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The greatest challenge to successful resettlement and relocation is developing sustainable livelihoods after people move to new sites. The THPC Social & Environmental Department works closely with resettled, relocated and host village families, offering support with a range of income-generating activities.

As almost all households in the area traditionally rely on smallhold agriculture, optimising farming activities forms the backbone of livelihood efforts. The goal is to provide farmers with viable options to improve the nutrition of their families and to grow surplus produce that can be sold to raise income levels. Demonstration farms trial different crops and animal-raising techniques, and supply villagers with successful seeds, seedlings and young animals.

Livelihood resources in villages include:

  • Rainfed or irrigated rice fields to supply the staple rice crop
  • Household vegetable gardens, growing produce for local consumption and sale
  • Penned small livestock as an important source of protein
  • Grazing areas for large livestock plus training in cut-and-carry fodder use
  • Ponds for raising catfish and frogs for food and sale
  • Vaccination programs for all livestock through Village Veterinarian Volunteers
  • Cash crop production of mushrooms, vegetables, feed corn, pineapples, cassava, peanuts and other marketable crops
  • Domestication of Non-Timber Forest Products, especially rattan
  • Agro-economic marketing of crops

Most resettled households are now growing vegetables and fruit trees in home gardens, and raising small livestock in the traditional way. These families also received upland plots, which were mainly used for rice in the first couple of years following resettlement. More cash crops are now being planted, including garlic, chilli and fragrant bark (bong) trees for incense. To ensure food security, additional rice support is provided to families who have problems growing enough rice.

Two villages also have primary access to the valuable reservoir fishery, which offers great economic opportunity. Residents of these villages are responsible for managing this resource, with THPC and the district administrations working with the villagers to establish Village Fishery Groups. Small businesses are growing in all the resettled and relocated villages as people take advantage of better communications and infrastructure, plus the increasing availability of surplus cash in the area.

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The effects of social media on a person’s mental health or their general sense of well-being is becoming more and more publicised of late.  So I thought I would write about it here in the hope that people will connect with my experiences, and become more aware of how social media can change their mood throughout the day.

I’ll start back when I would say I was ‘addicted’ to social media, or to be more specific Facebook.  I remember that after posting an update or a profile picture change etc. I would feel constantly drawn to check it to see how many likes/comments I’d received.

It would be fair to say that my mood in the moment was, to a large degree, a result of how my latest post was doing on Facebook.  So if my expectations of a post weren’t met I’d feel a sense of lowness, almost like a mild feeling of ‘nobody likes me’, and question people’s reasons for not interacting.

Similarly if I spent too much time looking at what other people were up to it gave me a sense of lack inside, like my life wasn’t enough.  This occurred for no other reason than I was being bombarded with the daily achievements of 10’s, and if I scrolled for long enough, probably 100+ people.  How can one person match the achievements of many?  But in the moment rationality isn’t present and these feelings were created.

After so long, and I can’t remember how I became aware of Facebook’s effect on me, I realised that I needed to change my approach to using it.  I didn’t want to stop using it altogether, after all it’s a great way to catch up with people and see what your friends are up to.

So my first move was to have some time off completely and go ‘cold turkey’.  After a month or so I started using Facebook again, but just messenger to stay in touch with people.  Then I set up all the positive quote pages etc. that I followed, to come up first on my newsfeed so I was always greeted with posts that made me feel good (not that I’m not happy to see what my friends are up to, but it’s the bombarding effect that Facebook has that has the negative effect on me).

After all: We are finite people living in a world that is fast becoming infinite with information, and we need to control our intake for the sake of our own well-being.

I still like to see what my friends are up to, and as I said before Facebook is such a good way to do this.  So I will scroll the feed on the odd occasion these days, but only if I’m feeling particularly strong that day, and if I begin to feel any adverse effects I will just come straight off.

Nothing is worth losing your sense of well-being for…

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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Cheesy Chipotle Dip {The Perfect Holiday Party Recipe}

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When it comes to holiday party recipes, I often find myself sticking to the tried and true favorites that we serve every year. This year I decided to "spice"things up a bit and try a few recipes outside of our usual cheese plate, veggie tray and salsa routine. In planing ahead for our annual Christmas party, I decided to use our Friendsgiving get together as the test run for some new appetizers.

There was a large, football watching, beer drinking, male heavy crowd at Friendsgiving and so this Chipotle dip made with Tabasco sauce was the perfect thing to serve. I grabbed an assortment of Tabasco sauces while at Target last week and chose the Chipotle version to use in my dip. While Justin always keeps Tabasco sauce in the fridge as a condiment, I had never really cooked with it so I decided to adapt one of our favorite cheese dips yet again.

This Swiss Cheese Bread Dip is a family favorite that originally comes from the kitchen of my pseudo-aunt Nancy Jane. My family would riot if it wasn't served at our Christmas party each year but I get tired of serving the same appetizers over and over again. This year I will be serving its spicier, older cousin- Chipotle Cheese Dip.

I tweaked the original recipe by adding some chives, some Tabasco Chipotle sauce, and swapping out the Swiss cheese for Pepper Jack. Top the finished dip with an extra drizzle of Tabasco and some chives and you have a very festive looking Christmas dip. My Friendsgiving guinea pigs destroyed this dip. In fact, we served one half of the dip when the football game started and I had to refill it with the second part of the recipe before the first quarter had even ended.

The smokey flavor of the Tabasco was complimented perfectly by the creaminess of the cheese and mayo and the chives added the perfect amount of flavor.  What's great about this dish is that you can adjust the amount (and flavor variety) of the Tabasco sauce depending on how adventurous your party goers are. The girls in our group felt that the 1/2 tablespoon in the dip and the extra 1/2 tablespoon I used on top of it was just perfect but many of the men felt it could have been kicked up a notch.

This dip was such a hit at Friendsgiving that it is definitely going to be on the appetizer menu at our upcoming annual Christmas party. And I have a feeling I may be making a double batch just in case.

Cheesy Chipotle Dip
  • 8 oz.cream cheese (softened)
  • 3/4 cup of mayonnaise
  • 2 cups of shredded Pepper Jack Cheese
  • 1 tablespoon of finely sliced chives
  • 1 to 2 tablespoons of Tabasco Chipotle Sauce
  • Chips, crackers and/or veggies to serve it with
1.) Mix together the cream cheese, mayo, shredded cheese, chives and 1/2 to 1 tablespoon of the Chipotle Tabasco (this can vary depending on how much heat you and your guests prefer)

2.) Place mixture in an oven safe dish (I usually split mine up into two different servings). I drizzled another half tablespoon of Tabasco over mine before I baked it and it looked (and tasted) amazing.

3.) Bake at 400 degrees for 15-20 minutes or until the dip is bubbling and browned around the edges.

4.) Top with a few extra chives for decoration and serve warm with chips, crackers, and veggies.

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The Eradication of Smallpox

Despite ethnic, religious, regional and political differences, every now and then people are able to set aside disagreements, look to their common humanity, and make the world a better place. Perhaps one of the greatest and most inspiring examples of such global cooperation has been the eradication of smallpox.

The Disease

Caused by either of two related viruses, Variola major and Variola minor, smallpox has been the scourge of humanity since pre-historic times. Transmitted by person-to-person contact, either through physical contact with infected material or by breathing in droplets infected with the virus, smallpox can be devastating when it takes hold in densely populated areas. In the 20th century alone, it is estimated that smallpox caused somewhere between 300 and 500 million deaths worldwide.

Following an incubation period of 10 to 14 days, those afflicted with the disease will develop a fever and headache before the typical maculopapular rash (a large area of discolored skin covered with small bumps) develops. This rash, which typically spreads over the face and body, may even reach the eyes where scarring sometimes leads to blindness. Although the overall mortality rate from the disease is about 30%, in children, it can reach up to 80%.

Early Eradication Efforts

Prior to the discovery of the vaccine at the end of the 18th century, eradication efforts were typically limited to inoculation – injecting a bit of the smallpox virus, taken from the pustule of an infected person, into an uninfected person with the hope of stimulating immunity. The practice, which began in China at least as early as the 10th century, was not without risk since inoculation sometimes caused deaths and even outbreaks of the disease.

The Vaccine

In the late 1790s, Dr. Edward Jenner realized that milkmaids had an apparent immunity to smallpox, and upon investigation, discovered it was due to their greater exposure to cowpox, a related but much less deadly disease. Introducing his cowpox vaccine (so named because vacca is Latin for cow) in 1796, by the mid-1800s, countries around the world had effective, organized vaccination programs.

As a result, by the early 1900s, the disease was eliminated from the US and Northern Europe. However, less-developed countries, and particularly those in warmer climates, had greater difficulty eradicating the disease due in no small part to inadequate methods of producing and/or preserving the vaccine. Luckily, by the 1950s, a freeze-dried vaccine was developed that allowed for long-term storage, even absent refrigeration.

Global Eradication Campaign

Although the Pan American Health Organization undertook an Americas-wide effort to eliminate the disease in 1950, the first global eradication program was proposed by Professor Viktor Zhdanov, the Deputy Minister of Health for the United Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) in 1958.[1]

Arguing for an intense global effort at the 11th World Health Assembly, Professor Zhdanov convinced his fellow delegates of the efficacy and feasibility of a compulsory campaign of vaccination (and revaccination) in those countries that still had the disease.[2] His proposal was adopted at the 12th World Health Assembly in 1959, although little progress was made over the next few years.

Beginning in 1966, however, efforts at eradication intensified under the guidance of the Smallpox Eradication Unit, then led by Donald Henderson. Knowing that even with the 150 million doses of the vaccine donated by the USSR and US the vaccine supply was insufficient to vaccinate everyone, the team began to coordinate efforts around one of Zhdanov’s proposals.

Known as the Leicester system, it began by aggressively identifying infected cases and vaccinating “all known and possible contacts to seal off the outbreak from the rest of the population.” This system of “surveillance-containment” relied on “prompt identification of the disease, special notification, isolation, quarantine, disinfection measures [and] . . . the eradication of flies.”[3]

Effective, by the latter half of the 1970s, smallpox remained endemic only in a few isolated places (namely Ethiopia and Somalia) that were difficult to reach due to lack of infrastructure, famine and war. Nonetheless, in 1977 an intensive surveillance and containment program was instituted, and the last naturally occurring smallpox case was seen in Somalia in October 1977.

On May 8, 1980, the 33rd World Health Assembly declared:

That the world and its peoples have won freedom from smallpox, which was a most devastating disease sweeping in epidemic form through many countries since earliest time, leaving death, blindness and disfigurement in its wake and which only a decade ago was rampant in Africa, Asia and South America.

Smallpox Today

Although the disease has been eradicated, the virus hasn’t. After an accidental exposure, infection and death from smallpox that was contracted at a laboratory in England in 1978, all known remaining stocks have been limited by international agreement to two laboratories: the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta and the State Research Centre of Virology and Biotechnology (VECTOR) in Koltsovo, Russia.

Many scientists today are calling for the total destruction of these remaining stockpiles, pointing to the disease’s lethality, and the fact that this would make it easier to enforce international laws against possession of the virus.

Those in favor of retaining smallpox stocks argue that they are necessary in the event future vaccines are needed. These retentionists note that: (1) it is likely terrorists or other such groups already have smallpox samples that they can weaponize; and (2) since smallpox was eradicated, children are no longer vaccinated, so now, up to 40% of the world’s population has no natural immunity.

Notably, a recent event both supports and opposes both points of view.

In an unused portion of a storage room, in a laboratory operated by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the Bethesda, Maryland campus of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), several vials of smallpox, in containers labeled simply as “variola,” were discovered by employees who were charged with packing up the room for an impending move. Since the NIH transferred the lab to the FDA in 1972, it is entirely possible the lethal virus lay there forgotten and unmonitored for 40 years.

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  • It’s been theorized that the eradication of smallpox and the rapid rise of HIV around the same time was no coincidence.  Both HIV and smallpox exploit the same receptor (CCR5) and, interestingly enough, the vaccine for smallpox has been shown to provide some protection against HIV as well. Thus, when the masses suddenly stopped being commonly vaccinated for smallpox, it made it easier for HIV to spread.
  • It’s believed that small pox was the first European disease that Native Americans encountered, and it was also the most deadly. Initially just one person is thought to have developed feverish symptoms on board the ship, which caused an outbreak amongst the Europeans. When they hit land, the disease spread like wildfire across the new continent. Smallpox was highly infectious because of the blisters that broke out on an infected person. As Dr. Tim Brooks explains, “Because each of those blisters is packed full of smallpox particles, then if you burst a blister, fluid will come out and large numbers of viruses will be spilt onto whatever it touches. Ten to twelve days later, his friends would be taken ill, and then ten to twelve days after that, their friends. That kind of rate means the disease spreads exponentially.”
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Alternative Winter in the Jura

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For those who love the snow and the mountains in winter but can easily do without the downhill part of it, there are alternatives in France – such as in the Jura Mountains

According to Véronique Beigenger, Public Relations officer with Burgundy-Franche-Comté Tourism, the growing popularity of winter holidays in the Jura Mountains lies in the diversity of snow-laden activity:

“In winter, our peaks transform into a winter sports paradise,” she enthuses. “Snow shoe trails or cross-country skiing, combined with shooting (biathlon), provide a varied range of winter pleasures.”

The resorts in this region – little known to Irish tourists but very accessible via direct air links to Lyon – offer a much more laid-back style of winter fun. The peaks are still very high and vary between 1,000m and 1,700 and there are more than 3,000km of maintained pistes throughout the region.

The so-called Nordic Sports are also far easier to get into quickly than downhill skiing. The learning curve is considerable softer, with cross-country skiing involving essentially “slide-walking” through wonderful snowy landscape mixed with the occasional gentle taste of downhill sliding.

“All ability levels and all types of Nordic sports are catered for here,” says Véronique: “Cross-country skiing or skating or alternative tracks, snow shoeing, biathlon, Nordic skiing and even touring itineraries across the Grandes Traversées du Jura trails…the hardest part is choosing.”

In Métabief, for example – a resort covering 9 villages, the ski resort boasts over 200km of Nordic skiing tracks as well as sign-posted “snow shoeing” trails. Removed from the crowds, in the heart of nature and amidst the silence of the snow-covered forests, the whole family will appreciate the achievement that comes with skiing across an environment that is truly unforgettable.

At Les Rousses, there are four villages in this Franco-Swiss ski area with over 220km of pistes that link to the neighbouring resorts of Hautes-Combes, Bellefontaine or even into Switzerland. This paradise of pristine white snow in the heart of the Haut-Jura Nature Park is home to some exceptional wildlife.

In Monts-Jura, on the site of Vattay-Valserine, skating or alternative skiing takes pride of place. This area offers over 150km of pistes of varying difficulty levels (including downhill skiing), as well as 3 dedicated snow shoeing trails. Don’t miss the unique view of Mont-Blanc- a rare delight.

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A little further north, Chapelle-des-Bois and its 5 ski areas boast 250km of sign-posted trails and a range of landscapes. Le Val de Mouthe is an Eldorado of Nordic skiing and lovers of skating or classic tracks of all ability levels will find something that suits them.
But beyond sport and activities, the Nordic spirit reveals a genuine art de vivre that is perfect for getting in touch with nature and keeping fit. In the Jura Mountains, a welcoming retreat is where your day will invariably end.

A recommended adventure is to do a week-long odyssey of 180km on the Grandes Traversées du Jura. This is a 180km long signposted trail that can be tackled in 9 stages. Luggage transfer services available if you don’t fancy too heavy a rucksack on your back.

Biathlon is becoming more and more popular. Essentially, it’s cross-country skiing with a gun on one’s back, where you stop every now and again for some target practice. A laser rifle is used rather than a real one so it can be enjoyed by children as young as eight years old in perfect safety.

Snow shoeing was practised by fur trappers in times past. Nowadays, snow shoe trails are a gentle way to travel through the pristine and wide open spaces where you very quickly start to feel like an explorer in search of adventure. There are special circuits with loops that vary in length between 4km and 8km. These circuits are available at around ten resorts across the Jura Mountains, where a warm fireplace and fine Comtois meal also await.

Get Yourself There

Aer Lingus operate daily flights from Dublin to Lyon airport. All the resorts are approximately 2 hours’ drive.

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10 Best Madrid Sightseeing Tours

The quickest setting of transport in the City is the chartered bus. This discloses the ancient architectural structures and modern-day service facilities. Visitors can take a charter bus trip to go to New York’s Realm States Structure. It is one of the most primary tourist features on the planet. It is the fastest increasing sky scrape and also this structure has appeared in numerous films. Moving coast birds can be seen clearly while circumnavigating in the charter bus.

The bus tours in reasonably comfy services that make circumnavigating the city easy. Staff dealing with the New York City bus tours is friendly as well as useful. All they ask is for a cheeky pointer, to conserve up for one of Donald Trump’s million buck condominiums! For a huge selection of city thrills, a New York city Tour is for you. This huge city is loaded with lots of historical buildings and living, breathing culture. From central city-state parks to elite art galleries as well as shows, an excursion of New York City can reveal you points you have actually never seen prior to.

Times Square

Among the most preferred tourist attractions on any New York city excursion is Times Square, originally named after the New York city Times, which had actually relocated there in 1924. Frequently seen in movie scenes, this onion-lit traveller destination as well as city center remains in the heart of the Theatre District. Hotels, business organizations and also looming office buildings now occupy a Madrid tours great deal of room in Times Square with Disney and Coned Nast being two of the extra distinguished services.

If your New York city trip takes place to take place throughout the New Year party, make sure to join the crowd collected in this busy square as they romp the night away in a gigantic street event completed with enjoying the sphere drop atop Times Tower.  For the culturally minded New York city excursion go-err, the Metropolitan Museum of Art makes sure to stimulate your interest. Any visitor to New York city ought to invest at least a pair hrs roaming the halls of this substantial and culturally varied gallery.


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Welcome to Troop 586 in Gresham, Oregon. We are a member of the Thunderbird District and the Cascade Pacific Council covering the Portland Metro Area.

About Troop 586

Troop 586 was chartered in 1973. We have had the pleasure of offering 46 years of strong character building, citizenship training, and personal fitness while graduating over 82 Eagle Scouts.

We are a youth lead group that offers camping, cycling, hiking, backpacking, rifle and shotgun shooting, fishing, and other outdoor activities that build strong leaders in our community.  Our meetings take place every Tuesday night at Dexter McCarty Middle School from 7:15 pm to 8:45 pm.

Welcomes New Unit - Troop 586 now has two units. One Boy unit and one Girl unit. On February 1st, 2019 we joined the nation in welcoming girls to the Scouting program with a brand new unit that shares the same numbers, and the same leadership. Adding girls to the program only expands our programming to be more family-friendly while still sticking with the same values, leadership, adventure, service, and personal growth.

Monthly Campouts: The youth plan their own campouts which are encouraged every month and are planned up to a year in advance.

Summer Program: Our summer program varies every year between cycling, hiking, and backpacking with the goal to complete the entire merit badge over three months. The youth work together to complete this merit badge with options on where they would like to complete it. Cycling has taken them to the Trail of the Coeur d'Alene's. Backpacking has seen the majesty of the Pacific Crest Trail. Hiking has seen some of the most beautiful sites in the Pacific Northwest. The choice is there's to go where they want to go.

Summer Camp: We go to a week-long camp every summer. Most of the camps we attend are local in our Council with every third year out of council at the youth's choice. In previous years we have had the pleasure of seeing Camp Parsons in Puget Sound, Camp Emerald Bay in Catalina, California with a side trip to Disneyland, and Medival Times and Camp Pupukea in Hawaii.

High Adventure: Our older youth 14+ have the opportunity to complete some high adventure trips including Seabase, ask the boys how they liked the Bahamas! Other activities include canoeing across the Northern Tier or the Swamp in Louisianna's Swampbase. There are also options for backpacking and horseback adventures in Philmont BSA's premier adventure camp. There are also local adventures including rafting, cope courses, and shooting programs. The youth also have the opportunity of creating their own high adventure anywhere they would like to go.

Equipment: Troop 586 offers tents, patrol boxes, lanterns, and cooking gear for our campouts. Youth need only supply personal items such as sleeping bag, backpack, and their 10 essentials. Summer program activities do require their own gear, as its custom to the needs of the youth.

Order of the Arrow: We are strong supporters of the Order of the Arrow the honor society of the BSA. Members are selected by their units for membership. Youth (under age 21) are nominated by Youth and Adults are selected by the committee. All elections must be approved by Scout Executive. In order to be eligible, each person must complete
  1. 15 nights of camping. The 15 days and nights must include one, but no more than one, long-term camp consisting of six consecutive days and five nights of resident camping, approved and under the auspices and standards of Boy Scouts of America.
  2.  Youth must hold the First Class rank, is under the age of 21, and is registered as an active member of the troop.
  3.  Adults: the unit committee may nominate registered unit adults (age 21 or over) to the lodge adult selection committee. The number of adults nominated can be no more than one-third of the number of youth candidates elected
Leadership: We believe in the Scout lead program and its ability to build strong leaders. We also work side by side with Pack 586 and the Venturing Crew 586 to help create and maintain the Scouting values and programming.

Scout Law
A Scout is..
Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, Clean & Reverent

Scout Oath
On my honor, I will do my best
To do my duty to God and my country and to
obey the Scout Law;
To help other people at all times;
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March 2019

Fash Fashun, The Real VAMFF

I’ve been going through a thing lately. An existential kind of thing. I feel like I’m starting to look at fashion and social media differently, and almost see through it in a way I couldn’t before. I feel like I’ve spiritually levelled up after a d&m with my soul sister

As this epiphany happened right before fashion week, I felt suddenly deeply anxious about my two frivolous upcoming weekends. Jac advised me to find the “real” fashion events, the gritty underground stuff, the stuff that pushes buttons, crosses boundaries, the stuff that has drawn me to this world in the first place. So I did.

I had seen @tenfingerz post about an event in collaboration with Famous Artist @sebastianberto. Epic bags of dirty clothing were being piled inside a shipping container. There was a call out for creatives to attend the event, swim through the nasty piles of landfill-destined clothing and create a look that would then be modelled straight down the runway, #fastfashun. I knew I had to be part of this, so @monutella and I carved out time in our afternoon to visit @testinggrounds and put together an entire look in 1 hour.

I was instantly drawn to a fitted Topshop work jacket, and a tacky floral polyester dress. We pulled out bits and pieces in some kind of colour scheme from the piles of clothing and gathered them into a corner in the shade. Next, we found scissors, safety pins and elastic bands. There were options to use sewing machines and hot glue, but as time was of the essence we used this rapid styling and inspiration. We ripped, shredded, tied, pinned, coiled and knotted a head to knee look (shoes not included, except for one baby sneaker tied as a necklace).

The runway was sectioned off by clothing strewn into the shape of a catwalk, and Tenfingers was a glamourous MC. There was even a cute mini model – baby Matilda, who was a show stealer. I was in awe of the creativity in every single one of these looks, they were endlessly interesting and such statement makers. The models were real, diverse, inclusive and fun! This was by far one of my favourite events I attended during all of VAMFF.

Enjoy these photos and marvel at the fact that I found the real good fashion stuff. Only more of that from now on, dear readers.

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It’s a dream come true – I’ve finally made it onto the pages of Vogue Magazine, out today. I was one of 8 world changing millennials invited to participate in a round table interview discussing all the hot topics. The photographer shot on film, and by the end of the session I felt like I’d truly connected with every single person there. Bravo to Vogue for being forward thinking and inclusive enough to do a story like this.

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Conferences? Love ’em! (Though sometimes … )

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Conferences? Love ’em! (Though sometimes … )

readmymanuscriptHave been polishing up two talks this morning (creating Power Point slides for them—thank you for the kick in the pants, Martha Bee), and so have also been musing about the national SCBWI conference in Los Angeles. It was about six weeks ago that it wrapped. I didn’t get to attend this year, and I really missed it. It is grand in every way—thousands of people, speakers who inspire and entertain, children’s books celebrities hobnobbing at the lobby bar, and a huge costume party/dance on Saturday. Being surrounded by like-minded people is inspiring, narcotizing, energizing. There’s nothing else like it.

I love attending and speaking at conferences. No, not just because I am a complete ham; and no, not just because of an obsessive need for endless attention, thank you very much. Rather, it is because I get to talk to people about what I love—books and writing and books and writing—and I get to find exciting new writers. (It does happen, that whole writers-being-“discovered”-at-conferences thing. For example, I signed up Ysabeau Wilce after reading her stuff at an SCBWI retreat in Prescott, Arizona, and I had the fabulous Deb Lund as a one-on-one critique at the Whidbey Island Writer’s Conference years ago.)

But occasionally these conferences can be utterly draining, too. Why? Because the attending agent or editor or writer must always be “on,” and that can be a wee tiny bit overwhelmingly taxing. I’ve seen people literally block access to the bathroom in order to give someone a pitch; have seen crowds mob speakers after a talk, pressing manuscripts into their already-full hands; have heard stories of manuscripts slid under hotel doors, between bathroom cubicles, and other such things that might be amusing if they didn’t happen to be true.

And you know what? I understand the impulse of those eager writers. There is a sense, as a new writer, that you had better make a strong impression, because this one fleeting contact with an agent or editor is the author’s one and only chance to be discovered.

But I’m here to tell you that it’s not. Honestly, agents and editors like meeting new talent—really, we do!—but we’ll be more receptive to your manuscript when we’re at our desk, in the work headspace. No one wants to carry manuscripts around at a conference. We’re just as receptive to getting submissions after the conference. In fact, we’re probably more receptive. Certainly come up and say hello. If you heard us speak, say something nice that shows you were listening. (“I can live for two months on a good compliment,” Mark Twain said, and his ego was larger than most anyone in publishing.)

And then? Let us get to the bathroom.

There must be other conference etiquette tips I don’t know that people should bear in mind. What are they? What sorts of interactions at conferences have proven especially fruitful for you? And why?

  1. Great post, Michael! I think I figured out why there are no literary agents in St. Louis; tasering writers who block the rest room = not good for business.

  2. I can say for sure that conferences are a life-changing thing. But not in the way you might expect.

    It’s incredibly rare for an editor or agent to see a manuscript and say, “I must have it” at a conference. It’s probably smart to cross that dream off your list. (People who don’t can sometimes end up embarrassing themselves. Not everyone is a fantastic and amazing Deb Lund, you know.)

    I started going to conferences and met people I really liked. These people, the RAs at my local SCBWI chapter, asked me to volunteer.

    So I did. Volunteers get to go out to dinner with conference faculty–something I did not know when I started giving my time. Which was a good thing, because I might have puked in my plate if I knew I was going to be seated across from an editor whose line I loved. (I’m shy and really have to work up my confidence to be on for these things.)

    The editor told me I was funny and ought to be pitching him. (My response: I am going to curl up in a fetal ball under the table, now.) I saw him later at another conference that year, and shortly after that, the idea for a story flew into my head. The story is on his desk today.

    That same conference was where I saw my agent speak (along with a few others). By then, I’d heard quite a few agents speak, had talked with a bunch of represented writers, and was deciding whom to query. Seeing my now-agent talk sealed the deal. I liked his style, I liked his books, and even though I was only able to utter one embarrassing word in his presence, my writing eventually spoke for me.

    I guess I’d say that’s always the case. The writing speaks for itself. Conferences are a great way to figure out who you would like working with. Just as important, they’re a good place to meet writers whom you can help and vice versa, because this is otherwise a fairly lonely enterprise. And finally, you will never regret giving your time to the SCBWI community. It’s not a substitute for the work of writing, but the opportunities are pretty incredible.

  3. Helpful post here, Mix-Master M.

    I remember my first conference back when I was a writer seeking representation. The best advice I received? “Bring a business card.” I didn’t wind up meeting the editor of my dreams, but I did make writing connections, hear inspiring speeches, and come out out of the conference feeling motivated.

    Don’t go to a conference expecting to leave with a book deal. Go to network, learn, and have fun.

    Sometimes it works out. I signed a client after critiquing her work at a conference. Key word: “After.”

  4. I’ve only ever been to conferences as a reader and fan, but I have been to lectures where Patricia C. Wrede spoke (loved her) and Orson Scott Card spoke (uhhh… he is not the uhhh… forget it. I can’t say anything nice, so I’ll just leave it at that.) There were a few other fantasy/Sci-fi authors and it was interesting to see how they developed plots and characters. Some were more personable than say… oh… Orson Scott Card.

    I love the graphic chosen.

  5. Oh, but speaking of conference goofs…

    I once heard a story about a writer who planned to use her womanly endowments–her sweater meat, if you will–to charm an editor. A gay editor. Mortifying on every level. Trying to seduce someone is probably worse than a bathroom-stall pitch, but maybe that’s because I’m an old married lady.

  6. Although the zombie looking freaks in the photo are unattractive and frightening, I wouldn’t mind harnessing a speck of their obvious self-confidence and determination. When it comes to approaching an editor or agent at a conference, I simply don’t have it in me.

    Like Martha, I’m all too familiar with the fetal position and that’s where you’d find me (probably next to the bar) if I actually did something cringe-worthy like fling a story at you. Well, ok, even if just came and said, “hi”.

    I do make friends and meet cool people at these places, and I just can’t imagine crossing the line by consciously making an ass out of myself.

    I attend conferences to be around like-minded people and to feel totally inspired, motivated, and educated. I leave feeling hopeful, that maybe I really can contribute to this awesome world of children’s books.

    The fact that most (all, i think?) editors and agents encourage writers to submit to them after the conference is incredibly gracious. I consider it a great opportunity and am thankful for it. It makes me want to produce my best, and because I’m so chock-full of respect (really!) I want to make sure I send only the best. I wouldn’t want to waste anyone’s time.

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  8. My wife and I are going to the SCBWI Mid South next weekend and we have a plan. She’s a former book store owner/manger and knows the ropes. Plus she loves my work (imagine that). We’re going to tag-team ’em. She’ll block the door to the ladies rest room while I pitch and vice versa. Tell Chris we’re coming after him.

  9. I went to my first conference in June, where I heard a woman pitching an agent in the toilet stall next to hers. Also heard an author bragging on his technique of slipping his manuscript into agents’/editors’ tote bags while they weren’t looking. (!!!)

    My advice (besides not doing those two things above) would be to treat every single person around you as someone (a) you could help, and (b) who could help you. Basically, network, but with your first priority being to help the other person first. The good feelings you engender often come back in a beneficial way.

    Also, if you’re in a position to tweet a conference, do it! Lots of folks can’t afford the time or money to attend and are really grateful for first-hand accounts of sessions and keynote speeches. I did this at the Writers’ League of Texas Conference — it was fun to be reporter for the weekend, and I found lots of new folks to follow on Twitter and elsewhere.

  10. The best advice has already been given here, I think (don’t expect a book deal, volunteer, don’t rely on your “sweater meat” — love that, Martha).

    I think writers also have to remember that like the agent or editor they are “on”, too. Maybe it’s just me, but at conferences, I have to remind myself, “Think before you ask that question, don’t defend that part of your story that’s not making sense, don’t rip on that less experienced writer, don’t interrupt, cry, pout or shout.” Basically, try to be a nice normal human who trusts that his or her work will get recognition when it’s ready. Easier said than done.

    Volunteering and keeping busy behind the scenes really helps my nerves. Plus, when you’re not pitching your work on coffee break, you find out cool things about editors like where they bought their dazzling shoes or titles of hilarious books they’ve ghost written . . .

  11. I’m the client Chris signed up after a conference, where we didn’t even meet. (When we finally talked weeks later, he asked if we’d spoken there and I mentioned I asked a question during a smaller group roundtable, but that was it. It was clear he didn’t have a clue who I was.)

    I think there’s too much emphasis placed on writers making personal contact with agents and editors at conferences. What matters is if you learn something new and have fun meeting other writers. And then use whatever you’ve learned to improve your writing and submit to the appropriate agent or editor afterward.

  12. A screenwriter once gave me some excellent advice that really panned out:

    1) Never ask a professional to read your work (outside of the accepted channels, i.e. a query letter). You’re imposing on him, and he won’t be receptive. In fact, the attempt most likely will be detrimental, as Michael described. Instead, if you have an opportunity to discuss your work, perhaps at a round table or at the Rutgers one-on-one conference where they encourage you to approach the pros, make sure your (brief) description is spot on and perfectly rehearsed (so you don’t get nervous and flub). He may follow up w/ questions (be prepared for that) and ASK to read your work if he’s interested. Then you’ve done your job.

    2) The agent or editor is a person, not just a means to an end. Don’t just talk about yourself and your manuscript at the Hyatt’s lobby bar or on the drink line at the Sat. night party. Inquire about him. Talk about other things than the business. You’ll make more of an impression that way, and who knows, he may start asking about you. (Seriously. That’s how I got my first writing job.)

    Hope this helps.

  13. I’m going to be attending the upcoming SCBWI MidSouth Conference in Nashville the last weekend in September and will also be attending the COSCBWI Conference in Columbus the following weekend. This link was shared in a recent YahooGroup post to the attendees of the upcoming Nashville Conference:

  14. I met my agent (Jodi Reamer) at a SCBWI Conference. I acted very profession and was careful not to trail her into the bathroom. The tactic worked. However, now that we’ve been together for several years I’ve let my guard down and all my weirdness has been revealed to her.

  15. “Pass the TOILET PAPER?
    Oh, sorry, I thought you said Pass the Manuscript…”

    See you in Chicago….
    mwaaah ha ha ha!

  16. I’m the one in the very last row. To the utmost left.

    My portfolio spilled out and I was pissed. But it missed a fierce tramplin’ so I am going to another conference.

  17. The first couple of conferences I went to, I thought I had to pitch to everyone. Only I couldn’t do it because I hate to pitch so much. Especially on the fourth and fifth days when the editors and agents are getting that tired and stressed “deer during hunting season” look about them. Thinking I had to pitch made me uptight and unhappy.

    After that I went to a couple of conferences with no intention of pitching. Wow! I really enjoyed talking to editors and agents and I think they enjoyed talking to me, too, since I wasn’t stalking them.

    I have the most fun hanging with old friends and new in the bar or coffee shop. I love conferences. Love the speakers, love the writers, love the energy.

    Though I don’t pitch, I do always pay for the critique. That way, if someone sees my stuff and loves it, they can ask for it, or give it to an agent or editor they think might be interested. Or nominate it for an award. Even if none of that happens, I don’t ever want to pass up a chance to have a professional critique me. Some critiques are good and some are…less so. Still, I’ve never been sorry. Even the bad critiques have told me which editors and agents I don’t want to work with. So, none of it’s wasted.

  18. For those of you who haven’t yet had the chance to attend SCBWI and hear Stearns deliver his famous Sexual Peccadillos of Kidlit Editors presentation, it’s really worth the registration fee. The slides are amazing. And the audio tape of two Scholastic editors debating the proper way to pluralize “dominatrix” is a scream.

  19. Through a strange and rapid series of blog post connections, I realized that you (Micheal) will be a panelist at a SCBWI conference in my backyard (Harper College), and decided just two days ago that I had to go. This will be my first writer’s conference, but I promise not to stalk you to the bathroom, pummel you with my manuscript or turn zombie before I get there. Afterwards . . . well, apparently that will depend on whether Orson Scott Card is speaking.

    I am, however, intrigued by the Peccadillos talk!

    Seriously, I was wondering, being a Newbie, if it was worthwhile to sign up for the critique. I was tending toward yes, and got pushed off the fence by the commenter above. I get critiques all the time from my writer’s group, but most of them are not in the genre (MG SF for me) so it would be nice to hear from someone in the field.

  20. OK, I do know how to spell Michael. I swear.

  21. Clearly Michael Grant had been hitting the hootch early yesterday. Everyone, please pray for his sobriety and speedy recovery from this lapse.

    And Lisa! Hi! Welcome! Trust that your weirdness has been clear to all from the get-go.

  22. When you go to an SCBWI conference:
    Soak up the creative energy.
    Make friends.
    Have fun.
    Learn all you can about the business(how to submit, proper format, etc.).
    If you’re a writer, spend time viewing the illustrators’ displays.

    Make a good impression:
    TURN OFF YOUR CELL PHONE when you’re in workshops, keynotes, critiques, etc. (I feel I must say this in all caps because ringing cell phones are distracting to speakers, and talking on the phone during the speaker’s presentation is downright rude. And yet, people continue to do this. Incredible.)
    Don’t be afraid to speak to agents or editors, but don’t monopolize their time, either.
    Don’t be rude to the volunteers.

    If you’ve paid for a critique:
    Don’t expect an offer of representation or publication.
    When you’re told your session is up, leave. If you stay over your allotted time, you’re cheating the next person out of the minutes he/she paid for.
    Don’t cry. (If you feel you must, wait until you’re somewhere other than with your critiquer.)
    Don’t bad-mouth the agent/editor if you’re unhappy with your critique.
    Keep an open mind. (Example: Once I had a critique that, on first impression, seemed negative. It took a few days for me to realize it wasn’t — and even better, I had gained a friend, the critiquer, in the process.)

  23. Gosh, Michael. I didn’t realize that blocking the bathroom was an option. Hmmm…I’ll have to keep that in mind for my next conference.

    Completely missing the point

    😉 And on a serious note, I’m very glad you came out our way. Your presentation was awesome, and I thank Martha Bee for that kick, because the slides were cool.

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Leaping that Final Hurdle

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Leaping that Final Hurdle

mopheadThe other day I came across a tattered, unlabeled sheet of paper I’d picked up somewhere. It is a list of questions a children’s books buyer asks of picture books during sales calls.

While some of these questions should not be on the mind of writers when they are approaching agents (specifically, those questions about packaging and the publisher), other questions having to do with target audience are so savvy that they are worth asking of your own manuscript—whether you are writing a novel or a picture book. These are the sorts of challenges put to your book after it has found an agent, after it has found a publisher, when it is facing that final hurdle to get real estate on a bookstore’s shelf.

Without further ado: Questions from a children’s book buyer

  • What age group is it for?
  • Is it appropriate to that age group?
  • Do the illustrations and the text agree in age level and mood? [I’d switch out “tone” for “mood” here.—MS]
  • Who is the author/illustrator? Where do they live? Are they celebrities? What are their previous track records?
  • Will adults and children like this?
  • Is it enticingly packaged for the age level?
  • Is it unique enough in the marketplace to catch the customers’ eye?
  • What is the subject matter? Is there a need? Is there a better book from the competition? Does the format fit the subject?
  • Is the book up to date in subject and appearance?
  • Who is the publisher? What is their reputation? What is the print run? How will the publisher market the book? Does this publisher carry through with support that matches their announced print runs?
  • Will the book have media attention?
  • Does the book tie in to any planned seasonal promotions?
  • Why should I—or anyone else—buy this book? Is it worth fifteen to twenty dollars?

But maybe I’m wrong, and writers shouldn’t have any of this in mind. Certainly not while they work, but after they have a draft in hand? No? When do you think of the market? Before, during, after, never?

[And apologies to anyone if this is your intellectual property that I picked up at a conference or wherever. There really are no identifying marks on the sheet. I’m happy to give credit or pull it entirely if you send word. Thanks —MS.]

  1. The market is always on my mind when I write, though subliminally. I keep it in a locked back bedroom and only allow it to see the full light of day after the first draft is complete. The market doesn’t influence or direct the story, but it’s important to keep it somewhere in the “ether” if you’re goal is publication.

    Of course, I have a background in marketing so this may influence my opinion.

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  3. Good list to keep in mind. It’s a nice complement to your advice this past weekend in Pittsburgh on query letters. I am passing on some of your suggestions tomorrow on my blog, Fishing For Words (http://robinmullet.wordpress.com) Thanks, Michael.

  4. I’m working on developing new picture book ideas this month by hosting an alternative to NaNo called Picture Book Idea Month (PiBoIdMo).

    As I discover new ideas, I absolutely keep the market in mind. If I get a swell concept, is it worth pursuing? Has it been done before, are there other books like this, what is the competition, what is the value proposition? Is someone going to pay $17 for a story like this? What can I do to make it irresistible and unique?

    Considering a picture book takes months to write, rewrite and polish, it doesn’t make sense to write blindly, without any knowledge of the marketplace. The worst thing you can do is spend 6 months on a manuscript only to find out that the same concept was published last year by Mo Willems.

    I also spent a decade in marketing and PR, so perhaps my opinion is a bit skewed.

  5. Michael Chabon’s Summerland started out as a picture book. Hard to imagine once you’ve read the novel, but hey.

    I confess to thinking about the market before I write a story, but that probably has to do with my background as someone who writes lots of articles and such that are sold with their headlines. If I don’t have a good headline, it generally means I don’t have an actual story concept. For me, that tends to translate to books (though I don’t start with a title).

    I really like starting with something that seems to me like a high concept, knowing that’s ultimately how it might sell. Then I stop thinking about selling altogether and do a lot of thinking about how the concept could relate to the emotional life, experiences, and interests of my intended audience. I know many people advise starting with characters, but I find it somehow easier to imagine a world and then imagine how someone might find his/her way in that particular world.

    I try never to think about whether it’s worth $15 to $20. That just depresses me. 🙂

  6. . . . to work in a cubicle or not? All of the points listed are valid, yet stiffling to the say the least . . . .

  7. I will say to Martha that the best “advice” I ever received was when an agent looked at a list of my picture book concepts and told me the best two ideas to pursue.

    I did not discard the other concepts, but it became clearer and clearer to me that the two she pointed out were the two that would be most likely to sell. They were the most unique ideas with high-concept hooks.

    That’s why I am doing the picture book idea month–and I think you won’t find it stifling in the least. Because the more ideas we generate, the more likely there will be winners in the bunch.

  8. I particularly like the question “Will adults and children enjoy this?” I just wrote a post about parent editing on my own blog. I always appreciate those authors who seem to be aware that we parents will be reading this book to our children over and over. That’s why I like Kevin Henkes and Doreen Cronin. My kids and I both laugh for different reasons. Other books get “lost” pretty quick.

    I keep the market in mind when I’m brainstorming. I have to make sure my ideas really are fresh and not being subconsciously pulled from the shelf of cliches or what’s already been done. After that I do my best to tune out all the voices and just write. I’ll pull the judgment back after a few drafts.

  9. Gulp.
    Better put on my striped socks.

  10. When I’m planning out a new book, I try to come up with a high concept.

    For my first novel, I wrote the book first and found I wasn’t able to market it. I didn’t have a one-sentence hook. The plot was not strong enough. So from there on out, I have made a point of writing the one-sentence hook and the flap summary and the three-page synopses first. I try for a great title, too. And only when I have several of these in place and think, “This can hook an editor and eventually a reader,” will I write the book.

    The next question is, I suppose, “So, Sally, how’s that working for you?”

    But really I’m getting a lot farther now that I was before. It’s just a matter of time, now. 🙂

  11. Oh, I forgot to say: The pictures you all choose to go along with the posts are the best.

  12. I agree with MarthaBee’s third paragraph 🙂

    … except that as a writer/illustrator I CAN get my characters and situations and places on paper, and tinker with them as I write. That is how I work.

    Everyone works differently which is good. Variety is the spice of life.

    I come from a background in advertising as an artist but I wrote a lot of copy and headlines, and know that people notice provocative and intriguing ones. Sometimes catchy ones. I suppose that parents/guardians/buyers are drawn to that if they are in clear view. It makes the buying easier. When people have lots of choices for books they automatically (for the most part) pick what is easy and intriguing, and of course with subjects their kids will love and content they both can enjoy and appreciate.

    Now what I say is all about first time authors and/or illustrators. I suppose known authors have a leg up…especially if they are popular (not their legs… altho they may help).

    And celebrites get special treatment…bleh.

    The only thing I felt was a tad odd on this list is… “Where does the author live?”

    Um… if one lived in Bora Bora under a rock, the publishers would still find you and if needed get you on a book tour or at least to a couple of Bora Bora Book signings.

  13. I guess I am going to be the odd person out here. I really don’t consider market much because, honestly, by the time a book comes out that market will have changed. And I am sometimes ten years ahead and sometimes ten years behind and sometimes–as with the HOW DO DINOSAURS books, I make the market.

    However, I have on occasion been able to JUSTIFY a book to a publisher using marketing ideas, but those come long after the book is written or proposed.

    If I considered the market before or as I work, I would never have written OWL MOON or THE DEVIL’S ARITHMETIC.

  14. Sorry, I just have to write and geek out for a moment – OWL MOON is the best and my son loves your HOW DO DINOSAURS SAY GOODNIGHT. I don’t consider the market either so at least I have one thing in common with a published author 🙂 Okay, now I’ll go back to my quiet lurking.

  15. […] was fortunate to have Michael Stearns of Upstart Crow Literary Agency critique a manuscript for me. (Boy, do I have some work to do.).  […]

  16. I think it all depends on what “considering the market” means to you.

    To me, it’s considering the potential audience for a story–not trends. Most of us would reject out of hand a picture book about hemorrhoids. There is no market for that (at least not for children), no matter how much the topic resonates for you personally.

    So, when I consider the market, I ask myself whether anyone would relate to this idea. Some people might write wholly out of their hearts without regard to making a connection with others, but it seems to me you are as likely to get a work of insanity as a work of genius that way. Some people (ahem Jane Yolen) will produce the works of genius. Others (c’mon, you’ve met them at conferences) write the literary equivalent of tinfoil hats.

  17. Well, some would confuse resonate with reverberate… those would be the trend mongers… and there are SO MANY of them.

    And BTW Jane, your title “THE DEVIL’S ARITHMETIC”… really great one. Gotta read it. 🙂

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andre greipelAndré Greipel (Lotto-Belisol) is downplaying his chances ahead of Sunday’s Milano-Sanremo, but hopes to be in contention if the 298km race finishes in a bunch sprint. The German sprinter has taken five victories so far this season, and will be one of the riders to beat if the peloton arrives on the Lungomare Italo Calvino finishing straight together; his team contains a more likely contender, however, he thinks.

“I don’t think I am one of the favourites for Milan-Sanremo,” Greipel conceded, “there are many others who can claim that position.

“There are no perfect conditions for Milan-Sanremo, planning the race is a difficult task,” he explained. “La Manie usually causes a fracture in the peloton and then the Cipressa and Poggio are decisive. As a team we don’t have to carry the weight of the race, but we have to try to sit in front. The fact that we have two leaders is positive, because that way we can anticipate different scenarios.

“Jürgen Roelandts is the better climber who can follow the others in the final,” Greipel added. “For me it’s waiting to see if I get over the Poggio in the front of the peloton. Milan-Sanremo is a dream, but I hope to experience this year  if I am able to win the race.”

Lotto-Belisol team manager Marc Sergeant expects the unseasonal conditions to play their part in the race and, conceding that Cannondale’s Peter Sagan is the overwhelming favourite for victory, expects other teams to take control of the race.

“Cold, rain, wind; that will probably be the ingredients for next Sunday,” Sergeant explained. “Weather conditions that will of course play a role. Wind in front means a slower race and more chances for the sprinters; 300 kilometres in the rain and there will be a lot of exhausted riders, and bad weather raises the chance that some escapees will be left from a long breakaway, although that only happens once in fifteen years.

“I expect a controlled race again, in which the teams of the favourites – Cannondale, Astana and BMC – will carry the weight of the race,” he confirmed.

“La Manie has caused a serious selection the past few years,” Sergeant concluded. “We have to survive it with as many riders as possible to bring Greipel and Roelandts in perfect conditions into the final.”

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Norweigian act Black Metal Deathcult is a top notch band on Soulseller Records with their previous effort called “The Cult of the Goat. You get the infernal feel of a scythe running down your back as they deliver such profane and evil blasphemic anthems. This is true Norwegian Black Metal!

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Initially formed in 1999, Inferno Requiem is a Taiwanese black metal project and brainchild of the multi instrumentalist who goes by the monicker of Fog. After a hiatus of almost 9 silent but undoubtedly very creative years, Fog resurfaced, releasing several full length albums and EP’s. This project has been around for almost 2 decades by now.
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And even though the guitars are raw, there’s some hint of epic melancholy to be found. It’s also amazing how the keyboards manage to intertwine with the rest of the instruments without being too intrusive. “Shadow Lurking in Obscured Ruin” is but one fine example. Vocalwise, Fog blows all fuses, this time. By listening tot his album, you can hear him expressing the uncanny wrath, venom and depressive sadness of the tales he tells. Productionwise, “Shanhai” is state of the art. A perfectly balanced, heavy and clear yet raw sound.

Fog has outdone himself on this album. “Shanhai” is a MONSTER of an album!! It stands proud amongst the great and the CD comes in a stunning A5 format digipak. Fans of aforementioned bands are advised, nay compelled to check out “Shanhai”. And while you’re at it, check out his previous releases as well. (LV)


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Senior Minister of State for Education Indranee Rajah said this decline “needs to be understood in the context of an education system responsive to a changing social context, and which has offered increasingly more curricular choices for students over time”.

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