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Tomorrow, while watering the new lawn and the different garden beds in the back yard, I will attempt to BBQ a brisket I bought last fall. I've had it in the freezer since then. I put it down in the fridge last night.
I crushed some white pepper seeds and mixed that with some kosher salt. I brushed the 2.5 lb. brisket with mustard and then sprinkled the pepper and salt mixture evenly on both sides. It's in the fridge marinating.
I'll get up early in the morning and start the water and then build a fire. I've only ever used pecan. I've got a big tree in the back and let a sapling grow long enough to get some 2 inch chunks when I cut it down.
I start my fire with some twigs, leaves and newspaper. Once the fire is started, I add increasingly larger bits of pecan. As the larger branches start to burn out, I add the thicker chunks from the sapling. I should have a good smoldering grill in less than 30 minutes.
The brisket needs to grill for about 3 and a half to four hours. I'm terrible about taking the lid off the grill to take a peak, but I will try my best to start a fire that will keep me from doing that tomorrow.
While the brisket is going, I will work in the back yard, in the hope that I will see Junebug. She wasn't around at all today and Harry and I are worried. Perhaps if I work in the back she will show up.
I've got to build trellises for the new cucumbers to grow on and then plant them. I've got to build another bed and plant squash. I've got to plant the sweet peas in the first beds, and I've got to plant the sunflowers in pots. Cleaning the garage and planting a few more sunflowers will round everything out.
And that's just the morning 🙂
Right now, with the exception of not seeing Junebug, I really do like my world. That's a big exception though.


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I wrote about the increasing boldness of animals, that they are attacking and penetrating human habitation in aggressive ways. You can search this blog for the term 'plague of beasts' and a lot will come up. My main entry discussing the bible verses related to this plague is here. It begins this way:
"I looked, and behold, an ashen horse; and he who sat on it had the name Death; and Hades was following with him. Authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth. (Revelation 6:8)."
"Consider those words for a moment...we are all familiar with plagues such as THE Plague, as in bubonic, Swine Flu and Dengue Fever and Malaria and all the other diseases and plagues throughout the centuries as well as biblical plagues of locusts and the ten plagues of Egypt. But one of the plagues loosed in Revelation 6 as the 4th seal is opened will be death by wild beasts.' "
Though the video shows one determined turkey, one turkey terrorizing one neighborhood does not an end time make. But the aggressive and unusual behavior of this and other animals lately does give cause for concern. Remember the whale that deliberately smashed a yachting couple's boat? The 500 bats attacking people in Peru? The monkeys that took over a village in South Africa? Turkeys attacking and trapping people int heir cars in Brooklyn? And many other stories. Animal behavior has gotten strange lately, with many people noticing the lack of inhibition and unusual pattern of aggressiveness of animals that do not usually appear in the attacking locations, or attack unprovoked. More examples and more scripture discussion at link above.
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- AnonymousOctober 16, 2011 at 9:23 PM
I was attacked by a rooster once as a child. It was very scary....ReplyDelete
My mom's neighborhood has about 30 turkeys that hold up traffic quite often, just hanging out in the middle of the streets.
I have noticed SO MANY MORE animal stories like this one, and the others involving 'the plague of beasts.'
Thanks for your diligent work for the Kingdom!
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yes, it seems to be increasing and all kinds of animals & insects too.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 17, 2011 at 1:55 AM
When we lived in Alaska 30+ years ago one of our neighbors had a "guard turkey". I kid you not!! That turkey would come up the hill to our place and if our children were out, the turkey would try to attack them. One day while my husband and brother-in-law were working on our car, the turkey came up and 'inspected' their work, looking under the hood to see what they were doing. He was in no way afraid of either of them and both of them are tall and big men! I, on the other hand, was more than a little afraid of the turkey. I always found it a bit amusing that when living in the bush in Alaska, I was afraid of bears, moose and a tom turkey. I guess that like geese, tom turkeys are also very protective of their harems. Roosters, too. As Emily in the above comment, my mother was attacked by a rooster as a child. She still has the scar on her leg where the rooster gouged her with his spur.ReplyDelete
I am in agreement with you overall - some animals are becoming more agressive, while others are just losing their fear of humans and becoming bolder (think foxes, coyotes, deer and even moose living in cities like Denver, LA and even New York!). Our daughter was chased by a angry deer one winter afternoon, through the snow, and an elderly woman in our community was trampled to death by a deer. Deer are NOT sweet, gentle creatures - they can kill you and will kill you or hurt you under the right circumstances.
In some ways it's not just that animals are becoming bolder, but people are also uneducated about what animals are really like. Secular man has removed the soul of man and made us no different than the animals, or instead elevated animals to the same status as man to the point that some animals have more rights under the law than a human does. We are totally out of balance and "nature" takes advantage, abhoring a vacuum, as they say. Humanity worships the creation rather than the creator and God uses the creation to disciplin or judge humanity.
- AnonymousOctober 17, 2011 at 4:40 PM
We have turkeys... they are actually quite friendly to us since we raised them. They'll actually follow us around the yard and if we go into the barn they will come running to us for food or attention. If a stranger comes into our yard the male Toms will give chase. I don't think this is abnormal behaviors.... they are just defending their flock or hens. I do think we see more animal attacks because humans have invaded and spanned out into areas leaving the animals with no place else to go. This causes a lot of problems. Here in Montana we had that oil spill over the summer which contaminated the yellowstone river. During cleanup we saw cougars and coyotes and fox, why? because their habitat had been invaded on and they had no where else to go so began moving towards the farms..... we lost almost a dozen chickens this summer because of it... much of this had to do with the oil spill... and yes once again it was Exxon who caused the spill.... imagine that.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 17, 2011 at 11:33 PM
I kind of feel this is staged. You'll note she ran by her car at one time. You never heard the mailman's voice.ReplyDelete
I think she had a bait on her of some kind. Maybe not.


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As Kiwi summer comes to an end, so is my season here in New Zealand.
As much as I love the summertime, I love having seasons. I love the long balmy evenings of summer and the colours of autumn. I even love shivering (and complaining) my way through winter, because without it, we may lose our sense of wonder when spring finally blossoms.
As many of you know, I moved to Auckland three years ago to study. I was incredibly lucky to be snatched up straight out of uni, starting my first day at my new job in advertising only hours after handing in my last assignment. Work was good. I made awesome friends within the company, got to work alongside one of my favourite people in the world as creative partners and got to spend my days daydreaming and creating for a living. My office even had unlimited free wine!
Things were going to well until I was sat down over lunch and told exactly what "making it" in the industry would entail. I was told that it meant sacrificed relationships, a whole lot of butt-kissing and that leaving at 5.30 (the time I was getting paid until) should never be an option as a junior. I was taught different ways to "prove myself" and cut-throat tactics for climbing the ladder of an industry, which in that very moment, I knew it wasn't for me. I knew that I didn't want to waste away my twenties, which are meant to be some of the best and most memorable years of our lives, to build a career that in the end would never fulfil the desires of my heart.
Some people have said that this makes me a typical millennial, with an inability to commit, a sense of "entitlement" and an unwillingness to put in the hard yards. And I totally get why they'd think that. But looking around the office, it didn't seem to be only juniors and people in their twenties that were slaving away and doing long hours. I saw that this wasn't just a job, but a full-on lifestyle commitment - one that came with a whole lot of sacrifice. I'd have to sacrifice friendships, time with family, time to do things that I love, other commitments and my general well-being. These were sacrifices I wasn't willing to make.
Within two days of deciding it wasn't for me, I had quit my job. I knew that the long days and sleepless nights as the days got colder and shorter would send me on a downward spiral. Especially since any drop of passion for what I was doing had disappeared from my body in an instant. I was teary-eyed as I handed my resignation letter to my boss, who was a genuinely good person and I am still beyond grateful for my time in that workplace and in the advertising industry. I don't regret it at all. I guess without trying I would have never got it out of my system in order to realise that it wasn't for me. I learnt so much in the nine months that I was there that I'll carry with me into wherever I end up next.
That was two weeks ago, I'm still working out my one month notice period and as soon as it's over, I'm moving back to Sydney to figure out what the heck I'm doing next! I'll take six months to live on my parents' couches, sort myself out and decide what direction I'm heading in - with my career and with life in general. I gave up a good thing so I'd better make it worthwhile.
Moving to Auckland for this season of my life was one of the best decisions I've ever made. I've invested in friendships that will last a lifetime and have been surrounded by my extended family who mean more to me than words could express. I've explored the beauty of this city, and of New Zealand and got more in touch with my roots and where I'm from. But it's time for me to go and chase dreams instead of deadlines, meaning instead of money and stories instead of success.


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Here's another reason why dry eye disease (DED) deserves our attention: The tear film-air interface provides 75% of the refractive power of the eye.1 Align that with the other reasons DED requires treatment — its presence affects preoperative planning, surgical outcomes and patient satisfaction2 — and that requirement could be called a mandate.
DED has been divided into four subtypes: aqueous tear deficiency (ATD); blepharitis/meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD), also known as evaporative; goblet cell/mucin deficiency; and exposure-related dysfunctional tear syndrome. There are also masqueraders, or coconspirators, of DED such as: superior limbic keratoconjunctivitis, topical medication toxicity, Thygeson's superficial punctate keratitis, mucous fishing syndrome, contact lens-related toxicity, allergic conjunctivitis, conjunctivochalasis, chemical toxicity and floppy eyelid syndrome.3 Nonobvious or obvious anterior basement membrane dystrophy can become more clinically relevant after cataract surgery, and other mechanical diseases like Salzmann's nodular degeneration should be carefully evaluated for upon slit lamp examination.
The Prospective Health Assessment of the Cataract Patient's Ocular Surface (PHACO) study found that 87% of patients scheduled for cataract surgery had clinical findings of dry eye but were asymptomatic.4
DED can impact the preoperative planning of your cataract surgery. An irregular ocular surface can result in topographical aberrations, such as irregular mires, that create artificially steeper Ks and irregular astigmatism. Treating seemingly higher levels of astigmatism can cause an overcorrection and possibly lead to flipping the axis postoperatively.
Cataract surgery itself can exacerbate pre-existing dry eye. Inciting factors include: prolonged intraoperative microscopic light exposure, grooved corneal tunnel incisions, denervation of the cornea, topical anesthesia and drops containing preservatives, such as benzalkonium chloride.5-7 Also, femtosecond-assisted limbal relaxing incisions (LRIs) create intrastromal incisions without disturbing the epithelium, preserving tear film stability and offering patient comfort, unlike penetrating limbal relaxing incisions.8 In a study by Kasetsuwan et al., which analyzed the incidence of postoperative dry eye one week following phacoemulsification, 68.4% had reduced TBUT, 11.9% had a diminished Schirmer 1 score without anesthesia, and 9.8% had dry eye based on the Ocular Surface Disease Index (OSDI) score.9
There are myriad methods to assess dry eye subjectively. Visual-function questionnaires are useful tools. The OSDI is a 12-item questionnaire that rapidly assesses and categorizes DED severity into normal, mild, moderate and severe, based on a scoring algorithm. The score is scaled from 0-100 with higher values indicating more severe disease; values ≥ 13 indicate DED.10 (For more DED diagnostics, see page 24.)
After establishing the diagnosis of dry eye and classifying the subtype(s), the next step is to outline its management (Table 1, page 22).3 Artificial tears are indicated for all subtypes of DED. They lubricate the surface, remove debris, reduce elevated pro-inflammatory mediators, dilute a hyperosmolar tear film and supplement deficient components of the tear film.3 For those with moderate to severe dry eye, it is recommended to use preservative-free artificial tears at least four times per day. While artificial tears provide improvement of subjective symptoms and objective findings, they will not resolve dry eye on their own for the majority of patients.
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|Adapted from: Milner MS, Beckman KA, Luchs JI, et al. Dysfunctional tear syndrome: dry eye disease and associated tear film disorders – new strategies for diagnosis and treatment. Curr Opin Ophthalmol. 2017;28:3-47.
The first-line treatments for DED (ATD, MGD and goblet/mucin deficiency) are artificial tear supplements and topical anti-inflammatories (Table 1).3 Anti-inflammatory therapies have been proven to be efficacious for moderate to severe evaporative dry eye and ATD. Topical cyclosporine A (Restasis, Allergan) 0.05% works by inhibiting cytokine production from activated T lymphocytes, reducing conjunctival goblet cell loss and epithelial apoptosis. An early response can be observed at six weeks; however, it may take at least six months to see an improvement. Donnenfeld et al. studied the effects of cyclosporine compared to preservative-free artificial tears (PFAT) following phacoemulsification and implantation of multifocal IOLs. They found that the cyclosporine group had an improved mean uncorrected distance visual acuity (UCDVA) of 20/25 compared to the artificial tear group with mean UCDVA of 20/30 (P=0.45). Mean best-corrected distance visual acuities (CDVA) were 20/20 in the cyclosporine group compared to 20/25 in the PFAT group (P=0.005). They also noted improved contrast sensitivity, conjunctival staining and TBUT.11
Because it takes time to reap the full benefits of cyclosporine, several clinicians have found using an NSAID or topical steroid helps with the burning and stinging12 of cyclosporine until the induction period is complete. Topical loteprednol QID can be used for two weeks to begin subjectively and objectively improving the ocular surface for preoperative measurements while waiting for anti-inflammatory medications to take effect.13
Lifitegrast (Xiidra, Shire) 5.0% is the newest FDA- approved medication for DED. It is an intracellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM) decoy that blocks the binding interaction of lymphocyte function-associated antigen-1 (LFA-1). This inhibits T-cell recruitment, activation and proinflammatory cytokine release associated with DED. Studies involving lifitegrast have shown improvement in dry eye symptoms by day 14.14 Irritation and discomfort can occur with application; the most common nonocular side effect is dysgeusia.
Warm compresses and eyelid scrubs such as Avenova (NovaBay Pharmaceuticals) or OcuSoft scrubs (OCuSOFT) are also first-line therapies for MGD. Other options include LipiFlow (J&J Vision), which uses thermal pulsation to liquefy and express meibum; it works well preoperatively. Clinical studies have shown improvements in OSDI scores and meibomian secretion scores. However, LipiFlow is not for everyone, including patients who do not have sufficient glands to perform a lid expression; at least six lower lid glands, open to some degree, are generally required.15
More DED diagnostics
Objective data include:
- TBUT≤ 10s
- positive ocular surface staining with fluorescein or lissamine green (Figure 1, page 22)
- Schirmer test I ≤10 mm after five minutes
- tear film meniscus height ≤0.3 mm
- lagophthalmos
- eyelid laxity
- ocular scatter, a property of light as it travels through the optical media of the eye that is heterogenous, results in localized deviations of light due to a combination of diffraction, reflection and refraction. The HD Analyzer (Visiometrics) uses double-pass wavefront aberrometry to measure the Objective Scattering Index (OSI) and higher-order aberrations. It achieves this by analyzing information from the retinal image point-spread function. An OSI >1 indicates light scatter due to conditions such as tear film instability or early cataract, which can be diagnosed preclinically (Figures 2 and 3, page 42).1
- tear osmolarity: values ≥ 308 mOsm/L or asymmetry of 8 mOsm/L or more are indicative of hyperosmolarity.2
- Piñero DP, Ortiz D, Alio JL. Ocular scattering. Optom Vis Sci Off Publ Am Acad Optom. 2010;87:E682-696.
- Schallhorn S. Quality of vision and life following LASIK. Paper presented at: The American Academy of Ophthalmology Annual Meeting; Nov. 11, 2012; Chicago.
Punctal plugs are another useful tool with improved corneal staining, prolonged TBUT, decrease in tear osmolarity and increase in goblet cell density. Contraindications include allergies to plug material, nasolacrimal duct obstruction and canaliculitis or dacryoadenitis. It has been suggested that clinical ocular surface inflammation is a contraindication because it can cause prolonged contact of abnormal tears containing proinflammatory cytokines with the ocular surface.16 However, it is reasonable to treat your patient with an anti-inflammatory for several weeks prior to inserting a punctal plug.
Tetracyclines, such as doxycycline, are used for their anti-inflammatory properties. They inhibit matrix metalloproteinases and collagenases. Clinical studies of oral tetracycline agents found a significant improvement of reported symptoms and ocular inflammation/irritation. However, a five-day course of azithromycin (500 mg for day one, then 250 mg for the remaining four days) showed greater improvements in ocular surface staining, redness and shorter duration of treatment compared to doxycycline 200 mg once a day.17,18
Omega-3 fatty acids and other nutritional supplements have been found to be useful in ATD and MGD. There were significant improvements in OSDI scores and objective evaluations of corneal smoothness in those taking supplements of gamma-linolenic acid and omega-3 fatty acids in patients with moderate to severe dry eye compared to placebo. Studies regarding optimal dosage and formulation are ongoing.3,19
DED is a critical component of patient satisfaction and optimal surgical outcomes. It consists of multiple subtypes that overlap with each other. DED is often overlooked due to many patients being asymptomatic and will likely worsen following cataract surgery. After implementation of your initial treatment plan, it is a good idea to wait four to six weeks before reassessing and augmenting the plan. If the patient is still symptomatic, you can continue to expand upon the plan with additional therapies until the right combination is found. When dealing with an unhappy postoperative patient, remember the "big three" — DED, residual refractive error and posterior capsule opacification.20 It is important to diagnose and treat DED preoperatively while it's still "the patient's problem." If diagnosed postoperatively, then it becomes the doctor's problem. Treating DED can be challenging, but thankfully there are many diagnostic and therapeutic tools to help our patients. OM
- Rolando M, Zierhut M. The ocular surface and tear film and their dysfunction in dry eye disease. Surv Ophthalmol. 2001;45:S203-S210.
- Xie C, Garg S. Cataract surgery and dry eye update. Ophthalmology Management. 2017; 21: 28-30.
- Milner MS, Beckman KA, Luchs JI, et al. Dysfunctional tear syndrome: dry eye disease and associated tear film disorders – new strategies for diagnosis and treatment. Curr Opin Ophthalmol. 2017;28:3-47.
- Trattler WB, Majmudar PA, Eric D Donnenfeld ED, et al. The prospective health assessment of cataract patients' ocular surface (PHACO) study: the effect of dry eye. Clin Ophthalmol. 2017;11:1423-1430.
- Cho YK, Kim MS. Dry Eye After Cataract Surgery and Associated Intraoperative Risk Factors. Korean J Ophthalmol. 2009;23:65.
- Hiroko B. Cataract Surgery in the Presence of other ocular comorbidities. In: Cataract Surgery: Technique, Complication and Management. 1st ed. Saunders; 2004.
- Fine IH, Hoffman RS, Packer M. Profile of clear corneal cataract incisions demonstrated by ocular coherence tomography. J Cataract Refract Surg. 2007;33:94-97.
- Donnenfeld E, Rosenberg E. Assisting femto incisions with nomograms: Treat corneal astigmatism during cataract surgery. Ophthalmology Management. 2015. June; 19: 48-52.
- Kasetsuwan N, Satitpitakul V, Changul T, Jariyakosol S. Incidence and pattern of dry eye after cataract surgery. PLoS One. 2013 Nov 12;8:e78657. Accessed Mar. 10, 2018.
- Schiffman RM, Christianson MD, Jacobsen G, Hirsch JD, Reis BL. Reliability and validity of the Ocular Surface Disease Index. Arch Ophthalmol. 2000;118:615-621.
- Donnenfeld ED, Solomon R, Roberts CW, et al. Cyclosporine 0.05% to improve visual outcomes after multifocal intraocular lens implantation. J Cataract Refract Surg. 2010 Jul;36(7):1095-100.
- Schultz C. Safety and efficacy of cyclosporine in the treatment of chronic dry eye. Ophthalmol Eye Dis. 2014; 6:37-42.
- Sheppard JD, Donnenfeld ED, Holland EJ, et al. Effect of loteprednol etabonate 0.5% on initiation of dry eye treatment with topical cyclosporine 0.05%. Eye Contact Lens. 2014;40:289-296.
- Holland EJ, Luchs J, Karpecki PM, et al. Lifitegrast for the treatment of dry eye disease: results of a phase III, randomized, double-masked, placebo-controlled trial (OPUS-3). Ophthalmology. 2017 Jan;124:53-60.
- Greiner JV. Long-term (3 year) effects of a single thermal pulsation system treatment on meibomian gland function and dry-eye symptoms. Eye Contact Lens 2015 Jul 28.
- Management and Therapy of Dry Eye Disease: Report of the Management and Therapy Subcommittee of the International Dry Eye WorkShop (2007). Ocul Surf. 2007;5:163-178.
- Kashkouli MB, Fazel AJ, Kiavash V, Nojomi M, Ghiasian L. Oral azithromycin versus doxycycline in meibomian gland dysfunction: a randomised double-masked open-label clinical trial. Br J Ophthalmol. 2015;99:199-204.
- Frucht-Pery J, Sagi E, Hemo I, Ever-Hadani P. Efficacy of doxycycline and tetracycline in ocular rosacea. Am J Ophthalmol. 1993;116:88-92.
- Ji J. Omega-3 essential fatty acids therapy for dry eye syndrome: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled studies. Med Sci Monit. 2014;20:1583-1589.
- Woodward MA, Randleman JB, Stulting RD. Dissatisfaction after multifocal intraocular lens implantation. J Cataract Refract Surg. 2009;35:992-997.


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Launched in April 2012, COBIT 5 helps enterprises maximize the value of their information—the currency of the 21st century. COBIT 5 publications have been downloaded more than 70,000 times in the four months since its release.
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Richard Pharro, CEO of APMG, said, "This is a very significant announcement for APMG. Naturally we are delighted that ISACA has appointed us as its accreditation partner. We are very experienced at rolling out accreditation and qualification schemes globally. We aim to encourage candidates to engage with the COBIT 5 qualifications and assessments, so their organizations will in turn benefit from better governance and management of enterprise IT."
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* Foundation Level Training and Certificate—November 2012
* Process Level Training and Certificate—December 2012
* Implementation Level Training and Certificate—January 2013
* Assessment Level Training and Certification—January 2013
ISACA's own subject matter experts will be collaborating with APMG to create course syllabi, exam items and accreditation standards. ISACA will also continue to support COBIT 4.1.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Some state employees were paid overtime to go to work during what turned out to be a mostly dry workday on Wednesday, after the decision to close state offices triggered overtime pay for essential workers.
Gov. Gina Raimondo elected to close state offices due to predicted snow, telling all non-essential employees to stay home. The decision was made Tuesday night, when forecasts called for a possible messy evening commute. The morning commute was expected to be fine.
According to a Department of Administration memo sent to department heads and payroll officers, non-essential workers on the 8:30 am to 4:30 pm shift stayed home and were compensated like a typical workday. Essential workers who needed to work during the snow day were paid time and a half, and correctional officers were paid double time and a half, per the union contract.
While the costs of Wednesday's snow day has not yet been calculated, Department of Administration spokesperson Brenna McCabe said the personnel overtime costs from a previous storm-related state office closure totaled $310,000. Some of those costs were part of the RIDOT winter storm budget, which includes labor costs.
The $19.3 million RIDOT budget still had $3 million remaining for the season before Wednesday's storm, according to a spokesperson.
Raimondo defended the decision to close state offices despite some criticism, after snow did not begin to fall until the afternoon, leaving the roads wet but not snowy during the evening commute.
"Storms are expensive," Raimondo said in a noontime news conference. "We prepare for it, we err on the side of safety. Storms bring with them expenses: salt, plows, trucks, etc. We're prepared for it and we knew that when we made that decision."
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Near the end of our OMSI day, Ewe made it to the turbine hall, where there are a whole lot of really fun activities.
The ball room had lots of air pumps, hoses, and scads of little blue balls which are propelled by air power.
Not much of an activity, but a photo-op was the space suit…
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INFORM RequestHandler-Thread 401831 : Accepted new client connection from /10.75.65.145 on port 7071 WARN RequestHandler-Thread 401934 : Failed login by user due to insufficient credentials.
The Guest account (trusted user account) has been removed as a user. The script uses this Guest account to add the services, it therefore fails because it doesn't have the correct permissions.
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Cao Qing is home-schooling her 13-year-old son because, among other things, "he doesn't like homework". In the land of the midnight homework project, the average teenager's distaste for homework would not normally give Tiger Mum pause.
Most Chinese children learn early to sacrifice playtime and sleeptime on the altar of schoolwork: kids who do not excel in primary school fail to get into the middle school that gets them into the high school that guarantees the right university entrance scores. School is a serious business in China, right from the beginning.
(Read more: China's education move from Finland's playbook)
So who cares if the offspring hate homework? Is that not part of the human condition – not just in China, but around the world?
Ms Cao is one of an increasing number of Chinese parents who no longer think suffering is a necessary condition of academic success.
"The school gives too much homework," she says, as an autumn breeze blows through the open patio door of the walk-up duplex flat she rents in a Shanghai suburb to use as a home-schooling base for her son, Zhou Yi.
"Besides, he's a boy, and boys like to play, they don't like to sit still for a long time," she says, adding: "They can't just get all their knowledge from textbooks."
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Our chat is obviously distracting the boy in question, who pops up from his studies at the nearby kitchen table and goes off to fondle the family's newborn kitten and fetch his beetle collection for us to admire.
"Schools teach children in bulk, and it's not suitable for every child," Ms Cao says, adding that "each one has a different talent, and is good at different things. I don't think the rigid education in school suits my son."
Plenty of Tiger Mums and Dads around China agree with her on that one: China's education system is geared to helping millions of children each year pass the selfsame exam, the dreaded gaokao or university entrance test, widely faulted even in China for requiring too much rote learning of irrelevant content.
Many families are so desperate to avoid the gaokao that they send their children abroad to study, at an earlier and earlier age.
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But instead of sending Zhou Yi to board in Europe or the US, Ms Cao, a former fashion designer, takes him to the swimming pool at lunchtime to give him a practical lesson in the principles of flotation (which he has just finished studying in a textbook).
And every day, two hours are devoted to the study and interpretation of ancient Chinese texts. "Schools do not pay attention to traditional Chinese culture, especially the classics from Confucius and other Chinese philosophers," she says. "They are the essence of Chinese culture and as a Chinese person, my son must be familiar with them."
Ms Cao says that day's text was I Ching, the Book of Changes, one of the oldest (and hardest to parse) of the Chinese classics. I make a mental note to pull out I Ching whenever my teens complain about homework: they would prefer a week of schoolwork to spending even five minutes reciting that with me over the kitchen table.
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And what about the social training that comes with all that schoolwork? There are many things that China's one-child generation arguably needs less of: calories, electronic games and pampering from parents, to name a few. But less time spent with children their own age would not normally figure at the top of the list.
Employers complain that China's only children are spoiled, selfish and bad at teamwork. With no siblings to cut their teeth on – and six doting adults devoted to each of them (mum, dad and two sets of grandparents) – they should arguably spend more time playing playground politics, and less piano.
Ms Cao says her son is naturally sociable, but just in case she has added the 10-year-old child of a friend to their home schoolroom.
The schoolday starts with morning exercises, then six hours of lessons punctuated by an hour of free time on the internet at midday, a swim and an hour of calligraphy every evening. No piano, no violin – all in all, a lot less time than he used to spend on schoolwork, she says. And learning about insects – which Zhou Yi wants to make his life's vocation – "he can do in his own time".
(Read more: China will get old before it gets rich)
The only drawback: "Parents who home-school don't have teachers to blame if the child doesn't do well," she says. "It's a big responsibility," But at least this way, Tiger Mum does not also have to play the part of Homework Harridan. Although reciting I Ching while peeling potatoes must take some practice.


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Instagram launched instagram stories in 2016. The feature allows users to post short snippets of their day in picture, GIF or video form. We wonder where they got that idea from… cough… Snapchat.
This feature allows instagram users to post more frequently without annoying their followers by filling up their feed. This can be very useful for businesses on instagram as they could use stories as a way of showing a behind the scenes insight into their business whilst their actual instagram posts remain a professional form of marketing.
For example, a clothing designer may post pictures of the clothing he has for sale on his actual instagram page (or grid.) On his instagram stories however could post images that show how these clothes are created on a daily basis. An insight into how the business runs. This may encourage a customer to purchase the clothing when they have seen the time and effort that has gone into creating it.
When it comes to instagram stories the secret is in the name. STORIES! Remember what we all learnt in school about writing stories:
The beginning of your story should capture your audience attention, making them want to tap further into the story, just like turning the page in a book.
The middle of the story should provide your audience with all the information you want them to know. For example, if this story is promoting a new product you want to show them all the features and benefits of owning the product. In a range of angles, filters and boomerangs!
The end of the story should act as your call to action. You've got your audience's attention, told them what's so great about your product, now you need to tell them where to go to purchase it. Slightly annoying here as you can't post a 'swipe up' link on instagram stories unless you are verified (blue tick.) However you can get around this simply by putting your businesses website link in your instagram bio and directing your audience to there. (Link in bio)
Instagram stories are full of funky features that change a boring phone image into a fun, engaging story. Here are some of our favourites:
Boomerangs: Is it a picture? Is it a video? Nope it's a video looped into a GIF! A much more fun alternative than just posting a still image, this feature literally brings the picture into life! We recommend making boomerangs of people dancing to allow your story to reach its full potential.
Questions: The latest feature added to instagram stories. This allows your audience to ask you questions for you to answer within an instagram story. A great way for potential customers to ask your business questions and find out more about....You! One thing you might not know about questions is that they aren't anonymous - so you can see who is engaging with you.
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Daniel "Clockw0rk" Maniago has stated on the SuperBot Tumblr blog that a patch will be issued early next week to address a couple of issues with the game. The patch contains the following:
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Construction apprentices joined councillors, contractors, dignataries and staff from Hanover at an event to mark the progress of the building of a £1.6m development at Waterford Court in Giffnock, East Renfrewshire.
Our new amenity housing development will feature 12 fully insulated and energy-efficient flats for rent to older people and is expected to be completed in November.
Staff, including our Chief Executive Helen Murdoch, and East Renfrewshire's Councillor Jim Fletcher, joined other staff from Clancy, Robert Potter Architects, TCS and Ashleigh Scotland, whose apprentices have been doing a great job whilst learning at the same time.
The Waterford Court site previously featured 13 very sheltered properties, however Hanover – working in close partnership with East Renfrewshire Council and the Scottish Government – identified that amenity housing was more suitable for the area.
The new flats will be made up of three, two-storey blocks with every flat designed to make the best use of space.
Commenting on the progress to date, Mark Farey, Hanover's Director of Asset Management, said:
We're delighted that we're well on the way to providing these much needed new homes in Giffnock. The re-development of Waterford Court is a perfect example of how Hanover is adapting to the changing needs of older people."
Every property is designed to make the best use of the space and light available, and we've taken great care to ensure they are as energy-efficient as possible, in order to keep costs to residents at a minimum. We look forward to welcoming new residents moving in from the end of the year."
Pictured: Helen Murdoch, Chief Executive of Hanover, takes the controls of the machinery with staff from Hanover, Ashleigh (Scotland), Clancy, TCS, Robert Potter Architects and East Renfrewshire Council.


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Sacrament of Reconciliation
The Sacrament of Reconciliation is offered Saturday: 4:00 – 4:30 PM or by appointment.
Preparation for First Reconciliation begins in 1st grade. Students receive the first confession in winter of second grade. For special circumstances or if you are an adult interested in receiving Sacraments or joining the Catholic Church call the parish office at 847-244-4161.


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Expanding the Scope of Feminist History
My personal history fueled my historical curiosity about feminism. As the "second wave" of feminism washed over American culture in the 1970s, I could not imagine where all that energy had been stored for so long or why it had revived just then. Why had feminism seemingly waned in the 1920s, with so much unfinished business, a generation before I encountered it? What little I had read of U. S. women's history portrayed the slow but steady march of women's rights from Seneca Falls in 1848 to suffrage, always ending with national enfranchisement in 1920. Yet as an entering graduate student in 1970, keenly aware of the lack of women faculty at Columbia in contrast to Barnard, I sorely wanted feminism back. Perhaps, I thought, I could learn what had happened to that earlier movement, why it had effectively disappeared.
The question of "what happened to the women's movement" has been at the heart of at least half of my scholarship since that time. Beginning in a graduate seminar on the 1920s and 1930s, I asked how scholars had explained the postsuffrage era, surveying their interpretations of women's status and politics after 1920. What struck me most was that historians themselves had contributed to the silencing of feminism by declaring its irrelevance after suffrage. American society, most of these writers pronounced, had achieved gender equality with the stroke of a constitutional amendment (aided and abetted, perhaps, by a revolution in manners and morals). Ever since writing about the "New Woman," I have been suspicious about the way historians define periods and more aware of the implications of the benchmarks we create.5
Frustrated by the limits of a suffrage-centered history, I wanted to learn about the periods before and in between the "waves" of American feminism, so I turned to women's social movements other than suffrage. In my first book, Their Sisters' Keepers, I asked why and how religiously motivated, white middle-class women in the late nineteenth century had successfully created state prisons run largely by and for women.6 By the 1920s, they had succeeded in establishing separate women's reformatory institutions for predominantly white inmates in most states and in creating the first federal women's prison. But, I concluded, the original reformers' vision of maternal rather than punitive institutions had not survived. In most states, the reform impulse — an amalgam of social justice and moralistic class uplift — had been supplanted by punitive and bureaucratic prisons not unlike the men's institutions from which women inmates had been initially transferred. Even well-intentioned social critics, I learned, had to conform in order to retain state funding. Like other scholars trying to restore historical agency to women by uncovering their activism (via temperance, antiprostitution, or Americanization efforts, for example), I learned that both the motives and the results of reform were complex and full of pitfalls.
As I wrote about women's prisons, I benefited greatly from the new wom-
en's history of the 1970s produced by scholars such as Gerda Lerner (whose summer school course I had taken at Columbia), Nancy Cott, Ellen DuBois, Elizabeth Hafkin Pleck, Mary Ryan, Kathryn Kish Sklar, and Carroll Smith- Rosenberg. From multiple directions, their work complicated inherited wisdom about what were termed the "separate sexual spheres" in which white middle-class men and women were supposed to operate in the nineteenth century. I was also influenced by interdisciplinary scholarship, particularly by feminist anthropologists such as Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo, who would later become a treasured colleague at Stanford. Reading pre – and postsuffrage sources through these reconsiderations of "separate spheres" and "gender systems" helped produce the synthetic essay that opens this collection, "Separatism as Strategy." (The article originated in the lecture I gave during my job interview at Stanford University in 1976; I chose the subject in part because I wanted those doing the hiring to know exactly what they were getting.)
As I acknowledged in the article, my conceptualization of female separatism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries rested in part on my observation of flourishing women's groups around me in the 1970s, and it was clearly influenced by the politics of lesbian separatism then being articulated by writers such as Charlotte Bunch. Surveying the historical literature in the United States, I argued that a major strength of the women's movement between 1870 and 1920 was its separatist strategy of female institution building, evidenced by women-run schools, clubs, clinics, and even prisons. After suffrage, however, premature pronouncements of equality had encouraged a dismantling of this separatist infrastructure, which depleted the strength of the white women's movement. The most often reprinted of my essays, this article has long provoked students to reconsider their integrationist tendencies and to value female social worlds. The historical literature has grown enormously since I wrote it, now incorporating diverse racial, ethnic, and working-class women's institutions before and after suffrage and exploring both the costs of sexual integration and the limits of sisterhood. I feel that illuminating the separatist strategy remains salient today, particularly in light of recurrent claims about postfeminism that ignore the continuing importance of women's organizations throughout American culture and internationally.
My early exposure to Jewish and then African American separatism, which I later applied to women, surely influenced my scholarly interpretations of both women's prison reform and feminist strategies. Later, my academic experiences reinforced the power of maintaining separate worlds while participating in larger institutions. My continuing education as a feminist scholar flourished in separate women's spaces, such as the Center for Research on Women at Stanford, where I helped edit the journal Signs and worked on two other cooperative feminist projects: the documentary collection Victorian Women (1981), my first foray into comparative women's history, and The Lesbian Issue (1985), a special edition of Signs that I coedited in order to call attention to the emergence of interdisciplinary lesbian scholarship. I found an intellectual and pedagogical home in the undergraduate Program in Feminist Studies, which we launched at Stanford in 1981. Our choice of "feminist" in the title consciously signaled our commitment to interrogating gender hierarchy along with documenting women's experiences. In addition, local feminist study groups, women's professional caucuses, and an annual conference on teaching U. S. women's history all nurtured my career. Whenever possible, I chose to publish my scholarship in feminist journals and to support the nascent women's studies movement. Training women graduate students, many of whom pioneered a multicultural women's history, provided additional rewards and a growing circle of feminist colleagues.
It turned out, too, that women's networks would be critical to sustaining me when, from 1981 to 1983, my "tenure case" escalated into a battle between a largely supportive history department and a hostile dean, an episode I recount in chapter 3, "Women's Networks and Women's Loyalties." Feminist scholars around the country weighed in on the merits of the sex discrimination grievance I filed, supplying much-needed affirmation. Along with my steadfast partner, Susan Krieger, close colleagues helped restore my spirits and shared my burdens during this difficult period. Several of them — Barbara Babcock, Diane Middlebrook, Nancy Stoller, and Barrie Thorne — deserve particular credit, as does my extraordinary lawyer, Marsha Berzon (who now sits on the Ninth Circuit U. S. Court of Appeals). Stanford graduate students mobilized to raise funds for legal fees by designing a T-shirt that paraphrased feminist abolitionist Abby Kelley Foster: "Sisters, bloody feet have worn smooth the path upon which you trod." Ever since my internal appeal succeeded in 1983, I have been called upon to advise all too many faculty members, female and male, who have struggled through similar ordeals. Along with feminist colleagues at Stanford, I have repeatedly tried to hold the university administration responsible for addressing gender and race inequities on our campus.
My tenure case ultimately brought me back to the study of prison reform and the question of how historians periodize women's movements. During the year in which I prepared my sex discrimination grievance, I found myself drawn to the papers of Miriam Van Waters, a prison reformer who in the 1940s waged a long and public battle to keep her job as the innovative superintendent of the Massachusetts State Reformatory for Women. Reading her letters and diaries at the Schlesinger Library while I awaited the outcome of my tenure appeal at Stanford, I found solace in the way she retained her perspective and ultimately triumphed. Several years later, I returned to Van Waters's papers, realized the rich evidence they contained, and made a commitment to write her biography. Doing so allowed me to revisit both prison reform and separatism. From the 1930s through the 1950s, Van Waters championed a redemptive and educational rather than punitive approach as superintendent of the Massachusetts State Reformatory for Women. Her career, which flourished after 1920, revolved around women's networks and fostered separate institutions, suggesting greater continuities with nineteenth-century reformers than I had previously acknowledged. During the 1980s, other scholars were also shifting attention to twentieth – century women's history and toward political life. Drawing on their work, my essay "Separatism Revisited" (chapter 2) synthesized this new literature as the context for a case study of Van Waters, whose career demonstrated the survival of women's institutions after suffrage.
My teaching also forced me to rethink the scope of women's history. In particular, I began offering fs 101, the introductory course in the Program in Feminist Studies, in 1988. Women's studies, like American feminism itself, had recently begun to expand beyond its Western cultural base. While a multiracial U. S. women's history had taken root in the 1980s, for an American historian, fs 101 required much greater attention to cross-cultural, international, and interdisciplinary scholarship. Along with making feminism compelling rather than forbidding for students, I tried to embed feminist politics within broader critiques of racial, class, sexual, and national hierarchies. Two essays in this book derive from that course, one on pedagogy (chapter 4) and one on the historical dynamics of feminism (chapter 5). I hope the former — about adapting the historical strategy of consciousness raising as a pedagogical tool — conveys the intensity of feminist classrooms, their rewards for teachers and students alike, and the relationship of gender to other sources of identity. The latter essay, "No Turning Back," is an overview of my book of the same title. Dedicated to my students, the book grew out of the lectures for this course, revised to incorporate students' probing questions and the growing literatures of interdisciplinary feminist scholarship. By writing it, I sought a broader audience, ranging from the parents of my students, to staff members, to colleagues who taught introductory women's studies courses.
No Turning Back (2002), though grounded in the United States, placed feminism within an international context. It represents a synthesis of interdisciplinary and historical literatures, including the contributions of political scientists who have theorized about comparative feminisms; postcolonial scholars who have questioned the Western monopoly on feminist politics; and historians who have explored past international feminist organizing.7 The essay included in this volume presents my central arguments about feminist momentum over time and across cultures, namely that wherever democratic politics and wage labor systems have converged to transform societies, some form of feminism has attempted to extend the rejection of hierarchical rule by questioning the gender privileges retained by men. By 2000, those conditions were spreading throughout much of the world, along with communications networks among feminists, to produce a panoply of women's creativity and politics that is unlikely to disappear, despite intense backlash. Thus, from my initial interest in U. S. women's movements beyond suffrage, I had come to redefine the scope of feminism, both geographically and substantively.


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Pizza Party
Who wants Pizza?!
University of Canturbury's YogaSoc does! Hosting a Pizza Party for new members of the group, they needed a poster to show at Clubs Day to help get the students attention and interest in the club, what better way to do that than offer them free pizza!
The advertisement needed to be eye-catching, delicious and fun. Here is the final result! Which was then adjusted for social media tiles.


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Creating and publishing valuable, relevant and educational content not only makes a brand popular but makes it a sought after channel for useful information. This stature is acquired through content marketing.
Effective content marketing therefore makes sure that a brand comes in handy at times of need for its customers. There need not be any second guess on where these customers would go for buying their products.
So, a brand has to make itself a trusted resource which shares valuable information and lead them to buy its products or services. Everyone would therefore agree that good content marketing is inevitable for any marketing success.
In this backdrop, let me now give you six important qualifications required in content for content marketing to be effective and successful.
- Brands should use content marketing to appear in front of targeted customers on wherever he is available.
- Brands should create content based on its customer's interactions with it. Thus the content created would be what they want to hear and what they have been searching for.
- Brands should tell a story to its audience through content. The story could be of its business or its customers but the narrative conveyed should be interesting and engaging.
- Brands should rightly fit its content to every channel that it employs for marketing. Different types of content are required for different channels – for e.g. content used for a social media campaign will not be proper for email campaign.
- Brands should make sure that every content it publishes has a purpose. While creating content a marketer should decide why it is being created and what it should achieve.
- Brands should try and create more and more evergreen content. Evergreen content is described as content that is much more informative and beneficial to readers for longer periods of time.


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Make Content You Want to Get Paid For
Getting Started
- Feb 28, 2018 Introduction to PeopleMap
- Feb 27, 2018 Analyze
- Feb 27, 2018 Profiles
- Feb 26, 2018 Search
- Feb 26, 2018 Lists
- Feb 26, 2018 Stats
- Feb 26, 2018 Campaigns
- Feb 20, 2018 Account and Billing
Guides for Brands
- Feb 13, 2018 Tracking Influencer Campaigns
Guides for Everyone
- Feb 17, 2018 Grow Your Instagram Community Authentically
Guides for Influencers
- Feb 16, 2018 Make Content You Want to Get Paid For
- Feb 16, 2018 How To Create Case Studies
- Feb 15, 2018 The Power of Collaboration
Guides for Influencers
Make Content You Want to Get Paid For
What's a Micro-Influencer? Any influencer who has 500 – 2,000 highly engaged followers around relevant topics. FYI, check your Average Likes Per Post with a free trial on PeopleMap.
If this is you, you've done it! You've beat the threshold to consider yourself a micro-influencer. Woohoo! This means you can start attracting brands that not only want to work with you, but who you want to work with as well.
Where do I start?
If you're reading this, then you're probably asking... "Wait, how?"
How do I attract brands I want to work with?
How do I show my capabilities?
How do I work with brands without sacrificing engagement?
First and foremost, consider spec work. Photographers and makeup artists do this all the time, and is a great way to show a brand you're serious about content creation. The fastest way to stand out is by pro-actively creating and defining your brand aesthetic with non-paid (aka. spec) work. Keep the brands you want to work with in mind so that it's a no brainer, but experiment with ways to level up their brand (and yours). That's what they are all looking for!
Second, in order to market yourself and grow accordingly, you need to up your content game. Selfies are great and you can do a lot on your own, but working with another talent will make your content stand out. You have to show brands that you have the means to create and execute on a professional level… that's worth the extra 💰💰💰.
1. What is your brand direction as an Influencer?
Before you begin creating spec work, start with who you are and what you're all about. This will help you ideate the content you want to create as well as the brands that would fit. Plus, it's a little introspective exercise that you should constantly be doing as you evolve your brand.
We tapped our gal pal Alex Michael May (@alexmichaelmay) — Creative Director, Vlogger and all around badass to give us insight on how she thinks about her brand as an Influencer. Haha, it's not just "start earning money". She's actually pretty thoughtful about these questions and that attention to detail manifests in her work.
The numbers show! In 2018, Alex has grown her engagement rate and average likes per post over 200% (check out her profile in PeopleMap). Scroll back in her feed and you can also see that her level and consistency of content production has skyrocketed. What is key and what we think most influencers miss, is the why, what, and who. Why are you doing this, what is your motivation, and who is going to come along for the ride?
Why do you want to be an Influencer?
"For me it is the current best (or highest evolved) incarnation of the amalgamation of my skills, innate talents, desires and passions. It combines so many of the things I've picked up along the way: speaking, writing, creative direction, styling, producing, etc. It also challenges my previously suffocating shame-based core belief that I'm not good enough." — @alexmichaelmay
What's your story? What's inspiring you to start?
"Growing up I've always been a "performer" and knew it was my natural state but as I got older and suffered trauma it kept getting buried deeper and deeper within me. I became a shell of who I was because I was not living my authentic existence. It was this conundrum — who I knew I was and what I felt called to do, but yet truly believed I was incapable due to my own lack of self confidence and perception of societal standards.
I've always known I was here to serve and help people. I think one of my biggest gifts is empathy and I have a strong desire to love and encourage." — @alexmichaelmay
Find your niche.
What are you taking a stand for? What do you believe in?
"Fashion and beauty are tools I currently use for several ends: (1) money to be able to make this sustainable which allows me to focus solely on content creation and have presence with every creative brief, and (2) as a shiny object to draw people in in an approachable way.
Once they're there, I get to talk to my community about bigger issues. How we present ourselves says SO much about who and where we are in our journey to self acceptance and love. So in a way, when you're comfortable being seen as you truly are, and you're not worried or self conscious about that, you can go out and do what YOUR gifts call or encourage you to do.
That's what I in turn hope to do for others, because sometimes people just need a spark." — @alexmichaelmay
Your turn! Answer these three questions and DM or mention us in stories (@peoplemap.co). We would love to know!
2. Define your Goal for this Shoot
Ok! Now that we've done a lot of unpacking, let's get on with your first spec work project (aka your next few Instagram posts). What is the goal of the shoot? Is this for your feed? Are you executing a brand partnership? Did you get gifted product? Are you trying to get noticed by a brand? Figure out what you are trying to get out of a shoot before you begin.
Why, you ask?
If it's for your feed and you're not trying to get noticed by a brand, then keep doing what you're doing. But if you are trying to embody a look & feel of a brand that you want to notice you, you'll need to make sure you have everything you need to execute a shoot in that way. And that can range from prop styling, location scouting, and maybe even hiring a photographer with the specific look you're going for. Think about what a brand would do to produce a shoot, then roll up your sleeves and figure out how you can do it with a "tight" budget. Let's be real, no budget 😉.
If you're trying to get product shots vs. lifestyle shots, you may need lighting, a studio set up. These may seem like minute details, but brands notice.
Knowing exactly what you want to get out of a shoot will allow for more experimentation. If you create a shot list, moodboard, and prep before the shoot, you'll have more time to explore new ideas on set.
3. Research
If you're shooting to get noticed by a brand, you have to create work that stands out. It's about being more intentional in shoots vs. just going out and seeing what happens. Show, don't tell.
"If you're shooting for trade, figure out what your must haves are. For example, if you're shooting with a brand like JCREW and you know they want you to shoot a t-shirt and shorts, while incorporating pink tones, then you have your constants." — @alexmichaelmay
Now this is where you can get creative. Research the brand with those constants in mind. Look at their instagram account and their website. Find the overlap between who they are as a brand and who you are as an influencer. Once you find those commonalities you can apply them to what you want to achieve.
Check out Find Brands to Work With and start building your lists using PeopleMap.
4. Moodboarding
Once you know what your goals are, you can go into what you want to evoke. Is the vibe cute? Cool? Fun? Edgy? Should the lighting be dark or shadowy or high contrast? Once you land on the mood, you can apply that to visual research. Ahem, and it is research. It's okay to use other work as inspiration and a tool for learning, but always take the extra effort to make it your own.
Learning how to visually communicate your idea is essential when pitching campaign work. Dream job — getting paid to creative direct and be the influencer. Hello Margaret Zhang!
Create your Moodboard using PeopleMap
Finding inspo on Instagram is a favorite pastime of ours, which is why we created Posts Lists on PeopleMap. It works similar to Collections in Instagram, but on a desktop, you can drag and drop those images onto your final moodboard (eg Photoshop or Google Slides).
Search for an influencer or brand you like on PeopleMap and find one of their posts that really speaks to you. Click it to open the Post Detail Panel.
Click the Add to Post List button and create a List called Moodboard
Repeat steps 1 and 2 until you've got a good Moodboard list going.
Once you have an aggregate of 15 - 20 posts, take a screenshot and use that as a reference when pitching yourself and your ideas.
All the posts will show as an image grid, so you'll have a visual diary. And you can always click any post to open its detail panel in PeopleMap.
5. Production
Once you create a moodboard, get the production elements in place and create a document with everything. We love Google Docs or Sheets for this. Figuring out your collaborative partners is KEY to creating a successful shoot.
Date and Time
Other Talent
Hair and Makeup
Shot List
Snacks and Food
Who is shooting this?
Can you shoot yourself? If so, great. You don't need to hire a photographer. If not, then look into photographers that shoot in the style you want to. Our list building tool within PeopleMap is a great way to find Photographers you like, while keeping them all in one place. The Save tool within Instagram is also a great way to organize photographers you want to work with - now, or later.
Will you need another set of eyes on this? Maybe instead of hiring a photographer, hire a DP. They'll be able to help you with lighting and camera angles that you had no idea existed. Make sure to take notes so that you can learn how to do this next time.
What equipment do you need?
Will you need multiple backdrops?
What props do you need? When will they arrive?
Will you need a mic for video content?
If you're doing this yourself, will you need a tripod?
Do you need extension cords?
What time of day?
How long will this be? If you're just starting, try to stay under 4 hours. Everyone gets pretty tired after that.
This is so important, yet really only matters if your shoot is taking place outside. If you're in a studio, the time of day doesn't really matter because you'll be able to control your lighting. The way the sun hits the earth when it's rising is a whole lot different than the way it hits when the sun is setting. Article: Taking photos in Natural Light
What are your locations?
Is it a studio or outdoor?
If it's outdoor, do you need a permit?
If it's a studio, make sure you rent more time than you think you'll need. Shoots always tend to run later rather than earlier. Plus, you want time to un-pack and pack.
What's the parking situation? Can you unload and load your stuff? If you're driving around and shooting, where can you park to change outfits?
Is there Other Talent?
Will other models/subjects be involved? Or will you be the talent for the shoot? If other talent is involved, make sure to create a call sheet (or call email) with the specific location, wardrobe and timing details.
What is the Wardrobe?
Do you need a stylist?
If not, how will you be pulling clothes for the shoot?
TIP: This is where your moodboard can really help! A few weeks before the shoot, start emailing local boutiques or brands and send them your moodboard. Ask them if you can pull for the day. It really helps to have a relationship with them before you ask so it's not just out of the blue. So be social, make friends!
What will your outfits be? Take photos of the clothes and moodboard them together. If you're just starting, try 2-3 outfits. Once you have a good cadence with your team, you'll get a better idea of what you can handle.
Hair and Makeup?
Do I have a lash girl?
A spray tan partner?
Will I need a glam squad for this?
If you have specific looks, do you have a moodboard?
How much time do you need?
Do you have a Shot List?
Make sure you have key shots in mind before going to a shoot. There's obviously room for improv, and inspiration can hit at any moment, but it's nice to have the general outline figured out so that the foundation is strong. The result can be a bit of a surprise, but it will feel like you.
Snacks and Food
Hello! The most important!
6. Day of the Shoot
It's here, it's here! You've planned and gathered and discussed and now is the time to produce.
Be the first one at the location. Make sure you have all the things you need so that when everyone else arrives you are as prepared as possible.
Quick check-list:
Music - get those vibes going
Get the steamer going. Lay out the wardrobe.
Water, snacks, food!
Lay out the props.
Have your moodboard and shot list ready. Print it out if you can.
Figure out the WIFI password, you know people will be asking.
Have fun on the shoot, but watch the time. You want to make sure that you have enough time for your shot list. And, if you can, document the process and share with your audience! That's content on its own. 👍🏼
7. Post Shoot
Getting photos, sending them off (let's say you're not working with brands), creating a campaign!
Yay! The shoot is done! Make sure you communicate to the photographer when you need the photos by. Sometimes, influencers will edit the photos themselves so they can achieve their look. Have the photographer transfer your images on to your external hard drive.
If you're working with a brand, make sure to send them your selects two weeks from receiving product via Dropbox, Google Drive, or WeTransfer. Let them know which photos you are going to post and when, so they can be on the lookout and hopefully post or instagram story your photo at the same time.
TIP: Set up a campaign in PeopleMap before you post so you can see if it performs well. If it does, you can use this as a case study to pitch brands and negotiate higher value deals. Check out Stand Out: Start Building Case Studies and start building your case studies using PeopleMap.
8. Your Style Formula
Build a formula that works for you. It's nice when you have a group of people you like to shoot with because you vibe and have a certain style when shooting. It's like creating a little ecosystem of your own team, which can help with your aesthetic as well. If you're not 100% happy with it at all, keep trying until you get there. Watch this video with Ira Glass on the Creative Process.
Just remember this. It's about owning all of who you are. The flaws. The perceived flaws. The strengths. Being able to own it and be comfortable with it. This will set you apart.
Have fun!