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You are not alone if you find airport layovers the least exciting part of air travel. In fact, this is probably the one part of the journey most travellers hope can be over as soon as possible. Besides, there's often very little to see and do while you wait, making the boredom even more unbearable. We promise you won't feel the same way at Changi Airport. Whether you're on a short stopover or have more time to spare, there are plenty of activities available here to keep you entertained and refreshed before your next flight.
Layover time: 2 hours or less
Fuel up for your next flight
From fresh and floral to full bodied and peaty, you'll find the whiskey of your dreams at The Whiskey House
Not a fan of airline food? Prep for your upcoming flight by savouring a leisurely meal at one of the many F&B outlets at the airport before you board the plane. If your flight is departing from Terminal 3, drop in at the Long Bar by Raffles for a complimentary cocktail – or two – before you take off.
If premium Scotch is more your thing, visit The Whiskey House for a tasting session. With more than 100 whiskies from across the globe, this is a great way to discover the perfect tipple for you.
Indulge in some retail therapy
From high street to designer labels, many popular brands are available at duty free prices at Changi Airport
Two hours is just enough time to enjoy a spot of shopping, whether to stock up on necessities or to indulge in a luxury item. With a wide range of stores selling perfumes, cosmetics, books, gifts, electronics and even fashion accessories you'll be able to snag some good deals at shops such as The Shilla Duty Free, which offer lower prices than malls downtown.
Layover time: 2 to 6 hours
Escape to a pocket of greenery
To get a better look at the butterflies at the Butterfly Garden, position yourself close to sliced pineapples and gerbera flowers drenched in honey, which they feed on
Find out what makes Singapore a Garden City with a calming break among the airport's themed gardens. With green spaces at every terminal – such as the Cactus Garden at Terminal 1, Sunflower Garden at Terminal 2 and Butterfly Garden at Terminal 3 – you can even embark on a nature trail to recharge yourself as you wait for your next flight.
Gear up for high-octane entertainment
After spending hours in your plane seat, give your muscles a chance to move and stretch with a round of Kinect Sports at the Gaming Room
If you or the kids have unspent energy from hours of sitting in a plane, head to the Entertainment Deck. From a multimedia entertainment centre with Xbox 360, Kinect and PlayStation 3 game consoles to a movie theatre screening the latest blockbusters, there are plenty of ways to keep the entire family entertained for a few hours.
Let your tension melt away at one of the many spa services
Beauty addicts shouldn't miss the opportunity to pamper themselves with luxury facials and massages at The Shilla Beauty Loft's SK-II Pitera Lounge
Long flights and a busy travel schedule can leave you with tense and tired muscles. When you have time to unwind, drop by one of the spas within the airport, such as Spa Express, Airport Wellness Oasis or Be Relax for a relaxing massage or foot reflexology session. With up to six hours to spare, you can even get a mani/pedi and end your session with a hot shower, so you'll be fresh and ready for the next flight.
Did you know that along with great deals at the Shilla Beauty Loft at Terminal 3, you can also get pampered with luxury beauty services while you're there? For instance, at the SK-II Pitera Lounge, there is a range of express 15-minute treatments as well as indulgent facials of up to 60 minutes to restore travel-fatigued skin. You can also get a complimentary flash makeover at the Dior Beauty House, so you'll be looking your best before your next flight.
Layover time: Over 6 hours
Explore Singapore
Induce Insta-envy among your friends even on a short layover with a snapshot of Singapore's stunning skyline while out on a Free Singapore Tour
With at least six hours in the country, you can head out of the airport and enjoy some of Singapore's iconic sights by signing up for a Free Singapore Tour. You can choose from two itineraries – the Heritage Tour and the City Sights Tour. Both tours include a short stopover at the Merlion Park so you can get a pictorial souvenir of your whirlwind trip with the mascot of Singapore.
With at least six hours in the country, you can head out of the airport and enjoy some of Singapore's iconic sights by signing up for a Free Singapore Tour
Enjoy some quality R&R
You can even catch some tropical rays while on a layover at the transit hotel's rooftop swimming pool
For some uninterrupted rest and relaxation, check yourself into one of the airport's transit hotels, which can be booked for a minimum of six hours. There's also a swimming pool and jacuzzi at the Aerotel Airport Transit Hotel at Terminal 1, so you can fully relax before heading to your room for a good sleep. Don't forget to make use of the wake-up call service so you won't miss your flight!
Now that you've sampled just a bit of what Singapore has to offer at Changi Airport, it's time to consider a longer stay the next time you touch down here!

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Columbine Campground
Columbine Campground is the largest of the campgrounds along the banks of the Red River, between Questa and Red River, N.M. It features several secluded camp sites nestled in groves of Ponderosa pine. Inside the campground there is a popular hiking and horsebacking trail that leads into the vast Wheeler Peak wilderness area, home to New Mexico's highest peak. Several sites fit large RVs, although there are no hook-ups or dump stations in the campground. There are also two accessible sites, which are reserved for persons with disabilities.
$18 per night
$5 per extra vehicle
$8 for day use
Reservations: Available here.
Directions: From Taos, N.M, drive 25 miles north on New Mexico State Road 522 to Questa, turn right on NM 38, then drive 5 miles east and the campground will be on the right. See map below.
Amenities: Vault toilets, pressurized drinking water, garbage service. Two toilets are accessible for people with disabilities.
Nearby: Fishing in the Red River, Fawn Lakes or Eagle Rock Lake, and hiking in the Wheeler Peak Wilderness.
For more information, visit the Forest Service website.
Copyright 2013-2019. Scenic Canyons. All rights reserved. To access our privacy policy, click here.
Scenic Canyons Recreational Services, Inc. is an equal opportunity service provider and employer.
These facilities are operated under special use permits with the U.S. Forest Service.


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Home modernisation
As a council tenant with a secure tenancy or a leaseholder, you may want to make improvements, alterations and additions to your home, including putting up satellite dishes.
To do this you must get written permission from us.
What improvements and alterations can I do?
- installing laminate flooring
- altering the layout of the property
- refitting kitchens and/or bathrooms
- installing or renewing central heating
- adding conservatories and/or sheds
- altering or adding fencing
- installing security grilles on front doors and windows
- installing or changing satellite dishes
- dropping curbs for vehicle access
- introducing hard surfacing for car parking
- rewiring
- removing chimney breasts.
Alterations you can't make to your council home
Replacing windows
Building extensions
Installation of aerials or satellite equipment on flats or maisonettes
Development of roof space, loft areas or basements
External repairs
Applying for permission to do home improvements
Step 1
- a full description of the type of work
- scale drawings of existing layout and proposed layout
- a structural engineer's report if you want to remove walls etc
Step 2
- a copy of your planning permission
- copies of your building regulation approval
- proof that your contents insurance policy includes third party liability
- details of the contractor who will do the work, and proof of their public liability insurance
- original copies of the Certification for Gas and electrical contractors
- a copy of an up-to-date asbestos survey by an HSE-approved contractor
- a copy of Party Notice
- written confirmation that you will agree to the terms and conditions of the approval.
Step 3
Asbestos in council homes
Contact us
Technical Group – Property Services
London Borough of Newham
Bridge Road Depot
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020 3373 6396
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Partial live recording from Sound Sorcery Session IV in Newcastle, WA on June 14, 2017. Starts with Sonic Shiva then moves into Leave Trace. Music by Chris Haines (Leave Trace + synths), Sidney Ginette (guitar), Mark Dalton (bass), and Anatoly Buchin (flute, sax, spoken word).
My new Leave Trace release of chilltronica is now up for pre-order. Fully available on April 29, 2017. Out on Self Center Records.
The title track from my forthcoming Leave Trace release is included on this texturally-delicious comp from Self Center Records.
Wet Saturdays are for coffee and live-scoring the rain…
My last live recording from 2015, made while waiting for our New Year's guests to arrive. Wishing you and yours al the best for 2016!
Presenting my remastered collection of the hidden soundtrack to "The Secret History of D.B. Cooper," Brian Churilla's visionary tale of the Cold War, psychotropic assassins, and America's most infamous skyjacker. Also included for the optimal listening experience is a continuous and enhanced album mix. Turn down the lights, press play, and let the cinema of the mind take over.
Here's my Leave Trace set from the annual and über awesome Chillography event, held on the Seattle waterfront at the peak of summer.
:: Set list ::
Leave Trace – OhmG
Leave Trace – Dispatch
Leave Trace – Case of You (feat. Pepper Proud)
Leave Trace – Celluloid
Leave Trace – Retrograde
100th Monkey – Until the Dawn (Leave Trace Bootleg)
Leave Trace – untitled
Leave Trace – Tryptophan
Leave Trace – Hear and Know
Aligning Minds – Weeping Willows (Leave Trace Remix)
Leave Trace – Approach Vector
Cyanwave (feat. Night Train) – Dilate (Leave Trace Remix)


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Chris Bosh and his wife are being sued. … by a company that produces pornographic videos, according to TMZ Sports.
The creators of X-Art, a company that shoots erotic videos and photographs in high class settings, rented a beach mansion in Pacific Palisades owned by Chris and Adrienne Bosh. The company paid $138,000 for the first month, including $46,000 rent and $92,000 security deposit.
But Colette and Brigham Field, who created X-Art, say soon after moving into the 10,755 square foot mansion they noticed toxic mold, leaks, plumbing issues and rat droppings.
In their lawsuit, filed in L.A. County Superior Court and obtained by TMZ Sports, the Fields are attempting to recover their $92,000 security deposit plus unspecified damages but the Boshes have refused.
Bosh, 33, technically remains a part of the Miami Heat although he has not played in an NBA game for 15 months. The 11-time All-Star spent this season away from the team after failing a physical in September due to recurring blood clot issues and was listed as inactive for all 82 games.
Bosh made $23.7 million last season and is due to make more than $52 million over the next two years whether he plays again or not. Bosh has signed contracts worth nearly $250 million during his 14-year career.
The Heat are expecting to release Bosh by July 1.
Bosh bought the Mediterranean-style home in Pacific Highlands in 2012 for $9.4 million and has previously listed the home for short- and long-term lease, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The mansion was listed for sale in 2014, starting at $14.5 million before dropping to $12.5 million.
[Miami Heat Mailbag: Better chance Bulls trade Jimmy Butler or Dwyane Wade turns down $24 million?]
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text: Humanities › Geography Population Growth Rates Population Growth Rates and Doubling Time Share Flipboard Email Print Alexander Spatari / Getty Images Geography Population Basics Physical Geography Political Geography Country Information Key Figures & Milestones Maps Urban Geography by Matt Rosenberg Matt Rosenberg is an award-winning geographer and the author of "The Handy Geography Answer Book" and "The Geography Bee Complete Preparation Handbook." Updated March 03, 2019 The rate of national population growth is expressed as a percentage for each country, commonly between about 0.1% and 3% annually. Natural Growth vs. Overall Growth You'll find two percentages associated with population - natural growth and overall growth. Natural growth represents the births and deaths in a country's population and does not take into account migration. The overall growth rate takes migration into account. For example, Canada's natural growth rate is 0.3% while its overall growth rate is 0.9%, due to Canada's open immigration policies. In the U.S., the natural growth rate is 0.6% and overall growth is 0.9%. The growth rate of a country provides demographers and geographers with a good contemporary variable for current growth and for comparison between countries or regions. For most purposes, the overall growth rate is more frequently utilized. Doubling Time The growth rate can be used to determine a country or region's -- or even the planet's -- "doubling time," which tells us how long it will take for that area's current population to double. This length of time is determined by dividing the growth rate into 70. The number 70 comes from the natural log of 2, which is .70. Given Canada's overall growth of 0.9% in the year 2006, we divide 70 by .9 (from the 0.9%) and yield a value of 77.7 years. Thus, in 2083, if the current rate of growth remains constant, Canada's population will double from its current 33 million to 66 million. However, if we look at the U.S. Census Bureau's International Data Base Summary Demographic Data for Canada, we see that Canada's overall growth rate is expected to decline to 0.6% by 2025. With a growth rate of 0.6% in 2025, Canada's population would take about 117 years to double (70 / 0.6 = 116.666). The World's Growth Rate The world's current (overall as well as natural) growth rate is about 1.14%, representing a doubling time of 61 years. We can expect the world's population of 6.5 billion to become 13 billion by 2067 if current growth continues. The world's growth rate peaked in the 1960s at 2% and a doubling time of 35 years. Negative Growth Rates Most European countries have low growth rates. In the United Kingdom, the rate is 0.2%, in Germany, it's 0.0%, and in France, 0.4%. Germany's zero rate of growth includes a natural increase of -0.2%. Without immigration, Germany would be shrinking, like the Czech Republic. The Czech Republic and some other European countries' growth rate is actually negative (on average, women in the Czech Republic give birth to 1.2 children, which is below the 2.1 needed to yield zero population growth). The Czech Republic's natural growth rate of -0.1 cannot be used to determine doubling time because the population is actually shrinking in size. High Growth Rates Many Asian and African countries have high growth rates. Afghanistan has a current growth rate of 4.8%, representing a doubling time of 14.5 years. If Afghanistan's growth rate remains the same (which is very unlikely and the country's projected growth rate for 2025 is a mere 2.3%), then the population of 30 million would become 60 million in 2020, 120 million in 2035, 280 million in 2049, 560 million in 2064, and 1.12 billion in 2078! This is a ridiculous expectation. As you can see, population growth percentages is better utilized for short term projections. Increased population growth generally represents problems for a country - it means increased need for food, infrastructure, and services. These are expenses that most high-growth countries have little ability to provide today, let alone if the population rises dramatically. Continue Reading


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The Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd stock fell 6.13% on BSE on Tuesday, after the announcement of the company's results on Monday. What led to the plunge?
It wasn't the company's 1.8% sales growth in FY16, because that was not much of a surprise, as the management had indicated as much. What shocked investors is its sales growth projection for FY17. An 8-10% sales growth is not what they expected, and even a proposed share buyback did little to lift spirits.
In fact, the company's March quarter numbers were quite good. It has been selling its generic version of cancer drug Gleevec in the US market since February, and will be the sole generic product for six months. That allows it to earn substantial revenues and profits in this period. That's why US formulation sales were up by 22.2% sequentially in the March quarter. Growth will be good in the June quarter as well, when the full impact of the launch will be felt and will taper September quarter onwards.
This launch has helped Sun Pharma overcome a challenging US generic market, due to price competition, consolidation among customers (institutions that procure and sell drugs to patients) and supply constraints. Supply constraints are mainly due to remediation efforts at Halol to make it compliant again with US FDA's standards.
Sales growth in India was up by 16.7% while that in emerging markets and rest of the world markets was slower (affected by currency volatility and supply constraints).
Sun Pharma's profitability improved, up by 2.4 percentage points sequentially, part of which can be attributed to sales of generic Gleevec. The profitability improvement looks dramatic, over a year ago, but that was partly due to charges related to the merger of Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd in the March 2015 quarter.
Is Sun Pharma's management being too cautious? They got their previous guidance right, adding credibility to the new guidance. They have also factored in the Halol facility coming back into play some time during the fiscal year. If not, investors could have factored this in as a surprise. In India, a decline in the Wholesale Price Index has affected price increases for FY17 of medicines under price control. Also, the ban on fixed dose combinations may affect growth to an extent.
On top of this, the management said it expects research and development expenses to be 9% of sales in 2016-17, compared with 8.3% in 2015-16. What could cause a surprise, therefore, are factors mostly not in its control. One could be, if the Halol facility inspection gets clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration earlier than expected, and improved supplies lead to better sales growth. A more stable foreign currency environment in developing markets can be another positive factor. Positive news flows on its research programmes is yet another factor.
But these are all known unknowns, to paraphrase former US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld. What is new is Sun Pharma's guidance. Investors are simply adjusting to the new reality.
The writer does not own shares in the above-mentioned companies.
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The liturgical year is galloping to a close, as is the civic year. "Where did all the days go?" is a rather common saying these past weeks. Perhaps we have been asleep like the ten virgins! What do we find when the bells are ringing, and action is expected of us?
No oil in our lamps nor in our esky?
Like lamps, our bodies need fuel to do their jobs. The world news constantly gives us examples of the effects of lack of food and good drinking water. Our baptismal life need proper nourishment to complement the physical life of our bodies. Today we are all reminded that the Bridegroom, Jesus, will come to invite us to his banquet.
Will we be ready?
One of the great gifts of life with Jesus is what Paul picked up very early in his preaching: hope. People then and now often are troubled, puzzled, fearful of death… What's it all about? In a recent conversation, a prominent country funeral director commented that his company enjoyed Catholic funerals because "they, even in difficult situations, always offered hope, hence Paul's words that "you do not grieve about them like the other people who have no hope".
That is the promise.
The reality depends upon us having oil in the lamp and a little in reserve against a rainy day.
So, this week, we begin to check our Lamp.
Do we pray?
Do we give of ourselves, let alone of our possessions?
Do we read the Scriptures?
Do we strive to love our God?
Do we strive to bring love to others?
These practises will enable us to trim our lamps when the Bridegroom eventually comes, as surely, He will.
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Blaugust Day 7
If you're not familiar with the Everyday Matters Challenge check out my first post here.
EDM Day 4: Draw your mug or cup
During a family trip as I child we went to Little America Wyoming where I got this mug. As I kid I loved dinosaurs, and still do, so this Dino Drink was a must have. What I remember best about that trip was some pretty fantastic orange juice, and eating my first bison burger which also tasted great. I remember this trip fondly, and have always wanted to go back to Little America…maybe one day.
EDM Day 5: Draw your bed
Not much to say here really. To the right of my bed is some driftwood. In front of my legs in the sketch are my erasers, pen, and sketchbook. This sketch could have used some more work from the perspective to the folds, and values. It's a good sketch to look at to remind myself of what I need to continue to work on.
A Question
When you have a topic you want to write about, but don't feel like you have figured out exactly what you want to say- what do you do? Do you write down your ideas and save it as a draft so that you can come back later to polish it up when your ideas and thoughts are more concrete? Do you write what you have at the moment, hit publish, and revisit the topic later with a new post when you have new or more refined thoughts about it?
I have a few things I want to write about, but at the moment none of them feel like they are fully realized ideas. Maybe I need to start writing and see how far my mind can go with them. Since this is Blaugust I may roll with a few of them and revisit them in the future after my brain has had time to ruminate and contemplate.
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character development, editing notes, first drafts, inspiration, NaNoWriMo, Tolkien, writers, writing, writing inspiration
For July this year I held a writing workshop for young adults at the public library in the city.
During this time I've learned a lot about myself as a writer, while trying to guide others through their own writing experience. I've also come across some misconceptions people and prospective writers have about writing in general. So I thought I would share them with you this month.
1. Most people don't understand what it takes to be a writer.
Writing, like painting or dancing or sculpting, is a creative art. But while it is acceptable that a painter take careful time to paint a portrait or a dancer through daily diligence works to choreograph a piece or a sculptor patiently chips away at a block to achieve the correct form, I think most people believe writing happens all in one creative blast when you are suddenly inspired and BAM! a story magically appears on a page.
Though I have experienced incredible bursts of what seemed to be writing genius in my life, especially while writing poetry, everything else has taken time.
Writing a creative piece is a process of working through and working out your story. It takes time and dedication, and sweat and tears and anxiety and stress and long nights and busy days trying to sneak writing in at every corner and missing being apart of the party to work on your book and everything else in between that comes when you work hard for something you want.
It is WORK and it is WONDERFUL to see it form under your hands and the more time you put into it the better you get at it but what it ISN'T is fairy godmother magic and 'poof' a book appears.
2. Procrastination is the bane of a writers existence.
Writers need to write. If you don't write you will not get anywhere. So putting it off until tomorrow or when you have time (you will never have time! And when you do you'll end up browsing Yahoo and Facebook) is not helping you get your writing done any faster. Just do it. Now. You cannot have a story if you don't write one and you cannot write a story if you don't sit your butt down and start writing it.
3. You are not serious about writing until you set a deadline to finish your work.
Serious writers set deadlines for their work, and they actually work on completing it by the end of that time. They give themselves a daily word count that they have to reach every day and they get into the habit of writing every single day and they keep writing until their book is finished.
That's how you get to that first draft. That's how you get your whole story down so you can edit it. That's how you get something workable that you can take to publishing. Not by putting off writing. Not by saying you'll do it tomorrow and then never doing it. You set a deadline and you stick to it. Otherwise you're just dreaming about being a writer really.
4. A first draft doesn't take long to write and is mediocre at best.
Now, if you just have a vague idea and it's not a story yet then maybe you should spend some serious time brain storming and building plot points. But outside of not knowing where you want your story to go, a first draft once you stick to it and put in the work writing everyday, does not take long to hash out. Two to three months tops.
I have literally had people look at me cross-eyed, from academics to regular joes, when I tell them I do NaNoWriMo every year (sometimes twice a year) and I crank out 50000 words in a month. I have had people doubt the quality of work that comes out of such a neck breaking writing sprint but there's no reason to doubt the quality.
First, because 50'000 words ain't all that much to begin with once you've done it a few times and second, because I know it's mediocre quality. So is every first draft, whether you take one month or one year to write it down.
A first draft is a blue print to build on. Under no circumstances, I don't care if you are the most celebrated writer ever, do you take this to publishing. You do not want to go down in history as the writer who published a first draft or the publisher who let them. I won't call any names but let's just say your situation will be very grey if you do.
And it's okay if it's mediocre. That's what revision is for. You can go back and fix it later once you have your core story down. Having that base to work with, having a completed albeit rough story is so much better than plodding along, nit-picking and fixing everything and making sure every sentence is perfect before you move on. It is tiring and discouraging. Get it all down, then fix it.
5. Revision is your best friend
This is where the true magic happens. This is where you sew your awkward caterpillar of a book up into a cocoon and work on making it a beautiful butterfly. Do not throw that cocoon under the bed or stack it in a book shelf thinking you are done because you wrote the words, "The End." Whether you are considering publishing or not, if you want your book to be the best it can be revise and rewrite it.
Editing a first draft takes a while. Sometimes years. Tolkien worked on the Lord of the Rings trilogy for 12 years before he took it to publishing and even then it took about four years to actually hit the book stores. Think of the bazillion amount of drafts that manuscript probably went through in that time to get to the celebrated literary piece that it is today which was evidently worth it.
Your book will go through many drafts as well until you are satisfied with it. Of course you don't have to take as long as Tolkien did. Clearly his work creating a whole civilization with different cultures and history and languages was a magnanimous under taking.
But things like grammar and sentence structure, more detailed descriptions, plot sequence flow, everything that you had leave to vaguely ignore for the sake of getting your story down in your first draft, revision is where you fix that.
5. The only way to know if something is worth writing is to write it down
Every writer thinks their idea isn't good enough at some point. Whether at the beginning, in the middle or at the end of your story. You will feel as if what you created isn't worth being written far less for being published for others to see.
You'll read bad reviews about books you thought were actually pretty good and doubt your intellectual tastes. But here's where the 'why' behind your writing comes into play, and reviews and the perceived worth of your written work has nothing to do with that.
Sure I've scuffed at my fair share of books that I thought were horrible. I've been honestly upset over published pieces that made what I want to do and try to be as a writer seem inferior. However if the writing of that piece helped to cleanse or heal or fulfill something in the writers that wrote it, then the book did it's job and just for the sake of that it should exist.
Because writing is therapy for many people. It's power and inspiration and living and breathing, fulfilling a deep need that only writing your words down can fill.
I can try to describe what writing means to me a billion times and I will NEVER feel as if I did it adequately enough. My best explanation of why I write is still to this day a quote from a woman who used to write in the editorial section of one of our daily newspapers.
If I don't write, I'll die. – Jaye-Q Baptiste
Simple. So if you want to write something down and it's killing you that you are not then just write it. You can decide if it's good enough when you are done but for now remember that writing is for you first, everyone else later.
6. Writers need to get out of their head.
So this is a note on editing (revision!!). I found that many of the writers struggled with developing their main characters but one of the best ways to do that is to put a little work into your supporting characters and the relationships your protagonist has with them.
If you understand ALL your characters and why they do what they do it makes their interactions with each other feel more real. Otherwise you can also run the risk of making assumptions about your other characters that make no sense. Especially if you are writing from inside your main characters head.
One of the excerpts I read from a story during the workshop had one main character whose father had left when she was eleven and turned up again when she was eighteen. Her anger and frustration at him leaving suddenly and not keeping in contact was understandable but it wasn't understandable why her brother who had the same man leave him at the same age as well didn't seem to have any hurt feelings towards their disappearing dad.
Matter of fact he didn't seem to have any feelings at all about it. Whether he was upset or not upset that his father had abandoned their family was unknown and it made the story seem very unbalanced as for pages I had to read of how upset the main character was about it and how everyone else was understanding of how upset she was about it. But eventually I found myself wondering, why is she the only one upset about it? It's like the rest of her family wasn't apart of her family when her father left and didn't miss and love him too. It made no sense.
Maybe the brother just had a different temperament than she did. Maybe he was upset but was hiding his feelings. Maybe he wasn't as close to their father as she was. I don't know, but it was never clarified and made the protagonist seem unreasonable and rash which I don't think was the way the writer had intended for the reader to view them.
The brother's character was never developed past being a side prop for his sister's emotions. And that's one of the ways writers 'write in their heads'. Creating a dynamic between her brother's feelings and hers and how he felt about their father, whatever his feelings were, and using it to develop the story would have made it more interesting and her main character more understandable.
Explaining too much is also a fault of writing in your head (points at self) so there needs to be a balance in how much you explain for the reader to build a connection with your characters.
A simple way to help fix this, and most rough spots in your story really, READ YOUR STORY OUT LOUD. If what you are reading doesn't make sense to you or the person you are reading it to, you will be able to tell when you hear it 'outside' of your head. Hopefully the holes in your plot will be clear. Well, if you are open to seeing them. 😀
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Project Showcase: Simple as Milk
By Shelly Wilson on Friday 30th of March 2012
We're ecstatic! Another site designed using Typecast has gone live! Meet Simple as Milk.
Simple as Milk are a branding and web design team based in Eastbourne, UK, with a passion for helping start ups get off the ground through great design. If you ever visited Assistly, colorati.com or cloudwords.com, you'll have seen their work. It's good stuff.
They joined the beta in February and soon began trying Typecast out on their site's redesign. We first discovered what they were up to when they tweeted a link to their early design and tagged a copy with #typecast in Dribbble.
We recently spoke to their founder and designer, David Pomfret, to hear what he and the team thought of Typecast, how they fit it into their workflow, and what shaped their typographic choices. Here's what he had to say:
What were your first impressions of Typecast?
When I first heard of Typecast I was very excited. We've always loved typography, especially as we originally started as a print design studio. Typecast allows me to approach my web typography just how I would when designing for print, and that's a big deal.
What brief did you set yourselves?
Our old site was always known for its crazy typography, and I didn't want to lose this effect, but I did want a more refined, traditional print style. I've always loved this brochure that one of our clients had years ago. (We didn't design it, but whoever did is a god!) It inspired us to create our new typography-based site with Typecast.
Tell us about your font choices and pairings.
I've always loved Brandon Grotesque. It's a beautiful workhorse font that oozes character. It complemented the design really well, producing a subtle indication of letterpress due to its personality and shape. We thought Abril Fatface worked perfectly for the vintage feel we wanted, and it's a beautiful choice when you want headlines with impact.
Both choices were inspired by the brochure, which uses Gotham and Bodoni.
How useful did you find the app?
Typecast made the whole process incredibly smooth, allowing me to rapidly try out different fonts and sizing without having to write a single line of code. Because let's face it, I wasn't going to do it in Photoshop!
How has your workflow changed to incorporate Typecast?
Before, I would bear with Photoshop and work tirelessly to present my typography how I wanted it. Now I just do my typography in Typecast instead of Photoshop.
For content-heavy sites, I use Typecast to build out the typography first, before I do any design work, and then build it into a working wireframe online. For projects that are light on typography, I design in Photoshop first. Then when the design concept is approved by the client, I use Typecast for the final tweaks to typography and perfections.
For me, Typecast is a tool to perfect your typography on normal sites and to craft your typography from scratch on content-heavy sites. When you do so, it makes a huge difference.
What did you enjoy most about designing in Typecast?
The best part of Typecast, for me, is being able to hand my front-end developer the typography CSS and a style guide knowing that my typography will alway be perfect without me putting in any further effort. I get to do what I love about my job, design, rather than spending hours on style guides and inside Web Inspector.
Now that you've tried it out, do you think you'd use Typecast again?
I imagine we'll be using Typecast on all client projects from now on. It brings that element of typography sex that no other design programme (other than InDesign) seems to be able to rival right now. The web needs to learn how to do typography right, because, after all, we are designing to display content.
It's exciting to see designers like Simple as Milk using Typecast on real projects. That puts us one step closer to making the web a more beautiful place! We wish them all the best and a future of ass-kicking, Vitamin D goodness.


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This Old House Archives
August 2011
21 Quick and Easy Budget Upgrades
Improve the look and function of your home without spending an arm and a leg
27 Inspirational Homework Areas and Study Stations
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Upgrading your kitchen needn't cost a fortune. See how painted cabinets, stylish task lighting,...
A Century-Old Rowhouse Gets A Modern Update
The 1911 rowhouse was an eclectic blend of architectural details from the start. Now opened up...
A Cramped Kitchen Opens Up to Make Room for the Whole Family
Bumping out provided more light and flow, plus room to gather. Lots of white paint and warm wood...
Best Back-to-School Products for Comfortable and Organized Studying
Top-notch furniture and accessories for the ultimate homework area
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Finding Buried Treasure at a Historic House
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Fitting a Period Bath Under the Attic Rafters
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How to Build a Rain Garden to Filter Run-Off
Create a rich plant basin to collect and filter storm-water runoff from gutters
How to Build a Wood Lattice Fence
A cedar fence featuring square lattice and chunky posts creates a decorative yard accent that'll...
How to Create a Faux Paneled Accent Wall
Stock trim arranged to mimic paneling adds character to a bland master bedroom without breaking...
How to Create a Pickled Finish on Wood
A rag and a bit of primer can give plain wood the whitewashed look of driftwood
How to Create a Victorian-Style Bath
Period-appropriate fixtures and elegant accessories make this bathing spot as beautiful as it is...
How to Gain More Closet Space Without Renovating
We consulted with closet-design pros from across the country to learn the secrets to creating the...
How to Have a Money-Making Yard Sale
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How to Make a Desk With Storage Cubbies
How to use stock materials and a cabinet to build a nifty workstation
How to Make and Use Compost Tea
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How to Outfit Your Home to Help Your Kids' Study Habits
Create homework areas for your kids that'll encourage focus and organization, while helping...
Hurricane Prep: Storm Safety Checklist
Here's what you should do if a storm watch or warning is issued where you live...
Is it Worth It? Bamboo Wood Flooring
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Pharmacy Lamps
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Photoshop Redo: Sprucing Up a Basic Split-Level
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Pricewise: Vintage-Look Handshowers
They cut a convincing period profile while standing ready to hose down shampooed heads, pets&...
TOH TV's Barrington Beach House: Before
TOH TV heads to Barrington, Rhode Island, to restore a forlorn house with oceanfront views
TOH Tested: Cordless Circular Saws
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The Barrington Beach House
TOH TV heads to Rhode Island to restore a forlorn beach house with oceanfront views
Uncovering the True Age of a Historic House
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Use Cool Blue to Update a Classic Kitchen
A blue finish adds fresh flair to traditional cabinets in a high-performing space that's a...
Using Rain Gardens to Keep Waterways Pollution-Free
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Because blood carries oxygen and nutrients to all other parts of the body, a malfunction in the circulatory system can cause a person's health to decline in a variety of ways.
Take a look at the following fifteen warning signs which are common symptoms of poor blood circulation. If the majority of them seem to apply to you then you know it's time to take action and go and see your doctor!
1. Numbness in Your Limbs
You've almost certainly felt this sensation before – when some part of your body "falls asleep" due to blood flow being cut off. However, if these episodes of numbness happen to you frequently, it may be indicative of a more serious circulation problem.
2. Decreased Cognitive Ability
Just like any other part of your body, your brain needs a healthy supply of blood in order to function properly. When blood circulation becomes sluggish, your mental abilities slow down along with it. If you have difficulty thinking clearly or if you've noticed that your memory isn't as good as it used to be, this may be a sign that you have poor circulation.
3. Loss of Appetite
Another less obvious symptom of a malfunctioning circulatory system is loss of appetite. Your gastrointestinal tract needs blood in order to digest food and transport nutrients from the intestines to the rest of your body. When blood flow slows down, your digestion can easily become impaired. You'll feel less hungry, but not eating enough means that your metabolism will suffer as well.
4. Unexplained Digestive Problems
Poor circulation in the digestive tract doesn't just cause loss of appetite. It can hamper your body's ability to obtain nutrients from food as well. Without adequate blood supply, a lot of the foods that you eat will pass through your system without being digested entirely, leading to nausea, loose bowel movements, or other digestive issues which may be easily misdiagnosed and thus go untreated.
5. Frequent Exhaustion
When your circulatory system slows down, it no longer has the capacity to deliver oxygen, vitamins, and minerals throughout the body as it should. As previously mentioned, this can slow down your metabolism. Without the proper supply of nutrient-filled blood, your whole body will drop into conservation mode – a built-in defense mechanism whereby it saves as much energy as possible until it perceives that the hard time has passed. The result of this conservation of energy is that you'll feel exhausted on a daily basis, making it very difficult to perform simple day-to-day tasks.
6. Weakened Immune System
The circulatory system is directly responsible for maintaining a healthy immune system. When you have poor circulation, the vitamins and minerals your body needs to fight off infection may not be delivered as quickly or in great enough quantities as they would be via a healthy circulatory system. Additionally, due to the digestive malfunctions which often accompany poor circulation, certain minerals and amino acids which our bodies require in order to synthesize immune-boosting enzymes may be in short supply.
7. Tightening of the Chest
When you have poor circulation, your heart doesn't get as much blood flow as it normally should. This can cause you to feel tightening or increased pressure in your chest – a symptom known as angina. While the pressure and pain may randomly come and go, this is a sure sign that you circulatory system isn't functioning as it should.
8. Slackened Libido
Poor circulation can easily lead to problems with the reproductive system, too. In both men and women, reproductive organs need a lot of blood to work properly and when they don't get it, like everything else they start to shut down. In women, circulatory malfunction may manifest as irregular monthly cycles or fertility problems while men might notice that their bodies suddenly aren't cooperating in the bedroom. Furthermore, both sexes are likely to experience slackened or complete loss of libido as a result of poor circulation.
9. Cold Extremities
If you have poor circulation, blood has a harder time traveling to the furthest reaches of your body such as your fingers and toes. Because blood also carries heat from your core to your extremities, slow or inadequate blood flow will cause these parts of your body feel much colder than the rest of you.
10. Skin Discoloration
When your hands and feet don't get adequate amounts of oxygenated blood, you may also notice discoloration of the skin covering these parts of your body. If you see that your extremities have taken on a blue- or purple-ish tone, you can be fairly certain that your circulatory system isn't functioning as it should.
11. Dark Circles Under the Eyes
While are several other possible causes for the areas under the eyes to become dark and puffy, poor circulation is one of the most common. To find out if your dark circles are an issue of slow blood flow, try pushing gently against the skin there. If the area looks lighter when you take your finger away then slowly darkens again after a second or two, the cause is most likely related to circulation.
12. Brittle Hair and Nails
Also due to lack of nutrient-filled blood in your body's extremities, new growth of hair and nails may become weak and brittle. If you start to notice that your nails chip much more easily or if your hair breaks and falls out more frequently than it used to, poor circulation may be to blame.
Also due to lack of nutrient-filled blood in your body's extremities, new growth of hair and nails may become weak and brittle. If you start to notice that your nails chip much more easily or if your hair breaks and falls out more frequently than it used to, poor circulation may be to blame.


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There probably aren't that many people who can say they truly need a 100 mega pixel camera but that doesn't stop you from wanting one!
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A fresh and one-of-a-kind boutique has opened just two blocks from our office. Neeko ("named for my alter ego" says owner Ash Ford) offers just the right mix of affordable fashion, unique handmade jewelry, and other fun goodies.
Ash carefully collects unique items from across the country, sourcing from etsy sellers and other independent designers/artists. The jewelry selection is unbelievable, completely on trend while also feeling exclusive. You can also find cute pillows, plants and ceramics for your home.
The clothing is hip yet accessible, with styles to fit just about any age and body type.
Neeko was just included in Racked.com's "Best of East Bay Shopping" feature, and we can see why! It's a pleasant shop where you are sure to find a new party dress, your best friend's birthday present, or a housewarming gift.
Stop by Neeko at 2505 San Pablo in Berkeley, and tell Ash (that's her, above) that Visual Jill sent you! You'll be happy you did.


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FTPI Roll Call 2012
RedJessi replied to William Brand's topic in Fort Taylor Pyrate InvasionGonna have to give this year a pass - but for a very good reason. The date is simply too close to when we'll be adding a new lil' pyratess to the ranks! I know I've been rather absent around these parts for a while, but with good reason. I spent the better part of 2011 planning a great shin-dig of a wedding, and now, I've spent the better part of 2012 rather pregnant. I'm due Nov 11, and just don't think we'll be up for much more adventuring for the remainder of the year after that!
Searle's 2011 Setup andAarrival
RedJessi replied to Sgt Johnson's topic in MarchI am the bigger pain in the ass that won't arrive until Friday night. I could only get a bit of time to leave work early. But I have to pick up Patrick in Orlando. I am hoping to Leave South Florida at 2:30, get to Orlando at 5:30 and make it to Auggie by 7:00.
What are you reading right now ?
RedJessi replied to Patrick Hand's topic in Beyond PyracyBukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888 to 1938 by Stephen F. Cohen.
The Sack of St Augustine: Robert Searle's raid of 1668
RedJessi replied to Sgt Johnson's topic in MarchLike I needed another reason to look forward to this event. I am so impressed by homebrews! Can;t wait to sample!
Random Topics
RedJessi replied to Patrick Hand's topic in Beyond PyracySense memories are more powerful than most realize. They can be triggered by both the conscious or unconscious mind - thus in a dream state. Interestingly enough, it is not uncommon during open brain surgeries (in which the patient is kept awake) for these kind of experiences to occur with sometimes startling results (ie, a patient retching after experiencing the distinct aroma of vomit after the surgeon tapped the section of the brain that apparently catalogs things like that). As for PTSD, it is characterized by specific symptoms in the wake of an extremely traumatic event in which the individual witnessed an event that caused serious injury, death or threat of death, or had the physical integrity of themselves threatened in similar ways. Initial response is generally intense fear, horror and/or helplessness, avoidance of triggering stimuli, persistent reexperience of the event, and specific symptomotology that is persistent for no less than 1 months time. The next version of the DSM might include a new differential diagnosis for a chronic form of PTSD as well, allowing for the experience of various symptoms over the span of years, which (in my professional opinion) is actually a far more accurate descriptor as I tend to see people seek professional help years after the traumatic event, not within weeks or months. In point of fact, I do not believe I have ever had a woman come in for rape counseling any sooner than 11 months after the assault. I do tend to wax rhapsodic on this topic, so I will end this here, but if you want more info on the symptomotology, I will be more than happy to provide it!
So, that happened.
The Sack of St Augustine: Robert Searle's raid of 1668
RedJessi replied to Sgt Johnson's topic in MarchSangria?! *swoon
The Sack of St Augustine: Robert Searle's raid of 1668
RedJessi replied to Sgt Johnson's topic in MarchCount me in with a plus one! Also, Vintage Sailor, check your PMs
Roll Call 2010
RedJessi replied to William Brand's topic in Fort Taylor Pyrate InvasionIt is with a heavy heart that I must announce that I Will be unable to attend this year. Two of my dear friends are tying a totally different kind of knot and they have scheduled the bachelorette festivities for the weekend of Dec 4. I hope that next year is kinder and that I get to see my pirate friends at different events in the course of the year.
Things I haven't done at PiP
RedJessi replied to Brig's topic in Fort Taylor Pyrate InvasionI am actually planning on being there longer than Friday and Saturday night this year, so I would love to: 1. See the Walk the Plank Competition 2. See the outside-the-fort festivities (like drinking in costume with a number of fellow pirates) But I am equally looking forward to the activities I have enjoyed each year, such as: 1. Cafe Sole' and the crazy good breakfast place Mission knows 2. All Girl Canon Crewe 3. getting to hang out with all you fine folks!
Top 10 Reasons to Go To PiP '10
RedJessi replied to Mission's topic in Fort Taylor Pyrate InvasionI LOVE this list!
PIP/Fort Taylor Pyrate Invasion
RedJessi replied to Lily Alexander's topic in Fort Taylor Pyrate InvasionSent it - and thanks to Mission for the heads up!
Is it December yet??
RedJessi replied to RedJessi's topic in Fort Taylor Pyrate InvasionThere's another Santa Maria event in three and a half weeks. Still time to sign on. Mark I wish Mark - its a matter of having the ability to afford such a trip, not lack of wanting to go.
Living History Demos Fort Taylor Pirate Invasion 2010
RedJessi replied to Capt. Sterling's topic in Fort Taylor Pyrate InvasionI would LOVE a spinning wheel. Unfortunately, they tend to cost several hundred dollars. Which is more than a little out of my price range at the moment (and for a long time to come).
Living History Demos Fort Taylor Pirate Invasion 2010
RedJessi replied to Capt. Sterling's topic in Fort Taylor Pyrate InvasionMy pleasure! I am thrilled that I can do more than either 1. stand around, 2. roll cartridges or 3. get ridiculously excited about firing a cannon! I forgot 4. get drunk and talk until 4am.


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Curated by Leora Fridman and Ellie Lobovits, Let's Talk is a three-part live conversation series that will explore and amplify collaboration through a feminist lens. This final part features artists, Liat Berdugo and Margaret McCarthy.
Liat Berdugo and Margaret McCarthy co-created Anti-Trump Aerobics as part of the Bay Area's 100 Days Action, and have performed the Aerobics routine at locations including Alley Cat Books in San Francisco, and covered broadly by media including Mother Jones, Fusion and Allure. In this conversation Berdugo and McCarthy will debrief the fallout of the online harassment that followed their performance, as well as the responsibilities and repercussions of presenting as women/feminist bodies in action in public and political spaces.
All speakers mentioned below are highly trained and are professionals in their particular area. Especial in thesis and essay area on the topics of 500 Word Essay Writing Tips which should be in common for majority of american studentsAbout the speakers:
Liat Berdugo is an artist, writer, and curator whose work — which focuses on embodiment and digitality, archive theory, and new economies — interweaves video, writing, performance, and computer programming to form a considerate and critical lens on digital culture. Berdugo has been exhibited in galleries and festivals internationally, and she collaborates widely with individuals and archives. She is the co-founder and curator of the Bay Area's Living Room Light Exchange, a monthly new media art salon; co-founder and curator of World Wide West, an annual summit, exhibit, and performative new media event, among others. Her writing appears in Rhizome, Temporary Art Review, Real Life, and others, and her book, The Everyday Maths, was published by Anomalous Press in 2013. Berdugo received an MFA from RISD and a BA from Brown University. She is currently an assistant professor of Art + Architecture at the University of San Francisco. More at liatberdugo.com.
Margaret McCarthy is a performance artist, activist, nonprofit professional and ten-year San Franciscan. She creates highly participatory performances that break down boundaries between audiences and performers. She is an ensemble member and Co-Artistic Director of the San Francisco Neo-Futurists. Since January 20, 2017, she has been building an on- and off-line alternate reality in which she is the First Female President of the U.S.A. She has read at Quiet Lighting and performed at Klanghaus. McCarthy holds a B.A. in English and Theater from San Francisco State University. She is a 2017-2018 Fellow at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. More at unrulyidiom.com
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Leora Fridman is an writer, organizer and educator who works at the intersections of creative work and community care. Leora is the author of My Fault (Cleveland State University Press, 2016) in addition to five chapbooks, and is currently at work on a book of nonfiction. Her poems, prose and translations appear or are forthcoming in Tricycle Magazine, Denver Quarterly, jubilat and jacket2. Leora holds degrees from the University of Massachusetts Amherst MFA Program for Poets and Writers and from Brown University, and has taught in universities, homes and community organizations across the country. She is a recipient of multiple grants and honors including a 2015 Vermont Studio Center fellowship, grants from the Center for Cultural Innovation, and a Dorot Fellowship. She collaborates widely with artists and organizations, and co-edits Spoke Too Soon: A Journal of the Longer.
Ellie Lobovits is an activist filmmaker and anthropologist. Her work is one part art, one part social activism, one part cultural theory, and a million parts hybrid. Ellie's research, writing, and filmmaking focuses on borderlands, the body, and feminist theory. Ellie is also a photographer, farmer, and childbirth doula, and currently studies Visual Anthropology at San Francisco State University.
The Let's Talk series is supported in part by a grant from the NEA.


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Mobb Deep Discuss New Album, Squashing Beef & "Eye For an Eye (Remix)" On 'Real Late with Rosenberg'Posted by Andy B. under Interviews
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Ahead of tomorrow's release of their new album, The Infamous Mobb Deep, Mobb Deep chopped it up with Hot 97's Peter Rosenberg on Real Late. Havoc and Prodigy revisited their high profile beef in 2012 and explained that it was simply social media amplifying what was just another regular spat between the two (who assure us are now cool). They also discussed their soon-arriving LP, the unreleased "Eye For an Eye" remix featuring Ghostface Killah (which appears on the bonus disc) and a possible anniversary reissue for their third album, Hell On Earth.
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New Video: Mobb Deep "Taking You Off Here"
Album Stream: Mobb Deep 'The Infamous Mobb Deep'
New Music: Mobb Deep Feat. The L.O.X. "All A Dream"


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Plastic POP-Up
Reusing plastic bottles to create inspired artworks. Environmental artist Sandie Sutton creates wildlife sculptures using the endless supply of household plastic waste. Sandie invites you to transform empty plastic bottles into beautiful works of art in this drop-in workshop.
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12 Monkeys, Season 3, airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Showcase.
Season 3 of 12 Monkeys continues the journey of James Cole (Aaron Stanford), a man sent back in time to eradicate the source of a deadly plague, and brilliant virologist partner, Dr. Cassandra Railly (Amanda Schull). While attempting to untangle an insidious conspiracy that's been spun throughout centuries, the duo embark on a desperate search across time to find the man responsible for the apocalypse – a time traveler who calls himself the Witness. Killing the Witness will save the world, but the journey will come at tremendous personal stakes for the pair.


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The Changing Face of Marketing
As a Partner Marketing Manager at Microsoft, I am seeing considerable change in the way that customers go about deciding upon purchasing a given product or service. Whilst this is particularly prevalent in consumer markets, where most of us do online research about a given product or service, read reviews, and consult our friends and networks, it is equally relevant in a B2B context.
We are seeing declining cut through for many of the marketing techniques that we have used to effect over the years. For example, getting the right number of the right people to attend events gets progressively harder and many partners report that they don't get a return for the often monumental effort that goes into planning and running an event or roadshow. Email marketing as well is going the way of other forms of Direct Marketing with 95% of website visitors leaving without providing an email address1 and 80% of marketing emails now go unopened2. In short, the marketing we have known is no longer working.
As a result, the way that we market to customers is going through considerable change whereby companies are looking to attract potential new customers by providing value to that customer long before actually trying to sell them something.
This is often referred to as Inbound or Content Marketing and is achieved by targeting a specific set of customers (often in a B2B context this would be by job role and would include BDMs) with content that is highly relevant to them and engages them with a view to, in time, moving these prospects through the marketing funnel to becoming sales prospects. It does not involve 'interrupting' the prospective customer and is based on the pretext that if you deliver valuable information to prospects, they will reciprocate by ultimately giving your their business, but perhaps more importantly, their ongoing loyalty.
Increasingly, Microsoft will be investing in partner marketing efforts that utilise content marketing across digital channels and providing support to partners keen to better understand how this approach can drive tangible outcomes for their businesses.
In my next blog, we will look at the way professional agencies can help partners embark on Inbound Marketing campaigns and strategies.
1 B2B campaign conversion rates from 1-5% according to Serius Decisions Benchmark Survey
2 Ayaz Nanji, 'Email Open and Click-Through Rates: Benchmarks by Vertical", MarketingProfs, May 13, 2013
1. Hubspot Inbound Marketing Certification (5 hours of online training on Inbound Marketing techniques). This is a great example of how the creation and availability of relevant content engages potential future customers without trying to sell you anything.
2. Partner Profitability Training - Evolving Your Marketing Strategy to Generate Self Educated Prospects (Microsoft sponsored training @$75 per ticket) – (Tuesday 17th March – Melbourne), Thursday 19th March – Sydney and Monday 23rd March – Brisbane. Requires a Live ID alias or email directly firstname.lastname@example.com to register.


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4 Bedroom Family Home - Under Construction Now!Ideally located in "The Grantville Rise Estate" - surrounded by all new homes, walking tracks, minutes walk to the foreshore & enjoy the great coffee & service that Grantville shops have to offer, as well as having easy access to public V-line transport. Close to all the boat ramps to enjoy the day out fishing on Western Port Bay! Under construction now, this house & land package includes Dishwasher, electric stainless steel hot cooking appliances hotplates & underbench oven, aluminium windows, holland blinds, flyscreens, TV antenna, full ensuite, Brivas split system airconditioning, tiles to the wet areas, quality carpets, grass turf to front yard, topsoil and seed to rear yard. Garage has a remote panel lift door. Fold down clothes line. This home is a turn key package, just move in enjoy & relax with the family! Approximately 1 hour 25 min to Melbourne and 20 mins to Phillip Island, Grantville Rise will be an easy escape from the city, and offers direct access via the Bass Hwy. For further details about this home and land package please click "email agent" link above.
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So, the news is full of knife regulation, greater search powers for the Gards and a ban on Samurai swords.
Anyone heard from any martial artist mates studying Japanese Swordsmanship and how is the ban effecting them? Or does it?
I know we had a big thread about whether this will effect us or not but do we have a draft of the legislation on-line?


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Listen in as two of White Haven's enslaved African Americans contemplate the possibility of freedom. This short video is shown in the winter kitchen at White Haven, and was made possible with support from Jefferson National Parks Association and the Ed Cook Memorial Fund.
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00:22 TIM: Ulysses S. Grant lived here…and while he's living here, he's also living among dozens of African-American slaves.
00:32 The person that would eventually lead to the destruction of African-American slavery…In the 1850s, he's working side-by-side those same African-Americans that eventually his actions will free in the 1860s.
00:47 PAM: Ulysses and Julia loved this place…this home. Julia talks about it being sunlight and happiness for all who lived here. And yet, there's this other parallel story that has been in the shadows.
01:05 CHIFFONTAE: Julia knows that there's slavery here. It's a big part of her life. But at the same time, she also thinks the house ran itself. I don't want people to walk away from this site thinking that the house ran itself.
01:23 The conditions they were in…was unjust. It was emotionally cruel. But at the same time, when you say, "oh, that's so sad and then we move on" -- It doesn't show the leaps and bounds that people made to get out of these situations…
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01:46 PAM: In Missouri at the time, African-Americans whether they were free or enslaved were not allowed to read or write. And yet we had evidence that they were learning to do that here at White Haven…and hiding those things because they had been underneath the floorboards in the winter kitchen.
02:05 CHIFFONTAE: We talk about how children were playing down here and the importance of reading and writing with the slate pencils. But the African beads…is one of the biggest testaments to how these people were trying to hold on to something outside of and way bigger than the institution that they were in…
02:24 The African beads traveled through multi-generations and made it from Africa to the middle of the country.
02:34 TIM: Grant takes away from this experience a more profound hatred of slavery, which we see in his actions as general and a commitment to civil rights as the 18th President of the United States
02:48 And this is an aspect of Grant that is often forgotten, misunderstood – that he was one of our greatest civil rights presidents in American history.
02:56 Voice of Grant – "My oft expressed desire is that all citizens – white or black, native or foreign born – shall be left free.
03:06 TIM: President Grant risked public backlash by emphatically affirming his unqualified support for the 15th Amendment, a constitutional amendment which guarantees citizens the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous servitude. His actions laid the foundation for future generations.
03:26 CHIFFONTAE: This is everybody's history. And it is not just a white and a black history either. When people come here, there's something that they take away. My hope is that they can see themselves in the stories that we tell here
03:40 TIM: There's nothing quite as powerful in respect to the educational experience … as standing where these great historical figures once stood. By visiting these national parks, visitors have that opportunity…And in so doing, I think we gain a much greater understanding of who we are as a country and who we are as Americans.
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Ulysses S. Grant was one of the great civil rights presidents in American history. His legacy on behalf of African American citizenship laid the foundation for future generations. Yet in the 1850s, he lived among African American slaves.
00:00 ARLENE: This love story is a hidden part of Ulysses' Grant's life.
00:12 Most people focus on his Civil War time and not realize that the strongest support and foundation for his life is his family and his love for his wife.
00:26 woman humming in background
00:28 PAM: A house to me is, you know, a structure – the physical architecture – whereas a home has those emotional connections.
00:36 This is where Ulysses and Julia met, where three of their four kids were born. It was that emotional touchstone for them.
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00:48 KAREN: What we have are the rooms – the physical, tangible connection to the living that went on here.
00:54 But to have something even more personal -- personal thoughts being put down, someone receiving it, reading it, keeping it. I think gets you more directly to the individual, both Ulysses and Julia.
01:13 Voice of Grant- "Kiss our little boys for me, and a thousand kisses for yourself Dear Julia"
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01:20 KAREN: I mean, when a man writes to you – "the last thing I thought of at night was you Julia, um and I dreamed about you!" – it gives you a real sense of an individual's personality and character.
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01:35 Voice of Grant – "without you, no place, no home, can be very pleasant to me"
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01:42 PAM: They were separated so often, especially when Grant was on the west coast for two years
01:47 ARLENE: To be that far apart and the mail doesn't get there very often
01:52 PAM: To think you wouldn't know for four and a half months that your wife had survived and that you have another child
01:58 KAREN: The unknown can become unbearable.
02:01 Voice of Grant – "I have been separated from you and Fred long enough. And as to Ulysses, I've never even seen him!"
02:09 PAM: It's through those letters that you really get insight into why he was willing to resign in 1854 to come back here to be reunited with his family.
02:18 Musical notes of construction and hammering
02:21 KAREN: In the process of doing the preservation of the home here, a window in the upstairs hall was sagging. They decided to pull the entire window frame, and sash, and everything out. And a portion of a letter came out with it! To have an actual artifact from Grant kept here in the home was pretty, pretty special.
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02:46 ARLENE: The family aspect of Grant gave him this foundation…this stability that allowed him to handle some really challenging and difficult times.
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02:58 KAREN: It certainly gave him the ability to go and do what he thought was his duty by re-joining the Union Army and stay with that cause
03:08 ARLENE: This place…White Haven…allows us a great opportunity to look into the personal lives of one of this countries' presidents that was under the greatest of strains and see who he was as a person.
03:27 KAREN: Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan can understand how hard it is to be away from the little things in life that make the day-to-day living good, especially when you have small children and a place you'd rather be.
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Most people know Ulysses S. Grant as a victorious Civil War general and the 18th President of the United States, but many don't know that he was deeply in love with his wife, Julia. This is their love story, now told at the Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Assuming one survives with body and soul intact, the sole benefit of being kidnapped by Somali pirates is that it gives you the mother of all pub tales to tell.
Two years after I spent six weeks as a hostage in Somalia while reporting for The Sunday Telegraph, I still enjoy the way jaws drop when I mention it: as conversational bombshells go, it's not far off saying one has been abducted by aliens, and the only person who's trumped it so far is a fellow reporter who was shot in Afghanistan, not by a bullet but by a rocket-propelled grenade.
So when I had the chance to meet yachters Paul and Rachel Chandler last week, it was a distinctly unusual feeling. First, because they're among the very few other Britons who have languished at the hands of Somali pirates. And, second, because their marathon ordeal – to be frank – makes mine look a bit of a picnic.
Not that it felt that way at the time. On assignment to report on Somalia's escalating piracy problem in November 2008, my photographer and I were kidnapped by the very people we'd been sent to write about, who whisked us off to some remote mountain caves. Living in conditions that were Stone Age, save for our captor's Kalashnikovs, we survived on goat meat and rice, endured occasional death threats, and dodged bullets one day during a gunfight with a rival clan.
What felt like the greatest pirate adventure since the days of Blackbeard, however, paled in comparison when the Chandlers were taken hostage the following October. Snatched as they sailed their yacht, the Lynn Rival, from the Seychelles to Tanzania, they too were taken to the mainland, where they were held by a 30-strong gang in an area plagued not just by pirates but al-Qaeda-linked Islamists. For 13 months, before a ransom payment set them free, they faced similar privations – and worse – to mine. To give a measure of just how hard that would be, I found myself going up the cave wall after just three weeks.
All of which makes it even more surprising to see how together they seem when we have lunch in a west London restaurant; they have even had the energy to co-author a book, Hostage: A Year at Gunpoint with Somali Gangsters, which was published on Thursday. Told in diary form, it covers their entire 388-day ordeal, with grim chapter headings such as "Life in the bush", "Not a Merry Christmas", and "Threats and lies", before the final: "Passage to freedom".
Readers expecting a "misery memoir" aftermath of post-traumatic stress and long stints on a counsellor's settee may be disappointed, however. When I ask if they suffer any bad dreams or flashbacks, both reply "No" in unison.
"Immediately after our release, I was carried away with the euphoria of just feeling free," says Rachel, 57. "I felt very aware of just how lucky we are living in Britain, where we have security and law and order. Since then we've recovered together, and have been able to talk to friends and family, who've encouraged us just to get back to normal.
"Once we started writing, I did find myself crying at the keyboard. But we've never needed counselling, because we've got each other, and I've never had nightmares. In fact, the only bad dream I've had was after the recent London riots, which felt rather closer to home. You don't expect that kind of thing in Britain, where we take law and order for granted."
I find myself nodding; I too found that the riots got to me in a way that stories I cover abroad simply don't. Yet otherwise, the gulf between our ordeals becomes clear from the moment we order lunch, and the subject of the "pirate plan" diet comes up.
"Did you ever have goat's liver?" Paul asks.
"Yes," I say, "just the once – revolting stuff. And you?"
"Er… 290 times for breakfast, according to my diary."
Gulp. The contrasts go well beyond just the sheer length of time served. When I was incarcerated, the two things I feared most – apart from being held for a long time – was violence from my captors, and separation from my fellow hostage, whose company was invaluable in darker moments. The Chandlers suffered both.
On one awful day, which makes me feel queasy reading about it in the book, they were viciously beaten by the gang leader, a cocky thug in his thirties, named Buggas. Buggas had reasoned, correctly, that splitting them up would put extra pressure on their families to pay a ransom more quickly, and when the couple resisted, he struck Rachel in the face with a rifle butt, knocking out a tooth. She was then dragged off to spend three months alone, during which she contemplated suicide (not unreasonably, in my opinion). That utter low point, though – which Paul still found shocking when he read Rachel's account – also made them stronger.
"The separation was hell," says Paul. "But once we got back together again we felt we could face anything. We could have faced being there for years if needs be."
Years – as in plural? By now, my six-week stint feels even humbler. Rachel soothes my flagging pride.
"You would still have experienced the same horrific sense of the initial kidnap, with that total feeling of helplessness and shock," she says. "It's just that you didn't have the prolonged process that we had. We started off as amateur hostages and went up a very steep learning curve to become seasoned captives."
We also find common ground in the relationships we had with our respective gangs of kidnappers – which, given that they guard you day and night, become oddly intimate.
Like me, they recall them by their nicknames. Just as I had the Trekker, the Driver, Skullface 1, Skullface 2 and the Old Bastard (no further explanation necessary), the Chandlers talk of the likes of Land Rover Man, Omar, Baby Face, pirate overlord Fat Boy, and the creepy Haji Selbi – aka HSB – a 25-year-old who wanted Rachel to marry him. And like me, they retain a degree of sympathy for the younger kidnappers – mainly adolescents, whose chief kicks were chewing qhat and watching pornography on their mobile phones – while having only contempt for their masters, who might have known better. Paul, though, who learned some Somali during his captivity, laments that none of the local villagers seemed to have any concept that hostage-taking was wrong.
"The depressing thing was they were all in cahoots. There was no real tone of disapproval," he says. "Some of them were doing ordinary jobs, subsistence farming, but I remember when I pointed out a goat farmer to one of the pirates, and said 'There goes an honest man', the reaction was just one of contempt, that the farmer was a nobody."
In understanding how they coped so well, it should be pointed out the Chandlers were never quite the average Tunbridge Wells couple in the first place. A degree of toughness and resilience is a prerequisite for anyone who sails on open ocean, where storms, debris or mere mechanical breakdown can prove as mortal a hazard as piracy. Even the chilling "hostage video" that their captors released, in which they were seen begging the British government to help them while surrounded by menacing gunmen, was not what it seems, they tell me. Neither Paul nor Rachel looked scared enough to begin with, and it took three Hollywood-style "once more, with feeling" re-shoots to satisfy the film's pirate director.
"It took about four takes before they decided that we sounded sufficiently scared," recalls Paul, who was admonished at one point for smirking. "It was only on the third one that I even realised that they were behind us holding their weapons, and one of them was struggling to hold his gun up because it was so heavy. It was all so staged, I couldn't help smiling."
If that sounds surprising, I should point out that a degree of black humour comes in very handy when held hostage – there aren't, after all, many other laughs to be had. Their book contains plenty of lighter anecdotes of when the couple put one over on their captors: while still on the yacht, for example, Rachel gives Buggas an abrasive household cleaner when he asks her for soap to wash with, and shares his fellow pirates' amusement when he appears, naked, to complain that it fails to lather. Paul, meanwhile, gets so angry with his captors' constant chatter at night that he ends up yelling at them to stop "jabbering", which, to his immense surprise, they do.
As with any kidnap, though, the Chandlers are not the only ones who had to put on a brave face. So too did family and friends, who had to deal with the pirates' ransom demand. Raising the cash, which came from a mixture of family resources and unidentified benefactors, was arguably the easy part. Far harder was the tortuous negotiations with the pirate clan, which swallowed an entire year in the life of Rachel's brother, Steve Collett, who led the talks, and Paul's sister, Jill, who was given power of attorney over the couple's affairs.
Paul and Rachel are critical of the Foreign Office, which they say gave only "derisory" help, citing HMG's official policy of not facilitating ransoms in any way. That, they claim, translated into a "jobsworth" attitude, which meant their family got no real help until they contacted a private firm specialising in piracy negotiations. By then, crucial time building rapport with the gang had been lost.
"My sister, who is 70, was suddenly getting phone calls from our captors from thousands of miles away," says Paul. "She could at least have been warned to expect them, warned that they would ham things up, and I was staggered to learn that she hadn't been. You have to be a real jobsworth to decide that advising people about how to handle a kidnap situation amounts to facilitating a ransom payment."
"I can understand not paying ransoms if there is a chance of solving matters through policing or diplomacy," adds Rachel. "But in a case like ours, what other solution was there?"
The family eventually paid $440,000, although Paul and Rachel say that they have never been told who exactly coughed up what. And while the couple raised around £100,000 themselves towards the bill with a post-release interview, they are not expected to repay any further debts, their relatives insisting that such a burden would hamper their return to normal life.
Which, for the Chandlers, means life on the ocean waves. For the last year, their main preoccupation aside from writing the book has been restoring the Lynn Rival, which currently lies in a yard in Devon after being ransacked during the hijacking. Save for a bullet hole through the boom, which is being kept as a souvenir, the boat should be back to its old self by next year, when the couple will once again set sail, this time for the Caribbean rather than the pirate-plagued Indian Ocean. True, that region has its dangers, too – storms and hurricanes for a start, not to mention the odd robber – but it will only be then that the boat's crew will feel truly free once more.
"Life won't be back to normal until we've got Lynn Rival back in the water," said Paul, who, like Rachel, talks of the boat like a third partner in their marriage. "Some people wonder why we'd want to go to sea again. But others, especially the fellow sailors, are happy to see us getting back to the life we love."
* Hostage: A Year at Gunpoint with Somali Gangsters (Mainstream Publishing) is available from Telegraph Books at £9.99 + 99p p&p. To order, call 0844 871 1516 or visit books.telegraph.co.uk. Kidnapped by Colin Freeman (Monday Books) is also available, for £7.49 + 99p p&p