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Dec 22, 2016
As I said earlier, I recommend this course for everyone; doctors included (:\n\nI like how this course was treated in a different way. We see people doing the job on there ground, that's interesting.
Nov 06, 2017
Fun and challenging to me. Is not easy to me to create new characters, but with this practice and professional examples, I feel more confident to just do and see what happens. Thank you, very much.
автор: Esteban P•
Dec 30, 2018
I liked the course, thanks to this I got the interest in learning the basics of drawing since I had never before tried to draw ... "at least as an adult", so I take a long time to face my fears.
But, I think the videos are too long. More than 5 or 8 minutes is already very long and makes you lose attention because it is more to see how a cartoonist, illustrator or character creator works and sometimes expresses something vague in the absence of a specific theme or objective in the idea that wants to transmit.
автор: Kylen A J K D•
Dec 31, 2018
I love every course it pretty much show you what imagination an artist can have with each homework feeling like an adventure of creativity.
автор: Ali A•
Mar 25, 2019
it will go through practcal stuff and let you experience and trains your creativity.
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Feb 12, 2019
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Aug 31, 2018
There was an extensive flow of activities and assignments that really helped spark the creative process and essentials to brainstorming effective, eye catching characters. Each week I learned how to develop certain areas of the character's traits or story. I loved the community and the peer guidance. It was truly a place where criticism was welcomed, and ideas were shared, and displayed thoughtfully. If I could take this class again, I would. I absolutely enjoyed every minute!
автор: Filip R•
Feb 24, 2016
It's the interviews with famous artists which make this course great!
автор: Ekaterina S•
Feb 27, 2018
I loved this course and super recommend it to any one who wants to either boost his own characters designs or who wants to hear inspiring interviews from successful character designers! The course is full of valuable insights about the character design itself and hints on landing the jobs in this field.
автор: Daniel D•
Jul 20, 2016
I love this new course!! Thank you for the opportunity of the know how it works and for learn something new.
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Jun 17, 2017
It's really good to learn from professional artists.
Though I think the homework in week 4 did not describe its requirements clearly so that many students including me felt very confused.
автор: Pablo S P•
May 08, 2016
Awesome course! :)
автор: Luis E•
Jan 14, 2018
I loved it, the teachers and their experience is just gold.
автор: asfan•
Dec 13, 2016
it give me a strong basic knowledge on character design, i enjoy every session on this course
автор: Umair R•
Aug 08, 2016
The Course Was Awesome
автор: Rebecca W F•
Feb 04, 2016
Not only did I learn more than I ever thought I would, but I had fun, as well! In fact, I liked this course so much that I've enrolled in another course offered within the same specialization.
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автор: Edwin V C•
Jan 12, 2016
Loved the different approaches to character design and the insight on the ideation and work processes of the different artists!
автор: Bao N H•
Feb 02, 2016
coolest stuff ever, please do more of them so I can tell people to join the course
автор: Alexis I I•
Feb 27, 2017
I loved it! Watching all this great artists working and giving you advices is so useful. This course really help me to design characters in a more creative way.
автор: Alex Z•
Jan 19, 2016
Amazing course!
автор: Alexander G•
Jan 06, 2016
Very interesting course, would definitely recommend it! Learned new things to refine and introduce into my own style.
автор: Tania•
Feb 02, 2016
It's a great course I strongly recommend. Not only you are going to practise different character design through various exercises, but you are going to watch some great artist talking about their work while they are drawing. So interesting!
автор: Survesh R•
Feb 10, 2016
An awesome class to learn character design
автор: samil•
Dec 26, 2015
Found the course I imagine to take
автор: Sarah F•
Feb 03, 2016
soooo much fun!!!
автор: Tanja H•
May 14, 2016
The good best practice and insight in the topic was greate


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Two bright and comfortable rooms in one of Amsterdam's finest area's, surrounding the Spiegelkwartier, which is known for its antique shops and galleries. Each room is equipped with a private bathroom, a queen-size bed and large windows, allowing plenty of natural light to pour in. The larger room overlooks the Lijnbaansgracht, one of Amsterdam's longest canals. The smaller Wetering Suite offers a view of the Tweede Weteringdwarsstraat, a narrow road in the middle of the residential Wetering neighbourhood. The kitchen divides the two rooms.
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Hotel V's motto is: "from Amsterdam with love". With the growth of each hotel V in Amsterdam, their love of the city grows even more. The newest member of the hotel V family- hotel V Fizeaustraat - has 91 rooms, 4 and a half stars, a lively culinary lobby, plenty of parking and a unique event space. Located close to Amstel Station and overlooking the gorgeous Amstel skyline, their newest hotel is in a beautifully designed "hidden in plain sight" building in an undiscovered and delightfully calm corner of Amsterdam with easy access into the city centre.
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SWEETS hotel is for curious travellers. A radically different way to experience Amsterdam. SWEETS hotel transformed tiny bridge houses along the canals of Amsterdam into independent hotel suites that accommodate a maximum of two guests. The tiny bridge houses of SWEETS hotel are industrial heritage and represent several styles of architecture: from the Amsterdam School to Modernism. Every bridge house tells its own story. The oldest bridge house is built in 1673 (Amstelschutsluis, located in the middle of the Amstel River) and the most recent bridge house dates from 2009 (Sluis Haveneiland). The bridge houses are scattered across Amsterdam and each house has an interior that matches with the architectural period of the exterior. By using the limited number of square meters in a smart way, SWEETS hotel playfully corresponds with the Tiny House Movement: living on a modest amount of square meters in an efficiently classified space.
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Article 1 - Definitions
Article 2 - Identity of the trader
Article 3 - Applicability
Article 4 - The offer
Article 5 - The contract
Article 6 - Right of withdrawal
Article 7 - Consumer's obligations during the withdrawal period
Article 8 - Excertion of the right of withdrawal and costs involved
Article 9 - Trader's obligations in case of withdrawal
Article 10 - The price
Article 11 - Contract fulfilment
Article 12 - Delivery and implementation
Article 13 - Payment
Article 14 - Applicable law
Article 15 - Amendment of the General Terms and Conditions
Article 1 - Definitions
The following definitions apply in these terms and conditions:
1. Supplementary agreement: an agreement in which a consumer obtains products, digital
content and/or services via a distance contract, and a trader or a third party delivers
these products, digital content and/or services in accordance with an agreement
between that third party and the trader;
2. Withdrawal period: the period within which a consumer can make use of his right of
3. Consumer: a natural person whose actions are not carried out for objectives relating to
the course of a trade, a profession or a business;
4. Day: calendar day;
5. Digital content: data that are produced and supplied in digital form;
6. Durable medium: every means - including emails - that enables a consumer or trader to
store information that is addressed to him in person in a way that facilitates its future
use or consultation during a period that is in keeping with the objective for which the
information is intended, and which facilitates the unaltered reproduction of the stored
7. Right of withdrawal: the possibility for a consumer to waive a distance contract within
the withdrawal period;
8. Trader: a natural or legal person who offers products, (access to) digital content and/or
services to consumers from a distance;
9. Distance contract: a contract concluded between a trader and a consumer within the
framework of a system organized for the distance sale of products, digital content
and/or services, whereby sole or partly use is made of one or more techniques for
distance communication up to and including the moment that the contract is concluded;
10.Model form for right of withdrawal: the European model form for right of withdrawal
that is included in Appendix I of these terms and conditions;
11. Technique for distance communication: means that can be used for communication
regarding the offer made by the trader and concluding a contract, without the necessity
of the consumer and trader being in the same place at the same time.
Article 2 - Identity of the trader
Name: Fair Play fabrics
Address: Prins Bernhardlaan 8, 3972 AX, Driebergen, The Netherlands
Telephone number: 0031(0)343 554057
[email protected]
KvK-number: 62967037
VAT-number: NL096962604B01
Article 3 - Applicability
1. These general terms and conditions apply to every offer made by the trader and to
every distance contract that has been realized between trader and consumer.
2. Prior to the conclusion of a distance contract, the text of these general terms and
conditions will be made available to the consumer. If this is not reasonably possible, the
trader will indicate, before the distance contract is concluded, in what way the general
terms and conditions are available for inspection at the trader's premises and that they
will be sent free of charge to the consumer, as quickly as possible, at the consumer's
3. If the distance contract is concluded electronically, then, contrary to the previous
paragraph, and before the distance contract is concluded, the consumer will be provided
with the text of these general terms and conditions electronically, in such a way that the
consumer can easily store them on a durable data carrier. If this is not reasonably
possible, then before concluding the distance contract, the trader will indicate where the
general terms and conditions can be inspected electronically and that at his request
they will be sent to the consumer free of charge, either electronically or in some other
Article 4 - The offer
1. If an offer is subject to a limited period of validity or is made subject to conditions, this
will be explicitly mentioned in the offer.
2. The offer contains a complete and accurate description of the products, digital content
and/or services being offered. The description is sufficiently detailed to enable the
consumer to make a proper assessment of the offer. The trader is not bound by obvious
errors or mistakes in the offer.
Article 5 - The contract
1. The contract will be concluded, subject to that which is stipulated in par. 4, at the
moment at which the consumer accepts the offer and the conditions thereby stipulated
have been fulfilled.
2. If the consumer has accepted the offer electronically, the trader will immediately
confirm receipt of acceptance of the offer electronically. The consumer can dissolve the
contract as long as this acceptance has not been confirmed by the trader.
3. If the contract is concluded electronically, the trader will take suitable technical and
organizational measures to secure the electronic transfer of data and he will ensure a
safe web environment. If the consumer may pay electronically, the trader will take
suitable security measures.
4. The trader may obtain information – within statutory frameworks – about the
consumer's ability to fulfill his payment obligations, as well as about facts and factors
that are important for the responsible conclusion of the distance contract. If that
research gives the trader proper grounds for declining to conclude the contract, then he
has a right, supported by reasons, to reject an order or application or to bind its
implementation to special conditions.
5. The trader will send to a consumer, at the latest when delivering a product, service or
digital content, the following information, in writing, or in such a way that the consumer
can store it on an accessible durable medium:
a. the office address of the trader's business location where the consumer can lodge
b. the price, including all taxes on the product, service or digital content; the costs of
delivery insofar as applicable, and the method of payment, delivery or implementing the
distance contract.
Article 6 - Right of withdrawal
1. The consumer has the right to dissolve a contract, without giving reasons, during a
period of 14 days. The trader is allowed to ask a consumer for the reason of this
dissolution, but the consumer is under no obligation to state his reason(s).
2. The period stipulated in par. 1 commences on the day after the product was received by
the consumer, or a third party designated by the consumer, who is not the transporting
Article 7 - Consumer's obligations during the withdrawal period
1. During the withdrawal period, the consumer shall treat the product and its packaging
with care. He shall only unpack or use the product in as far as necessary in order to
assess the nature, characteristics and efficacy of the product. The point of departure
here is that the consumer may only handle and inspect the product in the same way
that he would be allowed in a shop.
2. The consumer is only liable for the product's devaluation that is a consequence of his
handling the product other than as permitted in par. 1.
3. The consumer is not liable for the product's devaluation if the trader did not provide him
with all the statutorily obligatory information about the right of withdrawal before the
contract was concluded.
Article 8 - Excertion of the right of withdrawal and the costs involved
1. The consumer who wants to exercise his right of withdrawal shall report this to the
trader, within the withdrawal period, by means of the model form for right of withdrawal
or in some other unequivocal way.
2. As quickly as possible, but no later than 14 days after the day of reporting as referred
to in par. 1, the consumer shall return the product, or hand it over to (a representative
of) the trader. This is not necessary if the trader has offered to collect the product
himself. The consumer will in any case have complied with the time for returning goods
if he sends the product back before the withdrawal period has passed.
3. The consumer returns the product with all relevant accessories, if reasonably possible in
the original state and packaging, and in accordance with the reasonable and clear
instructions provided by the trader.
4. The risk and the burden of proof for exercising the right of withdrawal correctly and in
time rest upon the consumer.
5. The consumer bears the direct costs of returning the product.
6. If the consumer exercises his right of withdrawal, all supplementary agreements are
legally dissolved.
Article 9 - Traders' obligations in a case of withdrawal
1. After receiving a declaration of withdrawal, the trader sends confirmation of receipt.
2. The trader reimburses the consumer immediately with all payments, including any
delivery costs the trader charged for the returned product, though at the latest within
14 days after the day on which the consumer reported the withdrawal. Except in cases
in which the trader has offered to retrieve the product himself, he can postpone
refunding until he has received the product or until the consumer proves he has
returned the product.
3. If the consumer chooses a more expensive method of delivery than the cheapest
standard delivery, the trader does not have to refund the additional costs of the more
expensive method.
Article 10 - The price
1. During the period of validity indicated in the offer, the prices of the products and/or
services being offered will not be increased, except for price changes in VAT-tariffs.
2. Prices stated in offers of products or services include VAT.
Article 11 - Contract fulfilment
1. The trader guarantees that the products and/or services do match the contract, the
specifications stated in the offer, the reasonable requirements of reliability and/or
serviceability and the statutory stipulations and/or government regulations that existed
on the date that the contract was concluded.
Article 12 - Delivery and implementation
1. The trader will take the greatest possible care when receiving and implementing orders
for products and when assessing applications for the provision of services.
2. The place of delivery is the address that the consumer has reported to the trader.
3. Taking into consideration that which is stated in article 4 of these general terms and
conditions, the trader will implement accepted orders with efficient expedition, though
at the latest within 30 days, unless a different period of delivery has been agreed upon.
If delivery suffers a delay, or if the delivery cannot be implemented, or only partially,
the consumer will be informed about this at the latest 30 days after the order was
placed. In this case, the consumer has the right to dissolve the contract free of charge.
4. Following dissolution in accordance with the previous paragraph, the trader refunds the
consumer immediately the sum he had paid.
5. The risk of damage and/or loss of products rests upon the trader up to the moment of
delivery to the consumer or a representative previous designated by the consumer and
announced to the trader, unless this has explicitly been agreed otherwise.
Article 13 - Payment
1. As far as no other date is stipulated in the contract or supplementary conditions, sums
payable by the consumer should be paid within 14 days after commencement of the
withdrawal period.
2. When selling products to consumers, the general terms and conditions may never
stipulate an advance payment in excess of 50%. Where advance payment is stipulated,
the consumer cannot invoke any rights whatsoever in relation to the implementation of
the order or service(s) in question before the stipulated advance payment has been
3. The consumer is obliged to report immediately to the trader any inaccuracies in
payment data provided or stated.
4. If the consumer fails to fulfil his payment obligation(s) in time, after the trader has
informed the consumer about the late payment, the consumer is allowed 14 days in
which to fulfil the obligation to pay; if payment is not made within this 14-day period,
statutory interest will be payable over the sum owed and the trader has the right to
charge reasonable extrajudicial costs of collection he has incurred. These costs of
collection amount to, at the most: 15% of unpaid sums up to €2,500; 10% over the
next €2,500; and 5% over the next €5,000, with a minimum of €40. The trader can
deviate from these sums and percentages to the advantage of the consumer.
Article 14 - Applicable law
On the contracts between the trader and the consumer Dutch law exclusively is applicable.
Article 15 - Amendment to the general terms and conditions
These general terms and conditions may at all times be amended by the trader. The version in
use is the latest c.q. the version that was valid at the time of purchase.
Fair Play Fabrics
Driebergen, August 2015
Appendix I: Model form for right of withdrawal
Model form for right of withdrawal
(only complete and return this form if you want to withdraw from the contract)
To: [trader's name]
[trader's geographic address]
[trader's e-mail address or electronic address]
- I/we* herewith inform you that, in respect of our contract regarding
The sale of the following products: [description of the product}*
The delivery of the following digital content: [description of the digital content]*
The supply of the following service: [description of the service]*
I/we* exercise our right of withdrawal.
- Ordered on*/received on* [date of ordering services or receiving goods]
- [consumer's name]
- [consumer's address]
- [consumer's signature] (only if this form is submitted on paper)
*Delete or provide supplementary information, as applicable


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Little Millie's
Visit Website http://littlemillies.com
Phone: 07594 191798
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Where to Find UsBrumstead Rd, Stalham
A Bit About Us
We choose only the finest ingredients for our Cakes, ensuring each Cake is fresh, soft and fluffy. Nothing is from a tin in our Cakes. Not only that, our Cakes are hand designed to look beautiful and elegant too! From a gorgeous wedding Cake to a tower of wedding cupcakes or a box of party cupcakes or a handcrafted novelty Cake, you can be sure that Little Millie's will stand out from the rest.
"I am pleased to announce that this week I won the 2014 Wedding Industry Award for best cake designer in the area, thank you to everyone who voted for us at Little Millie's.
Also I am sorry the blog updates are a little slow at the moment, we are in mid wedding season so its all hands on deck at the moment... I am now off to bake 500 cupcakes for a Cambridge Ball... :)"
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Exploring the forces and opportunities transforming media and communications
25-27 June 2019, Gleneagles Hotel, Scotland
Facilitating a dialogue for the most influential people in our business
With only 180 participants from 45 markets, The Summit brings together world class speakers and influencers. Through a mix of formal and informal sessions the event provides meaningful opportunities to connect and learn from top executives in media, communications and advertising.
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No challenge, no kit, no rules .... just because I can.
I dug into my WOW chipboard stash and created this page on the weekend.
I used some papers from the Echo Park Victoria Gardens pack and also some really old Kaiser.
I also "borrowed" some of the gorgeous gingham frill ribbon from the shop **ssshhhh** lol
All the chipboard has been painted with H2o's and then for the branch I inlaid the flower centres with some scraps of the purple paper, punched holes in the centre and added some flower stamens. I really like the 3D effect this gives the chipboard.
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The Ballerina
Actors: Adella Gautier, Deena Dill, Morgan Cryer, Paul Stober, Thomas Mikal Ford
Directors: Steve Pullen
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
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Released: 2017
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Everything was absolutely perfect, and we cannot thank you enough. We have received so many compliments on what a wonderful wedding we had, and how beautiful our music was. After speaking with you the first time, I knew we were in great hands and that everything would turn out perfectly.
Erin Robinson Straker
Thanks so much for your part in making Michelle and Davids wedding a very special occasion. You are truly professionals in every way.
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Postpartum Depression Is a Hidden Epidemic and Chrissy Teigen Is Helping Everyone Talk About It
So many moms stay silent on the topic when all they need is help and support.
Chrissy Teigen is refreshingly honest when it comes to how hard post-baby life is. And her struggles with postpartum depression are helping other moms open up about what they experienced after bringing baby home — it's not always rainbows and butterflies and #newmomlife.
In fact, the more moms talk about it, the more come forward to admit they too were suffering from PPD, which can range from slight feelings of being "off" to full-fledged suicidal thoughts. None of which are ideal when you have a newborn at home you are trying to keep alive.
As for Chrissy, she seemed to have the perfect life. But when she admitted she couldn't leave the house for days on end and barely ate following the birth of her daughter Luna, she didn't realize she would help a ton of moms first admit they were suffering, and then seek help for PPD.
She recently spoke about fearing PPD would return after she gives birth to her second baby with John Legend, saying, "Do I worry about it with this little boy? I do. But I also know that I feel like when it does happen, if it does, I'm so ready for it. I have the perfect people around me for it. That's why I really stand for a good core group of people around you."
In 2017, Chrissy penned a personal essay that revealed the new motherhood she was projecting on Instagram was BS. "Before this, I had never, ever — in my whole entire life — had one person said to me: 'I have postpartum depression,'" she wrote, adding, "Because the word depression scares a lot of people. I often just call it 'postpartum.'" Maybe I should say it, though. Maybe it will lessen the stigma a bit."
Other stars like Adele, Brooke Shields, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Hayden Panettiere have helped by talking about their own struggles with PPD, and now women are exploring preventative measures, from prescription meds to holistic programs that are helping keep PPD at bay or at least alleviate it a little if they have another child. (Moms who've had one bout of postpartum have a 30-50 percent chance of getting it again.)
While a doctor can help you navigate your feelings, so can support groups, a major step in healing after baby is born. "I'm speaking up now because I want people to know it can happen to anybody and I don't want people who have it to feel embarrassed or to feel alone," Chrissy says.
Personal Space spoke with one woman who started who started a holistic postpartum wellness program, Betterpostpartum.com, even after she experienced her son's birth with the help of a midwife and a doula, and ended up suffering from PPD soon after.
Soon after giving birth, Natalie Telyatnikov started experiencing severe insomnia and had a difficult time breastfeeding. She felt like she had to do everything herself — and do it right. She had no idea it could be postpartum depression.
"There's so little education and awareness surrounding what the symptoms are," she said. "I never in a million years would have guessed what I was going through — even though looking back it's obvious," she says.
With no baby nurse on hand, doing every mom task herself would give Natalie an excuse for everything she experienced — weeping, getting overly emotional, feeling tired. "I assumed this was the normal hormonal fluctuation for a first-time mom," she says.
"I was also having trouble sleeping and I didn't know to classify it as anxiety. I had convinced myself that I was supposed to be on duty for my newborn 24/7 and tend to his every need. I put so much pressure on myself, always trying to be the best mom. These thoughts were consuming me. I was being a martyr, and I was killing myself."
Natalie says just because you're not thinking of harming yourself doesn't mean there's nothing wrong. Listen to your own body and needs. And get help.
"Eventually, I gave all of my energy to my son, and I couldn't keep up my house or my appearance. I was really barely functional. And all the while, I thought this was normal, tired mom 'stuff.' I kept thinking: I have to keep pushing through, we'll hit a milestone and it will change.' It was well over a year before I realized what was going on."
Not one doctor or health specialist pointed a finger at postpartum depression or anxiety for Natalie. "I was so sick that I was literally throwing up and on the bathroom floor and my body shut down and I went to the emergency room," she says. "What ended up happening was that the ER said that nothing was wrong, when I knew something was wrong. I did my own research and I started to realize that a lot of my symptoms were adrenal."
Natalie had adrenal fatigue, which some doctors told her wasn't even a "real" condition. "I had so much pushback, but I decided to believe in myself. I did a strict elimination diet and reprogrammed my body and within days it worked," she says.
She cut out gluten, dairy, and refined sugars, and that was the magical trifecta. "Within days, I went from from 0-3 hours of sleep to 5-6. By eight weeks, I was sleeping 7-8 hours per night--so I had found the answer. The adrenal fatigue happened as a result of my postpartum depression that went unchecked for so long. Longterm depression and anxiety can put such stress on your nervous system," she says.
She can now recognize the symptoms in others, and is all about spreading the word. "Absolutely no one showed me the way, but my life is proof that I'm right," she says.
Her program, BetterPostpartum, helps women prepare for a happier, healthier postpartum. It is designed to help women prevent or alleviate the symptoms of postpartum depression, or any perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, so that they can have the best possible fourth trimester and beyond.
"There are things you can do to set yourself up for the best postpartum recovery--focusing on nutrition, sleep, hormones--these are the things you can manage to combat the emergence of PPD."
PPD is actually quite controllable if you were to experience it, Natalie adds, saying that hiring help and reaching out to friends and family is key. So is knowing the symptoms and seeking support.
"I was scared of having a second child, but I did not have even a wink of PPD because I prepared," Natalie says. "The truth is, you're only able to be the best mom possible when you put yourself first. Give yourself as much as you can, including 40 days to rest to prevent organ prolapse and bleeding out… Give yourself permission to have time, space, help, and rest."
For her, nutrition ended up being one of the biggest pieces of the puzzle. For people who are symptomatic, depression is tied to your gut health and imbalances can manifest as depression. To think you can lessen the intensity and duration by merely changing your diet is helpful.
There are more ways to seek help, she adds. In some cases, birth itself can be traumatic. "Knowing your resources is key. There are specialists called 'birth story listeners,' who are trained to help you process your birth. You can talk about your experience and heal."
Another postpartum challenge that leaves some mothers feeling depressed is having trouble breastfeeding. "It's not always the case that it just works," Natalie says.
"It's all manageable if you know how and where to turn to make things better," she says.
Sleep is integral to a mother's post-birth recovery, and a sleep specialist can talk to you about what to expect and how to improve sleep for whole family.
It's also a stressful time for you and your partner. "Non-violent communication is a method that is basically effective at taking the anger and resentment 'piece' out of your arguments with your spouse. It teaches you how to talk about your feelings in a way that can't be denied and refuted, and it comes in very handy to resolve arguments peacefully, once you have a new baby."
Natalie says enough with the silence surrounding PPD, and "it's crazy" that there is so little education surrounding PPD, and that the many different manifestations of postpartum depression symptoms so often go un-helped and unrecognized.
"Between 11 and 20 percent of women who give birth each year in the U.S. exhibit symptoms of postpartum depression," according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "The insomnia, loss of appetite, irritability and feelings of guilt and hopelessness that characterize the condition can appear any time in the first year after giving birth."
For Michelle Muller, who founded Little Spoon organic baby food company with her friend Lisa Barnett, her own excruciating PPD led to her starting the company.
Lisa tells us that the two founded the company because they couldn't stand what they were seeing on supermarket shelves for infants — the seemingly harmless foods are so packed with chemicals and sugars they can make your baby sick.
"We focused on bringing better quality nutrition to families," Lisa says.
When Michelle, a mom to three boys, experienced PPD, she found herself alone and overwhelmed. Her parents were in Texas while she lived in New York, and her husband was working long hours at the time.
"She was really feeling alone," Lisa says.
Michelle, who loved to cook, wanted to give her babies fresh, organic foods, but found the time to prep, make and store the food was too much in addition to everything else she had to do as a mom.
"She was watching a rise of mom influencers on Instagram tell her that she should be doing everything while she's experiencing a real illness," Lisa says. "It encouraged her to build a company we believe is important to human health. Feeding time is overwhelming and usually it falls on the mother.
"We did not want to make anything that could sit on a shelf in the grocery store," Lisa says, explaining they use the same technology as cold-pressed juices to lock in all the fresh properties of the food, which can be stored for up to two weeks in the refrigerator.
The idea is to make it super simple for parents to get the right nutrients to baby for brain development and growing bones. Getting away from processed food makes mom feel better, therefore alleviating some of PPD.
"Michelle had a hard time coping, feeding was so important but she couldn't get herself to cook all the food for the child. The hope was Little Spoon related to struggling to parents who cannot do it all. It helps feeling overwhelmed, the most common word parents use with feeding."
Angela Rubin, a mom of two from New York, also shared her story with Personal Space, saying that about two days after she had her first child back in 2013, she started feeling "very, very odd" and unlike herself.
"Normally, I am a very laid back, calm, cool, collected person. I love challenges and handle adversity very well. I'm also not particularly emotional — I don't cry easily," she says. "But suddenly, I was almost comically anxious and emotional. My baby had jaundice and needed to be put under lights, which is extremely common. I was so unspeakably upset about this and sat in my bed sobbing. When we went home, it got worse. I would cry on and off for absolutely no reason. I was insanely anxious — so much so that every time I looked at my beautiful healthy baby, I would get upset because I just assumed something bad was going to happen."
It was all she could think about, and found with the bad thoughts occupying her brain, she couldn't enjoy the little coos and funny facial expressions of her baby. When her mom would call to check in, all she could think was, "She sounds so happy. It will be so hard to call her and break the news when something bad happens."
"To be clear, I never thought about doing anything bad," Angela says. "I just was anticipating something bad happening, which is not like me at all. I am a glass half full, super optimistic person. I hated that I was having these thoughts and hated that I felt so off. It made me feel guilty, like I didn't deserve to have a baby and would be a bad mom. I kept thinking I shouldn't have had a baby (even though I really wanted one). I refused to let my husband or anyone else know I was feeling this way because I was so ashamed."
Instead, she would tell her husband she needed a nap, but really go into the bedroom, shut the door and cry. For hours. For no reason at all.
"When my daughter coughed, I'd freak out," she adds. "I felt totally overwhelmed. I also was having trouble breastfeeding, and that made things even worse. Normally, I am all about solving problems. At this time in my life, I was paralyzed, unable to talk rationally with a doctor, my husband, my mom, or anyone without bursting into hysterics. I thought for sure this wasn't normal and I was just a terrible parent."
About two weeks after the baby was born, it was a Saturday, and Angela was in her room, "as usual crying over nothing." "My husband and baby were in the living room, just relaxing. All of a sudden, literally out of nowhere, the clouds parted and I was back to normal. Literally just like that."
"Suddenly I couldn't understand why I was in my room away from my husband and baby on a snowy day when I could be out there cuddling. Suddenly I wanted to call my mom and talk about the adorable things my daughter was doing, and discuss breastfeeding with my husband. Suddenly I wanted to solve problems and play with my kid and take pictures and be excited. Suddenly I knew my kid would be fine, and I was acting like a totally reasonable human. Suddenly I was back to myself. I went inside and hung out with my family and never felt even a hint of those emotions ever again. It was the weirdest thing."
Except apparently it's not that weird, she explains.
"Once I was back to myself, I was comfortable asking my family and friends about it, and almost every one of my mom friends confirmed they felt this exact thing."
"That they were hysterical and anxious and worried and overly emotional," she says. "They had trouble feeling like parents and questioned if they could do it and felt overwhelmed. They were unreasonable. My doctor told me it's called the Baby Blues, and over 70 percent of moms get it for varying periods of time. I was shocked no one ever warned me about it, except I wasn't, because when I was feeling it I was so ashamed I didn't tell anyone either, not even my husband. There's so much pressure out there to be 'perfect' as parents that to admit any moments of weakness seems wrong. So people don't talk about it."
Now Angela says she warns any and every pregnant friend about what happened to her so they don't feel so alone. "I thought I was crazy. If I knew this was so common I probably would have handled it a little bit better."
She also just had her second child and was ready to feel PPD all over again, but got lucky. "I didn't feel it at all, my son is now almost three months old and I haven't felt any of those emotions. But I was happy to see flyers all over the hospital asking if moms are feeling off, feeling anxious, feeling sad, etc. The flyers said 'you are not alone. This is normal.' It's great to see that in four years since my last baby, this is being talked about so much more. I realize that there are way worse emotional reactions to pregnancy (full-blown postpartum depression), and that's scary, because this was a terrible thing to go through."
When New Jersey native Lesley Neadel had her first daughter in 2011, she had PPD symptoms starting in the hospital. "As soon as I had her, she had low blood sugar and needed to eat more than whatever breastmilk could provide, she needed formula. When they took her away to feed her I started feeling 'I'm a horrible mom…I let them take her away. I should have been able to handle what she needed."
Lesley says over the next two or three weeks, it got worse. After having her spinal cavity punctured when the doctors did epidural, she had to lay flat and that didn't work with a baby.
"I had the most supportive partner in the world, but it was a tornado of things that came together in an epic downward spiral," she says. "We went home from the hospital and it got worse; baby had colic, I'm crying, not sleeping, not eating, I would literally stare at her and wait for her to cry."
Even with a baby nurse for three weeks, Lesley says she was a "shell" who couldn't eat or sleep.
"I know a lot more now, they manifest in different ways, I had zero connection with my daughter, I was going through the motions," she says of the time. "Since I suffered in the past seven years I have started to talk about it to anyone who will listen. A lot of people say 'enjoy every moment,' I say 'get ready for the biggest roller coaster of your life.' The other thing is these illnesses are a spectrum. I didn't want to do anything with my daughter. Other people present as no one else can touch their daughter. everyone is different."
Through regular therapy and medication she began to see the light and understand it wasn't just "baby blues," as some people dismissed it to her.
"To me [therapy and medication] was the first sign of hope. I had thought this was my new normal with the baby. I was trying to burp and feed this monster for the rest of my life, and you think you'll never climb out of it. When you're pregnant, the world caters to you, and then the baby comes and the shift goes 100 percent in the other direction. For first-time moms, it's a huge adjustment that people minimize."
Lesley says if she had been armed with information, she would have realized postpartum depression takes many forms. "If you don't have this classical description of depression, you think you don't have it. It should be 'here are the risk factors, take this screening tool, if you have three of them talk to your doctor.'"
There's a huge void where education on PPD should be and shame in admitting it — and there shouldn't be.
"Mine was such a drastic mood change. Friends noticed I wasn't myself. I don't know what's wrong with me, I don't want to play with her.
I went to a therapist when she was three weeks old and I literally word vomited all over her, I told her all I was feeling. She said to me there is nothing you said I haven't heard before and I never saw someone not get better."
And that changed everything.
"I saw her two to three times a week and like clockwork six weeks later [with the time for the medication to kick in] suddenly one day, I was swaying and holding her and it was clockwork. I was almost like a textbook therapy and medicine case. And self-care was a huge part, just getting a manicure…because my symptom was lack of wanting to interact, for me I had to do that forcing myself to be with her and that made it worse," Lesley says.
Through talking to other moms and reading a ton on the subject, Lesley learned about the spectrum of postpartum depression.
"Postpartum rage is on the spectrum, anxiety, rage, sadness, crying," she says. "Intrusive thoughts happen. If you're standing at top of stairs and you can envision something horrible happening, it scares the living daylights out of you. No one has told you those happen. They are all part of spectrum disorders."
And all very normal. But in the age of social media, moms like to present a flawless vision of motherhood to the world, when in reality it's just making everyone feel worse.
It took Lesley two years to even contemplate having a second child, which she did — and the postpartum depression was more like an anxiety because she was armed with the knowledge and tools she needed to get through the post-birth weeks and months.
"No one will understand the stigma. As soon as you say you have depression people ask if you're going to drive your car off a bridge," she says. "There's a shame associated with any mental health complication and it keeps a lot of people suffering in silence. It's so underreported and women try to white knuckle through it…It can happen to anybody and it does."
No matter where you live, postpartum depression resources are available 24/7. Visit postpartum.net or call 1.800.944.4773 for help.
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We asked two of our bloggers to take two different views on the subject and leave it up to you….
Jake "Very Simple Rule: If your meeting is the day of the flight, you wear it, if it's the next day, you pack it". There are caveats to this rule: If it's a high street suit, you should wear it because it might not recover in time for your meeting the next day. If your meeting is in the tropics, your suit might retain the moisture that keeps it wrinkled.
Other than those two conditions, however, it's almost always better to fold your suit, shirts, and ties in a way that minimizes wrinkles and should result in a good look the next morning. Most hotel rooms have very warm, dry air, and this combined with steam from the shower actually helps in the straightening of wrinkles.
A tailor in Hong Kong taught me the best way to fold a suit. Basically, you pull the sleeves and collar of your jacket inside out completely, so you could actually put it on inside out and wear it. Then, keeping the sleeves with the body of the jacket you fold it in half, then half again until it fits in your luggage. Click here to see more…..
Pants and dress shirts are easy, as they can be folded once, then rolled until no fabric is wrinkled, same as a tie. Just make sure that when you reach your destination, you pull your suit out and hang it immediately.
Greg "No contest. Pack it every time providing you have the right luggage!"
The Mission: Identify the perfect luggage which can accommodate 3 suits and five days worth of accessories and toiletries for your business trip. Ideally keep it under £300! A Tall order and where to begin?
Question 1: Should I go with a garment bag or a suitcase?
Question 2: What is the best make and model of the above for my purpose?
I use a wheeled bag designed for hanging garments such as suits, you hang the garment then the case folds in half zipping together. I get some wrinkles but they are gone by the first business day after hanging over night.


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GENiC is part of a cluster of several EU projects funded under the FP7 programme. These projects bring together in total over 50 global partners to develop new environmental efficiency metrics and methodologies to be used to measure common variables. compare results and collectively support standards development. A brief overview and link to project website of the other projects in the cluster is list below.
All4Green aims to design new flexible contracts between ICT users and data centres, revolving around the use of Green-SLAs to enable new energy saving policies that can be tailored to different computing styles and can be used with all data centre monitoring and automation frameworks. More information can be found on their project website.
CoolEmAll aims to develop simulation, visualisation and analysis tools to enable data centre designers and operators to plan and run energy and resource-efficient facilities.
The goal of DC4Cities is to let existing and new data centres become energy adaptive. DC4Cities Energy adaptive data centres policies will affect the energy consumption through the interaction with lower level subsystems which will need to become renewable energy adaptive as well, specifically. More information can be found on the project website.
DOLFIN aims to significantly contribute towards improving the energy efficiency of Data Centres and stabilizing of Smart Grids, a holistic approach, across networks of Data Centres and Smart Grids. More information can be found on the project website.
The goal of EURECA (Enabling information re-Use by linking clinical REsearch and Care) is to enable seamless, secure, scalable and consistent linkage of healthcare information residing in electronic health record (EHR) systems with information in clinical research information systems, such as clinical trials. More information can be found on the project website.
GEYSER project intends to develop a software tool to help Data Centres become energy prosumers in a Smart City context, enabling better integration of DCs as a Smart Grid participant, not only a consumer. More information can be found on the project website.
This project is aimed at reducing the environmental footprint of growing data traffic, while using data centres as Smart Grid nodes, through smart energy management at server, rack, data centre and DC network levels. GreenDataNet includes efficiency measures (IT, cooling and storage), and local RES integration and storage. More information can be found on the project website.
The main objective of the RenewIT project is to develop a simulation tool to evaluate the energy performance of different technical solution integrating RES in several European climate regions. More information can be found on the project website.


text: I arrived in Hanoi on Friday morning at 11:00 am. After the dance through Immigrations, I grabbed a taxi and headed for my Hotel. The west lake Hotel and Spa is great. My room is a little small, but very comfortable. An included brunch (06:30 am to 01:00 pm) for $24 Cdn can't be beaten. Brunch is western and Vietnamese and lots of fresh fruit. I had dinner at a Vietnamese restaurant with my Airport taxi Driver. There was 5 dishes. Beef and vegetables, Roasted chicken, the delicious Morning Glory greens, a salad of cucumber, tomatoe, and onions, and a wonderful chicken flavoured sticky rice. All of this was helped along with a couple of Tiger beers. Lunch the following day was a homemade meal of shrimp, beef rice, and greens. Cuong, his wife Ha and their kids are wonderful people. Needless to say, I've had multiple cups of coffee. Did I mention how I love Vietnamese coffee. I went for a walk last evening along Tay Ho (West Lake). The sights, sounds, and smells are invigouring. The bat population is great along the lake. It is something I miss at home. I've had a wonderful, relaxing day and it is great to be alive. That's it for now. Later.


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So Pennsylvania has finally decided it's April and not December. This weekend was GORGEOUS!!! The kids got to go out and play (instead of bouncing off walls in the house), and DH and I got to start on our yard work quest... a work in progress that started last year and seems it will never end!
I have developed an "appreciation" for yard work over the last few years, but that does NOT mean I actually like it!
When DH deployed in 2005 I finally decided to do all the yard work myself (instead of hiring a local 12-year-old or asking begging one of my neighbors to mow for me). This is when my "appreciation" developed... previously known as "loathing" the mere thought of it.
We bought a house last year and spent two months planting grass, removing stumps (14 stumps!!!) ourselves, clearing areas of our yard that was full of everything except grass, raking and shoveling, mulching, etc. etc. At the end of the summer we looked at our yard and marveled at the progress we made and how much better the yard looked. We even had people in our neighborhood (people we don't even know) stop by the house and tell us we did such a great job in the yard. It felt great!
But the best part of it all is that DH and I were spending a lot of quality time together, as well as with the kids (who help in the yard when they get "bored" playing). Granted, by the end of the day I can barely walk and have to take my Naproxen and Flexeril just to get up the next day, I love being outside with my family. I love looking out in the yard and seeing the beauty that comes from a hard day's work (make that a hard spring and summer!). It's a blessing.
What have you found an "appreciation" for when your spouse has been gone?


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In 2004, the United Nations put its futurist hat on.
In a report simply titled "World Population to 2300," the UN's Department of Economic and Social Affairs released for the first time its predictions about the state of the world over the next 300 years.
This was a major undertaking, to say the least.
Imagine people in 1700 making predictions about the year 2000. Even predictions from 1950 were dead wrong.
Our modelling tools have gotten slightly more sophisticated since the 18th century, however, and given the predictions made for 2300 — a population of 9 billion and people regularly living to 100 — the projections and the UN demographers' assumptions seem reasonable enough.
On the low end, the UN estimates the year 2300 will see only 2.3 billion people walking the Earth, fewer than we saw in 1940.
On the high end, it predicts 36 billion -- five times the current size.
But tucked in the middle is a number it forecasts will hold steady from approximately 2050 onward: 9 billion.
Fertility rate plays the largest role in deciding which of those three predictions will eventually become the most accurate. Africa, with its sky-high fertility rate, will lead the charge.
Today, the continent makes up just 16% of the world population. By 2100, that slice of the pie is expected to grow to more than 50%.
In the middle of the 20th century, the world saw a population explosion. The US had its Baby Boom, as did China and India. But then as urbanisation and industrialisation continued around the world, and countries like China implemented strict population control policies, people stopped having so many kids.
Today, we are still having approximately 2.5 kids per woman (statistics are fun), so the population keeps growing. However, the rate is falling, which means population growth will level off or even drop if it stays below replacement fertility (the number of kids people need to have to keep the population stable).
In its 2300 report, the UN estimates the rate will not keep falling. It will flatline around replacement fertility sometime in the 2130s.
'That fertility first declines below replacement and then recovers to replacement level, and that population growth follows, with turning points about half a century later' is a general pattern among countries across all regions in the long-range projections, the report explains.
In just about every region between 1950 and 2000, humanity as a whole got older -- except in Africa.
For decades, the continent has seen high HIV/AIDS-related mortality rates and even higher fertility rates. As more babies enter the world, the median age goes down. The UN predicts this trend will eventually end by 2100, however, as medicine keeps that big population of babies alive into adulthood.
Over the next couple centuries, most countries will see their median ages pull closer together.
'By 2200, the list of oldest countries is virtually identical to the list of countries with the highest life expectancies,' the report states. 'Through 2300, there is little further change in the list. By 2300, the Japanese population 65 years and older will be only a slightly larger proportion of the population than in 2050.'
People are living longer than ever. And even by 2300, the UN expects the world will keep living longer, without any plateau effect.
Grouping developed and developing regions together, the UN estimates that women will live to 97 and men to 95 years old. In the developed world, those estimates rise to 99 and 102, respectively.
Extending people's life spans is the surest sign modern medicine is working.
Babies survive childbirth, kids get vaccinated, adults get quick and effective treatment for disease, and old-age care delays death in a peaceful manner.
Of course, there will always be people who reject mortality entirely and strive to live forever.
Broken down by sex, the UN predicts most men -- despite living shorter lives, on average, than females -- will reach their 95th birthdays, if not the 100th.
Even in sub-Saharan African countries like Nigeria, the UN expects the threat of HIV/AIDS to be a relic of the past, making longevity more accessible to people in developing nations.
With this rise in elderly populations will come a new living arrangement for many families.
'This, given our current patterns of old age care and the already visible trends in public resources for such care, implies more multigenerational households,' Alaka Malwade Basu, sociology researcher at Cornell University, wrote in the report.
By 2300, many more women will live to see 100. In Japan, the life expectancy will rise to 108 years. In the US it will rise to 102.
'If there is one stark conclusion in the 2300 population projections, it is the major shift in age distributions worldwide by that time,' Basu wrote. 'In particular, I would speculate that emotional bonds between generations once removed (grandchildren and grandparents) will change drastically by 2300.'
Western countries will likely come to adopt similar attitudes to those of eastern ones, like Japan and China, where seniors are looked upon with great reverence.
As Basu explains, this could result in a reversal of the 'inter-generational flow of emotional resources.'
A world with 9 billion people is a denser world than the one we currently inhabit. But it's certainly doable, and not all regions will be affected equally by 2300.
The UN predicts many nations will become denser with time, such as India and Nigeria. Others, like China and US, aren't likely to see drastic shifts.
Countries that live more densely will likely need to come up with creative solutions to avoid over-crowding. Even today, as vertical living and farming are still in their infancies, certain places are learning how to grow up instead of out.
It's a skill many will learn as the centuries pass.
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by Mike Shea on 27 February 2017
There is no wrong way to play Dungeons & Dragons. If you and your players are having fun, you're playing D&D the right way. Every article, every idea, every tip, and every tool here at Sly Flourish is written to help you make your own game better. None of the ideas I post here are intended to come across as the "right way" to play D&D. We begin with our past understandings, try out some new things, and tune our understandings based on the results.
According to 2016 D&D dungeon master survey, of the 6,600 respondents to the survey on the question of preferred combat type, 63% answered 5' gridded combat, 19% answered abstract maps (a topic we will cover another time), and 18% answered theater of the mind.
I have two intentions for this article. First, I want to make my case for the advantages of narrative "theater of the mind" combat. Second, I want to convince you to try running combat in the theater of the mind, not all the time but once in a while, and add that style of combat to your DM's toolbox.
I do not expect that you, or any DM, will throw out two thousand miniatures, scores of battle maps, and a truckload of Dwarven Forge. I certainly don't plan to.
I do hope, however, that some DMs will take a break from the gridded map once in a while and run a small battle, maybe a bigger battle, and maybe a great big battle, without worrying about every five foot square.
This article isn't about how to run combat in the theater of the mind. For that, we have Sly Flourish's Guide to Narrative "Theater of the Mind" Combat and the one-page printable summary. This article is about why we want to run narrative combat.
Let's begin by looking at some of the advantages of running combat in the theater of the mind.
When we're playing D&D, we're playing a game of high fantasy. We're building stories of magic and monsters and adventure. We're imagining epic battles between gods and demons. When we get caught in the minutia of 5 foot squares, we can lose that excitement. We can lose the momentum. Battles feel less like the epic paintings we see in the artwork of our books and feel more like a slow chess match between the DM and the player.
High fantasy isn't about pulling out a bent wire coathanger and seeing how many goblins we can squeeze into a fireball if we cast it just right. High fantasy is yelling out "I cast fireball!" and the DM saying "Your fireball explodes, sending the bodyparts of nine goblins splashing against the stone walls!"
This is a game of high adventure and fantastic storytelling. Gridded combat can pull us out of those stories and turn D&D into a board game.
Putting out a battle map, setting out all the minis, and drawing out the room all takes time. Moving miniatures around, watching other people move miniatures around, and getting involved in lengthy conversations about whether someone is behind half cover or three quarters cover when standing at the corner of a wall; all of that takes time. Taking time is fine when it adds to the enjoyment of the game but not everyone might enjoy the time it takes a wizard to figure out how to get all four fire giants into the blast radius of his cone of cold.
Running combat on a grid will often take more time than running combat vocally. In narrative combat, the DM describes the situation, the player describes their actions, the dice determine the results. It can't get much faster than that.
Switching from exploration and interaction to combat is usually a jarring experience. When that battle mat hits the table and the minis start marching across, we know what's supposed to happen. Discussions between characters and NPCs usually ceases. Trickery and subterfuge to try to avoid the fight usually ends.
When using narrative combat, we run combat the same way we run conversations with NPCs or exploring old ruins; we describe it verbally. This means we can have a perfectly smooth story that flows between interaction, exploration, combat, and back again without breaking the flow and pace of the story to pull out a big battle map and sort through plastic boxes full of miniatures.
According to the 2016 D&D DM Survey, 49% of DMs spend between 30 minutes and an hour designing combat encounters per session. In one such example, Merric Blackman of Merric's Musings made the following statement in his article On Collecting Minis:
It did make me wonder about my use of miniatures in D&D. The fact is that I own a lot of miniatures — somewhere upwards of 3,000 — and if I want to field an orc army for the player characters to face, I can do that. There's just a basic problem with that: it requires me to find that orc army first. Once you have so many miniatures (and I've been buying the plastic D&D ones since 2003), you need to find the ones you need. It takes time. For me to get the minis out for a 4-hour session can easily take an hour or more.
Getting maps and miniatures ready for a game takes time. In some cases it can take the most amount of time of any preparation activity. That time might be better spent on other parts of the game, such as integrating in the backgrounds of the characters, preparing some secrets, thinking through the eyes of our villains, or actually reading that adventure we bought cover to cover.
When we spend the time to prepare a battle map, set it up, and pick out all those miniatures that Merric was talking about; we now have an investment in that battle. We want to run it. We don't want to have wasted all that time setting up a big battle only to have the characters avoid it with a few lucky stealth checks.
In addition, we're not likely to let the story get away from us if our expectation is to plop down miniatures and draw out a map for every fight. Sometimes fights take place in some weird location we weren't ready for. Sometimes half the group is in a fight while the other half is still dining with the king.
When we run narrative combat, we don't need to worry about where the story goes. Regardless of where they are or what happens to be going on, we can easily pivot our plans and go where the story goes.
Because we have no initial preparation investment and no worry about the time it takes to draw out and set up a big fight, we're a lot less likely to worry when things go off the rails and into interesting and uncharted territory.
How do you run a gridded battle on an airship that's breaking in half and falling down to earth? How do you draw out a map of a battle taking place hanging from vines on the edge of a thousand-foot-high waterfall? How do you handle a battle against two hundred skeletons?
Not every battle takes place in a nice easy-to-draw flat 2d plane with perfectly aligned five foot squares and a reasonable number of monsters. Running narrative combat lets us run battles in any environment and in any situation we, and our players, can imagine. We're no longer shackled to whatever we can describe in nicely aligned five foot blocks. Now we can describe battles on top of ancient crumbling war machines or floating on magical disks above the city of Sharn.
When we pull out that big gridded battle map and start getting tactical, the DM often ceases to be a facilitator for fantastic stories and becomes an opponent of the players. This completely changes the dynamics of the game. Instead of working together to build a story, we have opponents at the table; not just on the table. Players may begin to feel like the DM is working against them. Combat becomes a competition between players and DMs instead of a scene. For DM's this is, most of the time, a losing battle. If it feels like a competition, we're the ones who get stomped in nearly every fight. That can break us down after a while.
DMs are also more likely to worry about ensuring that the battle is a challenge if we're running on the grid, because what's the point of a grid if the characters are just going to stomp through the bad guys. But sometimes that stomping is great fun and a solid piece of the story.
When we run combat in the theater of the mind, we're not adversaries anymore. We're still telling a story and the adversaries are just characters whose eyes we sometimes look through. We're not competing because we're building the whole world, not just moving miniatures around on a board.
Gridded combat doesn't have to cost much more than the $12 for an awesome Pathfinder Flip Mat but this starts a slippery slope. Next thing you know we might have dropped $120 on a set of flat plastic miniatures but maybe you want some 3d miniatures instead so you get in on one of those great Reaper Kickstarters. That normal battlemap isn't so bad but wouldn't a few pre-drawn battlemaps be cooler? What about some of that awesome Dwarven Forge terrain?
Wait a minute, did we just spend the price of a car on 3D terrain? I thought this hobby was supposed to be cheap!
Running combat in the theater of the mind gives us an unlimited special effects budget for zero dollars. Whatever we can describe, we can run. We don't need to have a collection of two thousand miniatures and a storage container full of Dwarven Forge. We can just grab our book, some pencils and paper, and some dice and run some high adventure.
There's a freedom that we find when we're able to just grab our core books, an adventure, some notes, and our dice and run a full D&D game without worrying at all about whether we drew out the right map or have the right miniatures for a game. We worry less about the unexpected. We care less when the story gets away from us. We're back to letting D&D carry us away instead of locking us down into a mesh of 1 inch spaces.
I don't expect that the D&D community will toss aside thirty years of maps, miniatures, and terrain and all start exploding with colorful narrative battles. I know I'll still be running gridded combat quite a bit.
I hope, however, that you might give theater of the mind combat a try and see how it feels. If you're new to the game, this is a great way to keep your D&D investment low and still bring the awe and wonder of this limitless game to you and your players.
If I've convinced you to give combat in the theater of the mind a try, check out Sly Flourish's Guide to Narrative "Theater of the Mind" Combat and download and print out the one-page guide to share and discuss with your players.
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Summary: Jeremiah Bourgeois "JJ" was a bright, talented and loving child. In his teens, during tumultuous family distress and living on the streets, he took a life, in an impulsive act of vengeance. In 1993 at 14 years of age, he was tried as an adult and received a life sentence without parole. On June 20, 2014 he was resentenced to a minimum of 25 years and a maximum term of life in jail.
Personal story: Little JJ was my childhood friend. He was a talented dancer at our dance academy. In 1987, (he was 9 years old then) we (JJ, his sister Paula and I) beat out 400 other dancers and booked this Crest commercial (he is the little African American boy in the front row in every group scene on the right side). I had since moved from our hometown in Seattle, Washington and 5 years later, heard that he was sentenced to life in prison for killing a man out of desperation, since the man had testified against JJ's big brother. I knew JJ, as a sweet and talented youth, full of promise and vitality. Studies reveal that the mind fully develops in decision making by the age of 25. As a mom with a 13 year old son of my own, I know how much an adolescent needs in order to stay on a straight path, in a world of dangerous influences. "It takes a village to raise a child." JJ's story is shared by many youths, who fall through the cracks. It has been a long 25 years in prison. He lives with the tragedy of a past he cannot change and the remorse of his crime. He has since, put his time behind bars to good use. He received in BA and writes for prominent law journals and other publications. He dreams to earn a law degree to help others, but a law program is not available to him in incarceration.
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A transsexual who downloaded sickening images of child pornography escaped jail because a judge said prison would be too tough a place for her.
Laura Voyce, 20, who was born a man and used to go by the name Luke, faced being locked up for nine months in a male prison after being convicted of 14 counts of downloading indecent images of children.
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I've been using Aurelia since it was first available to the public. I have made a lot of bad decisions with it and a lot of good ones over the course of the last year or so. One project that I embarked on had a large amount of forms that needed to get filled out, validated, and sent to the server that expected the data to be in a particular format like any other API call.
I was using mongoose on my back end as it was Node.js powered with mongo as a storage solution. I really wanted to find a way to reduce the the overhead of form validation and value selection. So I went to take a look at mongoose for the browser, nothing extreme just a way to bind the validation I already had in my schemas for the back end to the forms on the front end.
After finding that to be a relatively easy task I then had to find a way to get my schemas to load into the browser and into my node modules. I first tried some old crusty methods of wrapping the returns in various statements depending on if env variables could be found to determine if I was in Node land or Browser land, but ultimately it became way to bloated to be included in every schema that I wrote.
So I moved on to a cleaner solution of browser first. Since I was using Aurelia and Babel to handle keeping things clean and the live transpiling I could just write straight ES6 style schemas. which I could then load using Babel on the backend as well. thus began the journey of my mongoose schema input custom attribute in Aurelia.
Building The Custom Attribute
I normally start things out by just defining the logic-less parts of a new component that I am working on. This was no different, I created a empty custom attribute using Aurelia bringing in all the relevant modules I'd need to make it function. it looked something like this
This obviously is not very exciting in and of itself; however it shows some key interactions with the Aurelia component life cycle. These life cycle methods on the class get called by Aurelia when our component is constructed/deconstructed and attached/detached to the DOM, this is bind and unbind respectively in our class definition.
Next I wanted to identify some issues that I've come across with some other form utilities and see if I could address them with my own implementation. The list ended up being relatively short but crucial to reusable form validation components
- Two way binding for values in my mongoose model
- error class appending/removal on state change
- Independent logic set that lives outside of any view model
- Validation logic throttling
- onChange event support for things such as dropdown menus, multi select, and radio buttons.
- Callback support for when something is validated
- No jQuery, only core JS.
After I finished my list I didn't feel like it was something that couldn't be done or was to wild to keep in check without bloating it. With this list in my mind I added properties to my class definition to represent my list items. In the end it looked like this :
Most of these properties are pretty self explanatory with the comments provided in the code sample. Most of these are just properties that get bound from the parent view model so that the attribute has access to the memory reference so that two way binding can be used. It is worth mentioning that we explicitly make the binding type of the component two way, this is to enforce the behavior between the view model and the attribute references.
Building The Attribute Functionality
So now we have a pretty solid skeleton for the functionality that we can load into a view model and use as an attribute on a input field. Sadly so far it doesn't really do anything; the functionality still needs some scope as to how we bind it to the view and the view model. Lets go over how we want the HTML and ViewModel to look like when using this custom attribute.
HTML Bindings
The HTML binding part of the custom component is relatively easy and simply binds values from a view model to the reference containing properties of the custom attribute instance. Given the properties we made on the attribute the bindings can look like this
ViewModel Bindings
Given the attributes in the HTML template and the properties of the attribute we can create a sample view model to hook everything up for examples purpose. We need a small mongoose model, a callback, and the path name of the field to validate in the mongoose model. In the end we can use something like the following
We really don't need much in the view model here, just a callback and a mongoose model. Normally I would suggest creating your schemas separately and importing them; but for the purposes of this example we will define the schema inside the view model.
The callback that you pass to the validator attribute gets passed either an object containing the path that was validated if it was successful or the error object that the mongoose validator returns for that paths validation call.
Writing The Attribute Methods
Our constructor does not do a lot of logic here, we simply assign the element handle to a property on the class instance that gets passed to it by the Aurelia injection/creation life cycle. We also create and grab a logging instance from the Aurelia framework.
The Bind method is invoked by the Aurelia life cycle when the attribute is bound to the DOM and the view model of the outer template instance that the attribute was required in. The Bind method is passed the context of the parent view model which allows us to invoke methods that are on the parents scope ( like we do with the callback that you pass to the validator ).
A word of caution : It's tempting to use this context for direct bindings to the parent scope instead of doing the binding on the template/DOM level ( What I personally call Angular Scope Hell Syndrome ). This really is not the best way to do this and creates very tightly bound component that relies on things to exist in every view model that acts as the parent context to the custom attribute which makes it very brittle and not reusable.
Unbind is invoked in the life cycle of the attribute when the attribute is detached from the DOM and current route scope. In this case it is used to remove the the listeners that were attached in the Bind method.
This is where most of the magic happens for the custom attribute. This is where the actual validation using the mongoose model happens using the path name string and the model that we bound to the instance in the html bindings. There are a few things the method does
- Calls the mongoose document validation method
- Because of the fact that the mongoose document validates all fields whenever you call the .validate method we have to look for our current paths error specifically by using the path string.
- If we have a validation object and we find an error matching the path string that was bound to the instance then we throw a not validated error.
- If we do not have any validateResult object then all is well OR if now error was found for this path then it has passed validation.
- In either of these cases we either add or remove the error classes that we also bound in the HTML bindings.
- These error and success classes do have defaults as seen in the class property definitions but those can be changed to suite any of your needs.
Due to the fact that I didn't want to use anything but pure JS for this the validateField method seems a bit chunky and I am sure could be reduced in size with some modifications. But this blog isn't about perfect code, it's about learning.
The validateField will apply the error or success classes to the parent of the input field. This allows you to wrap your input fields and have them show the errors based on the mongoose validation result.
The valueListener method is what actually gets attached to the event hooks on the element that the attribute is instantiated on. ValueListener is where throttling is handled via some simple time out mechanics that aren't very mysterious. Basically all that happens here is the throttle flag is set when we start validating the field and then when another request for validation comes in we set a small timeout for the next validations to occur in sequence.
While not perfect it does work, though I do have the thought of potentially using the binding behaviors here that Aurelia comes with; I will add my findings when I get to that here.
The Results!
It's been a quick and hopefully painless ride to our custom validation using mongoose schemas on the frontend. Here are some examples of the forms that I have put together using this mongoose method. The icons on the right of the input fields change depending on the success and failure classes that get added or removed to inputs parent. I set it up this way so I could add other elements in the same element as the input which could pick up on the success or failure state of the input field; but that is a another article.


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