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Ionian Islands
Sailing holidays in the Ionian islands
Sailing a yacht charter in Greece on the Ionian is all about relaxation and pleasure.
Whether the gentle sea breezes that rarely get above a Force 5 or the stunning scenery and sea, you will be soothed by all you see and feel in this stunning part of the Greek Mediterranean.
Family's best choice
Where in July and August on the Aegean the sailing can verge on the extreme, you can comfortably take your young family out to sea on the Ionian on most days.
The kids will love the beaches and walks through the countryside, while the parents will enjoy the long lunches with the cuisine peculiar only to the seven major islands of the region.
There are seven major islands in the Ionian, and these are known as the Eptanissa - literally "seven islands" in Greek. These seven major islands are quite large - up to 63km long in the case of Corfu and have mountains as well as the lowlands and beaches you will encounter from the coast.
Plants in Ionian islands
Ashore you will find a host of herbs and fruit trees that are rarely seen elsewhere.
Myrtle is a low bush with sweetly scented leaves that was mentioned in the Greek Mythos: The nymph Mirsine had a race with the goddess Athena and won. In a rage, Athena killed Mirsine and her body was transformed into a myrtle. It has close associations with love, marriage and death, having been associated with the Greek goddess Aphrodite.
The tall, evergreen Cypress trees are known as the 'finger of God' and you will see at least one in every village, complete with its very own mythos.
The geology of the region is ever changing owing to the active tectonic plates. Even so it took thousands of years for people to understand why the sea goes straight through the coast around Katavothres on Kefalonia.
This peculiarity occurred even after violent earthquakes, and puzzled people from ancient times - until 1963. A group of Austrian geologists poured dye into the water where the sea entered the rocks and had a look around Kefalonia to see where it emerged.
It took 27 days to travel 17km through an underground tunnel beneath the island and after appearing at the freshwater Melissani Lake, emerged from Karavomilos Lake to the northwest of the island.
Azure waters
The purity of the colour of the Ionian has to be seen to be believed. You will see the sea bottom from up to five metres or more - very few pollutants will muddy this view. One of the hot destinations for sea swimming is the islet of Antipaxos off Paxos, but this can be incredibly busy with your fellow boaters in the peak of summer.
Given the vast coastlines of the main islands in the Eptanassa chain, why not find your own quiet spot to enjoy the stunning waters? On a Greek yacht charter with Kavas Yachting the choice is really down to you.
Marine fauna
You will find all sorts of marine fauna in the Ionian, including turtles and dolphins.
Zakynthos is home to Loggerhead turtles (caretta caretta) who lay their eggs on the southern coast of the island.
While they lay their eggs at night and you will hardly ever see them ashore, do visit the Sea Turtle & Wildlife Information Centre at Gerakas. Once there you will soon understand why the beach is loved by turtles - you may well wish to relax there yourself for a few hours...
Locals' accent
If you have been to the Greek mainland before, the first thing you will notice when in the Ionian islands is the accent - ruled for 600 years by Venice, the islanders speak Greek with a singsong Italian accent.
If you speak Greek you will spot dozens of Italian words that have been inserted by the Venetians when they ruled over the region. This is not to say that if you speak Italian you will understand them - this is just their dialect.
Culture influences
With the centuries of foreign (Ottoman, British and Venetian) rule comes all sorts of cultural differences to mainland Greece that really make the Ionian a region worth visiting for its nuances. The food is influenced by foreign colonials as is their music and even architecture.
You will hear different folk music from the Ionian Music School which is very classical in origin, said to have come from Byzantine influences - these are played by groups who use the violin, guitar and laouto.
The Venetian influence has Kantades bands of Zakynthos. What this means is that you will be regaled by a vast array of traditional music that will often entertain you late into the night.
Religious festivals aren't just about piety and churchgoing - they are a very good excuse to have a party. Nearly every month of the year the Eptanissa islanders will find some excuse to get out on the street, drink too much wine and celebrate one festival or another.
This is a very cheap way of entertaining the family while getting a bit of culture in to your visit to the islands! Do look out for the festival of Saint Spyridon in Corfu who is reputed to have warded off the Turkish siege in August 1716 - if you are around on August 11th, then watch the islanders celebrate like there is no tomorrow!
Similarly you will find the Festival of Saint Dionyssios on Zakynthos as a wild and fun time. The Patron Saint of the island died in 1622 on December 17, but his body was moved and reinterred on the 24th August 1717.
This means the Zakythos islanders have two excuses to celebrate this man of God! If you go inland on any island you will almost certainly find a celebration of some sort - you only need to scratch the surface lightly to find something.
The rythm of life in Ionian
The people are laid back here. Time moves at a different speed on the Ionian islands. The peoples of the Ionian live longer, healthier and happier lives than many from Northern Europe. Perhaps we could all learn a lesson or two from them!
Other than being laid back you will also find those who call these islands home incredibly friendly and helpful – you are their guests and they will treat you as such. Just don't expect something to be done 'yesterday'...
The influences of foreign colonials include the food.
Here are five dishes found only in the Ionian islands that you should definitely try:
- Kefallonítiki kreatópita is simply, a meat pie made in Kefalonia. The flavours will blow your socks off - garlic, nutmeg, marjoram, bay leaf and cinnamon adds to the mixture of lamb and veal as well as carrots, leeks and rice. This is a meal in a pie and is extremely popular among locals and tourists alike...
- Zakynthos has 'aubergines skordostoubi', a vegetarian dish of aubergines, carrots and potatoes in a paprika, garlic and vinegar sauce. Many locals eat this with cubes of the local cheese called ladotyri.
- Lefkadítiki ladópita is literally 'oil pie' and is found on Lefkada. This dessert is a cake baked with semolina and olive oil, sweetened with syrup and has almonds and sesame seeds to add to this sumptuous dessert.
- Don't forget the legendary Zakynthos nougats that are made with egg whites, honey, sugar and almonds. They are served as small sweet sized lumps. Each one you taste will be a little jewel on your palate!
These are only a flavour of what you will find - those with an adventurous palate will make discoveries wherever they travel.
The weather of this part of the world is just what you would want from paradise islands - hot but not fierce, and with cooling winds that can waft your Greek yacht charter boat at a relaxed pace.
In the heat of summer it is rarely as hot as baking Athens, but you will rarely need more than a light shirt in the day or evening. In the spring and autumn months you will get your fix of the sun to, with temperatures in the 15-20 ℃ range.
The rains start coming in in Autumn and these bring with them a noticeable greening of the islands.
The great thing for people taking a yacht charter holiday on the Ionian with Kavas Yachting is that the winds are essentially sea breezes that pick up at around 8 in the morning, find their peak at around lunchtime, before dying to a zephyr in the evening.
This makes for near perfect if gentle sailing that will never scare the occasional sailor and will beguile you to come again and again for more adventures on these beautiful Greek islands.
There are two big modern marinas in Ionian, in the islands of Corfu & Lefkada.
They charge an average fee of 50 euros per day.
Sailors can avoid these marinas as there are places to moor close by for €0.
Other, smaller ports may only pay €2 a day for mooring, if there is a fee at all.
Free places could be found easily anytime, while in Ithaca or Paxi (Gaios), Kefalonia (Fiskardo), during the high season this could be very difficult.
Do you have to moor in every port at the centre of the action? You may be paying to have loud drunks next to you! It may pay in sleep and of course your wallet to anchor a little way off and come into port by dinghy. This may well pay off as the Ionian is so magical wherever you go.
Unlike Western Europe we moor stern-to in marinas - this is a trick we look at in our Sailing Guide.
Equally you will find quiet anchorages that you can get respite in from the hard living of the major towns.
Touring the Ionian islands you will never be far from help, with trips between islands rarely more than around 20km.
The climate being perfect for sailing, you still need to be switched on - the price for being completely independent is you're on your own.
Do have a look at the Kavas Sailing Guide to remind yourself of most common sailing troubleshooting as you go.
You will begin and end your journey at the large marina in Lefkada Town. Our team of friendly and expert Kavas staff will ensure your boat is kept to a high standard and you can speak to them at any time of day or night as you need:
You can get in contact with : MINAS PAPATHOMAS, which is our Ionian islands Base manager in Lefkada
More info: KAVAS YACHTING - LEFKADA
Sailing Itineraries
|One week sailing Itinerary
Total distance: 70 NM
(Less Experienced Sailors)
|One week sailing Itinerary
Total distance: 137 NM
(Experienced Sailors)
|One week sailing Itinerary
Total distance: 161 NM
|1. Lefkada - Sivota 15.5 NM
|1. Lefkada - Paxi 33.7 NM
|1. Lefkada - Fiskardo 24.7 NM
|2. Sivota - Vasiliki 7.6 NM
|2. Paxi - Lakka 4.6 NM
|2. Fiskardo - Poros 20 NM
|3. Vasiliki - Poros 8.5 NM
|3. Lakka - Corfu 32.5 NM
|3. Poros - Zakintos 23.9 NM
|4. Poros - Kalamos 13.5 NM
|4. Corfu
|4. Zakinthos
|5. Kalamos - Meganisi 12.5 NM
|5. Corfu - Sivota 23.5 NM
|5. Zakinthos - Vathi 41.5 NM
|6. Meganisi - Scorpios 3.0 NM
|6. Sivota - Parga 12 NM
|6. Vathi - Meganissi 21.0 NM
|7. Scorpios Lefkada 9.0 NM
|7. Parga - Lefkada 30.8 NM
|7. Meganissi - Lefkada 10.5 NM


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L'Oreal is using "closed generic" .makeup in an interesting way
What do you call a registry that defensively registers names on behalf of the very people that would be its most likely customers if the TLD weren't so hideously overpriced?
L'Oreal, apparently.
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Ironically, these are precisely the kind of people you'd expect to actually go out and register .makeup domains, if they didn't cost close to $7,000 a pop.
L'Oreal put a $5,500 wholesale price-tag on .makeup domains, evidently as a Plan B to avoid actually having to sell names to people, after its original plan to keep the string as a "closed generic" failed due to ICANN politicking.
As you might expect, uptake has been minimal. The zone file currently has about 266 domains in it.
Beyond L'Oreal itself, there are defensive registrations by companies not remotely related to the make-up industry, such as BMW and Intuit, and registrations by competing companies in the cosmetics industry, such as Christian Dior and Estee Lauder.
But there are also something like 150 .makeup domains that were all registered at the same time, this April, representing the names and social media handles of young women who post YouTube videos about makeup for their often thousands of subscribers.
It turns out these women are all participants (willing, it seems) in WeLove.Makeup, a web site created by L'Oreal to promote its products.
The site is basically a social media aggregator. Each "influencer" has their own page, populated by their posts from YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, and such. It's maintained by Findie, which specializes in that kind of thing.
The domains matching the participants names do not resolve to the site, however. They're all registered to L'Oreal's registry management partner Fairwinds and resolve to ad-free registrar parking pages.
The names were registered via 101Domain, which prices .makeup names at $6,999, but I've no idea what payment arrangement Fairwinds/L'Oreal has for this kind of thing.
This is what a wannabe closed generic can look like, it seems — the registry pricing its customers out of the market then registering their names on their behalf anyway.
Is this "innovation"?
L'Oreal shows cards on former "closed generic" gTLDs
Want to register a .beauty or .makeup domain name? L'Oreal will get to decide unilaterally whether "you're worth it".
The cosmetics maker has released the registration policies for its first former "closed generic" gTLD, .makeup, and they're among the most restrictive in the industry.
Free speech appears to be the first victim of the policy — "gripe sites" are explicitly banned in the same breath as cybersquatting, 419 scams and the sale of counterfeit goods.
Domain investors and those who would hide their identity behind Whois privacy services appear to be unwelcome, too.
But perhaps most significantly, L'Oreal has also given itself the right to decide, in its sole discretion, whether a would-be registrant is eligible to own a .makeup domain.
Its launch policy reads:
Registrant Eligibility Requirements
To support the mission and purpose of the TLD, in order to register or renew a domain name in the TLD, Applicants must (as determined by the Registry in its sole and exclusive right):
- Own, be connected to, employed by, associated with, or affiliated with a company that provides makeup and/or cosmetics related products, services, news, and/or content; or (ii) be an individual, association, or entity that has a meaningful nexus (as determined by the Registry in its sole discretion) with the cosmetics industry; and
- Possess a bona fide intention to use the domain name in supporting the mission and purpose of the TLD.
Would-be registrants have to submit an "application" for the domain they want, and L'Oreal gets to decide whether to approve it or not.
Whether L'Oreal chooses to apply liberal or conservative standards here remains to be seen.
Like most new gTLD registries, the company plans to reserve many domains for the use of itself, partners, or future release.
The policies also give L'Oreal broad discretion to suspend or terminate names it decides violate the terms of the registration policy, which it says it can amend and retroactively apply at any time.
Using the domain counter to the mission statement of the gTLD is a violation. The mission statement reads:
The mission and purpose of the TLD is first and foremost to promote the beauty, makeup and cosmetics segments, through meaningful engagement with manufacturers, beauty enthusiasts, consumers, and retailers, using a domain space intended for use by individuals and/or companies within or associated with the various industries that provide, utilize, or bear a recognizable connection to makeup and cosmetic products and/or services.
L'Oreal has defined gripe sites — sites established primarily to criticize — as a security and stability concern that "may put the security of any Registrant or user at risk", banning
other abusive behaviors that appear to threaten the stability, integrity or security of the TLD or any of its registrar partners and/or that may put the security of any Registrant or user at risk, including but not limited to: cybersquatting, sale and advertising of illegal or counterfeit goods, front-running, gripe sites, deceptive and⁄or offensive domain names, fake renewal notices, cross gTLD registration scams, traffic diversion, false affiliation, domain kiting⁄tasting, fast-flux, 419 scams.
If you want to set up a .makeup web site to criticize, say, L'Oreal for "body shaming" or for its animal testing policy, lots of luck to you.
The gTLD is owned by L'Oreal but seems to be being managed primarily by its application consultant, Fairwinds Partners.
It was originally designated as a single-registrant space, a so-called "closed generic" or "exclusive access" gTLD, in which only L'Oreal could register names.
But the company was forced to change its plans, under pain of losing its application, after the Governmental Advisory Committee persuaded ICANN to perform a U-turn on the permissibility of closed generics.
.makeup is due to start accepting pre-launch requests for Founders Program domains next Monday. General availability will start October 19.
Sunrise will kick off September 8, though L'Oreal warns that it has withheld generic terms such as "shop" from this period.
The company also owns .beauty, and I expect its terms there to be similar.

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Today I bring you my review of the amazing book Tompkin's School For the Extraordinary Talented. Ready?
Tompkin's School For the Extraordinary Talented is a unique and super exciting YA. It follows Izara Torvik, a strong and funny girl who sees her life changing when she is sent with her twin brother to a boarding school in the middle of nowhere Oklahoma.
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Glasses Free Gaming Laptops Will Give 3D More Traction, Claims 3D-gaminglaptops.com
(PRWEB) January 31, 2012
The advent of glasses free gaming laptops will make 3D much more desirable by gamers, claims 3D-gaminglaptops.com, a comprehensive site dealing with 3D laptops and systems. The recent announcement by Toshiba at the last CES in Las Vegas, stating their Qosmio F755 3D line of gaming notebooks are now capable of playing some 100+ 3D games currently on the market, is a big step forward for 3D technology and 3D gaming.
This upgrade, which is available from Toshiba's Service Station Utility, is significant because Toshiba worked with NVIDIA to produce the 3D software needed for the new glasses free devices. NVIDIA, as any gamer will tell you, is one of the leading names in computer graphics and have already produced a popular 3D Vision Kit, which is featured in many laptops and desktop PCs.
The new glasses free system by Toshiba and NVIDIA is unique in regards to the way images are projected to give the 3D effect. This system uses the laptop's webcam to track the user's movement in order to project two separate images (one to each eye) using a double parallax display. This new Active Lens technology eliminates the need for glasses.
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Many gamers who wouldn't be caught dead wearing those awkward glasses may just give the new gaming laptops a second look, claims 3D-gaminglaptop.com, paving the way for a more wider mainstream acceptance of the new 3D technology. We have already seen some glasses free systems, such as Nintendo 3DS and 3D laptops from ASUS, previously testing this market.
However, as many manufacturers and merchants will attest, despite the huge popularity of 3D feature films such as Avatar, new 3D products for the home entertainment market haven't exactly been best sellers. But most of those products required 3D glasses which could set the buyer back $ 200 or more and gave many users headaches, especially after long periods of use.
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Another interesting question, will this new Active Lens technology developed by Toshiba and NVIDIA be applied to other gadgets and devices? Could we expect to see many more glasses free systems debuting soon? All this could definitely give 3D gaming laptops and 3D in general, many more eyes in the future.
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Saying goodbye is never easy. When you know it is a final goodbye it is especially hard.
Our tradition of funeral home visitations, funerals, and graveside services are sometimes incomprehensible to the young, tedious to teenagers, prolonged to some, exhausting to others. But the intent is to show respect, and to give comfort, and do what we can for those left behind. And so we do what we can, the best way we know how.
When I was young, I never liked going with my parents to a visitation. They seemed to know everyone there and had to spend what seemed like an enormous amount of time visiting. As I got older I asked if this was disrespectful to the grieving family – not really out of concern for their feelings, but just as a way of leaving sooner. It didn't work.
The first family member I remember services for was my grandmother. We were very close, but at the funeral home all the visitors were friends of my mother, or my aunt, and some older ones were friends of my grandmother herself. The personal loss I felt didn't really hit me until one of my friends came to visit – just for me. Somehow that made it all real. And while it hurt, I appreciated it so very much and remember it still, through all these many years.
When our daughter was very young, we became friends with an elderly lady in our church. When we would visit and take her food we walked through her front yard that she had filled with flowers, and we all delighted in our brief times together. When she passed away, we tried to explain to our daughter what had happened and that even though her body was there she was really in heaven. We thought she understood, until, at the visitation, our daughter went to one of the chairs that surrounded the room and sat down alone. We asked her what she was doing. "Waiting for Mrs. Jacobs to wake up," she replied.
I have a friend that has had way beyond her share of tragedies in her life. One of her daughters was killed in an accident when her car was hit by a sheriff's vehicle. That car lost control while chasing a speeder down the curvy country road they lived on. Video from the funeral was on TV repeatedly because of the controversy surrounding the necessity of the high speed chase. This was my first loss that literally took my breath away, and hurt so deeply that I had to remind myself to breathe. I remember that after the burial in the family cemetery just down the road from their house, what seemed like hundreds of friends and family gathered at their home and food seemed to be everywhere. I remember there didn't seem to be anything I could do for her but just to be there with her and for her, and so that's what I did.
I remember when this same friend's mother died after years of Alzheimer's had taken away the strong and loving soul from her body. The funeral was in a small country church that had floor-to-ceiling windows and relatively few seats. The vocalist was a friend with the voice of an angel, and during the quiet service the snow fell outside and wrapped us with a sense of calm and peace. The simple beauty of it remains in my memory. It was the perfect reflection of my friend's mother's life.
Although my mother had cancer, she died sooner than we expected and we were all in a state of surprise and concern for my father. We decided to have only graveside services. I remember when my aunt, my mother's sister, viewed her body for the first time – she cried and said it just didn't look like her. So we asked them to put her glasses on and it seemed to make things better. My mother was very active in the church's music ministry, and the former song leader was surprised that we didn't have a service at the church for her. So he went to the funeral home that morning before the service and sang "Because He Lives" just to her, just because. And at the cemetery, my son cried and cried because he could see how distraught his grandfather was at losing the love of his life and his wife of over 60 years.
Because my mother took care of my dad I wondered what I would do with him after she was gone. He only lived six months, but that time was a gift for me and my husband and my children to really get to know this quiet man who had lived in my outgoing mother's shadow. The times I visited with him brought peace to my hectic life and I felt such a loss when he passed away. When I wrote some words for the minister to share I said, "I wondered what I would do with him, and now I can't imagine what I will do without him."
People have been known to say, "She looks so good," or "He looks so natural," and I have cringed every time I heard those words. But when my husband's mother passed away, I worried about how she would look. She spent four years in a nursing home bed, her fragile skin scarred by bruises and sores, although still through it all, the complexion on her cheeks was always so beautiful. And she did look so "good" and so "natural," and I will ever be thankful to the funeral home for that gift to our family.
And so with these and many other sad times in my memory I went again to the funeral home today because a long-time friend lost her twenty-five year old son on his birthday. And I heard her say how she just couldn't believe it and woke up in the mornings and had to remember it was true all over again. And I saw his dad pat his son's chest with tears in his eyes and say, "He was a good boy." And I remembered all over again that saying goodbye is never easy. When you know it is a final goodbye it is especially hard.


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College For You Means…?
College has different meaning to different people in various cultures. BUT ONE THING which I have noticed around is that due to the over influence of Bollywood, the very picture of 'The College' in our teens is little cloudy.
Or may be it's me who doesn't know how exactly a college works!!!!!
I see youthful energy here in different shades of hair colour, and different lengths of dresses, pouting in front of their high-tech cell phones on the roads, the ground, classrooms, corridors, stairs and even in the washrooms. To be honest, I don't dislike it. It reminds me of those good old days!
I studied in a College quite dominated by Hindus, but technically governed by Christian ideology, and when I say studied, I actually mean studied!!! Whaaaaaat!!!!!I got my first cell phone during my Master's; weren't so common back then. So no Facebook, Instagram or Twitter had any pressure on me to always look perrrrrrfect.
Though I too enjoyed the change, and experimented with makeup and all. But the College made it a point that we never forget the fact that we were not there for a fashion show but to STUDY! Haha.
Opting Science stream added to the misery as the days used to be jam-packed leaving no space for extra things (I hope you understand what does extra during college life mean!)
But Thank goodness, we got rid of the boring uniforms of the schools and few ever furious teachers, who behaved as if we had taken money from them and hadn't returned!
So you see, my vision of a College is much limited, and it compulsorily revolves around studies.
PLUS I happened to start my teaching career in a College with the arrangements no different.
So, it shouldn't sound weird when I say I find it unpalatable when
- Students are missing from their classes without any worry! (It makes me worrisome though).
- Study being last in the priority list, they aren't interested in any other damn thing!
- Academic things are being dealt as casual!
- You mark zeros on their answer sheets thinking do I speak Greek in the class!
Well May be!
May be this is how things work these days, but I am going to need some time to swallow it…
If I focus on motivation, the subject suffers due to lack of time, and if I don't do my bit, I am not just! it's the other thing that I try to mix.🤓
So here I am, going through spells of peaking enthusiasm followed by total lack of it, trying to fit in, to follow the middle less bumpy road, which is obviously not the less taken one, which doesn't guarantee reaching destination but gives the security of landing atleast nearby !!!!
Hope the road isn't boring, and keep unveiling surprises from curve to curve, and may these be the pleasant ones only!
Fingers crossed.
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Hi, Mann, you made many important points about college. When I observe the interactions among students, they seem to be concern about a sense of belonging. I actually saw several little circles of students talking, one girl tried to squeeze in one with a big smile, holding hands with another girl. On another occasion, I saw male students had a gathering and had beer drinking contest, dry to prove masculinity among their peers. Yes, socializing takes a great part in their mind, not study or getting the good grades.
At least you have your teaching career, you go back to get your master degree, so you don't worry about being accepted as part of their social groups.
Good luck to your study!
Miriam Hurdle
Yes, I know. Good thing that when I went through my several masters, socializing wasn't an issue. When I went through my EdD, I was already in school administration. Yes, I did a lot of observation of new kids in college. I also do volunteer counseling with one particular client struggling through the ID crisis and ended up be used. What a new world!


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I always make sure to catch 106's Freestyle Friday when possible, just to see what upcoming and coming artists from various regions are looking like in regards to microphone skills. Not too many Carolina emcees have made to that national freestyle stage so it was pretty cool to see SC's Blind Fury on the set recently.
I remember this kid from MTV's MC Battle back in 2003; he made it to the finals but didn't take home the win. I recall a lot of other rappers in those battles clowning Blind Fury for being blind but it never seemed to phase him plus they didn't make it as far as he did in the competition.
Anyway my homie Tasha over at SheBloggin.com recently interviewed Blind Fury.
Check it out:
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U.S. Rep. Ryan Costello's exit interview
The Chester County Republican expressed frustration with serving in the Trump era, discussed his accomplishments, and what might be on the horizon.
In a tweet liked more than 15,000 times, exiting U.S. Rep. Ryan Costello bit back at President Donald Trump with a touch of vulgarity the day after the midterm elections, responding to Trump's reaction to Republicans' loss of the House:
"To deal with harassment and filth spewed at GOP members of Congress in tough seats every day for 2 years, because of POTUS; to bite your lip more times than you'd care to; to disagree and separate from POTUS on principle and civility in your campaign; to lose because of POTUS and have him (expletive) on you. Angers me to my core."
The media ate it up, and the Chester County Republican was invited to appear that night on CNN and MSNBC to talk about it.
If his salty Twitter account is an indicator, Costello, 42, is not going away quietly. But he is not sure what he will do when his term is over at the end of the year. Until the end of this year, he represents the 6th District, which includes part of Berks County.
Arriving in Congress after the 2014 elections, he served two terms. Costello thought he would stay in longer than four years but says he would not have stayed for decades.
"I think these jobs have shelf lives. You should go there and do what you think is right and not worry about re-election," Costello said.
During an end-of-term interview at his Wyomissing office, Costello seemed at peace with his decision not to run again, but not with how, in his view, the decision was unfairly foisted upon him.
Costello is still licking his wounds over the redrawing of the state's congressional districts that changed the 6th District from a Republican majority to a Democratic majority that he considers unwinnable for a Republican.
Congressional districts are redrawn every 10 years after the census by elected members of the General Assembly; the bill then goes to the governor for approval.
In 2017, the League of Women Voters challenged the map Pennsylvania lawmakers approved in 2011 and had used since 2012, calling it unconstitutionally gerrymandered. After a flurry of court filings, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court hired redistricting expert Nathaniel Persily, a Stanford University law professor, to redraw the map and ordered it used.
Some candidates, seeing new potential to win, decided to run. Some switched to new districts and others, like Costello, dropped out.
"The reason I'm leaving is because of the injustice of the four Supreme Court justices who decided to rig an election and rig a congressional map," Costello said recently. "They should be impeached."
Wary of new leadership
Costello said 6th District voters should be bothered by an early decision by his Democratic successor, U.S. Rep.-elect Chrissy Houlahan of Chester County. Just 11 days after she won her seat in Congress, Houlahan announced plans to seek a leadership role.
She was bidding to be one of three co-chairs on the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee, which is tasked with developing caucuswide messaging.
She came in fourth, according to rollcall.com.
"Having not even been sworn into office and not having any political experience, the fact that she is more interested in moving up the D.C. Democratic political ladder than focusing on the district tells you Berks County is going to end up a loser in this situation, with her being elected," Costello said. "In your first term, there is so much to learn, the notion that somehow you're equipped to be a leader of the party is a joke. It just kind of shows you that some people's arrogance far surpasses their experience. I don't think you are dealing with a woman who has much humility."
Houlahan, who defeated Republican nominee Greg McCauley 59 percent to 41 percent, responded in an email early last week.
"I'm running for this position for the exact same reasons I ran for Congress: to serve, and because I am qualified to serve my community in this unique manner," she said. "Real leadership takes humility and a willingness to sacrifice for others. It isn't a ladder to be climbed. If I am successful in this role I will be a more effective public servant for Berks and Chester counties."
Costello doesn't believe Houlahan has offered any policies or new ideas.
"She had the energy of the angry-left, and she, I think, is a member of the angry-left. I think that once the Supreme Court rigged it for her, she just kept her mouth shut, raised angry-left money from across the country and she coasted to election," Costello said. "She really didn't have to work hard to get it. It was pretty much handed to her by the Supreme Court."
Health of the nation
Costello says he is leaving Congress with the U.S. economy in decent shape, but deficit spending and debt remain a concern. He predicts the tax reform bill that he supported will create more economic activity and trigger revenue growth over the next decade.
He sees the biggest problem with politics as an unwillingness to work together.
"We as House Republicans didn't find enough opportunities to bring Democrats in for bipartisan votes," Costello said. "I think Democrats right now are wrestling with whether they are going to be the party of investigations or whether they are going to lean in on infrastructure."
While some Republicans have viewed special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe with suspicion, Costello says Mueller can do a better job than a House committee.
"I view the Mueller investigation as credible. I always have. I think that has frustrated some on the right because I don't think it's a hoax," Costello said. "And I do think the president shouldn't be attacking the FBI and the CIA."
Costello has found serving in the House with Trump in the White House tricky.
"In a different era, it was normal for a Republican to point out disagreements with their own party," he said. "There seems to be less appetite and space for one to do that."
Costello is proud of supporting the tax bill and increasing spending on the National Institutes of Health and the military.
"I never voted a certain way in order to protect my political prospects," he said.
Costello described a May 4, 2017, health care vote as one of his toughest. He was one of only 20 Republicans to vote against a bill to repeal and replace former President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act. After coming out of committee, the bill changed in ways that turned Costello from a yes to a no vote. It passed the House 217-213 amid much pressure to toe the party line.
"I had the vice president calling me," Costello said. "I got called down to the Oval Office."
The measure later failed by a single vote in the Senate.
Legislative legacy
Costello is proud of leaving his mark with two pieces of legislation from his first term.
In 2015, Costello and fellow U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark, a Massachusetts Democrat, introduced the Bringing Postpartum Depression Out of the Shadows Act in an effort to increase screening and treatment for women with postpartum depression. The bill was part of the House's medical research funding package.
In 2016, he introduced an amendment to the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act, otherwise known as the FAST Act, a five-year transportation spending package. His amendment allows short-line railroad projects to be eligible for a federal grant program.
What's next?
"I don't think I am going to go away quietly," said Costello, who still has $725,000 in his campaign account. "I returned a big chunk when I got out. I will support other candidates in the future. I may run again, years down the road."
If he ran federally, it would be for a House or Senate seat. If it were something at the state level, it would be a statewide office, he said.
Previously, he served as a Chester County commissioner, and before that, he practiced real estate and municipal law.
Costello doubts he will go back to being an attorney.
"In some way, I'll still advocate. I'll still speak," Costello said. "I don't know what I'll be a spokesperson for, but I expect I will do something in the public policy space. I just don't know what exactly that is."
Costello says he has had some interviews.
He won't be writing a book, but he has been reading more lately.
Although Costello has been a frequent guest on cable television opinion shows, he has not been offered any television deals.
"I've developed some good contacts in Washington, D.C., and I've also developed some good contacts in the district," he said.
He intends to continue living in the 6th District.


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This post is a lesson from my book "Collaboration Economy" which you can get for free here.
If you want to increase and multiply revenue in your business without having to add any additional marketing costs, while ensuring that you are capitalizing and maximizing your ability to get and follow up on referrals, then affiliate systems are the next key in today's collaboration economy.
If you are in a service business where you provide your customers something intangible, which they can't enjoy unless they hire you, then a minimum of 40% of your business should always come through referrals. In the old way of doing business, referrals were an arduous process: You would have to reach out to each of your customers, ask them if they were happy, and then if they responded positively, you would have to ask them if they knew of anybody who could benefit from your services.
At that point, there may have been an awkward pause; no matter how much they liked your product or service, the individual may or may not have felt comfortable with this question and they may have hemmed and hawed and left you without any good referrals. Generally, this was a very clumsy, cumbersome process.
All about affiliate marketing:
In the new business model, thanks to today's technology, there is even a new term to describe how to automate your referral system—it's all about affiliate marketing.
Affiliate marketing was made most successful by one of the companies we keep referring to in this business because they've done such an amazing job, Amazon.com. The way Amazon.com grew so rapidly and so quickly is because they created an affiliate program where anyone—you, me, it doesn't matter as long as we have an email address and a computer—could sign on as an affiliate, receive a specialized link to every single product in the Amazon warehouse, post that on a personal website, and if anyone else chose to buy that product through this vocalization of Amazon, you would receive a small percentage of the sales you were directly responsible for influencing.
How to make an affiliate program work for you
It is important to address how affiliate programs can work for you even when you're not working. You shouldn't have to be constantly working on affiliates and referrals in the new economy.
In general, there are three types of people who could be a potential affiliate for you and your business:
- Promoters: These are the people who will really give your business a boost. They think what you have to offer is amazing and they are more than happy to promote it on their website, through social media channels, to friends and family, to anyone they meet. The more promoters you have, the better. All you need to do is reward them and thank them and send them on their way; they will be happy to do the rest and publicize your product or service to anyone and everyone. A promoter is really what you want all of your customers to ultimately become. A promoter will take the reins out of your hands and will willingly and eagerly go out and tell people about your products or your services, not because of the commission, but because of the amazing benefits they receive and the outstanding follow-up support that they get from you. Every business owner should be constantly thinking about creating more promoters.
- Customers: A customer is someone who has purchased your products or services and they are happy with the purchase. This group would be thrilled to tell people about these products and services, but only when those people ask. They're not inclined to go out of their way to promote your products or services. They will if you hassle them enough, if you constantly call them and email them and remind them over and over. However, you could end up spending a lot of time and energy trying to encourage customers to send out marketing on your behalf. If they do it at all, it's going to be halfhearted, template-driven communication, and it's not going to speak to their core audience the way it needs to.
- Sleepers: When you hear someone complain about having to babysit the people who are signed up as an affiliate, this is the group they're talking about. A sleeper is someone who has purchased your product or service, has agreed to fill out or click the affiliate link and sign up, but then finds that promoting your system or your service is far too time-consuming. As a result, they never do anything with it. It is actually pretty easy to become a sleeper for many of the companies you set up affiliate links with. Why? Because they never do anything to keep in touch with you; they may have an affiliate program, but not a very effective one. At the end of the day, if you can make a 10, 20 or a 50% commission selling somebody else's product for the same amount of work that it takes to sell your own products and services for 100% of that commission, you will naturally work on your own. That is a common mentality in this business. All of this means that you need to help sleeper affiliates realize that the 20-50% commission that they might receive on your product is a better deal for them than 100% of the sales on their own product or service. You can do this.
Rather than focus your energy and time on reminding customers to send out referral marketing for you, you would be better off spending that same time rewarding those customers, keeping in touch with them and giving them the most remarkable customer service you could possible imagine.
Following is a great example of just that: Daniel Priestley, an entrepreneur, author and speaker, regularly rents out a night club, restaurant or a pub to have what he calls an "Affiliate Night." During these events, he brings all of his key affiliates—the promoters and the customers—out to just enjoy company and develop more connections.
The two of us, John and Topher, have a great affiliate relationship with each other. We happily refer people to each other's companies not because of the commissions we get—which we don't even take—but because we both believe so fully in the other person's products and services that we go out of our way to encourage people to reach out to the other one and do business with them. If you want to make your customers your promoters, seek ways to make them your friends. Build up that trust, build up that bond and create that friendship.
Both sides of the affiliate marketing coin
There are two sides to the affiliate network business. If you think about it, being an affiliate or offering an affiliate program is really the essence of the collaboration economy, because without this collaboration, neither the individual nor the company can reach their full potential and maximize their earnings potential. Affiliate marketing is truly the collaborative economy in action, which is one of the reasons we are such strong believers in affiliate networks.
In truth, when done really well, affiliate commissions alone can create more revenue than most full-time professions today.
As you contemplate how you will collaborate in this economy using affiliate programs, there are two different things you can think of:
- If you have a product or a service that you want to better monetize and increase word-of-mouth and exposure primarily online, then you can offer an affiliate program—in other words, a commission based on performance—for those who promote and then sell your product. If this is your model, then affiliate marketing is something that you should seriously consider.
- The other perspective is that you can promote and sell other people's products and services. With this scenario, one question that always comes up is this: How do I know that I'm getting paid in an honest way for the work that I have done or the sales I have created for Company XYZ that offers this widget? How do I know that my $500 commission is accurate?
First, this all depends who you are working with, and you have to remember that not everyone has the same ethical standards. Further, in reality, there are a very few reputable companies and you can think of them in terms of being Switzerland—the neutral countries. These companies are the Switzerland of electronic commerce on the Internet, and what they do is they act as an intermediary—a third party, who oversees the transactions, ensures that the proper compensation and payout is done and that the tracking is done properly. These companies are extremely ethical about payments and commissions and can reduce any concerns.
The best in affiliate programs
In particular, there are three great companies to build your affiliate relationships. With these companies, you can create a product or service and make it available through their network, or you can promote and sell products and services that other people have made available on their network to make a commission.
- A good choice is Commission Junction, often known as CJ for short. A well-established organization, Commission Junction has a great reputation and the company offers a wide array of products and services that are sold through electronic means. In addition, Commission Junction allows you to sell both physical (something that could be shipped or consumed) and non-physical (an eBook, online learning course, MP3 download or online education) products and services.
- LinkShare is very similar to Commission Junction. LinkShare offers the opportunity to promote or sell both physical and digital products, and is also well established and reputable. We have used both options for affiliate marketing programs.
- ClickBank only sells digital products and services. If you decide to be an affiliate of ClickBank and you want to promote your products and services, you will only be promoting digital products. Their reason for doing this? Likely, it has something to do with fewer returns, less hassle, ease of reviewing the products before they are accepted into the ClickBank network and so on. In addition, ClickBank becomes your shopping cart. Every transaction actually goes through them. You don't have to cut a check if you are the person providing the service. You do not have to cut a check to the people who are selling your products. It all goes through ClickBank first. The person who made the sale for you as an affiliate gets paid immediately and the remainder of the money goes into your account. ClickBank is the liaison. They are the system and the intermediary bank, which allows all of this to take place very painlessly.
With all of these organizations, if you are selling your product or service, you will have a built-in army of people who are ready, willing and able to promote your products or service.
For instance, let's say that you have a coaching program to help real estate agents, and it's a digital product with 10 hours of audio, five hours of video, and a 100-page PDF manual that you've created to help real estate agents realize their full potential and double their income within the next 12 months in any market.
That's your angle. That is your pitch. You take it to ClickBank. Assume that they approve the product to be put into the ClickBank network. As soon as it's approved and live, their army of affiliates is made aware or has the opportunity to review your new product. Think for just a moment about how much you could sell on your own—one person, one website, with a single person's effort. Now think about that multiplied times literally thousands of people who really understand Internet marketing. Does it really matter if you are giving away 50% of the retail price of your product if you have even 500 people selling it for you? It's digital. Does it really matter?
Think about the multiplicity of this. It's leveraging your time, leveraging your effort, and it's leveraging other people's talents and opportunities. All of this is incredibly important in the collaboration economy and in the way the world works today.
You can use all of the affiliate networks if you choose, unless there is some sort of conflict of interest in any of their rules and regulations. If we had to recommend just one, ClickBank is our choice, unless you have a physical product to sell. It is the simplest, most streamlined, most widely recognized and most accepted by Internet marketers and affiliate marketers throughout the world.
NOTE: If you have, or want, your own shopping cart to sell products and services from your own website, we suggest 1ShoppingCart or Infusionsoft for your affiliate program. This allows you to have people promote your programs and earn commissions and puts you completely in control. There are many others, but these top rated. Research and determine the best fit based on your needs and budget.
How much money will I make?
The question that always comes up when it comes to affiliate marketing is:
How much money or what percentage will I make promoting another person's product?
If I am offering my product to another person, how much money do I have to give away to the person who really helps facilitate the sale?
The answer is: It varies.
The commission earned varies based on several key points: Is the product or service physical or digital? A physical product has greater inherent costs. You have to build the physical product. You have to ship the physical product. If there is a return process, there are always costs involved with a return of a physical product. Because of those inherent increased costs with a physical product, the commission earned and the commission paid on the sale of a physical product will generally be less than with digital products.
A digital product has a lower cost of entry. It really has no cost other than continual access to the people who want to purchase and gain access to this digital product or service. Because the person who has created a digital product or service at lower cost, they can pass that cost savings on to you in the form of higher commissions paid to the affiliate.
With a physical product, commissions can range from 3% to 20% on average, although there are several variables at play. A digital product will have a commission ranging from 25% up to 100% commission.
You might be wondering, "How is it possible that I could earn a 100% on a digital product? Why would any business owner ever give away 100% of their profits?"
It's a great question and there is a very logical answer to that and it relates to what is called the back end. For example, if you offer a coaching or mentoring program online and it costs $100 through a company such as ClickBank, they will give you 100% or $100 of that sale. However, there is also an upsale on the back end or else they have a method of keeping people involved with the expectation of future sales, so they give 100% on the front end, because they know the upside of the back end sales far exceeds the $100 and also the 100% they gave you as the affiliate. For you as an affiliate, however, that $100 is certainly worth your time and effort. Once you get an affiliate program going, while there is still a little work and promotion involved, this is by far the best method of making passive income. As an affiliate, you have no support issues, customer service emails or calls and no product development or maintenance challenges.
As you are developing your business or developing your products or service, think about what products you could use as an add-on from these networks to earn a commission in conjunction with the sale of your existing products or service, or which of your products or services you might make available to these networks so that other people can help sell it for you, allowing you to increase your reach, broaden your brand and make more total sales.
Despite the fact that you are giving away a good chunk of the overall sales and commission for your product, in the end your total sales and total revenue should increase dramatically.
If you offer it, will they come?
When you become an affiliate or when you sell a product on an affiliate site, you might think that once your product is approved and uploaded, it will immediately turn into "The Field of Dreams," where the business simply comes out of thin air and your product just starts selling itself automatically. In reality, you need to continue to take control of your own destiny and your own success.
The following tips will help you even after you've uploaded your product or service to an affiliate website:
- Take advantage of the tools some of these sites offer: ads, sales copy, case studies, calls to action and so on. You can use many of these on your own website to further promote your product. Generally, you can customize colors and fonts to suit your business.
- Think about seasonal promotional opportunities. For example, if you are doing a blog post on your website about getting in shape for the holidays and you are promoting a weight loss product, then the weight loss company you are an affiliate for may have a seasonal ad that will pop up with a code on your website. Some of them will change automatically because the code is being pulled from a central server, so they will push the ad to you, which is embedded on your site with an updated image based on the current season. In this case, all you have to do is enjoy the incremental sales and success that comes from this option.
Again, the best of the best when it comes to this strategy is Amazon. As an affiliate of Amazon, you can sell anything from books to solar-powered backpacks to Mac computers, and they will provide you with links, text, sales copy, different colors and different sized images—some that are static and some that are dynamic. Amazon makes it easy for you. The important thing is to have the right image that fits the flow of your website, newsletter, blog, social media post or whatever it is that you are working on.
When it comes to colors and consistency, there are two options:
- You can carefully ensure that any ads or promotions will flow with the structure and colors of your website.
- The other is to use colors and ads that are in stark contrast with your site, so that they really pop out.
Next time you visit Facebook, look at the ads that pop up because they are deemed relevant to your likes and dislikes. (That's why you filled out all of that personal data on Facebook).
If you are wondering how they know which ads might interest you, they are collecting data on you, otherwise known as data mining, so that the ads are relevant to your personal preferences and sometimes even to what you "like" on your Facebook feed that day.
Notice which of the ads stick out. What colors stick out? Generally, it is the contrasting ads. If the colors of the ads are very similar to the colors and design of Facebook, they will tend to look too much like the architecture of Facebook itself, and they got lost. The look and feel of your online ads is a personal preference that you can play around with as you dive deeper into affiliate marketing.
In addition, it is always important to do some testing when it comes to offering affiliate products on your website. For instance, you may have two ads that are exactly the same, except one is yellow and one is blue, and you can drop a very simple code in there for testing purposes. ClickBank allows you to use such codes for tracking; if the yellow ad pulls twice as much business and interest as the blue one, then get rid of the blue and use the yellow on the other page as well. It's that simple and that effective and definitely worth your time.
We have a friend named Sam who likes to say, "You can't expect what you don't inspect." So if you do not inspect what's happening in your affiliate programs, if you don't test your ads and if you do not compare A to B, then you won't know which way to flip the switch to where you can double the return for your efforts.
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An examination of Mr. Romney's public financial disclosures and other documents reveals some outlines of his wealth and potential tax liabilities.
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I'm not really sure where the term "Nerd Lunch" originated. For me, I guess it started when PLee and I worked together at a fairly tedious publishing gig. The two of us, joined by various others over the months we worked there, would go out for lunch and talk about the latest comics and sci-fi movies. Eventually, we began to call it "nerd lunch."
Prior to that, I had known Jeeg since my freshman year of college. Practically from the first day I got there. Jeeg and I eventually roomed together in college and quite often had our own share of lunches where we talked about nerd topics.
Somewhere along the way, I introduced Jeeg and PLee and I was fortunate to have my two good friends become good friends with each other. And there was a nice period of time where the three of us would get together on a regular basis and have the first official "Nerd Lunch" meetings.
There's something about sharing a meal and having a discussion that brings people closer together. Food is one thing we all have in common. We all have to eat. Even if we don't like all the same things, we at least all have to eat something. So, we eat together and find the commonalities don't stop there. But when you start stacking those commonalities on top of one another and begin exploring all the other areas you don't share commonalities with, that's where you begin to grow.
Unfortunately, Nerd Lunch doesn't happen as often anymore. Life took the three of us in different directions. Jeeg and PLee reside a few hours apart in Illinois and I live down in Tallahassee, Florida. We each have family and work obligations that don't allow us to enjoy the nerdity of life to the fullest extent that we once did. We're 30+ year old nerds who wish we could do a little (or a lot) more nerdin' than we're able to. We'd like to be able to game more, read more comics, or take in more movies.
But more than that, I think we'd all like to be able to enjoy those things with our friends. And talk about them over a sandwich. So, we can't do that as often, but we can still keep having those discussions right here on this blog. And with this post, we've had 100 different discussion starters. I'm not sure we thought we'd get this far.
So, to anyone who's been checking this blog out on a regular basis, or even if you just stop by, thanks for reading. And we're looking forward to writing many more posts. Now, someone pass me the pepper.
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The Challenge over at Penny Black Saturday this week is flowers.
I have stamped Whispers onto Craftwork Cards Back to Basics card and paper pieced the image with Bloom and Grow Papers by My Minds Eye. Backgound paper is from the same range but has been overstamped around the edges with a flourish stamp, and the dotty vellum is also from Craftwork Cards as is the base card. Ribbon is from my collection, I think it might be Bo Bunny but I'm not 100% sure.
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Welcome to Edinburgh! A silhouette of pointed gothic buildings, smoky dark facades and a confusing labyrinth of narrow alleys: This is Edinburgh from the distance. Come closer and explore the colourful faces of a town that will cast a spell over and quicker than you can say "deep fried mard bar".
Before you start planning your holiday it is good to know a few things about Edinburgh and its people.
Emergency numbers: Police, Ambulance and Fire Brigade: 999
Scotland/Britain country code: 0044
Currency: Pound Sterling (£)
Time zone: UTC (MEZ -1 hour)
Money: Credit cards are accepted almost everywhere, bars and restaurants prefer cash though. You can only use any card to withdraw money at cash points.
Legal matters: Smoking in public areas such as pubs and restaurants is forbidden in the whole of the UK and Ireland, so you need to go outside to have a puf. You will be requested to show your ID when you visit a pub, since drinking alcohol under 18 is illegal. People aged under 18 are permitted entrance ater 8pm.
Good shoes are essential because it is a big and old city and the streets are oten steep and uneven. Sometimes they are connected by stairs. An umbrella or a raincoat are necessary, because the weather changes very fast and it rains oten.
Remember to look both ways before crossing the street, the people in the vehicles are driving on the let and often very fast.
Earplugs are favourable if you sleep lightly, because you will be in a city which never sleeps, so there is noise all day long and especially the sirens of the ambulance and police are very loud.
No alcohol is allowed on streets ater 10pm but don't worry the bartender will remind you if you are sitting outside.
For tipping 10 percent is normal, but it is not obligatory to give tips.
Don't be afraid of asking people if you need help because the Scottish are very friendly and will help you as well as they can.
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