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Writers write. It's true, but it doesn't tell the whole story.
How do you know what to write and when?
That's where your planning comes in, and in particular, planning for the next year ahead of time.
When To Start?
As early as September or October can work, and perhaps even further ahead for established authors who are months ahead in their production cycle.
If you're a newish author still finding your rhythm, closer to the New Year will work better for you.
And, if you're reading this midway through a year, it's never too late to sit down and make a plan (or revise one!) for the current year. Don't let remaining months go to waste while you wait for the imaginary fresh start that January 1st is supposed to bring.
Where To Plan?
Planning is deep, big picture work. You're predicting the future, dreaming big, and then diving down into the details to give it all a framework.
You can try to do it at home, for sure, but there's every chance you'll be needed to make snacks, fetch things, answer the phone, do laundry, walk the dog… you get the idea.
You'll probably be much more creative, and free, if you take some time to yourself away from home to work on this. You could camp out in a coffee shop or library for a day, book yourself into a hotel for a night or two and never leave your room, or take a long weekend to a place that inspires you.
(For me, it's all about being by the water. Whether it's going to London with a hotel overlooking the Thames, or travelling to the sea, by the water is where I think best.)
What Equipment's Needed?
This is a dangerous question, friend!
Is there any limit to the planning equipment you could need? I think not!
Here are the essentials, in my opinion:
- Your planner for the next year
- A4 month to a page calendar print outs for the next year (yes, as well as your planner / BuJo)
- Notebook(s)
- Pens, pencils, highlighters
- If you made goals for the current year, make sure you know what they were
There are several things you can take to help your inspiration flow, depending on what works best for you:
- Music
- If you like to do something creative while your mind wanders, take a colouring book
- If you like to think while you walk, take sensible walking shoes
Where To Begin?
Unless you're a planning ninja, you'll be helped by having a framework to guide you through the process of planning a year.
There are several options, and you don't have to limit yourself to those focused on authors only. You can check out the Ultimate Authorship Planner by Audrey Hughey and the Your Best Year by Lisa Jacobs as two examples. While Jacobs' isn't designed specifically for authors, but for creative businesses, it's a product I've used for years and really get a lot from.
You don't have to order a product, though. This post will show you a simple framework you can use and adapt for your needs.
The Process
It's important to remember that your process may not look like anyone else's and that's fine. Here's a starting point. Feel free to tweak it and make it yours!
01: Review The Current Year
It's hard to plan for the future without understanding where you currently are, so begin your planning by taking stock of how the current year has gone for you. You can do this by writing a journal entry reviewing the highs and lows, or you can go back to the goals you set for the current year and see how well you have done.
There's a danger in reviewing your year solely by progress towards achieving your goals. Sometimes life throws us a curve ball and priorities change.
Let's say you set the audacious goal of writing 12 months in the year, and then had a serious health challenge that wiped out several months, or a bereavement, or any number of other things. It may be that an existing book took off so well that your year was spent on book tours and promotions, or that you or your spouse received your dream promotion and had to pack up and relocate to the other side of the world.
This is why I suggest you look at the goals you set, but review the year you've actually had, not the year you were expecting or hoping for.
02: Set Goals For Next Year
As futile as it may be sometimes, setting goals gives you an understanding of what you are trying to accomplish.
Your year will look completely different depending on your goals.
Imagine yourself at New Year's Eve at the end of the next year, raising a glass to yourself, in celebration. What do you want to have achieved by that point in order for that first sip to taste well-deserved?
And remember that writing doesn't exist in a vacuum. Set goals for your life generally, not just your writing.
03: Map Out Landmark Events
Grab those A4 month to a page calendar print outs and mark out any holidays, special occasions, and other big events that you know will happen.
This is the first thing you do on your pages for the next year because it's important to see how much time you really have to work with. It probably isn't 12 undisturbed months.
Between your vacation time, holidays such as Christmas and Thanksgiving, and school holidays, your productive time may turn out to be a lot less than you'd imagined.
04: Revise Your Goals
If you set goals for 12 months, and have now realised you only have 10 available, you may need to reconsider whether the goals you've set are going to be achievable.
Don't immediately strike goals off your list, though.
Consider whether there is help available to you to get some of that time back – childcare, a division of household labour, hired help such as a cleaner. A few hours gained each week can help reduce the time lost to landmark events.
05: Specify Your Goals
Here's where you start to get specific about how long your goals will take, so you can plug them in to your year.
There are at least two ways of doing this:
a. Let the goals dictate the pace
b. Let the pace dictate the goals
You can either say, I want to write a book a month and work from that to calculate that you need to write 3,000 words a day (for example), or you can say, I can write 1,000 words a day and work from that to calculate that you'll write a book every three months.
06: Plot Out Your Year
It really is like plotting, and it's a lot of fun.
Just remember that the work involved in keeping to the plot often isn't quite so fun! Don't get carried away by the pretty pens and paper and decide you'll write 10,000 words a day when you've never managed more than 500 consistently!
With your goals clear, start mapping specifics on to the paper. I prefer to use the A4 printed calendars to record things at this stage, and then I can move on to recording daily to do lists.
Your A4 calendar sheets can record:
- Goals for each month (or the current quarter or year, depending on how you break down your goals)
- Title of the project you'll be working on that month
- Release dates
- When you'll send out a newsletter
- When you'll write a blog post, and even the title
- Daily word count goal
07: Rejoice!
You now have your year planned out, and it will feel pretty good. You did great!
Here's a word of warning: life may throw you another curve ball. A better opportunity may emerge. One particular series may take off and demand all of your attention.
Your plan isn't designed to be firm and inflexible. It's a framework. It can change.
Good luck!


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Awards Season
As children of the 90s, it's funny how uncomfortable we are with the idea of competition and people losing (that whole "everybody's a winner" thing didn't exist during my formative years). We watch a LOT of television because it allows us a certain amount of control (though, to clarify, we don't really wield any control at all, living in the subcontinent and without a Nielson box, so… yeah), but television has become very malleable to the demands of its audiences. So when it's awards season there's this sinking feeling in the pit of the stomach that doesn't go away until the SAGs have aired. The only awards' show that's still enjoyable is the Tony's because let's face it, there's not much emotional investment, they're fun, but most importantly, almost nobody on our social media circles cribs about who won.
So there won't be a review of the Emmy's although this must be said: no matter who ends up winning, there's at least one person in that category who deserved it just as much. Also pretty certain Amy Poehler and Jon Hamm are likely never to win awards when they so clearly deserve to, so yeah, awards season sucks. Why don't we give all those nominated an award for participation and let them make their speeches? But onto more pressing concerns, like pilot season!
Shazia expounds:
I've stopped watching pilots of hour long shows. The investment just really isn't worth the rewards anymore. None of the premises of the shows this year have piqued any interest in me at all. I checked out The Mob Doctor solely because of the goodwill I feel towards Zach Gilford and Jordan Shapiro, but all that went out of the window (to use a cliche) when Shapiro explained to the kid how she became impregnated by using a Star Wars' reference (MP: haha, I forgot about that part — this show was DOA. I'd be surprised it gets picked up at all).
Emily Owens M.D.
The general goodwill for Gummer (after her brilliant performance in CBS' The Good Wife) forced us to check out Emily Owens, M.D., the medical drama airing on Tuesday nights on The CW. (MP: It's Grey's Anatomy lite) The success of Grey's Anatomy has made medical soaps a sure thing on TV now although she's (MP: arguably. Arguably! I think the show's gotten better once it's moved past the "let's play sexy musical chairs" phase) the only one who can actually make it work, after eight seasons. Sure there've been a few missteps along the way (the Izzie-Denny-tumor sex storyline for instance), but she still manages to elicit emotional reactions of out people. Emily Owens M.D. doesn't even merit a "meh" from us. What the show lacks the most is production values — medical dramas need the "drama" because without it, there's no emotional investment. Grey's powers through with great acting, music that fits each scene like a glove and flaws that may seem melodramatic but are weighted human emotions. Emily Owen, M.D.'s highest stake storyline involves a mom with terminal cancer but pales in comparison to Grey's Alzheimer storyline. Yes, a degenerative neuro disease carried more weight because it did such an amazing job of showing how it shaped Meredith and how just when she felt she had done it all to get her mother's approval it's all lost, and that loss will always have a greater impact than whatever Emily Owens has spun for "Guy Emily will EVENTUALLLY end up with" (no need to learn names). Even Emily's proclamation had nothing on Lexie's proclamation to Mark Sloane (no, we won't compare it to "Pick Me! Choose Me! Love Me!" nothing will ever compare to that), really there's just no weight to any of it all all. I'm sorry Gummer, I wish you'd get better work already.
Arrow shows some promise as a show on CW, but not much else for now. The disguise/mask is terrible, it's just green glitter make up, but it certainly has potential to ramp up any time the show runners decide to quit faking it the Nolan way and just embrace it. Since I have only seen the pilot, and it did have an interesting twist maybe it has improved since (I haven't read the comics so I'm not familiar with how closely they are following those story lines).
MP: I disagree with the above. I'm a huge fan of the show — it doesn't pretend to be something it's not and the episodes set up some great questions that are answered in the episodes that follow. All in all, I liked the darker tone better than Smallville and I'm a huge fan of the pacing. Marc Guggenheim and Greg Berlanti are behind this show so I have hope. The show's built up from the Arrow: Year One comics (similar to Nolan and his fixation on Batman Year One). It's a reimagining of the comics and I'm completely on board. I was a little concerned with Will Amell's slightly wooden acting but he's been great in the flashback scenes which kinda makes you wonder what the fuck happened to make him become what he is. It's subtle but I like it. For me, it all started from the pilot and though I've been slightly frustrated with all the CW shows' voice overs, there is reason to believe the V.O.s will end in the near future for Arrow, at least. Emily Owens, M.D. will still suffer through.
Beauty & The Beast
While Arrow has potential, Beauty and the Beast was just god-awful (it may be the idea of Lana Lang… sorry Kristin Kreuk with that porcelain white skin of hers being a tough cop; I like her partner though. And for the love of all holy things, have female cops wear sensible shoes. Come on!). Completely humourless and charmless, the actors drain everybody's energy and invoked no interest at all in me about the mysterious murders of scientists who experimented to create super-humans. That's all that needs to be said of that show, makes me sad that The Secret Circle made way for this, just when it started showing us what it could be. (MP: I'd argue that the show was confused from the beginning and by the time it got its act together, it was too late).
Next, find out TMS Editor Maryam Piracha's picks for the Fall 2012-13 season.
Go On
The critics have been split on this one strangely, drawing contrasts to the network's other quirky ensemble comedy, Community especially after its return was pushed back. I'm enjoying it though I wouldn't mind seeing a little more of Perry's assistant who appeared previously on the network drama Kings, one of the high-concept shows you know aren't built to last on primetime television. Anyway, Go On follows a grief counseling group, each of which has lost someone important to them. Matthew Perry's back on TV, in comedy, winningly playing a widower with a bitter, tough-nut exterior but with his heart in the right place. The pilot was engaging, funny and I've stuck with the show. It's becoming a staple. Though perhaps not as amazing as Cougar Town, New Girl or Raising Hope, it is quirky and engaging.
When I first heard about this show: cop-show set in 60's Vegas before the city became the gambling haven of today, my reaction was "huh?". I thought Dennis Quaid must've hit a career low when he agreed to do the show, but it's a gem. With the killer cast (Quaid, Michael Chiklis, Jason O'Mara and Carrie Anne Moss among others) and engaging personal conflicts between the Chicago mob's Sorvino (Chiklis) and tough cop (Quaid), there's something here. I'm watching until I'm given a reason not to. Pure character-driven drama.
666 Park Ave
The trailer for this show wasn't helpful or particularly engaging. It was just weird. But because I decided to do a full pilot run, I checked it out. The pilot was engaging, the idea that 999 Park Avenue is actually the home of the devil (666) who lives there with his wife, offers people the good life in exchange for their soul, isn't a new concept. But somehow the actors (Brothers & Sisters' Dave Annabelle, Grey's Anatomy's, Lost's Terry O'Quinn and most recently former Desperate Housewife Vanessa Williams) kinda make it work. It's a decent time pass for me but isn't a staple, so if nothing else is on and I'm desperate for some brain sucking activity, I'll consider this. It's not a pure supernatural show as in not a lot of demons and stuff (from what I've seen) but the idea is sinister foes lurk in the shadows. If cloaks and daggers are your thing, you'll like this show.
Mrs. Coach (Connie Britton of Friday Night Lights) is back on real television after the frightening turn in American Horror Story and my goodness, what a fantastic return it is. ABC's making the mistake of promoting this show as a country soap but it's so far from that it's laughable. This is a smartly written (the script comes from Thelma and Louise scribe Callie Khouri) drama with great acting from Britton, Eric Close, Hayden Panettiere (in her first major role after Heroes), and newcomers, with its heart rooted in career, relationships and family. It reminds me more of The Good Wife than a country music driven Desperate Housewives. The show's shot on location in the heart of the country music scene in Nashville, TN. The pilot sets up a nice career mirror for established country music artist Rayna James (Britton) and newcomer Juliette Barnes (Panettiere) who's the young kid on the block versus the fading glory of Rayna. To say the two don't get along is obvious but Rayna doesn't view Barnes as a threat, musically and Barnes is trying to create her own image as a talented musician versus a sex symbol. Throw in Rayna's lead guitarist, Deacon being poached by Barnes in an attempt to enhance her career as a serious musician and you have some good drama, not to mention an unwitting love triangle with a very married Rayna. There's also a little bit of a parallel story going between Deacon's niece (Clare Bowen), the talented young songwriter and bartender at The Bluebird Cafe who doesn't realize her own potential and her "writing partner" who's been harboring a crush for her for three years, but she's oblivious. The relationships, in less experienced hands, would border on soap territory but Khouri gets the best out of the characters so there's no black or white, there's a ton of gray and you don't really hate anyone. I think that's instrumental that each character is beautifully flawed and human. I'm keeping this show. It's also got great music and unlike Glee, where each character just bursts into song from time to time, live music is used more poignantly. If you saw the last five minutes of the pilot and didn't fall in love, I'd be very surprised. It's an evolving story and like much of life's great stories it can be heartwarming and heartbreaking but you keep chugging along.
Last Resort
Pakistan. It's everywhere lately. When I saw the trailer of this show, I wasn't sure what to expect. But, like Vegas, it hooked me straight from the pilot. Make no mistake: this is a conspiracy-driven show and pieces of it are going to come out slowly but what I like best of all is that the characters are strong, smart individuals who know their people. Each of them, good or bad. But it shouldn't surprise me: this is a Shawn Ryan show and he's done nothing but good TV (FX's The Shield and Terriers, Fox's The Chicago Code and served as the showrunner for the second season of Lie to Me). If you haven't seen the trailer, the series revolves around a submarine crew who, when called upon to nuke Pakistan for no real reason refused and so, of course, the captain and his crew are now being called traitors to the detriment of the family they've left behind. I don't want to say too much if you haven't seen the pilot but the plot thickens when they realize things aren't really right in D.C.
That's it for the pilot reviews. What about you? What're you keeping on your radar? Sound off in the comments below!
Shazia is part bionic, part crazy (parts not mutually exclusive), and would be happy conversing solely in TV quotes, forever hopeful she'll be one-upped in her obscure TV references. She blogs here and microblogs here.
"MP" is Maryam Piracha, The Missing Slate's Editor who has a dreadful affiliation with her television set and has been known to go go on TV binges. Hot or cold, she tells it like it is and mostly appears in parenthesized italics.


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Texans rookie quarterback T.J. Yates is nominated for both NFL Rookie of the Week and Never Say Never Moment of the Week honors for his performance in the win at Cincinnati.
Yates completed 26-of-44 passes for 300 yards, two touchdowns and an interception in the Texans' 20-19 win over the Bengals. He added five carries for 36 yards. Also, he tossed the game-tying touchdown pass to wide receiver Kevin Walter with two seconds left. Preceding the play, Yates led the Texans 80 yards with no timeouts facing a 19-13 deficit with a bit more than two minutes remaining. (**VIDEO**)
"I knew we were moving the ball well all game long, but we just weren't converting," Yates said of the final drive. "Whether it was turnovers or something else, we just weren't getting the job done. We were moving the ball great, but we just knew we had to finish. When everyone went out there, we were calm and we were ready to go. We knew that we were going to move it down the field. We just had to convert when the time came."
For Rookie of the Week, Yates is competing with Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin, Falcons wide receiver Julio Jones, Titans quarterback Jake Locker and Lions wide receiver Titus Young.
CLICK HERE TO VOTE FOR YATES (Rookie of the Week)
For the Never Say Never Moment of the Week, Yates faces stiff competition in Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow and Giants quarterback Eli Manning.
**CLICK HERE TO VOTE FOR YATES** (Never Say Never Moment of the Week)
Voting ends Friday at 11 a.m. CT for both Rookie of the Week and the Never Say Never Moment of the Week.
The NFL Rookie of the Week will be announced Friday on the "NFL Total Access Show" on the NFL Network, and also on NFL.com. The winner of the Never Say Never Moment of the Week will be announced Friday during NFL Network's "Around the League" show, as well as on NFL.com.
After the regular season, five players will be nominated for NFL Rookie of the Year honors. Fans can vote for the winner on NFL.com/rookies throughout the month of January. The winner will be announced at a press conference at Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis.
Also after the regular season, fans will have a chance to determine the Never Say Never Moment of the Year from among the 17 weekly winners. Fans can vote for the winner on NFL.com/gmc throughout the month of January.


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By Alyce Collins
THIS STUNNING woman shed nearly SIX-STONE after her teacher nicknamed her MISS PIGGY and she had to sit on her own during a rollercoaster ride to balance the weight.
Slimming World consultant, Natalie Hogg (36) from London, UK, had grown accustomed to her curvy figure as she grew up as she felt the only thing she could depend on while getting bullied for her weight was food.
During her time at school, Natalie was nicknamed 'Miss Piggy' by a teacher, which soon caught on among her fellow pupils. Natalie tried to cope with the taunting by comfort eating in secret, however the guilt from eating would in turn make her feel even worse.
A trip to Southend Theme Park with her friends was intended to be a pleasant day until the ride host moved Natalie's friends further down the carriage, which she soon realised was to balance out the weight on the ride.
Throughout her teenage years and her twenties, Natalie felt ashamed of her appearance and she would make comments about herself, purely because she thought people around her would be thinking them anyway.
After being inspired to try out Slimming World by a friend who was already on it, Natalie has gone from 16st 6lbs, wearing a UK size 20, to 10st 13lbs and a UK size 8-10.
"I have always struggled with my weight and I was bullied for my whole time at school," said Natalie.
"I had always been a different shape to my friends which made me stand out from them because I was short and curvy.
"One of my junior school teachers used to call me Miss Piggy because of my weight and my last name. This was when I really started to get bullied because some of the other kids then joined in as well.
"This then led me to comfort eat. I had no idea that was what I was doing but I would secretly eat biscuits and crisps.
"My parents could see what I was doing and they tried to help by changing the foods I ate, but this made me feel different to my friends, like I was being punished.
"When I was 13 I was referred to the GP who carried out the pinch test, took my height and weight. At that time, I was part of a swimming club, so I swam five times a week and competed at the weekends, so my health was good.
"It was then that they told me I was obese. I'd never even heard of it and I felt like I'd been told I had an incurable disease. This led me to more comfort eating followed by not eating from the guilt of the secret eating.
"I remember going to Southend Theme Park and I sat on one of the rides, my friends went to get in the same cart with me, but the attendant stopped them and moved them further round the other side. They didn't say anything, but it was, so it would balance the weight on the ride.
"I was mortified. I just wanted to get off and go home, but I had to stay there and pretend I was still having fun.
"I would try all sorts of fad diets but when there was one day I couldn't follow them I felt stupid and like a complete failure. So, I'd just comfort eat again.
"I hated myself and my body and I felt like a failure for not being able to stick to diets. I lived my teens and twenties living a half-life.
"I wanted to do all the things my friends were doing, but I couldn't because of how low my confidence was, or how much weight was holding me back.
"One day I was sat with a pile of clothes around me, trying to find something to wear for a friend's birthday night out, and I looked at myself and said, 'this is who I am. I either stop crying and just try to get on with life, or I lock myself away and let life pass me by'.
"I knew that neither option was what I wanted but I didn't think I had much choice. Then the following week, I went into work and was in the changing room and my friend told me about how she'd lost nearly a stone in three-weeks.
"I could see the difference in the way she looked, and I thought to myself, she must be doing some expensive tablet or shake plan. But then she showed me the delicious food she was allowed to eat through Slimming World and I was sold."
Natalie joined Slimming World in 2011 and has relished the opportunities she has been allowed ever since.
Natalie used to eat whatever she liked, including a lot of snacks, without thinking of the consequences they had on her weight. One of Natalie's largest apprehensions about losing weight through a plan was the strict regime she would have to stick to, but she was pleasantly surprised to learn that she could still have all of her favourite foods.
"I have been given a new life. I had no idea how low my confidence was," said Natalie.
"I was always the funny one, making cutting jokes about myself, but only because I wanted to say what I thought people were thinking before they said it.
"I am proud of what I've done and the life I live now. I am by no means perfect, but who wants to be perfect anyway?
"I don't have time to calorie count or weigh everything. I know with Slimming World there's a whole list of food I can enjoy without faffing around. I still enjoy the odd glass of wine or slice of cake, but I'm so much more aware of the balance.
"I love cooking even more, especially for other people because they're often so shocked that what I've made is Slimming World as it's so tasty.
"I walk my dog every day – I walk as much as I can rather than driving. I also try and get to the gym to help tone. Getting activity in every day makes it so much easier, even just walking instead of driving.
"All this helps me stay focused on what I'm doing, even though Slimming World has become a way of life and I do most of it without even thinking now. I'm still learning about myself as we are very complex so it's about being kind to ourselves as well as others.
"If you're ready and you really want to make a change, then there's nothing stopping you from living the life you deserve. Life can get in the way but it's about learning from it and who you are so you can keep growing."
Follow Natalie's Slimming World journey @slimmingworld_nat_life.


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Ashok Gehlot. Photo: ANI
Shirdi: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, who has announced that he would fight the Congress presidential polls, on Friday said the debate on 'one man-one post' was unnecessary and that he would like to serve the people of his home state all his life.
Talking to reporters here, he also said that his statements on wanting to serve the people of Rajasthan were being interpreted in different ways.
Speaking on the party's 'one man-one post' principle, Gehlot said there was a buzz in the media that he did not want to relinquish the post of Rajasthan CM.
"This debate is unnecessary. I have remained silent. If the media is to be believed, I do not want to relinquish the post of chief minister," Gehlot said after visiting the famous Saibaba temple here.
"But I have said this for sure, I say this even today and will maintain this even after I fill the form (for the Congress president polls), I belong to Rajasthan and I would like to serve the state for my lifetime. What is wrong in saying this? People take a different meaning out of this. Media interprets it," he said.
Incidentally, senior leader Rahul Gandhi had, on Thursday, batted for the 'one-man, one-post' concept in line with the Chintan Shivir reforms and had also indicated he may not run for the party president's post.
Earlier in the day, while speaking to reporters at Kochi in Kerala, Gehlot made it clear he will fight for the party's president post, and added that any call on his successor to head the Rajasthan government will be taken by party interim President Sonia Gandhi and Congress' Rajasthan in-charge, Ajay Maken.
Speculation is rife that Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor is likely to jump into the fray for the party president's post.
The Congress had on Thursday issued a notification for the party president post. As per the party' poll schedule, the process for nominations for the election will be held from September 24 to 30.
The date of scrutiny of the nomination papers would be October 1, while the last date of withdrawal of nominations would be October 8.
The election, if there is more than one candidate, will take place on October 17. The counting of votes and the declaration of results would be on October 19.


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Destination World War II
No matter what your age, you can't help but be swept away by the larger-than-life presence oozing from the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.
This indiscriminate exhibit is not only a true awakening of the self, but also a testament of what American freedom really means.
Whether you are a member of Generation Z, Millennials or the dwindling number of gray-haired veterans in their 80s and 90s, you will have no choice but to capitulate to the timeless experience permeating from the three buildings telling one of the most riveting, epic stories of American history. You will look eye-to-eye with people just like yourself; only they answered the call in a test of the human spirit as part of a massive effort to protect the free world.
TripAdvisor's Travelers' Choice ranked the museum No. 4 in the country and No. 11 in the world in 2016 and it's no wonder: the Smithsonian-affiliated institution exudes the timeless notion of what it means to fight for human rights in the deadliest war in history, one that involved nearly every part of the world.
Inside this museum is probably the closest you will ever get to an authentic, intimate and personal experience of what "the war that changed the world" was really like – unless, of course, you were in combat or alive during the 1940s. This vessel holds one of the most extensive orchestrations of the global conflict from the American perspective. (Fun Fact: The museum houses more than 100,000 WWII artifacts.) And with the help of state-of-the-art technology, you will time travel to America's pre-war era and witness the staunch regimes and battles across the globe, culminated by the American and Allies victory, which came after 65 million lives were lost.
From the moment you walk through the main entrance, you know you are in for a life-changing experience that will tug at your spirit and soul, and one you with which you will be able to relate, regardless of whether or not you were alive during the time. It is at this time the cares of 2017 will instantly vanish as your journey back begins. A journey through which you will quickly learn of the parallels, on many fronts, with civilization and the political history of today. This national treasure humanizes the entire war on a massive scale, and includes a pre-and-post-war timeline, which divulges the repercussions and the domino effect of actions throughout the globe.
Your powerful expedition begins when you are handed a dog tag (a Personalized Radio Frequency Identification card or electronic keycard) as part of the Campaigns of Courage Pavilion experience. It is here that you become one of the 16-million Americans who put on a uniform, including soldiers, nurses and others war-time professions. With dog tag in hand, you physically board a replicated Transcontinental Limited at a makeshift Union Pacific Train Station, just like the tens of thousands of G.I.s who had no clue of what lied ahead of them.
The 1940s Pullman car has wooden seats, which vibrate, and the sounds of the box car rocking on the track (along with conductor calls) fill the air; this is your first experience of seeing the war through a soldier's eyes. While looking out the train's windows, you will see film footage of scenes of the cross-country terrain, similar to what the soldiers saw during this journey, only your trek is just five minutes long. It is during this time you will have an opportunity to, using your dog tag key card, select a serviceman or woman. One you get off at your stop, just as the G.I.s did, you will be able to follow your chosen veteran throughout the war by using kiosks called Dog Tag Stations throughout the exhibits. (Tip: visitors are able to archive artifacts onto their dog tag and continue their exploration and museum experience at home by accessing an accompanying website.)
While there are so very many 'must-see' exhibits and attractions inside the National World War II Museum, at the top of my list is the Solomon Victory Theater in which, every hour on the hour, you can view "Beyond All Boundaries," the ultimate World War II documentary from executive producer (and Oscar winner) Tom Hanks. An all-star voice cast – including Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinese, Brad Pitt, Viola Davis, Jennifer Garner and Tobey Maguire among others – brings you to the 1940s.
The film, with stirring 4-D effects, gives you a thrilling and sometimes chilling feel of what the second World War was really like: the sound and atmospheric effects, vibrating seats, rare footage and moving props are just a few elements that make this experience so surreal.
You will travel to the unnerving jungles of the Pacific, ocean beaches, the horrific Nazi death camps and to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. (Tip: The best seats in the house is in the center of the first elevated row; and if you want to experience the artificial snowfall represented during scenes during the Battle of the Bulge, the best place is in the first three rows.)
Other 'must-sees' can be found inside the 32,000 square-foot Campaigns of Courage Pavilion, which houses both the Road to Berlin: European Theater Galleries and the Road to Tokyo: Pacific Theater Galleries. How dangerous were the challenges? How did the war unfold on multiple fronts? How did America and the Allies ultimately prevail? Those questions and more are answered inside the museum's newest pavilion. Both galleries bring to life the innumerable dangers faced by our countrymen – in jungles, on beaches, mountains and oceans – all accompanied by scintillating personal stories, film footage and a plethora of fascinating artifacts and personal momentos.
Inside the US Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center, you can stand among the astounding warbirds and ground transportation of WWII, which is an experience unto itself. Whether you are looking overhead from the ground level, ogling the aircrafts suspended from the ceiling, or viewing the skyline from the catwalk high above the aircrafts, you will be awed by these beauties – vessels that ultimately helped thrust America to victory.
Among this grand display of American aviation power is the B-17E Flying Fortress "My Gal Sal." This heavy bomber, with a wingspan of 104 feet, was one of the first (of thousands of aircraft) to fly from the United States to England. (Fun Fact: The B17E had a crew of ten and could fly a maximum speed of 318 miles per hour, all the while carrying a bomb load of 4,200 pounds). Also, included in this unmatched fleet of aerodynamics is one of WWII's greatest fighter planes, the Vought F47 Corsair, which could outfight any propeller-driven enemy. (Fun Fact: The Japanese nick-named the Vought F47 Corsair "Whistling Death," primarily because of the engine sound). Showing off more of America's industrial might, the Sherman Tank and jeeps mass-produced under President Roosevelt are showcased inside The Boeing Center.
Possibly the ultimate test of consciousness experienced at the museum is an exhibit titled "What Would You Do?" Visitors are put to the challenge and asked to make decisions with great moral and ethical ramifications during WWII, as an interactive series of videos presents you with real-life situations faced by both notable Americans and average citizens during the war. (You're presented with a difficult scenario, then asked 'what you would do.' After you answer the question, you are shown how others answered the same question. You will also learn what really happened, and told the decision a person actually made during the war, and how it affected the war effort.)
Author's note: One blog could never do the National World War II Museum justice; after all, you could easily spend three days immersing yourself inside this astonishing facility, unmasking nearly a decade of American courage and selflessness. Along with this life-changing war came forms of much-needed escapism, which took place during this emotional time, and this, too, can be experienced first-hand under the same roof at the National World War II Museum. We will uncover this crucial component of the lifestyle of this period in next week's blog.
For further information, visit the World War II Museum's website.


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git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds authored
Pull more block updates from Jens Axboe: "Most of this is fixes and not new code/features: - skd fix from Arnd, fixing a build error dependent on sla allocator type. - blk-mq scheduler discard merging fixes, one from me and one from Keith. This fixes a segment miscalculation for blk-mq-sched, where we mistakenly think two segments are physically contigious even though the request isn't carrying real data. Also fixes a bio-to-rq merge case. - Don't re-set a bit on the buffer_head flags, if it's already set. This can cause scalability concerns on bigger machines and workloads. From Kemi Wang. - Add BLK_STS_DEV_RESOURCE return value to blk-mq, allowing us to distuingish between a local (device related) resource starvation and a global one. The latter might happen without IO being in flight, so it has to be handled a bit differently. From Ming" * tag 'for-linus-20180204' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: block: skd: fix incorrect linux/slab_def.h inclusion buffer: Avoid setting buffer bits that are already set blk-mq-sched: Enable merging discard bio into request blk-mq: fix discard merge with scheduler attached blk-mq: introduce BLK_STS_DEV_RESOURCE64b28683


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