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* * * * *Welcome to The Plain, David. Tell us something about yourself. Where are you from?
I'm from Dun Laoghaire, a large suburb south of Dublin, Ireland. I left there in 2000 at the age of twenty-six, though, and moved to Madrid for a while, then Boston and back to Spain three years ago.An interesting triangle of travel. Do you set your books/stories in your hometown, or do you prefer more exotic locations?
I think each book suggests its own location. I have never set a book in Dublin, though the kind of streetscape in Leaving the Pack is similar to Dublin's. I didn't want to be confined by a real geography, and I wanted the reader to decide what city they imagined themselves. Likewise I invented the area around the imaginary village of Ballyboy for my second book, and I set my YA novel in a fictional town in England because I felt that England was a better setting for my purpose, but didn't know enough of any particular town to be able to shape it to my story. I don't think I will ever set a story in Dublin in the way a book like Ulysses takes advantage of a real geography. There would have to be a real advantage to it, and most of the time an imagined setting suits the story better.How much of your writing is based on people or events familiar to you?
Very little, I think, though others might disagree. I do take notes of things that happen when they are interesting, and there are bits and pieces of people's personalities mixed in some of my characters. I also like to use common names that I hear all the time, which means that I always know someone with the same name, but that doesn't mean that the character has anything to do with the real person. For example, my main character in 5 Days is called Dave, but he's only a shadow of me.What inspired you to write Leaving the Pack?
After reading Whitley Strieber's Wolfen, I wondered about the origin of the werewolf myth that we have all heard about but know scientifically can't exist - where did these stories come from? Why did we begin to tell them? What are the facts that led to the myth? I came up with a separate race of humans that still exist, but whose survival is in peril after centuries of persecution because people always fear what is different or they don't understand, and attack what they fear. I started it when I was seventeen as a short novella describing the race and the main characters because I loved the idea, and wanted to create a new world. Over the years I extended it into a novel, because the more I thought about it, the more complex the story became.Was there much research involved?
Not really. A lot of the science is basic physiology I learned in college with some embellishments and inventions, and the geography is imaginary.Is there a message in your story you want readers to grasp?
The big issue behind the novel is tolerance of differences, racism, prejudice and persecution. The members of the pack and their family have seen their own race nearly exterminated like Native Americans, Australian Aborigines, Tasmanians, and of course, the Jews and Gypsies during the Second World War. While the other groups still have problems and prejudice to deal with, their existence is no longer (one hopes) actually in danger. But the pack knows such tolerance that we see today will not be extended to their race should they be discovered. They are powerful individuals, who can kill in a heartbeat, but they know that they are outnumbered by the rest of society and so must hold back their power or it will be their undoing. The fear of rejection, of being safe in your current situation and being reluctant to change, to transition to something new, despite the fact that it could be positive in the long run are also important themes.Do you celebrate when you finish a story, and if so, how?
Not really. I do give myself a treat, like let myself watch an entire season of a TV show or start a big book (The Count of Monte Cristo is this summer's book) but that's more because I've been holding off on the treat until I get the work done, so it's more of an earned reward. I don't celebrate too much because I have found that a book is never really finished until it's printed somewhere other than on my own reused printer paper, and I no longer have control of it. Until then, I'm always going to keep revising.Do you have a set writing routine?
I can only wish! I have discovered that I have most energy in the late afternoon, just when I am working, or collecting from school or preparing dinner or having family time - all things I can't avoid. I wish I could get up early to write, but I tend to arse around without focus for a few hours in the morning.Do you listen to music when you write?
Yes. Usually I have my iTunes on on the computer as I type. I sometimes get to the point where the music is just background, or an album that I am listening to continues on to a new group without me even noticing. Usually, though, I am aware of the song and will sometimes replay a song a few times before I let it go on to the next. I listen to female vocalists, usually, and lyrics are really important to me. My current favorite singer is Lana Del Rey, but my go-tos are Skin/Skunk Anansie, Tori Amos, Bjork, Cardigans/Acamp, Beth Orton, Sade, and a few Irish bands - Bell X1 and The Frames among others - as well as a pile of groups from the 80s that I still listen to all the time.What do you like least about writing?
The fact that I can't just drop everything else in my life to keep working on a story that is physically impossible to write in a short time, that I have leave a story in the middle to do other things like work, and spend time with friends and family - the normal things in life - instead of writing. At the same time I sometimes feel conflicted when it takes time away from other things I'd like to do, especially on weekends in the country when I'd otherwise go hiking or mountain biking.If you could go back in time, what author would you most like to invite to share a chat and a bottle of wine?
I'd have wine and then something stronger with Hemingway. I'd ask him about his love affair with Agnes von Kurowsky, and what he wrote to her in his letters - which she later destroyed (I once visited the Hemingway Room in the JFK library and saw the letters she wrote him). I can't help thinking that this affair and its unhappy ending marked Hemingway for life. And I'd inquire, after I introduced him to some Irish whiskeys in return for him introducing me to absinth and a few other drinks, why he felt that he couldn't just live on his laurels and spend the rest of his days fishing and watching bullfights, and perhaps edit True at First Light, which didn't quite come out as good as it might when it was edited by his son.What's next for you? Can we look forward to a new story soon?
I've just finished my second novel, Five Days on Ballyboy Beach, accepted for publication by Tirgearr Publishing, and I hope we are about to start the editing process on that to have it ready for the autumn/fall. I also hope to submit a couple of other things I'm finishing up over summer. I have almost finished a novel set in the Great Glen of Scotland, and have the sequel to Leaving the Pack waiting its completion. I plan to finish that for Christmas, all going well.Best wishes that all will go well for you, David. I've Thanks so much for stopping by. And now, let's have a look at Leaving the Pack.
Nobody believes in werewolves.
That's just what Paul McHew and his friends are counting on.
They and their kind roam our city streets: a race of people from whom the terrible legend stems; now living among us invisibly after centuries of persecution through fear and ignorance. Superficially Caucasian but physiologically very different, with lunar rhythms so strong that during the three days of the full moon they are almost completely controlled by their hormonal instincts, you might have cursed them as just another group of brawling youths or drunken gang-bangers. Now at the point of extinction, if they are to survive their existence must remain restricted to mere stories and legend, but, paradoxically, they also must marry outside their society in order to persist.
The responsibility for negotiating this knife-edge is given to Paul, who runs the streets with his friends during the full moon, keeping them out of real trouble and its resultant difficult questions. Having succeeded for years, he finds his real test of leadership comes when he meets Susan, a potential life-mate, to whom he will have to reveal his true identity if he is ever to leave his pack.
Suddenly he asked her the time. It was half-past one. His eyes scanned the crowd quickly and came to rest on the face of one of his friends, who had apparently been watching them. Paul nodded to him and then turned back to Susan.
"Where do you live Susan?" he asked, his tone conveying much more than curiosity.
She stared at him for a few seconds, spellbound, and then replied, gaze still holding his. "Not very far."
"OK," he said simply. "I just have to say goodbye to my friends."
"I'll get my coat."
She went back to where she'd been sitting, said a quick goodbye to her wide-eyed workmates and picked up her jacket, then followed Paul down towards the dance-floor, at the edge of which his friends were assembling. After saying something Susan didn't catch above the strains of Duran Duran's Wild Boys, he clasped hands with a few of them before grinning broadly and letting out a long guffaw, though Susan didn't notice that anyone had told a joke. They smirked back, ignoring her completely until Paul turned away from them and took her arm to lead her to the door.
Outside, a bank of clouds had descended over the city, reflecting back down upon it the dull orange glow of the streets. A splattering of heavy drops fell as they stood on the pavement, Paul glancing up and down to spot the next taxi that came along. Susan was wearing a cotton jacket which wouldn't withstand much rain and she hoped that more than one taxi came quickly, as there were some other people nearby who were already waiting. When the drops became more frequent, Paul offered her his leather jacket. She declined, since it would have left him with just his silk shirt, but looked up at the almost lurid clouds anxiously. A lone taxi came along and pulled up nearby. Paul strode towards it and the two guys who were just about to open its door hesitated at his approach. He grabbed the handle and they backed away. Susan also scrupled, thinking it impolite to jump the queue. But the sudden drumming of the opening sky upon the dusty street convinced her and she skipped over to the car when Paul beckoned.
"What was that about in the club?" she asked as they jumped in.
"What? Oh, the boys? They're going off to another place now. I was just laughing at what I imagine they'll get up to there."
"And what exactly do you imagine they will do?"
"Pretty much what they were doing there, but a bit more boisterous."
"What? They're going to trash the place?"
"No. No. They'd never do that. Not while they're restrained."
"Restrained? What is that supposed to mean? Like, locked up?"
"No. It's quite simple really. One of them will simply not go wild and he will kind of look after them, make sure that they don't go too far. And if anything happens that shouldn't, then he'll be answerable to me."
"What? You're the leader?"
This settled in her mind like a sunken galleon in a sandbar. Of course, she told herself, the most perfect man you've ever met is a gang leader. Now I know why things are going so well – because they are undoubtedly going to go extremely bad sometime very soon.
She swallowed hard and asked, "And what would you do if this gang - it is a gang, isn't it?"
"Yeah, you could call it that."
"Well, what would you do if they did get into trouble?"
"It won't happen."
"But if it did?"
"They would be reprimanded."
"What do you mean by that?"
"I don't know. It would have to happen first."
"And wouldn't they just replace you as leader if you did something that they didn't agree with?"
"No. They respect that I'm the leader and that's the way it's supposed to be."
"Look, can we leave this? I'll tell you all about it some other time."
The mention of another time snapped Susan out of it a little. She was really engrossed in this gang thing, wanting to find out more about it both to satisfy herself that it was not dangerous to be with this gang leader and because, as she thought about it, she had to admit to herself that she was excited by that very possibility of danger. His mention of another time almost prompted her to ask if there was to be one, but she stopped herself and concentrated on the present situation.
"OK. Here's my place now, anyway."
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In the 22nd century, the crime prevention and justice systems have been combined to form a single unit composed of Judges whose job is to enforce the law by acting as police officers, judges, juries and executioners.
When highly-dedicated Judge Joseph Dredd is sentenced to life in prison for a crime he did not commit, he begrudgingly befriends a wisecracking hacker and returns to Mega-City One in order to find the man who framed him for murder.
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Open Thread: Everything You're Reading, Watching, Listening To and Looking At
This is your place to talk about the TV, movies, music, books and art that are thoroughly entertaining you.
I have a confession to make. I love reading trash. There! I said it and I'm not sorry. Give me some glorious book cover with a shirtless man smoldering at me with a knowing smirk and a rippling six pack and I'll give you three to four hours of my life and more of my hard-earned money than I'm willing to admit.
I started reading my trashy romance novels when I was actually way too young for heaving bosoms and thrusting swords. Yes, that is a euphemism. Romance novels have always been looked down upon by the literary world. They're garbage. Trash. Junk food for the mind.
But not everything has to be highbrow. I don't care if you're impressed with my Goodreads list or if my TBR pile looks like the book buyback at the local campus. I'm happy reading crap. I like it.
I am far older than I admit and much older than I (hopefully) look. So the books I first read were written in the days of true bodice-ripper glory. Heroines were always virginal. Their initiation into sensual pleasures was always made through force or coercion because it was only acceptable for the heroine to enjoy sex if she'd been reluctant to have it. The other common theme with these heroines was that they were, in a word, perfect.
Perfect, in this instance as in many others, means thin. They all had tiny waists that the hero could span with his hands. This tiny waist only served to enhance lushly curved hips and perfect breasts. All of these disgustingly perfect parts set atop a pair of long, lithe legs that defied logic and reality as this heroine was only supposed to be about five feet tall. The description of these women brings to mind some twisted love child of Barbie and Stretch Armstrong.
I am now, and always have been, plus sized. As a chubby thirteen-year-old, I was already three inches taller than my mother. I was the same height as my oldest brother. So there I was, reading these books about women who I didn't and never would look like, all the while feeling like a lumbering Amazon. Even at the time, it was frustrating. Why did they all have to be tiny and cute? Why did they have to be feisty and perky and about fifteen other adjectives that could be used to describe adorable but none-too-bright puppies?
With no practical knowledge of anything that was going on those books, I struggled to write them myself. I filled notebook after notebook with the desperate scribblings of someone who wanted so badly to be an author but didn't yet have anything worthwhile to say.
My love affair with love affairs continued into college and beyond. I amassed stacks and stacks of books that became boxes of books buried under the bed. I'd trade them with my friends the same way we'd traded Garbage Pail Kid cards in elementary school.
At the same time, I was amassing stacks of notebooks, story idea after story idea that 'one day' I would write. There were very few people in my life who were allowed to read what I wrote, though everyone knew I was writing. In spite of the encouraging words of friends in my high school yearbooks about remembering them when I was a famous author, I don't think anyone believed I would ever actually follow through on it, including me.
Over the years, my frustration with romance novels continued to grow as I read book after book about perfectly formed women who managed to have no ego. These fictional women were always so shocked when the hero found them, with their Commodores-commemorated measurements, to be irresistible.
Most experts will tell you that the danger of romance novels is that the lonely and pathetic women reading those books become unable to differentiate fiction from fact. These novels lead to disillusionment and dissatisfaction in marriages and relationships. For me, the real danger of romance novels has never been that they give women an unrealistic vision of love and relationships. It's that they underscore already unrealistic ideals of beauty and the belief that physical perfection and worthiness of love are linked.
Fast forward a bit (or a lot) to the new and exciting world of self-publishing. No longer were the editors and agents and publishing houses determining what did and did not make it into readers' hands. Authors could write what they wanted to and circumvent 'the man.' And they did, and it was wonderful… sort of. Because yes, there were women in books who looked like me, who had curves and cellulite, maybe even stretch marks and a not-flat tummy, but that's the only way those women were like me.
These women had no confidence. Zero. Nada. Zilch. But lo and behold, some jackass with a six pack found them attractive. Now all of a sudden they've turned into porn queens, stripping off their clothes in broad daylight and forgetting that a little thing like inhibitions ever existed. The message was clear in these books. "A man finds me attractive. Therefore, I am worthy." To be fair, that wasn't every book I read. Some of them were even worse.
An example? The hero (I use the term loosely) just has a thing for big ol' fluffy girls. Yes. Fluffy. I wish I were making that up. He doesn't care how pretty her face is. He doesn't care what she does for a living or even what her damn name is. He just wants a fat girl.
In reading these sad excuses for romance, I suddenly realized that maybe those publishing gatekeepers weren't entirely useless. Just because you can self-publish, doesn't always mean you should!
There was also a third theme in books about plus size women. I call it the ugly duckling into duck-jerky theme. In these stories, the heroine is a lonely, miserable, plus-sized woman with no friends, no sex life, and no self-esteem. Somehow, through magic, starvation or the motivation of a hot guy, she suddenly loses the weight, and all her troubles go away. She gets the guy, a new wardrobe and a happily-ever-after.
And there I sat, still scribbling away in notebooks or tapping away at the keyboard, writing bits and pieces of stories that I was afraid to ever let see the light of day.
I won't bore you with the details of how I went from being a scribbler to being an actual writer except to say that it involved me being quarantined for a significant length of time. Eventually, I ran out of things to read. It might have also been a news story on a local radio channel about a fourteen-year-old publishing her first book. Humiliation at the hands of an infant can be a great motivator.
My first book got picked up by a small press. It did nothing. It was a spectacular failure. The reviews were good, but the sales were dismal outside of family and friends. Why? Because it was overpriced and undermarketed, and since the publishing house essentially owned it, I had no way to change that.
So I switched gears and chose an unfortunately long pen name, Seraphina Donavan. I started writing steamy contemporaries instead of the Historical Romances I'd cut my teeth on. I've since gotten the rights back to my first historical novel, published as Chasity Bowlin. I've completed the sequel, and the third book is in the works. All of these titles, contemporary and historical alike, are self-published, because I've figured out that I like being in charge and making decisions about my books by myself.
I made the choice to write about plus sized women but to do it in a positive way, as real people and not just a shape or size. I didn't want the characters to simply be the object of someone's fetish or the punchline of a joke. These books feature women that have lives, friends, confidence, hot sex, and they take no crap. I don't know if that's really about size acceptance as much as it's about size education. You can be anything you want to be at any size… you just have to own it!
Not everyone is ready for this revolutionary idea of size acceptance. One reviewer blasted one of my books because the character didn't act like a size 18? How does a size act? The real issue was that this character was strong, sure of herself and able to believe that a man wanted her, just as she was—no weight loss required.
What truly amazes me is that by writing the books I wanted to read, I've found an audience. There are thousands of women out there, if not more, who are just like me. They want books about women who aren't just well-rounded physically, but emotionally as well. The idea that plus size characters must be filled with self-loathing or can only view themselves as attractive when the hero does is just wrong and tired. It's been done to death, so let it go and move on. You don't have to be a certain size or weight to be loved—not in real life and not in fiction. At least not anymore.
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When you take your car for a service you might see the wording "Approved Auto Mechanic" above the door. The word "Approved" makes it sound reputable, but it's just a marketing word. Approved by whom? Or what? The owner's mother-in-law?
Much is the case with the term "Holistic" in the pet food industry. It suggests the food is natural and balanced, but there's no factual basis. Fortunately for Earthborn, their pet foods are pretty good, with natural ingredients, vitamins, minerals, and a range of fruits and veggies. This is a company that can use the word Holistic plausibly.
The main ingredient is chicken meal, which is a great lean meat and packed with protein in it's meal form. This is much better than some of the cheaper foods that only contain "chicken" which is mostly water that evaporates during the kibble-making process. Pea protein as the third ingredient will bulk up the protein level in the food, which isn't as digestible as meat protein but it's still a good source.
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The main grain is brown rice, which is marginally more nutritious than white rice and a common ingredient in pet foods as it's easily available and cheap. Better grains are oats and barley, and we find oatmeal as the second grain which is a good choice.
There's a number of named fish meals in the food which is great to see, and combined with flaxseed and canola oil will ensure your cat is getting the necessary inclusion of omega fatty acids for overall health and a glossy coat. We find herring meal, salmon meal, and whitefish meal – sounds tasty to me, and I'm sure it will be for your cat.
Blueberries, cranberries, apples, carrots, and spinach make up the fruit and veggie content, and they're as good for cats as they are for humans.
I like this food, and it's one of the best brands available in Australia. They do a grain free range too.
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RIFT's Forged in Flame update today will treat endgamers to new content, LFR tools
The core of the update is Tartaric Depths, a 10-man raid, as well as the new Life Fortress Siege dubbed Xarth's Skull and level 70 reworks for Rise of the Phoenix and Gyel Fortress. How will you access the raid if you don't have a giant mass of friends? Why, with the brand-new looking-for-raid tool, of course.
"Similar to Looking for Group in dungeons, the Looking for Raid (LFR) system gives players the opportunity to quickly and easily join up with others and take down epic bosses where they are rewarded with gear that will help them progress into normal raids. Players are rewarded individually through the Individual Reward System."
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QEHS Autumn Concert
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The QEHS Autumn Concert will be held on Tuesday 10 November 2015, 7.30pm. The concert will feature performances from the QEHS Choirs, String Orchestra, Wind Band, Jazz Bands, Hydroholics, A Batida Da Rua, and many more. Tickets are £5 (£3 student/concession) and are available on the door.
Sixth Form Prospectus 2016-17
The Sixth Form Prospectus for 2016 entry was handed out today to all Year 11 students during an extended assembly. Any students who were not in the assembly should see their Form Tutor to collect their copy of the Prospectus.
The Sixth Form Prospectus is also available as an electronic download.
iGCSE Presentations
Thank you to all the parents who attended the Year 11 iGCSE evening on Tuesday 20 October 2015. The presentations from the evening are available below as a PDF document:
English iGCSE evening - Core Presentation
Sixth Form Open Evening
QEHS Sixth Form Open Evening for entry in September 2016
Monday 9 November 2015, 4.45 – 7.30 pm (attendance at the whole event is advised)
Queen Elizabeth High School is one of the top sixth forms in the North of England and outperforms almost all independent, state and voluntary aided schools in the area. Our size means that we can offer more choice to suit the needs of all students, with over 35 A Level and Level 3 vocational courses.
November Exam Timetable
The exam timetable for November is now available - see the Exams page for more information.
Freshers' Fair 2015
On Thursday 17 September 2015 we held our Freshers' Fair for Year 12 students. This annual event showcased opportunities available to Sixth Form students for volunteering and taking part in extra-curricular activities. There were over 20 stalls at the event with both school clubs and external organisations represented, with organisations such as Oxfam, National Citizen Service, Core Music, Cultural Care Au Pair, Josie's Dragonfly Trust, and Hexham Youth Initiative exhibiting their opportunities. The afternoon had a great atmosphere and hopefully all the QEHS clubs and organisations now have a lot more Sixth Form volunteers! We are particularly proud of the contribution that our Sixth Form students make to their wider community through volunteering.


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Discussion in 'GBAtemp & Scene News' started by Chanser, Mar 12, 2009.
Pikmin 2 was the best one of them.
I think it's really cheap of Nintendo not to put both of them on one Wii Disc..
NFO says 52x50MB.
I'm glad that they didn't put them on one disc, I just wish that the prices were a bit lower (10-20 euros). If an N64 game costs 10 euros, 15 euros for a GameCube game seems reasonable. 5 extra euros for putting it on a disc with a new cover and manual, that makes 20 euros.
Oh well, then I'll just not buy them
I didn't expect this one so soon by the way, I hope the English version is coming as well.
i hope this gets an english patch soon like Prime did.
There is an english patch for Prime?
Could you please tell me where it is or how to find it.
Thank you!
Ditto, I never heard about this! I would've got my hands on it in a heartbeat if I knew!
I released a patch for metroi prime here, I recommend you read through the rest of the thread as well to get it working properly
As for this, I'll have a look and see what I can do.
The mail.dol file seems designed for all regions, but for Pal and Us the corresponding directories and files are not on the disk (only the Jpn ones) ...
i dont know why that english patch didnt make more noise in the forums...
any progress for pikmin 2?
Yeah I saw that, quite unfortunate, also the data files seem to be different from the gamecube version so I don't think there's much I can do.
thanks anyway!
any progress on the translation
oh crap, I got this game accidentally thinking it was in English, but it's in Jap.
Is there some weird way of getting it to work in english? otherwise, is it easy to play the game in Jap?


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Disney might have something in its return to the Tron universe with Tron Legacy, but I wonder what will happen with the remake of the Black Hole? The producing/directing team of Joseph Kosinksi and Sean Baily, along with writer Travis Beacham plan to re-imagine the 1979 Disney special effects spectacular.
The details of the update are being kept secret, though the take does involve grounding the story in the science of a black hole, much more so than in the original. Maximilian also would return.
With Maximilian returning, there's bound to be a few friendly robots in tow – that is if the producers want to keep Matthew from rioting. While there were a few major flaws in the science of the story, there was certainly nothing terrible about the core story, so if the crew keeps it with that, and leaves out the metaphysical Heaven/Hell ending, the movie might be a huge hit.
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I'm not quite sure how to feel about this. Quite unexpected, to be sure.
Thirty years later(!) and that ending still messes with me. It's like the editors accidentally spliced a portion of Fantasia to the end of the movie.
It would be interesting if Boom! or someone would rerelease the comic book adaptation of the movie, include the couple of issues that took place after the movie.
…Uh Oh. Matthew may finally succumb to NERD RAGE!
It'll be nice to see the SFX updated with the new movie. The original hasn't aired on TV in so very long and the only way to see it now is if you buy the movie. Apparently Disney is starting over with Tron and Blackhole coming out… I expect them to make another Condorman.. lol
Watched this recently and was amazed how will the production design holds up. Man, oh man, did it scare the @#*& out of my son. Bad Dad.
"well"… "how well the production design holds up."
I've always been a huge fan, though also aware of the massive flaws of the story. For its time, it was a beautiful special effects movie, the last of the 'old school' special effects (thank you Peter Ellenshaw!).
I have long hoped that they would do a good remake of this film. Redoing the 3rd act, livening up the characters and improving the science are all that's needed. I sincerely hope that the team takes a page from JJ Abrhams book. Despite the flaws there was a lot that was done right, particularly the ships, the tone, pacing and feel. If they keep the mood, intrigue and look, but improve the suspense, dialogue and ending, this could be a fantastic movie.


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From process improvements to job movements, everything isn't always as it seems when identifying the next leader in your organization. As the Boomer generation exits and Millennials increase their share of the workforce, succession planning today is a top priority and external hiring is becoming more competitive.
To keep a leg up in this race for leaders that can drive transformation and resonate with a changing employee population, consider these 20 things in your quest to hire externally or promote internally.
1. Your organization and opening is not as great to the outside world as to you, or at least not yet. You need to present the advantages of joining your company and the opportunities to contribute to creative change first. Then listen to the responses and begin qualifying.
2. Introverts are leaders too. Rationale, balance, level headedness, reasoning. All great attributes of leaders. All qualities of introverts. Companies need thinkers and listeners that can process information and come to well informed decisions.
3. Future leaders have an entrepreneurial mindset. Hierarchy is not as important as comradery when looking to the future generation of leaders. It's no surprise that more university graduates are starting their own businesses. Think of creative outlets, causes and projects that can be led by up and coming leaders to keep them engaged for succession.
4. Are you prepared to provide a great candidate experience? Accommodate the candidate(s), be conscious of time by avoiding "filler" meetings, and schedule meetings with your existing leaders that will add valuable insight to the candidate(s) decision making process.
5. Look for diversity of thought. You may not need someone to come in and reinvent the wheel, but investing in a new set of viewpoints and thinking may be the answer to innovation. Executives from a different angle on your company and industry can provide fresh perspective. Think of end-users, suppliers and other indirect, but related sources.
6. How is your corporate image viewed in the market and how will it impact your search efforts? Identifying this up-front can potentially lead to an opportunity for someone to impact the organization through positive change. Many leaders thrive on challenges and transformations. If it's already positive, then run with it.
7. Is there complete buy-in from all internal parties involved? It's tough going to market with a half-baked opening and trying to sell it. If you know the support and commitment exists internally, terrific. If not, revisit collectively and consider testing the market before engaging in interviews. Your reputation will thank you.
8. Passive talent is not necessarily the best talent. Situations occur, its real life. Somewhere along the way, we decided that the only capable leaders were currently employed. This is not true, especially considering non-competes and the duration of some assignments. Focus on the reasons for parting ways, not the unemployment.
9. Psychological assessments are an interview guide and tool to structure questions, not a decision maker.
10. Executives text. One the fastest ways to get a response from an executive level candidate is to send a brief text. They're often mobile, swimming in emails and unable to talk. Confirming scheduling, yes or no questions, and of course their consent to text, are good reasons to.
11. Do your homework. Leaders will expect that you have reviewed their experience and can articulate why they would fit into your company. Some organizations go to great lengths and get personal by researching back to executives' high school and college activities, in an effort to relate and connect with those memories.
12. Don't let candidate volume impede your outcome. Presenting an offer to the first candidate that has a positive review is not the best move, but neither is sitting on a great candidate to meet some magical number of others. Executive hiring is not a high-volume transactional process.
13. Timing kills deals. Offer negotiations are stressful situations and they can take time. It's very important to communicate often, especially if there's a hold-up in the approval process. Nobody wants to put their guard down and both parties just want to come to an agreement. When companies are transparent, it usually favors them in the end.
14. We're all consumer facing nowadays. There's a number of ways to look at this. One is that candidate is a consumer of your company and position. Another is how your organization directly impacts people, not other businesses. Prospective leaders will want to know how you impact both.
15. What are the performance metrics and goals for the new the leader? Be sure that all stakeholders have reached a consensus on the short-term and long-term objectives and that these can be communicated on the front-end.
16. What's happening to the incumbent, if there is one?
17. Ensure you have the right resources and support in place. If you are leading the search, is there research support or tools to continue building out your talent pool? If you go external, does your partner know the market well and have a proposed plan that can be reviewed with hiring managers? Relying on a database is not enough in the digital age.
18. Review your messaging. You get one chance to make a first impression, so be sure you're going to market with honest and enticing information initially. Keep your engagement light and exploratory up-front and then proceed to more depth and vetting.
19. People work for people, not companies. Even at the highest levels in organizations, it's the peers that executives will be working with that is one of the top deciding factors if they'll join your company. Be sure to know the stories of your internal leaders so you can offer insight to candidates.
20. Everyone is an asset and a resource. Treat everyone well. Even those that will not be your hire or appear not to provide you immediate value; the world is a small place and word mouth spreads quickly. Besides that, it's the morally right thing to do.
Consider this a start to building your pre-hiring checklist and you'll be prepared to engage top leaders in under any circumstances.


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Job: Chief amateur scout for the Wild.
Home: Lives in the Montreal suburb of St-Lazare, Quebec, with his wife, Louise. They have three grown children.
Legacy: Inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1993. Will have his No. 5 retired by the Montreal Canadiens this season.
As a player: Played on six Stanley Cup championship teams with the Canadiens (1971, 1973, 1976-79) as one of the "Big Three" defensemen with Larry Robinson and Serge Savard. Had 171 goals and 451 assists for 622 points in 884 NHL regular-season games (1968-84). His career plus/minus was plus-347, and he had 812 penalty minutes. Set Canadiens record for goals by defenseman (28) in one season. He had 26 goals in 123 playoff games.
After retiring: General manager/coach, Longueiuil (Quebec Major Junior Hockey League); assistant coach with Quebec and Calgary; scout with Calgary; joined Wild in 1999.
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Nokia cuts its outlook
Nokia has cut its guidance for its second quarter and the full year.
The company now expects revenue for its Devices & Services business to be at the lower end of, or slightly below, its previously expected range of €6.7bn to €7.2bn for the second quarter 2010. This is mainly due to lower average selling prices and fewer handset sales. This will also cut operating margins to the lower end of, or slightly below, its previously expected range of 9% to 12% for the second quarter 2010.
For the year, Nokia expects overall device volumes to be up approximately 10% on 2009, but its share of that market to be flat. It expects it share by value to be slightly lower than in 2009, due to competition at the high end of the market and a change in product mix.
Operating margins for the year will be at the low end, or below, the previously targeted range of 11% to 13%, although Nokia expects its fourth-quarter operating margin to outstrip that for the whole year, indicating a return to form.


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I haven't gotten all my Halloween decorations out this year for some reason, but have a nice little group of things on the dining room table.
When I arrived home from swimming on Friday I saw that the Pin Oak tree had turned to it's peak red color. Good thing I snapped a few photos then because on Saturday the rain and wind blew most of these down! :-)
This tree delivers an amazing amount of leaf-age to the ground.. but it sure does look gorgeous for that brief moment in time of perfection. :-)
I've done more work on the Corner-to-Corner (C2C) project and I'm kind of thinking it might make a nice scarf/shawl instead of a blanket.. what do you think?
The more I work with this yarn the more I love it. It's colors stripe out so beautifully and this colorway is called Polo, which doesn't make much sense to me. If you missed the name of it, it's Red Heart Boutique Unforgettable. We had a girl's lunch yesterday to celebrate my younger sister Denise's birthday and I gave her 2 skeins of this yarn in the Stained Glass color-way. It's beautiful, all in jewel tones. She's going to make a scarf using my shell stitch pattern I came up with.
Denise, her husband, daughter and her daughter's significant other went to Disneyland a few weeks ago. She brought back a pair of Buzz Lightyear toys that have spinning lights when you squeeze the legs together.. lol! Can you believe how fast these two are growing up? If you're new to my blog - our son and his family live with us. These are our two grandsons, Hayden and Caleb.
Here is a fun photo.. our feral cat we're feeding, we've named him Simba.. and new to the menagerie is a baby possum. Apparently Simba is okay with the little possum partaking of his food. :-) So, now Kristi has two critters to feed.
If you celebrate Halloween, I hope you have a good one! I'm off to swim this afternoon. What are your plans today? ((hugs)), Teresa :-)


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Hello, i know i just blogged this morning but i just have something amazing and so true to share with everyone that i can't resist but blog about it now.
Well this is actually something written by Jaeson Ma and i have linked to you lovelies the link at the bottom of this post so enjoy :)
A snippet of it on here...
Women don't want to marry boys, they want to marry men. Women don't want boys they have to put up with, clean up after and take care of, they want to be lead, pursued and taken on an exciting life adventure....
Here it is!!
I would want a man like that from Jaeson Ma's post, i shall start praying for a man like that! ehhe <3
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I like a new frock as much as the next girl, so sue me, I need shiny things under this dingy lab coat. After being sucked into a youtube vortex (which is the media cousin to the wiki vortex), I was watching a Flog where Felicia Day introduced me to Console to Closet. The concept is brilliant, […]
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This title could apply to a great many series, but I'm currently wrapped up in the whirlwind that is The Legends of Korra (LoK). Like many fans of Avatar: the Last Air Bender, I was wicked excited for more bending goodness from the creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. If you haven't feasted your […]
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Not much of a walk before sunrise. More of a wait, watch, and catching light as it turns its dial from near dark to continuously lighter. Without the grace of clouds and the moisture in the air to shape them into weather there would be no colorful shades of sky to shoot, to marvel, to be grateful for.
One must break the rack of routine rituals we all suffer, or delight in, frame of reference ya know. There are always routines one gravitates to and which we wear like bath robe mornings. The comfort of sameness, and the warmth of presumption of no change surround us all in our ordinary lives.
This morning, this one set of time of the deep darkness before sunrise, that space where it is almost light but still not enough to see. This is the expanse of time one can actually move through with a sense of passing.
Waiting at the fence watching the shape-shifting clouds wind pushed into other shapes and spaces, one defines forms with the minds eye. Some delight, some abstract, some actually looking alive.
One can lose the sense of time and almost forget to take the shots as they evolve, change, and shift sunlight through their filter. Their prism of water and light as the sun moves through them, modify colors, their structure and semblance of what is familiar and what are merely odd formations to wonder, and wander the mind into something resembling reality.
One sparks a hope of excellent capture, but then settles into exposures and emotional grasps of; what feelings touch this mind that shoots these images? It is the intuition of eye and mind, not the analyzing of what is seen, that one must follow and let dictate image capture.
Hope and success must wait, like a patient in a room and let go of control. Seize this moment. Forget about reason, plans, calculations, just grasp the colors, configurations, and reflections of light upon the water.
There is no time to shape these moments, there is only time to shoot them. This window of earth turning has an extreme finite possibility. Within that frame of reference whatever strikes the heart is the shot that matters.
These days opportunities are fewer, and further between spaces of life as it is currently lived. It just is. How much joy, satisfaction, and fulfillment, that resides in these spaces is determined by circumstance and attitude.
Must the walk relate to the images or the images to the walk? Does not matter. As a shooter it is always shoot, shoot, shoot. As a shooter one is always asked; "What kind of camera do you have?" As if success depends on the camera and its sophistication. It is like asking a surgeon which instruments he uses. It doesn't matter.
It does matter how you use what you have and the invisible mountain of experience tucked away in the mind that explains images that evoke a response and those that are just "meh."
The constant fascination with sunrises, and sometimes sunsets, is the uniqueness of each and everyone. This writer is a sunrise shooter, more than a sunset image maker. Not that these are the only two possibilities. Those are endless. It is the constant search for satisfaction of the heart.
Perhaps the next opportunity will yield images more pleasing, more surprising, or so different one might wonder why these images never occurred in the mind before. Circumstance and attitude are defining conditions. One must always be ready.
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Don't overextend yourself
" Before I was born God chose me and called me by His marvelous grace."- Galatians 1:15
I go to a college where everyone is involved in as much as they possibly can be. And the thing is everyone brags about it. We flaunt our extracurricular and 400 level classes like badges of honor and saying "I'm just so busy," is a quote of pride, not annoyance. The truth is, it's ok sometimes to say no to things so that you can put your best foot forward in other areas. God wants to use you, but He can't use you very well if every day you find yourself with barely enough time to give to Him.
You won't be less of a Christian because you aren't involved in two ministries on campus and lead your own bible study. You won't be less of a person because you have a difficult semester and choose to have a social life and focus on one activity. You aren't a bad person to spend less time investing in friends that blow you off. You can't always be the best at everything, be everyone's best friend, and love Jesus the most. Don't try to do it all because God has a specific plan for you, but He also has a specific plan for your roommate and the person that lives down the hall from you. Don't waste your opportunities or accidentally take the opportunities of another.
Be intentional with your relationships
"Two are better than one, because they have good return on their work; if one falls down his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up!"- Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
College is an amazing time in your life to meet new people, focus only on yourself, and basically have unsupervised parental fun. Make the most of it. If you don't take the time now to make plans and be intentional with the great friendships you have, they are going to fade away. This is the only time in your life where your best friends live literally feet away from you. Take the time to stay up late talking to your roommate, have weekly lunch dates with the person you've always wanted to get to know better or a friend you've neglected and encourage one another in Christ. It's never too late to work on being a better friend. So this new year try to become the type of friend you would want to be friends with, the type of friend God calls us all to be.
Stop defining yourself by social media
" You are worth more than many sparrows." – Matthew 10:31
"He rescued me because He delighted in me."- Psalm 18:19
Sadly if you're reading this blog that probably means you aren't famous. You not likely to get over a thousand likes on any of your tweets or pictures you post. You aren't Sarah Vickers, and people are not going to be looking to you for fashion advice just because you got bean boots for Christmas and you took an artsy pic of them in the snow. It can be so hard for our generation to not constantly judge ourselves based on our followings on social media, or how many likes our Instagram photos got. I find myself sometimes planning photos and tweets to post at just the right time to get ample amount of likes. I even sometimes will pull a post if it doesn't get the likes I expect in an hour. Isn't that ridiculous?
There are so many perks to social media, but one of the downsides is becoming too focused and obsessed with getting this many likes or this many mentions. I can tell you one thing for certain. When we face God at the end of our lives, He isn't going to let us into heaven because we got 90 likes on that selfie we took. He is going to ask us why we spent so much time online instead of focusing on furthering His kingdom? He is going to ask us why we weren't able to comfort a friend because we were checking Twitter simultaneously? He's going to ask us why we felt the need to post pictures of our Bibles artistically placed next to our cups of coffee on a cold winter morning, but never lived that scripture out in real life?
Don't let people's perceptions of you online define you. God already defined you as lovely, saved, worthwhile, treasured, and beautiful. Ask yourself why you need more? What has happened to us that all we use the internet for is to make people feel bad that they aren't having as much "fun" as us? Why do we panic if we don't get a picture with our friends for Instagram when we hang out? Why do we feel empty inside when we choose to stay in on a Friday night and look at all our friends having a "blast" on their snap stories? We are missing memories as we are carelessly loading photos to all our social media accounts. We are missing great conversations about real topics as we have to stop to snap our friends the picture of the Starbucks we just got. We are afraid to be real with someone so we hide behind our phone screens. We think the snippet of devotion we glance at on our phone on our way to class is enough to nourish us spiritually for the day.
So this new year enjoy your phone, but not more than you enjoy the people around you. Don't become so enthralled with your followers that you forget to take time to follow the only one that matters.
Read the Bible in a year or dedicate time to God daily
" Therefore, I urge you brothers in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind." – Romans 12:1-2.
I've never read the Bible in a whole year, so this year I've decided to try it. One of the websites I contribute for, Tirzah, is having a year of devotions linked to reading the Bible in a year. You can sign up for email updates daily at the bottom of this article!
It's never too late to start a relationship with Jesus Christ. Even if it's just in the first 10 minutes you get up every morning, or choosing to pray instead of listening to music on your way to work, these little steps can help you get into a better relationship with the God of the universe. If you have a more advanced devotional time, try journaling, meditating, or nature walks as new exciting ways to worship God. Whatever works for you, figure it out and then dedicate time to God every day. Not in the last 5 minutes of your day as you fall asleep, not interrupted when your roommate starts talking to you in your room, not put off so you can "figure out a time tomorrow" do it today. Find some quiet time with God every day and it will open up your life to a great relationship that never will disappoint.
Sometimes you need to be weak to show your inner strength
" That is why for Christ's sake I delight in hardships, in persecution, in insults, in difficulties, in weaknesses. For when I am weak then I am strong."- 2 Corinthians 12:10
"Who comforts us in all our troubles, so we may comfort those in trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God."- 2 Corinthians 1:4
This past semester I struggled with some anxiety that finally resulted in me being diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder. If you know me well at all, you know that I am the person that loves to be there for everyone else. Having a crisis, I'm here. Need prayer, take a seat. Need to talk about emotional things, let's get a meal date because I'm your girl. I love playing that role and being strong for other people when they can't be strong for themselves. I am, however, not so good at being weak. Not so good at coming to other people when I need prayer, and the queen of bottling everything up until I burst. I have learned this semester that there is nothing wrong with seeking counsel from friends, nothing weak about meeting with a counselor at your college's counseling center to get the help you need, and nothing weak about God's love.
He wants us to stop relying on ourselves and rely on Him alone. Unfortunately, I had to learn this lesson the hard way this past semester. God surrounded me with the exact right people I needed during this storm of my life, friends who I had prayed over before who started praying for me, friends that calmed me in the midst of panic attacks, and friends who walked me to the counseling center when I was too scared to go in by myself. Satan wants us to hide our struggles in the dark so that we feel ashamed and feel weak, but don't forget that with God we can never be weak. We alone our victorious. So don't be afraid to lean on the people God has granted to be in your life, or of using your struggles to be leaned on in the future. Finally, don't ever be afraid to cry out to God because He will always rescue you, even if it means diving in after you.
Point to God, not yourself
"He must become greater; I must become less."- John 3:30
This is something I have really been struggling with a lot lately. Because when we point other people to God we need to make sure we are pointing them to Him and not to ourselves. As Christians, it can be so easy to slip into hypocrisy because we think what we are doing is benefiting God when it's really only benefiting our egos. Examples of this could be always signing your name on cards when you encourage people with scripture and blessings of God because you do want them to know YOU thought of them. It can be as simple as always being the one to talk at bible study because you want people to know how on fire you are for God. It can be using someone's weakness as a way to gossip, " Did you hear that Mary fell back into her depression, poor thing we really need to pray for her." And let's not forget the constant stream of song lyrics and "All to Jesus I surrender" we post on social media every Sunday.
We don't like to admit we do these things, but we do. The amazing thing is that God can still use our not so great intentions for good and to bless those around us. Yes, God has gifted us with amazing gifts and talents, but we are nothing without Him. We need to be pointing others to Him and not to our selfish hearts. This year be open to encouraging and loving other people where God calls you to, but in a way that doesn't point back to you. Maybe that means sending anonymous notes of encouragement, letting others take the prayer after a meeting, and letting God use your talents for His good not your good.
He must become greater; I must become less.
Live by that code.
Enjoy the little things
"The life of mortals is like grass, they flourish like the flowers of the field; the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more."- Psalm 103:15
Life goes by so quickly that in a blink of an eye we are done with high school, then done with college, and then starting jobs in the real world. We are so focused on the coming up that we forget to enjoy the right now. To enjoy and relish in those late night talks about boys and live in a college dorm room. To enjoy dancing around a room to silly songs with your best friends as you get ready for a dance. To enjoy the random Saturday afternoons when you hunker in and have a movie marathon. To enjoy the days in practice when you get the opportunity to push yourself to your breaking point by some of your best friends.
As I look to the next three semesters I have in college I want to make the most of those memories. Because as much as I will continue to do my best in my classes and get my 8 hours of sleep, I definitely know that when I look back at my college experience, the regrets I will have are the experiences and memories I missed making with some of the best friends of my life. So whatever you have planned for the next year make sure it has plenty of laughing until you cry, regretting eating so much food, spoiling friends, encouraging others, and of course learning to love our Savior more than all of it put together.


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It all started innocently enough: An e-mail congratulating a University of Florida law professor for a brief in support of overturning the state's gay adoption ban.
It all started innocently enough: An e-mail congratulating a University of Florida law professor for a brief in support of overturning the state's gay adoption ban.
But a systems administrator's criticism has spurred a heated debate among UF faculty on the role of law professors, how the college decides to lend its name to legal briefs and whether taxpayer money should be used to help overturn laws passed by elected officials.
Last week, the 3rd District Court of Appeal overturned Florida's ban on adoptions by gay people. The UF Levin College of Law's Center on Children and Families joined similar centers at other law schools in the state in filing a friend of the court brief, which are filed by entities not directly involved in the case.
The brief cited legal decisions that showed the ban violates a child's right to a secure and stable family relationship. Law professor Nancy Dowd, director of the UF center, said the brief fit within its mission to promote quality research on issues important to children and their families.
"One of the things that people at the university do is share their expertise," she said.
Dowd sent a message to several law school e-mail lists congratulating legal skills professor Joe Jackson, the main author of the brief, and others with the center for their involvement.
Micah Johnson, a systems administrator with the college, responded with a short e-mail saying the decision was at odds with his beliefs.
"Your elation stands in stark contrast to my disappointment on this decision," he wrote.
Law professor Steve Willis then sent an e-mail in support of Johnson, who is on vacation and couldn't be reached for comment. Willis said this week that he's one of the only registered Republicans on the law school faculty and believes the college only allows involvement in liberal causes.
"It's all political and unfair," he said. "I'll probably regret saying that, but that's what I believe."
College Dean Robert Jerry said academic freedom allows all faculty members to take positions or file briefs in a case in their personal capacity. For a UF center to be officially involved or university resources used, he said, the brief has to not just be a personal opinion but based on scholarly research.
He compared the situation to suggesting that a faculty member's opinion that global warming is not real should get the same support as research showing it is.
"If we buy into that, God save us," he said.
But law professor Jeffrey Harrison questioned whether a public university should be taking a position that might be at odds with public opinion in a court case. While he said he was happy with the decision, he said he was unhappy with the use of public money to promote positions that some taxpayers oppose.
"Our speech is essentially subsidized by the state, and other people don't have that privilege," he said.
But law professor Danaya Wright said that taxpayer money is also being used to support a law that violates the rights of gay citizens. It's the role of law professors to be as neutral as possible in researching such issues, she said, and then providing that information to judges who make the ultimate decisions.
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This is the second blog of a series called Small Business Social Media for Beginners, which focuses on how to get started on social media or improve your existing social presence. Our first blog focused on creating a social media strategy, an essential step that many miss.
This blog will focus on another often overlooked topic: establishing a social media "voice." It's important to have a consistent voice and brand when creating a social media presence for your business. In this blog, we'll talk about what that means, and how to achieve it.
What is a social media voice?
Your voice on social media is essentially your online persona. Although your social media profile(s) will represent your company, you still want a human voice coming through when you post. Just as important, you want that voice to effectively represent your brand, and remain consistent over time.
For instance, you (generally) wouldn't want to adopt a playful goofy tone in some posts, but a somber, serious tone in others. Read on to learn about how to establish an appropriate voice for your business, and how to set standards to ensure consistency.
Creating your social media voice
To begin creating your company's social media voice, start by thinking about your company, industry and customers. Do you work in a highly technical or regulated field, which would impact how and what you post? Or maybe you sell primarily to millennials, which might come through in your voice.
As you're thinking, start writing words that you feel describe your company and the type of voice and tone you want to portray. Example words might be: fun, playful, laid-back, sarcastic, straightforward, technical, serious, educational... the list is endless. Create a list of several words that you feel represent your brand appropriately.
I also suggest creating a list of words that do not represent your brand. This might be the opposites of the words in your first list, and/or might include specific things you want to avoid, such as being too playful or too serious.
Establish some standards to ensure consistency
Your social media presence should have a consistent voice, so you want to develop loose standards to help you (or anyone who posts on your behalf) maintain that consistency. Here's a simple process to create those standards:
- The lists you created in the last section will get you started. Be as specific as possible with your words to describe what your voice is and isn't.
- Make a list of the types of content you intend to post. This will give you direction and help you stay consistent. Examples might include: motivational quotes, educational articles, pictures of your product/office/staff, videos of events you attend, quotes from other industry experts, FAQs, etc. This isn't set in stone, but creates a good framework for you to remember what your brand represents and how you portray it online.
- Also make a list of any content types you do not want to share. For instance, maybe you don't want to share motivational quotes or more "fluffy" content. Maybe you want to avoid anything overly technical or legal. It depends on your specific brand.
- Finally, write some examples of what your voice does and doesn't sound like. Try to create an example for every describing word in your list from #1. This prevents ambiguity and makes it easier to conform to your standards.
As we mentioned earlier, all of this is a loose framework, not necessarily set in stone. Your voice will likely evolve the longer you've been on social media, or as your goals or direction shifts. However, starting with these standards will help you maintain consistency and best represent who you are as a company.
Want more guidance on getting started with social media? Be sure to check out this online course on social media for beginners, which covers getting started, finding your voice, what to post, how to simplify the process and more.


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The AIPMT 2016 is well conducted by this year's 2016 at May 2016 and the process of the entrance exam organizes it in the every years. Hence, the candidate who is looking to apply for the exam just they can go with the official website and apply for the exam. One of the most important features in the AIPMT is to conduct classes for various subjects to take interest and most common tough subjects to prepare well for examination. Many of you thought that some subjects are difficult to understand and often find problem to memorize the concepts. It is not a big problem of understanding the concepts by going to proper coaching in that center. According to the results, the AIPMT will offer several books and reference books for preparation. It is good to introduce the reference book for you to understand the concept clearly and effectively. It is not necessary to hire on different coaching centers in spite this buy the reference book from AIPMT and have the useful preparation tips. The NCERT syllabus is important for the syllabus as it in AIPMT and it is very useful for you to prepare easily and clarify your confusions. If you want to gather all update information still now, just update the aipmt bulletin and it provide the first class solution for the candidate to apply exam.
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A father from Rustenburg in North West is considering legal action after a Bengal tiger bit off part of his child's finger, according to a report on Thursday.
The tip of eight-year-old Karla Malan's pinkie could not be found after a tiger nipped it off at the Predator's Rock Bush Lodge, on a guided tour at the weekend.
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Build Smart Home Camera Skills
A smart home skill that works with cloud-enabled cameras enables a customer to say, "Alexa, show me the front door camera" and the customer is then shown a video feed from that camera in their Alexa-enabled device that supports video streaming.
To create a smart home skill, you provide configuration information in the Alexa Skills Kit developer console and code, which is hosted as an AWS Lambda function (an Amazon Web Services offering). The skill responds to directives from Alexa, communicates with connected devices, such as cameras, and sends events to Alexa.
- Device support and regions
- Technical and performance requirements
- Camera skill implementation
- Additional resources
If you haven't created a smart home skill in the past, you should review additional documentation as a prerequisite to this document. You will need to be familiar with how to create a smart home skill and write the Lambda function code. For more information see:
To add language support for an existing smart home skill or create a smart home skill that supports multiple languages, there are a few steps you need to take. For more information, see:
Device support and regions
Your skill for cloud-enabled cameras provides a URI for streaming media. The customer's Alexa-enabled device will stream the content found at that URI.
Camera skills can display camera feeds on the following device types in the following locales.
|Language (locale)
|Devices supported
|English (US), English (UK), German
|Echo Show and Echo Spot, All generations of Fire TV, 2nd generation Fire TV Stick, Fire Tablets (7th generation and later)
|English (CA), English (AU), English (IN)
|Echo Spot
Technical and performance requirements
Your cameras must provide a video feed in the correct format and meet the security and performance requirements.
Technical and security requirements for cameras
Following are the technical and security requirements for cameras and video feeds.
|Streaming protocol(s)
|Transport protocols
|Interleaved TCP on port 443 (for both RTP and RTSP)
|Feed encryption
|TCP socket encryption on port 443 using TLS 1.2
|RTSP Command support required
|DESCRIBE, SETUP, PLAY, and TEARDOWN commands are required although a full RFC compliant implementation is recommended
|Video format
|Audio format
|Feed authentication methods
|HTTP Digest authentication within the returned camera stream.
|RSTP URI responsiveness
|All responses must occur 6 seconds or less after request received
Performance requirements for a camera skill
Low latency is critical to an optimal user experience. Your skill responsiveness when a request for a camera stream is sent from Alexa, and how quickly a camera responds and renders the camera stream have the most impact on latency.
|Lambda skill responsiveness
|Response must occur 6 seconds or less from when a request is received, however for the best user experience, responses should occur less than 1 second after a request is received.
|Operations like waking a camera to begin streaming should be done asynchronously as background tasks.
|URI Stream Responsiveness
|Under good network conditions, the first frame should be rendered on an device with Alexa 6 seconds from when the TLS handshake completes.
|Optimize startup latency by adjusting key frame rates and buffer times of the stream.
Local and remote execution recommendations
There are no requirements regarding whether you should return a URI that is on the same local network as the device with Alexa or a remote URI accessible from anywhere with an Internet connection. You should return what makes the most sense for your device cloud configuration. Regardless of your URI choice, all technical requirements must still be met including the use of TLS 1.2.
In general, a URI is not reachable both locally and remotely by default. You can make the URI accessible locally and remotely through domain purchasing or port forwarding. These solutions are technically challenging and so you should provide this kind of solution only if your customers need both local and remote URI access.
Camera skill implementation
Your skill must handle directives from Alexa and the skill must meet the security requirements. Your skill code:
- Handles camera-related directives such as discovery and camera stream URI requests from Alexa as defined in the CameraStreamController capability
- Communicate with the device cloud (cameras in this scenario), using the token provided
- Returns a response or error event to Alexa
Customer authorization
The Smart Home Skill API follows the OAuth2.0 specification. Every request sent from the Smart Home Skill API to a smart home skill contains an OAuth access token in the request to enable access to the customer's device cloud. The device cloud must support the authorization code grant flow type. For more information about skill authentication and user account linking, see Account Linking for Smart Home and Other Domains.
Message structure
The structure of messages for a smart home skill targeting cameras is mostly the same as for other devices. However, when you receive a discovery request or a request to initialize a camera feed, you must provide details about each camera endpoint by describing it with a
cameraStream object.
The following table lists the properties of a
|Protocol for the stream such as RTSP
|A resolution object that describes the the resolution of the stream. Contains
width and
height properties.
|Describes the width of the video stream.
|Describes the height of the video stream.
|Describes the authorization type. Possible values are "BASIC", DIGEST", or "NONE"
|The video codec for the stream. Possible values are "H264", "MPEG2", "MJPEG", or "JPG".
|The audio code for the stream. Possible values are "G711", "AAC", or "NONE".
For more details about how this information is included in a discovery response event, see CameraStreamController.
Error messages
When your skill can't respond to a directive because of authentication, customer error, hardware or other issues, it should respond with the correct error message. You send an ErrorResponse that indicates the correct error type. The following table lists scenarios and the error types you should send.
|Correct Error Message Type
|The target camera endpoint has been discovered, but not configured by the customer.
NOT_SUPPORTED_IN_CURRENT_MODE with a
currentDeviceMode value of NOT_PROVISIONED
|The target camera's battery level is too low for streaming content.
token is not valid, revoked, or is missing from the request
token is expired
|Skill failed to connect to target camera because endpoint is offline or for other reasons
|The target camera endpoint is temporarily unavailable
|The target camera endpoint cannot be found
|The skill failed due to a runtime error. If possible, you should return a more specific error.


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As a student in this course, you can expect to gain laboratory experience in the measurement of physical quantities.
This course is a corequisite for the PY 208, Physics for Engineers and Scientists II, course and supports the learning objectives for that course.
In the laboratory students will learn to use the methods and processes of science in testing hypotheses, solving problems, and making decisions.
Students will learn to describe electromagnetic concepts and represent the electromagnetic phenomena and fields mathematically.
Students will be able to investigate and analyze current through various types of circuits, such as those which include resistors and capacitors.
Students will be able to analyze the relationship among potential difference, current, resistance, and capacitance within a circuit. Additionally, students will determine the relationship between electric and magnetic fields.
Students will also be able to analyze the resulting light rays that are produced by basic systems of optical components, such as lenses, mirrors and blocks of various materials.
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National Prescription Drug Take Back Day set for Oct. 28
Residents can drop off unwanted or unused medications during National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Oct. 28 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the Save-a-Lot parking lot.
"The National Prescription Drug Take Back Day aims to provide a safe, convenient, and responsible means of disposing of prescription drugs, while also educating the general public,"about the potential for abuse and medications," the Drug Enforcement Agency website said.
West Point Police Captain Virginia Rich said liquids, pills and any other medications will be accepted during the take back event.
Rich said the event was completely anonymous, and participants can remove the labels off of medication bottles if they would like.
"The police department will be there to package everything up and make sure the drugs and people there stay safe," she said. "A tent will be set up, and people can drive up and drop off their meds and then go on about their day."
Rich said the DEA will pick up the surrendered medications and properly dispose of them.
According to the DEA website, 4,145 pounds of medications were collected in Mississippi and 900,386 pounds were collected in the United States during the April 2017 event.
Rich said National Prescription Drug Take Back Day is a national event to properly dispose of unwanted or unused drugs, and the next event will be in April 2018.
"The longer unwanted or unused drugs stay around, the more likely they are to get into the wrong hands, which can lead to overdoses and other bad things," she said.
Rich said medications can not be dropped off at WPPD because the department does not have the appropriate means to dispose of them.
The Mississippi Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol Sub-Station on Highway 182 East in Starkville has a drug drop off box inside the driver's license renewal office, open weekdays from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m., along with all other Highway Patrol offices in the state.