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There are two types of Factions in Albion Online. Player Factions and Mob factions.

Players can join Player Factions and associate with them while doing activities in Albion.

Mob Factions can only be fought against and represent different types of enemies with their own distinctive characteristics, look and items that can be obtained from them.

Player Factions

There are 6 player factions in the world of Albion, each faction represents one of the royal continent cities:

Each faction has its own crest and cape. Players can join and switch between any of the six factions. Faction Standing can be earned through Faction Warfare, doing PvE content while "faction flagged" as well as gathering for your active faction. Brief information on how to join a faction can be found here below, for more information, be sure to check out the Faction Warfare Page.

Joining a Faction

You can join a faction (aka "enlist", "flag" or "flag up") in any of the Royal Cities.
You can only enlist for the faction that is based in that city, and you will have to travel to that particular city each time you want to re-flag with that faction.
Flagged players can be attacked anywhere on the Royal Continent (even blue and yellow zones) under zone type conditions by players flagged to enemy factions. Lethal zones result in player death.
Certain zones will automatically unflag the player upon entering, including Hellgates, Arena, GvGs, and Expeditions.
Certain zones are not enterable while faction flagged: other faction cities and starter towns, and the Outlands.
Flagged players will have a modified logout time in blue and yellow zones.
Flagged players have to unflag to be safe in blue and yellow zones.
Flagged players have a new respawn option, "Faction City":

  • If selected: Player will keep their faction flagging and will be teleported into their faction city.
  • If another respawn option is selected (Home, Territory, etc.), the player will lose their faction flagging when respawning.

You can unflag from a Faction the same way you can for PvP mode, just click the shield icon next to your avatar on the top left of the screen.

Mob Factions

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Yealink phone templates are added in sipXcom / openUC 14.10

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Yealink IP Phones

sipXcom supports the full lineup of Yealink IP Phones. Yealink's standards-based desktop IP phones provide many features and excellent sound quality.

Certification Status

Yealink phones are currently in verified status.

Currently known issues include:

  • Shared Line Appearance (SLA) does not work

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Autoprovision for Yealink phones does not work, use this procedure for adding phones:

To add the Yealink phone manually to your system (until the auto-provisioning feature will be available) :

1.Manually configure network settings on phone :

Access the phone menu using the admin account with password "admin"(first you might need to go to User Mode - and choose admin,and then go to Setting-Advanced settings)

Setup network/IP settings , save and exit the menu

Phone will (probably) reboot

2.Add the Yealink phone profile to the system :

In admin portal go under Devices->Phones and click the Add new phone menu and select the correct Yealink phone model

On the next screen enter the MAC address of the device

3.Additional config if phone is configured with static ip address:

Considering the phone is setup with static IP addresses , go under Devices->Phones->"Yealink phone"->Internet port (WAN)-> set WAN Adress type to Static and configure the IP paramaters the same as you have on the phone

No need to send the profile to phone right now

4.Assign a line to this newly added phone :

Go to Devices->Phones->"Yealink phone"->Lines

Click Add Line

Search and add user e.g "201"

Save and send the profile to phone

(it's quite possible that nothing will happen on the phone until you execute Step 5

A "Failed to reboot" job might be present because phone cannot be rebooted (since user is not registered on it)

5.Configure the provisioning server on phone :

Now with network settings setup on the phone,connect via its web interface

Depending on the model go to Settings->Auto-provision

Set Server URL to point to your server IP : tftp:// (tftp should be enabled on server under System->Servers->Device Provisioning)

Also set Username and Password : PlcmSpIp

Next click the AutoProvision Now button

(An extra Send profiles might be required after this)

(A "Failed to reboot" job might be present because phone cannot be rebooted (since user is not registered on it)

Phone will get the config file from the openUC server and reboot (in approximately 2 minutes)

6.In Admin Portal->Diagnostics->Registrations verify the entry for the newly added phone

The output is similar to :

URI : sip:201@server_IP/domain

Contact : sip:201@server_IP:1024;x-sipX-nonat

Phone : phones MAC address

For all Known Issues:

Music on Hold

Be aware that in order for MoH to work with Yealink phones you need to check option below in System > Media Services

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 Tells Media Server instance not to send display UPDATEs to the leg of the call.

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SLA does not work with Yealink phones.

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TLS does not work with Yealink phones in 14.10.

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To enable SRTP for a Yealink phone go to Device->Phones->"Yealink phone"->Lines->Advanced-> and look for SRTP encryption enable .

Issue : this field lets you insert values such as 0,1,2 but you wouldn't know which value corresponds to what
Description says : Enable/Disable Voice Encryption(SRTP - which is not exactly correct because if you go over to the Yealink phone via its web UI you would have 3 options : Disabled/Optional/Compulsory - according to the Yealink plugin from admin portal these values correspond to 0,1,2 but the user wouldn't know that.

G.711 Codec Confusion

Under Device->Phones->"Yealink phone"->Line->Codecs there is no way of telling which codec is G711 U-law and which is A-law since both are named G711.

Workaround: Select both.

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John Adams—Any movie that I can get Jim to watch with me is a good movie (with the grim exception of Tropic Thunder—Ugh). Any six-hour movie I can convince him to watch is an instant classic. This one was so good that immediately after finishing the first disc via Netflix, we went out and rented the second at Blockbuster. I am a big Paul Giamatti fan (Sideways, Lady in the Water), and he doesn’t disappoint. Great performances, especially by Giamatti and Laura Linney who plays Abigail Adams.  I was in awe of the production and grateful to the filmmakers for simply telling the story without getting in the way or passing judgment. Various perspectives are presented and you are to decide for yourself what you think of Adams’ choices, both professionally and privately. They even portray marriage and commitment in a way that neither glosses over the ugly bits nor makes it appear one step higher than purgatory. If you have any interest in American history, this is a movie for you.

Proof—One of my Netflix buddies once told me that I enjoy far too many films. That may be true. However, there are at least as many that I loathe. I particularly hate movies that make me feel like an idiot for not liking them. Perhaps there should be a warning alongside the rating and the two “thumbs way up” on such films, reading something like “Be advised: People who don’t like this movie are morons and just don’t get it.” What’s not to like after all? It’s a movie about math brought to us by the mathematical genius who brought us such greats as Shakespeare in Love and Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. I felt like I could hear the writer giggling behind the television, waiting to explain the movie to me in long drawn about syllables, using very small words in case I was too dense to understand. “See…it’s called “Proof’ and she needs proof that she isn’t crazy. And that he loves her. And that she can trust him. Get it?” Take my advice. Never watch a film about math where the camera pans away and music swells every time the characters actually start talking about math.

Little Children—I watched this movie after a night of domestic duties, which this film suggests is a trap to avoid at all costs. Feeding dinner to the kids, cleaning up afterward, putting them to bed—all instruments of torture. The opening scene portrays moms who come off like Stepford wives on steroids—who would be enough to send women running to the nearest pharmacy demanding a lifetime supply of birth-control pills, or at least to their local childcare facility. I am not sure whom the makers of this film hate more—traditional stay-at-home moms, wives in general, husbands in general, or law-enforcement officers. You know it ain’t pretty when the most sympathetic character of them all is a pedophile. To me, this movie is a clear indicator of just how far into the moral abyss Hollywood has sunk. This is not dangerous beauty—lies and distortions wrapped in the seductively attractive wrappings of great art. This is lies and distortions wrapped in a brown paper bag with one or two corners ripped off. In other words, not only is the movie false and evil, it is also really, really badly done. It is as if the evil lurking in Hollywood has warped filmmakers’ aesthetic sense as well as their moral code. The combination of bad filmmaking, reprehensible preaching, and gratuitous nudity make this movie one to avoid.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall—I usually review three films, but rather than end on a down note, let me recommend a movie that is worth going out of your way to see. If you are at all inclined to watch people dressed up in movement-restrictive clothing and ride around the country side on horses while searching for true love, this is a flick for you. Romance that doesn’t require you to check your morals or good sense at the door? What a novel concept. (Subscribers to Netflix can find this one in “Watch Instantly.” Great movie and it saves space in the ole queue. Can’t ask for more than that.)

7 Responses to “Snapshots”

  1. Andrew

    When I saw the cover image for “Proof,” I was nervous that you had written a glowing review of the movie and that I would feel like an idiot since I didn’t get it. At all. Thought it was dreadful.

    Very glad that we’re on the same page.

  2. Kaitlyn Dugan

    It is really encouraging to read a negative review of “Little Children.” I can count on one hand how many films have left me feeling so dark and disturbed – and I am not married nor do I have children.

    The most disturbing part for me was when they were discussing the rebellion of Madam Bouverie in the group in relation to her marriage/men. But Winslet defends her “struggle” and calls her actions “heroic” and “beautiful” about it. I was dumbfounded. She then goes on to say that it is the “hunger” that lies in her motivation to cheat, the “hunger for an alternative” to being faithful and “the refusal to accept the life of unhappiness” in her marriage that makes her a “feminist.”

    Truly unbelievable.

  3. Neville Kiser

    As a Christian, twentysomething, white male (I’m recognizing my bias up front) I have to disagree with you so much on your analysis of LITTLE CHILDREN. My mouth gaped open when I saw your impression of it. I don’t mean to say someone can’t “find that” in this film, it just seems that that must have been all you were looking to find. Let me explain/defend my position.

    1. The most sympathetic character in the film was not the pedophile…but his mother. I think it was clear the filmmakers were setting the audience up for you to be completely and utterly irritated by him. In the end, we feel bad for him…we know he’s screwed up, but it’s the mother of him—resembling only the type of Love God could embody—who is most sympathetic. I know I wasn’t ready to love him or any other pedophiles after seeing him in this. I was frustrated b/c I realized just how much I wanted to not love, to not show grace/mercy to him. And yet, Jesus shows the same grace to him as he does to me and loves him at his most sickest just as he loves me at my most sickest.

    2. Second, do you really believe the filmmakers hate the characters in this film? If anything, I was amazed at how much compassion (and judgment) they continually passed on every one of its characters. After all, the film was titled “Little Children” and that wasn’t just because it was about parents who had some. It was about how adults—ironically, who raised little children—end up being the “littlest” children at times in that, they run away from responsibility, when it gets tough. They flee love when things get hard. The film is about how dreams, and ideals of little children come back to haunt us if we don’t recognize the responsibility of growing up. The dad who wanted to be a skateboarder. The neighborhood watchman who failed as a cop. The mom who wanted to continue studying literature. It’s about dreams and how we fail in them, and how we settle for something else (that ultimately pays the price for our side-stepping them). Need I point out that the stay-at-home mom (Kate Winslet) who seemed to grow tired and weary of her life, did so in light of her husband jerking off to porn at work and home? I’ll have to check Ephesians, but I think there it says, “Husbands love your wives…” yet, never commands the wives to love their husbands. Was this husband loving his wife? No. I don’t say it to excuse her behavior later on, but I say it to point out the generational, the “human stain” as it has been called, of sin and sin perpetuating more sin.

    3. Third, regarding Winslet’s defense of Madam Bouverie, obviously, the analogy is stretched a bit…but there are some women who do feel trapped in a marriage. There are some women who do feel unloved, unimportant, unnoticed by their husbands and other people in their lives. I’m not saying, “Good for her! She rebelled because of it!” But I am saying, “Hey…can we not empathize with the feeling of wanting to NOT be trapped by other people’s neglect of us?” How many times have you been somewhere in life and you felt connected to no one. In that time, did you ever do something to be noticed, to feel connection/touch/love from someone even though you knew it was wrong? We humans were created to be loved, by God and by others. This movie/story for me, was a reminder of God’s grace, God’s mercy to me. It attempted to let you know why people did the things they did, but never really excused it and said it was right, did it? Obviously, the writer (somewhat) punished these people’s actions by the time the film ended. Things did not go as they’d hoped. People were in hospitals because of their actions. In a sense, it reminded me of the final act in MAGNOLIA. Our actions are not without consequences. “Little Children” is not a tragedy of a suburban housewife trapped b/c she feels dull and domesticated; it’s about recognizing that in our attempts to love, and to be loved, (something all little children ask for) we mistake love for desire, for the instant gratification, for quick fix. This is the tragedy of the film.

    4. “Just how far into the moral abyss Hollywood has sunk?” I’m always weary when we, as Christians, can stand back and scoff at how sinful the world is. It makes me think we have no idea of ourselves, have no grasp on depravity, have NO idea of how sinful we really are. I know, I know, you’ll probably tell me, “I know what sin is and I know I’m sinful.” But, as humbly as I can this, let me say this: it’s really easy to say it, to cognitively know what sin is and how sinful we are and be completely detached with the reality of what that is. Have you read, THE SHACK? There’s a great chapter in that book where Mac is allowed to be the Judge on the world, where he can put away any moral cesspools he sees fit. After I read this, I realized how much in common have with the so-called “moral abyss” of Hollywood. This is one of the continual problems I encounter with people who go to Church: they don’t know how to connect with people who don’t go to Church, anymore. They’ve forgotten that we need forgiveness, I need forgiveness, every single day. They’ve forgotten how to see the man beaten up on the side of the road, the prostitute who was on the verge of being stoned, the people so unlovable the majority of Christians (during Jesus’ times) missed them. Re-read the story of Zaccheus to get a good idea of what I mean by this.

    I’m sorry I’m getting so into this response, and that it’s going on so long…but I really was moved by this story. I was humbled by it. I watched it with another Taylor alum who was a Psychology major and he also was moved by it. I felt I wanted to be a friend to these people, I wanted to, really…and I mean that. Wouldn’t Jesus have wanted to befriend them too? I really hope this makes you think more about the film. Privatized suburban communities can sometimes isolate, and privatize the sin in all our lives. I know. I’m one person from that community and there’s an echo to my own story in LITTLE CHILDREN. Maybe that’s why it means so much to me.

    In it, I see God’s incredible empathy.

  4. Amy Spiegel

    thanks for your thought provoking comments regarding “little children”. i think it is always interesting to see when people watch the same movie and have such strong reactions in such opposite directions. i don’t necessarily want to respond point by point but here is my general response to your comments. i agree that as christians we can isolate ourselves to such an extent that it makes it difficult for us to have compassion on those who have yet to be forgiven and at the same time we lose sight of the enormity of the grace we have been given. i think this is one of the reasons God has given me four kids. if they give me nothing else, they act as a constant reminder of my sinfulness. but back to the movie.

    when i watch something i usually track with it in two ways: from a moral stand point and from an artistic one. i often watch a movie that i appreciate from a moral stand point but take exception with artistically, and vice versa. first and foremost, i thought this was a badly made movie. the uneven handedness of the characters, the dialogue, and the format of the movie (the narration format), i didn’t find convincing. i also objected to it from a moral standpoint. i thought the ending said “hey we all make mistakes. but at least we are trying.” true, we all make mistakes but that doesn’t mean there aren’t consequences. kate winslet says “it’s the hunger” that counts but if you devour those around you in the process, you have to be held accountable. when referring to the “moral abyss” of hollywood, my point is that this movie is an example of hollywood’s ever increasing struggle to make good art apart from the Truth. as a final point, i would say “american beauty” (ironically directed by kate winslet’s husband sam mendes) is a much better example of people searching for love and coming to grips with the consequences of their bad choices.

  5. Neville Kiser

    Okay, I’m with you on the moral/artistic perspective, but can I ask this then…when did the immorality of the LITTLE CHILDREN’S story become too much? Too excessive? At one point were you thinking, “I’ve had it…that’s too much…etc.” ? The reason I ask this question is this: do you think I didn’t object to the movie’s morality? I think we sometimes can be very inconsistent when we say we object to a movie morally, when the people writing the story are people. I guess I’m saying, “Are we to expect good moral morsels to come out in the stories we watch? Or are we looking for something more nuanced than this?” Because you must agree, people are far more complicated than a good moral statement. And do we come at stories told morally first, or artistically first? The work is a work of art, expression, story….shouldn’t we come to first on those terms? In response to you thinking it was a bad movie (artistically) I’ll take that as your perspective, but I wholeheartedly disagree. The cinematography in the first five minutes, the shots chosen to convey in images what this story was going to be about, is (dare I say) masterful. It foreshadows what it is to come. If you haven’t seen it, I’d suggest you rent the director of LITTLE CHILDREN’S other film, IN THE BEDROOM. It’s another film that takes morality on, full force, and says, “You decide who’s the better person here.” The more I think about it, the more I think that LITTLE CHILDREN is the type of film were there are not pure evil characters no are there purely good characters. The only characters who aren’t morally corrupt (yet) are the little children themselves.

    As an aspiring screenwriting, I thought the film was a spot on adaptation of the novel, a beautiful and difficult thing to do in this day and age. It’s always easier to make one character wholly good and another wholly bad…from a writer’s perspective. It’s increasingly difficult to have all your characters seriously flawed, seriously judged by its reader/film watcher, and still manage for your reader to be compassionate by the film’s end. And that’s why I was so amazed….because in the end….I felt compassion. Compassion for people that really (like myself) didn’t deserve it.

    Isn’t that one very moral message that God could be speaking through this movie, at least…to me?

  6. Neville Kiser

    One more thing (I’m sorry I’m monopolizing most of the comment section)…but so many of your perspectives about LITTLE CHILDREN…I think…are very good observations about the film, REVOLUTIONARY ROAD. Did you happen to see this movie? I was very disappointed in it. The first line of what you felt regarding LITTLE CHILDREN is almost exactly how I felt towards the end of REVOLUTIONARY ROAD (and me being 1 of 8 children, that made me mad…to think my mother-as-caretaker of me and my siblings was a job unworthy of this woman’s time). If you want a film that makes one-dimensional characters who act only out of reactionary movements (i.e., Feminism, Sexual Revolution, etc.) then REVOLUTIONARY ROAD is your movie.

    Also, did Jim tell you I was there with him at Sundance 2008? I’m that Neville. lol I’m a Fuller Seminary student, Taylor alum, so it was great seeing some TU people there with us last January.

  7. Kathy Forbes

    I just wanted to support you, Amy, with your call on “Little Children”. When I saw this film I totally got that the “children” were the adults–saying that in a sense we never grow up…which is great fodder to explore…and I thought a lot about this after the film ended…and I appreciated it intellectually in a sense…but my gut felt sick and my heart felt heavy and it left a bad taste in the mouth. I also understand Neville’s passion for defending it/his experience of it…I spoke passionately to many friends during my Taylor days defending “American Beauty” and “Magnolia”–both films that deal with similar themes as “Little Children”. But there was a moment in “Little Children” that I rolled my eyes…it is a bit heavy handed with its messaging. And it is beautiful cinematically–but for the sake of being beautiful cinematically–But the real criticism is that basically it comes down to what makes it a drama? When it’s all amoral characters constantly giving in to their sin natures–no fight or barely a will to fight to make a choice for good…and at the end of the story I (as the audience) don’t care if any character lives or dies, is happy or not happy…is that good storytelling? Where’s the drama?
    So this is all way too much jibber-jabber for one film amoungst many.

    On to the review of “Proof” which made me laugh…basically because I own this film…but I own the film because I studied the play in college (it was adapted from a play). The play is great. After reading it, I went to see it on stage which was really well done. So, I own and watch the film because it takes me back through the experience I had seeing it live/alive on stage…much the way one buys a CD after a concert because they, in a sense, want to relive the concert. Reading a review from someone who doesn’t know the story though is great…there are flaws in the film version you are right, Amy! I can overlook them because I know what the playwright intended. It’s a good show though…if you ever want to see it on stage…it’s actually more poetic and just plan better on a stage.

    So, recommendations I have for you! #1 “The Visitor” is a film I just saw on DVD–Richard Jenkins (the lead) was nominated this year for an Oscar. Even though he’s a long shot for winning he should…this film should have some reward for being one of the best films I’ve seen this year. This is one both you and Jim should watch. It’s rewarding in so many ways and fodder for discussion…I’m sure part of that discussion will be “why can’t more films like this be made?”.
    #2–This is a recommendation I’ve been debating for a while…because it’s not a film but a TV series that feels like a film…it’s Battlestar Galactica…not the 70’s/80’s version (known as the classic bsg), but the re-imagined version as promoted by Dwight Shrute on “The Office”. It’s in its fourth and final season right now and I have to say it is the best longform storytelling I’ve ever known. I really can’t emphasis enough that it’s not just sci-fi…it’s what sci-fi was meant to be, much like “Lord of the Rings” is what fantasy should be…First and foremost, it’s great drama…great human drama…great characters, great acting, great plots…really great themes…that lead to good thoughts and talks as an audience member. It’s also not just for men of sci-fi fandom…I’m not a big sci-fi fan–not really into weird aliens and complicated tech talk…this show is the show for the likes of me…it’s much more philosophical and even theological. In fact it’s the only show I know that acknowledges the existance of God and talks opening about Him as a possibility for explaining things that happen plotwise.
    That’s all I’m going to say about it now…it starts with a mini-series (the first disc on the season one box set). It follows with 13 more episodes in season 1. Season 2 is split in half (2.0 and 2.5) as far as box sets are concerned. Season 3 is all one box. Then Season 4 is also split in two (4.0 and 4.5). Only four seasons to the whole show…like an epic novel in cinematic form.
    Check these out if you want…let me know what you think!

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In Memory of Seamus Heaney

When you get to be my age, i.e., the ol’ “three score and ten” of Psalm 90, the years can seem like a blur, so when I opened Facebook this morning, I was surprised that already nine years have passed since the great Irish poet Seamus Heaney’s death at 74. Although it is commonplace now to hear somebody call 70-something sort young for death, Heaney’s mortal dress was more than a little tattered – he looked frail, every bit of three score and fourteen – and it appears that a mere fall did him in.

among school children

I first became enamored with Heaney in 1978.  Ashley Brown, a former professor, invited me to dinner at his house on Barnwell Street not long after he had garnered a bit of fame for appearing frequently in The Habit of Being, a collection of Flannery O’Connor’s letters.  It was a memorable evening with Dr. Brown as he hauled out personal photographs of him and O’Connor and also of his dear friend Elizabeth Bishop, whom he had brought to South Carolina for a reading when I was still in graduate school.[1]  During the evening, he asked me if I had heard of Heaney, and when I admitted I hadn’t, he whipped out a couple of poems, so as soon as I returned to Charleston, I purchased Heaney’s second collection, A Door into the Dark.

Of course, the 60’s were the decade of confessional poets like Plath and Lowell, poets whom my teacher James Dickey once referred to in class as “scab pickers,” poets who more often than not wrote in free verse and who demanded from the reader – at least in Lowell’s case – the patience to unravel seemingly random associations, many of which pertained to his private life.[2]

Heaney’s verse was different – musical, earthy – its subject matter a mixture of the mundane and the political strife of Northern Ireland.   Here he is in “The Outlaw” describing in loose iambic couplets a bull mating with a cow:

Unhurried as an old steam engine shunting.

He circled, snored, and nosed. No hectic panting,

Just the unfussy ease of a good tradesman;

Then an awkward unexpected jump, and

His knobbled forelegs straddling her flank,

He slammed life home, impassive as a tank.

Dropping off like a tipped-up load of sand.

“She‟ll do,‟ said Kelly and tapped his ash-plant

Across her hindquarters. “If not, bring her back.‟

I walked ahead of her, the rope now slack

While Kelly whooped and prodded his outlaw

Who, in his own time, resumed the dark, the straw.

Heaney, standing, fourth from the left

Many of his poems deal with childhood experiences on the family farm right outside of Castledawson in County Londonderry.  Here’s a segment from the title poem of his first collection, “The Death of a Naturalist”:

Then one hot day when fields were rank
With cowdung in the grass the angry frogs
Invaded the flax-dam; I ducked through hedges
To a coarse croaking that I had not heard
Before. The air was thick with a bass chorus.
Right down the dam gross-bellied frogs were cocked
On sods; their loose necks pulsed like sails. Some hopped:
The slap and plop were obscene threats. Some sat
Poised like mud grenades, their blunt heads farting.
I sickened, turned, and ran. The great slime kings
Were gathered there for vengeance and I knew
That if I dipped my hand the spawn would clutch it.

Of course, Yeats is the standard for any Irish poet and an impossible one at that, but it’s certain that Heaney was the greatest Irish poet since Yeats and one who belongs in the same pantheon with the postwar English master Philip Larkin. Heaney is one of the four Irishmen to receive a Nobel prize in literature along with Yeats, Shaw, and Beckett – rare company indeed.   His loss is a great one for poetry and for Ireland – for all of us really – but old men are destined to die as Yeats reminds us on his very tombstone.

Nevertheless, like his hero Beowulf, Heaney will live on in his verse.

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for Michael Longley

As a child, they could not keep me from wells

And old pumps with buckets and windlasses.

I loved the dark drop, the trapped sky, the smells

Of waterweed, fungus and dank moss.

One, in a brickyard, with a rotted board top.

I savoured the rich crash when a bucket

Plummeted down at the end of a rope.

So deep you saw no reflection in it.

A shallow one under a dry stone ditch

Fructified like any aquarium.

When you dragged out long roots from the soft mulch

A white face hovered over the bottom.

Others had echoes, gave back your own call

With a clean new music in it. And one

Was scaresome, for there, out of ferns and tall

Foxgloves, a rat slapped across my reflection.

Now, to pry into roots, to finger slime,

To stare, big-eyed Narcissus, into some spring

Is beneath all adult dignity. I rhyme

To see myself, to set the darkness echoing.

[1] Brown had also in his youth visited Ezra Pound at St. Elizabeth’s, so being in Brown’s presence put me a mere two degrees of separation from my heroes Joyce, Eliot, and Hemingway. You can read about Elizabeth Bishop’s visit to USC HERE.

[2] I witnessed a dual reading featuring Dickey and Lowell in 1974. Afterwards, I learned that Lowell detested Dickey, so there’s that.


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Monday, November 15, 2010

A Nasty Villain Returns With A Vengeance In Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan!

The Good: Excellent plot, Character elements, Effects, DVD bonuses, Great acting
The Bad: None!
The Basics: When Khan escapes the planet he was imprisoned on in "Space Seed," the U.S.S. Enterprise must save the galaxy from Khan's perversion of a scientific experiment into a weapon.

Following on the heels of the Star Trek: The Motion Picture The Director's Cut (click here for my review!) which remixed and redid the special effects of the first, dreadfully slow Star Trek movie came the DVD Director's Cut of the classic film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. The Wrath of Khan was a perfect film to begin with and the DVD treatment of the film does nothing to diminish the film, instead only enhancing its perfection. Like The Empire Strikes Back (click here for that review!), Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan had very little added back into it, affirming its original quality.

When the U.S.S. Enterprise begins a training mission with most of the senior crew overseeing a ship full of cadets from StarFleet Academy, Admiral James T. Kirk is given the chance to stretch his space legs and he leaps at the opportunity. The ship sets out under the guidance of Captain Spock and his Vulcan protege, Saavik. Meanwhile, in a remote corner of the galaxy, the U.S.S. Reliant, with first officer Pavel Chekov, runs into a planet that appears deserted until he and his captain find a downed ship. The ship is housing none other than the genetically enhanced former ruler of most of Earth, Khan.

Khan quickly - and monstrously - learns what Chekov and his captain were doing on his little planet and he sets off for the Regula 1 space station where testing has begun on the mysterious Genesis Device. Hijacking the Reliant with his superhuman crew, Khan seeks to take control of the Genesis Device as a weapon, killing those who keep him from his objective. This lures Admiral Kirk to Regula where he and Khan engage in a battle of wits and starship battle techniques to prove dominance and control an incredibly powerful device.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is essentially "Moby Dick in Space." Khan hunts Kirk as Ahab hunted the whale, beyond all reason, beyond all sense of self and acknowledgment of peril. This is a tale of obsession and it is fraught with consequences. Just as Khan's obsession results in the ultimate consequences that end this movie, Admiral Kirk is finally forced to accept the consequences of his actions from previous episodes of "Star Trek" and unseen prior events in the life of James T. Kirk. These take two forms: Khan and David.

Khan is a remnant from the original Star Trek and he appeared in the episode "Space Seed" (click here for the episode review!). In that episode, Kirk awoke Khan and his crew from suspended animation only to have Khan attempt to take over the ship with the aid of the ship's historian. By the end of the episode, everything was tidied up all neat and Khan's people were condemned to a nearby planet to live and rule over it as they saw fit. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan presupposes that Khan's world was made almost entirely inhospitable when another planet in the system exploded and altered its orbit. In the series, Kirk never faced the consequences of abandoning Khan to his own devices and here he is forced to. The consequences include the loss of life, the menace of a despot with a super-powerful device and the destruction of Kirk's ship.

The other consequence nicely balances the malice of Khan and that is in the form of David Marcus, a young scientist who is working on the Genesis Project with his mother, Carol Marcus. David and Carol are part of a team working to make lifeless planets bear life through the use of a missile - the Genesis Device - that reorganizes existing matter and energy into patterns that support life. It's like a giant transporter that makes rocks into trees. David, as it turns out, is a consequence from Kirk's prior relationship with Dr. Carol Marcus. With all of the relationships viewers saw Captain Kirk have on Star Trek it seems both natural and perfectly appropriate that one of those relationships would net him a child.

What keeps the film viable, fresh and interesting is that it does not simply begin and a simple chase movie and certainly it does not start out as a "kill the villain of the week" flick. Instead, The Wrath of Khan begins as a slow, eagerly developing story about aging. Admiral Kirk is feeling his years and here he is forced to accept that he is no longer young in the way that he was when he embarked on his five-year mission. Instead, here Kirk is forced to use his brains as opposed to his brawn and he works himself slowly out of the slump that he is in to rise to the heroic levels needed to thwart Khan.

And where Khan is a singular menace, Kirk is teamed with Spock and their teamwork allows them to maneuver toward victory, even as Khan's obsessions take him over.

Most nitpickers will observe that Chekov, who Khan recognizes, was not on Star Trek when "Space Seed" aired. There's a simple explanation for this discrepancy for those who like to think about such things and it would be that Chekov was on the ship, but not assigned to the bridge at the time. Khan read the ship's library, so it would be possible he encountered Chekov's record there, if one wants to make excuses for the writing oversight here. Far more troubling is the crew of the Reliant, which apparently cannot count, mistaking Khan's Ceti Alpha V for Ceti Alpha VI. More troubling than the Chekov backstory is how a planet that exploded would leave no debris to be detected by a science vessel sent to find lifeless planets.

These nitpicky ideas are easily brushed aside as the film creates a story that is far more engaging for its broad concepts than its minor technical inconsistencies. The character elements that force the characters to deal with consequences are enhanced in the Director's Cut. Returned are brief lines where Kirk acknowledges that his first victory over Khan comes only because he had specific knowledge of the equipment that Khan did not. Also included in this version is additional footage of Cadet Peter Preston, who is Scotty's nephew and who serves to make a point about consequences. In this version, the viewer cares a little bit more about Preston.

Part of the brilliance of the rivalry between Khan and Kirk as expressed in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is that the hero and villain never directly face off. Kirk and Khan communicate via communicators (like cell phones) and they see one another on the view screens, but they are never in the same place at the same time, which only serves to add to the tension as they chase one another around the stars.

This is a huge kudos to actors Ricardo Montalban and William Shatner for pulling off their acting jobs so perfectly that viewers are often surprised to learn they never met on the set. Montalban creates an anger in his eyes and a vengeance in his voice that makes the viewer believe he is staring down Kirk, spitting at him. And when he is enraged, the viewer feels the menace, so wonderful and convincing is Montalban's performance.

Similarly, William Shatner sells the audience on both Admiral Kirk's reluctant aging and his ability to still be cunning and clever. He alternates between casual and command body language perfectly emoting using his physique as opposed to simply voicing all of what is going on in his head. Shatner wonderfully baits Khan with an affect that (again) makes one think he is standing right next to the villain.

The cast is rounded out by wonderful performances by Leonard Nimoy as the taciturn Mr. Spock and DeForest Kelley as the emotive and cranky Dr. McCoy. Walter Koenig, James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols and George Takei are all given moments to support as well and they live up admirably. For such a tight cast, newcomer Merritt Butrick fits right in with his energetic performance as David, as does Bibi Besch as Carol Marcus.

It is Kirstie Alley who steals ever scene she is in, though, as the Vulcan Cadet Lieutenant Saavik. Alley is cool, calm and mostly very Vulcan in the role (though she does swear during the opening sequence). Alley holds her own with acting heavyweights Nimoy and Shatner and she does it while embodying a brilliant addition to the crew. It is a pleasure - especially now - to watch her work.

This two-disc DVD set also includes thorough commentary on the film as well as a number of featurettes and some decent easter eggs. The supporting material is enough to counterbalance the nagging nitpicky plot points that might otherwise rob this film of perfection. I find this film is best enjoyed with its sequel, Star Trek III: The Search For Spock. But, even on its own, this is a wonderful film essential for anyone who likes science fiction, action adventure and revealing human dramas.

For the rest of the Star Trek films, please check out my review of the film franchise here!
For other science fiction films, please check out my reviews of:
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Land Of The Lost
The Clone Wars

For other "Star Trek" movie and episode reviews, please check out my index page by clicking here!

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I know that I shall never see my darling daughter again, and so I will give her all she needs to make a comfortable journey through life. I will give her my best waiting maid. I will give her baggage and ornaments, gold and silver for her trousseau. Yet these gifts are mere trinkets compared with the real one. I will give her my blood, her mother’s power, and pray she does not lose it.

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Beer Hunter Cocktail Wins Bärenjäger Competition

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More evidence that beer cocktails are still a big thing, a libation called the Beer Hunter has won the fourth annual national Bärenjäger Bärtender Competition. The contest, sponsored by Bärenjäger Honey Liqueur, crowned Naomi Levy of Cambridge, MA the Queen Bee on Sept. 16.

Levy, the second consecutive female champion, took home $1,000 and an all-expense paid trip for two to Berlin Germany for her innovative concoction. What’s more, the Audience Choice cocktail this year was a cider drink called the Good Ice. Its creator, Jessica Dure from Brooklyn, NY, received $1,000 for her winning entry.

The 2013 Bärenjäger Bärtender Competition judges included Dushan Zaric , founder of award-winning cocktail bars Employees Only and Macao Trading Co; Jim Meehan, a managing partner of PDT in New York and author of The PDT Cocktail Book; Sean Kenyon , a third generation barman and proprietor of Williams & Graham in Denver; and Tricia Alley , the director of mixology for Southern California at Southern Wine and Spirits and USBG LA Chapter President. The celebrity guest judge was That 70’s Show TV series actor Wilmer Valderrama (shown above with Levy and Dure).

Cocktail entries had to include at least 1/2 oz. Bärenjäger Honey Liqueur or Bärenjäger Honey & Bourbon as an ingredient. Both recipes, included below, naturally incorporate Bärenjäger, a 70-proof honey liqueur, is made in Germany from neutral grain alcohol and premium honey from Mexico and imported by Sidney Frank Importing Company. Here are the two winning recipes.

Beer Hunter

Created by Naomi Levy, Cambridge, MA

1-½ parts Bärenjäger Honey Liqueur
1 part Michael Collins Blended Irish whiskey
½ part Lemon juice
1 Heaping barspoon apricot mustard*
Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier

Combine all ingredients except for the beer in a pint glass. Add ice and shake. Pour contents into ½ L stein and top with Weihenstephaner. Serve with a German style pretzel.

*For apricot mustard: In a food processor or blender, blend equal parts apricot preserves with spicy Dijon mustard. If needed, add a splash of cider vinegar if mustard seems too thick.

Good Ice

Created by Jessica Dure, Brooklyn, NY.

¾ part Bärenjäger Honey Liqueur
½ part Perry Tot’s Navy Strength gin
¼ part Lemon
Barspoon crushed chamomile buds
1 Egg white
2 parts Cidre de Normandie

Combine all ingredients except Cidre de Normandie. Dry shake. Add ice and shake. Double strain into a chilled cocktail coupe. Add cider to the large tin containing the remaining ice. Give it a quick swirl and double strain into coupe to top. Garnish with angostura and a thin lemon wheel dropped in.

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Tovaritch! vodka launches on-board MSC cruise ships

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Geneva-based vodka brand Tovaritch! has announced it will now be served in bars and restaurants across all cruise ships owned and operated by MSC Cruises.

Tovaritch! will be available on all MCS cruise liners operating across Northern Europe, the Atlantic Ocean, South America, South Africa, China, and the United Arab Emirates. Eugenio Litta Modignani, CEO of Tovaritch! Spirits International, said: “Tovaritch! is all about bringing people together. And socialising is what people normally do on-board a cruise liner. “Becoming part of cruise ship entertainment was a natural move for us." Tovaritch! had further reason to celebrate this year, after it featured prominently in hit BBC drama series, McMafia. The series starred James Norton who played the English raised son of an exiled Russian crime family. Litta Modignani said: “We believe that with its authentic Russian taste and style, Tovaritch! is in a perfect position to contend for best supporting vodka.” The Swiss-based vodka brand will also be exhibiting at this year’s ProWein trade show in Düsseldorf, where it will debut its latest creation – the T! Drinks Cooler Machine. The drinks cooler, designed by creative agency Proximity, will be on display at the German trade show, where it will dispense chilled shots of Tovaritch! vodka. Earlier this year, Tovaritch! reported a 3% sales increase in 2017 and announced it hopes to become the second best-selling Russian vodka brand in the UK on-trade by 2020.


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What are the Best Wooden Desk Organizers?

Be it working at home or working at the office, the way we work has changes a great deal, especially in the case of those working desk jobs. Many people have even set up work tables to work from home with ease. Are you nodding your head too as you read, then you would know that you will need more than just a table and a chair to make your work space complete. Seeing that a work desk rarely has just one single item on it, you may even need a desk organizer. Things like pens, pencils, notepads, stapler, post-it notes, and all other paraphernalia need to be organised in a way that it does not affect your work.

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Again, how can I understand why any age in English prose or poetry was characterized by a peculiar kind of thinkers, if I do not know the history and tendency of that age? Why, in one epoch, do we have men writing on classical subjects in a way which represents form as more important than matter? and why, in another age, are writers turning from an artificial to a natural style?

I told Captain Spencer that the communication was an important one and he must not deliver it to any one except General Roddey; that he must impress upon the officer on the enemy's picket-line that he must take him to General Roddey and in that way he would be able to determine very closely what forces I would have to meet. Captain Spencer went prepared to do this.

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What Is A Content Writer & How To Outsource Content Writing?

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Long time ago, I wondered what is a content writer because I was looking for things to do online but now that I’m a blogger, I want to know how to outsource content writing!

You may be someone looking for online work you can do from home so you can stay home to watch your young kids and wonder what a content writer is… this is how I started getting into blogging.

Or, you may be someone who’s been in the blogging business for awhile now and wanting to expand your content writing by outsourcing it.

Either way, I will get into both of these questions as I take a closer look at the core of the blogging business and in my final thoughts, I’ll show you were you can get some training if you want to still do your own writing.

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What Is A Content Wrtiter?I’ve been blogging for six months now and one of the most tedious parts of being a blogger is content writing.  I mean, that is what a blog is about, it’s all about writing articles, or blog posts, or, another word for it is, content.

Google also strives on websites that produce lots of content and rewards them with higher rankings because of the high quality of content that’s freshly churned out each week.

Therefore, to become a blogger, you are essentially becoming a content writer.

What Do You Write About?

A content writer can be writing for articles for various types of blogs or websites.

News websites need content writers, sometimes they are journalist, but most are just content writers to fill the site with lots of new, thought provoking articles.

You can be a content writer on various topics or you can be an expert in a particular niche.  Now, blogs are usually about a particular niche, so being a content writer of your blog, you are becoming the authoritative voice in your niche.

Your background and your passion will determine what kind of content writer you’ll be.  Find something you are very interested in, you don’t even have to an expert at it, but it needs to be a topic that you like researching about if you need to do it.

What Kind of A Content Writer Are You?

Being a content writer means you will be writing lots of articles about the topic you love.  Content writing doesn’t have to be in perfect, formal format, it can be conversational like this post I’m writing.

In fact, all my blog posts are written in this tone so content writing is as casual as writing like you’re talking to someone, or it can be as technical or formal like a textbook or novel.  It all depends on how you want your content written.

Or, if you want to be a content writer for someone else’s site, you may want to check the tone of the website first to see if that will fit your writing style.

How To Outsource Content WritingI will answer this question in several sections:

I’ll be talking about these topics with a blog owner mindset.  If you’re one who’s looking to be a content writer, you can see what website owners are looking for and be ready!

Why Outsource Your Content Writing:

There are many factors that would drive you to outsource your content writing, and they are:

  • English Is Not Your First Language – Nowadays, anyone can become a blogger and in whatever language you want your blog to be in.  However, having an English site is still what dominates the internet so if you’re not good at writing in English, this is a big reason you should outsource to someone who knows how.
  • Time Constraints – Everyone’s busy all the time it seems and if you’re juggling an offline job, kids, other projects, and whatever else, you just may not have the time to write on your blog.  This is a way to buy some hours for your business.
  • Expanding Your Online Business – You can be a full time blogger and still want or need more content to be written on your current site or expanding into multiple sites.
  • Writing Is Not For You – Writing may not be your strongest strength and may want to concentrate on your other skills that can be better utilized.  Outsourcing your writing can free up time for you to do what you’re best at.
  • You’re Not The Expert – You may be going into a niche that you love but you don’t have the technical or the necessary experience with the topic so you may hire someone to write for you instead who has such a background.

Where to Find Good Content Writers:

Content writers range in quality for sure and depending on where you go, you will see the difference:

  • Fiverr – This is a popular place to get a lot different things done for you.  However, because it’s so popular, you really have a mix bag of good and bad writers.  I know my friend Vicky has had bad experience hiring quality content writers here but it doesn’t mean you can’t.  You just have to be diligent.

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These next three are definitely sites geared towards content writers and have higher quality:

  • Upwork.com – I have seen very good quality writers come out of here and for a very cheap price!  $7 for shorter articles and $12.50 for 1000+ words on a in-depth review.  Now it’s up to you to find someone who can write quality content, so you may even go through 2 or 3 writers before you can find one like this!
  • iWriter.com – This is another great place for finding cheaper writers and you can get 500 words for $5.50, $10.50 for 1,000 words, and $30 for 2,000 words.  Their pricing is .006 cents per word and you can also set your own price for each article as well.  This site has a public ranking system too so you can select writers based on this system which helps a lot to weed out the bad ones.
  • TextBroker.com – This site has more professional writers for more deep analysis type content or if you just want to make sure your writer will be of high quality, but this also means a higher price tag:  $9.35 for 500 words, $18.35 for 1,000 words, and $36.35 for 2,000 words.  It’s not uncommon to spend $40-60/article here either so it just depends how much experience the writer has.

They have a ranking system here too but it’s not made public which is a huge downside.  The reviews can only been seen by the author and the reviewer, which makes it hard to select a great writer when choosing one.

What Requirements You Should Post:

When posting your listing on these content writers sites, you should be very specific on the type of writer you want.  Here are some ideas on what to include in your call for a content writer:

  • Your Niche or Topic – make sure they know what your website is about and in particular what specifically you want them to write about in this one article.
  • How Many Words – you should specify the length of the article you want, usually indicating number of words you want written.
  • How Much You’re Willing To Pay – if you can set your own price on what you want to pay, that’s awesome, do it, but if you can’t, just go with a range you’re looking to pay.
  • Timing – We all need deadlines, and you should definitely list out when you’ll want the delivery of the article.  Allow 3- 10 days if you can to make sure the writer have enough time to research and make a quality post.
  • No Copying Clause – Tell writers in your post that you want high quality original content, not copied or spun in anyway and that you will check their work afterwards for plagiarism.  You can always check their work at this plagiarism checker.
  • No Further Outsourcing – You don’t want your writer to also outsource.  You want the person you hire to be the one writing your articles.  This is apparently done a lot and so saying it outright that they can’t outsource themselves will weed these writers out.
  • Past Experience and Samples – To decide whether the potential content writer will be good or not, asking for past work or even testimonies from previous jobs will be a great way to determine if this is a good writer to pick or not.
  • Revisions – State that you’d want to be able to ask for revisions instead of you making revisions yourself.
  • Writing Style – I spoke about this earlier and this is something you can add to your listing.  You want to make sure you want the tone of the writer’s style to match your site so specify what kind of style you’re looking for: casual, formal, technical, etc.
  • Length of Project – The longer the project the better.  If you can pay for 3-5 articles a week, this will provide a content writer with part time to full time work which would be very appealing to the writer.

Finding a great content writer will take some trial and error.  You may not find one right away and may even use several of them before you come up with a great content writer.

If you can’t afford to outsource yet and having trouble knowing how to write, then you should give Wealthy Affiliate a look or check out my free guide.  This is an online training platform on how to build a blog from the ground up and you’ll also learn how to monetize your blog with affiliate marketing.

You will learn great writing techniques to ensure search engines will find your blog posts and rank them high on their search results.

Wealthy Affiliate also offers web hosting as well as a website builder, you can literally build your whole online business on this ONE platform.

Being a blogger is what a content writer is about, and Wealthy Affiliate can train you to be a great one:

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If you have any questions about content writing or Wealthy Affiliate, please do not hesitate to leave me a comment below and I’ll address your concerns very quickly!

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8 thoughts on “What Is A Content Writer & How To Outsource Content Writing?”

  1. Hello Grace,
    Outstanding work….. your article is really an informative one,, writing about the topic which you love from anywhere is the best work as we can earn money from anywhere just by simply expressing our views with the facts to others, your article also explains the important point to be focused on while writing a content so the google can easily crawl.
    Thanks for the informative one.

    • Thank you Sonali, glad you stopped by and read my post. 🙂 Really happy to hear you liked my article on content writing and that it was helpful to you.

      It is important to love what you do so that you can look forward to working everyday. Making money from what you love to do is what we all strive for I hope, and this blogging business could be ticket to some people, not for all. You gotta decide if writing is your thing.

      Best of luck to you!

  2. Great article on outsourcing! I just got into affiliate marketing about a month ago (thanks to Wealthy Affiliate), started my first website, have been blogging away… and have recently became curious about this topic. This was a very helpful read and answered a bunch of questions. I am bookmarking this as it may come in handy for me in the future. Thank you Grace!

    • I’m so glad you have read my post then Jen, sounds like you needed it. 🙂 Glad I can share some information to you as well as shed some light on the questions you’ve had.

      If you have anymore questions when you’re ready to outsource, just asking away. Otherwise, I wish you all the best in your online journey and hope this post will help in the future as well.

      Thanks for visiting,

  3. Awesome information. Even though I have just started my blog page, I have already been thinking about getting other content writers for the near future. I’m not afraid to ask for help or hire quality people to do quality work to grow my business faster. Thanks for the information and I will definitely be utilizing this information in the near future.

    • That’s great Joshua, I’m glad this post can help you. 🙂 Planning ahead is always good as well and glad you can use this info in the future as well. Just drop me a line if you have more questions when you’re ready to hire.

  4. Hi Grace, great post – i personally have never had any issues with writing online – as long as i am passionate about the point im writing about then i can go for hours – i have been an online blogger for years. I have produced hundreds of highly ranked blogs online and have even had a previous blog of mine stolen by an online writer – but if you type Marley Dawkins into google you will realise there is endless content from me online lol.

    Your work is always very interesting, well worded and helpful for people, so keep it up and thanks for outlining the importance of outsourcing content writing for some people.

    • Thank you for your kind words Marley, especially when you have so much experience. I’m glad you stopped by to take a look at my work. 🙂

      I will have to look you up and see some of your work as well. Thanks again for visiting!

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