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    Not sure why people over complicate this phase with kiting and a tank taking one add type each, as long as you rolls some CDs for the initial pickup of adds and DO NOT stun them (I found that this was the biggest source of insta-gibbing, their attack times would sync after the stun and basically left you up a creek without a paddle) you should be fine. Once they start focusing on other players your damage taken will go down and given your vengence they should die fairly fast, and interrupt.

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    for the add phase all you need to do is have the tanks do the same thing you are doing now but instead have all dps focus on one side once those are dead kill the other side and by then you should have 1 trap left them just kite the highest health one into the trap and then kill the add while the boss is up if your dps is high enough you will only have the 1 add phase

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    Kiting is a lot easier for healing. I think it's the better strat, tbh.

    Despite that, I got overruled in my raid, so we go with the facetank strat.

    You just need to have at least one class that can do some kind of aoe stun on one side, and roll cooldowns. We burn down one side's adds first so healers can essentially ignore that person for the remainder of the phase. The other tank rolls cooldowns, gets externals, and has aoe stuns rolled on the adds.

    It's a big drain on healer mana, which is why I think kiting is better, but either way works.

    Also, definitely use three healers on that fight. Every phase sucks for mana.

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    Haven't seen it mentioned much, but if you leave one windblade alive the empress will stay away. As soon as you kill all 6 of them she comes back.

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    Try 3-man tanking it. Two tanks take three adds each and one tank takes the two big ones.
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    Hi! Please check out shiinjiwow for video I tank 1 add and raid DPS it down while ot takes 2 big adds and blood dk kites all small ones. When my small add dies I take another off the tank that's kiting. I am the fury war tanking adds in def stance. We only have 1 add phase since we hero right after adds are dead and push it.

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    Why are you overcomplicating the fight? 1 tank is dedicated to the big adds and the other to the little ones. Reavers' tank is no issue, since they do not hit hard, have him stay where the Empress spawns facing them away from the raid, no dps needed on them. The other one is more complicated, have him tank in the middle of the room, rotate defensive cooldowns, stuns and slows (protection warrior are by far the best), kite when needed. Group the prison close to the Reavers and gg.
    For 10's ,prot palas by far outshine prot warriors. I can see warriors working in 25 better, but for 10's given the chance, use a prot pala.

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    Hai, Dk tank here.
    Only guna comment on your DK tank here, since that's all it's fair to comment on. < Your log

    Go to buffs gained, and click the hash next to ice bound fortitude, anti magic shell, dancing rune weapon, Vampiric blood, ironbark, and Will of the necropolis. And bone shield.

    See how he's overlapping them? Damage reduction's are best used individually, or 2 at a time, not 4, he'll take nearly 0 during that time, and then get forked over later with no CDs

    If you tick blood shield, you'll see his blood shield disappears right after his CDs fail, he gets smashed about

    Here's my log.

    if you tick the same things, our add phase happens about 3 minutes into the fight, obviously, you can see a more spread out CD usage, this'll help him a lot. You need to Tick Elusive, and Strength for me also.

    Also, finally, my recommendation is to tank 1 and 3, have your blood dk kill one by himself. then all your dps focus on your other side, killing 2, leaving 3 up for quick trapping, most will be fixated, and dropping trap stuff like crazy, you can get your 2 traps off nice and quick. it's less healing to do if you actually kill less, cause when you have a trap up, healing required is just 1 reaper.

    if you look at overall damage taken, your dk took 56k per second, which is quite high ( i know mine is 60, i stood in the platform 25k dps dot for about half the fight for vengeance, and cause it doesn't matter in final phase, since you're guna be hovering around 50% anyways) So overall, your DK is going a bit splat.
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  9. #29
    Save CDs for add phase, each tank takes one side. Dps AoEs down one side of adds, then the tank brings the reaver into a trap, which makes all of the other tank's windblades aggro the trap. Its cake from there.

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    It's all about using your raids CD stuns, damage mitigation help to the tank, speed boosts for the tank - grips, knock backs to the ads. It's like a dance while you try to maintain threat + kite + your dps avoiding and kiting while helping you knock back + until they kill at least two of them then CDs plus focused healers = dead windblades quickly. We made a video focusing on P2 because we suffered considerably on this transition as well. Hope it helps others.
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    We had our pally tank pick up all the small adds and just chain tank CD's on top of knockbacks. Once you get most of the windblades down there really isn't any healing and the healers can regen a fair amount of mana.

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    we've started 2 healing it now, but myself brewmaster picks up the windblades, and DK picks up the reavers. i just stand there pop Fortifying brew and just zerg everything down with SCK/KS/BoF, we usually end up killing everything before we make a trap so we just tank the reavers the rest of the fight.

    this may not help much lol, but it should show that there is no needs to kite adds. with 3 healers you should have no problems keeping up a tank tanking windblades even more so if its a block tank.

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    We have each tank taking one side (and the beginning of the phase is when you should pop dem CDs), and all DPS focusing on my side at first. When the Windblades on my side are dead, I go and taunt the other Reaver, while the DPS moves on to deal with the remaining Windblades (obviously leaving at least one alive untill 2 traps have been formed). Simple and effective.

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wheresthepimms Mon 18-Jul-11 11:27:36

Ok read the article then tell me how this makes sense? My DH currently works with the TA and he is always complaining about how you can't make them do anything, they say they will turn up then don't, they won't even show up for the summer ball (even if you pay them a days training to show up). Maybe these politicians should come spend some time with the TA and see how unreliable they are. Must qualify there is about 1% who are useful grin but even they forget to show up most of the time.

AmandaB22 Mon 18-Jul-11 15:29:19

I think you will find that we are very reliable and very good at our jobs, i would like to see the regs do there jobs with the equipment we get!! If your husband was so good why would he be working with the TA (with him saying we are so rubbish and all).

wheresthepimms Mon 18-Jul-11 16:28:46

Amanda I think you will find the TA get all the same equipment as the regs there are some that do well at their trades, but those in command are not as good, and probably never will be (unless they are x regs doing the job they used to do) as they don't have the understanding of command and how the regular army works. My DH didn't and never would choose to serve with the TA as the whole of his Btn find them annoying. He goes where the army sends him, some poor person has to work with you. Maybe your unit is a good example of how it should be done, but from my DHs experience the soldiers and officers are very unreliable and the reason the regs don't like them is because if you say you will do something then you should do it. We organised a family fun day, laid on transport to all the units so no one had any excuse for not being there, a lot of hard work and effort went into it on the side of the regular soldiers, the TA said they would be there, when the day came the transport arrived empty as there was a lot of no shows at the TA centres, but no one even had the courtesy to say they were unable to come anymore. It is units like his that give the TA a bad name, but what can you do? They can't force them to show up as you are civilians and the regs are constantly reminded of that fact when trying to organise stuff. I would also say that it is not all the TAs fault, how can someone who only gets 38 MTDs a year (due to the defence cut backs) be expected to be as good at a job as someone who does it 365 days a year.

AmandaB22 Mon 18-Jul-11 16:51:43

I am affraid to say we really dont! we are still working with clansman (radios). most of our seniors are ex regs and are very good at what they do, most of the rubbish has been weeded out. Talking to the regs and ex regs they will all tell you there is as much rubbish in the TA as there is in the regs. We tend to get sent people who are so far up there own butts they need a snorkle to breath but this tends to go once they have been with us for a while. My regt regularly goes on tour with regs and the regs have no issue with us when they see how we work.
If we put our name down to do training or socials and do not turn up we get hauled up in front of the sm so maybe your hubby works with a rubbish bunch, if this is the case i would ask you dont judge us all by there poor standards.

They wont put our funding up to levels it was 3+ years ago so we are going to have to do more work with less funding.
I work Monday to Friday and weekends too and get so annoyed when regs treat us like idiots. I am a part time civvi, part time soldier. i can get called up the same as anyone with a mod90.

My husband is also a regular by the way wink
He works with TA soldiers on tour and has no issues, he knows that the TA soldier will have his back as well as a reg will.

the gov just want to save money and want soldiers on the cheap, they know we are good and they know they get us for less (no pensions,no support,no medical....well non of the good things about being a soldier)

wheresthepimms Mon 18-Jul-11 17:27:04

sounds to me like your unit is the type the gov want. My DHs unit is bad from the top, as they are not really interested. I did ask (as ex TA) why people were not in trouble for not attending when they say they will and was told "because if we tell them off they say they are civvies and then sulk and don't show up for months". I think they need to weed out a select few and it would change. DH does say that those who volunteer as usually good and with the extra training perform well on ops but then there are those that "don't want to go back from R&R as I didn't like the heat and getting shot at" (he did get told he would go to jail if not going back and went reluctantly). But yes there are slackers in the regs too. As for doing it on the cheap, having many friends in the National Guard, it is not on the cheap, they get a LOT more training than our TA and even spend a month in the summer on camp. When they deploy they do a 6 month pre deployment training package and then deploy for the year taking 18 months out of their civvie job, they do however have a very different attitude to the reservists and their jobs are more protected than those in the Uk and they are given many tax breaks, incentives to be in the reservists and their employers are compensated for it as well.

With moral at an all time low (as your DH will be telling you) this is just another money saving scam that will force all the regs to leave as they don't feel valued. Not sure about your unit but most struggle to recruit right now and if the adverts are saying join the TA do a regs job and be sure you will end up going to war well the recruitment will fall even more. Maybe the gov new strategy is to bridge the gap from reg to civvie life by making regs redundant then forcing them into the TA grin

Happylander Thu 28-Jul-11 16:29:12

Little bit offended by your comments saying only 1% of the TA are useful!!! Unfortunately our full-time jobs require us to work so therefore it is not possible for us to attend everything the TA does and that includes summer balls! I think you'll find that unlike the Regs the people in the TA work 37.5 hours plus every week and don't get time off for sports on Wednesday afternoons or to attend functions. Plus many of us have families that require our attention at weekends sometimes and so can't make every weekend. We use our annual leave to attend TA courses etc unlike the Regs which means we can sometimes use it all up and have none left to attend anything else.

I really really think that the 6 months I spent in Afhgan in the Emergency Deptartment meant that I was more than 1% useful. I certainly know the rest of the hospital were certainly more than 1% useful and I think you'll find the soldiers whose lives they saved will say the same thing. I suggest you stop spouting crap about the TA. There are just as many useless people in the Regs my DH has 5 Cpl working under him and none of them are deployable due to welfare reasons or long term illness...something I laugh at a lot as you certainly wouldn't be able to say in a civvie job 'oh no I can't do that my wife is depressed blah blah' or carrying on doing a job for years when you are physically or mentally unable to carry out that job.

Right rant over! Got to try and grab an hours sleep before I do my regular job.

loubielou31 Fri 29-Jul-11 17:16:26

This is what it sounds like to me too Amanda,
"the gov just want to save money and want soldiers on the cheap, they know we are good and they know they get us for less (no pensions,no support,no medical....well non of the good things about being a soldier)"
Although the good things about being a regular soldier are being done away with too imo.

AmandaB22 Sat 30-Jul-11 19:46:05

very true, cutting back big style

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3ofeach Please dont take this the wrong way but do not rely on getting help just because you have a firm dx. I came away from my DS's apt feeling upset (as ADHD is for life and not just for christmas as they say) and happy because I thought that finally we would get the help we needed. It just doesnt work that way I am afraid sad.

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3ofeach My son was dx with ADHD aged 7. We hadn't tried to get him a dx before that age, but his school was pushing for it. I am surprised that they are reluctant to dx if his problems exist in both settings ie. at home and school .. this has to be the case as it's part of the diagnostic criteria. What kind of help are you expecting? My son has a good teacher in a good school, but very little has changed for him. He is not medicated and there is was no other support offered to us .. just the hospital website on ADHD which we already knew lots about. A child isn't automatically medicated as it's usually the last resort depending what level of dx they have. Runningonmt is right when she says a statement for education is a long process and we were told outright our son would never get a statement with his dx .. he simply wasn't bad enough ... even though he is behind in all aspects of his education. Apparently they need to be really, really behind - whatever that means?!?!

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I've just had a call from the family fund - they are sending an advisor to visit and meet my DS tomorrow. Is this usual? This is our first application. Is this a formality or are we being vetted?
I'm a bit nervous as DS can appear very calm and able at home with an adult visitor addressing him one on one.
Anyone know what I should expect? She has led me to believe its just a formality, and we will just be filling in paperwork.

5intheEgg Mon 06-Apr-09 11:07:57

I've just had the FF visiting me this morning. Its usual for a first application apparently, if the info you supplied isn't enough.
The woman was really nice, just read the reports I had for ds2, talked a bit about him, no paperwork to fill out. DS2 was eating breakfast and was quite calm, which I thought was typical he should be being ok, but had a huge meltdown before she left.

Don't worry about it, she isn't there to judge. Hope it goes well.

What is she called? Mine had initials JB, just wonder if its the same woman.

Widemouthfrog Mon 06-Apr-09 11:23:44

No not the same one 5. Fingers crossed for tomorrow smile.
I've just re-checked the criteria on their website and we fill them all imo.

5intheEgg Mon 06-Apr-09 12:10:52

So do we. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. The lady was really nice, which made me feel at ease. She thinks we will get all 3 things we have asked for, I'd be happy just for one tbh!

Mitchell81 Mon 06-Apr-09 15:38:01

I think it is normal, we had someone visit on our first application about 7 years ago.

Widemouthfrog Sat 25-Apr-09 10:18:05

Just an update - we got our funding grin.
Money for a holiday and £300 for sensory lighting.
I am thrilled.
How did you get on 5inthe bed?

mamadadawahwah Tue 28-Apr-09 17:51:16

I want to apply for money for a holiday, and for a laptop for my boy - do u think we would get it if we fit the criteria, ie. can you ask for two things at once?

Blossomhill Tue 28-Apr-09 18:05:15

How do they work it out if you are self employed? Just not sure if we qualify?

Widemouthfrog Tue 28-Apr-09 20:29:33

Absolutely mamadadawahwah. We got 2 things.
Blossomhill - not sure. Maybe you could give them a call and ask for advice.
I think income cut off is £23,000 and less than £18,000 savings

haanah29 Wed 29-Apr-09 21:27:45

when u have put in for the family fund before do u put in for it from the day u got it oh the day u put in for it

Widemouthfrog Thu 30-Apr-09 09:48:03

I've been told I can reapply 12 months from the day of the award, and not 12 months from the date it was originally submitted.

haanah29 Thu 30-Apr-09 14:13:15

hanks for that i will reapply for it then the last time i put in for it was may last year

cherrymonster Thu 30-Apr-09 14:36:01

am still waiting to hear about mine, put my first application just days after christmas. had a visit four weeks ago and still not heard anything sad

cherrymonster Thu 30-Apr-09 17:13:21

Bastards!!! i have been in a queue on the phone to these people since 4.40, they have just cut me off completely at precisely 5pm when the office shut. i was at queue position one, and they just turned the bloody phones off. do they not see that they have calls waiting??? have only been waiting to do my garden since a few days aftewr bloody christmas! angry

lainey1802 Thu 30-Apr-09 19:55:52

I met the Regional Co-Ordinator at the Kids South (Reading) thingy last year, she gave me her card with her direct details and email add on, Clare Kassa, and mobile 07771 632275, I just ring her direct now (or email) if I have a query, have your reference number to hand and give it a try - Good Luck! wink

cherrymonster Thu 30-Apr-09 20:02:25

they rang me back at 5.30. they have awarded money to do my garden, and a haven holiday!!! grin

Widemouthfrog Thu 30-Apr-09 20:13:56

Fantastic Cherry.

cherrymonster Thu 30-Apr-09 21:19:22

very fantastic!!! grin

5inthebed Thu 30-Apr-09 21:58:08

Excellent Cherry!

Widemouthfrog Thu 30-Apr-09 22:05:28

I've just booked our haven holiday - it cost me £3.50 grin

cherrymonster Thu 30-Apr-09 22:36:28

where are you going frog? and how long for? am interested to know how they award the holidays. do they just say pick a week and an accomodation kind of thing or do they give you a voucher towards the cost?

Widemouthfrog Fri 01-May-09 09:41:00

They give you a credit with Haven. Basically you call haven with your reference number, and then book however you wish. There are no constraints on how you use the money with haven, just that it is used within 9 months. We are going to Devon Cliffs (Exmouth). Fortunately DS is not back at school ubtil 2nd week in sept so we have been able to get a good deal for the August Bank Holiday week as most kids are back at school during that week.
We got £550, but I think the amount awarded is variable.
Check out the haven website for the best deals before you call. We have saved £200 and got a larger caravan just by going Fri-Fri instead of Sat-Sat.

andrewsnana Sun 19-Jun-11 14:34:28

Ive applied to the FF also still waiting to hear back from them though I did recieve a letter to say I should get a visit soon I hope its soon as my washing machine has died and my fridge is mouldy Im desperate

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Some of the dresses look great in the photos but would be sack-like in real life, I'd say.

Some of the items they sell can be bought for less on other websites, it's worth googling the brands.

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Learn the heavy riff from Arctic Monkeys' 'Suck It And See' stomper 'Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair'. Pick up Total Guitar issue 216 (on sale 10 June to 7 July) for a guide to nailing the guitar tones from the song.

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In addition to at least three full tabs of classic and contemporary songs from your favourite artists, every issue of TG features three full-song Video Lessons and a Riff Of The Month for the more visually orientated learners among you.

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If this is your first introduction to the Whoopie Pie, the name may be worth a giggle, but it’s misleading! A Whoopie Pie is somewhere between a cake and a biscuit.

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300g Plain White Flour

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100g Salted Butter

175g Dark Muscovado Sugar

1 Medium Egg

1tsp Natural Vanilla Extract

125ml Full Fat Milk

Makes 6 Whoopie Pies

Preheat the oven to 180°C.

Line two baking trays with baking paper or silicone mats.

Whisk together the butter and sugar.

In a separate bowl, mix together the flour, cocoa powder and baking powder. Whisk in the egg.  Beat well.

Fill a piping bag with the mixture and pipe 5cm round cakes onto the lined baking trays.

Bake for 10-15 mins or until the cakes spring back when touched.

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Family planning authorities are so determined to stop couples from producing more children than the regulations allow that they are detaining the relatives of those who resist.  About 1,300 people are being held in cramped conditions in towns across Puning county, in Guangdong Province, as officials try to put pressure on couples who have illegal children to come forward for sterilisation.

The 20-day campaign, which was launched on April 7, aims to complete 9,559 sterilisations in Puning.   A doctor in Daba village said that his team was working flat out, beginning sterilisations every day at 8am and working straight through until 4am the following day.

Zhang Lizhao (38), the father of two sons, aged 6 and 4, said that he rushed home late last night to undergo sterilisation after his elder brother was detained. His wife had already returned so that the brother would be freed.   Thousands have refused to submit and officials are continuing to detain relatives, including elderly parents, to force them to submit to surgery.

On April 10 ‘The Southern Countryside Daily’ reported on about 100 people packed into a damp 200sqm room at a township family planning centre.  An official at the Puning Population and Family Planning Bureau told ‘The Global Times’: “It’s not uncommon for family planning authorities to adopt some tough tactics.”

In Puning couples with illegal children and their relatives who apply for permits to build a house are rejected. Illegal children are refused residency registration, denying them access to healthcare and education.

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What do you do if your family members have struggled with their weight for years, but you're not sure how to discuss it with them in a nonjudgmental way?

If you're Carl E. Coppock, you write a book.

Coppock then sent those family members copies of his book, “Lose the Diet and Lose the Weight” (Tate Publishing, $10.99).

“My brother said he had 25 diet books, and none of them seemed to help,” says Coppock, 80, who lives in San Antonio. “I don't think of my book as a diet book. It's based on behavioral changes.”

Although much of Coppock's advice may be familiar to anyone who has read their share of weight-loss books — ditch soda, eat more fiber, check nutrition labels — he found an unusual way to emphasize his points: poetry.

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“I hadn't written that way before,” Coppock says. “I though this might be a good technique to help people remember these points.”

Starting each meal with vegetables and fruit helped him lose 22 pounds, he says.

Coppock is not a dietitian — at least not for humans. He has a doctorate in animal nutrition, worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, taught at Cornell University and Texas A&M University and served as a nutritional consultant for pharmaceutical companies and commercial dairy farms. He relied on his background in academia to research his weight-loss book, he says.

He believes many of us are overweight in part because of our eating styles: taking big bites, swallowing too quickly, eating while distracted by the TV. He advocates a “contra-eating style” that includes small servings, small bites and ample chewing. Lots of chewing.

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He recommends chewing each bite 25 times. “Though your jaws may protest, / Your tummy will be blessed,” he writes in one of his poems.

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Web Sites used to be simple. These days though its not enough to make a pretty website. You have to have a site with an architecture that makes it Search Engine Friendly and Social Media Friendly.

The problem is that architecture is something the typical client can’t see. Even web site makers haven’t understood us when we try to help them. However when you have it everything is easier. Sites work better for the end user, pages rank easier without needing an SEO person, social media gets seen better and more.

How a web site is built and on what platform with what add ons or plugins determines effectiveness. It determines how easy SEO and Social Media efforts will be. The wrong site and its pushing a car uphill with flat tires.

The problem is that many of these self proclaimed web geniuses are so darn convincing. They throw out slang you don’t know and have a logic that with the slang make it seem like they are the ones to use. Yet a few months later and they are blaming everyone else but themselves for why its not working like other sites.

Why? because this industry is setup that way. Each person sells their piece (web site, seo, social media, mobile,idx,etc) and if it doesn’t work they point the finger at the other pieces. Even when we prove its their product that was the broken link they will start trying to through geek phrases at us (even though we are in the same industry and understand what they say is bullshit) to try to get out of the box we put them in.

So how do figure out who to choose? Try to find a company that is responsible to you for it all; site, seo, social media, mobile, branding, coaching,etc. That will give you a guarantee that if you do your side (provide pics, videos, testimonials, answers and comments on how your business is going each month,etc) they will get you business or buy it all back. Yeah you thinking we are saying to use us…maybe. Find someone else with our all encompassing services and track record AND a written contract and if you do try them. We just feel for those that get mesmerized with web designers that are outdated. They cost their clients hundreds of thousands of dollars of commissions they don’t get because the client doesn’t know better. We hope you see the light soon.

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Choosing to live fully: Happy New Year

Good morning January 1, 2014! I woke up with the cold hanging onto my body with the grip of a dying man, fearing the unknown. I had forgotten it was January 1, until I opened my beautiful bible to Ezekiel 36:26:

"A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will remove from you the heart of stone, giving you a heart of flesh."

My heart has been slowly turning to stone. Last year kicked me in the butt and kind of wore me out. There was much to celebrate and enjoy, which we did. But the stabbing pains led me to slowly shut off my heart to others, a mode we call self-protection. I struggled to confuse my calling with my identity which brought me straight into battle with giving into ingratitude. Ingratitude. Is that not the catalyst of so many of my sins in life?

As I processed what I had read this morning in Ezekiel, I asked what a raw, gnawing, beating heart of flesh would look like. What would it look like for the year of 2014, to have a heart pumping with 3,000 stallions?

Our fall was, has always been, and will always be, that we aren't satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other. Standing before that tree, laden with fruit withheld, we listen to Evil's murmur, 'In the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened...' (Genesis 3:5). But in the beginning, our eyes were already open. Our sight was perfect. Our vision let us see a world spilling with goodness. Our eyes fell on nothing but the glory of God. We saw God as He truly is: good. But we were lured by the deception that there was more to a full life, there was more to see. And true, there was more to see: the ugliness we hadn't beheld, the sinfulness we hadn't witnessed, the loss we hadn't known.

-Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts

A heart of flesh. Jesus' heart was "flesh." The last night before He went to the cross, He did what? His heart chose to give thanks. What about Jesus standing outside of Lazarus's tomb, and John 11:41 reminds us of His thankful heart, "Father I thank you that you have heard me." And then a dead man rose. Thanksgiving raises the dead, turns a heart of stone to a heart of flesh. An empty, stiff cadaver surging with veins full of blood, arteries flushing with life. Giving thanks.

"How do we live fully so we are fully ready to die?" Asks Ann Voskamp

The only place we need to see before we die is this place of seeing God, here and now, through it all.

This year, I choose to give thanks. I choose to purchase that notebook I've been wanting and fill it with one thousand gifts of grace.

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“Locust swarms move so fast because each locust is trying to eat the one in front and avoid being eaten by the one behind”
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There are two types of salespeople in life: those who receive leads, and those who have to go and get their own.

We find that sales teams tend to have a strong bias either way. The focus of this week’s blog is an emerging danger that we are seeing within our clients – the team that is reliant on inbound leads.

As you know, having a strong, inbound lead machine is a great thing. It means your salesforce doesn’t have to cold call, because they have what seems to be a never ending supply of leads. However, having a sales force reliant on inbound leads can carry significant risks:

1) It can diminish the value of leads: We’ve seen it – salespeople who call a lead once, and if they don’t get to speak to a customer, they simply move on to the next lead. Yet some of the latest research suggests that it takes 8 calls to get hold of a customer on the phone. So there’s a really strong chance that you are only being 10-15% as successful as you might be because your team is giving up too early and never actually speaks to many prospects!

2) If the leads dry up, you’re sunk: If/when your flow of leads becomes a trickle, then your team might not have the skills to generate their own opportunities. We’ve seen this happen for all sorts of reasons (Google algorithm change, sudden competitor or market change) and you suddenly have a sales team who don’t know what to do to generate their own leads.

3) You don’t target amazing customers: If you only ever react, then you don’t work with the customers you really want to work with. Say you want to work with Sony. In a reactive environment, if Sony never shows an interest, then you don’t speak. In a proactive environment, you can target exactly who you want. You can put together a compelling strategy for targeting them. And the sense of winning is phenomenal.

4) It’s harder to capture high performance: It’s easier to dip into low performance if you rely on the outside world to provide you with opportunities. Leads can slow down, and ‘downtime’ creeps in – suddenly you have a ‘busy’ salesforce who aren’t selling.

Here’s what we recommend if you have a reactive salesforce that needs to get on the front foot and become more proactive:

1. Get some cold calling training: Proactive cold calling is a different ballgame than reactive selling. Cold calling is beautiful when done the right way, with courageous, pinpoint accuracy underpinned by research and great messaging. Cold calling stimulates the nerve-centre of a sales force, asking them to be creative, courageous and strategic. A cold call win injects your whole team, and company, with a ‘can-do’ attitude and a different outlook and atmosphere.

2. Encourage a ‘talk to strangers’ culture: Your people need to spend at least a small part of every day and week talking to strangers. Find out their comfort levels with doing so, and address the attitude by confronting it head on.

3. Create an ‘honour thy lead’ culture: Educate the salesforce on the cost of each lead, and the current climate where it takes many more calls to get through.  Create a team code for 6 follow-ups in the first 3 days.  Make chasing leads aggressively the new ‘normal’ and watch your sales results tumble in!

4. Create an outbound ‘hotzone’ every day: Ringfence a small part of every day for outbound, proactive, cold sales calls. Start developing the skills – then, when “lead winter” comes, you’ve got insurance.

5. Service everything with time to spare: I know what you’re thinking, “that just isn’t possible at our company” or “it’s different here” or “there’s not enough time” etc. The fundamental truth is that if your team are unable to respond to every inbound lead with time to spare, or worse, you have so many inbound leads (you lucky devils) that some are being missed or response time is being damaged along with your reputation, then something needs to give. You either need more sales people, fast, or a much more effective system of qualifying the good leads from the bad, giving your sales people time every day to build their outbound selling muscle and proactively find the clients you want.

As the opening quote of this blog goes, you can either be a locust that chases and eats, or one that gets eaten if you can’t move quickly enough.  Start developing your proactive, outbound calling skills now with our brilliant Natural LIVE telesales training.  You can see the results happen before your eyes because your group makes real calls while we train them. Give us a call on 020 7264 1150 if you’d like to find out more or get in touch by clicking the link below.

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Canton’s Hugh C. Williams Senior High School is located in a residential section of Canton, New York, which is eighteen miles southeast of the Canadian border. The community’s socio-economic composition is diverse. Major area employers include education, agriculture, small business, correctional facilities, health care and large and small industries.

The Canton Central School District has one high school, one middle school and one elementary school on a single campus with an enrollment of approximately 1270 students. The Canton Central School District enjoys the academic and cultural benefits of having St. Lawrence University and SUNY at Canton in the community, as well as Clarkson University and State University College at Potsdam which are located n the immediate area.

The Canton Recreation Department is a shared service of the Town and Village of Canton that strives to provide inclusive, affordable, accessible recreational services for all Canton residents. The Department maintains several parks and playgrounds, including Taylor Park Beach and the Canton Recreational Pavilion Ice Arena. Additionally, the Recreation Department offers programs year-round to increase recreation opportunities. The variety of programs offered share a common goal of providing inclusive environments to promote participation in positive leisure time activities and adopt a healthy lifestyle.

The Canton Recreation Department collaborates with Nature Up North to promote Canton’s beautiful rivers, parks, and trails. Through programs such as the Canton Fall Trails Series, the Recreation Department and Nature Up North encourage residents to engage in their surrounding environment.

Colton-Pierrepont Central School is a small rural school system located in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains. New York State’s second longest river, the Racquette River, flows through the district creating majestic scenery, a source of electrical power, and spectacular recreation. SUNY Colleges at Potsdam and Canton, Clarkson University and St. Lawrence University are located in neighboring communities; serve as a resource for undergraduate, graduate and partnership opportunities. This portion of Northern New York is known for a high quality of life created by the combination of career opportunities in agriculture, the arts, higher education, industry, technology and recreation.

Colton-Pierrepont Central School proudly educates students to become responsible, respectful, and resourceful citizens, thereby continuing a tradition of innovation and excellence.

Cornell Cooperative Extension puts knowledge to work in pursuit of economic vitality, ecological sustainability and social well-being. We bring local experience and research based solutions together, helping New York State families and communities thrive in our rapidly changing world.

DJ Case and Associates is a communcation consulting and mobile web development company dedicated to conservation and environmental issues.  DJ Case supports the Nature Up North effort by providing web application design, architecture and development services.

The Henry David Thoreau Foundation is an organization that supports undergraduate scholars through tuition scholarships and grant programs to prepare them for environmental leadership. The foundation believes in the critical need to prepare and foster future environmental leaders to face the environmental challeges that lie ahead for our country and our world. The Henry David Thoreau Foundation is supporting Nature Up North with a grant of $18, 644 to help fund the training of undergraduate students as environmental educators and community stewards.

Higley Flow State Park is nestled among the Adirondack foothills on the picturesque Raquette River. Spacious campsites, separated from neighbors by pine trees, abound in the park. The terrain is hilly and heavily-wooded and there is a sandy beach on the reservoir of the Raquette River. The scenic river is ideal for canoeing and fishing. The Beaver Pond Nature Trail has interpretive signs that describe the six distinct habitats through which the trail passes. Hiking trails double as cross-country ski trails in winter, when snowmobiling, snowshoeing and ice fishing are also allowed.

Indian Creek Nature Center consists of approximately 320 acres located within the Upper and Lower Lakes Wildlife Management Area in the town of Canton in New York State. The center borders flooded lands between the Oswegatchie and Grasse Rivers designed to enhance waterfowl habitat.

The center contains approximately 7.9 miles of trails, including a handicapped accessible boardwalk trail through a marsh to an overlook with expansive views of Upper and Lower Lakes Wildlife Management Area. Elevation ranges from 308 feet in the northern portion to 350 feet near the road in the southern portion.

All trails are free and open to the public.  Extensive efforts are underway to improve many of the trails including informational plaques and a guided nature trail.  Please enjoy the center as a wildlife haven with a myriad of amphibians, mammals, and resident and migratory birds.

The center also offers a number of guided programs in the spring and fall.  Choose events above to view current offerings.

Little River Community School is an alternative school serving 34 students, grades K-12, in a three-room schoolhouse, in Canton, NY. At Little River, we have a fundamental trust in children and their inherent motivation to learn about their world.

Our approach nurtures self-motivation and is characterized by the following:

  • Multi-age groups
  • 8:1 student teacher ratio
  • Commitment to nonviolence and nondiscrimination
  • Cooperation
  • Community involvement
  • Appreciation of our natural and physical world
  • Hands-on activities

Call us at (315) 379-9474 or write us at steve@littleriverschool.org for more information.

Little River is located 5 miles south of Canton on the Canton-Russell Road, 1227 County Route 25.

The Massena Central School District is located in the heart of the St. Lawrence River Valley. In a beautiful rural setting, just an hour from Ottawa and Montreal, the district includes a population of 15,000 residents on 122 acres of the peaceful St. Lawrence River Valley. Canada is only minutes away and the majestic Adirondack Mountains are within a thirty minute drive.

Massena Central enjoys a long and proud history of community, industrial and business support. The district is well diversified industrially (ALCOA and GM Power train) and commercially (shopping mall, large box stores, and local businesses). The District is also home to the New York Power Authority, the Snell and Eisenhower Locks and the Robert Moses-Robert H. Saunders Dam.

The District is within a thirty minute drive of four outstanding colleges and universities; Clarkson University, St. Lawrence University, SUNY Canton and SUNY Potsdam. Paul Smith’s College and several Canadian colleges are within a short drive.

Recreational opportunities abound on the St. Lawrence, Grasse, and Raquette Rivers, all of which flow through the district. Numerous parks, beaches, walking trails, marinas and boat launches can be found within the District. The Nature Center provides cross country skiing, snowshoeing and other activities.

Massena Memorial Hospital provides modern and excellent health care services. The Massena Museum and the Massena Library provide quality educational opportunities to the community as well.

The Boys & Girls Club is a positive place for kids!  The Ogdensburg Boys & Girls Club was established in 1964 by a group of people that believed a place was needed to serve boys of the Ogdensburg area to provide them with educational, recreational, social skills, and other positive traits.  Admitting its first ever girl member in 1975, today the Ogdensburg Boys & Girls Club serves over 1,000 boys and girls a year from Ogdensburg and throughout St. Lawrence County.

The addition of the John E. Claxton Memorial Learning Center in the fall of 2002 expanded the club’s academic opportunities for its members establishing “Power Hour” for students to receive tutoring in all academic areas.  The learning center also hosts the newest addition to the club, the SUNY ATTAIN Lab, which opened in the Spring of 2005.  The ATTAIN Lab contains 15 state of the art computers with built in academic coursework for children and adults of all ages, including internet access.  The lab is in partnership with the SUNY Research Foundation and is servicing club members and much of the adult community free of charge.

Robert Moses State Park is located partly on the mainland and partly on Barnhart Island. Visitors reach the park through a tunnel under the Eisenhower Lock. The park is spacious, home to a large variety of flora and fauna and offers a multitude of recreational opportunities, including wooded campsites and cabins, a marina and boat launch, some of the best fishing in the Northeast, picnic areas, a swimming beach, tennis courts and a year round nature center. The nature center also offers holiday, special events and school outreach programs. The park's nature, hiking and cross-country skiing trails wind through fields, forests and wetlands, with overlooks showcasing spectacular views. In winter, the park also welcomes snowmobilers.

The Mohawk Territory, which started out as a tiny village, is a truly international community which is home to approximately 10,000 people. Located in northern-most New York State and literally bisected by the United States-Canada Border, the present territory, called Akwesasne, a Mohawk word for Land Where the Partridge Drums is divided into two separate federally recognized jurisdictions, The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe and the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne, and one traditional governing body encompassing all of Akwesasne, the Mohawk Nation Council of Chiefs. The efforts of the Environment Division are directed toward preventing disease and injury, while at the same time, promoting lifestyles that respect, protect and enhance the environment for the next seven generations at Akwesasne. Largely due to the fact that the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation is situated next to a Superfund site highly contaminated with toxic chemicals, this Tribe has one of the most advanced environment divisions of any Tribe in the Country.

The St. Lawrence River Research and Education Fund (SLRREF) was established by the New York Power Authority to support environmental research and environmental education projects relateing to the ecology of the St. Lawrence River watershed. The SLRREF is supporting Nature Up North with a grant of $20,000 to help fund environmental education and community outreach programing focused around the watershed and the lands and wildlife which depend upon it.

St. Lawrence University (SLU) is leading the development of Nature Up North on behalf of the North Country community. Located in Canton, NY, St. Lawrence University is a coeducational, private, independent liberal arts institution of about 2,300 students. The educational opportunities at St. Lawrence inspire students and prepare them to be critical and creative thinkers, to find a compass for their lives and careers, and to pursue knowledge and understanding for the benefit of themselves, humanity and the planet. SLU is a vibrant and collaborative community of learners with a strong focus on active engagement with ideas in and beyond the classroom, providing students the opportunity to embrace the natural world, engage with global challenges and ultimately leading students to make connections that transform lives and communities, from the local to the global.

Traditional Arts in Upstate New York is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping people understand and appreciate the folk traditions and local culture of everyday life--present and past--in the North Country. To do so, TAUNY seeks to research and preserve a record of diverse groups, customs and traditions; to recognize and empower traditional arts and artists; to identify and promote regional identity; and to provide opportunities for people of all ages to learn about folklore and local culture.

The North Country Children’s Museum (NCCM) will focus on learning and discovery for children in preschool through middle school and their families. The museum is designed as a learning lab for faculty across the four campuses in education, science and the humanities. Local businesses and artisans will also play an integral role. NCCM will serve community needs for vacation weeks and summer camps, after school programs, school field trips and birthday parties.

The North Country Children’s Museum will be the area’s first cultural institution geared towards children and families. NCCM supports children as creative and engaged learners and thinkers through exploring our rich cultural and geographical region.

The Wild Center is a not-for-profit organization overseen by a Board of Trustees with the assistance of its Advisory Board. The Center is located on a 31-acre site in the Town of Tupper Lake, NY near the geographic center of the Adirondack Park.

The Adirondacks are unique in the world. Surrounded by people, they house great expanses of nature interspersed with small towns and communities. They can be an example for a future where man and the rest of the natural world find better ways to coexist.

This new Center, dedicated to understanding this rare place, is committed to helping people explore not a small collection, but one that lives and breathes across the entire expanse of the Adirondacks.

The Wild Center is science-based, and its experiences, exhibits and programs are designed to open new ways to look into the latest discoveries made by natural scientists.

There may be no more important issue facing humankind than discovering better ways to coexist with the rest of the natural world, and there may be no better place to understand that effort than in the Adirondacks. The Center is the place to see and appreciate the natural side of that vital story.

The USA National Phenology Network (USA-NPN) is a consortium of individuals and organizations focused on monitoring the influence of climate on the phenology of plants, animals, and landscapes through the collection, sharing, and scientific application of phenological data. The USA-NPN seeks to serve both science and society by broadening and deepening our understanding of phenology and its relationship to the changing environment. The USA-NPN encourages phenology monitoring by people of all ages and backgrounds as a means to explore and better understand the pace of our ever-changing world. Nature Up North is working as a partner with the USA-NPN to achieve a variety of goals, including working to properly monitor phenology, engaging members in phenology observation, and using the USA-NPN as an archive for phenological data.


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Senate Passes $15B Disaster Aid Measure, Debt Limit Increase - NBC 10 Philadelphia
After Irma

After Irma

Complete coverage of Hurricane Irma, a monster storm that struck Florida

Senate Passes $15B Disaster Aid Measure, Debt Limit Increase

The aid money comes as Harvey recovery efforts are draining federal disaster aid coffers and Irma is taking aim at Florida

    Irma Slams the Caribbean, Blacking Out Puerto Rico

    Hurricane Irma blacked out much of Puerto Rico and brought death and destruction to other islands in its path late Wednesday and into Thursday as the powerful storm raged through the Caribbean. NBC News' Morgan Radford reports. (Published Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017)

    The Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly backed a $15.3 billion aid package for victims of Harvey, nearly doubling President Donald Trump's emergency request, and adding a deal between Trump and Democrats to increase America's borrowing authority and fund the government into December.

    The 80-17 vote sends the package to the House for a vote on Friday, though GOP conservatives are chafing at the inside-Washington maneuvering and painful debt limit vote. But with emergency accounts running out of money and Hurricane Irma barreling toward the East Coast, the measure appears set to easily pass. Trump will sign it.

    The must-do legislation would also provide money to government agencies through Dec. 8, eliminating the threat of a government shutdown when the new fiscal year starts next month.

    Thursday's vote came a day after Trump stunned GOP leaders by siding with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, by backing a short-term extension to the debt limit increase and the spending bill.

    Before and After Images Show Irma's Destruction

    [NATL] Before and After Images Show Irma's Destruction

    Before and after photos of the Caribbean and Florida show the power of Hurricane Irma.

    (Published Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017)

    The need to raise the debt limit to ease a looming cash crunch that is worsening because of unanticipated Harvey spending was a major headache for GOP leaders like House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., who had urged a longer extension to spare Republicans multiple votes ahead of next year's midterm elections.

    GOP leaders are fuming, but Ryan backed the idea on Thursday, telling reporters that the president didn't want to have "some partisan fight in the middle of the response."

    The aid money comes as Harvey recovery efforts are draining federal disaster aid coffers and Irma is taking aim at Florida. It's just the first installment on a recovery and rebuilding package for the twin hurricanes that could eclipse the more than $110 billion cost to taxpayers of Hurricane Katrina.

    In a surprise move late Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell added $7.4 billion in rebuilding funding to Trump's $7.9 billion request to deal with the immediate emergency in Texas and parts of Louisiana.

    "It will provide certainty and stability for first responders, state officials, and the many others involved in preparing for and recovering from these storms, with critically needed emergency resources that will not be interrupted by the prospect of a shutdown or default," McConnell said Thursday. "The recovery effort for a record-setting storm like Harvey has strained resources to the limit already."

    McConnell also added a temporary extension of the federal flood insurance program.

    The additional community block grant money is to jump-start rebuilding efforts. The money can cover costs the Federal Emergency Management Agency can't.

    "This funding will serve as an initial first step toward helping Texans begin the process of rebuilding," said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who requested the additional funding be adding to the measure.

    The $15 billion-plus aid package is also crafted in such a way to free up another $7 billion in Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster relief funds.

    Adding the debt ceiling increase to the measure is upsetting many GOP conservatives, who want to accompany that politically toxic measure with cuts to spending.

    "Not that the relief package is bad but the debt ceiling vote, attached to the relief package, is Washington like most people wish it wasn't," said Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas. "It's like the Washington that Trump campaigned against. So, as much as I want to help Texas, I can't vote for something that just is a blank check on the debt."

    And the perception that Pelosi came away with a victory has Republicans grinding their molars.

    Florida Begins Cleanup Process After Hurricane Irma

    [NATL] Florida Begins Cleanup Process After Hurricane Irma Slams Southeast US

    Florida has begun the long process of digging out after Hurricane Irma slammed the state. Now weakening, the system is still producing unprecedented flooding across the southeast, from Jacksonville to the Carolinas.

    (Published Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017)

    Pelosi used a Thursday news conference to take a victory lap, telling reporters that her deal with Trump ensured that Democrats would have leverage during upcoming Washington debates this fall on health care, government spending, and immigration.

    Just before the final vote, the Senate easily voted 87-10 to kill a move by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., to pay for the aid package by cutting foreign aid accounts.

    "Why don't we pay for this? Why don't we simply take some money that we were going to spend somewhere else for something not as valuable in another country, and why don't we spend it here?" Paul said.

    Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., fared only slightly better in losing a 72-25 vote to kill a bid to remove the debt limit language and all spending above Trump's request.

    "Yesterday we saw Washington's swamp continue to rise: Chuck Schumer wrote the art of the steal by taking hurricane relief hostage to guarantee a December showdown that favors Democratic spending priorities," Sasse said. Other GOP lawmakers, however, acknowledged that Republicans were more upset with the narrative that Schumer and Pelosi had won a victory than they were about any loss of leverage in battles later this fall.

    In the meeting with Republican and Democratic leaders on Wednesday, Trump also suggested doing away with the debt ceiling entirely.

    Keys Residents Eager to Return Home After Irma

    [NATL-MI] Keys Residents Eager to Return Home After Irma

    NBC 6's Julia Bagg is at the roadblock in Florida City as residents in the Upper Keys will be able to return home Tuesday, unsure of what they will find after the hurricane's strike this weekend.

    (Published Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017)

    "It complicates things. It's really not necessary because you're talking about budget, so it's really not necessary," Trump said Thursday.

    Pelosi and Schumer indicated that it was an issue they would discuss with their respective rank and file.


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90th Oscars Dance Between Honoring and Correcting the Past - NBC 7 San Diego

90th Oscars Dance Between Honoring and Correcting the Past

In many ways, the show inside the Dolby Theatre went exactly as planned — scripted, tight, full of past-looking montages, forward-thinking speeches and produced to appeal to all

    90th Oscars Dance Between Honoring and Correcting the Past
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    A view of the Oscar Statue at the 90th Annual Academy Awards Nominee Luncheon at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on February 5, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California.

    Held one year ago, the 90th Academy Awards would have very likely been a rose-colored nostalgia fest.

    But this year, with a culture-wide reckoning over decades of sexual misconduct, a film business in decline, a volatile political climate and the fact that last year the esteemed show couldn't even manage to present its biggest award correctly, the film academy and host Jimmy Kimmel on Sunday staged a complex and sometimes incongruous dance of attempting to both honor and atone for the past.

    In many ways, the show inside the Dolby Theatre went exactly as planned — scripted, tight, full of past-looking montages, forward-thinking speeches and produced to appeal to all. Presenters Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty got a best picture redo, ("What happened last year is Waterhouse under the bridge," Kimmel quipped) and 86-year-old Rita Moreno got to wear her dress from the 1962 ceremony again.

    The Walt Disney Co. sneaked a fair amount of promos ("A Wrinkle in Time," and "Mary Poppins Returns") and self-congratulations (for "Black Panther") into its ABC broadcast and the production did its best to appeal to the "regular moviegoer" by trotting out Gal Gadot and other stars to literally give candy to a theater full of people.

    Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP

    The awards also effectively skirted the awkwardness of having an accused man in the spotlight by shifting around long-held presenter traditions and having Jodie Foster and Jennifer Lawrence present the best actress award instead of Casey Affleck. Emma Stone got her Natalie Portman moment, presenting the directing award to "four men and Greta Gerwig." Activists like #MeToo creator Tarana Burke were included in a song segment. And three Harvey Weinstein accusers, Ashley Judd, Salma Hayek and Annabella Sciorra, were given a moment to themselves on stage for nothing more than the fact that they were brave enough to speak up before a hopeful video played highlighting a changing industry, post #MeToo and more diverse. (Affleck settled two civil suits and has said the terms prevented him from discussing the matter; Weinstein has denied all allegations of non-consensual sex.)

    The video highlighted Greta Gerwig, the fifth woman to ever be nominated for best director, Yance Ford, the first transgender nominee for "Strong Island," Dee Rees, whose "Mudbound" scored a historic cinematographer nomination and the Pakistan-born Kumail Nanjiani, nominated for "The Big Sick."

    The nominees signaled a renaissance. The winners told a slightly different story.

    With a more diverse, more international and younger infusion of voting members into the film academy, the movie in love with movies still won the top awards. Guillermo del Toro's fantasy romance "The Shape of Water," won best picture, director, score and production design.

    "Growing up in Mexico, I thought this could never happen," del Toro said. "It happens."

    The acting awards, which have been locked for three months, went to the expected winners — all esteemed veterans and three of whom had never been nominated before: Frances McDormand won best actress for "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" and her co-star Sam Rockwell won for his supporting performance. Gary Oldman picked up the best actor prize for transforming into Winston Churchill in "Darkest Hour" and Allison Janney for becoming Tonya Harding's mother in "I, Tonya."

    Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP

    At 89, James Ivory became the oldest Oscar-winner for his adapted screenplay for "Call Me By Your Name." And Christopher Nolan's ambitious World War II nail-biter "Dunkirk" picked up three technical awards.

    But Gerwig's "Lady Bird" left empty handed, Rachel Morrison did not become the first female cinematography winner (the long-snubbed Roger Deakins got that honor finally for "Blade Runner 2049" after 14 nominations) and Ford was not the first transgender Oscar-winner.

    There were glimpses of progress, in Chile's "A Fantastic Woman," which starred the transgender actress Daniela Vega, won best foreign film. Disney and Pixar's celebration of Mexican culture, "Coco," took best animated feature, as well as best song for "Remember Me."

    "The biggest thank you of all to the people of Mexico," said director Lee Unkrich to loud applause. "Marginalized people deserve to feel like they belong. Representation matters."

    And Jordan Peele became the first African-American to win best original screenplay for his horror sensation "Get Out."

    Peele said he stopped writing it "20 times," skeptical that it would ever get made.

    "But I kept coming back to it because I knew if someone would let me make this movie, that people would hear it and people would see it," said Peele. "So I want to dedicate this to all the people who raised my voice and let me make this movie."

    Even McDormand used her moment on stage to make a statement on behalf of women.

    "If I may be so honored to have all the female nominees stand with me," McDormand said.

    "We all have stories to tell and projects we need financed," she added, before uttering the phrase "inclusion rider," referring to actors signing contracts that mandate a film's gender and racial inclusivity.

    Everyone seemed to take this moment of an industry in flux to heart.

    "We can't let bad behavior slide anymore," said Kimmel at the show's start. "The world is watching us."

    And indeed as the last show in this very long season, made even longer thanks to the Olympics, and with an unprecedented pressure to address all the ills of society and 90 years of movies it was perhaps always going to be too big a feat for one group of entertainers to tackle in a single nearly four-hour production.

    There's only so much they can do, after all, and there is no one like Kimmel to remind everyone that it is still the movie industry.

    In an aside about the pay disparity between Mark Walhberg and Michelle Williams for "All the Money in the World" reshoots, Kimmel said upon discovering that both actors were represented by the same talent agency that, "This one shook me."

    "If we can't trust agents, who can we trust?"

    AP Film Writer Jake Coyle and writers Andrew Dalton, Nicole Evatt, Sandy Cohen and Kristin M. Hall contributed to this report.


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Sustainable Agriculture

The ATTRA project has served as the premier source of information about sustainable agriculture for U.S. farmers and other agriculturists for 20 years. ATTRA is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Business-Cooperative Service.

NCAT’s staff of agriculture specialists have produced more than 200 different publications and answered hundreds of thousands of questions on ways to diversify farm operations with new crop and livestock enterprises, explore new marketing methods, incorporate value-added and farm-processed products, curb the use of costly commercial inputs, and farm more environmentally. Via toll-free helplines and an extensive website that hosts more than a million unique visitors per year, ATTRA – National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service responds to the information needs of farmers, educators and extension agents across the country, in both English and Spanish. Some of the topics addressed include organic crop and vegetable production, agricultural energy, soils and compost, livestock, and marketing. ATTRA publications discuss issues ranging from biodiesel production to pest management, as well as offering specific information on sustainable production for a wide variety of crops and livestock.

Montana Healthy Food and Communities Initiative

MTFC_full_banner_imageNCAT’s Montana Healthy Food and Communities Initiative fosters robust regionally-based food systems and healthy living in Montana communities. Through educational activities, research and advocacy, and strong public and private partnerships, we seek to create lasting improvements in the way Montanans grow, buy, and eat food.

Armed to Farm – Veteran Resources

Farmers and ranchers are looking for reliable information on sustainable and organic agriculture, on how to get started in farming, on how to qualify for government programs that reward land stewardship and resource conservation, and on how to pursue such profitable niche markets as organic meats and grains or agriculture tourism. The answers to these and many other similar questions are available free from ATTRA – Sustainable Agriculture, a program of the nonprofit National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT). Learn more »

Managing Farm Energy Risks

Since 2006, NCAT has offered “energy alternatives” workshops to over 2,200 agricultural producers and over 2,500 other people in 12 Eastern and Southern states, including USDA agency staff and educators. These workshops included both energy efficiency and renewable energy measures. Partner organizations have included the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association, Center for Environmental Farming Systems, Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture, New England Small Farm Institute, and Piedmont Biofuels. This project has been funded by the USDA Risk Management Agency.

Farmers’ Market Food Stamp EBT Project

NCAT has been awarded Department of Health and Human Services funding through the State of Montana for a three-year project to test the use of electronic benefits transfer cards (EBTs) in at least three farmers’ markets in Montana. The project will enable food stamp benefit recipients to purchase products from individual farmers’ market vendors without each vendor being separately authorized by the USDA Food and Nutrition Services.

Oilseeds for Fuel, Feed and the Future Project

This project is a collaborative effort that aims to reduce risk and create new opportunities for Montana farmers who want to participate in, and benefit from, an emerging bio-based economy. The project involves workshops and Innovation Grants for farmers. In addition to NCAT, Project partners include Montana Farmers Union, Montana Grain Growers Association, Montana Department of Agriculture, Alternative Energy Resources Organization, Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and the Department of Environmental Quality’s Air, Energy and Pollution Prevention Bureau.

Western Iowa Local Food System Project

NCAT and the Floyd Boulevard Local Foods Market in Sioux City, Iowa, received a $30,000 grant through the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture to perform a preliminary feasibility assessment of a light processing and distribution center for local produce and meats in southwest Iowa.

Sustainable American Cotton Project

NCAT is one of several organizations working on this project funded by a national Conservation Innovation Grant from NRCS (USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service). This project involves farmer-to-farmer exchanges to learn about beneficial insect habitat in an effort to decrease pesticide usage on cotton in targeted states of Arizona, Georgia, and California.

Making Record Keeping and Sustainable Production Information Accessible to Immigrant Farmers

This USDA Risk Management Agency-funded project will develop innovative, graphic-heavy training materials on a variety of topics and will implement hands-on training on these same topics. Topics may include Record Keeping, Food Safety and Postharvest Techniques, Marketing and Greenhouse Season Extension, Land Access and Leasing, Integrated Pest Management: Preventing Disease & Pest Problems by Promoting Plant Health, Organic Strawberry Production with Other High Value Crops such as Flowers & Vegetables in Rotation.

Oil Seeds for Farm Energy: Pollution Reduction and Energy Conservation

This project includes three in-depth Montana case studies of farmers growing seeds for biodiesel, as well as several related workshops.

Irrigator’s Pocket Guide

NCAT released The Montana Irrigator’s Pocket Guide in 2003, as a take-to-the-field reference to help irrigators save energy, water, and money. The guide contains sections on equipment and irrigation practices. Based on the success of this project, NCAT cooperated with NRCS to produce an expanded version of the Irrigator’s Pocket Guide in 2005, that could be adapted for different states and regions. To date, NCAT has worked with project sponsors in 15 states, to adapt 14 different versions of the Irrigator’s Pocket Guide.

Training the Trainers

NCAT has participated for several years in efforts to train cooperative extension service agents and personnel from NCRS in sustainable farming systems, concepts, principles, and practices. NCAT has organized a series of field days, farm tours, conferences and workshops, and multidisciplinary trainings involving farmer/specialist training teams. NCAT has worked with numerous other organizations to produce these training events. Current projects for training trainers in the West, Southwest, and South focus on supporting farmers in transitioning to or succeeding with organic production, and on aiding farmers with alternative marketing strategies.

Slow-growing Broiler Project

NCAT is participating in a University of Arkansas project to research potential for raising organic slow-growing broiler chickens without supplemental methionine. The multi-year project involves research on different chicken genotypes and feeding strategies, as well as assessment of market opportunities and economic impacts of alternative production strategies.

Growing Farmers–Small Farm Initiative

This initiative is the training component of a multi-year project funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, focusing on training fruit and vegetable producers, supporting farmers markets, and building capacity in partners and the agricultural communities in southern Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama. It involves helping farmers to diversify their crops, extend their seasons, become vendors at local farmers markets, and diversify their marketing plans in order to manage some of the risks involved in farming.

Helping People by championing small-scale, local, and sustainable solutions to reduce poverty, promote healthy communities, and protect natural resources.