust laws, don't be too surprised. He's been a determined supporter of re-regulation of railroads for years. What's changed is that in a Democrat-controlled Congress, such a bill might have a chance.
It's the latest battle in the centuries-long conflict between the oligopolistic freight rail industry and regulators. The most recent era of tensions began in 1980, when the rail lobby steamrolled through Congress the Staggers Act, designed to deregulate the industry and keep railroad companies in business, while keeping prices reasonable. The [un?]intended outcome was massive consolidation, from 63 Class-I railroads operating in the U.S. in 1976 to less than a dozen today. The market share of the big four (the other two are CSX and Norfolk Southern) is around 90 percent.
So if I'm in charge of, for instance, a small Louisiana utility cooperative that ships coal, or a materials conglomerate Dow that ships chemicals, and I think Union-Pacific is charging me too much money, I can't take my business elsewhere. I probably can't sue, either, as the industry is largely exempt from antitrust challenges in court. I can appeal to the government-run Surface Transportation Board, but that may cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and -- re-regulation advocates like Rockefeller say -- I'll likely lose.
Based on the content of an earlier bill, tabled in June, Rockefeller's new rules will probably beef up the regulatory power and budget of the Surface Transportation Board, and might strip some antitrust exemptions. Such changes could lead to millions of dollars in decreased revenue for the rail industry, so look for a fierce (albeit low-profile) Capitol Hill fight between rail lobbyists, antitrust regulators, and shipper advocates in the coming months.


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By Giulio Meotti
- "We are kidding ourselves if we think we yet live in a tolerant, liberal society" — UK Liberal Democrats party leader Tim Farron, who resigned after giving "politically incorrect" answers on homosexual sex and abortion.
- Wherever he went, Jeremy Corbyn seemed as if he were a voluntary collaborator with an Iranian regime that executes gays. But Corbyn was never questioned about this affiliation the way the media obsessively questioned Farron.
- Muslim supremacists murder gays in Orlando? Instead of being proud of an open society, defending it from Islamic jihadists, and accepting the freedom to be homosexual as a positive difference between the West and Islam, our liberals make it a case for more "inclusion".
Liberal Democrats party leader Tim Farron saw his political career sacrificed because the British media found it unacceptable that, in his Christian conscience, he could have considered homosexual sex a sin. (Image source: Liberal Democrats/Flickr)
After the recent terror attacks in Britain, The Spectator wrote: "After five centuries, religious war has returned to England". The reference is to 1535, when Thomas More was executed for his Catholic beliefs. Tim Farron, a British MP and party leader of the Liberal Democrats who, after refusing for several days to state whether he considers homosexual sex a sin, and gave ambiguous answers on abortion, was not brought to the Tower of London for a public execution. However, almost 500 years after More, Farron saw his political career sacrificed on an almost identical ideological altar as More.
Farron resigned his position as party leader with a dramatic speech. The Daily Mail condemned the "liberal fascism" of the "moral pygmies". The progressive New Statesman headlined its story on Farron's resignation as the "decline of liberalism". Farron said: "We are kidding ourselves if we think we yet live in a tolerant, liberal society".


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I'm in my second year of college and I took an Introduction to Shakespeare class this semester. I've always been terrified of Shakespeare, but the professor is phenomenal and I love, love, LOVE this class. It just so happens that my professor's birthday is next week, plus she has mentioned several times how our class is the best Shakespeare class she's had during her whole teaching career, so I took it upon myself to make her a charm bracelet reminiscent of our class. There are 3 charms for each of the plays we've studied in class, plus a couple extra. If you've read any of these plays, hopefully the charms will make some sense to you.
Le bracelet:
Charms, beginning at the clasp and going clockwise:
- 2012 (for our class, obviously)
The Taming of the Shrew:
- A sun/moon (for when Kate and Petruchio argue about what of day it is)
- Fork (when Petruchio starves Kate as part of his plan to "tame" her)
- Moneybag (since Petruchio married Kate for the sole reason of her dad having tons of money)
- Saw (partially hidden)
- Hawk (one of my professor's favorite quotes - Hamlet is trying to prove he's not crazy and says "I can tell the difference between a hawk and a handsaw!")
- Skull (alas, poor Yorick . . .)
The Tempest:
- Book (Prospero's magic comes from his books!)
- Wine bottle (Stephano and Trinculo spend the entire play being drunk)
- Anchor (for the shipwreck that landed the whole lot on the island)
A Midsummer Night's Dream:
- Love-in-idleness flower (that makes all the potions)
- Lion (for the actors who won't dress up as a lion because "It might scare the ladies")
- Fairy (because half the characters in this play are fairies!)
Titus Andronicus:
- Piece of pie (for Titus' treatment of Tamora's sons, a la Sweeney Todd)
- Sword (so much violence!!)
- Hand (Titus' allegiance to the King . . . ouch)
Much Ado About Nothing:
- Donkey (for Dogberry, who wants the world to know he is a . . . well, you know)
- Masquerade mask (for the dance in the play, and the many lies and deceptions)
- Perfume bottle (Benedick wears perfume while trying to impress Beatrice)
And lastly . . .
- Greek comedy/tragedy masks (after all, Shakespeare wrote comedies and tragedies!)
Charms were a combination of Hobby Lobby, Watchus, and Beads and Charms. I bought the chain, the clasps, and the jump rings separately and put the whole thing together. I can't wait to see my professor's reaction when she opens the box.


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We are a Marketing/Advertising company operating out of Montreal, Canada and we are looking to re design our company website. We already have the basic design and know what we are looking for as well as the template to incorporate the design into. We are seeking a creative designer with a minimalistic approach to help us finalize the work. Below you will find a link to the template we are interested in using;
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however, we would like to use the font from the following template;
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Attached is the sample design we have so far, here is what needs to be changed:
- WHO WE ARE: we need to incorporate the banner of the template provided above.
-SERVICES: background needs to change to match with the template.
-PROJECT PLANER: ok as is
-OUR CLIENTS: needs to be redesigned
-PORTFOLIO: will have to change completely to match the template design
-WEB SERVICES: an infographic that needs to be completely re designed
-CONTACT US: same layout and similar design as "project planner" page
We also might need to create another infographic as well some other pages that are not designed yet.
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C4 Images and Safaris has just returned from another magnificent Photo tour. This two week tour through South Africa and Botswana was lead by professional photographer Villiers Steyn. Firstly we visited the ever popular Mashatu Game Reserve in Botswana, from there we went to Olifants Camp in the Kruger National Park and ended in Sabi Sands... Enjoy some of the images taken on the tour. Text and images by Villiers Styen.
Mashatu Game Reserve in Botswana's Northern Tuli Game reserve was as reliable as ever, producing unforgettable sightings and photographic opportunities. Highlights included a breeding herd of approximately 70 elephants taking a mud bath, a pack of African wild dogs playing around the vehicle at sunset, six massive kudu bulls walking through the Majale River in front of us, and of course, a leopard on almost every drive! A few lucky ones were also able to get a head-photograph of the elusive aardwolf during the day as it stuck its head out of its den in the ground. Tent Camp's bird bath was very quiet on the first day, but more than made up for it over the next two as we were able to photograph, amongst others, melba finch, blue waxbill, black-cheeked waxbill, lesser honeyguide, crested barbet and red-headed weaver.
Birding in the bush was equally productive and we were treated with excellent sightings of white-fronted bee-eaters, red-billed queleas and saddle-billed storks.
Read part two of the photo tour here.


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D shared this incredible short video about the ways cephalopods are able to camoflauge themselves with color and texture. Their skin changes texture people! It's so beautiful, unexpected and wonderful to gaze upon this octopus shape shifting under the sea. Nature.
Watch the video: Where's the Octopus?