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Friday, April 25, 2008
First book on OSGi at JAX 2008!
I also got handed a copy of the first official OSGi book in the world. The book, written by Gerd Wütherich, Matthias Lübken, Nils Hartmann, and Bernd Kolb.
This is a thorough book on OSGi (though Equinox biased) that I recommend to anyone who is using OSGi or wants to know more about it. You can buy it at d.punkt. I hope they translate it in English soon. I already read most of the text during my Christmas vacation to help them with a review. Gerd had already shown me on the first day the thank you section. They had been really nice, and made the thank you in Dutch! Great work! It is great to finally being able to point to a good OSGi book.
JAX is a great conference, very well organized. Well, there is so much to do that I'll keep it short. Though there is one observation, unrelated to OSGi, I can't help myself making. On the way back with Ryan Air I observed that people can be incredibly rude at jumping the queue, and not just the one that look like it, even elegantly looking older people showed an incredible rudeness. Though I admire Ryan Air for many things, their queue management is non existent, seeming to call out the worst behavior in people. I figured people behaved so badly so that to get the best seats in the plane. However, when I boarded at the end of the queue the emergency seats in the middle were still mostly free. So why are people so much in a hurry that they are jumping the queue? One day I have to debug this, but now back to the build!
Peter Kriens
P.S. Talking about books, you can now also order the specification (core + compendium) in printed form for a special price.
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That really has an extremely unfortunate direct english interpretation of the title.ReplyDelete
Hi Peter, I have to thank your for your sessions. It was really inspiring. Also the session about classloading and visibility by martin lippert with your first level support ;-). I had the chance to read some lines of the book at the conference and it seems to be a good completion to the osgi reference documentation.ReplyDelete
René Gröschke
Ps.: Dealing with a defect air conditioning and overcrowded trains, our homeyard journey wasn't much better than yours ;-)
Hi Peter,ReplyDelete
Is there a timeline for this book to come in English.
We certainly need a good book on OSGi very soon.
Why don't you consider writing one :)
Krishnaveni Krishnarajah
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Donald Joseph Irwin, 82, of Prosser died on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014.
He was born June 17, 1931 in Saginaw, Mich., the son of Leo Lester and Grace Marie (Neubecker) Irwin.
He is survived by his wife, Betty Jean Irwin of Prosser; six children, Linda Baze and Lucinda Dreher, both of Prosser, Elizabeth Linton of Kennewick, Geneva Lee Judkins of Prosser, Virginia Johnson of Irrigon, Ore. and Donna Irwin of Toppenish; 20 grandchildren; numerous great-grandchildren; and one great-great-granddaughter.
He was preceded in death by his parents; three brothers, Wallace, Burton and Robert Irwin; one grandson, Rocky Mieirs; one granddaughter, Johannah Lee Judkins; and one great-granddaughter, Bethany Sills.
Viewing and visitation will be held Wednesday, March 5, 2014, from noon to 5 p.m. at Smith Funeral Home in Sunnyside. Graveside services with military honors will be held Thursday, March 6, 2014, at 1 p.m. at Lower Valley Memorial Gardens in Sunnyside.
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It's 1901 and the Women's Suffragette Movement is looking for some traction on the whole getting women the right to vote thing... what better way to get exposure than to put on a freaky carnival! Check out this brand spanking new original comedy play featuring scam artists and specious soothsayers, dubious orphans and arrogant socialites, literary serial killers and ex-Minnesotans...You'll have to see it to not believe a word of it!
Alison Bennett, Leanne Linsky, Ruby Marez, Alex Marino, Anna Lisa McClelland, Lauren Olson, Jen Sanders and a special guest from the great beyond.
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2006 Baseball
Bluffton 4, Muskingum 2
Beavers knock off Coach Grandey's alma mater, Muskingum, 4-2 in final game at Gene
Cusic Classic
By Bill Hanefeld Jr., sports information director
March 11, 2006
FORT MYERS, Fl. - The Bluffton University baseball team improved to 4-5 with a 4-2 victory over Muskingum College in the final game for the Beavers at the Gene Cusic Classic on Saturday, March 11, 2006. Freshman Justin Jones (Washington Court House/Washington Senior) registered his second win in Florida with another dominating performance on the mound. He gave up only four hits and two runs in 7.1 innings while fanning eight Fighting Muskies in the victory.
With one out in the first inning, Riordan McClain (Upper Sandusky/Upper Sandusky) drilled a triple to left center. Designated hitter Greg Sigg (Maumee/Maumee) brought him in with an infield single. The Beavers then loaded the bases before Neuhart got the Muskies out of the jam.
Bluffton rallied for two more runs in the second, again with one out. The Beavers strung together four consecutive singles, including both McClain and Sigg's second hits of the day, to take a 3-0 lead after two innings.
A walk, an error and a passed ball allowed Muskingum to put a run on the scoreboard in the fourth inning.
Another leadoff walk, this time to S. Galloway, led to a Muskingum run in the bottom of the sixth inning. Galloway stole second and moved to third on an infield groundout. He crossed the plate when A. Hesler grounded out to third base.
The Beavers tacked on an insurance run in the top of the eighth to take a 4-2 lead. Tyler Williams (Lima/Lima Senior) led off the frame with a base on balls. He promptly stole second and advanced to third when Tony Moore (Elida/Elida) reached on a bunt single to third base. McClain picked up his second RBI of the day when he singled to right field.
Will Gerber (Kidron/Central Christian) held the Muskies scoreless over the final 1.2 innings to help the Beavers pick up a 4-2 victory over Muskingum.
McClain, who feasted on the pitching at the Gene Cusic Classic, went 3-of 4 at the plate and knocked in two runs while scoring once. Sigg and Lowell Wyse (Camden, Mich./Hesston J.C.) both collected a pair of hits in the victory with Sigg picking up two RBI's.
Senior Riordan McClain leads the Beavers with a .563 batting average (18-of-32), 12 runs scored and nine RBI's. Sophomore Tim Kay (Alpharetta, Ga./Blessed Trinity) is hitting .556 at the plate (10-of-18) and has tallied eight RBI's. Senior Lowell Wyse has a .476 batting average (10-of-21) through the first nine games.
The Beavers will now return home from the Gene Cusic Classic to host Capital on Tuesday,
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Short answer is no. Bob Hartley is not worried.
Michael Cammalleri, through four outings, may have no goals. He may have only three shots on net.
But the Calgary Flames coach knows that the wee winger will start scoring. Probably in bunches. Hartley had been in Montreal during the Canadiens' playoff run in 2010, so he witnessed Cammalleri at his sharpest, burying 13 pucks in 19 games.
Meaning confidence from the coach's bunker is unwavering.
"I've watched Cammy in so many games — he's a game-breaker," Hartley said after Monday's practice at the Scotiabank Saddledome. "He's one of those guys that might not get a chance for the first two periods and, suddenly in the third, the score is 2-2 . . . and you want the puck on his stick because he can make the difference.
"I sat with him on Saturday morning. I told him, 'Just keep working hard. Don't get frustrated. Good things happen. And you do the right things.' I'm expecting big things out of Cammy."
Rather than dwell on the goallessness, the bench boss makes a point of focusing on the player's selflessness. How Cammalleri, without crabbing, played out of position — on his off-wing with Mikael Backlund and Sven Baertschi — for the opening two games to give the coach a chance to sort out his forward units.
Games 3 and 4, he returned to his traditional left side. And now, according to Hartley, Cammalleri's game is pointed in the right direction.
Good news for the Flames, because they cannot survive without his contributions.
"Obviously, we need his goal production — everyone needs to be producing goals," said Hartley. "But I also saw Michael Cammalleri, backchecking, take a three-on-two away from Edmonton. I also saw late in the game — Justin Schultz had a wide-open net and Michael Cammalleri dove and got his stick on the puck.
"Obviously, a goal-scorer wants to score goals and we want him to score goals . . . and the chances are not there for him right now. But you know those goal-scorers, they get one goal and they get going."
Shooting is where it starts.
Cammalleri, in a full season, has never flung fewer than 175 pucks on target. In 2006-07, with the Los Angeles Kings, he chalked up a career-high 299 shots.
"If you do the math on that, in an 80-game season, you're looking at over three shots a game — pretty good math for a hockey player, eh?" said Cammalleri, grinning. "But it's getting comfortable, it's working with different guys — depends how and who you're being used with.
"But I'd like to get as many as I can. If I can get 10 shots in a game, I'll take 10."
To reach 197 career goals, the Richmond Hill, Ont., native fired on net 1,649 times.
Then came this season.
Jarome Iginla, right now, has 19 shots. So three for Cammalleri? Small sample size, sure, but it is noteworthy.
"Make of that what you want. It's your job to make predictions and my job to keep working on it," said Cammalleri. "I'd definitely like to get many more shots, especially five on five."
Chuckling, he made a promise.
"You'll see some good one-timers coming, right under the bar."
No different than the rest of the locals, Cammalleri is showing improvement in nightly increments.
"For a lot of reasons, we've got gradually better over four games — if we can do that for 44 more, we'll be all right," said the 30-year-old. "Hockey's a game, like most sports, where you have to play as much as you can off instinct . . . so it takes some time to ingrain the habits of our system. That's what we're trying to do as fast as we can. With the result of (Saturday's 4-3 win over the Oilers), you'd like to think that it's happening and we're on our way.
"You've got to try to do all your thinking and work in practice and hope that it becomes habitual, so in a game you can take the thinking out. For a lot of us, we've been doing a little more thinking than we'd like to in games. It makes you somewhat hesitant out there. It's our job to get that out of our game and trust our instinct."
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Thursday, January 27, 2011
Interactive Interview with an Agent: Alyssa Eisner Henkin
KV: How long have you been agenting, and how did you get into it?
AH: I have been an agent for four years now. I was incredibly fortunate to begin my career at Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers prior to joining Trident. At S&S I was the editor of many books still dear to me, including Laurie Halse Anderson's THANK YOU, SARAH and THE MOTHER DAUGHTER BOOK CLUB by Heather Vogel Frederick.
But after about six years, I sought a more entrepreneurial environment in which I could sell rather than buy books. This stemmed largely from my innate editing style: I often pitched ideas for books to authors rather than always waiting for the "perfect manuscript" to cross my desk.
Luckily for me, a few months later I learned of a position at Trident Media Group for a children's and YA book agent. After meeting with visionary Chairman Robert Gottlieb and Executive VP Ellen Levine, I was entirely sold on this infectiously creative environment. Trident offered me a terrific opportunity even though the last time I'd technically sold anything was in fifth grade during the kosher for Passover candy sale.
But this job was better even than chocolate-covered marshmallows. I got to pursue my passion for finding authors, work with them to polish their manuscripts and ideas on both a commercially conceptual level and a line-by-line editorial level, and then sell (or die trying to sell!) those projects to a variety of different publishers.
KV: How would you summarize your personal agenting philosophy? What do you expect from an agent-author relationship?
AH: I'm blessed with clients who work hard, dream big, and take constructive feedback incredibly well. In turn, I'm candid with my authors both about what is stellar in their manuscripts, and also about the modifications that I feel will help those manuscripts achieve success. Philosophically speaking, I'm a tortoise and value long term creative careers. Nothing's more gratifying than to see a book that once accrued a stack of rejections earn hefty royalty checks over time.
In the short term, though, I work harder than hare! Amidst this competitive climate every author needs a tireless and detail-oriented advocate whether it's for crafting a killer book pitch, negotiating the best deal possible, ensuring that contracts and checks are cut expediently, that editorial letters arrive on time, that book jacket designs are not tantamount to third grade Photoshop experiments gone awry, that marketing and foreign and film sale efforts are strategic and timely, so as to give each project a strong start. Amidst a climate when only 30% of books are actually reported to earn back their advances, this kind of championing is essential.
KV: What client work do you have coming out soon? What drew you to those writers and/or projects?
AH: I'm proud to have my hand in a stellar book list for 2011, and the following are just some of many that I ADORE:
This winter my client Utah Book-Award nominee Bobbie Pyron has a classic and riveting dog adventure forthcoming from Harper Collins entitled A DOG'S WAY HOME. The most recent review in Publishers Weekly's galley talk compared this gem to "THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY meets BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE." Numerous Newbery medalists and bona fide non-dog-lover critics alike have admitted to crying up a storm, and loving every second of a book that's already accruing award buzz. Knock on paws!
In summer, the incredibly prolific Lauren Barnholdt has written a true to life YA winner entitled SOMETIMES IT HAPPENS. One part Sarah Dessen, and one part Judd Apatow, Lauren marries romantic poignancy with high school humor and pitch perfect dialogue. The author is a true success story who began publishing in paperback original and now has made the leap to hardcover original fiction.
In fall, my romance and YA client Sarah MacLean, author of The New York Times and USA Today Bestselling NINE RULES TO BREAK WHEN ROMANCING A RAKE, kicks off a new series set in Regency London. There's no rhyming to be had in the title, but the premise is so delicious and so absorbing that fans will no doubt be voracious for more.
KV: What genres do you represent? What genres do you definitely NOT represent?
AH: I predominantly represent middle grade and young adult fiction. I am also seeking a select number of projects that crossover into the world of women's fiction or historical romance, as well as a select number of illustrated picture books.
KV: What query pet peeves and/or pitfalls should writers avoid when querying you?
AH: In query letters I look for everything in the text body of the e-mail: a thorough and intriguing description of the book, five sample pages of the manuscript, and a brief paragraph summarizing the author's prior track, or other relevant work experience. Full disclosure: If I love the book or even just the sound of it, there are few pet peeves that can ruin anyone's chances, and I have been known to break my own rules on occasion.
That said, I only accept electronic submissions. I only read attachments on material that I have previously requested, and while I do try to respond to every query in a timely manner (i.e. a month's time), follow-ups, particularly those done over the telephone, can be a little distracting amidst a work day.
KV: What are you looking for in a manuscript right now? What are you tired of seeing at the moment?
AH: I'm looking for middle grade novels with big, swashbuckling plots from mystery to adventure to wish-fulfillment premises. I have a particular penchant for classic middle grade books (especially illustrated ones) that in tone feel like they could have been written forty years ago (or forty years from now).
I'm also keen on tween series in the vein of my first sale (Jessica Burkhart's Canterwood Crest series) or the aforementioned MOTHER DAUGHTER BOOK CLUB.
On the YA side, I'd love to find more epic romances, historical or otherwise, more snarky contemporary-set novels in the vein of EASY A, and a YA counterpart for Stieg Larson. We've all certainly seen many dystopian and paranormal projects, but I'm welcoming to those genres if the premise and the writing feel inventive, and/or dare I say, spiced with humor?
KV: What's the best way to query you?
AH: Definitely via e-mail at email@example.com.
Thanks again, Ms. Henkin, for these awesome responses. No, really, they were awesome. We almost don't even need to do an interactive interview--but we will, anyway. Just for kicks:)
If you have a question for Ms. Henkin, feel free to ask it in the comments below. Ms. Henkin will then drop in a few times today and leave her answers down there for you. You have until 6:00 p.m. EST tonight (which is 3:00 p.m. PST), so don't wait!
37 comments:
- Pam Harris said...
Great interview! I have no questions right now since it was so thorough, but I'll be sure to return if I think of any. :)
- January 27, 2011 at 6:26 AM
- Krista V. said...
A question I should have asked already: You mentioned being interested in a select number of illustrated picture books. Does that mean you're only interested in picture book writers who are also illustrators?
- January 27, 2011 at 7:59 AM
Hi Alyssa, thanks for the post! I have a full with you and have two questions: if you feel a submission is flawed, what makes you take it on anyways? And second, do you read in the order you receive subs and where are you in your reading pile now? Thanks!
- January 27, 2011 at 8:04 AM
- Stephanie@thecrackedslipper said...
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- January 27, 2011 at 8:11 AM
- Stephanie@thecrackedslipper said...
Ooops...got rid of my first comment as the kids are climbing on me, and random buttons are being pushed (both literally and figuratively! Snow day number two, whew!)...trying again...
Alyssa, thanks for the great interview! Krista, thanks for providing the venue!
I have a quick question. Can you tell me how you feel about cross-genre projects? Interesting new take or impossible to sell? When querying, would you recommend focusing on the story and hoping an agent gets it, or trying to explain the cross-genre angle?
Thanks for taking the time to reply!
- January 27, 2011 at 8:19 AM
Hi Alyssa,
I too have a submission with you, thanks so much for the interview above, it's wonderful. Could you tell the other Anonymous and I your time frame with submissions?
Thanks again!
- January 27, 2011 at 8:56 AM
Also thank you Mother Write for the great interviews.
- January 27, 2011 at 8:59 AM
- rebekahlpurdy said...
What are some of your favorite books? And is there any one in particular that made you want to get into agenting?
- January 27, 2011 at 9:13 AM
I am deciding between going to the Big Sur conference or spending the thousand dollars on a book editor. Do you have recommendations for which is more worth it?
- January 27, 2011 at 9:59 AM
What types of YA fiction are editors looking for right now? Is the market shifting?
- January 27, 2011 at 10:28 AM
I've gotten revision comments from an agent but the manuscript is still out with other agents - would you recommend holding off on revisions until I hear back from everyone? Thanks!
- January 27, 2011 at 10:47 AM
On average, how many publishers do you send a manuscript out to? Thanks
- January 27, 2011 at 10:50 AM
- Jenny Phresh said...
I love what you wrote here: "I have a particular penchant for classic middle grade books (especially illustrated ones) that in tone feel like they could have been written forty years ago (or forty years from now)." After my own heart! Will query indeed.
- January 27, 2011 at 11:03 AM
- Carolyn Abiad said...
I've seen hybrid genre tags floating around the blogs and I'm tempted to use one for my query, specifically, Historical Fantasy. My MS is based on tales of historic landmarks and eastern djinn lore. Is it better to just call it fantasy? What do you think about the tags?
- January 27, 2011 at 12:19 PM
I laughed when I read what you wrote about book jackets. How much input do your authors get when putting together a cover design?
- January 27, 2011 at 12:21 PM
For the most part, I focus on picture book writers who also illustrate their own work. But if I come across a manuscript that's not illustrated, but that has big potential, I'd be open to representation.
Sometimes submissions need some structural work...a bit of cutting, bringing the central conflict into the forefront etc. etc. But if I love the voice, and if the author and I share a vision for the plot, I'm certainly open to helping a bigger revision along.
Right now I'm making my way through fulls and partials requested in the late fall and the early winter.
As to cross-genre submissions, it's hard to say hypothetically what would appeal and what would feel overly ambitious. But if it's a YA novel that might have a crossover audience amongst women's fiction readers, I may say pitch it as full-on YA.
As far as submissions, I respond to unsolicited queries typically in 2-3 weeks. But with partials and fulls that I request, it often takes more like a month to two months.
Having started in publishing around the time that books like A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Princess Diaries, and The Spiderwick Chronicles were coming out (my first boss Kevin Lewis acquired that one!) definitely made me understand the huge impact of children's publishing. This kind of synergy made me want to represent properties that I could have a shared risk AND a shared reward in...
I've never been to the Big Sur Conference, though I hear it's wonderful. It might boil down to whether you're in a networking/getting inspired mode or whether you'd rather hunker down and revise hardcore.
I think editors overall are looking for commercial YA, and that means different things to different people. Lately I've seen slightly fewer paranormal projects, and more things that are dystopian, gamer-inspired, and historical sell. But if the writing and the plot feel inventive and exude teen appeal, I think editors are excited to read, regardless of the topic.
It varies but I typically submit to anywhere between 6 and 12 editors at once, depending on the book.
- January 27, 2011 at 12:39 PM
- Liesl said...
Thanks! Alyssa was already at the top of my agent list, but this helps me get even more of a sense for her style. Sounds awesome!
- January 27, 2011 at 12:40 PM
Herewith are a few more answers...I'll check in again this evening to respond to any more questions. Thanks for having me!
If you and the agent discuss exclusive status so far as his or her feedback on your manuscript is concerned, it's only polite to hold off querying until he or she gives you an answer on representation. If no such exclusivity has been discussed, you are still a free agent, I believe.
You can call the manuscript either historical fantasy or fantasy, and I don't think it makes too much difference.
As to jackets, in the cases where an author retains approval or consultation rights contractually, the agent and author get quite a lot of say. And even when those terms aren't granted, I think publishers work hard to get the right pacakge for each book, and one that the author will love, though, sometimes the process can take quite awhile, and it's clearly subjective.
- January 27, 2011 at 12:51 PM
In your experience, how important do you think it is for an author to be a member of various online social networks once their book is published?
- January 27, 2011 at 2:03 PM
- Carolyn Abiad said...
Thank you! Glad to hear "historical" is a good selling point. YA Historical fantasy it is then...:)
- January 27, 2011 at 2:37 PM
How long is too long to wait after an agent requests your manuscript from a conference? In my case, it took me 10 months to finish the manuscript before I sent it to the agent.
- January 27, 2011 at 3:52 PM
If you sub a manuscript and it gets roundly rejected, how much do you keep trying before throwing in the towel?
- January 27, 2011 at 4:41 PM
Can an author be both a nytimes best seller and a newberry winner? It seems the two awards/recognitions are very different kinds of books. Do you tend to gravitate toward on or the other? Also, can a young adult book receive the pulizer?
- January 27, 2011 at 4:44 PM
- Krista V. said...
And that's it! (Actually, that was it an hour ago, but I wasn't able to check in until now.) I'll leave these last few questions up, but just realize Ms. Henkin may or may not answer them.
Thank you, Ms. Henkin, for spending the day with us, and thank you, everyone else, for your wonderful questions!
- January 27, 2011 at 4:57 PM
As far as social networking, it's wonderful to be a part of the vibrant author community online. Many of my clients have been contacted for speaking engagements or by fans through their websites, and it's really helpful to have that presence when you're starting out. As far as facebook, twitter, blogging, vlogging etc. I think that all depends on how much you enjoy this kind of networking and how much time you want to devote to it. If you love it and it helps build your platform, great. If you enjoy doing it sporadically, fine. If not, don't feel that it's a pre-requisite to success.
I can't speak for every agent, but if I requested a manuscript at a conference, and I received a query about it even ten months later, I'd still be happy to give it a read. Although it's always a good idea to remind the agent about the prior request, just to be on the safe side.
As far as rounds of rejections, it's hard to know when to throw in the towel. It might boil down to the type of feedback you're getting. If 20 people cite the same problem with the text, maybe it's worth revising it or putting it in a drawer for awhile and working on something else. But if it's getting lots of near-misses, it may be worth plowing ahead and querying additional agents.
Often the book that wins the Newbery or the Newbery Honor will hit the NY Times bestseller list after the award or honor is announced. Sometimes the Newbery winner is even an NY Times Bestseller before the award is given when there's a lot of pre-buzz. I think my personal tastes range the gamut from literary to commercial, and I'm open to winners and bestsellers of all stripes :) As to the Pulitzer, I don't recall a children's book winning in recent memory...but I'm not sure about the specifics rules..
- January 27, 2011 at 7:40 PM
- Krista V. said...
Such thorough answers, Alyssa. Thank you. And thanks for taking a break on our not-quite buzzer beaters:)
- January 27, 2011 at 9:08 PM
- Myrna Foster said...
Oy, today was a busy one! I really wanted to be here for the interactive part of this, but I think all of the questions I would have asked got answered. You even asked her my PB question, Krista. Thank you, Krista and Alyssa, for such a thorough interview!
- January 28, 2011 at 12:11 AM
- Kelly Bryson said...
Great interview. It's nice to get to know Ms. Henkin, especially for all of her responses in the comments. Thanks!
- January 28, 2011 at 8:30 AM
- Krista V. said...
Myrna, I realized as I was posting this that I hadn't asked that follow-up question about picture books, so I was glad this one was interactive so I could ask it later. As always, thanks for dropping by!
Really informative, huh, Kelly? Too bad Ms. Henkin doesn't rep adult urban fantasy:)
- January 28, 2011 at 12:40 PM
- Janet Johnson said...
Great interview! Very interesting to see Alyssa's responses to everyone's questions. :)
- January 28, 2011 at 5:32 PM
- Krista V. said...
Thanks for stopping by, Janet!
- January 29, 2011 at 12:50 PM
- The Sisterhood said...
Krista, thank you for another great interview and for introducing me to another wonderful agent. I'm sorry I came too late for the questions... :(
PS. Agent Chelsea Gilmore from Maria Carvainis Agency has granted me an interview and will stop today by my blog to answer readers' questions, if anybody is interested.
- February 1, 2011 at 11:11 AM
- Krista V. said...
Lorena, you're welcome, and thank YOU for the heads-up about your awesome interview. You're a woman after my own heart:)
- February 1, 2011 at 2:51 PM
- Shelli (srjohannes) said...
Alyssa is my agent and I adore here!
The best part? She is very communicative. She always responds quickly and has time for me. She is funny and throws around movie and book references. She gets me and my books.
but mostly, she does not give up on her authors even if the chips dont fall where they should or where we hope.
- February 4, 2011 at 11:49 AM
- Krista V. said...
Thanks for the comment, Shelli! I love it when clients stop by to gush about their agents:)
- February 4, 2011 at 1:00 PM
- Dorothy Dreyer said...
Great interview! She had me at chocolate-covered marshmallows! :D
- February 5, 2011 at 2:57 AM
- Krista V. said...
Dorothy, thanks for dropping in!
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Austin has three locally-made films in the 2nd Annual PBS Online Film Festival. You can vote for the audience award until March 22. Vote at pbs.org/filmfestival
The Longest Sun is a narrative short film inspired by the mythology of the Tewa peoples of northern New Mexico, and is told entirely in the endangered language of Tewa (less than 500 native speakers remain). A blend of fantasy, mystery, and historical fiction, The Longest Sun is a quest story that follows Tahn Pi, a young Tewa boy who sets out on a mythical journey to stop the sun from setting.
As the first film told entirely in the Tewa language, The Longest Sun is the culmination of nearly three years of collaboration with the San Juan, San Idelfonso, Santa Clara, Nambe, and Pojoaque pueblo communities and local governments. From conception to translation, the filmmaker and various Tewa community leaders worked together to document and preserve the oral traditions and language of the Tewa people through the medium of film. Peppered with colorful characters and rich in oral tradition, The Longest Sun explores universal perceptions of time, maturation, and death through a modern adaptation of an ancient Tewa origin story.
About the Filmmaker: Patrick William Smith (MFA in Film Production, UT Austin) works as a director and cinematographer between Austin, TX and Seattle, WA. He has directed a number of award-winning fiction and nonfiction films, web-series, and commercials. His documentary, Shades of The Border, toured at over two dozen film festivals worldwide (including SXSW, Media That Matters), garnering a number of awards and DVD distribution. Patrick went on to direct a reality web-series for internet mogul, Penny Arcade, and later developed a comedy web-series funded through a successful, front-page crowdsourcing campaign on Kickstarter (Kris and Scott's, Scott and Kris Show), which drew national media attention. Patrick's most recent endeavor, a narrative quest film told entirely in the endangered Tewa language, is currently touring festivals worldwide. Looking ahead, Patrick has begun development on his first feature.


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Hi All,
As a long time LF reader, I thought it would be good to put out an announcement about a piece of software I've been working on. Praxis LIVE is an open-source, graphical environment for rapid development of intermedia performance tools, projections and interactive spaces. It's kind of a missing part of the jigsaw in FLOSS multimedia tools, partly inspired by AudioMulch, Isadora, Bidule, etc.; it uses a similar patcher-style interface, with the added ability to create custom components 'on-the-fly' using Processing or GLSL code.
Website - http://code.google.com/p/praxis/
Screencasts - http://praxisintermedia.wordpress.com/2 ... gh-cuts-1/
Yes, it's Java based! However, it would be almost impossible to write it in anything else.
Best wishes, Neil
PS. Be great to get a mention in the magazine! It's still in active development, but definitely usable. Happy to answer any questions.


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North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Paul Newby has fought for victim's rights, and he wants to continue working for the public by seeking his second eight-year term on the court this November.
North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Paul Newby has fought for victim's rights, and he wants to continue working for the public by seeking his second eight-year term on the court this November.
Newby says it's his broad bipartisan support from across the state, including endorsements of four former chief justices — two Democrats and two Republicans — that makes him an excellent candidate for re-election.
Newby was born in Asheboro and raised in Jamestown. His mother was a schoolteacher, and his father was a printer.
"I have been blessed with the opportunity to serve for the last eight years," Newby said. "I was first introduced to the law through my participation in a local Boy Scout troop, eventually obtaining the rank of Eagle Scout. It was while working on the citizenship merit badges in Jamestown that I first learned of the significance of our form of government and rule of law. I was fascinated by the vision and wisdom of our Founding Fathers, and through them that I might want to be a part of the greatest legal system in the world."
Newby said he has tried to be a public servant.
"I have gone into the schools and talked to students," he said. "I have worked with Boy Scouts from across the state."
After graduating from Ragsdale High School, Newby attended Duke University and then UNC School of Law in Chapel Hill.
His first position in the legal system came as an intern in the 18th Judicial District's Public Defender's Office serving Greensboro and High Point. He later interned with the U.S. Supreme Court.
Newby's connection to Western North Carolina began when he was sworn into the practice of law in Asheville, where he spent his formative years in the profession at Van Winkle, Buck, Wall, Starnes and Davis, P.A.
He later served as vice president and general counsel of Cannon Mills Realty and Development Corp. in Kannapolis. In 1985, Newby was appointed as an assistant United States attorney in Raleigh, where he served for 19 years before joining the Supreme Court in 2004.
While serving as a federal prosecutor, he was awarded the Crime Victims Fund Award for his work helping victims of crime.
"As an assistant U.S. attorney, I worked hard for victims," he said. "We sometimes get callous with media reports of crimes, until it happens to us. I worked to collect restitution for victims to at least, monetarily, make the victims whole again."
Newby also worked with a team to get North Carolina's copy of the U.S. Bill of Rights, stolen by a Union soldier in 1865, returned to the state. Newby organized a sting operation in 2003 to reacquire North Carolina's original copy of the document, which federal marshals seized in Philadelphia.
Newby now lives in Raleigh. He said coming to the mountains of Western North Carolina is one of his favorite activities.
"I am also a tennis player and a Boy Scout, so I like doing anything outdoors," he said.
Since judicial races are nonpartisan, Newby said it's a name game many times when people go out and vote.
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The online magazine Ozy covers people, places and trends on the horizon. Co-founder Carlos Watson joins All Things Considered regularly to tell us about the site's latest feature stories.
This week, Watson talks with guest host Kelly McEvers about a rising star who has made hip-hop serious business, and the advertising tactics that life insurance companies are using to attract young people.
It's time for The New and The Next.
MCEVERS: Carlos Watson is the co-founder of the online magazine Ozy. Each week, he joins us to talk about what's new and what's next. Welcome back, Carlos.
CARLOS WATSON: Really good to be here. Good to be here in person.
MCEVERS: Yeah. Nice to see you. This week, you introduce us to a rising star in the world of hip-hop. But he's kind of on the other side of the equation. Tell us about him.
WATSON: He is. He's an incredible young Yale graduate named Zack O'Malley Greenburg who writes for Forbes magazine but, instead of writing kind of complicated stories on hedge funds, has spent all of his time covering what he calls the kings of hip-hop. He writes an incredible annual digest, if you will, of who's been most successful. And whether he writes about Ludacris or Jay-Z, whether he's talking about Beyonce's recent success or what Drake is doing, he's actually turned music - and fun music - into serious business. And it's become one of those most popular portions of the magazine.
MCEVERS: It's no secret that music is business. I mean, how did he come up with this idea?
WATSON: Well, he always was a music fan, fell in love with hip-hop, tried to convince his editors early on that there was something more there than just something to listen to, that there was serious business underpinning it. And ultimately, as they saw the popularity of this segment grow, it went from what is called a sidebar in the magazine to really, effectively, its own mini issue.
MCEVERS: And I understand it gets phone calls from certain people if they don't appear on the list or if they appear a different - a place on the list that they don't feel comfortable with.
WATSON: Well, famous bad boy Sean "Diddy" Combs and others are famous for challenging his numbers and making sure that they get full credit for their entrepreneurial success. So it's been a lot of fun for a former child actor and Yale writer who never imagined that he would have so much fun at 28. He's not even 30 yet. So lots of good stuff.
MCEVERS: Another business story on Ozy this week, about young people and finances: life insurance. You know, this isn't necessarily a priority for young people. But there's some companies out there who are trying to come up with some creative advertising. What's that about?
WATSON: So life insurance - multibillion-dollar industry, usually selling life insurance policies to people in their 40s, 50s, 60s, older - found themselves in real trouble during the financial crisis looking for a new market. And who, of course, did they turn to? Twenty-somethings. But you and I - and you're looking at me. You're saying, well, what's the pitch to a 23-, 24-year-old? Like why in the world do they want life insurance? And two tacts have been taken. One, it's - you don't want to leave your parents stuck with a bill after all they've done for you, so if, God forbid, something happens. That's been one of the pitches.
And the other has been around Social Security. If it's not there when you need it, is this some version of a security policy, not just life insurance, et cetera. Hasn't been very successful for 12 million reasons, including perhaps the fundamental pitch, but it's a reminder, maybe, of the lengths that people go to or that industries go to in the midst of difficult times.
MCEVERS: Yeah, lengths like playing on your fears, like you're going to die when you're young, before your parents do - take care of them. I mean, it just seems kind of illogical.
WATSON: Seems illogical and yet in a fit of desperation they've pursued that both here and overseas. One of the critiques, though, that the number of people in the space make is even if you were going to go after so-called millennials, you'd want to use different approaches. In other words, you'd want to sell more of it online. Of course, it's hard to think of selling anything to young people today that doesn't involve giving them the convenience and sometimes the cheaper cost of selling things online.
MCEVERS: Carlos Watson is the co-founder of the online magazine Ozy. You could explore all the stories we talk about on npr.org/newandnext. Carlos, thank you again.
WATSON: Kelly, good to see you.
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Somehow I end up breaking the plastic peice where it attaches to the differential
I've heard the summit ones do not break, should i go that route, keep replacing stock ones, or buy a CVD?
I would say upgrade to Summit Drive Shatfs. Make sure you look at an Exploded View and get all the necessary pieces. I dont know if you will need different yokes to attach them. And make sure you get all Long Half Shafts.
They do break...just a little stronger than stock and a good upgrade. They are easier to replace too when they break.
I can't remember who mentioned this...you can re-use your broken shaft post #106, it will work as a temporary measure until you can replace it.
I would buy a complete set of summit shafts of eBay and a few sets of long shafts #5656...it will be far cheaper than building them from scratch .
I heard a lot of people complain about the steel CVD's as they tend to bend a quite a fair bit.
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I found it...it took some time. I knew it came up not so long ago...post #11. Thanks 87GN...it worked like a treat as a temporary measure .
Rock n Rolla !
I run traxxas cvd's on my emaxx, and erevo, but I don't abuse my trucks so for me they work good.
it stinks droken driveshafts.....but is does help save the diffs. can kind of think of it that way.......
& drilling not my idea^ just passing on info.....
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Would you go flip my truck back over??
Ive switched to the traxxas ones. Every time I would run my truck I would break at least one, exactly were you do. I do not abuse my truck at all (yet...lol) small jumps and chasing my kids pede around. So far so good on the steel ones!
Who needs brakes!!!!
I have the mip shafts anf they seem to be good as long as you loc-tite the grub screws. And check them frequently.
They are pricey though.
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I've broken 4 Driveshafts in my last 6 runs, I'm about to sell this truck and just buy a Heli.
one crash with that and you will be shopping for an erbe!
Stock shafts are nothing short of crap, I tried cvds and they bent way too easy with my rpm arms so I went summit shafts and 6 months on and a correct slipper later they are showing next to no wear, great shafts.
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Umm I've broken many summit shafts lol, do steel ones
That's the centre drive shaft mate...I use that on all my trucks. revomikey, myself and others are using these
Rock n Rolla !
The summit shafts are way better if you like beating the revo. The cvds bend under big airs.
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Yes I agree the cvds are no good for big jumps.I broke 3 of them.I just ordered a full set of summit shafts from ebay so I will see how they hold up.
I've broken 8 E-REVO shafts and 1 Summit shaft, and the Summit was while I was running on 6S ...
The 8 stock shafts I was running on 4S.
I bought a set of MIP that I still need to install on my ERBE.
Just remember to get some red loctite, which funny enough comes in a blue tube. At least the one I have did, you will also want a good set of hex wrenches cause that loctite doesn't play. Mine set in a few minutes and I can't get it loose now even if I want to.
Dont handicap children by making life easy
Broke one of my traxxas steels last night, yes broke. Just put in my mips. Of course I was doing tripple backflips!
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However i have having some trouble with some of my code at the moment. I keep getting a error saying C# Input string was not in a correct format.
Here is the code in questions that i am having the error with.
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Eric Louis Rooney, who spent childhood summers in Montauk and for whom it remained a favorite place, was buried at Fort Hill Cemetery there on Nov. 21. Mr. Rooney died in Queens on Nov. 17. The cause of death was an accident, his family said. He was 26.
Mr. Rooney was born on Sept. 16, 1986, to Bruna DiBiase and Richard Rooney in New York City. He grew up in Flushing, Queens, and on Butternut Drive in Montauk.
His mother, who lives in Montauk, said that as a child Eric excelled in school, taking part in a program for intellectually gifted children. He was perceptive, eager to learn, and a reader who loved going to bookstores to get new releases. He was a member of the National Honor Society and National Spanish Honor Society in high school.
Days in Montauk were filled with beach time, dinners from Herb's market, and eager waits for Montauk Mary's ice cream truck. He played soccer, hockey, baseball, and basketball. In high school, he was a standout in the pole vault and track and, later, was a most-valuable player in a men's soccer league. One of his sisters, Cara Rooney, attends Fordham University, where she plays on the women's soccer team; her brother taught her the sport.
Mr. Rooney graduated from Stony Brook University and was working as an account manager at Flushing Savings Bank.
Mr. Rooney is survived by his parents; his father lives in Queens. Another sister, Lisa Rooney, lives in Montauk.
A funeral Mass for him was said at Holy Trinity Parish in Whitestone, Queens, on Nov. 21. There will be a Mass for him at St. Therese of Liseaux Catholic Church in Montauk at 10:30 a.m. on Dec. 23.
Mr. Rooney's family has suggested memorial donations to St. Therese of Lisieux, 67 South Essex, Montauk 11954, or to the Friends of the Montauk Library, Montauk 11954.


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Sean Steele from Liverpool, U.K. said: "Here is a skull i made from blu tack*, hope you like it."
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That little blue adhesive goes by many different names, but it keeps the world together. Thanks for submitting your skull to us. I checked out to Blu-Tack home page in order to find out more about this product. Did you know when not making skulls with Blu-Tack that it can be used for holding toll money to a motorbike. I read it on the internet so it must be true. Thanks again Sean and you should consider submitting this skull to their creative page.
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3 comments:
- Tatman said...
Of course this will remind a lot of readers of The Red Skull. Or maybe it's the skull of Mr. Bill?
- July 24, 2009 at 7:24 AM
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hi...just found your blog. you might want to check out the skulls on mine. just click on skulls in the sidebar!
- July 24, 2009 at 8:37 AM
- Kim said...
Surprisingly I didn't make that Marvel connection. Seems obvious, now, thanks for pointing it out! :)
- July 24, 2009 at 8:49 PM
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PITTSBURGH -- The Cubs had to set their opening-day roster Sunday afternoon, but they won't announce it as final until before Monday's season opener in Pittsburgh.
Second baseman Darwin Barney is likely to go on the 15-day disabled list because of a nasty cut he received Saturday at Houston in the final exhibition game of the spring. The cut, which resulted from Barney crashing into the wall while chasing a foul popup, required five stitches.
Brent Lillibridge, who made the team out of spring training as a nonroster man, will start at second base on Opening Day. The Cubs also have brought nonroster man Alberto Gonzalez to Pittsburgh. If they don't make a late deal, Gonzalez could be added to the roster.
"That's a bummer," starting pitcher Jeff Samardzija said of Barney's injury. "Darwin is my boy back there. With him and Cassie (shortstop Starlin Castro), you really develop a relationship with those guys, guys to talk to and (bounce) stuff off of during the game. We can adjust to things."
Making it on merit:
Brent Lillibridge opens his fifth straight season with a Chicago organization. He was with the White Sox from 2009 until being traded to Boston last June. The Red Sox then traded him to Cleveland July 24.
With Darwin Barney out, Lillibridge should see plenty of playing time. Although he wasn't happy about Barney's injury, he also felt he made the team on merit.
"I just tried to accomplish my individual things," said Lillibridge, who hit .313 (15-for-48) during the spring. "I knew that if I showcased what I was capable of that it would have been a hard decision. It's great to have a good spring, swing the bat really well, swing at good pitches, have good at-bats throughout the whole spring, from beginning to end. I hope I can transfer that to the season tomorrow."
Roster moves:
The Cubs added left-handed reliever Hisanori Takahashi to the roster after he made the team out of spring training as a nonroster man.
They also optioned center fielder Brett Jackson to Class AAA Iowa.
Right-hander Scott Baker (elbow) went on the 60-day disabled list while third baseman Ian Stewart (quad injury) and pitcher Matt Garza (lat-muscle injury) were placed on the 15-day DL.


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A field of six fillies and mares was drawn for the Inside Information, formerly known as the Shirley Jones Handicap, and the seven-furlong test will share the spotlight on Sunday's program with the $150,000 Herecomesthebride Stakes (G3) for 3-year-old fillies on turf.
That decision reversed the result of the First Lady Stakes (G3) on Jan. 18. A Kentucky homebred by Limit Out, Any Limit won the Hurricane Bertie in 2007, and after missing the winter season here last year, swept the First Flight Handicap (G2) at Belmont Park and Honorable Miss Handicap (G2) at Saratoga over the summer.
Jockey John R. Velazquez will be back aboard Game Face for trainer Todd Pletcher. The chestnut daughter of Menifee won the Old Hat Stakes (G3) here by seven lengths and the La Troienne Stakes (G3) at Churchill Downs last year. She scored by 2 ¾ lengths over Any Limit in the First Lady.
The two rivals face a formidable new opponent in Mary and Gary West's 4-year-old filly Keep the Peace with Julien Leparoux in the saddle after an impressive allowance victory by 2 ½ lengths going six furlongs over the track on Feb. 21 in her first start since late May.
Trained by Eddie Kenneally, the chestnut daughter of Touch Gold had a strong, but frustrating 3-year-old campaign, finishing second in three Graded stakes, including a nose loss in the Forward Gal Stakes here and the La Troienne at Churchill Derby week when beaten a neck by Game Face.
The 'wild card' in the field will be Stanley Seelig's 5-year-old mare Precious Kiss shipping in from New Orleans with jockey John Jacinto coming along for the ride. Trained by Patrick Mouton, Precious Kiss is a daughter of Kissin Kris and won the Pan Zareta Stakes last out on Feb. 7 at Fair Grounds.
Completing the field are a pair of contenders trained by Marty Wolfson – Miklin Stable's 6-year-old mare Stormin Mon, Jermaine Bridgmohan; and Farnsworth Stable's 4-year-old filly Pious Ashley, Javier Castellano.
Dream Empress Returns in Herecomesthebride
Livin the Dream Racing's Dream Empress ranked among the leaders of her division last year, winning the Alcibiades Stakes (G1) at Keeneland on Oct. 3 and finishing a game second to Stardom Bound in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) three weeks later at Santa Anita.
Trainer Ken McPeek has chosen Sunday's Herecomesthebride Stakes for Dream Empress to make her return to competition with Kent Desormeaux as she makes her first start since a disappointing fourth-place finish as the favorite in the Golden Rod Stakes (G2) at Churchill Downs on Nov. 29. The daughter of Bernstein broke her maiden on turf at Saratoga after a fourth-place career debut on turf at Ellis Park.
Dream Empress faces six rivals, including the first three to finish in the Coconut Grove Stakes over the Gulfstream course on Feb. 15 – Farnsworth Stables' Gozzip Girl, Elvis Trujillo; Chester Bishop's Oilgonewile, Wesley Henry; and Andrew Farm and Frank O'Connor's Obesquious, Edgar Prado.
Completing the field for the Herecomesthebride are Del Ridge Farm's Bluegrass Princess, John R. Velazquez; Sam Kassin and Eli Gindi's Fast Tigress, Javier Castellano; Louise and G. Watts Humphrey, Jr.'s Guarda, Julien Leparoux; and Kinsman Stable's Candle Maker, Alan Garcia.


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.300 wsm is a friend of mines primary whitetail gun
.300 wsm is a friend of mines primary whitetail gun
That salesman needs to go work at a store that fits him a little better.. Like Walmart.
.300 is an awesome caliber, that will kill anything you want to shoot it with. No such thing as too dead.
My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.
That salesman must be related to Jack O'Conner. He either use to work at Walmart or will soon work at Walmart. Asking a sporting goods employee at Walmart a question about anything relating to guns, hunting or fishing is a lesson in frustration.
I agree with all above. The .300 is a fine caliber for mule deer. As with any caliber, practice so you shoot it well, stay within your effective range and ignore this guy.
I use my 300 ICL with 200 gr. Nosler Partitions for everything. That bullet has always done a great job from 90 lb. California bucks to 300 lb. Montana bucks. I don't think you can go wrong with that combo.
On the other hand, I've picked up 270 that fits me well and is fun to shoot...LOL!
As for the Walmart guy, who knows what he is basing his opinion on?
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Every hunting season you miss is one you can not make up.
I upgraded from a 30.06 to a .300 win mag and I use it for everything now. It is my go too hunting rifle now. I started reloading so I load up 165 grain rounds for antelope and the 180 grain bullets for muleys and elk.
A bad day in the woods is better than a good day at work.
Public Land Owner
I will take the other route here guys, I PERSONALLY think it is overkill. I shoot a 7 mag for everything and I think it's too big on alot of things however I will NOT JUDGE ANYONE that does shoot bigger rounds. Heck my uncle shoots a 375 h&h while my dad shoots a 25-06. What one shoots is a personal choice and we have more important battles then bickering over ones choice of caliber.
As far as that guy telling you to look at different calibers. That," I work at Sportsmans warehouse so I know everything" attitude has to go. I went in to buy some powder one day, I asked him if he had any h4895, he replied I do but you should shoot xx powder. I might have been in a bad mood but I engaged this guy and told him I had 5 minutes so he can tell me everything he knows about reloading and what powder my gun likes. He didn't say a word and walked away. Worst part about it was he didn't walk away to get my powder, I had to ask someone else
haha all great responses. I have a .243 as a second gun for mule deer, so I'm not thinking I NEED a .300. But it'll help on a marginal shot.
I agree that a .270 is probably a better choice for deer and antelope sized game. For a one gun meets all needs in the continental U.S you can't beat a 7mm or .300 win mag
A bad day in the woods is better than a good day at work.
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Emu's used to scare me. I thank Rod Hull for that:
Rod had an Emu called…Emu and he was a bitey little thing. Look at what he did to Parky:
Scary stuff. But vanity is vanity, and I ended up with a Dremu Emu Oil (30ml, £30).
There is quite a lot of explanation about this product and the science behind it on this page, so I won't bore you by repeating it here.
In summary though, Emu Oil:
* Reduces wrinkles without needles
* Light, odorless non pore clogging
* World's most effective moisturizer
* Penetrates deeply to reduce wrinkles
* Absorbs immediately
* Calms redness
* Plumps up fine lines
* Hastens healing
* Soothes roughness
* Rehydrates dry, chapped, skin
And yes – Oprah herself, has said that she loves it.
I have been testing mine out for a while now, and I have to say, as much as I love the idea of facial oils (I've tried a few I have always found them quite oily and irritating after a while.)
Dremu oil is…just fantastico!
The oil itself is…well quite oily but once you have gently patted it into the skin it disappears without a horrible residue (give it a few minutes though). There is no scent and no colour with the product.
You only need a tiny smidgen though – so although its not madly cheap at £30 for 15ml, it will last longer that a tub of cream. One thing is that Emu oil is that is solidifies in cold conditions – which in England is ALWAYS bar 2 days in August when everyone still manages to turn themselves into screaming pink lobsters – so you need to warm it up in your hands, use warm water or a hairdryer or your armpit – you get the idea.
The main thing I noticed is that when I woke up after using this, my skin was a lot bright and softer, and more even too. My face looked less red (I get redness on the forehead, and around the nose a lot).
I wasn't sure how it would work in the morning, under make up but it was fine – just use sparingly and allow 5 mins for it to settle in.
I can't say it will work for everyone but it really worked for me so I want to try more from the Dremu range now…mmm especially Face Paste!
It's £145! Eek! But if the Emu oil works this well, this will probably work wonders on my chapped patches.
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For 1 Super Bowl in 40+ years to have an incident like this is to be expected. S.. Happens.
That power outage for over a half an hour was the worst thing I have seen in Superbowl history. They spend so much money building these stadiums, it would stand to reason that they should have their own power generator to light the place up if a transformer fails outside the place. I think they said it was like over 80 minutes before Flacco and the offense took the field again. The 49ers came right out and scored 17 points against and older tighter Ravens defense. This should never happen again, and the NFL should mandate these stadiums be able to stand on their own if the power goes out!
For 1 Super Bowl in 40+ years to have an incident like this is to be expected. S.. Happens.
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You need a small power plant to power the whole stadium.
Woody is having Xanadu turned into a Giant back-up Generator after last nights mess, P.S., he is funding it with a food & beer P.C..L you have to buy a 5 ,year Personal Commisarrie License $5,000 per person for food & drink. LOL!
GMC approves this thread.
I'm outraged!
Hearing now it was a monitoring system that shut down the power after sensing an abnormality. It may well have functioned as designed and prevented a safety mishap (speculating only).
Emergency power generation is reasonable to expect.
Full Stadium Backup-Power generation, is not.
Personally, I like the "NFL Conspiracy to get the 49'ers back in it" theory.
I think I recall a power outage in the last five years at another NFL game. Cant recall where. Does anyone remember that?
Power not really a problem its those lights, once they go of it takes min 10mins to come back on. The power once it's figured out is easier to "fix"
The pats old stadium had one in the 1996 playoffs
The power was turned off intentionally. The game was becoming a blowout, that's a nightmare for the league.
Most of the power for a stadium is used for heating and air conditioning. Lighting only uses a small portion of the energy provided. Stadiums could easily generate this power for themselves, but I think the problem is in the kind of lighting they are using, probably sodium lighting, which take time to recycle if you shut them down.


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Is it a coincidence that Valentine's Day coincides with Pitchers & Catchers? Aren't they the two most romantic dates on the calendar? Shouldn't they just be fused as one mushy, gushy holiday wherein we could celebrate all our true loves with utter efficiency?
Happy Valentine's Day today, and a good Pitchers & Catchers to one and all, too. As we are moved to say every year at this juncture, it's about time.
Special Cupid's greetings to all those who combined to make this an unexpectedly happy holiday: namely our heartthrob Johan Santana and the great Metsopotamian masses who secured his professional home for the next seven seasons. The list of enablers would have to include you and you and you and you and me and all of us who pay the freight and, not completely coincidentally, raised a ruckus and never quite let it settle down after certain unpleasant events transpired in the year before the one we're in now. I don't know that you and you and you and you and I can take tangible credit for forcing management's hand — it's not like Omar Minaya hadn't heard about what's been going on in Minnesota every fifth day for five years — but it's not out of the question that our collective crankiness helped nudge the party line off from where it sat in early October 2007, a month when the Met hierarchy had nothing more on their plates than press availabilities and nothing more to say than "we're fine, we're swell, it was just a little stumble, but otherwise it's all good."
Yes, the Mets can be said to have run a very competitive divisional race in 2007. And a sinkhole on 17 would make for easy par at TPC Sawgrass if nobody acknowledged its presence signified a natural disaster.
I'm very much into politics, especially on recent Tuesdays and Saturdays, but I didn't need managers and general managers behaving like politicians last fall. I didn't need spin. I didn't need to be focus-grouped. I needed acknowledgement, tacit if not explicit, that something had gone terribly, terribly awry by those who oversaw the debacle that landed on our heads and pierced our hearts. I required accountability. I imagine you did, too.
Now, with pitchers and catchers joining David Wright (he got to St. Lucie first; it's just what he does) to fire up the first sparks of 2008, 2007 doesn't materially matter. We're not 5-12 in our last 17 anymore. We're 0-0 like everybody else. We're not collapsed. We are risen. And that is great.
But is it that easy, even with the sublime Santana in the Mets fold (unfortunate phrase, Mets fold), to put it all behind us? Is it that simple, even with the preternaturally disappointed Gl@v!ne dispatched back where he belongs, to blot the abysmal taste off our tongues? Does the twin-wisdom of renovating Port St. Lefty with Sr. Stupendous after resisting re-signing Mr. One-Third really rewind and erase the signature dive Gl@v!ne's now-former team so indelibly signed off on?
Did firing Don Imus end insensitive discourse in our time?
Prior to Santana, I was almost dreading Spring Training, almost dreading having to root for these Mets again, the Mets who joined T#m Gl@v!ne in that epic freefall, essentially the same cast minus a few offenders but topped off by the inspirational presences of Ryan Church and Brian Schneider. By the same token, however, I looked forward to Spring Training. I looked forward to whoever was a Met donning again a Mets uniform in a year that wasn't the one before the one we're in now. I had to see some 2008 Mets out there, even if a bunch of them were 2007 Mets until proven otherwise.
I'm a little more sanguine about the whole thing now. Maybe it's the exchange of two-time Cy Young winners and the quality and consistency we can expect from the 200-some innings we have clearly upgraded. Maybe it's just spring fever in February kicking in the way it's supposed to if you're a baseball fan — that marvelous virus of innate optimism to which no lover of this game should ever be immune as winter winds down. Still, I wonder. It's not the usual wonderment my blog partner detects in me annually, the way he's noticed that I never quite trust the new faces in our old places until I've seen them do something for us. It's wider and deeper than that.
It's a sinkhole of mistrust.
We came into last Spring Training obsessing on one pitch, one called strike that ended a postseason. We had had our heart broken at the end of 2006, but generally speaking, we didn't go to bed angry. We didn't hold it against the Mets. We rushed to embrace their next season. We trusted them to make it right.
Are you feeling that easy this time around? I'm not, and I don't say that in defiance of the Mets. Of course I want to be that easy. I want to melt into a pool of swoon at the first sight of meaningless exhibition play. I want to tingle from the back of my neck to the top of my rump when a public-address announcer addresses the public to announce, "now batting, number seven…" I want to be thrilled to pieces to hold this steady date with my perennial baseball Valentines.
I guess I will be. But it's gonna take some time this time, it really is. This may be the first Spring Training during which I need to get myself in rooting trim, to look past what even Johan Santana can't quite strike out just yet, to small-b believe…
• That the team that crushed me and my spirit five months ago is capable of not doing the same again…
• That it's not just another enormous tease…
• That it's legitimately possible that a baseball season doesn't have to end on a called strike three or with a resounding thud…
• That it could actually end with a much more desirable multiple-choice answer.
It's gonna take some time this time, and this time I don't think I'm just saying that.
Santana's awesome. Other Mets are capable of being so. They could gel into something special. They could congeal into something less. The same could be said before every season, but deep down — save for the prohibitive bowsers you can see woofing from a mile down the road — you always find a reason to Capital-B Believe in the Mets in February. That's what we do — we Believe. Now we have Johan Santana topping a team that was arguably two Johan Santana starts from October 2007. As the football Giants recently taught us, once you get to the tournament, you remain eligible for bigger and better prizes as long as you remain alive.
But does Mets + Santana actually = Guarantee? The way-improved rotation sparkles in the mind's eye, but did Delgado just grow younger, healthier and consistent? Has Schneider found a stroke he never had? Is Sanchez picking up where he left off an eon ago? Are the collected nuts and bolts that comprise Alou and Castillo sufficiently greased and tightened? Will Wright (please) keep getting better? Will Reyes (pretty please) stop getting worse? Are the Mets of Johan Santana a reinforced powerhouse capable of going where we, by now, are salivating for them to go, or are the Mets, despite the hefty commitment to Johan Santana, going to be weighed down by where they've been? And, putting aside the not incidental construction of our 25-man roster and how it stacks up in comparison to those taking shape in Clearwater and Orlando this month and next, can we and our recently raised expectations handle yet another take on devastation?
Sometime after Gl@v!ne took off his Mets jersey for the last time and Santana put on his for the first, I reasoned to myself that if the Mets are determined to not win a spot in the tournament in 2008, or do so but then fail for a 22nd consecutive season to Take It To The House, that's kinda, sorta OK, 'cause '08 is more about Shea's final act than it is about anything else. But I don't think I bought it, because a baseball season is too long to ignore your baseball team's ongoing lack of success, no matter how distracted you think you'll be by other potential priorities. Now that Johan's on board, there is a temptation to expect good things…but I'm burnt out on expectation after last year. Still, no team has ever ended a ballpark's tenure by winning a World Series in it. Gosh, I'd like ours to be the first.
Yeah, it would be great.
Sure, it's possible
No, I don't know if it's probable.
Damned if I want to know what it will feel like when it sinks in that it won't happen — and I say "when" and not "if" partly because there is technically only a 1-in-30 chance that it will, partly because we're 0-for-our-last-21, with the last two misses hurting far worse than any of the previous nineteen, with last one stinging exponentially more than even the one before it.
Once upon a time, it didn't much matter. Once upon a time — several times upon a time, actually — the idea of the Mets winning a World Series was a lofty goal at the outset of Spring Training, but hardly something that seemed essential to my well-being. But on Valentine's Day 2008, even as we return to active and daily devotion to our baseball team, even as our instinct to unconditionally love them encounters our calculations, our logic and our uneasy memories from when we saw them leave us last…well, let's just say I think I could use a really jubilant hug about eight months from now.


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What does "civil rights" mean in 2007?
In his target="new"> State of the City address, Mayor Michael Bloomberg made only one explicit reference to civil rights: "Four years ago this week on Martin Luther King Junior's birthday in 2003 we spelled out our plan to uphold a basic and fundamental civil right: The right to a quality education."
Bloomberg went on to bemoan underachievement by African American and Latino students in city schools and heralded evidence that the city is "closing the racial and ethnic performance gap that has long been the shame of our school system."
The new Governor, Eliot Spitzer, called his State of the State address "One New York," and in his litany of what "One New York" means, he included this line: "One New York means a state that understands that the civil rights movement still has chapters to be written."
But what is the content of these chapters? There was no further explicit mention of "civil rights" in his speech, but Spitzer did talk about "Lieutenant Governor Paterson's comprehensive plan for minority- and women-owned business development"; he also said that state laws should protect "a woman's right to control her own reproductive health," and that a worker should never be "forced to choose between keeping her faith and keeping her job."
There seems to have been a shift – and a reduction -- in rhetoric around civil rights from New York's leaders. But does this mean they do not care about racial and other kinds of discrimination?
Mayor Bloomberg is not the only one to frame education as a civil rights issue. The NAACP under Hazel Dukes is deeply involved in the campaign for smaller class size – which the Bloomberg administration has resisted.
Bloomberg has also focused on addressing the problems of the poor: He is committed to getting the Earned Income Tax Credit to more families. He has pledged to reduce chronic illnesses in low-income communities.
The mayor has been skillful as well in addressing the case of Sean Bell, an African-American man who was killed on is wedding day in a hail of 51 police bullets in Queens. Early on he acknowledged that it seemed "excessive" to him, much to the consternation of Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and the police union. However well or ill-advised the mayor's remarks were, they did help defuse some racial tension over the issue.
For his part, Governor Spitzer has given New York its first African American Lieutenant Governor, former Senate Democratic Leader David Paterson of Harlem. "There's a sense that people have sometimes that others aren't ready for a woman, for an African-American, for a gay or lesbian," Paterson said at a rousing inauguration at Riverside Church. "But the perception that others aren't ready is actually, in many ways, the confirmation that you aren't ready -- because others seem to do fine when left to their own devices."
Paterson is fond of quoting Frederick Douglass and is especially keen on significantly increasing the percentage of firms getting state contracts that are owned by people of color and women (as Spitzer alluded to in his address).
Spitzer also has appointed Kumiki Gibson to head the moribund State Division of Human Rights. She has been a leader at the National Urban League and is a former counsel to Vice President Al Gore.
One could argue that several aspects of Spitzer's first budget, released on the last day of January, could fit a civil rights agenda – his plan for education, above all, which (according to the Campaign for Fiscal Equity) "will increase total annual state education aid from the current level of $17.6 billion to $24.7 billion in four years. Equally important, all future education funding will be the product of a new foundation formula which takes district poverty and inflation into account." And, to take a less publicized example, the New York City Coalition Against Hunger praised Spitzer's call for a 24 percent increase in government funding for more than 2,000 charitable food pantries and soup kitchens.
Still, it would be difficult to tell one month into the new Spitzer administration and into the second Bloomberg administrations, that there are explicitly civil rights issues in New York that some advocacy groups consider priorities:
Same-sex marriage: The most contentious civil rights issue in the state is whether or not it will open marriage to same-sex couples. Spitzer has promised to introduce a bill to accomplish that, but has also told advocates that he does not believe it will pass here for ten years.
School Segregation: New York has among "the highest levels of black segregation," according to a student of the Harvard Civil Rights Project, which found "the average black student attended schools with less than one quarter white students in 2003." The New York Civil Liberties Union has made the ending of such segregation a priority. Legal Director Arthur Eisenberg has said: "Racially segregated schools lead to inadequate educational opportunities for children of color; which lead to disparities in job opportunities and income; which lead to racially segregated housing and communities; which lead to segregated schools."
Civil Liberties Most civil libertarians see the United States Constitution under siege by the Bush administration through everything from the indefinite detention of terror suspects to intrusions on our fundamental rights to privacy. These make local concerns over civil liberties issues seem pale by comparison. But advocates, such as the New York Civil Liberties Union, feel they cannot afford to ignore:
Surveillance. The New York Civil Liberties Union is calling for public oversight of the "rapid proliferation of video cameras" in town.
Parade Restrictions. There has been much grumbling over the new Police Department regulations on how many bicyclists can ride through town together without a permit.
The Right To Assembly. There has been a call, for example, to end the music ban at Central Park's Strawberry Fields memorial to John Lennon.
Patients' Rights The NYCLU is also raising concerns about how patient rights will be compromised by adopting routine testing for HIV instead of informed written consent as is required now.
Police-Community Relations. In the wake of the Sean Bell case, there have been greater calls to do something about police attitudes toward communities of color.
In his State of the City, Bloomberg did not address the Bell case directly, but said respect between police and the public must flow "in both directions" and promised more resources for the woefully understaffed Civilian Complaint Review Board—a promise he delivered on shortly thereafter. It is still extremely rare for the board to take action against police misconduct, no less for the department to discipline their own.
Bloomberg also promised to improve training at the police academy, but there was no talk of the kind of fundamental restructuring of police work that other cities (including New Haven) have undertaken to reduce the "us vs. them" relationship between police and the communities they serve.
Andy Humm, a former member of the City Commission on Human Rights, has been in charge of the civil rights topic page since its inception in 2001. He is co-host of the weekly "Gay USA" on Manhattan Neighborhood Network (34 on Time-Warner; 107 on RCN) on Thursdays at 11 PM. Â


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Fortunato, O'Neill, Hsieh, Campbell, Piwinski Each Tally 2 Hits in Doubleheader Sweep by Army
TAMPA, Fla. — The Yale University baseball team collected plenty of hits to start the season off on a high note, but Army's bats produced a few big innings that spoiled Opening Day for the Bulldogs.
Alex Jensen and Jacob Page both collected four hits, while Jensen scored a total of five runs and drove in four more to lead Army to a doubleheader sweep of Yale at the Jesuit High School, with a 14-4 win in Game 1 and an 8-4 win in Game 2.
"It is a very disappointing way for us to begin the season. We were very poor in every aspect of the game," said Yale head coach John Stuper. "I'm confident we will bounce back tomorrow."
Army used a six-run first inning to take control of Game 1 early, eventually jumping ahead 8-1 after two innings. The six first-inning runs came on an RBI groundout by Pat Mescher, RBI singles by Page and Mike Sands, three unearned runs from a pair of infield errors.
Yale bounced back with a run in the top of the second. Kevin Fortunato led off with an infield single and scored on an RBI single by Tom O'Neill.
Army picked up two more runs in the bottom of the second when Jensen belted an RBI double and then scored on an infield error. The Black Knights then scored single runs in the fourth and fifth innings to pull ahead 10-1 before Yale put together a rally in the sixth.
Toups led off with a walk and Fortunato followed with a double. Brent Lawson struck out but reached first on a wild pitch, loading the bases with no outs. Eric Hsieh was hit by a pitch, driving in the first run of the inning. O'Neill followed with an RBI single and Chris Piwinski drove in the third run of the inning on an RBI groundout.
Army scored four more runs in the bottom of the sixth inning, but Yale threatened again in the top of the seventh after a pair of two-out walks, but Jacob Hunter grounded out to end the threat and the game.
In Game 2, Army jumped out to an 8-1 lead after six innings after scoring a pair of runs in the first and third innings, three in the fourth and one more in the sixth. Yale got on the board in the bottom of the first after Cale Hanson doubled and scored on an RBI groundout by David Toups.
Yale rallied with three runs in the ninth inning on RBI walks by Piwinski and Cam Squires and an RBI sacrifice fly by Hunter, but the Bulldogs could not muster any more offense to complete the comeback.
Fortunato, O'Neill, Hsieh, Green Campbell and Piwinski each tallied two hits in the doubleheader to lead the Bulldogs.
The two teams will meet again Sunday afternoon for the final game of the three-game set, with the series finale scheduled to be played at the spring training complex of the New York Yankees.
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West Chester – The Chester County Fund for Women and Girls announces the appointment of Susan Mostek, Esq., as its new Executive Director. Board Chair Cate Sennett, Esq. says "We are pleased to engage Susan's talents as we build on the solid foundation laid by outgoing President Heidi McPherson. Susan's clear passion for the Fund mission combines with substantial fundraising, non-profit management, and marketing experience. With Susan, we will work with partners across our region to increase our impact and enlist even greater support for improving the lives of women, girls, and families in Chester County." Her official start date with the Fund is November 18th.
Susan Mostek will be leaving her role as Executive Director of the Phoenixville Public Library Foundation and also as the library's Director of Development. She led the library's successful capital campaign to fund its major renovation and expansion project, initiated a board governance best practices program, and developed the private fundraising component of the library's strategic plan. A graduate of Tulane University and Temple Law School, she has Spanish language fluency and substantial accomplishments in the field of law.
Leading a women's organization is familiar territory for Susan who served as President of the Junior League of Philadelphia between 2007 and 2008. As its top executive, she implemented marketing and corporate fundraising strategies for the 900-member, non-profit organization and was instrumental in launching a new strategic plan. She is a resident of Chester County where she and her husband have a son and two daughters.
"The Fund improves the lives of women and girls in Chester County in many different ways," says Susan. "I am excited to become part of this vital resource and look forward to working with the community to see our impact grow even stronger."
The Chester County Fund for Women and Girls is a nationally recognized women and girls foundation serving Chester County. Located outside of Philadelphia, Chester County is among Pennsylvania's largest counties in population and size. The Chester County Fund for Women and Girls was established in 1996 and has distributed more than $1.9 million in grants to 58 agencies throughout Chester County. It has built an endowment of more than $5 million. By strategically making grants — and through community collaboration — the Fund strengthens the physical well-being, safety, and economic freedom of women, girls, and their families in diverse communities across our county. To learn more about the Chester County Fund for Women and Girls, visit www.ccwomenandgirls.org. To learn about the women's funding movement and its 160 member organizations around the world, visit http://www.womensfundingnetwork.org.
The above press release was provided by the Chester County Fund for Women and Girls.


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WATCH // The Luyas "Montuno" Paper Bag Records Session, On Tour Now With CalifonePosted by Andrew on January 7th, 2014
If you've missed The Luyas we have a double gift for you today. First, we're psyched to share a mezmerizing Paper Bag Records Session with The Luyas performing "Montuno" from their 2012 album Animator. Watch the session above or here on YouTube.
Secondly, the band started their tour with Califone last night in Lost Angeles and head up the West Coast in the US before playing handful of dates in Canada. See all tour dates below.
01/07 – San Francisco, CA – The Chapel w/ Califone BUY TICKETS
01/09 – Portland , OR – Mississippi Studios w/ Califone BUY TICKETS
01/10 – Seattle, WA – The Crocodile w/ Califone BUY TICKETS
01/11 – Vancouver, CA – Electric Owl w/ Califone BUY TICKETS
01/15 – Saskatoon, SK – Amigo's Cantina
01/16 – Winnipeg, MB – Union Sound Hall
01/23 – Montreal, QC – Le Divan Orange
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No one likes to be called into the principal's office. Yet, it seems that every member of the Glee team (coach included) has spent time across the desk of Principal Figgins. Find out the inside scoop from Iqbal Theba, the actor who plays the most frustrated man at McKinley High.
Principal Figgins on the Phone:
Theba is nothing like his uptight character. Figgins seems always on the verge of a meltdown. Whether he's thwarting Sue Sylvester's sexual advances or trying to stem anarchy on school grounds, he constantly struggles to keep order at McKinley High. It's not easy being principal. Read some of his best quotes (from IMDB) below.
"I need those parents happy! They found out we've been serving the children prison food."
"Only last Friday at the football game they tried to spell out "GO TEAM" and they spelled out "TO GAME"
"Silence, children. Silence. First, an announcement. The toilets are broken again. We are fixing the problem, but let me warn you. There will be zero tolerance for anyone soiling school grounds. We're not going to have a repeat of last time."
While Figgins is hilarious, he's not the only fantastic "grown-up" at McKinley High. Tell us your favorite in the poll below.
Tune in to "Glee" this Tuesday (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. For more info on "GLEE" The Music visit: http://www.gleethemusic.com. In the mean time, catch up on all the greatest "Glee" hits on "Glee" Radio.
Thanks to our friend Chris Reese at US99.5 for writing this post.


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MBA Students Use Creative Fuel to Build Human-Powered Race Car
UT Dallas Students Were Among 40 Teams Picked to Compete in National Red Bull Soapbox Race
Oct. 4, 2012
A team of full-time MBA students can add amateur race car driver to their résumés after competing in the Red Bull Soapbox Race at Austin Ranch in The Colony on Sept. 15.
Thousands of spectators turned out for the race, which featured 40 teams, including the University's very own "UTD MBAs," a group of five graduate students at the Naveen Jindal School of Management. The team members were Vance Weintraub, Matt Ritter, Rafael Barbosa, Mallory Savoie and Brian Ragan.
Showmanship was part of the competition for the UTD MBAs team, which donned astronaut outfits and Secret Service agent garb.
The UTD MBAs designed and constructed a green-and-orange soapbox car, which was called The Comet. Each car had a creative theme such as the Blues Brothers or the Oregon Trail. Each team also performed a skit that was set to music as a way to acquire showmanship points. Weintraub, Barbosa and Ragan dressed up as Secret Service agents while Ritter and Savoie dressed up as astronauts for the skit.
After the skit, Ritter and Savoie drove The Comet car in a downhill course that had jumps and curves. Weintraub said he felt nervous about some of the jumps particularly one that was four feet high.
"You get airborne," he said of the course. "If you're going somewhat fast, you're going to get thrown a couple feet off the ground."
The group was selected to compete in the race out of several hundred applications that Red Bull received. It took about two months for the team to build the car, which was challenging at first. Nobody on the team had an engineering background or had worked as a mechanic before. Weintraub, who has a product design background, said much research was conducted to learn how to build the car.
It took about two months for the UT Dallas team to build its green-and-orange soapbox car, which was called The Comet.
"It taught us a lot of engineering skills," he said of the construction phase. "One of the big things, and I knew this and a lot of people learned, is how to use all your resources in terms of finding products, and finding people."
The group had to identify potential sponsors who could help fund the project. The sponsors included the following: the Jindal School of Management; 7-Eleven; Geocent; Allan Tomlinson, a Jindal School of Management Advisory Council member; and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Diane McNulty, associate dean of external affairs at the Jindal School, said the sponsorship support was a tremendous resource for the students.
"We're grateful to our sponsors who supported this student-led endeavor," she said. "Our students benefited from their support, which allowed them to work on a project that fostered creativity, leadership, teambuilding skills and innovation."
The team also received help from their classmates in the MBA program. The classmates participated in a car-painting party.
"The teamwork paid off not only for the five people on the team, but for the whole MBA program," Barbosa said. "A lot of people were involved."
Approximately 20 classmates, Jindal School administrators and friends turned out to support the UT Dallas team at the race. While the UTD MBAs didn't place, Barbosa said participating in the event was beneficial.
"It was great advertising and awareness for UT Dallas," he said. "All the cars were lined up where people came in to get to the racetrack. Our car was close to the entrance and you'd get people yelling, 'UTD! I went there!' or 'My wife went there!' "
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