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Disrupting a traditional wine category.
Wine is a $63 Billionmarket, 4,000+ brands are added annually. With approx 64% of people buying based off the label alone it's difficult for a win brand to get noticed. Living Wine Labels was created to help give brands an extended more immersive experience that is not only entertaining but highly memorable. It is the only global app to bring wine labels to life with augmented reality at such scale.
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Summary of experiences:
19 crimes experience: The first of many experiences developed out of San Fransisco. Each bottle tells a unique story of the guilty, convicts of a time gone-by.The Walking Dead experience: Watch zombies explode out of the labels and the hero's fight the good fight right there on your dinner party table.
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Beringer Bros experience: Retake the very first image of the Beringer Brothers from the 1800's and share the Ye olde image on social media.
Embrazen experience: Hear from power female voices of the past. This brand is brazen with it's attitude and it carriers the faces of some of Histories most daring women.
Gentleman's collection experience: Watch videos on gentlemanly advice written by the very funny Jarrod Lowe.
Squealing Pig experience: Jumble your own curly tale by swiping left and right on the little pig five lines or turn to theatre mode and watch the curly tales of Squealing Pig. Share your stories with #thislittlepigwent to win Squealing pig products or share the videos.
Chateau St. Jean experience: Hear directly from the head wine makers and how they met and fell in love making Chateau St. Jean the perfect wine for two.
1.8 million+ app downloads
125 million+ Impressions across social media and broadcast
14 Million views on facebook
Global in-store sales targets exceeded by 500%+
24 million+ bottles sold annually
125 million+ Impressions across social media and broadcast
14 Million views on facebook
Global in-store sales targets exceeded by 500%+
24 million+ bottles sold annually
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Effective from the 6th August 2018 our company name has changed to Direct Print Signage & Graphics Pty Ltd. All other details remain unchanged such as banking etc.
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The image below is a bit more than half wrap and would be considered a three quarter wrap because of the amount of material used. A job like this will use between 12 - 16 square metres. Also there is one-way-vision on the rear glass doors that also require 1.5 metres of material that also has optical clear laminate to enable clear vision out of the back window.
Automotive restyling. Vehicle color-change. Paint replacement. You probably know the popular car-wrapping trend by one name or another, but do you know about the vinyl technology that supports it?
The quickly growing business of installing colored vinyl film onto brand new vehicles has inspired Arlon and other vinyl manufacturers to push the limit on the types of products we make. Manufacturers have been driven to create distinct colors, unique finishes and more stringent performance criteria that is greatly different than our traditional products.
Market Expectations
The restyling phenomena has evolved from the commercial wraps market. These wraps have been very popular for the last decade. Commercial graphics are essentially large moving signs. To meet market expectations, wrap media must print well, install easily and offer good durability. The most difficult part of making a good commercial print media is to make it work consistently on a wide range of printing technologies.
Experienced commercial wrap shops take pride in doing single-panel wraps that "skin" a vehicle in very short order. Some shops have installation teams consisting of three to four applicators and are focused on completing large commercial fleet projects that have many vehicles.
The restyling market is much more of a one-off business that commands higher prices, but the lucrative market also comes with raised expectations for the final look of installed films.
Performance Expectations
The ideal wrap film must be easy to work with, but cannot show air egress channel patterns. It must stay down on every portion of a car without the use of primer or adhesive promoters. The reason for this is that a successful automotive restyling project demands creating a finish that looks equal to paint, a finish that removes easily (even when done by non-professionals), and a finish that completely covers all painted surfaces. This includes door jams and inside of crevices created by door handles, lights, etc.
The time and attention to detail that is taken during a restyling wrap is completely different than more traditional wraps. Many restyling shops break down vehicles by removing handles, side mirrors and lights. Then, at the time of install, they go beyond wrapping the outward facing painted surfaces and completely wrap under and around every individual panel.
The effect that restyling shops are striving to achieve is to have each body part look as if it has been dipped in the color of the vinyl. Instead of starting with one panel, wrappers divide each job into individual body sections. For instance, a door, a bumper, a fender, a rocker panel, and a mirror would all be their own individual panels which would be wrapped with separate pieces of vinyl.
Because of the extremely high expectations, restyling vinyl must work differently than traditional wrap media. It must elongate more than 50 percent, stay down in extreme curves (without the aid of chemicals) and must maintain color consistency throughout the entire application.
Reinventing Vinyl
How has vinyl been reinvented to meet the strenuous needs of this application? Vinyl film manufacturers have responded with improved films offering a range of enhanced properties. For example, Arlon has redesigned its wrap vinyl from the ground up and created unique formulas, alternative thicknesses and advanced casting technologies to create products that exceed market needs. Some films have built-in additional protective layers, bonding layers and other proprietary steps that make the film look and act better than paint.
Normally, cast vinyl is thought of as two mils thick, and is usually installed with the addition of application tape or a two-mil laminate. Restyling is different; thinner doesn't necessarily mean better. Creating the right balance between "boardyness," conformability and ability to stretch is at the crux of designing the perfect film.
Often, the thicker the film is, the easier it is to lay down. However, thick film is often harder to keep in place. With newly designed formulas, this is no longer the case. For example, Arlon's restyling films range from three- to five mils in thickness, but maintain consistent performance. Each of these cast films are able to conform to the most difficult curves.
Wide Range of Finishes
Manufacturers have developed a wide range of finishes to cater to this color trending market. For instance, manufacturers such as 3M, Avery, Hexis, Kay Automotive and Orafol offer new finishes including chrome and various metallic finishes, textured films such as carbon fiber and alligator, and even color-change wrap films.
Arlon is about to launch its fastest-growing restyling wrap film product to the United States. Ultimate PremiumPlus restyling film has been sold in Europe since 2011 and boasts a wide array of finishes such as matte effects, pearlescent, candy gloss and the more standard gloss or matte. Finishes like this were never available or demanded in the traditional graphics business. They were also not possible until multi-layer casting processes were created.
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For most of our lives, paint has been the only method of automotive decoration. Now, vinyl is quickly becoming a preferred method. With the advances in casting technology, personal and commercial vehicle restyling through the use of vinyl wraps is a reality. Auto manufacturers, dealerships and customization shops are all adopting some type of wraps into their business models. There is no doubt that this new world for vinyl will keep pushing advances in how we manufacture and use films.
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The Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus) is a beautifully streamlined, fast-swimming fish. It has silver underparts and metallic green and blue upperparts with irregular bands along the back (4). It belongs to the same family as tuna (5), and is a highly commercial species (2).
Adult Atlantic mackerels form schools close to the surface; they have to swim constantly as they 'breathe' by a method known as ram ventilation, which requires a constant flow of water across the gill surfaces (6).
They are active mainly in the day (2), and feed on small fishes such as sand eels (Ammodytes spp.), as well as small crustaceans, which are filtered from the water (5). They spend the winter in deep water, and stop feeding at this time (5); they migrate closer to shore during spring (2).
During spawning, eggs and sperm are released into the sea. Both the eggs and larvae are pelagic; the eggs have a globule of oil, which keeps them afloat in the surface waters (5). Larvae begin to feed on copepods (tiny crustaceans) when they reach sizes of around three millimetres. They will have grown to lengths of 25 centimetres after just one year. This is a long-lived species; the maximum recorded lifespan in the North Sea is 25 years (5).
Inhabits the north Atlantic Ocean, as well as the Baltic, Mediterranean and Black Seas. Along the coast of North America the Atlantic mackerel is found from Labrador to Cape Lookout. There are two main stocks in the north-east Atlantic, the North Sea (east) and British Isles (west) (2).
The pelagic Atlantic mackerel lives in the open ocean (2).
The North Sea and British Isles stocks of Atlantic mackerel declined drastically during the 1960's as a result of overfishing (2). Indeed, like many commercial marine fishes, the Atlantic mackerel faces severe pressure from fishing throughout its wide range (3). The overfishing of stocks of commercial fish is a severe and complex problem around the world, with many well-known species including cod and plaice in serious decline and at risk of complete collapse (7). As the technology involved in fishing has improved and the number of faster, more efficient boats has increased, populations of fish have decreased further and have been unable to reproduce fast enough to compensate for the massive losses (7). The problem can be summed up as: 'too many boats chasing too few fish' (3).
In Europe, the European Union is responsible for conserving and managing marine fish and their fisheries, with fisheries controlled by the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) (3). However, in the past the CFP has not effectively controlled the fishing fleets of the EU; furthermore there are complex socio-economic issues involved in this controversial issue, with entire communities wholly dependent on the fishing industry (3). The International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES) advises governments on the status of fish stocks, yet often their warnings have gone unheeded (7). The British Government has limited powers to initiate marine fisheries management measures. However, a grouped Action Plan for commercial marine fish has been produced under the UK Biodiversity Action Plan. This aims to minimise the collapse of local stocks of a number of commercially exploited marine fish (3).
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Category Archives: NaNoWriMo
NaNo 2015 Wrap Up
NaNo 2014 – Complete
I've been horrible about updating this blog. I'm going to try to do better in the new year, but in order for that to happen, I actually have to have something interesting to write about. (Hopefully my life will be more interesting in January.)
The interesting news I have now is that I have won my first NaNo with a full-time job. And I didn't only win – I also wrote 150,000 words! I hit 150k yesterday, and my total so far is 151, 713. My plan is finish this novel and then probably stop, as I'm really close to being done, but we'll see how much time I have over the next few days.
I wrote more words last year (500k), but I think this year was the hardest mentally. There was a good while there when I didn't think I'd be able to hit 50k at all, and then a longer time when I thought I would never get close to even 100k, let alone 150k. I hated the novel I had planned on writing because I didn't plan it well enough. The first 50k I wrote was mostly random short stories and two sad, pathetic attempts at other novels. It took me over a week before I finally came up with a new idea. This one I didn't plan at all, so this is my first attempt at completely pantsing a novel. It has actually been a lot of fun, and the words flowed a lot more easily with this one than they ever have before.
I also hit a new milestone – 3k in 30 minutes! I actually ended up doing 4131 words in 42 minutes. If I hadn't been hanging out with friends who really wanted food, I would have kept going, and I probably would have gotten my first 6k hour. My hands weren't even hurting! The good news is that even though I didn't hit it this time, I now know that a 6k hour is possible for me, so I have my next goal in mind!
Life After NaNo
It's been about a week and a half since NaNo ended, which means it's been about a week and a half since I updated my blog. I wish I could say that the reason I've been so neglectful is that I've been super productive, but the truth is that I've been lazy. I've watched a lot of TV with my parents and boyfriend to make up for the time I didn't spend with them in November. I've been playing video games (mostly Fable: The Lost Chapters). I read a book.
And all that was fun, but now I'm ready to start being more productive. As some of you might recall, back in October I said that I was going to start editing Tilt Your Head and Smile, my contemporary NA that I've written at least three times. Although somehow it's now labeled as Draft 5. But anyway – that's what I was going to do before I decided to do NaNo, so that's what I've gone back to. I'll do a post on how I edit soon, but for now I'll just say that I've created a spreadsheet and have already gone through the first four chapters, and I mostly like what I have. I'm a bit unclear about the relevancy of some of the stuff, but I'll wait to make big changes until after I've gone through the whole thing.
I have to say, it feels good to be doing something again. I've spent a lot of time lately feeling sort of lost and confused. This always happens to me after NaNo is over. I keep checking the forums, but there's not really much there to hold my interest. I keep trying to find something fun to do online, some new article to read or something, but nothing catches my eye. But instead of just editing or getting off the computer, I end up just sitting there, being bored. It's incredibly stupid, but it generally takes me at least a week to break out of this phase. At least I've moved on now.
Of course, one other thing I should be doing is catching up on all of the book reviews that I should have written this year but didn't. I read those 24 books for my YA lit class (and even read a few more than were required), but I didn't write reviews for most of them because I was reading so fast and kept putting them off. And then I didn't write them in October because I was trying to use that time to prepare for NaNo.
I thought about how to best deal with the lack of book reviews, and I've finally decided what I'm going to do. Rather than post the 16 book reviews here and flood your inboxes (because you are following my blog, right?) with posts about books, I'm just going to post them to GoodReads and then link them here in one post so you know when they're up (if you care – which you totally should). From now on, I'll be better about writing the reviews as I finish the books so I don't get behind.
So that's what I've been up to since NaNo ended. What have you been up to? Still writing? Editing? Doing something completely unrelated?
The end of another NaNo
So, today is the last day of November. That means NaNoWriMo is coming to an end. For some of you, maybe it's already over. Or maybe you have most of the day left. Here on the east coast of the US, we have about 9.5 hours left as of this writing. But I'm not writing anymore.
Because I am done.
Total words written: 500,005
Total novels completed: 4
- Degeneration – 46k
- The Story of Em – 185k
- The Whole Truth – 98k
- Trail Magic – 96k
The rest was random scenes. I wrote 4k of fan fiction, 5k of a novel that I ended up not finishing, a 2k short story about Halloween candy, a 2k poem, and the rest was random scenes involving characters from other novels. Sort of deleted scenes and stuff. Or scenes from their lives after their books were finished.
And now for the goal list:
• 50k Day One
• 75k opening weekend
• 100k by end of week 1
• 250k by end of month (dream goal of 300k)
• Finish at least 3 novels (5 if necessary to reach word count goal)
○ Degeneration
○ The Story of Em
○ The Whole Truth
○ Trail Magic (formerly 2,000 Miles)
○ Imprisoned Lightning
• Another 50k weekend
• Write at least 2k every day (preferably 5k)
I am happy to say that I accomplished every single one of those goals. Some of them I blew out of the water – like "another 50k weekend." Turns out that 500k equals 50k every 3 days. So every weekend was 50k weekend! Also, 250k by the end of the month. I hit that on the 15th and then went on to double it. I never thought I would be able to do that! I also wrote at least 3k every day, including the days when I had eight hours of school AND three hours of grad school.
And now for some stats. Because numbers are fun:
• Most words in an hour: 5,026
• Most words in 10 minutes: 1001
• Most words in a day: 50,001 (Day One)
• Least words in a day: 3,018 (Day Five)
• Average words per day: 16,667
If anyone wants to see the breakdown of words written by novel, here's my original spreadsheet:
Original spreadsheet 2013
And here is the spreadsheet I created when I realized I was increasing my goal:
New spreadsheet 2013
I have to say, as glad as I am that I came back for NaNo this year, I'm really glad the month is over. That was a lot of work, and I'm really looking forward to just relaxing and reading and playing video games and pretty much doing everything else that I haven't been able to do this month. 🙂
What about you? Did you hit your goals for the month? Are you still writing? Are you glad the month is (almost) over? Or do you wish you still had a few more days?
Week 2 update
This is just going to be a quick post since I should really be writing.
Yesterday marked the end of week 2 of NaNoWriMo. Yesterday, I also finished my second novel. Here are the stats for anyone who's curious:
Book 1: Degeneration (YA Contemporary) – about 46k
Random fan fiction – about 4k
Book 2: The Story of Em (NA Romance) – about 185k
Total word count: 235,311
The Story of Em is way too long. I know. I was hoping for 75k, and it sort of got away from me. I will need to cut a lot in the rewrite, but I'm still mostly happy with it. Two of the minor characters became much more important to the plot, and I never would have figured that out if I hadn't given myself permission to ramble a bit.
If I can hit 250k by the end of tonight, I will still be on pace for 500k for the month, which is my new unofficial goal. The official goal is 400k. I've been keeping pace for 500k, but I'm not really sure I can keep this up. I'm going to try as long as I can, though!
Today, I'm starting a third book: The Whole Truth, which is also contemporary YA. This is my football player novel, which I'm a bit worried about. I'm still not entirely sure I like one part of the ending, but I'll worry about that later. I might change it when I get to it, or I might not. Haven't decided yet.
So, yeah, that's how my month is going so far. I'm having a lot of fun. I also learned that I do really well with 10 minute sprints. I used to hate them, but now I've found they're useful for when I'm not quite sure I have enough planned for a longer war. I've been doing an hour of 10 minute wars – 10 writing, 5 break – and it seems to be working well right now. Maybe I'll try that again today.
50k Day One – Complete
For anyone who didn't see it on Twitter yesterday – I HIT 50,000 WORDS IN A DAY!!!
I wanted to sleep the whole evening before, but I ended up sleeping from 1-6 pm on Oct. 31. Then I started at midnight and pretty much did not stop writing until 10:18 pm, when I hit 50,001 – about 15 minutes after Sushi beat me to it. I was really hoping I could beat her to it, but she has done this twice before, so I really should have known better.
If you check out the hashtags #50kkillmenow and #50kdayone, you can see all the other awesome people who wrote 50k in a day – or at least came really close to it!
For those who are interested, here is my spreadsheet for yesterday:
And for anyone who would like a reminder of how I failed last year:
My fingers felt like they were broken by the end of the day. My back was killing me. My forearms were numb. And my novel ended at 46k. I was worried I wasn't going to finish. So I started writing some intentionally horrible fan fiction with a drunk narrator. Not by best writing, of course, but it was cracking me up while I wrote it, so I'll go with it.
I had a lot of fun racing to 50k yesterday. My arms and back and everything feel better this morning. That said, I'm not sure I'll ever attempt 50k day again. I wanted to see if I could do it, and I have. But I will definitely be there to cheer on anyone else who wants to attempt this in the future! 🙂
And just remember – no matter what you wrote yesterday, you should be proud of yourself!
NaNo Goals – 2013
NaNoWriMo starts in less than 27 hours. Part of me is really excited to start writing again, and the other part of me is terrified that I'm not ready. I should probably be working on another outline right now, but I've reached that point where I just feel all prepped out. I used to get the same way before tests. I'd make study guides, but then I'd get tired of pretending to study and just say "Screw it – whatever happens, happens." That's pretty much where I am right now.
Before this thing actually starts, I suppose I should share my goals for this month. I've posted these on the NaNo forums, but it can't hurt to post them here. More accountability is always good, right?
• 50k Day One
• 75k opening weekend
• 100k by end of week 1
• 250k by end of month (dream goal of 300k)
• Finish at least 3 novels (5 if necessary to reach word count goal):
- Degeneration – Contemporary YA
- The Story of Em – NA Romance
- The Whole Truth – Literary YA
- Trail Magic (formerly 2,000 Miles) – Contemporary NA
- Imprisoned Lightning – Contemporary YA
• Another 50k weekend
• Write at least 2k every day (preferably 5k)
That looks like a lot, but I think I can handle it. As you might remember, last year I got to 243k, wrote 2 novels, one novella, finished a third novel, started a fourth, and wrote a bunch of short stories. I'm hoping my projects will be longer this time so I won't have to deal with short stories. Also, I'm pleased to say that I've gotten every school assignment out of the way – EXCEPT for the lesson plans that I need to write once a week for my student teaching experience. I'm still going to be spending two days a week at a high school. Plus I have two Thanksgivings to do to and several things on that second Saturday of the month. Other than, though, I'm completely free.
I have the first three chapter outlines finished. The fourth one is about three-quarters finished, which is enough to get me almost to the climax. Really, I should be able to figure out what I'm doing by that point. The last novel is the one I'm worried about. I have the basic concept and the characters, and I have my three-act structure planned out. Sadly, that's about it. I was hoping to have the rest of it figured out by now, but that doesn't seem to have happened. I kept changing my mind about what was going to happen. What makes for more interesting characters is making the plot suffer, and what made for an interesting plot had rather stereotypical characters.
That said, I'm holding that novel off for the end. Hopefully I can get to 250k with the four mostly planned novels. Imprisoned Lightning is going to be the backup novel. I also have another idea that I got from the OA chat. I have two characters and a basic concept for that one. Plus, there's always the dystopian series I started last NaNo. I still don't have that one planned enough, but I could start rewriting it if I had nothing else to write.
I have tomorrow off, so I'm going to spend the day doing laundry and making food for the next few days. I'm then going to sleep most of the afternoon/evening so that I can wake up around 10 or 11 pm and get ready to write at midnight. I'm hoping I can quickly get back to the 3k/hour I was able to write last November and really get 50k Day One off to a good start.
Degeneration is my Day One project. I feel a bit like I'm cheating since I've written this story so many times, but I've decided to go with it anyway. I wrote it twice as a screenplay and once as a novel, and each draft has taken me one step closer to something I'm proud of. The last draft I wrote for one of the 2012 camp sessions, and it was about 49k. Now I've added a whole different subplot and changed her trip from two days to a week. It really is a significant difference. I'm not just rewriting scenes I already wrote – I'm adding like seven chapters that weren't there before. And I'm not going to be looking at any of the previous drafts while I write, either. It'll be just me and my outline.
I'll probably end up doing what I did last year and write a brief post letting you all know how my 50k day went. I feel more prepared than I was last year, but you never know. Here's a link to the spreadsheet I'll be using, if anyone wants to keep up with my word count as the day progresses: Quix's Day One Spreadsheet
I probably won't post again before NaNo, so good luck to everyone who's participating! Remember – don't let anyone else make you feel bad about your goal. You're only competing with yourself.
Also – don't call anyone else a cheater just because that person can write more than you can. Hopefully no one following my blog would ever do that, but I felt the need to mention it anyway. Also, just because someone writes faster than you do doesn't mean that that person's writing is horrible. We've already had people in the Beyond 50k forum tell us that our novels must be utter nonsense, and I'm really not in the mood to deal with that crap already. So, just, yeah – be nice to all the other participants! 🙂
How to outline your novel in 5 "easy" steps
NaNoWriMo starts in 2 weeks. Are you ready?
I'm not. At all. I finally came up with a fifth novel idea, which makes me happy, but I don't know nearly enough about most of them to actually start writing them. Every time I try to sit down to plan or outline, I end up doing something else instead. Yesterday, I hung out with my friend and fellow Wrimo at a tea shop, thinking I would get work done, and ended up spending most of my time on the NaNo forums and the OA chat. Not really all that productive.
However, I told myself I would be more productive today, and so far I have succeeded. I finally finished my outline (well, one of my outlines) for Degeneration, one of my YA novels. Of course, this is the story I've written three other times (twice as a screenplay and once as a novel), so I really should know what I'm doing by now. Still, I added a bunch of plot this time, so this actually will be a complete rewrite. Again. At first I was upset by that, but I think it's for the best. The last draft I wrote isn't terrible, but it could be a lot better, and it's always been easier for me to just rewrite it than to try to fix it.
While I was trying to outline, I started thinking about my outlining process. I love reading about how other people outline their novels, but I realized I never really talk about how I outline. That's mostly because I never really thought about how I outline. I did that today, though, and I realized others might benefit from my sharing my process. Keep in mind that I am by no means saying that everyone has to outline like this, or that you have to outline at all. Many, many people prefer writing with no outline at all, or just the basic idea of what's happening. That's a perfectly acceptable way to write. I can't do that, as I need structure, but that's okay. There's no formula for writing. You just need to find what works for you and do that.
This is what works for me.
Step 1: The General Story Arc
The first step is figuring out what my novel is about and then coming up with a general overview of the plot. For Degeneration, I knew the novel was about a family who gets together for a wedding. So the general story arc looked a bit like this:
MC doesn't want to go back for the wedding –> MC goes back and deals with family –> Stuff happens.
I actually had a bit more planned for the end, but I don't want to give anything away. 🙂 So, yeah, that's basically what I started out with. Not a lot, but it helps if I know what I'm working toward.
Step 2: The 3-Act Structure
Next I break my idea down a bit further. I've always thought of novels in terms of 3 acts, probably because the first book I read about how to write was actually the book Screenplay. That book talked a lot about four main points in the screenplay:
- The first 10 pages (Where is the character before the action starts?)
- The inciting incident (What sets the story in motion?) – Also called plot point 1
- Plot point 2 – also called the climax
- The resolution – what happens after the action has calmed down?
This structure has actually worked well for me when it comes to planning novels. The first 10 pages translates to the first 3 chapters, which is generally when you're supposed to have introduced the main character and what s/he wants most. By the end of chapter 3, we should have come across the "inciting incident" that pushes the character forward. In my case, the first 3 chapters show my MC before she leaves for the wedding, and by the end of chapter 3 she's learned that she definitely has to go.
Step 3: The List of Events
By this point, I have the very basics of the novel planned. I know what I want the story to be about. Now I make a list of all the events that I know I want to happen in the novel. They don't have to be connected or in order. This doesn't have to be a complete list of everything that will happen, but the more I can come up with, the better off I'll be. For Degeneration, I made a list of all the different things I wanted the characters to fight about, as well as different things they would do while they were back in their hometown. I also mentioned possible suplots and how they might change as the story progressed.
Once I have the list as complete as I can, I go back and put all the events in chronological order, or at least as close to that as I can. Sometimes I simply separate them into "Beginning," "Middle," and "End." Sometimes I have the novel broken into months. For Degeneration, I had everything split into the following categories:
- Before
- Day 1
- Day 2
- Day 3
- Day 4
- Day 5
- After
Step 4: The Chapter List
Once I have the list of events, I go back and separate those events by chapter. Depending on how I broke up the list, this can be easy or complicated. For this novel, it wasn't that difficult, as most of the days could be split into 2 chapters fairly easily. This is actually what I finished this morning for Degeneration. According to my outline, the novel will be 15 chapters. I'm thinking each chapter will probably be 4-5k long, which means that my novel should be about 70-75k, which is a good length for a YA novel.
This type of outline is the bare minimum I like to have before I can start writing a novel. I am going to work on getting all of my November novels to this point before I move on to the last part of the outlining process.
Step 5: The Scene List
This is where I take the list of scenes for each chapter and actually figure out scenes. For the first chapter of Degeneration, I have "Introduce MC, school project, and the fact that she's trying to pick a college." Now I have to go back and actually plan out the scene. How am I going to introduce those topics? How can I make sure that everything flows together? If there are any bits of dialogue I know I want to include, I try to find a way to fit it in – at the very least I write it down so I don't forget it later.
So, yeah, that's how I outline. Like I said, I've gotten to step 4 with Degeneration. My chapter list is a little over 4 pages long and about 1900 words. I'm hoping to move on to step 5 before NaNo starts, but I worst case scenario, I can just work with what I have.
What about you? Are you doing NaNo? How do you outline – or are you more of a pantser?
The one where I decide to do NaNo over my own objections
For those of you who have known me for a while, you know that I usually do NaNoWriMo in November. You might also remember that I had a rather difficult month last NaNo. I wrote 242k, but my heart wasn't really in it. If you go through the archives for all the November 2012 posts, you'll see that I wrote a lot about all the hate directed at Overachievers – people who aim to write more than 50,000 words in November. I felt alienated from my region and most of the people on the forums, and it just really got me down. The competition wasn't fun anymore.
So I decided to stop. I took all the NaNo stickers off my laptop. I wrote during the first Camp NaNo, but I didn't join the cabins or post on the website; I just wrote with people on Twitter when they were writing. I tried to get into the cabin thing for the second camp, but it just didn't work. I didn't care about NaNo anymore, and I didn't want to waste my time supporting something that didn't seem to want me there at all. I still supported the idea of NaNo, but I swore I was never going to participate in another NaNo event again. I actually almost included that in my last post, but it was already getting kind of long, so I figured I'd write about it later.
Then, October 2, the day after I almost posted about how I would never do NaNo again, I got an email announcing the new forums. I don't know why I looked. It was 6 am, and I had 20 minutes before I had to leave for school. But I looked anyway. I scrolled through the forums. And that's when I saw it.
Finally, the Overachievers have a forum. A place where you can complain about how you're having problems hitting 20k in a day, and people won't criticize you. I was happy when I saw it, but I still didn't think I would do NaNo. Once the joy of something dies inside me, it's really hard to get it back. Or so I thought.
And then I started reading the comments. I saw so many people I hadn't talked to in a year, people who had made me feel better when everyone else made me want to curl up in a corner and never speak to the world again. And I realized that part of me did still care. It wasn't as much as it had been, but I wasn't completely indifferent anymore.
And then I set a goal. And then more goals.
A total of 250,000 words.
A 50k day one.
At least one 50k weekend, possibly two.
Four or five novels, depending on how many I need to reach 250k.
I've decided that this is going to be my redo for last year. Last year I failed 50k day one (hit 30.5k instead). I failed my goal of 250k (hit 242k instead). This year I'm not going to fail. I'm not going to let other people get me down. I'm going to stay in my nice, safe OA forum. I'm probably going to avoid most regional events, although there are still some people in the region that I like (namely the ones who helped support me last year).
I've spent the last five days trying to figure out what to write. I still want to edit Tilt before the month ends. I'm going to rewrite Degeneration as part of NaNo. I have three other novels that I'm trying to outline. I'd really like one more novel as a backup plan, but I'm going to focus on the ones I already have for now.
I've already been doing my school work ahead of time, but I've doubled my efforts. I've done all but one assignment that's due in November and that I can actually start early. I'll be busier than I was last year, but I'm still hopeful that I can get this all done.
Book Review: 17 & Gone by Nova Ren Suma
Title: 17 & Gone (GoodReads)
Author: Nova Ren Suma
Page Count: 353
F/NF: Fiction
Genre: YA Mystery
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Seventeen-year-old Lauren is having visions of girls who have gone missing. And all these girls have just one thing in common—they are 17 and gone without a trace. As Lauren struggles to shake these waking nightmares, impossible questions demand urgent answers: Why are the girls speaking to Lauren? How can she help them? And… is she next? As Lauren searches for clues, everything begins to unravel, and when a brush with death lands her in the hospital, a shocking truth emerges, changing everything.
With complexity and richness, Nova Ren Suma serves up a beautiful, visual, fresh interpretation of what it means to be lost.
I had high expectations for this book. I recently read Suma's Imaginary Girls, and I greatly enjoyed that novel. I expected the same level of beautiful and creepy writing that I found in that one. And to an extent I found that. The writing itself was creepy and beautiful. I could clearly see all the girls and the places Lauren went.
Sadly, that's about the extent of my praise for this book, at least not without getting into spoilers. All I'll say about the ending (really, the last third of the book, maybe a little more) was that I really liked it, and it mostly made up for the first half of the book. I nearly put the book down after 100 pages, and I have to say that I'm mostly glad I finished it.
That said, this book didn't suck me in like Suma's other novel. I felt no connection with Lauren, probably because she doesn't really have much of a personality at all. We meet Lauren when she meets Abby, and after that she's obsessed with learning more about these girls and figuring out what they want her to do and how she can stop herself from being like them. Once she meets the girls, I understand why she gets obsessed. The novel wouldn't work if she weren't. I still wish, though, that we got to see more of Lauren before she meets the girls. Her friends think she's acting weird, but we don't really understand why because we've never seen her acting normally.
This is also a novel where not a lot happens. As a lover of literary fiction, you'd think I'd be okay with that. Maybe I've been reading contemporary too long. Maybe this one just didn't do a good job. Maybe I'm just not in the mood for a slow book. Whatever the case, I found myself bored with this book, particularly during that first hundred pages. I kept expecting the girls to talk to her or show her stuff and have her life be inconvenienced by them more than just "oh, I'm late for school." I did eventually get all of that, but the beginning was a bit slow for me. I didn't care what happened to Lauren or Abby. I didn't really care why Lauren could see Abby. Really, after the first thirteen chapters, I took my bookmark out and decided to take it back to the library.
Obviously I had a change of heart. I'm not sure why I decided to give it another shot. The book did get better after that. We met more girls, most of whom I found more interesting than Abby. More things started happening. The novel got more surreal – in a good way. Lauren's not the world's most reliable narrator, but that just made things more interesting.
Overall: This books started out slow but got better near the end. I recommend giving this book a chance for yourself.


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This month's blog carnival is all about what HCP's/diabetes educators can learn from us :)
I think there's a pretty long list, unless you have one with Diabetes (like my GP) or that have had Diabetes in their family. They can be a big part of your journey, so the more they know and understand the more people they can help now and in the future.
A great support network is brilliant to have throughout the many ups and downs, and conflicting advice from a HCP and people with Diabetes can be very confusing, especially when you're a newbie!
So here's my two penneth!
Diabetes isn't all about numbers - Numbers don't always give you the full story as anything and everything can affect results. Meters aren't 100% accurate so you never really have something solid to work on. Emotions also have a massive impact on results, so emotional support is a must, possibly more than anything else.
Connect with other PWD - HCP's suggesting places online to look for help, support and guidance would be brilliant. I spent a year in Diabetes limbo, not really knowing what I was really doing but finding forums and sites like DSMA really do help and should be available on prescription! They can turn your frown upside down and make you feel less alone.
We're not just Diabetic, we are people! - We have lives outside of being Diabetic, it doesn't define it. Its just a little part of the jigsaw that makes us who we are :)
We do talk to each other - We know the levels of care others are getting and what we should be getting. Also we hear about new D-related gadgets etc so we're going to ask about them and if we're eligible to have them. Just because HCP's don't suggest them doesn't mean we don't know about them!
This post is my October entry in the DSMA Blog Carnival. If you'd like to participate too, you can get all of the information at http://diabetessocmed.com/2012/october-dsma-blog-carnival-2/
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DSMA October Blog Carnival - Listen to Teacher
This month's blog carnival is all about what HCP's/diabetes educators can learn from us :)
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For the past few days I've had a stinking cold which has meant lots of tissues, lots of coughing, glucoaster BG results and being off work. I hate being ill! A cold for me now doesn't mean a couple of days of sniffles and then I'm bright as a daisy again. It knocks me on my arse for at least a week, I go through two or three packets of cold/flu tablets and my nose ends up looking like a very famous reindeer...
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Poor Carbo. Doomed already to a life with less attention, lots of hand-me-downs, and an older sibling who is likely to alternate hugs and kisses with pokes and smacks*. Unlike some parents anticipating the arrival of a second child, I have NO fears about being able to love this child as much as I do Natalie, but I do worry that this child is not going to get the undivided attention that has been heaped upon Natalie from moms, grandparents, and relatives galore. I know this isn't all bad, and second children tend to be more laid back and social than their often stressed-out firstborn siblings, but it's hard to ignore.
A few weeks ago Liza was giving me a good-natured hard time about my approach to this pregnancy, because not only do I have to stop and think for a moment to determine the exact gestational age of the baby, I also don't know any of the stats I could have quoted to you about then-Harpo at this point (date of my next MW appointment, estimated weight at the Level II u/s, umm… I hate to confess this but, cough my exact EDD**, etc.).
This baby is no less wanted than Natalie, not at all, but I just don't focus on the pregnancy in the same way that I did. For one thing, I am tired all the time, more so than in the middle of gestating Natalie. And the pregnancy experience isn't new, either, so my thoughts tend to be, "Ahh, I remember this," or, more likely, "Ecch, I remember this," or, "Huh, that's different," but there's less belly-gazing in confusion, wonder, and curiosity. (Except for the movement. THAT still gets all my attention. I love it.) Probably the biggest factor, though, is that Natalie takes up a huge portion of my time, thoughts, and energy, and wee Carbo gets what's left.
Here's another example. Our short list of names for this child is VERY short:
Yup – nada. I guess being named, " " would be a conversation starter, and make things easier for the kid when learning to spell, but boy would the bureaucracy have trouble with it. We've had two conversations about names since the pregnancy was confirmed and we got to a point where we felt a live baby was a fairly likely outcome, and neither discussion resulted in much more than a handful of names about which one mom felt somewhat lukewarm and the other mother slightly more enthusiasm.
The truth of the matter is, I probably think about Carbo as much as I did about Harpo in utero — but the thoughts themselves are very different***. For one thing, a lot of the wondering one does about an unborn child has a different tenor in a subsequent pregnancy. Instead of wondering, "Will this baby be active?" or "Will s/he sleep well?", inevitably the wondering becomes more comparative: "Will s/he be as big as Natalie?" and "Will this baby talk as much as Natalie?" (And I KNOW you're not supposed to compare children… but is there anyone who DOESN'T???) Then there's all the worrying about managing two kids and giving appropriate amounts of attention to each of them. And worrying about sibling rivalry. And thinking about dragging the poor second kid along wherever the first needs to go, as opposed to being slavishly devoted to The Baby's Schedule.
I repeat, this child is wanted and loved as much as Natalie (and Coqui) ever was, and we are eagerly anticipating his or her birth and the growth of our family. I daresay by the birth, we'll even have some names picked out (lest we leave the task up to Natalie who has named two of her dolls "Other Baby" and "Aaa"). But the second verse… it really isn't the same as the first.
*She already does, in fact. She will sweetly talk to my belly and then moments later swat it saying, "I hit baby." The gentle and loving interest is far more frequent than the experimental mistreatment (she often tries to share various treats with the baby by holding them to my belly) but the harbinger of challenges to come is there indeed.
**I do actually know it but I've learned my lesson from last time and when people ask when I am due I tell them "Mid-September". And I have said this so often that I now think of it in those terms, and the actual EDD is not at the forefront of my brain. By August, I guarantee you it will be.
***Except the worries about something being wrong with the baby. Those are pretty much identical.


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One cool thing about independent film is just how long it's been around, well before Roger Corman or John Cassavetes in the 1960s and 70s. By the 1920s, African-American independent filmmakers already had an outsider cinema, with Oscar Micheaux and others serving audiences who were excluded from whites-only theaters and wanted to see blackness portrayed more fully and honestly onscreen.
For me, a compelling part of this longevity is the ongoing need to "keep it real" while contending with social and economic challenges. Just to survive, those early African-American filmmakers, for example, struggled with scant resources and endless compromises. With no formal training or industry support, how to finance, staff, write, shoot, edit, market, and distribute a film? How much to compromise, when, and with whom so as to make both a film and enough money to pay it off and keep going? All tough questions for independent filmmakers past and present.
I like how sometimes the socioeconomic forces have supported the outsiders. In the late 1960s and early 70s, Hollywood was struggling economically like never before. The studios had gotten stodgy, TV was ascendant, and baby boomer audiences wanted new alternatives. Forced to innovate, the studios took risks with young filmmakers as well as styles and subjects previously limited to niches, or simply invisible. The marginal became central, and it paid off economically and critically. In crude economic terms, the dynamics of supply and demand made for an exciting moment of creativity and independent-mindedness that broke the mold and still influences movies today, even as Hollywood has long since returned to its comfort zone of blockbusters, star vehicles, and recycled pop culture.
It's great how films have evolved, as well as their marketing and distribution. When I was young, there simply weren't any websites, DVDs, or satellite TV. My rural hometown had a few movie theaters; my TV had four channels, including a PBS station with early Siskel & Ebert, before they went commercial. You can guess how times have changed since then in Grants Pass, Oregon. New media galore, and even a local film festival, the Siskiyou Film Festival; and, a few towns away, the Ashland Independent Film Festival has been thriving for years. If I'd had those as a kid, I might have stayed.
But have times changed so much? Are things really better now? For consumers like me, definitely. For independent filmmakers, I think so, but maybe not as much as it may seem. Though there are more and better resources available than ever before, indie filmmakers still grapple with many of the same challenges as their forebears. And, as filmmaking and distribution have gotten more accessible, more people are doing it, which clutters the marketplace. Or does it? What do you think?
This post is part of a series in which I talk about independent film in a more detailed, wide-ranging, and personal way than I usually do here. And it's a chance to hear from you. Feel free to post a comment anytime or let me know if you'd like to write a post.
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In an era where a very large portion of mortgage obligations have been securitized, by assignment to a trust indenture trustee, with the resulting pool of assets being then sold as mortgage backed securities, foreclosure becomes an interesting exercise, particularly where judicial process is involved. We are all familiar with the securitization process. The steps, if not the process, is simple. A borrower goes to a mortgage lender. The lender finances the purchase of real estate. The borrower signs a note and mortgage or deed of trust. The original lender sells the note and assigns the mortgage to an entity that securitizes the note by combining the note with hundreds or thousands of similar obligation to create a package of mortgage backed securities, which are then sold to investors.
Unfortunately, unless you represent borrowers, the vast flow of notes into the maw of the securitization industry meant that a lot of mistakes were made. When the borrower defaults, the party seeking to enforce the obligation and foreclose on the underlying collateral sometimes cannot find the note. A lawyer sophisticated in this area has speculated to one of the authors that perhaps a third of the notes "securitized" have been lost or destroyed. The cases we are going to look at reflect the stark fact that the unnamed source's speculation may be well-founded.
If the issue were as simple as a missing note, UCC §3-309 would provide a simple solution. A person entitled to enforce an instrument which has been lost, destroyed or stolen may enforce the instrument. If the court is concerned that some third party may show up and attempt to enforce the instrument against the payee, it may order adequate protection. But, and however, a person seeking to enforce a missing instrument must be a person entitled to enforce the instrument, and that person must prove the instrument's terms and that person's right to enforce the instrument. §3-309 (a)(1) & (b).
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What will be possible?
This was the question that was in my mind when I stepped on the mat this morning. Second series feels better for me these days, so I focus on this series. Yet once a week I'd like to do primary.
Oh it was difficult to start and not to stop after the first two sun salutations. I switched on music and lowered the ambition.
Vinyasas are lost.
I practiced cat pose as a counter pose to the forward bending asanas.
I could put my leg behind the head, yes and I'm happy about it, but I had to hold it and it didn't feel as good as it used to. Yes, I see progress again. This is what I appreciate and I even thanked the Universe for the hope that was sent.
Only twice I had to use the fascia roll to get rid of the painful tension in the right psoas.
Tomorrow morning I'll be able to say if pain returned or not.
As ALWAYS, I never ever regretted to have practiced. I feel good.
My motivation: This idea came up this morning and I think it's a good idea as I want to be up to date with all the technical stuff. When I feel ready I'll film a session and show it on periscope.


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One tool that seniors may use to receive funds for long-term care costs is a "reverse mortgage."
One tool that seniors may use to receive funds for long-term care costs is a "reverse mortgage."
A reverse mortgage works by converting home equity into cash, either through a line of credit, monthly payments or a lump sum. The homeowner may remain in the home, with the loan and interest due either upon the borrower's death or when moving out of the home. Reverse mortgages are only available to those who are at least 62 years old.
The rules about reverse mortgages are about to change. The U.S. Federal Housing Administration (FHA) insures these mortgages and has power to regulate how they work. Not long ago, the FHA decided to modify the program. The underlying goal of the changes is apparently to lower default rates and ensure borrowers are not unknowingly mortgaging more than they can handle.
More specifically, borrowing limits are changing. The FHA is enacting a lower cap on the amount a borrower can take in the first year, up to 60 percent of the appraised value of the home. This is down from a previous high of 75 percent. There are some exceptions to the rule, which will allow homeowners to borrow 75 percent of the appraised value immediately, but doing so will trigger a higher loan fee.
Also, requirements are changing for lenders before they can approve the loans. For example, lenders will now be required to evaluate a borrower's ability to pay property taxes, homeowner's association fees and similar costs. Lenders may also require that borrowers set aside money to cover expected costs.
The new rules will make it harder to obtain a reverse mortgage and may limit the size of the loan. There is not much time before these rules go into effect. The FHA is pushing to have some, or all, of the changes take effect on Oct. 1. To work under the older system, borrowers would need to finish a required counseling session by the end of September.
Some seniors who obtained reverse mortgages with rather harsh terms found they were unable to either live off the loan for long or pay it back entirely. When reviewing options to pay for long-term care costs, it's important to look into long-term care insurance, and the Medicaid asset protection trust, as well as a reverse mortgage.
Bonnie Kraham is an attorney practicing elder law estate planning with Ettinger Law Firm, 75 Crystal Run Road, Town of Wallkill. She can be reached at 692-8700, ext. 119 or at email@example.com. This column is intended to provide general information, not legal advice.


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My colleague Marion Bowman sent me a link to a new product, The Dragonfly:
a brand new, empowering technology that allows you to communicate with your departed loved ones. It's a safe and simple device that acts as a phone, so you can talk to the other side. Those who love you are always with you, guiding and helping you in your journey. Through them, you can access a universe of knowledge and understanding. This technology opens a "spiritual internet" of information.
I love the steampunky wood finish. It also reminds me of Derren Brown's Dream Machine:
Fact is, there's nothing new about devices like this – in fact this one is based on ideas from the 1950s. But the nexus between technology, supernatural or spiritual ideas and commerce has been a feature of the cultic milieu since at least the 1800s, with Mesmerism in Europe and then Spiritualism coming out of the US. (Rafale Natale's Supernatural Entertainments is a good exploration of this relationship.)
To me, this makes as little sense as speaking to a loved one at their grave, or praying for that matter. Some might find the use of technological or scientific language troubling, but the underlying presupposition – of an undetectable realm of existence containing agents which can affect this world – should be much more problematic epistemologically.
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Shake LED Stick
The principle of shake LED stick is based on that people have persistence of visual senses. When you light up a column LED at different moments in different ways, shake it, and a very beautiful picture will display before your eyes. It not only can display pictures but also can display characters, both static and dynamic. The pictures will be very nice. We can equip this kind of LED on our bicycles and fans, and other things. It's good choice for DIY. http://youtu.be/NEmaOzHT80I
1. Prepare
1.1 Freaduino Micro MB_MIRCO
1.2 Vibrating Sensor
1.4 Perforated Circuit Board
2. Make
2.1 Cut perforated circuit board into halves
2.2 Connect the two pieces of boards
2.3 Solder LED, vibrating sensor
2.4 Program analysis
2.4.1 You must get data of the characters that you want to display, and data mode is column by column, for example "12":
Column by column data mode is: first, get the first column data, then get the second data, and by this analogy. The LEDs have a common anode, so I need to invert the data. You can get the character data from the below URL, as displayed in the above picture: 2.4.2 Data Update When you are shaking LED stick, vibrating switch will switch on and off and MCU can catch this variation level. We can enter interruption function and update data. So why do we need this vibrating switch? Because we can't update at any time, we need a reference point to make sure that the position of picture will not change. First, we set the first column data, and delay, then set the second column data, and delay, by this analogy, you will see a picture if the delay time is too short. The performance is as below:
3. Improvement
It is so weary to use our hands, why not use a motor? Now, let's see my improvement, and you need:
3.1 Make motor paste on perforated circuit board
3.2 Use infrared sensor instead of vibrating sensor, and infrared sensor's position must be situated suitably. My method is: equip infrared sensor near rotating shaft, because when infrared sensor detect motor it will output a signal, vice versa, then MCU can update data
3.3 Due to the circuit board rotates as the motor runs, we need to install MCU and the battery on rotary stick, and make it balance
This is to use infrared sensor to get a reference, and update data column by column. You can use your imagination, and display more beautiful pictures, next is my rotary clock, expect your share. I have some other ideas: I want to display an expression or a small key, or an animal. It will be amazing if the animal can move and run. Do you have better idea? Download codes here: shake LED stick


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May 22, 2018
What a lame title! Ah! If it's a lame title, does it make for a lame video? I hope not, but I know that this isn't gonna be a video that crushes it on the Trending Page. It's just something we constantly see around us and say "goddamn why don't they have this where I'm from?!"
Or hey, do they have this where you're from? I'm starting to think we're really out of touch with what's happening in Canada now. Cyber_3, let me know if you've seen these. On May 30th it'll be ten years since we left home. A decade. Damn that's a long time. I'm sure things have changed since we've left. I don't know. We'll be back in Canada this August, and we'll check out if they have this stuff.
Enough about how out of touch we are. I need to be more affirmative in the statements I make on this site, according to some readers. HEY! NORTH AMERICA! Dry toilet paper isn't gonna cut it anymore. Get with the program! Bad microwave dinners ain't gonna cut it anymore. Fix your packaging! Make it better for customers. Hey you! Soy milk companies! I see you hiding behind your big cash and not improving your product. Make your milk boxes better! And Canada, I know you still have milk bags. We gotta stop with those milk bags. Innovate!
And yeah, I drink a lot of soy milk. I need them for my protein shakes. I used to drink them with milk but then my cholesterol went too damned high so I switched to soy milk, and my tests this year are a lot better and my cholesterol is perfect. Call me a soy boy if you want, but I'm a big boy. SOY MAN! SOY MAN! HE CAN CRUSH A DIAMOND IN HIS HAND. SOY MAAAAAAN!
These soy milk packages are pretty new. They just started with these spouts maybe for half a year or so. Before they used to be screw tops, but once they switched to the new packaging we were thoroughly impressed. And then we were inspired for this video, and started writing down ideas. I'll need your help with something. Take a look at this list:
WHAT THE FORK IS "YOGHURT HALF OPENING"?! We're flummoxed. It was good enough to write in the middle of our brainstorming. We even wrote some things after it, which means it made sense when we wrote it, but when we started filming this we had no freaking clue what we were talking about. Yoghurt Half Packaging? What? We went to our grocery and convenience stores and started looking at all the yoghurt to see if something would jog our memories, but nope, can't find it. People of Japan, visitors of Japan: do you have any idea what we're talking about? We still can't figure this out, even after editing the video.
So that's it for this video. We might have another video ready this week as well. We're really sorry for not posting a video for a while. Our last two videos came on a good week, and that was followed by a bad couple of weeks. Not being able to post makes things worse as well, because we really look forward to talking with you all in the comments. But we made it through, and we're doing a bit better now, here for more videos to share with you.
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The first instant you step into the round pen with a horse you are either teaching it to trust you, to fear you, or to ignore you. This is true for professional trainers as well as the newest horse owners. Beginning round pen lessons always start without a halter or lead rope.
It is possible to establish a new beginning whether you already have a 10 year relationship with your horse or this is your first day together. These steps and concepts are the foundation of my programs with troubled horses as well as to maintain right relationship with my own.
Leadership Goals with Horses
Worthy leaders want the same three things from their horses that God wants from us:
- Show up.
- Focus.
- Offer obedience.
Day One in the round pen is an exercise in focus. The fact that the horse is already in the round pen takes care of the showing up part. Your goal is to gain the horse's focus – consistently. In most instances that is the entire goal for Day One, and the beginning of every single day that follows.
Unless you can get your horse's attention there is no opportunity for the horse to offer obedience. Remember a key component of obedience is the option to NOT be obedient. Horses that are forced into a behavior are coerced, not obedient. Leaders do not coerce.
On days one, two, three, or nine – until you can get your horse to focus, don't be concerned about getting to the obedience part. If you address focus correctly, obedience will begin to come along naturally.
What is the proper way to turn a horse in the round pen?
Q: When you reverse a horse in the round pen should it always turn away from you?
A: This question is asked frequently. If I don't specifically tell a horse which way to turn I don't care. If I have taught the horse an inside turn and outside turn and ask for one or the other I expect to get it. But there is no "proper" way to turn a horse. If the request is simply for the horse to change directions, then the right answer is going the opposite way, not how it was accomplished.
Some instructors insist that horses must turn into the center every time. To do otherwise, they reason, is an expression of disrespect and could be dangerous. If a horse is never to turn it's rear in your direction, how do you expect to ever brush its tail? Volatile horses preparing to act out won't care if you ask them to turn inside, outside, or upside down. You've already proven a lack of leadership by allowing the situation to escalate to a point the horse is ready to explode in fear or anger.
Three Things to Avoid when Working with a Horse
There are three tattle-tale horse behaviors that scream leadership failure;
- Anger
- Aggression
- Anxiety
In the round pen, stable, in hand or under saddle, whenever a horse exhibits any of these three behaviors it is proof the leader messed up somewhere.
Don't Make any Move without a Purpose
When I enter the round pen with any horse I need to evaluate its mindset before making my first move. Does the horse fear me? Ignore me? Or is it overly familiar?
If the horse fears me I ignore it. I speak with the audience or a friend, or simply wander around and enjoy the surroundings without ever looking at or walking directly to the horse. Sooner or later the horse will settle down and notice me rather than simply reacting to my presence. You cannot establish a relationship with a horse that is anxious or fearful.
Make no move before you know exactly what question you will ask the horse and precisely what the right answer is.
Sample first questions and the right answers:
Asking a horse a question on Day One in the round pen means making a request for a physical response. The most important point to remember is to make each question SIMPLE and SPECIFIC. Each question on Day One should be no more than one tiny step. Each Q & A that follows deals with what question I might ask a particular type of horse.
Q: Pushy horse: A horse that does not respect my space will be asked a question with the least possible cue, like, Will you BACK AWAY? Backing away is a submissive action so it is both the safest option and one a pushy horse will (eventually) respect.
A: The moment the horse's feet move in reverse I return to whatever I was doing and ignore the horse. To the horse this means, you asked me to back with no more pressure than needed, and the instant I did you left me alone.
If the horse continues to be pushy I will ask for more backing steps and increase the size of my personal space until the horse learns I cannot be out-stubborned.
Q: Angry or aggressive horse: This horse either ignores me, invades my space, shakes its head and neck, turns its rear to me or makes some other move that is the equivalent of giving me the "pony finger." I simply decide how I want the horse's feet to move and ask that specific question by applying the least cue possible. The question may be to move to the right around the round pen.
A: The instant the horse turns to the right and takes one step I go back to what I was doing and ignore it. To the horse this means, you made me move and quit pushing when I did what you asked.
Q: Lazy or spoiled horse: Horses must be moving to be trained. Horses that stand in one spot and just look at me will have to move their feet sooner or later. It the horse isn't afraid it will be sooner. If the horse looks at me I will approach it directly from the front. Most horses will move away whenever they get uncomfortable or decide to play keep-away. My question may be, Will you stand still if I walk up and pet your face?
A: If the horse allows me to march up and pet its face without moving feet or losing focus, that is the right answer. I pet once or twice, turn and go back to what I was doing.
If the horse moves its feet or looks away, that is not the right answer, and I will ask the horse to move out in the opposite direction of travel or focus. If the horse looks away from me to the right I ask it to go left using the tiniest cue possible. This is a NEW QUESTION. The right answer is the horse turning and moving one step in the proper direction. When that happens I go back to what I was doing before asking the horse to stand while I came to pet it. Right answer, no more question.
Horses learn that they may need to wait on me, but I will never wait on them.
Focus – Known when you get it and when you lose it
You must know when your horse gives you the right answer, which is Focus. Your goal on Day One in the round pen is to establish a beginning. That's it. Victory comes when your horse keeps his attention on you even when you are ignoring him. Always quit the lesson while you're ahead.
Whenever your horse is supposed to be standing still with his focus on you, both eyes should be visible. When your horse is moving around the round pen you want to have both the inside eye and ear trained on you. If you can't see the inside eye and the ear rotates away, you have lost the horse's focus and you must immediately ask a new question to regain it.
If the horse is moving around the pen, sometimes the right answer to your question is to stop and look at you with both eyes. You must know what question you are asking so you know precisely and immediately when the horse gives you the right answer.
Anytime the horse has your attention you must have his. Anytime you are focusing on the horse he must be focusing on you. The instant his eyes look away it is time for a new question that involves where and how his feet must move. The moment you get the right answer – quit asking.
Moving Forward
Did you think Day One could be so complicated? It isn't really. Every time you ask a reasonable question, use the least effort to ask, and then QUIT ASKING when you get the right answer, you are building a strong foundation.
Many trainers find it difficult to identify what question to ask and what answer is correct. That's because they aren't thinking simply enough.
This article is an overview of Round Pen 101 and certainly not exhaustive. You could write books on the subject of focus, leadership, and relationship with a horse. Actually, I've already written two (make that three.) If you have a question or particular challenge with your horse, please ask and I'll do my best to address your particular situation.
Christian Horsemanship
Jesus Christ is the most perfect Leader; under the proper authority of His Father, as well as delivering perfect peace, joy, and freedom from fear to those who follow Him with perfect focus. None of us can maintain a proper focus on our Savior 100% of the time. Remember that when your horse has the same problem paying attention to you. Be simple. Be clear. Every problem we have with God is our fault. The person responsible for every problem we have with our horse is standing right in front of him wearing our boots.


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