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Red Fountain Polytechnic

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Red Fountain Polytechnic is a prestigious institution renowned for its specialized education in merging technology, magic, and combat. Situated within a sprawling campus adorned with cutting-edge facilities, it houses three distinct colleges: Vanguard, Arcane, and TechForge. The curriculum encompasses a diverse range of subjects, from aerospace engineering and combat tactics to magical studies and artifact creation. Red Fountain boasts a collaborative environment where students engage in rigorous training, missions, and collaborative projects, preparing them to become skilled Specialists in their chosen paths of engineering, combat, or magical expertise.

Average Graduation Time: 5-7 Years

Average Acceptance Rate: 2%

Annual Acceptance Rate: 1250 Students

Contribution Level: Tier 1

College

Vanguard School of Combat

Departments:

Military History & Strategy

Tactical Combat

Survival Tactics & Freelance Operations

Field Operations & Simulation

Strategic Leadership & Organization

Specialties

Strategic Leadership & Organizational Structures

Focus: Training in leadership, organizational structures, and decision-making.

Emphasis on strategic planning, organizational leadership, and command responsibilities

Tactical Combat & Field Operations

Focus: Hands-on training in combat tactics, field operations, and warfare strategies.

Emphasis on tactical combat skills, field maneuvers, and real-time operations.

Freelance Operations

Focus: Preparing for independent contracting and diverse combat scenarios.

Emphasis on adaptability, versatility, and navigating varied contracts and operations.

Arcane School of Magic

Departments

Magical Theory & History

Spellcraft & Enchantment

Alchemy & Potionology

Magical Artifacts

Mystical Creatures

Specialties

Magical Studies & Theoretical Applications

Focus: Theoretical understanding of magical principles and history.

Emphasis on magical theory, historical practices, and the evolution of magical arts.

Spellcraft & Enchantment Practical Applications

Focus: Hands-on application of spellcasting techniques and enchantments.

Emphasis on practical spellcasting, enchantment methods, and application in various contexts.

Alchemy & Potion Mastery

Focus: Mastery of alchemical processes and potion-making.

Emphasis on understanding alchemical principles, potion brewing, and creating potent elixirs.

Magical Artifact Creation & Studies

Focus: Creating, studying, and understanding magical artifacts.

Emphasis on artifact creation, analysis of magical items, and their historical significance.

Mystical Creatures Conservation & Management

Focus: Preservation and responsible management of mystical creatures.

Emphasis on studying mystical creatures, their habitats, and ethical conservation efforts.

TechForge School of Engineering

Departments

Techno-Magic Integration & Programming

Aerospace Engineering & Dimensional Travel

Vehicle Engineering & Transportation Infrastructure

Techno-Magic Artifacts & Tools

Tecno-Magic Innovation & Development

Tecno-Magic Weaponry Design

Specialties

Techno-Magic Integration and Programming:

Focus: Merging technology and magic through programming.

Emphasis on coding for enchantments, spell-powered systems, and magical integration into technological frameworks.

Aerospace Engineering and Dimensional Travel:

Focus: Design and exploration of aerospace technology, including interdimensional travel.

Emphasis on designing aircraft, spacecraft, and dimensional travel technologies.

Vehicle Engineering and Advanced Transportation Systems:

Focus: Development of advanced transportation systems and vehicles. 

Emphasis on designing and improving futuristic vehicles for diverse terrains and functionalities.

Techno-Magic Artifacts and Tools Development:

Focus: Creation and enhancement of magical artifacts and tools.

Emphasis on crafting enchanted tools, devices, and magical artifacts for various applications.

Techno-Magic Innovation and Research:

Focus: Pioneering research and breakthroughs in techno-magic fusion.

Emphasis on pushing the boundaries of technological-magical integration through research and experimentation.

Techno-Magic Weaponry Design and Development:

Focus: Designing advanced weaponry using technology-magic fusion.

Emphasis on creating combat-oriented weapons infused with magical enhancements for strategic advantage.

Red Fountain Contribution System

Valor

The currency earned by students when they successfully complete missions.

Earned the most by Vanguard Students

Typically qualifies as Public Service

Wisdom

The collective intellectual wealth generated by students through research efforts, the school's contribution to public research and advancements in various fields, and the dividends reaped by society through the school's commitment to research excellence.

Earned the most by Arcane students

Typically qualifies as Public Research

Innovation

Contributions made by students practicing alchemy and magic: creating enchanted objects, elixirs, and potions for the community. Alternatively, donations derived from the ingenious techno-magic artifacts and vehicles.

Earned the most by TechForge students

Typically qualifies as Public Charity

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🔸December 21, 1974 – Melody Maker

Freddie Mercury: Queen Bee

by Caroline Coon

THERE’S nothing like a dearth of hero-stars to make a media industry writhe with despondency. Film moguls, unable to find successors to Monroe and Gable, are making a cult of anti-stars. But the pop industry needs the potent elixir, the excitement of using honest superlatives to sear through the blood, lifting the spirits. And pop scribes, like damp, weary pilgrims waiting for the dawn, have been aching to crown a new hero.

Then, just when the prognosis looked direst, with a dazzling whoooosh, darlings, up popped Freddie Mercury.

Suddenly we’ve discovered in our midst an exotic prancer, a quixotic chancer, an electronic Elgar who has penned some of the gaudiest, soaring rock and roll anthems to be heard in a decade.

Freddie, known for his meticulous attention to detail, couldn’t have planned his heir apparency better. He’s paid his dues. With Queen (Brian May — guitar, John Deacon — bass, Roger Taylor — drums) he’s had four years to survey the scene and build up the frenzied grass-roots following which left him impervious to the lack of affection in other quarters. However, with the delivery of Sheer Heart Attack, all the vehement dampeners with which critics received Queen’s two previous offerings have turned to outpourings of unrestrained enthusiasm.

Freddie’s wearing tight oyster grey satin pants, an antique market cream satin blouse and a scarlet velvet Victorian bed jacket. His hair is cormorant black, he flashes ebony eyes and his smile reveals a row of pearly white teeth which look ready to plunge into a meal of little girl burgers. He’s tapping the carpet with one white boot, the tabletop with a pen and for a moment I wonder anxiously whether I’m facing an irked prima donna. But “no, Mercury isn’t my real name, dear. I changed it from Pluto,” Freddie jibes. His gentle, deadpan camperie breaks the ice.

When you first formed Queen, did you aim pretty high, I asked. “That’s it. The whole group aimed for the top slot. We’re not going to be content with anything less. That’s what we’re striving for. It’s got to be there. I definitely know we’ve got it in the music, we’re original enough… and, now we’re proving it,” said Freddie, being uncharacteristically forceful.

You must have had a lot of self confidence? “You have to have confidence in this business. It’s USELESS saying you don’t need it. If you start saying to yourself ‘maybe I’m not good enough, maybe I’d better settle for second place,’ it’s no good. If you like the icing on the top, you’ve got to have confidence. I was a precocious child. My parents thought boarding school would do me good so they sent me to one when I was seven, dear. I look back on it and I think it was marvellous. You learn to look after yourself and it taught me to have responsibility.”

Your background is quite affluent then? “No it wasn’t as affluent as people think. It was middle-class. But I suppose I gave the appearance of being affluent. I love that. I still do. It’s all part of how you feel and how you project yourself.”

Freddie left boarding school when he was 16. He studied classical piano, to Grade 4, but being an arty lad, his parents encouraged him to develop this creative talent. “I went to Ealing Art School a year after Peter Townshend left. Music was a sideline to everything we did. The school was a breeding ground for musicians. I listened to Hendrix, really. I got my diploma and then I thought I’d chance it as a freelance artist. I tried. I did it for a couple of months, but I’d done it for so long I thought ‘my God, I’ve done enough.’ The interest wasn’t there. And the music thing just grew and grew. Finally I said ‘right, I’m taking the plunge, it’s music.’ I’m one of those people believes in doing those things which interest you. Music is so interesting, dear.”

Were you always a bit of a performer? “Well, on stage I just click. To be honest, performing comes quite easily realty. It doesn’t take me that much. I mean, I know it sounds conceited and there are a lot of setbacks and a lot of strains and nerves, but not nearly as much as there used to be. Now we are a headline band we know people have come to see us. Being support is one of the most traumatic experiences of my life.”

Yes, it seems as it the strain took its toll. Brian dropped out of the first American tour with hepatitis and Freddie was plagued with boils. “I tell you, I feel the after-effects of touring. We finished the British tour last night and I feel as if I’ve done a marathon every night. I’ve got bruises everywhere. Because it’s the music that matters, you’ve got to make sure there are key people around you, taking care of you.”

And now, what about the spectre of your success? Does it loom before you and keep you awake at night? “Quite often I have quite vicious nightmares — like the other night just before the Rainbow concert. We were sleeping in the Holiday Inn and I dreamed I went out on to the hotel balcony and the whole thing fell and I was a heap on the pavement. Really I was petrified when I woke up in the morning. And Roger has this nightmare where he’s drinking a bottle of Coke and the bottle smashes and he has broken glass all the way down his system. Ridiculous sort of things like that are caused by the tension which builds up.”

With all the energy you’re going to be putting into touring in Europe and America in the next few months, are you going to find the time to write? “Well, I don’t ever really sit down at the piano and say ‘right, I’ve got to write a song now.’ I feel a few things and I have ideas. It’s very hard to explain but there are always various ideas going through my head. ‘Killer Queen’ was one song which was really out of the format that I usually write in. Usually the music comes first, but the words came to me, and the sophisticated style that I wanted to put across in the song, came first. No, I’d never really met a woman like that. A lot of my songs are fantasy. I can dream up all kinds of things. That’s the kind of world I live in. It’s very sort of flamboyant, and that’s the kind of way I write. I love it.

“You don’t need money to give an air of being… ” he pauses, as if he’s afraid of revealing too much about himself. “I don’t know — sort of extreme. The showbiz thing of walking into a room and making sure that people know you’re there. I love being able to let myself go at times. The ideal thing for a group that is successful is to churn out more of the formula that worked. But we want to progress in our own terms.”

Will you have to take time off to write new songs? “It depends. Nobody knew we were going to be told we had two weeks to write Sheer Heart Attack. And we had too — it was only thing we could do. Brian was in hospital.”

What do you feel like under that kind of pressure? “Well, ‘Killer Queen’ I wrote in one night. I’m not being conceited or anything, but it just fell into place. Certain songs do. Now, ‘March Of The Black Queen’, that took ages. I had to give it everything, to be self indulgent or whatever. But with ‘Killer Queen’, I scribbled down the words in the dark one Saturday night and the next morning I got them all together and I worked all day Sunday and that was it. I’d got it. It gelled. It was great. Certain things Just come together, but other things you have to work for. The whole band is very particular. We don’t go in for half measures and I’m very hard with myself. There’re no compromises. If I thought a song wasn’t quite right, I’d discard it. I’m very intricate and delicate. You can see that in my paintings. I love painters like Richard Dadd, Mucha and Dali, and I love Arthur Rackham.”

You’re on the way to being a huge androgynous sex symbol. What does it feel like to know that there are thousand’s of lads and lassies out there who want a piece of you for themselves? “It’s a great feeling. I play on the bisexual thing because it’s something else, it’s fun. But I don’t put on the show because I feel I have to and the last thing I want to do is give people an idea of exactly who I am. I want people to work out their own interpretation of me and my image. I don’t want to build a frame around myself and say ‘this is what I am’ or ‘this is all I am.’

“To be honest. I’d like people to think there, is no falsity in me, because what I do is really my character. But I think mystique, not knowing the truth about someone, is very appealing. I’d be doing myself an injustice if I didn’t wear make-up because some people think it’s wrong. Even to talk about being gay used to be obnoxious and unheard of. But gone are those days. There’s a lot of freedom today and you can put yourself across anyway you want to. But I haven’t CHOSEN this image. I’m myself and in fact half the time I let the wind take me.

“I don’t go out to have very gay company but, I tell you, in this business it’s very hard to find friends — to have loyal friends and to keep them. Among my friends are a lot of gay people and a lot of girls and a lot of OLD men. The man I have as a chauffeur — we’ve, built up such a bond, it’s a kind of love, and I don’t care what people think about it. Putting people in different categories is unfair. You have to judge people on what they are.”

What kind of person are you? “How do you expect me to answer a question like that, dear! There are various aspects of me. The thing I treasure most, above music, is meeting people. I like being sociable, going out to functions and things and, generally, I’m likeable I think. But I can change and be very moody and obnoxious. I’m a sort of chameleon. Success is teaching me a lot of things and I’m adapting. You’ve got to learn to come up with decisions very quickly. There’s no beating about the bush in this business.”

Do you think you’re in control of the success trip? “We’re going to try to control it as much as we can. You’ve got to make sure that you don’t ever admit to yourself that this is your peak. If you admit to yourself that this your peak, then you’re on the way down. I really feel that we have so much more to offer. There’s masses waiting in store that we can give.”

How do you feel about the superstar label? “Honestly, labels like that are touch and go with us. We’ve been labelled so many different things and labels are as bad as they are good. If you took labels seriously, you’d be very silly. We were labelled ‘hype’ in the early days. We took offence, but we didn’t take it seriously because we knew what we were about.”

You told me earlier that you love affluence. Now that you’re on the way to becoming a very rich man, what are you going to do with your money?

“Spend it, my dear. I’m the one member of the band for whom money isn’t very endearing. I’m the one who spends it straight off. It just goes. On clothes and I like nice things around me.”

Pic: 1974 - Freddie Mercury posing

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If you have been planning about your own startup for a while but can’t quite put a finger on how or where to source the right talent for it, stop for a minute and go through this article. Here we will uncover some of the top places to hire Elixir developers, which will not only help you find skilled developers but also help you save some money while putting you in direct contact with the developers for a clearer one-to-one interaction.

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As Risky Finances Alienate Investors, Fracking Companies Look to Retirement Funds for Cash

Digital Elixir As Risky Finances Alienate Investors, Fracking Companies Look to Retirement Funds for Cash

Jerri-Lynn here. Just the latest installment in DeSmogBlog’s ongoing coverage of fracking follies. The still unprofitable industry now turns to pension funds and private equity for capital. What could possibly go wrong?

By Sharon Kelly, an attorney and freelance writer based in Philadelphia. She has reported for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, National Wildlife, Earth Island Journal, and a variety of other publications. Originally published at DeSmogBlog.

A year ago, Chesapeake Energy, at one time the nation’s largest natural gas producer, announced it was selling off its Ohio Utica shale drilling rights in a $2 billion deal with a little-known private company based in Houston, Texas, Encino Acquisition Partners.

For Chesapeake, the deal offered a way to pay off some of its debts, incurred as its former CEO, “Shale King“Aubrey McClendon, led Chesapeake on a disastrous shale drilling spree. Shares of Chesapeake Energy, which in the early days of the fracking boom traded in the $20 to $30 a share range, are now valued at a little more than $1.50.

Encino has marketed itself as a stable source of long-term returns (something the industry overall has struggled so far to create), attracting the managers of one of the world’s largest pension funds to drill and frack the land that Chesapeake sold off to repay its enormous debts from fracking nationwide.

A Unique Model’ for Shale Drillers

Chesapeake, of course, is not alone in discovering that shale drilling can be financially disastrous for investors. In 2018, the top 29 shale producers spent $6.69 billion more than they earned from operations, an April report by Reuters concluded — a spending record racked up two years after investors began pushing shale drillers to start turning a profit. In December 2017, the Wall Street Journal found that shale producers had spent $280 billion more than the oil and gas they sold was worth between 2007 and 2017, the first 10 years of the shale drilling rush.

“We lost the growth investors,” Pioneer Natural Resources CEO Scott Sheffield recently told the Journal. “Now we’ve got to attract a whole other set of investors.”

Encino, which bought up Chesapeake Energy’s 900,000 acres of drilling rights in Ohio’s Utica shale in that $2 billion deal, may have found its “other” investors: the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), which manages retirement funds on behalf of the Canada Pension Plan.

Ray Walker, Encino Energy, starts the #DUGEast Conference off in a fireside chat with host Richard Mason. Walker says the Utica will really surprise people going forward. Encino has 900,000 acres in Ohio. “We have a lot of running room.” pic.twitter.com/SA0l3PgnCS

— Hart Energy Events (@HartEnergyConf) 19 June 2019

“We’re not your typical private equity company in that the Canada pension plan is I think the third largest pension plan in the world,” Ray Walker, Encino’s chief operating officer, told attendees at last month’s DUG East shale industry conference in Pittsburgh. “They have a long-term view on capital and they don’t expect their funds to start declining — in other words more people [in Canada] are putting in today than will be taking out, and they don’t expect that to flip til 2050-plus.”

“So, it’s a unique model and it’s something I had not ever run across in the industry,” Walker, who served as chief operating officer for the gas drilling company Range Resources until early 2018, added. “It’s what really attracted me to come out of retirement, to do something different and a little bit more exciting and a long-term — really long-term view.”

“Patient money,” responded moderator Richard Mason.

“Yeah,” Walker replied with a laugh.

“Who’d have ever thought, right?” said Mason.

Long-Term Investments as the Climate Changes

The Canada Pension Plan — often compared to the U.S.Social Security system — is funded by mandatory contributions from workers’ wages that generally begin at age 18 and end at age 65. The CPPIBinvests that money on behalf of the plan.

Last May, Mark Machin, the chief executive officer of the CPPIB, pledged to start taking the risks associated with climate change more seriously.

“We’re going to make a huge push on it this year,” he told the Calgary Herald. “We want to do a much better job of being able to understand the risks that we’re taking on in each investment and the risks we have embedded in the portfolio, and make sure we’re being paid for them.”

As part of our climate change work, we’re a strong Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures supporter and one of two stand-alone pension fund managers that are members. Their new report shows nearly 800 organizations support TCFD’s recommendations. https://t.co/cC2O0GYyaY

— CPPIB (@cppib) 7 June 2019

As the impacts of climate change are increasingly felt around the globe, watchdog groups have pushed pension fund managers to keep in mind the ways that climate change will impact the global economy in the coming years and decades.

“Pension funds have legal obligations related to their fiduciary duties, to consider long and medium-term risks, such as those related to climate change that could have adverse effects on their investments,” the Global Initiative for Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights wrote in an April 17 report. “Such risks include physical impacts of climate change on pension fund assets and investments, but also the increasingly evident risk of stranded assets and the associated legal risks of failing to address the climate-related risks.”

Other large pension funds have concluded that the oil and gas industry carries too much economic risk to make for a sound long-term investment — even without taking climate change into account. This March, Norway’s $1 trillion Government Pension Fund Global announced that it would be divesting from oil and gas exploration firms, a move affecting $7.125 billion worth of its holdings.

“The objective is to reduce the vulnerability of our common wealth to a permanent oil price decline,”Norway’s finance minister, Siv Jensen, told The Guardian as the move was announced.

Most of the money in Norway’s sovereign wealth fund comes from the profits it derives from oil and gas production. The decision to drop certain oil & gas investments isn’t based on climate change but fear of price volatility in oil and gas stocks. https://t.co/WDqG0Yy43r

— Mark Hand (@MarkFHand) 11 March 2019

Outside observers have specifically warned that pension plans that invest in shale companies might wind up with regrets.

While the shale drilling industry’s financial instability may not be so large as to pose an overall risk to the financial system, “I think there’s risk to pension plans that are pouring their money into private equity firms, which in turn are pouring billions into shale companies,” Bethany McLean, author of the book Saudi America: The Truth about Fracking and How It’s Changing the World, told E&E News in a September 2018 interview. McLean is also widely credited as the first financial reporter to take a critical look at energy company Enron before its collapse.

In addition to the long-term risks that all fossil fuel companies face from the drive to keep oil, coal, and gas in the ground and prevent catastrophic climate change, shale drilling companies face some unique long-term risks.

Many shale drillers told investors that they plan to drill multiple wells — in some cases 20 or more wells — from the same well-pad. But the industry has discovered that those later wells, called “child” wells, often perform worse than the first well drilled, called a “parent” well.

“It’s something we’re all trying to synthesize,” Encino’s Walker said in Pittsburgh as he discussed parent-child well interference. “There’s still a whole lot of learning curve to go through. But I think the one thing that everybody is noticing, probably even more so in West Texas than up here, is that parent-child relationship is playing a huge role in the recoverable reserves. In other words, the second, third, fourth well are not anywhere near as good as the first well.”

A Gamble on Shale

The stock markets and banks have become increasing unfriendly places for shale drilling companies as the oil and gas industry has under-performed compared to other parts of the economy. This has left drilling companies hunting for capital to fund continued drilling — and they are increasingly turning to so-called private equity — a category covering both private investors like Warren Buffett and asset managers like pension funds.

Drilling companies plan to source 40 percent of their capital for 2019 from private equity funds, according to a recent survey by Haynes and Boone, compared to 26 percent from selling the oil and gas they produce, 21 percent borrowed from banks, and 12 percent in debt and equity from capital markets like Wall Street.

Privately held companies like Encino are more opaque than publicly traded oil and gas companies because they generally are not required to make their financial information public. That means there’s little publicly available information about how private shale drilling companies have performed over the past decade. And every shale drilling company has unique financial prospects, based on a broad array of factors that include the amount it spent to acquire drilling rights, its drilling and fracking costs, and the amount of oil, gas, and natural gas liquids it can tap.

Encino did not respond to questions sent by DeSmog. “Our assets generate strong cash flow, we have modest debt, and we support our development activities with a robust commodity hedging program,” the company says on its website.

A wellpad in Carroll County, Ohio. Credit: Ted Auch, FracTracker Alliance

Canada’s pension fund praised Encino’s acquisition of Chesapeake Energy’s acreage in Ohio when that deal was announced. “We are pleased to support EAP’s [Encino Acquisition Partners’] acquisition of these highly attractive Utica shale assets, which provides CPPIB with meaningful exposure to a leading North American natural gas play and aligns with the growing focus on energy transition,” said Avik Dey, managing director and head of energy and resources at the CPPIB.

Others saw the deal as carrying a significant degree of risk. Moody’s Investor Services rated debt associated with Encino’s Utica deal at B2. “A B2 rating is deep into junk status and means there’s a very significant chance you’ll end up in default,” Axios explains. Moody’s rated the overall probability of default one notch higher at B1.

For its part, Encino predicts that it can do better in the Utica than Chesapeake Energy could — not just in terms of individual well performance, but also in avoiding the boom-bust cycle for which the oil and gas industry is notorious.

“All of that is part of a longer-term strategy to run this as a normal business that needs to be profitable, less volatile, and therefore better for its shareholders, its employees, and the community,” Encino CEO Hardy Murchison told an Ohio newspaper after a talk at Kent State University in March.

Chief operating officer Walker sounded a similar note at the DUG East conference this June.

“Pretty excited about what we’re seeing, the economics are very favorable,” Walker said at the industry conference. “So, Chesapeake did a great job of setting this up, but we’ve got a lot of running room going forward.”

As Risky Finances Alienate Investors, Fracking Companies Look to Retirement Funds for Cash

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Just a Guy at the Bar by Mihir Otia

About the book

Not a tale about a bar owner or a bartender but a fiction worth reading about when people meet at the bar having a whiskey of our own choices exclaim the story of how a billionaire’s love life is all about being a rich, smart handsome intellectual can turn around to a hard, anxious beast to revenge for what’s his and never letting it go. You’ll not learn how to be a billionaire by reading this for you need to have a mindset. By reading this you’ll get to know how life is for a billionaire and love happens to be the beautiful thing in one’s life but it may affect how you think and which ultimately leads to revenge and rebellious behavior to conquer what’s yours till which it’s too late and that’s when an attitude towards life and love develops How to read this book  Just sit by on your egg chair with a glass of intense coffee I’ll suggest a Hofstadter (A dark cold brew elixir with rum) and enjoy a fantastic journey into a billionaire’s love life. And if anyone asks what’s your story I’ll exclaim I don’t have a story I’m just a guy at the bar.

About the author

An enthusiastic budding entrepreneur with a master’s degree in pharmaceutical technology. At the age of 22 Completed a technical textbook on Nano-biotechnology with the title NANO-BIOTECHNOLOGY, A RECAPITULATION OF IT'S CONTEMPORARY AND ANTICIPATED PRESUMPTIONS. In his recent publication, he has 5 articles published based on pharmaceutical research and development. Currently, he is working on neuroprotective treatments from herbal medications for his upcoming publication. He is an active blogger with his own blog site on AI and Pharmacy whose podcasts are also available on renowned platforms such as Spotify, Google Podcasts, etc. available on https://wordpress.com/home/mihirotia.data.blog For all his social links, Interviews, and Portfolios visit https://linktr.ee/MihirOtia With an interest in AI and digital science, he is a freelancer as a digital marketing consultant and expert in various creative content development. With his partners Mr. Deep Panchal and Mr. Harshal Patel. At 24 he was focused to write his first fiction about how billionaires and their lifestyles are different, how love can be cruel and why people sometimes give up their lives for love and do not recognize the true potential they hold within. Up next, he is willing to write a biography of a profound individual who was very close and how changed the life of an entire family.

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me: *suffering from extreme stress*

me: ya know what, i gotta write some good ol’ fanfic

so here ya go! xD this is the first part of a pwp i’m writing. pavlov’s dog ch.2 is halfway finished, i might post it around some time this month!

“Darling, it’s already 7. Don’t you have work today?”

Waylon groaned, burying his face on the pillow and pulling up the blanket to his shoulders. There were footsteps, and the weight of his boyfriend dipping on the bed. Fingers softly combed his curly hair, and he moved his head to the side to stare at Eddie.

Eddie, who is up and already dressed for the day, with his hair fixed like a model ready for photoshoot. His smile was teasing, his eyes soft with adoration. “I already made you breakfast, but you have to hurry up if you still want them warm.”

He hummed. “Coffee?”

Eddie laughed, moving his hand to caress the visible portion of his face. “Yes, that too.”’

“Mhm, thanks.” Waylon shimmied to his side and pressed a kiss on his hand. “Good morning, Eddie.”

“Good morning, darling. I’m sorry but I’ll have to hurry up now; Frank gets hungry easily in the mornings and if I don’t get to the shop in time he’ll probably lock it again to find some food.” He bent down to kiss Waylon’s forehead, and Waylon replied with a quick kiss on his lips.

“Are you gonna be back for lunch?”

“Ah, that depends. I’ll call you later about that, but if I can’t make it there’s still some burgers on the freezer.”

“Okay,” he smiled. Eddie ruffled his hair before standing up.

“I’ll see you later then, Waylon.”

“Yeah, have fun shopping.”

The taller man gives him one last smile before leaving the room, closing the door softly behind him.

Waylon yawned and stretched up his arms, squinting against the sunlight pouring in from the open window. He checked his phone for the time.

It’s 6:00 AM.

“Goddammit Eddie!” he cried out, throwing himself back to the covers. “You doofus! I shouldn’t be awake before nine! This is a crime!”

Waylon swore he could hear loud laughter coming down from the living room.

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Being a freelance software engineer is awesome. He could wake up anytime he wants (unless there’s a scheduled call with a client), he doesn’t have to adhere to some asshole’s corporate dress code, he doesn’t have to suffer from lack of sunlight most developers are subjected to. Of course, he has to discipline himself to actually do some work, which is where having Eddie to pester him to keep a proper schedule gets useful. He has to do his own taxes, and make sure he’s not getting cheated off.

One of the best perks of living with Eddie while working at home is that he has access to great coffee.

No, you have to understand, this isn’t just some French press bullshit. He still doesn’t know how Eddie makes it, but the flavor and aroma is always richer than the ones he usually finds in coffee shops and puts Starbucks to shame (but then again their espresso is shit and gave him acid reflux more than once).

Eddie once told him that he makes a big deal out of it, but the thing is, coffee is his life support during work days. It’s the Elixir of Programmers™, and great coffee eases shitty days.

Once he’s done showering, he went downstairs and set his laptop on the kitchen table. He poured himself a cup of coffee, sighing with happiness as the aroma reaches his nose. Then he returned to sit down and pull the covered plate where his breakfast lies.

A big slice of frittata and several strips of bacon covers a pile of fried rice. He smiled and dug in, watching his laptop load the operating system. Eddie spoils him too much, yet he balances it with discipline. Discipline that comes in the form of dragging him to the gym to get some exercise and fucking him hard at nights whenever Waylon’s instinct to overwork kicks in, so hard that the idea of touching his laptop makes him want to sleep till the next millennia.

Just like last night.

Waylon felt his face heat up from the memories of hands pulling him away from his work, lips dragging across his neck, fingers insistently pressing against his mouth while the other hand pinches his nipples…

Ah, shit. He bit his tongue hard in an attempt to shake out the fantasies.

The laptop hummed with life, the boot up melody playing as the desktop refreshed. He finished his breakfast and got to work.

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some Force headcanons no one asked for but you are getting anyway:

Miles didn’t know he was Force-sensitive until he was investigating a Murkoff-funded research facility for shady business and ethical violations. The company had been looking for a way to get rid of him in order to protect themselves, and found the perfect excuse during a harmless demonstration of a new Force detector device they’d been developing. Miles set it off and was taken into the testing program (known by the codename Project Walrider) immediately. Records claim he volunteered. 

There have always been rumors of ways to manipulate one’s Force-sensitivity and usage level. Murkoff threw funding at a number of methods within their facility, and Miles was subjected to most of them during his capture. He was injected with drugs -- such as the elixir of the bota plant -- as well as “donor” midi-chlorians (which didn’t take and resulted in rather horrific immune responses). At some point, the scientists believed they had developed a type of artificial midi-chlorian, which Miles was also privileged enough to try out.

Torture was also being tested as a means of manipulation. Reference was taken from Sith techniques used during the Jedi Civil War to convert Jedi and Force-sensitives to their cause. Miles barely survived. Notes indicate his right index and left ring finger were removed as part of the experiments -- it’s more likely they were cut off as punishment for his unwillingness to cooperate.

No official record was taken of what finally got him to change, because Miles managed to escape before it was noted. One night he had a lucky break and slipped free of his restraints, and made his way out by killing just about everyone who stood in his way using improvised lab equipment and a blaster stolen from a guard’s corpse. He was the victim of two blaster shots -- one to his left thigh and one to the base of his breastbone. Again, survival was a blessing. He killed one person directly with the Force -- the Murkoff rep in charge of the lab died from being choked and thrown against a wall hard enough to smash his skull. Miles never laid a finger on him.

Once he was in the clear, he made contact with an ally for passage to safety. That ally may or may not have been @mslangermann​.

Because he is untrained, his Force abilities are limited and largely innate. His greatest ‘power’ is his ability to unconsciously influence others and bend them to his own will. If you spend a lot of time around him, you might notice yourself starting to agree with his ideas and plans more often than you would otherwise. But it’s a limited ability -- once you’re on your own, you’ll probably start to wonder why you ever thought it would be a good idea to go along with him.

Miles’ natural empathy was also enhanced by the Force. He can easily read the feelings and emotions of others without meaning to, though he’ll try to ‘shut it off’ if he notices that it’s happening. Similarly, he often hears the thoughts of others without necessarily listening for them. There’s a good chance he’ll respond to a thought as though it were something verbalized just because he heard it so clearly.

All of this causes him a great amount of stress as well as mental/personal anguish. He’s extremely susceptible to the moods around him, and death on a large scale registers as something physically painful. He struggles often with attempts at closing himself off, but so far has found little success and is mostly just trying to live with the constant over-stimulation and background noise.

He can manage low-level telekenisis if he really tries.

Things like Force choking/crushing/bodily damage are rarely managed, but aren’t impossible in times of great emotional distress.

But Miles doesn’t really have any great desire to be trained, either. The most he would want is a way to control his ‘power’ and dampen the empathy and mind reading enough to keep himself sane in his own head. His knowledge of Force-users is limited to what he knows of the Jedi and Sith, and he doesn’t really agree with either dogma. He fears that training would oblige him to one side or the other, and that’s one of the last things he wants. In addition, he has no desire to actually address the things that happened to him, and to be taught the ways of the Force would require him to take ownership of what he has become. And that’s far easier said than done.

In the situations where he does fall in with the Jedi Order, he’d do so as a Sentinel.

Miles Upshur, Freelance Jedi.

He’s better with melee weapons than blasters anyway (they’re easier for close-combat situations and are more likely to be discreet), so he’d probably do alright with a lightsaber. Theoretically, if he were to have one, it would be yellow and double-bladed.

He totally doesn’t want one though. Nope, not at all.

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goals +find a new place by mid-April (house with garden and balcony ideal) + find something to do during down time at work, whether it’s applying to jobs, submitting to literary journals, or finding freelancing writing gigs - this is something I could definitely do if I put my mind to it. Even if it’s low pay, it is a skill I need to use and can definitely develop beyond what I am doing writing wise now, which is just poetry. Not that poetry is a “just”, it is the elixir of my life, it gives me a bottomless pool from which to nourish myself. However there is a lot more I can do with writing. It’s funny that I felt a dip in motivation when I saw the CEO of one freelancing company I want to apply to is younger than I am. And probably comes from the Silicon Valley. And now I have come full circle and understand why I have such little motivation to look into freelance writing. + Well, that got carried away. My 3rd goal is: go to more symphony concerts

Maybe that’s all I’ll say for now.

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Age: 38

Height: 7.5ft

Heritage: Transylvanian

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Demisexual

Species: Vampire bat

Occupation: Freelance scientist (formerly), Doctor/Surgeon

Personality: Back then, his character was very split. On one side, he comes off as this intelligent, gentleman with mad erratic tendencies. Occasionally going off over the littlest things from interrupting his peace and quiet to making a mess in his workplace. On the other hand, Ludvig is a complete coward and dork deep down. He portrays himself as a cold-hearted scientist to hide his vulnerable side.

Nowadays, his temper has dialed down a bit, unless agitated further. Ludvig opened his sensitive nature out to his patients and family members, displaying a gentle side of him. The only thing that remains the same is his bright intelligence, as well as his lack of precaution.

Likes: Science is everything Ludvig craves for. From constructing advanced contraptions to brewing up various types of ailments or toxins, he’ll be hellbent on his experiments down in his basement lab. Sometimes going so far as working on his studies for the whole night. Of course, there’s one thing that snaps the bat out of his obsession and that is his family. He cherishes the love from his wife, Elizabeth, and his Amalgamation pet, Einstein, who stuck with him through his crazy antics. Besides his passion for chemistry, he enjoys listening to classical music and reading books and newspapers in his past time.

Dislikes: Critiicization for being a failure and disappointment strikes Ludvig hard in the chest, especially from the hardships he went through in the past. All he wanted to do was make a change to the world. While Ludvig holds a slight grudge against a certain raccoon thief for ruining his plans, he has another reason as to why Cooper hasn’t left his mind. Other aversions include rock or any extremely loud music, garlic, and Elizabeth’s older brother: Edward. The two have developed an ongoing rivalry upon first meeting.

Strengths: Ludvig takes the “brain over brawn” direction. His high IQ allows him to create various inventions and elixirs. Some that are beneficial and others that are highly dangerous. Because he’s a bat, Ludvig can hear anything from either a long distance or through thin walls. His hands are steady enough to perform surgery as well.

Weaknesses: Following the “brain over brawn”, Ludvig isn’t really strong, physical wise. His tall yet lanky body makes him a good punching bag for Muggshot. He’s extremely sensitive to blaring noise due to his big ears. Ludvig has even been diagnosed with anxiety, and later after his failed world domination scheme, PTSD. His mental health has taken a toll on him without his acknowledgment and continues to haunt him every now and then. He’s also a bad cook. No seriously. He really is. He has set the kitchen on fire TWICE!

Backstory: Ludvig was once a successful student at a medical school with big plans to change the world. That is until the day at the expo when he revealed a monstrous hybrid to the public. In his words, it was to “enhance” everyone. But to the people who witnessed his creation, it was nothing more than a freak As a result, Ludvig got kicked out of medical school and went bat crazy! He began making his own army of “Amalgamations” (His term for his hybrids) non-stop and planned on world domination to turn everyone into his vision of a “perfect world”.

Of course, his plans were foiled by the Cooper Gang and INTERPOL, spending four months in a psychiatric hospital. This event has left mental scars on Ludvig. Not because he failed to conquer the world, but because of the irrational actions he made that would’ve resulted in dire consequences. Although deeply disturbed, Ludvig got the help he needed to get back up on his feet once again thanks to Elizabeth, his college sweetheart, and Einstein, his loyal Amalgamation companion.

Currently, he’s left his place in the crime world and turned towards helping his loving wife at St. Genevieve Hospital, the same clinic he was assigned to. Ludvig hopes for a peaceful life everything he’s dealt through. Unfortunately, the past always comes backs... One way or another...

Fun Facts:

In his free time, Ludvig plays the violin or organ.

His mom, whom he loved dearly during his childhood, died from tuberculosis when he was only a pup. At least, that’s what he’s been told what happened to her...

his father was also a scientist who pressured Ludvig into becoming one as well. He doesn’t know the full extent of his dad’s career nor his past life

Einstein serves more than just a loyal pet. His wife has also made him an emotional service dog to help him with his mental stability.

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Think of switchel as that refreshing summer drink you didn't know you needed—there's a reason farmers used to drink it after working in the fields all day. Made with fresh ginger, vinegar, water, and honey, it couldn't be simpler to make!

Photography Credit:  Leela Cyd

Switchels are a simple, non-alcoholic drink with an old history. You can find literary and historical references to this easy, zippy elixir — quenching the thirst of British sailors, Harvard students, and farmers — as early as the 17th century.

These days, switchel has seen a bit of a revival!

WHAT IS A SWITCHEL?

Switchel is a Colonial-era drink comprised of ginger, vinegar, water, and molasses—ingredients from different Caribbean islands brought together as American imports. Over time, home cooks replaced the molasses with other sweeteners such as honey, maple syrup, or sorghum depending upon where they lived.

Switchels are often referred to as Haymakers Punch because it was made in large batches and used to replenish parched farmers after working in the hot sun all day. Think of it as the original Gatorade, only with a refreshing pucker from the vinegar, a spicy kick from the ginger, and a bit of sweetness to balance it all out.

SWITCHELS VS. SHRUBS

Shrubs, another historic vinegar-based drink that appears throughout the world, are similar to a switchel, but not identical. Shrubs are made with fruit; switchel is made with ginger.

That’s the only real difference, but because the drinks are nearly identical, sometimes you will see shrub and switchel used interchangeably.

HOW TO MAKE A GINGER SWITCHEL

My preferred recipe for ginger switchel has a strong ginger element, a sour pucker from the apple cider vinegar, and a subtle sweetness from honey. Just mix with hot water, refrigerate, and it’s ready!

Use fresh ginger, peeled and sliced. I don’t recommend using ground ginger—it won’t dissolve, and it will leave a gritty feel in your mouth.

HOW TO SERVE SWITCHEL

I like to drink this switchel on its own, but sometimes soften it with carbonated or still water. You can also use it to add interest to cocktails, lemonade, or iced tea.

Make a batch and think of it as a concentrate—use it as a mixer for endless flavor combinations.

MAKE THIS RECIPE YOUR OWN

The best part of switchel is that it is easy to adapt to your personal tastes. If you want more of a ginger kick, then boil the ginger in water or vinegar, as I do in this recipe. If you want more of a subtle ginger flavor, then don’t bother boiling water and let it infuse gently on the counter. If you want more of a sour taste, add more vinegar. Up the sweetness? Increase the honey.

MORE REFRESHING SUMMER DRINKS!

Cucumber Mint “Shrub” Soda

Perfect Lemonade

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Prep time: 15 minutes

Steep time: Up to 4 days

Yield: 3 cups

                       This recipe can serve about 3 people undiluted or many more if you mix it with sparkling water. Feel free to double or even triple the recipe. Keep it in a lidded container in your refrigerator to sip on all week. Switchel will keep safely in the fridge for at least a week.

Ingredients

2- to 3-inch piece fresh ginger

2 1/4 cups water

1/2 cup apple cider vinegar

1/2 cup + 2 tablespoons honey

Sparkling or still water to finish

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Quart-sized glass canning jar, or other similarly sized container

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1 Prep the ginger: Use the side of a spoon to scrape the skin off the ginger. Cut the ginger into slices. You should have about 1/4 cup of sliced ginger.

2 Infuse the ginger: In a medium saucepan. bring the ginger and 2 1/4 cups water to a boil. Remove from the heat. Let sit for 10 minutes.

For a gentler, less-spicy switchel, don't boil the water; combine the water and ginger in a jar and let them infuse gently on the counter for a few hours.

3 Combine the ingredients: In a quart-sized glass canning jar or other lidded glass container, combine the honey and vinegar. Add the ginger and water. Cover with a lid and shake to combine the ingredients.

4 Refrigerate: Cover the jar and transfer to the fridge. Drink once cold or let the ginger infuse for up to 4 days, at which point you can strain out the ginger. The longer the ginger infuses, the stronger the flavor will become. The prepared switchel will keep for seven days in the refrigerator.

5 Serve: Pour the switchel into a glass filled with ice. Drink it straight (which will be more concentrated and spicy), or top with still or sparkling water to dilute and soften the flavor. Stir and enjoy.

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The following article appeared this month in Unvæl, a journal of art. Issue 1 is currently available and includes 5x7 printed artwork from Ryan Muirhead, Ashley Callaghan, and Michael Ash Smith.

Last year while in a small tourist town I stopped at a thrift store. I looked for some boots, tried on some hats, and bought a pristine '70s tweed suit. I also browsed the books, and with each title that struck me I thumbed to a random page and read a sentence or two, the way seekers of signs often do with the Bible. One book in particular, Adventures in Contentment, nabbed my attention with its unassuming cover and oxymoronic title. I looked inside and discovered a facsimiled typewriter font, suggesting a reprint. I checked the publication date; 1906. Then I fanned the pages and landed on a line that stuck: "I felt that profound curiosity which everyone of us feels every day of his life to know something of the inner impulses which stir his nearest neighbor."

This, I think, will become the final aim of all our technological efforts—to know the inner impulses of our neighbors. Not know as in understand or appreciate or empathize, but know as in live. It won't be enough for us to improve virtual reality or develop androids to talk to and have sex with. It won't be enough to digitally preserve our psyches so they can later be uploaded into artificial bodies. It won't be enough for us to develop an elixir for DNA deterioration so we can live forever. No, why settle for immortality or simulation when the multiplicity of being is on the horizon? Living forever, after all, isn't nearly as enticing as living anew over and over again. We'll devise recursive rebirth. We'll set up the whole scheme so that with each new life the memory of the old is erased, until some final drawing of the curtain reveals the memory of a million billion lives lived, a deluge of total recall. And that will be the payoff, when one is finally free to bask in the ecstasy and terror of seeing and knowing all at once and forever.

Until then, we'll consume and make art. We'll live vicariously in every way possible because it isn't enough to live one life. We need to get inside the shoes and skin of others, and out of our own. The way Ryan Muirhead does.

I first met Ryan on a stoop in 2009. He sat effeminately, knees pulled up to his chest, ankles crossed, arms wrapped around shins, one hand clasping one wrist. This was before he was Instafamous, before he globetrotted, speaking at audiences of seasoned photographers seeking more depth. I didn't recognize in him then artistic aptitude or uncompromising vision. But then, I wouldn't have. Mostly I saw an awkward flannel-wearing longhair whose scratchy voice seemed always one note from breaking, like a dam holding back hurt.

A couple years later, after getting to know Ryan and following his work on Facebook, I messaged him, "I love your work! Absolutely amazing!"

"Thank you," he replied.

Ryan didn't need to hear this. He was by this time hooked on photography. He'd also by this time been encouraged if not lauded by his art professors, and his social media following was steadily growing. He starred on an episode of a web-based photography show called FRAMED, which garnered positive reviews. Kodak had reached out to him. Ryan's portraits possessed a quality that drew people in. He photographed friends, peers, and family, but mostly young, beautiful women, some of whom were aspiring models. With Ryan, they were able to tease out their creative impulses, just as he was able to with them. As a result, his photos often felt like records of young love. And they were in that he was documenting, at least on some level, youthful infatuation with art, creativity, and world-as-oyster rippled with youthful uncertainty. All of this played out on social media, which to this day serves as Ryan's gallery and journal. His everyday posts were at once witty, playful, confident, but also concerned and idealistic, much like any Millennial's. But his photos were emotional, and this was his calling card. This was what always yielded clamor on social media. People obsessed over the emotion Ryan was able to convey photographically. And like all publicity, it fed on itself. Comments became shares became likes became comments. Interviews, sponsorships, and speaking engagements followed. Ryan, it appeared, was fast approaching that apogee of Americanism, that promised panacea for discontent: fame and fortune from following a passion.

Then something shifted. Not in his trajectory but in his expressiveness. Ryan's social media posts went from lighthearted and droll to darkly personal. He included with his photos melodramatic lyrics from songs by favorite bands The Used and Daughter. His portraits of young females opened up into something more cavernous and acute. One could see in them wilting flowers, freshly-penetrated hymen, nostalgia for virginity, and lament for impurity. In some instances, they looked like nothing more nor less than a post-coitus record, a document of defloration. This sentiment made some viewers decidedly uncomfortable, even critical of Ryan and his work, accusing him of making porn, which only further buoyed his reputation.

I sensed Ryan was exploring in his work more than sex and beauty, and in early 2014 I interviewed him for a personal blog. I began by asking Ryan why he hadn't directed his talent into something more lucrative, like commercial or wedding work. He replied, "When I started shooting, I was miserable. I was suicidal. I hated everything about my life." This opened the door to into Ryan's depression, but also into the romantic narrative he had for it: art saved me. The post went viral, amassing 200,000 reads on the blog and republication across multiple websites.

That was nearly four years ago. Today, Ryan is a successful working artist. He doesn't sell Lightroom presets or solutions to freelancing challenges or technical tips; he supports himself from print sales and speaking engagements, plus the little he gets from a recently launched Patreon account. He calls Portland, Oregon, home—the place he ran to from Utah—but he travels several times a year. He's been to Canada, Scotland, Italy, Spain, Australia, Belgium, the Canary Islands, and back and forth across the States, getting paid to speak. In each locale, he tells his story, with his shoes off, then he photographs a model or two in front of his audiences. And he's achieved all this primarily through posting his photos on Instagram and Facebook. Sounds dreamy, right?

"If I had a button to stop existing, I'd probably use it," Ryan says.

Ryan spends nine hours a day on his phone, incessantly checking Instagram, which he wishes he could stop. When he can curtail his social media use, he disappears into StarCraft for hours on end, a fact he isn't proud of. And this escapism has increased in recent years. He shoots less than he'd like to, but he also has little inclination to. "I have no determination, no willpower," he says. "I work really hard out of desperation, not out of aspiration. That's all that moves me. That's my work to me. I feel an existential horror that I can't drop for five minutes even when on a beach on the best day of my life, but I can drop it in moments of creation when I get overwhelmed with the beauty of something." That beauty in creation is losing potency for Ryan. The savior he'd thought he found in art is letting him down. "I assumed I would get to the answer," he says, "I assumed I would get to inner peace, and I didn't even get close."

~~~

When I solicited Ryan for that 2014 interview, I wanted total access. I wanted to connect, not just observe and listen. The intimacy that Ryan seeks with his subjects, I'd sought with him, for how can one properly depict another, make them a character in some artistic representation, without first getting entwined?

I was disappointed. Ryan, for all his magnetism, was not engaging. Despite our having known each other as acquaintances for years, despite our having once shared Christmas dinner, there was little reciprocity. No doubt, I was unprofessional, even boyish, in my interviewing; he was uncongenial. If the conversation drifted even subtly away from Ryan and his work, I detected impatience. The artist-as-friend-and-mentor I'd sought did not yield, at least not how I'd wanted.

Following the online success of our interview, Ryan reached out to me and said he had more to say, that he wanted to do a follow-up interview. I was reluctant, given that I hadn't initially gained the closeness I'd wanted. I feared that Ryan saw in me an opportunity to further expand his persona. I didn't want to oblige him of this desire, nor did I want to exploit it. At the same time, I saw in Ryan a complex character on which I believed I could tell a story of fidelity to the Ideal, and a willing subject at that. I hinted as much to him, and he made efforts to bring me into his world. We talked on a few occasions, and he invited me to dinner and drinks with him and his closest friends, but nothing fruited. Whether right or not, I felt I couldn't properly reveal a subject without getting involved. Ryan, it seemed, did not want to get involved. He wanted to be studied.

And not just by me. When I spent time with Ryan and his artist friends, I saw what resembled more a group of acolytes and leader than old college pals. The conversation invariably drifted around Ryan and his interests, with Ryan generally seated at the head or middle of whatever dinner table we happened to be seated at. One evening, in a seemingly innocent play, everyone participated in shining lights on Ryan and photographing him. The scene resembled The Last Supper, Ryan as Jesus. Their online interactions, too, resembled less sincere conversation than public endorsements of one another. Ryan's friends would tag and praise him online, and he'd occasionally return the public foreplay, sharing or praising his comrades' work. What you're now reading was prompted by Ryan. He suggested I write the piece to accompany his featured work in Unvæl. "It doesn't have to be anything flattering," he said.

Since that request, we've talked at length on a couple of occasions, even hung out. When hanging out, he'll often check his phone mid-conversation, without warning, without apology. In groups of three or more, he'll drift into his phone for minutes on end or wander off, especially if and when the conversation slips from his domain. During one phone conversation, Ryan explained to me that he has no interest in other people, except those who make exceptional artwork. Even then, he wants only to get inside their heads to understand their commitment and process, try to employ that in his own work. "If you got what you wanted," I asked, "would you any longer have interest in that person?"

"No," he said.

"I'm heartbroken I'm not a rock star," Ryan told me over the phone. He likes speaking before his audiences, dislikes engaging with them. Seminars offer him opportunity to perform, just as his Instagram feed does, which is what he really enjoys. He wants a million social media followers, wants to be celebrated in death, wants to be the fly on the wall at his own funeral so he can bask in the eulogies. This last point, which we discussed on my patio, gets Ryan giddy and glassy-eyed, aroused. The eulogies would be particularly poignant in the case of a tragic death, we agree, which can't really happen past the age of 40. If suicide offers Ryan an escape from the throes of being, something he's openly contemplated, it also offers him the opportunity to be memorialized. Ryan identifies with, even hesitatingly compares himself to Western society's notable tortured artists who took life into their own hands—Vincent Van Gogh, Kurt Cobain, David Foster Wallace. Then, when the conversation moves from him and his imagined encomium, he deflates and talks again of feeling empty.

The messages and emails from fans are no consolation. Since going public with his depression and the palliative effects of making art, throngs have lettered Ryan, disclosing their own unbearable moods and states of mind. In Ryan, they've found a patron saint, a man who despite the pain of existing has found cause to go on. To which Ryan says, "The emotional adulation has become distressing. People write all that time and say, 'Your work had an impact on me not killing myself.' And now I'm like, 'Joke's on you. In five years, it doesn't work anymore.'" But, for now, he keeps hitting those like buttons on Instagram and Facebook, encouraging his fans who have undertaken art in search of meaning and reprieve. Deep down, however, his feelings run contrary. "I made all this work out of pain and not wanting to be here, which gave hope to others who have pain and don't want to be here, which gave hope to me. And now I've realized it doesn't work, and I don't want to share it. That's the darkness: I don't want people to feel encouraged or inspired by my art."

The relationship with young beauties, too, is lackluster. Arguably, Ryan's portraits of women are unequaled in depicting vulnerability, delicacy, darkness and intimacy. But it ends there. He's openly said on social media that the remnants of his upbringing in Utah's sexually repressive culture get channeled into his work. He didn't experience his first kiss until twenty-six. When I ask him of this sexual tension, he replies, "It's always been there." From the beginning, Ryan has wanted to shoot the kind of women he doesn't date or have sex with. Through the lens, he's able to explore those he might otherwise never see in the nude, never get close to, never tell what to do, never elicit such coy surrender and willing obedience from.

That's not to say he hasn't had opportunity for sex, though. In such enthralling moments of creation, desires flare. Ryan's subjects have on occasion solicited him, but he's shunned their advances in the moment, foregoing sexual intimacy in favor of creative friction. He'd rather not trade one pleasure for the other, he explains. By sublimating his biological drive, by denying himself the forbidden fruit, he can prolong that headspace of reprieve, longer attend to the Ideal. He foregoes tactile connection with an actual beauty for cognitive connection to that imagined Beauty. A true martyr. And what's more romantic than that?

~~~

David Foster Wallace, one of Ryan's artistic paragons, demonstrates in his short story The Depressed Person that depression invariably looks like narcissism. The story, which is just nine pages, plummets readers into the internal struggle of the wearyingly self-conscious Depressed Person. Readers are subjected to the Depressed Person's ceaseless and sorrowful moping over every aspect of her life, worry over how the moping is perceived, fear that nobody cares, frustration that no one can empathize with her angst, and lament for the fact that only her therapist will listen, whom she must pay to do so. Wallace shows how horrifying the inability to get out of one's own head can be. The story of self-absorption is all-consuming. And it's nauseating. Wallace seems intent on sickening the reader if only to show that depression is socially unacceptable. It's a condition that sends potential helpmates running rather than reaching. The irony, or tragedy, is that the Depressed Person wants desperately to be attended to, understood, cradled. Of course, for the non-depressed person, the cure for such plight, trite though it may be, is gratitude and human connection. But these are the very things the Depressed Person cannot muster. For some, this raises a curious question: is self-obsession the cause or consequence of loneliness and psychological terror? For the depressed person, the question invokes tailspin.

Such questions plague Ryan. He says, "The number one thing I'm confronting is the realization that you have to adopt a belief system to propel yourself forward, and I can't. I can't amass a framework and be like, 'That's the one.'" He expresses as much on social media, which only further solidifies the narrative regarding him: brutally honest tortured artist teaches humanity. But then he wonders whether that's his motive, to reinforce a flattering story. He considers his social media posts honest but also performative, and he worries over whether he's become too theatrical, too caught up in his own show. He knows what to articulate to interviewers. Martyrs have always prostrated themselves on the altar of truth, and their exchange is glory. Has Ryan adopted this role in hopes of the payoff, or does there exist some artist archetype, some particular psyche that plays out in few humans? "Either I'm insane, or crazy, or lying," Ryan says. "I'm such a different person when alone, and nobody knows."

Maybe the pain derives from sensitivity. When Ryan and I have occasion to hang out, which is barely seldom, we'll often drive through a Del Taco for a bean burrito and fries. He'll lean toward my window from the passenger side and ask the drive-thru attendant how he or she is doing. He'll then thank the attendant profusely, hand him a few dollars as a tip. A friend of Ryan's says it was Ryan who took him in during his divorce, gave him a place to stay. "One night," the friend recounts, "I broke down and he just listened to me for hours." When I asked a workshop attendee what she thought of Ryan's presentation, she answers, "He focuses on the human, not the photograph." His subjects concur. One model explains it was Ryan who helped her overcome her concerns of objectification inherent in the modeling industry. She explains how Ryan involved her in the creative process, made the affair collaborative and about connection rather than some desired outcome. She says, "I'm creating something too, and with Ryan it always feels like that." For my own experience, Ryan always pays for Uber, covers the cost of gas or bean burritos, and shares his Scotch. He is also one of two paying contributors to my blog, and has been for nearly a year.

But the beauty of Ryan is his genius. I'm reluctant to say this because firstly I'm no qualified judge, secondly there's nothing concrete to point to, thirdly I don't want to reinforce a vain and burdensome trope. What is genius? Here's what I think. I've worked with insightful businessmen who with acumen amassed millions of dollars, but none was genius. I've known popular leaders of organizations and groups, able to bring people together around a cause with uncanny ease, but none was genius. I've worked with prolific artists who turn out salable work over and over again, who demonstrate volumes of knowledge, and who express it unqualifiedly, but none is genius. In hindsight, I've known and been relatively close to two people who, from my view, embodied that attribute "genius." One, an odd and articulate reader of people, an extremely intelligent man interested in biology, shot himself in his 20s. The other, a man with a prodigious and quirky memory, also extremely intelligent, is only able to prevent himself from doing the same by imbibing 300mg of ketamine a day. I'm not saying that a suicidal tendency is the marker of genius. The common denominator, if there is one, is what I can only describe as a tic. Genius seems to be an unsettling behavioral trait not conducive to categorization or description, but that relates to a way of processing information and seeing the world. There's the clear and disconcerting sense that the genius is smart not because of what he knows, but how he knows. Interacting with a genius is like playing poker with someone who can count and memorize cards. Genius is a subtle misfire, an arrhythmia of cognition, some biological anomaly or otherwise misappropriation of nature that results in a kind of twisted energy expressed in human form. It's off, but only subtly so, fruiting a complex and sometimes off-putting person that provokes us, and, if we're lucky, reveals that which we might never see, or what we might otherwise willfully ignore. Ryan, for all his murkiness, has through his art and being shown me a kind of living I might've otherwise never known.

Take all this with a grain of salt, though. This is no more a portrait of Ryan than his photographs are of his subjects. It's clear in Ryan's images that he is documenting something other than people. To view one is to think not of the person in the frame, but the one who composed it and where he's coming from. Perhaps this is Ryan's genius on display: he shows with eerie accuracy what it feels like to be him, or human, or at least that's how we imagine it. In the end, however, it's impossible to know. Ryan can't access the beautiful people he would like to, I can't access the artist I would like to, and none of us can access the Doorway we've set on the horizon for ourselves. Alas, if there is no access, there is no escape. So we keep on making art.

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The 7 Traits of Successful Content Marketers

One of the most influential authors of my personal and career journey is Napoleon Hill.

Napoleon Hill’s classic Think and Grow Rich was first published in 1937. Now, in its 80th anniversary year, Mr. Hill’s lessons are still extremely relevant and valuable.

I had the opportunity to dust off my copy of Think and Grow Rich (from 1960, with dog-eared and coffee-stained pages) a few weeks back during the holiday break. In its relation to content marketing, I noticed some clear takeaways that most corporate marketers simply do not embrace. In the book, 15 powerful chapters are helpful to all individuals, but seven chapters were spot-on relevant to content marketing. Here are quotes from the seven chapters with my notes for each one.

Caution from Joe: The book is extremely chauvinistic. If you read it, just prepare yourself for that.

1. Desire

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve.”

You can talk about all the things good content marketers should do to attract and retain customers – content strategy, content documentation, content integration, etc., but desire is numero uno. Everywhere I travel I hear the objection – most marketers simply do not have the desire to be THE informational resource for their customers and prospects – they don’t want it enough. They talk of content marketing as a chore … as a checklist of things to be done during the day, not as a core service to customers necessary for the company’s survival.

Look, you are competing not only with your competitors, but also with the media, Google, Game of Thrones, and every other distraction in your customers’ lives. To be THE go-to resource for them, you have to want it more than anything or anyone else. This is never easy, but it is much easier for smaller businesses headed by passionate people. Simply put, there is little to no politics to deal with, and a change agent can push through and make change happen.

In larger enterprises, there must be a content marketing champion who has the real desire to be the best and be given enough latitude to experiment and possibly even fail multiple times. Most large companies aren’t willing to do this, which is why smaller businesses have the ultimate opportunity when it comes to content marketing.

Marketers have to want to be THE informational resource more than anything or anyone else, says @joepulizzi. Click To Tweet

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2. Faith

“Faith is the ‘eternal elixir’ which gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought!”

Wanting it is one thing, but actually believing you can be THE informational expert for your industry is another. When we started Content Marketing Institute, we firmly believed that we would be the informational resource for our industry. It was unquestioned. It was only a matter of time, energy, and persistence.

Rarely do you see this kind of faith with non-media companies. Corporate brands should take a page from media companies in this respect. When I worked at Penton Media (a large B2B media company) and would meet with the chief editors for our brands, they believed without question that their brand was the leading provider of information in the space. It was a non-issue … it just was. That is exactly the kind of faith you need to be the expert in your field.

3. Specialized Knowledge

“General knowledge, no matter how great in quantity or variety it may be, is of but little use …”

One of the biggest failures when it comes to content is a lack of specialization. I see HVAC companies blogging about the town festival. I see manufacturing companies creating articles on best HR practices. It hurts to see this.

To be the expert in your industry, you must first define your customers’ pain points and the niche industry you will cover that will make a difference in your business and in your customers’ lives. Get laser-focused. Think of yourself as the trade magazine for your industry. Cover that. Be the expert in that area. If you are a large enterprise, you will need separate content strategies for separate audiences, not one broad initiative that makes no impact on anybody.

Remember, if your content is for everybody, it’s for nobody.

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4. Imagination

“It has been said that man can create anything which he can imagine.”

As Mr. Hill says, ideas are the products of the imagination. For content marketing to work, you need to embrace being an idea factory, not a content factory. Just as news organizations cover the news of the day, you need to cover the news as it relates to your industry. Take the content you have and think creatively about storytelling concepts – visual, textual, and audio – in new and compelling ways.

The best way I’ve seen this work for brands is to do something creative and new at least once a quarter. Robert Rose calls this a “pillar” piece of content – something that makes a major impact on the industry and stands the test of time. That could be a book, an infographic, a documentary, etc., that works in conjunction with the regular content you produce (blog, e-newsletter, podcast, etc.).

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5. Organized Planning

“Align yourself with a group of as many people as you may need for the creation and carrying out of your plan …”

Should you use employees for your content creation efforts? Yes

Should you use customers for your content creation efforts? Yes

Should you use outside freelancers and partners for your content creation efforts? Yes

Folks, there is no one way to be the leading content expert for your industry. That said, if you have the opportunity to apply resources from a number of areas, internal and external, do it. Brands doing it right have a chief content officer (leads the content strategy), a managing editor (oversees the process), content creators (internal and external), content producers, and content listeners.

Right now, we are in the midst of a marketing department revolution, where the marketing department is starting to look and feel more like a publishing operation. As a marketer, you need to not only recognize this trend, but also begin to operationalize your storytelling for the future, including developing a business model that drives direct revenues from the content you create. (Note: Robert is working on this for our next book coming out in September.)

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6. Decision

“Procrastination, the opposite of decision, is a common enemy which must be conquered.”

In the book, Mr. Hill profiled hundreds of the most successful people in the world. Every one of them had the habit of reaching decisions promptly, and of changing these decisions slowly, if and when they were changed. Unsuccessful people, the book says, have a habit, without exception, of reaching decisions very slowly, if at all, and of changing these decisions quickly and often.

Successful #content marketers reach decisions promptly, says @joepulizzi. Click To Tweet

Reaching decisions promptly and changing them slowly if at all is the type of mentality you need to bring to your content marketing approach.

7. Persistence

“Will-power and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair.”

Without a doubt, the biggest reason why a content program does not succeed is because it stops. I’ve seen brand after brand start a blog or an e-newsletter or a video series or a podcast series and stop after just months. Content marketing is a war of attrition. It’s a process. Success does not happen overnight.

The biggest reason why a #content program doesn’t succeed is because it stops, says @joepulizzi. Click To Tweet

The campaign mentality of content marketing needs to stop.

When we first started our content marketing strategy in 2007, we had less than 1,000 total visits in the first six months. Now, we have over 200,000 subscribers and see 25,000 visits per day. Persistence is key.

If you want immediate results, put all your money into immediate and direct response. If you want to create an informational annuity that will pay for years, even decades, invest in some kind of content marketing approach.

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Freelance App developers in Zimbabwe, customized content manager is more beneficial to the webmaster

Programming a website from scratch sets a unique and unique source code. It distances, as well from the predesigned templates, pages cut all by the same pattern. The elixir of hackers to find weakness

Large department stores. Folders and more folders. Organization of content. That is precisely what those acronyms refer to. Knowing the detail of a database allows to manage in a more optimal way the content to be published. Developing a customized content manager is more beneficial to the webmaster because he will have full knowledge of the functionalities of the website.

The great advantage of developing oneself programming from scratch and not depending on any template is the absence of second or third parties in the process of web creation. Obviously, it is a little more expensive, but the benefits of knowing the details of the code are very good when it comes to managing and planning a thematic website or a corporate website. There is no doubt that this is an arduous process that requires knowledge, time and desire. But, is not shredding and customizing the prefabricated modules?

As we have seen, commissioning from scratch the design of a thematic web or a corporate website provides innumerable benefits that, little by little, as the content managers that facilitate in the process have been implemented, have been falling into disuse. Programmers continue to be heavily tied to the dictatorship of prefabricated designs and hardly have a creative edge to fully deploy their knowledge and their true potential.

Very simple designs and with little programming have become enormous sensations of the blogosphere, attracting daily to thousands and millions of readers, but all this, fundamentally, thanks to attractive contents and of 100% quality.

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