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Leaving No One Behind: A Nordic movement for change
The Nordic countries have a long and proud tradition of cooperation, shared visions and inclusive societies. This is often evident in the international development arena. After the Global Disability Summit in London, July 2018, Nordic disability organisat
The Impact of the Best Interests and the Respect for the Views of the Child Principles in Child Custody Cases
The best interests of the child and the respect for the views of the child are pillars designed and recognized in international children's law as principles on which children's rights in general evolve. Both principles operate across a wide range of issue
Corporate Response to Protecting Children's Rights in the Nordic Region
In an effort to provide insights and guidance on how businesses protect – or fall short in protecting – children's rights in the Nordic Region, this report draws on one of Global Child Forum's essential research products: The corporate sector and children
Child Friendly Spaces in Reception Centres: Supporting asylum-seeking children and their families in Finland
In the autumn of 2015, Europe struggled to cope with the influx of people escaping conflict and crisis in the Middle East, South Asia and Africa. The Child Friendly Spaces (CFSs) project was seen as a pilot project by Save the Children Finland. It was the
The Corporate Sector and Children's Rights in the Nordic Region
How are Nordic companies doing on children's rights? Nordic companies have a reputation for innovation and socially responsible forward-thinking. But how do the Nordics stack up when reporting on children's rights? Global Child Forum just launched the r
Family Support and Alternative Care: The Baltic Sea States Regional Report 2015
Founded in 1992, the Council of Baltic Sea States (CBSS) is a strong network of countries in the region that works toward developing society, protecting the environment, and supporting the economy. Recent priorities have been ensuring children have a safe
Tallinn Recommendations and Action Plan on Alternative Care and Family Support for the Baltic Sea Region 2015-2020
Government representatives, experts and professionals from the Baltic Sea Region including Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, the Russian Federation, Sweden and wider Europe endorsed the Tallinn Recommendations
Family Support and Alternative Care: Tallinn Expert Meeting Report 2015
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Family Support and Alternative Care in the Baltic Sea Region: Background paper 2015
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Disrupted Flight: The realities of separated refugee families in the EU
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Children trafficked for exploitation in begging and criminality: A challenge for law enforcement and child protection
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iOS mobile users all over the world are no strangers to jailbreaking. Through the years, this method gives users the opportunity to be liberated from the limitations that are imposed by the operating system's manufacturer, Apple, and/or the phone's specific mobile carrier. This way, users can tweak or customize their phones and tablets the way they want to.
With iOS 11's jailbreak this April 2018, there are quite a few news and updates on the matter. This way, iPhones or iPad devices that are running on iOS 11 can "break open" their mobile devices' systems and help users modify it the way they want to.
What's new with the iOS 11 Jailbreak releases?
Recent news about jailbreaking with iOS 11 has been making noise on the web lately. For example, Electra recently released an updated jailbreaking tool catered to iOS 11 users. The recent release comes with Cydia support. It's a third-party app store that is quite helpful among users who decide to jailbreak their phone.
There have been quite a lot jailbreaking tools released since September of last year but none of them comes with Cydia. When users jailbreak phones using Electra, its Cydia support allows them to install a lot of unauthorized applications and lets users tinker with their devices with its built-in theme engine. Also, careful iOS users who wish to try jailbreaking their devices can benefit a lot since it also comes with a safe mode.
Always Jailbreak with Care
Speaking of safe modes, keep in mind that users should exercise caution when jailbreaking their devices. If you are one of the many users who is thinking of doing the iOS 11's jailbreak this April 2018, always be mindful of the risks because safety and security really does come a long way. In the end, no matter what jailbreaking tool you are interested in using, remember to go for one that you can trust.

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Resounding cheers for Wallamba Bulls
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FORSTER-Tuncurry Dolphins celebrated minor premiership success in the Lower Mid North Coast rugby union competition with a training canter, but it was the Wallamba Bulls of Nabiac who won the resounding cheers.
Inspired by a slashing four-try performance by fullback Chris Tout, the Bulls' forwards fought hammer and tongs with their Gloucester rivals to win possession for their enterprising backs to run in eight tries to the Cockies' three for a 44-21 victory at Nabiac Showground.
For the Dolphins the first major accomplishment of the winter came as an anti-climax with the decision of the Myall Coast Mud Crabs to forfeit the game at Tuncurry after losing three front row forwards to injury in the week, preventing them fielding a safe, hardened scrummaging pack.
With only two rounds remaining before the play-offs, Myall Coast's second forfeit has endangered their fourth position on the competition table and a semi-final berth. They have 19 points, one point ahead of Gloucester. A third forfeit will lead to their elimination from the competition.
In hooker Mick Wooster, props Mitch Meredith and Andrew Pollock and locks Tim Threadgate and Lukas Dellsperger, Gloucester have as formidable a scrummaging unit as any in the competition, but it was Wallamba's tenacious hooker James Watt who stole their thunder with an early strike against the feed. Gloucester would exact revenge.
Whereas the forward struggle was absorbingly even combat, Gloucester's back line found no way to halt fullback Tout's rampaging runs through midfield, for all the strong tackling of outside-centre Mark Gurusinga.
Wallamba's jubilation after the game was understandable. They have developed remarkably this year under the coaching of Lee Sullivan and Jim Wilson.
Rarely recognised players such as mobile flanker, Bodie Vidler, working tirelessly after a three-week knee injury, strong-tackling outside-centre Tom Jenkins, constructive five-eighth James Dinnan, lock Aaron Griffis and lineout-winner Daniel Barber, are blending splendidly with stalwarts such as Dan Hessing and Saul Clough.
Chris Tout scored four tries for Wallamba in the clash against Gloucester at Nabiac.
There are two things which will stop the Dolphins from claiming their fourth successive premiership next month – complacency and 25-year-old Chris Tout.
Any observer with one eye could understand why Sydney and Brisbane rugby league clubs attempted to win Tout's signature with rich contract offers as a younger player. But Tout stayed at home. "You can take the boy out of the bush, but you can't take the bush."
Gloucester were best served by their exciting young five-eighth Ryan Yates who displayed pace and penetration for two superb tries, his first a 90-metre dash in beating defenders down the left wing.
It has been a difficult season with rain disruptions, game postponements and a plague of injuries, but just five weeks remain before the grand final on August 27. Surely Myall Coast, the 2012 premiers, can summon the strength to finish with credibility.
Wallamba44 (C Tout 4 tries J Dinnan D Hessing J Watt D Russell tries; S Curnow 2 goals) beat Gloucester21 (R Yates 2 tries M Wooster try, 3 goals).ManningRiver76 beat Oold Bar0; Forster-Tuncurrybeat MYALL COAST by forfeit.
Next Saturday's 14th round: Gloucester v Myall Coast at Gloucester; Manning River v Forster-Tuncurry at Taree Rugby Park; Wallamba v Old Bar at Nabiac.
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Backgrounding key to carcase success
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Top job: Chris and Marianne Wyllie, Gympie, took home a swag of prizes at the Gympie Carcase Classic including the award for the highest dressing percentage with 61.2 per cent.The 2016 Gympie Carcase Classic attracted large numbers of competitors from notable beef producing areas with organisers deeming it the most successful event in years.
For the first time competition cattle were backgrounded for about 49days prior to feedlot entry and Goldmix Stockfeeds' Jo Offord said the difference in results from start to finish was outstanding.
"We had big problems with Bovine Respiratory Disease last year from the word go and we can now clearly link that to the cattle coming straight off mum," he said.
"If you'regoing to put cattle in a feedlot straight off a cow that has been producing good milkit will take that beast roughly four weeks just to turn around and adjust to the grain.
"The rumen is familiar with the proteinin the cow's milkand throughbackgrounding we can alter the rumenof that beast at a lesser extremeso when cattle enter the feedlot they start on grain much better."
Mr Offord said last year's issues with sickness were linked to stress, exacerbated when enforcing a swift transition from the cow herd onto grain.
"In comparison to last year the cattle ate 4.6 tonnes plus a bale of hay per day in the first three days without background and averaged 7kg weight gain in that time," he said.
"Essentially they'd been trucked, some for long distances, andcurfewed for their induction weight so the first thing they wanted to do when they entered the feedlot was gorge themselves.
"This type of system causes rumen bacteria problems that take 12 hours to break down and four weeks to rebalance but we eliminated that problem immediately this year by backgrounding."
This year's competition cattle were fed at Narelle and Noel Cheshire's Windera Glen Feedlot at Windera, via Murgon.
Cattle were inducted and weighed before receiving a seven week backgrounding period on a good grass paddock prior to starting on the feedlot ration.
With an average weight of 319kg at the commencement of feeding, cattle began on astarter ration of 13.5 per cent protein and 10.5 megajoulesof energy. The ration is also 15 per cent fibre to help keep the rumen moving after thegrass diet, as well as 2.5 per cent fat, calcium and phosphate.The starter ration was fed for 14 days to ensure cattle started properly.
At half way cattle averaged 403kg with an average daily gain of 1.78kg, compared to the 2015 results where cattle averaged 380kg at half way gaining 1.5kg on average daily.
At the conclusion of 86 days on feed the 2016 carcase competition cattle weighed 451kg.
Carcase competition overseeing judge Barry McIntyre said the 2016 event produced the best cattle in terms of even fat cover he had seen.
"This was the first year since I've been judging that everything covered. Most of the cattle had fivemillimetresand only five or six head didn't have more than three millimetres," he said.
"The weight gain from the feedlot was fantastic- the backgrounding obviously played a significant part as well as having good weather mild weather conditions.
"Thecattle were noticeablyquieter to handle than in previous years and that goes a long way towards better yields."
Having worked at Nolan Meats, Gympie, for 19 years,Mr McIntyre's current role asboning room team leader lends him great credibility injudgingthe Gympie competition- a task he has undertaken for the last three years.
Mr McIntyre said it was becoming more common to see high muscle measurements of more than 100 square centimetres in the competition.
"An increase in better yielding carcases is a good thing generally but ithelps us in the boning room a great deal and the team behind the scenes have done a great job."
Results:Most suitable carcase for the domestic market- Thompson familyThe Charlie Cotter allrounder- Pratt familyMost suitable carcase for the domestic market (heifer)- Pratt familyMost profitable animal- Zerner familyBest aggregate of carcases- Pratt familyHighest WAM score- Wyllie familyThe Dylan Dalton cattleman's choice- Minnamurra Pastoral Co.Most successful first time exhibitor- Rosa Cattle Co.Highest dressing percentage- Wyllie familyEncouragement award- A Templeton & SonHighest index score- Minnamurra Pastoral Co.Best weight gain in feedlot- Zerner familyBest weight gain at backgrounding- Rosa Cattle Co.Carcase with largest eye muscle area- Pratt familyThis story Administrator ready to work first appeared on 苏州美甲美睫培训学校.
Students face up to The Enemy Within
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Shirley-May Swan, Joe Williams, Zanah Rose, Ty Glendenning and Kimalee McInnis.Opening with words from his suicide note to his children, former NRL player and professional boxer Joe Williams held nothing back when he shared his story withMoree Secondary College students in The Enemy Within workshop on Thursday.
"It can be impacting, knowing the subject we talk about," Joe said. Raw and real, Joe shared the daily struggle that led him to the brink, and the great resilience and small steps that brought him back to a healthy place.
"I'm still alive and I'm lucky to be alive. When I realised that I've got a second chance, I made a promise to myself to make a positive impact."
Teacher John O'Connor said the students were transfixed by Joe's honesty, the quietest he could remember seeing them."It's certainly engaged them into the moment," he said.
"This is real, this person's been there." John said it meant a lot for students to see how Joe had come back from his darkest days.
Diagnosed with bipolar disorder, Joe said he had struggled with suicidal thoughts and depressive moods almost every day of his life. Dealing with extreme emotional highs and lows, Joe said,"can be a moment by moment thing, sometimes".
"It wasn't spoken about for a couple of years, people are taken aback by it," he admitted.Joe wanted the students to know that mental illness didn't need to hold them back, and was proud to keep achieving at a high level despite the daily struggle.
Through his years of mental anguish, Joe was able to play NRL for the South Sydney Rabbitohs, Penrith Panthers and Canterbury Bulldogs. He became a professionalboxer in 2009,is a two timeWBF World Jnr Welterweight champion and recently won the WBC Asia Continental Title.
"You can succeed in whatever you want to do if you are struggling," Joe said. He said the diagnosis gave him some relief, butexplained that bipolar disorder didn't define him, and neither did his professional sporting career.
"I'm like every other single person out there in the community that goes to work and has my bills to pay."
Joe taught students how to recognise the signs of mental illness in themselves and others, and shared a number of practical tips for those struggling to get through each day. He talked about the importance of healthy eating and physical activity, and led students through maintaining healthy communication with others.
He told students that dealing with mental illness was no different to physical illnesses – there's no shame in going to a doctorif you break your leg, likewise there should be no shame in seeking helpif you're feeling overwhelmed.
He felt lucky to share his story everyday, andto know that he had a positive impact on others.
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Two men rescued from Figure Eight Pools in Royal National Park
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Tourists pose for photographs earlier in January at the Figure Eight Pools in the Royal National Park. Photo: Wolter PeetersTwo men were flown to safety after swimming in the notorious Figure Eight Pools in Sydney's Royal National Park.
Emergency services were called to the pools at the southern end of the park on Sunday night following reports that people were in trouble after the tide had risen.
The men, aged 28 and 29, were winched to safety by a NSW Ambulance Helicopter.
The 29-year-old was taken to Sutherland Hospital where he was treated for minor hypothermia and injuries.
The younger man was taken to Garie Beach car park where he was treated for minor hypothermia. He did not require hospital treatment.
Wollongong police, Police Rescue, State Emergency Services volunteers, paramedics and Surf LIfe Savers were all involved in the rescue.
The rescue comes one week after a 20-year-old man was flown from the pools after he was knocked over by a wave.
He suffered superficial injuries to his wrist, thigh and knee, and paramedics eventually decided to call an ambulance rescue helicopter.
In recent months, the picturesque pools have attracted thousands of sightseers, who have risked injury to snap social media photos along the rock shelf which becomes inundated at high tide.
In January, more than 100 people were visiting the pools when a powerful wave crashed over the rock shelf and swept sightseers off their feet.
Three women were flown to hospital for treatment while a number of others suffered cuts, grazes and bruising.
Police said people were reminded to check for weather conditions and tide times before heading to the pools.
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Bank of Melbourne sign calling homeless person 'inconsiderate' sparks outrage
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A sign posted outside a Bank of Melbourne branch in Footscray that called a rough sleeper "inconsiderate" has sparked outrage.
The homeless person had been sheltering in the entrance of the bank, blocking access to the branch's ATM, which led an employee at the bank to post the notice.
The sign read: "Due to an inconsiderate person using the foyer as a place to live and litter, we are having to close this part of the branch until further notice."
A photo of the note was posted on the bank's Facebook page by Gemma Carafella, who called the bank's thinking "out of touch".
"To think that the biggest victim in the scenario described in the sign is the bank demonstrates a fairly startling disconnect between your bank and the struggles of people who are experiencing disadvantage," she wrote.
"You are out of touch."
A representative for the bank apologised for the offending sign and said it would be taken down.
"We apologise for any offence taken as this was certainly not our intention," the Facebook reply read. "We will be addressing this directly with the branch manager."
One Facebook user said the bank's response would determine whether they stayed with the Bank of Melbourne. "I know banks aren't compassionate institutions, but this is too much," they wrote.
Another wrote: "If you had the capacity to put yourself in another's shoes, you'd realise that to the customers/business it is purely an inconvenience, but to the homeless it is quite literally a matter of life and death."
But some were supportive of the sign. One Facebook user wrote: "How would all of you people appreciate someone sleeping and littering on your property, especially if it affected how you ran your business?"
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text: When do Liberal parties get into government, and under which circumstances? With which partners do they generally form government? When getting into office, which ministerial portfolios do they usually obtain? In most European democracies, Liberal parties are represented in parliament and have been in office at some point in time. They also seem to have an above-average ability to secure a place in government and to obtain ministerial portfolios. This chapter takes a comparative approach and examines the patterns of government participation among Liberal parties, and their success in getting both the Prime Ministership and other important ministerial portfolios.


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New Orleans
Elegantly charming, deliciously bawdy and deeply spiritual. You can smell it, taste it, feel it. An exhilaratingly yet laid back sensation. New Orleans assaults the senses like no other place.
Rattle through the live oak trees on the St. Charles streetcar to the Garden District for a Commander's Palace brunch, feel the spirit of old Professor Longhair at Tipitina's or stroll the banks of the Big Muddy at the River Walk.
Watch 'em shuck a couple of dozen plump ones for you at the Acme Oyster House or flame up some Bananas Foster at Brennan's. Maybe take a chance at a Lucky Dog stand.
Grab the Canal St. ferry over to Algiers or catch a little calliope music on the Natchez. Down a Hurricane in Pat O'Brien's courtyard or sip a Sazerac at the Old Absinthe House were pirate Jean Lafitte and Old Hickory hatched their battle plans.
People-watch with some chicory coffee and hot beignets at Café Du Mond then find a bargain at the French Market. Respect the real deal with the old pros at Preservation Hall or get with it at the House of Blues. Go holler, "Bam," at Emeril over in the Warehouse District.
Now pause a minute at St. Louis Cathedral in Jackson Square and count your blessings. Life is good and there is no other place where you can feel quite as alive as you can in New Orleans.
From Sugar Bowls to Mardi Gras to Jazz Fest to just leisurely weekends Larry has visited the Big Easy more times than he can remember (the old college day trips are especially hazy), "Been coming here for a lot of years now. This place has a soul all it's own. It speaks to you, and like an old friend with a comforting accent, always calls you back…"


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6 Indoor Contaminants That Are Hazardous For Your Kids5:50 PM
Parents of small children routinely install baby gates, cabinet locks, and other safety products to protect their kids, but these won't eliminate all the potential threats in your home. Many dangers go unseen in the air, water, or dust around your house. Watch out for these contaminants in your living environment and take measures to identify and eliminate any issues as quickly as possible to protect your children's health.
Nitrates can be found in tap water, and from there make it into your baby's formula. Nitrates can leach into the water with runoff from fertilizer or from a septic field. If babies consume too many nitrates, they can get the potentially fatal "blue baby syndrome," so it's important to test your water and use an alternative to tap water when necessary.
Radon is an odorless gas that naturally comes up through the earth's crust. If the air pressure in your home is lower than the pressure in the foundation or basement slab, radon can enter. You can also encounter radon in well water. Test your home for radon to find out if this contaminant is present. Sealing the basement or installing a vapor barrier over the ground can resolve the problem.
Children are particularly sensitive to mold exposure. Mold causes flu-like symptoms, including headaches, muscle aches, and a sore throat. Keep a close eye out for any signs of mold growth in the home. You can also test the air for mold that may be concealed in the walls or ceiling and impacting your indoor air quality . Clean up any signs of mold immediately and always use an exhaust fan when cooking or showering to prevent future problems.
Volatile Organic Compounds
Volatile organic compounds are found in cleaning products, adhesives, new carpeting, particleboard furniture, paint, and many other places. Symptoms of VOC exposure include nausea, dizziness, headaches, blurred vision, and cramps. Look for low or no-VOC alternatives to keep your children from these airborne hazards.
If you live in an older home, your children may be exposed to lead in old paint or dust from old paint. If your home has old pipes, you may also find lead in your tap water as a result of corrosion. Continuous exposure can hinder mental and physical development in children. Test chipping or peeling paint as well as your water to make sure this contaminant is not present in your home.
Microbial Contaminants
Microbial containments are found in fecal waste from both humans and animals. Unsanitary diaper changing practices are a common source of this type of contamination. A leaking septic system or feedlot runoff may contaminate your water. Diarrhea and vomiting are the most common symptoms associated with exposure. If the contamination is in your water, boiling will resolve the issue. Following proper hygiene practices can eliminate problems in other parts of the home.
Be mindful of the unseen hazards that can lurk in your home and take action to make sure you're providing a safe and healthy family environment that's free from these indoor contaminants.
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Weekend Retreat Rates
Fri.-Sun. Weekend Retreat Rate
$90 +tax/Per Person ($96.19)
Thursday- Sunday Weekend Retreat Rate
$120+tax/Per Person ($128.25)
(All groups pay for at least for 5 guests- minimum rate of use – which is the same price as the per person rate of 5 guests).
Groups less than 5 guests
Friday-Sunday Minimum Rate of Use
$450 +tax for 2 bedrooms and sole use of retreat center for up to 5 guests. 3rd retreat bedroom may be used for extra $25 fee.
Thursday-Sunday Minimum Rate of Use
$600 +tax for 2 bedrooms Thursday-Sunday Weekend Retreat Rate for up to 5 guests. 3rd retreat bedroom may be used for extra $25 fee.
To request a longer stay, (Wed-Sun): Inquire by contact form for further information on these.
Phone Contact: 507.893.4740 (landline), 507.525.4005 (cell )
When making group reservations, one guest will serve as "Group Contact Person" and be asked to handle all communications between Prairie Wind and the registering group for their accommodations.
- Complete Registration Form. This will place a two-week hold on the dates you wish to reserve.
- Next, a nonrefundable $50 deposit fee is due to Prairie Wind within 2 weeks. Contact Prairie Wind – either online contact form or by phone to discuss method of payment (address and phone number is below). Options for payment: Credit card, Paypal or by check in the mail.
- When the $50.00 deposit fee is received, a permanent reservation is placed on your chosen dates. An email will be sent as a confirmation of your reservation.
- If no deposit is received by the end of the two week period, the dates will be made open on the calendar again and you will need to contact Prairie Wind to reopen the registration and confirm availability of dates.
- 30 days prior to your weekend retreat, 50% of the weekend retreat rate is due. Method of payment will have been determined during the initial registration process. (50% rate of $90 weekend rate= $45.00, 50% rate of $120 weekend rate=$60).
- Final payment is due at the time of check-in. An invoice with remaining balance will be provided.
Cancellation Policies
For cancelled reservations, the $50 deposit will not be refunded.
Last minute- (48 hour or less) cancellations due to Minnesota NO travel advisories, will not be refunded but registrants will be given opportunity to apply deposit/payment to a new retreat availability date.
Send Checks to:
Prairie Wind B & B and Retreat Center, 23721 380th Ave., Winnebago, MN 56098,
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You're writing a novel, and you know that you'll devote many hours to this project. What if those hours turn out to be a waste of time? Perhaps you won't finish the project you started with high hopes.
Worse yet… A small part of you is cynical. It's muttering in your ear: OK, so you'll finish, but it won't SELL, dummy…
These are all signs that you're taking your baby novel much too seriously, and that's dangerous.
Here's why.
When you take writing a novel too seriously, your creativity dies
Yep. Your cold-hearted, determined, logical self can write. Unfortunately, it's writing no one wants to read.
To boost your creativity you MUST let your creative self take over. This means no:
- Backseat driving from your inner censor/ editor (where are you going with this? Is this supposed to make sense? Etc. and etc…);
- Expectations. Having expectations of your first draft while you're writing your first draft is like teacher asking kindergarten babies to explain their play, and exactly what they meant to achieve with that huge Lego tower…;
- Distractions, such as following rules (your own, and others') while you're writing.
Your normal logical, anxious and kvetching self will NOT like this. It wants to be in charge, and fears a lack of control.
Remember your school days? Imagine that it's the height of summer: what can you hear? Stop reading for a moment, and take yourself back to those days in your imagination…
Were you there in your mind? That's day-dreaming, and it's the state of mind you need when you're writing fiction.
Let's look at some tips to help you to day-dream.
1. Your subconscious mind knows best
When you write a novel, encourage your logical self to take a back seat. Tell it that it can return when you're revising and editing, but not before.
Expect that it will take time before you can switch to a day-dreaming mind state at will. While you're getting practice in letting your creative self take charge, if you don't know "what happens next" in your novel, you can:
- Sleep on it. Before you go to sleep, muse about your novel;
- Doodle or draw for a few minutes;
- Go for a walk, or just move to another room. Not relaxed enough sitting at your desk? Lounge on your living room sofa and write on your phone.
2. Write forwards: towards the midpoint, and then the closing scene
We've talked about milestones in a novel:
Authors tend to use different expressions for the milestones; some authors call them "beats", for example. I like the term milestones, because I think of a novel as a journey. You can call the milestones anything you wish.
Once you know your word count, you'll know where the milestones will be. For example, if you get to the midpoint, and nothing much changes, you know you'd better look lively, otherwise your novel will meander over a cliff.
In your first draft, you're telling yourself the story. Keep writing forwards — don't go back.
3. Speed up: stop thinking, keep writing
My favorite acronym, which I've used for many years (I used to be the Queen of Overthinking) is: DDT — Do, Don't Think.
When you're busily thinking — that is, anxious and worrying — you're not day-dreaming. Stop thinking. Start day-dreaming.
A word about day-dreaming: don't try to manage it
Let's say you've trained yourself to achieve the day-dreaming mind state at will.
What happens when your day-dreaming derails? That will happen. So, instead of day-dreaming about your thriller, in which the hero is confronting three large and angry terrorists, you're imagining your upcoming weekend getaway.
That's totally fine. You're day-dreaming, so you've got the correct mindset. Gently steer your imagination where you want it to go. Imagine what your hero's feeling: can you picture the scene in your mind?
On days when you're especially distracted, switch between imagining your thriller (or whatever genre you're writing), and free writing.
When you're writing a novel, day-dreaming is valuable
Most authors are excellent day-dreamers. Unfortunately, at some stage you may have been told that day-dreaming is wrong. Perhaps you were accused of being a "dreamer", and that blocks you today.
Be gentle with yourself while you're getting back into the day-dreaming habit. Not only is day-dreaming fun, it's an essential skill for a novelist.
Plan, Write, And Publish Serial Fiction In Four Weeks
Why write serial fiction?
Everyone's busy today. A serial is by its nature, faster to write, and publish, than a novel.
It's a quicker read too, and many readers appreciate this. While a reader may hesitate before committing hours to a novel, he can read an episode of your serial in minutes.
If you're a new author, a serial serves to introduce you to readers. A reader may not be willing to commit to a novel by a new author, but be willing to read an episode of a serial.More info →
Master Fiction Writing: Craft A Novel in 31 Days
You want to write a novel. Perhaps you can't get started. Or maybe you got started, and then you stopped.You need a plan, broken down into easy steps. This program began as a 30-day challenge which I organized for readers in 2010. Hundreds of writers joined the challenge and completed it. They wrote novels.More info →
Resources to build your writing career
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Blancanieves | Review
By Don Simpson | March 28, 2013
Director: Pablo Berger
Writer: Pablo Berger
Starring: Macarena García, Maribel Verdú, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Ángela Molina, Pere Ponce, Sofía Oria, José María Pou, Inma Cuesta, Ramón Barea, Emilio Gavira, Sergio Dorado
Antonio (Daniel Giménez Cacho) is a highly regarded Spanish matador whose career comes to a grinding halt after he is mauled by a bull. It is by no means a coincidence that his stunningly beautiful wife (Inma Ciesta) goes into premature labor while the doctors fight to save Antonio's life. His wife dies during childbirth and Antonio is released from the hospital a quadriplegic. How's that for a grim beginning to this modern retelling of the famous Brothers Grimm fairy tale?
Well, things only grow increasingly grimmer… An evil hospital nurse, Encarna (Maribel Verdú), sees Antonio as an easy way to get rich quick. A widowed quadriplegic, Antonio has no way to raise his daughter Carmencita (Sofia Oria) on his own; so, Carmencita is sent away to be raised by her grandmother while Antonio marries Encarna. When Carmencita finally does return home, she is promptly exiled by her wicked stepmother to a prison-like cellar and forbidden to ever see her father again. Living up to her "evil stepmother" stature, Encarna essentially imprisons Antonio as well, relegating him to live a life of solitude in one room of his palatial mansion. As fate would have it, Carmencita eventually discovers her depressed, wheelchair-bound father and quickly develops a mutually enlightening relationship with him. Oh, and Antonio teaches Carmencita the secrets of bullfighting…
Years later, a teenage Carmencita (Macarena García), ends up with amnesia, only to be rescued by a traveling troupe of bullfighting little people. Coincidence, I think not. Bullfighting comes quite naturally to the clueless young woman who is as white as snow; nicknamed Blancanieves, she soon becomes key component of their roadshow. What is more unique than bullfighting little people? Correct, a female matador.
With silent films being such a rarity in the 21st century, it is damn near impossible to discuss Spanish writer-director Pablo Berger's Blancanieves without mentioning another silent film that won Best Motion Picture of the Year, Best Director, Best Lead Performance by an Actor, Best Costume Design, and Best Original Score at the 2012 Academy Awards. Like a neglected step-child to the inferior The Artist, Spain's submission to the Best Foreign Language Film category, Blancanieves did not even get selected for one of the final five nomination slots.
In the history of silent films, The Artist would probably be considered mediocre at best. I like to think of it as a modern narrative drama that simply replaces its dialogue with intertitles. Blancanieves, however, stands out as the most beautiful and reverent silent film that I have seen this side of Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times (1936). Blancanieves is a visual spectacle that combines narrative elements of surrealism with the classic visual techniques of montage and superimposition. Cognizant that he is working in a purely visual medium, Berger focuses primarily on setting the mood and tone of Blancanieves, establishing an otherworldly — and undeniably unique — sense of place. The use of intertitles is kept to a bare minimum, relying quite heavily upon the actors' facial expressions and the stunning cinematography of Kiko de la Rica to convey the basic narrative. A revisionist take on the Snow White fairy tale, Berger dashes the story with a healthy dose of feminism, first and foremost by establishing Carmencita's success in a traditionally masculine career. So, not only is Blancanieves an escapist fantasy of epic proportions, it is also an incredibly complex and intelligent approach to a very classic story in the fairest of all cinematic styles. So, forget about the The Artist… Who is the fairest of them all? Blancanieves, that's who.
Rating: 9/10
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Each year, we celebrate the birth of the modern environmental movement which started in 1970. The idea for a national day to focus on the environment came to Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, after witnessing the ravages of the 1969 massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, California. On April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans took to the streets, parks, and auditoriums to demonstrate for a healthy, sustainable environment in massive coast-to-coast rallies. Thousands of colleges and universities organized protests against the deterioration of the environment. Groups that had been fighting against oil spills, polluting factories and power plants, raw sewage, toxic dumps, pesticides, freeways, the loss of wilderness, and the extinction of wildlife suddenly realized they shared common values.
Flash forward 49 years later. What's important to remember is that our environment is inextricably linked to our health and well-being. The National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health, or NIH, advises us about common diseases and conditions that evidence shows may be strongly linked to environmental exposures. Some of these diseases include asthma, breast cancer, cancer, lung disease and others. They also publish research on which populations are exposed to the effects of certain environmental conditions.
The Earth Day Network, the organization that leads Earth Day worldwide, chose this year's theme, Protect our Species. There are many things each of us can do to protect our environment and our species, so we can all lead healthier lives.
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DALLAS - Dallas Morning News Copy Editor Kevin Leonard Gray died April 3 from complications with cancer. He was 60.
A native of Hampton, Virginia, Gray was a graduate of Norfolk State University and began his career at the Ithaca Journal in the Finger Lakes region of New York.
The Dallas Morning News hired him to work in the sports department in September of 1985.
He worked at the paper for 32 years, winning awards for editing and page design.
He was the primary content editor of the football special section that often received national recognition.
Co-workers remembered him as a talented page designer and sharp copy editor who took pride in making SportsDay the best it could be.
Gray was an avid fan of the New York Giants, New York Mets and New York Nicks. He also enjoyed history books and attending ComicCon with friends
He met and married his wife Charlene in Dallas in 1987, and she survives him. He is also survived by two children, his mother, sisters and other relatives.
Services were held April 8 at Wildwood Chapel at Restland Funeral Home with burial at the Garden of Memories at Restland Cemetery.


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The Boss TU-3 Chromatic Tuner pedal is an evolution of the world's best-selling stage tuner, the Boss TU-2. Fast, precise and built like a tank.
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An amazing evolution of the extremely popular Boss TU-2, the Boss TU-3 Chromatic Tuner pedal sets the world standard for stage tuners.
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- 21-segment LED meter with brightness control
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- Accurate to +/- one cent
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- Flat tuning is supported with Guitar Flat mode, which allows for "drop" tunings up to six semitones below standard pitch
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A number of great features set the Boss TU-3 apart from other stage tuners.
The 21-segment LED metre allows for precise tuning with the brightness being adjustable so you can set it to your preference, making it suitable for dimly stages while the High-Brightness mode makes it so you can see the display clearly when playing outdoors in the sun.
A special Accu-Pitch Sign function activates giving you visual verification to let you know tuning is complete.
Simple yet very effective; the TU-3 automatically mutes when activated so you're not detracting from the show or upsetting your audience with the sound of strings tuning.
Different Tuning Modes
Multiple tuning modes such as Chromatic and Guitar/Bass modes allow you to get the perfect tuning for your needs. You can tune by string number with support for 7-string guitars and 6-string basses.
Flat tuning is also supported with Guitar Flat mode, allowing for drop tunings up to six semitones below standard pitch.
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Being a Boss pedal, the TU-3 Chromatic Tuner pedal is built like a tank – perfect for taking on the tour as it gives you full confidence that it can take all the rigours of the road.
Accurate to +/- one cent and with the ability to supply power for up to seven Boss compact effect pedals, the TU-3 makes sure you sound great at all times while acting as an essential utility on your pedalboard.
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The Musical Company Salzburg's Broadway Show
The Musical Company Austria is a small and great musical team in Salzburg. The idea behind its formation is just – do what you love! This was the beginning for Sabine, one of the founders of the musical company, to use her voice not only for small concerts, but also for heartful and joyful musicals in the area of Salzburg. As Sabine is one of our personal friends, we will not miss the opportunity to recommend their events to you and also tell you a bit more whats going on behind the scenes.
The Musical Company started their outstanding story in 2010 and at the moment they have on the stage and backstage about 50 people working together as a team. Of course, it is not Broadway in New York and therefore the members are mainly working in other professions as a main job and spend all their free time to reherse their parts and to be fit for performances to offer you a perfect show with different topics.
The people love to sing, dance, perform and also to create new impressive shows for you, the audience. With their own musical "Fall of the diva – Backstage" they created also their own written lyrics and combined it with famous musical songs. They really did a good job. They integrated the actual lifestyle and the region in their textes. I will come back a bit later to the story of this musical.
The Musical Company also offers dinner events (for example Halloween Dinner), they create show-acts for business celebrations (so you can also book a live musical in Salzburg) and of course they perform the Musical NunSens (coming from broadway) on a monthly basis. Setting of NunSens is really connected with historical places in the area. They perform in an old chapel which is of course the right place for a group of Nuns. I will also tell you a bit more in detail after this short overview.
The "Fall of the Diva – Backstage" was the second big production of the Musical Company Austria in the year 2013. As mentioned the company wrote the lyrics themselves and used the songs from famous musicals and combined them. They created a show with characters like you really would find here in the lifestyle of Austria. Of corse a bit oversubscribed, but more out of real life than you would think.
The Musical shows how it really works behind the scenes and what's going on between the main actors and the members of the chorus. It spotlights the network of intrigues what's happening after and before the show on the stage and backstage.
They also integrated the local area of the Salzkammergut (Lake District) and the stage settings were also extraordinary. You can imagine how many hours of free time and personal stories not shown in the show are integrated in this Musical (real backstage). The best thing at the end of the show is for the company to stay together and enjoy the applause of the audience.
In the last years the Musical Company Austria became more and more popular in this area and their professionalism and their reputation increases show by show. They are already performing in Germany with their shows and perhaps one day as guests on the New York Broadway. Until then we are glad to have them here for our Salzburg as Little Broadway.
The actual Musical on Stage 2017 is NunSens. Here an original Broadway Musical found its way back to good old Europe and it was perfect for the Musical Company Austria. The first show on Stage for the singing nuns was 2014 and it will be on a monthly basis for 2017 – so you have the possibility to see them directly on stage! (Dates and booking you will find here: Booking in German Musical Company Austria – German or for questions and bookings in English please use email@example.com or contact us directly under firstname.lastname@example.com and we will arrange the tickets directly with Sabine).
Dates for 2017 (always at 7: pm):
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As Salzburg itself was for a long time period a catholic ruled area, the story of the singing Nuns also makes sense in historical content, especially at the location where the team is performing. They are singing at the ARCOTEL Castellani in a real old chapel, which is now integrated in a seminar center. The structure of the room, for example the windows, are all original, like a real chapel in the city of Salzburg. More about the Hotel you find here: Castellani NunSense
The Musical NunSens was written from Dan Goggin – an author of the New York Broadway. He was also in Salzburg to have a look at his licensed musical show in Austria performed by The Musical Company Austria. Therefore a little broadway on the stage in Salzburg!
We are looking forward to welcoming you for one of the performances and hope you have great fun and get in touch with the ensemble. Perhaps soon on Broadway in New York – you never know what happens! Have a great evening with Sabine and her Team and enjoy! Best greetings B(e)Specialtours!


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Tangrams (Unconstrained)
Size: 67 games; 9,967 utterances.
Description: Players saw a grid of twelve tangram shapes taken from Clark & Wilkes-Gibbs (1986). The matcher clicked and dragged tangrams to new positions. When confident that their board matches that of the director, the matcher clicked a 'submit board' button and received feedback on the number of tangrams (out of 12) that matched, before advancing to the next round (out of 6). This task was unconstrained in the sense that players could type anything into the chat box at any time and address the tangrams in any order they preferred.
- gameid: unique identifier for game in which message was sent
- msgTime: time at which player sent message
- roundNum: round of game in which message was sent [1-50]
- role: role of player who sent message ['director', 'matcher']
- contents: raw text of message
- totalLength: the total amount of time player spent in game (in ms)
- thinksHuman: whether the player thought their partner was a human
- ratePartner: how much the player enjoyed working with their partner ['not much', 'okay', 'liked', 'loved']
- numRawWords: the number of raw words in the utterance
Hawkins, R. X. D., Frank, M. C. and Goodman, N. D. (2017). Convention-formation in iterated reference games. Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society


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New Canaan college student dies in Virginia crash
A New Canaan college senior was killed in a car accident early Tuesday morning, Dec. 3, in Virginia, according to news reports from that area.
Kelsey Durkin, who graduated from New Canaan High School in 2010 and was a student at Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Va., was fatally injured in the one-vehicle accident in Rockbridge County, Va, according WSLS-TV. Nine other students were injured in the wreck.
The driver of the 2006 Chevrolet Tahoe has been charged with DUI by the Virginia State Police, according to The Roanoke Times. The driver has not been named.
Virginia State Police spokesman Sgt. Rob Carpentieri said the wreck happened about 1:30 a.m. on Turkey Hill Road near Bethany Road in Rockbridge County, according to the Times.
The university said it was making counselors available for students and staff.
Ms. Durkin was a senior defenseman on the New Canaan girls ice hockey team that won both the county and state titles in 2010.
Washington & Lee University President Kenneth Ruscio issued the following statement Tuesday morning:
"Our hearts go out to Kelsey Durkin and her many friends on this campus. Kelsey, a senior from New Canaan, Connecticut, was the student who died in the accident early this morning.
There are no words to express the grief we feel over the loss of someone taken from us so suddenly and tragically. In the days ahead, in the weeks and months ahead, our sadness will be lessened only by the memories of her time with us.
This is a community of compassion and caring friendships. That makes the sadness we feel deep and genuine. But this is also a community of strength and support for one another, and we need now more than ever to call upon that most precious quality. I don't need to remind you to be there for one another, to draw support from our ability to care for each other, to keep the Durkin family especially in your thoughts and prayers, and to be there for them.
We will continue to provide information and updates, including plans for a memorial service for Kelsey, as they become available.
We also are in touch with the families of the other students who were injured and will let you know of their conditions, as we are able to."


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I have a new home on the internet. I don't visit the Twitter home timeline or the Facebook news feed anymore. I don't open the Instagram app except when I post a photo. I still have accounts there — I just don't visit those sites anymore. Instead, I have my own new space on the internet where everything I'm interested in is consolidated, and I can read and reply to things from there. But before I go too far into my new online home — an IndieWeb reader — some background.
It used to be the case that when you opened Twitter, you'd see every tweet from everyone you're following, in order, with the newest at the top.
Over the past few years, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and many other services have switched to what's known as an "algorithmic timeline," meaning posts no longer show up in chronological order. Instead, these services use proprietary algorithms to decide what to show you and when.
You could argue that they've done us a favor in one sense. I stopped being able to keep up with my chronological Twitter timeline long ago. But doesn't it seem wrong that Twitter gets to be the one to decide what to show me? Plenty of people are upset about the new algorithmic timelines, even posting articles like "Instagram is actively ruining my life with its inhumane algorithm" and "14 Ways to Outsmart the Instagram Algorithm."
We clearly need a way to take back control of what we're reading online.
You might remember RSS readers did a pretty good job of giving individuals control of what they are subscribed to. However, over the years, Twitter, Instagram and many other social media platforms have shown us that people enjoy reading and sharing short-form content, not just blog posts.
Twitter not only provides an easy way to post content online, it also provides a single place to read what everyone else has posted. More importantly, these sites also enable you to quickly respond to the things you're following. Whether that's clicking the heart icon to show your support of a post, or writing a reply to something as you're reading it.
They are largely stuck in the blogging era, being used to consume blogs and news sites. If we want to have any hope of the open web and independent websites replacing our own use of Twitter and Facebook, we need to be able to have experiences at least as good as we have on those services.
What if you could reply to a blog post in your feed reader, and your reply would show up as a comment on the original post automatically? What if you could click a "heart" in your reader, and the author of the post would see it? What if you had one place to go to follow not just your Twitter friends, but also all of your friends' blogs, their microblogs, and see the pictures they're sharing? What if you could have seamless conversations in your reader the way you have seamless conversations on Twitter today?
These are the things myself and the IndieWeb community have been making huge progress on in recent years.
Here's a screenshot of what my current IndieWeb reader looks like:
My IndieWeb reader looks kind of like a combination of an RSS reader and a Twitter feed. An important difference between this and a traditional RSS reader is that this interface has buttons I can click to reply to posts!
When I click Reply, the IndieWeb reader creates a post on my website, and notifies the person I'm replying to so their site can show it as a comment.
Here's my reply on my website:
And here's my reply showing up on the original post:
I'm pretty happy with how my current IndieWeb reader is working right now! I've built it as a thin interface on top of a server-side API that handles all the feed fetching. In fact, there are alternative front-ends that work with the same server. When I'm on my phone, I can use a native iPhone app to see all the same content that I see on my computer.
This separation between the reader interface and the server is critical to developing a new generation of readers. This is what lets us have the choice of using multiple different reader apps, all accessing the same data behind the scenes. This separation is documented in a spec called Microsub.
The server side of the reader is software selected by the user. This might be built into their website CMS, or could be a separate service they sign up for. Typically, the server side won't have much in the way of a user interface, likely just enough interface to subscribe to some feeds, but it doesn't need to be able to display any of the content itself.
Reader apps can then be built without needing to spend any time dealing with parsing different feed formats or worrying about having enough resources to poll all the feeds people are subscribed to.
Check out my post, Building an IndieWeb Reader, for more details on how all the pieces fit together. If you're building a reader, check out the Microsub spec to learn how you can participate in this growing ecosystem.
This part of the IndieWeb ecosystem is still in the early stages. I would love to see more development of both the reader apps and also the backend servers! If you use a CMS, consider installing or writing a plugin to add support for Webmention, Microsub and Micropub. If you're an app developer, this would be a great time to build new Micropub apps to help people post to their websites, or build new Microsub apps with interesting and unique interfaces.
Another fun challenge I'm looking forward to tackling soon is the ability to post and follow private content using our websites. The OAuth 2.0 extension IndieAuth provides us a solid base to work from.
As always, I'm happy to chat about any and all of this. It's been a lot of fun already to build this all out and see it working! You can find me in the IndieWeb chat via IRC and Slack.
This June, we're hosting the annual IndieWeb Summit in Portland. IndieWeb Summit is for independent web creators of all kinds — from graphic artists to designers, UX engineers, coders and hackers — and is where we brainstorm and create lots of things like the IndieWeb reader. Head over to 2018.indieweb.org for more information and to register!
Over the last several months, I've been slowly putting the pieces in place to be able to build a solid indieweb reader. Today, I feel like I finally have enough in place to consider this functional enough that I am now using it every day!
One of the major missing pieces of the IndieWeb ecosystem has been having an integrated reading and posting experience that mirrors the ease with which it's possible to post and follow on Twitter and other silo apps.
We've seen a few attempts at indieweb readers over the past few years, but nothing has really taken off or stuck around. Even my own attempts at readers have fallen apart, both the previous iteration of Monocle in 2016, and my fork of selfoss in 2014. My suspicion has always been that we haven't seen many people building out this part of the ecosystem because it turns out there are a whole bunch of different parts to building a reader, many of which have no overlap in skillset: managing the subscription list, polling and fetching feeds, parsing feeds, data storage, rendering posts in a UI, providing inline action buttons to be able to reply and favorite posts, etc.
When I'm building out the UI components of a project, the last thing I want to have to think about is the invisible backend stuff like feed polling and parsing. Similarly when I'm tackling the problems with parsing and normalizing data from feeds, the last thing I am thinking about is Javascript button interactions. Not to mention that I am barely an iOS developer, so there's no way I'd be able to build out a full indieweb reader for iOS.
In April 2017, I started outlining a spec that draws a hard line between these very different parts of building a reader, and called it Microsub (for subscribing), as a complement to Micropub (for publishing). The basic idea is to separate the feed subscriptions from the UI parts of building a reader.
I started working from the ground up on building out the various aspects I knew I would need in order to eventually end up with a fully functional reader.
I based a lot of these design decisions around my previous experience in building a reader, as well as my documentation of how I use IRC to read content across the web.
My goal with this is to use this as my primary online dashboard to follow all kinds of content, as well as being able to interact with the content without leaving the interface.
The main organization of the reader is laid out in "channels". You can also think of these as "folders" if you want. Many feeds (or sources) can be added to a channel, and the posts are all combined into a single timeline view.
Monocle supports displaying a few different types of content in posts. It has native support for notes, articles, photos, multi-photos, videos, audio clips, checkins, favorites, reposts, and replies.
Since I follow my Instagram feed in the reader, I wanted to have a good display for photos, especially when there are many photos attached to a single post. I ended up doing a simple custom layout when there are two or three photos. Four or more they just start tiling as half-size photos. With three photos, the first photo appears larger on the left and the other two are stacked to the right.
I wanted to be able to read full articles in the reader without jumping out to the site, but also didn't want to have to scroll endlessly when I'm just skimming headlines. So if an article has content that is too tall, it gets truncated with a "read more" link to expand it.
If the post has an audio file, such as podcasts, then there is a simple HTML audio player inline!
Each post has a set of buttons to be able to respond to the post. The quickly accessible actions are "favorite", "repost", and "reply". The three dots opens up an expanded menu with some additional options, some of which I have not yet implemented.
Currently it's possible to remove a post from a channel, and to open up a debug view showing the raw data behind the post. Eventually this will expand to include muting the author, blocking the author, or unfollowing the source the post came from.
Clicking the "reply" button drops down a little text box for posting a reply.
There is a character counter just so that I have a sense of how long the post is. Since this is posting the reply back to my website, this interface has no idea what sort of character limits there are, so it's just a simple counter. When I click the "Reply" button, the app makes a Micropub post to my website to create the post there.
My website already has all the logic for adding that to my replies feed and sending webmentions to the post I'm replying to. Since this post I replied to is on Micro.blog, and Micro.blog accepts webmentions, the post showed up there within a few seconds.
The same workflow happens for favoriting and reposting things.
My website also recognizes when the post I'm replying to is a Twitter or GitHub permalink, and will automatically syndicate my reply or favorite appropriately! Since I added my GitHub notifications to a channel, I can actually reply to GitHub issues directly from the interface!
You may have noticed the little blue dots next to the channel names in some previous screenshots. Those indicate how many unread posts are in the channel.
However, some feeds that I follow end up with tons of posts in the channels, so many that the actual number of posts is no longer significant! All I really want to know is whether there is something new or not. To account for this, I can choose whether a channel implements per-item tracking, or just a boolean read/unread indicator, or disables read tracking altogether.
When I'm looking at a timeline, any new posts appear with a yellow glow around them. As the post scrolls out of view, it gets marked as read, and that state is pushed to the server so that other clients will also know it's now read.
I really enjoy not having to manually mark things as read, instead the interface just handles it all for me without any additional interaction.
Since I actually have several different websites I use, I wanted the response buttons to be able to post not just to my website, but also to the other websites I have. For example, my cat Dora, who has her own website is not always the best at using the computer, so sometimes I have to favorite things for her.
I can choose a alternate default account per channel so that the response buttons will actually post to the alternate website. Notice Dora's cat face in the bottom right corner of the screen. This lets me know that interacting with posts in this channel will be posted to this alternate account.
I can even temporarily switch to a different account by clicking on the profile icon and choosing another account.
You may also have noticed the little pen icon in the lower left corner. Clicking that pops up a dialog for writing a new post from the selected account. I chose to keep this interface super simple, providing just a text box and character counter.
If I need to write something more complicated, such as including HTML content, adding a photo, or choosing where the post is syndicated, then I'll just pop over to Quill and write the post there instead.
I mentioned earlier that there were many parts to this, and I haven't talked much about that yet. The most important thing about the architecture of this system is that it is not just a single monolithic app. Instead, there is a server responsible for collecting all the data from the feeds I'm following, and separate apps for displaying them! Since I was documenting everything on the wiki as I was building this out, other people were able to jump in and start writing clients from the beginning!
There are already two other great interfaces that work with the same backend server!
Here is a Javascript app called Together, written by Grant, showing the same posts you saw in a previous screenshot.
Here is the same content rendered by the iOS app, Indigenous, written by Eddie.
I'm pretty thrilled that already we've been able to have two people jump in and build readers so quickly already, thanks to the hard work of feed fetching being abstracted away by the server!
Now to start getting into the technical bits of how this works. Feel free to skip this section if specs make your eyes glaze over.
I mentioned before that the main separation going on here is splitting off the feed fetching and parsing from rendering the posts.
This accomplishes a few things:
The main idea behind this is the Microsub spec. This is the spec that the Microsub server implements so that clients know how they can talk to it.
Ideally there will eventually be a large ecosystem around the spec, with many clients to choose from, and many servers as well. We'll see some projects build in Microsub support natively, so that they work out of the box, and we'll also see some dedicated feed subscription services support Microsub. The nice thing about using your website identity to tie the pieces together is that you can choose your Microsub server separately from choosing the software that powers your website.
For example, I decided early on when building my website that I didn't want to mix the idea of following feeds into the same software that powers my website. So instead, I wrote an external Microsub server called Aperture, which is responsible for all the feed polling and parsing and storing the posts in channels. Aperture is open source, although I still consider it "in active development", so I am not officially supporting it right now. You are of course welcome to get it running yourself, but be prepared for things to change quickly.
(Aperture actually has two components, Watchtower which is a microservice that polls feeds and delivers them to Aperture itself, and Aperture does the actual feed parsing with the content provided by Watchtower. This allows me to scale out the feed polling separately from the Microsub server.)
If you want to try to get Aperture and Watchtower running, Daniel did a pretty great writeup of his experience getting things set up in two posts: Part 1 and Part 2.
Ideally I would love to see some more implementations of Microsub servers, so head over to the spec if that's your thing!
Monocle is the Microsub client I wrote that's featured in the screenshots above. It is also open source. Since it doesn't do any feed parsing itself, it doesn't even have a storage backend! Everything is fetched on the fly with the exception of the channel list and Micropub config which is persisted in the session data.
When I click on a channel to view it, Monocle first makes a Microsub timeline request to Aperture to fetch the channel data, then renders it in the timeline view. This is analogous to the iOS app Indigenous fetching the timeline data from the Microsub server then rendering it on the phone, except Monocle is doing that server-side to generate HTML for the browser.
You might think I'm crazy for having written a PHP app that fetches JSON from an API and then renders --gasp-- static HTML in 2018, but guess what -- it's fast!
Monocle is open source, but I am also hosting a version online that anyone is welcome to use at monocle.p3k.io. Since it doesn't actually store anything itself, I don't expect it to take up any significant resources any time soon! Of course in order to use it, you'll need to have your website pointing to a Microsub server of your choosing. Since that's where all the actual work is done, I am not making my hosted version of Aperture available for general signups right now. You'll need to either get that running on your own server, or build a Microsub server from scratch!
This last section has been a bit of a wall of text, so here is a diagram showing how all the pieces fit together to make this possible!
My website contains the IndieAuth and Micropub bits, but others have chosen to use external services for those as well. I've also chosen to outsource sending and receiving webmentions to external services, whereas other people end up handling those within their own website code as well.
The reader apps all talk to the Microsub server that I've linked to in order to view posts, and when I tap a "like" button or write a reply from the app, they post that to my Micropub server to create a new post.
I use webmention.io to handle my incoming webmentions, and it is configured to send posts to a channel in Aperture using Aperture's Micropub API.
This has been a very long read, so congrats if you've made it this far! Here are some links if you're curious about how you can start building out various pieces of the ecosystem as well!
Open Source Projects
While this is all a good start, and I do actually use this as my primary online home now, there is still a lot more work to do!
As always, I'm happy to chat about any and all of this! It's been a lot of fun already to build this all out and see it working! You can find me in the IndieWeb chat via IRC and Slack, if you send me a Webmention I'll see it in my reader, or find me at an upcoming IndieWeb event!
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You can now subscribe to realtime updates of IndieNews feeds via WebSub! (formerly known as PubSubHubbub)
It was relatively straightforward to add the necessary tags and ping the WebSub hub to make this work. I used Switchboard as the hub. I added the <link> tags and HTTP headers to indicate the hub and self URLs. When a new post is submitted, I then ping the hub, which is just an HTTP POST request with the URL of the feed.
I then went to test the publisher using websub.rocks. That part worked great, websub.rocks was able to subscribe to my feed, and I see it receiving the ping when a new post is added to IndieNews.
Then I went to try subscribing to IndieNews in Woodwind. Woodwind reported that it subscribed successfully, but it appears that it no longer shows me the WebSub statistics that it used to. I wanted to ensure it was able to subscribe to the realtime feed, so I then used websub.rocks to test Woodwind!
As it turns out, Woodwind failed to subscribe to the test feed in websub.rocks, but not because of a bug in Woodwind! It turns out I had a small bug in websub.rocks caused by a previous renaming of some things. It was a quick fix and I'm glad Woodwind was able to point that out!
After adding IndieNews to Woodwind, I then realized that these posts don't look quite right in readers, and we likely need to do some more brainstorming on how they should be marked up and consumed. The challenge is when displaying a bookmarked post, who should appear as the author, and where should the permalink go? To the bookmark or to the post being bookmarked? It's likely the case that you'd want to see both pieces of information, especially since you see both pieces of information on IndieNews.
Let's take a look at a post on IndieNews:
This is a post that Chris (boffosocko.com) bookmarked on his site, and submitted to IndieNews. His goal was to share the Wordpress plugin with the community, so that's the most prominent thing being displayed here. The "WordPress IndieNews" title links to the GitHub repository, and we see "github.com" below reflecting that. At the end of the line, we see "from boffosocko.com" which is a link to his bookmark post. This indicates to the viewer that this was submitted by someone else.
I am reasonably happy with the way this is presented on IndieNews. The question then is how should it appear when being viewed in a reader such as Woodwind? We clearly have more research to do in this area, so I've started by adding this screenshot and a short description to the Bookmark page on the wiki.
"The scariest part: over 90% of my feed's subscribers use Google Reader. What happens when Google Reader dies?"
In the current world of silos dominating the social media space, people typically have to visit half a dozen websites or apps to see all the latest content from friends. At this point I'm sick of this "multiple inbox" model that I want to find an alternative as fast as possible.
Currently I open my usual social media sites (Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, in that order) and read the home timeline only as a last resort. Below is an attempt to document the primary ways I find things online so that I can consider how I want my IndieWeb reader to present content to me.
I have a persistent streaming search from twitter.com running, looking for specific keywords. These tweets get sent to various IRC channels I am in. The keywords are usually words associated with specific projects.
For example "indieweb, indiewebcamp, indieauth, webmention" all get sent to the public #indiewebcamp IRC channel. A search for "aaronpk, aaronparecki.com, flickstagram, transportini" and a couple other terms (which I don't want to reveal, an important point that will have to be considered in the design of my reader) all go to a private IRC channel. One of the internal Esri channels has a search running for "esripdx, geotrigger, developers.arcgis.com" so we can see when people are talking about our projects.
When a particularly interesting tweet comes in, I may click it to see if anyone has replied to it and read the conversation thread.
Occasionally I come across an article newly posted on Hackernews, or a tweet I think will lead to an interesting conversation, so I leave a browser tab open to the URL and come back to it periodically to see if anything is happening. I usually close these after a couple hours to a day, occasionally up to 2 days.
When I am at a specific event, or in some other temporary situation, I often search a specific hashtag or a keyword to see what other people are saying. After the event, I typically don't care to follow the search anymore.
Along the lines of Tantek's people-focused communications, I often open Twitter or Facebook to a specific person's timeline, such as when I first meet someone, or when I want to get in touch with someone after a while and see what they've been up to. Sometimes this is people I am already following, but sometimes I do not want to follow them publicly or persistently, and just see what they have recently posted instead.
On very rare occasions, I open the Swarm app to look at who is nearby. I would say for the most part this is not terribly useful or interesting information, so I would not prioritize this feature in an interface, as the majority of the time I use Swarm this information is not helpful.
Currently, IRC is my primary "reader." Because I have so many Twitter searches running, I very rarely actually visit twitter.com and look at my stream.
I also have many other bits of information piped into IRC, such as notifications of webmentions of my various websites, debugging information from my website, notifications when someone calls my number on my apartment's call box, debug logs from other websites I run, etc.
In order to replace IRC as a generic notification platform for myself, I'll need a way to easily get arbitrary messages into my reader. Probably my best bet is to create a really simple blog that supports Micropub, so my various systems can quickly create posts on it. Then I can just subscribe to that blog in my reader.
IRC also sends push notifications to my phone for lines that match certain patterns, so I will need a similar mechanism to receive mobile push notifications about certain items that appear in my reader.
There are many existing RSS readers, but most of them follow the same model of reader that has existed since the beginning of RSS readers. I tried extending Selfoss to support Microformats feeds, with mostly success. However I realized that this reader was fundamentally stuck in the RSS reader model of having an "inbox" of unread items, and reading specific feeds individually. I think we can do better than this now.
I've heard many rumblings that the fantastic IndieWeb publishing platform Known will be getting built-in reader functionality soon. I look forward to that for sure, since it will make IndieWeb-enabled readers accessilble to a lot of people.
Another fantastic IndieWeb reader is Woodwind, which is relatively new and Kyle has made great progress on it already! I've been using it already, reading several peoples' blogs from it and using it to post likes on my site. The only reason I'm building my own and not just building on that one is because it's written in Python and I don't know the first thing about making Python apps. If you're looking for a completely functional reader to use right now, I'd definitely recommend it.
You can follow along with the development of Monocle, my IndieWeb reader, here: github.com/aaronpk/Monocle/issues
I am still in the design phase, but taking extensive notes as GitHub issues. Feel free to chime in with suggestions if you wish!
Similar to p3k, I will be writing as much of Monocle as separate libraries that can be re-used by other projects. To give you an idea of what this looks like, here is the list of separate modules I've written or contributed to that p3k uses.
but I suspect the hardest part is the client app for readers, which works in a way analogous to an RSS reader or email client, but would have to support a new format and would be optimized for clean reading and subsequent discovery, rather than the three-pane model which has dominated those apps for the last decade or two


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