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The Enigma Mountains
Leaving Sharpine behind, Herman turned his gaze away. His memories in the village flashed in his mind, his beautiful wife's smiling face and their two small children in each other's arms. Next, he remembered his fathers face. Weak, sad and pale. "I trust that you son, will finish my work in the future." Those were his last words before his death.
"Herman, are you alright?" Samuel asked. Herman looked at him and nodded.
"Yes, of course I am." Danielle looked back at him and knew nothing was alright. Herman lost his family and his village. Nothing could change that.
"Cheer up Herman!" Danielle said in an uplifting way. "Sulking won't do you any good. Forget about the past." She looked him in the eyes and he nodded slowly.
Danielle stared at the mountains ahead, her heart urging her forward. Father, soon I will be home and everything will be alright. She smiled. Yes, it will be.
The area they were flying over was becoming rockier and more hilly that they found themselves entering the mountain area.
"Were finally here!" Danielle called. Mue, who had been asleep on her head woke up in a dreamy daze as he looked around.
"Where are we?" He asked dreamily.
"The Enigma Mountains," Herman replied. Samuel gazed at the tall, rigid mountains around them. He saw one mountain that seemed to be the tallest out of everyone of them. And on one side of it was the largest cave he had ever seen. Near it was a small lake with water that looked drinkable.
"Is anyone thirsty?" He asked.
Danielle landed on the ground in front of the big cave and let Herman and Samuel slide down from her back. They raced to the lake with water jugs in their hands. Mue followed them and Danielle turned and looked into the dark cave.
"So big!" she said. "Even I can fit through."
Samuel held a cup full of water in his hand and was about to drink it when he saw Danielle enter the cave. What is she doing now? He looked down at his palms and saw Mue drinking the water from his palms.
"Hey! Get off of me!" He yelled and jerked his hand so the squirrel fell off. Mue fled from him and followed Danielle in to the cave. He stopped and looked at him.
"Meanie!" Mue yelled back and disappeared. Samuel rolled his eyes. How would he put up with those two? He finished drinking and looked at Herman who was staring into the cave.
"Should we go in there after them?" Samuel asked.
"It would be best," Herman answered and entered the cave with Samuel following.
"Hey Judas, we have been in that cave before," Alec said. "I remember the strange statue that had the symbol on it. It was like three moons ringed together, right?" Judas nodded. He remembered it perfectly. They were traveling through these mountains when they stumbled upon this place.
"Well, now what?" Zacharias said. Everyone looked at Judas who had an idea running through his mind. After a few moments, he said,
"We follow them in the cave and when the time comes, we attack when they lower their guard. I, Alec and Zach will take care of the dragon while Shannon and Storm fight off the other two." They nodded.
"Sounds like a plan to me," Shannon said gripping her bow tightly. Soon the dragon would be theirs.


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This guide is for local businesses that want to increase their business using good old fashion snail mail. After reading, you will know if direct mail is right for your business, how to create and send direct mail that sells, how much direct mail marketing costs, and how to track your success.
If you're serious about direct mail, you're going to need postcards. PsPrint has a direct mail service, and all you need to create eye-catching postcards at a great price! Check them out here.
Table of Contents:
Does direct mail work and is it right for your business?
What should you send?
What should it say?
Who should you send to? (Acquiring Lists)
How much does direct mail cost?
How do you track success?
Does Direct Mail Work?
According to a recent study by the United States Postal Service, 79% of households either read or scan advertising mail sent to their household.
The response rate on direct mail is also multiple times that of online and email marketing. According to the direct marketing association, the response rate of direct mail when sent to a house list (one where you have captured the info from prospects yourself) is 3.94%. When sent to a list that you have not capture the info yourself, the response rate is 1.28%. That compares to a response rate of around .04% for banner ads and .12% for email.
Every year there is also 10's of billions of dollars spent on direct mail marketing. Ironically, even Google, the king of online advertising, uses direct mail to try and attract clients for it's Adwords online advertising program.
Will direct mail work for your business?
If a company with no physical products that specializes in online advertising is using direct mail, there is a good bet that it will work for your business as well.
At the end of the day, the answer is going to depend on two things:
- Can you offer something that is interesting enough to elicit a response?
- Do the sales that you make from your direct mail campaign generate enough revenue to cover the costs of your direct mail campaign, with profit to spare?
We are going to go into greater detail on the costs of a direct mail campaign below. For the sake of this example, let's say that it is going to cost you $600 to create and send 1000 emails, and you get a 1.28% response rate. That means around 13 people respond to your add. That also means that you need to earn $46.15 ($600/13) per responder to break even on your campaign.
Keep in mind that what is important when deciding whether or not direct mail is worth it for your business, it is the Lifetime Value of your customer that matter's. You don't necessarily need to cover the cost of your mailer via the first sale you make to responders. If you are a restaurant where you expect people to come back in the future, then you are earning more from acquiring that new client than just the first sale.
You can learn more about how to calculate the lifetime value of one of your customers here.
What Should You Send?
There are many different things that you can send via direct mail including:
- Sales letters
- Postcards
- Coupons
- Brochures
- Catalogs
- Physical Items (also referred to as dimensional mail)
Which is right for you is going to depend on the nature of your product or service, and who you are selling to.
In general, the less the recipient knows about you and your product or service, the more elaborate your mailer is going to need to be. If you are selling vacations to an exotic country, to people that have never travelled with you before, then a lengthy brochure is likely to convert better than a postcard.
If you are a restaurant targeting existing customers however, then a long brochure is likely to be overkill. In this instance a short post card with a coupon is more likely to accomplish your goal.
If you need some inspiration here are 13 creative examples of direct mail from Sourcelink.
What Should It Say?
You want to have a single purpose for your direct mail piece. Often times the goal of a direct mail campaign is to get the recipient to buy a product or use a service. You can however also send direct mail for other reasons.
As we discuss in our article on real estate postcard marketing, realtors often send out postcards to everyone in a neighborhood where they have recently sold a house. In this instance the goal of the realtor might not be to make a sale from the mailer directly, but rather to get prospective sellers and buyers to join their email list for market updates.
While it is important to have a singular goal for your piece, you should also keep in mind that your potential customer doesn't care about your goal. They care about their own goals and interests, which is what your piece needs to speak to.
Once you have a handle on what people want, it's time to write directly to that desire. We call that persuasive content "copy." If you're writing your own copy, it's a good idea to follow a time-tested principle: AIDA.
AIDA stands for Attention, Interest, Desire, Action. Let's break it down:
The very first thing you must do in your copy is grab a person's attention. This is your headline. It's where you announce what's so special and important about this particular mail. You can make a promise, pique curiosity, affect someone emotionally, or introduce a benefit.
For more on how to write a great headline see this article by Russ Henneberry on the Crazy Egg Blog.
This comes next and it's where you discuss your customer's problem and then present your business as the solution. Don't get too wordy, but take a general approach on how your business can help that person.
If you've captured the reader's attention this far, now is the time for some serious selling. Be careful not to simply list features. You want to share the benefits of your product or service. For example, a feature of your carpet cleaning service is that you have state of the art vacuums. Yawn. A benefit is that your vacuums can deep clean years' worth of dirt and soil without the use of harmful cleaners. Now I'm interested because I like the idea of being environmentally responsible.
Once you've given your customer's a reason (or many reasons) to consider you, it's time to drive them to action. What would you like for them to do? Maybe you'd like for them to stop by soon or on a specific date, or set up an appointment? Lead them to the very next step that needs to happen as soon as they stop reading your mail.
For some great examples of effective calls to action, see this article from Kathryn Aragon.
For a great list of words that you should consider using throughout your copy see this article from John Schulte.
Other things to keep in mind when writing your sales copy:
- If you are looking for the recipient to get in touch with you then make sure you provide several different ways for them to respond, including phone, email, website, and location.
- Keep paragraphs short
- Use bullet points that make it easy to skim.
- Keep repeating the main point in different ways.
- Always write to an audience of 1, use the words you and your.
- Create a sense of urgency with a limited time offer.
Effective sales copy will make or break your campaign, so it may be worth getting a professional to help you. A great place to do that is on the Direct Marketing Associations vendor board. You can hire professional copywriters there as well as any other third party vendor you may need.
Who should I send it to?
Target Existing Customers
For most businesses it is way more cost effective to increase the business that you are doing with existing clients, than it is to gain a completely new client. The fact that your existing customers have already bought from you means that they know who you are, and have already trusted you enough to do business with you.
Sending them direct mail can be a great way to keep your business top of mind, and get them back for repeat sales.
Building Your In House Direct Mail List
In order to send direct mail to your existing clients, you will need their address and a way to store that information so it is easily accessible. If your clients are ordering online, then you will have their address as part of the transaction.
Businesses that deal with people in person need to get a little more creative. Here are some ideas on how to capture the address:
- Ask when they checkout if they would like to leave their address for special deals and coupons.
- Create a loyalty program
- Run a contest
- Request address for things like appointment booking, reservations, and warranties.
- Have an event and request address to attend
Once you have their information you will need a way to store it. We recommend Insightly CRM for this purpose. For more on Insightly read our article comparing the top CRM software.
Target New Customers
The sky is really the limit in terms of how many people you can reach via direct mail. In order for your offer to work however, it has to be relevant to the people that you are sending it too.
The best way to figure out who to send to is to think about the characteristics of your existing clients. If you are a new business what you think your ideal client will look like:
- Where do they live
- What are their interests
- What types of things do they buy
- Income level
- Gender
- Age
- Political leanings
- Religious beliefs
Once you have an understanding of who your customer is then you can look into acquiring a mailing list that includes that type of customer.
How to Acquire a Third Party Mailing List
The easiest way to send direct mail is using the USPS Every Door Direct Mail Service. This allows you to deliver to every address within a target area without having to know the names or addresses of the recipients.
The downside of Every Door Direct Mail Service is that, besides the location of the recipient, you don't know anything else about them. If you would like to be able to further target the recipients based on other factors, then you will need to rent a third party mailing list. There are many places where you can go to purchase third party list that is tailored to your specific need. Experian, DirectMail, and InfoUSA being some of the more popular options.
How much does Direct Mail Cost?
There are five major costs involved in direct mail. They are design, copy, mailing lists, print, and distribution. You may not need to pay for all of these, but you will have to pay for at least printing and mailing.
Here they are in detail:
Design- You can choose to hire a designer, buy a template, or do your own design from scratch.
If you just need something basic then we recommend finding a freelancer on Elance. You should be able to get something created for around $100.
Remember however that you get what you pay for. If you need something more professional and involved then try the Direct Marketing Association's Vendor board where you can expect to pay between a few hundred and a few thousand dollars for design.
Buying a template can be done on a variety of print shops and also on Graphic River. They cost around $10 on average.
If you choose to do your own direct mail design, keep in mind that you may need to order stock images or illustrations to spice it up. Popular stock sites include Shutterstock and Dreamstime. You can get 5 images there for around $50.
Copy– You can also do your own copy, but if you'd rather leave it to the professionals, then by all means, farm it out. You'll need a copywriter with sales skills.
Again here for basic copywriting needs we recommend Elance. You should be able to find someone there for around $100. Remember however that you get what you pay for. For more involved projects try The Direct Marketing Vendor Board, where you can expect to pay anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars.
Mailing Lists- Regardless of whether you rent or purchase, a mailing list will cost you between .03¢ to .20¢ per record. Generally speaking, the more you request, the less per record you pay.
Printing Costs– A postcard will be a different price than a brochure.
For 5000 postcards, you price averages around .03¢ per postcard at places like PrintPlace or PsPrint.
For 5000 one-page brochures, you can expect to pay anywhere between .08¢ to .14¢ per brochure at the same online print shops.
Mailing Costs– The final cost consideration you must remember is mailing costs. The price fluctuates, depending on the current rate of postage, and on the amount of mail you send.
Following the same amount of 5000, your mailing costs will be:
For postcards: The rate is between .25¢ to .34¢.
For brochures and letters under 3.5 oz: The rate is between .38¢ to .44¢.
How do you track success?
If you follow the advice outlined in the rest of this guide, then you will include a clear call to action in your direct mail campaign. Now you just need a way to track those that complete the call to action so you can judge effectiveness.
First off, if you are not currently asking your customers how they found out about you, you should start doing so and recording their responses in your CRM software. This is true whether or not you are running a direct marketing campaign or not.
Methods for trying to catch any people that fall through the cracks using the above method include using a dedicated phone line and/or URL landing page for your campaign, and using a tracking code or specific coupon with your campaign.
Do you have a question about direct mail that we did not answer or a tip that our readers might find useful? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Magpie MaladyMature
One magpie. Just one solitary fucking bird; and the day is ruined. I groan and pull the curtains together again. I have the power to shut out the morning glow but not the rumblings of a nervous stomach.
"Babes, it's early, get some more sleepy," my girlfriend mumbles in that cute babyish way some lovers adopt.
"I'm awake now. Got work soonish and I doubt I'll be able to get back to sleep, besides…" I think twice about mentioning the bird. I shouldn't let my girlfriend know the curse. She'd realise I'm weirder than I've already let on.
I put a shirt on without doing all the buttons up and wear jeans with crusty flakes of mud at the bottom. Surely just the start of what will become a crescendo of bad luck, nuisances and problems.
After a burnt slice of toast I leave the house and the car doesn't start. It is so obviously annoying that I manage to keep my temper. The calmer I keep now the more I can handle later events. I am aware of the magpies' power. The only way is to keep focused. The car grunts after a few attempts and I eventually splutter forward. I forget to turn my head to see my girlfriend Sarah wave me goodbye. Her best wishes won't help me today.
The car stereo plays a Radiohead song that I have not heard for years. It brings back memories of adolescent self-loathing. It brings back thoughts of my father. I recollect a darkened room with a crying man hunched in the corner. A match in a haystack. So hard to find, but if struck – nearly impossible to put out. I pass a farm as I drive and I see a cow staring at me, or just into space. Its tongue pokes out and I can see drool. I sympathise, but at least it is not governed by magpies. I think I hear a squawk but it's the radio.
As I get nearer to my school the cars around me change. Though I am getting nearer to the city I see more 4x4's. There is no mud on them. I stop at traffic lights and am beeped at from behind. From my rear-view mirror I can see a man, his face is screwed up and he grits his teeth. He gestures with his hands. No cars seem to be coming across the road in front. I check the lights and they are green. I had seen red. I drive just as the lights turn amber and the man behind me shakes his head in the way I do with my pupils. A hallucination? I feel sweat begin to accumulate at the back of my neck where my hair is a bit too long. I drive the rest of the way to the school attempting not to think but the radio plays a song from my grandfather's funeral. It is so distressing that I giggle.
"Mark Corrigan?"
"Yes, Mr Miller."
"Wilfred Hayes?"
"Here, Mr Miller."
I tick the names of my pupils and they are all here. When a couple are ill it decreases the workload. But what was I expecting today? I am sitting in front of fifteen children and they are all sat cross legged. Some stare intently, some look past me at the whiteboard; some stare out into the grey of the playground. One is busy excavating his nose with dexterous fingers. One looks green.
I have nearly dragged Steven Burrows to the boys' toilets before his breakfast explodes all over me and the floor. It stinks. And it doesn't look like good quality food either. Who has cheese strings and quavers for breakfast? As I wash blobs of what Steven calls, 'chunder' from his mouth I wonder what I can now wear. My Ted Baker shirt is temporarily ruined. Sarah had bought that for me in London, in the early days.
"Damn magpies," I mutter under my breath.
"Huh?" Steven looks confused but I do not blame him. The whole notion is ridiculous. Perhaps ridiculous enough for a child with severe learning difficulties to believe.
"Mr Miller is just having an unlucky day today, Steven," I say as I wipe crumbs of vomit off my shoe.
"I'm sorry I was sick, sir." The boy seems genuine. He isn't in on the magpies' plans. Interrogation would be useless, he's just a cog.
"Go back into class, I'll get a new shirt and let Mrs Hamilton know you were sick. I'll ring your mother as well. Do you feel okay to continue today or do you want to go home?" I wish I had that choice.
"I think I want to go home."
"Good idea, and tell Thomas to quieten down I can hear him messing around from here."
I can't hear him but I know that after a couple of minutes he'll be pulling someone's hair or pulling his trousers down. He is the hardest kid to control; surely he will be playing up on a one magpie day. I watch as Steven makes the short journey back into the classroom, I can't risk him being snatched by aliens or something.
I cross the playground with its swirling patterns of fun and games emblazoned on the concrete. I sneak a look at the portable hut that is adjacent to mine and catch a glimpse of Miss Carter. Sophie. The only teacher at the school who is my age. I don't want her to see me covered in sick but it's the magpies' choice. She glances at me through the decorated windows. I am visible to her through a crepe caterpillar. I wave awkwardly and she looks confused at my bedraggled appearance. I hope she doesn't think I've had a heavy night on the booze. It's been known before but she was there. Sophie keeps me sane in a school embedded with lunacy. She is wearing a bright green top that is vaguely revealing. Fine for a primary school with pupils who are too young to be sexually aware. Impossible in a secondary school where it's the only thing on spotty kids' minds.
Her hair is short and blonde, boyishly messy yet somehow totally effeminate. I know that out of everyone I see today I must avoid her. I can't let her realise I've been cursed. She would never realise that I've been cursed. She grins and waves back, a couple of the kids I taught last year wave too. Most stare at me as if I am a stranger. I walk into the school with Sophie's cleavage on my mind. I am jealous of her pupils.
I am supporter of Liverpool football club, and I am wearing an Everton top. The magpies are taking the piss. They have followed me for over a week now, and this is the pettiest attempt to anger me. The only spare top available was the PE teachers' football shirt. Mr Bowman knows I support Liverpool and as I put the blue jersey on I seriously contemplate whether I would get away with being topless. For a few seconds I imagine Miss Carter in my predicament but the image melts into Mrs Grutter and I shake my head to destroy the vision of our veteran dinner lady.
"Wear it with pride my son," Mr Bowman (Clive to his friends) says condescendingly. He has a habit of calling me his 'son', or 'boy', and even on occasions, 'junior'. He is four years older than me.
"I feel dirty," I mutter.
"How about you help me with sports today, I saw you dossing in your classroom last week."
"Um…" by looking into his piggy eyes I can tell it wasn't a question, "sure I'll help."
"Good good, just come to the pitch when your kids do."
"Pitch?" I ask.
Bowman looks embarrassed, "The playground."
I nod, mumble a thank you for the top and swiftly leave him to get on with whatever PE teachers do when no one is playing sport.
I walk the longer way back to class just to avoid Sophie. I can't let her see me. I contemplate doing some art with the kids. Maybe get some poster paint on Bowman's shirt. I bet it would slide off.
The magpie reminds me it is observing by squawking as I reach my portable classroom. The school is near the centre of town and situated on a small site. Sophie and my classrooms suffocate the little playground with a thin patch of grass running from the other side of mine round to the main building. The car park is cramped and I had to park outside the gates this morning. We have only one tree. The magpie glides off its branch. I see it climb and descend on a zephyr, it flutters nearby and I try and think rationally. There is no way a species of bird is giving me good and bad luck. It is impossible. And why would it choose me anyway? I twist the doorknob and go inside just as magpie shit splats the ground just behind me. For once I wished I'd got shat on. It could have dribbled down the Everton players name and rested in the curves of the number.
I have survived an hour and a half without much incident. Steven has gone home and the teaching assistant, Michaela Hobbs, has at last turned up. She mumbled something about 'traffic' but she couldn't look me in the eye. The lie was in the words and the truth was in the awkwardness. I think she's just escaped the grips of adolescence but her face has kept the scars. She wears clothes similar to the chavs I see on my drive home that cling to the outside of MacDonald's like limpets on a rock. She stinks of smoke and coughs. Occasionally I catch her wiping balls of phlegm under the tables.
"I'm just going to take Ema to the toilet," she tells me as I police the children. I am pointing to the board, explaining maths so basic I feel like my brain is crumbling.
"Yeah, that's fine." I'm not really listening to her.
She shuffles out of the small room and I accidentally look at her ass. She is the antithesis of Sophie.
"So what happens if we have twelve," I point to the giant red number I have drawn, "and take away seven?" I put on my best 'please try and work it out face'. I realise it is similar to my 'can I have a blow job, Sarah?' face and quickly change my expression. I look out onto minds struggling to work out the answer but one hand shoots up and I am pleased.
"Yes, Wilfred?"
"Nineteen?" the boy smiles.
"Um… no, but I see what you've done, try the other way."
"Is it six?" a girl called Harriet shouts out.
My own teaching skills aren't up to scratch today, I shouldn't blame the kids but I can feel my anger rising. I give them a sheet of questions to answer and sit down at my desk. I have a small picture of Sarah and it calms me. The feline features, the glossy long brown hair, the curves. Yet why are cracks appearing in our relationship? That is something I definitely cannot blame the birds for. I rub my hand over her captured face, as if I am a giant. I look out the window, contemplating Sarah and wondering if the magpie is still about. I see a plume of smoke. Michaela is outside having a cigarette.
It is lunchtime and I am seriously considering going hungry and staying in my classroom until class starts again. Happy children burst with energy in the playground, the naivety they so luckily have draws me in. Maybe it was one of the reasons I trained as a teacher in the first place. The element of Never Never Land. Not in a Michael Jackson way of course, just in the sense of never growing up. Always a new flock of young children to delay the knowledge that you are ageing. One day you will be thirty. One day you will be forty. One day you will be fifty. Youthful innocence is a joy that kids always try to lose, yet when it's gone and they become adults all they want to do is get it back. Or maybe it's just me and my inability to accept growing old.
"Jack?" a voice echoes from just outside the classroom. I have a couple of important seconds to sort my hair.
Sophie walks in, smiling. She does not maintain much eye contact with me.
"Hey, Jack, you going to have lunch? Wanna go into the staff room?"
"I'm not too hungry. Don't want to see Bowman looking all smug cos he has me wearing this shitty shirt."
"What shirt?"
"It's an Everton shirt."
Sophie looks blank.
"And I support Liverpool." I explain.
She still doesn't understand. Weird how I'd find that annoying if it was anyone else but with her it's cute. Definitely a dodgy sign.
"Well you have to eat," she ponders, "I could go get you some lunch and bring it back?"
I laugh slightly because it seems too generous, and also makes me seem like one of her pupils. But I really cannot handle Bowman, Mrs Grutter or our Head teacher Mrs Stekelenburg communicating with me. It could end in disaster. Though I do not want to spend much time with Sophie today I accept and she leaves to go to the dining room for me. I watch her bum and she turns to smile and she notices and my cheeks rouge and her cheeks rouge and her smile widens and I lower my head and I wonder just what the fuck will happen between us because I know the magpies will create something. They are waiting. Sophie saunters across the playground packed with kids and I focus on her, her hips seem to swing more purposefully, as if she is performing for me. I sit back in my chair and my mind tricks me into thinking Sarah's photograph looks pissed off. I am half way through the day and it can only get worse.
I am counting the minutes and they are obviously dragging. But the school day is nearly ending with just PE left to go. It is time to have fun with Bowman. I can see him preparing the 'pitch' outside. Cones for goalposts, beanbags marking the edges. I wonder what a man like him is doing at a school like this; he must have been kicked out of the army.
The kids are in their kits, the boys are jumping and stretching, raring to go while the girls twist their hair and bite their nails. Bowman chooses his two favourite kids (the ones best at sport) to be the captains. One of my favourite pupils, Mark, is one of them and I hope that his team win. He is gangly like I was and one of the few that seems to have genuine enthusiasm. When he holds his pencil, he wants to create something with it.
"If you go down the line while I referee, whistle if you see an offside," Bowman throws a whistle at me, deliberately lightly so I have to pick it up from the ground. I glare at him but he is beginning the game. Offside? In an under-eight sports lesson? Bizarre.
The girls are constantly offside and if I blow the whistle the game pauses too much and if I don't Bowman gets annoyed. Ema, a dark skinned girl whose parents are suspected illegal immigrants trundles up to me, frowning.
"We don't like this game, Mr Miller," I notice most of the other females are watching their spokesgirl with equally miserable faces. Liam Hawthorn darts past the group like my hero, Steven Gerarrd through the Everton defence.
"Son, come on, was Liam offside?" Bowman jogs over to me before I can reply to Ema.
"I dunno, no. He wasn't. Look, the girls aren't really enjoying it, how about they do something else. You still have enough for each team."
Bowman mumbles something but agrees, the boys cheer because they don't have to be tied down to passing it to the girls and everyone seems happier. One of the shyer boys, Wilfred, tugs at the back of my trousers and asks to play with the girls. He is the most effeminate of the boys and I worry that he's going to have some trouble when he gets to the age when boys go out with girls. I think he's the youngest homosexual I've met.
"Did you see how far I jumped, Mr Miller?" No.
"Yes, Elizabeth, that was a mighty fine leap," the sarcasm is wasted on a girl who talks to her invisible friend so much her real mates get jealous. I have not been watching Elizabeth or the others skip, jump or throw because I have been spying on Sophie. It's a dangerous game, even more tactics involved than the ones I notice Bowman imposing. Her face is constantly smiling, as if she has no worries in the world. When my girlfriend smiles, these days it doesn't rest so cleanly. The problems with her art gallery are mounting and it's not like I have enough money to bail her out. What started as Sarah's creative dream is now a financial nightmare. It's draining more than her bank balance; it's somehow draining our love.
The magpie soars low through the playground, it spins midair like a ballerina and I wonder if they normally try such aerobatics. The bright blue of its wing merges with the white as it begins to ascend back out of sight. It makes no sound this time, but the hair's on the back of my neck stand on end which is a feeling I always thought wasn't true, just hyperbole to signify tension. It makes me shiver, is it the bird or a change in the wind? Is my luck guided by flying creatures or am I losing my mind? So many questions, where are the answers? Maybe I should concentrate more on Elizabeth's jumping.
Mark's team loses and he sprains his ankle and the girls pull Elizabeth's hair because she tells her invisible friend, 'Jojo' that Ema smells.
"Cheers for helping, junior," Bowman lies, his anger at me taking the girls away clear on his bullish features. I see broccoli in his teeth and recollect that was the school meal two days ago.
"That's fine, I'm happy to do it again."
"Oh, right, well…" I grin as he struggles with surprise. There is only one reason I want to help again: spying on Sophie, but he doesn't need to know that.
"But next time I'll bring my Liverpool top, with the five stars on it, those five European cups," I can't help but have a dig at Bowman and the team he supports, its petty but makes me feel better for a few seconds.
"Indeed, well, see you tomorrow. Don't forget my shirt. Cleaned," he scarpers off, jogging to the main building. I walk back to the room and the children are ready to be set free.
The road is jammed with cars and mothers in groups, a few fathers loiter alone, scanning their watches. I let the children go, they cheer and run, gazelles escaping a cheetah. It is a reasonably sunny day, and the kids have the rest of the afternoon to spend trapped in their rooms, staring at a box with a screen on it, in a darkened corner. Even Mark won't be outside now he's damaged his ankle.
I can leave relatively early because parents evening is coming up and I need to prepare. That really is going to be a test. It seems destined to be a one magpie day. Sophie waves from her car as I make my way through the car park to where I am parked outside. She looks at me and I hear the magpie caw but as I look into her eyes a fucking bird doesn't bother me. I think I ignore mothers trying to speak to me about parents evening as I unlock the car door and swiftly get in. I am like a Z-list celebrity avoiding a couple of fans.
Now I am in my new car, a silver Honda Civic I purchased a few weeks ago (causing a huge row between me and Sarah) I can breathe. Parents disperse as their mini-futures hold their hands and tell them what they did in a building they will have forgotten when they are adults. The magpie is perched on the schools' only tree, and it seems to grin. How can a bird grin? It just can't and I know that, but I'm tired and want to get home. I have had a shit day and those flapping, cawing, swooping creatures seem to be the reason.
The car doesn't start again, and I have to twist the key for seconds that crunch into minutes while I scream and shout and my face gets redder and redder. One of my pupils, Colin, with his attractive mother, walks past my car and waves. I look foolish. The car grunts into life and I nearly run them over.
"Sorry!" I mouth but they look petrified and hurry away.
The magpie is still on its throne of branches, observing me like I am a juicy worm. I am not a worm. I inch forward, looking left and right to make sure there is no traffic. Both sides are clear so I pull out. Dents and noise pop and bang as a mixture of metal and flesh topple over the bonnet. I have run over a cyclist. My car was going so slowly, he can't be dead. Surely. The magpie caws and flutters away in the evening chill, leaving the scene of the crime. I am shaking all over. The cyclist groggily gets to his feet. He looks pissed off.


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Foreign Office spokesman Moazzam Ahmad Khan confirmed this in a statement here saying that Pakistan released eight Taliban detainees in order to further facilitate the Afghan reconciliation process.
The batch of released Taliban members also includes high-ranking leaders but the Taliban second-in-command Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar is not among those who were freed on Monday. Bardar has been the prime demand of the Afghan government and the High Peace Council, which they termed a key member to facilitate the reconciliation process.
According to the spokesman released Taliban detainees including Abdul Bari, ex-Governor Helmund, Nur-ud-Din Turabi, ex Justice Minister, Allah Daad Tabib, ex Minister, Mullah Daud Jan, ex Governor Kabul, and ex Governor Mir Ahmed Gul.
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"Hurry now. They're here!" a woman shouts out her front door for her children, as they scramble quickly to meet her.
It was early morning, and the sky was on fire, bright and red. Men, women, and children alike rushed for the safety of their homes. Cries and screams could be heard near and distant as innocent families were shot down by arrows and slain by shiny pewter swords. The village was under attack.
The two children ran up the porch and hugged their mother tight. With haste, the mother shut the door, locking it. She pushed her children into a secret compartment in the floor under a maroon chair. She then shut the shutters of the windows and found herself a place to hide.
In the compartment under the chair, the children huddled close together. It was small, dark and damp, and smelled of mildew; there was barely enough room for them. Nobody needed to tell them to remain quiet.
The fact that there was little room did not worry them. Instead, they worried for their mother. Loud bang after bang could be heard upon the white door. Then a thud. The children dared not to breathe or move. Fear consumed them whole, and they whimpered softly in each others arms. Tears leaked from the corners of their eyes as an echoing scream sounded, followed by a cruel laugh.
"Where are they?" the soldier asked.
"I know naught of whom you speak," they heard their mother answer the man firmly.
"The girls! Where have you put them?" He shouted, hitting her in the face.
"You will not find them," she said, glaring at the man. "Not any time soon," she spat.
"Very well then," he barked. They heard a sickening snap, followed by short gasp of pain and another thud. The mother, now dead, had been a true and proud woman. She did not deserve such cruelty.
The soldier stomped through their home, knocking things over and throwing objects aside.
It could have been hours, days, months, or years that had passed... it wouldn't have mattered either way.
"They are not here," the soldier said finally as more men intruded.
"Damn. Where could they be then? Search all of the homes. Do not rest until they are found. Burn everything, and kill everyone. These people have been forsaken by His Glorious Majesty and do not deserve the right of life after committing such treason," a different soldier said. His voice was deep and gruff, and mean, too. This man did not know the meaning of mercy and kindness.


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Well, I w... I was stunned. I think everyone else was too. There was a horrible silence. Just horrible. Everyone was staring at her, just letting her stand there, crying.
Then she started talking again, looking at me.
'He knew everything,' she said. 'He new Mum and Dad were keeping money from me. It started about ten years ago, and he noticed, of course he noticed he was getting new clothes and new shoes and I wore the same things month after month after month. In the beginning he helped. He stole some money for me once so I could wear something decent and buy some food to hide away, but my parents realised what he'd done and he got punished. They never punished him like they punished me, they were never mean to him! He didn't know.'
Dylan kept trying to help her but his parents punished him every time. One time they sat him down when they thought Shelby wasn't listening and explained that it was for the best because she was a bad person. They told Dylan his sister was a prostitute and that she'd been stealing money from them. And after that Dylan stopped helping, and started talking to her less and less. And he went on to do charity work around the world and sponsored endangered animals. Everybody loved Dylan. He even opened a branch of the British Heart Foundation once.
Shelby kept saying she couldn't bear how nice he was in everyone else's eyes, when he just let her get by on a ration of food, clothes... everything. Shelby's parent's made her do the shopping and they always gave her slightly less money than she needed to buy everything, just to torment her even more. And when she didn't bring everything home, they'd beat her, so she ended up begging the shopkeepers to let her have this thing or that thing, even giving favours if she was desperate. That grocer wasn't the worst of them. One of them used to make her pose for pictures. It was horrible.
So when Dylan was checking the grandmother's house, cleaning round and so on, shelby turned up unexpectedly, saying 'Oh I hate all this, can't we be friends, like the old days?' And Dylan said he'd think about it. And then Shelby led him into the garden over the well, and he stumbled and almost went in. So it was... just a matter of finishing the job.
Shelby was in tears again by the end of it. 'I deserve to go to prison,' she said, over and over again, 'I deserve to go to prison. Call them, call them now, somebody call them.'
I can't believe it. I just can't believe it, my head's spinning... I don't want to call the police because she's such a poor person. She doesn't deserve anything like this amount of punishment and she never did. I just... I don't know what to do. It's a nightmare.


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Geesh.. all that is blooming already? Spring can't be far behind for us
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I ordered the vegetarian dish, and it was very healthy and delicious. The restaurant is very old, and the decoration is not very nice, but the food is good.
First of all the service was amazing. The rice was very good and the lentil soup was also delicious. The meat was ok. I definitely would go back. Be warned, the curry chicken is very very lemony and zesty. It was overwhelming for me so I switched to the shwarma chicken and enjoyed it very much.
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If you're there to dine on amazing food in very simple settings this is your kind of place. We have been eating there since it opened maybe ten years ago and the food is superb. The service is even better. The young men who wait on you are polite, very helpful, open to special requests and, in our case, they...
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Police cautioned on Wednesday it was too early to say if a running shoe found near Vancouver contained the seventh human foot to have washed ashore in the region in the past 15 months.
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I have 64-bit office, the 64 bit version of Excel DNA, and this file:
<DnaLibrary RuntimeVersion="v4.0" Language="CS">
<ExternalLibrary Path="BackstopConnector.dll" />
using ExcelDna.Integration;
using System.Data;
using BackstopConnector;
If I misname the library in ExternalLibrary - I get a loud complaint, so I know the DLL is located. However the public types and namespaces in it create errors when referenced in the .dna file. For example the dll file has one class:
using BackstopConnector.BackstopReportDirectoryService_1_0;
namespace BackstopConnector {
public class ReportList {
yet referring to the namespace in the .dna file causes: There were errors when compiling project:
c:\Users\dradcliffe\AppData\Local\Temp\kzqrdh5c.0.cs(3,11) : error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'BackstopConnector' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
I don't see what I'm missing - could the fact that the referred-to assembly talks to web services have anything to do with it ?
Thanks for help..
Hi Dean,
If your source code is directly in the .dna file, and that code should Reference another assmbly when compiling, you need a <Reference> tag for the other assembly. The <ExternalLibrary> tag is when you want to export the functions from the other
library to Excel.
So I think you can try:
<DnaLibrary RuntimeVersion="v4.0" Language="CS">
<Reference Path="BackstopConnector.dll" />
using ExcelDna.Integration;
using System.Data;
using BackstopConnector;
There might be more issues:
Yes, thank you for clearing up that misunderstanding - with that change it works ! I do have some dependent assemblies, but they all seem to get loaded fine, at least on the development machine. Any suggestions for deployment-time placement
? Are there any nice tutorials on creating setups for these, especially if they'll install without administrator privileges ?
My suggestion for 'installing' is to use ExcelDnaPack to put everything you need into a single .xll file. Then your users just copy it anywhere they want, and add it to Excel through the add-ins dialog (press Alt+t, i). It feels like cheating but works
very well.
There are other options, but this would certainly be the best start.
To use ExcelDnaPack you just set
<Reference Path="..." Pack="true" />
<ExternalLibrary Path="..." Pack="true" />
and then run
ExcelDnaPack.exe MyAddIn.dna
This gives you a MyAddIn-packed.xll which needs no other files, and no admin privileges to run, install or to add as an add-in in Excel.
Other options;
* You can add a self-registering bit in the AutoOpen. Then users only have to open your .xll by double-clicking, and it will stay added in for future sessions.
* Some developers try to make more sophisticated setups for their add-ins. I think it's mad and can't really help, but you don't have to do much more then copy the files and run some script to register.
* Making a setup for "All Users" is nearly impossible.
* Some developers make their own update manager tool (as another add-in) that can dynamically look for and load new versions of the add-in.
Hi Govert,
I am new to using ExcelDnaPack.exe and ExcelDna in general. I want to pack all of my resource files into one XLL for deployment.
I want to pack a PDF and an XML config file along with the DLL library into the XLL.
My DNA file looks like this:
<DnaLibrary Name="Test Project" RuntimeVersion="v4.0">
<ExternalLibrary Path="TestProject.dll" Pack="true" />
<Reference Path="HelpGuide.pdf" Pack="true" />
<Reference Path="servers.xml" Pack="true" />
However, the TestProject-packed.xll file is the same size as the TestProject.xll file. Since the PDF file is 294k in size I can see that the pack has not worked as I would have expected. How do I get this to work? I am working in 32-bit Windows
Your assistance would be much appreciated.
Kind Regards
Hi Jon,
You should have a look at the output from ExcelDnaPack. That could give a clue about whether the packing is resolving the other files correctly. The packing does some compression, including of an assembly that is already in the .xll, so the size would not
be a great indicator.
I'm not sure how you'd retrieve and use those other packed resources - you might be better off adding the .pdf and .xml files as .NET resources in your TestProject.dll. Then you might be able to use them via the usual resource access.
HI Govert
Thanks for the speedy response.
Do you just mean the output it displays at the command prompt or does ExcelDnaPack create a log file somewhere?
Kind Regards
The output from the command line shows what the packing has done, and will show any errors (or an exception trace if things really go wrong).
Hi Govert
Thanks for that. I went with having the PDF and XML config as embedded resources in the end.
Another question though: You mentioned above about adding a self-registering bit in AutoOpen(). How do I go about doing that? I want to make installation as simple as possible,
Kind Regards
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#1 Feb 18, 2014
DEAR ABBY: You were wrong to advise "Starting Anew in Ohio" (Nov. 7), the mother of a 10-year-old girl who wanted the bigger bedroom in their new house, to have her kids draw straws. When the girl made the request, her older brother said he didn't care. The time to have drawn straws was when the girl first made the request, not two months afterward.
The girl is at an age when children can be particularly sensitive about trust issues, and the boy is old enough to know that words have consequences. If the parents reverse course now, the girl will learn that her parents' promises mean nothing, and the boy will learn that he doesn't have to worry about what he says because he can always change it later.
These are not good lessons to teach children. That the father would bow to the boy's request made the situation worse. Maybe he'd think twice if he realized his daughter will now always doubt his word.-- JUDY IN OHIO
DEAR JUDY: You are not the only reader who told me my answer wasn't up to my usual standards. In fact, not a single person who wrote to comment agreed with me, and their points were valid. Their comments:
DEAR ABBY: Your solution won't keep the peace in that household; it will end it. The daughter will learn her parents can't be trusted to keep a promise; the son will think he can take anything he wants from his sister because, as the male, he gets his way.
No, Abby, a promise is a promise. And if there's any lesson more important to teach our children, I can't imagine what it is.-- HOLLY IN PENNSYLVANIA
DEAR ABBY: This is the time to teach that 12-year-old "young man" to be a man of his word. He made the decision that his sister could have the room. The daughter had the guts to ask for what she wanted. Good for her for asking for what she wants. Now they should draw straws to determine the outcome?
The message this sends to the children is, "If you're older, you can get what you want. If you make a promise, you can break it." The daughter should not lose out on what she was promised.-- DANIELLE IN WISCONSIN
DEAR ABBY: May I offer a suggestion? The children should be told that each year around the anniversary of their moving to the new house that they will change rooms. It may take some effort and energy, but the benefit would be that both brother and sister get to experience the larger bedroom. It will teach them to compromise.-- TAMI IN COLORADO
DEAR ABBY: Having been through this type of situation as a child, I can tell you it destroyed my trust in my mother. Believe me, this will have far-reaching and unintended repercussions in that little girl's life. A promise is a promise!-- CANDACE IN THE ROCKIES
DEAR ABBY: Whatever happened to respect for your elders? None of my six nieces and nephews has ever called me "Uncle Sam," nor have any of their children called me "Mr. B." When the 5-year-old called me "Sammy," a name I loathe, I nearly snapped. Am I out of line?-- SAM IN SHEFFIELD, MASS.
DEAR SAM: If "Uncle Sam" is what you prefer to be called, you should have made that clear to your siblings when the nieces and nephews were little. Children are imitative. If their parents call you and refer to you as just plain Sam, don't blame the children for doing the same. I don't know how old the kids are now, but it may be a little late for you to start complaining about this.
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Since: May 09
#2 Feb 18, 2014
These kids need a beating. There's real problems in the world and they're bickering over a bedroom. They should be glad they have a roof over their heads!
4?- What a whiner. My niece and nephews don't call me uncle either. Glad I don't need a title to define myself.
#3 Feb 18, 2014
1: A "beating?" Why? No, the readers who wrote in are right. This isn't about the kids' bickering. It's about parents who break promises and about teaching kids to keep their word as well. Parents need to be careful about any and all promises they make. It's better to say they'll think about whatever is being requested than to blithely make a promise without thinking. In this particular situation, it wasn't even as though some real emergency came up to prevent a promise from being kept. Yes, this family is in big trouble for all the reasons the responding letters indicated.
2: So why didn't the lw open his mouth the first time a kid called him by his first name? A person needs to tell someone the first time exactly how he/she wishes to be called by that person if the person addresses him in a way he doesn't like. Most kids will respond in an appropriate way if an adult were to say, "I really wish you would address me as "Mr. Smith" rather than "Smitty" or in my case as "Mrs. Pumpernickel" rather than "Pippa." At least I've never had a problem asking kids to do this when it mattered to me. I'm not really all that stuffy but when I was teaching school, I felt the kids needed some guidance as to what is generally considered acceptable. Out of school, some of these same kids who were friends of my children would call me "Mom" and I have no idea why. I didn't care either. If they felt I was their 2nd mom, who was I to complain? Once they graduated high school, I'd invite former students individually to call me by my first name. I figured by graduating, they'd earned that right. ;-)
My own mom came from a very large family (11 kids) and most of her siblings had some really weird nicknames. NO ONE ever directly told me how to address any of them. I was just as clueless as a kid as I am now. I sometimes called my aunts and uncles by their first names, sometimes by the nicknames they called one another, and sometimes either of those preceded by "Aunt ----" or "Uncle ----." They answered to any name I used for them and never corrected me. I did teach my kids to be more formal when addressing adults. They used Mr., Mrs., Miss. but some were honorary Aunts and Uncles.
#4 Feb 18, 2014
Don't remember the letter but this sounds like it could be made into a modern day Brady Bunch episode like when Greg and Marcia wanted the room in the attic.
"reign in blood"
Since: May 09
#5 Feb 18, 2014
Beat those dam kids! If they were my kids they'd get such a beating... Man would I beat the ever living hell out of them
"The two baby belly, please!"
Since: Sep 09
Evanston IL
#6 Feb 18, 2014
LW4?: Dude, your letter makes no sense. If they've not called you Uncle or Mr. Whatever, WTF are they supposed to call you? Nice of you not to mention that.
#7 Feb 18, 2014
As far as I know, you don't have any kids.----- And that's a good thing if you'd beat them that badly for arguing over the room. I have a different take on this. Beat the parents for not keeping a promise that is not at all hard to keep. It should be a lesson to the parents to "think before they leap" or make promises. Kids should be able to trust their parents. This is a trust-breaking situation. And yes, I know you're joking. But I just had to get in that last dig. ;-)
"reign in blood"
Since: May 09
#8 Feb 18, 2014
I think that's his issue. He wants them to call him uncle or mr
#9 Feb 18, 2014
Blunt Advice for the win on LW1.
For LW2, proposed alternate question:
At what age is it generally disrespectful to call an adult by (a) first
name; (b) nickname ("sugar bear" or "strong man", etc--not anything
rude) and (c) two part names such as Billy Bob, Tina Marie, etc.?
"The two baby belly, please!"
Since: Sep 09
Evanston IL
#10 Feb 18, 2014
Well if that's what he means, he needs to type better. This is from the letter.
"None of my six nieces and nephews has ever called me "Uncle Sam," nor have any of their children called me "Mr. B." "
Again I ask, WTF does he want?
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Since: Jul 12
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#11 Feb 18, 2014
L1: I think we all pretty much thought the same way -- that Abby was off on that answer.
L2: At that age, kids are imitators. If they hear all the adults calling him Sammie they'll call him that. Gently and nicely correct the child and tell them what you'd like to be called.
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Since: Feb 09
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#12 Feb 18, 2014
1 Sibling Death Match! Sell tickets on the inet, and pay for the house.
2 Yo! Old Dude!
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Since: Jul 12
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#13 Feb 18, 2014
He's probably an grumpy old man who gets his mail when he's in his boxers, yells at kids to stay off the lawn, and complains about the neighbor's noise.
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Since: Dec 08
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#14 Feb 18, 2014
i thought u lived in chicago. Why are you stalking me at my mailbox?
#15 Feb 18, 2014
Having your nieces and nephews call you Mr. or Mrs.? That is weird. Is the lw referring to siblings kids or cousins kids? I have cousins kids who call me Aunt while some just by my first name and my parents cousins it was the same way. If they remarried when i was older i always called them by their first name. Heck I have cousins with a grandmother on the other side who everyone called "Gram".
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#16 Feb 18, 2014
Hey, you're suppose to be at work, bub! Get dressed and get to the office.
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#17 Feb 18, 2014
I call my aunts and uncles -- Aunt Carol, Uncle Bob. Growing up that's who they were so that's who they are. I do shorten it at times to just the first names, but that's more in the flow of the conversation how you might do with anyone.
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