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Why I Don’t Like Gamification

Originally posted elsewhere in October 2012. Thank you to Timehop for resurfacing it. Still as true for me today as ever.

The other day, I tweeted this:

Do X years of experience make you an expert? Is your whole reputation reflected in # of status points? This is why I don’t like gamification.

Here’s the story behind the tweet:

The customer community that I manage has a built-in status points system (we use Jive). Status points are earned by different activities done in the community, such as posting documents or having an answer you provide marked as “correct” or “helpful”. Different status levels, from “Getting started” to “Super Cyberhero”, are reached as more points are earned.

An employee who is a community member emailed me to request:

My status level is at Level Two out of Five and I’m not able to change it. This can be misleading to customers who may not know who I am, and who may judge my expertise based on my status level. Can you override the point system and update my status to the highest level? This will give them more trust in my expertise.

My response to this has two parts: one part technology, and one part earned trust.

On the technology side, the status level graphic can be replaced with another graphic, such as “Employee”. This is something we have considered implementing, but haven’t done so.
Pro: This would clearly mark which community members are company employees.
Con: The indicator of how many points an employee has earned would be removed.

Which brings me to earned trust. Even if I *could* override the earned status points* and change the person’s status to the highest level, I don’t think it’s the right thing to do. Should I update his status to “Expert”? I don’t know – *is* he an expert? I don’t feel qualified to make that designation. Does having built a product make you an expert on it? Maybe…. or maybe not. Should all employees be marked as Experts? Probably not. Then how would we decide who is, or who isn’t, an Expert? Who would decide?

The points system reflects a member’s *actual* activity in the community. Points are earned when content is contributed, and when other members provide recognition. I think it would be appropriate to mark employee profiles with a graphic in addition to reflecting the points earned. To simply change the status to the highest level would be more misleading – it would imply that the member was more active in the community than he actually is.

Maybe I am biased. I don’t consider myself a gamer, and am not particularly motivated by points and badges. I do understand that game mechanics can provide excellent support for desired behaviors, such as healthy eating or getting household chores done. My favorite gamification success story is Speed Camera Lottery: instead of just penalizing speeders, the camera captures drivers who obey the speed limit and rewards them with the potential to win cash (funded by the speeding ticket fines). Brilliant! This is a game I can get behind!

But racking up numbers just for the sake of numbers – number of LinkedIn connections, Facebook ‘like’s, badges – seems to be missing meaning. What is the desired behavior that is being supported? Or, whose desired behaviors?

And to elevate a member’s status points so that his contributions will be more accepted or respected… sorry, no can do. Those points – that trust – must be earned.

* I’m sure the points can be overriden. Thank you in advance if you want to teach me how. But I’m not interested in going there.

Sharing. It works!!

The other day, I re-shared a Tiny Buddha post about respecting and accepting our own desires and intuitions. I’ve been doing a lot more consuming and re-sharing these days, rather than blogging, and I’d been questioning the value. Seeing myself referenced here in my friend Tracy’s “Less is More” post was a total surprise. Thank you, Tracy, for reaffirming that sharing works. Sharing can help others in ways that we can’t predict or imagine. ❤

lessAfter a stint of furious blogging (well, for me anyway), I’ve been finding it hard to do a post at all. I didn’t feel like I had anything to say. I’ve heard it argued that if you give yourself the goal of posting once a week, you’ll find something to say. But I’ve watched others who make it a regular habit, and I would have to say that not everything they post really needed to be said. Maybe for them it did – I guess I shouldn’t really judge their efforts. But for me, I want whatever I write to be worthwhile. I don’t want to create a post just because I promised myself I would.

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Somewhere After The Rainbow (Moving Beyond Profile Pics)

After the events of the past week in the US – the marriage equality ruling and the Charleston hate crime – I have been wondering what can *I* personally do to help effect positive change. This is new territory for me. I’m grateful for Pastor John Pavlovitz’s suggestion:

“Laws and amendments and judicial rulings can change policy, but only relationships can alter people. I’m inviting those with rainbow profile photos (and those who echo their sentiments) to engage those of differing opinions, who are willing to have a conversation; not a public, passive-aggressive volleying of Scripture quotes and personal jabs and article shares, but an honest, open, fully vulnerable exchange.

That’s the only way we move forward from here, the only way we can fashion something deeper and more lasting and more worthy of co-owning.”

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Rainbow Heart

The Supreme Court’s ruling on Marriage finally came down last week—and both Hell and Heaven broke loose, depending on your perspective.

Exhilaration soon followed for those seeing this as a long overdue victory for civil marital equality, while outrage reigned for religious folks believing it to be the final nail in the coffin of Biblical Matrimony.

And there was of course, a flurry of sentiments from both sides on social media; effusive celebration and grief-laden hand wringing flying in as fast as your browser could refresh.

Yet nothing in all of those eloquent words from either side, spoke as clearly and loudly as the brilliant prismatic display of love and affirmation found in the rainbow profile photos now dominating timelines worldwide. That’s been the most visible, most revelatory element of the past week, with over 26 million people already choosing to “Amen” the Supreme Court’s decision using their own images.

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One More Rainbow

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I felt so much joy seeing all the rainbows filling up my Internet feeds today. I clicked “like” on the news stories and expressions of joy and support for marriage equality. At first, I didn’t re-share any of the stories or images. Sometimes I’ll re-share a news story in order to get the word out, in case someone might have missed the news. In this case, I seriously doubted anyone had missed this news, regardless of their opinion on the issue. I also felt that, because “likes” are visible, people following me could – and would – see that I was “liking” the news of today’s ruling. I thought, “Do people really need to see one more rainbow, supplied by me?”

And then I remembered something I read a few days ago, related to the Charleston hate crime and the continued work we as a society need to do to fight racism. Karen Walrond invites us to Say Something:

…if you truly want to fight racism, then please, speak out against racism.  Make it clear, in your own words — not just retweeting or resharing the words of Jon Stewart or someone else — tell folks how you feel.  Take a stand, for heaven’s sake.  (But then, after you’ve done that, do freely share articles and posts and links to organizations that fight racism. Amplify, amplify, amplify. Because frankly, those of us who are of colour need white voices to help amplify the cause.)

After remembering Karen’s words, I did make a start by re-sharing a rainbow image celebrating marriage equality. But I realized that my own words were missing. Here they are:

I am so happy that the freedom to marry* is now legal for same-sex couples across the nation! I have seen the hurtful effects of discrimination of all kinds – individual, legal, and institutionalized. I have often wondered, lamented, and felt hopeless about the possibility of change. Today’s ruling shows that change CAN happen. It is proof of hopefulness and perseverance in the face of hate, exclusion, and daunting odds.

And I can hear the mental tapes of my childhood upbringing saying, “Don’t post a rainbow online! What if someone targets you?” To those voices, I say, “Just think if I were gay. Would you still tell me to hide?”

Time to celebrate!!
#lovewins #marriageequality #NOH8 #chooselove #onefamily #diversity #inclusion

*Great post here on the difference between “right to marry” and “freedom to exercise that right”

Image credit: @BarackObama https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/614459251126173697

The Chokehold of Calendars

An older Medium post by Mike Monteiro and still a goodie:

Why are you letting other people put things on your calendar? The time displayed on your calendar belongs to you, not to them. “I’m adding a meeting” should really be “I’m subtracting an hour from your life.”

I vividly remember the confusion I felt when I was told, “Just add an appointment to someone’s calendar. We all do it here.” This was on Day One or Day Two of my new job. My manager had thoughtfully provided a list of people that I should meet. “How should I initially approach them?” I asked. “Just add yourself to their calendar,” he said. I was horrified. How presumptuous! What a way to make a first impression. “Hi! You don’t know me. And this feels crazy. But here’s my calendar invite!” I think I’d rather show up at their cube singing Call Me Maybe!


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This superb pass is rich in South African folklore and we are fortunate to bring you the story of John Versfeld - a resourceful farmer from Bo-Piketberg who built the original pass in 3 months with only 16 farm labourers. There are two Versfeld passes in close proximity to each other. The original one lies slightly to the north-east of the current one and its path can still be seen, but it is no longer publicly accessible. Our focus is on the existing pass. The gradients of the new pass are up to good engineering standards and the road descends the mountain through a series of dizzying switchbacks. Not many people know about the pass. It's narrow and very twisty, but although it was built in 1943 and widened and tarred in 1958, it offers a bountiful of delights as it ascends or descends the mountain to Piketberg.

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This short and steep pass connects Gordons Bay on the R44 and Clarence Drive, with the Steenbras Dam at the top of the Hottentots Hollands mountains. This is also one of only a handful of passes in South Africa that has a hairpin bend in excess of 180 degrees. The road was built in the 1940's to service the water filtration plant near the top of the mountain. The road is restricted from the filtration plant where there are control booms and only bona-fide permit holders may proceed beyond that point. The road carries low traffic volumes, due to it's restricted nature and was purpose built to service the dam and filtration plant.

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The Op de Tradouw Pass lies on the popular R62 route between Montagu and Barrydale - both towns which attract tourists by the droves and each has it's own special mystique and charm. This pass should not be confused with the Thomas Bain designed Tradouw Pass, which lies another 10 kms to the east and further to the south of Barrydale. The Wildehondskloofhoogte Pass runs back to back with this pass and together the two passes form one long pass of over 15 km. The Op de Tradouw Pass has an altitude variance of 300m with an average gradient of 1:18 with the steepest parts reaching 1:15. It provides beautiful views of the Tradouw Valley peppered with fruit  orchards and dams, with the Langeberg mountains in the background. The pass is modern, well engineered and safe, providing the speed limits and barrier lines are adhered to.

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This quiet village road is actually nicer to walk than to drive. It's not an official pass - just a quiet meander down an old style, narrow country lane alongside the Touw River estuary. It forms part of one of the hiking trails starting at the Wilderness National Park. There is always birdsong in the air and if you're lucky you might see a bushbuck but more probably, the raucous call of the Knysna Loerie with it's scarlet wings .

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Ranking closely alongside the notorious Kaaimans River Pass as one of the Western Cape's most dangerous passes for trucking accidents, it is not so much the gradient that is problematic, but the long, straight, momentum-gathering descent which leads suddenly into a dangerously sharp, left-hand bend. Thankfully, a substantial crash-barrier prevents out-of-control vehicles from crossing over into the oncoming traffic. A strategically place arrestor bed halfway down the pass has also helped to reduce the dangers of trucks experiencing brake failure. There are so many scars on that crash barrier that it leaves one wondering what story each scar has to tell!

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Over a distance of 7.6 km, the tarred Rooihoogte Pass displays 370m of altitude variance, with a comfortable average gradient of 1/20. Literally a stone's throw along the same road is Burgers Pass, formerly known as Koo Pass. Both of these passes were first designed by master road engineer, Thomas Bain in 1877.

The Rooihoogte Pass was originally known as Thomson's Pass and together with the Koo pass, both received name changes in the 1940's. This is reputed to be the pass with the highest summit altitude in the Western Cape. The pass is more enjoyable driving it in the descending mode with huge views over the rugged Langeberg mountains.

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Clarence Drive is a magnificent scenic coastal drive between the windswept hamlet of Rooi-Els and the naval town of Gordons Bay, which nestles in the north-eastern crook of False Bay in the shadow of the Hottentots Hollands mountains. This beautiful, coastal drive stretches between the two towns over 21 km, hugging the wild turquoise Cape coastline all the way. If you like passes with lots of corners, then this one is for you, as it contains 77 bends, curves and corners of which four are in excess of 150 degrees. The road is in a beautiful condition and attracts tourists, locals, bikers and cyclists in their droves. Overtaking is fairly limited and in general one can expect to average well below 60 kph.

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Despite the romantic, historical connotations of its name "Ou Kaapse Weg" ('Old Cape Road'), this is actually a relatively modern road, which was opened in 1968. There is a jeep track that runs more or less paralell, but higher up the northern side of the pass, which is purportedly an old wagon road road used to cart ore from the silver mine lower down the mountain in the late 1800's, and which is still accessible to hikers who walk the many beautiful routes available on both sides of the pass within the Silvermine Nature Reserve.

The pass is a major one covering a distance of 10,6 km and in that length contains 26 bends, curves and corners including 3 full horseshoe bends and another 3 corners in excess of 90 degrees. The pass offers a modern, well bult road with superb views over it's entire length of both False Bay and the Atlantic Ocean with the Steenberg Mountains and Silvermine Nature Reserve with its winter waterfall keeping travellers entertained through the middle section. It gives access to Fish Hoek, Noordhoek, Kommetjie, Simonstown and the Cape Point Nature Reserve.

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The Blinkberg Pass (translated as 'Glittering or Shining Mountain') is a fairly long pass, found on the much revered gravel road (the P1482) through the southern Cederberg. The Grootrivierhoogte Pass and Blinkberg Pass run concurrently for a distance of almost 20km through magnificent and rugged scenery.

The pass has an unusual vertical profile in that it has two false summits located approximately at the 1/3 and 2/3 points. Each of these is marked by a short tarred section to cope with the very steep gradients. At 11,8 km this a long pass and is peppered with corners, but most of these are fairly easy. There are however, some really nasty ones, which can catch unsuspecting drivers by surprise.

The road traverses spectacular Cederberg mountain scenery and follows a narrow kloof for most of its length. Earmark this one if you've never driven it, as it's one of the nicest gravel roads in South Africa.

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Translated from the Afrikaans to mean 'Blacksmith's Shop', this route delivers the best views when driven from south to north. The pass begins at the crest of the hill just past the turn-off to the Cape Point Reserve at an altitude of 146m ASL, then drops immediately down a 1km fairly straight section (with a gradient of around 1:11) towards a sharp left-hand bend of 90 degrees, where parking is available. The road forms part of a wonderful circular route around the Cape Peninsula and carries a lot of tourist traffic including tour buses 7 days per week.

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MountCrest University College (MCU) has reconstituted its Council with Mr. Kwasi Abeasi, an engineer and businessman, as the Chairman.
The 14-member Council was inaugurated and sworn into office by Mr. Justice Richard Mac Kopyapwah, Acting Supervising High Court Judge, Koforidua, during the MCU’s 7th Matriculation and 3rd Graduation ceremony recently at its Main Campus in Larteh-Akuapem in the Akuapem-North District of the Eastern Region.

Other members of the Council are Mr. Kwaku Ansa-Asare, Founder/Rector of the University, Professor Justice V.C.R.AC. Crabbe, Foundation Rector, Mrs. Irene Ansa-Asare Horsham, Director of Legal Services, Dr. Samuel Kwabena Akortey Akor, Immediate Past Deputy Rector and Dean, School of Medical & Health Sciences, Prof. Harold Stewart Amonoo-Kuofi, Deputy Rector (Academic & Students Affairs) and Dean, School of Medical & Health Sciences, and Prof. Charles Kankam, Deputy Rector (Finance & Administration), Director of Works and Dean, School of Science, Engineering and Mathematics.

The rest are Rear-Admiral Peter Kofi Faidoo, the Chief of Naval Staff, Mr. Richard Osei Anane, a banker with Unibank, Prof. Steve Amissah, Pro-Vost, Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Mrs. Sylvia Enid Welbeck-Quaye, a banker with Kal Bank, Ms. Nancy Ansa, Registrar, Regent’s University College of Science and Technology, and Rev. Delali K. Akati, MCU Acting Registrar and Secretary to the Council.

In his acceptance speech, the Chairman of the Council said the Council would use all available means to resolve issues that might impede the university’s growth.


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Oh Baby 2nd Day Box Office Collection – Samantha Akkineni’s Performance At Its Best

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Oh baby is a 2019 Telugu language Comedy movie made under the direction of B. V. Nandini Reddy. D. Suresh Babu has produced this movie under the banner: Suresh Productions, People’s Media Factory, Guru Films, and Kross Pictures. On the lead role is Samantha Akkineni and Naga Shaurya. Also, the supporting cast includes Rajendra Prasad. Music is composed by Mickey J. Meyer, while B. V. Nandini Reddy has provided the screenplay. This movie is doing great and reach its 2nd Day on 6th Jul 2019. Here we are going to see Oh Baby 2nd Day Box Office Collection.

Oh Baby 2nd Day Box Office Collection

Samantha’s performance in this movie is loved by the audience. On the other hand, the movie has a good comedy storyline that will definitely occupy you with laughter. The first day seems good for Oh Baby and we are expecting that the 2nd day will be much better. Oh Baby’s 1st Day Collection was around 2.30 Cr worldwide. Whereas, 2nd Day is expected to be better.

Oh Baby AP&TS Day 2 Collection

Oh Baby has received a good reaction from the audience. In fact, Samantha has gained most of the attraction from the audience. Only form AP&TS, the movie OH Baby has grossed 02.05Cr in the Box Office.

Oh Baby North India Second Day Box Office Collection

Even after having less than 300 Screens in the North, Oh Baby movie is doing decently in North India. In fact, the movie has made a decent grossing on 60 lakh just from North India. And also, you can watch Oh baby full movie

Oh Baby Day 2 Worldwide Box Office Collection

According to the sources, Oh Baby has around 1300 screen worldwide. Also, looking at the performance of the movie, we expected the movie to do better. In fact, Oh Baby looks like a slow starter movie. Oh Baby on its’s Day 2 has grossed 3.06 Cr in the Worldwide Box office collection.

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Oh Baby Total Day 2 Collection

Samantha is stealing the show in Oh Baby and everyone is loving her performance. Oh Baby total 2 Days collection is around 6.30Cr, which is a decent collection as per the screen count.

Oh Baby 2nd Day Occupancy

After getting a positive review from the audience, the occupancy on its 2nd Day has increased. In the morning, the occupancy rate was between 40% to 45%. Whereas, 70% was seen in the afternoon and 60% in the evening.


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The 12 Instagram Accounts Professional Yogis Follow

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Jessica Skye of Fat Buddha Yoga

Jessica is a Nike trainer and founder of Fat Buddha Yoga, a modern approach to the ancient art and science of yoga for the next generation of urban yogis. Find her @iamjessicaskye and @fatbuddhayoga

Jessica’s Top 3 Insta-Yogis

1. Jamie Anderson @jamieanderson

“She’s a snowboard queen and yogi. I’m a big board sport fan so seriously admire Jamie for being generally bad-ass. I live vicariously through her photos as she travels the world surrounded by green and oceans, busting out yoga moves and killer board skills. If you need inspiration and motivation to get out the city, this is it!”

2. Food & Lycra @foodandlycra

“This is a blog and Insta run by three London-based girls; they do yoga, they run, they lift, jump… You name it they do it! Their pics are always fun and full of good vibes, giving plenty of fitness ideas as well as a heads up of the coolest classes, gyms and activities to check out. I also love their appetite for good grub from around the world.”

3. Anni Kravi @anniskk

“I love this girl’s inspiring and gorgeous food creations. Healthy eating is such a huge part of being fit, when you’re busy it can get really tricky to maintain a healthy diet. This account gives me so much inspiration for healthy meals and clean eating – it also looks super cute!”

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5 Lessons Learned From Traveling Solo

Traveling has become one of my greatest loves. Not only for the freedom it provides, but also for the lessons that it teaches.

Lesson 1: You can do it alone

Whenever I am out alone (whether traveling or catching a performance) people often tell me how brave I am, but I don’t view it as bravery; it’s simply something that brings me added joy.

Upon boarding a flight in 2011 I knew that I had found a freedom I had never known. It was a relatively short flight from Chicago, IL to Dallas, TX, but being in the clouds allowed me to reflect on the life I wanted to create. I learned that there is a different level of dreaming when your feet are literally off the ground; you begin to conceptualize that maybe you can truly fly.

If a continental flight could cause me to feel such strong emotions, would I experience the same euphoria while traveling internationally? I couldn’t have imagined then all the lessons that traveling outside the United State of America (USA) would provide.

When I first boarded the plane to South Korea I was terrified, but I strongly believe that bravery isn’t not being afraid but pushing forward through the fear. Traveling alone to Korea, and having to face the challenges of living in a new country, with my support system so far away, taught me in a very tangible way that I alone am enough.

Lesson 2: More often than not, people will be kind

My first time traveling outside of the USA was in 2014 when I accepted a job in Pohang, South Korea. I had no idea of what to expect. In fact, stereotypes I had heard left me with a great deal of apprehension: would they like me? Would I fit within their societal standards of beauty? Would I face the same, or worse, racism than what can be found in the USA? Upon deplaning in Seoul I realized immediately that my fears were unwarranted.

People were amazingly helpful and kind. From helping me secure a bus ticket, to getting off the bus a few stops early to aid me in finding my hostel, to having dinner with me my first night, to traveling with me to my hotel the next day to make sure I didn’t get lost, people were so incredibly helpful and went out of their way to make sure that I was starting off on the right foot. All of this occurred before I met the individuals I would be working with. These were strangers–people who I will probably never see again–who just wanted to make sure that I would be okay. This realization changed me in a very deep way.

Lesson 3: Planning ahead will only get you so far

As someone who is a bit of a planner, I had done extensive research on how to get from the airport to the hostel where I was staying, until I could check into the hotel for training the next day. However, as traveling will teach you, you can only plan for so much—the rest you must deal with and figure out once you’re actually on the ground.

I can honestly say that every step of the way there were individuals there who were willing to aid me. Did I speak fluent Korean? No. Did they speak fluent English? No. But the little that we could exchange, and the human factor, was more than enough. This has remained true for every country I have visited since.

Lesson 4: You will know beauty in an unforeseen way

I recall vividly the first time I visited Tortola, British Virgin Islands. It was my first time ever visiting a country that was Black. What do I mean by that? In America, Barack Obama was the first Black President. Therefore, his time in office was the first time in my life that I was able to see someone who was the same hue as me in the position of leader of the free world. When I visited Tortola I was able to see a country that wasn’t experiencing a Black President for the first time but knew Black leadership as the norm.

I had never seen Black people so collectively free. They moved more comfortably in their skin–like they owned it and could control what happened to it–not as an act of defiance (as I was more accustomed to seeing) but from the knowingness that they were their own. This beauty is the only thing that rivals the breathtaking beauty of the island. Needless to say, upon my return to America I was not the same woman I was at my departure.

Lesson 5: The journey will do more than change you

Since I was very young, books have always been a place of solace for me. Books were what first informed me that across cultures, humans are more alike in our commonalities than we are foreign in our differences. Traveling has solidified this for me.

Traveling has changed my life and shaped so much of who I have become. I have experienced such a wide amount of wonder and beauty during my travels that guard me against buying into rigged views and fear tactics that prescribe only one correct way for others to exist and/or coexist. My world is bigger because of my travels and my friends are more wide-reaching because I have been open to what the world has attempted to show me during my travels. To say that I have wanderlust feels like a vast understatement. I have a desire to see so much of the world and to connect with the people there and to help share the stories that bind us all.

Traveling will also shape you; in ways that you can see and in ways that you can’t have imagined before heading out. If you haven’t, I hope that you take the exhilarating first step. If you have, I hope that you continue to keep moving, exploring and experiencing the currently unknown.

-Porscheoy Brice

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50 Shades of Grey – The Wardrobe Challenge!

Do you ever feel like sometimes life is a little bit grey? But not in the good silk tie kinda way?

Feeling a bit same old same old?

Bit MEH?

Need a bit of a shake up?

I often get that feeling. The need to liven things up a bit, dust the cobwebs away and reinvigorate my soul.

In fact, I have this habit of moving the furniture around in my house every 6 months, just so I feel like the room is new. Does anyone else do this, or am I slowly turning into Lawrence Lewellyn-Bowen? I think I watch too many makeover shows and have an unhealthy addiction to Pinterest, but it always makes me feel energised and fresh, even if it is short term.

I have been having that feeling again recently, but rather than my home decor it is ME!

I truly believe that the way we feel on the inside is usually reflected on the outside and Visa Versa.

I have never really been someone who thinks about fashion or adheres to trends or style.  I never had the cool trainers or bought into brands and logo adorned clothing, apart from one Addidas tracksuit that I lived in throughout 1999. In fact, I have always been someone who really doesn’t give a crap about their looks all that much and is a staunch comfort queen.

3 years of wearing nothing but monochrome jogging bottoms and old, stained tops at Drama School, rolling around on top of each other in dusty studios, no makeup on, hair scraped back, rubbing your face in warm-ups and generally looking like a deranged foetus, whilst sounding out the atmosphere of the ocean, does not a glamour puss make!

All the energy for looking good went into performances. That was dress up time. Fancy, colourful costumes, thick war paint on and corsets, heels and Spanx shaping your body into unnatural spinal contortions. Pretty hurts, but it’s so much fun!

And don’t even get me started on being a mummy and how the exhaustion, sheer amount of vomit, faeces, snot and other bodily fluids ruin your appetite for getting dressed whatsoever. I literally spent the first 3 years of motherhood in the same bloody hoodie and yoga pants just to keep the laundry pile smaller.

I did go through a phase of cute dresses when I went back to work but generally have always been best friends with oversized cardigans, floaty yoga pants, work boots and my good old trusty leggings. I am quite a cold person as well, so love a good scarf to add to the pile of material, hiding everything about me.

For work I will make an effort though- I am not a complete disaster. I do have nice clothes and a crazy awesome collection of Poetic Licence and Irregular Choice shoes, (that I don’t really wear because I don’t wear heels – but hey, they are sooooo pwetty!)

Outside of my job, however, I tend to wear the same thing over and over again. I play it safe and like an easy life. A lot of grey, black, navy and brown… Plus, choosing outfits in the morning, when you have to get a reluctant 7 year old out the door, is just too much like hard work! I am generally rocking a bird’s nest hairdo being held up by a pen from my handbag, my child’s socks, because I didn’t pair mine up and a tea stained cardy. HOT!!!!

Now, I am not saying I am about to start dressing like one of those yummy mummies that I hate, with their Hunter wellies, riding jodhpurs and £100 Joules macs on – good god, you live in the suburbs – not rural Oxfordshire! PUT DOWN THE TWEED!

But who am I to judge? They probably think I am in my pyjamas!

So, I was at work the other week and was wearing a new wrap dress-coat I had bought. Nothing too fancy, but I loved it and decided it was right for the job I was doing. A character choice if you will.

At the end of the session, a client came up to me and said that she had wanted to tell me how she thought I was beautiful. How the way I moved, held myself and generally my presence always struck her and how she just had to tell me that she thought I was stunning! She continued on for 5 minutes and we ended up having a lovely discussion about how women needed to boost each other more often. (Feel kinda shit about the Farmer’s wives now!)

So WOW! Not only to get such an ego-boosting compliment at all but for such a beautiful thing to say to a woman who considers herself to look more like Oscar the Grouch, was such a touching moment. Compliments can be hard to take, but this one had me all goosebumpy and welling up inside.

Now, apart from the fact that I walk away from the session, sashaying to my car like I am Queen Bey at the Grammys, it also got me to thinking.

I am my most confident at work, for sure, so that plays a huge part. My entire job is to have presence and charisma and to work a crowd etc. so that all makes sense. Energy and engagement are what I do, whether I am acting, facilitating, speaking in public or teaching. They all require me to BE ON! So of course people get that from me, because I am doing it on purpose.

But, I also think it was the DRESS!

It wasn’t a sexy outfit by any means. In fact, it was a huge floaty burgundy thing that I thought made me look like a wizard for a job I was doing on The Tempest! But I felt awesome in it. I felt like magic!

So, I want to set myself a new challenge! Not a huge one but one that is going to require some effort!

I am going to take a stab at dressing to feel a bit more badass – just for me.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not about to throw away my cardigan collection just yet, or start buying the latest waxed jacket, but I am going to make bolder choices. I need to change things up a bit, make time to reflect my personality a bit more and to dress in ways that make me feel, well a little bit more magic!

This sounds like quite a superficial challenge, but is ultimately about confidence and self-care as well, about bringing the colour back into my wardrobe that I love so much and have slacked on in recent years. I am going to start showing off my body instead of hiding it under mountains of layers.

So today, as I go off for the day, I am wearing a bright yellow dress and have dyed my hair red! (I have a cardigan in my bag, just in case!)

Welcome to my Fort Kids – It has colours, confidence and sashaying badasses in it!

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  1. Jan Croucher

    You are always beautiful and amazing !! I totally move the furniture regularly its a control thing I think in my case !! Love your blog 🙂 xx

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Thursday, September 7, 2017

Madagascar - Part 2: The dream

Stanley - Thursday

Last week I chronicled the disgraceful way our tour operator, Madagascar Natural Tours, handled Michael's birthday trip.

However, even in bad circumstances, in a place like Madagascar there will always be highlights.  So, putting the bad behind, let's take a look at the extraordinary offerings the country has.  The animals one dreams about.

I dream of a sifaka lemur (Photo: Jill Wilson)

First, some facts:

Name: Republic of Madagascar

Flag of Madagascar (it's white on the left)
Size: 587,041 km2 (226,658 sq mi) - nearly the size of France.  Fourth largest island.

Population: 24,400,000

Currency: Malagasy ariary (approximately 3,000 to the dollar.  Paying for things provided ongoing light relief as most places did not take credit cards.  It seemed that whenever we saw an ATM, there was a rush to draw cash.  At 3,000 ariary to the dollar, drawing three-hundred thousand to half-a-million ariary was the norm.  Large wads stuffed in pockets and too-small wallets.

Just over $3.  Biggest denomination is 20,000 ariary.  I never saw one.

Government:  Constitutional democracy

People: 18 sub-groups of African and south-east Asian origins.  The Malagasy people are very attractive, generally small, and look healthy.  I only saw a few fat people and no evidence of malnutrition.

Languages:  Malagasy and French

Biodiversity: Madagascar is a biodiversity treasure.  Over 90% of its wildlife is found nowhere else, thanks to its isolation from both Africa and India.

Last week's teasers

I asked what you thought this was a photograph of.

When I saw this during a night walk, I immediately thought it was an owl of some sort - an owl with a frown.  But I was wrong.  It is actually two collared nightjars cozying up to each other.   The eye on the left is the left eye of the nightjar on the left; the eye on the right is the right eye of the nightjar on the right.  If you look carefully, you can see their beaks.

This was the second teaser:

Our guide stopped us at a tree and pointed to a length of the trunk, perhaps a metre long. He asked what animal we could see.  Ten of us looked blankly until he used a twig to raise the head of a mossy leaf-tailed gecko.  You can see its head pointed downward.  Here's another picture of this species of gecko, taken from the Mail Online.  Can you find it?  Unbelievable camouflage.

Lemurs - I prefer the French pronunciation - leMOOR, rather than the English LEEmer

The name is thought to originate from the Latin lemures, meaning ghosts.
Lemurs are probably what first comes to mind when Madagascar is mentioned.  There are over 100 species, ranging from the minute mouse lemur (weight 30 grams - just over an ounce) to the large indri, which weighs in at about 8 or 9 kilograms or 20 lbs.  Historically, there were even bigger ones, but they are now extinct.
Lemurs evolved independently from other primates, such as monkeys and baboons.  And it was the diversity of Madagascar's climate that gave rise to the extraordinary diversity among these animals.  Since the different types of lemurs are spread all over the country, one can only hope to see some, rather than all, of them.  I think we ended up seeing about 15 different types.

The experience of looking for lemurs was very different from what I expected.  I thought we would walk through forests, necks craned upward, searching for them.  We certainly did some of that, but generally the guides knew where the lemurs were.  In addition, in some places, the lemurs had become habituated to humans and, not only were comfortable around people, but often jumped on their heads and shoulders,  More like a zoo, in fact.

However we came to see them, the lemurs were wonderful to watch, not only for their looks, but also for their amazing facility in moving through the forest.
Here are some of the lemurs we saw.  I have to admit that I'm unsure that I've identified them all correctly.

Where we say a number of lemurs
The indri is the biggest of the lemurs and is the only one with virtually no tail.  It is called babakoto locally, which can mean ancestor.  It is highly regarded, almost worshiped.  It has a remarkable call that can be heard over great distances.  Click here to hear the call.  It often hangs upside down from a branch.  It is endangered.

Other species

Black lemur (I think)
Baby mouse lemur

Woolly lemur?

Dwarf lemur

Black and white ruffed lemur

Mongoose lemur (?)

Hybrid lemur
Hybrid lemur

Hybrid and woolly(?) lemurs

Crowned lemur

Mette said she would die if a lemur jumped on her shoulder.  It did,  She didn't.

Sifaka lemur (which one I am not sure.)
Sifaka lemur
Sifaka lemurs are so well adapted for arboreal existence that they struggle on the ground.  To get around on the ground they have to hop, either forward or sideways.  This is amazing to watch.  Click here to see the sifaka moving on the ground.

Unlike the indri, which is revered, the aye-aye is hated.  It is the sign of bad luck.   If it is seen in a village, it is believed that a villager will soon die.  It is often killed on sight.

It is quite big (1.5 to 2 kg) and body and tail can be a metre long.

It is quite remarkable in how it finds food.  It knocks on the bark of a tree.  If it hears an insect, it gnaws the bark away with its special incisors, then inserts a very long third finger in the hole to get its prey.  (I suspect the long middle finger is why locals don't like it.)

It is also amazingly mobile and can cover several kilometres a night in search of food.

Aye-aye hand

Chameleons and frogs and other creepy crawlies

Madagascar is home to over half of the world's 200 species of chameleon.  Some are huge and some are tiny.  All are fascinating.

Big!  Parson's chameleon (Photo: Jill Wilson)

Stick insect
Tiny frog

Surprisingly, Madagascar has nothing like the predator population of Africa.  Lemurs have two natural enemies, fossa and birds of prey.  I would have thought that lemurs could have taken a page out of the chameleon's book and developed one eye that looked up and one down.

The difficult to photograph fossa

Well, I think that is enough for today.  Next time, I'll take a look at the amazing baobab trees and say a few words about the Malagasy culture.

  1. I've just updated my bucket list :-)

  2. Alan has a classification of animals all of his own. First is Fuzzy and non Fuzzy. You have both here. You also have very fuzzy and the lowest category of Fuzzy; Adequate.
    In non- fuzzy you have small and green. You also have scary fuzzy ( aye aye - which is Glaswegian for 'yes indeed' by the way) and scary fuzzy is not common. Most fuzzy animals by definition, are not scary.
    I hope you have found this comment of use.
    So an aye aye is a scary, adequate fuzzy but I would never say that to its face in case it gave me the evil eye. Or the finger.

  3. I'm with Mette had the aye-aye jumped on my shoulder...or simply popped up unexpected in a just its hand is down right Stephen King scary.


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With instruments such as violins or trombones, it is possible to shift from one tone to another fluidly. What is this practice called? When has it first appeared in [Western] music?

Sliding between two notes, up or down, and including the notes 'in the cracks' at the same time, is called portamento. It's been around for as long as the particular instruments it's possible to play it on. As you say, trombones, unfretted stringed instruments. It's possible also on trumpets and clarinets, easier to play in the upper registers.Slide guitar works well, but it's impossible on acoustic pianos - although a lot of keyboards - synths - have a portamento setting.

Glissando is not an Italian word, unlike so many other musical terms! It's a bastardisation of the French 'glisse' - to slide. It tends to be kept for instruments on which slides can be performed - catching as many notes in between start and finish as possible - but none really 'in the cracks'. In fact, harps and pianos are most considered with reference to the term 'glissando' - on piano, it's more usual to gliss on the white keys - so it's not even a chromatic episode. Trombones are difficult to perform a proper glissandos (glissandi?) on, as once past the end of the slide motion, a new embouchure needs to be made.

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    @user45266 I rather suspect that portamento predates the invention of the violin or, Tim, of any instrument, since it is also possible with the human voice. (In fact, in many styles, teaching singing involves a good deal of restraining a natural tendency to slide around, and even passages that aren't perceived as sliding probably actually involve sliding so quickly that it isn't noticed.) – phoog Oct 6 '19 at 19:32

Glissando, "glide from one pitch to another", or portamento, "pitch sliding from one note to another".

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    As other answers have noted, "glissando" is slightly different from "portamento", although often mistakenly used as a synonym. – user45266 Oct 6 '19 at 19:27

When has it first appeared in [Western] music?

"Portamento [has been] considered an essential aspect of good singing for hundreds of years..."
-- J. Potter, 2006, "The rise and fall of portamento in singing", Music & Letters 87(4), p. 523

Glissando is a metered slide from one note to another that takes the given duration of the first note to perform. On instruments like a piano it is usually approximated "discretely" by sweeping across the white or black keys. Portamento is an unmetered smooth jump "between" successive notes (in timing similar to grace notes) like what happens naturally when having two different slur-connected notes played by the same finger on the same string of a violin and separated by a position change. There is no way to approximate that on a keyboard instrument.

  • Last sentence: read my answer. Engage 'portamento', press one key, press another. – Tim Oct 6 '19 at 15:42
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    Probably referring to acoustic keyboard instruments, @Tim. With digital instruments, just about anything's possible. – user45266 Oct 6 '19 at 19:29
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    @user45266: I can actually imagine an acoustic keyboard instrument capable of portamento. Imagine an instrument with a single string and a slide operated by the keys (like a single-string slide guitar). I don't think such an instrument exists or has ever existed, though. – Jörg W Mittag Oct 7 '19 at 10:26

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