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Both candidates propose a mix of tough-on-crime policies for those pushing the deadly drugs, and more help for those caught in the middle of the crisis.
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Manchin said the need for more treatment is evident from the conversations he has with constituents back home. "I've got people begging me, 'please arrest my daughter, my son, so I can get them into drug court and save their life.' They want a criminal record just to save their life, that's a shame," he said.
Manchin proposes taxing opiate pain-killers – a penny per milligram – raising two billion dollars for treatment centers. He said the goal needs to be getting folks clean, and back into society.
Manchin's republican challenger, current West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, said his opponent contributed to the state's struggle by not doing more as governor. "Joe Manchin's failed on the drug epidemic," he said, "he was sleeping at the switch at the time that this was raging in West Virginia."
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It was a bit rainy today, but is was really warm (15C), so I didn't care. I was back to shorts and short sleeve T-shirt, a la Week 1 where the temperatures were also in double digits. I think this is the end, though. The forecast is calling for snow on the weekend. Keeping the streak going when it takes seconds to get dressed is one thing. Running when getting into and out of multiple layers of clothing takes almost as long as the run itself is quite another.
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My best friend from high school is getting married and I wasn't invited to the wedding.
This isn't entirely shocking to me.
Our senior year we had a huge falling out, on the level that only 17 year olds can truly achieve. It was the scandal of the year. For the first time in my life I was the victim of real gossip and lies. I would walk into a room and every person would stop talking. People I had never even seen before knew who I was. Everything I did spawned new rumors. The entire school took sides, hers or mine, and while neither of us was right or wrong, for some reason it catapulted me into superstardom and sent her into such a slump that she graduated high school a semester early to escape it all.
It's truly terrible, I know.
She was then my mortal enemy for a good, solid year.
But then, our sophmore years of college we made amends. She was deffenitely the bigger person in the whole process and that Christmas break she took me out with all of her new friends in a town that I was no longer familliar with. But as things often go when you put time and places and people into the mix, we both knew we could never be best friends again. We lived in different cities. We had different groups of friends. We did totally different things.
We wern't the same people that we were when we were 14 and 15 and 16 but I could once again truly appreciate her for a what a caring, beautiful and intelligent person she was and I could look back on our time together with real happiness.
Whenever I imagine my wedding, the colors, the locations, the flowers, and the guest list, shes always on it. The gesture that says "while we aren't close now, at one point you meant so much to me that I want you to share this day with me".
So I guess my point is, I'm not offended that I wasn't invited to her wedding. I just hope that despite it all, she was able to forgive me and think back on our time as best friends with real happiness, because it never really occured to me until now that she might not.
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The ties that bind
My best friend from high school is getting married and I wasn't invited to the wedding.
Posted by Sarah at 1:12 PM
Labels: back in the day
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- Robyn said...
I can totally relate to this. My best friend in high school talked about me being a bridesmaid and us growing old and watching our grandkids play from our porches etc etc. We had a falling out when I got engaged and took the spotlight off of her engagement. She insisted I was too young (same age as when she got engaged...) and being engaged wasn't all it was cracked up to be. We didn't speak much after that and she was shocked when I was offended I wasn't invited to the wedding.
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Tuesday October 3
We woke up before the sun again today and left our cozy cabin at Lewis Mountain Campground around 7:15am. Before we got on the trail I had to stop at the bathrooms because I was feeling…a little rumbly. Heh.
We carried on but something didn't feel quite right. Something wasn't sitting well in my stomach this morning.
Then I remember, I took 3 bites of B's Mountain House granola which has powdered milk in it.
I discovered in June that I was lactose intolerant, especially to milk, ice cream and powdered dairy.
I walked about 2 miles before I couldn't take it anymore. Cramping and sweats and chills…
Thus the first time I have ever…had to walk 200 yards from the trail and any water sources and let things happen. It wasn't as traumatic as I had thought it would be. In fact, it was pretty great.
Poop in the woods. Check.
After that brief interruption, we walked another almost 3 miles before it struck again, this time at least within tolerable walking distance to the South River picnic area which had some decent bathrooms.
There we met a NOBO LASHer named Jeremiah, who was hiking with his pup. He started in Grayson Highlands at the end of August (the day of the eclipse) and took his time up through Shenandoah, and planned to quit outside of New York, where he was moving to. Super nice guy! We gave him a few of our left over protein bars and packets of fruit snacks and said goodbye.
I looked at my Guthooks app and saw we only had 3 miles left until we ended up back at the car. It started to sink in how quick our hike had gone, while at the same time I relished in how laid back and relaxed our days had been. I started feeling kind of emotional. I went ahead of B and got back on the trail, making a game of stabbing as many leaves as I could with my right trekking pole, like I was picking up trash. B snuck up on me in no time, "What are you doing?!" He admired my leaf stack, told me I was weird and then cut back in front of me. We hiked the last 2 miles today by ourselves. I breathed in the last of the Shenandoah air on the trail and felt exhausted and relieved when I saw B waiting at the car for me.
"We did it!" We hugged and high fived and took a breather, took our shoes off and drank some water. The day was far from over. We had to go to Big Meadows to pick up our debit card, stop in the visitors center to get my national park passport stamped, and then drive 2 and a half hours to Kringle's house. ("Who is Kringle?!" I will get to that shortly!)
The drive to Big Meadows was odd. Riding in a car after being on a trail with 30lb backpacks on for 5 days felt strange. We passed many of the places we hiked through in less than 30 minutes, as opposed to days.
Long, long story short; we arrive at the lodge around 1:30pm and speak to the front desk where they cannot find our card and insist they don't have it. "But I called yesterday afternoon and it was here, the girl I spoke to said she'd hold on to it. We were hiking the opposite direction so we couldn't come until today." B said. The woman at the front desk collected a manager. The manager then informs us that our debit card was destroyed. Uhhhh, what? Apparently they have a 24 hour rule. Card isn't collected, it gets destroyed. NOBODY told us that yesterday when we called. If that had been the case, we'd have booked it 16 miles back to the car, picked up our card and then just drove back to Lewis Mountain for the night. Needless to say, the situation on Big Meadows behalf was not handled well. They didn't inform us that this was a possibility, they didn't apologize, nor did they act as though they cared. There was nothing we could do now, what's done is done.
We are never careless with our belongings and especially not our cards like this, but now we'll be extra attentive to make sure it never happens again. It was our fault for not noticing we left it on the table in the restaurant. However, not having a debit card while traveling is probably going to prove very difficult. We still have 3 days in Virginia left, very little cash and (thankfully) a credit card I didn't want to use. I guess that's what it's there for. Sigh.
We started the drive south to Catawba, where our next adventure began.
I "met" Kringle on Instagram (@athikerinva) over the course of a few months. You know how it goes, you find a neat account, one follows the other, then you're following each other, you comment and banter.
Well, dear Kringle lives a mere 15 minutes from the McAfee Knob trail head, and when he saw that McAfee was part of our itinerary he messaged me and invited us to stay for a night so we didn't have to sleep in our tent in a hostel yard.
We ended up taking him up on his offer and I am so glad we did because let me tell you, we had a GREAT evening after a crazy stressful day. He greeted us with craft beer, homemade salsa, and promises of steak being thrown on the grill. B and I each grabbed a shower, changed into real human clothes, and relaxed while Kringle shared trail stories and life experiences.
He bought his home in May and one of the main reasons for the location was to house hikers. He has past experience with bed and breakfasts (and you can TELL!) his house is charming, full of character and he knows how to host like no other. We are so grateful for everything he's done for us today! Dinner was incredible and after drinks, stories and full stomachs by a fire we decided to head to bed. We are getting up at 4:30 to catch a sunrise at the top of the Appalachian Trail's most photographed location. McAfee Knob.


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I was going through my photos today in attempt at organizing them and I stumbled upon many images that I want to start sharing with you all. I'm going to start a segment on my blog called The Archives, where I show you my old works and the stories -big or small- behind them.
These three images were created with the help of my cousin Rakan, a rapper and songwriter. The quotes that are on the images are lyrics from his songs. I wanted to capture the harshness of the Haitian sun and the carefree/savior aura of Rakan. A modern day representation of forgotten royalty if you will. I love how harsh light looks in black and white. Very nostalgic to me.
That's all I have for tonight.
Peace + light,


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Davido and Chioma go furniture shopping for "their home"
Davido's girlfriend, Chioma has started putting things in order at the singer's house which would soon be her marital home, hopefully.
Davido and Chioma went to shop for new furnitures and interiors for "their home", all carefully handpicked by Chioma.
It would be recalled that last month, Davido hinted that he could marry Chioma anytime soon. Let's keep our fingers crossed, the big news could be around the corner.
• Read: Davido set to marry Chioma anytime soon? (See his latest post)


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Robust Face-Name Graph Matching Essay
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1. Login
In this module is going to explain the Robust Face-Name Graph Matching for Movie Character Identification designing and how we did the face detection and recognition in this project. The images will explain about the facial fetching details. After that admin going to login with the details which needed for the login page.
2. Detection
In this module we are going to detect the face of the movie characters. In this module we are using the emgu cv library we must install the emgu cv library.
After installing the emgu cv lib in our project we need to add reference with the name emgu.cv, emgu.cv.util, emgu.cv.ui. When you will complete the references you will get the emgu controls in the toolbox.
3. Recognition
In this module we are going to recognize the face of the movie characters which is we previously stored on the face database. We just found that the give the real name of it.
This is going to be done here. Here we are using the With the help of these eigenObjectRecognizer we are going to recognize the face.
Chellangess In This Methodology :-
1. We detect the face in minute this is a big challenge for us because exiting system take more time for detection. 2. More challenging problem due to the huge variation in the appearance of each character. 3. It is increase speed of matching character and identify the character.
Objectivies :-
The Robust Face-Name Graph Matching for Movie Character Identification designing and how we did the face detection and recognition in this project. In this project we present two schemes of global face-name matching based framework for robust character identification. It is use in movies, video, cartoons.
Problem Analysis :-
1. It is difficult to Complex character changes are handled by simultaneously graph partition and graph matching. 2. Many character are not easily matching and identification face in movies. 3. It is hard to be increase speed of matching character and identify the character.
Existing Work :-
This project is used to detect the face of movie characters and recognize the characters in minute process and the existing system are taking the too much time to detect the face. But this one we can do it in a minute process.
Proposed Work :-
In this Robust Face-Name Graph Matching for Movie Character
Identification is used to detect the face of movie characters and the Proposed system is taking the minimum time to detect the face. In this One we can do it in a minute process.
Robust Face-Name Graph Matching for Movie Character Identification Jitao Sang, Changsheng Xu, Senior Member, IEEE
Abstract—Automatic face identification of characters in movies has drawn significant research interests and led to many interesting applications. It is a challenging problem due to the huge variation in the appearance of each character. Although existing methods demonstrate promising results in clean environment, the performances are limited in complex movie scenes due to the noises generated during the face tracking and face clustering process. In this paper we present two schemes of global face-name matching based framework for robust character identification.
The contributions of this work include: 1) A noise insensitive character relationship representation is incorporated. 2) We introduce an edit operation based graph matching algorithm. 3) Complex character changes are handled by simultaneously graph partition and graph matching. 4) Beyond existing character identification approaches, we further perform an in-depth sensitivity analysis by introducing two types of simulated noises. The proposed schemes demonstrate state-of-the-art performance on movie character identification in various genres of movies. Index Terms—Character identification, graph matching, graph partition, graph edit, sensitivity analysis.
Fig. 1. Examples of character identification from movie "Notting Hill".
A. Objective and Motivation
The proliferation of movie and TV provides large amount of digital video data. This has led to the requirement of efficient and effective techniques for video content understanding and organization. Automatic video annotation is one of such key techniques. In this paper our focus is on annotating characters in the movie and TVs, which is called movie character identification [1]. The objective is to identify the faces of the characters in the video and label them with the corresponding names in the cast. The textual cues, like cast lists, scripts, subtitles and closed captions are usually exploited. Fig.1 shows an example in our experiments. In a movie, characters are the focus center of interests for the audience. Their occurrences provide lots of clues about the movie structure and content.
Automatic character identification is essential for semantic movie index and retrieval [2], [3], scene segmentation [4], summarization [5] and other applications [6]. Copyright (c) 2010 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to use this material for any other purposes must be obtained from the IEEE by sending a request to pubs [email protected] ieee.org. This work was supported in part by the National Program on Key Basic Research Project (973 Program, Project No. 2012CB316304) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 90920303, 61003161). J. Sang and C. Xu (corresponding author) are with the National Lab of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; and also with the China- Singapore Institute of Digital Media, Singapore, 119613
Character identification, though very intuitive to humans, is a tremendously challenging task in computer vision. The reason is four-fold: 1) Weakly supervised textual cues [7]. There are ambiguity problem in establishing the correspondence between names and faces: ambiguity can arise from a reaction shot where the person speaking may not be shown in the frames 1; ambiguity can also arise in partially labeled frames when there are multiple speakers in the same scene 2. 2) Face identification in videos is more difficult than that in images [8].
Low resolution, occlusion, no rigid deformations, large motion, complex background and other uncontrolled conditions make the results of face detection and tracking unreliable. In movies, the situation is even worse. This brings inevitable noises to the character identification. 3) The same character appears quite differently during the movie [3]. There may be huge pose, expression and illumination variation, wearing, clothing, even makeup and hairstyle changes. Moreover, characters in some movies go through different age stages, e.g., from youth to the old age. Sometimes, there will even be different actors playing different ages of the same character. 4) The determination for the number of identical faces is not trivial [2]. Due to the remarkable intra-class variance, the same character name will correspond to faces of huge variant appearances.
It will be unreasonable to set the number of identical faces just according to the number of characters in the cast. Our study is motivated by these challenges and aims to find solutions for a robust framework for movie character identification. B. Related Work The crux of the character identification problem is to exploit the relations between videos and the associated texts in order 1 I.e., the name in the subtitle/closed caption finds no corresponding faces in the video. 2 I.e., multiple names in the subtitle/closed caption correspond to multiple faces in the video.
Fig. 2. Framework of scheme 1: Face-name graph matching with #cluster pre specified
to label the faces of characters with names. It has similarities to identifying faces in news videos [9], [10], [11]. However, in news videos, candidate names for the faces are available from the simultaneously appearing captions or local transcripts. While in TV and movies, the names of characters are seldom directly shown in the subtitle or closed caption, and script screenplay containing character names has no time stamps to align to the video. According to the utilized textual cues, we roughly divide the existing movie character identification methods into three categories. 1) Category 1: Cast list based: These methods only utilize the case list textual resource. In the "cast list discovery" problem [12], [13], faces are clustered by appearance and faces of a particular character are expected to be collected in a few pure clusters. Names for the clusters are then manually selected from the cast list. Ramanan et al. proposed to manually label an initial set of face clusters and further cluster the rest face instances based on clothing within scenes [14]. In [15], the authors have addressed the problem of finding particular characters by building a model/classifier of the character's appearance from user-provided training data.
An interesting work combining character identification with web image retrieval is proposed in [17]. The character names in the cast are used as queries to search face images and constitute gallery set. The probe face tracks in the movie are then identified as one of the characters by multi-task joint sparse representation and classification. Recently, metric learning is introduced into character identification in uncontrolled videos [16]. Cast-specific metrics are adapted to the people appearing in a particular video in an unsupervised manner. The clustering as well as identification performance are demonstrated to be improved. These cast list based methods are easy for understanding and implementation.
However, without other textual cues, they either need manual labeling or guarantee no robust clustering and classification performance due to the large intra-class variances. 2) Category 2: Subtitle or Closed caption, Local matching based: Subtitle and closed caption provide time-stamped dialogues, which can be exploited for alignment to the video frames. Effingham et al. [18], [3] proposed to combine the film script with the subtitle for local face-name matching. Time-stamped name annotation and face exemplars are generated. The rest of the faces were then classified into these exemplars for identification. They further extended their work in [19], by replacing the nearest neighbor classifier by multiple kernel learning for features combination.
In the new framework, non-frontal faces are handled and the coverage is extended. Researchers from University of Pennsylvania utilized the readily available time-stamped resource, the closed captions, which is demonstrated more reliable than OCR-based subtitles [20], [7]. They investigated on the ambiguity issues in the local alignment between video, screenplay and closed captions. A partially-supervised multiclass classification problem is formulated. Recently, they attempted to address the character identification problem without the use of screenplay [21]. The reference cues in the closed captions are employed as multiple instance constraints and face tracks grouping as well as face-name association are solved in a convex formulation. The local matching based methods require the time-stamped information, which is either extracted by OCR (i.e., subtitle) or unavailable for the majority of movies and TV series (i.e., closed caption).
Besides, the ambiguous and partial annotation makes local matching based methods more sensitive to the face detection and tracking noises. 3) Category 3: Script/Screenplay, Global matching based: Global matching based methods open the possibility of character identification without OCR-based subtitle or closed caption. Since it is not easy to get local name cues, the task of character identification is formulated as a global matching problem in [2], [22], [4]. Our method belongs to this category and can be considered as an extension to Zhang's work [2].
In movies, the names of characters seldom directly appear in the subtitle, while the movie script which contains character names has no time information. Without the local time information, the task of character identification is formulated as a global matching problem between the faces detected from the video and the names extracted from the movie script. Compared with local matching, global statistics are used for name-face association, which enhances the robustness of the algorithms. Our work differs from the existing research in threefold: Regarding the fact that characters may show various appearances, the representation of character is often affected
Fig. 3. Framework of scheme 2: Face-name graph matching without #cluster pre-specified.
by the noise introduced by face tracking, face clustering and scene segmentation. Although extensive research efforts have been concentrated on character identification and many applications have been proposed, little work has focused on improving the robustness. We have observed in our investigations that some statistic properties are preserved in spite of these noises. Based on that, we propose a novel representation for character relationship and introduce a name-face matching method which can accommodate a certain noise.
Face track clustering serves as an important step in movie character identification. In most of the existing methods some cues are utilized to determine the number of target clusters prior to face clustering, e.g., in [2], the number of clusters is the same as the number of distinct speakers appearing in the script. While this seems convinced at first glance, it is rigid and even deteriorating the clustering results sometimes. In this paper, we loose the restriction of one face cluster corresponding to one character name. Face track clustering and face-name matching are jointly optimized and conducted in a unique framework.
Sensitivity analysis is common in financial applications, risk analysis, signal processing and any area where models are developed [23], [24]. Good modeling practice requires that the modeler provides an evaluation of the confidence in the model, for example, assessing the uncertainties associated with the modeling process and with the outcome of the model itself. For movie character identification, sensitivity analysis offers valid tools for characterizing the robustness to noises for a model. To the best of our knowledge, there have been no efforts directed at the sensitivity analysis for movie character identification. In this paper, we aim to fill this gap by introducing two types of simulated noises. A preliminary version of this work was introduced by [1]. We provide additional algorithmic and computational details, and extend the framework considering no pre-specification for the number of face clusters. Improved performance as well as robustness are demonstrated in movies with large character appearance changes.
C. Overview of Our Approach
In this paper, we propose a global face-name graph matching based framework for robust movie character identification. Two schemes are considered. There are connections as well as differences between them. Regarding the connections, firstly, the proposed two schemes both belong to the global matching based category, where external script resources are utilized. Secondly, to improve the robustness, the ordinal graph is employed for face and name graph representation and a novel graph matching algorithm called Error Correcting Graph Matching (ECGM) is introduced. Regarding the differences, scheme 1 sets the number of clusters when performing face clustering (e.g., K-means, spectral clustering). The face graph is restricted to have identical number of vertexes with the name graph. While, in scheme 2, no cluster number is required and face tracks are clustered based on their intrinsic data structure (e.g., mean shift, affinity propagation). Moreover, as shown in Fig.2 and Fig.3, scheme 2 has an additional module of graph partition compared with scheme 1. From this perspective, scheme 2 can be seen as an extension to scheme 1. m1)
Scheme 1: The proposed framework for scheme 1 is shown in Fig.2. It is similar to the framework of [2]. Face tracks are clustered using constrained K-means, where the number of clusters is set as the number of distinct speakers. Co-occurrence of names in script and face clusters in video constitutes the corresponding face graph and name graph. We modify the traditional global matching framework by using ordinal graphs for robust representation and introducing an ECGM-based graph matching method. For face and name graph construction, we propose to represent the character co-occurrence in rank ordinal level [25], which scores thestrength of the relationships in a rank order from the weakest to strongest. Rank order data carry no numerical meaning and thus are less sensitive to the noises. The affinity graph used in the traditional global matching is interval measures of the co-occurrence relationship between characters.
While continuous measures of the strength of relationship holds complete information, it is highly sensitive to noises. For name-face graph matching, we utilize the ECGM algorithm. In ECGM, the difference between two graphs is measured by edit distance which is a sequence of graph edit operations. The optimal match is achieved with the least edit distance. According to the noise analysis, we define appropriate graph edit operations and adapt the distance functions to obtain improved name-face matching performance. 2) Scheme 2: The proposed framework for scheme 2 is shown in Fig.3. It has two differences from scheme 1 in Fig.2. First, no cluster number is required for the face tracks clustering step. Second, since the face graph and name graph may have different number of vertexes, a graph partition component is added before ordinal graph representation. The basic premise behind the scheme 2 is that appearances of the same character vary significantly and it is difficult to group them in a unique cluster.
Take the movie "TheCurious Case of Benjamin Button" for example. The hero and heroine go through a long time period from their childhood, youth, middle-age to the old-age. The intra-class variance is even larger than the inter-class variance. In this case, simply enforcing the number of face clusters as the numberof characters will disturb the clustering process. Instead of grouping face tracks of the same character into one cluster, face tracks from different characters may be grouped together. In scheme 2, we utilize affinity propagation for the face tracks clustering. With each sample as the potential center of clusters, the face tracks are recursively clustered through appearance-based similarity transmit and propagation. High cluster purity with large number of clusters is expected. Since one character name may correspond to several face clusters, graph partition is introduced before graph matching. Which face clusters should be further grouped (i.e., divided into the same subgraph) is determined by whether the partitioned face graph achieves an optimal graph matching with the name graph.
Actually, face clustering is divided into two steps: coarse clustering by appearance and further modification by script. Moreover, face clustering and graph matching are optimized simultaneously, which improve the robustness against errors and noises. In general, the scheme 2 has two advantages over the scheme 1. (a) For scheme 2, no cluster number is required in advance and face tracks are clustered based on their intrinsic data structure. Therefore, the scheme 2 provides certain robustness to the intra-class variance, which is very common in movies where characters change appearance significantly or go through a long time period.
(b) Regarding that movie cast cannot include pedestrians whose face is detected and added into the face track, restricting the number of face tracks clusters the same as that of name from movie cast will deteriorate the clustering process. In addition, there is some chance that movie cast does not cover all the characters. In this case, pre-specification for the face clusters is risky: face tracks from different characters will be mixed together and graph matching tends to fail. 3) Sensitivity Analysis: Sensitivity analysis plays an important role in characterizing the uncertainties associated with a model. To explicitly analyze the algorithm's sensitivity to noises, two types of noises, coverage noise and intensity noise, are introduced. Based on that, we perform sensitivity analysis by investigating the performance of name-face matching with respect to the simulated noises.


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Position: Senior Consultant
Location: Shanghai
Salary: £83,000
Assignment timescale: 8 weeks
Result: Completed
The latest phase of our ongoing engagement to support this prestigious consulting firm who is looking to expand their Digital Transformation Team in Great China. We have targeted at a few direct competitors who have similar client base & same industry focus and create a strong pipeline of hires, as well as providing the clients insight into current markets, talent trend and salary benchmark.
An outstanding candidate with right technical skills and industry focus was identified in later stage, who is apparently a perfect match for this role. The negotiation process took 4 weeks due to the busy schedule of both sides. Nevertheless, they finally reach the conclusion and the candidate will soon join the Shanghai office to support and develop the Digital Business in Great China. Another happy result for everyone.


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Halloween is next week.
This is prime time for people watching, guys. It's prime opportunity to get in some people research, some character profiles, and some amazingly hilarious dialogue ideas.
Now, I'll be the first one to tell you that I hardly ever do anything for Halloween. I've never been much of one to put on a costume and go to a party… but I'm really not much of one to go to a party anyway. Or go out. …I'm an antisocial writer, I admit it.
If there's one thing I love about Halloween, it's that there's always a plethora of people to watch around this time of year, and those people make great canvases on which to base characters. Let's face it, people always are. But when they're being someone else, when they're dressed up as someone else and pretending they aren't who they really are, it makes things much more interesting.
So, here I have a short list of things you need to do this time of year, if you're a writer in search of new character ideas (and let's face it, whether you're working on a new book or not, you should be searching for new character ideas).
Listen for conversation between characters
I mean, we should be doing this all the time anyway, but there are some great bits of dialogue between characters who don't belong in the same universe. That's helpful to you! Those diehard fans who stay in character no matter what are the ones you'll learn the most from. They're the ones who'll show you what it would be like for Spock to meet Edward Cullen—which is exactly the type of interaction we can use for inspiration for our own characters.
Watch for behavior changes, between character and reality
This is something I love spotting. Even those diehard fans have occasional slips of character, the occasional action that they would do, but their character wouldn't. And for the average Joe, staying in character is completely impossible. Let me tell you, you can get some great character ideas off watching various costumed party-goers interacting with their friends. I mean, you wouldn't expect Geralt the Witcher and Peregrin Took to be the best of friends… but what if they acted like it?
Find a good place to people watch, where there's guaranteed to be a lot of people in costume.
Make sure you do this, no matter what. Go to a party if you have to. Find a bar where there will be costumes. Go out and observe the people, because this is the time of year when observation explodes into new levels of characters—and that's exactly what us writers need.
And, as always, make sure you keep a notebook on you at all times. Or at least your phone. Something in which you can take notes and keep track of everything you see and hear. You won't regret it.
Rani Divine
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In our latest interview, we're firing some questions at Ben Davis, senior writer at Econsultancy.
Econsultancy serves a global community of marketers and ecommerce professionals with a wide range of research, analysis, training, consulting and events.
What does your role as senior writer involve in terms of responsibility and the day-to-day?
Well, I'm definitely not a journalist, but nor am I a 'content producer' (though I have had such a fudged job title in the past).
Predominantly, I write articles to draw punters to our website, and to draw attention to Econsultancy products such as research, events, training and consultancy.
My ultimate responsibility is ensuring my articles are useful, and we look at a number of metrics – views, conversions, comments, shares, leads etc. – to try to determine this.
The small size of the blog team means that I have a good deal of autonomy – the most enjoyable part of the job is being able to tackle whatever subject I want (within the realms of marketing, ecommerce, and digital more broadly). This autonomy also extends, to some degree, to the style in which we write, meaning I can contribute opinion pieces and write in the first person if the mood takes me.
My remit includes covering certain industries, talking to practitioners and keeping abreast of our research. I also do some editing when needed, and help to shape the agendas of some of our events, including chipping in with moderating and hosting.
What do you think are the biggest challenges in content creation at the moment?
Stating the obvious, there's too much of it, and too much of it is without soul.
I'm very conscious that much of our subject area is well-trodden ground, so when I'm doing my research I think a lot about how I can add extra value. Often, this can be as simple as doing a sort of meta-review. Rather than copying other articles out there, I seek to assimilate knowledge from a number of sources (including Econsultancy research) and present a digested or considered read.
It's difficult to be original when you have to write a set amount of articles per week, but it's possible if you keep asking yourself "why does the internet need this?"
As far as Econsultancy is concerned, the other immediate challenge is the reader's onward journey. How do we intelligently offer the reader other resources, and decrease the bounce rate? It's something we're addressing at the moment.
Which peers / industry figures do you look to for inspiration re: your job?
Those weekly marketing and advertising columnists with loads of experience and a definite viewpoint e.g. Dave Trott and Mark Ritson. Their columns are entertainment, and that stands out amongst the crap. Not every article can be entertaining, but without style of some sort, reading becomes heavy weather.
I also read a fair bit on Medium, where digital practitioners have found the time to write about their experiences and their methods. Some more open companies do this on their own websites, and that's one of the more exciting trends in the world of work.
What advice would you give to someone new to a career in content creation / editorial?
- For editorial, don't be afraid to have a viewpoint, but do your research. It's easy to act in haste and repent at your leisure.
- What seems like a possibly boring conference call will often spark two or three ideas. Speak to experienced business-leaders when you can.
- If things get a bit stale, go to an event or get a change of scenery. Walking is thinking.
- A lot of your time should be spent reading.
Do you see some of the big corporates get their content very wrong on a frequent basis? What do they tend to get wrong most?
I think any brand needs to understand what purpose content serves and at what point in a particular customer journey. Too many are wedded to the idea of content as either a shortcut to improved search rankings or a shortcut to some sort of mythical, viral social success.
In ecommerce, for example, retailers can no longer stick a blog on a microsite and then link to product pages. There has to be a more integrated approach. Content doesn't necessarily mean editorial or video either, but rather a consistent and customer-centred approach to information design.
I'm also a bit wary of brands that jump on hyped new media, such as VR. Whilst it's a quick win for PR and experimentation is to be lauded, the results often underwhelm and betray an absence of ideas.
Do you see any emerging digital trends which you'd expect to see more of during 2017?
More speed on mobile, though I'm not sure if that'll come through quicker connections, new HMTL frameworks (AMP), progressive web apps, or just better performance optimization.
I'm excited by the idea of a screen attached to cognitive assistants (e.g. Alexa), which may be the catalyst for voice input in the home. I can also see the chatbot format used more intelligently for customer service.
More prosaically, subtitled video is getting increasingly common and if brands aren't doing this already, they should be.
You can read Ben's articles for Econsultancy, here, and follow him on Twitter, here.


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I bit the bullet last week and started on the skeleton of 'the c-word'.
Character will always grow out of plot, while plot almost never begets character. So I started with a loose outline, made a list of characters and fleshed them out. Just a few broad strokes – one character's irritating laugh, another's obsession with fellatio, another one's ability to appear – without speaking to anyone – in the most unexpected places.
I completed the characters' sketches on friday and immediately began filling in the gaps in the plot – which now seemed simple, armed with how each character would behave in any given situation.
I'm now about one third of the way through the plot (working from the end, backwards) to try to catch as many logic bombs as possible before I sit down and scrawl this thing from start to finish.
I'm doing this draft on trains, in cafes, in pubs, short bursts, anything to keep it as bitty as possible.
I want it to seem fragmented, broken up, chaotic. Like life is.
I'm enjoying the way everything's falling into place. Because I'm starting from characters, how they behave and react is coming out easy, like a post guinness dump.
Interestingly, I haven't given anyone names yet. It's all, 'woman with a huge collection of beanie babies and no boyfriend' and 'shy monosyllabic gay guy'. I'll hand out names before the next draft, but for now, everybody's 'just' their plot function.
Why not read the novel that started it all? 1919 (inside)
A love story – on home-made acid – narrated by someone first used romatically, then set on fire, by the blue peter team, capering around the pyre like wrinkled vikings.


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South Florida
Trayvon Martin would be celebrating his 23rd birthday right now
Trayvon Martin's parents on decision not to charge Zimmerman with hate crime
On Monday, Trayvon Martin should have been blowing out candles and celebrating with family and friends.
The teenager, who attended Michael M. Krop Senior High in Northeast Miami-Dade, was shot and killed Feb. 26, 2012, by a neighborhood crime watch captain in Sanford.
His death in Central Florida came three weeks after the Miami Gardens teen turned 17.
The boy's father, Tracy Martin, maintained that the unarmed teen stepped out from The Retreat at Twin Lakes community for snacks around 7 that winter evening during halftime of the NBA All-Star Game. Trayvon then came across George Zimmerman, who had just called 911 about seeing a "suspicious person in the area."
Zimmerman ended up shooting the student, who was on a one-week suspension from school, once in the chest after a scuffle.
The watch captain, then 28 years old, was eventually found not guilty of second-degree murder after a five-week trial in July 2013 that provoked nationwide debates on the Sunshine State's "Stand Your Ground" law.
Zimmerman has since been in various run-ins with the law and, most recently, threatened rap superstar Jay-Z , who is said to be co-producing an upcoming documentary about him called "Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story."
On his birthday, Trayvon's memory lived on — on social media.
His story still make me angry. Breaks my heart every time I think about it— Lovest Diomande (@lovestdiomande) February 5, 2018
Very important to remember Trayvon. The fight for justice continues. We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes.— Stephen G. Hall, PhD (@historianspeaks) February 5, 2018
Trayvon Martin would have turned 23 today. We honor and remember Trayvon and we send our love and prayers to his family and friends, in particular his mother, Ms. Sybrina Fulton. #BlackLivesMatter #BlackHistoryMonth #EndWhiteSupremacy pic.twitter.com/HXQLsSlEsb— Sons & Brothers (@sonsandbros) February 5, 2018
Happy Birthday, Trayvon Martin pic.twitter.com/XUYlI5ZzmY— Demetria Obilor (@DemetriaObilor) February 5, 2018
Trayvon Martin should be celebrating his 23rd birthday right now, but instead, we're uplifting his memory and pressing forward with our movement for justice in his honor. RIP, Trayvon. We will never forget. pic.twitter.com/awWuLtNIy8— ESSENCE (@Essence) February 5, 2018
His mother, Sybrina Fulton, also dedicated a post to him: "Happy Heavenly '23' Birthday Trayvon," with sad face emojis.
Fulton, who recently co-authored a book with Tracy Martin about their son, Rest in Power, also posted information about a peaceful walk from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday at Miami Carol City Park, hosted by actor Faizon Love with local bands performing and food. Email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 786-504-4235.


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In their first performance, at the North Shore Center for The Performing Arts, cocodaco Dance Project presents Statement Enclosed. Featuring three premieres from artistic director David Maurice, Statement Enclosed will be a visual wonderland and an affirmed artist declaration of the future direction in which the company heads.
Bold, diverse, touching, and notable this night features a departure from David Maurice's previous works. Incorporating original text, theatricality, and virtuosic dance he touches on and exaggerates the softer aspects of humanity; we go delving once again into Maurice's mind and we emerge with a glimpse into his heart.


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Raiders Take Down Third-Ranked Hurricanes
Lethbridge, AB – The Prince Albert Raiders (7-0-0-0) continued their strong start to the season with a 5-1 victory over the third ranked Lethbridge Hurricanes (2-3-0-0) at the Enmax Centre on Friday night.
San Jose Sharks draft pick Noah Gregor had a pair of shorthanded goals – including the game winner – and an assist for the Raiders, who are ranked fourth in the Kia CHL Top 10. Montreal Canadiens pick Cole Fonstad iced the game with two goals to start the third. Ottawa Senators signee Parker Kelly also had a pair of assists in the win.
Toronto Maple Leafs draft pick Ian Scott kept the Raiders in the game during the first period. The Calgary product turned aside 20 of the 21 shots fired his way by the Hurricanes in the period. The lone blemish was when Taylor Ross finished off a backdoor pass from Dylan Cozens at the 9:24 mark of the period.
As the Raiders pushed back at the end of the period, Reece Klassen kept the Hurricanes up one with a breakaway save on Spencer Moe.
The Raiders got on the board 6:26 into the second period. Sergei Sapego's shot from the top of the left faceoff circle beat Klassen, extending the Belarusian's point streak to seven games this season, and eight dating back to last year.
SCORES! Sergei Sapego's shot through traffic finds the back of the net!
1-1 game. 13:34 to play.#LETvsPA #GoRaidersGo pic.twitter.com/PNrNNP61Qm
— Prince Albert Raiders (@PARaidersHockey) October 6, 2018
Four minutes later, Gregor tallied his first shorthanded goal of the game. Kelly forced a turnover and carried the puck into a two-on-one with the Beaumont product. Kelly tossed a saucer pass to Gregor, who shot it over a sprawling Klassen.
SCORES! @n_gregs20 gets his first as a Raider. It comes on a shorthanded two-on-one with @Parks_17!
2-1 us. 9:46 left in the second.#LETvsPA #GoRaidersGo pic.twitter.com/YsbDUnIKHm
— Prince Albert Raiders (@PARaidersHockey) October 6, 2018
In the third, the Raiders got off to a quick start thanks to Fonstad. The Estevan product pounced on a loose puck in front of the net thrown there by Gregor just 20 seconds into the period. Two minutes later, Fonstad was the beneficiary of great work in the corner by Kody McDonald. The 20-year-old dug the puck out, then found Moe who centered for Fonstad.
SCORES! Cole Fonstad finds a puck in the crease and puts it home 20 seconds into the third!
3-1 us.#LETvsPA #GoRaidersGo pic.twitter.com/Zyotw4l9f3
— Prince Albert Raiders (@PARaidersHockey) October 6, 2018
SCORES! Cole Fonstad with his second of the period!
4-1 us. 17:28 left to play.#LETvsPA #GoRaidersGo pic.twitter.com/0luINEW2Ws
— Prince Albert Raiders (@PARaidersHockey) October 6, 2018
Late in the period, with the Raiders down two men for the second time on the evening, Gregor added an empty-net goal from deep in his own zone.
Scott continued his strong performance throughout the game, fighting through traffic for a 31-save outing. Klassen finished the game with 35 saves in the loss.
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Our Messiah Soloists: Timothy Reynolds, Tenor
In the lead up to our annual performance of Messiah on Saturday, 2 December, we caught up with each of our soloists to find out a bit more about them, their experiences with Messiah and what the coming year has in store them.
Tenor Timothy Reynolds is a Melbourne-born tenor who works extensively overseas, in particular London. Timothy completed his Bachelor of Music in 2007 and was a member of the Trinity College Choir at the University of Melbourne from 2002 to 2007. He was a prize-winning finalist in the 2007 26th National Liederfest and a finalist in the 27th National Liederfest in 2008.
He performs extensively with Victorian Opera and recent highlights include The Snow Queen and La bella dormente nel bosco.
Tell us about your experience singing Handel's Messiah
I've been singing the Messiah every year since I was a chorister at Melbourne Grammar and somehow I never tire of it. There is so much beautiful, dramatic, sorrowful and ecstatic music within the Messiah that it never fails to connect with the listener or performer and what
they are experiencing and feeling at that time in their lives. I think this is key to its longevity and broad appeal — and my continuing enjoyment of the work — whether it's a 'Sing Your Own Messiah' in a community setting or a black-tie concert hall performance.
What are some of the challenges in the arias that you sing?
Like a few of the other voice types in the Messiah, the tenor arias span a range of vocal weights and type: from the light and floating 'Comfort Ye' and mellifluous 'Ev'ry Valley' to the beefier 'Thou Shalt Break Them'. Navigating these changes, with long spells sitting quietly trying not to cool down too much is one of the foremost challenges for me in the Messiah.
Do you have a favourite moment in the work?
Plenty! Having performed the work many times as a chorister and soloist, I have plenty of favourite spots. The final chorus 'Worthy is the Lamb' and the 'Amen', 'He Shall Feed His Flock' -- especially as a Soprano/Alto duet, the little group of four recits and airs the tenor gets in the
middle of Part 2, but I think the chorus 'Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs' is probably my absolute favourite moment courtesy of all the beautiful and wrenching suspensions and clashes between vocal parts.
What's your approach to ornamentation — prepare or improvise?
A bit of both. Light preparation, followed by decisions during the performance. Ornamentation, for me, is best used sparingly. With the exception of the few moments where appoggiaturas and trills are obligatory, ornamentation should otherwise be judiciously applied as both an aesthetic choice and as a dramatic choice that can weaken or strengthen a particular phrase and melodic line. But it is important to be aware of the atmosphere of the performance and choose while you're singing -- a lot can change during a live performance. For something like
a cadenza, I think it should be prepared in advance and rehearsed, otherwise you risk leaving the orchestra behind!
Does singing this music in a church feel different to singing it in a concert hall?
Absolutely. The Messiah is not just a religious work, but also a work that is for many (including myself) synonymous with Christmas. Having grown up in the church, performing the Messiah in church at this time of year has a lot of very strong associations and memories for me, and Christmas doesn't quite feel the same without it!
Briefly tell us about your plans for 2018
2018 is shaping up to be a great (and busy!) year. I'll be reprising my role as Bill Barnacle in Calvin Bowman's family opera The Magic Pudding for Victorian Opera (VO) early in the year, which we will tour regionally, and I will be rejoining VO later in the year in the role of Ruodi for their season of Rossini's Guillaume Tell. I'm also performing in what I believe is the Australian premier of CPE Bach's rediscovered St Matthew Passion of 1777 for the 3MBS Bach marathon, and a few other concerts on the boil but not yet confirmed.
SEE TImothy AT MESSIAH
St Peter's Eastern Hill choir, in collaboration with Gloriana chamber choir, presents G.F. Handel's Messiah on Saturday, 2 December at 7.30pm. Tickets are available online now or email.


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At the Basement Theatre until Saturday
What do you do when you are a successful stripper: you love your job, you are making decent money... and you turn 35? Most dancers I know, exotic and otherwise, add other strings to their bow – go on to teaching perhaps, but Glitta Supernova, aka Tralala, aka Ooh-la-la, is not ready to bow out just yet.
With the words of school teachers advising girls that their looks will fade one day ringing in my ears, I watch a middle-aged woman strip, and tell her story. At first a bit uncomfortable, I get used to it. The stories are entertaining, from dealing with her parents' nudism, to rejoicing in her own – 'I saw an advert for dancers, over 18, but under 19, I was very nearly 18 – of course I got the job!'
Here is a woman who appears utterly confident in herself and her sexuality. At least for the period of the show. Though, one notes, even as she reveals one side of herself so completely, another, her face is so heavily made up to be unrecognisable. Mirroring Twelfth Night outside, I seem to be watching a woman, pretend to be a man, pretending to be a woman.
On one level, middle-aged people twerking in a G-string, The Full Monty, notwithstanding, is not generally appealing, but there is something so honest and likeable about Glitta – and she was clearly very hot in her prime – that you go with it. And it makes a point. Of course young girls are hotter than older ones, of course people want to have sex with them. That the girls just do it for the money because they suffer a power balance is possible, but Glitta present a different view. She challenges the idea that woman could never find being a sex object satisfying – we are encouraged to spend a fortune on clothes, hair and make up to (wink, wink, nudge, nudge, hair toss) make us so. There is an expectation that women should put some resistance. Glitta is having none of it. Like the highly sexual Alan Cumming, she rejects shame, even as her anonymity protects herself from it.
And yet, and yet, you start to think of all the female newsreaders let go as they reach a certain age, all the jobs where youth ('you're all hot at that age, aren't you?' says Glitta of eighteen-year-olds. 'Even if you're ugly!') is an advantage. The list goes on and on, from waitressing, to reception, to sales, never mind acting, dancing and modelling, and the extent of untapped potential amongst older women in many fields, has long been a cause of concern. Where the hell is the 50-something female trader on Billions, I ask you.
'I don't want to disappear,' says Glitta, and I recall my mother (a smart Victoria University graduate who spent far too much of her career typing in the back office) saying the very same thing.


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Ok, so that didn't go well. This is an ongoing pattern in my life of starting projects, getting a bit of momentum, telling everyone in the world HOW AWESOME I AM and then quitting. I am going to blame my fear of success.
Anyhoo, boob thing turned out just fine. It hasn't really stopped my anxiety over every damn thing, but I am trying really hard to stop worrying all the time so I am not even going to talk about it anymore. Ativan helps.
The pantry emptying is going super. I have whittled down the amount of canned stuff to almost nothing (except blood pudding and a can of pumpkin). There's a nice and reasonable variety of vinegars and oils, almost no snack items left, and my pasta/bean/lentil section is actually under control. The freezer is a disaster though; our fridge broke on Christmas Eve and we frantically threw everything in the freezer downstairs.. I am trying not to think about it too much.
My twins are the awesomest. They are finally saying a few words and running around everywhere. They're very good natured, apart from the standard toddler jealousy. I'd like to attribute this to my superior parenting skills but I think they were actually just born this way. I am a lazy parent… here I am blogging while they contentedly dance on.. oh shit, one just fell off the couch.
Ok, tears are soothed. See? Growing up in spite of me.
So what's up for this year? Well, my husband is going to go back to work, so I face parenting alone all day every day or going back to work myself. I feel terribly out of practice at my job, and had such a rotten experience at the last company that I really don't think I can take that right now. And as I said, my kids are the awesomest, so I'd rather spend my days with them. But twins are tough. The highs are so much higher and the lows are so much lower. It's a bit like being manic depressive; you never know which one is going to come out and what's going to set it off. Just the other day there was a huge meltdown over who got to wear an empty cheerio box on their head. One twin would put it on and run into the wall, causing a lot of tears.. the other twin would chase him down to rip the cheerio box off their head in jealousy, causing more tears. It only took me half an hour or so to figure out I should take the cheerio box away, which resulted in frantic tears, beating of chests, hair pulling and hitting. I figure if you can't beat them, join them, so I did a little therapeutic crying myself.
Like I said, growing up in spite of me.
It's finally nice out today, so I am going to actually take the kids out for a walk. I have been hibernating most of winter, crippled by anxiety and intense dislike of snow. But the days are already longer and things don't seem as grim so it's time to get back in the swing of it.


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Article by Orville E. Wright
I have always wondered why people dislike clichés. There is nothing wrong with the idea in and of itself. But many critics think that all clichés are bad because they are cliché. However, this is not the case. I intend to prove that something being cliché is not in and of itself bad.
First off, a cliché is an idea or theme that is overused and/or betrays a lack of originality. It is this lack of originality that the critics take fault in.
One of the most important principles in writing is what my mother, a published author and a writing instructor, called Surprise vs. Satisfaction. This principle states that to have a good ending of story requires two things, surprise and satisfaction. By surprise, she means that the story must have an unexpected element or twists, and by satisfaction, she means that the stories ending must make sense. The problem with clichés is that they've been done so many times that they no longer surprise. This is what is called unoriginality.
All that said, a cliché is not necessarily unoriginal, despite what the dictionary says; however, they can easily lead to it. For example, in any long running story, the reader generally knows that the hero will win in the end. This is a cliché of all such stories. However, the interest of the reader does not come from whether the hero will win. It is in how he will win that interest is derived. You know that Batman will eventually stop the Joker's plan to spray laughing gas into the vents of the Gotham Police Building during the policemen's ball. What you do not know is how he can find all the hidden whoopee cushions containing the laughing gas in time. That is where the drama is.
The reason that cliché is synonymous with unoriginality is because cliché actually refers to two slightly different things. The first definition refers to an idea that is time tested to be dramatic. It is not very interesting if the murderer turns out to be the guy the cops thought was the murderer all along rather than the innocent-looking butler. The second refers to when such ideas are misused. It is also not interesting to have the butler have killed John Dow without there being any other real suspects for the audience to suspect.
This second definition is the reason clichés have a bad name, not the ideas themselves. It is uncreative to have a knight save a princess from a dragon. It is creative to have Luke save Leia from the empire. The difference is in presentation. You care about what happens to Luke and Leia because George Lucas put interesting characters into the rolls of the knight saving the princess. You wouldn't care about Sir. Bump and Princess Bubbles, the completely generic knight and princess, because there is nothing to them. Both Luke saving Leia and Sir Bump saving Princess Bubbles are both examples of the damsel in destress cliché, but unlike the theoretical Sir Bump and Princess Bubbles, Luke and Leia make their story interesting by being interesting.
The main thing most critics don't say about clichés is that, like any idea, it can be used to great effect or to no effect. For example, take the evil business man cliché. It is one of the most common villain arc-types in this modern day. However, both Ebenezer Scrooge and Mr. Potter from A Christmas Carol and It's A Wonderful Life respectively are both evil business men. The difference between them and, say, Looten Plunder from Caption Planet is that Looten is generic, evil for evil's sake, kill all the fluffy animals, nobody-in-a-suit, while Scrooge and Potter are not. You get a chance to see into both of their heads and see how they became the evil old misers they are. In the case of Ebenezer, he actually changes his ways and becomes a good man. While Potter does everything in his power to destroy or take something he has no right to, just because he is an old and jealous man. Looten never gets even a proper motivation for killing the environment. It's just what he does, because he is a businessman. It is because of men like him that the cliché get such a bat rap.
The point of all this is that, at the end of the day, no cliché is bad in and of itself. It is the execution of the cliché that makes them… cliché. No matter what kind of story you write, you will have some Idea that has been used before. Your job as an author is to take that idea, put a new spin on it, and see what happens.
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Here comes the sun! My Dad is a huge Beatles fan so we listened to A LOT of Beatles growing up (I like the early stuff) so there's a few specific songs I think of in certain situations and in LA there's so little rain that when it does rain and eventually the sun comes out I think of that one lyric. Anyway, but rain did not deter any of my shooting. I got in two killer shoots with Lady Krondor. In my last post I mentioned our shoot in the haunted Cobb Estate and how we had technical difficulties. We wound up getting in a lot of great photos but for some reason I just did not feel completely satisfied as I felt we were just hitting a stride so we talked and decided to pick things up again the next night. Due to the rain we decided to stay inside and shot inside Lady Krondor's Valencia apartment. We had a great time and two great sets.
I met Lady Krondor through Instagram. Today I'm photographing Astraia Espirit who I also met through social media. Social media has been a great tool for me for linking up with some rad people. One of the raddest I met was through Facebook. I got a friend request earlier this year from a girl named Svitlana Zavialova. I assumed at first that this was a spam account as I often spam friend requests from international names. But Svitlana turned out to be real. I accepted the request and soon after she messaged me. Svitlana told me how she was from Eastern Europe, living in Thailand, a model, actress, and world Wushu Champion. I looked Svitlana up and everything was legit. She told me loved my website, could see what I was really going for with my art, etc. We also talked through some personal stuff and quickly became close friends. She let me know soon after that she would be coming through LA and we've gotten the chance to hang out several times, and shoot as well. On our first set together we decided to keep things kind of light and casual but the photos certainly came out beautiful. Stay tuned for more to come soon!
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ASC 606 is a new accounting standard for how revenue is recognized that is issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). Outside the U.S., very similar new rules from the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) make the change global. Public companies must be compliant by Jan. 1, 2018 and private companies by Jan. 1, 2019.
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