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This is the second article in our four part series on measuring email. Last week we talked about the role of internal email in your organization.
If you're wondering why communicators are even measuring their email, or how you can present these ideas to someone else in your organization who understands less about this space -- start with last week's article!
This article is intended to give you the information you need to dive in and pick an email measurement tool. Both of the options we mention are ones that you try for free, right now -- Bananatag and Mailchimp. We've chosen these tools because they are the ones we've encountered being used and talked about the most by communicators. For those looking to implement a tool this year, these are two of the best all around options.
These services can give you the same metrics (opens, clicks etc.) although they are quite different in how they work and even their intended use, which will become clear by the end of this article.
Obligatory disclaimer about this article: Since we are writing about our own service here (Bananatag) we can't claim to be completely free of bias. Our entire product team is obsessively focused on making our service the most useful that it can be, and this probably influences us more than we can easily discern. That said, our marketing team uses Mailchimp on a weekly basis for our external emails (including possibly the email that brought you to this article). We genuinely like their products too, and are long time customers.
Internal Email Measurement Workflow
How do these email tools work into the daily life of an internal communicator? Which will make your team more productive? Let's tackle this area first.
We'll look at the user interface and workflow integration, email template features, and general customization options for each.
User interface
How each system is designed to be used is one of the primary differentiating factors between Bananatag and Mailchimp.
With Bananatag, emails are tracked right from Outlook, so you only need to use a system other than your email client when you want to view metrics.
Creating an email in Mailchimp happens entirely in their platform, accessible through your web browser -- there is no way to directly send to an existing distribution list with Mailchimp. How important this is to you will largely depend on your workflow and personal preferences, and we'll cover the main differences below.
Maintaining lists of employees
In Mailchimp, your list of employees needs to be up to date in their system before you click send. This can be done manually or by uploading an updated spreadsheet with all current employees before sending each email. This requires you to define a process that ensures that lists are up to date each time an email needs to be sent if it's critical that all current employees receive it. (The most common complaint from communicators relating to this issue has to do with new employees not receiving communications.)
One consideration to look at if you are considering Mailchimp is where your organization stores their master lists of employee emails and work groups, and how your internal comms team can get access to these lists on an ongoing basis.
Since Bananatag is an extension for your mail client, you can send to the distribution lists that are maintained by your IT or HR department. This means you only have one list across your organization and as an internal communicator, you may not even need to ever think about maintaining it.
Sending an internal email through MailChimp
Mailchimp is designed to guide you through the process of sending a mass email, and although their interface is intuitive, this is often where the learning curve steepens. For every email, you'll need to define many of the details that are automatically set or more familiarly laid out if you've become accustomed to sending internal emails through your mail client. It's a five step process every time.
Rather than just composing a new email, you'll need to create a campaign (or duplicate an existing one), define your recipients, the email address you're sending from, and a number of other options:
This workflow makes sense for external marketing emails, but does feel disconnected from the inbox that most communicators feel at home in.
Sending an internal email through Bananatag
With Bananatag's plugin for Outlook, Gmail or Lotus Notes, communicators only need to click a 'track email' button in their mail client to start collecting data for that specific email:
This is truly one click email measurement that can be turned on and off in an intuitive and instant way. Not much else to say here, but if you'd like a demo, check out Bananatag here.
Using internal email templates
The template builder is one of the areas that Mailchimp does better than anyone else. Their interface is robust and, more importantly, very forgiving. Their template builder interface is a benchmark for the industry and we have to say it's a pleasure to use:
Despite the built in templates being focused on external communications (think promotional salesy emails) it's easy to adapt to any messaging you want to convey into one of their pre-configured templates.
Bananatag's template builder is currently in beta and aims to offer similar functionality, but again tailored to how internal communicators use templates:
Although Bananatag will give finally give users the ability to access templates they've created right through Outlook, Mailchimp has the overall advantage at the time of this writing.
Customization of internal emails
Both template builders allow you to visually customize your email templates in any way that you can imagine. It's easy to add your organization's brand colours through templates and insert text blocks and images. (We'll have examples of templates and creative ideas for your emails later in this series, so stay tuned.)
One limitation with Mailchimp is that you can't remove the unsubscribe link in the footer of every email you're sending. This means that individual employees can unsubscribe from an internal email list. There are ways to deal with this issue, but the ability for employees to even appear to have access to remove themselves from internal email lists tends to stick out as a point of frustration from communicators we've spoken to.
Reporting and Internal Email Metrics
As a communicator you're probably interested in both how many employees are opening your emails, and if they're clicking the links through to your intranet or other internal resources.
How do these tools help you better understand your internal audience? We'll break these considerations down below, but the short version is that you can get very similar (and accurate) real-time data from either of these systems.
What metrics can we report on?
Bananatag and Mailchimp will report on how many recipients opened each email, as well as how many times each link was clicked. Additionally, both platforms can give you data on the location recipients were in when they opened their email as well as what type of device was used.
Both systems can also easily pass data to your Google Analytics account if you use that platform to measure your intranet.
The primary difference in this area has to do with tracking individuals, which we'll cover shortly.
Where do I see my email engagement data?
Although you don't need to log into Bananatag to send emails, your metrics are viewable from any web browser in your Bananatag account, and this is similar to how you would view reports in Mailchimp. You can log into either system at any time and look at all of your data and run individual or aggregate email reports.
Below is a sample dashboard from Bananatag:
And here is a sample internal email campaign report from Mailchimp:
How close is it to real time?
Both platforms we're comparing today will show you engagement as it happens for any emails you've tracked and sent in your web browser. This means you can see data coming into your Bananatag or Mailchimp account as employees engage with emails. In practice both can be considered real-time measurement tools.
Viewing engagement with emails over time
Both Mailchimp and Bananatag offer a report which shows you how opens and clicks occurred on a time graph, allowing you to see how quickly emails were opened and messaging was received across your organization.
In Mailchimp this is called the 24-hour Performance Graph, and in Bananatag it's referred to as the Activity Distribution Graph.
Security and where your data goes
For many industries, security of internal data is both critical to stakeholders and a huge factor when deciding on what kind of tool can be used.
When it comes to measuring emails, it's sometimes a tradeoff between how much data can be collected to improve decision making, and how much the legal department will allow.
Let's look at how each system treats individual users' data, and where this data is stored.
Tracking individual employee behavior
With Mailchimp, the data is there, right in their system. You can see if individual email addresses in your organisation opened emails. You can also see an estimation of how engaged each recipient is based on the percentage of internal emails they open. This data is definitely useful for external emails and marketing, but many communicators we've spoken to have told us their organizations don't allow them to monitor individuals in this way.
Bananatag doesn't track individuals. You'll always get aggregate data on your list as a whole, never on the individual employees that opened or clicked lists in emails.
How secure is your data (and where is it stored)?
Both Mailchimp and Bananatag have extensive documentation regarding how your data is stored and we won't bore you with the details here. We do encourage you to compare the documentation or have a member of your IT team do the same.
Both services use enterprise level security measures to protect your data.
One difference to consider here is that Mailchimp does currently store more of your data since they store the internal email addresses that emails are sent to with their service and the body of your messages. Remember that Bananatag does not access your recipient list, and if desired, can be used without storing the body of your messages as well.
Pricing and implementation
Both Bananatag and Mailchimp offer plans based on the size of your email lists.
In the case of Bananatag, this is calculated based on the number of unique recipients on your internal distribution lists. With Mailchimp, this is calculated based on the number of contacts you maintain in their system.
We've also considered how long implementing measurement with each platform takes.
How much do they cost?
There are a few options for plan types when looking at Mailchimp, but the most relevant plan they offer for a communications applications would be their 'Growing Business' plan. You can actually use this plan for free if you have fewer than 2,000 recipients.
Bananatag is designed specifically for internal communicators, so the plans offered are more straightforward -- plans start at $250 per month. For full pricing details for Bananatag, please contact our team.
How quickly can we adopt a system?
As we mentioned earlier, Mailchimp requires you to maintain a list of all of the employees you want to send to in their system. This structure does mean that implementing it also requires you to create a process for keeping your list in their system up to date. Other than this, creating an account and getting started is straightforward.
Bananatag can be set up in literally five minutes. The only thing a user needs to do is install the free Bananatag plugin for Outlook (or another mail client) and register the email addresses you want to send from in our system. You can then send to any list you have set up in your mail client.


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射出 = Shoot
連携 = Cooperation
石化の魔眼 = Magic Eyes of Petrifaction
(I think previously I translated this as something like devil's eyes of petrifaction)
鉱体 = Ore body
Extra Bestiary①
Author note: To commemorate the 50th chapter.
It's the status of the monsters at level 1 and its brief explanation.
The status is purely a reference. It differs depending on the individual.
『Small Lesser Taratect LV1
Average Offensive Ability:8
Average Defensive Ability:8
Average Magic Ability:8
Average Resistance Ability:8
Average Speed Ability:8
「Poison Fang LV1」「Spider Thread LV3」「Night Vision LV9」「Poison Resistance LV1」』
We are the spider's initial species.
The subjugation danger degree that the human determined is the lowest, F.
Because it's weak in status, it will only charge foolishly. That's why, the subjugation is easy.
However, there's also individual that rarely makes nest. In that case, the danger degree springs up.
It is said that a person got caught in the nest without any preparations, the worst, it can be said that it's the end for that person. Therefore, destroying the nest in top priority when discovered it is the adventurer's basic.
The thread and the main body are vulnerable to fire.
『Small Taratect LV1
Average Offensive Ability:18
Average Defensive Ability:18
Average Magic Ability:18
Average Resistance Ability:18
Average Speed Ability:18
「Poison Fang LV4」「Spider Thread LV4」「Night Vision LV10」「Visible Range Expansion LV1」「Poison Resistance LV4」』
The spider's normal species.
Still, it's weak as usual.
It's property is also about the same with the deteriorating species.
『Lesser Taratect LV1
Average Offensive Ability:42
Average Defensive Ability:42
Average Magic Ability:18
Average Resistance Ability:18
Average Speed Ability:42
「Poison Fang LV5」「Spider Thread LV5」「Night Vision LV10」「Visible Range Expansion LV1」「Poison Resistance LV5」』
The grown form of the deteriorating species.
It grows up to approximately 5 meters in length, and physical-related status improves.
Still, it's weak.
However, the probability to meet it is very low because it's rare that a hatchling of the deteriorating species can evolve to this.
『Elro Frog LV1
Average Offensive Ability:35
Average Defensive Ability:35
Average Magic Ability:28
Average Resistance Ability:28
Average Speed Ability:30
「Poison Synthesis LV1」「Acid Attack LV1」「Shoot LV1」「Night Vision LV6」「Poison Resistance LV1」「Acid Resistance LV1」』
Also known as frog.
It's approximately 1 meter in length and it has a rainbow-colored body surface.
It uses the strategy where it shoots the droplets that has weak poison created by "Poison Synthesis" and the acid attribute from the "Acid Attack".
Even if it the opponent gets closer, the opponent might receive an unexpected counterattack because of its stable physical ability.
Danger degree, E.
『Elro Randanel LV1
Average Offensive Ability:78
Average Defensive Ability:65
Average Magic Ability:22
Average Resistance Ability:34
Average Speed Ability:77
「Poison Fang LV3」「Poison Claw LV3」「Cooperation LV7」「Night Vision LV6」「Poison Resistance LV3」』
Also known as the three intimate friend.
A small dinosaur-like monster measuring about 1.5 meters in length.
They always act in 3 and make fun of their enemy with skillful cooperation.
They corner their opponent into poisoned condition with "Poison Fang" and "Poison Claw". They are good at cornering their opponent slowly.
Danger degree, D.
『Elro Pekatot LV1
Average Offensive Ability:58
Average Defensive Ability:39
Average Magic Ability:32
Average Resistance Ability:32
Average Speed Ability:100
「Poison Attack LV3」「Evasion LV1」「Night Vision LV8」「Poison Resistance LV3」』
Only the name appears.
A monster with a strange figure that has the body of a fused penguin and pelican and the arms of a monkey.
Although it only has 4 skills, it's a troublesome monster that can jump around at high speed in the small cave and it attacks in three dimensions(三次元).
In the story, it was caught in the nest and was quickly eaten.
Danger degree, D.
『Elro Basilisk LV1
Average Offensive Ability:58
Average Defensive Ability:52
Average Magic Ability:108
Average Resistance Ability:105
Average Speed Ability:58
「Magic Eyes of Petrifaction LV1」「Poison Attack LV1」「Shoot LV1」「Magic Perception LV1」「Magic Manipulation LV1」「Earth Magic LV1」「Night Vision LV10」「Visible Range Expansion LV1」「Petrifaction Resistance LV1」「Poison Resistance LV1」』
Also known as petrifaction lizard.
A gray-colored lizard-like monster measuring just a little over 1 meter in length.
It petrifies its opponent with the basilisk inherent skill, "Magic Eyes of Petrifaction".
In addition, it has poison.
Furthermore, it can use "Earth Magic", although there's no opportunity to show it in the story.
It uses the strategy where it shoots the soil made by the "Earth Magic", but there's no time to do it because it was caught in the nest.
Taking the troublesome petrified condition into account, the danger degree is C.
『Small Rock Turtle LV1
Average Offensive Ability:108
Average Defensive Ability:236
Average Magic Ability:8
Average Resistance Ability:58
Average Speed Ability:6
「Shell LV3」「Ore Body LV3」』
Also known as turtle.
The turtle-type monster that carries a rock shell on its back.
It's very slow-witted, and it has high defensive ability, but the other abilities are altogether low.
Although it only has the ramming attack, the power of the rush can't be underestimated.
Danger degree, D.
『Elro Ferect LV1
Average Offensive Ability:5
Average Defensive Ability:5
Average Magic Ability:4
Average Resistance Ability:4
Average Speed Ability:90
「Paralysis Attack LV1」「Paralysis Resistance LV1」』
Also known as centipede.
A insect-type monster that has brisk feet growing on it.
Most of the status is low.
Only the speed is strangely high.
However, it can be subdued easily if there's only 1 because it doesn't has the "Night Vision" despite being the endemic species of the Elro Great Labyrinth.
The terrifying part of this monster is that it spring forth in large quantities and it lives as a colony.
Although the individual's danger degree is F, the colony's danger degree is considered to be B.
『Elro Baradrad LV1
Average Offensive Ability:320
Average Defensive Ability:320
Average Magic Ability:100
Average Resistance Ability:280
Average Speed Ability:300
「Poison Fang LV5」「Dragon Scale LV1」「Night Vision LV7」「Heat Perception LV4」「Poison Resistance LV5」』
Also known as snake.
A huge snake-type monster that seems to be able to swallow a person wholly.
Physical status is high.
It has the skill that can be seen in the dragon species called the "Dragon Scale".
By the effect of the "Dragon Scale", it has a high defensive ability for both physical and magic.
Danger degree, C.
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no kumo-chan....... =( *criesReplyDelete
Anyway, on a brighter note, thanks for the chapters =)Replies
Seems like kumo-chan is around B rank atm.Delete
more like c+, b-. She still can't fight a swarm of centipedes, they climb over each others bodies to get to her, and if forcefully blocket, the entire swarm will push and possibly break the netDelete
well, maybe if she gets enough prep time, she could...
Probably b-. She's not the type that's particularly good vs swarms anyways without prep. Using her web nets she could probably handle smaller swarms or your average B rank mob in a 1v1. Honestly, she's strongest in handling single mobs even if her prep allows her to handle besieging by many enemies in the case of a nest, and in spite of the fact that she has the powerful aoe nets her nets are still probably most useful in a 1v1 situation due to allowing the mobs to further entangle themselves by not taking up as much area of the net when being only one mob, and kumo-chan can push that advantage rather powerfully considering she has the gg tier advantage of human intelligence.Delete
I'd say she's C or maybe even D rank but like the centipedes has the ability to rise to B rank by building a nest.Delete
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Honestly, she seems like a D+ to me.Delete
Her speed, tactics, and skills bump her up from E to C in the wild. Meeting her alone in a tunnel is at least as dangerous as a snake, but not nearly as bad as stumbling into a centipede nest.Delete
In her home the danger rises to at least B, maybe A but with a caveat about total vulnerability to fire. Anybody who stumbles into her web is dead unless they have dragon strength and she can hold off a siege solo.
Oh...So Kumoko-chan is a Magikarp type.ReplyDeleteReplies
Pretty much. except for being an individual smart enough to use web, which puts her way above the f-e rank of her speciesDelete
A magicarp can learn tackle and flail...... still a magicarp though. Cant wait till Kumo-chan evolves a few more times.Delete
But Magikarp becomes Gyarados :3Delete
Maybe she indeed a magickarp....but not an ordinary ones, but rarer than freakin shiningDelete
So magical Kumoko-chan is around c+ rank huh. Thanks for the information.ReplyDelete
Ooooo I want to do a comparison of my own... but I'm so lazy XD Thanks so much for all your hard work!!!!ReplyDelete
Shoot? So the frog spits acid at high speed like a bullet? Awesome! Or is it more like an arrow?ReplyDelete
Reading "three intimate friends" made me think of happy tree friends for sone reason.. I-it's not a pun okay, it's a homophonish term.. Orz
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Oh that would be awesome well I mean she is a spider and female (do these spiders have gender or are they both?) So that would make it so cool but I haven't seen things about other races either like beast race or even elves and lack of detail on those is killing faster than kimonos poisonDelete
Thanks for chapters. Hope she gets to evolve to somthing like jorogumo or get a skill tha enables her to change humanoid so she can learn magic from them.
P.s.: She need to get a skill for information processing so her detect and apraise canwork better. Sorry for bad english.
Unless Kumoko ends up as something really strong later, looks like she made the wrong choice.ReplyDelete
Looks like lesser type spider would've been a better choice ahahaReplyDeleteReplies
Not necessarily. There are much stronger creatures, being bigger would make her an easier prey. She'd also be screwed if she couldn't evolve into higher species after becoming big (unlikely).Delete
This is like the choice of adult form or more advance child form, she can reach higher species if she stays a child, lesser probably is a dead end path that can't evolve but keeps leveling up. See earth dragon lv 36.Delete
IMO, Mystic Eyes of Petrifaction would be a more appropriate word choice.ReplyDelete
Mystic Eyes is a term that comes from Nasuverse (as well as Narutoverse perhaps?): http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Mystic_Eyes
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A veteran Detroit Police Officer is being investigated for calling residents of the city 'garbage' and for boasting about using physical violence against children.
Officer Daniel Wolff made the inflammatory statements on Facebook under an article published on the Motorcity Muckraker website which revealed that a record number of Detroit police now live outside of the city.
"Getting rid of residency was the best thing that ever happened to the Detroit Police!!! We have to police the garbage but you can't make us live in the garbage," Wolff allegedly said.
Local TV station Fox 2 Detroit captured screengrabs of the offensive remarks, including: "This job is not the same job that it was. It's all videotaped and whatever. You can't walk up to a kid or an a*****e and smack him in the face like we did."
When Motorcity Muckraker journalist Steve Neavling told Wolff he had reported the comments to internal affairs and an investigation had been launched, the veteran cop said: "Please do. I've been trying to get fired for years."
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Laurie's first perfume, that made her feel like she could call herself a perfumer. Formulated to a soundtrack of Emmy Lou Harris, Lucinda Williams, and Dolly Parton on the radio and birds singing outside the Perfumery window. Available in liquid or as a solid crème perfume.
A luscious, mouth-watering blend of citrus, spices, and sweet, narcotic flowers sensually unfurls towards a soft, powdery finish. Antique cinnamon, blood orange, tuberose, and rare boronia are only a few of the notes in this sexy, complex melody. This ambrosial blend is warmed by its base of Tahitian vanilla infused alcohol.
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-Trish Vawter, Scent Hive
The story of Songbird-
About 14 years ago I was making a custom perfume for a friend and I had her smelling scent strips of my many aromatic treasures. I had a pile of the ones she loved and another pile of the ones she didn't love. After making my notes on the ones she loved , I picked up the pile that were not her favorites and sniffed them just as an afterthought. I loved it! Instead of working on her custom perfume, I was much more compelled to start playing with the rejected pile. I worked on it for a few months and was delighted to come up with Songbird! It was spring and the songbirds were singing wildly outside the Purrfumery window and I was listening to a lot of Emmylou Harris and Lucinda Williams on my CD player. It has rare boronia, antique Ceylon cinnamon, nutmeg, orange blossom, frankincense, sandalwood and many other essential oils and absolutes. I actually presented her this perfume and she went crazy over it! She's gone through several ounces of it by now and we laugh about it. I still haven't made her other perfume!
I like the idea of making something beautiful out of rejection or so called failure. Also trusting my intuition and knowing that nothing gets thrown away ( metaphorically), because it's all part of the delicious process.
I hope all of this makes sense to you! I probably wear Songbird the most of any of my perfumes, I love it's juicyness and it always lifts my spirits.
It's also the first perfume that I made that made me feel like I could call myself a perfumer. It was a big moment for me. I loved it every time I put it on and I knew inside it was good! It's gone on to be one of my best sellers too. But I needed to know it for myself first.


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After playing coy for weeks, smiling at us briefly before hiding behind stormy skies and rain, it looks like the sun is finally ready to commit to a long-term relationship with the Bay Area.
Flush with the excitement of new romance, it might be tempting to surrender yourself utterly to your new solar soul mate. But hold back! Like any new relationship, it's important to protect yourself, lest you be burned.
In case it's not clear, I'm talking about sunglasses. Not only are they important in preventing eye strain, but they're fashionable too.
With skies finally clear, it's time to consider finishing your look with a new pair of shades. According to a recent survey of sunglasses makers, what's going to be in this season is style and simplicity. Retro is going to rule the day once again, and it's harder to think of anything more retro than aviators.
Popular with cops and totally not gay fighter pilots, aviator shades actually trace their history back to the second world war. The original aviator shades were developed by Ray Ban using the same teardrop shaped lenses they sold to the military for use in goggles for combat pilots. Originally intended to give our boys an edge in dogfights by cutting glare, the style quickly caught on with the kind of folks who were more familiar with a red carpet than a cockpit.
That officially makes Ray-Ban the O.G. of aviator shades, and they're still the gold standard as far as fashion is concerned. A pair will set you back anywhere from $90 to $200 dollars, depending on styling. That might seem like a big chunk of change to drop on something that's just going to end up on some hobo's nose when you forget it on the bus, though.
Don't worry, Helium's got your back.
Enter American Optics. Their website may not look like much, but they're the current supplier of aviator shades to the US Air Force. Not only does that make them authentic, but it means they're field tested, and therefore less likely to break when you inevitably sit on them. And at just $70 dollars, they're a bargain. I don't know, maybe they skimp on web design and pass the savings on to you, the consumer.
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Announcing WD2. No, not WFD2. taken already. Sure, we could stick an F in there, but that's entirely unnecessary given that this is family blog. WD2 is short for World Domination 2.0. Now why would I be announcing WD2? I have a bit of good news …well, actually, I have 64 bits of good news: Andrew "Pretty Fly for a Wi-Fi Guy" vonNagy has joined Aerohive as Sr. Wi-Fi Architect. Yes. Yes! Yeeessssss!!! World Domination never tasted quite so good …
You're probably wondering why the weird blog title … so let me explain. First, I'll begin with a micro-lesson in Enneagram studies. (1) The Enneagram is a system for understanding why people do the things that they do. In my words, it's a study of personality types and the interactions between them. It's amazing stuff by anyone's standards. Well, the Devinator is a Type-8 with a 7 wing. That's abbreviated 8W7. Click on the 8 at the URL above to learn more about Yours Truly …. oh, and Andrew too. Guess what? He's an 8W7. Clones, with the numerous exceptions that he's younger, smarter, more talented, and better looking than me. Damn … he gives me a complex … maybe I should retire soon.
If your mouse-button finger is inoperative, yet you'd still like to know a little about this Type-8 thing, here's the brief synopsis in my own non-psychiatrically-trained words:
Type 8 is known as "The Boss", "The Challenger", and "The Protector"…. and we're all three at the same time. Like any personality type, the Type-8 has its positive and negative aspects. Paradoxically, we are a tad controlling at times, yet we hate being controlled more than just about anything. We enjoy power and control for the sake of protecting ourselves and others around us from harm, perceived or real. We challenge authority, we love a good fight (win or lose), and we love flat playing fields. We hate injustice, we love integrity, and we hate being ignored, disrespected, or feeling bullied. On the surface, we're tough as nails, yet underneath, not so much … think "soft underbelly". Sometimes we forget to stop and feel. If you want to draw an over simplistic parallel, the Type-8 is a guard dog who loves the family to the point of giving life and limb if required. An unattended Type-8 equates to massive internal and external collateral damage … they bite any perceived threat … hard. Our road to improvement lies in holding back when we want to express energy, waiting and thinking when we want to move directly into action (ready, fire, aim), and realizing how our energy and strong approach affects other personalities.
Joking aside, the first rule of management club is to hire people better than yourself. Mission accomplished.
8 x 8 = 64. Just as with 64-bit computing, Aerohive's Evangelism department will now have more computing power, scale larger, have more memory, and have better multi-tasking. Controller vendors: prepare yourselves. WD2 is upon you.
Andrew has long been my favorite technical blogger and has now brought his substantial skills to the Hive. Yowza! Content is king … a lesson I learned well at CWNP. He digs deep, and his audiences (me among them) appreciate that technical tenacity. His blog has a significant global audience across a variety of vendors and verticals. What's not to love?
Andrew has participated in Wireless Field Day 1 and 2 (WFD1 & WFD2) as a delegate, and in the recent Wireless Mobility Symposium as a moderator – doing a great job in each of them. Andrew has also recently worked with other Tech Field Day delegates to fire up a successful new podcast series called the No Strings Attached Show. He can speak/present, he can write, he can design and implement complex networks … What's left? Perhaps dancing … that wasn't part of the interview process, so I don't know if he has any skillz in that area.
Andrew has been über-involved in Wi-Fi from the customer, education, market promotion sides, has an in-depth understanding of the technology and various vendor implementations, but recently expressed an interest in joining Aerohive for all the same reasons I did.
When asking him why he wanted to come to Aerohive, his answers reminded me of my own when I interviewed with David Flynn. He wants to be more involved in setting industry direction, understanding what goes on behind the curtains within manufacturers, wants to be involved in the bleeding edge of the technology (both standards and equipment), and wants to help lead the charge for a controller-less, cloud-ful tomorrow. Simply put, he wants to go deeper, and he believes in Aerohive's mission. I was sold after one conversation with him, as his enthusiasm is not unlike my own.
As Aerohive presses forward into the retail sector, Andrew's considerable experience, knowledge, and credibility will be invaluable to Aerohive. Among many, we especially look forward to this aspect of his presence here.
Please join me in welcoming the newest member of the Hive: Andrew vonNagy.
(1) If you want to learn more about the Enneagram, I highly recommend Susan Olesek as a teacher/facilitator. I also recommend two books: The Essential Enneagram and The Enneagram in Love and Work.
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I'm trying to add an average line which is an average of all the other lines on a chart, and while I could do this server side, I was wondering if there was an easy way to do this in canvasjs. This is my current chart http://jsfiddle.net/txcsLgad/1/
There is no way to do this automatically. Best option is to calculate the averages either on the server (or client side) and adding it to the chart.
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|Part of the The Weatherbenders continuity.
| Juji's fine. He comes back to life in the end when the doomsday device shifts the polarity of the Earth. Oops. Spoiler. Sorry.
Warning! This page contains spoilers for The Weatherbenders.
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Fire Nation, Fire Nation Rebel Army
General Tizou is a military adviser to Zuko and a leader of the Fire Nation Rebel Army. After losing his position in the Capture of the Fire Nation, he is currently working with Generals Bujing and Azai to over throw Fire Lord Zorro.
Early life
Tizou was born on Ember Island in 65 AG, discovering his Firebending abilities at age six, and working to master them over the next several years.
Like most young, capable Fire Nation men were, Tizou was called to military service at the age of 18, in 83 AG. He had struggles throughout his time in the War, unsure if he should help ravage the nations the way Azulon was. Regardless, he served onward.
Adult years
Tizou mostly saw time as a lieutenant within some of the colonies and at home. He helped to stop the Invasion of the Fire Nation in 100 AG. He took flight into one of the war balloons and helped destroy the invasion force.
Nevertheless, Tizou truly did not want a part of the Fire Nation savagery, and was actually thrilled to see the War come to end. He gladly accepted the new reign of Fire Lord Zuko, and for the first time in his life, was proud to serve his country.
In 101 AG, an internal riot threatened to end the reign of Zuko. Tizou led an internal army brigade quite well, and was able to use this brigade to quell a solid portion of the rioting forces. For his efforts, Zuko promoted Tizou to general status, and made him his closest adviser.
Loss of power
In 102 AG, Tizou was appointed acting Fire Lord after Zuko left with Team Avatar to set out on the journey to learn Weatherbending and stop the Meteorologists. On 19 August, Team Avatar was attacked and defeated by them.
The next day, the Meteorologists, led by Zorro, laid siege to the Fire Nation Capital via Weatherbending, starting the Capture of the Fire Nation. On the 21st, the four attacked the Capital, easily defeating the domestic forces, and cornering Tizou. The general was forced to surrender the Capital and the throne to Zorro.
After working to escape Zorro's capturing forces, Tizou met up with General Bujing and Azai to help form a rebellion against Zorro's reign. They collected a series of men, forming the Fire Nation Rebel Army. This army launched the Rebellion Against the New Reign. They tried to attack the Capital directly at first, but it failed.
Tizou and Bujing clashed over strategy, but eventually agreed to a new strategy: Taking small towns and gathering up more forces through it. They captured several towns over the time span of a few days, increasing their manpower greatly. Finally, on 14 September, they attacked the Capital again, joined by Zuko and Avatar Aang.
Tizou is a man who does not believe in harsh actions against one another, especially what the Fire Nation did during the War. For the most part, Tizou strives to be a caring man, but can lose his temper easily in debates, however, he has worked on this for several years and has less of such a temper.
He gets along with his allies very well, and can be a man who is easy to befriend.
Tizou is an experienced, well-versed Firebender. He is capable of several master-level moves, including the wall of fire, fire discs and fire augmentation. He is a great match for any soldier he fights. Because of skills, which he has been praised for, Tizou has considered becoming an instructor when he retires from military service.
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-66?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12786725#action_12786725 ] Henri Yandell commented on LEGAL-66: ------------------------------------ Text looks fine. I don't recognize the exact license but it's made up of elements of MIT/ISC. Definitely Category A imo. --- On Niall's question: In terms of forking rather than using code, I think for any Category A license that is fine provided the license is adhered to. Generally that means the common sense items of not removing the copyright header. If you pull a function out of a file, take its header too etc. If we are forking another category A project, then I would expect our modifications to be under the Apache License, 2.0. So put a LICENSE, NOTICE in there, add the Category A license to the LICENSE file and the copyright information to the NOTICE file. Do not remove the 3rd party copyright information from the original file unless we get a CLA/software 'grant'. Generally it's preferred to remain on the 3rd party product and give the code back to them from yourself as an individual using whatever process they require; but definitely understood that there are times that won't/can't happen. --- Category B licenses on the other hand are so placed because any change to them is going to have to be under that Category B license. Modifying is not verboten, but for community reasons we want to examine each use case individually (as we have a general direction of producing software under AL 2.0, and not some other license). No concern however if an Apache committer contributes bugfixes/enhancements they've created back to the original project - that's between them and the project. > CERN license category? > ---------------------- > > Key: LEGAL-66 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-66 > Project: Legal Discuss > Issue Type: Question > Reporter: Benson Margulies > > If OK, do we also add an ASL notice? > // Copyright (c) 1999 CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research. > // Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell this software and > // its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, > // provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that > // both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in > // supporting documentation. CERN makes no representations about the > // suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" > // without expressed or implied warranty. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Simplicity 4484; ca. early 1940s; Child's Jumper, Skirt and Blouse. The blouse buttons down the front and is finished with a small, round collar. The sleeves may be long or short. The skirt, gathered at the upper edge, may be finished with suspenders. In Style I, smart patch pockets trim the skirt front.
Note: while not mentioned on the pattern envelope, this appears to correspond to adult style Simplicity 4496.
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The 1st Inaugural Robert Sheckler Award for Excellence
Presented at the CTC Holiday luncheon on December 23rd, 2015
This award is given in honor of Mr. Robert Sheckler who served on the CTC Board of Directors for more than 42 years. The Robert Sheckler Award for Excellence will be presented each year to the employee with a disability who most exemplifies "Excellence" in his or her job performance. The candidate must demonstrate a positive work attitude, a willingness to learn, mastery a variety of different jobs, and meet or exceed their job performance and attendance goals.
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Chit Chat for Facebook is an IM client for Windows, which allows you to talk to your friends on Facebook without being logged in to the main site.
With Facebook Chat being plagued with many problems for users, I've been using various IM clients to chat to my Facebook contacts for a while (most noticeably, I use Adium as my main IM client for Mac OS X, and Trillian Astra for Windows), and was interested in how Chit Chat would perform compared with many competitors.
The interface of Chit Chat is simple, resembling how MSN Live Messenger for Windows used to look. Your contact list is split in to online and offline contacts, with pop-up windows appearing in the bottom corner of the screen, notifying you of people who are online, offline and talking to you. The main contact screen allows you to browse contact, and use the menu bar to access program preferences and check for updates.
Also, Chit Chat starts with Windows by default, so you may want to go into the preferences and disable this if you don't plan on using it as your everyday IM client. I'd much prefer it if you were given the option to not run it with Windows in the installer, as it's sometimes annoying to find random programs opening with the OS and slowing down startup time. This may seem like a small detail, but it's a real annoyance if you're not using Chit Chat regularly. Also, the pop up windows in the corner of the screen covered some of the taskbar in Windows 7, which doesn't look great.
On a brighter note, the tabbed interface is a great feature to have when speaking to more than one person at a time, as it makes it easy to switch between conversations without having to manage many windows at a time, and the status icon flashes if there's a message waiting for you in another conversation.
Chit Chat for Facebook is a free instant messaging software application for Windows, and if you want to try it out, it can be downloaded from their website.


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Marlene Kawalez SSCSelected artist profile information for this contemporary Canadian Sculptor
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About Marlene KawalezThe focus for the work is to express the direct correlation between man and the earth. The creations of the Maker and mankind`s interpretation of it. How it has been altered and modified to satisfy our own needs and requirements. To further develop this theme other organic elements are introduced and merged with the sculpture to create a more organic interesting effect. These elements are petrified wood, rock, moss, steel and glass all facilitate in the creation of a sculpture. This amalgamation brings forth its own natural energies that compliment each other and articulate their own expressions.
Exhibition History of Marlene Kawalez2013 - Art Gallery of Sudbury.
2013 - Living Arts Centre.
2013 - John B. Aird Gallery.
2013 - Corporate Building in Toronto.
2013 - Sculptors Society of Canada.
2012 - Patrick International Gallery.
2012 - John B. Aird Gallery.
2012 - Holcim Gallery.
2011 - Hamilton Conservatory For the Arts Gallery.
2011 - Dam Gallery.
2011 - "Fireworks 2011" by Fusion.
2011 - Sherway Garden Gallery.
2010 - Sudbury Gallery.
2010 - John B. Aird Gallery.
2010 - Burlington AIC Gallery.
2010 - Harrop Gallery.
2010 - Carnegie Gallery.
2010 - Burlington AIC Gallery.
2010 - Canadian Sculpture Society Gallery.
2010 - Dorland-Haight Galleries. Dundas.
2009 - Cambridge Centre for the Arts. Solo show.
2008 - Art Gallery of Hamilton.
2008 - "Fireworks 2008" by Fusion.
2008 - Carnegie Gallery. Hamilton Pottery Guild.
2008 - Fine Art Society of Milton. "Heart to Hand". 2008 - Etobicoke Civic Centre Art Gallery. "Colour and Form
2007 - Arta Gallery. Toronto Distillery District. "Forms of
2007 - Burlington Art Centre. Perry Gallery.
2008 - Dorland-Haight Galleries, Dundas
2008 - Cambridge Centre for the arts - solo show
2008 - Art Gallery of Hamilton
2008 - Fusion - Fireworks 2008
2008 - Fine Art Society of Milton. Heart to Hand
2007 - Etobicoke Civic Centre Art Gallery. Colour and Form
Society. Honourable Mention.
2007 - Arta Gallery Toronto Distillery District
2007 - Burlington Art Centre, Perry Gallery
2007 - Fine Art Society of Milton, Heart to Hand
2006 - Mississauga City Hall Gallery - First Prize
2006 - Dorland-Haight Galleries in Milton
2006 - Brudette Gallery in Orton
2006 - Co-Op Gallery in New Toronto "A Feast for the Eyes"
2006 - Fine Art Society of Milton, Heart to Hand
2006 - Streetsville Art Gallery, Modern Art
2006 - Burlington Cultural Centre
2006 - Stratfords Amazing Clayworks
2005 - Oakville Art Society
2005 - Fine Art Society of Milton, Heart to Hand
2005 - Mississauga City Hall Gallery, Honouralbe Mention in
Biography / CV of Marlene KawalezWhen I was a young child I had a fascination with clay and would spend countless joyful hours sculpting. The endless possibilities of what could be created from a block of clay mesmerized me. It was boundless.
As youth past, life sent me on its own journey to seek my true path and self. It took me into other creative realms but my true passion always was sculpting.
Artist Statement of Marlene Kawalez�The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. What- ever he does to the web, he does to himself.� CHIEF SEATTLE The inspiration for my work comes from this wise statement made one hundred and sixty seven years ago. The notion of history and the contemporary existence channels the spirit of these words and are carried into my work with the use of clay and other organic materials such as wood, rock, moss and glass. It is within the lines of a petrified piece of wood or the crevice in a centuries old rock that a story is waiting to be recalled. My practice is based in the moment of invention - which seeks to locate the story of the material to give form. These �energies� recreate my perception of their tale. Currently, I am working to incorporate cast and blown glass with clay. The two materials at first seem to contradict each other - being that one is solid and unrevealing and the other transparent and exposed. They both share a process of solid liquid and solid in the evolution. Similar to the moment and
act of creation. As mentioned this is where the �spirit� resides. As well with this union there exists the fourth dimension where the very act of perception (consciousness) or feeling (sensation) has a life of its own.
Awards and Prizes of Marlene Kawalez2011 - Bruno Capolongo Invitational Award.
2011 - Dam Gallery. Juror`s Choice Award.
2009 - Member of the Sculpture Society of Canada.
2009 - City of Burlington purchased a sculpture for a Junior
Person of the Year Award.
2007 - Etobicoke Civic Art Gallery. Honourable Mention.
2006 - Mississauga City Hall Gallery. First Prize in
2007 - Etobicoke Civic Centre Art Gallery "Colour Society"
Honourable Mention.
2006 - Mississauga City Hall Gallery. First Prize in
2005 - Mississauga City Hall Gallery. Honourable mention in
Public Works of Marlene Kawalez2012 - Outdoor sculpture for the city of Elora.
2011 - Art Gallery of Sudbury. Permanent Collection.
Qualifications / Education of Marlene KawalezDiploma in Business Management, Seneca
College of Applied Arts and Technology
Diploma in Advertising and Graphic Design
Humber College of Applied Arts and Technology
2011 - Pate de Verre in Glass with Jayne Cornelis.
2011 - Casting in Glass with Valerie Dennis.
2010 - Cold Working Glass with Glass Craft.
2010 - Box Casting in Glass with Jayne Cornelis.
2010 - Kiln Casting with Irene Frolic.
2009 - Crystalline Glaze Firing Workshop by Diane Creber.
2009 - Working in Winterstone. Instructor Lorne Winters.
2008 - Slumping and Fusing Glass by Heather Woods.
2008 - Burlington Art Centre Artist Exchange Program.
2008 - Saggar and Raku Workshop with Fusion.
2008 - Outdoor Sculpture by Scott McNichol.
2008 - Exploration in Form instructed by Ying Yueh Chuang.
2007 - Saggar Firing by Becky Webster.
2007 - Glazing Techniques with Kasia Piech.
2007 - Finishing Techniques with various established artists.
2006 - Raku Firing with Barb Vansickle.
Publications / Media / Bibliography of Marlene Kawalez2011 - Lark Book, 500 Raku.
2011 - Fusion Magazine.
2010 - Sudbury, Northern Life.
2011 - Araella Magazine.
2009 - Sideroads Magazine.
2009 - Cambridge Times.
2009 - The Halton Compass.
2009 - The Artists Way.
2009 - Fusion Magazine.
2009 - Milton Champion.
Teaching Experience2012 - Private lessons in working with clay.
2011 - Private lessons in working with clay.
2010 - Sculpting in Clay. The Glass Cutter Studio.
Influences / Inspiration of Marlene KawalezWith the many courses that I have taken in the past and will continue to take in the future, each artist has left with me a part of themselves that enable me to be a better artist.
Price Range of WorkMarlene Kawalez's work has a price range from £317 to £1,334
Mediums utilisedMarlene Kawalez's work is found in the following materials:
Clay, mixed media Raku clay, wood, granite Raku clay, wood, rock Raku clay, wood, metal Raku Clay, a antique clock Stoneware, wood, moss, barb wire Stoneware clay, wood
Artwork CategorisedMarlene Kawalez's work is found in the following categories on site:
Figurative Abstract Modern or Contemporary Sculptures Statues statuary statuettes figurines (5)
Indoor Inside Interior Abstract Contemporary Modern Sculpture / statue / statuette / figurine (5)
Stylized People Sculptures (4)
Busts and Heads Sculptures Statues statuettes Commissions Bespoke Custom Portrait Memorial Commemorative sculpture or statue (3)
Human Form: Abstract Sculptures (3)
Objets Trouve or Found Objects Sculptures or Statues (2)
Green Man (and Green Woman)Faces, Busts, Heads, Torsos (2)
Ceramic Sculptures (2)
Human Figurative Sculptures
Parent - Child Sculpture
Fashion Sculptures Catwalk Models fashion Garments fashionable women or people
Clothes Dresses Gowns Shirts etc Sculptures Statues
Females Women Girls Ladies Sculptures Statues statuettes figurines
Nudes, Female Sculptures
Recycled Materials / Objets trouvees or Upcycle sculpture Statues statuettes
Children Child Babies Infants Toddlers Kids Sculptures Statues statuettes figurines
Nudes / Male Sculpture
Little Small Nude or Naked Girls Women Ladies Females Sculpture Statue statuettes Figurines
Toys Sculpture / statue / statuette / figurine
Interior, Indoors, Inside Sculpture
Indoor figurative sculpture
Family Groups Sculptures
Birds Abstract Contemporary Stylised l Minimalist Sculpture / Statues
Contemplative, Restful, Thougtful Sculptures
Every day Objects ( Sculptures of inorganic things)
Meditation sculpture / Statues / statuettes / figurines
Mixed Media Sculptures, Statues Garden Ornaments
Abstract Modern Contemporary Sculptures Statues statuettes figurines statuary
Male Men Youths Masculine Statues Sculptures statuettes figurines
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The flashes started when I was about eight.
Back then they were too short for me to really see anything. The first one happened in the playground. I was on the swings when, just for an instant, everything I could see was replaced by grey, and I couldn't feel my body. For a moment, the lively chorus of children playing lapsed into total silence. When it was over I was flying through the air before crashing into the ground and tumbling. My mother ran over to me, panicking. Apparently I'd gone totally limp while the swing was on its way up; flew right out of it.
They kept happening, but for a few years they were too short for me to see much. Usually my vision would go grey, I might see some fuzzy shapes, and then I was back. But sometimes, maybe once every dozen times, I'd hear something as well. These eerie, semi-musical stringy sounds, somewhere between screams and a rusty violin.
Every few months they got just a little bit longer. By the time I was ten, they'd last around eight seconds. There was no way to hide it from my parents, and they made me go to a psychiatrist. Whatever was happening was so strange they didn't even try and flog a pill at me. I just kept getting half-heartedly referred to more and more specialised doctors.
I think I was fourteen when I first started to get a bit of control. A flash happened, identical to any other, and one of the shadowy shapes was nearby. At this stage they weren't even scaring me. As much trouble, confusion and worry as they caused, I was used to them. That's why I started playing around with them. That's why I tried to move forward.
The first few times it didn't do anything. Then the blurred shape moved a little closer.
It might seem strange, but that tiny little push was exhilarating. These flashes, they were something that happened to me, that I was victim of. They made me black out and slap down onto my desk at school. They made me collapse and break my arm in the hallway. There was nothing I could ever do to stop them, so to consciously influence them, even the slightest bit, felt like I had a little bit of power again. I pushed another time. The shadow wobbled and moved closer, like I was hobbling towards it. I got closer and closer before, for the first time, one of the shapes came into focus and took on some kind of colour.
It was a stop sign, faded and battered. All the optimism and empowerment from just a few seconds ago was gone. I pulled back to reality feeling more lost than ever.
Just passing out and seeing a colour could be some simple nerve related thing, but I was passing out to have extremely vivid dreams. It was a much less sane problem, the kind of thing you lie to people about. No doctors could help me, nobody knew anything. So I did the only thing I could do to possibly get more information. I started exploring.
I couldn't make the flashes happen, but if I really tried I could stay for a little longer, and I got pretty good at moving. Soon enough I was able to stay for a few minutes at a time.
I always found myself in a ghost town smothered in what I now realised to be mist. On every street there were heavily dented, abandoned cars. Shattered glass and canned food littered the ground. Everything was utterly silent, apart from the occasional tortured, screeching melodies. It took me a long time to build up the courage to follow one of those.
I was in a gutted food store. All the produce had rotted into one reeking black mass, and the few remaining cans on the shelves were covered in these webbed patches of tar-like goo. Then the squealing notes appeared, just on the edge of hearing. I steeled myself and left the store, following the sounds as well as I could.
I went down five or so streets before it started to sound close. Then I saw the source, a shape in the mid-distance, obscured by the endless grey. It moved in clumsy, jerking motions, getting closer and closer.
It came into focus and I froze, unable to even think of getting away. Going by the torn, hole ridden slip it was wearing, and the few fine, silver hairs drooping from its head, I figured it must have been a woman at one stage. It was an emaciated, hunched, grey figure with long, gangly limbs ending in hideously stretched hands and fingers. Its eyes were inky pools blending into sunken, black eye sockets. Its lips were pulled permanently back over its teeth, making the head look even more like a bare skull and strange, thin spikes, like obsidian, grew out of its scalp.
And it was breathing, releasing drifting silver tendrils every time it exhaled. Through the fear I managed to wonder if that's where all the mist came from.
It looked at me and the its 'music' became a single, piercing note. It began jerking and staggering towards me, arms swinging limply with every burst of motion.
The closer it got the more firmly I was rooted to the ground.
It got close enough to flail an arm at me. The paralysis broke and I pulled up my hands, shattered nails tearing across my palms. I turned and ran away from the thing as fast as I could, stumbling around corners and bouncing clumsily down the empty roads, hearing a new higher-pitched song from whatever was chasing me; a song of long, wailing notes that might have been a desperate cry for help, and might have been some warped expression of excitement.
I ducked into an alley when it sounded like the creature was headed away from me. It took few minutes for me to calm down enough to realise that I'd pulled my hands up, that I could feel feet touching the ground, that I was breathing in crisp air that tasted of chemicals. I tried to pull my hands up again. For some reason it was incredibly difficult, like trying to raise my hands made them turn to lead, but when I managed I saw that they weren't mine. They were stretched, grey hands with shattered nails. My heart dropped and I stared at them for what seemed like forever before I thought to try something else. I held one of the sprawling hands up to my face and breathed on it. A cloud of misty tendrils appeared.
At that moment I was pulled out of the misty place and found myself lying on my bed. I sat in silence for a long time, having no idea what to do with what I'd just discovered, having no idea what it meant.
Every time I had a flash after that I was in the body, and if I tried I could stay in there for a good while, but the longer I was there the worse I felt. It was as if being in one of these things bodies, using their senses, made me gradually start to feel what it was like to be one of them. If I was ever there for a half an hour I'd have to just lay down and weather waves of nausea and this vague, aching feeling that I should be dead.
I tried talking a few times, only managing the make the scraping, high notes that comprised the songs I'd been hearing for years. Doing that made the singers get louder and try and make their way towards me, so I soon stopped.
I managed to find a mirror in a mouldy, water-damaged apartment. I saw something reminiscent of my own body. It was grey, out of proportion, gaunt, all of the things that had terrified me when I saw them in that 'singer', but there was enough of my own bone structure in the face for me to tell that it was based on me.
I was managing to spend enough time in this 'world' to realise I was always appearing in different parts of the same town, but generally, if I was in a certain part of the town before I was 'pulled out', I'd be more likely to appear near that point when I came back. It was fairly easy to avoid the singers. You could hear them a hundred feet away. I was even able to hide and watch them. Whenever two of them crossed paths, they swung out at each other. It usually took them a few tries but they eventually got a grip and started…hugging. At least that's what it looked like to me, but not in an affectionate way. They'd latch onto each other like their life depended on it, fall down onto knees. They'd start feeling each other's faces and staring into one another's eyes. It was like they were begging each other for help. After a few minutes they'd stumble back up, and go in separate directions, quieter than before.
I found a big, central, road and followed it out beyond the town. Past the outskirts the road was bordered by a sea of dry, brown grass. I figured that, even if this was all just in my head, I might learn something by following the road. A couple of times a day I'd flash in, and if I wasn't doing something important I'd make my way onwards. I could hear singers from far away, so they were easy enough to avoid, but it slowed me down.
After a few days of this I saw something that broke the monotony of cars and dead grass. It was this hundred foot long, twenty foot deep, curving web of solid mercury that ran alongside the road. I took a good while to try and pull some Freudian meaning out of it before giving up and moving along.
Sometimes I'd appear in the fields next to the road, sometimes further back or further on in the road than where I'd left off but, in general, I kept moving forward.
I started to think that maybe when I wasn't there it all played in real time, like the grey, skeletal body I kept finding myself in just wandered about like all the rest. I tested the hypothesis. One day, after I made my way onto a highway, I started to feel myself get pulled back to my body. I got in one of the abandoned cars. It wasn't easy, because it was so hard to move my arms, but I managed it. My thinking was that these things weren't that smart, so maybe the one I controlled wouldn't be able to get out of the car. I know all this sounds like an oddly rationalist way to approach dreams, but they never showed any inconsistencies from one to the next.
It worked. The next time I flashed in I was pressing my face against the car window, the interior having been filled with mist, presumably from my 'body' breathing while I was away. It took me a second to notice the singing, unusually animated just outside the car, and then the sharp bangs. I pressed my face back to the window and just managed, through the fogged up glass, to see a singer thrashing its arms against the car. I left through the other side. It gave up chasing me after about ten minutes, turning to stagger in the opposite direction.
It made sense when I thought about it. If my singer body was moving around and acting like the other's when I was gone, it must have been doing all the desperate grasping and hugging. The other singer might have been trying to get into the car for hours. I realised how lucky I was to never enter the body and find a singer touching my face.
I heard the city days before I actually reached it, countless tormented, atonal voices carrying on for miles. The mist got thicker the closer I got, so that I could barely see a few feet in front of me. The music became deafening, pouring over me and shaking the air. I didn't know I was in the city until I bumped straight into a singer. It tried to grab me but I pulled back, smashing into another that was behind me. We fell down and it latched on, pulling itself on top of me, its lipless mouth screaming down onto me, pouring out fresh mist that burned inside my nose. I threw it off and got back up, making it a few feet before something slammed into my waist. I looked down to see a singer that must have been a child wrapped around my waist, staring up at me with glistening, pleading eyes. I threw him aside and pushed forward. There were so many, all around me. I started to panic.
I reached a small area where the mist lightened up, at a junction surrounded by tall concrete apartment buildings. What I saw looked like an orgy of grey, starved bodies. It was a blanket of singers, crawling over each other. Each of them stood up occasionally to toss themselves onto a nearby part of the street, like they were looking against reason for some kind of help from creatures just as damned as they were.
Something exploded beside me, and I turned to see a limp grey sack surrounded by a pool of black sludge. One of them had fallen off one of the buildings, and burst on top of two others that now made strangled, manic sounds as they spasmed, clinging to whatever sort of life they had.
A forest of hands reached up at me, trying to pull me down. I fled into one of the concrete buildings, throwing singers aside as I clambered up the steps. I flung myself into one of the apartments and slammed the door closed with my body, rather than my stupid, weighted hands. I was still leaning against door as I fumbled with the locks, hearing singers who I'd passed in the hallway get closer and closer. When I finally got one of the locks to click closed I collapsed with relief against the nearest wall.
I never left that apartment again. I'd flash in two or three times a day, listen to the tortured cacophony outside, start feeling sicker and sicker, and flash back.
And it's been like that ever since.
I went to a college that was willing to accommodate the blackouts (I never told people about the misty world unless I had to).I graduated and after a few months I got a job offer from a little firm. It was in a town far away from home but the pay good enough to make up for that.
I realised something was wrong as soon as I got there, but I wasn't sure what it was. It took a few minutes of walking around for it to click. This was the town, the town that the flashes first sent me to, and it was only a twenty minute drive from the nearest city. My stomach lurched, I got dizzy and had to make my way to a pub. I buried my head in my hands, trying to somehow explain this away, to piece reality back together. Then I looked up at the small boxy TV that hung up near the ceiling, seeing the final nail in the coffin. On the local news was a coloured sketch of the mercurial web, bending around a highway, just as I remembered it. It was a modern art sculpture, due to be finished two years from now.