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I was very privileged to be able to host an Afriscapes Namibian Photography Tour for a talented photographer client from Israel. We left Johannesburg on the 2nd of April and after a short 2-hour flight we landed in Windhoek. We received our rental vehicle and headed for our first night's stay at a guest house in Windhoek. We had to buy a couple of things in Windhoek, get our vehicle ready for the long trip ahead, make sure our camera equipment was ready and get good night's rest for our long drive to Sossusvlei the next morning. After an early breakfast the next morning we headed South in the direction of Rehoboth and then West in the direction of Spreetzhoogte, Solitaire and Sesriem. The landscapes on the road to Sesriem was breathtakingly beautiful and we knew things will even get better from here on.
We arrived at the Sesriem in the early afternoon and at around 4 pm we head out for our first official photo shoot at Sossusvlei and Deadvlei. I can only say WOW!!! What a place. The sand dunes along the way to Sossusvlei and Deadvlei are spectacular!!! There was a strong Westerly wind blowing and no clouds in the area but there were still a lot of photo opportunities.
Sossusvlei and especially Deadvlei are really amazing places and the opportunities are almost endless. We spend some time there on the first afternoon as well as early the next morning.
On the next day, after our morning expedition into Sussusvlei and Dooievlei we packed our stuff and headed for Rostock Lodge. There we were greeted by some of the most amazing Namibian landscapes. Endless grasslands and rocky mountains as far as the eye can see.
After our stay at Rostock Lodge we were on our way to Swakopmund for a 2-night stay at a lovely hotel on the beachfront. In Swakopmund we photographed the massive sand dunes, the famous Jetty on the beach, the Moon landscapes in the desert as well as some old buildings in town.
After a lovely 2 night stays in Swakopmund we headed North towards Henties Bay, Cape Cross seal colony, and from there North West through Messum Crater towards Brandberg. Brandberg is the highest mountain in Namibia and we stayed 2 nights at a very nice camp near the mountain.
While at Brandberg we were treated with rain showers over the barren landscapes, rain over Brandberg, rainbows and spectacular sunsets.
The sunrises at Brandberg were less spectacular but still very nice to photograph.
From Brandberg we headed South towards one of my favourite destinations in Namibia, Spitzkoppe. Spitzkoppe always delivers good photos no matter what the conditions may be and you will never leave without a couple of good photos.
From Spitzkoppe we drove to Erindi Private Game Reserve where I treated my client with 2 days of game drives and relaxing at our chalet that was next to a waterhole. I am not really a wildlife photographer so I did the driving, prepared food at the camp and photographed the birds in camp. I still managed to get a decent sunrise shot next to our chalet overlooking the waterhole as well as a nice sunset with rain on the one game drive.
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There is no better reminder of summer weekends than seeing a child messing around in a pile of sand. The Parks Canada exhibit this year was a fantastic example of interactive outdoor areas integrated into their natural surroundings. Activities that focused on making musical sounds, playing in the sand, sliding and climbing were a great source of ideas when planning your outdoor spaces with kids in mind. While good design is always important, I'm kind of surprised you don't see more material out there with the child audience in mind. There's a great idea here for the regular homeowner, think about creating your child's special "areas" throughout your outdoor landscapes and installing pieces that are interactive but also look great. Parks did a great job this year, here are some of the highlights:
Outdoor xylophone makes beautiful music.
Outdoor miniature patio area in natural wood.
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In this employer's example, focusing on the career conversation and clarifying the "goals and ambitions" of senior staff has meant, "they're motivated to join in with new opportunities, more productive, more likely to stay, and we get a bigger contribution from them."
Being critical of this article for a moment, it is written more for the employer than the employee but the positives described above do appear to be derived from the greater sense of purpose and reward experienced by individual employees following a conversation that targets their personal success.
Try not to be too put off by the fact that senior management are the immediate beneficiaries either. With the benefits a programme like this can deliver, it won't be too long for staff at other levels to be included.
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By: Hanna Yi
"As a law enforcement officer, my fundamental duty is to serve mankind; to safeguard lives and property, to protect the innocent against deception, the weak against oppression or intimidation, and the peaceful against violence or disorder; and to respect the Constitutional rights of all men to liberty, equality, and justice."
"To protect the innocent," is what's written in the Police Creed. And yet on November 18, 2011, an act of shame and disbelief left a shocking imprint on the University of California, Davis, students, faculty, and community members.
On Friday, members of the university gathered around the UC Campus in support of the Occupy Wall Street Movement.
The UC Chancellor, Linda Katehi, requested for the campus police to move in to clear out the encampment. About a dozen students sat on the path with their arms interlocked and showed no signs of violent behavior. Most of the protestors had their heads down while a police officer walked in front of the students and mercilessly started dousing their faces with pepper spray—not once, but several times.
The incident is shown on a chilling 8-minute clip recorded by a student, which indisputably proves that the students were not showing aggressive behavior towards any of the law enforcement officials. "I was shocked," Sophia Kamran, one of the protesters subjected to the spray, said Saturday. "When students are sitting on the ground and no way of moving to be violent, being totally peaceful, I don't understand the use of pepper spray against them" she reported to CNN.
Spectators are outraged by Friday's event and have requested for Chancellor Katehi to step down due to the lack of control on her campus and exhibiting failure of leadership.
While many might wonder on the police's involvement during the protest and the reason behind the use of pepper spray, others are wondering how police officers that have taken the oath to protect and to serve the innocent, have done the exact opposite? And yes, the campus chief and two officers have been put on administrative leave but the main issue here is the aggressive force being used with the campus police against the students.
Police officers hold greater authority than the civilians to protect and to serve the innocence and yet, they abuse it with great power. Where do we draw the line on police brutality?


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Advantages and Disadvantages of Hydroponics Marijuana growingA lot of new growers prefer the hydroponics growing of marijuana plants. Rightly so because there really are advantages to this system. But at the same time there are also disadvantages so if you are a newbie in the field of marijuana cultivation and you're looking at hydroponics as the growing method to be used, then look at the following assessments and decide for yourself.
Advantages of HydroponicsIt is a growing set-up where cleanliness is primordial. Since there is no soil being used, the growing condition is very clean. Hydroponics set-up requires only a small space to set-up unlike growing in pots which could consume more space given the same number of weed plants. Yield is also higher in this set-up because of the control that is naturally in the hands of the grower. It is also argued that the marijuana plants can directly feed on the needed nutrients because of instant water delivery unlike in soil where it must first be absorbed by the soil. Compared to other indoor set-up with soilless method, hydroponics is the easiest and most reliable.
Disadvantages of HydroponicsSome of the disadvantages of a hydroponics set-up starts with a prohibitive cost for some growers. If you are a small-time grower who intend to grow only a few plants, then a hydro set-up could be too costly in this regard. Another is the grower must have the needed skills in a hydroponics set-up so a complete newbie may not be ideal for this method of growing weed plants. Lastly, it is not only the initial cost that this method entails. There is also the electricity costs involved which will increase in n automated set-up.
Can hydroponics be use outdoors?Yes. It can be used in both indoor or outdoor set-up. In fact, some greenhouse set-up use hydroponics to grow marijuana plants.
If the environment is sanitized in a hydroponics set-up, then there is no more need to use pesticides?This is true as long s the growing environment is not compromised. hydroponics set-up is naturally cleaner but it is not a hindrance for pests to invade the grow anytime so care is still needed even if hydroponics is the grow system being used.
Is hydroponics a natural or artificial way of growing marijuana plants?It is still a natural way of growing weed plants because the growth is still natural and there are no genetic mutations being induced. Hydroponics is just a way of supplying pot plants what it needs in terms of nutrients in a more efficient manner.
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Oh man, I'm sorry I've been gone so long. Real life got super busy, and inspiration got super low, and… you know how that goes.
So Make It Or Break It premieres on Monday. And I know I keep saying this, but when it comes to recapping MIOBI… I'm done. For serious this time. I'm sorry, guys, but I just cannot do it anymore. I realize now that perhaps I held off so long updating this blog b/c I knew people would be expecting another MIOBI recap, and I couldn't bring myself to do it. So I think it's time to close that chapter of my recapping life. For those left disappointed by that news, I'm sorry. But I will still be watching, and I'm always up for a chat on this show's delightful absurdity, so feel free to comment here or hit me up via e-mail if you're interested.
That said, I've got a new crack now, and it's called Point Pleasant. Some of you might recall this short-lived show. It aired in '05 but it looks like it was filmed in '97. It got some brief publicity for being a wannabe Twin Peaks and being co-produced by Buffy's Marti Noxon. However, PP had more in common with a low-budget OC crossed with a Dan Brown novel, which means it was awesome. Look for the first episode to be recapped here in loving detail soon. Fortunately, there's only 13 eps, which means I should probably get through them all in a reasonable amount of time. Woo!
I was thinking of switching the focus of this blog from YA lit to old 80s/90s teen TV shows and movies (BSC and SVH eps totally fall into this category, so TU will still retain its YA ties). I might do books from time to time but I seem to thrive more on the television/cinema medium. That said, I am asking you, dear readers, if there is any old teen show or movie you'd like me to recap either concurrently with or after Point Pleasant? I'm asking for cancelled shows only please… as I learned with MIOBI, anything currently airing is just asking for my commitmentphobe tendencies to rear their ugly head, and also, I think it takes a few years after the fact for me to properly appreciate how charmingly awful a show is. I'm only willing to entertain taking on a complete series if it's very short-lived, like PP (we're talking a partial season here), otherwise I'm pleased to do a "worst of" sort of thing, like the Agony Booth's Worst of Trek. So… comments? Suggestions? Any terrible episode of a 90s teen show you're just dying to have me
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J. Grindlay, P. Zhao, P. Edmonds, M. Garcia, J. Jenkins, J. McClintock, E. Schegel (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), H. Cohn, P. Lugger (Indiana Univ.)
The ChaMPlane survey of the galactic plane (~100 ACIS fields over 5 years, selected for exposure at least ~20ksec, galactic latitude below ~10deg, and minimum column density NH), will provide the largest sample of faint galactic x-ray sources. The arcsec positions for most of these will allow unambiguous optical identifications from our NOAO Long Term Survey program and measurement of source properties to enable new constraints on the galactic populations of accretion-powered white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes as well as stellar coronal x-ray sources. Here we provide initial results on the x-ray source properties for the first 10 fields (for which archival data are available). We present x-ray fluxes, x-ray colors (from Soft, Medium and Hard bands) and detected source distributions for an initial assessment of the likely populations being seen. Optical identifications are presented for sources in several example fields (and see paper by Zhao et al) to provide an initial calibration and investigation of the x-ray/optical flux vs. color relations. This work is supported by NASA/SAO grant AR1-2001X and NSF grant AST-0098683.
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Research Vocation at the École Centrale
Five main reasons led the École Centrale Paris to set up a strong research centre totally integrated into the educational program of the school :
- To ensure study-through-research not only for students of the École Centrale but also for engineering students: the latter are in contact with the research laboratories from their first year and throughout the duration of their studies. Each year the Doctoral School of the École Centrale Paris receives DEA (Diplôme d'Études Approfondies) and doctoral students for doctoral studies,
- Enrich the training of the student-engineers by giving them access to inductive pedagogies in the labs and by enabling those who start their career in R&D to prepare for their future work,
- Provide a basic research of good quality, following the mission of the school,
- Open the school to the outside world and participate in its national and international recognition through the relationships and collaborations with the scientific community and enterprises,
- Contribute to social progress by producing knowledge and by education engineers and doctors mainly for the benefit of enterprises and society.
The research laboratories of the school gather together about 380 people. Each year, around sixty students pass their Doctorate degree in these laboratories.
The research laboratories of the school have the principal vocation of transferring basic knowledge to the professional sectors in order to permit or facilitate the solving of concrete, and usually industrial, problems.
This transfer vocation has a double implication for the laboratories:
- Participate, in their field, in the advance of general knowledge, which principally shows in collaborations with the major public research entities (CNRS, CEA, INRIA, ONERA, etc) and numerous foreign academic laboratories as well as French ones,
- Use this scientific knowledge for operational uses, which shows in the signature of many industrial contracts with major companies, as well as with small and medium ones, principally in the context of European contracts.
CRSA (Centrale Recherche SA), an École Centrale Paris subsidiary, plays an important role at this stage.
The essential activities of the school are split into 7 major fields:
- Thermo physics and combustion,
- Soil, structure and material mechanics,
- Physical chemistry of solids,
- Chemistry and chemical engineering,
- Industrial engineering,
- Applied mathematics and computer science,
- Business economy.
Several laboratories may be concerned by a given industrial problem, so that each of them may operate in many economic sectors. In practice, the laboratories collaborate with almost all the partners in the economy including service industries.
Moreover the École has works in new sectors, which employ more and more engineers, like health and biotechnologies.
Since 1990, the implementation of the Écoles Centrales group has reinforced the presence of the four schools in the research sector. Each one has a strong research centre and, of course, close collaborations are maintained between the schools concerning research fields, to which each laboratory brings its own skills.


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Today's excerpt is the last from Rebecca Jamison's "Sense and Sensibility: A Latter-day Tale," but don't fret, we'll share more from our September releases starting next week.
The book has received some good reviews on its just-concluded blog tour, including one from Misty Moncur, in which she writes: "This book really will capture your heart. Well-written and well-thought out, 'Sense and Sensibility: A Latter-day Tale' is a sweet romance that explores different approaches to new love in the wake of heartbreak and disappointments."
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From the author: Despite Elly's horrible interview, she gets the job working for Jake, her ex-fiancé. But there's a catch. She's only a temporary worker. Things get more complicated when Elly notices that Jake's software code is much too similar to the code her father wrote for his now-defunct business.
I'm too good for this, I thought as the vent above me blew cold air onto my head. The programs seemed familiar, too familiar. As I paged through, I could see it wasn't that different from the software code at Dad's company. Would Jake copy that much from us? Would he take what he'd learned from Dad and use it to put us out of business? Was that how he pulled together a successful business less than a year after he stopped working for us? No. Jake wouldn't do something like that. I was overreacting. I paged through the code, reading the names of programs. Over half of them were the same as the programs at Check-It-Out, but there were other, newer programs too. I couldn't figure out how everything worked together.
"Hey," I heard a voice behind me, a deep voice. "I heard you were starting today, but I didn't believe it. I thought you were some other Elly Goodwin." It was Ethan Ferrero. He wore a blue button-down shirt and khaki Dockers.
"A job's a job," I said.
Stan wandered by. "You should offer her some candy," he told Ethan.
Ethan's eyebrows popped up. "Oh yeah. Be back in a second." He came back with a red candy bowl full of suckers. He didn't strike me as the type of guy who'd keep a candy dish at his desk.
I didn't want a sucker, but something about Ethan's smile made me take a green one. He stepped closer to look at my monitor. There it was again—the sunblock smell. I unwrapped the sucker and was about to pop it in my mouth when I noticed a grasshopper encased in the middle. Ethan watched me out of the corner of his eye, expecting disgust. I opened my mouth. Ethan reached for my hand. "Wait! It has a bug in it."
What was it about him that made me do the exact opposite of what I wanted to do? I popped the sucker into my mouth. "So?"
He swallowed. "You're the first person who's actually eaten it."
I gagged. "Tastes like mouthwash."
He pointed to my trashcan. "I won't be offended." I kept it in my mouth a few more seconds before I dropped it into the trash. He cocked his head to the side as if trying to figure me out. "I owe you one for that."
"Point me in the direction of Jake's office, and we'll call it good."
Ethan set his candy dish on my desk. "Jake's office?"
I tried not to sound angry. "I need to talk to him about this assignment."
Ethan led me up a back stairwell and through the customer support center into something that looked like a conference room with a large table and six or seven chairs. I folded my arms, wondering if Candi had told him about me tap dancing in conference rooms. "This is not Jake's office."
Ethan brushed past me to close the door. "Stan told me about your interview. Everyone knows you're qualified for the job, even Candi." He had a hard time maintaining eye contact, but it wasn't hard for me, considering his eyelashes. It wasn't right for a guy to have dark, thick lashes like that, nor was it right for me to be attracted to anyone related to Candi Ferrero.
I transferred my attention to the poster hanging on the wall. It pictured a celebrity reading her favorite book. "How are you related to Candi?"
"She's my sister." His words almost squelched my attraction—almost.
I folded my arms. "I wanted to ask Jake why he won't put me on as a regular, full-time employee." On the other hand, nothing good had ever come from me expressing my emotions to Jake. Nothing good ever came from expressing my emotions to anyone. I was better off being calm and logical—calm and logical.
Ethan pulled a chair out from the table and sat in it. "Jake's not your problem. Candi's your problem."
I sat on the edge of the table with my side toward Ethan. "Jake was like a son to my father. Dad taught him everything he knew."
Ethan leaned back, resting his feet on another conference chair. "And he turned around and used it against you."
Was he trying to bait me into saying something I shouldn't? I'd known people at work who tried to act friendly but were just out to get their co-workers. Ethan didn't seem like one of those people, but he had to be on Candi's side. He was her brother. If I told Ethan I was angry at Jake, Candi was sure to find out. "How do I know you're not a spy?"
"Well, I use my real name, and I don't have a prosthetic nose." He leaned forward and pointed to his nose. "Test it out if you want."
Did I dare? Yes, I did. I touched the end of his nose with my pointer finger. "Very convincing, but I'm not fooled."
Ethan laughed, revealing his beach-worthy smile. "I think we can trust each other."
I headed for the door. "You're Candi's brother." I didn't blame Candi for being the way she was. If our roles were reversed and I were Jake's wife, I wouldn't want to employ his ex-girlfriend, especially not one with a temper like mine. I was sure Candi had told Ethan what I'd done to her car. Why else would he try to keep me in line?


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I am always surprised by how many people don't know that we adopt rabbits and other small animals at the OHS. After all, the OHS is responsible for the welfare of all animals, not just dogs and cats. Perhaps because people do strongly associate us with dogs and cats, adoption of rabbits is slow at the OHS.
To counter this, our new facility on West Hunt Club features a "Rabbitat" in one of the most prominent spots in our new adoption centre.
The rabbitat is not only more comfortable and less stressful for the bunnies than smaller cages, but it also features them more prominently in the main lobby.
We have also used it as an educational opportunity. The new installation is surrounded by care and other information about rabbits, so that even visitors not considering bringing a bunny into their lives learn more about these often misunderstood (and certainly underrated) pets.
Because rabbits can reproduce—ummm, like rabbits—the OHS sterilizes many of them before adoption. As with dogs and cats, sterilization not only limits animal overpopulation but also results in a healthier and better-tempered pet.
To see the rabbits available for adoption at the OHS, please click here.
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This year we haven't been very good at having regular hikes, esp. in the fall. Partly because Saturday is the only day when we get to unburry our house from heaps'o'stuff that magically grow back overnight and it's just too hard to find perfect time when it's not kids' nap time and not too dark outside, and when we are not too tired.
This week we've been able to get out !TWICE! and both times is was so refreshing to change the scenery, breathe some fresh air in, get our shoes muddy and listen to the silence of the trees around.
Today's photos are still in the camera, but I have some other ones ready that we took during our Wednesday hike. Both Mark and I were taking photos, so he deserves some credit for doing his best at 'covering' for me when I couldn't hold my camera still while bouncing on my feet to keep Anya from squirming :) And I do enjoy seeing things from his perspective, and the fact that those photos are a 'surprise' to me, something that I don't get to instantly view on the camera screen...
On the way back is was almost too dark to take photos, but I don't mind the noise so I cranked up the ISO and caught the following:


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McGettigans Irish Bar, Letterkenny has been shortlisted as the county's only finalist in this year's Bar of the Year Awards. McGettigans Irish Bar, located in the Clanree Hotel has been nominated in three categories; Best Hotel Bar, Best Bar Personality and Best Use of Social Media.
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The awards will culminate in a gala black tie event in the Double Tree Hilton Hotel, (formerly the Burlington Hotel), on Tuesday, October 28 from 6.30pm.
Open to all licensed premises in Ireland, the Bar Of The Year Awards received a 36% increase in entries this year. Bars across Ireland were selected across a range of categories including Bar Food of the Year, Best Modern Irish Cooking in a Bar, Best Use of Social Media, City Bar of the Year, Cocktail Bar of the Year and Country Bar of the Year.
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Ever wondered why you need One-on-One interviews and what they can do for you?
A few years ago I met with the CFO of an one time European trust. Business was going pretty well, but costs where out of hands. The CFO felt that most of the long standing problems were related to the existing legacy systems but the CTO was a personal friend with a friendship with the CEO. The CFO just didn't see a way of talking to the CTO without it turning into another argument. Even so the CTO had to report to the CFO the CFO couldn't do anything because of the CTO's ties to the CEO.
Doesn't this sound familiar: Company politics getting in the way of performance improvements?
Anyway, the CFO asked me what he could do. So I told him it would be best to interview the employees one-on-one: To find out what they really do and to find other underlying problems.
Being an outsider I was more objective then anyone else and I would be able to get information the employees wouldn't usually give to any internal interviewer. Besides that I would not be able to base my conclusions on existing knowledge of the company's culture.
First we had to find the most representative plant. We both agreed that if we find problems they will be similar at most plants. We also concluded that we would just waste time and other resources if we go to every plant and interview employees. One representative plant should do the trick for us. After all there were less then 10.
Little did we know about the problems we were about to dig out!
After reviewing the shocking results from the first round we decided that we had to interview employees at another plant. Just to make sure that we didn't end up with looking at one place which was troubled worst then any other plant. We really needed representative results to present to the CEO and get more necessary changes in place.
The number one challenge was to make the people talk. Talk about their work like they would talk with their family, their partners, sometimes their co-workers but not with a superior or even a consultant. I decided to not bring the employees into a separate room, but to perform the interviews right at their working place. That gave me the chance to investigate their environment, re-act immediately to specific situations and to ensure that statements made would not contradict given facts. It also allowed me the immediate feedback of other employees in the same department and sometimes even other departments. We still prepared a separate room just in case that an employee would ask for privacy during the interview. Interestingly enough not a single employee requested it.
For interviewing purposes it actually turned out that running the interviews in their work environments was a perfect fit: Employees yelled at each others, cursed each other out, were rude to customers on the phone. Things I would not have been able to find out when doing interviews in a closed room. Please do not get me wrong: You have to decide this on a customer by customer basis and can not just generally say it is better to do it one way or another.
The CFO met with his managers to inform them about my coming and the interviews I would perform. In the first plant this was already a challenge: Some of the managers didn't inform the employees about it.
Sensible interviews can and should be used to:
Too often interviews are conducted in an ill fashion - mainly to serve the purpose of management to tell the employees that interviews have been done and everything will become better. Being open to implementing changes to improve the overall performance is essential for the success of every striving business.
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I haven't even gotten to the donuts yet. Like a kid in a candy store, many of Eric's worlds are filled with sweet treats of surreal proportion and mysterious function, infusing a warm charm that instantly comforts and delights. Yet all is not quite as sugary sweet as it first seems. Just under the icing lies undercurrents of violence, depression and tragedy. The robots, it seems, are not always happy.
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Today I'd like to show you a pile of books.
It's a nice sized pile, isn't it? Notice anything about it? Not the titles (some well-known ones in there, I know). Run your eye down the left-hand side. You might notice some paper, even a piece of string. What's all that? Well, if you didn't guess already, those are bookmarks.
This, my loyal readers, is my pile of half-read books. Aside from a few that I didn't feel like stacking up on the pile and a few on my Kindle, this is my pile of books that I've started and haven't (yet) finished. Some are from recent weeks. A few, like the Nick Hornby, were started two years ago. (In defense of the Hornby, its columns he wrote for a The Believer, and I don't feel that they need to be read in a rush.)
It seems like I have a problem. I admit, it is somewhat of a problem that I'd like to fix. There are periods of time when it doesn't occur, however, reading a portion of a book and putting it down only to have another catch my eye and start reading that instead has shown me something about myself as a reader. And that is what I'd like to discuss today.
There are many things that plague my reading life. I get easily distracted. I find it hard to sit and read for long periods of time. Because of this, reading one novel could take a week (average, and I'd be pleased with that) or longer. Other readers will devour these same books in a day. Luckily, even with this big different in reading "speed" I think I still enjoy the story the same as devourerers (did I make up a word or just spell it wrong? Oh well.) More on that in a bit. It's rare that I've read a book in one day, but it has happened. Reading one in 2-3 days is an accomplishment for me. Those are often the ones that BLOW ME AWAY, not just blow me away.
I'm not trying to get a pity party going. I know I'm not alone in some of these reading struggles. It's how we're built. I can't, often, read a book straight through even when I love it. I said it. I'm proud. I'm a reader. That's all that matters. What I would like to focus on is some of the interesting things I've noticed in the last few years.
As a kid I devoured some books. When the Animorphs series came out, I read almost the entire series. Many were read almost as they were released. Then I stopped reading, unless it was assigned to me. It was in high school that I discovered books again, but it was also when I realized I don't read fast. It took me months to read Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls (one of the first books I bought when I discovered the local used bookstore). While I read that, I also started and finished A Farewell to Arms and many of his short stories. I didn't think much of this until recently.
Once I started blogging, my reading frequency picked up. I also didn't have as big of a pile of half-read books until the last year(ish). I got busy. My mind started wandering. It happens. A great thing about blogging, and more importantly reviewing, my memory for books seems to have gotten much better. Or, I never gave my memory as much credit as it deserved. This is one of the key factors to not being (t00) ashamed of my half-read pile.
Most of the books you see pictured above, I can jump right back into and feel like I never put it down. It might take a page or two to recall what I need to keep going, but that's all. I never would have thought I'd be able to finish some books without restarting them, but I feel that I've grown as a reader to the point that these things stick in my head for a long time. Well, once I finish a book, I tend to start forgetting things. But that's what my reviews are for, and one of the main reasons I started reviewing. They help jump-start my memory after I'm done.
*To interrupt your regularly scheduled reading of this post, I'd like to point out that this is the point of the post where real life started calling. I had to stop writing it, and didn't get back to finishing the post until more than 24 hours later. Ironic isn't it? Half-written post on half-read books. I now your regularly scheduled reading, already in progress*
An example of this, World After by Susan Ee. This book was released in November of 2013. I got the book around that time and even started it then. It's admittedly a fast, very engaging read. But I put it down at some point. Read a chapter or two in 2014…and now I picked it back up the night I started this post. this time, I plan on going to the end. I have less than 100 pages to read now and I'm loving the book. Funny thing is that the same thing happened when I read the first book in the series, Angelfall. It went a little more than half-read until close to release day for book 2. The third book, End of Days is coming out in May and it seems that history has repeated itself. Though, when I get my hands on that book, I'll have to remind myself there's no fourth book to wait for and that I should read it in one sitting. The series deserves that after what I've put it through.
One of the downfalls of this half-reading habit is that I often tell people "yea, that book is on my TBR" or "It's next on my list. Can't wait to read it." Seems innocent enough. Turns out that I say this much too often, and even if I did start the book soon after saying that, I come to realize I have a long line of books on my Kindle that I said I was going to read months ago. This happened in the last few months of 2014. I met many new authors, got myself some great looking books (and also had some gifted to me), had the intention to plow through the pile. I think, as of today, I've read two from the pile. That's almost nothing. I don't feel too guilty about this. We have our reading speeds. We have lives. No one expects things. I just don't like feeling left out of things, especially when I interact with most of these authors daily.
So, to all authors out there: You may remember (or not) whether or not I have your book on my pile(s). You may remember that I said I'd be getting to it soon. I doubt that soon came soon enough. Luckily, I don't forget most of what I own, and I have every intention of reading it in the next ten years. (Eh, figured I'd close this out in a light note.)
As always, comment with your thoughts. Do you half-read? I'm sure many of you can't fathom it. Totally understand that too. I know some of you probably start from the beginning, as well. For me, that'd get into rereading territory, and that's a topic for a totally different post.
Speaking of topics for posts, I'm running on empty here. Tell me what you'd like to read. Tell me if you'd like to write up your own guest post. I'm open to almost anything. Just shoot me a message though the contact form with topic ideas or guest post inquiries. I'd love to hear from you all about anything (almost anything. I have my limits…maybe.)
Now, to read more of this weekend's book…WORLD AFTER


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Best Way To Increase Strength and Power
How To Get Stronger Fast And Lift More Weight:
There is a lot of different talk about the best way to increase strength and power. Many people talk about the progressive overload method for constantly increasing weight strength, but it is not a realistic method in the long run. This method requires constantly adding weight to your lifts over time, but eventually you will hit a limit and not be able to add on anymore weight.
That is why the best way to increase strength and increase the amount of weight that you can lift in the long run is through fixed-weight progressive overload. This method focuses on the strength and exertion of your muscles, instead of just the amount of weight you are lifting. By focusing on making your lifts more difficult through different techniques will allow you to build strength while maintaining the same weight on your lifts. Once you have mastered the degrees of difficulty on these lifts, your muscles and tendons will be prepared to move up in weight.
Read more about the best way to increase lift strength below
Here's what you need to know…
- Lifters use progressive overload to get stronger with increased weight. But there's only so much progress you can make with that method.
- As muscles get stronger, tendon strength becomes a limiting factor. This causes you to "hit a wall" and stall out.
- Instead of continually adding plates to the bar, try "milking the weight." Make the exercise harder without adding more weight.
- Use a fixed-weight progressive overload. Make the reps harder with slow negatives and pauses to challenge your muscles. Master that weight, then add more.
The Problem With Progressive Overload
Progressive overload makes sense on paper. It goes like this:
To stimulate the body to adapt (grow) you must overload it by challenging it with a task it's not used to doing. To keep progressing, you must gradually increase the amount of overload imposed on the body.
Typically, that means adding more weight to the bar as you get stronger.
The problem? It can't keep working.
For example, if you add "only" 2 pounds per week to the bench press (a 1 pound increase per side) you'll be adding 100 pounds to your bench every year. If you started out with a 225 bench you'd be lifting 725 pounds within 5 years, 1,225 pounds after 10 years, etc.
It's not possible.
Typical Progressions
Some programs give the illusion of longer-term progress by having you start at a very easy level and working your way up.
Essentially the first 4-6 weeks are so easy that they don't challenge your strength. So you can progress for 16 weeks or so before hitting a wall.
In reality, you didn't progress more, you just took longer to start challenging your body. And such programs often include deloads or easy weeks every fourth week.
So now you can train 20 or even 24 weeks before hitting a wall. But again, when you hit that wall, you'll be at about the same level as you would've been after 8-10 weeks if you had used a more aggressive progressive plan.
Yeah, you trained for 20-24 weeks without hitting a wall, but you didn't get more results in the end.
Double Progression: This refers to first increasing the reps with a given weight, then increasing the weight.
What Progressive Overload Really Means
Progressive overload means gradually making your muscles work harder. Yes, adding weight constitutes an overload, but that's not the only way to create that overload effect.
Our problem is that we tend to qualify progressive overload quantitatively — using numbers, adding more weight, doing more reps. This is more of an external focus than an internal one.
We're focusing too much on the tools that create the effect in the muscles, instead of focusing directly on the muscles.
As long as you make your muscles work harder, you're overloading them. And if you gradually increase how hard they have to work, you're using progressive overload, even if you're not adding weight.
"Milking a Weight" and Tendon Strength
This means using a certain weight longer, taking more time to stimulate all the gains you can with a certain weight before adding more and more.
Both the slow progression and the double progression model use this principle — for good reason.
Most people are too eager to add weight to the bar. They believe that it's the only way to get stronger and bigger. Sure, the weight is only a tool to load the muscles which will make them grow via various biochemical responses. But people add weight faster than the body can strengthen itself.
After a few weeks, every session becomes more and more of a burden on the body and nervous system and the stress builds up until you hit the wall.
When people hit that wall they often try even harder to push more weight, which leads to bad form and injuries.
The nervous system adapts rapidly initially, but then the adaptation rate slows. Muscle adapts quickly but tendons are very slow to adapt.
Then muscle adaptations can take over and allow you to continue progressing fairly easily for another three or four weeks. But eventually tendon strength and the tendons' protective mechanisms will become a limiting factor.
And if you only focus on increasing the load, you'll hit the wall because you won't be able to continue adding weight until the tendons are stronger and the protective mechanisms are dulled down.
This is why most linear strength programs that work are 8-10 weeks cycles (sometimes 11 or 12 if they have a deloading/peak week). Lifters often don't realize they can continue making gains without constantly adding weight to the bar.
Finding ways to progress without adding weight will allow the tendons to adapt along with the rest of the body. Getting very good at a certain weight will downgrade the protective mechanisms.
The Fixed-Weight Progressive Overload
The fixed-weight system is a way to make the same weight more challenging.
Get to a point where you've done everything possible to make a weight feel "hard." Then once it feels easy, that's when you add weight. That's the only option you'll have left to challenge your body.
Why do it?
As freaks of training, we live for adding weight to the bar. So why use a program that has you wait even longer before you can add weight to the bar?
Because for natural, non-genetically gifted lifters, that's the best way to progress for a long time and avoid the frustration of stagnation.
You'll build more muscle, your tendons will get stronger and better prepared to handle bigger and bigger weights, your nervous system will stay fresh, and your lifting technique will improve.
Sure, "quick peak" programs can boost your main lift by 40-50 pounds in 6 weeks, but these aren't sustainable. In the long run, you won't end up any higher than you would've been with a slower progression. Also, strength gained from "quick peak" programs is easily lost.
The Fixed-Weight Training Block
Your progression with this approach will be sustainable for longer than any other progressive overload system.
Use the same training weight for your movements, but change the conditions under which you do each rep.
At the end of four weeks you increase the weight and start a new block.
A 12-week cycle (three, four-week blocks) will give you a strength increase of 10 or even 15% on your big lifts.
More importantly, if you decide to keep using this block progressing for one, two, or three more blocks you'll keep progressing at a similar pace.
This progression model is used for the big lifts. Every week you'll keep the same big movements and use the same weight, but how you perform the reps will change from week to week.
In an ideal world, you'll keep the same number of reps per set, but don't panic if you do one or even two less.
Week 1: Regular Reps
In the first week of a training block, do your reps with the same style you normally use. This should mean lowering the weight under control, but not slowly (about a 2 second eccentric) and lifting the weight aggressively, pushing it as hard as you can.
Week 2: Slow Eccentric
In the second week you'll keep pushing the weight aggressively, but lower the weight slowly. Shoot for about 5 seconds on the way down.
Don't count seconds; it kills your focus. Think about lifting and lowering the weight, not counting numbers. Just make the rhythm on the way down about twice as slow as it would be during a normal rep.
Week 3: Eccentric Pauses
Take three, 2-second pauses during the lowering portion of the lift. The first one in the upper third of the range of motion, the second at the mid-point, and the third in the bottom of the rep.
During those pauses, keep the body tight and contracted. Focus on maintaining perfect body position. After the bottom pause, try to lift the weight as aggressively as possible.
Week 4: Concentric Pauses
Take three pauses again. Take them at the same angles as during week three.
The difference is, you'll take the pauses during the concentric (lifting) portion of the movement. Once again, focus on maintaining perfect body position and keep the body tight at all times.
Weight and Reps
The starting weight for the first cycle should be 75% and the rep number 5. It's possible that on some weeks you get only 3 or 4 reps per set. That's fine, but really work hard to get those 5 without sacrificing form.
Do four "big lifts" in this training cycle. On each day you do two lifts. You'll train six days a week, ideally. So each big lift is hit three times a week.
Do three work sets for each, and one to three warm-up sets (progressively heavier). As mentioned, shoot for 5 reps per set.
At the end of a four-week cycle add 5% to the bar and start a new four-week cycle. For maximum results, do at least three cycles. Progress will be constant for up to 5-6 cycles.


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I'm not a big follower of writing guides, which tend to be pedantic, oriented toward novice novelists and too generic (or specific) to be helpful to anyone who actually writes. As numerous writers have pointed out, there are as many ways to write as there are books: the only real trick is to actually produce one. Still, occasionally good advice surfaces and becomes worth sharing.
Earlier today book blogger and legal/literary scholar Kate Sutherland posted a link to Steve Silberman's Practical Tips on Writing a Book from 23 Brilliant Authors. Silberman, an award-winning investigative journalist writing his first book, asked literary colleagues for advice and shared their suggestions, nearly all of which are simply superb — particularly for writers of non-fiction. Their advice is useful for writers in general but is a must-read for non-fiction authors, who tend to write into the wind.
There's no substitute for reading these excellent suggestions (please go do so; I'll be right here when you return). I have a few comments, though, offered below. They are grounded in my own experience as a non-fiction author (my first book, Imagining Toronto, was published by Mansfield Press in the fall of 2010 and was shortlisted for the Gabrielle Roy Prize in Canadian literary criticism and won the 2011 Heritage Toronto Award. I am currently at work on two, possibly three, non-fiction follow-ups, plus a novel I'd really like to finish first).
1. Write early and often. This advice reappears throughout the tips Silberman received, and it is utterly true. It took me three years to write the Imagining Toronto book, a period that also included the birth of my daughter and the death of my father (two events that make the life I lived before 2008 seem very distant indeed). While working on the book — which involved a massive research undertaking and clocked in at 135,000 words upon completion — I also continued to teach a full load (two days a week at York University, where I am happily affiliated with the Geography Department) and co-manage business affairs that required (and require) weekly and sometimes daily attention.
But during that time I wrote virtually every day. I wrote while holding my infant daughter. I wrote while pumping milk. I wrote while grieving my father (and continue to do so, although he'd hate the wasted time). I wrote on the subway and in lecture halls while my students wrote their exams. At times the writing did not go very quickly (there were periods when I choked on a single paragraph for a week or more, not so much because the writing itself was hard but because I didn't yet know what ideas I was struggling to articulate).
I am by nature a very early riser, and I hold the view that early morning is a wonderful time to write, mainly because the day has not yet begun wearing you down with its demands. Moreover, any ideas that may have crystallized while you slept are still free and unencumbered. If you have a short window for writing, getting an hour (or even half an hour) in is wonderfully motivating, and can engender ideas that percolate in your head during the day. I also recommend writing for a little while before going to bed, just because it makes the next morning's writing seem like a continuation rather than a new start.
If you struggle to "find the time to write" or have trouble motivating yourself to write, perhaps it would be more honest to say you are not currently in a writing frame of mind. Almost all the writers I know juggle full- or part-time jobs and family responsibilities alongside their writing careers.
2. Scrivener = meh. Two or three of Silberman's advisors recommend this writing management software, and he indicates an intent to follow up on the suggestion). I've tried out Scrivener as a lark and abandoned it quickly, as it seems to me to put structure ahead of writing. It is far too easy to get lost in the details Scrivener purports to manage rather than to simply write. If it works for you (and for Silberman), great, but it is far from essential. All you need to write non-fiction is a good idea, a fetish for research and a writing device.
For the Imagining Toronto book I read more than a thousand literary works, hundreds of non-fiction books and scholarly articles, and managed a mental list of thousands (if not tens of thousands) of literary excerpts, references and quotations. The book contains eight chapters and forty-one subsections, plus well over 200 footnotes and a very extensive bibliography, and I never felt the need for anything to help organize it other than the structure of the book itself. One reason this was easy to do was because I incorporated what I read into the book as I wrote it. Also: Post-it Notes as book-markers. I went through cases of them, and nearly every book I read still flutters with Post-it notes inserted into the pages like prayer flags.
3. Feedback is overrated. One of Silberman's advisors suggests getting as much feedback as possible. It's my view that one should seek only as much feedback as is necessary and not a jot more. I'd suggest seeking feedback (and then only when necessary) from trusted colleagues or publishing friends at pivotal moments. Write your own book.
My husband (and now co-author) read much of the Imagining Toronto book before it ever reached my very patient publisher. Sometimes I asked him to read so we could discuss some of the ideas; other times he offered criticism and/or moral support. All these things were terribly useful, not only because he is someone I trust my life to but because he is also my intellectual interlocutor and many of our ideas emerge through a mutual feedback process. But I don't think anyone else saw any of the book before it was published, apart from print articles that made their way into the book in modified form. My publisher didn't even see most of it until the final six months or so.
4. Outlines can also be overrated. It's my view that if your (non-fiction) outline is longer than a page, it's taking energy away from the book. My outline was ten bullet points and a detailed (sometimes shifting) map in my head.
5. Too many drafts spoil the book. I am a terrible baker (it requires a precision I cannot manage, not to mention an affection for baked goods, to which I am pretty much indifferent) but have managed to learn the first and most important lesson of baking: do not overwork the dough! If you overwork the ingredients, the bread (or cake … or book) will often fall flat or be tough or too dense or otherwise unappealing.
A similar thing, I think, is true of book writing. Overworked books seem visibly laboured and can fall flat as a result. Re-drafting can also become an excuse not to finish something and thus becomes a psychological evasion rather than a meaningful act of writing.
Sometimes books need redrafting. Sometimes this is evident to the author. At other times it's something an agent, publisher or editor will tell you. But if redrafting gets in the way of actually finishing the book, it's not ultimately a useful exercise.
Dare I admit that the Imagining Toronto book involved only a single draft? It was edited, certainly, and I spent quite a lot of time working on expressing the ideas as clearly and eloquently as possible, and several chapters ended up quite different from how they began, and plenty of stuff got moved around (or, in some cases, chopped out). Maybe some of this sounds like redrafting, but it was very much an as-you-go process, and in my view it was the most efficient way to write. And while the book is not perfect, its limitations have more to do with personal research proclivities than with structure or quality of writing.
6. Don't feel the need to be exhaustive in your writing. This is actually an inversion of a great bit of advice from Bill Wasik, who suggests that readers expect an author to have exhaustively covered the terrain he writes about. But I'd suggest choosing a stopping point somewhere between what Wasik calls the "basic ground" and the omega point of your subject.
The Imagining Toronto book was the first full study of Toronto's literature to appear in print. As a result (and also because I have a genuine fetish for research) I wanted the book to be as complete as possible. More than that, I wanted to celebrate every writer whose work I had encountered. I wanted to address everything about the imagined city. This was, of course, an impossible task, and certain subjects fell off the table as I wrote because there was neither room nor time to fit them in, or because mentioning them started to seem repetitious. According to my mental map of the subject the book should have been about 80,000 words longer — which might have made it more of an encyclopaedia than an analysis and might also have made it prohibitively expensive to publish. I have noted that while reviews of the book have been nearly uniformly enthusiastic, one criticism has revolved around a certain weariness at the number of literary references cited in the book. This is something I'll keep in mind in future non-fiction projects: sometimes less really is more.
It's okay to leave some things out. One way to pre-empt complaints that you haven't discussed someone's pet subject is to mention peripheral matters in passing and suggest they are beyond the scope of your current project. This trick works wonders in the scholarly world, and I think it's good advice for non-fiction writers beyond the confines of the ivory tower as well.
6.5. This may sound like a contradiction of point 6 above, but do be exhaustive in your research. By this I do not (necessarily) mean that you should research every nuance of your topic, but rather that everything you choose to write about should be fully researched and properly sourced. Don't guess, or rely on secondary references, or get caught in an error or slip-shod thinking. Don't trust anyone else's research, either; at the very least, triangulate among multiple secondary sources. As a meticulous researcher, it irks me when I find errors in others' books, and it would be embarrassing to find factual errors in my own. If you cannot gain access to the primary data and must reply on secondary sources, describe any claims as "reported."
7. Write the book that you've always wanted to read. This excellent piece of advice was supplied by Mark Frauenfelder, and I couldn't agree more. The only downside to this approach that you never get to read the book with the sense of discovery and desire you might have enjoyed had someone else written it first.
Closely paralleling this point is Peter Conners' wonderfully put observation that "[n]on-fiction shouldn't mean poorly written. Writing is writing and art always counts. Make your book beautiful to read and you're more likely to communicate your messages to your reader." Amen.
8. Deborah Blum suggests writing the first chapter last, and I share this view, at least insofar as noting that the first chapter will likely change more than most of the rest of the book. To this I'd add: consider writing the final chapter long before you near the end of the writing process. I wrote the final chapter of the Imagining Toronto book a year or more before the book itself was done (and have already written part of the final chapter for Acts of Salvage, the Toronto novel I'm currently working on).
Similarly, Sylvia Boorstein, whose advice to Silberman I loved in its entirety (apart from not reading other books on your subject, an injunction I cannot fathom following) observes that she does not write from beginning to end but rather produces her chapters in the order their subjects appear to her. I do this, too, and think it is also (among many other things) a great way to overcome the 'fear of the blank page' some writers reportedly feel upon starting. I always begin in media res, and recommend this approach highly. As Boorstein notes, if you have the order in your head already, it's easy to slot stuff in wherever it belongs.
The order in which I wrote the Imagining Toronto book is roughly as follows: The Imagined City (Chapter 1); The Myth of the Multicultural City (Chapter 4); The City as Text (Chapter 2 — in truth the twelve sections in this chapter took over a year to write, and I ended up finishing a number of later later chapters before this one); Class Fictions (Chapter 6); Imagining Toronto (Chapter 8 — the conclusion); City Limits (Chapter 7); ; Desire Lines (Chapter 5) and The City of Neighbourhoods (Chapter 3). Almost all of The City of Neighbourhoods chapter was written during the final weeks (as part of a marathon that is a bit nauseating to remember), and one of the reasons it is so long is because I forgot the discipline that had kept the earlier chapters (which appear later in the book) somewhat shorter. Having said that, to many people this is the central chapter of the book and so perhaps it was a good idea to try to be as complete as possible.
9. This is implicit in some of the suggestions sent to Silberman, although I'm not sure anyone says it directly: the length, content and timing of a book is determined less by the author's preferences and personal writing proclivities than by real-world exigencies and deadlines. Few books that ever get published are really considered 'complete' by their authors; I suspect that many (like mine) end because the time available to spend working on them has simply run out. Books are (like a writing career) works in progress.
Related to this should be the awareness that a book doesn't have to be perfect. Instead, it should be the best work you are capable of at the time you write it. I am terribly proud of the Imagining Toronto book, not because I think it is a perfect book (I know I would do a better job if I was writing it now) but because it was the very best work I could produce at the time.
10. Although several of Silberman's advisors suggest being open to harsh editing and never being afraid to "delete your darlings," I recommend saving everything you edit out. Retain extraneous material and false starts in a file or files somewhere. You never know when it will come in handy.
Whenever I write something I maintain a file called "orphaned text" or sometimes "quarantined text." Everything major I delete goes into these files for potential future use. Often false starts are motivators for future projects. There's a place for almost everything.
11. Fully acknowledge your sources and inspirations. This goes beyond footnoting and referencing and protecting yourself from plagiarism accusations or lawsuits. It has more to do with the ethics of research and writing. Books, particularly non-fiction books, belong to a genealogy of ideas and writers, and it's important to acknowledge the history that informed your work.
12. Finally, and most vitally, be grateful to those who support you. As Maryn McKenna advises, "Be good to your spouse/partner and protect time for them. They're in this with you, but unlike you, they didn't choose it."
Let me say that I am exceedingly grateful to my husband, Peter, who looked after our Keep and put his own intellectual projects second while the Imagining Toronto book took up most of the air-space in our life. In return I'm co-authoring a new (non-fiction) book on which he is the lead author and I primarily the textual hand-maiden.
In closing, I guess I'll say one more thing: good ideas and good writing will always find a home. I believe in this verily. The universe expands, and there is always room for new ideas to fill it.


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Jeremy McConnell and Stephanie Davis to get own show?
- Bang Showbiz
- 23 June 2017
Jeremy McConnell has teased that he and his on/off girlfriend Stephanie Davis may get their own fly-on-the-wall show
Jeremy McConnell has hinted that he and his on/off girlfriend Stephanie Davis may get their own reality TV show.
The turbulent couple's lives are regularly played out for all to see on social media but it looks like fans may finally get a glimpse of what goes on behind closed doors as the 27-year-old hunk has teased that he and the former 'Hollyoaks' actress may be in talks with television bosses about nabbing their own programme in the future.
When asked by The Sun Online if the pair were getting their own show, Jeremy coyly replied: "No comment."
Pushed on whether the former 'Celebrity Big Brother' heartthrob - who met the brunette beauty in the famous abode last year - would be prepared to let the cameras follow them down the aisle if they ever get hitched, he added: "You'll have to see in the future."
The pair's relationship has been the hot topic of conversation since they fell in love 18 months ago and, although they urge people not to get involved, they understand why people are so obsessed with their romance.
He explained: "I don't know if it's because we fell in love on TV and the public had such a big investment in 'CBB'. But now if I 'm angry at her or she's angry at me we'll unfollow each other on Twitter and people pick a side. It's just stupid. We bring it upon ourselves and we both know that."
Although things seemed positive earlier this week when he was talking about his relationship, it looks like Jeremy's life has spiraled out of control again as his friends are urging him to seek help in rehab for the second time after he was spotted sleeping on a park bench following a night out in London a few days ago.
A source said recently: "We are all so worried about him, the park bench is a new low. He looked dirty and dishevelled, and reeked of booze. We want him to go back to rehab, we are publicly urging him to get on a plane as soon as possible. No one can control him at the moment - and its devastating because he did so well."
Jeremy spent six weeks in rehab in March and, upon his release, he vowed never to pick up a bottle again for the sake of the pair's six-month-old son Caben-Albi.


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- For the occupation, see Mage.
- For the class in other games, see Mage (Origins) and Mage (Inquisition).
The mage is one of three playable classes in Dragon Age II.
Class description Edit
Mages in Dragon Age II deal in raw power, whether sapping, bestowing, or inflicting it. They have incredible tactical potential, a fact underscored by how doggedly they are hunted by the Templars. Versatile and devastating, an apostate mage lives a dangerous life in Kirkwall, but they are more than capable of handling the risk posed by the over-tasked authorities.
Mages can all but destroy an enemy's ability to fight. Slowing, weakening, disenchanting—once they know a weakness, they can turn the most dangerous opponent into a helpless target.
Alternately, Mages can turn their teammates into an unstoppable force by healing, adding elemental damage to weapons, and seemingly altering time in the party's favor with Haste. Both Warriors and Rogues can benefit from having a Mage at their backs.
But perhaps the main reason Mages are feared is that they command the battlefield with incredible AOE(area-of-effect) damage. Enemies who are not incapacitated or countered with empowered allies are simply obliterated. All of the classes in Dragon Age II are masters in their own discipline, but it's Mages who truly leave the earth scorched in their wake.
There is one weakness to the mage. Physically weak, mages will often be forced to "stagger" after each and every physical blow. Keeping your mage away from the enemy will ensure its maximum effectiveness.
Specializations EditBlood Mage
- Known as "maleficarum," blood mages are feared not only for the incredible power of their spells, but also their ability to control minds. Templars hunt blood mages relentlessly, yet despite their efforts, Kirkwall sees more instances of blood magic with each passing year. Some whisper that the Order's relentless hunt has driven good intentioned apostates to blood magic in their desperation to survive and keep their freedom.
- Force mages are a fearsome sight on the battlefield, bending the laws of nature to crush, toss, and debilitate their foes. Kirkwall's Circle houses a higher-than-usual percentage of mages who excel at this specialization, and their combined research has refined the school considerably.
- Few mages are watched more closely by the templars than spirit healers. For all the good they can do, their consorting with any denizen of the demon-infested Fade is a matter of intense suspicion. Still, the benefits outweigh the risks, if only just.
Spells Edit
- Main article: Spells (Dragon Age II)
- The mage masters the elements of fire and ice.
- The mage commands earth and sky.
- Spirit magic shakes foes to the core, partially bypassing resistances and effectively countering enemy mages.
- Arcane magic taps into the deepest wells of the Fade, protecting the caster and crushing the arcanist's foes.
- Mages schooled in creation are invaluable allies who can heal wounds, strengthen party members, and ward against oncoming foes. Note: None of the spells in this school are considered offensive spells, and thus can be cast even with "Healing Aura" or "Panacea" active.
- The mage delves into the chaotic nature of the Fade, twisting the fabric of probability and ensnaring foes with horrifying visions.
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