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The week that Formula 1 rolls into Melbourne is a very hectic one for anyone who has anything to do with the event, in particular a photographer.

Both the on and off track action requires photographic coverage to complement the stories journalists write to put together a complete picture of the exciting, fast paced and highly emotional sport we all love.

For the second year running I have had the privilege of photographing the Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix exclusively for MotorsportM8 who put in many many hours to provide the quality content you read on a daily basis.

George Hitchens

Our Australian Grand Prix lens man: George Hitchens

This is my review of the 2016 Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix from a photographic perspective and I hope it provides you with an insight into my decision-making process when, not only shooting but selecting images to be published.

The fundamental component to a successful Grand Prix week for me is preparation.

I must ensure my lenses are clean, batteries are charged and I have packed everything I think I’ll need to cover the full week of events that usually start on Monday or Tuesday of race week.

Open media calls scheduled with teams and drivers are emailed through and a decision is made on which ones provide the best photographic opportunity and story for the site. Thankfully this year there were no clashing events so the MM8 team managed to get to every single one!

The driver/team media events generally run to a particular format which allows the photographers opportunities to capture the drivers in both candid and staged shots. One quickly learns that positioning yourself within the media scrum is crucial to getting the best clear shots of the drivers without microphones, cameras or journalists in the way.

Arriving sometimes up to an hour before the event kicks off allows me to survey the location for available light, possible staged shots and be prepared for any last-minute changes to the schedule. At times it’s almost comical watching the photographers all ducking and weaving among each other trying to get ‘that shot’; God forbid you accidentally knock one of the international camera operators – it’s a mistake you only make once!

My main objective during these events is to watch the driver very closely during the interview segments and capture the essence of their personality that will convey story and theme of the interview, unless the driver is of course Kimi Räikkönen…

I also look to capture poignant moments in the driver’s faces in attempt for you the readers to imagine their thoughts.

Media Collage

The open media calls are busy affairs in the lead-up to every Grand Prix (click to enlarge)

At the track the interaction between the fans and drivers/team principals is always entertaining to photograph and witness. There really is a sense of hysteria that goes on around the fan stage and Melbourne Walk area as the drivers make their way towards the ever exclusive Paddock Club.

I really enjoy photographing these moments where members of the general public have various items autographed and also request the obligatory ‘selfie’ with their heroes. This is also the closest I’ll get to the drivers in order to really immerse the reader into the world of an F1 driver, swarms of people all wanting a piece of you.

Melbourne Walk Collage

The ‘Melbourne Walk’, located right at the paddock entry, is a chance for the fans to get up close and personal with their heroes (click to enlarge)

Finally the media conferences and build-up is over, time to hit the track. The 5.3-kilometre Albert Park circuit circuit has 44 dedicated photographic positions set up both on the inside and outside of the track layout which in some cases allows a photographer to be within half a metre of an F1 car doing upwards of 300km/h. Believe me, you know you’re alive when this happens!

Again I prepare by studying the location map to ensure I try out a few different locations around the track for every session. My reason for doing this is to give a different view of the cars and circuit for every session. The available natural light is also a very important factor as it’s one of the key ingredients to making the magic happen.

During the race itself this year I managed to shoot from nine different locations around the circuit. In case you’re wondering, that’s a whole lot of walking for a race that lasts just two hours!

This was the first year I had access to shoot the F1 cars within the barriers and I can honestly say it was the most satisfying and thrilling three days of my photographic life. To truly get a sense of the speed and grip these phenomenally engineered cars have took my breath away.

The final corner (Turn 16) is one of my favourites as I watched the cars skating across the ripple strips, desperately trying to keep traction and burn down the main straight to a top speed around 320km/h.

Of the thousands of photos I took during the week, I was asked by the editor to pick my top-ten pictures and give a little bit of information about each. This was a tough call, but here’s my shortlist:

Mark Winterbottom, 2016 Australian Grand Prix

10. Mark Winterbottom (The Bottle-O Racing Team – V8 Supercars)

Taken using a Canon 5D MkIII with a Canon 200-400mm lens at f/9.0 @ 1/250 sec shutter speed

The Australian Grand Prix is packed with a host of support category races to keep the fans entertained over the event, and the V8 Supercars Championship acts as the headline bill.

Here’s reigning V8 Supercars champion Mark ‘Frosty’ Winterbottom smashing through the mid-corner tyres. You generally have to be pretty quick to capture the car with a few wheels off the ground. With dust kicking up from the impact you get a real sense of the forces on these two-tonne cars.

Shane van Gisbergen, 2016 Australian Grand Prix

9. Shane Van Gisbergen (Red Bull Racing Australia – V8 Supercars)

Taken using a Canon 5D MkIII with a Canon 16-35mm lens at f/11.0 @ 1/80 sec shutter speed

I used a ‘steady pan’ technique for this photo, which basically means to move the camera in the direction same direction the target travels. This keeps the target in perfect focus, while giving the illusion that the background is moving. You need extremely steady hands and millisecond-perfect timing to get the shot right, and I love the way his Red Bull-liveried Holden bursts out with brilliant colours.

Kevin Magnussen, 2016 Australian Grand Prix

8. Kevin Magnussen (Renault Sport F1 Team)

Taken using a Canon 5D MkIII with a Canon 70-200mm lens at f/5.6 @ 1/200 sec shutter speed

The beautifully presented Renault was a great looking car on track. In this shot Kevin glides through Turn 2 with the colourful crowd in the background eagerly watching.

Max Verstappen & Carlos Sainz Jr, 2016 Australian Grand Prix

7. Max Verstappen (Scuderia Toro Rosso F1 Team)

Taken using a Canon 1DX with a Canon 400mm lens at f/3.2 @ 1/5000 sec shutter speed

This image was taken during the intense chase by Max on his teammate Carlos Sainz Jr during the race. I tracked Max through Turn 10 and wanted to catch Carlos in the foreground to show just how close they were.

Sebastian Vettel, 2016 Australian Grand Prix

6. Sebastian Vettel (Scuderia Ferrari F1 Team)

Taken using a Canon 1DX with a Canon 16-35mm lens at f/22 @ 1/125 sec shutter speed

I captured this photo just past the start/finish line on the main straight. You really get a sense of the velocity of the cars here, and with the increased noise from the power units it’s a spine-tingling moment.

Daniel Ricciardo, 2016 Australian Grand Prix

5. Daniel Ricciardo (Red Bull Racing F1 Team)

Taken using a Canon 1DX with a Canon 400mm lens at f/2.8 @ 1/5000 sec shutter speed

A very fast shutter speed was required to catch the sparks from the titanium skid plates, and with the RB12 running on such an acute rake, they were sparking more than any of the other cars in the field. I’ve always wanted to capture an image like this as everyone loves to see sparks fly in F1!

Rio Haryanto, Manor Racing Mercerdes MRF5

4. Rio Haryanto (Manor F1 Team)

Taken using a Canon 5D MkIII with a Canon 800mm lens at f/7.1 @ 1/500 sec shutter speed

Friday Practice offered a unique chance to shoot the cars in wet conditions. In this shot I love the sprays of water streaming upwards as the tyres do their best work to keep Rio firmly planted on the track.

Daniel Ricciardo, 2016 Australian Grand Prix

3. Daniel Ricciardo (Red Bull Racing F1 Team)

Taken using a Canon 1DX with a Canon 400mm lens at f/3.2 @ 1/3200 sec shutter speed

This is a sentimental favourite as ‘Dan The Man’ cruises past the crowd after finishing in fourth place, thanking the thousands of fan who cheered louder than the hybrid engines at full throttle. I have no doubt he will become a World Champion in F1.

Kimi Raikkonen & Sebastian Vettel, 2016 Australian Grand Prix

2. Kimi Räikkönen and Sebastian Vettel (Scuderia Ferrari F1 Team)

Taken using a Canon 1DX with a Canon 200-400mm lens at f/6.3 @ 1/640 sec shutter speed

Both Kimi and Sebastian in frame coming out of Turn 10 during Saturday’s FP3 session. It’s one of my favourites due to the Ferraris’ beautiful red colours popping out at me. I like the composition of this shot as it’s a reminder you don’t always have to have the subject in the middle of the frame to make it work!

Romain Grosjean, Haas F1 Team Ferrari VF-16 - 2016 Australian Grand Prix

1. Romain Grosjean (Haas F1 Team)

Taken using a Canon 1DX with a Canon 400mm lens at f/3.5 @ 1/4000 sec shutter speed

Grosjean was clear standout as the driver of the day and when combined with my favourite corner and photographic viewpoint it makes this one a no-brainer for my number one photo of the Australian Grand Prix.

Watching the cars hurtle through the last turn trying desperately to keep traction is amazing. Being able to see the haze of heat from the exhaust just adds the icing to the cake. A conscious decision to convert this to black and white provides more of a classic feel and further enhances the light and shadow falling on both car and track at this point of the race.

Well that’s that for the 2016 Australian Grand Prix. I hope you’ve enjoyed the coverage and can’t wait until next year!

Images via George Hitchens Photography and XPB Images

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Bolloré Transport & Logistics and CLS Logistics sign a memorandum of understanding to create a joint venture in Ethiopia

The agreement was signed on March 13 in Addis Ababa in the presence of the French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean Yves Le Drian. The two companies aim to offer their customers dedicated services in accordance with the best international standards. They also pursue the ambition to improve the supply chain of various strategic sectors of the country such as textiles, coffee and various industrial projects and infrastructures.
15M € will be invested in the construction of a new secure and modern logistics hub. This project includes the erection of 12 000 m2 multi-activity warehouses on a space of 5 hectares.

Perkins names Seco Power as distributor in West and Central Africa

Perkins Engines Company Limited has appointed Seco Power as an authorised Perkins distributor for 21 countries in West and Central Africa. With regional headquarters in Mauritius, Seco Power, part of the Secodi group, will provide sales, parts and service support to Perkins customers. In addition, regional offices in the Ivory Coast, Senegal and Camerroon are also previewed for completion.

Seco Power has already named Bruno Chappuis as Regional Manager for the African market with responsibilities for the following countries: Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Niger, Chad, Gambia, Mali, Benin, Togo, Morocco, Gabon, Liberia, Republic of Congo, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, Burundi, Central African Republic.

Yannick Billy, CEO of Secodi commented: “This is a natural growth path for Secodi as we have been supporting our French and Turkish customers acting in Africa for a few years now. Since the creation of Secodi, product support and a local presence have been our main drivers to meet customers’ needs and expectations.”

Eiffage and Saipem will build a gas terminal for BP

Eiffage Génie Civil Marine, pilot of a consortium with Saipem, has been appointed by BP to perform the EPCI (Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation) contract for the Hub/Terminal of the Greater Tortue Ahmeyin Field. This important project, valued at € 350m, consists of the construction of a marine infrastructure, protected by an offshore breakwater. It will be used to host a floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) and docking LNG carriers. The subsea infrastructure will be connected via production pipelines to a floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel. From there, liquids are removed and the export gas is transported via pipeline to the floating liquid natural gas (FLNG) hub terminal where the gas is liquefied.

The breakwater will consist of 21 concrete caissons weighing 16,500 tons each built by Eiffage in Dakar, Senegal. They will be based on 2.5 million tons of quarry extracted in Mauritania.

Photo: copyright Eiffage

The Compagnie Minéraliére of Bafin chooses Bolloré Transport & Logistics Ivory Coast

Bolloré Transport & Logistics Ivory Coast has been chosen by Compagnie Minéralière of Bafin (CMB) to handle the loading of nickel from the Foungbesso mine at the port of San Pedro.
Since October 1, 2018, eight vessels have been loaded with about 41,500 t of nickel for export, at a rate of 8,000 t per day. These operations are carried out by Bolloré Transport & Logistics teams using two tugs and four barges.

Monpe Ventures uses Faymonville ModulMAX axle lines to transport a 125t suction pile in Ghana

The Ghanaian heavy transport specialist Monpe Ventures has recently transported a 125t suction pile over a distance of 3 km using ModulMAX axle lines from Faymonville. The major challenges of this project were the weight and the dimensions as well as the request to move the 16 m high suction pile in a vertical position. To build the ideal transport configuration, 16 modular axle lines from Faymonville were assembled side-by-side in a 4-file configuration, a solution that was defined together with the constructor. “Their engineers came up with this solution. At first, the tipping limits were barely acceptable, so we added 44t counterweights, which reduced the height of the center of gravity a lot and thereby extremely improved these values,” said Peter Everett from Monpe Ventures. The piece was fabricated by Belmet 7 inside Takoradi Port. Monpe Ventures transported it from their yard to the quayside from where it was loaded on a vessel to be dropped on the sea bed to be used as an anchor for the FPSO (oil platform) in the Ghana’s oil and gas fields.

An intelligent transport system for the Rabat-Salé Tramway network in Morocco

This system, named Navineo, was developed by Engie Ineo (part of the French Engie Group). Designed to offer a better experience for travelers, Navineo will transmit the real-time location, on-time performance and punctuality of the 66 light rail vehicles to the Control Center (including the extension) to facilitate the real-time monitoring of the rail fleet. An automated passenger counting system will also be implemented to better adapt the transport offer to the uses revealed by more than 51 million trips made by citizens of the Rabat Salé agglomeration each year.

This system will be in place for 2020.

Goldhofer partners with ALS Logisitic Solutions for the Middle East and Africa

Faced with a recent increase in demand for internal airport logistics in the Middle East and Africa region, the manufacturer of heavy-duty and special transport vehicles Goldhofer has opened a new sales and service center for its Airport Technology division in collaboration with ALS Logistic Solutions on 11 December 2018 in Dubai.

In addition to its sales and service activities of its Airport Technology division, the new location also provides various services for the Transport Technology division in the region. This new sales and service center will be located in the Jumeirah Lake Towers in Dubai City.

New regional office for Magna Tyres in South Africa

To cope with its rapid growth in South Africa and neighbouring countries, the Dutch group Magna Tyres has announced the opening of a new regional office in South Africa. “The new Magna Tyres office will play an important role in enhancing the Magna Tyres brand image and strengthen our commitment to all customers in the region,” said Michael de Ruijter, CEO of Magna Tyres.

Kalmar delivers 18 forklifts to Algeria’s drilling contractor ENTP

Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has recently delivered a total of 18 forklift trucks to the Algerian company Entreprise Nationale des Travaux aux Puits (ENTP). Created in 1981, ENTP is a subsidiary of Sonatrach and the leading drilling contractor in the country with a market share of close to 45 percent.

The Kalmar G-Generation forklifts have a lifting capacity of 14 tons and are ideal for handling heavy, bulky loads such as a section of pipe or pieces of drilling equipment. They are equipped with a variable hydraulic fan that according to the manufacturer keeps the engine and hydraulics cool even in the most extreme operating conditions. Kalmar has also adapted the machines according to the customer’s unique requirements, which included fitting the machines with a spark arrestor system to prevent any sparks from the machine’s engine from accidentally igniting flammable materials in the immediate vicinity.

The forklifts were delivered during the third quarter of 2018 and are deployed at the company’s site in Hasse Messaoud, Ouargla in eastern Algeria.

“We are delighted that ENTP has chosen our next-generation forklifts to support their drilling in Hasse Messaoud. They are the ideal choice for ensuring optimal performance in precisely the kinds of tough desert conditions that ENTP operates in, where extreme temperatures, sand, and dust are a constant challenge. This deal also marks a further step forward in our strategy to focus on new industrial segments, building on the excellent market share we already enjoy in the cargo-handling sector in Algeria,” said Alejandro Martinez, Mobile Equipment Solutions Sales Manager at Kalmar.

New partnership for Sarens in Zambia

Sarens has just signed a new partnership between Sarens South Africa and Shumba, a family-owned company specialising in earthworks and civil engineering works in the Zambian city of Lusaka. Indeed Sarens provides a good prospects for growth of the city including the establishment of a taxi rental depot or the implementation of SHEQ. In the long term, Sarens is planning various projects in the Copperbelt region as well as long-term projects in other provinces.

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Netflix Secrets and Tips

Watching TV

You might be addicted to your Netflix account, but how well do you know how to use it beyond the basics? Even if you're an early Netflix adopter, the following tips and tricks will help you upgrade your streaming skills from amateur to expert status.

1. Kick Thieves off Your Account

Maybe you made the mistake of sharing your Netflix password, or, perhaps, someone just found a way to hack into your account. Either way, if you suspect that there are unwanted viewers on your Netflix account, you can simply go into "My Account," scroll down to "Settings" and sign out of all devices. From there you can sign back into your approved devices and even change your password if necessary.

2. Have Separate Accounts for Family Members

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If you have different family members who all use the same Netflix account, it's probably a good idea to set up individual profiles for each person. Not only will you never have to deal with finding your spot back in a series that another person is also watching, but the recommendations will also be fitted specifically to the shows and movies you watch, so your kids won't get recommendations for R-rated movies, and you won't see Dora the Explorer in yours. Each subscription can have up to five different profiles, so no matter what kind of account you have, you can take advantage of this awesome feature.

3. Allow Notifications on Your Netflix Devices

If you've cut the cord and gotten rid of cable, you might be behind a season (or two) on your favorite TV shows. You could check Netflix every day to see if new episodes have been released, but that would be a pain. There's a simpler way to find out when new episodes are available, just permit Netflix to send you notifications. If you have Netflix for your phone or tablet, your account will send you updates when new seasons of the series you watch are available. You can even enable these settings on your computer to update you whenever you login to your Netflix account.

4. Choose a Lower Stream Quality

If you're streaming from your phone or tablet, you don't want Netflix to suck up your limited data plan. Instead, to avoid hefty overage charges, lower the quality of your steam on your mobile device. Simply go into your account and click on playback settings, then choose a more appropriate (and financially savvy) quality for your stream.

5. Remove Restrictions for Unlimited Content

If you're traveling abroad, certain countries will have restrictions on movies and shows that were available back home in the USA. The opposite is true too; for example, the UK version of Netflix will offer British comedies and dramas that are not available to watch in the States. To remove these restrictions and access the full library of every country, you can sign up for Media Hint. The first week is free and then $3.95/month to have the whole world's catalog wherever you go.

6. Remove the Pause Between Episodes

If you're in the middle of a serious Netflix binge, the 20 or so seconds between the end of one episode and the start of a new one can be the epitome of annoying. Luckily, to ensure uninterrupted episodes, you can download the Netflix Pause Removal extension for Chrome. This amazing add-on allows you to continue your binge automatically without any interruption.

7. Add Ratings, IMDB Info, and Trailers

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Need help deciding what to watch next? Download the Netflix Enhancer extension for Chrome to add critic and audience ratings from Rotten Tomatoes to help you pick your next favorite movie. No more looking up film reviews or trailers on the internet. Now you have all the information you need to select your next viewing choice readily available to you on your Netflix account. Who knew it could be so easy?

8. Suggest Content Additions to Netflix

Did you know that you can actually ask Netflix to add in the TV shows and movies you're dying to watch? Netflix does their very best to give their users a wide selection of content, but they're also interested in their customers' personal content desires. Simply sign into your account and go to the "Help Center" (located at the very bottom of the page.) From there, you'll need to search for "Suggest TV shows or movies" and you'll be brought to a page where you can suggest up to three movie or TV show titles you would like added to the Netflix library.

9. Know How to Delete Your Activity

We've all been there; you're binging on a TV show with your friend or partner, but then he or she gets busy and doesn't have time to watch. So you're left in suspense about what happens in the next episode, but you can't muster up the strength to wait around for your friend to make the time to watch with you. Instead, you break the cardinal rule and watch your show without your partner. You, of course, regret your actions as soon as the credits roll, but what can you do? Well, to avoid your partner's wrath, you could simply delete your viewing history and pretend that it never happened. Just go into your account, scroll down to my profile and click on "My activity." From there, you can manually delete any content you watched using the "X" at the right hand of the screen. You can delete movies, single episodes or even full series, and no one else on your account will ever know you watched that embarrassing Kardashian marathon. Sneaky, sneaky.

By incorporating these tips into your Netflix experience, you can rest assured that you are one of the company's most knowledgeable customers. Now, go forth and binge to your heart's desire! (Just remember to keep a firm grip on reality and go outside a few times a week, at the very least.)

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Puppy reaction while watching the Google updates list of 2011I must admit that lately Google is the cause of my headaches.

No, not just because it decided I was not going to be not provided with useful information about my sites. And neither because it is changing practically every tool I got used since my first days as an SEO (Google Analytics, Webmaster Tools, Gmail…). And, honestly, not only because it released a ravenous Panda.

No, the real question that is causing my headaches is: What the hell does Google want to go with all these changes?

Let me start quoting the definition of SEO Google gives in its Guidelines:

Search engine optimization is about putting your site's best foot forward when it comes to visibility in search engines, but your ultimate consumers are your users, not search engines.

Technical SEO still matters, a lot!

If you want to put your site’s best foot forward and make it the most visible possible in search engines, then you have to be a master in technical SEO.

We all know that if we do not pay attention to the navigation architecture of our site, if we don't care about the on-page optimization, if we mess up with the rel=”canonical” tag, the pagination and the faceted navigation of our web, and if we don’t pay attention to the internal content duplication, etc. etc., well, we are not going to go that far with Search.

Is all this obvious? Yes, it is. But people in our circle tend to pay attention just to the last bright shining object and forget what one of the basic pillars of our discipline is: make a site optimized to be visible in the search engines.

The next time you hear someone saying “Content is King” or “Social is the new link building”, snap her face and ask her when it was the last time she logged in Google Webmaster Tools.

Go fix your site, make it indexable and solve all the technical problems it may have. Just after done that, you can start doing all the rest.

User is king

Technical SEO still matters, but that does not mean that it is synonym of SEO. So, if you hear someone affirming it, please snap her face too.

No... content is not the only King. User is the King! Image by Jeff Gregory

User and useful have the same root: use. And a user finds useful a website when it offers an answer to her needs, and if its use is easy and fast..

From the point of view that Google has of User, that means that a site to rank:

  1. must be fast;
  2. must have useful content and related to what it pretends to be about;
  3. must be presented to Google so that it can understand the best it can what it is about.

The first point explains the emphasis Google gives to site speed, because it is really highly correlated to a better user experience.

The second is related to the quality of the content of a site, and it is substantially what Panda is all about. Panda, if we want to reduce it at its minimal terms, is the attempt by Google of cleaning its SERPs of any content it does not consider useful for the end users.

The third explains the Schema.org adoption and why Google (and the other Search Engines) are definitely moving to the Semantic Web: because it helps search engines organize the bazillion contents they index every second. And the most they understand really what is your content about, the better they will deliver it in the SERPs.

The link graph mappedThe decline of Link graph

We all know that just with on-site optimization we cannot win the SERPs war, and that we need links to our site to make it authoritative. But we all know how much the link graph can be gamed.

Even though we still have tons of reasons to complain with Google about the quality of SERPs, especially due to sites that ranks thanks to manipulative link building tactics, it is hard for me to believe that Google is doing nothing in order to counteract this situation. What I believe is that Google has decided to solve the problem not with patches but with a totally new kind of graph.

That does not mean that links are not needed anymore, not at all, as links related factors still represent (and will represent) a great portion of all the ranking factors, but other factors are now cooked in the ranking pot.

Be Social and become a trusted seed

In a Social-Caffeinated era, the faster way to understand if a content is popular is to check its "relative" popularity in the social media environment. I say “relative”, because not all contents are the same and if a meme needs many tweets, +1 and likes/share to be considered more popular than others, it is not so for more niche kind of contents. Combining social signals with the traditional link graph, Google can understand the real popularity of a page.

The problem, as many are saying since almost one year, is that it is quite easy to spam in Social Media.

The Facebook Social Graph from Silicon Angle

For this reason Google introduced the concepts of Author and Publisher and, even more important, Google linked them to the Google Profiles and is pushing Google Plus, which is not just another Social Media, but what Google aims to be in the future: a social search engine.

Rel=”author” and Rel=”publisher” are the solution Google is adopting in order to better control, within other things, the spam pollution of the SERPs.

If you are a blogger, you will be incentivized in marking your content with Author and link it to your G+ Profile, and as a Site, you are incentivized to create your G+ Business page and to promote it with a badge on you site that has the rel=”publisher” in its code.

Trusted seeds are not anymore only sites, but can be also persons (i.e.: Rand or Danny Sullivan) or social facets of an entity… so, the closer I am in the Social Graph to those persons//entity the more trusted I am to Google eyes.

The new Google graph

As we can see, Google is not trying to rely only on the link graph, as it is quite easy to game, but it is not simply adding the social signals to the link graph, because they too can be gamed. What Google is doing is creating and refining a new graph that see cooperating Link graph, Social graph and Trust graph and which is possibly harder to game. Because it can be gamed still, but – hopefully – needing so many efforts that it may become not-viable as a practice.

Wake up SEOs, the new Google is here

As a conclusion, let me borrow what Larry Page wrote on Google+ (bold is mine):

Our ultimate ambition is to transform the overall Google experience […] because we understand what you want and can deliver it instantly.

This means baking identity and sharing into all of our products so that we build a real relationship with our users. Sharing on the web will be like sharing in real life across all your stuff. You’ll have better, more relevant search results and ads.

Think about it this way … last quarter, we’ve shipped the +, and now we’re going to ship the Google part.

I think that it says it all and what we have lived a year now is explained clearly by the Larry Page words.

What can we do as SEOs? Evolve, because SEO is not dieing, but SEOs can if they don’t assume that winter - oops - the change of Google is coming.

The New SEO graph


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Dublin’s Thriving Night Life

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Merchant’s Arch- By: Tiara Terry

One thing that I love about Ireland is that their night life thrives and comes alive. When walking the streets at night, you see a lot of beautiful lights, many bars over flowing and men carrying advertisement boards on their backs.

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Street Advertisers- By: Tiara Terry

Advertising in Ireland is a whole new world. Men were out on the streets carrying advertisement boards on their backs in promotion for bars and strip clubs. It was pretty cool. Its a great idea because the boards are sure to catch everyones attention. I love the dedication they have to promote their products/services.

A few nights ago, the crew decided to all go out. We all met up at Merchant’s Arch Bar. I was excited as in it was my first experience at an Irish pub. When you walk in, there’s a huge bar, nothing like I have ever seen. The pub was pretty crowded. It was also cool to see that they had two floors to the bar.

Going out to the bars, I was expecting more of a club atmosphere. This bar was more so for socializing. Their was a live band and people gathered around, sung along and enjoyed their drinks.

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Merchant’s Arch pub performers- By: Tiara Terry

I usually don’t care for live performers in restaurants/bars because they usually are not engaging to the crowd. This performing duo was the complete opposite. They took requests from the crowd and played a variety of tunes. I really enjoyed the crowd that night, everyone was social and sang along to the tunes being played.

What struck me was how talented these men were. They were amazingly good and I would say, definitely mastered the art of the guitar. They could sing well, and you could tell that they work very well together.

I actually didn’t mind not dancing for once. We sat, enjoyed the music and had a few drinks.

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What are You Belching About? The Importance of Gut Microbiome and Multiple Sclerosis

It was three o’clock in the morning and I suddenly woke up out of a sound sleep. I had a pounding headache and it felt like someone was sitting on my chest. I’d been under a great deal of stress so I told myself that must be the culprit. I quietly got out of bed, as quiet as someone can when they’re in total pain, and walked down our darkened hallway to our great room. I sat next to our sleeping cat on the couch and tried to meditate, focusing on my breath.

Om. Om. Om. Belch.

The chest pain wasn’t subsiding and I thought my head was going to explode. I slowly ambled my way back and forth across our oriental rug, trying to focus on my breath with every pain-filled step.

It was a lost cause.

I was familiar with the signs of heart attacks in women. With my family genes I’d read them over and over again on The American Heart Association website so I’d be prepared. Symptoms in women are different than in men, and what you see dramatized on the big screen is not what actually happens.

I woke my husband up and he dialed 9-1-1.

When the paramedics arrived they took off my thick glasses and slipped an oxygen mask over my face. Where did everyone go?

If you’re my age and know who Mr. Magoo is that’s me.

They took my vitals and told me my heart was healthier than theirs. They joked how their blood pressure was 20 points higher than mine, and that they scarfed down a bag of French fries an hour or so before they arrived.

The ambulance rushed me to the hospital and, fortunately, the pain began to subside. My headache became milder but the disgusting belching lingered on.

The emergency room doctor asked a few preliminary questions, took no blood, and as I continued to belch he pronounced I had acid reflux and a whole lot of stress. He gave me some medicine to calm my stomach, advice on how to tame stress and released me.

That was easily the quickest exam in the East.

I’ve read a lot in the past year on the relationship between the gut and Multiple Sclerosis and how the degradation of myelin could, in part, be blamed on the gut.

When I attended last year’s Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Center’s Annual Meeting one of the keynote speakers spoke about the gut and MS, and I look forward to hearing more about it at this year’s event.

According to an article in Scientific American titled “Could Multiple Sclerosis Begin in the Gut?” it explains that, “Eight percent of the human immune system resides in the gastrointestinal tract. Alongside it are the trillions of symbiotic bacteria, fungi and other single-celled organisms that make up our guts’ microbiomes.”

When everything is in balance it works like a well-oiled machine but when it doesn’t the disarray could contribute to several diseases including MS.

There’s been so much emphasis on this theory that a consortium, called the MS Microbiome Consortium, has been formed to study it. Ilana Katz Sand, an assistant professor of neurology at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City and a member of the Consortium, points out that diet and probiotics may be worth pursuing to help maintain a healthy gut. But she cautions that more studies are required to pinpoint a solid relationship between gut health and MS.

For now I’m heading to my gastroenterologist’s office for some tests to find out if I do have acid reflux. Until then I’m taking Nexium 24, enzymes from Vitamin Shoppe, and chewable DGL licorice.

And I’m adjusting my diet to avoid the main culprits of acid reflux, namely, cheese, chocolate, caffeine, tomatoes, citrus, onions, garlic, fatty and fried food, full fat milk products and alcohol.

To read a brief excerpt on what Howard L. Weiner, MD discussed at last year’s Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers click here. To read more please visit the Consortium’s website at www.mscare.org.

This article represents the opinions, thoughts, and experiences of the author; none of this content has been paid for by any advertiser. The MultipleSclerosis.net team does not recommend or endorse any products or treatments discussed herein. Learn more about how we maintain editorial integrity here.

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  • Tracey
    3 years ago

    wheat/gluten is a big no no if you want to get you gut back in shape…fermented food is good! and unfortunately sugar is soooooo off the list…just saying.

  • Cathy Chester moderator author
    3 years ago

    Thanks, Tracey! Yes, I just had some (ugh) sauerkraut today. Thanks for the useful information. Food as medicine….

  • kitminden
    3 years ago

    It’s hard to keep having to modify lifestyle to accommodate MS but will be glad to hear you are feeling much better.

  • Cathy Chester moderator author
    3 years ago

    Thanks so much, Kit. I appreciate that!

  • Kim Dolce moderator
    3 years ago

    Cathy! I’m glad your ER visit showed no signs of a heart attack, but I’m sure you were plenty scared and uncomfortable. Thank goodness you had someone with you.

    Again, you speak my language. Having digestive problems myself, I’m hot to read anything gut-related. Weiner’s theory seems to dovetail nicely with the Hygiene hypothesis and its experimental hookworm therapy. There is solid science behind the idea that quieting the gut will in turn quiet the symptoms of autoimmune disease. I’m looking forward to reading more about the microbiome angle.

  • Cathy Chester moderator author
    3 years ago

    I’m glad we’re on the same page. Now, for me, onto reading about what I have. I had an endoscopy since I wrote this and they found a hiatal hernia and slight acid reflux. Now I need to know more about it and use food as medicine. My doctor felt I didn’t need a prescription (yay) so I have to learn what you mean by “Hygiene hypothesis and its experimental hookworm therapy” !!!

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Why offer clues? Why make it any easier than it has to be?

There is a sense of implied cruelty in being difficult. The implied cruelty implies a implied potential of reducing the difficulty.

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Before we have a story, before our story has a graph, it will need to have a skeleton. A skeleton describes the material of the story in the form of a meta-description. This meta-description is possible to tweak without the sentiment and emotional investment that the characters demand. Much before the story even becomes intertwined in situations, characters and the colours and smell of life in general, it is a blueprint. Narrative are seeds of stories, sometimes they succeed in germinating and developing fully and sometimes not. Narratives which do manage to develop and grow, have a distinct blueprint. Where does this come from? How does blueprint enter the narrative?

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These failed stories cannot be wished away. They cannot be done away with. One way or another, when least expected, stories will fail. Stories fail because of the loss of sync with their intrinsic blueprint. How stories fail is by failing to work. Their work is to deliver themselves without any break in the experience, without any chance to get distracted and get consumed by something else. Stories need to be monogamous and benevolent, else they can be dismissed as mere fragments. All the coherence can be discarded, content dismissed like noise.

Blueprints are formed by emotions, the mechanisms that the characters employ to deal with the emotions and the narrative associations that justify the choice of the mechanisms. Knowing the blueprints is not definitive knowledge that can unlock some secret answers to life, social situations are puzzles framed by history, it is never going to be possible to resolve them fully. Perspectives can be partially switched, that’s all.

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Everytime around this time of the year, I spend each of my days (and most of their hours) going through what the Edmonton Oilers are going to do on draft day and who they should select.

The Edmonton Oilers, unlike the last 3 years are unfortunatley not in a position to pick the best possible player available in the draft and will rely on the selections on 6 teams (one being the Calgary Flames) to not deviate the Oilers from selecting what they need.

The top 4 projections are out (MacKinnon, Jones, Drouin & Barkov), unless Edmonton trades up in the draft, which they are highly unlikely to do. However, with those 4 players goes 4 selections leaving only 2 teams to pick before Edmonton (considering the Oilers don't trade their pick).

When the Time comes to select (7th overall), Edmonton should select the remaining of either:

Nurse (D)
Nichushkin (RW)
Monahan (C)

With Darnell Nurse, the Oilers get a projected top 4 defensemen who is good on both ends of the ice. He has excellent hands and great hockey sense, so good that if the Oilers drafted him, he would be an easy fit into the lineup right away. The Oilers are like a pear when looking at their defence, with Justin Schultz the only projected top liner (with respect to their prospects) and everyone else fitting in as a 3rd defender or less. So they are very Bottom Heavy

Valeri Nichushkin doesn't give the Oilers a piece that they don't already have as on Right Wing they have Jordan Eberle, Nail Yakupov and Ales Hemsky. However, with Hemsky and Khabibulin on their way out, Nichuskin brings in two elements that the oilers will need. He brings another Russian Element to Edmonton (aswell as Belov) that Khabibulin brought making Edmonton more desirable to Russian players and keeping Yakupov wanting to stay in Edmonton, cause lets be honest, Yakupov is disgustingly good. Nichuskin also brings his excellent play making skills with him, making loosing Hemsky and his hands a smaller pill to swallow.

In Sean Monahan the Oilers get their Center, and hopefully one that can win faceoffs on the big stage. From what I have seen (and that's alot), he's just like Nugent-Hopkins which means the Oilers will have a potential 1,2,3 punch on offence. This would be just what Edmonton needs as their organizational depth and secondary scoring failed them this last season. The Calgary flames, from what I have heard are highly interested in him, so him falling to seventh would be impossible and not to mention a draft day crime.

Alteratives: (rumors).

If the Oilers decide to Trade their pick away, they would have a few bids.

The Toronto Maple Leafs are one such team that is as active as Edmonton is and with that comes a plethera of rumors.

Let's be clear here, the Oilers need defence and Toronto has that. Unfortunatly the oilers will not move their first round pick for anyone other than Jake Gardiner or Cody Franson (+). Phanuef is not very well liked by the Edmonton fan base from his days as a flame and he represents a massive cap hit so he is unlikely, and besides Franson, the Oilers are not going to part with a top 10 pick for anyone else because bottom line defencemen is all we have had (and we still have tons of).
If Toronto offered Cody Franson (because they don't want to get rid of Gardiner), their first round pick would also have to be in that deal.
Both sides are expecting the other to lean more towards their favor but luckily for Edmonton, Kevin Lowe isn't the Oilers General Manager anymore.

My favorite rumor for this pick came out of Buffalo, was that of Edmonton's 7th overall pick for Mark Pysyk (D) & Ryan Miller (G). Miller isn't a sure thing, but just having the rights to talk with a goalie who is world class and elite would be a dream come true and worthy of trading the pick. Not to mention if he doesn't sign a contract, Edmonton would still get Pysyk who is well known throughout the organization from playing his junior career in Edmonton for the Oil Kings.

In the Second round, the Oilers should select (who in my opinion is) the best goalie in the draft in Tristan Jarry. He didn't get the same recognition as Fucale because he was on the same team as Calgary Flames prospect Laurent Brossoit and was subject to backup duty (to which he was absolutley dominant). On any other team in the Central Division in the WHL and most teams in the league, Jarry would have been a number one. The Oilers need to select him if he is still available, as he is only 18 years old and looks to be a potential NHL star. The only other goalie that I have given a recommendation for was that of Saskatoon Blades goalie (at the time) Braden Holtby and I don't give recommendations easily.
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good blog. Nichuskins a left wing though so he would fit perfectly with Gagner and Yakupov.
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Nichushkin is a left wing
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I would do franson first for the 7th. Draft lindholm or monahan. We would need to sign a UFA D though
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Using state of the art animation End Of Summer tells the story of one young man's relationship with five women in a frank and sensual manner seldom explored in even the most daring of live action films.

Although the hero, Wataru, wants only to score with Mai, the girl of his dreams, he must first deal with four other young women scattered in his path like land mines. There is infatuated and juvenile Miho, tomboyish athlete Misa, naive Kurumi, and the caustic Satomi, who works in the restaurant where Wataru hangs out and whose personal life become hopelessly intertwined with Wataru's.

The inevitable liaison between Satomi and Wataru sets a new standard in the rendering of animated erotica and may forever change the way animation is viewed in North America.

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First, I would like to say, I was out on the search for a more female audience oriented hentai that featured more consentual acts that didn't have things like x-ray, blood with their virgins, and stuff like that and I more than got that sort of thing.

I also got a hentai which focused heavily on dare I say it, a captain save a hoe style character. He is always there when these women are sad and yeah, he does take advantage of that. But it doesn't feel like it is wrong. He always knows what to say, and what to do, and how to please read more
Feb 6, 2015
brynolf (All reviews)
I thought this was going to be a comedy about a horny asshole of a main character, who dated too many girls at the same time, and eventually got into trouble for it. Well, it wasn't.

To put it short: This was a really bad anime. But with boobs...

Considering it was made in 1994 it looks ok, but compared to newer stuff it is very inferior. The characters look rather dull. All the girls are portrayed as doll angels and the main character looks just like someone that usually walks past in the background of other animes.

The sex scenes are better drawn than the rest, but read more

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Cave Story + [Switch] – Review

Cave Story +

Despite its status as a modern indie darling and years of rereleases and enhancements, I hadn’t played Cave Story until I picked up Cave Story + for the Switch. Boy was I missing out! First released for the PC in 2004, it was culmination of years of Daisuke “Pixel” Amaya’s spare time. That fact alone made me admire it as an inspirational game but what’s as impressive is how well polished and entertaining it is. Multiple storylines and background details were presented in frequent cutscenes that kept me wanting to play a little bit longer. And not just for new story revelations, it was a genuinely fun run ‘n’ gun platformer. It’s the video game equivalent of a page-turner if there ever was one. Continue reading Cave Story + [Switch] – Review

I Am Setsuna [Switch] – Review

I Am Setsuna

Satisfied with my completion of Breath of the Wild, I was free to singularly devote time to another game on the Switch. Next in the queue: I Am Setsuna.

Originally released for the PlayStation 4 and Vita in early 2016, Square Enix announced I Am Setsuna would be a launch title for the Switch shortly before the platform’s launch. The game was developed by Tokyo RPG Factory, a newly minted subsidiary of Square Enix with the primary intent of creating RPGs inspired by classics from the 1990s. The story and characters were fairly rote although a series of late game reveals caught me by surprise. Narrative and dialogue were compelling to the end, as was the soundtrack, which I’d go beyond and describe as exceptional! Lastly, the gameplay was immediately familiar thanks to the implementation of the Active Time Battle system. Considering the studio’s narrow purpose, I Am Setsuna was a success, albeit unambitious. Continue reading I Am Setsuna [Switch] – Review

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild [Switch] – Review

The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild

How cliché, yet how apt that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a breath of fresh air. The series remains one of the most prestigious in video games but after thirty years, has grown formulaic, stagnant even. Accordingly, it was no surprise when this entry underwent a traditionally extended development cycle before eventually releasing on two platforms (just like Twilight Princess on both counts). What is surprising is how with this entry Nintendo managed to remain true to the core tenants of the series, while bucking tradition in ways that resulted in a game that seems fresh, yet consistent.

At work were an array of gameplay systems and mechanics that coalesced perfectly, forming rewarding gameplay loops of exploration and experimentation. For me, this truly was a game where it wasn’t about the destination, it was about the journey. I’d begin every session with a specific goal in mind but like clockwork, wound up distracted by a million other fulfilling tasks. Hyrule was absolutely enormous but it was packed to the gills with worthwhile things to do. Continue reading The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild [Switch] – Review


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Kark and Percy

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have a Fit and Proper Person Test (FPPR) process to review whether senior NHS bods are fit to practice. [Sorry about the acronyms and jargon here… Just typing ‘fit and proper person test’ makes my finger tips weep.]

I referred Katrina Percy, then Sloven CEO, to this process in 2015. Mike Richards, CQC Head of Hospital Inspections, ‘missed’ my email. After some chasing he said there was no doubt about her fitness to practice. Case closed.

Jan 2016 and unfitness evidence was stacking up. I referred her again. No reply from Richards. At the end of Feb I tweeted about the lack of response. He emailed saying:

Dear Sara, I apologise profusely for the fact that I must have missed this email. I know that this is not the first time this has happened, but I have absolutely no recollection of having seen it.

No? Mmm. That’s interesting. Percy is a prolific ‘absolutely’ user in communications.

Then nothing. I chased up the referral in March, May and at the end of July. Tim Smart, interim Sloven board chair, decided Percy had done nothing wrong around that time and the referral disappeared. Absolutely nothing to see here.

Why am I raking over this old billy bullshite?

The Kark Review

Tom Kark QC was asked to review the FPPT earlier last year on the back of a review by Bill Kirkup [keep up]. The review which has allegedly had a bit of a tasty journey to publication was published yesterday. A refreshing read in terms of sense and straightforwardness. And so, so chilling. I shudder to think what, if anything, might have been stripped from it. He presented a picture of what can only be called corruption. Three short extracts:

Agreed ‘vanilla’ references? Eh? Really? Is this common practice in the NHS (or wider public sector)? Deceit and incompetence wedged into senior layers while candour and transparency are bandied about like a [fuck you] hope carrot for the rest of us herbs.

Breathtaking hypocrisy.

Two of the seven report recommendations were accepted by the government before the shutters shut. Kiosk Keith styley.

Meanwhile, Percy’s new role emerged on twitter.

And I learned that ‘vanilla’ biographies are also a thing.

Global CEO, Ryalto

Global CEO, Ryalto.

Grotesque spin and reinvention.

Delivering operational turnaround of services… leading organisations through transformational change. In March 2018 Judge Stuart-Smith, sentencing the Trust, referred to the ‘dark years’ of Sloven and issued the largest fine in the history of the NHS.

Designing a comprehensive leadership development and culture change programme. ‘Going Viral’ was an almost comedic (although of course it wasn’t) ‘thing’ which cost about £5million in public dosh. The proof of (this ‘leadership’ programme is) in the pudding as they say. Earlier today Sloven were in the news again for failing services.

The pudding was shite. It simply didn’t work.

She now heads up the global team at Ryalto. A quick google reveals a tiny UK based company with a website light on detail.

Global team my arse.

HSJ awards are not shining here. A money spinner for the Health Service Journal. Self nominated nominees and Trusts shelling out big bucks for the black tie drenched reveal gig. At the same time producing dirty little numbers for the vanilla biog and reference filing cabinet. Glittery tat for bolstering failure drenched narratives.

Not a good look @HSJEditor. For so many reasons.

Percy has taken monstrous to a new level here. Providing a contemporaneous example of the grimness laid out in the Kark review. A failing exec covering up her history without compunction or check.

She’s not alone of course. All those who protected her, bolstered her or looked the other way over the years have a right old stench on their hands too.

Maybe one day these people will have the guts to properly reflect on their actions and non actions. I blooming hope so.

‘Second victims’, the aftermath and incoherence

I was surprised and enraged a few years back when I heard health professionals are considered to be ‘second victims’ when a patient is seriously harmed or dies a preventable death. Second victim? Really?

Families are ‘second’ I thought, raged and tweeted. Repeatedly. Our loved ones died or experienced serious harm. We’re left (typically unsupported) to deal with devastating grief. Seeking accountability from a national health service that has an apparently Pavlovian response of shut up, shut down, fuck right off and we will throw every resource we can grubbily wring from the public purse to defeat you.

[I don’t like the word ‘victim’. It’s passive and pathological. It stamps out individuality and erases the ways in which people negotiate and pick their way across tricky or brutal terrain. The ways in which they draw on sophisticated understandings, experience and strategies in grotesque settings. Erasing vibrancy, life and love.]

On a dark, cold, wet evening last December I bumped into the support worker who was on duty the day LB died. The person who found him in the bath.

Meeting staff

After LB died we didn’t want to see or speak to anyone involved in his ‘care’. [The staff were a mixed bag of good, mediocre and foul.] That morning the A&E consultant told us that some staff members were there and wanted to meet us. Sitting, in a state of (what?) I still don’t have the words to describe what it’s like to be in the family room you rarely (if ever) notice during the odd visit to A&E over the years with minor injuries and knocks. I can’t remember the sign on the door now but I remember the horror seeping through my veins, the prickling pain, incomprehension and fear, reinforced by gaining access to this tiny, claustrophobic space. A hair’s breadth from A&E cacophony. Metres from the bus route to town. A ten minute walk from home.

He told them it wasn’t appropriate.

My mum, with the support of family and friends stepped up to communicate with the Trust. Email exchanges archived in a tear stained folder.

We’ve since met or spoken to some staff and seen others give evidence (on paper and in person) at LB’s inquest.

Rich spoke with the senior nurse at LB’s inquest and I’ve talked with him on the phone a few times. We met with one of LB’s key nurses at the inquest (the one who said sorry to us while giving evidence.) A mate (the indomitable Fran) was in touch with a support worker a few years back. He came round one Saturday morning.

In the meantime, Katrina Percy, Sloven CEO, made repeated attempts to try and get us to meet with her. A blunt hammer approach. She never made the purpose of this meeting clear or made any effort to answer the questions we had. Other influential people also ‘encouraged’ us to meet with her. We declined.

Answers and more questions

December 2018. I saw MH before she saw me.

I dunno. I’ve struggled to try and make sense of this encounter. To organise it into letters, words, sentences, sense. Sense. Type. I know it wasn’t her fault. Being on that shift, that morning. I just want to know.

I said her name and she turned round.

She cried.

She cried like I cry.

She cried. And her tears didn’t stop.

Writing this I’m kind of recoiling from the keyboard, I can’t stop crying. Fucking crying… [How is he dead? What the fuck?]

Those tears.

I’m so sorry.

I’m trying to generate some coherence by patching together previous, contemporary, retrospective stuff. Knowledge. It’s impossible. So many layers. So much pain, so much sadness.

Two of the things MH told me that evening:

  1. The day after LB died she contacted a dating agency for learning disabled people because he’d always wanted a girlfriend. That night last December was her last night working with them. After five years. She was about to return to education.
  2. LB’s second key nurse KD wrote us a letter after LB died but wasn’t allowed to send it to us.

In the boxes of paperwork, records, subject access and Freedom of Information documents, I remember coming across an email trail just before LB’s inquest 2015. It ended with KD asking the unit manager to tell us how sorry he was. Dated the day LB died or the day after.

Back in the day, we said we’d like the other four patients from the unit to attend LB’s funeral if they wanted to but we didn’t want any of the staff involved in his care there. The response was something along the lines of ‘these patients need to be supported by staff who know them well and understand to care for them’. [I know.]

I’m chucking the coherence towel in now to finish this post. Maybe I’ll rewrite it at some point in the future.

Here’s an interim set of thoughts which I hope are of use to someone working to improve the experiences of bereaved families when someone dies a preventable death in the NHS.

  • I’m sorry our blanket refusal to engage with staff immediately after LB died caused further harm.
  • We know so much more now (in terms of the ‘dark years’ of Sloven) it’s difficult to disentangle what we (others) should have done, or thought, at that time.
  • The person who dies (or experiences serious harm) and their family should be the central concern. Staff (and other patients) should also be given appropriate support.
  • The Trust should immediately say sorry and not prevent any individual staff member from doing so.
  • It was clear in October 2015 that the Trust were cutting adrift numerous staff members as we ended up with 8 different legal counsels at LB’s inquest. This should be the focus of scrutiny by [who? NHS Improvement?] A well led Trust should not be in this position.
  • The involvement of in house Trust legal teams further scrapes away humanity which should be the core ingredient of every interaction with bereaved families.
  • Trusts are able to draw on seemingly unlimited resources from the public purse to defend themselves when something goes wrong. This fact may generate further disregard for families (and frontline staff) in poorly led Trusts.
  • There is a gaping hole here around support, communication and humanity. And something almost ironic about the terrible harm our national health service can repeatedly wreak.


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My ladyboy dating guide

Many men feel attracted to ladyboys (or in the politically correct term: transgender women). This attraction is not abnormal (read: who are the ladyboy lovers), but it raises many challenges for these men who like this special type of girls.

The most common challenge being the following: where can I meet a decent ladyboy? Most of the western men already came across transvestites and tranny prostitutes in the streets of their city, most of the time not really attractive, and they’re not dressing like girls full time (usually just at night). The thing is, many transgender women just pass for real girls when you see them, walking in the street or hanging out in a mall. Sometimes it’s impossible to find out without a very closer look, or knowing the “hints”.

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Relationship with a ladyboy sex-worker

Why am I writing these lines about having a relationship with a ladyboy prostitute? Because the fact is that it is likely to happen to you if you are, like me, attracted to ladyboys. It’s a fact (but I can develop more in a future article): there are a substancial number of prostitutes amongst the population of ladyboys in Thailand and Philippines (and generally South East Asia I guess). And if it’s not prostitute, that can also be escort (which is slightly similar), cam whore or scam artist.

Going straight to the point, I believe that prostitution and relationship are contradictory. Do you see yourself having a girlfriend whose job is to sell her body to other men? Especially if you are a foreigner, and she is likely to have many foreign customers, how does this make you feel? Nah, there is something wrong… Unless she gives up her job for you, you are probably heading to a disaster, endless arguments, jealousy crises and a broken heart.

I think someone once said that the heart has its reasons which Reason doesn’t know (I even think this Pascal Blaise was French, oh), but hey, it’s totally possible that you might fall for a ladyboy sex-worker! What is prostitution but a job after all. Probably most of them are not doing it because they like it (but they might be more or less comfortable with their choice), and they are also humans, with a heart and a brain, they can have kind and adorable personalities and a good heart (they might also be ugly bitches, ugly in the inside I mean). Anyways, if this happens to you, there are a few issues that you should know about…

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Ladyboy video — Documentary in 6 episodes

Ladyboys is a documentary that has been broadcasted on Sky Living (a British TV channel) since May 2012, and is composed of 6 episods. I watched them of course and I believe they are pretty informative if you’re very new to the ladyboy world. Unfortunately they focus essentially on Thailand, putting Philippines and the other Asian countries aside. But of course Thailand has always been the most famous place regarding the ladyboy population. You will get pretty much a good overview of all the aspects that go around ladyboys, including the relationships between ladyboys and men.

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Dating ladyboys online

Today, let’s talk a bit about dating. You like ladyboys, you know that you want to date and get a ladyboy girlfriend, so now it’s time to mount your best horse, cow boy, and go look for this special girl.

Why would you use a dating website for finding your ladyboy girlfriend? The reason is straight forward: ladyboys (or transgenders) are difficult to find in real life. They exist, they are in every city and in every country, and often they pass incognito because they are so passable that when you cross one in the street, you can’t tell she is not a real girl. A guy who wants to find a real girl will have no problem going to a bar, a club or a mall and start talking to the girls he likes, he will usually have no surprise. But if you are looking for a ladyboy, it’s much more complicated! Can you spot the one or two transgenders who are hanging out in the mall this afternoon, amongst the two thousands people here? Impossible! And not all the transgenders hang out in gay bars. Actually, a big part of them stay away from the LGBT community, and don’t like the idea of being categorised as such. Thus, the solution is to turn yourself to a dating website, specialised for ladyboys.

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Who are the ladyboy lovers

If there is misunderstanding and questioning (and of course discrimination) towards ladyboys, there is not less for the MEN who like LADYBOYS. Yes, ladyboys are enigmatic, intriguing and exciting creatures. They arouse the curiosity of a lot of people who are not familiar with the culture of transgenders. In the mind of the quidam, they’re a source of misunderstanding, incomprehension, and sometimes they even shock! But the same goes for the men who like them. They’re actually many (more than you could think!), but only a few admit it openly, like I do. My friends and family know about it, and I’m lucky enough to have open minded people around me to not suffer about it.

“Ladyboy lovers” arouse a lot of questions and incomprehension also! That’s the reason why most of them don’t dare to come up to the light with their special sexual orientation, or don’t want to commit because they feel shy or ashamed. Not that they really have a weak personality (or crudely: they don’t have balls!) but the society is making them that way. Of course some like ladyboys just for fun. But others are willing to get into a serious relationship with them, and are just stopped by the dogmas of the society which are against it.

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How to avoid ladyboy scammers

In a previous article, I was already addressing the topic of who are the ladyboy scammers. Now I am going to write some lines about what are my recommendations for avoiding to fall into a trap, saving yourself some money and avoiding you a heart breaking!

It’s kind of difficult to come out with some stats, telling what is the number of good ladyboys amongst all the population of ladyboys. 10%, 20%, 30% maybe? Based on my experience, I would say that not more than half of the global ladyboys can be considered well intentioned or genuine…

But let’s go back to the ladyboy scammers. Those who actually have no intention whatsoever to become your girlfriend when they’re chatting with you, those who are just running after your money, and don’t care about hurting your feelings, making you desperate or ripping you off! There are some early hints that can save you a heart breaking if you can see them on time!

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Mariage with a transsexual woman / ladyboy

That’s an issue that I wanted to tackle, since I am thinking about it personally (I have been thinking about it for quite a long time actually). I love Anne (my Filipino ladyboy girlfriend), Anne loves me, it’s been now around 3 years that we are together, and we want to make it last forever. If things go well, time will come that we want to get married for real, have children and build a real family.

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Visit Philippines with a cute ladyboy guide

I was chilling in Mango Avenue (the wild district of Cebu City, Philippines) with my ladyboy girlfriend last weekend, and I met these 3 girls who seriously caught my interest. Erika, Fiona and Angel are three stunningly beautiful and sexy ladyboys, born and raised in Cebu (Philippines) and what they are doing is pretty amazing and cool.

It all started with a Facebook group one year ago (Explore the Philippines with the EFA sisters) and the three friends already managed to gather a kind of big community of 7 500 ladyboys and ladyboy admirers. Here, no business, no money involved, just making friends and getting the chance to visit Cebu (and possibly the rest of the Philippines) with the three beautiful ladyboys Erika, Fiona and Angel.

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Why do Filipino ladyboys prefer foreigners

I believe this is a big question for every foreigner looking for true love in Asia. Is it all about your money, or is there something more? Of course I would not write this article if it was just about your money… But if it’s p4p girls that you are looking for, of course you will have no problems in finding them here in Philippines, and even more easily in Thailand!

But I prefer this article to talk about love and serious relationship, since I believe this is the key of true happiness. I want also to focus on Filipino ladyboys, since it’s the field that I know the best and I don’t want to bullshit you around with my half-knowledge about Thailand!

Important: please acknowledge beforehand that I am talking about my own western point of view and what I socially experienced here in the Philippines. I am not stupid enough to generalise that all Filipinos and all foreigners are like I describe in this article.

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Ladyboy, transsexual, shemale? Know your lingo!

When I first started my blog, I knew that “ladyboy” was not the most common and accepted word for calling them. Actually, there is a lot of misinformation and misunderstanding about the terms. You can find misleading information on the Internet of course, as it is very common for any niche vocabulary. But the most confusing is when these special girls that we like so much can’t even agree themselves!

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Yes, Halloween is over and we thought we'd seen all the greatest costumes, but, boy, were we wrong.

The owner of this Shih Tzu got her pup dressed up as a teddy bear.

When you combine an adorable dog with a teddy bear, you get an animal that is overloaded on cuteness.


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We’re still a few months away from the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but Rian Johnson is already hard at work prepping Episode 8. While it remains unclear how much of The Force Awakens cast will return for the sequel, there will be some new additions to the lineup as Johnson and Lucasfilm have already begun looking at actors for leading roles.

The Wrap reports that Johnson and Lucasfilm already have a shortlist for one leading role, and are eyeing Orphan Black powerhouse Tatiana Maslany, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl star Olivia Cooke and Jane the Virgin’s Gina Rodriguez. Maslany was previously in contention for Felicity Jones’ role in Star Wars: Rogue One, and although she lost out on that part, it appears that Lucasfilm was quite (rightfully) taken with the actress.

There are conflicting components to this report, with some sources claiming that it’s very early in the audition process, with others suggesting that Maslany, Cooke and Rodriguez are the top contenders and are preparing to read opposite John Boyega for director Rian Johnson.

Last month we learned that Benicio Del Toro was in talks to play a villainous role in the film, and the report suggests that the actor is “nearing a deal” for that part.

Star Wars: Episode 8 is scheduled to hit theaters on May 26, 2017.

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Memory Jar

Photo prompt: © Priya Bajpal

“Can I take one now?”

“Breakfast first.”

Deena sighed. She ate her oatmeal and drank her milk, but her eyes kept returning to the seashell table Dad had gotten for Mom. Before. To the jar that usually stood on the mantel. Since.

Finally, Grandma rose and put her mug in the sink.

Now that it was time, Deena hung back. She remembered filling the jar, with Grandma, after the accident, when memories were fresh and both their hearts were broken.

Grandma took her hand. “Come. Reach in. Pick one, and you’ll see – the right moment with them will find you.”

For Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers

35 thoughts on “Memory Jar

    • Yes, it can certainly be! This story was inspired by a memory jar that a family I know had made for a child they lost to a terminal illness. They’d written memories on note cards: of things their child liked, of things they did together, funny things that the child had said. On special occasions: holidays, that child’s birthday, the anniversary of the child’s passing–they would take the jar out of where it was usually kept and would each unfold one such note and read it and talk about it and reminisce and remember their loved one. It was painful, but it was also joyful in the sense that times it reminded them of which were not only of the last few months of that child’s life, when things were very bad. I thought it was a very brave and inspiring way to remember a loved one, and this photo reminded me of it. Thanks for the comment, Trent!

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  1. Na’ama Y’karah,

    Before I read your comment to Trent about the origin of this story, it resonated with me. Such a sweet way to keep a loved one’s memory alive. I love the line about writing the memories while both of their hearts were broken. So much story in so few words. Well done.

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    • Thank you, Rochelle. Yes, I find there’s always a lot of story in every loss, and that so much memory–of all kinds, sometimes–that can seem ‘slippery’ or hide under the events that surround the death. Different people find different ways to remember, but I love the memory-jar way. Not only can one ‘revisit’ a memory every time one needs or wishes to, but more memories can be added to the jar as one recalls them.
      I’m so glad that some of the complexity and feelings were communicated in this short piece.

  2. Such a beautiful thing to do. We keep hearing about memory jars… to start a new one every year and every time something nice happens or is done or whatevs, put it in. I keep saying I will, then, of course, don’t…

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    • Thanks Amie! Yes, I too love the idea! If you look through the comments you’ll see I wrote a bit about the background for this idea. Sorrow is inevitable and some losses are devastating, but people find ways to cope that are ever so creative and helpful! Na’ama

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    • I sense you are right … though hopefully the sadness will be mixed with some sweet remembering. Grief cannot be rushed, but it can sometimes be diluted, for a moment here and there, by the memory of love. Thank you for this comment, Na’ama

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