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Chocolate Pavlova and Top Baking Tips
From time to time we get to introduce some excellent guest bloggers and interesting people we meet through the Duck Egg Designs Community.
Our first guest Blogger of 2013 is Becky of "Becky Bakeswells". We met the wonderful Becky through our twitter community (35,000 followers - Twitter: @duck_egg) where her friendly helpful advice and super tips have helped us on a number of baking occasions... and we have a few!
Becky is planning on launching her bakery soon and we thought it would be great to introduce you to her and some of her delicious recipes!
We thought we'd start with Becky's Top Tips before we fly into one of her delicious cakes.
Becky BakesWell's Top Baking Tips
1) If you're up against the clock when baking, put fridge cold eggs into a bowl of warm water for five minutes to take the chill off them – room temperature eggs will whip up more easily and produce better quality results.
2) When trying out a new cupcake recipe it's wise to bake one 'test' cupcake before filling the rest of the cases. This test cupcake will enable you to check oven temperatures, timings and will influence how far you fill the cake cases - some mixtures will rise dramatically in the oven and others can be more modest.
3) Cakes not rising as they should be? Check the date on your baking powder and bicarbonate of soda – the shelf life of these raising agents is surprisingly short and using fading raising agents can lead to disappointing results. You can put left-over bicarbonate of soda to good use as a thrifty fridge freshener though – put an open container of it in the fridge to absorb strong smells.
4) When whisking up egg whites, wipe the inside of the bowl and whisk/electric mixer beaters with a lemon wedge to remove any traces of grease that could prevent your egg whites from whipping up properly.
5) Before storing flour in your cupboard, pop the pack of flour in a sandwich bag to protect the packaging and freeze it for 48 hours to safeguard against flour mites. Always store flour in a plastic container with a tight fitting lid.
Chocolate Berry Pavlova
This crisp yet marshmallowy meringue base is studded with chunks of chocolate, blanketed with a cool, smooth layer of cream and is then scattered with berries. This dessert is so useful - the meringue base can be made in advance, the fruits can be tweaked to suit the season and it's perfect for serving at parties as it's light, and handily gluten-free.
Serves: 8-10
Chocolate Meringue Base
300g caster sugar
6 egg whites
3 tablespoons cocoa powder sieved
50g dark chocolate, chopped into small chunks
1 teaspoon balsamic vinegar or white wine vinegar
500ml double cream
500g mixed berries
Finely grated dark chocolate or sieved icing sugar to decorate
1) Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Centigrade/350 degrees Fahrenheit/gas mark 4. Using a pencil, draw a 23cm diameter circle on a piece of baking parchment, turn it over and place this on a wide baking tray.
2) Using an electric whisk or the whisk attachment of a food mixer, whip up the egg whites until they form soft peaks of tight, compact bubbles. Whisk in the sugar one spoonful at a time until the meringue is stiff and glossy.
3) Gently fold in the sifted cocoa, the vinegar and the chocolate chunks until everything is completely combined. Be careful at this point – you want everything to be mixed together properly, but you don't want to bash all the air out the mix that you have just carefully created.
4) 'Glue' the baking paper to the baking tray with a dot of meringue mixture on each corner of the paper. Dollop the meringue mixture into the centre of the circle, then flatten and spread outwards to cover the circle shape. You want to create a thick circle with a flattened top and straight upright edge – you don't want the side surfaces to be shallow and collapsed.
5) Place in the oven and turn the oven down to 150 degrees Centigrade/300 degrees Fahrenheit/ gas mark 2. Bake for 60-75 minutes. When it's ready, the meringue should look like it has a crisp outer shell and it should be dry on top. However, when you press the centre, it should feel marshmallowy.
6) Now, here's the trick – turn the oven off and open the door slightly, leaving the pavlova base in the oven to cool completely. This precaution helps to avoid the meringue becoming deflated or damaged when you build the pavlova later and helps it to remain crisp and chewy.
7) When you want to serve the pavlova, invert the meringue base on to a serving plate or a cake stand and peel off the baking paper. Whisk the cream until it just starts to hold its shape and dollop it on to the base. Scatter your chosen berries over the cream and then sprinkle over the grated chocolate or a slight dusting of icing sugar.
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Do leave your comments and ideas as we love to hear from you all. Big thanks to Becky and enjoy baking!
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Martial 12.18: Dum tu forsitan inquietus erras
by Tom Gardner
Dum tu forsitan inquietus erras
clamosa, Iuvenalis, in Subura,
aut collem dominae teris Dianae,
dum per limina te potentiorum
sudatrix toga ventilat vagumque
maior Caelius et minor fatigant:
me multos repetita post Decembres
accepit mea rusticumque fecit
auro Bilbilis et superba ferro.
Hic pigri colimus labore dulci
Boterdum Plateamque — Celtiberis
haec sunt nomina crassiora terris — :
ingenti fruor inproboque somno,
quem nec tertia saepe rumpit hora,
et totum mihi nunc repono, quidquid
ter denos vigilaveram per annos. .
Ignota est toga, sed datur petenti
rupta proxima vestis a cathedra.
Surgentem focus excipit superba
vicini strue cultus iliceti,
multa vilica quem coronat olla.
Venator sequitur, sed ille quem tu
secreta cupias habere silva;
dispensat pueris rogatque longos
levis ponere vilicus capillos.
Sic me vivere, sic iuvat perire.
While you, perhaps, Juvenal, wander restlessly
in noisy Subura,
or tread the hill of lady Diana;
while your sweating toga fans you
through the thresholds of the powerful
and the Greater and Lesser Caelian hills tire out the wanderer:
my Bilbilis, now that I have revisited it after many Decembers,
has received me and made me a country sort,
proud of her gold and iron.
Here, lazy with pleasant work, I inhabit
Boterdus and Platea—these are
the harsher names in Celtiberia:
I enjoy an enormous and wanton amount of sleep,
which is often not even the third hour breaks,
and I repay myself all of it, however much
I had remained awake for thirty years.
The toga is unknown, but it is given to me as I ask for it,
the nearest garment is from a broken armchair.
As I stand up, a fire-place receives me,
tended to by a neighbouring oak forest,
which the overseer's wife crowns with many pots.
The hunter follows, but he is the one whom you
desire to have in a secret grove;
The smooth-cheeked overseer disburses rations to my boys and asks to cut off my hair.
It delights me to live like this and to die like this.

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The night was clear, the air was crisp, and he opted to walk to Angie's.
Lights were off at Daily Bread and on in Angie's apartment. Good. That meant the movie people had gone to their lodgings, and Angie was still up.
He took the back stairs, waving his fingers for Angie's security camera, although he still had his doubts that she bothered activating it half the time. He tapped on the door. Because he had a key didn't mean he used it to barge in if Angie was home. He guessed that meant there were still lines he didn't feel comfortable crossing. What that said about where they were in their relationship was something he wasn't going to think about now. Especially when Angie came to the door wearing the lapis pendant and earrings he'd given her. And nothing else.
Gordon got up with Angie the next morning, loose and rested, despite the 4:30 alarm. After showering, shaving, and putting on his uniform, he followed the aromas of coffee and cinnamon downstairs. He sat, taking rationed sips of his allotted cup of fully leaded coffee, while Angie took the first batch of cinnamon rolls out of the oven.
They hadn't talked much last night—not that he'd minded. No brilliant insights about the case had popped into his mind, either.
Angie moved the cinnamon rolls to cooling racks and put the next trays into the oven, then sat across the counter from him. She reached over and rested a hand atop one of his. "What's your day looking like?"
"Meeting with Ed Solomon and Tyler Colfax at six. Maybe we'll come up with something we haven't thought of yet. What about you? What's up with the movie making?"
Although Angie had become more discreet in what she discussed since they'd been together, Gordon knew nothing would have gotten past her.
"Mr. Dawson was busy on the phone with the studio people. A lot. They're hoping they can get the street scenes shot today. He said that since most of their equipment was already set up on the street, it shouldn't be off-limits, and I heard him mention schmoozing the mayor."
"Which means the mayor will undoubtedly be calling me very soon to tell me it's in the best interest of Mapleton to let them continue shooting."
She fixed her puppy-dog expression on him. "You must have all the clues you need. The crime scene people were around for ages. And," she added, "if the production people are here, you can keep a better eye on them, right?"
She did have a point, even though her motives were clearly personal. "I'll run it by Ed and Colfax at our meeting this morning."
"Great. I'll pack up those cinnamon rolls for the station."
He finished his coffee, then helped her put the pink boxes together. "It's the least I can do," he said as he folded and inserted tabs into slots.
"You're very good at that," Angie said. From her hooded eyes and sultry tone, Gordon was fairly certain she wasn't talking about his box construction skills.
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The Story of Bill Stettner
Ran across this blog from www.photographyquotes.com , and this story popped up that intrigued me . It makes me sad that I havent learned more about Bill Stettner , who helped make it possible for us to copyright our images so easily. The saddest thing about his life was , on his death bed as he was hopped up on morphine , an unknown person tricked him into signing away his rights and ownership to all of his images , negatives – the lot – of his photography career – those are fighting words!!! Take a look at this story and say a little thank you to him as you edit your images … Your images ..
The Story of Bill Stettner
Through the late eighties, Bill and a number of other American photographers fought a battle over the right of a photographer to own the copyright in their own images – the first such action, in what is now accepted as a photographer's right just about everywhere around the world.
The passing of the revisions to the copyright act had disastrous consequences for Stettner and his co-campaigners.
Many of the committee found it difficult to get meaningful work after the revisions to the copyright act became law (unless they waived their rights) – but Bill, as the main protagonist, was black-balled by the New York advertising industry, and never worked again as a photographer.
He eventually lost everything to his creditors.
Bill's last career was as a dealer in second hand goods, from a shop called 'The Garage Sale' on Columbus Circle . Sadly the strain of previous years and progressively deteriorating health destroyed his spirit, and he eventually died a pauper in Mount Sinai hospital.
Our memory of those who have fought battles on our collective behalf, are sadly short lived. In many ways, Bill gave his life for what he believed in – a principle that benefited every working photographer today.
We should not forget that.
"As a young man" said Bill, "the glamour of the world of photography was definitely the job for me! I started work, as a photographer's assistant for $27.50 week – and all the girls I could wrap and carry!
"I suppose my most memorable pictures were made in the 60's – the series I did on racial inequality and the Vietnam War.
"Martin Luther King had just been assassinated, as had Kennedy. America was a racial mess. Sure, people were talking about racial integration – as though things had changed. But just below the surface it was as it had always been – all the bigotry and hatred. I suppose my most satisfying image is the double face – but most people never understood it.
"These days this would simple with computers – but back in 1963 it all had to be done in the camera. I had a huge casting session that went on for ever, and eventually , shot 36 sheets of 5" x 4" film of the white guy – cross lit from the right. At this stage I hadn't found a black face that matched and I didn't for quite a while – in fact the film stayed untouched in the slide holders for two months.
"Most of the art directors who saw this portrait thought it was some weird white guy with a fat lip, and threw the print into the bin! When I explained it to them, they got embarrassed and didn't want to talk about it. It definitely wasn't a commercial success!" Bill used his spare time to experiment with personal photography – images that drew attention to the hatred he saw around him in America. Brought up in a Jewish family – his father was a wedding photographer who had emigrated from Europe – he was well aware of racial persecution and inequality.
Stettner's collection of social comment photographs was large, but now sadly now lost due to a confidence trick played on him when he was dying. I remember a picture of a black hand holding white jelly baby, another of Martin Luther King's portrait superimposed on a petrol can (a reference to the Birmingham riots) and many others. Who knows where they are now.
But perhaps it is this one, a comment on the explosive and self-destructive nature of the United States, which has best stood the test of time and is as relevant today as when it was when photographed in 1968.
In many ways, Bill Stettner gave his life so that you and I can now enjoy the benefits of owning our own copyright. He died in Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.
Two days prior to his death, while doped up on Morphine, an unidentified person or persons got Bill to sign away his life's work – all his negatives, prints and equipment – which disappeared overnight and were never seen again. If anyone knows the whereabouts of Bill Stettner's pictures please contact this website or email@example.com
We need to remember Bill Stettner and his images.
Written by Peter Adams


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Hate a Company? Don't Get Mad, Get Short
There's a huge difference between the typical sports fanatic and the average investor: One stays glued to the screen, screaming, yelling, drooling and rooting for favorites while cursing foes. The other is a sports enthusiast.
Whoever said there's no emotion in the world of investing never owned a single share of stock. Take the classic case of famous hedge fund manager and investing guru Bill Ackman. He's so down on Herbalife International (NYSE: HLF), he considers the company to be nothing more than a pyramid scheme disguised as a corporation. He firmly believes the stock will come crashing down sooner rather than later.
Thus, Ackman has shorted the company's stock to the tune of $1 billion. When and if it falls, as he predicts, Ackman stands to make a ton of cash. This is just one very clear-cut example of how someone can make money by betting against a company.
Activist Hedge Fund Managers
Activist hedge fund managers, like Ackman, seek to improve the companies they hold large positions in. (Taking a huge short position can hasten a company's fall, which is apparently what Ackman is doing with Herbalife, which he believes the world would be better off without).
Familiar names like Carl Icahn, David Einhorn, and Dan Loeb are other activists. Einhorn has targeted Yelp Inc. and Allied Capital Corporation as "targets" for improvement, while Loeb has focused on Sotheby's, Yahoo and Baxter International. Activist investors like these four and many others use their wealth to effect positive changes whenever they can. Many use short selling as one of many tactics in their arsenals.
How Short Selling Works
The textbook example of short selling is this: You believe (for whatever reason) that the stock price of company ABC is going to decrease beginning tomorrow. Today, you contact your broker and ask to "borrow" (for a fee) 1000 shares of ABC Inc, and sign an obligatory note saying you will repay the 1000 shares by X date. If your prediction is correct and ABC tanks from $100 per share to $50 per share, you would show a profit of $50,000, less the broker's short-sale fee, say $250.
How did this happen? When you borrowed the 1000 shares, you immediately sold them on the open market for that day's share price of $100, banking $100,000 in cash. Several days later, when ABC fell to $50 per share, you figured that would be a good time to repay your broker those 1000 shares you owe. So, you simply take $50,000 out of your cash account (which, remember, has $100,000 in it) and buy 1000 shares of the now lower-priced ABC. You then contact your broker and repay the 1000 shares. The broker also charges you $250 for the short-sale fee, and you've turned a nice profit of $49,750 but correctly predicting that ABC's price would tank within a few days.
Who Actually Shorts Stocks?
Individual investors short stocks every day, but hedge funds are the biggest players in the shorting game. A typical hedge fund manager gets paid a percentage of any profit the fund makes. If the fund shorts a million shares of XYZ, and the price subsequently declines, the manager and owners of the fund stand to reap huge fees.
But when fund managers are wrong, and the shorted stock's price rises, the contributors to the fund take the biggest hit, while the managers typically lose nothing. Of course they won't get a fee because there were no profits. Since the managers have no "skin in the game," so to speak, they tend to take sizable risks with investors' money.
The Advantages of Selling Short
As with any other kind of derivative (which is technically what short sales are), a short allows investors the chance to get lucrative returns without risking very much of their own money. Except for the fee you'll need to pay your broker for lending you the shares, there's no upfront expense.
Shorting is the only verifiable way for people to make money when a stock's price (or the market in general) is headed south. If your guess is right that the stock in question will hit the skids, you stand to do quite well.
If you have a good relationship with your broker, and have a strong feeling that a stock is going to decline in price, shorting can be a protective strategy.
The Disadvantages
You might be wrong about the weakness of the stock price. If the price goes up, your broker can "call" you to cover (repay the shares) at any time. That means you'd be out the broker's shorting fee as well as the price difference per share, times the number of shares you shorted. In a scenario where the price surges upward, the potential monetary damage could be infinite.
Some economists, but not all, say that shorting is bad for the market because it magnifies downturns in stock prices. If XYZ drops 2 percent in price in one day and 10 million shareholders immediately short it, that puts extreme downward pressure on the price and could cause a market crash in a given sector, theoretically.
This "shorting is bad for the economy, the market and individual companies" theory is controversial. Believers point to the Bear Stearns fiasco/wipeout in mid-2008 as proof that shorting can magnify a normal downturn and bankrupt a company. Later that same year, similar situations beset Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Lehman Brothers, setting the "crash of 2008" into full swing.
How to Succeed in Shorting Without Really Shorting
If you like the idea of betting that the market, or a particular sector, will decline in price, there are other ways to make a profit on the downturn. The "shorting concept" is at work in a wide variety of "inverse ETFs." These financial instruments work just like normal ETFs except they are inversely tied to the market or segment they track.
For the iron stomach crowd, there are also leveraged inverse ETFs, which double- or triple-track the downturn. Suppose you purchase one of the more popular (of many) leveraged inverse ETFs, like Pro Shares Ultra Pro Short S&P 500 (SPXU) at $12 per share. You purchase 1000 shares for $12,000.
You would only do this if you expected the S&P index to fall. Theoretically, the basket of securities in this ETF responds inversely to the index, and does so at 3 times the change. So, tomorrow the S&P has a terrible day, for example, and falls by 3 percent. Your ETF shares in SPXU would, theoretically, increase by 9 percent, at which point you sell and pocket the $1,080 profit (3 percent times 3 = 9 percent. Nine percent of your $12,000 investment is $1,080), less brokerage fees. Not bad for a day's work.
Remember that the leveraged ETFs don't always hit their tracking targets, so will sometimes deliver more or less of the stated multiplier. For more risk-averse investors, there are inverse ETFs that are not leveraged, so you're essentially shorting the market or sector represented by that particular ETF, as you would an individual stock.
Note: We're not financial advisors here, and this article is offered only as educational background for curious readers. If you decide that you want to invest in anything, or use short selling as a means to make a profit in the stock market, consult a professional. Everyone's financial situation is different, so always be sure to get expert advice before putting your hard-earned money on the line.


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Brit's selfie with hijacker was a 'thorough thought process to help save lives'
THE brave Brit who posed for a selfie with a plane hijacker said yesterday: "If I died, I died unafraid."
Ben Innes made headlines around the world by grinning in the photo on the EgyptAir flight.
But he said the selfie was part of a "thorough thought process" to help save the lives of everyone on board.
Ben, 26, of Aberdeen, told Good Morning America: "I thought of several ways in which I could interact with him further, one of which was to take a selfie.
"I wanted him to understand I was human"Ben Innes
"I wanted him to understand I was human, that I wasn't just a nameless, faceless victim. And I wanted that to be clear so that he would understand."
Egyptian hijacker Seif Eldin Mustafa, 59, forced the plane to be diverted to Cyprus and claimed to have a bomb on board, which was found to be fake.
But Ben, one of seven held hostage, thought the device was real at the time and wanted to "assess the situation".
He added: "I wanted to get a better look at the device.
"I needed to understand if he had any other weapons or if there were any other hijackers. If I died, I died unafraid."
Mustafa has been charged with hijacking, kidnapping and threats of violence.


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With the surge in the field of medical science, many new amazing properties have been invented over the years to provide effective solution to several common health problems. When some are nutritional supplements, there are others with anti-aging properties and then there are those that can aid in weight loss. In fact, the market today is full of dietary, body building and nutrition supplements. Now it depends on your needs to pick the right one. In this article, we will discuss about three of the most raving supplements in the market today, namely- Resveratrol Supplements, SAMe Herbal Supplement and R-Alpha Lipoic Acid.
Resveratrol Supplements
Resveratrol refers to an antioxidant found in several plants. Some of the popular and rich sources of this anti-oxidant include blueberries, grapes, peanuts and red wine. Food supplement more usually comprise resveratrol in the pills that includes polygonum cuspidatum extracts, red wine extracts and grape seed extracts.
Researches suggest that this wonder antioxidant assists in breaking down stored fat which is deposited in white adipose tissue of the body as fat is metabolized by liver. Years of heavy researches have highlighted many different advantages of this particular natural compound. First of all, taking resveratrol supplements can help reverse diseases like diabetes, heat ailments and cancer. Resveratrol can restrain carcinogeneisis which can cause breast caner. It can even be used as an anti-aging supplement. Regular intake of this supplement will make you look quite young.
Resveratrol Supplements improves life span as the high resveratrol levels counteract with the cell death and the damage in heart and brain. It is also a useful anti-oxidant, artery protector and inflammation damper. The low resveratrol doses offer same effect as that of the calorie reduced diet. This would even slow down the aging process if you begin to take in small amounts in middle age.
R-Alpha Lipoic Acid
R-Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA) is the one antioxidant which is soluable in water and fat. This is significant as Alpha Lipoic Acid can enter all parts of the cell, offering it huge ability to lock in the free radicals where they may be. The free radical damage is considered the most leading cause of aging.
Alpha Lipoic Acid supplements can cause enhanced levels of glutathione that helps your body to dispose the toxins. It is one of the few substances that can cross the brain and blood barrier and access the brain where it is required the most. This is significant as the glutathione can protect your brain from the free radical damage. That's because lower levels of glutathione in your brain is closely associated with the brain disorders like dementia, stroke, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.
SAMe Herbal Supplement
SAM-e is the short form of S-adenosylmethionine which is a substance found in the cells of animals, humans and plants. SAMe is used as a helpful supplement to treat diseases. In the US, it is mostly sold as dietary supplement. On the other hand, people in the United States also use SAM-e to treat depression and also to preserve their emotional health. Studies also show that SAM-e supplement can help relive pain in physical problems like osteoarthritis and itching common in the intrahepatic cholestasis.


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Crumb Substitution
Cornflake Crumb
breadcrumbs (dry and fine), or panko, or cornmeal, or cracker meal,
melba toast (crushed and tossed with oil),
other plain breakfast cereal flakes (crushed)
corn chips (crushed), or potato chips (crushed), or coating mix,
pretzels (crushed) can be substituted for cornflake crumbs.
Cornbread Crumb
breadcrumbs can be substituted for cornbread crumbs.
Chocolate Wafer Crumb
Oreo cookie (Crush filling and all, in a food processor fitted with a metal blade.)
chocolate graham cracker crumbs, or graham cracker crumbs, or vanilla wafer crumbs, or Salerno butter cookie crumbs
Vanilla Wafer Crumb
graham cracker crumbs, or chocolate wafer crumbs,
Oreo cookie (Crush filling and all in a food processor and omit additional sugar in crust recipe.)
can be substituted for vanilla wafer crumbs.
Graham Cracker Crumb
Vanilla wafer crumbs (These are sweeter, so add less sugar to a crust mixture.)
zwieback crumbs (great for cheesecakes)
can be substituted for graham cracker crumbs.
Gingersnap Crumb
graham cracker crumbs, or vanilla wafer crumbs
can be substituted for gingersnap crumbs.
Breadcrumb, dried
cracker crumbs, or croutons, or stuffing, or cornflakes, or matzo meal, or panko
can be substituted for breadcrumbs.
Cracker Crumbs
1 cup dry bread crumbs
can be substituted for 3/4 cup cracker crumbs.


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BALTIMORE ORIOLES -- Named Danny Carnevale, a scout for the Cleveland Indians, as a major-league and advance scout to replace Jim Russo, a 33-year veteran Orioles scout.
BOSTON RED SOX -- Announced Jim Rice was the team's Player of the Year named by the Boston Baseball Writers.
NEW MEXICO STATE -- Suspended starters Pierre Smith and Jeffrey Williams after they were arrested Friday on charges of shoplifting $290 worth of merchandise in a men's clothing store in Honolulu.


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Positioning Diversity & Inclusion as a Strategic Imperative
Diversity and inclusion has become a CEO-level issue around the world. The digital organization of today, which operates as a network of teams, thrives on empowerment, open dialogue, and inclusive working styles. Leading organizations now see diversity and inclusion as a comprehensive strategy woven into every aspect of the talent life cycle to enhance employee engagement, improve brand, and drive performance.
Attracting, retaining and developing diverse professionals stirs innovation and drives growth. That statement is backed by decades of sociological and economic research, and there are myriad reasons it holds true. In part it's because people with different backgrounds and perspectives bring different information to the table. Members of diverse teams can't take for granted that their teammates think the same way they do. That leads them to question their own assumptions and anticipate alternate viewpoints. The result? More-creative ideas and solutions. Imperative
D&I professionals have known for years that companies that exhibit gender and ethnic diversity are more likely to outperform those that don't. And research indicates that organizations with more racial and gender diversity bring in more sales revenue, more customers and higher profits. But Diversity and Inclusion practitioners continue to struggle with measuring or even proving the bottom line impact of their efforts.
The global political environment has heightened employee sensitivity to diversity and inclusion. Immigration challenges, nationalism, and fear of terrorism appear with greater frequency in the press. Organizations report that employees are personally concerned about what they read and hear, and they want their employers to offer perspective. The business issue of diversity and inclusion now touches issues of employee engagement, fairness, human rights, and even social justice.
Many large organizations now define themselves as global entities, making religious, gender, generational, and other types of diversity a business reality. However, successfully implementing D&I requires a strategic approach and long term commitment. D&I is not an isolated initiative nor one from which we should expect a short term result. Robust metrics, a solid business case and RO are needed to move D&I from the want list to the "business need list".
TMA's 6th Annual Inclusion Summit will examine the role and relationship of D&I with business issues such as innovation, leadership development, and team, individual and organizational performance.
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• Designing and Communicating D&I Strategy
• Effecting Behavioral Change
• Diversity & Inclusion Analytics, Leveraging Social Media for D&I and Other D&I Tech
• Sustaining Management Engagement and Accountability
• Aligning Diversity with Talent Acquisition and Talent Management Efforts
• Managing the Impact of Societal and Political Events in Organizational Diversity Strategies
• Addressing Intersectionality and Microaggressions
• Exploring non-traditional dimensions of Diversity (LGBTI, generational, cultural, religious, etc)
• Preventing and dealing with harassment and other sexual misconduct
• Measuring the ROI of Diversity
• Diverse Succession Planning
• Promoting Women Leadership
• Generational Diversity
• The role of sponsorship and allyship


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Healing herbs of Arshan
I once had an opportunity to visit lake Baikal in the reserve Arshan. Arshan in Buryat "healing water". Attitude to Arcanum, healing springs, the Buryats special. There, where the surface are mineral water, build places of worship, "about", arrange prayer services. The village of Arshan is located at the foot of the Tunka bald mountains at a height of 893 meters above sea level. The forest is surrounded on all sides (pine, larch, spruce, cedar). The Tunka ridge height of 1800-1900 m incredibly majestic and beautiful, for which he received the name of the Tunka Alps. Vegetation and fauna of the Eastern Sayan mountains are extremely rich. In this truly unique place to grow herbs, taking all the power and purity of this area
Camel tail (caragana maned) . It is believed that this herb feels the soul of a person. Caragana bearded contains an essential oil, ascorbic and organic acids, flavonoids, sugars, resins, tannins and resinous substances, sterols.
Caragana bearded is used in various inflammatory diseases. The caragana bearded used for rheumatism, wounds, especially purulent, boils, fistula, skin diseases, including eczema, pustular skin diseases, acne, pyoderma, neurodermatitis and other dermatoses.
Sagan Gave. This is a unique and rare medicinal plant in Siberia. Translated into Russian, Sagan-Dali means "prolonging life". According to ancient legend, the soldiers returning from a victory, sticking their spears in the slopes of the Sayan mountains, to give up the power to the ground. After some time on these places appeared, the plant is able to fill a man with strength and health. From the point of view of modern medicine, Sagan-Dali is a great tonic. Continue reading
Hookah: smoke correctly
In the last Millennium, when the Russians had just begun to travel abroad, hookah in Russia was only available if one of the lucky ones, riding the wind in Egypt, returned and brought with him attracted in the country of pyramids is a funny thing. Well, the tobacco took at the same time. Because if the hookah can be, and could be found in antique the East bench that was right next to the Museum of the East, tobacco in the capital and in the afternoon with fire was not to find.
And happy owners overseas diva carried the hookah to all the parties and even took out on hikes, where were lighted in a circle of friends around the campfire.
Whether the case now. Hookahs with tobacco on every corner, in every subway stand. And buy them not only Globetrotters who try fragrant smoke in Turkey and Egypt, but also tourists, never in the East weren't happening. And therefore do not know what this thing is – hookah and what it needs to do.
The origin of the hookah there are many stories, but most often tell you that the hookah was born in India two thousand years ago, and the first of them consisted of a coconut with two holes, one of which is inserted a straw, the second stacked drug or medicinal herbs, and the inside had water or infusion of herbs.
After Asia got tobacco, hookah, while maintaining the basic principle of inhaling cooled and passed through water, smoke, has changed, but only superficially. Continue reading
Where now famous "healers"
20 years ago, in 1993, the Russian Ministry of health has banned bulk sessions of Anatoly Kashpirovsky, Alan Chumak and other psychotherapists. Before five years the country was if under mass hypnosis. People fell asleep to the sounds of the TV. Screens sounded monotonous voice: "Your body is relaxed, arms are heavy. "Or Allan Chumak passes hands loaded creams and water. And the audience put the jars in front of the TV! Where are they now – those, whose concerts in the 90s the Russians were Laden with more than the concerts of pop stars?
The patient boasted of orgasms
The triumphant ascent of the therapist from the Ukraine Anatoly Kashpirovsky began in March ' 88. Then it happened first in the provocative television program "the View".
So, this is live. Kashpirovsky – in Moscow, in the TV Studio "Ostankino". And for fifteen hundred miles away in Kiev, the surgeons carried out an operation to remove a cancerous tumor in young women. Cut without anesthesia, in a trance a patient was injected with Deepak. The whole country froze at the TV screens! The operation was successful. And the sessions Kashpirovsky people crowded crowds! Strange, but true. To this day the operated patient refuses to communicate with journalists, as if afraid to blurt out the excess.
Through neskolkomi the therapist showed another focus. Now in Tbilisi.
Two girls at the same time doing complex surgery without anesthesia. Kashpirovsky as distance gave orders from Moscow, being in full view of dozens of cameras. Continue reading


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Trinity Mirror plc
25 June 2009
Wholesaling Arrangements
Trinity Mirror plc ("the Group") notes the announcement today from Dawson Holdings plc which has entered into a standstill agreement with its major publishing creditors. Whilst the overall financial implications of this arrangement are uncertain, we currently have balances totalling some £7 million due to the Group. The Group anticipates that it will treat any resulting loss as a non-recurring exceptional item. As part of the standstill agreement the Group has agreed that for the time being current wholesale agreements with Surridge Dawson Ltd will remain in place although the Group will continue to examine alternative arrangements should they prove necessary.
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